Recaps

Kong Xuan defeated Daoist Lu Ya and pursued him away from Chaoge, while the city’s people realized the Black Bird in the sky was different from the one they had seen before. As Lu Ya fled, Kong Xuan taunted him for serving the Heavenly Dao Sages and hinted that she intended to capture him rather than kill him.

• The people of Chaoge noticed that Kong Xuan was a different Black Bird from the one that had appeared there before and cheered at the discovery that the city might have two.
• Daoist Lu Ya recognized he was outmatched, blamed Antarctic Immortal for sending him to Chaoge, and fled.
• Kong Xuan chased Lu Ya, mocking him for coming to Chaoge to find the Black Bird and then running away.
• Lu Ya pleaded with Kong Xuan to stop pursuing him, while she considered driving him away or capturing him alive.
• Kong Xuan rebuked Lu Ya for obeying the Heavenly Dao Sages, who had wiped out his father’s generation.

Kong Xuan spared Daoist Lu Ya after defeating him and returned to Chaoge, where Chang'e worried that her brother might be killed. Ye Xuan reassured Chang'e, then greeted Kong Xuan with an embrace so brazen that she raised her knee to strike him.

• Kong Xuan chased Daoist Lu Ya away from Chaoge, then stopped pursuing him when he pleaded for his life.
• Chaoge's people celebrated the Black Bird's victory, while Chang'e anxiously watched Daoist Lu Ya flee because he was her elder brother.
• Ye Xuan held Chang'e and assured her that Daoist Lu Ya would probably survive because Kong Xuan had only driven him away.
• Kong Xuan arrived in Chaoge, and Ye Xuan rushed into her arms and clung to her despite her angry protests.
• Kong Xuan raised her knee toward Ye Xuan as he refused to let go.

Ye Xuan welcomed Kong Xuan and the Five-Virtue Qilin to Chaoge, where the Qilin King pledged allegiance and presented a vast collection of magical treasures. The chapter left the Qilin Clan’s gifts ready to support the Human Clan’s growing cultivation needs.

• Ye Xuan reunited with Kong Xuan, who blushed and called him a rotten man before saying she had brought the Qilin King.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin arrived in Chaoge with several women and hundreds of chests, and Ye Xuan welcomed him as a guest.
• Ye Xuan hosted a grand banquet for Kong Xuan and the Five-Virtue Qilin, both of whom were Quasi-Saint-level mighty figures.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin presented hundreds of chests of Postnatal Spiritual Treasures made largely from Qilin materials.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin explained that the gifts would help the Human Clan, whose growing interest in cultivation had made supplies scarce.

The Qilin King secured the Qilin Clan’s refuge with the Human Clan by offering treasures and nineteen women, then explained the clan’s surviving strength and asked only for the right to live openly after the great tribulation. Ye Xuan accepted their submission and returned to cultivating, where Kong Xuan unexpectedly approached him with tea and unusual warmth.

• The Qilin King offered Ye Xuan treasures and nineteen Qilin women, and Ye Xuan agreed to let them stay in Chaoge.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin told Ye Xuan that about twenty thousand qilins and fifty thousand qilin-blooded auspicious beasts remained, with only himself surviving among the Treasure-Colored Qilins.
• The Qilin King asked Ye Xuan to protect the Qilin Clan’s Dao and let them appear openly throughout the Primordial World if they helped him win the great tribulation.
• After the three-day banquet, Ye Xuan returned to his bedchamber and cultivated urgently because he feared Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Kong Xuan brought Ye Xuan tea and spoke to him with unexpected gentleness, leaving him bewildered.

Kong Xuan acted unusually flirtatious with Ye Xuan, pressing him to compare his beauty and figure with Su Daji’s. After stripping down to his red dudou, Kong Xuan invited Ye Xuan to take him, leaving Ye Xuan overwhelmed by desire and surprise.

• Ye Xuan questioned why Kong Xuan was behaving so warmly and strangely.
• Kong Xuan closed the door, approached Ye Xuan, and asked whether he found him beautiful.
• Kong Xuan demanded that Ye Xuan choose whether he or Su Daji was prettier, but Ye Xuan refused to rank them.
• Kong Xuan removed most of his robes until only his red dudou remained, then asked Ye Xuan to compare their figures.
• Kong Xuan leaned close to Ye Xuan and urged him to take him.

Kong Xuan followed a strange karmic summons to Ye Xuan’s bedchamber and discovered him with someone who looked and sounded exactly like her. The real Kong Xuan destroyed the palace, and the two women confronted each other as Ye Xuan realized he had been deceived.

• Ye Xuan and the apparent Kong Xuan became intimate in his bedchamber.
• The real Kong Xuan sensed an unfamiliar karmic pull toward Chaoge and followed it to Ye Xuan’s bedchamber.
• Kong Xuan heard her own voice inside, used her spiritual sense, and saw Ye Xuan with an impostor resembling her.
• Kong Xuan struck the palace with a palm, interrupting Ye Xuan and reducing the building to rubble.
• Ye Xuan recognized the real Kong Xuan and realized the woman in his arms was a fake.
• The real and fake Kong Xuan accused each other of impersonation and threatened to kill each other.

A second Kong Xuan appeared in Chaoge, accusing the Kong Xuan with Ye Xuan of being an impostor, and the two began an evenly matched battle in the sky. Ye Xuan and the gathered onlookers could not tell them apart, and the fight continued as both revealed identical weapons.

• The newly arrived Kong Xuan confronted the Kong Xuan beside Ye Xuan, and their first clash sent them flying apart.
• Ye Xuan ordered the two Kong Xuans to fight in the sky and admitted he could not distinguish the real one from the impostor.
• The two Kong Xuans fought with matching Quasi-Saint power and identical moves while Ye Xuan and the Six-Eared Macaque watched.
• The battle drew the Four Divine Monkeys, the Twelve Zodiac Animals, Huang Feihu, Heng and Ha, Nezha, and Chaoge’s awakened inhabitants.
• One Kong Xuan summoned a huge treasured saber, and the other produced an identical one; their weapons clashed and sent a shockwave through the sky.

Ye Xuan watched the real and fake Kong Xuans fight, but their matching weapons and abilities made them impossible to distinguish. The real Kong Xuan unleashed her unique Five-Colored Divine Light, leaving Ye Xuan to see whether the imposter could copy that too.

• Ye Xuan watched the two Kong Xuans trade fierce saber blows without either gaining the advantage.
• The real Kong Xuan used Nirvana True Fire, but the fake Kong Xuan produced an identical flame, and their collision tore cracks through the sky above Chaoge.
• The two Kong Xuans resumed their saber fight, exchanging several dozen more blows before retreating without deciding a winner.
• One Kong Xuan declared that the fake would face what was coming and summoned the Five-Colored Divine Light, which Ye Xuan believed no one else could reproduce.

Ye Xuan discovered that the Kong Xuan who had deceived him was Su Daji, who had copied Kong Xuan’s appearance and abilities. Su Daji revealed that she had recently become a Quasi-Saint and began explaining how Ye Xuan had helped her reach that realm.

• Ye Xuan realized the disguised Kong Xuan was fake when she could not use the Five-Colored Divine Light, and demanded to know who she was.
• Su Daji dropped her disguise, prompting the real Kong Xuan to threaten her for taking his form and deceiving Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan intervened and explained that he had not known the disguised woman was Su Daji, easing Kong Xuan’s anger somewhat.
• Su Daji admitted she had impersonated Kong Xuan to give Ye Xuan excitement because she believed he was deeply enamored with Kong Xuan.
• When Kong Xuan and Ye Xuan asked how she had copied Kong Xuan’s powers, Su Daji revealed that she had become a Quasi-Saint that day and said it was thanks to Ye Xuan.

Su Daji explained that her new innate divine ability let her transform into people and imitate many of their traits, though it had limits. After Kong Xuan caught her impersonating him during an intimate moment with Ye Xuan, he warned her not to do it again and flew away, leaving Ye Xuan and Su Daji together.

• Su Daji revealed that she had become a Quasi-Saint and awakened the Demon Fox Ten Mysterious Transformations, which could copy a person’s appearance, presence, cultivation, abilities, and karma.
• Su Daji explained that the ability only worked on people with comparable realms and could not copy certain special techniques, including Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Ye Xuan and Kong Xuan realized the ability could make Su Daji a powerful combatant and potential spy.
• Kong Xuan angrily forbade Su Daji from impersonating him outside special combat situations, especially to be intimate with Ye Xuan, then flew beyond the heavens.
• Ye Xuan pulled Su Daji into his arms and scolded her for letting Kong Xuan catch her, while Su Daji teased him about whether he had enjoyed their encounter.

Ye Xuan learned that Wushuang had entered seclusion near a breakthrough, then Juliusun decided to summon Tu Xingsun as the conflict between Yin Shang and Xiqi intensified. The chapter ended with Tu Xingsun arriving before his master and kneeling to greet him.

• Su Daji told Ye Xuan that Wushuang had gone into seclusion and might soon become a Quasi-Saint.
• Ye Xuan considered the strength of his allies and worried that the Twelve Zodiac Animals still lacked a horse.
• Juliusun sensed that Xiqi’s sage lord was near death and wondered whether to send his disciple into the conflict.
• Juliusun reflected on the danger of the Investiture of the Gods and summoned Tu Xingsun.
• Tu Xingsun appeared before Juliusun, knelt, and apologized for arriving late.

Juliusun sent Tu Xingsun down the mountain to assist Jiang Ziya and gave him the Immortal Binding Rope and Heart-Devouring Pills for protection. In Chaoge, Ye Xuan took Su Daji and Chang'e on an incognito stroll, while Chang'e reflected on how she had come to be at the Human Emperor's side.

• Juliusun told Tu Xingsun to find Jiang Ziya in Xiqi and warned him to act cautiously during the coming tribulation.
• Juliusun gave Tu Xingsun the Immortal Binding Rope and a bottle of Heart-Devouring Pills before Tu Xingsun left the mountain.
• After spending the night with Su Daji, Ye Xuan decided to take her and Chang'e for a stroll through Chaoge.
• Ye Xuan sent Su Daji and Chang'e to change into plain clothes so they would attract less attention.
• Ye Xuan walked through Chaoge with Su Daji and Chang'e, while Chang'e blushed and wondered whether she would remain by the Human Emperor's side.

Ye Xuan revisited a street stall with Su Daji and Chang'e, where he reunited with the old sugar-figurine craftsman he had helped before. The old man revealed his remarkable insight by shaping figures of Chang'e, Su Daji, Kong Xuan, and Ye Xuan, leaving Ye Xuan curious about the craftsman's unusual art.

• Ye Xuan brought Su Daji and Chang'e to a sugar-figurine stall and recognized the old craftsman from a previous visit.
• The old craftsman thanked Ye Xuan for the precious medicine that had helped him reach the True Immortal realm, while Ye Xuan praised him for saving General Wang Yong.
• The old craftsman shaped a jade toad for Chang'e and a ten-tailed fox for Su Daji, accurately discerning their true forms.
• The old craftsman fashioned a Black Bird resembling Kong Xuan, and Ye Xuan sent the figurine into the auspicious clouds above Chaoge.
• The old craftsman made a divine throne bearing Ye Xuan's likeness and explained that his sugar-figurine craft relied on a connection of the heart.

Ye Xuan enjoyed an incognito outing with Chang'e and Su Daji, visiting Wang Yong and Zhang Lin's tavern before spotting a prominent Ashura woman in Chaoge. He pursued her out of the city, recognizing her as the woman Ancestor Minghe had once offered him.

• Ye Xuan accepted the sugar-figure maker's gift and strolled through the street with Chang'e and Su Daji.
• Ye Xuan visited Wang Yong's tavern, where Wang Yong and Zhang Lin welcomed him and served him a meal.
• Ye Xuan recalled Wang Yong's battlefield service and how he had risen to become a cavalry general under Huang Feihu.
• Ye Xuan spotted a blood-red-haired Ashura woman, told Chang'e and Su Daji to return to the palace, and followed her out of Chaoge.
• Ye Xuan recognized the woman as the most beautiful woman of the Ashura Clan whom Ancestor Minghe had once tried to give him.

Ye Xuan confronted Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven, an Ashura Clan demon king who had come to Chaoge, and tested her combat abilities. She attacked him with blood-red sword Qi and Blood God Son Clones, but he effortlessly destroyed the clones, leaving her increasingly alarmed.

• Ye Xuan recognized Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven as one of the Ashura Clan's four great demon kings and asked why she had come to Chaoge.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven mistook Ye Xuan's curious stare for improper intent and threatened to kill him.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven attacked Ye Xuan with blood-red sword Qi, which he swallowed without harm.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven created eighteen Blood God Son Clones and sent them after Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan swept out sword Qi that destroyed the clones one after another, alarming Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven.

Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven attacked Ye Xuan with her fists and blood-red sword, but he effortlessly countered her techniques and eventually struck her into a crater. As she rose, her killing aura intensified and her presence surged, leaving Ye Xuan wondering whether she was breaking through.

• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven charged Ye Xuan after he broke her divine ability, but he blocked her close-combat attacks with ease.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven drew her blood-red longsword and launched a tornado of bloodlust, which Ye Xuan crushed before meeting her sword strikes with Sword Qi.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven unleashed Shura Slash, but Ye Xuan's simple Sword Qi exhausted its power.
• Ye Xuan appeared behind Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven and punched her into the ground, making her spit blood.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven rose from the crater and declared that Ye Xuan had driven her into a dire predicament as her killing aura and presence surged.

Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven fought Ye Xuan in Chaoge, but he effortlessly repelled her attacks and shattered her strongest technique. Furious and humiliated, she began invoking another Ashura art.

• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven temporarily pushed herself to the Quasi-Saint threshold and attacked Ye Xuan, who blocked her with a finger.
• Ye Xuan struck Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven in the chest and sent her flying, provoking her into a furious close-quarters fight.
• Kong Xuan briefly appeared, recognized Ye Xuan's superior strength, and wondered why Ancestor Minghe had sent Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven to Chaoge before leaving.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven unleashed her Netherworld Great Sun Slash, but Ye Xuan shattered it with a single sword strike.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven raised her hands and began chanting an Ashura technique.

Ye Xuan defeated Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven’s Ashura summon and learned that she had come to Chaoge as part of Ancestor Minghe’s plan to offer her to the Human Emperor. The chapter ended with her confirming that the ancestor had sent her.

• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven summoned a giant Ashura, but Ye Xuan destroyed it and wounded her with his Supreme Sword Qi.
• Ye Xuan questioned the fallen Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven, who claimed to be the Human Emperor’s woman to deter him.
• Ye Xuan revealed that he was the Human Emperor, and Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven introduced herself as Yu Se, Tian of the Ashura Clan.
• Ye Xuan demanded an explanation for her claim, and Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven said she had made it while trying to escape his overwhelming power.
• Ye Xuan asked whether Ancestor Minghe had sent her to Chaoge, and Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven confirmed that he had.

Ye Xuan welcomed Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven into Chaoge after explaining that his strike had helped treat her hidden injuries. Meanwhile, Deng Chanyu stopped at an inn in Grass Temple Village on her way back from Chaoge and encountered a grotesque stranger.

• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven told Ye Xuan that Ancestor Minghe had sent her to help him with covert affairs and contact the Ashura Clan during the coming war.
• Ye Xuan explained that he had deliberately forced congealed blood from Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven to help her hidden injuries surface safely, and she thanked him.
• Ye Xuan invited Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven into Chaoge, where she could now enter and leave freely.
• Deng Chanyu, returning from a secret trip to Chaoge, stopped at the inn in Grass Temple Village for food, wine, and rest.
• A short, ugly man entered the inn, and Deng Chanyu looked away from him with contempt.

Deng Chanyu was poisoned at a roadside inn, where the old man and waiter planned to rob her and assault her. Tu Xingsun revealed himself as their unexpected opponent and broke the old man’s knee.

• Deng Chanyu ate and drank at the inn, then grew dizzy and collapsed after realizing the food might have been poisoned.
• The old man and waiter confirmed that Deng Chanyu and the short winter melon had been drugged, and they plotted to rob them and assault Deng Chanyu.
• The waiter went to deal with the short winter melon, but discovered he had vanished, while the old man carried Deng Chanyu toward the back room.
• Tu Xingsun spoke from unseen places, frightening the two thieves as they searched for him.
• Tu Xingsun kicked the old man and broke his knee, sending him tumbling to the ground.

Tu Xingsun rescued Deng Chanyu from a black shop, killed its owner and waiter, then waited for her to wake. When Deng Chanyu mistook him for another attacker and struck him with her flying stone, Tu Xingsun fell, leaving her ready to throw again.

• Tu Xingsun caught the unconscious Deng Chanyu and killed the waiter with his iron staff after the man panicked and insulted him.
• Tu Xingsun crushed the old shop owner's head after the owner begged for mercy.
• Tu Xingsun admired Deng Chanyu's beauty but chose to wait until she woke rather than take advantage of her while she was unconscious.
• Deng Chanyu woke, mistook Tu Xingsun for a villain, and kicked at him as he tried to explain.
• Deng Chanyu struck Tu Xingsun in the forehead with her colored stone and prepared to throw another.

Tu Xingsun captured Deng Chanyu with the Immortal Binding Rope after she struck him with her Flying Stone Technique. He explained that they had both been victims of a black inn, and Deng Chanyu apologized after realizing he had saved her; the chapter ended with Tu Xingsun introducing himself and asking her name.

• Deng Chanyu guarded against Tu Xingsun after he vanished with the Earth Escape Technique.
• Tu Xingsun ambushed Deng Chanyu from behind and bound her with the Immortal Binding Rope.
• Tu Xingsun warned Deng Chanyu that struggling would tighten the rope, but she cursed him and accused him of plotting to humiliate her.
• Tu Xingsun pointed out the dead innkeeper and waiter, explaining that they had drugged both of them and that he had killed them.
• Deng Chanyu realized Tu Xingsun had saved her, apologized for attacking him, and heard him introduce himself as a disciple of Juliusun.

Deng Chanyu invited Tu Xingsun to join Yin Shang’s forces at Three Mountains Pass after recognizing his Earth Escape Technique. Tu Xingsun agreed to go with her but asked her to accept a condition, and Deng Chanyu asked him to state it.

• Deng Chanyu introduced herself and explained that she was returning to Three Mountains Pass after escaping the black inn.
• Deng Chanyu recognized Tu Xingsun’s Earth Escape Technique and recalled how Zhang Kui and Wu Long had demonstrated the technique with their soldiers.
• Deng Chanyu invited Tu Xingsun to serve under her father at Three Mountains Pass, but Tu Xingsun hesitated because his master had sent him to assist Jiang Ziya in Xiqi.
• Deng Chanyu prepared to leave, and Tu Xingsun hurried after her and agreed to go with her if she accepted one condition.
• Deng Chanyu asked Tu Xingsun what his condition was.

Tu Xingsun asked Deng Chanyu to marry him in return for rescuing her, but she rejected him and revealed that she loved the Human Emperor. Tu Xingsun remained intent on pursuing her and agreed to escort her to Three Mountains Pass.

• Tu Xingsun asked Deng Chanyu to marry him so he could serve Yin Shang as her husband and ally to her father.
• Deng Chanyu grew furious and attacked Tu Xingsun, but he easily deflected her sword and reminded her that he had saved her.
• Deng Chanyu acknowledged her debt to Tu Xingsun but refused to marry him because she already loved someone.
• Tu Xingsun demanded to know whom Deng Chanyu loved, and she said it was the current Human Emperor.
• Tu Xingsun said he would escort Deng Chanyu to Three Mountains Pass to meet her father, while she warned him to stop pursuing her and rode away on her Chestnut Purple-Gold Horse.
• Tu Xingsun watched Deng Chanyu ride off and smiled, suspecting she was trying to shake him off.

Tu Xingsun pursued Deng Chanyu, who realized a group of riders approaching near Three Mountains Pass were likely Xiqi agents disguised as bandits. She persuaded Tu Xingsun to attack them, while the riders focused on capturing her and stealing her valuables.

• Tu Xingsun used his Earth Escape Technique to catch up with Deng Chanyu and warned her that armed riders were approaching.
• Deng Chanyu recognized the riders' Azure Smoke Horses as a sign they might be from Xiqi and suspected they were gathering intelligence.
• Deng Chanyu urged Tu Xingsun to kill the riders, claiming they were bandits coming to attack them.
• Tu Xingsun burrowed underground to confront the riders as Deng Chanyu watched, readying her sword and Flying Stone Technique.
• The riders charged toward Deng Chanyu, hoping to capture her, steal her treasures, and obtain intelligence about Yin Shang.