Recaps

The Heaven-Supporting Strongman confronted Dragon King Ao Guang in the East Sea, but Ao Guang revealed his True Dragon form and shattered the strongman’s attack. Haotian Shangdi’s will then descended into the strongman, and Ao Guang challenged him without fear.

• The Heaven-Supporting Strongman arrived at the East Sea and demanded that Ao Guang kneel before him.
• Ao Guang mocked the strongman, condemned the Heavenly Court for eating dragons, and declared the Dragon Clan’s allegiance to the Human Clan.
• The Heaven-Supporting Strongman attacked Ao Guang with a giant palm, but Ao Guang revealed his True Dragon form and dispersed it.
• Haotian Shangdi’s will descended into the Heaven-Supporting Strongman, transforming his bearing and presence.
• Ao Guang recognized Haotian Shangdi and challenged him, asking what business he had in the East Sea.

Dragon King Ao Guang repelled Haotian Shangdi’s attack and survived their clash, while the Heaven-Supporting Strongman died and was entered on the Investiture of the Gods. In Chaoge, Ye Xuan began court after Su Daji departed to organize the Green Mound Shadow Guards.

• Haotian Shangdi attacked Ao Guang with the power of the Dark-Yellow Heavenly Emperor Art, and Ao Guang used his dragon pearl to cancel the attack.
• Haotian Shangdi threatened to slaughter the Dragon Clan, but Ao Guang defied him and declared that the clan would rise again with the Ancestral Dragon’s return.
• Haotian Shangdi’s will was exhausted, and the Heaven-Supporting Strongman fell into the East Sea and died; his true spirit was drawn to Yuanshi Tianzun’s Investiture of the Gods.
• Ao Guang felt that the clash had broken his fear of Haotian and credited the Human Emperor for his growing strength.
• Su Daji left Chaoge with Sanqi and Sanjiu to begin organizing the Green Mound Shadow Guards.
• Ye Xuan arrived at court with Wushuang and told the assembled ministers to rise.

After Bi Gan returned with evidence of corruption among Yin Shang’s officials and regional lords, Ye Xuan confronted the court and demanded accountability. He singled out Fei Zhong, who confessed to embezzling money and accepting favors while begging for mercy.

• Ye Xuan read Bi Gan’s memorials accusing court ministers and regional lords of corruption and bribery, then smashed the dragon desk in anger.
• Ye Xuan ordered the ministers to attend court on their knees and asked the minister of justice to state the punishments for corruption.
• Ye Xuan rebuked the ministers for corrupting Yin Shang and warned that their greed threatened the realm and its people.
• Ye Xuan accused Fei Zhong of acquiring a vast fortune through corruption and cited bamboo-slip memorials as evidence.
• Fei Zhong denied wrongdoing at first, then admitted to embezzling money and accepting favors while pleading with Ye Xuan to spare her life.

Ye Xuan uncovered Fei Zhong and You Hun’s vast corruption, ordered their clans punished, and demanded that the other officials confess. While Ye Xuan slept, Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the six saints to the Purple Cloud Palace, where their strained relationships were evident as they waited for him to speak.

• Ye Xuan had Fei Zhong confess to his immense wealth and crimes, then ordered him executed publicly and his nine generations punished.
• You Hun confessed to hoarding wealth and weapons, then killed himself; Ye Xuan ordered his property seized and his clan punished.
• Ye Xuan gave the remaining officials until sunset to confess their corruption to Bi Gan, then left with Wushuang and fell asleep.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s summons drew Taishang Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Zhunti, Jieyin, Tongtian, and Nuwa to the Purple Cloud Palace.
• The six saints took seats that reflected their strained alliances, and a figure appeared in the seat of honor.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun warned the saints that the Investiture of the Gods had veered off course and could threaten even saints, while privately suspecting the Human Emperor or a new Lord of the Human Dao was behind the anomaly. As Hongjun pondered the danger in the Purple Cloud Palace, Chaoge was thrown into an uproar.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the saints and warned that anomalies had appeared before the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, putting even saints at risk of falling.
• The saints suspected the Human Emperor was the anomaly, while Nuwa recognized his unusual abilities and Tongtian brooded over the other saints’ schemes against him and the Interception Sect.
• Hongjun told the saints that the signs in heaven were disordered and that he could not fully understand the anomaly, then vanished from the hall.
• Tongtian and Nuwa left, and the four remaining saints continued plotting before departing; Hongjun then reappeared alone, troubled by his failed calculations.
• Hongjun considered whether the restless Human Dao Repository had found a Lord of the Human Dao and wondered if that person was the anomaly.
• While Hongjun pondered in the Purple Cloud Palace, Chaoge was thrown into an earth-shaking uproar.

Ye Xuan left Chaoge in disguise as Wuming and traveled to Kunlun Mountain to seek Bai Ze, hoping to learn where Yuanfeng’s corpse was. After exploring the mountain’s immortal island, he encountered a young girl who approached and bowed to him.

• The Human Emperor distributed seafood and confiscated grain to relieve famine, prompting the regional lords to open their granaries as well.
• Su Daji returned from Green Mound and began building an intelligence network in Yin Shang with demon fox women and spirit foxes.
• Ye Xuan slipped out of Chaoge under Wushuang’s guard and headed west to complete the Corpse-Driving System’s second task by finding Yuanfeng’s corpse.
• Ye Xuan decided to seek Bai Ze on Kunlun Mountain, since the auspicious beast was said to know everything and might locate Yuanfeng.
• Ye Xuan reached Kunlun’s floating immortal island, searched for the Queen Mother of the West, and saw several powerful presences.
• A young girl flew up to Ye Xuan on an auspicious cloud and bowed to him.

Ye Xuan visited the Queen Mother of the West in disguise as Wuming and offered her Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood on the Human Emperor’s behalf. She revealed that she had already agreed to enter the world with Saint Nuwa, then offered Wuming a fortuitous opportunity in return.

• The Queen Mother of the West sent a little girl to welcome Ye Xuan and receive him at her palace.
• Ye Xuan introduced himself as Wuming, the Human Emperor’s Dao Protector, and explained that he had come to meet the Queen Mother of the West and seek Bai Ze.
• Ye Xuan presented the Queen Mother of the West with a drop of Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood, revealing the Human Emperor’s sincerity and strength.
• The Queen Mother of the West told Wuming that she had already agreed to enter the world and undergo tribulations with Saint Nuwa.
• The Queen Mother of the West offered Wuming a fortuitous opportunity in return and asked whether he had heard of the Heavenly Pool.

The Queen Mother of the West invited Ye Xuan to cultivate in the Heavenly Pool, whose concentrated spiritual energy could strengthen his foundation. As Ye Xuan endured excruciating pain and absorbed its power, his body began showing signs of a second transformation.

• The Queen Mother of the West offered Ye Xuan a chance to cultivate in the Heavenly Pool and warned him that it would bring intense pain.
• The Queen Mother of the West led Ye Xuan to the Heavenly Pool and explained that only she and Saint Nuwa had cultivated there before him.
• Ye Xuan entered the pool and absorbed its spiritual energy, enduring agony as the Hongmeng Corpse-Driving System repeatedly removed excess power and allowed him to absorb more.
• Ye Xuan heard a profound rhythm that he recognized as his own heartbeat and realized his body might be undergoing a second transformation.

Ye Xuan absorbed the Queen Mother of the West’s Yaochi holy water and completed the transformation of his entire physical body into a Quasi-Saint body. After his breakthrough drew attention across the Primordial World, he examined his sea of consciousness and found it had become a vast world hidden by mist.

• Ye Xuan’s heart transformed first, then his internal organs reached Quasi-Saint strength as he absorbed the Yaochi holy water.
• Ye Xuan’s bones and meridians strengthened, and the transformation continued through his skin and flesh.
• Ye Xuan completed his Quasi-Saint physical transformation, and a powerful presence swept across Kunlun and alerted experts throughout the Primordial World.
• Ye Xuan realized his physical body had become innate and continued gathering spiritual power to strengthen it with yin and yang.
• Ye Xuan entered his sea of consciousness and discovered a vast world concealed beneath mist.

After reaching the Quasi-Saint realm, Ye Xuan discovered that his sea of consciousness had become a vast world containing two enormous Dharma Aspects, which he realized represented yin and yang. He continued absorbing spiritual Qi in the Heavenly Pool, and the Queen Mother of the West came to his side as he resumed cultivation.

• Ye Xuan explored his transformed sea of consciousness and found two immense Dharma Aspects, one surrounded by white light and the other shrouded in black vapor.
• Ye Xuan inferred that the two Dharma Aspects embodied the yin and yang powers of the Yin-Yang Corpse-Driving Art and realized he could use them both in battle.
• Ye Xuan returned to his body in the Heavenly Pool, where his Quasi-Saint body continued absorbing spiritual Qi and refining it into yin and yang.
• Ye Xuan examined his strengthened body, judged it durable as a supreme-grade spirit treasure, and resumed absorbing spiritual Qi.
• The Queen Mother of the West came to Ye Xuan as he entered cultivation again.

Ye Xuan reached the Quasi-Saint level in both physical strength and cultivation while training in the Heavenly Pool. He discovered spiritual crystals at the pool’s bottom, collected more than a thousand along with spiritual water, and left with materials to make a miniature Heavenly Pool.

• The Queen Mother of the West watched Ye Xuan temper his body with the Heavenly Pool’s spiritual Qi and left when she saw how much of the pool he was consuming.
• Ye Xuan compressed the powers of yin and yang in his Purple Mansion and dantian until they transformed from gas into liquid, bringing his magic power and cultivation to the Quasi-Saint level.
• Ye Xuan sensed unusually dense spiritual Qi at the bottom of the Heavenly Pool and plunged down to investigate.
• Ye Xuan discovered translucent crystals that released spiritual Qi and realized they had likely formed from the pool’s essence over countless years.
• Ye Xuan collected more than a thousand of the large crystals and a vast quantity of spiritual water, then rose from the Heavenly Pool.

After reaching the Quasi-Saint realm and taking Heavenly Pool crystals, Ye Xuan was confronted by the Queen Mother of the West, who deduced that he was Human Emperor Di Xin. He revealed his face, met Bai Ze, and learned that Bai Ze also knew his identity.

• Ye Xuan thanked the Queen Mother of the West for his cultivation opportunity and said he would repay his debt, while she accused him of taking too much from the Heavenly Pool.
• The Queen Mother of the West connected Ye Xuan to the East Sea Dragon King's submission, the Ancestral Dragon's blood, and events in the west, then identified him as Human Emperor Di Xin.
• Ye Xuan removed the Prajna Asura Tribulation, and the Queen Mother of the West was struck by his appearance and privately wondered whether Nuwa had fallen for him.
• Ye Xuan asked to meet Bai Ze, and the Queen Mother of the West summoned the divine beast.
• Bai Ze appeared as a little girl, greeted Ye Xuan as the Human Emperor, and claimed she had learned his identity from the Queen Mother of the West.

Ye Xuan learned that Yuanfeng’s corpse disappeared with Kong Xuan and set off to find him in the Southern Barbarian Lands. After he left Kunlun, Nuwa told the resentful Queen Mother of the West to prepare to enter the world, as Ye Xuan’s search for powerful beings’ corpses showed that events were beginning to unfold.

• Bai Ze explained that Yuanfeng died protecting Kong Xuan at Fallen Phoenix Slope and that her corpse disappeared with him.
• Bai Ze told Ye Xuan to search for Kong Xuan near a miraculous parasol tree in the Southern Barbarian Lands.
• Ye Xuan thanked Bai Ze and the Queen Mother of the West, then left Kunlun with the Prajna Asura Tribulation.
• The Queen Mother of the West complained to Nuwa that Ye Xuan had taken nearly half the crystals from the Heavenly Pool.
• Nuwa revealed that she had hidden Ye Xuan’s breakthrough from the Heavenly Dao and urged the Queen Mother of the West to prepare to enter the world with her.

Ye Xuan searched the southern lands for Kong Xuan and found him at the Divine Parasol Tree in a vast evil mountain. After Kong Xuan greeted him, Ye Xuan questioned why he dressed like a woman, leaving Kong Xuan bewildered.

• Ye Xuan traveled south in search of Kong Xuan, following Bai Ze's directions toward Yuqing Mountain.
• Ye Xuan pushed through fierce astral winds and discovered a vast mountain range centered around the Divine Parasol Tree.
• Kong Xuan attacked Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan blocked his strike and recognized him.
• Kong Xuan apologized for attacking Ye Xuan, who rejoiced at finding him again.
• Ye Xuan asked Kong Xuan why he dressed as a woman despite being a man, and Kong Xuan reacted with confusion.

Ye Xuan tried to persuade Kong Xuan to leave seclusion and protect Chaoge, but Kong Xuan feared opposing the Saints and Heavenly Dao. After Ye Xuan challenged him by invoking his mother’s death, Kong Xuan attacked, and the two Quasi-Saints began a fierce battle in the sky.

• Kong Xuan changed into a man, welcomed Ye Xuan into his cave abode, and asked why he had come.
• Ye Xuan said the Human Emperor had sent him to invite Kong Xuan out of seclusion and offered him authority to agree to Kong Xuan’s requests.
• Kong Xuan refused, citing the coming Investiture of the Gods tribulation and his fear that the Heavenly Dao opposed the Human Emperor.
• Ye Xuan declared that they would support the Human Emperor even against Heaven, then taunted Kong Xuan about failing to save his mother.
• Kong Xuan flew into a rage and attacked Ye Xuan, discovering in their first clash that Ye Xuan was a Quasi-Saint.
• Ye Xuan drew the Human Emperor Supreme Sword, and he and Kong Xuan fought high above the earth with devastating power.

Ye Xuan tested Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light, then tried to persuade him to join Yin Shang and face his karma. Kong Xuan explained that revealing himself could endanger his clansmen, and Ye Xuan asked to meet them.

• Ye Xuan and Kong Xuan exchanged hundreds of blows, and Kong Xuan unleashed the Five-Colored Divine Light to suppress him.
• Ye Xuan let the divine light pin him down to test its power, then realized its force could not overcome his yin-and-yang energy.
• Kong Xuan saw through Ye Xuan’s act, and Ye Xuan broke free, shared Kong Xuan’s wine, and praised its taste.
• Ye Xuan urged Kong Xuan to go to Chaoge and cultivate under Yin Shang’s fortune, but Kong Xuan said his appearance in the Primordial World could expose his clansmen to danger.
• Ye Xuan suspected Kong Xuan’s clansmen were members of the Phoenix Clan and asked to meet them.

Kong Xuan showed Ye Xuan the hidden world inside the Divine Parasol Tree, where more than forty thousand surviving members of the Phoenix Clan lived. Ye Xuan urged Kong Xuan to ally with the Human Emperor and lead the clan into the coming Investiture of the Gods tribulation instead of keeping them confined and vulnerable.

• Kong Xuan led Ye Xuan through a vortex into a beautiful, treasure-filled world teeming with phoenixes.
• Kong Xuan explained how the Phoenix Clan had dwindled after Yuanfeng's death and how he had gathered more than forty thousand survivors to protect them.
• Ye Xuan realized the hidden world lay inside the Divine Parasol Tree and that Kong Xuan guarded it to keep the Phoenix Clan safe.
• Ye Xuan warned that the Investiture of the Gods tribulation would involve Kong Xuan and that the hidden refuge could eventually be discovered.
• Ye Xuan urged Kong Xuan to ally with the Human Emperor and fight for the Phoenix Clan's revival, arguing that their refuge had become a cage.

Ye Xuan persuaded Kong Xuan to bring the Phoenix Clan into the Human Emperor’s cause, though Kong Xuan wanted the alliance kept secret. Ye Xuan then hinted that Yuanfeng might return, shocking Kong Xuan.

• Ye Xuan argued that the Phoenix Clan would be safer joining the Human Emperor than remaining hidden in the Divine Parasol Tree.
• Kong Xuan considered the risks and benefits, then agreed to venture into the world and support the Human Emperor.
• Kong Xuan said the Phoenix Clan should keep its allegiance secret until a critical moment, and Ye Xuan agreed.
• Ye Xuan asked Kong Xuan whether he wanted to see Yuanfeng return, and Kong Xuan reacted with shock and killing intent.

Ye Xuan revealed the Ancestral Dragon sealed inside a mystic coffin, convincing Kong Xuan that the Human Emperor had secretly taken control of the ancient ancestor. Kong Xuan suspected Ye Xuan had come to target his mother, Yuanfeng.

• Kong Xuan became murderous when Ye Xuan brought up his mother, but Ye Xuan asked him to look at something before deciding what to do.
• Ye Xuan used his strange black-and-white powers and a purple-gold bell to summon a huge coffin from beneath the Divine Parasol Tree's inner world.
• Kong Xuan recognized the coffin's inscriptions as “Ancestral Dragon” and recalled the Human Emperor's role in the Ancestral Dragon's emergence from Great Mount Sumeru.
• The coffin opened to reveal the Ancestral Dragon, whose killing intent overwhelmed nearby creatures, before the lid shut and the coffin vanished.
• Kong Xuan concluded the Human Emperor had the Ancestral Dragon in his hands and asked Ye Xuan whether he had come for Yuanfeng.

Ye Xuan persuaded Kong Xuan that the Human Emperor could temporarily restore Yuanfeng’s consciousness, and Kong Xuan took him to see her body. There, Kong Xuan explained how Yuanshi Tianzun had trapped Yuanfeng in the Glazed Lamp’s flame, and asked Ye Xuan to save what remained of her.

• Ye Xuan told Kong Xuan that the Human Emperor could temporarily restore Yuanfeng’s consciousness and planned to bring back other powerful beings as well.
• Kong Xuan, moved by the possibility of seeing his mother conscious again, asked Ye Xuan to come and try to help her.
• Kong Xuan led Ye Xuan through the Phoenix Clan’s realm and layers of restrictions to a desolate area filled with death Qi.
• Ye Xuan saw Yuanfeng’s badly consumed body trapped inside the Glazed Lamp’s fierce flame.
• Kong Xuan explained that Yuanshi Tianzun had planted the Glazed Lamp in Yuanfeng to exploit her flesh and Nirvana True Fire, and that he had spent ages suppressing its flames.
• Kong Xuan pleaded with Ye Xuan to preserve what remained of Yuanfeng’s body, saying he would let the entire Phoenix Clan enter the calamity in return.

Ye Xuan used his yin-yang powers and purple-gold bell to free Yuanfeng from the Glazed Lamp, which had been made from her corpse. Yuanfeng’s Nirvana True Fire then erupted and began restoring her, and the chapter ended with a new living being appearing after the flames exploded.

• Kong Xuan told Ye Xuan that the Glazed Lamp was the heaven lamp among the Six Paths Treasure Lamps and that Yuanshi had refined it using Yuanfeng’s corpse.
• Ye Xuan rang his purple-gold bell, chanted, and pressed a yin-yang totem into the void to try to raise Yuanfeng.
• Yuanfeng’s body trembled, black and white Qi emerged from her eyes, and the Glazed Fire went out as the Glazed Lamp fell away.
• Kong Xuan saw Yuanfeng’s burned, incomplete body and called out to his mother as tears filled his eyes.
• Nirvana True Fire ignited around Yuanfeng and expanded into a vast blaze that spread across the small world.
• The enormous fireball exploded, and an incomparable living being appeared in the air.

Ye Xuan used the Chaos Creation Brush and Tongtian Talisman to awaken Yuanfeng’s remains and bring her under his command. After Kong Xuan thanked him and agreed to let him take his mother’s remains to Chaoge, Ye Xuan sealed Yuanfeng in a coffin and prepared to return to the Human Emperor.

• Yuanfeng’s corpse appeared in the sky in the form of a colossal flaming bird, and Kong Xuan recognized his mother.
• Ye Xuan drew a Tongtian Talisman with the Chaos Creation Brush and placed it on Yuanfeng, successfully awakening her and binding her to his commands.
• Yuanfeng took on a woman’s form, and Kong Xuan broke down at seeing his mother’s true appearance again.
• Ye Xuan told Kong Xuan that he had to take Yuanfeng’s remains to Chaoge so the Human Emperor could restore the consciousnesses of the experts to their original bodies.
• Kong Xuan accepted Ye Xuan’s purpose and asked him and the Human Emperor to treat Yuanfeng well.
• Ye Xuan summoned a coffin marked Yuanfeng, placed her inside, and watched it vanish as a thunderous roar sounded in his ears.

Ye Xuan received the mission to find Primordial Qilin and learned that Qilin Cliff lay atop East Kunlun, where Yuanshi Tianzun's Jade Void Palace stood. Kong Xuan revealed the location, leaving Ye Xuan to face a difficult search near Yuanshi Tianzun's domain.

• Ye Xuan received the rewards for completing the Yuanfeng mission and a new mission to obtain Primordial Qilin's corpse, essence blood, and Qilin Auspicious Art.
• Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun sensed the Glazed Lamp again and realized its fire had gone out, leaving him furious over losing the lamp and his connection to it.
• Ye Xuan asked Kong Xuan for Qilin Cliff's location and confirmed that Primordial Qilin was his next target.
• Kong Xuan explained that Buzhou Mountain had been renamed Kunlun after Gonggong shattered it, leaving East and West Kunlun as the two parts of the mountain.
• Kong Xuan told Ye Xuan that Qilin Cliff stood atop East Kunlun, beside Yuanshi Tianzun's Jade Void Palace.

Ye Xuan learned that Primordial Qilin’s task required him to reach Qilin Cliff in East Kunlun, where Yuanshi Tianzun could easily capture him. Kong Xuan revealed that the Five-Virtue Qilin, known as Nine Unlikenesses and also called Diting, might help Ye Xuan gain enough providence to approach the cliff safely, and Ye Xuan asked Kong Xuan to guide him to the Endless Blood Sea.

• Ye Xuan feared that going to Qilin Cliff in East Kunlun would put him at Yuanshi Tianzun’s mercy.
• Kong Xuan told Ye Xuan about the Five-Virtue Qilin, who secretly gathered the scattered Qilin Clan and possessed the Qilin Auspicious Art.
• Kong Xuan explained that the qilin’s auspicious blessings might let Ye Xuan approach Qilin Cliff without being noticed.
• Kong Xuan said the qilin went by the name Nine Unlikenesses and had last been seen near the Endless Blood Sea.
• Ye Xuan recognized Nine Unlikenesses as Diting and asked Kong Xuan to accompany him to find the qilin.

Ye Xuan and Kong Xuan searched underground for the Netherworld Blood Sea, hoping to persuade Ancestor Minghe to join the tribulation preparations. They reached the Blood Sea, where Ancestor Minghe emerged to confront them.

• Kong Xuan agreed to help Ye Xuan and summoned Colorful Phoenix to arrange matters for the Phoenix Clan.
• Ye Xuan and Kong Xuan traveled to the Endless Minghe and dug underground until they detected the scent of blood.
• The two followed the scent to the Netherworld Blood Sea and discussed trying to recruit Ancestor Minghe for the tribulation.
• Ye Xuan reflected on the Blood Sea’s origins and Ancestor Minghe’s power and reputation for surviving.
• The Blood Sea surged as its inhabitants noticed the visitors, and Ancestor Minghe appeared before Ye Xuan and Kong Xuan.