Recaps

Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling met outside the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier, where Jinling’s warning about its defenses prompted Guiling to adopt the title Holy Mother Guiling. Jinling overcame her hesitation about entering the barrier and went inside with Guiling, intending to look after her.

• Guiling examined the Nine Provinces Barrier and prepared to test it with an offensive technique before Holy Mother Jinling warned her that the barrier would counterattack.
• Holy Mother Jinling, a Perfection Daluo seeking a breakthrough to Quasi-Sage, decided to enter the barrier after seeing Guiling approach it without hesitation.
• Guiling introduced herself, then declared that she would change her name to Holy Mother Guiling after hearing Jinling’s Daoist title.
• Holy Mother Jinling was bewildered by Guiling’s reasoning but entered the Nine Provinces Barrier with her, deciding to look after her.

Ao Changsheng's Water Dao body created the Water Dragon World in Chaos as a trap for Chaos Demon Gods, then began cultivating within its world origin. In the Primordial World, Ao Changsheng considered the coming Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation and suspected Hongjun had plans tied to the Heavenly Court.

• Ao Changsheng's Water Dao body created a Great Thousand World in Chaos and controlled its rapid evolution.
• Ao Changsheng named the world the Water Dragon World, intending it to lure Chaos Demon Gods into attacking.
• Ao Changsheng's Water Dao body sent the Water Dragon World drifting through Chaos and entered its world origin to cultivate.
• Ao Changsheng's true body reflected on the coming Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation and the shattering of the Primordial World.
• Ao Changsheng deduced that Hongjun had made hidden arrangements within the Heavenly Court.

At Fire Cloud Cave, Fuxi reassured Human Race elders that the Variant Humans were not stealing Human Race Karmic Luck, then showed them evidence that the other races were contributing to it. In Qing Province, Jinling searched for a fortuitous opportunity among Variant Human cities while Guiling found the Nine Provinces Barrier’s suppression barely affected her.

• A Human Race elder urged Fuxi to stop the myriad races from changing the Human Race bloodline through Variant Humans, but Fuxi said they had chosen their transformations freely.
• Fuxi challenged the elders’ assumption that the Qi above the Nine Provinces Barrier was the Human Race’s Karmic Luck and argued that the Human Race’s strength had produced that Qi, not the reverse.
• Fuxi showed the elders images indicating that the other races were contributing Karmic Luck to the Human Race, and the elders celebrated the Human Race’s prospects.
• In Qing Province, Guiling and Jinling found another Variant Human city, where Jinling felt the familiar pressure of Human Race Karmic Luck and wondered if her fortuitous opportunity was nearby.
• Guiling casually asked a vendor the price of food, while Jinling wondered how she could remain so untroubled by the Nine Provinces Barrier’s suppression.
• Guiling’s unusual resistance came from containing her Law Power and Great Dao within an entire world, something the Nine Provinces Barrier had never encountered.

Xiangliu entered the Nine Provinces Barrier to avenge Xingtian and Chiyou, but its suppression left him unable to use his poison or Great Witch form. Pingxin revealed that she had intervened to temper him, while Jiufeng accused her of abandoning the Witch Race’s remaining Great Witches.

• Xiangliu learned that Xingtian had been defeated and Chiyou had been torn apart, then set out to take revenge on the Human Race.
• Xiangliu entered the Nine Provinces Barrier and found that it suppressed his Great Dao of Poison and weighed heavily on him.
• In Yong City, Xiangliu failed to assume his Great Witch form, injured himself with a roar, and discovered that his blood could not corrode the ground.
• Xiangliu left Yong City, while Pingxin’s old-woman incarnation disappeared and returned to her true form in the Netherworld.
• Jiufeng confronted Pingxin over Xiangliu’s suppression, then left as Pingxin said the time was not right for the Witch Race’s descendants to cultivate or prove the Dao.

Xiangliu failed to breach the Nine Provinces Barrier and began preparing a prolonged campaign of floods and other disasters against the Human Race. At a Domain Gate, Guiling and Jinling discussed the Human Race’s ingenuity and the prospect of becoming Sages, while Guiling privately remained confident in her own path.

• Xiangliu tried numerous ways to damage the Nine Provinces Barrier, but his floods and fierce winds vanished when they touched it.
• Xiangliu summoned eight split-off python bodies to pour water into his hands and resolved to attack the Nine Provinces with floods and other disasters for as long as necessary.
• Jinling and Guiling marveled at a Domain Gate in Qing Province, and Guiling asked whether Holy Emperor Fuxi had forged it.
• Jinling wondered whether she could become a Sage, then said she hoped to reach Quasi-Sage first.
• Guiling assured Jinling that she could become a Sage, while privately treating the goal as far less daunting than Jinling did.

Holy Mother Jinling and Holy Mother Guiling traveled to the border of Gun Province to investigate the Giant Race, hoping Jinling would find her fortuitous opportunity. They discovered the giants had been massacred, and Jinling agreed to help Guiling pursue the powerful culprit.

• Jinling and Guiling used a Domain Gate to travel from Qing Province's East Sea border to its border with Gun Province.
• Guiling explained that the Giant Race descended from the Giant Spirit Race, a collection of enormous beings created by modifying other races.
• The two women spotted what they thought was a gathering of giants and headed toward the mountains, but found a valley full of their slaughtered bodies.
• Guiling silently asked Jinling to help investigate the massacre, and Jinling agreed despite the culprit being at least a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Jinling extracted Qi from the concealment formation and formed a marker to track the culprit.

Xiangliu lured a Human Race punitive force into a trap in Yong Province, intending to kill its Daluo Golden Immortals. When Xiangliu revealed himself as a Quasi-Sage and surrounded the army, Yu led the Human Race cultivators in forming their battle formation.

• Holy Mother Jinling suspected the killer had deliberately left a trace to lure the Human Race, but she and Guiling followed it anyway.
• Xiangliu prepared to draw Human Race Daluo Golden Immortals into his territory, hoping to strike at the Human Race's upper echelon.
• At Hunling City, Yu led five Daluo Golden Immortals and an army of Golden Immortals toward the suspected killer despite Yi's warning about a trap.
• Xiangliu concealed himself and surrounded the Human Race army with his giant python form, revealing his Quasi-Sage strength while Yi's scouting technique failed to detect him.
• Yu ordered the army to form a battle formation, and the Human Race cultivators drew on the Nine Provinces Barrier as a Savage Wilderness Giant appeared.

Xiangliu ambushed Yu and the Human Race’s battle formation, revealing that he could split into two Quasi-Sage-level bodies and overpower them despite the Nine Provinces Barrier. As the humans fell into a hidden formation beneath the battlefield, a new voice suddenly called out, “Turtle Roar Cannon.”

• Xiangliu escaped the Savage Wilderness Giant’s grasp and revealed that his two black pythons were the separated halves of one two-headed Quasi-Sage.
• Yu recognized that the Nine Provinces Barrier had neutralized Xiangliu’s poison attack, but the remote battlefield left the Human Race’s formation too weak to overcome him.
• Xiangliu merged his two bodies and fought the Savage Wilderness Giant, gradually suppressing the human battle formation.
• Yu told his comrades that reinforcements were coming, while Xiangliu’s four serpent eyes showed that his plan was succeeding.
• A sickly green formation appeared beneath Xiangliu and the Savage Wilderness Giant, and Yu and Yi realized it was the trap they had overlooked.
• As the humans saw a vision of a many-headed vicious beast and feared they were doomed, an unknown voice called out, “Turtle Roar Cannon.”

Holy Mother Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling arrived in time to destroy Xiangliu’s formation and join the Human Race’s battle against the Quasi-Sage. The chapter left them fighting Xiangliu’s two divided forms, with Jinling’s strike creating an opening for the humans to attack.

• Guiling launched her Spirit Turtle Hammer from ten thousand li away, shattering Xiangliu’s formation and disrupting his attempt to defeat the Human Race.
• Guiling and Jinling flew to the battlefield, where Xiangliu recognized them as Daluos and vowed to punish them for ruining his plans.
• Yu urged the two women to leave, but Xiangliu split into two giant pythons and sent one past the Human Race’s battle formation to attack them.
• Yu separated the golden divine dragon from the savage giant and sent it after the python, while Xiangliu’s other form fought the humans.
• Jinling struck the attacking python with her Dragon-Tiger Jade Ruyi, stunning it and giving the humans a chance to launch a fierce assault.

Guiling and Jinling joined the Human Race in fighting Xiangliu, but he had lured them to the edge of the Nine Provinces Barrier and used a hidden body and void runes to transport them all outside it. The group was swept beyond the barrier, where Xiangliu reunited his serpent bodies and emerged in his true nine-headed form.

• Guiling struck Xiangliu with the Spirit Turtle Hammer and her turtle breath while Jinling and the Savage Wilderness Giant helped hold him back.
• Xiangliu noticed the women’s powerful treasures and offered to let them leave, but Guiling and Jinling refused to abandon the Human Race.
• Yu and the human fighters charged Xiangliu, and their combined attacks with Jinling and Guiling temporarily suppressed him.
• Xiangliu secretly led the fight toward a chosen location, then used Witch Power and a second hidden serpent body to reveal void runes and transport everyone away.
• Xiangliu’s colossal body swept the Savage Wilderness Giant, Jinling, and Guiling outside the Nine Provinces Barrier, where he reunited his bodies and emerged as a nine-headed serpent.

Jinling, Guiling, and the Human Race’s fighters faced the restored Quasi-Sage Xiangliu after they were forced out of the Nine Provinces Barrier. Xiangliu poisoned the Savage Wilderness Giant and surrounded them with lethal poison, leaving their defenses close to collapse as Guiling insisted the fight was not over.

• The fighters were blasted out of the Nine Provinces Barrier, and Jinling and Guiling recognized Xiangliu in his restored nine-headed Great Witch form.
• Xiangliu accused the Human Race of helping the Heavenly Court ruin the Witch Race and attacked the Savage Wilderness Giant with poison that caused its fighters terrible pain.
• Jinling used the Dragon-Tiger Jade Ruyi to suppress the poison, while Yu urged Jinling and Guiling to flee and the Savage Wilderness Giant tried to hold Xiangliu back.
• Xiangliu spread poisonous Law Power across the surrounding land, killing countless living things and forcing Jinling to take over the strain of maintaining their defense.
• Jinling lamented that Xiangliu had obstructed her chance to break through, but Guiling told her the battle was not over yet.

Guiling combined seven Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures to summon the Black Tortoise True Body and fought Xiangliu to protect the Human Race. Though Xiangliu offered to spare the humans and return her treasures, Guiling refused to surrender and gathered power for another attack.

• Guiling recovered her Law Power, raised the Black Tortoise Shield Armor, and joined the Spirit Turtle Hammer, Linggui Whip, and four Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillars into the Black Tortoise True Body.
• The Black Tortoise True Body confronted Xiangliu and struck his poison domain with a turtle breath attack, meeting his nine beams of divine light in a stalemate.
• Xiangliu recognized the Black Tortoise and acknowledged Guiling as the strongest Daluo Golden Immortal, but said the gap between their realms kept her from hitting him.
• Xiangliu urged Guiling to stop fighting and promised in the Witch Race's name to spare the humans' time-space marks and return her treasures after their resurrection.
• The humans begged Guiling to stop, but she refused and gathered Law Power in the Black Tortoise's mouth for a Turtle Roar Cannon.

Guiling exhausted herself holding Xiangliu back so the humans could flee, and Jinling stayed to protect her as Xiangliu struck. A golden dragon rescued both women, while the Human Race returned in the Savage Wilderness Giant to face Xiangliu and fight.

• Guiling injured Xiangliu with the Turtle Roar Cannon, then urged Jinling and the humans to escape while she held him back.
• The humans ran toward the Nine Provinces Barrier, but Jinling refused to leave Guiling behind.
• Guiling's Black Tortoise true form dispersed as her strength gave out, and Jinling shielded her from Xiangliu's finishing strike.
• A golden dragon carried Jinling and Guiling toward the Nine Provinces Barrier while a Savage Wilderness Giant intercepted Xiangliu.
• Yu and the other human cultivators declared that the Human Race would not abandon its saviors, then called for battle.

Yu led the poisoned Human Race cultivators into the Nine Provinces Barrier, where its Human Path Karmic Fortune cured them. He then used the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune to carry the barrier’s power beyond its boundary, sending the Savage Wilderness Giant back to aid Holy Mother Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling as observers recognized the Human Race’s growing military threat.

• Yu urged the suffering Human Race cultivators to reach the Nine Provinces Barrier so its Human Path Karmic Fortune could purge Xiangliu’s poison, and they strengthened their battle formation as the Savage Wilderness Giant rushed onward.
• Inside the Nine Provinces Barrier, Yu directed the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune to cure the poison afflicting him and the other cultivators.
• Seeing Holy Mother Guiling fall and Xiangliu attack her and Holy Mother Jinling, Yu sent the golden dragon toward them and led the Savage Wilderness Giant back out of the barrier.
• Yu explained that the dragon’s tail remained inside the Nine Provinces Barrier, allowing the Human Race battle formation to retain and amplify its power beyond the barrier.
• Observers across the Primordial World, including Heavenly Emperor Haotian and Queen Mother Yaochi, realized that the Nine Provinces Barrier could serve as a power source for formidable Human Race battle formations.
• Haotian and Yaochi suspected that a Sage had secretly increased the barrier’s power, and they wondered why the Sage had intervened.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian and Queen Mother Yaochi suspected that Guiling’s powerful backing explained Fuxi’s intervention, while Fuxi quietly helped the Human Race’s battle formation. The formation used the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune to thrash Xiangliu, leaving the watching mighty figures stunned and Ao Yang wondering whether this was the proper way to use a dragon-shaped Divine Ability.

• Heavenly Emperor Haotian and Queen Mother Yaochi concluded that Guiling’s power, treasures, and connection to the Heaven-Supporting Black Tortoise likely involved a Sage, explaining Fuxi’s intervention.
• Fuxi recognized Guiling’s hand in the Nine Provinces Barrier’s Secret Method and secretly altered the Human Race’s battle formation to improve its coordination.
• An unseen hand knocked Fuxi’s Eight Trigrams rune away from Yu, and the Savage Wilderness Giant seized the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune and used it to batter Xiangliu.
• Xiangliu accused Fuxi of bullying the weak, but Fuxi answered through the Savage Wilderness Giant and intensified the beating by drawing more power from the Nine Provinces Barrier.
• The mighty figures watching across the Primordial World were left speechless by Fuxi’s behavior, while Ao Yang watched the golden dragon and wondered whether it showed how to use the Dragon Race’s form.

Ao Changsheng used Fuxi’s karmic golden dragon and the Human Race’s power to suppress Xiangliu forever, though everyone believed Fuxi had acted. The aftermath left Fuxi amused, Ao Changsheng quietly resentful of Guiling, and Jiufeng grieving the Witch Race’s loss as Pingxin watched from the Underworld.

• Ao Changsheng, acting through the Savage Wilderness Giant and Fuxi’s golden dragon, declared Xiangliu’s eternal suppression and struck him with the Nine Provinces’ power.
• Guiling thanked Senior Brother Fuxi, while Jinling and the Human Race cultivators realized they had experienced the battle as their own deed and Yu received a cultivation method.
• Fuxi celebrated Guiling’s thanks in Fire Cloud Cave and reduced the number of his clones working in the Devil-Subduing Cave by a hundred.
• Ao Changsheng recorded Guiling’s mistaken identification and lack of cultivation progress, then resolved that she should no longer roam freely.
• Jiufeng learned Xiangliu had been suppressed forever, blamed Fuxi, and questioned whether Houtu still belonged to the Witch Race.
• Pingxin watched Jiufeng from the Underworld and mourned that she could not become Houtu again to protect the Witches.

Guiling revealed to Jinling that Fuxi was her senior brother, leaving Jinling and the Human Race Daluo astonished by Guiling’s lineage. After the group thanked them for defeating Xiangliu, Guiling asked Yu for a map of the Variant Human Race’s territories so she and Jinling could pursue their opportunity for her breakthrough.

• Guiling confirmed that the Human Race’s Sacred Emperor Fuxi was her senior brother, and Jinling realized Guiling had a powerful Sage lineage.
• Jinling introduced herself as a personal disciple of Sage Tongtian, while the five Human Race Daluo learned Guiling was Fuxi’s junior sister.
• Yu and the other Human Race Daluo thanked Guiling and Jinling for saving them and foiling Xiangliu’s scheme, then offered to take them back to the Human Race to recover.
• Guiling declined the offer and asked Yu for a map of the Variant Human Race, especially the Giant Race, along the Nine Provinces frontier.
• Yu agreed to fetch the map, noting that the Human Race’s records were more than a thousand years old, and departed with the other Daluo.

Jinling discovered that the giants had hidden Acupoints along their meridians, while Guiling could see them only inside her own world and suspected a powerful concealment. Nüwa revealed that the Acupoints were a treasure she had reserved for the Human Race, and watched the two women as the time to act approached.

• Jinling noticed Acupoints in the giants’ meridians and wondered whether they were the fortuitous opportunity that could help her reach the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Guiling examined the giants and confirmed that she could not see the Acupoints in the Primordial World, then used her Small Thousand World to reveal them.
• Guiling concluded that a great power had concealed the Acupoints and suspected they themselves, rather than her perception, were being targeted.
• Nüwa watched Jinling and Guiling from Empress Wa Palace and recognized their identities and their qualifications to represent the Human Race.
• Nüwa explained that she had concealed the Human Race’s Acupoints because the right time had not yet come, and that they were among the greatest treasures she had left for humanity.

Jinling awakened her identity as the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace, restored her foundation by opening every acupoint in correspondence with the stars, and reached Quasi-Sage through a second self. She left with her attention fixed on the Heavenly Court’s influence over the starry sky.

• Jinling realized that her acupoints corresponded to the stars, opened all 365 Manifest Acupoints and 84,000 Hidden Acupoints, and restored her foundation as an Innate Divine Being.
• Guiling guarded Jinling as the starry-sky phenomenon shook the Primordial World, while powerful cultivators failed to determine its cause.
• Cult Master Tongtian recognized that Jinling had remembered her identity as the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace, whose unfinished gestation had led her to reincarnate as Jinling.
• Jinling understood that she was the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace and resolved to face the Heavenly Court’s control over the starry sky.
• Jinling told Guiling she had not yet broken through, then a second Jinling in golden Daoist robes emerged and both Jinlings declared that she had.

After Jinling explained her breakthrough and new identity to Guiling, she revealed that the Human Race’s Acupoint Diagram had helped her become an Innate Divine Being and reach the Quasi-Sage realm. Jinling planned to repay the Human Race by unsealing its acupoints and linking them to the ancient stars, with Guiling’s help.

• Jinling told Guiling that she had become the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace and head of the star mansions, while Guiling wondered about acquiring an impressive Daoist title.
• Guiling offered to avenge Jinling against Dijun, but Jinling said she was alive and Dijun was dead, so there was no need to dwell on the past.
• Guiling asked whether Jinling would leave the Nine Provinces after reaching the Quasi-Sage realm, and Jinling said she still had a task among the Human Race that required Guiling’s help.
• Jinling explained that the Human Race’s Acupoint Diagram had completed her Innate Divine Being body and helped her break through, creating a great karmic debt to the Human Race.
• Guiling realized Sage Nüwa had concealed the Human Race’s acupoints because the Demon Race controlled the ancient stars when the Human Race was created.
• Jinling said she would unseal the Human Race’s acupoints and connect them to the three hundred and sixty-five ancient stars, benefiting both the Human Race and the stars.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian investigated the starry-sky phenomenon while Laozi sent Grand Mage Xuandu to spread the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir among the Human Race. Ao Changsheng concluded that Jinling’s awakening had completed the Great Dao of the Stars, created a Great Thousand World to test his theories, and opened a passage to meet Pingxin.

• Heavenly Emperor Haotian asked his officials to explain the starry-sky phenomenon, then learned that the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation had grown stronger and increased the Heavenly Realm’s Spiritual Qi conversion.
• Laozi told Grand Mage Xuandu to take the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir to the Human Race, and Xuandu left Mount Shouyang on foot because the ancestral land barred immortals.
• Ao Changsheng connected Jinling’s return as the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace to the completion of the Great Dao of the Stars.
• Ao Changsheng created a Great Thousand World, accelerated its time to test his ideas about Innate Divine Beings, and placed it in his abode to evolve.
• Ao Changsheng opened a passage to the Netherworld, where Pingxin was waiting.

Ao Changsheng confronted Pingxin over Xiangliu’s suppression and negotiated for access to the Authority of Reincarnation. Pingxin gave Fuxi the Authority of the Judge of the Underworld as an apology, then agreed to exchange Authority of Reincarnation with Ao Changsheng if he paid more.

• Ao Changsheng claimed Fuxi had suppressed Xiangliu and pressed Pingxin for a reward, while hinting that he suspected her plans for the Witch Race and reincarnation.
• Pingxin gave Ao Changsheng the Authority of the Judge of the Underworld for Fuxi as an apology.
• Ao Changsheng revealed that his own Authority of Reincarnation could not be transferred, so he wanted to exchange it for proper authority to give his disciple.
• Pingxin rejected Ao Changsheng’s offers to purchase her Authority of Reincarnation and asked whether he was still accepting disciples, mentioning Jiufeng.
• Pingxin agreed to exchange Authority of Reincarnation with Ao Changsheng but told him he would have to pay more.

Ao Changsheng exchanged his reincarnation authority with Pingxin, legitimized his claim as a lord of reincarnation, and divided part of it for Guiling. As he and Pingxin discussed Jiufeng and the Witch Race, a white-clad Daoist crossed the Netherworld Blood Sea and entered Ghost Gate Pass, provoking Pingxin’s anger.

• Ao Changsheng traded his ten percent of reincarnation authority to Pingxin for two hundred clusters of world origin and divided some authority for Guiling.
• Pingxin asked Ao Changsheng to take Jiufeng as a disciple, but he said she could not cultivate his method.
• Pingxin described her arrangements for the surviving great witches, while Ao Changsheng noted that Chiyou and Xingtian were being kept from advancing during the Immeasurable Tribulation.
• A white-clad Daoist walked across the Netherworld Blood Sea on a bridge of white lotuses and entered Ghost Gate Pass.
• Pingxin sensed the Daoist entering Ghost Gate Pass and angrily exclaimed, "How dare you!"

Pingxin and Ao Changsheng watched Dizang enter the Netherworld through Ghost Gate Pass using Zhunti’s protection, which soon shattered. As Dizang pressed onward along the Yellow Springs Road, he faced the Underworld’s yaksha ghost gods, and the story left him confronting dozens of powerful reinforcements.

• Pingxin showed Ao Changsheng a mirror image of Dizang crossing into the Netherworld, and Ao Changsheng recognized Zhunti’s Divine Ability.
• Dizang recalled Zhunti’s warning that his protection would fail in the Underworld, then continued along the Yellow Springs Road as ghosts and ghost messengers watched.
• Four Taiyi yakshas attacked Dizang, but he blocked their strikes, seized their forks, and overpowered them without stopping.
• The yakshas called for help, summoning dozens of Taiyi yaksha ghost gods, and Dizang grew grave as they approached.

Dizang advanced toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation while defending himself from the Underworld’s Taiyi ghost gods and yakshas. Pingxin altered the Yellow Springs Road, bringing Hell into view, and Dizang learned why the dead must suffer for their sins before reincarnation.

• Dizang blocked the ghost gods’ attacks with golden radiance and continued along the Yellow Springs Road without striking back.
• Ao Changsheng and Pingxin observed Dizang’s conduct, and Pingxin chose not to send a Daluo to capture him.
• Pingxin subtly changed the Yellow Springs Road, allowing Dizang to see the Hells beside it.
• Dizang stopped to watch countless souls endure punishments and asked a ghost god why they were suffering.
• The ghost god explained that souls had to wash away their sins before reincarnation, because those sins could not be passed to a new life or borne by the Six Paths.
• Dizang accepted that each being had to repay their own sins before receiving a new life.