Recaps

Lu Changzhi disrupted the Buddhist Order’s control of the Thirteenth City, then watched Qin Han’s plans for Jiang Xin collapse while collecting opportunities and uncovering the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s schemes. Dai Tianfeng restored the Eye of the Secret Realm but died after a powerful cultivator struck back, just as the Nine-Story Tower appeared.

• Lu Changzhi destroyed the old Buddha Lord’s thought and the formation beneath Wujie’s palace, freeing the Thirteenth City’s residents and sending Wujie rushing back.
• Qin Han found a damaged Beast Taming Horn and gathered more than a thousand spirit beasts to stage a rescue for Jiang Xin, but Mu Fan’s Spirit-Restraining Stone barrage devastated the herd.
• Qin Han escaped with Hua Yunfan and found the Art of Spirit and Flesh Cultivation, while Lu Changzhi’s disciples collected the beasts’ remains and returned to the Eighteen City.
• Lu Changzhi obtained Improved Nonhuman Plaques and used Zhou Xun’s memories to learn that the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty was collecting young geniuses’ blood essence and wanted Luo Zhen captured alive.
• Dai Tianfeng traced the beasts’ avoidance of an area to a hidden chamber and restored the Eye of the Secret Realm, allowing him to survey the region.
• A powerful mental attack struck Xia Ya’s probe and Dai Tianfeng’s connection, destroying the Eye, while Xia Ya identified the attacker as a fifth- or sixth-level Saint Realm cultivator.
• Zhou Mu learned that Dai Tianfeng’s soul jade had shattered and ordered Zhou Xun to investigate his death, while the Nine-Story Tower appeared and Lu Changzhi told Zhou Xun to focus on the investigation.

Lu Changzhi used the Nine-Story Tower to cultivate and later directed the fight against a spirit-beast tide. When Xia Ya and Xia Kun came for him and the tower, Jiang Yuanyin and the hidden patriarchs moved to capture them.

• Qin Han failed the fifth-floor challenge at the replica tower, while Lu Changzhi followed Gu Qingyang to the real Nine-Story Tower and entered it using a Nonhuman Plaque.
• Lu Changzhi filled the ninth floor with origin spirit liquid and Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves Eggs, then entered Long-Lasting Perfect Sudden Enlightenment as the ancestors guarded him.
• After Lu Changzhi woke in the Late Transcendent Realm, Qin Han encountered Xia Ya, who attacked him to seize his jade token, and Hua Yunfan helped Qin Han escape.
• Dongfang Yao’s attempt to break an underground formation caused a deadly surge, while Jiang Xin claimed the Nine-Story Tower’s inheritance and the tower vanished as a spatial rift opened.
• Lu Changzhi persuaded Huo Zhen to keep the rift open for spirit beasts, then led his disciples toward Eighteen City as the beast tide spread through the secret realm.
• Mu Fan and his companions used White Tiger essence-blood bait and an exploding Iron Tree to kill spirit beasts, while Lu Changzhi gathered the light given by Eighteen City’s departing residents.
• Zhou Xun rescued Luo Zhen from a pile of corpses, and Xia Ya returned to the secret realm with Xia Kun’s incarnation after learning about Lu Changzhi’s Perfect Sudden Enlightenment.
• Xia Ya demanded the Nine-Story Tower after Lu Changzhi refused his offer, and Jiang Yuanyin wounded him before Xia Kun emerged and threatened the Land of the Four Directions.
• Jiang Yuanyin summoned hidden Saint Realm patriarchs to attack Xia Kun, and after they broke his defenses, Xia Kun began to self-destruct as Dong Li called for the countermeasure.

Lu Changzhi reached the Saint Realm, learned that his parents had removed his powerful bloodline when he was young, and began restoring it. Meanwhile, Luo Zhen’s strength grew under captivity, and Gu Chen saved Linhai City from a massive wave before sea monsters appeared.

• Lu Changzhi used the Dual-Purpose Lightning Tribulation to kill Xia Kun, while the Xia Clan’s ancestor failed to identify the remains and Xia Wentian investigated the clan’s leads.
• Lu Changzhi gave Qin Li a beast-taming system and the Five Elephants Heaven-Suppressing Seal, then returned to Hidden Origin Peak and began refining the Seed of Chaos.
• Lu Changzhi survived a world-destroying lightning punishment and an enormous Saint Lightning Tribulation at the Heaven-Reaching Mountain Range, reaching the Saint Realm before returning to the Five Symbols Sect.
• Lu Changzhi entered the ancestors’ retreat with Cang Wenyu and Liang Si, opened the palace his parents had left him, and learned that they had removed his bloodline when he was young.
• Lu Changzhi read about the Summoning People Bloodline and began restoring it, while Luo Zhen endured his captors’ beatings and sensed an invisible power growing within him.
• Gu Chen traveled to Linhai City, recognized the rare Origin Spiritual Power there, and raised a protective formation that held back a towering wave.
• Gu Chen received rewards for saving Linhai City, while people aboard nearby flying boats spotted monsters in the sea.

Lu Changzhi dealt with threats across the Land of the Four Directions as the weakening seal brought the Fishman Race and outside powers into play. The Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty opened a rift to the Blood Devils, and Xue Lang’s invasion left its forces fighting for survival while Lu Changzhi watched nearby.

• Gu Chen defended Linhai City from the Fishman Race, using Lu Changzhi’s talisman and Mu Fan’s weapons to defeat Sha Ao and the other sea beings.
• Lu Changzhi learned that the seal around the Land of the Four Directions was weakening, received a mission to explore the Longevity Battlefield, and saw Luo Zhen’s rapid rise in power.
• Luo Zhen escaped the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty, but Lu Changzhi intercepted him, took his storage ring, and drove him away from the Five Symbols Sect.
• Mu Qianqian rescued Qin Jiuxiao from masked attackers, took him as her disciple, and brought him to the Cloud Heaven Holy Land.
• Zhou Mu and Zhou Changshou opened a rift to the Blood Devils, then let the creatures attack the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty while Lu Changzhi observed.
• Xue Lang emerged from the rift, killed a Transcendent Realm expert, and exposed the hidden altar beneath the forbidden area.
• Zhuang Linfa accused Zhou Zhanming of treachery, but Xue Lang summoned Devil Envoys and Blood Devils, prompting Zhou Mu to call the reserves and order everyone to fight.