Recaps

Boruo tried to stabilize the weakened Devil Race, but a black-robed man returned to the Devil Domain, killed Heaven Swallower, and used his power to create stronger Devil Creatures. After Boruo escaped his attack, the man sent a vast force through the pillar of light to conquer the Lower Realm.

• Boruo left the Fire of Tempering and set about governing the Devil Race, abandoning plans to fight the Dragon Race.
• The black-robed man secretly entered the Devil Domain, found Heaven Swallower, killed him, and absorbed his power.
• The man released Demonic Qi across the Devil Domain's levels, creating hordes of powerful new Devil Creatures.
• Boruo attacked the man on the fifth level, but he broke her defense and seized her by the throat.
• Boruo used a death-feigning cultivation method to escape, and the man chose not to pursue her.
• The man ordered the Devil Race and Devil Creatures to surge through the pillar of light and conquer the Lower Realm.

After the sea walls around the pillar of light collapsed, the Cloud Mulberry Realm faced a massive invasion by intelligent members of the Devil Race. Lan Fusheng and the coastal cultivators fought back as a high-level Devil Race member arrived and attacked the coastal arrays.

• Lan Fusheng stopped an old fisherman and his son from taking their boat toward the pillar of light, and the son mocked the patrol for worrying about it.
• A thunderclap preceded the destruction of the sea walls, and the son panicked as sea beasts were killed and the waters turned red.
• The Array Sect’s coastal defenses prepared to meet the invasion, while cultivators from the Beast Soul Sect, the Array Sect, and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance formed ranks to protect the towns.
• The final sea wall fell, and countless Devil Race members poured from the pillar of light as Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin joined the fighting.
• A second wave arrived around a Devil Race member with purple spirals on his horns, who unleashed his demonic power against the coastal arrays.

Mo Dao led the devils in an assault on the coastal defenses while Jing Huan, Bai Kejin, and Lan Fusheng confronted him. Meanwhile, Sang Ying woke in the Gods and Devils Ravine and hid from a corrupted Nine-Tailed Beast, which spotted her.

• Mo Dao attacked the coastal cultivators with his feathers and directed low-ranking devils to break through the defensive arrays.
• The Array Sect's sect master distributed defensive array plates, and Jing Huan joined Bai Kejin and Lan Fusheng in attacking Mo Dao.
• Dong Fuzhu watched her companions depart and remembered Sang Ying as she guarded the second line of defense.
• Sang Ying woke in the Gods and Devils Ravine, where the Heart Devil Mirror explained that the man in black had thrown them there and warned her about the Fallen Gods.
• Sang Ying hid with the Heart Devil Mirror as a corrupted Nine-Tailed Beast approached, but the beast turned and met her gaze with its all-white eyes.

Sang Ying fled a Nine-Tailed Beast through a narrow crevice, only to find a giant bird blocking the exit. As she climbed to escape, an unknown man killed both monsters and caught her watching.

• Sang Ying dodged the Nine-Tailed Beast's tails as she ran through the crevice.
• A giant bird blocked the far exit, and the Nine-Tailed Beast forced its way farther into the gap.
• Sang Ying climbed the mountain wall to escape the monsters' attacks.
• A mysterious attacker severed the Nine-Tailed Beast's tails and the giant bird's wings, then killed them both.
• A man cut open the monsters' chests and took something out, then asked Sang Ying if she had seen enough.

Haohe captured Sang Ying after she was thrown into the Gods and Devils Ravine and discovered that she was the Child of the Heavenly Dao. He asked whether she wanted to become a god, leaving her with the possibility that he might help her ascend.

• Haohe seized Sang Ying and carried her to his dwelling in the Gods and Devils Ravine.
• After eating crystals taken from two monsters, Haohe questioned Sang Ying about how she had ended up in the ravine.
• Haohe concluded that the black-robed man who pursued Sang Ying was an immortal and examined her meridians and Dantian.
• When Haohe tried to enter Sang Ying's sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Dao's power blocked him and thunder struck beside his house.
• Haohe revealed that Sang Ying was the Child of the Heavenly Dao and asked whether she wanted to become a god.
• Sang Ying asked Haohe if he would help her, and he smiled without giving her a clear answer.

Haohe recruited Qing Mingfeng to help Sang Ying pursue godhood, while Qi Yaoji secretly modified the Cloud Mulberry Realm’s Teleportation Array. The array brought devil armies into several realms, turning the Immortal Spirit Realm’s conflict into a wider catastrophe.

• Haohe introduced Sang Ying, a newly born Child of the Heavenly Dao, to Qing Mingfeng, who eagerly agreed to join the work.
• Qi Yaoji assessed the battle at the Endless Sea and installed her master's array disc on the damaged Teleportation Array in the Cloud Mulberry Realm.
• As a new force of mid-level and high-level devils emerged, Qi Yaoji returned unseen to the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• The Mara Gate continued to resist the sects besieging it while Gate Master Qi awaited the contingency promised by Qi Yaoji's master.
• An unknown array destroyed the Teleportation Array in the Immortal Spirit Realm, and a mass of devils emerged from it.
• Devil armies appeared in the Twin Orchid Realm, the Black Tortoise Realm, and the Hidden Nether Realm, and the sect master of Ten Thousand Daos Born recognized that the expected disaster had arrived.

The cultivators defending the Cloud Mulberry Realm fought off two high-tier devils, but Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin were infected by Demonic Qi in their wounds. As the arrays failed, a third group appeared, including ten high-tier devils.

• Dong Fuzhu, Green Lotus, and Red Lotus joined the defense against the mid-tier devils attacking the arrays.
• Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin battled two high-tier devils while the Array Sect ran out of materials replacing the broken arrays.
• Jin Liner struck the two high-tier devils with a towering wave, allowing the cultivators to kill them.
• Dong Fuzhu escorted the badly wounded Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin to the medical cultivators, who warned that Demonic Qi could turn them into devils.
• Ten high-tier devils appeared as the third group, and the Array Sect's array materials were completely exhausted.

Sang Ying learned that becoming a god required her to pull God Emperor Xi’s sword from the deepest part of the Gods and Devils Ravine, so Haohe and Qing Mingfeng led her there. They reached the sword’s resting place, where Qing Mingfeng revealed that Sang Ying would have to soak in the scalding red liquid surrounding it.

• Qing Mingfeng examined Sang Ying, confirmed she was a Child of the Heavenly Dao, and praised her ambition to become a god.
• Haohe explained that Sang Ying had completed two preliminary trials and that the final trial was to pull out God Emperor Xi’s sword.
• Qing Mingfeng told Sang Ying that the sword could help her become a False God, and she agreed to try so she could protect herself and others.
• Haohe and Qing Mingfeng guided Sang Ying through the Gods and Devils Ravine for nearly half a month, pushing her to fight demonized divine beasts as she grew stronger.
• The three reached the place where God Emperor Xi’s remains lay, and Qing Mingfeng announced that Sang Ying would soak in the blazing red liquid there.

Sang Ying braved the magma to enter the God Emperor’s mausoleum, then encountered a second trial that trapped her in an illusion. She opened her eyes on a battlefield, facing a powerful young man who called her to battle.

• Qing Mingfeng and Haohe told Sang Ying that the only way to reach the God Emperor’s sword was to dive through the magma, and warned her she might not survive.
• Sang Ying used her defensive arrays and Ice Spirit Crystals to swim through the magma and pull open the mausoleum’s stone door, suffering severe burns before falling inside.
• Sang Ying healed with flesh-regeneration pills and continued through the mausoleum with the mirror spirit.
• The mirror spirit sensed a presence with the same origin as itself in a stone chamber, and Sang Ying collapsed into an illusion.
• Sang Ying awoke on a battlefield before a powerful young man who raised his sword and called her to follow him into battle.

Sang Ying endured a deadly illusion of the High Antiquity war, where she witnessed God Emperor Xi divide the God Race and the Beastman Race with a vast fissure and barriers. She awoke with her injuries healed and discovered she had reached the Soul Leaving Stage.

• Sang Ying fought beside a young God Race warrior for several hundred years, growing into a powerful fighter while the war against the beastmen continued.
• A beastman emperor turned the tide of battle, and the warrior proposed separating the two races by dividing the world.
• The warrior revealed himself as God Emperor Xi and split the world with his sword while the beastman emperor formed a barrier; both perished in the fissure as barriers sealed the races apart.
• The mirror spirit tried to wake Sang Ying as the illusion drained her vitality, but she remained trapped until the battle ended.
• Sang Ying awoke with her lava injuries healed, felt her spiritual power return, and discovered she had reached the Soul Leaving Stage.

After surviving the mausoleum’s trial, Sang Ying reached the Soul Leaving Stage and found the Divine Emperor’s sword, which transported her to a sword graveyard. There, she learned the Nirvana Sword was hidden among countless swords and began climbing to search for it.

• Sang Ying recovered from her rapid cultivation breakthrough, changed her ruined robes, and continued deeper into the mausoleum with the Heart Devil Mirror.
• Sang Ying entered a chamber where a divine sword launched a relentless sword formation at her, and she scattered the sword shadows with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Sang Ying touched the divine sword and vanished, while the Heart Devil Mirror realized she had entered another test.
• Sang Ying found herself in a vast sword graveyard and climbed a mountain covered with swords.
• A voice told Sang Ying that the Nirvana Sword was somewhere among the swords and left her to find it herself.
• Sang Ying began climbing the stone mountain in search of the Nirvana Sword.

A mysterious man sent the Devil Race through a passage to the Lower Realm, then closed it and attacked Boruo as she tried to awaken Jiang Zhuoxue. Jiang Zhuoxue emerged from the Fire of Tempering and tore away the man’s disguise, revealing Gu Huai Wei.

• The man expanded the passage with his remaining demonic power, and Wugui led the high-ranking Devil Race members into the Lower Realm.
• After Wugui departed, the man closed the passage, and Boruo realized he had likely killed Futu and Heaven Swallower before leaving the Devil Domain.
• Boruo gave drops of her heart’s blood to the Fire of Tempering and called for Jiang Zhuoxue to wake.
• The man returned and attacked Boruo with immortal power, revealing that he had been helping himself rather than the Devil Race.
• Jiang Zhuoxue emerged from the Fire of Tempering, fought the man, and tore away his robe and mask to reveal Gu Huai Wei.

Sang Ying searched the sword tomb for the Nirvana Sword until she realized it was not one of the swords on the mountain. She captured its sword spirit, leaving the aged voice and Nirvana to reveal what would happen next.

• Sang Ying examined thousands of swords, depleted her spiritual power, and questioned whether the Nirvana Sword was really in the tomb.
• The aged voice insisted the Nirvana Sword was there and warned Sang Ying not to destroy the swords in the tomb.
• Sang Ying began smashing swords together, provoking the aged voice and testing whether the swords mattered to it.
• Sang Ying sensed an unknown presence while preparing to break more swords, trapped it in an ice-powered barrier, and identified it as the Nirvana Sword’s spirit.
• Sang Ying explained that she had deduced the sword spirit was not among the swords on the mountain and used the aged voice’s reaction to locate it.

Sang Ying passed Nirvana’s trial and learned that the divine sword spirit was nearing his end. Though he could no longer make her a demigod, Nirvana gave all his remaining power to the Dragon Abyss Sword, transforming it into a new divine sword.

• Nirvana revealed that previous visitors had been deceived by his words and that Sang Ying had nearly angered the sword graveyard by striking its swords.
• Nirvana explained that the swords were illusions laid over broken weapons he had recovered from the battlefield, and Sang Ying asked him to help her seek godhood.
• Nirvana praised Sang Ying for surviving his long-war illusion but told her that his spirit was about to vanish.
• Nirvana agreed to leave his power to Sang Ying’s sword, and she brought out the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Nirvana shattered his own blade and transferred his power and sword-spirit essence into the Dragon Abyss Sword, whose transformation made the mausoleum tremble.

Dong Fuzhu watched Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin lie unconscious after taking experimental pills to suppress the Demonic Qi, then returned to battle when she feared they would not wake. As she fought a high-level devil with reckless abandon, a familiar voice reached her before its claws could strike.

• Dong Fuzhu learned that Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin had taken untested pills to fight the Demonic Qi in their bodies and would die if they did not wake within three days.
• On the third day, Dong Fuzhu asked the medical cultivator whether the two still had a chance, then left to fight the Devil Race rather than wait.
• Dong Fuzhu threw herself into battle and rescued people while fighting the Devil Race with renewed determination.
• Dong Fuzhu attacked a high-level devil as if ready to trade her life for his, and a familiar voice called her reckless before his claws struck.

Bai Kejin and Lan Fusheng awakened, rescued Dong Fuzhu, and fought back against the devils pouring into the Cloud Mulberry Realm. As they broke through to Spirit Transformation and the cultivators failed to destroy the Teleportation Array, the final group of devils arrived, all of them high-level.

• Bai Kejin cut off a high-level devil's hand and told Dong Fuzhu to fall back, reuniting her with the awakened Lan Fusheng and himself.
• Dong Fuzhu tearfully embraced Lan Fusheng, while Bai Kejin attacked the wounded high-level devil and killed it before joining the fight against another.
• Lan Fusheng sent Dong Fuzhu with Green Lotus to treat her injuries and clear the Demonic Qi from her wounds.
• Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin fought together, broke through to Spirit Transformation, and used their lightning tribulations to kill many devils emerging from the pillar of light.
• The cultivators failed to damage the Teleportation Array or learn its secrets from captured low-level devils, and the final group arrived consisting entirely of high-level devils.

Feng Meng sought aid from the weakened Mara Gate, and Qi Yaoji directed the devils toward Ten Thousand Daos Born and the Jimo Household to weaken her rivals. As the two forces uncovered the devils’ connection to the person behind the Mara Gate, the invasion began, while Sang Ying prepared for the Dragon Abyss Sword’s heavenly tribulation.

• Feng Meng confronted Qi Yaoji and her father at the Mara Gate and demanded help against the Immortal Spirit Realm’s forces.
• Qi Yaoji explained that the Mara Gate had lost most of its strength, then pointed Feng Meng toward Ten Thousand Daos Born and the Jimo Household to weaken them.
• Ten Thousand Daos Born and the Jimo Household learned that devils had appeared in multiple small worlds and that their Demonic Qi tainted cultivators.
• The sect master and the head of the Jimo Household concluded that the person behind the Mara Gate was working with the devils and resolved to stop them.
• The Devil Race began attacking the Immortal Spirit Realm, while Sang Ying waited with the reborn Dragon Abyss Sword for its heavenly tribulation.

Sang Ying escaped the collapsing mausoleum with the Dragon Abyss Sword and told Haohe and Qing Mingfeng that the sword spirit had perished. At the highest peak in the Gods and Devils Ravine, she drew out the sword’s power and triggered a bolt of purple lightning from beyond the ravine’s barriers.

• Sang Ying emerged from the lava with the Dragon Abyss Sword and Heart Devil Mirror as the mausoleum began to collapse, and Haohe and Qing Mingfeng asked what she had found.
• Devil-corrupted divine beasts converged on the collapsing mausoleum, but Haohe and Qing Mingfeng kept them at bay while Sang Ying revealed that the sword spirit had perished and the mausoleum would sink underground.
• Sang Ying explained the Dragon Abyss Sword’s origins to Qing Mingfeng, who asked about the Azure Dragon Clan before losing interest after hearing about Qing Shou’s actions.
• Three days later, Sang Ying entrusted the Heart Devil Mirror to Qing Mingfeng and asked Haohe to take her to the Gods and Devils Ravine’s highest peak.
• Sang Ying released her suppressed cultivation, powered the Dragon Abyss Sword, and drew a bolt of purple lightning through the ravine’s barriers.

Sang Ying endured a massive Soul Leaving Stage lightning tribulation in the Gods and Devils Ravine, tempering herself and the Dragon Abyss Sword while the lightning opened the sealed ravine to the outside world. The tribulation ended after the sword spirit urged her to withstand the divine power flooding into her body.

• Lan Tingjue and Wentian emerged from their caves to investigate the heavenly lightning and found Haohe and Qing Mingfeng protecting Sang Ying as she underwent her tribulation.
• Qing Mingfeng revealed that Sang Ying was the current Child of Heavenly Destiny, changing how the gathered Fallen Gods regarded her.
• Sang Ying used the incoming Spiritual Qi to temper her body and the Dragon Abyss Sword as the lightning repeatedly struck them.
• The final bolt revealed the sky above the ravine and poured vast Spiritual Qi into the previously sealed area, astonishing the Fallen Gods.
• The Dragon Abyss Sword began forcing divine power into Sang Ying until she nearly burst, but its new sword spirit told her to hold on.
• Sang Ying roused her Dantian and Qi Vortex to absorb the power, and the lightning tribulation ended with a deafening boom.

The lightning tribulation restored a trace of Spiritual Qi to the Fallen Gods and corrupted divine beasts, giving them hope that the Gods and Devils Ravine could be saved. Sang Ying emerged from the dust with overwhelming power, and Qingluan recognized her as a Child of the Heavenly Dao who might guide them toward a turning point.

• The lightning tribulation dispersed the barrier and struck the Fallen Gods and corrupted divine beasts, waking them and restoring some Spiritual Qi to their meridians.
• Wentian summoned a golden spark of spiritual power, and the other Fallen Gods tried using their restored Spiritual Qi.
• Qing Mingfeng urged Haohe to check his meridians, and Haohe found Spiritual Qi flowing through them.
• Haohe and Qing Mingfeng called for Sang Ying as dust and ice beads gathered around the blasted mountain peak.
• Sang Ying emerged with an imposing presence that shattered ice beads and cracked the stone beneath her feet.
• Qingluan asked Wentian about Sang Ying, then recognized her as a Child of the Heavenly Dao who might bring them a turning point.

After Sang Ying completed her tribulation, she struggled to control the Divine Power raging through her body. After spending more than a month mastering it, she unleashed a golden phantom whose sword strike cleared the Demonic Qi from the Gods and Devils Ravine, and the delayed sweet rain finally fell.

• Sang Ying emerged from the ruined mountain peak in agony and told Haohe she could not control the power within her.
• Haohe enclosed Sang Ying and the ice beads in barriers, then instructed her to use Spiritual Qi to subdue the Divine Power.
• Sang Ying spent half a month wrestling the Divine Power into submission while Haohe, Wentian, Qingluan, and others offered guidance.
• After another half a month, Sang Ying absorbed the Divine Power, and a giant golden phantom appeared behind her.
• The golden phantom swung its sword, swept away the Ravine's Demonic Qi, and freed the Fallen Gods and divine beasts from their shackles.
• The phantom dissolved into golden rain, which the Heart Devil Mirror recognized as the tribulation's long-delayed sweet rain.

Sang Ying saw life return to the Gods and Devils Ravine after the lightning tribulation and agreed to remain there to learn from the Ancient God Race. Meanwhile, the Devil Race invaded the Twin Orchid Realm, and Sang Zheng weighed the Demon Race’s offer to join forces.

• Sang Ying woke from meditation, saw new life flourishing in the Gods and Devils Ravine, and asked Haohe whether he would leave.
• Haohe said he and the others would stay, then urged Sang Ying to remain and learn from them until she could use her divine power freely.
• Sang Ying agreed to delay her departure and continue training with Haohe, Qing Mingfeng, Wentian, and Qingluan.
• Sang Zheng and the Flowing Light Sword Sect responded to the Devil Race’s arrival by warning allied sects, while cultivators organized defenses and the Demon Race offered cooperation.
• Sang Zheng told Wen Miaoshu he distrusted the Demon Race’s offer, but Wen Miaoshu advised joining forces while watching for signs of betrayal.

He Ying reported the Devils’ renewed invasion to Demon Emperor Helian Mo, who ordered scouts to watch the human defensive line while regretting his lost closeness with Sang Ying. In the Black Tortoise Realm, Fu Shuangjiang investigated black smoke and corrupted Demon Beasts emerging from the Hidden Moon Forest and suspected deliberate sabotage.

• He Ying returned to the Demon Palace and told Helian Mo that Sect Master Sang was still considering an alliance and that Devils were devastating human territory.
• Helian Mo ordered He Ying to secretly monitor the defensive line and report any Devil movements, so He Ying departed with eagle, fox, and rabbit Demons.
• Alone, Helian Mo remembered his time with Sang Ying and regretted destroying their closeness.
• Fu Shuangjiang arrived near the Hidden Moon Forest with Sword Frost Cliff disciples and learned that black smoke and corrupted Demon Beasts had appeared there.
• A Sword Frost Cliff disciple reported Demonic Qi in the wounds of captured Demon Beasts, and Fu Shuangjiang suspected someone was deliberately causing trouble.

Jiang Zhuoxue subdued the Devil Master’s Devil Core in the Fire of Tempering and gained command of Netherfire, while a man resembling the supposedly dead Gu Huaiwei escaped after taking Sang Ying. Jiang Zhuoxue sent a tracking flame after him and left with Boruo to find the Devil Race members who had fled to the Lower Realm.

• Jiang Zhuoxue recognized the black-robed man as Gu Huaiwei, though he and Sang Ying had buried and burned Gu Huaiwei’s body.
• Gu Huaiwei revealed Jiang Zhuoxue’s transformation into a full member of the Devil Race, extinguished the Netherfire blocking the door, and escaped after taking Sang Ying.
• Jiang Zhuoxue sent a tracking flame after Gu Huaiwei, then told Boruo that he had found and subdued the Devil Master’s Devil Core in the Fire of Tempering.
• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that the Devil Core had given him control over Netherfire and that the tracking flame was following Gu Huaiwei’s scent.
• Jiang Zhuoxue burned away the remaining Demonic Qi in the Devil Domain and set out with Boruo for the Lower Realm to find the Devil Race members who had fled.

After the Gods and Devils Battlefield collapsed and its Demonic Qi vanished, Bai Nianchou decided to travel to the Lower Realm to find Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue and face the Devil Race’s threat there. He left with Old Patriarch Bai’s blessing, while the Dragon Race hoped he would return as a worthy patriarch.

• Bai Nianchou worried after more than forty days without hearing from Sang Ying or Jiang Zhuoxue, and prepared to act when a rumble came from the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• A patrol reported that the battlefield and the seal beneath it had collapsed, with Heaven Swallower and all traces of Demonic Qi gone.
• Bai Nianchou flew to the battlefield and found the seal’s site reduced to a deep pit, leading him to suspect Jiang Zhuoxue had succeeded but been harmed by the Fire of Tempering.
• Bai Nianchou told Old Patriarch Bai he wanted to go to the Lower Realm, and explained that the Dragon Race should not leave the Devil Race for Lower Realm cultivators and mortals to face.
• Old Patriarch Bai agreed, and Bai Nianchou departed through a Teleportation Array as the Dragon Race quietly watched him leave.