Recaps

Liu Duanyue oversaw Moonless City’s recovery while Yu Heng worked to earn the residents’ trust. Qi Yaoji and a devil attacked Yu Heng and spread Demonic Qi, but Yu Heng briefly resisted long enough to warn Dongdong, who ran to alert City Lord Liu.

• Liu Duanyue managed Moonless City’s development and administration while Liu Chengzhi avoided his successor duties.
• Yu Heng and the other former Sun-Chasing Hall members rebuilt the city, gradually earning the residents’ acceptance through their hard work.
• A devil and Qi Yaoji trapped Yu Heng in his home and used black Qi to turn him into a puppet.
• Yu Heng fought through the control long enough to shove Dongdong outside and warn him that a devil had entered Moonless City.
• Qi Yaoji sent Yu Heng after Dongdong, then knocked Yu Heng into a wall and vanished, while Dongdong raced to the city lord’s manor to raise the alarm.

Qi Yaoji watched Fan Nanjun spread Demonic Qi across the Hidden Nether Realm, preparing it for the High Antiquity Devil Race. After the devils claimed Moonless City, Liu Chengzhi and Liu Chengren hid underground while Gu Huaiwei appeared to be driven away by the Heavenly Dao.

• Qi Yaoji left the Hidden Nether Realm after Fan Nanjun contaminated Moonless City and spread Demonic Qi through much of the realm.
• Fan Nanjun’s preparations made the Hidden Nether Realm suitable for the High Antiquity Devil Race, whose forces emerged from the Teleportation Array.
• Lun Tai ignored the hidden cultivators, led his devils to Moonless City, and declared it the beginning of a new Devil Domain.
• Liu Chengzhi and Liu Chengren investigated the streets, then returned to their underground refuge to protect their injured father, City Lord Liu.
• Gu Huaiwei examined his fading hand after the Teleportation Array collapsed and complained that the Heavenly Dao was driving him away, before remembering his former disciple.

After defeating Hongyao and completing her training in the Gods and Devils Ravine, Sang Ying decided to leave and return to the outside world. The divine beasts and Fallen Gods gave her supplies as she departed, while the ravine’s inhabitants realized it could be crossed.

• Sang Ying defeated Hongyao, then stopped her sword and freed the red divine beast, who invited Sang Ying to visit again.
• Qingluan told Sang Ying that she had mastered what the ravine could teach her and asked when she would leave.
• Sang Ying worried about Jiang Zhuoxue in the Devil Domain and the possibility of devils reaching the Cloud Mulberry Realm, then said she would return soon.
• Less than two days later, Haohe, the other Fallen Gods, and the divine beasts gave Sang Ying weapons, armor, healing pills, and other treasures as she prepared to leave.
• Sang Ying flew across the ravine on wings of Divine Power, and the Fallen Gods and divine beasts realized the ravine could be crossed easily.

Sang Ying found an ancient Beastman badge while crossing the battlefield above Gods and Devils Ravine. As the Cloud Mulberry Realm and Immortal Spirit Realm fell into desperate battles against the Devils, Bai Nianchou joined the fight in the Cloud Mulberry Realm and Gu Huaiwei prepared to merge five small worlds.

• Sang Ying found and pocketed a worn Beastman badge after the Heart Devil Mirror's spirit identified it.
• The Devils overwhelmed the Cloud Mulberry Realm's defenses, transformed captured mortals with Demonic Qi, and forced Lan Fusheng and the cultivators to retreat.
• Bai Nianchou arrived and cleaved a high-level Devil in half, then gave armor and weapons to Lan Fusheng, Bai Kejin, and the others.
• Lan Fusheng agreed to cooperate with Bai Nianchou and attack the Devils' leaders.
• The Devils rapidly spread through the Immortal Spirit Realm, bringing the Devil Race and Human Race to an even match.
• Gu Huaiwei arrived in the Immortal Spirit Realm and announced that he would merge the five small worlds.

Gu Huaiwei carried out his plan to merge the five small worlds, using a ritual fueled by precious treasures and the heart of a High Antiquity Devil. Gray Qi erupted from the Pill Furnace and broke through the small worlds’ barriers, leaving the people of the Immortal Spirit Realm and Black Tortoise Realm facing a new calamity.

• Gu Huaiwei assured Qi Yaoji that merging the five small worlds would give them a chance to ascend, and she agreed to prepare the altar.
• Qi Yaoji assembled the altar and its treasures, while Feng Meng recognized the heart of a Devil Race royal as belonging to one of his kind but allowed the ritual to continue.
• Gu Huaiwei performed the sacrifice, and gray Qi burst from the Pill Furnace, shaking the Immortal Spirit Realm and sweeping across it.
• The gray Qi broke through the barrier into the Twin Orchid Realm before Sang Zheng and his allies could confront the devils gathered at their defensive line.
• In the Black Tortoise Realm, the gray Qi overturned the Hidden Moon Forest as Fu Shuangjiang feared the calamity threatened the entire Lower Realm.

The small worlds fused, prompting humans, cultivators, and demons to unite against Wugui and his devils. As the allied forces prepared for battle and the Hidden Nether Realm erupted into chaos, Jiang Zhuoxue and Princess Boruo finally returned to the Lower Realm.

• Gray Qi broke through the barriers of five small worlds, joining their lands and causing four hours of earthquakes and destruction.
• Sang Zheng and other leaders formed alliances, while Wugui gathered the devils and claimed command after Futu died and Boruo went missing.
• Lan Fusheng told Sang Zheng that Sang Ying had left with Jiang Zhuoxue, and Helian Mo overheard them.
• Liu Duanyue's family rallied the people of Moonless City to break through the demonized humans' blockade as the Hidden Nether Realm descended into chaos.
• Wugui sent devils to attack the allied cultivators, who countered with killing arrays, medicine, sword formations, and lightning-assisted attacks.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Princess Boruo appeared in the Hidden Nether Realm after returning to the Lower Realm.

The Lower Realm’s forces struggled as the Devil Race grew stronger and seized human territory, until Sang Ying’s demon plant and a snow-white dragon turned the tide at the camp. The battle continued with the plant defending the settlement and the dragon attacking the devils from above.

• The Human Race, Demon Race, and Demon Beasts initially held the devil army back, but the devils later grew stronger and captured vast stretches of territory.
• Jin Liner cut off polluted rivers from the Endless Sea, while Jin Le'er joked that the culprit could become nourishment for it.
• A high-ranking devil broke Fu Shuangjiang’s sword formation, knocked him unconscious, and attacked the cultivators’ camp.
• A dark green vine killed the high-ranking devil, fortified the camp with thorn-covered branches, and was recognized by Sang Zheng as his daughter’s friend.
• A snow-white dragon rained ice spikes on the devils, allowing the Lightning Spirit Root cultivators to attack them.

The Devil Race's leaders turned on one another, allowing Gu Huaiwei to absorb their power and become completely devilized. He summoned countless devils to attack the Lower Realm, while Qi Yaoji realized he looked identical to Sang Ying's master and vowed to make him honor his promise.

• Wugui ordered Feng Meng and Lun Tai to strengthen the high-ranking devils by devouring their own kind.
• Feng Meng and Lun Tai killed Wugui, then fought over the Devil Master's seat, and Feng Meng killed Lun Tai and absorbed both hearts.
• Gu Huaiwei killed Feng Meng from behind, absorbed his heart, and became completely devilized.
• Gu Huaiwei summoned countless devils and ordered them to turn the Lower Realm into a purgatory.
• Gate Master Qi questioned whether Gu Huaiwei would help them become immortals, while Qi Yaoji recognized his resemblance to Sang Ying's master and vowed to make him keep his promise.

Gu Huaiwei became the new Devil Master and drove the cultivators into retreat until the Devil Race army suddenly froze during his battle with Jiang Zhuoxue. Boruo took a fatal blow meant for Jiang Zhuoxue, who fled with his mother in his arms.

• Gu Huaiwei took control of the Devil Race and sent its army surging against the cultivators' camp, prompting Sang Zheng and the others to prepare a retreat.
• The Devil Race stopped moving outside the camp, allowing the cultivators to kill many of them while Sang Zheng remained wary of a trap.
• Jiang Zhuoxue fought Gu Huaiwei as Boruo used her royal bloodline to control high-ranking members of the Devil Race and block Qi Yaoji and the others.
• Gu Huaiwei's Demonic Qi surged, and a tentacle aimed at Jiang Zhuoxue's head until Boruo took the fatal blow for him.
• Jiang Zhuoxue gathered the Devil Race members he could control to hold Gu Huaiwei back, then fled while carrying Boruo, knowing she would not survive.

Jiang Zhuoxue escaped the Mara Gate with Boruo, but Boruo died after Gu Huaiwei stole her heart. Sang Ying returned in time to comfort Jiang Zhuoxue and then joined the cultivators preparing to confront Gu Huaiwei.

• Gu Huaiwei devoured Boruo's heart, gained immense demonic power, and restored the Devil Race to guarding the Mara Gate.
• Jiang Zhuoxue tried to save Boruo, but she refused his blood and used her final strength to speak with him before crumbling into ashes.
• A black dragon imprisoned in the Upper Realm shed a tear as Boruo died, while Jiang Zhuoxue grieved the loss of his mother.
• Sang Ying returned and comforted Jiang Zhuoxue, promising to make Gu Huaiwei pay and accepting him regardless of his changed nature.
• After Jiang Zhuoxue told her about Gu Huaiwei and the Lower Realm's crisis, Sang Ying joined the cultivators heading to confront the Devil Master.

Sang Ying attacked Gu Huaiwei at the Mara Gate and discovered how far his monstrous body could go, but their fight ended with him fleeing into the sky. After the sword rain killed those left at the gate, Qi Yaoji survived and escaped, swearing revenge on Sang Ying.

• Sang Ying surprised Gu Huaiwei in the Mara Gate's main hall and wounded him, but his body healed without bleeding.
• Sang Ying fought Gu Huaiwei with the Dragon Abyss Sword while her sword rain overwhelmed the Devil Race members and cultivators at the gate.
• Gu Huaiwei fled, and Sang Ying told Jiang Zhuoxue to find her parents before she pursued him.
• Jiang Zhuoxue stayed until the sword rain had killed everyone, then left the Mara Gate.
• Qi Yaoji crawled out from beneath the corpses, confirmed her father's death, and vowed to make Gu Huaiwei and Sang Ying pay.
• Qi Yaoji left the Mara Gate, fearing it would soon fall and that its enemies would come for her.

Sang Ying pursued Gu Huaiwei into the sky and fought him, but he absorbed all the Demonic Qi in the Lower Realm and transformed into a monster. As Sang Ying faced him again, the people below saw deadly sandstorms approaching the devastated land.

• Sang Ying chased Gu Huaiwei into the clouds and attacked him, refusing to believe he was still the master she remembered.
• Sang Ying cut off Gu Huaiwei's arm and continued pressing her attack, while he seemed pleased by her growing strength.
• Gu Huaiwei stopped fighting as darkness swallowed the sun, then absorbed the Demonic Qi and Devil Race members throughout the Lower Realm.
• Sang Ying's attacks could not pierce the barrier around Gu Huaiwei, who transformed into a black-scaled monster with bladed tentacles.
• Gu Huaiwei challenged Sang Ying to kill him, and she raised her sword to fight again.
• Below, the cultivators watched sandstorms sweep across the lifeless land and approach them.

Sang Ying fought Gu Huaiwei as his transformation gave him power rivaling hers, while a spreading yellow sandstorm devastated the land and threatened the Lower Realm cultivators. Gu Huaiwei trapped Sang Ying inside the Heart Devil Mirror and left the cultivators to face the sandstorm, convinced she would eventually understand his choices.

• Gu Huaiwei blocked Sang Ying's sword techniques with his black scales and warned her to look at the devastation spreading beneath them.
• Sang Ying saw the yellow sand nearing the cultivators' camp and tried to save them, but Gu Huaiwei repeatedly stopped her.
• Sang Ying severed Gu Huaiwei's arm with the Dragon Abyss Sword, and he told her he would reveal who he really was.
• Gu Huaiwei's tentacles stole the Heart Devil Mirror, and he shoved Sang Ying inside it while the mirror filled with black mist.
• Gu Huaiwei watched the cultivators struggle to hold back the sandstorm and said they were not worth saving.

Sang Ying witnessed an alternate memory in which Gu Huaiwei raised a different Sang Ying as his sheltered disciple, who later sacrificed herself to save the Lower Realm from the Devil Race. After her soul vanished, Gu Huaiwei used a grand formation to enter a new world, the Twin Orchid Realm.

• Sang Ying entered the Heart Devil Mirror and found herself observing a memory of another life in the Flowing Light Sword Sect.
• Immortal Venerable Yanchen took the young Sang Ying as his sole disciple, indulged her, and isolated her from hardship and the outside world.
• The Devil Race invaded the Lower Realm, and Sang Ying used her body to seal the passage between realms, destroying the devils' access to Demonic Qi.
• Gu Huaiwei sought heart's blood from one hundred thousand cultivators to restore Sang Ying's soul, but ten cultivators refused because his past actions had caused their loved ones' deaths.
• After Sang Ying's remnant soul vanished, Gu Huaiwei killed the ten cultivators and activated a grand formation that carried him into the Twin Orchid Realm.

Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that the Devil God had created the sandstorm and explained that he resembled Gu Huaiwei. With Sang Ying away to fight the Devil God, Jiang Zhuoxue led a team from the camp toward the storm’s source to investigate.

• The sandstorm grew stronger, killed living beings, and drained Spiritual Qi, leaving the cultivators unable to hold it back for long.
• The Ten Thousand Daos Born sect master urged the assembled experts to discover the sandstorm’s cause.
• Jiang Zhuoxue appeared and told the group that the Devil God had created the sandstorm, then reassured Sang Zheng that Sang Ying was alive and fighting him.
• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that the Devil God looked like Gu Huaiwei and that his own Demonic Qi allowed him to resist the storm.
• Jiang Zhuoxue proposed investigating the sandstorm’s source, and a team followed him out of the camp as the storm grew stronger.

After seeing Gu Huaiwei’s memories, Sang Ying confronted him at the blood-soaked Mara Gate and learned that he planned to slaughter the Lower Realm to force her to earn Merit by killing him. Gu Huaiwei then revealed that the Heavenly Dao had been deceiving her and intended to use her to resolve disasters before discarding her.

• The Heart Devil Mirror expelled Sang Ying after showing her Gu Huaiwei’s memories, and Gu Huaiwei brought her back to the deserted Mara Gate.
• Sang Ying accused Gu Huaiwei of treating her as a tool to fulfill the destiny he had wanted for the Sang Ying in his memories.
• Gu Huaiwei admitted that he planned to leave only a hundred people alive after killing a hundred thousand, then have Sang Ying kill him to earn Merit and ascend.
• Sang Ying rejected his scheme and said she did not need his help to become an immortal.
• Gu Huaiwei told Sang Ying that the Heavenly Dao used the Child of the Heavenly Dao to resolve disasters and intended to discard her once the people were safe.

Gu Huaiwei revealed that the Children of the Heavenly Dao were created as expendable Heaven-mending stones and tried to persuade Sang Ying to follow his plan. Sang Ying rejected his control and fought him, leaving Gu Huaiwei seemingly on the verge of defeat.

• Gu Huaiwei told Sang Ying that the Heavenly Dao created its Children to repair the world and discarded them after they fulfilled their purpose.
• Gu Huaiwei urged Sang Ying to follow his plan, promising she could save those she cared about and ascend to the Upper Realm.
• Sang Ying challenged Gu Huaiwei's right to decide her future and said he had never been her master.
• Gu Huaiwei collapsed Mara Gate into ruins and sent tentacles to trap Sang Ying, but she escaped with the Dragon Abyss Sword's dragon shadow.
• Sang Ying attacked Gu Huaiwei, drove her sword into his back, and poured Divine Power into him, causing his tentacles to shrivel and his scales to loosen.

Sang Ying purged the Demonic Qi from Gu Huaiwei, but learned that he had only worsened a greater disaster threatening the Lower Realm. As the blazing sun scorched the devastated world, Jiang Zhuoxue’s group reached the storm’s source and found a huge, expanding black hole devouring the land.

• Sang Ying used the Dragon Abyss Sword and her Divine Power to drive the Demonic Qi from Gu Huaiwei, leaving him powerless and blind.
• Gu Huaiwei told Sang Ying that he was not the disaster threatening the Lower Realm, and she saw that the world had been reduced to yellow sand.
• The sun returned with scorching heat, setting clothing and tree trunks on fire and making the Endless Sea boil.
• Jiang Zhuoxue led the group through the dangerous sandstorm, with Duan Hanyi guiding them and Jiang Zhuoxue shielding them with Demonic Qi.
• Jiang Zhuoxue, Dong Fuzhu, Lan Fusheng, and Bai Kejin found a vast black hole at the storm’s source, expanding as it devoured the world.

Jiang Zhuoxue sent a small demonic plant to investigate the expanding black hole, but the powerful suction nearly swallowed it before he pulled it to safety. The group watched the Image-Retaining Stone and saw several pairs of differently colored eyes appear in the darkness.

• Jiang Zhuoxue decided to investigate the black hole, but Lan Fusheng, Dong Fuzhu, and the others stopped him from approaching it himself.
• Jiang Zhuoxue sent a branch of Green Vine, transformed into a small demonic plant, toward the black hole with an Image-Retaining Stone.
• The small demonic plant recorded the darkness above the hole, but the collapsing ground and suction trapped it until Jiang Zhuoxue pulled it back by its branch.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and the others retreated to safety and watched the recording beneath a cloud of Demonic Qi.
• Several pairs of eyes in different colors lit up inside the black hole.

After defeating Gu Huaiwei, Sang Ying questioned him about the gap in the world and left to find it, determined not to accept the fate he described. While Gu Huaiwei remained alone and powerless, Qi Yaoji arrived and tore his heart from his chest.

• Sang Ying refused to take Gu Huaiwei back to the cultivators' camp and settled him in a nearby courtyard.
• Sang Ying asked Gu Huaiwei where the gap in the world was, and he told her it lay at the foot of a mountain in the northwest of the Lower Realm.
• Gu Huaiwei warned Sang Ying that she would regret her choice, but she left with renewed resolve.
• Gu Huaiwei remained alone, remembering his lost disciple and regretting that he could not fulfill his wishes through another Sang Ying.
• Qi Yaoji confronted Gu Huaiwei and pulled his heart from his chest.

As the Lower Realm’s heat and sandstorms worsen, Jiang Zhuoxue’s group discovers that monsters emerging from a hole underground are causing the devastation and can devour anything. The group flees with a warning while Jiang Zhuoxue, Lan Fusheng, and Bai Kejin hold off the creatures, and a monster attacking Dong Fuzhu is suddenly frozen in midair.

• Helian Mo proposed moving the Demon Race to the northern snowfields, but Fang Chi said the snow there had already melted and dried up.
• Sang Zheng received a communication from Jiang Zhuoxue’s group, who were fleeing through a storm of yellow sand.
• Jiang Zhuoxue stayed behind with Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin to hold off the monsters, while Dong Fuzhu carried the communication talisman and fled to warn the others.
• Dong Fuzhu told the camp that the monsters had crawled out of a hole, brought the storm, and could devour people, spiritual power, and the entire Lower Realm.
• A small monster lunged at Dong Fuzhu, but frost abruptly covered it and stopped it in midair.

Sang Ying rescued Dong Fuzhu and Jiang Zhuoxue’s group from the monsters overrunning the Lower Realm. After reaching the expanding black hole and hearing a faint voice call to her, she leaped inside, leaving the others waiting for her return.

• Sang Ying killed the monster attacking Dong Fuzhu and told her to hide with the others.
• Sang Ying hurried to Jiang Zhuoxue, Lan Fusheng, and Bai Kejin, who were struggling against monsters that swallowed Spiritual Qi.
• Sang Ying cut down the three monsters and asked Jiang Zhuoxue and the others to take her to the breach in the Lower Realm.
• At the enlarged black hole, Sang Ying heard a faint voice calling to her and leaped into the darkness after telling the others to wait.

Sang Ying jumped into the black hole and discovered an underground cave inhabited by Desolate Beasts, learning from the Dragon Abyss sword spirit about their origins and weaknesses. Jiang Zhuoxue, Lan Fusheng, and Bai Kejin followed her into the hole, and the group reunited in the cave.

• Sang Ying jumped into the black hole, and Jiang Zhuoxue, Lan Fusheng, and Bai Kejin followed her.
• Sang Ying landed in the underground cave and killed a Desolate Beast with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Dragon Abyss told Sang Ying that Desolate Beasts appeared when the world's barrier was damaged and feared water and Spiritual Qi, though they could consume those threats.
• Sang Ying saw the cave's glowing crystals grow brighter as lines in the soil absorbed the dead Desolate Beast's remains.
• Jiang Zhuoxue landed beside Sang Ying, then he and Sang Ying caught Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin as they fell into the cave.

Sang Ying and her companions discovered a vast underground city that appeared to have been abandoned in an instant, and learned it was connected to the Beastman clan. After the others fell asleep, Sang Ying returned alone to the altar to investigate the bronze sun mirror and the city's secrets.

• Sang Ying, Lan Fusheng, Bai Kejin, and Jiang Zhuoxue explored the cavern and emerged into a sprawling underground city.
• Sang Ying and the others searched the stone houses and found strange Beastman-like patterns, untouched food, and a booklet they could not read.
• Lan Fusheng led them to an altar bearing a dusty bronze mirror shaped like a sun, whose carvings showed a sacrifice and something emerging from the mirror.
• The sword spirit privately told Sang Ying that the city was connected to the Beastman clan and that her clan emblem fit an indentation behind the mirror.
• Sang Ying returned with the others to the cavern, waited until they fell asleep, and then went alone to the altar.

Sang Ying watched a message from the Beastmen reveal that a chosen warrior would face the returning sandstorms and monsters, then learned that saving the world required a providential person to sacrifice everything. As the Eternal City collapsed, she realized the Dragon Abyss Sword’s spirit was the Heavenly Dao and confronted it.

• Sang Ying fitted the clan emblem into the bronze mirror and activated a recording from a Beastman woman about her people abandoning the Eternal City after their god fell silent.
• The Beastman woman warned that sandstorms and monsters would return and said a warrior chosen by the celestial god would save the city.
• Jiang Zhuoxue found Sang Ying and told her he understood her choices, though he regretted their coming separation.
• The bronze mirror shattered, the altar collapsed, and flames rose as the Eternal City began to shake.
• The sword spirit explained that a person bearing providence could mend the world by surrendering their power, Merit, and providence, then urged Sang Ying to jump down with the sword.
• Sang Ying asked the sword spirit when the Heavenly Dao had descended upon the Dragon Abyss Sword.