Recaps

Lu Ping secured the Taiyi True Water Divine Crystal and used the pill-refining bargain to demand rare ingredients and access to Desire Sea Pavilion’s alchemical texts. After feeding the crystal to his furnace, he saw its little girl spirit again, and the chapter ended as the jealous elder delivered the requested supplies.

• Lu Ping chose B, took the Taiyi True Water Divine Crystal from Hua Yunzhen, and demanded rare supplementary ingredients for refining the pill.
• Lu Ping asked to consult the pavilion’s alchemical texts, and Hua Yunzhen ordered the jealous elder to bring him the high-grade Jade Slips.
• Lu Ping fed the crystal to the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace, causing its space to expand and prompting the little girl spirit to appear briefly.
• Three days later, the jealous elder brought Lu Ping the requested ingredients and medicinal texts, then glared at him as new choices appeared.

Lu Ping developed a substitute formula for the Nine-Revolution Heaven-Defying Pill while stalling Hua Yunzhen’s demands to refine it. As Hua Yunzhen grew increasingly anxious and may have sought another alchemist, Lu Ping realized both of them were running out of time.

• Lu Ping provoked Jealousy Bro by demanding more of Hua Yunzhen’s rare Spirit Tea, then secluded himself to study the Desire Sea Pavilion’s alchemical texts.
• Lu Ping completed the Nine-Revolution Heaven-Defying Pill’s original formula, then devised a substitute using available ingredients and refined an antidote to Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder.
• Lu Ping cleared the courtyard medicinal garden into Little Toad’s Grotto-Heaven and finished inscribing the substitute pill formula, though it required a main ingredient he had never encountered.
• When Hua Yunzhen demanded the pill, Lu Ping warned that rushing the refinement could destroy the Yin-Yang Love-Tribulation Flower and claimed he needed the right hour to ensure success.
• Hua Yunzhen repeatedly pressed Lu Ping to hurry, but he kept refusing to risk an early refinement; he suspected she was seeking a backup alchemist as time ran short for them both.

Lu Ping refined Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder, tested it on himself, and used the reaction to develop a direction for advancing his body-tempering method. After hiding his condition and erasing his traces, he sent his clone out to meet Hua Yunzhen, where she asked whether the pills were ready.

• Lu Ping chose to keep the Labor Dispatch Trait and sensed an omen in the stars before telling Hua Yunzhen that the time had come.
• Lu Ping refined four portions of Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder and took one himself, using its potency to glimpse a possible path toward the sixth level of the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula.
• Lu Ping created his Crow Daoist clone and had it feign weakness so it would match his claim that refining the powder had depleted his origin.
• Lu Ping erased his traces and vanished with the Formless Myriad-Breath Cloak as Crow Daoist opened the chamber door.
• Hua Yunzhen demanded to know whether Lu Ping had succeeded, and options appeared for how to hand over the powder.

Lu Ping used Crow Daoist’s Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder to draw Hua Yunzhen into revealing her true cultivation and trapping him. Hua Yunzhen secured the powder and explained that she planned to kill him despite his sect’s possible retaliation.

• Lu Ping chose to have Crow Daoist pretend to distrust Hua Yunzhen and refuse to hand over the pills until he could leave Desire Sea Pavilion’s territory.
• Crow Daoist briefly opened the Spirit-Sealing Jade Bottle, allowing Hua Yunzhen to sense the powder before sealing it again.
• Hua Yunzhen revealed that her cultivation had reached peak Void Refining, trapped Crow Daoist in an Isolation Grand Formation, and took the bottle.
• Crow Daoist stayed calm and warned Hua Yunzhen that his sect might retaliate if she killed him.
• Hua Yunzhen said no one on the Northern Sea Coast could oppose her without a Body Integration cultivator and that she was willing to pay the cost of her plan.

Lu Ping used Crow Daoist, an external Avatar, to draw out Hua Yunzhen’s reason for refining Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder, then sacrificed the clone in a self-destruction that failed to injure her. Hidden outside the Alchemy Chamber, Lu Ping watched Hua Yunzhen realize that his true body had escaped and weighed whether to flee or seek revenge.

• Hua Yunzhen admitted that her current methods were insufficient, then recognized that Lu Ping had maneuvered her into revealing a secret and attacked Crow Daoist.
• Lu Ping chose to have Crow Daoist self-destruct, unleashing a blast that Hua Yunzhen survived with only slight damage.
• Hua Yunzhen realized Crow Daoist had been an external Avatar and wondered when Lu Ping’s true body had escaped.
• Lu Ping watched from a concealed position in a nearby sea of clouds and confirmed that Crow Daoist’s self-destruction had not substantially harmed Hua Yunzhen.
• Lu Ping considered escaping or following Hua Yunzhen to find an opportunity for revenge.

Lu Ping watched Hua Yunzhen cover up his supposed death, then hide at the Main Peak and poison herself to lure someone into a trap. The plan drew Jiang Mutian to the pavilion, where Hua Yunzhen collapsed before she could explain, leaving Lu Ping hidden nearby as their encounter began.

• Hua Yunzhen told her elder that Lu Ping had died from a pill-refining backlash and ordered everyone to stay away from the Main Peak summit.
• Lu Ping followed Hua Yunzhen to an elegant pavilion, where she poured Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder over herself and let it take effect.
• Lu Ping realized Hua Yunzhen had poisoned herself as bait to conceal the poison from a powerful visitor.
• Jiang Mutian appeared at the pavilion, and Hua Yunzhen claimed she had finally arrived before passing out from the medicine.
• Lu Ping remained hidden as Jiang Mutian surveyed the area.

Lu Ping intervened as Jiang Mutian confronted the apparently unconscious Hua Yunzhen, and he turned Jiang Mutian’s attention to the possibility that someone was muddling the Heavenly Secrets. Jiang Mutian grew suspicious of the danger and asked Lu Ping who he was, leaving him to choose how to answer.

• Lu Ping revealed himself to Jiang Mutian and introduced himself, prompting her to realize that he knew her.
• Lu Ping rejected the option of claiming a karmic connection and instead pointed out that Jiang Mutian had received no warning from the Heavenly Secrets before finding Hua Yunzhen.
• Jiang Mutian recognized that her senses and premonitions may have been blocked, and her suspicion shifted toward Hua Yunzhen.
• Jiang Mutian asked Lu Ping who he was, and new response options appeared.

Lu Ping warned Jiang Mutian that Hua Yunzhen’s scheme might involve the pavilion grounds, but Jiang chose to face the threat there. Hua Yunzhen sacrificed her body to unleash a deadly poison domain, and Jiang shielded Lu Ping with her Sword Gang.

• Lu Ping pretended to be a wronged Alchemist and gave Jiang Mutian an antidote to Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder while warning her about the location.
• Jiang Mutian dismissed Lu Ping’s suggestion to leave and said she was prepared to face Hua Yunzhen’s scheme.
• Lu Ping chose to retreat behind Jiang Mutian, and the system described him as positioning her in front to protect her.
• Jiang Mutian sensed the danger as Hua Yunzhen’s body exploded into dust that amplified the poison in the air.
• Jiang Mutian raised a Sword Gang barrier that protected herself and Lu Ping from the poison spreading across the mountaintop.

Lu Ping watched Hua Yunzhen reveal that she had cultivated the False Dragon Inheriting Phoenix Great Method to become Jiang Mutian’s companion, while Jiang Mutian rejected her devotion. Hua Yunzhen’s Primordial Spirit began to destabilize as she refused to accept Jiang Mutian’s answer.

• Jiang Mutian took Lu Ping’s antidote and dispelled the Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder’s effects.
• Hua Yunzhen’s Primordial Spirit emerged from the crystal dust and addressed Jiang Mutian as her Master.
• Hua Yunzhen explained that she had cultivated the False Dragon Inheriting Phoenix Great Method to stand beside Jiang Mutian and asked for her primordial Yin essence to reach the Body Integration realm.
• Lu Ping realized Hua Yunzhen’s schemes had been driven by her obsessive desire for Jiang Mutian, and he chose to stay quiet.
• Jiang Mutian told Hua Yunzhen that she had always walked the Great Dao alone and had no need of servants.
• Hua Yunzhen rejected Jiang Mutian’s words, and her Primordial Spirit began to come apart.

Jiang Mutian killed Hua Yunzhen with a single sword strike, but Lu Ping realized the danger was not over. As Jiang Mutian confronted him about how he knew her, Lu Ping faced a set of choices.

• Hua Yunzhen insisted that Jiang Mutian was destined for her, but Jiang Mutian rejected her obsession and struck her down.
• Hua Yunzhen asked whether Jiang Mutian regretted saving her, and Jiang Mutian answered that she did not before Hua Yunzhen's soul scattered.
• Lu Ping warned Jiang Mutian that Hua Yunzhen had been a pawn and that their enemies might still be nearby.
• Jiang Mutian stayed on the mountaintop despite Lu Ping's hints that they should leave, then asked him how he knew her.
• Lu Ping was presented with three possible responses to Jiang Mutian's question.

Lu Ping gave Jiang Mutian the Heguang Tongchen Talisman and a method for erasing karmic traces, hoping to help her evade the forces pursuing them. Jiang Mutian praised him as a heaven-sent genius, then told him to leave while she dealt with the pursuers, leaving Lu Ping to choose whether to stay and help or flee.

• Lu Ping told Jiang Mutian that his Past-Life Wisdom had guided him to help repay a life-saving debt, and she accepted his explanation.
• Lu Ping gave Jiang Mutian the Heguang Talisman, which she recognized as valuable but stored without activating it so she could continue using herself as bait.
• Lu Ping handed Jiang Mutian a Jade Slip containing the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method, which could erase traces of past karma.
• Jiang Mutian called Lu Ping a heaven-sent genius but said the method was too profound for her to master quickly.
• Jiang Mutian told Lu Ping to leave while she dealt with the three pursuers, and Lu Ping considered whether to stay and help or run.

Lu Ping gave Jiang Mutian ten top-quality Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills before leaving, recognizing that her acceptance without offering payment marked a major change in their relationship. On his return to Nü Zhi City, a Transformation Perfection sea beast awakened beneath his Flying Boat, and he faced a choice about how to respond.

• Lu Ping gave Jiang Mutian ten top-quality Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills, then teleported away and repeatedly erased his tracks.
• Lu Ping concluded that Jiang Mutian’s acceptance of his gifts without settling the debt meant she no longer treated him as an outsider.
• Lu Ping realized that Void Refining and higher cultivators lost their stored treasures when they died, so he would need to shake them down while they were alive.
• Lu Ping set out for Nü Zhi City on his Flying Boat and encountered a violent sea beast with Transformation Perfection strength.
• Lu Ping received options to evade the beast, attack it, or pitch it membership and insurance plans.

Lu Ping killed a Demon Flood Dragon guarding a Nine-Yang Essence-Restoring Zhi, took the spirit medicine, and escaped when an even stronger sea beast approached. He then had to choose whether to return to Nü Zhi City or risk another fight.

• Lu Ping chose to avoid a deep-sea overlord and later found a nearly thousand-year-old Nine-Yang Essence-Restoring Zhi guarded by a powerful Demon Flood Dragon.
• Lu Ping used his abilities and Star River Myriad Blades to kill the Demon Flood Dragon in a single attack, destroying its body before he could salvage any materials.
• Lu Ping collected the Nine-Yang Essence-Restoring Zhi with the spiritual soil beneath it and erased his traces before leaving.
• A much stronger sea beast approached the island, but Lu Ping remained concealed and escaped detection.
• Lu Ping faced new options to return directly to Nü Zhi City or double back and attack the approaching sea beast.

Lu Ping returned to Nü Zhi City after gathering Spirit Plants at sea and reunited with Ning Junqiu at the Gathering Immortals Tower. He learned that the Desire Sea Pavilion claimed Hua Yunzhen had gone into seclusion, and the chapter ended with Lu Ping considering what to do next.

• Lu Ping avoided fighting a peak-stage Transformation cultivator and continued toward Nü Zhi City.
• Lu Ping collected Spirit Plants and soil from several islands, then stopped when Little Toad's internal Grotto-Heaven ran out of room.
• Lu Ping reached Nü Zhi City and returned to the Gathering Immortals Tower, where Ni Laicai welcomed him back.
• Ning Junqiu met Lu Ping and told him the city remained peaceful while he was away.
• Ning Junqiu said Hua Yunzhen had reportedly entered seclusion and that elders were managing the Desire Sea Pavilion.
• Lu Ping considered whether to leave, resume refining pills, or propose buying the pavilion's businesses.

Lu Ping resumed work at the Gathering Immortals Tower while cultivating his Grotto-Heaven plants, refining pills, and advancing his cultivation. After two quiet months, a mysterious white-robed woman appeared at his door, and he faced a choice about how to greet her.

• Lu Ping agreed to remain in Nü Zhi City for three months and take three commissions each month, prompting Ning Junqiu to arrange the work and announce his return.
• Lu Ping tended the spirit plants in his Grotto-Heaven and calculated that the thousand-whisker spirit-luring grass would mature in a little over two years.
• Lu Ping refined Qi-Returning Pills but saved his limited Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew for the thousand-whisker spirit-luring grass.
• Lu Ping used his remaining Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder to cultivate the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula and clarify its sixth layer.
• Lu Ping spent two peaceful months refining pills and cultivating, then found a white-robed woman waiting outside his door and considered how to respond.

Lu Ping explained the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method to Jiang Mutian, who quickly learned to erase her Qi with it. She offered to teach him her Dao of killing and combat, leaving him eager to accept her guidance.

• Lu Ping welcomed Jiang Mutian into his room and prepared tea while she watched him.
• Lu Ping told Jiang Mutian that he had stayed in Nü Zhi City waiting for news of her, and she asked him to explain the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method.
• Lu Ping spent two days explaining the method’s core principles and practical techniques to Jiang Mutian.
• Jiang Mutian used the seal method to erase her Qi and praised how much work it would save her.
• Jiang Mutian offered to teach Lu Ping about her Dao of killing and combat, and he eagerly considered accepting.

Lu Ping studied Jiang Mutian’s slaughter Sword Intent over several days, gradually forming an understanding of it. When Ning Junqiu arrived to discuss pill-refinement business, Jiang Mutian emerged at just the right moment, and Ning Junqiu stopped short upon entering and seeing her.

• Lu Ping accepted Jiang Mutian’s instruction and began studying the slaughter Sword Intent sealed in a Jade Talisman.
• After each talisman crumbled, Jiang Mutian gave Lu Ping another, and his understanding of the Way of Slaughter began to take shape over five or six days.
• Jiang Mutian left the main room and sat with Lu Ping just as Ning Junqiu’s Sound Transmission Talisman arrived at the courtyard gate.
• Lu Ping removed the Restriction and invited Ning Junqiu inside to discuss the next month’s pill-refinement schedule and ingredients.
• Ning Junqiu entered, saw Jiang Mutian, and abruptly stopped speaking.

Lu Ping introduced Jiang Mutian as his senior sister to ease Ning Junqiu’s suspicions, and Jiang Mutian tacitly accepted the title. After Ning Junqiu presented a stack of calling cards, Lu Ping faced a choice about whether to end or continue taking alchemy orders.

• Ning Junqiu entered Lu Ping’s room and found him pouring tea for the aloof Jiang Mutian.
• Ning Junqiu asked what Jiang Mutian was to Lu Ping, and Jiang Mutian silently waited for his answer.
• Lu Ping chose to call Jiang Mutian his senior sister, and she accepted the title without comment.
• Ning Junqiu relaxed and respectfully greeted Jiang Mutian as Lu Ping’s senior sister.
• Lu Ping examined Ning Junqiu’s calling cards and faced options about ending or continuing his alchemy work.

Lu Ping turned down future alchemy requests and kept refining Jiang Mutian’s Slaughter Sword Intent. After mastering the tenth Jade Talisman, he demonstrated a formidable Hundred-Blade Gang Qi in the courtyard.

• Lu Ping told Ning Junqiu he would finish three batches of Pills and then leave Nü Zhi City with Jiang Mutian.
• Ning Junqiu realized Jiang Mutian was more than Lu Ping’s senior sister and left without asking him to stay.
• Jiang Mutian accepted Lu Ping’s claim that she was his senior sister and gave him another Sword Intent Jade Talisman.
• Lu Ping refined and delivered Ning Junqiu’s three batches of Pills, then focused on studying the Jade Talismans.
• Lu Ping shattered the tenth Jade Talisman and used his Hundred-Blade Gang Qi to erase the upper half of a Sword-Testing Stone.

Lu Ping impressed Jiang Mutian by comprehending his own Killing Intent, and she praised his talent before activating the Heguang Talisman without drawing a backlash. As Jiang Mutian departed, she told him she walked ahead on the Great Dao, and Lu Ping promised to pursue it tirelessly.

• Jiang Mutian recognized that Lu Ping had forged his own path of slaughter and said she had nothing more to teach him.
• Lu Ping thanked Jiang Mutian modestly for her guidance, and she activated the Heguang Talisman beneath the stars.
• Lu Ping waited for a divination backlash, but none came because Jiang Mutian had avoided injury and prepared for her enemies.
• Jiang Mutian warned Lu Ping not to get entangled in the Demonic Cult's affairs and began to leave.
• Jiang Mutian told Lu Ping, "The Great Dao is lonely, and I walk ahead," and Lu Ping vowed to pursue the Dao tirelessly.

After Jiang Mutian left Nü Zhi City, Lu Ping departed as well and took Crow-Crow through the Domain of Chaos to search for secret realms. When they found a Spirit Transformation-level realm, Lu Ping considered whether getting trapped inside might actually benefit his cultivation.

• Jiang Mutian left the Gathering Immortals Tower, and Lu Ping packed his belongings and departed Nü Zhi City.
• Lu Ping released Crow-Crow, who had recovered from self-destruction, and had him pilot the Flying Boat through the Domain of Chaos.
• After half a month of finding only low-level secret realms, Lu Ping discovered a realm that could accommodate Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators.
• Lu Ping weighed the system's options for exploring the secret realm and began to think being trapped inside could give him years of peaceful cultivation.

Lu Ping abandoned his search for treasure in the Domain of Chaos after two secret realms yielded little and Crow-Crow died in a collapse. He returned to Qingyang City to collect his investment from the Azure Dragon Merchant Association, but sensed something was wrong as someone approached.

• Lu Ping sent Crow-Crow to search a Spirit Transformation secret realm, but it found only a few million Low-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of spoils.
• Lu Ping sent Crow-Crow into a second secret realm, which collapsed and severed their connection, killing Crow-Crow again.
• Lu Ping chose to stop exploring secret realms and traveled to Ox Ridge City, where he bought a Teleportation Jade Talisman to Black Nether City.
• Lu Ping passed through Black Nether City and returned to Qingyang City after a year away, adjusting his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lu Ping visited the Azure Dragon Merchant Association to collect the 3.5 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones he had invested, then grew wary when he heard footsteps outside the private room.

Lu Ping collected the profits from Shen Yuerong’s Mystic Marrow Jade trade, stocked up on medicinal ingredients, and returned to Azure Cloud Sect. After reviewing Li Shi’s report on protecting Wuming, he rewarded Li Shi and arranged another protection mission, then wondered whether he had become part of Wuming’s path of cultivation.

• Shen Silan told Lu Ping that Shen Yuerong had returned to the Azure Dragon Upper Domain to pursue a chance at reaching Nascent Soul and handed him 41.2 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ping bought a large supply of low-level medicinal ingredients from the Azure Dragon Merchant Association and considered seeking resources in the Myriad Demon Domain or the Azure Dragon Upper Domain.
• Lu Ping returned to Xiaolai Peak and reviewed Li Shi’s detailed report on secretly protecting Wuming and his companions at Red-Silk Mountain.
• Lu Ping gave Li Shi ten Contribution Points and set up an exclusive follow-up mission to protect Wuming at Broken Sunset Valley eleven years later.
• Lu Ping reflected that his actions made him resemble a Golden Finger grandpa in Wuming’s cultivation story, and the system presented him with options for what to do next.

Lu Ping reflected on karma, advanced his Dao Heart, and searched the Azure Cloud Sect’s archives and vault for ingredients for the Nine-Revolution Heaven-Defying Pill. After paying for the ingredients and preparing to leave, he went to bid farewell to Shen Yaoxin, who awaited him in the Main Peak hall.

• Lu Ping chose to reflect on karma, strengthening his Dao Heart before entering the Azure Cloud Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.
• Lu Ping studied the pavilion’s texts for a month, found a clue to the Nine-Aperture Star Marrow Fruit, and mastered the available methods and sword scriptures.
• Lu Ping visited the inner vault and exchanged three Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills for several ingredients and artifact-refining materials.
• Lu Ping left the vault with more pill ingredients and decided to say goodbye to Shen Yaoxin before leaving the sect.
• Lu Ping entered the Main Peak hall, where Shen Yaoxin greeted him and options appeared for how to settle their karma.

Lu Ping gave a five-day alchemy sermon at the Azure Cloud Sect, cementing his standing as Grand Supreme Elder before leaving. He then went to the Thousand Mechanisms Sect to learn its Mechanism Arts and Puppet Technique and confront Gongshu Ke about an old matter.

• Lu Ping accepted Shen Yaoxin’s request and agreed to give a sermon for the Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples.
• Lu Ping taught alchemy at Red Cloud Peak for five days, helping disciples and elders gain insights and leaving the sect in awe of him.
• Lu Ping said farewell to Shen Yaoxin and left the Azure Cloud Sect, freeing himself from its hold after repaying his debt with the sermon.
• Lu Ping traveled to the Thousand Mechanisms Sect, aiming to acquire its Mechanism Arts and Puppet Technique and ask Gongshu Ke about the Dark Hall case.