Recaps

Wang Chen breached an Evil Nest and killed the giant monster lurking inside. After recovering its valuable Evil Nest Stone, he searched the mountains for more nests and found another by the afternoon of the second day.

• Wang Chen smashed through the Evil Nest with the Hidden Dragon Staff and Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, drawing out the monster within.
• The giant toad-like monster attacked with venom, but Wang Chen battered it with his staff and lightning before burning it with mystic fire.
• Wang Chen severed the monster's tentacles with the Crimson Lion Sword and killed it.
• Wang Chen dug an Evil Nest Stone from the remains and recognized that it was worth at least three thousand merit points.
• Wang Chen searched the mountains using his Divine Sense and discovered another target by the afternoon of the second day.

Wang Chen attacked a powerful mountain Evil Nest by burning its surrounding black nests and fighting the swarms of insects they released. As he bombarded the nest with seemingly endless Fire Crows, the mountain formed a Rock Giant that roared at him.

• Wang Chen observed the mountain Evil Nest and decided to destroy the smaller black nests around it before attacking the main target.
• His first Fire Crow was overwhelmed by coordinated swarms of insects, which then gathered into a red cloud and charged at him.
• Wang Chen summoned dozens of Fire Crows and controlled them to repel the insects and destroy more than a hundred black nests with rain of fire.
• Wang Chen continued bombarding the main Evil Nest, sensing its malice as flames spread across the mountain peak.
• The mountain rocks fused into a five- or six-zhang-tall Rock Giant, which roared at Wang Chen from within the flames.

Wang Chen fought the Rock Giant, a powerful guardian that could repair its stone body by absorbing rock. After closing in and using Turn Stone to Mud to soften the monster, Wang Chen made it lose its balance and summoned the Hidden Dragon Staff.

• The Rock Giant attacked Wang Chen with boulders, but he dodged and used Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm to pulverize stone pellets and damage its armor.
• Wang Chen struck the Rock Giant with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, but it restored its shattered head by absorbing nearby stone.
• The Rock Giant summoned swarms of insects and attacked with stone spears, one of which pierced Wang Chen’s Resplendent Shield Armor and wounded his skin.
• Wang Chen cleared the insects with Fire Crows and approached the Rock Giant, deciding to destroy it and the nearby Evil Nest before it could grow stronger.
• Wang Chen evaded the Rock Giant’s stone club, cast Turn Stone to Mud on its ribs, and caused it to lose balance and fall.
• Wang Chen withdrew from the fallen Rock Giant and summoned the golden Hidden Dragon Staff.

Wang Chen defeated the Rock Giant, cleared the surrounding nests, and inspected the unstable Evil Nest before seven fellow disciples arrived to claim it. He left the site after confronting them, and they began moving in to take the nest.

• Wang Chen used the Hidden Dragon Staff to smash the Rock Giant's chest, then captured and purified its escaping stone heart with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil.
• Wang Chen eliminated the flying insects and black nests around the mountain, leaving the unstable Evil Nest untouched.
• Wang Chen used Global Mode and spotted several cultivators approaching, then recognized them as fellow disciples led by Senior Brother Chen.
• Senior Brother Chen and the long-faced cultivator claimed the Evil Nest lay outside Wang Chen's territory and said they would clear it for him.
• Wang Chen accused the cultivators of coming to snatch the nest, then left when they insisted on taking it.
• The long-faced cultivator assumed Wang Chen had been intimidated, and the group prepared to approach the Evil Nest.

Senior Brother Chen and six Purple Mansions attacked the Evil Nest, but its venomous Yin Sha energy overwhelmed them and trapped their escape. Back at the guard station, Wang Chen sensed the disaster at the nest and saw a distant mountain collapsing.

• Senior Brother Chen's group bombarded the Evil Nest with their spiritual artifacts and flying swords, destroying its upper section.
• Black slurry erupted from the nest, devoured the cultivators' artifacts, and formed an Evil Monster that attacked the group.
• More Evil Monsters emerged as the nest exploded, and the long-faced cultivator's escape talisman failed amid the dense Yin Sha energy.
• The monsters struck down the long-faced cultivator and drove the other cultivators into a chaotic retreat as screams filled the mountaintop.
• Wang Chen sensed the outbreak from the guard station, recognized the Evil Nest's location, and watched a distant mountain peak collapse.

Wang Chen defended the guard station against a deadly Killing Intent storm and attacking Evil Monsters, but the worsening disaster left him weighing whether to flee to Weifa City. As he hesitated, Yun Feifei and two other cultivators reached the guard station and begged him for help.

• Wang Chen reinforced the guard station's formation with five High Spirit Stones as a Killing Intent storm battered its defenses.
• Wang Chen counterattacked with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, clearing away the storm's insects and weakening the Killing Intent.
• Wang Chen used the formation's water mirror to strike down several Evil Monsters that hurled boulders at the guard station, driving the survivors away.
• Wang Chen considered remaining at the guard station or fleeing to Weifa City as Killing Intent continued to spread and mountains collapsed.
• Yun Feifei and two other exhausted cultivators arrived at the guard station and asked Wang Chen to save them.

After Yun Feifei, Sun Yulian, and Li Mengyan fled to Wang Chen’s guard station, they chose to stay and defend it rather than risk a breakout. As a massive horde of evil spirits attacked, the women took control of the Defense Array while Wang Chen went to the Imperial Tower to fight.

• Wang Chen opened the guard station’s gates and let Yun Feifei, Sun Yulian, and Li Mengyan inside.
• Yun Feifei explained that two members of their team had died when a sudden tide of Killing Intent struck during an assault on an Evil Nest.
• Li Mengyan advised the group to stay at the guard station and await reinforcements, and Wang Chen agreed.
• A vast army of Evil Monsters converged on the station and began pelting it with stones.
• Wang Chen handed control of the Defense Array to Li Mengyan, Yun Feifei, and Sun Yulian, then went to the Imperial Tower to attack the horde with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.

Wang Chen held the guard station against waves of Evil Monsters and gained true Grand Completion in Nine Heavens Divine Thunder. After a new flock of two-headed giant eagles began bombarding the defensive array, he prepared to face the aerial attack.

• Wang Chen used Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to kill the charging Evil Monsters, restoring the confidence of Li Mengyan, Sun Yulian, and Yun Feifei.
• Wang Chen gained enlightenment while repeatedly casting the spell and unleashed a powerful lightning pillar that killed or wounded dozens of Evil Monsters.
• Wang Chen achieved true Grand Completion in Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and replenished his Mana with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil as the surviving monsters grew afraid.
• Two-headed giant eagles appeared above the guard station and bombarded its defensive array with Yin Sha-filled air bombs.
• Wang Chen saw the attack in the bronze mirror and opened his eyes with lightning gleaming in them.

Wang Chen and the three women fled the guard station after a powerful Baleful Intent spirit overwhelmed its defenses and destroyed it. After escaping through Wang Chen’s hidden tunnel, he placed Yun Feifei and Sun Yulian inside the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram, while Li Mengyan chose to flee with him on her Silver Lightning Flying Shuttle.

• Wang Chen’s lightning attacks cleared many black hawks, but a massive Baleful Intent spirit emerged from the Killing Intent clouds and struck the guard station.
• The Baleful Intent spirit shattered the defensive barrier and wounded Wang Chen, Li Mengyan, and the other two women, so Wang Chen ordered them to retreat.
• Wang Chen and the three women escaped underground as the puppet Dao soldiers self-destructed the guard station, damaging the spirit before it destroyed the ruins.
• Wang Chen led the women through his escape tunnel to a concealed location twenty li away.
• Wang Chen used the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram to bring Yun Feifei and Sun Yulian inside, but Li Mengyan refused and offered to escape with him on her Silver Lightning Flying Shuttle.

Wang Chen and Li Mengyan fled toward Weifa City through a region overrun by evil spirits, but Li Mengyan’s exhaustion forced them to switch to Wang Chen’s Magic Treasure Flying Ship. After a Golden Core-level evil spirit attacked, Wang Chen struck it with the ship’s God Slaying Cannon and escaped, finally sighting Weifa City.

• Li Mengyan used her silver Flying Shuttle to carry Wang Chen toward Weifa City, but she grew exhausted and had to land.
• Wang Chen brought Li Mengyan aboard his Magic Treasure Flying Ship and released Yun Feifei and Sun Yulian from the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram.
• Wang Chen and the three women powered the Flying Ship together, but a giant hand struck the vessel and sent it spinning.
• Wang Chen fired the God Slaying Cannon through the giant hand’s palm, then sped away as the wounded Golden Core-level attacker roared.
• Wang Chen replaced the Flying Ship’s depleted Spirit Stones and continued fleeing until Weifa City came into view.

Wang Chen and the other fleeing sect disciples reached Weifa City, where the gates were sealed amid an outbreak of evil spirits. After passing an inspection, Wang Chen entered the city and learned that the calamity had cut off their route back to the Mountain Sea Realm.

• Wang Chen and Li Mengyan's group found hundreds of cultivators blocked outside Weifa City's sealed gates.
• True Person Bai Jun ordered the frontier-reclaiming disciples admitted after individual inspections with the Chongyang Mirror.
• The mirror exposed several cultivators possessed by evil spirits, while Wang Chen, Li Mengyan, and the others passed safely.
• Wang Chen parted from Yun Feifei's group, accepted her communication jade talisman, and went to a tavern to gather information.
• Wang Chen learned that the Teleportation Array to the Mountain Sea Realm was disabled by Yin Sha energy and resolved to fight if they could not return.

Wang Chen found temporary lodging in a poor district of Weifa City after the inns demanded exorbitant prices, and he recovered from his injuries there. Over the next two days, he learned that the Teleportation Array remained shut, the city’s leaders were inaccessible, and the threat outside was worsening.

• Wang Chen left a tavern filled with fearful disciples and searched unsuccessfully for affordable lodging.
• A boy Wang Chen had hired as a guide offered him a room in his family’s home for fifty Spirit Stones, and Wang Chen accepted.
• Wang Chen reassured the boy’s wary mother, paid in advance, and gave the family food before settling into the boy’s simple room.
• Wang Chen treated his internal injuries and recovered with the help of his strong physique.
• Over the next two days, Wang Chen visited taverns and the Sect Law Hall, learning that the Teleportation Array was shut down and True Person Bai Jun could not be seen.
• More evil spirits gathered outside Weifa City as clouds of Killing Intent and baleful thunder made the city increasingly tense.

Wang Chen met Yun Feifei, Li Mengyan, and Sun Yulian in Weifa City and agreed to join them if they had to flee. A Golden Core demon attacked the city but withdrew after a fierce counterattack, only for a vast army of evil spirits to advance on Weifa City.

• Yun Feifei told Wang Chen that Mou Guangji had not returned and that fewer than half of their fellow disciples had survived, then proposed they join forces if Weifa City fell; Wang Chen agreed.
• A Golden Core demon reached through the Killing Intent clouds and clawed at Weifa City, prompting the city's cultivators and defenses to strike back.
• True Person Bai Jun sent a fire dragon against the demon, but the demon tore it apart before Sword Light drove the demon away.
• Warning horns and war drums sounded as Wang Chen saw a vast host of evil spirits approaching Weifa City.
• Tens of thousands of black-smoke-wreathed stone projectiles flew toward the city.

Weifa City’s defenders fought to hold back an overwhelming army of Evil Monsters as the City Protection Array weakened. Wang Chen joined the battle on the walls, where the first casualties and breaches in the barrier signaled that the city was in grave danger.

• Heavy crossbows, God Slaying Cannons, and the city’s defenders attacked the Evil Monsters, but their assault steadily drained the protective barrier.
• True Person Bai Jun ordered the pioneering disciples to reinforce the walls, and Wang Chen flew to join the defenders.
• Wang Chen unleashed the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, while thousands of cultivators and Dao soldiers bombarded the advancing enemies.
• Giant tentacles burst from the ground and battered the barrier, and Wang Chen used the Crimson Ni Sword to cut one apart.
• A tentacle broke through the barrier and killed two Battle Cultivators, showing that the city’s defenses had begun to fail.

Wang Chen fought off Evil Monsters as the City Protection Array failed across Weifa City, until a Golden Core True Person unleashed Evil-Slaying Divine Light and wiped out the attackers inside the city. The defenders faced a new threat as two-headed giants advanced, and a God Slaying Cannon fired at them.

• Evil Monsters breached the City Protection Array on all four walls, and Wang Chen rescued a cultivator before killing giant spiders and blasting a group of monsters with Talismans.
• The Evil Monster assault overwhelmed sections of the walls, forcing cultivators into close combat and putting one wall in danger of falling.
• A Golden Core True Person in the Sect Law Hall used the City Protection Array to unleash Evil-Slaying Divine Light, destroying the monsters inside the city and raising the defenders' morale.
• Two-headed giants carrying stone clubs marched toward Weifa City, trampling the Evil Monsters in their path.
• A God Slaying Cannon atop an Imperial Tower fired at the approaching giants.

The two-headed giants overcame Weifa City's God Slaying Cannons with earthen shields and armor, but True Person Bai Jun's rain softened the ground and stripped away their defenses. After the giants and Evil Monsters retreated, a colossal centipede made of intertwined two-headed giants erupted from beneath the ground and attacked the city gates.

• The two-headed giants formed stone shields and Rock Armor that blunted the God Slaying Cannons, while the first volley killed or wounded dozens of them.
• True Person Bai Jun summoned a storm that turned the soil to mud and dissolved the giants' stone defenses, allowing the God Slaying Cannons to strike them more effectively.
• The giants hurled stone clubs at the Imperial Towers, but Weifa City's Mana barrier deflected them; the giants then burrowed underground as the wounded Evil Monster army retreated.
• A giant earth bulge raced toward Weifa City's gate, and an earth dragon struck the gate and shattered the Mana barrier.
• A centipede formed from intertwined two-headed giants burst from the ground above the walls and spewed venom toward the defenders.

Wang Chen and the cultivators of Weifa City fought off an Evil Monster assault as a giant white tiger battled the centipede attacking the city gate. After the monsters withdrew and the battle ended, Wang Chen learned Yun Feifei, Li Mengyan, and the others were safe and returned to his temporary residence.

• The giant centipede’s venom damaged the city wall and its gate while the white tiger rushed out to attack it.
• Evil Monsters poured through the breached gate, and Wang Chen leaped into the street to kill them with the Hidden Dragon Staff as other cultivators joined the defense.
• The white tiger broke free of the centipede, tore it apart, and blasted the underground tunnels before leaving Weifa City.
• The Evil Monster army withdrew, ending the battle, and the cultivators began clearing the battlefield and treating the wounded.
• Wang Chen received word from Yun Feifei that she, Li Mengyan, and the others were safe, then returned to his residence, where the boy and his mother welcomed him.

Wang Chen tried to help the mother and son sheltering him as Weifa City remained threatened by Evil Monsters. True Person Bai Jun summoned the frontier-reclamation cultivators and announced a plan to form a Demon Suppressing Legion to destroy a massive Evil Nest before it could endanger the city.

• Wang Chen gave Xu An and his mother two protection talismans and warned them to take care.
• Wang Chen heard rumors at a tavern that True Person Bai Jun had been injured, then returned home as baleful clouds gathered over Weifa City.
• True Person Bai Jun summoned the frontier-reclamation cultivators to the Sect Law Hall, where Wang Chen joined Yun Feifei and the other female cultivators.
• True Person Bai Jun revealed that a vast Evil Nest had appeared thirty miles from the city and was growing rapidly.
• True Person Bai Jun ordered the cultivators to form a Demon Suppressing Legion and destroy the Evil Nest before the Evil Monsters besieged Weifa City again.

True Person Bai Jun recruited eight hundred cultivators, including Wang Chen, to attack the Evil Nest outside Weifa City and equipped them with Purple Thorn Spirit Armor. With the army set to gather at the city gate the next day, Wang Chen hurried to refine his armor and establish a Divine Soul link.

• True Person Bai Jun called for volunteers to join the Demon Suppressing Army, and Wang Chen joined the eight hundred cultivators who stepped forward.
• True Person Bai Jun awarded each volunteer three thousand merit points and a set of Purple Thorn Spirit Armor, then placed True Person Miaoyin in command of those remaining in Weifa City.
• True Person Bai Jun gave the volunteers one day to refine their armor and ordered them to gather at the city gate the following day.
• Yun Feifei gave Wang Chen a life-protecting spirit talisman, while Li Mengyan told him to take care before leaving with the others.
• Wang Chen returned to his residence and focused on refining the Purple Thorn Spirit Armor, activating its formations as he worked to establish a Divine Soul link.

True Person Bai Jun led five Demon Suppressing Warships and eight hundred cultivators from Weifa City to attack the Giant Cocoon Evil Nest. The battle began with the Evil Nest launching a counterattack, and the cultivators pushed forward under their Sect General’s command.

• True Person Bai Jun led the five warships and eight hundred cultivators out of Weifa City toward the Evil Nest.
• The warships struck the Giant Cocoon Evil Nest with Destruction Divine Lights, but it healed and released a giant centipede to fight them.
• Evil Monsters swarmed the cultivators from the ground, underground, and sky, while Wang Chen attacked them with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
• A tentacle ambushed Wang Chen, but his armor and Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm let him break free and destroy it.
• The Sect General used a Golden Bell to drive back the tentacles, then ordered the cultivators to charge through the Evil Nest.

Wang Chen and the Demon Suppressing Legion charged the Giant Cocoon Evil Nest, but its illusion array separated the cultivators and trapped Wang Chen in a fleshy tunnel. He fought through waves of Evil Monster spiders and activated Global Mode to search for a way out or a means of breaking the array.

• The Demon Suppressing Legion charged through the Evil Monsters and reached the Giant Cocoon Evil Nest.
• The Evil Nest unleashed an Evil Spirit Illusion Array that separated Wang Chen from the legion and cut off his connection to the other cultivators.
• Wang Chen sealed his Purple Thorn Spirit Armor and tested the tunnel wall with a Primal Gengjin Finger, confirming that the fleshy surroundings were real.
• Wang Chen summoned two Fire Crows and burned hundreds of Evil Monster spiders, then continued forward as more spiders appeared.
• Wang Chen activated Global Mode on the Cultivation Panel and saw a maze-like grid filled with blackish-red points of light.

Trapped in the Evil Spirit Illusion Array, Wang Chen defeated an Elite white-haired spider with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil and continued searching for an escape. When the passage began to writhe, he used the Hidden Dragon Staff to smash through the ground, opening a hole.

• Wang Chen burned through waves of black spiders but found no clue to breaking the array.
• Wang Chen provoked an enormous white-haired spider, whose icy attacks overwhelmed his Mystic Fire Flying Crow.
• Wang Chen used the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil to devour the spider and turn it into a high-quality Yin Qi Bead.
• Wang Chen continued through the passage until its walls began to writhe, then activated Purple Soul and smashed the ground with the Hidden Dragon Staff.
• Wang Chen broke through the earth and opened a hole before him.

Wang Chen fought through the living Evil Nest and rescued Yan Zhengming from a swarm of lizard Evil Monsters. After replenishing Yan Zhengming’s strength, Wang Chen broke through to a lower passage and led him toward another battle.

• Wang Chen blasted through the Evil Nest’s regenerating walls with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and dropped into a passageway.
• Wang Chen rescued Yan Zhengming, who was surrounded by lizard Evil Monsters, and they fought together under the Demon Suppressing Legion’s battle cry.
• Wang Chen transmitted Mana through Yan Zhengming’s Purple Thorn Spirit Armor, helping him recover as they killed the remaining monsters.
• Wang Chen carved a hole through the ground, led Yan Zhengming to a lower level, and ran with him toward cries of battle.

Wang Chen used Global Mode to locate and rescue trapped cultivators, rallying more than a hundred Demon Suppressing Legion members. He led them to the Evil Nest’s core, where they began attacking its giant heart.

• Wang Chen and Yan Zhengming rescued a fellow disciple besieged by flying serpents and brought him along.
• Wang Chen used Global Mode to locate more trapped cultivators, and the growing group fought through the Evil Spirit Illusion Array to rescue them.
• Wang Chen redirected the group toward destroying the Evil Nest’s core so the array would collapse and surviving cultivators could escape.
• Wang Chen led the more than one hundred cultivators into a vast chamber containing a giant, venomous-fire-pulsing heart.
• The cultivators shouted “Invincible with Me!” and bombarded the Evil Nest’s heart with spells, Flying Swords, and spiritual artifacts.

True Person Bai Jun and the five Demon Suppressing Warships struggled to hold back the Flying Centipede while Wang Chen’s team attacked the heart inside the Giant Cocoon Evil Nest. The Flying Centipede was trapped before it could return to the nest, and Wang Chen struck the heart with his Hidden Dragon Staff.

• True Person Bai Jun faced the Flying Centipede’s attacks and prepared a Purple Thunderbolt as a last resort while the eight hundred Purple Mansion cultivators remained trapped in the Evil Spirit Illusion Array.
• The Giant Cocoon Evil Nest began to convulse, and the Flying Centipede broke away from the warships to return to it.
• True Person Bai Jun used his Golden Core and the power of the four surrounding warships to trap the Flying Centipede in an invisible net.
• Wang Chen’s team attacked the Evil Nest’s heart, but baleful light shielded it and Evil Monsters poured from the cavern walls.
• Wang Chen ordered the cultivators to form an array and defend against the Evil Monsters, then rushed forward and struck the heart with his Hidden Dragon Staff.