Recaps

Wang Chen used the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram to force three Luo Clan cultivators to swear Inner Demon Vows before releasing their captive sister. He rejected the older cultivator’s offer to join the Luo Clan and fled White Dragon Marsh, intending to settle their score if they met again.

• Wang Chen stopped the blue-robed cultivator from attacking by threatening the yellow-robed woman, then rebuked the Luo Clan brothers for trying to seize him.
• Wang Chen struck at the white-robed cultivator with lightning, and the older cultivator agreed to negotiate for their sister’s release.
• Wang Chen demanded that the older, blue-robed, and white-robed cultivators swear Inner Demon Vows never to trouble him again, and they complied.
• Wang Chen released the yellow-robed woman, who ran to the older cultivator while the blue-robed cultivator held back.
• The older cultivator offered Wang Chen an immortal registry status if he joined the Luo Clan, but Wang Chen refused and flew away from White Dragon Marsh.

Wang Chen arrived at Yongle Immortal City and learned that foreign Rogue Cultivators faced fierce competition for entry into its Immortal Registry. He left the tea stall with a message talisman from Jia Sidao, who claimed he could help him obtain temporary residence qualifications.

• Wang Chen reached the vast Yongle Immortal City, built atop a colossal dragon turtle, and approached its bustling outskirts cautiously.
• Wang Chen stopped at a tea stall, ordered modestly, and listened to patrons discussing the local situation.
• Jia Sidao approached Wang Chen and explained that Yongle released far fewer Immortal Registry slots than the hundreds of thousands of Rogue Cultivators seeking them.
• Wang Chen paid Jia Sidao two Spirit Stones for details about the competition and the lives of Rogue Cultivators unable to enter the city.
• Jia Sidao offered to help Wang Chen obtain temporary residence qualifications, left him a message talisman, and departed.

Wang Chen avoided Jia Sidao’s attempt to sell him Yongle Immortal Registry qualifications because he already had temporary residence status, then watched the Patrol seize an unregistered cultivator. After gathering rumors in the satellite city, Wang Chen summoned Jia Sidao and showed him a Golden Coupon and Pill Scroll, leaving Jia astonished by the temporary residence permit.

• Wang Chen kept Jia Sidao’s message talisman but refused to pay for an immortal registry because he already had temporary residence qualifications.
• Yongle Patrol cultivators inspected the tea shop and arrested a man who could not produce an identity token.
• Wang Chen stayed at an inn in the satellite city and spent three days listening to local rumors about Yongle Immortal City.
• Wang Chen summoned Jia Sidao and showed him a Golden Coupon and Pill Scroll, which Jia recognized as a temporary residence permit.

Wang Chen asked Jia Sidao how to obtain a Yongle Immortal Registry, and Jia described several routes, including joining the Prison Department. Wang Chen learned that three years of prison work could earn him a registry, but the job carried grave risks.

• Jia Sidao became furious when he realized Wang Chen had not come to seek his help, but he calmed down after seeing Wang Chen's high-grade Spirit Stone.
• Wang Chen asked Jia Sidao for a way to obtain a Yongle Immortal Registry and refused to let him broker the sale of his Golden Coupon and Pill Scroll.
• Jia Sidao explained that serving a powerful immortal clan for fifty years could offer a chance at a registry, but Wang Chen rejected the idea of becoming a servant.
• Jia Sidao described the Assault Camp as a dangerous path to a registry through battle merit.
• Jia Sidao told Wang Chen that the Prison Department guarded a nine-level underground prison and recruited high-level Purple Mansion cultivators, including outsiders with a Golden Coupon and Pill Scroll.
• Jia Sidao said Wang Chen could earn an Immortal Registry after three years in the Prison Department, while warning that entering the prison meant accepting responsibility for his own life and death.

Wang Chen entered Yongle Immortal City and agreed to join the Prison Department, despite its notorious dangers. A Golden Core cultivator immediately took him to Zone C-6 and left him in an underground Cave Dwelling.

• Wang Chen paid Jia Sidao a Lower Spirit Stone for his advice, then changed his appearance to avoid retaliation.
• Wang Chen used Bixi’s whisker Teleportation Array to enter Yongle Immortal City and surveyed its crowded streets and towering buildings.
• Wang Chen found the Prison Department, where a gate guard told him it was not recruiting.
• A burly Golden Core cultivator stopped Wang Chen, asked his name, and recruited him to the understaffed Zone C-6.
• The burly cultivator took Wang Chen underground to a brightly lit Cave Dwelling, then vanished and left him there.

Wang Chen adjusted to life as an apprentice jailor in Yongle Immortal City's dungeon and visited his mentor, Dan Lingfeng, on his day off. Dan Lingfeng warned him that becoming a full jailor could send him to the deadly Lower Three Zones, putting his goal of earning an immortal registry at risk.

• Wang Chen recalled how Lu Peng had recruited him into the Prison Department and assigned him to train in Zone C-6.
• Wang Chen ate at Xu Ji Tavern, where a cultivator avoided sharing his table after noticing his jailor's token.
• Wang Chen brought Jing Hongshao and Barbarian Bull Tendon to Dan Lingfeng, who quickly finished the food and wine.
• Dan Lingfeng warned Wang Chen that full jailors were often sent to the dangerous Lower Three Zones, where few survived long enough to earn an immortal registry.

Wang Chen used the Yin Sha energy in his quarters to strengthen the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, then began his patrol of Zone C-6. He left a prisoner who tried to seduce him with a cucumber and continued his rounds.

• Wang Chen returned to his quarters, where he used the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil to absorb the Yin Sha energy and convert it into spiritual power.
• Wang Chen began inspecting the cells in Zone C-6 the next morning as part of his jailer duties.
• A burly prisoner insulted Wang Chen, who struck the man’s Dantian with his staff and continued his patrol.
• Wang Chen reached the last cell, where a female cultivator begged him to keep her company.
• Wang Chen gave the female cultivator a cucumber and moved on.

Wang Chen avoided Yu Fei’s seductive influence while inspecting the dangerous cells in Zone C-6. In the deepest passage, he discovered that something had happened to a young cultivator imprisoned there.

• Wang Chen gave Yu Fei a cucumber and left when she asked for something hot.
• Yu Fei bewitched a new prisoner into gouging out his eyes, then sang until he died.
• Wang Chen resisted Yu Fei’s distant bewitching song and continued his patrol through Zone C-6.
• Wang Chen reached the three innermost cells and realized something had happened to the young cultivator in the first one.

Wang Chen discovered two dead prisoners and one mindless prisoner in the Gate of Death, then alerted Brother Song, who arrived with a large group of officials. After declining dangerous work clearing Baleful Intent channels and learning nothing about the deaths, Wang Chen spent three months in Yongle Dungeon and became a true jailer.

• Wang Chen found two dead criminal cultivators and a third who had become vacant and mindless in the Gate of Death.
• Wang Chen contacted Brother Song, who rushed over with clerks, official jailers, and trainee jailers to investigate.
• Dan Lingfeng offered Wang Chen a chance at a permanent post clearing Baleful Intent channels, but Wang Chen declined.
• Wang Chen asked Dan Lingfeng about the Gate of Death incident, but Dan Lingfeng warned him not to investigate uncanny matters.
• Wang Chen completed three months in Yongle Dungeon and became a true jailer.

Wang Chen worked his shift distributing prison food and discovered that Yu Fei had disappeared from her cell. Afterward, the supervising clerk of Zone C-6 summoned him and asked about his service in the Prison Department and Lu Peng.

• Wang Chen checked in for his shift, collected his duty badge and Spirit Food, and began delivering fixed meals to the prisoners.
• An old prisoner pleaded for extra food, then sprang up and devoured his meal and the paper box after Wang Chen left.
• Wang Chen found Yu Fei's cell empty and wondered whether she had died before continuing his patrol.
• At the end of the shift, Wang Chen returned his badge and food box, and the clerk told him that Lord Chen wanted to see him.
• The supervising clerk asked Wang Chen how long he had served in the Prison Department and whether Lu Peng had brought him to the dungeon.

Wang Chen became a full jailer but was ordered to transfer from Zone C-6 to the more dangerous Zone J-9, leaving behind Dan Lingfeng’s warnings as he descended into the lower levels. The chapter ended with Wang Chen receiving his new provisions in Zone J-9.

• The middle-aged cultivator promoted Wang Chen to full jailer and ordered him to transfer to Zone J-9 or leave the Prison Department.
• Wang Chen signed the life-and-death Dao pact and learned he would report to Zone J-9 the next day.
• Dan Lingfeng questioned Wang Chen about the transfer, then warned him to stay cautious and rely on himself.
• Wang Chen traveled through a Teleportation Array to Zone J-9 and sensed its diminished spiritual energy and sinister influence.
• Wang Chen arrived at the Zone J-9 Duty Hall and received the standard provisions and benefits for a full jailer.

Wang Chen settled into his new post in Zone J-9, where generous benefits and a safer residence came with a dangerous prison and demanding duties. After refusing Zhu Jiu and Hu Qi’s attempt to exploit him, Wang Chen studied the prison’s rules and began his first patrol assignment with a warning from the Duty Hall manager.

• Wang Chen received pills, spirit-artifact clothing, talismans, a salary, and a courtyard house as benefits of his new prison guard post.
• Zhu Jiu and Hu Qi visited Wang Chen and tried to pressure him, but he refused to give them anything or accept their offer of friendship.
• Wang Chen settled into his new home and read the guard manual, learning that Zone J-9 held 135 prisoners, including dangerous Golden Core cultivators.
• Wang Chen reported to the Duty Hall the next morning, received a prison patrol map, and was warned by the manager to watch where he walked.

Wang Chen began patrolling Zone J-9 alone and encountered Yu Fei, who had been transferred there after disappearing from Zone C-6. He continued his rounds amid repeated prisoner disturbances, which the Prison Department suppressed with an elite squad.

• Wang Chen completed his first patrol with a veteran jailer, who soon left him to patrol alone.
• Wang Chen silenced a prisoner who was ramming the wall of a cell.
• Wang Chen recognized Yu Fei in the isolated cell at the end of the corridor and gave her a cucumber before chatting with her.
• Yu Fei warned Wang Chen to take care in the prison's baleful aura as he left.
• Wang Chen reported the prisoners' disturbances, and an elite squad of Battle Cultivators beat the troublemakers into submission.

During his seventh day in Zone J-9, Wang Chen accepted Yu Fei’s golden hairpin and reported her request to Warden Cao, who authorized him to bring her rouge. On his day off, Wang Chen went to Yongle Immortal City to buy it and learned the rouge required a preorder.

• Yu Fei asked Wang Chen to bring her Dai Mei Rouge and gave him a golden floral hairpin to deliver to Warden Cao.
• Wang Chen reported Yu Fei’s request and handed over the hairpin, and Warden Cao told him to buy the rouge while warning him not to act independently on Yu Fei’s behalf.
• Wang Chen left the dungeon for Yongle Immortal City and visited the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• The shopkeeper told Wang Chen that buying the rouge required a preorder.

Wang Chen bought Yu Fei an expensive box of rouge and heard her sing, then Wu Yi reassigned him to a dangerous patrol route after accusing him of getting too close to her. Wang Chen discovered Hu Qi had arranged the trouble to extort him, and he refused to yield, deepening their grudge.

• Wang Chen paid one hundred Medium Spirit Stones to obtain Tianxiang Tower Dai Mei Rouge for Yu Fei.
• Wang Chen gave Yu Fei the rouge, listened to her enchanting song, and hurried away after realizing he had lingered too long.
• Wu Yi questioned Wang Chen about associating with Yu Fei and reassigned him to a longer patrol route through areas dense with Yin Sha energy.
• Hu Qi confronted Wang Chen on the new route and demanded monthly payments of Spirit Stones and pills.
• Wang Chen ignored Hu Qi's threat and insulted him with a gesture, enraging him further.

Wang Chen patrolled a remote stretch of Yongle Dungeon, where a prisoner identified his concealed cultivation and warned him before danger gathered in the passage. Wang Chen caught a Baleful Serpent with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, but it erupted and flooded the passage with Yin Sha energy.

• Wang Chen continued his new patrol route through Zone E-9 and ignored an old prisoner's attempt to stop him.
• The old prisoner recognized Wang Chen's high-level Purple Mansion cultivation and Buddhist body-refining technique, then called it a pity that he had been sent to the dungeon.
• Wang Chen sensed gathering evil power and malicious thoughts in the passage and readied the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil.
• Wang Chen heard a hiss and suspected a Baleful Serpent, but initially found no sign of one.
• Wang Chen sensed an approaching Yin Evil presence, threw the net behind him, and caught a concealed Baleful Serpent.
• The trapped Baleful Serpent struggled against the tightening net, then exploded in several places and released a surge of Yin Sha energy.

Wang Chen discovered that the dangerous Yongle Dungeon gave him opportunities to gain Human Virtue and strengthen his treasure, then encountered an arrogant prisoner and visited Zone E’s tavern. There, a jailer publicly challenged him over a rumor that he had colluded with a prisoner.

• Wang Chen killed a baleful snake with his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm, gained 3278 Human Virtue, and realized the dungeon could help him farm points.
• Wang Chen reached the remote prison cave in Zone E-9 and ignored the black-robed cultivator’s questions and demand for help.
• The next day, the black-robed cultivator apologized, but Wang Chen walked away without listening.
• Wang Chen visited the tavern at Little Yin Mountain, drank spirit wine, and listened for useful information from other jailers.
• A jailer loudly asked Wang Chen whether he had been punished for colluding with a prisoner, drawing the tavern’s attention to him.

Wang Chen confronted Old Blade after the veteran jailer mocked him in a tavern, then challenged him to a fight outside the city. Old Blade left after receiving a whispered warning, and Wang Chen departed with the tavern patrons newly wary of him.

• Old Blade provoked Wang Chen in front of the tavern’s jailers and patrons.
• Wang Chen insulted Old Blade and urged him to fight outside the city, while the tavern owner forbade a brawl inside.
• Old Blade prepared to accept the challenge, but a man whispered to him, and Old Blade left after threatening Wang Chen.
• Wang Chen finished his wine and peanuts, then strolled away as the tavern patrons speculated about his identity and reconsidered him as a newcomer.

Wang Chen thrived despite being isolated in Zone E-9, using the dungeon's dangers to strengthen himself while steadily cultivating. Old Demon Han praised Wang Chen's progress, but an earthquake interrupted their conversation.

• After Wang Chen humiliated Old Blade, guards across Zone E-9 avoided him, while Hu Qi and Old Blade openly showed their hostility.
• Wang Chen adapted to Zone E-9, resisting Yin Sha energy, consuming Evil Spirits and demon spirits for gains, and advancing his cultivation.
• Old Demon Han observed Wang Chen's rapid progress and praised his steadiness and talent.
• Wang Chen reflected on his difficult path and spoke with Old Demon Han about how a different upbringing might have made him a true disciple.
• The ground shook violently, cutting off Old Demon Han as he began to describe his past.

Wang Chen stayed in his cell with Old Demon Han after an earthquake collapsed the passage, then discovered that Han could walk through the sealing formation and seemed to command the tremors. As they shared food and wine, the boulders blocking the passage began to loosen.

• Wang Chen prepared to flee when the dungeon shook, but Old Demon Han urged him to stay, and the passage collapsed before he could leave.
• Wang Chen settled in to make tea, and Old Demon Han stepped through the formation to join him at the table.
• Wang Chen served Old Demon Han Spiritual Wine, Demonic Beast Meat, and hot pot, and Han reassured him that nothing would go wrong.
• The ground shook again, but after Old Demon Han cursed at the disturbance, the tremors stopped.
• Wang Chen noticed that the boulders blocking the passage were loosening and pebbles were falling.

Wang Chen watched Old Demon Han’s dispute with a powerful palace-clad Nascent Soul True Immortal, then left the Cave Dwelling and ran into Old Blade, Hu Qi, and Zhu Jiu. Old Blade attacked him, and Wang Chen struck him down with a Vajra Palm.

• Water and ice mysteriously broke through the rubble blocking the tunnel, allowing Yu Fei and two other women to enter the Cave Dwelling.
• The palace-clad woman confronted Old Demon Han and ordered Yu Fei to kill Wang Chen, but Old Demon Han stopped her sword and protected him.
• Old Demon Han agreed to leave with the women, and Wang Chen hurried out of the now-empty Cave Dwelling.
• Wang Chen encountered Old Blade, Hu Qi, and Zhu Jiu in the passage, and Old Blade lunged at him with a battle-cultivator technique.
• Wang Chen’s Vajra Palm struck Old Blade in the chest, caving it in and sending him flying.

Wang Chen fought Hu Qi, Old Blade, and Zhu Jiu after encountering them in the damaged Yongle Dungeon. He killed Zhu Jiu with the Dragon Abyss Sword and turned his killing intent toward Hu Qi as the fight continued.

• Old Blade transformed into a tiger and Zhu Jiu used crushing spells against Wang Chen, but Wang Chen's Great Majestic Heavenly Dragon Dharma Image injured Zhu Jiu.
• Hu Qi launched his natal throwing knife at Wang Chen, who knocked it aside with a finger.
• Old Blade and Zhu Jiu attacked together, but Wang Chen used Shrink Ground into Inch to evade Old Blade and appear beside Zhu Jiu.
• Wang Chen's Dragon Abyss Sword pierced Zhu Jiu's chest, killing him and earning Wang Chen 600 Heavenly Merit.
• Wang Chen caught the returning sword and unleashed killing sword intent at Hu Qi, nearly disrupting Old Blade's control of his natal Magic Treasure.

Wang Chen killed Hu Qi and faced Old Blade, who surrendered before transforming into a powerful tiger beast when Wang Chen refused to spare him. Their battle continued through a tunnel to Old Demon Han’s Cave Dwelling, where Wang Chen struck Old Blade with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, but the wounded beast retaliated with his tail and a storm of Wind Blades.

• Wang Chen severed Hu Qi’s hand and killed him with a net of Sword Light, earning 700 Heavenly Merit.
• Old Blade surrendered, but Wang Chen refused and dismissed his threat that True Person Sun would track him with Heavenly Secret Art.
• Old Blade activated Tiger Beast Transformation, gaining quasi-Golden Core power and attacking Wang Chen with enhanced strength and defense.
• Wang Chen withdrew and led Old Blade through the tunnel to Old Demon Han’s Cave Dwelling.
• Wang Chen struck Old Blade with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, but Old Blade survived and lashed out with his tail as thousands of Wind Blades appeared.

Wang Chen defeated Old Blade with the Lovesickness Sword, then searched Yongle Dungeon for an escape route. After joining a group of prison guards, he continued searching amid their arguments.

• Wang Chen blocked Old Blade’s Wind Blades and tiger-tail strike with his Resplendent Shield Armor, then counterattacked with a sword strike called Longing, the Lovesickness Sword.
• The sword awakened Old Blade’s memories of Chun Ni and severed his fighting will; Old Blade acknowledged his defeat and died, turning to ashes as Wang Chen gained 800 Heavenly Merit.
• Wang Chen recited the Rebirth Incantation, concealed himself with Heavenly Secret Talismans, and recovered and burned the corpses of Hu Qi and Zhu Jiu after taking their valuables.
• Wang Chen searched Yongle Dungeon, opened a blocked tunnel, and joined a group of prison guards looking for a way out.
• The prison guards argued and complained as they searched together, though the group had fairly good luck.

After surviving the Yongle Dungeon disaster, Wang Chen was questioned by the Prison Department and then assigned to guard the Demon Cave. He arrived underground and received his identification token from Changsun Yong, leaving his new post ahead of him.

• Wang Chen escaped to the surface with the other jailers and was detained in Yongle Immortal City while the Prison Department investigated the dungeon attack.
• Wang Chen heard rumors that two Nascent Soul True Immortals had attacked the dungeon and that some prisoners had escaped or been killed.
• Two Prison Department clerks questioned Wang Chen beside a Bi Xie statue, and he truthfully denied involvement while concealing what he knew about Old Demon Han.
• The Prison Department kept Wang Chen for several more days, then conscripted him to guard the Demon Cave.
• Wang Chen returned underground through a secret passage and met Changsun Yong, who gave him an identification token for his new post.