Recaps

Huangfu Yongchun revealed his preparations to lure and trap a fourth-tier flood dragon, then persuaded the Golden Core cultivators to join the hunt by offering them most of the spoils. After they signed a Dao pact, he set their departure for one month later, leaving them to train in the Seven Severing Sword Formation.

• Huangfu Yongchun showed the gathered cultivators a 130-year-old Dragon-Attracting Grass and described his Dragon Trapping Great Formation.
• True Person Shen asked how the spoils would be divided, and Huangfu Yongchun said he wanted only the Flood Dragon Pill while the other six shared everything else equally.
• Huangfu Yongchun swore he would not retaliate against anyone who withdrew, and the Golden Core cultivators, including Wang Chen, agreed to join the hunt.
• Huangfu Yongchun had the cultivators sign a Dao pact covering secrecy, mutual aid, the hunt, and the division of spoils.
• Huangfu Yongchun set the expedition for one month later and told the cultivators to practice coordinating in the Seven Severing Sword Formation.

Wang Chen and the Seven Severing Society practiced the Seven Severing Sword Formation in a hidden valley to prepare for slaying the flood dragon. Back in Luodu, Wang Chen explored whether his Cultivation Panel could derive the rest of the Seven Severing Sword techniques.

• Huangfu Yongchun brought Wang Chen and the other Golden Core cultivators to a concealed valley and revealed the Illusion Array he had set up there.
• Huangfu Yongchun taught the Seven Severing Sword Formation, and the group practiced together until their coordination improved.
• Wang Chen used Human Virtue points to advance his Lightning Severing Sword Art, bringing it close to minor accomplishment.
• Huangfu Yongchun ended the training and told everyone to return to Luodu for three days of rest before awaiting his message.
• Wang Chen reviewed the other sword techniques he had seen and used his Cultivation Panel to investigate deriving the Seven Severing Sword arts.

Wang Chen joined Huangfu Yongchun and five other Golden Core cultivators in a trap to slay a fourth-tier flood dragon. After three days of waiting, the dragon arrived and was caught in the formation, leaving the seven cultivators to unleash the Seven Severing Sword Formation against its head.

• Wang Chen learned that deducing the six arts of the Seven Severing Sword required far more Human Virtue than he had and raised his Lightning Severing Sword Art to Minor Mastery.
• Huangfu Yongchun summoned Wang Chen and the other Golden Core cultivators, and they flew to a valley where he had prepared the Dragon Trapping Great Formation.
• Huangfu Yongchun planted the Dragon-Attracting Grass, and the group waited two days without sight of the flood dragon.
• On the third afternoon, a fourth-tier flood dragon entered the valley, spotted the grass, and swallowed it.
• Huangfu Yongchun activated the formation to bind the flood dragon, and the seven cultivators struck it with their Flying Swords and formed the Seven Severing Sword Formation.
• The seven Flying Swords dove toward the flood dragon's head with their power greatly increased.

Wang Chen and the six other True Persons fought the flood dragon with the Seven Severing Sword Formation, but the Demon King’s healing and heartbeat-based divine ability nearly overwhelmed them. Wang Chen destroyed his External Core to strike its right eye and break the ability, leaving the battle ongoing and his Sword Pellet spent.

• The flood dragon broke the seven swords’ attack, healed its wounds, and began tearing free of the formation’s restraints.
• Huangfu Yongchun used the True Word of War to reinforce the formation, and the seven True Persons resumed their coordinated sword assault.
• The flood dragon counterattacked with ice blades, then curled up and used pounding heartbeats to make the seven True Persons bleed and fall into its rhythm.
• Wang Chen self-detonated his External Core and combined its power with his Sword Pellet to pierce the flood dragon’s right eye.
• The flood dragon’s divine ability broke, and Huangfu Yongchun and the others recovered, while Wang Chen lost both his External Core and Sword Pellet.

Wang Chen and six Golden Core cultivators used the Seven Severing Sword Formation to fatally wound the fourth-tier flood dragon, and Wang Chen delivered the final blow. The flood dragon’s dying soul attacked Wang Chen but was swallowed by the Primordial Dao Stele, and the cultivators celebrated their victory.

• Huangfu Yongchun led the seven Golden Core cultivators in a combined sword attack that pierced the flood dragon and devastated its body as the Dragon Trapping Great Formation broke.
• Wang Chen struck the nearly dead flood dragon’s head with the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm and killed it, but its dragon soul attacked him in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Primordial Dao Stele illuminated Wang Chen’s Sea of Consciousness and swallowed the dragon soul, granting him 900,000 Human Virtue points.
• Huangfu Yongchun and the other cultivators gathered behind Wang Chen and celebrated their victory over the fourth-tier Demon King.

After killing the fourth-tier flood dragon, Wang Chen and the Golden Core cultivators explored its lair and discovered a small Spirit Stone mine. They mined it destructively for five days, and Huangfu Yongchun divided the ore equally among the other six cultivators.

• Huangfu Yongchun put away the flood dragon corpse, and the cultivators erased the battle traces before heading to its lair.
• Huangfu Yongchun led the group through a cold pool into the flood dragon's cavern, where Wang Chen saw Spirit Stone ore scattered among the rocks.
• Huangfu Yongchun used a Magic Treasure compass to determine that the cavern held a small Spirit Stone mine with estimated reserves of seventy-three million Lower Spirit.
• The seven Golden Core True Persons worked in shifts for five days and nights, destructively excavating the mine and storing the ore.
• Huangfu Yongchun had the ore brought out and divided it equally among the other six cultivators.

After the Golden Cores divided the flood dragon and spirit mine spoils, Huangfu Yongchun led them back to Luodu Immortal City under strict orders to keep the dragon-slaying secret. Wang Chen gained most of the flood dragon meat but worried that selling his freshly mined spirit ores would reveal the vein.

• Huangfu Yongchun kept his promise to take only the flood dragon’s Demon Core, while Wang Chen and the other Golden Cores divided the spirit ores and materials they found.
• Huangfu Yongchun removed the fourth-rank Demon Core, then presided over the fair division of the flood dragon’s corpse.
• Wang Chen traded his share of refining materials for most of the flood dragon meat to support his body-refinement cultivation.
• Huangfu Yongchun warned everyone to honor their Dao oaths and keep the operation secret, then led the group out of the cavern.
• The group returned to Luodu Immortal City, and Wang Chen worried that selling his freshly mined ores would expose the spirit vein.

Wang Chen absorbed the spiritual energy from a large batch of ore into the Cangqing Ring, then tasked Su Ziling with processing valuable Medium Spirit Stone ore. After spending six days and nights deriving the remaining sword arts, he mastered the Seven Absolute Sword Art.

• Wang Chen fed several million Lower Spirit Stones' worth of spiritual energy from the ore to the Cangqing Ring, strengthening it and stabilizing his connection to the Cangqing Realm.
• Wang Chen gave Su Ziling tools and Medium Spirit Stone ore to cut and polish into standard Spirit Stones, and she eagerly accepted the work.
• Wang Chen used the Human Virtue he had earned from slaying the fourth-rank flood dragon to derive the other six absolutes of the Seven Absolute Sword Art.
• After six days and nights of derivation, Wang Chen formed six new Spiritual Light Law Seeds and unlocked the Seven Absolute Sword Art at Beginner level.

Wang Chen discovered that the Seven Absolute Sword Art destroyed his seven Tier 2 flying swords and decided to commission the materials for seven Tier 3 Magic Treasure swords. After selling much of his collection and paying a steep deposit to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, he still needed to raise enough Spirit Stones to cover the balance within three months.

• Wang Chen found that his seven top-grade spirit swords had shattered while he practiced the Seven Absolute Sword Art, and he gathered their fragments to salvage materials.
• Su Ziling finished processing the ore and gave Wang Chen the Storage Bag of Medium Spirit Stones.
• After dual cultivation, Wang Chen sorted his possessions, kept what he needed, and sent the rest to be sold.
• Wang Chen consulted the Little Cauldron and took a list of materials for seven Magic Treasure flying swords to Shopkeeper Chen at the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
• Shopkeeper Chen quoted a high price and promised to gather the materials within three months, while Wang Chen negotiated a thirty-percent deposit and left needing more Spirit Stones for the balance.

Wang Chen sought ways to earn Spirit Stones to fund a set of Magic Treasures, and Huangfu Yongchun gave him a Fulong Mountain Survey Map to help him find opportunities. After Wang Chen left, Huangfu Yongchun's black-robed younger brother demanded to join him on another expedition to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, and Huangfu Yongchun reluctantly agreed.

• Wang Chen told Huangfu Yongchun he needed more Spirit Stones to buy materials for a set of Magic Treasures, and Huangfu Yongchun offered to lend him some.
• Wang Chen declined the loan, so Huangfu Yongchun gave him an old Fulong Mountain Survey Map that recorded monster habitats and resource sites.
• Huangfu Yongchun urged Wang Chen not to be so anxious, and Wang Chen thanked him before leaving.
• Huangfu Yongchun's black-robed Third Brother questioned why he valued Wang Chen and gave him the map, which he called a Huangfu Family heirloom.
• Huangfu Yongchun told Third Brother to recover in his Cave Mansion after receiving a fourth-tier Flood Dragon Pill, but Third Brother demanded to join him on another Xuan You Immortal Mansion expedition.
• Huangfu Yongchun reluctantly agreed to take Third Brother with him.

Wang Chen entered Fulong Mountain to hunt Fire-Eyed Long Apes and gather resources, relying on Heavenly Merit to improve his luck. After clearing a swarm of bloodsucking insects, he found an ape and alerted the troop by wounding it.

• Wang Chen studied the map and chose a Fire-Eyed Long Ape gorge as his first target, hoping to find valuable monkey wine.
• Wang Chen spent ten thousand Heavenly Merit to bless his fortune, then used Myriad Mile Leisurely Court to enter the gorge on foot.
• Wang Chen killed a swarm of bloodsucking insects with a flick of his sword.
• Wang Chen spotted a Fire-Eyed Long Ape in a tree and severed its right arm with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• The wounded Fire-Eyed Long Ape screamed, and the troop answered with roars as branches shook throughout the gorge.

Wang Chen defeated the Fire-Eyed Long Ape clan without killing them and forced their leader to take him to their hidden wine pool. He collected the clan’s spirit wine and left them alive, while the Black Giant Ape roared in anger over the emptied pool.

• Wang Chen used the Lightning Severing Sword to knock more than a hundred Fire-Eyed Long Apes from the trees without killing them.
• The Black Giant Ape arrived with a White Ape, and Wang Chen demanded the clan’s wine in exchange for sparing them.
• After the Black Giant Ape agreed, Wang Chen promised to take only the wine and gave the White Ape Healing Pills for an injured ape.
• The Black Giant Ape led Wang Chen to the hidden wine pool, where he poured its spirit wine into his Cangqing Ring.
• After Wang Chen left, the Black Giant Ape roared at the empty pool.

Wang Chen used dragon meat and Monkey Spirit Wine to strengthen his body and advance his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma. After spending one hundred thousand Heavenly Merit to gain ten thousand Fortune, he headed into an unexplored part of Fulong Mountain to search for an undiscovered Cave Mansion.

• Wang Chen roasted fourth-tier flood dragon meat, and a leopard that tried to ambush him was killed by his Flying Sword.
• Wang Chen ate dragon meat with Monkey Spirit Wine, improving his absorption of the flesh’s energy and gaining experience in the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma.
• Wang Chen recalled extorting spirit wine from three Fire-Eyed Long Ape tribes and decided to seek a predecessor’s Cave Mansion rather than a mineral vein.
• Wang Chen spent one hundred thousand Heavenly Merit to receive ten thousand Fortune and hurried into an unmapped region of Fulong Mountain.

Wang Chen followed an inexplicable intuition to a cave behind a waterfall, then used all his remaining Heavenly Merit to uncover a hidden passage. He arrived in a secret chamber and found a long-dead cultivator wearing a Sumeru Ring.

• Wang Chen wandered through a gorge, entered a cave behind a waterfall, and searched it without finding anything unusual.
• Wang Chen spent all his remaining Heavenly Merit, and his heightened senses singled out a stalactite pillar.
• Wang Chen infused the pillar with Mana until it glowed with five colors and revealed True Script Runes.
• Wang Chen was transported to a secret chamber, where he found a dead gray-robed cultivator wearing a Sumeru Ring.

Wang Chen paid his respects to the dead cultivator, buried his remains, and examined the three relics left behind. He claimed a powerful Earth Element Prayer Mat and discovered that the bronze token controlled the failing Cave Mansion formation, which he could use to teleport out.

• Wang Chen bowed to the gray-robed cultivator, whose body crumbled into dust when it opened its eyes.
• Wang Chen gathered the ashes, buried them in a stone grave, and erected a blank stele.
• Wang Chen discovered that the prayer mat was a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure and refined it for his own use.
• Wang Chen learned that the Earth Element Prayer Mat gathered spiritual energy, protected his mind, and formed a defensive barrier, though it needed to be nurtured to restore its spiritual essence.
• Wang Chen found that the bronze token controlled the Cave Mansion formation, which was failing because its earth vein had nearly dried up, but the token could still teleport him out.

Wang Chen found a pristine fourth-tier Spirit Treasure and the lost Grand Unity Primordial Chaos True Law in a predecessor’s Sumeru Ring. He decided to save the cultivation art for after reaching the Nascent Soul realm, then realized the ring itself could help solve his shortage of funds.

• Wang Chen opened the predecessor’s Sumeru Ring and found only a Jade Slip and a fan inside.
• Wang Chen refined the fan, identified it as the Five Elements Primordial Fan, and added the pristine Spirit Treasure to his Equipment Slot.
• Wang Chen read the Jade Slip and discovered it contained the Grand Unity Primordial Chaos True Law, the source of the cultivation methods he had practiced.
• Wang Chen chose not to study or cultivate the ancient art until after he reached the Nascent Soul realm, and stored its Spiritual Light Law Seed in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Wang Chen worried that he still lacked the wealth to pay for his materials, then realized the predecessor’s Sumeru Ring was worth a great deal because it held at least ten times the capacity of his own.

After returning to Luodu, Wang Chen refined the Five Elements Primordial Fan and tested the Earth Element Prayer Mat before selling a rare Seven Void Ring to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. The deal cleared his outstanding materials balance and earned him an additional forty-five thousand Medium Spirit Stones.

• Wang Chen returned to Water Curtain Cave, crushed the bronze token to seal the Cave Mansion, and flew back to Luodu the following afternoon.
• Wang Chen spent half a month refining the Five Elements Primordial Fan and found that the Earth Element Prayer Mat greatly improved his cultivation efficiency.
• Wang Chen visited the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and asked Shopkeeper Chen to appraise the Sumeru Ring from the Cave Mansion.
• Shopkeeper Chen recognized the ring as a rare Seven Void Ring, and Wang Chen negotiated for it to clear his materials balance plus extra Medium Spirit Stones.
• Wang Chen and Shopkeeper Chen settled on clearing the outstanding balance and adding forty-five thousand Medium Spirit Stones for the ring.

After settling his debt with the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, Wang Chen hurried to aid True Person Sun, who had been ambushed by bandit cultivators in Fulong Mountain. The Seven Severing Society members reached the battle and attacked, but faced a formidable group led by three high-level Golden Core cultivators.

• Wang Chen paid the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce the balance he owed and received forty-five thousand Medium Spirit Stones.
• Huangfu Yongchun summoned Wang Chen and other members of the Seven Severing Society after True Person Sun sent a plea for aid from Flying Horse Peak.
• Five members of the society traveled toward Fulong Mountain, unable to use the Seven Severing Sword Formation because two members were absent.
• Huangfu Yongchun used the Heavenly Secret Art to locate True Person Sun, whom the group found trapped with two companions beneath a failing Defense Array.
• Huangfu Yongchun ordered an attack, and Wang Chen and the others launched their Flying Swords at the bandit cultivators.
• Wang Chen identified fourteen enemies, including six Golden Core cultivators and three high-level Golden Core leaders.

Wang Chen pursued a high-level Golden Core bandit cultivator after the Seven Severing Society’s ambush failed to stop the fleeing bandits. He stripped away the enemy’s defensive treasure and landed a sword strike and palm blow, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• The bandit cultivators scattered as Huangfu Yongchun and the others attacked, and Wang Chen pursued the high-level Golden Core he had targeted.
• Wang Chen caught up with the fleeing cultivator, and their flying swords clashed after the man turned to counterattack.
• Wang Chen used Innate Great Capture, but the high-level Golden Core blocked it with his Eight-Faced Treasure Shield.
• Wang Chen struck with the Five Elements Primordial Fan, which drained the shield’s power and knocked it to the ground.
• Wang Chen’s Dragon Abyss Sword struck the high-level Golden Core’s head as his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm hit the man’s chest; a Jade Pendant at the man’s waist shattered.

Wang Chen killed a ninth-layer Golden Core bandit and flew off to steal another kill, earning Heavenly Merit while helping True Person Shen defeat an enemy. The remaining bandits escaped, and the Golden Cores regrouped with True Person Sun before deciding to return to the city.

• Wang Chen crushed a ninth-layer Golden Core bandit with his palm, gained 90,000 Heavenly Merit, and took the fallen shield.
• Wang Chen detected a battle nearby, ambushed True Person Shen's opponent with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and beheaded the wounded Golden Core before True Person Shen could finish him.
• Wang Chen gained another 60,000 Heavenly Merit, but the remaining enemies escaped before he could steal more kills.
• Huangfu Yongchun signaled the Golden Cores to regroup, and True Person Sun thanked them for rescuing him.
• True Person Sun explained that bandits had ambushed his herb-gathering party on the return from Fulong Mountain, and the group decided to return to the city.

After sharing Monkey Wine with the Seven Severing Society, Wang Chen ordered four more third-tier spirit fires to forge the Seven Severing Swords. He returned to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce with a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure to exchange for the large deposit, and Shopkeeper Chen asked how he wanted to trade it.

• True Person Sun gave Huangfu Yongchun, Wang Chen, and the other True Persons third-tier Pills and treated them to a banquet.
• Wang Chen shared his Monkey Wine with the group and gave each True Person a gourd when they parted.
• Wang Chen ordered four third-tier spirit fires from Shopkeeper Chen so Little Cauldron could fuse them with his fire spirit fire into fourth-tier Five Elements Fire.
• Wang Chen decided to search Fulong Mountain for predecessor Cave Mansions and use his Heavenly Merit points to empower his fortune.
• Wang Chen brought a small dark-gold bell to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, where Master Zhu identified it as the mid-grade fourth-tier Yueshan Bell.
• Shopkeeper Chen asked Wang Chen how he wanted to exchange the Yueshan Bell.

After obtaining four spirit fires, Wang Chen fused them with the cauldron’s fire to create a fourth-tier Five Elements spirit fire and began forging all seven swords of the Seven Severing Sword Formation at once. The demanding refinement continued as he cast in another batch of materials.

• Wang Chen reflected on the risks of revealing his wealth and resolved to avoid trading with the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce for three years.
• Wang Chen advanced to the eighth layer of Golden Core and gained one Physique point from eating fourth-tier flood dragon meat.
• Shopkeeper Chen delivered four third-tier spirit fires and precious artifact-refining materials in exchange for the Yueshan Bell.
• Wang Chen merged the five elemental spirit fires in the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron, raising the fire to the fourth tier.
• Wang Chen smelted and divided his materials, then relied on Little Cauldron to shape seven sword embryos at once.
• Wang Chen cast a second batch of materials into the cauldron and focused entirely on forging the Seven Severing Swords.

Wang Chen completed the Seven Severing Swords after exhausting his strength, Spirit Stones, and the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron. After recovering and leaving seclusion, he asked Su Ziling what had happened and learned that something had come up.

• Wang Chen fed his remaining high-grade Spirit Stones into the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron as the Seven Severing Swords reached their final stage.
• Wang Chen controlled the newly forged swords with his blood essence, then merged them into a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure greatsword.
• Wang Chen let Little Cauldron rest and restored the cauldron to its miniature form before hanging it around his neck.
• Wang Chen recuperated for three days, emerged from seclusion, and summoned Su Ziling to ask whether anything had happened.
• Su Ziling had news for Wang Chen after he had instructed her not to disturb him except in an emergency.

After declining Huangfu Yongchun’s invitation to hunt criminal and bandit cultivators, Wang Chen secluded himself in a remote valley to practice the Seven Severing Sword Formation. His effort finally advanced the sword art from beginner to proficient.

• Wang Chen apologized to three visitors who wanted to commission Magic Treasures because his current orders were full.
• Huangfu Yongchun invited Wang Chen to join the Seven Severing Society in a bounty-hunting campaign, but Wang Chen declined to focus on rest, cultivation, and his new sword.
• Wang Chen left Luodu Immortal City and chose a secluded valley at the southern foot of Fulong Mountain as a practice site.
• Wang Chen practiced controlling the Seven Absolutes Flying Sword’s seven blades, improving the Seven Severing Sword Formation through his own effort rather than relying entirely on Human Virtue.
• Wang Chen’s Seven Absolute Sword Art gained experience and advanced from the beginner level to the proficient realm.

Wang Chen completed his cultivation of the Seven Absolute Sword Art and flew toward Luodu Immortal City to prepare for forming a Nascent Soul. When a fleeing cultivator drew him into a fight, Wang Chen tested the sword formation and killed all four Golden Core opponents.

• Wang Chen saw that the Seven Absolute Sword Art had reached mastery and returned toward Luodu Immortal City with the sword case on his back.
• Wang Chen planned to raise his Golden Core cultivation and gather resources for Nascent Soul formation, relying on offerings from the Cangqing Realm.
• A bedraggled middle-aged cultivator fleeing three pursuers changed course and called Wang Chen Fellow Daoist Zhang, hoping to use him as a shield.
• The middle-aged cultivator activated an Evasion Technique as the three pursuers attacked, but Wang Chen deployed the Seven Severing Sword Formation and sealed the space.
• The formation trapped all four Golden Core True Persons, and Wang Chen's Flying Swords killed them.