Recaps

Wang Chen entered the Haotian Realm, secured rogue registration, and built up his strength while keeping a low profile. After Demonic Beasts enslaved Feixu Valley’s cultivators, he rescued Zhang Mushan’s twin daughters and moved to White Dragon Marsh, where he captured a cultivator who came to seize him.

• Wang Chen arrived in the Haotian Realm, escaped the trap laid by Seventh Brother’s group, and later settled near Feixu Valley, where Zhang Mushan helped him obtain Rogue Cultivator registration.
• Wang Chen farmed and cultivated while resisting Li Chengdong’s accusations and Qian Wancheng’s attempt to seize his harvest, then killed Qian and took his Sumeru Ring.
• Five Great Demon elephants broke Feixu Valley’s defenses, and gnolls captured and sold the settlement’s cultivators, including Zhang Mushan’s family.
• Wang Chen infiltrated the Divine Illumination Sect’s stronghold in disguise and rescued Zhang Mushan’s twin daughters, then brought them to their grandmother, Shen Fu.
• Wang Chen traveled to White Dragon Marsh and cultivated in a hidden shelter while the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram absorbed mirage qi from a spring.
• Four cultivators confronted Wang Chen, who captured the yellow-dressed woman inside the diagram after she and her companions attacked him.

Wang Chen joined Yongle’s Prison Department, advanced to full jailer, and faced escalating dangers in Zone J-9. After a dungeon attack and a deadly clash with fellow jailers, he escaped the prison and was conscripted to guard the Demon Cave.

• Wang Chen refused to join the Luo Clan, reached Yongle Immortal City, and learned that he could pursue an Immortal Registry through the Prison Department.
• Wang Chen joined the Prison Department, trained in Zone C-6, and became a full jailer before transferring to the dangerous Zone J-9.
• Wang Chen resisted Yu Fei’s enchantments, earned her Dai Mei Rouge, and ignored Hu Qi’s demands while patrolling the dungeon.
• Wang Chen caught and killed a Baleful Serpent, then clashed with Old Blade and grew stronger by resisting the Yin Sha energy.
• When the dungeon shook and Yu Fei arrived with two women, Old Demon Han protected Wang Chen before leaving, and Wang Chen fought Old Blade, Zhu Jiu, and Hu Qi.
• Wang Chen killed Zhu Jiu and Hu Qi, then defeated Old Blade with the Lovesickness Sword and escaped the damaged dungeon with other jailers.
• The Prison Department detained Wang Chen during its investigation, then conscripted him to guard the Demon Cave, where Changsun Yong gave him an identification token.

Wang Chen uncovered the dangers and opportunities of the Demon Cave, growing stronger as he hunted evil spirits at the North Sha Eye. When Sima Changming and True Person Ye tried to seize his treasures, Wang Chen lured Ye into the Sha Eye’s core and gained the upper hand in their fight.

• Wang Chen entered the Demon Cave as a guard, learned its routines from an elderly jailer, and encountered its imprisoned demons and mysterious wormholes.
• Wang Chen was repeatedly pulled into a graveyard realm through the wormholes, where he fought skeletons and flying zombies before returning to the Demon Cave.
• Yu Fei and Wan Ying approached Wang Chen about helping a demon imprisoned in the cave, but he refused to take the risk.
• Assigned first to the West Sha Eye and then the North Sha Eye, Wang Chen hunted evil spirits and used their Yin Qi Beads to cultivate.
• Wang Chen discovered the giant demon spirit’s treachery, destroyed it with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, and advanced to the eighth layer of Purple Mansion.
• Wang Chen blood-sacrificed the Heavenly Net, gaining a robe that protected him from Yin Sha Evil Power, and Sima Changming demanded that he surrender his treasures.
• True Person Ye attacked Wang Chen, but Wang Chen escaped into the North Sha Eye’s core and used the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram to restrain Ye’s bronze bell.
• Wang Chen broke True Person Ye’s right palm, pinned his Golden Core with two treasures, and struck Ye in the chest with a fist.

Wang Chen killed True Person Ye, refined an Outer Core, and began building a life and career in Yongle Immortal City while secretly pursuing his Golden Core materials. After a year in a quiet library post, he set out for Manglong Mountain and met a Demon Race cultivator at an abandoned farmstead.

• Wang Chen killed True Person Ye, collected his treasures, and gained twenty thousand Heavenly Merit, then had Little Cauldron refine Ye’s Golden Core with the Demonic Spirit Bead into an Outer Core that could control the Yueyang Bell.
• Wang Chen survived a Sha Tide assault at Anranju, returned to the Prison Department, and received his Yongle Immortal Registry before learning to use the Outer Core.
• Wang Chen bought a haunted residence, drove away its lingering ghost with Rebirth Talismans, and saw Yu Fei’s revenge against Yue Buyi culminate in Yue’s imprisonment and ruin.
• Wang Chen joined the Demon Suppression Department, captured an Evil Spirit at a mine, and refused Yu Fei’s offer to join the Joyous Union Sect.
• Wang Chen fought the demonic constable Liang Cen, was badly injured, then secretly tracked him down and killed him despite pretending his Dao foundation had been damaged.
• Wang Chen was transferred to the Library Pavilion, where he hid his recovery, studied Golden Core treasures, and traded away possessions while seeking three rare materials.
• Wang Chen was promoted to Fourth Manager and took leave to search Manglong Mountain for Seven-Leaf Black Ginseng, where he recognized a young cultivator as Demon Race.