Recaps

Zhou Yi spent years nourishing the Ancient Tortoise Shell with his lifespan while strengthening his ties with the Azure Wave Lake Demon Kings. The shell finally transformed and revealed itself as remains of the divine beast Black Tortoise and a key to the Four Spirits Sacred Hall.

• Zhou Yi repeatedly used the Minor Heaven Severing Art, sacrificing lifespan to nourish the Ancient Tortoise Shell and choosing the Dan Ding Sect as his preferred source for a Golden Core cultivation art.
• Zhou Yi hosted a banquet for sixteen Demon Kings, noted that the Flying Bear Demon King had stayed away, and arranged for Perfected Lu to send skilled practitioners of dual cultivation arts to the guests.
• Zhou Yi privately offered maidservants to Ao Jing, who asked for them to be sent to the Golden Scale Hall as sweepers.
• Zhou Yi visited the Demon Kings' Cave Estates over the following years and continued feeding his lifespan to the Ancient Tortoise Shell.
• After more than twenty divinations, Zhou Yi saw the shell stop consuming his lifespan, expand, and form a map as information revealed it was Black Tortoise remains and a key to the Four Spirits Sacred Hall requiring a blood sacrifice of one million living beings.

The Four Spirits Sacred Hall emerged at Thunderstrike Peak, prompting demon leaders to gather and discuss its Ancient Demon Saint inheritance. Zhou Yi confirmed the Black Tortoise shell was exceptionally durable, then traveled with Yellow Ox to Azure Wave Lake, where Ao Cang announced the demons could explore the sacred hall themselves.

• The Thunder Eagle discovered a palace emerging from Wind Thunder Peak and failed to break through its water curtain.
• Hu Jiuzhi identified the palace as the Four Spirits Sacred Hall, and she and Hu Xiong waited for their clans’ ancestors to arrive.
• Zhou Yi tested the Black Tortoise shell, shrank it, and stored it after Prime Minister Turtle reported that all demon kings had been summoned to Azure Wave Lake.
• Zhou Yi and Yellow Ox arrived at the Dragon Palace, where Jade Tooth speculated that the summons concerned a newly discovered inheritance.
• Ao Cang told the demon kings that the Four Spirits Sacred Hall had emerged at Thunderstrike Peak and that their four old ancestors would let them explore it.

Zhou Yi volunteered to guard the spirit veins while arranging for Yellow Ox and his brothers to enter the Four Spirits Sacred Hall first. At the Hall, Ao Cang and three other leaders opened the formation, and Zhou Yi watched the demons rush inside while reflecting on the gulf between Golden Core and Nascent Soul power.

• Ao Cang announced that half the Demon Kings would guard the spirit veins, and Zhou Yi volunteered in order to let Yellow Ox and his brothers enter the Sacred Hall.
• Ao Cang chose Yellow Ox to scout first, while Zhou Yi advised him to prioritize safety and secretly planned to avoid entering himself later.
• Several days later, Ao Cang arrived at the Four Spirits Hall with Demon Kings and great demons, where the Tiger King and Wu Tianxu demanded that he open the restriction.
• Ao Cang, Hu Jiuhan, the Tiger King, and Wu Tianxu combined their treasures to tear a gap in the water-curtain formation, then Ao Cang, the Tiger King, and Wu Tianxu entered.
• Hu Jiuhan's clansmen and other Demon Kings passed through before the gap closed, while Zhou Yi felt the force of the attack and considered the vast difference between Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators.

The yellow bull followed Zhou Yi's instructions through the sacred hall and found the Four Spirits Inheritance inside an underground temple. Ao Qin entered the Azure Dragon blood pool and made it disappear, while the yellow bull wondered whether the temple's protections had taken effect.

• The yellow bull entered the sacred hall, failed to use Earth Escape through the formation, and disguised itself as a Qingqiu Fox Demon before heading east.
• The yellow bull followed the safe route through the forest, avoided powerful beasts, and reached the core region after nearly half a month.
• The yellow bull entered a hidden temple beneath an ordinary mountain and discovered four divine beast statues, their offerings, and four pools of essence blood.
• The yellow bull found a surviving tree root, preserved it in Azure Dragon blood, and told Ao Qin that the offerings had crumbled with time.
• Ao Qin entered the Azure Dragon blood pool, which vanished beneath a flash of divine light, and the yellow bull tested the exposed stone slabs.

The yellow ox secured the Four Spirits inheritance for Black Tiger, Golden Eagle, and Prime Minister Turtle, while Zhou Yi waited outside the Sacred Hall for its opening. Ten years later, four Demon Emperors arrived and joined forces to strike the hall’s formation.

• The yellow ox ambushed a Tiger Demon who entered the divine hall, then tossed him outside, where a colossal beast swallowed him.
• Black Tiger, Golden Eagle, and Prime Minister Turtle arrived wounded, and the yellow ox placed all three into blood pools to receive the remaining inheritances.
• Zhou Yi waited outside the Sacred Hall, strengthened his defenses, and sensed that the yellow ox had obtained an extraordinary treasure.
• After ten years passed, four Demon Emperors appeared above the gathered demons and struck the Sacred Hall’s formation together.

After the sacred hall’s treasures were revealed, four Nascent Soul Ancestors fought over a box of Azure Dragon Demon Saint Blood Essence, and Zhou Yi rescued the badly injured yellow ox. Back at Moyun Cave, the ox recovered and told Zhou Yi how it had passed the Demon Saint inheritance to Prime Minister Turtle and two other demons, while Zhou Yi examined an ancient root it had brought back.

• Ao Cang and the demons presented their sacred hall treasures to the Dragon Emperor, and the yellow ox revealed a pile of plants, roots, and other finds.
• Hu Qing recognized Azure Dragon Demon Saint Blood Essence in a jade box, prompting the Dragon Emperor, Fox Emperor, Tiger Emperor, and Crow Emperor to fight over it.
• The yellow ox swallowed the other items and was badly injured by the battle’s aftermath, so Zhou Yi carried it away while the other demon kings fled.
• At Moyun Cave, the Spirit Ginseng Child used its vitality to heal the yellow ox, whose missing horn only began to regrow.
• The yellow ox explained that it had given the Demon Saint inheritance to Prime Minister Turtle and two other demons, and Zhou Yi praised its choice.
• Zhou Yi examined a nearly dead ancient root the yellow ox had salvaged and decided to test it with the Jade Dew Art.

Zhou Yi tried to revive a mysterious tree root with the Jade Dew Art, but a disastrous divination forced him to flee Moyun Cave with the Dragon Emperor in pursuit. After a desperate chase into Yun Province, Zhou Yi survived the Dragon Emperor’s attacks and escaped, while the Dragon Emperor turned back after refusing to risk further bloodshed among human cultivators.

• Zhou Yi used the Jade Dew Art to nourish the tree root, which gradually gained vitality, while the yellow ox reported that the four ancestors had divided the Azure Dragon essence blood without a victor.
• Zhou Yi’s divination produced an extremely inauspicious omen, so he and the yellow ox gathered their treasures and fled toward the East Sea.
• The Dragon Emperor intercepted Zhou Yi, destroyed his talisman formation, and pursued him after Zhou Yi fled using blood, lifespan, and the Thunderous Escape.
• Zhou Yi tried to mislead the Dragon Emperor with a false tree root and scattered spiritual objects, but the Dragon Emperor continued chasing him north.
• The Dragon Emperor burned essence blood and used divine attacks, yet Zhou Yi survived a devastating strike and escaped into Yun Province.
• The Dragon Emperor pursued Zhou Yi farther into Yun Province but turned back after sensing human cultivators, swearing to repay the humiliation.

After escaping the Dragon Emperor, Zhou Yi hid near the Dan Ding Sect and spent three years erasing its mark while nurturing a mysterious tree root that began producing faint spiritual qi. He traveled to Heng City to learn how the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel was progressing and discovered the Dan Ding Sect was using its victories to reshape the balance of power.

• Zhou Yi escaped the Dragon Emperor’s attack with the Black Tortoise shell, found two marks on his body, and hid near the Dan Ding Sect to weaken them.
• Zhou Yi spent three years cultivating the tree root and gradually erased the Dragon Emperor’s mark in his dantian.
• The tree root sprouted tender green growth and began releasing faint spiritual qi, leading Zhou Yi to consider whether it could serve as a portable spirit vein.
• Zhou Yi traveled to Heng City, where he learned that Great Qian had conquered most of the states under the Dan Ding Sect as the righteous path gained ground.
• At White Crane Temple, Zhou Yi questioned Ling Chen, who told him that Ancestor Xuanxiao had slain Zhenyang and that the Dan Ding Sect was offering spirit veins to recruit rogue cultivators and establish new sects.

Zhou Yi decided to avoid the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel and seek a safe cultivation base overseas, where he could eventually outlast sect founders and claim their inheritances. He returned to Qian Capital, restored his old courtyard, and met a curious child.

• Zhou Yi questioned Ling Chen about the war and learned how sects and Rogue Cultivators protected Cloud Province’s cities.
• Zhou Yi chose to stay out of the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel, reasoning that he could wait for the war to end and later obtain inheritances with less risk.
• Zhou Yi decided the overseas regions offered a place for secluded cultivation and left Ling Chen a bottle of spiritual pills before departing.
• Zhou Yi entered Qian Capital, where Daoists received special treatment, and wandered through the bustling city in concealment.
• Zhou Yi repaired his old courtyard and brewed spiritual tea beneath its surviving jujube tree and grapevine.
• A child climbed into the courtyard, drank Zhou Yi’s tea, and asked who he was and where he came from.

Zhou Yi returned openly to Qianjing City, met Chen Jing and his children, and asked for histories of the Fengyang Kingdom and the Holy Emperor. After a night of restful sleep, he received hundreds of books and began reading a colorful unofficial account of Holy Emperor Li Ye’s rise.

• Zhou Yi met Chen Jing’s son and daughter, praised the girl’s judgment, and secretly altered her appearance to conceal her noble features.
• Chen Jing revealed that his family descended from the Holy Empress’s clan, and Zhou Yi asked him to gather detailed histories from the Fengyang Kingdom’s final years onward.
• Zhou Yi slept through the night without meditating and woke refreshed.
• Chen Jing brought Zhou Yi several hundred official and unofficial history books, then shared a bowl of spiritual porridge with him.
• Zhou Yi read Secret Records of the Holy Emperor, which credited the Rivers and Mountains Cauldron with Holy Emperor Li Ye’s rise to power.

After discovering that his unofficial history revealed his identity, Zhou Yi visited Spring Breeze Pavilion, then sensed Lao Bai’s descendant in danger and rescued Bai Yan. He began training Bai Yan, whose determination earned him instruction in the Beast Blood Baptism.

• Zhou Yi read an unofficial history that named him as its author and described his decades at Spring Breeze Pavilion.
• Zhou Yi went to Spring Breeze Pavilion, sensed a calamity through divination, and found Bai Yan gravely wounded in a gang fight.
• Zhou Yi rescued Bai Yan with the Thunder Method and learned that the Bai family had fallen into hardship after an ancestor was implicated in the Crown Prince’s rebellion.
• Zhou Yi repaired Bai Yan’s jade pendant, added protective formations, and invited him to train for three months.
• Bai Yan endured the spirit ginseng porridge’s intense energy and proved his determination, so Zhou Yi began teaching him the Beast Blood Baptism.

Zhou Yi left Qianjing after helping Bai Yan complete his Beast Blood Baptism and traveled to the East Sea to learn about its cultivation world. He settled on Red Cloud Island as a rogue cultivator, intending to build a reputation and wait for a sect to invite him in.

• Bai Yan endured repeated essence-blood baptisms under Zhou Yi's protection and grew into a powerful-looking warrior.
• Zhou Yi departed Qianjing after visiting Lao Bai's grave, while a eunuch told Bai Yan that the court had cleared General Bai's name and would restore the family's gifts and provide compensation.
• Zhou Yi reached Xiaoyue Temple, where Temple Master Xiaoyue gave him a Jade Slip describing East Sea sects and customs; Zhou Yi learned that Red Cloud Island was a cultivator market run by Myriad Treasures True Monarch.
• Myriad Treasures welcomed Zhou Yi to Red Cloud Island and gave him a top-grade Cave Estate without charging rent.
• Zhou Yi secured his Cave Estate with layers of formations, then explored Wanbao Martial Market and decided to build a reputation as a rogue cultivator while waiting for a sect to approach him.

Zhou Yi opened Four Arts Hall in Wanbao Martial Market to make a name for himself among the East Sea sects. After months of successful business and growing connections with Golden Core cultivators, he had reentered the sects’ field of vision and established cordial ties with fellow cultivators.

• Zhou Yi decided to open a shop and build his reputation rather than wait for sects to approach him.
• Zhou Yi opened Four Arts Hall, selling high-quality spirit pills, Mystic Items, formation disks, and talismans at premium prices.
• Wanbao visited the shop, praised Zhou Yi’s craftsmanship, and received three Mystic Items to study.
• Wanbao’s visit revealed Zhou Yi’s identity as a Golden Core True Lord, drawing Rogue Cultivators who bought goods and spread news of the shop.
• Over several months, Four Arts Hall prospered, attracting sect disciples and True Lords who purchased its goods and grew acquainted with Zhou Yi.

Two years after settling in the East Sea, Zhou Yi received an invitation to Feng Yang’s four-hundredth birthday banquet and attended with Wanbao. Feng Yang tried to recruit him to help secure Earthfire Palace’s future, but Zhou Yi declined and warned the assembled sect leaders about the deadly Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel.

• Zhou Yi accepted Feng Yang’s invitation to Earthfire Palace’s birthday banquet and traveled there with Wanbao.
• At the banquet, Feng Yang lamented that Earthfire Palace lacked a reliable successor, prompting Zhou Yi to realize he was being recruited.
• Zhou Yi politely declined Feng Yang’s implied offer, saying he hoped to return to the Nine Continents after the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel ended.
• When the sect leaders asked about the duel, Zhou Yi described a Nascent Soul Dao Lord’s devastating attack and warned that Golden Core cultivators risked being killed by Demon Venerables.
• Feng Yang lightened the somber mood and turned the gathering’s discussion toward artifact refinement.

Zhou Yi established himself in the East Sea while Earthfire Palace’s Feng Yang taught him artifact refinement. After Feng Yang was ambushed and badly injured, Zhou Yi helped uncover a betrayal within the sect.

• Zhou Yi accepted Feng Yang’s artifact-refining teachings but declined to join Earthfire Palace, while Wanbao explained that he sought Nascent Soul scriptures through the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel.
• Over the next twelve years, Zhou Yi expanded his cultivation and Four Arts Hall’s reputation, and he befriended rogue cultivator Li Yu through their debates about storybooks.
• True Person Yuan Qi summoned Zhou Yi to Earthfire Palace, where he learned that Feng Yang had been gravely injured while seeking a Yin-Yang Spirit Pearl in the Sunken Sky Sea.
• Zhou Yi suspected Feng Yang’s attacker had received inside information and asked who knew Feng Yang’s route.
• Feng Yang ordered Yuan Qi to summon his junior brother, revealing that he suspected the junior brother had betrayed Earthfire Palace.

After Huo Yan fled with Earthfire Palace’s treasury, Feng Yang recruited Zhou Yi as a Grand Elder to help protect the sect. Zhou Yi accepted the authority and inheritance but remained determined to leave if danger came, and the chapter ended with him resisting a growing sense of responsibility toward the sect’s disciples.

• Yuan Qi told Feng Yang that Huo Yan had fled after emptying the sect treasury, and the news worsened Feng Yang’s injuries and despair.
• Feng Yang invited Zhou Yi to join Earthfire Palace, and Zhou Yi agreed after learning there was no safe place to escape east across the sea.
• Feng Yang granted Zhou Yi access to the sect’s scriptures and treasures, while telling Yuan Qi to entrust Zhou Yi with authority after Feng Yang’s death.
• Zhou Yi received the Grand Elder token, chose the Xiantian Pure Yang Scripture, copied several Earthfire Palace arts, and began cultivating in Spirit Fire Hall.
• Several months later, Feng Yang expelled the ghostly qi, and Zhou Yi was formally welcomed as Grand Elder before thousands of Earthfire Palace cultivators.
• Moved by the disciples’ welcome, Zhou Yi sensed responsibility for them but recited the Heart-Calming Incantation and reminded himself he was only a passerby.

Zhou Yi refined meteorites and prepared to forge the Earth Origin Shield, using his authority as Grand Elder to gather materials. Shi Bin offered his family’s heirlooms and sought Zhou Yi’s protection, and Zhou Yi agreed if he delivered another five thousand pounds of meteorites within half a year.

• Zhou Yi used earthfire and the Earthfire Treasure Tempering Art to refine meteorites into Celestial Star Essence and practiced forging the Earth Origin Shield.
• Zhou Yi ordered the Outer Affairs Hall to double mission rewards for meteorites and offered a Foundation Establishment Pill for every thousand pounds delivered.
• Shi Bin presented Zhou Yi with two thousand pounds of meteorites and a Jade Slip containing artifact-forging knowledge and the Earth Origin Shield’s forging method.
• Shi Bin explained his ancestor’s connection to the sect’s founding patriarch and asked Zhou Yi to take him into his service and protect the Shi family.
• Zhou Yi promised to protect the Shi family if Shi Bin delivered another five thousand pounds of meteorites within half a year.
• Shi Bin began bringing Zhou Yi meteorites and asking him cultivation questions, while rumors spread that the Shi family had attached itself to Elder Tang.

After fifteen years in seclusion, Zhou Yi completed the Black Tortoise Divine Armor and tested its formidable defenses. Meanwhile, Feng Yang revealed that he had arranged Shi Bin’s promotion to repay an old debt and hoped Zhou Yi would remain in Earthfire Palace to protect the sect.

• Zhou Yi appointed Shi Bin External Affairs Deacon, then entered seclusion with ten thousand jin of extraterrestrial meteorite and offered contribution points for refining five-metal essence.
• Fifteen years later, Yuan Qi told Feng Yang that Wan Bao and four True Lords had founded the Five Spirits Sect in Ji Province and sent promising disciples to the East Sea.
• Feng Yang explained that Shi Bin’s promotion was meant to help the Shi family repay a debt to his Eldest Senior Brother, and ordered Yuan Qi to keep sending clever disciples to Zhou Yi.
• Feng Yang said the Rivers and Mountains Cauldron might become a spirit treasure capable of protecting Earthfire Palace after Zhou Yi passed away.
• Zhou Yi tested the completed Black Tortoise Divine Armor, which blocked volleys of lightning and the Soul Stabilizing Mirror’s divine light without showing damage.

After emerging from fifteen years of seclusion, Zhou Yi tested his Black Tortoise Divine Armor, then strengthened the Earthfire Palace by supplying Foundation Establishment Pills and spirit ginseng and offering free monthly lectures. His first lecture drew most of the sect and ended with him teaching that survival and escape mattered more than fighting, leaving Feng Yang unsure whether Elder Tang was a blessing or a curse.

• Zhou Yi confirmed that the Black Tortoise Divine Armor could automatically block a wide range of attacks, then left seclusion to check on the Rivers and Mountains Cauldron.
• While posing as a young disciple, Zhou Yi spoke with Yu Shou in line at the cauldron and learned that several lineages had accumulated enough merit points to seek Foundation Establishment Pills.
• As Elder Tang, Zhou Yi gave Shi Bin Foundation Establishment Pills and spirit ginseng, raised the cauldron-refining rewards, and announced free monthly lectures for all disciples.
• At his first lecture, Zhou Yi taught Qi Refinement fundamentals to a packed hall, and Feng Yang recorded his explanations for the Earthfire Palace's inheritance.
• Zhou Yi taught the disciples that escape and preserving their lives came before killing, while Feng Yang wondered whether Elder Tang's influence was a blessing or a curse.

After Zhou Yi’s lectures reshaped life in Earthfire Palace, he consolidated his influence over the sect while cultivating in peace. He discovered that the tree root he had nurtured for decades was the legendary Innate Spirit Root, the Jianmu Tree, and learned it could transform lifespan into spiritual qi.

• Zhou Yi’s lecture inspired disciples to stay in the Lecture Hall, and the Law Enforcement True Person suppressed a dispute over who could attend.
• Feng Yang endorsed learning life-preserving arts, easing tensions between Earthfire Palace’s Lineage and ordinary disciples.
• Shi Bin offered Zhou Yi storybooks and female cultivators, but Zhou Yi accepted the books and sent the cultivators away.
• Over three years, Zhou Yi became Earthfire Palace’s de facto leader as three disciples advanced to Foundation Establishment using his pills.
• Zhou Yi used the Black Tortoise Divine Armor to shield his cultivation chamber and revealed the tender sprout on the tree root he had nurtured.
• Zhou Yi identified the root as the Innate Spirit Root, Jianmu Tree, and found that watering it with Creation Jade Dew made it release far more spiritual qi.

Zhou Yi and Feng Yang attended the Five Spirits Sect’s gathering, where Wanbao tried to unite the East Sea sects under his banner by offering resources and scriptures. Zhou Yi swore loyalty to the Earthfire Palace and challenged Wanbao’s claim that he could form a Nascent Soul after the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel.

• Zhou Yi advised Feng Yang to invoke his advanced age to discourage the Five Spirits Sect from coercing the Earthfire Palace into joining its war against the demonic path.
• Wanbao invited the East Sea’s True Lords and Foundation Establishment cultivators to Red Cloud Island and proposed that the East Sea unite under the Five Spirits Sect in exchange for cultivation resources and scriptures.
• True Monarch Xie agreed to merge the White Rainbow Sect into the Five Spirits Sect, and Wanbao urged Zhou Yi to do the same with the Earthfire Palace.
• Zhou Yi swore that betraying the Earthfire Palace would cost him five hundred years of lifespan, reassuring Feng Yang that he would stay.
• Zhou Yi questioned why Wanbao remained sect master instead of focusing on Nascent Soul cultivation, and Wanbao said he would attempt to form a Nascent Soul after the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel.
• Zhou Yi cited the Nine Provinces’ difficulty in producing Nascent Soul cultivators and challenged Wanbao to prove himself capable of matching Ancestor Xuanxiao.

Zhou Yi left Five Spirits Sect’s banquet after exposing the limits of Nascent Soul cultivation and warned Feng Yang that the demonic sects might infiltrate the East Sea. Meanwhile, Blood Moon Demon Lord and Huo Yan secretly cursed Feng Yang at Fire Bamboo Island, intending to kill him and then target Tang Xuan.

• Zhou Yi and Feng Yang left Red Cloud Island after Wan Bao accused Zhou Yi of resisting the alliance, and many other True Lords departed as well.
• Feng Yang apologized to Zhou Yi at Earthfire Palace and worried that Five Spirits Sect would pressure the sect after his death.
• Zhou Yi warned Feng Yang that the four demonic sects might use the East Sea as a refuge, and Feng Yang told him to save the sect’s inheritance and disciples if they invaded.
• Zhou Yi used the Minor Heaven Severing Art and received the oracle words “Blood Moon.”
• Huo Yan brought Blood Moon Demon Lord to Fire Bamboo Island, where they prepared a hidden altar and used Feng Yang’s belongings to cast the Black Witchcraft Curse.
• Blood Moon Demon Lord said the curse had taken ten years from Feng Yang’s lifespan and would kill him within three to five days, then said he could also curse Tang Xuan to death.

After Feng Yang died under suspicious circumstances, Zhou Yi investigated his natural-looking remains and suspected a hidden curse. The Blood Moon Demon Lord used Ancient Witchcraft against Zhou Yi, but Zhou Yi’s defenses blunted it, and the Demon Lord chose to proceed cautiously rather than risk a stronger curse.

• Zhou Yi announced Feng Yang’s death, inspected the body with Earthfire Palace’s Foundation Establishment cultivators, and ordered a discreet investigation into possible evil magic.
• Yuan Qi announced Feng Yang’s death, and Earthfire Palace’s disciples mourned their former protector.
• Huo Yan gave the Blood Moon Demon Lord a meditation cushion bearing Tang Xuan’s aura, and the Demon Lord used Ancient Witchcraft to curse Zhou Yi.
• Zhou Yi’s Black Tortoise Divine Armor blocked most of the curse, and he destroyed the remaining black qi after losing about ten years of lifespan.
• The Blood Moon Demon Lord explained Ancient Witchcraft’s backlash and rejected Huo Yan’s suggestion to curse Zhou Yi repeatedly, wary that Zhou Yi might have a countermeasure.

Zhou Yi endured Blood Moon Demon Lord’s repeated lifespan-draining curse spells, then pursued him when he fled toward the Nine Provinces. Zhou Yi destroyed the Demon Lord, purified the Profound Yin Pearl, and claimed its vast trove of treasures.

• Zhou Yi refined a Pure Yang Sword and discovered that his Black Tortoise Divine Armor could block the curse-spell black qi, which dissipated after taking his lifespan.
• Blood Moon Demon Lord repeatedly cursed Tang Xuan, sacrificing more than four hundred years of lifespan as Huo Yan urged him to keep trying.
• Near death, Blood Moon Demon Lord ended the ritual and fled toward the Nine Provinces, expecting to escape using the Profound Yin Pearl.
• Zhou Yi pursued Blood Moon Demon Lord and bombarded the pearl with Thunder Method, evading the Demon Lord’s counterattack with his faster escape art.
• Blood Moon Demon Lord’s ghostly body collapsed from exhaustion, leaving a ghost-face curse imprint on Zhou Yi’s Black Tortoise Divine Armor.
• Zhou Yi erased the imprint, purified the Profound Yin Pearl with Pure Yang Spirit Fire, and found it filled with Spirit Stones, spiritual materials, Jade Slips, Mystic Items, and pills.

Zhou Yi learned the Nether Curse from the Blood Moon Demon Lord’s spoils and used it to kill Huo Yan and the tyrannical Flying Bear Demon King. He sent Yellow Ox to publicize the demon’s death as heavenly punishment, intending to deter other Demon Kings from oppressing humans.

• Zhou Yi learned from Liu Yu’s memories that Huo Yan had escaped, then ordered Yuan Qi to hide Earthfire Palace’s elite disciples in a secret spirit land.
• Zhou Yi examined the Blood Moon Demon Lord’s treasures, discovered the Nether Curse, and successfully cast it using Huo Yan’s hair.
• Zhou Yi sent Yellow Ox to Moyun City to find a Demon King who had been abusing humans, and Yellow Ox reported the Flying Bear Demon King’s crimes.
• Zhou Yi cursed the Flying Bear Demon King, who lost six hundred years of lifespan and died while fleeing toward Azure Wave Lake.
• The people of Moyun City gathered around the fallen Demon King and consumed his body, while Zhou Yi asked Yellow Ox to spread the story that heaven had punished him.
• Zhou Yi resolved to curse several more Demon Kings to discourage them from oppressing humans.