Recaps

Chen Shi succumbed to the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade’s demonic influence and pursued Zhong Wuwang, whose wounds and immortal-Dao pollution left him near death. Zhong Wuwang escaped and met his master, Daoist Wei, who stayed behind to face Chen Shi while Luo Wushang took Zhong Wuwang for treatment.

• Fei Zichong’s blood and cultivation strengthened the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, and Chen Shi gave in to its demonic nature and set out to kill Zhong Wuwang.
• Zhong Wuwang suppressed Fei Zichong’s immortal-Dao pollution with the Innate Dao Embryo, then realized Fei Zichong’s demonic domain had vanished and assumed a Despair Slope immortal had killed him.
• Chen Shi attacked Zhong Wuwang with the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, while Zhong Wuwang used immortal arts and the Innate Dao Embryo to fight back and evade his strikes.
• The blade wounded Zhong Wuwang repeatedly and drained his blood-Qi, so he used his corrupted flesh wings to escape, then collapsed after flying tens of thousands of miles.
• Daoist Wei and Luo Wushang found the gravely injured Zhong Wuwang, and Daoist Wei sent Luo Wushang to take him back to Despair Slope while he stayed to confront Chen Shi.

Luo Wushang took the wounded Zhong Wuwang away while Chen Shi confronted Daoist Wei, who subdued the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and revealed its history and Chen Shi’s past refusal to serve Despair Slope. When Chen Shi realized Daoist Wei had taken his Innate Dao Embryo, the blade’s demonic influence surged again.

• Luo Wushang urged the badly wounded Zhong Wuwang to return to Despair Slope instead of going back to help Daoist Wei.
• Daoist Wei used the Supreme Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture to suppress the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and restore Chen Shi’s clarity.
• Daoist Wei recounted the blade’s deadly history and offered to teach Chen Shi the scripture if he joined Despair Slope; Chen Shi agreed, but insisted his conflict with Zhong Wuwang would remain unresolved.
• Daoist Wei explained that Chen Shi had once refused to kneel to an outer god and that Despair Slope had consequently taken his Innate Dao Embryo.
• Chen Shi’s demonic nature broke through Daoist Wei’s suppression, and Chen Shi accused him of taking the Innate Dao Embryo.

Chen Shi fought Daoist Wei with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade after accusing him of stealing his Innate Dao Embryo. Chen Shi overcame Daoist Wei’s seals and beheaded him, leaving his own struggle against the blade’s demonic nature unresolved.

• Daoist Wei used the Earth Fiend Seal, Three Powers Seal, and Heavenly Dipper Seal to suppress Chen Shi, but Chen Shi’s demonic nature intensified and his Blood Sea Hell absorbed the attacks.
• Daoist Wei recalled Chen Shi’s childhood and the men and children who had gathered around him before his Innate Dao Embryo was taken.
• Chen Shi unleashed Thousand Rivers of Sun, and Daoist Wei broke through many rivers of blade light with Despair Slope’s seal arts.
• The blade lights wounded Daoist Wei across his body, drained his blood qi, and blinded him and his Primordial Spirit as he fought blindly for hours.
• Daoist Wei begged Chen Shi to spare him and offered to serve him, but Chen Shi severed his hands and feet before cutting off his head.

After absorbing Daoist Wei, Chen Shi succumbed further to the Blood Transformation Divine Blade and flew to Bozhou, where he killed Ren Feng and confronted Ren Xiao and the former Fuzheng Pavilion officials. Fairy Xiaoduan tried to restrain him, while a group of powerful newcomers arrived outside the city, declaring they had found His Majesty.

• Chen Shi absorbed Daoist Wei into the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, but failed to put down the blade and began craving slaughter.
• Fairy Xiaoduan briefly halted the Blood Sea Hell, but Chen Shi attacked her, forcing her to retreat into the small temple.
• Fairy Xiaoduan realized Chen Shi retained some reason when he stopped his blade from striking the small temple, and she considered using the Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring to help him.
• Ren Xiao discussed the Ren family's ambitions with Shui Xuanzhi, Qin Su, and Dou Qi as they weighed who should inherit leadership and whether the family could claim the throne.
• Chen Shi arrived in Bozhou after killing Ren Feng and his raiding party, then confronted Ren Xiao, Shui Xuanzhi, and Qin Su.
• Several formidable figures appeared outside Bozhou beneath an eye-shaped full moon and said they had finally found His Majesty.

Chen Shi killed the Ren family and Fuzheng Pavilion forces in Bozhou City with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, then let the starving townspeople take the Ren family's food. As they praised him as their benefactor and his murderous impulse eased, a monk, a Daoist priest, and a Confucian scholar entered the restaurant.

• Fairy Xiaoduan sensed that the visitors were calamity-tier beings and grew wary of them.
• Chen Shi killed Dou Qi and a Fuzheng Pavilion official with the Blood Transformation Divine Blade after they threatened and mocked him.
• Ren Xiao and the Ren family forces attacked, but Chen Shi's blade swept through Bozhou City and killed them, along with Shuan Xuanzhi as he fled.
• Chen Shi told the starving townspeople to take food from the Ren family estate, and they celebrated his deed and called him their Great Benefactor.
• As the townspeople served Chen Shi a meal, their warmth eased his grip on the blade and its killing intent, until a monk, a Daoist priest, and a Confucian scholar entered the restaurant.

Chen Shi met three corrupted cultivators who claimed he was the former Divine Emperor and urged him to return to Divine Capital and undo his sealed memories. When they attacked, Fairy Xiaoduan intervened, recognized by the Confucian scholar as the Heavenly Maiden, and escaped with Chen Shi.

• Chen Shi heard the monk, Daoist, and Confucian scholar claim he was the Divine Emperor and invite him to return to Divine Capital.
• Chen Shi learned that his grandfather had sealed his memories, then attacked the three when they suggested undoing the seal.
• Dao Cheng revealed his identity and attacked Chen Shi with the Tai Zhen Jade Art as the monk and Confucian scholar joined the fight.
• Fairy Xiaoduan struck Chen Shi’s Blood Sea Hell, then fought off the monk while the three pressed their attack.
• Fairy Xiaoduan summoned a Xuan Bird, causing the Confucian scholar to recognize her as the Heavenly Maiden, and fled through the void with Chen Shi.

Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk accepted evil transformation as the path to becoming new immortals and searched for Chen Shi after Fairy Xiaoduan abducted him. Elsewhere, Zhong Wuwang mourned his master's death, while Jing Yushu revealed the Divine Capital’s plan to Chen Yindu and invoked Chen Shi’s idea of ending evil spirits by transforming everyone.

• Dao Chengzi recovered from his wounds, and Song Yi explained that his Shang bloodline compelled him to bow to Fairy Xiaoduan, the Xuan Bird Heavenly Court’s princess.
• Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk agreed that evil transformation was the changing Great Dao and set out to find Chen Shi before Fairy Xiaoduan could harm him.
• Feng Ruotong told Zhong Wuwang that Daoist Wei Luowei had died protecting him, and Zhong Wuwang asked to kill Chen Shi himself.
• Feng Ruotong returned the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and told the Heavenly Dao Immortals to wait for their enemies to emerge before awakening the true god.
• Jing Yushu met Chen Yindu in the Divine Capital, revealed that the city had founded the rogue cultivator organization, and described its plan to transform the world into a realm of new immortals.
• Chen Yindu rejected Jing Yushu’s allegiance, and Jing Yushu argued that Chen Shi’s proposal to transform everyone could end the suffering caused by evil spirits.

Chen Shi’s cultivation restored the Great Shang descendants in nearby ghost villages to human form, revealing that Fairy Xiaoduan was not the last survivor of her people. The chapter left Chen Shi’s Dao field reversing evil transformations while Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk departed, returning to their disaster forms beyond its boundary.

• Jing Yushu left Chen Yindu wondering why powerful evil-transformed beings had once revered Chen Shi as emperor and whether Chen Shi’s seal still held.
• Fairy Xiaoduan hid Chen Shi in a ghost village, where he befriended the little ox-heads by beating them at head-butting games and agreed to wait until his pursuers had left.
• Chen Shi asked Fairy Xiaoduan to undo his grandfather’s seal so he could recover his Underworld memories, then began cultivating the Three Corpses with the Sixth New Talisman.
• Chen Shi’s expanding Dao field transformed the ox-demons and neighboring ghost tribes into human descendants of Great Shang, and Fairy Xiaoduan realized her people had survived as ghost tribes.
• Dao Chengzi, Song Yi, and the monk felt alive within Chen Shi’s Dao field, then left it and reverted to natural disasters.

Chen Shi continued refining his Three Corpses Gods while traveling with Xiaoduan and Fairy Xiaoduan to find ancient temples, and he discovered that his Dao field could restore the ox-demons of Niu Village to human form. In Northern Alliance Province, he encountered the battered Yang Bi, whose bitterness over the destruction of his world left him contemplating the despair of Despair Slope.

• Chen Shi attempted to refine his Three Corpses Gods through Yin Yang Tempering, converting Peng Ju and Peng Zhi to cultivation while Peng Huang resisted until dawn.
• Chen Shi found Fairy Xiaoduan teaching children in Niu Village, where his Dao field had changed the ox-demons back into humans, and she explained that the cataclysm had brought the True Gods from Beyond the Heavens.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan spent several days in the village before he recalled his Dao field, returning its people to ox-headed forms; afterward, he resumed traveling with Xiaoduan, Fairy Xiaoduan, Scholar Zhu, and Black Pot to locate temples.
• Chen Shi continued refining Peng Huang as the group discovered more temples and mapped new regions, then identified the Bodhi Dojo's likely location in Northern Alliance Province.
• Chen Shi recognized Yang Bi among a group of refugees, gave him a Ginseng Grass Fruit, and pretended he had mistaken him for an old friend.
• Yang Bi recalled the destruction of the Upper Realm and his ancestors, then concluded that the despair of Despair Slope was what its enemies experienced.

After losing hope in the ruined Upper Realm, Yang Bi recovered among displaced villagers and began protecting them, then joined Red Mountain Hall after learning Chen Shi was rebuilding the state. He left with the villagers for a settlement around Peng Zu Pavilion, where he resolved to rely on himself and help restore the world.

• Yang Bi initially refused the Ginseng Grass Fruit while Xiao Fang cared for his severe injuries and urged him to keep living.
• When a sheng sheng attacked the villagers, Yang Bi swallowed the fruit and used zither music to kill it; he later killed government riders who tried to punish and exploit the villagers.
• Yang Bi recognized the riders' leader as a member of the Tingzhou Yang family, denounced the family he had once protected, and collapsed before recovering with Xiao Fang's help.
• Yang Bi healed, taught cultivation to the villagers, married Xiao Fang, and agreed to join Red Mountain Hall after Tian Yue'e invited him on behalf of Chen Shi.
• Tian Yue'e led Yang Bi and the villagers to a settlement near Peng Zu Pavilion, where Yang Bi saw the revived deity and resolved to rely on himself.

Saintess Xuan reunited with Chen Shi, whose account of his work and request to help revive Huaxia deities convinced her to leave the Bodhi Dojo and join the Red Mountain Hall Talisman Association. As she rode out with many monks and nuns, Chen Shi discovered she had left him a scripture containing the Bodhi leaf she had been reading.

• Saintess Xuan returned to the Bodhi Dojo after advancing to the Spirit Refining Realm and described the suffering she had witnessed among the people.
• Saintess Xuan learned that Chen Shi was nearby, and his sudden greeting stirred feelings she had thought she had let go.
• Chen Shi and Saintess Xuan discussed her doubts about whether to save people or remain in meditation, and she listened as he recounted his struggles and work.
• Chen Shi asked Saintess Xuan to join the Red Mountain Hall Talisman Association and help save people, find ancient temples, and revive Huaxia deities; she agreed.
• Saintess Xuan led many monks and nuns down the mountain, leaving Abbess Miaoyin furious and Huiyin Bodhi resigned to their departure.
• Chen Shi opened the scripture Saintess Xuan had given him and found a Bodhi leaf pressed inside.

Chen Shi defeated a sea demon while traveling to restore temples, then refined the Three Corpses God into three yin gods and entered the Three Corpses Realm. He claimed Fairy Xiaoduan’s promised reward, leaving her garments untied and himself staring at her chest.

• Saintess Xuan continued healing plague-stricken people, and Abbess Miaoyin realized that her disciple had devoted herself to saving the world.
• Chen Shi used the West King's Jade Seal to kill a sea demon threatening the Temple of Saintess Shuiwei, then discussed the Sea of Darkness and a possibly banished Daoist priest with Scholar Zhu.
• Chen Shi refined Peng Qiu, joining Peng Qiu with Peng Zhi and Peng Ju as three yin gods and advancing into the Three Corpses Realm.
• Chen Shi summoned Fairy Xiaoduan and demonstrated that he had refined the three corpses, demanding that she honor her promise.
• Fairy Xiaoduan agreed to let Chen Shi undress her, and he removed her layers of clothing before staring at her exposed chest.

Chen Shi’s cultivation caused a third small temple to appear, signaling that his godmother might soon revive. At the high ridge, Chen Tang witnessed the stone tablet awaken and met Yu Changbai, who revealed that the buried goddess was Madam Houtu.

• Chen Shi touched Fairy Xiaoduan after she let him look, but she struck him and sent cold light after Scholar Zhu when he speculated about their encounter.
• As Chen Shi revived more deities, his cultivation accelerated and the small temples behind his head grew; he realized his godmother might soon return.
• Chen Shi revived Shi Gandang, and a third small temple appeared beside the temple housing Fairy Xiaoduan.
• At the high ridge, Chen Tang saw the stone tablet rise as the ground trembled, and he concluded that Chen Shi’s godmother was nearing revival.
• Yu Changbai arrived with Zhuang Wujiu, invited Chen Tang aboard his carriage, and explained that the high ridge held the avatar of Madam Houtu, ruler of the gods and the Underworld Bureau.

Chen Shi confronted Yu Changbai over Despair Slope’s plan to destroy Empress Houtu’s orthodoxy, but Yu Changbai overpowered him and altered the portal to his Heavenly Mechanisms. After the willow tree drove Yu Changbai back, Zhuang Wujiu revealed that he was actually Created Being Xiao Wu, Chen Shi’s younger brother.

• Yu Changbai told Chen Shi that Despair Slope intended to destroy Empress Houtu’s temple and orthodoxy, and revealed that Chen Yindu had once served as a Heavenly Dao Walker there.
• Chen Shi activated his thirty-seven Talisman God Heavenly Mechanisms and attacked Yu Changbai with the Xuanwei Sword, but Yu Changbai froze the domains, absorbed the strike, and changed the box’s talismanic patterns to cut off access to the mechanisms.
• Yu Changbai ascended the high ridge using Heavenly Gate Ascension, but the old willow tree struck him with a branch and forced him back onto the glazed chariot.
• Zhuang Wujiu used a silver needle to freeze Yu Changbai’s Void Realm and pierce his head, then revealed that he was Created Being Xiao Wu, Chen Shi’s younger brother.

Chen Tang reunited with Created Being Xiao Wu, who took Yu Changbai’s place to conceal news of Empress Houtu and shared what he knew about Despair Slope. Meanwhile, Chen Shi’s growing primordial spirit led Scholar Zhu to suspect he had already reached the Spirit Refining Realm before his death, with the truth hidden in his sealed memories.

• Chen Tang opened a box of Talisman God Heavenly Mechanisms, forcing Created Being Xiao Wu to abandon his plan to kill him and discuss the threat to Empress Houtu.
• Created Being Xiao Wu transformed into Yu Changbai and said he would suppress the Sky Listeners’ report while Zhong Wuwang was in seclusion.
• Yu Changbai told Chen Tang that Despair Slope’s immortals revered a Heavenly Lord, but he could not confirm whether Chen Tang’s mother came from Despair Slope.
• Chen Tang left the carriage, offered incense at the high ridge, and worried that Empress Houtu’s recovery might not be enough to protect people from Despair Slope.
• Chen Shi noticed that his primordial spirit had grown beyond the Three Corpses Realm’s limit, and Scholar Zhu suggested he had reached the Spirit Refining Realm before he died.

Chen Shi and Scholar Zhu reasoned that Chen Shi had cultivated in the Underworld using a physical body before reuniting with Wu Qingyu. They discovered a peaceful settlement sheltered by Liu Qinghong, a giant green snake who had become the Willow God, and Chen Shi left the story by appointing her the Orthodox God of Changyi County.

• Chen Shi concluded that his past self had practiced cultivation in a skeleton or corpse body and had not severed his three corpses.
• Chen Shi and Black Pot found villages where Liu Qinghong's protection had spared the people from the violence and cannibalism outside.
• An old man sang of being rescued from a butcher's shop by the Willow God and warned listeners not to leave the settlement.
• Chen Shi met Liu Qinghong and learned that she had sheltered the people for three years using her Void Realm and nearby food sources.
• Liu Qinghong sensed Chen Shi could kill her, but Chen Shi told her he had come to confer divinity and appointed her the Orthodox God of Changyi County.

Chen Shi accompanied Liu Qinghong to Yangu County, where a wounded Li Family ancestor confronted a hidden rival and uncovered a pristine Void Realm marked as Jueyangzi’s ascension site. The supposed ascension ended in mystery when the sword light vanished and the skeleton in the clouds began to move, prompting Chen Shi to flee with Liu Qinghong.

• Chen Shi conferred divine authority on Liu Qinghong, who gained command of Changyi County’s gods and spirits and told him about a heavenly god in neighboring Yangu County.
• Chen Shi and Liu Qinghong entered Yangu County and found a wounded Li Family ancestor using incense and Blood Taisui to sustain the local people.
• The Li Family ancestor raised an Upper Realm fragment and entered a hidden world to confront another powerful being, while Chen Shi and Liu Qinghong followed.
• Chen Shi discovered the world contained no malevolent Qi and recognized a boundary marker announcing that Jueyangzi had ascended there.
• The Li Family ancestor found a skeleton pierced by sword light beneath the immortal Qi, and the light vanished when a Li Family ghost and god touched it.
• The skeleton twitched, so Chen Shi threw Liu Qinghong into the wooden cart and told Black Pot to retreat.

Jueyangzi resurrected as a corrupted evil immortal and overwhelmed the Li Family Patriarch, while Scholar Zhu escaped with the Upper Realm fragment. When Jueyangzi nearly attacked Chen Shi and the others, he regained control, cut apart his own Dao Integration world, and revealed the tragic truth of his failed path to immortality.

• Black Pot carried Chen Shi and Liu Qinghong as the Li Family Patriarch drew vital energy from everyone in the Upper Realm and Jueyangzi resurrected from his skeleton.
• The Li Family Patriarch attacked Jueyangzi, but his strikes failed to stop the immortal from recovering, and Scholar Zhu fled with the Upper Realm fragment on his back.
• The Li Family Patriarch's golden body and Primordial Spirit disintegrated, while Scholar Zhu found the exit sealed and joined Chen Shi and the others before Jueyangzi.
• Jueyangzi prepared to attack Chen Shi, Black Pot, Scholar Zhu, and Fairy Xiaoduan, but stopped when he saw the common folk in the Upper Realm fragment.
• Jueyangzi pierced himself with an immortal sword and slashed apart his own Dao Integration world, returning it to a Void Realm and weakening his corruption.
• Jueyangzi recounted how the True King's ban on immortals had driven him to ascend, only for him to discover that Dao Integration inevitably caused evil transformation.

Chen Shi took Jueyangzi into his small temple after Jueyangzi severed his corrupted Void Realm, while Scholar Zhu received a cultivation manual from him. As Chen Shi traveled onward and a fourth temple began to form, Yu Changbai fought four hidden cultivators; later, three of them revealed themselves as Chen Yindu’s created beings and confronted him.

• Fairy Xiaoduan explained that she had integrated with the space in Chen Shi’s temple to avoid demonization, and Chen Shi invited Jueyangzi to stay there.
• Jueyangzi moved his remaining immortal mountain and stone tablet into the third temple, then helped Scholar Zhu evacuate people from the collapsed Upper Realm and gave him the Primordial Treasure Scripture.
• Chen Shi gave Scholar Zhu the Yin Yang Sun Moon Ring for cultivation, while Jueyangzi refused to accept thanks because Scholar Zhu was descended from the True King.
• Chen Shi arranged shelter for the people of Yangu County and continued his journey; Jueyangzi described the cataclysm, the True King’s return from Despair Slope, and the Immortal-Sealing Decree.
• A fourth small temple began forming behind Chen Shi as Yu Changbai discovered and defeated four hidden cultivators, who later reunited and traveled to the Divine Capital.
• Cang Songzi, Tu Ying, and Yan Shichong revealed themselves to Chen Yindu as his created beings, declared him their prisoner, and heard him say he regretted suppressing them.

Chen Yindu joined forces with Created Being Xiao Wu and freed Du Yiran, Sha Qiutong, Green Goat, and Hu Xiaoliang from their guards in Divine Capital. When demon gods, rogue cultivators, and descendants of the Great Shang blocked their way, Chen Yindu threatened to unleash a technique that would make them slaughter one another, and a voice ordered the group to be let go.

• Chen Yindu rejected Tu Ying, Cang Songzi, and Yan Shichong as flawed creations but said he still needed them, then linked his mind with Tu Ying to restore their shared abilities.
• Chen Yindu and Tu Ying entered Du Yiran’s stone house, where Du Yiran and Zen Master Dao Xing discussed Buddhism and evil transformation.
• Zen Master Dao Xing manifested a Pure Land Evil Buddha World, but Chen Yindu saw through its techniques, and Du Yiran left with the others.
• Chen Yindu’s group found Sha Qiutong, Green Goat, and Hu Xiaoliang, then continued through Divine Capital together.
• Demon gods, rogue cultivators, and descendants of the Great Shang blocked their path, so Chen Yindu threatened to unleash the Cang Cuo Seven Kill Demonic Sound.
• A heavy voice ordered the assembled forces to let Chen Yindu and his companions go.

Chen Yindu met the Grand Libationer outside the vanished Divine Capital and learned that Chen Shi had devised a devil-path technique capable of transforming true gods through evil. After confronting the Grand Libationer’s assumptions about Chen Shi’s trust and memories, Chen Yindu left with his companions and revealed that he—not Chen Shi—had sealed the boy’s memories.

• Chen Yindu left the Divine Capital with his companions, then met the Grand Libationer beneath a pine tree and learned that Shang’s ghost race preserved its civilization through divine transformations.
• At Chen Yindu’s request, Tu Ying demonstrated the Cang Cuo Seven Kill Demonic Sound, and the Grand Libationer explained that Chen Shi had recognized the Divine Capital’s vulnerability to it.
• The Grand Libationer showed Chen Yindu Chen Shi’s incomplete devil-path cultivation technique and described its intended method for subjecting true gods to evil transformation.
• Chen Yindu suspected that Chen Shi and Wu Qingyu had used her capture to escape the Grand Libationer’s control, and argued that Chen Shi had never trusted him.
• After leaving with his companions, Chen Yindu revealed that he had sealed Chen Shi’s memories and recalled the boy proposing that they destroy the world and forge a new era.

Chen Yindu led his allies toward Despair Slope while the Grand Libationer and Feng Ruotong mobilized forces to hunt Chen Shi. After Chen Shi lit the final province on the Map of Mountains and Rivers, he set out for home, unaware that both sides had discovered him and were racing toward Beilai City.

• Chen Yindu explained that he had sealed Chen Shi’s memories after reviving him, then planned to infiltrate Despair Slope by imitating its people and exploiting its response to the Divine Capital’s movements.
• The Grand Libationer realized Chen Yindu had deceived him, ordered the Divine Capital to search for Chen Shi, and considered several ways to complete the demonic art.
• Feng Ruotong learned that the Divine Capital’s forces were mobilizing, recalled his draw with the Grand Libationer, and led Heavenly Dao Walkers to track them.
• Chen Yindu and his companions moved toward Despair Slope after Tu Ying reported that Feng Ruotong had joined the hunt.
• In Beilai Province, Chen Shi sealed the Kitchen God Temple, lit the final province on the Map of Mountains and Rivers, and started toward home after deciding to buy new shoes.
• Divine Capital scouts found Chen Shi, while a distant observer alerted a Sky Listener; the Grand Libationer and Feng Ruotong both hurried toward Beilai City.

Chen Shi encountered Xia Canghai in Beilai City, then agreed to help the Grand Libationer complete the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art. As he practiced the manual, it began restoring memories sealed by Chen Yindu, including fragments from his childhood and the County Examination.

• Chen Shi admitted killing Xia Tianjie, Lord Fengyang, and Xia Xiude, and Xia Canghai warned him that the Xia family would pursue him after he left Beilai City.
• The Grand Libationer invited Chen Shi into a teahouse and asked him to complete the fragmentary Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art, which Chen Shi recognized as a powerful demonic technique.
• Chen Shi agreed to complete the manual, and the Grand Libationer promised that his people would keep others from disturbing him.
• Chen Shi realized the manual might help him master the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, but suspected it could also attract the attention of the True God from Beyond the Heavens.
• As Chen Shi practiced the manual, Chen Yindu’s seals began releasing memories, and Chen Shi recalled childhood events, the County Examination, and a girl named Wen Wuyu following him.

Chen Shi’s cultivation of the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art unlocked memories of his childhood, including his murder and the theft of his Innate Dao Embryo. As his demonic nature surged in the teahouse, Xia Canghai approached the Grand Libationer with a force meant to punish Red Mountain Hall.

• Chen Shi remembered the Thirteen Noble Families and Despair Slope competing over his Innate Dao Embryo, then resolved to uncover more of his sealed memories.
• Chen Shi relived Daoist Wei Luowei killing him and transplanting his Innate Dao Embryo into Zhong Wuwang, before his ghost fell into the underworld and possessed a little yaksha.
• Xia Canghai told Xia Xuanming that Chen Shi was in Beilai City and described the people accompanying him, including a likely Red Mountain Hall contingent.
• Xia Xuanming ordered Xia Canghai to punish Red Mountain Hall, while the Grand Libationer sensed the growing demonic nature inside the teahouse and strode toward it.
• Xia Canghai arrived with a crowd and confronted the Grand Libationer, who stopped in his path.

Feng Ruotong confronted the Grand Libationer in Beilai City and deduced that the Divine Capital wanted Chen Shi to develop a path to Dao integration. The Grand Libationer and Feng Ruotong sensed hidden observers as Chen Yindu led them away to capture more Heavenly Dao Walkers and infiltrate Despair Slope.

• Xia Canghai recognized that the people gathered around Chen Shi were powerful, hurried back to the Xia Manor, and reported his discovery to Xia Xuanming.
• Feng Ruotong arrived in Beilai City and sat with the Grand Libationer, while Gouzi prepared tea for them.
• Feng Ruotong accused the Divine Capital of using Chen Shi to develop a Dao integration method, and he and the Grand Libationer gained leverage over one another during their exchange.
• Xia Xuanming and the two Xia family ancestors approached the tea house, but a monk, a Daoist, and a Confucian scholar overwhelmed them with their pressure; the Grand Libationer stopped the three from killing the ancestors.
• The Grand Libationer and Feng Ruotong sensed several hidden gazes, while Chen Yindu led Created Being Xiao Wu and the others away to capture Heavenly Dao Walkers and sneak into Despair Slope.