Recaps

Chen Shi's demonic dao field spread across Beilai City, calming evil qi and reversing transformations as the Xia family and Divine Capital witnessed a new path of cultivation. Feng Ruotong and the Grand Libationer wounded each other before Feng fled, while Dao Chengzi, Hui Kong, and Song Yi resolved to protect Chen Shi; the chapter ended with a memory of the Grand Libationer telling Chen Shi that Despair Slope's Heavenly Dao Walkers were searching for him.

• The Xia elders left Yang Street, and Xia Min identified Chen Shi's pursuers as likely corrupted rogue immortals before the Xia family chose not to provoke them.
• Chen Shi's demonic dao field spread from the teahouse, making evil qi orderly and allowing Black Pot and others affected by evil transformation to use or regain their true forms.
• Feng Ruotong attacked Chen Shi, but the Grand Libationer intervened; their simultaneous strikes wounded both, and Feng fled as the Grand Libationer pursued him.
• Xia Min and cultivators across Beilai City felt their evil qi grow peaceful, while Sheng Sheng reverted from a monstrous form into a Feng Xi.
• Dao Chengzi, Hui Kong, and Song Yi recognized that Chen Shi's techniques made the righteous and demonic paths choices, and they agreed to protect him despite the threat from Despair Slope.
• In an unsealed memory, the Grand Libationer told Chen Shi that Despair Slope's Heavenly Dao Walkers were searching for him and that he had laid restrictions to prevent them from tracking him.

Chen Shi recalled his time in the Underworld and completed the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art for the Grand Libationer, while concealing whether his sealed memories had returned. The Grand Libationer let him leave with the manual, still suspecting Chen Shi had awakened and plotted against him.

• Chen Shi remembered how Wu Qingyu had restored his humanity, how he had secretly sent a thought to meet the Benevolent Lord, and how the Grand Libationer had seized him during the Underworld chaos.
• After his memories returned, Chen Shi calmed his demonic nature and wrote out the completed Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art for the Grand Libationer.
• The Grand Libationer read the manual and asked whether it could produce a divine embryo, then noticed Chen Shi’s reaction when he mentioned the memory seal.
• Chen Shi denied remembering the Underworld and refused the Grand Libationer’s offer to undo the seal, then left the city in his wooden cart.
• The Grand Libationer asked whether Chen Shi had lured Feng Ruotong, but Chen Shi feigned ignorance and departed.
• The Grand Libationer told a Great Shang scholar that he would not violate the Divine Emperor’s wishes, while privately suspecting Chen Shi had awakened and plotted against him.

Chen Shi encountered the wounded Feng Ruotong in a ghost town, where his Yin Yang Dao Field transformed the ghosts into humans and his demonic dao field stabilized their energies. Feng Ruotong explained his bond to the True God and warned that other Heavenly Dao followers would still try to kill Chen Shi before departing.

• Chen Shi reflected on his plan to use the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art to demonize the True God from Beyond the Heavens, then reached a ghost town after the wooden carriage landed.
• Chen Shi found Feng Ruotong receiving treatment from a Bian Que ghost physician, who could heal even wounds inflicted by the Grand Libationer.
• Chen Shi spread his Yin Yang Dao Field, transforming the town’s ghosts into humans, then demonstrated how his demonic dao field kept their bodies human while regulating their Yin Energy and malevolent energy.
• Feng Ruotong questioned Chen Shi about his dao fields and revealed that he was not a true immortal, but had entrusted his Dao to the True God and would vanish if the True God were destroyed.
• Feng Ruotong said he had to protect the True God and that Heavenly Dao followers would continue trying to kill Chen Shi, then left with his attendants.
• The ghost physician drove Chen Shi out of town, and Chen Shi departed in the wooden carriage as the town’s inhabitants returned to their ghost forms.

Feng Ruotong abandoned his attack on Chen Shi after seeing hope in his Dao Fields, then gathered Heavenly Dao Walkers to pursue the Grand Libationer. Meanwhile, Chen Yindu and the others uncovered the True King's history and suspected the Heavenly Lord had sacrificed him to reopen the true god’s eyes; Zhong Wuwang discovered their research and feared he would be sacrificed next.

• Feng Ruotong summoned Heavenly Dao Walkers in Heavenly Dao City, but five of the twelve who had left Despair Slope were missing.
• Chen Yindu, Yu Changbai, Zhang Yunhe, Zhao Xiaoyao, Qingfeng Rogue Cultivator, and Lin Taixu searched the Dao Inquiry Institute and found records identifying the True King as the creator of the new cultivation method and the first to receive an Innate Dao Embryo.
• The group read that the Heavenly Lord had sacrificed the True King on the Day of Extinguished Sun, and Chen Yindu proposed finding the sacrificial site to make the true god open its eyes.
• Zhong Wuwang noticed the group’s suspicious visit, read the True King's Biography, and concluded the Heavenly Lord might be preparing to sacrifice him for his Innate Dao Embryo.
• Zhong Wuwang decided he would not wait for death and resolved to break through to the immortal realm.

Chen Shi returned to Ganyang Mountain, where he reunited with his family and learned that Godmother was close to reviving. He went to Gao Gang with Chen Tang and saw a vast temple taking shape in radiant light, but the chapter left Godmother’s awakening unresolved.

• Chen Shi traveled home, declared that he could become the imperial court, and filled his cart with food taken from villagers along the way.
• Chen Shi reunited with Chen Tang and Wu Qingyu, while the mountain’s residents and Red Mountain Hall talisman masters gathered to welcome him.
• Chen Shi met Yan Xianshi, learned that Godmother’s revival was near, and argued with Chen Tang about his missing grandfather.
• Great Serpent Xuan Shan gave Chen Shi a green rain umbrella to restrain his demonic nature, but it burned to ashes as Chen Shi left the mountain.
• Chen Shi and Chen Tang reached Gao Gang and saw radiant light forming a temple filled with visions of countless beings and realms.

Chen Shi entered the forming Empress Houtu Temple and witnessed the vast cycle of life, death, and reincarnation, resolving to become immortal and escape it. At the temple’s lotus platform, he saw a female emperor approaching through a gateway before a huge axe severed the bridge of light and blocked her descent to the Western Ox Continent.

• Jueyangzi and Fairy Xiaoduan explained Empress Houtu’s ancient power and the breadth of her worship, while Chen Shi described why villagers took spirits as godmothers.
• Scholar Zhu asked Daoist Liu to let him hang from the old willow again, and Daoist Liu bound him to the tree with a willow branch.
• Daoist Liu allowed Chen Shi into the forming Empress Temple but kept Chen Tang outside.
• Inside the temple, Chen Shi saw countless beings cycle through birth, death, and reincarnation, and realized some souls ascended beyond the cycle.
• Chen Shi crossed the manifested Sea of Darkness toward the lotus platform where Empress Houtu was reviving.
• Chen Shi saw a female emperor approaching through a gateway, but a huge axe severed the bridge of light connecting her to the Western Ox Continent.

Chen Shi used the West King's Jade Seal and the Western Ox Continent’s deities to protect the bridge carrying Empress Houtu’s avatar, while Daoist Liu taught the others the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Dharma Realm. The new technique gave Fairy Xiaoduan a way to leave Chen Shi’s small temple, and the chapter ended with Chen Shi boldly approaching her as she washed her feet.

• Chen Shi gathered divine power through the West King's Jade Seal to reconnect the bridge, and Empress Houtu’s ribbons repelled the round axes attacking her avatar and the bridge.
• Chen Shi left the temple and told Daoist Liu, Fairy Xiaoduan, and the others what had happened; Daoist Liu said the temple needed four or five days to stabilize if the remaining gods awakened.
• Daoist Liu gave Scholar Zhu a refined willow branch and taught Scholar Zhu, Jueyangzi, and Fairy Xiaoduan the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Dharma Realm so they could leave the small temple without suffering evil mutation.
• Chen Shi worried that Fairy Xiaoduan might leave, while Daoist Liu hoped the group would use the technique to help defend the empress’s temple from Despair Slope.
• Chen Tang advised Chen Shi to fight for his happiness, and Chen Shi decided to act on the advice before fleeing when Chen Tang opened his box.
• Chen Shi found Fairy Xiaoduan washing her feet and sat beside her, offering to wash them.

Chen Shi took Fairy Xiaoduan to Tianchi Capital City and used his dao field to transform its ghostly inhabitants back into Great Shang Citizens. Overcome with emotion at seeing her people restored, Fairy Xiaoduan then agreed to accompany Chen Shi toward the mysterious source of the Skyfall.

• Fairy Xiaoduan told Chen Shi she had already comprehended the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Dharma Realm and could not leave him because their lives and her people’s return to humanity depended on him.
• Chen Shi took Fairy Xiaoduan aboard the Taiyi Demon-Dispelling Shuttle and flew to Tianchi Capital City, while Scholar Zhu and Jueyangzi went to help Daoist Liu guard the Empress Temple.
• Chen Shi expanded his dao field across Tianchi Capital City, transforming the ghost races into Great Shang Citizens and restoring their human appearances and inherited witch sacrifice Dao patterns.
• Fairy Xiaoduan wept as she recognized her people and their restored Great Shang heritage, while Chen Shi told her he was their king.
• Chen Shi asked Fairy Xiaoduan whether she wanted to investigate the Skyfall’s unknown origin, and she agreed.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan traveled through an ancient river beneath the Skyfall, uncovering the ruins of Great Shang and its fallen divine officials. They found Fairy Xiaoduan’s younger brother Wangziyu, whom Chen Shi identified as the final Shang King, and learned that he had died defending the last subjects of Great Shang.

• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan rode the Taiyi Demon-Dispelling Shuttle through a fierce vortex and reached a dark riverbed filled with enormous skulls.
• Fairy Xiaoduan explained Great Shang’s hereditary divine officials, the rise of Qi Refiners, and how the Three Pure Ones helped overthrow Great Shang.
• Chen Shi copied witch sacrifice Dao patterns from divine officials’ skulls and bones while he and Fairy Xiaoduan explored the wrecks and ruins along the river.
• They found an intact owl boat and sailed past ruined immortal mountains, shattered magical treasures, and the remains of a great battle.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan discovered a vast bronze city wall bearing the Xuan Bird emblem and a skeleton clutching a broken sword.
• Fairy Xiaoduan recognized the skeleton as her younger brother Wangziyu, and Chen Shi concluded that he had grown old leading Great Shang’s last forces in a final defense of Tianchi Kingdom.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan crossed the bronze Great Wall and discovered Chen Yindu and his companions conducting a vast offering in a fairyland beyond a sealing wall. As the offering drew power from the sun and moon across the Western Ox Continent, it opened the sky and revealed the True God from Beyond the Heavens.

• Fairy Xiaoduan placed Prince Shang Wangziyu’s remains on the owl boat, and Chen Shi noticed a crude painting of Chen Yindu beside a woman on the bronze wall.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan climbed the wall and saw a fairyland separated from them by a Great Dao Wall made of witch sacrifice Dao patterns.
• Chen Shi recognized Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, Granny Sha, and his other companions on a massive altar as they prepared the Pu Tian Great Offering.
• Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu matched 3,600 talismans to the altar’s statues, then Chen Yindu activated the offering and led the group toward the Great Dao Wall.
• The offering drained the suns and moons across the Western Ox Continent, and the altar formed a blazing Xuan Bird that split open the sky.
• The True God from Beyond the Heavens appeared clearly in the outer heavens, leaving Fairy Xiaoduan pale and shaken.

Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu as the True God from Beyond the Heavens awakened and reignited the sun. The Yin and Yang Worlds separated, ending the calamity, while Feng Ruotong and the Grand Libationer were left to reckon with the sudden change.

• Chen Yindu replaced the Great Dao Wall’s witch sacrifice Dao patterns with talismans, led his group through, and reunited with Chen Shi, whom he invited to go home.
• Gong Wanqing suspected that her former disciple had returned to reignite the sun, while Zhong Wuang wondered whether the True God’s awakening required sacrificing the Innate Dao Embryo.
• Feng Ruotong pursued the Grand Libationer, hoping to draw out the Demon Emperor, whom the Grand Libationer knew was Chen Shi.
• The Yin and Yang Worlds began separating, allowing the Grand Libationer’s group to escape Feng Ruotong’s pursuit.
• The True God from Beyond the Heavens opened its eyes and lit the sun, and the Yin and Yang Worlds separated completely.
• People across the Western Ox Continent celebrated the end of the calamity, and Yan Xianshi embraced his family as he anticipated returning to Xijing.

Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu and brought him back to the Yang World, where the family and villagers welcomed him. After learning Yan Xianshi was leaving for Xijing, Chen Shi confronted him and demanded he turn back or face death.

• Gong Wanqing and Immortal Kou suspected a Heavenly Dao Immortal within Despair Slope had revived the true god, while Zhong Wuwang privately suspected Yu Changbai and Zhuang Wujiu.
• Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu aboard the owl boat, brought him to the Yang World, and used his dao field and Yin Yang Tempering to suppress Chen Yindu’s evil Qi.
• Chen Yindu reunited with the villagers of Huangpo Village, embraced Chen Tang, and thanked Wu Qingyu for holding the family together.
• Chen Shi learned Yan Xianshi had left for Xijing and flew to Taiping County to intercept him.
• Chen Shi warned Yan Xianshi that the Thirteen Noble Families harmed the people and demanded he choose between returning to Ganyang Mountain and dying; Yan Xianshi accused him of plotting rebellion.

Chen Shi killed Yan Xianshi, spared his concubine and young son, and returned to Huangpo Village with Chen Yindu. At Mirror Lake Villa, Chen Yindu explained the history of the Shang people and the destruction of the Xuan Bird Heavenly Court before opening a coffin to awaken its occupant.

• Yan Xianshi confronted Chen Shi with the power of the Thirteen Noble Families, but Chen Shi trapped him in a distorted domain and killed him with blade Qi.
• Chen Shi gave Yan Xianshi’s concubine silver and told her to raise her son away from the Yan family, then left before she could ask to become his secondary wife.
• Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu and rode with him toward Mirror Lake Villa, while Chen Tang and Created Being Xiao Wu exchanged barbs in Huangpo Village.
• Chen Yindu told Chen Shi that the Shang people had rebuilt the Xuan Bird Heavenly Court after their exile, but a powerful entity destroyed it around sixteen thousand years earlier.
• At Mirror Lake Villa, Chen Yindu stopped beside a coffin and said he had come as promised to awaken the person inside.

Chen Shi awakened the rogue cultivators in Mirror Lake Villa with his Dao Field and taught them his method of counter-proving the heavens. He left ready to descend into the Underworld, wake the Little King of Hell, reclaim the Immortal Capital, and confront the Yan family.

• Chen Yindu asked Chen Shi to deploy his Dao Field, which dispelled the evil Qi and strange afflictions troubling the people sealed in the coffins.
• Dragon Roaming Rogue Cultivator, Empress Shao, Pei Rogue Cultivator, and Mu Daozi emerged, and they recognized the extraordinary nature of Chen Shi's Dao Field.
• After learning Mu Daozi had undergone a second evil mutation before being sealed, the rogue cultivators competed to become Chen Shi's disciple, then bowed to him together.
• Chen Shi explained his counter-proving method and taught the four rogue cultivators Yin Yang Tempering and Yin Yang Transformation.
• Chen Shi told Chen Yindu that the world had to change so ordinary people could escape the aristocratic families' oppression.
• Chen Shi announced plans to wake the Little King of Hell, reclaim the Immortal Capital, and flatten the Yan family.

Sha Qiutong used a Three Lives Stone to awaken Nannan’s memories as the Benevolent Lord, while Underworld forces attacked the Fox Clan Courtyard to capture her. The courtyard returned safely to the Yang World, but Nannan’s recovery remained at a critical juncture.

• Chen Yindu confirmed that Nannan was the reincarnated Benevolent Lord, and Chen Shi said Granny Sha had obtained Three Lives Stones through Xiang Tianyu.
• Sha Qiutong began using a Three Lives Stone to restore Nannan’s past-life memories while Chen Shi’s four rogue cultivator disciples guarded the courtyard.
• Nannan’s memories revealed the Benevolent Lord’s arrival in the Underworld and the creation of the Hall of Yama as Underworld forces attacked the Fox Clan Courtyard.
• Zhong Kui, Tie Chi, and the boatman and his daughter fought off the River of Forgetfulness’s runners, while Chen Shi’s dao field returned the courtyard from Iron Tree Hell to the Yang World.
• Pei Rogue Cultivator drove back the ghost gods outside the courtyard, and Nannan’s memories continued to show the Benevolent Lord’s long service as the Three Lives Stone dimmed.

Nannan awakened the Benevolent Lord's memories and power, but Chen Shi realized she remained a little girl rather than the former ruler of the Underworld. Back in Huangpo Village, Fairy Xiaoduan confided her fear about her father becoming a True God from Beyond the Heavens, and Chen Shi comforted her.

• Nannan's memories of the Benevolent Lord returned as the Three Lives Stone shattered, and her divine power subdued the fighting Yin guards.
• Nannan reunited with the surviving judges and thanked Chen Shi and his companions, while Chen Shi remembered their agreement.
• Chen Yindu warned Chen Shi that Nannan was still herself despite inheriting the Benevolent Lord's memories and cultivation, leaving Chen Shi worried about restoring order in the Underworld.
• Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village and asked Fairy Xiaoduan what troubled her as they watched over the forming temple.
• Fairy Xiaoduan told Chen Shi that the True God from Beyond the Heavens had her father's face and that she feared her father and brother's fate; Chen Shi comforted her, and they kissed after she awoke.

Chen Shi led Sha Qiutong, Xiang Tianyu, and Nannan into the Underworld to avenge Xiang Tianyu and restore the Benevolent Lord to the throne of King Yama. At the Tongue-Pulling Hell’s Ghost Gate Pass, the Dao Lao Tribe attacked the Yan family’s forces, and Chen Shi revealed that he intended to destroy the Yan family completely.

• Jueyangzi, Scholar Zhu, Daoist Liu, and the black pot speculated that Xiao Duan was the fairy in disguise, then concluded that Chen Shi already knew and was playing along with her.
• Sha Qiutong asked Chen Shi to help avenge Xiang Tianyu, and he set out with her, Xiang Tianyu, and Nannan while their allies stayed behind to guard the Empress Temple.
• Chen Shi traveled through the Underworld toward the Immortal Capital, explaining that his Three Corpses Gods had mapped the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• At the Tongue-Pulling Hell’s Ghost Gate Pass, Yan family ghost officials discovered the living travelers and prepared to attack.
• The Dao Lao Tribe stormed the Ghost Gate Pass, and Chen Shi fused with the skeleton king before declaring that he would destroy the Yan family.

Chen Shi wielded the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade to kill Yan Guang and seize the first level of hell, then led Sha Qiutong and the Asura tribe toward Scissor Hell. After breaking through Scissor Hell and killing Yan Shuang, he entered Iron Tree Hell and faced its two judges.

• Chen Shi overpowered the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, slaughtered the Yan Family ghost gods at Ghost Gate Pass, and killed Yan Guang as Yan Guang raised Tongue-Pulling Hell.
• Chen Shi put the blade away, told Sha Qiutong to leave the first level to the Daolao Tribe, and set off for Scissor Hell.
• At Scissor Hell, the Asura Patriarch answered Chen Shi's call and shattered Ghost Gate Pass with the Asura women following her into battle.
• Chen Shi killed the merit officer and split the ghost city behind Ghost Gate Pass with one strike.
• In Iron Tree Hell, Chen Shi killed the arriving Yan Shuang and turned to face the Fire Judge and Earth Judge.

Chen Shi led Nannan and the allied ghost tribes through the rebelling Eighteen Levels of Hell to the Hall of Yama, where Nannan and the defenders fought the Yan family. The Yan family summoned an immortal treasure to stop them, but Chen Shi’s Treasure Dropping Golden Coin neutralized it, and Granny Sha entered the hall with Xiang Tianyu.

• The Fire Judge and Earth Judge defended the Iron Tree Hell as the Leiyuan Tribe and other allies attacked, while Chen Shi’s carriage passed through the fighting.
• Chen Shi crossed successive hells as ghost tribes battled the Yan family’s forces, and Granny Sha realized he had arranged their infiltration.
• At the Saw Hell, Zhong Kui, Tie Chi, Wang Fu, Jia Yuan, Zhu Shun, Black and White Impermanence, and the boatman father and daughter held the pass while Nannan led the assault on the Hall of Yama.
• Nannan’s guillotines killed Yan family ghost deities who confessed their crimes, breaking the family’s morale as Wei Yue prayed to the Yan ancestors.
• Yan Shihai and the two old sect masters sent the Purple Green Two Qi Ring from the Yang World, but Chen Shi’s Treasure Dropping Golden Coin nullified it and caused the Yan family’s magical treasures to fall.
• Chen Shi reached the Hall of Yama, reminded Granny Sha that he had promised to avenge Brother Tianyu, and watched her enter with Xiang Tianyu.

Granny Sha confronted Wei Yue over Xiang Tianyu’s death, defeated him, and chose to send her son into reincarnation rather than keep him as a ghost. Nannan reclaimed King Yama’s throne and ordered the Underworld to subjugate the Thirteen Noble Families, while Xiang Tianyu was reborn as Fan Pu.

• Granny Sha and Xiang Tianyu confronted Wei Yue in the Hall of Yama, where he revealed that he had waited for Xiang Tianyu outside Buddhist hell and cruelly blamed Granny Sha for sending her son there.
• Granny Sha used her soul arts and Void Realm to torture Wei Yue, then destroyed him after Chen Shi urged her to end the revenge.
• Nannan took King Yama’s throne, issued a decree to subjugate the Thirteen Noble Families, and offered Xiang Tianyu a place among the Underworld’s ghost-gods.
• Granny Sha declined Nannan’s offer and sent Xiang Tianyu into the Six Paths of Reincarnation so he could have a new life.
• Xiang Tianyu was born into the Fan family as Fan Pu, carrying the Three Lives Stone, and Chen Shi and Granny Sha watched over him before departing.

Yan Shihai sent Yan Shaoxuan and young Fang Zhenxiu away under Yan Hanqing’s protection, then stayed in Liuzhou as the Chen clan’s campaign destroyed the Yan lineage’s forces across the realm. Chen Shi arrived at the Yan residence, condemned the Yan lineage as Sui, and began the attack.

• Yan Shihai told Yan Shaoxuan to abandon revenge and made young Zhenxiu accept the name Fang Zhenxiu before sending them away with Yan Hanqing.
• Yan Shihai and the patriarchs learned that Red Mountain Hall talisman masters had attacked Yan forces across more than two thousand prefectures and counties.
• The Yan lineage gathered to face its impending defeat, and a black dog delivered Chen Shi’s calling card to the residence.
• Chen Shi met Yan Shihai and argued that the Yan lineage’s long record of abuses made its members Sui who deserved to be slain.
• Chen Shi’s power shattered the Yan estate, and a Yan cultivator charged him as he drew the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade.

Chen Shi unleashed the Blood Sea Hell and the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade against the Yan family, defeating their three Great Ascension ancestors and slaughtering the clan’s defenders. He left Liuzhou City declaring the Yan family erased.

• Chen Shi’s Blood Sea Hell suppressed Yan Shihai’s Void Realm, and Yan Wuji and Yan Siqing joined him but could not overpower it.
• Yan family members charged Chen Shi to help their ancestors, but his blood-wave blade attack killed most of them.
• Chen Shi killed Yan Shihai and Yan Wuji, then beheaded Yan Siqing and slew the remaining Void Returning experts.
• Chen Shi drew the Blood Sea Hell back into the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, suppressed the blade’s demonic nature, and stowed it in the little temple.
• Chen Shi walked out of Liuzhou City and declared the Yan family erased.

Chen Tang confronted Yan Hanqing while pursuing the fleeing Yan Family members and revealed the resentment behind his old rivalry with him. After Yan Hanqing challenged him with the Luotian Twelve Divine Demons, Chen Tang unleashed his Great Ascension cultivation and killed him.

• Yan Hanqing escorted Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu through Red Mountain Hall’s checkpoints while avoiding clashes with the talisman masters and the revived deities.
• Chen Tang arrived to inspect the carriage, and Yan Hanqing sent Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu away before facing him.
• Yan Hanqing recalled their imperial examination duels and taunted Chen Tang with the mocking nickname Ping Shou Chen.
• Chen Tang explained how his desire to win his father’s attention had led him to the examinations and how witnessing the Thirteen Noble Families exclude talented people deepened his hatred.
• Yan Hanqing summoned twelve Primordial Spirits and challenged Chen Tang, who drew the Xuanwei Sword and fought him at the Great Ascension stage.
• Chen Tang’s sword qi pierced Yan Hanqing’s defenses and split his body in two, after which Chen Tang said he no longer needed to fight him to a draw.

Chen Tang killed Yan Hanqing’s eleven remaining primordial spirits and continued pursuing the surviving Yan family members, while Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu escaped to Lingzhou. There, Zhong Wuwang took Fang Zhenxiu as a prospective disciple and taught Yan Shaoxuan twelve deadly techniques intended to help her kill Chen Shi.

• Chen Tang destroyed Yan Hanqing’s eleven primordial spirits, then found the carriage empty and flew off to aid Red Mountain Hall fighters.
• Yan Shaoxuan and Fang Zhenxiu reached Lingzhou in disguise and were led to Zhong Wuwang’s manor by his Sky Listener Lord guards.
• Zhong Wuwang told Yan Shaoxuan that the Yan family had been destroyed and that her father, Yan Hanqing, had died at Chen Tang’s hands.
• Yan Shaoxuan asked Zhong Wuwang to take Fang Zhenxiu as his disciple, and he agreed to test the boy’s aptitude.
• Zhong Wuwang taught Yan Shaoxuan twelve techniques after explaining that he had studied Chen Shi’s moves and found fatal flaws.
• Zhong Wuwang instructed Yan Shaoxuan to tell Chen Shi that he had sent her, then use the final three techniques to strike at Chen Shi’s life.

Yan Shaoxuan learned fourteen techniques devised by Zhong Wuwang and Yang Bi to kill Chen Shi, then confronted him at Ganyang Mountain. Chen Shi halted his blade and asked her to demonstrate the techniques, eager to see how they could break his dao field.

• Yan Shaoxuan left Fang Zhenxiu with Zhong Wuwang, who warned that her revenge mission would likely kill her and urged Fang to survive the Despair Slope assessment.
• Yan Shaoxuan met the crippled Yang Bi in Tianyu County, and he recognized that Zhong Wuwang's first nine techniques targeted weaknesses in Chen Shi's dao field.
• Yang Bi deduced and taught Yan Shaoxuan five more techniques, completing the fourteen-move sequence, while warning that Zhong Wuwang had sent her to test Chen Shi's response and that she was unlikely to defeat him.
• Yan Shaoxuan traveled to Huangpo Village and told Chen Shi that Zhong Wuwang and Yang Bi had given her fourteen moves to kill him.
• Chen Shi summoned the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, halted it before Yan Shaoxuan, and asked her to demonstrate the techniques.