Recaps

Luo Chen used a supreme-grade Soul Stone to lure the scattered spirit of the Fifth Order Ghost God into reviving, then captured the resurrected Kui Ox Desolate Beast in the Primal Chaos Cauldron. He left the Southern Heaven Continent with Little White as cultivators arrived to find God Burial Valley devastated.

• Luo Chen entered God Burial Valley with Little White, destroyed high-order ghosts, and realized they were gathering toward the center because the sealed Ghost God had split its Divine Soul among them.
• Luo Chen scattered formation flags and offered a nearly supreme-grade Soul Stone to draw ghosts together and accelerate the Ghost God's revival, leaving Little White with the Soul Refining Banner.
• After a month, Little White used the banner to drive the revived Ghost God toward the East Sea, where nine seals broke and a colossal one-legged azure beast emerged.
• Luo Chen descended with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and captured the beast, which he recognized as a Desolate Beast with Kui Ox bloodline.
• Luo Chen took Little White away from the Southern Heaven Continent, and several cultivators arrived to find God Burial Valley in ruins.

Zhan Bingtao's group discovered that someone had freed the Kui Ox Ghost God and searched God Burial Valley for clues, while Luo Chen escaped with the captive Ghost God. After visiting the mist-shrouded Heaven Earth Peak, Luo Chen went to the Azure Nether to refine the Kui Ox, nurture the Yuan Tu Sword, and cultivate Nine Heavens Qi.

• Zhan Bingtao and the other Southern Heaven Dao Palace experts found God Burial Valley devastated and realized that an unknown Ghost Cultivator had helped the Kui Ox Ghost God escape.
• Hui Yuanhong found traces of yin-natured Mana, and Zhan Bingtao assigned Long Ting to search and Zhang Bairen to report to Old Ancestor Liancheng while Fu Qinglan secretly kept a broken formation flag.
• Luo Chen explained how his layered preparations had let him capture the Kui Ox Ghost God and steered the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle toward Heaven Earth Peak.
• Luo Chen spotted Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven's mist around the broken Heaven Earth Peak, then left as a cloaked young man emerged and vowed to restore the peak.
• Luo Chen took Little White to the Azure Nether, where he began refining the Kui Ox Ghost God with Nirvana Sacred Fire and placed the Yuan Tu Sword in his Purple Mansion.
• Luo Chen suppressed the Yuan Tu Sword and began cultivating with Nine Heavens Qi in the Azure Nether.

Five-year-old Zhou Fuyou cared for his frail twin sister, Zhou Qingyu, after their mother left on a mission, but a tonic sent by the seventh master's household nearly poisoned her. Zhou Yunshen ordered Zhou Junxiao to secretly protect Fuyou, who realized the tonic had been poison and was left fearful of danger within the clan.

• Lin Jingshu left with a flying vessel to help the Zhou, Lin, and Yin families deal with demon beast traces along the coast, entrusting Zhou Fuyou with caring for Zhou Qingyu.
• Zhou Fuyou drank the tonic sent by the seventh master's household and felt invigorated, while Granny Lin continued brewing it for him.
• Zhou Qingyu drank some of the tonic and collapsed, so Granny Lin rushed her to Elder Haibo, who treated her and warned that the medicine was too fiery for children.
• Zhou Haibo reported that the tonic secretly damaged the spirit to Zhou Yunshen, who ordered Zhou Junxiao to watch over Zhou Fuyou in secret.
• After taking Elder Haibo's Fire Dispelling Pill, Zhou Fuyou vomited Black Blood and realized the tonic had been poison, leaving him to fear that Seventh Uncle's family meant him harm.

After Zhou Qingyu was poisoned, Zhou Fuyou suspected Yin Si Niang and kept his sister close while studying cultivation methods without daring to practice them. When the Zhou Family’s sea patrol returned, Elder Shuzhen told Fuyou and Qingyu that their parents had died during the mission.

• Zhou Fuyou questioned Zhou Yuqi about Yin Si Niang’s visit and concealed his suspicions about the tonic that had poisoned Zhou Qingyu.
• Zhou Fuyou read the Returning Sea Scripture in his father’s study, but heeded Granny Lin’s warning not to cultivate before reaching the proper age.
• Zhou Fuyou studied several cultivation methods, rejected the risky Dew Cicada Technique, and waited for his parents to return from the sea patrol.
• Zhou Fuyou learned from Zhou Yuqi that Yin Si Niang had died after contracting White Egret Marsh miasma.
• Elder Shuzhen told Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu that their parents had fallen during the mission.

After his parents died, six-year-old Zhou Fuyou began cultivating the Dew Cicada Technique and reached the First Layer of Qi Refining Stage in one night. Luo Chen learned of his avatar’s unusually early breakthrough and sent Little White to watch over him, while Zhou Fuyou later stood up for his younger sister during Body Tempering lessons.

• Zhou Junxiao reprimanded Zhou Shuzhen for bluntly telling Zhou Fuyou about his parents’ deaths, then visited him at the mourning hall.
• At the burial, Zhou Fuyou promised Zhou Qingyu that he would protect her and never leave her.
• Grieving alone in his father’s study, Zhou Fuyou chose the Dew Cicada Technique and cultivated through the night, reaching the First Layer of Qi Refining Stage.
• Luo Chen noticed that his six-year-old avatar had started cultivating, so he sent Little White to the Zhou Family to observe him without interfering unless necessary.
• Six months later, Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu practiced the Body-Strengthening Fist Technique, and Zhou Fuyou demanded that a boy apologize after he mocked his sister.

Zhou Fuyou defended his sister Zhou Qingyu from Zhou Yuhao’s insults, then learned that the Zhou Family’s elders were watching over him. After Bai Mei Ling reported on his circumstances and Zhou Yunshen’s unexpected advancement, Luo Chen considered whether Zhou Fuyou’s extreme temperament might complicate reclaiming his Life Soul but chose not to interfere.

• Zhou Fuyou slapped and choked Zhou Yuhao until he apologized for insulting Zhou Qingyu, then promised his sister that no one would bully her while he was alive.
• Zhou Yuqi proposed that his mother adopt Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu, and she agreed to ask the Clan Leader for permission.
• Bai Mei Ling observed Zhou Fuyou and met Zhou Yunshen, who recognized her as Luo Chen’s Ghost Cultivator and directed her to stay at White Egret Marsh.
• Adults led by Zhou Yuhao’s family came to attack Zhou Fuyou, but Zhou Junxiao stopped them and invited Zhou Fuyou to the clan’s council hall the next day.
• Bai Mei Ling told Luo Chen that Zhou Fuyou had an extreme temperament and no detectable spiritual energy, while Zhou Yunshen had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage after comprehending Law True Intent.
• Luo Chen attributed the strange spiritual concealment and Zhou Yunshen’s insight to the Ming Water Spring Eye, then decided against secretly influencing Zhou Fuyou.

Zhou Fuyou rejected Seventh Uncle Zhou Haiye’s attempt to adopt him and his sister, while Second Grandfather Zhou Junxiao promised to protect and care for them. Six years later, Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu headed to the family’s Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, where the children’s cultivation aptitude would be revealed.

• Outside the council hall, Zhou Fuyou heard the family dismiss Zhou Yuhao’s beating as a quarrel and decide to assign Qi Refinement Cultivators to watch the training ground.
• Zhou Haiye proposed adopting Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu, but Zhou Junxiao refused and announced that he would adopt the siblings himself.
• Zhou Fuyou told Zhou Junxiao that he and his sister wanted to remain in their parents’ home, and he accepted a protective token and his grandfather’s offer of support.
• At the Green Drink Waterside Pavilion, Zhou Fuyou secretly demonstrated his powerful Water Arrow Technique and resolved to wait for the family to test his Spirit Root before revealing his talent.
• Six years later, Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu set out for the Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, where the Zhou Family’s children would be tested before family members and visiting observers.

Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu attended the Zhou Family’s Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, where visitors from the Dao Palace’s Yuheng Academy watched for talent. The ceremony continued after Mo Wanting revealed that Five Spirit Roots could qualify for the Dao Palace because of the legendary cultivator Luo Chen, whose name left Zhou Fuyou strangely unsettled.

• Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu arrived at the ceremony, where Zhou Yuhao greeted them and revealed his Water and Wood Dual Spirit Roots.
• Zhou Junxiao welcomed Mo Wanting and other guests, then ordered Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu placed at the end of the testing line.
• Zhou Li tested as having Three Spirit Roots, and Zhou Yusheng later tested as having Gold and Fire Dual Spirit Roots.
• Zhou Haiye told Zhou Ping'an that his Five Spirit Roots were worthless and that he could not cultivate, but Mo Wanting said Yuheng Academy would take him.
• Mo Wanting explained that Luo Chen had cultivated with Five Spirit Roots and that the Dao Palace was seeking such disciples; Zhou Fuyou heard the name and felt it was familiar.

During the Zhou Family’s Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, Zhou Fuyou revealed a Water Heavenly Spirit Root and a powerful innate physique, prompting Mo Wanting to urge him to join the Southern Heaven Dao Palace. He refused to leave his family for now, and the Zhou Family’s Old Ancestor arrived to support his choice.

• Zhou Yuhao and Zhou Yuwei qualified to enter the Dao Palace, while Zhou Yuhong did not, and Zhou Junxiao pressed Mo Wanting for fixed entry slots for the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Qingyu was found to have no Spirit Root, and Zhou Fuyou comforted her before stepping onto the testing platform.
• Zhou Fuyou instantly displayed a Water Heavenly Spirit Root, and Mo Wanting recognized signs of an innate physique that could give him the potential to reach Spirit Transformation.
• Zhou Fuyou refused to leave his family for the Dao Palace, even after Mo Wanting offered to take Zhou Qingyu too.
• The Zhou Family’s Old Ancestor intervened and told Mo Wanting to respect Zhou Fuyou’s wishes, assuring her that he would protect him.

After Zhou Fuyou’s extraordinary aptitude made him the focus of the Zhou Family and Yuheng Academy, Zhou Yunshen summoned him and granted him authority, resources, and pills that could let mortals cultivate. Zhou Fuyou left the Coral Palace ready to help his younger sister and prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Mo Wanting departed for the Dao Palace without Zhou Fuyou, while Zhou Junxiao told the newly tested youths to study cultivation fundamentals at the Skill Transmission Hall.
• Zhou Fuyou asked whether people without Spirit Roots could remain with the clan, and Zhou Junxiao explained why they would be sent to Coral Town.
• Zhou Yunshen ordered Zhou Chongxiao to stop trying to reproduce Desolate Rogue’s pill recipes and took the three pills from him.
• Zhou Yunshen told Zhou Fuyou he was nearing Foundation Establishment and gave him Mo Wanting’s gifts, a Red Coral White Robe, and a token granting him status equal to the Old Ancestor.
• Zhou Yunshen revealed that Desolate Rogue’s three pills could break the Mortal-Immortal Boundary, and Zhou Fuyou realized his younger sister could cultivate.

While Luo Chen refined his Perfect Level Crimson Sky Sword Qi in the Azure Nether, his avatar Zhou Fuyou effortlessly reached Foundation Establishment and discovered extraordinary spiritual power and spell talent. Luo Chen began his final refinement of the resisting Kui Ox Ghost God as Zhou Fuyou turned his attention to a Tier 3 spell that seemed suited to him.

• Luo Chen completed his refinement of the Thousand Skies Myriad Transformations Sword Scripture to Perfect Level, doubling the power of each wisp of Crimson Sky Sword Qi and stabilizing his mana.
• Luo Chen sensed that his avatar had reached Foundation Establishment at age twelve, then confronted the Kui Ox Ghost God as it tried to escape the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Zhou Fuyou completed Foundation Establishment without using his prepared resources and discovered that his Spiritual Sense reached ten li.
• Zhou Fuyou found that his new Qi Sea could hold an immense quantity of Spiritual Liquid and put away his Foundation Establishment supplies for Zhou Qingyu.
• Zhou Fuyou reviewed Mo Wanting's spell manuals and became interested in the Tier 3 Water Element spell Mirror Flower Water Moon.

Zhou Fuyou helped Zhou Qingyu sense spiritual qi, then found the Old Ancestor’s scalable Sky Floating Qi Sea technique in the Scripture Pavilion. Eight years later, as the Zhou Family began developing White Egret Marsh, Zhou Fuyou confronted Seventh Aunt in the marsh and demanded to know what had happened in the past.

• Zhou Fuyou used the Guiding Technique to help Zhou Qingyu sense spiritual qi, and she discovered that her Pill Spirit Root contained all five elements.
• Zhou Fuyou chose the Dew Cicada Technique as a suitable cultivation method for Zhou Qingyu and discovered the Old Ancestor’s Sky Floating Qi Sea technique in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Eight years later, Zhou Qingyu had reached the Mid Qi Refining Stage and joined the Zhou Family’s effort to develop White Egret Marsh.
• Zhou Junxiao ordered Zhou Haiye and fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators into the marsh to deal with its demon beasts, while Qi Refinement cultivators formed teams to patrol outside.
• Seventh Aunt secretly searched the marsh for a mineral vein and found Zhou Fuyou cultivating in the miasma; he confronted her and asked about what had happened in the past.

Zhou Fuyou used Mirror Flower Water Moon to uncover that the Yin Family had arranged his parents’ deaths and poisoned him to help Zhou Haiye gain power and seize White Egret Marsh. He killed Yin Xixue and then Zhou Haiye with his miasma-infused Sky Floating Qi Sea, leaving Zhou Junxiao to conceal the truth as the clan accepted a false story about a hidden Demon King.

• Zhou Fuyou questioned Seventh Aunt under Mirror Flower Water Moon and learned that the Yin Family had poisoned him, arranged for Zhou Haiye to kill his parents, and sought to take White Egret Marsh after Zhou Yunshen’s death.
• Seventh Aunt said Zhou Yuqi knew nothing of the plot, and Zhou Fuyou killed her after the illusion broke; he then destroyed the message she sent to Zhou Haiye and waited for him.
• Zhou Haiye arrived, admitted he planned to kill Zhou Fuyou and blame the White Egret Demon King, and attacked him with Golden Core Spiritual Pressure.
• Zhou Fuyou used Sky Floating Qi Sea to unleash White Egret Marsh’s miasma, overwhelmed Zhou Haiye with spells, and killed him with the Luyin Ruler after Zhou Haiye tried to escape.
• Zhou Junxiao reached the battlefield and found Zhou Haiye’s corpse; Zhou Fuyou said he would explain the truth at Coral Palace before disappearing into the mire.
• Zhou Junxiao told the arriving Zhou Family members that the hidden Demon King of White Egret Marsh had killed Zhou Haiye.

The White Egret Demon King agreed to lead her people to the Luo Tian Upper Sect, while Zhou Junxiao confirmed that Zhou Haiye had betrayed the family. Zhou Yunshen revealed that he had at most ten years left and urged Zhou Fuyou to join the Southern Heaven Dao Palace; in Azure Nether, Luo Chen subdued the Kui Ox Ghost God and reforged the damaged Soul Refining Banner.

• The Nine Nether Enchanting Python told the White Egret Demon King to leave White Egret Marsh with her people and join the Luo Tian Upper Sect, promising her master's help with Transformation.
• After Zhou Haiye died, Zhou Junxiao searched his residence and found Yin Family letters and resources that confirmed Zhou Fuyou's account of his treason.
• Zhou Yunshen told Zhou Fuyou that he had at most ten years to live and that the First Elder would not reach the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhou Yunshen urged Zhou Fuyou to leave for the Southern Heaven Dao Palace, promising to protect and support Zhou Fuyou's sister while he was away.
• In Azure Nether, Luo Chen forced the Kui Ox Ghost God into the Soul Refining Banner, but the banner began to crack under its power.
• Luo Chen combined the Soul Refining Banner, the Soul Nourishing Banner, and rare materials in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, finishing a reforged banner that could support condensing the Kui Ox Divine Body once.

Luo Chen used the Nine Heavens Urn to search for Sky Qi while preparing to cultivate his sword art. Meanwhile, Zhou Yunshen escorted Zhou Fuyou to the Southern Heaven Dao Palace, destroying the Yin Family along the way and teaching his grandson how to advance toward Core Formation.

• Luo Chen subdued the Kui Ox Ghost God, then activated the Nine Heavens Urn and detected a wisp of Sky Qi eight hundred li away.
• Zhou Fuyou said goodbye to Zhou Qingyu, arranged resources and cultivation guidance for her, and promised to reunite with her after settling in at the Dao Palace.
• Zhou Yunshen took Zhou Fuyou to Cold River Valley and used the river and its demonic beasts to destroy the Yin Family as punishment for coveting the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Yunshen assessed Zhou Fuyou's Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer cultivation and began teaching him the Zhou Family's Core Formation Secret Technique during their journey.
• After more than half a year of travel and training, Zhou Yunshen and Zhou Fuyou arrived at the Southern Heaven Dao Palace and announced the Zhou Family's visit.

Zhou Yunshen brought Zhou Fuyou to the Southern Heaven Dao Palace and tested its leaders, overpowering four Nascent Soul True Persons before matching Zhan Bingtao. After the leaders praised the Dao Sect’s recovery plans, all four hall masters competed to take Zhou Fuyou as a disciple, and he was left to choose among them.

• Zhou Yunshen challenged the five Nascent Soul True Persons to prove they could guide Zhou Fuyou, then overwhelmed their Domains and matched Zhan Bingtao.
• The six Nascent Soul True Persons discussed the devastation of Central Province and the Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s plans to restore its former lands and power.
• Zhou Yunshen revealed that Zhou Fuyou had reached Foundation Establishment and asked the four hall masters to take him as a disciple.
• Hui Yuanhong, Long Ting, Zhang Bairen, and Fu Qinglan each promoted their hall and offered reasons for Zhou Fuyou to choose them.
• The hall masters argued over one another’s claims until Zhan Bingtao silenced them and ordered Zhou Fuyou to make his choice.

Zhou Fuyou chose Fairy Qing Lan as his master and joined Houtu Hall, where he received a fine cave estate and met his new seniors. Before departing, Zhou Yunshen entrusted him with the Zhou Family’s Coral Ring and a wealth of cultivation resources, leaving Zhou Fuyou to greet his master at dawn.

• Zhou Fuyou insisted on joining Houtu Hall under Fairy Qing Lan, and Zhan Bingtao confirmed his choice.
• Fairy Qing Lan brought Zhou Fuyou to Houtu Hall, where he met his eight senior disciples and received the Xuanzi Jia Yihao cave estate.
• Zhou Fuyou named his new residence Chao Xi Palace and told Shi Miaoyin he expected to move to a better cave estate as he advanced.
• Zhou Yunshen visited Zhou Fuyou and explained that the great Spirit Veins of Heaven Earth Peak had dispersed across the continents.
• Zhou Yunshen gave Zhou Fuyou the Zhou Family’s Coral Ring, cultivation insights, Spirit Stones, and materials for a future Natal Magic Treasure before leaving at dawn.
• Zhou Fuyou greeted Fairy Qing Lan as his master when she appeared outside his sleeping chamber.

Fairy Qing Lan taught Zhou Fuyou about Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s origins and tested his gifts, discovering his rare Xuanming Dao Physique. She urged him to abandon the Dew Cicada Technique, but accepted his decision to continue cultivating it and promised to seek its later stages; Zhou Fuyou then focused on reaching Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and forming a Golden Core.

• Fairy Qing Lan explained that Heaven Origin Dao Sect descended from the Xuan World with the other four Great Holy Lands, and that the Demon Phoenix had taken Star Gate from the ruined Heaven Earth Peak.
• Fairy Qing Lan tested Zhou Fuyou and confirmed that he had a Water Heavenly Spirit Root and the rare Xuanming Dao Physique, which improved his cultivation and mana capacity and resisted poisons and corrupted qi.
• Fairy Qing Lan learned that Zhou Fuyou cultivated the rapid Demon Technique Dew Cicada Technique and urged him to switch to one of the sect’s high-grade Water Element Cultivation Methods.
• Zhou Fuyou demonstrated unusually powerful mana despite cultivating the Dew Cicada Technique and insisted on keeping it, asking Fairy Qing Lan to obtain its Golden Core-stage and later follow-up methods.
• Fairy Qing Lan agreed to seek the technique’s continuation from Ranke Mountain, warned Zhou Fuyou to switch methods if problems arose, and told him his physique might let him wield Ming Water.
• After Fairy Qing Lan left, Zhou Fuyou resolved to cultivate at Chao Xi Palace, reach Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, and form a Golden Core so he could take charge of the Zhou Family and bring his younger sister to the Dao Palace.

Zhou Fuyou drove off a crowd of Foundation Establishment cultivators who had come to challenge him, then learned that his master planned to arrange a custom Natal Magic Treasure for him. While choosing from a treasure compendium, he set his sights on the Ocean Stabilizing Pearl; elsewhere, a black-robed Daoist reached Grandmaster Level in the Sword Scripture and discovered a strange Sword Qi seed.

• Zhou Yuwei, Zhou Yuhao, Zhou Ping'an, and Zhou Yuqi arrived at Chao Xi Palace and found Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered outside to provoke or meet Zhou Fuyou.
• Zhou Fuyou confronted the crowd, unleashed the Sky Floating Qi Sea to suppress them, and stopped only when Shi Miaoyin intervened and ordered them to leave.
• Shi Miaoyin told Zhou Fuyou that his master wanted him to choose a Natal Magic Treasure, and she promised Houtu Hall would forge it for him.
• Zhou Fuyou listened as the four Zhou family members described their struggles, including Zhou Ping'an's slow cultivation and Zhou Yuqi's doubts about his parents' deaths.
• Zhou Fuyou studied the Magic Treasure Compendium and chose the Ocean Stabilizing Pearl as the kind of treasure he wanted.
• A black-robed Daoist reached Grandmaster Level in the Sword Scripture after twenty years and discovered a seed condensed from Sword Qi.

After twenty years of secluded cultivation, Zhou Fuyou formed a Golden Core at Chao Xi Palace, with Fairy Qing Lan helping control the overwhelming spiritual qi. At Houtu Hall, he learned that his younger sister Zhou Qingyu had established her foundation, offered precious materials for his Natal Magic Treasure, and was asked to join an expedition against sea demons on the East Sea Coast.

• Zhou Fuyou formed his Golden Core after twenty years of cultivation, and Fairy Qing Lan suppressed the spreading spiritual qi while he recovered from sealing himself off from it.
• After three days and nights, Zhou Fuyou left Chao Xi Palace and learned from Shi Miaoyin that a letter from home reported Zhou Qingyu had established her foundation.
• Zhou Fuyou asked whether Zhou Qingyu could come to the Southern Heaven Dao Palace as an auditor, and Shi Miaoyin said the decision depended on Fairy Qing Lan.
• Fairy Qing Lan examined Zhou Fuyou's stable Early Stage Golden Core cultivation and accepted his rare materials to help prepare the Ocean Stabilizing Pearl as his Natal Magic Treasure.
• Fairy Qing Lan announced that Golden Core Disciples and Foundation Establishment True Cultivators would be sent to the East Sea Coast to fight sea demons, then asked Zhou Fuyou whether he would join the expedition.

Zhou Fuyou prepared to leave for the East Sea Coast, strengthened Sky Floating Qi Sea by refining Ming Water True Essence, and traveled with the Southern Heaven Dao Palace’s force. As the cultivators met with True Person Wen, Little White discovered a powerful gathering of Sea Demons and a Black Dragon beneath the sea.

• Zhou Fuyou explained that Master Qing Lan had sent him to gain experience and examined his powerful Golden Core before beginning to refine Ming Water True Essence into Sky Floating Qi Sea.
• Three days later, Zhou Fuyou joined the Southern Heaven Dao Palace force departing for the East Sea Coast, where Fu Bin organized the cultivators into squads.
• During the journey, Zhou Fuyou spent half a month refining Ming Water True Essence, greatly strengthening Sky Floating Qi Sea.
• The fleet neared Zhenhai City, and True Person Wen welcomed the twenty Golden Core cultivators with a banquet.
• Little White secretly followed the fleet, detected heavy Demon Qi over the sea, and found three Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators gathered around an undersea palace.
• A Transformation Demon Cultivator noticed Little White spying and attacked her, while a Black Dragon drank wine beside him.

Zhou Fuyou arrived at Liubo Mountain as mobile support and discovered that its formations concealed a vast network beneath the region. Meanwhile, Saibo and the Black Dragon planned an early assault on Zhenhai City, and Little White identified the Black Dragon as Black King and sent word to her master.

• Fu Bin told Zhou Fuyou that a battle involving a possible Tier 4 Demon Emperor had erupted, then assigned him to lead a team patrolling the region around Liubo Mountain.
• Zhou Fuyou arrived at Liubo Mountain, where Jidu introduced him to the local defenses and Zhou noticed a guarded formation he had not been told about.
• Lian Yuanshan emerged from the formation and warned Zhou Fuyou not to interfere with it; afterward, Zhou realized the formation patterns beneath Liubo Mountain were likely what the cultivators had been ordered to protect.
• Saibo reported that a Tier 4 Ghost Emperor had escaped him and persuaded the Black Dragon to attack Zhenhai City ahead of schedule, with the Black Dragon assigned to break through its nine gates from Liubo Mountain.
• Little White escaped Saibo, recognized the Black Dragon as Black King, and sent her master a voice transmission warning that Black King had appeared.

Luo Chen captured another wisp of Purple Sky Qi before learning that Black King had appeared, while Zhou Fuyou fought a devastating Sea Demon assault at Liubo Mountain. After Fairy Qing Lan’s Great Creation Divine Palm stopped a colossal wave, a Black Dragon destroyed the mountain, and Qing Lan hurried to request use of the Teleportation Array.

• Luo Chen used his Exploding Void Fire Escape to evade Sky Insects, captured Purple Sky Qi, and received Little White’s message that Black King had appeared.
• Zhou Fuyou and his squad helped defend Liubo Mountain, where he killed three Overlord Crabs and reinforced the front line.
• A towering tsunami swept toward Liubo Mountain, and Fairy Qing Lan’s Great Creation Divine Palm stopped and shattered it.
• A Black Dragon emerged, destroyed Liubo Mountain, and drove Zhou Fuyou to flee into the sea after his Mirror Flower Water Moon illusion briefly dazed it.
• The Black Dragon left Zhou Fuyou alive and headed toward Zhenhai City with millions of Sea Demons, while Fairy Qing Lan flew to the Heaven Origin Observatory to request the Teleportation Array.

Sea Demons breached Zhenhai City’s defenses, but Fairy Qing Lan arrived and helped defeat their attack. Suspecting the fleeing Black Dragon was Black King, she pursued it until a falling fireball drew her attention to a distant island.

• A dragon-shaped Black Dragon led a million Sea Demons through the first six layers of the Zhenhai Ninefold Sluice while three Demon Emperors struck down True Person Wen and fought the city’s array giant.
• Fairy Qing Lan emerged from the Teleportation Array, blocked Black Dragon with a giant leaf, and drove it off with the Great Creation Divine Palm and her Seven-Colored Flower Garland.
• Fairy Qing Lan joined True Person Wen and arriving Nascent Soul True Persons to defeat the Demon Emperors, killing the ugly one while Saibo escaped and the beautiful demon fled wounded.
• At ruined Liubo Mountain, Zhou Fuyou learned that most of his squad, including Zhou Yuhao, had died; Fairy Qing Lan briefly checked on him before pursuing Black Dragon.
• Fairy Qing Lan tracked Black Dragon with a fading trace of Wood Origin, suspected it was Black King, and stopped when a fireball fell from the clouds onto an island a thousand miles away.

Luo Chen reunited with Fu Qinglan, learned that someone had taken control of Black King, and followed the dragon north through a powerful formation. He reached the Ice Sea, where he met Senior Li and claimed the Black Dragon as his spirit pet.

• Luo Chen met Fu Qinglan, confirmed his connection to the Black Dragon's attack on Zhenhai City and the events in God Burial Valley, then left after telling her that Fu Chaosheng had been proud of her.
• Little White told Luo Chen that Black King was under someone else's control and fleeing north, so Luo Chen followed the dragon to discover who had overlaid his Servant Seal.
• Luo Chen and Little White tracked Black King across the Southern Heaven and Northern Li continents toward the North Sea Cultivation World.
• Luo Chen detected a sophisticated formation in the sea fog, broke through it, and emerged on the ice near the Ice Peak Sect.
• Luo Chen greeted Senior Li, who expressed surprise at his arrival, and declared that the Black Dragon was his spirit pet.