Recaps

Xiao Chen earned Spirit Stones through pill sales and Alliance work, rescued Chen Fan, and joined an expedition to investigate a deadly storm. He uncovered an ancient Sea Race prison, destroyed the demon within, and returned to Secluded Doom Island with a protective hairpin for Su Li.

• Xiao Chen encouraged Su Li to pursue Spirit Transformation, then helped her make nine talismans and left her three before returning to the New Cultivation World.
• Xiao Chen learned of the Gui Yun Sect’s purge and rising Spirit Tool prices, then investigated pill refining and sought Clear Dew Foundation Establishment Pills from Alchemist Zhao.
• Xiao Chen refined and sold hundreds of Clear Dew Foundation Establishment Pills, while rescuing Chen Fan from Hua Jian True Monarch and killing Hua Jian when he refused to let Chen Fan go.
• Xiao Chen attended Ming Xiao True Monarch’s Nascent Soul Ceremony and joined an expedition to investigate a corrosive storm in the Outer Sea.
• The expedition found a forbidden island covered in Demon Suppressing Pillars, where a demonic beast tried to manipulate the cultivators and break free from its prison.
• Xiao Chen burned the demonic beast and its Primal Demonic Pearl, then shared the hidden chamber’s jade slip and Demon Suppressing Token with the group while keeping a golden hairpin.
• Xiao Chen and the other True Lords dismantled the Sea Race array causing the storm, recovered its materials, and later helped defeat two Fourth-Order Yin Spirits near Wave Listening Market.
• Xiao Chen returned to Secluded Doom Island, gave Su Li the defensive Hibiscus Golden Hairpin, and began telling her about the Yin Spirit Calamity.

Xiao Chen strengthened his cultivation, explored Black Iron Venerable’s Cave Residence, and returned to the Lightless Sea to rescue prisoners and wage war on the Yin Corpse Sect. After destroying its strongholds and the Dai Family, he confronted its allies at the Heavenly Sound Sect and killed You Zhong True Monarch.

• Xiao Chen reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, learned of Black Iron Venerable’s Cave Residence, and departed for Storm Sea.
• Xiao Chen copied the Jia Mo Sect Inheritance for Universal Salvation Temple, then collected Killing Intent and entered Black Iron Venerable’s Cave Residence.
• Xiao Chen explored the Cave Residence, obtained its treasures and techniques, and strengthened his body through the Hundred Beast Cauldron and spirit guardian trials.
• Xiao Chen returned to Lightless Sea, rescued captives from the Yin Corpse Sect, and killed Nether Silkworm True Monarch, Zhi Qin True Monarch, and Coffin Bearing True Monarch.
• Xiao Chen destroyed the Yin Corpse Sect’s defenses and raided its warehouse, while its surviving allies spread rumors portraying him as a Devil Master.
• Xiao Chen burned the Dai Family’s ancestral mansion, destroyed its Corpse Puppets, and gathered its treasures before announcing his intent to confront the Yin Corpse Sect at Heavenly Sound Sect.
• Wen Suo Ruo left Heavenly Sound Sect with five companions, while Xiao Chen broke through its mountain defenses and demanded the Yin Corpse Sect’s remnants face him.
• Xiao Chen presented evidence of the Yin Corpse Sect’s crimes, rejected Yang Jiu True Monarch’s defense, and killed You Zhong True Monarch with Mountain Breaking Palm.

After destroying the Yin Corpse Demonic Sect, Xiao Chen gathered resources, settled old grievances, and prepared for the Vast Sea Secret Realm while the Great Purge and rising powers reshaped the region. He refused Kong Xing Ming Wang’s invitation and then rescued Lu Chengfeng, a fugitive whose family had been destroyed by the Gui Yun Sect.

• Xiao Chen defeated the Heavenly Sound Sect’s demonic leaders, claimed its warehouse, and spared the uninvolved disciples.
• Xiao Chen studied the Vast Sea Secret Realm, collected the Yin Corpse Sect’s treasures and secrets, and set out to settle accounts with the Three Great Families.
• Xiao Chen punished the Chu and Jin families, visited the Golden Haze Sect, and accepted invitations and gifts while remaining neutral in disputes over the Lightless Sea.
• Xiao Chen attended the Spirit Fish Banquet, began condensing True Essence, and learned that the Universal Salvation Temple’s envoys had been killed and robbed.
• Xiao Chen returned to Gui Yun Market, saw the devastation caused by the Great Purge, and arranged for Shattered Gold True Monarch to upgrade his spear.
• Xiao Chen adopted the false identity Cai Youde and attended the Hundred Herbs City Exchange Meet, where he traded for materials and acquired a map of Desolate Beast Remnants.
• Xiao Chen declined Kong Xing Ming Wang’s invitation and learned that the Vast Sea Secret Realm’s Inner Realm would likely open the following spring.
• Xiao Chen rescued Lu Chengfeng from Gui Yun Sect pursuers, took him to a secluded ravine, and heard how the sect’s persecution of his family had made him a fugitive.