Recaps

Li Qingyuan and the other Foundation Establishment geniuses gathered at an unopened sect relic, where seven jade-slip keys revealed a Spirit Transformation inheritance. After the Core Formation Prodigies drove off the rogue cultivators, the factions entered the Grotto-heaven to compete for its opportunities.

• Zhao Tongxuan warned Li Qingyuan that Core Formation Prodigies had mysteriously vanished in the relic before, and Li Qingyuan resolved to conserve his strongest techniques.
• More than a thousand Foundation Establishment geniuses arrived, and Zhao Tongxuan introduced the Three Joys Immortal City group to the other factions' Core Formation Prodigies.
• The seven jade-slip keys merged, and Zhao Dai recognized the power behind them as a Spirit Transformation inheritance.
• A Primordial Spirit remnant opened the Spirit Transformation Grotto-heaven, and the seven Core Formation Prodigies killed rogue cultivators who rushed its entrance before forcing the rest to retreat.
• The factions led by Zhao Chong, Blood Shadow, Bai Qiulie, Ye Xiaoxiao, Xuan Dan, and Zhao Tongxuan entered the Grotto-heaven, and Li Qingyuan followed while hoping to find treasures to help Ji Kun advance.

Li Qingyuan entered the Myriad Laws Hall, a Spirit Transformation sect’s treasure repository, seeking a Wood-Attribute Core Formation Cultivation Method. He found the Burning Wood Technique and was transported to a battle space to prove himself worthy of obtaining it.

• Seven teams led by Core Formation Prodigies reached the enormous Spirit Transformation sect and scattered to search its palaces for inheritances.
• Zhao Tongxuan led the Three Joys Immortal City disciples toward a grand hall, while Liu Chuan left without saying goodbye; Li Qingyuan went alone to the Myriad Laws Hall.
• Li Qingyuan observed that the hall sent challengers into a battle space to fight puppets for their chosen cultivation methods or spells.
• Li Qingyuan flew into the hall’s star-filled inner world and caught a shooting star containing the Wood-Attribute Core Formation Cultivation Method Burning Wood Technique.
• Li Qingyuan chose the technique, crushed its shooting star, and was transported to the place of battle.

Li Qingyuan defeated a Third-grade Puppet in the Myriad Laws Hall and obtained the Burning Wood Technique and Flame Burst Spell. His search for a Third-tier body-refining method led him to a moon-bright challenge that forced him to face a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet, leaving him wondering how a Foundation Establishment cultivator could survive.

• Li Qingyuan fought the Third-grade Puppet with his body and magic power, then used the Primordial Cone to defeat it and claim the Burning Wood Technique.
• He searched the Starry Sky Hall, captured a Third-tier Flame Burst Spell, and defeated another puppet with a single strike to obtain it.
• Li Qingyuan searched for a Third-tier body-refining method but found only Second-tier options.
• A dazzling moon-like light pursued Li Qingyuan and transported him to an arena despite his attempt to flee.
• Li Qingyuan faced a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet and realized he had no idea how to fight it as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Shang Xiuxin and her allies fought Yan Kui and the Corpse Puppet Sect over the Golden Condensing Grass, until Shang Xiuxin’s hidden peach blossom power killed Yan Kui and devastated her followers. Elsewhere, Li Qingyuan defeated an Ape Puppet and received a jade slip containing a Fourth-tier Spell.

• Yan Kui sent a Core Formation corpse puppet against Shang Xiuxin and ordered her disciples to seize the Golden Condensing Grass, but Lan Xin joined Li Yunmei and the others to complete the Six Harmonies Sword Formation.
• Yan Kui unleashed her Core Formation corpse puppet, which broke the sword formation and heavily injured Lan Xin, Li Yunmei, and the other women.
• Shang Xiuxin used a peach blossom power that destroyed the corpse puppet, killed Yan Kui, and struck down more than ten Corpse Puppet Sect disciples.
• Lan Xin and Shang Xiuxin finished off the surviving enemies, and the women swore Dao Heart Oaths to keep Shang Xiuxin’s secret.
• Li Qingyuan defeated a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet, but the puppet and its Demonic Beast Core vanished before he could collect them.
• Li Qingyuan received a jade slip for defeating the puppet and discovered that it contained a Fourth-tier Spell.

Li Qingyuan acquired the Heart Demon Pupil, disguised himself as Corpse Puppet Sect disciple Zhen Youde, and joined the battle for the Heavenly God Sect’s Pill Treasure Pavilion. He seized a core Pill Tower amid the fighting, where the scent of pills excited Ji Kun inside his Space Ring.

• Li Qingyuan read the Heart Demon Pupil’s abilities, stored the technique, and feigned injuries before teleporting out of the Myriad Laws Hall.
• After discovering that no one had tried to rob him, Li Qingyuan transformed into Zhen Youde and posed as a Corpse Puppet Sect body cultivator.
• Li Qingyuan joined Shangguan Sha and gathered Corpse Puppet Sect allies on their way to the Pill Treasure Pavilion, where Blood Shadow and Zhao Chong fought over its core buildings.
• Li Qingyuan charged into the battle, killed and injured numerous Limitless Sect cultivators, and entered a core Pill Tower.
• The Corpse Puppet Sect and Limitless Sect divided the six core Pill Towers, while Li Qingyuan smelled the pill fragrance and Ji Kun grew excited inside his Space Ring.

Li Qingyuan raided the Pill Tower’s first floor, then helped Shangguan Sha’s faction attack rival cultivators before killing Shangguan Sha and slaughtering the trapped survivors. He collected the tower’s third-grade elixirs and discovered an unranked Ancient Samsara Pill formula on the top floor, whose description shocked him.

• Li Qingyuan collected nearly a hundred second-grade Masterwork elixirs and directed Shangguan Sha toward the third-grade pills on the second floor.
• Shangguan Sha ordered Corpse Puppet Sect disciples to suppress affiliated cultivators fighting over the elixirs, and Li Qingyuan joined his side before suddenly killing him.
• Li Qingyuan activated a formation and, with Ji Kun, used Primordial Cones and Five Elements Talisman Arrays to kill the Foundation Establishment cultivators trapped in the Pill Tower.
• Li Qingyuan gathered the dead cultivators’ Storage Bags and Corpse Puppets, then collected the third-grade elixirs, including Spirit Condensing Pills and Longevity Pills.
• Li Qingyuan reached the Pill Tower’s third floor, retrieved the Ancient Samsara Pill formula from a jade box, and was shocked by its description.

Li Qingyuan discovered a formula for an elixir that could strengthen his loved ones’ Spirit Roots after reincarnation, then lured Blood Shadow and the Corpse Puppet Sect into a deadly trap. He escaped as the Pill Tower exploded, leaving Blood Shadow furious and badly battered.

• Li Qingyuan decided to refine the Ancient Samsara Pill so his parents, Luo Ling, and their children could have a path to stronger cultivation after reincarnation.
• Blood Shadow sent Yang Xuan and Yang Xiu with disciples into Li Qingyuan’s Pill Tower, but they failed to return, and he led the rest of the Corpse Puppet Sect inside.
• Blood Shadow found the corpses of dozens of sect members and ordered a retreat, but Li Qingyuan detonated talisman arrays and corpse puppets to attack them.
• Li Qingyuan blocked Blood Shadow’s strike, escaped the Pill Tower, and revealed himself as Zhen Youde before fleeing.
• The Pill Tower and its formation exploded, leaving Blood Shadow with heavy losses and prompting Zhao Chong and Zhao Dai to warn each other about Zhen Youde.

Li Qingyuan cultivated the Heart Demon Pupil and overcame visions rooted in the abandonment he suffered in his past life and his fears about his children. After learning that Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk might lie ahead, he set out toward the rumored spirit pool and the people gathered there.

• Li Qingyuan settled into a crude cave dwelling, kept in touch with Li Yunmei, and began cultivating the Heart Demon Pupil.
• The Heart Demon Pupil forced Li Qingyuan to relive his abandonment as an infant and confront his guilt about not witnessing his twins' birth.
• Li Qingyuan let go of his past and resolved that he had given his children a strong start, reaching the Heart Demon Pupil's beginner stage.
• After several days of cultivation, Li Qingyuan achieved minor accomplishment in the Heart Demon Pupil and learned how it could affect other cultivators.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that Zheng Fa and Lu Huan were attempting to reach the False Core Realm, while Shang Xiuxin led others toward a rumored spirit pool containing Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Li Qingyuan packed away his formation and rushed toward the spirit pool, intending to settle his debts with Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun.

Disguised as Chen Yuanjie, Li Qingyuan reached the Spirit Transformation cave abode and discovered Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk inside its powerful formation. He arranged for Li Yunmei to lure Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun away, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Li Qingyuan reviewed Li Yunmei’s reports about the looted treasures and the battles at the cave-heaven’s major sites.
• Li Qingyuan arrived at the cave abode and saw Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk simulated as spirit fish within its spiritual spring.
• Li Qingyuan decided to seize the milk for making Purifying Elixir Liquid and asked Li Yunmei to lure Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun away.
• Li Yunmei pretended she was going to meet Liu Chuan, and Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun volunteered to accompany her.
• Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun secretly planned to kill Liu Chuan and capture Li Yunmei, while Li Yunmei resolved to settle her feud with Ding Xiaojun.

Li Qingyuan killed Mo Hong and helped Li Yunmei kill Ding Xiaojun, then staged an attack so Xuan Ya would believe the Corpse Puppet Sect had assaulted her. The factions gathered at the Spirit Transformation cave mansion, where Zhao Chong called for a plan to break its formation and claim the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

• Li Qingyuan ambushed Mo Hong, used his inner demon to disable him, and killed him.
• Li Yunmei stabbed Ding Xiaojun to death, and Li Qingyuan took both victims' Storage Bags.
• Li Qingyuan staged an attack on Li Yunmei as Xuan Ya arrived, then fled after using three corpse puppets to blunt her attack.
• Li Yunmei convinced Xuan Ya to stay with her, and the Mysterious Heaven Sect disciples later brought her to the Spirit Transformation cave mansion.
• The seven great factions gathered, where Zhao Chong explained that the formation could not be broken by force and asked everyone to suggest a plan.

The cultivators pooled their formation masters and talismans to probe the grand formation protecting the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, but Xuan Ya warned that breaking it was dangerous. Li Qingyuan revealed his superior understanding of the ancient formation and agreed to help, demanding twenty drops of the spirit milk in return.

• Xuan Ya organized the cultivators’ Second-grade Formation Masters and Barrier-Breaking Talismans to attack the grand formation and search for its nodes.
• Blood Shadow attacked the laughing Rogue Cultivators, but Zhao Chong restrained him with a treasured mirror and ordered him to cooperate.
• The formation masters found only thirty-two nodes, and Xuan Ya warned that entering the formation without understanding its many nodes could trigger its killing arts.
• Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to find additional nodes and identified the formation’s hexadecimal foundation, then directed Zhao Tongxuan to strike more nodes.
• Xuan Ya acknowledged that Li Qingyuan’s formation knowledge surpassed hers, and Li Qingyuan agreed to break the formation in exchange for twenty drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

Li Qingyuan negotiated a twelve-drop share of the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk in exchange for breaking the grand formation, then directed the gathered cultivators in a coordinated assault. He entered the formation with them, leaving Wan Yuan and Blood Shadow alive despite considering killing them inside.

• Li Qingyuan rejected objections to his share and secured agreement from the sects to receive twelve drops if he broke the formation.
• Li Qingyuan assigned cultivators to formation nodes and revealed that he had found 108 nodes, which combined with Xuan Ya’s twelve would give them 120.
• Li Qingyuan ordered 120 cultivators to attack the formation in stages, then used a Second-grade High-rank Restriction Breaking Talisman and the Heart Demon Pupil to enter it.
• The cultivators followed Li Qingyuan through the opening, and the formation’s clouds and mist concealed the cave abode and everyone inside.
• Li Qingyuan regretted that his reliance on the Heart Demon Pupil had kept him from secretly changing the formation to kill Wan Yuan and Blood Shadow and take their Storage Bags.

Li Qingyuan collected Spirit Spring Water and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk from the Spirit Transformation cave dwelling, then escaped before Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan could pursue him. He prepared to upgrade Spirit Condensing Pills and help Ji Kun advance, planning to hunt afterward.

• Li Qingyuan filled containers with Spirit Spring Water and collected five drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk as the group drained the spring.
• Zhao Chong distributed the remaining spirit milk, giving Li Qingyuan seven more drops and allocating the rest according to cultivation level and prior agreements.
• Li Qingyuan led the group out of the formation, then departed alone while Zhao Tongxuan, Xuan Ya, and Zhao Dai delayed Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan for an hour.
• Li Qingyuan set up several formations in a hidden mountain hollow and prepared pills, spirit milk, and Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo to help Ji Kun become a Tier 3 Great Demon.

Li Qingyuan copied precious materials, prepared Third-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid, and transformed a Spirit Condensing Pill into Masterwork quality after one failed attempt. He gave the pill to Ji Kun, who began forming a Demonic Core and advancing to Tier 3.

• Li Qingyuan copied two Spirit Condensing Pills, Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo in the Fortune Space.
• Li Qingyuan made two batches of Third-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid and used them to upgrade a Spirit Condensing Pill, with his first attempt ending in an explosion.
• Li Qingyuan successfully refined a Third-grade Mid-rank Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill on his second attempt.
• Ji Kun rushed to claim the pill, and Li Qingyuan gave it to him after scolding and fighting with him.
• Ji Kun swallowed the Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill and began forming a Demonic Core as his aura grew toward Tier 3.

Li Qingyuan refined six Masterwork Primordial Chaos Pills and consumed one, gaining nearly two and a half years of cultivation after a month of effort. Ji Kun broke through to Tier 3 Great Demon, and Li Qingyuan set out with him to confront Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan.

• Li Qingyuan refined the remaining genuine Spirit Condensing Pills into two Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pills, then copied and upgraded the Primordial Chaos Pills into six Masterwork pills.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a Masterwork Primordial Chaos Pill, used his body-refining cultivation and Dragon Tiger Elixirs to refine it, and gained nearly two and a half years of cultivation after more than a month.
• Ji Kun formed a seven-colored Demonic Core bearing the same mysterious runes as his eggshell and completed his breakthrough to Tier 3 Great Demon.
• Li Qingyuan learned from Li Yunmei that Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan had been searching for them, and he and Ji Kun left to go kill someone.

The Ink Jade Giant Crab and its master, a damaged Primordial Spirit hidden in Blood Red Soil, prepared for the arrival of the Seven Kingdoms’ prodigies, while Blood Shadow obtained a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead and set out to hunt Liu Chuan. The chapter left Blood Shadow leading his followers toward Yellow Sand Valley, hoping to seize Liu Chuan before other hunters did.

• The Ink Jade Giant Crab felt a sudden foreboding, summoned tens of thousands of Ink Jade Scorpions to search the grotto-heaven, and discussed the coming prodigies with the Nascent Soul Elder.
• The Nascent Soul Elder revealed that he had gathered the essences of more than nine hundred Core Formation prodigies and needed several dozen to a hundred more to refine the Breathing Soil and rebuild his body.
• Blood Shadow escaped a collapsing cave abode with two damaged puppets and obtained a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead after losing disciples and sacrificing a puppet.
• Blood Shadow asked Wan Yuan to help capture Zhao Tongxuan alive, offering him the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Storage Bags from Three Joys Immortal City; Wan Yuan agreed to attack the city with him.
• Blood Shadow learned that Liu Chuan had appeared near Yellow Sand Valley and led his able followers east to hunt him down.

Li Qingyuan, disguised as Liu Chuan, lured Blood Shadow into a trap in Yellow Sand Valley and revealed his true combat strength. After Ji Kun killed the Corpse Puppet Sect disciples, Li Qingyuan activated a third-grade formation around Blood Shadow and invited him to die.

• Blood Shadow arrived at Yellow Sand Valley, drove away or killed the gathered cultivators, and ordered his disciples to search for Liu Chuan.
• Blood Shadow's hidden Fireflow Stones exposed Li Qingyuan's escape, and he pursued and struck him down with the Black Gold Demon Suppressing Platform.
• Li Qingyuan revealed himself as Zhen Youde, unleashed multiple Five Elements Talisman Arrays and powerful sword and body techniques, and fought Blood Shadow.
• Ji Kun ambushed the Corpse Puppet Sect disciples as they rushed to help Blood Shadow, killing all eleven.
• Li Qingyuan activated the third-grade formation surrounding Blood Shadow and challenged him to die.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun overwhelmed Blood Shadow, a Core Formation prodigy of the Corpse Puppet Sect, but his Blood Shadow Escape initially seemed to let him flee. Ji Kun revealed a confinement ability that captured and sealed Blood Shadow, leaving him defeated and in Li Qingyuan’s hands.

• Li Qingyuan attacked Blood Shadow with Five Elements Talisman Arrays, the Purple Profound Sword Art, and the Primordial Cone, while Ji Kun joined the fight with its own Primordial Cone.
• Blood Shadow was wounded and, facing their combined assault, used the Corpse Puppet Sect’s Blood Shadow Escape to flee through the trapping array as dozens of phantoms.
• Li Qingyuan failed to identify the real Blood Shadow in time, but Ji Kun pursued a phantom and immobilized Blood Shadow with seven-colored spiritual power.
• Ji Kun revealed that it could speak and explained its confinement ability, then sealed Blood Shadow’s cultivation and divine sense.
• Li Qingyuan bound and injured Blood Shadow, took his Space Ring, and left him helpless and despairing.

Li Qingyuan seized Blood Shadow’s Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead and learned the Corpse Puppet Sect’s Divine Fiend Clone secret technique by searching his soul. He used the technique to turn Blood Shadow into a Core Formation Divine Fiend Clone, leaving himself with a powerful new puppet.

• Li Qingyuan refined Blood Shadow’s Space Ring and found valuable treasures, including a powerful Yin Sha Bead and two third-tier spells.
• Li Qingyuan took the unconscious Blood Shadow to a cave, where he used the Heart Demon Pupil to search his soul and learned that the bead was a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead.
• Li Qingyuan discovered the Divine Fiend Clone technique and realized Blood Shadow met its cultivation and spirit-root requirements.
• Li Qingyuan used his Natal Soul Blood to refine the Yin Sha Bead, then split off a strand of his source divine sense and placed it inside Blood Shadow.
• The Yin Sha Qi transformed Blood Shadow into a Core Formation Divine Fiend Clone under Li Qingyuan’s control.

Li Qingyuan restored his divine sense, tested the Core Formation strength of his Blood Shadow Clone, and traveled to the Shattered Continent’s core region. There, he learned that an upcoming auction might offer the Third-grade Body Refining Cultivation Method he wanted, leaving him hopeful of forming his Core through the flesh.

• Li Qingyuan used Masterwork Spirit Nurturing Pills to restore the divine sense origin he had spent creating his Natal Corpse Puppet.
• He tested the Blood Shadow Clone’s power and found it could match Old Thief Chi Yun before Chi Yun acquired new equipment.
• Li Qingyuan traveled under various disguises to the core region of the continent and joined the gathering of cultivators there.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that the Core Formation Prodigies of the Seven Kingdoms were holding an auction in ten days.
• Li Qingyuan met Li Yunmei at the Three Joys Immortal City camp, showed her resources he wanted to trade, and learned that the auction would include a Third-grade Body Refining Cultivation Method.

Li Qingyuan attended a vast auction and competed with Tie Wushuang for an incomplete Fourth-grade body-refining cultivation method. He won the method for Two Hundred Thousand Spirit Stones, while his wealth drew greedy attention from some cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan counted ninety-nine Core Formation Prodigies at the auction and wondered why Spirit Transformation ruins and grotto-heavens were opening so often.
• Zhao Dai opened the auction with three drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, which the Holy Son of the Heavenly Demon Sect bought for One Hundred Thirty Thousand Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Dai auctioned a Spirit Condensing Pill, while Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei discussed how the Second-tier Resources would be sold later in an open market.
• Li Qingyuan bid on an incomplete Fourth-grade body-refining cultivation method after Zhao Dai introduced it as an inheritance that could be cultivated to the peak of the Third-grade.
• Tie Wushuang of the Heavenly Gang Gate challenged Li Qingyuan's bid and questioned his wealth, but other Core Formation Prodigies intervened when Tie Wushuang released his aura.
• Li Qingyuan outbid Tie Wushuang with Two Hundred Thousand Spirit Stones and won the cultivation method, attracting greedy looks from cultivators around him.

Li Qingyuan won the incomplete Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body technique and copied a fourth-grade incomplete Thunder Fire Talisman rune before the auction ended. A mysterious immortal mountain appeared in the Trial Ground, and the discovery of Heavenly Infant Fruits drove thousands of cultivators into a greedy rush as Li Qingyuan held back from the coming slaughter.

• Li Qingyuan paid two hundred thousand Spirit Stones for the incomplete Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body technique and learned that its surviving levels could cultivate a body up to the peak of the third grade.
• Zhao Tongxuan won the incomplete fourth-grade rune for ninety-eight thousand Spirit Stones, let Li Qingyuan copy it, and Li Qingyuan later recognized it as the Thunder Fire Talisman rune.
• After the auction ended, Li Qingyuan planned to seek the special space containing the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, which matched his Wood Spirit Body.
• An immortal mountain cave abode erupted from the earth in the continent's core region, and Li Qingyuan realized it was the mysterious space True Person Miao Le had mentioned.
• Cultivators identified the fruit hanging from the immortal tree as Heavenly Infant Fruit, and Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to suppress his greed.
• Thousands of cultivators charged toward the immortal mountain, while Li Qingyuan stayed behind the crowd and anticipated bloodshed.

The Heavenly Infant Fruit drove cultivators into a frenzy, but Li Qingyuan recognized the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm as a trap and escaped with Li Yunmei. A hidden Nascent Soul Elder unleashed an army of demonic beasts against the intruders, while a Purple Flame Lion Roc pursued Li Qingyuan as he fled.

• Zhao Tongxuan and the other cultivators rushed toward the Heavenly Infant Fruit, while Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to free Li Yunmei from its influence.
• A hidden Nascent Soul Elder revealed that his greed-based Soul Transformation Artistic Conception had driven the cultivators toward the secret realm and ordered the demonic beasts to kill them.
• The Jadeite Scorpion and nearly a hundred Tier 3 Great Demons led a vast army of beasts against the human cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan took Li Yunmei and fled, but a Purple Flame Lion Roc attacked them with flaming blades and a sonic assault.
• Li Qingyuan fought the pursuing Purple Flame Lion Roc with talisman arrays and continued fleeing, leaving Zhao Tongxuan and Shang Xiuxin behind.

A Nascent Soul Elder trapped the cultivators on Immortal Mountain and began slaughtering them to refine Blood Pill Great Medicine, while the Scorpion King led the demonic beasts against them. Li Qingyuan escaped far from the battlefield and finally turned to face the Purple Flame Lion Roc pursuing him.

• The Nascent Soul Elder dismissed Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei as threats, revealed his plan to kill everyone on the ruin continent, and ordered Xiao Yu and the demonic beasts to attack the cultivators.
• The Scorpion King killed Core Formation prodigies and Foundation Establishment Cultivators as Zhao Tongxuan and other leaders tried to organize a breakout; several prodigies escaped the beast tide but were stopped by the array barrier.
• Zhao Tongxuan’s group found the barrier unbreakable, mourned their losses, and realized Liu Chuan and Li Yunmei were not inside the secret realm.
• Zhao Chong, Zhao Tongxuan, and other Core Formation prodigies rallied the survivors and temporarily held back the Scorpion King and demonic beasts through coordinated attacks.
• The Nascent Soul Elder ordered Xiao Yu to prolong the battle while he refined the dead prodigies into blood pills, and the Scorpion King reduced its pace of slaughter.
• Li Qingyuan, having drawn the Purple Flame Lion Roc away for more than ten thousand miles, stopped fleeing and prepared to fight back.

Ji Kun killed the Purple Flame Lion Roc, and Li Qingyuan made the Flame Dragon Lizard his spirit pet in exchange for its help. The lizard led them to a hidden Earth Thunder Pool, where Li Qingyuan began cultivating the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body while waiting for a chance to escape the Scorpion King.

• Ji Kun stunned and killed the Purple Flame Lion Roc, then brought its cores to Li Qingyuan, who stored the beast's valuable remains.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun confronted the Flame Dragon Lizard, which offered to show them underground treasure in exchange for leaving the region.
• Li Qingyuan made the Flame Dragon Lizard his spirit pet with a Master-Servant Contract, and it led him three thousand zhang underground.
• The Flame Dragon Lizard brought Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun to a vast Earth Thunder Pool that the Scorpion King feared, and a lightning strike injured Li Qingyuan when his divine sense touched it.
• Li Qingyuan found a Wind Thunder Sect stele describing the pool's use for body cultivation and began studying the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body there.