Recaps

Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming encountered Wu Ji, the remnant soul of a Primordial Era Human Race general, in Ghost Cry Valley. Wu Ji entrusted Jiang Fan with returning his token to the Martial Emperor’s descendants and began passing on a Dao-Nurturing Chapter that could repair Jiang Fan’s Dao injury.

• Jiang Fan pleaded with the skeleton to help him and Jiang Ming escape Ghost Cry Valley, and Wu Ji’s golden soul flames awakened.
• Wu Ji recognized Jiang Ming’s Heavenly Demon royal bloodline and asked Jiang Fan about the era and the current state of the Human Race.
• Wu Ji introduced himself as a Great General of the Desolate Guard who had perished fighting three Great Demon Saints and remained as an obsession hoping to see the Human Race become stable.
• Wu Ji gave Jiang Fan the Primordial Great General Token and asked him to find the Martial Emperor’s descendants and return it.
• Jiang Fan agreed to the task after Wu Ji offered an Incomplete Dao-Nurturing Fragment to repair his damaged foundation.
• Wu Ji sent golden light into Jiang Fan, imprinting the Dao-Nurturing Chapter into his mind.

With Wu Ji’s help, Jiang Fan used the Dao-Nurturing Chapter to repair his Great Dao Foundation and restore his cultivation. He condensed five Great Daos and advanced to the True Realm Early Stage, leaving Wu Ji astonished.

• Golden light guided Jiang Fan through the Dao-Nurturing Chapter, restoring his Great Dao Foundation and raising him to the Void Realm Mid-Stage Peak.
• Wu Ji urged Jiang Fan to seize the chance to comprehend heaven and earth, and Jiang Fan began perceiving its laws.
• Jiang Fan restored the three Great Daos he had possessed in the Mystic Heaven Realm and continued comprehending until he condensed five Great Daos.
• Jiang Fan’s cultivation surged through the Void Realm and broke into the True Realm Early Stage.
• Wu Ji marveled at Jiang Fan’s five Great Daos and asked whether he had already been a True Realm expert.

Jiang Fan received Wu Ji’s final inheritance and escaped the Dustmote Domain with Jiang Ming, recovering his true body and cultivation. Near the edge of Ghost Cry Valley, he sensed Lu Song and the others fighting outside and rushed toward them.

• Jiang Fan told Wu Ji how he had burned three Dao paths to die alongside Mo Lou, and Wu Ji praised his five Dao paths and spoke about the Dao Ancestor.
• Wu Ji passed his memories, cultivation experience, and understanding of the Great Dao to Jiang Fan before vanishing, warning him to protect the Human Race and remain vigilant about his Demon King bloodline.
• The Dustmote Domain returned to normal, and Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming left the valley as Jiang Fan used his recovered power to clear their way.
• Jiang Fan sensed Lu Song and the others fighting outside Ghost Cry Valley, placed a hand on Jiang Ming’s shoulder, and vanished toward them.

Jiang Fan emerged from Ghost Cry Valley and arrived just in time to save Lu Song, Wen Xi, Cui Yiting, and Chen Zhao from Xiao Yun. After revealing that his injuries had recovered, Jiang Fan challenged Xiao Yun and effortlessly dispelled his powerful attack.

• Xiao Yun defeated Lu Song, Wen Xi, Cui Yiting, and Chen Zhao outside Ghost Cry Valley and prepared to kill Lu Song.
• Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming emerged from Ghost Cry Valley, and Jiang Fan stopped Xiao Yun's killing blow.
• Jiang Fan told Xiao Yun that his injuries had recovered and challenged him to fight.
• Xiao Yun attacked Jiang Fan with a giant yellow-earth palm, but Jiang Fan dispelled it with a single word.

Jiang Fan revealed that he had entered the True Realm with five Great Daos and defeated Xiao Yun, ending the threat against him and his companions. He gave Lu Song, Wen Xi, and the others pills to treat their injuries.

• Jiang Fan displayed five Great Daos and broke Xiao Yun's Mountain-Suppressing Seal with a single finger.
• Jiang Fan used Spatial Cut to attack Xiao Yun and declared that he would settle their grudge.
• Jiang Fan summoned a Five-Toothed Wheel Disc and crushed Xiao Yun's defenses, killing him.
• Lu Song, Wen Xi, and the others stared in shock as Jiang Fan told them they no longer had to fear being hunted by the governor of Linjiang County.
• Jiang Fan distributed pills to Lu Song, Wen Xi, and the others so they could treat their injuries.

After Jiang Fan rescued Lu Song, Wen Xi, Chen Zhao, and Cui Yiting from Xiao Yun, he led them out of Black Wind Ridge and shared what he had learned in Ghost Cry Valley. He gave each of them a jade slip containing cultivation notes, leaving them with a valuable aid for their future cultivation.

• Lu Song and the others recovered with Jiang Fan’s pills and thanked him for saving their lives, while Jiang Fan urged them to leave Black Wind Ridge before danger or trouble found them.
• Jiang Fan carried the group out of Black Wind Ridge and brought them to a safe forest beside a stream.
• Jiang Fan explained how he had restored his Dao Foundation in the vanished Dustmote Domain, while concealing Wu Ji’s existence.
• Jiang Fan gave Lu Song, Wen Xi, Chen Zhao, and Cui Yiting jade slips inscribed with cultivation notes from Ghost Cry Valley, and insisted they accept them.

After parting from Lu Song and the others, Jiang Fan traveled with Jiang Ming toward the Cangming Sect to fulfill Senior Cangming’s final wish, taking a year to journey leisurely through the mortal world. At the border of Heavenly Peace Prefecture, they sought shelter from a storm in a broken temple and found it occupied by a group of children and two shadowy figures.

• Lu Song, Wen Xi, Cui Yiting, and Chen Zhao parted ways with Jiang Fan, who said he would visit the Cangming Sect before returning to his own sect.
• Jiang Fan told Jiang Ming that Senior Cangming had asked him to bring news of his death to the Cangming Sect, and they set off together.
• Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming spent a year traveling as Mortals, during which Jiang Fan’s cultivation advanced and Jiang Ming awakened more of her royal bloodline.
• Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming reached the border of Heavenly Peace Prefecture and headed for a broken temple to escape a downpour.
• Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming entered the temple and found more than a dozen shivering children gathered around a fire, with two people sitting in the shadows.

Jiang Ming shared Jiang Fan’s roasted meat with the starving children in the temple, delighted when they called her big sister. As Jiang Fan noticed something strange hidden within one child, a shadowy figure warned him to stay out of other people’s affairs.

• Jiang Fan made a fire and cooked beast meat while the children and two shadowy figures watched.
• Bean Sprout approached Jiang Ming to say he was hungry, and she gave him a huge piece of roasted meat.
• The other children crowded around, and Jiang Ming organized them into a line and shared meat with them.
• Jiang Fan noticed an unusual presence hidden within a child and prepared to investigate with his divine sense.
• A rasping voice from the shadows warned Jiang Fan to leave certain matters alone.

Jiang Fan discovered that Evil Cultivators had planted Soul-Devouring Demon Seeds in the children and subdued the men holding them captive. With the seeds endangering the children if removed by force, Jiang Fan faced a difficult choice when someone called him Brother and offered to hit the Evil Cultivators.

• A rough-clothed girl secretly passed Jiang Fan a note asking him to save the children.
• Jiang Fan called the girl over, prompting the scar-faced man and his companion to attack him.
• Jiang Fan knocked the two Emperor Realm Evil Cultivators to the ground with a glance and examined the girl.
• Jiang Fan discovered a Soul-Devouring Demon Seed in the girl's Dantian and realized the other children had them too.
• The Evil Cultivators threatened that the seeds would kill the children if they died or anyone tried to remove them by force.
• As Jiang Fan struggled to find a way to save the children, a voice called him Brother and said it wanted to hit the Evil Cultivators.

Jiang Ming severed the Evil Cultivators’ control over the children’s Demon Seeds and punished them, while Jiang Fan discovered the seeds could not be removed and began trying to destroy them with his Dao laws. The first Demon Seed started melting under his power, but the children’s fate remained uncertain.

• Jiang Ming used her Myriad Kings Clan bloodline to break the Evil Cultivators’ connections to the children’s Demon Seeds.
• Jiang Ming burned the scar-faced man and his companion with golden-red flame until Jiang Fan told her to stop.
• Jiang Fan questioned the men about removing the Demon Seeds, then extracted their memories and learned the seeds could not be removed.
• Jiang Fan warned the children that they would undergo Demonic Transformation and enveloped them in the life-giving radiance of his five great Daos.
• Jiang Fan used the Laws of Water, Fire, and Thunder to separate and dissolve the first child’s Demon Seed.

Jiang Fan purified the demon seeds in the children and forced two Evil Cultivators to reveal that their master, Crimson-Refining Ancestor, had sent them to sacrifice children for cultivation. After hearing that the Ancestor was heading to the Cangming Sect, Jiang Fan questioned what connection he had to the sect.

• Jiang Fan dissolved the demon seeds inside the children and used the Soul-Devouring Ancient Mirror to absorb their remaining soul poison.
• Jiang Fan threatened the defeated Evil Cultivators with another soul search, and they begged him to spare their associates and agreed to answer his questions.
• The scar-faced man revealed that he and his companion served Crimson-Refining Ancestor, who taught them to plant demon seeds in children and drain their life origin and soul power.
• The scar-faced man admitted that the children were living sacrifices and said Crimson-Refining Ancestor had mentioned going to the Cangming Sect.
• Jiang Fan recognized the sect as his destination and demanded to know Crimson-Refining Ancestor's relationship with it.

Jiang Fan killed the two Evil Cultivators after learning that Crimson-Refining Ancestor was likely plotting against the Cangming Sect. He freed the children and planned to take them to town the next morning, while deciding to hurry to the sect.

• Scarface and the other Evil Cultivator revealed that Crimson-Refining Ancestor hated the Cangming Sect and was likely scheming against it.
• Jiang Fan killed the two Evil Cultivators after confirming they had shared all they knew.
• Jiang Ming helped the children eat and drink, and Jiang Fan told them their Demon Seeds had been removed and promised to take them to the authorities.
• The rescued children ate, thanked Jiang Fan, and fell asleep in the ruined temple.
• Jiang Fan told Jiang Ming he would speed up their journey to the Cangming Sect because Crimson-Refining Ancestor might be targeting it.

Jiang Fan delivered the rescued children to a town’s yamen, then flew with Jiang Ming to the Cangming Sect. They found the sect deserted despite its intact buildings and active mountain-protecting formation, and Jiang Ming sensed a Demonic Beast aura like the Crimson-Refining Ancestor’s.

• Jiang Fan showed Wei Lang’s token at the yamen and reported how he had rescued the children.
• Jiang Fan left the children in the constables’ care and flew away with Jiang Ming.
• After three days of flight, Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming reached the Cangming Sect’s mountain gate and found no one on guard.
• Jiang Ming sensed a Demonic Beast aura on the mountain that resembled the Old Monster from Mo Lou and the two people from the ruined temple.
• Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming flew to the summit, where Jiang Fan found the sect’s buildings intact but completely deserted, with no signs of battle.

Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming discovered thousands of Cangming Sect disciples imprisoned beneath a mountain, each infected with a powerful Demon Seed linked to the sect’s Earth Vein and grand formation. Jiang Fan’s attempt to examine one triggered a dangerous backlash, leaving him to confront how to free the captives without destroying them or the sect.

• Jiang Ming sensed mixed Demonic Beast auras beneath a remote mountain, and Jiang Fan found a concealed cave entrance there.
• Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming descended through the cave and found a damaged stone door marked with evil-cultivator sealing runes.
• Jiang Fan opened the door and discovered thousands of unconscious Cangming Sect disciples confined in rune-covered cages.
• Jiang Fan determined that the disciples carried complex Demon Seeds connected to the Earth Vein and the Sect-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Jiang Fan probed one disciple’s Demon Seed, triggering a bloody flare and a backlash from the grand formation before he cut off his power.
• Jiang Fan realized that destroying a cage or Demon Seed could kill the captives or devastate the entire sect.

Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming discovered a blood altar that was draining the imprisoned Cangming Sect disciples and triggering their demonization. They escaped the cavern with help from an unknown young woman in red, and Jiang Fan turned to question her.

• Jiang Fan recognized the altar as a device like one used by the Saint Sect, but one that stripped life and divine souls to fuel its power.
• Jiang Ming sensed that something was watching them through the altar, which then awakened and flooded the cavern with blood mist.
• The blood mist caused the imprisoned Cangming Sect disciples to convulse, and more than a hundred broke from their cages and attacked Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Fan restrained the demonized disciples and fled with Jiang Ming, but the stone gate began closing to trap them inside.
• A young woman in red wedged her longsword into the closing gate and urged Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming to escape; once outside, Jiang Fan asked who she was and why she was there.

Jiang Fan told Crimson Moon that Master Cangming had died after suppressing Mo Lou for two hundred years, and learned that the Cangming Sect had been attacked and its disciples imprisoned. Crimson Moon suspected the Crimson-Refining Ancestor was responsible and proposed using the sect’s failed operation plans to find his lair.

• Crimson Moon introduced herself as a Cangming Sect core disciple and said the sect might have no survivors besides her.
• Jiang Fan delivered Master Cangming’s final message and recounted how he had sacrificed himself to suppress Mo Lou in the Mystic Heaven Realm.
• Crimson Moon revealed that the sect master and its disciples were imprisoned in a cavern, where demonic seeds had been planted in their bodies.
• Crimson Moon explained that she suspected the Crimson-Refining Ancestor, whom the sect had been planning to capture, was behind the attack.
• Crimson Moon realized the sect’s intelligence from its failed operation might help them deduce the Crimson-Refining Ancestor’s lair.

Jiang Fan and Crimson Moon discovered the Crimson-Refining Ancestor’s lair in the sect’s secret archive and learned that the Cangming Sect’s disciples were in danger. Jiang Fan agreed to go with Crimson Moon to delay the demon while she requested aid, leaving them poised to enter the Azure-Cloud Mountain Range.

• Crimson Moon led Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming into the Cangming Sect’s confidential scripture repository using her master’s authorization incantation.
• Crimson Moon opened a Heavenly Mystery Jade Slip and found that the sect had planned to lure the Crimson-Refining Ancestor into a formation but had been wiped out.
• Crimson Moon revealed that the ancestor’s lair was Blood-Fiend Valley, deep beneath the Azure-Cloud Mountain Range, and Jiang Fan sensed sinister energy there.
• Crimson Moon urged Jiang Fan to leave and planned to report the discovery, but Jiang Fan warned that delays could doom the sect’s demon-seeded disciples.
• Jiang Fan volunteered to investigate the lair, and Crimson Moon agreed to request aid from the Heavenly Peace Protectorate Prefecture and accompany him to buy time.

Jiang Fan brought Crimson Moon and Jiang Ming to Azure-Cloud Mountain Valley, where he discovered that blood qi carried through hidden earth veins connected Blood-Fiend Valley to the Cangming Sect and its demon seeds. He insisted they confront the Crimson-Refining Ancestor at the source, and when the Ancestor appeared, Crimson Moon drew her sword and prepared to hold him off.

• Jiang Fan used space law to take Crimson Moon and Jiang Ming to Azure-Cloud Mountain Valley in an instant.
• Jiang Fan detected concealed earth veins tainted by blood qi and traced their source to Blood-Fiend Valley.
• Jiang Fan explained that the blood qi connected the Cangming Sect's formation and disciples' demon seeds, so severing the link could trigger the seeds.
• Jiang Fan decided to confront the Crimson-Refining Ancestor at his lair despite Crimson Moon's warning about the danger.
• The Crimson-Refining Ancestor appeared from the mist, and Crimson Moon shielded Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming as she drew her sword and urged them to run.

Jiang Fan and Crimson Moon confronted the Crimson-Refining Ancestor, who revealed how he had trapped Cangming Sect and was preparing to refine thousands of lives into power. Jiang Fan stopped the Blood-Fiend formation through the Earth Veins, leaving the Ancestor shocked and his scheme halted.

• The Crimson-Refining Ancestor admitted that he had planted false clues to lure Cangming Sect disciples to the Azure-Cloud Mountain Range and had used Crimson Moon to spread word of Blood-Fiend Valley.
• He revealed that hidden agents helped him turn Cangming Sect's ambush against its members, and that he planned to refine their blood and souls after forty-nine days.
• The Crimson-Refining Ancestor dismissed the threat of Heavenly Peace Prefecture and declared that he would devour Jiang Fan and Crimson Moon.
• Crimson Moon urged Jiang Fan to flee, but Jiang Fan stood his ground and vowed to stop the Ancestor on behalf of Cangming Sect and the victims.
• Jiang Fan raised his hand and used Great Dao Force to halt the Blood-Fiend formation through the Earth Veins, leaving the Crimson-Refining Ancestor stunned.

Crimson-Refining Ancestor attacked Jiang Fan with his Blood-Fiend Demonic Claw, then transformed and unleashed a vast soul formation. The chapter ended with Jiang Fan swallowed by blood mist and vengeful souls, as Crimson-Refining Ancestor celebrated his apparent victory.

• Crimson-Refining Ancestor struck at Jiang Fan with his Blood-Fiend Demon Seal, but an invisible barrier stopped the demonic claw.
• Jiang Fan asked whether that was all Crimson-Refining Ancestor had, making the ancestor feel an ominous premonition.
• Crimson-Refining Ancestor activated Blood-Fiend True Form and raised his cultivation to the True Realm Middle-Stage Peak.
• Crimson-Refining Ancestor summoned the Blood-Fiend Myriad Souls Formation, filling the valley with blood mist and vengeful souls.
• Crimson-Refining Ancestor's formation swallowed Jiang Fan, and the ancestor laughed as if he had won.

Jiang Fan used Soul Search on Crimson-Refining Ancestor and learned how the Demon Seeds in the Cangming Sect could be removed. He forced Crimson-Refining Ancestor to begin helping, but crushed him when he asked for a blood oath to guarantee his safety.

• Jiang Fan restrained Crimson-Refining Ancestor and searched his soul, learning that the sect’s formation was tied to him and that the Demon Seeds could be purified by reversing Blazing Yang Force through it.
• Jiang Fan concluded that using the formation was the only practical way to remove the Demon Seeds, since the other method required Crimson-Refining Ancestor’s cooperation.
• Crimson-Refining Ancestor begged for his life and offered to remove the Demon Seeds in exchange for being spared, and Jiang Fan told him to begin.
• Crimson-Refining Ancestor asked Jiang Fan to make a blood oath before he would help, so Jiang Fan pressed him to the ground with overwhelming force.

Jiang Fan used Jiang Ming’s Heavenly Demon Royal Clan bloodline to send purifying power through the reversed Earth Vein and cleanse the Demon Seeds planted in Cangming Sect disciples. The purification spread through the sect’s grotto, leaving the imprisoned disciples in pain but beginning to free them.

• Jiang Fan explained that Jiang Ming’s blood could suppress demons and asked her to transform so he could draw enough of it.
• Jiang Ming transformed into a gigantic, winged beast, shocking Crimson Moon.
• Jiang Fan reversed the Earth Vein’s flow and poured Jiang Ming’s golden-red blood into it, causing golden flames to spread and purify the Blood-Fiend Aura.
• Jiang Fan healed Jiang Ming’s wound with medicinal liquid after drawing her blood.
• The golden flame reached the Cangming Sect grotto and burned away a disciple’s Demon Seed, and the disciple realized he had survived.
• The flame swept through the grotto, beginning to purify the Demon Seeds within the other imprisoned disciples.

The Cangming Sect disciples and Yuheng True Person recovered after the Blood-Fiend Aura was purified, but they did not know who had saved them. They found the sect’s formation restored and strengthened, then began inspecting the sect as Jiang Ming’s transformed state faded a thousand li away.

• After the Golden Flame purified the Blood-Fiend Aura, the exhausted Cangming Sect disciples wondered who had saved them and learned their sect had been destroyed.
• Yuheng True Person woke in his cage, saw the ruined altar, and joined the core elders and disciples as they headed outside.
• The survivors discovered the Sect-Guarding Grand Formation had recovered and grown stronger, but Yuheng True Person said he did not know why.
• Yuheng True Person ordered everyone to remain within the formation, check for abnormalities, and patrol the sect.
• A thousand li away in the Azure-Cloud Mountain Range, Jiang Ming’s transformed state rapidly faded.

Crimson Moon returned to the Cangming Sect with Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming and learned that its leaders and disciples had survived. Jiang Fan revealed that he had killed the Crimson-Refining Ancestor and brought news that Master Cangming had died, leaving Yuheng True Person and the elders grieving and waiting to hear the details.

• Crimson Moon saw that the Cangming Sect’s disciples had begun recovering and learned that Yuheng True Person and the elders were safe.
• Crimson Moon introduced Jiang Fan and Jiang Ming to Yuheng True Person and credited Jiang Fan with saving the sect’s thousands of disciples.
• Crimson Moon recounted how Jiang Fan had tracked down and killed the Crimson-Refining Ancestor at Blood-Fiend Valley.
• Jiang Fan explained how he had reversed the formation and used Blazing Yang Force to purify the disciples’ Demon Seeds.
• Jiang Fan told Yuheng True Person and the elders that he had come at Master Cangming’s request and revealed that Master Cangming had died.
• Jiang Fan began recounting how he had met Master Cangming in the Mystic Heaven Realm, where he had guarded Mo Lou on Cangming Island before pursuing demons into another realm.

Jiang Fan honored Master Cangming’s sacrifice and gave the Cangming Sect the Blood-Fiend True Scripture after defeating the Crimson-Refining Ancestor. As Jiang Fan prepared to leave with Jiang Ming, Wei Hongyi arrived and questioned Jiang Fan about his background and strength.

• Yuheng True Person and the elders mourned Master Cangming, then ordered his deeds recorded and his name entered into the Cangming Sect’s Hall of Heroes and Martyrs.
• Jiang Fan gave Yuheng True Person a jade slip containing the Blood-Fiend True Scripture and declined the invitation to stay because Jiang Ming needed to recover.
• A disciple reported that Wei Hongyi had arrived with Cultivators from Heavenly Peace Prefecture, and Yuheng True Person welcomed him into Cangming Hall.
• Yuheng True Person explained the crisis and Jiang Fan’s role in defeating the Crimson-Refining Ancestor and purifying the Demon Seeds.
• Wei Hongyi asked Jiang Fan where he came from, and Jiang Fan said he was a disciple of Heavenly Divination Palace in Grand Capital Prefecture.
• Wei Hongyi doubted Jiang Fan was an ordinary disciple and pressed him about his exceptional strength.