Recaps

After surviving Jingmen’s destruction, Chu Mu returned to his hometown and became entangled in the Longevity Sect’s investigation of demonic cultivators in Chu Capital. He helped uncover their plan to corrupt the city’s Spirit Vein, then fought to protect Xu Changqing as the invasion escalated.

• Chu Mu escaped Jingmen’s destruction, recovered in the South Mountain Mountain Range, and returned to his hometown, where he found that his old home had become the Li Residence.
• Chu Mu met Xie Cangfeng, learned of the Xie Family’s ruin and the Hanhai Chen Family’s suspected betrayal, then reunited with Li Caiyi and offered to help her leave the Cultivation World.
• Chu Mu created the Bright Moon Armor, traveled to Changzhou, and found Old Li dead, then promised to guide Jing'er for three years and left him to study Alchemy.
• In Chu Capital, Xu Changqing recruited Chu Mu to detect demonic qi, and Chu Mu pursued demonic cultivators who had lured him outside the city to seize the True Demonic Qi.
• Zhao Changling stole the City Protection Array’s control core and divided Chu Capital, while hundreds of demonic cultivators began corrupting the Spirit Vein beneath the imperial palace.
• Chu Mu helped Xu Changqing search the captured Honored One’s memories, learning that the Leading Demon Sect had secretly infiltrated Chu Capital, but the prisoner died before revealing its ultimate objective.
• A Half-Demon attacked Chu Mu, who defeated him with the Bright Moon Armor and Great Sun True Fire, then used the corpse’s True Demon Blood to upgrade his Demon Searching Compass and expose hidden demonic cultivators.
• Xu Changqing struck down the demonic Golden Core cultivator but collapsed, leaving Chu Mu to defend him against a swarm of attackers as Chu Mu’s Blade Intent rapidly improved.

Chu Mu survived the True Demon’s emergence in Chu Capital, then left Great Chu to seek bloodline cultivation and demon-beast alchemy in the Vast Ocean. After years of travel and study, he reached Red Cloud Island and registered with the Chen Family’s outpost system.

• Chu Mu used Great Sun True Fire to refine the Blood Pool’s essence, while the transformed True Demon left Chu Capital and Xu Changqing agreed to keep the matter secret.
• Ling Tian broke the City Protection Array, and Chu Mu rescued A'Da before the Longevity Sect destroyed Chu Capital with a Spiritual Vein Detonation.
• Chu Mu returned to Tongyou Village, trained a young alchemy student, and developed a True Fire Long Blade technique before visiting the Longevity Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.
• Chu Mu selected the Void Abyss Blade Scripture and Divine Fire Records, attended an auction in Tianshu City, and reunited with Chang Hongyi.
• After returning the youth to a mountain village, Chu Mu traveled across the Northwest Gobi Desert and crossed the Chu River into the Vast Ocean Cultivation Realm.
• Chu Mu studied bloodline manuals and demon-beast-based alchemy at Tianhe Market, then cultivated for nearly three years and set out for Red Cloud Island.
• Chu Mu arrived at Red Cloud Island, registered at Outpost Island, and used his identity token to enter the harbor.

Chu Mu hunted demon beasts in the outer sea, survived attacks, and returned to Red Glow City with resources and new knowledge. He established the True Understanding Pavilion, took Chang Fang as a nominal disciple, and began investigating bloodline fusion among humans raised as livestock.

• Chu Mu left Crescent Moon Island to hunt in the outer sea, killing demon beasts and collecting thirty-eight Demon Cores over nearly six years.
• Chu Mu escaped a deadly sea fissure, killed four Bloodline Cultivators who tried to rob him, and discovered their leader carried several fused bloodlines.
• Chu Mu returned to Red Glow City, reconnected with Chang Hongyi, and traded puppets and Flawless Pills with Chen Hanyun and other cultivators.
• Chu Mu arranged to open a shop with Mountain Alliance, accepted Chang Fang as a nominal disciple, and filled the True Understanding Pavilion with artifacts and puppets.
• The True Understanding Pavilion attracted customers, earned ten to twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones daily, and received rare materials in trade.
• Chu Mu studied bloodline fusion and visited Livestock City, where he examined the human livestock and selected several hundred people to take to his pavilion.

Chu Mu refined the Heaven Deceiving Pill for a scheme that helped ignite a Beast Tide, then accepted a true demon’s offer to enter the East Lake Secret Realm. After reaching it, he discovered that its heavenly lightning destroyed creatures above the Qi Refining Realm.

• Chu Mu developed a bloodline transformation method, reunited with Xu Yuan’s family, and transplanted an Ice Spirit Jade Scale Beast bloodline into Xu Yuan.
• At the Exchange Fair, Chu Mu acquired rare materials for Golden Core preparation, then traveled with Fu Song to the Cloud Firmament Merchant Alliance’s undersea stronghold.
• Chu Mu refined the Heaven Deceiving Pill from Sky Cloud Real Person, and Xu Lingtian used it to disguise Cloud Firmament True Person as Sky Cloud Real Person.
• Xu Lingtian and Cloud Firmament True Person killed the Profound Serpent Young Master and framed the Hanhai Chen Family, helping trigger a devastating Beast Tide across the Vast Ocean.
• Chu Mu returned to Red Glow City amid reports of widespread destruction, then met a true demon who offered rare treasures in exchange for his help entering the East Lake Secret Realm.
• Chu Mu made Divine Shadow Pills and secretly modified them, while Xu Ning and Li Xiu revealed that they had joined the demonic path to reach the secret realm.
• Chu Mu broke through to Foundation Establishment Perfection and spent nearly two years preparing before joining the true demon’s party on the journey to the secret realm.
• After the party entered the secret realm, Chu Mu tested its restrictions and saw heavenly lightning destroy creatures above the Qi Refining Realm.