Recaps

Chu Mu survived his catastrophic injuries, discovered an Azure Ice Flame, investigated the Divine Restriction, and restored much of his life through a pill. Meanwhile, Chang Hongyi engineered Lie Yan’s rise, and Chu Mu later recognized the young cultivator’s unusual compatibility while anticipating further conflict over the Sky Palace and the path of ascension.

• Chu Mu preserved Wangcai’s last thread of life, refused the halberd-wielding man’s offer to go to Great Heng, and was carried away aboard a concealed flying boat as the Outer Sea battle drew the sects’ attention.
• After years of treatment, Chu Mu awoke with shattered meridians, a cracked Golden Core, and little time to live, then began rebuilding his body and found an Azure Ice Flame forming beneath the frozen sea.
• Chu Mu concealed the Azure Ice Flame behind a powerful array and left puppets to guard it, while Chang Hongyi arranged for Chang Er to guide Lie Yan toward immortality.
• Chang Hongyi ordered Lie Yan’s village destroyed despite Chang Er’s objections, and Lie Yan found his parents and fellow villagers dead before setting out with the planted treasures and clues to cultivate.
• Chu Mu visited the Magma Fire Sea, returned to the Longevity Sect, and was tasked with investigating a Divine Restriction found in two demon beast souls sealed within the Spark Secret Realm.
• Chu Mu connected the restriction’s core to mysterious Sky Palace patterns, reported his findings to the Sect Master, and chose a pill formula that could restore vitality and extend his life.
• Chu Mu refined a One Pill Pattern Life-Extending Pill and spent ten years recovering as Lie Yan obtained a cave estate, studied a Blade Dao seal, and advanced in cultivation.
• Chu Mu awoke with his Golden Core restored and nearly sixty additional years of life, recognized Lie Yan’s exceptional compatibility with him, and later agreed to oversee the Peeking Truth Vein while Xu Changqing sought medicine for his father.

Chu Mu pursued a cure for his injured soul through Gu Dao research, then joined the Longevity Sect’s plan to use the Saint Spirit Gu to draw out Wang Yu. The staged discovery escalated into a regional crisis, while Wang Family agents searched for the Gu and the sect pursued control of the Wang Family’s Secret Realm.

• Chu Mu studied the Thread-drawing Gu and traveled to the southwest, where he identified nearly all of its required materials with help from local Gu Dao cultivators.
• Profound Sincerity Old Ancestor ordered Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect’s direct disciples to help lure out Wang Yu by staging the discovery of the Saint Spirit Gu.
• Chu Mu oversaw construction of a false Inheritance Ground, and Profound Sincerity Old Ancestor released the Saint Spirit Gu into the ruins to make the bait appear genuine.
• Sun Ying discovered the relic beneath the Gu Garden, and the Immortal Spirit Five Clans eventually joined forces to explore it.
• After a Longevity Sect deacon claimed the relic and barred the clans from entering, the five patriarchs killed him, and Li Jie led the sect’s response that captured and exterminated the clans.
• Rumors about the relic and Saint Spirit Gu drew cultivators to Immortal Spirit Mountain, where clashes and attacks spread across the Colorful Cloud Counties.
• Chu Mu found traces of concealed Wang Family Gu Cultivators, who discussed capturing him and searching for the Saint Spirit Gu.
• The Longevity Sect contained the growing unrest while continuing its plan to draw out a hidden person and gain control of the Wang Family’s Secret Realm.

Chu Mu entered the Zhennan Secret Realm and uncovered a hidden blood altar while the Nascent Soul elders and Wang Xun struggled for control of the realm. He opened the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron, where Wangcai’s remaining life force entered a crimson embryo and formed a Blood Egg.

• Blood Robe Old Ancestor fought Profound Sincerity Old Ancestor, and the battle let cultivators breach the Saint Spirit Sect Relic as chaos overtook Immortal Spirit Mountain.
• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect elders pursued Wang Yu, discovered he was Wang Xun, and watched him destabilize the Reverse Five Elements Grand Array before escaping into the Secret Realm.
• Chu Mu entered the Zhennan Secret Realm, explored its alternating Longevity Sect and Wang Family territories, and received a portion of its authority from Profound Sincerity Old Ancestor.
• Chu Mu entered Langya Pavilion and followed Wangcai’s golden light through a hidden passage into an Ice and Frost World filled with frozen Monster Beasts.
• Chu Mu crossed an Ethereal Ice barrier and found a Blood Pool connected to an altar, where Wangcai descended toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron.
• Chu Mu struggled to lift the cauldron’s lid as Ethereal Ice destroyed his puppets and overwhelmed his formations, while Wang Xun fought the two Nascent Soul elders for control of the Secret Realm.
• Chu Mu used the Divine Fire Grand Formation to open the cauldron and sealed it with the Nine Dragons Sealing Grand Formation.
• Wangcai’s remaining life force entered a crimson embryo inside the cauldron, forming a Blood Egg as Wangcai’s body became lifeless.

Chu Mu traced Chi Shan to a Jadeite Tribe conspiracy against the Wang Family and uncovered the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s monstrous transformation. After helping fight the demon and capturing Yun Ying, Chu Mu raided the Wang Family’s hidden treasury and left Emerald Lake with its treasures.

• Chu Mu left the Secret Realm, received orders to hunt Wang Xun, and prepared the Jade Bone Soul while investigating Yun Ying near Emerald Lake.
• Chu Mu followed Wangcai’s guidance to Chi Shan and discovered that Chi Shan, Yun Ying, and Jadeite Tribe cultivators were involved in a plot against the Wang Family.
• Chu Mu captured Gu Yan, searched his soul, and learned that the Jadeite Tribe planned to attack the Wang Family remnant beneath Emerald Heart Mine.
• The Jadeite Tribe and its allies destroyed Emerald Heart Mine and opened the Lake Bottom Pit, where Chu Mu helped them break through a hall’s formation.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor emerged as a demon, killed Jadeite Mountain Clan, and devastated the assembled cultivators as Chu Mu fought to survive.
• Chu Mu battled the pursuing demon with Dawn, discovered that its regeneration weakened outside the cave, and brought it down into the lake.
• Chu Mu rendered Yun Ying unconscious, entered the flooded Wang Family Residence, and broke the formations concealing its treasure vault.
• Chu Mu collected the Wang Family’s stored spiritual materials and treasures, then flew out of the cave.