Recaps

Chu Mu survived the Blood Pearl’s Life Creation, strengthened his body, and prepared a powerful puppet while resolving matters in the Longevity Sect. After securing the Azure Ice Flame and visiting Xu Yuan, he changed course toward the southwest to find a safer place to enter seclusion.

• Chu Mu discovered that the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s demon body held a Blood Pearl containing the Saint Spirit Gu, then secretly refined the Thread-drawing Gu to heal his divine soul.
• The Blood Egg absorbed the Blood Pearl and released its Life Creation into Chu Mu, whose body endured repeated destruction and healing until it advanced beyond Third Order Perfection.
• Chu Mu passed through a Heart Demon Tribulation that showed him his birth and early life, then awakened with Pseudo Fourth Order physical strength and found the Saint Spirit Gu’s soul fused with the Thread-drawing Gu.
• Back at the Longevity Sect, Chu Mu delegated the Yan Family dispute to Yan Qiuling, built a short-lived but devastating Thunder God Puppet, and waived Lie Yan’s imprisonment after Chu Yan pleaded for him.
• Chu Mu gathered resources, departed the Longevity Sect, and reached the Outer Sea, where he severed the Azure Ice Flame’s connection to the Ice and Frost World and retrieved it.
• Chu Mu visited Xu Yuan on Verdant Forest Island, healed his chest wound, and left him a Storage Talisman before departing.
• Chu Mu changed his route through Great Chu toward the southwest, hoping to avoid the hostile Vast Ocean and find a safer place to enter seclusion.

Chu Mu formed his Nascent Soul in the Endless Desert Sea and returned to the Longevity Sect while investigating the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast’s influence. As the Human Alliance suffered a major defeat and the Longevity Sect mobilized its disciples, Chu Mu was forced to head toward the Outer Sea war.

• Chu Mu entered the Endless Desert Sea, established a hidden Cave Abode, and prepared the Wind Thunder Two Elements Formation for his Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Xu Yuan and the Human Alliance fought the Demon Beast Tide over the Dark Serpents, leaving heavy casualties and bringing the conflict closer to a wider war.
• Chu Mu formed his Nascent Soul and endured a second tribulation that strengthened his physique, then concealed his cultivation and left the desert.
• Chu Mu learned that the Dark Serpent Clan and the Sand Tail Scorpion Queen had allied to free the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast, and he later captured Lie Shan Shi’s Thread-drawing Gu.
• Chu Mu reunited with Chang Hongyi, returned to the Longevity Sect, and discovered that its disciples carried blood-red talismans connected to the Divine Fiend Grand Array.
• Chu Mu studied the Longevity Sect’s ancient alchemy arts, gave Lie Yan pills to aid his impending Golden Core formation, and used the True Inheritance Palace’s spiritual qi to strengthen Wangcai’s Giant Egg.
• Chu Mu helped restore the Ancient Puppet Head, then learned that the Human Alliance had suffered a crushing defeat and that the Longevity Sect’s mass conscription had ended his plan to avoid the Outer Sea war.

Chu Mu uncovered how the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast’s corruption had reached the Longevity Sect, then entered the Longevity Secret Realm as the sect’s hidden demons revealed themselves. The battle left the Longevity Sect fighting for survival, with Xuan Cheng’s ancient spear losing power and Chu Mu holding off a Demon Magic Dharma Body.

• Chu Mu reforged the Nebula with Dream Essence, while Wangcai advanced to the late Third Order and revealed new shadow-walking, soul-striking, and devouring abilities.
• Chu Mu completed the Subduing Flood Dragon Suppressing Sea vessels, and Xu Changqing gave him a Fire Attribute Jiaolong soul before asking him to investigate Xu Lingtian’s spiritual erosion.
• Xu Lingtian identified the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast as the likely cause of his condition, and Chu Mu connected the threat to the Saint Spirit Gu and the Divine Fiend Grand Arrays.
• The Longevity Sect Master summoned the sect’s cultivators to the Longevity Secret Realm, where he exposed Xuan Cheng and Xuan Ming as demons and ordered their souls destroyed.
• Twelve of the sect’s Fourth-Order experts and numerous disciples transformed into demons, and the ensuing battle left the Longevity Sect’s survivors badly outnumbered.
• Xu Lingtian struck Xuan Cheng with a devastating sword attack before vanishing, while Chu Mu rescued Lie Yan and fought the demons with his puppets, Blade Domain, and Nine Dragons Suppressing Prison Tower.
• Chu Mu killed several demons and restrained a Demon Magic Dharma Body with formations, while Xuan Cheng’s Slaughter Ancient Treasure turned the battle before its power began to wane.

Chu Mu survived the collapse of the Longevity Secret Realm, then took command of Yan Yun as demons ravaged the Southern Sky Cultivation World. He restored the region’s defenses, uncovered a way to expose demons in disguise, and left Wangcai to consume the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s demonic body.

• Chu Mu rescued seventeen Longevity Sect disciples from Outside the World, killed the blood-crazed Demon Qing Kong, and returned with them to the embattled Yan Yun Mountain Range.
• Gong Shan Hong told Chu Mu that demons had overrun most of Yan Yun, and Chu Mu investigated their transformation and ordered an attack on their strongholds.
• The Longevity Sect Master restored Chu Mu’s authority, named him Grand Elder, and placed Yan Yun’s disciples and defenses under his command.
• Chu Mu directed the sect’s arrays and puppets against the demons, captured Third Order Demons, and sent Chen Hong to investigate the Star Luo Grassland.
• Chu Mu searched Ji Province City’s treasury, discovered that Hong Yu had taken a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, and built a force of Demon Suppression puppets.
• The Longevity Sect Master brought Chu Mu to study the wooden carving containing the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast’s Divine Soul Aura, which could detect demons across Yan Yun.
• Chu Mu merged the carving with Ji Province City’s Coiling Dragon Stone Pillar, exposed disguised demons throughout Yan Yun, and ordered the sect’s defenses to kill them.
• Chu Mu refined ninety-eight Azure Cloud Pills, then fed the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s demonic body to Wangcai so it could pursue a fourth-order breakthrough.