Recaps

After returning to the Immortal Dust Sect, Li Xiuchang tested Golden Horn’s formidable defenses and learned that its lessons from Steady-Steady had convinced it that it was a turtle. He then told Chu Ya that Xia Siyun was about to become Lu Yang’s Dao Companion, but a drawing of a woman from Li Xiuchang’s travels stirred Chu Ya with a possible connection to his first love.

• Li Xiuchang discovered that Golden Horn had advanced to Late Third-grade and learned Turtle Mimicry Technique, believing itself to be a turtle after studying with Steady-Steady.
• Li Xiuchang tested Golden Horn’s shell with increasingly powerful punches, finding it could withstand an Early Fourth-grade attack with only a shallow dent, while Golden Horn cried out from fright.
• Chu Ya visited Li Xiuchang and asked about Xia Siyun’s relationship with Lu Yang after she had refused to see him.
• Li Xiuchang told Chu Ya that Xia Siyun and Lu Yang were about to become Dao Companions, leaving Chu Ya grief-stricken.
• Li Xiuchang drew a woman he had seen in the Sea Boat Realm, and Chu Ya said she resembled the woman he had fallen in love with when he was young.

Li Xiuchang helped Chu Ya sever his love for Senior Sister Xia, allowing him to begin forming his Nascent Soul. He then raised Su Qingchun, Wangcai, and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King to fourth grade, leaving them as three powerful generals under his command.

• Li Xiuchang told Chu Ya about another man who had fallen in love at first sight with the same woman, and Chu Ya recognized that Dao Heart Seed Love had influenced his feelings.
• Chu Ya decided to stop pursuing Senior Sister Xia, severed the thread of love binding him to her, and entered Li Xiuchang’s cultivation room to form his Nascent Soul.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the Smoked Meat Factory, found Su Qingchun managing it efficiently, and prepared his three strongest Malevolent Spirits to break through to fourth grade.
• Li Xiuchang had the Three Great Malevolent Spirits absorb the Scrawny Old Man’s Malevolent Spirit and gave Paw Patrol the Catfish Demonic Cultivator’s Malevolent Spirit, then boosted their cultivation with Netherfrost Fruit Spirit Liquid.
• Su Qingchun, Wangcai, and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King broke through to fourth grade, giving Li Xiuchang three fourth-grade generals under his command.
• Li Xiuchang asked the three Malevolent Spirits to show their Soul Pearls and saw that Su Qingchun’s radiated a peaceful aura unlike the sinister pearls of Wangcai and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King.

Li Xiuchang experimented with enlarging and compressing Wangcai’s Soul Pearl, discovering a way to improve a Yin Soul’s cultivation, then tested whether the same method could work on his Nascent Soul. After the experiment failed to compress its magic power, he created meridians within the Nascent Soul and successfully prepared it to cultivate the Charcoal Burning Skill.

• Li Xiuchang enlarged Wangcai’s Soul Pearl and found that drawing out soul power to expand its body, then compressing it back into the pearl, slightly improved its cultivation.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the Four Immortals Merchant Association and reviewed its growth with Wang Long before returning to the Eastern Geng District.
• Chu Ya emerged from seclusion after forming a Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul and left to pursue a higher realm, while Zhang Wanzhi went to make up lessons with his masters.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged his Nascent Soul and tested whether transferring magic power could compress it, but its cultivation quality did not improve.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged his Nascent Soul until he could precisely shape its internal magic power, then created meridians for the Charcoal Burning Skill.

Li Xiuchang discovered that his Nascent Soul could cultivate independently at ten times his body's speed and planned to create a second Nascent Soul to accelerate his progress further. Chen Changsheng revealed that he was building a cross-realm Teleportation Array to help the people of the Immortal Shade Realm escape, and Li Xiuchang agreed to assist him.

• Li Xiuchang opened meridians in his Nascent Soul and found that cultivating the Charcoal Burning Skill with it was about ten times faster than cultivating with his physical body.
• Li Xiuchang confirmed that his body and Nascent Soul could cultivate at the same time, though his body's contribution was negligible.
• Li Xiuchang planned to transform his Second Diamond Core into another Nascent Soul so the two could cultivate together.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that his main body had entered seclusion to construct a Teleportation Array linking the Immortal Shade Realm to other worlds.
• Chen Changsheng asked Li Xiuchang to send one of his clones to another realm each day, and Li Xiuchang agreed and sent the clone away.

Li Xiuchang formed a Second Nascent Soul and discovered that it could cultivate in tandem with his main Nascent Soul, greatly accelerating his progress toward Spirit Transformation. After arranging a new class schedule and taking Golden Horn out with him, he met Chen Changsheng’s clone, who gave Golden Horn a secret technique before Li Xiuchang sent him away.

• Li Xiuchang enlarged the Second Diamond Core, formed a Second Nascent Soul, and expanded it to match his physical body, also enlarging the second Dantian space.
• Li Xiuchang placed his main Nascent Soul inside the Second Nascent Soul and found that their synchronized cultivation yielded about twenty times the experience of idle cultivation, leading him to expect to attempt Spirit Transformation in three years.
• Li Xiuchang revised his curriculum, replacing Chen Changsheng’s unavailable Talisman Arts class with Xia Siyun’s Pill Arts class and declining Gui Wuyan’s offer to teach Divination Arts.
• Li Xiuchang began cultivating both Nascent Souls with spirit stones at home and stored them in the second Dantian while attending classes outside.
• Li Xiuchang took Golden Horn out to meet people and encountered Chen Changsheng’s clone, who gave Golden Horn a secret technique before Li Xiuchang sent the clone away.

Li Xiuchang brought Golden Horn to meet Senior Brother Gui Wuyan and learned more about his fellow senior brothers and sisters. When Gui Wuyan divined the Pure Land Realm, he spent a year of his lifespan but used a pill to regain two years, leaving him pleased with the bargain.

• Li Xiuchang examined Chen Changsheng's secret art, Return Their Body, and decided Golden Horn would focus on defense despite its limited active offense.
• After Zhang Wanzhi was called away to extra lessons, Li Xiuchang took Golden Horn to meet Gui Wuyan, who gave Golden Horn a Disaster Sign as a meeting gift.
• Gui Wuyan shared gossip about Chen Changsheng, Lu Yang and Xia Siyun, and Mo Tu, including that Lu Yang and Xia Siyun had disbanded their Mandarin Duck Sect.
• Li Xiuchang asked whether Gui Wuyan knew about the Pure Land Realm, and Gui Wuyan began divining it despite the risk to his lifespan.
• Gui Wuyan's hair turned white and the light faded from his eyes, but he swallowed a pill that restored two black hairs and his vitality, then declared that he had gained nine years of life from the divination.

Li Xiuchang learned from Gui Wuyan that the Pure Land Realm was a sealed Buddhist world with no way out, though it had been created to cultivate powerful Buddhist Cultivators. After leaving Gui Wuyan, Li Xiuchang searched the Library Pavilion for clues about his neighboring senior brothers and sisters and found a book mentioning the Mandarin Duck Couple.

• Gui Wuyan risked his life to calculate secrets about the Pure Land Realm, then told Li Xiuchang it had no Upper Realm or passage to the outside world.
• Gui Wuyan revealed that a powerful being had created the Pure Land Realm to cultivate formidable Buddhist Cultivators, but he could not answer Li Xiuchang's question about the Desire Demon Sect cultivator.
• Li Xiuchang decided he would not enter the Pure Land Realm until he knew how to leave, and considered asking Chen Changsheng to send a clone to investigate.
• Li Xiuchang left Gui Wuyan and searched the outer sect Library Pavilion for information about his neighboring senior brothers and sisters.
• Li Xiuchang found the ancient book Immortal Shade Love Stories and identified a powerful couple known as the Mandarin Duck Couple.

Li Xiuchang uncovered the past identities of three senior brothers and sisters, then devoted himself to Marrow Refining and studying formations. Two months later, Chen Changsheng reported that he had found the Pure Land Realm, though one of his clones had been captured there.

• Li Xiuchang learned that Senior Brother Lu Yang and Senior Sister Xia Siyun were the Mandarin Duck Couple, who had ascended and later returned to the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang found Senior Brother Chen Changsheng’s past recorded as Chen Changshou, the cautious Turtle Immortal who had ascended after a long life of avoiding danger and romance.
• Li Xiuchang failed to find records of Zhang Wanzhi, Mo Tu, and Gui Wuyan, but concluded that he had identified the origins of three of his six senior brothers and sisters.
• Li Xiuchang returned home and practiced Marrow Refining with Arhat Tree Sap while studying formations, then continued his studies and training over the next two months.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that he had located the Pure Land Realm, where one of his clones had ascended and been captured.

Li Xiuchang advanced his cultivation, skills, and malevolent spirit forces while preparing for future expeditions. After completing Marrow Refining and reaching Peak Fourth-grade Body Cultivator cultivation, he poured his Length Values into enlarging his Vajra Dharma Image, but it still had not broken through.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that his captured clone was alive and planned to negotiate with the Pure Land Realm’s leaders about cooperation and an inter-realm Teleportation Array.
• Li Xiuchang attended class at Eastern Geng District Number Thirteen, where Lu Yang discussed their Spicy Immortal Chili Sauce and Xia Siyun began preparing a Longevity Pill for Senior Brother Gui.
• After two months of study, Li Xiuchang raised Spirit Plant Cultivation to Fourth-grade, improved several other skills, and accumulated more than six hundred inches of Length Value.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged the Soul Pearls of Wangcai, the Wolf King, and Su Qingchun, strengthening his malevolent spirit forces, and planned to gather more spirits from the New Demonic Path village and Green Cui Mountain.
• Half a month later, Li Xiuchang completed Marrow Refining and reached Peak Fourth-grade Body Cultivator cultivation, then spent Length Values enlarging his Vajra Dharma Image without triggering a breakthrough.

Li Xiuchang broke through to fifth-rank Body Refining and learned about Chen Changsheng’s plans to build a Teleportation Array between the Immortal Shade Realm and the Dark Heaven Realm. He then set out with Golden Horn and Paw Patrol to visit their old home, leaving Steady Steady behind.

• Li Xiuchang spent three hundred inches of length to break through to fifth-rank Body Refining, gaining immense qi and blood, stronger Spiritual Sense, and resistance to seals and evil beings.
• Li Xiuchang shaped his Vajra Dharma Image into a large rectangular prism and imagined using it as a Great Seal through his future clone.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that the Pure Land Realm had agreed to help him build a Teleportation Array, and he planned to establish the Immortal Shade Realm’s side in his Eastern Geng District home.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that his clone was preparing to build the other formation in the demonic-cultivator-ruled Dark Heaven Realm, which Li Xiuchang hoped to visit to slay demons.
• Li Xiuchang told Chen Changsheng he would be away, then left in the Abalone Flying Boat with Golden Horn and Paw Patrol to visit their old home.
• Steady Steady tried to join them, but Li Xiuchang refused and left, prompting Steady Steady to angrily call them wicked disciples.

Li Xiuchang freed the Wolf Souls from the mine, visited the New Demonic Path village to collect two Fifth-Tier Fierce Ghosts, and tested his strength against them. On the way to Green Cui Mountain, he tried riding Golden Horn but found it uncomfortable and disappointing, leaving him still without a suitable mount.

• Li Xiuchang reunited the twenty miner Wolf Souls with Wangcai and the Paw Patrol, then collected them into the Rainbow Soul Banner to bring them to the Yin Soul Factory.
• Li Xiuchang visited the New Demonic Path village, made snacks for the children, and entered the building sealing Fierce Ghosts.
• Li Xiuchang climbed to the sixth floor, resisted three Sixth-Tier Yin Souls, and turned back when a barrier blocked the staircase to the seventh floor.
• Li Xiuchang subdued a Fifth-Tier Crow Soul and an old-man Fierce Ghost, then collected Spirit Medicine and left the village.
• Li Xiuchang tried riding Golden Horn toward Green Cui Mountain, but the beetle's size, noisy flight, and awkward riding positions convinced him it was a poor mount.

Li Xiuchang found the Yin-Soul Wolf King's former pack after learning it had been driven from Green Cui Mountain by a White Feathered Eagle. After reuniting the wolves, he learned their lost Precious Medicine was a Golden Root Grass and decided to reclaim it.

• Li Xiuchang reached Green Cui Mountain, where the Yin-Soul Wolf King found its former habitat abandoned and asked him to uncover what had happened to the pack.
• Wangcai captured a rat demon, which revealed that the wolves had been driven from Green Cui Mountain by a Tier 3 White Feathered Eagle after fighting over a Precious Medicine with the Sparrow Clan.
• Li Xiuchang flew to Green Cloud Mountain and released the wolf souls, reuniting the Yin-Soul Wolf King with its former pack.
• The Wolf King and its demons explained that the Precious Medicine grew atop a vast Coin Earth vein and had deep roots and a golden fruit.
• Li Xiuchang recognized the plant as Golden Root Grass, became excited by its rare fruit, and promised to seek justice against the White Feathered Eagle.

Li Xiuchang learned that the Golden Root Grass was guarded by the fifth-stage Golden Falcon, whose parents included the eighth-stage Silver Falcon King and the Golden-winged Great Peng. After investigating the area and learning more about the Golden Falcon, he devised a scheme involving a mysterious metal ore that could reflect attacks, and the rumor reached the Golden Falcon.

• Li Xiuchang learned that the Golden Falcon had taken the Golden Root Grass and that its mother was the eighth-stage Silver Falcon King, so he reconsidered confronting it directly.
• The Disaster Sign warned Li Xiuchang against his plan to send the Golden Falcon away, so he investigated the area around the Golden Root Grass instead.
• Li Xiuchang discovered the Golden Root Grass was enclosed in a metal structure and would mature in less than half a month, then received information about the Golden Falcon from Senior Brother Wang Long.
• Li Xiuchang learned that the Golden Falcon absorbed rare metals to cultivate and that the Golden Root Grass fruit suited its needs.
• Li Xiuchang returned to Green Cloud Mountain and spread news of a mysterious golden ore that reflected attacks, and the rumor reached the Golden Falcon.

Li Xiuchang used Golden Horn as fake reflective metal to lure the Golden Falcon away from the Golden Root Grass, then broke into the cage and harvested the mature fruit. The Golden Falcon still had not returned, and Li Xiuchang confirmed that Golden Horn and the Yin Souls were safe.

• The Golden Falcon sent the White Feathered Eagle to investigate the reflective gold on Green Cloud Mountain, where it found Golden Horn disguised as an ore deposit.
• After the White Feathered Eagle reported back, the Golden Falcon sent it and a group of sparrows to guard the supposed metal while it waited for the Golden Root Grass to mature.
• Li Xiuchang sensed the grass nearing maturity and ordered the Yin Soul Wolf King, Wangcai, and Golden Horn to drive the White Feathered Eagle away and replace Golden Horn with a golden iron block.
• The Golden Falcon left to protect the metal, and Li Xiuchang broke through the cage’s formations while the Golden Falcon was away.
• Li Xiuchang waited until the Golden Root Grass fully matured, stored its fruit, and then confirmed that Golden Horn, Wangcai, and the others had escaped safely.

Li Xiuchang learned how Golden Falcon was nearly killed by a Pig Demon before Silver Falcon King’s clone rescued it, then discovered that the Golden Root Grass fruit could grow stronger through repeated smelting and hammering. He named the seemingly limitless material Hundred Refinements Iron and realized it was an ideal match for his Length Cheat.

• Li Xiuchang avoided the demonic wind near Green Cui Mountain and studied the Coin Earth Grass fruit by hammering it.
• Through the wolf pack, Li Xiuchang learned that Golden Falcon had fought a powerful Pig Demon over a fake metal mine, and Silver Falcon King’s clone had rescued it.
• Li Xiuchang found that repeated smelting and hammering made the fruit denser and stronger, raising it from third-tier to fourth-tier material.
• Li Xiuchang used his Length Cheat to add material and enlisted Golden Horn, Wangcai, and the Yin-Soul Wolf King to help hammer it.
• Li Xiuchang named the upgradeable material Hundred Refinements Iron and realized he could use the Length Cheat to keep producing more of it.

Li Xiuchang gathered the new Wolf Souls, equipped the wolf pack to expand across Green Cui Mountain and Green Cloud Mountain, and returned to his studies and work at the Immortal Dust Sect. Meanwhile, Pang Yuanfu became a River God, and a plump young woman who failed to recognize him confronted him outside the sect.

• Li Xiuchang collected the Wolf Souls and urged the Wolf King to enlarge its clan and claim both mountains, supplying it with artifacts, talismans, pills, and a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Li Xiuchang visited his aging boxing master in White Cloud City, gave him mild life-prolonging pills, and returned to the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Li Xiuchang intensified his artifact-refinement lessons, forged Tier 4 Hundred Refinements Iron with help from Wangcai and the Yin Soul Wolf King, and planted Buddhist spiritual plants in preparation for trade with the Pure Land Realm.
• Pang Yuanfu returned to the Immortal Dust Sect after bringing rain to a village, where worshipers had built a temple to honor him as their River God.
• A plump young woman summoned Pang Yuanfu outside the sect, insisted that he was not Pang Yuanfu, then realized she had failed to recognize him because he had grown fatter.

Li Xiuchang reunited the Pig Demon with Su Qingchun after she tracked him down, and learned how she had advanced to the Late Second Tier. Her story revealed that the enormous Pig King who had disappeared was the same Pig Demon Li Xiuchang had encountered after it thrashed the Golden Falcon.

• The Pig Demon mistook Pang Yuanfu for Li Xiuchang and explained that she had come to thank the man who treated her family elder in White Cloud City.
• Li Xiuchang recognized the visitor as the Pig Demon and brought her to an inn, where he released Su Qingchun.
• Su Qingchun and the Pig Demon reunited, and she thanked Li Xiuchang for removing the Malevolent Energy from her master's body.
• The Pig Demon told Li Xiuchang that a great demon had taken her as a disciple, raised her cultivation, and later tried to make her its concubine.
• The Pig Demon said she had escaped after the great demon vanished, and Li Xiuchang realized it was the enormous Pig King that had thrashed the Golden Falcon.

Li Xiuchang took in the Pig Demon, renamed her Little Zhu, and assigned her to manage his malevolent spirit employees and business coordination. As his forces grew stronger and Senior Brother Chen Changsheng neared completion of a Teleportation Array to the Dark Heaven Realm, Li Xiuchang prepared to explore it.

• The Pig Demon revealed she was Late Second Tier, learned Su Qingchun had reached Fourth Tier, and begged Li Xiuchang to take her in after the Pig King disappeared.
• Li Xiuchang accepted the Pig Demon, established a blood contract with her, and began calling her Little Zhu.
• Li Xiuchang brought Little Zhu into the Immortal Dust Sect and assigned her to take over Su Qingchun's steward duties.
• Li Xiuchang had Su Qingchun, Wangcai, and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King refine Hundred Refinements Iron while they cultivated and grew stronger.
• The Paw Patrol members all broke through to Fourth Tier, and Golden Falcon also advanced to Fourth Tier.
• Senior Brother Chen Changsheng neared completion of the Teleportation Array to the Dark Heaven Realm, so Li Xiuchang prepared to explore it with his senior brothers.

Li Xiuchang prepared to explore the Dark Heaven Realm by upgrading his equipment, reforging the Rainbow Soul Banner into a High-grade Magic Treasure and arranging for his other weapons to become Spirit Treasures. After Xia Siyun completed Gui Wuyan’s Longevity Pill, Gui Wuyan entrusted it to Li Xiuchang, leaving the reason for his decision unclear.

• The senior brothers and sisters chose Mo Tu and Li Xiuchang to explore the Dark Heaven Realm while Chen Changsheng’s clone waited there, and Li Xiuchang asked Zhang Wanzhi to finish his Bone Slicing Saber and Undying Armor as Spirit Treasures.
• Li Xiuchang used the Four Immortals Merchant Association to acquire costly materials, then modified Zhang Wanzhi’s plans and reforged the Rainbow Soul Banner into a High-grade Magic Treasure with specialized spaces.
• Steadfast told Li Xiuchang that its main body had become the Lord of the Demonic Path in another world and felt obliged to stay; Li Xiuchang asked it to collect the spirits of slain demonic cultivators and to train Gold Horn’s speed.
• Xia Siyun, Lu Yang, and Gui Wuyan went to witness the completion of Xia Siyun’s Longevity Pill, whose celestial phenomena drew the Immortal Dust Sect elders to the mountain.
• Gui Wuyan refused to take the pill and handed it to Li Xiuchang for safekeeping, while Lu Yang suggested that Gui Wuyan’s choice might have deeper significance.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu entered the Dark Heaven Realm to investigate the strength of its leading demonic cultivators and prepare to infiltrate a smaller sect. They left the teleportation site disguised as Qi Condensation cultivators, but Mo Tu immediately killed a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator, revealing how instinctive killing demonic cultivators had become for him.

• Li Xiuchang learned that the Longevity Pill could not be cut apart below the Dao Integration Stage, then watched Golden Horn demonstrate the escape skills it had learned from Wenwen.
• Chen Changsheng completed and tested the teleportation array, while Zhang Wanzhi finished the Bone Slicing Saber and Undying Armor as Low-grade Spirit Treasures.
• Li Xiuchang studied the Dark Heaven Realm's harsh rule under five major Devil Dao Sects and decided that its demonic cultivators could be killed without mistaking them for kind-hearted cultivators.
• Li Xiuchang, Mo Tu, and Golden Horn teleported to a barren Free Zone in the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's territory, where Chen Changsheng explained their mission to investigate the realm's strongest combatants.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu disguised themselves as Qi Condensation cultivators and left the maze formation to infiltrate a smaller sect and learn about the major sects.
• Mo Tu killed a Foundation Establishment woman who claimed the nearby mortal father and son, admitting that killing demonic cultivators had become muscle memory.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu traveled through the Dark Heaven Realm, where Li Xiuchang suspected Mo Tu was the legendary Last Demonic Lord. After helping mortals escape danger and reaching Earth Demon City, Mo Tu killed a demonic cultivator who had bullied a waiter, leaving Li Xiuchang worried that the Earth Demon Sect would soon respond.

• Li Xiuchang concluded that Mo Tu might be the Last Demonic Lord, then collected a Yin Soul from a demonic cultivator Mo Tu had killed.
• Li Xiuchang questioned a father and son about life in the Free Zones, gave them food, and left them protected by a maze formation.
• Mo Tu killed demonic cultivators they encountered as they crossed the Free Zone’s blood river and Li Xiuchang broke through the boundary formation.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu reached Earth Demon City and decided to join the Earth Demon Sect.
• Mo Tu killed a demonic cultivator who had splashed wine on a waiter, and Li Xiuchang urged him to leave before the Earth Demon Sect arrived.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu were conscripted into the Earth Demon Sect after killing a cultivator, then sent as cannon fodder to the frontier battlefield. They arrived eager to fight and kill demonic cultivators, while the sect expected them to die or earn it military merit.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu let Earth Demon Sect cultivators arrest them after killing someone, then gave false names and claimed to come from Wusha City under the Blood Fiend Sect.
• The Earth Demon Sect elder offered to spare them if they joined the sect and fought at the frontier, and Mo Tu accepted on their behalf.
• The pair completed their admission procedures and were escorted to the battlefield between the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect and the Imperial Soul Sect.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu recognized that the Earth Demon Sect had sent them as expendable cannon fodder, while Mo Tu explained the frontier’s role in the Devil Sects’ rule and cultivation system.
• A military officer ordered them onto the battlefield without uniforms, and both prepared eagerly to fight; Mo Tu said they would kill as many enemies as they could.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu infiltrated the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect’s border army and helped it crush an Imperial Soul Sect force, disguising their Foundation Establishment breakthroughs as occurring in battle. After collecting hundreds of Yin Souls and gaining new status, they were summoned by General Wu, and they considered whether to control him and search his soul.

• Li Xiuchang captured the Imperial Soul Sect’s attacking malevolent spirits with his Gourd Artifact, then used poisonous smoke to disrupt both armies.
• Mo Tu charged the enemy formation, drawing the Foundation Establishment commanders into combat, while Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu targeted unconscious and unmotivated enemy soldiers.
• As the Imperial Soul Sect retreated, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu pretended to break through to Foundation Establishment, slaughtered the fleeing troops, and helped kill the three enemy Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• General Duan received a request from Elder Xi concerning his grandson and arranged for the next battle to provide more Soul Material.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu returned to camp with hundreds of collected Yin Souls, and Li Xiuchang escaped a Demonic Concubine’s massage when General Wu summoned them.
• On their way to meet General Wu, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu discussed whether to control him and search his soul.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu were assigned to lead troops in a major battle, where Li exposed a hidden Golden Core cultivator and triggered the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's retreat. As the Foundation Establishment commanders turned to attack Xi Hansong, they killed him, leaving his two Golden Core guards and General Duan horrified.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu rejected General Wu's attempt to recruit them, and Li Xiuchang spent a month training before advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Mo Tu told Li Xiuchang that the long pause between battles suggested an unusually large clash was coming, and Li Xiuchang realized the Imperial Soul Sect had arranged the battle to help Xi Hansong form a High-grade Golden Core.
• General Wu ordered Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu to lead troops in the next battle, and they accepted without pledging allegiance to him.
• During the battle, Li Xiuchang spotted Xi Hansong's hidden Golden Core guards and exposed one, prompting Mo Tu to lead the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect's forces in retreat.
• After General Wu was intercepted by General Duan, Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu convinced the fleeing Foundation Establishment commanders to attack Xi Hansong together.
• Li Xiuchang's Little Diamond Bee pierced Xi Hansong's defensive barrier, and the commanders' combined attacks killed him before his Golden Core guards could protect him.

After Xi Hansong’s death, General Wu and General Duan fought, and the fallout led to General Wu punishing the Earth Demon Sect while Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu continued earning battlefield merit. When the Earth Demon Sect tried to recall them, the pair agreed to leave only after securing a chance to study at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

• General Duan attacked General Wu in anger after Xi Hansong died, while the two Golden Core guards fled into Blazing Blood Demonic Sect territory.
• General Duan was recalled to the Imperial Soul Sect, and General Wu received punishment for the failed collaboration and Xi Hansong’s death.
• General Wu retaliated against the Earth Demon Sect, but Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu survived repeated battlefield assignments and accumulated battle merit.
• The Earth Demon Sect sent a Foundation Establishment elder to persuade Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu to return, but they refused unless they could enter the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.
• The elder explained the Hundred Demon Hegemony Trial and promised to arrange study opportunities at the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect within a year, then swore a Dao Oath to secure their agreement.