Recaps

Ling Wuyuan destroyed the Three Great Families of Black Stone City and gained new regenerative abilities before settling into Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to study its arts. He reached the Source Gathering Realm and demonstrated the extraordinary durability of his body, leaving Yuan Yujun and the others eager to examine him.

• Ling Wuyuan fought off the Three Great Families’ cultivators, survived their elders’ mass self-destruction, and discovered that his injuries had awakened [Self-Regeneration] and [Environmental Adaptability].
• Ling Wuyuan defeated Miao Zhong and the Zhu Family Patriarch, then slaughtered two more families in Black Stone City to fulfill his promise to Pei Yi.
• Ling Wuyuan joined Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion, explored its institutes with Yan Xiujin, and spent time with Pei Yiman and Pei Yi’s other disciples.
• Ling Wuyuan made potent Marching Pills from rare ingredients and explained that his body continually adapted as he trained and studied extraordinary arts.
• After several dozen days of visiting the pavilion’s institutes, Ling Wuyuan absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy and advanced to the Source Gathering Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan let Yuan Yujun test his defense with an energy attack, healed his shallow chest wound within seconds, and revealed that he was cultivating fifteen body-refinement techniques.
• Yuan Yujun pounced on Ling Wuyuan to examine his body, and Wu Yanlian and the others eagerly joined her.

Ling Wuyuan revealed the breadth of his cultivation and artifact-refining talent as he traveled with Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to the Capital City. After the Pavilion arranged the Imperial Grand Competition, Nangong Yun challenged Ling and was met with a kick.

• Ling Wuyuan explained that he cultivated twenty-seven methods, astonishing Yuan Yujun, Wu Yanlian, and the others, and Wu Yanlian invited him to the Imperial Grand Competition.
• Wu Yanlian and the other women tried to use secret medicine in Ling Wuyuan’s birthday soup, but he recognized their scheme, confronted them, and later reconciled with Pei Yiman.
• Ling Wuyuan explored the Jade Night Tower Ship with Pei Suxia before the Pavilion arrived in the Capital City and took up residence at Cold Moon Palace.
• At the imperial garden meeting, Yuan Yujun offered a low-grade Enlightened Intent Realm manual as the competition’s first prize, and the factions agreed the contest would begin in seven days.
• Yuan Yujun explained that the prize would draw strong contestants and give Ling Wuyuan and Wu Yanlian a chance to prove themselves, while allowing Pei Yiman, Pei Suxia, and Yao Yueyan to compete as well.
• While Ling Wuyuan toured Rainbow Mist City with Pei Yiman and the others, Nangong Yun challenged him and demanded that he leave the Pavilion if he lost.
• Ling Wuyuan called Nangong Yun a barking stray dog, stepped in front of him, and struck him with an upward kick.

Ling Wuyuan dominated the Imperial Grand Competition’s preliminary melee, using his overwhelming power to eliminate most contestants. He then challenged every remaining fighter and offered the Heavenly Dipper White Stream Golden Body as a prize, leaving Nangong Mu under pressure to face him first.

• Ling Wuyuan humiliated Nangong Yun with a single kick, and the Nangong Family decided not to challenge Ling Wuyuan or the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• Ling Wuyuan and Wu Yanlian entered the Imperial Grand Competition, where his immense spiritual energy alarmed the contestants and Guan Xiangfei recognized his Source Gathering Realm strength.
• Ling Wuyuan found Wu Yanlian facing Han Zhongbo and crippled Han with his speed and gray-mist true qi after Wu Yanlian refused his advances.
• Ling Wuyuan and Wu Yanlian watched the melee from a mountain while he grilled barbecue, then Ling Wuyuan unleashed a vast Flame Cloud barrage that devastated the secret realm and eliminated nearly a thousand contestants.
• After the attack left 72 contestants, the remaining fighters avoided joining forces against Ling Wuyuan and continued fighting among themselves until the preliminary round ended with fifty survivors.
• Ling Wuyuan proposed fighting every contestant without resting and offered the Heavenly Dipper White Stream Golden Body to anyone who defeated him.
• The Nangong Family patriarch urged Nangong Mu to defeat Ling Wuyuan, while Nangong Mu tried to object to the challenge and other contestants pressed him to fight.
• Ling Wuyuan invited all under-forty Source Gathering Realm fighters to challenge him over three days, and the crowds cheered.

Ling Wuyuan overwhelmed challenger after challenger at the Imperial Grand Competition, finally meeting serious resistance from Lan Yanhai before defeating more than a hundred opponents without being injured. Jiang Wenju’s special edition spread news of Ling Wuyuan across White Mist Country and drew challengers, admirers, and hostile factions toward Rainbow Mist City.

• Nangong Mu insisted on fighting first, and Ling Wuyuan recognized him as a worthy opponent before defeating him and sending him from the secret realm unconscious.
• Ling Wuyuan swiftly defeated Zhang Wentao, Su Hu, and Guan Xiangfei, whose strength and ambition could not match his.
• Lan Yanhai challenged Ling Wuyuan with advanced Sword Momentum, but Ling Wuyuan broke through it and dismantled his techniques until Lan Yanhai’s sword was cut in two.
• Ling Wuyuan defeated Fu Pixu, Xiao Guangxiao, Yi Chenglin, and a succession of other contestants, while Wu Yanlian withdrew rather than fight him.
• Sun Yuansheng challenged Ling Wuyuan with a long-hidden martial art, but lost and left grateful to have witnessed Ling’s strength.
• After Ling Wuyuan defeated more than a hundred challengers without injury, Jiang Wenju published a special edition proclaiming him invincible among his peers.
• Readers and factions across White Mist Country and other nations turned their attention toward Rainbow Mist City, and the News Report organizations ordered Jiang Wenju to gather information and promote Ling Wuyuan.