Recaps

After Zhang Xuanchen’s discovery of the Demon-Detecting Mirror stirred Lingxiao Immortal City, he held a succession ceremony at Xuanxiao Mountain and passed the Zhang Clan leadership to Zhang Detian. Zhang Detian accepted the clan seal and vowed to protect the clansmen, uphold the ancestral teachings, and lead the clan through future hardship.

• Gong Jun considered the Demon-Detecting Mirror’s significance and decided to inform the Second Young Master and Fifth Miss that Zhang Xuanchen might travel to the Central Land Immortal Continent.
• Guests and clansmen gathered at Skyward Peak as Zhang Guangyao opened the Zhang Clan succession ceremony with rites honoring the ancestors.
• Zhang Xuanchen questioned Zhang Detian about his willingness to shoulder the responsibilities of Clan Leader, and Zhang Detian vowed to govern fairly and protect the clan.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Detian the Nine-Orifice Purple Gold Seal and urged him to protect clansmen while giving capable young people the freedom to venture beyond Xuanxiao Mountain.
• Zhang Detian swore to become the seventh Clan Leader of the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan and promised to stand with the clansmen through future storms.

Zhang Detian completed his succession as Clan Leader, and the banquet celebrated his new leadership. Wen Shaohua and the Wen Family confronted their regret over how they had treated Wen Qingya, while Jun Xiaoyao reflected on Zhang Xuanchen and the dwindling time for the Sons of Calamity.

• Zhang Detian accepted the clan seal, became the Zhang Family's seventh-generation Clan Leader, and received congratulations from the gathered guests.
• At the banquet, Wen Shaohua regretted neglecting Wen Qingya and accepted Wen Yanran's warning to give up his hopes regarding Zhang Deling.
• Wen Yanran and the Wen Family elders reflected on their past treatment of Wen Qingya and acknowledged that their apologies could not restore their old bonds.
• Wen Qingya exchanged a courteous greeting with her Wen Family relatives before returning to her conversation with the guests.
• Jun Xiaoyao pondered Zhang Xuanchen's unusual decision to relinquish power and urged the Sons of Calamity to keep striving because little time remained.

After the banquet, Zhang Xuanchen asked Gong Jun about the dangers of crossing the Endless Sea to reach the Central Land Immortal Continent. Gong Jun described lethal sea regions and uncanny beings, leaving Zhang Xuanchen with a clearer but grim picture of the voyage ahead.

• Jun Xiaoyao teased Li Qing about his cultivation and urged him to attempt a breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.
• After the guests left Skyward Peak, Gong Jun met Zhang Xuanchen and told him that Yan and the other women had left for different continents.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Gong Jun that he and Luo Lingshuang planned to cross the Endless Sea and asked him to explain its dangers.
• Gong Jun explained that crossing the sea was perilous even for Nascent Soul cultivators, and described the Devouring Spirit Tide and the Silent Sea.
• Gong Jun warned Zhang Xuanchen about the Blood Moon Sea, Faceless Monsters, the Reverse-Flow Strait, and the Floating Corpse Abyss.

Zhang Xuanchen warned Zhang Detian about the dangers of the Endless Sea and gave Gong Jun two Demon-Detecting Mirrors in exchange for help finding materials for Golden Core Pills. Zhang Detian planned to unify the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain and secretly develop the Peach Blossom Spring Space as a refuge, while Zhang Xuanchen prepared to leave three avatars to protect the lineage.

• Zhang Xuanchen learned from Gong Jun about the Endless Sea's dangers and the Luo Clan Young Master's hidden protections.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Gong Jun two Demon-Detecting Mirrors as thanks for the help Bai and Yan had given the Zhang Family, asking him to seek materials for Golden Core Pills in return.
• Zhang Detian told Zhang Xuanchen he planned to unify the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain so its powers could face the demon calamity together.
• Zhang Detian proposed secretly developing the Peach Blossom Spring Space as a refuge while publicly using Xuanxiao Mountain as the lineage's Ancestral Grounds.
• Zhang Xuanchen approved Zhang Detian's plans, urged him to keep the Peach Blossom Spring Space secret, and said he would leave three avatars with the lineage.

Zhang Xuanchen prepared to leave the Lineage for the Central Lands, visiting Flower Fruit Mountain and bidding farewell to his companions before entrusting Zhang Chongxian with safeguards for the family. He departed in disguise, leaving the Lineage under Zhang Chongxian’s care.

• Zhang Xuanchen walked through Flower Fruit Mountain, met Zhang Xiuyuan, and gave him a Fire Essence Jade Pendant.
• Zhang Xuanchen joined Great Sage, Little Peach, Little Flame, Sleeping Turtle, Little Star, and Xiao Mo for a farewell gathering, and invited Little Star to travel with him.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Chongxian that he, Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Little Peach, and Little Star would leave for the Central Lands while the Lineage believed he was in seclusion.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Chongxian three tokens containing his spiritual-power incarnations and asked him to contact him if the Lineage faced an unmanageable crisis.
• Zhang Xuanchen changed his appearance and aura and flew toward Yunhua Immortal City as Zhang Chongxian watched him leave.

Zhang Xuanchen disguised himself and led Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Little Peach, and Little Star toward the Endless Sea. After discovering a Heavenly Azure Purifying Water Lotus on Lanyue Island, they fought the Sea Nightmare Ghost Mother guarding the island, and Great Sage defeated her.

• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions left Worry-Free City in disguise and flew toward the Endless Sea.
• Three days into the journey, Zhang Xuanchen discovered that a Heavenly Azure Purifying Water Lotus would mature on Lanyue Island and changed their route toward it.
• Zhang Xuanchen's group arrived at Lanyue Island and sensed an early fourth stage Sea Nightmare Ghost Mother nearby.
• Great Sage attacked the Sea Nightmare Ghost Mother and smashed her body apart with repeated blows.
• Great Sage caught the Ghost Mother's ghost core and dismissed her strength as mediocre.

Zhang Xuanchen retrieved the Skywave Pure Water Pearl for Luo Lingshuang, then led his companions toward an island where Xuanjing sensed demon qi. They arrived at Coral Town and met a poor young fisherman who offered them lodging.

• Zhang Xuanchen praised Great Sage, drew the Skywave Pure Water Pearl from the cold spring, and gave it to Luo Lingshuang to refine during their journey.
• Seven days later, Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that an island ahead held traces of demon qi, and the group decided to investigate.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions concealed their auras and landed on a deserted tidal flat near a busy port and market.
• Zhang Xuanchen remarked that mortals and cultivators seemed to coexist peacefully in the town, then questioned a youth about why he was soliciting guests away from the landing point.
• The youth explained that powerful inns and wealthy households dominated the landing point, and said he had been gathering seafood and offerings for the Sea God when he spotted the group.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions accepted Er Niu’s offer to stay at his home in Coral Town and learned that the town’s revered Sea God protected its people and enforced strict rules. They followed Er Niu to his humble, well-kept courtyard, where his little sister and grandmother welcomed them.

• Er Niu nervously offered Zhang Xuanchen and his companions two rooms at his family’s home, and Zhang Xuanchen accepted.
• Er Niu explained that the Sea God forbade people from poaching customers or harming others, and punished Immortal Masters who killed ordinary people.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, the Great Sage, and Little Peach followed Er Niu through Coral Town as locals congratulated him on finding four guests.
• Er Niu brought the group to his family’s small courtyard, where his little sister opened the gate and his grandmother greeted him.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions stayed at Er Niu’s home in Coral Town and learned about his family’s hardships and the Sea God’s protection. Er Niu described offering fish at the Sea God Altar for protection and Spirit Liquid, and Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing to identify the Sea God and locate the Demon Seed.

• Er Niu brought Zhang Xuanchen and his companions to his home, where his blind grandmother welcomed them and Xiao Ya prepared rooms.
• Er Niu gathered the seafood he had caught and went to cook dinner while Great Sage rested in the courtyard.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned that Er Niu’s family had fled another island, and that Er Niu’s parents had disappeared at sea eight years earlier.
• Er Niu explained that Coral Town’s residents offered fish to the Sea God for protection and could receive Spirit Liquid as a reward.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing what the Sea God was and whether it could sense the Demon Seed’s location.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions shared a meal with Er Niu’s family while planning to investigate the injured Sea God after nightfall. During dinner, Luo Lingshuang treated the old woman’s blindness, and the old woman regained her sight.

• Xuanjing identified the Sea God as an injured second-order peak Green-Skinned Lazy Toad Demon that had likely fought a creature possessed by the Demon Seed, but he could not locate the Demon Seed.
• Zhang Xuanchen planned to investigate the Sea God after dinner and prepared roasted Demon Beast meat to share with Er Niu’s family.
• Great Sage eagerly joined the meal, and the guests and hosts relaxed as they talked and ate together.
• Luo Lingshuang examined the old woman’s eyes and found that years of strain had blocked her meridians and dried out her spiritual apertures.
• Luo Lingshuang used water spiritual power to treat the old woman, who opened her eyes and saw Er Niu and Xiao Ya again.

After helping the old woman regain her sight, Zhang Xuanchen and his companions investigated Coral Town’s sacrificial platform and discovered the Green-Skinned Lazy Toad Demon beneath it. They found the demon peacefully protecting the town and considered offering it an opportunity, but it nervously surrendered when they revealed themselves.

• Luo Lingshuang stopped Er Niu from kneeling and cautioned the old woman to protect her restored sight.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions finished dinner with the family and returned to their rooms for the night.
• Zhang Xuanchen secretly visited Coral Town’s sacrificial platform and sensed that it belonged to a toad demon.
• Xuanjing discovered that the toad demon had begun generating incense energy and said it might eventually form an incense-burning dharma body.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions entered the underground cave and found the Green-Skinned Lazy Toad Demon sleeping in a spirit spring.
• The Green-Skinned Lazy Toad Demon woke, sensed their strength, lay down in surrender, and asked who they were and why they had come.

Zhang Xuanchen learned why the Lazy Toad Demon protected Coral Town, and Xuanjing revealed the cruel rejection and loneliness that had shaped its life. Little Peach healed its wounds as Zhang Xuanchen approached it, leaving the group face-to-face with the demon’s painful past.

• Zhang Xuanchen asked the Lazy Toad Demon why it protected Coral Town, and it explained that the villagers provided food in exchange for its protection.
• Xuanjing used Causality Reflection to reveal how the Lazy Toad Demon had been mocked, abused, and driven from its tribe because of its appearance.
• The vision showed that the Lazy Toad Demon eventually found Coral Town and stayed after the villagers thanked it and asked it for protection.
• Little Peach cried over the demon’s past and healed its scars.
• Zhang Xuanchen patted the Lazy Toad Demon’s head, and it trembled but did not pull away.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions comforted the Lazy Toad Demon, rewarded it, and helped it confront the demonized Sea-Splitting Lizard. Afterward, they left Coral Town, giving Er Niu wild ginseng in payment for their lodging.

• Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Little Peach, and Little Star assured the Lazy Toad Demon that its kindness made it worthy of acceptance, then gave it three drops of essence blood.
• The Lazy Toad Demon led Zhang Xuanchen and the others into the forest to find the demon-seed-possessed creature that had injured it.
• Zhang Xuanchen crushed and killed the demonized Sea-Splitting Lizard, then stored its corpse in the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Xuanjing taught the Lazy Toad Demon a cultivation method for the Incense-Burning Path and urged it to protect Coral Town's people.
• The next morning, Zhang Xuanchen gave Er Niu two wild ginseng roots as payment for lodging, said farewell, and departed with his companions.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions left Coral Town aboard the Wavebreaker to cross the Endless Sea toward the Central Land Immortal Continent. They began a long journey that would take over a decade, with Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang entering cultivation chambers while Great Sage stayed on watch.

• Zhang Xuanchen investigated the islands around Coral Town with Luo Lingshuang and the others, then entrusted the town's safety to the Lazy Toad Demon.
• As they flew across the sea, Luo Lingshuang told Great Sage that the disaster Zhang Xuanchen mentioned had involved his disciple, Zhang Wanjun.
• After traveling for more than half a month, Zhang Xuanchen summoned the Wavebreaker, and the group boarded the Flying Boat.
• Zhang Xuanchen ended their disguises and cultivation suppression, while Great Sage's released Demon Qi drove nearby third stage Sea Demons away.
• Luo Lingshuang estimated that crossing the Endless Sea would take more than ten years, and Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing and Little Peach to keep Great Sage from causing trouble during their cultivation.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, and Little Star entered their Cultivation Chambers as the Wavebreaker continued toward the Central Land Immortal Continent.

Zhang Xuanchen cultivated the Nine Dragon Swords to major accomplishment and comprehended Dragon Abyss Sword Intent, then trained the Grand Void Feather Escape Technique to entry level. Xuanjing warned that Little Star’s breakthrough to the Fourth Stage had attracted a Fifth-grade Evil Spirit and multiple Fourth Stage threats.

• Zhang Xuanchen entered the Evolution Space and practiced the Nine Dragon Swords with the Meteor Sword.
• Zhang Xuanchen reached major accomplishment in the Nine Dragon Swords and naturally comprehended Dragon Abyss Sword Intent; Xuanjing cautioned him against cultivating too many types of Sword Intent at once.
• Zhang Xuanchen began practicing the Grand Void Feather Escape Technique and, after three years, learned to produce three Phantoms.
• Zhang Xuanchen combined the Grand Void Feather Escape Technique with the Soaring Dragon Treading the Heavens Step, reaching speed comparable to an early-stage Spirit Transformation Venerable.
• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Little Star had broken through to the Fourth Stage, drawing the attention of a Fifth-grade Evil Spirit and multiple Fourth Stage Evil Spirits and Sea Demons.

Little Star's breakthrough drew a vast horde of Tide-Severing Jiluo evil spirits, whose forbidden domain suppressed spiritual power and threatened the Wavebreaker. Zhang Xuanchen fought the Jiluo King with his physical strength while Luo Lingshuang protected the boat from the king's expanding domain.

• Xuanjing identified the surrounding Tide-Severing Jiluo horde and warned Zhang Xuanchen that its domain suppressed spiritual power, law techniques, and Demon Qi.
• Zhang Xuanchen activated the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art, crushed the weaker evil spirits, and charged toward the Jiluo King as Great Sage attacked three Jiluo Generals.
• Zhang Xuanchen wounded the Jiluo King's beloved consort and destroyed its attacks before striking the king with Azure Dragon Splits the Sky.
• The Jiluo King regenerated and expanded into a vast black curtain, using Darkness Erosion to refine the surrounding sea and sky.
• Luo Lingshuang raised the Tidal Lotus Lamp and formed Luo Lotus Protection around the Wavebreaker, resisting the domain and crushing the approaching evil spirits.

Zhang Xuanchen tore the Jiluo King’s evil core from its body and destroyed it, ending the monster’s control over the Jiluo horde. With the king dead, the surviving Jiluo fled in chaos while Little Star continued enduring its tribulation.

• Little Peach used her Divine Sense to stop Jiluo from reaching Little Star as the Great Sage charged into the horde and smashed numerous evil spirits with his Golden Cudgel.
• Zhang Xuanchen broke free of the Jiluo King’s restraint, destroyed the evil-thought incarnation modeled on himself, and exposed the king’s chest fissure.
• Zhang Xuanchen struck the fissure with the Blood Dragon Sea-Suppressing Palm and pulled the Jiluo King’s evil core out of its body.
• Zhang Xuanchen cut down the Fourth Stage evil spirit that attacked him, then destroyed the evil core with his Qi and Blood and Earth Vein Profound Sun Fire.
• The Jiluo King collapsed, and the surviving Tidesunder Jiluo scattered and fled.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions collected Evil Spirit Treasures from the defeated Duanxi Jiluo while protecting Little Star through his tribulation. Little Star reached the Early Fourth Stage, and the group continued into the middle reaches of the Endless Sea, where Zhang Xuanchen warned everyone to conceal their bloodlines.

• Zhang Xuanchen stopped Great Sage from pursuing the fleeing Duanxi Jiluo and directed the group to protect Little Star during his tribulation.
• After Xuanjing explained that some Jiluo contained Evil Spirit Treasures, Zhang Xuanchen and the others searched the corpses and recovered hundreds of treasures, including a Silent King Remnant Banner from the Jiluo King.
• Xuanjing explained that the banner could weaken cultivators' spiritual power and described the other treasures taken from the Fourth Stage Jiluo.
• Little Star survived the final lightning bolt and broke through to the Early Fourth Stage, then Little Peach healed him.
• Xuanjing confirmed that the Wavebreaker had reached the middle reaches of the Endless Sea, and Zhang Xuanchen warned Little Star and Great Sage to hide their bloodlines to avoid attracting powerful enemies.

After two years crossing the Endless Sea, Zhang Xuanchen and his companions discovered the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent, where a rare Water Attribute treasure could help Luo Lingshuang and Little Peach. They reached the continent’s edge and saw its mountains and rivers suspended above the sea.

• Xuanjing concealed Great Sage and Little Star’s bloodline presence, and Zhang Xuanchen continued the voyage aboard the hidden Wavebreaker.
• Over two years at sea, Luo Lingshuang comprehended the Water Principle, Little Peach absorbed water spiritual power, and Great Sage broke through to the late Fourth Stage while improving his cooking.
• The group spotted a landmass through the sea mist, and Zhang Xuanchen received information about a middle Ninth Stage Ten Thousand Waters Dao Source Lotus in the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent.
• Zhang Xuanchen told his companions that the continent held a powerful Water Attribute opportunity for Luo Lingshuang and Little Peach, and they continued toward it.
• Ten days later, the Wavebreaker reached the continent’s edge, where the group saw mountains, rivers, and water Dao Spirit Veins holding the land above the sea.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions explored the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent, where they encountered Zhao Long and Xu Qingyi under attack by a powerful demon. After saving them, Zhang Xuanchen learned they were outer sect elders of the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect and revealed that his group had come from the South Sea Immortal Continent to explore.

• Zhang Xuanchen led his group onto the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent and saw its strange sea-of-clouds sky, which Shuoxing explained came from another realm merged with the Xuanqiong Realm.
• The group spent twenty days exploring, collecting unusual demon beasts and spirit medicines as they searched for people.
• Xuanjing sensed two cultivators being pursued, and Zhang Xuanchen flew with his companions to help them.
• Zhang Xuanchen killed the fourth-stage Black-Phosphorus Water Demon with a punch and a sword strike, saving Zhao Long and Xu Qingyi.
• Zhao Long introduced himself and Xu Qingyi as outer sect elders of the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect, and Zhang Xuanchen told them his group came from the South Sea Immortal Continent to explore.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions reached Origin Immortal City, where a local waiter told them about the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent’s leading powers and a treasure rumored to have appeared in the Dao Source Abyss. Zhang Xuanchen learned that the three major sects were searching the forbidden land, while the treasure’s nature and exact location remained unknown.

• Zhang Xuanchen concealed his group’s strength and accepted Zhao Long’s invitation to visit Water Cloud Tower in Origin Immortal City.
• Great Sage and the others ate a lavish meal, and Zhao Long and Xu Qingyi paid tens of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones before leaving.
• Zhang Xuanchen paid waiter Shui Sanshun for a map and asked about the Sunken Tide Ancient Continent’s major powers.
• Shui Sanshun named the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect, Nether Sea Hall, and Sunpeak Ancient Clan as the continent’s three dominant powers, and described the Dao Source Abyss as a northern forbidden land.
• Shui Sanshun revealed that divine light had erupted from the Dao Source Abyss half a year earlier and that the three Spirit Transformation powers and many Nascent Soul powers were searching there for a suspected treasure.

Zhang Xuanchen misdirected the factions watching him before leading his companions toward the Dao Origin Abyss. Half a year later, they reached its outer ring and watched the gathered factions as a commotion broke out at the camps.

• Zhang Xuanchen left Water Cloud Tower after explaining that the forbidden Dao Origin Abyss was too dangerous for outsiders to enter amid a struggle between three Spirit Transformation factions.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions stayed in Heavenly Water City overnight, then set out the next morning and let their watchers believe they were heading to the Ten Thousand Waters Basin.
• After traveling for two hours, Zhang Xuanchen and the others changed their appearances and diverted toward the Dao Origin Abyss.
• Half a year later, Zhang Xuanchen and his companions reached the Abyss's outer ring, where three Spirit Transformation factions and more than a dozen Nascent Soul factions had established camps.
• Great Sage observed that the factions would likely fight over the treasure, while Zhang Xuanchen warned that the dangers of the forbidden ground made traveling alone deadly.
• A commotion broke out at the distant camps as Zhang Xuanchen and his companions watched from behind a boulder.

After Gu Buqun returned wounded from the Inverted Waters, he revealed to the Yangyue Ancient Clan that a great treasure was likely hidden there and guarded by a fifth-grade ferocious beast. As the rival factions secretly prepared to follow the clan, Zhang Xuanchen sent his companions into the Myriad Spirit Ring and set off alone toward the treasure.

• Gu Buqun returned to the Yangyue Ancient Clan's camp with severe injuries, and Shui Yunlan and Hai Lan'er inferred that he might have found the treasure's location.
• Gu Buqun told the Yangyue elders that the treasure was likely in the Inverted Waters, where a fifth-grade ferocious beast had nearly killed him.
• Shui Yunlan ordered the Heavenly Water Sacred Sect to watch the Yangyue camp, follow its people secretly, and notify the Ancestor.
• Hai Lan'er ordered Nethersea Hall to monitor both rival factions while the three powers secretly made plans against one another.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions overheard the factions' conversations with Xuanjing and decided to hurry to the treasure's location.
• Zhang Xuanchen sent Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Little Peach, and Little Star into the Myriad Spirit Ring, then concealed himself and departed alone.

Zhang Xuanchen raced deeper into the Dao Origin Abyss with Xuanjing guiding him, enduring its deadly baleful Qi before fighting off a group of Abyss Beasts. He discovered a crystal containing a Principle fragment and asked Xuanjing whether she could purify it.

• Xuanjing guided Zhang Xuanchen through the distorted depths of the Dao Origin Abyss, where baleful Qi began tearing at his body.
• Xuanjing explained that the baleful Qi came from death, resentment, and shattered Principles, and warned that prolonged exposure could destroy Zhang Xuanchen’s body and erode his soul.
• Several Abyss Beasts attacked Zhang Xuanchen in a canyon, and he killed them with Sword Qi, his Divine Dragon Tyrant Body, and the Dragon God Fist.
• Zhang Xuanchen split open the strongest Abyss Beast and recovered a black crystal that Xuanjing identified as condensed Abyss Qi containing a trace of a Principle fragment.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing whether she could purify the crystal.

Zhang Xuanchen ventured into the deadly heart of the Dao Origin Abyss, where Xuanjing protected him from the abyss Qi and Shuoxing gathered ruined artifacts to repair the Starry Tower. He claimed a rare Soul-Devouring Nether Lotus after defeating a Netherworld Blood Tiger, while Nethersea Hall scouts misidentified the distant battle and suspected the Yangyue Ancient Clan had reached the treasure.

• Zhang Xuanchen entered the middle region of the Dao Origin Abyss, and Xuanjing’s mirror light shielded him from its corrosive abyss Qi.
• Shuoxing collected a damaged saber and said the battlefield’s ruined treasures could help restore the Starry Tower.
• Xuanjing detected a mature fifth-grade treasure, and Zhang Xuanchen found the Soul-Devouring Nether Lotus in a black swamp.
• A Netherworld Blood Tiger attacked Zhang Xuanchen, but he shattered its claw with his sword and made it flee.
• Zhang Xuanchen collected the Soul-Devouring Nether Lotus and continued deeper into the forbidden land.
• Li Chen and the Nethersea Hall scouts sensed the distant battle, mistook its presence for Yangyue Ancient Clan cultivators, and hurried back to report it.