Recaps

Xiang Yuan’s group killed Mist Wyrm King, then joined Golden Crow King’s battle against the other Great Sages and fought him for the Demon Palace’s final opportunity. After Golden Crow King detonated his demon core, Xiang Yuan, Xiao Lingyue, and Chan’er endured the resulting sea of golden flames by using Xiang Yuan’s medicinal blood to temper their bodies.

• Xiang Yuan controlled Senior Jiang from inside Mist Wyrm King, then helped Xiao Lingyue and Chan’er finish killing the wyrm and take its demon cores.
• Golden Crow King killed Bull Devil King and was confronted by Xiang Yuan’s group, whose matching blood-red token prevented him from expelling them from the Demon Palace.
• Senior Jiang charged Golden Crow King but was blown apart when the king used White Emperor King’s demon core; Xiang Yuan and the two women then attacked together.
• Golden Crow King detonated Bull Devil King’s demon core to interrupt Xiang Yuan’s yin-yang attack, then detonated his own core as Xiang Yuan struck back.
• The explosion filled the plaza with golden fire, and Xiang Yuan pulled Xiao Lingyue and Chan’er close so they could bite his medicinal blood and temper their bodies.

After defeating the Golden Crow King, Xiang Yuan found the relic and discovered a stele covered in names from Journey to the West, deepening his suspicions about the Heavenly Demon Realm’s purpose. He returned to the Dry Abyss Realm with Chan'er and Xiao Lingyue, then set off to investigate the Dragon-Subduing Realm before visiting the Heavenly God Realm.

• Xiang Yuan rescued the unconscious Xiao Lingyue and Chan'er, concealed the Demon Palace, and ended the treasure hunt after finding the relic.
• Xiang Yuan had Xiao Lingyue translate the demon-script stele and recognized its names as figures from Journey to the West, then failed to activate the five-colored pillar while transformed as Nine Infants.
• Xiang Yuan brought the recovering women to the Unborn Realm, where they spent half a month healing and studying demon script before he returned with them to Song Family Village.
• Chan'er questioned why Xiao Lingyue had recovered quickly, confirmed that Xiao Lingyue had bitten Xiang Yuan, and spent five days with him before leaving with Senior Jiang.
• Xiang Yuan opened Jambu Gate and traveled to the Dragon-Subduing Realm to check on the disciples of Pure Moon Chan Heart Academy and collect fallen leaves.

Xiang Yuan reviewed Baize’s candidates for divine generals and welcomed the newly ascended Purple Void True Person, whom he appointed as Spiritual Officer Ma. After warning Purple Void that he had offended Guanyin Bodhisattva by laughing at rumors about her and Xiang Yuan, he left him with a deliberately contradictory warning not to spread those rumors.

• Xiang Yuan puzzled over the differing flows of time among the realms while Baize presented her list of candidates for the thirty-six divine generals.
• Xiang Yuan approved several candidates, including Qin Chang and Purple Void, and asked Baize to recruit only a quarter of the list and bring Purple Void to him.
• Purple Void arrived and recognized Xiang Yuan as the True Warrior Great Emperor, then panicked over his past presumption and tried to kill himself.
• Xiang Yuan forgave Purple Void, appointed him Spiritual Officer Ma, and told him he had offended Guanyin Bodhisattva by joining in rumors about her and Xiang Yuan.
• Xiang Yuan warned Purple Void not to spread the rumors, while implying that he should spread them anyway.

Xiang Yuan returned from the Heavenly Demon Realm, visited Jingyun and reunited with Layman Bai Yue and Ji Muqing at Mount Luojia. After the Heavenly Emperor summoned him, he arrived at the Heavenly Court and encountered Erlang the Sage True Lord and a black-armored elder arguing over a dog.

• Xiang Yuan reported the Heavenly Demon Realm to Jingyun, who told him to await the Heavenly Emperor's decision and gave him her jade belt before leaving for the Heavenly Court.
• Xiang Yuan reunited with Layman Bai Yue at Mount Luojia, gave her a fallen leaf from her homeland, and urged her to speak plainly with Ji Muqing about their feelings.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ji Muqing, gave her fallen leaves, and spent half a month in Purple Bamboo Grove guiding her and Layman Bai Yue's cultivation.
• The Heavenly Emperor summoned Xiang Yuan, who rode to the Southern Heavenly Gate and was escorted to Miro Palace.
• Xiang Yuan stopped a black hound from marking the entrance to Hall of Imperial Zenith, where he met Erlang the Sage True Lord and a three-eyed elder who suggested stewing the dog.

Xiang Yuan joined the Heavenly Court’s campaign to quell a rebellion in the Heavenly Demon Realm, where he allied with Erlang Shen and helped lead the invasion. After learning the gods had no family ties and considering how the Heavenly Court might develop, he left the battlefield wondering whether Erlang Shen might someday gain a younger sister.

• Xiang Yuan watched Erlang Shen argue with the Universal Lord of Thunder in the Nine Heavens, then met Nezha before the Heavenly Emperor ordered a campaign against the Heavenly Demon Realm.
• Xiang Yuan gathered the few divine generals available at Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor, appointed Purple Void True Person to accompany him, and warned him not to spread rumors about Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• Xiang Yuan opened a passage to the Heavenly Demon Realm, and the Heavenly Court’s army descended under his command alongside Erlang Shen’s forces.
• Xiang Yuan and Erlang Shen formed a friendly alliance and sent their troops to defeat the vastly outmatched demons while they talked at Erlang Shen’s camp.
• Xiang Yuan learned that divine offices carried no family ties and that Erlang Shen was not the Heavenly Emperor’s nephew, then wondered whether the Heavenly Court’s gods would develop into the figures he knew from other worlds.

After the Heavenly Gods conquered the Heavenly Demon Realm, Xiang Yuan visited Layman Bai Yue and learned about Spirit Mountain before returning to Dezhou. He told Xiao He that he was engaged to Xiao Lingyue and had arranged another marriage with the Xiao family, leaving Xiao He convinced Xiang Yuan was making it all up.

• The Heavenly Gods defeated the Heavenly Demon Realm in seven days, and Xiang Yuan punished Purple Void True Person for spreading rumors about him and Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• Layman Bai Yue explained that she had heard the gossip through Avalokiteshvara and told Xiang Yuan that Spirit Mountain was on the Western Ox-Gift Continent.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ji Muqing at Lotus Pond, gave her blood medicine, and promised to grant her wish if she surpassed him in cultivation.
• Xiang Yuan returned to Dezhou and joined Xiao He and Xu Jixian, who had reached the Innate Realm, for drinks and grilled food.
• Xiang Yuan gave Xiao He clothes from Cheng Yuling and revealed that he had become a godson of Xiao Yan and Cheng Yuling after saving Cheng Yuling from assassins.
• Xiang Yuan claimed that he and Xiao Lingyue were engaged and that he had arranged another marriage with Xiao Lingyan, while Xiao He dismissed his claims as lies.

Xiang Yuan defeated Xu Jixian in a spar, then Xiao He persuaded him to join them at Jade Sheng House. The next day, Xiao He outlined a plan to infiltrate the troubled Five Poisons Cult in the Southern Border and named the cult leader’s wife, Ana Heiyan, as his route in.

• Xiang Yuan told Xiao He the truth about the Storm Mist Blade, but Xiao He mistook it for a lie.
• Xiang Yuan sparred with Xu Jixian and shattered his protective Gang Qi before knocking him unconscious with one palm.
• Xiao He threatened to badmouth Xiang Yuan to Lingyue, so Xiang Yuan agreed to go with Xiao He and Xu Jixian to Jade Sheng House.
• Xiao He explained that the Five Poisons Cult had suffered misfortunes, lost resources, and angered a group of demons.
• Xiao He proposed infiltrating the Five Poisons Cult to become an Innate Realm elder, using the cult leader’s wife, Ana Heiyan, as his connection.

Xiang Yuan learned about the power struggle inside the Five Poisons Cult and visited Chan'er to ask how he could resist Ana Heiyan's charm techniques. Chan'er passed spiritual energy from the Yellow Springs Mother Tree into him while secretly imprinting her image on his Primordial Spirit, and Xiang Yuan left able to treat the imprint as another item in his collection.

• Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that the Five Poisons Cult leader was auditing his wife, Ana Heiyan, and that an elder who had defected to Western Chu was feeding intelligence to the Imperial City Directorate.
• Xiang Yuan agreed to travel to the Southern Border with Xiao He and visited Chan'er in the Upper Zhou ruins to ask about resisting charm techniques.
• Chan'er taught Xiang Yuan a method involving the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, and after several disrupted attempts, he received its spiritual energy through their intimate cultivation transmission.
• Chan'er secretly used a harvesting art to imprint her image on Xiang Yuan's Primordial Spirit, intending to keep him from being seduced by other women.
• Xiang Yuan left the ruins and found that Chan'er's imprint had formed an album in his Primordial Spirit, which he added to his collection.

Xiang Yuan visited Chan'er to test whether she was the reincarnated Yellow Springs Holy Maiden, then joined Xiao He on the journey toward Cloud Battle City. After learning Xiao He's divination method, Xiang Yuan led them to a grove where Xiao He found a branch, only for a white-robed monk to arrive carrying an even more impressive one.

• Xiang Yuan visited Chan'er, who replenished herself with his blood medicine and kissed him before he left, and he wondered whether she could really be the Yellow Springs Holy Maiden.
• Xiao He gave Xiang Yuan eight frail skeleton soldiers for his cover as a Corpse-Driving Sect descendant, then set off with him toward Cloud Battle City while Xu Jixian traveled separately.
• Xiao He taught Xiang Yuan Seven Hearts Divination, and Xiang Yuan used Baize's demonic aura to divine an opportunity in a grove thirty li ahead.
• Xiao He found a straight branch in the grove and declared it his treasure, but a passing white-robed monk drew his attention with a remarkable branch staff.
• Xiao He became jealous of the monk's staff and demanded they follow and rob him, while Xiang Yuan agreed to help him wait for a chance to attack.

Xiang Yuan joined a merchant caravan traveling toward Cloud Battle City and witnessed a white-robed monk defeat Bliss Dao disciples while searching for his senior brother. When barbarians attacked four Five Poisons Cult disciples at the camp, Xiang Yuan realized they were the people his divination had led him to find.

• Xiang Yuan used Seven Hearts Divination to find a guide to Cloud Battle City and followed its directions to join Eight Directions Escort Agency's caravan.
• On the third night, Xiang Yuan watched a white-robed monk pursue and kill several Bliss Dao disciples while demanding to know where his senior brother was.
• The monk left after learning the leading woman did not know his senior brother, and Xiang Yuan recognized the monk's earlier display as an act.
• Barbarians ambushed four black-clad travelers at the camp, and one of the brothers revealed they were disciples of the Five Poisons Cult.
• Xiang Yuan recognized the Five Poisons Cult disciples as the people his divination had pointed him toward, but four men from the caravan rushed to help them first.

Xiang Yuan escorted Hao Ren and the two accountants to Cloud Battle City, where he discovered the city was a heavily armed stronghold secretly controlled by Ana Heiyan. After arriving, he reunited with Xiao He and learned that Brother Xu was already living in the City Lord's Manor, possibly near the Cult Leader's wife.

• Xiang Yuan helped defeat the Yi tribesmen, raised several corpses as zombies, and agreed to escort Hao Ren and the two accountants to Cloud Battle City in exchange for a reward.
• Hao Ren explained that he and his deceased elder brother, Hao Shi, served the Cult Leader's wife, and that they needed to deliver ledgers amid the Five Poisons Cult's internal strife.
• Xiang Yuan and the others traveled through the Southern Border's mosquito-filled back roads and reached Cloud Battle City, a bustling city secretly controlled by Ana Heiyan and guarded by many innate-level experts.
• After entering the city, Xiang Yuan noticed a mark left by Xiao He, then spent the night in the guest courtyard while Hao Ren delayed paying his promised reward.
• Xiao He secretly visited Xiang Yuan, revealed that he had become a personal disciple of one of the Five Poisons Cult's five great elders, and gave him a human-skin mask to enter the inner courtyard.
• Xiang Yuan asked about Brother Xu, and Xiao He said he already lived in the City Lord's Manor, perhaps near the Cult Leader's wife.

Xiang Yuan and Xiao He attended Ana Heiyan’s banquet in Cloud Battle City and discovered that she had taken Xu Jixian as her beloved. Xu Jixian privately explained how he had saved Ana Heiyan and become the object of her affection, leaving the other two struggling to believe his account.

• Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that Xu Jixian had been in the City Lord’s Manor for three days, and the two feared Ana Heiyan had ensnared him.
• Xiang Yuan adopted the identity Han Xin and accompanied Xiao He, posing as Sha Zhanhong, to Ana Heiyan’s banquet.
• Ana Heiyan arrived with Xu Jixian, treated him affectionately, and said she had settled her heart.
• Xiang Yuan and Xiao He opened a voice-transmission chat with Xu Jixian and demanded to know how he had ended up with Ana Heiyan.
• Xu Jixian explained that he had saved Ana Heiyan after she was poisoned and claimed the poison caused her to fall in love with him.
• Xu Jixian recounted attending her banquet and spending the night with her, then argued that she was a widow because the Cult Master was dead.

Xiang Yuan and Xiao He tested Ana Heiyan’s apparent change of heart, then urged Xu Jixian to secure help for their planned escape to Earth Dragon Fort. The chapter left Ana Heiyan reporting to her mysterious master that she had found the bloodline of the Ancient God Clan.

• Xiang Yuan and Xiao He questioned Ana Heiyan’s intentions and negotiated for her support in taking control of the Five Poisons Cult in exchange for Earth Dragon Fort’s mineral rights.
• Xiang Yuan tested Ana Heiyan at the banquet and concluded that her seductive nature remained, while Xiao He judged that their identities had not been exposed.
• Xiao He decided that he and Xiang Yuan should leave for Earth Dragon Fort and persuaded Xu Jixian to obtain proof of identity from Ana Heiyan.
• Xu Jixian admitted that Ana Heiyan had worn him out, but agreed to keep pursuing the task after Xiang Yuan and Xiao He teased him.
• Ana Heiyan traveled to a hidden valley, knelt before her veiled master, and reported that she had found the bloodline of the Ancient God Clan.

Ana Heiyan revealed Xu Jixian’s Ancient God Clan bloodline and secured her master’s help to awaken it so she could bear a daughter for her. As Xiang Yuan and Xiao He planned to rescue Xu Jixian, Ana Heiyan covered Cloud Battle City in bloodlight and began a sacrifice that threatened everyone inside.

• Ana Heiyan told her master that Xu Jixian carried the Ancient God Clan bloodline and proposed bearing his daughter in exchange for freedom.
• Ana Heiyan’s master gave her the blood-pool key and ordered her to awaken Xu Jixian’s bloodline and bear a daughter.
• Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that he planned to use the Cult Leader’s arrival as cover to rescue Xu Jixian from Ana Heiyan.
• A violent quake shook Cloud Battle City as a dense blood-red curtain filled the sky.
• Xiang Yuan recognized the bloodlight’s demonic influence, and Xiao He warned that Ana Heiyan was sacrificing the entire city.

Xiang Yuan entered Cloud Battle City’s blood-soaked formation to reach the City Lord’s Manor, while Bai Shumo and Water Elder arrived with Ling’en. Ling’en confronted Monk Lingxiu outside the city, and Lingxiu revealed the power of the Future Three Thousand Scrolls as their fight began.

• Xiao He and Xiang Yuan split up, with Xiao He heading out of Cloud Battle City and Xiang Yuan sneaking toward the City Lord’s Manor.
• Xiang Yuan killed the Blood Sea Dao cultivator who blocked his path, copied the man’s principles of heaven and earth, and entered the manor, where mind-controlled innate experts turned toward him.
• Bai Shumo, Water Elder, and Ling’en approached Cloud Battle City, but Monk Lingxiu appeared and challenged Ling’en to settle their old feud.
• Lingxiu stopped Ling’en’s attack and accused him of slaughtering innocent people, while Ling’en condemned Lingxiu as a devil who had learned the Future Three Thousand Scrolls.
• Lingxiu manifested a pure land within his heart and used the Future Three Thousand Scrolls to shatter the boundary between illusion and reality.

Xiang Yuan killed the experts guarding the City Lord's Manor and discovered that three Spirit Transformation-stage powerhouses were inside. In the manor, Ana Heiyan awakened Xu Jixian's ancient god bloodline and planned to bear his child, but Bai Shumo, Elder Shui, and Elder Jin arrived, leaving Xiang Yuan to wonder whether the Xu Family would gain an heir.

• Xiang Yuan defeated and killed the experts guarding the City Lord's Manor, then secretly entered the manor after sensing two Spirit Transformation-stage arrivals.
• Ana Heiyan used a blood formation and eight maids to awaken Xu Jixian's ancient god bloodline, intending to conceive a child with him.
• Bai Shumo and Elder Shui arrived and learned that Ana Heiyan was trying to produce a descendant of the ancient god clan.
• Ana Heiyan brought in Elder Jin, and the two sides faced off after Bai Shumo refused to let her leave for ten months.
• Xiang Yuan watched from hiding and wondered what Bai Shumo meant by saying Ana Heiyan could leave after ten months.

Xiang Yuan searched for a way into the blood formation while Lingxiu defeated and killed Ling'en, then entered Cloud Battle City and joined the conflict at the City Lord's Manor. The chapter left Xiang Yuan exposed to Ana Heiyan and Elder Shui after Bai Shumo killed Elder Jin and Ana Heiyan trapped him with a demonic illusion.

• Xiang Yuan inferred that Xu Jixian had an extraordinary bloodline, tried to dig into the formation to rescue him, and instead tunneled beneath it to sabotage the manor.
• Lingxiu defeated Ling'en in their battle, rejected his plea for mercy, and destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Lingxiu dispelled the blood curtain over Cloud Battle City, sent the red-eyed Xiao He away, and cautiously entered the city despite its poisonous miasma.
• Elder Jin's poison and Soul-Capturing Bell pressured Bai Shumo and Elder Shui until Bai Shumo killed him with a single sword strike.
• Ana Heiyan trapped Bai Shumo with silver ornaments and attacked his mind with the Demon King Hall's Heavenly Demon Desire Chaos art.
• Xiang Yuan emerged atop Elder Jin's rampaging centipede, startling Ana Heiyan and Elder Shui as they realized another expert was present.

Ana Heiyan trapped Xiang Yuan and Elder Shui in an illusion, where Elder Shui succumbed to memories of his deceased junior sister and was killed. Xiang Yuan broke through the illusion by transforming into a demon and attacked Ana Heiyan, while Lingxiu wondered about Xiang Yuan’s mysterious karmic connection.

• Ana Heiyan recognized Xiang Yuan, then used her fragrant illusion to ensnare him and Elder Shui.
• Elder Shui embraced the illusion of his deceased junior sister, and Ana Heiyan pierced his brow before the sacrificial formation drained his body and his Primordial Spirit dispersed.
• Xiang Yuan resisted the illusion’s seductive visions with Chan’er’s photo album, then awakened his demonic power and revealed the Self-Transforming Heavenly Demon Grand Method.
• Xiang Yuan crushed and swallowed a Heavenly Devil Relic, transformed further, and attacked Ana Heiyan with the Storm Mist Blade and his tail-wielded blade.
• Ana Heiyan used her hair ornament to halt Xiang Yuan’s charge, while Bai Shumo prepared to strike and Lingxiu questioned Xiang Yuan’s connection to the little monk.

Xiang Yuan defeated Ana Heiyan and fell into the exposed blood pool while trying to save Xu Jixian. Xu Jixian survived, Xiao He rushed back toward Cloud Battle City, and Lingxiu remained at the abyss to chant over the resentful spirits.

• Xiang Yuan replenished his Primordial Spirit with blood vitality and overwhelmed Ana Heiyan, while Bai Shumo struck once and then fled after Lingxiu appeared.
• Xiang Yuan used the Division of Black and White, the Two Gods of Good and Evil, to kill Ana Heiyan and expose the blood pool beneath the City Lord's Manor.
• The collapsing manor sent Xu Jixian into the abyss, but Doubi used Xiang Yuan's tail to fling him out before Xiang Yuan fell into the pool and began absorbing its power.
• Lingxiu mistook Xiang Yuan's fall for his death and started chanting at the abyss, while Xu Jixian landed near Xiao He in a distant forest.
• Xiao He learned that Ana Heiyan was dead and that Xu Jixian had awakened his Ancient God Clan bloodline, then hurried toward Cloud Battle City with him.
• Xiao He found Lingxiu at the City Lord's Manor and divined that the monk intended to steal his destined person, Xiang Yuan.

After the group escaped Cloud Battle City, Xiang Yuan reunited with Chan'er and then met Lingxiu, who revealed that he was a fellow transmigrator and gave Xiang Yuan a Buddhist scripture. The chapter ended with the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra entering Xiang Yuan's mind.

• Xiang Yuan emerged from the blood pool, and Xiao He explained that mosquitoes had helped expose their plans and that Ana Heiyan's death had forced them to abandon Fengxian County.
• Five days later, a veiled woman arrived in Cloud Battle City, blamed Bai Shumo for ruining her plans, and decided to investigate Xu Jixian in Western Chu.
• At Xu Jixian's funeral feast, Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that Yulin Academy would close and that the group would separate, while Xu Jixian was sent to the capital for study.
• Xiang Yuan visited Chan'er in Mute Village, made up with her, and asked to move in, but she rejected the idea and threw him out.
• On the road, Xiang Yuan met Lingxiu, learned that the monk was Liu Xiu from Northern Qi and a disciple of Abbot Huixing, and received the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra from him.

Xiang Yuan discovered that Lingxiu had forced the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra and its cultivation into him, while changes across the Three Realms revealed that the Heavenly Court was preparing a Journey to the West. He passed the Buddhist insight on to Lay Practitioner Bai Yue, then went to check on Ji Muqing in seclusion.

• Lingxiu transmitted the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra and his cultivation to Xiang Yuan, whose Formless Seal Method clashed with the Buddhist art, and left believing he had passed on his former life's inheritance.
• Xiang Yuan received a promotion to Northern True Warrior and learned that the Heavenly Court had altered history, introducing Journey to the West locations and the Six Great Sages into the mortal world.
• Xiang Yuan found that Baize's memories had changed with the world, while he and Lay Practitioner Bai Yue still remembered that the new mountains, rivers, and demons had not existed before.
• Xiang Yuan passed Lay Practitioner Bai Yue the insight to cultivate herself and awaken her enlightened heart, prompting her to gain a new Buddhist realization and enter seclusion to cultivate.
• After three days, Xiang Yuan left the Purple Bamboo Grove and headed for Ji Muqing's quiet chamber to check whether her memories had changed.

After digesting his Southern Border gains, Xiang Yuan found Chan'er missing and summoned Xiao Lingyue, whose worry over Chan'er grew when she learned Xiang Yuan had told her about their betrothal. Xiao Lingyue left demanding that he bring Chan'er back, while Xiang Yuan headed into the Southern Border mountains and drew the attention of two armed pursuers.

• Xiang Yuan finished digesting his Southern Border insights and went to the Upper Zhou Ruins, where he discovered Chan'er was gone and could not reach her by jade tablet.
• After persistent calls, Xiang Yuan brought Xiao Lingyue to his courtyard, where they shared medicine, embraced, and kissed before arguing over his teasing and their engagement.
• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue that Xiao He had left Fengxian County to travel, and she worried that her brother would be vulnerable on his own.
• Xiang Yuan revealed that Chan'er was also missing and unreachable, prompting Xiao Lingyue to imagine that Chan'er had left because she learned of the engagement.
• Xiao Lingyue blamed Xiang Yuan for telling Chan'er about the betrothal and demanded that he bring her back, then left when he refused to deny their engagement.
• In the Southern Border, Xiang Yuan rode the wind into the mountains near Earth Dragon Fort while two black-robed sword-wielders followed him, suspecting he was a Tomb-Keeping Sect disciple near a great tomb.

Xiang Yuan raided Spiritual Light Old Devil’s treasure cache, gaining martial arts, a magic treasure, and information about Earth Dragon Fort’s blood pool. After leaving, he defeated two Stellar Palace assassins and discovered a letter inviting him to meet Earth Dragon Fort’s Second Master at a teahouse.

• Xiang Yuan entered Spiritual Light Old Devil’s hidden cache after evading two black-clad men waiting outside.
• Xiang Yuan drank the cache’s pills and poisons, took the Rouge Sword, collected cultivation manuals, and studied the Three-Headed Six-Armed Dharma Form.
• Xiang Yuan found an Enlightenment Cushion and a letter explaining that Earth Dragon Fort’s blood pool could be purified with the Yellow Springs Mother Tree secret art.
• The two Stellar Palace martial brothers ambushed Xiang Yuan as he left the cache, but he evaded their attack and identified them.
• Xiang Yuan repelled the assassins with his blade, killed them, buried their bodies, and found a letter inviting him to meet Earth Dragon Fort’s Second Master at a teahouse.

Xiang Yuan impersonated a Stellar Palace assassin to help Sang Shouyi fight for territory in Earth Dragon Fort, then cultivated to the completion of the Innate Realm. After rival bosses were murdered and Xiang Yuan left town, Yu Wuling and Chan'er were revealed to have entered the Southern Border, where the Holy Maiden Jinse confronted Chan'er.

• Xiang Yuan met Sang Shouyi in a teahouse, accepted a contract targeting Yu Wuling, and learned that Earth Dragon Fort's factions were fighting over territory left vulnerable by the Five Poisons Cult's turmoil.
• Xiang Yuan attacked Yu Wuling's thugs and helped Sang Shouyi reclaim and expand his territory, then spent five days fighting while cultivating during the day.
• Xiang Yuan used the enlightenment cushion to advance to the completion of the Innate Realm before Sang Shouyi told him that several rival bosses had been murdered and Yu Wuling had been ambushed.
• Sang Shouyi warned Xiang Yuan that the City Lord might suspect him, so Xiang Yuan collected his remaining payment and left Earth Dragon Fort.
• Xiang Yuan opened Jambu Gate to visit another world, while Yu Wuling and Chan'er were revealed to be in the Southern Border and Jinse entered Chan'er's room, recalling their past.

Xiang Yuan entered the devastated Wasteland Realm and joined the Underground City Pioneers to learn about the world and search for a relic. After reaching the East District, he discovered that the scarred Pioneer squad leader was a woman and learned that the city lord’s wife was humiliating her.

• Xiang Yuan found that the Wasteland Realm suppressed cultivators’ abilities and disguised himself to approach survivors in the ruins.
• Xiang Yuan joined the Pioneers after their squad defeated a band of raiders, and Zhou Zhong explained the blood rain, the Underground City, and red-crystal-powered genetic enhancement.
• Xiang Yuan descended with the Pioneers to the East District and saw the poverty and sickness surrounding their base.
• Xiang Yuan watched the squad leader deliver red crystals at the Central District wall and imagined a tragic romance after overhearing that the city lord’s wife had sent her supplies.
• Zhou Zhong told Xiang Yuan that the squad leader was a woman and that the city lord’s wife was humiliating her again.