Recaps

Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao struggled through an awkward conversation about why she had followed him, while Mo Shang and the others watched and ate sunflower seeds. After Chen Tian’s Mother scolded him for damaging the wall and served breakfast, Yellow Immortal surprised her by speaking.

• Chen Tian asked Shen Qingyao why she had pursued him despite knowing she could not return, but she refused to explain her reason.
• Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Yellow Immortal watched Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao from the hole in the wall while eating sunflower seeds.
• Chen Tian’s Mother entered, scolded Chen Tian for smashing the wall, and invited Shen Qingyao and the others to breakfast.
• Shen Qingyao teased Chen Tian about his behavior, and Chen Tian locked Mo Shang and the others out when they tried to pry into their conversation.
• Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Yellow Immortal went downstairs and joined Chen Tian’s Mother for breakfast, where Yellow Immortal spoke and startled her.

Mo Shang offered Chen Tian a way to join the Falling Cloud Sect without abandoning his family, giving him a bead that allowed travel between worlds. Mo Shang and his companions returned to their world while Chen Tian planned to settle his affairs before following.

• Chen Tian said he wanted to avoid the cultivation world's intrigues but admitted he was not willing to remain powerless and ordinary.
• Mo Shang invited Chen Tian to join the Falling Cloud Sect and promised he could travel freely between worlds.
• Mo Shang asked his system to make a travel bead, and the system produced one containing the Great Dao of Space.
• Chen Tian accepted the bead and said he would come to Mo Shang's world after settling his affairs at home.
• Mo Shang and his companions teleported away, leaving Chen Tian looking at the bead with anticipation.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu returned to Falling Cloud Sect and learned that Liu Zhengyang had nearly led the sect into battle to find them. Months later, Mo Shang casually broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, gained another trait slot, and drew thirteen traits before Jiang Shuyu helped him reveal a Purple Gold Entry.

• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu returned to Falling Cloud Sect, where the Alchemy Peak elder told them Liu Zhengyang had mobilized the sect to search for them and nearly attacked a neighboring sect.
• Several months later, Mo Shang broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm while lounging in his courtyard, astonishing Jiang Shuyu.
• Mo Shang realized the breakthrough gave him a third trait slot and decided to use his thirteen accumulated draws.
• Mo Shang drew twelve mostly white and blue traits, none of which pleased him.
• Mo Shang pulled Jiang Shuyu close so she could help reveal his final trait, which became the Purple Gold Entry: Everlasting Vitality.

Mo Shang gained the Everlasting Vitality entry, letting him recover faster than the Blood Sacrifice secret art drained him. He brought Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao to the Falling Cloud Sect, where Liu Zhengyang and the peak masters wondered how Mo Shang kept finding geniuses.

• Mo Shang obtained the Everlasting Vitality entry and discovered it restored his physical condition at two percent per second.
• Mo Shang activated Blood Sacrifice and showed Jiang Shuyu that his recovery outpaced the secret art’s cost, leaving her reassured.
• Su Ning brought Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao to Mo Shang, who welcomed them and led them to meet the Sect Master.
• Liu Zhengyang recognized Chen Tian’s Demonic Spirit Sacred Body and Shen Qingyao’s Immortal Spirit Sacred Body, then asked Mo Shang where he kept finding geniuses.
• The peak masters pressed Mo Shang for the same secret, but he could only say he had encountered them while wandering outside.

Liu Zhengyang introduced Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao to Falling Cloud Sect’s main peaks, and they both chose Sword Peak. Mo Shang then gave them his courtyard to live in, planning to stay at Jiang Shuyu’s instead.

• Liu Zhengyang explained Falling Cloud Sect’s nine main peaks and said disciples could seek instruction from their peak masters for free.
• Mo Shang explained to Chen Tian that sharing knowledge benefited the sect, and Chen Tian chose Sword Peak while Shen Qingyao followed him.
• The peak masters argued over Chen Tian, then dragged Sword Thirteen away to face the other eight in a one-on-one duel.
• Liu Zhengyang left Mo Shang to arrange the newcomers’ accommodations, and Mo Shang led Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao to Sword Peak.
• Mo Shang offered Chen Tian and Shen Qingyao his courtyard and said he would stay at Jiang Shuyu’s luxurious courtyard.

Chen Tian reached the Spirit Condensation Realm overnight, then Gu Qingzhou invited him, Mo Shang, and Jiang Shuyu to explore an ancient sect’s Secret Realm. They agreed to leave the next morning, while Shen Qingyao would remain in seclusion.

• Chen Tian broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, startling Mo Shang and drawing Gu Qingzhou over to meet him.
• Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian exchanged compliments until Mo Shang interrupted them.
• Gu Qingzhou revealed that a Bronze Token opened an ancient sect’s Secret Realm and said the Sect Master would send an elder to accompany them.
• Gu Qingzhou set the departure for the next morning, and Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu agreed to go.
• Chen Tian agreed to join, but said Shen Qingyao was still cultivating in seclusion.

Mo Shang and the other disciples gathered at Falling Cloud Sect’s plaza for their departure, where he joked with Li Fan about finding a partner. After the group boarded the flying boat, Sword Thirteen and the Artifact Forging Peak master quarreled briefly before Sword Thirteen launched the boat toward their destination.

• Gu Qingzhou and Mo Shang greeted Li Fan, who was surprised to learn they had both reached the Spirit Condensation Realm.
• Li Fan asked Mo Shang how to pursue a girl, and Mo Shang suggested cultivating the Heartless Dao and undergoing the Red Dust Tribulation to find a partner.
• Gu Qingzhou called Mo Shang and Li Fan to the flying boat, and Mo Shang boarded with Jiang Shuyu.
• Mo Shang found Sword Thirteen and the Artifact Forging Peak master arguing over their previous fight and tried to mediate.
• Sword Thirteen ended the argument and sent the flying boat speeding beyond the horizon.

Mo Shang and the Falling Cloud Sect arrived at the bronze gate of the Secret Realm, where the gathered factions opened it with their Bronze Tokens. The realm’s entrance appeared, but the Blazing Sun Sect Elder struck an unseen barrier, leaving everyone unsure how to enter.

• During the journey, Mo Shang lost every round of Fight the Landlord to Gu Qingzhou and swore off playing cards with Children of Fortune.
• Mo Shang noticed an unmarked golden flying vessel carrying a young man and a white-haired old man, while Sword Thirteen warned that its aura was above the True Dharma Realm.
• The young man said he had come seeking someone whose location the Divine Fortune Teller had roughly placed in the Cang Domain, and decided to continue searching after the Secret Realm expedition.
• Sword Thirteen took Gu Qingzhou’s Bronze Token, and the elders of the nine major factions activated their tokens to open the bronze gate.
• The gate revealed a bright light curtain and a richly spiritual realm beyond it, but the Blazing Sun Sect Elder crashed headfirst into an unseen barrier when he tried to enter.

Gu Qingzhou led the Falling Cloud Sect through the bronze gate into the secret realm and sent its disciples to mapped treasures. Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu reached the Ten Thousand Medicine Hall, entered with her formation skills, and looted its pills and equipment, leaving Mo Shang considering what else to take.

• Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian raced through the bronze gate, and Mo Shang used Blood Sacrifice to follow with Jiang Shuyu.
• The Falling Cloud Sect disciples entered the secret realm, received maps from Gu Qingzhou, and split into pairs to search for treasures.
• Gu Qingzhou sent Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to the Ten Thousand Medicine Hall while he and Chen Tian flew off to another location.
• Mo Shang found the hall protected by an array, and Jiang Shuyu opened it with her formation skills.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu collected the nine-patterned pill, its furnace, and the hall’s remaining medicines and supplies.
• After emptying the hall, Mo Shang wondered what else they could take to decorate it.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu dismantled a palace and killed a Blazing Sun Sect disciple who tried to rob them, while Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian looted a Scripture Pavilion full of cultivation manuals. When the Heavenly Mystery Sect Holy Son confronted them over the manuals, Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian remained unharmed, and a demonic saber strike interrupted the Holy Son.

• Jiang Shuyu collected the formation disk after Mo Shang and she cleared away the palace, and Mo Shang killed a Blazing Sun Sect disciple who demanded their treasure.
• A mysterious figure appeared after Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu left, studied the mark left by Mo Shang's attack, and called the scene interesting.
• Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian entered a Scripture Pavilion and took every cultivation manual from its shelves.
• The Heavenly Mystery Sect Holy Son arrived with disciples and demanded the manuals, but Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian survived the disciples' attack without moving.
• As the Holy Son began to challenge them, a demonic saber strike cut off his words.

Chen Tian and Gu Qingzhou defeated and looted the Holy Son of the Heavenly Mystery Sect before leaving the ruined Scripture Pavilion. Meanwhile, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu relaxed over a barbecue until Mo Shang noticed a young man hiding nearby and invited him to join them.

• Chen Tian fought the Holy Son of the Heavenly Mystery Sect, growing strong enough to match him in battle while Gu Qingzhou watched.
• The Holy Son overwhelmed Chen Tian with a powerful sword strike, but Gu Qingzhou suddenly stabbed him from behind and killed him.
• Chen Tian suggested they should have taken the Holy Son's spiritual root and questioned him for intelligence, then he and Gu Qingzhou looted the body and left.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu gathered medicinal herbs and grilled a rabbit together while Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian were fighting.
• Mo Shang noticed a young man hiding behind a tree and invited him to share the barbecue.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu met Mo Chen, whose extraordinary wealth and generous gifts astonished Mo Shang. Mo Shang accepted Mo Chen as a friend but refused the Ninth-grade Spirit Artifact tower, leaving Mo Chen’s deeper reason for seeking him unexplained.

• Mo Chen devoured Mo Shang’s roasted rabbit and offered Sacred Spirit Fruits, revealing that he treated rare treasures as ordinary food.
• Mo Shang inspected Mo Chen’s Traits and discovered Purple Gold Entries for Grade-A Aptitude and Vast Family Fortune.
• Mo Chen learned Mo Shang’s name and grew thoughtful when Mo Shang said he had no known parents or relatives.
• Mo Chen said he had approached Mo Shang because he admired his strength and wanted to be friends, and Mo Shang accepted the friendship.
• Mo Chen offered Mo Shang a Ninth-grade Spirit Artifact tower as a meeting gift, but Mo Shang refused because it was too valuable.

Mo Shang and Mo Chen joined the others at the True Martial Hall, where Gu Qingzhou revealed that an Immortal Realm expert’s inheritance lay inside. The group gathered before the hall as Mo Chen questioned whether the inheritance counted as an opportunity.

• Mo Chen offered Mo Shang a Ninth-grade Spirit Artifact, but Mo Shang declined after Mo Chen revealed he already had one.
• Mo Shang and Mo Chen agreed to search for opportunities together and headed toward the center of the secret realm.
• Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian arrived at the True Martial Hall, where Guo Jingjing greeted Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian laughed at their awkward exchange.
• Mo Shang arrived with Jiang Shuyu and Mo Chen, and Gu Qingzhou explained that the hall contained an Immortal Realm expert’s inheritance.
• Gu Qingzhou learned that Mo Chen was Mo Shang’s new friend and marveled at how easily Mo Shang made friends.

Mo Shang and his companions recognized that the inheritance offered by the skeleton was a trap and stayed behind to confront it. After the skeleton revealed its monstrous nature, the crowd fled, while Luo Wu remained behind because another voice had told him to stay.

• The palace doors opened, and a skeleton offered its inheritance as its pressure forced many people to their knees.
• Mo Shang saw the skeleton’s Outsider, Unwilling Soul, and Treacherous Traits and suspected the inheritance was a trap.
• Gu Qingzhou recognized that something foreign was mixed into the inheritance, and he, Mo Shang, Chen Tian, and Mo Chen prepared to fight the skeleton.
• Gu Qingzhou attacked, but the skeleton destroyed his Sword Qi and transformed the palace into a landscape of bones, corpses, and blood.
• The crowd fled after realizing the inheritance was a trap, while Mo Shang’s group stayed behind.
• Mo Shang noticed Luo Wu had also stayed, and Luo Wu explained that another voice had told him to remain.

Gu Qingzhou and his companions battled a bloody skeleton, but Guo Jingjing was gravely wounded while saving him and died in his arms. Gu Qingzhou laid her beneath a tree, then stepped toward the battlefield as a vast aura and killing intent rose from him.

• The bloody skeleton revealed its true form and attacked Gu Qingzhou, while Chen Tian, Mo Shang, and Jiang Shuyu joined the fight.
• Gu Qingzhou activated his power and fought alongside the others, but the skeleton unleashed blood-red power that blasted them back.
• The skeleton’s strike nearly hit Gu Qingzhou, but Guo Jingjing diverted it with her strange power and was then struck down.
• Gu Qingzhou struck the skeleton with the Falling Star Spear while Chen Tian and Mo Shang held it off so he could reach Guo Jingjing.
• Guo Jingjing confessed her feelings to Gu Qingzhou and died; he carried her beneath a tree, then turned toward the battle as his aura surged.

Gu Qingzhou defeated the skeleton with a terrifying sword strike, then learned that Guo Jingjing could only be saved through a life-for-life secret art. As Gu Qingzhou prepared to sacrifice himself, Mo Shang volunteered and demonstrated that he could survive self-destruction.

• Gu Qingzhou completed the ninth step and split the skeleton in two with a single sword strike before collapsing.
• Mo Shang and the others caught Gu Qingzhou, who then went to Guo Jingjing beneath the tree.
• True Martial Dao Venerable explained that Guo Jingjing had only a sliver of life remaining and could be saved with a secret art that exchanged one life for another.
• Gu Qingzhou insisted on learning the art and revealed that his life force was draining because he had forcibly raised his cultivation.
• Mo Shang volunteered to use the secret art, then self-destructed to prove he could not die and reappeared unharmed.

Mo Shang learned the All Things Return to Spring secret art and used it to heal Guo Jingjing and Gu Qingzhou without losing any life force. After True Martial Dao Venerable granted the group techniques and departed, Mo Shang led everyone out of the secret realm and warned Mo Chen and Luo Wu to keep his immortality secret.

• True Martial Dao Venerable passed the All Things Return to Spring secret art to Mo Shang after seeing that he survived a mortal wound.
• Mo Shang healed Guo Jingjing and Gu Qingzhou, restoring Guo Jingjing's voice and removing the damage caused by Gu Qingzhou's forced cultivation boost.
• True Martial Dao Venerable named Luo Wu as his successor, then gave the others cultivation arts or martial techniques after Gu Qingzhou demanded compensation.
• Mo Shang told Mo Chen and Luo Wu to keep his immortality secret, then led the group toward the secret realm's exit as black qi emerged from the soil.
• Sword Thirteen and Li Fan waited anxiously outside the bronze gate until Mo Shang, Gu Qingzhou, and the others emerged.

Mo Shang and his companions emerged from the secret realm, where the Heavenly Mystery Sect elders confronted Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian for killing their Holy Son. Sword Thirteen and the Artifact Forging Peak Master protected them with their formidable auras, forcing the elders to stand down, and Mo Chen joined the group as they returned to the sect.

• Guo Jingjing reunited with the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elder and revealed that Mo Shang had restored her voice.
• The Heavenly Mystery Sect elders accused Gu Qingzhou and Chen Tian of killing their Holy Son and demanded that the murderer be handed over.
• Gu Qingzhou admitted to Sword Thirteen that he and Chen Tian had killed the Holy Son and forgotten to erase the evidence.
• Sword Thirteen and the Artifact Forging Peak Master confronted the Heavenly Mystery Sect elders, whose group backed down rather than fight.
• Guo Jingjing left with the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elder, Luo Wu departed for his faction, and Gu Qingzhou stayed with the Falling Cloud Sect group.
• Mo Chen boarded the flying vessel and said he would return to the sect with Mo Shang's group.

Mo Shang and the other Falling Cloud Sect disciples returned from the Secret Realm with an enormous haul of treasures, including a palace made from the Tree of Life. After the sect converted the disciples’ offerings into contribution points, Mo Shang revealed a ninth-grade pill, and Liu Zhengyang sealed the sect and warned him and Jiang Shuyu to keep it secret.

• Mo Shang returned to the Falling Cloud Sect with Mo Chen and joined the others in reporting to Sect Master Liu Zhengyang.
• Gu Qingzhou and the disciples presented their Secret Realm treasures, astonishing Liu Zhengyang and the elders with the mountain of resources and a palace Mo Shang had brought back.
• Liu Zhengyang claimed the Tree of Life palace for the sect and had the Alchemy Peak Master move it to store pills.
• The disciples exchanged their treasures for contribution points and left, while Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu stayed behind with more pills.
• Mo Shang revealed a ninth-grade pill and five eighth-grade pills, prompting Liu Zhengyang to seal the hall and activate the sect-protecting grand formation.
• Liu Zhengyang warned Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu that the ninth-grade pill could endanger the sect if its existence became known, and they agreed to keep it secret.

Mo Shang traded a ninth-grade pill to Falling Cloud Sect for access to its cultivation resources and received a token from Liu Zhengyang. After Mo Chen hinted that they were brothers and that Mo Shang had parents, Mo Shang rejected the subject, then returned to his easygoing routine and accidentally blasted a furnace lid into Liu Ruyan’s hands.

• Mo Shang offered his ninth-grade pill to Falling Cloud Sect, and Liu Zhengyang granted him free access to sect resources and gave him a token for help in emergencies.
• Mo Shang found Mo Chen lounging in his courtyard, drove him from his recliner, and dismissed his claim that they were brothers and that Mo Shang had parents.
• Mo Chen left, and a white-haired old man advised him to let Mo Shang’s parents approach him after their seclusion ended.
• Mo Shang tried to seal an unstable pill to use as an explosive, but it blew up and launched the furnace lid out of the courtyard.
• Liu Ruyan returned the lid to Mo Shang and accepted his invitation to come inside and discuss something.

Liu Ruyan brought Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to the Xiao Family in Purple Sun City to end her engagement to Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan repudiated her instead and challenged her to a duel in three years, which Liu Ruyan accepted.

• Liu Ruyan asked Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to accompany her to the Xiao Family, and they agreed to let her make her own choice.
• Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Liu Ruyan traveled to Purple Sun City and met Xiao Chen at the Xiao Family estate.
• Liu Ruyan offered the Xiao Family compensation for ending her engagement, and Xiao Chen accepted.
• Xiao Yan entered the hall and declared that he would repudiate Liu Ruyan rather than let her break off their engagement.
• Xiao Yan challenged Liu Ruyan to a duel in three years, and she agreed to meet him at the Falling Cloud Sect.

After Liu Ruyan formally ended her engagement with Xiao Yan, Mo Shang learned that she had done it to provoke him into regaining his fighting spirit, not because she no longer cared about him. She asked Mo Shang to secretly deliver cultivation resources to Xiao Yan, leaving him to decide how to help without revealing her involvement.

• Liu Ruyan calmly apologized to Xiao Chen for the broken engagement and gave him a sixth-grade Spring Renewal Pill before leaving with Mo Shang and Jiang Ruoxue.
• Mo Shang inspected Liu Ruyan's traits and discovered her Purple-Gold Fortune Trait, Ascend the Pinnacle entry, and Kindness trait.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu realized Liu Ruyan had broken off the engagement to spur Xiao Yan, and Liu Ruyan admitted it.
• Liu Ruyan explained that she and her father had argued over her plan a year earlier, then asked Mo Shang and Jiang Ruoxue to keep her motives secret.
• Liu Ruyan gave Mo Shang a spatial ring of cultivation resources and asked him to pass them to Xiao Yan without saying they came from her.

Xiao Yan learned that Gu Ling had caused his cultivation to regress, but accepted him as his master after Gu Ling offered to teach him alchemy. Mo Shang then offered Xiao Yan gifts to help him oppose Liu Ruyan, and Xiao Yan considered whether to trust him.

• Xiao Yan confronted Gu Ling over losing his cultivation, and Gu Ling promised to restore him to his peak within half a year if he became his disciple.
• Gu Ling told Xiao Yan that Liu Ruyan had reached the third level of the Spirit Condensation Realm and that her companion had reached the ninth level.
• Xiao Yan agreed to become Gu Ling's disciple when Gu Ling offered to teach him alchemy.
• Gu Ling hid in Xiao Yan's ring when Mo Shang approached, and Mo Shang offered Xiao Yan treasures to help him defeat Liu Ruyan in three years.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Ling whether he should accept Mo Shang's gifts, and Gu Ling praised him for not being blinded by greed.

Mo Shang inspected Xiao Yan’s extraordinary Traits and decided to invest in his future, offering him a subsidiary flame from the Falling Star Flame. Xiao Yan accepted Mo Shang’s faith in him and vowed to repay him, while Gu Ling warned that the Spirit Flame was too dangerous for Xiao Yan to handle directly.

• Gu Ling explained that he judged disciples by their character, and Xiao Yan said he would not betray trust or harm innocents.
• Mo Shang used his system to inspect Xiao Yan’s Traits and found the purple-gold entries Never Bully a Poor Young Man and Flame Emperor.
• Mo Shang told Xiao Yan that he believed he only lacked an opportunity, and Xiao Yan vowed not to disappoint him and promised to repay him.
• Mo Shang summoned the Falling Star Flame, and Gu Ling explained its danger and value to Xiao Yan.
• Mo Shang split off a subsidiary flame containing part of the Falling Star Flame’s essence and offered it to Xiao Yan.

Mo Shang gave Xiao Yan a split flame, then Gu Ling offered Xiao Yan a choice between a safe seventh-grade cultivation art and the evolving Creation Burning Heaven Art. Xiao Yan chose the latter despite its risks, and Gu Ling warned that it would bring him into contact with terrifying beings.

• Mo Shang forced Xiao Yan to accept a split flame, explaining that they were brothers and friends, then vanished before Xiao Yan could return it.
• Gu Ling praised Mo Shang and urged Xiao Yan to repay the favor by growing stronger.
• Gu Ling offered Xiao Yan the first-grade Creation Burning Heaven Art, which could evolve by refining Spirit Flames, while warning that it could never be abandoned once cultivation began.
• Gu Ling advised Xiao Yan to choose a safer seventh-grade cultivation art, but Xiao Yan chose the Creation Burning Heaven Art, believing his master had a reason for offering it.
• Gu Ling warned Xiao Yan that the art would lead him to face terrifying beings, but Xiao Yan vowed to become stronger than anyone.