Recaps

Mo Shang and his companions traveled toward the Spirit Flame’s location after rescuing a girl who had been kidnapped by traffickers. Along the way, Mo Shang discovered that Falling Star Flame recognized him as its master because it believed he would help it take off in the future.

• Jiang Shuyu carried the girl on the Yin-Yang Demon-Suppressing Diagram, while Xiao Yan teased Mo Shang before the three caught up.
• The girl told Xiao Yan and Mo Shang that traffickers had kidnapped her and that they were heading toward a newly emerged Spirit Flame; Mo Shang and Xiao Yan vowed to confront them.
• The four reached the desert’s center, where rising heat and fire-attributed spiritual energy led Mo Shang to stop on a sand dune.
• Falling Star Flame emerged and warned Mo Shang of another Spirit Flame ahead, leaving Xiao Yan surprised that it could communicate.
• Mo Shang asked Falling Star Flame why it had acknowledged him, and it revealed that it expected him to help it take off someday.

Mo Shang and Xiao Yan reached a magma fissure where a gaunt man recognized the rabbit-eared girl as merchandise. Xiao Yan confronted the man over his missing sister, and Mo Shang helped capture him alive so Xiao Yan could demand answers.

• Mo Shang persuaded Xiao Yan to continue toward the fissure despite the Spirit Flame's warning, and they found many cultivators gathered around its magma-filled center.
• The gaunt man accused Mo Shang's group of taking his merchandise, and the rabbit-eared girl confirmed that he was a human trafficker.
• Xiao Yan charged the gaunt man and demanded to know where he had taken Xiao Yan's little sister.
• Mo Shang overwhelmed the man, while Xiao Yan struck him with Spirit Flame and burned his back.
• Mo Shang stopped the man from detonating his spiritual power by destroying his dantian, and Xiao Yan seized him and demanded his sister's whereabouts.

Xiao Yan learned that a mysterious cloaked person had taken his sister after rescuing her from the man who kidnapped her, then killed that man. Mo Shang’s Heavenly Connection Realm bodyguard retrieved the Spirit Flame from the magma, and Mo Shang gave it to Xiao Yan before they left.

• The man revealed that a mysterious cloaked person had taken Xiao Yan’s sister three years earlier, and he did not know where she had been taken.
• Mo Shang comforted Xiao Yan, who accepted that his sister might be safe, and Xiao Yan burned the man to ashes with Starfire.
• Mo Shang summoned his Heavenly Connection Realm bodyguard and ordered him to retrieve the Spirit Flame from the magma.
• The bodyguard returned with the Spirit Flame, and Mo Shang handed it to Xiao Yan, who was astonished at how easily they had obtained it.

After obtaining the Spirit Flame, Xiao Yan brought Mo Shang and the others to a cave to refine it, revealing that his master had given him a protective pill. Gu Ling emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring and agreed to guard him during the dangerous refinement.

• Xiao Yan led Mo Shang and the others away with the Spirit Flame, and nearby cultivators let them pass without incident.
• Xiao Yan brought the group to a cave and announced that he planned to refine the Spirit Flame despite his Qi Gathering Realm cultivation.
• Xiao Yan revealed cold-attributed treasures and a sixth-grade Ice Spirit Heart-Protecting Pill that his master had given him.
• Mo Shang guessed that Xiao Yan’s master was an old spirit living in a ring, and Xiao Yan’s reaction confirmed it.
• Gu Ling emerged from the ring, introduced himself, and showed that he had refined a Spirit Flame before.
• Gu Ling agreed to stand guard while Xiao Yan refined the Spirit Flame, and Mo Shang reassured Xiao Yan that he could save him if he survived.

Xiao Yan began refining the Spirit Flame, enduring agonizing pain as Mo Shang used his vitality to help him recover. While Xiao Yan continued the day-long process, Mo Shang casually grilled food and shared tea with Gu Ling, who recognized Mo Shang’s clan and asked whether his family needed an alchemist.

• Gu Ling warned Xiao Yan that refining the Spirit Flame could destroy his body and soul, but Xiao Yan insisted on proceeding.
• Gu Ling weakened the Spirit Flame with cold-attributed treasures, and Xiao Yan swallowed an Ice Spirit Heart-Protecting Pill before consuming the flame.
• Xiao Yan suffered intense physical and spiritual agony as he began refining the Spirit Flame, and Mo Shang healed him with All Things Return to Spring.
• Mo Shang grilled chicken wings over Xiao Yan and made tea while Xiao Yan continued refining the Spirit Flame and Gu Ling joined him.
• Gu Ling learned that Mo Shang belonged to the Mo Clan of Holy Spirit Prefecture and asked whether the clan needed an alchemist.

After refining and fusing two Spirit Flames, Xiao Yan broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and parted ways with Mo Shang’s group. Back in New Moon City, Mo Shang reunited Li Changsheng with Li Xiaoyue, whose talent test revealed a top-grade wood spirit root.

• Xiao Yan completed the fusion of the Spirit Flames, reached great completion of the Spirit Gathering Realm, and broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
• Xiao Yan thanked Mo Shang for helping him refine the flame and said he planned to train, search for his younger sister, and prepare for the three-year promise.
• Mo Shang left the cave with Jiang Shuyu and the rabbit-eared girl to return to New Moon City, while Xiao Yan stayed behind with Gu Ling.
• At the Falling Cloud Sect’s flying boat, Li Xiaoyue rushed into Li Changsheng’s arms, and Mo Shang explained that he had helped rescue her.
• After Li Xiaoyue recounted her kidnapping, Li Changsheng asked whether she could join the Falling Cloud Sect, and Mo Shang agreed to test her talent.
• Li Xiaoyue placed her hand on the crystal ball, which revealed her top-grade wood spirit root.

Mo Shang brought Li Xiaoyue, whose top-grade wood spirit root made her a coveted talent, before Sect Master Liu Zhengyang at the Falling Cloud Sect. Li Xiaoyue joined Wood Spirit Peak under Qing Ling, while the other peak masters scrambled to recruit her and Liu Zhengyang suggested they persuade Mo Shang to find more geniuses.

• Mo Shang inspected Li Xiaoyue’s entries and learned she had a top-grade wood spirit root, prompting him to tease Li Changsheng about her becoming his Senior Sister.
• Mo Shang took Li Xiaoyue to meet Liu Zhengyang while Li Changsheng stayed behind to oversee the new disciples’ second test.
• Liu Zhengyang confirmed Li Xiaoyue’s exceptional wood spirit root and assigned her to Wood Spirit Peak, where Qing Ling promptly asked her to become her disciple.
• Li Xiaoyue agreed to join Qing Ling after confirming she could still visit Li Changsheng.
• The other peak masters arrived and tried to recruit Li Xiaoyue, but Liu Zhengyang suggested they offer Mo Shang benefits to bring more geniuses to the sect.

Mo Shang deflected the peak masters’ demands for more supreme-grade spirit-root geniuses by telling them Li Changsheng was a hidden prodigy. The peak masters converged on Li Changsheng, who chose Myriad Array Peak, leaving its master to face the others’ challenge.

• The peak masters crowded Mo Shang and demanded that he find more supreme-grade spirit-root geniuses, while Liu Zhengyang avoided getting involved.
• Mo Shang named inner sect disciple Li Changsheng as a hidden genius with cultivation far beyond his apparent Spirit Gathering Realm, and the peak masters rushed to find him.
• The peak masters arrived at Li Changsheng’s home and competed to recruit him, offering training and rewards from their respective peaks.
• Li Changsheng wondered if Mo Shang had seen through his concealed cultivation, then chose to join Myriad Array Peak because he liked the Dao of arrays.
• The other peak masters challenged the delighted Myriad Array Peak Master to a fight, and Li Changsheng asked whether he could avoid choosing either side.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu followed Mo Li to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, where Mo Shang recognized the shopkeeper as the owner of a snack stall he had met before. After confirming that the shop sold goods from other worlds, Mo Shang began placing a massive order for his family.

• Mo Li invited Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to visit a shop that sold rare treasures, including Ninth-grade Spirit Artifacts.
• Mo Li led them through spatial transmissions to the shabby-looking Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, whose interior was filled with valuable goods.
• Mo Shang recognized the shopkeeper as the owner of the luxurious late-night snack stall and learned that the shopkeeper recognized him as well.
• The shopkeeper produced Iron Man armor when Mo Shang asked for it, and Mo Shang suspected that he had a Myriad Worlds Shop system.
• Mo Shang asked the shopkeeper to write down a large order, starting with a thousand pills of each popular Ninth-grade type.

Mo Shang brought a door connecting the Falling Cloud Sect to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and Liu Zhengyang was delighted by the shop’s offerings. Back home, Mo Shang and Mo Li discovered that Jiang Shuyu had finally made delicious braised pork after following a cooking tutorial on her phone.

• Mo Shang asked the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s shopkeeper for a way to connect the pavilion to the Falling Cloud Sect, and the shopkeeper gave him a door ornament.
• Mo Shang hung the ornament on a door at Falling Cloud Hall, opened it to reveal the pavilion, and invited Liu Zhengyang inside.
• Liu Zhengyang emerged excited about the pavilion and praised Mo Shang for bringing the opportunity to the sect.
• Mo Shang returned home and found Mo Li worried that Jiang Shuyu was experimenting with another dish.
• Mo Li and Mo Shang tasted Jiang Shuyu’s braised pork, enjoyed it, and learned she had followed a cooking tutorial on her phone.

Mo Shang discovered that the golden-red carp fighting Gu Qingzhou was a Reincarnator and invited it to join the Falling Cloud Sect. After giving the carp a Transformation Pill, he welcomed the newly human Jinlin as a fellow disciple and took him to meet the Sect Master.

• Mo Shang inspected the golden-red carp's Traits and found that it was a Reincarnator with the Bearing of a True Dragon.
• Mo Shang told Gu Qingzhou to stop playing around, and Gu Qingzhou kicked the carp over to him.
• Mo Shang recognized from the carp's reaction that it was a fellow transmigrator and offered it a place in the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Mo Shang gave the carp a Transformation Pill, and it transformed into a young man named Jinlin, who accepted the invitation to join the sect.
• Jinlin told Mo Shang that a truck had sent him to this world, and Mo Shang led him toward the Falling Cloud Sect to meet the Sect Master.

Jinlin visited Mo Shang and revealed that his golden finger let him gain cultivation points by devouring spiritual resources, while Mo Shang described his own trait-based abilities. The chapter left Jinlin eating Jiang Shuyu’s painfully spicy cooking after Mo Shang threatened to take back the beast core.

• Jiang Shuyu continued trying to cook while Mo Shang worried over her burnt dishes.
• Jinlin arrived at mealtime and explained that devouring spiritual ingredients earned points he could use to raise his cultivation.
• Mo Shang gave Jinlin an eighth-rank beast core, which Jinlin refined to break through to the peak of the Return to Origin Realm.
• Jinlin described his golden finger’s other functions, and Mo Shang explained that his own system granted abilities through special traits.
• Mo Shang served Jinlin Jiang Shuyu’s spicy Flame Lightning Crunch and threatened to reclaim the beast core when Jinlin tried to refuse.

After Jinlin revealed the sect’s hidden experts, Li Fan appeared at Sword Peak and broke through to the Question Dao Realm after cultivating the Emotionless Dao. Mo Shang suggested that Li Fan needed to leave seclusion and form karmic ties to trigger a tribulation of love, so Li Fan immediately set out to find experience.

• Jinlin told Mo Shang that Li Changsheng, Gu, Chen, and Mo Shang’s Dao companion were all powerful hidden talents, and revealed that Li Fan had reached the peak of the Return to Origin Realm.
• Li Fan broke through to the Question Dao Realm at Sword Peak, shocking Jinlin and Mo Shang.
• Li Fan thanked Mo Shang for recommending the Emotionless Dao and gained the Purple Gold Entry Only Graduate of the Emotionless Dao.
• Mo Shang learned that Li Fan had not faced a tribulation of love because he had stayed in secluded cultivation.
• Mo Shang suggested that Li Fan needed to venture out and form karmic ties, and Li Fan immediately left to take a stroll.

After Xiao Yan invited Mo Shang to explore a ruin, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu arrived at the ancient door and used Mo Shang’s Star Power to open it. Inside, they found a jade-white skeleton holding a mysterious blue orb, leaving the ruin’s secrets ahead.

• Mo Shang finished seeing disciples who had come to him for advice, then accepted Xiao Yan’s invitation to explore a ruin.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu used Heaven-and-Earth Teleportation Talismans to reach Xiao Yan and Gu Ling at the ruin.
• Mo Shang learned that the ancient door could be entered by cultivators of the Path of Stars, while Jiang Shuyu translated the runes describing its reinforcement.
• Mo Shang channeled Star Power into the door, causing it to open.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Ling, Mo Shang, and Jiang Shuyu saw a jade-white skeleton seated inside the chamber, holding a deep-blue orb.

Mo Shang entered Chen Xing’s cave abode and uncovered the remnant soul’s plan to possess him. Confident in his immortality and system, Mo Shang invited the soul into his sea of consciousness to refine it and claim the inheritance.

• Mo Shang entered the cave abode first, and Jiang Shuyu translated Chen Xing’s inscription about leaving his Dao insights in an Orb.
• The skeleton lunged at Mo Shang, but his hidden bodyguard restrained it before it could reach him.
• Mo Shang revealed that he had detected the skeleton’s possession intent through its One Who Refuses to Rest Trait.
• Chen Xing’s remnant soul admitted defeat and offered the cave’s treasures in exchange for being allowed to linger.
• Mo Shang rejected the offer, pulled the remnant soul from the skeleton, and challenged it to possess him so he could refine it.
• The remnant soul entered Mo Shang’s sea of consciousness and vowed to make him pay.

Mo Shang defeated the residual soul inside his sea of consciousness and refined it with Falling Star Flame. The soul energy helped him break through to the Return to Origin Realm, where the chapter ended with his aura filling the cave dwelling.

• The residual soul entered Mo Shang's sea of consciousness and attacked him, but Mo Shang used the power of his system to shatter its divine-sense blade.
• The residual soul feigned an attempt to self-destruct, then tried to flee, but Mo Shang trapped it in a hand formed from starlight.
• Mo Shang used Falling Star Flame to refine the residual soul, and its pure soul energy flowed into his sea of consciousness.
• Jiang Shuyu, Xiao Yan, and Gu Ling sensed Mo Shang's surging soul power as he broke through to the peak of the Spirit Condensation Realm.
• Mo Shang formed and fused three Dao Flowers into a Stellar Dao Flower, achieving the Return to Origin Realm.

Mo Shang broke through to the Return to Origin Realm after refining the remnant soul, and he and his companions divided the cave’s spoils. As Xiao Yan prepared to leave, Mo Shang pointed out that the cave’s gate was another treasure.

• Mo Shang celebrated his breakthrough to the Return to Origin Realm, which had also given him insights into the Great Dao of Stars.
• Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, Xiao Yan, and Gu Ling joked together before Mo Shang took the spatial ring from the skeleton and emptied it.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu selected a few items, then gave the remaining treasures to Xiao Yan despite his protests.
• Mo Shang urged Xiao Yan to take the cave’s ancient medicinal herbs, and the group divided them into four shares.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to leave, Mo Shang pointed out the gate as the cave’s last treasure.

Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, Xiao Yan, and Gu Ling stripped a cave dwelling of its valuables, including a door Mo Shang prized as a weapon. Back at the Falling Cloud Sect, Mo Shang gave the door to Chen Tian, who eagerly accepted it as both a gate and a magic treasure.

• Mo Shang decided to take the cave dwelling’s sturdy door, and Jiang Shuyu withdrew its restrictions from the door.
• Mo Shang tore the door from the wall and stored it after Xiao Yan declined to install it at the Xiao Family entrance.
• Mo Shang urged Xiao Yan to take the skeleton, and Xiao Yan stored it away after Gu Ling said it could become material for his new body.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu left the stripped cave dwelling using a Spatial Relocation Talisman and returned to the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Mo Shang brought the door to Chen Tian, who accepted it as a powerful gate and weapon.

Chen Tian decided to leave Falling Cloud Sect and travel to Immortal Spirit Continent, and Liu Zhengyang gave him resources and the sect’s support before he departed. Liu Zhengyang then told Mo Shang that the owner of Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion wanted to see him.

• Chen Tian told Mo Shang he planned to leave Falling Cloud Sect for Immortal Spirit Continent, despite the dangers there.
• Mo Shang accepted Chen Tian’s decision and reminded him that the sect’s cheats could help if he ran into trouble.
• Liu Zhengyang gave Chen Tian a ring of cultivation resources and promised the support of the sect.
• Chen Tian bowed to Liu Zhengyang and flew away from Falling Cloud Sect.
• Mo Shang joked that he wanted to venture out too, and admitted he was a wealthy heir when Liu Zhengyang called him out.
• Liu Zhengyang told Mo Shang that the owner of Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion was looking for him, then vanished.

Zhou Yichen was condemned by his master and sect for allegedly attacking his favored junior brother, despite insisting he had only defended himself. Mo Shang and his companion arrived before he could be sent to Frost Prison, and Mo Shang healed his injuries and restored his cultivation.

• Zhou Yichen accused his master and fellow disciples of repeatedly favoring his junior brother and framing him.
• His master ordered the guards to send Zhou Yichen to Frost Prison, but his junior brother pretended to plead for him before accusing him of refusing to repent.
• A starlight spear crashed into the hall and blasted the law enforcement disciples away as a furious voice demanded to know who dared touch Zhou Yichen.
• Mo Shang and his companion entered the hall and ignored the master's challenge, while Mo Shang pulled Zhou Yichen to his feet.
• Mo Shang used All Things Return to Spring to heal Zhou Yichen's injuries and substantially improve his cultivation.

Mo Shang examined Zhou Yichen and his junior martial brother, then let Zhou Yichen choose to face the sect directly as Jiang Shuyu trapped the Myriad Sword Sect in an array. When Zhou Yichen's master attacked Mo Shang, Mo Shang crushed his sword strike barehanded, leaving Zhou Yichen stunned.

• Mo Shang discovered that Zhou Yichen had three Golden Traits, including Sword Dao Mastery, and that his junior martial brother possessed a Universal Heartthrob Halo and other troubling traits.
• Zhou Yichen accused his master of enabling his junior martial brother to steal his spirit pills and magical treasures and destroy his spirit root, while his master and a young woman blamed him instead.
• After Mo Shang restored Zhou Yichen's body and cultivation, Zhou Yichen chose to deal with his junior martial brother directly while Mo Shang handled the rest.
• Mo Shang ordered Jiang Shuyu to leave no one alive, and she raised the Yin-Yang Heaven-Trapping Array around the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Zhou Yichen's master attacked Mo Shang with a powerful sword strike, but Mo Shang caught and crushed the Sword Qi in his hand.

Zhou Yichen attacked the Myriad Sword Sect disciples who stood between him and his junior brother while Mo Shang fought Zhou Yichen's master. He killed his former beloved junior sister after she tried to stop him, and the junior brother she had pleaded with did nothing to help her.

• Mo Shang attacked Zhou Yichen's master while Zhou Yichen moved to confront his junior brother.
• The sect disciples blocked Zhou Yichen, but he swiftly defeated them and continued toward his junior brother.
• A woman stood in Zhou Yichen's way and threatened never to speak to him again, but he seized her by the throat.
• Zhou Yichen recalled how the woman had helped falsely accuse him of stealing the Junior Brother's Qi Gathering Pill and said the former him had died that day.
• The woman begged her junior brother to save her, but he watched without intervening, and Zhou Yichen killed her.

Zhou Yichen confronted his Junior Brother, who revealed that he had stolen Zhou Yichen’s fate and killed Senior Sister Mu after she discovered his frame-up. Zhou Yichen was wounded in their duel, but after learning the truth, he pulled the sword from his shoulder and unleashed a far more powerful aura.

• Zhou Yichen saw through Junior Brother’s feigned panic, and Junior Brother admitted he had targeted him out of jealousy and a desire to take everything that belonged to him.
• Junior Brother revealed his hidden strength and wielded Zhou Yichen’s former supreme-grade natal spirit sword, while Mo Shang sent Zhou Yichen the sword Absolute Dust.
• Junior Brother attacked with lightning-wreathed Sword Qi, and Zhou Yichen was driven into a wall and pinned by a sword through his shoulder.
• Junior Brother revealed that he had killed Senior Sister Mu because she found evidence that he had framed Zhou Yichen.
• Zhou Yichen pulled the sword from his shoulder, hurled it and Junior Brother away, and released a far more tyrannical aura.

Mo Shang overwhelmed Zhou Yichen’s master while Zhou Yichen’s blackening power let him defeat and cripple his junior brother. The master crashed into the hall dead, leaving the junior brother helpless as Zhou Yichen prepared to kill him.

• Mo Shang told Zhou Yichen’s master that he came from the upper realm and rejected her accusations against Zhou Yichen and the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Zhou Yichen’s strength surged, and he grabbed his junior brother by the throat before shattering his dantian and crippling his cultivation.
• Zhou Yichen’s junior brother begged for mercy, but Zhou Yichen prepared to deliver the final blow.
• Mo Shang appeared in the hall after his fight with Zhou Yichen’s master, whose body had crashed through the wall with a fatal hole in her chest.
• Zhou Yichen ignored his junior brother’s panicked screams and raised his sword to finish him.

After Zhou Yichen avenged himself, Mo Shang reminded him that he still owed the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion for its help and suggested using the Myriad Sword Sect’s assets to pay. Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu accompanied Zhou Yichen to the sect’s treasury, where Mo Shang smashed through its sealed door and invited Zhou Yichen to join the Falling Cloud Sect.

• Zhou Yichen killed the junior brother before Mo Shang could question him about the Heaven-Burying Sect, then accepted the Absolute Dust Sword as a gift.
• Mo Shang told Zhou Yichen that he had to repay the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion for its assistance, and Zhou Yichen admitted he had no money.
• Mo Shang pointed out that Zhou Yichen could inherit the Myriad Sword Sect’s assets because he was its sole survivor and its new sect master.
• Zhou Yichen led Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to the treasure vault, but Mo Shang blasted its restriction and stone door apart with one punch.
• After Zhou Yichen praised Mo Shang, Mo Shang asked whether he wanted to join the Falling Cloud Sect.