Recaps

Aaron used his main body's support to max out his cultivation skills while planning to hide in the Far Western Lands behind the polluted territories of the Black Demon Sect and Book Mountain Sword Pavilion. Half a month later, Book Mountain Sword Pavilion's investigators discovered that Qianyang City had fallen to a transformed Nascent Soul cultivator, and Ren Baimei found a scripture that revealed the threat of Flesh Demons, Bone Demons, and Blood Demons.

• Aaron used the Tower's spiritual blessing to master third-tier cultivation arts and advance the Bright Jade Art to its sixteenth layer.
• Aaron explained that his main body had polluted the Black Demon Sect and Book Mountain Sword Pavilion as part of its effort to maintain balance while digesting the Mother Tree of Flesh.
• In the ruins of Qianyang City, the Bone Demon transformed from Gu Jiandong killed Sister Ying and nearly killed her senior brother before Ren Baimei arrived and destroyed it with a spirit-treasure Formless Sword.
• Ren Baimei identified the Bone Demon as Gu Jiandong, while an Old Monster Zheng and a Demon Cultivator from the Hundred Thousand Mountains denied that such creatures came from their demon traditions or the Demon Race.
• Ren Baimei found the Longevity Scripture of Dao Ancestor Taixuan on Gu Jiandong's remains, erased his memory of it to escape its influence, and warned that it could turn people into Flesh Demons, Bone Demons, or Blood Demons.

Aaron crossed the Martial Kingdom as a blood moon’s changes spread across the world, then the story shifted to the Far West Alliance’s yearlong siege of the Medicine King Sect. Firefly True Person refused to let the demoralized army withdraw, insisting the sect’s formation was close to breaking.

• Aaron caught a warm scarlet snowflake and realized the blood moon had awakened spirituality across the world.
• The Far West Alliance’s cultivator army continued attacking the Medicine King Sect’s mountain formation, which Xiaoqing sustained from within.
• Patriarch Thousand Insects speculated that Old Monster Fang had died or fled and coveted Xiaoqing’s body for cultivating gu insects.
• Firefly True Person arrived with the Qiyun Twin Companions and claimed the Medicine King Sect was a lackey of the Black Demon Sect.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator reported that the blood moon, strange incidents, and homesick disciples had weakened the army’s morale.
• Firefly True Person rejected the appeal to withdraw and promised the attackers spirit stones and spirit herbs after the formation fell.

Aaron returned to the besieged Medicine King Sect just as its defenders were losing hope, and Xiaoqing came back with him to face the attackers. Firefly True Person and Patriarch Thousand Insects recognized Aaron, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Firefly True Person ordered the Qiyun Twin Companions to enter the formation and kill Xiaoqing, but Xiaoqing fled to the spirit herb garden to gather herbs before escaping.
• The Qiyun Twin Companions found that Xiaoqing had abandoned the formation, and the attackers broke through to storm the Medicine King Sect as some disciples begged to surrender.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator attacked an old man guarding the Scripture Repository, but Aaron arrived and killed the attacker with Sword Qi.
• The Medicine King Sect disciples cheered Aaron's return, and Xiaoqing reappeared in her enormous Longlife Turtle form to confront the Qiyun Twin Companions.
• Patriarch Thousand Insects and Firefly True Person recognized Aaron, and Firefly accused the Medicine King Sect of allying with the demonic path and called for the protectors.

Aaron defeated the forces attacking the Medicine King Sect, revealed his False Nascent Soul cultivation, and decided to claim power over the Far Western Lands. As he managed the Blood Moon Calamity’s aftermath, the sect learned of a secret art that let mortals steal cultivators’ spiritual roots.

• Aaron killed the Qiyun Twin Companions, Daoist Flying Firefly, and Patriarch Thousand Insects after repelling the attackers; he detected Patriarch Thousand Insects’s Substitute Gu but caught him again as he tried to escape.
• Aaron returned to the Medicine King Sect, feigned exhaustion, and vowed to destroy the Ten Thousand Stars Sect after he emerged from seclusion.
• Aaron delayed his plans to form a Nascent Soul so the sect could deal with battle prisoners, demonic cultivators, and bizarre incidents caused by the Blood Moon Calamity.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator told Aaron that a mortal had used a moon-worship secret art called Spirit Seizure to kill a Qi Refinement cultivator and take his spiritual roots.
• The Medicine King Sect cultivators panicked and demanded that Spirit Seizure be destroyed.

Black Demon Child learned that Old Monster Fang had reached the late Golden Core stage and defeated the Far West Alliance, threatening the Black Demon Sect’s last refuge. As the Far Western Lands reeled from Fang’s return, Black Demon Child decided to confront him personally.

• Black Demon Child accepted that Yuanchen Kingdom’s branch had become the Black Demon Sect’s sole surviving headquarters and resolved to keep it hidden in the Far Western Lands.
• Black Demon Child discovered that Daoist Flying Firefly and the Qiyun Twin Companions had stopped responding, then learned Old Monster Fang had killed the Far West Alliance’s leader and protectors.
• Black Demon Child heard that Old Monster Fang might be close to condensing a Nascent Soul and ordered intelligence gathered before deciding to attack him himself.
• Cultivators across the Far Western Lands reacted to Old Monster Fang’s late Golden Core cultivation, while the fractured Far West Alliance’s patriarchs investigated his past and worried about his potential lifespan.

Aaron used his spirituality to create temporary versions of his past self and repeatedly tested the Nascent Soul breakthrough, while the Medicine King Sect and Black Demon Sect watched the apparent signs from outside. The chapter ended with another breakthrough phenomenon appearing after the first seemed to fail, leaving Black Demon Son and his followers stunned.

• The Medicine King Sect sealed off Aaron’s rear mountain and focused on the patriarch’s attempt to form a Nascent Soul.
• Aaron reviewed the Bright Jade Art’s Nascent Soul method and concluded he could improve it using his comprehension.
• Aaron created a Yesterday’s Self and had it attempt to shatter its golden core, but the past self died when the core exploded.
• Aaron repeatedly created new Yesterday’s Selves to continue testing the breakthrough, while Xiaoqing sensed the repeated fluctuations from his cave abode.
• Black Demon Son prepared to attack the Medicine King Sect when a breakthrough phenomenon appeared, then relaxed after the clouds dispersed.
• A second heavenly phenomenon appeared, leaving Black Demon Son and the demonic cultivators astonished.

Aaron successfully formed a Nascent Soul after extensive experiments and overcame the heart-demon tribulation by turning the demon’s own corruption against it. He wiped out the Black Demon Sect attackers, survived their desperate counterattack with his Jade Bone, and revealed his breakthrough to the Medicine King Sect.

• Aaron shattered his Golden Core, formed a Nascent Soul, and defeated the heart demon with a second heart demon created through Chrysalis and Dark’s powers.
• Aaron reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage, confirmed his fourth-order Jade Bone, and sensed the Black Demon Sect cultivators waiting outside the Medicine King Sect.
• Aaron confronted Black Demon Child and refused his offer to submit, then killed the fleeing demon cultivators when they attacked.
• Black Demon Child unleashed the Ten Directions Secret Demon Yin Thunder, but Aaron survived with his Jade Bone while a summoned Yesterday’s Self tested its defensive strength.
• Aaron told the Medicine King Sect cultivators that he had advanced to Nascent Soul, and they knelt in celebration.

Aaron consolidated his rule over the Far Western Lands as its sects swore an alliance to the Medicine King Sect. At their gathering, he exposed Old Monster Zong as a paper cultivator and crushed him and his summoned soldiers, revealing that the Blood Moon Calamity had reached even the region’s cultivators.

• The remaining Ten Thousand Stars Sect cultivators abandoned their sect, while nearby factions hunted its members and those of the Gu Immortal Sect to curry favor with Aaron.
• Aaron gathered the Golden Core factions at Langhuan Jade Platform and required them to align their actions with the Medicine King Sect and swear an alliance oath.
• The gathered cultivators discussed the worsening Blood Moon Calamity, and Aaron warned them that an aberrant cultivator was among them.
• Old Monster Zong of Azure Sky Sect revealed himself as a paper cultivator and summoned paper Dao soldiers.
• Aaron struck Old Monster Zong and the Dao soldiers with the Black Jade Seal, reducing them to powder.

Aaron confronted the Moon Worship Sect’s Four Great Dharma Kings after defeating Old Monster Zong, then exposed that the demons before him were paper-folded avatars. He ordered the Core Formation cultivators to attack, revealing that the Dharma Kings’ true bodies were far to the southeast.

• Aaron crushed Old Monster Zong with his Black Jade Seal and called the hidden uncanny cultivators out.
• The Paper Demon arrived with a procession of paper people and asked Aaron to become one of his paper people.
• The Beggar Demon, the Flesh Demon Mountain, and the Painted Skin Demon appeared alongside the Paper Demon.
• The Four Dharma Kings introduced themselves as leaders of the Moon Worship Sect and asked for shelter in the Far Western Lands.
• Aaron rejected their request and ordered the Core Formation cultivators to attack, declaring that the Dharma Kings were avatars whose true bodies lay one hundred and fifty li to the southeast.

Aaron killed the Beggar Demon, Paper Demon, and Painted Skin Demon while the Core Formation cultivators dealt with the Flesh Demon, then returned to the alliance. Meanwhile, a coalition of righteous, demonic, and demon cultivators entered the Black Demon Abyss to confront the Blood Demon, whose defeat they believed was essential to stopping the Blood Moon world's invasion.

• The four Moon Worship Sect Dharma Kings fled after Aaron discovered them, and Aaron killed the Beggar Demon before pursuing the others.
• Aaron burned the Paper Demon and his Paper City, then caught and killed the Painted Skin Demon while the Core Formation cultivators defeated the Flesh Demon.
• Aaron returned to the alliance and concealed his success, claiming the Painted Skin Demon had escaped as the cultivators worried about the Moon Worship Sect Master.
• Ren Baimei led Spirit Transformation cultivator Dongfang Jie, the flood dragon king, and Old Monster Zheng across the blood sea toward the Black Demon Abyss.
• The cultivators resolved to kill the Blood Demon, believing its Blood Demon Scripture and blood sea were helping the Blood Moon world invade their cultivation world.

Ren Baimei, Dongfang Jie, Zheng Old Devil, and the Dragon King reached the Black Demon Sect’s submerged mountain gate and confronted Blood Demon Situ Yin, who had broken through to Spirit Transformation and served a mysterious master. After his Blood Transforming Divine Blade and scripture failed to subdue them, Situ Yin trapped the four cultivators in the Blood Sea Grand Formation, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage Asura charged the Dragon King.

• Ren Baimei and the three other cultivators reached the Black Demon Sect’s mountain gate and found Situ Yin waiting atop a crimson peak.
• Situ Yin attacked with the Blood Transforming Divine Blade, destroying Zheng Old Devil’s body, severing the Dragon King’s arm, and forcing Ren Baimei and Dongfang Jie to counter with their treasures.
• Situ Yin chanted the Blood Demon Scripture and tried to draw the four cultivators into his strange path, but Ren Baimei used the Heart Sword to erase their memories of it.
• Zheng Old Devil’s Nascent Soul released the Heavenly Demon Codex, protecting the group from Situ Yin’s demonic influence.
• Situ Yin unleashed the Blood Sea Grand Formation, swallowed the four cultivators in surging bloodwaters, and sent a Nascent Soul Late Stage Asura to attack the Dragon King.

The cultivators sealed the hundred-thousand-li sea of blood with the Four Symbols Spirit Array, allowing Ren Baimei and the others to destroy Situ Yin’s body. But a blood moon appeared, revealing that the Blood Demon could survive as long as fresh blood existed, and a blood-red robe seized Ren Baimei.

• The Flood Dragon King fought the three-headed asura and threatened to flee if the cultivators outside did not intervene.
• The Heavenly Talisman Sect drove a Spirit-Sealing Pillar into its formation node, completing the Four Symbols Spirit Array and drying up the sea of blood.
• Ren Baimei, Zheng Old Devil, the Flood Dragon King, and Dongfang Jie attacked Situ Yin with their strongest powers and apparently destroyed him.
• Dongfang Jie realized that the blood moon could sustain the Blood Demon even after the sea of blood dried up.
• A blood-red robe appeared, wrapped around Ren Baimei, and vanished with him.

Bai Caiwei led the fleeing survivors of the Book Mountain Sword Pavilion through the Profound Heaven Sect ruins and escaped the Blood Demon by teleporting to the Far Western Lands. There, Bai Yunzi and the Ao-Fishing Elder damaged the formation to prevent pursuit, and Bai Yunzi declared the region suitable for rebuilding their sect.

• Bai Caiwei rescued Shen Xiuxin from pursuing Blood Sea Demonic Beasts and learned that the Book Mountain Sword Pavilion had been destroyed.
• Aaron obtained the Formless Sword and the Book Mountain Sword Pavilion’s secret sword manuals through a ritual invoking the Blood Moon.
• Bai Caiwei brought Shen Xiuxin, Bai Yunzi, the Ao-Fishing Elder, and other survivors into the Profound Heaven Sect ruins as the Blood Demon approached.
• Bai Caiwei persuaded Elder Lu to activate an ancient teleportation formation and sent the group to the Far Western Lands.
• Bai Yunzi severed one corner of the teleportation formation, and the Ao-Fishing Elder offered to repair it as a precaution against pursuit.
• Bai Yunzi surveyed the unpolluted Far Western Lands and announced that the Book Mountain Sword Pavilion could establish its mountain gate there.

Bai Caiwei fled from Bai Yunzi and the Ao-Fishing Elder, who sought to seize her and her Profound Heaven Sect inheritance, until Aaron arrived as a fellow Nascent Soul Cultivator. The chapter ended with Bai Caiwei recognizing her former master and realizing he had formed a Nascent Soul.

• Aaron sensed that his traveling frog disciple had returned and rode Xiaoqing toward her.
• Bai Caiwei tried to escape Bai Yunzi and the Ao-Fishing Elder, but her Cicada Wing Blade was damaged in a clash with Bai Yunzi's Formless Sword.
• Bai Caiwei used an ancient lamp to strike Bai Yunzi with a light that weakened her fortune, prosperity, and longevity.
• The Ao-Fishing Elder and Bai Yunzi caught up and wounded Bai Caiwei, who fell into the forest rather than surrender.
• Aaron arrived on Xiaoqing's back, and Bai Caiwei recognized him as her master and discovered he had become a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Aaron rescued Bai Caiwei by killing Bai Yunzi and Ao-Fishing Elder, then explained his concealed cultivation and heard how she had been deceived by them. He spared the surviving Book Mountain Sword Pavilion disciples, accepted Bai Caiwei’s Profound Heaven Sect cultivation technique, and planned to bring the refugees into the Medicine King Sect.

• Bai Yunzi attacked Aaron with her Formless Sword, but Aaron’s spiritual treasure Formless Sword broke hers and killed her.
• Ao-Fishing Elder fled, and Aaron killed him with the Formless Sword before descending to reunite with Bai Caiwei.
• Aaron claimed he had concealed his cultivation and reached Nascent Soul, and Bai Caiwei accepted him as her master.
• Bai Caiwei recounted how she had trusted the two cultivators and pleaded for the remaining Book Mountain Sword Pavilion disciples, especially Shen Xiuxin.
• Aaron accepted Bai Caiwei’s Profound Heaven Sect technique, agreed to spare the surviving disciples, and proposed establishing a Sword Hall within the Medicine King Sect.

Aaron and Bai Caiwei returned to the ancient teleportation array after defeating Bai Yunzi and Ao-Fishing Elder, and Aaron took control of the surviving Book Mountain Sword Pavilion cultivators. He left Shen Xiuxin to establish a new Sword Hall while considering how to exploit the Blood Demon’s assault on Great Qian, then sensed that Situ Yin had met a powerful opponent.

• Shen Xiuxin challenged Senior Brother Zhang’s plans to subjugate local sects, but the returning Bai Caiwei revealed that her master had killed Bai Yunzi and Ao-Fishing Elder.
• Senior Brother Zhang and the other sword cultivators fled, and Aaron killed several of them with the Formless Needle before Ziling confessed that she was a Primordial Demon Sect spy.
• Aaron appointed Shen Xiuxin as the first Hall Master of the Medicine King Sect’s new Book Mountain Sword Hall and inspected the ancient teleportation array with Bai Caiwei.
• Aaron led the group back to the Medicine King Sect and ordered a Shen Family steward to help Shen Xiuxin establish the Sword Hall.
• Aaron sensed that Situ Yin had encountered a formidable opponent in Great Qian and privately considered the danger of the cultivation world’s hidden powers.

At Righteous Qi Peak, Dongfang Jie and Nie discussed how the Blood Moon Calamity could be resisted and their plans to defeat the Blood Demon. Situ Yin killed the Righteous Qi Sect’s Cloud Dragon with the Blood Transforming Divine Blade, and seven cultivators raised the Heaven and Earth Cauldron to sever the Blood Demon’s connection to the blood moon.

• Dongfang Jie and Nie discussed the Cloud Dragon formation, their efforts to reach the immortal realm, and ways to resist the Blood Moon’s demonic sound.
• Dongfang Jie revealed that cultivators had found methods and treasures to resist demonic contamination and said they intended to eradicate the Blood Demon.
• Situ Yin appeared amid the Blood Demon Children and cut down the Cloud Dragon with the Blood Transforming Divine Blade.
• The Cloud Dragon dissolved into a vast rain of spiritual energy that surged against the sea of blood.
• Seven cultivators raised the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, spreading a canopy of light intended to sever the Blood Demon’s link to the blood moon.

Dongfang Jie and a coalition of Spirit Transformation cultivators sealed Blood Demon Situ Yin, then transformed him into a demonic puppet to force an Ascension and open contact with the upper realm. The puppet began breaking through the world's limits as the cultivators sent their faith tokens into the void.

• Dongfang Jie used the Spirit Treasure Cosmos Cauldron to block the blood moon and activated a Heart-Locking Spirit Ban he had planted on Situ Yin.
• Three Spirit Transformation demonic cultivators and Buddhist forces attacked the blood sea, while a giant Buddha imprisoned Situ Yin and the sea of blood.
• An old Buddhist monk used Divine Sense Nirvana to seal Situ Yin inside a lotus-shaped Buddha statue.
• Nearly ten Spirit Transformation cultivators from several factions arranged grand formations around the sealed Buddha, intending to use Situ Yin as bait to contact the upper realm.
• The old devil transformed the sealed Situ Yin into a four-faced, eight-armed demonic puppet with Spirit Transformation consummation power.
• The cultivators sent faith tokens into the void as the puppet began breaking through the world's limits and undergoing Ascension.

The Spirit Transformation cultivators failed to contact the upper realm during Situ Yin’s forced ascension, but an envoy named Jin Chenzi descended and promised help in confronting the Blood Moon. As the Blood Moon’s corruption worsened, Jin Chenzi prepared to destroy the Lunar Star with an immortal treasure, while Aaron sensed that the true battle was beginning.

• Dongfang Jie and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators used their relics to contact the upper realm during Situ Yin’s ascension, but none received a response; two Demon Race cultivators flew into the shattered void in their true forms.
• After the ascension ended and the void healed, Jin Chenzi descended, identified himself as a Void Realm cultivator from the Five Directions Sect, and promised to take cultivators back to the Immortal Realm if they helped with his mission.
• Jin Chenzi learned that the Blood Moon’s influence centered on the Lunar Star and said he had brought an immortal artifact to resolve the calamity.
• At the Far Western Lands, Aaron watched Shen Xiuxin settle into the Medicine King Sect and sensed flesh-and-blood branches unfurling across the Blood Moon, realizing the true battle was about to begin.
• Jin Chenzi warned Dongfang Jie and the Spirit Transformation cultivators to keep their distance, then entered the formation and revealed an ivory-white crescent hook to destroy the Blood Moon’s Lunar Star.

Jin Chenzi used the Moon-Inviting Hook and an Immortal Thunder Gold-Devouring Talisman to attack the Blood Moon and the Giant Flesh Tree, but the Tree’s Taixuan Scripture drained the life from him and the nearby cultivators. At the brink of death, Jin Chenzi’s eyes turned emerald green, suggesting that a being from the Upper Realm had possessed him across realms.

• Jin Chenzi powered the Moon-Inviting Hook with a seven-aperture medicinal pill and sent its countless copies toward the Blood Moon.
• The Giant Flesh Tree emerged on the Blood Moon and released a vast sea of blood that corroded the flying hooks.
• Jin Chenzi unleashed the Immortal Thunder Gold-Devouring Talisman, clearing the blood sea and exposing the Blood Moon and the Giant Flesh Tree.
• The Moon-Inviting Hook struck the Tree, whose wounds spoke the Taixuan Scripture and rapidly drained the lifespan of Jin Chenzi, Dongfang Jie, and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Jin Chenzi’s eyes turned emerald green, and the surrounding plants flourished as the dying cultivators regained enough vitality to cling to life.

Jin Chenzi destroyed the blood moon and the Giant Flesh Tree, ending the immediate eldritch calamity but triggering a decline in the world's spiritual energy. Three days later, he led the Spirit Transformation cultivators through an Ascension passage, where a bloodstained jade tablet fell behind warning them not to ascend.

• Jin Chenzi used the Moon-Inviting Hook to unleash the Lunar Ice Soul Annihilation Divine Ray and destroy the Giant Flesh Tree and blood moon.
• Jin Chenzi told Dongfang Jie and the others that the world's spiritual energy would decline and offered Spirit Transformation cultivators the chance to leave with him.
• Cultivators across the world celebrated the blood moon's destruction while Great Qian's sects prepared for their patriarchs to depart.
• Jin Chenzi opened an Ascension passage at Righteous Qi Peak, and Dongfang Jie and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators followed him inside.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator retrieved a bloodstained sound-recording jade tablet that had fallen from the passage and heard Nie's voice warn them not to ascend.

After the immortal world’s envoy and Great Qian’s Spirit Transformation cultivators vanished into the Blood Moon’s realm, Aaron claimed control of the world and spent two centuries overseeing the strange path’s rise. The chapter left the Righteous Qi Sect under attack by the League of Aberrants, whose leader Chen San, also known as Xuanxuanzi, had reached the Dao Transformation realm.

• Jin Chenzi led Dongfang Jie and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators through the Ascension passage, only for them to emerge before the Blood Moon’s giant flesh tree and be trapped by its tendrils.
• Aaron drew the Moon-Inviting Hook from the kingdom gate, learned that the immortal world had lost its connection to the small world, and resolved to take control of it and resume the Medicine King Sect Ten Halls plan.
• Over the next two hundred years, spiritual qi declined while Blood Moon dust spread across the world, empowering aberrant cultivators and making the orthodox cultivation path increasingly weak.
• A swarm of aberrant cultivators attacked the Righteous Qi Sect, and its Supreme Elder and several Nascent Soul cultivators fought back against a flesh-bodied Aberrant Infant.
• Chen San, also known as Xuanxuanzi, appeared as the League of Aberrants’ Alliance Leader and revealed that he had reached the Dao Transformation realm before demanding the Supreme Elder’s head and spiritual roots.

Aaron learned that the League of Aberrants had destroyed the Righteous Qi Sect and that Great Qian’s remaining sects were under attack, driving cultivators west. He decided to address the influx, while a refugee fleet led by survivors of the Grand Void Sect arrived in the Far Western Lands.

• Bai Caiwei visited Aaron and reported that migrating cultivators from Great Qian were clashing with locals in the Far Western Lands.
• Bai Caiwei told Aaron that the League of Aberrants had captured Righteous Qi Peak, destroyed the Righteous Qi Sect, and was attacking the remaining great sects under Xuanxuanzi’s leadership.
• Aaron agreed that the westward migration needed to be managed and set out to resolve the issue of cultivators crossing into the Far Western Lands.
• Qing Yan and Quiet Void Child arrived in Yuanchen Kingdom with a fleet of flying boats and discussed the Grand Void Sect’s defeat and their plan to survive in the Far Western Lands.

Aaron revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation to the refugee cultivators’ leaders and offered them refuge under the Medicine King Sect. The newcomers accepted his offer while secretly planning to wait for Old Monster Fang to die before challenging the sect’s power.

• Qing Yan and Quiet Void Child discussed joining forces with the Primordial Demon Sect against the Medicine King Sect, but Quiet Void Child rejected the idea as too risky.
• Aaron sensed that the refugee cultivators planned to hide and revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation when two Medicine King Sect figures approached the fleet.
• Quiet Void Child, Crimson Flame, and Moon-Grasping Master came forward, and Moon-Grasping Master and Quiet Void Child asked Aaron to shelter their displaced followers.
• Aaron promised the refugees could settle peacefully in the Far Western Lands and pledged that the Medicine King Sect would fight the heretic cultivators.
• Quiet Void Child and the other Nascent Soul leaders praised Aaron publicly while privately deciding to wait for Old Monster Fang’s death before testing the Medicine King Sect.

Aaron broke through to Spirit Transformation, overturning the Medicine King Sect’s expected limits and forcing the Far Western Lands’ sects to reconsider their plans. Quiet Void Child and Red Flame Old Devil hoped the League of Aberrants would target Aaron and create an opening for them to reclaim Great Qian.

• Quiet Void Child and Red Flame Old Devil discussed waiting for Aaron to die before resisting the Medicine King Sect, while keeping their plans secret from the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Aaron began advancing toward Spirit Transformation as Bai Caiwei’s intelligence suggested the aberrant cultivators were weakening and their realm’s descent might be ending.
• A vast tide of spiritual energy gathered around Medicine King Sect, and Bai Caiwei recognized that Aaron was attempting to break through.
• Aaron completed his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation without facing a heart demon tribulation and considered claiming the right to define Spirit Transformation cultivators’ lifespans.
• Quiet Void Child learned from Red Flame Old Devil that Aaron had reached Spirit Transformation and proposed that the League of Aberrants might attack him, letting the sects return to Great Qian.