Recaps

Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin discovered Ice Venerable's hidden poison vault and learned how he had tried to perfect his Woe Poison Physique. They decided to cultivate there together so they could grow strong enough to support Lu Heng.

• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin broke through the ice gate and entered a chamber filled with poisons and Beast Hide notes.
• Xiao Yi Xian read Ice Venerable's notes and realized he had sought her source blood essence to repair the flaws in his postnatal Woe Poison Physique.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that Lu Heng had helped her control her Poison Physique, and Qing Lin recalled how he had cared for her in Stone Desert City.
• Qing Lin urged Xiao Yi Xian to refine the vault's rare poisons while she absorbed the three Seventh-Rank mutated giant snakes sealed in her pupils.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to cultivate alongside Qing Lin so they could help Lu Heng face stronger enemies.

Yao Tianhuo concealed the Poison Cavern while Cao Yue decided to seek an opportunity in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range rather than rely on Lu Heng’s gifts. After Lu Heng recovered and stabilized his cultivation, Cao Ying hurried to see him and nearly collided with him at the courtyard entrance.

• Yao Tianhuo erased the traces around the Poison Cavern and hid its entrance from people searching the ruins.
• Cao Ying told Cao Yue that Lu Heng had returned unharmed after defeating the Ice Venerable and Tian Shuangzi.
• Cao Yue declined to visit Lu Heng while he rested and reaffirmed her plan to travel to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range to seek an opportunity.
• Three days later, Lu Heng woke from his rest with his One-Star Dou Zun cultivation stabilized.
• Cao Ying hurried into Lu Heng’s courtyard and nearly collided with him, then scolded him for startling her.

Cao Ying asked Lu Heng to stop Cao Yue from risking a trip to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, and Lu Heng proposed that Cao Yue prepare for a safer opportunity in the Northern Region. He met Cao Yue and heard that she wanted to break through her stagnant cultivation and alchemy before the Alchemy Assembly.

• Cao Ying told Lu Heng that Cao Yue planned to seek an opportunity in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range and asked him to dissuade her.
• Lu Heng decided Cao Yue should cultivate for two years before joining Cao Ying on a trip to the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.
• Cao Ying led Lu Heng to Cao Yue’s courtyard, where Cao Yue blushed at seeing him and Cao Ying teased her about her feelings.
• Lu Heng asked Cao Yue about her plans, and Cao Yue explained that her alchemy was stuck at Seventh-Grade Early-Stage and her cultivation at Four-Star Dou Emperor.

Lu Heng steered Cao Yue away from a likely trap in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range and pointed her and Cao Ying toward the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool as a safer opportunity to strengthen their cultivation. After returning to his room in Saint Dan City, he prepared to examine the heavenly mandate reward from his breakthrough to Dou Zun.

• Lu Heng warned Cao Yue that the rumored opportunity in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range was probably a trap, while she explained her fear of falling behind her talented peers.
• Lu Heng recommended the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, explaining that it would reopen in about two and a half years and could help Cao Yue break through to Dou Zong.
• Lu Heng urged Cao Ying to use the pool to stabilize her Dou Qi foundation and promised to refine Poison-Averting Meridian-Protecting Pills for both women.
• Cao Yue and Cao Ying agreed to avoid the Heavenly Star Mountain Range and train until they could visit the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool together.
• Lu Heng returned to the Guest Elder Courtyard, secluded himself in his bedroom, and prepared to inspect the Golden Book Fragment's reward for his Dou Zun breakthrough.

Lu Heng received the Dou Zun Yin-Yang Section of the Five Spirits Chaos Art and the nascent Yin-Yang Five Elements Dharma Body, then cultivated for a month to stabilize his breakthrough. He left seclusion at the peak of One-Star Dou Zun and began considering his next move.

• The Book of Destiny granted Lu Heng the Yin-Yang Section of his cultivation art and the nascent form of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dharma Body.
• Lu Heng refined his five-element Dou Qi into Yin Yang Twin Fish, strengthening his body and widening his meridians.
• Lu Heng briefly formed the dharma body but suppressed it before it could damage his room or attract the Pill Tower Elders' attention.
• Lu Heng cultivated in seclusion for a month while Cao Ying visited twice and left spirit fruit at his courtyard gate.
• Lu Heng emerged with his cultivation stabilized at the peak of One-Star Dou Zun, ate the fruit Cao Ying had left, and considered where to go next.

Lu Heng decided to travel to the Beast Region to investigate a rumored Dou Sheng ruin and seek rare medicinal ingredients. After Xuankong Zi and Sky Lightning Child warned him about the dangers and the factions gathering there, Xuankong Zi gave him a Pill Tower token to help him prepare.

• Lu Heng recalled rumors of an ancient ruin emerging in the Beast Region and decided to go there.
• Lu Heng visited Xuankong Zi and Sky Lightning Child at the Pill Tower council hall and asked about the Beast Region.
• Xuankong Zi and Sky Lightning Child explained that a Dou Sheng ruin was emerging near the Skeleton Mountain Range and that several human and magical beast factions were gathering there.
• Lu Heng insisted he would go despite the danger, and Xuankong Zi gave him an Outer Pill Tower Guest Elder token to obtain a map and faction intelligence at Ancient Town.

Xuankong Zi, Xuanyi, and Sky Lightning Child gave Lu Heng resources and a powerful talisman for his journey to the Beast Region. After preparing pills to trade with magical beast clans, Lu Heng was visited by Cao Ying and another woman.

• Xuankong Zi gave Lu Heng a Pill Tower Gold Token and explained how it could help him in the Beast Region.
• Xuanyi gave Lu Heng medicinal herbs, concealment powder, maps, Dou Crystals, and weapon-reforging ores in a storage ring.
• Sky Lightning Child gave Lu Heng a jade talisman containing one full-strength strike from a peak Nine-Star Dou Zun.
• Lu Heng returned to his courtyard and refined batches of pills to trade with magical beast tribes during his journey.
• Cao Ying arrived at Lu Heng’s courtyard with another woman and called for him to open the door.

Lu Heng prepared to enter the Beast Region despite Cao Ying and Cao Yue's concern, then traveled to its outskirts and arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts City. He began exploring the city, where magical beasts in humanoid forms filled the streets.

• Cao Ying and Cao Yue warned Lu Heng about the dangers of the Beast Region, but Lu Heng reassured them he could protect himself and promised to bring Cao Ying a flying spirit beast.
• Three days later, Lu Heng packed his pills and left Saint Dan City without saying goodbye to the Cao cousins or Xuankong Zi.
• After traveling through a Spatial Wormhole, Lu Heng reached the Withered Bone Wasteland seven days later and flew south toward the Beast Region.
• Lu Heng arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts City and entered through its gate.
• Lu Heng saw that the city streets were crowded with humanoid magical beasts, many of whom still showed features of their original forms.

Lu Heng intervened when Balu bullied a human alchemist over black gold ganoderma, trading a bloodline-purifying pill for it. When Balu attacked him to seize the pill, Lu Heng used his control over space to force the bull clan warrior to his knees, revealing power that suggested he was a Dou Zun.

• Balu beat the Green-Robed Elder and demanded his Bone-Regenerating Pill as compensation for the dispute over the black gold ganoderma.
• Lu Heng took the ganoderma and offered the fox-eared stallholder a Sixth-Grade High-Tier Earth-Spirit Blood-Merging Pill in exchange.
• The fox-eared stallholder accepted Lu Heng's trade and clutched the pill, while Balu became fixated on taking it.
• Balu attacked Lu Heng and demanded his pill and Storage Ring.
• Lu Heng stopped Balu's strike with spatial pressure, broke his knees, and asked who he had called low-grade trash.

After defeating Balu, Lu Heng sought information about the Depths of the Beast Region at the Thousand Beasts Pavilion. He learned that nearby eighth-rank treasures were guarded by beast clans and began looking for clans willing to trade, while Lei Ying warned him away from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Lu Heng hurled Balu into the city wall, took the black gold ganoderma, and rescued Ye Zhong.
• Ye Zhong directed Lu Heng to the Thousand Beasts Pavilion as the best source of information about the Beast Region.
• Lei Ying welcomed Lu Heng after recognizing his Pill Tower Gold Token and escorted him to a private guest room.
• Lu Heng asked Lei Ying about nearby eighth-rank or higher Five Elements treasures and explained that he wanted to trade pills for them.
• Lei Ying showed Lu Heng a map and warned him not to negotiate with the overbearing Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Lu Heng asked Lei Ying for a detailed Beast Region map and intelligence on eighth-rank medicinal ingredients, then paid him with a seventh-grade pill to secure the restricted information. Lei Ying returned with the Heavenly Silk Cloud Map and two message slips, leaving Lu Heng ready to inspect the materials.

• Lu Heng questioned Lei Ying about nearby clans, and Lei Ying described the cautious Qingluan Clan and the more open Nine Netherworld Python Clan as potential trading partners.
• Lu Heng requested a detailed map of clan territories and dangers, along with rumors about eighth-rank medicinal ingredients.
• Lu Heng offered Lei Ying a seventh-grade Azure Profound Barrier-Breaking Pill as payment, and Lei Ying eagerly agreed to fetch the confidential materials.
• Lei Ying returned with the Heavenly Silk Cloud Map, revised six months earlier to show more than a hundred clans, and two crimson Message Jade Slips.

Lu Heng traveled to Withered Blood Ridge to search the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s outer territories for rare treasures and medicinal ingredients. At Blackstone Market, he found a severed root of nine nether earth dragon vine and began negotiating with its seller.

• Lei Ying gave Lu Heng a map and jade slips containing information about treasures and clan elders before Lu Heng left Ten Thousand Beasts City.
• Lu Heng learned that the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s outer tribes operated black markets and changed course for Withered Blood Ridge.
• Lu Heng disguised himself as a peak Dou Emperor and entered Blackstone Market.
• Lu Heng spotted a severed root of nine nether earth dragon vine at a stall and tried to buy it along with a piece of cold iron.
• Greenhide demanded two intermediate-or-higher sixth-grade Imperial Pills for the root, while nearby snake-person mercenaries stopped to watch the haggling.

Lu Heng swept through the Nine Netherworld Pythons' outer territory, trading high-grade pills for rare treasures and using spatial power to deter anyone who tried to rob him. After a month, he had gathered valuable ingredients and turned his attention to the Skeleton Mountain Range, where the ancient Dou Sheng Creation's ruins were hidden.

• Lu Heng used spatial power to force Green-Skinned Ghost to exchange the black ore and nine nether earth dragon vine root for an Imperial Pill.
• Lu Heng avoided the Nine Netherworld Pythons' dangerous Main Branch and traveled through the outer territory in search of rare goods.
• Lu Heng spent a month trading pills with vassal tribes and black markets, using Spatial Lockdown against those who tried to rob him.
• Lu Heng collected Eighth-Rank herbs and materials, then left the increasingly wary tribes before attracting the Main Branch's attention.
• Lu Heng studied Lei Ying's map and chose the Skeleton Mountain Range, site of Creation's ancient Dou Sheng ruins, as his next destination.

Lu Heng explored the Skeleton Mountain Range and found an Earth Marrow Jade Bone Fruit guarded by a Bone-Armored Giant Lizard. After subduing the beast and collecting the fruit and its tree, he gave the lizard a Beast-Nurturing Pill, then furrowed his brow as he prepared to leave.

• Lu Heng flew to the Skeleton Mountain Range to search its death-energy-rich terrain for treasures.
• Lu Heng sensed unusual vitality in a nearby valley and found an Earth Marrow Jade Bone Fruit growing from a giant skull.
• A Bone-Armored Giant Lizard emerged and attacked Lu Heng, who pinned it down with spatial force.
• Lu Heng harvested the three fruits and transplanted the tree into his storage jade pendant.
• Lu Heng gave the subdued lizard a Beast-Nurturing Pill, then furrowed his brow as he was about to leave.

Lu Heng watched a Riftland Berserker Bear and a Netherworld Poison-Patterned Python fight over an immature Dragonblood Scarlet-Gold Ganoderma, intending to claim the herb once it ripened. The two beasts inflicted severe wounds on each other, but their battle continued as the ganoderma neared maturity.

• Lu Heng sensed two mid-stage Eighth-Rank magical beasts fighting in a basin and concealed himself nearby.
• He identified the combatants as a Riftland Berserker Bear and a Netherworld Poison-Patterned Python, both battling over a Dragonblood Scarlet-Gold Ganoderma.
• Lu Heng realized the ganoderma needed nearly half an hour to mature and waited, hoping the beasts would weaken each other.
• The python stabbed the bear's neck with its venomous tail hook, and the bear retaliated by wrenching the python's jaws apart.

Lu Heng snatched the matured Dragonblood Scarlet-Gold Ganoderma from two battling eighth-rank magical beasts, then tested his newly comprehended Dharma Body prototype against them. He killed both beasts but was left severely drained, and began recovering after the phantom dissipated.

• The Dragonblood Scarlet-Gold Ganoderma matured, and Lu Heng used a Jade Knife to take it before the Riftland Berserker Bear and Netherworld Poison-Patterned Python could reach it.
• The enraged beasts attacked Lu Heng, who summoned a Five-Color Wheel that weakened the bear and dispersed the python's poisonous mist.
• Lu Heng manifested his yin-yang five elements dharma body prototype, whose immense pressure pinned both beasts to the ground.
• Lu Heng's Golden Light Slash severed the heads of the Riftland Berserker Bear and Netherworld Poison-Patterned Python.
• Lu Heng dismissed the dharma body, nearly collapsed from the energy drain, and recovered some strength by circulating the Five Spirits Chaos Art.

Lu Heng harvested the Magic Cores and blood essence from two Eighth-Rank beasts, then fled the ravaged basin before the Beast Region's experts arrived. Huang Xuan found no clear trail but concluded that the destruction was beyond an ordinary Dou Zun's power.

• Lu Heng cut the Magic Cores from the berserker bear and giant python, refined their blood essence, and stored the treasures for Han Xue and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lu Heng swallowed an Azure Spirit Energy Recovery Pill and escaped through the woods using the Water Cloud Step.
• A Qingluan Clan elder, a Mad Lion Clan Dou Zun, and a Heaven-Piercing Sword Tiger Clan elder reached the basin and found the two beasts dead and their treasures taken.
• A Nine Netherworld Python Clan elder arrived and demanded to know who had killed the python.
• Huang Xuan arrived, searched the area with his soul power, and declared that the destruction could not have been caused by an ordinary Dou Zun.

Lu Heng escaped the Skeleton Mountain Range’s factions after killing two magical beasts and settled in a hidden underground cavern to refine the bear’s blood essence. He began absorbing its earth energy, while the factions spread the alarm and sealed off the mountains in search of him.

• Huang Xuan ordered the factions to seal spatial fluctuations around the Skeleton Mountain Range and report any suspicious human Dou Zun.
• Lu Heng recovered from the battle, kept the Dragonblood Scarlet-Gold Ganoderma and two Magic Cores, and searched for a secluded place to settle.
• Lu Heng found a dry cavern beneath a bone cliff and concealed his aura with a Five Elements Isolation Array.
• Lu Heng removed a small amount of the Riftland Berserker Bear’s blood essence, burned away its savage malice, and began refining its earth energy with the Five Spirits Chaos Art.

Lu Heng refined the berserk bear’s blood essence and continued cultivating, while Xiao Yan reached Five-Star Dou King and prepared to graduate from Jia Nan Academy. Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to travel to the Central Plains, and Xiao Yan joined Hu Jia and Wu Hao on their way to the graduation ceremony.

• Lu Heng absorbed the berserk bear’s blood essence, strengthening his body, and continued cultivating in hopes of breaking through.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Five-Star Dou King strength, and Yao Chen praised his progress after three years at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen discussed the dormant Fallen Heart Flame and accepted that Xiao Yan could not obtain it at the Inner Academy.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to seek greater opportunities in the Central Plains and told him to find Feng Xian at Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan left the Back Mountain to complete his graduation paperwork and met Hu Jia and Wu Hao, who urged him to hurry to the ceremony.

After graduating from the Inner Academy, Xiao Yan planned to return to Wutan City and visit his father before traveling to the Central Plains. As he left Jia Nan Academy, he unexpectedly encountered his cousin Xiao Yu and Xueni.

• Hu Jia and Wu Hao discussed how Lu Heng had inspired earlier Inner Academy elites to cultivate fiercely, and Xiao Yan said he had barely known Lu Heng in Wutan City.
• At the graduation ceremony, Great Elder Su Qian gave the graduating students their records and cautioned Xiao Yan to be careful in the Central Plains.
• Hu Jia left for the Outer Academy, while Wu Hao chose to spend six more months with the Enforcement Team; Xiao Yan said they would meet again.
• Xiao Yan packed his belongings, told Yao Chen he planned to visit his father in Wutan City, deregistered at the Deacon Hall, and headed through the Outer Academy toward its gates.
• Xiao Yu and Xueni recognized Xiao Yan near the Martial Arts Arena, and he greeted them.

Xiao Yan graduated from Jia Nan Academy and prepared to travel from Wutan City to the Central Plains, where Xiao Yu asked him to pass her regards to Lu Heng. In the Central Plains, Lu Heng completed his seclusion by breaking through to Two-Star Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yu and Xueni that he planned to visit his father in Wutan City before leaving for the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Yan to send Lu Heng her regards, while Xueni teased her and revealed that she, Xiao Yu, and Instructor Ruo Lin had waited for Lu Heng to return.
• Xiao Yan promised to pass on Xiao Yu's message, said farewell, and flew from Peace Town toward the Jia Ma Empire.
• Lu Heng finished refining the Eighth-Rank Riftland Berserker Bear's blood essence in his hidden cavern.
• Lu Heng's cultivation broke through to Two-Star Dou Zun, and he removed the Five Elements Isolation Array before packing his belongings.

After advancing to Two-Star Dou Zun, Lu Heng left the Skeleton Mountain Range and headed for Burning Flame Valley, hoping to obtain fire-attribute treasures and help Tang Zhen treat his daughter. In Red Glow Town, he challenged an alchemist’s plan to join the dangerous refinement of a top seventh-grade pill.

• Lu Heng concealed and erased his traces, then left the Skeleton Mountain Range after the powerful magical beasts had dispersed.
• Lu Heng studied Xuanyi’s map and decided to travel to Burning Flame Valley for its fire treasures and the rewards Tang Zhen offered for treating Tang Huo’er.
• Lu Heng reached Red Glow Town six days later and disguised his strength while listening to local alchemists discuss Burning Flame Valley’s recruitment.
• Master Zhao boasted that he could assist with Tang Zhen’s pill refinement if the valley lowered its requirements, and Lu Heng warned that a sixth-grade alchemist would die attempting it.

Lu Heng subdued a Goateed Alchemist who insulted him, then traveled to Tianhuang City to visit his old friend Liu Qing. He learned the Cheng Family still controlled the city's Spatial Wormhole and planned to visit the Liu Clan the next day.

• Lu Heng pinned the Goateed Alchemist and his two lackeys to the floor with his Dou Zun pressure, then warned them not to risk their lives at Burning Flame Valley.
• Lu Heng decided Burning Flame Valley's search for alchemists was not yet urgent and chose to detour to Tianhuang City to see Liu Qing.
• Lu Heng entered Tianhuang City and learned that the Cheng Family controlled the Spatial Wormhole after its Great Elder broke through to Dou Zong.
• Lu Heng rented a Heaven-Class Suite, observed the Cheng Family guarding the Spatial Wormhole, and began cultivating with plans to visit Liu Qing the next day.

Lu Heng visited Liu Qing at the Liu Residence in Tianhuang City, where they reunited over liquor and compared their cultivation. The chapter ended with Liu Qing stunned to learn that Lu Heng was a twenty-one-year-old Two-Star Dou Zun.

• Lu Heng arrived at the Liu Residence and asked the guards to tell Liu Qing that an old friend from Jia Nan Academy had come to visit.
• Liu Qing rushed out to greet Lu Heng and brought him to his private training hall for drinks.
• Liu Qing boasted that he had reached peak Three-Star Dou Emperor and asked Lu Heng about his realm.
• Lu Heng demonstrated his ability to tear open a spatial fissure, revealing that he was a Dou Zun.
• Lu Heng told Liu Qing that he was twenty-one and a Two-Star Dou Zun, leaving Liu Qing stunned.

Lu Heng reunited with Liu Qing in Tianhuang City and agreed to refine pills for the Liu Clan before heading to Burning Flame Valley. On the way to meet Liu Qing’s father, he encountered Liu Fei, who was stunned to see him again.

• Lu Heng told Liu Qing he was a Two-Star Dou Zun and an Eighth-Grade Alchemist, and said he planned to visit Burning Flame Valley.
• Liu Qing offered to take Lu Heng to the Cheng Clan-managed Spatial Wormhole and asked him to refine high-grade pills for the Liu Clan amid its rivalry with the Cheng Clan.
• Lu Heng agreed to refine pills for a fee, and Liu Qing eagerly led him toward the Liu Residence’s inner courtyard to meet his father.
• Lu Heng and Liu Qing encountered Liu Fei, who recognized Lu Heng and stared at him in shock.