Recaps

Hu Xian'er asked Chen Changqing to retrieve Blood Soul Grass from the Demon Immortal Treasure so it could help restore her mother’s shattered Primordial Spirit, and Chen agreed. After learning that hostile royal clans were waiting outside Myriad Demon City, he refused the Myriad Treasure Tower’s escort, while Hu Xian'er secretly sent her elder to protect him.

• Hu Xian'er offered Chen Changqing an Immortal Artifact for a complete Blood Soul Grass plant and explained that it could help reunite the seven pieces of her mother’s Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changqing’s Demon Immortal Key caused Hu Xian'er’s Primordial Spirit Jade to react, confirming that the key was linked to Blood Soul Grass in the Demon Immortal Treasure.
• Hu Xian'er gave Chen Changqing instructions for harvesting the herb and warned him that Soul Beasts could range from Purple Mansion Realm strength to the power to kill True Lords.
• Hu Xian'er warned Chen Changqing that the Golden Winged Peng Clan, Ancient Dragon Clan, and Heaven Swallowing Python Clan had people waiting outside the city, and offered him an escort and a talisman that could block a True Lord’s strike.
• Chen Changqing refused the escort, accepted the talisman, and left the Myriad Treasure Tower with Liu Ruyan.
• Hu Xian'er told her hidden True Lord elder to follow Chen Changqing and help him if he faced danger outside the city.

After leaving Myriad Demon City, Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan were ambushed by a coalition of demon clans seeking the Demon Immortal Key and his treasures. Chen Changqing fought back with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, leaving the attacking forces in disarray as he killed several powerful demons.

• At the city gate, the Heavenly Demon Token made the demon soldiers let Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan pass without question.
• On the road outside the city, Chen Changqing gave Liu Ruyan Hu Xian'er's protective talisman and called the hidden demons out of their ambush.
• Young Master Chiyan rallied more than a hundred demons, including over ten Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts, to seize Chen Changqing's key and treasures.
• Chen Changqing drew the Heavenly Thunder Sword and killed more than ten charging Demon Kings with one sweep.
• Chen Changqing's Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation broke the Chi Yan elders' attacks and wounded them, while his Invincible Sword Domain let him cut off a Golden Winged Peng Clan elder's wing.
• Chen Changqing crushed the Heaven Swallowing Python Clan old woman's Primordial Spirit with the Three Extremes Origin Seal, and the system awarded him AFK Points.

Chen Changqing fought Blackscale True Lord after Young Master Chiyan summoned him, using four Immortal Artifacts and his techniques to withstand the True Lord's attacks. As Blackscale True Lord's Principles suppressed Chen Changqing's Sword Domain and the demons attacked, Chen Changqing killed an Ancient Dragon Clan expert who tried to take Liu Ruyan hostage.

• Young Master Chiyan summoned Blackscale True Lord with a Jade Talisman, and the True Lord demanded that Chen Changqing kneel and die.
• Chen Changqing created three Avatars and used four Immortal Artifacts to break most of Blackscale True Lord's Black Flood Dragon Space-Rending Art.
• Chen Changqing struck Blackscale True Lord with the Heaven-Collapsing Style and Samsara Style, cracking his armor, but Blackscale True Lord sent him flying with a tail strike.
• Blackscale True Lord invoked his flood dragon shadow and True Lord's Principles, suppressing Chen Changqing's Sword Domain as Young Master Chiyan urged the demons to attack.
• An Ancient Dragon Clan expert tried to seize Liu Ruyan as a hostage, but Chen Changqing killed him with a Sword Light before she could use her talisman.

Chen Changqing fought Blackscale True Lord’s strongest attacks and severely wounded him with his sword, Avatars, and combined fist technique. Blackscale True Lord remained alive, but the demons saw him forced into a battered retreat within Chen Changqing’s Sword Domain.

• Blackscale True Lord drew in Demon Qi and used Myriad-Scale Mountain Suppression to trap Chen Changqing beneath a vast black-scaled mountain.
• Chen Changqing’s three Avatars attacked the mountain while he channeled the remnant lightning intent of the Twelve-Colored Heavenly Tribulation into the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing and his Avatars combined their fist techniques into Four Symbols Unity, splitting the mountain and injuring Blackscale True Lord.
• Chen Changqing pursued Blackscale True Lord, pierced his arms with the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, and used the Immortal-Burying Zither to disrupt his Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changqing struck Blackscale True Lord’s arm with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, then contracted his Sword Domain to expose the severely injured True Lord.

Chen Changqing killed Blackscale True Lord after breaking the Black Flood Dragon Soul-Devouring Array and then confronted Young Master Chiyan. Young Master Chiyan offered his wealth to save his life, but Chen Changqing said it was too little.

• Blackscale True Lord burned his Lifebound Reverse Scale, restored his body, and trapped Chen Changqing in the Black Flood Dragon Soul-Devouring Array.
• Chen Changqing played the Immortal-Burying Melody, weakening Blackscale True Lord and cracking the array, then attacked with his Avatars and Three Extremes Origin Seal.
• Chen Changqing killed Blackscale True Lord with Immortal Execution, took his Storage Ring, and pointed his sword at Young Master Chiyan.
• Young Master Chiyan's guards refused to intervene, and he warned Chen Changqing that the Chi Yan Demon Clan would seek revenge if he killed him.
• Young Master Chiyan offered fifteen million Top-Grade Spirit Stones and the Chi Yan Demon Clan's spirit medicines and spiritual materials, but Chen Changqing said it was too little.

Chen Changqing took Young Master Chiyan’s treasures and killed him after pretending to let him escape, then turned on the remaining Demon Race forces. He slaughtered the Demon Kings and powerful elders of the Golden Winged Peng, Ancient Dragon, and Heaven Swallowing Python Clans while Liu Ruyan watched.

• Chen Changqing accepted Young Master Chiyan’s Storage Ring and told him to leave, then killed him from behind with the Immortal Sword.
• Chen Changqing recalled his sword and declared that none of the remaining Demon Race experts would escape.
• The Demon Race forces fled, but Chen Changqing trapped them within his Invincible Sword Domain and attacked with the Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation.
• Chen Changqing killed a Golden Winged Peng elder, an Ancient Dragon Clan elder, and a Heaven Swallowing Python Clan elder as he massacred the fleeing forces.
• Liu Ruyan watched from a distance, realizing she had no chance to join the battle as Chen Changqing cut through the Demon Race mighty figures.

After slaughtering the Demon Race attackers, Chen Changqing took Liu Ruyan back toward Mount Shu, stopping at Demon-Suppressing City to rest. At an inn, he overheard monks from the Great Thunder Sound Temple plotting to take over the weakened Heavenly Sound Temple, which reminded him of Rujie.

• Chen Changqing collected the fallen Demon Race experts’ Storage Treasures and left the ancient road with Liu Ruyan for Mount Shu.
• The Heavenly Demon City Lord watched the battle and remarked on Chen Changqing’s ruthlessness and calm.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan used the teleportation array at Blackstone City to reach Demon-Suppressing City.
• At Listening Wind Tower, Liu Ruyan listened to news about the Great Chu Dynasty targeting the Ancient Dragon Clan while Chen Changqing counted his gains.
• Chen Changqing overheard Great Thunder Sound Temple monks reveal their plan to defeat the Heavenly Sound Temple and claim its Northern Territory followers.
• Hearing about the Heavenly Sound Temple reminded Chen Changqing of Rujie.

Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan traveled to the Heavenly Sound Temple after hearing that his friend Rujie was in trouble. They arrived as Great Thunder Sound Temple challenged Rujie to a Dharma debate, demanding the temple's thirty-six branch temples if he lost.

• Chen Changqing overheard monks discussing Rujie's predicament and decided to go to the Heavenly Sound Temple with Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan paid for a teleportation to Brahma Mountain City and headed toward the temple.
• Chen Changqing told Liu Ruyan that he had met Rujie while eliminating devils and that Rujie still owed him drinks.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan reached the Heavenly Sound Temple and saw Great Thunder Sound Temple confronting its disciples.
• Wuchen challenged Rujie to a Dharma debate, wagering that the Heavenly Sound Temple would surrender its thirty-six branch temples if Rujie lost.
• Rujie accepted Wuchen's challenge.

Rujie defended the Heavenly Sound Temple in a scripture debate with Wuchen, then faced him in an uneven contest of techniques using the Demon-Suppressing Bowl. Chen Changqing arrived and watched as Rujie, battered but not beaten, prepared a counterattack.

• Wuchen challenged the Heavenly Sound Temple’s claim to incense offerings and its use of violence, but Rujie answered both accusations and passed the scripture debate.
• Wuchen began the second round with the Demon-Suppressing Bowl, a Quasi-Immortal Artifact, and rejected an elder’s objection that the contest was unfair.
• Chen Changqing arrived with Liu Ruyan, teased Wuchen about the bowl, and told Rujie he would let the fight continue unless Rujie was about to die.
• Rujie and Wuchen fought on the protected Dharma platform, where Wuchen’s superior cultivation and the bowl’s power drove Rujie to the edge and wounded his arms.
• As Wuchen’s chants suppressed Rujie’s soul, Rujie joked that the bowl would be handy for begging alms and spat blood onto his prayer beads.

Rujie endured Wuchen’s assault with the Demon-Suppressing Bowl until he revealed the Tiger-Taming Arhat Inheritance. He broke free of the golden rings and began fighting back against Wuchen.

• Wuchen used the Demon-Suppressing Bowl to bind and suppress Rujie while the Great Thunder Sound Temple mocked him.
• Chen Changqing told Liu Ruyan that Rujie was still holding something back, and Rujie heard him watching from below the platform.
• Rujie broke through a barrier within himself, revealing a glowing Tiger-Taming Arhat tattoo on his back.
• Rujie invoked the Tiger-Taming Arhat, shattered the six golden rings, and forced Wuchen back with the backlash.
• Wuchen unleashed Thunder Sound Demon Suppression, but Rujie’s giant tiger phantom smashed apart the golden lightning.

Rujie nearly defeated Wuchen in the Dharma debate, but Elder Xuan Ku intervened and accused him of using an evil method. Chen Changqing challenged Xuan Ku and forced him back with a sword strike; Xuan Ku then prepared to fight, despite learning Chen Changqing had slain Blackscale True Lord.

• Rujie battered Wuchen's Demon-Suppressing Bowl until Xuan Ku broke the platform barrier and stopped the fight.
• Xuan Ku claimed Rujie had used an evil method and ordered him taken back to Great Thunder Sound Temple for questioning.
• Chen Changqing stepped onto the platform, refused Xuan Ku's demand to leave, and declared he would take a life.
• Xuan Ku attacked Chen Changqing with a Buddha-light palm, but Chen Changqing's sword strike pierced it and forced Xuan Ku back half a step.
• Xuan Ku revealed that Chen Changqing had reportedly slain Blackscale True Lord, then took out golden prayer beads and prepared to fight him.

Chen Changqing defeated Xuan Ku and destroyed his Thunder Sound Beads after the Great Thunder Sound Temple challenged him at the Heavenly Sound Temple. Xuan Ku agreed to withdraw, but Rujie questioned him about why the temple had come, and he began to explain the Buddhist Sect’s rules for disputes over incense offerings.

• Xuan Ku used the eighteen Thunder Sound Beads to attack Chen Changqing, who broke through his lightning attacks and wounded him with the Three Extremes Origin Seal.
• Xuan Ku summoned the Thunderclap Dharma Form, but Chen Changqing released three Late Tribulation Transcendence Avatars that froze and battered it.
• Chen Changqing destroyed the Thunder Sound Beads with the Seventh Sword, causing Xuan Ku’s Faxiang to collapse.
• Xuan Ku conceded defeat and said the Great Thunder Sound Temple would withdraw, while Chen Changqing told Rujie to question him.
• Rujie asked whether Xuan Ku had come for the incense offerings of the thirty-six branch temples, and Xuan Ku replied that Buddhist disputes over incense offerings were governed by rules.

Chen Changqing exposed the Great Thunder Sound Temple’s plan to seize the Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone and drove its monks from the Heavenly Sound Temple. He then opened the sealed Arhat Ancient Cave with his Heaven-Stepping Ring and descended inside with Liu Ruyan, Rujie, and Huiming.

• Wuchen revealed that the Great Thunder Sound Temple had used the Dharma debate as a pretext to obtain the Tiger-Taming Arhat Inheritance and enter the Arhat Ancient Cave for the Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone.
• Chen Changqing defeated Wuchen, took the Demon-Suppressing Bowl, and forced the Great Thunder Sound Temple’s monks to leave.
• Chen Changqing asked to see the Arhat Ancient Cave, and Huiming explained that the old abbot had permitted an honored guest bearing the power of the lightning tribulation to visit the mountain behind the temple.
• Rujie and Huiming failed to open the stone gate with the jade plaque and Tiger-Taming Arhat blood, but Chen Changqing’s Heaven-Stepping Ring activated it.
• Chen Changqing, Liu Ruyan, Rujie, and Huiming descended the staircase as strange Buddhist chants echoed around them.

Rujie retrieved the Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone from the underground cavern beneath the Heavenly Sound Temple, freeing Kongwu, a long-imprisoned monk who had fallen to the devil's path. Kongwu emerged from the shattered Buddha statue as Chen Changqing and the others faced the threat.

• Chen Changqing, Liu Ruyan, Huiming, and Rujie descended into an underground cavern and found the Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone floating in the hands of a cracked Buddha statue.
• Chen Changqing urged Rujie to claim the ancestral treasure, and Rujie bowed to the founding patriarch before taking the Buddha Bone.
• The statue cracked apart as Devil Qi erupted, and its immense pressure sent Huiming flying until Liu Ruyan caught him with her Imperial Dragon Qi.
• Kongwu emerged from the statue's shattered base and announced that he was still alive.
• Huiming recognized Kongwu as the founding patriarch's eldest disciple, who had slaughtered a million people and been sealed beneath the back mountain thirty thousand years earlier.

Kongwu fought Chen Changqing in the underground cavern, but Chen Changqing used three avatars to overwhelm him and badly injure him. Kongwu then burned his devil soul to raise his cultivation realm and summoned a giant White-Bone Demon Buddha.

• Kongwu demanded Rujie's Buddha Bone and body, but Chen Changqing stepped in and blocked his attack.
• Chen Changqing identified himself as being from Mount Shu and clashed with Kongwu, enduring thirty-six saber strikes.
• Chen Changqing summoned three avatars, which attacked Kongwu with the Immortal-Burying Melody, spear techniques, and the Haotian Hammer.
• The avatars cracked Kongwu's saber, broke his arm, and drove him to one knee.
• Kongwu crushed his skull prayer beads and transformed into a White-Bone Demon Buddha after burning his devil soul to raise his cultivation realm.

Chen Changqing and his four Avatars overwhelmed Kongwu and destroyed the White-Bone Demon Buddha while Rujie received the Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone inheritance. Chen Changqing pinned Kongwu’s fleeing devil soul and heard his offer of submission and secrets.

• Kongwu unleashed the White-Bone Demon Buddha’s full power, but Chen Changqing summoned a fourth Avatar and led the Avatars in attacking him.
• Chen Changqing’s Avatars shattered the Demon Buddha’s weapons and steadily weakened Kongwu as he burned his devil soul to keep fighting.
• The Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone began transmitting its inheritance to Rujie, and Kongwu turned to attack him while Liu Ruyan and Chen Changqing defended him.
• Chen Changqing used the Heavenly Thunder Sword and Immortal Slaughter to split the White-Bone Demon Buddha and burn Kongwu’s body with lightning and fire.
• Chen Changqing pinned Kongwu’s escaping devil soul with the Immortal-Burying Zither, and Kongwu offered to serve him and reveal ancient secrets.

Chen Changqing defeated Kongwu and helped free Master Huixin from the ancient cave, while the Heavenly Sound Buddha Bone named Rujie the next abbot. Rujie accepted the position before the assembled monks and began addressing them.

• Chen Changqing destroyed Kongwu and dispersed the Devil Qi trapped in Arhat Ancient Cave.
• The Buddha Bone named Rujie the next abbot, and a withered hand emerged from beneath the shattered Buddha statue.
• Master Huixin crawled out of the crack and explained that he had secretly guarded the weakening seal until Kongwu trapped him with Demon Buddha Nails.
• Chen Changqing shattered Huixin's seven nails, and the Buddha Bone drew the remaining Devil Qi from him.
• Huiming announced that Rujie was the new abbot, and the gathered monks knelt to greet him.
• Rujie began speaking to the monks, saying that the Great Thunder Sound Temple's arrival had taught him something.

Rujie accepted the responsibility of leading Heavenly Sound Temple after Chen Changqing helped it repel Great Thunder Sound Temple. Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan departed for the Ten Great Sects Grand Competition, while Rujie returned to his new abbot duties.

• Rujie declared that anyone seeking Heavenly Sound Temple's treasures would have to face him, and the disciples greeted him as their abbot.
• After Great Thunder Sound Temple's retreat, the Northern Territory's branch temples sought forgiveness, and Chen Changqing kept the Demon-Suppressing Bowl.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan prepared to leave, and Huixin thanked Chen Changqing and promised Heavenly Sound Temple's support for Mount Shu.
• Chen Changqing told Rujie he was heading to the Ten Great Sects Grand Competition, and Rujie said Heavenly Sound Temple was not yet qualified to participate.
• Rujie urged Chen Changqing to show no mercy to Great Thunder Sound Temple at the competition, then asked Huiming if he could return to secular life before resuming his duties.

Chen Changqing sensed another Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor Inheritance Token and followed its signal to Nine Provinces Auction City with Liu Ruyan. At the auction house entrance, he presented a Supreme Token, clashed with Yinyue Holy Dynasty prince Yue Xuan, and revealed he was Chen Changqing of Mount Shu.

• Chen Changqing sensed an Inheritance Token to the southwest and persuaded Liu Ruyan to detour to Nine Provinces Auction City.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan arrived at the Nine Provinces Auction House, where entry to the grand auction required an invitation.
• Chen Changqing presented a Supreme Token, prompting the guards to recognize him as an honored guest.
• Yue Xuan mocked Liu Ruyan and challenged Chen Changqing, who taunted him and threatened the Tribulation Transcendence elder accompanying him.
• Manager Zhou confirmed the token was genuine, and Chen Changqing identified himself as Mount Shu's Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing used his Supreme Token and reputation as Mount Shu’s First Holy Son to make the Nine Provinces Auction House punish Yue Xuan for insulting him. As the auction began, Chen Changqing sensed that the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor Inheritance Token was reacting to something inside the auction house.

• Chen Changqing revealed his Supreme Token and asked Steward Zhou whether the auction house’s rules allowed guests to insult him.
• Steward Zhou canceled Yue Xuan’s Heaven-class private box and moved him to a second-class seat, while the auction house’s array and guards deterred Yue Xuan’s Tribulation Transcendence elder from attacking.
• Yue Xuan threatened Chen Changqing outside the city, and Chen Changqing challenged him to kneel and beg on the spot; Yue Xuan entered the auction house without responding.
• Steward Zhou escorted Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan to the Heaven No. 1 private box, where Chen Changqing sent away the attendants.
• Chen Changqing and Liu Ruyan discussed the Yinyue Holy Dynasty and the Supreme Token as the auction hall filled.
• Chen Changqing sensed that his Inheritance Token had reacted to something beyond the city, but the auction house’s formation now made the sensation faint and intermittent.

Chen Changqing bought several auction lots, then deliberately drove up the price of a Bloodfiend Yin Raksha Pearl that Yue Xuan wanted. Yue Xuan won the pearl for two million Top-Grade Spirit Stones after Chen Changqing stopped bidding, leaving him humiliated.

• Qian Tong opened the Nine Provinces Auction House auction, and Chen Changqing bought Ten-Thousand-Year Tribulation Lightning Wood for three hundred thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changqing bought top-grade ores intended to upgrade the Evergreen Peak disciples' equipment.
• Yue Xuan bid six hundred thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the Bloodfiend Yin Raksha Pearl, hoping it would help him reach Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Changqing deliberately raised the bidding until Yue Xuan offered two million Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changqing stopped bidding and congratulated Yue Xuan, revealing that he had only meant to drive up the price.

Chen Changqing recognized the bronze treasure box as connected to his Inheritance Token and Heaven-Stepping Ring, and decided he had to obtain it. As the bidding climbed past eight million Top-Grade Spirit Stones, he still had not made a bid.

• Chen Changqing swindled Yue Xuan into paying two million Top-Grade Spirit Stones for a Bloodfiend Yin Raksha Pearl and mocked his demonic-path opponent with Liu Ruyan.
• Qian Tong revealed the auction’s final lot, an ancient bronze treasure box recovered from a High Antiquity ruin that even a Heavenly Monarch could not open.
• Chen Changqing sensed a powerful response from his Inheritance Token and Heaven-Stepping Ring and told Liu Ruyan he had to obtain the box.
• Bidders drove the treasure box’s price above eight million Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and Yue Xuan joined in despite his losses to Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing watched the bidding without making an offer while the top-tier private rooms continued competing.

Chen Changqing battled the Great Chu Dynasty over the Bronze Treasure Box, driving the price to fifty million Top-Grade Spirit Stones. Heaven No. 2 could not match his bid, leaving Chen Changqing poised to win the auction.

• Chen Changqing waited until Heaven Rank No. 3 bid ten million Top-Grade Spirit Stones, then doubled the price to twenty million.
• Heaven No. 2 identified Chen Changqing as the Mount Shu First Holy Son and bid twenty-five million; Liu Ruyan recognized the bidder as someone from the Great Chu Dynasty.
• Chen Changqing raised the bid to thirty million, and then forty million, while Heaven No. 2's Chu Xiong countered with forty-five million.
• Chen Changqing bid fifty million, invoking the value of the Great Chu Dynasty's face after its crown prince's death.
• Chu Xiong fell silent, unable to afford another bid, as Qian Tong announced Chen Changqing's fifty-million offer.

Chen Changqing won a sealed bronze treasure box for fifty million Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and his Inheritance Token opened it to reveal another matching token. After leaving the auction house with four tokens in hand, he sensed hostile observers waiting outside.

• Chen Changqing paid fifty million Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the bronze treasure box, and Steward Zhou delivered it to his private room.
• Liu Ruyan tested the box with Imperial Dragon Qi, but it had no effect; Chen Changqing shattered the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice and touched the box.
• Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token emerged and opened the box, revealing a second matching token inside.
• Chen Changqing collected the new token, bringing his total number of Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor’s Inheritance Tokens to four, then left the auction house with Liu Ruyan.
• Chen Changqing sensed a dozen hostile presences watching him outside, but he walked down the steps without concern.

Chen Changqing sent Liu Ruyan back to Mount Shu so he could face the hunters surrounding him without putting her at risk. He waited calmly in a restaurant as his enemies watched, leaving them frustrated and unsure when he would act.

• Chen Changqing told Liu Ruyan to return to Mount Shu and explained that her presence would give his enemies a way to restrain him.
• Liu Ruyan agreed to leave, warning Chen Changqing that she would seek help from the ancestor if he did not return within three days.
• The hidden cultivators let Liu Ruyan leave and concentrated their attention on Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing entered a restaurant, ate, drank, and listened to a storyteller while powerful cultivators watched him from the shadows.
• Yue Xuan grew angry that Chen Changqing stayed inside the restaurant, but a Tribulation Transcendence elder ordered their forces to keep watching and wait.