Recaps

After Su Linger’s soul lamp went out, Han Cangshan discovered that she had marked the man responsible for her death with a tracking technique. He identified the man as the killer of Bai Yutang and Pei Shan, then sent Xu Jiuyao to hunt him down.

• Li Qiying reported to Han Cangshan that Su Linger’s soul lamp had gone out.
• Han Cangshan used a Blood Guide and discovered Su Linger had marked her killer with the Snake Spirit Blood Breath Technique.
• Han Cangshan identified the marked man as the real killer of Bai Yutang and Pei Shan seventy years earlier.
• Han Cangshan summoned Xu Jiuyao and ordered him to lead the Eight Great Vajras to kill the man.
• Han Cangshan gave Xu Jiuyao the Blood Guide to track the killer.

Chen Changming prepared an ambush in the Heaven-Reaching Sea as Xu Jiuyao and the Immortal Alliance’s Eight Great Vajras pursued him. The Spirit-Devouring Insect unleashed a Spirit Energy Storm against them, and Chen Changming escaped the blast’s edge as the explosion engulfed the pursuers.

• Han Cangshan sent Xu Jiuyao and the Eight Great Vajras to hunt down Chen Changming, confident the Law Enforcement Hall could defeat him.
• Chen Changming traveled over the Heaven-Reaching Sea, realized the Immortal Alliance was tracking him, and prepared to use the Spirit-Devouring Insect’s Spirit Energy Storm.
• Xu Jiuyao pursued Chen Changming in a fast Bronze War Chariot with the Eight Great Vajras and discovered that his target was only at the third layer of the Golden Core Realm.
• As the chariot approached, Xu Jiuyao and the Eight Great Vajras sensed a sudden surge in spirit energy but continued forward.
• The Spirit-Devouring Insect triggered a massive explosion that caught the Law Enforcement Hall off guard, while Chen Changming retreated from the blast.

Chen Changming and his three Beasts destroyed the Immortal Alliance's Law Enforcement Hall and took the Blood Guide from Xu Jiuyao. With the first wave defeated, Chen Changming feared the next would include Nascent Soul experts and depended on the Pure Yang Water Mansion's grand formation to protect him.

• The Spirit-Devouring Insect's Spirit Energy Storm badly damaged the Bronze War Chariot and injured Xu Jiuyao and the Eight Great Vajras.
• Xu Jiuyao healed himself and the Eight Great Vajras with pills, then shielded them beneath his Golden Bell as Chen Changming's Demon Spirit Vine attacked.
• The Demon Spirit Vine shattered the Golden Bell and trapped the chariot while the Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect killed the Eight Great Vajras and struck Xu Jiuyao.
• Xu Jiuyao abandoned his body and fled as a Primordial Spirit, but sword light destroyed him; the Demon Spirit Vine also killed the other Primordial Spirits.
• Chen Changming took the Blood Guide from Xu Jiuyao and realized that the next wave might include Nascent Soul experts, leaving him reliant on the Pure Yang Water Mansion's grand formation.

After Chen Changming escaped, the Immortal Alliance dispatched the Black Dragon Secret Guard to hunt him down. The force followed the Blood Guide to Wilderness Island and plunged into a river where Chen Changming was hiding.

• Chen Changming gathered the corpses and his items, then vanished in a flash of purple light.
• Li Qiying discovered that Xu Jiuyao and the Eight Great Vajras had died and reported it to Han Cangshan.
• Han Cangshan informed the Alliance Leader, who sent the Black Dragon Secret Guard under Senior Long to pursue Chen Changming.
• Senior Long and Han Cangshan used the Blood Guide to conclude that no Nascent Soul Cultivator was protecting Chen Changming.
• The Black Dragon Secret Guard traced Chen Changming to Wilderness Island and drove its Bronze War Chariot into the river where the Blood Guide pointed.

Chen Changming waited inside the Pure Yang Water Mansion as Bi Cang worked to erase the Snake Spirit, while the Immortal Alliance forced its way toward him. After nine days, the Alliance broke through the Heavenly Thunder Array and reached the second stone door.

• A beam of light rose from the river and killed the Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had gone to investigate it.
• Chen Changming practiced the Breath Concealment Technique while Bi Cang and the Spirit-Devouring Insect worked to erase the Snake Spirit.
• Han Cangshan and Senior Long found the Pure Yang Water Mansion and discovered that Chen Changming had concealed the writing about its trials.
• Senior Long led the Immortal Alliance experts in attacking the Heavenly Thunder Array, refusing Han Cangshan's suggestion to bring in an array master.
• After nine days, the experts broke through the first trial and opened the second stone door, where Senior Long found a metal plate blocking the way.

Chen Changming escaped the Pure Yang Water Mansion after Bi Cang sealed the Snake Spirit Blood Breath Technique, but Situ Yun was waiting at the teleportation array’s destination. Chen Changming used his newly strengthened Breath Concealment Technique to imitate Nascent Soul cultivation and face his Second Senior Brother.

• The Immortal Alliance broke through the second barrier and attacked the Heavenly Thunder Array at the third while Chen Changming practiced Breath Concealment Technique and Bi Cang weakened the Snake Spirit.
• After one hundred thousand uses, Breath Concealment Technique gained the ability to imitate a realm one level higher, and Bi Cang sealed the Snake Spirit Blood Breath Technique.
• Chen Changming escaped through the teleportation array as the Immortal Alliance neared him, then arrived in a weed-choked forest.
• Situ Yun appeared and revealed he had waited for Chen Changming outside Master's cave abode, prompting Chen Changming to recognize him as the man who had previously set an ambush.
• Chen Changming raised his aura to the second level of the Nascent Soul Realm, frightening Situ Yun, who realized his Little Junior Brother was stronger than he was.

Chen Changming concealed his true strength by posing as a second-layer Nascent Soul cultivator, and Situ Yun proposed an alliance against their senior brother, Extreme Yang Ancestor. Chen Changming arranged for Situ Yun to draw away the Immortal Alliance and accepted a Heavenly Mystery Token before heading toward Chu Kingdom.

• Situ Yun was shocked by Chen Changming's apparent Nascent Soul cultivation and explained that he had sought him out to recruit him against their senior brother.
• Situ Yun said he suspected Extreme Yang Ancestor had taken the second half of True Person Pure Yang's Pure Yang Sword Art from Line of Sky, and recounted how the ancestor had attacked him.
• Chen Changming agreed to an alliance but asked Situ Yun to handle the Immortal Alliance pursuit, and Situ Yun offered to draw them away.
• Situ Yun gave Chen Changming a Heavenly Mystery Token for contacting him through the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.
• After Situ Yun left, Chen Changming flew toward Chu Kingdom.

Chen Changming returned to the Chu Kingdom and learned that his Senior Sister Luo Lan had become a Golden Core cultivator. He traveled with two rogue cultivators to Cuixia Mountain to attend her Golden Core Ceremony and was close to seeing her again after more than seventy years apart.

• Chen Changming entered Cangnan City, intending to lie low in the Chu Kingdom before traveling to Baixiang City for the Golden Turtle Grand Assembly.
• At a tavern, Chen Changming learned that True Person Lingxiao, a former disciple of the Lingxiao Sect who cultivated on Cuixia Mountain, had recently achieved Golden Core.
• Chen Changming realized True Person Lingxiao was his Senior Sister Luo Lan and learned that her Golden Core Ceremony would be held in three days.
• Chen Changming befriended Zheng Pinghuan and Li Yunyang, two rogue cultivators, and agreed to travel with them to the ceremony.
• After two days, Chen Changming and his companions reached the crowded Cuixia Town at the foot of Cuixia Mountain.

Chen Changming presented a magic treasure to True Person Lingxiao and earned a Heaven-Rank invitation to her Golden Core Ceremony. As he took his seat among Cuixia Mountain’s honored guests, he wondered why his senior sister was not cultivating in Yue Kingdom.

• Chen Changming, Li Yunyang, and Zheng Pinghuan climbed Cuixia Mountain to present gifts and obtain invitations to True Person Lingxiao’s Golden Core Ceremony.
• Li Yunyang offered a three-hundred-year-old Blood Dew Spirit Herb, and Zheng Pinghuan gave fifty thousand Spirit Stones; both received invitations.
• Chen Changming presented a magic treasure, astonishing the Cuixia Mountain disciples and earning a Heaven-Rank invitation.
• True Person Lingxiao accepted Chen Changming’s sword, promised Cuixia Mountain would protect him, and asked that he visit her after the ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Chen Changming sat in the Heaven-Rank section while Li Yunyang and Zheng Pinghuan took lower-ranked seats, and he wondered why his senior sister was not cultivating in Yue Kingdom.

True Person Lingxiao celebrated her Golden Core breakthrough at Cuixia Mountain, where Chen Changming was overcome by memories of their close bond. The ceremony was interrupted by an unknown Golden Core cultivator arriving in a Blood Escape Technique, putting the gathered powers on alert.

• True Person Lingxiao arrived at the ceremony and welcomed the gathered cultivators.
• Chen Changming saw how aged Luo Lan had become and remembered how she had cared for and saved him.
• True Person Golden Sword and Ice Fairy arrived to congratulate True Person Lingxiao, and the three Golden Core cultivators took their seats.
• True Person Lingxiao invited the guests to drink, and Chen Changming raised his cup while mourning his Senior Sister.
• A blood-colored streak approached Cuixia Mountain using the Blood Escape Technique, and True Person Lingxiao, True Person Golden Sword, and Ice Fairy reacted warily.

Leng Wuya interrupted True Person Lingxiao’s Golden Core Ceremony and challenged her to a duel at Origin Crystal Mountain in three days. Chen Changming recognized him as a Blood Demon Sect cultivator and secretly left the banquet, intending to settle the grudge that day.

• Leng Wuya arrived at True Person Lingxiao’s ceremony, and Ice Fairy and True Person Golden Sword prepared to confront him.
• A cultivator told Chen Changming that Leng Wuya was a first-layer Golden Core elder of the Yue Kingdom’s Blood Demon Sect, whose sect also had True Person Blood Demon at the second layer.
• Leng Wuya called True Person Lingxiao by her real name, Luo Lan, and challenged her to a fight; she accepted.
• Leng Wuya and True Person Lingxiao exchanged blows before he escaped with the Blood Escape Technique and named Origin Crystal Mountain as their duel site in three days.
• Chen Changming decided to pursue Leng Wuya immediately, left the banquet, and flew away on his sword.

Leng Wuya traveled toward Origin Crystal Mountain, where he planned to fight Luo Lan, but Chen Changming intercepted him and revealed that he had killed Leng Wuya’s grandson, Leng Shankui. Leng Wuya recognized Chen Changming and attacked him with the Blood Shadow Banner.

• Leng Wuya left Cuixia Mountain and headed toward Origin Crystal Mountain, confident that his Blood Shadow Banner would help him defeat Luo Lan.
• Chen Changming caught up with Leng Wuya, who mistook him for True Person Blood Demon before Chen explained that he had learned Blood Escape Technique from a Blood Demon Sect disciple.
• Chen Changming asked about Leng Shankui, and Leng Wuya admitted that the dead cultivator had been his grandson.
• Chen Changming revealed that he had killed Leng Shankui nearly two hundred years earlier and confronted Leng Wuya for targeting his senior sister.
• Leng Wuya recognized Chen Changming, grew wary of his survival, and attacked with the Blood Shadow Banner.

Chen Changming killed Leng Wuya during Luo Lan’s Golden Core Ceremony, then revealed himself to his long-lost Senior Sister in private. Their reunion left Luo Lan asking whether Chen Changming wanted to know why she had never reached Great Qin.

• Chen Changming broke through Leng Wuya’s Blood Shadow Banner, killed him, destroyed his Primordial Spirit, and took his corpse and banner.
• Chen Changming returned to Luo Lan’s Golden Core Ceremony and spent the rest of the celebration drinking with a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• After the ceremony, a Cuixia Mountain disciple escorted Chen Changming to Luo Lan’s bamboo pavilion.
• Chen Changming greeted Luo Lan as her Little Junior Brother, and she recognized him, sealed the pavilion, and wept with joy.
• Chen Changming asked Luo Lan why she had not made it to Great Qin and whether something had happened at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.

Chen Changming learned that the Immortal Alliance had forbidden anyone from Wilderness Island to leave and discovered that Leng Wuya had badly injured Luo Lan decades earlier. He revealed that he had killed Leng Wuya and promised to help her kill True Person Blood Demon before learning that an unexplored secret realm lay in the Wilderness of Yan Kingdom.

• Luo Lan told Chen Changming that the Immortal Alliance had barred Wilderness Island’s residents from leaving, and Chen Changming explained the alliance’s power.
• Luo Lan revealed that Leng Wuya had ambushed her decades earlier, damaging her foundations and nearly preventing her from reaching the Golden Core realm.
• Chen Changming told Luo Lan that he had killed Leng Wuya and revealed that his Body Cultivation had reached the third layer of the Golden Core realm.
• Chen Changming promised to help Luo Lan kill True Person Blood Demon at the battle at Origin Crystal Mountain, and Luo Lan explained that a Gold Spirit Immortal Mushroom had helped her break through to Golden Core.
• Luo Lan told Chen Changming that True Person Purple Sun had led cultivators from three kingdoms into an unknown secret realm but failed to reach its depths.
• Luo Lan said the secret realm was in the Wilderness of Yan Kingdom, and Chen Changming immediately thought of the Medicine Sect.

Chen Changming agreed to join the second exploration of the Nameless Secret Realm under a false identity, then traveled to Yue to carry out a plan involving True Person Blood Demon. Disguised as a Blood-Robed Elder with a trace of Nascent Soul aura, he arrived at the Blood Demon Sect and announced that he came from Great Jin.

• Luo Lan told Chen Changming that five cultivators had obtained the Gold Spirit Immortal Mushroom in the Nameless Secret Realm, and three had reached the Golden Core Realm.
• Luo Lan explained that True Person Purple Sun had discovered the Nameless Secret Realm and invited top cultivators from Yan, Chu, and Zhao to explore it again.
• Chen Changming agreed to join the expedition but asked Luo Lan to arrange a false identity so he could hide from his enemies.
• Chen Changming decided to pose as a member of the Blood Demon Sect in Great Jin so he could take True Person Blood Demon away without drawing suspicion.
• Chen Changming traveled to Yue and appeared above the Blood Demon Sect's Floating Island, demanding to see True Person Blood Demon and telling the disciples he came from Great Jin.

Chen Changming posed as a Nascent Soul cultivator from Great Jin and persuaded True Person Blood Demon to leave Wilderness Island with him. After drawing True Person Blood Demon away from the sect, Chen Changming stopped on a remote mountaintop and prepared to kill him.

• A Blood Demon Sect disciple told the sect master that a powerful visitor from Great Jin had ordered True Person Blood Demon to meet him.
• The sect master reported the news to True Person Blood Demon, who rushed out to greet the supposed Nascent Soul senior.
• Chen Changming claimed he had come from the Great Jin Blood Demon Sect and offered to take True Person Blood Demon back to the main sect.
• True Person Blood Demon worried that the Great Qin Immortal Alliance would forbid him from leaving, but Chen Changming dismissed its authority and convinced him to go.
• Chen Changming flew away, and True Person Blood Demon burned his blood essence to catch up before Chen Changming stopped at a mountaintop and thought, “This place is ideal for murder...”

Chen Changming killed True Person Blood Demon and staged his departure for Great Jin, while he and Luo Lan waited for the Blood Demon Sect’s promised battle at Origin Crystal Mountain to collapse. After two days without Leng Wuya, a messenger reported that a Nascent Soul senior had taken True Person Blood Demon away to cultivate in Great Jin.

• Chen Changming ambushed and killed True Person Blood Demon with a Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect, then stored his body in the Beast Taming Bracelet.
• Chen Changming changed his appearance and cultivation level before joining the Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered at Origin Crystal Mountain.
• True Person Golden Sword, Ice Fairy, and Luo Lan arrived and waited for the Blood Demon Sect’s Golden Core cultivators, who did not appear.
• After two more days, Bai Kui reported that a Nascent Soul senior from Great Jin had taken True Person Blood Demon to cultivate there.
• True Person Golden Sword reacted with surprise and jealousy, cursing True Person Blood Demon’s good fortune.

After Leng Wuya and True Person Blood Demon were taken to Great Jin, Chu Kingdom’s Golden Core cultivators celebrated Yue Kingdom’s loss of its Golden Core defenders. Chen Changming disguised himself as Geng Changshan and traveled with Chu Kingdom’s expedition to Martial Spirit City, where they awaited True Person Purple Sun.

• Luo Lan, True Person Golden Sword, and Ice Fairy realized that Leng Wuya had likely been taken to Great Jin, leaving Yue Kingdom without Golden Core cultivators.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators on Origin Crystal Mountain learned that the Blood Demon Sect had no Golden Core cultivators left, and Chu Kingdom’s cultivators celebrated while Yue Kingdom’s cultivators withdrew.
• Three days later, Chen Changming boarded a Spirit Boat with Chu Kingdom’s cultivators, disguised as Geng Changshan after True Person Lingxiao had incapacitated and sealed away the real Geng Changshan.
• After three days of travel, the Spirit Boat reached overgrown Martial Spirit City, where Chen Changming recognized the pit left by the Demon Spirit Tree.
• The Chu Kingdom cultivators waited above Martial Spirit City, and True Person Purple Sun arrived on another Spirit Boat.

Chen Changming traveled with cultivators from Chu, Yan, and Zhao toward the Nameless Secret Realm, while considering whether True Person Purple Sun had discovered it through the Medicine Sect ruins. The group reached the secret realm’s misty entrance, where True Person Purple Sun asked True Person Su Xia to enter first.

• Chen Changming identified True Person Purple Sun, Black Stone Elder, and Withered Bamboo Master among Yan’s cultivators, and True Person Su Xia, True Person Liu Yu, and Ye Xingchen among Zhao’s.
• True Person Purple Sun led the three kingdoms’ Spirit Boats toward the Wilderness, while Luo Lan thought about her junior brother Chen Changming’s strength and hoped he would find an opportunity.
• Chen Changming saw True Person Purple Sun briefly pause his Spirit Boat over the Medicine Sect ruins and wondered whether he had found an opportunity there.
• After flying through the Wilderness’s mist for hours, True Person Purple Sun used an ancient Compass to guide the group toward the Nameless Secret Realm.
• At the secret realm’s entrance, True Person Purple Sun told True Person Su Xia to go in first.

Chen Changming entered the Nameless Secret Realm with the other cultivators and learned from Bi Cang that the Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly could make a Marrow Cleansing Pill that might improve his spirit root. He decided he had to obtain the pill, though True Person Purple Sun was also pursuing the butterfly.

• True Person Su Xia, True Person Golden Sword, and True Person Purple Sun led their Spirit Boats into the Nameless Secret Realm, where Chen Changming sensed abundant spiritual energy.
• True Person Purple Sun told the gathered cultivators he wanted to find a Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly to make a healing pill for his attempt to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The cultivators followed True Person Purple Sun toward the mountains, hoping to find opportunities like the Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms discovered on their previous expedition.
• Chen Changming suspected True Person Purple Sun had invented the butterfly's supposed healing use to mislead the other cultivators and claim it for himself.
• Bi Cang explained that a nine-turn butterfly could make a Marrow Cleansing Pill that improved spirit-root aptitude, and Chen Changming resolved to obtain it.

Chen Changming learned that the Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly could provide ingredients for Marrow Cleansing Pills that might restore his Senior Sister’s youth, and he resolved to obtain the refining formula from True Person Purple Sun. The group passed three trials in the Nameless Secret Realm, and True Person Purple Sun announced that the fourth trial’s mountain range held Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms.

• Bi Cang explained the Marrow Cleansing Pill’s effects and told Chen Changming that its formula was needed to make use of the Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly’s cocoons.
• True Person Purple Sun led the three Spirit Boats through the Ice Spike Pass and the tornado-filled second trial without losses.
• The group entered Black Iron Bee territory, where Chen Changming used his Geng-Gold Sword to kill bees and protect the cultivators aboard the Chu Kingdom’s Spirit Boat.
• After the Spirit Boats escaped the swarm, Zhao Zichen thanked Chen Changming for saving him.
• True Person Purple Sun announced that Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms grew in the Beast-filled mountain range ahead, exciting the Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Chen Changming and Luo Lan searched the Nameless Secret Realm for Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms, survived its dangerous beasts, and passed the fourth trial. True Person Purple Sun then led the cultivators toward the fifth trial, which stood between them and the secret realm’s depths.

• Chen Changming entered the mountain forest and killed a giant blood-red python with his Origin-Returning Sword Qi while searching for Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms.
• Chen Changming found a Gold Spirit Immortal Mushroom as Luo Lan fought an early fifth-level Black Gold Ape; he killed the ape and invited her to travel with him.
• Chen Changming and Luo Lan continued together, found two Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms, and safely passed the fourth trial, though a Yan Kingdom Foundation Establishment cultivator died.
• True Person Purple Sun told the gathered cultivators that the fifth trial lay ahead and asked them to lend him their strength.
• True Person Liu Yu watched the dark-cloud-covered land ahead with a fervent light in her eyes.

The Three Kingdoms' cultivators entered Labyrinth Pass, where lightning and Earth Element Puppets repeatedly attacked them as True Person Purple Sun guided them with his compass. After heavy losses, they reached the final stretch of the maze, where a massive puppet army and six exceptionally powerful Earth Element Puppets blocked their way.

• True Person Purple Sun led the cultivators into Labyrinth Pass, and lightning struck as Earth Element Puppets began emerging from the ground.
• Chen Changming and True Person Liu Yu fought off puppets while the cultivators battled waves of attackers; True Person Purple Sun used talismans to turn the tide.
• The cultivators endured more puppet attacks, losing six Foundation Establishment cultivators and leaving one Golden Core cultivator injured before reaching their previous retreat point.
• True Person Purple Sun said the exit lay a thousand zhang ahead and warned the group that the final stretch was dangerous.
• Lightning and two or three hundred Earth Element Puppets attacked the group, including six puppets as powerful as peak second-layer Golden Core cultivators.

Chen Changming helped the Three Kingdoms cultivators survive a fierce assault by Earth Element Puppets, then followed them into a maze where True Person Purple Sun vanished. True Person Liu Yu chased after him, and Purple Sun reappeared to call the others onward.

• Chen Changming used Origin-Returning Sword Qi to rescue Luo Lan and destroy powerful Earth Element Puppets, impressing the Golden Core cultivators.
• The cultivators defeated the puppet swarm, but nearly half of the Foundation Establishment group died and most Golden Core cultivators were injured.
• True Person Purple Sun led the survivors into a maze, then disappeared after rounding a corner.
• True Person Liu Yu accused True Person Purple Sun of tricking them and went after him, while True Person Golden Sword urged the others to trust Purple Sun.
• True Person Purple Sun reappeared with the Compass and told everyone to follow him.

True Person Purple Sun revealed that True Person Liu Yu was a sixth-layer Golden Core cultivator from the Great Qin Immortal Alliance and led the others through the maze to the Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly. The group reached the platform, where Chen Changming approached one of its nine cocoons.

• True Person Purple Sun reappeared and explained that he had used a ploy to leave True Person Liu Yu behind in the maze.
• True Person Liu Yu tried to use her compass to find her way out, while True Person Purple Sun led the others through the maze’s exit.
• True Person Purple Sun and the cultivators from the Three Kingdoms crossed the river on the Heavenly Mystery Compass and reached the platform holding the Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly.
• True Person Purple Sun told the group that True Person Liu Yu belonged to the Great Qin Immortal Alliance and had hidden her sixth-layer Golden Core cultivation.
• Chen Changming walked toward one of the nine cocoons beneath the Nine-Turn Golden Flower Butterfly.