Recaps

Chen Changming agreed to bring his male Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect to Mingling Island to mate with Seven Star True Person’s female insect in exchange for a large reward. After the insects met, Seven Star True Person’s blood-red puppet led Chen Changming deeper into the cave, where a faint bloody smell began to reach him.

• Chang Jiangchen offered Chen Changming one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to bring his male insect to Mingling Island, and Chen agreed.
• Chen Changming and Chang Jiangchen traveled by Spirit Boat to Mingling Island, where Chang Jiangchen said Seven Star True Person was half a step into the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chang Jiangchen led Chen Changming through a formation into Seven Star True Person’s cave, where a blood-red paper puppet examined Chen’s insect.
• The puppet sent Chang Jiangchen outside and summoned an upper seventh-level female Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect to mate with Chen’s insect.
• The blood-red puppet invited Chen Changming deeper into the cave to talk, and Chen followed as a faint bloody smell drifted toward them.

Chen Changming confronted the Blood Demon Venerable, a first-level Nascent Soul cultivator hiding on Mingling Island, and overpowered the Golden Baleful Power tiger he summoned. The Blood Demon Venerable revealed that the Illusion Star Palace was likely hunting him and explained his Blood Demon Gold Art while proposing an alliance.

• Chen Changming followed a blood-red paper figure into a hall and found a red-haired man whose bloody aura concealed first-level Nascent Soul cultivation.
• The red-haired man introduced himself as the Blood Demon Venerable and attacked Chen Changming with a tiger formed from Golden Baleful Power.
• Chen Changming seized the tiger and pinned it in a crater, forcing the Blood Demon Venerable to fear that he belonged to the Illusion Star Palace.
• The Blood Demon Venerable proposed sharing future Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insects, and Chen Changming questioned him about his demonic technique.
• The Blood Demon Venerable explained that the Blood Demon Gold Art absorbed enemies' blood and life force to grant him strength comparable to a demon and nearly equal to a Body Cultivator.

Chen Changming fought the Blood Demon Venerable, who tried to escape using Gold Baleful Void Escape. Chen Changming blocked him with the Demon Spirit Vine and moved in to attack again.

• Chen Changming challenged the Blood Demon Venerable after admitting he wanted the benefits of killing him.
• The Blood Demon Venerable attacked with Golden Baleful Power knives and a giant fist, but Chen Changming shattered the knives with a punch.
• The Blood Demon Venerable turned into blood-red light and used Gold Baleful Void Escape to flee at tremendous speed.
• Chen Changming sent the Demon Spirit Vine after him, but the Blood Demon Venerable scattered into grains of Golden Baleful Intent to slip through its net.
• The Demon Spirit Vine sealed the cave entrance, forcing the Blood Demon Venerable to charge at Chen Changming as Chen turned his skin black and prepared to fight at full strength.

Chen Changming trapped the Blood Demon Venerable in a cage of Demon Spirit Vine and overwhelmed him, while the Blood Demon Venerable tried to bargain with the Sky-Touching Palace Fragment. With his head separated from his body and sealed, the Blood Demon Venerable offered to submit if Chen Changming swore he was not from the Illusion Star Palace.

• Chen Changming used his strength and the Demon Spirit Vine to trap the Blood Demon Venerable inside a black cage.
• The Blood Demon Venerable offered Chen Changming the Sky-Touching Palace Fragment in exchange for his life, but Chen Changming refused and attacked.
• The Blood Demon Venerable failed to destroy the fragment as Chen Changming pursued him and wore down his Gold Baleful Void Escape.
• Chen Changming secretly commanded the Demon Spirit Vine to tear off the Blood Demon Venerable's head and seal both it and his body.
• The Blood Demon Venerable offered to submit if Chen Changming swore to Heaven that he was not from the Illusion Star Palace.

Chen Changming swore he had no ties to Illusion Star Palace, prompting Blood Demon Venerable to explain the Sky-Touching Palace Fragment and its rumored Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure. After learning more about the palace and the Demon Spirit Vine, Chen Changming absorbed life essence from Blood Demon Venerable's body to heal his injuries.

• Chen Changming swore to Heaven that he had no connection to Illusion Star Palace, and Blood Demon Venerable revealed he had stolen a Sky-Touching Palace Fragment from the sect.
• Blood Demon Venerable explained that the Sky-Touching Palace appeared every few hundred years, could be entered with a fragment, and was rumored to hold a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Chen Changming learned that cultivators below Spirit Transformation could enter the palace and that Nascent Soul cultivators would be suppressed to the first layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Blood Demon Venerable said he recognized the Demon Spirit Vine's auras because Illusion Star Palace's Six Ancient Hall contained the bodies of the Six Ancients.
• Chen Changming used the Blood Transformation Technique on Blood Demon Venerable's body and gained a great store of life essence to help heal his injuries.

Chen Changming defeated Blood Demon Venerable, killed Chang Jiangchen, and returned to Taichang Island with valuable gains. There, he found the Han Family captured by the Chang Family, whose forces were waiting to use them against him.

• Chen Changming stored Blood Demon Venerable's body and the Demon Spirit Vine, then left the cave after resolving to reach the Golden Core Realm so he could absorb the Nascent Soul cultivator's body.
• Chen Changming confronted Chang Jiangchen outside the cave, killed him, destroyed his fleeing Primordial Spirit, and took his Storage Ring.
• Chen Changming left Mingling Island with a Sky-Touching Palace Fragment and headed for Taichang Island, planning to grow stronger before returning to Great Qin to settle a score with the Immortal Alliance.
• After half a month, Chen Changming reached Yongning City and saw the Han Family bound in a square, surrounded by the Chang Family's Golden Core cultivators and an active formation.
• A scholar-robed elder explained that the Chang Family had captured the Han Family to threaten Chen Changming after its ancestor's soul lamp went out, while he anticipated a clash between the two sides.

Chen Changming confronted the Chang Family after they captured the Han Family to lure him into a battle. He destroyed their Nine-Child Ghost Mother Formation, leaving the Chang Family’s Golden Core Cultivators badly injured, but they prepared to blood-sacrifice the Han Family.

• Chen Changming admitted killing Chang Jiangchen and entered the formation the Chang Family had raised over the Han Family plaza.
• The Nine-Child Ghost Mother Formation sent a swarm of Ghost Heads at Chen Changming, but he destroyed them with his green sword.
• The Ghost Mother fired corrosive black light at Chen Changming, and he split it with his sword before killing the giant Ghost Head.
• The formation’s thirty-six Chang Family Golden Core Cultivators suffered severe backlash, and the black-robed elder ordered them to blood-sacrifice the Han Family.

Chen Changming rescued the Han Family from the Nine-Child Ghost Mother Formation and destroyed its Ghost Mothers, devastating the Chang Family. As the formation collapsed, he noticed that many of the Chang Family’s Golden Core cultivators had escaped.

• Chen Changming broke through the Black Mist and destroyed the Ghost Heads attacking the Han Family, though many weaker family members had already died.
• The Chang Family elder poured blood from the family’s Blood Vault into the formation, summoning nine powerful Ghost Mothers and thousands of larger Ghost Heads.
• Chen Changming launched the Han Family members out of danger, then charged into the Black Mist and killed four Ghost Mothers, inflicting a severe backlash on the Chang Family cultivators.
• The black-robed elder ordered nearly twenty Chang Family descendants to flee with Thousand-Mile Breeze Talismans while he tried to hold Chen Changming off.
• Chen Changming killed the remaining Ghost Mothers, the formation collapsed, and he saw that only about a dozen Chang Family Golden Core cultivators remained in the plaza.

Chen Changming wiped out the Chang Family’s Golden Core cultivators and helped the Han Family take control of Taichang Island, then cultivated until he broke through to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment. As he prepared to enter the Ancient Moon Secret Realm, he learned that Han Tianming had reached the Golden Core Realm using a Purple Mansion Golden Pill.

• Chen Changming killed the Chang Family elder and the remaining Golden Core cultivators, destroying their escaping Primordial Spirits as well.
• Chen Changming sent Taichang Island’s other powers to capture the Chang Family’s survivors, then returned to cultivate for the Ancient Moon Secret Realm.
• Five months later, Chen Changming broke through to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, and Han Xueyi arrived to tell him the secret realm would open in a month.
• Chen Changming disguised himself and set out with Han Xueyi, who reported that more than half of the escaped Chang Family cultivators had been captured.
• Chen Changming ordered the captured Chang Family cultivators killed, then congratulated Han Tianming on breaking through to the Golden Core Realm.
• Han Tianming credited his breakthrough to a Purple Mansion Golden Pill found in the Chang Family treasury and gave Chen Changming a small white bottle.

Chen Changming learned that the Purple Mansion Golden Pill could improve the odds of forming a Golden Core, gave one to Han Xueyi, and accepted materials from Han Tianming. He then traveled with Han Xueyi toward the Lower Ancient Moon Secret Realm, considering its dangers and his chances of entering.

• Han Xueyi explained that the Purple Mansion Golden Pill was exceptionally rare and increased the chances of forming a Golden Core by one-third, and Chen Changming recognized the scent of Gold Spirit Immortal Mushroom in it.
• Chen Changming gave Han Xueyi a Purple Mansion Golden Pill, and Han Tianming offered him materials for five hundred Heaven-Returning Pills.
• Chen Changming and Han Xueyi departed the Han Family by Spirit Boat for the Cangming Sea Region, where the Lower Ancient Moon Secret Realm would soon open.
• Han Xueyi explained that the secret realm randomly transported entrants across the Illusion Star Sea, preventing factions from threatening them after they emerged.
• Han Xueyi worried that Chen Changming's Body Cultivator level might cause the secret realm to reject him, but Chen Changming said he would try and rely on his Breath Concealment Technique.

Chen Changming and Han Xueyi arrived at Lower Moon Island ahead of the Ancient Moon Secret Realm’s opening and settled in a secluded valley. When the lecherous Chiyangzi threatened Han Xueyi after she rejected him, Chen Changming countered his pressure and ordered him to leave.

• Chen Changming and Han Xueyi reached Lower Moon Island, where cultivators had gathered for the Ancient Moon Secret Realm’s opening.
• Han Xueyi explained that the Inner Sea’s great powers had reserved the empty areas, so Chen Changming chose a secluded valley instead.
• As more cultivators arrived, Chiyangzi spotted Han Xueyi and approached her, ignoring Chen Changming.
• Han Xueyi rejected Chiyangzi’s offer of friendship, and he released his Golden Core pressure against her.
• Chen Changming countered Chiyangzi’s pressure and told him to get lost.

Chen Changming killed Chiyangzi after catching and hurling back his natal Flying Sword, then faced questions from the arriving Illusion Star Palace disciples about breaking their rule against killing on Lower Moon Island. After hearing the witnesses describe his strength as a Golden Core Body Cultivator, the Illusion Star Palace backed down, hinting that he was seeking a legacy in the Ancient Moon Secret Realm.

• Chiyangzi attacked Chen Changming with his natal Flying Sword, but Chen caught it and killed him by throwing it back.
• The Azure Kun brought thirty Illusion Star Palace Foundation Establishment disciples to Lower Moon Island.
• Shi Zhongyu confronted Chen Changming and Han Xueyi over Chiyangzi's death and the island's ban on fighting.
• Chen Changming said Chiyangzi had attacked first, and witnesses explained how he had killed the Golden Core cultivator.
• A stunning Illusion Star Palace disciple suggested Chen Changming sought an Ancient Moon legacy, and Shi Zhongyu said the legacy would go to whoever fate chose.

Chen Changming entered the Ancient Moon Secret Realm despite concealing his true cultivation, while Shi Zhongyu revealed that the Illusion Star Palace intended the realm’s Dao-Hearing Spirit Cicada to expose and kill him. The cicada found Chen Changming, leaving the secret realm’s mysterious power poised to strike.

• Shi Zhongyu declared that Chen Changming’s killing of Chiyangzi did not violate the Illusion Star Palace’s rules, ending the dispute on Lower Moon Island.
• The Ancient Moon Secret Realm opened, and Chen Changming and the other token holders were transported inside.
• Shi Zhongyu and the stunning woman revealed that the secret realm would kill anyone who cheated their way in, and Shi Zhongyu entered after most cultivators had departed.
• Chen Changming confirmed that his perfected Breath Concealment Technique had fooled the entrance and flew toward a forest in search of treasures.
• A powerful green spirit cicada flew past Chen Changming, circled above him, and then vanished without showing hostility.
• Shi Zhongyu recognized the Dao-Hearing Spirit Cicada and expected it to expose Chen Changming’s concealed cultivation and trigger the secret realm’s lethal power.

Chen Changming encountered a Nascent Soul Realm puppet guarding the Ancient Moon Secret Realm and fought it to learn more about the Ancient Human Clan. After overpowering the puppet, he moved to capture it and uncover the secret realm’s inheritance, while the Dao-Hearing Spirit Cicada fled to summon help.

• A Dao-Hearing Spirit Cicada brought a Nascent Soul Realm puppet to confront Chen Changming after detecting his true cultivation.
• The puppet declared that intruders who defied the secret realm’s rules had to die, and Chen Changming challenged it to a spar.
• The puppet struck Chen Changming with half its strength, but Chen Changming’s counterpunch sent it crashing into a mountainside.
• The puppet demanded to know Chen Changming’s body-refinement technique, but he refused to reveal it and approached to capture the puppet.
• The puppet ordered the Dao-Hearing Spirit Cicada to return, and the cicada flew away as Chen Changming wondered whether it was summoning reinforcements.

Chen Changming captured an Ancient Moon Clan puppet and used Bi Cang to uncover the secrets of the Ancient Moon Secret Realm. He learned that the realm held five Nascent Soul Realm puppets and that the Ancient Human inheritance was the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.

• Chen Changming sent the Spirit-Devouring Insect after the Dao-Hearing Spirit Cicada and restrained the Humanoid Puppet with the Demon Spirit Vine.
• Chen Changming had Bi Cang subdue the puppet’s remnant consciousness, but the Spirit-Devouring Insect reported that the cicada escaped through a teleportation array.
• Chen Changming questioned the controlled puppet and learned that five puppets guarded the secret realm, with cultivation ranging from the first to the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Humanoid Puppet revealed that the strongest puppet held a token that could teleport people out of the secret realm.
• The Humanoid Puppet identified the Ancient Moon Clan’s inheritance as the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art, surprising Chen Changming.

Chen Changming learned about the Ancient Human Clan’s two great inheritances and devised a plan with Bi Cang to capture the remaining puppets. The four puppets arrived in the valley and found Chen Changming apparently defeated and held by a puppet controlled by Bi Cang.

• The Humanoid Puppet told Chen Changming that the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art in the Upper Ancient Moon Secret Realm could be cultivated to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Chen Changming learned that the Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly Art was the Ancient Human Clan’s other inheritance, available only in the Upper Ancient Moon Secret Realm to Nascent Soul cultivators who could defeat a same-realm puppet.
• The Humanoid Puppet explained that cultivators had to pass a test and defeat a puppet to claim an inheritance, and that past challengers had died fighting the Foundation Establishment Realm puppet.
• Chen Changming and Bi Cang planned to capture the four remaining puppets, with Bi Cang intending to control one of them from within.
• Bi Cang entered a Humanoid Puppet while Chen Changming feigned exhaustion, and the four silver puppets arrived in the valley, where one exclaimed that Number One had caught the supposed cheater.

Chen Changming and Bi Cang ambushed and subdued the five humanoid puppets guarding the valley, then traveled with them to the Inheritance Hall. After passing a physique test and entering, Chen Changming startled the hall’s powerful puppet by arriving with five Nascent Soul Realm puppets under his command.

• Number One revealed that Chen Changming cultivated the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art, and Number Five approached to question him.
• The Demon Spirit Vine and Bi Cang launched a surprise attack, allowing Chen Changming and Number One to defeat and capture the puppets.
• Bi Cang took control of all five puppets, and Number Five asked Chen Changming about the Ancient Human Clan in the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Changming ordered the puppets to take him to the Inheritance Hall, where Number Five used a token to transport them.
• Chen Changming passed the silver mirrors’ physique test and entered the hall, startling its silver puppet with the five Nascent Soul Realm puppets following him.

Chen Changming defeated the Inheritance Hall puppet, inspected the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art, and left one puppet to guard the Ancient Moon Secret Realm while he cultivated for ten months. Shi Zhongyu and Feng Xian'er then arrived at the hall to claim the inheritance.

• Chen Changming defeated the Humanoid Puppet with one punch and received the Jade Slip containing the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• Chen Changming returned the Jade Slip, left Number One in the secret realm with the Teleportation Token, and stored the other four puppets.
• Chen Changming entered a cave, took a Heavenly Spirit Pill, and cultivated the Golden Glow Art for ten months.
• Shi Zhongyu and Feng Xian'er reached the Inheritance Hall to challenge its guardian and claim the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• Shi Zhongyu issued the challenge while Feng Xian'er closed her eyes as if she had fallen asleep.

Shi Zhongyu defeated the Humanoid Puppet with the Star River and Star Light Ancient Mirror, winning the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forge Art for the Illusion Star Palace pair. A young man in black then demanded the inheritance, and after the puppet vanished, Feng Xian'er fell asleep so Shi Zhongyu could face him.

• When Feng Xian'er fell asleep, Shi Zhongyu's strength surged, and he used the Star River and Star Light Ancient Mirror to batter the Humanoid Puppet into defeat.
• The Humanoid Puppet gave Shi Zhongyu a Jade Slip containing the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forge Art, while Feng Xian'er declined to fight him.
• A young man in black entered the Inheritance Hall and demanded the inheritance, so Shi Zhongyu appealed to the Humanoid Puppet to enforce the rules.
• An azure light carried the Humanoid Puppet away, leaving Shi Zhongyu and Feng Xian'er alone with the young man in black.
• Feng Xian'er closed her eyes and fell asleep, and the young man in black watched as Shi Zhongyu prepared to fight.

Chen Changming defeated the Illusion Star Palace disciples Shi Zhongyu and Feng Xian'er, then learned their masters were pursuing the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art. After continuing his cultivation until the secret realm trial ended, he was teleported to an unknown island in the Inner Sea, where two Golden Core cultivators were fighting.

• Chen Changming shattered Shi Zhongyu and Feng Xian'er's defenses, and they self-destructed rather than reveal their secret art.
• Bi Cang warned Chen Changming that he had disrupted the Illusion Star Palace Palace Masters' plans, while Chen Changming deduced they were seeking portions of the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• Chen Changming confirmed that the Humanoid Puppet still held an Inheritance Jade Slip, then returned to his cave dwelling to cultivate.
• Two months later, the Ancient Moon Secret Realm trial ended, and green light randomly teleported its Foundation Establishment participants across the Illusion Star Sea.
• Chen Changming appeared on an island in the Inner Sea and found two Golden Core cultivators battling overhead.

After emerging from the Ancient Moon Secret Realm, Chen Changming killed two Golden Core cultivators who tried to rob him and settled on a remote Inner Sea island to prepare for his breakthrough. He mastered the Three-Nine Divine Aperture Technique, split his divine sense into three strands, and discovered that strengthening the technique would soon let him split them into nine.

• Chen Changming emerged from the Ancient Moon Secret Realm and was confronted by two Golden Core cultivators, who planned to rob him.
• Chen Changming killed both cultivators, found Inner Sea maps in their Storage Rings, and collected the Ghost Heart Grass on the island.
• Chen Changming chose to remain in the Inner Sea, carved a cave abode, set up the Five Elements Spirit Light Illusion Array, and released the Spirit-Devouring Insect to enrich the cave's spiritual energy.
• Chen Changming mastered the Three-Nine Divine Aperture Technique and split his divine sense into three strands, each as strong as that of a first-layer Golden Core cultivator.
• Chen Changming strengthened the technique for the first time and learned that completing it once more would split each strand into three, giving him nine strands of divine sense.

Chen Changming split his divine sense into twenty-seven strands and strengthened them until they all reached the peak of Foundation Establishment. He began breaking through to the Golden Core realm, but a hostile fourth-layer Golden Core cultivator discovered him and shattered his illusion array.

• Chen Changming strengthened the Three-Nine Divine Aperture Technique and split his divine sense into twenty-seven strands, each initially falling to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Changming spent two and a half years raising all twenty-seven strands to the peak of the tenth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Changming swallowed a Purple Mansion Golden Pill and ten Gold Spirit Immortal Mushrooms, then began forming a Golden Core with the Golden Glow Art.
• A sinister fourth-layer Golden Core cultivator sensed Chen Changming's breakthrough, rushed to the cliff, and destroyed the Five Elements Spirit Light Illusion Array.

Chen Changming completed his breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm while his Spirit-Devouring Insect captured Sun Jiuzhen, who had attacked his cave. After learning why Sun Jiuzhen sought Ghost Heart Grass, Chen Changming considered seeking more of it and revealed his overwhelming strength when Sun Jiuzhen tried to ambush him.

• A fourth-level Golden Core cultivator, Sun Jiuzhen, attacked Chen Changming’s cave while Chen Changming condensed his core, but the Spirit-Devouring Insect trapped him.
• Chen Changming completed his breakthrough and discovered that his twenty-seven strands of divine sense together rivaled those of a sixth-level Golden Core cultivator.
• Sun Jiuzhen identified himself and explained that he wanted Ghost Heart Grass to earn a favor from True Person Skull Ghost, a Nascent Soul cultivator on Skull Island.
• Chen Changming realized that Ghost Heart Grass could help strengthen his divine sense and found Skull Island on his map.
• After Chen Changming freed him, Sun Jiuzhen tried to ambush him, but Chen Changming crushed his black net with a conjured hand, leaving Sun Jiuzhen terrified.

After killing Sun Jiuzhen, Chen Changming set out for Skull Island to investigate True Person Skull Ghost and the Ghost Heart Grass, then arrived in Phoenix Arrival City to sell pills, gather intelligence, and buy a formation. As he hired a local guide, an armored woman riding an Azure Lion charged through the city and whipped bystanders.

• Chen Changming killed Sun Jiuzhen with a Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect and took his ring and its contents.
• Chen Changming decided to investigate Skull Island and True Person Skull Ghost, while noting that his Golden Core was unusually large and planning to cultivate three techniques.
• After traveling for half a month, Chen Changming reached Phoenix Perch Island and entered Phoenix Arrival City in disguise.
• Chen Changming hired a young Qi Refining cultivator as a local guide for two Spirit Stones.
• A red-armored woman rode an Azure Lion through Phoenix Arrival City, whipping pedestrians and knocking weaker cultivators unconscious.

Chen Changming intervened when Li Jinxi attacked him and his guide, Li San, and forced her to compensate Li San. After learning about the rivalry between the Silver Phoenix Palace and Skull Island, he considered cooperating with the palace to stop True Person Skull Ghost from growing stronger.

• Chen Changming learned that Li Jinxi was the Silver Phoenix Palace Palace Master's daughter and that her family ruled Phoenix Perch Island.
• Li Jinxi struck Li San with her whip and attacked Chen Changming, who dodged her blows and appeared behind her on the Azure Lion.
• Chen Changming seized Li Jinxi's whip and intimidated her into giving Li San additional compensation before leaving.
• As Chen Changming and Li San continued through the city, Li San explained the balance of power between the Silver Phoenix Palace and Skull Island.
• Chen Changming realized the Silver Phoenix Palace might help him stop True Person Skull Ghost from consuming the Ghost Heart Grass.