Recaps

Chen Changming arrived at Chaos Star Island with Zhou Mi and entered the Zhou Family’s Puppet Hall to examine its wares. He studied a Nascent Soul Realm puppet, then confronted a white-robed Nascent Soul cultivator who challenged his right to consider buying it.

• Zhou Mi brought Chen Changming to Chaos Star Island and explained that his family traded puppets with outside cultivators.
• At the valley entrance, Zhou Mi presented his token, and a young Zhou Family member noted that his branch had been expelled before allowing them inside.
• Zhou Mi left Chen Changming at the Puppet Hall while he went to register for the competition at Deacon Hall.
• Chen Changming joined the waiting cultivators and entered the hall, where the Zhou Family displayed thousands of puppets, including several at the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Changming examined a first-layer Nascent Soul Realm puppet, and a white-robed first-layer Nascent Soul cultivator ordered him away from it.
• Chen Changming asked whether Golden Core cultivators were forbidden from buying Nascent Soul Realm puppets.

Chen Changming challenged several Nascent Soul Cultivators who had threatened him and followed him out of Chaos Star Island. He killed them all with the Cold Nether Spider and collected their corpses, leaving his plan to commission a puppet repair unresolved.

• Chen Changming ignored the white-robed elder's threats and asked the Zhou Family to repair his Nascent Soul Realm puppet.
• The white-robed elder and several other Nascent Soul Cultivators followed Chen Changming off Chaos Star Island, intending to kill him and claim the puppet.
• Chen Changming asked the pursuers whether they would attack one at a time or all at once.
• Chen Changming killed the white-robed elder and defeated the other Nascent Soul Cultivators, while the Cold Nether Spider destroyed their Nascent Souls.
• Chen Changming collected the corpses in his Beast Taming Bracelet.

Chen Changming brought his damaged Nascent Soul Realm puppet to the Zhou Family’s Puppet Hall to ask about repairs, and the Zhou Family recognized it as a Primitive Puppet. The clan elders confirmed its rare status, leaving Chen Changming wondering whether it came from the Ancient Human Clan’s puppet legacy.

• Chen Changming returned to the Puppet Hall, where Zhou Cong mistook his survival for proof that a powerful guardian protected him.
• Chen Changming showed Zhou Cong Number Two, a second-layer Nascent Soul Realm puppet, and asked whether the Zhou Family could repair it.
• Zhou Cong reported the puppet to clan leader Zhou Tieyi, who hurried to inspect it with Chen Changming.
• Zhou Tieyi summoned ten Nascent Soul Realm clan elders, and they confirmed that Number Two was a Primitive Puppet.
• Chen Changming wondered whether the Ancient Human Clan’s puppets were what the Zhou Family called Primitive Puppets.

Chen Changming forced the Zhou Family to lead him to their Ancestral Shrine after learning they wanted his Primitive Puppet. As he faced three powerful Grand Supreme Elders, a voice from inside the shrine ordered them to let him in.

• Zhou Tieyi offered Chen Changming two Nascent Soul Realm puppets for his Primitive Puppet, but Chen Changming refused.
• A clan elder attacked Chen Changming, who vanished and seized Zhou Tieyi by the neck, revealing himself as a Nascent Soul Realm Body Cultivator.
• Chen Changming threatened Zhou Tieyi until a clan elder explained that the Zhou Family wanted his puppet for study and that their members obtained Puppet Seals in the Ancestral Shrine.
• Chen Changming took Zhou Tieyi hostage and made the clan elders guide him to the Ancestral Shrine.
• Three Grand Supreme Elders appeared with defensive barriers and puppets, but an old voice from inside the shrine ordered them to let Chen Changming in.

Chen Changming entered the Zhou Family Ancestral Shrine and spoke with the Puppet God King, learning about the Ancient Human Clan and the Demon Extermination War. The Puppet God King revealed that the Six Ancients’ six Innate Spirit Treasure mountains could combine into a highest-grade treasure.

• The Puppet God King invited Chen Changming into the Ancestral Shrine, where Chen found a legacy puppet resembling his own.
• The Puppet God King told Chen that a Soul-Calming Flower could awaken Number Two, though its body also needed repairs.
• After learning that Chen had cultivated the Ancient Human Clan’s Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art, the Puppet God King recognized him as a successor and recounted the Six Ancients’ war against a Demon Realm overlord.
• Chen told the Puppet God King that the demon’s sealed arm had escaped from the Ancient Ghost Clan’s seal at Illusion Mist Reef.
• The Puppet God King explained that each of the Six Ancients possessed an Innate Spirit Treasure mountain and that combining all six would create a highest-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.

The Puppet God King revealed the Six Ancient Clans’ history and entrusted Chen Changming with the Ancient Human Clan’s artifact-refining and puppet-making arts. He asked Chen to gather fragments of the six Spirit Mountains and return in a hundred years to take his fading consciousness to the Ancient Moon Secret Realm.

• The Puppet God King told Chen Changming that the shattered Six Great Spirit Mountains had once combined into the supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure Infinite Six-Harmony Mountain, and explained that the Six Ancients had failed in their attempt to elevate the Human Realm’s cultivation system.
• The Puppet God King asked about the Ancient Human Clan in the Spirit Realm, and Chen Changming said he knew nothing about its current state.
• Outside the Ancestral Shrine, Zhou Tieyi and the three Grand Elders speculated about Chen Changming’s private meeting with the Puppet God King and agreed that his Primitive Puppet should remain with the Zhou Family.
• The Puppet God King urged Chen Changming to collect fragments of all six Spirit Mountains so he could craft powerful imitations, then gave him the Spirit-Ancient Artifact Refining Art and Spirit-Ancient Puppet Heaven Art.
• The Puppet God King explained that Chen Changming would need to inherit the Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly Art in the Upper Ancient Moon Secret Realm and asked him to return in a hundred years to take his body there for burial.

Chen Changming learned that the four injured Primitive Puppets could be awakened with Soul-Calming Flower from Mystic Ice Island, while the Zhou Family secretly plotted to seize control of him and the Puppet God King's secrets. After a month, the Zhou Family trapped Chen Changming’s courtyard inside the Nine-Twist Primordial Chaos Array.

• The Puppet God King explained why the puppets in the Ancient Moon Secret Realm were better preserved and told Chen Changming to obtain Soul-Calming Flower from Heaven-Reaching Snow Mountain on Mystic Ice Island.
• Chen Changming handed his four injured Primitive Puppets to the Zhou Family for repairs, and the Puppet God King ordered them to fix the puppets’ bodies.
• After Chen Changming left the mountaintop hall, the Zhou Family’s elders discussed taking control of the puppets and the Puppet God King’s secrets, then prepared a killing array.
• While waiting for the repairs, Chen Changming asked about Ice and Snow Palace and learned that it had many Nascent Soul cultivators and was dangerous to approach.
• A month later, the Zhou Family activated the Nine-Twist Primordial Chaos Array around Chen Changming’s courtyard, and he realized he had been trapped.

Chen Changming used the Demon Spirit Vine to smash the Zhou Family’s Nine-Twist Primordial Chaos Array after its elders tried to kill him and seize the puppets. The Puppet God King watched without intervening as the Zhou Family’s leaders sent their puppet army into battle against the revealed mid-level ninth-rank Beast.

• The Zhou Family elders revealed that they had set the Nine-Twist Primordial Chaos Array to trap and kill Chen Changming and take his four puppets.
• Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine, which withstood the array’s attacks and began breaking it apart.
• The three Grand Elders and clan leader Zhou Tieyi summoned more than a hundred Nascent Soul Realm puppets as the array collapsed.
• The Puppet God King emerged from the Ancestral Shrine, recognized that Chen Changming had another trump card, and chose not to stop him from punishing the Zhou Family.
• After the array shattered, the Zhou Family’s puppets charged the Demon Spirit Vine, which expanded across the mountainside and was identified by a Grand Elder as a mid-level ninth-rank Beast.

Chen Changming and the Demon Spirit Vine attacked the Zhou Family, overcoming its puppets and killing its strongest cultivators. Zhou Cong watched from afar as the Zhou Family’s top fighters fell and its future was left uncertain.

• The Demon Spirit Vine overwhelmed the Zhou Family’s Nascent Soul Realm puppets, forcing Zhou Tieyi and ten clan elders to flee.
• Chen Changming and the Cold Nether Spider ambushed the fleeing group; Chen killed the ten clan elders and knocked Zhou Tieyi unconscious.
• The Zhou Family’s three Supreme Elders attacked Chen Changming, but he held them off while the Demon Spirit Vine defeated the remaining powerful puppets.
• Chen interrupted the Supreme Elders’ teleportation, allowing the Demon Spirit Vine to pierce them and destroy their Nascent Souls.
• Zhou Cong watched from a distance and realized that the Zhou Family’s strongest cultivators had been wiped out.

Chen Changming left Chaos Star Island with repaired puppets, new techniques, and other spoils, then decided to return to the Outer Sea and check on the Han Family. Two months later, disguised as Chen Shan, he arrived on Taichang Island as the Han Family's meeting hall filled with faction representatives.

• The Puppet God King controlled Zhou Tieyi with the Puppet Seal, repaired Chen Changming's four puppets, and gave him three eighth-layer Nascent Soul Realm puppets and repair materials.
• Chen Changming collected the Ghost Heart Grass, reviewed his gains, and left the Chaos Star Island sea region.
• Chen Changming decided to visit the Han Family in the Outer Sea before focusing on cultivation in the Inner Sea and seeking the Soul-Calming Flower on Mystic Ice Island.
• Chen Changming disguised himself as a middle-aged man named Chen Shan and traveled by Spirit Boat for two months to Taichang Island.
• Chen Changming arrived at the Han Family as representatives from various factions gathered in its meeting hall.

After returning to Taichang Island, Chen Changming rescued the Han Family from Demon Shadow Venerable’s pressure and went to meet her at Pine Wind Pavilion. He exposed her attempt to poison and seduce him, then moved to remove her mask.

• Han Xueyi told a Golden Core elder that Chen Shan had not returned, and the elder struck her while ordering his men to search the Han Family.
• Chen Changming returned, stopped the intruders, and agreed to meet Demon Shadow Venerable at Pine Wind Pavilion.
• Han Xueyi explained that Demon Shadow Venerable had recently claimed the surrounding mountains and had twice summoned Chen Shan.
• At Pine Wind Pavilion, Demon Shadow Venerable trapped Chen Changming in a pink formation and used poison called Nine Fragrance Rogue to make him appear to collapse.
• Chen Changming seized control of the space, immobilized Demon Shadow Venerable, and reached for her Rakshasa Mask.

Chen Changming captured Demon Shadow Venerable and learned she was Black Charm Immortal’s twin sister. After discovering an Ice and Snow Palace disciple among her captives, he began planning to infiltrate the palace and obtain a Soul-Calming Flower.

• Chen Changming recognized Demon Shadow Venerable as Black Charm Immortal’s twin sister and shattered her formation with one punch.
• Chen Changming and Han Xueyi entered Demon Shadow Venerable’s palace, where they found a dozen weakened men she had drained.
• Chen Changming questioned an Ice and Snow Palace disciple and learned that the palace guarded Soul-Calming Flowers behind a formation.
• Chen Changming decided to disguise himself as the disciple and infiltrate the Ice and Snow Palace.
• Chen Changming implanted a Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect in Demon Shadow Venerable, released her, and called Han Xueyi outside.

Chen Changming left the Han Family in Han Xueyi’s care, compelling Demon Shadow Venerable to protect it for fifty years before heading to Mystic Ice Island disguised as Zhou Jintian. At the Ice and Snow Palace’s mountain gate, a disciple recognized him and confronted him over daring to return.

• Chen Changming resigned as the Han Family’s guest elder and arranged for Demon Shadow Venerable to guard the family for fifty years.
• Chen Changming searched Zhou Jintian’s memories, took his identity token and belongings, and ordered Demon Shadow Venerable to keep him on Taichang Island.
• Chen Changming traveled toward Mystic Ice Island while gradually copying Zhou Jintian’s appearance, voice, and temperament.
• Chen Changming reached Mystic Ice Island and flew to the Ice and Snow Palace’s mountain gate.
• An Ice and Snow Palace female Golden Core Realm disciple recognized Chen Changming as Zhou Jintian and angrily asked why he had dared to return.

Chen Changming returned to the Ice and Snow Palace and was assigned to guard the Ice Prison on Extreme Yin Mountain. After Senior Brother Yang Jingran showed him the isolated post, Chen Changming settled in and began cultivating, while news of his return reached the Ninth Peak.

• A Golden Core female disciple told Chen Changming that his master had ordered him to guard the Ice Prison instead of returning to the Ninth Peak.
• Chen Changming entered the Ice and Snow Palace and flew to Extreme Yin Mountain, where Yang Jingran greeted him and explained the Ice Prison’s rules and facilities.
• Yang Jingran handed Chen Changming two tokens and left after escorting him out of the prison area.
• Chen Changming inspected the living quarters, discovered the Ancient Mirror monitoring the formation, and began cultivating the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• A female cultivator at the Ninth Peak told her master that Junior Brother Zhou had returned.

Gu Huaibei gave up on Zhou Jintian after hearing he had returned, while Chen Changming continued impersonating him and visited the Ice Prison. There, he heard a prisoner laughing and demanding the Soul-Calming Flower, leaving him eager to find out more.

• Gu Huaibei decided to abandon Zhou Jintian, and Xiao Jiumei told Guo Lingyun that her master had given up on him.
• Guo Lingyun visited Chen Changming at the Ice Prison, where he continued playing Zhou Jintian and reassured her he was fine.
• After cultivating for three days, Chen Changming took food and entered the Ice Prison to inspect its prisoners.
• Chen Changming identified Sun Jianyi, a fifth-layer Golden Core cultivator serving a hundred-year sentence, and continued deeper into the prison.
• Chen Changming heard a prisoner laughing and calling for the Soul-Calming Flower, so he hurried toward the sound.

Chen Changming met the mad former Palace Master in Cell 49 and learned that she needed a Soul-Calming Flower, then encountered Jiang Lingyin, who delivered one before leaving. He continued inspecting the Ice Prison and became interested in the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow as a potential contracted Beast before heading back.

• Chen Changming found the unregistered White-Clad Woman in Cell 49 and learned she was the former Palace Master, who desperately needed a Soul-Calming Flower.
• Jiang Lingyin appeared in the cell, gave her master a Soul-Calming Flower, and identified herself as the White-Clad Woman's disciple.
• Chen Changming noticed Jiang Lingyin was injured but decided against attacking her, and she vanished from the cell.
• Chen Changming inspected the chained Mysterious Underworld Snow Bear and the other ice-type Beasts in the prison.
• Chen Changming saw the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow, fed it Beast meat, and considered making it his contracted Beast.
• Chen Changming finished his assignment and headed back toward the Bronze Gate.

Chen Changming enhanced the Contract Technique to its fifth level, preparing to tame the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow and discovering that he could now contract fifteen Beasts. In a mysterious space, a man and woman discussed giving him special treatment because of his past as an invincible cultivator, while Chen Changming remained unaware.

• Chen Changming entered the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow's cell and tried to contract it, but the fourth-enhanced Contract Technique failed.
• Chen Changming found the White-Clad Woman awake in Cell 49, but she became incoherent when he asked about the Soul-Calming Flower.
• After three months of practice, Chen Changming enhanced the Contract Technique for the fifth time and discovered he could contract fifteen Beasts instead of five.
• A woman admitted that she had increased Chen Changming's contract limit, and a man teased her for secretly being in love with him.
• The woman and man fell silent while Chen Changming remained unaware of their conversation.

Chen Changming successfully contracted the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow and learned he needed a Seal-Breaking Pill to remove its seal. Then Steward Fu arrived with news that Zhou Jintian’s father was dying, and Chen Changming sought permission to leave the mountain and visit him.

• Chen Changming visited the White-Clad Woman in the Ice Prison, but she ignored his attempt to speak with her.
• Chen Changming used a black contract rune to make the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow submit to him.
• Bi Cang explained that a Seal-Breaking Pill could break the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow’s seal, and Chen Changming received a list of more than a hundred ingredients.
• Guo Lingyun brought Steward Fu to Extreme Yin Mountain, where Steward Fu told Chen Changming that Zhou Jintian’s father had been poisoned and wanted to see his son.
• Chen Changming went to the Ninth Peak and requested an audience with his master so he could leave the mountain.

Chen Changming traveled to the Zhou Family to see Zhou Jintian’s dying father, only for Zhou Wenshan to revive as a powerful corpse and flee. Chen Changming followed him to a valley, where a mysterious green figure finally appeared.

• Gu Huaibei let Chen Changming leave the Ice Prison to visit his critically ill father after Xiao Jiumei offered to take his place.
• Chen Changming and Steward Fu reached the Zhou Family, where Zhou Wenshan died after asking Chen Changming to avenge him.
• Zhou Wenshan reanimated with green hair and mist, attacked the Zhou Family, and escaped after overpowering its cultivators.
• Chen Changming followed Zhou Wenshan southwest and watched him bury himself in a pit in a mountain valley.
• After several hours, a green figure descended into the valley.

Chen Changming killed Altar Master Liu of the Earth Corpse Sect after learning that Zhou Wenshan was being turned into an Earth Corpse. The sect discovered Liu’s death and prepared a stronger force to hunt the killer.

• Chen Changming confronted the green-robed Altar Master Liu, who revealed that the Earth Corpse Sect raised corpses by letting them absorb earth qi underground for a hundred years.
• Chen Changming caught Liu’s poisoned Skull Staff, revealed his Nascent Soul Realm body cultivation, and killed Liu by piercing his chest and destroying his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Changming returned to the Zhou Family, reassured Li Yuxia, and said he would return to the Ice and Snow Palace to cultivate and avenge his father.
• The Earth Corpse Sect found Liu’s Earth Corpse Seal and Zhou Wenshan’s buried body, then reported the killing to their sect master.
• The sect master ordered his followers to take ten fifth-layer Nascent Soul Earth Corpses from the Earth Vault and sent the Sun and Moon Elders with them.

Chen Changming was tracked down by the Earth Corpse Sect and fought its powerful Earth Corpses. After capturing one sect member alive, he faced a combined assault from seventeen Earth Corpses and their five-element attacks.

• Sun Elder led the Earth Corpse Sect members out of the Earth Cave with fifteen Earth Corpses and used the Earth Corpse Seal to track Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming encountered Sun Elder, Elder Moon, and their group while heading toward Hunyuan City to find ingredients for a Seal-Breaking Pill.
• The Earth Corpse Sect unleashed fifteen fifth-layer and two sixth-layer Nascent Soul Earth Corpses, but Chen Changming shattered their first attack and broke the two stronger corpses’ fists.
• Chen Changming froze and captured a second-layer Nascent Soul sect member, whom he had been monitoring with the Cold Nether Spider.
• The Earth Corpses launched attacks formed from all five elements while the two sixth-layer corpses descended on Chen Changming, surrounding him with their assault.

Chen Changming defeated the Earth Corpse Sect cultivators and learned about the Earth Corpse Mani Bead, then decided to attack the sect and claim it. He ambushed the Sun and Moon Elders on their route to the Earth Vault and sent the Demon Spirit Vine toward them.

• Chen Changming smashed two sixth-level Nascent Soul Earth Corpses and killed several Earth Corpse Sect cultivators, though the Sun and Moon Elders escaped.
• Chen Changming used Soul Searching on an unconscious cultivator and learned about the Earth Corpse Three Treasures Beads and the Earth Corpse Mani Bead.
• Chen Changming learned that a ninth-level Nascent Soul Earth Corpse guarded the Earth Vault and decided to attack the sect for its treasure.
• Chen Changming reached the mountain route to the Earth Vault, concealed himself, and waited for the Sun and Moon Elders.
• Chen Changming launched the Demon Spirit Vine at the approaching Sun and Moon Elders, who tried to dodge it.

Chen Changming infiltrated the Earth Corpse Sect, stole the Earth Corpse Mani Bead, and attacked the Sect Leader in the Earth Vault. After the Sect Leader’s body was destroyed and his Nascent Soul escaped into an Earth Corpse, Chen Changming left the Demon Spirit Vine to fight it and prepared to ambush the reinforcements.

• The Demon Spirit Vine captured the Sun and Moon Elders, while Chen Changming disguised himself as a green-robed Earth Corpse Sect cultivator and entered the Earth Cave.
• Chen Changming used the sect cultivator’s memories to find the Earth Vault and took the Earth Corpse Mani Bead despite encountering the Earth Corpse Sect Leader.
• Chen Changming sent out the Demon Spirit Vine, which tore apart the Sect Leader’s body, forcing his Nascent Soul to flee into a powerful Earth Corpse.
• The Earth Corpses attacked Chen Changming, but the Demon Spirit Vine held them off as he left the vault to intercept the reinforcements.
• Chen Changming killed two fleeing guards, and the Cold Nether Spider froze a group of Golden Core cultivators rushing toward the Earth Vault.
• Several green-robed Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived and asked Chen Changming, whom they believed to be Altar Master Li, where the intruder was.

Chen Changming defeated the Earth Corpse Sect Leader and discovered that the Earth Corpse Mani Bead contained a fragment of Demonic Heaven Vast Yin Mountain. After disguising himself, he went to Hunyuan City to discuss a major deal at the Star Moon Trading Firm.

• Chen Changming killed waves of Earth Corpse Sect members while the Demon Spirit Vine battled the ninth-layer Nascent Soul Realm Earth Corpse inside the Earth Vault.
• The Demon Spirit Vine outlasted the Earth Corpse Sect Leader’s strength, destroyed his body, and shattered his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Changming collected the Sect Leader’s Skull Staff and Storage Ring, then sensed a fragment of Demonic Heaven Vast Yin Mountain inside the Earth Corpse Mani Bead.
• Chen Changming decided to seek fragments of the Six Great Spirit Mountains and later left the Earth Corpse Sect.
• After changing his appearance, Chen Changming went to the Star Moon Trading Firm in Hunyuan City and asked to speak with its shopkeeper.

Chen Changming sold treasures at the Star Moon Trading Firm for 210 million Spirit Stones, but the firm's head secretly ordered an assassination to seize his fortune. After buying more medicinal ingredients in Hunnan City, Chen Changming headed out toward Mystic Ice Island, where several figures blocked his path.

• Chen Changming sold his collected treasures to the Star Moon Trading Firm for about 210 million Spirit Stones and bought eleven medicinal ingredients from the firm.
• The shopkeeper informed the Cloth-Clad Elder of the huge transaction, and the elder arranged to have Chen Changming assassinated outside Hunnan City.
• Chen Changming checked the payment, left the Star Moon Trading Firm, and bought thirty more Seal-Breaking Pill ingredients at the Spirit Grass Pavilion after bargaining the price down to 13.5 million Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changming left Hunnan City and flew about five hundred miles before several figures appeared above a mountain range and blocked his path.