Recaps

Chen Changming refined batches of Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills at the Gongsun Family, then traveled to Miaoyin Mountain on Mystic Ice Island. He reunited with Mo Lengyao, who had been worried after failing to find him.

• Chen Changming borrowed the Gongsun Family's Li Fire and ingredients to refine Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills.
• After seven days, Chen Changming produced middle-grade pills, then refined enough batches to improve his skill and make top-grade pills.
• Chen Changming gave Ancestor Gongsun middle-grade pills and three Nine Yin Nourishing Yang Pills before leaving the Gongsun Clan.
• Chen Changming arrived at Miaoyin Mountain wearing Chen Bai's face, and Mo Lengyao greeted him with tearful relief.

Chen Changming traveled to Qiyun Mountain with Mo Lengyao to settle his grudge with Chu Bawang, who was fighting a Purple Lightning Black Ape alongside several Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators. Chen Changming defeated the ape and gravely wounded Chu Bawang, who brought out his Blood-Colored Armor and Seven-Colored Lotus Platform and charged at him.

• Chen Changming learned that Chu Bawang was hunting a Purple Lightning Black Ape at Qiyun Mountain and set out with Mo Lengyao.
• Chen Changming drove off three Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators, seized one man's Storage Ring, and left Chu Bawang to face the ape alone.
• Chen Changming appeared behind Chu Bawang and punched him into a mountainside, then sent the Purple Lightning Black Ape flying with a slap.
• Chen Changming reminded Chu Bawang of their dispute over the Blood Dragon Ganoderma at the Underground Auction and refused his offer of a Storage Ring.
• Chu Bawang donned Blood-Colored Armor, summoned his Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, and charged at Chen Changming, vowing to fight to the death.

Chen Changming killed Chu Bawang, then subdued the Purple Lightning Black Ape and gave it to Mo Lengyao as Miaoyin Pavilion’s guardian beast. The pair rode it toward Miaoyin Mountain, leaving nearby Nascent Soul cultivators astonished by Chen Changming’s feat.

• Chen Changming overpowered Chu Bawang despite his blood-burning technique and the Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, then killed him and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Changming chased down the fleeing Purple Lightning Black Ape, subdued it with the Contract Technique, and made it his mount.
• Mo Lengyao mourned her family, recovered the Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, and learned that Chen Changming had made the ape Miaoyin Pavilion’s guardian beast.
• Mo Lengyao thanked Chen Changming and rode with him on the ape toward Miaoyin Mountain.
• Four recovering Nascent Soul cultivators at Qiyun Mountain watched the ape race past and marveled that Chen Changming had tamed it.

Chen Changming returned to Miaoyin Mountain, gave Mo Lengyao a mountain-guarding beast and precious pills, then left for the Ice and Snow Palace. Back at the Ice Prison, he realized he still needed a Millennium Seven-Colored Lotus to make the pill that would free the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow.

• Chen Changming arrived at Miaoyin Mountain with the Purple Lightning Black Ape, which Mo Lengyao announced would guard the mountain as the pavilion’s divine beast.
• Chen Changming gave Mo Lengyao twenty Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills and urged her to cultivate toward the Nascent Soul Realm before departing.
• Chen Changming resumed Zhou Jintian’s appearance and returned to the Ice and Snow Palace, where Gu Huaibei accepted his explanation for his absence and sent him to relieve Xiao Jiumei at the Ice Prison.
• Xiao Jiumei handed Zhou Jintian the prison token and other items before leaving, and he realized the Seal-Breaking Pill still required a Millennium Seven-Colored Lotus.

Chen Changming visited the Ice Prison and learned more about the White-Clad Woman’s need for a Soul-Calming Flower and her strained relationship with Jiang Lingyin. The White-Clad Woman then confronted him about why he kept asking about the flower.

• Chen Changming set aside refining the Seal-Breaking Pill because he lacked a Millennium Seven-Colored Lotus, then returned to the Ice Prison.
• Chen Changming asked the White-Clad Woman whether the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art was causing her trouble and learned she wanted a Soul-Calming Flower.
• Jiang Lingyin returned and told the White-Clad Woman she needed her help reaching a place, but the White-Clad Woman said only the two Palace Masters of the Illusion Star Palace might manage it.
• Jiang Lingyin said there was little Soul-Calming Flower left and refused to take Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow from the palace elders, then warned Chen Changming to keep their conversation secret.
• The White-Clad Woman and Jiang Lingyin exchanged bitter remarks about their abilities before Jiang Lingyin vanished, and the White-Clad Woman accused Chen Changming of scheming to learn about the Soul-Calming Flower.

Chen Changming tried to win the White-Clad Woman’s trust by offering help against Jiang Lingyin, then prepared a covert delivery of Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills to Gu Huaibei. The chapter ended as the Cold Nether Spider slipped into the Silver Hall on the Ninth Peak.

• Chen Changming revealed that he wanted four Soul-Calming Flowers and claimed a Nascent Soul Realm friend might help the White-Clad Woman, who warned him that even they would not defeat Jiang Lingyin.
• Chen Changming learned that Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow could stabilize the mind, then left after promising to look into it; the White-Clad Woman decided to give him a chance.
• Chen Changming visited the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow, realized he still lacked the Millennium Seven-Colored Lotus needed to break its seal, and returned to refine Ghost Heart Grass into pills.
• After refining the Ghost Heart Grass, Chen Changming decided to send Gu Huaibei twenty top-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills and a note with the Cold Nether Spider.
• Chen Changming guided the Cold Nether Spider toward Gu Huaibei’s Silver Hall, where it waited until Xiao Jiumei opened the doors at night and then slipped inside.

Chen Changming sent Gu Huaibei twenty high-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills through the Cold Nether Spider, giving her a chance to advance her cultivation. After she began taking the pills, Chen Changming fed the spider Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and returned to the Ice Prison valley.

• The Cold Nether Spider delivered Chen Changming's note and a jade bottle to Gu Huaibei in the Ice and Snow Palace.
• Gu Huaibei discovered the bottle held twenty high-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills and asked the spider to thank Chen Changming.
• Gu Huaibei swallowed one pill and began cultivating with the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art.
• Chen Changming gave the Cold Nether Spider a piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, and it ate some before falling asleep in a chill.
• Chen Changming put away the sleeping spider and the remaining marrow, then left the Ninth Peak for the valley in the Ice Prison.

Gu Huaibei broke through to the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm after receiving Chen Bai’s Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills, then claimed she had found Ice Dragon Crystals to explain her progress. Jiang Lingyin discovered that Gu Huaibei had lost her pure yin and confronted her, warning that she could never reach the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art’s ninth turn.

• Gu Huaibei broke through to the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, drawing Xiao Jiumei, the other peak masters, and Jiang Lingyin to the Ninth Peak.
• Gu Huaibei credited her breakthrough to obtaining more than ten Ice Dragon Crystals in the Mystic Ice Cave, concealing Chen Bai’s role.
• Jiang Lingyin examined Gu Huaibei and demanded to know how she had lost her pure yin.
• Gu Huaibei acknowledged the truth and accepted Jiang Lingyin’s warning that losing her pure yin had ended her path to the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art’s ninth turn.

Gu Huaibei accepted punishment for refusing to reveal the man who had severed her path, sealed her cultivation to the Golden Core Realm, and went to the Ice Prison. She visited her imprisoned master before entering the empty Ninety-Ninth Prison, where Chen Changming asked why Jiang Lingyin had punished her.

• Jiang Lingyin questioned Gu Huaibei about the man who had severed her path, but Gu Huaibei refused to identify him and accepted any punishment.
• Jiang Lingyin ordered Gu Huaibei to seal her cultivation to the Golden Core Realm and reflect in the Ice Prison.
• Gu Huaibei sealed her cultivation and flew to the Ice Prison, where Chen Changming let her inside.
• Gu Huaibei visited the White-Clad Woman in the Forty-Ninth Prison and secretly explained what had happened.
• Gu Huaibei entered the empty Ninety-Ninth Prison, and Chen Changming asked why Jiang Lingyin had punished her.

Chen Changming learned that Gu Huaibei had been punished for concealing that he was responsible for her broken primordial yin, and he let her disciples visit her in the Ice Prison. After they left, Xiao Jiumei offered to watch the prison so he could attend the upcoming Ancient Ruins Secret Realm trial.

• Chen Changming left Gu Huaibei and asked Xiao Jiumei what had happened to their master.
• Guo Lingyun told Chen Changming that the palace master had sealed Gu Huaibei's cultivation at the Golden Core Realm and sent her to the Ice Prison after discovering her primordial yin had been broken.
• Xiao Jiumei and the other disciples vowed to avenge Gu Huaibei, while Chen Changming hid his guilt and opened the formation so they could visit her.
• Gu Huaibei welcomed her disciples but ordered them to leave before the palace master discovered their visit and barred them from the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm.
• Xiao Jiumei offered to watch over the Ice Prison so Chen Changming could join the Golden Core disciples in the secret realm's three-month Bloody Trial, but he declined.

Chen Changming agreed to enter the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm after Xiao Jiumei and the other disciples pressured him, then brought the White-Clad Woman three pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow in exchange for a year of clear-mindedness and details about the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art. The White-Clad Woman revealed that a change at Heaven-Reaching Snow Mountain had disrupted the Soul-Calming Flowers, leaving Chen Changming wondering whether Jiang Lingyin planned to climb its summit.

• Xiao Jiumei and the other female disciples persuaded Chen Changming to join the Bloody Trial in the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm, and Guo Lingyun asked to team up with him.
• Chen Changming returned to his cultivation routine and visited the silent Gu Huaibei in the Ice Prison, deciding to try to persuade her to unseal her cultivation later.
• Chen Changming visited the White-Clad Woman in Cell 49 and offered her three pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow in exchange for one year of clear-mindedness.
• The White-Clad Woman explained that the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art could drive its practitioners mad at the ninth turn and that Soul-Calming Flowers helped keep their minds clear.
• The White-Clad Woman told Chen Changming that an abnormal change at Heaven-Reaching Snow Mountain had disrupted the Soul-Calming Flowers' flowering cycle, and he wondered if Jiang Lingyin intended to climb the mountain's summit.

Chen Changming sought a way to help Gu Huaibei overcome the flaw in the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art and enlisted Bi Cang to study it. The Cold Nether Spider awakened after consuming Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, reached the mid-eighth level, and fell asleep again.

• The White-Clad Woman demanded ten times the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow Chen Changming had offered before she would reveal what happened at Heaven-Reaching Snow Mountain.
• Chen Changming urged Gu Huaibei to investigate the flaw in the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art, then took the complete art from her to work it out himself.
• Chen Changming asked Bi Cang to study the art, and she agreed despite her incomplete spiritual sense and limited familiarity with cultivation arts.
• The Cold Nether Spider woke up at the mid-eighth level and told Chen Changming it had advanced after eating the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow.
• The Cold Nether Spider ate the remaining Ice Marrow and promptly fell asleep.

Chen Changming prepared to enter the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm with Guo Lingyun, planning to rely on his Beasts to conceal his lack of Ice and Snow Palace techniques. As the Palace’s large expedition set out, Guo Lingyun gave him talismans to protect himself.

• The Cold Nether Spider broke through to the high eighth level after consuming Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, then eagerly ate two more pieces from Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming planned to use the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm openly and keep the Cold Nether Spider in reserve for fights in the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm.
• Chen Changming handed the Ice Prison token to Xiao Jiumei and joined Guo Lingyun as the Ice and Snow Palace disciples prepared to depart.
• Several thousand Golden Core disciples boarded dozens of snow boats carrying Nascent Soul Realm elders, and the expedition flew northwest toward the secret realm.
• Guo Lingyun gave Chen Changming a stack of talismans she had bought to help protect him.

Chen Changming and Guo Lingyun reached the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm with the Ice and Snow Palace, where the ten great forces gathered and prepared to enter. As the ancient gate opened, Guo Lingyun pulled Chen Changming toward the entrance.

• Guo Lingyun gave Chen Changming a Heart-Linking Talisman and asked him to keep his trump card a secret until they reached the secret realm.
• Chen Changming arrived with the Ice and Snow Palace fleet and saw the Demon Sacrificial Sect gathered nearby, followed by the Heavenly Water Sect and the other great forces.
• Guo Lingyun agreed to team up with Chen Changming and was advised by Senior Sister Zhang to activate the Heart-Linking Talisman before entering.
• The ancient gate appeared in the mist and slowly opened as an Ice and Snow Palace elder ordered the disciples to enter.
• Guo Lingyun grabbed Chen Changming and leaped from the snowship toward the secret realm entrance.

Chen Changming and Guo Lingyun entered the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm and learned about the Divine Mountain, where Chen Changming planned to seek a blessing and investigate Bi Cang’s soul fragment. As they explored for spirit herbs, rival disciples converged on a Moon-Gazing Grass.

• Guo Lingyun explained that the Divine Mountain held a temple whose Divine Light could raise a Golden Core cultivator’s cultivation, and Chen Changming asked about climbing to its summit.
• Bi Cang sensed one of her soul fragments in the secret realm, then suspected the Divine Mountain was connected to it and urged Chen Changming to climb it.
• Chen Changming and Guo Lingyun flew into the forest to search for spirit herbs, and Chen Changming secretly released the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm.
• Guo Lingyun found Moon-Gazing Grass worth at least eight thousand Spirit Stones, while Chen Changming noticed disciples from Blazing Sun Valley and Thunder Snake Hall approaching it.

Chen Changming, posing as Senior Brother Zhou, protected Guo Lingyun from rival sect disciples while they sought the Divine Mountain. After they collected the spoils, they heard Ice and Snow Palace disciples being attacked in a valley.

• Blazing Sun Valley and Thunder Snake Hall disciples confronted Guo Lingyun and Chen Changming over the Moon-Gazing Grass, and the Blazing Sun Valley disciples proposed attacking them.
• Chen Changming's Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm killed all four Golden Core cultivators with its corrosive venom.
• Chen Changming revealed the Beast companion to Guo Lingyun and said Demon Shadow Venerable had helped him capture it.
• Guo Lingyun collected the Moon-Gazing Grass and the four cultivators' treasures, while Chen Changming insisted they would split the spoils evenly.
• As Chen Changming and Guo Lingyun continued toward the Divine Mountain, they heard a fight and saw Ice and Snow Palace disciples being bullied.

Guo Lingyun and Chen Changming found a Purple Spirit Ginseng guarded by a Black-Scaled Snake, which Chen Changming’s Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm defeated. Their claim to the herb was challenged by disciples of the Phantom Divine Sect, leaving a confrontation imminent.

• Guo Lingyun helped two Ice and Snow Palace disciples escape an attack by the Mystic Talisman Academy, then continued toward the Divine Mountain with Chen Changming.
• Guo Lingyun and Chen Changming discovered a Purple Spirit Ginseng guarded by a Black-Scaled Snake.
• Chen Changming sent the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm to fight the snake, and it killed the snake with its corrosive black liquid.
• Seven or eight men from the Phantom Divine Sect arrived and claimed the Purple Spirit Ginseng, prompting Guo Lingyun to protest.
• The leading gray-robed man dismissed Guo Lingyun’s protest and threatened the Ice and Snow Palace disciples.

Chen Changming used the Cold Nether Spider to freeze the Phantom Divine Sect disciples who had attacked the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm. He and Guo Lingyun then considered what to do with their helpless captives.

• Guo Lingyun and Chen Changming withdrew when eight Phantom Divine Sect disciples threatened them over the Purple Spirit Ginseng.
• The Phantom Divine Sect disciples attacked the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm with phantom bodies and Phantom Needles, but it burrowed underground to evade them.
• Chen Changming secretly summoned the Cold Nether Spider, whose cultivation was suppressed to the mid-level fifth rank in the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm.
• The Cold Nether Spider froze all eight Phantom Divine Sect disciples with its Frost Freeze Divine Ability.
• Chen Changming told Guo Lingyun that he had learned Beast taming from someone under Demon Shadow Venerable, and she asked whether they should kill the frozen disciples.

Chen Changming and Guo Lingyun explored the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm, gathered resources, and reached Divine Mountain with the Ice and Snow Palace disciples. When the mountain opened, they began climbing under its intense pressure, while Chen Changming concealed how easily he could withstand it.

• Chen Changming spared the frozen Phantom Divine Sect disciples, and Guo Lingyun collected the Purple Spirit Ginseng and the Black-Scaled Snake's corpse.
• Chen Changming and Guo Lingyun gathered herbs and ores during their two-month journey, including more than a thousand catties of Geng-Gold Ore for Chen Changming.
• At the foot of Divine Mountain, Guo Lingyun reunited with Zhang Yan, and Bi Cang told Chen Changming that the mountain's formation controlled the secret realm but did not block auras.
• Three days later, silver Divine Light appeared, and the gathered disciples from the ten factions began climbing Divine Mountain on foot under its pressure.
• Chen Changming pretended to struggle as he climbed, while Guo Lingyun summoned a bell-shaped treasure to shield herself after reaching her limit.

Chen Changming continued climbing the Divine Mountain after Guo Lingyun and other cultivators gave up, eventually reaching fourth place among the last four climbers. When three sect prodigies mocked him for his cultivation and status, he provoked them, and Ji Suifeng began stirring Geng Shu toward violence.

• Guo Lingyun exhausted herself using a defensive magic treasure, abandoned the climb, and wished Senior Brother Zhou success.
• Chen Changming overtook climbers and entered the ice mist, where fewer than two dozen people remained.
• Guo Lingyun waited at the mountain's foot and grew hopeful that Senior Brother Zhou would reach the Divine Temple.
• Ji Suifeng, Geng Shu, and Xiao Yan saw Chen Changming among the final four and belittled him for being a second-layer Golden Core cultivator.
• Chen Changming mocked the three prodigies, prompting Geng Shu to grow angry while Xiao Yan hurried ahead and recognized Ji Suifeng was provoking him.

Chen Changming defeated and killed Ji Suifeng, Geng Shu, and Xiao Yan after they attacked him on the Divine Mountain, then continued climbing. At the foot of the mountain, sect disciples assumed their prodigies had reached the Divine Temple and mocked the Ice and Snow Palace, but Guo Lingyun insisted that Senior Brother Zhou was still above.

• Xiao Yan, Geng Shu, and Ji Suifeng attacked Chen Changming, and he swiftly kicked Ji Suifeng away.
• Ji Suifeng, Geng Shu, and Xiao Yan unleashed their strongest attacks, but Chen Changming dispelled them and shattered their defenses.
• Chen Changming killed the three prodigies with Origin-Returning Sword Qi, collected their Storage Rings, and burned their corpses.
• Chen Changming continued climbing the Divine Mountain while disciples below praised Ji Suifeng, Geng Shu, and Xiao Yan as having entered the Divine Temple.
• A Demon Sacrificial Sect disciple mocked the Ice and Snow Palace, and Guo Lingyun angrily declared that Senior Brother Zhou was still on the mountain.

Chen Changming reached the Divine Temple and bathed in its Divine Light, advancing to the third layer of the Golden Core Realm. After the light faded, he asked Senior Bi Cang whether he had noticed anything.

• Guo Lingyun proudly identified Zhou Jintian as the Ice and Snow Palace disciple on the Divine Mountain, while disciples from other factions mocked his chances.
• Zhang Yan worried that the three prodigies might harm Zhou Jintian, but Guo Lingyun stayed calm and kept his demon pets secret.
• Chen Changming reached the Divine Temple after killing the three prodigies and continuing up the mountain at a measured pace.
• The statue asked Chen Changming whether he was willing to bathe in the Divine Light, and he accepted.
• After an hour beneath the Divine Light, Chen Changming broke through to the third layer of the Golden Core Realm.
• When the statue's light faded and did not return, Chen Changming circled it and asked Senior Bi Cang what he had noticed.

Chen Changming reached the summit of the Divine Mountain, where he found Millennium Seven-Colored Lotuses and an elderly man in a Crystal Coffin. After the man awoke and revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation, Bi Cang recognized that her divine sense was inside him.

• Bi Cang told Chen Changming that the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm was likely one enormous formation, and he climbed toward the summit.
• Chen Changming found a patch of Millennium Seven-Colored Lotuses and a Crystal Coffin containing an elderly man who resembled the Divine Temple statue.
• Chen Changming picked three lotuses, awakening the man, who accused him of taking the plants he needed to survive.
• The elderly man released the formation’s suppression and revealed that he was at the tenth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bi Cang told Chen Changming by telepathy that her divine sense was inside the elderly man.

Chen Changming confronted Gu Tianxie, who revealed that he was the ancient demigod behind the Ice and Snow Palace’s cultivation art. With Bi Cang’s divine sense clone suppressed inside Gu Tianxie, Chen Changming brought out the Demon Spirit Vine to help hold him off, and Gu Tianxie prepared to seal it.

• Bi Cang told Chen Changming that her divine sense clone was suppressed inside Gu Tianxie and asked him to keep Gu Tianxie occupied so she could merge with it.
• Gu Tianxie lifted the formation’s suppression over the mountaintop and claimed his Demigod Body made him invincible among Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Gu Tianxie revealed that True Person Ice Spirit had inherited his teachings and that he had left her only eight and a half turns of the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art.
• Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine and asked Gu Tianxie to give him the complete cultivation art in exchange for explaining the vine’s origins.
• Gu Tianxie refused and prepared to seal the Demon Spirit Vine so he could defeat Chen Changming.

Chen Changming and the Demon Spirit Vine fought Gu Tianxie atop Divine Mountain, but Gu Tianxie’s ancient strength overwhelmed them. Chen Changming identified him as an Ancient God and kept fighting to buy Senior Bi Cang time to merge their divine fragments, while suspecting Gu Tianxie’s cultivation had regressed and he was nearing death.

• Gu Tianxie froze the air and attacked with Ice Spears, while the Demon Spirit Vine broke through the ice and clashed with him.
• Chen Changming teleported behind Gu Tianxie and struck at him, but Gu Tianxie countered with an icy hand and sent him flying.
• Gu Tianxie transformed his skin into silver armor and defeated Chen Changming in a fist clash, then summoned silver dragons to battle the Demon Spirit Vine.
• Chen Changming sensed Gu Tianxie’s ancient aura and guessed that he was an Ancient God, which Gu Tianxie proudly accepted.
• Chen Changming continued fighting to distract Gu Tianxie while waiting for Senior Bi Cang to enter his body and merge their divine fragments.
• Chen Changming concluded that Gu Tianxie’s claim to Spirit Transformation Realm strength referred to his former cultivation, which had regressed and might now be near death.