Recaps

Chen Changming’s enhanced Detoxification Art slowed Gu Huaibei’s decline but could not cure the Seven Absolutes Poison, so he resolved to seek the Sweet Dew Art. After extending her life and recovering his spiritual power, he carried her east to find their location and help conceal their identities.

• Chen Changming enhanced the Detoxification Art and repeatedly cast it on Gu Huaibei, slowing the poison’s effects and gaining her at least three months of life.
• Gu Huaibei told Chen Changming about the Sweet Dew Art, Spring Return Immortal Art, and Buddha Light Illumination, and he chose to search for the Sweet Dew Art.
• After half an hour of casting, Chen Changming swallowed a pill to recover his spiritual power while Gu Huaibei remained gravely weakened.
• Chen Changming carried Gu Huaibei into the air and flew east to find a local cultivator, shielding her from the wind with a spiritual-power barrier.
• Chen Changming changed his appearance, and Gu Huaibei produced a black dress and cloak from her Storage Ring to disguise herself.
• Gu Huaibei asked Chen Changming to help her change because she was too weak to move.

Chen Changming carried the weakened Gu Huaibei to Returning Star City in the Tracing Star Sea Region, learning about the region and its thousand-year Star Tracing Backflow along the way. They reached the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm, where Chen Changming hoped to find a Universe Pagoda and the Sweet Dew Art.

• Chen Changming changed Gu Huaibei into a black gown and carried her east, learning from her about the Universe Pagoda.
• Chen Changming asked a group of Golden Core cultivators where they were and learned they were on Returning Star Island in the Tracing Star Sea Region.
• Gu Huaibei told Chen Changming about the Star Tracing Backflow, which could reveal ancient events, cultivation methods, and Divine Ability spells.
• Chen Changming and Gu Huaibei discussed finding the Sweet Dew Art before seeking opportunities in the Star Tracing Backflow.
• Chen Changming carried Gu Huaibei into Returning Star City and headed for the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm.

Chen Changming attended an auction to buy a Universe Pagoda for Gu Huaibei and won it with a bid of one hundred million Spirit Stones. The auctioneer then announced his request to buy the Sweet Dew Art, while Li Yitian and the Formless Sect considered how to deal with the outsider who had outbid them.

• Chen Changming learned that the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm had no Sweet Dew Art but could post his request at the auction, and he reserved a box to bid on a Universe Pagoda.
• Chen Changming and Gu Huaibei watched as bidders drove the Universe Pagoda’s price upward, with Li Yitian also competing from Box Number Three.
• Chen Changming bid one hundred million Spirit Stones, winning the Universe Pagoda after Li Yitian stopped bidding.
• A companion told Li Yitian that Chen Changming was an outsider at the fourth level of the Nascent Soul Realm, and Li Yitian said he would let him enjoy his victory for now.
• Near the auction’s end, the hostess announced Chen Changming’s request to buy an item, drawing the Nascent Soul cultivators’ attention.

Chen Changming traded the Universe Pagoda for the Sweet Dew Art, which he and Gu Huaibei needed as a lifeline, but Li Yitian had provided an incomplete version and refused to undo the exchange. Chen Changming left Box Nineteen with Gu Huaibei and confronted Li Yitian and his companion in Box Three.

• Li Yitian offered an incomplete Sweet Dew Art in exchange for the Universe Pagoda, and Chen Changming accepted the trade.
• Gu Huaibei discovered the technique was incomplete, so Chen Changming demanded its return.
• Li Yitian refused, arguing that the Jade Slip still contained a usable version of the technique.
• The Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm declined to compensate Chen Changming, saying he had not specified that the technique had to be complete.
• Chen Changming took Gu Huaibei to Box Three and confronted the two men from the Formless Sect.

Chen Changming seized the Universe Pagoda and the complete Sweet Dew Art from Li Yitian after overpowering him and another Formless Sect elder. He fled Returning Star City and began considering joining a sect to hide from the Formless Sect while he healed Gu Huaibei.

• Chen Changming confronted Li Yitian in Box Number Three and demanded the Universe Pagoda and Sweet Dew Art.
• Chen Changming revealed his strength as a Body Cultivator, knocked Li Yitian and the other elder unconscious, and took their Storage Ring.
• Chen Changming recovered the Universe Pagoda and complete Sweet Dew Art, then gave the manual to Gu Huaibei and let her rest inside the pagoda.
• The Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm discovered the box was empty, and its shopkeeper left to warn the Formless Sect.
• Chen Changming used Instant Movement to flee Returning Star City and considered joining a sect to conceal his identity.

Chen Changming confronted a force of Formless Sect cultivators after killing Li Yitian, then destroyed their Ancient Mirror and attacked them. The Formless Sect's Great Elder set out to confront him as Chen Changming began slaughtering the elders.

• Chen Changming found no map of Returning Star Island in the Storage Rings before twelve Formless Sect Nascent Soul Realm cultivators appeared and accused him of killing Li Yitian.
• Chen Changming defended his actions and warned the sect through an Ancient Mirror while the Great Elder watched from the Formless Sect.
• The Great Elder ordered the twelve cultivators to kill Chen Changming and dispatched Elder Yuan and a reinforcement force.
• Chen Changming shattered the Ancient Mirror with a fragment of the Demonic Heaven Vast Yin Mountain, and the enraged Great Elder left the sect to pursue him.
• Chen Changming unleashed his Body Cultivator strength and slaughtered the twelve Formless Sect cultivators.

Chen Changming killed twelve Formless Sect Nascent Soul cultivators, disguised himself, and infiltrated the Vajra Sect to evade the Great Elder's pursuit. After settling in on the Ninth Peak, he learned that Buddhist masters from West Desert Island would soon visit, prompting him to think of the Nether Buddha Sect.

• Chen Changming slaughtered the Formless Sect's twelve Nascent Soul cultivators, consumed the blood mist with the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm, and found a detailed map of Returning Star Island.
• Chen Changming chose the body-refinement Vajra Sect as a place to hide, disguised himself as a gray-robed middle-aged man, and flew toward it.
• The Formless Sect's Great Elder used the Star Tracing Backflow Mirror to glimpse Chen Changming's disguise and pursued him, but could not locate him.
• Chen Changming shook off pursuit by changing his appearance underwater, then knocked out Vajra Sect disciple Chen Xin, searched his memories, and infiltrated the sect in his guise.
• Chen Changming arrived at the Ninth Peak, where Meng Chuan welcomed him and mentioned that Buddhist masters from West Desert Island would visit the Vajra Sect to spar with its disciples.
• Chen Changming heard about the visiting Buddhist masters and thought of the Nether Buddha Sect and its Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability.

Chen Changming strengthened the Sweet Dew Art to the fifth level and used it to remove the Seven Absolutes Poison Needle toxin from his right arm. He then treated Gu Huaibei, whose deterioration slowed further, and waited to learn how much the technique could help her.

• Chen Changming learned from Meng Chuan that a rumor claimed the Vajra Sect descended from the Nether Buddha Sect, then went to his cave dwelling to study the Sweet Dew Art.
• Chen Changming mastered the Sweet Dew Art and strengthened it to the fifth level after casting it 160,000 times, removing most of the poison in his right arm.
• Chen Changming repeatedly cast the strengthened Sweet Dew Art and fully purged the remaining poison from his right arm.
• Chen Changming entered the Universe Pagoda and told Gu Huaibei he had removed the poison from his arm and could recover fully after cultivating.
• Chen Changming cast the fifth-strengthened Sweet Dew Art on Gu Huaibei, filling her with vitality and slowing her deterioration further.

Chen Changming continued treating Gu Huaibei while considering ways to restore her health, then joined the Vajra Sect as the Nether Buddha Sect arrived for an exchange of martial arts. The chapter ended as Yuan Wu activated the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art to face Fang Cunshan.

• Bi Cang told Chen Changming that Azure Fire Qilin blood and the blood of several other ancient beasts could detoxify Gu Huaibei and restore her body and cultivation.
• Chen Changming spent seven days treating Gu Huaibei with the Sweet Dew Art before Meng Chuan summoned him to Central Peak.
• Master Zizhu assured Quan Li that the Nether Buddha Sect would not claim the Vajra Sect's Buddha Bone and said his disciples had come to spar and exchange knowledge.
• Master Zizhu sent Yuan Wu, a third-level Golden Core Realm disciple, to fight, and Quan Li called for a Vajra Sect disciple to answer him.
• Fang Cunshan stepped forward to face Yuan Wu, who activated the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art and turned his skin black with pale golden lines.

Yuan Wu defeated Fang Cunshan in a contest of body cultivation, prompting Master Zizhu to challenge the Vajra Sect’s prodigy Lin Zhuo. Lin Zhuo and Yuan Wu fought for half an hour without either gaining the upper hand, and Quan Li proposed ending the spar in a draw.

• Yuan Wu repelled Fang Cunshan’s opening strike and sent him flying, leaving the Vajra Sect disciples shocked by the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art.
• Fang Cunshan attacked Yuan Wu repeatedly but found no weakness, then was blasted across the square by Yuan Wu’s black palm strike.
• Master Zizhu urged Quan Li to let Lin Zhuo spar with Yuan Wu, and Quan Li agreed despite Lin Zhuo’s higher cultivation.
• Lin Zhuo and Yuan Wu fought fiercely for half an hour, but neither gained the advantage.
• Quan Li suggested that the two sects call the spar a draw.

Chen Changming spied on the Nether Buddha Sect’s negotiations over the Vajra Sect’s Buddha Bone and learned they had offered their Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art in exchange. The Vajra Sect agreed to the trade, while Chen Changming suspected the relic was part of the Ancient Buddha’s hand.

• Quan Li declared Lin Zhuo and Yuan Wu’s sparring match a draw, then led Master Zizhu and two other Nether Buddha Sect experts to see the Buddha Bone.
• Chen Changming sent the Cold Nether Spider into the main hall and watched Quan Li reveal the jade-white Buddha Bone from a Golden Lotus.
• Master Zizhu explained that the Nether Buddha Sect wanted the Buddha Bone returned and offered the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art in exchange.
• Quan Li summoned Guardian Elder Wen Changfeng, and the Vajra Sect elders unanimously agreed to the trade.
• Chen Changming wondered whether the Buddha Bone was the hand bone of the Ancient Buddha.

Chen Changming followed the Nether Buddha Sect after it traded the Buddha Bone to the Vajra Sect, intending to seize the bone and learn the Buddha Light Illumination divine ability. He ambushed the sect at sea and left the chapter facing Master Zizhu in a fistfight.

• Master Zizhu exchanged the Buddha Bone for the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art and promised the Vajra Sect the Nether Buddha Sect's aid.
• Chen Changming recalled the Cold Nether Spider, followed Master Zizhu's party, and intercepted its black lotus over the ocean.
• Chen Changming challenged the group and knocked Master Zisong unconscious with a single slap.
• Chen Changming revealed his own blackened body and overpowered Master Zizhu in their first exchange of punches.
• Chen Changming appeared before Master Zizhu and slammed a powerful fist toward him.

Chen Changming defeated Master Zizhu and took the Buddha Bone, then agreed to trade it back for help treating Gu Huaibei with the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability. The chapter ended with Master Zizhu swearing to Heaven to protect Chen Changming and his friend.

• Chen Changming knocked Master Zibai unconscious while overwhelming Master Zizhu in battle.
• Master Zizhu fused the Buddha Bone into his arm and fought back, but Chen Changming enlarged his own right arm and defeated him.
• The Buddha Bone tore free from Master Zizhu, and Chen Changming caught it and recognized the aura of an Ancient Buddha.
• Chen Changming offered to return the Buddha Bone in exchange for the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability, but Master Zizhu said he did not possess it and offered to ask Master Zinian to treat Gu Huaibei.
• Chen Changming agreed to bring Gu Huaibei to the Nether Buddha Sect if Master Zizhu guaranteed their safety, and Master Zizhu swore an oath to Heaven.

Chen Changming, using the alias Ning Jin, accompanied Master Zizhu to the Nether Buddha Sect after returning the Buddha Bone in exchange for help healing Gu Huaibei. The restored bone strengthened the seal on the Demoness, though Master Ziguang considered befriending Ning Jin in case the sect needed his strength.

• Chen Changming and Master Zizhu reconciled, exchanged the Buddha Bone, and continued to West Desert Island aboard the Black Lotus.
• Master Zizhu brought Chen Changming to the Nether Buddha Sect, where Junior Brother Zisong led him to a quiet courtyard to wait for treatment.
• Master Zizhu presented the Buddha Bone to Master Ziguang, and they restored it to the Nine-Story Buddha Pagoda.
• The restored Buddha Bone strengthened the pagoda and drove the Black Mist back, while the Demoness mocked the monks from beneath it.
• Master Ziguang learned that Ning Jin's body-tempering technique was powerful and said the sect should befriend him in case they needed his help against the Demoness.

Chen Changming sought Master Zinian’s help to treat Gu Huaibei, but the monk could only slow the poison’s effects. Hoping to learn the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability, Chen Changming agreed to join the Nether Buddha Sect, and Master Zizhu offered to make him a lay disciple so he would not have to follow Buddhist precepts.

• Master Ziguang considered recruiting Chen Changming to help the Nether Buddha Sect defeat the Demoness and wished he might join the sect.
• Chen Changming brought Gu Huaibei out of the Universe Pagoda and asked Master Zinian to treat her poison.
• Master Zinian used the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability to restore some of Gu Huaibei’s vitality, but could not remove the poison.
• Chen Changming asked to learn the healing Divine Ability, and Master Zizhu offered it if he joined the Nether Buddha Sect.
• Chen Changming agreed to join, but Gu Huaibei objected because she did not want him to become a monk.
• Master Zizhu assured Gu Huaibei that Chen Changming could join as a lay disciple, and Chen Changming formally accepted.

Chen Changming joined the Nether Buddha Sect as a lay disciple and received the Buddhist name Zining, hoping to learn a divine ability that might help Gu Huaibei. After discovering that the technique required him to cultivate compassion and Buddhist virtue, he wondered whether to pursue it or rely on finding the Spring Return Immortal Art.

• Master Zinian warned Chen Changming that the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability required strong Buddhist nature cultivated through compassion, scripture, and good deeds, but Chen decided to learn it.
• Master Ziguang welcomed Chen Changming into the Nether Buddha Sect and personally performed the Three Jewels refuge ceremony, giving him the lay name Zining.
• Master Ziguang gave Zining a Jade Slip containing the divine ability and Buddhist cultivation methods, and Master Zizhu introduced him to the sect's disciples.
• Master Zizhu showed Zining the Nine-Story Buddha Pagoda, where the sect had sealed an unkillable Demoness whose rampages were currently restrained by a Buddha Bone.
• Zining studied the Jade Slip and realized that mastering the divine ability would require him to change his violent ways, so he weighed that path against searching for the Spring Return Immortal Art to cure Gu Huaibei.

The Demoness used the restored Buddha Bone to destroy the Nine-Story Buddha Pagoda and escape, leaving the Nether Buddha Sect facing disaster. Chen Changming realized the hand bone had carried the Demoness’s influence and went to help the sect, though he remained prepared to flee if the danger was too great.

• The Buddha Bone awakened, broke the pagoda’s array, and fused with the Demoness, freeing her from imprisonment.
• The Demoness confronted the nine monks and declared that the Nether Buddha Sect could not stop her.
• A monk raised an alarm, and Master Ziguang ordered disciples below the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Realm to evacuate.
• Chen Changming deduced that the Demoness had hidden black lines in the hand bone and used them to control the Buddha Bone.
• Chen Changming appeared outside the pagoda, where Master Ziguang was gathering powerful cultivators to support the monks inside.

Chen Changming learned that the Demoness was the Glazed Saint Ancestor, whose body had been sealed in the Illusion Star Sea, and helped Bi Cang seize a chance to possess her. The Glazed Saint Ancestor overwhelmed the Nether Buddha Sect’s fighters, and Bi Cang’s attack left her stunned as Chen Changming was blasted away.

• Bi Cang revealed that the Demoness was the Glazed Saint Ancestor and explained that the ancestor’s escaped True Spirit Divine Sense had once possessed her body.
• The Glazed Saint Ancestor merged with the Buddha Bone, and Master Ziguang led Nether Buddha Sect experts into the formation to fight her.
• The Glazed Saint Ancestor shattered the monks’ attacks and sent Master Ziguang and the other tenth-layer Nascent Soul Realm experts flying.
• Chen Changming rushed at the Glazed Saint Ancestor to give Bi Cang an opening, and Bi Cang’s black light struck the ancestor between the brows.
• The Glazed Saint Ancestor hit Chen Changming with her jade hand and sent him flying.

Chen Changming helped Bi Cang escape Glazed Saint Ancestor’s attempt to seal her body, and Bi Cang later returned with the Buddha Bone. She offered Chen Changming a way to use its divine ability, but warned that the safest fusion required cultivating the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art, raising doubts about whether it could coexist with his current cultivation.

• Glazed Saint Ancestor overpowered the Nether Buddha Sect’s fighters, but Bi Cang began possessing her body and revealed that she knew Liuli.
• Glazed Saint Ancestor burned her True Spirit Divine Sense and sealed her body, weakening Bi Cang until Chen Changming gave her a Seal-Breaking Pill.
• Bi Cang escaped through the void, leaving the injured Master Ziguang and the Nether Buddha Sect elders to believe the Demoness had spared them.
• Bi Cang returned to Chen Changming’s room three hours later, broke some of the seals, and removed the Ancient Buddha’s Buddha Bone.
• Bi Cang told Chen Changming the Buddha Bone could grant him Buddha Light Illumination, but warned that a safe fusion required the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art.

Chen Changming failed to cultivate the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art because it conflicted with his existing body-forging technique, so he forcibly fused with the Buddha Bone instead. The fusion greatly increased his strength, and he tested his Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability on Gu Huaibei, who said it surpassed Master Zinian’s.

• Chen Changming learned the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art from Master Ziguang and studied it with help from Master Ziguang and Master Zizhu.
• Chen Changming discovered that the Nine Nether Heavenly Buddha Art conflicted with the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art and could not be cultivated alongside it.
• Chen Changming forcibly fused the Buddha Bone into his body, raising his cultivation by one level and increasing his combat strength more than tenfold.
• Chen Changming summoned Gu Huaibei and used the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability on her, exhausting himself after the single use.
• Gu Huaibei said Chen Changming’s Buddha Light Illumination was even stronger than Master Zinian’s.

Chen Changming repeatedly used Buddha Light Illumination on Gu Huaibei despite the severe strain it placed on him, gradually reaching its first enhancement after a hundred uses. He discovered the ability’s healing power and energy cost had both increased tenfold, and, after recovering, prepared to use it again in hopes of curing Gu Huaibei’s poison.

• Chen Changming used Buddha Light Illumination on Gu Huaibei three times, then collapsed when the Buddha Bone burst from his body, and he recovered by rebuilding his skeleton and taking Heaven-Returning Pills.
• Chen Changming repeatedly recovered for half a month and used the ability three times on Gu Huaibei, continuing the cycle for more than two years while she worried about him.
• Chen Changming fused with the Buddha Bone and made his hundredth use of Buddha Light Illumination, triggering its first enhancement and learning that its effects and energy cost had both increased tenfold.
• Chen Changming removed the Buddha Bone after using the enhanced ability once and told Gu Huaibei he needed to recover before trying again.
• Three days later, Chen Changming recovered, fused with the Buddha Bone, and began using the enhanced Buddha Light Illumination while Gu Huaibei watched hopefully.

Chen Changming used Buddha Light Illumination to remove nearly all of Gu Huaibei’s poison, but the ability left him close to death. After recovering and leaving the Nether Buddha Sect, he returned to Returning Star City to seek medicines that could restore Gu Huaibei’s health.

• Chen Changming’s strengthened Buddha Light Illumination removed ninety-nine percent of Gu Huaibei’s poison and restored her cultivation to the first layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, but he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Gu Huaibei urged Chen Changming not to use the ability again, and he promised before cultivating for six months to recover.
• Chen Changming said farewell to Master Ziguang, Master Zizhu, and Master Zinian, and Master Ziguang gave him a Nether Buddha Token.
• Chen Changming returned to Returning Star City, learned that Star Tracing Backflow had not appeared, and bought ingredients for the Spring Return Pill.
• Chen Changming entered the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm to sell the spoils he had taken from fourteen Formless Sect Nascent Soul cultivators for Spirit Stones.

Chen Changming tried to sell his spoils at the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm, but its managers secretly betrayed him to the Formless Sect. The Great Elder and a group of Nascent Soul elders confronted Chen Changming in Returning Star City, where their battle was about to begin.

• Chen Changming offered the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm a vast haul of cultivation resources, but rejected the managers’ low offer.
• After Chen Changming left, the managers recognized the goods as belonging to the Formless Sect’s fallen cultivators and decided to sell his information to the Great Elder.
• The manager told the Great Elder that Chen Changming had appeared in the city and showed him Chen Changming’s new appearance.
• The Great Elder gathered seven or eight Nascent Soul elders and attacked the trading firm with the Formless Space-Splitting Shuttle.
• Chen Changming dodged the golden beam by teleporting into the air, acknowledged killing fourteen Formless Sect elders, and suspected the trading firm had betrayed him.

Chen Changming confronted the Formless Sect Great Elder and his elders outside Returning Star City, where his fused Buddha Bone let him withstand their attacks and kill them in moments. After collecting their Storage Rings, he addressed the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who had watched the massacre.

• The Formless Sect Great Elder surrounded Chen Changming in Returning Star City and refused his suggestion to fight outside the city.
• Chen Changming knocked away the Great Elder’s Formless Space-Splitting Shuttle with a fragment of Demonic Heaven Vast Yin Mountain, then moved beyond the city walls as the Great Elder pursued him.
• The Great Elder and his elders attacked Chen Changming, who fused the Buddha Bone into his body and repelled their treasures without being harmed.
• Chen Changming shattered the Great Elder’s defensive barrier and killed him with a punch.
• Chen Changming killed the remaining eight Formless Sect elders, collected their Storage Rings, and addressed the watching cultivators.

Chen Changming entered Returning Star City to confront the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm for informing the Formless Sect about him. After killing the shopkeeper and a protector, he faced the city lord Wuyazi, who accused him of going too far.

• Chen Changming returned to the city after the watching cultivators fled, intending to expose the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm's betrayal.
• Chen Changming seized Shopkeeper Li and accused the firm of leaking customer information to the Formless Sect.
• Wuyazi defended the firm's reputation and refused to drive it from the city, so Chen Changming declared that he would be justice and killed Shopkeeper Li.
• A sixth-layer Nascent Soul Realm protector attacked Chen Changming with a green seal, but Chen Changming threw it back and destroyed the protector's body.
• Wuyazi confronted Chen Changming and declared that he had gone too far.