Recaps

Chen Changming lured Wuyazi and the allied Nascent Soul cultivators away from Returning Star City to avoid harming its people. Surrounded in a remote mountain range, he claimed he could kill them all without witnesses as Wuyazi insisted his boosted strength would soon fade.

• Wuyazi accused Chen Changming of slaughtering innocents and rallied the Everlasting Hatred, Heavenly Sword, Seven Luminaries, and Nine Li Sects to fight him.
• Nearly every Nascent Soul cultivator in Returning Star City joined Wuyazi, who organized them into layered attack formations.
• Chen Changming broke through two waves of attacks and escaped the encirclement, teleporting away from the city with the cultivators in pursuit.
• The allied cultivators caught up to Chen Changming in a rugged mountain range, where their attacks failed to injure his blackened body.
• Chen Changming stopped and warned the pursuers that the secluded area had no witnesses, while Wuyazi laughed and claimed Chen's strength was nearly spent.

Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine to shatter Wuyazi’s encirclement and slaughter the surrounding Nascent Soul Cultivators. As the vine sealed off the battlefield, Chen Changming pursued the Everlasting Hatred Sect elder, determined to let no one escape.

• Wuyazi and more than a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators surrounded Chen Changming and launched a coordinated attack.
• Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine, which broke through the attacks and overwhelmed the assembled cultivators.
• The Demon Spirit Vine tore dozens of Nascent Soul Cultivators apart while Chen Changming attacked the Everlasting Hatred Sect elder.
• The Everlasting Hatred Sect elder released a cyan lightning orb, but Chen Changming blocked its blast and pursued him.
• The Demon Spirit Vine enclosed the battlefield, preventing the remaining enemies from escaping.

Chen Changming and the Demon Spirit Vine overwhelmed the allied Nascent Soul cultivators, while Wuyazi escaped only to be caught by the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow. Captured and frozen, Wuyazi offered to help Chen Changming obtain a Sky-Touching Palace Fragment held by his sworn brother, Wuchenzi, in exchange for his life.

• Chen Changming and the Demon Spirit Vine killed an eighth-layer Nascent Soul Realm cultivator from the Everlasting Hatred Sect, then turned to attack Wuyazi and the others.
• Wuyazi broke through the Demon Spirit Vine’s vine barrier with a sword formation and fled, but Chen Changming sent the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow after him.
• Chen Changming and the Demon Spirit Vine killed the remaining eighth-layer cultivators and defeated the seventh-layer cultivators as the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow froze Wuyazi and brought him back.
• Chen Changming’s beasts gathered the battlefield spoils, including more than a hundred Storage Rings.
• Wuyazi pleaded for his life and revealed that his sworn brother, Wuchenzi, possessed a Sky-Touching Palace Fragment, offering to help Chen Changming obtain it.

Chen Changming killed Wuyazi, concealed the battle’s evidence, and fled Returning Star Island toward Yeming Island in search of a Nine Nether Blood Lotus. He escaped an encounter with the Formless Sect’s leader, while the five major sects gathered in Returning Star City and learned that he had vanished.

• Chen Changming revealed his Sky-Touching Palace Fragment, killed Wuyazi and his Nascent Soul, and collected the spoils.
• Chen Changming ordered the Demon Spirit Vine to consume the corpses, then disguised himself and flew north on Snow Feather Ice Sparrow toward Yeming Island.
• The Formless Sect’s leader and his cultivators intercepted Chen Changming, but he refused to answer their questions and flew away.
• The Formless Sect’s leader headed to Returning Star City to avenge the Great Elder, while leaders of the other four major sects also rushed there.
• The five major sects learned that Chen Changming had killed the Formless Sect’s Great Elder and escaped the pursuit led by Wuyazi.

After the five sects and the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm learned that Chen Changming was a formidable tenth-layer Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, they planned to track him and ambush him together. Chen Changming reached Yeming Island under a new identity, where two evil cultivators tried to extort him before a monk from the Nether Buddha Sect arrived.

• The Formless Sect Master identified the mysterious Body Cultivator as the tenth-layer Nascent Soul Realm man he had seen riding a Snow Feather Ice Sparrow, and the five sect masters decided to locate him and secretly assemble experts to kill him.
• The Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm's Grand Protector admitted the firm could not face Chen Changming alone and sent letters offering to join the five sects in a future hunt.
• Chen Changming reached the outskirts of Yeming Island, changed his appearance, and disguised his cultivation as the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• After resting for three days to recover from using the Buddha Bone, Chen Changming headed toward Yeming Island.
• Two fourth-layer Nascent Soul Realm evil cultivators intercepted Chen Changming and demanded a hundred thousand Spirit Stones for safe passage.
• A bald monk from the Nether Buddha Sect flew over from the coastline as Chen Changming prepared to respond to the extortion.

Chen Changming entered Yeming Island and accepted Master Ziling’s invitation to stay at Great Compassion Temple in Yeming City. As they arrived, others saw Chen Changming flying with the temple’s monk and assumed he was becoming one of its worshippers.

• Master Ziling intervened when two demonic cultivators threatened Chen Changming, and they backed down rather than risk angering Great Compassion Temple and the Nether Buddha Sect.
• Master Ziling invited Chen Changming to stay at Great Compassion Temple, and Chen Changming agreed because he had come to buy spirit herbs and dispose of stolen goods.
• On the way to Yeming City, Master Ziling explained that Great Compassion Temple sought to redeem evil cultivators but would fight when necessary.
• Chen Changming and Master Ziling flew for more than a day and entered Yeming City, where Master Ziling explained the city’s rules for flying and fighting.
• An old Nascent Soul Realm cultivator saw them pass and assumed Great Compassion Temple had brought in another worshipper.

Chen Changming settled into Great Compassion Temple, met the powerful Wuchenzi, and sold stolen treasures in Yeming City to buy spirit medicines. After learning Chen Changming had three hundred million Spirit Stones, a group of cultivators began plotting to kill him and claim his wealth.

• Master Ziling brought Chen Changming to Great Compassion Temple, where Chen heard Wuchenzi explain Buddha-nature and recognized him as a formidable Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Chen Changming left the temple in disguise and sold goods from six Storage Rings to Hengye Trading Firm for three hundred million Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changming used ten million Spirit Stones from the sale to buy ten varieties of spirit medicines.
• After Chen Changming left, the manager sold information about his wealth to a black-robed man for five hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• The black-robed man reported the three-hundred-million-Spirit-Stone haul to his sixth-layer Nascent Soul Realm big brother, who praised him and prepared to target Chen Changming.

After Old Devil Li ambushed Chen Changming on Yeming Island, Chen revealed his overwhelming strength and killed him, leaving Old Devil Li as a Nascent Soul. Old Devil Li’s two underlings recovered his body and argued over how he could restore it.

• The black-robed and red-robed men sent Old Devil Li to attack Chen Changming, whom they believed was a third-layer Nascent Soul Realm cultivator carrying many Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changming caught Old Devil Li’s Flying Sword, stopped his escape, and killed him after suspecting Hengye Trading Firm had leaked his information.
• Chen Changming revealed that he was a Body Cultivator at the eighth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, alarming the cultivators who had witnessed the fight.
• The black-robed and red-robed men retrieved Old Devil Li’s body and apologized as his Nascent Soul berated them for bringing about his defeat.
• The red-robed man suggested that Master Zilin could repair Old Devil Li’s body with Buddha Light Illumination, but Old Devil Li balked at converting to Buddhism.

Chen Changming returned to the Great Compassion Temple, where Old Devil Li and his accomplices had taken refuge, and chose to let their past conflict go. The next morning, Wuchenzi visited and invited Chen Changming to Nine Nether Hell.

• Old Devil Li took refuge at the Great Compassion Temple with his two lackeys after possessing the red-robed man.
• Chen Changming bought most of the medicinal herbs he needed in Yeming City, then met Wuchenzi, who arranged to visit him the next day.
• Chen Changming found Old Devil Li’s lackeys at the Great Compassion Temple and learned they had sought refuge there while Old Devil Li received treatment.
• Master Zilin healed Old Devil Li with the Buddha Light Illumination Divine Ability, and Chen Changming agreed to wipe the slate clean.
• Wuchenzi visited Chen Changming the next morning and invited him to Nine Nether Hell.

Chen Changming accepted Wuchenzi’s invitation to explore the Nine Baleful Sect ruins in Nine Nether Hell, hoping to find a Nine Nether Blood Lotus. After meeting the other cultivators, the group prepared to depart, but Du Jiugong asked how they would divide the sect’s Nine Baleful Pearl.

• Wuchenzi invited Chen Changming to explore the Nine Baleful Sect ruins in Nine Nether Hell with four other eighth-layer Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, and Chen accepted.
• Chen spent three days buying spirit medicines in Yeming City before joining Wuchenzi and meeting Du Jiugong, Earth Demon Elder, Blood Rakshasa King, and Yue Li.
• Yue Li told Earth Demon Elder that Chen’s true cultivation was only at the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, though she noted that he had subdued Old Devil Li.
• Wuchenzi urged the group to set off for Nine Nether Hell, but Du Jiugong asked how they would divide the Nine Baleful Pearl if they found it.

Wuchenzi led Chen Changming and the others toward the Nine Nether Hell after they argued over compensation for the Nine Baleful Pearl. The group reached the black mist at its entrance and flew inside, where the roar of the Nether Bone River warned of their first danger.

• Du Jiugong demanded that whoever obtained the Nine Baleful Pearl pay each of the other five a hundred million Spirit Stones, and Chen Changming objected that he lacked the funds.
• Wuchenzi defused the dispute by offering to front Chen Changming the money, then summoned his level-ten Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon.
• Blood Rakshasa King asked to buy the Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon, but Wuchenzi refused.
• After seven days of flight, Wuchenzi brought the group to the black mist marking the Nine Nether Hell and warned them to be careful.
• The Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon flew into the mist, and Chen Changming heard the Nether Bone River roaring nearby.

Chen Changming and the others fought their way across the Nether Bone River and reached the Blood Resentment Mountain Range, the next danger on their route to the Nine Baleful Sect ruins. While the group rested, Yue Li secretly offered to reveal the Nine Nether Blood Lotus’s location if Chen helped her obtain the Nine Baleful Pearl.

• Wuchenzi and the others protected Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon as it crossed the Nether Bone River, fighting off swarms of Bone Spirits that kept reviving in the water.
• After three hours, Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon reached the opposite bank, where Du Jiugong explained that Bone Spirits died permanently if they left the river.
• Wuchenzi identified the Blood Resentment Mountain Range as the next dangerous region on their way to the ruins, and the exhausted group rested while Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon recovered.
• Yue Li secretly asked Chen Changming to help her obtain the Nine Baleful Pearl and offered to tell him where the Nine Nether Blood Lotus was.
• Chen asked how Yue Li knew he needed the lotus, and she admitted that she had investigated him beforehand.

Chen Changming secretly allied with Yue Li, agreeing to help her kill Earth Demon Elder in exchange for a share of the Nine Baleful Pearl and access to many Nine Nether Blood Lotuses. After discovering the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm could eat Nether Bone River powder, Chen Changming finally attacked Du Jiugong after the old poison mocked him again.

• Yue Li revealed she knew Chen Changming's true cultivation and his massacre outside Returning Star City, then asked him to help kill Earth Demon Elder after they obtained the Nine Baleful Pearl.
• Chen Changming agreed and learned Yue Li knew of twenty or thirty Nine Nether Blood Lotuses at the site, swearing that her information was true.
• Chen Changming collected Nether Bone River powder and discovered the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm could eat it and benefit from its corrosive properties.
• Chen Changming killed a Bone Spirit formed from the powder, then discarded its remains after the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm judged them inferior.
• Du Jiugong mocked Chen Changming, who activated his teleportation and charged at him to teach him a lesson.

Chen Changming fought Du Jiugong after the poisoner provoked him, but Du Jiugong revealed that he had infected Chen with Shadowless Poison and tried to use it to control him. The Earth Demon Elder struck Du Jiugong to stop him, leaving the group’s infighting unresolved.

• Chen Changming charged Du Jiugong and battered aside his poison needles, then shattered the Nine-Winged Centipede’s claw and knocked Du Jiugong to the ground.
• Yue Li confirmed that Chen Changming was truly at the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm and told the Earth Demon Elder that Chen had agreed to ally with them for the Nine Baleful Pearl.
• Du Jiugong revealed that Chen Changming had been infected with Shadowless Poison and offered an antidote only if Chen obeyed him.
• Chen Changming demanded the antidote, but Du Jiugong raised a protective shield and played his jade flute to make the poison attack Chen’s body.
• The Earth Demon Elder attacked Du Jiugong with a streak of black light, shattering his shield and sending him flying again.

After Du Jiugong was forced to give Chen Changming the antidote, the six cultivators crossed the Blood Resentment Mountain Range in a grueling battle. They reached the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea exhausted, where Wuchenzi mentioned the possibility of finding a Nine Nether Blood Lotus.

• The Earth Demon Elder attacked Du Jiugong and demanded the antidote, while the others pressured Du Jiugong to surrender it.
• Du Jiugong swore an oath to Heaven before Chen Changming took the antidote and cured himself of the Shadowless Poison.
• The six cultivators agreed to cooperate and rode the Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon into the Blood Resentment Mountain Range.
• The group fought waves of Blood Resentment Puppets for two days and nights before breaking through the range.
• The exhausted group reached the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea, and Wuchenzi suggested they might find a Nine Nether Blood Lotus.

Chen Changming weighed the factions’ offers as he sought Nine Nether Blood Lotuses, learning that the most plentiful supply lay in the dangerous Blood Sea Marsh. Yue Li promised to accompany him after they obtained the Nine Baleful Pearl, and revealed that the pearl could conceal them from the marsh’s bloodsucking demons.

• Wuchenzi offered information about two or three Nine Nether Blood Lotuses in the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea, but Chen Changming stayed unmoved and continued to favor Yue Li’s more valuable lead.
• The Blood Rakshasa King mentioned the Blood Sea Marsh and warned that its Yellow Springs Eye could kill Nascent Soul Realm cultivators; Du Jiugong explained that only Spirit Transformation cultivators had escaped it unharmed.
• Chen Changming secretly asked Yue Li where her lotuses were, and she confirmed they were in the Blood Sea Marsh and promised to go with him after they obtained the Nine Baleful Pearl.
• Du Jiugong warned that Blood Leech Demons and Foul Blood Mosquitoes would target Chen Changming’s vital blood, while Yue Li told him the Nine Baleful Pearl’s nine kinds of Killing Intent could hide their auras from the demons.

Chen Changming and the other cultivators crossed the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea with Yue Li guiding them to the Nine Baleful Sect ruins. They arrived exhausted from repeated attacks by Human-Faced Bees, while Yue Li and the Blood Rakshasa King’s hidden motives remained uncertain.

• After recovering, Wuchenzi led the group into the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea, where Human-Faced Bees attacked their Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon.
• The cultivators fought off repeated bee swarms as Yue Li revealed she had visited the Nine Baleful Sect ruins before and guided the group through the shifting terrain.
• Chen Changming suspected Yue Li and the silent Blood Rakshasa King might be concealing their true plans for the Nine Baleful Pearl.
• After two days and several course changes, Yue Li led them to the Nine Baleful Sect ruins, where the Human-Faced Bees stopped pursuing them.
• The group rested and recovered at the ruins, and Wuchenzi asked Yue Li what they should do next.

The six cultivators entered the Nine Baleful Sect ruins and fought the Baleful Spirits guarding them. As Chen Changming battled an eighth-layer Baleful Spirit, Yue Li went to join him, prompting Du Jiugong to seek allies for the coming fight over the Nine Baleful Pearl.

• The Blood Rakshasa King pressed Wuchenzi to explain the dangers in the ruins, and Wuchenzi warned that sentient Killing Intents and residual formations threatened intruders.
• Hundreds of Baleful Spirits attacked the six cultivators with Killing Intent sword-light, but the group fought back and drove them off.
• Two eighth-layer Baleful Spirits launched a powerful sword formation, and Chen Changming charged one of them with his fists.
• Chen Changming weakened the Baleful Spirit, which restored its strength by absorbing other Balefal Spirits without increasing its cultivation level.
• Wuchenzi warned the others not to pursue the retreating Baleful Spirit into residual formations, but Yue Li flew to Chen Changming's side.
• Du Jiugong asked who would ally with him when the group fought over the Nine Baleful Pearl.

The six cultivators reached the Ten Thousand Bone Altar, where Yue Li explained its three trials and proposed they each enter from a different side. Chen Changming defeated the altar’s Baleful Spirits and advanced to the next level, realizing the trials were designed to weaken challengers.

• Du Jiugong allied with Earth Demon Elder, while Blood Rakshasa King refused Wuchenzi’s invitation and said he preferred keeping ghosts company.
• The group drove back two Baleful Spirits and followed the blood river to the Ten Thousand Bone Altar, where Yue Li explained its guarding-spirit, Heart Demon, and blood-sacrifice trials.
• Yue Li proposed that the six cultivators each take one side of the altar and meet at the third trial, and they agreed.
• Chen Changming smashed through the first level’s fifth-layer Nascent Soul Realm Baleful Spirits and entered the second level.
• Chen Changming defeated more Baleful Spirits and realized their attacks were meant to contaminate and weaken challengers before they advanced.

Chen Changming used the Demon Spirit Vine to defeat the sixth-layer Nascent Soul Realm Baleful Spirits on the Ten Thousand Bone Altar’s third level, then resisted the Heart Demon’s seductive and treasure-filled illusions on the fourth and fifth levels. On the sixth level, he entered another illusion and found Senior Sister Luo Lan bound to a pillar and badly wounded.

• Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine, which defeated every Baleful Spirit on the third level.
• Chen Changming entered the fourth-level Heart Demon trial and rejected illusions that took the forms of beautiful women from his memories, including Su Linger and Du Xiaoliang.
• Chen Changming resisted visions of Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures and the Six Great Spirit Mountains on the fifth level, causing the Heart Demon’s illusion to vanish.
• Chen Changming stepped onto the sixth level and saw Senior Sister Luo Lan bound to a bronze pillar, pierced by blades and surrounded by blood.

Chen Changming passed the Heart Demon trial after resisting an illusion that tortured Luo Lan, then reached the seventh level and learned that the six contenders had to offer blood to summon the Nine Baleful Pearl. As the group gathered at the Blood Pool, hidden schemes emerged, and Yue Li began the ritual.

• The Heart Demon illusion showed Luo Lan being tortured, and Chen Changming nearly awakened before an unseen woman intervened and ended the trial.
• Chen Changming reached the seventh level and found Yue Li beside the Blood Pool; she explained that all six contenders had to contribute blood before they could fight for the Nine Baleful Pearl.
• Blood Rakshasa King and Earth Demon Elder arrived, and Chen Changming noticed that both they and Yue Li seemed to be hiding their true abilities.
• Zhao Jiugong and Wuchenzi arrived and secretly discussed their alliance, with Zhao Jiugong expecting payment for helping Wuchenzi obtain the pearl.
• Wuchenzi proposed starting the inheritance, and Yue Li cut her wrist to pour blood into the Blood Pool, causing its patterns to glow.

The six cultivators fed their blood into the Blood Pool to summon the Nine Baleful Pearl, but Chen Changming’s black blood transformed the pool and revealed Blood Rakshasa King’s connection to the Nine Baleful Sect. Blood Rakshasa King summoned ten powerful skeletons and claimed the pearl as his, leaving Earth Demon Elder pressed to reveal what he knew.

• Wuchenzi, Zhao Jiugong, Earth Demon Elder, Blood Rakshasa King, and Yue Li added their blood to the Blood Pool before Chen Changming cut his wrist and let black blood flow in.
• Chen Changming’s blood turned all the blood in the pool black, and the pool’s light split into six beams that activated the Ten Thousand Bone Altar’s barrier.
• As the Nine Baleful Pearl began to appear, the cultivators took positions around the barrier and summoned their demon pets and ghosts.
• Blood Rakshasa King stamped the Altar, causing it to shake and opening the ground so ten skeletons could emerge and absorb the Nine Baleful Sect’s Killing Intent.
• Earth Demon Elder recognized that people had been sacrificed on the Altar and buried with ten Nine Baleful Sect disciples, while Blood Rakshasa King revealed he had survived as a ghost.
• Yue Li asked Earth Demon Elder to reveal Blood Rakshasa King’s identity, and Earth Demon Elder questioned her through a secret voice transmission about why she did not already know.

Yue Li and the other Nascent Soul cultivators joined forces against Blood Rakshasa King, who sent skeletons to attack while waiting for the Nine Baleful Pearl. The pearl and the Nine Baleful Art appeared together, and the red barrier vanished, leaving the treasure exposed as the cultivators prepared to seize it.

• Yue Li told Earth Demon Elder and Chen Changming that they should focus on Blood Rakshasa King, and Wuchenzi gathered the others into an alliance.
• Blood Rakshasa King sent ten skeletons to fight the five cultivators while he and Blood Asura waited for the Nine Baleful Pearl to appear.
• Chen Changming fought three skeletons at once, while Wuchenzi summoned a second Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon to attack the Black Mist of Tiger-Victim Ghosts.
• The hollow in the Altar opened to reveal the Nine Baleful Pearl, and red characters appeared that Earth Demon Elder and Blood Rakshasa King believed were the Nine Baleful Art.
• Wuchenzi summoned a third Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon, and the red barrier vanished, exposing the Nine Baleful Pearl to everyone.

Wuchenzi's clone secretly stole the Nine Baleful Pearl, but Chen Changming exposed him and fought to reclaim it. After Chen Changming destroyed the clone's powerful talisman, he attacked again as Wuchenzi's forces battled for control of the Altar.

• Wuchenzi revealed a third Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon, while Yue Li memorized the Nine Baleful Art and used a Killing Intent chain to immobilize one of the White Bones.
• Wuchenzi charged the Blood Rakshasa King, giving Chen Changming a chance to reach for the Nine Baleful Pearl, but the pearl vanished before he could take it.
• The Earth Demon Elder exposed Wuchenzi's invisible clone, and the clone revealed a fourth-tier, high-grade Ding-Jia Mountain-Opening Talisman that became a Golden Armor Giant.
• Chen Changming fused with the Buddha Bone and destroyed the Golden Armor Giant, reducing the talisman to a battered scrap.
• Chen Changming turned on Wuchenzi's clone to seize the Nine Baleful Pearl as the Blood Rakshasa King attacked Wuchenzi and his clone.

Wuchenzi escaped the Altar with the Nine Baleful Pearl, and Chen Changming pursued him through the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea while Blood Rakshasa King tried to recover and follow. Wuchenzi reached the safe zone beyond the sea, but Chen Changming caught up with him there.

• Wuchenzi used a Substitute Talisman to merge with his clone and escape the Altar with the Nine Baleful Pearl, while Blood Rakshasa King pursued him.
• Chen Changming refused Blood Rakshasa King's offer and teleported through the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea in pursuit of Wuchenzi.
• Chen Changming caught up with Blood Rakshasa King, who stopped to restore his magic power and hoped the two pursuers would weaken each other.
• Wuchenzi escaped the Human-Faced Bees aboard a Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon and landed in the safe zone beyond the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea.
• Chen Changming suddenly appeared where Wuchenzi had stopped to rest.