Recaps

Chen Changming returned to Miaoyin Mountain as the Joyous Union Sect tried to force Mo Lengyao’s Miaoyin Pavilion to join them. He defeated the sect’s elders and freed the mountain’s guardian beast, then ordered them to leave while reaffirming that Miaoyin Pavilion would not join.

• Mo Lengyao refused the Joyous Union Sect’s demand to absorb Miaoyin Pavilion, and an elder struck her and threatened the sect.
• The Joyous Union Sect elders trapped Miaoyin Pavilion’s Purple Lightning Black Ape in a Red Fire Net and demanded that Mo Lengyao surrender.
• Chen Changming appeared, healed Mo Lengyao, and learned that the Joyous Union Sect was trying to take over her sect.
• The Joyous Union Sect elders attacked Chen Changming with the Love Thread Net, but he seized it and knocked them away.
• Chen Changming healed the Purple Lightning Black Ape, which captured the Joyous Union Sect elders, and he ordered them to leave after declaring that Miaoyin Pavilion would not join them.

Chen Changming remained at Miaoyin Mountain to protect Mo Lengyao from the Joyous Union Sect. After the sect sent dozens of powerful cultivators to capture him alive, he seized their Love Thread Nets and forced them together.

• Chen Changming settled at Miaoyin Mountain and promised Mo Lengyao he would confront the Joyous Union Sect if it attacked again.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable ordered a new force to capture Chen Changming alive, hoping he might stir Ying Yuhuan’s feelings and help her cultivate the Yin-Yang Seal.
• A month later, dozens of Joyous Union Sect Nascent Soul Realm cultivators arrived above Miaoyin Mountain and attacked Chen Changming with a Love Thread Net.
• Chen Changming repelled their first attack, then seized the five Love Thread Nets controlled by the sect’s strongest cultivators and pulled them into a red sphere.

Chen Changming drove the Joyous Union Sect elders away from Miaoyin Pavilion and warned them not to attempt annexation again. Golden Flower Sacred Venerable later led an army to Mystic Ice Island, where Chen confronted them and asked whether they meant to fight Miaoyin Mountain to the bitter end.

• Chen Changming defeated the Joyous Union Sect elders and warned them to abandon their plans against Miaoyin Pavilion or face the slaughter of their Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• The elders reported their defeat to Golden Flower Sacred Venerable, who decided to travel to Mystic Ice Island with Ying Yuhuan and meet Chen Changming.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable led more than fifty Joyous Union Sect elders to Miaoyin Mountain aboard an Immortal Boat.
• Chen Changming appeared before the Immortal Boat as a ninth-level Nascent Soul Realm woman flew out and asked his name.
• Chen Changming identified himself as Chen and asked whether the Joyous Union Sect intended to fight Miaoyin Mountain to the bitter end.

Golden Flower Sacred Venerable offered Chen Changming one billion Spirit Stones and proposed that he become Dao companions with Ying Yuhuan, who had fallen for him at first sight. Chen agreed while seemingly under the influence of their attraction, but Mo Lengyao interrupted and helped him regain his composure, leaving the new alliance strained by her heartbreak.

• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable and Ying Yuhuan approached Chen Changming, and both felt an intense attraction after he looked at Ying Yuhuan.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable offered Chen Changming five hundred million Spirit Stones, but he demanded one billion, which she paid.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable proposed that Chen Changming become Dao companions with Ying Yuhuan, and he agreed after she professed her desire for him.
• Mo Lengyao arrived and urged Chen Changming to resist the Joyous Union Sect's influence, prompting him to protect her from Elder Ye.
• Mo Lengyao cried as she saw Chen Changming holding Ying Yuhuan, and Chen pushed Ying Yuhuan away.

Chen Changming fell under Ying Yuhuan’s bewitchment and agreed to return with her to the Joyous Union Sect. As Ying Yuhuan gave him the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art, the mysterious beings within him dismissed it as flawed and revealed Long’s plan to use Chen Changming’s body for rebirth.

• Chen Changming agreed to leave with Ying Yuhuan after her charm overwhelmed his will, while Golden Flower Sacred Venerable knocked Mo Lengyao unconscious and brought them aboard the Immortal Boat.
• During the journey, Chen Changming’s memories and doubts faded, leaving him focused on Ying Yuhuan.
• Ying Yuhuan handed Chen Changming the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art and urged him to study it so they could cultivate together.
• Long’s phantom disparaged the manual, and the man and woman in Chen Changming’s mysterious inner space identified it as an imperfect Human Realm version of the art.
• The man and woman revealed that Long intended for Chen Changming to form a Yin-Yang Seal and later use his body as a vessel for rebirth.

Chen Changming refused to learn the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art, but an unexplained desire for Ying Yuhuan drove him to attack Golden Flower Sacred Venerable and seize the Saintess. After a month aboard the Immortal Boat, Ying Yuhuan discovered that she had condensed the Yin-Yang Seal.

• Chen Changming rejected the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art and said he wanted to dual cultivate with Ying Yuhuan directly.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable pulled Ying Yuhuan away when Chen Changming's desire overwhelmed her, but Chen Changming later attacked and sealed the Cult Leader's cultivation.
• Chen Changming stored Golden Flower Sacred Venerable in the Universe Pagoda and pulled Ying Yuhuan into his arms as she struggled against her desire.
• The Immortal Boat shook for a month as Chen Changming and Ying Yuhuan remained in her room, while Joyous Union Sect elders speculated about what was happening.
• Ying Yuhuan cried out in surprise when she realized she had condensed the Yin-Yang Seal.

After a month of dual cultivation with Chen Changming, Ying Yuhuan discovered she had condensed a Yin-Yang Seal, despite Chen Changming never cultivating the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art. As Ying Yuhuan and Golden Flower Sacred Venerable celebrated the discovery, Chen Changming grew suspicious that something had affected his mind, while Golden Flower Sacred Venerable wondered if she could also form a seal with him.

• Ying Yuhuan awoke naked and discovered she had condensed a Yin-Yang Seal after a month with Chen Changming.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable appeared and angrily accused Chen Changming of ruining Ying Yuhuan's purity, but Ying Yuhuan showed her the seal and explained what had happened.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable apologized to Chen Changming, and he removed the seal that had restrained her spiritual power.
• After Golden Flower Sacred Venerable took Ying Yuhuan away, Chen Changming noticed his own faint Yin-Yang Seal and wondered whether the pair had manipulated him or affected his mind.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable questioned Ying Yuhuan about the month of dual cultivation and asked whether she could condense a Yin-Yang Seal by cultivating with Chen Changming.

Golden Flower Sacred Venerable asked to dual cultivate with Chen Changming for a month to condense the Yin-Yang Seal, but he firmly refused her offer. Ying Yuhuan then brought him to her palace, where she asked whether his cultivation was truly only at the fourth layer of the Golden Core Realm.

• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable asked Ying Yuhuan to lend her Chen Changming for a month so she could condense the Yin-Yang Seal.
• Ying Yuhuan told Chen Changming about her master's request, and he rejected it outright.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable offered Chen Changming ten billion Spirit Stones, but he refused and told her not to raise the matter again.
• The Joyous Union Sect elders mistook Golden Flower Sacred Venerable's unsteady departure for evidence that she had personally guided Ying Yuhuan and Chen Changming in dual cultivation.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable encouraged Ying Yuhuan to cultivate with Chen Changming and break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Ying Yuhuan brought Chen Changming to her palace, where he gave his name as Chen Bai and she asked whether his cultivation was at the fourth layer of the Golden Core Realm.

Chen Changming advanced through years of dual cultivation with Ying Yuhuan and formed a Yin-Yang Seal, while discovering his desire for her had diminished. Golden Flower Sacred Venerable learned Chen Changming had formed a seal too and, despite his refusal, began scheming to dual cultivate with him.

• Ying Yuhuan explained how she had seen through Chen Changming's cultivation, then promised to help him advance through dual cultivation.
• After one year of constant dual cultivation, Chen Changming broke through from Golden Core Level Four to Level Five, though he neglected his other cultivation arts.
• Two years later, Chen Changming reached Golden Core Level Six and discovered that his Yin-Yang Seal had solidified and surpassed Ying Yuhuan's in strength.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable contacted Ying Yuhuan, who admitted she had forgotten to persuade Chen Changming to help her form a Yin-Yang Seal.
• Chen Changming refused to dual cultivate with Golden Flower Sacred Venerable, and Ying Yuhuan fell silent as he noticed his desire for her had sharply decreased.
• After learning Chen Changming had formed a Yin-Yang Seal without cultivating the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art, Golden Flower Sacred Venerable realized dual cultivation with him could guarantee her own seal and pretended to abandon the idea.

Ying Yuhuan warned Chen Changming that Golden Flower Sacred Venerable might secretly use the Joyous Union Sect’s Blissful Joyous Union Powder, but he believed his powerful body could withstand it. Gu Huaibei arrived at the Joyous Union Sect to retrieve Chen Changming, and her battle with Golden Flower Sacred Venerable ended with the sect’s Love Thread Net severed.

• Ying Yuhuan told Chen Changming that Golden Flower Sacred Venerable might use the Blissful Joyous Union Powder against him, and he said he would not hold back if she did.
• Gu Huaibei learned from Mo Lengyao that Chen Changming had become Dao companions with Ying Yuhuan and hurried to the Joyous Union Sect.
• Gu Huaibei blasted apart the sect’s mountain gate and demanded that Golden Flower Sacred Venerable reveal Chen Bai’s whereabouts.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable claimed Chen Bai had become Dao companions with Ying Yuhuan, and Gu Huaibei attacked her with her natal flying sword.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable and the Joyous Union Sect elders used the Love Thread Net to suppress Gu Huaibei’s sword lights, but Gu Huaibei severed the net and wounded several elders.

Gu Huaibei fought her way into the Joyous Union Sect searching for Chen Changming, but the Golden Flower Sacred Venerable poisoned her with Blissful Joyous Union Powder. As Gu Huaibei reached the Saintess Palace, Chen Changming recognized her and vanished to meet her.

• Gu Huaibei shattered the Love Thread Net and attacked the Joyous Union Sect’s palaces while searching for Chen Changming.
• The Golden Flower Sacred Venerable used the Love Thread Net against Gu Huaibei, then blew up the Spirit Treasure and injured her.
• Gu Huaibei continued searching the sect but was poisoned by the Golden Flower Sacred Venerable’s Blissful Joyous Union Powder.
• The Golden Flower Sacred Venerable waited with the Joyous Union Sect elders, planning to subdue Gu Huaibei and pursue the Yin-Yang Seal.
• Gu Huaibei reached the Saintess Palace in a daze, and Chen Changming recognized her and suddenly vanished.

Chen Changming rescued Gu Huaibei from Blissful Joyous Union Powder, then confronted the Joyous Union Sect over her poisoning and his tangled relationship with Ying Yuhuan. He fled with Gu Huaibei to a deserted island, where they prepared to dispel the poison.

• Chen Changming caught Gu Huaibei and used the Spring Return Immortal Art repeatedly to clear her mind, though the poison's desire remained.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable arrived and defended herself, while Ying Yuhuan asked Chen Changming what she meant to him; he acknowledged her as a companion too.
• Gu Huaibei urged Chen Changming to leave, and he decided to distance himself from the Joyous Union Sect and examine how his mind had been influenced.
• Ying Yuhuan tried to go with Chen Changming, but he resisted her influence and teleported away with Gu Huaibei.
• Golden Flower Sacred Venerable persuaded Ying Yuhuan that Chen Changming would return, while he reached a deserted island and prepared to detoxify Gu Huaibei.

After Gu Huaibei discovered that she had formed a Yin-Yang Seal, Chen Changming suspected that an unseen soul connected to the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art was influencing him and resolved to avoid dual cultivation. He and Gu Huaibei returned to Mystic Ice Island and resumed cultivating, until she came to the Ice Prison with news of a major event in the Illusion Star Sea.

• Gu Huaibei discovered a Yin-Yang Seal in her sea of consciousness after spending a month with Chen Changming neutralizing the Blissful Joyous Union Powder.
• Chen Changming explained that Ying Yuhuan had cultivated the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art and that he had also developed a larger Yin-Yang Seal despite never practicing the technique.
• Gu Huaibei searched Chen Changming with her divine sense but could detect no possessing soul, and she suggested the Joyous Union Sect's founding ancestor might be involved.
• Chen Changming resolved to avoid dual cultivation, and he and Gu Huaibei returned to Mystic Ice Island and resumed cultivation separately.
• Half a month later, Gu Huaibei visited Chen Changming in the Ice Prison and announced that something huge had happened in the Illusion Star Sea.

After Illusion Star Palace’s two palace masters reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, Chen Changming received an invitation to study their body-forging art and discovered it carried a tracking mark. Realizing the palace was hunting him, he planned to flee the Illusion Star Sea, but Gu Huaibei chose to stay and protect the Ice and Snow Palace’s disciples.

• Gu Huaibei told Chen Changming that Illusion Star Palace’s two palace masters had broken through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Li Changnian delivered Chen Changming an invitation to Illusion Star Palace’s body-forging gathering, and Chen Changming accepted it.
• A tracking mark hidden in the invitation entered Chen Changming, who realized Illusion Star Palace was seeking him over the Ancient Moon Secret Realm.
• Chen Changming asked Gu Huaibei to leave the Illusion Star Sea with him, but she refused because she feared for the Ice and Snow Palace’s disciples.
• Chen Changming prepared to leave alone and promised Gu Huaibei he would return once he was strong enough.

Chen Changming raced to the Medicine Sect base at Mist Abyss to escape the Illusion Star Palace Palace Master pursuing him. As Gu Tianxie activated the Ancient Teleportation Array, the Palace Master discovered it, leaving Chen Changming to withstand his attack before he could be transported away.

• The Star Robe Palace Master found Chen Changming through the tracking mark and set out to kill him and reclaim the Golden Core portion of the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• Chen Changming fled across the sea, then used teleportation to reach Mist Abyss ahead of his pursuer.
• Chen Changming summoned Gu Tianxie, who recognized the Ancient Teleportation Array and began activating it with Spirit Stones.
• As the array lit up, Gu Tianxie sensed the Palace Master approaching and warned Chen Changming that he would need to withstand an attack.
• Chen Changming stored his valuables in the Universe Pagoda and prepared to endure the strike, while the Palace Master discovered the array beneath the mist.

Chen Changming escaped the Illusion Star Palace Master through an Ancient Teleportation Array but suffered devastating injuries during the journey. A year later, his Indestructible Demonic Heart had begun slowly healing him, though he still could not gather spiritual power and a sword fragment remained lodged in his Dantian.

• Chen Changming used the Indestructible Demonic Heart and Buddha Bone to block the Illusion Star Palace Master's flying sword, losing both arms as he fought to complete the teleportation.
• The young man in the Star Robe detonated his bonded flying sword to destroy the array, but Chen Changming blocked part of the blast and was transported away.
• The young man in the Star Robe found the Ancient Teleportation Array ruined, realized it might connect to the Cultivation Continent, and left to recover from the backlash of detonating his sword.
• Chen Changming awoke after an unknown time with destroyed meridians, a badly damaged Dantian, and no spiritual power, then fell asleep as his Indestructible Demonic Heart slowly repaired him.
• One year later, Chen Changming found that his body and Dantian had partially recovered, but he still could not gather spiritual power or remove the sword fragment from his Dantian.

After three years of recovering in a hidden Underground Palace, Chen Changming woke as a wounded White-Clad Woman fled from an Iron-Armored Bear into the chamber. The bear followed her inside and turned its attention to Chen Changming, who remained unable to help.

• Chen Changming awoke after two more years and found he could move his thigh slightly, but he still lacked the strength and hands to remove the sword fragment from his Dantian.
• The White-Clad Woman fled through the forest as the Iron-Armored Bear chased her toward the mountain.
• The bear struck the mountainside, revealing an opening, and the wounded White-Clad Woman escaped through it into a passage leading underground.
• The Iron-Armored Bear smashed through the passage after her, and she reached the Underground Palace where Chen Changming lay on the teleportation array.
• Chen Changming woke to the bear's arrival and saw it step onto the array, sniffing at him as if he were a delicacy.

Chen Changming, trapped in the Underground Palace with severe injuries, met Yu Luoyue after she fled an Ironclad Bear and persuaded her to remove the sword fragment from his Dantian. Yu Luoyue left for Martial Spirit City to find him more Spirit Stones, and Chen Changming wondered whether she would return.

• The Ironclad Bear broke its teeth trying to bite Chen Changming, then fled, while Yu Luoyue mistook him for a corpse and promised to burn paper money for him.
• Chen Changming opened his eyes, revealed he was alive, and asked Yu Luoyue to remove the sword fragment embedded in his Dantian.
• Yu Luoyue pulled out the fragment, and Chen Changming urged her to keep it and sell it to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Yu Luoyue offered Chen Changming more than five hundred Spirit Stones, but he said he needed more to recover.
• Yu Luoyue left the Underground Palace for Martial Spirit City to find additional Spirit Stones, and Chen Changming wondered if she would come back.

Yu Luoyue sold the sword fragment she found in the Wilderness for three million Spirit Stones, bought a Foundation Establishment Pill, and returned to the Yu Family. There, she learned that her grandfather was badly injured and the clan owed the Sun Family five million Spirit Stones, leaving her facing a demand to contribute.

• Yu Luoyue concealed the cave entrance, washed the sword fragment, and carried it to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Martial Spirit City.
• The old shopkeeper appraised the fragment as part of a Spirit Treasure and offered three million Spirit Stones, which Yu Luoyue accepted.
• Yu Luoyue bought a Foundation Establishment Pill for two hundred thousand Spirit Stones and received the remaining two million eight hundred thousand in a gifted Storage Ring.
• At the Yu Family entrance, a woman told Yu Luoyue that her grandfather had been badly injured in a spell duel with the Sun Family's ancestor and that the Yu Family owed five million Spirit Stones.
• Yu Luoyue decided she could not donate the Spirit Stones that belonged to the senior, then entered the discussion hall and was ordered by a young clansman to contribute.

Yu Luoyue’s clan chief seized the 2.8 million Spirit Stones she had received for a sword fragment and ordered her to marry the Sun Family’s ancestor. After she sold her Foundation Establishment Pill and brought Chen Changming the remaining 200,000 Spirit Stones, she told him what had happened, and he vowed to help her reclaim her dignity once he could move again.

• Yu Fei and the Yu Family elders discovered Yu Luoyue’s Storage Ring, took her 2.8 million Spirit Stones, and let her keep her Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Yu Fei ordered Yu Luoyue to marry the Sun Family’s ancestor as his concubine in one month, and she left the clan hall without resisting.
• Yu Luoyue sold the Foundation Establishment Pill at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion for 200,000 Spirit Stones, then went to the Underground Palace.
• Yu Luoyue gave Chen Changming the Spirit Stones and tearfully explained how the Yu Family had taken her fortune and arranged her marriage.
• Chen Changming grew angry at the Yu Family’s treatment of Yu Luoyue and vowed to help her reclaim her dignity when he could move again.

Yu Luoyue guarded Chen Changming as he recovered, then fought off a pack of Iron-Armored Wolves using the Lingxiao Sword Technique. Chen Changming recognized her as the granddaughter of his old fellow disciple Yu Hailong and promised to help treat him after recovering.

• Yu Luoyue gave Chen Changming two hundred thousand Spirit Stones and offered to guard him while he recovered.
• After seven days, Yu Luoyue killed a pack of Iron-Armored Wolves that attacked the Underground Palace.
• Chen Changming recognized Yu Luoyue's swordsmanship as the Lingxiao Sword Technique and learned that her grandfather was Yu Hailong, his former fellow disciple.
• Yu Luoyue said Yu Hailong was injured and remained at the peak of the tenth level of Foundation Establishment, and Chen Changming promised to help treat him once he recovered.

After restoring enough of his Dantian to regain mana and walk, Chen Changming returned to Martial Spirit City with Yu Luoyue. At the Yu Family residence, Yu Luoyue defied Clan Chief Yu Fei when he ordered her to take Chen Changming elsewhere, threatening to die rather than marry the Sun Family's ancestor.

• After absorbing two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, Chen Changming regained mana at the third layer of the Qi Refining Realm and began walking with Yu Luoyue's help.
• Chen Changming asked Yu Luoyue to take him to Martial Spirit City to see Senior Brother Yu Hailong, and she carried him on her back through the Wilderness.
• When a Level 2 Iron-Armored Wolf King and its pack attacked, Chen Changming used his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect to kill them all.
• Yu Luoyue carried Chen Changming into Martial Spirit City and brought him to the Yu Family residence, where onlookers criticized her for helping him.
• Clan Chief Yu Fei ordered Yu Luoyue to take Chen Changming to an inn, but she insisted he had shown her kindness and threatened to die rather than marry the Sun Family's ancestor.

Yu Luoyue brought the injured Chen Changming into the Yu Family, where she resisted pressure from her clan chief and cared for him. After her cousins came to drive Chen Changming out, they attacked Yu Luoyue and rushed toward his room, but an aged voice ordered them to stop.

• Yu Fei backed down from forcing Yu Luoyue to marry the Sun Family patriarch and left the Yu Family gates.
• Yu Luoyue carried Chen Changming to her courtyard, where he absorbed Spirit Stones and asked her to make Spirit Rice porridge.
• Yu Luoyue served Chen Changming a pot of porridge, then went outside after her cousins shouted for her.
• Yu Jiaojiao and Yu Zhongyue demanded that Yu Luoyue remove Chen Changming, then drew their swords when she refused.
• Yu Jiaojiao attacked Yu Luoyue as Yu Zhongyue and the others rushed toward Chen Changming's room, but an aged voice ordered them to stop.

Yu Hailong stopped Yu Jiaojiao and the others from bullying Yu Luoyue, then urged her to flee the arranged marriage. When Yu Luoyue revealed that her benefactor knew him, Chen Changming emerged, and the former Lingxiao Sect brothers reunited; Yu Fei still planned to force Yu Luoyue to marry the Sun Family's ancestor.

• Yu Hailong ordered Yu Jiaojiao and the others to slap themselves, then gave Yu Luoyue ten thousand Spirit Stones and told her to leave Martial Spirit City.
• Yu Luoyue refused to leave and told Yu Hailong that Chen Changming was a Lingxiao Sect disciple who knew him.
• Chen Changming revealed himself as Yu Hailong's long-lost junior brother, and the two reunited and shared a meal.
• Yu Hailong said the Sun Family's ancestor had gravely injured him and that he might not live another year; Chen Changming promised to treat him once he recovered.
• Yu Fei heard that Chen Changming was Yu Hailong's junior brother but insisted he would still marry Yu Luoyue to the Sun Family's ancestor.

Chen Changming recovered rapidly in the Yu Family, advancing from the third to the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm while hiding his progress from Yu Hailong. The chapter leaves Yu Hailong taken away by Yu Fei before he can drink with Chen Changming again, as Yu Luoyue notices Chen Changming's cultivation has changed.

• Yu Hailong asked whether Chen Changming had reached Foundation Establishment, and Chen Changming claimed his cultivation had fallen after enemies severed his arms and injured his Dantian.
• Chen Changming used the Spirit-Devouring Insect's dense spiritual energy to heal, reaching the sixth level of the Qi Refining Realm by morning.
• Yu Luoyue brought Chen Changming Spirit Rice porridge, and he told her to keep his rapid cultivation recovery from Yu Hailong.
• By evening, Chen Changming had advanced to the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm as Yu Hailong arrived to drink with him again.
• Yu Fei stopped Yu Hailong from drinking, carried him away, and Yu Luoyue asked Chen Changming why his cultivation had gone back again.