Recaps

Chen Changming endured Yu Fei’s mistreatment of Yu Luoyue while recovering his cultivation so he could save Yu Hailong and prevent Yu Luoyue’s forced marriage. After reaching the third level of Foundation Establishment, he freed Yu Luoyue and set out with her to see her grandfather.

• Yu Fei accused Chen Changming of worsening Yu Hailong’s condition, attacked Yu Luoyue when she defended Chen, and ordered guards to imprison her.
• Chen Changming restrained his anger and focused on restoring his cultivation, relying on the Spirit-Devouring Insect and Indestructible Demonic Heart.
• Chen Changming advanced to the ninth level of Qi Refining and then the first level of Foundation Establishment, but initially lacked enough spiritual power to complete the Sweet Dew Art.
• Seven days later, Chen Changming recovered to the third level of Foundation Establishment and knocked out the guards watching Yu Luoyue.
• Chen Changming removed Yu Luoyue’s seal and cut her ropes, then asked her to take him to Yu Hailong as servants hurried to report their escape.

Chen Changming brought Yu Luoyue to the ancestral residence to treat Yu Hailong, but Yu Fei and the elders doubted his intentions and resisted letting him enter. After Yu Hailong summoned Chen and ordered the others away, Chen prepared to treat him in private.

• A servant told Yu Fei that Chen Changming had rescued Yu Luoyue and was heading to the ancestral residence, and Yu Fei led the elders there to stop them.
• Yu Fei questioned Chen Changming’s sudden rise to Foundation Establishment and dismissed his claim that he could heal Yu Hailong with a Divine Ability.
• A man from the ancestral residence summoned Chen Changming to see Yu Hailong, who rebuked Yu Fei for obstructing his junior brother.
• Yu Hailong fainted after Yu Fei refused to leave, and Chen Changming persuaded Yu Fei and the elders to go while telling Yu Luoyue and the middle-aged man to leave too.

Chen Changming healed Yu Hailong with the Sweet Dew Art and promised to help the Yu Family face the Sun Family. The next morning, Sun Chao led a force to the Yu Family’s gates, where Sun Fanying launched the first attack.

• Chen Changming cast the Sweet Dew Art three times, healing Yu Hailong and waking him from the brink of death.
• Yu Hailong thanked Chen Changming, while Yu Fei and the Yu elders kowtowed to apologize for their earlier offense.
• Yu Fei warned that Sun Chao would come to claim a bride, and Chen Changming offered to assist Yu Hailong in the coming fight.
• Sun Chao learned that Chen Changming had healed Yu Hailong and planned to kill Chen Changming and seize his healing treasure.
• Sun Chao led the Sun Family’s Foundation Establishment experts to the Yu Family, and Sun Fanying blasted apart the gates with a magical artifact.

The Sun Family attacked the Yu Family, and Chen Changming killed Sun Fanying when he tried to strike him. Sun Chao withdrew and agreed to return the black iron mine, leaving his suspicions about Chen Changming unresolved.

• Sun Chao confronted Yu Hailong over the Yu Family allegedly breaking its word and began fighting him with a top-grade magic artifact.
• Chen Changming arrived with Yu Luoyue, while Yu Hailong told him not to join the fight and ordered Yu Fei to protect him.
• Sun Fanying ordered the Sun Family cultivators to attack and launched a small seal at Chen Changming, who countered with a silver gleam that killed him.
• Sun Chao stopped fighting, ordered the Sun Family to leave, and agreed to return the Yu Family's black iron mine.

Chen Changming revealed that his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect had killed Sun Fanying and the Xiaguang Sect cultivators, while Yu Hailong prepared to seize the black iron mine. Sun Chao allied with the Zhou and Zhao family ancestors to raid the Yu Family that night, as Jin Nanwu paid respects to a female statue beneath the Jin Family estate.

• Chen Changming admitted to Yu Hailong that his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect had killed Sun Fanying and the Xiaguang Sect cultivators two hundred years earlier.
• Sun Chao and Sun Yunfei examined Sun Fanying’s corpse and concluded that a soul-attacking Talisman Treasure had killed him.
• Zhou Lianqiao and Zhao Qixing proposed joining forces with Sun Chao against the Yu Family, seeking healing pills in exchange for helping him obtain the Talisman Treasure.
• Sun Chao agreed to a joint midnight raid on the Yu Family with Zhou Lianqiao and Zhao Qixing.
• Jin Nanwu, the Jin Family’s strongest ancestor, bowed before a female statue in the Underground Palace and greeted her as the Holy Mother.

Chen Changming killed the ancestors of the Sun, Zhou, and Zhao Families when they attacked the Yu Family, and Jin Nanwu discovered that a Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect—not a Talisman Treasure—had defeated them. By morning, news of the three deaths had spread across Martial Spirit City, while Jin Nanwu considered trying to obtain the insect through negotiation.

• Jin Nanwu reported the Yu Family's miraculous spiritual pill to the Sacred Mother, who ordered him to secure a share if the other families obtained it.
• Sun Chao, Zhou Lianqiao, and Zhao Qixing arrived at the Yu Family at midnight to attack Chen Changming and seize his medicines.
• Chen Changming unleashed the Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect, which killed all three attackers and left their bodies for Yu Hailong.
• Yu Hailong took the three ancestors' possessions and bodies away to warn their families against attacking the Yu Family.
• Jin Nanwu realized the silver attacker was a Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect and decided to consider buying it rather than trying to seize it by force.
• News of the three ancestors' deaths spread throughout Martial Spirit City the next morning.

After Sun Chao’s death, his family struggled to accept its diminished position while the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion shopkeeper secretly planned to use knowledge of Yu Hailong’s Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect to seek a transfer back to Great Qin. Meanwhile, Chen Changming recovered under the Sweet Dew Art, and Yu Hailong brought him an opportunity to treat an injured member of the Jin Family.

• Sun Ziyang urged the Sun Family to attack the Yu Family, but Sun Yunfei persuaded the family to lie low and preserve its strength.
• The Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion shopkeeper paid respects to Sun Chao, then privately resolved to report Yu Hailong’s Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect to an Immortal Alliance contact and ordered an investigation into him.
• Three days later, Chen Changming’s cultivation had recovered to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, and he told Yu Hailong that he needed no spiritual medicines.
• Yu Hailong explained that the Jin Family wanted Chen Changming to save a gravely injured Foundation Establishment descendant with a miraculous pill.
• Chen Changming said he would treat the Jin Family descendant only if they offered a sufficiently high price, delighting Yu Hailong.

Chen Changming agreed to treat a Jin Family member and arranged to visit the Jin Family, whose members hoped to inspect his supposed miraculous pills. When the injured young man arrived, Chen Changming denied having any miraculous pills, leaving the Jin Family suspicious and watchful.

• Chen Changming asked Yu Hailong to arrange ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills, and Yu Hailong ordered twenty sets for him.
• Yu Hailong told Jin Zi'an that Chen Changming would visit the next day to treat the injured Jin Family member.
• Jin Nanwu decided to attend the treatment himself, while Jin Zi'an and the other Jin Family members prepared to meet Chen Changming.
• Yu Hailong brought Chen Changming to the Jin Family, where he met Jin Nanwu and Jin Zi'an before the injured young man was carried into the hall.
• When Jin Zi'an asked Chen Changming to administer his miraculous pills, Chen Changming said he had none, prompting the Jin Family members to turn suspicious gazes on him.

Chen Changming healed a Jin Family clansman with the Sweet Dew Art and secured the Jin Family’s protection for the Yu Family. After learning about the technique, the Holy Mother ordered Jin Nanwu to obtain its cultivation method by any means.

• Chen Changming healed Jin Feng with the Sweet Dew Art, astonishing Jin Nanwu, Jin Zi'an, and the Jin Family elders.
• Chen Changming refused compensation and asked the Jin Family to look after the Yu Family, and Jin Zi'an agreed.
• Jin Zi'an hosted Chen Changming and Yu Hailong at a banquet, where Yu Hailong celebrated the Jin Family’s support for the Yu Family.
• Yu Fei gave Chen Changming a Storage Bag containing twenty sets of Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients, while Yu Hailong drunkenly fell from his flying sword on the way home.
• Jin Nanwu told the Holy Mother that Chen Changming had healed Jin Feng with the Sweet Dew Art, and she ordered him to obtain its cultivation method by any means.

Chen Changming refined twenty batches of supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills and gave one to Yu Luoyue, who used it to break through. He then showed Yu Hailong the remaining pills, leaving his senior brother stunned by his alchemy.

• Chen Changming finished refining twenty batches of supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills from Yu Hailong's medicinal ingredients.
• Chen Changming gave Yu Luoyue a supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and warned her to keep it secret.
• Yu Luoyue swallowed the pill and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm as Chen Changming stood guard.
• Yu Hailong sensed Yu Luoyue's breakthrough and came to her courtyard.
• Chen Changming showed Yu Hailong the remaining nine pills, and Yu Hailong was shocked to learn Chen had refined them.

Chen Changming gave Yu Hailong 199 top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills and decided to take Yu Luoyue with him when he left the Yu Family. The chapter ended with Jin Zi'an asking Yu Hailong to persuade Chen Changming to hand the Sweet Dew Art over to the Jin Family.

• Chen Changming gave Yu Hailong 199 top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills and urged him to keep their existence secret.
• Yu Zhong and the other Yu Family juniors mocked and threatened Yu Luoyue, and Yu Hailong drove them away.
• Chen Changming told Yu Luoyue he would take her with him after he recovered, and she eagerly agreed to travel with him.
• Yu Fei informed Yu Hailong that Jin Zi'an had come to see him, and Jin Zi'an asked Yu Hailong to persuade Chen Changming to give the Jin Family the Sweet Dew Art.

Chen Changming negotiated with the Jin Family to exchange his Sweet Dew Art for a Rebirth Pill that could restore his severed arm. Jin Zi'an agreed to the trade on Jin Nanwu’s condition that Chen swear an oath to Heaven, and Chen accepted.

• Jin Zi'an offered Yu Hailong the Jin Family’s last Rebirth Pill in exchange for Chen Changming’s Sweet Dew Art, and Yu Hailong went to consult Chen.
• Chen agreed to trade the art and explained that its healing power depended on the cultivator’s comprehension, claiming that the Jin Family could bring out its full effects.
• Jin Zi'an returned to Jin Nanwu, who approved the exchange because Chen was willing to swear an oath to Heaven.
• Yu Hailong asked to learn the Sweet Dew Art, and Chen gave him a Jade Slip containing it.
• Jin Zi'an returned to the Yu Family and said Jin Nanwu would exchange the Rebirth Pill if Chen swore an oath to Heaven; Chen agreed, and Jin Zi'an revealed that Jin Nanwu had bought the pills from a wandering Rogue Cultivator in the Chu Kingdom.

Chen Changming traded the Sweet Dew Art for a Rebirth Pill, which only regrew a small part of his severed arm. Jin Nanwu delivered a copy of the art to the Holy Mother, whose attempt to cultivate it triggered a deadly attack on him.

• Chen Changming swore an oath that the Sweet Dew Art he gave Jin Zi'an matched the one he cultivated, then exchanged it for the Jin Family's last Rebirth Pill.
• Chen Changming swallowed the pill, but its power faded after regrowing only an inch of his arm, so he resumed restoring his body and dantian with the Spirit-Devouring Insect.
• Yu Hailong studied the Sweet Dew Art, while Jin Zi'an secretly kept a copy before presenting the method to Jin Nanwu.
• Jin Nanwu traveled to a hidden Underground Palace and offered the Sweet Dew Art to the Holy Mother.
• The Holy Mother dismissed Jin Nanwu's warning about the art's difficulty, then blood-red tentacles surged from the palace walls toward him.

Jin Nanwu escaped the Blood Demon Tree’s tentacles with the Holy Mother’s help, while she became interested in the Sweet Dew Art. A month later, Chen Changming’s cultivation had nearly recovered to Golden Core, and Yu Hailong learned that Chen Changming had once reached that realm but still had not recovered his arm.

• The Holy Mother used the Blood Soul Bell to drive back the Blood Demon Tree’s tentacles and gave Jin Nanwu three Rebirth Pills.
• The Holy Mother told her lord that the Blood Demon Tree was restless, then decided to study the Sweet Dew Art after he dismissed it as a low-level technique.
• After a month of recovery, Chen Changming reached the peak of the tenth level of Foundation Establishment and expected to return to Golden Core soon.
• Yu Hailong demonstrated his newly mastered Sweet Dew Art, and Chen Changming said its healing effect was far weaker than his own.
• Yu Hailong learned that Chen Changming had previously reached Golden Core and had used pills to compensate for his poor aptitude.
• Yu Hailong asked whether Chen Changming had taken a Rebirth Pill, and Chen Changming said it had barely helped his missing arm.

Chen Changming recovered to the first level of the Golden Core Realm while Holy Mother Wusheng decided to capture him to investigate his unusual healing ability. The Jin Family prepared a formation to trap his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect and lured Chen Changming and Yu Hailong to visit.

• Chen Changming stopped Yu Hailong from confronting Jin Zi'an, explaining that the Rebirth Pill had slightly regenerated his arm, while Yu Hailong left to test the Sweet Dew Art.
• Holy Mother Wusheng found that her Sweet Dew Art barely helped an injured man and ordered Jin Nanwu to capture Chen Changming for interrogation.
• Jin Nanwu warned his sons that Chen Changming's Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect could kill powerful cultivators and ordered them to prepare a formation to destroy it.
• Jin Nanwu planned for Jin Zi'an to invite Chen Changming and Yu Hailong to the Jin Family under the pretext of discussing the Sweet Dew Art.
• Chen Changming recovered to the first level of the Golden Core Realm, concealed his cultivation, and heard Yu Hailong say that Jin Nanwu had also achieved mediocre results with the Sweet Dew Art.

Chen Changming and Yu Hailong entered the Jin Family’s ancestral residence, where Jin Nanwu trapped them in a formation and demanded Chen’s Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect. Chen revealed his recovered Golden Core cultivation and used nine bonded Geng-Gold Swords to break the formation, leaving Jin Nanwu fleeing outside it.

• Chen Changming suppressed his cultivation to the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment before going with Yu Hailong to the Jin Family.
• Jin Zi'an left the pair at the ancestral residence, then activated a trap with the Jin Family’s three Golden Core ancestors as Jin Nanwu confronted them.
• Jin Nanwu demanded that Chen Changming hand over the Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect, explaining that he had witnessed Chen use it to kill the ancestors of the Sun, Zhou, and Zhao families.
• Chen Changming summoned nine bonded Geng-Gold Swords and formed a Three Talents Sword Formation to resist the Jin Family’s great formation.
• Chen revealed himself as a first-level Golden Core cultivator, and his sword formation began tearing apart the great formation as Jin Nanwu escaped with his array disc.

Chen Changming shattered the Jin Family’s grand formation and killed its four Golden Core patriarchs and Jin Zi'an, leaving the Yu Family dominant in Martial Spirit City. The Jin Family’s elders sought forgiveness, while other cultivation families hurried to pay tribute to the Yu Family.

• Chen Changming used twelve natal Flying Swords to break the Jin Family’s grand formation and kill Jin Hu, Jin Shan, Jin Yue, Jin Nanwu, and Jin Zi'an.
• Chen Changming gave Yu Hailong five Storage Rings, keeping the Rebirth Pills he found inside them.
• A Jin Family elder discovered the deaths and concluded that Yu Hailong’s junior brother had defeated the clan; the elders decided to bring gifts to the Yu Family and beg forgiveness.
• News of the Jin Family patriarchs’ deaths spread through Martial Spirit City, and the Jin Family’s elders arrived at the Yu Family with thorns on their backs.
• Cultivation families rushed to the Yu Family with gifts, while the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion shopkeeper watched and reflected on Chen Changming’s hidden strength.

The Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion's shopkeeper learned that Chen Changming had reached the Golden Core Realm and tried to piece together how he survived the Ziyuan Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Holy Mother Wusheng discovered that Jin Nanwu and the Jin Family's other patriarchs had been killed, and realized her Black Lotus Sect had lost members to Yu Hailong.

• The Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion's shopkeeper concluded that Chen Changming had slain the Jin Family's four Golden Core patriarchs with his sword and awaited an Immortal Alliance expert's arrival.
• A black-clad man reported Chen Changming's history in the Lingxiao Sect, prompting the shopkeeper to suspect he had escaped the Ziyuan Secret Realm with its spirit herbs.
• After the Jin Family patriarchs died, cultivation families crowded the Yu Family with gifts while Yu Hailong turned away visitors seeking Chen Changming.
• Holy Mother Wusheng sent a man to investigate the Jin Family after she could not contact Jin Nanwu.
• The man reported that Jin Nanwu, the other three Golden Core patriarchs, and Jin Zi'an had been killed by Yu Hailong, enraging Holy Mother Wusheng.

Holy Mother Wusheng sent Li Laosan and seven other Black Lotus Sect Golden Core cultivators to capture Chen Changming alive for his knowledge of the Sweet Dew Art. Chen Changming killed them with his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insects, then discovered a Storage Ring was empty as he investigated their origins.

• Holy Mother Wusheng ordered Li Laosan to secretly lead sect members to Martial Spirit City and capture Chen Changming alive.
• Li Laosan explained to the other seven Golden Core cultivators that Chen Changming had killed the Jin Family's four ancestors and knew the Sweet Dew Art.
• The eight men attacked Chen Changming's courtyard with a black net, but his Three Talents Sword Formation held it back.
• Chen Changming's Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insects killed all eight attackers, and he collected their Storage Rings and weapons.
• Yu Hailong arrived and learned that Chen Changming's Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect was a level-seven Beast.
• Chen Changming found that one of the captured attackers' Storage Rings was completely empty.

After Chen Changming and Yu Hailong discovered that the slain attackers carried empty Storage Rings, they suspected the Jin Family had a powerful hidden backer. Holy Mother Wusheng concluded that her Black Lotus Sect team had been wiped out and summoned the Black and White Vajras to confront Chen Changming.

• Chen Changming checked all eight attackers’ Storage Rings and found them empty, then told Yu Hailong that a hidden force might support the Jin Family.
• Yu Hailong worried that the hidden force might include late-stage Golden Core cultivators, but Chen Changming assured him he had a way to deal with them and went to recover.
• Yu Hailong stayed behind to handle the scene and admired the magic treasures taken from the corpses.
• Holy Mother Wusheng realized that Li Laosan and the other seven Black Lotus Sect members had not returned and suspected Chen Changming’s Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect had reached level seven.
• Holy Mother Wusheng summoned the Black and White Vajras, the sect’s ninth-level Golden Core fighters who could challenge a tenth-level cultivator together.

Holy Mother Wusheng sent the Black and White Vajras to kill Chen Changming, and they infiltrated the Yu Family estate under an illusion array. As their battle with Chen Changming began, he revealed the strength of his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect and repelled White Vajra’s attack with a strange black-water technique.

• Holy Mother Wusheng told the Black and White Vajras that Chen Changming had killed Black Lotus Sect disciples and ordered them to eliminate him.
• The Black and White Vajras disguised themselves as Foundation Establishment cultivators, investigated the Yu Family, and entered Martial Spirit City.
• The Black and White Vajras surrounded the Yu Family estate with an illusion array and confronted Chen Changming after he sensed their arrival.
• Chen Changming sent out his Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect, which fought the Vajras’ natal flying swords evenly and was identified as a seventh-grade mid-tier Beast.
• White Vajra launched a small black sword at Chen Changming, who countered with a black python that spat corrosive water and drove the sword away.

Chen Changming used his mid-stage eighth-rank Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm to defeat the Black and White Vajras, who killed themselves rather than face him, and learned nothing from their belongings. Holy Mother Wusheng concluded that a Great Qin Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator had arrived and chose to lie low, while Chen Changming’s cultivation and body continued recovering.

• Chen Changming revealed the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm’s eighth-rank power, and the Black and White Vajras committed suicide rather than face it or risk capture.
• Chen Changming ordered the Beast to eat the two Vajras and break the Yu Family courtyard’s illusory formation, then found no useful clues in their Storage Rings.
• Holy Mother Wusheng assumed a Great Qin Immortal Alliance cultivator had killed the Vajras and decided to hide, while using her bell to calm the rioting Blood Demon Tree.
• After a month without another attack, Chen Changming concluded the assassins had backed down and noted that his cultivation had recovered to the third Golden Core level and his body to the peak of the tenth level.

Chen Changming recovered his cultivation in the Yu Family while reflecting on Du Xiaoliang, the Green Lotus Sword Immortal, and his missing Senior Sister. When Yu Hailong failed to uncover who had drained the blood of everyone at a Yu Family black iron mine, he hesitated outside Chen Changming’s courtyard before someone approached.

• Chen Changming recalled his past companions and enemies, then resumed restoring his spiritual power and healing his body.
• After seven days, Chen Changming’s body cultivation recovered to the first layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and five days later his dantian recovered to the fourth layer of the Golden Core Realm.
• Yu Fei learned that miners, guards, and clan elders at a Yu Family black iron mine had been killed and drained of blood, but the elders could not identify the culprit.
• Yu Hailong refused Yu Fei’s suggestion to involve Chen Changming and investigated the mine with his son, but they found no clues.
• Feeling unable to resolve the crisis facing the Yu Family, Yu Hailong stood hesitating outside Chen Changming’s courtyard until a figure approached and asked what he was muttering about.

Chen Changming accompanied Yu Hailong to investigate the deaths at the Yu Family's mysterious iron mine and used the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm to search for a hidden Beast. The earthworm returned from the rock wall, but the chapter ended before it reported what it had found.

• Yu Hailong told Chen Changming that Yu Family members at a mysterious iron mine had been found drained of blood, and Chen agreed to investigate.
• The Zheng Family ancestor and Wang Family ancestor watched Chen Changming and Yu Hailong leave Martial Spirit City and complained about the Yu Family's rise.
• At the mine, Chen Changming examined the corpses and their small wounds, then ruled out several likely blood-sucking Beasts.
• Chen Changming released his Level Eight Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm to investigate the possibility of a Beast hiding underground.
• The Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm burrowed back out of the rock wall, and Chen Changming asked how its investigation had gone.

Chen Changming followed the Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm to the underground stronghold backing the Jin Family and discovered it belonged to the Black Lotus Sect. Inside, he confronted the new Holy Mother Wusheng and revealed himself as Shangguan Xiong, leaving her panicked and ringing her bell.

• The Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm told Chen Changming and Yu Hailong about an underground palace, and Chen Changming decided to investigate it while Yu Hailong waited outside.
• The Rotten-Leaf Black Earthworm led Chen Changming through a tunnel to a vast underground settlement guarded by Golden Core cultivators.
• Chen Changming recognized the Black Lotus Sect emblem, defeated the guards, and entered the Underground Palace.
• Chen Changming confronted Holy Mother Wusheng, whose voice reminded him of the Holy Mother Wusheng he had encountered before.
• Chen Changming changed his voice and identified himself as Shangguan Xiong, and Holy Mother Wusheng panicked and shook her bell.