Recaps

Chen Changming captured Moon Phoenix God and returned toward the Beast Taming Immortal Sect, while the Great Shang Imperial Clan completed its Nine-Colored Glazed Pearl and plotted to seize the Great Zhou and Great Xia imperial clans' treasures. The chapter ended with the black-robed ancestor wielding the pearl and beginning the clan's secret plan.

• Moon Phoenix God questioned Chen Changming, who posed as Chen Shan and claimed Yun Xueqi had forced him to impersonate a divine physician.
• Chen Changming appeared behind Moon Phoenix God, knocked him unconscious, sealed his cultivation, and imprisoned him in the Universe Pagoda.
• Chen Changming changed into an old man in green robes and left, expecting Moon Phoenix God’s capture to end the Yun Clan’s pressure on Yun Xueqi.
• The Great Shang Imperial Clan celebrated the successful refinement of the Nine-Colored Glazed Pearl, crediting Huangshen with helping deduce the required art.
• The black-robed ancestor planned to steal the Great Zhou Imperial Clan’s Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl and later the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s pearl to strengthen Great Shang.

Chen Changming perfected the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art and later reached the eighth level of the Golden Core realm as the Beast Taming Immortal Sect's inner sect tournament approached. He registered for the tournament with the newly advanced Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle, while Lin Mengxuan learned that Chen Changming had been taking top-grade Sky Spirit Pills.

• Hall Master Li Zizai learned Chen Shan could refine top-grade Sky Spirit Pills and looked forward to his future tournament performance.
• Yue Tianqi ordered the Great Shang Imperial Clan to search for the missing Moon Phoenix God and investigate whether the Yun Clan had captured him.
• After four years of cultivation, Chen Changming practiced the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art one hundred thousand times, perfected it, and discovered its furnace and flames had become transparent.
• Several months later, Chen Changming reached the eighth level of the Golden Core realm, and the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle announced it had advanced to a high-level seventh-rank Beast.
• Chen Changming went to register for the inner sect tournament, where Lin Mengxuan was surprised by his cultivation breakthrough and learned he had been taking top-grade Sky Spirit Pills.

Chen Changming gave Lin Mengxuan a hundred top-grade Sky Spirit Pills and registered for the inner disciple competition, where Elder Li learned that his Magnetic Mystic Turtle had reached level seven, upper tier. As Chen Changming returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Garden, a blood-red light sped toward Immortal Taming City and plunged into it.

• Chen Changming gave Lin Mengxuan a bottle of top-grade Sky Spirit Pills and revealed that he could refine them himself.
• When other inner disciples asked him for pills and threatened to beat him in the competition, Chen Changming refused and dismissed them.
• Chen Changming promised to help Lin Mengxuan cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm and went to register for the competition.
• Elder Li was shocked to learn that the Magnetic Mystic Turtle had reached level seven, upper tier, and gave Chen Changming a token that could teleport him out of danger.
• A blood-red light raced toward Immortal Taming City and plunged into the city.

Qi Yue'e fled to Yun Xueqi with the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl after the Yue Clan poisoned and attacked the Yun Clan. Chen Changming treated Qi Yue'e, but when Yun Xueqi offered him the pearl, Qi Yue'e stopped her, invoking the clan's ancestral command.

• Qi Yue'e reached Yun Xueqi's cave dwelling, revealed that the Yue Clan had poisoned the Yun Clan and attacked it, and handed over the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl.
• Qi Yue'e explained that Yun Kui had sacrificed himself to help her escape and that the Yue Clan blamed Moon Phoenix God's disappearance for its attack.
• Yun Xueqi contacted Chen Changming, who agreed to treat Qi Yue'e while his incarnation remained focused on the inner sect disciple tournament.
• Chen Changming arrived disguised, learned more about the attack, and used the Spring Return Immortal Art to cure Qi Yue'e's poison and restore her vitality.
• Chen Changming asked to examine the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl, and Qi Yue'e stopped Yun Xueqi from handing it to him, citing the ancestral command.

Chen Changming discovered that the Yun Clan’s Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl contained a fragment of North Pole Origin-Connecting Mountain, then decided to seize the Yue Clan’s matching pearl. He secretly stayed in Immortal Taming City and waited for the Yue Clan’s ancestor, who arrived with Yue Tianqi and secured the city lord’s permission to attack discreetly.

• Qi Yue'e let Chen Changming examine the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl, and he sensed an anchoring object inside it that carried the aura of a North Pole Origin-Connecting Mountain fragment.
• Yun Xueqi and Qi Yue'e explained that the Yue Clan sought the pearl because its ancestor might have refined a matching anchoring object into a Spirit Treasure and developed a corresponding cultivation art.
• Qi Yue'e worried that the Yue Clan’s ancestor would attack, while Chen Changming learned that the ancestor was at the fifth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm and judged he could defeat him.
• Yun Xueqi urged Chen Changming to return to his sect, but he only pretended to leave Immortal Taming City before changing his appearance and returning to his rented cave abode.
• Yue Tianqi and the Yue Clan’s ancestor arrived in Immortal Taming City and paid the city lord, who allowed them to handle the dispute discreetly without damaging other cave abodes or being seen.

Chen Changming lured the Yue Clan ancestor out of Immortal Taming City and killed him with a single sword strike, then took the Nine-Colored Glazed Pearl. The chapter ended with Chen Changming hurling an object at Yue Tianqi.

• The Yue Clan ancestor and Yue Tianqi secretly surrounded Yun Xueqi's cave abode with formation flags, but Chen Changming appeared and removed them.
• Chen Changming challenged the Yue Clan ancestor to fight outside Immortal Taming City, and the ancestor accepted before flying out with Yue Tianqi.
• The Yue Clan ancestor showed off the Nine-Colored Glazed Pearl and agreed to let Chen Changming test its defenses with a full-powered attack.
• Chen Changming used the Slaughter Demon Sword's Annihilate Myriad Spirits to shatter the pearl's radiance and kill the Yue Clan ancestor in one strike.
• Chen Changming seized the Nine-Colored Glazed Pearl and hurled an object at Yue Tianqi.

Chen Changming killed the Yue Clan patriarch and Yue Tianqi, then went with Yun Xueqi and Qi Yue'e to the Yun Clan estate to eliminate the Yue Clan forces there. He left the surviving Yun Clan members alive and poisoned, with Yun Xueqi offering to summon a physician to treat them.

• Chen Changming used a black stone and his great black sword to kill Yue Tianqi, then collected his Storage Ring and took both Yue Clan corpses for his demon pets.
• Chen Changming returned to Yun Xueqi’s cave abode and told Yun Xueqi and Qi Yue'e that he had killed the Yue Clan patriarch and Yue Tianqi.
• Chen Changming accompanied the Yun Clan mother and daughter to the Yun Clan estate, where they found surviving clan members bound and poisoned, and the estate devastated.
• Yue Clan cultivators surrounded Chen Changming, Yun Xueqi, and Qi Yue'e, but Chen Changming killed them all with a single punch.
• Chen Changming noticed that the surviving Yun Clan members had been poisoned, and Yun Xueqi offered to bring a divine physician to cure them.

Chen Changming prepared to compete in the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s inner sect tournament, hoping to place in the top three and enter the Immortal Pool. The first match began with Chen Changming facing Shi Lang on Arena One.

• Chen Changming returned to Immortal Taming City while Qi Yue'e and Yun Xueqi brought the rescued Yun Clan members there, and he replied to Yun Xueqi’s request for help before turning his attention to the tournament.
• Chen Changming told Lin Mengxuan he aimed for the top three, drawing mockery from nearby inner sect disciples.
• Sect Master He Changkong and Li Zizai discussed Chen Shan’s prospects, while the master of Thirteen Peaks dismissed his chances in the tournament.
• The Deacon Hall hall master started the tournament and the light screen paired Chen Changming with Shi Lang for the first match.
• Chen Changming took his place on Arena One, where Shi Lang arrived as his opponent.

Chen Changming revealed that his Magnetism Mystic Turtle had reached the upper tier of Level Seven, shocking Shi Lang, the watching disciples, and the sect’s leaders. He challenged Shi Lang to leave the arena, but Shi Lang attacked with his magic treasure and Earth Armor Dragon.

• In the Sect Master Hall, Li Zizai praised Chen Shan while several Peak Masters mocked his Magnetism Mystic Turtle’s slow advancement.
• Shi Lang summoned his seventh-level mid-stage Earth Armor Dragon and taunted Chen Shan to summon his turtle.
• Chen Changming summoned the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle, whose upper-tier Level Seven aura stunned Shi Lang and the crowd.
• The sect’s leaders argued over whether Chen Shan’s beast-taming talent or the turtle’s concealed cultivation explained its rapid evolution.
• Chen Changming told Shi Lang he was no match and should leave, but Shi Lang attacked with his natal magic treasure as the Earth Armor Dragon fired earthen spears at him.

Chen Changming’s Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle won its first tournament match by disrupting Shi Lang’s magic treasure and overpowering his Earth Armor Dragon. Chen Changming advanced through later rounds with ease, but his next opponent was Qin Xiangbei, one of the top inner disciples.

• Chen Changming’s Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle used its Divine Ability to disrupt Shi Lang’s bonded treasure and draw in the Earth Armor Dragon, forcing Shi Lang to concede.
• The sect’s leaders reacted with astonishment to the Mystic Turtle’s unprecedented Divine Ability, and Li Zizai defended Chen Shan’s potential to reach the Immortal Pool.
• Chen Changming won his subsequent matches without needing to fight himself, while Lin Mengxuan was eliminated by a Golden Core Realm opponent.
• The tournament’s light screen paired Chen Changming with Qin Xiangbei, and Lin Mengxuan warned him that Qin was a top inner disciple and sword cultivator with several natal Flying Swords.

Chen Changming faced Qin Xiangbei in the arena, where their flying swords and companion Beasts clashed. Chen Changming’s Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle gained the upper hand, but Qin Xiangbei revealed three more swords and launched a second sword formation.

• Chen Changming met Qin Xiangbei, who summoned his Thousand-Needle Blade Sparrow and six Geng-Gold Swords, while Chen Changming brought out nine swords and his Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle.
• Qin Xiangbei’s flying swords clashed with Chen Changming’s, and the Thousand-Needle Blade Sparrow attacked the turtle’s defensive formation with needles, its beak, and golden plume swords.
• The Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle disrupted the plume swords with its divine light and blasted the sparrow away.
• Chen Changming trapped Qin Xiangbei’s six swords in the Three Talents Sword Formation, but Qin Xiangbei formed a sword formation that broke free.
• Qin Xiangbei revealed three additional flying swords and sent all nine into another sword formation to counterattack Chen Changming.

Chen Changming revealed eighteen bonded Flying Swords to defeat Qin Xiangbei, then continued winning as the inner sect tournament narrowed to its top hundred. He entered the next round against Jiao Nan and unveiled twenty-seven natal Flying Swords, leaving the crowd wondering how many he still had hidden.

• The peak masters expected Chen Shan to lose to Qin Xiangbei, but Chen Changming summoned eighteen bonded Flying Swords and crushed Qin's Nine-Star God-Shattering Sword Formation.
• Qin Xiangbei suffered backlash and withdrew from the arena, and the elders declared Chen Shan the winner.
• Li Zizai predicted Chen Shan could reach the top three, while the Thirteen Peaks' peak master insisted he would not advance far.
• Chen Changming won several more matches and made the top hundred, where the ranking placed him near the bottom because he was the only eighth-level Golden Core cultivator.
• Chen Changming was paired against peak tenth-level Golden Core cultivator Jiao Nan and flew onto the Number One arena.
• Chen Changming summoned twenty-seven natal Flying Swords and the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle, shocking the disciples before the match began.

Chen Changming defeated Jiao Nan with his Three Talents Sword Formation and secured forty-ninth place, then revealed fifty-four natal flying swords against his next opponent. The chapter left the second-round battle about to begin, with Chen Changming intent on reaching the top three and improving his spirit root.

• Li Zizai and He Changkong praised Chen Changming's twenty-seven flying swords and discussed how the Immortal Pool might improve his spirit root.
• Chen Changming used his Three Talents Sword Formation and Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle to overwhelm Jiao Nan, who conceded.
• Chen Changming defeated Jiao Nan and entered the top fifty, while Lin Mengxuan praised his abilities.
• Chen Changming's next opponent was a Golden Core tenth-level disciple ranked twentieth.
• Chen Changming summoned fifty-four natal flying swords at the start of the second-round match, stunning the crowd and Elder Li.

Chen Changming defeated Chu Feiyang in the fifth round of the Heaven's Pride Ranking, claiming first place and securing a path to the Immortal Pool. In the Sect Master Hall, the peak masters discussed whether to ask him to give up his Immortal Pool slot, but He Changkong agreed the sect would honor his choice.

• Chen Changming won the second and third rounds with his Flying Swords and Three Talents Sword Formation, advancing into the top ten.
• The peak masters argued that Chen Changming lacked the spirit-root potential to merit the sect's full support, and the master of Thirteen Peaks proposed asking him to surrender his Immortal Pool slot.
• He Changkong said the sect could offer compensation if Chen Changming volunteered his slot, but would let him enter the Immortal Pool if he refused.
• Chen Changming defeated his fourth-round opponent with the Three Talents Sword Formation and the Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle, rising to third place.
• Chen Changming revealed seventy-two Natal Flying Swords and defeated Chu Feiyang, who conceded before his golden body was destroyed.
• The steward elder declared Chen Changming the winner, and his name appeared at the top of the Heaven's Pride Ranking.

After winning the Inner Sect Disciple Tournament, Chen Changming was summoned by the Sect Master and urged to give up his Immortal Pool slot. He refused, and Elder Li took him and the other qualifiers to the Immortal Pool.

• Lin Mengxuan celebrated Chen Changming’s victory over Chu Feiyang, while disciples who had mocked him fled in fear of his future revenge.
• Murong Yan conceded to Chen Changming, leaving him the tournament champion and securing his place at the Immortal Pool.
• Elder Li brought Chen Changming to meet Sect Master He Changkong, where the sect leaders proposed that he surrender his slot in exchange for other cultivation resources.
• Chen Changming refused to relinquish his Immortal Pool slot, and He Changkong ordered Elder Li to take the three qualifiers there.
• The master of Thirteen Peaks doubted Chen Changming could gain a Heavenly Spirit Root, while Li Zizai backed him and He Changkong said they would wait and see.

Chen Changming entered the Immortal Pool with Murong Yan and Jiang Biehe, where a mysterious man and woman revealed that the Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root had taken refuge inside him. After three hours, the Spirit Testing Stone showed that his spirit root had risen to upper-grade Earth-tier, though the root’s hidden potential remained undiscovered.

• Elder Li brought Chen Changming, Murong Yan, and Jiang Biehe to the Immortal Pool, and its guardian learned that Chen Shan had a mid-grade, Profound-rank Five Elements Spirit Root.
• The guardian led the three disciples into the Immortal Pool, where Chen Changming felt its energy changing his spirit roots.
• A mysterious man and woman recognized the Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root within Chen Changming and discussed how it could raise his cultivation speed to that of a Sacred Spirit Root.
• After three hours, the guardian pulled the disciples from the pool and told them to test their spirit roots.
• Chen Changming touched the Spirit Testing Stone, which displayed an upper-grade Earth-tier spirit root.

After the Immortal Pool improved Chen Changming’s spirit root, the sect’s peak masters rejected him again, so he returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Garden. His hidden Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root let him cultivate at astonishing speed, and within a year he reached the tenth level of the Golden Core realm.

• Chen Changming’s spirit root improved to top-grade earth rank in the Immortal Pool, while Murong Yan and Jiang Biehe gained nothing.
• Elder Li reported the results to He Changkong and Li Zizai, and Li Zizai reassured Chen Changming that he would still support him.
• He Changkong asked the peak masters to take Chen Changming as a disciple, but all thirteen refused, so Chen Changming chose to remain in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden.
• Chen Changming discovered that he cultivated far faster than expected because the hidden Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root had entered his body.
• Elder Li delivered Geng-Gold Sword materials in place of the Sky Spirit Pills, and Chen Changming used the pills he already had to reach the tenth level of the Golden Core realm within a year.

Chen Changming broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, received the Spirit-Locking Pact, and became a core disciple. After the Immortal Pool’s strange aura was found greatly diminished, the sect suspected him and sent Li Zizai to bring him there.

• Chen Changming advanced from the Golden Core Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm and went to the Inheritance Hall for a Spirit-Locking Pact.
• Li Zizai examined Chen Changming, found no change in his spirit roots, and speculated that his five-element roots had accelerated his cultivation.
• Chen Changming received the Spirit-Locking Pact, then Elder Li replaced his inner sect robes and token with core disciple items.
• News of Chen Changming’s rapid breakthrough spread, and He Changkong went to inspect the Immortal Pool, finding that much of its strange aura had faded.
• He Changkong suspected Chen Changming was responsible and ordered Li Zizai to bring him to the Immortal Pool; Li Zizai appeared outside the Ten Thousand Beast Garden.

Chen Changming was questioned by the Beast Taming Immortal Sect after the strange aura in the Immortal Pool vanished, but repeated inspections found nothing unusual in him or the other disciples who entered it. He Changkong kept Chen Changming under suspicion and barred him from contact with the Spirit-Taming Pact while the investigation continued.

• Li Zizai summoned Chen Changming and told him that the Sect Master suspected him of causing the Immortal Pool's strange aura to disappear.
• He Changkong and the guardians searched Chen Changming's body with their divine senses but found nothing unusual.
• Chen Changming suggested that Murong Yan and Jiang Biehe be questioned, and He Changkong and Li Zizai likewise found nothing unusual in them.
• He Changkong speculated that the Immortal Pool's fate might have run its course, but refused to clear Chen Changming of suspicion.
• He Changkong ordered that Chen Changming be barred from contact with the Spirit-Taming Pact until the investigation was complete.

After He Changkong refused to let Chen Changming learn the Spirit-Taming Pact, Chen Changming decided to strengthen his Spirit-Locking Pact and seek a higher-grade metal-element cultivation art. At the Scripture Depository, the other core disciples took all the available metal-element techniques, but Chen Changming found a jade slip containing the missing lower portion of his Golden Origin Unification Art.

• He Changkong denied Chen Changming the Spirit-Taming Pact, claiming it would be of little use to someone with an earth-grade spiritual root.
• Back in his cave dwelling, Chen Changming planned to have his clone take a Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill while he focused on cultivating the Spirit-Locking Pact.
• Chen Changming decided to replace his low-grade Golden Origin Unification Art with a metal-element cultivation art that could reach the Spirit Transformation Realm, then went to the Scripture Depository.
• A core disciple taunted Chen Changming about obtaining Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills, and the core disciples took every metal-element technique from the cabinets to spite him.
• In a dusty corner, Chen Changming found a jade slip containing the surviving lower portion of the Golden Origin Unification Art and eagerly claimed it.

Chen Changming obtained the second half of the Golden Origin Unification Art and resumed cultivating it. Liu Qingwu visited him, revealed her suspicions about his identity and past actions, and left him worried that she might expose him to the sect.

• Chen Changming found the second half of the Golden Origin Unification Art in the Scripture Depository and traded the first half to the elder for five hundred thousand points.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave abode, memorized the completed technique, and began cultivating it after taking a Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill.
• Three days later, Liu Qingwu visited Chen Changming and congratulated him on raising his Spirit Root to upper-grade Earth-grade.
• Liu Qingwu said she believed Chen Changming had secretly helped her contract with the Crimson Radiance Prison Tiger and had raised the Magnetic Mystic Turtle’s level.
• Chen Changming denied her claims and tried to conceal his identity, but Liu Qingwu said his travels and Spirit Root improvement explained his exceptional cultivation speed.

Liu Qingwu gave Chen Changming the Spirit-Taming Pact, but he explained that he had entered the sect to rescue his Demon King friends and declined it. After completing the Spirit-Locking Pact, Chen tried to bind the Heavenly Fox King, failed, and was exposed when Qin Qiao'er and her grandfather destroyed his illusion formation.

• Liu Qingwu revealed that she knew Chen Changming was Luo Shan and offered him the Spirit-Taming Pact to repay him for saving her life.
• Chen Changming told Liu Qingwu that he was in the Beast Taming Immortal Sect to rescue his captured Demon King friends, and she destroyed the Jade Slip before leaving.
• Three months later, Chen Changming completed the Spirit-Locking Pact and continued strengthening it while cultivating in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden.
• Chen Changming entered the Level Eleven area and used a golden Heavenly Lock to try to bind the Heavenly Fox King, but it shattered before completing the pact.
• Qin Qiao'er's grandfather destroyed Chen Changming's illusion formation, exposing him, and Qin Qiao'er recognized him as Chen Shan.

Chen Changming returned to the Level Eleven Beast region with a strengthened Spirit-Locking Pact, while Qin Qiao'er failed again to contract the Heavenly Fox King. He began another attempt to bind the fox, confident he could free her from the Demon Suppression Cage.

• Chen Changming encountered Qin Qiao'er and Qin Zhenshan, who warned him not to target the Heavenly Fox King and mocked his chances of contracting a Demon King.
• Qin Qiao'er and Qin Zhenshan discussed whether Chen Changming had caused the Immortal Pool's changes, then Qin Qiao'er failed to contract the Heavenly Fox King with the Spirit-Taming Pact.
• A month later, Chen Changming returned to the Level Eleven Beast region after strengthening the Spirit-Locking Pact for the third time.
• Chen Changming used array flags to conceal his attempt from the other Demon Kings, while the Ancient Ming Demon King silenced their mockery.
• Chen Changming sent his condensed golden Heavenly Lock into the Heavenly Fox King and declared that he would succeed in contracting her and free her from the cage.

Chen Changming freed the Heavenly Fox King by contracting her with the Spirit-Locking Pact, then openly brought her through the Beast Taming Immortal Sect. After news spread, Qin Zhenshan and Qin Qiao'er headed to the Ten Thousand Beast Garden to investigate.

• Chen Changming used the Spirit-Locking Pact to free the Heavenly Fox King and made her his guardian Beast.
• Chen Changming told the Heavenly Fox King he would seek to rescue the other Demon Kings and Little Four, then removed the illusion array and stored its flags.
• The Heavenly Fox King announced her freedom to the Demon Kings of Wuyuan Island, who congratulated her and hoped Chen Changming would rescue them too.
• Chen Changming openly announced that he had contracted the Heavenly Fox King as they left the Ten Thousand Beast Garden, prompting disciples to spread the news.
• After hearing the report, Qin Zhenshan suspected something was amiss, and he and Qin Qiao'er went to the Ten Thousand Beast Garden to investigate.

Chen Changming faced sect leaders and Qin Zhenshan’s family after revealing his pact with the Heavenly Fox King, insisting he had used the Spirit-Locking Pact. The Sect Master summoned him for questioning, but Chen’s enormous golden Heaven-Lock shocked everyone in the Sect Master Hall.

• Qin Qiao'er and Qin Zhenshan confronted Chen Changming, who summoned the Heavenly Fox King and confirmed their pact.
• Qin Zhenshan accused Chen Changming of being a spy, but Li Zizai vouched for him and Chen said he had used the Spirit-Locking Pact.
• Sect Master He Changkong summoned Chen Changming, Li Zizai, and the Heavenly Fox King to the Sect Master Hall for questioning.
• Chen Changming summoned his Heaven-Lock, and its extraordinary size stunned He Changkong, Li Zizai, Qin Zhenshan, and the other sect leaders.