Recaps

Chen Changming’s unusually powerful Heavenly Lock astonished the Beast Taming Immortal Sect, prompting its leaders to suspect the Ten Thousand Beast Garden was responsible. The sect’s peak masters rushed to send disciples there, and Chen was left wondering how to handle anyone who challenged him for his cave dwelling.

• Chen Changming claimed his Heavenly Lock had been exceptionally thick since he first cultivated the Heavenly Spirit Pact, shocking Li Zizai, He Changkong, and the other sect leaders.
• Li Zizai urged He Changkong to let Chen learn the Spirit-Taming Pact, hoping he might form a contract with the Calamity Beast, but He Changkong hesitated because he wanted to reserve that chance for Ye Xuanji.
• The peak masters competed to recruit Chen, but Chen declined and said he was content guarding the Ten Thousand Beast Garden after they had rejected him before.
• Li Zizai and He Changkong suspected the Ten Thousand Beast Garden had enhanced Chen’s cultivation, so they approved sending three hundred disciples from each of the Thirteen Peaks to move in.
• Li Zizai escorted Chen Changming and the Heavenly Fox King back to the garden, where peak disciples were already arriving, and asked how Chen would respond if someone fought him for his cave dwelling.

Chen Changming faced a crowd of gifted disciples who wanted his cave dwelling, then used the Heavenly Fox King to deter them and offered the blessed land for an expensive lease. He left the disciples stunned with a display of his thick Heavenly Locks and the promise that cultivating there might help them contract with a Demon King.

• Chen Changming entered the Ten Thousand Beast Garden while disciples from the Thirteen Peaks flocked to his cave dwelling.
• Liu Qingwu joined Chen Changming and acknowledged that the sect’s leaders wrongly believed the garden was responsible for his abilities.
• A gifted disciple demanded that Chen Changming surrender his cave dwelling, and Chen Changming refused.
• When a gifted disciple attacked Chen Changming, the Heavenly Fox King sent him flying, silencing the gathered prodigies.
• Chen Changming offered to lease the cave dwelling for one hundred million Spirit Stones a year and showed the crowd his thick Heavenly Locks to entice them to cultivate there.

Chen Changming rented out the peaks in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden and spent a year cultivating until he could form nine Golden Heaven Locks. He successfully contracted the Ancient Ming Demon King, while Liu Qingwu suggested that his original cave abode had helped him advance.

• Chen Changming rented the peaks to the prodigy disciples for a total of thirteen hundred million Spirit Stones, with each peak receiving rotating half-year periods.
• Chen Changming and Liu Qingwu settled outside the Level Eleven area, where several hundred core disciples carved out neighboring cave abodes.
• After a year of cultivation, Chen Changming strengthened the Spirit-Locking Pact to Great Completion and gained the ability to form nine Golden Heaven Locks.
• Chen Changming returned to the Level Eleven area and told the Ancient Ming Demon King that he intended to contract every Demon King on Wuyuan Island.
• The core disciples watched in shock as Chen Changming used nine Golden Heaven Locks to contract the Ancient Ming Demon King, while Liu Qingwu credited his progress to his original cave abode.

Chen Changming contracted seven demon kings in the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s valley, bringing his total to eight with the Heavenly Fox King. After news of his achievement spread, the sect’s leaders debated whether to let him attempt to contract Wuyuan Island’s Calamity Beast, but Ye Xuanji’s breakthrough to the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm shifted their attention.

• Chen Changming contracted seven demon kings in succession and released the Heavenly Fox King from his Beast Taming Bracelet.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave residence and spoke with several demon kings from Wuyuan Island as news of his achievement spread through the sect.
• He Changkong summoned the sect’s leaders, and they discussed whether Chen Changming or Ye Xuanji should get the chance to contract the Calamity Beast.
• Several leaders argued that the opportunity should go to Ye Xuanji, while Li Zizai insisted that Chen Changming was suited to contract the Calamity Beast.
• Ye Xuanji released an astonishing aura from his mountain peak, and the sect’s leaders learned that he had reached the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Ye Xuanji emerged from seclusion and was asked to contract the mysterious Beast, Little Four, but his attempt failed. He left determined to reach the Spirit Transformation Realm and try again, while Little Four insisted he would never be able to contract it.

• Ye Xuanji arrived at the Sect Master Hall after breaking through three minor realms, and He Changkong told him about the Beast that no one had managed to contract.
• He Changkong brought Ye Xuanji to the Demon Suppression Cage, where Ye Xuanji confidently approached Little Four and offered to take him to the Spirit Realm.
• Little Four cursed at Ye Xuanji and rejected him, but Ye Xuanji began performing the Spirit-Taming Pact anyway.
• Little Four snapped Ye Xuanji's six purple Heaven Locks, forcing Ye Xuanji to stagger back with blood at the corner of his mouth.
• He Changkong reassured Ye Xuanji that he might succeed after reaching Spirit Transformation, and Ye Xuanji returned to secluded cultivation despite Little Four's mockery.

Ye Xuanji failed to contract Little Four, and He Changkong decided to reserve the Calamity Beast for him while denying Chen Shan access to the Spirit-Taming Pact unless he could contract it first. Li Zizai resolved to warn Chen Shan after He Changkong made clear that he suspected him of causing the Immortal Pool’s changes.

• Little Four enraged Ye Xuanji, then questioned He Changkong about the Beasts from Wuyuan Island and learned that the Heavenly Fox King had been contracted by a male disciple.
• He Changkong told the sect leaders that Ye Xuanji had failed to contract Little Four and proposed waiting until Ye Xuanji reached Spirit Transformation before deciding what to do with the Beast.
• He Changkong rejected Li Zizai’s request to let Chen Shan learn the Spirit-Taming Pact, offering him a chance only if Ye Xuanji failed and Chen Shan then contracted Little Four.
• He Changkong privately suspected Chen Shan of causing the Immortal Pool’s changes and vowed to investigate and remove him if he was guilty.
• Li Zizai decided to inform Chen Shan about He Changkong’s decision so Chen Shan could prepare.

Li Zizai told Chen Changming that the sect planned to make him attempt to contract the Calamity Beast if Ye Xuanji failed, and warned him that the Sect Master favored her. Chen Changming’s master Yuan Jingyang then gave him pills and ingredients to support his cultivation and pill refining, ending with a request that Chen tell him if he ever refined a supreme-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill.

• Li Zizai secretly told Chen Changming that Ye Xuanji, a Saint Spirit Root genius at the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, had failed to contract the Calamity Beast.
• Li Zizai explained that the Sect Master would offer Chen a chance to contract the Calamity Beast with the Spirit-Locking Pact if Ye Xuanji still failed after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, and said he had bet on Chen.
• Chen Changming left the Inheritance Hall and reflected that his rapid cultivation with the Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill could let him reach the second Nascent Soul level in less than two months.
• Guan Lin summoned Chen Changming to Medicine Immortal Valley, where Yuan Jingyang gave him hundreds of high-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills, the pill formula, and ingredients.
• Yuan Jingyang cursed He Changkong for favoring Ye Xuanji and urged Chen Changming to help the Medicine Sect flourish, then asked him to tell his master if he refined a supreme-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill.

Chen Changming broke through to the second and third levels of the Nascent Soul Realm before his true body advanced to Spirit Transformation through the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art. As he endured an unusually powerful heavenly tribulation, three Great Xia Imperial Clan cultivators waited nearby, intending to kill him afterward.

• Chen Changming dismissed a favored disciple’s complaint about the Heavenly Lock and returned to cultivating with Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills.
• Chen Changming’s cultivation reached the second level of the Nascent Soul Realm after two months and the third level two years later.
• Chen Changming’s true body left Immortal Taming City and broke through the Spirit Transformation barrier in an uninhabited mountain range.
• Chen Changming endured the tribulation’s lightning, while three third-layer Spirit Transformation cultivators watched from a thousand li away and planned to kill him after his tribulation.
• Blood-red lightning intensified the tribulation and damaged Chen Changming’s body, which he repeatedly healed with the Spring Return Immortal Art as his physical strength grew.

After surviving the blood-red heavenly tribulation, Chen Changming broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and discovered his body could defeat ordinary Sixth Layer cultivators. Three Great Xia Imperial Clan cultivators tried to kill him, but he killed two and pursued the last one.

• Chen Changming survived the blood-red tribulation, received healing lightning from the Heavenly Dao, and completed his breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Three Great Xia Imperial Clan cultivators surrounded Chen Changming, claiming they would uphold justice on Heaven's behalf.
• Chen Changming shattered their three swords with one punch and killed the burly man who had attacked him.
• Chen Changming caught the fleeing dark-skinned man, learned they targeted him because the Heavenly Dao had sent blood-red lightning, and killed him.
• The third Great Xia Imperial Clan cultivator fled as Chen Changming watched the dark-skinned man's blood mist drift down.

Chen Changming pursued Xia Mu into Great Xia Imperial Clan territory to draw out its ancestor and obtain the Nine-Colored Rainbow Garment Pearl. Xia Dongxiong arrived and attacked, but Chen Changming feigned injury and continued resisting him with the Pure Yang Sword Art.

• Chen Changming chased Xia Mu after killing Xia Yan and Xia Bei, while Xia Mu called Xia Dongxiong for help.
• Xia Dongxiong hurried from the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s palace and arrived before Xia Mu, ready to avenge the dead elders.
• Chen Changming pretended to flee and took Xia Dongxiong’s multicolored hand attack, then feigned injury as he resisted it.
• Xia Dongxiong pursued Chen Changming with a giant nine-colored sword, and Chen Changming repeatedly countered it with the Pure Yang Sword Art until the sword dispersed.

Chen Changming lured Xia Dongxiong into lowering his guard, then killed the Sixth Layer Spirit Transformation cultivator and took the Nine-Colored Rainbow Garment Pearl. He confronted Xia Mu afterward, who recognized the pearl and fled while attacking with talismans.

• Xia Dongxiong brought out the Nine-Colored Rainbow Garment Pearl to protect himself as Chen Changming feigned injury and kept closing the distance.
• Chen Changming used a black stone to shake Xia Dongxiong’s defenses, shattered his swords, and pierced the pearl’s radiance with Sword Blade First Bloom.
• Chen Changming killed Xia Dongxiong in both body and soul, took the Nine-Colored Rainbow Garment Pearl and his Storage Ring, then pursued an elderly witness.
• Xia Mu mourned Xia Yan and Xia Bei, believing the old ancestor had avenged them, until Chen Changming appeared and revealed that he had killed Xia Dongxiong.
• Xia Mu recognized the Nine-Colored Rainbow Garment Pearl in Chen Changming’s hand, unleashed his fifth-grade talismans, and fled.

After killing Xia Mu, Chen Changming kept his breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm secret and began cultivating the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art. At the Beast Taming Immortal Sect, disciples confronted him over their rented cave dwelling, then noticed his rapid cultivation progress.

• Chen Changming killed Xia Mu, took his Storage Ring, and returned to Immortal Taming City after hunting Beasts at Boundary Layer Mountain.
• Chen Changming spent three months comprehending the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art, then began cultivating it with silver flames.
• Chen Changming asked Little Wolf whether reaching level eleven had awakened memories of ancient humans, and Little Wolf said it had not.
• Chen Changming refined Flesh Pills for his demon pets and reflected on the Demon Spirit Vine and his desire to obtain Little Four.
• Prodigious disciples confronted Chen Changming over the Spirit Stones they had paid to rent his cave dwelling, and he refused to refund them.
• A prodigious disciple noticed Chen Changming had advanced from the first to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Realm in only two or three years, stunning the crowd.

After Chen Changming’s rapid breakthrough prompted the prodigy disciples to accuse him of gaining something from the Immortal Pool, the Sect Master summoned him for questioning. Chen Changming explained that Yuan Jingyang had supplied him with Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills and ingredients, leaving the assembled leaders stunned by his claim that he could refine a top-grade pill.

• The prodigy disciples blamed Chen Changming’s quick cultivation on a benefit from the Immortal Pool and went to lodge a complaint with the Sect Master.
• Liu Qingwu explained Ye Xuanji’s exceptional cultivation and warned Chen Changming that the disciples would slander him.
• Elder Zhou reported the complaint to He Changkong, who summoned Chen Changming and gathered the peak masters and influential elders without Li Zizai.
• He Changkong questioned Chen Changming about his cultivation speed, and Chen Changming showed the hall a high-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill.
• Chen Changming said Yuan Jingyang had given him the pills and ingredients so he could refine a top-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill, astonishing everyone in the hall.

Yuan Jingyang defended Chen Shan before the sect leaders and revealed that he had accepted him as his disciple and intended to pass Medicine Immortal Valley to him. After the leaders repeatedly searched Chen Changming for evidence tying him to the Immortal Pool, they found nothing, clearing him of suspicion.

• Chen Changming argued with the master of Thirteen Peaks, and Yuan Jingyang arrived to explain that his gift of the Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill had used no sect resources.
• Yuan Jingyang declared that Chen Shan was his disciple and heir to Medicine Immortal Valley, shocking the leaders and Peak Masters.
• At Yuan Jingyang's urging, the master of Thirteen Peaks, the master of First Peak, other Peak Masters, elders, and finally He Changkong inspected Chen Changming but found no evidence connecting him to the Immortal Pool.
• He Changkong concluded that the Immortal Pool had nothing to do with Chen Shan, and Yuan Jingyang led Chen Changming out of the hall.
• Gifted disciples demanded their Spirit Stones back, but Chen Changming refused, and Elder Geng dismissed their complaints and ordered them to leave.

Chen Changming learned about the Medicine Sect’s Four Sacred Beasts and discovered that Yuan Jingyang and other elders were secretly cultivating the God Spirit Reed by nourishing its flowers with their bodies. The chapter left Chen promising to improve his alchemy so he could make the Human Origin Great Pill and save them.

• Elder Geng warned Chen Changming not to rent out his cave abode again if no one achieved results there during the first term.
• Yuan Jingyang gave Chen Changming a secret volume about the Four Sacred Beasts and explained the Medicine Sect’s ambition to create beings surpassing the Six Ancients.
• Chen Changming learned that the Medicine Sect’s cultivation methods for the Demon Spirit Tree and Demon Spirit Vine were flawed, and that the God Spirit Reed had once brought calamity upon the Human Realm.
• Yuan Jingyang revealed that he was nourishing God Spirit Reed flowers beneath his skin and said several martial uncles were doing the same.
• Yuan Jingyang told Chen Changming that a Human Origin Great Pill could extend their lives, and Chen promised to improve his alchemy while agreeing to keep the God Spirit Reed secret.

Chen Changming learned that the medicine sect expected him to inherit the God Spirit Reed, despite the danger it posed, and he resolved to keep it hidden if he obtained it. A year later, Yun Xueqi visited him and gave him materials to upgrade his Geng-Gold Swords.

• Yuan Jingyang told Chen Changming to learn the Spirit-Taming Pact and form a pact with the Reed Flower, and Chen agreed to try.
• Yuan Jingyang explained how Chen Changming might gain a chance to pact with the Calamity Beast and learn the Spirit-Taming Pact, then urged him to improve his pill-refining skills.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave abode, told Liu Qingwu that the Sect Master had dropped the Immortal Pool suspicions, and said the Sect Master had not agreed to teach him the Spirit-Taming Pact.
• A year later, Yun Xueqi met Chen Changming in a secluded valley and was surprised that he had reached the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Yun Xueqi gave Chen Changming materials for Geng-Gold Swords, which he judged sufficient to upgrade all eighty-one swords to top-grade Spirit Treasures.

Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi faced accusations from Qin Qiao'er that they had colluded with outsiders, prompting her grandfather Qin Zhenshan to intervene. The chapter ended with Qin Zhenshan suppressing Yun Xueqi while Chen Changming hesitated to reveal his true strength, and Yun Xueqi began to speak.

• Chen Changming explained that Yun Xueqi had given him Geng-Gold Sword materials, but Qin Qiao'er accused them of shady dealings and leaking the Beast Taming Immortal Sect's secrets.
• Chen Changming defended Yun Xueqi and warned Qin Qiao'er that his guardian Beasts could stop her.
• Qin Qiao'er summoned her grandfather Qin Zhenshan, who arrived and demanded to know why Chen Shan was involved with the Great Xia Imperial Clan.
• Chen Changming invoked Master Yuan and his position as the future master of Medicine Immortal Valley to resist Qin Zhenshan's threat to take him to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Qin Zhenshan suppressed Yun Xueqi and threatened to take her for interrogation, while Chen Changming held back from using his true body.

Chen Changming’s clone avoided trouble with Qin Zhenshan and rejected Yun Xueqi’s offer to become Dao companions. Later, Yun Xueqi invited his masked true body to explore the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins for rare spirit flowers, and he agreed.

• Yun Xueqi defended Chen Shan to Qin Zhenshan, who withdrew his restraint and left with Qin Qiao'er and the other disciples.
• Chen Changming apologized to Yun Xueqi, declined her offer to become Dao companions, and returned to his cave abode.
• Yun Xueqi visited Chen Changming’s masked true body and invited him to explore the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins.
• Yun Xueqi explained that the ruins held thousand-year milk crystal flowers and blood crystal flowers that could improve cultivation.
• Chen Changming agreed to accompany Yun Xueqi in search of a thousand-year blood crystal flower.

Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi traveled across the Snowfield to the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins, where Yun Xueqi warned him that high-level Spirit Transformation cultivators who entered had emerged with ruined spiritual senses and blackened seas of consciousness. As they prepared to enter, an approaching Immortal Boat brought an old man whose appearance alarmed Chen Changming.

• Chen Changming crossed the Snowfield with Yun Xueqi on the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow and thought of Gu Huaibei and the lost route to the Illusion Star Sea.
• Yun Xueqi explained that a thousand years earlier, most high-level Spirit Transformation cultivators who entered the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins had emerged insane with severely damaged spiritual senses.
• Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi reached the ruins' black-cloud boundary, and Yun Xueqi used a protective talisman while Chen Changming declined one because of his powerful body.
• An Immortal Boat carrying five people approached, and Chen Changming recognized one of the old men aboard and was alarmed.

Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi entered the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins, where they encountered Yuan Jingyang and learned that Chen Shan had cured Yun Xueqi’s Nine Yin Severed Meridian. They reached the cave where Yun Xueqi had found a Thousand-Year Milk Crystal Flower, but a Demonic Yaksha emerged as they explored it.

• Yun Xueqi told Yuan Jingyang that his disciple Chen Shan had cured her Nine Yin Severed Meridian, astonishing him and the other Medicine Sect alchemists.
• Yuan Jingyang warned Yun Xueqi about the dangers of the Demonic Cloud Sea before taking his companions into the demonic clouds.
• Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi entered the ruins and Yun Xueqi used a fire talisman to destroy a swarm of Demonic Cloud Insects.
• Yun Xueqi led Chen Changming to the cave where she had found a Thousand-Year Milk Crystal Flower that was nearly ripe.
• A Demonic Yaksha flew out of the cave’s dense demonic clouds, and Yun Xueqi recognized it.

Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi fought Demonic Yakshas in the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins and discovered a thousand-year blood crystal flower. Chen Changming claimed the flower, but an angry voice revealed that others had arrived too late to take it.

• Chen Changming protected Yun Xueqi and wounded a fifth-layer Spirit Transformation Realm Demonic Yaksha, which escaped into the shadows.
• Five Demonic Yakshas confronted Chen Changming, and Yun Xueqi deduced that one had regrown its arm by eating a thousand-year blood crystal flower.
• Chen Changming sent Yun Xueqi away and killed all five Demonic Yakshas with one punch.
• Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi found the thousand-year blood crystal flower in a grotto, and Chen Changming put it in his Storage Ring.
• An angry voice sounded from elsewhere in the cavern, complaining that its speaker had arrived too late.

Chen Changming killed three Blood Demon Sect cultivators who tried to seize the thousand-year blood crystal flower, revealing the power of his Slaughter Demon Sword to Yun Xueqi. After she swore to keep it secret, they searched deeper into the cavern but found no thousand-year milk crystal flower.

• Three Blood Demon Sect cultivators confronted Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi, demanding the thousand-year blood crystal flower.
• Chen Changming shattered their attacks and bonded Spirit Treasures with the Slaughter Demon Sword, then killed the three cultivators and destroyed their fleeing nascent souls.
• Yun Xueqi recognized that Chen Changming's sword had an aura beyond that of a Spirit Treasure, and she swore a Dao oath not to reveal it.
• Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi continued through the cavern but found no thousand-year milk crystal flower.

Yuan Jingyang and four Medicine Sect elders entered the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins to obtain the Ancient Buddha’s corpse and its Cattail Flowers for their plans to create a Buddha Spirit Gourd and a God Spirit Reed. After they attacked the seemingly lifeless Ancient Buddha, blood-red filaments emerged from its robes and lunged at them.

• Yuan Jingyang and the elders discussed obtaining the Ancient Buddha’s corpse and cultivating its Cattail Flowers into a God Spirit Reed for Chen Shan.
• Yuan Jingyang led the group through the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins to an underground palace where the Ancient Buddha sat motionless on an altar.
• The five elders attacked the Ancient Buddha with fifth-tier talismans, causing its body to tremble.
• Sun noticed blood-red filaments emerging from the Ancient Buddha’s robes, and the elders joined their emerald shields into a cage.
• A mass of blood-red light burst from the monk’s robes and flew toward the five elders.

Yuan Jingyang and the other Medicine Sect disciples fought the powerful Cattail Flower beneath the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins while Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi headed toward the battle. The Ancient Buddha broke their protective shield with his divine sense and struck all five disciples, though a jade pendant awakened Yuan Jingyang.

• Yuan Jingyang and four Medicine Sect disciples attacked the mid-stage level-twelve Cattail Flower with talisman papers, but its defenses and vitality let it withstand their assaults.
• Chen Changming heard the battle from afar, learned it was coming from the deepest part of the Demonic Cloud Sea, and set off with Yun Xueqi to investigate.
• After half an hour of fighting, the Cattail Flower remained uninjured, and the Ancient Buddha watched from the altar while a Demon Realm remnant urged him to release it.
• The Ancient Buddha sent out five strands of black divine sense that destroyed the disciples' protective shield and entered their brows.
• A jade pendant inside Yuan Jingyang cracked and restored his consciousness, though his mind still seemed affected.

Chen Changming entered the Underground Palace and discovered that the Cattail Flower was parasitizing an Ancient Buddha who was nearing nirvana. After driving the Cattail Flower back with his powerful body, he challenged the Ancient Buddha to fight.

• Yuan Jingyang used purple talismans to protect the Medicine Sect elders from an attack on their consciousness, then led them out of the Underground Palace.
• Chen Changming and Yun Xueqi reached the square, where Yuan Jingyang warned them about the powerful Cattail Flower and the elders departed.
• Chen Changming sent Yun Xueqi into the Universe Pagoda and entered the Underground Palace, where he found the Ancient Buddha on an altar.
• The Ancient Buddha released the Cattail Flower, and Chen Changming realized it had been hiding within the monk.
• Chen Changming battered the Cattail Flower with his fists, while the Ancient Buddha revealed he was preparing for his ninth nirvana and could not use a divine sense attack.
• The Ancient Buddha asked Chen Changming about his body-refining technique, and Chen Changming invited him to fight.