Recaps

He Changkong persuaded Elders Divine Light and Divine River to stop Li Zizai while three peak masters attacked Chen Changming, claiming they were acting to recover the Calamity Beast. Li Zizai broke through the elders’ blockade and reached Chen Changming, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• He Changkong presented the elders with evidence against Chen Shan and convinced them to keep Li Zizai from interfering, while promising not to harm Li’s life.
• He Changkong ordered the peak masters of Thirteenth Peak, First Peak, and Seventh Peak to capture the Calamity Beast, and three of them attacked Chen Changming’s cave.
• Chen Changming said the Calamity Beast had escaped at Flame Mountain, then used a life-saving jade talisman to withstand the peak masters’ attacks.
• Li Zizai sensed Chen Changming’s talisman, confronted Elders Divine Light and Divine River, and fought his way past them using a strength-boosting secret art.
• Li Zizai reached the Ten Thousand Beast Garden, knocked the three peak masters back, and asked Chen Changming if he was unharmed.

Li Zizai rescued Chen Changming from He Changkong and fled with him to Northern Yuan Province, using a secret art to escape pursuit. Chen Changming’s healing Divine Ability suppressed the backlash and helped them get away, and the chapter ended with Li Zizai asking what the ability was.

• Li Zizai arrived to help Chen Changming, then took him and fled when He Changkong ordered an attack.
• Li Zizai repeatedly teleported toward Northern Yuan Province, but the strain of his secret art began to injure him.
• Chen Changming healed Li Zizai several times with the Spring Return Immortal Art, restoring his strength and letting him flee faster.
• He Changkong and the two elders gave up the chase after noticing Li Zizai’s backlash was being suppressed and their own spiritual power was running low.
• He Changkong said he still intended to make Chen Shan pay because he wanted the Calamity Beast for Ye Xuanji; Divine Light advised returning to the sect to discuss matters.
• Li Zizai and Chen Changming rested in a secluded valley, and Li Zizai praised Chen Changming’s healing ability and asked what it was.

Li Zizai took Chen Changming to Red Luan Province to seek protection from his old friend Su Qingwan, the Red Luan Immortal Sect’s sect master. After saving a sect disciple on the way, they reached the sect, where Su Qingwan greeted Li Zizai with a reproachful welcome.

• Li Zizai chose Red Luan Province as a refuge for Chen Changming and joked that he would find him a Dao companion there.
• Li Zizai and Chen Changming traveled by immortal boat, and Li Zizai killed five demonic cultivators who were attacking Lin Yue.
• Lin Yue thanked Li Zizai for saving her and then left to complete her sect mission.
• Li Zizai and Chen Changming entered Red Luan Province and arrived at the Red Luan Immortal Sect seven days later.
• Su Qingwan opened the mountain gate and reproached Li Zizai for not visiting her in nearly three hundred years.

Li Zizai and Chen Changming arrived at the Red Luan Immortal Sect, where Su Qingwan welcomed them and offered Chen protection from He Changkong. Su Qingwan arranged separate lodgings for Chen and Li, and Chen was led toward Cloud-Perching Cave as curious disciples questioned his origins.

• Su Qingwan reunited warmly with Li Zizai and promised Chen Changming safety from the Beast Taming Immortal Sect.
• Li Zizai explained that Chen had used a miraculous healing ability to help him escape He Changkong’s pursuit.
• Su Qingwan agreed to let Li and Chen stay, then ordered Lingyue to take Chen to Cloud-Perching Cave and prepare Listening Luan Cave and a Warm Jade Bed for Li.
• Lingyue led Chen toward Cloud-Perching Cave, where several female disciples, including Qin Yu, asked about his background.

Chen Changming arrived at the Red Luan Immortal Sect and impressed its disciples with his Demon King contract before settling into Cloud-Perching Cave. Meanwhile, Su Qingwan revealed that she had reached the ninth level of the Red Luan Immortal Art, and she and Li Zizai spent the night together, waking up the next morning teasing each other.

• Chen Changming introduced himself to Lingyue and the Red Luan Immortal Sect disciples, who recognized his reputation and learned he had contracted a Demon King-level Beast.
• Lingyue led Chen Changming to Cloud-Perching Cave, where Ling Yun gave him a token to control its formations.
• Su Qingwan brought Li Zizai to Listening Luan Cave and revealed that she had reached the ninth level of the Red Luan Immortal Art.
• Li Zizai agreed to build a family with Su Qingwan, and the two spent the night together in the cave.
• The next morning, Su Qingwan teased Li Zizai about his physique, and he boastfully defended himself.

Li Zizai asked Su Qingwan to help Chen Shan find a suitable partner, and she agreed to have Lingyue discreetly look into possible matches. After the Beast Taming Immortal Sect branded Li Zizai and Chen Shan as traitors and issued a massive bounty for Chen Shan, Su Qingwan proposed that they join the Red Luan Immortal Sect for protection.

• Li Zizai asked Su Qingwan to find Chen Shan a suitable partner, and she agreed to have Lingyue check for willing candidates.
• He Changkong summoned the Beast Taming Immortal Sect's peak masters and elders, who agreed to denounce Li Zizai and Chen Shan and issue a wanted notice.
• He Changkong ordered a bounty of ten million high-grade Spirit Stones for Chen Shan, multiplied fivefold if he and the Nine Demon Kings were captured together.
• The Beast Taming Immortal Sect spread its proclamation and wanted notice across Eastern Jin, accusing Chen Shan and Li Zizai of betrayal.
• Su Qingwan showed the notice to Li Zizai and Chen Changming, then suggested they join the Red Luan Immortal Sect for protection.

Li Zizai and Chen Changming joined the Red Luan Immortal Sect, while Yuan Jingyang led Medicine Immortal Valley out of the Beast Taming Immortal Sect. He Changkong backed down from confronting the Red Luan Immortal Sect and ordered a campaign of rumors against Chen Changming’s Calamity Beast.

• Su Qingwan welcomed Li Zizai and Chen Changming into the Red Luan Immortal Sect and announced their membership publicly.
• Yuan Jingyang decided Medicine Immortal Valley would leave the Beast Taming Immortal Sect, and he led more than twenty alchemists out after He Changkong failed to stop them.
• He Changkong received news that Li Zizai and Chen Shan had joined the Red Luan Immortal Sect and became furious at Su Qingwan’s public declaration.
• He Changkong rejected the Peak Masters’ call to attack the Red Luan Immortal Sect, citing its defenses and Li Zizai’s strength.
• He Changkong ordered the sect to recruit alchemists and spread rumors that Chen Changming’s Calamity Beast preyed on cultivators.

Chen Changming obtained the Spirit-Taming Pact from Li Zizai after claiming the Calamity Beast had escaped, and he set out for Red Luan Province to study it in person. Meanwhile, Ye Xuanji confronted He Changkong after learning Chen Changming had contracted nine Level Eleven Demon Kings.

• Li Zizai dismissed the accusations against the Calamity Beast, but Chen Changming revealed that it had escaped after breaking free of the Golden Heaven Lock.
• Su Qingwan suggested Li Zizai teach Chen Changming the Spirit-Taming Pact, and Li Zizai gave him a Jade Slip containing the method.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave abode, found he could not properly study the Jade Slip from afar, and decided to travel to Red Luan Province.
• Chen Changming left Immortal Taming City and headed to the Yun Clan to tell Yun Xueqi he was departing.
• Ye Xuanji learned that Chen Changming had contracted nine Level Eleven Demon Kings and angrily demanded an explanation from He Changkong.

He Changkong sent Ye Xuanji and three powerful escorts to Ghost Mist Mountain to seize the Ghostface Butterfly, a highly ranked Beast with valuable abilities. They arrived ahead of local cultivators, while a masked man on a Snow Feather Ice Sparrow also approached the mountain.

• He Changkong told Ye Xuanji that he had issued a warrant for Chen Shan and urged him to focus on becoming stronger.
• He Changkong gave Ye Xuanji information about the Ghostface Butterfly and ordered him to travel to Northern Yuan Province with the First Peak Master and Elders Liu and Wang.
• The four set out at dawn on the Ink Shadow Mystic Owl, and the First Peak Master told Ye Xuanji to wait until the others subdued the butterfly before contracting it.
• After five days, the Beast Taming Immortal Sect party reached Ghost Mist Mountain and flew into its black fog.
• Several local Spirit Transformation cultivators decided to enter the mountain despite the Beast Taming Immortal Sect's arrival, while a masked man on a Snow Feather Ice Sparrow approached from afar.

Chen Changming entered Ghost Mist Mountain after learning that Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators had gathered there, only to discover that a Ghostface Butterfly had appeared. Three local cultivators tried to kill him, and the chapter ended as they attacked after confirming his apparent second-layer cultivation.

• Chen Changming noticed Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators converging on Ghost Mist Mountain and decided to investigate the opportunity there.
• Three righteous-path cultivators aboard an Immortal Boat plotted to kill Chen Changming, believing him to be a weak outsider.
• Chen Changming rode the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow into Ghost Mist Mountain and examined the corrosive black mist.
• The three cultivators stopped Chen Changming and revealed that traces of a Ghostface Butterfly had appeared in the mountain.
• The fifth-layer cultivator used an ancient mirror to verify Chen Changming's apparent second-layer cultivation, then ordered the three to attack.

Chen Changming defeated three Spirit Transformation sword cultivators, made them swear to serve him while searching for the Ghostface Butterfly, and led them into Ghostface Mountain. After a day without finding the butterfly, the group detected the aura of a level-thirteen Demon King.

• Chen Changming shattered the three sword cultivators’ lifebound flying swords, suppressed them, and took their Storage Rings.
• Chen Changming spared Li Xiu, Shi Canglan, and Su Qinghan after they swore to help him search Ghost Mist Mountain, then healed their injuries.
• Chen Changming learned the cultivators’ names and sects and had them steer the Immortal Boat deeper into Ghostface Mountain.
• After searching for a day without finding the Ghostface Butterfly, Chen Changming warned the three that a fight over it would be dangerous and said they need not join in.
• Li Xiu sensed the aura of a level-thirteen Demon King, and his expression changed in surprise.

Chen Changming and his companions searched Ghostface Mountain for the Ghostface Butterfly before encountering Ye Xuanji and the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s escorts. Their clash was interrupted when Li Huayuan and three sword cultivators arrived to confront the First Peak Master.

• Li Xiu sensed that a Level 13 Ink Shadow Mystic Owl was protected by a stronger divine sense, and the group suspected it belonged to a Beast Taming Immortal Sect expert.
• After a fruitless search, Chen Changming told the others to head for the depths of Ghostface Mountain.
• The Ink Shadow Mystic Owl caught up with their Immortal Boat, carrying the First Peak Master, Ye Xuanji, and two other elderly Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The First Peak Master ordered Li Xiu and the others to turn back, angering Li Xiu.
• Li Huayuan arrived with three sword cultivators, and the First Peak Master recognized him.

Chen Changming and his companions followed the search for the Ghostface Butterfly deeper into Ghostface Mountain as powerful sects and unknown masked cultivators converged. After a mysterious black-robed group passed them, a battle erupted ahead, where Li Xiu sensed many eighth-layer Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered.

• Guo Yun and Li Huayuan exchanged warnings before their sects headed deeper into Ghostface Mountain to seek the Ghostface Butterfly.
• Chen Changming told Li Xiu and the others to follow the powerful cultivators and observe, while promising not to make them fight for him.
• Li Xiu's friend Qin Tian warned them that high-level cultivators had entered the mountain and advised them to turn back.
• Three masked eighth-layer Spirit Transformation cultivators rode past on a black war chariot, and their hoarse-voiced female Deputy Leader briefly stopped to look at Chen Changming.
• A tremendous crash sounded ahead, and Li Xiu sensed that many eighth-layer Spirit Transformation cultivators had gathered in a great canyon.

Chen Changming entered the great canyon, where five groups of powerful cultivators had gathered around a mass of black mist. After Madam Miaoyi’s attempt to drain his vital essence failed, the First Peak Master suspected Chen Changming was a Body Cultivator, leaving the assembled cultivators on guard.

• Li Xiu was struck by another divine-sense attack, and Chen Changming healed him before parting ways with Li Xiu and his companions.
• Chen Changming surveyed the canyon and identified five groups of eighth-layer Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered around the black mist.
• A black-robed cultivator and members of the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect mocked Chen Changming for approaching at the second layer of Spirit Transformation.
• Madam Miaoyi invited Chen Changming to join her team, but her attempt to drain his vital essence rebounded and forced her to stagger back.
• The First Peak Master speculated that Chen Changming was a Body Cultivator, and the gaunt old man covered in skulls demanded to know if he was one.

Chen Changming joined Madam Miaoyi’s group after proving his strength, then learned that the Ghostface Butterfly’s shed wings could be traded for precious Realm-Breaking Talismans. As the butterfly prepared to emerge from its chrysalis in three days, the Beast Taming Immortal Sect and Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect confronted each other over who would claim it.

• Chen Changming knocked two teeth from Master White Bone’s skull with a punch, convincing the group to accept him.
• Madam Miaoyi introduced the group and explained how powerful Realm-Breaking Talismans were and why they wanted to exchange the Ghostface Butterfly’s wings for them.
• The black-robed deputy leader revealed that the butterfly’s wings were the key material for refining Realm-Breaking Talismans.
• Chen Changming learned the Ghostface Butterfly was in a chrysalis and would emerge in three days after evolving from early to middle stage of level twelve.
• Li Huayuan and the First Peak Master declared that the Beast Taming Immortal Sect intended to obtain the butterfly, while the First Peak Master demanded courtesy from the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect.

The Beast Taming Immortal Sect and the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect competed with rival factions to secure the Ghostface Butterfly, whose cocoon was expected to open in about a day. The groups formed shifting alliances, leaving Chen Changming confident despite his side’s apparent disadvantage as the expected battle approached.

• Li Huayuan rejected Guo Yun’s goodwill, but agreed to join forces with the Beast Taming Immortal Sect to contend for the Ghostface Butterfly.
• Madam Miaoyi invited the mysterious Great Black Heaven cultivators to ally with her group, and their leader accepted, provoking Guo Yun’s threats.
• The Blood Demon Sect agreed to join the Beast Taming Immortal Sect and the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect after Guo Yun and Li Huayuan swore to give them three Ghostface Butterfly wings.
• The factions shifted into opposing camps, while Chen Changming and the Great Black Heaven woman remained confident despite Madam Miaoyi’s concern.
• Chen Changming asked when the Ghostface Butterfly would emerge, and Madam Miaoyi said its cocoon should open in about one day.

The Ghostface Butterfly’s chrysalis cracked, triggering a battle between the cultivators gathered in the canyon. Chen Changming healed his wounds and then damaged Li Huayuan’s flying swords with a powerful sword technique, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• A crack appeared in the Ghostface Butterfly’s chrysalis, and Li Huayuan launched a sudden attack on Madam Miaoyi’s group as the Blood Demon Sect and Great Black Heaven joined the clash.
• Madam Miaoyi, White Bone Elder, and Demonic Venerable Greenwater blocked the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect’s Flying Swords, while two swords wounded Chen Changming’s fist.
• Chen Changming healed his fist with the Sweet Dew Art, shocking Li Huayuan, who then urged Guo Yun to summon the guardian beasts.
• Guo Yun and the other Beast Taming Immortal Sect elders summoned three Demon Kings as Li Huayuan directed twelve Flying Swords at Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming used Annihilate Myriad Spirits to crack Li Huayuan’s Flying Swords and badly wound a Black-armored Tyrant Crocodile, stunning everyone present.

After Chen Changming revealed a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect targeted him while the other factions fought over the Ghostface Butterfly and Great Black Heaven’s allies. Chen Changming recognized the black-robed woman as Bi Cang King and healed from the sword cultivators’ combined assault, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Guo Yun and Li Huayuan identified Chen Changming’s black greatsword as a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, and the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect decided to seize it.
• Li Huayuan refused Guo Yun’s offer of help, splitting the factions into battles over Chen Changming, Great Black Heaven, and the Ghostface Butterfly.
• Madam Miaoyi and the black-robed woman pledged to fight alongside Chen Changming as the sects launched attacks across the canyon.
• The black-robed woman unleashed emerald-green flames that dispersed the Blood Demon Sect’s blood clouds, and Chen Changming recognized her as Bi Cang King.
• Chen Changming used Annihilate Myriad Spirits against four sword cultivators, was badly injured by their combined attack, then healed himself with the Spring Return Immortal Art.

Chen Changming and Bi Cang joined forces against Li Huayuan and the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect, whose attacks escalated to a talisman-powered strike. As the Ghostface Butterfly emerged from its chrysalis, Bi Cang was wounded protecting Chen Changming, then healed by his Spring Return Immortal Art.

• Li Huayuan ordered his fellow sword cultivators to use fifth-rank talismans against Chen Changming, but Bi Cang appeared and blocked their attacks with emerald flames.
• Bi Cang and Chen Changming split the assault of dozens of natal Flying Swords, knocking them back with her fists and his Slaughter Demon Sword.
• Li Huayuan and three fellow sect members activated a top-grade talisman that unleashed a ninth-layer Spirit Transformation strike at Chen Changming.
• Bi Cang revealed her Qilin Arm and shattered the purple greatsword, but the impact badly wounded her before Chen Changming healed her with the Spring Return Immortal Art.
• The Ghostface Butterfly broke free from its chrysalis and spread its wings over the canyon.

Chen Changming and the others were caught in a trap disguised as the Ghostface Butterfly, which revealed the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array and began devouring their vitality. As the array threatened even powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators, Ye Xuanji prepared to escape with his Realm-Breaking Talisman.

• Guo Yun and the elders tried to seize the Ghostface Butterfly, but Chen Changming drove them back and reached for it while Bi Cang deflected the other cultivators' Flying Swords.
• The Ghostface Butterfly cut off Chen Changming's power and triggered a black cage formation, revealing that the group had been lured into a trap.
• The Ghostface Butterfly claimed the formation's master feared no sect, while the assembled cultivators stopped fighting one another and searched for a way to escape.
• Old Monster Withered Ghost recognized the array as an overwhelming Ghost Path formation, and its baleful aura began draining his life despite his defensive barrier.
• The Ghostface Butterfly named the formation the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array and said it refined powerful victims into origin power, while Chen Changming struggled against its force.
• Ye Xuanji secretly took out his Realm-Breaking Talisman, prepared to abandon the others if the danger worsened.

Trapped in the Ghostface Butterfly’s formation, Chen Changming tried to kill Ye Xuanji but watched him escape with a Realm-Breaking Talisman, while Li Huayuan followed using a Shadow-Following Talisman. After Chen revealed Ye Xuanji’s Saint Spirit Root, the remaining cultivators turned their attention back to killing the Ghostface Butterfly to escape.

• The trapped cultivators attacked the Ghostface Butterfly, but its black light blocked their strikes as the formation grew stronger.
• Chen Changming tried to kill Ye Xuanji with the Slaughter Demon Sword, but Ye activated a Realm-Breaking Talisman and escaped through a hole in the formation.
• Li Huayuan used a Shadow-Following Talisman to escape after Ye Xuanji, leaving the other cultivators behind.
• Chen Changming revealed that Ye Xuanji had a Saint Spirit Root, shocking the gathered cultivators and prompting Guo Yun to confirm it.
• As the formation continued to tighten, Guo Yun urged the survivors to kill the Ghostface Butterfly and destroy the formation eye.

Trapped in the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array, Chen Changming learned that the Ghostface Butterfly was only a vessel for an ancient being, likely connected to the Ancient Ghost Clan. As the array intensified, Chen Changming teleported toward Guo Yun and attacked him to settle an old grudge.

• Elder Qian persuaded the trapped cultivators to give the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect the Ghostface Butterfly in exchange for breaking the array, and the other factions agreed.
• Bi Cang warned that the Ghostface Butterfly would not let them survive until reinforcements arrived, and the array unleashed ghostly shadows that gnawed at everyone’s protective spiritual light.
• Chen Changming healed himself and Bi Cang, then realized that the being inside the Ghostface Butterfly was an ancient entity and suspected it belonged to the Six Ancients and the Ancient Ghost Clan.
• Guo Yun’s protective spiritual light shattered, and Chen Changming recalled how Guo Yun had attacked his clone in the Ten Thousand Beast Garden.
• Chen Changming teleported in front of Guo Yun, empowered himself with the Indestructible Demonic Heart, and brought down the Slaughter Demon Sword toward Guo Yun’s face.

Chen Changming and Bi Cang fought off the sects and demonic cultivators while the Ghostface Butterfly intensified the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array. Everyone in the gorge was refined except the two of them, and Chen Changming finally summoned a strange Beast.

• Chen Changming killed Guo Yun and Elder Liu with Annihilate Myriad Spirits, while Elder Wang fled through the gorge and the released Demon Kings struggled against the array.
• Elder Wang persuaded the Mountain-Suppressing Sword Sect and Blood Demon Sect cultivators to attack Chen Changming and Bi Cang, while the two Great Black Heaven cultivators defended them.
• Bi Cang revealed her Green Qilin form and used her natal divine flame to block the attackers as Chen Changming killed Master White Bone.
• Ghostface Butterfly strengthened the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array, shattering defensive treasures and refining Madam Miaoyi and the other combatants.
• Chen Changming used the Spring Return Immortal Art to heal himself and Bi Cang as the array refined everyone else, including the Beast Taming Immortal Sect's Demon Kings.
• Bi Cang wondered why the terrifying existence beneath Ning Jin had not acted, and Chen Changming summoned a strange Beast.

Chen Changming used Little Four to defeat the Ghostface Butterfly and stopped it from devouring the creature so he could obtain its wings for Realm-Breaking Talismans. After his first pact attempt failed, the Ghostface Butterfly agreed to cooperate, and Little Four withdrew its four-colored restraint.

• Bi Cang King and Ghostface Butterfly felt instinctive fear when they saw the sleeping Little Four.
• Chen Changming woke Little Four and directed it toward Ghostface Butterfly, which attacked with the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array.
• Little Four shielded itself from the ghosts and trapped Ghostface Butterfly with its four-colored light.
• Chen Changming stopped Little Four from eating Ghostface Butterfly because its wings could be used to make Realm-Breaking Talismans.
• Chen Changming's Spirit-Locking Pact failed when Ghostface Butterfly broke the Golden Heaven Locks, so he threatened it with being eaten by Little Four.
• Ghostface Butterfly agreed to cooperate with the pact, and Little Four withdrew its restraint.

Chen Changming subdued the Ghostface Butterfly while Ancient Ghost escaped and emerged in a temporarily restored body at the Tenth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm. After Ancient Ghost revealed its plan to reach the Spirit Realm, Little Four attacked it.

• Ancient Ghost's remnant soul escaped from the Ghostface Butterfly, but Little Four claimed he could track it underground.
• Bi Cang King pinned the Ghostface Butterfly, and Little Four persuaded it to accept Chen Changming's Spirit-Locking Pact.
• Bi Cang King collected the dead cultivators' Storage Rings and explained that she had let Great Black Heaven's disciples die to protect her demon identity.
• Ancient Ghost emerged from underground, empowered by energy refined through the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array, and threatened Chen Changming and the others.
• Bi Cang King revealed she was an avatar of the Bi Cang King of the Spirit Realm, and Ancient Ghost said capturing her would help it enter the Spirit Realm.
• Little Four charged Ancient Ghost and unleashed a beam of four-colored light.