Recaps

Chen Changming traded ten Blood Spirit Bat corpses at the Four Seas Merchant Alliance for three Foundation Establishment Pills. He caught Shopkeeper Huang and the shop assistant trying to pass off fakes, then left with the genuine pills.

• Chen Changming learned the Four Seas Merchant Alliance was selling Foundation Establishment Pills for one hundred thousand Spirit Stones each.
• Chen Changming told Shopkeeper Huang that his master had killed rank-four, mid-grade Beasts and negotiated a price for ten Blood Spirit Bat corpses.
• Shopkeeper Huang and the shop assistant tried to exchange the corpses for fake Foundation Establishment Pills, but Chen Changming recognized the deception.
• Shopkeeper Huang sent for the genuine pills, and Chen Changming checked all three before taking them and leaving.
• Shopkeeper Huang watched Chen Changming leave and realized the attempted trick had failed.

Chen Changming bought three Foundation Establishment Pills from the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, then killed the assassin Shopkeeper Huang sent after him. He returned to the courtyard with medicine for Luo Lan and remained wary of the city’s merchants.

• Shopkeeper Huang ordered Night Owl to kill Chen Changming outside the city and recover the pills.
• Chen Changming noticed Night Owl following him, led him into a forest, and killed him before storing the body and head.
• Chen Changming changed his appearance, concealed his cultivation, and returned to Donglai City after ensuring no one followed him.
• Chen Changming gave Luo Lan medicine and reassured her that he would find a way to remove her restriction.
• Chen Changming fed the horse and reflected on the danger of dealing with merchants in Donglai City.

Chen Changming reached the peak of Qi Cultivation Level 10 while caring for Luo Lan and keeping out of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance’s reach. After they left Donglai City and traveled through the wilderness, they took shelter in a ruined temple, where Chen Changming recognized Ouyang Hong.

• Chen Changming avoided further conflict with the Four Seas Merchant Alliance and focused on helping Luo Lan recover.
• The Spirit-Devouring Insect reached Level 5, and Chen Changming gained a surge of spiritual power from its two Pigeon Eggs.
• Shopkeeper Huang led four Foundation Establishment cultivators to search for Night Owl’s killer, found no clues, and lost his position.
• Chen Changming cultivated for two months and reached the peak of Qi Cultivation Level 10 as Luo Lan recovered.
• Chen Changming and Luo Lan left Donglai City, passed through Guye City, and continued by carriage into the wilderness.
• Chen Changming and Luo Lan sought shelter from a storm in a ruined Ancient Temple, where Chen Changming saw Ouyang Hong.

Chen Changming and Luo Lan took shelter in an Ancient Temple with two wary Foundation Establishment cultivators, one of whom resembled Ouyang Hong. Their uneasy encounter was interrupted by a Level 2 Demonic Beast, which the two strangers killed.

• Chen Changming entered the Ancient Temple with Luo Lan and hid his surprise at the red-clad woman’s resemblance to Ouyang Hong.
• The woman in red offered to introduce Luo Lan to True Essence Master, who could remove her seal if she served him, but Chen Changming remained distrustful and Luo Lan pretended to fall asleep.
• Chen Changming noticed the silent man in white watching their surroundings and stayed on guard.
• A Level 2 Demonic Beast, a corrupted Green Wolf, charged toward the Ancient Temple during the storm.
• The woman in red and the man in white bound and killed the wolf, and the man stored its body in a Storage Bag.

Chen Changming learned that the Chu Kingdom was being ravaged by demonic qi and discovered that the woman in red was Ouyang Qian, a poisoned cultivator from the Yan Kingdom. When four Black Lotus Sect members cornered Ouyang Qian and her companion at the Ancient Temple, she activated a mysterious square seal.

• Chen Changming watched Ouyang Qian and the man in white slay a Level 2 Green Wolf and learned that a Demonic Qi Well was corrupting creatures across the Chu Kingdom.
• Ouyang Qian told Chen Changming that she had fled the Yan Kingdom and warned him that demonic beasts were attacking throughout the Chu Kingdom.
• Ouyang Qian coughed up greenish blood, and the man in white gave her a Detoxification Pill that could only suppress her poison temporarily.
• A black lotus appeared at the temple entrance, and four Black Lotus Sect men arrived to capture Ouyang Qian, revealing that she could no longer use her ancestral Talisman Treasure normally.
• The man in white and Ouyang Qian attacked the four men, but their black lotuses repelled the sword beam and water torrents.
• Ouyang Qian spat blood onto a small square seal, which blazed with light and released a terrifying aura of destruction.

Chen Changming watched Ouyang Qian and Lv Ziqing fight the Black Lotus Sect, then chose to intervene rather than keep the Ouyang Family’s Storage Ring for himself. The chapter ended as he revealed a transformed aura to the black-robed man while protecting Luo Lan.

• Chen Changming recognized Ouyang Qian’s small seal as a Talisman Treasure, but the Black Lotus Sect leader’s Black Buddha overpowered it and knocked away Lv Ziqing’s Flying Sword.
• Ouyang Qian used a defensive talisman as Lv Ziqing burned his blood essence to protect her, then fled after urging Chen Changming to escape with Luo Lan.
• Lv Ziqing fought the Black Buddha and the Black Lotuses with his swords, but the black-robed man empowered the Buddha with Black Blood and Lv Ziqing fell mortally wounded.
• The black-robed man sent three companions after Ouyang Qian, then approached Chen Changming and Luo Lan, intending to offer them to the Holy Mother.
• Chen Changming told Luo Lan to close her eyes, and the black-robed man sensed that Chen Changming’s aura had changed and his gaze had turned sharp.

Chen Changming revealed his strength as a Body Cultivator, rescued Ouyang Qian from the Black Lotus Sect, and used the Detoxification Art to suppress her poison. He returned toward the Ancient Temple with Ouyang Qian while holding the Storage Ring left by an Ouyang Family Golden Core elder.

• Chen Changming shattered the Black Buddha and killed the black-robed man who attacked him, then hurried after Ouyang Qian.
• Luo Lan realized Chen Changming had concealed his Body Cultivation and waited for him to return to the Ancient Temple.
• Chen Changming surprised and killed the three Black Lotus Sect cultivators surrounding Ouyang Qian, then introduced himself as Chen Shan and admitted he had hidden his identity.
• Chen Changming cast the Detoxification Art on Ouyang Qian, who said her poison seemed slightly less severe, and agreed to return to the Ancient Temple to check on Lv Ziqing.
• After Ouyang Qian flew ahead, Chen Changming produced a Storage Ring left behind by a Golden Core elder from the Ouyang Family in the Ziyuan Secret Realm.

Chen Changming returned to the Ancient Temple and repeatedly cast the Detoxification Art on Ouyang Qian, whose Nether Blood-Piercing Poison was worsening. After casting it ten thousand times through the night, he enhanced the art for the third time.

• Chen Changming learned that the Ouyang Family's descendants could use a Bloodline Imprint to open their elder's Storage Ring, then hurried to the Ancient Temple.
• Chen Changming found Luo Lan and Ouyang Qian there, with Lv Ziqing alive but gravely injured.
• As Ouyang Qian's poison flared up, Chen Changming offered to cast the Detoxification Art on her and continued casting it after it began easing her symptoms.
• Chen Changming cast the art throughout the night while Luo Lan watched and Ouyang Qian's coughing stopped.
• After ten thousand casts, Chen Changming enhanced the Detoxification Art for the third time, making it more than ten times as powerful.

Chen Changming cured Ouyang Qian’s poison, and she offered to ask True Essence Master to remove the restriction on Luo Lan’s cultivation. As they traveled toward Cuixia Mountain, a pack of demonic wolves approached their camp, and Chen Changming rushed to meet them.

• Chen Changming used his Detoxification Art to cure Ouyang Qian, who offered to ask True Essence Master to remove the restriction on Luo Lan.
• Lv Ziqing woke and learned that Chen Changming had killed the Black Lotus Sect members and saved him and Ouyang Qian.
• Chen Changming drove the group out of the Ancient Temple, and Ouyang Qian told him about the Black Lotus Sect, True Essence Master, and demonicized beasts.
• After two days on the mountain road, Chen Changming stopped for the night, fed the horse, and prepared Spirit Rice porridge.
• Ouyang Qian sensed about twenty demonic wolves approaching from the southwest, and Chen Changming dashed toward them.

Chen Changming and his companions traveled through the demon-infested region and reached Cuixia Mountain, where Ouyang Qian asked True Essence Master to remove Luo Lan’s restriction. True Essence Master agreed to help but asked Luo Lan to defend Cuixia Mountain from demonized Beasts in return, leaving her to consider his demand.

• Chen Changming slaughtered a pack of demon wolves, discovered that the Demon Spirit Vine fed on them, and stored the wolves in his Beast Taming Bracelet.
• Chen Changming, Ouyang Qian, Lv Ziqing, and Luo Lan crossed the mountains, surviving three more wolf attacks before reaching Linji City and learning that Demonic Qi from Mysterious Yin Mountain was driving residents away.
• Ouyang Qian guided the group around the Demonic Qi Region, and a month later they arrived at Cuixia Mountain, where True Essence Master welcomed them.
• Ouyang Qian asked True Essence Master to remove the restriction preventing Luo Lan from using her Foundation Establishment cultivation, offering to serve him for ten years.
• True Essence Master said he could remove the restriction and asked Luo Lan, who had reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, to help Cuixia Mountain fight demonized Beasts; Luo Lan fell silent.

Chen Changming and his companions were pressured into serving Cuixia Mountain, and Luo Lan traded fifteen years of service for Foundation Establishment Pills. With his senior sister's cultivation restored and eleven pills in hand, Chen Changming began his breakthrough, but his first ten pills failed to shatter the barrier.

• True Essence Master blocked the group from leaving and demanded that they join Cuixia Mountain, so Luo Lan agreed to serve for fifteen years in exchange for five Foundation Establishment Pills.
• True Essence Master restored Luo Lan's spiritual power and gave her the pills, which she passed to Chen Changming.
• Ouyang Qian apologized to Chen Changming and gave him another Foundation Establishment Pill before leaving.
• Chen Changming told Luo Lan he had eleven pills and decided to attempt Foundation Establishment while she guarded him.
• Chen Changming swallowed all eleven pills in stages, but even the first ten failed to break the barrier in his Dantian.

Chen Changming failed to break through to Foundation Establishment with eleven pills and suffered a backlash, but he recovered by practicing the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art. He decided to seek Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk before trying again, while Luo Lan went to slay Beasts for Cuixia Mountain.

• Chen Changming's Foundation Establishment attempt failed, and the backlash drained his life force and left him gravely weakened.
• Luo Lan rushed to Chen Changming and explained that he could attempt Foundation Establishment again after recovering, but would need Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to repair his damaged spiritual root.
• Chen Changming focused on the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art and used Blood Spirit Bat meat to recover over three days.
• Chen Changming found Luo Lan's note saying she had gone to slay Beasts, then told Ouyang Qian he had postponed his next breakthrough attempt.

Chen Changming helped Ouyang Qian unlock a Storage Ring left by her Golden Core ancestor, restoring her hopes for the Ouyang Family. Ouyang Qian found a secret method for reaching the Golden Core realm but kept it from Chen Changming, then shared the ancestor’s belongings with Lv Ziqing.

• Chen Changming asked Ouyang Qian to test a Storage Ring, and her bloodline broke its imprint.
• Chen Changming told Ouyang Qian that a Golden Core elder had entrusted the ring to him for an Ouyang Family descendant, and Ouyang Qian recognized the elder as her ancestor.
• Ouyang Qian explained that the Black Lotus Sect had pursued her, and she found her ancestor’s secret method for reaching the Golden Core realm in the ring.
• Ouyang Qian refused to share the secret method with Chen Changming, then left to examine the ancestor’s belongings.
• Ouyang Qian told Lv Ziqing that she had obtained their Ouyang Family ancestor’s belongings and showed him the Storage Ring.

Lv Ziqing and Ouyang Qian plotted to kill Chen Shan after learning he had given her a valuable Storage Ring, then Ouyang Qian exposed Chen Changming’s cultivation to True Essence Master. True Essence Master summoned Chen Changming, who admitted he was a Body Cultivator and wondered who had revealed his secret.

• Lv Ziqing suspected Chen Shan had been maneuvering to obtain Ouyang Qian’s ancestor’s Storage Ring and proposed killing him with the Mei Brothers Trio’s sword formation.
• Lv Ziqing left Cuixia Mountain to contact the Mei Brothers Trio while Ouyang Qian learned True Essence Master would return in three days.
• Ouyang Qian told True Essence Master that Chen Changming was a second-level Foundation Establishment Body Cultivator and swore to serve Cuixia Mountain for fifteen years.
• True Essence Master summoned Chen Changming and asked about his cultivation after hearing he was a Body Cultivator.
• Chen Changming admitted his cultivation and wondered who had disclosed his secret.

Chen Changming realized Ouyang Qian and Lv Ziqing were plotting to kill him to keep the Golden Core breakthrough method secret, but he joined their expedition while secretly preparing for betrayal. When the Mei Brothers Trio trapped him in a sword formation, Lv Ziqing turned on Ouyang Qian and stabbed her.

• True Essence Master ordered Chen Changming, Ouyang Qian, and Lv Ziqing to hunt Beasts together, and Chen suspected the couple planned to silence him over the ring’s secret method.
• Ouyang Qian and Lv Ziqing took Chen by Spirit Boat to the Demonic Qi Region, where he killed Beasts and followed them inside without protection.
• The Mei Brothers Trio sprang a sword formation around Chen, and Ouyang Qian admitted she had helped set him up because he knew too much.
• Lv Ziqing stabbed Ouyang Qian through the chest, saying that she knew too much.

Chen Changming killed the Black Lotus Sect agents who had ambushed him and fled with Ouyang Qian’s secret method for reaching the Golden Core realm. He hid in his childhood home of White Ape Village in disguise, where he encountered Li Huai.

• Lv Ziqing used Ouyang Qian’s blood to break the imprint on her Storage Ring and claimed the secret method inside.
• Chen Changming’s Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect incapacitated Lv Ziqing and one black-robed man, allowing Chen Changming to escape the Three Talents Sword Formation and kill two black-robed men.
• Chen Changming collected the bodies, swords, and White Tiger, then fled the Demonic Qi Region after realizing the Black Lotus Sect would soon pursue him.
• After running for two days and nights, Chen Changming recognized White Ape Village as his childhood home and decided to hide there.
• Chen Changming disguised himself as a middle-aged man and approached the village, where he recognized Li Huai beneath an old locust tree.

After returning to White Ape Village and grieving over his ruined childhood home, Chen Changming studied the Ouyang Family’s inheritance and discovered that its supplies could help him rebuild his cultivation. He ended the chapter with the Three Talents Sword Formation and its possible uses on his mind.

• Chen Changming reunited with Li Huai, who escorted him through White Ape Village as the elders welcomed him back.
• Chen Changming visited his dilapidated old home and mourned his grandmother before focusing on evading the Black Lotus Sect.
• Chen Changming memorized the Three-Nine Divine Aperture Technique and hid its scroll in his Beast Taming Bracelet for safekeeping.
• Chen Changming found pills, the Golden Glow Art, the Golden Glow Disk, and the first volume of the Medicine Sect Canon in the Storage Ring.
• Chen Changming drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, restored his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root, and believed the Foundation Establishment Pills would let him succeed in Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Changming examined eighteen long swords and three black-robed bodies, wondering how he could set up and control the Three Talents Sword Formation.

Chen Changming hid his cultivation-related possessions beneath his house in White Ape Village and endured a year of searches by the Black Lotus Sect without cultivating. At Cuixia Mountain, Luo Lan mourned her missing junior brother and vowed to destroy the Demonic Qi Well to avenge him.

• Chen Changming erased the imprints on three Storage Rings, found the Three Talents Sword Formation Manual and other loot, then buried his Beast Taming Bracelet beneath his house.
• Chen Changming spent six months living as a farmer while Black Lotus Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators searched White Ape Village and the surrounding area.
• After another two months without a search, Chen Changming continued keeping his guard up and avoided cultivation.
• A year after entering White Ape Village, Chen Changming knelt with the villagers as Foundation Establishment cultivators scanned them, then returned to weeding when they left.
• At Cuixia Mountain, True Essence Master told Luo Lan that her junior brother was likely dead, and Luo Lan vowed to destroy the Demonic Qi Well to avenge him.

Luo Lan resolved to remain at Cuixia Mountain while waiting for her missing junior brother, believing he was still alive. After five years in hiding, Chen Changming finished comprehending the Three-Nine Divine Aperture Technique, left White Ape Village, and used Foundation Establishment Pills to break through to Foundation Establishment.

• Luo Lan suspected that Ouyang Qian and Lv Ziqing had ulterior motives and decided to wait for her junior brother at Cuixia Mountain.
• Chen Changming spent five years in White Ape Village studying the Three-Nine Divine Aperture Technique while staying hidden from the Black Lotus Sect.
• Chen Changming retrieved his Beast Taming Bracelet, told Li Huai he was leaving for the city, and departed White Ape Village to resume cultivation in a mountain cave.
• Chen Changming moved the Ouyang Family Golden Core ancestor's belongings into another Storage Ring and prepared a hundred Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Chen Changming swallowed the pills in repeated batches until the Foundation Establishment barrier broke and his spiritual power transformed into magical power.
• Chen Changming opened his eyes as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and spread his divine sense nearly a hundred meters.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Chen Changming learned to fly on a Flying Sword and chose to replace the Evergreen Art with the Golden Glow Art. He steadily advanced both his cultivation and body training, eventually reaching the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment in body cultivation.

• Chen Changming practiced controlling a Flying Sword and learned to ride it after exhausting his magic power over a day of training.
• Chen Changming chose the Golden Glow Art over the Evergreen Art because it had guided an Ouyang Family ancestor to Golden Core and could unleash the Golden Glow Disk's power.
• Chen Changming studied the Golden Glow Art while continuing daily body cultivation, and mastered the art after two years.
• Chen Changming completed a full cycle of the Golden Glow Art, then enhanced it after reaching one hundred cycles and used a Heavenly Spirit Pill to replenish his magic power.
• Chen Changming alternated between cultivating the Golden Glow Art and the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art, and his body cultivation broke through to the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment.

Chen Changming encountered a Demonized White Ape and learned that the Demonic Qi Well had spread chaos across Chu Kingdom. After declining an invitation to join the Demon-Slaying Alliance, he left his secluded mountain to find a safe city and learn more about the crisis.

• Chen Changming killed a Rank 1 Upper-Tier Demonized White Ape with a Spirit Finger Flick.
• A Gray-Robed Man from the Black Lotus Sect and Daoist Zhao told Chen Changming that Demonized White Apes had destroyed White Ape Village, killing more than a hundred people.
• The Gray-Robed Man explained that the Demonic Qi Well had erupted and that Chu Kingdom's factions had formed the Demon-Slaying Alliance to fight Demonized Beasts.
• Chen Changming declined the Gray-Robed Man and Daoist Zhao's invitation to join the alliance, then gathered his belongings and left his cave.
• Chen Changming saw the plains shrouded in Demonic Qi, feared Cuixia Mountain and Mysterious Yin Mountain had also fallen, and decided to seek a safe city for information.

Chen Changming reached Cangnan City after finding the Chu Kingdom devastated by Demonic Qi and learned that Cuixia Mountain had been evacuated and a reorganized Demon-Slaying Alliance was protecting the city. He rented a cultivation room for five years, choosing to cultivate under the Black Tortoise Division's protection.

• Chen Changming flew through deserted cities overrun by Beasts and traveled toward Cangnan City while avoiding Demonic Qi.
• Chen Changming paid the guards a thousand Spirit Stones to enter Cangnan City and asked a tavern waiter about the disaster.
• The waiter explained that the Demonic Qi Well on Mysterious Yin Mountain had spread corruption across the Chu Kingdom and that True Essence Master had led Cuixia Mountain's people away.
• The waiter told Chen Changming that Golden Core cultivators had reorganized the Demon-Slaying Alliance into four divisions, with the Black Tortoise Division protecting Cangnan City.
• Chen Changming rented a single cultivation room at Cangnan Pavilion for five years after learning that the cultivation caves were full.

Chen Changming settled into a room in Cangnan City and learned that a Golden Core cultivator from Great Qin had forbidden anyone from leaving Chu Kingdom while the fight against the Demonic Qi Well continued. He examined the spoils taken from Ouyang Qian and Lv Ziqing, then discovered that the Purple Lightning Sword was a top-grade magical artifact, leaving him troubled.

• Chen Changming paid two thousand Spirit Stones for room 934 and met a burly Foundation Establishment cultivator who said he would join the Demon-Slaying Alliance when his funds ran out.
• The burly cultivator told Chen Changming that a Golden Core grand cultivator from Great Qin had ordered Chu Kingdom to fight and banned cultivators from fleeing or leaving.
• Chen Changming entered his room, confirmed its formation blocked spiritual sense, and considered how long he might be trapped in Chu Kingdom.
• Chen Changming removed the spiritual imprints from Ouyang Qian and Lv Ziqing's Storage Rings and found Spirit Stones, magical treasures, Golden Light Talismans, and a Sword Tempering Art booklet.
• Chen Changming examined Lv Ziqing's natal Flying Sword and learned that it had been tempered far more than the Mei Brothers Trio's swords.
• Chen Changming identified the Purple Lightning Sword as a top-grade magical artifact but reacted with uncertainty rather than delight.

Chen Changming realized the Cloth-Clad Elder had pursued the Spirit-Devouring Insect and decided to get rid of the Purple Lightning Sword. He traded it and Lv Ziqing’s sword for a Geng-Gold Sword at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.

• Chen Changming suspected the Cloth-Clad Elder had given him the Purple Lightning Sword because he wanted the Spirit-Devouring Insect.
• The Spirit-Devouring Insect revealed that the Cloth-Clad Elder had gone to Martial Spirit City and fought the Demon Spirit Tree, which drove him away.
• Chen Changming resolved to hide the Spirit-Devouring Insect and sell the Purple Lightning Sword so it would not expose him.
• Chen Changming disguised himself and went to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to find a top-tier metal-type Flying Sword.
• Chen Changming traded the Purple Lightning Sword and Lv Ziqing’s mid-tier Dharma artifact for the Geng-Gold Sword.

Chen Changming secretly returned to Cangnan Pavilion, mastered and strengthened the Sword Tempering Art and Basic Sword Control Art, then spent several years cultivating until he reached the second level of Foundation Establishment. After renewing his lease, he grew suspicious of the attendant’s strange looks and decided to investigate.

• Chen Changming spotted Yu Jingjing working at a pleasure house but walked away, leaving her to be slapped and threatened by a servant.
• Chen Changming returned to his room and spent months mastering the Sword Tempering Art, then tempered the Geng-Gold Sword and strengthened his sword-control techniques.
• Chen Changming cultivated the Golden Glow Art and Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art for several years, consumed a thousand Heavenly Spirit Pills, and reached the second level of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Changming renewed his Cangnan Pavilion lease for five years, noticed the attendant’s strange, pleased expression, and decided to investigate.