Recaps

Chen Changming overwhelmed the Azure Dragon Holy Son in a martial-platform challenge, defeating him despite the Holy Son’s powerful Water Soul Divine Pearl. After the Holy Son was punched off the platform, he left in humiliation while the sect’s experts questioned Chen Changming’s true cultivation.

• Chen Changming shattered the Azure Dragon Holy Son’s water attacks with his fists, leaving the watching disciples and Jade Sky True Person astonished.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son brought out the Water Soul Divine Pearl and summoned nine ice-armored water dragons, but Chen Changming destroyed them with nine punches.
• Chen Changming broke through the Holy Son’s water curtain and protective spiritual light, then punched him off the platform.
• Jade Sky True Person considered attacking Chen Changming but held back to avoid making the Clear Mist Sect a laughingstock.
• Jade Mist True Person suspected Chen Changming’s cultivation was at least the Sixth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm, while Saintess Qingyi welcomed the Holy Son’s defeat.
• The humiliated Azure Dragon Holy Son glared at Chen Changming and left without a word.

After Chen Changming defeated the Azure Dragon Holy Son, Jade Mist True Person summoned him to question his hidden cultivation and origins. She accepted his refusal to reveal his background and invited him to stay in the Clear Mist Sect as an honored guest.

• Saintess Qingyi thanked Chen Changming for protecting her and assured him that the Azure Dragon Holy Son would not trouble him again.
• A disciple summoned Chen Changming to meet Jade Mist True Person, and Qingyi led him to her cave abode.
• Jade Mist True Person failed to see through Chen Changming’s concealed cultivation and challenged his claim that he was an unaffiliated cultivator.
• Chen Changming said he could not reveal his origins and was the last person in his lineage, and Jade Mist True Person agreed not to press him.
• Jade Mist True Person offered Chen Changming a private cave abode and unrestricted freedom to stay in the Clear Mist Sect.

Jade Mist True Person decided to gradually win Chen Shan over to the Clear Mist Sect while agreeing to investigate his background. After the Azure Dragon Holy Son lamented his defeat, Jade Sky True Person plotted with him to use the Void Poison Demon Sect to force the sect to hand Chen Shan over.

• Chen Changming accepted Jade Mist True Person's offer to stay in the Clear Mist Sect, and Saintess Qingyi escorted him to choose a cave abode.
• Jade Mist True Person told Jade Sky True Person that Chen Shan had rescued Saintess Qingyi from the Void Poison Demon Sect, and they agreed to observe him and investigate his origins.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son returned to his courtyard, furious and humiliated after Chen Shan defeated him with one punch.
• Jade Sky True Person admitted he had misjudged Chen Shan and proposed using the Void Poison Demon Sect to eliminate him.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son agreed to contact his friend in the Void Poison Demon Sect and try to persuade Elder Xuan Yi to come to the Clear Mist Sect.

The Azure Dragon Holy Son arranged for the Void Poison Demon Sect to demand Chen Shan from the Clear Mist Sect, while Jade Sky True Person secured the sect elders’ agreement to hand him over. Seven days later, Xuan Yi arrived and demanded that the Clear Mist Sect surrender Chen Shan.

• The Azure Dragon Holy Son met Yue Xiao and offered to help the Void Poison Demon Sect seize Chen Shan.
• Yue Xiao reported the offer to Gu Yuan, who sent Xuan Yi to the Clear Mist Sect while Xuan Feng stayed behind to guard the sect.
• Xuan Yi ordered the Azure Dragon Holy Son to return and announce that he would arrive in seven days to demand Chen Shan.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son told Jade Sky True Person that Xuan Yi was coming, and Jade Sky True Person said the Clear Mist Sect’s fusion realm elders had agreed to hand Chen Shan over.
• Xuan Yi arrived at the Clear Mist Sect, pressured its disciples with his cultivation, and demanded that Jade Sword True Person surrender Chen Shan.

The Clear Mist Sect debated whether to hand Chen Shan over to Xuan Yi, who had come seeking revenge for two Void Poison Demon Sect disciples. Chen Shan volunteered to go, assuring Saintess Qingyi he could escape, and Xuan Yi recognized him as the cultivator who had survived his Thousand-Mile Void Poison Seal.

• Jade Sword True Person convened the Clear Mist Sect elders after Xuan Yi demanded Chen Shan be handed over.
• Jade Sky True Person and four elders argued for surrendering Chen Shan, while Jade Mist True Person and Jade Sandalwood True Person defended him.
• Jade Mist True Person declared that she and Saintess Qingyi would stand with Chen Shan, but Chen Changming volunteered to go with Xuan Yi and privately told Qingyi he had a way to escape.
• Jade Sword True Person escorted Chen Changming to Xuan Yi, who agreed to take him back to the Void Poison Demon Sect for interrogation.
• Xuan Yi recognized Chen Changming as the survivor of his Thousand-Mile Void Poison Seal and wondered how he had killed two high-level Void Refinement Realm disciples.

Chen Changming lured Xuan Yi away from the Clear Mist Sect and killed him with a Sword Talisman, avenging his old injury. He decided not to return to the sect permanently, but changed his appearance and headed back to let Saintess Qingyi know he was safe.

• Chen Changming tricked Xuan Yi into taking him to a deserted valley by promising to hand over the Silver Moon Heavenly Wolf and dissolve their contract.
• Chen Changming activated a Sword Talisman and killed Xuan Yi before the Fusion Realm cultivator could react.
• Chen Changming took Xuan Yi's Storage Ring and corpse, then reflected that he had used two of his three Sword Talismans.
• Chen Changming considered asking Elder Spirit Charm for another protective item through his Dao-cultivating avatar, but learned the avatar was still away on a mission.
• Chen Changming decided to avoid returning to the Clear Mist Sect because Jade Sky True Person and other elders were hostile toward him.
• Chen Changming changed his appearance and cultivation aura, then flew toward the Clear Mist Sect to reassure Saintess Qingyi.

Chen Changming reached the Clear Mist Sect disguised as an ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivator and arranged a private meeting with Saintess Qingyi. He told her that Xuan Yi had been killed by an enemy, leaving her relieved but astonished at his escape.

• Chen Changming asked the Clear Mist Sect guards to tell Saintess Qingyi that he had been entrusted with delivering her a gift.
• Saintess Qingyi mourned Chen Shan and vowed to avenge him by surpassing Xuan Yi in cultivation.
• After hearing that a visitor had brought her a gift, Saintess Qingyi went to the gates and recognized Chen Changming through his voice transmission.
• Saintess Qingyi took Chen Changming to a secluded forest and set up a barrier so they could speak privately.
• Chen Changming told Saintess Qingyi that Xuan Yi had encountered an enemy and died, allowing him to escape.

Chen Changming left the Clear Mist Sect and settled in a secluded mountain ravine to cultivate, while Saintess Qingyi returned to the sect and confronted the Azure Dragon Holy Son. He began practicing the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art in his new cave abode.

• Chen Changming told Saintess Qingyi he would leave the Clear Mist Sect, accepted her Message Transmission Token, and asked her to keep his survival secret.
• Saintess Qingyi swore not to reveal that Chen Shan was alive, and Chen Changming left as she watched him go.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son taunted Saintess Qingyi about Chen Shan's supposed death, and she angrily told him to get lost.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son reported Saintess Qingyi's grief to Jade Sky True Person, who encouraged him to comfort her later and try to win her over.
• Chen Changming chose a secluded ravine nine thousand li from the Clear Mist Sect, carved out a cave abode, and began practicing the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art.

After returning from a dangerous mission, Chen Changming persuaded Elder Spirit Charm to promise him three demon talismans if he cultivated the Undying Demon Heart. Six months later, he succeeded and went back to claim his reward.

• Chen Changming treated more than three hundred wounded Vermilion Bird Guards and earned over thirty thousand Ling Yu.
• Chen Changming asked Elder Spirit Charm for protection, and she gave him a demon talisman that could kill a Void Refinement Realm cultivator.
• Chen Changming pressed Elder Spirit Charm for a talisman that could threaten a Fusion Realm expert, and she offered three if he cultivated an Undying Demon Heart.
• Chen Changming cultivated the Spirit Realm version of the Undying Demon Heart Art and condensed the demon heart six months later, gaining the ability to unleash twenty times his power at great physical cost.
• Chen Changming returned to Elder Spirit Charm and told her he had cultivated the Undying Demon Heart.

After Chen Changming perfected his Indestructible Demonic Heart, Elder Spirit Charm gave him three powerful demonic talismans, and he hurried to transfer them and the Ten Thousand Poison Iceheart Grass to his main body. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan learned that Xuan Yi had taken Chen Shan from the Clear Mist Sect but remained missing, leaving the sect master without a lead.

• Elder Spirit Charm confirmed that Chen Changming had cultivated a flawless Indestructible Demonic Heart in half a year and praised his talent.
• Elder Spirit Charm gave Chen Changming three demonic talismans that could kill Fusion Realm cultivators below the fifth level and severely wound stronger ones.
• Chen Changming left the city to meet his main body, while his main body rode a Marsh Wasteland Dark Bat toward Azure Billow Royal City to collect the talismans and Ten Thousand Poison Iceheart Grass.
• At the Void Poison Demon Sect, Yue Xiao reported that Xuan Yi had taken Chen Shan from the Clear Mist Sect three months earlier, but no one knew where they had gone.
• Gu Yuan grew angry over the lack of information about Xuan Yi and Chen Shan.

Chen Changming returned from meeting his cultivation clone with the ten thousand poison iceheart grass and learned that the Void Poison Demon Sect had begun searching for Xuan Yi. With Bi Cang tending the herb, Chen Changming resumed cultivating while the sect’s search found no trace of Xuan Yi.

• Xuan Feng ordered Yue Xiao to search within ten thousand miles of the Clear Mist Sect for Xuan Yi, and explained to Gu Yuan why Xuan Yi had never left a soul lamp.
• Chen Changming met his cultivation clone, collected the ten thousand poison iceheart grass and Demon Talismans, and gave the clone a talisman capable of killing a Fusion Realm cultivator.
• Chen Changming noticed Void Poison Demon Sect disciples searching the mountain forest and realized they had started looking for Xuan Yi three months after his death.
• Chen Changming returned to his cave and asked Bi Cang how to cultivate the ten thousand poison iceheart grass with azure billow spirit liquid.
• Bi Cang planted the herb and began cultivating in a new room, while Chen Changming resumed tempering his body.
• Another month passed, and the Void Poison Demon Sect still had found no trace or clues about Xuan Yi.

After Xuan Feng and Gu Yuan discovered that Xuan Yi had been killed by a powerful sword cultivator, they concealed his death and warned the sect not to provoke Chen Shan. Three years later, Saintess Qingyi contacted Chen Changming and asked where his cave dwelling was so she could bring him a spiritual herb.

• Xuan Feng identified Xuan Yi's blood and sword traces at the ravaged valley, then concluded a powerful sword master had killed him.
• Xuan Feng told Gu Yuan to conceal Xuan Yi's death, abandon revenge, and avoid Chen Shan; Gu Yuan erased the battle site.
• Gu Yuan announced to the Void Poison Demon Sect that Xuan Yi had gone traveling, while Yue Xiao resolved never to provoke Chen Shan again.
• After three years of cultivation, Chen Changming received a message from Saintess Qingyi asking where his cave dwelling was so she could bring him a spiritual herb.

Saintess Qingyi visited Chen Changming and gave him a thousand-year Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng and body-refining cultivation notes. After returning to the Clear Mist Sect, her changed mood aroused the Azure Dragon Holy Son’s suspicions, and Jade Sky True Person revealed a tracking treasure to help investigate her.

• Saintess Qingyi brought Chen Changming a thousand-year Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng and a Jade Slip of body-refining insights, which he accepted.
• Saintess Qingyi returned to the Clear Mist Sect in high spirits and brushed off the Azure Dragon Holy Son when he questioned her recent outings.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son told Jade Sky True Person that Saintess Qingyi’s behavior suggested she might still be in contact with Chen Shan.
• Jade Sky True Person showed the Azure Dragon Holy Son the Nether-Eyed Sparrow, a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure that could track someone within ten thousand li.

The Azure Dragon Holy Son used the Nether-Eyed Sparrow to track Saintess Qingyi to Blood Dragon Mountain, where she spent months hunting Beasts and gathering spirit herbs. He watched as she defeated a Red-Scaled Lizard and harvested a two-thousand-year-old Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng, leaving her injured and recovering on the cliff.

• Jade Sky True Person gave the Azure Dragon Holy Son a refined Nether-Eyed Sparrow and instructed him to use it to follow Saintess Qingyi without alerting her.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son collected Saintess Qingyi's lingering aura from a bamboo stalk and waited a year until she left the Clear Mist Sect.
• The Nether-Eyed Sparrow led the Azure Dragon Holy Son to Blood Dragon Mountain, where he watched Saintess Qingyi hunt Beasts and gather spirit herbs for months.
• Saintess Qingyi discovered a two-thousand-year-old Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng guarded by a mid-stage Void Refinement Realm Red-Scaled Lizard.
• Saintess Qingyi drove off the Red-Scaled Lizard with three talismans, harvested the ginseng, and began treating her wounds.

The Azure Dragon Holy Son discovered that Saintess Qingyi was secretly helping Chen Shan, who had survived by changing his appearance. After Qingyi delivered a two-thousand-year Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng to Chen Changming, the Azure Dragon Holy Son left to report Chen Shan’s survival to his master.

• The Azure Dragon Holy Son suspected Chen Shan was alive after learning Saintess Qingyi was searching for Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng, and he followed her with the Nether-Eyed Sparrow.
• Saintess Qingyi contacted Chen Changming and told him she had found a two-thousand-year Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng.
• Saintess Qingyi brought the ginseng to Chen Changming, who accepted it and healed her with the Spring Return Immortal Art.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son watched their meeting and recognized the gray-robed Chen Changming as Chen Shan in disguise.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son departed to tell his master that Chen Shan had survived.

Azure Dragon Holy Son told Jade Sky True Person that Saintess Qingyi had given the Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng to a gray-robed man he believed was Chen Shan. After spending three days searching the region for hidden threats, Jade Sky True Person approached the cave abode to investigate.

• Azure Dragon Holy Son reported Saintess Qingyi’s journey and her meeting with the gray-robed man, whom he suspected was Chen Shan.
• Jade Sky True Person considered whether Chen Shan’s survival meant Xuan Yi had died and warned Azure Dragon Holy Son not to act rashly.
• Jade Sky True Person learned the cave abode’s location and left the Clear Mist Sect to investigate the gray-robed man’s strength.
• Jade Sky True Person spent three days circling the region and searching for Fusion Realm cultivators or other threats.
• Jade Sky True Person reached a hundred li from the mountain ravine and sensed the formation outside the cave abode through the waterfall.

Jade Sky True Person used a Heaven-Discerning Beast to impersonate Saintess Qingyi and lure Chen Changming out of his cave. After seeing Chen Changming alive, Jade Sky True Person decided to seize him and make him an External Avatar, while Chen Changming realized the woman before him was a flawless impostor.

• Jade Sky True Person summoned his contracted Heaven-Discerning Beast and ordered it to imitate Saintess Qingyi and call Chen Shan out of his cave.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast transformed into Saintess Qingyi and summoned Chen Changming from the cave abode.
• Jade Sky True Person recognized that Chen Changming had survived Xuan Yi and concluded that he must have hidden secrets worth claiming.
• Jade Sky True Person appeared above the ravine, and Chen Changming suspected that the apparent Saintess Qingyi was an impostor.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast revealed its true form after addressing Jade Sky True Person as its master.

Chen Changming killed Jade Sky True Person with the power of Elder Spirit Charm’s Demon Talisman, then tried to capture the wounded Heaven-Discerning Beast. The beast escaped his grasp and fled northeast, leaving Chen Changming in pursuit.

• Jade Sky True Person confronted Chen Changming and dismissed his claim that he had killed Xuan Yi.
• Jade Sky True Person attacked Chen Changming with a giant hand of magical power, but Chen Changming’s Demon Talisman formed a black lotus that shattered the attack.
• A strand of sword light from the black lotus pierced Jade Sky True Person’s defenses and killed him.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast suffered contract backlash from Jade Sky True Person’s death, and Chen Changming tried to seize it after the black lotus faded.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast evaded Chen Changming and fled northeast, so Chen Changming pursued it.

Chen Changming lost track of the concealed Heaven-Discerning Beast when Little Four emerged from the Beast Taming Bracelet to face its breakthrough tribulation. Little Four easily endured the first wave of lightning while the hidden beast watched in terror.

• The Heaven-Discerning Beast used its concealment ability to vanish from Chen Changming’s pursuit.
• Little Four told Chen Changming it was about to break through to Level 14, so he released it to face its tribulation in an empty area.
• Chen Changming moved a hundred miles away to guard Little Four, while the concealed Heaven-Discerning Beast remained nearby, shaken by Little Four’s presence.
• Tribulation clouds gathered and the first wave of lightning descended on Little Four.
• Little Four swam through the lightning unharmed and mocked the Heavenly Dao, while the Heaven-Discerning Beast grew terrified as the tribulation intensified.

Little Four endured increasingly powerful waves of lightning and Heart Demon Tribulation without showing harm, while the wounded Heaven-Discerning Beast watched from the unstable void in growing terror. As the sixth wave began, Chen Changming wondered about Little Four’s origins and resolved to find more resources for it.

• The Heaven-Discerning Beast feared that the growing tribulation would destabilize its hiding place and expose it.
• Little Four stared down the first Heart Demon Tribulation and taunted the heavens as it bounced through golden lightning, while Chen Changming guarded the area and searched for the Heaven-Discerning Beast.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast watched Little Four pass five waves unharmed and felt instinctive fear of its fierce aura.
• Chen Changming praised Little Four, wondered if it came from a higher world, and decided to seek resources to help it grow.
• Little Four endured the sixth wave of lightning and cursed the heavens as the sixth Heart Demon Tribulation descended.

Little Four endured the first six waves of its heavenly tribulation and faced the seventh, while Chen Changming watched for the concealed Heaven-Discerning Beast. The beast was forced out of hiding, and Chen Changming seized it amid the golden lightning.

• Little Four remained unaffected by the first six waves, leading Chen Changming to suspect it might survive all nine.
• The pure-gold seventh wave struck Little Four, but its four-colored Divine Ability made the lightning pass through its body.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast burned its blood essence to maintain its concealment as the violent tribulation tore through the void.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast's concealment failed, and it stumbled out of a crack, gravely wounded.
• Chen Changming entered the golden Lightning Tribulation, sealed the Heaven-Discerning Beast in place, and grabbed it by the neck.

Chen Changming spared the wounded Heaven-Discerning Beast after Jade Sky True Person's death and watched Little Four endure the eighth wave of tribulation. The ninth wave began as an enormous golden sun of lightning descended toward Little Four.

• Chen Changming carried the Heaven-Discerning Beast away from the Lightning Tribulation and urged it to accept him as its new master, but it refused.
• Chen Changming watched Little Four pass the seventh wave of Lightning Tribulation and Heart Demon Tribulation with ease.
• Little Four endured the eighth wave of Lightning Tribulation in its half-illusory, half-real state, though the Heart Demon Tribulation affected it slightly.
• The ninth wave of Lightning Tribulation appeared as a hundred-zhang golden sun that descended toward Little Four.

Chen Changming watched Little Four endure an unprecedented ninth wave of Lightning Tribulation as more than a dozen human Fusion Realm cultivators gathered, intent on killing the unknown Beast. A powerful Demon Race expert then arrived, leaving Little Four exposed to both sides and Chen Changming unsure how he could protect it.

• Chen Changming teleported three hundred li away with the Heaven-Discerning Beast as Little Four vanished inside the golden tribulation sun.
• More than a dozen Fusion Realm cultivators gathered around the tribulation, and Chen Changming prepared his talismans to face them.
• The black-robed elder warned that a being who survived nine waves could reach the Mahayana Realm and urged the humans to kill Little Four.
• The human cultivators agreed to eliminate Little Four before it could grow stronger.
• A powerful Demon Race expert approached from the north, and Chen Changming realized Little Four might be captured or killed by either race after its tribulation.

The Giant Spirit King arrived as Little Four completed the Nine Waves Heavenly Tribulation and drove away the human cultivators who wanted to seize the Beast. He guarded the fading golden sun and planned to take Little Four as his disciple, while Chen Changming recognized that even his allies could not challenge the Demon King.

• The Giant Spirit King appeared before the human Fusion Realm cultivators and dismissed their warning that the Beast would threaten humanity.
• The Giant Spirit King ordered the human cultivators to leave, then struck away two more Fusion Realm cultivators who approached from a distance.
• The Giant Spirit King decided to protect Little Four from both humans and demons and considered taking him as a disciple.
• Chen Changming felt relieved that the Giant Spirit King kept human cultivators away, but realized Chu Qiushui and Elder Spirit Charm could not oppose him.

The Heavenly Dao merged Little Four’s ninth Lightning and Heart Demon Tribulations, forcing it out of its half-illusory state and gravely wounding it. Little Four endured the combined assault and shattered both golden suns, leaving the tribulation clouds silent.

• A second golden sun descended before the ninth wave of Lightning Tribulation had ended, merging the Lightning and Heart Demon Tribulations.
• Chen Changming and the Giant Spirit King watched in alarm as the merged tribulations struck Little Four, while the Heaven-Discerning Beast questioned Chen about it.
• The combined attack shattered Little Four’s four-colored radiance, dragged it into reality, and covered its body with severe wounds.
• Little Four endured the lightning and soul-corroding Heart Demon without falling, as the Giant Spirit King urged it to hold on.
• Little Four unleashed a four-colored pillar from the mark on its forehead and shattered the merged golden suns.