Recaps

Little Four survived its tribulation and rose to the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm, drawing the Giant Spirit King's admiration. When he offered to take it as his disciple, Little Four refused, and the Giant Spirit King began to suspect it wanted a Human Race master.

• Little Four destroyed the two suns during the final tribulation wave but was left gravely wounded.
• The Spirit Realm's Heavenly Dao showered Little Four with Heavenly Earth Origin Qi and Lawlight, healing it and raising it to the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Chen Changming realized Little Four's strength now rivaled his own and felt both pride and reluctance at the prospect of losing it.
• The Giant Spirit King offered to take Little Four as his disciple, but Little Four said he was not suitable.
• The Giant Spirit King suspected Little Four wanted a Human Race cultivator as its master and demanded to know why he was unsuitable.

Little Four revealed that its Calamity Beast nature filled the Giant Spirit King with instinctive terror, then used the Four-Colored Diamond Heart to evade his attempts to capture it. The Giant Spirit King chose to leave rather than risk making an enemy of Little Four, and Little Four remained free.

• Little Four approached the Giant Spirit King and explained that its presence could affect his Dao Heart.
• The Giant Spirit King felt overwhelming fear near Little Four and considered taking it to the Thunder Flood Dragon King for advice.
• Little Four identified itself as a Calamity Beast and warned that contact could bring misfortune and death.
• The Giant Spirit King tried twice to seize Little Four, but his hand passed through its four-colored, illusory body.
• Little Four reminded the Giant Spirit King that it owed him for guarding it during its tribulation and warned him not to force the issue.
• Fearing Little Four might seek revenge after growing stronger, the Giant Spirit King left.

After Little Four drove away the Giant Spirit King, Chen Changming praised its breakthrough and promised to help it cultivate. Little Four offered to make the unconscious Heaven-Discerning Beast submit, while Chen Changming struggled to heal it and realized he needed a stronger healing Divine Ability.

• Chen Changming watched the Giant Spirit King depart and decided to leave the area with Little Four.
• Little Four returned after reaching the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm, and Chen Changming promised to seek cultivation opportunities for it.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast trembled in Little Four's presence and fainted from fear and its severe injuries.
• Little Four urged Chen Changming to take in the Heaven-Discerning Beast and said it had a way to make the Beast submit.
• Chen Changming used the Spring Return Immortal Art to heal the Beast, but its wounds barely improved, so he considered finding a Spirit Realm healing Divine Ability.

Chen Changming healed the Heaven-Discerning Beast enough to wake it, and Little Four forced it to agree to become Chen Changming’s Demon Pet. After Chen Changming completed the Spirit-Locking Pact, he learned the Beast’s severe soul and origin injuries would require a more powerful healing divine ability.

• Chen Changming repeatedly used the Spring Return Immortal Art until the Heaven-Discerning Beast woke, though its injuries remained severe.
• Little Four tormented the Heaven-Discerning Beast with endless fear until it agreed to acknowledge Chen Changming as its master.
• Chen Changming cast the Spirit-Locking Pact, binding the Heaven-Discerning Beast to him as his Demon Pet.
• Little Four transformed into human form and made the Heaven-Discerning Beast call him Fourth Master.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast told Chen Changming its soul and physical origin were badly damaged and might take centuries or longer to heal, prompting him to seek a stronger healing divine ability.

After abandoning his exposed cave abode, Chen Changming left the Clear Mist Sect’s territory in disguise and sought a stronger healing art for the injured Heaven-Discerning Beast. Bi Cang directed him toward the Azure Spirit Su Family, and Chen Changming set course for their home at Azure Spirit Mountain.

• Chen Changming stored Little Four and the Heaven-Discerning Beast in his Beast Taming Bracelet and fled the Giant Spirit King’s former territory.
• He abandoned his exposed cave abode, retrieved the Ten Thousand Poison Iceheart Grass with Senior Bi Cang, and flew away.
• Chen Changming contacted Saintess Qingyi to tell her he would be away for a while, then changed his appearance and left the Clear Mist Sect behind.
• Chen Changming asked Bi Cang about healing Divine Abilities, and she recommended the Azure Spirit Su Family’s Clear Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• After Bi Cang warned him about the Su Family’s powerful connections, Chen Changming headed toward Azure Spirit Mountain.

After Jade Sky True Person’s soul lamp went out, the Azure Dragon Holy Son told the Clear Mist Sect elders that he had sent his master to investigate Chen Shan. The sect summoned Saintess Qingyi to answer for her role, and she entered the tense hall.

• The Azure Dragon Holy Son worried that Jade Sky True Person had not returned from investigating Chen Shan.
• Jade Sword True Person told the Azure Dragon Holy Son that Jade Sky True Person’s soul lamp had gone out.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son explained that he had tracked Saintess Qingyi to a cave near the sect and told Jade Sky True Person, who went to investigate and died.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son blamed Jade Mist True Person’s disciple, Saintess Qingyi, for Jade Sky True Person’s death.
• Jade Sword True Person ordered Saintess Qingyi brought to the hall, where she appeared before the sect master and elders.

Saintess Qingyi was ordered to lure Chen Shan to the Clear Mist Sect so the sect could avenge Jade Sky True Person, while the elders prepared a deadly formation. Imprisoned as bait, she destroyed her Message Transmission Token to keep Chen Shan from contacting her or walking into danger.

• Jade Sword True Person questioned Saintess Qingyi about Chen Shan and Jade Sky True Person's death, while Azure Dragon Holy Son blamed her for revealing Chen Shan's whereabouts.
• Saintess Qingyi said Jade Sky True Person had sought Chen Shan first and argued that Chen Shan had acted in self-defense, but Jade Sword True Person ordered her to lure Chen Shan to the sect.
• Jade Sword True Person ordered eight Fusion Realm elders to prepare the Eight Directions Heavenly Net Killing Array and allowed Azure Dragon Holy Son to assist.
• Jade Sword True Person had Saintess Qingyi taken to the prison and ordered her to keep her Message Transmission Token so she could lure Chen Shan when he contacted her.
• Saintess Qingyi used her Water Spirit Pearl to shatter the Message Transmission Token, hoping to prevent Chen Shan from coming to the Clear Mist Sect.

Chen Changming arrived at Azure Spirit Mountain and learned that the Su Clan was recruiting outsiders to learn the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art. After registering, he joined the applicants beneath the Azure Spirit Divine Tree, where Su Qingshan announced the test for gaining its recognition.

• Chen Changming joined the recruitment line and learned from Geng Li'an that the Su Clan was seeking outsiders because its members had struggled to cultivate the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art to its peak.
• Chen Changming registered under the name Chen Shan as a Rogue Cultivator and received token number 371.
• Chen Changming reached the back mountain and saw the Azure Spirit Divine Tree, where hundreds of Spirit Transformation cultivators had gathered.
• Geng Li'an explained that applicants needed the Azure Spirit Divine Tree's recognition to become outer sect disciples.
• Su Qingshan introduced himself as patriarch of the Su Clan and announced that applicants had to pass the tree's test.

Chen Changming passed the Su Clan’s Azure Spirit Divine Tree test with one leaf and qualified as an outer disciple, while a young man in white earned a record nine leaves. The new disciples were told to gather at dawn for instruction and followed steward Su Yin to their accommodations.

• Su Qingshan explained that one divine leaf qualified a person to become an outer disciple and that more leaves indicated greater talent.
• Geng Li'an received three leaves, while Chen Changming received one and ignored the crowd’s mockery.
• A young man in white received nine leaves, the best result in several hundred years, and Su Qingshan said he was worth watching.
• Su Qingshan rejected an elder’s suggestion to dismiss the five one-leaf candidates and confirmed that everyone who received a leaf had passed.
• Su Qingshan announced that instruction would begin at dawn, and steward Su Yin led the new outer disciples deeper into the valley.

Chen Changming and the other new outer sect disciples settled into the Su Clan valley and learned that they had to fuse with an Azure Spirit Divine Leaf to begin cultivating. As they gathered for the trial the next morning, Chen Changming felt confident in his chances.

• Su Yin gave the disciples Storage Rings containing their robes, identity tokens, and manuals, and told them to gather at dawn for instruction.
• Han Tian warned that disciples with one Divine Leaf faced a fifty percent chance of failing the fusion and losing their outer sect status, while he expected to succeed with his nine leaves.
• Geng Li'an comforted Chen Changming, who then chose a quiet, secluded cave abode and read the introductory manual.
• The next morning, Chen Changming joined the other disciples at the gathering place, confident that his experience with the Spring Return Immortal Art would help him fuse with the leaf.

Chen Changming successfully fused his single Azure Spirit Divine Leaf and remained an outer disciple of the Su Clan, while most of the gathered disciples failed and were expelled. His success drew attention, and he told Geng Li'an that it had not been luck.

• Geng Li'an admitted he was nervous about fusing his three divine leaves, and Chen Changming encouraged him before they joined the gathered disciples.
• Su Yin explained the fusion process and warned that those who failed would lose their outer-disciple status and have to leave Azure Spirit Mountain.
• Chen Changming successfully fused his divine leaf, and Geng Li'an fused all three of his after a difficult final attempt.
• Su Yin ordered the failed disciples to leave and revealed that Chen Changming was the only one of five disciples with a single divine leaf to succeed.
• Su Yin announced that 156 disciples had passed and that formal teaching would begin the next morning.
• When Geng Li'an called his success good luck, Chen Changming replied that it was not luck.

Chen Changming joined the Azure Spirit Su Family to learn its guarded healing art, but found that outer disciples received only its introductory method. At the scripture-transmission plaza, Geng Li'an stood by Chen Changming despite other disciples mocking them, while Chen Changming remained unruffled.

• Chen Changming told Geng Li'an that his one-leaf talent would prove its strength, though Geng Li'an privately doubted him.
• Chen Changming studied the introductory Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, realized the Su Family restricted its later methods, and resolved to earn access by following its rules.
• Chen Changming stored the two Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng plants gifted by Saintess Qingyi and cultivated with the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art through the night.
• Chen Changming arrived early at the scripture-transmission plaza, where several disciples looked down on him for his low cultivation and one-leaf talent.
• Several higher-cultivation disciples urged Geng Li'an to stop associating with Chen Changming, but Geng Li'an defended him and returned to his side despite their ridicule.

Chen Changming challenged Han Tian after Han mocked his talent and success as mere luck, prompting Han’s followers to attack him. Su Yin intervened and enforced the Su Clan’s ban on private fights, leaving Han and Chen Changming in a tense standoff.

• Han Tian arrived with a group of outer sect disciples and ridiculed Chen Changming’s talent, saying his success came from luck.
• Chen Changming challenged Han Tian’s contempt for luck and rejected Geng Li'an’s advice to tolerate the insults.
• Han Tian called for someone to teach Chen Changming a lesson, and two Sixth Layer disciples rushed at him.
• Su Yin arrived and blocked the attackers, then warned the crowd that private fighting would result in expulsion from the Su Clan.
• Han Tian glared a warning at Chen Changming, who remained calm as Su Yin went to the front of the square.

Su Yin taught the outer disciples the first half of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and explained its cultivation realms. After Han Tian mocked Chen Changming’s prospects, Chen Changming challenged his confidence, and Han Tian left with a threat to wait three years.

• Su Yin revealed the cultivation stone stele and spent three days and nights teaching the outer disciples the first half of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• Su Yin explained the art’s five realms and said that only those who reached Minor Accomplishment could learn its middle section.
• Han Tian boasted that his nine-leaf talent would let him reach Peak, but Su Yin warned him that even Clan Head Su Qingshan had remained at Completion for centuries.
• Su Yin set a test for three years later, when disciples who had reached Minor Accomplishment could continue to the middle section.
• Han Tian mocked Chen Changming for possibly failing to enter the beginner stage, and Chen Changming replied that he would not be beneath him three years later.
• Han Tian held back from attacking Chen Changming for fear of punishment and expulsion, then left after threatening to wait.

Chen Changming dismissed Han Tian’s followers’ taunts and began cultivating the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art in his cave abode. He reached minor accomplishment in under two months, kept his progress secret, and turned to body forging with a thousand-year-old Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng.

• Chen Changming refused to back down from his challenge to Han Tian, while Geng Li'an warned him about the danger of Han Tian’s stronger followers.
• Chen Changming sealed his cave abode and began practicing the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, using his extraordinary aptitude to condense a one-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree after three days.
• Chen Changming cultivated for more than a month and formed a three-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree, reaching minor accomplishment in less than two months.
• Chen Changming decided to conceal his progress and remain safely in the Su Clan’s cave abode rather than seek out Su Yin.
• Chen Changming began cultivating the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art by consuming a rootlet of thousand-year-old Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng and refining its power.

After nearly three years of cultivating the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art, Chen Changming went to the plaza to be tested on the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and qualify to learn its middle portion. He arrived amid mockery from the other disciples, while Su Yin prepared to examine them and enforce the Su Clan’s rules.

• Chen Changming finished refining both Mystic Dragon Blood Ginseng plants and decided to seek more at Blood Dragon Mountain after settling matters with the Su Clan.
• On the way to the plaza, Chen Changming told Geng Li'an and other outer disciples that he had entered the gate of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• Chen Changming remarked that the gap between him and the other disciples was too great for them to reach Minor Accomplishment together, but they mistook his words for a boast and laughed.
• Han Tian and his followers mocked Chen Changming, while Geng Li'an urged him not to provoke them.
• Su Yin arrived and asked whether the outer disciples had entered the gate, intending to expel Chen Changming if he had failed to do so.

After the outer disciples entered the gate, Su Yin publicly challenged Chen Changming to prove he had reached minor accomplishment. Chen Changming revealed that he had cultivated a three-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree, leaving Su Yin and the crowd stunned.

• The outer disciples announced that they had entered the gate, and Su Yin asked whether Chen Shan had done so as well.
• Chen Changming confirmed that he had entered the gate, and Su Yin asked whether he had reached minor accomplishment.
• The disciples, Han Tian, and Geng Li'an reacted as Chen Changming claimed he had broken through the previous day.
• Chen Changming summoned a three-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree to prove his minor accomplishment, shocking Su Yin and the crowd.

Chen Changming revealed that he had reached the minor achievement realm despite having one-leaf aptitude, shocking Han Tian, Su Yin, and the other cultivators. Su Yin took Chen Changming and Han Tian away, while Han Tian vowed to surpass him at the major achievement stage.

• Chen Changming displayed a three-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree, proving he had reached minor achievement, and Han Tian and Geng Li'an were stunned.
• Su Yin confirmed Chen Changming's cultivation was genuine and asked how he had advanced so quickly; Chen Changming replied that it was good luck.
• Han Tian revealed his own three-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree and claimed he had reached minor achievement a month before Chen Changming.
• Han Tian said his nine-leaf talent would leave Chen Changming behind at major achievement, while Chen Changming calmly accepted the challenge.
• Su Yin took Chen Changming and Han Tian away, and Geng Li'an wondered whether Chen Changming's claims about his ability were true.

Su Yin brought Han Tian and Chen Changming to the Su Clan’s Transmission Hall, where they had to swear loyalty before entering. Su Ying came to meet the nine-leaf genius Han Tian, dismissed Chen Changming’s achievement as luck, and left focused on Han Tian.

• Su Yin led Han Tian and Chen Changming through the Su Clan grounds while clan members speculated about Chen Changming’s breakthrough.
• Su Yin told Han Tian and Chen Changming they had to swear never to betray the Su Clan before the ancestors’ statues, and both agreed.
• Su Ying arrived outside the Transmission Hall and greeted Han Tian after Su Yin introduced him as a nine-leaf genius.
• Su Ying learned that Chen Shan had one-leaf talent but had reached Minor Achievement within three years, and she reacted with disbelief.
• Su Ying decided Chen Shan was not worth further attention and left, satisfied with Han Tian.

Chen Changming and Han Tian swore loyalty to the Su Clan and began studying the middle portion of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art. Meanwhile, Su Ying and her father discussed Han Tian as a potential son-in-law, until Su Qingshan learned that Chen Shan had reached Lesser Accomplishment in three years and was left baffled.

• Chen Changming suspected Su Ying had come to assess Han Tian as a recruitment prospect and planned to let Han Tian attract attention while he pursued the complete healing art.
• Han Tian and Chen Changming swore before a Su Clan ancestor's statue, and Su Yin revealed the middle portion of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art for them to study for ten days.
• Su Yin sealed the Transmission Hall and wondered whether Chen Shan could comprehend the technique.
• Su Ying told Su Qingshan that Han Tian seemed talented, handsome, and well-mannered, and Su Qingshan explained that the clan hoped to find her a suitable son-in-law.
• Su Ying told Su Qingshan that Chen Shan had one-leaf aptitude but had reached Lesser Accomplishment in three years, leaving Su Qingshan incredulous at Su Yin's explanation that Chen Shan was lucky.

Su Ying heard Su Qingshan predict that Han Tian would master the middle-section cultivation art far sooner than Chen Shan, while Chen Changming concealed how quickly he understood it. After three days in the Transmission Hall, Han Tian finished grasping the art’s general framework, and Chen Changming agreed to leave with him.

• Su Qingshan told Su Ying that Han Tian would likely comprehend the art within three days, while Chen Shan might need ten days or fail entirely.
• Su Ying left the study thinking about Han Tian, while Chen Changming decided to conceal his comprehension and match Han Tian’s pace.
• Han Tian scolded Chen Changming for standing around, and Chen Changming challenged him to finish comprehending the art within three days.
• Chen Changming mastered the middle section in less than a day, while Han Tian struggled to understand several crucial points.
• After three days, Han Tian grasped the art’s general framework, asked Chen Changming how much he had understood, and agreed to leave the hall with him.

Chen Changming and Han Tian both claimed to have comprehended the technique’s middle portion, but Su Yin and Su Qingshan remained skeptical of Chen Changming and prioritized Han Tian for clan resources. The chapter left Chen Changming receiving one Azure Spirit Divine Leaf under the Su Clan’s talent-based rules.

• Han Tian and Chen Changming told Su Yin they had finished comprehending the technique, and Han Tian accused Chen Changming of lying about his progress.
• Su Yin told them to cultivate toward the Great Accomplishment Realm and hinted that Chen Changming might never reach it; Han Tian vowed to break through within ten years.
• Chen Changming planned to seek the technique’s lower portion, while Su Yin went to report their progress to Su Qingshan.
• Su Qingshan decided that Han Tian should remain the clan’s cultivation priority, and Su Yin arranged monthly Azure Spirit Divine Leaf distributions according to each disciple’s tested talent.
• A Su Clan disciple delivered Chen Changming one Azure Spirit Divine Leaf and told him to keep it safe.

Chen Changming received one Azure Spirit Divine Leaf from the Su Clan and began cultivating the middle portion of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, reaching great accomplishment in one year before spending the next nine years refining his body. After ten years, he wondered whether Han Tian had also reached great accomplishment and hoped to avoid drawing the Su Clan’s attention.

• Chen Changming learned that Han Tian received nine Azure Spirit Divine Leaves each month while he received only one, and decided to leave the Su Clan after obtaining the final portion of the art.
• Chen Changming cultivated the middle portion of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and reached great accomplishment in one year by condensing a six-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree.
• Chen Changming stopped cultivating the healing art and focused on the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art for nine years, nearing a breakthrough to the second layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Chen Changming reflected that ten years had passed since he and Han Tian began studying the middle portion, and hoped Han Tian had not yet reached great accomplishment so the Su Clan would not turn its attention to him.

Chen Changming concealed his cultivation while learning that Han Tian was expected to reach the Great Accomplishment Realm within a month. After Su Ping provoked him, Chen Changming said they would meet again in a month, and the chapter ended with Han Tian breaking through as predicted.

• Chen Changming told himself to keep a low profile and let Han Tian attract attention while he pursued the complete Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• Geng Li'an told Chen Changming that he had reached minor achievement after thirteen years and was going to comprehend the middle section of the art.
• Chen Changming asked about Han Tian, and Su Ping claimed Han Tian would reach major achievement in a month after absorbing nine Azure Spirit Divine Leaves.
• Su Ping mocked Chen Changming's one-leaf aptitude, but Chen Changming calmly said they would meet again in a month.
• A month later, Han Tian emerged from his cave abode and announced that he had reached the Great Accomplishment Realm.

Han Tian reached Major Accomplishment and went to Su Yin to request the rest of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art. Chen Changming stayed in seclusion, planning to approach Su Yin after attention shifted to Han Tian.

• Su Ping congratulated Han Tian on his breakthrough and disparaged Chen Shan, claiming Chen Shan had made no progress in ten years.
• Han Tian announced his breakthrough to the outer disciples and headed with Su Ping to the Deacon Hall.
• Chen Changming watched Han Tian leave, then returned to cultivate and decided to emerge in a few days to seek out Su Yin.
• Han Tian showed Su Yin his six-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree, and Su Yin praised his talent as greater than the clan head's had been at the same stage.
• Han Tian asked to learn the latter portion of the technique, and Su Yin explained that only Clan Head Su Qingshan could authorize it before contacting him.