Recaps

Han Tian reached Major Accomplishment and agreed to marry Su Ying in exchange for access to the latter half of the Su Clan’s cultivation art. Su Ying and Su Yin then decided Chen Shan should be driven out of the clan, leaving his fate in their hands.

• Su Yin told Su Qingshan that Han Tian had reached Major Accomplishment and wanted to learn the rest of the cultivation art.
• Su Yin and Han Tian mocked Chen Shan for failing to advance, and Su Qingshan praised Han Tian’s talent.
• Su Qingshan told Han Tian that he had to marry Su Ying to gain the latter half of the art, and Han Tian accepted.
• Su Qingshan said Han Tian could marry Su Ying after completing the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, then took him to the Transmission Hall to teach him.
• Su Ying urged Su Yin to drive Chen Shan out because she considered him a threat to Han Tian, and Su Yin agreed to handle it after Han Tian’s affairs were settled.

Chen Changming emerged after a month and revealed that he had reached the Great Accomplishment realm despite his one-leaf talent, shattering the Su Clan's long-standing rule. Su Yin and the gathered outer sect disciples were left stunned by Chen Changming's breakthrough.

• Chen Changming left his cave dwelling and told two outer sect disciples that he had broken through to Major Achievement.
• The two disciples and others followed Chen Changming to the Deacon Hall to verify his claim.
• Su Yin questioned Chen Changming, who demonstrated a six-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree and revealed his Great Accomplishment realm.
• The outer sect disciples gathered outside the hall reacted with shock and skepticism as Su Yin struggled to understand Chen Changming's breakthrough.

Chen Shan revealed that he had reached the Great Accomplishment realm, astonishing Su Qingshan and the Su Clan elders. To keep him in the clan without disrupting Su Ying’s promised marriage to Han Tian, Su Ying proposed that Chen Shan marry her mute elder sister, Su Luo, and the chapter ended with Su Qingshan confirming Chen Shan’s achievement.

• Su Yin reported to Su Qingshan and Su Ying that Chen Shan had reached the Great Accomplishment realm and wanted to learn the latter portion of the cultivation technique.
• Su Ying doubted Chen Shan’s achievement, but Su Yin insisted that his six-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree was genuine.
• Su Ying proposed that Su Luo marry Chen Shan so the Su Clan could keep him while preserving Su Ying’s engagement to Han Tian.
• Su Ying left to tell Su Luo to prepare, while Su Qingshan and Su Yin went to the Deacon Hall.
• Chen Changming condensed his Azure Spirit Divine Tree, and Su Qingshan confirmed its Great Accomplishment realm and resolved to keep him in the Su Clan.

Chen Changming sought the latter half of the Su Clan's technique, but Su Qingshan made access conditional on marrying Su Luo and becoming a live-in son-in-law. Chen Changming refused to decide immediately, while Su Qingshan revealed the clan wanted to secure talented cultivators to save its ailing ancestor.

• Su Qingshan told Chen Changming he could study the latter half of the technique only if he married Su Luo and joined the Su Clan as a live-in son-in-law.
• Chen Changming asked for three days to consider, then returned to his cave abode determined to find another way to obtain the technique.
• Su Yin asked Su Qingshan whether Chen Changming should meet Su Luo first, and Su Qingshan explained that she was mute and feared Chen Changming would refuse.
• Su Qingshan said the clan could use coercive methods if Chen Changming refused, because it needed to retain talented cultivators like him and Han Tian.
• Su Qingshan explained that the ancestor's mysterious illness was worsening, his cultivation had fallen from the Fusion Realm to the Void Refinement Realm, and the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art had failed to cure him.

Su Qingshan and Su Ying discussed relying on Han Tian and Chen Shan to reach the peak of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and save the Su Clan's ancestor. That night, Su Luo visited Chen Changming in secret and entered his cave dwelling to talk.

• Su Yin told Su Qingshan that Han Tian and Chen Shan both had a chance to reach the peak realm.
• Su Ying grew angry that Chen Shan wanted several days to consider the Su Clan's offer, while Su Qingshan said he could force Chen Shan to marry Su Luo if he refused.
• Su Qingshan explained that the Su Clan would keep Chen Shan as a backup in case Han Tian failed to save the ancestor.
• Su Luo arrived at Chen Changming's cave dwelling late at night and asked in writing to speak inside, revealing that she did not speak aloud.
• Chen Changming let Su Luo into his cave dwelling.

Su Luo warned Chen Changming that Su Qingshan would use force if he refused to marry into the Su Clan. She proposed a marriage without obligations in exchange for access to the latter half of the cultivation method and one attempt to cure her congenital muteness.

• Chen Changming sealed the cave residence and listened as Su Luo apologized for visiting late at night.
• Su Luo warned Chen Changming that her father might place restrictions on him if he refused the marriage demand.
• Su Luo revealed that Su Qingshan had neglected her for years because of her poor talent and congenital muteness.
• Chen Changming asked whether the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art at its peak could cure Su Luo, but she said no one knew.
• Su Luo proposed that they marry in name only, allowing Chen Changming to study the rest of the cultivation method in exchange for one attempt to cure her muteness.

Su Luo offered her marriage in name to secure Chen Changming’s safety and access to the next part of his cultivation art, asking him to treat her Heaven-Muteness affliction in return. Chen Changming agreed to help her and later accepted the Su Clan’s marriage arrangement, while Su Qingshan planned to control him once he reached the perfection realm.

• Su Luo told Chen Changming she had used her marriage to bargain for his safety and the latter half of his cultivation art, asking only that he treat her Heaven-Muteness affliction someday.
• Chen Changming promised to cure Su Luo and agreed to take her with him when he eventually left the Su Clan.
• Su Luo warned Chen Changming that Su Qingshan might try to keep him under the clan’s control, then left his cave dwelling after they sealed their agreement with a high-five.
• Three days later, Chen Changming told Su Yin he was willing to marry into the Su Clan, and Su Yin took him to the Transmission Hall to learn the next portion of the technique.
• Su Qingshan told Su Ying that Chen Changming had no choice but to accept the marriage and vowed to control him after he reached the perfection realm.

Su Qingshan gave Chen Shan the latter half of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art while the Su Clan secretly planned to keep him under control. Chen Changming concealed that he mastered the technique in two days, then left the Transmission Hall with improved benefits and a declared goal of reaching the Completion Realm.

• Su Ying learned that the Su Clan’s mountain-guarding formation would prevent Chen Shan from leaving and agreed he would be under their control.
• Chen Changming entered the Transmission Hall, accepted the technique from Su Qingshan, and claimed he would need a month and a half to comprehend it.
• Su Qingshan ordered Su Yin to guard the hall while Chen Changming studied the technique alone.
• Chen Changming fully comprehended the latter half in two days but pretended to study for the full month and a half.
• Su Yin told Chen Changming that the Clan Chief had raised his monthly benefits to nine divine leaves, and Chen Changming said he would cultivate toward the Completion Realm.

Chen Changming cultivated the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art to perfection and enhanced it once, advancing the technique to the pinnacle realm. He realized its unusually tall divine tree could expose his progress to Su Qingshan during his fifty years in seclusion.

• Chen Changming suspected Su Qingshan had increased his Azure Spirit Divine Leaf allotment to control him, and he returned to his cave abode to cultivate.
• Chen Changming mastered the lower section and fused all three sections of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, then chose to cultivate steadily before strengthening it.
• After five years, Chen Changming reached perfection and formed a nine-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree.
• Chen Changming cast the technique one hundred times and strengthened it, producing a twelve-foot tree that nearly touched the cave ceiling.
• Chen Changming realized the tree's fixed height for the pinnacle realm could reveal his advancement to Su Qingshan.

Chen Changming tested his peak-realm Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art on the injured Heaven-Discerning Beast and decided to keep its enhanced power hidden from the Su Clan. He planned to focus on body cultivation before revealing his strength to the clan in fifty years.

• Chen Changming resolved to cultivate the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art for ten years and prepare to face the Su Clan if it turned against him.
• Chen Changming summoned the injured Heaven-Discerning Beast and used the twelve-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree to heal it.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast recognized the tree as a sign of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art's peak realm and praised Chen Changming's rapid progress.
• Chen Changming considered enhancing the healing art further but decided to conceal his trump card while he remained in the Su Clan.
• The Heaven-Discerning Beast said it could survive for thirty or forty years by entering dormancy, and Chen Changming returned it to the Beast Taming Bracelet.
• Chen Changming began cultivating the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art as purple flames tempered his body.

After breaking through to the second layer of the Void Refinement Realm, Chen Changming continued cultivating in secret and completed fifty years of military service as Ning Jin. As he left the Vermilion Bird Barracks, Chu Qiushui summoned him to her Elder Palace, while Elder Spirit Charm watched and amused herself with the secret that he was her martial nephew.

• Chen Changming broke through to the second layer of the Void Refinement Realm and decided to delay any further breakthrough to avoid revealing his identity to the Su Clan.
• After thirteen more years, Zhu Liejun gave Ning Jin his military service token as Ning Jin completed his fifty-year term at the Vermilion Bird Barracks.
• Ning Jin said farewell to the Vermilion Bird Guards and left the barracks, remembering the comrades who had departed before him.
• Chu Qiushui called Ning Jin to her Elder Palace, and he hurried there, glad that his grandmaster had emerged from seclusion.
• Elder Spirit Charm watched Ning Jin go to Chu Qiushui and secretly delighted in the fact that Chu Qiushui did not know he was her martial nephew.

Chen Changming visited Chu Qiushui, who planned to enter long-term seclusion and gave him three days to wait while she prepared thirty Sword Talismans for his protection. Elder Spirit Charm learned of his plan to travel and hinted that she would give him support of her own.

• Chen Changming met Chu Qiushui, who recognized that his body-cultivation self was an avatar and asked how many Sword Talismans he had left.
• Chen Changming said he had one remaining, and Chu Qiushui promised to condense thirty more before attempting a breakthrough to the Mahayana Realm.
• Chen Changming left the Elder Palace and settled into a room at the Cloud Come Residence in the Royal City.
• Elder Spirit Charm appeared in Chen Changming's room and learned that Chu Qiushui planned to attempt the Mahayana Realm and make him thirty Sword Talismans.
• Chen Changming confirmed that he intended to leave the Royal City and venture out, and Elder Spirit Charm said she would not let Chu Qiushui outdo her.

Chen Changming received thirty Sword Talismans from Chu Qiushui and learned that she feared her upcoming attempt to break through to the Mahayana Realm would fail. He returned to the inn to await the Demonic Talismans Spirit Charm had promised to forge for him.

• Spirit Charm promised to forge Chen Changming more than thirty Demonic Talismans within three days, and Chen Changming waited at the inn for his protective treasures.
• Three days later, Chen Changming visited Chu Qiushui at the Elder Palace and received a Storage Ring containing thirty Sword Talismans.
• Chu Qiushui praised Chen Changming's potential to reach the Mahayana Realm but admitted she feared her own breakthrough attempt would fail and could kill her.
• Chen Changming left the Elder Palace with the Sword Talismans and returned to the inn, anticipating Spirit Charm's Demonic Talismans.

After waiting a day, Chen Changming received thirty-three Demon Talismans from Elder Spirit Charm, who had exhausted herself making them. He then revealed that he practiced Dual Cultivation of Body and Dao and that the Chen Changming in the Vermilion Bird Barracks was only a cultivation clone.

• Chen Changming sealed his inn room and waited a full day for Elder Spirit Charm, suspecting she might not come.
• Elder Spirit Charm emerged from the void, gave Chen Changming a Storage Ring containing thirty-three Demon Talismans, and explained that she had hoped to make more but ran out of time.
• Elder Spirit Charm questioned why Chen Changming’s cultivation had not advanced in fifty years.
• Chen Changming told Elder Spirit Charm that he practiced Dual Cultivation of Body and Dao, and that his body-refining true body had left to seek opportunities while his current self was a cultivation clone.
• Elder Spirit Charm understood why Chen Changming’s Dao cultivation had remained unchanged and forgave him for keeping the truth from her.

Chen Changming left Azure Billow Royal City after Elder Spirit Charm announced she would attempt the Mahayana Realm, then returned to his original body near Azure Spirit Mountain. Twenty-seven years later, he remained just short of a body-refining breakthrough as Su Ping brought him an Azure Spirit Divine Leaf and mentioned Han Tian’s recent breakthrough.

• Elder Spirit Charm told Chen Changming she planned to enter seclusion and attempt the Mahayana Realm, then vanished before he could respond.
• Chen Changming left Azure Billow Royal City and flew for a month to reunite with his original body near Azure Spirit Mountain.
• Su Clan disciples told Chen Changming that outer sect disciples were forbidden to leave for fifty years under Su Qingshan’s orders, so he returned to his cave abode and continued cultivating.
• Chen Changming sent his avatar to Azure Spirit City while his original body cultivated for twenty-seven years, drawing close to but not reaching the third layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Su Ping brought Chen Changming an Azure Spirit Divine Leaf and said Han Tian had broken through half a month earlier, then asked when Chen Changming would reach the perfected realm.

Chen Changming arranged to meet his fiancée Su Luo, and Su Ping brought her to his cave abode. After sealing the cave against outside sounds and divine sense, Su Luo urgently asked whether Chen Changming had reached the Perfection Realm, and he began to answer that he probably had not.

• Chen Changming asked Su Ping to bring Su Luo to meet him, and Su Ping agreed despite considering whether the clan head might object.
• Su Ping found Su Luo in a remote courtyard and told her that Chen Changming wanted to see her and that their wedding could be held alongside Su Ying's if he broke through to the Completion Realm within three months.
• Su Ping escorted Su Luo to Chen Changming's cave abode, where Chen Changming and Su Luo pretended to be meeting for the first time.
• Chen Changming invited Su Luo inside to speak privately, and Su Ping allowed them the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Chen Changming sealed the cave abode with a formation, and Su Luo asked whether he had broken through to the Perfection Realm.

Chen Changming revealed that he had reached the peak realm and used his Azure Spirit Divine Tree to cure Su Luo’s heavenly muteness. He planned to confront her father that day, while Su Luo worried that the Su Clan would trap him and exploit his healing ability.

• Chen Changming showed Su Luo his twelve-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree and revealed that he had reached the peak realm in fifty years.
• Chen Changming treated Su Luo with the divine tree’s roots, and she spoke her first complete sentence after years of muteness.
• Su Luo warned Chen Changming to hide his cultivation and reminded him that her father and the Su Clan’s Fusion Realm consecrated elders could threaten him.
• Chen Changming told Su Luo that he had a way to handle the Su Clan and said he intended to lay everything out before her father that day.

Chen Changming revealed to Su Qingshan and Su Ying that he had cultivated the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art to the peak realm, stunning them with a demonstration. Su Ying accused him of using a trick, and Chen Changming challenged her motives.

• Chen Changming reassured Su Luo that he would handle the Su Clan and told her to wait for him.
• Chen Changming asked Su Ping to take him to Su Qingshan, claiming he wanted to report his cultivation progress.
• Su Qingshan and Su Ying discussed Chen Changming’s lack of progress before Su Ping announced his arrival.
• Chen Changming told Su Qingshan that he had reached the peak realm of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and manifested a twelve-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree as proof.
• Su Ying accused Chen Changming of using a trick, and Chen Changming asked whether she was upset that he had surpassed Han Tian.

Chen Changming revealed his Peak Realm breakthrough to Su Qingshan, who tried to seize him, but Chen shattered the attack and took Su Ying hostage to secure his escape. As two Fusion Realm retainers arrived, an aged voice ordered Su Qingshan to let Chen leave and bring him to the Underground Palace to treat its speaker’s injuries.

• Su Qingshan and Su Ying learned that Chen Changming had reached the Peak Realm, and Su Qingshan resolved to keep him under the Su Clan’s control.
• Su Qingshan attacked Chen Changming, but Chen shattered his magical hand with a single palm strike, and Su Ying was injured by the aftermath.
• Chen Changming seized the unconscious Su Ying and demanded that Su Qingshan open the protective formation so he could leave safely.
• Two Fusion Realm retainers appeared, and Su Qingshan portrayed Chen Changming as a dangerous disciple who wanted to leave the Su Clan.
• An aged voice ordered Su Qingshan to agree to Chen Changming’s departure and then take him to the Underground Palace to treat the speaker’s injuries.

Su Qingshan brought Chen Changming to the Azure Spirit Underground Palace to treat the Su Clan's old ancestor, after Chen Changming agreed in exchange for being allowed to leave. The group entered the hidden palace, where Su Qingshan revealed the patient was the clan's ancestor.

• Su Qingshan stopped his Fusion Realm retainers from attacking Chen Changming and offered to let him leave if he treated someone for the Su Clan.
• Chen Changming agreed, hoping to depart peacefully and conserve his Sword Talismans and demon talismans.
• Su Qingshan led Chen Changming, who still held the unconscious Su Ying, to the valley with the Azure Spirit Divine Tree.
• Su Qingshan opened the concealed entrance to the Azure Spirit Underground Palace and led the group inside.
• Chen Changming asked whom he was expected to treat, and Su Qingshan told him it was the Su Clan's ancestor.

Chen Changming entered the Su Clan ancestor’s sealed underground chamber to treat his illness with the Azure Spirit Divine Tree. The ancestor seized control of Chen Changming’s Azure Spirit Power, and the roots beneath him opened into a deep, glowing hollow.

• Su Qingshan told Chen Changming that the Su Clan ancestor’s cultivation had fallen from the Fusion Realm to the fifth level of the Void Refinement Realm, then opened the sealed passage for him.
• Chen Changming entered the underground palace carrying Su Ying and found the white-robed ancestor seated among the Azure Spirit Divine Tree’s roots.
• The ancestor asked Chen Changming to summon his peak-realm Azure Spirit Divine Tree and began receiving its life energy.
• The ancestor urged Chen Changming to release more Azure Spirit Power, then used a strange seal and an Azure Spirit Divine Leaf mark to take control of Chen Changming’s power.
• The roots beneath the ancestor spread apart, revealing a deep hollow as Chen Changming struggled to stop his Azure Spirit Power from flowing away.

Chen Changming discovered that the Su Clan ancestor had lured him into a trap to steal his Azure Spirit Power, then found the Life and Death Bottle beneath the Azure Spirit Divine Tree. He broke free with a demonic talisman and launched a sword strike at the ancestor.

• The Su Clan ancestor activated the formation, restrained Chen Changming, and revealed his plan to take Chen Changming's Azure Spirit Power.
• Su Qingshan told an elderly consecrated cultivator that the grand formation could suppress anyone below the fifth level of the Fusion Realm, and they waited outside the light screen.
• Chen Changming saw the Life and Death Bottle beneath the tree roots and heard the Su Clan ancestor declare that he intended to control it.
• Chen Changming activated a demonic talisman, shattered the formation's restraints, and sent a streak of sword light toward the Su Clan ancestor.

Chen Changming killed the Su Clan ancestor and discovered that the Life and Death Bottle carried the aura of the Ancient Ghost Clan. Su Qingshan and two Fusion Realm retainers entered the underground chamber, where Chen Changming faced them with Su Ying unconscious in his hand.

• Chen Changming killed the Su Clan ancestor with a sword strike and recognized the Ancient Ghost aura coming from the Life and Death Bottle.
• The formations failed, and Su Qingshan and two Fusion Realm retainers entered the underground chamber.
• Su Qingshan saw the Life and Death Bottle and his dead ancestor, then reacted with shock and fury.
• Chen Changming admitted that he had killed the ancestor and tested Su Qingshan about the bottle's origin.
• Chen Changming concluded that Su Qingshan knew nothing about the bottle and prepared to face him and the retainers.

Chen Changming tested the Life and Death Bottle and discovered its overwhelming death power could only be resisted by immense Azure Spirit Power. Su Qingshan tried to approach the bottle but was gravely injured when its death power overwhelmed him.

• Su Qingshan refused to let his Attendant kill Chen Shan because Su Ying remained in Chen Changming's grasp.
• Chen Changming touched the Life and Death Bottle, felt its death power ravage his arm, and withdrew before his Azure Spirit Power could fully counter it.
• Chen Changming concluded that he could not yet control the bottle and considered enhancing the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art again.
• Su Qingshan asked his two Attendants to protect him as he approached the bottle, and Chen Changming moved aside to watch.
• Su Qingshan touched the bottle's inner wall, but its death power overwhelmed his Azure Spirit Power, making him spit blood and nearly collapse.

Su Qingshan realized the Su Clan ancestor had been injured trying to claim the black bottle, then chose to sacrifice Su Ying to keep the clan’s secret and control Chen Changming. Chen Changming killed both Fusion Realm attendants with a Demon Talisman and an ambush, leaving Su Qingshan to ask who he really was.

• Su Qingshan realized the ancestor’s injuries and declining cultivation had come from a failed attempt to claim the black bottle.
• Su Qingshan decided to sacrifice Su Ying and ordered the two attendants to restrain Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming activated a Demon Talisman and killed the middle-aged attendant with a black sword light.
• The elderly attendant fled through the Mountain-Guarding Formation, but Chen Changming’s cultivation avatar ambushed and killed him.
• Su Qingshan asked Chen Changming who he was, and Chen Changming answered that he was just an independent cultivator.