Recaps

Chen Changming repeatedly cast the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art while Su Qingshan waited for him to treat his injuries. After two days, Chen Changming reached the Ultimate Realm and revealed a thirty-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree, which Su Qingshan recognized from his clan’s records.

• Su Qingshan agreed to open the grand formation and let Chen Changming leave if Chen Changming healed him.
• Chen Changming had Su Qingshan watch over Su Ying, then repeatedly cast the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art instead of treating Su Qingshan.
• Su Qingshan questioned Chen Changming, but Chen Changming ignored him and continued casting the art for two days, restoring his spiritual power with pills.
• Chen Changming completed the art’s second enhancement and summoned a thirty-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree.
• Su Qingshan recognized the tree as proof that Chen Changming had reached the legendary Ultimate Realm.

Chen Changming resisted the Life and Death Bottle’s deathly power with his enhanced Azure Spirit Power and discovered that the bottle’s Artifact Spirit had awakened. He stored the bottle in his Storage Ring, leaving Su Qingshan devastated over the loss of the Su Clan’s ancestral treasure.

• Su Qingshan celebrated Chen Changming’s achievement but pleaded for healing, while Chen Changming turned his attention to the Life and Death Bottle.
• Chen Changming threatened Su Qingshan and tested whether his Azure Spirit Power could withstand the bottle’s deathly power.
• The Life and Death Bottle’s Artifact Spirit spoke to Chen Changming and promised to explain the Ancient Ghost Clan after he freed it.
• Following the Artifact Spirit’s instructions, Chen Changming enveloped the bottle in Azure Spirit Power and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Su Qingshan watched the bottle disappear and despaired over the loss of the Su Clan’s foundation.

Chen Changming learned from the Artifact Spirit that taking the Life and Death Bottle would not violate his oath to the Su Clan, and he healed Su Qingshan and Su Ying using the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art. The chapter left Su Qingshan and Su Ying stunned by Chen Changming’s mastery of its legendary Ultimate Realm.

• Su Qingshan warned Chen Changming that taking the Black God Bottle would break his Heavenly Dao oath, and offered him a powerful position if he left it behind.
• Chen Changming called the bottle the Life and Death Bottle, and the Artifact Spirit explained that it had never belonged to the Su Clan and that taking it would not break his oath.
• The Artifact Spirit told Chen Changming that the Azure Spirit Divine Tree would gradually wither without the bottle’s life force, and suggested he return every hundred years to replenish it.
• Chen Changming formed a thirty-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree and used its roots to heal Su Qingshan and Su Ying.
• Su Ying woke and learned from Su Qingshan that Chen Changming had reached the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art’s legendary Ultimate Realm, then reconsidered her view of him and Han Tian.

Su Ying and Su Qingshan tried to marry Chen Changming into the Su Clan, but he refused and chose to take Su Luo with him. Before leaving, he promised to return every hundred years to replenish the Azure Spirit Divine Tree.

• Su Ying asked Su Qingshan to end her engagement to Han Tian so she could marry Chen Changming, and Su Qingshan offered him both daughters.
• Chen Changming rejected Su Ying and Su Qingshan, saying he would marry neither daughter and preferred to remain a Rogue Cultivator.
• After Chen Changming healed Su Qingshan, he asked to take Su Luo away, and Su Qingshan agreed.
• Chen Changming took Su Luo out of the Azure Spirit Underground Palace with Su Qingshan and promised to replenish the Azure Spirit Divine Tree once every hundred years.

Chen Changming took the Life and Death Bottle and left the Su Clan with Su Luo after arranging to return in a hundred years. Su Qingshan planned to use the Azure Spirit Mirror to track him down and bring him back, intending to force Su Ying to marry him.

• Chen Changming agreed to return in a hundred years, rejected Su Qingshan's threats, and accused the Su Clan of exploiting people who mastered the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• Su Qingshan shut down the mountain-protecting formation, and Chen Changming flew to Su Luo and told her he could take her away.
• Chen Changming took Su Luo's hand and flew out of the Su Clan with the Life and Death Bottle.
• Su Qingshan realized the Heavenly Dao would not punish Chen Changming and said the Su Clan could track him with the Azure Spirit Mirror.
• Su Qingshan told Su Ying they would capture Chen Changming, seal his soul, and make him marry her, and Su Ying questioned why she still had to marry him.

Su Qingshan used the Soul-Seizing Spirit-Capturing Art to control Han Tian and cancel his marriage arrangement with Su Ying. Meanwhile, Chen Changming reunited with his cultivation avatar, revealed his true body’s strength to Su Luo, and took her away to begin a new life.

• Su Qingshan told Su Ying that Chen Shan’s talent made him worthy of her, while Han Tian arrived unaware of the upheaval in the Su Clan.
• Su Qingshan used the Soul-Seizing Spirit-Capturing Art to control Han Tian and ordered him to cancel his marriage arrangement with Su Ying.
• Chen Changming took Su Luo a hundred li from Azure Spirit Mountain, where his fourth-level Spirit Transformation cultivation avatar merged into him.
• Chen Changming revealed that his true body was a Void Refinement Realm Body Cultivator and said he would help Su Luo pursue body refinement.
• Chen Changming took Su Luo north to find a place to settle, and she thanked him for giving her a new beginning.

Chen Changming took Su Luo away from the Su Clan and offered to teach her body refinement, giving her a new path to cultivation. They settled in a remote mountain cave, where Su Luo accepted him as her master, while the Su Clan summoned its Fusion Realm retainers to pursue them.

• Chen Changming encouraged Su Luo to try body refinement, and she agreed to learn from him.
• Su Qingshan sent communication Flying Swords to summon the Su Clan's forty-eight Fusion Realm retainers, while Su Ying expected them to defeat Chen Shan.
• After flying more than thirty thousand li, Chen Changming and Su Luo found a secluded mountain range and carved out a cave abode.
• Su Luo learned that Chen Changming had reached the fifth level of the Spirit Transformation Realm and thanked him for helping her.
• Chen Changming offered to take Su Luo as his disciple, and she called him Master.

Chen Changming taught Su Luo the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art, and she quickly began cultivating it. After strengthening the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, he used it to heal the Heaven-Discerning Beast’s contract injuries.

• Chen Changming warned Su Luo to keep the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art secret, then taught her the technique and his insights.
• Su Luo comprehended most of the art in three days, and Chen Changming praised her talent for body forging.
• Su Luo condensed a silver immortal furnace and began tempering her body with its flames while Chen Changming watched.
• After ten days, Chen Changming strengthened the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and formed a ninety-foot Azure Spirit Divine Tree.
• Chen Changming used the divine tree’s life force to heal the Heaven-Discerning Beast, which awoke and said its injuries were improving quickly.

After healing the Heaven-Discerning Beast, Chen Changming resumed cultivating the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art. Meanwhile, Su Qingshan gathered the Su Clan’s Fusion Realm Attendants and used the Azure Spirit Mirror to search for Chen Shan, whose stolen Life and Death Bottle threatened the clan’s Azure Spirit Divine Tree.

• The Heaven-Discerning Beast recovered, playfully impersonated Saintess Qingyi, and agreed not to take her appearance without Chen Changming’s permission.
• Chen Changming returned the Heaven-Discerning Beast to the Beast Taming Bracelet and resumed cultivating, aiming to perfect the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art before advancing his body cultivation.
• Su Qingshan summoned twenty Fusion Realm Attendants and told them Chen Shan had stolen the Life and Death Bottle and could kill a Fusion Realm cultivator with a black Demon Talisman.
• Su Qingshan gave Zhou Chong the Azure Spirit Mirror, explaining that it could track anyone carrying azure spirit qi.
• Zhou Chong activated the mirror, which revealed lights belonging to Su Clan members but had not yet detected Chen Shan.

Zhou Chong used the Azure Spirit Mirror to locate Chen Shan, whose mastery of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art surpassed every Su Clan ancestor, and led twenty Fusion Realm cultivators to capture him. Chen Changming refused to return with them, and the chapter ended as he prepared to fight with three demonic talismans.

• Zhou Chong detected Chen Shan’s enormous azure light on the Azure Spirit Mirror, and Su Qingshan identified him as having reached the art’s ultimate realm.
• Zhou Chong led twenty Fusion Realm cultivators to the mountain ravine and broke the isolation array around Chen Changming’s cave abode.
• Chen Changming sensed the intruders, sent Su Luo into his Universe Pagoda for safety, and faced the surrounding cultivators.
• Chen Changming rejected Zhou Chong’s demand to return to the Su Clan and explained that he had promised to replenish the Azure Spirit Divine Tree once every hundred years.
• When the retainers dismissed his promise and refused to let him go, Chen Changming summoned three demonic talismans to begin the confrontation.

Chen Changming used a Demon Talisman to kill Sun when Sun and Li tried to capture him. Zhou Chong and the other sixth-layer Fusion Realm cultivators responded with a powerful sword strike and defensive barriers, leaving Chen Changming’s black lotus under attack.

• Zhou Chong challenged Chen Changming, who refused to back down and used his talismans to threaten the twenty Fusion Realm cultivators.
• Zhou Chong called on Sun and Li to capture Chen Changming, and the two approached with defensive treasures prepared.
• Sun sent a giant white net toward Chen Changming while Li attacked the black lotus with his flying sword.
• Chen Changming activated a Demon Talisman, whose black sword light pierced Sun’s brow and killed him instantly.
• Li’s sword damaged the black lotus without breaking it, and Zhou Chong and the other sixth-layer cultivators launched their own moves, with two raising barriers to shield the group.

Chen Changming used three black demonic talismans to kill Zhou Chong and another Fusion Realm cultivator, terrifying the Su Clan’s retainers into fleeing. He seized the Azure Spirit Mirror, realized it tracked the Azure Spirit energy in his body, and headed toward the Clear Mist Sect.

• Chen Changming’s black sword-light broke through Zhou Chong’s defenses, and a third demonic talisman pierced Zhou Chong’s forehead and killed him.
• The Su Clan’s retainers fled after seeing Zhou Chong fall, while Chen Changming collected Zhou Chong’s corpse and the Azure Spirit Mirror.
• Chen Changming collected the corpse of the cultivator surnamed Sun and took stock of the Storage Rings and other spoils.
• Chen Changming examined the Azure Spirit Mirror and concluded that it tracked the Azure Spirit energy within him.
• Chen Changming put away the mirror and flew southwest toward the Clear Mist Sect.

Chen Changming escaped the Su Clan’s Fusion Realm retainers and headed toward the Clear Mist Sect, while Su Qingshan planned to trap him when he returned in a hundred years. A month later, Chen Changming established a cave abode near the sect and sent Su Luo to cultivate.

• The Su Clan’s surviving retainers returned without Chen Shan, reporting that two demonic talismans had killed Zhou Chong and that Chen Shan had taken the Azure Spirit Mirror.
• Su Qingshan urged the retainers to help capture Chen Shan, and Elder Bai agreed to set up a formation capable of trapping a seventh-level Fusion Realm cultivator.
• The retainers agreed to help Su Qingshan lay a trap for Chen Shan when he returned to the Su Clan in a hundred years.
• Chen Changming reached a secluded ravine nine thousand li from the Clear Mist Sect and carved out a cave abode.
• Chen Changming summoned Su Luo from the Universe Pagoda and told her to cultivate in the adjoining room, encouraging her to pursue body cultivation.

Chen Changming completed the fourth enhancement of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and learned that the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao limited it to four enhancements. He began cultivating the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art, while the Life and Death Bottle’s Artifact Spirit waited unnoticed in his Storage Ring.

• Chen Changming completed fifty thousand circulations of the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art and discovered that the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao prevented a fifth enhancement.
• Chen Changming reasoned that the fully enhanced art could heal Fusion Realm cultivators and summoned a twenty-seven-zhang Azure Spirit Divine Tree.
• Chen Changming decided to cultivate the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art and contact Saintess Qingyi after reaching the third level of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Two great existences in the mysterious space discussed the Heavenly Dao’s limit on enhancements and the Life and Death Bottle’s healing power.
• Chen Changming cultivated with the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art while the Artifact Spirit of the Life and Death Bottle waited in his Storage Ring, believing he had forgotten it.

Saintess Qingyi remained imprisoned in the Clear Mist Sect and refused the Azure Dragon Holy Son’s demands to contact Chen Shan, knowing the sect had prepared a killing array for him. A year later, Chen Changming sensed that Su Luo had broken through to Foundation Establishment and suspected an unusual cause behind her rapid progress.

• The Azure Dragon Holy Son pressured Saintess Qingyi to contact Chen Shan, but she refused and said she would not fear losing her cultivation.
• The chapter recounted how Saintess Qingyi repeatedly tried and failed to reach Chen Shan, while Jade Sword True Person gradually visited less often.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son persuaded Jade Sword True Person to forbid Jade Mist True Person from visiting Saintess Qingyi with cultivation pills.
• After a year passed, Chen Changming sensed Su Luo’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough and wondered what had enabled her extraordinary progress.

Su Luo reached Foundation Establishment and awakened a bloodline that Chen Changming identified as that of the Ancient Humans, likely inherited from her mother, who came from the Ancient Village. Chen Changming arranged to visit the village with Su Luo, then returned to cultivation, close to advancing to the third level of the Void Refinement Realm.

• Su Luo broke through to Foundation Establishment using the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art and sensed a power awakening in her blood.
• Chen Changming recognized that Su Luo's aura resembled that of the Ancient Humans and questioned her about her family and bloodline.
• Su Luo told Chen Changming that her mother had come from the Ancient Village deep in Vast Mountain and had also been unable to cultivate the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• Chen Changming concluded that the Ancient Village's people likely carried Ancient Human blood, and Su Luo agreed to guide him there.
• Chen Changming returned to his Cultivation Room, where he was close to reaching the third level of the Void Refinement Realm.

Chen Changming broke through to the third layer of the Void Refinement Realm and easily survived his lesser heavenly tribulation, gaining a small boost from its final blessing. Back at the Clear Mist Sect, Saintess Qingyi contacted him at the Azure Dragon Holy Son and Jade Sword True Person’s command.

• Chen Changming flew to a deserted mountain range and broke through to the third layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Chen Changming endured the lightning and heart demon tribulations without difficulty, then absorbed heavenly earth origin qi and lawlight that slightly strengthened his body.
• Chen Changming found that no cultivators had approached during his tribulation and flew back toward his cave abode.
• The Azure Dragon Holy Son and Jade Sword True Person ordered Saintess Qingyi to contact Chen Shan in her prison cell.
• Saintess Qingyi called Chen Changming with her Message Transmission Token, and he answered.

Chen Changming entered the Clear Mist Sect after realizing Saintess Qingyi was being controlled and lured him there. The sect activated the Eight Directions Heavenly Net Killing Array as soon as he crossed its gate, trapping him inside.

• Jade Sword True Person controlled Saintess Qingyi and forced her to summon Chen Changming to the Clear Mist Sect.
• Chen Changming recognized that Qingyi was likely under control but agreed to go, confident the sect posed no threat to him.
• Jade Sword True Person handed Qingyi over to Jade Mist True Person, who restrained her and refused to spare Chen Changming.
• Jade Sword True Person and eight Fusion Realm elders prepared the Eight Directions Heavenly Net Killing Array to kill Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming arrived at the Clear Mist Sect and crossed its mountain gate, triggering the formation's red barrier.

Chen Changming challenged the Clear Mist Sect and tested his strength against Jade Sword True Person, a first-layer Fusion Realm cultivator. Though Jade Sword True Person’s attack injured him, Chen Changming quickly healed and remained trapped inside the sect’s array as its master offered him a chance to speak his last words.

• Chen Changming entered the Clear Mist Sect’s Eight Directions Heavenly Net Array and challenged Jade Sword True Person to face him.
• Jade Sword True Person struck Chen Changming with an enormous azure hand, hurling him into the array and crashing him into the square.
• Chen Changming assessed the damage and concluded that his third-layer Void Refinement Realm body was approaching the strength of a first-layer Fusion Realm cultivator.
• Chen Changming healed himself with the Spring Return Immortal Art, concealed the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, and returned to the air.
• Jade Sword True Person and the elders were shocked by Chen Changming’s recovery, then Jade Sword True Person appeared on the array and offered him a chance to speak his last words.

Chen Changming used Sword Talismans to break Clear Mist Sect’s grand array and kill Jade Sword True Person, then revealed he still held eight more. The remaining elders lost their fighting spirit as Chen Changming made clear his strength was not that of an ordinary Rogue Cultivator.

• Chen Changming shattered the Eight Directions Heavenly Net Killing Array with a Sword Talisman, injuring the eight elders controlling it.
• Jade Sword True Person ordered the elders to surround and attack Chen Changming, believing he would soon run out of Sword Talismans.
• Chen Changming activated another Sword Talisman, pierced Jade Sword True Person’s brow, and withstood the elders’ attacks behind its protective light.
• Chen Changming displayed eight Sword Talismans, shocking the elders and prompting Jade Mist True Person to question his identity.
• Chen Changming said he was a Rogue Cultivator as a body cultivator but not as a Dao cultivator, using the remaining talismans to deter the elders rather than kill them.

Chen Changming forced the Clear Mist Sect’s elders to abandon their plans to fight and went with Jade Mist True Person to find Saintess Qingyi. After learning that Chen Changming had killed Jade Sword True Person and broken the sect’s array, Qingyi was left stunned.

• Chen Changming used his eight Sword Talismans to deter the Clear Mist Sect’s elders and demanded to see Saintess Qingyi.
• Jade Mist True Person led Chen Changming to her cave abode, while the remaining elders agreed not to seek revenge.
• Jade Mist True Person released Saintess Qingyi and claimed she had continued supplying her with pills during her confinement.
• Saintess Qingyi warned Chen Changming to flee, not knowing the sect master had already been killed.
• Chen Changming told Saintess Qingyi that he had broken the grand array and killed Jade Sword True Person, and Jade Mist True Person confirmed it.

After Jade Sword True Person’s death, Chen Changming backed Jade Mist True Person’s bid to become Clear Mist Sect’s new sect master and secured the elders’ agreement. To avenge Saintess Qingyi, Jade Mist True Person had Azure Dragon Holy Son’s cultivation crippled and ordered him imprisoned for life.

• Chen Changming recommended Jade Mist True Person as sect master and promised to support her.
• Chen Changming proposed Jade Mist True Person to the seven Fusion Realm elders, who agreed to appoint her.
• Chen Changming asked Jade Mist True Person to deal with Azure Dragon Holy Son for his mistreatment of Saintess Qingyi.
• Jade Dragon True Person destroyed Azure Dragon Holy Son’s dantian and brought him before the sect leaders.
• Jade Mist True Person ordered Azure Dragon Holy Son imprisoned, and Jade Dragon True Person took him to the sect prison.

Chen Changming left the Clear Mist Sect with Saintess Qingyi’s War God Fragment Map, which could grant access to the War God Temple and its Immortality Herb. Back at his cave abode, he planned a visit to the Ancient Village and remembered the Life and Death Bottle, whose voice greeted him.

• Jade Mist True Person agreed to cripple the Azure Dragon Holy Son and imprison him, and Chen Changming approved the punishment.
• Saintess Qingyi offered Chen Changming her War God Fragment Map and explained that it would let him enter the War God Temple in the Great Void Grotto-Heaven to compete for the Immortality Herb when the realm opened in one year.
• Chen Changming left the Clear Mist Sect and returned to his cave abode, reflecting on his gains and resolving to seek the Immortality Herb.
• Chen Changming told Su Luo that he planned to visit the Ancient Village in a few months to investigate the Ancient Humans and their missing body-cultivation inheritance.
• Chen Changming entered his Cultivation Room and remembered the Life and Death Bottle, whose ghostly voice complained that he had forgotten it.

Chen Changming showed the Artifact Spirit that he had raised the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art beyond its ultimate stage, then questioned it about the Life and Death Bottle’s past. The Artifact Spirit revealed that the bottle was a damaged Profound-Heaven Spirit Treasure tied to an Ancient Ghost master, and explained how the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art originated.

• Chen Changming summoned the Life and Death Bottle in a secluded ravine and demonstrated an Azure Spirit Divine Tree twenty-seven zhang tall, convincing the Artifact Spirit of his mastery.
• Chen Changming asked whether the bottle contained Ancient Ghost corpses, and the Artifact Spirit said it did not.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that its Ancient Ghost master had buried it to absorb netherworld death energy and had left behind a simplified healing Divine Ability that the Su Clan's ancestor named the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
• The Artifact Spirit said its master had been wounded in a great battle, left to seek a way to heal himself, and never returned.
• The Artifact Spirit revealed that the Life and Death Bottle was a Profound-Heaven Spirit Treasure and described how an Ancient Ghost cultivator could nurture it from a magic treasure into that form.

Chen Changming learned that the Life and Death Bottle could enhance his Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, then summoned the Heavenly Fox King as she attempted to break through to level thirteen. The Heavenly Fox King endured the first lightning wave and entered the Heart Demon Tribulation, while two Void Refinement Realm men approached from two thousand miles away.

• The Artifact Spirit explained that the Life and Death Bottle could strengthen Chen Changming's healing art and let him treat Fusion Realm cultivators, though doing so would consume substantial energy.
• The Artifact Spirit described the Ancient Ghost Clan's three cultivation arts and said it could neither remember nor provide the Life and Death Reincarnation Art.
• The Heavenly Fox King told Chen Changming she was about to break through to level thirteen, so he summoned her from the Beast Taming Bracelet.
• The Heavenly Fox King transformed into her true form, drew in spiritual energy, and began her tribulation as Chen Changming retreated over ten miles away.
• The first lightning wave battered and wounded the Heavenly Fox King, then the Heart Demon Tribulation began and she closed her eyes to endure it.
• Two Void Refinement Realm men flew toward the Heavenly Fox King from two thousand miles away.