Recaps

Chen Changming and the other cultivators were trapped in the War God Temple by a mysterious force that controlled their bodies and spiritual power. The gray mist revealed its true form as a member of the Bone Moth Clan, while Chen Changming remained wary and largely unrestrained.

• Limitless Wanderer and Vajra Master discovered they could no longer control their bodies, and the deep voice warned that no one would escape.
• Chen Changming found that tiny gray particles in his body blocked his spiritual power, but he could still move.
• The gray mist entered Vajra Master to test whether his body could withstand its true body, then emerged and left him collapsed.
• Qin Zhao identified the gray mist as an alien race, and it took the form of a centipede-like creature with a human head and wings.
• Limitless Wanderer recognized the creature as belonging to the Bone Moth Clan, frightening the cultivators who knew its name.

Chen Changming and the others learned that the Bone Moth Clan Insect King had parasitized them with insect eggs, leaving them apparently doomed. Qin Zhao explained how the parasitism worked, but she knew of no way to expel the eggs.

• The Bone Moth Clan Insect King revealed that it had obtained a Mahayana cultivator’s corpse and could now lay eggs, then retreated into the misty well.
• Qin Zhao and Limitless Wanderer explained that the insect eggs would eventually kill their hosts, while the immobilized group despaired over their fate.
• Bai Qi asked whether they could escape, but Limitless Wanderer said there was no way to remove the parasitism.
• Chen Changming asked Qin Zhao how they had been infected, and she explained that the Insect King used illusions and staged encounters to make them accept eggs without resisting.
• Qin Zhao confirmed that the parasitism was complete and that she knew no way to expel the eggs.

Chen Changming used the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art to burn the Bone Moth Clan’s insect eggs inside him, but the Insect King emerged and targeted him as a vessel after discovering his Ancient Human inheritance. As the controlled cultivators attacked, Chen Changming fought them off with his powerful body.

• Chen Changming cultivated the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art in the hall and discovered its purple flames could burn away some of the gray insect eggs within him.
• The Bone Moth Clan’s Insect King emerged from the well, recognized Chen Changming’s Ancient Human inheritance, and declared him a suitable vessel.
• Vajra Master, controlled by the Insect King, struck Chen Changming’s immortal furnace and forced him to stop cultivating.
• A green-robed sword cultivator attacked, but Chen Changming shattered the sword tide with one punch and wounded him.
• The Insect King ordered more than a dozen cultivators to capture Chen Changming, who blocked their attacks with repeated punches and injured several of them.

Chen Changming used the Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly Art and Slaughter Demon Sword Art to injure the Bone Moth Clan's Insect King, which escaped into the deep well. Overwhelmed by more than ninety attackers, Chen Changming summoned Little Four, who shielded them from the assault.

• Chen Changming grew six additional arms with the Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly Art and fought off the coordinated attacks of the cultivators controlled by the Bone Moth Clan's Insect King.
• Chen Changming struck at the Insect King with all eight arms, but its illusion-inducing Divine Ability briefly stalled him and let it flee toward the deep well.
• Chen Changming used Sword Blade First Bloom to pierce the Insect King's scaled body, and the wounded Insect King escaped into the deep well as the other cultivators attacked.
• Chen Changming countered the assault with Annihilate All Spirits and his fists, but the attackers blasted him away and made him spit blood.
• Chen Changming summoned Little Four, who swallowed him and used its four-colored light to let the incoming attacks pass through harmlessly.

Chen Changming refined some insect eggs inside Little Four’s mouth while the Bone Moth Clan’s Insect King agreed to cooperate with a mysterious man imprisoned in the tomb. The War God Temple’s formations changed, and Chen Changming regained enough spiritual power to activate the War God Fragment Map.

• Chen Changming used the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art to refine gray particles inside his body while Little Four evaded the cultivators’ attacks.
• The Bone Moth Clan’s Insect King realized Chen Changming might escape and heard a mysterious man offer to control the War God Temple’s formations in exchange for release.
• The Bone Moth Clan’s Insect King agreed, entered the Mahayana Realm expert’s corpse, and let red light escape the gray mist around the crimson sphere.
• The red lights spread through the War God Temple and subtly altered its formations, leaving Little Four confused.
• Chen Changming purified some gray particles and regained enough spiritual power to activate the War God Fragment Map.

Chen Changming failed to escape the War God Temple because the Bone Moth Clan Insect King had altered its formation, so he relied on Little Four’s defensive Divine Ability while seeking another way to survive. The Insect King’s captive Mahayana Realm powerhouse proposed a way to break Little Four’s defense, but the Insect King refused to empower a potential enemy.

• Chen Changming tried to activate the War God Fragment Map, but the temple’s altered formation blocked his escape.
• Chen Changming summoned Little Four and entered its mouth so he could recover while its four-colored radiance shielded it from the cultivators’ attacks.
• The Bone Moth Clan Insect King ordered the controlled cultivators to attack Little Four continuously, but their attacks passed through it and struck the temple walls.
• The crimson sphere of light asked the Insect King to release it, arguing that they could cooperate, but the Insect King distrusted its promise not to seek revenge.
• The crimson sphere proposed absorbing the cultivation of the dead to reach the Fusion Realm and defeat Little Four, but the Insect King rejected the plan.

The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King and Leng failed to reach an agreement, while the Insect King’s controlled cultivators kept attacking Little Four. After Chen Changming finished removing the insect eggs from his body, he and Little Four launched a surprise counterattack, leaving the battle underway.

• Leng refused to swear a Heavenly Dao oath, and the Bone Moth Clan's Insect King said it would wait for Chen Changming to die of old age.
• The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King rotated the controlled cultivators through continuous attacks on Little Four, but their strikes passed harmlessly through it.
• After nearly a day and night, Chen Changming told Little Four to change locations and let him out.
• Chen Changming appeared behind cultivators recovering their spiritual power, killed one with the Slaughter Demon Sword, and battered the others with his seven remaining arms.
• The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King ordered the other cultivators to attack Chen Changming, who smashed apart their spells and Spirit Treasures.
• Little Four teleported behind the cultivators and fired a streak of silver light from its mouth.

Chen Changming and Little Wolf fought the Bone Moth Clan Insect King's forces in the War God Temple, using powerful attacks and healing abilities to withstand the assault. The Bone Moth Clan Insect King grew uneasy as Chen Changming's side recovered from injuries and continued fighting.

• Little Wolf appeared as a gigantic Silver Moon Heavenly Wolf and killed several Void Refinement Realm cultivators with its claws.
• The Bone Moth Clan Insect King split its forces, sending Vajra Master and a group of cultivators to attack Little Wolf while the others targeted Chen Changming.
• Vajra Master exchanged blows with Little Wolf, and the two sides clashed amid a barrage of attacks.
• Chen Changming charged the enemy while Little Wolf fought alongside him, and the Azure Spirit Divine Tree healed Little Wolf's wounds as Chen Changming used the Spring Return Immortal Art on himself.
• Qin Zhao saw new hope as Chen Changming revealed his strength, while the Bone Moth Clan Insect King became troubled by his ability to heal himself and Little Wolf.

The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King triggered the Great Void Grotto-Heaven's teleportation formation and secretly gathered parasitized cultivators in its tomb to preserve them as vessels. With many opponents removed from the War God Temple, Chen Changming and Little Wolf killed the remaining controlled cultivators, leaving the Insect King with fewer cards to play.

• The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King refused Leng's offer to release it and leave the Great Void Grotto-Heaven together.
• The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King plucked the Immortality Medicine, triggering the grotto-heaven's teleportation and drawing dozens of parasitized cultivators into its tomb.
• Chen Changming realized the Insect King was running out of options after many cultivators disappeared into the well.
• Chen Changming ordered Little Wolf to kill the cultivators controlled by insect eggs, since he could not save them.
• Chen Changming and Little Wolf slaughtered every cultivator in the War God Temple, including Vajra Master.

After the battle, Little Four devoured the Bone Moth Clan eggs, astonishing the Insect King and alarming Cold Extreme Void’s second incarnation. Chen Changming restored his strength and headed toward the well with Little Four and Little Wolf, preparing to discover what lay inside.

• Little Four called the gray particles in the blood and pus ant legs, then used four-colored light to gather and eat all the Bone Moth Clan eggs.
• Chen Changming realized Little Four could consume the eggs unharmed and planned to have it eat the Bone Moth Clan Insect King as well.
• The Bone Moth Clan Insect King watched Little Four devour the eggs and wondered how it had resisted their death qi and poison.
• Cold Extreme Void urged the Insect King to release him so they could fight together, but the Insect King refused, confident that the tomb’s formation could not be broken without Fusion Realm cultivation.
• Chen Changming restored his spiritual power, then walked toward the well with Little Four and Little Wolf as Little Four asked what was inside.

Chen Changming and his companions descended into the well to reach the Bone Moth Clan insect king, but a powerful array blocked them. Little Four used its unique ability to disrupt the barrier, leaving the insect king shocked and afraid.

• Chen Changming told Little Four that the well held a Bone Moth Clan insect king and asked it to deal with the creature.
• Chen Changming, Little Four, and Little Wolf flew down the well, where a protective array stopped them from reaching the bottom.
• Chen Changming struck the array but was thrown into the well wall and injured, then healed himself with the Spring Return Immortal Art.
• The Bone Moth Clan insect king taunted Chen Changming, claiming the array could imprison him for thousands of years.
• Little Four fired a four-colored beam at the array, making ripples spread across its light and shocking the insect king and the person within the crimson orb.

Chen Changming, Little Four, and Little Wolf entered the Mahayana expert’s tomb, where they found the Bone Moth Clan Insect King and discovered Cold Extreme Void was gathering lifespans throughout Great Void Grotto-Heaven to extend his own life. Cold Extreme Void and the Insect King joined forces as the life-gathering power flowed into Cold Extreme Void.

• Little Four used its four-colored light to carry Chen Changming and Little Wolf through the formation’s crack and into the tomb.
• Chen Changming led Little Four and Little Wolf into the tomb to confront the Bone Moth Clan Insect King.
• Chen Changming found Qin Zhao and Bai Qi among the cultivators gathered beside a black coffin, while the Insect King hid in gray mist nearby.
• The Bone Moth Clan Insect King asked Cold Extreme Void to cooperate against Chen Changming, and Cold Extreme Void agreed.
• The Insect King entered the coffin as a crimson sphere appeared, and runes spread across Great Void Grotto-Heaven, gathering people’s lifespans into Cold Extreme Void.
• Little Four recognized the sphere’s aura of life, and Cold Extreme Void admitted that it had understood his Divine Ability as his power rose.

Chen Changming uncovered that Cold Extreme Void had created the Great Void Grotto-Heaven to harvest the lifespans of Void Refinement cultivators, then summoned the Demon Spirit Vine to destroy the tomb’s runes and break through Cold Extreme Void’s defenses. He rescued Qin Zhao and obtained the immortality medicine, while Little Four moved to attack the Bone Moth Clan Insect King.

• Chen Changming realized that Cold Extreme Void had used the Great Void Grotto-Heaven to secretly harvest cultivators’ lifespans.
• Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine, whose attacks began smashing the tomb’s runes and battering the crimson sphere.
• The Demon Spirit Vine rescued Qin Zhao and seized the immortality medicine, which Chen Changming stored in the Universe Pagoda.
• Cold Extreme Void reinforced the sphere, and the Bone Moth Clan Insect King used a hallucination attack to slow the Demon Spirit Vine.
• Chen Changming ordered Little Four to attack the Insect King, which retreated into the coffin as Little Four approached.

Cold Extreme Void's second incarnation broke through to the first layer of the Fusion Realm and attacked Chen Changming and the demon spirit vine. As Little Four tried to devour the Bone Moth Clan Insect King, Chen Changming, Little Wolf, and the vine joined forces to stop Cold Extreme Void, leaving the tomb's formation cracked and the entire tomb close to collapse.

• The demon spirit vine shattered the crimson orb, revealing Cold Extreme Void's second incarnation, whose runes raised his cultivation to the first layer of the Fusion Realm.
• Cold Extreme Void shattered the vine's black vines, while Chen Changming found that the Great Void Grotto-Heaven's laws prevented him from using his Sword Talisman and prepared to fight with eight arms.
• Little Four sent four-colored light into the Mahayana Realm corpse and began dragging the Bone Moth Clan Insect King out, but Cold Extreme Void's attack passed harmlessly through Little Four's illusory body.
• Chen Changming healed the demon spirit vine and Little Wolf, then joined them in blocking Cold Extreme Void's great hand with fists, vines, and claws.
• The collision sent a shock wave into the tomb's defensive formation, cracking it and shaking the tomb to the brink of collapse.

Chen Changming and his two Demon Pets endured another devastating clash with Cold Extreme Void, while Little Four continued pulling the Bone Moth Clan's Insect King from the coffin. The tomb's defensive formation neared collapse, and the Insect King regretted provoking Chen Changming too late.

• Cold Extreme Void's palm strike severely wounded Chen Changming, Little Wolf, and the Demon Spirit Vine, but Chen Changming used the Spring Return Immortal Art to heal them.
• Cold Extreme Void acknowledged their resilience and launched another giant palm strike at them.
• Chen Changming, Little Wolf, and the Demon Spirit Vine attacked the giant hand together, but the impact worsened their injuries and spread cracks across the tomb's defensive formation.
• Little Four kept drawing the Bone Moth Clan's Insect King out of the coffin and mocked its trapped, twisted position.
• The Bone Moth Clan's Insect King regretted provoking Chen Changming and realized it was too late to undo its actions.

Chen Changming and his companions fought Cold Extreme Void while Little Four dragged the Bone Moth Clan Insect King from the corpse and swallowed it. After Cold Extreme Void accidentally shattered the tomb’s formation, Little Four began opening a way out, while Cold Extreme Void prepared to leave the Great Void Grotto-Heaven as well.

• Cold Extreme Void struck Chen Changming and his companions with a third powerful attack, worsening their injuries and further damaging the tomb’s formation.
• Little Four used its four-colored light to tear the Bone Moth Clan Insect King from the corpse despite its pleas for mercy.
• Cold Extreme Void attacked Little Four but missed, and his palm shattered the great tomb’s formation.
• Little Four swallowed the Bone Moth Clan Insect King and then agreed to take Chen Changming out of the grotto-heaven.
• Cold Extreme Void took the Storage Ring from the corpse and adjusted the Great Void Grotto-Heaven’s formation to prepare his own escape.

Chen Changming and his companions escaped the inner formations of the War God Temple but remained trapped in the Great Void Grotto-Heaven. As Little Four tried to break the outer barrier, Cold Extreme Void escaped ahead of them, laid a trapping array, and faced the heavenly tribulation he had delayed.

• Little Four tore open the War God Temple formation and brought Chen Changming, the Demon Spirit Vine, and Little Wolf outside it.
• Chen Changming explained that they were still inside the Great Void Grotto-Heaven, and Little Four began attacking its outer formation despite its cultivation weakening.
• Chen Changming realized Cold Extreme Void was planning to escape and ambush them outside the grotto-heaven.
• Cold Extreme Void teleported out of the great tomb and set up a Primordial Golden Soup Array across the surrounding mountains and rivers.
• The Fusion Realm heavenly tribulation descended over Cold Extreme Void.

Cold Extreme Void weathered nine waves of tribulation and stabilized his cultivation at the first level of the Fusion Realm while Chen Changming recovered and prepared to confront him. Cold Extreme Void entered the Myriad-Mile Primordial Golden Soup Formation, believing Little Four was too depleted to help.

• Cold Extreme Void began his tribulation as Little Four broke Chen Changming and the others out of the Great Void Grotto-Heaven, only for them to find the Primordial Golden Soup Array sealing the skies outside.
• Chen Changming sent Little Four to recuperate, healed the Demon Spirit Vine and Little Wolf, and then recovered his own spiritual power under their protection.
• Chen Changming took out six more Sword Talismans and waited for Cold Extreme Void, intent on killing him before he could become a greater threat.
• Cold Extreme Void survived all nine waves of Lightning Tribulation, stabilized his cultivation at the first level of the Fusion Realm, and entered the formation to face Chen Changming.

Cold Extreme Void brought out a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure to kill Chen Changming, but Chen Changming struck first with three Sword Talismans and fatally pierced him. The golden horn then tore open the Primal Chaos Golden Soup Grand Formation as Cold Extreme Void died.

• Cold Extreme Void passed through the Primal Chaos Golden Soup Grand Formation and summoned his golden horn, a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure he had refined in his previous life.
• Sensing the danger, Chen Changming activated three Sword Talismans, whose swords attacked Cold Extreme Void from the front and behind.
• Cold Extreme Void blocked the two frontal swords with the golden horn and seized the third, but it pierced his palm and went through his head.
• Cold Extreme Void died regretting that he had pursued Chen Changming after leaving the Great Void Grotto-Heaven.
• The golden horn struck the Primal Chaos Golden Soup Grand Formation and tore a massive gash in it.

Chen Changming discovered that the Golden Dragon Horn was a powerful profound-heaven spirit treasure and enlisted the Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon to help him claim it. The horn responded to the dragon’s ancient language, suggesting that the Golden Giant Dragon’s consciousness still lingered within it.

• Chen Changming retrieved Cold Extreme Void’s corpse and Storage Ring, then found the Golden Dragon Horn at the bottom of a crater.
• The Demon Spirit Vine tried to seize the horn, but its tendril shattered when the treasure rejected contact.
• The Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon identified the horn as a profound-heaven spirit treasure made from a Golden Giant Dragon’s horn and warned that Fusion Realm cultivators would soon arrive.
• Chen Changming agreed to release the Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon and treat it well, but refused to obey all its commands.
• The Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon emerged in the Yin-Yang Seal and chanted in the Dragon Clan’s language, prompting a faint response from the Golden Dragon Horn.

Chen Changming secured the Golden Dragon Horn after the Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon persuaded the consciousness within it to accept him. He learned that the Life and Death Bottle could contain and conceal the horn, whose artifact spirit recognized it as a long-lost treasure.

• The Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon persuaded the Golden Dragon Horn to stop resisting, and Chen Changming healed the demon spirit vine before cautiously testing the horn.
• After seeing the horn remain peaceful when it touched the Yin-Yang Seal, Chen Changming descended into the pit and asked it to submit to him.
• The Golden Dragon Horn agreed, and Chen Changming touched it, sensing its overwhelming battle intent.
• The Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon warned that ordinary storage treasures could not hold the horn and advised using the Life and Death Bottle instead.
• Chen Changming summoned the Life and Death Bottle, whose artifact spirit recognized the Golden Dragon Horn and recalled its former master's failed attempt to obtain it.

Chen Changming concealed the Golden Dragon Horn in the Life and Death Bottle and fled the battlefield. The Ice Spirit Fairy arrived, found a trace of the treasure’s aura, and intercepted Chen Changming as he traveled toward Stone Village.

• Chen Changming had the Life and Death Bottle absorb the Golden Dragon Horn and conceal its aura.
• The Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon explained why some Profound-Heaven Spirit Treasures could not be stored in ordinary Storage Rings, then returned to Chen Changming’s sea of consciousness.
• Chen Changming burned his bloodstained clothes, changed into black robes, and flew away from the battlefield.
• The Ice Spirit Fairy arrived at the empty pit, found a faint trace of aura, and suspected the treasure might be one her lord had ordered her to seek.
• The Ice Spirit Fairy spotted Chen Changming flying alone and blocked his path with a massive ice wall.

Chen Changming disguised himself as Lin Zheng while answering the Ice Spirit Fairy’s questions about the Golden Dragon Horn’s theft. After learning that she knew the treasure’s name and was hunting its thief, he was trapped in ice by her, leaving him unable to retaliate safely.

• Chen Changming met the Ice Spirit Fairy and claimed his name was Lin Zheng.
• Chen Changming told the Ice Spirit Fairy that he had seen a golden-yellow light fly into a valley after a battle, but pretended he could not identify it.
• At the Ice Spirit Fairy’s command, Chen Changming drew the red-hatted Fusion Realm cultivator he claimed had entered the valley.
• The Ice Spirit Fairy identified the stolen treasure as the Golden Dragon Horn and threatened to find the thief, revealing that she knew its name.
• The Ice Spirit Fairy sealed Chen Changming inside a block of ice, and he restrained his anger because he knew his talismans could not defeat her.

The Ice Spirit Fairy searched Chen Changming’s soul for information about the Golden Dragon Horn, but the Mysterious Lotus-Root Node concealed his secrets and helped clear him of suspicion. After surviving a crocodile attack, Chen Changming learned that the Node would reveal its origins once he reached the Mahayana Realm, then headed back to Stone Village to cultivate.

• The Mysterious Lotus-Root Node protected Chen Changming during the Ice Spirit Fairy’s soul search, and she left believing his memories about the Golden Dragon Horn.
• The Ice Spirit Fairy released Chen Changming, who fell into a river and was attacked by a Blackwater Iron Crocodile.
• Chen Changming shattered the crocodile’s attack, killed it, and stored its body in his Beast Taming Bracelet.
• The Mysterious Lotus-Root Node told Chen Changming that the Ice Spirit Fairy would not suspect him soon and promised to explain its origins when he reached the Mahayana Realm.
• Chen Changming flew toward Stone Village to consume the undying medicine and pursue a breakthrough.

After escaping the Great Void Grotto-Heaven, Chen Changming had Little Four remove the insect eggs from Qin Zhao and parted ways with her. He then guarded the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow in a secluded ravine as it prepared to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.

• Chen Changming met Qin Zhao in a mountain valley and had Little Four remove the dormant insect eggs from her body.
• Qin Zhao swore to keep Chen Changming and his Beast companion secret, gave him her Message Transmission Token, and departed after he named a location near Clear Mist Sect.
• Chen Changming rode the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow past Stone Village and learned that the bird expected to break through in about five months.
• Chen Changming changed course to Vast Mountain to help the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow overcome its heavenly tribulation, and they settled in a secluded ravine.
• While the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow cultivated, Chen Changming comprehended the later portions of the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art over three months.
• More than ten days later, the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow announced that it was about to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.