Recaps

Chen Changming proved his superior comprehension by demonstrating the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, prompting the Medicine Sect elders to admit they had misjudged him. After the elders left, he asked Nalan Yue whether the sect had a foothold in Cold Light Province so he could hide from the Elder Council’s bounty and cultivate in seclusion.

• Elder Ji asked Nalan Yue to punish Chen Changming for allegedly exaggerating the Spring Return Immortal Art, but Chen Changming said the elders’ poor results came from their lack of comprehension.
• Chen Changming offered to prove his point by demonstrating the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art, and Elder Ji chose that option over watching him cultivate a Divine Ability.
• Chen Changming summoned a towering Azure Spirit Divine Tree whose life aura eased the elders’ injuries and showed that his art far surpassed ordinary cultivation.
• Elder Ji apologized to Chen Changming, and the other elders admitted their mistake and asked Nalan Yue to punish them; she dismissed them without penalty.
• Chen Changming told Nalan Yue that the Elder Council had placed a bounty on him and asked whether the Medicine Sect had a foothold in Cold Light Province where he could cultivate in seclusion.

Nalan Yue chose the remote Snow Bamboo Sect in Cold Light Province as Chen Changming’s place to cultivate and asked him to serve as its protector. Qian Jiuting escorted Chen Changming through multiple teleportation arrays, and they arrived near Snow Bamboo Mountain.

• Nalan Yue showed Chen Changming a map of Cold Light Province and recommended the Snow Bamboo Sect as a quiet place to cultivate.
• Chen Changming asked about the nearby Cold Ink Sect and Ice Ripple Sect, and Nalan Yue explained that their three sect masters could jointly fight a First Layer Fusion Realm cultivator.
• Nalan Yue appointed Chen Changming to quietly protect the Snow Bamboo Sect and summoned Qian Jiuting to escort him there.
• Nalan Yue gave Qian Jiuting a special token and ordered him to investigate the person behind Li Danyang after returning.
• Qian Jiuting and Chen Changming used a series of teleportation arrays to reach Cold Light Province and continued toward Snow Bamboo Mountain.

Chen Changming traveled with Qian Jiuting to Cold Light Province, where he planned to cultivate temporarily at the Snow Bamboo Sect and asked Qian to watch for news of Chu Qiushui. At their meeting with True Person Xue Yan, Chen was startled by her resemblance to Gu Huaibei, while Xue Yan questioned why a Void Refinement Realm cultivator had been appointed a Medicine Sect elder.

• Chen Changming endured the fire laws in his bones as he followed Qian Jiuting through a hidden teleportation chamber into a snowy cave in Cold Light Province.
• Seeing the snow reminded Chen Changming of Gu Huaibei, and he asked Qian Jiuting to alert him if Chu Qiushui left seclusion in the Royal City.
• Chen Changming and Qian Jiuting concealed their faces and traveled by Immortal Boat toward Snow Bamboo Mountain, avoiding trouble with Qian's Fusion Realm aura.
• Qian Jiuting contacted True Person Xue Yan and waited with Chen Changming in a secluded valley for her arrival.
• True Person Xue Yan met Qian Jiuting and learned that Chen Changming, whose aura seemed to be at the First Layer of Void Refinement, was a newly appointed Medicine Sect elder.
• True Person Xue Yan silently wondered why the Medicine Sect had granted Chen Changming such an esteemed position.

Chen Changming arrived at the Snow Bamboo Sect under the escort of Qian Jiuting and asked True Person Xue Yan to give him a discreet identity because the Elder Council was hunting him. Xue Yan arranged for him to take the place of Chen Chuan, an inner disciple assigned to guard the Ninth Spirit Herb Valley.

• True Person Xue Yan greeted Chen Changming as Elder Chen Shan after Qian Jiuting introduced him as a cultivator of both spiritual arts and the body.
• Qian Jiuting departed for Central Province, and Chen Changming told Xue Yan that he needed a suitable identity to evade the Elder Council.
• Chen Changming asked Xue Yan to use a real Void Refinement Realm disciple's identity rather than inventing one.
• Xue Yan returned with the unconscious Chen Chuan, whose post guarding the Ninth Spirit Herb Valley offered Chen Changming a quiet, inconspicuous place to cultivate.

Chen Changming assumed Chen Chuan’s identity and entered the Snow Bamboo Sect, where he took up guard duty in the Ninth Spiritual Medicine Valley. He settled into the quiet valley and summoned the Cold Nether Spider.

• True Person Xue Yan gave Chen Changming Chen Chuan’s Storage Ring, and Chen Changming changed his appearance and clothes to impersonate Chen Chuan.
• Chen Changming searched Chen Chuan’s memories, then placed the unconscious disciple in the Universe Pagoda and sent True Person Xue Yan ahead to Snow Bamboo Mountain.
• Chen Changming flew to the Snow Bamboo Sect, planning to refine twelve drops of Dragon Blood to strengthen his body.
• Chen Changming reached the Ninth Spiritual Medicine Valley, greeted its servant and outer disciples, and entered the Ancient Hall assigned to the guarding inner disciple.
• Chen Changming summoned the Cold Nether Spider, which excitedly asked whether he had brought it to the Snowfield in the Spirit Realm.

Chen Changming let the Cold Nether Spider leave Snow Bamboo Mountain to seek a cultivation opportunity, then refined Dragon Blood to strengthen himself. After absorbing two drops, he left the Snow Bamboo Sect to find a remote place to face the tribulation expected from his next breakthrough.

• Chen Changming encouraged the Cold Nether Spider to leave Snow Bamboo Mountain and search for an opportunity, and it slipped into the snowy wilderness.
• Chen Changming sealed the Ancient Hall with a formation and swallowed a drop of Dragon Blood, refining it over six days.
• Chen Changming refined a second drop of Dragon Blood, further increasing his cultivation and strength.
• Chen Changming left Snow Bamboo Mountain to find a secluded place for the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation he expected when refining a third drop.

Chen Changming headed north from Snow Bamboo Mountain to prepare for the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation, while a Cold Nether Spider discovered a Frozen Source Grotto in a snowy mountain. A man in green watched the spider break through the grotto’s icy wall, hoping to seize its treasures.

• Chen Changming asked True Person Xue Yan for a secluded place to face the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation, then disguised himself and flew north.
• True Person Xue Yan guessed Chen Changming had advanced to the Second Layer of the Void Refinement Realm and decided not to approach him.
• The Cold Nether Spider sensed an opportunity inside a snow-covered mountain and dug through the rock toward it.
• A Third Layer Void Refinement Realm sword cultivator spotted the spider and decided to follow it, planning to take the opportunity for himself.
• The Cold Nether Spider found a silvery ice wall and battered it until cracks widened.
• The man in green recognized the site as a Frozen Source Grotto and grew eager to obtain its ice-aspected spirit jade or Ice Origin Crystals.

A blue-robed cultivator seized the Ice Origin Crystals in a Frozen Source Grotto and trapped the Cold Nether Spider, but Chen Changming arrived to rescue his Demon Pet. Chen Changming confronted the cultivator and demanded punishment for stealing the spider’s opportunity.

• The blue-robed man broke into the Frozen Source Grotto, trapped the Cold Nether Spider in a Swordlight Cage, and began collecting Ice Origin Crystals.
• The Cold Nether Spider called Chen Changming for help, and he quickly flew to the mountain cave.
• Chen Changming shattered the Swordlight Cage and learned that the blue-robed man had taken the spider’s find.
• The blue-robed man threatened Chen Changming after recognizing his low cultivation, while Chen Changming identified the Ice Origin Crystals and confirmed the spider was his Demon Pet.
• Chen Changming confronted the blue-robed man and demanded to know what punishment he deserved for stealing the Cold Nether Spider’s opportunity.

Chen Changming killed a blue-robed cultivator who threatened him with the Iron Sword Alliance’s name, then examined the Ice Origin Crystals in the cave. The Cold Nether Spider ate the corpse while Chen Changming considered the crystals’ value.

• The blue-robed man attacked Chen Changming with a Flying Sword, but Chen Changming’s Geng-Gold Sword shattered the sword lights.
• The blue-robed man revealed an Iron Sword Token and warned Chen Changming about the Iron Sword Alliance, but Chen Changming attacked again.
• The blue-robed man used the token’s black sword light to block Chen Changming’s Geng-Gold Sword, but Chen Changming summoned two more swords and destroyed it.
• Chen Changming’s three Geng-Gold Swords pierced and killed the blue-robed man.
• The Cold Nether Spider swallowed the corpse, and Chen Changming examined an Ice Origin Crystal and remarked on its value.

Chen Changming concealed the Frozen Source Grotto so the Cold Nether Spider could cultivate safely, then waited nearby with the Iron Sword Token to draw the Iron Sword Alliance away. A black-robed Fusion Realm cultivator confronted him, but grew wary after failing to see through his cultivation.

• The Cold Nether Spider chose to stay in the cave and cultivate with the Ice Origin Crystals, and Chen Changming agreed to hide the grotto.
• Chen Changming took the Iron Sword Token and summoned Little Wolf to guard the Cold Nether Spider.
• Chen Changming concealed and resealed the cave, then waited on a nearby peak for the Iron Sword Alliance.
• A black-robed First Layer Fusion Realm cultivator arrived, recognized the token, and asked whether Chen Changming had killed an Iron Sword Alliance disciple.
• Chen Changming admitted the killing and claimed to be a rogue cultivator, while the black-robed man failed to discern his true cultivation and flew farther away.

Chen Changming drove off an Iron Sword Alliance cultivator and continued to a remote mountain range to prepare for his tribulation. After the man reported back, the alliance leader agreed to join him in hunting Chen Changming for profit and revenge.

• Chen Changming made the middle-aged man in black retreat, then kept the Iron Sword Token in hopes of attracting a stronger opponent.
• Chen Changming asked True Person Xue Yan about the Iron Sword Alliance, learned that its leader was a Third Layer Fusion Realm sword cultivator, and declined her offer of help.
• Chen Changming reached a remote mountain range, carved out a cave, set up a formation, and swallowed Dragon Blood to begin his cultivation.
• The middle-aged man returned to the Iron Sword Alliance and told its leader that Chen Changming was a Body Cultivator whose cultivation might have reached the Fusion Realm.
• The alliance leader agreed to accompany the middle-aged man to kill Chen Changming and sell his corpse to the Demon Race.

Chen Changming broke through to the Sixth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm in a remote northern cave, drawing Steel Sword Elder and An Xin of the Iron Sword Alliance to investigate. After recognizing Steel Sword Elder from their past encounter, Chen Changming prepared to face the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation as its clouds gathered overhead.

• Steel Sword Elder and An Xin followed the Iron Sword Token's trail to a snowy mountain range in Cold Light Province.
• A breakthrough aura of the Sixth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm erupted from a nearby cave, and An Xin's Compass pointed toward it.
• An Xin suspected the hidden cultivator had powerful body cultivation, so Steel Sword Elder urged him to keep his distance from Body Cultivators.
• Chen Changming emerged from the cave and recognized An Xin and Steel Sword Elder, recalling their encounter at Blood Dragon Mountain.
• Chen Changming realized the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation was about to descend as dark clouds and lightning gathered above him.

Chen Changming completed his tribulation and was attacked by Steel Sword Elder and An Xin, who had been waiting to ambush him. Steel Sword Elder recognized Chen Changming and fled, while Chen Changming defeated An Xin and captured him.

• Iron Sword High Person and An Xin prepared to attack Chen Changming as soon as his tribulation ended.
• Chen Changming weathered four waves of the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation and absorbed the Heavenly Earth Origin Qi and Lawlight.
• After the tribulation clouds dispersed, Iron Sword High Person and An Xin launched their Flying Sword attacks against Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming recognized Iron Sword High Person as Steel Sword Elder, prompting him to warn An Xin and flee with a Ten-Thousand-Mile Talisman.
• Chen Changming shattered An Xin's sword lights with one punch, injured him through their bonded Flying Sword, and dragged him over with an overwhelming force.

After Iron Sword High Person abandoned him, An Xin offered to serve Chen Changming in exchange for his life. An Xin revealed the Iron Sword Alliance’s secret ties to the Snow Bear Demon King, and Chen Changming considered keeping him as an informant before asking whether he could return to the alliance.

• Iron Sword High Person escaped with a Ten-Thousand-Mile Talisman, leaving An Xin captured by Chen Changming.
• An Xin identified himself as the Iron Sword Alliance’s Vice Alliance Leader and offered to submit to Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming took An Xin’s Storage Ring but said it was not enough to prove his allegiance.
• An Xin revealed that the Iron Sword Alliance was a hidden pawn of the Demon Race with close ties to the Snow Bear Demon King.
• An Xin swore that Iron Sword High Person alone handled contact with the Snow Bear Demon King, and Chen Changming asked if An Xin could return to the Iron Sword Alliance.

Chen Changming made An Xin his informant and continued refining dragon blood in a new cave abode, but the blood’s effects were becoming harder to absorb. As he worked through his fifth drop, Little Four sensed a faint, alluring fragrance outside in the snowstorm.

• Chen Changming released An Xin and agreed to let him keep his Storage Ring while he investigated Iron Sword’s dealings with the Snow Bear Demon King.
• An Xin took one Message Transmission Token, gave the other and the Storage Ring back to Chen Changming, and left to investigate Iron Sword.
• Chen Changming flew northwest with Little Four and carved a temporary cave abode into a mountain.
• Chen Changming refined dragon blood and realized that resistance in his meridians might prevent the remaining drops from taking him beyond the sixth layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
• As Chen Changming refined his fifth drop, Little Four caught a faint, enticing fragrance in the snowstorm and watched for its source.

As Little Four was lured from his cave by a mysterious fragrance, a formation in the Ghost Realm prepared to open a passage into the Spirit Realm. The invasion was set to emerge in northern Cold Light Province, where Little Four arrived above the newly formed opening.

• The fragrance overpowered Little Four and dragged him away while Chen Changming remained absorbed in cultivation.
• A huge black opening formed in the valley where Chen Changming had undergone his tribulation, releasing ghostly energy and sounds.
• The Nether Venerable announced that the Ghost Realm’s formation would soon open a passage to the Spirit Realm and ordered the invasion force to seek the Ancient Ghost Clan’s Life and Death Bottle.
• The Nether Venerable revealed that the passage would lead to the far north of Cold Light Province on the Azure Wave Continent.
• Little Four reached the valley and discovered that the opening was the source of the fragrance that had drawn him there.

Little Four entered a black hole leading to the Spirit Realm and encountered the Ghost Realm’s invasion force, eager to devour the Fusion Realm Ghost Kings. The Ghost Kings were overcome by fear of Little Four, but one attacked it as their forces clashed.

• Little Four followed the rich ghostly energy down the black hole, believing it might lead to the Ghost Realm.
• The Nether Venerable’s formation shattered the barrier between the Ghost Realm and the Spirit Realm, and he ordered the ghosts to invade.
• Little Four survived the barrier’s destructive shock wave by turning transparent and saw a horde of Fusion Realm Ghost Kings emerge.
• Little Four charged toward the Ghost Kings, who trembled with fear despite its lower cultivation.
• A late-stage Fusion Realm Ghost King overcame his terror and fired black light at Little Four’s four-colored attack.

Little Four devoured three Ghost Kings and drove the rest into retreat, then chased them through the black hole toward the Ghost Realm. Lord Ming waited there, unaware that the fleeing vanguard was bringing a Ghost-Creature-eating Beast with it.

• A high-stage Fusion Realm Ghost King attacked Little Four, but its four-colored light passed through his assault, bound him, and dissolved his armor.
• Little Four swallowed the Ghost King, then ignored the other Ghost Kings’ attacks because they passed through its half-illusory body.
• Little Four bound and devoured two low-stage Fusion Realm Ghost Kings as the remaining Ghost Kings and ghost generals fled toward the Ghost Realm.
• The Ghost Kings escaped Little Four’s pursuit, and their leader ordered them to retreat and report to Lord Ming.
• Little Four chased the fleeing Ghost Kings into the black hole while Lord Ming waited at the formation platform, unaware of the approaching Beast.

The Nether Venerable learned that a strange Void Refinement Beast had routed his Ghost King vanguard and devoured four of them. Little Four entered the Ghost Realm just before the passage closed and attacked the Nether Venerable, who raised an Underworld Barrier to defend himself.

• The Nether Venerable seized fleeing Ghost Generals and learned that an unknown Beast had shattered the vanguard’s formation.
• The returning Ghost Kings reported that Little Four had evaded their attacks and devoured four Fusion Realm Ghost Kings.
• The Nether Venerable dismissed the threat, confident that Little Four would be powerless in the Ghost Realm.
• Little Four slipped through the passage just before it closed and declared its intention to devour the Ghost Creatures.
• The Nether Venerable’s spectral spear passed through Little Four’s illusory body, and Little Four answered with a river of four-colored light.
• The Nether Venerable formed an Underworld Barrier to block Little Four’s attack.

Little Four devoured five Fusion Realm Ghost Kings, then fell asleep at the heart of the Ghost Realm's grand formation while its power settled. The Nether Venerable failed to harm it and ordered the Ghost Kings to seal the platform until the Nine Li Nether Emperor emerged from seclusion.

• Little Four pierced the Nether Venerable's defenses with its four-colored river, forcing him to flee, then swallowed two Ghost Kings who could not escape.
• Little Four devoured five Fusion Realm Ghost Kings in total, became full and drowsy, and discovered the passage back to the Spirit Realm had sealed shut.
• Little Four chose to cultivate in the Ghost Realm, settled on the grand formation's platform, and fell asleep inside its illusory protective state.
• The Nether Venerable tested Little Four with a Netherworld Death Ray, but the attack passed through its illusory body without harming it.
• The Nether Venerable refused to disturb the Nine Li Nether Emperor's seclusion and ordered the Ghost Kings to seal the platform with the Two-World Passage Formation.

Chen Changming discovered that Little Four had vanished and followed ghost aura to a passage between the Spirit Realm and the Ghost Realm. He realized Little Four had likely chased the defeated ghost army into the Ghost Realm, while it remained trapped there inside a powerful formation.

• The Nether Venerable sealed sleeping Little Four inside the grand formation and left the Ghost Kings to recover after their failed invasion.
• Little Four dreamed of eating enough ghost creatures to advance to Mahayana before returning to Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming emerged from seclusion, discovered Little Four was missing, and found that their contractual connection had been severed.
• Chen Changming detected ghost aura in the valley and descended through a black-hole passage to the barrier between the two realms.
• Chen Changming pieced together that Little Four had routed the invading ghosts and chased them into the Ghost Realm.

Chen Changming escaped the collapsing passage after Little Four entered the Ghost Realm, then refined all nine remaining drops of dragon blood but failed to advance beyond the sixth layer of the Void Refinement Realm. As he headed back toward the Snow Bamboo Sect, the Snow Bear Demon King revealed that he knew about Iron Sword High Person’s encounter with Chen Changming.

• Chen Changming escaped the collapsing passage, accepted that Little Four was safe in the Ghost Realm, and returned to his cave abode.
• Chen Changming refined the sixth drop of dragon blood for three days, then worried that the last three drops might not be enough for a breakthrough.
• Chen Changming refined the final three drops over nine days but remained at the peak of the sixth layer of the Void Refinement Realm, and he resolved to consolidate his cultivation.
• Chen Changming left for the Snow Bamboo Sect, passed near the Frozen Source Grotto, and continued on after sensing the Cold Nether Spider and Little Wolf cultivating.
• At the Iron Sword Alliance headquarters, Iron Sword High Person told the Snow Bear Demon King about his near-fatal encounter with Chen Changming.
• The Snow Bear Demon King said he already knew Chen Changming possessed a Demon Talisman, making Iron Sword High Person wary of the Demon King's knowledge and influence.

The Snow Bear Demon King gave Iron Sword High Person blood essence to protect him from Chen Changming and asked him to secretly abduct talented women from two sects. Meanwhile, Chen Changming returned to the Snow Bamboo Sect disguised as Chen Chuan and faced accusations of abandoning his post, leaving his claim that the sect leader had sent him on an errand in doubt.

• The Snow Bear Demon King gave Iron Sword High Person blood essence that could withstand an all-out strike from a cultivator at the fifth level of Body Integration or below.
• The Snow Bear Demon King urged Iron Sword High Person to secretly abduct talented female disciples from the Snow Bamboo Sect and Ice Ripple Sect as cultivation cauldrons.
• Chen Changming disguised himself as Chen Chuan and returned to the Snow Bamboo Sect's Ninth Spiritual Medicine Valley.
• Zhang Huaichu and Jiang Beiyu accused Chen Chuan of abandoning his post and allowing a Spirit Transformation beast to damage the valley's spiritual medicine.
• The deacon elder ordered guards to seize Chen Chuan, but Chen Changming said he had left on the sect leader's orders.
• Zhang Huaichu, Jiang Beiyu, the deacon elder, and the watching disciples dismissed Chen Changming's claim and suspected he was lying.

Chen Changming summoned True Person Xue Yan after Elder Yu accused him of abandoning his post, and she arrived to confirm he had been carrying out her secret assignment. After punishing the officials who wronged him, Chen returned to secluded cultivation, where the Ghostface Butterfly announced it was about to enter the Void Refinement Realm.

• Elder Yu accused Chen Changming of abandoning his post, lying, and defying the sect's enforcers, then ordered guards to seize him.
• Chen Changming contacted True Person Xue Yan, who teleported to the Ninth Spiritual Medicine Valley and confirmed she had assigned him the secret mission.
• True Person Xue Yan sentenced Elder Yu to three years of confinement and forfeiture of twenty years' stipend, and demoted Zhang Huaichu and Jiang Beiyu to outer disciples with ten years of labor.
• Chen Changming accepted Xue Yan's handling of the matter, returned to the Ancient Hall, and resumed cultivating behind its protective formations.
• The Ghostface Butterfly told Chen Changming that it was about to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.

Chen Changming left the Snow Bamboo Sect to oversee the Ghostface Butterfly’s breakthrough, while Sun Lei learned Chen Chuan’s true identity and was warned to keep it secret. The Ghostface Butterfly formed a massive chrysalis in a secluded valley, and Chen Changming stood guard as its transformation began.

• Chen Changming stopped his cultivation and left the Ninth Spiritual Medicine Valley, prompting the disciples to speculate about his status and privileges.
• Sun Lei saw Chen Chuan leaving the sect and went to True Person Xue Yan to complain that he had left without permission again.
• True Person Xue Yan revealed to Sun Lei that Chen Chuan was a reclusive elder from the Medicine Sect headquarters and ordered him to protect the secret.
• Sun Lei apologized for his misunderstanding and promised not to reveal Chen Chuan’s identity or disturb his cultivation.
• Chen Changming traveled more than a thousand li from the sect, released the Ghostface Butterfly’s six-zhang chrysalis into a secluded valley, and began guarding it as it prepared to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.