Recaps

After escaping a murderous foster cultivator, Chen Changming entered Lingxiao Sect as a low-ranked servant and used relentless practice to cultivate, farm Spirit Rice, and earn his way forward. War devastated the sect, but Chen Changming survived in the Ziyuan Secret Realm and returned as an outer disciple, where he faced new challenges.

• Chen Changming killed Ma San after his blade technique awakened, and a silver-robed woman took Su Linger as her disciple while directing him toward Lingxiao Sect.
• Zhu Fang forced Chen Changming to cultivate, then sent him into Miasma Valley for Purple Spirit Grass, and Chen Changming escaped after killing Zhu Fang and later joined Lingxiao Sect as a servant disciple.
• Chen Changming mastered cultivation and farming techniques, raised unusually abundant Spirit Rice, and sold his harvests for Spirit Stones and pills.
• Shopkeeper Xu hired Chen Changming to water the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s medicinal field, and the White-Clad Woman brought him into the Ziyuan Secret Realm.
• As war emptied Lingxiao Sect, Chen Changming tended its abandoned fields, advanced to the second Qi Refining layer, and stayed in the secret realm while the Blood Demon Sect threatened the sect.
• After the fighting ended, Chen Changming returned to find Lingxiao Sect’s spirit fields ruined and accepted promotion to outer disciple.
• Chen Changming moved into his cave, chose Dragon Glide Step at the Scripture Library, and walked away when Shao Pu challenged him to the Life-Death Arena.

Chen Changming advanced his swordsmanship and body refinement while surviving sect enemies, a beast tide, and the Ziyuan Secret Realm’s collapse. He escaped to the Yan Kingdom, where powerful beasts outside his cave forced him to hide until he grew stronger.

• Chen Changming mastered the Lingxiao Sword Technique under Luo Lan’s guidance and earned Four-Part Sword Intent at the sect tournament despite his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root.
• At Cloud Mist Mountain, Chen Changming survived Blood Demon Sect assassins and a beast tide, while a strange insect cured Luo Lan’s poison and attached itself to him.
• Chen Changming returned to Lingxiao Sect with Luo Lan, then entered the Ziyuan Secret Realm and spent years cultivating the Evergreen Art and mastering the first layer of the Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• The Spirit-Devouring Insect produced powerful spiritual-energy spheres for Chen Changming, who also learned from a Golden Core cultivator’s remnant soul that the secret realm would collapse when its spirit herbs ripened.
• When the Four Seas Merchant Alliance attacked the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Chen Changming ambushed Li Changfeng and killed the alliance fighters who threatened him.
• Chen Changming gathered the spirit herbs and escaped the collapsing realm through a teleportation array, arriving in a cave in the Yan Kingdom.
• Chen Changming found a Foundation Establishment Black Eagle and a Level 2 black ape outside the cave, sealed the passage, and decided to hide until he became stronger.

Chen Changming escaped the Wilderness, built up his strength in Martial Spirit City, and joined a Beast-hunting team while hiding his body cultivation. After Su Linger recognized him and the Glazed Sect ordered his death, he killed the hunters sent after him and fled the city.

• Chen Changming escaped the cave’s one-way restriction, survived the Wilderness, and was rescued by Du Xiaoliang, who later brought him near Martial Spirit City.
• Chen Changming entered Martial Spirit City under the name Chen Shan and spent years cultivating in Wuling Pavilion, advancing his Qi Refinement and Heavenly Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• Chen Changming broke through to Foundation Establishment through body cultivation, then joined Ouyang Hong’s team while concealing his strength.
• Chen Changming helped the team hunt a Lion-Tailed Scorpion, killed the treacherous Li Yu, and continued into the Wilderness with Ouyang Hong, Xu Dafu, and Huang Yan.
• Du Xiaoliang recognized Chen Changming, and Su Linger later found him but he pretended not to know her.
• The Glazed Sect’s Sect Master learned Chen Changming was in Martial Spirit City and ordered the city lord to kill him.
• The black-clad woman ordered Martial Spirit City sealed, and Elder Sun joined two guards sent to Chen Changming’s room.
• Chen Changming killed the two guards and Elder Sun, then fled Martial Spirit City as witnesses watched.

Chen Changming escaped Martial Spirit City as the Demon Spirit Tree consumed it, then spent years recovering with Du Xiaoliang before returning to Lingxiao Sect. There he found the sect under Xiaguang Sect's control and received a Foundation Establishment Pill from Luo Lan, despite Qin Changtian's objection.

• Chen Changming killed the black-clad woman after Du Xiaoliang weakened her, but the spreading Black Mist overtook Martial Spirit City and swallowed Du Xiaoliang and the Glazed Sect's leaders.
• The Spirit-Devouring Insect persuaded the Demon Spirit Tree to release Chen Changming and Du Xiaoliang, and Chen Changming escaped into the Wilderness with her.
• Chen Changming cared for Du Xiaoliang for over ten years, and after she awoke they found the Medicine Sect ruins and a surviving Demon Spirit Vine.
• Du Xiaoliang's father repaired a teleportation array, and Du Xiaoliang left with him after telling Chen Changming she had come to like him.
• Chen Changming returned to Lingxiao Sect and grew two harvests of medium-grade Spirit Rice, but Qin Changtian said the sect could not give him its Foundation Establishment Pill after Yue Kingdom's defeat.
• Chen Changming revived and contracted the Demon Spirit Vine, then Xiaguang Sect took over Lingxiao Sect and demoted him to a Logistics Hall steward.
• Luo Lan gave Chen Changming a Foundation Establishment Pill she had obtained by spending her savings and killing Level 2 Demonic Beasts, and Qin Changtian accused her of secretly buying it for him.