Recaps

Chen Changming defeated the Yue Clan, won the inner sect tournament, and advanced rapidly despite the sect’s doubts about his spirit root. He used the Spirit-Locking Pact to free the Heavenly Fox King, then faced questioning from the sect leaders over his unprecedented Heaven-Lock.

• Chen Changming killed the Yue Clan ancestor and Yue Tianqi, then rescued Yun Xueqi’s surviving clan members from the poisoned and ruined estate.
• Chen Changming won the inner sect tournament with his Primal Magnetism Mystic Turtle and growing number of Flying Swords, securing a place in the Immortal Pool.
• The Immortal Pool raised Chen Changming’s visible spirit root to top-grade earth rank, while a hidden Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root accelerated his cultivation.
• After Chen Changming reached the Nascent Soul Realm, He Changkong suspected him of draining the Immortal Pool and barred him from receiving the Spirit-Taming Pact.
• Liu Qingwu recognized Chen Changming as Luo Shan and gave him the Spirit-Taming Pact, while Chen Changming told her he planned to rescue his captured Demon King friends.
• Chen Changming strengthened the Spirit-Locking Pact and used it to free the Heavenly Fox King, who agreed to become his guardian Beast.
• Qin Qiao'er and Qin Zhenshan challenged Chen Changming over his pact with the Heavenly Fox King, and He Changkong summoned him to the Sect Master Hall.
• Chen Changming displayed his enormous Heaven-Lock before He Changkong, Li Zizai, Qin Zhenshan, and the other sect leaders.

Chen Changming advanced his cultivation, survived the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s ambush, and joined Yun Xueqi in the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins. After the Medicine Sect elders encountered the Ancient Buddha and its Cattail Flower, Chen entered the Underground Palace and confronted them both.

• Chen Changming rented out the Ten Thousand Beast Garden’s peaks, strengthened his Spirit-Locking Pact, and contracted demon kings while the sect debated whether he or Ye Xuanji should get a chance to contract Little Four.
• Ye Xuanji failed to contract Little Four, and He Changkong said Chen Changming might get a chance if Ye Xuanji failed again after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Changming advanced through the Nascent Soul Realm, broke through to Spirit Transformation, and killed three Great Xia Imperial Clan cultivators who attacked him after his tribulation.
• Chen Changming defeated Xia Dongxiong and Xia Mu, then returned to Immortal Taming City and began studying the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art.
• Yuan Jingyang declared Chen Changming his disciple and heir to Medicine Immortal Valley, cleared him of suspicion over the Immortal Pool, and shared the secret of the God Spirit Reed.
• Chen Changming agreed to accompany Yun Xueqi into the Demonic Cloud Sea Ruins, where he killed five Demonic Yakshas and three Blood Demon Sect cultivators and took a thousand-year blood crystal flower.
• Yuan Jingyang and the Medicine Sect elders tried to capture the Ancient Buddha’s Cattail Flower, but the Ancient Buddha attacked their minds and forced them to retreat.
• Chen Changming entered the Underground Palace alone, where the Ancient Buddha released the Cattail Flower and challenged him to fight.

Chen Changming killed Mo Lihai, secured the Ancient Buddha’s legacy, and contracted Little Four through his Chen Shan identity. After surviving attacks at Flame Mountain and killing the Fire Ancient God and the Ye Family ambushers, he faced expulsion and another assassination plot within the sect.

• Chen Changming and the Ancient Buddha joined forces to suppress Mo Lihai, whose attempted possession left him trapped in Chen Changming’s dantian before the Demon Spirit Vine devoured his body, and the Ancient Buddha died after sealing the Cattail Flowers.
• Chen Changming contracted the Buddha Spirit Gourd, explored the ruins with Yun Xueqi, and later refined Human Origin Great Pills that restored Yuan Jingyang’s health.
• Ye Xuanji failed to contract Little Four, but Chen Changming succeeded by using the Spirit-Taming Pact through his Chen Shan identity, freeing Little Four and the seven Demon Kings of Wuyuan Island.
• He Changkong and Ye Xuanji arranged to target Chen Shan at Flame Mountain, where Chen Changming rode Little Four openly and revealed that his true body had reached the second layer of Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Changming defeated three Spirit Transformation assassins, then discovered and killed the Fire Ancient God with Little Four’s help before exploring the palace beneath the magma river.
• Chen Changming killed five Ye Family Spirit Transformation experts who confronted him underground, then returned to the sect and reported his Calamity Beast contract.
• He Changkong expelled Chen Changming for exposing the sect’s secret, but Li Zizai intervened and forced He Changkong to withdraw the order, and He Changkong then plotted with other elders to kill Chen Changming and take Little Four.
• Yuan Jingyang warned He Changkong that Medicine Immortal Valley would end its pill trade with the sect if anyone harmed Chen Changming, while He Changkong went to seek the help of two reclusive elders.

Chen Changming fled the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s pursuit and took refuge with Li Zizai in the Red Luan Immortal Sect, then went to Ghost Mist Mountain seeking the Ghostface Butterfly. The hunt became a deadly trap set by an ancient ghost, and Chen Changming ended the stretch facing it with Little Four and Bi Cang King beside him.

• Li Zizai rescued Chen Changming from He Changkong’s attack, and they escaped to the Red Luan Immortal Sect, where Su Qingwan sheltered them and welcomed them into the sect.
• He Changkong issued a wanted notice for Chen Shan and Li Zizai, while Medicine Immortal Valley withdrew from the Beast Taming Immortal Sect and Chen Changming left for Red Luan Province.
• Chen Changming entered Ghost Mist Mountain to search for the Ghostface Butterfly and joined the powerful cultivators gathering around its chrysalis.
• When the chrysalis cracked, Li Huayuan attacked Madam Miaoyi’s group, and Chen Changming fought off the sects’ cultivators with Bi Cang King’s help.
• The Ghostface Butterfly emerged and trapped the assembled cultivators in the Myriad Ghost Baleful Array, which drained their strength and refined its victims.
• Chen Changming killed Guo Yun, Elder Liu, and Master White Bone as the array consumed most of the trapped cultivators, then summoned Little Four to subdue the Ghostface Butterfly.
• The Ghostface Butterfly agreed to accept Chen Changming’s Spirit-Locking Pact, but Ancient Ghost’s remnant soul escaped and emerged underground, prompting Little Four to attack it.