Recaps

Chen Changming forced the Sima Family to surrender its Dragon Blood, but the family’s ancestral parasite emerged and Elder Spirit Charm sacrificed herself to seal it. After escaping the Elder Council’s search and bonding with the Golden Dragon Horn, Chen Changming left Azure Billow Central Province to pursue a way to revive her.

• Chen Changming used the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica and the Spring Return Immortal Art to defeat and capture the Eighth Elder, then took him to the Sima Family to demand Dragon Blood.
• The Sima Family gave Chen Changming twelve drops of Dragon Blood, which he fed to the Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon, but the elders attacked him and the Myriad-Mother Bloodworm emerged through the Seventh Elder.
• The Cold Marrow Ice Soul Dragon tried to take Chen Changming’s body with the Golden Dragon Horn, but the Mysterious Lotus-Root Node shattered the Yin-Yang Seal and began absorbing the dragon.
• Elder Spirit Charm arrived to protect Chen Changming and killed the Sima Family elders, but the Myriad-Mother Bloodworm burrowed into her chest.
• Chen Changming used the Life and Death Bottle to heal Elder Spirit Charm, and she sealed herself and the Bloodworm in black crystal with Withered Nether—Life-Sealing Crystal, asking him to deduce the Crystallization Method and revive her.
• Chen Changming took the remaining Dragon Blood and the withered dragon tail from the Ancestor Statue, then left for his secluded abode as the Sima Family resolved to rebuild in secret.
• Ice Spirit Fairy ordered a search for Elder Spirit Charm’s body and for the cultivator who had killed the Sima elders, while Chen Changming bonded with the Golden Dragon Horn and concealed his cultivation.
• After Elder Council cultivators failed to recognize him, Chen Changming decided to leave Azure Billow Central Province rather than risk drawing them to his breakthrough.

Chen Changming reunited with Wen Xiaoyu, escaped Ding Feng’s reach, and joined Dong Xueqi in exploring Marquis Xuangang’s cave abode. After defeating the cave’s trials, he exposed Marquis Xuangang’s attempt to seize his body and won the Xuangang Battle Armor and the Undying Xuangang Scripture.

• Chen Changming sold Wen Xiaoyu a Spirit Transformation Herb, shared a reunion with her and Cheng Lie, and received ingredients for refining Spirit Transformation Pills.
• Ding Yunhe forced his way into Wen Xiaoyu’s private room, and Chen Changming took him hostage before escaping Flying Sunset City.
• Dong Xueqi offered herself in exchange for Ding Yunhe, then persuaded Chen Changming to accompany her to Marquis Xuangang’s cave abode.
• Chen Changming passed the Rune Stone test and Thousand-Weight Astral Passage, then defeated the Silver Puppet to enter Marquis Xuangang’s main chamber.
• Chen Changming discovered that Marquis Xuangang intended to use the Bloodline Body-Seizing Art to take his body, but repelled the remnant soul’s attacks.
• Marquis Xuangang offered Chen Changming the Xuangang Battle Armor and the Undying Xuangang Scripture in exchange for avenging him against Li Chengfeng.

Chen Changming escaped the Ancient Sword Immortal, advanced to the Void Refinement Realm, and killed Fire Radiance Immortal’s avatar, surviving the Great Prime True Flame at terrible cost. Restored by Nalan Yue at Medicine Sect headquarters, he donated a Mahayana Realm Blood Spirit Dragon tail as the elders arrived to challenge his honorary elder title.

• Marquis Xuangang gave Chen Changming the Undying Xuangang Scripture, and Chen later used the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica to defeat the Bronze Ancient Sword’s Artifact Spirit and capture the Ancient Sword Immortal.
• Chen Changming killed Dong Xueqi, cultivated to the Tenth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and used the Nine-Colored Immortal Spirit Flower to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.
• The black-robed elder led Li Danyang to Chen Changming, who recognized him as an avatar of Fire Radiance Immortal and killed him with Chu Qiushui’s Sword Talisman.
• Fire Radiance Immortal sent the Great Prime True Flame after Chen Changming, whose Sword Talismans, Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root, and Purple Zenith Chaos Flame helped him survive the attack.
• Song Chaojiang and Li Qingyun found Chen Changming’s ruined but living body and brought him to Medicine Sect headquarters, where Nalan Yue helped restore him with Seven-Treasure Reconstitution Pills.
• Chen Changming donated a shriveled Mahayana Realm Blood Spirit Dragon tail to the Medicine Sect, and Nalan Yue summoned the elders who wanted him to explain the Spring Return Immortal Art’s poor results.

Chen Changming went into hiding at the Snow Bamboo Sect, refined Dragon Blood, and clashed with the Iron Sword Alliance while Little Four was drawn into the Ghost Realm. After returning to the sect and settling a dispute over his cover identity, Chen Changming left to guard the Ghostface Butterfly as it prepared to break through.

• Chen Changming demonstrated the Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art to the Medicine Sect elders, who apologized, and then asked Nalan Yue for a place to cultivate in seclusion.
• Nalan Yue sent Chen Changming to the Snow Bamboo Sect, where he adopted the identity of Chen Chuan and began refining Dragon Blood in the Ninth Spiritual Medicine Valley.
• The Cold Nether Spider found a Frozen Source Grotto, and Chen Changming killed a blue-robed Iron Sword Alliance cultivator who tried to take its Ice Origin Crystals.
• Chen Changming survived his Lesser Heavenly Tribulation, defeated An Xin, and learned that the Iron Sword Alliance served the Demon Race and was connected to the Snow Bear Demon King.
• Little Four followed ghostly energy through a passage into the Ghost Realm, devoured several Fusion Realm Ghost Kings, and became trapped there after the passage sealed.
• Chen Changming completed refining his Dragon Blood but remained at the peak of the sixth layer of the Void Refinement Realm, while Iron Sword High Person and the Snow Bear Demon King plotted to abduct sect disciples.
• True Person Xue Yan confirmed Chen Changming's secret assignment at the Snow Bamboo Sect and punished Elder Yu, Zhang Huaichu, and Jiang Beiyu for challenging his cover identity.
• Chen Changming left the sect and guarded the Ghostface Butterfly's chrysalis as it prepared to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.