Recaps

Chen Changming joined Skull Island as Ning Jin and spied for Silver Phoenix Palace while pursuing Ghost Heart Grass and the Divine Sense Wave technique. After fighting both factions, he subdued True Person Skull Ghost and moved to Illusion Mist Reef, where he cultivated and recovered while awaiting Black Mist.

• Chen Changming accepted Skull Island’s protection as Ning Jin and agreed to spy for Li Fengling in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changming subdued Black Charm Immortal with a Silver Thread Heart-Devouring Insect and learned about True Person Skull Ghost’s Ghost Heart Grass and cultivation plans.
• Chen Changming overpowered the Skull Death Squad and alerted Li Fengling when True Person Skull Ghost secretly began absorbing Ghost Heart Grass early.
• Chen Changming killed Mo Yangzi during Silver Phoenix Palace’s assault, and his Demon Spirit Vine devoured the Bone Beast and advanced to the ninth rank.
• Chen Changming obtained a thousand stalks of Ghost Heart Grass and the Divine Sense Wave technique from True Person Skull Ghost before Li Fengling exposed his disguise and pursued him.
• Chen Changming survived Li Fengling’s Great Ice Art and True Person Skull Ghost’s Fire Spirit Cannon, while Bi Cang King identified Li Fengling as the Ice Spirit Fairy.
• Chen Changming captured True Person Skull Ghost and Black Charm Immortal, seized the Fire Spirit Cannon and Void Sky Mirror, and took them to Illusion Mist Reef to seek a ruined Ancient City.
• Chen Changming used Ghost Heart Pills to strengthen all twenty-seven strands of his divine sense and dispelled the extreme cold over thirteen years while his companions found no Black Mist.

Chen Changming entered the Ancient City, broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and fought Li Fengling while the Spider King battled the Black Arm. After escaping the sealed world, he recovered, strengthened his abilities, and agreed to accompany Zhou Mi to the Zhou Family’s main branch.

• Chen Changming strengthened his divine sense with Ghost Heart Grass, hunted beasts in the Chaos Sea Abyss, and contracted the Cold Nether Spider after enhancing his Contract Technique.
• Chen Changming and his companions entered the black mist and reached the Ancient City, where they found rival factions battling ghosts and discovered the Essence Well.
• Chen Changming absorbed the Essence Well’s life essence, broke through to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and entered the Underground Palace as the factions confronted a sealed demonic senior.
• The Essence Well exploded, and the Black Arm emerged from the crater and targeted Chen Changming, while the Spider King fought to protect him.
• Li Fengling attacked Chen Changming, but his Demon Spirit Vine and Cold Nether Spider helped him defeat her and destroy her Nascent Soul as the Spider King drove the Black Arm through a spatial hole.
• Chen Changming escaped the Ancient City with True Person Skull Ghost, Black Charm Immortal, and his demonic pets, then recovered and traveled to the Outer Sea.
• Chen Changming improved his divine sense and sword formation before intervening when Sun Family cultivators attacked Zhou Mi over his family’s puppets and puppetry art.
• Chen Changming agreed to accompany Zhou Mi to the Zhou Family’s main branch for the Puppet Competition and asked whether a Nascent Soul cultivator guarded it.

Chen Changming obtained the Puppet God King’s guidance, survived the Zhou Family’s betrayal, and infiltrated the Ice and Snow Palace while pursuing a Soul-Calming Flower and Seal-Breaking Pill ingredients. After avenging Zhou Jintian’s father and destroying the Earth Corpse Sect’s leader, he left Hunnan City with ingredients in hand and encountered a group blocking his path.

• Chen Changming entered the Zhou Family’s Ancestral Shrine, met the Puppet God King, and learned about the Six Great Spirit Mountains and the Soul-Calming Flower.
• The Zhou Family trapped Chen Changming in a killing array, but his Demon Spirit Vine defeated their forces, and the Puppet God King repaired his puppets before Chen left Chaos Star Island.
• Chen Changming visited the Han Family, subdued Demon Shadow Venerable, and used Zhou Jintian’s identity to infiltrate the Ice and Snow Palace’s Ice Prison.
• Chen Changming found the former Palace Master in Cell 49 and saw Jiang Lingyin give her a Soul-Calming Flower, then contracted the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow and sought ingredients for a Seal-Breaking Pill.
• Chen Changming followed Zhou Wenshan’s reanimated corpse, killed Altar Master Liu, and learned that the Earth Corpse Sect had dispatched its elders and Earth Corpses after him.
• Chen Changming attacked the Earth Corpse Sect, stole the Earth Corpse Mani Bead, and destroyed the Sect Leader and his ninth-layer Nascent Soul Earth Corpse with the Demon Spirit Vine.
• Chen Changming sold treasures and bought medicinal ingredients in Hunnan City, but the Cloth-Clad Elder arranged an assassination, and figures blocked Chen’s way after he left the city.

Chen Changming obtained the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and helped Gu Huaibei, then traded a Nine Yin Nourishing Yang Pill for the Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill formula and uncovered Ancestor Gongsun’s Medicine Sect inheritance. The arc left Chen with the Buddha Spirit Gourd, Ghost Heart Grass, and an ally in Ancestor Gongsun as he learned of the sect’s four great beast demons.

• Chen Changming killed the Star Moon Trading Firm cultivators who ambushed him, then traveled to Dragon-Driving City and entered its underground auction.
• Chen Changming won two Blood Dragon Ganoderma, accepted Mo Lengyao as his disciple, and joined her effort to avenge her family by killing Chu Bawang.
• Chen Changming defeated Green Robe Ancestor and the Sacrificial Demon, then cultivated with a Blood Dragon Ganoderma and joined Pang Xiuran’s expedition to the Mystic Ice Cave.
• Chen Changming and Gu Huaibei braved the Ice Cave Storm, found Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and Ice Dragon Crystals, and survived the crystals’ aphrodisiac poison.
• Chen Changming shared the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow with the expedition and helped Gu Huaibei and the Ice and Snow Palace elders obtain some before they traveled to Li Fire Island.
• Chen Changming made Jiuyin Zhiyang Pills to treat Ancestor Gongsun, then exchanged one for the Li Fire Ice Marrow Pill formula and discovered they both belonged to the Medicine Sect.
• Ancestor Gongsun tried to seize Chen Changming’s inheritance, but Chen’s Demon Spirit Vine overcame him and he pledged to support Chen and the Medicine Sect.
• Ancestor Gongsun gave Chen Changming the Buddha Spirit Gourd and a middle volume of the Medicine Sect Canon, and Chen learned the sect had cultivated four great beast demons.