Recaps

Chen Changming avenged Mo Lengyao’s family, investigated the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art, and entered the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm with Guo Lingyun. At Divine Mountain’s summit, he found the lotus he needed and fought Gu Tianxie while Bi Cang sought to recover her suppressed divine sense clone.

• Chen Changming refined Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills, killed Chu Bawang, and made the Purple Lightning Black Ape Miaoyin Pavilion’s guardian beast.
• Chen Changming returned to the Ice and Snow Palace and secretly supplied Gu Huaibei with pills that helped her reach the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Jiang Lingyin discovered that Gu Huaibei had lost her pure yin and ordered her to seal her cultivation and reflect in the Ice Prison.
• Chen Changming learned that the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art could cause madness and asked Bi Cang to study the complete art he obtained from Gu Huaibei.
• Chen Changming entered the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm with Guo Lingyun and used his beasts to defeat rival disciples while they gathered herbs and ores.
• Chen Changming killed Ji Suifeng, Geng Shu, and Xiao Yan during the Divine Mountain climb and reached the third layer of the Golden Core Realm under the Divine Temple’s light.
• Chen Changming found Millennium Seven-Colored Lotuses at the summit and awakened Gu Tianxie, who revealed that he had given True Person Ice Spirit only eight and a half turns of the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art.
• Chen Changming and the Demon Spirit Vine fought Gu Tianxie to distract him while Bi Cang prepared to merge with her divine sense clone inside his body.

Chen Changming helped Gu Huaibei recover the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art and cultivate while Jiang Lingyin pursued a mysterious treasure atop Heaven-Reaching Snow Mountain. Their confrontation ended with Chen Changming and the poisoned Gu Huaibei carried away by the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Fragment toward the phantom Sky-Touching Palace.

• Chen Changming defeated Gu Tianxie on the Divine Mountain, obtained seven Millennium Seven-Colored Lotuses, and returned to the Bloody Trial survivors claiming the missing prodigies might have perished.
• The three great sects demanded Chen Changming’s surrender, but Gu Huaibei intercepted the Star Dome Pavilion fleet and rescued him before he was questioned.
• Bi Cang obtained the Nine-Turn Cold Ice Art from Gu Tianxie, and Chen Changming secretly delivered it to Gu Huaibei, who memorized the technique and destroyed the Jade Slip.
• Chen Changming freed the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow, stole mature Soul-Calming Flowers from the Medicine Garden, and used four to revive Humanoid Puppets.
• Gu Huaibei cultivated the Ninth Revolution for years as Chen Changming advanced to the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Realm, and she eventually began breaking through her sealed cultivation.
• Jiang Lingyin challenged Gu Huaibei, and their fight on Heaven-Reaching Snow Mountain escalated when Jiang Lingyin used a Soul-Chasing Nail to force Ning Bingyue to join her against Gu Huaibei and the Snow Feather Ice Sparrow.
• Chen Changming joined the battle, saved the gravely wounded Snow Feather Ice Sparrow, and reached the summit, where he recognized the black rock as a Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain fragment.
• Jiang Lingyin poisoned Gu Huaibei, but Chen Changming used the fragment’s force against Jiang Lingyin, destroyed her body, and gave Gu Huaibei Heaven-Returning Pills as Jiang Lingyin’s spirit possessed Ning Bingyue.
• The fragment carried Chen Changming and Gu Huaibei to a verdant mountain range before vanishing into the phantom Sky-Touching Palace, while Chen Changming repeatedly cast the Detoxification Art to slow Gu Huaibei’s poisoning.

Chen Changming sought ways to cure Gu Huaibei, joining the Nether Buddha Sect to obtain Buddha Light Illumination and eventually restoring most of her vitality. After returning to Returning Star City, he defeated the Formless Sect’s pursuit and retaliated against the Ten Thousand Stars Trading Firm for betraying him, leaving Wuyazi confronting him.

• Chen Changming slowed Gu Huaibei’s poison with the Detoxification Art, then traveled with her to Returning Star City and bought the Universe Pagoda at auction.
• Chen Changming traded the pagoda for an incomplete Sweet Dew Art, recovered both items from Li Yitian by force, and killed twelve Formless Sect cultivators pursuing him.
• Chen Changming infiltrated the Vajra Sect, mastered the Sweet Dew Art, and used it to purge the poison from his arm and strengthen Gu Huaibei.
• Chen Changming followed Master Zizhu to the Nether Buddha Sect and took the Buddha Bone after defeating him, agreeing to return it in exchange for help treating Gu Huaibei.
• Chen Changming joined the Nether Buddha Sect as the lay disciple Zining and learned Buddha Light Illumination, while the Glazed Saint Ancestor broke free and Bi Cang later took the Buddha Bone.
• Chen Changming fused the Buddha Bone into his body and repeatedly used Buddha Light Illumination, removing most of Gu Huaibei’s poison and restoring her cultivation to the first layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Changming returned to Returning Star City, where the Formless Sect Great Elder and eight elders attacked him, and he killed them all.
• Chen Changming killed Shopkeeper Li for leaking his information to the Formless Sect, destroyed a protector’s body, and faced Wuyazi’s accusation that he had gone too far.

Chen Changming traveled to Yeming Island, joined Wuchenzi’s expedition into Nine Nether Hell, and fought through the dangers surrounding the Nine Baleful Sect ruins. After Wuchenzi escaped the altar with the Nine Baleful Pearl, Chen Changming pursued him and appeared at his resting place.

• Chen Changming killed Wuyazi and his Nascent Soul after the allied sect cultivators failed to defeat him, then disguised himself and headed for Yeming Island.
• Master Ziling brought Chen Changming to Great Compassion Temple, where Chen met Wuchenzi and later agreed to join his expedition to the Nine Balefal Sect ruins.
• Chen Changming and five other cultivators crossed the Nether Bone River, Blood Resentment Mountain Range, and Rotting Corpse Flower Sea before reaching the ruins.
• At the Ten Thousand Bone Altar, Chen Changming overcame the trials while the other cultivators revealed their hidden motives and abilities.
• The six cultivators offered blood to the altar, awakening its barrier and bringing the Nine Baleful Pearl into view as Blood Rakshasa King’s skeletons attacked.
• Wuchenzi’s clone used a Ding-Jia Mountain-Opening Talisman against Chen Changming, who fused with the Buddha Bone and destroyed its Golden Armor Giant.
• Wuchenzi escaped with the Nine Baleful Pearl using a Substitute Talisman, and Chen Changming pursued him through the Rotting Corpse Flower Sea.
• Wuchenzi reached the safe zone beyond the sea aboard a Thunder-Glitter Spirit Falcon, and Chen Changming suddenly appeared where he had stopped to rest.