Recaps

After strengthening his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed and weighing the risks of a Golden Core breakthrough, Zhao Hao used his Sun and Moon Pill Pavilion to sell top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills and gather resources. As Sun Quan began selling a new batch, an imposing newcomer offered to buy all ten pills at once.

• Zhao Hao raised his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed to sixth grade and decided to delay his Golden Core breakthrough while his body recovered from spatial teleportation.
• Zhao Hao visited his shop in Linyuan City, where Sun Quan welcomed him and received a Storage Bag of pills.
• Sun Quan announced ten top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for sale at sixteen thousand low-grade spirit stones each, accepting spirit herbs, soul-related items, and certain cultivation arts in trade.
• A sudden pressure silenced the crowd, and an unknown visitor offered to buy all ten pills at the listed price.

Zhao Hao negotiated with Fan Jin to refine Blood Spirit Pills in exchange for a rare blood-tempering art and its formula. After Fan Jin left, Zhao Hao studied the Blood Spirit Scripture with intense interest.

• Fan Jin entered the Pill Pavilion, silenced the crowd with his Foundation Establishment late-stage aura, and went upstairs to meet Zhao Hao.
• Fan Jin asked Zhao Hao to refine pills and offered an ancient blood-tempering secret art as compensation.
• Fan Jin revealed the Blood Spirit Scripture, an imitation of the legendary True Spirit Nine Transformations Scripture, and offered it in exchange for one hundred Blood Spirit Pills within three years.
• Zhao Hao and Fan Jin swore oaths and signed a Heavenly Demon Contract, then Fan Jin handed over the Blood Spirit Scripture, the pill formula, three portions of mystic turtle blood essence, and a Message Jade Talisman.
• After Fan Jin left, Zhao Hao examined the Blood Spirit Scripture and reacted with blazing excitement.

Zhao Hao studied the Blood Spirit Scripture, realizing he could use its weakened demonic-beast abilities as materials to enhance his own divine abilities while strengthening his body. After making Blood Spirit Pills, he expanded the Sun and Moon Pill Pavilion’s business into a mission system to gather souls for his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed.

• Zhao Hao read the Blood Spirit Scripture and learned that it erased demonic-beast wills, allowing him to fuse many bloodlines at the cost of reducing their divine abilities’ power.
• Zhao Hao decided to cultivate the scripture to strengthen his body and collect demonic beast souls to raise his [Karmic Fire Spirit Seed] to the seventh-grade immortal rank.
• Zhao Hao used Mystic Turtle Essence Blood to refine three bottles of low-grade third-rank Blood Spirit Pills.
• Zhao Hao refined one hundred Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills after deciding that selling ten pills a week was too slow.
• Zhao Hao told Sun Quan to announce that the Sun and Moon Pill Pavilion would stop selling Foundation Establishment Pills directly and would exchange one Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill for soul resources worth one hundred thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones, with no limit on exchanges.

Zhao Hao mastered body cultivation and upgraded his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed to the seventh grade after six months of preparation. With his body and divine ability ready, he left his cave abode to face the Golden Core lightning tribulation.

• Zhao Hao cultivated the Blood Spirit Scripture, fusing blood essence and magical power into vitality energy and using it to open his acupoints.
• Zhao Hao supplied the Sun and Moon Pill Pavilion with Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills every seven days while gradually sending Fan Jin small batches of Blood Spirit Pills.
• After six months of consuming Vitality Pills, Zhao Hao opened all three hundred and sixty-five acupoints and reached the body-cultivation threshold of generating vitality energy on his own.
• Zhao Hao used five sixth-grade Earth-Li Spirit Seeds to enhance his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed to the seventh grade.
• Zhao Hao decided he was ready to face the Golden Core lightning tribulation and strode toward his cave abode's entrance.

Zhao Hao, posing as Qian Riyue, rented a remote Tribulation Platform to attempt the Golden Core breakthrough and prepared for its three trials. As he arrived, a Golden Core cultivator learned of his impending tribulation and took a token granting access to the platform.

• Zhao Hao visited Li Lun at the Spirit Mansion Bureau and requested a Tribulation Platform.
• Zhao Hao gave Li Lun a Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, and Li Lun arranged a quiet platform with dense fire spiritual energy.
• Zhao Hao paid the rental fee, received a formation token, and flew south while considering how his preparations would help him pass the three Golden Core trials.
• A Golden Core cultivator asked Li Lun for Tribulation Golden Light, and Li Lun revealed that Zhao Hao was about to attempt a breakthrough.
• The Golden Core cultivator took a general-access formation token for the Tribulation Platform, leaving Li Lun fearing Zhao Hao was in danger.

Zhao Hao began a forceful breakthrough on the Tribulation Platform, drawing in enormous amounts of spiritual energy and compressing his magical power. A green-robed Golden Core cultivator arrived to claim Zhao Hao’s Tribulation Golden Light, but the spiritual energy tornado suddenly burst apart, leaving the breakthrough’s outcome uncertain.

• Zhao Hao flew to the isolated island on Wind Chaser and inspected it before entering the Tribulation Platform.
• Zhao Hao activated the spirit-gathering formation and used Fire Spirit Affinity to absorb spiritual energy at tremendous speed.
• Zhao Hao used his vitality energy to protect his dantian and meridians while compressing his magical power into solid crystals.
• A green-robed Golden Core cultivator arrived, intending to take Zhao Hao’s Tribulation Golden Light for his own divine ability.
• The spiritual energy tornado burst apart, and the green-robed cultivator wondered whether Zhao Hao’s breakthrough had failed.

After Zhao Hao condensed his Golden Core, he strengthened the Soul-Devouring Jade to withstand the Heart Demon Trial. He discovered the demon was an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon and used the System to strengthen his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed with the demon's avatar as material.

• Zhao Hao strengthened the Soul-Devouring Jade to a third-tier lower-grade magic treasure before the Heart Demon Trial began.
• The Heart Demon showed Zhao Hao illusions of people and events from his past, but he recognized them as false and remained unfazed.
• A dancing woman tried to seduce Zhao Hao, but the Soul-Devouring Jade automatically protected his soul.
• The woman transformed into an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, revealed it had remembered Zhao Hao's aura, and threatened to return when he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhao Hao tricked the demon into entering his divine-sense hand, then ordered the System to strengthen his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed using the demon's Golden Core avatar as material.

Zhao Hao passed the Heart Demon Trial, survived the Ninefold Lightning Tribulation, and used its Tribulation Golden Light to bloom his eighth-grade Karmic Fire Spirit Seed into Red Lotus Karmic Fire. As he tried to gather enough golden light to ripen his Earth-Li Spirit Seed too, an enraged voice complained that he had taken it all for himself.

• Zhao Hao's Karmic Fire Spirit Seed advanced to eighth grade and erased the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon avatar, whose master vowed to confront him when he attempted to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhou Wuji watched Zhao Hao's rapid breakthrough and decided to continue pursuing his plan to take the Tribulation Golden Light.
• Zhao Hao used the Ten Thousand Sword Technique to shatter the first eight lightning bolts and weakened the ninth before breaking it with a punch.
• Zhao Hao absorbed the Tribulation Golden Light, and his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed bloomed into Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Zhao Hao used Fire Spirit Affinity to gather the golden light into himself and tried to nourish his Earth-Li Spirit Seed, but a furious voice accused him of taking all the benefits.

After forming his Golden Core, Zhao Hao stopped Zhou Wuji from stealing his Tribulation Golden Light and defeated him with the eighth-grade Divine Ability, Red Lotus Karmic Fire. After searching Zhou Wuji’s soul, Zhao Hao learned of Li Lun, disguised himself as Zhou Wuji, and headed for Linyuan City.

• Zhou Wuji tried to seize Zhao Hao’s Tribulation Golden Light, but Zhao Hao blocked him and refused his offered healing pills.
• Zhou Wuji attacked Zhao Hao with a third-tier flying sword, but Zhao Hao’s Wind Chaser forced him to defend.
• Zhao Hao concealed Red Lotus Karmic Fire among his Sea of Fire Technique’s arrows, burning Zhou Wuji’s divine soul through his magical armor.
• Zhao Hao bound Zhou Wuji’s divine soul, stored it with Zhou Wuji’s unconscious body, and fled to a deserted island.
• Zhao Hao searched Zhou Wuji’s soul, learned the name Li Lun, assumed Zhou Wuji’s appearance and aura, and flew toward Linyuan City.

Zhao Hao, disguised as Zhou Wuji, killed Li Lun after the steward betrayed his identity and covered up Qian Riyue’s rental record. He decided to take Zhou Wuji’s place in the Azure Sea Immortal Palace and prepared to cultivate a new Golden Core method before attending a cultivator exchange meeting.

• Li Lun entered Zhao Hao’s Cave Abode, mistook him for Zhou Wuji, and begged for mercy when he realized Zhao Hao had survived his tribulation.
• Zhao Hao promised to spare Li Lun, then killed him, sealed his soul, erased Qian Riyue’s rental record, and left Linyuan City disguised as Li Lun.
• Zhao Hao returned to the Cave Abode disguised as Zhou Wuji and reviewed Zhou Wuji’s memories, learning about the city’s Golden Core cultivators and their private exchange meetings.
• Zhao Hao found Zhou Wuji’s Crimson Gold Burning Heaven Art and learned that Zheng Yao would host a Golden Core exchange meeting in half a month.
• Zhao Hao kept Zhou Wuji’s tormented soul sealed as proof of his identity, then activated the Cave Abode’s Spirit Formation and prepared to cultivate the new method.

Zhao Hao completed his transformation into Zhou Wuji and prepared to use a Golden Core trade fair to find resources for strengthening his cultivation method. He arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, where Zheng Yao and the other cultivators reacted with surprise to his appearance.

• Zhao Hao finished converting his Golden Core with the Crimson Gold Burning Heaven Art and learned that Sun Quan had emptied the Sun and Moon Pill Pavilion and disappeared.
• Zheng Yao invited Zhou Wuji to a Golden Core trade fair, and Zhao Hao accepted despite Zhou Wuji’s past conflict with him.
• Zhao Hao disguised himself as an ordinary Golden Core cultivator and bought twenty-eight cultivation methods and thirty-three spells, exchanging his Low-grade Spirit Stones for Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Hao hatched the Earth-Li Spirit Seed and gained the minor Divine Ability Earth-Li Origin Flame.
• Zhao Hao resumed Zhou Wuji’s appearance and entered the banquet at the City Lord’s Mansion, where Zheng Yao questioned whether he was really Junior Brother Zhou.

Zhao Hao attended Zheng Yao’s Golden Core Trading Fair, where guests exchanged rare treasures and Sun Hao dismissed a proposed trade for ordinary flood dragon blood. The Triangular-Eyed Cultivator then revealed golden roc essence blood, stirring the hall and strongly tempting Zhao Hao with the chance to obtain the Golden-Winged Great Roc’s speed ability.

• Zhao Hao took a seat across from Chen Li, who glared at him over Zhou Wuji’s past theft of his Tribulation Golden Light.
• Zheng Yao opened the trading fair by offering lightning-struck ten-thousand-year ironwood, which a Golden Core cultivator traded for rain flower stone.
• Sun Hao criticized a cultivator’s offer of ordinary azure water flood dragon blood, and the rejected seller sat down resentfully.
• Zhao Hao watched the fair’s various treasures but decided he had little to trade beyond his precious Tribulation Golden Light.
• The Triangular-Eyed Cultivator presented a bottle of second-tier golden roc essence blood, and the gathering erupted at the prospect of acquiring the Golden Roc Spreads Wings ability.
• Zhao Hao felt intensely tempted by the possibility of gaining the golden roc’s extraordinary speed.

Zhao Hao offered Tribulation Golden Light for the golden roc essence blood, provoking Chen Li, who accused him of stealing it. Zhao Hao unleashed a terrifying flame and confronted Chen Li, leaving the hall on the brink of a fight.

• Sun Hao offered a top-tier blood-refining secret art for the golden roc essence blood, and Chen Li offered ten thousand year stone milk.
• Zhao Hao offered a bottle of Tribulation Golden Light, which Chen Li recognized as the treasure Zhou Wuji had stolen from him.
• Chen Li confronted Zhao Hao and, backed by the Chen Family Ancestor, demanded an explanation while Zheng Yao watched without intervening.
• Zhao Hao summoned an orange-red flame that burned his table to ash and forced the cultivators to retreat behind protective shields.
• Zhao Hao advanced on the terrified Chen Li and asked, "Do you fucking want to die?!"

Zhao Hao used the Earth-Li Origin Flame to force Chen Li to surrender ten thousand year stone milk, then agreed to join an expedition to Golden Roc Island. The trading fair ended with the expedition set to depart in seven days.

• Zhao Hao intimidated Chen Li and the Chen Family Ancestor with the Earth-Li Origin Flame, taking Chen Li's ten thousand year stone milk as compensation and warning them to keep silent.
• Zhao Hao returned Chen Li's bottle of Tribulation Golden Light and declared their dispute settled, while Zheng Yao restored the hall and offered attendees a discount.
• The Triangular-Eyed Cultivator and Wan Renli told Zhao Hao about an island inhabited by thousands of golden rocs, including two tier-three Golden Core middle-stage birds, and invited him to join their group.
• Zhao Hao accepted the expedition, and Wan Renli arranged for the group to meet at the City Lord's Mansion in seven days.
• The trading fair continued without further major treasures, and Chen Li and the Chen Family Ancestor left early.

Zhao Hao joined a concealed expedition to trap Golden Rocs on an island and obtain their essence blood. The ambush began well, but a Golden Roc awakened the Star Eye Divine Ability and killed Wan Renli, leaving the battle in chaos.

• Zhao Hao traveled with five Golden Core cultivators aboard a concealed flying boat toward a Golden Roc island.
• Fairy Ruan explained that her array needed to be placed near the island’s center, and Zheng Yao assigned Zhao Hao to guard her.
• The party reached the Roc Nest, where Fairy Ruan activated her array after a powerful spiritual sense exposed them.
• Zheng Yao, Sun Hao, Wan Renli, and the Triangular-Eyed Cultivator charged the Golden Rocs while Zhao Hao stayed with Fairy Ruan.
• A Golden Roc fired golden beams from its eyes, shattered Wan Renli’s Protective Aura, and killed him.
• Sun Hao recognized that the Roc’s bloodline had reverted to its ancestral form and awakened the Golden-Winged Great Roc’s Star Eye Divine Ability.

Zhao Hao joined the fight against the Golden Rocs, harvesting their corpses and collecting the wounded Roc’s blood as the battle spiraled out of control. After the Golden Roc shattered Fairy Ruan’s formation, the others fled or died, leaving Zhao Hao alone facing the Roc with the Star Eye Divine Ability.

• Sun Hao warned that the Golden Roc’s Star Eye Divine Ability had pierced Fairy Ruan’s concealment formation, while Wan Renli retreated to heal his severe injuries.
• Zhao Hao rushed out to kill the first- and second-tier Golden Rocs harassing the others, easing the pressure and collecting their bodies.
• Sun Hao used his Blood Refining Divine Ability to bind a Golden Roc, which endured the blow and fired a concentrated beam at Fairy Ruan’s formation disk.
• Zhao Hao collected the Golden Roc’s blood as Fairy Ruan’s formation shattered, restoring the Golden Rocs’ full speed.
• Zheng Yao and Sun Hao fled, the Triangular-Eyed Cultivator was torn apart, and Wan Renli escaped with Fairy Ruan using a Space Escape Talisman.
• The Golden Roc with the Star Eye Divine Ability fixed its gaze on Zhao Hao, the last one left behind.

Zhao Hao used Earth Escape Art and a hidden flame attack to kill one Golden Roc and capture its soul, driving the flock from Golden Roc Island. After Zhao Hao left, a Nascent Soul True Lord arrived and was attacked by an even more powerful Golden Roc, then fled into the sea while blaming Sun Hao.

• Zhao Hao evaded the two Golden Rocs by diving underground and harassed them with spells until they stopped dodging his attacks.
• Zhao Hao concealed a black-red arrowhead among his flaming arrows, striking the Star Eye Golden Roc and capturing its soul and body.
• The surviving third-tier Golden Roc fled with the flock, abandoning Golden Roc Island, and Zhao Hao departed with his prize.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord of the Azure Sea Immortal Palace arrived after Zhao Hao had left and complained that Sun Hao had sent word too late.
• An enormous Golden Roc attacked the Nascent Soul True Lord, pierced his magical shield, and wounded his shoulder, forcing him to flee into the Endless Sea while cursing Sun Hao.

After returning from Golden Roc Island, Zhao Hao used the three cultivators’ betrayal to extort Sun Hao and secure their silence. When a Nascent Soul True Lord arrived in Linyuan City, Zhao Hao fled, then heard Sun Hao scream from the City Lord's Mansion.

• Sun Hao, Zheng Yao, and Wan Renli discussed asking Sun Hao’s grandmaster to capture the Golden Roc and agreed to conceal their abandonment of Zhou Wuji.
• Zhao Hao returned to the City Lord's Mansion and confronted the three after overhearing their conversation.
• Zheng Yao offered Zhao Hao formation plates and texts, but Zhao Hao demanded Sun Hao’s Blood Refining Divine Ability jade slip and fifty thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
• Sun Hao yielded the jade slip and spirit stones under threat, while Zhao Hao accepted compensation from Zheng Yao and warned the three to coordinate their story for the Law Enforcement Hall.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord arrived over Linyuan City, so Zhao Hao disguised himself and fled toward the outskirts.
• As Zhao Hao neared the city’s edge, he heard an agonized scream from the City Lord's Mansion that sounded like Sun Hao.

Zhao Hao learned that Elder Ji had survived an encounter with a Nascent Soul Realm Golden Roc and discussed teleportation arrays with Wan Renli. After hearing about Kun Fish essence blood and its connection to powerful abilities, Zhao Hao traded Wan Renli a Tier 2 Golden Roc’s blood and asked him to reserve any demon beast essence blood with a top-tier true spirit bloodline.

• Wan Renli told Zhao Hao that Elder Ji had fought a Nascent Soul Realm Golden Roc after Sun Hao’s misleading message sent him to Golden Roc Island, and that Elder Ji had taken the captured Golden Rocs and punished Sun Hao.
• Zhao Hao demanded eight or ten Space Escape Talismans as compensation, but Wan Renli explained their cost and recommended that Zhao Hao ask Fairy Ruan about her Directional Teleportation Array.
• Wan Renli described how difficult formation mathematics was and offered Zhao Hao discounts and rare resources in exchange for a Tier 2 Golden Roc.
• Wan Renli told Zhao Hao that Elder Ji might have used Kun Fish Water Escape to evade the Golden Roc, after a Kun Fish’s essence blood had been traded to the Azure Sea Immortal Palace.
• Zhao Hao gave Wan Renli a bottle of Tier 2 Golden Roc blood as a deposit and ordered him to reserve any essence blood containing a top-tier true spirit bloodline.

Zhao Hao tested Blood Spirit Pills to absorb demon beast bloodlines and add their divine abilities, using his vitality energy to suppress dangerous demonization. After surviving the far more powerful Ancestral Golden Roc bloodline, he gained two new incomplete divine abilities.

• Zhao Hao sealed his cave abode and swallowed a Mystic Turtle Blood Spirit Pill, then suppressed the resulting demonization with his vitality energy.
• Zhao Hao swallowed the nine remaining Mystic Turtle pills and gained the incomplete first-grade Mystic Armor Protection divine ability.
• Zhao Hao swallowed an Ancestral Golden Roc Blood Spirit Pill, but its powerful bloodline tore at his body and triggered severe demonization.
• Zhao Hao used his 365 acupoints and vast vitality energy to subdue the Golden Roc bloodline after a fierce struggle.
• Zhao Hao discovered that his vision had greatly improved and gained the incomplete first-grade Golden Eyes and Golden Roc Spreads Wings divine abilities.

Zhao Hao discovered that the Golden Roc bloodline abilities were capped at fifth grade, then used the Enhancement System to raise several divine abilities to sixth grade. After exhausting his resources and preparing to leave seclusion, he received a message from Fan Jin demanding that he fulfill their Heavenly Demon Contract.

• Zhao Hao tested Golden Eyes, finding it could see through walls and restrictions and fire beams that pierced three layers of defensive restrictions.
• After another month of refining Golden Roc Blood Spirit Pills, Zhao Hao found that Golden Eyes and Golden Roc Spreads Wings were stuck at fifth grade.
• Zhao Hao refined pills from low-tier demonic beasts for half a year, filling his system panel with incomplete divine abilities.
• Zhao Hao used the Enhancement System to raise Golden Eyes, Golden Roc Spreads Wings, Mystic Armor Protection, Camouflage, and Rapid Digestion to sixth grade.
• With his resources depleted, Zhao Hao prepared to leave his cave abode, but Fan Jin’s Message Jade Talisman summoned him to fulfill the Heavenly Demon Contract and refine another kind of Blood Spirit Pill.

Zhao Hao tested his Golden Roc Spreads Wings, Golden Eyes, and Rapid Digestion abilities before meeting Fan Jin, who tried to force him into the Blood Refining Demonic Sect. When Fan Jin revealed his early Golden Core cultivation and attacked with his aura, Zhao Hao answered with an even stronger Golden Core pressure of his own.

• Zhao Hao used Golden Roc Spreads Wings and Golden Eyes together to fly at extreme speed and destroy a distant mountain summit.
• Zhao Hao practiced coordinating his divine abilities and used Rapid Digestion to replenish the power he spent.
• Zhao Hao disguised himself as Qian Riyue and met Fan Jin on the appointed spiritual peak.
• Fan Jin invited Zhao Hao to join the Blood Refining Demonic Sect, but Zhao Hao refused.
• Fan Jin revealed his early Golden Core cultivation and crushed the peak with his pressure.
• Zhao Hao unleashed an even stronger Golden Core pressure and revealed that he had also broken through.

Zhao Hao revealed his Golden Core cultivation and fought Fan Jin, learning that Fan Jin possessed the complete Blood Spirit Scripture. After overwhelming Fan Jin’s attacks and demonstrating his own powerful abilities, Zhao Hao pursued him as he fled.

• Fan Jin attacked Zhao Hao with his blood-red flying sword, but Zhao Hao dodged and admitted he had recently advanced to Golden Core.
• Fan Jin tried to recruit Zhao Hao into the Blood Refining Demonic Sect and revealed that he possessed the complete Blood Spirit Scripture, a legacy of Blood Spirit Hall.
• Fan Jin demanded that Zhao Hao accept a restriction or die, but Zhao Hao caught his flying sword and used his enhancement ability to transform it into the Wind Chaser Sword.
• Zhao Hao pierced Fan Jin’s fifth-rank Mystic Armor with Golden Eyes, frightening Fan Jin into using Blood Escape Art to flee.
• Zhao Hao appeared beside Fan Jin after he escaped twenty miles and asked why he was in such a hurry to leave.

Zhao Hao caught Fan Jin after his repeated attempts to escape, defeated him with a soul-burning flame, and searched his memories. He obtained the complete Blood Spirit Scripture and learned of the dangerous Blood Spirit Realm, whose secrets he might explore later.

• Fan Jin used the Blood Escape Art twice, but Zhao Hao kept pace and followed him to a barren mountain.
• Fan Jin offered Zhao Hao the complete Blood Spirit Scripture in exchange for his life, but Zhao Hao seized him and burned through his defenses with a Black-Red Lotus flame.
• Zhao Hao used the Soul-Searching Art on Fan Jin, then sealed his unconscious soul and stored his body to avoid alerting the Blood Refining Demonic Sect.
• Zhao Hao learned from Fan Jin's memories that Fan Jin had killed Sun Quan and obtained the complete Blood Spirit Scripture, including the Hundred Aperture Pulse Suppressing Art but not the bloodline-fusion secret art.
• Zhao Hao learned that the missing secret art was in the Blood Spirit Realm and took Fan Jin's entry token, considering a future visit.

After taking Fan Jin’s identity, Zhao Hao impersonated him to collect spirit stones from the Blood Refining Demonic Sect’s mines. With a large haul in hand, he decided to target Black Wind Mine next.

• Zhao Hao used Fan Jin’s memories and appearance to pose as the newly advanced Golden Core elder assigned to collect spirit stones.
• At Crimson Flame Mountain, Zhao Hao presented Fan Jin’s token to Elder Wu, who verified his identity with the sect before handing over the mine’s spirit stones.
• Zhao Hao followed the collection route to gather spirit stones from seven mines, earning nearly twenty million low-grade stones, over sixty thousand mid-grade stones, and eight high-grade stones.
• Zhao Hao studied a jade slip of the sect’s mineral veins and chose Black Wind Mine, whose guardian was a Foundation Establishment late stage cultivator.
• Zhao Hao left his temporary cave dwelling at night and headed for Black Wind Mine.