Recaps

Zhao Hao used the All-Things Enhancement System to strengthen his spiritual root, arts, and cultivation while concealing his abilities amid the Extreme Yin Sect’s conflict with the Heavenly Sword Sect. After escaping the battlefield and reaching Foundation Establishment, he faced an unknown attacker at his cave abode.

• Zhao Hao enhanced his mixed spiritual roots into a fire-attribute heavenly spiritual root, entered the Extreme Yin Sect, and became True Person Corpse Heart’s ninth direct disciple.
• Zhao Hao used refined corpses and cultivation materials to raise his fire spiritual root to supreme grade, advance through Qi Refining, and conceal his strength from Wu De and the sect.
• True Person Corpse Heart ordered the disciples to find Wu De, and Zhao Hao evaded the search with Lin Yaoyao before witnessing Wu De battle a white-robed Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator.
• Zhao Hao collected Wu De’s thirty-five remaining female corpses, wounded Lin Yaoyao, and escaped as the white-robed cultivator killed her.
• Zhao Hao sold the corpses, reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and returned to Ten Thousand Corpse Hall as the sect prepared to fight at Soul-Severing Plain.
• The Heavenly Sword Sect ambushed the Bone Boat, and Zhao Hao fled underground before killing a ninth-level Qi Refining woman and escaping her senior sister.
• Zhao Hao hid near a city, avoided a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s search, and carved a concealed cave abode near an earthfire vein.
• Zhao Hao cleared his pill toxins and broke through to Foundation Establishment Early Stage, but an unknown attacker began breaking through his cave abode’s defensive array.

Zhao Hao fled the Extreme Yin Sect after killing Jia Ren, then became entangled in the massacre Li Mingyuan carried out while pursuing him. In Ten Thousand Immortal City, Zhao Hao used his enhancement system to rise through the alchemy competition, where Old Ancestor Guo offered him a path to the higher volumes of his cultivation method and a way to refine his karmic burden.

• Zhao Hao tricked Jia Ren into lowering his guard, killed him, and fled with his possessions, including a bottle of high-grade spirit liquid.
• Zhao Hao bought the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon and accepted Wu Tang's offer to escort him to Ten Thousand Immortal City with Sun Ze.
• Zhao Hao killed a Ten Thousand Soul Hall cultivator in Blackstone City, erased the Soul-Chasing Seal, and hid underground while Li Mingyuan pursued him and slaughtered cities.
• After Wuxiang stopped Li Mingyuan from destroying Anyang, Zhao Hao found Blackstone City emptied of life and changed his route before ultimately traveling to Ten Thousand Immortal City.
• Zhao Hao enhanced his alchemy skills and ingredients, earned spirit stones selling pills, and passed the first two rounds of the Alchemy Grand Assembly by secretly improving failed pills.
• Zhao Hao collected sixty thousand spirit stones from his bets, then was summoned to the City Lord's Mansion by a Golden Core patriarch.
• Old Ancestor Guo revealed that the City Lord's Mansion held the Golden Core volume of the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon and described a secret art that could turn Zhao Hao's karmic burden into Crimson Li Karma Fire.

Zhao Hao advanced his alchemy and abilities before entering the Li Fire Secret Realm, where he killed cultivators, stole treasures, and gained an immortal-grade fire spiritual root. After the Li Fire Sect and its secret realm ascended, Zhao Hao escaped to the Azure Cloud World, freed himself from the Heavenly Demon Contract, and boarded a flying boat under a new identity.

• Zhao Hao completed the Alchemy Grand Assembly, then secretly repaid Lu Gui with pills and spirit stones after overhearing him curse Zhao Hao for his unpaid debt.
• Zhao Hao won the Soul-Devouring Jade at auction, upgraded it, and forged two Yin Soul Nails from souls in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Zhao Hao learned the Li Fire Secret Technique, condensed five Earth-Li Spirit Seeds, and entered the Li Fire Secret Realm with Li Ming and Xuan Su.
• Zhao Hao killed a Joyous Union Sect woman and two Spirit Beast Sect disciples, then disguised himself as Wang Lin and manipulated a clash between Ten Thousand Soul Hall and Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators to steal Phantom Soul Grass.
• Zhao Hao used cultivator corpses to enhance his fire spiritual root to immortal grade, triggering a huge spiritual-energy vortex that drew cultivators and Golden Core powerhouses toward him.
• Zhao Hao escaped the crowd and entered the Li Fire Ascension Tower as Zhao Ritian, while Spirit World elders resolved to bring him and the Li Fire Sect to their world.
• The Li Fire Ascension Tower absorbed the secret realm and carried the Li Fire Sect away, while Zhao Hao fled to the Azure Cloud World and killed two Joyous Union Sect cultivators.
• Zhao Hao destroyed the Heavenly Demon Contract, strengthened his Soul-Devouring Jade and Ten Thousand Soul Banner, erased his former identities, and boarded a flying boat after hearing the Northern Lands had fallen into chaos.

Zhao Hao advanced to Golden Core, took Zhou Wuji’s identity, and gained Golden Roc bloodline abilities after a disastrous island expedition. He later killed Fan Jin, learned the Blood Spirit Scripture’s missing art was in the Blood Spirit Realm, and began exploiting Fan Jin’s identity to gather spirit stones.

• Zhao Hao raised his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed, cultivated the Blood Spirit Scripture, opened all 365 acupoints, and exchanged Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for soul resources.
• Zhao Hao broke through to Golden Core, defeated Zhou Wuji after absorbing the Tribulation Golden Light, then killed Li Lun and assumed their identities to cover his tracks.
• Disguised as Zhou Wuji, Zhao Hao attended Zheng Yao’s Golden Core trading fair, acquired the Earth-Li Origin Flame, and threatened Chen Li before joining an expedition to Golden Roc Island.
• The expedition collapsed when the Golden Rocs killed Wan Renli and the Triangular-Eyed Cultivator, but Zhao Hao captured the Star Eye Golden Roc and escaped with its body and soul.
• Zhao Hao confronted Zheng Yao, Sun Hao, and Wan Renli, collected compensation, and later learned Elder Ji had punished Sun Hao for misleading him about the Golden Rocs.
• Zhao Hao refined Mystic Turtle and Golden Roc Blood Spirit Pills, gained several divine abilities, and strengthened them before Fan Jin summoned him to fulfill their contract.
• Fan Jin tried to recruit Zhao Hao into the Blood Refining Demonic Sect, but Zhao Hao defeated him, learned that Fan Jin had killed Sun Quan, and took his token and knowledge of the Blood Spirit Realm.
• Using Fan Jin’s appearance and identity, Zhao Hao collected spirit stones from seven mines and set out at night for Black Wind Mine.