Recaps

After defeating a Black Demon Sect cultivator, Su Zhan prepared to confront the Yuan Family Main Branch. He demanded that the White-haired Elder and his people leave the secret realm, which the Yuan family considered its own.

• Su Zhan's cultivation methods bickered in his mind through the Cultivation Method Chat Group after the Black Demon Sect cultivator fled.
• Su Zhan warned the group that the defeated cultivator had only been scouting and that stronger enemies might follow.
• Immovable Wisdom King Wall cautioned Su Zhan that the Yuan family members nearby also posed a threat.
• Su Zhan approached the White-haired Elder and asked to talk as the Yuan family members nervously gripped their weapons.
• Su Zhan told the White-haired Elder to take his people and leave his territory at once, angering the Yuan family members.

Su Zhan demanded that the Yuan Household Main Branch explain how the Black Demon Sect entered its Secret Realm, threatening to clean house if they could not. The White-haired Elder proposed an alliance to eliminate the Black Demon Sect, but Su Zhan insisted that the Main Branch obey his commands.

• Su Zhan demanded an explanation for how the Black Demon Sect entered the Yuan Household's Secret Realm and threatened to clean house.
• The White-haired Elder accepted Su Zhan's demands and proposed joining forces to root out the Black Demon Sect.
• Su Zhan agreed to cooperate only if the White-haired Elder and the entire Main Branch followed his commands.

Su Zhan forced the Yuan Family Main Branch to accept his command in their alliance against the Black Demon Sect, making clear that their past conflict would end only if they never provoked him again. The chapter ended with the Yuan clan entering his palace and standing before him without seats.

• The Yuan Family Main Branch erupted in anger after Su Zhan demanded that they follow his orders.
• Yuan Chou realized Su Zhan wanted full control to prevent his allies from betraying him.
• The White-haired Elder accepted Su Zhan's terms despite his clansmen's protests.
• Su Zhan rejected the Elder's claim that their grievances would be wiped clean and warned them never to provoke him again.
• Su Zhan led the Yuan Family Main Branch into the palace, where he sat in the seat of honor while they stood before him.

Su Zhan questioned the White-haired Elder about the Black Demon Sect’s infiltration of the secret realm and ordered the Yuan Household to remain under his supervision. He then summoned the Chat Group and offered its members treasures from his recent spoils.

• The White-haired Elder told Su Zhan that the Black Demon Sect had entered the secret realm, corrupted Demon Beasts, and established evil altars, and he suspected a spy within the Yuan Household.
• The White-haired Elder said he could not identify the traitor among the leaders entrusted with the formation keys.
• Su Zhan ordered the Yuan Household to camp east of the palace, forbade them from acting without his orders, and requested their information on the Black Demon Sect.
• Yuan Yuan questioned whether Su Zhan should cooperate with the Yuan Household, and Su Zhan reassured her that he trusted his own strength, not them.
• Su Zhan summoned the Chat Group and presented a Crimson Flame Crystal, high-grade pills, and lightning-infused Demon Beast bone as food for its members.

Su Zhan strengthened his Cultivation Methods by feeding them spiritual treasures, then learned that the main-branch clansmen were secretly snooping around the palace. He ordered the White-haired Elder to bring his elite forces on a scouting mission, and the two groups gathered at dawn, with the elder wary of being used as bait.

• Su Zhan fed the Crimson Flame Crystal and pills to [Blazing Dragon Venerate], the beast bone to [Nine Heavens Divine Lightning], and the remaining Spiritual Qi to [Immovable Wisdom King Wall], strengthening his connection with the Cultivation Methods.
• Yuan Chou reported that the main-branch clansmen were using patrols to snoop around the palace and behaving suspiciously.
• After reading the intelligence, Su Zhan told Yuan Chou to inform the White-haired Elder that he had deduced the location of a possible Black Demon Sect stronghold.
• Su Zhan ordered the White-haired Elder to bring all his elite forces to scout the suspected stronghold the next morning.
• At dawn, Su Zhan's branch clansmen and the reluctant main-branch group assembled outside the palace, while the White-haired Elder suspected Su Zhan might use them as cannon fodder.

Su Zhan convinced the main branch’s White-haired Elder that the Black Demon Sect was building a Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation centered on the Ghostly Swamp. As the united group advanced toward the swamp, his Cultivation Methods warned him of a hidden restriction, rising negative energy, and fresh blood nearby.

• The White-haired Elder questioned Su Zhan’s claim that he had found the Black Demon Sect’s stronghold, and a main branch disciple accused him of draining their strength.
• Su Zhan handed over his intelligence Jade Slip, and the White-haired Elder saw that its marked locations revealed the formation’s pattern leading to the Ghostly Swamp.
• The White-haired Elder identified the pattern as the embryonic Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation, which could sacrifice every living being in the Secret Realm, and apologized to Su Zhan.
• Su Zhan ordered the two groups to move out together toward the Ghostly Swamp.
• As they traveled, Su Zhan’s Cultivation Methods detected faint energy fluctuations, rising negative energy, suppressed lightning power, and fresh blood ahead.

Guided by his Cultivation Methods' reports, Su Zhan led the group safely to the Ghostly Swamp and identified the Black Demon Sect's hidden lair. A trace of the Yuan Household's Soul Chasing Incense suggested that Elder Yuan Hong had gone missing nearby, and Yuan Chou returned from the grass carrying something that left him deathly pale.

• Su Zhan avoided traps and concealed lookouts as he guided the group toward the Ghostly Swamp.
• The White-haired Elder explained the swamp's poisonous, Divine Sense-eroding miasma, while Su Zhan sensed the Black Demon Sect's lair on an island hidden by an illusion formation.
• Su Zhan assigned Yuan Chou and the White-haired Elder's forces to flank the island and destroy the formation's core and the sect's remnants.
• Shadow Thousand Silk Lock detected Soul Chasing Incense in the soil, and Su Zhan asked the White-haired Elder about Yuan Hong, the Punishment Hall Elder who had gone missing after investigating a lead alone.
• The White-haired Elder realized Yuan Hong might be in danger, and Su Zhan sent Yuan Chou to inspect nearby grass; Yuan Chou returned carrying something with a deathly pale face.

The Yuan Household party discovered that Yuan Hong had betrayed them and joined the Black Demon Sect. Yuan Hong ordered an ambush, and the White-haired Elder’s hastily raised barrier shattered under the attack.

• The Yuan Family Main Branch found Yuan Hong’s marked robe scrap and realized he had left the Soul Chasing Incense to guide the Black Demon Sect.
• Yuan Hong appeared with the Black Demon Sect, and the White-haired Elder confronted him in anguish.
• Yuan Hong revealed that he had joined the sect to pursue power and planned to sacrifice the Yuan Household in the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation.
• Yuan Hong ordered his forces to attack and leave no one alive.
• The White-haired Elder tried to shield the party, but the demonic assault shattered his barrier almost immediately.

The Yuan Family Main Branch forces fell into chaos under the Black Demon Sect’s assault while Su Zhan calmly prepared to intervene. He told Yuan Yuan and Yuan Chou to stand behind him, then activated [Immovable Wisdom King Wall] to shield them.

• Black Demon Sect cultivators attacked the Yuan Family Main Branch forces, killing several disciples and scattering their formation.
• Yuan Chou gathered the branch-family clansmen into a defensive circle as Yuan Yuan clung to Su Zhan.
• Yuan Hong mocked the White-haired Elder and celebrated the massacre while the elder struggled against two Black Demon Sect cultivators.
• Su Zhan assessed the battle with the Cultivation Method Chat Group and reassured Yuan Yuan and Yuan Chou.
• Su Zhan stamped his foot and expanded [Immovable Wisdom King Wall] into a protective barrier around himself.

Su Zhan protected fleeing disciples with the Immovable Wisdom King Wall, then turned the Black Demon Sect’s assault into an opening to strike back. His chains and Flame Giant Dragon devastated the attackers as the battle continued.

• Su Zhan shielded himself and the nearby Main Vein Disciples from the Black Demon Sect’s attacks with the Immovable Wisdom King Wall.
• Su Zhan ordered the sheltered disciples to fight back, and they began attacking through the barrier.
• Yuan Hong ordered the Black Demon Sect cultivators to intensify their assault, but the barrier remained unbroken.
• Su Zhan unleashed Shadow Thousand Silk Lock, binding several Black Demon Sect cultivators and weakening their defenses.
• Su Zhan summoned the Blazing Dragon Venerate, which burned the bound cultivators to ash and rampaged through the enemy forces.

Su Zhan turned the battle against the Black Demon Sect with his many cultivation methods, but Yuan Hong unleashed a soul-targeting attack through the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation. The attack pierced toward Su Zhan’s brow, leaving the battle at a critical moment.

• Su Zhan’s Black Chains restrained the Black Demon Sect while his Flame Giant Dragon attacked, giving the Yuan Household survivors time to recover.
• Yuan Hong recognized Su Zhan as the main obstacle and activated the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation.
• Yuan Hong sacrificed his blood to summon the Earth Vein Demon Soul, shaking the Ghostly Swamp and flooding the formation with black blood.
• The formation unleashed a soul attack that weakened the Immovable Wisdom King Wall and tormented the Yuan Household clansmen.
• Yuan Hong sent a sharp black spear of soul energy through space toward the spot between Su Zhan’s brows.

Su Zhan used the Jade Token and the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to destroy Yuan Hong’s soul attack and injure him. As Su Zhan poured more Spiritual Qi into the token, righteous thunderclouds gathered over the Ghostly Swamp, threatening the Black Demon Sect cultivators.

• Yuan Hong sent an invisible soul spear at Su Zhan while his attack made the Yuan Household members and the White-haired Elder suffer soul damage.
• The Nine Heavens Divine Lightning spoke up in Su Zhan’s mind and taunted the Blazing Dragon Venerate.
• Su Zhan summoned the Jade Token and struck Yuan Hong’s soul spear with Evil-Shattering Divine Lightning, purifying it completely.
• Yuan Hong spat black blood and staggered back from the backlash, then recognized the lightning and questioned how Su Zhan had mastered it.
• Su Zhan poured more Spiritual Qi into the Jade Token, tearing open the miasma and gathering destructive thunderclouds over the Ghostly Swamp.

Su Zhan unleashed Judgment, calling down a storm of divine lightning that destroyed the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation and wiped out the Black Demon Sect cultivators. As the storm ended, Yuan Hong remained barely alive, and the surviving members of the Yuan Household stared at Su Zhan in awe.

• Yuan Hong sensed the danger and ordered the formation’s final form activated, but Su Zhan invoked Judgment before he could act.
• Su Zhan’s lightning storm struck the entire Ghostly Swamp, burning away the Black Demon Sect cultivators and dismantling the formation.
• Lightning bound Yuan Hong and stripped away his Demonic Energy, leaving him charred and barely alive.
• The lightning ceased, the swamp’s evil presence vanished, and the surviving Yuan Household members stared up at Su Zhan holding the Jade Token.

Su Zhan defeated the evil in the swamp and saved the Yuan Family Main Branch. Yuan Ji executed the traitor Yuan Hong, then pledged the branch’s loyalty to Su Zhan.

• The survivors of the Yuan Household watched in awe as Su Zhan’s lightning cleansed the swamp.
• Su Zhan left Yuan Hong’s fate to Yuan Ji and released him from the lightning chains.
• Yuan Ji killed Yuan Hong with a strike to the forehead.
• Yuan Ji thanked Su Zhan and pledged that he and the main branch would obey his commands.
• The surviving Main Vein Disciples bowed and declared that they would follow Young Master Su’s commands.

After defeating Yuan Hong and gaining the Yuan Household’s submission, Su Zhan investigated the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation and suspected it threatened every living being in the secret realm. The search of Yuan Hong’s corpse uncovered a hidden Beast Skin Map, leaving Su Zhan with a new clue to the deeper plot.

• Su Zhan accepted the Yuan Household members’ sincere submission and recognized that he now had a force he could command in the secret realm.
• The Cultivation Method Chat Group discussed the battle, while Immovable Wisdom King Wall and Shadow Thousand Silk Lock warned Su Zhan that strange energy fluctuations came from underground.
• Yuan Ji told Su Zhan that the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation required countless lives and might be part of a scheme targeting everyone in the secret realm.
• Su Zhan ordered Yuan Chou and the Yuan Household members to clear the battlefield and search for survivors and clues, especially on Yuan Hong’s corpse.
• Yuan Chou found a palm-sized Beast Skin Map concealed in several layers of oilcloth inside Yuan Hong’s robes and showed it to Su Zhan.

Su Zhan discovered that the Beast Skin Map Yuan Hong had hidden bore a Black Demon Sect Secret Language Symbol and might be part of a grand formation. He ordered Yuan Ji and the Main Vein Disciples to search for clues, while the disciples began trying to win his favor and help Yuan Chou.

• Su Zhan examined the Beast Skin Map, but Yuan Ji could not decipher its unusual lines and symbols.
• Yuan Ji recognized a tiny mark on the map as a Secret Language Symbol used by high-ranking members of the Black Demon Sect.
• [Shadow Thousand Silk Lock] identified the map’s black pigment as soul devouring ink and explained that its lines showed an energy circuit for a grand formation.
• Su Zhan suspected the map was connected to the Black Demon Sect’s Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation and ordered Yuan Ji to gather every suspicious trace in the area.
• Yuan Ji led the Main Vein Disciples to search, and one disciple who had previously criticized Yuan Chou offered to help him.

Su Zhan discovered that the Beast Skin Map’s energy circuit was incomplete and triggered a dangerous backlash when he tried to activate it. After Elder Yuan Ji brought back battlefield spoils, Su Zhan noticed Yuan Hong’s Storage Ring and took it to inspect its contents.

• Su Zhan studied the Beast Skin Map and found that the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock’s energy circuit was missing a piece.
• Su Zhan injected Spirit Energy into the map, which lit up and tried to devour his Spiritual Sense and Spirit Energy, but he cut off the flow.
• Elder Yuan Ji brought Su Zhan miscellaneous items collected from the battlefield.
• Su Zhan noticed Yuan Hong’s Storage Ring on Yuan Ji’s hand, and Yuan Ji reluctantly handed it over.
• Su Zhan sent his Spiritual Sense into the Storage Ring and was surprised by what he found.

Su Zhan searched Yuan Hong’s Storage Ring and found several rare treasures, including an ancient earth-attribute body-refining method called the Earth Fetal Movement Scripture. He began examining its extraordinary potential, while the Cultivation Method Chat Group clamored for the other treasures.

• Su Zhan found hundreds of thousands of High-Grade Spirit Stones, various pills, and two Demonic Pills that he tossed aside for [Blazing Dragon Venerate].
• Su Zhan opened a sealed wooden box and discovered a fiery red crystal, an Annihilation Thunder Bead, and an untitled ancient booklet.
• [Blazing Dragon Venerate], [Nine Heavens Divine Lightning], and [Immovable Wisdom King Wall] each expressed interest in one of the three treasures.
• Su Zhan read the booklet’s title, Earth Fetal Movement Scripture, and learned it was a top-tier earth-attribute body-refining method that granted immense strength and defense while its user stood on the ground.

Su Zhan absorbed the Annihilation Thunder Bead into [Nine Heavens Divine Lightning], greatly strengthening it, then assembled four Beast Skin Maps into a complete map of the secret realm. The map revealed three unexplored sites linked to the Ghostly Swamp and a central whirlpool, leaving Su Zhan with a disturbing suspicion about their sinister pattern.

• Su Zhan let [Nine Heavens Divine Lightning] absorb the Annihilation Thunder Bead, and the Jade Token's lightning pressure frightened Elder Yuan Ji.
• [Nine Heavens Divine Lightning] announced that it had reached two hundred percent charge and could summon two thunderstorms at once.
• Su Zhan found three more Beast Skin Maps in the Storage Ring and joined them with the one from Yuan Hong.
• Su Zhan saw that the completed map marked the Ghostly Swamp, a grave-filled valley, a scorched volcano, a blood-misted forest, and a central whirlpool.
• Su Zhan studied the sinister arrangement on the map and formed a terrifying suspicion.

Su Zhan discovered that the Blood Soul Heaven Sacrifice Grand Formation involved four altars and that the Black Demon Sect intended to use them to activate a core formation. The Beast Skin Map then opened a portal, through which a powerful stranger addressed Su Zhan and mocked the failed sacrifice.

• Su Zhan realized the Ghostly Swamp altar was one of four, with the others in Myriad Soul Valley, Sky Burning Volcano, and Blood Mist Forest.
• Elder Yuan Ji recognized the locations as dangerous forbidden grounds in the Yuan Household's secret realm and feared the Black Demon Sect planned to destroy it.
• The completed Beast Skin Map drew Su Zhan's scattered Spirit Energy into its vortex and formed a small portal filled with demonic sounds and energy.
• Su Zhan recognized the portal as a one-way Space Teleportation Array that could transmit sounds and presences.
• A stranger on the other side mocked Yuan Hong's failure and acknowledged Su Zhan's destruction of the Ghostly Swamp altar.
• Su Zhan asked the stranger who they were, and the voice laughed mockingly in reply.

The Demon Envoy threatened Su Zhan after the destruction of his altar, promising to hunt him down and make him a puppet. Su Zhan fired golden lightning through the portal, forcing the Demon Envoy to scream and shattering the passage, while Elder Yuan Ji stared in shock.

• The Demon Envoy dismissed the destroyed altar and threatened to capture Su Zhan and refine his soul into a puppet.
• Elder Yuan Ji trembled in fear after learning Su Zhan had drawn the attention of a Black Demon Sect Demon Envoy.
• Su Zhan complained that the Demon Envoy was noisy and summoned the Jade Token.
• Su Zhan fed Spirit Energy into the Jade Token, which fired golden lightning through the portal.
• The Demon Envoy screamed, the portal shattered, and Elder Yuan Ji stared at Su Zhan in disbelief.

After striking the distant Demon Envoy with the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, Su Zhan ordered his group to prepare to destroy the Black Demon Sect’s altars at three forbidden lands. The group set out for Myriad Soul Valley, while Yuan Yuan and Yuan Chou checked on Su Zhan.

• Su Zhan’s lightning strike wounded the Demon Envoy, and Yuan Ji stared at him in disbelief.
• The Immovable Wisdom King Wall warned Su Zhan that the Black Demon Sect was targeting three forbidden lands, so Su Zhan decided to reach them first and destroy their altars.
• Su Zhan ordered everyone to rest and recover for two hours before departing for Myriad Soul Valley.
• Yuan Ji hurriedly supervised the group’s preparations, now convinced that following Su Zhan was safer than opposing him.
• Yuan Yuan and Yuan Chou asked if Su Zhan was all right, and Su Zhan reassured them while Yuan Chou noticed the gravity in his eyes.

Su Zhan led the recovered group toward Myriad Soul Valley, planning to outwit the Black Demon Sect with more dangerous traps of their own. As they reached Rocky Slope, he used the Cultivation Method Chat Group to identify hidden Stone-Skinned Demons while the others advanced cautiously.

• Su Zhan told Yuan Chou that they would use dirtier tactics and more vicious traps against the Black Demon Sect.
• After two hours of rest, the group set off for Myriad Soul Valley with renewed strength and trust in Su Zhan.
• Elder Yuan Ji warned Su Zhan that Rocky Slope was treacherous and inhabited by Stone-Skinned Demons.
• Su Zhan received real-time reports from the Cultivation Method Chat Group about demons hiding among the rocks and underground.
• Su Zhan surveyed the cautious procession as it approached the hidden threats.

Su Zhan went alone into Rocky Slope and cleared a path through the Stone-Skinned Demons. He returned unharmed, leaving the group stunned by the scale of his destruction.

• Su Zhan ordered Yuan Ji and the group to wait while he entered Rocky Slope alone.
• A huge crash shook the ground, sending rocks tumbling and dust billowing through the slope.
• Su Zhan emerged unharmed and said the path was clear.
• The group followed him and found a hundred-meter-wide road carved through the rocks, with countless dead Stone-Skinned Demons scattered in the rubble.
• Yuan Ji and the others realized Su Zhan had defeated the horde in the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Su Zhan led the group across Rocky Slope after clearing its dangers with a powerful technique. They reached the entrance to Myriad Soul Valley, where Elder Yuan Ji warned of the valley’s dense Death Qi.

• Su Zhan’s Earth Fetal Movement Scripture empowered Immovable Wisdom King Wall to clear Rocky Slope with a single strike and carve a road through it.
• The group crossed Rocky Slope quickly, and the Yuan Family Main Branch disciples felt reassured by Su Zhan’s strength.
• Su Zhan considered how well Immovable Wisdom King Wall had combined with the Earth Fetal Movement Scripture and anticipated that it would grow stronger.
• The group crossed a gray plain and reached Myriad Soul Valley, where they saw ruined grave mounds, exposed bones, and bone ash under a sinister wind.
• Elder Yuan Ji identified Myriad Soul Valley as the group sensed its unusually dense Death Qi.