Recaps

Yang Huai defeated True Lord Fuhuo on the eighth stage by awakening his God Descends to the Mortal World destiny fate, then failed to overcome Fuhuo’s Earth Immortal power on the ninth stage. His rise to twelfth place on the All-Spirits Ranking displaced a young man who angrily felt his Dao fortune diminish.

• Yang Huai used the Three Gods Return as One sword technique against True Lord Fuhuo, who transformed into a fire qilin giant and nearly killed him with Earth Immortal-level power.
• At the brink of death, Yang Huai’s God Descends to the Mortal World destiny fate restored his strength, and he killed True Lord Fuhuo with the Junting Ancient Sword.
• The Void Spirit Realm Tower healed Yang Huai and awarded him tokens; he exchanged thirty-two for an Innate Golden Source Pearl and kept the remaining forty.
• After a month of cultivation, Yang Huai challenged the ninth stage but emerged defeated after witnessing True Lord Fuhuo’s full Dharma body power.
• Yang Huai’s name rose to twelfth place on the All-Spirits Ranking, causing a young man who had fallen from twentieth place to lose more than half his Dao fortune and cry out in fury.

Yang Huai reached twelfth place on the All-Spirits Ranking, drawing alarmed attention from the Profound Mystery Sect and cultivators across the Dachang Dynasty. He strengthened his Peerless Sword Immortal fate configuration and spent Spirit Realm tokens on cultivation resources as he prepared for the trials required to return his elixir.

• Jiang Yuexin alerted Daoist Guangrong that a new name had appeared in the ranking’s top twenty, and Daoist Guangrong ordered Shao Lingzong to suppress speculation and keep the matter secret.
• Daoist Guangrong sent Jiang Yuexin to the superior sect to request an elder, believing Yang Huai’s ranking could attract dangerous enemies.
• Yuan Xiuxiu dismissed the Winged Tiger’s guesses about the new rank and continued trying to break an immortal estate’s restriction.
• Yang Huai sensed his new Dao position, merged its attainment into his Peerless Sword Immortal fate configuration, and strengthened his innate abilities and Dharma body.
• Yang Huai learned about his exploration time and ranking-based discounts from Youguang, then bought ten portions of Myriad-Year Azure Sky Immortal Stone Essence to improve his cultivation.

Yang Huai collected rare treasures from the Void Spirit Realm Tower and traveled north to the ruined capital of the Spirit Realm Dao Court. While exploring the palace ruins, he uncovered evidence of the Dao Court’s collapse and sensed something unusual in a hidden chamber.

• Yang Huai exchanged twenty-two Spirit Realm Tokens for Jade Pure Bamboo, a Seven-Star Lamp, a Life-Prolonging Stone, two Soul-Fixing Golden Pills, and Spirit-Nourishing Pills.
• Fairy Youguang directed Yang Huai toward the former capital, then True Lord Fuhuo reprimanded her for helping him and let her off without reporting her to the Sovereign.
• Yang Huai crossed the dark, shattered reaches of the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven and reached the ruined capital, where he examined traces of a devastating battle.
• Yang Huai entered the palaces and found corpses and writings blaming the Dao Alliance for the Spirit Realm Dao Court’s ruin.
• Yang Huai found a concealed family letter warning that internal strife, demonic remnants, and the rising Dao Alliance threatened the Dao Court.
• Yang Huai entered a deeper secret chamber and sensed an unusual presence with his Swordheart Clarity.

Yang Huai discovered a hidden cache and saw a sword strike’s profound Dao mysteries in the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven before being expelled. He returned to find the Profound Mystery Sect under attack, just as Daoist Guangrong and the sect’s elders prepared to defend it.

• Yang Huai found a spatial golden bean containing pills and a piece of dark-gold ore in a ruined palace.
• Yang Huai studied a vast sword scar and glimpsed a sword strike that seemed to reveal the Dao’s source and resemble the Six Divine Powers Origin Art.
• The Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven expelled Yang Huai after twenty double-hours, as the sword intent threatened his soul.
• Divine Lord Black Crow and his demons attacked Yanxian Town, and Daoist Guangrong fought him while the Profound Mystery Sect prepared its Six Divine Powers Origin Formation.
• Yang Huai appeared above Chaoshou Peak, and killing intent filled the area around the Profound Mystery Sect.

Yang Huai and the Profound Mystery Sect faced an assault by unorthodox cultivators, including the Five-Cloud Patriarch, while the sect fought back with its Six Divine Powers Origin Formation. Just as Jiang Rongyue prepared to help Yang Huai escape, True Yang Sword Immortal Zhao Zhenwu arrived and destroyed the Five-Cloud Immortal Spirit Net.

• Yang Huai recovered from his near encounter with the Dao and discovered demonic clouds surrounding Yanxian Town as the Black Crow Divine Lord attacked him.
• Shao Lingzong and the elders of the six peaks formed the Six Divine Powers Origin Formation, trapping the Fire Spirit True Lord and killing several attackers.
• Jiang Rongyue rallied the disciples on Chaoshou Peak, while Yang Huai joined them as more unorthodox cultivators gathered.
• The Five-Cloud Patriarch appeared, sealed the region with the Five-Cloud Immortal Spirit Net, and demanded the lives of Jiang Rongyue's fellow disciples.
• Jiang Rongyue urged Yang Huai to escape and asked him to kill Mu Yunhua, but Yang Huai sensed help had arrived.
• Zhao Zhenwu appeared, shattered the Five-Cloud Immortal Spirit Net, and frightened the surviving attackers with his arrival.

Zhao Zhenwu arrived to aid the Profound Mystery Sect and killed Five-Cloud Patriarch, while Yang Huai and the sect’s Sword Immortals fought off the patriarch’s disciples. The slaughter ended with Yang Huai poised to become famous throughout the Azure Talisman Realm.

• Zhao Zhenwu confronted Five-Cloud Patriarch, who challenged him and was soon killed by his Pure Yang sword techniques.
• Deng Yan, Wu Qing, and Zhang Pei tried to sneak into the Profound Mystery Sect to capture Yang Huai as a hostage.
• Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue intercepted the three disciples, and Yang Huai killed Zhang Pei with a single sword strike.
• Jiang Rongyue killed Wu Qing, while Jiang Yuexin killed Deng Yan and divided the spoils with her and Yang Huai.
• Daoist Guangrong subdued Black Crow Divine Lord as Profound Mystery Sect elders slaughtered the remaining intruders and nearby cultivators.
• Yang Huai watched the battle’s aftermath and realized the calamity would make him famous throughout the Azure Talisman Realm.

Yang Huai left the Profound Mystery Sect with Zhao Zhenwu and Daoist Guangrong after being recognized as the twelfth-ranked Dao Child on the All-Spirits Ranking, and brought his parents and younger siblings to settle near the Pure Origin Sect. After news of his ranking reached Yuan Xiuxiu, she learned that the young master she had taken for an ordinary cultivator was Yang Huai.

• Zhao Zhenwu scolded Shao Lingzong for hiding Yang Huai’s talent, then gave the Profound Mystery Sect resources and agreed to take Yang Huai to the Pure Origin Sect.
• Yang Huai asked to bring his parents near the sect, and Zhao Zhenwu agreed; Yang Huai later offered incense at the Profound Mystery Sect’s Patriarch Hall before departing.
• Yang Huai returned to his family home in Liugou County and persuaded his parents and younger siblings to leave with him, but learned that Yuan Xiuxiu had departed after leaving a letter.
• News of Yang Huai’s ranking and the defeat of the Void Spirit Sect spread through the surrounding sects, reaching Winged Tiger at an immortal estate.
• Winged Tiger told Yuan Xiuxiu that Yang Huai was the Dao Child ranked twelfth on the All-Spirits Ranking, leaving her stunned because she had judged his aptitude to be average.

Yuan Xiuxiu learned that Yang Huai had been taken to the Pure Origin Sect and decided to wait before contacting him. Zhao Zhenwu brought Yang Huai and his family to Nine-Dragon Abbey, where Daoist Tianhe asked Yang Huai to fight the last match against the Thunderclap Sect.

• Yuan Xiuxiu accepted that the Pure Origin Sect would protect Yang Huai and chose to focus on healing her injuries rather than contacting him immediately.
• Zhao Zhenwu flew Yang Huai, his parents, and his siblings toward the Pure Origin Sect, and Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huan that he could cultivate despite his ordinary aptitude.
• The group arrived at Peaceful Lake and went to Nine-Dragon Abbey to rest before entering the mountain gate the next day.
• At Nine-Dragon Abbey, Lei Yunyi's disciple defeated Guo Jinguang, leaving Daoist Tianhe behind in their best-of-three contest over a spirit beast egg.
• Daoist Tianhe invited Yang Huai to take the final match and offered him a descendant of a divine beast as a mount if he won.

Yang Huai fought Li Hong in the final round of a sect contest and won with a sword intent he had comprehended from an ancient sword scar. Daoist Tianhe gave Yang Huai an immortal crane egg and Li Hong a spirit egg, leaving Yang Huai to ask how to hatch his new mount.

• Daoist Tianhe and Daoist Guangrong persuaded Yang Huai to fight Li Hong, while Lei Yunyi agreed to the match.
• Li Hong attacked Yang Huai with Heavenly Heart lightning, a Three-Eyed Thunder God Dharma Body, a golden bell, and a set of flying swords, but Yang Huai broke through his defenses with sword techniques and the Taiji Golden Ring.
• Yang Huai imitated the sword intent he had seen in the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven and unleashed Pure Yuan Sword Intent, piercing Li Hong's defenses before stopping short of killing him.
• Li Hong conceded and praised Yang Huai, and Yang Huai explained that he had learned the sword intent from a patriarch's sword scar.
• Lei Yunyi paid Daoist Tianhe the wagered spirit herbs, and Daoist Tianhe gave Li Hong a spirit egg and Yang Huai an immortal crane egg.
• Yang Huai asked how to hatch the egg, and Daoist Tianhe said it was simple.

Yang Huai brought his family to safety near the Pure Origin Sect, then returned to the sect with his fellow disciples and learned more about its structure and his master’s past. After completing the return ceremonies and settling into Heavenly Gold Cave, he began cultivating in preparation for the Heart Demon Trial.

• Daoist Tianhe taught Yang Huai how to hatch and care for the spirit crane, then agreed to help the Yang Family settle discreetly.
• Yang Huai took his parents and siblings to Peach Spring, where bathing in its medicinal waters healed their injuries and restored their health.
• Daoist Tianhe arranged a residence for the Yang Family in Huangshan County, and Yang Huai returned to the Pure Origin Sect with Zhao Zhenwu and Daoist Guangrong.
• Jiang Yuexin explained that Daoist Guangrong had been demoted after allowing an ancient demon to escape, while Jiang Rongyue warned Yang Huai about the powerful demoness Mu Yunhua.
• Yang Huai and his companions completed the sect’s return ceremonies and unsealed Heavenly Gold Cave on Spirit-Fusion Mountain.
• Yang Huai entered seclusion with ten measures of Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Sky to build his pill foundation and prepare for the Heart Demon Trial.

Yang Huai cultivated with Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Sky stalks while nurturing a spirit crane egg, bringing his pill qi close to great perfection. When Jiang Rongyue lost a sword duel to Fairy Xianle, Jiang Yuexin asked Yang Huai whether he could break Xianle’s Four Divine Beasts Sword Formation.

• Yang Huai planted Jadeite Jade Bamboo and other rare plants around the mountain while Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue added spirit herbs of their own.
• Yang Huai consumed Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Sky stalks to strengthen his pill qi and balance his essence, qi, and spirit, while nurturing a spirit crane egg with the Azure Dragon Treasure Pearl.
• After two months, Yang Huai approached great perfection in the pill qi realm but delayed breaking through to refine the remaining spiritual influences in his cultivation.
• Jiang Rongyue fought Fairy Xianle after Xianle’s pangolin spirit beast ate Jiang Rongyue’s spirit herbs, but Xianle’s Four Divine Beasts Sword Formation forced Jiang Rongyue to concede.
• Fairy Xianle offered to compensate Jiang Rongyue with Essence Origin Pills, but Jiang Rongyue refused, and Jiang Yuexin asked Yang Huai whether he could break Xianle’s sword formation.

Yang Huai helped Jiang Rongyue understand how to fuse her divine beast secret arts, then watched his mutant spirit crane hatch and grow. He entered seclusion to establish his Dan foundation, overcame the inner demons of the breakthrough, and drew down auspicious clouds and a golden spiritual fruit that astonished Pure Origin Sect cultivators.

• Yang Huai demonstrated a nine-colored sword intent and advised Jiang Rongyue to fuse her Phoenix Nirvana Treasure Canon with the Myriad Mysteries Return-to-Origin Scripture to break through the Four Elements Sword Formation.
• A mutant spirit crane hatched in Yang Huai's cave, and he fed it a Yellow Sprout Pill before it fell asleep.
• The spirit crane grew rapidly, attracted other immortal cranes to Spirit-Fusion Peak, and was cared for by Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue.
• Yang Huai prepared Jade Pure Talismans, announced that he was entering seclusion, and began the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register's Dan foundation breakthrough.
• Yang Huai endured inner demons and external demonic influence while holding his Dao heart steady and using the Suiren Spirit Aspect to dispel the inner demons.
• A beam of golden light burst from Yang Huai's dantian, drawing auspicious clouds from ten thousand miles away and forming a golden spiritual fruit that stunned Pure Origin Sect cultivators.

Yang Huai overcame his inner demons and formed his Pill Foundation, producing the Myriad Swords Pay Homage phenomenon and strengthening his divine beast secret arts. After celebrating with Daoist Guangrong, Jiang Yuexin, and Jiang Rongyue, he chose to continue reading scriptures and building his Dao heart before making further plans.

• Yang Huai controlled his pill qi, saw through his inner demons, and formed an Origin Pill that greatly strengthened his divine sense and magical power.
• The Pure Origin Sect disciples and elders witnessed Yang Huai's vast auspicious clouds, four divine beast phantoms, and Myriad Swords Pay Homage phenomenon.
• Yang Huai emerged from seclusion, received congratulations from Daoist Guangrong, Jiang Yuexin, and Jiang Rongyue, and named the yellow crane Gaga.
• Yang Huai explained his understanding of Dao heart cultivation and told Daoist Guangrong he wanted to continue transmitting scriptures rather than seek experience elsewhere.
• Daoist Guangrong advised Yang Huai to study the sect's Dao heart secret arts, and Yang Huai later returned to the scripture hall after mastering his new Origin Pill power.
• At night, Yang Huai sat with the Junting Ancient Sword and sent his consciousness through the azure radiance in his sea of consciousness.

Yang Huai awakened as Jin Chong, the favored young lord of the powerful Five Luminaries Tribe, and considered how to fulfill Jin Chong’s wishes while using his privileged position to advance his cultivation. He summoned two prominent young warriors and asked whether strange beasts lived in nearby hunting grounds, hoping to study a Nine-Colored Deer and break through a cultivation bottleneck.

• Yang Huai examined Jin Chong’s status, bloodline, destiny, and two wishes, then decided that becoming the tribe’s foremost warrior should be easy given his position as heir.
• Yang Huai learned from Sui Yun that Jin Zheng and Huo Du were among the strongest young warriors in the tribe and summoned them to meet him.
• Yang Huai reflected on the Five Luminaries Tribe’s complete ancient god inheritance and considered combining its methods with other body-refining arts.
• Jin Zheng and Huo Du arrived and saluted Yang Huai, who asked whether nearby hunting grounds held strange beasts such as Nine-Colored Deer, black tortoises, or qilin.

Yang Huai ordered Jin Zheng and Huo Du to hunt Heaven-and-Earth spirit beasts, then focused on cultivating the Western Metal Body Refining Scripture and cleansing the Earth Sha from his body. As sinister winds and ghostly roars gathered around the Five Luminaries Tribe at night, Yang Huai was interrupted from meditation.

• Yang Huai told Jin Zheng and Huo Du to capture or kill spirit beasts while preserving their warriors’ lives, and promised them rewards.
• Yang Huai returned to his residence, reviewed the tribe’s secret arts, and chose the Western Metal Body Refining Scripture over the Heavenly Dipper Indestructible Body.
• Yang Huai absorbed innate golden spirit power, opened more than a hundred mysterious acupoints, and began purifying his body of Earth Sha.
• Jin Zheng and Huo Du prepared hunting parties, while Jin Zheng’s men agreed to search for Qilin and Nine-Colored Deer in exchange for the promised rewards.
• At night, sinister winds and the roars of ghosts and gods drifted toward the Five Luminaries Tribe and disturbed Yang Huai’s meditation.

Yang Huai found an Innate Metal-Spirit Origin Pearl in a tribal refuse pile, but its hidden stone-demon soul killed a patrol captain before Sui Yun destroyed it with kindling fire. Later, at the scripture hall, Yang Huai faced Xianle’s challenge and demonstrated that she could not draw her sword against him before entering the hall.

• Yang Huai found an Innate Metal-Spirit Origin Pearl among discarded clam shells, and a concealed stone-demon remnant attacked him.
• The remnant killed a patrol captain, but Sui Yun trapped it in flaming chains and burned it away with kindling fire.
• Yang Huai ordered the dead warrior buried and his family cared for by the tribe, while Sui Yun strengthened the patrols.
• At the scripture hall, Xianle challenged Yang Huai to a match over his role in helping Jiang Rongyue break her sword formation.
• Yang Huai made Xianle’s sword refuse to leave its sheath, then passed through the newly opened scripture hall gates as onlooking Daoists watched.

Yang Huai received an invitation to the Sword Immortal Feast and obtained the final two divine beast inheritances, completing the set needed for his Pure Origin Myriad Mysteries Six Divine Art. In the Five Luminaries Tribe, he began crafting spiritwood cores and was summoned by the suspicious chief, his father in this body.

• Fang Ge invited Yang Huai to the Sword Immortal Feast at White Jade Mountain Sword Gate Cave, where the Ninefold Sword Stele would be opened on the fifteenth day of next month.
• Daoist Guangrong approved Yang Huai's request for the remaining inheritances and took him to the Patriarch Hall, where Yang Huai obtained the qilin and dark tortoise inheritances.
• Yang Huai returned to the Five Luminaries Tribe, gathered spiritwood to pass down a craft for resisting wilderness spirits, and cultivated with the Innate Metal-Spirit Origin Pearl.
• A tribal guard summoned Yang Huai to meet the chief, while powerful attendants watched Jin Chong with suspicion; Yang Huai anticipated the scrutiny and remained unconcerned.

Yang Huai convinced the Five Luminaries Demon God that he had received a Supreme God’s inheritance and continued cultivating the Western Metal Body Refining Scripture. When Jin Zheng returned with a Black Jade Qilin, the beast and a warrior named Black Fang attacked Yang Huai, revealing a powerful evil entity.

• Yang Huai told the Five Luminaries Demon God and the Great High Priest that the Divine Maiden of West Kunlun had granted him a new cultivation method suited to his Innate Origin Spirit Dao Womb physique.
• The Five Luminaries Demon God accepted the story, urged Yang Huai to cultivate diligently, and arranged for masters to teach him while advising him to stay indoors.
• Yang Huai cultivated the Western Metal Body Refining Scripture, strengthening his essence, qi, and spirit as innate metal-spirit patterns spread through his body.
• Jin Zheng returned from Bright Marsh Valley with a captured Black Jade Qilin, and Yang Huai promised medical care and rewards to the injured hunting-party warriors.
• The Black Jade Qilin fired a crimson beam at Yang Huai as Black Fang attacked him with a bone blade; Yang Huai struck Black Fang down, and a savage evil entity burst from his body and lunged at Yang Huai.

Yang Huai subdued the Black Jade Qilin, captured a Nine-Colored Deer, and advanced his divine beast inheritances while preparing for the coming Sword Immortal Feast. The chapter ended when a beautiful woman with a spiritual halo confronted him in his stone hall about his wooden carvings.

• Yang Huai destroyed the evil entity that had possessed Black Fang, then forced the Black Jade Qilin to submit and bound it with a secret art.
• Yang Huai forgave Jin Zheng for his negligence but revoked his reward, then suspected someone had sent the evil entity to kill him.
• Huo Du returned with a living Nine-Colored Deer, which Yang Huai subdued to study its inheritance.
• Half a month later, Yang Huai reached Great Perfection in the Myriad Mysteries Return-to-Origin Scripture and continued progressing with the Five Scales Origin-Rejoining Formula.
• As the Sword Immortal Feast approached, Yang Huai cultivated in the Five Luminaries Tribe and Longmen Mountain grew busy with guests invited by Master Jiufang.
• A beautiful woman with a spiritual halo entered Yang Huai's stone hall, noticed his wooden carvings, and asked why Jin Chong had hidden away to make them.

Yang Huai accepted a Ruyi Longevity Lock from Princess Xingya and made her a set of wooden grooming items in return. After she left, he assessed his slow cultivation progress and resolved to attend the Sword Immortal Feast to seek rare treasures.

• Princess Xingya gave Yang Huai a Ruyi Longevity Lock made to suppress some of his curse and misfortune, and he found that it cleared his sea of consciousness.
• Yang Huai crafted Princess Xingya a wooden comb, a dressing mirror, and a dressing box, which she delightedly accepted before returning to the Roushou Tribe at her attendants' urging.
• Princess Xingya's attendants noticed Yang Huai had changed his main cultivation technique, and she ordered them to investigate rather than speculate.
• Yang Huai used up his final three Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Skies and concluded that completing the Pill Foundation realm would still take years without further resources.
• Yang Huai decided he needed the Three Stars Illuminating the Body Destiny and resolved to attend the Sword Immortal Feast to compete for rare spiritual treasures.

Yang Huai completed the third level of the Pure Origin Dharma Body and traveled with Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue to the White Jade Mountain Gathering. After Yan Ying claimed the first prize without fighting, Daoist Guangrong urged Yang Huai to compete for the next one, the Grand Origin Treasure Seal.

• Yang Huai manifested the Innate Golden God Body and considered how its power would strengthen him in battle.
• Yang Huai rode Gaga to the White Jade Mountain Gathering with Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue, where they found Li Hong and Fang Ge at a contest.
• Yan Ying challenged Li Hong for a Heart-Calming Pendant, and Li Hong yielded it to him.
• Jiang Rongyue told Yang Huai that Yan Ying was one of the Pure Origin Sect's five Dao Sons and described another Dao Son who had mastered the Six Divine Beasts Secret Art.
• Fairy Guangzhen offered her Grand Origin Treasure Seal as the next prize, and Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai to compete for it because it held a stroke of fortune.

Yang Huai defeated Yan Ying to claim the Grand Origin Treasure Seal, revealing his third-level Innate Golden God Body. When the Ninefold Sword Stele was reopened, Yang Huai sensed that the ancient sword it became had a sword spirit calling to him for help.

• Yan Ying challenged Yang Huai for the Grand Origin Treasure Seal, and Fang Ge allowed them to compete for it.
• Yang Huai manifested his Innate Golden God Body and crushed Yan Ying’s attack, forcing him to yield.
• Fang Ge awarded the Grand Origin Treasure Seal to Yang Huai after no one else stepped forward to challenge him.
• Daoist Guangrong warned Yang Huai that he had exposed a trump card, but Yang Huai said winning the seal had spared them further trouble.
• Master Jiufang and the elders reopened the Ninefold Sword Stele, which transformed into a nine-colored ancient sword covered in golden script.
• Yang Huai sensed that the stele’s ancient sword spirit was calling to him for help.

Yang Huai comprehended the Chonghua Sect’s Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art while the Pure Origin Sect attacked the Ninefold Sword Stele to destroy the imprisoned Spirit Demon Emperor. The demon escaped the collapsing seal as a wisp of black qi and invaded Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness, demanding his body.

• Yang Huai ignored the sword spirit’s request to open his sea of consciousness, while Dao Ningzi told him to steady his mind and taught him a talisman and secret incantation.
• The Ninefold Sword Stele revealed twelve sword-intent inheritances, and Yang Huai rapidly comprehended them, forming the Chonghua Orb above his head.
• Master Jiufang and the Pure Origin Sect elders used their sword formation and the Violet Palace Divine Flame to attack the Spirit Demon Emperor inside the Ninefold Sword Stele.
• The Spirit Demon Emperor’s attack was drawn into Master Jiufang’s golden cauldron, but the divine fire blasted a fissure in the formation as the sword prison collapsed.
• A wisp of the Spirit Demon Emperor’s black qi escaped and entered Yang Huai’s heart and sea of consciousness, demanding his body.

Yang Huai trapped the Spirit Demon Emperor’s remnant soul and, with the Pure Origin Sect’s help, refined it into spiritual nourishment while receiving a wisp of Violet Palace Divine Flame. After the sect claimed the Ninefold Sword Stele and prepared to leave, Yang Huai awoke stronger, with the mysteries of the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register becoming clearer.

• Yang Huai used a true talisman and secret incantation to trap the Spirit Demon Emperor’s remnant soul inside a golden cauldron.
• Jiu Fang, Dao Ningzi, and Zhao Zhenwu joined forces to seal the remnant soul, and the Violet Palace Divine Flame refined it within Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness.
• Yang Huai concealed his soul from the Spirit Demon Emperor, then refined the spiritual energy left behind into his own cultivation.
• Jiu Fang left a spark of Violet Palace Divine Flame in Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness, where his Sui Sovereign Lamp received it and burned away stray thoughts.
• Jiu Fang claimed the Ninefold Sword Stele’s ancient sword and bestowed it upon Fang Ge as the Pure Origin Sect prepared to return to Longmen Mountain.
• Yang Huai awoke after refining the spiritual nourishment, finding his life essence and magic power greatly increased.

Yang Huai returned to Huangshan County to visit his parents, then went back to the Five Luminaries Tribe and investigated who could control evil entities. After learning no nearby practitioner was known for such arts, he began planning to sell evil-suppressing artifacts and asked whether First-Yang Mountain was near Sun Luminary Valley.

• Yang Huai stored the Purple Mansion divine fire and reviewed the Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art before flying to Huangshan County to spend time with his parents and Yang Huan.
• Yang Huai asked the High Priest whether anyone could control evil entities, and the High Priest warned that such arts were dangerous and said the Five Luminaries Tribe had no practitioner of them.
• Yang Huai met Jin Xin, sensed hostility from his elder brother, and considered whether Jin Xin might be connected to the hidden threat.
• Jin Zheng reported that the wooden evil-suppressing artifacts had protected his hunting party, and Yang Huai planned to reward warriors and build a trade in the artifacts.
• Yang Huai learned Huo Du had been searching for qi refiners and asked whether First-Yang Mountain was near Sun Luminary Valley.