Recaps

After entering Sun-Awakening Upper Peak, Chen Lingxi returned to Sun-Watching Peak with the Clear Origin Zhi Herb and planned to visit the Dragon-Offering main sect. While replenishing his Dao Origin with an Immortal Husk, he was struck by a vision of Yangjue Peak Lord discovering the treasure and calling it a great opportunity.

• Elder Liu Zhi met Chen Lingxi, gave him the Clear Origin Zhi Herb, and told him to return it to Azure Pool Peak.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Sun-Watching Peak, assured its disciples they would no longer be provoked, and asked Zhu Qingjian to write to Azure Pool Peak.
• Chen Lingxi considered visiting the Dragon-Offering main sect to see the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking and began replenishing his Dao Origin with the Immortal Husk.
• A tiny sun appeared above Sun-Watching Peak, and Yangjue Peak Lord noticed the Immortal Husk before Chen Lingxi fell into darkness.
• Chen Lingxi awoke in a vision beside Wang Chenchuan beneath the tiny sun as Yangjue Peak Lord held a flood dragon and called the Immortal Husk a great opportunity.

Chen Lingxi awoke from the Cauldron Vessel’s illusion, only to face Liu Zhi’s attack and the Yangjue Peak Master’s pursuit of his Immortal Husk. A saber-bearing woman from the Dragon-Offering Sect’s main sect intervened, learned Chen Lingxi possessed an Immortal Husk, and ordered him confined until a True Person arrived.

• Chen Lingxi realized the Cauldron Vessel had trapped him in an illusion and revealed his Immortal Husk to the Yangjue Peak Master.
• Liu Zhi attacked Chen Lingxi with Mystic Light while the Yangjue Peak Master watched.
• A saber-bearing woman from the main sect shattered Liu Zhi’s attack and declared that she had come to retrieve the Zhongmiao Dao Opportunity, which she believed was with Chen Lingxi.
• The Yangjue Peak Master bowed to the woman and let Chen Lingxi go, then told her through divine sense that Chen Lingxi possessed an Immortal Husk.
• The woman ordered Chen Lingxi suppressed in the Void-Locking Formation and held until a True Person arrived.

Chen Lingxi was taken from Yangjue Peak to the Dragon-Offering Sect after True Person Yu Jun confirmed he bore an Immortal Husk opportunity, then awoke in a vision as a disciple of Deer-Sleeping Peak. He realized the Total Perception Divine Chamber had not ended and wondered whether his new memories came from the Cauldron Vessel or a great divine ability.

• Chen Lingxi reflected on his three-day Total Perception while trapped in a formation guarded by Elder Mo Ge.
• True Person Yu Jun arrived, shattered the formation, and carried Chen Lingxi and Chu Yichan to the Dragon-Offering Sect.
• At the sect's main hall, True Person Yu Jun told seven seated figures that Chen Lingxi bore an Immortal Husk opportunity, and the leading figure caused him to faint with a gesture.
• Chen Lingxi awoke beside Junior Sister Lingyu, who told him he had slept for two days and recalled that he was a Deer-Sleeping Peak disciple recovering from a lightning backlash.
• Chen Lingxi recognized that the Twin Luminous Mirrors remained overhead and concluded that the Total Perception Divine Chamber had not ended.

Chen Lingxi traced his fabricated memories of Deer-Sleeping Peak to the Cauldron Vessel Fate-Evolving Purple Radiance and decided to use the false identity to his advantage. True Person Xiang Shu appointed him as Deer-Sleeping Peak’s future successor, but Chen Lingxi remained wary of the master who had altered his memories.

• Chen Lingxi used the Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree to identify the source of his added memories as the Cauldron Vessel Fate-Evolving Purple Radiance, which could construct false memories, truths, and illusions.
• Chen Lingxi learned that the purple radiance had made him forget what happened in Weiji Grotto-Heaven and given him fabricated memories of becoming True Person Xiang Shu’s disciple.
• Yuan Lingyu invited Chen Lingxi to her cave abode for a meal, and Chen Lingxi agreed before heading to meet his master.
• True Person Xiang Shu told Chen Lingxi to cultivate a second Divine Ability and refine a divine ability spiritual item, and promised protection for Sun-Watching Peak.
• True Person Xiang Shu said his lifespan was nearly over and entrusted Chen Lingxi with becoming Deer-Sleeping Peak’s future peak master, while Chen Lingxi concealed his suspicion of the master’s motives.

Chen Lingxi used a Dao-Seizing Fruit to merge the spiritual opportunity of Fate-Evolving Purple Radiance into himself, preserving his clarity against the Cauldron Vessel illusion. When Chu Yichan’s divine ability trapped him in purple radiance, he resisted its altered memories and awoke to someone greeting him.

• During his ten-day Total Perception, Chen Lingxi saw True Person Xiang Shu grant him treasures and Shen Xiu'an offer him a protective Sword Talisman, then recognized that the Cauldron Vessel had rewritten their memories.
• After the Total Perception ended, Chen Lingxi chose the Fate-Evolving Purple Radiance spiritual opportunity and used a Dao-Seizing Fruit to gain resistance to its illusions.
• Returning to the moment he reached Sun-Awakening Upper Peak, Chen Lingxi realized the Sun Cauldron Vessel had trapped him in an illusion and decided to endure until Chu Yichan arrived.
• Chu Yichan appeared and struck Chen Lingxi with a great divine ability, drawing him into the purple radiance of Fate-Evolving Purple Radiance.
• Chen Lingxi remained lucid as the Cauldron Vessel’s fabricated scenes faded, and he heard someone cry, “Senior Brother, you’re awake?”

After recovering from his lightning injuries at Deer-Sleeping Peak, Chen Lingxi received a divine ability jade from True Person Xiang Shu and a sword talisman and Immortal Veneration Stone from Shen Xiu'an. When Yuan Lingyu summoned him to witness the Dragon-Offering Main Sect’s triennial Cauldron Manifestation, he saw the sect’s Dao-Mystic Spirit Stele and the strength gathered at the Heaven-Nurturing Hall.

• Yuan Lingyu arranged a new waterfall cave abode for Chen Lingxi, gave him a Life-Nourishing Pill and two spirit plants, and asked him to help with her cultivation questions.
• Chen Lingxi hid the Immortal Husk in his Divine Chamber and recovered from his injuries by cultivating in the cave’s dense spiritual qi.
• True Person Xiang Shu gave Chen Lingxi a Divine Ability Jade, and Shen Xiu'an gave him a Sword Talisman and an Immortal Veneration Stone.
• After Chen Lingxi healed, Yuan Lingyu invited him to the Heaven-Nurturing Hall for the Dragon-Offering Main Sect’s Cauldron Manifestation.
• Chen Lingxi saw the Dao-Mystic Spirit Stele and the many Dao Foundation cultivators gathered at the hall, including Yan Shu and Shen Xiu'an.

Chen Lingxi studied the opportunities revealed by the Dao-Mystic Spirit Stele, then began trying to cultivate the Great Divine Ability Heavenly-Law Edict. His contemplation was interrupted when Cheng Shuangtian arrived at Deer-Sleeping Peak seeking the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection, and Shen Xiu'an looked toward Chen Lingxi.

• Chen Lingxi saw the Spirit Stele reveal the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection and a broken sword, but judged both too dangerous to pursue for now.
• Chen Lingxi tried to refine the Heaven-Square Cauldron and comprehend Heavenly-Law Edict, but found the Great Divine Ability too obscure to grasp.
• After several quiet days of cultivation, Chen Lingxi saw the Divine Deer blaze with light as Cheng Shuangtian and Lian Sheng appeared above Deer-Sleeping Peak.
• Cheng Shuangtian told Shen Xiu'an that he had come to seek the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection for Lian Sheng and had enlisted Chu Zhuo's help.
• Shen Xiu'an looked through the clouds toward Chen Lingxi after Cheng Shuangtian asked which disciple he intended to support.

Chen Lingxi accompanied Shen Xiu'an as he faced Cheng Shuangtian over the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection, and Shen refused to yield the opportunity. After Chu Zhuo arrived to challenge Shen, Lian Sheng called on Chen Lingxi to exchange pointers, and Chen accepted.

• Shen Xiu'an introduced Chen Lingxi as his junior brother, and Cheng Shuangtian offered a Star-Pond Formation Disk in exchange for Shen abandoning the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection.
• Shen Xiu'an refused Cheng Shuangtian's offer and challenged him to compete for the opportunity by strength.
• Cheng Shuangtian threatened future conflict and revealed that Chu Zhuo would assist him, prompting Shen Xiu'an to suppress him and Lian Sheng with his sword-path divine ability.
• Chu Zhuo arrived on a giant treasured sword and challenged Shen Xiu'an to test whose sword path was superior; Shen agreed to meet him at the opportunity site.
• Lian Sheng publicly asked Chen Lingxi to exchange pointers, and Chen Lingxi accepted despite Yuan Lingyu's warning.

Chen Lingxi accepted Lian Sheng’s challenge and overwhelmed him with powerful arts, a sword strike, and a devastating finger technique. After Shen Xiu'an stopped Lian Sheng from using a trump card, Chen Lingxi revealed an even sharper sword intent, and Lian Sheng admitted defeat.

• Chen Lingxi accepted Lian Sheng’s challenge despite Yuan Lingyu’s worry and Shen Xiu'an’s silence.
• Lian Sheng attacked with Illusory Birth, the Jade Tiger of Hidden Mechanism, and several linked great arts, but Chen Lingxi destroyed or stopped each assault.
• Chen Lingxi used the Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye, the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword, and his Great Sage Treasure Form to strike Lian Sheng into the sea of clouds.
• Lian Sheng rose again and prepared to unleash the Jade Tiger’s trump-card power, but Shen Xiu'an warned him against using life-saving reserves in a spar.
• Chen Lingxi’s sword intent froze Lian Sheng in place, and Lian Sheng acknowledged that Chen Lingxi had not used his full strength and conceded defeat.

Chen Lingxi defeated Lian Sheng with the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light, then learned about the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking from Yuan Lingyu. After two immortals from Great Luo Heaven passed over Deer-Sleeping Peak, a dragon’s Mystic Light selected Chen Lingxi to enter the Dragon-Offering Sect’s main sect.

• Chen Lingxi defeated Lian Sheng, prompting Cheng Shuangtian to concede the contest and carry his disciple away.
• Shen Xiu'an praised Chen Lingxi before vanishing, and Yuan Lingyu invited Chen Lingxi to celebrate at her cave dwelling.
• Yuan Lingyu explained how the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking could grant a spiritual opportunity to temper Chen Lingxi’s Dao Platform and nourish his Profound Root.
• A powerful immortal carriage passed overhead carrying two visitors from Great Luo Heaven, and Chen Lingxi resisted their innate pressure as they traveled toward the main sect.
• A true-dragon phantom spread Mystic Light across the Dragon-Offering Sect, and one strand landed on Chen Lingxi as a heavenly edict summoned everyone illuminated by the light to the main sect.

Chen Lingxi traveled to the Dragon-Offering main sect after Mystic Light marked him, where a Great Luo Heavenly Immortal chose him as an Entwined-Dragon Servitor. True Person Xiang Shu challenged the choice, and Chen Lingxi resisted the Dragon Palace prince’s attempt to sway him before leaving with the prince’s Dragon Origin to study.

• Yuan Lingyu told Chen Lingxi that Mystic Light marked people chosen by fate to meet the Great Luo Heavenly Immortals, and Chen Lingxi suspected it might be another Cauldron Vessel before setting out for the main sect.
• At the Origin Peak Mountain Main Hall, Chen Lingxi joined the other three people selected by Mystic Light and met True Person Yu Jun, seven powerful figures, and the two Great Luo Heavenly Immortals.
• The male Great Luo Heavenly Immortal chose Chen Lingxi as his Entwined-Dragon Servitor and offered him a jade-green Dao Origin, but True Person Xiang Shu objected, saying Chen Lingxi was his disciple and had been designated to inherit the dragon molt at Deer-Sleeping Peak.
• The Dragon Palace prince tempted Chen Lingxi with a Cauldron Vessel opportunity, the Mysterious Void Dao Fruit, and a Young Dragon Bloodline, but the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage’s power broke the influence and Chen Lingxi refused to agree.
• The Dragon Palace prince gave Chen Lingxi the Dragon Origin to study before True Person Xiang Shu told him to leave, and Chen Lingxi departed with the Dao Origin tucked into his sleeve.

Chen Lingxi examined the Dragon Origin and learned from True Person Xiang Shu that he must refuse to become an Entwined-Dragon Servant, though his master would not explain why. Using the Dragon Origin as a possible link, Chen Lingxi successfully activated Sight-Roaming on Chan Zhaofu.

• Yuan Lingyu visited Chen Lingxi, who concealed the Dragon Origin he had obtained from the Entwined-Dragon Palace immortal until she left.
• Chen Lingxi examined the Dragon Origin and sensed that its living aura was unlike ordinary Dao Origin and at odds with his lightning arts.
• True Person Xiang Shu summoned Chen Lingxi, warned him never to become an Entwined-Dragon Servant, and promised to protect him without explaining his reasons.
• Chen Lingxi learned that the Sixth Entwined-Dragon Crown Prince was named Chan Zhaofu and returned to Water-Curtain Cave with the Dragon Origin.
• Chen Lingxi used the Dragon Origin and Chan Zhaofu's name to activate the third Sight-Roaming slot, and his consciousness was drawn into its golden light.

Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming through Chan Zhaofu to observe a true dragon and replaced his blurred visualization of the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage with the dragon. He completed the Palace-Building Realm of the True Edict of Audience with the Dao, gained the Dragon Transformation mystery, and left determined to cultivate his second Great Divine Ability.

• Chen Lingxi watched Chan Zhaofu visualize a vast true dragon and memorized its appearance and energy circulation.
• After returning from Sight-Roaming, Chen Lingxi spent more than ten days visualizing the dragon as his bodily essence and qi transformed.
• Chen Lingxi broke through to the Palace-Building Realm by visualizing the true dragon in his Inner Divine Palace and gained the Dragon Transformation mystery.
• Chen Lingxi assessed his combat abilities and spirit artifacts, including Thunder-Prison Heaven, the Void-Return Sword Tower, and Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light.
• Chen Lingxi decided to pursue the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and entered seclusion to cultivate the Heavenly-Law Edict Great Divine Ability.

Chen Lingxi sought Yuan Lingyu’s guidance on the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking, hoping its spiritual inspiration would help him comprehend the Heavenly-Law Edict. He summoned the ranking at the Dragon-Offering Main Sect, where ten ranked cultivators’ Dao Origin projections appeared before him.

• After a month of studying the Heavenly-Law Edict without progress, Chen Lingxi remembered the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking and sought Yuan Lingyu’s advice.
• Yuan Lingyu explained that Dao Foundation cultivators could summon the ranking before the true dragon statue and compete against its projection, and she shared a revelation from her Fate-Knowing Cicada about Great Luo Heaven consolidating the Nine Towers.
• Chen Lingxi invited Yuan Lingyu to accompany him to the Dragon-Offering Main Sect, where he paid homage to the true dragon statue and caused the ranking to appear.
• Chen Lingxi recognized Lian Sheng’s Dao Origin among the traces on the ranking, while Yuan Lingyu identified Zhu Mi’s fiery Dao Origin as belonging to the sect’s strongest First Profound cultivator.
• Ten figures formed from the ranking’s Dao Origin and looked down at Chen Lingxi, including a projection resembling Lian Sheng.

Chen Lingxi challenged the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking after Yuan Ji declared that he and the other ranked cultivators would not let him join. He shattered their combined Divine Abilities with one strike of the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light, drawing the attention of Zhu Mi and Xu Sanchi.

• Yuan Lingyu told Chen Lingxi about the ranking, and Lian Sheng recognized him as the senior who had defeated him.
• Yuan Ji insisted that the ten ranked cultivators controlled entry and attacked Chen Lingxi with several other ranked figures.
• Chen Lingxi stepped forward and unleashed the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light from the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword.
• Chen Lingxi's sword light shattered the attackers' Divine Abilities and cleaved Liu Tongqing's phantom willow in two.
• Zhu Mi and Xu Sanchi reacted to Chen Lingxi's power, and Xu Sanchi recognized the sword technique.

Chen Lingxi entered the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking and defeated its golden avatar after it tested him with powerful Divine Abilities. The ranking placed his Dao Origin twenty-ninth, his physical body, Divine Ability, and killing power first, and his aptitude unranked, before his Dao Origin settled onto the One-Mystic Golden Ranking.

• Chen Lingxi broke through Yuan Ji’s attack, entered the Dragon-Transformation Immortal Ranking, and struck down Yuan Ji’s avatar with a golden finger.
• Chen Lingxi faced the ranking’s golden avatar, which tested him with Golden Light Illumination, Great Sun Suspended in the Sky, and Heaven-Cauldron Touch.
• Chen Lingxi combined Dragon Transformation with Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light to shatter the golden avatar.
• The ranking assessed Chen Lingxi’s Dao Origin as twenty-ninth, his physical body, Divine Ability, and killing power as first, and his aptitude as unranked.
• The golden light carried Chen Lingxi’s Dao Origin to the One-Mystic Golden Ranking, where it settled.

Chen Lingxi rose to third on the One-Mystic Ranking and returned to Deer-Sleeping Peak, where three hall masters sent congratulatory gifts. He identified the first two gifts and opened the third jade case, finding a fragment called the Life-Reversing Ruler.

• Chen Lingxi's Dao Origin settled in third place on the One-Mystic Ranking, pushing Yuan Ji and Liu Tongqing down one rank each.
• Qi Chuan and Liang Qiongyu discussed Chen Lingxi's rise and the coming Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror, and Qi Chuan declared that he would remain first among the Second Profound.
• Chen Lingxi and Yuan Lingyu returned to Deer-Sleeping Peak, where disciples and envoys from three halls congratulated him and presented three jade cases.
• Chen Lingxi identified the Discipline Enforcement Hall Master's gift as a Sword-Grinding Stone and used the Opportunity Seeking Hall Master's soil to restore the vitality of the bamboo he had cut from Yellow Luminary Peak.
• Chen Lingxi opened the final case and recognized its broken ruler as a Life-Reversing Ruler, a fragment of a Cauldron Artifact.

Chen Lingxi benefited from the Dragon-Offering Immortal Ranking’s spiritual impetus and spent months cultivating while learning about the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror, which connected the Nine Palaces’ opportunities. As the sect prepared for the competition the mirror would bring, Chen Lingxi continued to deepen his understanding of the Heavenly-Law Edict.

• Chen Lingxi examined the spiritual impetus from the Immortal Ranking and found that it improved his comprehension and cultivation of the Heavenly-Law Edict.
• Chen Lingxi visited the Discipline Enforcement Hall Master and the Opportunity Seeking Hall Master, who offered guidance and supplies for his cultivation and Fengluo Bamboo.
• After three months of Chen Lingxi’s secluded cultivation, Chan Zhaofu spread purple Qi across the Dragon-Offering Sect and announced that Dao affinities and opportunities would converge within the Nine Palaces.
• Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to learn that the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror would connect opportunities across the Nine Palaces and intensify competition among cultivators.
• The Dragon-Offering Sect prepared its peaks and disciples for the changes, while Chen Lingxi continued cultivating and glimpsed the Heavenly Law within his Dao Platform.

Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to witness Chan Zhaofu reveal the Heaven-Viewing Audience Talisman and memorized its design. He recreated the talisman and used it to seek an audience with the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror, which identified him as a rogue cultivator.

• Chen Lingxi’s Sight-Roaming showed him Chan Zhaofu presenting the Heaven-Viewing Audience Talisman to the Dragon-Offering Sect’s leaders and explaining how it would bring the Nine Palaces under the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror.
• Chen Lingxi memorized the talisman’s patterns before his Sight-Roaming ended, then considered how the Great Luo Cauldron Vessel might keep his audience private.
• Chen Lingxi traced the talisman in Dao Origin and activated it, arriving in a place of nothingness before a vast starry sky.
• Chen Lingxi bowed to the ancient presence in the starlight, and the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror displayed, “[Rogue Cultivator Chen Lingxi!]”

Chen Lingxi used the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror to seek ways to master the Heavenly-Law Edict and discovered that it could reveal nearby fortuitous opportunities in exchange for Great Luo Dark Qi. After the Mirror warned that anyone who took such information without making an offering would be struck by lightning, Chen Lingxi considered using Total Perception Evolution to find opportunities without paying.

• Chen Lingxi asked the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror how to overcome obstacles in practicing the Heavenly-Law Edict, and it listed 332 suitable fortuitous opportunities at a cost of 1,800 points of Great Luo Dark Qi.
• Chen Lingxi asked how to obtain Great Luo Dark Qi, and the Mirror revealed opportunities including Mystic Dharma Lingzhi on Yuanmo Mountain, Daoist Zhuwang's remains on Zhuwang Mountain, and Mother Qi on the Chen Clan's Ancestral Mountain.
• Chen Lingxi read more than a hundred opportunities and realized that the Mirror's scrutiny covered the Nine-Towers Land.
• Chen Lingxi wondered if he could claim the listed treasures without offering them, and the Mirror warned that anyone who did so would be struck by lightning.
• Chen Lingxi considered using a Dao-Seizing Fruit to seize the Mirror's Archaic Qi, then wondered whether Total Perception Evolution could reveal opportunities without triggering the Mirror's punishment or consuming Great Luo Dark Qi.

Chen Lingxi completed six Great Luo Dark Qi opportunities in half a month, then returned to Deer-Sleeping Peak to request leave from True Person Xiang Shu. After receiving a protective talisman and sending Yuan Lingyu a letter, he set out to travel.

• Chen Lingxi selected six nearby Great Luo Dark Qi opportunities from the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror and collected a Red-Scaled Flood Dragon's corpse, a Qiemolian, a formation disc, black scrap iron, sunset threads, and a Qilian Spirit Tree.
• Chen Lingxi sacrificed all six treasures with the Heaven-Viewing Audience Talisman and received four hundred and twenty-six strands of Great Luo Dark Qi.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Deer-Sleeping Peak and asked True Person Xiang Shu for leave to travel and seek insight into the Heavenly-Law Edict.
• True Person Xiang Shu approved Chen Lingxi's request and gave him a golden-purple talisman to protect his life if he encountered calamity.
• Chen Lingxi sent Yuan Lingyu a letter explaining that he would travel for an uncertain length of time, then left Water-Curtain Cave.

Over two years, Chen Lingxi gathered nearly thirty thousand strands of great Luo dark Qi while roaming the Nine Palaces, until the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror revealed itself above the land. Returning toward the Dragon-Offering Sect, he found Xi Lan fighting five cultivators and recognized her as an old acquaintance from the Weiji Grotto-Heaven.

• Chen Lingxi spent two years traveling beyond the Dragon-Offering Territory, collecting easy offerings for great Luo dark Qi and refining his Concealed Edge Method.
• Chen Lingxi accumulated twenty-nine thousand four hundred strands of great Luo dark Qi and reached ninety-six percent Perception essence replenishment progress.
• The Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror appeared as an enormous bright mirror above the Nine-Towers Land, revealing itself to cultivators throughout the Nine Palaces.
• Chen Lingxi decided to return to the Dragon-Offering Sect and, several days later, spotted a battle over an unclaimed sea of clouds.
• Chen Lingxi saw Xi Lan fighting five cultivators and recognized her as Xi Yu’s younger sister from the Weiji Grotto-Heaven.

Xi Lan fought five cultivators in the sea of clouds but was overwhelmed by their coordinated attacks. Chen Lingxi secretly killed all five with his Thunder-Wielding Heavenly King Sword Qi, then left without revealing himself while Xi Lan waited in vain for her rescuer to answer.

• Xi Lan used Cloud Pivot to repel the five cultivators’ attacks, but a talisman struck her Consciousness Sea as their strongest fighter summoned the Heaven-Connecting Wheel.
• The Heaven-Connecting Wheel shattered Xi Lan’s defenses, and a middle-aged cultivator seized her while she was exhausted.
• Chen Lingxi recognized Xi Lan and fired a hidden Thunder-Wielding Heavenly King Sword Qi, killing the middle-aged cultivator and freeing her.
• Chen Lingxi struck down the other four cultivators with successive sword lights, including the Dao Platform cultivator as he tried to flee.
• Xi Lan called out to the unseen senior who had saved her, but Chen Lingxi concealed himself and departed without answering.

After returning to the Dragon-Offering Sect, Chen Lingxi saw that Sun-Watching Peak remained peaceful and paid his respects at Liu Changle’s grave before reporting to True Person Xiang Shu. Xiang Shu gave him a new Heaven-Viewing Audience Talisman, leaving Chen Lingxi to wonder whether its sect-identifying marks would reveal his identity or his thirty thousand strands of Great Luo Dark Qi.

• Chen Lingxi reflected on how his good fortune had led him to save Xi Lan, then traveled cautiously back to the Dragon-Offering Territory.
• Chen Lingxi observed Sun-Watching Peak from afar, confirmed its disciples were safe, and visited Liu Changle’s grave.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Deer-Sleeping Peak and noticed that many disciples had left to seek opportunities through the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror.
• True Person Xiang Shu summoned Chen Lingxi, praised the insights he gained while traveling, and gave him a new Heaven-Viewing Audience Talisman containing subtle dark patterns.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Water-Curtain Cave and worried that the new talisman might disclose his identity and his accumulated Great Luo Dark Qi to the sect.

After returning to Deer-Sleeping Peak, Chen Lingxi reunited with Yuan Lingyu and learned she still could not master the Heavenly Calamity Law. Using Wandering Sight, he then watched Chan Zhaofu appoint Zhu Mi and Qi Chuan as Nine Palaces Commanders and reveal that he was gathering Great Luo Dark Qi to obtain a Cauldron Artifact Fortune within half a year.

• Chen Lingxi hesitated to use the new Heaven-Viewing Audience Talisman because it might reveal his twenty-nine thousand four hundred strands of Great Luo Dark Qi.
• Yuan Lingyu visited Chen Lingxi after his two-year absence and gave him two robes she had made from Jade-Carving Silk.
• Yuan Lingyu said she had spent two years trying to find the door to the Heavenly Calamity Law, and Chen Lingxi considered using his Great Luo Dark Qi to help her find a fortuitous opportunity.
• Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to observe Chan Zhaofu appoint Zhu Mi and Qi Chuan as Nine Palaces Commanders, each receiving Dao Origin, a Cauldron Artifact Fragment, and an Entwined-Dragon Palace secret talisman.
• Chan Zhaofu told the female Dragon Palace crown prince that he was gathering Great Luo Dark Qi and expected to have enough within half a year to exchange for the Cauldron Artifact Fortune he wanted.