Recaps

Chen Lingxi questioned Xu Qingru about Yun Jiao, the Great Xuanzhuo Realm, and the powers of Cauldron Vessels, learning that the Taotie Urn was a fragment capable of aiding cultivation. After Xu Qingru offered to fetch it in exchange for her freedom, Chen Lingxi crippled her Qi Sea and sealed her in a concealed cave, planning to investigate her claims later.

• Chen Lingxi interrogated Xu Qingru, who revealed that Yun Jiao had recruited her and Jiang Xing before sealing them in coffins that were used in a formation beneath the Summer River.
• Xu Qingru described the Great Xuanzhuo Realm, its powerful cultivators, and Yun Jiao's control of three prefectures with an army of eighty thousand.
• Xu Qingru explained that Cauldron Vessels could grant powerful abilities and that fragments such as the Taotie Urn could consume sacrifices to aid their masters.
• Xu Qingru offered Chen Lingxi the Taotie Urn, spirit stones, and a precious pill if he let her return to her cave abode.
• Chen Lingxi pierced Xu Qingru's Qi Sea, carried her to a concealed cave, and sealed its entrance with a massive boulder.

Chen Lingxi discovered that Zhong Wuzhu, the Crown Prince’s martial instructor, had led Jade Qi Realm experts to Bridge Mechanism Mountain to search for him. When Zhong exposed Chen and Xi Mu, he attacked Chen with his Jade-Suppressing Treasure Body and secretly sent a signal into the sky, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Chen Lingxi and Xi Mu detected martial artists searching Bridge Mechanism Mountain and learned they were hunting an official slave for the Crown Prince.
• Chen used Xi Mu’s senses to identify Zhong Wuzhu as a Jade Qi Perfection expert, accompanied by one Jade Qi Minor Accomplishment cultivator and two newly advanced Jade Qi cultivators.
• Chen decided he could eliminate the four experts before the Crown Prince arrived, but Zhong noticed Xi Mu’s concealed presence and called out to the watchers.
• Chen revealed himself, and Xi Mu emerged from the mist as Zhong immediately charged Chen in his Jade-Suppressing Treasure Body.
• While attacking, Zhong secretly activated a jade pendant that shattered and sent a faint golden signal soaring into the clouds.

Chen Lingxi and Xi Mu fought Zhong Wuzhu and three other Jade-Qi warriors, killing all four despite their coordinated attacks. As Zhong Wuzhu fell, Crown Prince Ying Chi sensed the deaths and named Chen Lingxi.

• The three Jade-Qi warriors attacked Chen Lingxi and Xi Mu while Zhong Wuzhu charged, but Xi Mu blocked Zhong Wuzhu with an ice wall and chains.
• Chen Lingxi used the Dragon Roar Technique, Qi-Sea Vortex, and his saber to kill the first two Jade-Qi warriors.
• Chen Lingxi evaded the long-saber warrior's ambush, wounded him with a spiritual arrow, and killed him with the Azure Edge Method.
• Xi Mu bound Zhong Wuzhu long enough for Chen Lingxi to break his Jade-Suppressing Treasure Body, strike him with Purple True Treasure Aura, and behead him.
• Ying Chi opened his eyes in the Eastern Palace and shouted Chen Lingxi's name.

Ying Chi discovered that Chen Lingxi had hidden his cultivation and sent Luo Ran and his Purple True Treasure Aura to confront him on Bridge Mechanism Mountain. As Ying Chi attacked Chen Lingxi and Luo Ran fought Xi Mu, Chen Lingxi activated the Heavenlight Treasure-Aspect Talisman and prepared to face the Crown Prince’s next moves.

• Ying Chi watched the battle on Bridge Mechanism Mountain through his treasure ring, learned that Chen Lingxi had reached the Qi Circulation Fifth Floor, and used the Purple True Treasure Bottle to empower his incarnation.
• Ying Chi’s incarnation confronted Chen Lingxi, recognized Xi Mu as a puppet of the Quexing Xi Family, and admitted he was stalling for his contingency to arrive.
• Luo Ran arrived and attacked Xi Mu while Ying Chi’s empowered incarnation struck Chen Lingxi with a fist of Purple True Treasure Aura.
• Chen Lingxi evaded the blow and activated the Heavenlight Treasure-Aspect Talisman, strengthening his defenses before challenging Ying Chi to defeat him in three moves.

Chen Lingxi used the Heavenlight Treasure-Aspect to defeat and destroy Ying Chi’s spirit-light incarnation, then helped Xi Mu kill Luo Ran. With the Crown Prince now aware of his strength, Chen Lingxi planned to flee to Southern Lu Prefecture, but two unseen visitors arrived outside his cave.

• Chen Lingxi smashed Ying Chi’s attacks, beat his incarnation into the ground, and destroyed its head, then absorbed the scattered Purple True Treasure Aura.
• Luo Ran tried to escape after seeing Ying Chi’s defeat, but Xi Mu trapped her in an ice prison; she used the Profound-Pointing Sword Furnace to sever Xi Mu’s arm.
• Chen Lingxi broke through the ice prison and killed Luo Ran with a punch, while his Gold-Slaughtering Saber was shattered by her sword-light.
• Chen Lingxi took Luo Ran’s Hongdong Bag and Sword Qi ring, then decided to leave Bridge Mechanism Mountain and hide in Nanju Twelve Mountains in Southern Lu Prefecture.
• Chen Lingxi returned to his cave to gather formation materials, but two people arrived outside without him sensing them.

Xiao Zhushan brought Xiao Taozhuo to Bridge Mechanism Mountain after sensing a battle involving Zhong Wuzhu, then confronted Chen Lingxi in his cave. Recognizing Xiao Zhushan as the powerful swordsman from Inlaid Gold Mountain, Chen Lingxi heard him propose a deal to kill the Crown Prince together.

• Xiao Zhushan warned Xiao Taozhuo about the danger of traveling near the capital, but she insisted her Golden Body cultivation made her strong enough to face its young martial artists.
• Xiao Zhushan sensed a pillar of blood and qi rising from a distant mountain, identified Zhong Wuzhu, and went to kill the Crown Prince's foremost martial master.
• After a thunderous battle, Xiao Zhushan returned and told Xiao Taozhuo to come with him to meet someone.
• Chen Lingxi sensed an overwhelming presence approaching his cave and prepared the Xi Yu Talisman, but the Undying Willow Puppet failed to notice the visitor.
• Xiao Zhushan and Xiao Taozhuo entered Chen Lingxi's cave, where Chen recognized Xiao Zhushan as the swordsman from Inlaid Gold Mountain.
• Xiao Zhushan told Chen Lingxi he had come to make a deal, then proposed that they kill the Crown Prince together, stunning Xiao Taozhuo.

Xiao Zhushan invited Chen Lingxi to help assassinate the Crown Prince, and Chen Lingxi demonstrated his power when Xiao Taozhuo tested him. After resupplying Xu Qingru and cultivating in the Nanju Twelve Mountains, Chen Lingxi identified Luo Ran’s Sword Qi ring as a magic artifact called the Profound-Pointing Sword Furnace.

• Xiao Zhushan told Chen Lingxi that the Crown Prince practiced demonic arts and proposed that they kill him, offering to hold off the demons and provide a divine weapon.
• Xiao Taozhuo pressured Chen Lingxi with her Golden-Soup Blood Qi, but Chen Lingxi’s Dragon Roar Technique overwhelmed her and made her blood qi recoil.
• Xiao Zhushan apologized for Xiao Taozhuo, then left the cave with her; Chen Lingxi considered joining his assassination plan after growing stronger.
• Chen Lingxi bought provisions and water in Yuan River Prefecture City, delivered them to Xu Qingru on Bridge Mechanism Mountain, and traveled to the Nanju Twelve Mountains.
• Five days later, Chen Lingxi cultivated in the Clear-Mystery Pivot-Qi Formation and examined the items he had taken from Luo Ran.
• Chen Lingxi refined Luo Ran’s Sword Qi ring enough to recognize it as a magic artifact named the Profound-Pointing Sword Furnace.

Chen Lingxi reached Qi Circulation Sixth Floor after half a year of seclusion, and his Thorough Awakening Divine Ability transformed to let him use Sight-Roaming. He retrieved the Taotie Urn and declined its offer of the Life Devouring divine ability, then suspected the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi would emerge soon.

• Chen Lingxi refined the Profound-Pointing Sword Furnace and strengthened the Purple True Treasure Aura, then cultivated in Nanju Mountain for several months.
• Chen Lingxi broke through to Qi Circulation Sixth Floor, and his Divine Chamber expanded to eighty li while Thorough Awakening gained the ability to use Sight-Roaming.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Bridge Mechanism Mountain and took Xu Qingru from her cave prison to retrieve the Taotie Urn in Sleeping Sun Prefecture.
• Chen Lingxi abandoned Xu Qingru in Sleeping Sun Prefecture and brought the Taotie Urn to the Eastern King Palace on Inlaid Gold Mountain.
• The Taotie Urn offered Chen Lingxi the Life Devouring divine ability in exchange for one soul, but he withdrew his spiritual qi and stored the urn.
• Chen Lingxi observed the Ancestral Mountain’s thickening, churning mist and concluded that the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi might soon emerge.

Chen Lingxi stole the Demon Banner from the Baosu Marquis Residence, but found he could not refine it and that a living black mist was bound to it. While tracking Lin Suri near the capital, he discovered the Pool-Soul Institute’s plans for an Immortal Husk and learned that the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi would emerge within three days.

• Chen Lingxi watched Lin Suri leave the Baosu Marquis Residence, then slipped into Mysterious Unity Temple and killed its Jade Qi Great Completion old servant with a single strike.
• Chen Lingxi took the Demon Banner, defeated Zhao Qinglou and the other retainers who tried to stop him, and escaped with the banner and its accompanying black mist.
• Chen Lingxi found that the black mist breathed in the Demon Banner’s demonic qi, while his attempts to refine the banner failed.
• Chen Lingxi followed Lin Suri to a river near the capital and saw an Immortal Husk beneath a formation that sent spiritual qi toward the imperial palace.
• Lin Suri’s red-robed Martial Aunt explained that the Pool-Soul Institute planned to use the Immortal Husk to forge a Nine-Transformation Treasure Body, then revealed that the Mother Qi would emerge within three days.
• Chen Lingxi resolved to fight for the Mother Qi.

Chen Lingxi used the Thorough Awakening Divine Ability to visit the Credit Peddler and obtained the Prefect Lord's Demon-Breaking Twenty-Four Mystic Pearls in exchange for a future treasure. He then surveyed Ancestral Mountain ahead of the Mother Qi’s emergence and returned to his cave, where he took out the Taotie Urn.

• Chen Lingxi activated the Thorough Awakening Divine Ability and went to Ancestral Mountain to find the Credit Peddler.
• The Credit Peddler struggled to calculate Chen Lingxi’s many desires, then agreed to trade him a powerful treasure for one thing Chen Lingxi obtained in the future.
• The Credit Peddler gave Chen Lingxi the Prefect Lord's Demon-Breaking Twenty-Four Mystic Pearls, which could help him defeat a Qi Circulation Seventh Floor cultivator but would disappear after use.
• After Chen Lingxi left, the Credit Peddler wondered why the person who needed the Six-Qi True Method had not appeared.
• Chen Lingxi explored Ancestral Mountain for five or six hours, memorizing its terrain before returning to his cave on Inlaid Gold Mountain.
• Chen Lingxi reached into the Universe Bag and took out the Taotie Urn, the Cauldron Artifact Fragment.

Chen Lingxi acquired the Life-Devouring Divine Ability and prepared his treasures while observing the Ancestral Mountain through Lin Suri’s perspective. When the Mother Qi erupted and powerful cultivators and troops rushed toward the mountain, Lin Suri set out to join the contest, and Chen Lingxi prepared to follow his own plan.

• Chen Lingxi sacrificed a soul to the Cauldron Venerable and received the Life-Devouring Divine Ability, then suspected it drew power from the Taotie Urn’s master.
• Chen Lingxi refined the twenty-four Mystic Pearls, confirmed their great power, and gathered his other treasures as preparation to contend for the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi.
• Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to watch Lin Suri activate the Fierce Tiger Token and jade sword and see the Ancestral Mountain’s spiritual energy erupt.
• Lu Baizhong, more than ten other powerful figures, and three hundred Silver Bone soldiers headed for the Ancestral Mountain as dense fog concealed it.
• Lin Suri left the Baosu Marquis Residence and flew toward the Ancestral Mountain, while Chen Lingxi prepared to pursue the struggle for the primordial qi.

Chen Lingxi watched Lin Suri enter Ancestral Mountain’s transformed Cave Heaven, where he killed four Dongchu Immortal Clan cultivators and witnessed Lu Baizhong battling Great Zhou cultivators before a Xi Family expert intervened. After Lin Suri was confronted by three hundred Silver Bones warriors and Chen Lingxi’s Sight-Roaming ended, Chen Lingxi set out to find the injured Lu Baizhong and kill him.

• Lin Suri entered Ancestral Mountain’s vast inner world, where Chen Lingxi recognized its enlarged peaks, suspended Heavenly Lake, and rivers.
• Four Dongchu Immortal Clan cultivators confronted Lin Suri, who killed them with Purple True Treasure Aura and collected their belongings.
• Lin Suri and Chen Lingxi observed Lu Baizhong overpowering two Great Zhou cultivators until a Xi Family cultivator used the Longevity Bridge to turn the fight against him.
• Lu Baizhong escaped into a cave on the third mountain, but Lin Suri pursued him and faced a formation of three hundred Silver Bones warriors.
• After Sight-Roaming ended, Chen Lingxi left the Eastern King Palace to locate the injured Lu Baizhong and planned to kill him.

Chen Lingxi entered Ancestral Mountain’s Cave Heaven and searched the third mountain for Lu Baizhong, whom he found wounded beneath a cliff. After Lu Baizhong sensed him and attacked, Chen Lingxi escaped and hid in a tree on the second mountain, preparing to continue Sight-Roaming.

• Chen Lingxi concealed his spiritual Qi and blood Qi, passed through Ancestral Mountain’s sentient mist, and entered a star-lit Cave Heaven.
• Following the direction he had seen through Lin Suri’s Far-Observation Art, Chen Lingxi searched the third mountain for seven or eight hours.
• Chen Lingxi found Lu Baizhong wounded beneath a secluded cliff, resting inside a small defensive formation, and memorized the location and terrain.
• Lu Baizhong sensed Chen Lingxi and attacked with pale golden lightning, but Chen Lingxi diverted the strike with his Qi-Sea Vortex and fled.
• Chen Lingxi hid in the canopy of a large tree on the second mountain, steadied his aura, and decided to continue Sight-Roaming.

Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to observe Lin Suri refining a strand of Treasure Qi into his Six Qi, then tried and failed to cross Ancestral Mountain’s mist into another realm. He resolved to gather resources, reach the third floor of Heaven Ascension, and leave the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven through the Rebirth Pool.

• Chen Lingxi saw that Lin Suri had recovered enough to use the Qi Observation method and locate a broken sword containing Treasure Qi in the riverbed.
• Lin Suri drew the Treasure Qi from the sword and refined it with the Six-Qi True Method, causing his power and sharpness to surge.
• Chen Lingxi memorized the Treasure Qi’s location and learned that Lin Suri and Lu Baizhong were both lying low while the Mother Qi remained unfound.
• Chen Lingxi traveled to the western edge of Ancestral Mountain and entered the mist, hoping to reach another grotto-heaven or the greater world.
• Chen Lingxi repeatedly crossed the mist but emerged in the same part of Ancestral Mountain each time, confirming that he could not use it to travel elsewhere.
• Chen Lingxi abandoned the escape plan and resolved to seize resources, ascend to the third floor of Heaven Ascension, and leave through the Rebirth Pool.

Chen Lingxi watched Lin Suri survive Consort Chun’s assault, then pass the Myriad Mechanisms' Wondrous Vehicle Formation and claim the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi. As cultivators pursued Lin Suri, Chen Lingxi returned to the forest, concealed himself, and waited for a chance to seize the Mother Qi before Lin Suri refined it.

• Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to watch Lin Suri evade Consort Chun’s attacks as Xi Yuan, Lu Baizhong, Zheng Wuzheng, and other cultivators joined the battle.
• A Spirit-Mechanism Tidal Wave silenced the battlefield, and Chen Lingxi recorded the moment it began, hoping to use it against Consort Chun.
• After the tidal wave receded, Chen Lingxi saw the Heavenly Lake reveal the Myriad Mechanisms' Wondrous Vehicle Formation and its promise of the Spirit-Aperture Physique.
• Lin Suri navigated the formation, obtained the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, and fled as Consort Chun and the other cultivators attacked him.
• Chen Lingxi’s Sight-Roaming ended, and he decided to remain hidden near the Heavenly Lake until he had a chance to take the Mother Qi.

Chen Lingxi discovered that Lin Suri was hiding beneath Heavenly Lake and refining the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, but Xi Yuan forced Lin Suri to flee. Chen Lingxi exposed Consort Chun’s weakened state and provoked the hidden cultivators into attacking her, then escaped toward Lin Suri and Xi Yuan, intent on seizing the Mother Qi briefly.

• Chen Lingxi searched for Lin Suri and found him meditating beneath Heavenly Lake, refining the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi.
• Xi Yuan attacked with his Longevity Bridge, and Lin Suri cut through it with his Two-Foot Jade Sword before fleeing with the Mother Qi as Consort Chun watched from her Heavenly Boat.
• Chen Lingxi used the Qi Observation Method to realize Consort Chun’s strange treasure was recharging and that hidden cultivators were waiting for a chance to attack her.
• Chen Lingxi revealed Consort Chun’s weakened condition with the Dragon-Qi Treasure Talisman and Dragon Roar Technique, prompting Lu Baizhong and other cultivators to join the assault.
• Consort Chun struck at Chen Lingxi, who escaped her divine-sense attack by using the Dragon Roar Technique to break its hold on him.
• Chen Lingxi fled toward Lin Suri and Xi Yuan while Consort Chun became occupied fighting the gathered cultivators.

Chen Lingxi watched Lin Suri and Xi Yuan battle over the Mother Qi, discovering that Xi Yuan had reached Qi Circulation Eighth Floor and that Lin Suri wielded three kinds of Treasure Qi and powerful treasures. When Xi Yuan prepared to kill the badly wounded Lin Suri, Chen Lingxi intervened with the Prefect Lord's Demon-Breaking Twenty-Four Mystic Pearls, forcing Xi Yuan to turn toward him.

• Chen Lingxi followed Lin Suri and Xi Yuan to a mountain peak and realized Xi Yuan had reached Qi Circulation Eighth Floor.
• Lin Suri resisted Xi Yuan's Divine Might and revealed three kinds of Treasure Qi, the Two-Foot Jade Sword, and the Fierce Tiger Token.
• Lin Suri cut apart Xi Yuan's Longevity Bridge and spiritual-light shield, but Xi Yuan's tiny bridge clashed with the jade sword and left Lin Suri badly injured.
• Xi Yuan advanced to kill Lin Suri, while Chen Lingxi decided he could not wait any longer for a chance at the Mother Qi.
• Chen Lingxi revealed the Prefect Lord's Demon-Breaking Twenty-Four Mystic Pearls and attacked Xi Yuan, who turned away from Lin Suri to face him.

Chen Lingxi and Lin Suri fought Xi Yuan, whose Xi Yu Talisman nearly overwhelmed them, until Chen Lingxi revealed his own Xi Yu Talisman and drove Xi Yuan away. Chen Lingxi then persuaded Lin Suri to stay by revealing that he knew secrets about Lin Suri, the Immortal Husk, and the Cave Heaven’s fate, leaving Lin Suri shaken and asking who Chen Lingxi really was.

• Chen Lingxi’s Mystic Pearls and Lin Suri’s golden barrier pressured Xi Yuan, but Xi Yuan unleashed a Xi Yu Talisman that shattered Lin Suri’s defenses and badly wounded him.
• Xi Yuan broke Chen Lingxi’s Mystic Pearls and attacked him, but Chen Lingxi activated his own Xi Yu Talisman and wounded Xi Yuan with his saber.
• Lin Suri rose again, and Xi Yuan, weakened and facing both opponents, left on a talisman.
• Chen Lingxi called Lin Suri back by offering to discuss the Immortal Husk, and Lin Suri recognized that Chen Lingxi had cultivated the Six-Qi True Method.
• Chen Lingxi claimed he had seen Lin Suri’s Golden Grotto, the Cave Heaven’s final outcome, and Pool-Soul Institute cultivators returning in pieces; Lin Suri asked who Chen Lingxi was.

Chen Lingxi warned Lin Suri that Pool-Soul Institute would suffer a devastating calamity and asked to borrow the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi to investigate the mountain’s mysteries. As Lu Baizhong, Consort Chun, and other pursuers closed in, Chen Lingxi ended his Total Perception, and the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven collapsed around him.

• Chen Lingxi revealed that a Golden Grotto calamity would befall Dao-Below Academy and warned Lin Suri that his master, Pool-Soul Lord Jing Shijue, was its target.
• Chen Lingxi exposed the green-robed woman entangled with Lin Suri’s fate, and Lin Suri bowed to him as a senior before agreeing to lend him the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi.
• Chen Lingxi accepted the Mother Qi and asked to use it to calculate the mysteries of Ancestral Mountain and its hidden immortal opportunity.
• Lu Baizhong, the young general, Consort Chun, and other cultivators converged on Chen Lingxi to seize the Mother Qi, while Lin Suri prepared to defend it with a Jade Ruler.
• Chen Lingxi put the Mother Qi in the Hongdong Bag, sent a streak of purple light into his own brow, and shattered his body as the two mirrors’ beams ended Total Perception and the grotto-heaven collapsed.

After obtaining and consuming Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, Chen Lingxi’s body was remade and his cultivation advanced to the Qi Circulation Seventh Floor, granting him divine consciousness and precise control over objects. He then used his new strength to investigate a mysterious stone, whose outer layer began to peel away and reveal its hidden form.

• Chen Lingxi selected the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi in the Total Perception Divine Chamber and brought it into his Divine Chamber.
• He swallowed the Mother Qi and spent a day refining its spiritual mechanism, reaching Jade Qi Perfection and the Qi Circulation Seventh Floor.
• Chen Lingxi tested his new Consciousness Sea and Refined Thought, using divine consciousness to sense his surroundings and precisely move pieces of rubble.
• He considered how his improved control could let him set the second layer of the Clear-Mystery Pivot-Qi Formation and refine his spells.
• Chen Lingxi found he lacked time to refine Xi Mu’s ring before Ancestral Mountain opened, so he examined the mysterious stone he had bought in Yuan River Prefecture.
• His spiritual qi passed through the stone’s interior, and its gray outer layer began peeling away beneath a spreading radiance.

Chen Lingxi uncovered and refined the Delayed Light Flying Dagger, then entered Ancestral Mountain and harvested the Treasure Qi from a broken sword. After refining it into Sword-Edge Qi, he prepared to test his new killing power with the Life-Devouring Method.

• Chen Lingxi discovered that the amber flying dagger was Delayed Light, which could distort an enemy’s perception of time for one breath, and refined it until it answered to his will.
• Chen Lingxi decided to seek the remaining Mother Qi in Ancestral Mountain and collect interest from its experts, especially Consort Chun.
• Chen Lingxi followed a stream to the riverbed where Lin Suri had found Treasure Qi in Total Perception and harvested it from a broken sword.
• Chen Lingxi refined the Treasure Qi into his own six qi and found that it greatly sharpened his techniques, naming it Sword-Edge Qi.
• Chen Lingxi resolved to test the Life-Devouring Method in Ancestral Mountain and unleash a grand slaughter.

Chen Lingxi used his knowledge of the Total Perception visions to approach the wounded Lu Baizhong and discover the immature Lightning Treasure Qi within him. After promising to return once it matured, Chen Lingxi watched Consort Chun emerge and was overcome with killing intent as the cultivators attacked her.

• Chen Lingxi saw Xi Yuan wound Lu Baizhong and went to the third mountain, while Lin Suri turned away from pursuing Lu Baizhong after Zheng Wuzheng and three hundred Silver Bones arrived.
• Chen Lingxi confronted the wounded Lu Baizhong, observed the immature Lightning Treasure Qi in his Qi Sea, and announced that he would return in five or six days to harvest it.
• Chen Lingxi left Lu Baizhong to recover, watched Xi Yuan pursue two Great Zhou Truth-Seekers, and hid in a river near Consort Chun’s expected appearance.
• Lin Suri killed the old palace eunuch, and Consort Chun appeared above the clouds and attacked him with a Great Hand Seal.
• Xi Yuan, the Great Zhou cultivators, the recovered Lu Baizhong, and others surrounded Consort Chun, while Chen Lingxi watched from the riverbed and revealed his killing intent toward her.

Chen Lingxi used the Spirit-Mechanism Tidal Wave to ambush and severely wound Consort Chun, then pursued her instead of competing for the newly revealed Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi. Consort Chun fled as she began to suspect Chen Lingxi was the person from her dream.

• Chen Lingxi timed his attack to the Spirit-Mechanism Tidal Wave and struck Consort Chun with Sword Qi, breaking her Sacred Character Rune and wounding her brow.
• The tidal wave receded, revealing Chen Lingxi to the cultivators, while the Profound Truth Realm cultivators rushed toward the Heavenly Lake to seize Mother Qi.
• Chen Lingxi attacked Consort Chun with a saber and shattered her defenses, forcing her to flee on her Heavenly Boat.
• Chen Lingxi pursued Consort Chun through the air, refusing to turn back toward the Heavenly Lake.
• Consort Chun asked why Chen Lingxi was hunting her, then wondered whether he was the person from her dream.

Chen Lingxi defeated Zheng Wuzheng and caught up with the wounded Consort Chun, who tried to bargain for her life before revealing that she was an avatar. He killed her to avenge the Chen Family of Linchuan, leaving her to realize that the calamity of ants had come true.

• Consort Chun summoned Zheng Wuzheng to stop Chen Lingxi, but Chen Lingxi broke through to the Nine Revolutions realm and killed him with a single exchange of attacks.
• Chen Lingxi used the Life-Devouring Method to replenish his spiritual Qi, then pursued Consort Chun and struck her sky vessel, sending her crashing onto the riverbank.
• At the Heavenly Pool, Lin Suri emerged with Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, and Lu Baizhong and Xi Yuan attacked him to seize it before he vanished in golden light.
• Consort Chun offered to become Chen Lingxi's furnace vessel, then claimed she was an avatar and threatened him with secrets in the imperial palace.
• Chen Lingxi revealed that he was a son of the Chen Family of Linchuan and had come to repay a blood debt, then killed Consort Chun as she understood the meaning of the calamity of ants.

Chen Lingxi killed Rong Chun, gained her Fated Star Stone and discovered that it contained a cultivation opportunity and two techniques. After learning the Cloud-Riding Technique and Heaven-Seizing Seal, he encountered Lu Baizhong, and their battle began.

• Chen Lingxi absorbed Rong Chun’s remaining spiritual qi with the Life-Devouring Method and collected her Hongdong treasure, Heavenly Boat, and other possessions, but found no Mirror-Listening treasure.
• Chen Lingxi discovered that Rong Chun’s name had vanished from the Fated Star Stone and that the stone held a powerful opportunity, the Heaven-Seizing Seal, and the Cloud-Riding Technique.
• Chen Lingxi flew to a mountain cave, entered the stone’s Fated Star Space, and planned to use its spiritual qi to reach Qi Circulation Eighth Floor after strengthening his cultivation.
• Chen Lingxi quickly learned the Cloud-Riding Technique and used the Heaven-Seizing Seal to blast apart a stream.
• Lu Baizhong arrived with his Thunder Treasure Qi matured, and Chen Lingxi recognized that he could use it.
• Lu Baizhong drew his sword and charged, while Chen Lingxi advanced with the Cloud-Riding Technique; their weapons collided and their battle began.