Recaps

Chen Lingxi defeated Lu Baizhong, who passed on the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon and Thunderlight Sword before dying. After recovering and refining Thunder Treasure Qi, Chen Lingxi discovered that Sight-Roaming had gained a new slot and used it to find Lin Suri in danger.

• Chen Lingxi fought Lu Baizhong and defeated him with the Heaven-Seizing Seal after their final clash left both men injured.
• Lu Baizhong gave Chen Lingxi the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon and Thunderlight Sword, then died after saying they might meet again in the greater world.
• Chen Lingxi healed his wounds, refined the Thunder Treasure Qi, and studied the sword canon before continuing to refine the Life Devouring spiritual essence.
• Chen Lingxi discovered that his Wandering Sight range had expanded and that a second Sight-Roaming name slot had appeared.
• Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to see Lin Suri being pursued by people trying to seize his Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, and set out to help him.

Chen Lingxi arrived as Xi Yuan and four Qi Circulation Seventh Floor cultivators cornered Lin Suri, then joined forces with Lin Suri to defeat them. Chen Lingxi pursued Xi Yuan and brought him back alive, while Lin Suri wondered why Chen Lingxi cultivated the Pool-Soul Institute’s Six-Qi True Method.

• Xi Yuan proposed killing Lin Suri before competing for the Mother Qi, but Chen Lingxi arrived aboard Consort Chun’s Heavenly Boat and attacked Xi Yuan with the Heaven-Seizing Seal.
• Chen Lingxi invited Lin Suri to join forces, and Lin Suri accepted; together they killed the slate-blue-robed cultivator and fought Xi Yuan and the other three Seventh Floor cultivators.
• Chen Lingxi used the Delayed Light Flying Dagger to slow Xi Yuan, allowing him and Lin Suri to wound Xi Yuan and force him to flee.
• Chen Lingxi pursued Xi Yuan, distracted him with the appearance of Xi Mu, and struck him down with the Heaven-Seizing Seal before taking him alive for questioning.
• Lin Suri killed the two Great Zhou cultivators and the white-haired woman, then met Chen Lingxi, who returned carrying Xi Yuan.

Chen Lingxi and Lin Suri negotiated over the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi after assessing each other’s strength and reserves. Chen Lingxi proposed a deal, but the chapter ended before he explained its terms.

• Lin Suri watched Chen Lingxi on the Heavenly Boat and judged that Chen Lingxi’s cultivation and artifacts made him a formidable opponent.
• Chen Lingxi incapacitated Xi Yuan, approached Lin Suri peacefully, and demonstrated the sharpness of his sword qi.
• Lin Suri accepted Chen Lingxi’s invitation to sit, and both men stored their weapons to show their sincerity.
• Chen Lingxi revealed two powerful Foundation Talismans and argued that fighting over the Mother Qi could leave them vulnerable to other cultivators.
• Chen Lingxi said he had no intention of contending for a Cauldron Vessel and offered to make a deal with Lin Suri, who asked how they would trade.

Chen Lingxi used a Jade Law Document to bind Lin Suri to a deal involving Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, a calamity divination, and the Dao Palace’s intervention. After revealing that his opportunity was the Immortal Husk, he received the Mother Qi and prepared to refine it under Lin Suri’s protection.

• Chen Lingxi found a Jade Law Document in Xi Yuan’s Hongdong Bag after Lin Suri failed to find one among his spoils.
• Chen Lingxi asked Lin Suri for Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, a calamity divination by True Person Jing Shijue, and the Dao Palace’s intervention, then wrote their terms on the Jade Law Document.
• Lin Suri weighed the risk of the deal and signed the covenant, binding both men to its terms.
• Chen Lingxi revealed that the opportunity was the Immortal Husk, and Lin Suri recognized it as a Golden Grotto opportunity.
• Lin Suri handed Chen Lingxi the Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi and agreed to protect him while he refined it.

Chen Lingxi refined a second strand of Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, broke through to the Qi Circulation Eighth Floor, and learned the Longevity Bridge divine ability from Xi Yuan. Xi Yuan revealed that Chen Lingxi could not leave the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven through the Rebirth Pool because he was a native cultivator, and that the Quexing Xi Family planned to refine the entire Cave Heaven.

• Chen Lingxi refined the second strand of Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi and reached the Qi Circulation Eighth Floor, awakening the True Intent and Divine Might mysteries.
• Lin Suri praised Chen Lingxi's breakthrough, then departed after reminding him of their Jade-Law Pact.
• Chen Lingxi woke Xi Yuan and persuaded him to teach the Longevity Bridge divine ability by showing him the puppet Xi Mu and promising to bury them both after Xi Yuan's death.
• Chen Lingxi asked Xi Yuan how he could leave the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven and revealed that he was a native cultivator with no Natal Essence Qi.
• Xi Yuan explained that a native cultivator could leave only if a Dao Foundation Realm figure received him, but the Cave Heaven's owner would prevent it from being flawed.
• Xi Yuan revealed that the Quexing Xi Family's True Lord planned to refine the entire Cave Heaven into World Essence for Xi Hengsu, and that Xi Mu had lied about Chen Lingxi being able to leave through the Rebirth Pool.

After killing Xi Yuan, Chen Lingxi learned that a Xi Family True Lord planned to refine the Cave Heaven and searched for a way to survive. As Ancestral Mountain drove him toward its exit, he followed a mysterious invitation into a sea of clouds and discovered two images of Liu Changle in a hidden river.

• Chen Lingxi killed Xi Yuan with Sword Qi and considered how to survive the Xi Family True Lord's plan to refine the Cave Heaven.
• Chen Lingxi decided to seek the Credit Peddler's counsel after completing Total Perception's Essence Replenishment, and he considered whether the Cave Heaven's Cauldron Vessel could offer another path to life.
• Chen Lingxi buried Xi Yuan and Xi Mu, sensed Ancestral Mountain's spirit-mechanism fading and its pressure driving cultivators out, and headed for the exit.
• Chen Lingxi noticed a dense sea of clouds hiding spiritual radiance where Xi Yuan had fled, and he approached it aboard the Heavenly Boat.
• The clouds opened a passage for Chen Lingxi, who entered and found a mysterious long river with two mirror-like vortices showing Liu Changle.

Chen Lingxi saw two versions of Liu Changle in the Long River’s whirlpools: one sleeping in Yuan River Prefecture and another living in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm. He suspected they were the same person existing in both worlds at once, but wondered whether they shared their senses.

• Chen Lingxi recognized one whirlpool’s image as Liu Changle sleeping at the Mystic Wonder Abbey and the other as Liu Changle in a splendid world he believed was the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.
• Chen Lingxi watched the white-robed Liu Changle speak with a formidable black-robed immortal, then retreat to a humble mountain building and meditate.
• As the Great Xuanzhuo Realm’s Liu Changle began meditating, the Liu Changle in Yuan River Prefecture woke from sleep.
• Chen Lingxi recalled Liu Changle’s unusual past and concluded that the two versions might be one person living in both worlds at once.
• Chen Lingxi wondered whether the two Liu Chang les could exist separately without sharing their senses.

Chen Lingxi left Ancestral Mountain after witnessing the Long River’s phantom swallow its two whirlpools, then prepared to leave Yuan River Prefecture because of the powerful experts in the imperial palace. Before he could depart, Ying Ju used Lin Longyue as bait and challenged Chen Lingxi to reveal himself as the Spirit-Wielding General.

• Chen Lingxi watched the Long River’s waves destroy the two whirlpools, bowed to the river, and escaped Ancestral Mountain as its spiritual pressure intensified.
• Chen Lingxi saw several injured Truth-Seekers flee, considered the dangers in the imperial palace, and decided to hide in Azure Splendor Prefecture.
• Chen Lingxi sensed overwhelming Nine Revolutions martial qi and blood from Inlaid Gold Mountain, where Ying Ju was forcing Lin Longyue to kneel.
• Ying Ju tortured Lin Longyue and demanded information about the Spirit-Wielding General, while concealed experts waited to ambush him.
• Chen Lingxi stood at the foot of Ancestral Mountain as Ying Ju addressed him across the river valley: “Spirit-Wielding General, aren't you going to show yourself?”

Chen Lingxi, the Spirit-Wielding General, arrived as Ying Ju attacked Lin Longyue and overwhelmed the Nine-Revolutions heir and his forces with his spiritual techniques. He left Ying Ju trapped in a giant hand of cloud qi, while the battle in the forest fell silent.

• Ying Ju shot a powerful arrow at Chen Lingxi, but Chen Lingxi destroyed it with Sword Qi.
• Chen Lingxi rode a Heaven's Boat toward Ying Ju and unleashed Divine Might and the Heaven-Seizing Seal.
• The Heaven-Seizing Seal crushed Ying Ju's blood-qi barrier and seized him in its grasp.
• A strand of Sword Qi killed Ying Ju's Nine-Revolutions general as he tried to rescue him.
• Chen Lingxi swept through the forest and defeated the more than twenty military experts.
• Chen Lingxi returned to the cloud hand holding Ying Ju and watched him struggle.

Chen Lingxi crushed Ying Ju after learning that the Great Li court rewarded people for presenting outsiders, then revealed his identity to Lin Longyue and warned her to flee. Lin Longyue took his jade bracelet and Spirit Stones to Lin Suri, received a qi-circulation method, and left Yuan River Prefecture unsure where to go.

• Chen Lingxi questioned Ying Ju about the capital’s hunt for outsiders and learned that the imperial palace rewarded people who delivered them alive or dead.
• Chen Lingxi crushed Ying Ju with the Heaven-Seizing Seal, while Lin Longyue watched in shock.
• Lin Longyue recognized Chen Lingxi as the government slave from her residence, and he told her to flee because the Eastern King would come after her.
• Chen Lingxi gave Lin Longyue Rong Chun’s Hongdong treasure and two Spirit Stones, then sent her to Lin Suri for a breathing and qi-circulation method.
• Lin Suri passed the method into Lin Longyue’s mind and told her to go; she left the Baosu Marquis Residence and Yuan River Prefecture, uncertain where to turn.

After killing the Eastern King’s heir, Chen Lingxi hid in Southern Lu Prefecture to refine the Fated Star opportunity and plan his next Sight-Roaming target. He reached the Ninth Floor of Qi Circulation and set his sights on using an object connected to Emperor Daye to investigate the secrets of the imperial palace.

• Chen Lingxi dealt with the martial artists who had followed him, gave Lin Longyue time to escape, and flew to a mountain cave in Southern Lu Prefecture.
• Chen Lingxi considered Sight-Roaming Emperor Daye to uncover the imperial palace’s hidden powers and the mystery of its spiritual energy formation, while also contemplating Liu Changle’s connection to the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.
• Chen Lingxi refined the Fated Star Stone for two months, drawing out its abundant spiritual essence and reflecting on the power of Cauldron Vessels.
• The Fated Star Stone turned to ash as Chen Lingxi reached the Ninth Floor of Qi Circulation and gained Technique Deduction and Divine Thought Manifestation.
• Chen Lingxi took up the Thunderlight Treasure Sword and resolved to master the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon and Longevity Bridge before seeking an object that could let him Sight-Roam Emperor Daye.

Chen Lingxi refined Xi Yuan’s Myriad Marvel Robe and obtained an imperial decree that had passed through the Sage’s hands, leading him to Lunan Prefecture. There he discovered Xi Lan’s unusual cultivation transformation, helped her wake, and she called him good-looking.

• Chen Lingxi refined Xi Yuan’s Myriad Marvel Robe and learned more about the conditions for using Wandering Sight.
• Chen Lingxi went to Lunan Prefecture and secretly took the imperial decree from Xi Ninghe’s ancestral hall.
• Chen Lingxi found Xi Lan unconscious and discovered a spiritual mechanism was transforming her body while feeding on her essence, qi, and spirit.
• Chen Lingxi noticed a thread of spiritual qi linking Xi Lan to a luxurious manor, then used his own spiritual qi to awaken her.
• Xi Lan opened her eyes, saw Chen Lingxi, and blushed after calling him really good-looking.

Chen Lingxi awakened Xi Lan and discovered a mysterious spiritual mechanism bound to her, while an unseen influence appeared to alter his memories and steer his choices. He left Lunan Prefecture for Yuan River Prefecture with the imperial decree, suspecting Xi Lan might be a Cauldron Vessel.

• Chen Lingxi awakened Xi Lan, and Xi Ninghe and his wife rejoiced as their daughter opened her eyes.
• Chen Lingxi saw a spiritual thread connecting Xi Lan to a manor and summoned Chao Feiye, who admitted he had coveted her spiritual mechanism and promised to stop.
• Chen Lingxi noticed that memories of the Xi family and the urge to take Xi Lan as his disciple seemed to have been planted or manipulated.
• Chen Lingxi warned Xi Ninghe about Xi Lan, then left without explaining his suspicions to her.
• Chen Lingxi flew toward Yuan River Prefecture with the imperial decree and wondered whether Xi Lan was a Cauldron Vessel.

Chen Lingxi returned to Yuan River Prefecture, obtained the Great Ye Emperor’s eight characters, and discovered that he could not Sight-Roam the emperor because the emperor was too powerful. He settled at Benevolence Hall while seeking a way to Sight-Roam the crown prince, and the chapter ended with Xiao Zhushan and Xiao Taozhuo arriving to meet him.

• Chen Lingxi disguised himself as a mortal and returned to Yuan River Prefecture, where he searched Inlaid Gold Mountain and retrieved a letter containing the Great Ye Emperor’s eight characters.
• Chen Lingxi tried to Sight-Roam the Great Ye Emperor using the imperial edict and the eight characters, but the ability failed, showing that the emperor exceeded its Qi Circulation Sixth Floor limit.
• Chen Lingxi decided to seek an extremely deep karmic bond through the emperor’s son, the crown prince, and went to Benevolence Hall to request an All-Life Elixir.
• Wang Xuan welcomed Chen Lingxi and said the Longevity Elixir had been requested from Azure Splendor Prefecture; Chen Lingxi stayed at the residence and cultivated there for a month.
• On the Lantern Festival of the following year, Xiao Zhushan and Xiao Taozhuo came to Chen Lingxi’s gate, and Xiao Zhushan greeted him as an old acquaintance.

Chen Lingxi met with Xiao Zhushan, who proposed joining forces with Demon Lord Zhang to assassinate Crown Prince Ying Chi. After Chen Lingxi revealed his Ninth Transformation cultivation, the plot ended with him preparing to test his abilities against the Crown Prince under Total Perception.

• Xiao Zhushan apologized for keeping Chen Lingxi waiting and explained that his earlier attempts to kill Crown Prince Ying Chi had failed because of the prince’s strange methods and Purple True Treasure Bottle.
• Chen Lingxi asked when Ying Chi would leave Dragon Palace Mountain, then suggested attacking him there rather than risking ambushes on his return to the capital.
• Xiao Zhushan said Demon Lord Zhang would join them in two months to counter the treasure bottle, and warned that Ying Chi’s combat strength had recently increased.
• Chen Lingxi flicked a strand of blood qi into the sky, revealing that he had reached minor accomplishment in the Ninth Transformation and convincing Xiao Zhushan of his strength.
• Chen Lingxi decided to give the fight a try, trusting that Total Perception would expose anything that defied reason.

Xiao Zhushan and Chen Lingxi joined forces with Zhang Moye to ambush Crown Prince Ying Chi, but the supposed assassination became a series of betrayals and a clash with mysterious forces aboard three Heavenly Boats. Ying Chi approached Chen Lingxi, who killed him with one Heaven-Seizing Seal and flew away with his head and Hongdong Bag, leaving the other combatants stunned.

• Xiao Zhushan and Zhang Moye agreed to attack Ying Chi, while Chen Lingxi stayed behind to watch and cover them.
• Xiao Zhushan and Zhang Moye struck Ying Chi's procession, but the carriage held a silver statue that had concealed the Crown Prince's aura.
• Zhang Moye turned on Xiao Zhushan, and six warriors joined the assault as Ying Chi revealed himself on Dragon Palace Mountain.
• Three women aboard three Heavenly Boats unleashed Heaven-Seizing Seals toward the fighters, while Ying Chi descended toward Chen Lingxi.
• Chen Lingxi killed Ying Chi with a single Heaven-Seizing Seal, took his head and Hongdong Bag, and escaped aboard his Heavenly Boat.

Chen Lingxi killed Crown Prince Ying Chi, escaped the battlefield, and discovered the Beast-Fighting Palace among Ying Chi’s possessions. Back in his cave, he failed to Sight-Roam Emperor Ying Xian and decided to try Liu Changle instead, hoping to glimpse the Great World.

• Chen Lingxi struck down Crown Prince Ying Chi and fled aboard his Heavenly Boat while Xiao Zhushan continued fighting Demon Lord Zhang and the others.
• Three perfected Qi Circulation Eighth Floor women joined the battle against Xiao Zhushan, combining their spiritual qi into a formation that strengthened their attacks.
• Chen Lingxi searched Ying Chi’s Hongdong Bag and found the Beast-Fighting Palace, then flew to the Nanju Twelve Mountains.
• Chen Lingxi examined the Beast-Fighting Palace and realized Ying Chi had likely held more Beast-Fighting Banquets to strengthen the Purple True Treasure Bottle.
• Chen Lingxi tried to use Ying Chi’s head to Sight-Roam Emperor Ying Xian, but the attempt failed.
• Chen Lingxi considered that Ying Chi might not share sufficiently profound karma with Ying Xian and decided to try Sight-Roaming Liu Changle during Total Perception.

Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight through an incense burner that Liu Changle had handled and saw Liu Changle in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm, where Sun-Watching Peak was struggling against Yellow Leap Peak. Liu Changle failed to secure help from Shi Xi and returned to meditate, while his counterpart in Mystic Wonder Abbey seemed carefree.

• Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight on Liu Changle through the incense burner and saw him in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.
• Martial Niece Zhu told Liu Changle that a disciple had likely been killed by Yellow Leap Peak and described Sun-Watching Peak's worsening position.
• Liu Changle decided to seek help from Shi Xi at Azure Heaven Peak and warned Martial Niece Zhu that she should leave Sun-Watching Peak for a better prospect.
• Liu Changle traveled to Azure Heaven Peak, but its gatekeeper said Shi Xi was in seclusion and would not receive guests.
• Liu Changle returned to Sun-Watching Peak and shut himself away to cultivate, while Chen Lingxi then saw him in Mystic Wonder Abbey enjoying a carefree day in the marketplace.

Chen Lingxi learned from the Credit Peddler that Xiao Changlü’s Profound Entry essence blood could help him find Emperor Daye’s karma. He confronted the Heavenly King and asked for a drop, claiming Emperor Daye might be possessed, but Xiao Changlü dismissed Chen Lingxi’s claim that he was not an outsider.

• Chen Lingxi met the Credit Peddler at Ancestral Mountain and learned that Xiao Changlü’s Profound Entry essence blood could connect him to Emperor Daye’s karma.
• Chen Lingxi flew to Azure Splendor Prefecture and summoned Xiao Changlü by displaying a message in the clouds.
• Xiao Changlü arrived, and Chen Lingxi invited him onto the Longevity Bridge for tea before asking for his essence blood.
• Chen Lingxi explained that he needed the blood to calculate Emperor Daye’s true body because the emperor might be possessed by an outsider.
• Xiao Changlü questioned why an outsider would care about Emperor Daye, rejected Chen Lingxi’s claim that he was not an outsider, and revealed spiritual qi flowing over his finger.

Xiao Changlü explained that he and his followers had failed to advance beyond the Second Level of Qi Circulation, while Chen Lingxi wondered why he could cultivate it when others in this world apparently could not. As the Eastern King watched Chen Lingxi from Flowing Cloud Mountain and threatened to kill him, Chen Lingxi learned about the Nine Profound Realm and challenged Xiao Changlü's certainty that no one else could master Qi Circulation.

• Xiao Changlü told Chen Lingxi that years of effort and spiritual treasures had only helped him reach the Second Level of Qi Circulation, and he asked how Chen Lingxi had cultivated it so far.
• Chen Lingxi considered whether his ability to cultivate spiritual qi came from having spirit, the Divine Chamber, or some other cause, but found no answer.
• Chen Lingxi spotted the Eastern King watching him from Flowing Cloud Mountain, and Xiao Changlü warned that the Eastern King would kill him if he left the Severing Evil Heavenly Army's territory.
• Chen Lingxi asked how Mystic Entry cultivators were ranked, and Xiao Changlü explained that the Eastern King had reached the Nine Profound Realm and had killed a Tenth Level Heavenward Realm cultivator.
• Chen Lingxi asked whether Xiao Changlü doubted him because Xiao Changlü himself could not cultivate Qi Circulation, and Xiao Changlü insisted that if he could not master it, no one could.
• Chen Lingxi laughed and asked Xiao Changlü when he had begun practicing martial arts and cultivating the method.

Chen Lingxi persuaded Xiao Changlü to lend him Mystic Entry blood essence so he could calculate Emperor Daye’s secrets, and the two signed a Jade Law Document. After receiving the blood essence, Chen Lingxi faced the Mystic Entry Eastern King and prepared to fight.

• Chen Lingxi explained his past, his rapid cultivation, and his plan to uncover whether Emperor Daye was behind Rong Chun and Mirror Listening.
• Xiao Taozhuo brought a Jade Law Document, and Xiao Changlü required Chen Lingxi to promise to share the result of his calculation about Emperor Daye.
• Chen Lingxi and Xiao Changlü signed the document, and Xiao Changlü gave him a drop of Mystic Entry blood essence.
• Chen Lingxi stored the blood essence in his Hongdong Bag and decided to leave the Beast-Fighting Palace and Purple True Treasure Bottle behind.
• After Xiao Changlü and Xiao Taozhuo left, Chen Lingxi confronted the watching Mystic Entry Eastern King and leaped into the air, activating the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon and Thunder-Bearing Heavenly King's Method.

Chen Lingxi used Ying Xian’s blood essence and an imperial decree to Sight-Roam Emperor Daye, discovering a palace filled with labeled remains and a chained, nearly dead woman. He witnessed the aged Emperor Daye awaken a strange power and ask whom he should grant the woman’s memories to.

• Chen Lingxi’s vision of the Eastern King ended when the Nine Profound expert shattered his sword strike with a punch, and Chen Lingxi concluded he needed to reach the Tenth-Floor Realm to defeat him.
• Chen Lingxi returned to his body with Ying Xian’s blood essence and an imperial decree, then used them to bind Emperor Daye as a Sight-Roaming target.
• Chen Lingxi’s viewpoint traveled from Benevolence Hall to the imperial palace, where he saw tables covered in severed limbs labeled with the identities and origins of cultivators from the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.
• Chen Lingxi found a chained woman whose vast, unstable spiritual qi resembled Rong Chun’s and the spiritual qi of the three women from the Heavenly Boat.
• Chen Lingxi saw the decrepit Emperor Daye rise from his dragon chair, ignite golden flames in his eyes, and ask whom he should grant the woman’s memories to.

Chen Lingxi witnessed Emperor Daye use a mysterious power to examine and alter a woman’s memories, leading him to suspect that the emperor possessed a complete Cauldron Vessel and had fabricated the histories of Consort Chun and Crown Prince Ying Chi. He remained unsure of Emperor Daye’s cultivation and whose body the emperor had seized, and planned to capture Ying Chi alive with Xiao Zhushan.

• Emperor Daye projected the woman’s life as scenes in a halo, then altered her memories before Chen Lingxi’s Sight-Roaming ended.
• Chen Lingxi concluded that the golden flames in Emperor Daye’s eyes might be a complete Cauldron Vessel capable of examining and fabricating memories.
• Chen Lingxi reasoned that Emperor Daye had created Consort Chun and Crown Prince Ying Chi by implanting false cultivation histories based on the woman’s memories.
• Chen Lingxi reassured himself that the Divine Chamber made his own existence real, but wondered whether Emperor Daye was a Dao Foundation cultivator and whose body he had seized.
• Chen Lingxi decided to capture Crown Prince Ying Chi alive when Xiao Zhushan arrived so they could seek answers.

Chen Lingxi defeated and killed Crown Prince Ying Chi, then cultivated for several months while investigating Emperor Daye and Lin Suri through Sight-Roaming. He learned that another complete ding artifact was about to emerge at Heaven Gate Sea, and the chapter ended with Emperor Daye reacting eagerly to the news.

• Chen Lingxi used his Longevity Bridge and divine sense to defeat Crown Prince Ying Chi, then took him to a cave in Nanju Twelve Mountains.
• Crown Prince Ying Chi revealed his claimed origins in the Southern Heaven Domain and explained that the three Heavenly Boat women were one person named Zhou Xuemei; Chen Lingxi killed him after questioning him.
• Chen Lingxi suspected Emperor Daye had been possessed by a cultivator from the greater world, then established the second layer of the Pure Marvel Qi-Pivot Formation and cultivated for several months.
• Chen Lingxi continued Sight-Roaming Emperor Daye and Lin Suri, but learned little while Emperor Daye studied severed limbs and Lin Suri remained beyond his range.
• A white-haired young marquis reported to Emperor Daye that the ding artifact at Heaven Gate Sea had stirred and seemed ready to bear new fruit; Emperor Daye welcomed the news of a second complete ding artifact.

Chen Lingxi learned through Sight-Roaming that Emperor Daye’s court knew where he was and planned to wait until he entered the Heavenward Realm. After hiding his treasures, he faced two powerful Undying Willow Puppets, while Xi Yu recognized him from afar and ordered his death.

• Chen Lingxi overheard Emperor Daye order the Marquis of Fushan to retrieve an emerging cauldron artifact fragment and learned the court had long known his whereabouts.
• The purple-robed marquis told Emperor Daye that Chen Lingxi had reached the ninth floor of Qi Circulation, abducted Ying Chi, and taken the Beast-Fighting Palace; Emperor Daye said to wait until Chen Lingxi entered the Heavenward Realm.
• Chen Lingxi saw Emperor Daye’s vast spiritual formation animating severed limbs, then searched the Nanju Twelve Mountains for how the court had found him.
• Chen Lingxi inspected his treasures, concluded the Beast-Fighting Palace would enhance the Purple True Treasure Bottle, and buried his possessions in a concealed cave crack.
• Chen Lingxi sensed two approaching Profound Entry figures, recognized them as Undying Willow Puppets, and drew the Thunderlight Treasure Sword to face them.
• Xi Yu saw Chen Lingxi from a distant mountain, wondered if he was a Truth-Seeker, recalled Xi Yuan, and ordered, “Kill.”