Recaps

Chen Lingxi seized the Dao-Seizing Fruit, but Emperor Daye revealed his Dao Foundation Realm power and attacked him. Chen Lingxi shattered his own Consciousness Sea to escape back to Yuan River Prefecture with the fruit, then asked the mysterious man in the Black Banner to trade away a promised reward for something else.

• Chen Lingxi plucked the Dao-Seizing Fruit, prompting Emperor Daye to reveal his youthful true form and seize him.
• Emperor Daye tried to inspect Chen Lingxi’s memories but found the past three years obscured, then destroyed Chen Lingxi’s Purple True Treasure Aura when he attempted suicide.
• Chen Lingxi shattered his Consciousness Sea, chose the Dao-Seizing Fruit within the Divine Chamber, and returned to Yuan River Prefecture after the Battle of Seizing the Cauldron.
• Chen Lingxi reasoned that the Jade Law Document could not bind someone of Emperor Daye’s realm, then entered the Black Banner and asked the mysterious middle-aged man to exchange the promised Nine Qi Floors Surpassing Eleven reward for something else.

Chen Lingxi persuaded the mysterious man in the Black Banner to grant him a Dao Foundation cultivation method, then used his remaining strength to attack the retreating imperial troops. He received the Dragon-Stripping Dao-Transformation One-Qi True Formula and returned to Azure Splendor Prefecture, while the Black Banner and its mysterious occupant vanished.

• Chen Lingxi asked the mysterious man whether he knew how to leave the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven, but the man shook his head.
• Chen Lingxi asked the mysterious man to teach him a Dao Foundation technique, and the man agreed by pointing beyond the Great Banner.
• Chen Lingxi pursued the retreating imperial troops and killed three thousand Silver Bones martial artists with Twelve Heavenly Drum Peals.
• The mysterious man sent the Dragon-Stripping Dao-Transformation One-Qi True Formula into Chen Lingxi's Consciousness Sea, though Chen Lingxi could not yet comprehend or cultivate it.
• The Black Banner and the mysterious man vanished without a trace, and Chen Lingxi returned to Azure Splendor Prefecture.

Chen Lingxi secluded himself in Azure Splendor Prefecture and cultivated the first layer of the True Edict of Audience with the Dao, greatly strengthening his body. After several months, he left for Lunan Prefecture to recover what he had hidden in the Nanju Twelve Mountains and pondered the mysteries of powerful arts and divine powers.

• A mysterious vertical pupil awakened in a sea within the Dragon-Offering Sect’s territory and used a glowing scale to search across reflected worlds.
• Chen Lingxi settled in Azure Splendor Prefecture, concealed his cave abode with a formation, and refined accumulated magical treasures into six pills with the Gold-Devouring Toad.
• Chen Lingxi cultivated the Palace-Knocking Realm, visualized the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage, and invited the inner god into the divine palace in his heart.
• After several months, Chen Lingxi completed the first layer of the True Edict of Audience with the Dao and gained the hidden mystery of Great Sage Breath-Absorption.
• Chen Lingxi left the cave abode and rode toward Lunan Prefecture, reviewing his improved arts and wondering about the grades of the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon and great Dao-foundation divine powers.

Chen Lingxi discovered Emperor Daye’s aura on the Beast-Fighting Palace and fed the fragment to the Gold-Devouring Toad, provoking its owner and revealing the Toad’s powerful Golden Grotto backer. The Toad produced a potent pill, refused to eat the Taotie Urn, and Chen Lingxi set out to ask Lin Suri about Dao Foundation Grand Divine Abilities.

• Chen Lingxi found the Beast-Fighting Palace in the Nanju Twelve Mountains, gathered Emperor Daye’s lingering aura, and realized its tracking formation could expose him.
• Chen Lingxi used the Gold-Devouring Toad to swallow the Beast-Fighting Palace, causing the Cauldron Venerable and a Flood Dragon phantom to appear; the Flood Dragon ordered the Culdron Venerable to deliver ten thousand Spirit Crystals.
• Chen Lingxi concluded that the Flood Dragon was a Golden Grotto True Person and feared the Cauldron Venerable would remember him and seek revenge.
• The next day, the Gold-Devouring Toad spat out a pill filled with pure spiritual qi, and Chen Lingxi decided it could help him advance rapidly.
• Chen Lingxi tried to feed the Taotie Urn to the Gold-Devouring Toad, but it refused and turned back into a sculpture.
• Chen Lingxi put away the pill and Cauldron Artifact Fragments, then used Wandering Sight to seek out Lin Suri and ask about Dao Foundation Grand Divine Abilities.

Chen Lingxi visited Lin Suri to ask about the Dao Foundation Realm and learned how Dao Foundation Grand Divine Abilities draw on the mysteries of the Great Dao. Lin Suri explained the powers of Sundial Reversal and the Heavenly Decline Method, leaving Chen Lingxi astonished by the latter’s reach.

• Lin Suri sensed Chen Lingxi approaching and told the hidden Dao-Below Academy figure not to attack because Chen Lingxi had saved his life during the Battle of Seizing the Cauldron.
• Chen Lingxi and Lin Suri shared spirit-leaf tea, and Chen Lingxi asked Lin Suri to explain the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Lin Suri explained that Dao Foundation cultivators forge a Dao Platform and cultivate a grand divine ability to form a Profound Root.
• Lin Suri identified Sundial Reversal as a divine ability of the Mysterious Brightness Grand Splendor Way and said its cultivators grew younger and stronger over time.
• Lin Suri explained that the Heavenly Decline Method belonged to the Order-Chaos Dao and could decay objects, regions, formations, and people.

Chen Lingxi learned about Dao Foundation cultivation and the thirty-six Dao Paths from Lin Suri, while remaining wary of Emperor Daye and puzzled by strange things at the Baosu Marquis Residence. After returning to Azure Splendor Prefecture, he swallowed the pill obtained from the Gold-Devouring Toad.

• Lin Suri explained that Dao Foundation cultivators formed up to four Profound Roots from grand divine abilities, and Chen Lingxi considered the threat Emperor Daye posed.
• Lin Suri described the origins of the thirty-six Dao Paths and several powerful grand divine abilities, including methods that could alter rules or create exceptions.
• Chen Lingxi asked Lin Suri about anything unusual at the Baosu Marquis Residence, then accepted a spirit-message jade pendant before they parted.
• After Chen Lingxi left, a figure in the clouds and Lin Suri speculated about his origins and discussed possibly bringing him into the Pool-Soul Institute.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Azure Splendor Prefecture, wondered why Lin Suri had overlooked the marvels at the Baosu Marquis Residence, and swallowed the pill from the Gold-Devouring Toad.

After refining a precious pill for three months, Chen Lingxi chose to delay entering the Tenth Floor realm and set out for Yuan River Prefecture to investigate Great Sage Luo Yuan and Liu Changle. On the way, he found the Eastern King attacking Xiao Zhushan’s forces and arrived to settle their old grudge, where the Eastern King recognized him.

• Chen Lingxi spent three months refining the pill, greatly expanding his qi sea, but held back from advancing because he feared Emperor Daye’s plans and wanted to preserve the remaining medicinal power.
• Chen Lingxi left his cave to seek clues about Liu Changle and Great Sage Luo Yuan, then spotted Xiao Changlü’s Evil-Severing Army fighting the Eastern King’s forces.
• The Eastern King attacked Xiao Zhushan, wounded him, and killed three Ninth Revolution generals with a single strike.
• Xiao Taozhuo drew her weapon as the Eastern King prepared to press his attack, but Chen Lingxi arrived above the battlefield on cloud qi.
• The Eastern King recognized Chen Lingxi and his killing intent flared.

Chen Lingxi killed the Eastern King with two punches and flew to Mystic Wonder Abbey in search of Liu Changle. There, he discovered that the abbey he had entered was an illusion concealing a ruined, abandoned site.

• The Eastern King attacked Chen Lingxi, then tried to flee, but Chen Lingxi countered with the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage's power and shattered his defenses.
• Chen Lingxi chased down the Eastern King and killed him with a second punch as the battlefield's soldiers and Xiao Zhushan watched in shock.
• Chen Lingxi reflected on the power of the True Edict of Audience with the Dao and flew to Mystic Wonder Abbey to investigate Liu Changle's absent master.
• Chen Lingxi entered the quiet abbey and used Qi Observation to reveal that its buildings and grounds were illusions overgrown with weeds and ruin.

Chen Lingxi found Liu Changle asleep at the center of the illusion covering Mystic Wonder Abbey and used the Dao-Seizing Fruit to awaken the Weaving Delusion Golden Eyes. Through Liu Changle’s memories, he discovered that Liu Changle was an incarnation of the Great Sage Luo Yuan, linked to another incarnation in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.

• Chen Lingxi found Liu Changle sleeping in the abbey’s rear courtyard and saw that spiritual qi from the illusion converged on his room.
• Chen Lingxi waited three days, but Liu Changle remained asleep and showed no signs of illness or restraint.
• Chen Lingxi used Emperor Daye’s qi to activate the Dao-Seizing Fruit and gained the Weaving Delusion Golden Eyes.
• Chen Lingxi touched Liu Changle’s brow and viewed memories revealing a great river that sent incarnations into the Great Xuanzhuo Realm and other realms.
• Chen Lingxi realized that Liu Changle was one incarnation of the Great Sage Luo Yuan, connected to another incarnation in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.

Chen Lingxi uncovered how Great Sage Luo Yuan’s incarnation had transformed Ancestral Mountain and realized its hidden face might offer a way to resist the Quexing Xi Family’s attempt to refine the grotto-heaven. After awakening his buried Undying Willow Puppet, he considered using the Immortal Husk outside the capital to awaken Luo Yuan’s incarnation.

• Chen Lingxi watched Liu Changle’s memories reveal that Great Sage Luo Yuan’s incarnation reshaped Ancestral Mountain and helped form a hidden great formation.
• Chen Lingxi concluded that Ancestral Mountain had two faces and that Liu Changle, as Luo Yuan’s incarnation, might be able to enter the hidden one.
• Chen Lingxi remembered Xi Mu, connected with the Undying Willow Puppet, and made the buried puppet climb to a mountain summit on Ancestral Mountain’s other face.
• Chen Lingxi traced the hidden great formation’s spiritual impetus to the mist where Luo Yuan’s long-river incarnation slept.
• Chen Lingxi recalled the Immortal Husk outside the capital and considered casting it into Luo Yuan’s incarnation to awaken him and thwart the Quexing Xi Family.

Chen Lingxi learned that the Dao-Below Academy was building a Heaven-Fishing Great Formation to steal the Immortal Husk from the Cave Heaven. He discovered that the academy also sought the divine ability Supporting the Mystic Court, which lay beyond the Twenty-Four Heavens.

• Chen Lingxi considered the Immortal Husk and the Nine-Transformation Treasure Body, then sight-roamed Lin Suri and found her formation on the snowy mountain completed.
• Chen Lingxi settled in the Eastern King Palace and spent the next three months sight-roaming Lin Suri and Emperor Daye.
• Chen Lingxi saw Lin Suri, Martial Uncle Shu Rong, and three projected Dao-Below Academy powerhouses construct a Heaven-Fishing Great Formation around a black hole.
• Martial Uncle Shu Rong explained that the formation would let their Pool-Soul Master secretly retrieve the Immortal Husk before the Quexing Xi Family discovered it.
• A Dao-Below Academy man asked why Martial Uncle Shu Rong was eager to obtain Supporting the Mystic Court, and she said the divine ability could be sold to other sects.
• Chen Lingxi realized that Supporting the Mystic Court transcended the Twenty-Four Heavens.

Chen Lingxi watched Emperor Daye drive off Dao-Below Academy disciples who were secretly preparing to seize the Immortal Husk beneath Long River. After the battle left Emperor Daye recovering from his injuries, Chen Lingxi resolved to use the opportunity to advance his cultivation.

• Chen Lingxi learned that Jiang Xiu, Wei Qingran, and Shen Wanqing were building the Heaven-Fishing Great Formation to retrieve the Immortal Husk, while Emperor Daye used flower arrangements in Consort Chun's palace to nourish his Mirror-Listening Cauldron Artifact Fragment.
• Emperor Daye sensed the disciples setting up another formation over Long River and transformed into his youthful, powerful form.
• Jiang Xiu, Wei Qingran, and Shen Wanqing fled when they detected Emperor Daye's Dao Origin, but he pursued them and unleashed the Heaven-Seizing Seal.
• Daoist Shurong rescued Jiang Xiu and Wei Qingran with her red sleeves, while Shen Wanqing's projection disappeared; she ordered the disciples to keep away until her own projection was complete.
• Chen Lingxi saw Emperor Daye weakened and recovering the next day, then decided to reach the Qi Circulation Tenth Floor and seek the Eleventh.

Chen Lingxi reached the Tenth Floor of Qi Circulation, gained two mysteries, and traveled to meet Xiao Changlü to reveal Emperor Daye’s power. After discovering Emperor Daye’s Dao Origin within Xiao Changlü’s blood essence, Chen Lingxi extracted a strange treasure qi and realized Xiao Changlü was Emperor Daye’s avatar.

• Chen Lingxi advanced to the Tenth Floor, gaining the Celestial Cycle Operation and Blood Burning mysteries, then spent two months refining the precious pill’s remaining medicinal power.
• Chen Lingxi set out for Luoshui Prefecture to tell Xiao Changlü what he had learned about Emperor Daye, but noticed Xi Lan’s rapid cultivation and resisted an urge to help her.
• Chen Lingxi met Xiao Changlü and revealed that Emperor Daye had created a vast spiritual-qi formation and was powerful enough to overwhelm masters of the Twelve Profound Realm.
• Xiao Changlü argued that Emperor Daye’s great power made his tolerance of the rebel kings suspicious, prompting Chen Lingxi to reconsider their connection.
• Chen Lingxi examined Xiao Changlü’s Mystic Entry Blood Essence, found Emperor Daye’s Dao Origin within it, and extracted the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi.
• Chen Lingxi learned that the treasure qi could create independent souls and concluded that Xiao Changlü was Emperor Daye’s avatar.

Chen Lingxi refined the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi and suspected Emperor Daye was using Great Li’s turmoil and mysterious formation for a vast sacrifice. After Liu Changle awoke with memories of his other self in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm, he offered to send Chen Lingxi out of the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven.

• Chen Lingxi concluded that Xiao Changlü was likely Emperor Daye’s unwitting incarnation and suspected the deaths caused by the canals and rebellions served a purpose tied to Great Li’s formation.
• Chen Lingxi refined the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi, realizing the Life-Devouring Method could feed it impure spiritual potential, but he chose not to prey on the Dao-Below Academy’s projected incarnations.
• Chen Lingxi sensed that Liu Changle had awakened and visited him at the Mystic Wonder Abbey.
• Liu Changle told Chen Lingxi about his long dream of the Great Xuanzhuo Realm, where Sun-Watching Peak faced threats and Liu Changle was gravely wounded.
• Liu Changle said his soul had grown stronger and that he could sense Chen Lingxi’s consciousness and qi, then offered to send him out of the grotto-heaven.

Chen Lingxi refused Liu Changle’s offer to ferry him from the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven because he feared the cost to Liu Changle and Sun-Watching Peak. After leaving to clear his mind, he found a Cauldron Artifact Fragment in Great Zhou, but noticed that it had not increased his Total Perception Essence Replenishment Progress and suspected someone had lured him there.

• Liu Changle offered to use his dream-self, Dao Platform, and Profound Root to ferry Chen Lingxi away, but Chen Lingxi refused to risk Liu Changle’s life or endanger Sun-Watching Peak.
• Liu Changle learned that Zhuo Jiaowu had obtained an extraordinary opportunity and entered seclusion, giving Sun-Watching Peak a glimmer of hope.
• Chen Lingxi refined the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi while traveling and successfully added it to the other strands of Treasure Qi in his Qi Sea.
• Chen Lingxi traveled into Great Zhou and found a dusty treasure chest on a mountain pine, identifying it as a Cauldron Artifact Fragment.
• Chen Lingxi noticed the fragment had not increased his Total Perception Essence Replenishment Progress and suspected that someone had manipulated events to lead him to it.

Chen Lingxi avoided opening a suspicious treasure chest, but watched a woman trigger its trap and get devoured by a demon head. After the demon tracked him down, Chen Lingxi fought it with his arts and severely wounded it, then carried it to a secluded valley, where the weakened demon still raged at him.

• Chen Lingxi rejected the treasure chest and began returning, but spotted a woman approaching it from more than ten miles away.
• The woman fed spiritual qi into the chest, releasing a demon head that trapped and swallowed her; the demon then sensed Chen Lingxi and attacked him.
• Chen Lingxi fought back with his Twelve Heavenly Drum Peals Sword Light, Blood-Burning Divine Ability, Heaven-Seizing Seal, and Longevity Bridge as the demon used its hair to attack his body and Consciousness Sea.
• As the treasure chest empowered the demon, Chen Lingxi combined his arts with the Delayed Light Flying Dagger to interrupt its attack and strike its forehead, shattering the chest and badly weakening the demon.
• Chen Lingxi sealed the demon head, carried it three hundred li to a secluded valley, and watched it curse him as it lay near death.

Chen Lingxi learned that Chu Liaocang’s apparent string of coincidences may have been engineered with the Great Divine Ability [Fortune-Burying Mystery], which Lin Suri said Bai Qingjiao of the Bai Family could wield. Chen Lingxi then connected the Bai and Xi families’ marriage arrangement to the elegant young master Xi Yu and suspected Bai Lingze was behind his calamity.

• Chen Lingxi questioned Chu Liaocang and learned that the demon had awakened after devouring two cultivators, then lured Chen Lingxi in hopes of consuming his spiritual qi.
• Suspecting that the events were too coincidental, Chen Lingxi sealed Chu Liaocang’s head and went to ask Lin Suri for counsel.
• Lin Suri identified the pattern as resembling [Fortune-Burying Mystery], a Great Divine Ability that manipulated fortune and fate to lead targets into deadly traps.
• Lin Suri said Bai Qingjiao, a Golden Grotto True Person of the Bai Family, was the only person in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm known to understand the ability, though he questioned why Bai Qingjiao would target Chen Lingxi.
• Chen Lingxi asked about the White Immortal Clan’s ties to the Quexing Xi Family, and Lin Suri said a Xi cultivator had been promised in marriage to Bai Lingze.
• Chen Lingxi suspected Bai Lingze was the elegant young master who had protected Xi Yu and concluded that his calamity was no coincidence.

After six months of cultivation, Chen Lingxi learned that Emperor Daye was refining a divine-ability spirit item to enter the Dao Foundation Middle Stage, while Daoist Shurong neared completion of the Heaven-Fishing Great Formation. Fearing Emperor Daye’s breakthrough, Chen Lingxi went to Lin Suri and revealed what he had seen in his visions, prompting a stir among the concealed cultivators nearby.

• Chen Lingxi spent half a year cultivating, reaching perfected Qi Circulation Tenth Floor and stabilizing his Palace-Knocking Realm.
• Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to watch Emperor Daye take the nine-leaf flower and begin refining it to cultivate the Heavenly Decline Method.
• Chen Lingxi saw that Daoist Shurong had fully projected herself and was completing the Heaven-Fishing Great Formation with Jiang Xiu and Wei Qingran.
• Chen Lingxi went to the snowy mountain and asked Lin Suri whether he could trust him; Lin Suri offered to sign a Jade Law Document.
• Chen Lingxi told Lin Suri that his visions had shown the Immortal Husk, Emperor Daye’s rise, and Lin Suri’s formation drawing powerful cultivators, as the clouds nearby began to churn.

Chen Lingxi warned Daoist Shurong and the others that Emperor Daye was cultivating with a Void-Disrupting Flower and nearing the Dao Foundation Middle Stage. Two days later, Daoist Shurong confronted Emperor Daye, whose sudden surge of power turned their meeting into a battle that left Chen Lingxi wondering what he meant by calling the projected cultivators only the beginning.

• Chen Lingxi told Daoist Shurong, Lin Suri, Jiang Xiu, and Wei Qingran that Emperor Daye had taken a nine-leaf flower and was close to a breakthrough, and Jiang Xiu and Wei Qingran identified it as a Void-Disrupting Flower.
• Daoist Shurong asked Chen Lingxi to sign a Jade Law Document, but Lin Suri vouched for him, so she accepted his report without a document and promised a reward.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Inlaid Gold Mountain and watched the imperial palace; two days later, he used Sight-Roaming to observe Daoist Shurong approach Emperor Daye.
• Daoist Shurong summoned the Big Dipper and formed the Seven-Star Sword Formation, while Emperor Daye activated the spiritual qi formation and drew essence qi from the dead to strengthen himself.
• Emperor Daye and Daoist Shurong clashed above Exalted Capital, and their battle overwhelmed Chen Lingxi’s Sight-Roaming before he could understand its full power.
• Chen Lingxi wondered whether Emperor Daye knew the Dao-Below Academy had sent projected cultivators and what he meant when he said they were only the beginning.

Chen Lingxi learned that Daoist Shurong had been badly injured by Emperor Daye, then witnessed the Immortal Husk unleash its aura through the Void Turbulence and expose its location to the Great Xuanzhuo Realm. He suspected Emperor Daye had a scheme and resolved to strengthen himself while powerful forces were drawn into the Cave Heaven.

• Chen Lingxi saw Daoist Shurong retreat from the imperial palace, then used Lin Suri’s perspective to learn that she was healing from severe injuries.
• Jiang Xiu and Wei Qingran discussed Daoist Shurong’s defeat, and Daoist Shurong said Emperor Daye’s Dao Origin contained an unusual decaying force before sending the disciples to form a projection-communicating formation.
• Chen Lingxi sensed violent winds and Void Turbulence in Long River Prefecture as the Immortal Husk released a vast spiritual aura.
• Daoist Shurong recognized that Emperor Daye had exposed the Immortal Husk’s location to powerful figures in the Great Xuanzhuo Realm.
• Chen Lingxi concluded that Emperor Daye was deliberately drawing other forces into the Cave Heaven and decided to cultivate quickly while avoiding the Xi Family and Bai Family.

Chen Lingxi sought a Dao Foundation Grand Divine Ability, and Lin Suri secured Daoist Shurong’s promise to pursue Wielding Profound Thunder for him. After Chen Lingxi revealed that he was a native of the Cave Heaven and explained the danger posed by the Xi Family, Lin Suri left to seek a way to help, while Daoist Shurong went to the Hidden Profundity Institute to request the art.

• Chen Lingxi realized he needed a Dao Foundation Grand Divine Ability and used his jade pendant to contact Lin Suri.
• Daoist Shurong agreed to seek Chen Lingxi a Grand Divine Ability and proposed trading Chu Spirit Mountain to obtain Wielding Profound Thunder from the Hidden Profundity Institute.
• Lin Suri visited Chen Lingxi and offered him a place in the Dao-Below Academy along with the chance to obtain Wielding Profound Thunder.
• Chen Lingxi disclosed that he was a native of the Cave Heaven and explained that joining the Academy could bring the Xi Family’s True Lord into conflict with it.
• Lin Suri departed to discuss how to help Chen Lingxi with Daoist Shurong.
• Daoist Shurong requested Wielding Profound Thunder from the Hidden Profundity Master, and Chi Xinglai questioned why Chen Lingxi should not instead join the Pool-Soul Institute.

Daoist Yaoguang learned that Chen Lingxi was a native of the Quexing Xi Family’s Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven, making his recruitment a potential cause for conflict. He offered to exchange his own Cave Heaven for Chen Lingxi, then tested the young cultivator with his Hanging Moon Sword Light; Chen Lingxi began comprehending it, and Yaoguang sensed a subtle change in his Thunderclap Sword Light.

• Daoist Shurong told Daoist Chi Xing and Daoist Yaoguang that Chen Lingxi had exceptional talent and might master the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light, prompting Yaoguang to consider taking him as a disciple.
• Daoist Shurong received word from Su Ri that Chen Lingxi was a native of the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven, and Daoist Chi Xing warned that taking him could offend the Quexing Xi Family, which owned the Cave Heaven.
• Daoist Yaoguang offered to exchange his own, larger Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven for the Quexing Xi Family’s Cave Heaven if Chen Lingxi proved worthy.
• Daoist Yaoguang used Daoist Shurong’s incarnation to meet Chen Lingxi at Inlaid Gold Mountain, where Chen Lingxi recognized that the visitor was not Shurong.
• Daoist Yaoguang formed the Hanging Moon Sword Light over the sea of clouds and challenged Chen Lingxi to cross it; Chen Lingxi used his Thunderclap Sword Light to stand on the blade and began comprehending its mysteries.
• After waiting, Daoist Yaoguang sensed a subtle change in Chen Lingxi’s Thunderclap Sword Light and was astonished.

Chen Lingxi learned that the Quexing Xi Family had refused the Dao-Below Academy’s offer to exchange Cave Heavens, leaving him in danger of being refined with the Qi-Less Grotto-Heaven. He continued cultivating, reached the Qi Circulation, Eleventh Floor, and wondered whether his unusually large Golden Essence Flower could help him cultivate a second Palace-Knocking mystery.

• Chen Lingxi comprehended Xiao Yaoguang’s Hanging Moon Sword Light, crossed it in an instant, and earned Xiao Yaoguang’s promise to seek a way to save him.
• Xiao Yaoguang and Daoist Shurong arranged for the Mystic Treasury Lord and Chi Xinglai to approach the Quexing Xi Family, but the family refused to exchange its Cave Heaven.
• The Dao-Below Academy concluded that the Quexing Xi Family valued the Cave Heaven’s secrets and that Chen Lingxi would likely be refined once the Cauldron Vessel and Immortal Husk found owners.
• After Lin Suri promised to find him a formidable great divine ability, Chen Lingxi resolved to seek other ways to survive, including using the Life-Devouring Method to mature his Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi.
• Chen Lingxi cultivated for another half year, reached the Qi Circulation, Eleventh Floor, and noticed his Golden Essence Flower was unusually large.

Chen Lingxi perfected the second mystery of the Palace-Knocking Realm, Heaven-Inviting Might, then discovered that Emperor Daye was hiding in the Great Zhou Imperial Palace and healing with the Immortal Husk’s essence qi. While observing Emperor Daye with Wandering Sight, Chen Lingxi saw signs that numerous powerhouses from the Great Xuanzhuo Realm were descending into the Cave Heaven.

• Chen Lingxi perfected Heaven-Inviting Might, gaining the Great Sage’s bearing and strengthening his physical techniques.
• Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to find Emperor Daye, Ying Xian, in the Great Zhou Imperial Palace, where he was drawing on the Immortal Husk to heal his injuries.
• Chen Lingxi saw the Emperor of Great Zhou kneeling before Emperor Daye and suspected that Emperor Daye had implanted memories in him.
• Chen Lingxi decided to meet Emperor Daye during the next Total Perception and seek information about his plans.
• Several dozen days later, Chen Lingxi watched Emperor Daye use the Mirror-Listening Cauldron to reveal mysterious figures awakening across the Cave Heaven, including a black-robed figure, a Flood Dragon, and a youth emerging from an iceberg.

Chen Lingxi learned that the Great Xuanzhuo Realm cultivators could be used to nourish his Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi, so he set out to strike before they grew stronger. He confronted the Myriad Saints Sect’s Demon Sage in Qiu Zhu Prefecture and unleashed the bearing of the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage.

• Emperor Daye used the chained Lotus Pool Prefecture woman to identify several people seen through Mirror Listening, and Chen Lingxi obtained the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi.
• Chen Lingxi decided to feed the Treasure Qi with spiritual essence devoured from the Great Xuanzhuo Realm experts and flew toward Heqing Prefecture to attack the Myriad Saints Sect cultivator.
• In Qiu Zhu Prefecture, the Demon Sage asked Demon Lord Zhang about an altar prepared to use the city’s 1.32 million residents in a formation.
• Demon Lord Zhang recognized Chen Lingxi as he arrived above the city, while the Demon Sage failed to see through his cultivation.
• Chen Lingxi descended toward the platform and summoned a Longevity Bridge as the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage’s phantom opened its eyes within him.
• The Great Sage’s essence surged through Chen Lingxi, overwhelming the Demon Sage with a terrifying pressure.