Recaps

Chen Lingxi defeated the Demon Sage’s incarnation, executed Demon Lord Zhang and his corrupt generals, and ordered the surviving commanders to restore order in Qiu Zhu Prefecture. Over the next three months, he hunted down twelve descended cultivators across the Cave Heaven, but failed to defeat a powerful blue-clad youth; he ended the chapter refining the spiritual essence he had gathered.

• Chen Lingxi shattered the Demon Sage’s blood techniques, destroyed his incarnation with a punch and sword strike, and devoured its spiritual essence with the Life-Devouring Method.
• Chen Lingxi killed Demon Lord Zhang and several of his generals, sparing two young commanders and ordering them to maintain order and distribute food in Qiu Zhu Prefecture.
• Chen Lingxi set out to hunt other descended cultivators, then slew a Flood Dragon possessed by a Jiao Demon Palace cultivator in the Western Sea, a Two Saints Palace Daoist in Qin Prefecture, and a stone-born spirit at Qieman Mountain.
• Chen Lingxi fought across more than half the Cave Heaven and killed twelve descended cultivators, but fled from a blue-clad youth whose saber techniques appeared to have reached the Mystic Realm.
• After three months and many battles, Chen Lingxi sat on a barren mountain to refine the twelve strands of spiritual essence he had collected and wondered whether they would mature his Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi.

Chen Lingxi watched the Immortal Ranking descend over Weiji Grotto-Heaven and discovered that he had been placed forty-ninth, receiving a powerful infusion of spiritual potential. Daoist Shurong set out to challenge a higher-ranked opponent for greater rewards, while Chen Lingxi wondered who controlled the ranking.

• Chen Lingxi sensed that his Treasure Qi was nurturing something tied to his vitality and soul, possibly a second life.
• Lin Suri asked Daoist Shurong about the great divine ability promised to Chen Lingxi, and she said Martial Uncle Mingzhu was seeking it from the Thunder Pool.
• Daoist Shurong showed Lin Suri the Northern Dipper Jade Ruyi and warned that powerful figures beyond Emperor Daye had entered Weiji Grotto-Heaven.
• An Immortal Ranking appeared over the grotto-heaven, listing powerful cultivators, including Emperor Daye at fifth, Chi Jianshu at sixth, and Chen Lingxi at forty-ninth.
• The Immortal Ranking bestowed spiritual potential upon Chen Lingxi, and Daoist Shurong flew off to challenge the fourth-ranked Daoist Zhu Xu for a higher position.
• Chen Lingxi left the Eastern King Palace, saw the ranking in the heavens, and wondered whether it had appeared on its own or was controlled by an unfathomable power.

Chen Lingxi refined the Immortal Ranking’s spiritual essence and weighed how to use the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade against the Xi and Bai families while avoiding their strongest cultivators. After traveling near the Great Zhou Imperial Capital, he entered his Total Perception Divine Chamber and set out toward the Imperial Palace under the Twin Luminous Mirrors.

• Chen Lingxi examined the Immortal Ranking, identified Bai Lingze as a threat, and selected several Xi and Bai family members as potential targets for the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade.
• Chen Lingxi judged Emperor Daye, Ying Xian, to be a powerful potential ally or distraction for the Xi and Bai families, then used Wandering Sight to observe his improving condition in the Great Zhou Imperial Palace.
• Chen Lingxi spent more than twenty days refining the ranking’s spiritual essence, bringing his Qi Sea close to the amount needed for Twelve Levels of Qi Circulation.
• Chen Lingxi traveled to a bamboo forest eight hundred li from the Great Zhou Imperial Capital and used his completed Total Perception Essence Replenishment progress to enter the Total Perception Divine Chamber.
• Chen Lingxi rose through the clouds beneath the Twin Luminous Mirrors and headed toward the Great Zhou Imperial Palace.

Chen Lingxi met Emperor Daye in the Great Zhou Imperial Palace and persuaded him that awakening Great Sage Luo Yuan’s sleeping incarnation could save Weiji Grotto-Heaven from being refined. Emperor Daye began considering the plan, while Chen Lingxi relied on his willingness to protect him as he pursued the Dao Foundation Realm.

• Emperor Daye welcomed Chen Lingxi into the palace and explained that they were fellow Weiji Grotto-Heaven natives who faced the same impending calamity.
• Chen Lingxi revealed that Great Sage Luo Yuan’s incarnation slept on the Ancestral Mountain and described how Emperor Daye had used the Immortal Husk and pursued his cultivation plans.
• Chen Lingxi displayed Heaven-Inviting Might and recited Emperor Daye’s hidden secrets, convincing him that Chen Lingxi might truly possess a Great Sage’s opportunity.
• Chen Lingxi told Emperor Daye that using the Immortal Husk could awaken Luo Yuan’s incarnation and offered to visit the Ancestral Mountain if Emperor Daye doubted him.
• Emperor Daye asked what else the awakening required, and Chen Lingxi said he needed to establish his Dao Foundation and create a sacrificial grand formation.
• Chen Lingxi assured Emperor Daye that he trusted him to protect his path as he sought the Immortal Ranking’s opportunities and advanced to the Dao Foundation Realm.

Chen Lingxi received a protective finger bone from Emperor Daye and learned that the emperor planned to use the Immortal Husk to awaken Great Sage Luo Yuan. He then met the Credit Peddler on Ancestral Mountain to seek a way to track an enemy, and the peddler offered him three costly treasures.

• Emperor Daye gave Chen Lingxi a finger bone containing a spell that could protect him and carry him a thousand li away.
• Emperor Daye revealed the Immortal Husk and said he planned to use it to enter the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and awaken Great Sage Luo Yuan once Chen Lingxi reached the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Chen Lingxi left the palace, questioned Emperor Daye's motives, and traveled to Ancestral Mountain to meet the Credit Peddler.
• The Credit Peddler explained that he could trade with each person only once and offered Chen Lingxi three treasures for locating an enemy: the Fame-Pursuing Furnace, Heaven-Patrolling Eye, and Three-Mystery Mirror.
• The Credit Peddler named the prices for the treasures, including future magical treasures and, for the latter two, Chen Lingxi's Taotie Urn Cauldron Artifact Fragment.

Chen Lingxi traded the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi to the Credit Peddler for the Three-Mystery Mirror, then tried to draw Xi Yu and other powerful cultivators out by revealing his location. After no one came, he killed Wang Zhi'an and rose to fortieth on the Immortal Ranking.

• Chen Lingxi exchanged the Myriad-Nurturing Dao Lotus Qi for the Three-Mystery Mirror and learned how to refine and use it.
• Chen Lingxi suspected the Credit Peddler might possess a Cauldron Vessel and planned to use the mirror to track top-ranked cultivators.
• Chen Lingxi contacted the Undying Willow, but Xi Yu sensed him and chose not to tell the Xi Family where he was.
• After waiting a day without attracting anyone, Chen Lingxi flew conspicuously for three days to draw out a powerful opponent.
• Chen Lingxi killed Wang Zhi'an of the Dao-Birth Sect, taking his place at fortieth on the Immortal Ranking and receiving another surge of spiritual essence.

Chen Lingxi drew the attention of powerful cultivators after reaching fortieth place on the Immortal Ranking, and he faced Xi Lingqiao, who sought revenge for Xi Yuan. Their battle left Chen Lingxi under the suppressive power of Xi Lingqiao’s Sun Illuminating the World Method, with his Delayed Light Flying Dagger ready in hand.

• Zhao Duanxuan noticed Chen Lingxi’s ranking but dismissed him as doomed with the rest of Weiji Grotto-Heaven, then continued searching the Heaven Gate Sea.
• Bai Lingze resolved to kill Chen Lingxi over the humiliation of their earlier encounter and set out to find him.
• Chen Lingxi felt the Immortal Ranking’s spiritual impetus strengthen his qi sea, then deliberately made his presence conspicuous to draw out experts from the Xi and Bai Families.
• Xi Lingqiao confronted Chen Lingxi and revealed that Xi Yuan, whom Chen Lingxi had killed, was his elder brother.
• Chen Lingxi and Xi Lingqiao traded powerful attacks, with Chen Lingxi breaking through the Longevity Bridge chains and stopping Xi Lingqiao’s golden pillar with his fists.
• Xi Lingqiao used the Sun Illuminating the World Method to suppress Chen Lingxi’s vital essence and spiritual qi, and Chen Lingxi summoned his Delayed Light Flying Dagger.

Chen Lingxi fought Bai Lingze after defeating Xi Lingqiao, but his strongest attacks could not overcome the Dao Foundation Realm cultivator’s Divine Hymn. As Bai Lingze’s devastating strike descended, Chen Lingxi shattered a Golden Finger Bone, releasing an ancient and majestic aura.

• Chen Lingxi used the Delayed Light Flying Dagger to slow Xi Lingqiao, then struck him into a mountainside and attacked him while he was trapped inside.
• Bai Lingze appeared and challenged Chen Lingxi to use the Slaying-Force Cauldron, confident that he could demonstrate the power of the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Chen Lingxi used the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade to amplify his strength, but his Twelve Heavenly Drum Peals were erased by Bai Lingze’s Divine Hymn.
• Bai Lingze struck Chen Lingxi with a tornado woven from cloud vapor and golden sound waves, crushing his Longevity Bridge and threatening to kill him.
• Chen Lingxi shattered a Golden Finger Bone in his palm, releasing an immense ancient aura.

Chen Lingxi used the Golden Finger Bone’s sealed spell to escape Bai Lingze, captured Xi Lingqiao, and learned how to activate the Three-Mystery Mirror. When Zhao Duanxuan appeared, Chen Lingxi ended his Total Perception and returned from the Divine Chamber.

• Chen Lingxi shattered the Golden Finger Bone, and Emperor Daye’s golden power suppressed Bai Lingze’s Divine Hymn and sealed him inside a golden formation.
• Chen Lingxi fled with the injured Xi Lingqiao, carrying him across tens of thousands of miles to a barren reef in the ocean.
• Chen Lingxi questioned Xi Lingqiao, then destroyed his incarnation and took his Hongdong Bag and formation-setting items.
• Chen Lingxi transferred a strand of profound qi from a jade talisman into the Three-Mystery Mirror, causing its second mystic light to lock onto a distant target.
• Zhao Duanxuan appeared across the sea, and Chen Lingxi used the Thunder-Wielding Heavenly King Sword Light to destroy his own incarnation and end the Total Perception Divine Chamber.

Chen Lingxi returned to the Great Zhou Imperial Palace, then began hunting Immortal Ranking experts to gather spiritual impetus and advance his cultivation. After Lin Suri warned that the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade could not secure a ranking promotion, Chen Lingxi obtained the hidden locations of projected experts and set out to attack his next target.

• Chen Lingxi used the Three-Mystery Mirror to track Bai Lingze and Zhao Duanxuan, then returned to the Great Zhou Imperial Palace and repeated his audience with Emperor Daye.
• Chen Lingxi killed Wang Zhi'an and took fortieth place on the Immortal Ranking, absorbing the spiritual impetus awarded for that position.
• Chen Lingxi asked Lin Suri to find Xi Yuan, but Lin Suri warned that using the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade to kill him would not raise Chen Lingxi's rank.
• Chen Lingxi asked Lin Suri to have Senior Shu Rong locate the other projected experts, and Lin Suri gave him a jade slip that would reveal their locations.
• After more than ten days, the jade slip displayed the hiding places of Immortal Ranking figures, and Chen Lingxi selected a target and left to hunt.

Chen Lingxi killed Bai Huzhong to seize his Immortal Ranking spiritual impetus, then fled when Bai Qingchuan pursued him. Bai Qingchuan abandoned the chase to protect the Bai Family’s Guiding Passage Formation, leaving Chen Lingxi alive for now.

• Chen Lingxi used the Three-Mystery Mirror to avoid Zhao Duanxuan and chose Bai Huzhong as his target instead of Xi Lingqiao.
• Chen Lingxi watched Bai Huzhong and Bai Qingchuan build a Guiding Passage Formation for over a month, then ambushed Bai Huzhong when he left to buy materials.
• Chen Lingxi killed Bai Huzhong with the Delayed Light Flying Dagger, sword light, and a punch, gaining spiritual impetus and rising to thirty-second place on the Immortal Ranking.
• Bai Lingze noticed Bai Huzhong’s death, while Bai Qingchuan raced after Chen Lingxi and attacked him in the sky.
• Chen Lingxi dropped Bai Huzhong’s Hongdong Bag and escaped using the Longevity Bridge, while Bai Qingchuan turned back to guard the Guiding Passage Formation.

After refining the thirty-second-ranked Immortal Ranking spiritual essence, Chen Lingxi challenged Qiu Yue in Ning Kingdom and defeated his incarnation, claiming the spiritual opportunity of the twenty-third rank. With Bai Lingze closing in, Chen Lingxi concealed his aura and fled to find a place to break through to the Twelve Levels of Qi Circulation.

• Chen Lingxi spent two months refining his Immortal Ranking spiritual essence, strengthening his spiritual qi and body before setting out to find Qiu Yue in Ning Kingdom.
• Chen Lingxi discovered Qiu Yue using Ning Kingdom's rivers and clouds to gather spiritual essence, then attacked him at the imperial palace.
• Qiu Yue used wind, rain, and a golden talisman against Chen Lingxi, but Chen Lingxi broke through his defenses with the Heaven-Seizing Seal, the Delayed Light Flying Dagger, and the Twelve Heavenly Drum Peals.
• Chen Lingxi struck Qiu Yue's incarnation with a Great Sage punch and sword light, forcing Qiu Yue to vanish and earning the spiritual opportunity of the twenty-third Immortal Ranking position.
• Chen Lingxi sensed Bai Lingze approaching, devoured Qiu Yue's spiritual opportunity, concealed his aura, and fled to seek a hidden place for his breakthrough.

Chen Lingxi spent half a year cultivating beneath the Long River, reaching the pinnacle of Qi Circulation and gaining new mystiques while preparing for stronger opponents. He learned that the Pool-Soul Institute was bringing him a thunder-path divine ability, but his Dao-Foundation Seed still needed far more nourishment before he could enter the Dao Foundation Realm.

• Chen Lingxi refined the Immortal Ranking’s spiritual impetus and reached the twelfth floor of Qi Circulation, forming a Dao-Foundation Seed that condensed his spiritual qi and could deduce spells.
• Chen Lingxi cultivated the third mystique of the True Edict of Audience with the Dao and continued nurturing his myriad-nurturing dao lotus qi.
• Chen Lingxi used Sight-Roaming to observe Emperor Daye recovering as the emperor refined the Void-Disrupting Flower, then saw his own Immortal Ranking position fall from twenty-third to twenty-eighth.
• Chen Lingxi added Zhao Duanxuan’s and Bai Lingze’s auras to the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade, then tried to deduce the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon but could not reach its Mystic Realm.
• Chen Lingxi saw Lin Suri overseeing the arrival of a jade disc carrying a divine ability and the Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch that the Pool-Soul Institute had sought for him.
• Chen Lingxi resolved to remember the Pool-Soul Institute’s and Lin Suri’s kindness, but concluded that he needed more spiritual essence and fortuitous opportunities to nourish his Dao-Foundation Seed into a Dao Platform.

Chen Lingxi discovered that Calamity Sea cultivators were attacking Nanche Province’s prefectural city and rushed to defend the ferrying formation bringing over his great divine ability. On South Cluster Peak, Yu Jiangwei watched the assault with Lin Longyue, who recognized Chen Lingxi’s name on the Immortal Ranking.

• Chen Lingxi chose to seek Xi Yuan for the Immortal Ranking’s spiritual opportunity, but after finding Xi Yuan had moved, he headed toward Nanche Province to await the arrival of a great divine ability.
• Three days later, Chen Lingxi saw Nanche Province’s prefectural city burning and used Wandering Sight to discover Daoist Fire Tuo breaking the formation protecting Lin Suri and the ferrying grand formation.
• Jiang Xiu and Wei Qingran struggled to hold off two Calamity Sea cultivators while Lin Suri maintained the formation, and Chen Lingxi realized its destruction would jeopardize the arrival of his great divine ability.
• Chen Lingxi sensed Lin Longyue and the powerful Yu Jiangwei among the observers on South Cluster Peak, then hurried toward the besieged city.
• Yu Jiangwei watched the attack alongside an azure-marked man and a mist-shrouded woman, while Lin Longyue looked at the Immortal Ranking and found the name General at twenty-eighth place.

Yu Jiangwei and the Candleflame Star cultivators expected Calamity Sea to break the Dao-Below Academy’s defenses, but Chen Lingxi arrived at Nanche Prefectural City to confront Daoist Fire Tuo. As Fire Tuo unleashed his power and called Chen an ant, the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage’s phantom opened its eyes within Chen.

• Yu Jiangwei decided to leave with her companions, believing Calamity Sea would soon breach the Guiding Passage Formation and seize control of it.
• A lightning-wreathed cloud carried Chen Lingxi toward Nanche Prefectural City, and Lin Longyue recognized him as a native of Weiji Grotto-Heaven.
• The Candleflame Star cultivators examined Chen and found that he had reached the Twelve Levels of Qi Circulation and ranked twenty-eighth on the Immortal Ranking, despite lacking a Dao Platform.
• Chen arrived at the Guiding Passage Formation, where Jiang Xiu and Wei Qingran recognized him and Lin Suri worried that he had come into danger.
• Daoist Fire Tuo halted his assault on the restriction and confronted Chen, then unleashed a pillar of fire after declaring that Chen would die for interfering.
• Chen stood against the flames and questioned Fire Tuo’s use of the word “ants” as the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage’s phantom opened its eyes within him.

Chen Lingxi defeated Daoist Fire Tuo and took fourteenth place on the Immortal Ranking, but Yu Jiangwei immediately unleashed a devastating attack on Dao-Below Academy. Chen Lingxi faced the descending strike and reached for the Golden Finger Bone of Emperor Daye as the chapter ended.

• Daoist Fire Tuo combined his fire abilities to trap and suppress Chen Lingxi, then attacked him at close range with the Fire Bell Method.
• Chen Lingxi dodged Daoist Fire Tuo's blows and tried to strike with the Delayed Light Flying Dagger, but Daoist Fire Tuo deflected it with Vermilion True Qi.
• Chen Lingxi unleashed the Palace-Knocking Finger and pierced Daoist Fire Tuo's brow, destroying his avatar and claiming fourteenth place on the Immortal Ranking.
• Yu Jiangwei watched Chen Lingxi's victory, then flicked her finger and sent a colossal, searing strike toward the Guiding Passage Formation at Dao-Below Academy.
• Chen Lingxi sensed the overwhelming attack and reached with his divine sense for the Golden Finger Bone of Emperor Daye.

Yu Jiangwei’s power forced Daoist Shurong, Luan Shu, and Daoist Zhuxu into a shifting battle above Nanche Prefectural City. The chapter ended with Yu Jiangwei revealing the Dao Substitute Body, a grand divine ability that created two indistinguishable bodies that had to be killed simultaneously.

• Yu Jiangwei’s Mystic Light struck the Guiding Passage Formation, but Daoist Shurong’s Big Dipper Seven-Star Sword Formation destroyed it and saved Chen Lingxi, Jiang Xiu, and Wei Qingran.
• Daoist Shurong arrived and proposed joining forces with Luan Shu to eliminate Yu Jiangwei, and Luan Shu agreed.
• Daoist Zhuxu ambushed Daoist Shurong with the Spirit-Consulting Altar, disrupting her Consciousness Sea as Luan Shu attacked her with his Great River Divine Ability.
• Daoist Shurong used the Northern Dipper Jade Ruyi to block Luan Shu’s strike while her Dao Master phantom fought the altar’s deity within her Consciousness Sea.
• Yu Jiangwei divided into two identical Dao bodies, and Daoist Shurong recognized the Dao Substitute Body grand divine ability, which required both bodies to be killed at once.

Chen Lingxi crushed Emperor Daye’s Golden Finger Bone to escape Bai Lingze, who had descended into Nanche Province and tried to seize him. Emperor Daye’s projection trapped Bai Lingze while the emperor raced toward the province, where Yu Jiangwei continued fighting three opponents.

• Yu Jiangwei’s two bodies fought Daoist Zhuxu, Daoist Shurong, Chi Jianshu, and Luan Shu while her mist spread across the battlefield.
• Chen Lingxi saw Zhao Duanxuan approaching and Bai Lingze arrive, then Bai Lingze’s Divine Hymn overwhelmed his consciousness and immobilized him.
• Chen Lingxi crushed Emperor Daye’s Golden Finger Bone, escaped Bai Lingze’s grasp, and fled with Lin Suri, Jiang Xiu, and Wei Qingran, who protected the Guiding Passage Formation and its treasures.
• Emperor Daye’s golden projection trapped Bai Lingze in a cage, and Emperor Daye used the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation to race toward Nanche Province.
• Bai Lingze broke free and tried to track Chen Lingxi, but Emperor Daye arrived in a golden war chariot.

Chen Lingxi sensed that Emperor Daye Ying Xian had reached the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and urged Chi Jianshu to withdraw as Ying Xian arrived at Nanche Prefectural City. Ying Xian trapped the remaining Great Xuanzhuo Realm cultivators in his Heavenly Decline Method mist and declared that the Weiji Grotto-Heaven held true dragons, not just ants.

• Chen Lingxi and Lin Suri sensed Ying Xian’s powerful Dao Foundation Middle Stage aura and sent Chi Jianshu a warning to withdraw.
• Ying Xian arrived above Nanche Prefectural City in a golden chariot drawn by nine dragon phantoms, and the surrounding spiritual qi surged in response.
• Chi Jianshu received Lin Suri’s message and left the battle while Yu Jiangwei, Luan Shu, Daoist Zhuxu, and Bai Lingze turned their attention to Ying Xian.
• Bai Lingze proposed that the four remaining cultivators join forces against Ying Xian, but Ying Xian unleashed the Heavenly Decline Method and spread corrosive gray-white mist across the region.
• Ying Xian entered the mist surrounding the four cultivators and declared that the Weiji Grotto-Heaven had true dragons like him, not merely ants.

Emperor Daye used the Heavenly Decline Method to overwhelm four Dao Foundation experts, but Zhao Duanxuan arrived and fought him, leaving the outcome unclear. Chen Lingxi escaped, later discovered that Emperor Daye had captured Luan Shu and Daoist Zhuxu, and watched him examine the prisoners with the Weaving Delusion Golden Eyes.

• Emperor Daye's Heavenly Decline Method corroded Luan Shu's river, Bai Lingze's hymn, Yu Jiangwei's Dao Substitute Bodies, and Daoist Zhuxu's altar, leaving all four experts struggling.
• Chen Lingxi sensed Zhao Duanxuan racing toward Nanche Prefectural City and led his group a thousand miles away before the two powerful forces clashed.
• After the battle's fluctuations faded, Daoist Shurong thanked Chen Lingxi and offered to seek Pool-Soul Institute's protection for him, while Lin Suri promised to contact him when the Divine Ability Jade and Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch descended.
• Chen Lingxi traveled to a remote cave, saw Emperor Daye ranked second on the Immortal Ranking behind Zhao Duanxuan, and used Wandering Sight to observe the imperial city.
• Chen Lingxi saw Emperor Daye, exhausted after the battle, holding Luan Shu and Daoist Zhuxu captive in golden restrictions and studying them with the Weaving Delusion Golden Eyes.

After a season of refining the fourteenth-place Immortal Ranking spiritual opportunity, Chen Lingxi reached the limit of Twelve Levels of Qi Circulation and used the Dragon-Stripping Dao-Transformation One-Qi True Formula to form a Dao Platform. He emerged from seclusion and contacted Lin Suri to ask whether the Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch and Profound Thunder-Bearing Divine Ability spirit jade had arrived.

• Chen Lingxi ended his Sight-Roaming vision of Emperor Daye and reflected on the gulf between Emperor Daye’s power and his own.
• Chen Lingxi spent a season refining the Immortal Ranking spiritual opportunity, expanding his spiritual river and growing his Dao Seed to its limit.
• Chen Lingxi realized he needed a Dao Foundation method to transform his Dao Seed, so he began cultivating the Dragon-Stripping Dao-Transformation One-Qi True Formula.
• Chen Lingxi endured the formula’s painful compression of his Qi Sea until his Dao Seed transformed into a jade-green Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform.
• Chen Lingxi tested the Dao Platform’s power to seize nearby spiritual energy, then messaged Lin Suri to ask whether the Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch and Profound Thunder-Bearing Divine Ability spirit jade had arrived.

Chen Lingxi received the Thunder-Prison Heaven Grand Divine Ability Jade Tablet and Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch from Lin Suri, then traveled to a secluded cave to begin cultivating. He planned to use Sight-Roaming to watch Emperor Daye and, after reaching the Dao Foundation Realm, ask him to place the Immortal Husk in the Ancestral Mountain to try to awaken Great Sage Luo Yuan's incarnation.

• Lin Suri gave Chen Lingxi the Thunder-Prison Heaven Grand Divine Ability Jade Tablet and Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch, explaining how they could help him cultivate the thunderbolt Grand Divine Ability.
• Lin Suri told Chen Lingxi that Emperor Daye had trapped four opponents with the Heavenly Decline Method, captured Luan Shu and Daoist Zhuxu, and then left after clashing with Zhao Duanxuan.
• Chen Lingxi thanked Lin Suri and departed to find a secluded place to cultivate the Grand Divine Ability.
• While flying, Chen Lingxi examined the tablet's method and learned that Thunder-Prison Heaven could become a Profound Root that strengthened his body and spiritual qi.
• Chen Lingxi settled in a mountain cave and prepared to cultivate, while planning to use Sight-Roaming to observe Emperor Daye and seek a way to awaken Great Sage Luo Yuan's incarnation.

After two years of seclusion, Chen Lingxi emerged to protect Xi Lan when Xi Yuan and Xi Ming tried to capture her. He defeated both Xi Family cultivators but learned nothing about why they wanted her.

• Xi Lan climbed a mountain for three days, following a faint thread of qi in hopes of finding Chen Lingxi and asking to become his disciple.
• Xi Yuan and Xi Ming appeared above Xi Lan and Xi Yuan attacked her with a spiritual-qi hand seal.
• Chen Lingxi burst from the mountain and destroyed the attack, then Xi Ming used formations to trap and seal him.
• Chen Lingxi broke through the formations and struck Xi Yuan and Xi Ming with his thunder techniques, overcoming their divine abilities and formations.
• Chen Lingxi asked Xi Yuan why the Xi Family wanted Xi Lan, but Xi Yuan did not answer before Chen Lingxi destroyed both incarnations.

Chen Lingxi discovered that Emperor Daye was feeding captured Dao Foundation incarnations to Xiao Changlü inside a volcano. He investigated the site himself and realized the volcano was the array eye of a vast formation spreading throughout Weiji Grotto-Heaven.

• Xi Lan begged Chen Lingxi to accept her as a disciple, but he feared her influence and left without answering.
• Chen Lingxi traveled to a desolate island in Heaven Gate Sea to recover and prepare for seclusion.
• Using Sight-Roaming, Chen Lingxi watched Emperor Daye bring four captured Dao Foundation incarnations into a volcano and feed them to Xiao Changlü.
• Chen Lingxi went to the volcano himself and found Xiao Changlü sitting within a mysterious array that drew spiritual influence from the volcano.
• Chen Lingxi surveyed the runes with Qi Observation and determined that the volcano was the array eye of a grand formation extending throughout Weiji Grotto-Heaven.

Chen Lingxi used the Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform to draw power from the volcano and discovered that Weiji Grotto-Heaven contained four Immortal Pivots, including the occupied Volcano Immortal Pivot. After sensing that the Cave Heaven might be alive, he headed toward its storm Immortal Pivot to investigate the remaining sites.

• Chen Lingxi examined the enormous formation beneath the volcano and found an ancient barrier preventing him from probing its formation eye.
• Chen Lingxi used the Dragon-Stripping Dao-Transformation One-Qi True Formula to draw the volcano’s spiritual opportunity into himself, but found that the power was not spiritual qi or Dao Origin and could not be controlled.
• The unfamiliar power entered Chen Lingxi’s Consciousness Sea and let him perceive the Cave Heaven’s treasures, hidden formations, ruins, and four Immortal Pivots.
• Chen Lingxi learned that Emperor Daye had occupied the Volcano Immortal Pivot and was using his Dao Foundation incarnation to nurture Xiao Changlü’s avatar.
• Chen Lingxi sensed that the four Immortal Pivots’ rhythms made Weiji Grotto-Heaven seem alive, then set out to investigate the storm Immortal Pivot.