Recaps

Chen Lingxi used the Divine Chamber to uncover the Candle of Time and gain cultivation methods, while advancing in martial arts under Lin Longyue and Jiang Yuan. After a vision of his death revealed the danger surrounding the Candle, he returned to the present, killed Wang Kong, and took Dragon-Drawing Powder as he sought answers about Liu Changle.

• Chen Lingxi discovered the Divine Chamber and bound Lin Suri’s vision, learning his breathing method and using its practice to build strength and enter the Iron Body Realm.
• Lin Longyue moved Chen Lingxi to the western courtyard, arranged his training with Jiang Yuan, and Jiang Yuan accepted him as a student after recognizing his talent for Mountain-Crushing Force.
• Chen Lingxi advanced into the Copper Scarlet Realm and unlocked Thorough Awakening, which let him simulate up to ten days of the outside world in the Divine Chamber.
• In the simulation, Chen Lingxi recovered the Candle of Time and traded fifty years of lifespan to the Cauldron Venerable for the Concealed Edge Method and Azure Edge Method.
• Lu Baizhong killed Chen Lingxi with golden lightning, but Chen Lingxi awoke four days earlier with the cultivation methods he had learned in the simulation.
• Chen Lingxi practiced the new methods, killed two men waiting to ambush him, and prepared to confront Wang Kong in Willow Street Alley.
• Chen Lingxi defeated Wang Kong by piercing his Copperfire Qi Armor with concealed Azure Qi, then learned that Zhao Yong’s medicine was Dragon-Drawing Powder.
• Chen Lingxi killed Wang Kong, took his silver, pills, and Dragon-Drawing Powder, reported the deaths to the government office, and examined the medicine back in his room.

Chen Lingxi advanced his cultivation, entered the Beast-Fighting Palace, and used its opportunity to claim powerful treasures before surviving the Crown Prince’s attempt to kill him. Back at the Baosu Marquis Residence, he continued seeking strength as Yang Zhuri plotted to take him for his medicinal value.

• Chen Lingxi advanced to the Silver Bone Realm, captured a fragment of Purple True Treasure Aura on Inlaid Gold Mountain, and was summoned to the Beast-Fighting Palace with Lin Longyue.
• Inside the Beast-Fighting Palace, Chen Lingxi hid among the trees, then fought and killed Qiu Chihu with his Silver Bones and Purple True Treasure Aura.
• Chen Lingxi used the Cauldron Venerable’s opportunity to turn a musk-deerskin pouch into a Universe Bag and returned from the palace with the Purple True Treasure Bottle strengthened.
• The Crown Prince called Chen Lingxi a Fellow Daoist, exchanged the Dragon-Chant Wondrous Art for information about Ancestral Mountain Mother Qi, then ordered Eunuch Zhuo to kill him.
• A jade-colored blood storm killed Chen Lingxi, but he returned to the Beast-Fighting Palace, empowered the Gold-Slaughtering Saber, and cultivated the Dragon Roar Technique before leaving again.
• Chen Lingxi bluffed Ying Chi into believing he was a powerful senior, returned to the Baosu Marquis Residence, and trained with the Gold-Slaughtering Saber and Evil-Slaying Saber Method.
• Yang Zhuri decided to take Chen Lingxi because he considered him a great medicine, then planned to inform the Crown Prince after learning Lin Longyue would host Consort Chun.

Chen Lingxi made a pact with Wu Mohe, advanced his cultivation, and killed Yang Zhuri and Zhao Yong while uncovering their schemes. After learning that the grotto-heaven faced a devastating threat, he obtained the Six-Qi True Formula and a formation from the Credit Peddler, while Consort Chun’s arrival and Lin Longyue’s danger remained unresolved.

• Chen Lingxi became the Spirit-Wielding General, confronted Wu Mohe’s envoys, and agreed to act for Wu Mohe once in exchange for three Gathering Qi Pills.
• Chen Lingxi signed the Jade Law Document, gained an Undying Willow Branch, and traded with Lin Suri for the Candle of Time and three forms of the Seven Forms of Ceasing War.
• Lin Suri revealed the Xi Family’s plan to refine the grotto-heaven, and Chen Lingxi broke through to the Fourth Floor of Qi Circulation before killing Yang Zhuri and rescuing two siblings.
• Chen Lingxi refined Yang Zhuri’s spiritual weapon and learned that Lin Suri sought materials for a Mountain-Smelting Formation in exchange for the Six-Qi True Method.
• Zhao Yong revealed his plan to use Chen Lingxi’s body in a pill intended to poison Lin Zhongming’s demon banner, and Chen Lingxi killed him and found a Fated Star Stone among his possessions.
• Chen Lingxi refined Zhao Yong’s Soul-Severing Pill, chose to stay in the residence for a chance to obtain Lin Zhongming’s Demon Banner, and saved Lin Longyue from a suspected poisoning scheme.
• Chen Lingxi completed Total Perception’s Essence Replenishment and traded with the Credit Peddler for the Six-Qi True Formula and the Clear-Mystery Pivot-Qi Formation.

Chen Lingxi uncovered plots surrounding Lin Longyue’s Treasure Qi, clashed with powerful Great World cultivators, and advanced his own cultivation. After discovering Emperor Daye’s vast formation, he freed Jiang Xing and Xu Qingru from a submerged coffin, only for them to attack him.

• Chen Lingxi investigated the Demon Banner at Mysterious Unity Temple, escaped its keeper, and later trapped Xi Mu, learning about the Cauldron Vessel and the Great World.
• Chen Lingxi killed Xi Mu, revived him as an Undying Willow Puppet, and discovered that Lin Longyue’s dormant Mysterious Qi was being drained by a formation.
• Chen Lingxi exposed the blood-draining banquet at Chu Linzi’s estate, where his summoned killer slew several Golden Body cultivators and Chen Lingxi killed Chu Linzi and Yunhe Commandery Princess.
• Ying Chi’s forces sent Lu Baizhong to kill Chen Lingxi, but their fight was interrupted by a powerful stranger as Xiao Changlü and Yuan Yuan battled nearby.
• Chen Lingxi returned after reaching Golden Body Great Accomplishment, discovered Ying Chi’s formation was draining Lin Longyue, and helped her recover while refining her Treasure Qi into Mysterious Qi.
• Chen Lingxi advanced to the Jade-Qi Realm and learned that Lin Suri and Chao Feiye planned to seek a Slaying-Force Cauldron fragment beneath Candlelight River.
• Chen Lingxi entered Consort Chun’s dream and sent her a threat connected to the deaths of her followers, then discovered a submerged coffin within Emperor Daye’s vast regional formation.
• Chen Lingxi opened the coffin and freed Jiang Xing and Xu Qingru, who attacked him, and he killed Jiang Xing and severed Xu Qingru’s right arm.