Recaps

Jiang Lu escaped the Ghost Coral and unleashed ice and fire attacks to stop it from spreading. The other cultivators broke free, while Jiang Lu teleported away after the battle.

• The Void Refinement cultivator fled as the Ghost Coral drained the cultivators' spiritual energy and consumed the demon beasts.
• Jiang Lu shattered her coral cage with ice spikes and flew away with Qiming, refusing to rescue the trapped cultivators immediately.
• Cangchen confirmed that the coral did not regrow after being frozen, and Jiang Lu prepared her formation discs and attacks.
• Jiang Lu froze the Ghost Coral, then Qiming and Cangchen burned it with talismans as returning cultivators joined the assault.
• The trapped cultivators escaped, and Jiang Lu used a Teleportation Talisman to vanish after Qiming and Cangchen returned to her.

Jiang Lu escaped the Ghost Coral with a High-Grade Teleportation Talisman and arrived on an unfamiliar Sea Island. After recovering and tending to her Spirit Beasts, she explored the island and discovered that it seemed to have no living creatures.

• A Void Refinement Stage cultivator destroyed the remaining Ghost Coral and questioned the wounded cultivators, but none knew who had frozen it or escaped.
• Jiang Lu arrived on an island, recovered from the teleportation, and brought Qiming and Cangchen into her space.
• Jiang Lu destroyed coral that had grown around the Life Stone, then had Qiming swallow the Life-Breath Pearl before placing the Life Stone beside Jianmu.
• After recovering her spiritual energy, Jiang Lu left her space with her Spirit Beasts, brought You Meng out, and sent her master a brief message about what had happened.
• Jiang Lu explored the barren Sea Island and learned from Chi Li that no insects, birds, or other living creatures could be sensed nearby.

Jiang Lu discovered that the island beneath her was the Ninth Level Dumo Beast, which tried to pull her into the sea. She persuaded it to spare her by promising to help it find company and places to explore, then fought it as a training partner.

• Jiang Lu and the Spirit Beasts realized the island was a moving sea beast after its call briefly overwhelmed her.
• The Spirit Beasts attacked together, and Jiang Lu broke free of the force holding her and rose into the sky.
• The rocky shell fell away, revealing the Dumo Beast, which demanded that Jiang Lu stay and keep it company.
• Jiang Lu stopped the Dumo Beast's pull by offering to help it explore and find amusement.
• The Dumo Beast attacked Jiang Lu without using its full strength, and she and the Spirit Beasts fought back, widening her meridians through repeated cycles of exertion and recovery.

After enduring a fierce battle, Jiang Lu earned the Dumo Beast’s approval and agreed to take him to a place with living creatures. She reached the coast and prepared to travel to the Azure Tide Domain, booking passage aboard a large Spirit Boat.

• Jiang Lu and her Spirit Beasts fought the Dumo Beast until it shed its outer hide and revealed his smaller true form.
• The Dumo Beast praised Jiang Lu, shrank to palm size, and told her to call him Xuan; he asked her to find him a place with living creatures.
• Jiang Lu and her Spirit Beasts traveled for half a month and reached the coast, where she sent the others back into her space.
• Jiang Lu went to the Teleportation Array and learned that traveling beside a large Spirit Boat cost extra and offered protection from spatial rifts.
• Jiang Lu paid twelve High-grade Spirit Stones to book a place aboard the cultivator’s large Spirit Boat to the Azure Tide Domain.

Jiang Lu arrived in the Azure Tide Domain and learned that a grand Treasure Appraisal Assembly was about to take place. She followed a group of Rogue Cultivators toward the assembly site, where she overheard rumors about herself and other Heavenly Prodigies.

• Jiang Lu boarded the main escort Spirit Boat and cultivated in her cabin while waiting for the Interdomain Teleportation Array to open.
• Jiang Lu heard Rogue Cultivators discuss the Azure Tide Domain’s valuable Merfolk Tears and upcoming Treasure Appraisal Assembly, and decided to attend.
• Jiang Lu took a Clear-Mind Pill before the Spirit Boat crossed the Spatial Rift and arrived at a Sea Island in the Azure Tide Domain.
• Jiang Lu secretly joined Rogue Cultivators traveling toward the assembly and listened as they discussed the missing Heavenly Prodigies, including Jiang Lu herself.
• Jiang Lu arrived with the group at an immortal mountain under the Soaring Clouds Sacred Land’s jurisdiction.

Jiang Lu arrived at the Soaring Clouds Sacred Land’s Treasure Appraisal Gathering to replenish her dwindling resources and keep her search for a hidden peerless treasure discreet. After observing the gathering’s rules and the Sacred Land’s formidable patrols, she headed to the venue as the event began.

• Jiang Lu paid the admission fee for treasure hunters and rented a room while the gathering venue was being prepared.
• Jiang Lu watched two groups of female cultivators argue over a treasure until a Soaring Clouds Sacred Land patrol ordered them to disperse.
• Jiang Lu recognized that the patrol leader was at the Spirit Transformation stage and resolved to keep a low profile while searching for the secret treasure beneath the Sacred Land’s waters.
• Jiang Lu followed the crowd to the venue after the bell rang and learned that the gathering offered treasure hunting, an appraisal hall, and an auction for supreme treasures.

Jiang Lu explored the Treasure Appraisal Assembly’s three floors and began bargain hunting on the first floor with Cutie’s help. She bought six lightning-containing stones for ten High-grade Spirit Stones, leaving the vendor pleased with his profit while she believed she had gained as well.

• Jiang Lu surveyed the first and second floors, then found the third-floor auction had not yet begun and chose to return to the first floor.
• Jiang Lu asked Cutie to look for treasures that could help them grow and followed its guidance among the stalls.
• Jiang Lu spotted stones containing lightning power that would benefit Qianming and offered the vendor ten High-grade Spirit Stones for all six.
• The vendor accepted Jiang Lu’s offer, believing he had profited by selling the stones, while Jiang Lu left feeling she had profited too.

Jiang Lu gathered treasures at the Treasure Appraisal Assembly before entering the underwater forbidden ground of the Soaring Heaven Sacred Land. In the Forbidden Sea Abyss, she exposed two cultivators who had secretly followed her, and they attacked her from both sides.

• Jiang Lu bought high-grade treasures on the second floor of the assembly and spent more than a dozen days collecting resources before leaving.
• Jiang Lu set out for the underwater forbidden ground, and Xuan left to explore the seawater alone.
• Jiang Lu learned from her master that the domains might soon break their agreement to support the top three Heavenly Prodigies.
• Jiang Lu followed Cutie's Spirit Sense through the Azure Waves Sea Region toward the Forbidden Sea Abyss while two concealed cultivators followed her.
• Jiang Lu turned on the two pursuers after the deep-sea pressure disrupted their concealment, and they dropped their disguises and launched lethal attacks.

Jiang Lu drove off two black-clad cultivators in the forbidden deep-sea zone and used a token bearing the Sacred Lord’s aura to enter Soaring Heaven Sacred Land’s underwater territory. She encountered a Dark-Pattern Sea Wyrm guarding the area and froze it in place as their battle began.

• Jiang Lu fought off the two black-clad cultivators, who fled to the surface and decided to report her whereabouts to Soaring Heaven Sacred Land.
• Jiang Lu followed Cutie toward the underwater forbidden zone, knowing the factions might attack her when she emerged.
• Jiang Lu used the Sacred Lord’s token to part the current at the entrance and pass the patrolling spirit beasts without obstruction.
• Jiang Lu entered the forbidden zone and encountered a Dark-Pattern Sea Wyrm, which attacked her with its tail and a crushing curtain of water.
• Jiang Lu dodged the wyrm’s attack, countered with Qianming, and trapped the beast in layers of ice.

Jiang Lu defeated the Dark-Pattern Sea Wyrm and claimed its Water-Repelling Spirit Jade before venturing deeper into the forbidden zone. She stole the Azure Waves Sea Pearls from the Ink-Patterned Giant Squid and escaped toward the surface, where a sudden seven-colored light revealed someone in her path.

• Jiang Lu killed the Dark-Pattern Sea Wyrm and took the Water-Repelling Spirit Jade it dropped.
• Guided by Cutie, Jiang Lu explored deeper waters, gathered spiritual plants, and found the Azure Waves Sea Pearls.
• The Ink-Patterned Giant Squid attacked Jiang Lu as she approached the pearls, and Cangchen joined the fight with fire spells.
• Jiang Lu used the Water-Repelling Spirit Jade to suppress the squid's regeneration, struck it with her spiritual blade, and seized the pearls.
• Jiang Lu fled toward the surface with Cangchen and her array disks distracting the pursuing squid, then froze when a seven-colored light flashed before her.

Jiang Lu met a lone young mermaid who wanted to become her family and led her to a trove of treasure. After taking the treasures, Jiang Lu began searching for something suitable to help the mermaid grow stronger.

• Jiang Lu fled from the young mermaid until she tired, then learned the mermaid had no family and had picked up human speech by listening.
• The young mermaid asked Jiang Lu to be family, and Jiang Lu reluctantly agreed before asking whether she knew where to find treasures.
• The young mermaid guided Jiang Lu through a natural barrier to a hoard and offered her all of it because the treasures were pretty but useless to her.
• Jiang Lu gathered the entire hoard into her spatial realm and asked Linglong and the other spirit beasts to find cultivation resources suitable for the mermaid.

Jiang Lu and the Little Mermaid gathered treasures before five sea cultivators ambushed Jiang Lu, recognizing her and trying to kill her for her resources. As Jiang Lu and Cangchen struggled against them, the Little Mermaid intervened, frightening the attackers into fleeing.

• Linglong chose five Jianmu fruits for the Little Mermaid, and Jiang Lu gave her a Storage Bag filled with treasures.
• The Little Mermaid led Jiang Lu through the reef, where five cultivators demanded that Jiang Lu hand over her treasures.
• Jiang Lu attacked the cultivators with ice spikes and talismans, but their leader dispelled her magic and the group surrounded her.
• The cultivators recognized Jiang Lu and fought her and Cangchen while she realized they were stalling to drain her spiritual energy.
• The Little Mermaid appeared with a piercing cry, and the five cultivators panicked and tried to flee.

Jiang Lu escaped the cultivators who had tried to capture her and Little Mermaid, but their leader pursued them in a Deep-Sea Spirit Boat and trapped them. He recognized Jiang Lu and demanded that she reveal her true face.

• Jiang Lu fled with Little Mermaid while sea beasts attacked the wounded cultivators who had been pursuing them.
• The scar-faced leader and his reinforcements rescued three survivors and learned that Jiang Lu had escaped with a mermaid.
• The scar-faced leader rejoiced at the news that a mermaid was with Jiang Lu and set out to capture them.
• Jiang Lu and Little Mermaid fled through unfamiliar waters, but a Deep-Sea Spirit Boat caught up and surrounded them with a barrier.
• The scar-faced leader mocked Jiang Lu and asked why she would not show her true face.

Jiang Lu, Cangchen, and the Little Mermaid fought off cultivators who wanted to capture the merfolk child, until her call brought the Mermaid Community to their aid. The newcomers closed in on the attackers while Jiang Lu sealed off her senses against their cries and singing.

• The Little Mermaid unleashed a powerful Merfolk Call that shook the barrier, and Jiang Lu and Cangchen attacked the surrounding cultivators.
• The cultivators overwhelmed the trio, draining Jiang Lu and Cangchen while the Little Mermaid struggled to keep fighting.
• As Jiang Lu prepared a Supreme Attack Talisman, more merfolk arrived from the deep sea in response to the Little Mermaid's call.
• The Little Mermaid swam toward the merfolk, and Jiang Lu and Cangchen followed as the scar-faced man and his companions realized they had been caught in her Illusion Art.
• The Mermaid Community prepared to deal with the attackers, and Jiang Lu sealed off her senses as piercing screams and gentle singing swept toward them.

Jiang Lu parted from Little Mermaid after the merfolk took her to their Ancestral Lands and rewarded Jiang Lu with treasures. As she traveled toward the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground, she learned the Heavenly Prodigy training program had been canceled because of a warning about danger in the Upper Realm, leaving her doubtful about the explanation.

• The merfolk leader questioned Jiang Lu about Little Mermaid, and Little Mermaid called Jiang Lu family before agreeing to return with her clansfolk to grow stronger.
• Little Mermaid asked her clansfolk to reward Jiang Lu, and the merfolk gave Jiang Lu a pile of treasures before leaving with Little Mermaid.
• Jiang Lu swam to the surface, used the Compass to set a course, and departed on the Spirit Boat toward the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground's territory.
• Jiang Lu read her master's message that the major domains had canceled Heavenly Prodigy training and would provide no further support because of warnings from the Yue Clan and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• After reading messages from Senior Sister Chen Cheng and Senior Sister You Xi about dangers in the Upper Realm, Jiang Lu asked Cangchen and Chi Li about Immortal-Eating Beasts and Heart-Eaters, and Chi Li said such beings defied the Great Dao Laws.

Jiang Lu traveled to the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground to use its abundant plant vitality and Jianmu's fruit to aid her cultivation. After arriving, she was welcomed by Hu Meier, who escorted her toward the palaces and warned her about the sacred ground's formations.

• Jiang Lu decided to visit the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground and Azure Mist Valley to temper herself and pursue a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Le Ziyan sensed Jiang Lu approaching and sent her disciple Hu Meier to welcome her.
• Jiang Lu traveled by Spirit Boat overnight and admired the vast sea of flowers and floating palaces of the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground.
• Hu Meier introduced herself as Le Ziyan's disciple and escorted Jiang Lu into the sacred ground.
• Hu Meier warned Jiang Lu to stay close because the sacred ground contained dangerous formations.

Jiang Lu met Le Ziyan at the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground and learned that the powers were watching changes in the world’s fortune. Le Ziyan warned that they might mistake Jiang Lu for the chaotic aura behind those changes, leaving her vulnerable to attack.

• Shen Meier brought Jiang Lu to the floating main hall, passing Elf cultivators and explaining the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground’s ties with the Elves.
• Shen Meier carried Jiang Lu to the hall on glowing spirit vines and introduced her to Le Ziyan.
• Le Ziyan told Jiang Lu that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had detected two stars drawing the world’s disordered fortune back into alignment while a chaotic aura subtly guided it.
• Jiang Lu realized the powers believed the Children of Fortune might restore their fortune without outside help, allowing the Ascension Passage to open.
• Le Ziyan warned Jiang Lu that the powers had not revealed whether they considered her a Child of Fortune or the chaotic aura, and that someone might attack her if they believed she was the latter.

Jiang Lu learned that Cen Aotian had broken with his family after humiliating his betrothed, then returned with a powerful legacy and a woman at his side. She planned to enter the Softcore Garden before heading to the Ling Shuo Domain to seize the opportunities along his path, and asked Shen Meier how the Cen Family had reacted.

• Le Ziyan acknowledged Jiang Lu’s secret intervention and told her she could still enter the dangerous Softcore Garden with Shen Meier.
• Shen Meier explained that the Softcore Garden was filled with poisonous creatures and miasma, and offered to help Jiang Lu prepare for the trial.
• Shen Meier told Jiang Lu that Cen Aotian had rejected Wen Xin, insulted both families, and broken with his lineage after years stuck at Qi Refinement.
• Shen Meier recounted rumors that Cen Aotian had rescued a wounded expert, received his legacy, and returned at Foundation Establishment with a powerful woman beside him.
• Jiang Lu resolved to travel to the Ling Shuo Domain and take Cen Aotian’s opportunities for herself, then asked Shen Meier about the Cen Family’s attitude.

Jiang Lu entered the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground’s secret realm to train, unaware of its dangers and unable to bring a map. She carefully crossed a hazardous vine passage and neared its exit as the vines began to stir.

• Shen Meier told Jiang Lu that Cen Aotian planned to attend a secret realm trial in the Ling Shuo Domain, and Jiang Lu decided to go there after training.
• Shen Meier brought Jiang Lu to the secret realm’s entrance but refused to accompany her or provide a map.
• Jiang Lu entered the secret realm and found a narrow passage lined with sharp vines and strange black spheres.
• Jiang Lu’s spiritual barrier was cut by the vines, but she chose not to attack them and instead reinforced her protection as she advanced.
• Shen Meier told other disciples that the first stage forbade fighting and trusted Jiang Lu to endure it.
• Jiang Lu spotted light at the end of the passage, but the surrounding vines grew restless and began spreading toward the tunnel’s exit.

Jiang Lu battled a cave’s transformed Man-Eating Flowers and vines with help from her Spirit Beasts. After driving the plants back, she hid in a Concealment Formation Disk to recover before continuing through the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground.

• Jiang Lu escaped the cave as its vines transformed into Man-Eating Flowers, but the plants pursued and surrounded her.
• Jiang Lu fought off the vines and a Man-Eating Flower that detached itself and lunged at her.
• Jiang Lu released Cangchen, Chi Li, and Mingyue, whose attacks helped her cut down most of the vines and force the rest back into the cave.
• Jiang Lu hid with the Spirit Beasts inside a Concealment Formation Disk to replenish her spiritual energy before moving on.

Jiang Lu and her spirit beasts entered a patch of Sawtooth Spirit-Devouring Grass and fought off its relentless, venomous swarm. As their spiritual power began to run low, Jiang Lu decided to end the battle quickly and began preparing a stronger attack.

• Jiang Lu followed a worn path into an area of richer spiritual energy with Lingxi and warned that greater opportunity meant greater danger.
• Sawtooth Spirit-Devouring Grass revealed itself and surrounded Jiang Lu with sharp, poisonous blades.
• Chi Li burned through several stems while Cangchen restrained others with water chains, and Mingyue attacked with lightning as Jiang Lu cut down the grass with Qianming.
• The grass repeatedly regrew, forcing Jiang Lu and the spirit beasts to fight an exhausting swarm that drained their spiritual power.
• Jiang Lu leaped above the encroaching grass, raised a protective barrier, and summoned sword shadows and fireballs to launch a decisive attack.

Jiang Lu survived an attack by Spirit-Devouring Grass, treated a poisoned scratch, and discovered a hidden cavern beneath the thicket. Inside, she found a rare stalk of thousand-leaf dewgrass, leaving her with an unexpected opportunity in the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm.

• Jiang Lu, Chi Li, and Mingyue destroyed the attacking Spirit-Devouring Grass with Sword Qi and fire.
• Jiang Lu discovered that stray Sawtooth Grass had scratched her arm and poisoned it, so she took a Detox Pill and expelled the poison.
• Jiang Lu recovered while her spirit beasts guarded the area, and Cutie found a source of pure spiritual energy beneath the soil.
• Jiang Lu and her spirit beasts dug into the soft earth, causing the ground to collapse and drop them into a hidden cavern.
• Jiang Lu illuminated the cavern and found a rare stalk of thousand-leaf dewgrass beside a spirit spring.

Jiang Lu discovered a hidden cave and stored an immature thousand-leaf dewgrass in her space before cultivating in the cave. After following her spirit beasts through a cramped tunnel, she emerged into a chamber filled with immense, translucent roots.

• Lingxi and Cutie found a thousand-leaf dewgrass in the hidden cave, and Jiang Lu carefully transferred it into her space for Lingxi to grow.
• Jiang Lu concealed the cave entrance and cultivated until she had absorbed much of the cave's spiritual energy.
• Jiang Lu noticed that her spirit beasts had gone deeper into the cave and that a strange barrier prevented her Divine Sense from reaching them.
• Jiang Lu followed the spirit beasts' auras through a narrow tunnel they had dug and crawled into a hidden chamber.
• Jiang Lu emerged into a broad chamber filled with a vast network of translucent, pearly roots.

Jiang Lu found the Tree of Life in the underground lair and rescued the four spirit beasts trapped in its roots, but her attack damaged the roots and destabilized the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground’s earth veins. She and Shen Meier discovered a vast spatial rift exposed among the roots as the cavern shook.

• Jiang Lu recognized the roots as belonging to the Tree of Life and saw Cutie, Chi Li, Cangchen, and Mingyue bound and drained by them.
• The roots attacked Jiang Lu, who fought them with her Spirit Sword and Sword Qi before breaking through their barrier.
• Jiang Lu freed the four spirit beasts and put them into her space, provoking the Tree of Life’s violent backlash.
• The damaged roots caused the cavern and the secret realm to shake, and Jiang Lu realized she might have harmed the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground’s earth veins.
• Shen Meier arrived to investigate the turmoil, and she and Jiang Lu spotted a huge pitch-black spatial rift among the roots.

Jiang Lu explained how she reached the Tree of Life and watched Le Ziyan and the elders investigate a mysterious connection in the darkness. Uneasy about a voice calling to her, she asked Shen Meier to take her to visit the Elves and entered their Ancestral Lands.

• Jiang Lu told Le Ziyan that she had fought the Sawtooth Spirit-Devouring Grass, followed dense spiritual energy, and accidentally damaged the Tree of Life.
• Le Ziyan ordered Jiang Lu and Shen Meier to leave while she and the elders investigated the connection to the darkness.
• Jiang Lu heard a beguiling voice calling from the darkness but left with Shen Meier before she could investigate.
• Jiang Lu asked Shen Meier to take her to see the Elves so she could distract herself from the voice.
• Shen Meier brought Jiang Lu through the barrier into the Elves' Ancestral Lands, where Jiang Lu saw the flower-filled woodland.