Recaps

Chu Zeming and Yue Lian restored the ailing Elf Tree after Chu Zeming discovered and burned out a termite infestation. The elves offered to send them to the tenth level and returned their captive, Fu Hongchen.

• The elves pressured Chu Zeming to accept the Holy Son's blessing, while hidden onlookers peeped at him and Yue Lian bathing; Chu Zeming exposed them and drove them away.
• Yue Lian transformed Chu Zeming into an elf, and the old elf led them to the Elf Tree for a ritual to restore it.
• Chu Zeming found termites hollowing out the Elf Tree and burned them all, allowing the tree to recover.
• The elves thanked Chu Zeming and Yue Lian, revealed they had known the pair were not elves, and offered to activate a formation that would send them to the tenth level.
• The old elf returned Fu Hongchen, who was sitting in a tree cage, to Chu Zeming and Yue Lian.

Chu Zeming entered the Forbidden Pavilion on the Divine Wood Realm’s tenth level and endured the ancient powers’ crushing pressure to reach the Immortal Residence treasure. After witnessing his resolve, the twelve lingering thoughts withdrew their pressure and appeared before him, suggesting he might receive more than the treasure.

• Elfkind activated its formation around the Divine Elf Tree, and Chu Zeming and Yue Lian returned to their original appearances while keeping Fu Hongchen imprisoned in a tree cage.
• Chu Zeming entered the Forbidden Pavilion, where the twelve ancient cultivators’ lingering thoughts overwhelmed him with pressure, and Yue Lian fainted after following him inside.
• Chu Zeming recovered outside and charged back into the pavilion, while Yue Lian secretly woke, examined the interior, and strengthened Fu Hongchen’s cage restriction.
• Chu Zeming crawled past the sixth pillar toward the Immortal Residence as the pressure crushed him and blood poured from his wounds.
• The twelve lingering thoughts withdrew their pressure, questioned Chu Zeming about his resolve, and appeared before him after he said the treasure had to be his.

Chu Zeming received the Divine Wood Realm's inheritance, escaped with Yue Lian and Fu Hongchen, and returned to Cangzhou City with the uncontracted Immortal Residence. He threatened to throw the stubborn treasure into a dung pit if it continued to reject him.

• The twelve lingering wills healed Chu Zeming, bestowed their inheritance on him, and warned him that his future enemies would be powerful.
• Chu Zeming tried to contract with the Immortal Residence, but it rejected him, so he put it in his storage space and left with the Teleportation Jade Token.
• Chu Zeming made Fu Hongchen beg for help, then helped Yue Lian up; Yue Lian woke and traded insults with Fu Hongchen.
• The elders at the Divine Wood Realm's entrance questioned the three, and Chu Zeming claimed they had returned from the tenth floor and that he had almost gained the Immortal Residence's acknowledgment.
• Chu Zeming handed Fu Hongchen to the Kongtong Sect disciples, told his sectmates to wait for Xuan Mo and Ling Tian, and returned alone to Cangzhou City.
• At the inn's beast stable, Chu Zeming released Xiao Hei and threatened to throw the Immortal Residence into a dung pit unless it accepted him.

Chu Zeming contracted the Immortal Residence and returned to the Divine Wood Realm entrance, where he confronted Yan Xin for insulting and damaging the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect’s supplies. Yue Lian then revealed three bottles of Spiritual Marrow, leaving the surrounding sects stunned.

• Chu Zeming threatened to throw the Immortal Residence into a manure pit, so it contracted with him inside the beast stable.
• Chu Zeming returned to the Divine Wood Realm entrance and found Yan Xin mocking the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect’s disciples and supplies.
• Yan Xin kicked over the medicines, and Chu Zeming struck her wrist with his sword sheath before letting her attendants carry her away.
• Yue Lian returned and offered Spiritual Marrow to replace the damaged medicine, then produced two more bottles.
• The nearby sects stared in shock at the three bottles of Spiritual Marrow among the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect’s modest supplies.

Yue Lian gave the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect three bottles of Spiritual Marrow, and Xuan Mo, Ling Tian, and Wu Qi returned from the Divine Wood Realm badly injured after reaching the ninth level. At the Joint Grand Tournament’s final rankings, the sect claimed first place through Chu Zeming and also took eighth through tenth, stunning the crowd.

• Yue Lian gave the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect three bottles of Spiritual Marrow, which the disciples displayed proudly to the other sects.
• Chu Zeming watched anxiously as other disciples emerged from the Divine Wood Realm, then welcomed Xuan Mo, Ling Tian, and Wu Qi when they returned injured after reaching the ninth level.
• The disciples used Yue Lian’s Spiritual Marrow to heal their physical wounds, and Chu Zeming led them to Cangzhou City to recover.
• After the Divine Wood Realm trial ended, Chu Zeming brought his junior brothers to the plaza to see the tournament rankings, while Xuan Mo waited on him and Yue Lian fanned him.
• The rankings named Wu Qi tenth, Ling Tian ninth, and Xuan Mo eighth, all from the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect.
• The scroll announced Chu Zeming as first place for obtaining the Ancient Immortal Residence, leaving the crowd astonished.

After the Joint Grand Tournament, Chu Zeming returned to the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect and broke through from the Jindan Peak Stage to the Nascent Soul Realm. He was then summoned before Ling Yunzi and the Heavenly Remnant Sect, where Ling Yunzi ordered him to kneel and apologize to Elder Lu and Lu Benxiong.

• He Wuwei refused to question the disciples about the vanished tenth floor of the Divine Wood Secret Realm, and the Guiyuan Sect elders departed.
• Yan Xin apologized to Chu Zeming and offered to ask her father to accept him as a direct disciple, but Chu Zeming declined and left with his junior brothers.
• Ling Yunzi and the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect elders welcomed the returning disciples and celebrated their tournament results, while Chu Zeming reported the competition to Qin Elder.
• Chu Zeming absorbed the remaining golden light in his body, then used Scarlet Scale Fruits and an Azure-Blue Pearl to break through into the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Law enforcement disciples escorted Chu Zeming to the reception hall, where Ling Yunzi ordered him to kneel and apologize to Elder Lu and Lu Benxiong of the Heavenly Remnant Sect.

Chu Zeming defended himself against accusations from the Heavenly Remnant Sect, then publicly denounced Ling Yunzi for failing him as a master. After Ling Yunzi demoted him to an outer sect menial, Chu Zeming settled into his new home and learned that Xuan Mo would leave the sect with him if he chose to go.

• Ling Yunzi demanded that Chu Zeming kneel and apologize to Lu Benxiong, but Chu Zeming resisted his pressure and explained that Lu Benxiong had provoked him.
• Qin Elder and two disciples arrived, confirmed Chu Zeming's account, and challenged Ling Yunzi and Elder Lu for forcing the dispute.
• Chu Zeming accused Ling Yunzi of neglecting and mistreating him, then renounced his status as Ling Yunzi's foremost disciple.
• Ling Yunzi sentenced Chu Zeming to serve as an outer sect menial and ordered him to move out of his residence.
• Xuan Mo brought books to Chu Zeming's new bamboo hut, and Chu Zeming asked whether he would leave the sect with him.
• Xuan Mo promised that he would leave with Chu Zeming if that day came.

Ling Yunzi was beaten and dumped in a livestock dung pit by Yue Lian, then ordered the sect to find the intruder while Chu Zeming was assigned to patrol the gate. Chu Zeming recognized the black-clad strongman caught at the entrance as Chang Wei, who had come to find him.

• Chu Zeming promised Xuan Mo that he would follow him and witness his rise, while Ling Yunzi divined that a disciple who joined the sect halfway through had great fortune and suspected Chu Zeming had stolen Yue Lian's fortune.
• Yue Lian trapped Ling Yunzi in an artifact sack, beat him unconscious, and left him in a livestock dung pit.
• Xuan Mo told Chu Zeming that Ling Yunzi had been found in the dung pit, and Ling Yunzi ordered the sect to search for the intruder and keep quiet about his humiliation.
• A law enforcement disciple secretly assigned Chu Zeming to patrol the sect gate instead of the back mountain, and Chu Zeming accepted the task.
• Three disciples seized a black-clad man near the gate as a suspected thief, and Chu Zeming recognized him as Chang Wei.

Chang Wei joined the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect to pursue Lian'er, but chose to become an outer sect servant like Chu Zeming rather than take a master. Ling Yunzi tried to recruit Chang Wei as his personal disciple, but Chang Wei rejected him for his poor skincare.

• Chang Wei arrived at the sect wrapped in a black cloak to avoid tanning, and Chu Zeming brought him to his shabby servant hut.
• Chang Wei told Chu Zeming he had left his sect and wanted to join the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect so he could pursue Lian'er.
• Chang Wei registered as an outer sect servant despite his Jindan Peak Stage cultivation and thirteenth-place finish in the previous Joint Grand Tournament.
• Ling Yunzi approached Chang Wei and offered to take him as his personal disciple, but Chang Wei refused because Ling Yunzi knew nothing about beauty and skincare.

Ling Yunzi sent Chu Zeming and Chang Wei to rescue two sect disciples trapped in Torch Dragon Valley, but Qin Elder arranged for four more disciples to join them. Guided by Yue Lian through the Ten Thousand Mountains, the group found the hidden valley and entered its dangerous territory.

• After Chang Wei refused Ling Yunzi's offer of discipleship, Ling Yunzi summoned Chu Zeming and Chang Wei to rescue two trapped disciples in Torch Dragon Valley.
• Qin Elder persuaded Ling Yunzi to send four more disciples, and Chu Zeming chose Ling Tian, Xuan Mo, Wu Qi, and Yue Lian.
• Chang Wei asked Chu Zeming to bring Yue Lian along so he could protect him, and Chu Zeming agreed.
• At a mist-covered fork in the Ten Thousand Mountains, Chu Zeming asked Yue Lian to choose a path, and Yue Lian pointed to the right.
• As the group followed the path, the earth shook and the landscape transformed, revealing the hidden Torch Dragon Valley.
• Chu Zeming sensed danger as the group stood at the entrance to the vast canyon.

Chu Zeming and his companions encountered Qingyin, a Fox Clan demon whose pink mist and seduction techniques put everyone but Yue Lian under her spell. After Yue Lian overpowered Qingyin, Chu Zeming confronted him, and their struggle left them in a compromising position just as the others woke up.

• Qingyin enveloped the entrance to Torch Dragon Valley in poisonous pink mist and seduced Chu Zeming's companions, leaving Chu Zeming only partly affected.
• Qingyin tried to seduce Yue Lian, but he twisted her hand and grabbed her ear, resisting her charms.
• Chu Zeming woke and caught Yue Lian holding Qingyin, prompting Qingyin to flee in her Three-Tailed Fox form.
• Chu Zeming checked Yue Lian for a supposed red mole and tore his robe while trying to inspect him.
• Xuan Mo, Ling Tian, Chang Wei, and Wu Qi woke and saw Chu Zeming pressing Yue Lian down and tearing at his clothes.

Chu Zeming tried to stop his sect brothers from attacking Yue Lian after Yue Lian claimed they had been intimate, while hiding his knowledge that Yue Lian was an ancient immortal. The group set aside their quarrel to travel through Torch Dragon Valley, but Yue Lian told Chu Zeming he only wanted to be with him, and Chu Zeming took out his frustration on Xiao Hei.

• Xuan Mo blamed Yue Lian for taking advantage of Chu Zeming, while Yue Lian claimed Chu Zeming had been carried away and should marry him.
• Xuan Mo and Ling Tian nearly attacked Yue Lian, but Chu Zeming stopped them because he feared Yue Lian would break his seal and kill them all.
• Yue Lian rejected Chang Wei's cloak and said he had become Chu Zeming's man; Chang Wei accepted that he should give them his blessing and urged Chu Zeming to take responsibility.
• Wu Qi joined Yue Lian and Chang Wei's side, and the six sect brothers temporarily put aside their conflict to travel through Torch Dragon Valley.
• Chu Zeming asked Chang Wei when he would leave the sect, but Chang Wei said he would wait until Chu Zeming and Yue Lian were settled together.
• Yue Lian told Chu Zeming he only wanted to be with him, so Chu Zeming angrily beat Xiao Hei.

Chu Zeming fought through Torch Dragon Valley and captured a Man-Faced Owl King, intending to use it to find the trapped disciples. The Owl King woke up tied and injured, then cursed Chu Zeming as a despicable villain.

• Chu Zeming and his juniors fought off swarms of Man-Faced Owls as they entered Torch Dragon Valley.
• Chu Zeming revealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation and pursued a Transformation Stage Man-Faced Owl King across the sky.
• Chu Zeming distracted the Owl King with the Luminous Glaze Sword, then had Xiao Hei strike it down with poison.
• Chu Zeming tied up the unconscious Owl King and planned to make it guide them to the trapped disciples.
• The Owl King woke up in human form and called Chu Zeming a despicable, treacherous villain.

Chu Zeming recruited the Man-Faced Owl King to search Torch Dragon Valley and rescued two injured disciples, discovering strange murals in the cave where they were trapped. Back at the sect, he questioned Yue Lian about his identity and the murals, but Yue Lian revealed little and said he wanted to be with Chu Zeming.

• Chu Zeming threatened to pull out the Man-Faced Owl King's remaining hair until the King agreed to help find the missing disciples, and Chang Wei promised to teach him hair care.
• Chu Zeming and the others led groups of Man-Faced Owls in a three-day search and found two badly wounded disciples hiding in a cave.
• Chu Zeming noticed murals resembling those in the Extreme Sea Secret Realm and the Forbidden Pavilion of the Divine Tree before carrying the unconscious disciples out of Torch Dragon Valley.
• Chang Wei and the Man-Faced Owl King parted as sworn brothers, while Chu Zeming's companions returned to cultivate and Yue Lian headed toward the back mountain.
• Chu Zeming pulled Yue Lian into a secret chamber and questioned him about his infiltration, his refusal to ascend, and the murals; Yue Lian said he had no memories, vaguely remembered being told not to ascend, and wanted to be with Chu Zeming.
• When Chu Zeming asked what he liked about him, Yue Lian said he liked Chu Zeming's looks and especially the force in him that disliked Yue Lian.

Chu Zeming answered the Kongtong Sect’s humiliating challenge by fighting its chief disciple, Fu Hongchen, in a fierce Nascent Soul battle. When the dust settled, Chu Zeming stood over the fallen Fu Hongchen and demanded that he admit defeat.

• A disciple told Chu Zeming that Kongtong Sect cultivators had beaten and humiliated Nine-Clear Haoran Sect disciples at the martial arena.
• Chu Zeming arrived and challenged Fu Hongchen, revealing that he had reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• Fu Hongchen attacked Chu Zeming with his Soul-Piercing Cone, and Chu Zeming countered with the Luminous Glaze Sword and his transformed Autumn Water Sword Intent.
• Chu Zeming and Fu Hongchen fought with full force until their battle shattered the platform and the spiritual currents calmed.
• Chu Zeming stood over the fallen Fu Hongchen, planted a foot on his face, and asked whether he admitted defeat.

After defeating Fu Hongchen, Chu Zeming was ordered by Ling Yunzi to retrieve arena stone from the sixth level of the Spirit Mirror Platform within half a month or leave the sect. He found the stone but was attacked by a giant made of resentment, while Ling Yunzi prepared to expel him if he did not return in time.

• Chu Zeming defeated Fu Hongchen, sent the Kongtong Sect disciples away, and urged his injured juniors to reclaim their dignity themselves.
• Ling Yunzi ordered Chu Zeming to find replacement arena stone on the sixth level of the Spirit Mirror Platform within half a month or leave the sect.
• Chu Zeming entered the Spirit Mirror Platform with Xiao Hei, passed through its lower levels, and was secretly followed by a small silver-white shadow.
• On the sixth level, Chu Zeming resisted an illusion of a sea of blood and found the black raw stone used to make the arena.
• A giant formed from resentment rose from the blood sea and attacked Chu Zeming as Qin Elder confronted Ling Yunzi outside the platform.
• Ling Yunzi gave Chu Zeming one incense stick to emerge before declaring that he would expel him from the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect.

Chu Zeming left the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect after denouncing Ling Yunzi, and several disciples followed or departed, while Ling Yunzi’s certainty about Yue Lian and the sect’s future collapsed. On the road to the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm, Yue Lian caught up with Chu Zeming and treated his poisoned wound, and Chu Zeming offered to try being friends.

• Chu Zeming rejected Ling Yunzi’s authority, declared that he was choosing to betray the sect, and left despite Qin Elder and the disciples urging him to stay.
• Over the following days, twenty or thirty disciples left the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect, and Xuan Mo refused Ling Yunzi’s offer to become Eldest Senior Brother before asking Ling Tian to help find Chu Zeming.
• Ling Yunzi discovered Yue Lian had also left, then saw the Tortoiseshell Hexagram display “bright” and learned that the Spirit Mirror Platform could no longer be entered.
• Chu Zeming traveled north toward the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm, suffered a poisoned wound in a fight with a Rogue Cultivator, and confronted Yue Lian when he found him following.
• Yue Lian offered to treat Chu Zeming’s wound and said he would stay by his side even if Chu Zeming never returned his feelings; Chu Zeming allowed him to help and offered to try being friends.

Chu Zeming discovered that the Spirit Mirror Platform had become a strange little spirit he could summon, then traveled with Yue Lian to the Northern Wasteland Realm. At the secret realm entrance, Yan Xin invited Chu Zeming to join Guiyuan Sect, but he refused and Yue Lian's disguise led to a bizarre misunderstanding.

• Chu Zeming and Yue Lian found a little white figure that called Chu Zeming its master, and Chu Zeming contracted it along with nine glowing doors linked to the Spirit Mirror Platform.
• Yue Lian forced Little Azure Dragon to let Xiao Hei bite its tail, and Chu Zeming beat Yue Lian after hearing him call the bite a kiss.
• Chu Zeming chose to continue traveling with Yue Lian, and the pair reached the Northern Wasteland Realm secret realm entrance after five or six days.
• Yan Xin recognized Chu Zeming and invited him to join Guiyuan Sect, but he refused and said he would travel with Yue Lian.
• Yue Lian pretended to be a woman and leaned against Chu Zeming, prompting Yan Xin to mistake Chu Zeming's punch for him abusing his wife.

Chu Zeming refused Gu Yingnan’s challenge, but Yue Lian knocked the Kongtong prodigy unconscious with two melons, damaging his sect’s reputation. As more cultivators gathered at the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm, Chu Zeming prepared by cultivating while Yue Lian admired him.

• Gu Yingnan challenged Chu Zeming, who refused to fight and surrendered instead.
• Gu Yingnan attacked Chu Zeming, but Yue Lian struck him unconscious with two sweet melons.
• The gathered cultivators mistook Yue Lian for a weak cultivator and began gossiping that Kongtong Sect’s Nascent Soul disciples were unusually weak.
• Chu Zeming threw Yue Lian to the ground while promising to protect him, frightening Yan Xin and extinguishing her budding fondness for Chu Zeming.
• More cultivators arrived at the secret realm, and Chu Zeming cultivated while Yue Lian watched him with admiration.

Chu Zeming defeated the demonic cultivator by trapping his divine sense in the Spirit Mirror Platform, then gathered treasures with Yue Lian in the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm. Just as Chu Zeming dug up Clearfrost Buddha Lingzhi, a group of green-robed disciples confronted them and demanded it.

• Chu Zeming lured the demonic cultivator into his sea of consciousness and trapped him inside the Spirit Mirror Platform.
• Chu Zeming had Yue Lian lead him to treasures, and Yue Lian refused to take any for himself.
• Chu Zeming collected spirit fruits and secret treasures while Yue Lian tried to flirt with him.
• Chu Zeming dug up two Clearfrost Buddha Lingzhi and asked Yue Lian why he did not want any treasures.
• More than a dozen green-robed disciples arrived, summoned their magical artifacts, and demanded that Chu Zeming hand over the Clearfrost Buddha Lingzhi.

Chu Zeming refused to surrender the Clearfrost Buddha Lingzhi to Rising Sun Sect and fought its disciples in the secret realm. Xuan Mo and Ling Tian joined him, forcing the sect disciples to retreat, while Yue Lian remained at Chu Zeming’s side.

• Rising Sun Sect disciples demanded Chu Zeming hand over the Clearfrost Buddha Lingzhi, and he offered to sell it before they attacked him.
• Chu Zeming drew the Luminous Glaze Sword and wounded the sect disciples, while a Rogue Cultivator plotted to ambush the fighters and claim their belongings.
• Xuan Mo and Ling Tian captured the Rogue Cultivator and went to help Chu Zeming, leaving Yue Lian to guard their prisoner.
• Xuan Mo and Ling Tian joined Chu Zeming in battle, and Chu Zeming cut off the leading disciple’s arm, forcing Rising Sun Sect to retreat.
• Chu Zeming healed while Xuan Mo and Ling Tian guarded him, then asked why they had followed; Yue Lian told Ling Tian to leave, and Chu Zeming stopped their argument.

Yue Lian and Chu Zeming’s group reunited in the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm while Chang Wei discovered that his companions had left the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect and set out alone to find them. At a Purple Nether Spirit Fruit tree, Chu Zeming’s group outsmarted a powerful rival by using a white door to take the fruit before escaping.

• Yue Lian teased Ling Tian with a recording, and Chu Zeming beat Yue Lian after Ling Tian complained about him.
• Chu Zeming, Yue Lian, Ling Tian, and Xuan Mo reunited in the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm as Chang Wei emerged from seclusion and found his friends had left the sect.
• Chang Wei rejected Ling Yunzi’s plea to stay, left the Nine-Clear Haoran Sect, and set out alone while longing for his companions.
• Chu Zeming and Xuan Mo found a tree bearing dozens of Purple Nether Spirit Fruits, but a golden-haired Nascent Soul cultivator demanded that their group leave.
• Chu Zeming stopped Yue Lian from confronting the rival, then used the white door to collect the spirit fruits and escape with the group.

Inside the Immortal Residence, Chu Zeming and his companions used the Purple Nether Spirit Fruits to advance their cultivation. Chu Zeming reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then lured Ji Liangyi and the Ji Household into his tribulation lightning and used the poisoned Ji Liangyi as a shield.

• Chu Zeming summoned the Mirror Spirit to place the Purple Nether Spirit Tree inside the Immortal Residence and told Xuan Mo and Ling Tian to divide the fruits while Yue Lian went without.
• Yue Lian provoked Ling Tian with Illusion Spirit Stones, and Chu Zeming ordered everyone to stop arguing and cultivate.
• Chu Zeming ate eighteen Purple Nether Spirit Fruits and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage as Xuan Mo and Ling Tian began their own breakthroughs.
• Chu Zeming left the Immortal Residence and challenged Ji Liangyi and the Ji Household, drawing tribulation clouds by provoking a fight.
• Ji Liangyi grabbed Chu Zeming, but the four-headed snake poisoned him, and Chu Zeming raised the unconscious man to absorb the falling lightning in his place.

Chu Zeming escaped the Ji Household cultivators with Xuan Mo, Ling Tian, and Yue Lian, then spent the rest of the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm gathering spoils. After the realm closed, he reached Western Liang City and found a middle-aged cultivator attacking a child over a rare medicine that withered when exposed to light.

• Chu Zeming used tribulation lightning to incapacitate Ji Liangyi, then escaped with him and evaded the pursuing Ji Household cultivators.
• Chu Zeming released Xuan Mo, Ling Tian, and Yue Lian from the Immortal Residence and explained how he had used the lightning to help them escape.
• Chu Zeming, Xuan Mo, and Yue Lian ate melon together while Ling Tian stood apart, and the Northern Wasteland Secret Realm later closed.
• Chu Zeming divided the group's spoils and traveled with them to Western Liang City to seek the Flying Desert Auction House.
• A middle-aged cultivator accused a ragged child of stealing and opened the bundle containing medicine for the child's sick little sister.
• The Ice Epiphyllum withered in the light, and the middle-aged cultivator slapped and choked the child as he demanded to know where it came from.