Recaps

Ji Yuan defeated Grandmother Black Sha and Venerable Venomous Flood Dragon with his formation, spirit beasts, and magic treasures, but Jiang Hong arrived near the Water Dragon Sect ruins and recognized him. The chapter ended as Jiang Hong confronted Ji Yuan, demanding to know how he wanted to die.

• Ji Yuan trapped Venerable Venomous Flood Dragon in the Inverted Rivers and Lakes Formation and sent his Ice Flood Dragons and Spirit-Devouring Bees to kill him.
• Ji Yuan rescued Su Huaimin from Grandmother Black Sha, then fought her with the Golden Light Mirror, Heavenly Silkworm True Person, and his flying sword; he pierced her brow and killed her.
• Jiang Hong detected Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s aura with a Qi-Guiding Lamp and led his followers toward the Water Dragon Sect ruins.
• Jiang Hong recognized Ji Yuan during the battle and renewed his obsession with killing him.
• Ji Yuan confirmed that Venerable Venomous Flood Dragon and his Poison Flood Dragon had died, then sensed a powerful presence approaching from the north.
• Jiang Hong called out to Ji Yuan, asking whether he had decided how he wanted to die.

Ji Yuan faced Jiang Hong’s forces while trying to find a way to escape with Ran Kui. The Many-Faced One, disguised as the Green Grain Island Lord, killed Ran Kui, leaving Ji Yuan stunned and surrounded.

• Ji Yuan gathered his formation equipment and faced Jiang Hong, who recognized him as Qiu Qianhai and ordered his cultivators to surround the battlefield.
• Jiang Hong stopped Corpse Buddha Child from attacking Ji Yuan, then positioned Blood Demon Old Monster, Black Baleful Sword Demon, and Household Buddha Child around the lake.
• Jiang Hong raised a golden alms bowl that formed a barrier over the surrounding waters, blocking Ji Yuan’s Divine Sense and escape routes.
• Ji Yuan and Ran Kui discussed fleeing, but Ran Kui resolved to fight and buy his junior brother time to escape.
• The Green Grain Island Lord stabbed Ran Kui from behind, crushed his heart, and shattered his Dantian, revealing himself as the Many-Faced One.
• Jiang Hong praised the Many-Faced One and taunted the stunned Ji Yuan, asking if he would fight now.

Ji Yuan tried to escape after Ran Kui and the others were killed, but Jiang Hong used a Teleportation Formation to intercept his Fixed-Point Teleportation Token. Ji Yuan survived the ensuing battle by hiding in his Cave Abode and prepared to fire his Spirit-Energy Cannon at Many-Faced One.

• Ji Yuan restrained his urge to avenge Ran Kui, taunted Jiang Hong, and watched as Jiang Hong and the Black Baleful Sword Demon killed Su Huaimin and Shiyan.
• Ji Yuan used Heavenly Thunder Pellets and a Fixed-Point Teleportation Token to escape, but Jiang Hong produced a Teleportation Formation that redirected the token and brought Ji Yuan back to him.
• Ji Yuan activated the Black Dragon Armor and was driven across the lake by Jiang Hong, then released Heavenly Silkworm True Person to self-destruct and cover his escape.
• Jiang Hong searched the blast site with the other Demonic Cultivators, while Ji Yuan hid inside his Cave Abode in a speck of dust.
• Ji Yuan targeted Many-Faced One with his Spirit-Energy Cannon and began loading it with Spirit Stones.

Ji Yuan escaped the shattered barrier with Jiang Hong chained to him and drew him toward Fallen Immortal Ravine, where he fought back but fled when a Nascent Soul Cultivator approached. Jiang Hong was left gravely wounded, while Ji Yuan plunged into the ravine and Hua Yaoyue discovered a green shoot growing from a piece of rotten wood.

• Ji Yuan killed the Many-Faced One with a Spirit-Energy Cannon, cracked the barrier, and escaped using the Heaven-Escaping Shuttle, but Jiang Hong hooked him with a blood-red chain.
• Ji Yuan used the Heaven-Escaping Shuttle repeatedly to drag Jiang Hong east toward Fallen Immortal Ravine, replenishing his magical power with Millennium Spirit Milk.
• At Fallen Immortal Ravine, Ji Yuan shattered Jiang Hong’s protective aura and struck him, but the Blood Lady’s Divine Sense manifested from Jiang Hong’s jade pendant and warned Ji Yuan not to kill her son.
• Ji Yuan killed Jiang Hong’s two Corpse Puppets, then attacked Jiang Hong with Heavenly Thunder Pellets and Heavenly Venom Needles before fleeing into the Boundless Wind Curtain as a Nascent Soul Cultivator approached.
• The Blood Lady arrived to find Jiang Hong charred and shrieked in fury, while Hua Yaoyue noticed a green shoot growing from rotten wood aboard her Tower-Ship Flying Boat.

Ji Yuan was swept out of the passage and into Fallen Immortal Ravine after Blood Luo King destroyed it, but he discovered that suppressing spiritual energy could keep the ravine’s Water Blades at bay. After months of traveling east across the seabed, he found a spearhead-shaped object embedded in a rock wall and realized someone else might be down there.

• Ji Yuan fled through the Boundless Wind Curtain while Blood Lady healed Jiang Hong and searched for him.
• Blood Luo King found the passage into Fallen Immortal Ravine and destroyed it, sweeping Ji Yuan’s Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain into the ravine.
• Ji Yuan endured the ravine’s currents, Water Blades, and sea beasts, then deduced that spiritual energy fluctuations attracted the Water Blades.
• Ji Yuan used Spirit-Devouring Bees to seal his spiritual energy, left Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and traveled east along the seabed.
• After several months, Ji Yuan found a spearhead-shaped object lodged in a rock wall and wondered whether someone else was in the ravine.

Ji Yuan found a Merfolk tribe living in the Fallen Immortal Ravine and helped its hunters defeat several sea beasts. He entered their hidden settlement, where the elderly leader recognized him as a member of the Human Race.

• Ji Yuan followed traces of weapons and battles southeast, where he found six Merfolk fighting a sea fish and killed it with a kicked stone.
• The wolf-tattooed Merfolk led Ji Yuan and the others toward their settlement, and Ji Yuan killed a dangerous crocodile-like sea beast along the way.
• Ji Yuan helped the Merfolk hunters defeat more sea beasts and carry their haul to a hidden passage in an underwater mountain range.
• Ji Yuan entered the illuminated Merfolk settlement and saw its many male and female inhabitants.
• An elderly Merfolk approached Ji Yuan and said he had never expected to see someone of the Human Race in his lifetime.

Ji Yuan met Yu Yuan and learned that the Merfolk could guide him through a Fourth-Order Sea Beast’s territory to the Ascension Gate, which would open in three years. After settling into a Cave Abode, he released his buildings and spirit pets, then brought out Zai Kui’s corpse.

• Yu Yuan welcomed Ji Yuan and explained that the Merfolk had once been human and that their territory was free of Water Blades.
• Yu Yuan told Ji Yuan that the Ascension Gate would open in three years and offered to guide him there by a safe route.
• Ji Yuan struck Lin Hu, who returned impressed and asked to become Ji Yuan’s disciple; Ji Yuan agreed only to offer him pointers.
• Ji Yuan chose a spacious, remote Cave Abode, drained and cleaned it, then released his buildings and spirit pets.
• Ji Yuan prepared to upgrade the Mass Burial Ground with corpses from his Storage Bags, but thinking of Storage Bags reminded him of Zai Kui, whose corpse he brought out.

Ji Yuan upgraded the Mass Burial Ground to Level 3, gaining powerful Corpse Puppets and Corpse Yin Demonfire while mourning Ran Kui and sorting through his possessions. The chapter ended when he sensed the Yin Ghost Banner stirring inside the Mass Burial Ground.

• Ji Yuan mourned Ran Kui, recovered his body, and refined Ran Kui's Heavenly Venom Needles, great halberd, Sea-Covering Pearl, and Concealment Hat.
• Ji Yuan searched Venerable Venomous Flood Dragon's and Grandmother Black Sha's Storage Bags, finding many Immortal Materials and acquiring the Miasma Dragon Gourd and Thousand-Needle Basket.
• Ji Yuan buried Foundation Establishment and Golden Core corpses and Demonic Dao Spirit Artifacts, then upgraded the Mass Burial Ground to Level 3.
• The upgrade produced five Foundation Establishment Realm Corpse Puppets and a Golden Core Early Stage Corpse Puppet of the Hundred-Insect Immortal, whom Ji Yuan reunited with the Golden Light Mirror.
• Ji Yuan awakened and tested Corpse Yin Demonfire, which burned stone, then used the Thousand-Soul Banner to absorb the lingering yin energy.
• Ji Yuan sensed the Yin Ghost Banner stirring inside the Mass Burial Ground.

Ji Yuan tested the upgraded Mass Burial Ground, planned his next three years, and traveled with Scarlet Wolf through the Sacred Fish King's territory to reach the Ascension Gate. The Sacred Fish King warned that the gate would not open for two years and asked Ji Yuan to retrieve something on his next passage; Ji Yuan arrived at the gate and saw the vast ravine for the first time.

• Ji Yuan summoned two Pseudo-Core Realm Yin Ghosts, examined the Level Four Mass Burial Ground's effects, and planned to study spells and other cultivation skills during his three years with the Merfolk Clan.
• Ji Yuan obtained a sea chart to the Ascension Gate from Yu Yuan, declined the Merfolk women's advances, and told Lin Hu not to disturb him without reason.
• Ji Yuan set out with Scarlet Wolf, traveled east through the Sacred Fish King's territory, and encountered the Fourth-Order Sea Beast in the form of a small Spirit Fish.
• The Sacred Fish King told Ji Yuan the Ascension Gate would not open for two years and asked him to retrieve something on his next trip through the passage.
• Ji Yuan and Scarlet Wolf traveled for nearly three months and reached the Ascension Gate at the edge of Fallen Immortal Ravine.

Ji Yuan discovered that Fallen Immortal Ravine and the Boundless Wind Curtain formed a continent-spanning formation, then settled among the Merfolk and received a second Dan Yuan Fruit. Liu Yuan learned that Old Devil Ji was likely headed for the Cangluo Continent and decided to wait for him; Ji Yuan agreed to inspect a sea beast occupying the Merfolk Ancestral Land in exchange for their Tattoo Technique.

• Ji Yuan used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to confirm that a flawless formation enclosed the region and returned to the Merfolk territory to cultivate.
• Liu Yuan heard reports about Old Devil Ji, realized Ji Yuan might travel to the Cangluo Continent, and decided to wait for him in Western Border City.
• After two years among the Merfolk, Ji Yuan received his second Dan Yuan Fruit following a disturbing dream involving Zai Kui, Hua Yaoyue, and Du Wanyi.
• Yu Yuan showed Ji Yuan the Merfolk Clan's body-strengthening Spirit Liquid and asked him to kill the Third-Order Sea Beast occupying their Ancestral Land.
• Ji Yuan agreed to inspect the beast but requested the Merfolk Clan's Tattoo Technique as payment.

Ji Yuan learned the Merfolk Clan’s Myriad Demon-Bearing Art and set out to reclaim their Ancestral Land. He entered the cavern and began fighting its Long-Necked Flood Dragon, then unleashed his newly acquired Corpse Yin Demonfire.

• Yu Yuan showed Ji Yuan the Myriad Demon-Bearing Art and explained why he had chosen Scarlet Wolf over Lin Hu as his successor.
• Ji Yuan memorized the art, learned how Yu Yuan had lost the Ancestral Land, and agreed to investigate the Third-Order sea beast occupying it.
• Ji Yuan traveled through the undersea passages and discovered that he could use magical power inside the Ancestral Land, where a Long-Necked Flood Dragon guarded the cavern.
• Ji Yuan forced his way through the great stone doors and attacked the Flood Dragon with his fists, Sword Embryos, Yin Ghost Formation, and Thousand-Needle Basket.
• The Flood Dragon split into four real bodies and pressed Ji Yuan back, so he withdrew his Yin Ghosts and released a sea of Corpse Yin Demonfire.

Ji Yuan defeated a Third-Order Long-Necked Flood Dragon with Corpse Yin Demonfire, collected Spirit Liquid from the Merfolk Ancestral Land, and discovered a hidden Formation. After activating it, he entered a sealed chamber and captured a lightning treasure identified as Lightning-Chaser.

• Ji Yuan burned the Long-Necked Flood Dragon with Corpse Yin Demonfire, collected its Demon Core, and found a strange mark on the scorched wall.
• Ji Yuan opened a stone chamber with Yu Yuan's seal and gathered the overflowing Spirit Liquid and Spirit Paste.
• Ji Yuan discovered that the strange mark concealed a Formation, identified its nodes with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, and activated them.
• The Formation pulled Ji Yuan into an empty chamber, where a lightning wisp pursued him and shattered his protective glow.
• Ji Yuan used his treasures and silver needles to expose the lightning wisp as a dark cloud, then seized it and learned it was the Unusual Treasure Lightning-Chaser.

Ji Yuan subdued and refined the Unusual Treasure Lightning-Chaser, then left the undersea cave and returned to the Merfolk Ancestral Land. After consuming the Spirit Liquid and Spirit Paste, he broke through to the Middle Sinew Tempering Realm.

• Ji Yuan used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to find Lightning-Chaser, endured its lightning attacks, and wore it down until he could refine it.
• A voice from the cave’s Formation congratulated Ji Yuan on obtaining Lightning-Chaser and told him of its connection to the Star-Treading Wheel and Pagoda Mountain.
• Ji Yuan learned Lightning-Chaser’s uses, fed it lightning from the Thunder-Smite Sword, and tested its tremendous speed at the cost of much of his magic power.
• Ji Yuan left the cave, copied the Formation’s runes onto a Jade Slip, and returned to the Merfolk Ancestral Land.
• Ji Yuan practiced Ninefold Profound Yang while consuming the Spirit Liquid and Spirit Paste, then advanced to the Middle Sinew Tempering Realm.

Ji Yuan left the Merfolk settlement for the Ascension Gate after reclaiming their Ancestral Land, and the Sacred Fish King gave him a scale to deliver to the lord of Profound Serpent Manor. Meanwhile, Qiu Qianhai returned to the Cangluo Continent and drew the attention of local cultivators by announcing his name.

• Ji Yuan told Yu Yuan that he had dealt with the sea beast, then asked the Merfolk to prepare extraction liquid and cut him several huge pieces of stone.
• Yu Yuan announced that the Merfolk had reclaimed their Ancestral Land and credited Ji Yuan, who distributed pills to the grateful clan and later collected the extracted stone.
• Ji Yuan left the Merfolk settlement, gave Yu Yuan pills and Dharma Tools, and departed for the Ascension Gate after refusing to stay longer.
• The Sacred Fish King gave Ji Yuan a scale and asked him to deliver it to the lord of Profound Serpent Manor on the Abyssal Continent.
• Qiu Qianhai arrived at the Cangluo Continent and declared his name at the teleportation island, prompting a Blood Luo Mountain cultivator to send out the warning, “Qiu Qianhai is back!”

Ji Yuan escaped Fallen Immortal Ravine and reached the Abyssal Continent, where cultivators mistook him for the infamous Old Devil Ji and attacked him. As he fled with the golden-haired Mu Xueyao, she promised she could get them both away if he kept their pursuers busy.

• Qiu Qianhai killed a cultivator at the Teleportation Formation, then fled as more than ten Core Formation Cultivators surrounded him and his master urged him to hide his face and name.
• Ji Yuan waited for the barrier in Fallen Immortal Ravine to vanish, escaped the ravine, and flew east until he reached the Abyssal Continent.
• Ji Yuan encountered a golden-haired woman fleeing three Core Formation Cultivators, but the pursuers recognized his name as Old Devil Ji and turned their attacks on him.
• The woman identified herself as Mu Xueyao and said she had crossed to the Far Western Lands to find Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan and Mu Xueyao fled by boat as the three pursuers caught up, and Ji Yuan agreed to keep them busy for ten breaths while she tried to escape with him.

Ji Yuan and Mu Xueyao escaped three Golden Core cultivators, but Mu Xueyao insisted that Ji Yuan was the infamous Old Devil Ji, who shared his name, face, and strength. After reaching a hidden island, Ji Yuan tried to make sense of the apparent double and decided he would investigate whoever was impersonating him.

• Ji Yuan used his treasures and a powerful punch to hold off Li Hanzhou, Feng Buhui, and Yue Pan while Mu Xueyao activated the Pinewood Crane.
• Ji Yuan escaped with Mu Xueyao, leaving Feng Buhui unconscious and injured; Feng later claimed his Heart-Eroding Cauldron had poisoned Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan cut away poisoned flesh and treated his wound, then learned that Mu Xueyao believed she had met him forty-three years earlier in the Sand Prison.
• Mu Xueyao told Ji Yuan that Old Devil Ji had the same name and appearance as him, and that she believed they were the same person because of his strength.
• Ji Yuan withdrew to think while Mu Xueyao stood guard with Hundred-Insect Immortal, then concluded that someone on the Abyssal Continent might be impersonating him.

Ji Yuan learned that the infamous Old Devil Ji had made enemies and romantic entanglements across the Abyssal Continent, so he adopted the name Li Changshou and set out with Mu Xueyao for Western Border City. Meanwhile, Qiu Qianhai returned to Baldhead Mountain, killed two Spirit-Controlling Sect cultivators, and learned that another man with the same rare name was being called Old Devil Qiu.

• Mu Xueyao recounted Old Devil Ji’s many enemies and romantic entanglements, and Ji Yuan decided to use the name Li Changshou.
• Ji Yuan learned the local language from Mu Xueyao over half a month, recovered from his injuries and poison, and heard how she had maimed a grandson of a Black-and-White Divine Hall elder.
• Ji Yuan agreed to travel with Mu Xueyao to Western Border City, and she carried him east over the sea after complaining that his Rift-Splitting Boat was slow.
• Two Spirit-Controlling Sect cultivators searched Baldhead Mountain for Old Devil Qiu, but Qiu Qianhai killed them as soon as they landed.
• Nightmare True Lord used Qiu Qianhai’s body to escape pursuing cultivators, then hypnotized a Foundation Establishment cultivator and learned why Qiu Qianhai was being called Old Devil Qiu.
• Qiu Qianhai and Nightmare True Lord wondered how someone else could share Qiu Qianhai’s rare name and be mistaken for him.

Ji Yuan and Mu Xueyao searched the Endless Sea for the passage but found no trace of it, so they went to Western Border City, where Ji Yuan settled in to prepare for Golden Core Formation and search for Du Wanyi and Liu Yuan. Hua Yaoyue left the Water Dragon Sect and her disciples behind, while Ji Yuan later found Liu Yuan’s name on a list of Core Formation Cultivators.

• The Nightmare True Lord suspected that Old Devil Qiu and Qiu Qianhai were connected to the Dragon-Nurturing Land, but chose not to tell Qiu Qianhai and took him to seek a place to form his Golden Core.
• After searching the Endless Sea for over a month, Ji Yuan gave up looking for the passage and traveled with Mu Xueyao to Western Border City.
• Hua Yaoyue left the Water Dragon Sect after securing its settlement on the Desolate Ancient Continent, then entrusted Feng Zhitáo to Yun Qianzai and ordered him to take her on a voyage within three years.
• Ji Yuan explored Western Border City, rented a cultivation Cave Abode, and decided to wait for a third Dan Yuan Fruit before attempting Golden Core Formation.
• Mu Xueyao told Ji Yuan that Heavenly Fiend Mountain still claimed Old Devil Ji was on the Abyssal Continent and offered a reward for killing him.
• Ji Yuan spotted Drunken Sword True Person—Liu Yuan on a list of Western Border City's Core Formation Cultivators.

Ji Yuan reunited with Liu Yuan, searched for Du Wanyi after finding her alarming messages, and returned to Western Border City without locating her. He upgraded the [Ant Nest] and [Fish Pond], leaving with new Ice Flood Dragon hatchlings and the [Fish Pond]'s first Spirit Effect producing Millennial Cold Spirit Milk.

• Ji Yuan found Liu Yuan in Western Border City, and the two discussed Old Devil Ji, agreeing the impersonator likely came from the Cangluo Continent and promising to share any clues.
• Ji Yuan and Liu Yuan traveled to the passage's exit, discovered it had vanished, and found Du Wanyi's messages warning that a strange old woman was following her and that she was moving toward Western Border City.
• Ji Yuan and Liu Yuan searched Cloudsky City and Western Border City for Du Wanyi but found no trace of her; Liu Yuan returned after a year with no leads.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the [Ant Nest] to Level Two, awakened its ant-giant Spirit Effect, and later upgraded the [Fish Pond] to Level Four, producing two Ice Flood Dragon hatchlings and Millennial Cold Spirit Milk.
• Ji Yuan prepared to pursue further building upgrades while waiting for news about Du Wanyi and continuing to cultivate.

Ji Yuan spent years preparing for Golden Core Formation, securing allies to guard him and renting a secluded Cave Abode on Western Border Mountain. After consuming all three Dan Yuan Fruits, he successfully formed a four-colored Golden Core beneath a five-cloud omen.

• Ji Yuan studied the upgraded Fish Pond’s effects, continued gathering materials, and asked Mu Xueyao to find a source of Voidspace Stone; she traced the largest supply to the Bone Nightmare Sect and a Zhou Household that smuggled it.
• Ji Yuan waited eight years in Western Border City for the third Dan Yuan Fruit to ripen, then invited Mu Xueyao and Liu Yuan to guard him as he prepared to form his Golden Core.
• Ji Yuan rented Cave Abode Seventy-Three on Western Border Mountain, entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and began transforming his Pseudo-Core using the abundant spiritual energy and Dan Yuan Fruits.
• Five-colored auspicious clouds appeared over Western Border Mountain as Ji Yuan’s breakthrough drew attention, while Liu Yuan and Mu Xueyao waited outside the Cave Abode.
• Ji Yuan consumed his third Dan Yuan Fruit, completed his Golden Core, and unleashed a powerful aura as the auspicious clouds vanished.

Ji Yuan stabilized his newly formed Golden Core, hid his breakthrough from Western Border Mountain’s cultivators, and celebrated with Liu Yuan and Mu Xueyao before learning about Mu Xueyao’s revenge. He began arranging materials and allies for his next cultivation steps, then met Wen Jiu, who offered to help him join the Black-and-White Divine Hall.

• Ji Yuan stabilized his Golden Core, planned to refine it with Four-Color Spirit Eggs, and concealed his cultivation as a Pseudo-Core Cultivator when he left seclusion.
• Wen Jiu covered Ji Yuan’s Cave Abode fees, then realized from the Communication Talisman that Ji Yuan had truly formed his Golden Core.
• Ji Yuan reunited with Liu Yuan and Mu Xueyao, revealed his breakthrough, and celebrated with them for three days.
• Ji Yuan learned that Mu Xueyao sought revenge on the Yin-Baleful Sect and on the sand raiders backed by the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and he promised to help when they were strong enough.
• Ji Yuan returned Mu Xueyao’s strengthened wisp of Divine Soul and planned to gather materials for his flying swords and Life-bound Dharma Treasure.
• Wen Jiu invited Ji Yuan to the Hidden Immortal Pavilion and offered to recommend him to the Black-and-White Divine Hall.

Ji Yuan secured help obtaining the Nine Luminaries Stone and learned where to find a Profound Ice Fire Lotus, then joined Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman on an expedition. When a powerful Yin Corpse ambushed them, Ji Yuan stayed behind to let his companions escape and prepared to fight it with his Corpse Yin Demonfire.

• Ji Yuan declined Wen Jiu's invitation to join the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and Wen Jiu agreed to help him trade for two pieces of Nine Luminaries Stone.
• Ji Yuan reunited with Liu Yuan and his Golden Core friends, learned that Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace knew where a Profound Ice Fire Lotus grew, and said farewell to Liu Yuan as he left for Eastern Border City.
• Ji Yuan gave Wen Jiu three Dharma Treasures to exchange for the Nine Luminaries Stone, then set out with Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman to find the lotus.
• Inside a cave in the Heavenly Fiend Mountain Range, Ji Yuan sensed danger, but a Hairy Corpse trapped the three cultivators and attacked them as they tried to escape.
• Ji Yuan fought beside Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman, then ordered them to flee and stayed behind to face the Yin Corpse alone.
• Ji Yuan revealed his dark-gold armor, struck the Yin Corpse, and summoned his Corpse Yin Demonfire as Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman watched the darkened sky from afar.

Ji Yuan killed the Yin Corpse with Corpse Yin Demonfire, claimed the Profound Ice Fire Lotus, and escaped Heavenly Fiend Mountain before reuniting with Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman. After obtaining the Nine Luminaries Stones from Wen Jiu, he upgraded Heavenly Craft Workshop to Level Three and received a Zixiao Stone, bringing him closer to forging his Azure Waves Sword.

• Ji Yuan used Corpse Yin Demonfire to defeat the Yin Corpse, took the Profound Ice Fire Lotus and its roots, and found a second Yin Ghost Sect Skeleton Token.
• Two Golden Core cultivators from Heavenly Fiend Mountain confronted Ji Yuan, but he drove them off by revealing the Corpse Yin Demonfire and escaped with Lightning-Chaser.
• Ji Yuan reunited with Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman, then planted the Profound Ice Fire Lotus roots in his Spirit Field and returned to cultivation.
• Mu Xueyao told Ji Yuan that Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts might be behind attacks on the Black-and-White Divine Hall and Heavenly Fiend Mountain, while Ji Yuan decided to delay contacting the Zhou Household.
• Wen Jiu delivered the Nine Luminaries Stones and mentioned that the Black-and-White Divine Hall was facing trouble; Ji Yuan used them and his other materials to upgrade Heavenly Craft Workshop to Level Three.
• Ji Yuan received a Zixiao Stone and an Azure Flood Dragon Sword Talisman Treasure from the upgraded workshop, and planned to forge his first Azure Waves Sword.

Ji Yuan studied the Level Four Heavenly Craft Workshop, tested its Inverted Big Dipper Formation with Mu Xueyao, and forged the Azure Waves Sword as his first Life-bound Flying Sword. At a Golden Core Trade Fair in Western Border City, he recognized a mysterious latecomer seated beside him.

• Ji Yuan examined the Heavenly Craft Workshop's Nascent Soul-level Spirit Effects and upgrade requirements, then invited Mu Xueyao to test the Inverted Big Dipper Formation near Heavenly Fiend Mountain.
• Mu Xueyao entered the seven-layer formation, fought through its first two layers, and surrendered in the third; afterward, she accompanied Ji Yuan through Western Border City's markets, where they learned about an upcoming Golden Core Trade Fair.
• Ji Yuan used three Zixiao Stones and Water-Origin Gold to forge the Azure Waves Sword, fused it with its Sword Embryo, and found that its Zixiao Divine Thunder could rapidly charge his Lightning-Chasing Cloud.
• Ji Yuan emerged from seclusion, showed Mu Xueyao his new Life-bound Flying Sword, and attended the trade fair at Gathering Worthies Manor with Rogue Cultivator Qing Furnace and Master Iron Talisman.
• At the gathering, Ji Yuan encountered cultivators including True Person Luojia, Li Hanzhou, and Magui, then saw a white-robed latecomer sit beside him and recognized him with shock.

Ji Yuan recognized Mei Zhuang, a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator from Cangluo, at a trading gathering and accepted his gifts of Voidspace Stone. When Mei Zhuang demanded Ji Yuan’s loyalty or death, Ji Yuan invoked Hua Yaoyue’s warning about the beating Mei Zhuang had suffered on Ink Bamboo Island.

• Ji Yuan recognized Mei Zhuang at the trading gathering, and they quietly discussed how each had reached the Abyssal Continent.
• Mei Zhuang bought two pieces of Voidspace Stone from Magui and gave them to Ji Yuan.
• After the gathering, Mei Zhuang teleported Ji Yuan to a restaurant and asked about his plans and whether he would join the Black-and-White Divine Hall.
• Mei Zhuang demanded that Ji Yuan surrender a wisp of his Divine Soul and serve him, or die.
• Ji Yuan told Mei Zhuang that Hua Yaoyue had asked whether he had forgotten the beating he took on Ink Bamboo Island.