Recaps

Ji Yuan led the Cloud-Rain Sect disciples toward Blood Sword Island and humiliated the arrogant Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator Xing Jian when he tried to provoke a fight. After the three sects reached Sword Gate Island to rest, Ji Yuan sensed a ghost among the Heavenly Sword Sect disciples.

• Ji Yuan accepted the Blood Sword Island mission and token from Daoist Carefree, then departed with nearly three hundred Cloud-Rain Sect disciples in a carriage pulled by two Winged Sky-Soaring Tigers.
• On the way, Ji Yuan confronted Xing Jian, who aimed the Heavenly Sword Sect’s flying sword at the Cloud-Rain Sect carriage, and left him terrified after trapping him in an illusion and nearly striking him down.
• Huang Xiu of the Pill Cauldron Sect tried to prevent the sects from fighting, then led her group after the Heavenly Sword Sect while Ji Yuan followed with the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• The three sects arrived at Sword Gate Island, where the Qi Refining disciples set up camp to rest before continuing to Blood Sword Island.
• Ji Yuan examined the Pill Cauldron Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect disciples with his Divine Sense and discovered a ghost among the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Ji Yuan uncovered and killed Zhou Po, a Blood Shadow Cult infiltrator who had entered Blood Sword Island to sow a blood-fed demonic seed, then helped open the island for the three sects’ disciples. When the disciples began dying in huge numbers inside, Ji Yuan and the other elders could only wait for the passage to reopen; a brutal Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator named Zhu Guang arrived and killed Xing Jian, leaving Ji Yuan and Huang Xiu facing him.

• Ji Yuan detected that a square-faced Heavenly Sword Sect disciple was secretly a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator and used Dream Butterfly to isolate him from the others.
• Ji Yuan used the Soul-Seeking Art on the man, learned he was Zhou Po of the Blood Shadow Cult, discovered his plan to plant a blood-fed demonic seed, and took his soul and corpse.
• Ji Yuan returned to Sword Gate Island, checked the other cultivators, and helped Huang Xiu and Xing Jian open the passage so the Qi Refining disciples could enter Blood Sword Island.
• Five days later, the Life-Guiding Plates showed that disciples from all three sects were dying rapidly inside the island, while the elders were unable to reopen the passage or enter themselves.
• Xing Jian summoned a helper, and after the disciples’ numbers dwindled to fewer than ten per sect, Zhu Guang arrived; Huang Xiu identified him as a murderous Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator once imprisoned beneath Sword Cliff.
• Zhu Guang killed Xing Jian with sword qi and asked Ji Yuan and Huang Xiu which of them would die first.

Ji Yuan killed Zhu Guang after thwarting his attempt to open Blood Sword Island, then stopped a demonic beast and rescued the surviving disciples. Back at the Cloud-Rain Sect, he learned that the small blood-red sword was the Spirit-Piercing Blood Sword, which could weaken the Nascent Soul Heart Demon during Nascent Soul Formation.

• Zhu Guang attacked Ji Yuan with demonic blood swords, but Ji Yuan’s Zixiao Divine Thunder broke his weapons and overwhelmed his sword arts.
• Zhu Guang fled to Blood Sword Island and tried to activate its formation, but Ji Yuan caught and killed him, then captured his ghost in the Thousand-Soul Banner.
• A Late Third Tier Bloodthirsty Moon-Swallowing Hound and a disguised Heavenly Sword Sect disciple emerged from the passage, and Ji Yuan killed the disciple and subdued the beast.
• Ji Yuan escorted the surviving disciples away and brought the Bloodthirsty Moon-Swallowing Hound to Daoist Carefree, who agreed that the Four Demonic Dao Sects must answer for the incident.
• After Ji Yuan returned to Wine-Brewing Peak, he searched the sect records and identified the unstoreable blood-red sword as the Spirit-Piercing Blood Sword, which weakened the Nascent Soul Heart Demon.

After reaching the Golden Core Peak Stage, Ji Yuan learned the methods and risks of Nascent Soul Formation from Hundred-Blossom Immortal and prepared to attempt the breakthrough. After years of cultivation and eating Four-Color Spirit Eggs, he perfected his Violet Core, and the Purple-Gold Gourd opened to reveal a mysterious woman’s voice.

• Ji Yuan stored the Spirit-Piercing Blood Sword and planted the demonic seed in Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang discussed the Blood Sword Island incident and agreed to support Ji Yuan’s Nascent Soul Formation despite uncertainty about his loyalty to the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• The Star-River Three Sects allied against the Four Demonic Dao Sects, which eventually offered compensation after negotiations and conflict.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal explained core-shattering and the Heart-Demon Tribulation to Ji Yuan, and offered to lend him a personal treasure for his breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan cultivated the Five-Element Pure-Spirit Method, consumed Four-Color Spirit Eggs, and refined his Blood Core into the Violet Core Realm.
• The Purple-Gold Gourd opened, and a woman inside asked Ji Yuan where his endless Four-Color Spirit Eggs came from.

Ji Yuan trapped the Purple-Gold Gourd inside Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, killed its remnant soul Zi Qi, and recovered a method for creating an artifact spirit. He used the method to give Tu Yue consciousness, leaving her newly alive and in his arms.

• Ji Yuan moved the Purple-Gold Gourd from his Dantian into Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and confronted the woman inside it.
• The woman revealed herself as Zi Qi and offered treasures, knowledge, and a pact in exchange for help seeking revenge and obtaining a body.
• Ji Yuan rejected Zi Qi’s proposals because she knew too much, then attacked her with the God-Slaying Spear and used the Soul-Seeking Art to recover her memories.
• Ji Yuan found the artifact-spirit method in Zi Qi’s memories and chose Tu Yue to become the spirit of Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan completed the fusion, and Tu Yue gained consciousness before collapsing into his arms.

Ji Yuan prepared to form his Nascent Soul after learning how to awaken the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed, and he obtained the missing Six-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass and a talisman from Hundred-Blossom Immortal. He returned to Wine-Brewing Peak and began seclusion, while Hundred-Blossom Immortal ordered the sect’s grand formation activated.

• Ji Yuan learned from Zi Qi’s memories that Tu Yue’s Corpse-Liberation Body had nurtured a new Divine Soul, and he left her in charge of Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan discovered a method to awaken the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed for his Heart-Demon Tribulation, but he still needed Six-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass.
• Ji Yuan learned that Daoist Carefree was away and contacted Hundred-Blossom Immortal to request the spiritual plant.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal gave Ji Yuan a stalk of Six-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass and a Spirit-Guarding Talisman to help with his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan returned to Wine-Brewing Peak and began seclusion, while Hundred-Blossom Immortal ordered Formation Peak to activate the sect’s grand formation.

Ji Yuan shattered his Violet Core, formed a Nascent Soul, and endured a Heart-Demon Tribulation that confronted him with life without his Panel. After affirming his resolve to pursue the Great Dao even if he died, he overcame the Heart Demon, but the Nascent Soul Phenomenon began as he awoke in the Spirit Vein.

• The Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Zhou Cang that Xu Beimu had entered seclusion to attempt Nascent Soul Formation, and the sect prepared to protect him.
• Ji Yuan and Tu Yue revived the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed, and Ji Yuan entered seclusion inside the Spirit Vein with supplies for his breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan used giant Azure Waves Swords to shatter his Violet Core, then gathered its fragments to form his Nascent Soul.
• Ji Yuan swallowed the remaining Nascent-Soul Fruit and the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed as his Heart-Demon Tribulation began, plunging him into illusions of his earlier life and possible deaths without the Panel.
• Ji Yuan faced his Heart Demon and declared that he would continue pursuing the Great Dao even if he died, overcoming the tribulation.
• The Heart Demon congratulated Ji Yuan on becoming a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Ji Yuan awoke to find that the Nascent Soul Phenomenon had begun.

Ji Yuan formed his Nascent Soul and emerged from seclusion, then met with Zhou Cang and the Hundred-Blossom Immortal to discuss staying in the Cloud-Rain Sect. He revealed that Xu Beimu was an alias and that his real name was Ji Yuan, the Ji of Old Devil Ji.

• Ji Yuan formed his Nascent Soul while concealing most of the phenomenon, and cultivators across the region mistook his restrained display for a weak breakthrough.
• Dan Yangzi and Dan Xuzi, then Jian Wuchen and Jian Wuya, sensed the phenomenon and underestimated Ji Yuan's strength.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Ji Yuan discovered a formation-hidden cave beneath a waterfall and decided to speak with the Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang before investigating it.
• Ji Yuan emerged from seclusion, heard Old Drunkard report on events across the continents, and accepted Zhou Cang's invitation to the Founders' Hall.
• Zhou Cang and the Hundred-Blossom Immortal asked Ji Yuan to stay in the Cloud-Rain Sect, and Ji Yuan revealed that Xu Beimu was an alias and his real name was Ji Yuan, the Ji of Old Devil Ji.

Ji Yuan revealed his identity to Zhou Cang and Hundred-Blossom Immortal, joined the Cloud-Rain Sect, and learned that it shared a hidden connection with the Wave-Listening Pavilion. After discovering both sects were weakened by two missing Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, Ji Yuan settled at the Pavilion to cultivate and began studying the Azure Billow Sword Formation.

• Ji Yuan revealed his true appearance, and Zhou Cang and Hundred-Blossom Immortal welcomed him as a fellow Cloud-Rain Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Zhou Cang and Hundred-Blossom Immortal showed Ji Yuan the Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water Formation, which connected the Cloud-Rain Sect to the Wave-Listening Pavilion.
• Ji Yuan learned that the Cloud-Rain Sect and Wave-Listening Pavilion were one sect, with only Zhou Cang, Hundred-Blossom Immortal, and Ji Yuan remaining as Nascent Soul Cultivators after Senior Brother Huang and Senior Brother Zhao disappeared in a Secret Realm.
• Zhou Cang planned to return to the Cloud-Rain Sect while Hundred-Blossom Immortal stayed at the Pavilion, and Ji Yuan chose to cultivate in seclusion there.
• Ji Yuan named a peak Worry-Free Peak, installed several buildings inside the Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and began studying the Azure Billow Sword Formation.

After being installed as the Cloud-Rain Sect’s Grand Elder, Ji Yuan discovered that the Daoheart Demon Seed had been influencing his judgment and fought off its attempt to take control of him. He fully refined the seed and began considering his next cultivation and building upgrades.

• Ji Yuan returned to the Cloud-Rain Sect, received Dan Xuzi’s Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Jian Wuchen’s Sword-Soul Stone, and heard about a future Nascent Soul Trade Fair in Beihuang City.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal formally presented Xu Beimu as the Cloud-Rain Sect’s newly appointed Grand Elder before the sect’s disciples and elders.
• Ji Yuan examined the Daoheart Demon Seed and realized it had fueled his recklessness and could influence him even while he was refining it.
• When the Demon Seed sent black light at his Divine Soul, Ji Yuan crushed it with his Nascent Soul power and God-Slaying Spear, then completed its refinement.
• Ji Yuan moved the subdued Demon Seed beside the Soul-Calming Bell in his Sea of Consciousness and decided to resume studying the Sword Canon and try upgrading the Spirit Vein, which required a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.

Ji Yuan planned upgrades for his cultivation buildings, mastered the Thousand-Whorl Sword Domain, and refined the Purple-Gold Gourd before gathering leads from the Hundred-Blossom Immortal. After learning the Soul-Refining Hall controlled a Spirit Vein with a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, he upgraded his Thousand-Soul Banner and set out to take the stone.

• Ji Yuan listed the Immortal Resources needed to upgrade four buildings and decided to seek the Hundred-Blossom Immortal's advice after comprehending the Thousand-Whorl Sword Domain.
• Ji Yuan refined the Purple-Gold Gourd and released its flames, startling the Hundred-Blossom Immortal; he then asked her about the resources he needed and the Soul-Refining Hall.
• The Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Ji Yuan where to find Heavenly Origin Resin, the Heart-Corroding Locust Tree, and the Heart-Devouring Willow, and agreed to provide intelligence on the Soul-Refining Hall's Spirit Veins and defenses.
• Ji Yuan studied the intelligence, identified a remote Soul-Refining Hall Spirit Vein that contained a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, and decided to strike before the Many-Ghost Devil Master could pose a threat.
• Ji Yuan refined Ying Changkong's yin soul into his Thousand-Soul Banner, advancing it into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• After finishing his preparations, Ji Yuan informed the Hundred-Blossom Immortal that he was leaving and headed west to take a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone from the Soul-Refining Hall.

Ji Yuan infiltrated Northwatch Mountain to seize the Soul-Refining Hall’s Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, but discovered that the Many-Ghost Devil Master was guarding it. He defeated the Devil Master’s manifested form, planted demonic qi in the part that escaped, and claimed the Spirit Stone.

• Ji Yuan ambushed two Soul-Refining Hall Foundation Establishment cultivators, killed them, and searched their memories for information about Northwatch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan used his Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to breach Northwatch Mountain’s Fourth-Tier Formation and found no Nascent Soul aura, then descended into the Spirit Vein toward the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.
• As Ji Yuan began dismantling the Formation around the Spirit Stone, the Many-Ghost Devil Master appeared and revealed that he was gathering power from the Core Formation Cultivators in the mountain.
• Ji Yuan refused the Many-Ghost Devil Master’s offer to join the Soul-Refining Hall and released the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, sending its ghosts to attack the cultivators and plunder Spirit Stones.
• The Many-Ghost Devil Master used his Dharma Treasures against Ji Yuan, but Tu Yue damaged the Myriad Ghost Lamp and Ji Yuan’s Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain crushed the Devil Master’s manifested form.
• The Many-Ghost Devil Master escaped as ghostly qi, but Ji Yuan sent demonic qi into him before crushing the remaining wisps and claiming the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.

Ji Yuan defeated the Many-Ghost Devil Master, took Northwatch Mountain’s Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, and used it to upgrade his Spirit Vein before deciding to return to Cangluo. After reaching Winterfrost City, he reunited with Xing Shuang, learned the Eight Sacred Grounds and Black-and-White Divine Hall were hunting him, and received a troubling message from a weakened Wen Jiu.

• The Many-Ghost Devil Master persuaded the Soul Hall Master to inspect Northwatch Mountain and consider joining him in attacking the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but they found Ji Yuan gone and the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone taken.
• Ji Yuan upgraded his Spirit Vein to Level Four, cultivated amid the surge of spiritual energy, and saw that the next upgrade required Low-Grade Purple Spirit Stones and other resources.
• Ji Yuan chose to travel to Cangluo rather than return to the Wave-Listening Pavilion, and Long Yun carried Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain toward Winterfrost City.
• The Hundred-Blossom Immortal recognized that Ji Yuan was the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner after hearing he had defeated the Many-Ghost Devil Master and stolen the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Ji Yuan met Xing Shuang in Winterfrost City, learned that his portrait was circulating and that the Eight Sacred Grounds and Black-and-White Divine Hall were hunting him, then left to see Wen Jiu.
• Wen Jiu replied to Ji Yuan in a notably weak voice, saying he was glad Ji Yuan had returned.

Ji Yuan learned that Wen Jiu’s wife, Yan Lanlan, had been killed in a plot backed by High Person Jin’s family, and revealed that he had formed his Nascent Soul before agreeing to help Wen Jiu seek revenge. Ji Yuan infiltrated Jin Vulture Peak and killed Xue Shou, leaving High Person Jin to respond.

• Ji Yuan found Wen Jiu gravely injured in Winterfrost City and healed most of his wounds with Qi-Blood Pills.
• Wen Jiu told Ji Yuan that Yan Lanlan had died in a sand-bandit attack arranged by Xue Shou, High Person Jin’s legitimate son, after Wen Jiu acquired treasures in the Rakshasa Sea.
• Ji Yuan revealed that he was Old Devil Ji and had formed his Nascent Soul, then learned that High Person Jin was likely a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator based at Jin Vulture Peak.
• Wen Jiu gave Ji Yuan a Jade Slip containing information about Jin Vulture Peak, and Ji Yuan traveled there using concealment techniques.
• Ji Yuan entered Jin Vulture Peak during the funeral for High Person Jin’s younger brother and identified Xue Shou among the mourners.
• Ji Yuan beheaded Xue Shou and threw his head down the steps as a funeral gift, challenging High Person Jin.

Ji Yuan killed Vulture High Person with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, then learned that the Black-and-White Divine Hall had launched a manhunt for the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Returning to Winterfrost City, he found Wen Jiu gone and hurried toward Cold Bamboo Valley to find him.

• Ji Yuan chased down Vulture High Person, destroyed his treasures with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and killed him with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye before capturing his ghost in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Ji Yuan collected Vulture High Person's corpse and belongings, found the Ebony Soul-Nourishing Hairpin, and left a message claiming the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was responsible.
• Black Elder confirmed Vulture High Person's death, ordered a Nascent Soul Gathering, and issued a manhunt for the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• At Wave-Listening Pavilion, Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang suspected Ji Yuan had killed Vulture High Person and agreed to help him if his identity was exposed.
• Ji Yuan returned to Winterfrost City and found Wen Jiu's courtyard empty, then learned from a Voice-Recording Talisman that Wen Jiu had gone to Cold Bamboo Valley.
• Ji Yuan left for Cold Bamboo Valley to find Wen Jiu.

Ji Yuan mourned Wen Jiu and Yan Lanlan, collected Wen Jiu’s inherited combat skill, and began learning it before returning to Western Border City. He arranged to teleport to Cangluo, but as he prepared to leave the teleportation site, he sensed someone to the north.

• Ji Yuan found Wen Jiu and Yan Lanlan’s grave in Cold Bamboo Valley and read Wen Jiu’s letter, which thanked him, worried about Yu'er, and directed him to collect an inherited technique.
• Ji Yuan placed concealed restrictions around the grave, then claimed Wen Jiu’s deposit from the Clearfrost Repository Shop and received a piece of beast hide.
• Ji Yuan used his qi and blood to activate the hide and discovered that Blood-Burning Crash was a combat skill; the Martial God Tower’s artifact spirit explained its ranking and limits as Ji Yuan practiced it.
• Ji Yuan teleported to Western Border City, found that his old acquaintances were gone, and searched unsuccessfully for Du Wanyi before heading west.
• Ji Yuan paid 15,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones for a travel token to Cangluo and was told to return in a month; as he turned to leave, he sensed someone to the north, and Tu Yue recognized him.

Ji Yuan returned to the Cangluo Continent and followed Icefire Old Man to Heavenly Pillar Peak, where several Golden Core Peak cultivators gathered to seize a suspected Nascent Soul opportunity. As a battle began beneath the peak’s formation, Ji Yuan sensed that another Nascent Soul Cultivator was hidden nearby.

• Ji Yuan drove Nine-Fiend Venerable away from Icefire Old Man, then spent a month in the Martial God Tower mastering Blood-Burning Crash.
• Ji Yuan and Icefire Old Man returned to Cangluo through the Transcontinental Teleportation Formation, and Ji Yuan followed Icefire Old Man southwest from Coastal City.
• Ji Yuan followed Icefire Old Man and Luo Zheng to Heavenly Pillar Peak and discovered a powerful formation around the summit.
• Icefire Old Man, Luo Zheng, and Chen Mo joined forces to attack the formation, while Wondrous Thunder and Blue-Sea Old Devil defended it.
• Ji Yuan watched the five Golden Core Peak cultivators fight and concluded that another Nascent Soul Cultivator was concealed nearby.

Ji Yuan entered the contest for the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl, a treasure that could help Long Fei or Long Yun advance to the Fourth Tier. After Tuyao High Person claimed it and fled from Ji Yuan, Ji Yuan obtained the pearl himself and was recognized by Icefire Old Man, who asked if he was Senior Ji Yuan.

• Ji Yuan watched the Golden Core Peak cultivators fight as the Cloud-Sea Vortex formed and revealed the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl.
• Miaole True Person named the treasure, and Ji Yuan resolved to take it to help Long Fei and Long Yun advance.
• Tuyao High Person emerged from Heavenly Pillar Peak and claimed the pearl, but Ji Yuan appeared and pursued him with the Azure Billow Sword Formation.
• Tuyao High Person escaped through the mountain, so Ji Yuan returned to the vortex and took the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl.
• Icefire Old Man followed Ji Yuan and thanked him for saving his life in the Far Western Lands of the Abyssal Continent.
• Icefire Old Man recognized Ji Yuan and asked whether he was Senior Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan returned to Cangluo Continent, learned about its changed powers, and helped Icefire Old Man before heading toward Thunderclap Marsh. After giving Long Fei the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl and reuniting with Hu Li at Mystic Crystal Mountain, he learned Blood Luo Mountain had identified him as Ji Yuan; Tu Yue then reported Long Fei had reached the Fourth Tier.

• Icefire Old Man told Ji Yuan about Cangluo Continent's factions, including Blood Luo Mountain, Eastern Corner Mountain, and the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and named Blue-Sea Old Devil as his deepest enemy.
• Ji Yuan left and soon returned with Blue-Sea Old Devil's Storage Bag and a Qi-Blood Pill for Icefire Old Man, then departed toward Thunderclap Marsh.
• Ji Yuan gave Long Fei the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl, and she swallowed it before entering cultivation to advance to the Fourth Tier.
• Ji Yuan found Hu Li at Mystic Crystal Mountain, learned he had remained there and reached Golden Core Middle Stage, and heard that Blood Luo Mountain had learned Ji Yuan's identity.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that Long Fei had advanced to the Fourth Tier.

Ji Yuan traveled to Thunderclap Marsh to temper his body and break through into the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm. After enduring the marsh’s increasingly powerful lightning for an unknown stretch of time, he finally achieved the breakthrough.

• Long Fei advanced to Fourth Tier, while Ji Yuan learned from Hu Li about Blood Luo Mountain’s three subordinate sects in Shangdong and secretly planted a Daoheart Demonseed in him.
• Ji Yuan left Hu Li to gather more information and traveled south to Thunderclap Marsh, where his divine sense revealed crimson lightning sealing off the depths and dozens of Zixiao Stones nearby.
• Ji Yuan entered the marsh with Long Fei, Long Yun, and three Ice Flood Dragons, then advanced deeper as the lightning battered his body and Long Fei collected Zixiao Stones.
• Ji Yuan endured the lightning near the 180-li boundary, using Profound Yang Blood Amber, Scarlet Yang Bone, and the Ninefold Profound Yang to repair and strengthen his body while Long Fei guarded him.
• After a long, dazed period of repeated bodily destruction and recovery, Ji Yuan awakened amid golden light and achieved the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm.

Ji Yuan emerged from a two-year seclusion in Thunderclap Marsh with his physique, mana, and Divine Soul all at Nascent Soul strength, then tested the marsh’s increasingly dangerous lightning. Meanwhile, the Blood Luo King divined that Ji Yuan had returned to Cangluo as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Blood Lady asked where he was.

• Ji Yuan awakened in the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm, reunited with the injured Long Fei, and learned his breakthrough seclusion had lasted two years, three months, and eighteen days.
• Ji Yuan explored the scarlet lightning region of Thunderclap Marsh, discovered the black lightning beyond the two-hundred-mile boundary, and retreated when it damaged Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan manifested two Great Suns, decided to leave the marsh for now, and headed toward the outskirts with fifty-three Zixiao Stones collected by Long Fei.
• At Blood Luo Mountain, Blood Lady pressured the Blood Luo King to divine whether Qiu Qianhai had survived, while Jiang Hong watched anxiously.
• The Blood Luo King confirmed that Qiu Qianhai was Ji Yuan, had returned to Cangluo, and had formed a Nascent Soul; Blood Lady then asked whether he had divined Ji Yuan’s location.

Ji Yuan learned that someone had used divination to seek him, cleared the Martial God Tower’s second floor, and discovered that Miaole True Person had been killed and buried. Upgrading the Mass Burial Ground gave him the Netherworld Corpsefire, and he spotted a familiar corpse among the newly created Corpse Puppets.

• Blood Luo King said divination could not pinpoint Ji Yuan’s location, so he planned to lure Ji Yuan into a prepared burial ground.
• Ji Yuan felt a surge of dread while traveling and learned from the Martial God Tower’s artifact spirit that someone had used a divination secret art to seek him.
• Ji Yuan cleared the Martial God Tower’s second floor, earned a large blood-energy sphere, and reflected that he still needed stronger combat arts.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that Long Fei had killed Miaole True Person and that she had buried his corpse in the Mass Burial Ground; Ji Yuan found a scroll depicting the true Heaven-Thunder Hammer among Miaole True Person’s belongings.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the Mass Burial Ground and gained the Netherworld Corpsefire, which could freeze mana and turn cultivators into Corpsefire Puppets.
• Ji Yuan spotted an old acquaintance’s corpse among the new Corpse Puppets.

Ji Yuan learned that the Level Five Mass Burial Ground required many Nascent Soul corpses to upgrade, then used Hu Li’s intelligence to plan an attack on Medicine King Valley and confront Ten Spirits Ancestor. After luring Ten Spirits Ancestor away with a staged Chi Dragon sighting, Ji Yuan watched him fly toward Green Bamboo Mountain.

• Ji Yuan inspected the Mass Burial Ground’s new upgrade requirements and returned to find the injured Hu Li hiding near Mystic Crystal Mountain.
• Ji Yuan learned from Hu Li that Scorpion Madam and Ten Spirits Ancestor guarded Medicine King Valley, and that Blood Luo Mountain planned to establish a stronghold at the Water Dragon Sect Ruins.
• Ji Yuan decided to kill Ten Spirits Ancestor, sent Hu Li toward Coastal City, and infiltrated Medicine King Valley’s formation.
• Ji Yuan confirmed that Scorpion Madam and Ten Spirits Ancestor were cultivating beside the Ageless Spring, then withdrew to lure Ten Spirits Ancestor away from her.
• Ji Yuan arranged for a Third-Tier Peak Chi Dragon to kill two Golden Core Late Stage cultivators, prompting Ten Spirits Ancestor to fly toward Green Bamboo Mountain in pursuit of it.

Ji Yuan ambushed the Ten Spirits Ancestor at Dragon River Lake, then fought Scorpion Madam when she came to his aid. After destroying her and breaking Medicine King Valley’s Fourth-Tier Formation, he returned to find the Ten Spirits Ancestor’s Nascent Soul hiding inside the sect.

• The Ten Spirits Ancestor trapped Long Yun in a lake Formation and prepared to claim the Chi Dragon while Ji Yuan watched from concealment.
• Ji Yuan used Blood-Burning Crash to smash the Ten Spirits Ancestor’s body, but the cultivator escaped as a Nascent Soul toward Medicine King Valley.
• Scorpion Madam intercepted Ji Yuan, who broke her attack, survived her poisoned stinger, and struck her Divine Soul with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Ji Yuan burned Scorpion Madam’s body with Netherworld Corpsefire, then used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to destroy her fleeing Nascent Soul and shatter Medicine King Valley’s Fourth-Tier Formation.
• Ji Yuan collected the fallen treasures and Demon Beasts, returned to Medicine King Valley, and found the Ten Spirits Ancestor’s Nascent Soul hiding in an underground Formation.

Ji Yuan killed the Ten Spirits Ancestor, plundered and destroyed a Blood Luo Mountain subordinate sect, then set out to absorb his gains before visiting the Water Dragon Sect. Meanwhile, the Black-and-White Divine Hall ordered Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators to join an expedition to the Desolate Ancient Continent, and Hundred-Blossom Immortal prepared to go with them.

• Ji Yuan killed the Ten Spirits Ancestor with the God-Slaying Spear and stored his Nascent Soul Qi.
• Ji Yuan collected water from the Nether Ageless Spring, then sent his Spirit-Devouring Bees and Blazing-Fire Army Ants to slaughter the cultivators of Medicine King Valley and plunder their sect.
• Ji Yuan absorbed the souls of the fallen into his Human Sovereign Banner and decided to lie low before visiting the Water Dragon Sect and returning to the Abyssal Depths.
• Zhou Cang worried over Ji Yuan's absence, while Hundred-Blossom Immortal agreed to represent the Wave-Listening Pavilion at the Black-and-White Divine Hall's meeting.
• The Black-and-White Fiends announced that Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators or higher had to join the expedition to the Desolate Ancient Continent, with White Elder leading the group.
• The Black-and-White Fiends said Mei Zhuang would bring the transformed Demon Race great demons, and they warned the cultivators not to provoke them.