Recaps

Blood Luo King learned that Medicine King Valley had been annihilated and went to the Water Dragon Sect, while Ji Yuan recovered from Scorpion Madam’s poison and claimed the treasures and techniques of the two slain Nascent Soul cultivators. Meanwhile, powerful figures on Cangluo and the Abyssal Continent reacted to the killings, and Hundred-Blossom Immortal wondered whether Ji Yuan had become strong enough to kill a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

• The Holy Mother reported that Medicine King Valley had been destroyed and its people killed, while Blood Lady and the Holy Mother argued over who was responsible.
• Blood Luo King suspected Ji Yuan and went to the Water Dragon Sect, ordering Blood Lady to follow him and the Holy Mother to manage Blood Luo Mountain.
• Ji Yuan recovered, refined Scorpion Madam’s Seven-Colored Poison Pouch and Ten Spirits Ancestor’s Spirit Beast Bag, and acquired their cultivation techniques and other treasures.
• Ji Yuan sent Tu Yue to give Long Yun five Third-Tier Peak Monster Cores and demon beast corpses to help him advance to the Fourth Tier.
• Devil Lord White Bone and Demonflame True Lord learned Blood Luo King was heading to the Water Dragon Sect and decided to go there, suspecting a secret treasure or a connection to Spirit Transformation.
• White Elder told the Eight Sacred Grounds’ leaders that Medicine King Valley had been destroyed and two Nascent Soul cultivators had died, leaving Hundred-Blossom Immortal wondering whether Junior Brother Ji was responsible.

Ji Yuan traveled to the Cloud-Rain Marsh to bid farewell to the Water Dragon Sect’s former lands, but the Blood Luo King trapped him in a Fourth-Tier Formation and overwhelmed him. Injured and surrounded, Ji Yuan prepared to use the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and the Level Four Fish Pond’s phenomenon to lure nearby Nascent Soul Cultivators into a fight.

• Ji Yuan reached the ruined Cloud-Rain Marsh, saw that Blood Luo Mountain had transformed it into Demonic Dao territory, and decided not to enter the Water Dragon Sect.
• As Ji Yuan tried to leave, the Blood Luo King revealed himself and activated the Luo Heaven Blood Sea Formation, with the Blood Lady and Corpse Luo Old Devil waiting nearby.
• Ji Yuan rejected the Blood Luo King’s offer to join Blood Luo Mountain and fought back, but the Blood Luo King’s attacks broke through his defenses and battered him into the Blood Sea.
• Ji Yuan used Blood-Burning Crash against the Fuluo Old Devil, escaped the Formation’s restraints with the Void-Escaping Claw, and summoned Tu Yue’s Buddha Puppets to attack the Walking Buddhas.
• After the Blood Luo King struck Ji Yuan down again, Ji Yuan resolved to drink the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and draw more Nascent Soul Cultivators into the fight by unleashing the Level Four Fish Pond across the marshes.

Ji Yuan activated his Level Four [Fish Pond], causing a spectacular phenomenon across the Boundless Marsh that convinced the surrounding Nascent Soul Cultivators a great treasure had emerged. Blood Luo King fought Devil Lord White Bone and Demonflame True Lord over the supposed treasure, while Ji Yuan drank the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and prepared to enter the conflict.

• Demonflame True Lord and Devil Lord White Bone suspected a treasure tied to the True Dragon beneath the Water Dragon Sect had drawn Blood Luo King and his unknown opponent to the area.
• Lu Shi suspected the hidden opponent was Xu Sheng, while the other Nascent Soul Cultivators debated whether to join the looming fight.
• Ji Yuan summoned his Level Four [Fish Pond], stirring the Cloud-Rain Marsh and Boundless Marsh and causing numerous Spirit Fish and water beasts to break through.
• Blood Luo King left Blood Lady and Corpse Luo Old Devil to watch Ji Yuan, then confronted Devil Lord White Bone and Demonflame True Lord, who attacked him with their Life-bound Dharma Treasures.
• Blood Luo King unleashed his Ten-Thousand Tribulations Blood Stupa and gained the upper hand, making the watching cultivators reconsider joining the battle.
• Ji Yuan weighed the cost of using the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew, then drank it as Blood Lady watched from above.

After drinking the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew, Ji Yuan surged to Nascent Soul Peak, killed Blood Lady, and pursued Blood Luo King across the region. He destroyed Blood Luo King with his treasures and Zixiao Divine Thunder, but Blood Luo King detonated himself, leaving Ji Yuan to assess the aftermath.

• Ji Yuan drank the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and instantly advanced from Nascent Soul Early Stage to Nascent Soul Peak.
• Ji Yuan stopped Blood Lady from self-destructing and killed her, while Blood Luo King attacked him with the Ten-Thousand Tribulations Blood Stupa.
• Ji Yuan damaged Blood Luo King's stupa with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, sent Long Fei to capture Jiang Hong, and used the Star-Treading Wheel to pursue Blood Luo King.
• Ji Yuan caught Blood Luo King and struck him with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and twenty-seven bolts of Zixiao Divine Thunder.
• Blood Luo King declared that their enmity would end only with death, then detonated himself as Ji Yuan escaped on the Star-Treader.

Ji Yuan forced Devil Lord White Bone and the Demonflame True Lord to turn against Blood Luo Mountain, killed Jiang Hong and Corpse Luo Old Devil, and collected the souls of Jiang Hong, the Blood Lady, and others with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. After avenging Xu Fugui, Ji Yuan fled as his borrowed Nascent Soul Peak cultivation ran out, while Spirit-Communing High Person watched and wondered about his power.

• Ji Yuan confirmed that the Blood Luo King had escaped as a Nascent Soul and found a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Profound-Comprehending Ginseng in the Blood Lady's Storage Bag.
• Ji Yuan threatened Devil Lord White Bone and the Demonflame True Lord into promising to destroy Blood Luo Mountain when he returned to Cangluo.
• Ji Yuan searched Jiang Hong's soul, killed him on Water Object Island, and used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to capture Jiang Hong's and the Blood Lady's souls alongside those of Scorpion Madam, Ancestor Wuling, Bald High Person, and Ying Changkong.
• Ji Yuan learned from Jiang Hong's memories that Jiang Hong had ordered Heavenly Silkworm Hammer Person to destroy Xu Fugui's ship and kill everyone aboard, and Ji Yuan considered Xu Fugui avenged.
• Ji Yuan found and killed Corpse Luo Old Devil, then fled before his temporary Nascent Soul Peak cultivation expired.
• Spirit-Communing High Person appeared at the battlefield and wondered what treasure had let Ji Yuan reach Nascent Soul Peak.

Ji Yuan escaped the Cangluo Continent after defeating the Blood Luo King, then returned to the Abyssal Continent and learned that Wave-Listening Pavilion’s Senior Sister Baihua had gone to the Desolate Ancient Continent. He left Hu Li at Wave-Listening Pavilion and prepared to guard the Cloud-Rain Sect, where he was seeking a treasure.

• Ji Yuan used the Teleportation Formation to flee Cangluo with Hu Li, disguising himself as Fang Zhong to get past Black-and-White Divine Hall cultivators who had orders to seal the harbor.
• After reaching the Abyssal Continent, Ji Yuan told Hu Li that he had destroyed the Blood Luo King’s physical body, warned him to keep the matter and Ji Yuan’s origins secret, and took him toward Wave-Listening Pavilion.
• Ji Yuan met Zhou Cang at Wave-Listening Pavilion and learned that Senior Sister Baihua had left for the Desolate Ancient Continent two months earlier, while the Nascent Soul cultivators sent to the Star-River Archipelago had not reported back.
• Zhou Cang assigned Hu Li to assist Ping Banmeng at Wave-Listening Pavilion, and Ji Yuan departed for the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• Ji Yuan chose to guard the Cloud-Rain Sect because the Pill Cauldron Sect of the Star-River Three Sects possessed a treasure he wanted.

After returning to the Cloud-Rain Sect, Ji Yuan kept his identity as the feared Old Devil secret while Tu Yue finished sorting the spoils from his battles. He uncovered valuable techniques and Immortal Resources, and the chapter ended with Long Yun advancing to Fourth Tier as Ji Yuan prepared to leave with Long Fei.

• Zhou Cang told Ji Yuan about the Old Devil who had devastated Cangluo and the Blood Luo King, while Ji Yuan concealed that he was the culprit.
• Ji Yuan went to the Cloud-Rain Sect and inspected the sorted Storage Bags, deciding to save the Demonic Dao spoils for a future sale on the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Ji Yuan examined Blood Lady's and Corpse Luo Old Devil's cultivation techniques and Life-bound Dharma Treasures, and learned that Blood Lady's spoils included a Heart-Devouring Willow needed for the Chicken Coop's upgrade.
• Ji Yuan considered returning to the Abyssal Continent to gain control of Many-Ghost Devil Master and plunder the Soul-Refining Hall's resources.
• Long Yun advanced to Fourth Tier, and Ji Yuan told him to guard the Cloud-Rain Sect while Long Fei accompanied Ji Yuan on an errand.

Ji Yuan visited the Pill Cauldron Sect to trade Ageless Spring water for one tael of Heavenly Origin Resin. After the sect elders accepted the bargain, Dan Xuzi collected the resin from the Heavenly Origin Tree, leaving the trade ready to conclude.

• Ji Yuan rejected Tu Yue's suggestion to destroy the Pill Cauldron Sect and went there while Long Yun stayed behind to cultivate in his Cave Abode.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi discussed being summoned to the Desolate Ancient Continent and told Ji Yuan about a Barbarian God Continent cultivator whose combined body and dharma cultivation had killed several Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Ji Yuan asked the Pill Cauldron Sect for one tael of Heavenly Origin Resin, but Dan Xuzi initially refused because extracting it could harm the Heavenly Origin Tree.
• Ji Yuan revealed that a mouthful of Ageless Spring water could extend life by twenty years, persuading Dan Xuzi to agree to the trade.
• Dan Xuzi negotiated with the Heavenly Origin Tree, collected a bottle of Heavenly Origin Resin, and repaired the cut in its trunk.

Ji Yuan traded Nether Ageless Spring for Heavenly Origin Resin and learned where to seek the remaining resources he needed on the Desolate Ancient Continent. After investigating divination techniques and copying Xuanji Tower’s design, he finally activated the Star-Gazing Tower’s panel, which appeared as upgradeable at Lv. 0.

• Ji Yuan traded Nether Ageless Spring to Dan Xuzi for Heavenly Origin Resin and learned that Spirit-Candle Fruit was held by High Person Lingzhu while Lapis Lazuli might appear at the Beihuang City fair.
• Ji Yuan decided to travel to the Desolate Ancient Continent, leaving Long Yun to help Zhou Cang protect the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• Ji Yuan built the Star-Gazing Tower on Worry-Free Peak, but its panel did not appear after he added several divination items.
• Ji Yuan asked Zhou Cang about divination, inherited the Heaven-Peering Nine Transformations, and studied the layout of Xuanji Tower.
• Ji Yuan copied Xuanji Tower’s features into the Star-Gazing Tower, causing the panel to appear as [Star-Gazing Tower: Lv0 (Upgradeable)].

Ji Yuan upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower and used its divination power to locate Du Wanyi, discovering that she was alive but apparently in the hands of the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord. He gathered the resources needed to raise the tower to Level Three and prepared to divine Du Wanyi’s whereabouts again.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower to Level Two, gaining protection from Golden Core divination and the ability to divine Golden Core Cultivators once per day.
• Ji Yuan learned that the Cloud-Rain Sect possessed the All-Heaven Star Compass and Six-Yin Six-Yang Stone, and Zhou Cang gave him the key to the sect’s treasure vault core area.
• At the Wave-Listening Pavilion, Ji Yuan used the tower to divine Du Wanyi and saw her cultivating in black robes before a Devil Lord sensed the divination and severed it.
• Ji Yuan concluded that the Devil Lord was likely the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord and returned to the Cloud-Rain Sect to gather the materials for the tower’s next upgrade.
• Ji Yuan entered the treasure vault’s core area, retrieved the needed Immortal Resources, and upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower to Level Three.

Ji Yuan used the Star-Gazing Tower to discover that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord planned to seize Du Wanyi’s Nascent Soul to reach Spirit Transformation, but that she was not in immediate danger. After accepting an invitation to a council about the Desolate Ancient Continent, Ji Yuan confronted the Four Demonic Dao sects at Jade Spirit Island, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator arrived as the conflict began.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower, used Unveiling Heaven's Secrets to locate Du Wanyi in the Demon-Spirit Archipelago, and later learned that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord intended to use her Nascent Soul to pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Ji Yuan spent three months using the tower to find Early Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts, then learned from Dan Xuzi that High Person Lingzhu had called a council about traveling to the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Zhou Cang revealed his Fourth-Order Earth Dragon Hui and assured Ji Yuan that he could protect the Cloud-Rain Sect while Ji Yuan was away.
• At Jade Spirit Island, the Blood Shadow Cult Master destroyed Ji Yuan’s chair, and Jian Wuchen defended Ji Yuan before Ji Yuan insulted the Blood Shadow Cult Master and flipped the council table at the Four Demonic Dao cultivators.
• As Ji Yuan and the others faced off against the Four Demonic Dao cultivators, a Nascent Soul Late Stage man in a flame-red robe descended and challenged them.

Ji Yuan learned that he and six other Nascent Soul cultivators would depart for Desolate Ancient Continent in seven days to defend the Third Pass of the Three Southern Passes under High Person Lingzhu. After preparing and setting new goals concerning Du Wanyi and his allies, Ji Yuan left Cloud-Rain Island for the continent.

• High Person Lingzhu stopped the confrontation on Jade Spirit Island and ordered the seven Nascent Soul cultivators to assemble in seven days for the journey to Desolate Ancient Continent.
• High Person Lingzhu explained that the group would join Abyssal Continent cultivators to defend the Third Pass, while Desolate Ancient Continent cultivators defended the more dangerous Second Pass.
• Dan Xuzi and Jian Wuchen told Ji Yuan that a Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivator had sparked a previous Nascent Soul War by attracting a female cultivator from Barbarian God Continent.
• High Person Lingzhu announced that Beihuang City Lord had advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage, deepening Jian Wuchen's regret over their past falling-out.
• After the meeting, the cultivators agreed to cooperate on the journey, and Ji Yuan returned to Cloud-Rain Sect to update Zhou Cang and plan for his trip.
• Ji Yuan divined that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord would wait eighty years before resorting to other methods with Du Wanyi, then departed south from Cloud-Rain Island.

Ji Yuan arrived on the Desolate Ancient Continent with High Person Lingzhu’s group and reached Beihuang City, where tensions with the Blood Shadow Cult Master and Jian Wuchen’s history with the city lord came to light. While preparing for the Nascent Soul Trade Fair, Ji Yuan met the formidable Bai Yunzi, who would join them at the Three Southern Passes; the trade fair was about to begin.

• Ji Yuan traded Wishful Wine with High Person Lingzhu, who gave him a Fish-Dragon Candle that could summon his help once.
• Ji Yuan traveled with the Nascent Soul Cultivators across the Silent Void Sea to the Desolate Ancient Continent, where the Blood Shadow Cult Master provoked him until High Person Lingzhu issued a warning.
• The group arrived at Beihuang City, where the Beihuang City Lord welcomed them and Jian Wuchen refused the compensation he offered.
• Ji Yuan toured Beihuang City with Dan Xuzi and planned which Immortal Resources to seek and trade at the upcoming fair.
• Bai Yunzi introduced himself to Ji Yuan and Dan Xuzi, saying he would join them at the Three Southern Passes.
• High Person Lingzhu sent word that the Beihuang City Nascent Soul Trade Fair was about to begin.

Ji Yuan attended Beihuang City’s Nascent Soul Trade Fair in disguise, trading for materials needed to upgrade his workshop. The fair continued as he offered Zixiao Stone for Fourth-Order Monster Cores, while the Beihuang City Lord’s interest in him and another cultivator’s hostility left the gathering tense.

• Jian Wuchen gave Ji Yuan, Bai Yunzi, and Dan Xuzi Black-Rope Bracelets that disguised them as gray mist, and they entered the City Lord’s residence separately.
• The Beihuang City Lord opened the trade fair, and Ji Yuan exchanged Blood River sand for a Fire-Aspect Earth Dragon Demon Core before acquiring several more Demon Cores.
• Ji Yuan offered Zixiao Stone for Shen’s Lapis Lazuli, and the Beihuang City Lord arranged an exchange using Ten-Thousand-Year Soul-Nourishing Wood, leaving Ji Yuan with the Lapis Lazuli.
• Ji Yuan asked for Heart-Corroding Locust Tree, but a hostile cultivator threatened him, and the Beihuang City Lord intervened to prevent a fight.
• Ji Yuan traded three pieces of Zixiao Stone for an Earth Immortal Stone, then offered three more pieces for Fourth-Order Monster Cores.

Ji Yuan traded his Zixiao Stones for Fourth-Order Monster Cores and met the Beihuang City Lord at The Abode, where they negotiated for more cores and a Basic Teleportation Formation Diagram. After Ji Yuan left, Jian Wuchen and the Beihuang City Lord discussed recruiting him, while Ji Yuan revealed that a third person had been hidden in the Formation.

• Ji Yuan traded his remaining three Zixiao Stones to the Beihuang City Lord and two other cultivators for Fourth-Order Monster Cores.
• The Beihuang City Lord invited Ji Yuan to The Abode, where Ji Yuan agreed to trade for fifteen Monster Cores with specified elemental attributes.
• The Beihuang City Lord offered to obtain a Basic Teleportation Formation Diagram, and Ji Yuan gave him a flask of Ageless Spring as a deposit.
• Jian Wuchen appeared after Ji Yuan left, and he and the Beihuang City Lord discussed recruiting Xu Beimu into their organization.
• Tu Yue asked Ji Yuan why he had left without asking about other upgrade materials, and Ji Yuan said a third person had been inside the Beihuang City Lord's Formation.

Ji Yuan traded goods in Beihuang City and Black Tortoise City before reaching the Three Southern Passes, where he surveyed the fortified frontier and its ravaged battlefield. He learned that Elder Xuanji and the Wave-Listening Pavilion Master were alive but trapped in a Secret Realm with power beyond the [Star-Gazing Tower]'s reach, and the chapter ended as Bai Yunzi asked about the cultivator who had sparked the first Nascent Soul War.

• Ji Yuan uncovered the Beihuang City Lord's identity, sold goods in Beihuang City, and obtained fifteen Fourth-Order Monster Cores.
• Ji Yuan traveled with High Person Lingzhu's group through Black Tortoise City, where he struggled to sell Demonic Dao goods, then continued to the Three Southern Passes.
• High Person Lingzhu showed the group the Second Pass's One-Circuit Mountain Grand Formation, and Tian Xuzi described the recent attack and the devastated battlefield beyond it.
• Ji Yuan recalled that his divinations showed Elder Xuanji and the Wave-Listening Pavilion Master were alive, but that a power above the Fourth Tier affected their Secret Realm.
• Bai Yunzi asked Tian Xuzi where the cultivator from his sect who had sparked the first Nascent Soul War was now.

Ji Yuan met Hundred-Blossom Immortal after the Nascent Soul Cultivators were assigned territories to guard at the Three Southern Passes. He learned that the Barbarian God Continent was preparing another Nascent Soul war and left with a plan to protect his senior sister’s hidden identity.

• Tian Xuzi explained that Hua Zhongxian had brought back a Dao companion from the Barbarian God Continent and was now confined by his sect.
• High Person Lingzhu introduced One-Punch High Person, assigned the cultivators their territories, and explained their Merit Points and duties.
• Ji Yuan received the westernmost territory near Joyful Madam and secretly traveled west to meet Hundred-Blossom Immortal.
• Ji Yuan and Hundred-Blossom Immortal reunited, discussed his recent killings, and agreed she would claim that Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Hundred Flowers Maiden were twins if her identities were challenged.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal warned Ji Yuan that the Barbarian God Continent was preparing a second Nascent Soul war and gave him an item he had previously requested.

Ji Yuan accepted valuable gifts from Hundred-Blossom Immortal, then returned to Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and upgraded the [Chicken Coop] to Level Five. The upgrade produced a powerful Golden-Plume Thunder Roc and a Five-Color Spirit Egg, which Ji Yuan took to examine.

• Hundred-Blossom Immortal gave Ji Yuan the Heart-Corroding Locust Tree, and Ji Yuan gave her Blood Lady's Thousand-Phantom Blood Robe and a flask of Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew for her protection.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Ji Yuan that Bone-Nightmare Old Devil had been away for months and named the Abyssal Continent cultivators Ji Yuan considered enemies.
• Ji Yuan returned to Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and used the Heart-Corroding Locust Tree and Heart-Devouring Willow to build a new [Chicken Coop].
• Ji Yuan spent one hundred thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones to upgrade the [Chicken Coop] to Level Five, and its strange heavenly signs subsided without breaking through the sky.
• The Rooster King evolved into a Fourth-Order Golden-Plume Thunder Roc, and Ji Yuan named it Golden Plume after testing its Nascent Soul Middle Stage speed.
• Tu Yue brought Ji Yuan a Five-Color Spirit Egg, and Ji Yuan carried it into the depths of the [Spirit Vein] to examine it.

Ji Yuan refined a Five-Color Spirit Egg and learned that his Nascent Soul could not absorb its earth energy, prompting him to consider completing his Spiritual Roots. After divining that the Blood Shadow Cult Master had joined the Barbarian God Continent, Ji Yuan faced the man’s unexpected return and declared that the Barbarian God Continent was certain to win.

• Ji Yuan refined the Five-Color Spirit Egg, and his Nascent Soul expelled its earth spiritual energy because he lacked an Earth Spiritual Root.
• Tu Yue showed Ji Yuan the upgraded Chicken Coop’s effects, including its future Six-Color Spirit Egg, before Ji Yuan returned to cultivation.
• The Blood Shadow Cult Master visited Ji Yuan and warned that the Demon God Continent backed the Barbarian God Continent, then left him a Communication Talisman.
• Ji Yuan used the Star-Gazing Tower to divine that the Blood Shadow Cult Master had already sided with the Barbarian God Continent and was trying to recruit him.
• The Blood Shadow Cult Master returned a few days later, and Ji Yuan unsettled him by declaring that the Barbarian God Continent was certain to win.

Ji Yuan uncovered Thousand Illusion Old Devil’s disguise and learned that the Desolate Ancient forces already knew Blood Shadow Cult Master was a spy and were preparing to draw in their enemies. After confirming the situation, Ji Yuan met with High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil, then claimed that he too had defected to the Barbarian God Continent.

• Blood Shadow Cult Master mistook Ji Yuan’s claim of defection for proof that they were both allies, exchanged a Communication Talisman with him, and left.
• Ji Yuan used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to reveal that the first supposed Blood Shadow Cult Master had been Thousand Illusion Old Devil in disguise.
• Thousand Illusion Old Devil told High Person Lingzhu that Xu Beimu seemed clean while Jian Wuchen appeared tempted by the Barbarian God Continent’s offer.
• Ji Yuan visited High Person Lingzhu and exposed Thousand Illusion Old Devil, who had been hiding nearby as a decorative vase.
• High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil revealed that they knew Blood Shadow Cult Master was a spy and were nearing the time to draw in the net.
• Ji Yuan offered to help make further arrangements and told High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil that he had also defected to the Barbarian God Continent.

Ji Yuan convinced High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil that he had pretended to defect so he could infiltrate the Barbarian God Continent’s spies. At Sword-Wielding Peak, Ye Wuzhen recognized Ji Yuan’s cultivation method, offered him a chance to learn its later stages, and Ji Yuan later received word from High Person Lingzhu after months of cultivating and contacting the Blood Shadow Cult Master.

• Ji Yuan explained that he had feigned defection to infiltrate the Barbarian God Continent, and swore he would never truly defect.
• High Person Lingzhu revealed the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s plan to eliminate most of the Blood Shadow Cult Master’s spies and use Ji Yuan to gain the remaining traitors’ trust.
• Thousand Illusion Old Devil disguised himself as High Person Lingzhu while Ji Yuan traveled to Sword-Wielding Peak to meet Ye Wuzhen.
• Ye Wuzhen gave Ji Yuan a strand of Sword Qi, recognized his Azure Billows Nine Tribulations Sword Canon, and promised him a year’s leave to visit Yun Qianzai after the operation.
• Ye Wuzhen offered to teach Ji Yuan the Sword Canon’s later stages if Ji Yuan helped him after reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and told him to wait for the Blood Shadow Cult Master’s mission.
• Ji Yuan cultivated and exchanged messages with the Blood Shadow Cult Master for nearly three months before High Person Lingzhu contacted him.

Ji Yuan learned that Taiyi Immortal Sect planned to use the Sky-Burning Heavy Cannon as bait for a trap against Barbarian God Continent moles, and he set out to infiltrate their ranks. At Locust Valley, he joined a gathering of defectors, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator named Qiqimu arrived to command the operation.

• Ji Yuan learned from High Person Lingzhu that he had to survive Taiyi Immortal Sect's ambush, then use the other moles' tokens to gain the Barbarian God Continent's trust.
• Ji Yuan told Hundred-Blossom Immortal to leave the Desolate Ancient Continent every three years, then met Blood Shadow Cult Master and discussed the dangerous mission.
• Ji Yuan traveled to Locust Valley and joined Blood Shadow Cult Master, Fellow Daoist Xiong, Fellow Daoist Niu, the woman surnamed Huang, and Fellow Daoist Tian.
• Fellow Daoist Xiong threatened Fellow Daoist Tian, and Fellow Daoist Niu tried to calm their quarrel.
• Qiqimu, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator from the Barbarian God Continent, appeared and declared that everyone would follow his command.

Ji Yuan and the other cultivators traveled to Black Dragon Peak aboard Qiqimu’s Earth-Escaping Vessel and prepared to ambush Taiyi Immortal Sect’s party. The ambush began, but Ji Yuan’s opponent proved formidable, and Fellow Daoist Tian’s demonic methods were suppressed as the battle intensified.

• Qiqimu ordered the cultivators to ambush Taiyi Immortal Sect’s party at Black Dragon Peak, and he transported them underground aboard the Earth-Escaping Vessel.
• Qiqimu assigned the Sea-Moon Sect’s Fellow Daoist Huang to fight the enemy’s Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, while Ji Yuan and Fellow Daoist Tian were told to hold back a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• Ji Yuan sensed Taiyi Immortal Sect’s six Nascent Soul Cultivators and twenty-eight Core Formation Cultivators approaching with three Sky-Burning Heavy Cannons.
• Qiqimu led the ambush, killed several Core Formation Cultivators, and caused the formation carrying the cannons to collapse.
• Ji Yuan and Fellow Daoist Tian fought an elderly, white-robed cultivator whose whisk drove them back, while Fellow Daoist Tian revealed a blood-red banner and released a blood-mist formation.
• The elderly cultivator suppressed Fellow Daoist Tian’s blood mist and summoned a giant hand of white clouds to attack him.

Ji Yuan and his allies drove off the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s first assault, but Qiqimu ordered the Sky-Burning Heavy Cannons destroyed, triggering an explosion that exposed the group to a second ambush. Ji Yuan escaped on the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc and grabbed a valuable fragment as the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s hidden attack began.

• Ji Yuan pretended to be gravely injured while helping Daoist Tian withstand the long-bearded old man, and the two survived until the battle shifted.
• The white-skirted Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivator killed Huang and crushed her Nascent Soul, while Daoist Xiong killed another Taiyi cultivator and Qiqimu began preparing his witchcraft.
• The Taiyi Immortal Sect leader ordered a retreat, and Qiqimu stopped his allies from pursuing, suspecting the withdrawal concealed a trap.
• Qiqimu decided to destroy the three Sky-Burning Heavy Cannons, and Ji Yuan quietly moved away before everyone struck them together.
• The cannons exploded, Ji Yuan fled on the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc, and Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivators launched a second ambush as he seized a fragment and Blood Shadow Cult Master took another.

Ji Yuan killed the wounded Blood Shadow Cult Master, claimed his Blood-Devouring Cloak, and recovered valuable treasures, including two Immortal-Ascending Stones and the Barbarian God Statue. After months of flight, he reached an isolated overseas island and began cultivating in Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, where he noticed another building could be upgraded.

• Ji Yuan escaped Taiyi Immortal Sect’s ambush with the Blood Shadow Cult Master, while Qiqimu used Witchcraft and Fellow Daoist Tian was revealed as a paper-person avatar.
• Ji Yuan lured the wounded Blood Shadow Cult Master onto the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc, struck his Divine Soul with the God-Slaying Spear, and killed him with the Soul-Seeking Art.
• Ji Yuan claimed and refined the Blood-Devouring Cloak, then found two Immortal-Ascending Stones and the Barbarian God Statue in the Blood Shadow Cult Master’s possessions.
• Ji Yuan flew overseas for several months, found an isolated island, and entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain to cultivate.
• Ji Yuan checked his Panel and discovered that another building could be upgraded.