Recaps

Ji Yuan upgraded the Scripture Pavilion, gained a major boost to cultivation and the four arts, and discovered a witchcraft scroll whose limits he chose not to test yet. After years of seclusion, he learned a second Nascent Soul War was approaching and decided to head to South Pass One.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Scripture Pavilion to Level Three and used its effects to advance his Sword Canon proficiency before studying the Level Four upgrade requirements.
• Tu Yue found a witchcraft scroll in the Blood Shadow Cult Master's Storage Bag, and Ji Yuan learned it contained the Black Azure Sword, a technique that consumed spiritual power and vital blood.
• Ji Yuan decided to postpone cultivating the witchcraft until he could investigate whether the Barbarian God Continent offered a higher-grade option, and he failed to divine why the Desolate Ancient Continent lacked witchcraft.
• Ji Yuan settled into years of cultivation on the island, raising his Artifact Refinement Technique to the Fourth Tier while putting off his formation studies.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that Nascent Soul Cultivators were moving more frequently and that a second Nascent Soul War might begin soon.
• Worried about his acquaintances and interested in gathering resources, Ji Yuan decided to go to South Pass One while maintaining his identity as a Barbarian God Continent spy.

Hundred-Blossom Immortal hid her concern for Ji Yuan as Jian Wuchen and Dan Xuzi investigated her connection to the suspected traitor Xu Beimu. Meanwhile, Ji Yuan traveled into Barbarian God Continent territory, reached the City of the Celestial God, and was welcomed and rewarded by its elders, where he discovered something startling in his gift.

• Hundred-Blossom Immortal learned that Xu Beimu was being hunted and concealed her worry, while Jian Wuchen and Dan Xuzi suspected she was Hundred Flowers Maiden and discussed using the Cloud-Rain Sect purge as an opportunity.
• Ji Yuan crossed toward Second Southern Pass with the Blood-Devouring Cloak and met Ge Feng, who recognized his Barbarian God token and accepted him as Xu Beimu.
• Ge Feng escorted Ji Yuan to the City of the Celestial God, where Mu Tu and the three elders welcomed him as a celebrated ally.
• First Elder Zhong Xuantian gave Ji Yuan a Storage Bag filled with cultivation resources, and Ji Yuan noticed an unexpected object inside.

Ji Yuan used Zhong Xuantian’s Sacred Beast Fruit to advance the Dream Butterfly to the Fourth Tier, then learned from Tian Wenjing that the Second Nascent Soul War might soon begin. The chapter left Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing summoned to the central tent, where the Barbarian God Continent leaders dismissed their Nascent Soul cultivators before addressing the two outsiders.

• Zhong Xuantian gave Ji Yuan a Sacred Beast Fruit as a settling-in gift, and Ji Yuan chose to give it to the Dream Butterfly.
• Ji Yuan fed the Sacred Beast Fruit to the Dream Butterfly, which broke through to the Fourth Tier and gained stronger illusion abilities.
• Ji Yuan secretly gathered information about the City of the Celestial God while keeping his distance from its other cultivators.
• Ge Feng told Ji Yuan that Tian Wenjing had arrived, and Ji Yuan met Tian Wenjing and learned his true body remained elsewhere.
• Tian Wenjing warned Ji Yuan that the Taiyi Immortal Sect might attack the City of the Celestial God as the Second Nascent Soul War approached.
• The Great Elder summoned Ji Yuan, Tian Wenjing, and Song Jing to the central tent, where the tribal leaders left after their private discussion.

Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing learned that the Barbarian God elders planned to sacrifice them while refining the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, so they pretended to cooperate and considered how to seize its rare materials. After Tian Wenjing proposed a theft, Ji Yuan saw through his hidden motives and prepared his own counterplan, with divination predicting minor good fortune.

• Zhong Xuantian and Du Yu recruited Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing to help refine the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, offering a Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill and exemption from the front lines.
• Du Yu explained that the cannon required Five-Element Jade and a Fifth-Order Demon Core, and assigned the two cultivators to its dangerous Spirit Pivot Position.
• Ji Yuan used the Scripture Pavilion to deduce that the Spirit Pivot Position was a blood-sacrifice trap designed to consume their Nascent Soul Origins and souls.
• Tian Wenjing secretly visited Ji Yuan, identified the sacrifice plot, and proposed sabotaging the formation and stealing the cannon's core materials.
• Ji Yuan pretended to accept Tian Wenjing's plan, then recognized that Tian Wenjing likely intended to use him as a decoy and devised a counterplan.
• Ji Yuan spent a day and night preparing and used the Star-Gazing Tower to divine the venture's outcome as minor good fortune.

Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing helped power the forging of the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, but Du Yu revealed that they were meant to be sacrificed as its catalysts. The chapter ended as Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and You Ji attacked the trapped pair.

• Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing joined Du Yu, Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and You Ji at the Suppression Soldier Platform and were assigned to serve as the cannon’s Spirit Pivot.
• The group teleported to the underground Earthfire Furnace, took their stations, and began forging the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon.
• Over several months, Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing harmonized the furnace’s energies as the cannon’s barrel took shape.
• Du Yu activated a sacrificial Formation that drained Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing’s Nascent Soul Origins, while Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and You Ji revealed they had known the plan.
• Du Yu ordered the three elders to destroy Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing’s Nascent Souls, and they attacked as the pair remained trapped.

Ji Yuan turned the sacrificial array and the unfinished Godslayer Cannon against his enemies, killed Tian Wenjing, Mu Tu, and Fire Rock, and seized Xi Xingyu and the Xi Jie Demon Core. As Du Yu and Barbarian God reinforcements closed in, Ji Yuan detonated the cannon and escaped on the Star-Treading Wheel.

• Tian Wenjing activated three Bloodfiend Boundary-Breaking Talismans and urged Ji Yuan to help blast apart the sacrificial bindings, but Ji Yuan secretly redirected the power and used Dream Butterfly to disrupt the attackers.
• The explosions weakened the bindings and injured Du Yu and the three elders; Ji Yuan broke free, turned the cannon toward Tian Wenjing, and caused its unfinished weapon to grievously wound him.
• Ji Yuan summoned Long Fei and Long Yun, deployed his hidden techniques, and killed Elder Mutu and Elder Huoyan while Elder Youji fled.
• Tian Wenjing briefly reached Nascent Soul Late Stage and tried to seize Xi Xingyu and the Xi Jie Demon Core, but Ji Yuan killed his clone with Ye Wuzhen's Sword Qi.
• Ji Yuan tore open the treasure barrier and took Xi Xingyu and the Xi Jie Demon Core, then detonated the unstable cannon as Du Yu and reinforcements attacked.
• Ji Yuan collected three Storage Bags and escaped on the Star-Treading Wheel as the Earthfire Furnace collapsed, leaving Du Yu behind.

After escaping the Earthfire Furnace, Ji Yuan recovered and inventoried the treasures he had seized, then deduced that Tian Wenjing’s true body had posed as Song Jing to escape. The Barbarian God Continent issued a high-level hunt for Ji Yuan, while he remained hidden on a deserted island and saw the fleeing You Ji approach.

• Ji Yuan hid on a deserted island, recovered his strength, and examined the Five-Element Jade, Fifth-Order Demon Core, and Storage Bags taken from Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and Tian Wenjing.
• Ji Yuan used a Daoheart Demonseed connection to learn that Song Jing had left his tent and deduced that Tian Wenjing’s main body had been disguised as Song Jing.
• Zhong Xuantian blamed Du Yu for the Earthfire Furnace disaster, and Chi Kui volunteered to hunt Xu Beimu and recover the stolen treasures.
• Zhong Xuantian ordered a Blood Barbarian Pursuit Order, suspended large-scale offensives, sent Du Yu to the Ancestral Land Cold Pool, and assigned Shui Tian to oversee the front.
• Ji Yuan spent several days recovering and strengthening himself while Long Fei and the Thunder Roc refined their new treasures.
• Ji Yuan sensed You Ji fleeing toward his island with another pursuer behind her and greeted her as she arrived.

Xu Beimu’s sabotage of the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon was revealed as a covert mission, prompting the Barbarian God Continent to withdraw and the Desolate Ancient Continent to hail him as a hero. Meanwhile, Ji Yuan captured the wounded You Ji, killed the barbarian pursuing her, and secretly planted a Daoheart Demonseed in her before healing her; she awoke with an unexplained trace of reliance on him.

• Xu Chenzi and the defenders discovered that the Barbarian God tribes had abandoned their camps and withdrawn toward the City of the Celestial God.
• High Person Golden Sword revealed that Xu Beimu had destroyed the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, stolen its core materials, and caused the deaths of two Barbarian God elders.
• Ye Wuzhen disclosed that Xu Beimu had been sent undercover, revoked the warrants against him, and declared him a hero, while the Hundred-Blossom Immortal learned the news.
• Ji Yuan captured the fleeing You Ji and killed a Nascent Soul Middle Stage barbarian who had pursued her for her Mystic Yin Soul Physique.
• Ji Yuan secretly planted a Daoheart Demonseed in the unconscious You Ji and spent seven days healing her injuries.
• You Ji awoke and saw Ji Yuan, feeling a faint, unrecognized sense of reliance and tenderness toward him.

After saving You Ji, Ji Yuan used their dual cultivation to raise his Divine Soul to Nascent Soul Peak strength, then sent her back to the City of the Celestial God as his informant. He began his long detour toward the Three Southern Passes and reached the Desolate Ancient Continent’s southeastern coast after killing three Yan Sha Tribe cultivators who were attacking its people.

• You Ji awoke from her injuries, learned that Ji Yuan had killed Yan Sha, and told him about the War God Illustrated Canon, Chi Kui, and One Saber of No-Self.
• Ji Yuan persuaded You Ji to dual cultivate with him, and her Mystic Yin Soulforce transformed his Divine Soul until it reached Nascent Soul Peak strength and could briefly leave his body.
• Three days later, Ji Yuan gave You Ji a jade pendant and sent her back to the City of the Celestial God to watch the Barbarian God Continent and report on its Witchcraft inheritances and Chi Kui.
• As Ji Yuan flew east over the Endless Sea, he killed three Golden Core cultivators of the Yan Sha Tribe who were about to kill three cultivators from the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• After a month of travel, Ji Yuan reached the southeastern coast of the Desolate Ancient Continent.

After returning from South Pass One, Ji Yuan reported his achievements to Ye Wuzhen and received protection, valuable cultivation resources, and access to the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s Sword Mound. He reunited with Hundred-Blossom Immortal, asked her to watch for his enemies, and then entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain to upgrade his buildings.

• Ji Yuan met the Thousand Illusion Old Devil in a market town, learned which powerful figures were plotting against him and the Cloud-Rain Sect, and went with him to meet High Person Lingzhu.
• High Person Lingzhu escorted Ji Yuan and the Thousand Illusion Old Devil to Sword-Wielding Peak, where Ye Wuzhen praised Ji Yuan’s feat of destroying the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon and preventing a war.
• Ji Yuan explained how he had sabotaged the Earthfire Furnace and used Ye Wuzhen’s sword qi, then received protection for the Cloud-Rain Sect and requested numerous cultivation resources.
• Ye Wuzhen granted Ji Yuan most of his requests, promised to send the remaining rare materials, and offered him three months to study the Sword-Testing Stone in the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s Sword Mound.
• Ji Yuan visited Hundred-Blossom Immortal, learned she had followed his advice to leave the continent for half a year, and asked her to watch for several enemies while he dealt with the Heavenly Sword Sect and Pill Cauldron Sect.
• Ji Yuan left for a nearby hill instead of Serenity Valley and entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain to upgrade his buildings with the resources he had obtained.

Ji Yuan upgraded the Martial Practice Arena to Level Four and broke through to the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm Middle Stage. At the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Yun Qianzai joined the second rotation bound for the Three Southern Passes and prepared to meet the famous Xu Beimu, while promising to reunite with Feng Zhitáo and find Ji Yuan afterward.

• Ji Yuan used the Geng Metal Mother Ore, Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow Stone, Spirit Stones, and Demon Cores to upgrade the Martial Practice Arena, triggering an Upgrade Critical Hit.
• Ji Yuan practiced the Standing and Walking Stances, awakened his remnant blood vitality, and broke through to the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm Middle Stage.
• Ji Yuan checked the upgraded arena's panel, confirmed he could access the fourth floor of the Martial God Tower, and received High Person Lingzhu's message that Elder Ye had delivered the remaining materials.
• True Person Tai'er gathered the Nascent Soul cultivators for the Three Southern Passes rotation, gave them instructions, and urged them to take note of Xu Beimu.
• Yun Qianzai arrived with a theatrical entrance and decided to meet Xu Beimu at the Three Southern Passes to compare their reputations.
• Feng Zhitáo warned Yun Qianzai to avoid trouble, and he gave her a protective jade tablet before agreeing they would find Ji Yuan after his front-line duties.

Ji Yuan received supplies from High Person Lingzhu and learned that Tian Wenjing was likely targeting a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation. He upgraded the [Pigsty] to Level Five, gained the Demon Venerable Black Baleful transformation, and saw the materials required for Level Six.

• Ji Yuan accepted the Mountain-Shifting Ape corpse, Evergreen Water, and Spirit-Candle Fruit from High Person Lingzhu, then asked about Tian Wenjing.
• High Person Lingzhu explained that Tian Wenjing was a rogue cultivator known for his clones and suspected he had infiltrated the front line as Song Jing to pursue a Fifth-Tier Demon Core and possibly the Five-Element Jade.
• Ji Yuan returned to his secluded valley and entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain with the materials needed to upgrade the [Pigsty].
• Ji Yuan upgraded the [Pigsty] to Level Five, strengthening its body-tempering field and unlocking Demon Venerable Black Baleful.
• Ji Yuan tested the transformation, found that it boosted his physical abilities but rapidly consumed his blood and vital energy, and checked the unavailable Level Six upgrade requirements.

Ji Yuan upgraded the [Heavenly Craft Workshop], gaining powerful crafting inheritances, a new flame, and the Strange Gate Eight Trigrams Formation, which he tested against Long Fei. After discovering the Level Five workshop could help repair his Spiritual Root, he returned to explore the Heavenly Craft Domain.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the [Heavenly Craft Workshop] to Level Four, receiving the Heavenly Origin Divine Talisman method, the Mystic Nascent Pill recipe, Spirit-Candle Nascent Flame, and the Strange Gate Eight Trigrams Formation.
• Ji Yuan tested the formation in a remote valley, where Long Fei was trapped by its shifting gates and could not escape for nearly half an hour.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the workshop to Level Five and learned that the Origin of Ten Thousand Laws Talisman could repair defects in his Spiritual Root on its first use.
• Ji Yuan studied the new Spirit Effects and daunting requirements for a future upgrade, then returned to the workshop to explore the Heavenly Craft Domain.
• Ji Yuan entered the Heavenly Craft Domain as clouds and mist swallowed him.

Ji Yuan broke through to Fourth-Tier Formation Master, upgraded the Meteor Cannon to Level Four, and traveled to meet his second senior brother, Yun Qianzai. The chapter ended with Yun Qianzai recognizing Ji Yuan after he delivered an extravagant boast on a snowy peak.

• Ji Yuan used the Heavenly Craft Domain and a Clear-Mind Fruit to comprehend formations and become a Fourth-Tier Formation Master.
• High Person Lingzhu gave Ji Yuan the Immortal-Ascending Stone and Essence of the Nine Yangs, and advised him to leave the Three Southern Passes once his urgent matters were handled.
• Ji Yuan learned from Hundred-Blossom Immortal that Yun Qianzai had arrived, then upgraded the Meteor Cannon to Level Four, giving it the power to kill cultivators up to the Spirit Transformation Middle Stage.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Ji Yuan that Yun Qianzai was stationed in East District Seven, and Ji Yuan went to find him on Frost-Soul Peak.
• Ji Yuan imitated Yun Qianzai’s style of showing off and proclaimed that the immortal path would have lain in darkness for ten thousand ages without him, prompting Yun Qianzai to recognize him as Xu Beimu.

Ji Yuan revealed his identity to Yun Qianzai, and the two reunited after years apart, shared news of their sect and companions, and discussed their plans. After Yun Qianzai gave Ji Yuan a Basic Teleportation Formation Diagram, they left the Three Southern Passes for Taiyi City, where Ji Yuan hoped to see his junior sister.

• Ji Yuan posed as Xu Beimu and impressed Yun Qianzai with grand declarations before removing his Form-Changing Talisman and revealing himself as Yun Qianzai’s long-lost youngest junior brother.
• Yun Qianzai explained how he raised the Water Dragon Sect’s standing by challenging Taiyi Immortal Sect Formation Masters, and Ji Yuan told him that Ran Kui had died and that he had avenged him against Blood Luo Mountain.
• Yun Qianzai updated Ji Yuan on Feng Zhitáo, Li Changhe, Wen Ling'er, and Many-Treasure True Person, while Ji Yuan named several enemies he still planned to confront.
• Yun Qianzai described his experimental portable teleportation formation and drew Ji Yuan a Basic Teleportation Formation Diagram on ice.
• Yun Qianzai secured leave from the Three Southern Passes, and after half a month together, he and Ji Yuan departed through the teleportation formation for Taiyi City.

Ji Yuan reunited with Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai in Taiyi City, then traveled with them to the Water Dragon Sect’s new base at Dreamcloud Great Marsh. The chapter ended with the sect master recognizing Ji Yuan and greeting him as the sect’s master.

• Ji Yuan and Yun Qianzai arrived in Taiyi City, where Ji Yuan sold his spare treasures for a large trove of Spirit Stones.
• Feng Zhitáo received Yun Qianzai’s message, rushed to his courtyard, and tearfully reunited with Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan showed Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai Ran Kui’s remains and vowed to avenge him and bury him at the Water Dragon Sect Ruins.
• The three traveled to the Water Dragon Sect’s new base near Biling City and met Profound Water True Person, Liexiao True Person, True Person Celestial Chef, and Li Changhe.
• Profound Water True Person recognized Ji Yuan and bowed to him as the Water Dragon Sect’s master.

Ji Yuan reunited with the Water Dragon Sect, accepted its sect-master position, and helped establish its strength alongside Yun Qianzai. After learning that four Demonic Cultivators had gathered at the Nine Nether Rift ahead of a possible Demonic Dao ruin, Ji Yuan decided to go there alone to settle old grudges and seek an opportunity.

• Profound Water True Person revealed that he had made Ji Yuan the Water Dragon Sect's sect master years earlier, and Liexiao True Person, True Person Celestial Chef, and Li Changhe formally acknowledged Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan declined to replace Profound Water True Person in day-to-day leadership and privately learned from Li Changhe that the Li Family had preserved only the Sword Canon's stages up to Nascent Soul.
• Ji Yuan and Yun Qianzai displayed their Nascent Soul auras together, warning nearby powers that the Water Dragon Sect now had two Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Ji Yuan paid the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion for information and learned that the Profound Serpent Manor Master, Heavenly Baleful, Bone Demon, and the Ten-Thousand Poisons Valley Master had gathered at the Nine Nether Rift before a possible Demonic Dao ruin emerged.
• Ji Yuan resolved to travel to the Nine Nether Rift alone, while Yun Qianzai warned him not to risk his life for revenge.

Ji Yuan traveled to Yinbone City and secretly followed three Nascent Soul Cultivators into the Nine Nether Rift, where he confronted a gathering of powerful Demonic Cultivators. After killing High Person Mago in one strike, Ji Yuan revealed his true Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivation and demanded recognition from the gathering.

• Yun Qianzai gave Ji Yuan a Void-Escape Jade, while Feng Zhitáo gave him Crimson Sun Warm Jade Powder and an Image-Transmitting Talisman before he departed for the northwest.
• Ji Yuan disguised his appearance and cultivation in Yinbone City, learned that the Nine Nether Rift lay thirty thousand li away, and tracked three Nascent Soul Cultivators toward it.
• Ji Yuan entered a ravine at the Nine Nether Rift and found a gathering of Nascent Soul Cultivators, including Fairy Mei, Devil Lord Hei Shi, and Black Elder.
• After the three Nascent Soul Early Stage newcomers fled, High Person Mago attacked Ji Yuan, who killed him with a single strike and collected his Storage Ring and banner.
• Black Elder identified Ji Yuan as a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, and Ji Yuan challenged the gathering to acknowledge his right to remain.

Ji Yuan entered the newly opened Nine Nether Rift and explored the Yin-Baleful Maze Cavern, where he found Profound Serpent Manor Master and High Person Qianzhen disputing over seven Soul-Calming Netherstones. The two prepared to fight, leaving Ji Yuan concealed nearby as High Person Qianzhen activated a Formation.

• Ji Yuan killed High Person Mago’s lingering soul, and Blackflame Devil Lord recognized his strength and Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm physique.
• Ji Yuan assessed the gathering’s powerful cultivators as the Nine Nether Rift opened, then bought Fairy Mei’s map and entered the rift last.
• Ji Yuan arrived in the Yin-Baleful Maze Cavern, explored its passages, and encountered Baleful Remnant Souls and ancient remains.
• Ji Yuan detected Profound Serpent Manor Master and High Person Qianzhen confronting each other over seven Soul-Calming Netherstones.
• High Person Qianzhen activated a Formation around the cave and challenged Profound Serpent Manor Master to test it.

Ji Yuan watched High Person Qianzhen battle the Profound Serpent Manor Master over the Soul-Calming Netherstones, while High Person Bloodslaughter waited in hiding. After Bloodslaughter ambushed them both, Ji Yuan intervened and helped ensure the Profound Serpent Manor Master was cut down, settling their old grudge.

• Ji Yuan detected High Person Bloodslaughter concealed behind a stone pillar as the Profound Serpent Manor Master and High Person Qianzhen fought over the Soul-Calming Netherstones.
• High Person Qianzhen countered the Profound Serpent Manor Master's attacks with formations, but the Profound Serpent revealed his true body and later trapped Qianzhen with venom and hidden snakes, grievously wounding him.
• High Person Bloodslaughter emerged from hiding and unleashed a devastating saber strike at the injured Profound Serpent and Qianzhen.
• The Profound Serpent Manor Master blocked the saber with his life-bound Profound Serpent Awl, but the clash destroyed the treasure and left him near death.
• Ji Yuan shattered the Profound Serpent Awl with a punch, then redirected Bloodslaughter's saber aura so it struck and split the Profound Serpent Manor Master in two.

Ji Yuan killed the Profound Serpent Manor Master and escaped Bloodslaughter’s pursuit before exploring the Nine Nether Rift’s ruins. He discovered Bloodslaughter hiding outside an ancient Corpse-Refining Cavern, where the Ten-Thousand Poisons Valley Master, the Soul Hall Master, and Bone Demon Old Devil were fighting its ancient corpses.

• High Person Qianzhen trapped Profound Serpent’s Nascent Soul, and Ji Yuan joined him to fight Bloodslaughter in exchange for the Nascent Soul, a concealment talisman, and three Soul-Calming Netherstones.
• Ji Yuan and Qianzhen’s formations overwhelmed Bloodslaughter, who burned his blood essence and Divine Soul to escape the cavern, badly wounded.
• Ji Yuan revealed his true face to Profound Serpent, who recognized the former Golden Core cultivator he had once hunted, and Ji Yuan destroyed his Divine Soul and divided the agreed Netherstones with Qianzhen.
• Ji Yuan hid in a fissure, refined one Soul-Calming Netherstone, then spent half a month crossing the maze toward its middle layer.
• Ji Yuan followed Bloodslaughter’s concealed trail to the ruins and found him healing outside the Ancient Demon Corpse-Refining Cavern rather than fighting inside it.
• Ji Yuan secretly sensed that the Ten-Thousand Poisons Valley Master, the Soul Hall Master, and Bone Demon Old Devil were fighting ancient corpses inside the cavern while Bloodslaughter watched from hiding.

Ji Yuan ambushed Bone Demon Old Devil in the Ancient Demon Corpse-Refining Cavern after the Ten-Thousand Poisons Valley Master fled, but his apparent victory proved to be an illusion created by the Great Dream Demon Scripture. Bone Demon Old Devil revealed himself unharmed and addressed Ji Yuan as his disciple, leaving them face to face.

• Bone Demon Old Devil and the Soul Hall Master drove off the Ten-Thousand Poisons Valley Master after revealing that their dispute over the Corpse King Heart Core had been a ruse.
• Ji Yuan used Lure-Killing-Intent Incense to draw Bone Demon Old Devil and the Soul Hall Master's attention toward the entrance, then attacked Bone Demon Old Devil from the shadows.
• Ji Yuan broke through Bone Demon Old Devil's Eroding-Bone Yin Baleful Intent, pierced his defenses, and sent Spirit-Candle Nascent Flame into his shoulder.
• The wounded Bone Demon Old Devil's form warped and vanished, revealing that Ji Yuan had attacked an illusion.
• Bone Demon Old Devil emerged unharmed from the gray mist, identified himself as Ji Yuan's master, and invoked the Great Dream Demon Scripture.

Ji Yuan used his Fourth Tier Dream Butterfly to turn Bone Demon Old Devil’s dream realm against him, then wounded him and drove the Soul Hall Master to flee into a fight with High Person Bloodslaughter. Ji Yuan overwhelmed Bone Demon with a series of attacks, but Bone Demon summoned an Earth-Baleful Armored Beast and then attempted to detonate his Life-bound Dharma Treasure as Ji Yuan closed in.

• Ji Yuan revealed that his Fourth Tier Dream Butterfly had layered an illusion over Bone Demon Old Devil’s dream realm and struck Bone Demon while he was breaking free.
• Bone Demon Old Devil urged the Soul Hall Master to join him against Ji Yuan, but the Soul Hall Master tried to withdraw; Ji Yuan exposed their private exchange, prompting the Soul Hall Master to flee and encounter High Person Bloodslaughter outside.
• Ji Yuan attacked Bone Demon with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, close-combat blows, Netherworld Corpsefire, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and the God-Slaying Spear.
• Bone Demon Old Devil summoned a Fourth-Tier Mid Stage Earth-Baleful Armored Beast, but Dream Butterfly and Long Fei held it off together.
• With his options exhausted, Bone Demon Old Devil tried to detonate the Dream Demon Soul-Painting Brush and his wounded body, while Ji Yuan moved to stop him.

Ji Yuan killed Bone Demon Old Devil with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, but Bone Demon's Nascent Soul escaped deeper into the Nine Nether Rift. After High Person Bloodslaughter fled and Hun San surrendered, Ji Yuan made Hun San his subordinate and prepared to investigate the Ancient Demon Corpse Refining Ground.

• Ji Yuan's Truth-Piercing Divine Eye destroyed Bone Demon Old Devil's head and Divine Soul, stopping the Dream Demon Soul-Painting Brush from detonating, but Bone Demon's Nascent Soul escaped into the depths of the Nine Nether Rift.
• Ji Yuan collected Bone Demon Old Devil's damaged treasure, belongings, and corpse, then replenished his strength with Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Profound Yang Blood Amber.
• When Ji Yuan appeared during High Person Bloodslaughter's fight with the Soul Hall Master, Bloodslaughter fled using a Blood-Escape Secret Art, and Hun San offered to surrender.
• Ji Yuan used Daoheart Demonseed to control Hun San, whose hatred and resistance gave way to loyalty, then ordered him to hunt Bone Demon's Nascent Soul.
• Ji Yuan gave Hun San healing supplies and a Communication Talisman, then turned his attention to the secrets of the Ancient Demon Corpse Refining Ground and the wounded Silver-Armored Corpse King.

Ji Yuan discovered that the Ancient Demon Corpse-Refining Cavern was built over a vast Formation and defeated the Silver-Armored Corpse King with his Demon Venerable Black Baleful Form. He found and claimed the Blood Marrow Coffin, while a faint voice from beneath the earth whispered, “Black... Baleful?”

• Ji Yuan searched the cavern’s corpse-refining chambers, detected the remnants of a vast Formation, and followed its energy channels toward their core.
• The Silver-Armored Corpse King ambushed Ji Yuan, and Ji Yuan transformed into his Demon Venerable Black Baleful Form to overpower it.
• Ji Yuan tore out the Silver-Armored Corpse King’s heart core, killing it and collecting its Corpse Core before recovering his strength.
• Ji Yuan followed the Corpse King’s trail and discovered a Blood Marrow Coffin that had restored its injuries.
• Ji Yuan stored the Blood Marrow Coffin inside Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and a faint voice from beneath the earth whispered, “Black... Baleful?”