Recaps

Ji Yuan recovered from his duel with Yang Dingtian, learned that Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal had brought the fleeing Yang Household back to face judgment, and prepared to return to the Abyssal Continent to attack the Black-and-White Divine Hall. As Ji Yuan flew toward Taiyi City's Teleportation Harbor, Tu Yue asked why he was so determined to take the Abyssal Continent.

• Feng Zhitáo and Hundred-Blossom Immortal visited Ji Yuan as he awoke, and Ji Yuan deflected Feng Zhitáo's questions about his relationship with Hundred-Blossom Immortal before entering seclusion to recover.
• Ji Yuan restored his strength in the Blood Marrow Coffin and reviewed how he had defeated Yang Dingtian, recognizing that luck and his hidden advantages had helped him win.
• Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal confronted Yang Wan in Luofeng City, revealed that he had injured the Dark Profound Cult leader, and ordered her to return with him to answer for the deaths in Qingyang City.
• A month later, Ji Yuan told Feng Zhitáo, Hundred-Blossom Immortal, and Yun Qianzai about his conflict with the Black-and-White Divine Hall and said he would return to the Abyssal Continent to strike against it.
• Ji Yuan gave Feng Zhitáo resources for Nascent Soul Formation and asked Yun Qianzai to guard her, then left for the Teleportation Harbor, where Tu Yue asked why he wanted to take the Abyssal Continent.

Ji Yuan returned to the Abyssal Continent and learned that Liu Yuan was undergoing Nascent Soul Formation on Serene Nether Island. After Liu Yuan succeeded, the two reunited and celebrated, leaving Liu Yuan to ask why Ji Yuan had come so far to see him.

• Ji Yuan recalled Hua Yaoyue’s hidden letter, which urged him to unite the Abyssal Continent and uncover its secrets, then teleported back to the continent.
• Ji Yuan headed toward the Demon-Spirit Archipelago to rescue Du Wanyi, but changed course after hearing that Liu Yuan was attempting Nascent Soul Formation on Serene Nether Island.
• Ji Yuan watched Liu Yuan’s seven-day Nascent Soul Omen and saw him successfully form his Nascent Soul and reach the Early Stage.
• Ji Yuan disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator and challenged Liu Yuan over a stolen wine debt before revealing his identity.
• Liu Yuan welcomed Ji Yuan back to Serene Nether Island, and the two shared a long drinking celebration.
• Liu Yuan asked Ji Yuan why he had come all this way to see him.

Ji Yuan reached the Demon-Spirit Archipelago to demand that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord release Du Wanyi, while arranging for Liu Yuan to assist him from afar. After overpowering Xun Tianji, Ji Yuan named Du Wanyi as the person he had come to take, and she wept inside the Devil Lord’s Cave Abode.

• Ji Yuan told Liu Yuan that his mission was too dangerous for him to join, but gave him a Voice-Recording Talisman and sent him to find Zhou Cang at Wave-Listening Pavilion.
• Liu Yuan agreed to leave for Wave-Listening Pavilion at daybreak, and the brothers parted as Ji Yuan continued toward the Demon-Spirit Archipelago.
• Ji Yuan arrived at the archipelago and defeated Xun Tianji in a single attack after suppressing his Demon-Slaying Cauldron.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord appeared and rebuked Xun Tianji before asking Ji Yuan why he had come.
• Ji Yuan said he had come to take his second sister, Du Wanyi, away, and Du Wanyi closed her eyes and wept inside the Cave Abode.

Ji Yuan negotiated Du Wanyi’s release from the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord by trading demonic cultivation techniques, then left the Demon-Spirit Archipelago with her. Meanwhile, leaders at the Black-and-White Divine Hall discussed Ji Yuan’s return to the Abyssal Continent and the threat he posed.

• Ji Yuan confronted the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord, who admitted Du Wanyi was with him and agreed to release her in exchange for valuable cultivation techniques.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord summoned Du Wanyi, removed the restrictions he had placed on her, and severed their master-disciple bond; Du Wanyi reunited with Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan gave the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord three cultivation-technique Jade Slips and warned him that a major upheaval would soon sweep across the Abyssal Continent, then departed with Du Wanyi.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord explained to Xun Tianji that she released Du Wanyi to avoid making a dangerous enemy and to gain Ji Yuan’s goodwill ahead of coming changes.
• At the Black-and-White Divine Hall, White Elder and five Nascent Soul Cultivators discussed Ji Yuan’s return, argued over past attempts to hunt him, and considered his likely plans for the Bone Demon Sect and Profound Serpent Manor’s territories.

White Elder persuaded five leaders of the Eight Sacred Grounds to form an alliance against Ji Yuan, while Ji Yuan learned of their plan and prepared to return north. As he flew with Du Wanyi, she recounted how the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord had abducted and cultivated her, and Ji Yuan set off to take charge of his own preparations.

• At the Black-and-White Divine Mountain, White Elder warned that Ji Yuan could threaten every Sacred Ground and urged the leaders present to unite against him.
• The leaders of the Profound Purity Sect, Heavenly Craft Valley, Heavenly Fiend Mountain, Soul-Refining Hall, and Cloudcliff Abbey agreed to share information and gather to kill Ji Yuan, with punishment for anyone who fled.
• While flying north with Du Wanyi, Ji Yuan asked how she had been abducted, and she told him the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord had followed her from Chaokong City to the Demon-Spirit Archipelago.
• Du Wanyi explained that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord had treated her well and raised her cultivation from Foundation Establishment Middle Stage to Golden Core Late Stage, while Ji Yuan apologized for sending her ahead alone.
• The Soul Hall Master contacted Ji Yuan through the Life-and-Death Demon Seed and reported the alliance; he also said Ji Yuan's preparations involving the Bone Demon Sect and Profound Serpent Manor were complete.
• Ji Yuan told the Soul Hall Master to remain at the Black-and-White Divine Mountain and meet him in Northern Border City, then took Du Wanyi north at great speed.

Ji Yuan reunited with Zhou Cang, Liu Yuan, and Du Wanyi, then traveled to Winterfrost City to gather allies for an assault on the Black-and-White Divine Hall. With the leaders of several Sacred Grounds, Qingchengzi, and Long Ba assembled, he laid out a coordinated attack on four fronts.

• Zhou Cang welcomed Liu Yuan, the Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator Ji Yuan had sent to guard Wave-Listening Pavilion, and Ji Yuan soon arrived with Du Wanyi.
• Ji Yuan told Zhou Cang, Liu Yuan, and Du Wanyi that he intended to overthrow the Black-and-White Divine Hall, then left for Winterfrost City.
• Ji Yuan met the leaders of five Sacred Grounds and warned them to remain loyal to the alliance or face destruction alongside their sects.
• Qingchengzi and Long Ba arrived, and Ji Yuan began outlining a four-front assault targeting Black-and-White Divine Mountain, Heavenly Fiend Mountain, the Xinan Peninsula teleportation formation, and Coastal City.

Ji Yuan assigned the outer fronts for the coming assault on the Black-and-White Divine Hall and said he could handle its Fifth-Order defensive formation. While walking through Winterfrost City, he reunited with Mu Xueyao and agreed to accompany her to the Rakshasa Sea as she prepared to attempt Nascent Soul Formation.

• Ji Yuan arranged for Cloudcliff Abbey and Qingchengzi to guard the Xinan Peninsula, Long Ba to hold the teleportation formation toward the Cangluo Continent, and the Profound Purity Sect and Heavenly Craft Valley to attack Heavenly Fiend Mountain.
• Ji Yuan revealed that he belonged to Wave-Listening Pavilion and assured the gathered cultivators that he had a way to break the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation, then told them to prepare and await his message.
• After the meeting, Ji Yuan walked through Winterfrost City and received Mu Xueyao's Communication Talisman message saying she planned to attempt Nascent Soul Formation.
• Ji Yuan found Mu Xueyao near the city's western gate, revealed himself, and agreed to accompany her to the Rakshasa Sea and stand guard during her attempt.
• Ji Yuan and Mu Xueyao traveled to an entrance to the Rakshasa Sea in the Northwest Sand Prison, where the Ghost Envoy recognized Ji Yuan and remarked on his Nascent Soul Formation.

Ji Yuan reunited with Mu Xueyao and learned that the Demon God Continent’s campaigns were part of a calamity threatening the Human Realm. After Mu Xueyao formed her Nascent Soul, she left the Rakshasa Sea with Ji Yuan to join his struggle against the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and she revealed that the Ghost Envoy had once been a cultivator.

• Ji Yuan greeted the Ghost Envoy at Pagoda Mountain, where Mu Xueyao agreed to enter seclusion and prepare to form her Nascent Soul.
• The Ghost Envoy warned Ji Yuan that the Demon God Continent’s invasion was part of a calamity for the Human Realm, then promised to explain more after Ji Yuan united the Abyssal Continent.
• Ji Yuan told the Ghost Envoy that he planned to overthrow the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and the Ghost Envoy instructed him to take Mu Xueyao along after her breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan cultivated under the Ghost Envoy’s guidance for a year while Mu Xueyao formed her Nascent Soul, then left the Rakshasa Sea with her for Winterfrost City.
• As they flew through the Northwest Sand Prison, Mu Xueyao told Ji Yuan that the Ghost Envoy had once been a cultivator like them.

Ji Yuan traveled to Southern Border City to meet High Person Ke Zhen and recruit help against the Black-and-White Divine Hall, while the White Elder tested True Lord Profound Purity for treachery and remained uncertain whom to trust. The chapter ended with two mysterious figures teleporting into the Abyssal Continent and immediately disappearing.

• Ji Yuan left Mu Xueyao in Winterfrost City with a message for Zhou Cang and traveled to Southern Border City after High Person Ke Zhen summoned him.
• The White Elder tested True Lord Profound Purity by asking him to defend Heavenly Fiend Mountain, and True Lord Profound Purity refused without revealing his secret allegiance to Ji Yuan.
• Old Devil Heavenly Fiend accused True Lord Profound Purity and Soul Hall Master of serving Ji Yuan, but the White Elder refused to act without proof and ordered him to keep guarding Heavenly Fiend Mountain.
• Ji Yuan met High Person Ke Zhen in Southern Border City and found that Fairy Mei had joined him, offering her help with Ji Yuan’s dangerous plans.
• Two figures appeared at the Xinan Peninsula Teleportation Harbor, vanished almost immediately, and left behind a boastful voice.

Ji Yuan recruited High Person Qianzhen and Fairy Mei to help him break the Black-and-White Divine Hall’s formation and seize the Abyssal Continent. Elsewhere, Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai rescued Mu Xueyao from three Black-and-White Divine Hall cultivators, and Feng asked whether she knew Ji Yuan.

• Ji Yuan told High Person Qianzhen and Fairy Mei that he planned to attack the Black-and-White Divine Hall and unify the Abyssal Continent, then secured their help against its formation and White Elder.
• Mu Xueyao headed toward Wave-Listening Pavilion and was ambushed by Wei Xuan, Blazing Sun True Person, and Hermit Qinghe, who attacked her together.
• Mu Xueyao fought back with her Thousand-Blade Pagoda but was poisoned and nearly overwhelmed before Yun Qianzai and Feng Zhitáo arrived to save her.
• Yun Qianzai broke Wei Xuan’s formation and trapped the attackers, while Feng Zhitáo and Mu Xueyao fought them; Wei Xuan and Blazing Sun True Person escaped, but Feng killed Hermit Qinghe.
• Mu Xueyao thanked Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai, and Feng asked whether she knew her Junior Brother Ji.

Feng Zhitáo, Yun Qianzai, and Mu Xueyao reached the Wave-Listening Pavilion after discovering that the Black-and-White Divine Hall was preparing to attack it, where Feng Zhitáo learned Mu Xueyao claimed to be Ji Yuan’s Dao companion. Ji Yuan arrived as his allies prepared for war, while the Formation Old Freak, Joyful Madam, and Su Baize received his attack signal and moved into action against the Black-and-White Divine Hall.

• Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai rescued Mu Xueyao, who warned them that the Black-and-White Divine Hall’s cultivators were targeting the Wave-Listening Pavilion, so they hurried there with her.
• Feng Zhitáo, Yun Qianzai, and Mu Xueyao reunited with Liu Yuan and Zhou Cang at the pavilion, where Mu Xueyao declared she was Ji Yuan’s Dao companion and Feng Zhitáo challenged her claim.
• Feng Zhitáo warned Liu Yuan and Zhou Cang that the Black-and-White Divine Hall was preparing to attack, and Ji Yuan’s voice assured everyone that he already knew before his bloodlight streaked toward the pavilion.
• At Cloudcliff Abbey, Su Baize questioned whether Ji Yuan could defeat the Black-and-White Divine Hall, but the Formation Old Freak and Joyful Madam persuaded him to stand with Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan’s Communication Tokens shattered, signaling the attack, so Su Baize and Joyful Madam set out to guard the Teleportation Formation while the Formation Old Freak headed toward the Black-and-White Divine Hall.

Xing Shuang saw Ji Yuan arrive at Black-and-White Divine Mountain with nearly ten Nascent Soul cultivators to attack the Black-and-White Divine Hall. Ji Yuan’s allies surrounded the mountain, and he entered the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation with three formation experts to study how to break it.

• Xing Shuang recognized Ji Yuan among the hostile cultivators approaching the mountain, then left the city rather than risk being caught in the battle.
• Ji Yuan confronted White Elder, rejected his offer to settle their dispute, and accused the Black-and-White Divine Hall of hunting him and killing innocent cultivators.
• Heavenly Craft Valley and the Soul-Refining Hall openly sided with Ji Yuan, followed by Formation Old Freak of Cloudcliff Abbey, while White Elder prepared to rely on the mountain’s Fifth-Tier Formation.
• Ji Yuan ordered his allies to surround the mountain and prevent anyone from escaping, then entered the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation with Yun Qianzai, Heavenly Craft High Person, and Formation Old Freak.
• Formation Old Freak explained the Formation’s Spirit-Eroding Yin Fiend, Soul-Burning Yang Flame, and deadly Yin-Yang Annihilation Cutting Lines as the group examined the Yin-Yang Millstone.

Ji Yuan and Yun Qianzai discovered that the Yin-Yang Millstone’s apparent escape route concealed a death trap, then reversed its yin-yang flow and destroyed it. The four cultivators escaped into the formation’s next layer, the Annihilation Lightning Pool, the only path to the Divine Hall’s center.

• Yun Qianzai explained that the Yin-Yang Millstone’s paired foundation nodes had to be broken simultaneously, so Ji Yuan and Yun Qianzai entered the black region while High Person Qianzhen and Formation Old Freak entered the white region.
• The four cultivators destroyed paired nodes as True Person Yushu and White Elder watched from the central hall, where Yushu revealed that breaking every node would trigger a deadly collapse.
• Ji Yuan sensed the formation’s energy gathering at the boundary, and Yun Qianzai used the Heavenly Pivot Array Disk to discover that the Life and Death Gates had been merged into a trap.
• Yun Qianzai, High Person Qianzhen, and Formation Old Freak inscribed reversal patterns on the nodes while Ji Yuan shielded them from Yushu’s unleashed attacks with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• The three formation experts reversed the formation’s yin-yang flow, causing the Yin-Yang Millstone to collapse, and Ji Yuan led the group through the chaos into the Annihilation Lightning Pool.

Yun Qianzai led Ji Yuan, High Person Qianzhen, and Formation Old Freak through the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation’s Annihilation Thunder Pool, while True Person Yushu took control of the formation to attack them. Ji Yuan used the deadly lightning to break through to the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm Late Stage, then reached the formation core with a flaming spear and three blazing suns rising behind him.

• Yun Qianzai determined that the only way to destroy the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation was to cross the Annihilation Thunder Pool and reach its core.
• Yun Qianzai predicted a shifting safe path and led Ji Yuan, High Person Qianzhen, and Formation Old Freak through the Thunder Pool until True Person Yushu seized direct control of it.
• Ji Yuan used Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain to shield the others, then left its protection to let the Annihilation Thunderballs temper his body.
• True Person Yushu poured his blood essence into the formation and drew countless Thunderballs onto Ji Yuan, while Yun Qianzai used the Void-Escape Jade to take High Person Qianzhen and Formation Old Freak to the core.
• Ji Yuan survived the barrage, broke through to the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm Late Stage, and pierced through the remaining Thunder Pool with a flaming spear.
• Ji Yuan arrived beside Yun Qianzai and the others before the formation core, raising his spear as three blazing suns appeared behind him.

Ji Yuan shattered the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation, killed True Person Yushu, and joined Fairy Mei against White Elder as the battle for the Black-and-White Divine Hall escalated. Reinforcements and new challengers emerged across the continent, and the chapter ended with the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord charging into the fight against White Elder.

• Ji Yuan used his three-sun strength to destroy the formation eye, while Yun Qianzai, High Person Qianzhen, and Formation Old Freak brought down the rest of the Black-and-White Twin-Killing Formation.
• Ji Yuan captured True Person Yushu, destroyed his Dantian and Nascent Soul before the watching cultivators, and announced that his enemies would share Yushu's fate.
• White Elder led eighteen Nascent Soul cultivators from the Black-and-White Divine Hall into battle; Ji Yuan and Fairy Mei fought him while Long Fei, Long Yun, and two other spirit beasts helped balance the clash.
• True Lord Profound Purity and Heavenly Thunder True Person broke the Heavenly Fiend Formation's nodes, while Long Ba killed True Lord Boulder and his Core Formation companions at the continental Teleportation Formation.
• Joyful Madam, Qingchengzi, and Su Baize kept Dan Xuzi waiting at the Xinan Peninsula until they could confirm his identity and purpose.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord and Xun Tianji arrived above the battle, and the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord charged toward White Elder, intent on aiding Ji Yuan and settling their old grudge.

Ji Yuan and his allies destroyed the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and the cultivators of the Abyssal Continent hailed him as its new ruler. A mysterious Nascent Soul Peak Daoist appeared and moved to seize Fairy Mei, but High Person Qianzhen intervened.

• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord stunned White Elder with the Soul-Shaking Gong, then destroyed his body and crushed his Nascent Soul.
• After White Elder died, Ji Yuan and his allies killed the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators of the Black-and-White Divine Hall.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord saluted Ji Yuan as the Lord of the Abyssal Depths, and cultivators across the mountain and Black-and-White City joined in the acclaim.
• Ji Yuan and the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord detected a hidden Nascent Soul Peak old Daoist, who revealed that he had once appeared in Fallen Immortal Ravine.
• The old Daoist crossed to Fairy Mei, asked what Tian Wenjing would choose between his great Dao and his mother, and reached for her.
• High Person Qianzhen appeared beside Fairy Mei and stopped the old Daoist's hand.

Tian Wenjing revealed himself as High Person Qianzhen and fought the mysterious old Daoist over their divided Clone Dao technique, then agreed to a temporary truce. Ji Yuan learned the old Daoist was Icefire Old Man’s true body and encountered the Giant Toad again.

• Tian Wenjing revealed his identity as High Person Qianzhen, freed Fairy Mei, and explained that he had been searching for the old Daoist and the other half of their technique.
• The old Daoist and Tian Wenjing agreed to fight elsewhere, leaving the summit while Ji Yuan appointed the Formation Old Freak to oversee the aftermath of the Black-and-White Divine Hall’s defeat.
• Ji Yuan and the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord followed the two Nascent Soul Peak cultivators to the Northern Wilderness and watched them battle to a standstill with their clone techniques and divine abilities.
• Tian Wenjing and the old Daoist stopped fighting and agreed to resume their conflict later, with the old Daoist saying he would travel to the Desolate Orchid Continent.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord departed, and the old Daoist revealed that he was Icefire Old Man’s true body before summoning the Giant Toad before Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan reunited with the Giant Toad and learned that Spirit-Communing High Person’s clone art let a person live an independent life while sharing his cultivation insights. After consolidating his rule over the Abyssal Continent, Ji Yuan founded Immortal Prison and became its Prison Lord, then asked Ghost Envoy why he had urged him to choose that name.

• Ji Yuan recognized the Giant Toad he had once left on Mist Island, and the toad joyfully reunited with him.
• Spirit-Communing High Person explained that his clone art reincarnated a wisp of spiritual light, allowing a clone to live as an independent person while its experiences returned to him.
• Spirit-Communing High Person departed, and Ji Yuan returned to the Black-and-White Divine Mountain to stabilize the Abyssal Continent.
• Ji Yuan’s forces uprooted the Black-and-White Divine Hall’s remaining power, restored order in Black-and-White City, established laws for the sects, and distributed the fallen hall’s resources.
• When his allies urged him to name a new sect, Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan to call it Immortal Prison; Ji Yuan accepted and declared the mountain Immortal Prison Mountain, the city Immortal Prison City, and himself the Prison Lord.
• The Nascent Soul experts and cultivators across the city hailed Ji Yuan as Prison Lord, and he asked Ghost Envoy why he had chosen the name.

Ji Yuan followed the Ghost Envoy’s directions to a colossal Bronze Gate beneath Immortal Prison Mountain and entered an immense prison in the Void. The Ghost Envoy revealed that the Abyssal Continent had once been the Immortal Court’s Outer Prison and explained that the Court fell after the Ascension Path was severed and a true demon descended from the Demon Realm.

• Ji Yuan established Immortal Prison’s Elders’ Council, assigned seven elders their duties, and left to investigate a private matter.
• Ji Yuan traveled through the Northern Region’s main earth vein to a vast Bronze Gate above an abyss, where Long Fei and Long Yun guarded the entrance.
• Ji Yuan pushed open the gate and entered the endless prison, where he met the Ghost Envoy.
• The Ghost Envoy revealed that the Immortal Court had ruled the Human Realm and that the Abyssal Continent had been its Outer Prison, while the prison beyond the gate was its Inner Prison.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Ascension Path had been severed, throwing the Immortal Court into fear and conflict, before a true demon descended from the Demon Realm.

The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan how a True Demon’s promise of ascension through killing shattered the Immortal Court and plunged the Human Realm into the Chaotic Era. She explained that the Abyssal Continent had been the Immortal Court’s prison and revealed that she had served as Registrar of its Immortal Prison, leaving the origin of the Yin Ghost Sect unexplained.

• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that the True Demon settled on the Demon God Continent and revealed that killing ten Mahayana Cultivators of the same level could grant ascension.
• The Ghost Envoy recounted how a friendly Mahayana Cultivator secretly killed nine peers and then his father, ascended before Lingxiao Hall, and triggered the Immortal Court’s collapse and the Chaotic Era.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Immortal Court’s last lord and two other Mahayana Cultivators led a campaign against the True Demon on the Desolate Ancient Continent, where all three leaders and the demon died.
• The Ghost Envoy described how the ensuing chaos lasted more than ten thousand years and how the Abyssal Continent’s prisoners and guards dispersed after the Immortal Court fell.
• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that the Abyssal Continent had been the Immortal Court’s prison and revealed that she had served as Registrar under its last warden.

Ji Yuan learned the Immortal Prison’s history and its power to control even Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, then accepted the title of Lord of the Immortal Prison and refined its seal. He discovered that the prison and the Abyssal Continent’s protective Formation were badly damaged, while Registrar Pei Ming bowed to him and the Panel listed the Immortal Prison as Lv1, unable to be upgraded.

• Ji Yuan learned that the Yin Ghost Sect descended from the Yin God Sect, whose disciple had inherited the ruined Immortal Prison but never entered its Inner Prison.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Immortal Prison could punish and ultimately control cultivators, absorbing their cultivation knowledge and insights even at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that becoming Lord of the Immortal Prison would make him the rightful successor to the Immortal Court, and Ji Yuan agreed to inherit the position.
• The Ghost Envoy presented Ji Yuan with the Immortal Prison Seal, and Ji Yuan refined it to become master of the prison.
• Ji Yuan sensed that the Abyssal Continent’s colossal Formation was ruined and that only two of the Immortal Prison’s weakest cells remained intact.
• Registrar Pei Ming bowed to Ji Yuan as Prison Lord, and the Panel displayed [Immortal Prison: Lv1 (Cannot be upgraded)].

Ji Yuan learned the Immortal Prison’s powers, limitations, and hidden treasures, then received a Dao-Watching Stone to help him create his own cultivation method. After making the Inner Prison portable, he delegated sect affairs and entered the Dao Comprehension Chamber to study.

• Ji Yuan examined the Immortal Prison’s effects and upgrade requirements, then learned from the Ghost Envoy that the Soul-Eroding Ants were extinct and the Voidbright Stones had crumbled.
• The Ghost Envoy explained how damaged Spirit Transformation cells could be rebuilt and revealed four dangerous treasures sealed in the Inner Prison, warning Ji Yuan against taking them out.
• The Ghost Envoy gave Ji Yuan a Dao-Watching Stone and urged him to create his own cultivation method as he prepared to pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Ji Yuan learned that he could carry the Inner Prison and Bronze Gate with him, shrank the gate, and returned to Immortal Prison Mountain with Long Fei and Long Yun.
• Ji Yuan told Feng Zhitáo, Yun Qianzai, Liu Yuan, and the others to manage the sect while he went into seclusion, then left Long Yun to guard the Bronze Gate and entered the Dao Comprehension Chamber.

Ji Yuan spent ten years in seclusion creating Sword Nine, a nine-level sword art that fused swordsmanship, body cultivation, and soul cultivation. He completed its first four levels, corresponding to Qi Refining through Nascent Soul, and emerged from the Dao Comprehension Chamber while the Cangluo Continent’s leaders awaited his judgment.

• Ji Yuan used the Dao-Watching Stone to review his battles and cultivation, then resolved to create a sword art spanning all nine cultivation realms.
• Ji Yuan built Sword Nine around the unity of sword, body, and soul, refining its framework throughout ten years of contemplation.
• Immortal Prison’s rule brought peace to the Abyssal Continent, while six sacred grounds of the Desolate Ancient Continent established ties with Ji Yuan’s domain.
• New sects formed under Immortal Prison’s authority, and the Cangluo Continent’s Flame Palace and Orthodox Dao Sect sent gifts and the captured Blood Luo King’s Nascent Soul, awaiting Ji Yuan’s decision.
• Ji Yuan completed Sword Nine’s first four forms—Dawnbreak, Mountain-Forging, Starpoint, and Body in Fire—then emerged from seclusion.

After ten years in seclusion, Ji Yuan returned to Immortal Prison Mountain, assessed the sect’s affairs, and dealt with old enemies as a war loomed on the Desolate Ancient Continent. The chapter ended when Mu Xueyao showed him a Spirit Beast Bag and a Sound Transmission Talisman belonging to someone he recognized.

• Ji Yuan emerged from seclusion, and Liu Yuan remarked on how much his bearing had changed despite his cultivation remaining at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Feng Zhitáo reported that the Abyssal and Cangluo Continents were stable, while clashes at the Three Southern Passes threatened to become a Nascent Soul War; Ji Yuan told Yun Qianzai to return ahead of him.
• Liu Yuan told Ji Yuan that Zhou Cang had been troubled for six months, so Ji Yuan asked the Hundred-Blossom Immortal to find out what was wrong.
• Ji Yuan destroyed the Blood Luo King’s Nascent Soul and gave the Palace Master of the Flame Palace and the sect master of the Orthodox Dao Sect one year to root out evil forces and establish order on the Cangluo Continent.
• Ji Yuan handled accumulated sect business, advised promising disciples, and reunited with Bai Yunzi, who was preparing to return to the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Mu Xueyao returned from Southern Border City and showed Ji Yuan a Spirit Beast Bag and a Sound Transmission Talisman, surprising him.

Ji Yuan learned that the Spirit-Communing High Person had left to fight Tian Wenjing and took in the Giant Toad, while Mu Xueyao set out to explore the Desolate Ancient Continent. He agreed to rescue Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang from a dangerous Secret Realm in the Cinnabar Sea, and the chapter ended when Zhou Cang reported that it had emerged.

• Ji Yuan heard the Spirit-Communing High Person's farewell message, learned of his death-or-ascension duel with Tian Wenjing, and welcomed the Giant Toad into the Immortal Prison.
• Mu Xueyao decided to explore the Desolate Ancient Continent, and Ji Yuan gave her three flasks of Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew for protection.
• Zhou Cang told Ji Yuan that Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang had vanished inside a Cinnabar Sea Secret Realm said to hold the Secret of Spirit Transformation, and Ji Yuan agreed to rescue them.
• Ji Yuan opened the Purple-Gold Gourd and revealed a Form-Spirit Pill, then sealed it away while preparing for the Secret Realm.
• A month later, Zhou Cang informed Ji Yuan that the Secret Realm had emerged.