Recaps

Ji Yuan arranged for Feng Zhitáo to bring the Water Dragon Sect back from the Desolate Ancient Continent and sent Liu Yuan to help Long Ba unify the Sea Ruins. As Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang prepared to detonate their Secret Realm’s core to escape, Ji Yuan arrived at the Cinnabar Sea, where the Secret Realm gate had drawn powerful cultivators from across the continent.

• Ji Yuan asked Feng Zhitáo to retrieve the Water Dragon Sect from the Taiyi Immortal Sect and gave her gifts to present in thanks.
• Ji Yuan tasked Liu Yuan with helping Long Ba take control of the Sea Ruins, explaining that Long Ba would guard the seas and keep Immortal Prison’s disciples vigilant.
• Trapped in the Secret Realm for seventy-eight years, Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang prepared to blow up its core as two Fifth Tier Demon Beasts fought nearby.
• Zhou Cang gave Ji Yuan the Cloud-Rain Sect Leader’s Seal and a Sound Transmission Talisman to prove his identity to Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang.
• Ji Yuan flew to the Cinnabar Sea, where cultivators gathered around the blood-red gate, and Dan Xuzi and Jian Wuchen greeted him as Lord of the Abyssal Depths.

Ji Yuan faced several Nascent Soul Peak cultivators at the Cinnabar Sea while waiting for the Ancient Secret Realm to open. The Secret Realm collapsed, but Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang escaped, and Ji Yuan stood between them and Duan Qianchui, who hesitated to attack.

• Dan Xuzi identified Duan Qianchui, Mo Zhenzi, and Xu Danzi as Nascent Soul Peak cultivators gathered above the Cinnabar Sea.
• Duan Qianchui tried to claim the Secret Realm for himself, drove away weaker cultivators with his pressure, and warned Ji Yuan about competing for its treasures.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord arrived, while Dan Xuzi and Jian Wuchen tried to leave; Ji Yuan warned them he would visit their sects, and they fled.
• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that someone inside was forcing the Secret Realm gate open, and Ji Yuan realized Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang might be in danger.
• Mo Zhenzi wrongly declared that a Treasured Artifact was emerging as the Secret Realm collapsed; the resulting shockwave injured Duan Qianchui and Mo Zhenzi, and the Secret Realm broke into fragments.
• Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang escaped after seventy-eight years inside the Secret Realm, recognized Ji Yuan through Zhou Cang's seal and message, and were protected by him when Duan Qianchui confronted them.

Ji Yuan rescued Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang from the Cinnabar Sea and brought them back to the Cloud-Rain Sect, where they recounted their seventy-eight years trapped inside the Secret Realm. Meanwhile, two Fifth-Order Great Demons escaped the collapsed realm, and Mo Zhenzi reported their flight to a Spirit Transformation ancestor.

• Duan Qianchui backed down from confronting Ji Yuan, and Zhao Fuguang revealed that the Secret of Spirit Transformation remained inside the fallen Secret Realm.
• After the Nascent Soul Peak cultivators entered the Secret Realm fragments, Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang warned Ji Yuan about two Fifth-Order Great Demons, and he rushed them away toward the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• Ji Yuan reunited Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang with Zhou Cang, who told them how much the Abyssal Continent had changed during their absence.
• Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang explained that they had been trapped for seventy-eight years while hiding from the Mountain-Suppressing Black Tortoise and the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King.
• Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang agreed to let Ji Yuan choose first from the treasures they had brought out of the Secret Realm.
• Mo Zhenzi reported to a white-bearded ancestor that the two Fifth-Order Great Demons had escaped in opposite directions after clashing and suffering injuries.

Ji Yuan accepted two rare Immortal Resources from Zhao Fuguang and Huang Bingzhu, then forced the Heavenly Sword Sect to submit and destroyed its mountain-protecting formation as a warning. He flew to the Pill Cauldron Sect, where the Ghost Envoy sensed something puzzling.

• Zhao Fuguang and Huang Bingzhu offered Ji Yuan eight treasures to repay him for saving their lives, and he accepted the Profound Nether Soil and Divine Spirit Sand he needed to upgrade his [Spirit Field].
• Zhao Fuguang and Huang Bingzhu recounted how they stole the two Immortal Resources from the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King's lair during a battle between two Fifth-Tier demon kings.
• A green-robed old man entered the Heavenly Origin Tree and vanished into its trunk, causing the tree to stop shaking and draw in its spiritual energy.
• Ji Yuan confronted Jian Wuchen and Jian Wuya, demanded the Heavenly Sword Sect submit, and accepted their apology gifts.
• Ji Yuan destroyed the Heavenly Sword Sect's mountain-protecting formation with a precise sword strike and warned its cultivators to behave.
• Ji Yuan arrived at the Pill Cauldron Sect, where the Ghost Envoy voiced puzzlement.

Ji Yuan learned that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King was possessing the Pill Cauldron Sect’s Heavenly Origin Tree to gain a stronger foundation, and decided to capture it for the Immortal Prison. He returned to the sect claiming he could cure the tree, preparing to use his Meteor Cannon against the helpless great demon.

• The Ghost Envoy revealed that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King was fused with the Heavenly Origin Tree and too injured to attack Ji Yuan.
• Dan Xuzi apologized for the Pill Cauldron Sect’s past actions, gave Ji Yuan compensation, and offered to move the sect into the Immortal Prison; Ji Yuan accepted the gift but refused the offer.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi described the Heavenly Origin Tree’s decline, and Ji Yuan advised them to seek spirit-plant experts on the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Banyan King was using the Heavenly Origin Tree to improve its foundation and could not resist without ruining its possession.
• The Ghost Envoy proposed that Ji Yuan capture the immobile Banyan King as the Immortal Prison’s guardian spirit plant and offered to restore its Fifth-Tier strength.
• Ji Yuan returned to the Pill Cauldron Sect and told Dan Xuzi he had come back to cure the Heavenly Origin Tree.

Ji Yuan exposed the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King hiding inside the Heavenly Origin Tree and tricked Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi into powering the Meteor Cannon. After Ji Yuan blasted the tree’s core, the wounded Fifth-Order Great Demon formed a treant and threatened him.

• Ji Yuan examined the withered Heavenly Origin Tree and learned from the Ghost Envoy that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King was consuming its essence from within.
• Ji Yuan claimed he could cure the tree, led Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi to reinforce a hill, and set up the Meteor Cannon facing the tree’s core.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi fed 4,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones into the cannon before the Ancient Banyan King revealed itself and warned that firing would destroy the tree.
• Ji Yuan revealed the demon’s hiding place, stopped Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi from attacking him, and sealed the Pill Cauldron Sect inside a Fourth-Tier Strange Gate Eight Trigrams Formation.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi chose to trust Ji Yuan, who fired the Meteor Cannon and pierced the Heavenly Origin Tree’s core.
• The wounded Ancient Banyan King gathered the tree’s branches into a towering treant and threatened Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan fought the Ancient Banyan King's Nascent Soul Peak avatar, enduring its attacks and turning the battle around with his sword art and Demon Venerable Black Baleful transformation. After defeating the treant, Ji Yuan sentenced the Ancient Banyan King to eternal confinement in the Immortal Prison.

• The Ancient Banyan King wounded Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi, but Ji Yuan's Strange Gate Eight Trigrams Formation kept them safe.
• Ji Yuan attacked with his fused cyan fire and Sword Nine, severing the Ancient Banyan King's arm with Sword Three: Starpoint before the treant regenerated and overwhelmed him.
• Ji Yuan activated the [Pigsty] Spirit Effect, transformed into Demon Venerable Black Baleful, and drove the Ancient Banyan King back with powerful punches.
• The Ancient Banyan King trapped himself inside a wooden cage and waited out Ji Yuan's hundred-breath transformation, then impaled him with a wooden sword.
• Ji Yuan used Sword Nine's fourth form, Body in Fire, to heal his wound and restore his strength, then transformed again and destroyed the Ancient Banyan King's avatar.
• Ji Yuan condemned the Ancient Banyan King for his crimes and sent his ruined body into the Immortal Prison.

Ji Yuan killed the Ancient Banyan King, imprisoned its remaining Divine Soul essence, and learned how the ancient spirit tree had become a Fifth-Tier great demon. After hearing that a Nascent Soul War was about to begin at the Three Southern Passes, Ji Yuan headed toward the Desolate Ancient Continent as Taiyi Immortal Sect leaders prepared for the conflict.

• Ji Yuan told Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi that he had killed the Ancient Banyan King and ordered them to keep the battle secret, warning that he would kill them if the news leaked.
• Ji Yuan brought the Ancient Banyan King's weakened Divine Soul essence into the Immortal Prison, where the Ghost Envoy used Zixiao Divine Thunder to force it to submit.
• The Ancient Banyan King recounted how a Spirit Transformation patriarch had raised it, how it fought the Mountain-Suppressing Black Tortoise over an Innate Spirit Spring, and why it had tried to seize the Heavenly Origin Tree.
• Ji Yuan left the Ancient Banyan King imprisoned and learned from Liu Yuan that the Nascent Soul War at the Three Southern Passes was imminent, so he traveled toward the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Ye Wuzhen told Perfected Taiyi, True Person Tai'er, and Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal that the two sides had agreed to a Nascent Soul War, and Perfected Taiyi sent Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal to reinforce the Three Southern Passes.
• Ye Wuzhen warned the Taiyi Immortal Sect leaders that Chi Kui, a Nascent Soul Late Stage fighter whose strength matched the Nascent Soul Peak, would fight again.

Taiyi Immortal Sect asked Ji Yuan to fight Chi Kui at the Three Southern Passes, and offered him powerful resources to prepare for the dangerous battle. Ji Yuan weighed the offer and asked which body-cultivator technique they would provide; Perfected Taiyi revealed it was the Stone's-Throw Spear.

• Perfected Taiyi and the elders discussed possible fighters against Chi Kui, but Ye Wuzhen judged Duan Qianchui, Wei Xuantong, and Niu Ben unable to defeat him.
• The elders proposed Ji Yuan as their best remaining candidate, and Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal revealed that Ji Yuan was already in Taiyi City.
• Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal brought Ji Yuan to meet Perfected Taiyi, True Person Tai'er, and Ye Wuzhen, who asked him to face Chi Kui at the Three Southern Passes.
• Ji Yuan agreed in principle but feigned doubt about matching Chi Kui, while Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal warned that Chi Kui had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage and surpassed ordinary Nascent Soul Peak cultivators.
• Perfected Taiyi and True Person Tai'er offered Ji Yuan a top body-cultivator fighting technique, a suitable Dharma Treasure, and a Divine Insight Fruit in exchange for his help.
• Ji Yuan asked which fighting technique the sect would give him, and Perfected Taiyi named the Stone's-Throw Spear.

Ji Yuan accepted the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s combat technique, treasures, and help with his spirit beasts in exchange for fighting Chi Kui at the Three Southern Passes within six months. He upgraded the [Ant Nest] to Level Four and began collecting its newly produced Blazing Flame, while wondering what the next level would bring.

• Ji Yuan accepted the Stone's-Throw Spear, matching armor and spear, and Divine Insight Fruit, and agreed to fight at the Three Southern Passes within six months.
• True Person Tai'er gave Ji Yuan a Sacred Beast Fruit, and Perfected Taiyi arranged for the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal to guard Dream Butterfly and the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc through their Transformation Lightning Tribulations.
• Ji Yuan fed the Sacred Beast Fruit to the Ant Queen, who broke through to the Fourth Tier while he studied the Stone's-Throw Spear in the Dao Comprehension Chamber.
• Ji Yuan used 30,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones and two Fourth-Order Monster Cores to upgrade the [Ant Nest] to Level Four, unlocking its three Spirit Effects and triggering an increase in the ants’ cultivation.
• Ji Yuan collected the nest’s Blazing Flame with the Purple-Gold Gourd and instructed Tu Yue to keep gathering it, then considered what the [Ant Nest] would become at Level Five.

Ji Yuan mastered Stone's-Throw Spear through study and a brutal Martial God Tower trial, then rushed to the Three Southern Passes as the Nascent Soul War neared. At the Second Southern Pass, Ye Wuzhen warned that the Barbarian God Continent was committing its full strength to the battle, and the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal asked how their side would respond.

• Ji Yuan examined the Ant Nest's size-changing Spirit Effect, consumed the Divine Insight Fruit, and comprehended Stone's-Throw Spear in the Dao Comprehension Chamber.
• Ji Yuan fought through the Martial God Tower's armored soldiers, practiced Stone's-Throw Spear against the Silver Armored Soldiers, and was defeated by the Golden Armored Soldiers before waking from the trial.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that five months had passed, leaving only a month before the Nascent Soul War, so he gave her instructions and hurried to the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
• Ji Yuan met the transformed Jin Lei and Dream Butterfly at the sect gate, named Jin Lei, and brought Dream Butterfly along as the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal prepared to leave for the front.
• The Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal took Ji Yuan and Dream Butterfly through a teleportation formation to the Second Southern Pass, where Ye Wuzhen reported that the Barbarian God Continent planned to commit its full might to the Nascent Soul War.

Ji Yuan joined the Nascent Soul Peak leaders at Second Southern Pass, learned that the Demon God Continent might support the Barbarian God Continent, and prepared to face Chi Kui. After receiving escape talismans from Yun Qianzai, he tried to contact You Ji and headed toward the front lines, where he discovered Tian Wenjing and Spirit-Communing High Person together.

• Ye Wuzhen gathered the holy lands’ Nascent Soul Peak cultivators and placed Second Southern Pass under Taiyi Immortal Sect command as they prepared for the Barbarian God Continent’s invasion.
• Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal warned that the Demon God Continent might secretly support the enemy, while Ye Wuzhen said their spies had found no sign of its involvement so far.
• Wei Xuantong, Niu Ben, Mister Nine Palaces, and the other cultivators cautioned Ji Yuan about Chi Kui and gave him Communication Talismans.
• Yun Qianzai warned Ji Yuan that Chi Kui had nearly killed a Nascent Soul Peak elder and gave him two Void-Escape Jades; Ji Yuan promised him an opportunity that could lead to Void Refinement.
• Ji Yuan failed to contact You Ji through their Divine Soul connection and traveled beyond Second Southern Pass to investigate the front lines.
• Tian Wenjing contacted Ji Yuan from a hill two hundred li west, where Ji Yuan sensed that Spirit-Communing High Person was with him.

Ji Yuan encountered Tian Wenjing and Spirit-Communing High Person, who had postponed their duel to defend the Desolate Ancient Continent, then infiltrated the Barbarian God Domain by killing a patrol leader and taking his identity. Qing Mu’s memories revealed You Ji and thirty other Nascent Soul Cultivators had disappeared, while Chi Kui had grown far more powerful, so Ji Yuan headed toward the City of the Celestial God disguised as Qing Mu.

• Tian Wenjing and Spirit-Communing High Person told Ji Yuan they had set aside their feud to fight the Barbarian God invaders and warned him about the dangers south of the passes.
• Ji Yuan found a hidden mine guarded by Qing Mu, disguised himself as a Golden Core rogue cultivator, and killed Qing Mu with a single spear thrust.
• Ji Yuan searched Qing Mu’s memories and learned that You Ji had been missing for a year, along with thirty Nascent Soul Cultivators from the City of the Celestial God.
• Ji Yuan discovered that Chi Kui had defeated the city’s Third Elder, Shui Tian, and gained the backing of two Spirit Transformation ancestors.
• Unable to contact You Ji, Ji Yuan used the Formless Mask to impersonate Qing Mu and set out for the City of the Celestial God.

Ji Yuan reached the City of the Celestial God’s outskirts and used Chi Kui’s name to deflect Shui Tian’s suspicions, then followed Chi Kui to the Heavenly Wind Tribe. After an attempt to probe a sealed meeting exposed a suspected spy nearby, Tian Feng hinted that Ji Yuan might be interested in a mysterious inheritance, and Chi Kui invited him into the tent.

• Ji Yuan evaded Barbarian God Continent patrols and approached the City of the Celestial God, where Shui Tian discovered him and questioned why he had left his post at the Sky-Ring Mountain Range.
• Ji Yuan claimed Chi Kui had summoned him, making Shui Tian back down rather than risk angering Chi Kui.
• Chi Kui arrived, learned Ji Yuan had borrowed his name, and was pleased by Ji Yuan’s account of Shui Tian’s resentment; he offered to take Ji Yuan under his protection and brought him to meet Tian Feng.
• While Chi Kui and Tian Feng met inside a sealed tent, Ji Yuan tried to probe the Formation with Divine Sense, triggering it and prompting Chi Kui to chase a suspected spy from the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Tian Feng hinted that Ji Yuan might be interested in an inheritance, and Chi Kui returned from the chase and invited Ji Yuan inside to join their discussion.

Ji Yuan learned that the Inheritance Secret Realm was created by the Demon God Continent to strengthen Barbarian God cultivators, then had his disguise exposed and fled Chi Kui and Tian Feng. He reached the Second Southern Pass with pursuers behind him, where the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal arrived to protect him and confronted Great Shaman Bloodfang.

• Chi Kui and Tian Feng questioned Ji Yuan about his interest in the Inheritance Secret Realm, and Ji Yuan learned it had been open for a year and likely held You Ji and thirty missing Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Ji Yuan discovered that the Demon God Continent had sent the Secret Realm to train Barbarian God cultivators, and he resolved to warn the Second Southern Pass.
• Grand Elder Zhong Xuantian warned Chi Kui that the real Qing Mu was dead and Ji Yuan was an impostor, so Chi Kui attacked as Ji Yuan escaped into the Immortal Prison.
• Ji Yuan ambushed Chi Kui but failed to pierce his armor, then fled on the Star-Treading Wheel while Chi Kui, Tian Feng, and two other Nascent Soul Peak cultivators pursued him.
• Ji Yuan sent the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal a warning and plea for help, then reached the Second Southern Pass, where the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal appeared and addressed Great Shaman Bloodfang.

Ji Yuan escaped Great Shaman Bloodfang’s pursuit and reported that the Demon God Continent was training thirty Barbarian God Nascent Soul cultivators in an Inheritance Secret Realm. After the leaders of the Desolate Ancient Continent judged that the inheritance might enable a Spirit Transformation-level joint attack, Perfected Taiyi called for them to strike first.

• Great Shaman Bloodfang pursued Ji Yuan and tried to buy his Star-Treading Wheel, but Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal and Ye Wuzhen confronted him and drove him away.
• Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal and Ye Wuzhen confirmed that Ji Yuan had left Great Shaman Bloodfang no blood, hair, or other material for a killing curse to use.
• Ji Yuan told the leaders at Second Southern Pass that the Demon God Continent had sent an Inheritance Secret Realm, where thirty Barbarian God Nascent Soul cultivators had trained for a year.
• Perfected Taiyi revealed that the Taiyi Immortal Sect could rely on the Central Continent, while High Person Sancai warned that the inheritance might give the thirty cultivators a powerful joint-attack Formation.
• Perfected Taiyi said the Desolate Ancient Continent could defend Second Southern Pass with Meteor Cannons but lacked strong offensive methods, then urged the group to take the fight to the enemy.

Ji Yuan and the leaders of the Desolate Ancient Continent committed to an assault on the City of the Celestial God before its inheritance could be completed. As both sides prepared for war, Great Shaman Bloodfang sought help from Sea-Devouring, and the chapter ended with the assembled cultivators pledging to fight.

• At Moon God Peak, Ji Yuan and the four Spirit Transformation Cultivators agreed to attack the City of the Celestial God, while Ji Yuan privately considered his future travels, finding Hua Yaoyue, and protecting his sect.
• Great Shaman Bloodfang and the City of the Celestial God’s leaders learned that Second Southern Pass was mobilizing for an assault, so Bloodfang ordered their army to prepare a trap.
• Three days later, Bloodfang summoned Sea-Devouring and asked about the fastest escape treasure he had ever encountered.
• Perfected Taiyi called the cultivators of Second Southern Pass to march, and leaders from the Seven Great Sacred Lands and Rogue Cultivators pledged their support.
• Ji Yuan rose before the gathered cultivators and declared that they would fight.

Perfected Taiyi deployed the Desolate Ancient forces for a full assault on the Barbarian God Continent, and Ji Yuan joined the battle as an independent support fighter. After Chi Kui challenged him, the two traveled to an open sea for their duel, where Chi Kui recognized Ji Yuan beneath his false name and mask.

• Perfected Taiyi assigned western, eastern, and central armies to attack the Barbarian God forces and ordered Ji Yuan, Tian Wenjing, and Spirit-Communing High Person to support the battlefield, with Ji Yuan responsible for Chi Kui.
• Nascent Soul cultivators poured from the Second Southern Pass into battle, and Tian Wenjing and Spirit-Communing High Person departed to aid their assigned fronts.
• Ji Yuan saved more than ten Desolate Ancient cultivators and killed ten Barbarian God Nascent Soul cultivators before Great Shaman Bloodfang and Ancestor Barbarian Bone sent Chi Kui to confront him.
• Chi Kui challenged Ji Yuan, who used the false name Qiu Qianhai, and the two left the battlefield for the sea to fight without interference.
• Ji Yuan summoned the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc to outpace Chi Kui, then met him above the sea as their duel began with Chi Kui breaking through Ji Yuan's sword domain.
• Chi Kui identified Qiu Qianhai as Ji Yuan, the Lord of the Abyssal Immortal Prison, and Ji Yuan removed his Bronze Formless Mask before they prepared to continue fighting.

Ji Yuan fought Chi Kui over the Endless Sea, countering his fire arts, battle treasure, and restraints with hidden abilities and treasures. After Chi Kui escaped aboard his Flying Boat, Ji Yuan pursued him with the Star-Treading Wheel, determined to kill him.

• Chi Kui attacked Ji Yuan with nine Ashen-Demise Flame Spears, but Ji Yuan blocked them with his Azure Waves Swords and wounded Chi Kui with Sword Three: Starpoint.
• Chi Kui struck Ji Yuan with the Hell-Burning Formation-Breaking Hammer and absorbed the Blazing Flame, but Dream Butterfly let Ji Yuan land a nearly fatal spear thrust before Chi Kui’s chain trapped him.
• Ji Yuan used Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain to break the chains and the Blazing-Heaven Fire Net, then crushed Chi Kui beneath the mountain while Dream Butterfly ensnared Chi Kui in an illusion.
• Ji Yuan’s God-Slaying Spear triggered the Blood-Eye Curse Seal and turned back on him, but Sword Four: Body in Fire let him evade the attack after the Soul-Calming Bell shattered.
• Chi Kui escaped toward the City of the Celestial God aboard his Flying Boat, and Ji Yuan pursued him with the Star-Treading Wheel.

Ji Yuan killed Chi Kui with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, but Great Shaman Sea-Devouring ambushed him and pursued him for his treasures. Ji Yuan hid inside Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain until Perfected Taiyi and Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal drove off the pursuer, then emerged badly injured to thank Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal.

• Chi Kui shattered Ji Yuan's World-Breaking Spear and two suits of armor with the Demon-Subduing Pestle, but Ji Yuan killed him with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye and stored his corpse.
• Great Shaman Sea-Devouring ambushed Ji Yuan, struck him into a mountain, and chased him toward Second Southern Pass for his treasures.
• Ji Yuan burned his blood essence to outrun Great Shaman Sea-Devouring, then hid inside Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain when the pursuer nearly caught him.
• Ji Yuan healed inside the Blood Marrow Coffin while Great Shaman Sea-Devouring searched for him and used Flood Three Thousand Li without detecting Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Perfected Taiyi and Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal arrived and trapped Great Shaman Sea-Devouring in a cage of bronze mirrors; Great Shaman Sea-Devouring escaped as a droplet, and Perfected Taiyi pursued him.
• Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal called Ji Yuan out of hiding, and Ji Yuan emerged from the sea with severe injuries and thanked him.

Ji Yuan recovered after Great Shaman Sea-Devouring ambushed him, while the Desolate Ancient Continent gained the upper hand in the war. As Ji Yuan resolved to kill Sea-Devouring before he could expose the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, the Barbarian God leaders cut short the inheritance and opened a terrifying rift above the City of the Celestial God.

• The Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal offered Ji Yuan a Life-Rebirth Pill, but Ji Yuan saved it and used other medicines and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to recover.
• Perfected Taiyi returned after failing to catch Great Shaman Sea-Devouring, thanked Ji Yuan for killing Chi Kui, and placed restrictions along the coastline.
• Ye Wuzhen identified Sea-Devouring as a notorious rogue cultivator and suspected Great Shaman Bloodfang had lured him to attack Ji Yuan; Ji Yuan concealed the truth about his master and watched the Desolate Ancient forces overwhelm the battlefield.
• Ji Yuan learned from Ghost Envoy that the Purple-Eyed Clan had a Mahayana Cultivator and concluded Sea-Devouring might reveal the secret of his Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, so he resolved to kill him.
• Great Shaman Bloodfang and Ancestor Barbarian Bone agreed to end the inheritance early, and Bloodfang opened a Void fissure above the City of the Celestial God, from which black blood and monstrous hands emerged.

Ji Yuan discovered that You Ji was one of thirty souls fused into the Black Demon Bull King, the unstable Demonic Beast attacking the Desolate Ancient Continent. After learning its incomplete leg inheritance left its legs vulnerable and its speed limited, he gained a possible way to turn the battle around.

• A rift opened above the City of the Celestial God, and black blood poured out as the Black Demon Bull King emerged with unstable power between Nascent Soul Peak and Spirit Transformation Early Stage.
• Niu Ben charged the Black Demon Bull King and was badly injured; five Nascent Soul Peak cultivators then attacked together but struggled to hurt it.
• Ji Yuan learned that Duan Qianchui and Su Qinghan had lost their bodies but survived as Nascent Souls, while Tian Wenjing and the Spirit-Communing High Person joined the battle.
• While recovering at the Second Southern Pass, Ji Yuan contacted You Ji through the Demon Seed and learned that thirty Barbarian God cultivators controlled the Black Demon Bull King together.
• Ji Yuan used the Demon Seed's influence to make You Ji reveal that the Black Demon Bull King's legs had received only half their inheritance, leaving them its weakest point and limiting its speed.

Ji Yuan helped the Desolate Ancient Continent expose the Black Demon Bull King's weakness, and Perfected Taiyi unleashed the Taiyi Immortal Sect's Grand Four Symbols Formation to break its legs. The beast revealed its true ox form and overwhelmed most of the formation, so Perfected Taiyi asked Ji Yuan to use his Meteor Cannon while the cultivators tried to hold Black Ox in place.

• Ji Yuan told Perfected Taiyi that the Black Demon Bull King's weakness lay in its legs, and Perfected Taiyi said they had only one chance to strike.
• Perfected Taiyi activated the Taiyi Immortal Sect's Grand Four Symbols Formation, with High Person Lingzhu, True Lord Qinghe, True Lord Bai Feng, and High Person Xuanyuan controlling its four constructs.
• The Four Symbols pinned the Black Demon Bull King's legs and broke them with a combined attack, but Great Shaman Bloodfang revealed that the beast's humanoid shape had only been transitional and that its true form was a black ox.
• Black Ox destroyed the White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird Constructs, while True Lord Qinghe's Azure Dragon and the cultivators at Nascent Soul Peak struggled to restrain it.
• Perfected Taiyi asked Ji Yuan to fire the Meteor Cannon at Black Ox, and Ji Yuan agreed after warning that the cannon would be ruined and that the beast had to be held for three breaths.

Ji Yuan fired the Meteor Cannon’s final shot, killing the Black Demon Bull King and forcing Great Shaman Bloodfang to retreat. After three days of negotiations, Perfected Taiyi demanded that the Barbarian God Continent execute Great Shaman Sea-Devouring for violating the Pact of the Two Continents.

• Ji Yuan used a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone to fire the Meteor Cannon, piercing the Black Demon Bull King and destroying its Divine Soul.
• Great Shaman Bloodfang intercepted the beam before it reached the City of the Celestial God, then retreated as Perfected Taiyi confronted him and Divine Master Profound Heaven arrived to negotiate.
• Perfected Taiyi and Divine Master Profound Heaven negotiated for three days while cultivators on both sides recovered.
• Tian Wenjing and Spirit-Communing High Person deflected Ghost Lord Li Jue’s questions about the Meteor Cannon, and the cultivators credited Ji Yuan for helping win the battle.
• Perfected Taiyi demanded that Divine Master Profound Heaven execute Great Shaman Sea-Devouring for breaking the pact by attacking a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

After the Barbarian God Continent withdrew, Ji Yuan recovered from his injuries, assessed his strength, and examined the spoils he had taken from Chi Kui. As Ji Yuan prepared to travel the Human Realm, the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal revealed that Hua Yaoyue had left instructions to disclose her whereabouts once Ji Yuan was strong enough, but the chapter ended before he answered where she had gone.

• The Barbarian God Continent withdrew its forces, and Ji Yuan confirmed Yun Qianzai and Mu Xueyao had survived before recovering in the Blood Marrow Coffin for a month.
• The Seven Sacred Grounds began rebuilding South Pass One and turning the City of the Celestial God into shared outposts, while Ji Yuan reviewed his battle with Chi Kui and identified gaps in his combat abilities.
• Ji Yuan inspected Chi Kui's Storage Bag, claimed the Blazing Heaven Boat, studied Chi Kui's cultivation arts, and resolved to kill Great Shaman Sea-Devouring to protect the secret of the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye.
• The Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal told Ji Yuan that the Demon God Continent was preparing for possible conflict with the Central Continent and that the Demon God and Martial God Continents were locked in a bitter war.
• When Ji Yuan asked about Hua Yaoyue, the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal said she had instructed him to reveal where she went once Ji Yuan was strong enough, and Ji Yuan asked for her whereabouts.