Recaps

Ji Yuan arrived at the Thunder Pool and settled into his new home on Heart-of-the-Lake Island, where a feast of True Dragon meat helped him break through to Nascent Soul Peak. The Panel then offered to unlock the Primordial Spirit Platform at an enormous cost, leaving Ji Yuan roaring in dismay.

• Shen Xisheng brought Ji Yuan through the formation protecting Heart-of-the-Lake Island and showed him the courtyard prepared for him.
• Ji Yuan met Bai Zhan, and Shen Xisheng welcomed him as a member of the Partridge Lineage and urged him to cultivate seriously.
• After three days of meditation, Ji Yuan joined Shen Xisheng, Xu Youxia, and Bai Zhan for a feast featuring True Dragon meat.
• The True Dragon meat sent Ji Yuan's qi and blood into a frenzy, but Shen Xisheng suppressed the surge and let him continue eating.
• Ji Yuan's magical power surged during the meal, so he meditated in Bai Zhan's Secluded Cultivation Room and broke through to Nascent Soul Peak.
• The Panel announced that the Primordial Spirit Platform could be unlocked for a huge number of Low-Grade Purple Spirit Stones, and Ji Yuan shouted in protest.

After breaking through to Nascent Soul Peak, Ji Yuan spent nearly all his Spirit Stones unlocking the Primordial Spirit Platform, then consolidated his cultivation and was taken to Thunder Pool to begin training under Shen Xisheng. The chapter left him badly injured after Shen Xisheng struck him and declared him far too weak to enter the Five Viscera Furnace Realm.

• Ji Yuan unlocked the Primordial Spirit Platform, which helped transform a Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit and continually strengthened it, after the Panel charged him nearly all his Spirit Stones and Spirit Fragments.
• Ji Yuan spent a month consolidating his Nascent Soul Peak cultivation, then Bai Zhan took him from Heart-of-the-Lake Island to Thunder Pool, where Ji Yuan saw its storm-lashed lake of Thunder Plasma.
• Bai Zhan explained that the Partridge Lineage used Thunder Pool to temper their bodies and cultivate the Ninefold Wind-Thunder Transformation, then left Ji Yuan with Shen Xisheng.
• Shen Xisheng removed Ji Yuan's Partridge Armor and released the force suppressing his True Dragon blood energy, then summoned him into the Thunder Pool and prepared to teach him the Five Viscera Furnace Realm.
• Ji Yuan heard Xu Youxia screaming deeper in Thunder Pool as Shen Xisheng struck him with a punch that broke four ribs and sent him flying through the Thunder Plasma.

Ji Yuan endured Shen Xisheng’s training in the Thunder Pool, learned to make the Fire God Spear an extension of his body, and mastered the Azure Eagle Transformation. After two years, Shen Xisheng began teaching him how to enter the Five Viscera Furnace Realm.

• Ji Yuan fought Shen Xisheng for ten days, improving his ability to anticipate her unarmed attacks before she tested his spearwork and showed him how rigid it was.
• Shen Xisheng taught Ji Yuan to carry the Fire God Spear constantly until it felt like part of his body, and he practiced the Ninefold Wind-Thunder Transformation in the Thunder Pool.
• After a year, Ji Yuan realized the spear had become a natural extension of his body, and Shen Xisheng told him his spear talent surpassed hers.
• A year later, Ji Yuan transformed into an azure eagle, flew through the Thunder Pool, and was struck down by a lightning pillar after glimpsing the Law of lightning.
• Shen Xisheng explained that the Five Viscera Furnace Realm refined the five organs into vital-blood furnaces, beginning with the Heart-Fire Ape and followed by four beasts that governed endurance, recovery, sharpness, and defense.

Ji Yuan endured Shen Xisheng’s brutal training in the Thunder Pool and ignited his Heart-Fire Ape, entering the One Viscera Realm. After learning Shen Xisheng had returned to the Shen Household over a crisis, he entered the Martial God Tower and heard multiple voices around him.

• Ji Yuan asked Shen Xisheng how to ignite Heartfire, and she explained that he had to compress all his vital blood into his heart.
• Shen Xisheng battered Ji Yuan and used the Thunder Plasma to compress his vital blood while he healed with Scarlet Yang Bone and endured months of training.
• Ji Yuan’s blood formed a cocoon around his heart, and he broke it open to summon the Heart-Fire Ape and reach the Five Viscera Furnace Realm.
• Tushan Xue asked Dong Qian to persuade Ji Yuan to bring the Partridge Lineage into an alliance with the demons, but Dong Qian explained they would not turn against the Martial God Continent.
• After a year and a half in the Thunder Pool, Ji Yuan emerged with his One Viscera Realm cultivation stabilized and learned that Shen Xisheng had returned to the Shen Household because of trouble there.
• Ji Yuan entered the Martial God Tower to challenge its third floor and investigate whether Mad Blade, Partridge Whistle, and the others had brought it back to the Martial God Continent, then heard voices from every direction.

Ji Yuan entered the Martial God Tower after it returned to the Martial God Continent and learned that cultivators could challenge it by earning merit in Demon-Slaying City. He failed to clear the fourth floor, then planned his next steps toward Spirit Transformation and learned from Bai Zhan where to find the materials he needed.

• The artifact spirit told Ji Yuan that the Martial God Tower was now in Demon-Slaying City, explained its new floor-by-floor rankings, and warned that the Human Realm was heading into chaos.
• Ji Yuan examined the leaderboards, noting Dugu Yan, Yan Chixiao, and Jiang Jun on the fourth floor, Partridge Whistle in second place on the sixth, and Mad Blade alone on the seventh.
• Ji Yuan cleared the tower's third floor but was defeated on the fourth after exhausting himself against its Black Iron Armored Soldiers.
• Ji Yuan concluded that the tower's return would draw body cultivators to Demon-Slaying City, increasing pressure on the Demon God Continent, then considered how to obtain Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones for his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan asked Bai Zhan about the Grand Creation Sect and Heavenly Origin Sect, and Bai Zhan revealed that the former had split into the Grand Mystery Sword Sect and North-Knowing Tower, while the latter had become Mount Taihua.
• Bai Zhan told Ji Yuan that the Grand Mystery Sword Sect held the Creation Divine Tree and Mount Taihua still had Heavenly Origin Stones; Ji Yuan confirmed he planned to leave the mountain and return to Jade Parasol City.

Ji Yuan returned to Jade Parasol City, learned that the Heavenly Fox Clan was under pressure from the Eight Trigrams Sect, and reunited with Dong Qian before offering her refuge through his allies. After trading for two Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, he met Qingyang Yu of the Eight Trigrams Sect, whose aura the Ghost Envoy linked to the Demon God Continent.

• Ji Yuan used his Wind Messenger Token to meet Ding Shisan, paid for intelligence, and learned about the Heavenly Fox Clan’s alliances, the Eight Trigrams Sect’s hostility, and its plans to leave for Phoenix Immortal City.
• Ji Yuan reunited with Dong Qian at the Myriad Demon Grotto, heard about the clan’s worsening troubles, and told her she could seek help at the Thunder Pool if danger came.
• Ji Yuan attended three Nascent Soul Trade Fairs over six months and traded for two Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and an alchemist’s notes.
• Chen Xin warned Ji Yuan that Qingyang Yu of the Eight Trigrams Sect wanted to meet him, and Ji Yuan agreed to see them at the Drunken Immortal Tower.
• Qingyang Yu questioned Ji Yuan about his ties to the Heavenly Fox Clan and warned him not to forget he was human; Ji Yuan challenged him for presuming to instruct the Partridge Lineage.
• The Ghost Envoy sensed a familiar aura from Qingyang Yu and told Ji Yuan that he was likely connected to the Demon God Continent.

Ji Yuan uncovered signs that Qingyang Yu and Elder Qingxuan were connected to the Demon God Continent, while the Heavenly Fox Clan faced an ominous journey to Phoenix Immortal City. After discovering that the clan’s detour to Immortal Grove Mountain led toward a likely trap, Ji Yuan rushed to seek help and rescue Dong Qian.

• Ji Yuan learned from Chen Xin that the entire Eight Trigrams Sect supported the campaign against the Heavenly Fox Clan, while Elder Qingxuan’s faction was especially eager to destroy them; the Ghost Envoy identified the Many-Eyed Devil Lord’s aura on Qingyang Yu.
• Dong Qian told Ji Yuan that the Heavenly Fox Clan had decided to leave Jade Parasol City, and his divinations foretold dire misfortune for the Nascent Soul fox women traveling with her.
• Dong Qian explained that the Sky Fox Blood Seal prevented her from leaving the clan, so she departed with the group despite Ji Yuan’s warning and his inability to divine her fate.
• Ji Yuan questioned the group’s detour to Immortal Grove Mountain and learned from Ding Shisan that its supposed old friend, the Immortal Grove Mountain Lord, had been killed a century earlier by the Cross Sword Lineage.
• Ji Yuan concluded that the Heavenly Fox Clan was heading into a trap, told Ding Shisan what he knew, and asked him to summon Bai Zhan and provide the fastest route to Immortal Grove City.
• Ji Yuan hurried toward the Teleportation Harbor to reach Dong Qian, deciding that he would go despite the danger because he could not bear to regret failing to help her again.

Dong Qian recognized that Tushan Xue’s detour to Immortal Grove Mountain was a trap designed to sacrifice her, but High Person Qingxuan’s ambush trapped the entire Heavenly Fox Clan. As Qingyang Yu revealed his betrayal by killing True Person Wuyin, he ran Dong Qian through with a demonic sword, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Dong Qian suspected Tushan Xue planned to use her death to force the Heavenly Fox Clan’s Ancestral Land to intervene, and she grew wary of Hu Shan’s story about True Lord Hongluan.
• High Person Qingxuan trapped the Heavenly Fox Clan on Immortal Grove Mountain and attacked while Eight Trigrams Sect cultivators slaughtered the fox women.
• True Lord Hongluan arrived, revealed herself as the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord, and joined High Person Qingxuan, who disclosed that he had seized High Person Qingxuan’s body.
• Qingyang Yu abandoned his fight with Tushan Xue, killed True Person Wuyin with a demonic sword, and then pierced Dong Qian’s brow with the same weapon.

Tushan Xue realized the Devil Race had manipulated her into helping set a trap for Hu Shan, while the Many-Eyed Devil Lord and the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord revealed their overwhelming power. After Hu Shan was killed, Partridge Whistle arrived with Ji Yuan, prompting the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord to reach for Dong Qian's corpse.

• The Hatred-Severing Devil Lord exposed Tushan Xue's role in arranging the ambush, and Tushan Xue understood that the Devil Race had used her to provoke the Heavenly Fox Clan.
• Hu Shan revealed that he had reached the Integrated Body Early Stage, but the Many-Eyed Devil Lord displayed Integrated Body Peak Stage power and the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord revealed her Tribulation Transcendence cultivation.
• The pressure from the two Devil Lords cracked Immortal Grove City's Sixth-Tier City-Guarding Grand Formation, and Ji Yuan arrived in the city as its residents panicked.
• Partridge Whistle appeared beside Ji Yuan, reassured him, and carried him out of Immortal Grove City toward the battle.
• The Many-Eyed Devil Lord used the Soul-Seizing Banner to tear Hu Shan's Primordial Spirit from his body and kill him.
• The Hatred-Severing Devil Lord sensed Partridge Whistle approaching, warned the Many-Eyed Devil Lord, and reached for Dong Qian's corpse as the Void split open.

Partridge Whistle arrived too late to stop the Devil Lords from escaping with Dong Qian’s Primordial Spirit, though he revealed that she had survived through a False Nascent Soul and hidden Primordial Spirit. After Ji Yuan and Partridge Whistle heard Tushan Xue’s account of the battle, Tushan Xue secretly revealed that she had orchestrated the betrayal and used the Inverted Sundial to obscure the truth before fleeing.

• The Hatred-Severing Devil Lord extracted Dong Qian’s Primordial Spirit, recognized her False Nascent Soul and hiding technique, and took her as a prospective disciple while the Many-Eyed Devil Lord urged them to flee.
• Partridge Whistle struck at the Devil Lords with his Void Wind-Thunder Great Hand Seal, but both escaped through a spatial rift; Ji Yuan learned from Partridge Whistle that Dong Qian’s Primordial Spirit had survived and been taken to the Demon God Continent.
• Tushan Xue told Partridge Whistle and Ji Yuan that Hu Shan had conspired with the Demon God Continent, while Ji Yuan collected Dong Qian’s body and left with Partridge Whistle.
• After they departed, Tushan Xue burned the Fox Clan cultivators’ bodies, stored Hu Shan’s body, and used the Inverted Sundial to scramble the area’s threads of cause and effect.
• Tushan Xue revealed that she had contacted the Demon God Continent herself, then left Immortal Grove Mountain to avoid the Heavenly Fox Clan’s investigation.

Ji Yuan returned to Thunder Pool, prepared to break through to Spirit Transformation, and read Dong Qian’s farewell letter urging him not to seek revenge yet. Elsewhere, Tian Wenjing emerged from the Nine Netherworld Forbidden Land and declared his breakthrough, while Han Feiyu settled into a new identity and wondered how Ji Yuan was faring.

• Partridge Whistle gave Ji Yuan a Mid-Grade Purple Spirit Stone and reassured him that Dong Qian’s abduction was also his responsibility as Ji Yuan’s master.
• Ji Yuan placed Dong Qian’s body in a spirit coffin, found her letter asking him to endure and postpone revenge, and began preparing for his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Liu Yuan and Feng Zhitáo discussed the reopening of the Nine Netherworld Forbidden Land and learned that Senior Brother Yun had reached Nascent Soul Peak.
• Tian Wenjing emerged from the vortex above Blackwater Pool and announced that he would break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Han Feiyu returned to his home in Eastern Border City, reflected on escaping Tian Wenjing by casting part of his Divine Soul into reincarnation, and wondered how Ji Yuan was doing.

Ji Yuan completed the Spirit Transformation chapter of Sword Nine, created the Heaven-Severing Abyss technique, and then began his breakthrough using rare spiritual treasures. After consuming four Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and a Mid-Grade Purple Spirit Stone, he transformed his Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit and reached Spirit Transformation at age three hundred and eighteen.

• Ji Yuan spent a month polishing his mind, then devised the Heaven-Severing Abyss sword art in the Dao Comprehension Chamber.
• Ji Yuan tested Heaven-Severing Abyss above the Thunder Pool, cleaving the clouds for ten thousand miles and impressing Bai Zhan and Partridge Whistle.
• Partridge Whistle told Bai Zhan and Ji Yuan about the Shen Household's crisis, Second Senior Sister's hidden breakthrough to Body Integration, and Third Senior Brother's expedition into a world fragment.
• Ji Yuan returned to seclusion beside Dong Qian's Spirit Coffin and used Form-Spirit Fruits and four Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones to stabilize his Nascent Soul during his breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan absorbed the Mid-Grade Purple Spirit Stone's energy, transformed his Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit, and reached Spirit Transformation at age three hundred and eighteen.

Ji Yuan completed his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, spent eight years refining his skills, and upgraded the Wine Cellar to produce Nine-Yang Lifebuilding Brew. After emerging from thirty-eight years of seclusion, he shared the life-extending wine with Partridge Whistle and his senior brothers.

• Ji Yuan filled his expanded Dantian with nearly a thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, then spent eight years stabilizing his cultivation and refining his techniques and auxiliary arts.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that all fifty spirit wines had finished brewing, allowing him to upgrade the Wine Cellar to Level 6 and gain enough comprehension to become a Fifth-Tier alchemist.
• Ji Yuan learned that thirty-eight years had passed during his seclusion and reunited with Partridge Whistle, Bai Zhan, and Xu Youxia, who had advanced to the Viscera Realm.
• Ji Yuan served Nine-Yang Lifebuilding Brew at a feast, and Xu Youxia punched away the clouds so the Great Sun could shine on the wine.
• Ji Yuan and the others drank the brew, which restored fifty years of lifespan, and Partridge Whistle thanked Ji Yuan for sharing it with his family.

After emerging from seclusion, Ji Yuan learned how the Demon God Continent had reshaped Kunxi, destroying the Eight Trigrams Sect and establishing Demon God Mountain. Bai Zhan gave him intelligence on the ambush that killed Tushan Xue and a wisp of Five-Element Essence, while Ji Yuan prepared to pursue his revenge.

• Partridge Whistle recognized that Ji Yuan had cultivated a Primordial Spirit, then sent Xu Youxia back to cultivate after Xu Youxia complained.
• Bai Zhan gave Ji Yuan a Jade Slip documenting decades of events, including the Demon God Continent's fragile balance with the Martial God and Central Continents.
• Ji Yuan learned that Tushan Ge had helped bring down the Eight Trigrams Sect, which was destroyed by the Demon Race, the Valley of Seven Emotions, and Hundred Poisons Mountain; Tushan Ge then founded Demon God Mountain on its former grounds.
• Bai Zhan gave Ji Yuan intelligence on more than twenty cultivators involved in the ambush of the Heavenly Fox Clan, and Ji Yuan recognized Qingyang Yu among them.
• Bai Zhan gave Ji Yuan a wisp of Five-Element Essence, and later asked Partridge Whistle how their eldest senior sister had been doing.

Ji Yuan planned his next steps after leaving seclusion, then traveled to Autumn Maple City to claim a Windletter Hall reward and seek an earth-attribute Demon Core. Tu Yue abruptly summoned him back to the Thunder Pool because something had changed in Dong Qian's corpse.

• Partridge Whistle said Shen Xisheng had settled the Shen Household's affairs, could reach the Martial God Tower's top three, and would return to the Thunder Pool before he left to investigate the Star Beasts on the Eternal Fall Continent.
• Ji Yuan questioned whether Partridge Whistle had reached the Dao Body Realm, learned Bai Zhan did not know, and told Bai Zhan he planned to leave the mountain.
• Ji Yuan reviewed his goals: complete his Earth Spiritual Root with an earth-attribute Demon Core, collect spiritual-wine recipes, and upgrade the Cave Abode and Mass Burial Ground.
• Ji Yuan left the Thunder Pool, met Ding San at Windletter Hall in Autumn Maple City, and learned his old intelligence was worth three Fifth-Order Demon Cores and a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Ji Yuan asked Ding San about a nearby Fifth-Tier earth-attribute Demon Beast, but Tu Yue urgently told him that something was wrong with Dong Qian's corpse, so he vanished to return to the Thunder Pool.

Ji Yuan discovered that Dong Qian’s body was consuming vast amounts of spiritual energy and vital blood as an unusual revival began, so he placed her in the Blood Marrow Coffin and learned from the Ghost Envoy that Fish-Woman power might be responsible. After collecting the materials needed to upgrade his Cave Abode, Ji Yuan began the upgrade, while Dong Qian suddenly started devouring the resulting surge of spiritual energy.

• Ji Yuan found Dong Qian withered inside the Spirit Coffin and stopped her body from draining his cultivation with the Spirit-Devouring Armor.
• Ji Yuan moved Dong Qian into the Blood Marrow Coffin, which converted Spirit Vein energy into vital blood and kept her body from withering.
• The Ghost Envoy identified Dong Qian’s condition as a likely revival through the Fish-Woman’s power of Partial Withering, but warned that the Blood Marrow Coffin might not withstand her consumption.
• Ji Yuan collected three Fifth-Order Demon Cores, a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, and information about the Buried-Sand Scorpion from Ding San.
• Ji Yuan used the required materials to upgrade the Cave Abode to Level Six and began cultivating amid the surge of spiritual energy.
• Dong Qian’s pull intensified and began devouring the spiritual energy released by the upgrade, forming a vortex around the Blood Marrow Coffin.

Ji Yuan baited the Middle Fifth-Tier Buried-Sand Scorpion in the Sand Sea and killed it with his sword formation, Zixiao Divine Thunder, Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and Heaven-Severing Abyss. He secured its Demon Core, which could complete his Earth Spiritual Root, then fled as two Spirit Transformation cultivators approached.

• Ji Yuan checked the Cave Abode’s upgraded Spirit Effects and learned it could improve aptitude by up to fifty percent, then left to hunt the Buried-Sand Scorpion.
• Ji Yuan spent over a month posing as a rogue cultivator while the Buried-Sand Scorpion secretly followed him through the Sand Sea.
• The Buried-Sand Scorpion ambushed Ji Yuan with its Stinger Strike, but Ji Yuan blocked it with his Azure Waves Swords and the Taiyi Protective True Talisman.
• Ji Yuan countered the scorpion’s attacks with Zixiao Divine Thunder and Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, badly wounding it and disrupting its attempt to escape with a Soul Spear.
• Ji Yuan killed the Buried-Sand Scorpion with Heaven-Severing Abyss and destroyed its Primordial Spirit essence with Netherworld Corpsefire.
• Ji Yuan took the scorpion’s Demon Core and stored its corpse, then fled when two Spirit Transformation auras approached from Autumn Maple City.

Ji Yuan completed his Earth Spiritual Root, giving him all Five Elements and improving his affinity with the Laws of Heaven and Earth. He traveled to Rage City to buy corpses for upgrading the Mass Burial Ground, where Feiyao agreed to prepare the corpses in exchange for the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s body.

• Two Spirit Transformation cultivators found the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s battlefield and concluded that a coordinated group had killed it, then went to search its Cave Abode for treasure.
• Ji Yuan studied the Elixir Spiritual Root Art, refined the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s Demon Core, and formed an Earth Spiritual Root after a year of cultivation.
• Ji Yuan sensed the benefits of completing all Five Elements and decided to seek the sixty Nascent Soul corpses and seven Nascent Soul Peak corpses needed to upgrade the Mass Burial Ground.
• Ji Yuan traveled south to Rage City in the Valley of Seven Emotions, where he planned to find one of the Demonic Cultivators who had killed Dong Qian.
• Ji Yuan offered the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s intact corpse to Feiyao’s Immortal Materials Shop, and Feiyao agreed to provide all sixty-seven corpses within three days.
• After Ji Yuan left, Tao Yao watched him go and remarked that his interest in collecting corpses was interesting.

Ji Yuan discovered a mysterious meeting message in the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s Storage Bag, arranged for Windletter Hall to locate Devil Lord Mushan, and completed his trade with Tao Yao. He upgraded [Mass Burial Ground] to Level Five and gained Annihilation Netherfire, then turned his attention to the next upgrade.

• Ji Yuan searched the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s Storage Bag, found the Soul-Clearing Calamity-Delivering Pill formula and a statue that delivered a message setting a meeting at Number Eighteen, Tianlin Ward on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.
• Ji Yuan scouted Number Eighteen without entering, then hired Windletter Hall messenger Yi Eighteen to find a Spirit Transformation Cultivator, later identified as Devil Lord Mushan.
• Ji Yuan exchanged the Buried-Sand Scorpion’s remains with Tao Yao for an additional Spirit Transformation Early Stage Immortal Material after receiving the sixty-seven corpses he had ordered.
• Ji Yuan left Rage City, entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and used the corpses to upgrade [Mass Burial Ground] to Level Five.
• The upgrade transformed Ji Yuan’s Netherworld Corpsefire into Annihilation Netherfire, and he planned to test it on Devil Lord Mushan once Windletter Hall found him.

Ji Yuan learned that upgrading the Mass Burial Ground to Level Six would grant him Myriad-Illusion Karmic Fire, then investigated Devil Lord Mushan and attended the Spirit Transformation Exchange at Tianlin Ward. The exchange began with Tao Yao seated beside him, and she privately confronted him about killing the Buried-Sand Scorpion.

• Ji Yuan examined the Mass Burial Ground's upgrade requirements and learned that Level Six would grant him Myriad-Illusion Karmic Fire, a flame that burned karmic debt.
• Ji Yuan stored Annihilation Netherfire in his Dantian, inspected the newly formed Corpse Puppets, and found Dong Qian still unchanged inside the fading Blood Marrow Coffin.
• Yi Eighteen sold Ji Yuan information about Devil Lord Mushan and revealed that Mushan planned to attend a Spirit Transformation Exchange at Number Eighteen, Tianlin Ward.
• Ji Yuan decided to attend the exchange to seek rare pill ingredients, observe Mushan, and investigate why the Buried-Sand Scorpion had possessed a statue pointing to the same time and place.
• Ji Yuan entered the exchange wearing an Illusion-Form Mask, saw Tao Yao arrive, and sat on the cloud beside her as True Person Feng He opened the gathering.
• Tao Yao spoke into Ji Yuan's Sea of Consciousness and asked whether he wanted anyone to know he had killed the Buried-Sand Scorpion.

Ji Yuan discovered that the Spirit Transformation Exchange was likely a gathering of Demon Cultivators, then was subtly restrained when half the attendees departed. Elsewhere, the Seven Emotions Immortal Venerable, Tushan Ge, and the Many-Eyed Devil Lord prepared to attack the Thunder Pool Lineage, confident they could trap Shen Xisheng despite learning that Partridge Whistle had reached the Dao Body Realm.

• Tao Yao recognized Ji Yuan as the cultivator who had taken a Demon God Statue from the Demon God Continent, and Ji Yuan suspected the exchange was connected to the Demon Race.
• Ji Yuan traded for several spirit-wine recipes and ingredients for Soul-Clearing Calamity-Delivering Pills, but noticed that no one offered a Fifth-Order Demon Core or his requested Heavenly Origin Stone.
• When the exchange ended, Ji Yuan sensed a weak restraint on his cloud; seven attendees left, and True Person Feng He dismantled the spatial Formation, returning the survivors to the sitting room.
• The Seven Emotions Immortal Venerable, Tushan Ge, and the Many-Eyed Devil Lord discussed their plan to destroy the Partridge Lineage and learned that Partridge Whistle had reached the Dao Body Realm but remained trapped by the Star Beast Clan.
• The three conspirators judged that they could trap Shen Xisheng, dismissed Jiang Nishang as a threat, and learned that Shen Xisheng was heading to Rage City.
• The Many-Eyed Devil Lord declared that the time had come to act, and the three leaders departed together.

Ji Yuan was drawn into a secret meeting where Kunxi Demon Cultivators discussed being forced to attack Rage City's West Gate, and suspicion fell on him when word arrived of a spy. On the Eternal Fall Continent, Partridge Whistle broke open the prison long enough to send Qin Kun away, then remained behind to hold back the Star Beast Clan.

• Ji Yuan gave his name as Qiu Qianhai, and Tao Yao vouched for him when True Person Feng He questioned him.
• True Person Feng He revealed that the group had been ordered to attack Rage City's West Gate, while Madam Xu and the others discussed how Demon God Mountain treated local Demon Cultivators as expendable.
• Devil Lord Mushan said their real task was to create chaos, but True Person Feng He then announced that Demon God Mountain had reported a spy among them, prompting everyone to look at Ji Yuan.
• Partridge Whistle told Qin Kun that the Demon God Continent had targeted their lineage and ordered him to find Jiang Nishang on the Central Continent and help preserve their disciples and stronghold.
• Partridge Whistle blasted a breach through the Abyss Binding Formation, and Qin Kun transformed into a Kunpeng and escaped through it.
• Partridge Whistle remained imprisoned on the Eternal Fall Continent as the rift closed, declaring that he would fight the world once more.

Ji Yuan exposed Devil Lord Mushan as a participant in the siege of the Heavenly Fox Clan and killed him with Annihilation Netherfire, ending the others’ suspicions of Ji Yuan. The group resumed planning their mission at the West Gate, but an unseen voice announced that they were surrounded.

• Ji Yuan challenged Devil Lord Mushan to swear a Great Dao Oath, and Mushan’s refusal revealed his role in the siege at Immortal Grove Mountain.
• Feng He, Madam Xu, Hu Ben, Daoist Gou, Tao Yao, and Ji Yuan swore oaths, leaving Mushan as the only one who would not swear.
• Mushan admitted that he had laid the Binding Lock Formation under the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord’s orders, and Ji Yuan attacked him before he could finish speaking.
• Ji Yuan’s Annihilation Netherfire burned Mushan’s body and Primordial Spirit essence, while Tao Yao’s smoke barrier blocked his escape.
• Madam Xu identified the fire as Annihilation Netherfire, and the group withdrew their suspicions of Ji Yuan and thanked him for exposing Mushan.
• Feng He’s group agreed to gather life-saving items before their West Gate mission in three days, but a voice outside said they were already surrounded.

Ji Yuan escaped Lu Kai’s attack by using Square-Inch Mountain, then upgraded the Chicken Coop and glimpsed a colossal blood-red Egg beyond a tear in the sky. The upgrade transformed the Chicken Coop into a Phoenix Nest, which could not be upgraded further.

• Lu Kai attacked the gathering, killed Hu Ben, and pursued the fleeing cultivators while a Fifth-Tier Binding Formation trapped them.
• Ji Yuan used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to find a gap in the formation, escaped with Daoist Gou and Tao Yao, then hid inside Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan reviewed the night’s events, considered Annihilation Netherfire and his revenge for Dong Qian, and examined the Panel’s building upgrades.
• Ji Yuan used Corpse-Burying Wood, Soul-Cleansing Fir, and Spirit Stones to upgrade the Chicken Coop, causing its spirit birds to advance in tier.
• Ji Yuan glimpsed a vast blood-red Egg beyond a fissure in the sky, then received and consumed a Six-Color Spirit Egg.
• Ji Yuan saw the Panel rename the Level Seven Chicken Coop as the Phoenix Nest and mark it as unable to be upgraded.

Ji Yuan discovered that the Chicken Coop had become a Phoenix Nest with the power to grant him one rebirth, then learned his senior sister Shen Xisheng ranked first among Void Realm body cultivators. When his attempt to leave Rage City was blocked, Lu Kai confronted him, and Ji Yuan realized a hidden scheme targeted his Partridge Lineage before Senior Tushan appeared.

• Ji Yuan read the Phoenix Nest’s Spirit Effects, including the chance to transform Feather Clan members into Phoenixkind and the Phoenix Rebirth ability, but saw that upgrading it required rare materials and the Void Refinement Realm.
• Ji Yuan sensed that the battle outside Square-Inch Mountain was ending, planned to collect Fifth-Order Demon Cores and pursue Dong Qian’s other killers, and spent half a month cultivating.
• Ji Yuan visited the Martial God Tower and found Shen Xisheng ranked first in the Void Realm, ahead of Zhao Changkong and Partridge Whistle.
• Ji Yuan tried to teleport east out of Rage City, but a City-Guarding Grand Formation sealed the Void and forced him back into the city, where Lu Kai had been waiting.
• Ji Yuan explained that he had come to kill Devil Lord Mushan, then recognized that the secret gathering and related events might have been a trap aimed at him and his Partridge Lineage.
• A mysterious woman emerged from the Void; Lu Kai identified her as Senior Tushan and respectfully greeted her.