Recaps

Lin Changheng cleared suspicion from himself after Shi Jindan’s death, traded for Flame-Shadow Mouse blood, and acquired its Fire Escape talent. After learning the new escape method, he prepared to hunt the mice in the Savage Wilderness.

• The Shi family discovered Shi Jindan’s death and questioned Young Master Shi, whose evasions left Lin Changheng outside the investigation.
• Lin Changheng visited Xue Yinshan at Gold Valley Ridge and exchanged Flowing Flame Stone Essence for 172 portions of Flame-Shadow Mouse essence blood and the location of the colony.
• Lin Changheng stayed at the Xue Family compound and used the Origin Cauldron to complete spirit seizure from the essence blood.
• Lin Changheng chose the Fire Escape talent over Gnawing and Shadow Splitting, refining it into the Fire Escape Foreign Method.
• Lin Changheng tested Fire Escape by traveling between nearby flames, finding that it enabled swift ten-zhang escapes but consumed substantial mana.

Lin Changheng completed the first layer of the Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual, then hunted wood-attribute beasts alone in the Savage Wilderness and reached Flame Ridge. After ambushing Flame-Shadow Mice, he gathered enough progress for another Spirit Seizure, while their nest remained dangerous and unexplored.

• Lin Changheng cultivated the first layer of the Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual and released his first sword ray.
• Lin Changheng hunted wood-attribute demon beasts for bait, killed a second-tier late-stage ape with the Mountain-Bearing Divine Ability, and escaped a pursuing Turbid Core ape using several escape methods.
• Lin Changheng reached Flame Ridge, endured its heat with the Fire-Repelling Demon Method, and found a cave marked by Flame-Shadow Mouse hairs.
• Lin Changheng concealed himself in a Fire-Origin Concealment Formation and used Wood Marrow Paste and demon beast meat to lure out Flame-Shadow Mice.
• Lin Changheng killed eight Flame-Shadow Mice before the survivors escaped into their cave, collecting twenty-two points of progress and enough for another Spirit Seizure.

Lin Changheng hunted Flame-Shadow Mice in the Flame Ridge Mountains, advancing his Fire Escape talent through Spirit Seizure. Higher up the mountains, he encountered and killed an Earthfire Nether Serpent that might have been a Pure Core Demon Beast, then prepared to harvest its valuable materials when someone called out to him.

• Lin Changheng trapped and slaughtered groups of Flame-Shadow Mice with a Water-Origin Boundary-Locking Formation, advancing his Spirit Seizure and Fire Escape talent over nearly a month of hunting.
• As the mice grew wary and the caves became dangerous, Lin Changheng climbed higher and lured prey from a cave where an Earthfire Nether Serpent emerged.
• The serpent detected Lin Changheng and nearly killed him with a fire attack, but he recognized its rare bloodline and valuable materials and chose to fight it.
• Lin Changheng used puppets, talismans, Fire Escape, his body-tempering methods, and the Blue-Black Sword Embryo to wear down and kill the stronger serpent.
• Lin Changheng suspected the serpent had been a Pure Core Demon Beast, confirmed it was dead, and began preparing to collect its materials when someone called, “Hold a moment, young friend!”

Lin Changheng fought a gray-robed False Core cultivator who tried to seize the Earthfire Nether Serpent’s treasures, using his secret methods to wound the elder and escape. The elder’s Soul-Striking Whip vanished with Lin Changheng, leaving the enraged cultivator behind.

• A gray-robed False Core cultivator arrived and claimed he had tracked the Earthfire Nether Serpent, but Lin Changheng swiftly extracted its most valuable parts and refused to hand them over.
• The elder claimed he needed the demon core and serpent horn to treat his granddaughter’s Dragon Roar Body, then suddenly attacked Lin Changheng with a mana palm.
• Lin Changheng evaded the ambush and fought back, but the elder’s Soul-Striking Whip and damaged natal spear put him at a disadvantage.
• Lin Changheng used the Light-Settling Pearl to immobilize the Soul-Striking Whip and struck the elder with the Azure Purifying Sword Talismanized Treasure, severing his arm.
• As the elder’s spear closed in, Lin Changheng activated Blood-Shadow Escape and escaped with the Soul-Striking Whip, leaving the elder furious and dismayed.

Lin Changheng recovered in the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space after escaping the wounded gray-robed False Core cultivator, then tracked him down and resumed their fight. He crippled the cultivator’s Dark-Scaled Spear and attempted to enslave him, but the man detonated his False Core, destroying himself and his possessions as Lin Changheng escaped the blast.

• Lin Changheng hid in a hollow tree, recovered with elixirs, and inspected the Soul-Striking Whip he had stolen into the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space.
• Three days later, Lin Changheng killed a Shadowclaw Black Panther and confirmed his progress to the second level of the Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual.
• Lin Changheng used the Soul-Striking Whip to locate the gray-robed False Core cultivator in a valley and burned the surrounding terrain to force him out.
• Lin Changheng fought the cultivator, used a sixty-year-nurtured Sharp Metal Treasure Talisman to damage the Dark-Scaled Spear, and seized the weapon into the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space.
• Lin Changheng branded the cultivator’s soul with an improved Divine Blood Curse Seal, but the man rejected enslavement and detonated his False Core.
• Lin Changheng escaped the explosion, found that the cultivator and his possessions had been destroyed, and fled before the blast could attract more powerful threats.

After returning to Floating Life Immortal City, Lin Changheng acquired two Dharma Treasures, refined a Mystic Serpent Spirit-Tempering Pill, and strengthened his alliance with Bai Hengwan. He later left the city and found four powerful figures waiting outside the Huang Family Base at Spirit Vault Mountain.

• Lin Changheng retreated from the Savage Wilderness after a False Core elder's self-detonation drew several third-tier demon beasts, and he planned to warn the Xue Family about the danger.
• Lin Changheng returned to Floating Life Immortal City, inspected the damaged Dark-Scaled Spear, discovered its wound-draining trait, and decided to use it for Spirit Grafting while keeping the Soul-Striking Whip.
• Lin Changheng met Bai Hengwan, revealed his progress in alchemy and requested help finding a Third-Tier Dao of Alchemy Inheritance and obtaining a Spirit-Communing Pill; he learned Elder Kong had been sent to the Song-Jin Frontline.
• Lin Changheng secured an allotment of a Spirit-Communing Pill, refined a Mystic Serpent Spirit-Tempering Pill, and mastered the third layer of the Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual.
• Lin Changheng returned Ye Wugui's Jade Slip after Ye repaid forty thousand Spirit Stones, then left Floating Life Immortal City and found four figures with powerful auras waiting outside the Huang Family Base at Spirit Vault Mountain.

Lin Changheng returned to the Huang Household, where he learned that Cook Zeng’s wife, Huang Linglin, had died and discovered a way to treat Huang Lingsu’s Dragon Roar Body using Earth Nether Aura. He left after arranging monthly treatment and regular essence-blood collection, while rumors of his alchemy skill continued to raise his standing.

• The Huang Household’s Foundation Establishment cultivators warmly welcomed Lin Changheng, and Cook Zeng later told him that Huang Linglin had died of old age.
• Lin Changheng’s words helped Cook Zeng recover from his grief, and Cook Zeng explained that Huang Lingsu’s Dragon Roar Body had not greatly diminished her vitality.
• Lin Changheng examined Huang Lingsu, used Earth Nether Aura to balance her essence blood, and told her that her condition could be treated.
• Huang Lingsu accepted Lin Changheng’s conditions, including regular essence-blood draws and a promise to help him once if needed.
• Lin Changheng instructed Cook Zeng to bring Huang Lingsu to Jade Belt Lake monthly for treatment and to provide blood-replenishing medicine.
• The Huang Household’s elders escorted Lin Changheng from the mountain gate after news of his alchemy reputation had further elevated his standing.

Lin Changheng returned to Jade Belt Lake, advanced to the Foundation Establishment eighth layer, and used Spirit Grafting to repair and strengthen his Dharma Treasure sword embryo. Little Qing broke through to the second tier, while Lin Changheng arranged to acquire high-grade spirit soil and considered a future confrontation with True Person Zhen.

• Lin Changheng returned to Perching Moon Island, reunited with Yan Mingyi and the spirit beasts, and learned that the Ye Family had been blamed and nearly exterminated after the Purple Pole Sect's law enforcement team was destroyed.
• Lin Changheng revived four Core Formation medicinal plants by spending eight years of his lifespan, then entered seclusion and grafted the Dark-Scaled Spear's Blood-Rending property into his Blue-Black Sword Embryo, raising its transformation progress to ninety-one percent.
• Deng Changsheng fled after a battle with a lightning-using Jin State cultivator, and his injured old soul told him to seek elixirs from Lin Changheng while it recovered in dormancy.
• Lin Changheng refined a Mystic Serpent Spirit-Tempering Pill and advanced to the Foundation Establishment eighth layer; he later learned that Huang Lingsu's Dragon Roar Body treatment had restored her cultivation and greatly accelerated her progress.
• Little Qing broke through to the second tier and began manifesting its Wind Bind talent while Lin Changheng met Xu Maoling to arrange medicinal garden spirit soil for the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space.

Lin Changheng learned the uses and dangers of the Ancestral Blood Spirit-Summoning Pills, then received Deng Changsheng, who offered him a clear spirit stabilizing crystal in exchange for help with a lightning injury. Lin Changheng drew most of the thunder sha from Deng Changsheng, while Ji Ren sensed Lin Changheng’s terrifying power and played dead.

• Lin Changheng accepted Xu Maoling’s help preparing a cost-saving third-tier spirit-soil mixture and gave him Snowflakes over the Jade Pool.
• Lin Changheng examined the Sun Clan’s Ancestral Blood Spirit-Summoning Pills, explained their risks, and stopped Xiao Hei from eating one.
• Lin Changheng considered possible ways to advance his Mystic Root transformation and focused on finding non-Five Elements demon beasts.
• Deng Changsheng offered Lin Changheng a clear spirit stabilizing crystal and asked him to treat the thunder sha lodged in his body.
• Lin Changheng used Blood Membrane Pills, Wooden Life Pills, and his azurewood vitality to draw most of the thunder sha out of Deng Changsheng.
• Ji Ren sensed Lin Changheng’s overwhelming presence, withdrew into Deng Changsheng’s sea of consciousness, and played dead.

Lin Changheng discovered a foreign soul might be hiding in Deng Changsheng, sealed the Thunder Sha he had extracted, and investigated the growth of his Soul-Eroding Miasma Insects. He later refined three Premium Foundation Establishment Pills for Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu, leaving him ready to pursue third-tier alchemy.

• Lin Changheng sensed a foreign soul in Deng Changsheng but decided not to confront it, then sealed the Thunder Sha he had extracted after failing to refine it safely.
• Deng Changsheng recovered and left Perching Moon Island; the old soul warned him that Lin Changheng might have noticed it and advised him to keep his distance.
• Lin Changheng found over a hundred Soul-Eroding Miasma Insect eggs among the remains in his insect-rearing grounds, branded them with Insect-Control Contracts, and used the Hundred-Soul Banner and Demon Beast meat to improve their nourishment.
• Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu visited Lin Changheng and brought Seven-Star Spirit Moon Grass with its roots, completing his collection of the three main Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients.
• Lin Changheng refined three Premium Foundation Establishment Pills in one batch, and Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu witnessed the result.

Lin Changheng rescued Xu Yongzhen and Xu Bazheng from two Purple Pole Sect cultivators who had tried to kill them, then learned that Xu Yongzhen’s Foundation Establishment allocation had been taken and he was being sent to the Song-Jin Frontline. He brought them to the Xu Family’s new residence, where he reunited with Tantai Feiyue and Xu Hanji, and the group prepared to discuss what had happened.

• Lin Changheng used his Divine Light to find Xu Yongzhen fighting for his life and stopped the gray-robed cultivator from killing him.
• Lin Changheng killed the gray-robed cultivator, crippled his purple-robed father, and let Xu Bazheng deliver the final blow.
• Xu Yongzhen told Lin Changheng that his Foundation Establishment allocation had been transferred to Xie Gaoye and that Elder Xie had ordered him sent to the Song-Jin Frontline.
• Lin Changheng learned that Ji Rong and his father had pursued Xu Yongzhen and Xu Bazheng, then took them aboard his flying boat to the Xu Family’s new valley residence.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Tantai Feiyue and Xu Hanji at the valley, and they welcomed Xu Bazheng and Xu Yongzhen inside to discuss the matter.

Lin Changheng returned to the Xu Family, reunited with old friends, and helped secure Xu Yongzhen’s future before departing. News of a rebellion under the Purple Pole Sect and a False Core cultivator’s punitive expedition then reached him, leaving the next danger looming.

• The Xu Family recognized Lin Changheng and welcomed him back, and he reunited with Xu Fugui after more than forty years apart.
• Lin Changheng assured the family that the deaths of the two evil cultivators were unlikely to be traced to them, then gave Xu Yongzhen a Dust-Forgetting Pill to protect their secret.
• Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue welcomed Lin Changheng with wine, and he later discovered that the two women had secretly plotted together to get him drunk and seduce him.
• Lin Changheng mastered the Light-Splitting mystery of the Sixth Layer of the Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual and spent the following month supporting the Xu Family, including giving Xu Yongzhen a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill.
• As Lin Changheng prepared to leave, Xu Bazheng reported that Rogue Cultivators had rebelled against the Purple Pole Sect and killed a Supervisory Law Enforcement Team, prompting a False Core True Person Zhen to lead an expedition to suppress them.

Lin Changheng learned that a Purple Pole Sect Inspection Team had been destroyed after discovering rogue cultivators possessed a principal ingredient for the Dust-Descending Pill, and he decided to investigate for profit and to draw out True Person Zhen. He infiltrated You Family Manor and instantly subdued its patriarch and two senior members, demanding to discuss the dead cultivator’s affairs.

• At a banquet, Lin Changheng revealed his Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation, astonishing the Xu Family and silencing Guo Huairen’s earlier boasting.
• Guo Huairen explained that the Inspection Team had tried to seize a rare Dust-Descending Pill ingredient from organized rogue cultivators, who trapped and killed most of the team before a wounded survivor escaped and died at Springwater Market.
• Lin Changheng decided to pursue the ingredient, provoke True Person Zhen, and use a lightning-skilled Jin State cultivator as a scapegoat; he later traveled to Springwater Market.
• Lin Changheng found the market deserted and learned that the You Family had handled the dead cultivator and reported the incident to the Purple Pole Sect.
• Lin Changheng used Fire Escape to pass through You Family Manor’s formation, discovered that You Tianying had secretly reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and overheard plans to appease True Person Zhen.
• Lin Changheng appeared in the You Family study and used three Sword Lights to immobilize You Tianying, You Tianming, and You Luhua, then demanded information about his younger brother’s death.

Lin Changheng subdued the You Family’s survivors, learned about the Purple Pole Sect Inspection Team’s search, and bound You Tianying and You Luhua with his curse seals. After half a year in seclusion, his Azure-Purple Sword Embryo reached the peak of its gestation, while he waited for a chance to confront True Person Zhen.

• Lin Changheng stopped You Tianying, You Luhua, and You Tianming with his sword embryos, but You Tianming attacked him with a Treasure Talisman and tried to escape.
• You Tianying killed You Tianming, then told Lin Changheng about the Inspection Team’s movements, its blood-tracing methods, and its hunt for Qianmingzi at Duskfall Ridge.
• You Tianying and You Luhua agreed to accept Lin Changheng’s modified Divine Blood Curse Seals, which branded their souls and bound them to his command.
• Over the next half year, Lin Changheng hid in the You Family’s bamboo grove while the Inspection Team failed to locate Qianmingzi and True Person Zhen remained unseen.
• Lin Changheng’s Azure-Purple Sword Embryo broke through its nurturing halo and reached the quasi-treasure-artifact stage, and he also erased the former owner’s imprint from the Soul-Striking Whip.

Lin Changheng joined the search for Qianmingzi in Blackwater Marsh disguised as the dead You Tianming, but the expedition led True Person Zhen to a strange black pool. True Person Zhen entered the pool to investigate, while Ji killed the last surviving conscript and waited for reinforcements.

• Lin Changheng tested the Soul-Striking Whip, then learned that Qianmingzi’s hiding area had been located and True Person Zhen would lead the hunt.
• Lin Changheng disguised himself as You Tianming and joined Ji’s search party as it entered Blackwater Marsh.
• A plain-robed cultivator drowned in a mire, and Ji forced Lin Changheng to use a Cave-Void Clear Truth Talisman to locate an unusual black pool.
• Ji sent Lin Changheng and then a white-robed cultivator into the pool; the white-robed cultivator activated a Flame Messenger Talisman, prompting Ji to summon True Person Zhen.
• True Person Zhen sensed strange formation traces and spiritual energy in the pool, then entered it himself while Ji stayed behind.
• Ji killed the gray-robed cultivator when he asked about the promised reward.

True Person Zhen pursued Qianmingzi into the depths of Blackwater Marsh, where a demon beast and Qianmingzi trapped him in a deadly battle. After escaping the trap with a secret art, True Person Zhen was intercepted and killed by Lin Changheng, who took his treasure and storage bag.

• True Person Zhen descended through the black pool and entered a cave, where a False Core turbid core demon beast ambushed him and forced him to retreat.
• Qianmingzi attacked True Person Zhen as he fled the cave, revealing that he had formed a False Core with a Wind Mutated Spiritual Root and blaming the Purple Pole Sect for his ruined foundation and his daughter's capture.
• Above the pool, the Purple Pole Sect cultivators established the [Minor Four Symbols Spirit-Locking Formation] while True Person Zhen and Qianmingzi fought below.
• The turbid core demon beast joined Qianmingzi and struck True Person Zhen from behind, trapping him between two enemies inside Qianmingzi's reinforced formation.
• True Person Zhen sacrificed his essence blood to injure Qianmingzi, then used the [Mystic Embryo Return-to-Stillness Art] to escape as a soul attached to the [Divine Azurewood Seal].
• Lin Changheng intercepted True Person Zhen near the pool's surface, destroyed his soul with an iron whip, and collected the [Divine Azurewood Seal] and his storage bag.

Lin Changheng exploited the conflict between Qianmingzi and the turbid core demon beast, killed the survivors, and collected their valuable remains and treasures. Disguised as Zhen, he emerged from the black pool and launched a sudden attack on the six Purple Pole Sect cultivators, targeting Ji with a concealed Soul-Striking Whip.

• Lin Changheng killed the white-robed cultivator, concealed himself in the pool, and discovered suspicious traces and a hidden danger near the cavern.
• Qianmingzi and the turbid core demon beast fought until both were gravely wounded; Qianmingzi died after learning that Zhen was dead, and Lin Changheng extracted his wind-attribute essence blood and took his possessions.
• Lin Changheng used a puppet to investigate the cavern, then killed the weakened turbid core demon beast and collected its materials and three water-repelling crystals.
• Lin Changheng tested the crystals and discovered they could create a stationary waterless area, then left the cavern and headed back toward the pool's surface.
• The six Purple Pole Sect cultivators waited anxiously above the pool until Lin Changheng, disguised as the badly injured Zhen, emerged and attacked them with sword lights, dark flames, and a concealed Soul-Striking Whip aimed at Ji.

Lin Changheng escaped the Purple Pole Sect after killing Ji, reached Dragon Bay Market Ward in Mystic Ice Valley territory, and used Qianmingzi’s wind-attribute essence blood to form and integrate an Xun Wind Mystic Root. After testing his new wind abilities, he opened True Person Zhen’s storage bag and discovered three drops of precious liquid.

• Lin Changheng killed Ji with a coordinated lightning, fire, sword, and soul attack, then escaped while the remaining Purple Pole Sect cultivators reported the incident and began planning a search.
• Lin Changheng crossed into Mystic Ice Valley territory and reached Dragon Bay Market Ward, where he recovered and examined Qianmingzi’s storage bag.
• Lin Changheng found Qianmingzi’s annotated third-tier formation inheritance and three upper-grade second-tier formation sets, but no principal ingredient for the Dust-Descending Pill.
• Lin Changheng absorbed Qianmingzi’s wind-attribute essence blood, formed an Origin Mystic Root called Xun Wind, and integrated it into himself as a wind mutated spiritual root with twenty-one wisps of spirit resonance.
• Lin Changheng tested the Wind Blade, Lightness, and Wind-Riding spells, then examined the patterns on the Origin Cauldron and concluded that its human essence blood path produced mystic roots.
• Lin Changheng opened True Person Zhen’s storage bag and found a long-necked bottle containing three drops of nearly transparent, seven-colored liquid.

Lin Changheng secured rare ingredients and wealth from True Person Zhen, then returned to Perching Moon Island as the Purple Pole Sect tightened its defenses. He improved his Heaven-in-a-Pot Space, began gathering essence blood from Little Qing, and ended by discovering that the Origin Cauldron had begun transforming a new treasure seed.

• Lin Changheng recognized Rootless Spirit Dew among True Person Zhen's possessions, gaining a principal ingredient for the Dust-Descending Pill along with Spirit Stones and other valuable materials.
• Lin Changheng returned to Perching Moon Island, where Little Qing, Xiao Hei, Xiao Bai, and Yan Mingyi welcomed him; he used his new Xun Wind Mystic Root to carry Yan Mingyi into their chamber.
• You Tianying and You Luhua suspected that Lin Changheng had killed True Person Zhen and caused the Purple Pole Sect's lockdown, and they agreed to keep quiet and use the resources he had given them.
• Lin Changheng discovered that his Origin Cauldron required a thousand points for its next Spirit Seizure, then accepted Xu Maoling's five-element life-giving soil and used puppets to lay it throughout his Heaven-in-a-Pot Space.
• Lin Changheng drew essence blood from the second-tier Blue-Furred Tiger, Little Qing, and the Origin Cauldron began forming an Azure Sky White Tiger Treasure Seed.

Lin Changheng learned that spirit-vein transplantation could make the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space self-sustaining, traded refining materials to Cheng Suling for geomancy secrets, and spent a year preparing. He then left for the war-torn Jin Territory as Li Feiyu, carrying spirit beasts and supplies, while the Divine Azurewood Seal had just become his to refine.

• Lin Changheng chose Little Qing’s Cloud Concealment talent for Spirit Seizure and considered accelerating the tiger’s blood donations with replenishing medicine.
• Cheng Suling explained geomancy methods for creating a self-sustaining spiritual domain, including Spirit Eyes and spirit-vein transplantation, and Lin Changheng traded two refining materials for her Spirit-Seizing and Vein-Drawing secret art.
• After studying the secret art for three days, Lin Changheng decided to practice spirit-vein transplantation in the war-torn Jin Territory, where unclaimed veins might be easier to find.
• About a year later, Lin Changheng left Jade Belt Lake in disguise as Li Feiyu, bringing the Azure Sky White Tiger and Xiao Hei while leaving Xiao Bai with Yan Mingyi.
• Lin Changheng moved his Soul-Eroding Miasma Insects and other supplies into the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space, which now held a raised insect-rearing ground and served as a hidden storage space.
• Lin Changheng finished removing the previous owner’s imprint from True Person Zhen’s Divine Azurewood Seal.

Lin Changheng tested the four transformations of the Divine Azurewood Seal, entered Jin territory under the guise of a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, and gathered intelligence on the kingdom's powers and the war. After the Black Mountain Three Fiends ambushed him, he killed them in an instant and demanded that the hidden observer reveal themself.

• Lin Changheng tested the Divine Azurewood Seal's powers of suppression, growth, binding, and a devastating golden-and-emerald strike, then recalled the False Core-grade treasure.
• Lin Changheng reached the Song-Jin border, used his False Core-level divine sense to overhear cultivators, and learned that many were entering Jin territory for battlefield spoils.
• Wang Tiezhu recruited Lin Changheng into a group with Huang Miao and Shi Kui, and the four registered for battle discs before entering Jin territory through a one-way teleportation formation.
• Lin Changheng learned about Jin's imperial family, six great powers, and holy land, then traveled with his companions into the devastated territory under Medicine King Valley's jurisdiction.
• Wang Tiezhu, Huang Miao, and Shi Kui revealed themselves as the Black Mountain Three Fiends and attacked Lin Changheng at a ruined temple, but he killed all three with his sword embryo and Dark Radiance Profound Flame.
• A mysterious voice had interrupted the ambush and exposed Lin Changheng's Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation, so Lin Changheng searched the ruined temple and demanded that the hidden speaker come out.

Lin Changheng outwitted a hidden Jin Kingdom Core Formation cultivator, then recovered and continued his cultivation before intervening when Ye Qingwu was cornered by Iron Bone Gate cultivators. He killed their leader with one sword strike and pursued the survivors.

• Lin Changheng intimidated the hemp-clothed elder at the ruined temple with a show of Core Formation power, then escaped after the elder chose not to attack him.
• The elder privately revealed that he had feigned friendliness while waiting for a treasure, and Lin Changheng later hid in a cave to recover, study geomancy arts, and consider how to accelerate the Origin Cauldron’s Spirit Seizure.
• In the Miasma-Shadow Ancient Forest, four Iron Bone Gate cultivators cornered Ye Qingwu and another Purple Pole Sect cultivator; the man fled and was killed, leaving Ye Qingwu surrounded.
• Lin Changheng arrived in time to shield Ye Qingwu from capture and revealed himself to her through a teasing voice transmission.
• The Iron Bone Gate cultivators formed the Four Symbols Killing Formation, but Lin Changheng cleaved through it and killed their bald leader with one sword strike.
• The three surviving Jin cultivators fled in different directions, and Lin Changheng located them with his divine sense and vanished after the fastest one.

Lin Changheng killed the three remaining Iron Bone Gate cultivators who had fled, rescued Ye Qingwu, and learned that Mo Zhaoli disappeared after a likely deliberate ambush. As he traveled toward Hehuan Sect territory to search for Mo Zhaoli, he discovered that Ye Qingwu’s gift included a rare Purple Spirit Coral, leaving him only one auxiliary ingredient short of completing the Return-to-Truth Pill’s ingredients.

• Lin Changheng tracked down and killed the three fleeing Iron Bone Gate cultivators, then flew away with the injured Ye Qingwu.
• After Ye Qingwu awoke, she told Lin Changheng that Mo Zhaoli had vanished following an ambush on a mission team that may have been betrayed by someone within the sect.
• Ye Qingwu gave Lin Changheng a box Mo Zhaoli had entrusted to her and a Storage Bag, then agreed to recover and gather information about the mission and Xue Wuming.
• Lin Changheng secretly watched Ye Qingwu for signs of treachery, then traveled toward Hehuan Sect territory with a Qi family caravan.
• Lin Changheng inspected Ye Qingwu’s gifts and found Lavafire Crystal and Purple Spirit Coral, leaving him only one auxiliary ingredient short of completing the Return-to-Truth Pill’s ingredients.

Lin Changheng opened Mo Zhaoli’s chest and refined [Gold Devouring] from [Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle] essence blood, gaining a powerful new way to consume metal materials and strengthen his body. He evaded searches for a disguised Core Formation cultivator while traveling through Jin Territory, then learned that fighting at [Ironwall Pass] had intensified.

• Lin Changheng opened the chest Mo Zhaoli had left with Ye Qingwu and found hundreds of bottles of [Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle] and [Nether Abyss Flame Sparrow] essence blood, along with a record of their origins and traits.
• Lin Changheng chose [Gold Devouring] over [Gold Transformation] and [Lifespan Extension], then refined the golden turtle essence blood into the [Gold-Devouring Foreign Method].
• Lin Changheng tested [Gold Devouring] on [cold iron tempering stone] and a metal-attribute flying sword, then combined it with the [Limb-Hardening Demon Method] and [Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign Body] to greatly strengthen his limbs.
• Lin Changheng concealed himself inside the Qi family caravan as [Heavenly Gang Sword Sect] cultivators searched for a disguised Core Formation cultivator; their inspection failed to detect him, and he recognized the leader’s faint [Jade Void Radiant Scripture] aura.
• Lin Changheng considered killing the sword cultivator to take his cultivation and [Red Crystal], but decided to wait for another opportunity as patrols continued stopping the caravan.
• The caravan crossed into [Hehuan Sect] territory, where searches became less frequent, and Lin Changheng learned that the fighting at [Ironwall Pass] had escalated and both sides had suffered heavy losses.

Lin Changheng killed a rogue cultivator and two Hehuan Sect pursuers, then used their jade talisman and a fabricated Nascent Soul cave-abode rumor to throw the Hehuan Sect into turmoil. After hiding near the rumored ruin to await an opportunity, he discovered that the spoils had completed his collection of Return-to-Truth Pill ingredients and included two Hehuan Sect secret arts.

• Lin Changheng caught the rat-whiskered cultivator who tried to divert the Hehuan Sect pursuers toward him, crippled the man’s dantian, and killed the two Hehuan Sect cultivators.
• Lin Changheng searched the three cultivators’ souls and found an Antique Jade Talisman Fragment connected to a hidden cave abode belonging to a deceased Nascent Soul Middle Stage True Lord.
• Lin Changheng concealed the fragment in the Heaven-in-a-Pot Space and spent two months spreading a fabricated rumor about an even more valuable Nascent Soul Late Stage cave abode near Blackwind Ridge and Sunset-Glow River.
• Wonderful Harmony True Person ordered the Hehuan Sect to seal off the rumored site, but cultivators from across the region flocked there, forcing the sect to divert its attention from the fighting at the front.
• Lin Changheng stayed in a town near the rumored ruin, then examined the three Storage Bags and found enough ingredients to complete a set of Return-to-Truth Pills, along with two Hehuan Sect secret arts.