Recaps

Lin Changheng completed Core Formation in Cave Abode Twenty-One, concealing his extraordinary omen and forming a lower-tier Golden Core. After stabilizing his cultivation and discovering that his lifespan had risen to 645 years, he began examining the changes to his abilities.

• Lin Changheng condensed his mana into a nascent core, using the Premium Return-to-Truth Pill and Fine Dust-Descending Pill to support its formation and stability.
• Su Shuangjiang sensed the violent spiritual-energy fluctuations from Lin Changheng’s quiet room and realized he was attempting Core Formation.
• A True Core formation omen appeared in the Mountain Shoulder District, then Lin Changheng’s much greater Golden Core omen rose over the Cloudmist District; he used the Heaven-Shrouding Secret Art to suppress and disguise it.
• Lin Changheng absorbed the spiritual energy of the phenomenon and successfully formed a lower-tier Golden Core, while Su Shuangjiang recognized his breakthrough.
• An ancient withered figure divined that another potential successor had appeared, then predicted the next would be southeast several years later, though that person would have no destiny with his art.
• After two more months, Lin Changheng stabilized his Golden Core, sensed his lifespan had reached 645 years, and spat out a bright white flame.

Lin Changheng completed his Core Formation preparations, fused his three flames, forged his Natal Dharma Treasure, and emerged from seclusion as a Core Formation True Person. After meeting local cultivators and factions, he began exploring new opportunities, including a source of demon beast materials and plans to cultivate higher-tier herbs.

• Lin Changheng fused the [Dark Radiance Profound Flame], [Nether Abyss Icefire], and [Natal Core Flame] into an unstable but exceptionally powerful mixture, and discovered that his divine sense reached nineteen li.
• Lin Changheng saturated the Azure-Purple Sword Embryo with golden core mana and [Natal Core Flame], transforming it into his Natal Dharma Treasure.
• Lin Changheng emerged from seclusion, removed Su Shuangjiang's Demonic Path restriction, and gave her a [Vein-Nourishing Origin-Communicating Pill] to help her recover.
• Lin Changheng read the congratulatory messages and invitations he had received, visited nearby Core Formation cultivators, and met Daoist Mo Gu in public rather than accepting an invitation to his cave residence.
• Lin Changheng declined to join the Immortal City's [Alliance Headquarters] and decided to seek demon beast materials through local factions and merchant associations instead.
• Lin Changheng found that his [Flourishing Life Divine Ability] had become more effective at cultivating precious herbs, then met with local factions and merchant associations until one offered the answer he wanted.

Lin Changheng used his overwhelming divine sense to punish True Person Dong for probing him, then accepted a Senior Attendant position with the Great Shun Merchant Association in exchange for help obtaining rare materials. After gathering materials and forging his second and third Natal Dharma Treasures in seclusion, he prepared to travel to the Yue Region.

• Lin Changheng shattered the Spirit-Appraising Mirror with his divine sense after True Person Dong used it to probe him, then accepted Dong's apology and nine drops of Wind-Splitting Falcon essence blood.
• True Person Dong revealed that the Great Shun Merchant Association could obtain more essence blood from the Lu State, and Lin Changheng agreed to become its Senior Attendant in exchange for material-gathering support.
• Lin Changheng visited other merchant associations, collected the remaining materials for his two Dharma Treasure Sword Embryos, and politely declined True Person Xi Le's offer to join the Extreme South Palace.
• Lin Changheng returned to Cave Residence Twenty-One and entered seclusion to forge his second and third Natal Dharma Treasures.
• Su Shuangjiang broke through to the Foundation Establishment late stage after the demonic restriction's purified yin energy helped loosen her bottleneck.
• Lin Changheng emerged from seclusion ten days later, with everything ready for his journey to the Yue Region.

Lin Changheng finished nurturing his natal flying sword, refused Daoist Mo Gu’s invitation to meet other rogue Core Formation cultivators, and left Origin Immortal City with Su Shuangjiang to investigate a hidden cave abode in the Yue State. After finding the flooded residence beneath the Falling Star River, he discovered it had no spirit vein and began considering what might have sustained its former Core Formation owner.

• Lin Changheng named his transformed natal flying sword the Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword, while Su Shuangjiang revealed her breakthrough and described the underwater cave abode and a spare communication talisman that might lead to the traitor who betrayed her.
• Daoist Mo Gu invited Lin Changheng to meet a group of rogue Core Formation cultivators, but Lin Changheng postponed the gathering until his treasure refinement was complete, remaining wary of Mo Gu’s motives.
• At Mountain Spirit Hall, Lin Changheng forced an arrogant steward to kneel with his Core Formation pressure and secured a full refund of his remaining cave residence rent and deposit.
• Lin Changheng and Su Shuangjiang traveled to the Yue State, where they split up: she went to retrieve her spare communication talisman, and he headed to the Falling Star River cave abode.
• Lin Changheng entered the flooded cave abode, killed a second-tier fish demon, and noticed that the residence lacked the spirit vein normally needed by a Core Formation cultivator.
• Lin Changheng concluded that the spirit vein had either been removed or exhausted, or that the cave’s former owner had possessed something capable of replacing one.

Lin Changheng discovered that the abandoned cave abode had contained a Spirit Eye Herb, then helped Su Shuangjiang kill the traitor Lü Liangze and learned that their stolen treasures had been divided among Demonic Path leaders. After luring Venerable Red Soul into a hidden valley, Lin Changheng launched a surprise attack with a sword.

• Lin Changheng found no traces of a spirit vein, and Su Shuangjiang confirmed that the cave abode had once contained a Spirit Eye Herb taken by the cultivators who robbed her group.
• Lin Changheng and Su Shuangjiang tracked down Lü Liangze, who had betrayed her, and Su Shuangjiang defeated him while Lin Changheng suppressed his Demonic Artifact and searched his memories.
• Lin Changheng learned that Venerable Red Soul had kept the damaged Ancient Treasure while True Person Shattered Calamity held the Spirit-Eye Treasure, and he took the Ghost-Head Jade Talisman from Lü Liangze.
• Lin Changheng gave Lü Liangze's remaining storage bags to Su Shuangjiang and developed a plan to use the Ghost-Head Jade Talisman to approach Venerable Red Soul.
• Disguised as Lü Liangze, Lin Changheng lured Venerable Red Soul into a secluded cave, then spat out a sword to attack him by surprise.

Lin Changheng killed Venerable Red Soul, took his ancient treasure and a half-finished Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse, and spent the following year greatly strengthening his sword arts and completing a second Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword. After reuniting with Su Shuangjiang, he set out with her to hunt the Demonic Path accomplices who had once ambushed them, and they killed their first target.

• Lin Changheng ambushed and killed Venerable Red Soul, claimed his damaged ancient treasure bronze mirror, and recovered the Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse from the cave.
• Lin Changheng killed two Zhao family cultivators who investigated the disturbance, then left the valley without exposing his identity.
• During a year of cultivation, Lin Changheng mastered the sword manual’s seventh layer, completed a second Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword, and began refining the bronze mirror.
• Lin Changheng met Su Shuangjiang, heard her report leads on a flood-dragon-lineage beast and the Demonic Path accomplices, and agreed to take her after them.
• Lin Changheng and Su Shuangjiang reached a Demonic Path mine, where Lin subdued its cultivators and Su Shuangjiang killed the old man who had taken part in their ambush at Falling Star River.

Lin Changheng used Su Shuangjiang and himself as bait to lure True Person Shattered Calamity out, then fought and killed the Core Formation Demonic Cultivator in a prepared valley ambush. The victory proved Lin Changheng could defeat a True Core opponent, and he gathered his artifacts and spoils.

• Lin Changheng killed the Demonic Path guards at the swamp black market, while Yellowbrow stayed hidden and sent a misleading report about the attacker.
• Lin Changheng and Su Shuangjiang wiped out the Demonic Cultivators aboard a pleasure boat, and Lin sent Su east as True Person Shattered Calamity approached.
• Lin drew True Person Shattered Calamity away from Su and led him into a valley, where he launched a prepared attack with his swords, artifacts, and concealment methods.
• True Person Shattered Calamity recognized that Lin was far stronger than a False Core cultivator, but Lin's weapons and Sword Manual techniques overwhelmed his defenses and severed his arm.
• Lin trapped True Person Shattered Calamity inside the Minor Five-Elements Inversion Locking Array and killed him with eight sword images and three-colored flames.

After killing True Person Shattered Calamity, Lin Changheng secured valuable spoils, strengthened Heaven-in-a-Pot and his third Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword, then traveled to Righteousness Immortal City to gather materials and pursue a flood-dragon hunt. He joined a proposed hunting expedition and awaited a strength assessment, while Su Shuangjiang learned of Shattered Calamity’s death and suspected Lin Changheng had killed him.

• Lin Changheng searched True Person Shattered Calamity’s soul, learned about the Blood Moon Demon Cult’s approaching celebration, and concealed the corpse and traces of the battle.
• Lin Changheng planted the Spirit Eye Herb in Heaven-in-a-Pot, tested the Bone Chain Dharma Treasure, and used the broken Divine Azurewood Seal and black ring to advance his third Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword.
• Lin Changheng planned to collect water-demon essence blood, seek resources for the Black-Armored Earth Turtle, and gather materials for an imitation River-Calming Pearl; Su Shuangjiang went out to procure essence blood and overheard rumors that Shattered Calamity had been killed.
• Lin Changheng visited the Vast Righteousness Tower in Righteousness Immortal City, bought available materials, declined an offer to join the Vast Righteousness Sect, and learned about a planned expedition to hunt a powerful flood-dragon-like beast near Golden Sand Beach.
• Lin Changheng agreed to seek a place on the flood-dragon hunting team and waited six months before Steward Zhao summoned him to meet the grand elder and other participants for a combat assessment.
• Lin Changheng gathered the imitation River-Calming Pearl’s auxiliary materials and considered a local method of feeding higher-tier earth-attribute demon cores to help the Black-Armored Earth Turtle break through.

Lin Changheng attended the Vast Righteousness Sect’s dragon-hunt gathering and defeated True Person Crossing Crane in a brief contest, earning a place on the team. He agreed to the hunt’s terms and joined the other Core Formation cultivators in planning their expedition to the Reef-Strewn Sea.

• A guide escorted Lin Changheng to Listening to the Waves Hall, where Steward Zhao Minghe explained that True Person Crossing Crane had been added as another candidate for the dragon hunt.
• True Person Pine Waves clarified the selection process and proposed that Lin Changheng and True Person Crossing Crane exchange moves to demonstrate their abilities.
• Lin Changheng’s Myriad Manifestations Origin Swords overwhelmed True Person Crossing Crane, who conceded, and the group accepted Lin Changheng as a dragon-hunt participant.
• At a banquet, the cultivators discussed the demon cult’s likely retaliation over the deaths of Shattered Calamity and Red Soul, while Lin Changheng concealed that he had killed them.
• True Person Pine Waves identified the flood dragon’s likely range in the Reef-Strewn Sea and explained that he would receive its essence blood, while the remaining spoils would be divided by contribution; Lin Changheng agreed.
• The four Core Formation cultivators examined a chart of the Reef-Strewn Sea and began planning their dragon hunt.

Lin Changheng prepared for the flood-dragon hunt, improved his concealment and combat arts, and joined the other four cultivators as they departed for the Reef-Strewn Sea. After sensing possible trouble among his companions, he secretly set up safeguards; True Person Pine Waves then signaled that he had found a lead on the flood dragon.

• Lin Changheng used Little Qing's essence blood to advance the Cloud-Concealment Foreign Method to Transcendent Mastery and prepared healing, mana-restoring, and other elixirs.
• Lin Changheng advanced the Blood-Transforming Demon Blade to minor accomplishment and adapted it into the Radiant Flame Blade.
• True Person Pine Waves introduced True Person Sacred Heart, and the five cultivators departed for the Reef-Strewn Sea after discussing their roles and tactics for hunting the flood dragon.
• During the journey, Lin Changheng sensed unease near True Person Listening Pavilion and True Person Sacred Heart, resolved to stay vigilant, and secretly deployed the Cloud-Cliff Layered Peaks Mist Formation and Nether Abyss Icefire as safeguards.
• True Person Pine Waves brought the party to an isolated island, used a Flood Dragon Shard Scale and a Geomancy Compass to track the beast, and later sent a signal that brought the group back together.

Lin Changheng and four Core Formation cultivators tracked an Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon to its lair and ambushed it, but True Person Sacred Heart sabotaged their formation. As the flood dragon attacked the group, Lin Changheng wounded it and escaped, while True Person Pine Waves fled badly injured and the remaining cultivators were left in danger.

• True Person Pine Waves used a compass and tracking art to lead Lin Changheng, True Person Purple Jade, True Person Sacred Heart, and True Person Listening Pavilion to the flood dragon’s spirit-plant garden and hidden lair.
• The five prepared an ambush with the Three Powers Gui Water Sea-Covering Formation, and True Person Pine Waves lured the Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon into it.
• True Person Purple Jade froze the flood dragon’s limb, True Person Sacred Heart pierced its wounds with her needles, and Lin Changheng struck it with his swords.
• True Person Sacred Heart suddenly withdrew her mana, breaking the formation and allowing the flood dragon to escape; it tore off True Person Pine Waves’s arm and prepared to kill him.
• Lin Changheng interrupted the flood dragon’s breath attack, helping True Person Pine Waves flee, then wounded the beast again and escaped with his flying swords.
• The Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon remained with True Person Listening Pavilion and True Person Purple Jade, while a demonic blade blocked True Person Purple Jade’s retreat.

Lin Changheng returned from the battle over the Inner Lake after the Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon killed True Person Listening Pavilion and True Person Purple Jade, then swallowed the demonic infiltrator Shengxin Yanren. Lin Changheng seized the chance to kill the wounded flood dragon, collect its spoils, and extract its spirit veins before returning to Righteous Immortal City six months later to meet Perfected Songtao.

• Shengxin Yanren revealed herself as a Demonic Cultivator, and the enraged Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon killed True Person Listening Pavilion with its frost breath.
• Shengxin Yanren and the flood dragon overwhelmed True Person Purple Jade, who was killed and swallowed by the beast.
• Shengxin Yanren used a black talisman to strengthen herself and pursued the flood dragon, but Lin Changheng ambushed her and the flood dragon's frost breath cut her in half before it swallowed her.
• A demonic phantom emerged from the burning talisman, recognized Lin Changheng's role in the battle, and promised to remember him.
• Lin Changheng used the Cloud-Concealment Foreign Method and his Three-Color Flame Blade to kill the dying flood dragon, then collected its demon core, materials, and other spoils.
• Lin Changheng extracted the flood dragon's two spirit veins and returned to Righteous Immortal City six months later, where he met Perfected Songtao, who had lost an arm.

After surviving the flood dragon hunt, Lin Changheng helped True Person Pine Waves shift blame for the deaths of Tingxuan and Purple Jade onto the Blood Moon Demon Cult. He obtained an ancient five-elements cultivation method and Pine Waves’ tracking compass, then prepared to leave the Yue State before righteous and demonic forces plunged it into war.

• Lin Changheng showed True Person Pine Waves an Image-Recording Jade depicting Sacred Heart’s demonic disguise, and Pine Waves recognized the Blood Moon Demon Cult’s inheritance and planned to submit the evidence to the alliance.
• Lin Changheng asked for a five-elements cultivation method, and Pine Waves brought Daoist Nun Liuquan, who lent him the ancient Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin for thirty years.
• While waiting, Lin Changheng reviewed his gains from the Reef-Strewn Sea, including the flood dragon’s essence blood, its hidden third-tier spirit vein, three completed Myriad Manifestations Origin Swords, and the spoils from fallen cultivators.
• Daoist Nun Liuquan investigated Lin Changheng for demonic traces, then gave him the turtle-shell method after confirming he was not a Demonic Cultivator.
• Lin Changheng admired Pine Waves’ geomancy compass, and Pine Waves gave it to him because his missing arm had left him despairing of further demon hunts.
• Lin Changheng gave Pine Waves a Limb-Restoring Pill formula, lifting his spirits, then accepted his banquet invitation and planned to meet Su Shuangjiang before leaving the Yue State as conflict loomed.

Lin Changheng reunited with Su Shuangjiang, warned her that war was coming to Yue State, and respected her decision to stay while giving her defensive treasures. After returning to Origin Immortal City, he studied and adopted the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin; seven or eight years later, he had successfully changed cultivation methods and advanced to the second layer of Core Formation.

• Lin Changheng found Su Shuangjiang at a riverside market ward, where she had arranged for the Green Crocodile Gang to hunt Moonlight Crab Demons and had gathered nearly five hundred drops of Wave-Turning Thorn Puffer essence blood.
• Lin Changheng warned Su Shuangjiang that the orthodox and demonic paths would soon plunge Yue State into war and offered to take her to Yuanshan State, but she chose to remain and pursue her own cultivation and continue collecting essence blood.
• Lin Changheng gave Su Shuangjiang a Mysterious Water Turtle Spirit Shield and a stack of upper-grade second-tier talismans, then left Yue State for Origin Immortal City.
• After the righteous and demonic forces began a devastating war in Yue State, Lin Changheng settled into a third-tier cave residence and studied the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin.
• Lin Changheng spent seven or eight years switching cultivation methods, harmonizing the five qi, and using his resources to strengthen his golden core.
• Lin Changheng successfully completed the transition to the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture and reached the second layer of Core Formation, already halfway to the third.

After advancing his Five Elements cultivation method, Lin Changheng acquired Water Control and combined his elemental talents with five-element mana, then collected Wind-Splitting Falcon essence blood and developed a powerful eye technique that pushed his divine sense beyond the Core Formation Early Stage. He agreed to help the Great Shun Merchant Association confront its rivals, and the chapter ended as he and True Person Dong arrived at a tense meeting with the other merchant associations.

• Lin Changheng completed his cultivation-method switch, reached the Third Layer of Internal Elixir Refinement, and used Wave-Turning Thorn Puffer essence blood to acquire Water Control.
• Lin Changheng experimented with combining his fire, earth, and water talents through five-element mana, then decided to leave Origin Immortal City and return to the Song Region after collecting more essence blood.
• Lin Changheng collected the Great Shun Merchant Association's Wind-Splitting Falcon essence blood and agreed to represent it in a dispute with the Nine Rivers and Four Seas Merchant Associations.
• Lin Changheng refined Blue-Eyed Insight and integrated it with his Four-Colored Divine Light, expanding his divine sense beyond twenty li and strengthening his perception.
• Lin Changheng and True Person Dong attended the five associations' meeting at Moon-Exploring Tower, where True Person Chen greeted them with pressure from his side's numerical advantage.

At the Moon-Exploring Tower, Lin Changheng defeated the Nine Rivers Merchant Association’s attempt to force the Great Shun Merchant Association out of profitable trade routes, secured the Essence of Profound Underworld Heavy Water, and made the other associations accept a better deal. After leaving Origin Immortal City for the Song Region, he noticed three pursuers and recognized Daoist Mo Gu’s voice calling after him.

• President Chen and True Person Wangshi pressured True Person Dong over trade routes and baited Lin Changheng into a contest by producing the Essence of Profound Underworld Heavy Water.
• Lin Changheng accepted the contest, then swiftly pinned True Person Wangshi at swordpoint and held the other cultivators at bay with eight flying swords.
• President Chen surrendered the Essence of Profound Underworld Heavy Water, and True Person Dong renegotiated trade-route rights and profit-sharing with the Nine Rivers and Four Seas merchant associations.
• The five merchant associations held a banquet under Lin Changheng’s authority, and the participants privately began calling him Old Devil Fang.
• Lin Changheng left Origin Immortal City and flew southwest toward the Song Region after meeting secretly with True Person Dong.
• Near the border, Lin Changheng detected three escape lights pursuing him and heard Daoist Mo Gu call for him to wait.

Lin Changheng ambushed and killed Daoist Mo Gu and his two allies after they tried to rob him at the border, then spared two witnesses who fled back to Origin Immortal City. Rumors linked his Fang Yuan alias to both a feared soul-taking killer and a hero who had aided the righteous path, while Lin Changheng continued toward Floating Life Immortal City to strengthen his Alchemist Lin identity.

• Daoist Mo Gu and two Core Formation cultivators pursued Lin Changheng and tried to surround him, demanding his treasures and storage bags.
• Lin Changheng killed the tall, fat cultivator, gravely wounded the short, thin old man, then bound and destroyed Daoist Mo Gu with his swords and treasures.
• Lin Changheng killed the wounded old man, collected the spoils, and used a soul banner to capture all three men's souls.
• Two Foundation Establishment cultivators witnessed the fight but escaped after Lin Changheng chose not to pursue them; they spread increasingly exaggerated rumors in Origin Immortal City.
• The merchant guild leaders identified the green-robed killer as Fang Yuan, while news of Fang Yuan's earlier aid to the righteous path left them unsure how to judge him.
• Lin Changheng traveled toward Floating Life Immortal City, intending to establish Alchemist Lin as a Core Formation cultivator and Third-Tier Dao of Alchemy Master.

Lin Changheng returned to Floating Life Immortal City, learned that Bai Hengwan had formed her core, and revealed that he had also reached Core Formation. After gaining Azure Mist Rogue Person’s help to stage his public breakthrough, Lin Changheng discovered a fifth Dao Fruit and met Azure Mist Rogue Person, whose spirit beast sought his Flood Dragon essence blood.

• Lin Changheng returned to Floating Life Immortal City and learned that Bai Hengwan had formed a true core and would hold her Core Formation Ceremony in half a month.
• Lin Changheng met Bai Hengwan, revealed that he had also formed his core, and arranged to stage a public breakthrough in Floating Life Lake before her ceremony.
• Lin Changheng absorbed Little Qing’s essence blood, witnessed a vision of a giant tiger, and obtained the fifth Dao Fruit, which could refine the true intent of the Mist Spreading Divine Ability.
• Bai Hengwan brought Lin Changheng to Feather Immortal Island, where Azure Mist Rogue Person gave him a talisman that could summon convincing celestial phenomena.
• True Person Qingli sensed Green-Scaled Frost Flood Dragon essence blood on Lin Changheng, and Lin Changheng offered twelve drops to Azure Mist Rogue Person without asking for payment.
• Azure Mist Rogue Person insisted on repaying Lin Changheng, and Bai Hengwan encouraged him to ask for something valuable.

Lin Changheng obtained the last main material for his ancient treasure replica, learned Azure Mist Rogue Person's golden core secrets, and refused a marriage alliance offering Floating Life Immortal City as a dowry. After the city staged his public Core Formation breakthrough, he attended Bai Hengwan's ceremony as a celebrated independent cultivator and encountered former acquaintances, including True Person Xuanji.

• Azure Mist Rogue Person gave Lin Changheng a nine-aperture mystic stone, completing the main materials needed to replicate the River-Calming Pearl.
• Azure Mist Rogue Person recognized Lin Changheng's golden core and revealed that his own cultivation method blocked nascent soul formation while his responsibilities to Floating Life Immortal City prevented him from seeking opportunities elsewhere.
• Azure Mist Rogue Person offered Bai Hengwan's hand and Floating Life Immortal City as her dowry, but Lin Changheng refused to abandon his existing relationships or accept those responsibilities.
• Azure Mist Rogue Person expelled Lin Changheng from Feather Immortal Island without injuring him and honored his promise to arrange a staged Core Formation breakthrough.
• Floating Life Immortal City publicized Lin Changheng's supposed true core breakthrough and refusal of recruitment, strengthening his reputation while distancing him from the city.
• Lin Changheng attended Bai Hengwan's Core Formation Ceremony, received overtures from multiple factions, renewed his acquaintance with Sun Jingshan, and saw True Person Xuanji approach.

At Bai Hengwan’s Core Formation Ceremony, Lin Changheng rejected the Purple Pole Sect’s offer after exposing an injustice within its ranks, met old acquaintances, and accepted an invitation to visit the Ten-Thousand-Sword Yun Family. After returning to Floating Life Immortal City, he learned that Cook Zeng had been imprisoned by the Huang Household, leaving him with a cryptic warning about a usurper and a dangerous treasure.

• True Person Xuanji invited Lin Changheng to join the Purple Pole Sect, but he privately told her how Xu Yongzhen had been wronged and refused the offer; Xuanji left intent on investigating the scandal.
• Lin Changheng recognized Yun Zhi at Bai Hengwan’s ceremony, while Yun Zhi’s sword embryo resonated strangely with him; after the ceremony, she invited him to the Yun Family, and he agreed to visit.
• Bai Hengwan announced her Daoist name, True Person Evening Radiance, and Lin Changheng decided that his own would be Ten Thousand Longevity.
• Lin Changheng declined the Extreme South Palace’s recruitment, then heard Senior Sister Yang admit she had leaked information about him; he agreed not to pursue that matter after True Disciple Wu intervened, but resolved not to forgive her suspected role in the curse against him.
• Lin Changheng visited the Yellow Millet Abode and learned from Huang Mingde that the Huang Household had imprisoned Cook Zeng on fabricated charges; Huang Mingde relayed Zeng’s warning: “The dove occupies the magpie’s nest; treasure brings calamity.”

Lin Changheng agreed to investigate the Huang Household’s takeover and rescue Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu, then traveled to the lineage and confronted its new patriarch, True Person Lieshan. After presenting a blood-authenticated contract to claim Huang Lingsu, Lin Changheng faced Lieshan’s challenge to a duel and proposed adding the return of Zeng’s and Lingsu’s Storage Bags to the stakes.

• An old Huang Household ally explained how a returning Core Formation cultivator had seized control, imprisoned Cook Zeng, and confined Huang Lingsu, then begged Lin Changheng to intervene.
• The old man offered his Lifespan-Extending Pill, but Lin Changheng returned it and agreed to visit the Huang Household while collecting its overdue promise of demon-beast essence blood.
• Lin Changheng privately met Bai Hengwan, entered seclusion, gave Elder Kong a third-tier water-method alchemy inheritance, and departed for the Huang Family Base.
• Lin Changheng arrived at the Huang Household and met True Person Lieshan, who had displaced the former Grand Elder and tried to recruit Lin Changheng as an ally.
• Lin Changheng demanded the promised essence blood and Huang Lingsu’s release, presenting a contract bearing her essence blood as proof that she was his concubine.
• True Person Lieshan proposed a duel with Huang Lingsu and Cook Zeng’s fates at stake, and Lin Changheng agreed on condition that Lieshan return their Storage Bags untouched.

Lin Changheng defeated True Person Lieshan in a duel and freed Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu, then learned that Zeng had been targeted for possessing Supreme Yin Soul-Nourishing Wood. As Lin Changheng brought them to the Xu Family, a demonic master took over Lieshan’s body and reversed the Huang Household’s policies.

• Lin Changheng defeated and wounded True Person Lieshan, who conceded the duel and returned Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu with their Storage Bags.
• Lin Changheng freed Zeng and Huang Lingsu from their sealed meridians, and True Person Lieshan struck them from the Huang Household register as they departed.
• Cook Zeng gave Lin Changheng Supreme Yin Soul-Nourishing Wood and agreed with Huang Lingsu to help hunt the Torch Yin Vine Matriarch.
• A demonic presence in True Person Lieshan’s body killed him and took over, then ordered the Huang Household to restore its former administration and focus on developing its resources.
• Lin Changheng brought Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu to the Xu Family, where they arrived to find the Mountain Gate decorated and receiving guests.

The Xu Family faced a power grab by the other Flying Cloud Trade Alliance families, but Lin Changheng returned and stopped them, revealing himself as a Core Formation Cultivator. After reuniting with Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue, he learned of Xu Fugui’s death and began considering a Baleful Core method to extend Tantai Feiyue’s life.

• Luo Tianxiong led six alliance families in demanding shared control of the alliance, while Xu Wenyuan refused to turn against the Xu Family.
• When Xu Hanji began to yield, Luo Tianxiong launched a lethal attack, but a Red-Gold Flying Sword shattered his Dharma Treasure Embryo and saved her.
• Lin Changheng entered with Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu, revealed himself as Xu Hanji’s and Tantai Feiyue’s husband, and maimed the six conspirators before killing Luo Tianxiong.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue, gave Xu Bazheng medicine for her injuries, and learned that Xu Fugui had died more than twenty years earlier.
• Concerned that Tantai Feiyue’s lifespan was running out, Lin Changheng considered using the [Dark Nether Baleful Art] to form a Baleful Core and extend her life by around eighty years.

Lin Changheng returned to Flying Cloud Valley as a Core Formation True Person, boosting the Xu Family’s power and helping them defeat the Chou Family while he advanced his artifact refining. He reunited with Yan Mingyi, entrusted her with completing a Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse, and left the Xu Family poised for further growth as his spirit-herb reserves matured.

• Lin Changheng welcomed Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu to Flying Cloud Valley, and Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue hosted a banquet where the Xu Family learned he had reached Core Formation.
• Lin Changheng stayed with Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue, then spent three years waiting for Yan Mingyi to emerge from seclusion; she had advanced her Puppet Dao to quasi-third tier, and he asked her to finish refining the Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse.
• Lin Changheng helped Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue lead the Xu Family’s war against the Chou Family, striking down their resistance and forcing them to surrender resources and power to a favored branch.
• Lin Changheng began practicing artifact refining and progressed to crafting First-Tier Superior-Grade Fine Dharma Artifacts, visited Xu Fugui’s grave and his other friends’ graves, and helped Tantai Feiyue clear elixir toxins and residue.
• Lin Changheng found nearly thirty second-tier spirit herbs in the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land had passed a hundred years, giving him valuable materials to trade for five-element cultivation resources.

Lin Changheng inspected the changed spirit insects in his blessed land, then left the Xu Family to meet Ye Qingwu, who had formed a False Core and gathered Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle essence blood for him. He learned where the Liu Surnamed Cultivator was headed and how the Purple Pole Sect had handled the punishment of a Gu-Surnamed False Core Cultivator, then discovered that the cultivator associated with a Red-Eyed Fire Ogre was also surnamed Gu.

• Lin Changheng observed that the White Jade Spider Demons had grown stronger by devouring their mates and that many Soul-Eroding Miasma Insects had transformed after exposure to serpent-dragon flesh and the Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse.
• Lin Changheng left the Xu Family after bidding farewell to Yan Mingyi, Tantai Feiyue, and Xu Hanji, carrying their supplies and gifts in a storage bag.
• Lin Changheng followed his connection to Ye Qingwu and found her leading a Purple Pole Sect expedition toward the Savage Wilderness; she left the flying boat to meet him at a nearby peak.
• Ye Qingwu gave Lin Changheng over three hundred portions of Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle essence blood and told him Elder Liu was leading another expedition into the Savage Wilderness through Cold Iron Market Ward.
• Ye Qingwu reported that a Gu-Surnamed False Core Cultivator had nearly been severely punished over a Foundation Establishment Pill dispute, but Supreme Elder Cloud Crane had intervened and arranged a year of confinement instead.
• Lin Changheng asked Ye Qingwu about a cultivator who had owned a Red-Eyed Fire Ogre, and she revealed that the cultivator was also surnamed Gu.