Recaps

Lin Changheng killed the Three-Legged Monstrous Bird and Giant Scorpion Demon King, then gathered rare ingredients and stirred conflict between the Song-Jin and Yan State cultivators to improve his chances of leaving the secret realm safely. After discovering valuable nascent soul formation insights, he and the Truefire Flood Dragon refined their escape plans as the secret realm began to rumble.

• Lin Changheng killed the Three-Legged Monstrous Bird with his sword formation while Little Qing occupied the Giant Scorpion Demon King, then slew the scorpion with a dragon-breath attack.
• Lin Changheng collected the demons’ cores and materials, completing the set needed to prepare the [Five Elements Beast-Origin Powder] for Xiao Hei’s breakthrough.
• Lin Changheng found rare pill ingredients in several storage bags and ordered his controlled cultivators to spread accusations against Daoist Heir Songyun, worsening hostility between the Song-Jin and Yan State Camps.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon removed the seal from a jade slip, and Lin Changheng discovered it contained the [Heavenly Pillar Sage]’s nascent soul formation insights.
• Lin Changheng discussed his plans to leave the secret realm safely with the Truefire Flood Dragon, who warned that [Illusion-Breaking True Lord] might see through them and helped devise additional precautions.
• A day and a half later, thunderous rumbling shook the secret realm, drawing the cultivators’ attention.

As the secret realm opened, Lin Changheng escaped disguised among the departing cultivators, but Daoist Tianzhu attacked him to reclaim his disciple’s belongings and avenge his ruined schemes. Illusion-Breaking True Lord intervened, yet Tianzhu unleashed a Second Nascent Soul to pursue Lin Changheng while the two Nascent Soul factions prepared to fight.

• The cultivators gathered at the secret realm’s exit, where the Song-Jin and Yan camps faced off and discovered that fewer than half of the original Core Formation cultivators remained; Yan cultivators agreed to blame Song-Jin for Daoist Heir Songyun’s death.
• Lin Changheng used a Purifying Concealment Talisman and Truefire Flood Dragon’s soul attachment to pass the Nascent Soul True Lords’ inspection as he left the secret realm.
• Daoist Tianzhu attacked Lin Changheng with black lightning, but Lin survived the first strike with a Substitute Talisman and evaded the next with the Sun-Chasing Cloak.
• Illusion-Breaking True Lord blocked Tianzhu’s attack and confronted him, while Azure Firmament True Lord backed Illusion-Breaking and Daoist Jingyuan supported Tianzhu.
• Daoist Tianzhu revealed a Second Nascent Soul and sent it after Lin Changheng, then held Illusion-Breaking True Lord back as their battle began.

Lin Changheng fled the Yan State under pursuit by Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul, fusing Wind Escape and Thunder Escape to outrun him. After the pursuer struck his soul, Lin Changheng used the Truefire Flood Dragon’s aid and his treasures to counterattack, ending the chapter with a Dragonkin Breath beam aimed at the Second Nascent Soul’s head.

• The Illusion-Breaking True Lord and Daoist Jingyuan fought Daoist Tianzhu and the Azure Firmament True Lord while Lin Changheng escaped underground.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon sensed Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul pursuing Lin Changheng, who combined Wind Escape and Thunder Escape with the Sun-Chasing Cloak to flee.
• Lin Changheng crossed tens of thousands of li toward the Zhao and Lu States, repeatedly restoring his mana with millennium spirit milk as Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul continued the chase.
• Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul launched a powerful soul attack that sent Lin Changheng plummeting from the sky.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon burned his essence blood to unleash a dragon’s roar, while Lin Changheng endured the pursuer’s green flame and used the River-Calming Pearl and Dust-Returning Vase to restrain him.
• Lin Changheng fired his Dragonkin Breath at the head of Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul.

Lin Changheng gravely wounded Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul and forced him to flee, then escaped to the Zhao State to recover and seek help with his lingering injuries. The chapter ended with Lin Changheng arriving at Dragon Granny’s Dragon Household under Fang Yuan’s appearance.

• Lin Changheng used Dragonkin Breath and his flying swords to badly damage Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul, but the Nascent Soul escaped through repeated instantaneous teleportation after Lin Changheng seized the ruined body and its Storage Bag.
• Daoist Tianzhu sensed his Second Nascent Soul’s injuries during his battle with Illusion-Breaking True Lord and fled, while Daoist Jingyuan followed; the surviving cultivators began spreading the story of a Core Formation cultivator who had survived a Nascent Soul ambush.
• Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul reached a market ward and drained its cultivators, turning it into a place of death.
• Lin Changheng crossed into the Zhao State, killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator who tried to prey on him, and recovered in a rented cave abode for three months.
• Lin Changheng decided to seek Dragon Granny’s help with the foreign Nascent Soul power in his injuries and traveled to the Dragon Household using Fang Yuan’s appearance.

Lin Changheng visited the Dragon Household under the name Fang Yuan and asked Dragon Granny and True Person Qingluo for a remedy for a supposed friend's injury from a Fourth-Tier Demon King. Dragon Granny indicated that a remedy might be available, but asked about Lin Changheng's soul and Divine Sense, suggesting she had another interest in him.

• Lin Changheng surveyed the Dragon Household's strength and history, then introduced himself at its gate as Fang Yuan and revealed an aura of late Core Formation.
• True Person Qingluo welcomed Lin Changheng into the clan, and he learned that the Dragon Household had a fourth-tier formation it used only in extreme crises.
• Dragon Granny hosted a grand banquet for Lin Changheng, who met the clan's cultivators and discovered that the household had at least eight True Core cultivators.
• After the banquet, Lin Changheng asked Dragon Granny and True Person Qingluo for a remedy for a friend supposedly injured by a Fourth-Tier Demon King.
• Dragon Granny said the matter could be discussed as a transaction, then asked Lin Changheng how his soul and Divine Sense had developed since reaching late Core Formation.

Lin Changheng spent ten years using the Dragon Household’s secret medicine to remove the foreign Nascent Soul power and jade-green fire from his wounds, while helping break the Household’s restriction and opening Azure Mist Rogue Person’s jade box. The box revealed an ancient pill that could improve a golden core’s quality, and the chapter ended with Lin Changheng completing a Molten-Rock Turtle-Dragon Treasure Seed transformation that granted a longevity talent.

• Lin Changheng agreed to help Dragon Granny break her lineage’s restriction in exchange for secret healing medicine, and Dragon Granny confirmed that his divine sense far exceeded her own.
• Lin Changheng tested the medicine on demon beasts before taking it himself, then spent ten years healing his wound in a Cloudsky Immortal City cultivation abode.
• Lin Changheng joined Yuhengzi and Pine-Seeking Rogue Person to break the Dragon Household’s fourth-tier restriction, earning their respect and exchanging tokens with them.
• Lin Changheng opened Azure Mist Rogue Person’s jade box and learned that its ancient Five-Element Rotation Core-Refining Pill could raise a golden core’s quality by one level.
• Lin Changheng completed the Molten-Rock Turtle-Dragon Treasure Seed’s transformation, producing a supreme true core with a longevity demon talent.

Lin Changheng transformed his golden core into a mid-tier core, bought rare spirit soil for a new medicine garden, and learned that the Yue State's demonic forces had broken through the Song Region's defenses. He left Cloudsky Immortal City to learn more and ended the chapter weighing the danger to the Xu Family of Flying Cloud Valley and the wider region.

• Lin Changheng refined the Molten-Rock Turtle-Dragon True Core, raising his lifespan to 837 years and significantly improving his soul and divine sense.
• Lin Changheng spent a month absorbing the Five-Element Rotation Core-Refining Pill, advancing his golden core from lower-tier to mid-tier and improving its mana capacity, quality, and his prospects for Nascent Soul formation.
• Lin Changheng bought all of the Divine Soil Pavilion's high heaven mystic mud and a large supply of three kinds of third-tier spirit soil for a planned thirty-mu medicine garden.
• Lin Changheng overheard cultivators say that the Yue State's Demonic Path had invaded the Song Region, and he feared for the Xu Family of Flying Cloud Valley within Purple Pole Sect territory.
• Lin Changheng returned to the Dragon Household, thanked True Person Qingluo, and asked for reports on the demon tide before leaving for the Yuanshan State.
• Lin Changheng learned that the Demonic Path had breached the Song Region's first defenses, that the Illusion-Breaking True Lord was struggling against two Nascent Soul foes, and that the region's other kingdoms could offer little help.

Lin Changheng returned to Yuanshan State after gathering resources in Zhao State and killing two cultivators who tried to ambush him. In Origin Immortal City, he reunited with Su Shuangjiang and learned how the war involving five kingdoms had unfolded, though the Demonic Path’s recent movements remained unexplained.

• Lin Changheng left True Person Qingluo, gathered High Heaven Mystic Mud and materials in Zhao State, and resisted the temptation to seek Nascent Soul Formation Insights from the Dragon Household.
• After Lin Changheng baited two Core Formation Middle Stage cultivators into pursuing him, he killed them with a divine sense attack and took their possessions.
• Lin Changheng returned to Origin Immortal City and found the Great Shun Merchant Association’s new headquarters, where he reunited with Su Shuangjiang and True Person Dong.
• Su Shuangjiang gave Lin Changheng the association’s intelligence, which let him piece together how Song, Jin, Yue, Liang, and Yan had become entangled in the war and how the Yue State’s Demonic Path had advanced south.
• Lin Changheng learned that both Demonic Path Nascent Soul cultivators had recently appeared together before the Song Region’s defensive line, leaving the cause of the change in their strategy unclear.
• Lin Changheng considered how the Song State’s leadership might interpret his disappearance and reasoned that his prior agreement with True Person Qi and his reputation among Song cultivators would protect him from being branded a deserter.

Lin Changheng returned to Origin Sacred Mountain, secured the merchant association’s support, and ordered the Great Shun Merchant Association to destroy the Nine Seas Merchant Association despite the Alliance Headquarters. In his new cave abode, he transformed the Soulweaving Demon Butterfly and Dark Underworld Demon Wolf treasure seeds, strengthening his life spring and defenses while extending his divine sense to sixty-five li.

• Lin Changheng praised Dong Lide and told True Person Dong and Su Shuangjiang to eliminate the Nine Seas Merchant Association completely, promising to answer to the Alliance Headquarters himself.
• Dong Lide brought Lin Changheng the collected Soulweaving Demon Butterfly and Dark Underworld Demon Wolf essence blood, and True Person Dong agreed to involve his son in the campaign against Nine Seas.
• Su Shuangjiang arranged a cave abode for Lin Changheng in the Radiant Mist District, where he confirmed that he had reached late Core Formation.
• Lin Changheng transformed the Soulweaving Demon Butterfly treasure seeds, raising his Spirit-Sealing Life Spring to ten soul spaces and bringing his wood spiritual root to forty-nine strands of spirit resonance.
• Lin Changheng transformed the Dark Underworld Demon Wolf treasure seeds, completing the Golden Skin Demon Method and demonstrating that it could withstand the combined force of three life-bound flying swords.
• Lin Changheng’s divine sense reached sixty-five li, and he secretly observed an Alliance Headquarters celebration for True Person Huanshu’s breakthrough without being detected.

Lin Changheng cultivated, gave Dong Lide valuable Core Formation insights, and grew closer to Su Shuangjiang before learning that the Righteous Path Alliance’s True Lord Zhengyang had been ambushed. As the Song Region faced danger and the Nine Seas Merchant Association sought protection from True Person Huanshu, Lin returned to Yuanshan Immortal City and let word of Old Devil Fang’s return spread, leaving the Nine Seas leadership terrified and waiting for a confrontation.

• Lin Changheng gave True Person Dong a list of five-element materials to collect and gave Dong Lide secret Core Formation insights with a warning not to reveal them.
• Su Shuangjiang visited Lin Changheng, revealed that she had the [Luan Song Body], and explained that the Luan-Feng Harmony Secret Art could temper its primordial yin energy for dual cultivation.
• Lin Changheng learned from a Communication Jade Talisman that True Lord Zhengyang had lost his physical body in an ambush, putting the Song Region at risk, and sent Su Shuangjiang to [Fire Sacred Mountain] to seek Nether Void Fire Beast essence blood.
• A month later, Lin Changheng oversaw the merchant associations’ campaign against the [Nine Seas Merchant Association] and learned that [True Person Huanshu] had accepted its wealth.
• Lin Changheng told Dong father and son to spread news of his return without disclosing his late Core Formation cultivation, and the name of Old Devil Fang caused alarm across Yuanshan Immortal City.
• President Chen and his Core Formation attendants, Lingyunzi and True Person Shengxiao, feared Old Devil Fang and decided to wait for [True Person Huanshu] to protect them.

Lin Changheng rejected True Person Feng Yue’s attempt to mediate the dispute with True Person Huanshu and accepted a duel over the Nine Seas Merchant Association’s fate. He wagered Treasure Crystal Stone for Huanshu’s Minor Teleportation Talisman, then struck Huanshu down with a rapid attack, leaving the late Core Formation cultivator embedded in the arena wall.

• True Person Feng Yue visited Lin Changheng to discuss True Person Huanshu’s intervention on behalf of the Nine Seas Merchant Association, but Lin refused to back down and urged Feng Yue to keep the Alliance Headquarters out of the dispute.
• Three days later, Lin Changheng accepted True Person Huanshu’s challenge to settle the Nine Seas Merchant Association’s survival in a duel at the Dharma Arena.
• Lin Changheng and True Person Huanshu wagered Treasure Crystal Stone and a Minor Teleportation Talisman, respectively, and Rogue Person White Cloud held the stakes as the match began.
• True Person Huanshu attacked with his inkstone Dharma Treasure, but Lin Changheng evaded the ink dragon and trapped him inside the Mist-Scattering Divine Ability.
• Lin Changheng disrupted Huanshu’s consciousness and struck him with a lightning-infused, three-colored escape attack, hurling him into the arena wall.

Lin Changheng defeated True Person Huanshu, secured the materials needed to commission a fourth-tier True Flood Dragon Armor, and gained a powerful defense against Nascent Soul attacks. After another trip to the Yue Region strengthened his nether abyss iceflame, he received alarming news that the Song Region’s second defensive line had fallen.

• Lin Changheng defeated True Person Huanshu in under three breaths, accepted his surrender, and won the Minor Teleportation Talisman and other stakes.
• President Chen offered to transfer the Nine Seas Merchant Association to the Great Shun Merchant Association, and True Person Dong agreed to arrange the handover.
• True Person Feng Yue introduced Lin Changheng to Old Ghost Jinlian, who agreed to forge his fourth-tier flood dragon hide and treasure crystal stone into protective armor.
• After three months, Lin Changheng received the True Flood Dragon Armor, which effortlessly neutralized an attack from a late Core Formation cultivator.
• Lin Changheng secretly traveled to the Yue Region, obtained a Core Formation Spirit Object, and raised his nether abyss iceflame to third-tier mid-grade.
• Lin Changheng received a communication reporting that the Song Region’s second defensive line had fallen.

After learning that the Demonic Path had broken through the Song Region’s defenses, Lin Changheng traveled to Floating Life Immortal City to check on Bai Hengwan and found the city under Blood Moon Cult supervision but largely unchanged. He reunited with Bai Hengwan, while a triggered formation talisman left him determined to investigate the ancient teleportation formation after settling matters in the city.

• Lin Changheng learned that the Song Region’s second defensive line had fallen, gathered resources and news from the Dong father and son, then set out for Floating Life Immortal City.
• Lin Changheng killed a squad of Demonic Cultivators and learned through Soul Search that the Demonic Path was winning over much of the Song Region with lenient rule and amnesty, while the major powers rallied near Extreme Mountain Immortal City.
• Lin Changheng entered Floating Life Immortal City in disguise, found the Blood Moon Cult patrolling its walls, and persuaded Bai Hengwan’s steward to arrange a discreet meeting.
• Lin Changheng discovered that his Sensing Jade Talisman had cracked, checked Mo Zhaoli’s Soul Lamp and Jade Ring Curio, and concluded that someone else had triggered his formation near the ancient teleportation formation.
• Lin Changheng met Bai Hengwan, learned that she had reached the eighth layer of Core Formation, and heard her explain that she would not bind him to the Immortal City despite her feelings for him.
• Lin Changheng asked whether Bai Hengwan needed help with the Demonic Path, and she explained that the Blood Moon Cult planned to install a deputy city lord and take a share of the city’s profits.

Lin Changheng learned that the Demonic Path’s advance had reshaped the Eight States Region, traded a Nascent Soul Transformation Pill ingredient for Rootless Thought-Cutting Water, and shared valuable cultivation knowledge with Bai Hengwan. After returning south, he checked on the Xue and Zheng families and reached the Song Region allied forces, where True Person Ten Thousand Longevity rushed out to greet him.

• Bai Hengwan told Lin Changheng that the Demonic Path was advancing through the Song Region, the Liang State’s True Lord had attacked Yue’s rear, and Jin was retreating before Yan while Song and Jin considered joining forces.
• Lin Changheng traded a dragon-saliva nascent soul-nurturing herb for Bai Hengwan’s Rootless Thought-Cutting Water, then gave her Nascent Soul Formation Insights and two alchemy inheritances for Master Kong.
• Lin Changheng left Bai Hengwan and flew south, confirming through captured Demonic Cultivators that the Xu Family had not surrendered and that the Xue Family and Jin Flame Valley Zheng Family had.
• Lin Changheng visited the Zheng Family, learned where the Xue Family had relocated, and gave the aging Zheng Family head healing elixirs after reassuring him about his unsuccessful search for flame-essence ore.
• Lin Changheng found Xue Mingyuan’s spirit tablet at the relocated Xue Family grounds, spoke privately with Xue Mingyan, and then continued on his way.
• When news reached the Song Region allied forces that Lin Changheng had returned from Jin Territory, True Person Ten Thousand Longevity flew out of the central command tent to greet him.

Lin Changheng returned to the Song Region, reunited with Tantai Feiyue, Yan Mingyi, and Xu Hanji, and helped settle their affairs before announcing that he would refine pills for the Song-Jin cultivators. He opened a cave abode in Extreme Mountain Immortal City, where four cultivators arrived to request elixirs.

• Lin Changheng entered the Song Region’s final defense line, and Boy Zhengwang told him about the devastation in the Yan State secret realm and the plans for a Song-Jin alliance.
• Boy Zhengwang explained that the Flying Cloud Valley Xu Family had been relocated under his temple’s protection, and Lin Changheng learned where they had settled.
• Lin Changheng visited the Xu Family, secretly surveyed Tantai Feiyue, Yan Mingyi, and Xu Hanji, and reunited with all three women.
• During seven days at the Xu Family, Lin Changheng extracted soul and true-spirit traces from the three women, met Cook Zeng, Huang Lingsu, and Xu Bazheng, and gave Tantai Feiyue Core Formation resources.
• Lin Changheng returned to Extreme Mountain Immortal City and announced he would take pill-refining orders; four True Core or False Core cultivators then arrived to request elixirs.

Over three years, Lin Changheng refined pills for Song and Jin, advanced his alchemy and artifact-refining skills to the third tier, and broke through to the eighth layer of Core Formation. After setting out for the Jin Territory, he spotted the overbearing Shi family Treasure Boat and marked it while recognizing a familiar enemy aboard.

• Lin Changheng welcomed Boy Zhengwang and four Core Formation cultivators seeking dual Core Formation pills, accepted their requests, and returned True Person Cloud Crane's furnace-opening fee to repay the Purple Pole Sect for protecting the Xu Family.
• Over three years, Lin Changheng fulfilled pill commissions across Song and Jin, earned rewards and prestige, deepened his alchemy, and advanced his artifact-refining skill to the third tier.
• Lin Changheng broke through to the eighth layer of Core Formation and decided to travel to the Jin State for fire elephant essence blood and to investigate an Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Lin Changheng delivered his remaining pills, gave Huang Lingsu a standard-quality Dust-Descending Pill, visited the three women, and then departed for the Jin Territory in disguise.
• At the Far-Pacifying Fortress, Lin Changheng saw the Shi family Treasure Boat batter nearby cultivators with its passing gale and recognized a familiar figure aboard it.
• Lin Changheng followed the Treasure Boat with his divine sense, placed an invisible mark on it, and flew into the Jin Territory.

Lin Changheng followed the Shi Treasure Boat into Black Abyss, killed Young Master Shi and two Core Formation cultivators, and acquired a precious ingredient for the Illusion-Breaking Pill. He then met True Person Xuan Ci near Medicine King Valley, who presented the requested Fire Elephant Essence Blood with the Nethervoid Bloodline.

• Lin Changheng followed the Shi Treasure Boat into Black Abyss and discovered that the Shi cultivators had come to retrieve a ripe fruit.
• Lin Changheng ambushed Young Master Shi, froze him, searched his memories, and killed him when two Shi cultivators emerged from a cave.
• Lin Changheng killed the middle-aged scholar and the burly late Core Formation cultivator, then took the Vermilion Heart Dust-Cleansing Fruit and concealed the battle’s traces.
• Lin Changheng found the fruit-bearing tree but decided not to transplant it, then left Black Abyss without killing the Shi cultivators waiting outside.
• Lin Changheng summoned True Person Xuan Ci to a Spirit Wine Tower near Medicine King Valley, where Xuan Ci delivered the requested Fire Elephant Essence Blood with the Nethervoid Bloodline.

Lin Changheng received Nether Void Essence Blood, learned that the Nascent Soul pursuer was likely Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul, and used the blood to gain the Flame Substitute talent. The transformation raised his fire-attribute spiritual root to a heavenly spiritual root, whose exceptional benefits he began testing.

• A Shi lineage shrine keeper discovered that the lineage heir and another Core Formation Middle Stage cultivator had died, then sent an urgent message before passing away in prayer.
• Lin Changheng inspected the Nether Void Essence Blood delivered by the White-Robed Exiled Immortal Cultivator and learned that the Nascent Soul who had pursued him was rumored to be Daoist Tianzhu’s Second Nascent Soul.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon explained the Second Nascent Soul’s difficult requirements and its risk of turning against its original body.
• Lin Changheng used the Crimson-Winged Fire Elephant essence blood to refine the Flame Substitute talent, gaining a method that could save him from fatal attacks.
• The spirit seizure gave Lin Changheng enough spirit resonance to reach a heavenly fire-attribute spiritual root, and he tested its dramatic improvements to cultivation and spellcasting.

Lin Changheng tested his newly acquired Flame Substitute Demon Method, then discovered that an Ancient Teleportation Formation required a lost Grand Teleportation Token to use safely. After beginning cultivation with his heavenly spiritual root, he underwent an unexpected cleansing that raised his golden core from mid-tier to upper-tier.

• Lin Changheng absorbed the Truefire Flood Dragon essence blood, refined the Flame Substitute Demon Method, and tested it against Little Qing’s attacks.
• Lin Changheng measured his divine sense at sixty-nine li and entered the Miasma-Shadow Ancient Forest to investigate the disturbance at the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Lin Changheng sent a puppet through the functioning formation, but spatial forces destroyed it; the Truefire Flood Dragon explained that a Grand Teleportation Token was needed to survive the passage.
• Lin Changheng decided to seek a token through his hidden agents and set warning, illusion, and binding formations around the teleportation site.
• Lin Changheng began cultivating with Five-Element Spirit Materials, and his heavenly spiritual root triggered a month-long cleansing that transformed his mid-tier golden core into an upper-tier golden core.

After advancing to an upper-tier Golden Core, Lin Changheng tested his new power and used it to intimidate cultivators into carrying out his tasks. A lead from True Person Yujie drew him into an ambush by True Person Lustrous Light, whom he defeated and searched, uncovering the location of the Grand Teleportation Token.

• Lin Changheng discovered that his upper-tier Golden Core increased his mana, recovery, and prospects of Nascent Soul Formation, then continued cultivating and honing his alchemy.
• Lin Changheng met True Person Yujie and asked her to help find a Grand Teleportation Token; she recalled that True Person Lustrous Light had discussed one with a cultivator from the Iron Bone Gate.
• Three days later, Lin Changheng followed True Person Yujie's signal to a secluded valley, saw through an illusion formation, and discovered True Person Lustrous Light waiting in ambush.
• Lin Changheng and Little Qing shattered the formation and overwhelmed True Person Lustrous Light, who had reached Late Core Formation and used a top-tier spell art.
• Lin Changheng searched True Person Lustrous Light's soul, learned that True Person Stele-Splitter of the Iron Bone Gate possessed the Grand Teleportation Token, and confirmed that Yujie had not betrayed him.
• Lin Changheng left True Person Yujie with elixirs and resolved to meet True Person Stele-Splitter for the token and the spirit materials needed for Nascent Soul Formation.

Lin Changheng learned that True Person Stele-Splitter had died and tracked down the cultivators responsible, finding a key Nascent Soul Formation herb but not the Grand Teleportation Token. He finally ambushed Qingfengzi and a masked cultivator, and the battle began with both sides unleashing their methods.

• Lin Changheng infiltrated Iron Rampart City's City Lord's Manor, questioned its false core cultivator, and learned that Yan State cultivators True Person Wild Crane and Qingfengzi had killed True Person Stele-Splitter.
• Lin Changheng spent half a year investigating Yan territory, killed True Person Wild Crane, and recovered the Spirit-Gathering Ginseng Fruit, though the Grand Teleportation Token was in Qingfengzi's possession.
• Lin Changheng tracked Qingfengzi and a masked Core Formation cultivator as they traveled toward a heavily guarded Yan command city, then decided to attack before they reached it.
• Lin Changheng summoned Little Qing and attacked both targets, sending his giant sword at Qingfengzi while Little Qing engaged the masked cultivator inside his mist-spreading Divine Ability.
• Qingfengzi summoned an earthen-yellow cauldron to block Lin Changheng's giant sword and used its suction to try to pull the sword inside.

Lin Changheng defeated Qingfengzi and discovered that the masked cultivator was True Person Lieshan, who had become a Demonic Path cultivator. After killing Lieshan and fleeing from two approaching Nascent Soul cultivators, Lin Changheng was recognized by True Lord Youtan as Fang Yuan.

• Lin Changheng restrained Qingfengzi's treasures and pursued him, while Little Qing fought the bronze-masked cultivator to a draw in the mist.
• Little Qing damaged the bronze mask, allowing Lin Changheng to recognize True Person Lieshan, and Lin Changheng killed Qingfengzi before turning to help her.
• True Person Lieshan revealed his demonic methods, wounded Little Qing, and fled; Lin Changheng pursued him to prevent suspicions of demonic collusion from endangering the Xu Family.
• True Person Lieshan called for help from a Sage Lord, prompting True Lord Youtan and Daoist Jingyuan to rush toward the chase.
• Lin Changheng used the River-Calming Pearl and Dragonkin Breath to mortally wound True Person Lieshan, then fled as True Lord Youtan arrived and sensed him.
• Lin Changheng used his last Acceleration Treasure Talisman to escape, but True Lord Youtan recognized his aura and called him Fang Yuan.

Lin Changheng fled through the Miasma-Shadow Ancient Forest while True Lord Youtan and Daoist Jingyuan pursued him with lethal attacks. Wounded and nearly spent, he reached the underground Ancient Teleportation Formation and used a Nascent Soul Talismanized Treasure as the pursuers closed in.

• True Lord Youtan recognized Lin Changheng as the man who had killed True Person Lieshan, and Daoist Jingyuan joined her pursuit after identifying him as Fang Yuan, the enemy who had ruined Yan State's plans.
• Lin Changheng used his improved cultivation, the Sun-Chasing Cloak, and a third-tier Acceleration Treasure Talisman to keep ahead of the two Nascent Soul cultivators, then brought out the Truefire Flood Dragon to warn him of attacks.
• Lin Changheng revealed the Grand Teleportation Token and chose to flee toward the Miasma-Shadow Ancient Forest, where the Ancient Teleportation Formation offered a way to escape.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon helped Lin Changheng evade True Lord Youtan's concealed demonic attack and Daoist Jingyuan's strikes, while Lin Changheng used the Flame Substitute Demon Method, Blood-Shadow Escape, and Wind-Thunder Escape Technique to survive.
• True Lord Youtan's divine-sense attack was blocked by the Truefire Flood Dragon, but the repeated attacks left Lin Changheng battered and nearly depleted when he reached the forest and fled underground.
• As True Lord Youtan and Daoist Jingyuan closed in, Lin Changheng sent out the Nascent Soul Talismanized Treasure he had obtained from the Thunder Cultivator surnamed Qiu.

Lin Changheng escaped Daoist Jingyuan and True Lord Youtan by stealing Jingyuan’s Natal Dharma Treasure and teleporting away, then recovered in a hidden cavern. He emerged onto a cliff overlooking the vast sea in the Far Eastern Lands.

• True Lord Youtan blocked the Silver Ring Talisman Treasure while Daoist Jingyuan pursued Lin Changheng to the ancient teleportation formation.
• Daoist Jingyuan sent his Golden Dipper toward the formation, but Lin Changheng and the Truefire Flood Dragon restrained it long enough for Heaven-in-a-Pot to capture it.
• Lin Changheng teleported away as Daoist Jingyuan and True Lord Youtan’s attacks struck only his afterimage, and the damaged formation prevented Jingyuan from following.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon fell dormant, and Lin Changheng meditated for seven days to restore some mana and suppress his injuries.
• Lin Changheng removed pieces of the ancient formation to control its repair, climbed through a concealed passage, and discovered the sea in the Far Eastern Lands.

Lin Changheng crossed a spiritually barren stretch of the Boundless Sea, found and absorbed two spirit veins to complete Heaven-in-a-Pot’s five-element cycle, and eventually reached an island protected by a formation. There he discovered only mortals and questioned an old man about the surrounding waters.

• Lin Changheng used Mo Zhaoli’s Soul Lamp and the Jade Ring Curio to determine that he should travel southeast, then flew across the empty sea with Little Qing until her strength ran low.
• Lin Changheng rode an ordinary giant shark and later a peculiar whale beast for months before finding an island inhabited by weak demon beasts and extracting its low-grade first-tier wood-affinity spirit vein into Heaven-in-a-Pot.
• Lin Changheng found a second unclaimed island with a low-grade first-tier earth-affinity spirit vein and added it as Heaven-in-a-Pot’s eleventh spirit vein.
• Lin Changheng spotted a mid-grade first-tier formation around an inhabited island, thanked and released the whale beast, and entered the island alone.
• Lin Changheng found that the island held villages of mortals but no cultivators, then waited at a central residence until its bald old owner returned.
• Lin Changheng stopped the old man from fleeing and asked him to explain the present circumstances in the surrounding waters.