Recaps

Lin Changheng learned that Daoist Dangqi had taken control of the Cao Family’s businesses and was preparing to form a Nascent Soul, then subdued him and recruited him into a long-term information network. After discovering a method to repair Ancient Treasures and trading pills for formation ingredients, Lin Changheng left with a promising new reserve of Nascent Soul Formation Twin Pills.

• Lin Changheng questioned a Qi-Dissipating Sect cultivator and learned that Daoist Dangqi was managing the Cao Family’s affairs, Pan Lian'er was overseeing businesses in Moon-Embracing Immortal City, and Dangqi was nearing his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Lin Changheng found True Person Dangqi repairing a damaged Short Spear Ancient Treasure, seized the weapon and Jade Slip, and subdued Dangqi with the Spirit-Sealing Life Spring Demon Method.
• Lin Changheng made Dangqi his subordinate, freed three existing curse-seal targets, and placed Divine Blood Curse Seals on three turtle Spirit Beasts to relay information after Lin Changheng’s departure.
• Lin Changheng returned the Short Spear Ancient Treasure to Dangqi, kept a copy of the Ancient Treasure repair method, and learned which Nascent Soul Formation ingredients Dangqi had gathered.
• Lin Changheng exchanged Standard Nascent Soul Transformation and Illusion-Breaking Pills for Dangqi’s ingredients, assembling materials that could yield three Premium Pills of each kind and greatly expand his pill reserves.

Lin Changheng returned to the Eight Nations Region through the repaired Ancient Teleportation Formation, survived an ambush, and learned that the Yan State had taken more territory while he was away. After spotting demon cultivators in the Jin State’s lost lands, he suspected Yan and Yue had allied against Song and Jin.

• Lin Changheng ordered True Person Dangqi to protect Pan Lian'er and arrange for her abusive husband to be bedridden without killing him.
• News of Lin Changheng’s achievements spread through the Azure Abyss Sea, prompting the demon and demonic-path Great Cultivators to vow to hunt him while Luminous Jade Palace and other factions voiced support.
• Lin Changheng visited Gravel Island, replenished the elixirs at the deceased old man’s memorial tablet, and continued to the hidden Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Lin Changheng activated the repaired formation and returned to the Miasma-Shadow Ancient Forest, where a fourth-tier killing formation ambushed him.
• Lin Changheng broke through and dismantled the killing formation, recorded the Ancient Teleportation Formation, and damaged it to prevent others from using it.
• Lin Changheng discovered that Yan State banners flew over a city in former Jin territory and spotted three demon cultivators, leading him to suspect Yan and Yue had allied.

Lin Changheng returned to the Eight States Region after repairing and using the ancient teleportation formation, then discovered that the Yan State had taken more territory and encountered Demon Cultivators in Jin State territory. He prepared to investigate the shifting war by confronting them.

• Lin Changheng ordered True Person Dangqi to protect Pan Lian'er and deal with her abusive husband by giving him a debilitating illness rather than killing him.
• News of Lin Changheng’s victories and achievements spread through the Azure Abyss Inner Sea, prompting the demon and demonic Great Cultivators to threaten him and First Palace Master Yuanxi to declare her protection.
• Lin Changheng visited Gravel Island, replenished the elixirs at the old man’s memorial tablet, and continued to the deserted island holding the ancient teleportation formation.
• Lin Changheng repaired the formation and teleported home, where he survived a fourth-tier killing formation, dismantled it, and disabled the ancient formation to prevent others from using it.
• Lin Changheng discovered that Yan State flags flew over territory he remembered as Jin State land and spotted three Demon Cultivators traveling in formation, suggesting Yan and Yue might have joined forces.

Lin Changheng learned that Yuanshan had fallen and Song and Jin had merged under siege, then crossed the battlefield to reach the Song-Jin fortress. There, True Person Shouxuan recognized him after nearly a century apart and welcomed him back.

• Lin Changheng searched three Demon Cultivators' souls and learned that Yuanshan had fallen, Song and Jin had merged, and six kingdoms remained.
• Lin Changheng learned about the shifting Nascent Soul forces and hurried toward Song to find out what had become of the Xu women.
• Lin Changheng killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators who tried to ambush him and silently killed one of their companions from afar after the man insulted him.
• At the Army-Breaking Fortress, Lin Changheng presented his obsolete identity token and asked the guards to find someone who remembered him.
• True Person Shouxuan arrived, recognized Lin Changheng through their shared history and the Millennium Spirit Milk, and greeted him warmly.

Lin Changheng learned that the Extreme South Palace had persecuted the Xu Family and that the Purple Pole Sect had defected after facing similar pressure. After revealing his overwhelming strength to Tantai Feiyue and Yan Mingyi, he left for the eastern battlefield to retrieve Xu Hanji, then hurried toward her dangerous mission with Daoist True Heart.

• Tantai Feiyue and Yan Mingyi confirmed that the Extreme South Palace had repeatedly sent them into danger while coveting their resources, and they believed the Purple Pole Sect had defected after enduring similar coercion.
• Lin Changheng revealed that he had become a Nascent Soul True Lord and claimed that neither the Moon-Embracing True Lord nor the Illusion-Breaking True Lord could stop him.
• Lin Changheng left Little Qing to protect Tantai Feiyue and Yan Mingyi, then flew east to find Xu Hanji, who was leading a mission to mine a mineral deposit near the former Song-Jin-Yan border.
• Daoist True Heart agreed to guide Lin Changheng to Xu Hanji despite rules against disclosing frontline secrets or interfering with missions.
• When Lin Changheng sensed something ahead, he wrapped Daoist True Heart in his escape light and accelerated them toward the horizon.

Lin Changheng rescued Xu Hanji and two Song-Jin teams from ambushes, then traced the attacks to Shi Tiancheng and Shi Tiance, who had arranged the deaths to cover their theft of a Skyfire Earthflame Crystal. The chapter ended with Lin Changheng and Xu Hanji confronting Shi Tiancheng in the hidden cavern.

• Lin Changheng reached Xu Hanji's battlefield and reversed an enemy Core Formation cultivator's blade attack, then killed the three attackers and drove off the remaining enemies.
• Lin Changheng took Xu Hanji to another battlefield, killed its enemy Core Formation cultivators, and learned that two mission teams had been ambushed at once.
• Lin Changheng and Xu Hanji went to a lake, where they discovered Shi Tiancheng and Shi Tiance removing a Skyfire Earthflame Crystal and discussing their plans to sacrifice the mission teams.
• Lin Changheng killed Shi Tiance and confronted Shi Tiancheng, while Xu Hanji revealed herself to the man who had expected her to die.

Lin Changheng killed Shi Tiancheng, obtained a Skyfire Earthflame Crystal, and advanced his Dark Radiance Profound Flame to the fourth tier before returning to the Xu family. When aggressive envoys from the Extreme South Palace arrived, he seized control of the confrontation and began questioning them about their ties to the Shi family.

• Lin Changheng searched Shi Tiancheng's soul, killed him, and found a Skyfire Earthflame Crystal in his sealed chest.
• Lin Changheng returned Xu Hanji to the Xu family, where he learned that Tantai Feiyue and Xu Hanji had formed lower-tier true cores while Yan Mingyi had formed an upper-tier true core.
• Lin Changheng fed the Skyfire Earthflame Crystal to his Dark Radiance Profound Flame, transforming it into the fourth-tier Black Cinder Emperor Flame.
• Envoys from the Extreme South Palace arrived at the Xu family base, and Lin Changheng secretly subdued two Core Formation cultivators who threatened Xu Hanji and her companions.
• Lin Changheng asked the pinned-up female envoy to identify the surnames of the suspended cultivators, killed the one surnamed Shi, and then asked whether she held a position with the Shi family.

Lin Changheng publicly condemned the Shi and Qu clans, killed their cultivators, and summoned Moon-Embracing True Lord to answer for their abuses. When she arrived and threatened him, he defeated her in a brief clash and captured her nascent soul, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Lin Changheng killed three fleeing cultivators, condemned the Shi and Qu clans before the region, and demanded that Moon-Embracing True Lord confess her faults and reform.
• Boy Zhengwang learned that Lin Changheng had returned as a Nascent Soul cultivator and hurried toward Mangleng Mountain.
• Moon-Embracing True Lord arrived at Mangleng Mountain, recognized Lin Changheng, and defended her clans while rejecting his demands.
• Lin Changheng killed the two Qu cultivators he had been holding after Moon-Embracing True Lord threatened him and challenged her to fight.
• Lin Changheng struck Moon-Embracing True Lord with a spirit attack and a sword ray, killed her body, and trapped her nascent soul in an Azure Flame Net.

Lin Changheng defeated Moon-Embracing True Lord, negotiated an alliance with Illusion-Breaking True Lord, and returned to the Xu Family, where he rewarded Boy Zhengwang with Nascent Soul cultivation resources. The chapter ended with Lin Changheng demanding that the imprisoned Moon-Embracing True Lord choose submission or death.

• Lin Changheng froze Moon-Embracing True Lord's Nascent Soul after defeating her, then revealed that Illusion-Breaking True Lord had been watching nearby.
• Illusion-Breaking True Lord appeared, recruited Lin Changheng to fight foreign powers, and agreed to destroy the Qu and Shi clans for their abuses.
• Lin Changheng returned to the Xu Family, greeted its members, and reflected on the family ties that had ended during his absence.
• Lin Changheng gave Boy Zhengwang Nascent Soul Formation insights and two fine-quality Nascent Soul Formation Twin Pills, greatly improving Zhengwang's chances of advancement.
• Lin Changheng privately confronted the imprisoned Moon-Embracing True Lord and demanded that she submit or die.

Lin Changheng forced the Moon-Embracing True Lord to submit, bound her with the Spirit-Sealing Life Spring Demon Method, and gave her a puppet body. Her knowledge led him to a clue about coldwater jade gel in the Icefield, while he also discovered that Old Jiao was nearing revival and Xiao Hei was rapidly developing flood dragon traits.

• Lin Changheng offered the Moon-Embracing True Lord submission or death, then overcame her attempt to negotiate conditions by stressing his strength and revealing that he had killed her fiancé.
• The Moon-Embracing True Lord explained her ties to the Shi Lineage and agreed to submit, allowing Lin Changheng to bind her with the Spirit-Sealing Life Spring Demon Method.
• Lin Changheng created a puppet resembling the Moon-Embracing True Lord for her to inhabit and returned her Ice Crystal Round Mirror and storage bag.
• The Moon-Embracing True Lord identified coldwater jade gel as a material in her Dharma Treasure and gave Lin Changheng a jade slip pointing to its source in the Icefield.
• Lin Changheng arranged for Xu Hanji to settle the Moon-Embracing True Lord, then sensed that Old Jiao was nearing revival and that Xiao Hei's flood dragon markings were spreading.

Lin Changheng advanced his alchemy, refined demon-core pills, and gained a new Dao Fruit tied to lightning. Meanwhile, Daoist Jingyuan and True Lord Youtan plotted to kill Ten Thousand Longevity and suspected he was the cultivator who had once taken Jingyuan’s natal Dharma Treasure.

• The War Arts Hall executed the Shi and Qu families’ high-ranking cultivators, sent their lower-ranking members to the front, and scattered their mortal relatives.
• News of Ten Thousand Longevity’s strength and benevolent deeds spread throughout the Song-Jin Lands, while Daoist Jingyuan and True Lord Youtan discussed ambushing him and Jingyuan considered whether he was Fang Yuan.
• Lin Changheng refined premium pills from the Sacred Plume Demon King’s core, advancing his Dao of Alchemy to fourth-tier mid-grade.
• Lin Changheng used Purple Lightning Bull essence blood to complete two treasure seeds and refine his thunder-related foreign method to true ascension and transcendent mastery.
• The Origin Cauldron manifested a new Dao Fruit, and Lin Changheng witnessed the terrifying lightning beast before discovering that the bloodline ability could become the Lightning Mastery Divine Ability True Intent.

After emerging from a year and a half of seclusion, Lin Changheng reunited with his companions and agreed to hold another Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony. Old acquaintances came to visit, and Gao Jingshu revealed that she had raised the White Jade Spider Demon’s bloodline to the Nether Void level.

• Lin Changheng inspected his improved Thunder Nest and spiritual roots, then emerged from seclusion and reunited with Yan Mingyi, Tantai Feiyue, and Xu Hanji.
• Yan Mingyi received fourth-tier Puppet Dao inheritances from Lin Changheng and learned that he had become a Fourth-Tier Dao of Alchemy Grandmaster.
• Lin Changheng agreed to hold another Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, while Yan Mingyi proposed adding celebrations for his three-hundredth birthday and alchemy advancement.
• Lin Changheng accepted a visit from Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu, received their congratulatory gift, and invited them to his ceremony.
• Zhu Fugui and Gao Jingshu visited Lin Changheng, and Gao Jingshu reported that she had raised the White Jade Spider Demon’s bloodline to the Nether Void level.

Lin Changheng examined Gao Jingshu’s Nether Void-grade White Jade Golden Spider Demon, absorbed its essence blood, and gained the Perceiving Calamity Signs talent. After receiving an invitation revealing that White Ash planned to marry Lord Bai in Floating Life Immortal City, Lin Changheng decided to attend and set out from the Xu Family Base.

• Gao Jingshu reported that she had elevated the White Jade Spider Demon’s bloodline and presented Lin Changheng with its records and several hundred portions of essence blood.
• Lin Changheng tested the spider demon’s danger-sensing ability, then used its essence blood to complete three Spirit-Seizing transformations and selected Perceiving Calamity Signs.
• Lin Changheng discovered that his spiritual roots had improved and resumed refining the great pill while planning a visit to Floating Life Immortal City.
• Yan Mingyi delivered letters from Illusion-Breaking True Lord, and Lin Changheng learned that White Ash had invited Nascent Soul cultivators to a ceremony for his marriage to Lord Bai.
• Lin Changheng discussed the risks of attending with Yan Mingyi, Tantai Feiyue, and Xu Hanji, chose to take Moon-Embracing True Lord, and left the Xu Family Base for the meeting place.

Lin Changheng used a feint to reach Floating Life Immortal City and reunite with Bai Hengwan, who had been imprisoned on Feather Immortal Island for ten years. After learning that True Lord White Ash was scheming against them, Lin Changheng prepared to turn the tables by luring him in.

• Lin Changheng burned the letters from Illusion-Breaking True Lord and True Lord White Ash, then used his Kunpeng Feather Wings and Sun-Chasing Cloak to reach Floating Life Immortal City ahead of his pursuers.
• Lin Changheng discovered that Feather Immortal Island's formation had been changed into a prison and found Bai Hengwan waiting there with Cui'er.
• Bai Hengwan explained her resistance to True Lord White Ash and spoke of hoping Lin Changheng or her master would return to rescue her.
• Lin Changheng revealed himself as a Nascent Soul True Lord, reunited with Bai Hengwan, and learned that White Ash's wedding invitation was a trap meant to lure him.
• Lin Changheng asked Bai Hengwan to retrieve White Ash's Communication Jade Talisman, then concealed himself while she summoned White Ash for a talk.

Lin Changheng ambushed and captured True Lord White Ash, then fled Feather Immortal Island with Bai Hengwan and Cui'er. As they escaped, Bai Hengwan recounted Master Kong’s death and passed Lin Changheng his alchemy inheritance, while Lin learned about her preparations to form a Nascent Soul and seemed ready to help.

• Bai Hengwan lured True Lord White Ash into the hall, where Lin Changheng struck him with the Wind God Thorn and a lightning attack, destroying his body.
• True Lord White Ash split his Nascent Soul into three and tried to escape, but Lin Changheng saw through the decoys, seized the real one, and froze it in the Heaven-in-a-Pot Treasure Land.
• Lin Changheng left Feather Immortal Island with Bai Hengwan and Cui'er, promising that they would return to reclaim the immortal city.
• Bai Hengwan told Lin Changheng that Master Kong had died after achieving third-tier superior-grade mastery of the Dao of Alchemy, and gave him Master Kong’s inheritance jade slip.
• Bai Hengwan explained that she had planned to attempt Nascent Soul Formation with an Authentic Nascent Soul Transformation Pill, and Lin Changheng hinted that her prospects might be better than she thought.

Lin Changheng gave Bai Hengwan two premium Nascent Soul Formation pills and his breakthrough insights, and she chose to express her feelings for him. He then traveled with Illusion-Breaking True Lord and Azure Firmament True Lord to Floating Life Immortal City, where the gathering of the Eight Kingdoms’ Nascent Soul cultivators began.

• Lin Changheng gave Bai Hengwan two premium Nascent Soul Formation pills and a jade slip of his cultivation insights, and Bai Hengwan kissed him and quietly told him her intentions.
• Lin Changheng secretly settled Bai Hengwan and Cui'er with the Xu Family before leaving to meet Illusion-Breaking True Lord.
• Lin Changheng explained that Perceiving Calamity Signs had warned him of True Lord White Ash’s hidden malice, so he had searched and erased White Ash’s Nascent Soul.
• Lin Changheng met Illusion-Breaking True Lord and Azure Firmament True Lord, and the three traveled together to Floating Life Immortal City.
• True Lord Youtan welcomed the three at the city, and they entered the Demonic Path headquarters after checking the guest hall for traps.
• Lin Changheng assessed the Nascent Soul forces of the Eight Kingdoms as he joined the gathering with True Lord Prison Soul and True Lord Zuirì.

Lin Changheng attended a gathering of Nascent Soul True Lords in Floating Life Immortal City, where True Lord Zuirì probed him about his reputation and True Lord Hunyu tried to match him with True Lord Youtan and Azure Firmament. The arrival of old enemies Daoist Tianzhu and Daoist Jingyuan left Lin Changheng weighing whether they would expose his control of an Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• True Lord Zuirì arrived and questioned Lin Changheng about how he had killed a Nascent Soul cultivator, but Lin Changheng dismissed the feat as a lucky, unrepeatable accident.
• True Lord Hunyu suggested matching Lin Changheng with True Lord Youtan, then teased Azure Firmament; Lin Changheng declared his admiration and respect for Azure Firmament, and she warned Hunyu to stop joking.
• True Lord Youtan entered with Daoist Tianzhu, Daoist Jingyuan, True Lord Poxiao, and True Lord Fuzheng, bringing the gathering to ten Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Daoist Tianzhu and Daoist Jingyuan fixed their attention on Lin Changheng, and Lin Changheng inferred that Jingyuan had discovered his return and connected him to the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

Lin Changheng faced Daoist Tianzhu and rejected the insinuation that he had harmed White Ash, then left the gathering with Illusion-Breaking True Lord, Azure Firmament True Lord, and True Lord Fuzheng. Afterward, a strange upheaval began at the Xu Family on Mangleng Mountain, where purple light and lightning filled the sky.

• Lin Changheng answered Daoist Tianzhu’s discourtesy with a dismissive greeting and silenced Daoist Jingyuan with a fierce stare.
• Lin Changheng asked True Lord Fuzheng about Songtao and Liuquan, learning that the married couple had become trusted alliance leaders and reached Late Core Formation.
• True Lord Hunyu announced that White Ash and his partner had vanished, and his pointed look led the gathering to suspect Lin Changheng.
• Lin Changheng denied responsibility and warned that he could have killed other cultivators too, prompting Illusion-Breaking True Lord, Azure Firmament True Lord, and True Lord Fuzheng to defend him.
• Lin Changheng and the three allies left the ceremony, then separated after reaching the Song Region.
• Half a year later, a violent rumbling, purple light, and roaming lightning appeared above the Xu Family on Mangleng Mountain.

Lin Changheng refined the Lightning Mastery Divine Ability True Intent, transforming his Thunder Nest into an Archaic Thunder Pool and gaining powerful control over lightning. He discovered that the pool could appear outside his body to absorb lightning safely, though its storage capacity depended on his cultivation.

• Lin Changheng refined the Purple Lightning Bull Dao Fruit, enduring a violent upheaval in his body as the Archaic Thunder Pool replaced his Thunder Nest.
• Lin Changheng used the pool to control Mortal Lightning, forming it into a lightning ball that destroyed a reinforced Test Stone and recognizing its potential as a concealed killing move.
• Lin Changheng manifested the Archaic Thunder Pool outside his body, startling the Xu Family as thunderclouds gathered over Mangleng Mountain.
• Lin Changheng used the Great Thousand Thunder-Breath Truth-Seeking Art to locate a storm and confirmed that the external pool could swallow lightning bolts without letting their force reach him.
• Lin Changheng tested the pool’s limits, finding that he could still absorb lightning through his body and that the pool’s capacity was restricted by his cultivation.

Lin Changheng strengthened his divine sense, witnessed Old Jiao revive in a Single-Horned Flood Dragon body, and discovered he could use its essence blood to begin Spirit Seizure of a new Treasure Seed. After arranging Bai Hengwan’s Nascent Soul formation, he left with her a month later and saw her present him with a jade bottle and sealed boxes.

• Lin Changheng tested his transformed Divine Ability True Intent and found his divine sense range had increased to two hundred and twenty li.
• Old Jiao revived in the Single-Horned Flood Dragon body, and he and Lin Changheng discussed his recovery and the body’s ability, Single-Horned Flamefall, to draw upon fire spiritual power.
• Old Jiao gave Lin Changheng two masses of essence blood, which let him begin Spirit Seizure of the Single-Horned Ferocious Flood Dragon Treasure Seed and reveal its three innate talents.
• Lin Changheng found Bai Hengwan studying his Nascent Soul Formation insights and arranged to take her to form her Nascent Soul after she finished preparing.
• A month later, Lin Changheng flew southeast with Bai Hengwan, who presented him with a jade bottle and several sealed boxes.

Lin Changheng brought Bai Hengwan to the Extreme South Palace to seek a fourth-tier spirit land for her Nascent Soul formation, only to discover Daoist Jingyuan was visiting Illusion-Breaking True Lord. After Jingyuan recognized Bai Hengwan and inferred Lin Changheng had killed True Lord White Ash, Lin Changheng stopped Jingyuan from fleeing and struck him down with a terrifying bolt of lightning.

• Bai Hengwan gave Lin Changheng pill ingredients, and he returned her standard Nascent Soul Transformation Pill while keeping the ingredients for future refining.
• Lin Changheng took Bai Hengwan with him to the Extreme South Palace and reassured her that he could handle threats from Yue and Yan.
• At the palace gates, Lin Changheng learned an unidentified male Nascent Soul True Lord was visiting Illusion-Breaking True Lord, then confirmed the visitor was Daoist Jingyuan when his stolen golden dipper tried to fly toward him.
• Illusion-Breaking True Lord received Lin Changheng and Bai Hengwan, and Daoist Jingyuan recognized Bai Hengwan as the mistress of Floating Life Immortal City and accused Lin Changheng of killing True Lord White Ash.
• Daoist Jingyuan tried to escape the hall, but Lin Changheng halted him with a piercing attack and killed him with a massive bolt of lightning.