Recaps

Lin Changheng expanded his arts and influence while navigating rival families, merchant associations, and the war between the righteous and demonic paths. He reunited with Su Shuangjiang in Water Origin City and prepared to investigate the cave connected to her Core Formation Spirit Object.

• Lin Changheng developed new demonic arts, refined his sword skills, and protected the Xue Family before taking its earth vein sunflame crystal cores.
• Lin Changheng attended Extreme Mountain Immortal City’s grand auction, advanced his cultivation, and later reached an agreement with the Ten-Thousand-Sword Yun Family to study its sword heritage.
• Lin Changheng passed the Yun Family’s nine-floor Sword Trial, received a bronze token from an ancestor’s projection, and found a Primordial Jianmu fragment inside Yun Zhi’s Sword Embryo.
• Lin Changheng refined Return-to-Truth Pills, reunited with his friends at the Xu Family, and killed two Core Formation cultivators who had tried to make him their pill slave.
• Lin Changheng advanced his flame and mist abilities, then helped True Person Dong and the Great Shun Merchant Association defeat the Nine Seas Merchant Association in a public contest that secured their trade routes for sixty years.
• Lin Changheng entered the Yue Kingdom disguised as Fang Yuan, rescued righteous cultivators, and reached Water Origin City after avoiding demonic forces besieging Righteousness Immortal City.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Su Shuangjiang, learned she possessed a Core Formation Spirit Object, and refined new water abilities from the essence blood she provided.
• Lin Changheng told Su Shuangjiang to prepare to leave Water Origin City while he investigated the cave that held the spirit object’s source.

Lin Changheng advanced his cultivation and Pill Dao while building new alliances, gathering rare essence blood, and protecting allies from the Xu Family to the Yun Family. The arc left him preparing to enter Jin with the army in two years, while he learned that Gao Dingtian and Gao Dingshan had died.

• Lin Changheng rescued True Person Liuquan from Fate-Defying True Person’s forces, killed Fate-Defying True Person, and delivered Liuquan and her black object to True Person Pine Waves.
• Lin Changheng reached Core Formation Middle Stage, refined Spirit-Sealing Life Spring into himself, and traded premium pills for rare materials and escape techniques at a cultivator gathering.
• Lin Changheng returned to the Song Region, protected the Xu Family by killing three Purple Pole Sect cultivators and subduing Gu, and examined Yan Mingyi’s completed Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse.
• Lin Changheng traveled toward Extreme Mountain Immortal City, rescued Xiao Donglin from True Person Qingwu, and killed Qingwu, prompting Azure Firmament Sect to issue a Criminal Pursuit Order.
• Lin Changheng gained the Blue-Eyed Insight Demonic Art from Wind-Splitting Falcon essence blood and raised the Dark Radiance Mystic Flame to third-tier superior grade.
• Lin Changheng accepted True Person Qiyue’s offer to enter Jin with the army in two years under conditions that protected his freedom to refuse or leave pill-refining assignments.
• Lin Changheng traded two craft legacies for Blazing Origin-grade essence blood, then absorbed more essence blood and transformed his volcanic foundation into the Mystic Fire Furnace Demonic Art.
• Lin Changheng reached Luokun Mountain, learned that Gao Dingtian and Gao Dingshan had died, and asked to see Gao Jingshu and Zhu Fugui.

Lin Changheng strengthened his cultivation and influence while navigating the Song-Jin war, then pursued a mysterious cultivator through the Nascent Soul Cave-Dwelling Ruins. After killing Qiu, Lin Changheng searched his soul and learned something that shocked him.

• Lin Changheng killed the Flowing Stone Merchant Guild president who had stolen Zhu Fugui’s pill, then gave Zhu the Dark Nether Baleful Art and ordered him to take control of the guild.
• Lin Changheng entered the Savage Wastes, killed the Wood-Armored Dragon Lizard, and refined its essence blood to awaken Candle Gaze, which let him perceive and sever heavenly-secrets threads.
• Lin Changheng helped Su Shuangjiang form her core, joined the Song army’s campaign in Jin, and traded his pill-making services for rare materials while advancing his formation skills.
• Lin Changheng killed the Medicine King Valley Grand Elder who had been sent to capture him, then traveled to Ultimate Bliss Immortal City and controlled True Person Yujie.
• Lin Changheng killed his granduncle, the Hemp-Cloth Elder, consumed two Bodhi Essence Jujubes, refined the Dust-Returning Vase, and advanced to the fifth layer of Core Formation.
• Lin Changheng entered the Nascent Soul Cave-Dwelling Ruins disguised as Li Feiyu and confronted Qiu, who escaped through a one-way teleportation formation with Lin Changheng’s sword.
• Lin Changheng followed Qiu through the formation, fought him in a cave, and killed him after Qiu’s defenses and secret medicine failed.
• Lin Changheng searched Qiu’s soul and was shocked by what he discovered.

Lin Changheng explored the secret realm, gained powerful treasures and abilities, and joined forces with the imprisoned Truefire Flood Dragon. After killing Daoist Heir Songyun and absorbing the Spatial Origin Bead into his blessed land, he escaped the realm under concealment, pursued by Tianzhu Daoist as the Nascent Soul cultivators clashed.

• Lin Changheng gained a Thunder Spiritual Root from Qiu’s essence blood, explored Mistbound Valley, claimed the Golden Lotus Seed, and integrated the Ancient Gloomwood Snake’s poison talent.
• Lin Changheng refined the five-colored lingzhi to reach the sixth layer of Core Formation, killed True Person Yukong, and recovered a fourth Primordial Jianmu fragment.
• Lin Changheng entered Snow Mountain, discovered the Truefire Flood Dragon’s plan to escape its seal, and carried its soul into the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land after Granny Barren Mountain died.
• Lin Changheng explored the Bronze Palace, reached Late Core Formation after drinking spirit liquid, and ambushed Daoist Heir Songyun while he extracted spatial origin from the Secret Realm Core.
• Lin Changheng lured Daoist Heir Songyun into the spiritless forest and killed him, then fed the Spatial Origin Bead to his Heaven-in-a-Pot Divine Ability and greatly expanded the blessed land.
• Lin Changheng subdued True Person Zhen and True Person Xuan Ci, escaped the Bronze Palace with the other cultivators, and killed the pursuing Three-Legged Monstrous Bird and Giant Scorpion Demon King.
• Lin Changheng prepared to leave the secret realm with the Truefire Flood Dragon’s nascent-soul formation insights, then used concealment and the dragon’s soul-attachment technique to pass scrutiny at the exit.
• Tianzhu Daoist attacked Lin Changheng as he departed, but Lin Changheng escaped two strikes while Illusion-Breaking True Lord and the other Nascent Soul cultivators confronted Tianzhu Daoist.