Recaps

Zhou Qing used the simulation system to cultivate, build his alchemy career, and prepare for the Zhou family’s political crisis. After inheriting the Mountain Sea Ring, he reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining and learned that the Mountain Sea Art had delayed his aging.

• Zhou Qing began cultivating through the simulation, escaped the attack on the Zhou Residence, and reached Qi Refining before entering Black Mountain Market to become an alchemy apprentice.
• Zhou Qing advanced as a pill master, met Ye Feng again, and survived into old age before inheriting his simulated cultivation, memories, and resistance to pill toxins.
• Zhou Qing returned to Black Mountain Market, warned Zhou Shizhong of the Fourth Prince’s rebellion, and fled after soldiers attacked the Zhou Residence and imprisoned his family.
• Zhou Qing tracked Ye Feng to the Cloudsea Secret Realm, killed him, and claimed his treasures, including the Mountain Sea Ring and its artifact spirit.
• Zhou Qing accepted the Mountain Sea Art, became a High-Grade Pill Master, and learned from You Rou about the Mountain Sea Sect’s destruction.
• The Mountain Sea Ring Artifact Spirit transformed Zhou Qing’s body, while Zhou Qing bought the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and guided Yun Shu through the Market District’s decline.
• Zhou Qing reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining at seventy-two, and the awakened artifact spirit explained that the Mountain Sea Art had delayed his old-age decline.

Zhou Qing reached Foundation Establishment, defeated Blood-Sea True Person’s attempt to possess him, and secured his family’s safety. In Azure Moon Immortal City, he advanced his alchemy and spiritual root, then returned to Black Mountain Market to acquire a Black Wind Eagle egg and target Ruan Hu.

• Zhou Qing buried Dachun, seized control of rogue cultivators, and ordered them to destroy the Qian Kingdom’s imperial family.
• Zhou Qing profited from buying and selling Black Mountain Market properties, then reached the third layer of the Mountain-Sea Body Refinement Art and traveled to Azure Moon Immortal City.
• Zhou Qing obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhao Kan and began his breakthrough, but Blood-Sea True Person tried to possess him.
• Zhou Qing passed the Foundation Establishment trials, destroyed his own divine sense to deny Blood-Sea True Person his body, and later inherited his Foundation Establishment cultivation and awakened Unyielding Will.
• Zhou Qing returned to the mortal lands, exposed the Qian Emperor’s plan against the Zhou Family, and helped his relatives settle safely in Jiangnan.
• Zhou Qing rented a second-tier cave abode, became a guest alchemist in Azure Moon Immortal City, and used the Azure Moon Pool to raise his spiritual root to middle-grade.
• Zhou Qing advanced to the second level of Foundation Establishment, bought a Black Wind Eagle egg at auction, and secretly robbed Ruan Hu of his storage and spirit pet bags.
• Zhou Qing returned to Black Mountain Market disguised as a Pill Hall Guest Elder, prompting Ouyang Shen to greet him in person.

Zhou Qing used the secret realm to acquire the Mountain Sea Art and the Mountain Sea Ring, then traded Ye Feng’s water spirit treasure body for a rare spiritual plant and prepared to confront Blood-Sea True Person. After honoring his oath and releasing Blood-Sea True Person, Zhou Qing returned to Jade Moon Immortal City and set his sights on the Ouyang Household’s properties.

• Zhou Qing organized the Azure Origin Trade Association’s secret realm expedition, collected a share of the explorers’ gains, and captured Ye Feng after he emerged with the Mountain Sea Ring.
• Zhou Qing searched Ye Feng’s memories, retrieved the statue containing the complete Mountain Sea Art, and later traded Ye Feng’s awakened water spirit treasure body for a nine-curved cold spirit ginseng.
• Zhou Qing advanced his cultivation, raised Little Black into a second-tier Dark Demon Eagle, and began a private relationship with Shen Lingxiu.
• Zhou Qing bought a Divine Soul Treasure, strengthened his divine sense, and confronted Blood-Sea True Person under the protection of sealing talismans and the city’s great formation.
• Blood-Sea True Person traded five third-tier craft inheritances and the location of fire essence jujubes for Zhou Qing’s promise to release him.
• Zhou Qing retrieved two ripe fire essence jujubes and then honored his Heart-Demon Oath by releasing Blood-Sea True Person, who gave him a Jade Slip of inheritances before leaving to seek revenge.
• Zhou Qing returned to Jade Moon Immortal City, studied Blood-Sea True Person’s inheritances, and resolved to contend with the Ouyang Household for Black Mountain Market properties.

Zhou Qing escaped Azure Moon Immortal City before Azure Moon True Person sacrificed its cultivators, then weathered the domain war and a failed Core Formation attempt. After inheriting a later simulation, he settled at Purple Bamboo Grove, took Li Yan under his protection, and entered Secluded Mountain to face its aptitude test.

• Zhou Qing fled Azure Moon Immortal City after realizing Azure Moon True Person had reached late-stage Core Formation, and she later sealed the city during the auction to obtain the Heavenly Infant Fruit from Seven Baleful Lord.
• Seven Baleful Lord killed millions of trapped cultivators before Purple Void True Lord drove him away, while Zhou Qing survived outside the city and advanced to the ninth Foundation Establishment layer.
• During the domain war, Zhou Qing sold the Dark Demon Eagle, helped Zhou Hai establish his foundation, and watched Shen Lingxiu die after her failed Core Formation attempt.
• Zhou Qing transferred Falling Maple Mountain to the Zhou Family, traded for a Crystal Condensation Pill, and attempted Core Formation, but failed and later advanced his divination art.
• After escaping a debt collector with Dachun’s help, Zhou Qing entered Secluded Mountain, failed its aptitude tests, and died after raiding rogue cultivators with Dachun.
• Zhou Qing inherited his simulated cultivation and skills, gained the Demon Cultivator's Nemesis talent, and bought Purple Bamboo Grove from the Li Family Head.
• Zhou Qing discovered Li Yan’s Primordial Yin Treasure Body, protected her at Purple Bamboo Grove, and used the Demon-Seeding Formula while preparing for his next simulation.
• Zhou Qing sent an elderly rogue cultivator into Secluded Mountain to investigate, then entered using Dachun’s secret technique and faced the Armored Guardian God’s test.