Recaps

Duan Rong led his companions through the God and Demon Ruins and escaped the Ghost Bride before returning to the Nine Provinces World. Back at the sect, he refined a God and Demon Imprint, helped Lü Qingzhu recover, and rejected Lü Zhongtang’s proposal to demote Xiao Yu.

• Duan Rong led the group through the ruined city by power lines and railway tracks, but Du Wan and Su Xinjue died, and Duan Rong killed Su Xinjue when she tried to assassinate him.
• Duan Rong drove a Fuxing Hao through the railway horde, then escaped the illusion with the others and buried Du Wan and Su Xinjue in the sea of flowers.
• When the Blood Moon empowered the Ghost Bride, Duan Rong hid his group beneath the rubble and used Azure Flame Grass to mask their scent until they could reach the passage.
• Duan Rong used Divine Soul Thorns and the Black Crystal Mirror Surface to protect his companions as the passage opened, and the five survivors returned to the Nine Provinces World.
• Duan Rong reunited with Xiao Yu and learned from Xi Men Kan Kan that Zhu He had become sect leader and Zhuang Tairu had succeeded the Divine Intent Gate’s Old Ancestor.
• Duan Rong traveled to Deep Valley, refined the God and Demon Imprint into Bloodlight Divine Shadow Escape, and watched Lü Qingzhu recover and reconcile with Lü Zhongtang.
• Lü Yinlin gave Duan Rong a year to reach the Cave Illumination Realm, while Duan Rong arranged to use the Lü Family Estate’s Cultivation Secret Chamber.
• Lü Zhongtang urged Duan Rong to make Lü Qingzhu his principal wife and Xiao Yu a concubine, but Duan Rong refused and defended Xiao Yu as his properly wedded wife.

Duan Rong settled his household, welcomed Lü Qingzhu’s son, and entered the Formation Secret Chamber to overcome his inner demons and seek the Law of Power. He comprehended one complete Law of Power, then discovered that the Five-Colored Ruyi Pearl could resonate with more than one.

• Duan Rong moved Xiao Yu into the Lü Family Estate, and Lü Zhongtang accepted her place in the household.
• Duan Rong refined the strange red light, advanced to Qi Cyclone Realm Great Perfection, and learned that the Five-Colored Ruyi Pearl’s glow matched Lü Yinlin’s Glimmer of Law.
• Lü Qingzhu became pregnant, and Xiao Yu arranged for Zhu Xiaoqi to bear Duan Rong’s child, and Lü Qingzhu later gave birth to their son, Si Shen.
• Duan Rong entrusted his family to Lü Zhongtang and followed Chu Wushang into the Formation Secret Chamber to begin Condensing the Cave of Darkness.
• Duan Rong overcame the Six Marvelous Mind-Watching Gate’s inner demons with Chu Wushang’s help, passing the Life and Death and White Bone Contemplations.
• Duan Rong entered the second hurdle, merged his thoughts with the Intent Origin, and followed the Glimmer of Law into the Eye of Law.
• Duan Rong comprehended a complete Law of Power, then found the Glimmer of Law had changed its flicker pattern and concluded his mutated Intent Origin could resonate with multiple Laws of Power.

Duan Rong advanced to the Cave Illumination Realm, mastered the Garbha Sutra, and discovered that Lü Yinlin controlled sect members with Nightmare Seeds. After rejecting artifact spirits as a way to deepen his Laws of Power, he began investigating snow as a possible medium.

• Duan Rong awakened seventy-nine Eyes of Law, condensed a Cave of Darkness with his Laws of Power, and advanced to the Cave Illumination Realm.
• Duan Rong reunited with his friends and family, learned of the sect’s political plans, and received Lü Yinlin’s guidance on finding a personal medium through Object Investigation.
• Duan Rong observed Chu Wushang’s cultivation and investigated the moon, but concluded that it was not his medium.
• Duan Rong borrowed divine medicines from Jiang Hanyan, advanced through the Garbha Sutra’s sixteenth level, and joined Lü Zhongtang and Sun Fujiā in capturing a Heart-Bewitching Azure Eyes Cat and killing a Nine Nether Gou.
• Duan Rong endured the pressure of the Mountain Body Divine Statues, reached the Garbha Sutra’s eighteenth level, and discovered that its later teachings described the Heart-Devouring Seed.
• Duan Rong mastered the Divine Soul Forty-Nine Transformations and learned that Lü Yinlin had planted Nightmare Seeds in many people to control the sect, though Duan Rong, Chu Wushang, and Lü Qingzhu had none.
• Duan Rong found that Wu Shidao was a mature Nightmare Seed puppet, then tried devouring artifact spirits to deepen his Laws of Power but gained no progress.
• Duan Rong began investigating snow as a possible medium and continued his search after telling Lü Zhongtang that he had gained no insight.

Duan Rong pursued ancient idol spirits to deepen his cultivation while investigating the Filthy Blood Sect, eventually tracking down and capturing its leader, Fu Yi. He uncovered Fu Yi’s history with Lü Yinlin and led the sect’s forces to seize the stronghold, where he confronted his former mentor Shang Xiangyu.

• Duan Rong traveled under the name Jiang Qingyu, then returned to the sect and used Zhu He’s intelligence network to search for ancient statues with long histories of worship.
• Duan Rong devoured several idol spirits, reached the Mid Cave Illumination Realm, and brought Ayi back to the Lü Family Estate.
• Duan Rong investigated the Five Manifestations God Temple and discovered that magistrate Wu Mian was secretly delivering Blood Lingzhi to the Filthy Blood Sect in exchange for news of his son, Wu Xiang.
• Duan Rong followed the Blood Lingzhi through Renle Pharmacy to Shang Xiangyu’s hidden medicine-refining site, where he witnessed the preparation of Blood Food Pills using the fetuses of pregnant women.
• Duan Rong tracked Envoy Ding Ze to Fu Yi’s hiding place, then led Lü Yinlin, Gu Daoling, Chu Wushang, and Chu Qiushan to capture Fu Yi and destroy the Blood Infant.
• Duan Rong searched Fu Yi’s cave and learned that Fu Yi had founded the Filthy Blood Sect after discovering that Lü Yinlin had turned his wife, Jiang Yun'er, into a puppet.
• Duan Rong helped Zhu He and Wu Shidao seize the Filthy Blood Sect stronghold by using Illusory Bewitchment to gather its members, then immobilized Shang Xiangyu and announced they would return to the sect.