Recaps

Ye Shisan saved Wang Yan by knocking the Golden Gourd’s beam off course, forcing Lingyunzi to teleport and badly depleting his power. Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang then shattered Lingyunzi’s barrier and blasted him backward, just as a wave of five-colored spiritual light descended on him.

• Ye Shisan struck the Golden Gourd aside, redirecting its beam toward Lingyunzi and saving Wang Yan.
• Lingyunzi used the Teleportation Divine Ability to evade the beam, spending more magic power and blood essence than before.
• Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang attacked Lingyunzi with the Mandarin Duck Scissors and broke through his weakened golden barrier.
• Lingyunzi shielded himself with Golden Light Armor but was hurled hundreds of feet backward by the scissors.
• As Lingyunzi prepared a powerful divine ability, a wave of five-colored spiritual light crashed down toward his head.

Wang Yan used the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda to capture Lingyunzi and subdued him inside its formations. Lingyunzi ended the chapter bound and unable to move or use his magic power.

• Lingyunzi activated a Golden Light Talisman, but the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda enveloped him and drew him inside.
• Wang Yan entered the secret realm and used its formation to trap Lingyunzi, while Lingyunzi’s Golden Light Bowl lost its connection to him.
• The formation crushed Lingyunzi’s golden protective barrier and bound him in a net of five-colored spiritual light.
• Wang Yan mocked Lingyunzi but held back from killing him because of the consequences of killing a powerful Firecloud Sect member.
• Ye Shisan joined Wang Yan, who sealed Lingyunzi’s magic power and left him suspended and unable to move.

Wang Yan learned that the captured Golden Core cultivator Lingyunzi possessed a Sharp Gold Body, a rare constitution that explained both his strength and disfigurement. Purple Mountain Medicine Sage took Lingyunzi away to turn him into a powerful puppet and speed his own recovery, while Wang Yan wondered why Ye Shisan had not returned.

• Wang Yan stopped Ye Shisan from killing Lingyunzi and asked him to bring Linlang in.
• Card Fairy noticed golden traces on Lingyunzi’s skin and advised Wang Yan to consult Purple Mountain Medicine Sage.
• Purple Mountain Medicine Sage identified Lingyunzi’s Sharp Gold Body, explaining that metal-type spirit medicine had transformed his body and left him unable to change his appearance without reaching the Divine Communion Realm.
• Purple Mountain Medicine Sage discovered a powerful death restriction on Lingyunzi and proposed turning him into a puppet while absorbing some of his golden core and soul power.
• Wang Yan agreed, and Purple Mountain Medicine Sage took Lingyunzi away to work on the puppet for two days.
• Wang Yan noticed that Ye Shisan and the two women had been gone for about a quarter of an hour and wondered what had happened.

Wang Yan concealed Lingyunzi’s capture from Liu Wushuang and Wang Lihong, then learned that the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage had turned Lingyunzi into a controllable puppet. After using Lingyunzi to maintain the deception, Wang Yan decided to take the group toward the coming battle.

• Wang Yan told Liu Wushuang and Wang Lihong that Lingyunzi was badly injured and persuaded Wang Lihong to send his intelligence about a Black Evil Sect ambush directly to the main force.
• Wang Yan and his companions concealed Lingyunzi in the crater, set up a restriction array, and agreed on a consistent story about his condition.
• Two days later, Wang Yan entered the Cave Abode Secret Realm and learned that the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage had erased Lingyunzi’s memories and prepared him to be controlled as a Humanoid Puppet.
• Wang Yan bound Lingyunzi with his blood and divine sense, then brought him outside to face the others.
• Wang Yan used Lingyunzi to scold Liu Wushuang and Wang Lihong, then decided the group should go assess the coming battle.

Wang Yan returned toward the Firecloud Sect with Lingyunzi under his control and investigated a battle against the Black Evil Sect. As the fighting stalled, four masked cultivators began summoning the Black Evil King beneath the valley.

• Wang Yan took control of Lingyunzi, kept his bound treasures available through the puppet, and agreed with the others to return to the Firecloud Sect.
• Lingyunzi carried Wang Yan and the others toward the Black Evil Sect’s gathering place, where they heard distant fighting and concealed themselves to observe.
• Wang Yan’s group found Firecloud Sect cultivators trapping masked Black Evil Sect fighters inside a valley, but saw no enemy Golden Core cultivators and chose to wait before joining the battle.
• Aboard the Firecloud Sect’s Flying Boats, Daoist Dongling worried that the missing enemy Golden Core cultivators might be preparing a hidden attack.
• In a cavern beneath the valley, four masked cultivators completed a blood formation and summoned the Black Evil King, whose giant claw emerged from a dark spatial vortex.

The Black Evil King emerged from the cavern and slaughtered a Masked Cultivator before the surviving Black Evil Sect cultivators escaped through a Teleportation Array. He then burst into the valley and attacked both sects, forcing Daoist Dongling to order the Firecloud Sect to retreat as the carnage continued.

• The Black Evil King froze a Masked Cultivator with his red gaze, crushed him with a ghost claw, and devoured his flesh and primordial spirit.
• The lead Masked Cultivator and two companions activated a Teleportation Array, but the Black Evil King smashed it after they vanished.
• The Black Evil King broke through a cliff into the valley and killed or injured cultivators from both the Black Evil Sect and the Firecloud Sect with his shock waves.
• Daoist Dongling recognized the Black Evil King, called the attack a trap, and ordered the Firecloud Sect cultivators to retreat.
• The Black Evil King rampaged through the valley and slaughtered cultivators and disciples from both sides.

Wang Yan and Card Fairy stayed behind to confront the Black Evil King after the Skull Heaven-and-Earth Formation trapped the cultivators in the valley. Card Fairy broke open the formation and led Wang Yan inside, where the Black Evil King was approaching and the trapped disciples begged for rescue.

• Wang Yan ordered his companions to retreat, but Card Fairy persuaded him to stay because she knew the Black Evil King's weakness and wanted to refine a Blood Ghost Demon Card from his blood.
• The Skull Heaven-and-Earth Formation sealed the valley, and Daoist Dongling ordered the surviving cultivators outside to abandon those trapped within.
• The Black Evil King slaughtered cultivators inside the formation while their attacks failed to harm him and the barrier blocked their escape.
• Card Fairy controlled Lingyunzi and opened a hole in the formation, then entered the valley with Wang Yan as the opening rapidly closed behind them.
• Trapped cultivators pleaded with Wang Yan to let them out, but Card Fairy warned him that the Black Evil King was approaching, and Wang Yan prepared to act.

Wang Yan and Lingyunzi exploited the Black Evil King’s weaknesses to defeat and capture him, ending the slaughter in the valley. With the Skull Heaven-and-Earth Formation still trapping more than a hundred Black Evil Sect disciples, Wang Yan formed an idea for what to do next.

• Card Fairy warned Wang Yan to avoid the Black Evil King’s soul attacks and explained how to counter him.
• Lingyunzi charged the Black Evil King, whose soul attacks could not harm the soulless puppet, and used the Golden Gourd to strip away his ghost qi.
• As the Black Evil King weakened, Wang Yan captured him with Five-colored Spiritual Light without revealing the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda.
• The Firecloud Sect cultivators and the survivors in the valley reacted with relief and disbelief, while the trapped Black Evil Sect disciples gathered warily.
• Wang Yan considered the danger of fighting the remaining Black Evil Sect disciples and directed Lingyunzi to fly toward them after an idea came to him.

Wang Yan, controlling Lingyunzi, forced the Black Evil Sect cultivators to choose between surrendering and being left trapped in the formation. After they surrendered, Wang Yan concealed his control of Lingyunzi by having him pretend to be exhausted as he returned to the Firecloud Sect’s Flying Boat.

• Lingyunzi told the Black Evil Sect cultivators that their sect had abandoned them and demanded their surrender, threatening to leave them trapped in the formation.
• When one wounded cultivator tried to cross over, a Black Evil Sect fighter attacked him, but Lingyunzi destroyed the attacker’s Bone Blades and trapped him in the Golden Light Bowl.
• Lingyunzi began a final count, and the Black Evil Sect cultivators surrendered one after another; he ordered the Firecloud Sect disciples to guard them.
• Lingyunzi opened a way out of the formation and emerged with Wang Yan, then pretended to be injured and low on magic power before flying to the Flying Boat.

Wang Yan deflected questions about the ambush and resisted attempts to make the Vanguard Team take the blame for the Firecloud Sect army’s losses. After Lingyunzi confronted the Golden Core Cultivators aboard the Flying Boat, Master Li arrived to judge the dispute.

• Daoist Dongling questioned Wang Yan, who credited Lingyunzi with the operation and gave Lin Xia a Jade Slip containing the formation-entry incantation.
• Wang Yan told investigators that Lingyunzi had fought a Black Evil Sect Golden Core Cultivator, while withholding other details and blaming faulty intelligence on Wang Lihong and Liu Wushuang.
• Daoist Dongling kept the Vanguard Team together aboard a Flying Boat as the Firecloud Sect army continued onward, while Lin Xia stayed behind to deal with Black Evil Sect cultivators in the valley.
• News arrived that the armies of all five Cloud Nation sects had suffered heavy losses from Lin Nation ambushes, though the Firecloud Sect gained prestige for capturing Black Evil Sect disciples and Lingyunzi killing the Black Evil King.
• Wang Yan controlled Lingyunzi as he berated the Golden Core Cultivators for trying to make the Vanguard Team bear responsibility for the army’s decision to attack.
• Daoist Dongling halted the argument when Master Li arrived, and the Golden Core Cultivators greeted him respectfully.

Wang Yan controlled Lingyunzi as Martial Uncle Ye summoned them to help rescue the Five Sects’ trapped army from Black Evil Kings inside the formation. Martial Uncle Ye asked what divine ability Lingyunzi had used against a Black Evil King, leaving Wang Yan struggling to answer.

• Martial Uncle Ye questioned Lingyunzi about destroying a Black Evil King, then ordered him to leave at once for a dangerous mission.
• Wang Yan insisted on accompanying Lingyunzi so he could keep the puppet within his control, and Martial Uncle Ye took them away.
• Martial Uncle Ye gave Lingyunzi a Myriad Spirits Return-Origin Pill and explained that they were going to rescue the Five Sects’ trapped army.
• Martial Uncle Ye revealed that four or five Black Evil Kings had attacked the trapped forces and that the Five Sects needed someone who could deal with them.
• Martial Uncle Ye asked Lingyunzi what divine ability he had used against the Black Evil King, leaving Wang Yan at a loss for an answer.

Wang Yan and Lingyunzi joined five Nascent Soul Cultivators from the great sects as they prepared a secret rescue mission against the Black Evil King. After planning and setting out at night, the group reached the guarded restriction array where their trapped allies were held.

• Wang Yan claimed his sharp gold body protected him from the Black Evil King's soul attacks, helping him conceal his real abilities from Martial Uncle Ye.
• Martial Uncle Ye brought Wang Yan and Lingyunzi to a hidden cave abode, where he introduced them to True Lord Ziyang, Fairy Wuhua, Sword Lord Wuyue, and the Spirit-Driving Wanderer.
• The five Nascent Soul Cultivators discussed the worsening situation and helped Lingyunzi recover some of his strength with pills.
• Wang Yan proposed several rescue plans, and True Lord Ziyang announced that the group would set out that night.
• True Lord Ziyang led the concealed group toward the restriction array, where they spotted numerous gray- and black-robed guards and prepared to attack.

Wang Yan secretly relied on Card Fairy’s formation knowledge to lead the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators underground and break through the outer Detection Formation. The group reached the immense formation trapping the Five Sects Coalition, where Fairy Wuhua asked Wang Yan to identify it.

• Wang Yan urged the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to use Earth Escape and offered to break the outer restrictions, claiming only thirty or forty percent confidence.
• True Lord Ziyang gave Wang Yan two hours while the Spirit-Driving Wanderer carried the group underground to the formation.
• Wang Yan stalled while pretending to study the restrictions, then used Card Fairy’s method to open a small passage through the formation.
• The cultivators passed through the opening and stealthily traveled dozens of miles toward the formation enclosing the Five Sects Coalition.
• Fairy Wuhua asked Wang Yan whether he could identify the immense gray formation.

Wang Yan persuaded the Nascent Soul cultivators to let him use an underground route and break through the restriction array, then led them toward the formation trapping the Five Sects' allied army. The group reached the enormous barrier, where Fairy Wuhua asked Wang Yan to identify it.

• Wang Yan proposed that the cultivators travel underground and offered to break the restriction array, claiming he had a way through it.
• True Lord Ziyang gave Wang Yan two hours to unravel the array, and the Spirit-Driving Wanderer used earth-element magic to carry the group underground.
• Wang Yan pretended to study the array before using Card Fairy's method to open a temporary passage; Fairy Wuhua was surprised by his unfamiliar formation runes.
• The Spirit-Driving Wanderer brought the group through the passage, and they stealthily traveled several dozen li toward the formation holding the allied army.
• Fairy Wuhua flew to Wang Yan beside the vast gray barrier and asked him what formation it was.

Wang Yan and Lingyunzi destroyed the Black Evil Kings on the eleventh level, allowing the Five Great Sects’ forces to break through the formation’s final level. As the rescued cultivators began fighting their way out, Lord Illusion Spirit’s allies launched their next plan, and an arrogant voice challenged the escapees.

• Wang Yan and Lingyunzi used the Golden Gourd and Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda to destroy the Black Evil King, prompting True Lord Ziyang to lead the group toward the twelfth level.
• Wang Yan noticed the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators leaving gaps in his protection, while Ye Gen stayed close and shielded him.
• Jun Moxie and Dark Cyan Poison Venerable told Lord Illusion Spirit that the Black Evil Kings had been killed, and Lord Illusion Spirit ordered them to wait until the formation’s defenders were weakened.
• After the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation shuddered, Lord Illusion Spirit sent his allies into action, and Flying Boats surrounded the formation.
• True Lord Ziyang and the other great Nascent Soul Realm cultivators joined the trapped Five Sects’ forces and led them toward the exit, but an arrogant voice challenged their escape.

Lord Illusion Spirit’s formation unleashed swarms of powerful ghost-demon beasts against the trapped cultivators, while Wang Yan returned to the Firecloud Sect’s forces to avoid fighting under the scrutiny of other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. As the Five Great Sects split up to attack, Card Fairy advised Wang Yan to lead the Firecloud Sect toward the formation core, and the Nascent Soul Realm battle erupted.

• Lord Illusion Spirit intensified his formation, causing more than a thousand ghost-demon beasts to grow stronger and attack the cultivators.
• Wang Yan asked Ye Gen to let him and Lingyunzi return to help the Firecloud Sect, and Ye Gen agreed.
• Wang Yan and Lingyunzi rejoined Venerable Gray Three as seven or eight Nascent Soul Realm cultivators approached.
• True Lord Ziyang ordered the sects to split up and attack, and Venerable Gray Three gathered the Firecloud Sect forces.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that the formation core lay to the left and urged him to break out that way, but Venerable Gray Three objected that the route crossed more layers.
• The Nascent Soul Realm cultivators clashed, unleashing earthshaking explosions.

Wang Yan escaped the Firecloud Sect’s formation charge and followed Card Fairy’s guidance to the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation’s core. Lingyunzi found the altar and its four spirit treasures, but a sudden blue attack struck as he prepared to act.

• Venerable Gray Three led the Firecloud Sect cultivators in an arrowhead charge through the demons, ghosts, and beasts, while some exhausted disciples fell behind and died.
• Card Fairy and Liu Xian'er told Wang Yan to leave the group and find the formation core, and Wang Yan escaped when Venerable Gray Three rushed to rescue Bing Ning.
• Card Fairy guided Wang Yan through the formation to a bare mountain where gray vapor poured from openings in its slope.
• Wang Yan sent Lingyunzi into a cave, where he found an altar covered in runes and four spirit treasures revolving around it.
• As Lingyunzi prepared to attack the altar’s formation with the Golden Light Bowl, a streak of blue light plunged toward his head.

Lingyunzi was ambushed by Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon while approaching the formation core, but his apparent death proved to be a counterambush. After injuring both cultivators with his Golden Sword-Rays and Golden Light Bowl, he fled into the passage, where red runes activated beneath his pursuers.

• Dark green vines trapped Lingyunzi, and blue beams struck him until he appeared dead.
• Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon revealed themselves and moved to loot Lingyunzi and take his Golden Light Bowl.
• Lingyunzi suddenly attacked Fellow Daoist Yu with Golden Sword-Rays, badly wounding him.
• The Golden Light Bowl unleashed sound waves that injured Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon as Lingyunzi staggered toward the passage.
• Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon pursued Lingyunzi, then sensed danger as red runes lit up across the passage floor.

Wang Yan used Lingyunzi as bait and unleashed a devastating Water-Fire Blast that killed Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon, though the strike nearly exhausted his magic power. He escaped the collapsing mountain with Lingyunzi and turned back to the formation core to collect the treasures and break the formation.

• Lingyunzi fought Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon after Wang Yan’s Fire Blast trap sent them flying through the passage.
• Wang Yan sprang an ambush from below with the Water-Fire Blast Card, killing both Golden Core Cultivators and blasting a fissure through the mountain peak.
• Wang Yan explained that he had hidden himself with the Invisibility Immortal Card and used Lingyunzi as bait to draw out the two guards.
• Wang Yan escaped the collapsing mountain with Lingyunzi, but the attack had consumed nearly all his magic power.
• Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to collect the four treasures and break the formation, and he flew back toward the cave.

Cloud Nation's reinforcements launched a surprise attack on Lin Nation's forces surrounding the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation. As the formation began to collapse, the trapped Cloud Nation cultivators gained a chance to escape, while Lord Illusion Spirit and Dark Cyan Poison Venerable realized the formation core had fallen.

• Lord Illusion Spirit and Dark Cyan Poison Venerable drove True Lord Ziyang back while Cloud Nation's trapped cultivators struggled against Lin Nation's superior numbers.
• Cloud Nation's reinforcements attacked Lin Nation's perimeter with flying boats and spirit cannons, catching its forces by surprise.
• Lin Nation's commanders tried to organize a counterattack as the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation began to flicker and disappear.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable sensed that Yu's soul aura had changed, and Lord Illusion Spirit realized the formation was breaking.
• Gray storms swept through the formation, destroying its demons and ghosts and revealing the valley.

The Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation collapsed, turning the battle around as Cloud Nation’s trapped forces joined the relief army against Lin Nation. Wang Yan secretly destroyed the formation core, then returned to the battlefield to kill enemies and collect spoils.

• Lord Illusion Spirit discovered that the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation had broken, and Cloud Nation’s relief army charged the Lin Nation forces surrounding the valley.
• True Lord Ziyang rallied the trapped cultivators of the Five Great Sects, who charged outward and attacked the Lin Nation forces from behind.
• Lord Illusion Spirit urged the Lin Nation Nascent Soul cultivators to kill their Cloud Nation opponents, but more than a dozen Cloud Nation Nascent Soul reinforcements arrived and shifted the battle’s advantage.
• Wang Yan slipped away from the formation core after destroying it and chose not to claim credit, wary of drawing attention to himself and the Four Spirit Treasures he had taken.
• Wang Yan returned to the Firecloud Sect army, released his five puppets, and began killing Lin Nation cultivators for merit points and spoils.

Cloud Nation turned the tide of the war after defeating Lin Nation at the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation, and Lingyunzi and Wang Yan received substantial rewards for their role. As the Vanguard Team continued winning battles, Wang Yan grew weary of war and sought time to advance his cultivation, but the team set out on another mission.

• Cloud Nation annihilated much of Lin Nation’s ambushing force, reversed its position in the war, and began reclaiming lost territory.
• The Five Great Sects rewarded the battle’s leading contributors, while Lingyunzi received major rewards from the allied army and the Firecloud Sect.
• Wang Yan, controlling Lingyunzi, kept the Vanguard Team together, and they earned the title of the Hundred-Kill Godslayer Vanguard through their battlefield operations.
• Wang Yan grew tired of the war and considered withdrawing to cultivate toward the golden core stage.
• Lingyunzi led Wang Yan, Ye Shisan, and the Vanguard Team aboard a Flying Boat to attack the Wicked Poison Sect’s supply cultivators and withdraw immediately.

Lingyunzi’s Vanguard Team ambushed a Wicked Poison Sect supply party that had been sent as bait to draw out the feared Slaughter Team. The attack began successfully, but a powerful Wicked Poison Sect cultivator intervened, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Wang Yan accepted the mission to intercept the Wicked Poison Sect supply party, while Lingyunzi warned the Vanguard Team to retreat if the fight turned dangerous.
• Seven Wicked Poison Sect cultivators flew through the mountains, discussing how their supply mission was bait intended to lure out the Slaughter Team.
• The Vanguard Team attacked the party in a barren gorge with golden sword-rays and an eruption of boulders.
• Two female cultivators launched enormous scissor treasures, but the Wicked Poison Sect senior brother knocked one aside with a ghost-head attack.
• A blue-and-red crescent blast killed one Wicked Poison Sect Core Condensation Realm cultivator, and a huge hand of dark green spiritual light descended toward the attackers.

Wang Yan and his Vanguard Team ambushed a Wicked Poison Sect transport squad, only to discover the squad had baited them into a trap led by Dark Cyan Poison Venerable. Lingyunzi helped the team evade the Nascent Soul cultivator’s attacks, and the chapter ended with Black Evil King shielding them from Dark Cyan Poison Venerable’s poison magic.

• Wang Yan led the Vanguard Team into an ambush, where Dark Cyan Poison Venerable appeared and struck at them with a giant hand of dark green light.
• Wang Yan and the two women escaped the strike with Lingyunzi’s Golden Light Thread as Dark Cyan Poison Venerable’s attack blasted a crater into the valley.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable revealed that the Wicked Poison Sect had leaked the transport squad’s route to lure the Vanguard Team into a trap.
• Lingyunzi’s spirit cannons struck the Wicked Poison Sect cultivators, breaking their formation and wounding one of them.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable attacked the Vanguard Team with Rose Poison Light, but Lingyunzi summoned Black Evil King to shield them from the blasts.

Wang Yan sent the Black Evil King to cover the group’s retreat from Dark Cyan Poison Venerable, but the Nascent Soul Realm pursuer broke past its attacks. Wang Yan left the puppet Lingyunzi behind to delay Dark Cyan Poison Venerable, and the chapter ended as the enemy’s flying knives mysteriously lost their power just before striking Wang Yan.

• Wang Yan summoned the Black Evil King and ordered the others to retreat while it attacked Dark Cyan Poison Venerable with Soul Attack.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable evaded the Black Evil King’s attacks and pursued Wang Yan’s group, intent on capturing Lingyunzi to learn how to control the Black Evil King.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable released Strange Demon Heads from his Dark Green Basin, and Wang Yan sent Lingyunzi back to hold him off while the others fled.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable pursued the group with flying knives, and Ye Shisan shattered his Earth Spirit Gold Staff trying to block them.
• The flying knives pierced Wang Yan’s Ironwood Shield, but dark green spiritual light flashed and caused them to lose their power before they struck him.