Recaps

Wang Yan and Card Fairy returned toward Azure Spirit Mountain after sensing the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact, while Ma Ang confronted the Wang Household and demanded Wang Yanyu. As Ma Ang’s attack frightened the clan, Wang Ziling and the Devil Lord considered fleeing, and Wang Qing went to meet the Ma Family patriarch.

• Wang Yan concealed his aura and changed his face with the Phantom Face as he approached Azure Spirit Mountain with Card Fairy.
• Ma Ang demanded that Wang Yanyu come out, then blasted a nearby peak with a powerful attack that terrified the Wang Household disciples and elders.
• Wang Qing challenged the elders’ reluctance to act, then flew out to greet Ma Ang when they left the matter to him.
• Wang Ziling and the Devil Lord realized Ma Ang might have come because of their past encounter and discussed escaping rather than fighting a minor Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• Ma Ang recognized Wang Qing’s talent and considered killing people to make an example of the Wang Household.

Ma Ang attacked the Wang Household and captured Wang Qing, demanding that Wang Ziling be brought to him within three days. Hidden nearby, Wang Yan realized the pursuit was tied to the Treasure Map of the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain, then spotted a familiar figure in a secluded valley.

• Ma Ang pressured Wang Qing for information about Wang Ziling, and Wang Qing said Wang Ziling had gone to the Purple Flame Sect years earlier.
• Ma Ang captured Wang Qing with a blue-gray hand and gave the Wang Household three days to bring Wang Ziling in exchange for him.
• The Wang Household elders argued over Wang Qing’s fate, while Ma Ang threatened to kill him and attack the household if they failed to comply.
• Wang Yan secretly watched the confrontation and realized Ma Ang was pursuing the Treasure Map of the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain that Wang Yan had framed Wang Ziling for taking.
• Card Fairy sensed a familiar aura, and Wang Yan recognized a furtive figure moving along a cliff wall in a nearby valley.

Wang Yan sent Ma Ang a false lead to turn him against Wang Ziling, and Ma Ang discovered Wang Ziling hiding in a valley and attacked him. Wang Ziling transformed and fought back, but Ma Ang gained the upper hand as the battle continued.

• Wang Yan and Card Fairy realized Wang Ziling had returned to the Wang Household and suspected he had captured Wang Yanyu.
• Wang Yan sent Ma Ang a voice transmission claiming Wang Ziling was hiding in a valley northwest of Azure Spirit Mountain and preparing to escape.
• Ma Ang hurled Wang Qing, still imprisoned in ice, toward a valley and flew northwest to find Wang Ziling.
• Wang Ziling and the Devil Lord planned to plunder the Wang Household and use its people in a blood sacrifice, but Ma Ang found their hiding place.
• Wang Ziling transformed with the Demonization Divine Ability and clashed with Ma Ang, who pursued him in blue Metal Armor after their attacks left Wang Ziling at a disadvantage.

Wang Ziling fought Ma Ang across Azure Spirit Mountain, but Ma Ang’s treasures overwhelmed him and drove him into the Wang Household buildings. When Ma Ang offered to spare him if he joined the Ma Family, Wang Ziling denied harming them and proposed killing the Wang Household elders to prove his innocence.

• Wang Household elders argued over whether to help Wang Ziling while Wang Yan watched the battle from hiding, hoping both fighters would be badly wounded.
• Ma Ang used a giant Silver Bell to break through Wang Ziling’s defenses, then struck him from behind with his spear and knocked him into the Wang Household buildings.
• Wang Ziling rose from the ruins, but Ma Ang’s Spear Treasure and Skull Treasure sent him crashing down again before he managed to plead for a chance to explain.
• Ma Ang offered to spare Wang Ziling if he handed over the Ma Family’s property and joined them, while Wang Household elders urged Wang Ziling to remain with their clan.
• Wang Ziling denied attacking the Ma Family and said he could prove his innocence by killing the Wang Household elders and joining the Ma Family afterward.

Wang Ziling attacked the Wang Household elders after Ma Ang accepted his proposal to turn against them, overwhelming their formation and nearly killing one of them. Just as he began his slaughter, Wang Qing appeared and pierced him with a golden sword ray, leaving Ma Ang and the elders stunned while Wang Yan watched from hiding.

• Ma Ang agreed to let Wang Ziling attack the Wang Household and privately coveted the demonic cultivation art he practiced.
• Wang Ziling took a blood-red pill, shattered the elders' hastily formed array, and vowed to kill everyone on Azure Spirit Mountain.
• The elders fought back with their treasures, but Wang Ziling knocked their attacks aside and moved to kill one of them.
• A golden sword ray struck Wang Ziling from behind, pierced his body, and sent him crashing into a house.
• Wang Qing appeared in the sky, shocking Ma Ang and the Wang Household elders, while Wang Yan watched from a tree.

Wang Qing returned with a terrifying aura and killed Wang Ziling with a single golden sword strike. As Ma Ang tried to flee, a powerful voice invoked a pact and banished the Ma Family from Azure Spirit Mountain.

• Wang Qing appeared alive with an aura Ma Ang judged to be at the peak of the Golden Core Stage, then struck Wang Ziling with a hundred-zhang golden sword ray.
• Wang Ziling’s Skull, ghost heads, and treasures failed to stop the attack, and the golden blast annihilated him.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that a high-level cultivator’s Nascent Soul had possessed Wang Qing, then urged Wang Yan to flee.
• Ma Ang attempted to escape, but a powerful voice stopped him and forbade him and the Ma Family from coming within a hundred li of Azure Spirit Mountain.

Wang Qing’s body was taken over by the Wang Household’s Old Ancestor, who revealed himself, appointed Wang Qing Clan Chief, and announced that he would remain on the Back Mountain. After the Old Ancestor departed, Wang Qing embraced his new position, while Wang Ziling emerged alive from a crack in a cliff in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range.

• Ma Ang thanked the unseen Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and fled, while Wang Yan escaped down the cliff and hurried away through the Back Mountain.
• The Old Ancestor spoke through Wang Qing, identified himself to the elders, and rebuked them for their past mistakes.
• The Old Ancestor named Wang Qing the new Clan Chief, ordered the Wang Household to stop taking in Outer Clan disciples, and revealed that Wang Ziling had killed Wang Yanyu.
• The Old Ancestor left Wang Qing’s body, and Wang Qing accepted his position and told the elders to publicize the Old Ancestor’s return.
• Wang Ziling formed from black mist at a cliff in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range, revealing that he had survived.

Wang Ziling survived the attack by leaving a clone behind and recognized Wang Yan as the person he believed had framed him. Wang Yan planned to join the Ma Family by bringing Ma Ang the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain Map, while Ma Ang returned to his family and was told a visitor knew about the map.

• Wang Ziling recovered in a cave, recognized Wang Yan flying past, and vowed revenge without daring to pursue him.
• Wang Yan told Card Fairy he would go to the Ma Family and try to join it by delivering the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain Map to Ma Ang.
• Wang Yan planned to leave Ye Shisan in the Cave Abode Secret Realm and send him a message to keep watch there.
• Ma Ang returned to Ma Valley, warned the elders not to provoke the Wang Household, and went to consult Elder Du of the Wicked Poison Sect.
• A Ma Family elder told Ma Ang that someone outside claimed to know about the Treasure Map and wanted to see him.

Wang Yan secretly approached Ma Ang in Ma Valley and claimed to know the whereabouts of the Ma Family’s missing treasure map. After revealing his identity and presenting the genuine map, he began explaining how he had obtained it through Ma Ang.

• A masked young cultivator arrived at Ma Valley, and Ma Ang went to meet him after hearing he knew about the Treasure Map.
• Ma Ang recognized the cultivator’s voice, sent Ma Laosan away, and cleared the hall so they could speak privately.
• The cultivator removed his mask and revealed himself as Wang Yan, who disguised his identity while seeking the other half of the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact.
• Wang Yan claimed to be a former Wang Household Outer Clan member named Wang Sanshi and said he had the Treasure Map in his possession.
• Ma Ang verified that the beast-hide scroll was genuine and took it, while Wang Yan claimed he had obtained it because of Ma Ang.

Wang Yan persuaded Ma Ang that he had recovered the Ma Family’s scroll from Wang Ziling and sold it to him for a reward. As Wang Yan prepared to leave, Ma Ang offered him a place in the Ma Family.

• Wang Yan told Ma Ang a fabricated account of his feud with Wang Ziling and how he found the hidden scroll.
• Wang Yan claimed he knew little about what happened after he sent Ma Ang a message and explained why he could not return to the Wang Household.
• Wang Yan offered to sell the scroll to the Ma Family, and Ma Ang gave him a Storage Bag containing a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yan started to leave, while the Card Fairy told him the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact was on Ma Ang.
• Ma Ang stopped Wang Yan at the doorway and asked whether he would join the Ma Family.

Wang Yan accepted Ma Ang’s invitation to join the Ma Family under the alias Ma Shi and received an elder’s privileges. After discovering that Ma Ang carried the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact, Wang Yan and Card Fairy began planning their next move.

• Wang Yan initially refused Ma Ang’s offer because the Wang Household might retaliate, but accepted after Ma Ang promised secrecy, elder privileges, and cultivation guidance.
• Wang Yan asked Ma Ang to introduce him as the rogue cultivator Ma Shi, and Ma Ang appointed him an Attendant elder without revealing his origins.
• After Wang Yan left, Ma Ang showed the elders the Treasure Map of Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain and said Wang Yan had sold it to the Ma Family for a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yan moved into the Cave Abode prepared for him and had the two female disciples assigned to serve him stay near the entrance.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that Ma Ang carried the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact, and they discussed a plan to obtain it.

Wang Yan completed a powerful but sluggish defensive puppet and turned it into a Defense Puppet Immortal Card. After asking Card Fairy what to refine next, he learned they would begin making support Immortal Cards.

• Wang Yan tested his first puppet, and Card Fairy criticized its slow movement because he had added too much black mother iron ore.
• Wang Yan recalled sparring with Ma Laosan and joining him on a treasure hunt, where Ma Laosan kept the Spirit Artifact sword they found in an ancient tomb.
• Wang Yan used the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact and Card Fairy’s techniques to improve his puppet refinement, though he had not made much progress in cultivation.
• Wang Yan commanded the puppet to attack, and it blasted a large hole in the cave wall with powerful red-light strikes.
• Wang Yan absorbed the puppet into a Defense Puppet Immortal Card and asked Card Fairy what to make next; she proposed refining support Immortal Cards.

Wang Yan questioned whether he should prioritize improving his cultivation over researching support Immortal Cards, but Card Fairy persuaded him that the cards would help him survive and progress. Ma Laosan summoned Wang Yan and secretly asked him to accompany him to collect Ma Family goods seized by the Lü Household.

• Wang Yan asked Card Fairy to teach him how to improve his cultivation faster instead of spending so much effort on Immortal Cards.
• Card Fairy argued that Wang Yan was already advancing quickly and that support Immortal Cards could protect him and speed up his cultivation.
• A maid told Wang Yan that the family patriarch had summoned him, and Card Fairy warned him not to become entangled in the Ma Family’s complicated relationships.
• Ma Laosan came to Wang Yan’s cave abode and led him along a secluded path, where he revealed that he wanted Wang Yan’s help collecting goods seized by the Lü Household.
• Wang Yan asked Ma Laosan why he could not send another elder to collect the goods.

Wang Yan accompanied Ma Laosan to retrieve goods from the Lü Household, unaware of the full danger behind the mission. As their Flying Boat reached the valley, Card Fairy warned Wang Yan that an ambush was waiting.

• Ma Laosan recruited Wang Yan to accompany him, and Ma Ang privately ordered Wang Yan to protect Ma Laosan.
• Ma Ang told the elders to prepare for battle and raise Ma Valley's Restriction Array to its highest level, while Elder Du revealed he was involved in the matter.
• Wang Yan and Ma Laosan traveled by Flying Boat toward the Lü Household's camp and discussed the young master expected to be there.
• Ma Laosan confronted Lü Buwang over the alleged seizure of the Ma Family's goods, and Card Fairy urgently warned Wang Yan that there was an ambush.

Wang Yan and the Ma Family cultivators were ambushed by the Lü Household with a Spirit Cannon, forcing them to abandon their Flying Boat and flee. Lü Buwang, Lü Zijun, and Fairy Purple Smoke cornered Wang Yan and Ma Laosan, and the chapter ended as Fairy Purple Smoke attacked Wang Yan while Ma Laosan’s wife fell through the air.

• Lü Buwang attacked the Ma Family’s Flying Boat with his Purple-Light Small Banners, and Wang Yan’s flaming fists disrupted the Spirit Cannon’s aim.
• The Spirit Cannon blasted apart the Flying Boat’s sail and wings, forcing Wang Yan, Ma Laosan, and the other cultivators to escape as the boat crashed into the woods.
• Lü Buwang and several Core Condensation Realm cultivators pursued Wang Yan and Ma Laosan, who fled in different directions.
• Lü Zijun and Fairy Purple Smoke appeared ahead of the escape route, and Wang Yan recognized Fairy Purple Smoke.
• Ma Laosan tossed one of his wives toward Wang Yan, but Fairy Purple Smoke attacked him with her flying sword, causing him to dodge and leave the woman falling.

Wang Yan fought Fairy Purple Smoke and her allies while trying to protect Ma Laosan and avoid revealing his identity. After Ma Laosan was captured, Wang Yan fled, but Lü Zijun sent dozens of gray swords after him.

• Wang Yan caught Ma Laosan’s falling wife as Fairy Purple Smoke unleashed purple flames at Ma Laosan.
• Wang Yan struck Fairy Purple Smoke’s Purple Jade Ruyi with flaming arrows, then defended himself from the arriving pursuers with the Truefire Moon Wheel.
• Ma Laosan blocked another strike with a dark gray treasure, but Fairy Purple Smoke trapped him in a Purple-Red Light Net after Lü Zijun revealed he was Ma Ang’s father and useful alive.
• The injured female disciple urged Wang Yan to escape, and he used an azure talisman to speed away.
• Lü Zijun ordered his Gray-Light Short Swords to pursue Wang Yan as they raced toward his face.

Wang Yan escaped Lü Zijun and the Purple Flame Sect while carrying Ma Laosan's wife, then hid with her in a secluded pool. Suspecting their pursuers were preparing to attack the Ma Family, he considered warning the family, while Ma Laosan's wife urged him to rescue her husband.

• Wang Yan dodged Lü Zijun's attack, fled through the mountain forest with Ma Laosan's wife, and evaded the pursuing cultivators.
• Lü Zijun's group gave up the chase, and Fairy Purple Smoke ordered them to prepare to head for the Ma Family.
• Wang Yan emerged from a hidden pool with Ma Laosan's wife and dried her soaked clothes with his fire power.
• Wang Yan reasoned that the Lü Household and Purple Flame Sect might be plotting against the Ma Family and wondered why both sects coveted the Azure Spirit Mountain Range.
• Ma Laosan's wife asked whether they should rescue her husband, and Wang Yan considered the possibility that the Lü Household had split its forces to attack the Ma Family.

Wang Yan learned that the Ma Family had another Golden Core Stage cultivator and agreed to rescue Ma Laosan after Madam Ma pleaded with him. He infiltrated the Lü Household cultivators’ camp, where he encountered a hidden restriction array and asked Card Fairy for help bypassing it.

• Madam Ma told Wang Yan that a powerful Wicked Poison Sect elder was staying with the Ma Family and pleaded with him to save Ma Laosan.
• Wang Yan agreed to help, learned how Madam Ma had married Ma Laosan willingly, and hid her somewhere safe before setting out.
• Wang Yan sneaked toward the Lü Household camp, intending to rescue Ma Laosan and take revenge on Lü Zijun.
• Wang Yan passed the first hidden checkpoint but discovered a restriction array ahead and asked Card Fairy how to cross it undetected.

Wang Yan followed Lü Zijun out of the Lü Household’s restriction array and caught him attempting to assault Ma Laosan’s unconscious wife. After subduing and silencing Lü Zijun, Wang Yan began questioning him about his ties to the Purple Flame Sect.

• Lü Zijun secretly left the Lü Household carrying Ma Laosan’s unconscious wife, and Wang Yan followed him through the restriction array.
• Lü Zijun took the woman into the woods, where Wang Yan overheard him confessing his desire for Fairy Purple Smoke before preparing to drug the woman.
• Wang Yan surprised Lü Zijun, blocked him from calling for help, struck him down, and sealed his magic power.
• Wang Yan covered the unconscious woman with clothing and threatened Lü Zijun until he agreed to answer questions.
• Wang Yan asked Lü Zijun when he had established ties with the Purple Flame Sect and what they planned to do together.

Wang Yan interrogated Lü Zijun and learned that the Purple Flame Sect planned to establish a Branch Hall in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range while the Lü Household moved against the Ma Family. After knocking Lü Zijun unconscious and taking Ma Laosan’s wife to safety, Wang Yan returned to trigger an explosion and plunge the valley into chaos.

• Wang Yan forced Lü Zijun to reveal that the Purple Flame Sect had recruited the Lü Household and planned to make its grounds a Branch Hall in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range.
• Lü Zijun explained that the Purple Flame Sect had spared the Wang Household after speaking with the Wang Family Ancestor, and that two Golden Core Stage cultivators were helping attack the Ma Family.
• Wang Yan asked what Lü Zijun would have done to Ma Laosan’s wife, then revealed his face and knocked Lü Zijun unconscious when he recognized him as Fairy Purple Smoke’s junior brother.
• Wang Yan tied Lü Zijun between two trees and covered him with Explosive Fire Talismans, then took Ma Laosan’s wife somewhere safe.
• Wang Yan returned after more than two hours, circled to the other side of the Restriction Array, and triggered a massive explosion that threw the valley into chaos.

Wang Yan infiltrated the Lü Household camp and rescued the battered Ma Laosan from a Mountain Cave, killing the black-robed Fifth Elder and two guards. As Wang Yan carried Ma Laosan up the cliff to escape, Fairy Purple Smoke pursued them.

• Fairy Purple Smoke quieted the Lü Household cultivators and went to investigate the disturbance while Wang Yan slipped toward the rear of the valley.
• The Fifth Elder learned Lü Zijun had left with a woman hours earlier and ordered Ma Laosan brought out from the Mountain Cave.
• Wang Yan killed the two guards and confronted the Fifth Elder inside the cave, cutting him down with the Truefire Moon Wheel.
• Wang Yan accidentally killed another Lü Household disciple with the Moon Wheel, then fed Ma Laosan pills and carried him away.
• Wang Yan climbed the cliff instead of fleeing through the valley, but Fairy Purple Smoke caught up and confronted him.

Wang Yan outwitted Fairy Purple Smoke and escaped with Ma Laosan while she pursued a series of decoys through the forest. Fairy Purple Smoke returned to the valley and entered the tent to find out what had happened there.

• Fairy Purple Smoke attacked Wang Yan, but he tricked her with a false warning and fled into the forest.
• Fairy Purple Smoke used a talisman to pursue Wang Yan, broke through his illusion, and blasted through a barrage of Explosive Fire Talismans.
• Fairy Purple Smoke found Wang Yan's taunting message on a tree and chased him for dozens of miles, while Wang Yan emerged from the ground carrying Ma Laosan and escaped in another direction.
• Fairy Purple Smoke realized she had been tricked again and returned to the valley, where she noticed the Lü Household cultivators looked dejected.
• A Purple Flame Sect cultivator urged Fairy Purple Smoke to enter the tent, and she stepped inside and saw something that darkened her expression.

Fairy Purple Smoke blamed Lü Zijun’s death on the Masked Cultivator and left the Lü Household to answer to its patriarch. Wang Yan escaped with Ma Laosan and his wives, but explosions near Ma Valley signaled an attack as they approached.

• Fairy Purple Smoke told the Lü Household that the Masked Cultivator had rescued Ma Laosan, killed Lü Zijun, and escaped, then left them to explain the death to their patriarch.
• The Lü Household cultivators realized Lü Zijun had likely been captured while alone and wondered where their Fifth Elder was.
• Aboard the Flying Boat, Ma Laosan thanked Wang Yan for rescuing him and said the Lü Household had threatened to join the Purple Flame Sect against the Ma Family.
• Madam Ma told Ma Laosan that the other Ma Family cultivators who had accompanied him had been killed.
• Wang Yan and Ma Laosan heard explosions near Ma Valley, and Wang Yan offered to go ahead and investigate while Ma Laosan hid with his wives.

Wang Yan returned toward Ma Valley after arranging a message for Ye Shisan and discovered Ma Ang and Elder Du fighting a Purple Flame Sect cultivator. After the woman fled and the two pursued her, Wang Yan spotted attackers at Ma Valley’s restriction array and flew over to earn credit.

• Wang Yan sent a Message Transmission Talisman to Ye Shisan and flew toward Ma Valley.
• Wang Yan watched Ma Ang and Elder Du battle a female cultivator from the Purple Flame Sect, and Card Fairy identified Ma Ang’s blue treasure as the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that he could not use the Fire-Type Immortal Card Artifact like Ma Ang used his treasure because it was Wang Yan’s dantian.
• The female cultivator escaped, and Ma Ang and Elder Du pursued her.
• Wang Yan saw cultivators from the Lü Household and the Purple Flame Sect attacking Ma Valley’s restriction array and flew toward them; explosions and screams soon rang out.

After Wang Yan helped the Ma Family repel the Lü Household and Purple Flame Sect, the three lineages were forced into an alliance under the Purple Flame Sect. The chapter ended with Ma Ang announcing that he and Elder Du would seek the treasure marked on the Old Ancestor’s map to strengthen the Ma Family.

• Ma Ang praised Wang Yan’s contributions, promoted him to Third Elder, and doubled his benefits.
• Three days later, a Wang Household envoy reported that the Wang Family Ancestor had negotiated an agreement making the Ma, Wang, and Lü lineages subordinate to the Purple Flame Sect and barring outside sects from their territory.
• Ma Ang accepted the agreement after Elder Du raised no objections, resolving the Ma Family’s immediate danger but preventing it from joining the Wicked Poison Sect.
• At a council meeting, Wang Yan warned that the agreement left the Ma Family weaker than the Wang and Lü households, and Ma Ang agreed with his assessment.
• Ma Ang announced that he and Elder Du would travel to Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain to seek the treasure and opportunity marked on the Old Ancestor’s map.