Recaps

Ye Han lured the Black Mountain Cult Leader toward the formation he had prepared in Green Ox Village while evading the Cult Leader’s Tomb Treasure and escape-blocking formation. The Black Mountain Cult Leader stopped above the mist to attack from outside, but a sudden sense of danger warned him that he had walked into a trap.

• Wang Fa, Jin Feng, Jiang Ning, and the others were caught in a mist-covered formation and attacked a dark figure they believed was Ye Han.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader used his Tomb Treasure to conjure four blood-colored hands that smashed the ground where Ye Han had stood, but Ye Han escaped with his Thunder Escape Technique.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader deployed the thirty-six pillars of the Blood-Spirit Skeleton Formation to block Ye Han’s escape route.
• Ye Han called out to the Black Mountain Cult Leader, then entered the mist and clouds of the Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader refused to enter the formation and prepared to attack from above, but a sudden sense of danger sent a chill down his spine.

Ye Han used Purple-Gold Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder and the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to trap the wounded Black Mountain Cult Leader. The chapter ended with the Cult Leader surrounded by the formation, raising his treasures and spell power to defend himself.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader dodged Ye Han's first bolt of Purple-Gold Lightning, but the strike badly damaged his Tomb Treasure and wounded him.
• Ye Han activated hidden formation flags, drawing the Black Mountain Cult Leader into the Little Heaven-Covering Formation as he tried to escape.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader attempted to flee, but Ye Han summoned five treasures and unleashed another bolt of Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader used his Tombstone Treasure to block the strike, but the thunder wounded his mind and spirit and halted his escape.
• The Little Heaven-Covering Formation engulfed the Black Mountain Cult Leader, who surrounded himself with his Tomb Treasure and raised his defenses.

Ye Han trapped the injured Black Mountain Cult Leader in the Little Heaven-Covering Formation, but the Golden Core cultivator summoned a terrifying tomb blood man that nearly overwhelmed it. As the formation began to falter, Ye Han combined the five elemental treasures with the Heavenly Thunder Drum and launched a powerful bolt of demon-breaking divine thunder.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader merged his gravestone and Tomb Treasure, creating a huge tomb blood man armed with a skull hammer and gravestone shield.
• The tomb blood man shattered one of the Little Heaven-Covering Formation’s giant handprints, forcing Ye Han to spend much of his spell power reinforcing the formation.
• Wang Fa and the others remained trapped and under pressure from the Binglian Puppet while the Black Mountain Cult Leader prepared another attack.
• Ye Han channeled the four elemental treasures into the Heavenly Thunder Drum and unleashed a massive bolt of demon-breaking divine thunder at the Black Mountain Cult Leader.

Ye Han used the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation to cripple the Black Mountain Cult Leader and tried to keep him trapped as he fled in his Blood Sword. The Tomb Treasure’s curse backlash halted the Black Mountain Cult Leader in midair, leaving him surrounded by Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.

• The Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation’s Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder battered the blood giant and wounded the Black Mountain Cult Leader.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader fused his Golden Core with his Blood Sword and broke through the Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• Ye Han swallowed a Blood Restriction Pill and expanded the formation, trapping the Black Mountain Cult Leader again.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader cut another breach in the expanded formation, but the Tomb Treasure’s curse backlash froze him in midair.
• Ye Han’s formation struck the Black Mountain Cult Leader with successive bolts of Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder as he screamed.

Ye Han killed the gravely wounded Black Mountain Cult Leader with the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation’s demon-breaking divine thunder, but the fight nearly exhausted his cultivation and lifespan. The Purple Cauldron then absorbed the enemy’s cursed treasures and revealed two purple-gold runes resembling ones Ye Han had obtained before.

• Ye Han used the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation to suppress and kill the Black Mountain Cult Leader, destroying his body, golden core, and primordial spirit with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• Ye Han stopped the Blood Restriction Pill’s effects before it consumed more of his lifespan, then gathered the Black Mountain Cult Leader’s Storage Bags and Blood Sword.
• Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron had swallowed the damaged tomb and tombstone treasures.
• The Purple Cauldron’s runic light broke down the treasures and exposed two purple-gold runes, which entered the cauldron.

Ye Han strengthened the Purple Cauldron, then used the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to exhaust Wang Fa and four other Azure Profound Sect disciples before sending the Binglian Puppet to kill Wang Fa. The Fifth Elder discovered his grandson’s shattered Life Token and set out to find the killer.

• The Purple Cauldron absorbed the gravestone and Tomb Treasure, expelled their curse aura, and left Ye Han with clearer divine sense.
• Ye Han strengthened the Little Heaven-Covering Formation, crushing the five trapped disciples with increasingly powerful attacks as they begged, threatened, and tried to escape.
• Ye Han drained the disciples’ strength and then sent the Binglian Puppet to kill Wang Fa, avoiding killing him personally to conceal his involvement from the Fifth Elder.
• The Fifth Elder found Wang Fa’s shattered Life Token, grew enraged, and took out an ancient compass.

The Fifth Elder used Wang Fa’s shattered Life Token to track the killer, while Ye Han hurried to escape through the Ancient Times Teleportation Array. Just as Ye Han repaired and activated the array, a powerful divine sense swept over the mountain.

• The Fifth Elder summoned a blue-lit bird from Wang Fa’s shattered Life Token, marked it with his essence blood, and pursued it to avenge his grandson.
• Ye Han used the Binglian Puppet to kill Wang Fa, Jin Feng, Jiang Ning, and the others, then collected their treasures and destroyed the evidence.
• Ye Han concealed his trail, entered the cavern near Green Ox Village, and uncovered the Ancient Times Teleportation Array.
• Ye Han replaced the damaged Formation Pillars, traced the array with the Three-Eyed Vermilion Sparrow’s essence blood, and set Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in place.
• Ye Han took out Azure Phoenix Fairy’s Teleportation Token and activated the array, but a powerful divine sense swept over the mountain.

Ye Han activated an Ancient Times Teleportation Array as the Fifth Elder tracked him to the cavern and smashed through his defenses. The Fifth Elder attacked just as the array opened, but Ye Han vanished, leaving it unclear whether he had escaped by teleportation.

• Ye Han sensed the Fifth Elder approaching and hurriedly activated the Ancient Times Teleportation Array.
• The Fifth Elder followed the spiritual-energy disturbance, broke into the cavern, and destroyed Ye Han's Dragon-Trapping Formation and elemental formation.
• The Fifth Elder discovered Ye Han inside the Ancient Times Teleportation Array and attacked him as a spatial vortex opened.
• Ye Han vanished amid the blast, and the Fifth Elder was left staring at the badly damaged array.

After the Fifth Elder destroyed the Ancient Times Teleportation Array, Ye Han was thrown out of the spatial passage into an unknown wilderness. He hid from a herd of powerful Demon Beasts, still unsure where he had landed.

• The Fifth Elder regretted destroying the Ancient Times Teleportation Array and began making arrangements to find out whether Ye Han had survived.
• Ye Han crashed into a mountainside and crawled from the rubble, injured but alive thanks to the Teleportation Token, Creation Heaven Cube, Protective Ring, and his formations.
• Ye Han recognized the abundant spiritual energy and demonic aura as signs of dangerous Demon Beast territory, then fled into the forest.
• Several figures arrived at the crater and began searching for Ye Han, but fled when Demon Beasts roared and charged toward them.
• Ye Han concealed his aura as numerous fourth-tier Demon Beasts passed, including one whose power made him fear that he might be in a dangerous place.

Ye Han concluded that he had been teleported to a distant continent and sought a safe place to recover his depleted cultivation. After securing a hidden cave, he examined the storage bags he had taken from the Black Mountain Cult Leader, Wang Fa, and the others.

• Ye Han reasoned that he was probably on the Heaven-Shaking Continent or the Northern Lu Province Continent, since the damaged teleportation array and the Boundless Sea made returning to the Azure Profound Sect impossible.
• Ye Han fled from the demon beasts and cultivators fighting behind him, searching for an area with little demonic aura.
• Ye Han found a barren mountain, carved a cave into a secluded gorge, and concealed it with the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and the Creation Heaven Cube's barrier.
• Ye Han removed his masks and examined the storage bags he had taken from the Black Mountain Cult Leader, Wang Fa, and the others.
• Ye Han found a vast trove of spirit stones, pills, treasures, manuals, and artifacts in the Black Mountain Cult Leader's storage bag, and guessed the leader had emptied his cult's reserves to prepare to flee.

Ye Han used the Treasure Refining Furnace to dismantle unwanted treasures and discovered that the Purple-Gold Runes absorbed by the Purple Cauldron greatly improved its success rate. After five months of recovery and cultivation, he had reached the peak of the third layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm and strengthened his formation, while testing a new idea.

• Ye Han sorted through Wang Fa's and the Black Mountain Cult Leader's treasures and found Jin Feng's Treasure Refining Furnace, which could break treasures down into their materials.
• Ye Han began cultivating with the Purple Cauldron, discovering that the Purple-Gold Runes improved his recovery and cultivation.
• Over five months, Ye Han recovered from his injuries and advanced to the peak of the third layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ye Han upgraded the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation by replacing the Darkwater Heaven-Earth Bag with the Heavenly Water Bottle and refining the Heavenly Thunder Drum to seventy percent.
• Ye Han used the Treasure Refining Furnace on a low-level spirit artifact and found that the Purple-Gold Runes more than doubled its success rate.

Ye Han dismantled his surplus treasures to gather materials for strengthening the Binglian Puppet, while discovering that the Purple Cauldron improved refining and that the Treasure Refining Furnace grew stronger as it processed treasures. After collecting enough materials, he continued refining the furnace and began making a new arm for the puppet.

• Ye Han concluded that the Purple Cauldron increased his treasure-refining success rate and decided to use his unused treasures to strengthen the Binglian Puppet before leaving his current location.
• Ye Han spent more than a month breaking down treasures from the Upper Tomb Land and his enemies, gathering materials while improving his artifact-refining knowledge and divine sense.
• The Treasure Refining Furnace developed purple-gold runes and grew more powerful, leading Ye Han to consider using it in place of the Truefire Gourd in his Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation.
• Ye Han continued feeding treasures into the evolving furnace and began refining a replacement arm for the Binglian Puppet.

Ye Han used the Ice-Fire Artifact Refining Furnace to enhance the Binglian Puppet, then sent it to kill a wounded Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast that entered his formation. Three figures arrived just as the beast fell, leaving Ye Han facing whoever had been pursuing it.

• Ye Han used materials refined from hundreds of artifacts to replace and strengthen components in the Binglian Puppet's arm, then attached the upgraded arm to its body.
• Ye Han reflected that controlling the Absolute Frost Divine Sword would require either reaching Nascent Soul Realm or finding a compatible top-tier ice or water cultivation method.
• A tremor shook Ye Han's cave abode, and he spotted a wounded mid-fourth-tier Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast trapped in his Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• Ye Han ordered the Binglian Puppet to attack, and it killed the beast with its Golden Light Longswords.
• Three figures raced over and one called out upon seeing the fallen Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast.

Ye Han encountered three Clear Mystery Sect cultivators who claimed the Mountain-Splitting Armadillo he had killed as their prey. He intimidated them by posing as a Golden Core cultivator and stopped them from leaving, intending to question them for information about the unfamiliar continent.

• Three Clear Mystery Sect cultivators arrived and argued over retrieving the Mountain-Splitting Armadillo, but the Black-Robed Elder warned them about Ye Han’s formation and puppet.
• Ye Han learned the newcomers spoke an ancient language, used the Myriad Images Mask, and emerged to meet them.
• The female cultivator demanded the armadillo back, so Ye Han suppressed the group with his divine sense and claimed the beast as his own.
• The Black-Robed Elder identified the group as Clear Mystery Sect disciples and tried to leave with the others.
• Ye Han stopped the three cultivators as they retreated, leaving them terrified.

Ye Han questioned three cultivators from the Dacheng Region and learned that a Treasure Mountain had appeared in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, claiming many powerful cultivators’ lives. The report reminded Ye Han of the Treasure Mountain on Heaven's Mandate Continent and left him wondering about a danger spanning multiple continents, so he asked whether this mountain had a Heavenly Secret Hall.

• Ye Han threw the Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast's corpse to the three cultivators and offered to let them take it if they answered his questions.
• The Black-Robed Elder told Ye Han that they had never left the Dacheng Region, and Ye Han asked about recent movements among cultivators and demon beasts.
• The Black-Robed Elder said a Treasure Mountain had appeared in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range a little over a year earlier, drawing cultivators into a deadly restriction.
• The female cultivator said Golden Core Stage cultivators from several sects had died inside the Treasure Mountain, including a grand elder of the Clear Mystery Sect.
• Ye Han connected the report to the Treasure Mountain on Heaven's Mandate Continent and asked whether the one in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range had a Heavenly Secret Hall.

Ye Han learned that he was in the Northern Lu Province Continent’s Dacheng Region and spent over a year cultivating in seclusion, studying several crafts and refining his first ancient treasure. Just as he considered seeking opportunities beyond seclusion, a demon king struck his formation, leaving him facing a powerful threat.

• The Black-Robed Elder told Ye Han about the Blackwind Demon King’s battle with the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect and shared details about the region’s sects and Treasure Mountain.
• Ye Han let the three cultivators leave with the Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast’s corpse, erased his traces, and moved to a remote mountain to cultivate.
• Ye Han set up the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and spent more than a year in seclusion, making progress in various crafts but failing to break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Ye Han successfully refined his first ancient treasure, a long spear, and considered leaving seclusion to seek opportunities.
• A powerful strike hit Ye Han’s Little Heaven-Covering Formation, and he sensed the aura of a demon king.

Ye Han trapped the severely wounded Blackwind Demon King inside his Little Heaven-Covering Formation and used Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder to stop him from escaping. The Blackwind Demon King mistook Ye Han for an attacker from the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect and began burning his beast blood to fight back.

• The Blackwind Demon King blasted a hole through the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and tried to escape.
• Ye Han struck through the opening with purple-gold Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder, forcing the Blackwind Demon King to halt while the formation sealed the gap.
• Ye Han recognized the intruder as the Blackwind Demon King and realized he was badly wounded and vulnerable to his thunder arts.
• The Blackwind Demon King accused Ye Han of serving the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect and began burning his beast blood to go berserk.

Ye Han used his puppets and the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to trap and fight the Blackwind Demon King, then prepared his improved Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation. The Blackwind Demon King spat out his Demon Core and began a desperate transformation as Ye Han’s lightning-charged treasures gathered power.

• Ye Han deployed eight Metal Puppets and the strengthened Binglian Puppet in the Azure Profound Sword Formation against the Blackwind Demon King.
• The Blackwind Demon King burned his beast blood and attacked the puppets, but their formation defended against his blows while Binglian struck his golden armor.
• When the Blackwind Demon King tried to escape, the Little Heaven-Covering Formation blocked him with giant hands of gray light as Ye Han strengthened it from within.
• Ye Han summoned the Dragon-Binding Bracelet, Heavenly Water Bottle, Heavenly Thunder Drum, Thick Earth Iron Mountain, and Treasure Refining Furnace to form his improved Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation.
• Ye Han concentrated the other treasures’ power into the Heavenly Thunder Drum, and the Blackwind Demon King spat out his Demon Core and erupted in a blood-colored gale.

Ye Han used the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation to defeat the Blackwind Demon King and absorb his Demon Core. As the demon king lay blasted into the ground, more than a dozen cultivators arrived, including two Golden Core Stage sword cultivators who turned their attention toward Ye Han.

• The Blackwind Demon King enlarged his true form, battered the Metal Puppets, and injured the Binglian Puppet before blasting a hole through a mountain with his Demon Core.
• Ye Han withdrew the Little Heaven-Covering Formation before the Blackwind Demon King could destroy it, foiling his attempt to escape.
• Ye Han summoned the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation, while Vine Hands caught the Blackwind Demon King's feet and halted his flight.
• Ye Han shifted the formation around the Treasure Refining Furnace, whose vortex swallowed the Blackwind Demon King's Demon Core before the lightning pillar struck him.
• More than a dozen cultivators approached, and two Golden Core Stage sword cultivators swept their divine sense over Ye Han.

Ye Han killed the Blackwind Demon King and took its corpse and demon core, then fled when two Golden Core cultivators arrived. He escaped their pursuit and continued away in his flying boat, leaving the Blackwind Demon King’s demon core in his Treasure Refining Furnace.

• Ye Han collected his formation treasures and puppets, then retrieved the Blackwind Demon King’s valuable corpse from the crater.
• Two Golden Core cultivators spotted Ye Han with the dead demon king and rushed toward him.
• Ye Han used the Thunder Escape Technique repeatedly to escape their divine sense range, leaving the cultivators unable to catch him.
• The two cultivators searched the nearby area, suspecting Ye Han was hiding, while he drove his Chasing Wind Boat far away.
• Ye Han stopped after flying more than a hundred li and revealed the Treasure Refining Furnace holding the Blackwind Demon King’s demon core.

Ye Han considered the strengths and flaws of the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation as he refined the Blackwind Demon King's demon core while traveling. When he flew over a mountain range, he heard a familiar woman confront someone named Wang Sanlei inside a hidden cave.

• Ye Han reflected that the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation required enormous spell power and took too long to cast, so he needed to trap opponents first with the Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• Ye Han switched the formation's primary treasure to the Treasure Refining Furnace, which swallowed the Blackwind Demon King's demon core before Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder destroyed the demon king's body.
• Ye Han used the Treasure Refining Furnace's gold-and-silver flames to refine the berserk demon aura from the demon core as the Chasing Wind Boat continued flying.
• Ye Han traveled toward spiritually depleted areas, intending to explore the continent, search for his Eldest Senior Brother, and find a way back to Heaven's Mandate Continent.
• Ye Han heard a familiar woman inside a hidden mountain cave accuse Wang Sanlei of laying a hand on her.

Ye Han discovered Wang Sanlei trying to force the Clear Mystery Sect’s female Cultivator into becoming his furnace cauldron and intervened after the Purple Cauldron reacted to something she possessed. Ye Han killed Wang Sanlei, and the rescued woman recognized him.

• Ye Han sensed the familiar auras of Wang Sanlei and the female Clear Mystery Sect Cultivator inside a secluded cave, where Wang Sanlei had bound her and tried to assault her.
• Wang Sanlei attacked Ye Han with vines and flying swords, but Ye Han dodged and shattered the sword-rays with his Soul-Chasing Sword Technique.
• Wang Sanlei struck his Bronze Bell Treasure to unleash sonic blasts, but Ye Han’s golden fist sent the bell flying and gravely injured him.
• Wang Sanlei tried to escape through the mountain wall, but the Binglian Puppet pierced him with a sword, and the Truefire Gourd burned him to ashes.
• The female Cultivator recognized Ye Han and cried out to him in delighted surprise.

Ye Han discovered that a female cultivator he had rescued carried a mysterious purple treasure fused with her dantian, which had caught the Purple Cauldron’s attention. Unable to extract it by force, he demanded that she surrender it, but she refused and insisted on negotiating two conditions.

• The female cultivator recognized Ye Han’s Binglian Puppet, and Ye Han collected Wang Sanlei’s belongings before examining her.
• Ye Han sensed purple light fused with the female cultivator’s dantian and tried to investigate it, while she mistook his touch for improper intentions.
• Ye Han’s spell power failed to locate or extract the treasure, and he suspected it might be like the Purple-Gold Runes he had obtained from Ye Chunfeng.
• Ye Han threatened the female cultivator and offered rewards if she willingly surrendered the treasure.
• The female cultivator refused to yield and demanded that Ye Han agree to two conditions, saying he could not obtain the treasure even if he killed her.

Ye Han negotiated with Ouyang Changning over her mysterious treasure and learned how the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect destroyed her sect. He agreed to try entering the Clear Mystery Sect’s treasury alone, but refused to take her with him.

• Ye Han rejected Ouyang Changning’s request to avenge her father, then listened as she offered the treasure in exchange for help opening her sect’s Secret Treasury.
• Ouyang Changning explained that the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect attacked the Clear Mystery Sect after its Golden Core Stage Grand Elder died, and Wang Sanlei betrayed them.
• Ouyang Changning revealed that she knew a secret passage into the sect and that the two Golden Core Stage cultivators responsible had gone to Black Demon Mountain.
• Ye Han agreed to try reaching the Secret Treasury but told Ouyang Changning to give him the route and said he would go alone.

Ye Han weighed Ouyang Changning’s request to help recover the Clear Mystery Sect’s hidden treasure, suspecting the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect was behind the sect’s destruction. He rejected her offer to become his Furnace Cauldron but agreed to help retrieve the treasures and aid her cultivation, leaving Ouyang Changning stunned.

• Ye Han connected the two Golden Core Cultivators he had encountered near Black Demon Mountain with the Cultivators who destroyed Ouyang Changning’s Clear Mystery Sect.
• Ouyang Changning explained that only she could open the Secret Treasury and said a secret passage could help them avoid discovery.
• Ye Han asked how Ouyang Changning could trust him not to kill her after they recovered the treasure.
• Ouyang Changning offered to become Ye Han’s Furnace Cauldron in exchange for his protection, help cultivating, and eventual aid in avenging her sect.
• Ye Han refused that condition but agreed to help retrieve the treasures and help her cultivate, warning her not to demand more.
• Ouyang Changning was bewildered by Ye Han’s refusal and thought he had misunderstood her offer.