Recaps

Ye Han and Ouyang Changning swore blood oaths before setting out to retrieve the Clear Mystery Sect’s hidden treasure. Ouyang Changning explained her sect’s decline and led Ye Han to a cliff overlooking its mountain gate.

• Ye Han offered to swear a blood oath promising not to take Ouyang Changning’s treasures or harm her after they retrieved the treasure.
• Ye Han and Ouyang Changning each swore a blood oath, and they set off together.
• Ye Han followed Ouyang Changning toward the Clear Mystery Sect while reflecting on his Cloud-Piercing Boat and thinking of Han Yuwan.
• Ouyang Changning explained that her father had hidden the sect’s treasures and resources before the sect’s decline and told only her where they were.
• A day later, Ye Han and Ouyang Changning hid atop a spiritual-energy-rich cliff overlooking the Clear Mystery Sect’s mountain gate.

Ye Han and Ouyang Changning slipped through the Clear Mystery Sect’s weakened mountain formation and entered a concealed passage leading toward the sect’s treasure vault. Their progress stopped when they heard a woman ahead ask Senior Brother Zhang how he had discovered the passage.

• Ye Han warned Ouyang Changning not to let hatred cloud her mind as they waited for the formation to weaken at sunset.
• When the formation’s defenses weakened, Ouyang Changning and Ye Han used Blood Escape Talismans to pass through before the barrier returned to normal.
• Ouyang Changning concealed herself with a bead while Ye Han vanished using his masks, then he gave her a Substitute Talisman for protection.
• Ouyang Changning led Ye Han through a mountain forest and opened a concealed entrance beneath a large rock.
• As they proceeded through the old passage, Ye Han warned Ouyang Changning that she had spoken too soon, and a woman ahead asked Senior Brother Zhang how he knew about it.

Ye Han and Ouyang Changning encountered Zhang Qian and Xu Huangnu in the supposedly secret passage, where Ye Han killed them both. Ouyang Changning then revealed that the entrance behind them had been sealed, leaving their way back blocked.

• Zhang Qian and Xu Huangnu approached through the passage, discussing hidden sect treasures and the Clear Mystery Sect’s troubles.
• As Zhang Qian tried to force himself on Xu Huangnu, she stabbed and attacked him, revealing that she served the Golden Sword Master.
• Ye Han ambushed them with the Treasure Refining Furnace and Dragon-Binding Bracelet, captured both cultivators, and refined them to ashes.
• Ouyang Changning joined Ye Han, who rebuked her for the passage’s lack of security.
• Ouyang Changning told Ye Han that the door they had entered through was sealed shut, and he demanded to know what she meant.

Ye Han and Ouyang Changning navigated a trapped passage and used a blood-activated teleportation array to reach the Ouyang Family’s hidden Treasure Vault. Ouyang Changning opened the vault, and the Purple Cauldron in Ye Han’s Divine Sense Sea trembled.

• Ouyang Changning explained that the passage entrance only allowed people in and its exit only allowed people out, then reaffirmed her blood oath to Ye Han.
• Ye Han set up talisman formations as Ouyang Changning led him through forks, traps, and illusion formations to the passage’s end.
• Ouyang Changning activated a Silver Formation Disk with her essence blood and used a Silver Token to teleport herself and Ye Han to a cavern before the vault.
• Ouyang Changning opened the metal vault door with her essence blood, releasing treasure light and spiritual energy.
• Ye Han felt the Purple Cauldron in his Divine Sense Sea tremble.

Ye Han accepted Ouyang Changning’s Purple-Gold Metal Rune, which fused with Ye Chunfeng’s rune inside the Purple Cauldron and strengthened his control over it. As Ye Han and Ouyang Changning teleported away from the Treasure Vault, they found themselves surrounded by storm winds and realized the array was a trap.

• Ouyang Changning offered Ye Han a treasure from the vault but refused to give him the old box, then joked that she would hand it over if he became her dual cultivation partner.
• Ye Han declined the other treasures, and Ouyang Changning gathered everything in the vault before deciding to give him the Purple-Gold Metal Rune she carried.
• Ouyang Changning willingly gave Ye Han the rune, which entered the Purple Cauldron and fused with the rune Ye Chunfeng had given him, strengthening Ye Han’s connection to the cauldron.
• Ye Han destroyed a talisman formation in the secret passage because he suspected the Teleportation Array was unsafe, but Ouyang Changning activated the array and they vanished.
• Ye Han and Ouyang Changning arrived in a cavern’s Teleportation Array, where tremendous storm winds surrounded them and they realized they had been trapped.

Ye Han and Ouyang Changning were ambushed by Demon-Slaying Sword Sect disciples after teleporting into a cavern, but Ye Han broke their formation and attacked from hiding. The fight continued as the middle-stage cultivator escaped Ye Han’s first strike with a Substitute Talisman and tried to summon help.

• Ye Han used the Creation Heaven Cube and eight Millennium Ironwood Swords to break the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation, revealing severed Formation Flags and the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Han concealed himself and sent the Binglian Puppet underground as three Demon-Slaying Sword Sect disciples entered and recognized Ouyang Changning as the Clear Mystery Sect’s Young Sect Master.
• The disciples formed a sword formation around Ouyang Changning, but the Binglian Puppet emerged and deflected their attacks while Ye Han struck their middle-stage leader.
• The leader survived Ye Han’s surprise attack by using a Substitute Talisman, while Ouyang Changning fought the other two disciples.
• The leader tried to send a Messaging Talisman for help, but Ye Han destroyed it and closed in with his Ghost Skull Mirror and Soul-Slaying Sword.

Ye Han defeated the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect disciples guarding the Teleportation Array and concealed Ouyang Changning inside the Treasure Refining Furnace. As he fled, a Golden Core cultivator recognized him, forcing Ye Han to escape with the Thunderclap Art.

• Ye Han, the Binglian Puppet, and Ouyang Changning killed the three Demon-Slaying Sword Sect disciples at the Teleportation Array, and the Ghost Skull Mirror captured one disciple’s soul.
• Ye Han explained why he had expected an ambush and persuaded Ouyang Changning to hide inside the Treasure Refining Furnace while he escaped.
• Ye Han burned the corpses, collected the disciples’ belongings, and used explosions to draw cultivators away from his route.
• A female Golden Core cultivator sensed Ye Han near the passage exit and sent a message to notify the other Golden Core cultivator.
• Ye Han used the Thunderclap Art to flee, and the female cultivator identified him as the man she had pursued and vowed not to let him escape.

Ye Han fled from Sword Lady after she recognized him as the cultivator who killed the Blackwind Demon King. Sword Lady pursued him relentlessly, and the chapter ended as she sensed an extreme danger.

• Sword Lady and Golden Sword returned to the Clear Mystery Sect, then split up to investigate tremors in the mountain interior.
• Sword Lady sensed Ye Han watching her at the cave entrance and notified Golden Sword.
• Ye Han used a Substitute Talisman and the Thunder Escape Technique to escape, but Sword Lady recognized his lightning and pursued him in sword form.
• Sword Lady realized Ye Han was only a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and suspected he possessed treasures that replenished his spell power.
• Ye Han repeatedly used the Thunder Escape Technique and unleashed a stream of Mid-Grade Talismans, but Sword Lady cut through their attacks.
• Sword Lady continued pursuing Ye Han until she sensed a hint of extreme danger.

Ye Han used a Sword Talisman to delay Sword Lady, but Golden Sword intercepted him and pierced him with a sword-ray. His Substitute Talisman saved him and sent him farther away than expected, letting him resume his escape as both Golden Core pursuers burned their cultivation and lifespan to catch him.

• Ye Han hid a Sword Talisman among his other talismans, delaying Sword Lady while he fled a thousand zhang with the Thunder Escape Technique.
• Golden Sword moved ahead of Ye Han's escape route and pierced his body with a golden sword-ray.
• Ye Han's Substitute Talisman activated, sending him to a mountain peak more than three hundred zhang away and shocking Golden Sword and Sword Lady.
• Golden Sword and Sword Lady burned their cultivation and lifespan, transformed into sword-rays, and pursued Ye Han at greater speed.
• Ye Han realized the Purple-Gold Metal Rune had strengthened the Substitute Talisman and took out another talisman bearing a trace of spatial power.

Ye Han used enhanced Random Teleportation Talismans to escape Golden Sword and Sword Lady, then tested the effects of the completed runes while fleeing. He realized he needed to release Ouyang Changning, who emerged from the Treasure Refining Furnace pale and motionless.

• Ye Han activated a Random Teleportation Talisman and reappeared over a thousand zhang away, surprising Golden Sword and Sword Lady.
• Ye Han used another talisman to vanish beyond their divine sense range, and Golden Sword and Sword Lady split up to search for him.
• Golden Sword and Sword Lady pursued Ye Han because they believed he had taken the Clear Mystery Sect's Secret Treasury and the item their superiors wanted.
• Ye Han escaped on the Chasing Wind Boat and realized the completed Purple-Gold Runes had enhanced the teleportation talisman's range and the Purple Cauldron's effects.
• Ye Han released Ouyang Changning from the Treasure Refining Furnace, and she fell to the ground pale and motionless.

Ye Han rescued Ouyang Changning from the Green Pearl Ring and prepared to part ways with her after escaping the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect. Eager to learn what was inside her mysterious box, he agreed to reveal his identity in exchange for a look, and the Purple Cauldron trembled as she brought it out.

• Ye Han revived Ouyang Changning after spatial power in the Green Pearl Ring left her unconscious, and she complained about nearly being crushed.
• Ouyang Changning learned they were aboard Ye Han's fast Flying Boat, and Ye Han said they would part ways once they were farther from the Clear Mystery Sect.
• Ye Han asked to buy the treasure from Ouyang Changning's box, but she refused because it was important to her.
• Ye Han asked to inspect the treasure, and Ouyang Changning agreed if he revealed his real name, appearance, and origins.
• Ye Han removed his Red Mask and identified himself as Ye Han, a stranded disciple of the Azure Profound Sect from another continent.
• Ouyang Changning produced the wooden box, and the Purple Cauldron in Ye Han's divine sense sea began to tremble.

Ye Han learned that Ouyang Changning’s treasure was Geng Metal Spirit Liquid, which he needed in far greater quantities than she possessed. After she revealed that her family’s supply might have come from North Li Boundless Mountain, they parted ways, leaving Ye Han alone to test whether he could bring out the Purple Cauldron.

• Ouyang Changning opened the box and showed Ye Han the Geng Metal Spirit Liquid, whose pure metal-element aura stirred the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea.
• Ye Han realized he could control the Purple Cauldron after completing the original runes, but kept it concealed from Ouyang Changning.
• Ouyang Changning explained that she needed the Geng Metal Spirit Liquid to cultivate her family’s Secret Method, and Ye Han assured her he would not take it.
• Ye Han asked where her ancestors had obtained the liquid, and Ouyang Changning said it might have come from a fortuitous opportunity at North Li Boundless Mountain.
• Ouyang Changning and Ye Han exchanged farewells and went their separate ways.
• After Ouyang Changning left, Ye Han prepared to test whether he could bring out the Purple Cauldron.

Ye Han brought the Purple Cauldron out of his divine sense sea and discovered he could enter the space inside it. He began testing the space as a mobile medicine garden, and the seeds he planted immediately absorbed its abundant spiritual energy.

• Ye Han hid in a heavily concealed mountain cave and used the completed Purple-Gold Runes to summon the Purple Cauldron from his divine sense sea.
• Ye Han entered the Purple Cauldron space and confirmed that he could travel into and out of it while the cauldron remained outside his divine sense sea.
• Ye Han examined the space’s abundant spiritual energy and considered growing spirit medicines there, though he could sense little of the area around the cauldron while inside.
• Ye Han reclaimed medicinal plots and scattered spirit medicine seeds across them to test whether the ground could grow different plants.
• The newly planted seeds began absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy.

Ye Han failed once again to break through to the Foundation Establishment middle stage and decided to leave seclusion to search for his eldest senior brother and new opportunities. He chose North Li Boundless Mountain as his destination while reflecting on the growth and risks of his Purple Cauldron Space.

• Ye Han spent over a month attempting to break through the peak of the Foundation Establishment early stage but remained stuck just short of advancing.
• Ye Han decided to travel rather than continue attempting a breakthrough in seclusion, hoping to find an opportunity and locate his eldest senior brother in Northern Lu Province Continent.
• Ye Han chose to head toward North Li Boundless Mountain after learning that Ouyang Changning's ancestor might have found Geng metal spirit liquid there.
• Ye Han inspected the Purple Cauldron Space and found that its medicinal herbs had gained over a year's maturity in a little more than a month.
• Ye Han considered expanding the Purple Cauldron Space into a mobile cave abode but worried that powerful cultivators might detect and seize the Purple Cauldron.

Ye Han strengthened his talisman-making, completed the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation, and traveled in disguise to Abundant Heaven City to learn about the Northern Lu Province Continent and North Li Boundless Mountain. He entered the Myriad Books Tower to seek information and overheard people discussing the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect’s wanted list.

• Ye Han found that the completed Purple-Gold Runes boosted his talisman crafting success rates and increased the power of talismans he crafted or activated.
• Ye Han spent about a month preparing in his cave abode and successfully crafted the Twelve Formation Flags for the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation using damaged flags as a reference.
• Ye Han restored the cave abode, disguised himself as a middle-aged cultivator in black with the Myriad Images Mask, and flew away on a black Flying Sword.
• Ye Han reached Abundant Heaven City, paid the entrance fee, and surveyed the city while seeking information about North Li Boundless Mountain and the Northern Lu Province Continent’s relation to Great Cheng.
• Ye Han entered the Myriad Books Tower and asked a shop attendant for basic information about treasured lands.
• Ye Han overheard people asking why the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect had put someone on its wanted list.

Ye Han gathered information in Abundant Heaven City about the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect's bounty on him and the route to Boundless Mountain. After buying information and supplies, he left the city without agreeing to travel with Fairy Canghai.

• Ye Han overheard that the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect had placed a bounty on the cultivator who used purple thunder arts at Black Demon Mountain.
• Xiao Chun introduced Ye Han to Fairy Canghai, and he paid her for information about North Li Boundless Mountain and the troubled Azure Kingdom.
• Fairy Canghai offered to accompany Ye Han to Boundless Mountain, but he refused because he was not planning to go soon.
• Ye Han bought more information, sold unneeded treasures, and stocked up on pills, books, and manuals before leaving Abundant Heaven City.

Ye Han decided to travel through the war-torn Azure Kingdom to reach North Li, hoping to find an opportunity to break through while fleeing the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect’s bounty. At Spirit Tiger Cliff, he witnessed Blood Cloud Sect cultivators stop and kill someone trying to escape the kingdom.

• Ye Han learned that the Azure Kingdom’s sect war had spread to Great Cheng’s border, while the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect hunted him and Ouyang Changning.
• Ye Han chose to risk crossing the Azure Kingdom rather than travel through the Boundless Sea, and continued gathering supplies on his way there.
• At Spirit Tiger Cliff, a middle-aged cultivator tried to fly past a barrier but was struck down by a barrage of attacks from blue-robed cultivators.
• The Blood Cloud Sect cultivators looted the dead man’s belongings and stored his body, while Ye Han watched from a thousand zhang away and realized they were blocking cultivators.

Ye Han discovered that the Blood Cloud Sect was ambushing cultivators at Spirit Tiger Cliff and devised a plan to break through their blockade. After luring the sect disciples into an attack, he launched a surprise assault and killed one of them.

• Ye Han observed the Blood Cloud Sect killing cultivators fleeing the Azure Kingdom and estimated that about twenty disciples guarded the passage.
• Ye Han prepared formations and Metal Puppets nearby, then sent the Binglian Puppet to attack the barrier and draw out the Blood Cloud Sect disciples.
• Senior Brother Ning led more than a dozen disciples in pursuit of the Binglian Puppet, which retreated while deflecting their attacks.
• A Blood Cloud Sect disciple suspected a trap, and Ye Han ambushed the group with green sword-rays from the cliff.
• Ye Han used eight Millennium Ironwood Swords to kill one disciple and revealed himself in Hundred-Beast Armor.

Ye Han lured Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples into a series of traps after their Blood Cloud Formation withstood his attacks. When the sect’s forces split up to pursue Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet, hidden formations and Metal Puppets surrounded them, and Senior Brother Ning summoned Martial Uncle Xue for help.

• Ye Han attacked Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples with the Truefire Gourd and Millennium Ironwood Swords, but their Blood Cloud Formation held.
• Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet fled into the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation, which the blood souls destroyed after three breaths.
• Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet split up, prompting Senior Brother Ning to divide the Blood Cloud Formation and send each half after one target.
• A stronger mist formation trapped Senior Brother Ning’s group while ten Metal Puppets formed a Sword Formation around the other Blood Cloud Sect group.
• Senior Brother Ning activated a Messaging Talisman to summon Martial Uncle Xue as the formation’s pressure mounted.

Ye Han trapped the Blood Cloud Sect disciples in the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and used the Heavenly Thunder Drum to shatter their blood souls. Senior Brother Ning escaped through a vortex in a blood-lit Skull Head, leaving Ye Han startled by his void-escape treasure.

• Ye Han destroyed Senior Brother Ning's Messaging Talisman with the Ghost Skull Mirror, cutting off his call for Golden Core Stage reinforcements.
• Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples strengthened their Blood Cloud Formation, but Ye Han controlled the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to suppress it and drain their spell power.
• Ye Han revealed that the Binglian Puppet and ten Metal Puppets had lured another group of nine disciples into a separate Sword Formation.
• Ye Han summoned the seventy-percent-refined Heavenly Thunder Drum and blasted the Blood Cloud Formation's blood souls with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• Senior Brother Ning entered a blood-lit Skull Head and vanished into a vortex as Ye Han's lightning hands struck toward him.

Ye Han killed Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples, then broke through the restriction at Spirit Tiger Cliff and fled toward the Azure Kingdom. After masking his appearance and aura in a forest, he sensed a Golden Core cultivator searching for him and hid inside a tree.

• Ye Han used demon-breaking divine thunder and the Talisman Formation to kill Senior Brother Ning, then collected his possessions and burned his corpse.
• Ye Han took control of the puppet Sword Formation and slaughtered the Blood Cloud Sect disciples, then erased traces of the battle and headed for Spirit Tiger Cliff.
• Ye Han blasted an opening through the unmanned restriction formation and flew inside, refusing to help the cultivators waiting outside escape.
• Ye Han used a Tailwind Talisman to fly toward the Azure Kingdom, then concealed himself in a forest with the Myriad Images Mask and Red Mask.
• Ye Han sensed a Golden Core cultivator approaching and hid inside a large tree as a blood-red streak swept over the forest.

Ye Han escaped the pursuit of Golden Core Stage Martial Uncle Blood and continued through the war-torn Azure Kingdom toward Northern Li. While refining the corpses and dismantling bloodthirsty treasures taken from Blood Cloud Sect disciples, he held to his principles and felt the Mind-Clearing Art begin circulating on its own.

• Golden Core Stage Martial Uncle Blood found Spirit Tiger Cliff deserted, discovered his men had been killed, and pursued the fleeing cultivators.
• Ye Han hid from Martial Uncle Blood, then raced northwest through the forest while avoiding patrols from the Blood Cloud Sect and Yin Fiend Sect.
• Ye Han observed the devastation caused by the sect war and avoided cities caught in the fighting.
• In a secluded cave, Ye Han found hundreds of cultivators’ corpses in the Storage Bags taken from Blood Cloud Sect disciples and burned them in his Treasure Refining Furnace.
• Ye Han used purple-gold lightning to dispel the corpses’ resentful energy and killing intent, dismantled the sect disciples’ bloodthirsty treasures, and felt the Mind-Clearing Art begin circulating on its own.

Ye Han broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage after the Mind-Clearing Art began circulating on its own. He then spotted two Spirit Communication Sect cultivators being hunted by Blood Cloud Sect disciples and sensed that the Purple Cauldron was drawn to one unusually ordinary pursuer.

• Ye Han’s Mind-Clearing Art advanced, and he broke through to the fourth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• An explosion drew Ye Han’s attention to a battle between twelve Blood Cloud Sect cultivators and two Spirit Communication Sect cultivators.
• The tall Senior Sister Liang attacked the Blood Cloud Sect pursuers while her plump companion urged her to retreat and cast talismans.
• The Purple Cauldron reacted to an ordinary-looking Blood Cloud Sect disciple, and Ye Han decided to intervene.

Ye Han ambushed a Blood Cloud Sect disciple who had been hiding his strength, but the man detected him and counterattacked with deadly techniques. Their duel escalated into a clash of violet thunder arts, leaving both sects’ fighters stunned.

• Ye Han set up the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and concealed the Binglian Puppet before approaching the battle between the Blood Cloud Sect and Spirit Communication Sect.
• Senior Sister Liang and Junior Brother Li were surrounded, and Junior Brother Li merged with his two-headed demon beast to hold off their attackers.
• Ye Han targeted the dark-skinned Blood Cloud Sect disciple, but the man detected him, fled, then used a feint and nearly invisible threads to attack Ye Han.
• Ye Han dodged the threads and used demon-breaking divine thunder to snap them and trace the attack back to the dark-skinned disciple.
• The dark-skinned disciple countered Ye Han’s violet lightning with violet lightning of his own, leaving Ye Han and the watching cultivators astonished.

Ye Han pursued the dark-skinned brat into the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and destroyed his body with a coordinated attack. The Bloodlight Ancestor emerged from the wreckage, but Ye Han struck him down with the Ghost Skull Mirror and realized who he was.

• Ye Han chased the dark-skinned brat with Thunder Escape, sword attacks, and Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• Ye Han herded the brat into the Little Heaven-Covering Formation, where the Binglian Puppet and the formation’s attacks confronted him.
• The brat used a five-skull treasure to try to escape through space, but Ye Han bound him with the Dragon-Binding Bracelet.
• The brat escaped the bracelet with Blood Escape but crashed into the formation barrier and was crushed by Ye Han’s lightning hands.
• The Bloodlight Ancestor emerged from the brat’s destroyed body and tried to flee, but Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to strike him down.