Recaps

Lu Chen rescued Zhang Wenchang from the Jade Cauldron Grotto-Heaven and restored his youthful appearance before taking him to the Taixuan Sect to seek a place for him at Clumsy Peak. They reached the sect and were escorted inside to meet Li Ruoyu.

• Lu Chen silenced the disciples mocking Zhang Wenchang, sent Elder Ma Yun flying, and carried Zhang Wenchang away from the Jade Cauldron Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Chen and Zhang Wenchang spent several days in the Yan Kingdom Capital, where Lu Chen used his arts to restore Zhang Wenchang's youthful appearance.
• Lu Chen told Zhang Wenchang he would take him to a great sect, and Zhang Wenchang agreed to trust his judgment.
• Lu Chen brought Zhang Wenchang to the Taixuan Sect, explaining that Clumsy Peak's natural Dao inheritance suited him.
• After Lu Chen asked the gate disciples to announce their visit to Li Ruoyu, a Taixuan Sect disciple led them into the immortal mountains.

Lu Chen brought Zhang Wenchang to Clumsy Peak, where Li Ruoyu accepted Zhang as his first disciple despite his poor aptitude. Li Ruoyu also invited Lu Chen to join, but Lu Chen declined, saying the natural Dao did not suit him.

• Lu Chen and Zhang Wenchang passed through the Taixuan Sect and reached the desolate Clumsy Peak.
• Lu Chen explained that Clumsy Peak’s legacy had declined after its master and a Yaoguang Holy Land expert perished, but predicted it would reappear within two years.
• Lu Chen told Li Ruoyu that Zhang Wenchang had poor aptitude and hoped Clumsy Peak’s natural Dao would suit him.
• Li Ruoyu recognized his younger self in Zhang Wenchang and offered to take him as his first disciple.
• Zhang Wenchang bowed to Li Ruoyu and became his disciple.
• Li Ruoyu invited Lu Chen to join Clumsy Peak, but Lu Chen declined, and Li Ruoyu accepted his choice.

Lu Chen stayed at Clumsy Peak to seek its legendary Nine Secrets: Jie, and his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda let him copy the hidden Dao traces despite the inheritance’s sealed state. After obtaining Emperor Zun’s secret technique, he left the Taixuan Sect to study the powerful arts he had gathered.

• Lu Chen asked Li Ruoyu for cultivation guidance and stayed on Clumsy Peak while searching for Nine Secrets: Jie.
• Li Ruoyu allowed Lu Chen to search, explaining that the inheritance had eluded countless people and would normally appear only when Clumsy Peak’s legacy opened.
• Lu Chen used the Spirit-Communicating Divine Pagoda to capture Clumsy Peak’s Dao traces and obtain Nine Secrets: Jie.
• Lu Chen learned that Nine Secrets: Jie could multiply his battle prowess, though it required a strong foundational cultivation method to unleash its full power.
• Lu Chen bade farewell to Zhang Wenchang and Li Ruoyu, then left the Taixuan Sect to study his gathered secret techniques.

Lu Chen practiced Source Arts in the Southern Region and learned that the Azure Emperor's tomb had vanished and an expedition to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land had ended in disaster. While following Purple Mansion disciples who were chasing a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, he killed two of them, while their Holy Son continued deeper into the valley.

• Lu Chen heard cultivators discuss the Azure Emperor's tomb sinking beneath the earth and learned that Yaoguang, Ji, and Jiang figures had lost people in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Lu Chen returned to the wilderness to practice Source Arts and spotted a purplish-gold Treasure-Seeking Mouse pursued by three Purple Mansion disciples.
• Lu Chen followed the disciples into a valley, where they noticed him and the Purple Mansion Holy Son ordered the other two to kill him.
• Lu Chen defeated the two dao palace third heaven disciples and killed them with Divine Phoenix Slash while the Purple Mansion Holy Son pursued the mouse deeper into the valley.

Lu Chen caught up with the Purple Mansion Holy Son in an ancient cave abode, where they set aside their rivalry long enough to explore its treasures. They discovered a black gourd that Lu Chen recognized as a crippled Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, leaving both men poised to fight over it.

• Lu Chen followed the Purple Mansion Holy Son into a cave abode hidden beneath a cliff and found him blocked by an ancient stone door.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son attacked Lu Chen with purple divine swords, but Lu Chen shattered them with his flame-covered fists.
• Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Holy Son forced open the stone door and entered the cavern while keeping watch on each other.
• The two discovered a pool of heavenly yin absolute water that could dissolve stone, treasures, and even a Holy Lord's body.
• Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Holy Son found a Purple Jade Giant Coffin topped by the Heavenly Demon Lamp, then spotted a black gourd on a stone table.
• Lu Chen recognized the black gourd as a crippled Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and fixed his attention on it as the rivals prepared to fight.

Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Holy Son fought over the treasures in an ancient cave abode, where Lu Chen claimed the legendary Black Gourd and gained the upper hand. The Holy Son escaped with a forbidden artifact, leaving Lu Chen to study the gourd.

• Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Holy Son clashed, then each seized a treasure: Lu Chen took the Black Gourd, while the Holy Son claimed the Heavenly Demon Lamp.
• The two found ancient spirit medicines deeper in the cave and began fighting in earnest.
• Lu Chen used the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda and his Divine Phoenix Slash to badly injure the Purple Mansion Holy Son.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son unleashed a forbidden artifact, whose purple palm sent Lu Chen and the Black Gourd flying.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son fled, and Lu Chen chose not to pursue him, deciding instead to study the Black Gourd.

After escaping the ancient cave abode, Lu Chen advanced to the Dao Palace fourth heaven and heard that the Bronze Immortal Palace and several major figures had stirred the Southern Region into turmoil. He encountered Ye Fan surrounded by the Ji Family and offered to help him escape in exchange for the Great Void Technique.

• Lu Chen collected the heavenly yin absolute water in the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, found only a decayed Demon King in the Jade Coffin, and left the cave abode.
• Lu Chen refined his resources and three ten-thousand-year-old spirit medicines, advancing from the dao palace second heaven to the dao palace fourth heaven.
• In a Southern Region city, Lu Chen heard news of the Bronze Immortal Palace, Nangong Zheng, the Peacock King, Ji Haoyue, and the Mad Old Man.
• Ye Fan threatened to reveal the Ji Family's Great Void Technique to the city while three Ji Family Eminent Elders and their followers surrounded him.
• Lu Chen offered to help Ye Fan escape if he taught him the Great Void Technique, and Ye Fan recognized him as Lu Chen.

Lu Chen appeared beside Ye Fan as the Ji Family prepared to kill him, then used a Buddhist true word to block their attack. Ji Hui paused to ask which family Lu Chen belonged to.

• Ye Fan threatened to spread the Great Void Technique to deter Ji Hui and the Ji Family cultivators pursuing him.
• Lu Chen arrived beside Ye Fan and criticized the Ji Family for surrounding a teenage boy with three eminent elders and their disciples.
• Ji Hui ordered the Ji Family disciples to surround and kill Lu Chen and Ye Fan, abandoning their fear that Ye Fan would expose their secret technique.
• As the Ji Family attacked, Lu Chen used the Buddhist heavenly sound of “Ba” to create a starry divide that dissolved their techniques and stopped their treasures.
• Ji Hui recognized Lu Chen's extraordinary potential and asked which family he belonged to.

Lu Chen used the true word “Ba” to trap the Ji Family eminents and disciples in a river of stars, then opened a Reincarnation Gate to swallow the young cultivators. Ji Hui and the other eminents struggled against its pull as she threatened Lu Chen with the wrath of the Ji Family.

• Lu Chen rejected Ji Hui’s threat and declared that he was willing to make an enemy of the Ji Family.
• Ji Hui attacked Lu Chen and Ye Fan with the Void Great Hand Seal, but Lu Chen’s starry river kept the strike from reaching them.
• Ji Hui and two other Ji Family eminents combined three Void Ancient Scripture techniques, but Lu Chen reinforced the river of stars and dispersed their attacks.
• Lu Chen opened a Reincarnation Gate within the starry river, and it swallowed more than a dozen young Ji Family disciples.
• Ji Hui and the other eminents struggled against the gate’s suction as Ji Hui threatened Lu Chen with the wrath of the Ji Family.

Lu Chen suppressed the Ji Family’s Eminent Elders and disciples, then chose to spare their lives after the Peacock King warned him that the Ji Family Holy Lord was nearby. The Peacock King praised Lu Chen and reunited with Ye Fan as the Ji Family withdrew in humiliation.

• Lu Chen’s display of power stunned the cultivators in the ancient city, and the Peacock King arrived with a terrifying presence.
• The Peacock King warned Lu Chen that the Ji Family Holy Lord had arrived, and Lu Chen asked Ye Fan whether he wanted the elders killed.
• Ye Fan admitted he was too weak to face the Ji Family’s retaliation, so Lu Chen stopped the Reincarnation Gate from swallowing the three Eminent Elders and blasted them away, gravely injuring them.
• Lu Chen released the Ji Family disciples but stripped them of their treasures and source before ordering them to leave.
• The Peacock King praised Lu Chen, greeted Ye Fan, and learned that Lu Chen was Ye Fan’s friend.

The Peacock King brought Lu Chen and Ye Fan to his hidden refuge in a small world created by an ancient sage. Lu Chen gave Ye Fan source to help him cultivate, and the two planned to seek more resources in the Northern Region.

• Cultivators discussed Lu Chen and Ye Fan's defiance of the Ji Family and debated whether they could survive the family's retaliation.
• The Peacock King brought Lu Chen and Ye Fan to a secluded little world near the Qixia Mountain Range, which he had restored after discovering it damaged.
• The Peacock King left to fetch an old acquaintance, while Lu Chen and Ye Fan settled into the little world and spoke about their cultivation.
• Lu Chen gave Ye Fan more than a hundred jin of pure source, which Ye Fan accepted as a loan.
• Lu Chen suggested they seek resources in the Northern Region and went to explore the demons in the little world.

At a gathering with the Peacock King, the Azure Flood Dragon King, and Yan Ruyu, Lu Chen asked to trade news of a supreme Demon Race treasure for essence blood from the Azure Emperor’s heart. The gathering ended with the demons astonished by his claim that the treasure surpassed even an Immortal Divine Medicine.

• The Azure Flood Dragon King told the Peacock King that strange phenomena had appeared around the Primordial Ancient Mine and invited him to explore it.
• The Peacock King agreed to travel to the Northern Region with the Azure Flood Dragon King, and Yan Ruyu agreed to relocate with them.
• Ye Fan asked to join their journey, and the Peacock King agreed to take him along.
• Lu Chen asked Yan Ruyu to exchange a divine treasure’s whereabouts for a few drops of essence blood from the Azure Emperor’s heart.
• Lu Chen said the treasure was more precious than an Immortal Divine Medicine, shocking Yan Ruyu’s companions.

Lu Chen explained the Three Great Wonderful Flowers to the Demon Race leaders and revealed that he wanted to trade the Demon God Flower for Emperor Heart essence blood. The Peacock King, the Azure Flood Dragon King, and Yan Ruyu were shocked by the flower’s value and history.

• Lu Chen described the Divine Flower, whose bloom could dissolve the Primordial Spirits of anyone below the Great Emperor realm.
• Lu Chen revealed that the Dao Integration Flower could help someone attain the Great Emperor realm, causing the Peacock King and the Azure Flood Dragon King to unleash their auras in alarm.
• Lu Chen clarified that the Dao Integration Flower was not the treasure he intended to trade, and left the others curious about his origins.
• Lu Chen named the Demon God Flower as his proposed trade for Emperor Heart essence blood, startling the Demon Race leaders.
• Lu Chen explained that the Demon God Flower could nurture Demon Race Younglings and recounted how Emperor Xue Yueqing had used one to build the foundation of his Great Dao.

Lu Chen arranged to exchange the Demon God Flower’s location for Yan Ruyu’s Ancestral Emperor Blood, then devised a scheme to obtain the Ji Family’s map to the Feathered Immortal Valley. With the map secured, he departed with Yan Ruyu, the Peacock King, and others to find the valley, while the Azure Flood Dragon King prepared a Domain Gate and Ye Fan learned where to refine his artifact.

• The Azure Flood Dragon King and Peacock King pledged rewards after Lu Chen revealed he knew where the Demon God Flower would bloom, and Yan Ruyu agreed to trade nine drops of Ancestral Emperor Blood for it.
• Lu Chen fabricated a treasure map and lured an ambitious Ji Family Disciple into secretly seeking the Feathered Immortal Valley, then tracked him down and seized the Ji Family’s map.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King stayed behind to prepare a Domain Gate for the journey to the Northern Region.
• Lu Chen told Ye Fan that the Fire Domain and Bodhi Seed could help him shape his Mother Qi of All Things, surprising Ye Fan with his knowledge.
• Lu Chen set off with Yan Ruyu, the Peacock King, and their companions, following the copied map deep into the Southern Region’s wilderness.

Lu Chen and his companions reached the Feathered Immortal Valley, passing powerful beast kings and discovering the valley’s ancient treasures. Beneath a thatched cottage, Lu Chen found and secretly claimed a damaged Quasi-Emperor Ghost Statue, then led the group deeper toward the Demon God Flower.

• Lu Chen, Yan Ruyu, and their companions encountered a Divine Tiger King and passed its territory after the Peacock King challenged it with his aura.
• The group spotted a Lightning Phoenix Bird near the Feathered Immortal Valley, and Lu Chen recognized that their destination was close.
• Lu Chen warned the group about a mighty centipede and guided them into the valley, where they admired its Qilin Orchid Ancient Trees and tranquil scenery.
• Lu Chen asked Yan Ruyu to lend the Green Lotus to the Peacock King, then swept away a thatched cottage and uncovered a damaged Quasi-Emperor Ghost Statue beneath it.
• Lu Chen stored the Ghost Statue in the Immortal-Slaying Gourd without revealing its true power, and the group continued toward the valley’s central region to find the Demon God Flower.

Lu Chen, Yan Ruyu, and the Peacock King found the Demon God Flower in the Feathered Immortal Valley and defeated its guardian, a giant Centipede Insect King. After the Peacock King claimed the flower, Yan Ruyu gave Lu Chen the nine drops of Azure Emperor's Essence Blood he had requested.

• Lu Chen and the others searched the Feathered Immortal Valley, collecting rare ancient medicinal plants before finding the Four-Colored Wonderful Flower, known as the Demon God Flower.
• Lu Chen warned the group that a powerful guardian would protect the flower, and the Peacock King sensed the Centipede Insect King beneath the rocky mountain.
• The Centipede Insect King attacked with killing intent and poisonous mist, but the Peacock King summoned Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens and destroyed it.
• The Peacock King cleared away the poison and took the rocky mountain and Demon God Flower, thanking Lu Chen for leading them to it.
• After searching the valley for several more days, the group departed, and Yan Ruyu gave Lu Chen nine drops of the Azure Emperor's Essence Blood.

Lu Chen, Ye Fan, and the Peacock King’s group crossed from the Southern Region to the Northern Region and settled temporarily in the Azure Flood Dragon King’s oasis. After parting from Ye Fan, Lu Chen pointed him toward a purple mountain and a Zhang family village near Pingyan City, where he could find a way to obtain cultivation resources.

• The Ji Family Holy Lord and the Yaoguang Holy Lord destroyed the Peacock King’s secluded residence while the Peacock King and his allies were away.
• The Peacock King, Yan Ruyu, Lu Chen, Ye Fan, and members of the Demon Race used a Domain Gate to leave the Southern Region and arrive in the barren Northern Region.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King brought the group to Yunze Prefecture, a large oasis under his rule.
• After leaving Yunze Prefecture, Ye Fan asked Lu Chen where to find resources to cultivate his Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.
• Lu Chen directed Ye Fan to seek a distinctive purple mountain and a village of people surnamed Zhang near Pingyan City, then flew away.

Lu Chen entered the Zhou Ji stone gambling house to test the Source Arts in his Source Heaven Book and assess the stones. After Divine Ring Gate disciples mocked him, he challenged Wang Sheng to a wager of five jin of Pure Source and chose a stone as the onlookers gathered.

• Lu Chen visited the Qingyun Life Oasis and went to Zhou Ji to practice identifying Source in Source Stones.
• He examined more than ten thousand stones in the first courtyard and found only a few with negligible amounts of Source.
• Lu Chen entered the innermost courtyard, where Divine Ring Gate disciples mocked him for being a country bumpkin.
• Lu Chen showed five jin of Pure Source and challenged the disciples to a stone gambling contest.
• Wang Sheng accepted the wager, and Lu Chen chose a Source Stone he knew contained no Source.

Lu Chen used his Source Arts to beat Wang Sheng and the Divine Ring Gate disciples in a series of stone-gambling wagers, winning their Source and a valuable piece of green leaf Source. After confirming his skills, he left Zhou's Gambling Stone Workshop, while several people followed him with designs of their own.

• Wang Sheng and Lu Chen each chose Source Stones, but both stones were cut open with no Source inside.
• Lu Chen lost two more wagers, appearing distressed as the Divine Ring Gate disciples won a small amount of Source.
• Lu Chen produced seventy jin of Source and challenged Wang Sheng and his companions to wager the same amount; they borrowed fifteen jin to match it.
• The Divine Ring Gate disciples' stone contained no Source, while Lu Chen's rooster-shaped stone yielded green leaf Source worth over a hundred jin of pure Source.
• Lu Chen collected the wager, left the workshop after testing his Source Arts, and was quietly followed by several people.

Lu Chen killed the Divine Ring Gate disciples and elders who tried to rob him after he won rare source at Zhou's Gambling Stone Workshop. After learning about the sect, he set out to visit the Divine Ring Gate.

• Lu Chen noticed the Divine Ring Gate disciples tailing him in Qingyun and drove off one who tried to threaten him.
• Three days later, Divine Ring Gate disciples and two Dao Palace elders intercepted Lu Chen as he left the oasis for the Holy City.
• Lu Chen killed one elder with Divine Phoenix Slash, then caught and killed the four disciples who fled.
• Lu Chen caught the remaining elder, learned that the Divine Ring Gate's sect master had reached the Four Extremes Realm, and killed the elder after shattering his weapons.
• Lu Chen flew toward the Divine Ring Gate to pay the sect a visit.

Lu Chen attacked the Divine Ring Gate after learning of its brutal exploitation of mortals and defeated its defenses with ease. Surrounded by the sect master and five elders inside a sealed formation, he began fighting back, leaving the Divine Ring Gate’s fate unresolved.

• Lu Chen learned that the Divine Ring Gate enslaved mortals to mine source and buried them when the mines ran dry.
• Lu Chen shattered the sect’s mountain-gate stele and sent its guards flying when they attacked him.
• The Divine Ring Gate sect master and five elders confronted Lu Chen after he revealed that he had killed two elders and several disciples.
• The sect master ordered the formation activated and the elders attacked Lu Chen, who shattered an elder’s flame-wreathed divine pearl with a single punch.

Lu Chen battled the Divine Ring Gate’s elders and sect master, defeating their ancient Mighty Figure’s Five Elements Ring with his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda and overwhelming strength. After killing the sect master and wiping out the elders, he took the Five Elements Ring and more than two thousand jin of Source, then returned to the barren Red Region.

• Lu Chen shattered the Divine Ring Gate elders’ weapons and killed one elder with Phoenix Cry Nine Heavens.
• The sect master used the Five Elements Ring to break Lu Chen’s Divine Phoenix, and the elders revealed that an ancient Mighty Figure had forged the treasure.
• Lu Chen summoned his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda, which endured repeated strikes from the Five Elements Ring but was driven back by its power of laws.
• Lu Chen triggered the Nine Secrets: Jie and fought the sect master until the Five Elements Ring’s power exhausted him.
• Lu Chen’s pagoda defeated the Five Elements Ring’s five-element vortex, and he killed the weakened sect master before wiping out the remaining elders.
• Lu Chen took the Five Elements Ring and more than two thousand jin of Source from the Divine Ring Gate, then entered the barren Red Region.

Lu Chen entered the Jade Pool Ruins to collect ancient Dao traces with his Spirit-Communicating Purple Gold Pagoda. He obtained the complete Mountain-Embracing Seal and continued deeper into the ruins in search of more arts and the Western Emperor Scripture.

• Lu Chen witnessed the Jade Pool's ascending immortals and confirmed that the Jade Pool Ruins lay in the region.
• He found a buried well, entered the sealed ruins, and saw that most of the land had withered under the Underworld's influence.
• Lu Chen reached the sacred lake but left without exploring its dangerous depths, where yin ghosts and the remains of supreme beings threatened him.
• He discovered an ancient carving and used the Spirit-Communicating Purple Gold Pagoda to recover the complete Mountain-Embracing Seal.
• Lu Chen set off to explore more of the ruins and seek the Western Emperor Scripture and other ancient arts.

Lu Chen used the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda to imprint the Western Emperor Scripture and other surviving Dao traces throughout the Jade Pool Ruins. His search culminated in the discovery of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, apparently left behind by the Queen Mother of the West’s Great Accomplishment Sacred Body husband.

• Lu Chen studied the carvings on a cliff and gained insight from an ancient Jade Pool sage’s failed attempt to deduce the Fight Secret.
• At the Western Emperor’s Dao-comprehension site, Lu Chen used the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda to imprint the Western Emperor Scripture’s Dao Palace Scroll and, over half a month, its complete passages for all five secret realms.
• Lu Chen searched the ruins further and imprinted the Star-Scrambling Finger from a ruined Heavenly Palace.
• While capturing Dao traces on a towering mountain, Lu Chen imprinted the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and realized its practitioner had likely been the Queen Mother of the West’s Great Accomplishment Sacred Body husband.

After uncovering treasures in the Jade Pool Ruins, Lu Chen amassed Source in Kun Yun and broke through to the Dao Palace Fifth Heaven. He returned to the city and went to see the Yaochi Saintess, who had brought nine unusual Source stones for experts to assess.

• Lu Chen covered the ancient well that led to the Jade Pool Ruins and left the desolate land.
• He gambled on stones in Kun Yun, earning a fortune in Source and attracting attention from major powers.
• Lu Chen secluded himself with nearly two hundred thousand jin of Source and advanced to the Dao Palace Fifth Heaven.
• After returning to Kun Yun, Lu Chen learned that the Yaochi Saintess had arrived with nine unusual Source stones from the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Lu Chen visited the Yaochi Stone Workshop, saw the Yaochi Saintess, and sensed the peculiar charm of her Dao power.