Recaps

Lu Chen examined the nine wondrous Source Stones at the Yaochi Stone Workshop, identified a stone that might contain extreme yin power, and accepted the Yaochi Saintess's invitation to the Yaochi Grand Gathering. Outside Kun Yun City, he fought the Ji Family disciples who had recognized him and killed Ji Yunfei with one strike.

• Lu Chen sensed the Ji Family disciples' killing intent at the Yaochi Stone Workshop, but continued examining the nine stones.
• Lu Chen detected extreme yin power inside a human-head-sized stone and told the Yaochi Saintess what he had found.
• The Yaochi Saintess invited Lu Chen to attend the Yaochi Grand Gathering, and he accepted.
• After Lu Chen left Kun Yun City, Ji Yunhao and Ji Yunfei confronted him with their followers.
• Ji Yunfei attacked Lu Chen with the Heaven-Cutting Finger, but Lu Chen's Mountain-Embracing Seal crushed him.

Lu Chen killed three Ji Family disciples after defeating Ji Yunhao and Ji Yunxiao with the Star-Scrambling Finger. He stayed in Kun Yun Ancient City despite warnings, where the Yaochi Saintess grew acquainted with him and other powerful young figures arrived.

• Lu Chen killed Ji Yunfei, then defeated Ji Yunhao and Ji Yunxiao's Void Scripture techniques with the Star-Scrambling Finger.
• Lu Chen killed Ji Yunhao and Ji Yunxiao, and news of the three Ji Family disciples' deaths spread through Kun Yun City.
• Lu Chen returned to the city and continued visiting its stone workshops, while the Yaochi Saintess urged him to leave.
• The Holy Son and Holy Maiden of the Yaoguang Holy Land, an Imperial Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty, and descendants of the Northern Region's Thirteen Great Bandits arrived in Kun Yun Ancient City.
• Lu Chen and the Yaochi Saintess exchanged insights about Source Arts, and she valued his talent more than that of the new arrivals.

Lu Chen met the Yaoguang Holy Son, the Yaoguang Holy Maiden, the Great Xia prince, and other heirs at the Yaochi Stone Workshop, then revealed what he knew about the forbidden Buddhist figure Tathagata. His claim that Tathagata came from beyond the heavens left Ye Fan wondering whether the same path could lead him back to Earth.

• Lu Chen calmly told the holy heirs that he would strike without mercy against anyone who became his enemy, regardless of their family.
• The Great Xia prince stopped Ye Fan, disguised as a young Daoist priest, from approaching his nun sister, but Ye Fan persuaded him to let him speak with her.
• Ye Fan asked about Tathagata and Sakyamuni, and the Great Xia prince refused to discuss the taboo names.
• Lu Chen explained that Tathagata had arrived in the Western Desert two thousand years earlier, presided over Mount Sumeru, and later left for unknown reasons.
• Lu Chen said Tathagata was a man from beyond the heavens, exciting Ye Fan's hopes of finding a route back to Earth.

Lu Chen explained Tathagata’s arrival from beyond the heavens and his conflict with Buddhism, revealing that their dispute concerned reincarnation, immortality, and the origins of the world. Ye Fan learned that returning to Earth would require reaching the heights of a Primordial Saint, while the gathered holy-land heirs began probing Lu Chen’s origins.

• Lu Chen said Tathagata had come from beyond the heavens, challenged Mount Sumeru’s Bodhisattvas, and left despite their Extreme Dao Weapon.
• The Great Xia Princess called Tathagata a demon, and Lu Chen explained that his conflict with Buddhism concerned mysteries of past, present, and future lives, reincarnation, immortality, and the world’s origins.
• Ye Fan asked how Tathagata had crossed the heavens, and Lu Chen said only cultivators at the heights of the Ancient Sages could travel through the starry sky alone.
• Ye Fan realized he might have to become a Primordial Saint to return to Earth and worried about the time that would take.
• The Yaoguang Saintess and Yaochi Saintess questioned Lu Chen about his lineage after noting his knowledge, Source Arts, cultivation, and boldness.

Lu Chen arrived in Source City to test his Source Arts and seek a way to visit the outskirts of the Primordial Ancient Mine. He hired the notorious Duan De to lead him past the holy lands' blockade and set out with several other young cultivators.

• Lu Chen left Kun Yun after buying the Source Stone he could confidently appraise.
• Lu Chen explored Source City and bought one overpriced stone from a local workshop.
• Lu Chen learned the Various Holy Lands had sealed off the Primordial Ancient Mine's outskirts.
• Duan De offered to guide Lu Chen through the blockade for fifty jin of source.
• Three days later, Lu Chen met Duan De, who had gathered several young cultivators, and followed him toward the mine.

Lu Chen and Duan De led several young cultivators to the outskirts of the Primordial Ancient Mine, where a deadly blood-red sandstorm struck. Lu Chen survived inside the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and emerged after the storm passed, while the other cultivators were killed.

• Duan De guided Lu Chen and the young cultivators through secluded routes to the Primordial Ancient Mine's outskirts.
• Duan De warned the group not to speak carelessly as they crossed the barren, crimson land and reached ancient ruins.
• A blood-red sandstorm swept toward them, and Duan De and Lu Chen fled as the storm killed the other cultivators.
• Lu Chen entered the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, which endured the storm's attacks without damage.
• After the storm dispersed, Lu Chen emerged from the gourd and cautiously returned to the red earth.

Lu Chen and Duan De struggled through the Primordial Ancient Mine’s Life Forbidden Zone and found an ancient temple containing two valuable treasures. After they left, an enormous figure appeared on the horizon and charged toward them.

• Lu Chen reunited with Duan De on a blood-colored plain, and Duan De said they had fallen into the Life Forbidden Zone around the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Lu Chen and Duan De crossed the dangerous terrain together, escaped a mysterious field after three days, and reached an ancient temple.
• Inside the temple, Lu Chen found a head-sized piece of divine source in one stone, while Duan De uncovered Great Luo Silver Essence in another.
• Lu Chen and Duan De left the temple, and an enormous figure appeared in the distance and charged at them.

Lu Chen and Duan De were trapped in the Primordial Ancient Mine with a powerful Ancient Creature and had to work together to defeat it. They killed the creature with heavenly yin absolute water, but the corrosive liquid also damaged Duan De’s God-Binding Rope.

• Lu Chen and Duan De fled from an approaching Ancient Creature but discovered that uncanny fields had sent them in circles and left them with no escape.
• Lu Chen fought the creature with the Five Elements Divine Ring while Duan De attacked with azure flames from his Ancient Bronze Lamp and protected himself with a tortoise-shell shield.
• The creature drove them back with its strength and black gale, so Lu Chen and Duan De agreed to restrain it and use a killing treasure.
• Duan De bound the creature with his God-Binding Rope, sealing its divine power, and Lu Chen poured heavenly yin absolute water from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd over it.
• The Ancient Creature melted into black liquid, and Duan De mourned that the heavenly yin absolute water had corroded his rope.

Lu Chen and Duan De escaped the ancient creature and explored nearby ruins, where they discovered the Scarlet Blood Grotto and Falling Sun Ridge. Lu Chen identified the site as the place where Emperor Hengyu had forged his weapon, and they reached an ancient hall bearing a plaque inscribed with his name.

• Lu Chen slew the ancient creature with Heavenly Yin Absolute Water, damaging Duan De's God-Binding Rope in the process.
• Lu Chen and Duan De left the area, but heard a more powerful ancient creature roar behind them without pursuing.
• The two found ruined grounds and identified them as the dangerous Scarlet Blood Grotto and Falling Sun Ridge.
• Lu Chen recognized Falling Sun Ridge as the place where Emperor Hengyu had forged the Solar Divine Furnace.
• Lu Chen and Duan De carefully crossed the ridge and found an ancient hall with a plaque engraved with "Hengyu."

Lu Chen and Duan De searched Emperor Hengyu’s abandoned residence in the Primordial Ancient Mine, then collected black divine fire from Falling Sun Ridge before escaping the Life Forbidden Zone. They reached Source City, where Duan De complained about his bad luck and demanded compensation from Lu Chen.

• Lu Chen took the Hengyu plaque from Emperor Hengyu’s hall before Duan De could claim it.
• Lu Chen and Duan De found recent footprints in the hall and discovered that its treasures, including the phoenix blood red gold, were gone.
• Lu Chen collected black divine fire from Falling Sun Ridge with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, and Duan De gathered some with a small cauldron.
• Lu Chen and Duan De cautiously crossed the Primordial Ancient Mine and escaped the Life Forbidden Zone.
• Duan De led Lu Chen through the mining blockades to Source City, then demanded compensation for taking him on the dangerous trip.
• Lu Chen accused Duan De of having planned to fleece them, dismissing his complaints about bad luck.

Lu Chen visited Ye Fan in Stone Village and traded the complete Dao Palace Scroll of the Western Emperor Scripture for Ye Fan’s Phoenix Blood Red Gold. After Ye Fan entered seclusion to cultivate, the Black Emperor returned to the village and bit Lu Chen, leaving the two trading insults until Fifth Master Zhang calmed the dog.

• Lu Chen arrived at Stone Village, where Wang Shu and Lei Bo guarded the entrance, and reunited with Ye Fan.
• Lu Chen offered Ye Fan the complete Dao Palace Scroll of the Western Emperor Scripture in exchange for his Phoenix Blood Red Gold.
• Ye Fan accepted the trade and entered seclusion to cultivate the scripture.
• While searching the village for stone implements, Lu Chen was bitten by the Black Emperor, who was drawn to the scent of his powerful flesh.
• Lu Chen flew out of the Black Emperor’s reach, and Fifth Master Zhang eventually soothed the dog.

Lu Chen and Ye Fan spent a festive evening with the Black Emperor and the Zhang family before Lu Chen recognized that Fifth Master Zhang’s ancestral stone furnishings might conceal treasures. He began cutting them open and paid Fifth Master Zhang two hundred jin of source, leaving the search unresolved.

• Lu Chen, Ye Fan, and the Black Emperor shared roast lamb with Fifth Master Zhang and the villagers, and the Black Emperor sensed traces of immortal medicine on Lu Chen and Ye Fan.
• Lu Chen asked Fifth Master Zhang about the Zhang family's ancestral stone furnishings and offered to pay their weight in source.
• Ye Fan examined the furnishings but could not detect anything unusual with his current knowledge of Source Arts.
• Lu Chen cut open five stone stools and found nothing inside them.
• Lu Chen gave Fifth Master Zhang two hundred jin of source, and Fifth Master Zhang tried to refuse the fortune.

Lu Chen found a Human Origin Fruit inside a stone implement, then sealed it away after the Big Black Dog ate a piece and collapsed from its poison. After the dog recovered, he took revenge on Ye Fan, while Lu Chen secluded himself in a stone forest to refine Divine Source and pursue a breakthrough.

• Lu Chen opened a stone roller at Fifth Master Zhang’s home and found a fragrant Human Origin Fruit.
• The Big Black Dog tried to steal the fruit, ate a small piece, and collapsed in convulsions; Lu Chen explained that it was a sacred treasure that became poisonous if eaten unrefined.
• Lu Chen sealed the fruit in a jade cauldron, and he and Ye Fan left the other stone implements unopened at Fifth Master Zhang’s home.
• After recovering from the poison, the Big Black Dog ambushed Ye Fan repeatedly to take revenge on Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen secluded himself in a remote stone forest and began absorbing a piece of Divine Source to reach great perfection in the Dao Palace realm.

Lu Chen perfected his Dao Palace Realm, used the Azure Emperor’s Essence Blood to undergo a complete bodily rebirth, and traveled toward the Northern Region Holy City. Near the city, he encountered the Purple Mansion Holy Son, an old foe, traveling with the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden and their disciples.

• Lu Chen absorbed a million jin of Divine Source and brought his Five Great Divine Treasuries to perfection.
• He refined three drops of Azure Emperor’s Essence Blood, shedding his flesh and bones and transforming his body.
• Lu Chen left the stone forest and traveled north for over half a month toward the Holy City.
• Near the Holy City, Lu Chen spotted the Purple Mansion Holy Son in a passing cloud of purple mist, accompanied by the Holy Maiden and other disciples.

Lu Chen encountered the Purple Mansion Holy Son near Holy City and fought him after their past enmity resurfaced. He overpowered the Holy Son despite their difference in cultivation and raised a phoenix-wing strike to finish him.

• The Purple Mansion Holy Son recognized Lu Chen and vowed to avenge his earlier defeat and seize his divine mark purple gold pagoda.
• Lu Chen shattered the Holy Son’s purple divine swords with his fists and dispersed his lightning attack with Buddhism’s Six-Character True Words.
• Lu Chen summoned the Reincarnation Gate, whose suction pulled the Holy Son in until he used the Heavenly Demon Lamp to resist.
• Lu Chen’s Reincarnation Divine Light collided with the lamp’s green flames, leaving the Holy Son badly injured and shocking the watching cultivators.
• Lu Chen appeared before the weakened Holy Son and brought down a phoenix-wing strike capable of cutting through a thousand zhang of sky.

Lu Chen fought the Purple Mansion Saintess after she intervened to save the gravely wounded Purple Mansion Holy Son. Their battle shook the surrounding mountains and continued as her innate Dao embryo wielded the Mountain River Diagram against Lu Chen’s Divine Phoenix Secret Art.

• The Purple Mansion Saintess caught Lu Chen’s killing blow and prevented him from killing the Purple Mansion Holy Son.
• Lu Chen challenged the Saintess and revealed that he knew she possessed an innate Dao embryo.
• The Saintess summoned the Mountain River Diagram, and she and Lu Chen clashed with manifested mountains.
• The Saintess used her Dao-aligned power to dispel Lu Chen’s flaming phoenix and tried to draw him into the Diagram’s world.
• Lu Chen resisted the pull and pressed his attack with the Divine Phoenix Secret Art as their battle tore through the landscape.

Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Saintess fought fiercely, displaying strength that stunned the gathered cultivators. As Lu Chen’s Five Elements Divine Ring and Star-Scrambling Finger pressed the battle onward, the Purple Mansion Holy Son ambushed him, drawing blood and prompting Lu Chen to summon five figures.

• Lu Chen and the Purple Mansion Saintess exchanged powerful attacks despite their difference in cultivation realms, while spectators debated her strength and standing.
• Lu Chen brought out the Five Elements Divine Ring and clashed it against the Purple Mansion Saintess’s Mountain River Diagram.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Star-Scrambling Finger, and the Purple Mansion Saintess answered with a beam of purple light, whose collision killed several nearby cultivators.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son attacked Lu Chen from behind with a purple divine sword, cutting his palm before Lu Chen dodged away.
• Lu Chen called the Five Elements Ring back and made five figures appear around him.

Lu Chen killed the Purple Mansion Holy Son with the Five Elements Ring, then faced Supreme Elder Huang Gu’s pursuit. After surviving Huang Gu’s first attacks, Lu Chen used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to kill him, leaving the watching cultivators and Purple Mansion disciples stunned.

• Lu Chen drove the Five Elements Ring with his five Dao Palace deities and annihilated the Purple Mansion Holy Son.
• Huang Gu attacked Lu Chen to avenge the Holy Son, but Lu Chen evaded his strike with his Phoenix Wings.
• Lu Chen released the supreme yang divine fire from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, forcing Huang Gu to retreat from the flames.
• Lu Chen invoked “Treasure, Please Turn Around!” and sent an Immortal Sword from the gourd to behead Huang Gu.
• The watching cultivators and Purple Mansion disciples stared in disbelief as Huang Gu died.

Lu Chen killed the Purple Mansion Holy Land’s Supreme Elder, escaped notice in the Holy City by changing his appearance, and became a target of the Holy Land’s execution order. As Ye Fan’s exposed treasure drew the attention of major powers, Lu Chen headed to a Holy Land stone shop after hearing about eight gamblers who had shaken the city.

• Lu Chen rejected the Purple Mansion Saintess’s challenge and left after revealing that she possessed the innate Dao embryo constitution of the Queen Mother of the West.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King challenged Lu Chen, the Purple Mansion Saintess, the Yaoguang Holy Son, and Ji Haoyue, while the Purple Mansion Holy Land issued an execution order for Lu Chen.
• Ye Fan defeated Ji Family disciples in Kunzhou, exposed the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi, and drew the attention of the Various Holy Lands.
• Lu Chen entered the Holy City in disguise and planned to seek rare treasures in the Holy Lands’ stone shops.
• Lu Chen heard that eight gamblers had alarmed the Jiang Family and declared they would win a Saintess, then headed toward a Holy Land stone shop.

Lu Chen arrived in the Holy City and went to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, where he found Yao Yuekong and Jin Chixiao gambling against each other. As Yao Yuekong struggled to choose his final stone, Lu Chen stepped in and recommended one.

• Lu Chen entered the Holy City and headed to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop.
• Lu Chen learned that Yao Yuekong and Jin Chixiao were competing in a seven-round stone-gambling contest for twenty thousand jin of pure source.
• Lu Chen found Jin Chixiao ahead after six rounds, having uncovered five hundred jin of source while Yao Yuekong had found less than a hundred.
• Yao Yuekong hesitated over four stones beneath an ancient tree and asked his companions for advice.
• Lu Chen tapped a washbasin-sized stone and said it looked good.

Lu Chen, posing as Zhou Feng, helped Yao Yuekong win a stone-gambling wager against Jin Chixiao by guiding him to a piece of valuable purple crystal Source. He then led Yao Yuekong and several Demon Race youths into the Yaoguang Stone Workshop’s costly Heaven-Class Stone Garden, where their next gamble awaited.

• Lu Chen secretly used his Source Heavenly Arts to identify Source inside a stone, and Yao Yuekong chose it on his advice.
• Yao Yuekong cut out fist-sized variant purple crystal Source worth two thousand jin of pure Source, while Jin Chixiao’s stone proved worthless.
• Jin Chixiao paid Yao Yuekong the wager of twenty thousand jin of Source and left, and Lu Chen introduced himself as Zhou Feng.
• Yao Yuekong invited Lu Chen to dine, but Lu Chen said he wanted to gamble at the Yaoguang Stone Workshop before leaving.
• Lu Chen walked with Yao Yuekong and several Demon Race youths into the Heaven-Class Stone Garden despite warnings about its extreme prices, drawing the attention of the old men inside.

Disguised as Zhou Feng, Lu Chen entered Yaoguang Stone Workshop’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden with Yao Yuekong and other Demon Race youths, where they saw the garden’s astonishing prices and rare stones. Lu Chen bought a modestly priced stone and declared himself a Source Arts expert, provoking the old relics who doubted him.

• Lu Chen used the Great Art of Changing Heaven and Earth to disguise himself as Zhou Feng and entered the Heaven-Class Stone Garden with Yao Yuekong and several Demon Race youths.
• A Source Master explained that the garden’s stones were aimed at wealthy old relics, and the group was stunned by a blood-red stone priced at three hundred thousand jin of source.
• After examining the garden’s stones, Lu Chen used his Source Heaven Divine Sense to select a greenish stone beside a lake and paid three thousand jin of source for it.
• Several old relics mocked Lu Chen’s chances, and Yao Yuekong challenged their certainty that the youths would find nothing rare.
• Lu Chen boasted that he was a highly accomplished Source Arts expert, angering the old relics.

Lu Chen wagered that his stone contained a valuable treasure, and the source-cutting master revealed a fist-sized piece of divine source. After winning ten thousand jin of source from Chen Yuping, Lu Chen prepared to sell the treasure so he could buy another stone.

• Lu Chen challenged the elders to wager ten thousand jin of source on the contents of his stone, and Chen Yuping accepted.
• The source-cutting master opened Lu Chen's stone and uncovered a radiant piece of divine source larger than a fist.
• The elders valued the divine source at at least a hundred and fifty thousand jin of source, and Yao Yuekong praised Lu Chen's Source Arts skill.
• Lu Chen claimed his wager from Chen Yuping, who paid him ten thousand jin of source despite his dismay.
• News of the divine source spread through the Holy City, and Lu Chen told Yao Yuekong he would cut another stone after selling it.

Lu Chen cut a second treasure from the Yaoguang Stone Workshop’s Wind-Cave Stone: divine source containing forty-nine ancient insect kings, valued at more than six hundred thousand jin of source. He proposed sending the rare insects to the Heavenly Demon Pavilion for auction, leaving the desperate elders to compete for them there.

• Lu Chen sold his first piece of divine source to the Yaoguang Holy Land for one hundred and eighty thousand jin of pure source and continued choosing stones.
• Lu Chen selected the Wind-Cave Stone, priced at one hundred and twenty thousand jin of source, and cut it open himself.
• Lu Chen uncovered divine source containing forty-nine ancient insect kings, which the elders valued at more than six hundred thousand jin of source.
• The old relics clamored to buy the insect kings, and Lu Chen offered to auction them through the Heavenly Demon Pavilion.
• The elders accepted Lu Chen’s auction plan, while Chen Yuping regretted gambling ten thousand jin of source against him.

Lu Chen used his winnings to buy and cut open Yaoguang Stone Workshop’s Blood Sacrifice Altar, uncovering the Divine Silkworm Princess sealed inside with a decaying Battle Spear. He stored the princess and prepared to leave, while powerful factions invited him to join them.

• Heavenly Demon Pavilion delivered three hundred thousand jin of Source to Lu Chen, who combined it with his remaining funds to buy the Blood Sacrifice Altar.
• Lu Chen cut the altar open from a distance, and its stones released a terrifying killing intent from a rust-covered Battle Spear.
• The altar revealed the Divine Silkworm Princess sealed in strange silver Source, pierced through the heart by the spear.
• Lu Chen recognized that the princess still had a thread of life and stored her in a Spatial Artifact.
• Lu Chen chose not to cut open more stones, and powerful factions invited him to join them as he prepared to leave.