Recaps

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei discussed the Demonic Path’s hidden Foundation Establishment power before spotting Joyful Bliss Palace disciples holding Zhou Chu and a beautiful young man from the Thousand Bamboo Sect captive. Ximen Mei decided to rescue them, and Wang Yu activated his Black Tiger Baleful Body to launch a surprise attack.

• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu that the Demonic Path’s Foundation Establishment attacker might have been a puppet or incarnation and that they should focus on their mission rather than the fifth Secret Key.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei saw Mara Sect disciples pass by in disciplined formation, and Ximen Mei warned that the Mara Sect was especially frightening.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei spotted Joyful Bliss Palace disciples transporting Zhou Chu and a beautiful young man from the Thousand Bamboo Sect as captives.
• Ximen Mei chose to rescue the Thousand Bamboo Sect captive and asked Wang Yu to kill the Joyful Bliss Palace disciples without letting anyone escape.
• Wang Yu agreed and activated his Black Tiger Baleful Body as Ximen Mei brought the White Jade Flying Boat closer.

Wang Yu ambushed the Joyful Bliss Palace disciples on the Green Wooden Boat and killed four of them while Ximen Mei protected Zhou Chu and the handsome young man. The last two women fled on pink light, and Wang Yu launched flying knives after them at Ximen Mei’s urging.

• Wang Yu descended from the White Jade Flying Boat and killed three Joyful Bliss Palace disciples in a surprise attack.
• Ximen Mei protected Zhou Chu and the handsome young man beneath a phantom bell while defending the White Jade Flying Boat with the Little Mi-Cloud Banner.
• Wang Yu repelled the disciples’ magical attacks and killed two male disciples with his saber and a pale-gold handprint.
• The two remaining Joyful Bliss Palace women fled on pink light, and Ximen Mei called for Wang Yu to stop them.
• Wang Yu produced two silver Willow-Leaf Flying Knives and flicked them toward the fleeing women.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei rescued Zhou Chu and Yuan Huatian from Joyful Bliss Palace disciples in the Secret Realm. After freeing them, Ximen Mei told Yuan Huatian to leave and asked Zhou Chu to escort him while she and Wang Yu continued on their way.

• Wang Yu killed the two Joyful Bliss Palace disciples holding the captives, collected their Storage Bags, and burned their bodies.
• Ximen Mei dispelled the Red Great Bell and used talismans to free Zhou Chu and Yuan Huatian from their chains.
• Zhou Chu thanked Wang Yu and Ximen Mei for saving him, while Yuan Huatian introduced himself as a Qi Refining disciple of the Thousand Bamboo Sect.
• Yuan Huatian mistook Wang Yu for a secretly trained Heavenly Prodigy, and Zhou Chu wondered whether Wang Yu had been secretly nurtured by their sect's ancestor.
• Ximen Mei ordered Yuan Huatian to leave the Secret Realm and asked Zhou Chu to escort him while she and Wang Yu continued their business.

Ximen Mei and Wang Yu left the Jialan Secret Realm while Zhou Chu and Yuan Huatian prepared to follow, and Ximen Mei revealed that her seemingly foolish fiancé had a dangerous history of misfortune befalling those who offended him. The chapter left Wang Yu unsettled by her account as they traveled together.

• Yuan Huatian refused to leave with Ximen Mei and Wang Yu until Ximen Mei rebuked him, then Wang Yu gave Zhou Chu a Storage Bag and departed with Ximen Mei.
• Zhou Chu found supplies and weapons in the Storage Bag, persuaded Yuan Huatian to leave the area, and destroyed the Emerald Wooden Boat before heading toward the Secret Realm's outskirts.
• On the White Jade Flying Boat, Wang Yu rested while Ximen Mei powered the Cyan Small Banner Phantom in silence.
• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu that Yuan Huatian's childhood betrothal did not reflect his true nature and that people who offended him often met terrible misfortune.
• Ximen Mei recounted how a foundation establishment cultivator who had humiliated Yuan Huatian later mistook poisonous thousand-year crowgrass for thousand-year lingzhi and lost a cultivation level.

Ximen Mei warned Wang Yu that her fiancé, Yuan Huatian, was dangerous and likely to hold a grudge against him, then promised to ask her family ancestor to take Wang Yu as a registered disciple. After traveling safely into the mountain range, Ximen Mei and Wang Yu found the valley marked on their map and descended to search for its entrance.

• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu she feared Yuan Huatian and explained that their engagement was tied to relations between the Four Symbols Sect and the Thousand Bamboo Sect.
• Ximen Mei warned Wang Yu that Yuan Huatian might resent him for intervening and advised him to be wary of remarks Yuan made in jest.
• Ximen Mei promised to ask her family ancestor to take Wang Yu as a registered disciple, cheering him up.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei avoided another group of Black Soul Sect disciples and reached the valley shown on their map.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei kept the Little Maitreya Cloud Banner active and descended into the valley to look for the entrance.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei searched a valley for the Earth Origin Spirit Spring and the thousand-year-old blood origin mushrooms growing beside it, which could help create a lifespan-extending pill for Golden Core Ancestors. Wang Yu found the underground entrance, and the two entered the cavern with a Mechanical Dragonfly scouting ahead.

• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu that High Person Jialan had left blood origin mushrooms near an Earth Origin Spirit Spring, and explained their value to Golden Core Ancestors.
• Wang Yu used his heightened senses to locate the dampest spot in the valley, leading Ximen Mei to a tree hiding a hollow space beneath it.
• Ximen Mei cut down the tree with a Wind Blade, revealing an entrance to an underground cavern.
• Ximen Mei sent a Mechanical Dragonfly into the cavern to check for danger, then entered with Wang Yu.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei descended toward the Earth Origin Spirit Spring while discussing formation tools and keeping themselves concealed. After a Mechanical Dragonfly was destroyed inside the cavern ahead, they suspected a Demon Beast was guarding the spring, and Ximen Mei prepared a sedative to subdue it.

• Ximen Mei sealed the passage entrance with a Formation Disc and explained to Wang Yu how Formation Discs and Formation Flags differed from true formations.
• Ximen Mei recalled how her master could have used his sect’s formations to defend himself, and Wang Yu remembered the formation notes he had obtained.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei descended with a Mechanical Dragonfly scouting ahead and the Little Mi-Cloud Banner concealing them.
• Ximen Mei sent a second Mechanical Dragonfly to investigate the cavern, but its image vanished when something destroyed it.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei suspected a Demon Beast was inside, and Ximen Mei produced a sedative pill to prepare bait for it.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei used drugged demon-beast meat to lure a sleeping hybrid species out of its cavern. After Wang Yu severed and pulverized it, the creature began regenerating, and he trapped its remains in a barrier of crimson flames.

• Wang Yu thawed a piece of demon-beast meat, and Ximen Mei coated it with a high-grade Beast-Dazing Pill before sending it into the cavern on a Mechanical Dragonfly.
• After waiting, Wang Yu and Ximen Mei entered the cavern and found a sleeping, scorpion-tailed monster beside the shattered Mechanical Dragonflies.
• Ximen Mei identified the creature as a possible hybrid species, and she and Wang Yu decided to kill it rather than risk capturing it alive.
• Wang Yu cut off the monster's head, but its headless body attacked him with its hooked tail while the severed head opened its eyes.
• Wang Yu slashed the monster into pulp, then formed a pale red barrier of crimson flames around its regenerating remains.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei harvested the blood origin mushrooms, but their work triggered blood to pour from the pits and an ominous disturbance in the pool. After their attempt to escape through the ceiling failed, they fled toward the cavern entrance as something seemed ready to emerge.

• Ximen Mei dug up the three blood origin mushrooms while Wang Yu discovered a smooth hole beneath the pool and retrieved a cold, blood-patterned stone from it.
• Blood bubbled from the mushroom pits, so Wang Yu and Ximen Mei tried to escape with an Earth-Drilling Talisman, but the ceiling stopped them and they fell back into the cavern.
• Wang Yu caught Ximen Mei as she fell, and she blushed and threatened to settle accounts with him after they escaped.
• Wang Yu noticed the pool churning into a huge whirlpool as blood spread across the cavern floor.
• Ximen Mei used an Azure Talisman to rush toward the entrance, and Wang Yu followed at full speed.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei killed the regenerating variant demon beast and found three mature blood origin mushrooms beside the Earth Origin Spirit Spring. Ximen Mei began harvesting them with special supplies from her Family Ancestor, while Wang Yu grew more determined to become Heaven Toad Ancestor’s Registered Disciple.

• Wang Yu burned the variant demon beast to ash with his Flame Veil, and Ximen Mei questioned how quickly he could cast a Twelve Spirit Inscription Spell.
• Ximen Mei suspected Wang Yu had a rare spellcasting gift and said it could improve his chances of becoming her Family Ancestor’s Registered Disciple.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei cleared the mist from the Earth Origin Spirit Spring and found three blood origin mushrooms with nine monkey-head patterns.
• Ximen Mei applied Foundation Establishment demon beast essence blood to the mushrooms and began digging one up with a jade hoe.
• Wang Yu thought about how Foundation Establishment demon beast materials could help his own demon beasts mature and became more eager to join Heaven Toad Ancestor.

A flood of blood swept Wang Yu and Ximen Mei into a hidden formation, which pulled them through a black hole and dropped them into an abandoned stone hall. They began exploring the hall, but Wang Yu discovered that his fire technique would not work there.

• Blood surged into the cavern and swept Ximen Mei toward the black hole at the center of the white whirlpool.
• Wang Yu tried to rescue Ximen Mei, but the whirlpool pulled them both into the black hole after the Cyan Small Banner Phantom shattered.
• Wang Yu surrounded himself and Ximen Mei with killing intent and slowed their fall until they landed in a stone hall.
• Wang Yu released Ximen Mei, and they walked to opposite walls to inspect the overgrown relief carvings.
• Wang Yu tried to conjure a fireball to burn away the vines, but the flame flickered out.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei uncovered eight reliefs depicting High Person Jialan and a giant spider demon beast, from its subjugation to its attack on Jialan’s nascent soul. Wang Yu suspected a third person had made the reliefs, while Ximen Mei warned the spider might still be alive in the Secret Realm.

• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei stripped vines from the walls despite the formation suppressing spells, uncovering four reliefs about a spider demon beast and a monk who appeared to be High Person Jialan.
• Ximen Mei cleared the other walls, and Wang Yu examined four more reliefs showing Jialan’s aging, transformation, and apparent attempt to restrain the spider as it attacked his nascent soul.
• Ximen Mei identified the figures as High Person Jialan and his subdued spider demon beast, based on her Family Ancestor’s account and the rarity of nascent-soul cultivators.
• Wang Yu suggested the reliefs were made by a third person, but Ximen Mei rejected the idea because the scenes depicted only Jialan and the spider.
• Ximen Mei warned that the spider might have survived and could still be living in the Secret Realm, which might be one of its lairs.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei searched for a way out of the stone hall after learning a dangerous Spider Demon Beast might be in the Secret Realm. When Wang Yu could not climb through the passage above, he suspected the unusual floor tiles concealed another exit.

• Ximen Mei warned Wang Yu that a powerful Spider Demon Beast might be hiding in the Secret Realm, and they agreed to seek a way out.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei searched the hall’s walls but found no hidden doors or passages.
• Wang Yu used his physical strength to throw a Bone Spear into the passage overhead and climbed up, but a Restrictive Seal stopped him after a few hundred feet.
• Wang Yu told Ximen Mei that the unusually arranged floor tiles sounded hollow beneath them and suggested searching below the hall.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei uncovered a passage beneath the sealed floor and descended to find a Teleportation Formation. They left the chapter studying whether they could activate it to escape.

• Wang Yu smashed through the floor repeatedly, but silver Spirit Inscription phantoms restored it each time.
• Ximen Mei arranged Formation Discs and used her master's seal-breaking method to suppress the floor's restrictive seal.
• Wang Yu battered the tiles until they crumbled, revealing a staircase, and Ximen Mei said the seal-breaking method would last at least two hours.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei descended the passage and found a stone chamber containing a Teleportation Formation.
• Ximen Mei identified the formation and explained that it could transport people across the void, while Wang Yu hoped it would let them escape.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei discovered that the teleportation formation was operational and used it to escape their sealed chamber. They arrived in another chamber, regained their ability to cast spells, and prepared to investigate while concealed by Ximen Mei’s talisman treasure.

• Ximen Mei inspected the formation and found that three high-grade spirit stones powered it.
• Ximen Mei determined the formation was safe to use, and she and Wang Yu activated it despite not knowing where it led.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei teleported into a similar stone chamber, where Ximen Mei briefly lost her balance.
• Wang Yu confirmed he could cast spells again, and Ximen Mei used the Little Maitreya Cloud Banner Talisman Treasure to conceal them.
• Wang Yu slowly pushed open the chamber’s heavy stone door while the cyan concealment halo covered them.

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei emerged from a hidden passage into a long-abandoned temple within the Jialan Secret Realm. After discovering Buddhist relics and a distant pagoda, they realized a blood-stained crescent moon suggested they were trapped inside a powerful formation or restrictive seal.

• Wang Yu listened at a concealed iron hatch before opening it, and he and Ximen Mei climbed into a dust-covered side room.
• The room's furnishings crumbled into ash, revealing a courtyard; Wang Yu collected a bone prayer bead and an iron-essence wooden fish.
• Ximen Mei spotted a towering pagoda, and Wang Yu concluded they were inside a vast temple, possibly built by High Person Jialan.
• Wang Yu warned Ximen Mei that the place was dangerous, and she saw a blood-marked crescent moon in the gray sky.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei concluded they were still in the Jialan Secret Realm, inside a larger formation or restrictive seal.

Wang Yu used the White Crystal Orb to confirm that he and Ximen Mei remained inside the Jialan Secret Realm. Elsewhere, two armored sisters defeated a swarm of spider beasts with a powerful talisman, but Kang Wuhen threatened to use them as ingredients for pill refining.

• Wang Yu stepped beyond the Little Maitreya Cloud Banner Talisman Treasure and checked the White Crystal Orb, which revealed several Demonic Path disciples nearby.
• Two women in blue and red armor fought an unending swarm of spider demon beasts in a sealed chamber beneath the Ancient Tower.
• The spiders bound the Blue-Armored Woman with webs while green venomous fog weakened the Red-Armored Woman.
• The Red-Armored Woman used a crimson talisman to summon a phantom red sun that incinerated the spider beasts.
• Kang Wuhen appeared at the chamber window and threatened to refine the sisters' flesh and blood into pills after they rejected his demand for dual cultivation.

Kang Wuhen revealed that his previous-life identity, High Person Jialan, had awakened within him and that he planned to seize the Buddha Body Remains and recover his former power. He left the two captive women under guard while the old monk prepared to capture outsiders for a Human Soul Pill, and watched the women as they meditated.

• The women in blue and red armor suspected that something controlled Kang Wuhen and resolved to wait for a chance to escape, hoping Senior Brother Luo would rescue them.
• Kang Wuhen told the old monk that the Buddha Body Remains guarded the tower’s highest floor and that he needed the women’s primordial yin power and essence blood to subdue it.
• The old monk explained that a Thousand Bamboo Sect junior had escaped by detonating his Seal-Breaking Magical Artifact, but remained trapped inside Jialan Temple’s magic array.
• Kang Wuhen ordered the old monk to capture outsiders for a Human Soul Pill and reflected on whether he was High Person Jialan or Kang Wuhen.
• Kang Wuhen used a token to view the two women meditating in a dark hall, then leered at them.

Yuantong and Yuanming were trapped in a ruined temple by a phantom headless spider, but it vanished before Yuantong could unleash his secret art. In a side room, an old monk claiming to be a strand of High Person Jialan’s divine thought discussed the failed attempts to kill a man’s reincarnation and agreed to target those interfering with him.

• Yuantong and Yuanming fought a dark figure guarding the ruined temple’s hall but were thrown back by its strength.
• Yuanming proposed using the Flashing Golden Ring talisman treasure to trap the creature and escape.
• A giant web descended on the monks, and the Flashing Golden Ring revealed and restrained a phantom headless spider.
• Yuantong prepared to use his secret art as the web continued to descend, but the spider suddenly burst into blue smoke and the web disappeared.
• A black figure opened its blood-red eyes in a side room and said the master-servant contract prevented it from killing a man’s reincarnation.
• An old monk identified as a strand of High Person Jialan’s divine thought agreed to leave the reincarnation to the black figure and kill everyone else who interfered.

Outside the White Mist Sea, the White Bone Fiend sent Zhu Wuyan into the formation and ordered the Demonic Path disciples to break it, while Spider Demon Beasts ambushed Mara Sect disciples at the mist’s edge. At the temple complex, Ximen Mei tried to convince Wang Yu to pursue High Person Jialan’s inheritance, ending by asking what her Family Ancestor had said about reaching Core Formation.

• A black-robed man reported that the weakened illusion formation could exert only second-tier power, and the White Bone Fiend ordered the disciples to prepare to break it and surround the area.
• The White Bone Fiend sent Zhu Wuyan inside to kill anyone he found and warned him that their agreement depended on obeying orders.
• Spider Demon Beasts ambushed Mara Sect disciples at several points along the White Mist Sea, capturing two disciples and prompting the Black Soul Sect coordinator to recall the Demonic Path disciples.
• Ximen Mei urged Wang Yu to seek High Person Jialan’s inheritance, but Wang Yu argued they should leave with the blood origin mushrooms rather than risk their lives for treasure.
• Ximen Mei explained that Core Formation was rare even among the Four Images Sect and asked Wang Yu what he thought her Family Ancestor had said about his achievement.

Wang Yu refused to stay with Ximen Mei to search for treasures that might aid core formation, and the two parted ways. After Ximen Mei left, she revealed that Elder Jin had awakened and learned that he had helped her decide she did not need Wang Yu.

• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu that core formation depended heavily on fortune and explained why she was willing to risk searching for an opportunity.
• Wang Yu declined to join her, and Ximen Mei gave him the blood origin mushroom, a sound-recording talisman, and a Formation Disc to deliver to her family ancestor.
• Ximen Mei entered the central temple buildings while Wang Yu released cyan birds to scatter their essence-blood markers, concealed himself, and headed toward the White Mist Sea.
• Ximen Mei glanced back after Wang Yu disappeared, and the miniature Golden Toad appeared on her shoulder and questioned her feelings for him.
• Ximen Mei admitted she might have feelings for Wang Yu but said Elder Jin's awakening had made her feel safe searching alone.

Wang Yu entered the White Mist Sea while Ximen Mei and Old Jin planned to seek the treasure. Elsewhere in the Temple ruins, Luo Hao was caught between a mysterious monk and a hollow-eyed man, while Wang Yu fought through demon beasts and saw a distant battle erupt.

• Ximen Mei told Old Jin she believed sensing powerful demon beast auras would lead them to the treasure, and Old Jin agreed to help for three days.
• Wang Yu used a Formation Disc to part the White Mist Sea, then traveled underground beneath the mist.
• Luo Hao hid from a short-haired man guarding the Yellow-Brass Gate, but an old monk found him and attacked with a Buddhist prayer bead.
• Luo Hao revealed himself and drew the Purple Twin Swords, only for the short-haired man to appear behind him and strike with a Giant Palm.
• Wang Yu killed several Man-Height Giant Spiders and noticed distant mushroom-shaped bursts of light rising through the mist.

Wang Yu fled an overwhelming swarm of spider demon beasts while Demonic Path forces attacked the Mist Sea Magic Array. At Jialan Temple, Ximen Mei discovered a fellow Black Tortoise Mountain disciple among the dead and recognized the great hall from underground reliefs, just as a black figure emerged.

• Wang Yu killed a group of enormous spiders with the Windfire Chant, then fled when more spider demon beasts swarmed out of the Mist Sea.
• Demonic Path cultivators fought spider demon beasts from flying boats and planted formation materials as the Black Soul Sect bombarded the Mist Sea Magic Array.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton rose from his throne and moved toward the Mist Sea after his subordinate reported that it was time for him to act.
• Ximen Mei entered Jialan Temple, fell under its flight-prohibiting seal, and found a fresh skeleton wearing Black Tortoise Mountain's emblem.
• Ximen Mei recognized the great hall across the bone-strewn square as the hall shown in underground reliefs, and a black figure emerged from its mist.

Outside the Jialan Secret Realm, Heaven Toad Ancestor learned that his heaven toad incarnation had died, while inside the realm the old monk completed a batch of pills and sent a black figure to delay the outsiders. Wang Yu discovered that the Magic Array had trapped him and prepared to use a Water-Avoidance Banner.

• Heaven Toad Ancestor learned that his heaven toad incarnation had perished and feared that an opponent stronger than a Qi Refining cultivator was inside the Secret Realm.
• The old monk refined three low-grade pale-black pills and stored them in a crimson box.
• The old monk asked a black figure to delay the outsiders while he subdued the Brahma Body Dharma Form and dealt with Jialan's reincarnation.
• The black figure left behind the carcass of a huge toad before vanishing.
• Wang Yu repeatedly returned to the same Spider Demon Beast corpses and realized the Magic Array had trapped him.
• Wang Yu took out a Water-Avoidance Banner and poured dharma power into it.

Wang Yu used his Water-Avoidance Banners and Iron Cloud Brick to break a restrictive seal and uncover a ruined array platform. Elsewhere, a black figure killed a Black Soul Sect elder and struck the Giant White-Bone Skeleton while Spider Demon Beasts attacked the Bone Boats, leaving the skeleton preparing a counterattack.

• Wang Yu used his three Water-Avoidance Banners to clash with the restrictive seals surrounding him.
• Wang Yu activated the Iron Cloud Brick, shattered the remaining inscription phantoms, and uncovered a broken Formation Disc on a buried array platform.
• Wang Yu retrieved his artifacts and moved away through the returning white fog.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton and Black Soul Sect disciples attacked an array diagram protecting a formation eye.
• A blurry black figure killed the gaunt middle-aged man and ate his heart, then struck the Giant White-Bone Skeleton as Spider Demon Beasts swarmed the Bone Boats.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton rose from the silver Light Screen, sent his Bone Saber and banner after the black figure, and formed a crystalline eye on his forehead.