Recaps

Wang Yu met Lei Jun, a Spirit Puppet Sect cultivator who tested his strength, then accompanied Yan Lingxiang to explore the Three Venerable Stone Market. At the Seven Star Stone Shop, Wang Yu recognized something familiar about a young man examining a Chaos Stone.

• A drunken bald cultivator attacked Wang Yu, and Wang Yu matched his strike with a punch.
• The man introduced himself as Lei Jun of the Spirit Puppet Sect, learned Wang Yu's name, and returned to his courtyard with two half-demon women.
• Wang Yu found Yan Lingxiang's rooms empty and wondered whether he had gone to meet Mo Li.
• The next morning, Yan Lingxiang invited Wang Yu to look around the market, and Wang Yu agreed after cultivating the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• Yan Lingxiang brought Wang Yu to the Seven Star Stone Shop to examine its Chaos Stones.
• Wang Yu saw a young man studying a massive Chaos Stone and felt he recognized him.

Wang Yu recognized Li Fengquan, an old acquaintance from the Southern Continent, at the Seven Star Stone Shop and learned that he was now a rogue cultivator. After Gong Mingzhu attacked Wang Yu with a mental art and he retaliated, the shop's elder moved to detain her, leaving Li Fengquan under pressure to intervene as Yan Lingxiang arrived.

• Wang Yu recognized Li Fengquan and approached him while Yan Lingxiang browsed the Chaos Stones.
• Li Fengquan said he was now a rogue cultivator, and Gong Mingzhu arrived and introduced herself as his junior sister.
• Gong Mingzhu used a mental art on Wang Yu, but Wang Yu struck her Divine Sense Sea with telekinetic force and made her stumble.
• A gray-robed elder confronted the three and, after hearing Wang Yu's account, accused Gong Mingzhu of using a mental art and prepared to take her into custody.
• Gong Mingzhu demanded that Li Fengquan act, and Yan Lingxiang came over after noticing the commotion.

After Li Fengquan offered compensation on Gong Mingzhu’s behalf, Wang Yu accepted three Chaos Stones from the Seven Star Stone Shop. Yan Lingxiang then led him to inspect a promising stone, and Wang Yu secretly examined it with a spell.

• Li Fengquan revealed that Gong Mingzhu was the direct descendant of the Tuoyue Patriarch and offered to pay for three Chaos Stones to settle the dispute with Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu accepted Li Fengquan’s offer, and Li Fengquan left with the furious Gong Mingzhu after paying the shop.
• Yan Lingxiang told Wang Yu that the gift could bring trouble but encouraged him to choose stones while someone else covered the cost.
• Yan Lingxiang led Wang Yu to a green Chaos Stone speckled with silver and explained why he thought it might contain a natural spiritual treasure.
• Yan Lingxiang tested the stone with his crystal rod as Wang Yu examined it, briefly revealing a pale yellow spell pattern in his eyes.

Wang Yu used Star Thought Power to examine Chaos Stones at the Three Venerable Stone Market, buying one while seeking large stones for cultivating its later layers. He found his power could not probe the largest stone deeply enough, so he strengthened it with Telekinetic Power and continued the search.

• Yan Lingxiang examined a Chaos Stone and told Wang Yu it contained promising silver sand, and Wang Yu sensed two spots inside it with Star Thought Power.
• Wang Yu bought the Chaos Stone for 750 spirit stones and decided to have it cut open together with the other stones he would choose.
• Wang Yu sent Yan Lingxiang off to select stones for himself, then turned toward the largest Chaos Stones to obtain enough Star Stones for the fourth layer of Star Thought Power.
• Wang Yu tried probing the largest Chaos Stone, but his Star Thought Power could not reach far enough inside it.
• Wang Yu pressed a finger between his brows and sent a stronger surge of Telekinetic Power into the enormous Chaos Stone.

Wang Yu selected three enormous Chaos Stones and brought them to the stone-opening hall, where he watched another customer uncover a small piece of green dream stone. He began having his own stones cut, intending to keep the fragments and inspect them himself, as Yan Lingxiang arrived with two more stones.

• Wang Yu sensed a faint fluctuation inside a huge Chaos Stone and chose it, then selected two more stones for a total of three.
• The white-haired old man uncovered an egg-sized piece of green dream stone from another customer’s Chaos Stone, and the woman decided to keep it.
• Wang Yu asked the old man to cut his smallest Chaos Stone into fist-sized fragments so he could examine them later.
• Yan Lingxiang entered the side hall with two burly men carrying two head-sized Chaos Stones.

Wang Yu opened three Chaos Stones and found mysterious pattern iron in one and a glowing purple feather in another. The white-haired elder identified the feather as a demonic bird’s Life-Bound Magical Artifact but could not explain how it ended up inside the stone.

• Yan Lingxiang arrived as the white-haired elder began cutting Wang Yu’s Chaos Stones and commented that he had chosen only two.
• Wang Yu caught a piece of mysterious pattern iron in the first Chaos Stone and identified it as a second-tier spirit material.
• The second Chaos Stone contained no spirit materials, so Wang Yu asked the elder to cut the largest one.
• A glowing piece of Chaos Stone flew into Wang Yu’s hand, and he extracted a purple feather from it with his Pitch-Black Flying Knife.
• The white-haired elder said the feather was likely a demonic bird’s Life-Bound Magical Artifact, but he could not identify its owner and hesitated when asked how it had entered the Chaos Stone.

Wang Yu activated a purple Life-Bound Feather found inside a Chaos Stone, revealing it to be an ordinary second-tier magical artifact with twenty-four unfamiliar white flame-like spirit inscriptions. He kept the valuable feather to study, and Yan Lingxiang prepared to have his own Chaos Stones cut.

• The white-haired elder explained that the feather was likely a demonic bird's ownerless Life-Bound Magical Artifact rather than a sentient Spirit Treasure or Treasure Artifact.
• At Yan Lingxiang's suggestion, Wang Yu channeled dharma power into the feather, causing twenty-four white flame-like spirit inscriptions to appear around it.
• The white-haired elder identified the feather as a second-tier magical artifact and offered forty thousand spirit stones for it.
• Wang Yu declined to sell the feather because he was a second-tier artifact refiner who wanted to study it, then swept the stone fragments into his Storage Bag.
• Yan Lingxiang eagerly presented his two head-sized Chaos Stones, and the white-haired elder asked whether he wanted them cut open.

Wang Yu examined the Life-Bound Feather he had acquired and discovered it retained spiritual awareness. When he infused it with Dharma Power and fire spiritual power, it transformed into a fire-attributed curved blade that consumed three drops of his liquid Dharma Power before he released it.

• Wang Yu stopped Yan Lingxiang from continuing to gamble at the Seven Star Stone Shop, and they spent the day visiting other shops.
• After returning to the Soul Fragrance Residence, Wang Yu confirmed that Lei Jun was absent from the neighboring courtyard and set up an isolating seal in his room.
• Wang Yu tested the Life-Bound Feather and realized its movements showed that it retained spiritual awareness.
• Wang Yu used Overclocking to catch the feather, then infused it with Dharma Power and activated the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• The feather transformed into a curved blade, drained three drops of Wang Yu's liquid Dharma Power, and hovered in white flames after he let go.

Wang Yu tested the curved saber’s milky-white flames and discovered that its attacks could strike a target beyond the courtyard. He learned the saber retained a trace of spirituality, named it Light Brow, and considered how to nurture it.

• Wang Yu tested the curved saber’s flames by cutting an Entry-Tier Bone Blade, which snapped without showing any lasting effect from the fire.
• Wang Yu poured Dharma Power into the saber again and sent his Divine Thought into it, causing it to fly through a wall and kill a strange bird outside.
• A bald, burly man at the Soul Fragrance Residence briefly showed anger when the strange bird died, then resumed entertaining two Half-Demon women.
• Wang Yu retrieved the saber and spoke with it, learning that it was willing to follow him and responding by naming it Light Brow.
• Wang Yu realized Light Brow had a trace of spirituality but could not become his Life-Bound Magical Artifact, and he looked at the strange bird’s corpse.

Wang Yu discovered that the spirit soul had vanished from a Three-Eyed Crow killed by Light Brow’s milky-white flames and suspected the flames caused the anomaly. After buying a giant mantis, he tested the blade on it and watched it split apart and burn, leaving the cause of the flames’ effect under investigation.

• Wang Yu examined the Three-Eyed Crow’s corpse and found no trace of its spirit soul, then burned the remains with Light Brow’s milky-white flames.
• Wang Yu suspected the flames were connected to the missing spirit soul but stopped to restore his depleted dharma power.
• Wang Yu watched Lei Jun enter the neighboring courtyard with a half-demon woman, then left the Soul Fragrance Residence alone the next morning.
• Wang Yu returned with a giant mantis, sealed the courtyard, and removed the beast’s iron neck ring with a Command Token.
• The mantis attacked Wang Yu, but his apparent body vanished as Light Brow’s flames split the beast in half and consumed it.

Wang Yu confirmed that Light Brow’s milky-white flames could destroy Demon Beast Spirit Souls and considered how to conceal or refine their power. Later, Mo Li revealed that a rumor about a Golden Core opportunity in the Ten Thousand Stones Shop’s new Chaos Stones had spread, leaving Yan Lingxiang eager to pursue it and Wang Yu wanting to know more.

• Wang Yu tested Light Brow on a Snake-Chicken Beast and found that its milky-white flames destroyed Spirit Souls, unlike a strike without the flames.
• Wang Yu burned the Demon Beast corpses, considered the flames’ unknown origin and possible uses, then replenished his Dharma Power.
• After receiving a voice transmission, Wang Yu went to Yan Lingxiang’s courtyard and found Mo Li there.
• Mo Li said a secret rumor claimed the Ten Thousand Stones Shop’s new Chaos Stones contained a chance at Golden Core, and Yan Lingxiang called it an opportunity worth pursuing.
• Mo Li said the rumored opportunity might be a Snow Wolf Demon Core, a Golden Core-boosting spirit medicine, or Phoenix essence blood, and claimed True Person Great Fool had revealed the news.
• Yan Lingxiang began explaining True Person Great Fool’s reputation to the puzzled Wang Yu.

Wang Yu learned how True Person Great Fool’s divination revealed a Golden Core opportunity hidden among the Chaos Stones at the Ten Thousand Stones Shop, while Mo Li warned that Golden Core cultivators gathering in the Three Venerable Stone Market could spark a deadly clash. Yan Lingxiang argued that the chance was worth the risk, and Wang Yu sought more information before deciding whether to stay.

• Yan Lingxiang and Mo Li explained True Person Great Fool’s reputation and his divination that helped the Three Sects win the Human-Demon War.
• Mo Li said a demon learned of the Golden Core opportunity by soul-searching the descendant who had requested the divination, and the news spread among demons and evil cultivators.
• Mo Li revealed that at least two visiting Golden Core True Persons were in the Three Venerable Stone Market and urged Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang to leave.
• Yan Lingxiang argued that Foundation Establishment cultivators should risk pursuing the opportunity, while Mo Li warned that a Golden Core battle could kill them or trap them in the market.
• Wang Yu asked why no one had cut open the Chaos Stones at the Ten Thousand Stones Shop and requested the confirmed Golden Core cultivators’ backgrounds.

Wang Yu weighed the danger of pursuing a Golden Core opportunity at the Three Venerable Stone Market and decided to leave before the Ten Thousand Stones Assembly. Yan Lingxiang accepted his choice but asked him for a favor before he departed.

• Mo Li explained that the Ten Thousand Stones Shop would auction its Chaos Stones at an assembly, drawing Golden Core cultivators and possibly demons and Evil Cultivators to the stone market.
• Wang Yu warned Yan Lingxiang and Mo Li that whoever found the Golden Core opportunity could be hunted, making it dangerous to leave the market with it.
• Yan Lingxiang claimed that Senior Uncle Skyglow might be secluded near the market and offered to seek his protection for whoever found the opportunity.
• Wang Yu refused to join the stone gambling and said he would leave before the assembly because he was not willing to risk his life and had to represent Pure Fire Peak in the Sect Grand Competition.
• Yan Lingxiang agreed not to stop Wang Yu from leaving, then asked him to do a favor before he departed.

Wang Yu lent Yan Lingxiang Spirit Stones for the Ten Thousand Stones Gathering, discussed suspicions about Lei Jun, and bought materials before leaving the Three Venerable Stone Market. He departed at dawn disguised with the Thousand-Breath Disguise Mask as Wan Shan, wary of the Golden Core opportunity and the powerful cultivators drawn to it.

• Yan Lingxiang borrowed thirty thousand Spirit Stones from Wang Yu and over a hundred thousand from Mo Li, promising to repay Wang Yu with interest and swearing to help Mo Li find a Core Formation opportunity if he succeeded.
• Wang Yu told Yan Lingxiang that Lei Jun had tested him with a spell, and Yan Lingxiang revealed that Lei Jun had tested him too; they agreed to be cautious.
• Wang Yu bought artifact-refining materials and sought more Chaos Stones, hoping to gather enough for the fourth layer of star thought power.
• At dawn, Wang Yu noticed that Yan Lingxiang and Lei Jun had both left their courtyards and decided to depart without saying goodbye.
• Wang Yu used the Thousand-Breath Disguise Mask to take on Wan Shan's face before leaving the stone market.

Wang Yu fled after a massive black hill descended near the passage, then learned that it carried Sky Bear and her enormous son. Sky Bear arrived at Three Venerable Stone Market for an important purpose, and an aged man came to greet her.

• Wang Yu left the plaza on a bone boat and noticed a Flesh-and-Blood Puppet watching him.
• A massive black hill descended through the mist, and Wang Yu steered his boat away before fleeing into the sky.
• Sky Bear and her giant son emerged from the hill, and the son offered to catch and eat Wang Yu.
• Sky Bear warned her son not to cause trouble in human territory and said someone would come invite them down.
• An aged man addressed Sky Bear and asked why she had come to Three Venerable Stone Market.

Sky Bear arrived at the Three Venerable Stone Market with her son Ba'er and secured permission to enter after agreeing not to force anyone into trades. Skyglow True Person and Five-Stone Immortal Maiden then discussed the threat posed by Sky Bear and the other Golden Core cultivators already in the Market City.

• Sky Bear told Solid Rock she had come to pursue the opportunity to attain a Golden Core and warned she would block the stone market if he refused her entry.
• Solid Rock let Sky Bear and Ba'er enter after she agreed to conduct all dealings fairly, while Ba'er ordered the others to remain on Black Cloud Mountain.
• Skyglow True Person used a bronze mirror to observe Black Cloud Mountain as Yan Lingxiang asked whether Sky Bear belonged to the Flying Bear Demon Race.
• Skyglow True Person identified Sky Bear as a powerful third-tier demon whose mutated wings gave her exceptional speed.
• Five-Stone Immortal Maiden joined Skyglow True Person and Yan Lingxiang, warning that Sky Bear and the Golden Core cultivators already inside could endanger the market's long peace.

Daoist Heavenly Light learned of rumors linking the Chaos Stones to the Heavenless Demon Emperor’s treasure vault, then urgently sent Yan Lingxiang out of the stone market under disguise. Wang Yu fled the strange black hill and heard a woman scream from a mountain ahead.

• The Five-Stone Immortal Maiden told Daoist Heavenly Light that rumors claimed the Chaos Stones held a treasure tied to the Heavenless Treasure Vault, but she dismissed the report as likely false.
• Daoist Heavenly Light ordered Yan Lingxiang to leave immediately, gave him a concealing cloak, and warned him not to turn around or remove it until he was ten thousand miles away.
• Daoist Heavenly Light led Yan Lingxiang through a hidden passage in the stone market’s Magic Array.
• Wang Yu sped away from the stone market on his Bone Boat after the black hill’s foul odor filled him with terror.
• Wang Yu heard a young woman scream in despair from a mountaintop ahead.

Wang Yu killed a group of bear demons, discovered a green pearl that may have kept a slain cultivator alive, and encountered Stoneclaw of the Flying Bear Tribe. He launched an ambush on Stoneclaw, who unleashed a spreading gray haze in response.

• Wang Yu found human cultivators and a young woman dead on a hilltop, then killed the black-furred bears feeding on them.
• Wang Yu collected the cultivators’ Storage Bags, burned the bodies, and recovered a green pearl from the flames.
• Wang Yu sealed the pearl in a Black Iron Box and met Stoneclaw, a second-tier demon of the Flying Bear Tribe, who demanded compensation for the dead bears.
• Wang Yu confirmed Stoneclaw had no nearby allies and attacked him with the Golden Needle Technique and a silver-armored double.
• Stoneclaw braced himself and released a gray haze from his body.

Wang Yu fought Stoneclaw, a second-tier member of the Flying Bear Demon Race, and matched his strength before Stoneclaw transformed into a giant winged bear. Stoneclaw trapped Wang Yu in a crushing embrace, but Wang Yu used the Soul-Confusing Minor Art to make him loosen his grip briefly; Stoneclaw quickly recovered and renewed his attack.

• Wang Yu's golden fist clashed with Stoneclaw's black-miasma-covered claw, and their strength proved evenly matched.
• Stoneclaw transformed into his enormous winged Demon Beast form after realizing Wang Yu was a formidable opponent.
• Wang Yu attacked Stoneclaw with the Ruyi Hook and Light Brow, piercing his abdomen and heart.
• Stoneclaw trapped Wang Yu's blades and hands with suction from his body, then clamped him in a crushing embrace.
• Wang Yu told Stoneclaw to look into his eyes and briefly confused him with the Soul-Confusing Minor Art.
• Stoneclaw recovered, tightened his embrace, and roared at Wang Yu for using the art.

Wang Yu killed the bear demon Stoneclaw with Light Brow’s strange white flame and examined the demon’s remains. Finding a demon core, he considered seeking a compatible third-tier core pellet to pursue the False Core path if he could not achieve Core Formation.

• Stoneclaw tried to crush Wang Yu, but Wang Yu endured the bear demon’s embrace and spat a qi arrow into his eye.
• Wang Yu poured dharma power into Light Brow, whose white flame destroyed Stoneclaw’s spirit soul and caused him to collapse.
• Wang Yu severed Stoneclaw’s head and limbs, then confirmed the demon was dead and collected his claw gauntlets, storage bags, fang, and bear hide.
• Wang Yu retrieved Stoneclaw’s demon core and considered using a compatible third-tier demon core pellet to become a False Core true person if Core Formation eluded him.
• Wang Yu burned Stoneclaw’s corpse to ash and left on the Bone Boat.

Wang Yu fought successive waves of demon beasts while traveling by Bone Boat and realized a large-scale invasion had overtaken the area around Three Venerable Stone Market. He descended toward the ground to escape the aerial attacks, but the pursuing demon birds were caught in a powerful explosion.

• Wang Yu used the Crimson Sun Great Art to destroy a swarm of demon bees, then summoned Little White to attack a flock of Gray Iron Sparrows.
• Wang Yu meditated on the Bone Boat to recover dharma power while demon forces gathered at several sites around Three Venerable Stone Market.
• Wang Yu fought off repeated waves of demon birds with Little White and his black flying knife as the Bone Boat’s protective Light Screen weakened.
• Wang Yu decided to leave the sky, directed the Bone Boat toward the ground, and drew the pursuing white-crane-like demon birds after him.
• A ten-foot Solar Ring appeared over the grass and exploded into a blazing sun, sending a mushroom cloud skyward.

Han Huaying and a Spirit Puppet Sect elder faced attacks by powerful Demon Race foes near the Three Venerable Stone Market, while Skyglow True Person received alarming news and was confronted by Five Stones. Wang Yu remained trapped in a forest surrounded by demon beasts and Gray Iron Sparrows.

• Han Huaying fought a silver Giant Crane and its Feather Blades with three multicolored short swords north of the Three Venerable Stone Market.
• A Golden Tiger Race man attacked a yellow-robed Spirit Puppet Sect elder, who activated his Metal Puppets and fled inside a metal pagoda as tiger wraiths pursued him.
• Skyglow True Person read a warning on a tattered beast hide, then turned to find Five Stones and a little girl-faced woman appearing in his secret chamber.
• Wang Yu hovered silently in a forest as dense yellow rat beasts raced around him and Gray Iron Sparrows blocked the sky, leaving him trapped.

Wang Yu escaped a swarm of Earth Sand Mice and Gray Iron Sparrows underground, but Li Fengquan and Gong Mingzhu intercepted him, believing he carried an Undying Phoenix Feather. Wang Yu revealed the purple Life-Bound Feather, and Li Fengquan’s bloodline stirred at its presence.

• Wang Yu recognized the Earth Sand Mice and Gray Iron Sparrows as signs of a possible demon invasion and used an Earth Escape Talisman to flee underground.
• Wang Yu traveled more than thirty li beneath the ground and emerged in a quiet forest.
• Wang Yu sensed an ambush and struck at a concealed figure, but Li Fengquan blocked his silver hook with a golden spear.
• Li Fengquan accused Wang Yu of taking a bloodline object, while Gong Mingzhu appeared and demanded that Li Fengquan seize the Undying Phoenix Feather.
• Li Fengquan sensed the feather through his Firebird Bloodline, and Wang Yu revealed the purple feather that had been the original form of Light Brow.

Wang Yu faced Li Fengquan after learning the purple feather was the Undying Phoenix Feather and that Gong Mingzhu had helped engineer its discovery. Li Fengquan used his Annihilating Flame Lance to kill Gong Mingzhu instead of attacking Wang Yu, leaving Wang Yu braced for the next move.

• Gong Mingzhu and Li Fengquan identified Wang Yu's purple feather as the Undying Phoenix Feather and revealed that they had spread the phoenix essence blood rumor to draw people to the stone market.
• Li Fengquan activated his bloodline power, surrounding himself with azure and white flames, while Wang Yu summoned the Mount Mi Seal and formed the Solar Ring of the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• Li Fengquan launched his Annihilating Flame Lance, but twisted around and struck Gong Mingzhu instead of Wang Yu.
• Gong Mingzhu was destroyed by the lance's flames, leaving only her withered branch as Wang Yu watched in shock.

Wang Yu refused Li Fengquan’s demand for the Life-Bound Feather, and the two began a fierce battle. Li Fengquan unleashed his Azure-Red Firebird bloodline as Wang Yu summoned a colossal Flame Blade, leaving their powers poised to clash.

• Li Fengquan killed Gong Mingzhu and demanded that Wang Yu hand over the Life-Bound Feather in exchange for his life.
• Wang Yu questioned whether the feather truly belonged to an Undying Phoenix, and Li Fengquan attacked with his Mother-and-Child Spear.
• Wang Yu used the Mount Mi Seal and a blazing white sun to meet Li Fengquan’s fire attack, then evaded seven spear shadows and trapped them with his hooked Magical Artifact.
• Li Fengquan’s mask burned away, revealing a blackish-azure bird tattoo, and he transformed into an Azure-Red Firebird phantom surrounded by over a hundred fireballs.
• Wang Yu invoked Flame Blade and formed a colossal crimson blade as azure-red fire clouds filled the sky opposite him.