Recaps

Jiang Ling and Si Shuo reached the Wilds Desolation Realm’s Demon Race Ancestral Court and rescued its inhabitants by destroying the Filth Demons besieging it. Afterward, they realized the attackers had been unusually weak and wondered where the powerful Filth Demons had gone.

• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo discovered the hidden Demon Race Ancestral Court beneath a failing ancient formation, surrounded by Filth Demons.
• The formation shattered, and Jiang Ling charged into the Filth Demons with her saber while Si Shuo activated his Nine Tribulations Thunder Body and fought with his fists.
• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo slaughtered the Filth Demons besieging the Ancestral Court and saved the native demons.
• Si Shuo questioned why the Filth Demons had been so weak, and he and Jiang Ling wondered where the powerful ones were.

Jiang Ling and Si Shuo reached the Wilds Desolation Realm's Ancestral Court and pressured its demons into handing over the Time Amber. As the demons led them to the forbidden grounds, they revealed that the relic was called the Years of Withering and Flourishing Formation and could distort the passage of time.

• Jiang Ling dismissed Si Shuo's suspicions about the Lower Realm and urged him to focus on retrieving the Time Amber.
• Si Shuo intimidated the Ancestral Court's elder demons while presenting his demand as a friendly request, and they agreed to lead him to the relic.
• Si Shuo explained to Jiang Ling that he used force because the demons would negotiate more readily when facing a powerful threat.
• An elder demon told Si Shuo that the relic was known as the Years of Withering and Flourishing Formation and was its core formation eye.
• The elder demon explained that a year passed inside the formation while only a few days passed outside, and Jiang Ling recognized its power as a fragment left by Demon Sovereign Shi Yin.

Si Shuo and Jiang Ling were pulled into the Time Amber and awoke in a mortal town with their cultivation suppressed. They decided to explore the town and uncover what had brought them there.

• Si Shuo retrieved the Time Amber from the altar, but its power trapped him and dragged Jiang Ling away with him.
• Si Shuo landed painfully in a bustling mortal town, where he and Jiang Ling realized they had been transported from the underground palace.
• Jiang Ling tried to break what she thought was an illusion, but her slash failed and she discovered her cultivation had been suppressed.
• Si Shuo and Jiang Ling suspected the Time Amber or a trial left by Demon Sovereign Shi Yin was responsible.
• Si Shuo shielded Jiang Ling and proposed that they explore the town to discover what was happening.

Jiang Ling and Si Shuo discovered that they were trapped in a world without spiritual energy and had been reduced to mortal limits. After Si Shuo hunted and cooked a wild boar to feed them, they agreed to head into town and find a way to survive while investigating their situation.

• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo searched the surrounding mountains but found no spiritual energy, formations, or signs of illusion, and concluded that their powers and bodies had been restricted by the mortal world.
• Jiang Ling’s hunger became obvious, so Si Shuo offered to find food and insisted he would rely on his skills rather than beg.
• Si Shuo returned with a wild boar, prepared it over a fire, and served Jiang Ling roast meat that restored their strength.
• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo decided to settle in town and investigate, and Si Shuo promised to show her how he would earn money.

Si Shuo and Jiang Ling tried and failed to escape the Years of Withering and Flourishing Formation, so they settled in Clear Spring Town and opened the Forgotten River Inn. The chapter left them beginning a new life as its chef and proprietress.

• Si Shuo sold a wild boar at Moon-Gazing Tower by demonstrating his knife skills, then bought Jiang Ling an Osmanthus Cake.
• Si Shuo told Jiang Ling how he had once survived after Si Che replaced his Storage Ring with useless books, forcing him to work and hunt for money.
• Over more than half a month, Si Shuo earned money as a chef, miracle doctor, and gambler while he and Jiang Ling searched unsuccessfully for a way out of the formation.
• Si Shuo bought a two-story building and decided to open an inn with Jiang Ling.
• Si Shuo and Jiang Ling opened the Forgotten River Inn, with Si Shuo as head chef and Jiang Ling as proprietress.

Si Shuo and Jiang Ling spent six months running the Forgotten River Inn after losing their cultivation, until Si Shuo drove off a powerful family’s men and the county soldiers. The inn became untouchable, but Si Shuo discovered his first white hair, showing that time was beginning to affect him.

• Si Shuo and Jiang Ling settled into life as the proprietors of the Forgotten River Inn, whose business grew as Jiang Ling’s beauty drew curious customers.
• Jiang Ling severed a thug’s hand when he tried to touch her, and Si Shuo cleaned up while the frightened diners paid and fled.
• The thugs returned with a young noble and armed servants, so Si Shuo fought them with kitchen cleavers and beat the county magistrate’s soldiers as well.
• Si Shuo hung the young noble from a tree, and the town thereafter treated the inn with respect and avoided demanding protection money.
• One morning, Si Shuo noticed a white hair at his temple, and Jiang Ling asked what was wrong.

Si Shuo and Jiang Ling accepted their mortal lives in the Years of Withering and Flourishing Formation and spent three peaceful years running the Forgotten River Inn. When Old Sun came to them after a corrupt squire’s son murdered his daughter and the magistrate threatened his family, Si Shuo took revenge and helped Old Sun escape, leaving Jiang Ling to question his methods.

• Jiang Ling found a white hair, and Si Shuo accepted that they were aging as mortals inside the formation.
• Three years passed as the Forgotten River Inn prospered and Si Shuo and Jiang Ling settled into ordinary life.
• Old Sun told Si Shuo and Jiang Ling that Benefactor Wang’s youngest son had killed his daughter and that the County Magistrate planned to punish his family.
• Si Shuo killed the young master, took valuables from the Wang Household’s treasury, and traveled to the Prefectural Seat.
• The County Magistrate dropped the charges against Old Sun after receiving a letter from the Prefectural Seat.
• Si Shuo gave Old Sun money and urged him to flee with his family, while Jiang Ling confronted Si Shuo about his way of settling the affair.

Jiang Ling rejected Si Shuo’s decision to quietly settle Old Sun’s case and killed the corrupt magistrate and the Wang Household’s enforcers. Si Shuo joined her in leaving town after sending Old Sun’s family to safety, though their clash over how to fight injustice remained unresolved.

• Si Shuo explained that he had bribed higher officials to close Old Sun’s case quietly and protect Old Sun’s family from retaliation.
• Jiang Ling condemned Si Shuo’s compromise, declared that rotten roots had to be torn out, and left the inn despite his attempt to stop her.
• Jiang Ling killed the county magistrate and the officials involved in Old Sun’s wrongful conviction, then slaughtered the Wang Household’s servants and guards who had oppressed the town.
• The next morning, the terrified townspeople found the county office and the Wang residence drenched in blood while Jiang Ling sat alone at the inn.
• Si Shuo revealed that he had dismissed the inn staff and sent Old Sun’s family out of town, then urged Jiang Ling to flee before the prefecture’s army arrived.
• Jiang Ling accepted a bundle from Si Shuo, and the two left the inn together.

After years of fleeing through a war-torn world, Si Shuo and Jiang Ling settled in Lonely Crag City, where Si Shuo ran an apothecary. When a deadly plague spread through the city, they learned that the city lord planned to burn thousands of residents alive, and Jiang Ling reacted with anger as the order was given.

• Si Shuo left provocative messages to draw soldiers away from townsfolk, and he and Jiang Ling evaded the authorities for years while traveling through a famine-stricken land.
• The pair reached Lonely Crag City in their fifth year in the world, where Si Shuo took over an apothecary and Jiang Ling helped him.
• A fast-spreading plague infected tens of thousands of people in Lonely Crag City, and doctors who treated them also died.
• Soldiers forcibly dragged residents, including people with only mild symptoms, toward the northern barbican after the city lord ordered it sealed.
• Si Shuo and Jiang Ling followed the crowd to the barbican and learned that Chen Shi planned to burn everyone inside to contain the plague.
• Chen Shi ordered the soldiers to fire their arrows, and Jiang Ling's expression turned cold at his declaration that the deaths were a necessary sacrifice.

Jiang Ling killed City Lord Chen after he ordered the infected people in the Barbican burned, but the fire had already begun. She and Si Shuo fled the soldiers after Jiang Ling rescued an infant from the flames.

• Jiang Ling challenged Si Shuo’s appeal to the bigger picture, and he tried to negotiate with Chen Shi for time to identify those who were not infected.
• Chen Shi rejected Si Shuo’s plea and ordered the archers to set the oil-filled Barbican ablaze.
• Jiang Ling cut down the soldiers and killed Chen Shi, but the fire continued to consume the Barbican.
• Jiang Ling heard an infant crying and rushed into the flames to save the child as Si Shuo covered her.
• Si Shuo and Jiang Ling escaped with the infant while the soldiers pursued them.

After escaping the city, Jiang Ling and Si Shuo raised the rescued infant Jiang Ran in a secluded mountain valley, living as mortals for over a decade. When Jiang Ran grew into a young man and asked to leave the mountains to help people suffering in the chaos, they let him go.

• Si Shuo found goat’s milk to feed the crying infant, and he and Jiang Ling agreed to raise him and make a home deep in the mountains.
• They built a cabin and named the child Jiang Ran; Jiang Ling became his aunt, while Si Shuo became his master.
• When three-year-old Jiang Ran developed a dangerous fever, Si Shuo risked his life in a blizzard to fetch herbs, and Jiang Ling devoted herself to their life together.
• More than a decade passed as Jiang Ran trained with a spear under Si Shuo and learned right from wrong from Jiang Ling.
• Jiang Ran asked to leave the mountains and help people in the chaotic world, and Jiang Ling and Si Shuo allowed him to go.

Jiang Ling and Si Shuo waited years for Jiang Ran to return, then left the mountain to find him after his letters stopped. They learned that Jiang Ran and his twenty thousand soldiers had been betrayed and killed in a court-engineered battle, leaving the elders with the truth of his death.

• Jiang Ran returned to the mountain in his second and third years of service, sharing his battlefield successes and bringing peaches for Jiang Ling.
• Jiang Ran planted peach pits near the house and promised to return after the war to grow old with Jiang Ling and Si Shuo.
• As Jiang Ran’s fame grew, his visits dwindled, and in the tenth year his letters stopped; Jiang Ling and Si Shuo went down the mountain to search for him.
• Travelers praised Jiang Ran’s leadership, but people near the capital fell silent whenever the white-clad general was mentioned.
• An old soldier told Jiang Ling and Si Shuo that the court had trapped Jiang Ran’s army in a valley and killed them with boulders and fire.
• The old soldier revealed that Jiang Ran had been shot in the back by his own comrades and that all twenty thousand soldiers had died with him.

After learning that Jiang Ran had been burned to death for the court’s political schemes, Jiang Ling and Si Shuo attacked the capital to avenge him. They slaughtered the emperor and his officials, and Jiang Ling turned toward the surviving imperial family.

• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo mourned Jiang Ran and set out for the capital to collect a debt.
• At a celebration in the palace, Lord Gao basked in praise while the emperor secretly planned to dispose of him.
• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo stormed the palace, killing the guards who tried to stop them.
• Jiang Ling killed Lord Gao and the emperor, then massacred the ministers gathered in the hall.
• Jiang Ling approached the palace’s maids, eunuchs, consorts, princes, and imperial grandsons, intent on killing them too.

Jiang Ling and Si Shuo escaped the palace after Jiang Ling nearly killed the imperial women and children, then mourned Jiang Ran at the burned battlefield and lived on in the Secluded Valley. As Jiang Ling declared that the mortal world was never sweet, Si Chen appeared and asked whether she still held out hope for the wounded world.

• Jiang Ling tried to kill the imperial women and children, but Si Shuo stopped her and argued that they should not become butchers.
• Imperial Guards stormed the hall, forcing Jiang Ling and Si Shuo to fight their way out; Si Shuo was gravely wounded while shielding her.
• Half a month later, Jiang Ling and Si Shuo searched the burned gorge for Jiang Ran and found the warped spearhead Si Shuo had forged for him.
• A year later, Jiang Ling and the ailing Si Shuo lived in the Secluded Valley, where Jiang Ling remembered Jiang Ran and said the mortal world was never sweet.
• Si Chen appeared in the peach grove, dismissed the mortal world as rotten, and asked Jiang Ling whether she still had hope for it.

Taichu revealed that Si Shuo and Jiang Ling had been trapped in the past, in a Mortal Forbidden Zone on the verge of collapse, and offered them a choice between sacrificing themselves or destroying the world. Si Shuo tried to become a vessel, but Jiang Ling stopped him and chose the sphere containing their cultivation.

• Taichu introduced himself and explained that the place where Si Shuo and Jiang Ling had lived for decades was a Mortal Forbidden Zone in the past.
• Taichu revealed that Jiang Ran's death had truly happened and that the plague in Lonely Crag City had come from Filth leaking through the planet's failing Seal.
• Taichu offered Si Shuo and Jiang Ling the choice to become vessels and save the planet for a hundred years, or reclaim their cultivation and destroy it.
• Jiang Ling prepared to choose destruction, but Si Shuo walked toward the black sphere to sacrifice himself as a vessel.
• Jiang Ling slashed Si Shuo's thigh to stop him and took hold of the golden sphere, declaring that she would not allow anyone else to be sacrificed.

Jiang Ling shattered the seal at the heart of the Mortal Forbidden Zone, restoring her and Si Shuo’s powers as the world collapsed. She chose to leave with Taichu and help him reshape the world, while Si Shuo was swept into the Void and the planet crumbled to dust.

• Jiang Ling drove her hairpin into the golden orb, detonating the seal and unleashing Immortal Essence as the planet began to collapse.
• Si Shuo and Jiang Ling regained their youthful appearances and Immortal King power, then acknowledged their bond and their irreconcilable differences.
• Taichu invited Jiang Ling to join him, and she accepted after recognizing Si Chen’s aura in him.
• Jiang Ling drew Jiang Ran’s peach grove into her storage space before leaving with Taichu.
• Taichu sent Si Shuo into the Void, and the Mortal Forbidden Zone disintegrated into dust.

After returning to the Demon Race Ancestral Court, Si Shuo learned that what felt like years in the past had taken only a blink in the present and hurried to contact Chen'er. Meanwhile, Jiang Ling brought Taichu to her Traveling Palace, strengthened Jiang Ran’s peach grove with her Immortal King origin essence, and named the palace Jade Pool.

• Si Shuo returned to the Demon Race Ancestral Court and learned that he and Jiang Ling had vanished for barely a blink after he touched the formation stone.
• Si Shuo recalled Taichu’s explanation of the past timeline and used a Communication Jade Talisman to contact Chen'er.
• Taichu explored Jiang Ling’s Traveling Palace and praised its craftsmanship.
• Jiang Ling summoned Jiang Ran’s peach grove into the palace and nourished it with her Immortal King origin essence.
• Taichu asked what the Traveling Palace was called, and Jiang Ling named it Jade Pool.

Taichu helped Jiang Ling reach the Immortal Lord realm, then took her into the void and captured a chaos beast he named Kunpeng. The beast ended the chapter trembling at Taichu’s side, unable to resist.

• Taichu explained that Luo Hou had transformed after fusing with a fragment of the Demon Realm’s Heavenly Dao, and promised Jiang Ling the chance to kill him later.
• Taichu summoned a new-era lightning tribulation that destroyed the old world’s laws within Jiang Ling and raised her to the Immortal Lord realm.
• Taichu took Jiang Ling into the void, where they encountered the enormous chaos beast she had once seen with Si Chen.
• The chaos beast fled from Taichu, but discovered it had never escaped his palm and was shrunk down before him.
• Taichu ordered the beast to remain at his side and named it Kunpeng.

Si Chen reunited with Si Shuo after returning to the Demon Race Ancestral Court and learned how Taichu had taken Jiang Ling. After bringing his uncle to Undying Mountain and telling him what had happened there, Si Chen watched Si Shuo go to meet the women who had arrived from the Lower Realm.

• Si Chen appeared in the underground palace and calmed Si Shuo, who had been unable to reach him through the Communication Jade Talisman.
• Si Shuo recounted how he and the others had returned to the past, how Jiang Ran died, and how Taichu took Jiang Ling after she detonated the Formation Eye.
• Si Chen reassured Si Shuo that Jiang Ling would be fine because Taichu still had a use for her, then said Taichu was another version of himself.
• Si Chen brought Si Shuo to Undying Mountain and explained what had happened there while he was away.
• Si Chen told Si Shuo that Second Uncle had brought their clansmen and Si Shuo's lady friends from the Lower Realm, and Si Shuo went to see them.

Si Chen ordered Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan to undergo vastly more intense training as the upheaval in the Immortal Realm accelerated, while Si Shuo hid his grief behind his usual playful act. Elsewhere, Luo Hou summoned the fallen souls of the Filth Demons and prepared to take revenge on Song Chi, Zhu Yao, and Feng Qing.

• Si Shuo emerged from Si Chen's courtyard, slapped himself until his usual carefree expression returned, and joined Su Miaoyin, Mu Qianqian, and the other women, though Gray Gray sensed his sadness.
• Si Chen told Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan that the changing situation demanded tenfold training, but Wang Yan enthusiastically requested even harsher discipline.
• Si Chen accepted Wang Yan's request and raised their training intensity a hundredfold, leaving Li Tiezhu horrified.
• Luo Hou, driven back by Zhu Yao and Feng Qing, vowed to create an army of thousands and used his power to remake and awaken the fallen Filth Demons.
• Luo Hou declared that his battle against Song Chi, Zhu Yao, and Feng Qing had only just begun.

Song Chi joined Li Feng’s Floating Net Heaven forces to search for the Demon Race Ancestral Court, but they found Filth Demons gathering around a gigantic black egg. A black giant emerged and singled out Song Chi, leaving the surrounding Immortals stunned.

• Song Chi met Li Feng’s forces and asked whether they had located the Demon Race Ancestral Court, but Li Feng said they were still investigating the Lower Realm.
• Song Chi agreed to accompany Li Feng, then followed the Filth Demons with him when they converged across the land.
• Song Chi and Li Feng found a black egg in a canyon absorbing the Filth Demons that threw themselves against it.
• A black giant emerged from the egg and threatened to eat the cultivators, prompting Li Feng to prepare his forces for battle.
• The black giant recognized Song Chi and shouted, “Kill Song Chi,” leaving Li Feng and the other Immortals staring at him.

Song Chi fought a rapidly strengthening giant that singled him out, using his speed to evade its attacks while Li Feng and the Immortal Realm cultivators tried to help. As the giant neared the Immortal King Realm, Song Chi summoned thousands of loyal Obsessions from his shadow, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• The newly risen giant ignored the Immortal Realm cultivators’ attacks and pursued Song Chi, while Song Chi insisted he did not know it and drew his Shadowstrike Sword.
• Song Chi evaded the giant’s blows with astonishing speed and taunted it, but the giant grew from middle-stage Golden Immortal strength to peak Golden Immortal.
• Li Feng ordered the Immortal Realm cultivators to cover Song Chi, and their attacks interrupted the giant’s pursuit long enough for Song Chi to catch his breath.
• Song Chi decided he had to end the fight quickly and called, “Come forth... my disciples!”
• Thousands of Obsessions emerged from Song Chi’s shadow, bowed to him, and formed an army as he pointed his Shadowstrike Sword at the giant.

Song Chi’s shadow disciples overwhelmed the giant with unorthodox attacks, but their assault triggered its awakening into the Immortal King Realm. As the army prepared to destroy it, Song Chi wondered whether his Dao could reform the giant and make it his disciple.

• Song Chi reassured Li Feng and the Immortal Realm Cultivators that his terrifying shadow army consisted of disciples who had turned toward the light.
• The shadow disciples attacked the giant, resisting its attempt to devour them and striking it with coordinated assaults, including sword attacks below the belt.
• The giant unleashed a surge of power, rose beyond the Golden Immortal peak, and began awakening into the Immortal King Realm.
• Song Chi ordered Li Feng to have the army concentrate its fire while he prepared to join the battle.
• Song Chi realized the giant was composed of filth like the demons he had already taken in, and began considering making it his disciple.

Song Chi formed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to trap the black giant and tried to use Cang Xuan’s essence to enslave it. He discovered the giant was already marked by Luo Hou, who recognized Song Chi’s power and raged at the attempted theft.

• Song Chi asked Li Feng and Floating Net Heaven’s forces to hold the black giant back for ten breaths while he formed his supreme formation.
• Li Feng led the cultivators in a desperate assault, buying Song Chi enough time to summon four sword pillars and activate the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Song Chi pinned the giant with sword qi and used Cang Xuan’s essence to try to make it his subordinate.
• Song Chi found that the giant’s only obsession was killing him and that Luo Hou had already branded its sea of consciousness.
• Luo Hou sensed Song Chi trying to erase his mark, recognized Cang Xuan’s power, and swore to kill Song Chi.

In another Lower Realm, the Azure Bull Demon King and his army struggled against Luo Hou’s Three-Faced Monster, whose attacks drove the demons to madness and despair. Luo Hongyi arrived and used her zither to cleanse the mind corruption, allowing Azure Bull to strike back while she focused on keeping the monster in check.

• The Azure Bull Demon King and tens of thousands of demon soldiers fought Luo Hou’s late immortal king Three-Faced Monster, but its laughter and sobbing made the soldiers attack one another or try to kill themselves.
• The monster fired a red beam that snapped off Azure Bull’s horn, and he realized his physical attacks were not enough to stop it.
• Luo Hongyi played her Jade Zither and used “Three Thousand Great Dreams, one dream of the mortal world” to clear the demons’ minds.
• Azure Bull praised Luo Hongyi and charged the monster while she recovered from the strain of cleansing its corruption.
• Azure Bull’s axe strike drove the Three-Faced Monster into a crater, and Luo Hongyi resolved to keep it restrained rather than fight it head-on.