Recaps

Si Chen slaughtered the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect's outpost in Ancient Gaze City, then disrupted Lü Yan's breakthrough by ordering him out of seclusion. Lü Yan's attempt failed, and he emerged in a fury to confront Si Chen.

• Si Chen killed the outpost's disciples, including Zhao Qinghe, while the crowd outside expected Lü Yan to avenge them.
• Si Chen inspected a fallen sword, dismissed it, and walked toward Lü Yan's meditation chamber.
• Si Chen knocked three times and told Lü Yan to come out and stop trying to break through.
• Lü Yan lost control of his medicinal power, spat blood, and failed to break through to middle Golden Core.
• Lü Yan burst from the shattered chamber and vowed to destroy Si Chen's soul.

Si Chen fought Lü Yan through the ruins of Ancient Gaze City, evading the Golden Core cultivator’s attacks while searching for a way to strike back. He finally condensed the surrounding thunder into a spear, leaving the watching cultivators stunned as the battle reached a new stage.

• Lü Yan attacked Si Chen in a furious pursuit, and Si Chen used Thunderbolt Flash to evade his strikes through the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s ruined residence.
• Cultivators from across Ancient Gaze City watched as Si Chen survived Lü Yan’s attacks, while other Golden Core experts chose not to intervene.
• Lü Yan used his control over spiritual energy to restrain Si Chen and landed a sword strike, but Si Chen’s injuries healed rapidly.
• Si Chen realized he needed a ranged attack and began gathering and compressing thunder around his right hand while continuing to dodge Lü Yan.
• Si Chen summoned a spear of brilliant white thunder, and the cultivators watching the battle were left in shock.

Si Chen used his lightning spear to fight Lü Yan on equal terms, then drove the Golden Core elder into a desperate retreat with a barrage of thrown spears. As the ruins of Ancient Gaze City crumbled around them, Lü Yan could only dodge while Si Chen continued attacking.

• Si Chen formed a lightning spear and clashed with Lü Yan, matching the elder’s strength and evading his sword techniques with Thunderbolt Flash.
• Si Chen hurled the spear past Lü Yan and destroyed the top half of a tower, then immediately formed another spear.
• Si Chen repeatedly threw lightning spears while keeping Lü Yan at a distance, forcing him to dodge and fend off attacks.
• Lü Yan’s robes and hair were scorched, and the spectators watched as the fight’s offense and defense completely reversed.

Si Chen defeated Lü Yan after the elder burned his essence blood and launched a desperate assault in Ancient Gaze City. Lü Yan died beneath Si Chen’s concealed net of Thunderbolt Spears, leaving the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s threat hanging over the aftermath.

• Lü Yan burned his essence blood, raised his power to the threshold of middle Golden Core, and attacked Si Chen in a frenzied exchange.
• Si Chen used Thunderbolt Flash to evade Lü Yan while repeatedly forming and throwing Thunderbolt Spears across the ruins.
• Lü Yan struck Si Chen with his killing move, but Si Chen emerged from the dust with only a fading mark on his skin.
• Si Chen activated the hidden lightning threads sustaining the scattered spears, surrounding Lü Yan with twenty Thunderbolt Spears.
• The lightning spears blasted Lü Yan into a crater, and he warned Si Chen that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect would seek revenge.
• Si Chen approached the dying Lü Yan, broke his neck, and declared that all scores were settled.

After killing Lü Yan, Si Chen left Ancient Gaze City and became the subject of widespread talk for slaying a golden core cultivator as a foundation establishment cultivator. He healed his injuries in a remote cave, found a lightning-bearing scale that might lead him to Yang Thunder, and advanced to the late stage of foundation establishment.

• The cultivators who witnessed Si Chen kill Lü Yan marveled at his strength, and the head of the Li Household and other golden core experts tried to befriend him.
• Si Chen took Lü Yan's Storage Ring, declined the golden core experts' hospitality, and flew away from Ancient Gaze City.
• News of Si Chen's feat and his destruction of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect's outpost spread throughout the region.
• Si Chen inspected his injuries in a remote cave and used the healing pills his mother, Ye Fu, had packed to recover.
• Si Chen searched Lü Yan's Storage Ring, found a scale containing a trace of unusually pure lightning aura, and kept it as a possible lead.
• Si Chen cultivated in the cave and reached the late stage of foundation establishment.

After the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect learned that Si Chen had killed Lü Yan and its disciples, Lü Ci ordered the Night Rain Tower to assassinate him. Meanwhile, Si Chen followed a mysterious scale toward the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, but its signal faded and he got lost in the fog.

• Lü Ci learned that Si Chen had killed Lü Yan, Zhao Qinghe, and more than a dozen disciples, and ordered the sect to find and kill him.
• Lü Ci agreed to hire the Night Rain Tower and told the elder that the price did not matter as long as Si Chen was killed.
• Si Chen left the mountains, studied his map, and noticed that the dark scale from Lü Yan tugged toward the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences.
• Si Chen entered the mountain range, but the scale stopped responding, so he tried searching the area himself.
• Si Chen found that fog and confusing terrain made it impossible to navigate, and he became lost.

After spending two years lost in the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, Si Chen found two injured demons fighting over a mysterious egg. He traded them healing pills for it, and they promised to lead him out once they had recovered.

• Si Chen followed the sounds of a battle and found the Mountain-Shaking Bear and Crimson-Eyed Giant Tiger fighting over a fiery-red egg.
• The exhausted demons accidentally sent the egg into Si Chen's arms, and he offered each of them a bottle of medicine in exchange for it.
• After the medicine healed most of their injuries, the bear and tiger treated Si Chen warmly and promised to guide him out of the mountains.
• Si Chen asked about the egg, and the bear explained that it had fallen from the sky a few days earlier.

Si Chen spent a happy month exploring the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences with Black Mountain and Red Wind while the fiery-red egg he carried absorbed vitality. The egg hatched into a tiny bird that Si Chen named Red Bean, and he sensed a hidden aura of flame inside it.

• Black Mountain and Red Wind thanked Si Chen for healing them with pills and invited him to stay in the mountains.
• Si Chen agreed to remain, and he grew close to the two demons as they explored and gathered spiritual wild fruit together.
• As Si Chen cultivated, the fiery-red egg grew more lively, and a month later its shell cracked.
• A small red-feathered bird hatched, ate its shell, and nestled against Si Chen's finger.
• Si Chen named the bird Red Bean and sensed a faint, pure aura of flame within it.

Si Chen’s Flood Dragon Scale awakened and revealed the emergence of Dragonfall Land, a dangerous hoard tied to a Flood Dragon’s possible resurrection. He set out with Red Bean, Black Mountain, and Red Wind to investigate, hoping to find the Yang Thunder he sought.

• Si Chen grew closer to Black Mountain and Red Wind while Red Bean rapidly matured and showed unusual intelligence.
• The dark scale in Si Chen’s Storage Ring awakened, and Black Mountain and Red Wind identified it as a Flood Dragon Scale.
• Red Wind and Black Mountain explained that Flood Dragon Scales could lure the powerful to a treasure vault and slaughterhouse where a Flood Dragon might be revived.
• The Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences shook as Dragonfall Land emerged, drawing cultivators and demon beasts toward its dragon aura.
• Si Chen agreed to investigate Dragonfall Land with Red Bean, Black Mountain, and Red Wind, and the group followed the scale deeper into the mountains.

Si Chen arrived at the Heavenly Pit with Red Wind and Black Mountain, where he clashed with human cultivators and faced the vengeful Sect Master Lü Ci. The Flood Dragon Scales gathered and vanished into the pit, opening the Dragonfall Land and leaving the gathered humans and demons free to enter.

• Si Chen and the demons reached the Heavenly Pit, where humans and demons had gathered to seek the Flood Dragon's legacy.
• When a cultivator insulted Si Chen's parents, Si Chen attacked him with his Thunderbolt Spear and was recognized as the one who had killed Elder Lü.
• Lü Ci arrived and attacked Si Chen, but Red Wind and Black Mountain blocked his strike while the other demons prepared to fight; human leaders persuaded Lü Ci to stand down.
• Flood Dragon Scales held by Si Chen and others flew together, formed a Flood Dragon outline, and plunged into the Heavenly Pit.
• The barrier at the entrance vanished, and the Dragonfall Land opened.

Si Chen entered the flood dragon’s lair, where a flight-suppressing restriction sent cultivators plunging toward a deadly corrosive lake. After Red Bean saved him and he regrouped with the surviving demons, Si Chen waited on the shore for Lü Ci, preparing to return his earlier attack.

• Si Chen killed the unconscious, one-armed cultivator who had insulted his parents, then evaded Lü Ci and entered the lair with Red Bean.
• Si Chen and the other intruders fell toward a corrosive lake after discovering the entrance suppressed flight, and Red Bean transformed into a great crimson bird and caught him.
• Black Mountain, Red Wind, and other demons reached shore by using their strength and abilities, while many humans died in the lake.
• Si Chen reunited with the surviving demons on the cavern shore, where they found that flight remained impossible and a dark passage led onward.
• Si Chen stayed behind to watch for Lü Ci and formed a Thunderbolt Spear as he waited to retaliate.

Si Chen ambushed Lü Ci with a barrage of lightning spears, forcing him to fight back while trapped above the death lake. After a massive clash sent two Golden Core elders into the lake, Si Chen left for the cave with Red Bean and the demons, while Young Master Fang took an interest in him.

• Lü Ci arrived over the lake with Young Master Fang and a gray-robed elder, and the Flight-Restricting Seal left them unable to fly.
• Si Chen unleashed repeated Thunderbolt Spears at Lü Ci, keeping him suspended over the death lake and disrupting his movement.
• Si Chen combined two spears into a giant Thunderbolt Spear, which clashed with Lü Ci's Sword Qi and sent two Golden Core elders tumbling into the lake.
• Si Chen waved farewell to Lü Ci and flew into the cave on Red Bean with Black Mountain and Red Wind following.
• Lü Ci stayed behind to rescue the elders, while Young Master Fang praised Si Chen's unusual abilities and found him interesting.

Si Chen and his companions found a pool of what the cultivators believed was flood dragon blood, but the energy inside made him uneasy. After Black Mountain and Red Wind entered the pool, its power drove those soaking in it into a murderous frenzy, and the chapter ended as the two demons opened scarlet eyes.

• Si Chen entered the cave with Black Mountain and Red Wind while Lü Ci rescued his elders and called Si Chen an evil cultivator to Young Master Fang.
• Red Wind guided Si Chen through the cave’s branching passages to a vast chamber containing a pool of dark red liquid believed to be flood dragon blood.
• Si Chen sensed something wrong with the blood pool, but Black Mountain and Red Wind entered it to absorb its power.
• After about an hour, the first person to enter the pool went mad and attacked others, and more red-eyed cultivators and demons rose to join the violence.
• Si Chen dodged the attackers and saw Black Mountain and Red Wind open their eyes, now scarlet like the others.

Si Chen fought off the blood-maddened humans and demons while trying to spare Black Mountain and Red Wind, then discovered that the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art could briefly restore Black Mountain's clarity. Lü Ci and the others arrived before Si Chen could continue, and Black Mountain turned on him again.

• Black Mountain and Red Wind rampaged through the hall, killing cultivators as the survivors fled or attacked Si Chen.
• Si Chen evaded the maddened crowd and fought back with Thunderbolt Flash and Thunderbolt Spears, but Black Mountain and Red Wind turned their attacks on him.
• Si Chen used the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art's vitality to strike Black Mountain's forehead, briefly bringing a flicker of clarity to his eyes.
• Lü Ci slashed Si Chen's arm as he tried to help Black Mountain, interrupting the attempt and causing Black Mountain to become frenzied again.
• Lü Ci, two injured Core Formation elders, Young Master Fang, and his gray-robed guardian entered the hall as Si Chen faced them and the beasts.

Lü Ci trapped Si Chen in the great hall with its maddened creatures by collapsing the exit, hoping they would kill him. While dodging the attackers, Si Chen realized he might purify the blood pool and use it to restore their sanity.

• Lü Ci and his companions entered the hall, drawing the maddened creatures’ attacks, while the gray-robed elder recognized that the Flood Dragon blood pool could bewitch minds.
• Lü Ci decided to abandon his pursuit of Si Chen and leave him trapped with Black Mountain, Red Wind, and the other attackers.
• Si Chen tried to reach the entrance, but Black Mountain and Red Wind forced him back, and Red Bean failed to rouse Black Mountain.
• Lü Ci collapsed the rocks above the passage entrance, sealing Si Chen inside the hall as he and his companions escaped.
• Si Chen recalled that his Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art had briefly affected Black Mountain and considered purifying the blood pool to restore the creatures’ sanity.

Si Chen entered the blood pool and used his vitality and Thunderbolt Grid to purify it while Red Bean held Black Mountain and Red Wind at bay. The Flood Dragon Remnant Soul invaded Si Chen’s consciousness, but when it mocked his ontological rank, a sun appeared behind him in his own domain.

• Si Chen planted Thunderbolt Spears around the blood pool, entered it, and used the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art to push back the corrupted blood.
• Si Chen activated the Thunderbolt Grid to keep the maddened cultivators and beasts away, while Black Mountain and Red Wind began breaking through it.
• Red Bean transformed into a giant, fire-wreathed bird and distracted Black Mountain and Red Wind, giving Si Chen time to continue purifying the pool.
• The Flood Dragon Remnant Soul forced its way into Si Chen’s consciousness and dismissed him as weak in soul essence before attacking.
• Si Chen declared that the consciousness space was his domain, and a sun appeared behind him.

Si Chen destroyed the Flood Dragon’s remnant soul, purified the Blood Pool, and freed the humans and demons trapped under its influence. After they recovered and thanked him, Black Mountain led the group through the blocked passage to confront Lü Ci.

• The Flood Dragon’s remnant soul entered Si Chen’s consciousness, but the immense presence within his Origin Space overwhelmed and annihilated it.
• Si Chen used the remaining plant vitality to purify the Blood Pool, then kicked the dazed humans and demon beasts into it to cleanse them of its contamination.
• The humans, Black Mountain, and Red Wind regained their senses and thanked Si Chen for saving them.
• Red Bean returned to Si Chen’s shoulder and glared at Black Mountain and Red Wind for attacking earlier.
• Black Mountain smashed open the rubble blocking the passage, and the recovered group set out to confront Lü Ci with Si Chen riding on Red Wind’s back.

Si Chen and the demons charged through Dragonfall Land to confront Lü Ci, who had barred other cultivators from the cavern. They found a dead Flood Dragon with purple lightning crackling through its remains, and the chapter left Lü Ci enraged after Si Chen insulted him.

• Black Mountain led Si Chen and the demons through Dragonfall Land while ignoring the treasures in its chambers.
• Black Mountain destroyed Lü Ci’s sword formation, and the waiting cultivators rushed into the cavern behind them.
• Si Chen’s group found a giant Flood Dragon corpse with purple lightning running through it and an object pinned beneath its coils.
• Lü Ci was shocked to see Si Chen alive and recovered, and Si Chen called him an old bastard.
• Black Mountain praised Si Chen’s insult while Lü Ci turned purple with rage.

Black Mountain, Red Wind, and the demons attacked Lü Ci, while Si Chen sensed a treasure beneath the Flood Dragon’s corpse. Young Master Fang joined the fight to protect Lü Ci, prompting Si Chen to attack him and reveal his formidable strength.

• Black Mountain, Red Wind, and the demons charged Lü Ci to avenge Si Chen, while the outnumbered Elder Zhang and Elder Sun were wounded by the beasts.
• Si Chen followed the pull of his Nine Tribulations Thunder Body toward the Flood Dragon’s corpse and sensed something connected to yang thunder beneath it.
• Young Master Fang asked Elder Mo to help keep Lü Ci alive so they could claim the treasure, and Elder Mo joined the battle against Red Wind.
• Si Chen challenged Young Master Fang and attacked him with a Thunderbolt Spear after Fang defended his intervention as friendship.
• Young Master Fang drew his saber and clashed with Si Chen, but Si Chen blocked the strike without giving ground, shocking Fang with his strength.

Si Chen faced Fang Heng’s Limitless Layered Waves saber technique and adapted its stacking principle into a powerful Thunderbolt Spear thrust. After their clash left both injured, Si Chen asked Fang Heng whether he had a seventh slash.

• Black Mountain and the demonic beasts fought Lü Ci and the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect elders while Si Chen battled Fang Heng.
• Fang Heng unleashed his Limitless Layered Waves technique, with each saber slash growing faster and stronger than the last.
• Si Chen studied the technique’s layered power and combined its principle with his spear thrust as Fang Heng’s sixth slash descended.
• Si Chen’s spear struck through the sixth slash, and the collision hurled both fighters into the cave walls.
• Fang Heng spat blood in disbelief, while the gathered cultivators and beasts stopped to stare; Si Chen asked whether Fang Heng had a seventh slash.

Fang Heng, driven to desperation by Si Chen's strength, unleashed the Yin Corpse Banner and raised the ancient Flood Dragon's corpse. The Corpse Flood Dragon opened its eyes, and the cavern faced a new threat.

• Elder Mo tried to negotiate a retreat, but Si Chen refused to let Fang Heng and his allies leave.
• Lü Ci retreated to Fang Heng and Elder Mo as Black Mountain and the demonic beasts pressed their attack.
• Fang Heng revealed the Yin Corpse Banner and fed it his essence blood, summoning a vast cloud of black mist.
• The black mist entered the Flood Dragon's corpse, which rose with ghostfire burning in its eye sockets.

Si Chen and the demons faced Fang Heng’s awakened Corpse Flood Dragon, while Elder Mo trapped the spectators inside the cavern. After the dragon recoiled from Si Chen and turned against its handlers, Si Chen took the Dragon Pearl and prepared to confront Fang Heng.

• Elder Mo blocked the exit and killed Rogue Cultivators to prevent them from revealing Fang Heng’s defeat, while Lü Ci grew wary of being silenced next.
• Si Chen, Fang Heng, and the others discovered a Dragon Pearl beneath the Corpse Flood Dragon, and both Si Chen and Fang Heng decided to claim it.
• Fang Heng commanded the Corpse Flood Dragon to attack Si Chen, but the dragon froze when Si Chen greeted it and then struggled against the Yin Corpse Banner.
• The Corpse Flood Dragon turned on Fang Heng and Elder Mo, allowing the trapped Rogue Cultivators to escape as Lü Ci cautiously withdrew.
• Si Chen walked past the frightened dragon, picked up the Dragon Pearl, and put it in his Storage Ring before turning toward Fang Heng and Elder Mo.

Si Chen seized the Dragon Pearl and commanded the Corpse Flood Dragon to turn on Fang Heng and Elder Mo, stunning everyone who had believed it was uncontrollable. After Lü Ci rescued Fang Heng and pleaded for peace, Si Chen ordered the dragon corpse to finish the job.

• Si Chen pocketed the Dragon Pearl while Fang Heng raged at the Corpse Flood Dragon for attacking him.
• Si Chen told the dragon corpse to kill Fang Heng and Elder Mo, and it obeyed, breaking free of the Yin Corpse Banner.
• The dragon corpse smashed through Elder Mo’s spiritual shield and sent him flying, while Fang Heng was thrown down by the impact.
• Lü Ci rescued Fang Heng from the dragon’s tail at the last moment and asked Si Chen to end the conflict, offering the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s surrender.
• Si Chen praised the dragon corpse and ordered it to finish the job.

Si Chen and his allies defeated Lü Ci and Elder Mo after Elder Mo helped Fang Heng escape the cave. Si Chen captured their Nascent Souls, feeding Lü Ci to Red Bean and dispersing Elder Mo into spiritual light.

• Lü Ci shoved the wounded Fang Heng toward the Corpse Flood Dragon and tried to flee, but Black Mountain and Red Wind blocked him.
• Elder Mo burned his essence blood, rescued Fang Heng, and broke open the cave entrance so Fang Heng could escape.
• Elder Mo and Lü Ci fought the Corpse Flood Dragon while Black Mountain and Red Wind kept Lü Ci from escaping; the Corpse Flood Dragon killed Elder Mo and then Lü Ci.
• Si Chen caught the Nascent Souls that fled from Elder Mo and Lü Ci's corpses.
• Red Bean swallowed Lü Ci's Nascent Soul, and Si Chen dispersed Elder Mo's Nascent Soul into spiritual light.

Si Chen defeated the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s expedition and released the Corpse Flood Dragon from its forced existence. With Red Wind’s demons searching for the escaped Fang Heng, Si Chen returned to his den to cultivate the second tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Thunder Body.

• Black Mountain praised Si Chen for turning the Corpse Flood Dragon against its masters, and Si Chen explained that its remnant soul had once entered his mind.
• Si Chen gave the Corpse Flood Dragon permission to rest, and it dissolved into ash that settled among the cave’s wild grasses.
• Red Wind urged the demons to hunt down Fang Heng, while Si Chen pointed out that the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences would make escape difficult.
• Si Chen let the demons divide the Storage Rings, and Black Mountain distributed the spoils fairly among the survivors and the kin of the fallen.
• Red Wind sent swift demons to search the mountain, and Si Chen went back to his den to enter seclusion.