Recaps

Xie Lingyu played for Chu Xingchen and their companions before the group arranged its work across Dongsheng Shenzhou. As Li Yingling and Zhang Miaoyu coordinated a secret operation investigating demonic traces, Li Yingling reassured Zhang Miaoyu that she was doing well.

• Xie Lingyu played part of a piece, and Cui Hao praised her while she reminded him that excessive praise was an insult.
• Chu Xingchen and Cui Hao exchanged unspoken remarks about Xie Lingyu, while Lin Luoyu smiled at the Sect's camaraderie.
• The group assigned Lin Luoyu, Cui Hao, Xie Lingyu, and Yun Li to their respective duties as Li Yingling brought Zhang Miaoyu along to help coordinate the operation.
• Li Yingling and Zhang Miaoyu relayed orders and gathered intelligence from disciples of the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect and the Heavenly Derivation Sect as they investigated demonic traces leading toward Dongsheng Shenzhou.
• When Zhang Miaoyu asked whether news had arrived from the Western Ox-He Continent, Li Yingling said there was no need to investigate because her Master was in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
• Li Yingling told Zhang Miaoyu that working with her made things easier and that she was doing very well, then said she always told the truth when she complimented people.

Li Yingling sent Zhang Miaoyu to an information post to investigate reports about her and display the sect’s strength. At Tassel Tower, Zhang Miaoyu met a mortal girl named Ye Wanzhou and told her she had once been much like her.

• Li Yingling gave Zhang Miaoyu a jade token and tasked her with collecting useful information and paying rewards at a Three-Sect Alliance post.
• Li Yingling told Zhang Miaoyu to dispel rumors that she had been beaten to death and to represent their sect proudly.
• Zhang Miaoyu asked whether appearing openly would disrupt Li Yingling’s plans, and Li Yingling said it would signal that they were ready.
• Zhang Miaoyu reached Tassel Tower and asked a dark-skinned girl named Ye Wanzhou for a ride there.
• Zhang Miaoyu told Ye Wanzhou that before she became an immortal, she had been quite like her.

Zhang Miaoyu recognized Ye Wanzhou’s unusual talent and offered her a chance to see the Immortal Tower. Ye Wanzhou accepted Zhang Miaoyu’s hand, leaving open whether she would join the sect.

• Zhang Miaoyu explained that she had noticed Ye Wanzhou using spiritual energy from the Immortal Tower to lure fish and had learned that Ye Wanzhou was talented and kindhearted.
• Zhang Miaoyu considered inviting Ye Wanzhou to the sect but began to leave when Ye Wanzhou seemed too nervous to respond.
• Ye Wanzhou pushed the boat away from the bank and carried Zhang Miaoyu toward the Immortal Tower, refusing to charge her a fare.
• Zhang Miaoyu offered to pay Ye Wanzhou’s fare by taking her inside the Immortal Tower.
• Zhang Miaoyu told Ye Wanzhou to raise her head and see the splendid world, and Ye Wanzhou reached for her hand.

Ye Wanzhou entered the Immortal Tower with Zhang Miaoyu and witnessed her assert her authority as a special envoy of the Heavenly Sect. Zhang Miaoyu reunited with an old rogue cultivator friend, who teased her that being a special envoy meant she had fallen short of her old boasts.

• Ye Wanzhou chose to risk entering the Immortal Tower with Zhang Miaoyu, despite her fear and lack of support.
• The cultivators in the tower rose to greet Zhang Miaoyu, who declined the attendant’s offer and went toward the third floor.
• A middle-aged cultivator mocked Zhang Miaoyu for relying on others, but she revealed her Heavenly Sect special envoy token and ordered him to stop using Yingling’s name and leave.
• Zhang Miaoyu’s old rogue cultivator friend arrived, delighted to see her and surprised that she had become a Heavenly Sect special envoy.
• Zhang Miaoyu claimed even Yuyang Daozi had to greet her, and her friend joked that she was worse off than when she had boasted she could trounce him with one hand.

Zhang Miaoyu reunited with Su Zhuo, explained that Chu Xingchen was her master, and offered Ye Wanzhou guidance before leaving. In Huazhen Hall, Guangming Buddha thanked Chu Xingchen and Yuyang Daozi, then suggested Chu Xingchen as a way to appease the Mundane Buddha, leaving Chu Xingchen and Yuyang Daozi exchanging suspicious looks.

• Zhang Miaoyu told Su Zhuo that her team leader's master was Chu Xingchen, then laughed off rumors that he was the Fierce-Devouring True Lord.
• Su Zhuo said she preferred to remain an unattached cultivator, and Zhang Miaoyu promised she could use Zhang's future name for protection.
• Zhang Miaoyu gave Su Zhuo spirit stones and pills, watched her leave, and asked Ye Wanzhou whether she had made up her mind; Ye Wanzhou thanked her for offering guidance.
• At Huazhen Hall, Guangming Buddha thanked Chu Xingchen, who credited Yuyang Daozi, and Guangming Buddha thanked Yuyang Daozi as well.
• Chu Xingchen asked how Ru Nan should appease the Mundane Buddha, and Guangming Buddha suggested making Chu Xingchen the focus; Chu Xingchen and Yuyang Daozi exchanged looks that worried him.

Chu Xingchen persuaded Guangming Buddha to risk himself to buy time while the sects investigated the Heavenly Demons’ plans in Western Ox-He Continent. At Putu Temple, Prajna delivered the Venerable Buddha’s decree to eliminate the Evil Buddha at Zhenghua Hall the day after tomorrow, challenging the gathered Buddhas to support the plan.

• Chu Xingchen told Guangming Buddha that Heavenly Demons had fled toward Western Ox-He Continent and urged him to meet Ru Nan to delay a confrontation with the Buddhist Sect.
• Guangming Buddha agreed to Chu Xingchen’s plan, and Chu Xingchen arranged for him to meet Wukong and receive treatment for his injuries.
• Yuyang Daozi remarked on Guangming Buddha’s courage, while Chu Xingchen joked that Yuyang would be just as willing to take the risk.
• Prajna entered Putu Temple and told the assembled Dust-Matters Buddhas that the Venerable Buddha would descend on Zhenghua Hall the day after tomorrow to eliminate the Evil Buddha.
• Prajna said the real Evil Buddha would be present next time and mocked the Buddhas for hesitating to oppose him despite their grievances.

Prajna persuaded the Buddhist Sect’s Buddhas to accept a plan to eliminate the Evil Buddha, using their fears of Mahayana Buddhism’s return and the Three Sects’ pressure. He left the Buddhas holding Message Tokens that could make him their scapegoat as they prepared for the meeting two days later.

• The Buddhas questioned whether the Venerable Buddha had truly ordered them to kill the Evil Buddha, wary of acting without clear backing.
• Prajna argued that the Buddhist Sect had to confront the Evil Buddha and warned the Buddhas that their power and positions were at risk if they continued to do nothing.
• Prajna proposed feinting against Chu Xingchen before redirecting their attacks toward the Evil Buddha, with the Venerable Buddha and two Karma Buddhas joining the fight.
• Prajna distributed Message Tokens as proof of his orders, and the Buddhas accepted the plan while treating him as a potential scapegoat.
• Prajna left Putuo Temple, satisfied that the factional divisions and the Buddhas’ greed had set his plan in motion.

As the Three Sects prepared to meet Ru Nan and the Buddhist arrivals, Chu Xingchen suspected the Heavenly Demons might be targeting him and quietly arranged for his disciples and dao companion to be moved to safety. He remained at the Main Hall entrance to watch the delegation arrive, leaving Huang Miao bewildered by his plans.

• Lin Luoyu sparred with Cui Hao using her fists and revealed the flow of her Righteousness Sword Technique, which Cui Hao studied closely.
• Yuankong told Chu Xingchen he hoped he would stay safe, and Chu Xingchen persuaded him to pray for his opponent to protect him just to frustrate the enemy.
• Chu Xingchen sensed that the Heavenly Demons might target him at the coming meeting, while Xie Lingyu shared a tender moment with him beneath the moon.
• Ru Nan arrived aboard the jeweled canopy of Morning Clouds as Guangming Buddha, the Three Sects, and two unfamiliar Tribulation Transcendence cultivators prepared for the meeting.
• Huang Miao told Chu Xingchen that his disciples and dao companion had been taken somewhere safe, but Chu Xingchen stayed to watch for a possible surprise among the Buddhist arrivals.

Ru Nan's attempt to resolve the Buddhist Sect's confrontation with Guangming Buddha was interrupted when Prajna attacked, prompting the Three Sects and the mundane Buddhas to clash. Chu Xingchen began evacuating with Huang Miao, but Xu Linglong arrived with reinforcements to hunt him down.

• Ru Nan asked Guangming Buddha to surrender without a fight, but Prajna struck the Three Sects' formation before he could answer.
• The Three Sects' cultivators blasted Prajna away, and the mundane Buddhas joined the battle as Ru Nan advanced against them.
• Chu Xingchen told Huang Miao to retreat, concealed their auras, and activated a teleportation formation in the Rear Hall.
• Xu Linglong's scarlet arrow shattered the formations, and Huang Miao's Spirit Treasure Longsword intercepted it.
• Xu Linglong told Chu Xingchen that her allies had come to kill him, while powerful auras closed in around them.

At Pearl-Gem Peak, Bai Xuanling told Chen Baiqing that Chu Xingchen might have a way to help her, while waiting for him to return from the Western Ox-He Continent. When powerful cultivators rushed out of the Heavenly Derivation Sect, Chen Baiqing hurried to Li Xingtian, who told her to trust their Master and not rush after them.

• Bai Xuanling told Chen Baiqing that Lü Xuan's method had failed and that she was waiting for Chu Xingchen to try an idea after handling matters on the Western Ox-He Continent.
• Bai Xuanling said Qinghe was training with the Scarlet Flood Dragon and asked whether Chen Baiqing minded that Chu Xingchen had not taken her with him; Chen Baiqing said she trusted his arrangements.
• Bai Xuanling received a summons from the Sect Leader Lü and left before finishing their Go game.
• Chen Baiqing saw powerful figures speed out of the Heavenly Derivation Sect and hurried to A Loving Family Peak.
• Chen Baiqing found Li Xingtian watching the departing cultivators, and he told her to trust Master and not rush over blindly.

Xu Linglong’s attack exposed Prajna as a suspected Demon, prompting the Buddhist Sect to unite against him while Heavenly Demons attacked Chu Xingchen. Ru Nan gave Hua Wu True Buddha the sect’s supreme treasure to protect Chu Xingchen, then revealed the power of former Venerable Buddhas and silenced the Buddhist Sect’s dissent.

• Xu Linglong shattered the Grand Formation, and the gathered Buddhas and cultivators turned their attention to her and Prajna.
• Ru Nan attacked Prajna with the Seven-Colored Buddhist Prayer Beads, and more than a dozen Tribulation Transcendence cultivators joined Hua Wu True Buddha in assaulting him.
• The golden light annihilated Prajna’s Blood Qi, while Heavenly Demons charged at Chu Xingchen and the Three Sects’ cultivators fought to protect him.
• Ru Nan told Hua Wu True Buddha that Ruzhong was coming to help Chu Xingchen and entrusted him with the Seven-Colored True-Flow Buddha-Light Bright Pearl.
• Ru Nan summoned former Venerable Buddhas from his Buddha Kingdom and ordered the Buddhist Sect to sit in silence.
• When a Mundane Buddha questioned him, Ru Nan had the former Venerable Buddhas break that Buddha’s Golden Body and commanded everyone to be silent.

Chu Xingchen and Huang Miao faced the Heavenly Demons and Devil Race cultivators while waiting for reinforcements, and Huang Miao fought to keep Chu Xingchen safe. Bai Xuanling arrived with cultivation nearing Tribulation Transcendence peak, leaving his power and condition uncertain.

• Chu Xingchen detected strange Devil Race Tribulation Transcendence cultivators approaching from the east and realized someone in the Buddhist Sect might be controlling the Pudu River.
• Huang Miao promised to protect Chu Xingchen until reinforcements arrived, then attacked the incoming cultivators and fought off a Heavenly Demon while shielding him.
• A Heavenly Demon recognized the Innate Primordial Origin Stabilizing Dao Two Qi Pearl and attacked Chu Xingchen, but Huang Miao's Spirit Treasure Longsword intervened.
• Bai Xuanling arrived and struck the Heavenly Demon, revealing cultivation almost at Tribulation Transcendence peak.

Bai Xuanling arrived after Chu Xingchen’s emergency token alerted her and joined the battle against the Devil Race, as reinforcements rushed to the scene. While Bai Xuanling fought the Heavenly Demons, Chu Xingchen defended the center against the invading demons and beasts, noticing signs that Bai Xuanling was beginning to suffer.

• Bai Xuanling used Azure Darkness to destroy the Heavenly Demon’s Crimson Curtains and drove back its crimson Origin power.
• Bai Xuanling explained that Chu Xingchen’s token had summoned her automatically, and said she had come because she wanted to, not because of his pills.
• The five great Heavenly Demons united as Devil Race reinforcements and enormous Demonic Beasts poured into the battlefield.
• Bai Xuanling said Lü Xuan was coordinating reinforcements and that the other sects would arrive within half an hour, then charged into battle.
• Chu Xingchen used Myriad Forms and the Primordial Innate Dao-Settling Two-Qi Pearl to cut down the demons and beasts that reached him.
• Chu Xingchen saw red traces appearing in Bai Xuanling’s azure Spiritual Energy and realized the battle was taking its toll on her.

Bai Xuanling fought a Heavenly Demon with Azure Darkness, striking decisively despite being wounded and nearly losing herself to old memories. Chu Xingchen stopped her before she could continue attacking, forcing her to face the living person beside her.

• Bai Xuanling charged the Heavenly Demon with Azure Darkness and overwhelmed its attacks with her sword’s Dao Resonance.
• Bai Xuanling pierced the Heavenly Demon, then withdrew to evade Xu Linglong’s Origin arrow and pulled an Origin sword from her shoulder.
• Bai Xuanling rushed toward Xu Linglong, but stopped when she realized the wounded Heavenly Demon had vanished without a finishing blow.
• Bai Xuanling recalled someone asking how she could protect them if she could not hold her sword, and her vision turned red as she prepared to attack again.
• Chu Xingchen seized Bai Xuanling’s arm and blocked her punch with Myriad Forms, then shouted that she cared only about the dead and asked her to consider the living.

Chu Xingchen used the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade to trigger Bai Xuanling’s ascension while a protective formation shielded them from the Heavenly Demon. Bai Xuanling trusted him and let her cultivation rise beyond Tribulation Transcendence, drawing every demon and human present to watch.

• Bai Xuanling warned Chu Xingchen that she could not remain clearheaded until reinforcements arrived, while he refused to leave her to die.
• Chu Xingchen showed Bai Xuanling the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade and activated a secret Great Dao Sect formation to protect them.
• Chu Xingchen used the jade to select Bai Xuanling and trigger Daytime Ascension, releasing purple qi into her body.
• Bai Xuanling said Lü Xuan had foretold that she could not ascend, but Chu Xingchen urged her to trust him instead.
• Bai Xuanling accepted Chu Xingchen’s words, stopped resisting the breakthrough, and let her aura rise beyond Tribulation Transcendence as everyone watched.

Bai Xuanling began an ascension tribulation while the Heavenly Demons held back, and Chu Xingchen watched as the heavenly lightning swallowed her from view. Worried for her safety, he bluffed Myriad Forms into entering the lightning to help protect her.

• Bai Xuanling gathered immortal ascension radiance, prompting Xu Linglong and the Heavenly Demons to pull back and wait to see whether the heavenly tribulation would arrive.
• The heavenly tribulation formed above Bai Xuanling, and she raised Azure Darkness to meet its first bolt.
• The lightning’s blast obscured Bai Xuanling and swept away the gathered divine senses, while Myriad Forms protected Chu Xingchen from the aftershock.
• Chu Xingchen threatened Myriad Forms and claimed it had an internal duty to help, so it transformed into a longsword and plunged into the white light.

As Bai Xuanling’s tribulation neared completion, Xu Linglong and the Heavenly Demons prepared to withdraw, but the final crimson lightning targeted Bai Xuanling’s weakest point instead of enabling her ascension. Chu Xingchen rushed toward her as her eyes turned red and her cultivation remained at Tribulation Transcendence Great Perfection.

• Huang Miao explained to Chu Xingchen that cultivators who survived the lightning tribulation could ascend, though they might stay briefly to make arrangements.
• The light faded, revealing Bai Xuanling unharmed as Myriad Forms returned to Chu Xingchen; Xu Linglong fired an Origin Arrow at Bai Xuanling, who destroyed it with a finger.
• Boluo ordered Xu Linglong and the Heavenly Demons to withdraw, saying their hope lay in a last resort; Xu Linglong reluctantly lowered her bow.
• Bai Xuanling met the final crimson lightning with Azure Darkness and realized it carried no force, then slashed toward the fleeing Xu Linglong with Azure Sword Opens Heaven's Gate.
• Bai Xuanling told Chu Xingchen that Lü Xuan’s divination about her had been accurate; when the final tribulation struck her weakest point, Chu Xingchen rushed toward her and asked Myriad Forms what it meant.

As Bai Xuanling’s final tribulation rapidly drained her power and Dao resonance, Chu Xingchen tried to save her by urging her to accept him as her master, but she called for her own long-lost master instead. With his other attempts failing, Chu Xingchen reversed his cultivation and poured his origin into Bai Xuanling, prompting the system to activate a side quest.

• After the Heavenly Demon retreated, Huang Miao and the other cultivators pursued the remaining devils while Chu Xingchen rushed to Bai Xuanling.
• Chu Xingchen sensed Bai Xuanling’s spiritual power and Dao resonance rapidly disappearing, and Myriad Forms explained that it could not interfere with the final tribulation.
• Chu Xingchen urged Bai Xuanling to call him Master, but she called out to her own master, and he realized she could not replace that person in her heart.
• Chu Xingchen pressed his stored system rewards against Bai Xuanling, but none of them helped, and she calmly accepted that she might die after failing to ascend.
• Chu Xingchen poured his cultivation and origin into Bai Xuanling, bringing his cultivation down to Body Integration, and the system activated a side quest.

Chu Xingchen accepted the quest to enforce Heaven’s law and used its power to remove Bai Xuanling’s inner demon and let her ascend to true immortality. The power then abandoned him, leaving him gravely injured and reduced to Nascent Soul early stage as Bai Xuanling carried him away.

• Chu Xingchen accepted the quest, and the tribulation clouds entered his body as his cultivation surged to tribulation transcendence peak.
• Bai Xuanling tried to stop Chu Xingchen, but his pure Dao resonance swept aside her power.
• Chu Xingchen drew a crimson light from Bai Xuanling and returned it as azure light, freeing her from her inner demon and the shackles on her cultivation.
• Chu Xingchen’s aura collapsed, and he fell to Nascent Soul early stage with badly damaged spirit veins.
• Bai Xuanling caught Chu Xingchen and stopped him from taking a pill before carrying him away and declaring, “Azure Darkness!”
• Chu Xingchen heard the system announce that the quest had failed.

Bai Xuanling returned to the Heavenly Derivation Sect after Chu Xingchen was badly injured, while Chen Baiqing began seeking information beyond the sect and confronted Li Yingling about knowing nothing. The chapter ended with Li Yingling promising to protect Chu Xingchen as he recovered.

• Bai Xuanling told Lü Xuan that Chu Xingchen's injuries were serious, confirmed she had become a True Immortal, and left to see Lingyu and the others.
• Chen Baiqing learned that Chu Xingchen's cultivation had fallen to the Nascent Soul Early Stage and asked Li Xingtian to contact Xu Jin for an independent account of events.
• Li Xingtian agreed to contact Xu Jin, while Chen Baiqing stayed beside Chu Xingchen and resolved to handle what needed to be done.
• Li Yingling arrived at Chu Xingchen's bedside, and Chen Baiqing asked whether she had known nothing about what happened.
• Li Yingling, visibly shaken, promised Chen Baiqing that she would keep Chu Xingchen safe.

Xie Lingyu and Chu Xingchen’s disciples gathered around him after he returned injured from a great battle, and Xie Lingyu left to check on Bai. Chu Xingchen soon woke, reassured his disciples, and learned that Li Xingtian was investigating the incident while Chen Baiqing was preparing to care for him.

• Xie Lingyu checked Chu Xingchen and confirmed that his disciples were safe, then offered to help them as his dao companion.
• Li Yingling and Cui Hao encouraged Xie Lingyu to visit the injured Bai, and Xie Lingyu left them to watch over Chu Xingchen.
• Cui Hao took Chu Xingchen’s hand, and Chu Xingchen suddenly woke and complained that Cui Hao was holding it instead of Xie Lingyu.
• Chu Xingchen asked after Bai and learned that Li Xingtian had gone to the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect while Chen Baiqing prepared to care for him.
• Chen Baiqing arrived, and Chu Xingchen teased her before admitting that she always softened his heart.

While recovering at A Loving Family Peak, Chu Xingchen and Xie Lingyu shared a teasing, affectionate moment. They acknowledged that the Heavenly Demon remained a threat, but Chu Xingchen ended by saying he wanted to bully Xie Lingyu once his injuries healed.

• Chu Xingchen asked Xie Lingyu to fetch wine, and she refused while teasing him about being romantic.
• Xie Lingyu kissed Chu Xingchen, and he then used his Nascent Soul cultivation to hold her still and kiss her in return.
• Xie Lingyu rose, then sat back down beside Chu Xingchen and drank tea as they enjoyed their quiet time together.
• Xie Lingyu asked what Chu Xingchen wanted to do after his injuries healed, and he noted that the Heavenly Demon had not been completely eliminated.
• Chu Xingchen said his first plan was to bully Xie Lingyu, making her look over at his infuriating grin.

Chu Xingchen recovered in the courtyard while Sandong brought him a medicinal plant, and his disciples discussed the care he had received and their busy work. Cui Hao went to meet the imprisoned Winter Melon, whose fury at him had only grown, leaving him bewildered outside the Black Iron Stone Gate.

• Sandong brought Chu Xingchen an ordinary spirit plant, and Chu Xingchen ate it to appreciate Sandong's thoughtful gift.
• Chu Xingchen shared Spirit Fruit juice with Sandong, and they traded earnest compliments until Li Yingling and Li Xingtian joined them.
• Xie Lingyu praised Chen Baiqing for carefully preparing healing meals for Chu Xingchen.
• Li Yingling told Chu Xingchen that Winter Melon had refused to speak or take his pills and that Cui Hao had gone to see her with Fourth Junior Sister Lin Luoyu.
• Cui Hao heard Winter Melon shouting his name furiously from behind the Black Iron Stone Gate, while Lin Luoyu looked at him suspiciously.

Yan Yun visited Bai Xuanling on Pearl-Gem Peak and learned that Bai was keeping to herself while adjusting to her power as a true immortal. Bai later reunited with Qinghe after Qinghe reached Spirit Transformation, though she still had not visited the awakened Chu Xingchen.

• Yan Yun asked Bai Xuanling why her ascension was taking so long and why she had shut herself away, and Bai said she was studying the world's suppression of her as a true immortal.
• Yan Yun offered to help Bai Xuanling, then left after Bai offered to answer questions about cultivation.
• Bai Xuanling watched A Loving Family Peak and reflected that she was not yet ready to visit Chu Xingchen because her power still needed to settle; Azure Darkness came to her side.
• Qinghe arrived after reaching Spirit Transformation, hugged Bai Xuanling, and celebrated that Bai did not punish her for her enthusiastic greeting.
• Bai Xuanling teased Qinghe about her laziness, and Qinghe suggested renaming Pearl-Gem Peak A Loving Family and making Chu Xingchen its peak master.

Qinghe returned to A Loving Family Peak after reaching Spirit Transformation and found Chu Xingchen resting while injured, his cultivation reduced to the Nascent Soul Realm. She offered to protect him, then withdrew the offer when she learned his enemies were Mahayana or Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.

• Bai Xuanling warned Qinghe that if her Spirit Transformation had gone badly, she might have become a carriage mount, and Qinghe stopped complaining about her celebration.
• Qinghe reached the courtyard and boasted to Chu Xingchen about her new cultivation while assuming his weak aura was a trick.
• Qinghe reunited with Xie Lingyu, who cared for Chu Xingchen by covering him with a blanket.
• Bai Xuanling and Chen Baiqing told Qinghe that Chu Xingchen was injured and his cultivation had fallen to the Nascent Soul Realm, prompting Qinghe to apologize and offer him another blanket.
• Qinghe vowed to protect Chu Xingchen, then took it back when he said his enemies were Mahayana or Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.