Recaps

Jiang Hao learned Demonic Sound Slash in seven days and prepared for his coming trip to the Demon Grotto by gathering what he needed to strengthen himself. After filling his blood essence and cultivation, he began a breakthrough in his cultivation room, though its result remained unknown.

• Jiang Hao asked Ku Wuchang for a powerful offensive technique and received Demonic Sound Slash, while Han Ming and the other true disciples were assigned Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Jiang Hao used Clear Mind, Pure Heart to master Demonic Sound Slash in seven days, then tested it and carved a saber scar into the ground with its powerful strike.
• Jiang Hao watched the snow lotus and blue lotus produce bubbles and noted that he still needed to save spirit stones for a saber.
• Jiang Hao gained one point of blood essence in the Spirit Medicine Garden, arranged for the outer sect disciples to tend it during his coming Demon Grotto trip, and received Zhou Chan's message that he need not worry about White Moon Lake.
• Jiang Hao returned to his residence, extracted his full blood essence and cultivation, and began advancing his cultivation as purple qi guided his meridians.

Jiang Hao consolidated his cultivation, prepared talismans, and bought a Shadow Saber before his upcoming trip to the Demon Cave. With the departure day arriving, he had little money left and still did not know whether he would return.

• Jiang Hao reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment and strengthened his body by absorbing cultivation and blood essence.
• Jiang Hao spent a month practicing Demonic Sound Slash, studying the Nameless Manual, and preparing fifteen Myriad Sword Talismans for the Demon Cave.
• Jiang Hao decided to save his cultivation and blood essence rather than attempt a breakthrough before the trip.
• Jiang Hao bought a Shadow Saber at the Star Pavilion and sold talismans, leaving himself with only twenty or thirty spirit stones.
• Jiang Hao practiced with the Shadow Saber through the night, then prepared to leave for the Demon Cave at sunrise.

Jiang Hao set out on a mission to the Demon Grotto after learning that two Heavenly Joy Pavilion disciples had advanced to Foundation Establishment late stage and perfection. At the grotto entrance, he joined the four other mission participants in agreeing to hunt together first, despite Qing Xue's preference to split up.

• Jiang Hao left his courtyard and checked that his blood essence and cultivation were both more than halfway to a breakthrough.
• Liu Xingchen warned Jiang Hao that the two Heavenly Joy Pavilion disciples had advanced, leaving him facing stronger opponents than expected.
• Jiang Hao met Qing Xue, Lou Feng, Zheng Nineteen, and Xin Yuyue at the mission gathering point and appraised Qing Xue as a Foundation Establishment perfection cultivator who hated him.
• The group arrived at the Demon Grotto Entrance at noon, and Zheng Nineteen persuaded them to stay together until they had cleared most of the demonfolk.

Jiang Hao entered the Demon Grotto with four others and discovered that killing Demonfolk could yield vital energy and cultivation, though the gains were inconsistent. After a month of hunting together, Lou Feng’s interference left Jiang Hao close to his cultivation thresholds but still short, while the group was running out of Demonfolk.

• Jiang Hao and the others entered the Demon Grotto’s core region and saw a beam of light rising into the sky.
• When three Demonfolk attacked, Jiang Hao killed one by stabbing its neck and received vital energy and cultivation bubbles.
• The group decided to hunt Demonfolk together, and Jiang Hao killed two from a later group while the others let him take the lead.
• Over the next month, Jiang Hao and the others continued hunting, but Lou Feng repeatedly killed the remaining Demonfolk whenever Jiang Hao attacked.
• Jiang Hao saw that his vital energy had reached 95/100 and his cultivation 96/100, while Lou Feng’s interference and the dwindling Demonfolk threatened to keep him from gaining more.

Jiang Hao fled from Lou Feng and hunted Demonfolk in the depths of the grotto until his cultivation and blood essence reserves were full. As he searched for a place to advance, Lou Feng found a Demonfolk corpse and realized he was on Jiang Hao’s trail.

• Qing Xue proposed that the group split up, and Jiang Hao headed deeper into the grotto before secretly changing direction and speeding away.
• Zheng Nineteen sensed that Lou Feng was following Jiang Hao, while Xin Yuyue chose to travel alone.
• Jiang Hao avoided attacking Demonfolk during a day of flight, then began hunting them to fill his cultivation and blood essence reserves.
• After three days of hunting, Jiang Hao filled both reserves and set out to find a place to advance.
• Lou Feng spotted a Demonfolk corpse along a lakeshore and said he had found Jiang Hao.

Jiang Hao broke through to Foundation Establishment perfection just as Lou Feng found him and attacked. He repelled Lou Feng, then fought Qing Xue in midair as she called for Lou Feng to join forces against him.

• Lou Feng tracked Jiang Hao to the woods while Qing Xue followed behind him.
• Jiang Hao attempted to break through to Foundation Establishment perfection inside a large tree as Lou Feng searched the area.
• Lou Feng found Jiang Hao and split the tree with his saber, but a phantom suit of armor blocked the attack.
• Jiang Hao completed his breakthrough, then struck Lou Feng with Demonic Sound Slash and sent him flying, badly injured.
• Qing Xue attacked Jiang Hao with her sword and spells, but neither fighter yielded in their fierce exchange.
• Qing Xue called for Lou Feng to join forces, warning that Jiang Hao had just advanced and might not hold out for long.

Jiang Hao defeated and killed Lou Feng and Qing Xue after they attacked him, then was left injured as five Demonfolk approached. A month later, Zheng Nineteen and Xin Yuyue waited near the Demon Grotto’s exit and discussed whether Jiang Hao would return.

• Lou Feng and Qing Xue attacked Jiang Hao together, but Jiang Hao used purple qi to break Lou Feng’s saber and fatally strike him, then cut down Qing Xue.
• Jiang Hao killed Lou Feng and Qing Xue with Myriad Sword Talismans, then vomited blood from his accumulated injuries and began healing.
• Five Demonfolk approached Jiang Hao after hearing the battle, and the story moved ahead one month.
• Zheng Nineteen and Xin Yuyue met near the Demon Grotto’s exit and discussed the lack of Demonfolk and Jiang Hao’s fate.
• Zheng Nineteen said Jiang Hao could not have survived Lou Feng and Qing Xue’s combined attack, but admitted they would be in serious trouble if he returned.

Jiang Hao returned from the Demon Grotto alone, leaving Zheng Nineteen and Xin Yuyue to suspect he had killed the two Heavenly Joy Pavilion cultivators. Back at his courtyard, he found his Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower safe and realized Golden Core was within reach.

• Zheng Nineteen and Xin Yuyue feared Jiang Hao might kill them to conceal that he had slain the Heavenly Joy Pavilion cultivators, but Jiang Hao arrived and said the Demonfolk had mostly been cleared out.
• Jiang Hao, Zheng Nineteen, and Xin Yuyue left the Demon Grotto without waiting for the missing Heavenly Joy Pavilion cultivators.
• Jiang Hao turned in his mission, greeted his master, and returned to his courtyard after more than two months away.
• Jiang Hao found two bubbles on the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower, tended his plants, and confirmed no one had disturbed them.
• Jiang Hao planted his cracked Shadow Saber in a corner and checked his status, finding himself at Foundation Establishment perfection with Golden Core within reach.

Jiang Hao returned from the Demon Grotto, received his mission reward, and arranged a private spar with Han Ming. Hong Yuye appeared again just as Jiang Hao planned to lose the match and avoid attention.

• Jiang Hao reflected on his recent advancement and decided he needed stronger offensive skills, a saber, and more spirit stones.
• Liu Xingchen delivered Jiang Hao's three-hundred-spirit-stone reward and questioned him about the missing Heavenly Joy Pavilion disciples; Jiang Hao denied seeing them.
• Jiang Hao appraised Liu Xingchen and learned that the true disciple suspected he had killed the Heavenly Joy Pavilion disciples but was interested in the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower.
• Han Ming challenged Jiang Hao to a private spar, and Jiang Hao agreed to meet him by the creek the next morning.
• Hong Yuye appeared in Jiang Hao's courtyard and remarked that he seemed afraid of attracting attention.

Jiang Hao agreed to defeat Han Ming in exchange for Hong Yuye’s saber technique, hoping to explain his strength by claiming he had gained opportunities in the Demon Grotto. He received the Seven Forms of the Heavenly Saber but struggled to understand it, while Han Ming looked forward to their match.

• Hong Yuye tested Jiang Hao about his cultivation and struck him into a wall when he repeated that he was at Foundation Establishment middle stage.
• Hong Yuye offered Jiang Hao the Seven Forms of the Heavenly Saber if he defeated Han Ming, and Jiang Hao accepted after weighing the risks.
• Hong Yuye gave Jiang Hao the saber manual and vanished, taking the Shadow Saber with her.
• Jiang Hao struggled to learn the manual’s first form, Moon-Splitting Slash, and decided to study it again with Clear Mind, Pure Heart.
• Han Ming returned to his residence eager to defeat Jiang Hao in their match the next day.

Jiang Hao defeated Han Ming in a single slash during their spar, revealing that his strength far exceeded Han Ming’s expectations. Han Ming left determined to grow stronger and defeat him, while Jiang Hao returned to tending the Spirit Medicine Garden with the Heavenly Joy Pavilion and Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower still weighing on him.

• Mu Qi warned Han Ming that Jiang Hao might have gained a fortuitous opportunity in the Demon Grotto, and Han Ming decided to be cautious despite believing he could win.
• Jiang Hao collected cultivation bubbles, prepared to wait for Han Ming, and used his new saber Half-Moon to practice the Heavenly Saber’s first form.
• Han Ming attacked with Heavenly Thunder Sword, but Jiang Hao’s Demonic Sound Slash shattered the attack and sent Han Ming flying.
• Jiang Hao told Han Ming he had gained strength through fortuitous opportunities and promised not to tell anyone about the private spar.
• Jiang Hao appraised Han Ming and learned that Han Ming wanted to advance, defeat him, and claim he had been lucky.
• Jiang Hao headed to the Spirit Medicine Garden, intent on growing stronger to deal with the Heavenly Joy Pavilion and Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower.

Jiang Hao discovered that Jin Zhouheng, an undercover Golden Core cultivator, had come to kill him over Yun Ruo’s death, so he warned Liu Xingchen and prepared for danger. Back at his residence, Jiang Hao tested his newly mastered blade technique and restrained himself from challenging a Golden Core cultivator.

• Jiang Hao sensed a hostile gaze in the Spirit Medicine Garden and used Daily Appraisal to identify Jin Zhouheng as an undercover Sunset Glow Sect disciple seeking revenge for Yun Ruo.
• Jiang Hao left the garden, obtained the roster of the five visiting disciples, and told Liu Xingchen that one of them might be a traitor.
• Liu Xingchen agreed to investigate and warned Jiang Hao to be careful over the next few days.
• Jiang Hao practiced the Heavenly Blade First Form with his Half-Moon saber and realized its power could rival Demonic Sound Slash.
• Jiang Hao considered testing his saber against a Golden Core cultivator, then abandoned the idea and cautioned himself against overconfidence.

Jiang Hao prepared to break through to the Golden Core realm while Jin Zhouheng threatened him and the sect planned to arrest the suspected spy that night. After gathering one final point of Qi-Blood in the Spirit Medicine Garden, he left to advance before danger arrived.

• Jiang Hao stayed in his courtyard for seven days, waiting until his cultivation and Qi-Blood were nearly ready for advancement.
• Jin Zhouheng's gaze appeared, then vanished when Liu Xingchen arrived to warn Jiang Hao that the sect planned to arrest the suspected spy that night.
• Jiang Hao wondered how he would respond if Liu Xingchen tried to recruit him, then went to the Spirit Medicine Garden to collect the last point he needed.
• Han Ming told Jiang Hao he was leaving to gain experience amid clashes between Azure Heaven Mountain and the sect.
• Jiang Hao collected the Spirit Medicine Garden's blue bubble, gained one point of Qi-Blood, and left without tending the garden so he could advance to the Golden Core realm.

Jiang Hao broke through to Golden Core as the injured infiltrator Jin Zhouheng approached to avenge Yun Ruo. They faced each other across a creek, and Jiang Hao urged Jin Zhouheng to remember Yun Ruo’s kindness just as his blade finished gathering power.

• Jin Zhouheng fled the Law Enforcement Hall’s pursuit, then turned toward Jiang Hao, intent on killing him before he was caught.
• Jiang Hao broke through his bottleneck and formed a Golden Core in his Dantian.
• Jiang Hao waited through the night and went to meet Jin Zhouheng when he arrived at dawn, battered and weakened.
• Jin Zhouheng accused Jiang Hao of killing Yun Ruo and explained how much she had meant to him.
• Jiang Hao told Jin Zhouheng to relive his memories of Yun Ruo before attacking, while his blade finished gathering power.

Jiang Hao killed Jin Zhouheng with a surprise saber strike and reported the death to Ku Wuchang, who warned him to expect another Law Enforcement Hall investigation. As Jiang Hao adjusted to slower spirit-bubble gains after reaching Golden Core and worried about affording a better saber, Cheng Chou asked him to deal with a spirit beast in the Spirit Medicine Garden.

• Jiang Hao killed Jin Zhouheng with Moon-Splitting Slash and confirmed the death with Myriad Sword Talismans.
• Jiang Hao told Ku Wuchang that he had killed Jin Zhouheng and claimed his cultivation and saber technique came from the Demon Grotto; Ku Wuchang took the corpse and warned him to be careful.
• Jiang Hao discovered that spirit bubbles from the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower and Snow Lotus appeared less often as his cultivation increased.
• After a month at Golden Core, Jiang Hao extracted cultivation and blood essence, consolidated his power, and realized his progress toward the primordial spirit realm would be slower than before.
• Jiang Hao asked Cheng Chou how Golden Core cultivators obtained spirit stones, and Cheng Chou answered that they robbed people.
• Cheng Chou asked Jiang Hao to help catch a spirit beast darting around in the spirit field.

Jiang Hao subdued a fast spirit beast in the spirit fields and learned through Appraisal that it was an undercover agent from Azure Heaven Mountain carrying a treasure connected to the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower. He decided to keep and feed it to awaken its hidden bloodline, then left to buy a restraining collar and talisman-making books.

• Jiang Hao searched the spirit fields for the spirit beast and fought off its quick, powerful attacks without using his full strength.
• Jiang Hao used Demonic Sound Slash to knock the spirit beast unconscious and reassured the startled workers.
• Jiang Hao Appraised the rabbit-like beast and learned it was an Azure Heaven Mountain agent with a hidden Lie Beast bloodline and a treasure for locating the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower.
• Jiang Hao decided to keep the rabbit in the woods behind his courtyard and feed it spirit stones for seven days to awaken its bloodline.
• Jiang Hao bought a spirit-beast restraining collar and talisman-making books at the market, spending six hundred spirit stones.

Jiang Hao bought a collar for Rabbit and brought him out of the Spirit Medicine Garden, while Hong Yuye ordered Bai Zhi to investigate Azure Heaven Mountain and continue watching Jiang Hao. The chapter ended when the woman in red appeared behind Jiang Hao as he was setting Rabbit’s boundary.

• Jiang Hao bought a foundation establishment spirit beast collar and a talisman-making book, then decided to prioritize Rabbit over selling talismans.
• Hong Yuye questioned Bai Zhi about Azure Heaven Mountain’s attack and ordered her to investigate who was backing them and obtain their cultivation methods and scriptures.
• Bai Zhi left to investigate Azure Heaven Mountain, while continuing to regard Jiang Hao as suspicious.
• Jiang Hao took Rabbit from the Spirit Medicine Garden, put a collar on him, and began setting a boundary in the woods behind his residence.
• A woman dressed in red appeared behind Jiang Hao and asked what he was doing.

Jiang Hao brought a rabbit to Hong Yuye, who killed it and took the pearl and map it revealed before ordering him to keep the rabbit in his courtyard. After questioning him about the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower and his saber practice, she left, and Jiang Hao went to the Scripture Pavilion to investigate whether another person possessed the Heaven-Extinguishing Yin Gu.

• Jiang Hao explained that he wanted to keep the rabbit, and Hong Yuye struck him with a blast of wind.
• Hong Yuye killed the rabbit, took the pearl and map that appeared, and told Jiang Hao to keep the rabbit in his courtyard.
• Jiang Hao returned to find Hong Yuye watching the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower, and he told her he watered it once a day.
• Hong Yuye asked how many forms of the Seven Forms of the Heavenly Saber Jiang Hao had learned, then demanded expensive Sky Azure Red, September Spring tea.
• Hong Yuye left after reminding Jiang Hao to care for her flower, and Jiang Hao went to the Scripture Pavilion to investigate the Heaven-Extinguishing Yin Gu.

Jiang Hao discovered that the rabbit’s Lie Beast bloodline could awaken further through daily spirit-stone feeding, and he endured forty-nine days of confinement to obtain a second Golden Legend. The chapter ended with him receiving the bubble, though he still did not know what the Golden Legend reward would be.

• Jiang Hao confirmed that the rabbit’s initial bloodline awakening made no progress until he suspended it and restricted it to eating spirit stones.
• After seven days of feeding, the rabbit’s bloodline awakened slightly and Jiang Hao absorbed a Golden Legend bubble.
• Jiang Hao appraised the rabbit and learned that feeding it seven spirit stones daily for forty-nine days would awaken its bloodline further.
• Jiang Hao stayed at Heartbreak Cliff and spent nearly all his spirit stones feeding the rabbit for forty-nine days.
• The rabbit produced another Golden Legend bubble, which Jiang Hao absorbed.

Jiang Hao claimed a golden legend and obtained the Primordial Heaven Saber, a powerful lifebound treasure he began refining while keeping it secret. The next day, he turned his attention to the awakened rabbit to see whether its bloodline could awaken again.

• Jiang Hao checked his progress and claimed the available golden legend, receiving a silver-white saber from the chaos.
• Jiang Hao appraised the saber and learned that Poem Whisper was the Primordial Heaven Saber, a treasure that could grow with its owner.
• Jiang Hao tested the saber’s sharp intent on the rabbit, frightening it so badly that it fell when its rope snapped.
• Jiang Hao began refining Poem Whisper and decided to keep it hidden while continuing to use the Half-Moon Blade in public.
• The next day, Jiang Hao appraised the rabbit as it struggled to walk, hoping to learn whether its bloodline could awaken again.

Jiang Hao learned that the Heavenly Sound Sect had begun a large-scale war with Azure Heaven Mountain and earned spirit stones while staying in the Spirit Medicine Garden. The chapter ended with him confronting a man who seemed to be burying something in the garden’s central spirit field.

• Jiang Hao decided to postpone feeding Rabbit spirit stones to unlock its hidden bloodline, then warned it not to touch the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower or other spirit herbs.
• Cheng Chou told Jiang Hao that the Heavenly Sound Sect was fighting Azure Heaven Mountain and needed healing herbs to support its forces.
• Jiang Hao heard that the sect held the advantage, stayed behind rather than joining the fighting, and earned more than three hundred spirit stones in seven days by selling talismans.
• Jiang Hao noticed strangers from Snow Lotus Pavilion helping in the Spirit Medicine Garden and caught a man apparently burying something in the central spirit field.
• Jiang Hao drew his Half-Moon Blade and pressed it against the man's hand, demanding to know what he was doing.

Jiang Hao stopped a Heavenly Saint Church puppet from destroying Heartbreak Cliff’s spirit field and learned the attack was meant to aid Azure Heaven Mountain’s invasion of the Heavenly Sound Sect. After weeks of increased work, the other gardens recovered, and Rabbit became a talking spirit beast.

• Jiang Hao killed three attackers, disarmed and subdued the fourth, then ordered Cheng Chou to call for help.
• Jiang Hao used appraisal to learn that Puppet Armor had been planted by Yan Hua of the Heavenly Saint Church to sabotage the spirit medicine fields for Azure Heaven Mountain.
• Mu Qi arrived, thanked Jiang Hao for protecting the garden, and took Puppet Armor away for questioning.
• Heartbreak Cliff’s garden barred outsiders while its workers supplied extra spirit medicine until the other gardens recovered three weeks later.
• Rabbit grew familiar with the garden workers and learned to speak, calling himself Lord Rabbit and saying he wanted to eat people.

Jiang Hao studied and demonstrated the Second Form of the Heavenly Saber, Mountain Suppression, before heading to the Spirit Medicine Garden to earn spirit stones and replace his damaged saber. Liu Xingchen met him on the way and reported that Mu Qi had been injured at the Mining Grounds.

• Cheng Chou told Rabbit that the Heavenly Sound Sect had captured Azure Heaven Mountain disciples and sent them to the mines, while Rabbit insisted he would eat only carrots.
• Jiang Hao reviewed his cultivation progress and began studying Mountain Suppression, the Second Form of the Heavenly Saber.
• After a month of practice, Jiang Hao struck the creek with Poem Whisper, stopping its flow and blasting its water and gravel into the air.
• Jiang Hao decided to focus on earning spirit stones and buy a new saber because Half-Moon had cracked again.
• Liu Xingchen met Jiang Hao near the Spirit Medicine Garden and told him that Mu Qi had been injured at the Mining Grounds.

Liu Xingchen told Jiang Hao that Mu Qi had been injured at the Mining Grounds and warned him that he would likely be sent there as a replacement. He also revealed that a Ghost Shadow Sect spy who had targeted Jiang Hao had been captured, while another threat from the Sunset Glow Sect remained; Jiang Hao was left wondering whether Mu Qi was using his injury to escape a dangerous assignment.

• Liu Xingchen explained that Azure Heaven Mountain's defeat had filled the Heavenless Tower and Mining Grounds with prisoners, and that Mu Qi had been injured capturing someone who came to rescue them.
• Liu Xingchen warned Jiang Hao that Heartbreak Cliff would need to replace Mu Qi at the Mining Grounds, where tunnels made investigations and tracking difficult.
• Liu Xingchen revealed that a Ghost Shadow Sect spy who had helped Jin Zhouheng target Jiang Hao had been captured and would soon be sent to the Mining Grounds.
• Jiang Hao learned that Jin Zhouheng was not the high-ranking Sunset Glow Sect member infatuated with Yun Ruo, so that threat remained unresolved.
• Jiang Hao found Mu Qi at the Spirit Medicine Garden entrance and judged that his injuries were less severe than they appeared, suspecting he wanted to avoid returning to the Mining Grounds.

Jiang Hao took over Mu Qi’s assignment at the Heavenly Sound Sect’s Mining Grounds, where he learned Mu Qi had faked his injury to secretly absorb an ancient inheritance. Jiang Hao arrived and was put under Wei Lie, then joined a group transporting five captured immortal-sect disciples.

• Mu Qi asked Jiang Hao to take over his work at the Mining Grounds and offered to share the rewards.
• Jiang Hao appraised Mu Qi and learned he had deliberately injured himself after obtaining an ancient inheritance, while preparing to absorb it.
• Jiang Hao left Rabbit at the Spirit Medicine Garden and traveled to the Mining Grounds to report to administrator Wu Yuanwu.
• Wu Yuanwu assigned Jiang Hao to work under Wei Lie, who warned him to follow the Mining Grounds’ rules and not leave without permission.
• Wei Lie led Jiang Hao to collect five captured immortal-sect disciples and beat a woman and a man when they defied or questioned him.