Recaps

At the Treasure-Gathering Studio, Wei Lingjiang tried to buy every protective enchanted garment, but Chen Heng stopped her after Zhu Wanzhi chose the Jade Pivot Treasure Garment. Later, Wei Lingjiang asked whether she was difficult to approach, and Chen Heng warned that her heart was in turmoil before shutting his door; days afterward, he destroyed his Mind Image in the One True Dharma Realm.

• Zhu Wanzhi chose the Jade Pivot Treasure Garment, and Wei Lingjiang tried to buy every enchanted garment in the studio.
• Chen Heng returned Wei Lingjiang’s money pouch and left with Zhou Xingling, while Zhu Wanzhi confronted Wei Lingjiang and accused her of competing for Chen Heng.
• At the Immortal Guest Residence, Chen Heng told Wei Lingjiang he had already bought an Iron Armor Garment, and she asked whether her temperament made her difficult to approach.
• Chen Heng said Wei Lingjiang’s heart was in turmoil and shut his door, then asked Ancestor Fu Can about inner demons and heart demons.
• Several days later, Chen Heng’s hand seal paused in the One True Dharma Realm, and flames burst from within him, burning his Mind Image into smoke.

Chen Heng continued cultivating Innate Great Sun Divine Light and planned to use Huaiwu Cave to advance his cultivation while investigating Cave Lord Huaiwu’s suspected ties to Heavenly Demons. During a walk with Wei Lingjiang, he warned her not to let a momentary inner demon lead her to damage her Dao Path, and the chapter ended as strange disturbances shook the heavens above Floating Jade Lake.

• Chen Heng reviewed the difficult stages of Innate Great Sun Divine Light and judged that he had a chance to reach minor attainment before entering the Earth Abyss.
• Chen Heng planned to rank highly in Huaiwu Cave, both to absorb spiritual energy and to uncover evidence of Cave Lord Huaiwu’s connection to Heavenly Demons.
• Chen Heng checked his cultivation and methods, then continued practicing Innate Great Sun Divine Light in the One True Dharma Realm.
• Wei Lingjiang invited Chen Heng to walk with her around Red Leaf Island, while Qingzhi was left behind to buy ring cakes.
• Sheltering from a sudden downpour, Chen Heng warned Wei Lingjiang that her unsettled heart might be an inner demon and said he did not want to ruin her Dao Path.
• Qingzhi joined them as strange lightning and disordered spiritual currents appeared over Floating Jade Lake, and Chen Heng suspected that great cultivators were fighting.

As Old Monster Miaonan fled Cave Lord Huaiwu toward Floating Jade Lake, his sentient Five Directions Rising Sun Banner fought off Huaiwu and then faced two Golden Core True Persons. The banner self-destructed, but the Dipper Talisman protected Chen Heng from the resulting devastation, and Jade Pivot divined Chen Heng’s name and location.

• Old Monster Miaonan and the Five Directions Rising Sun Banner repelled Cave Lord Huaiwu’s attacks as they raced toward Floating Jade Lake, where Huaiwu called on True Person Wang for help.
• True Person Wang and a Golden Core True Person from Flower God Manor suppressed the damaged banner, so it sacrificed itself in an explosion that swept across Floating Jade Lake.
• As the blast threatened Chen Heng, Wei Lingjiang aimed the Golden Light Divine Talisman at him, but the Dipper Talisman emerged from his Heaven and Earth Bag and made the devastation vanish.
• True Person Wang sensed that a powerful senior might have intervened, while Wei Lingjiang stopped activating her talisman and Chen Heng realized the Dipper Talisman had protected him.
• In Southern Chan Province, Jade Pivot divined Chen Heng’s name and learned he was hiding in the territory of Floating Jade Lake.

Chen Jade Pivot learned that Zhuang Si wanted Chen Heng and suspected the boy had an unusual quality, so he sent Yue You to retrieve him. Meanwhile, a young man searching for someone at Floating Jade Lake found traces of Yue You and fled, while Chen Heng and Wei Lingjiang reached the entrance to Huaiwu Cave.

• Zhuang Si admitted she wanted to refine Chen Jade Pivot into a human puppet and asked him to give her Chen Heng when he was finished with him.
• After Zhuang Si left, Chen Jade Pivot told Yue You that Chen Heng's activated Dipper Talisman and Zhuang Si's interest in him suggested something was amiss.
• Chen Jade Pivot sent Yue You to Linjiao Island to borrow Yuan Ju's World-Escaping Shuttle and bring Chen Heng back, ordering Yue You to kill the boy if he could not serve him.
• A young man with a golden staff found signs that Yue You had recently been at the sea and hurriedly fled toward the Southern Sea Serpent Tribe.
• At Floating Jade Lake, Chen Heng and Wei Lingjiang stood before the opening to Huaiwu Cave.

Chen Heng entered Huaiwu Cave to compete for one of its three places and gather vital essence, while Wei Lingjiang stayed behind, worried for his safety. After defeating a herd of fire bulls, he left their empty mountain to find Yuan Yangsheng confronting captured cultivators.

• Wei Lingjiang urged Chen Heng not to enter Huaiwu Cave, but he went in alone and promised to use his Golden Light Divine Talisman against Cave Lord Huaiwu.
• Huaiwu Cave's artifact spirit explained that competitors had three days to collect beasts' and birds' vital essence in porcelain bottles, and warned Chen Heng to beware other cultivators.
• Ancestor Fu Can suggested Chen Heng wait and rob others' bottles, then teased him about his feelings for Wei Lingjiang; Chen Heng ignored him and went hunting.
• Chen Heng killed a fire bull and the herd that charged after it, collecting their vital essence in his porcelain bottles.
• Yuan Yangsheng arrived with companions and found the herd gone, then gloated over the cultivators they had captured after they had mocked his martial arts.

Chen Heng defeated a powerful Gudiao-like beast in Huaiwu Cave and gathered essence while hunting other creatures. He intervened when Blood Lotus Sect cultivators pursued a White Crane Grotto disciple, then faced Yuan Yangsheng, whose cultivation Chen Heng recognized as Gujie Heaven's Gang Baleful Intent Martial Dao.

• Chen Heng used the Azure-Law Sword to wear down and kill the Gudiao-like beast, collecting its essence while concealing his full strength.
• Chen Heng flew across Huaiwu Cave, slaughtering beasts and birds for their essence and considering the cave's potential for training formations and refining Dao Soldiers.
• Chen Heng spotted two Blood Lotus Sect cultivators chasing a wounded White Crane Grotto disciple and killed the woman with a swift strike from the Azure-Law Sword.
• Yuan Yangsheng arrived, praised Chen Heng's Mid-Grade Talisman Artifact, and challenged him to a fight.
• Chen Heng recognized that Yuan Yangsheng practiced Gujie Heaven's Gang Baleful Intent Martial Dao rather than the immortal path.

Chen Heng fought Yuan Yangsheng, a Gu Jie Heaven martial cultivator, and used his talisman artifacts to wound him. Yuan Yangsheng opened the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, but then reacted with confusion to Chen Heng’s blood and qi.

• Yuan Yangsheng challenged Chen Heng to a martial contest while his companion, Old Hu, confronted a Blood Lotus Sect cultivator.
• Zhou Tong joined Chen Heng, but Chen Heng told him to move away and faced Yuan Yangsheng alone.
• Chen Heng battled Yuan Yangsheng with the Azure-Law Sword, breaking his saber and inflicting severe wounds.
• Chen Heng struck Yuan Yangsheng with the Thunderfire Thunderclap Bead, then sent the Azure-Law Sword toward his head.
• Yuan Yangsheng opened the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and stopped the sword in midair, but he then stared at Chen Heng’s blood and qi in alarm.

Chen Heng subdued the Blood Lotus Sect cultivator and confronted Yuan Yangsheng, whose martial arts lineage linked him to Chen Xuanwu. After learning Chen Xuanwu had sent Yuan to oppose his own father, Ancestor Fu Can erupted in laughter, while elsewhere in Huaiwu Cave an annoyed man stood from a raised platform.

• Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng paused their fight after each recognized the other's formidable abilities, while the Blood Lotus Sect cultivator secretly sent an eyeless cicada underground.
• Yuan Yangsheng unearthed the cicada with a strike, and Chen Heng caught and crushed it between his fingers, revealing the strength of his Tai Su Jade Body.
• Chen Heng questioned the Blood Lotus Sect cultivator about his sect's plans in Huaiwu Cave, then attacked; Yuan Yangsheng identified the cultivator's true body among his escape snakes, allowing Chen Heng to kill him.
• Yuan Yangsheng surrendered, and Chen Heng questioned him about his martial arts and elder brother; Yuan revealed that his elder brother was Chen Xuanwu and that he was meant to help fight Chen Xuanwu's father.
• Ancestor Fu Can recognized the significance of Chen Xuanwu's plan and laughed wildly, while a displeased man stood up on a raised platform elsewhere in Huaiwu Cave.

Qin Xian learned that Zheng Hua had likely died and decided to capture Chen Heng as a replacement male consort for Eldest Senior Sister. Outside Huaiwu Cave, Cave Lord Huaiwu endured the Flower God Manor and Blood Lotus Sect undermining his trial, while Chen Heng attacked a Blood Lotus Sect cultivator inside the cave.

• Qin Xian and Junior Brother Xu learned that Zheng Hua and Junior Sister Zhao had gone missing, and they sent messages ordering their fellow disciples to capture Zheng Hua's killer.
• Qin Xian planned to offer Chen Heng to Eldest Senior Sister as a new male consort, hoping to escape punishment and win a reward.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu protested Qin Xian's conduct, but the Flower God Manor defended the Blood Lotus Sect and the Five Radiances Sect declined to intervene.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu resolved to retaliate after his wife mastered the Heavenly Demon Art and privately decided that the man and woman he had given Crane Embryo Pills must die.
• Two days later, Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng fought a Blood Lotus Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator, who warned Chen Heng that killing him would make the Blood Lotus Sect his enemy.

Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng fought Dong Shao, a Blood Lotus Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator, and killed him after exhausting his secret treasure and defeating his escape attempt. As Chen Heng collected Dong Shao’s belongings, Cave Lord Huaiwu unexpectedly spoke to him telepathically.

• Chen Heng’s Azure-Law Sword wounded Dong Shao, while Yuan Yangsheng used Shrinking Earth to an Inch to survive the cultivator’s bloody hand attack.
• Dong Shao activated the Three-Extremes Umbrella, but Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng endured its attacks until its Po-Mother Water Essence ran out.
• Dong Shao fled into the sky, but Chen Heng’s Azure-Law Sword brought him down and severed his remaining limbs.
• Dong Shao explained that Senior Brother Qin Xian led the Blood Lotus Sect group and that Junior Sister Liu’s spiritual eye art had been bestowed by the Flower God Manor; he also revealed the sect wanted Chen Heng as their eldest senior sister’s male favorite.
• After Dong Shao warned that the Blood Lotus Sect would pursue him if he refused, Chen Heng killed him and collected his belongings.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu’s voice entered Chen Heng’s mind, greeting him and expressing relief that he was unharmed.

Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng agreed to target the Blood Lotus Sect cultivators after Cave Lord Huaiwu offered them rewards, and Chen Heng proposed killing their leader, Qin Xian. Qin Xian received word that Dong Shao and Junior Sister Liu had died and prepared to face the attackers.

• Cave Lord Huaiwu offered Chen Heng a Big Dipper Sword Talisman and Yuan Yangsheng two portions of Xun Four longevity fire baleful qi in exchange for stopping the Blood Lotus Sect.
• Yuan Yangsheng explained his Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes and Heaven-Bestowed Divine Ability, then agreed to join Chen Heng against the Blood Lotus Sect.
• Chen Heng decided that he and Yuan Yangsheng should kill Qin Xian first to weaken the Blood Lotus Sect cultivators.
• A Blood Lotus Sect cultivator discovered Dong Shao’s scent and sent a blood swallow to report his death, along with Junior Sister Liu’s.
• Qin Xian crushed the blood swallow and dismissed the attackers as petty scoundrels who dared challenge him.

Qin Xian gathered the Blood Lotus Sect cultivators in Huaiwu Cave and prepared to defend their bid for the top three places, but Cave Lord Huaiwu sent rogue cultivators to stop them. Chen Heng joined the battle disguised in a Bamboo Mask and killed Qin Xian with a single punch.

• After learning that Junior Sister Liu and Dong Shao had died, Qin Xian suspected Chen Heng and ordered the Blood Lotus Sect cultivators to assemble and summon Mo Can and Zhang Zhenghan.
• Qin Xian predicted that Cave Lord Huaiwu would rally rogue cultivators against them, but Zhang Zhenghan dismissed his warning when no enemy appeared at first.
• About fifty rogue cultivators led by Lu Yu charged the Blood Lotus Sect, and the two sides fought until the rogue cultivators began to falter.
• Qin Xian noticed two masked figures whose auras resembled those of Blood Lotus Sect disciples and ordered them to reveal themselves.
• One masked figure spoke to Chen Heng, who used the Spirit Eye Technique to trap Qin Xian in a vision and then killed him with a single punch.

Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng fought off the Blood Lotus Sect cultivators and rogue cultivators in Huaiwu Cave, killing Qin Xian and two more Foundation Establishment cultivators before the survivors fled. After the cave’s three-day limit transported them away, Chen Heng awoke to an unknown voice inviting him to join Flower God Manor.

• Yuan Yangsheng froze Qin Xian with the Ten-Direction Defilement-Cleansing Pure Eye, allowing Chen Heng to kill him with one punch and take his Heaven and Earth Bag.
• The cultivators attacked Chen Heng, but he charged through their weapons and spells, killing many with his fists and Purple-Gold Baleful-Breaking Hammers as others fled.
• Yuan Yangsheng froze the dwarf cultivator and Zhang Zhenghan, and Chen Heng killed both with his hammers; Lu Yu and Mo Can escaped.
• Chen Heng shared half of Qin Xian’s collected vital essence with Yuan Yangsheng, and both men collapsed to recover as the remaining cultivators fled.
• Huaiwu Cave’s three-day limit transported Chen Heng and Yuan Yangsheng away, and an unknown voice invited Chen Heng to join Flower God Manor.

At a banquet, Xie Tan offered Chen Heng the chance to become his personal disciple in Flower God Manor, provided he survived the Earth Abyss and won a place at the Flower-Gathering Banquet. After the banquet, Chen Heng asked about the sect’s background checks, then encountered a veiled young woman and a little girl in green.

• Xie Tan praised Chen Heng and offered to take him as a disciple, but made the Earth Abyss and Flower-Gathering Banquet his trial.
• Xie Tan explained that he was honoring his old friendship with Ai Jian, while Cui Wuyue challenged him and was driven from the hall with an eye injury.
• Chen Heng accepted the conditions, and Xie Tan gave him a folding fan depicting twelve beauties before leaving.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu explained that great sects examined disciples’ bloodlines and family backgrounds, then invited Chen Heng, Yuan Yangsheng, and Lu Yu to a lecture.
• Yuan Yangsheng pestered Chen Heng to inspect the fan’s beauties, but Chen Heng put it away after noticing a veiled young woman and a little girl in green on the floating bridge.

Chen Heng returned injured from Huaiwu Cave, where Wei Lingjiang anxiously checked him as a middle-aged Daoist nun considered intervening in their relationship but restrained herself. The celestial disturbance she caused unsettled Xie Tan, his Golden Turtle, and Cave Lord Huaiwu’s wife, while Cave Lord Huaiwu planned to bring Chen Heng to her; back on the floating bridge, Chen Heng took Wei Lingjiang’s hand and asked her to let go.

• Wei Lingjiang examined Chen Heng’s broken arms on the floating bridge while Qingzhi and Yuan Yangsheng watched.
• A middle-aged Daoist nun considered killing Chen Heng to protect Wei Lingjiang from a possible obstacle to her cultivation, but withdrew her aura and left them alone.
• Xie Tan questioned his weakening Golden Turtle about the celestial disturbance, then failed to divine its cause.
• Lady Liu raged behind the sealed vermilion doors, and Cave Lord Huaiwu calmed her before promising to bring Chen Heng to her in two days.
• Chen Heng took Wei Lingjiang’s hand, told her he was fine, and asked her to let go.

Chen Heng rejected Wei Lingjiang’s advances because he feared love would distract him from pursuing immortality, but she declared she would not regret caring for him and gave him medicine for his injuries. After parting from Wei, Chen Heng privately warned Yuan Yangsheng that he was in danger, and Yuan came to discuss what he had discovered.

• Chen Heng told Wei Lingjiang that he could not afford distractions and questioned whether her feelings were genuine, while Wei insisted she would confess again after overcoming her inner demon.
• Wei Lingjiang teased Chen Heng, gave him medicine for his injuries, and left, declaring that she had a clear conscience and would not regret her actions.
• Chen Heng followed Wei to the floating bridge, where Yuan Yangsheng jokingly called Wei his sister-in-law and Chen denied the relationship.
• Chen Heng told Yuan Yangsheng that he had come to save his life, and Yuan said he would visit Chen later to discuss the matter privately.
• Yuan Yangsheng arrived at Chen Heng’s room that night, and Chen said Yuan already knew the truth because his martial dao heavenly eye could see through falsehood.

Yuan Yangsheng told Chen Heng that Cave Lord Huaiwu’s disciples were Flesh-Armor Demons and that Huaiwu had secretly kept a Heavenly Demon in violation of the Gang Qi Layer’s rules. Yuan Yangsheng offered Chen Heng a means of escape, but Chen Heng stayed behind for an important matter, then learned that Yuan Yangsheng’s brother Chen Xuanwu had once reached the Primordial Spirit realm before taking up martial cultivation to challenge his powerful Immortal Dao father.

• Yuan Yangsheng described how his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye revealed Cave Lord Huaiwu’s disciples as monstrous Flesh-Armor Demons, despite their human appearances.
• Yuan Yangsheng explained that Southern Chan Province was ruled by the Xiantian Demon Sect and that secretly keeping an unregistered Heavenly Demon could bring severe punishment.
• Chen Heng agreed that Huaiwu had likely concealed a Heavenly Demon, while Yuan Yangsheng revealed his Feilu Fruit escape tool and invited Chen Heng to flee with him.
• Chen Heng refused to leave because he had an important matter to attend to, and Yuan Yangsheng guessed that Chen Heng and his senior sister planned to deal with Huaiwu.
• Yuan Yangsheng said Chen Xuanwu had once attained the Primordial Spirit realm, abandoned his Immortal Dao cultivation, and turned to martial cultivation to defeat his birth father.
• Ancestor Fu Can mocked Chen Xuanwu’s chances and refused to explain what he knew, while Chen Heng began examining the Heaven and Earth Bags he had collected.

Chen Heng reviewed the wealth he had gained at Floating Jade Lake, reflected on his past and his pursuit of immortality, and spoke with Ancestor Fu Can while waiting for Cave Lord Huaiwu’s discourse. Two days passed, bringing the story to the time of the discourse.

• Chen Heng finished sorting the spoils from the battle and decided to give the Dazzling Candle flying sword to Xu Zhi.
• Chen Heng tested Cave Lord Huaiwu’s Big Dipper Sword Talisman and waited for the hour when Cave Lord Huaiwu would expound the Dao to the top three.
• Hearing music for the approaching Si Encounter Festival, Chen Heng recalled his predecessor’s painful memories of Yan Zhen and reaffirmed his pursuit of immortality.
• Ancestor Fu Can praised Chen Heng, asked to borrow his appearance for a visit to the Union Bliss Sect, and was refused.
• Ancestor Fu Can asked whether Chen Heng’s heart had stirred for his senior sister, but Chen Heng told him to guess.
• Two days passed, and Chen Heng was due to hear Cave Lord Huaiwu’s discourse.

Chen Heng prepared to meet Cave Lord Huaiwu after Ancestor Fu Can agreed to reveal the truth about Chen Heng’s birth and family when Chen Heng activated the Ten-Thousand-Li Illumination Talisman. Chai Zhonghong arrived early to escort him to the lecture, but Wei Lingjiang stopped them by claiming she and Chen Heng were Dao companions.

• Chen Heng cultivated with the vital essence from Huaiwu Cave but found that his Qi Refining and Tai Su Jade Body both required vast amounts of spiritual qi.
• Ancestor Fu Can warned Chen Heng that Cave Lord Huaiwu had moved the lecture forward after Yuan Yangsheng escaped, and said the Heavenly Demon wanted to bring Chen Heng before its master.
• Chen Heng asked Ancestor Fu Can about his birth father and brothers, and Ancestor Fu Can reluctantly agreed to explain the truth during the brief moment after Chen Heng activated the Ten-Thousand-Li Illumination Talisman.
• Chen Heng activated Wei Lingjiang’s Golden Light Divine Talisman and waited until Chai Zhonghong arrived to escort him to Cave Lord Huaiwu’s lecture.
• Wei Lingjiang met Chen Heng and Chai Zhonghong on the stairs, claimed she and Chen Heng were Dao companions, and asked to speak with him privately.

Chen Heng questioned whether Wei Lingjiang’s meeting and cooperation with him had been arranged, then admitted that he cared about her, though she asked him to wait before saying more. After arranging to watch the Si Encounter Festival lanterns together, Wei Lingjiang decided to bring him into the Vermilion Luminescence Sect; Chen Heng then entered a palace where Ancestor Fu Can warned him that the Heavenly Demon was about to test him.

• Chen Heng told Wei Lingjiang that their meeting and the means that had brought them to the Heavenly Demon seemed deliberately arranged, and questioned how she could have completed her trial without him.
• Wei Lingjiang asked why Chen Heng stayed to help her, and he said that he cared about her, but she asked him not to continue until she understood her own feelings.
• Wei Lingjiang invited Chen Heng to watch the Si Encounter Festival lanterns with her when he returned, then rescued Qingzhi from choking on a lotus seed and promised to let her out of the Grotto-Heaven for a month.
• Wei Lingjiang told Qingzhi that she would spend her Great Dao Merits and Yan Xi’s two Outer Heaven Legacy Caches to help Chen Heng enter the Vermilion Luminescence Sect’s Lower Court.
• Chen Heng arrived at the palace on Floating Jade Lake, where maids led him to bathe before Ancestor Fu Can warned him to restrain his aura, bones, and blood for the Heavenly Demon’s test.

Chen Heng avoided Lüzhu’s attempt to seduce him and reached Cave Lord Huaiwu’s Dharma Altar, where he listened to a discourse alongside Lu Yu and a Blood Lotus Sect cultivator. As Huaiwu’s lecture turned sinister, Chen Heng opened his eyes to a flayed corpse emerging from the air and reaching for him.

• Chen Heng rejected Lüzhu’s offers of female and male attendants, while Lüzhu concealed her demonic nature and drained a man’s vital essence.
• Ancestor Fu Can told Chen Heng that an Evil Hatred Yin Victory Demon had searched him and his Heaven and Earth Bag, but found no clues to his concealed power.
• Chen Heng arrived at Cave Lord Huaiwu’s Dharma Altar and joined Lu Yu and a Blood Lotus Sect cultivator for the discourse.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu lectured on a Dao art involving weapons, armor, and body-swapping substitutes, then discussed pill refining as the listeners became absorbed.
• Chen Heng sensed something wrong as the Great Yellow Treasure Pill formula turned grotesque, and a flayed corpse emerged from the air and embraced him.

During Cave Lord Huaiwu’s sermon, Chen Heng alone saw horrifying fiends and heard the teachings warped into a demonic scripture. He acquired the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method, and the monsters called him the Demon Son and asked him to cast the technique.

• A Flayed Blood Corpse rushed at Chen Heng but vanished upon touching him, while Lu Yu, the Blood Lotus Sect practitioner, and Cave Lord Huaiwu remained unaware.
• Chen Heng saw increasingly bizarre monsters surrounding the palace as Cave Lord Huaiwu’s sermon sounded like a demonic scripture praising Great Devil King Suiyu.
• The distorted scripture revealed the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method in Chen Heng’s mind.
• The fiends and specters gathered around Chen Heng, bowed to him, and called him the Demon Son.
• A Red-Skinned Dwarf respectfully asked Chen Heng to cast the technique.

Chen Heng discovered that he could memorize and attempt to cultivate the Heavenly Demon Art hidden in Cave Lord Huaiwu’s lecture, despite its apparent Earth Palace Golden Chapter protections. Lady Liu then revealed that she believed the Dao Court’s restrictions had been broken and declared herself the new Chongyu Demon Son.

• While Cave Lord Huaiwu lectured, Chen Heng saw terrifying demons that the others could not perceive and found his attempts to contact them passed through them harmlessly.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu realized Chen Heng had passed through the Six Dust Demons’ obstruction unharmed and hoped he could cultivate the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method.
• Chen Heng entered the One True Dharma Realm, memorized the Divine Ability, and learned that only a Heavenly Demon could cultivate it.
• Chen Heng returned to the present world as Cave Lord Huaiwu stopped lecturing and called to Lady Liu.
• Lady Liu laughed from the darkness, praised Chongyu, and announced that she was the new Chongyu Demon Son after the Dao Court’s Magic Prohibitions had been broken.

Chen Heng discovered that Cave Lord Huaiwu had used his sermons to seek someone who could resonate with the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method and feed them to the Evil Hatred Yin Victory Demon. As the demon approached Chen Heng, Ancestor Fu Can revealed that the Divine Ability belonged to the long-lost Suiyu.

• The Evil Hatred Yin Victory Demon broke her Dragon-Tiger Chains and entered the Palace, while Cave Lord Huaiwu explained that he wanted her to seize Chen Heng’s body and find his body-refining Dao Art.
• Huang Ji tried to flee, but Cave Lord Huaiwu sealed the Palace and Pu Islet; the demon broke Huang Ji’s limbs and knocked him unconscious after taking his Rouge True Radiance gourd.
• Lu Yu fled and was killed by the Strength Aberrant Demon, whom the demon called her son, Yong'er.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu told Chen Heng that he had passed the trials tied to the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method and urged him to abandon his human body and become a Heavenly Demon.
• Ancestor Fu Can identified the Divine Ability’s creator as Suiyu and urged Chen Heng to become a Demon Son and contact the Silent Heavenly Palace.

Chen Heng exposed Cave Lord Huaiwu and Lady Liu’s killings and their connection to the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method by questioning them while Ancestor Fu Can recorded their confession. The Ten-Thousand-Li Illumination Talisman broadcast the exchange across ten thousand li, and Sima Lingzhen of the Jade Dawn School decided to capture Lady Liu.

• Ancestor Fu Can explained that Chen Heng and Chen Yan had both passed the Silent Heaven Palace Saint-Controlling Prayer Great Method’s trials, while Chen Heng rejected becoming a Chongyu Demon Son.
• Chen Heng questioned Lady Liu, who admitted that she and Cave Lord Huaiwu had killed cultivators, turning some into Demon Retinue and feeding on others.
• Cave Lord Huaiwu revealed that he had tried to escape the Southern Territory through the Eastern Sea, but the Dragon Lord’s court had rejected him and sent him back.
• Lady Liu disclosed that her Two-Aspect Rebirth technique could inherit Chen Heng’s Divine Abilities, destiny, and fortune, then transformed into demonic light and attacked him.
• Ancestor Fu Can activated the Ten-Thousand-Li Illumination Talisman, broadcasting the confession to cultivators across the region and provoking an uproar around Floating Jade Lake.
• Sima Lingzhen of the Jade Dawn School heard the broadcast and resolved to take Lady Liu as an ingredient for Senior Brother Xie’s Alchemical Furnace.