Recaps

After a month of contemplating the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, Chen Beiwu made limited progress and focused instead on tempering himself at the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele. Once his entry into the Jade Purity Mountain Range was approved, he reunited with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox, who ran into his arms.

• Chen Beiwu used the Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art to deepen his understanding of the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, but failed to grasp how to forge a heaven-bestowed final scenery.
• Chen Beiwu continued cultivating at the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele, where he tempered his body and Divine Sense with the stele's void power.
• Jiang Chuan told Chen Beiwu that his application to enter the Jade Purity Mountain Range had been approved and warned him about the dangers in its depths.
• Chen Beiwu entered the mountain range and discovered that a beast blood vine was drawing Third-Realm Demon Generals, but he refrained from taking the plant because it had an owner.
• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox recognized Chen Beiwu, rushed into his arms, and reunited with him after more than fifty years apart.

Chen Beiwu brought the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox to meet her mother, Demon King Zi Yao, and weighed the risks of forming a companion-beast contract with her lineage. After Zi Yao welcomed him and served Cloudmist Tea, Chen Beiwu entered deep enlightenment and began refining his cultivation scenery.

• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox offered Chen Beiwu her ripened Beast King Fruit, then agreed to trade it for the Beast Blood Vine, which the Five-Qi Vine transplanted into the Five-Qi Origin Forest.
• Chen Beiwu decided to meet the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox's parents before deciding whether to form a companion-beast contract, and Demon King Zi Yao emerged from seclusion after learning her daughter had picked the fruit.
• Bai Li welcomed Chen Beiwu and guided him through the mist-shrouded valley to Demon King Zi Yao's cave abode.
• Demon King Zi Yao recognized Chen Beiwu's extraordinary progress, while Chen Beiwu sensed her immense fortune and wondered why she had only seven tails despite her powerful bloodline.
• Demon King Zi Yao served Chen Beiwu Cloudmist Tea, and its effects sent him into enlightenment, where he corrected flaws in his Heaven-Bestowed Middle Scenery and began attempting to forge his Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery.

Demon King Zi Yao tested Chen Beiwu’s character before allowing him to spend more time with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox, while postponing any Companion Beast Contract. The next morning, Chen Beiwu took the fox cub to the Great Origin Heaven Realm and resumed studying the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele as onlookers reacted to her presence.

• Demon King Zi Yao explained that Chen Beiwu had entered enlightenment from Cloudmist Tea, then agreed to honor the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox’s choice while asking her to spend several years with him before deciding on a contract.
• After Chen Beiwu emerged from enlightenment with both the Heaven-Bestowed Initial Scenery and Middle Scenery reflected in his eyes, Demon King Zi Yao questioned him about Companion Beasts and judged his answers through her Mind's Eye Mystic Ability.
• Chen Beiwu said he viewed his existing Companion Beasts as family and fellow Daoists, valued sincerity, and would resolve disagreements through communication or a contest rather than dissolve their contract.
• Demon King Zi Yao allowed Chen Beiwu and the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox to get to know each other, and the fox happily leaped into his arms before he left the Demon King's Cave Abode.
• The next morning, Chen Beiwu studied the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele in the Great Origin Heaven Realm with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox on his shoulder, drawing the attention of nearby cultivators and Xu Xiu.

Xue Tianyi resumed cultivating the Ancient Demon Cult’s Divine Seed Visualization Method and was arrested by the Immortal Alliance Law Enforcement Bureau. In the Great Origin Heaven Realm, Supervising Censor Jin Zhaoyang accused Chen Beiwu of involvement in a major Ancient Demon Cult case and took him for questioning, while Han Zhongli and Yu Yuanlong watched without intervening.

• Xue Tianyi, fearing she would fall behind without more resources, decided to cultivate the Divine Seed Visualization Method despite suspecting it came from the Ancient Demon Cult.
• Silver-robed Law Enforcement Bureau cultivators arrived at Xue Tianyi’s cave abode and arrested her for suspected cultivation of a forbidden method.
• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox sensed malice toward Chen Beiwu, who then noticed three Law Enforcement Bureau True Lords approaching him.
• Jin Zhaoyang identified himself as a Supervising Censor and accused Chen Beiwu of being connected to a major Ancient Demon Cult case, refusing to let him contact his master.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to accompany Jin Zhaoyang for questioning, while Han Zhongli and Yu Yuanlong discussed the investigation and chose not to intervene.

Chen Beiwu was questioned by the Law Enforcement Bureau over alleged ties to the Ancient Demon Cult, then cleared after the Righteousness-Discerning Stone showed no evil magic power. Jin Zhaoyang revealed that the questioning was ordered by Xiao Yu as a warning, and that the public response was meant to stir suspicion and delay Chen Beiwu’s rise within the Jade Purity Immortal Sect.

• Jin Zhaoyang questioned Chen Beiwu about Xue Tianyi’s use of the Divine Seed Visualization Method and an accusation that Chen Beiwu practiced evil methods.
• Chen Beiwu’s magic power made the Righteousness-Discerning Stone shine white, and Jin Zhaoyang let him leave without further action.
• Chen Beiwu challenged Jin Zhaoyang over why Yu Zhaohua, Mo Qingshuang, and Ye Xinya had not also been questioned, then departed dissatisfied.
• Jin Zhaoyang told his officers that questioning Chen Beiwu upheld the Law Enforcement Bureau’s authority and warned them to preserve themselves when necessary.
• Jin Zhaoyang reported to Xiao Yu that he had questioned Chen Beiwu as instructed and planned to publicly clear his name.
• Xiao Yu explained that he wanted to warn Chen Beiwu and stir public suspicion so that Chen Beiwu’s influence and promotion to Immortal Sect First Seat would be delayed.

Chen Beiwu learned that Xiao Yu had likely arranged the Law Enforcement Bureau’s questioning to obstruct his place among Jade Purity’s successors. He accepted Yue Chenfeng’s help, then revealed that he intended to meet Xiao Yu and, if their strength was comparable, challenge him on the Life-and-Death Platform.

• Chen Beiwu spoke with Jiang Chuan, who told him the senior disciples had learned about the Law Enforcement Bureau’s questioning.
• At the Cloud-Evolving Residence, Chen Beiwu asked Yue Chenfeng who had arranged the bureau’s actions, and the senior disciples identified Xiao Yu as the likely culprit.
• Su Muyu explained that Xiao Yu might be trying to keep Chen Beiwu out of Jade Purity’s succession register and away from Spirit Transformation resources.
• Yue Chenfeng offered to handle the matter, and Chen Beiwu accepted his help.
• Chen Beiwu asked where Xiao Yu could be found and said he wanted to judge Xiao Yu’s aura before challenging him to a life-and-death contest after reaching Nascent Soul.

Chen Beiwu sought a meeting with Xiao Yu and considered challenging him to a Life-and-Death Platform contest, while his seniors tried to dissuade him. The Jade Purity Sect Leader warned Xuanyuan Venerable that Guangcheng Dao Venerable had praised Chen Beiwu’s potential, and Xuanyuan confronted Xiao Yu, who refused to admit wrongdoing.

• Chen Beiwu told Yue Chenfeng and the others that he wanted to settle his grudge with Xiao Yu through Life-and-Death Platform Contention, but agreed to meet Xiao Yu with Yue Chenfeng present.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader summoned Xuanyuan Venerable and warned him that Xiao Yu’s actions against Chen Beiwu crossed a line.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader revealed that Guangcheng Dao Venerable had called Chen Beiwu a child who resembled him and could bear the sect’s fortune, prompting Xuanyuan Venerable to agree to prevent rumors or malicious gossip about Chen Beiwu.
• Xuanyuan Venerable appeared before Xiao Yu at Feather Immortal Pavilion, forced him to kneel, and demanded that he acknowledge his mistake.
• Xiao Yu insisted that he had done nothing wrong and challenged Xuanyuan Venerable for fearing a mere Golden Core cultivator.

Chen Beiwu learned that Xiao Yu had been stripped from the Jade Purity Golden Register but refused to consider the punishment sufficient, demanding a public apology and arranging to meet him. When Chen Beiwu saw Xiao Yu, he sensed a terrifying omen in his fortune, though Iron Egg’s Karmic Fire Heeding Sin revealed no sinful power.

• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox shared fourth-tier Profound Liquid with Golden Egg and promised Chen Beiwu she would keep his secret.
• Yue Chenfeng told Chen Beiwu that the Sect Master had removed Xiao Yu from the Jade Purity Golden Register, but Chen Beiwu said Xiao Yu should kneel and apologize publicly.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader allowed Chen Beiwu to pursue the dispute and considered him using Xiao Yu as a whetstone against the Tianyuan Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yu’s father left him with the choices of seeking Chen Beiwu’s forgiveness or defeating him openly, and Yue Chenfeng brought Chen Beiwu to meet Xiao Yu.
• Chen Beiwu saw ominous, blood-red fortune surrounding Xiao Yu and heard the wails of wronged souls, but Iron Egg detected no sinful power.

Chen Beiwu became Jade Purity’s chief disciple and received rare pills to support his cultivation, while he continued to suspect Xiao Yu and the Tianyuan Xiao Clan were connected to the Ancient Demon Cult. Back at Azure-Ming Peak, he prepared for a contest between Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine to decide which would take the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill.

• Xiao Yu dismissed Yue Chenfeng’s warning that Chen Beiwu belonged to the Grotto-Ming Evergreen Lineage, and Yue told Chen Beiwu that the sect had made him chief disciple.
• Yue Chenfeng described Xiao Yu’s rise from obscurity and revealed that he was a scion of the Tianyuan Xiao Clan, strengthening Chen Beiwu’s suspicions about the Ancient Demon Cult.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader gave Chen Beiwu his chief disciple Jade Slip and, as a special exception, the Purple Mansion Nascent-Soul-Nourishing Pill and Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Azure-Ming Peak and asked Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine which of them should receive the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill.
• Golden Egg proposed a fight with the Five-Qi Vine to decide the winner, and Chen Beiwu said he would find them a suitable Duel Platform the next day.

Chen Beiwu arranged a duel between Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine to decide who would receive the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill, but neither could decisively defeat the other. After they yielded the pill to each other, Chen Beiwu chose Golden Egg to advance first and brought him to the Three Lights Pool to prepare for his breakthrough.

• Chen Beiwu rented Azure-Ming Peak's Duel Platform and started a spar between Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine, forbidding killing blows.
• Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine exchanged powerful attacks, but Golden Egg's defenses and the Vine's recovery kept either from securing a decisive advantage.
• The Five-Qi Vine conceded, and Golden Egg offered it the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill; Chen Beiwu instead chose Golden Egg to become a Fourth-Realm Demon King first.
• Su Muyu showed Chen Beiwu the Three Lights Pool, explaining that its metal, wood, and water energies could help Golden Egg break through.
• Golden Egg prepared to enter the pool, but Chen Beiwu stopped him, saying he would provide another layer of insurance.

Chen Beiwu used accumulated fortune and the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill to help Golden Egg attempt advancement to Fourth-Realm Demon King. After ten years of cultivation, Golden Egg succeeded, and the breakthrough’s vast power began flowing into Chen Beiwu through their Companion Beast Contract.

• Chen Beiwu turned a strand of great fortune into a fortuitous encounter for Golden Egg and divined that the breakthrough would be auspicious.
• Chen Beiwu skipped the Law-Heaven Realm opening to support Golden Egg’s advancement in the Three Lights Pool.
• Golden Egg began transforming his bloodline and achieving the Three Immortalities as his advancing draconic might drew the attention of Jade Purity Immortal Sect cultivators and True Lords.
• Chen Beiwu gave Golden Egg the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill and helped him form an innate demon domain while they cultivated together for ten years.
• Golden Egg reached Fourth-Realm Demon King, and the magic power fed back through their contract flooded Chen Beiwu’s Dantian Qi Sea.

Chen Beiwu’s cultivation advanced as Golden Egg became a fourth-realm Demon King and endured the Three Lights Forgiveness-Silence Heavenly Tribulation without injury. Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s new abilities, including Great Expansion Determining Truth, which could turn illusions into temporary reality, and was left considering the limits of that power.

• Chen Beiwu’s Yang Spirit embryo reached perfection in form and spirit, bringing him within a thought of becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Golden Egg broke through to the Demon King realm, drew the Three Lights Forgiveness-Silence Heavenly Tribulation away from Chen Beiwu, and devoured all twenty-seven thunderbolts.
• Golden Egg returned to Chen Beiwu, who examined its transformed spiritual roots and found it had sixteen hundred years of Dao practice and the Revolving Three Lights True Domain.
• Golden Egg explained that it could not yet use the Revolving Three Lights True Domain, then demonstrated its Great Expansion Determining Truth origin art by creating a Jade Sword Fish.
• Chen Beiwu tasted the fish and realized it was still shaped by Golden Egg’s understanding, though the ability could make illusions temporarily real.

Chen Beiwu tested Golden Egg’s Great Expansion Determining Truth and found a way to use her illusions to accelerate cultivation, then emerged from seclusion after she advanced to Demon King. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu learned his God-Delivering Stele had no defect and agreed to help the Ancient Demon Cult capture Chen Beiwu in exchange for a fifth-tier stele; the chapter ended with Golden Egg firmly rejecting True Lord Su Miao’s proposal to pair their Companion Beasts.

• Chen Beiwu tested Golden Egg’s Great Expansion Determining Truth and discovered that, with her illusion ability, he could preserve some cultivation insights by setting one real day to six illusion days.
• Xiao Yu’s God-Delivering Stele disrupted his cultivation, so he contacted the Ninth Venerable, who found no problem with it; Xiao Yu offered information and primordial origin true essence in exchange for a fifth-tier stele.
• The Ninth Venerable offered Xiao Yu a fifth-tier God-Delivering Stele if he cooperated with the Divine Cult to capture Chen Beiwu, and Xiao Yu agreed to create an opportunity for Chen Beiwu to leave Heavenly Abyss Star.
• Chen Beiwu emerged from seclusion after Golden Egg advanced to Fourth-Realm Demon King, and True Lord Su Miao invited him to tea.
• True Lord Su Miao proposed that their Companion Beasts grow close for breeding, but Golden Egg reacted with hostility and Chen Beiwu refused on her behalf.

Chen Beiwu discussed taking over the Student Department and learned from True Lord Su Miao how to forge heaven-bestowed final scenery. In the Great Origin Heaven Realm, he met exchange students Mo Yuan and Mu Yunzhi, and his claim that worth could outrank seniority left the Jade Purity cultivators surprised.

• True Lord Su Miao advised Chen Beiwu that he could take over the Student Department in an acting capacity, but Chen Beiwu said cultivation came first and asked her about forging heaven-bestowed final scenery.
• True Lord Su Miao taught Chen Beiwu about shared-contemplation scenery, and his comprehension deepened during their three-hour discussion.
• Mo Yuan of the Sword Abyss Immortal Sect and Mu Yunzhi of the Jade Floss Immortal Sect arrived at the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele as exchange students and drew the attention of Jade Purity cultivators.
• Chen Beiwu entered the Great Origin Heaven Realm, and the cultivators in line yielded to him before he introduced himself to Mo Yuan and Mu Yunzhi.
• Mo Yuan challenged the queue’s order, but Chen Beiwu argued that the worthy could stand ahead of their seniors, and Mo Yuan accepted his reasoning.
• Jade Purity cultivators were surprised when Mo Yuan backed down after their brief exchange.

Chen Beiwu and Mu Yunzhi observed the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, and Chen Beiwu forged a heaven-bestowed final scenery depicting a complete world. His breakthrough stirred Great Luo Heaven, leaving Jade Purity Immortal Sect officials celebrating the emergence of a prodigy.

• Chen Beiwu rebuffed Mu Yunzhi's attempt to question him, and she later took a meditation cushion to observe the stele after he sat before it.
• Half a month later, Mu Yunzhi induced a Dao resonance from the stele, while Mo Yuan sensed that Chen Beiwu had already entered a deeper state of comprehension.
• Chen Beiwu summoned Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and the Five-Qi Vine through their companion beast contract, and together they helped him forge a heaven-bestowed final scenery of a world built from chaos, primordial origin, and the Five Elements.
• Chen Beiwu used the Suppress divine ability to enhance his fortune and drew his consciousness into the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, seeking its heavenly gang Dao origin.
• Purple qi spread across the sky and golden lotuses appeared throughout the Jade Purity Immortal Sect Mountain Gate, prompting He Zhengyu and Jiang Chuan to recognize that a prodigy had stirred Great Luo Heaven.

Chen Beiwu received guidance from Primordial Origin Dao Venerable while comprehending the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, forming the Primordial Origin True Seed and gaining Primordial Origin Dao Origin. After leaving the Great Origin Heaven Realm, he headed to Jade Purity Peak to request leave and prepare for Nascent Soul formation.

• Yu Zhaohua recognized the purple qi and golden lotuses as a sign of a Void Refinement Dao Venerable’s attention, while Moonlight True Venerable urged her to reconsider Chen Beiwu and Yu Zhaohua reaffirmed her devotion to the Great Dao.
• Yu Yuanlong concluded that Primordial Origin Dao Venerable had descended to guide Chen Beiwu, while Xuanyuan Venerable and the Jade Purity Sect Leader discussed Chen Beiwu’s prospects and the Xiao Clan.
• Chen Beiwu answered Primordial Origin Dao Venerable’s questions about the Dao and the Primordial Origin Great Dao, forming the Primordial Origin True Seed and receiving Primordial Origin Dao Origin.
• Mo Yuan and Mu Yunzhi congratulated Chen Beiwu, who left the Great Origin Heaven Realm to seek seclusion and reflect on his insights.
• Chen Beiwu hurried to Jade Purity Peak to request leave, visit his family, and prepare for Nascent Soul formation.

Chen Beiwu visited the Jade Purity Sect Leader to seek pills for his companion beasts, while rumors about his rise spread through the sect and Xiao Yu investigated him. The sect leader gave Chen Beiwu two King-Blood Source-Stabilizing Pills in exchange for a future favor, and Chen Beiwu prepared to return home.

• Rumors about Chen Beiwu's accomplishments spread across the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, and Xiao Yu ordered an investigation into his suspicious rise.
• Zeng Changshou urged Zhu Wu to postpone challenging Chen Beiwu, but Zhu Wu refused to wait for the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament.
• Chen Beiwu told the Jade Purity Sect Leader that the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable had given him guidance but no immortal arts.
• Chen Beiwu asked for Nascent Soul Formation Mystic Pills and Foundation-Stabilizing Profound Pills, explaining that he wanted protection in case his breakthrough failed.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader gave Chen Beiwu two King-Blood Source-Stabilizing Pills in exchange for a future task, and Chen Beiwu requested leave to return home.

Chen Beiwu visited Demon King Zi Yao to establish a Companion Beast Contract with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox, receiving her extravagant dowry and choosing the fox’s true name, Zhiling. After the contract was completed, Zhiling’s bloodline awakened and the Beast King Fruit drove her toward the Third-Realm Demon General realm.

• Demon King Zi Yao welcomed Chen Beiwu and scolded the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox, then said it was time for her to consume a Beast King Fruit and advance.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to establish a Companion Beast Contract, and Demon King Zi Yao presented Zhiling with a lavish dowry while asking him to care for her.
• After a family banquet, Demon King Zi Yao explained that Chen Beiwu had to choose the fox’s true name; he named her Zhiling and gave the Five-Qi Vine the name Xuele.
• Chen Beiwu performed the Companion Beast Contract, and Zhiling’s bloodline began to awaken as he fed her a Beast King Fruit.
• Zhiling’s aura surged as she began advancing toward the Third-Realm Demon General realm, relieving Demon King Zi Yao.

Zhiling smoothly awakened her bloodline, advanced to third-realm Demon General, and formed a supreme-grade inner core. Chen Beiwu examined her new spatial abilities and saw how they could support his cultivation and future plans.

• Zhiling endured the Two-Nine Heavenly Thunder Calamity, formed a radiant spirit bright heart golden core, and emerged as a third-realm Demon General.
• Chen Beiwu declined Bai Li’s attendance, and Zhiling joined him before asking whether he liked Bai Li’s figure.
• Chen Beiwu found that Zhiling’s awakening had improved his spiritual roots and revealed her innate profound abilities, including Treading the Void Fur-Escape and Heaven and Earth Within the End.
• Zhiling used Heaven and Earth Within the End to capture and suppress Xuele, then explained that she could hold it for three days in its current state.

Chen Beiwu examined Zhiling’s newly awakened Great Void Claw, accepted the storage ring she gave him, and spent a month in Purple Lake Prefecture before returning to visit his family in Pingchen County. His parents welcomed him home, and Huang Xiaoling pressed him to find a Dao companion before he attempted to become a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Chen Beiwu learned that Zhiling’s Great Void Claw could silently erode defenses and kill after three strikes, then watched her demonstrate it on a boulder.
• Zhiling offered Chen Beiwu her dowry, a storage ring filled with treasures, and gave Xuele nine fourth-tier profound medicines; Golden Egg also asked for Chen Beiwu’s affection.
• Chen Beiwu stayed in Purple Lake Prefecture for a month while Zhiling studied treasure arts under Demon King Zi Yao, then set out with his companions for home.
• On the train, Chen Beiwu heard passengers praise Pingchen County’s rise in status because he had once lived there, then reunited with his father, Chen Dong, who had become acting county head.
• Chen Beiwu returned to his family’s new home, where Huang Xiaoling asked whether he had brought back a partner and urged him to find a Dao companion before pursuing Nascent Soul.

Chen Beiwu returned home, rejected his mother’s efforts to find him a Dao companion, and brought Zhiling through the Ten Directions Gate to the Southern Wasteland. There, he discovered a wounded Mirror Moon Sect cultivator being pursued and moved to investigate, leaving the chase unresolved.

• Huang Xiaoling urged Chen Beiwu to meet potential partners, but he refused and retreated to his cultivation chamber after declining an invitation to speak at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School’s anniversary.
• Chen Beiwu told Zhiling that he controlled a passage to another world, then took her through the Ten Directions Gate to the Southern Wasteland.
• At his cave abode, Chen Beiwu found fresh bloodstains and deduced that an injured Golden Core female cultivator from the Mirror Moon Sect had recently passed through.
• Zhiling recognized the world’s unusual spirit vigor, and Chen Beiwu warned her that the Southern Wasteland was part of a damaged great thousand world that might still hold powerful beings.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhiling followed the blood aura to the Barren Mountain Range, where they found a black-robed female cultivator fleeing a male pursuer who threatened to capture and torment her.

Jiang Yuyan killed Zhou Bo'en after luring him into range of a soul-slaying talisman, but Chen Beiwu confronted her and prepared to decide her fate. When Jiang Yuyan revealed that the Western Evolution and Yellow Evolution Realms planned to attack Danstarr Market, where Fairy Yun Wan was stationed, Chen Beiwu rushed to intervene and promised to spare Jiang Yuyan if her warning proved true.

• Zhou Bo'en chased Jiang Yuyan, trying to force her to submit and use her Crow-Perching Spirit Body for his cultivation.
• Jiang Yuyan feigned a golden core self-detonation, then used the Heavenly Wood True Thunder Talisman, Blood Star Shuttle, and Three-Yin Soul-Slaughter Talisman to kill Zhou Bo'en.
• Chen Beiwu appeared and confronted the gravely wounded Jiang Yuyan, who offered information and asked him to spare her.
• Jiang Yuyan revealed that the Three Great Demon Sects and the four great sects of the Yellow Evolution Realm planned to invade the Mountain Annihilation World's interior, including Danstarr Market, within days.
• Chen Beiwu took Jiang Yuyan with him and headed toward Danstarr Market after promising to spare her if her warning proved true.

At Danstarr Market, Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er faced a Scarlet Sun Sect assault led by three Golden Core peak-stage Scarlet Sun Generals and three hundred Upper Sun Army Dao soldiers. Just as the women began to detonate their golden cores rather than be captured, Chen Beiwu arrived and stabilized them.

• Li Wan'er and Yun Yishu discussed pill production, suspicious attacks on supply shipments, and Li Wan'er's feelings for Chen Beiwu.
• The highest alarm sounded, and True Person Zhou revealed that the Upper Sun Army had sealed Danstarr Market in with overwhelming forces.
• The Scarlet Sun Sect's Dao soldiers shattered the market's formations, and Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er tried to escape with pill stocks and resources.
• Three Scarlet Sun Generals and the Upper Sun Army surrounded Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er, revealing that the women—not merely the market—were their target.
• Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er began detonating their golden cores rather than be captured, but Chen Beiwu appeared and used Primordial Origin True Essence to calm their cores.

Chen Beiwu arrived at Danstarr Market and annihilated the Upper Sun Army, revealing overwhelming strength despite not being a Nascent Soul True Lord. After exposing and capturing the suspected traitor True Person Zhou, he faced the arrival of an unfamiliar Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Li Wan'er and Yun Yishu warned Chen Beiwu about the enemy force and suspected that True Person Zhou had betrayed the Mirror Moon Sect.
• The Scarlet Sun Generals formed the Heavenly Cycle Scarlet Sun Grand Formation with three hundred Upper Sun Army soldiers, but Chen Beiwu destroyed them with one Jade Void Scarlet Radiance Seal.
• Chen Beiwu explained that he had not reached the Nascent Soul realm, and Li Wan'er embraced him while teasing him about how she addressed him.
• Chen Beiwu searched the surviving Scarlet Sun Generals' souls, learned of wider conspiracies, and confirmed True Person Zhou's betrayal when Zhou tried to flee.
• Chen Beiwu restrained True Person Zhou and dragged him to the ground, then an unfamiliar Nascent Soul True Lord appeared as Li Wan'er stood beside Chen Beiwu.

True Lord Shangyi of the Azure Spirit Sect attacked Chen Beiwu and his companions in Danstarr Market, but Golden Egg overwhelmed the Nascent Soul cultivator while Chen Beiwu helped prevent his escape. Zhiling captured Shangyi’s Nascent Soul, leaving the group with the Azure Spirit Sect’s plot to uncover.

• True Lord Shangyi confronted Chen Beiwu, Yun Yishu, and Li Wan'er, revealing that he had entered Mirror Moon Sect territory to seize his targets.
• Shangyi attacked Chen Beiwu with the Heavenly Thunder Nail, but Golden Egg’s dragon claw caught the Profound Treasure.
• Chen Beiwu ordered Golden Egg to defeat Shangyi, and Golden Egg broke through the True Lord’s Azure Abyss Shield and successive protective treasures.
• Shangyi tried to flee with a Grand Void Space-Rending Talisman, but Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg disrupted his escape.
• Golden Egg tore apart Shangyi’s body, and Zhiling captured his Nascent Soul.