Recaps

Chen Beiwu traded his insights into pure yang Nascent Soul formation for two pieces of Illuminating Heart Marrow and discussed investment in Protectorate City with Su Lanyue. Three years later, after advancing his cultivation and uncovering evidence that Liu Yuanming and two others had traded with the Green Hill Demon Kingdom, he assigned Zhiling to subdue them.

• Chen Beiwu offered Su Lanyue his Nascent Soul formation insights for two pieces of Illuminating Heart Marrow, and she accepted the deal and proposed investing in Protectorate City.
• At the Mirror Moon Sect, Zhu Wuya dismissed objections to Chen Beiwu's city project and raised the danger of a white-flame passage in the Grand Void Formation Sect Ruins.
• Chen Beiwu declined to risk entering the ruins and, three years later, completed a period of cultivation that brought him to the peak of the Nascent Soul early stage.
• Xuele revealed records showing that Liu Yuanming and two associates had traded with the Green Hill Demon Kingdom and leaked Immortal Alliance intelligence.
• Chen Beiwu chose to use the discovery as a trial and asked Zhiling to subdue Liu Yuanming and the other two.

Zhiling assassinated Chang Ming and Bai Yi after Chen Beiwu exposed their betrayal of the Immortal Alliance. Chang Ming died after sacrificing the Azure Rain Treasure Deer to escape, while Zhiling captured Bai Yi in its Cave-Heaven World.

• Chang Ming sensed Zhiling’s ambush, but used his Companion Beast Mark to make the Azure Rain Treasure Deer take Zhiling’s claw in his place and buy him time to flee.
• The wounded Azure Rain Treasure Deer spent its remaining strength to hold Zhiling back, but died without stopping it; Chen Beiwu confirmed Chang Ming’s guilt, and Zhiling killed him.
• Zhiling worried that Chen Beiwu might abandon it in a crisis, and Chen Beiwu promised they would face danger or death together.
• At the Pure Fire Bureau, Bai Yi summoned his Gale-Fire Treasure Swallow and transformed it into the Li Xun Gale Fire Wheel to fight Zhiling.
• Bai Yi struck Zhiling with a Space-Rending Needle, but Zhiling retaliated with Heaven and Earth Within the End and swept Bai Yi and his wheel into its Cave-Heaven World.

Chen Beiwu sent Zhiling to ambush Liu Yuanming, whose Golden Thread Gu forced Zhiling to awaken a powerful void-based Profound Ability. After Chen Beiwu captured Liu Yuanming over his dealings with the Green Hill Demon Kingdom, Liu Yuanming hinted that powerful forces had used him as a pawn and warned that investigating the Earth Abyss’s hidden network would invite retaliation.

• Chen Beiwu pointed out Zhiling’s mistakes in its fight with Bai Yi and asked whether it could kill Liu Yuanming in one strike.
• Zhiling ambushed Liu Yuanming in the records room, shattered his right arm, and pursued him when he fled.
• Liu Yuanming unleashed his Golden Thread Gu’s Heaven-Concealing Golden Sword, but Zhiling awakened a void Profound Ability and annihilated the insect with a miniature black hole.
• Zhiling nearly collapsed from exhaustion, and Chen Beiwu caught it before confronting Liu Yuanming about his dealings with the Green Hill Demon Kingdom.
• Liu Yuanming admitted that powerful people had made him and his associates pawns, then warned Chen Beiwu that investigating the Earth Abyss’s hidden network would draw its attention.

Chen Beiwu exposed a network of garrison inspectors who traded strategic secrets with the Green Hill Demon Kingdom, earning a promotion and a Thousand-Origin Pill that helped Xuele break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After refining the pill’s power, Chen Beiwu neared his own breakthrough and returned to Protectorate City, where he finally met Su Lanyue after keeping her waiting for three days.

• Chen Beiwu questioned Liu Yuanming, learned that Qiu Yishan and Su Zhiyi were suspected of colluding with the Green Hill Demon Kingdom, and reported the evidence to the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s sect master.
• The Immortal Alliance arrested Qiu Yishan and Su Zhiyi, sentenced them to death, and promoted Chen Beiwu to acting Deputy Garrison Inspector of the Southern Abyss while awarding him a Thousand-Origin Pill.
• Chen Beiwu gave the Thousand-Origin Pill to Xuele, which consumed it and increased its Dao practice to 2,800 years, reaching the equivalent of Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• After three days of refining the power Xuele fed back through their companion beast contract, Chen Beiwu neared the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and returned to the Southern Wasteland.
• Chen Beiwu met Su Lanyue in Protectorate City and apologized for keeping her waiting, while she was astonished by his rapid progress to the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

Chen Beiwu traded Nascent Soul formation insights for Lucent Heart Marrow and sought materials for dual-origin Dao attainment, while Su Lanyue explained the difficulty of obtaining heavenly one nether crystal. After declining an invitation to explore the Blazing Sun Ruins, Chen Beiwu returned to Protectorate City, where he recognized Li Quan as a cultivator with extraordinary potential and left his future uncertain.

• Chen Beiwu exchanged his Nascent Soul formation insights with Su Lanyue for Lucent Heart Marrow, and she gained a glimpse of a path beyond her cultivation bottleneck.
• Chen Beiwu asked Su Lanyue to help acquire void-bearing heartstone, great transformation profound dew, and central sovereign jade marrow; she identified the last as heavenly one nether crystal and explained that the Heavenly Saint Sect would part with it only for a rare life-extending medicine.
• Su Lanyue invited Chen Beiwu to join the Five Great Sects' expedition to the Blazing Sun Ruins, but he refused and agreed to prepare the barter goods for the other materials within three months.
• While inspecting Protectorate City's construction, Chen Beiwu saw Li Quan working while letting his calf, Xiao Qing, rest, and learned that Li Quan hoped to cultivate alongside the ox as his companion Dao partner.
• Chen Beiwu said Li Quan could reach Golden Core and perhaps become a True Lord, but rejected Shu You's suggestion to admit him to the Beast Taming Lineage outside the usual rules.
• Chen Beiwu told Mo Li that he had a promising future, while warning that even sect prodigies could fall at the Golden Core hurdle.

Chen Beiwu dismissed Zhao Caixuan’s offer to join Protectorate City, but learned that the Blazing Sun Ruins might hold a path to Spirit Transformation. He agreed to explore the ruins with her within fifteen years after they swore oaths and signed a contract, then returned to the Immortal Alliance.

• Chen Beiwu told Mo Li and Wang Hao that they had chances to advance in cultivation, but warned Wang Hao that lacking ambition could limit his future.
• After advising his disciples and assigning city-building and recruitment tasks, Chen Beiwu detected Zhao Caixuan hiding in a canyon outside the city.
• Zhao Caixuan asked to join Protectorate City, but Chen Beiwu refused because he distrusted a powerful True Lord from an enemy sect.
• Zhao Caixuan showed Chen Beiwu a map of the Blazing Sun Ruins and revealed a secret passage leading to a land of creation that might let Nascent Soul True Lords advance to Spirit Transformation.
• After testing Zhao Caixuan’s sincerity, Chen Beiwu agreed to explore the ruins with her within fifteen years, and they swore Daoheart Oaths and signed a Mystic Contract.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Protectorate Manor and used the Ten Directions Gate to teleport to the Immortal Alliance.

Chen Beiwu completed one-origin dao-proving with Iron Egg’s help, opened his Heavenly Eye, and advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After testing his new abilities, he wondered whether Nine-Breath Chaos concealed his secrets from powerful Immortal Sect elders, and Zhiling suggested it might possess an artifact spirit.

• Chen Beiwu used the One-Origin Platform and Iron Egg’s Karmic Fire Heeding Sin to begin his truth-seeking rite and open his Heavenly Eye.
• Chen Beiwu rejected the path of accumulating merit and chose a Dao centered on sharing life and cultivation with his Companion Beasts.
• After three years, Chen Beiwu reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and discovered that his Heavenly Eye could foresee actions and rapidly improve his comprehension of formations.
• Chen Beiwu helped Zhiling suppress its surging Dao practice as the spent One-Origin Platform crumbled, and he noted that only a year remained on his garrison mission.
• Chen Beiwu discussed whether Immortal Sect elders could see through his secrets, and he and Zhiling conjectured that Nine-Breath Chaos might conceal itself through an artifact spirit.

After a month of secluded cultivation, Chen Beiwu faced an earth-rank demon fog crisis at Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City, where a demon venerable’s arrival nearly overwhelmed the defenses. An Immortal Alliance Venerable drew the demon venerable away, and Chen Beiwu flew out to confront the remaining Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion.

• Chen Beiwu received an urgent alert that earth-rank demon fog and primeval desolate beasts were attacking Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City.
• Lu Ren learned that the Southern Abyss Deep Thirty-Six Division Desolate-Quelling Army had been annihilated and that a demon venerable might have intervened.
• An Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion emerged from the fog, followed by a demon venerable’s paw that threatened to destroy the city.
• Chen Beiwu stayed ready to flee with the Ten Directions Gate, while a Twelve Golden Lotuses expert confronted the demon venerable and took it away to fight elsewhere.
• The weakened city faced the rampaging Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion, and Chen Beiwu flew out to meet it.

Chen Beiwu defeated the Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion with three fingers of his Primordial Origin Dharma Form, then returned to Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City and left the remaining fighting to Lu Ren. In the Earth Abyss, two fox demons discussed the scorpion’s death and their clan’s plan to pledge allegiance to the Immortal Alliance.

• Chen Beiwu and his Companion Beasts wounded the Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion, but it recovered and unleashed its Thousand Peaks Great Baleful True Domain against Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City.
• Chen Beiwu gathered his Companion Beasts’ Magic Power and used three fingers of the Primordial Origin Dharma Form to crush the scorpion and suppress its inner core.
• Chen Beiwu collected the scorpion’s blood essence and marrow blood, let Golden Egg consume some, and left the remaining Bone Wolf Dragons to Lu Ren and the city’s cultivators.
• Two fox demons observed that the Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion had died and discussed their elders’ orders to establish ties with Chen Beiwu.
• The beautiful woman in the fiery red dress said that she and her companion had come to offer the Immortal Alliance a pledge of allegiance.

Qing Yingxian and Qingzhao received Heart Lotus True Venerable’s order to gather more savage Demon Kings for Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City, while Chen Beiwu discovered that the Earth Abyss’s demonic mist had returned with powerful beasts. The chapter ended as Chen Beiwu and his companions prepared to confront a Neck Metal Demon Bull whose valuable parts could yield rare pills.

• Qing Yingxian and Qingzhao argued over the Green Hill Demon Kingdom’s Peace Faction and the Immortal Alliance before bowing to Heart Lotus True Venerable.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable ordered the demons to supply additional savage Demon Kings for his martial nephew at Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City, and Qing Yingxian agreed to arrange it.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable considered the Immortal Alliance’s plan to use Earth Abyss Xidong as a pill furnace and to deepen divisions within Green Hill’s factions.
• Chen Beiwu examined the Ancient Crystal Giant Scorpion’s blood essence and wondered whether the Earth Abyss or the existence beneath Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City was draining fallen beasts’ life essence.
• Six months later, earth-grade demon mist returned to Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City, and Chen Beiwu activated the city’s formation as savage Demon Kings approached.
• A Neck Metal Demon Bull charged out of the mist, and Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, and Iron Egg recognized its valuable parts as ingredients for powerful pills.

Chen Beiwu used Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City's Two Forms Grand Formation to blunt the beast tide and then killed the Neck Metal Demon Bull with the Five Phases Bright King Wings. As Golden Egg and Iron Egg fought the other Demon Kings, Xuele subdued the Horned Python with Five Phases Rebirth and began turning it into a puppet.

• Chen Beiwu assigned the savage Demon Kings to Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele, while Zhiling stayed to help defend the city.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Two Forms Grand Formation and used its heavenly swords to slay many beasts and weaken the four savage Demon Kings.
• Chen Beiwu fought the Neck Metal Demon Bull, then used the Five Phases Bright King Wings to split it open and seize its Demon King inner core.
• Xuele restrained the Horned Python with five-colored ancient trees and used Five Phases Rebirth to weaken it and begin transforming it into a puppet.
• Chen Beiwu praised Xuele's success as the Horned Python's aura fell to rock bottom.

Iron Egg defeated the Earth-Splitting Savage Rhino with Burning Sun Ember Seed, while Golden Egg killed the Six-Winged Savage Eagle using its Revolving Three Lights True Domain. After the beast tide was routed and Chen Beiwu discussed how his beasts should develop their strengths, Chief Patrolling Commissioner Heart Lotus True Venerable arrived and revealed his close friendship with Chen Beiwu’s master.

• Iron Egg used Burning Sun Ember Seed to kill the Earth-Splitting Savage Rhino, then swallowed its ember seed and raised its Dao practice to nineteen hundred and ninety-nine years.
• Golden Egg trapped the Six-Winged Savage Eagle in its Revolving Three Lights True Domain and annihilated it when it tried to escape.
• Chen Beiwu advised Golden Egg to focus on its strengths and coordinate with Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling instead of learning fourth-tier arcane arts.
• Lu Ren and the cultivators of Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City saw the beast tide routed, while Chen Beiwu sensed that their admiration brought him fortune.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable arrived, and Chen Beiwu greeted him as Martial Uncle Xiao after learning he was a close friend of Chen Beiwu’s master.

Chen Beiwu learned that the Earth Abyss housed the Primordial Origin Creation Furnace and entered its Dao-refining trial. As the trial’s Divine Fire Refining the Dao pushed past fifteen minutes and began burning his Divine Sense and Nascent Soul, he used the flames to cultivate the golden light within his Nascent Soul.

• Heart Lotus True Venerable explained that the Earth Abyss was a pill furnace of heaven and earth, with the Primordial Origin Creation Furnace suppressing and refining ancient demons’ remains.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable brought Chen Beiwu to the furnace’s trial ground and explained that enduring longer in its Dao-refining trial earned greater opportunities.
• Chen Beiwu began the trial with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling accompanying him, and the Primordial Origin divine fire engulfed his body.
• Chen Beiwu endured the fire’s pain as it burned away impurities and traces of disharmony in his cultivation.
• After fifteen minutes, flames appeared within Chen Beiwu’s Purple Mansion and Spiritual Terrace and enveloped his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Beiwu focused the flames on the luminous golden light within his Nascent Soul, beginning to practice Planting a Golden Lotus in Fire.

Chen Beiwu endured the Primordial Origin Divine Fire for an hour by using Fire-Seed Golden Lotus, Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation, his Primordial Origin Dharma Form, and Dharma Form True Spirit. He chose the chance to comprehend a Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact’s Origin Divine Ability Dao Art, then found himself as a piece of lava armor on the ancient great demon Zhu Yan.

• Chen Beiwu comprehended Fire-Seed Golden Lotus, balancing his essence, qi, and spirit while strengthening his body and magic power at the cost of his divine sense.
• Chen Beiwu used Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation and summoned his Primordial Origin Dharma Form to withstand the Primordial Origin Divine Fire.
• Chen Beiwu activated Dharma Form True Spirit and endured the trial for a full hour, earning a choice between the Five-Phases Furnace Origin Pill and Primordial Chaos Insight.
• After hearing the four companion beasts’ divided opinions, Chen Beiwu chose Primordial Chaos Insight and was drawn into an unknown vision.
• Chen Beiwu awoke as a piece of lava rock in the armor of Zhu Yan, an ancient great demon.

Chen Beiwu endured a vision of Zhenyuan Dao Venerable using the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to kill Zhu Yan, then recovered and learned the significance of the treasure he had witnessed. After Heart Lotus True Venerable gave him a black saber, Chen Beiwu began to reveal a breakthrough in his Saber Dao.

• Chen Beiwu watched Zhu Yan tear apart the Crimson Chi-Dragon Demon Venerable before Zhenyuan Dao Venerable appeared and challenged him.
• Zhenyuan Dao Venerable activated the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, and its white light killed Zhu Yan in the vision and knocked Chen Beiwu unconscious.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable explained that Chen Beiwu had depleted his essence, qi, and spirit while comprehending the Dao, and Chen Beiwu recovered after half a month.
• Chen Beiwu told Heart Lotus True Venerable that Zhenyuan Dao Venerable had shown him the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, earning direct entry into the Jade Purity Golden Register.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable explained the idea of Immeasurable Immortal Artifacts and gave Chen Beiwu a nameless black saber as a gift.
• Chen Beiwu tried to recall the white light and began to display the Fifth Realm of the Saber Dao, where the body became the saber and saber intent towered into the heavens.

Chen Beiwu refined his Saber Dao after observing the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, then returned to Jade Purity Immortal Sect and joined its succession register. The Sect Master assigned him to challenge the Five Great Grotto-Heavens’ Nascent Soul prodigies for Jade Purity’s place in the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament, and Chen Beiwu returned to the Southern Wasteland to prepare.

• Chen Beiwu synchronized with the mysterious saber and reached half a step into Saber Intent Soaring to the Firmament, while sensing that the Immortal-Slaying Gourd’s power held further insights.
• Heart Lotus True Venerable secretly opened a jade box by the ancient well, collected streaks of light from it, and departed as Chen Beiwu sensed his presence.
• After completing his garrison assignment, Chen Beiwu returned to the Jade Purity Immortal Sect and signed his true name in the Jade Purity Golden Register, entering its core inheritance succession.
• Violet Firmament Venerable explained that the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament’s challenges would determine whether Jade Purity could participate, and Chen Beiwu volunteered to face the Nascent Soul prodigies.
• Chen Beiwu left Jade Purity Hall, returned to the Southern Wasteland through the Ten Directions Gate, and resumed preparing for his plans there.

Chen Beiwu prepared Protectorate City's auction and guided his followers as rare cultivation resources drew outside cultivators. Shuyu True Lord arrived seeking Chen Zi'ang, took offense at his absence, and threatened to punish Shu You after forcibly probing the city.

• Chen Beiwu confirmed the auction preparations and offered Mo Li a third-tier metal-attribute young beast to support her cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu gave Shu You, Yu Pan, Jiang Yuyan, and Wang Hao individual cultivation guidance.
• Wang Hao told Zhao Wu about the auction's Liquid-Transition Golden Core Elixir and an opportunity for False Nascent Soul cultivators to attempt Nascent Soul Formation again.
• Zhao Wu considered exchanging his secret legacy for elixirs but remained afraid of being killed for it.
• Shuyu True Lord arrived with four Golden Core maids and demanded to meet Chen Zi'ang, while Shu You explained that he was in seclusion.
• Shuyu True Lord forcibly extended her divine sense into Protectorate City, and Shu You activated the city's grand formation as Shuyu True Lord resolved to punish her for protesting.

Chen Beiwu intervened when Shuyu True Lord Yun Chuyao used her Nascent Soul pressure to punish Shu You, then challenged Yun Chuyao to withstand one saber strike. His saber severed her karmic line and cost her one life, leaving her to concede while concealing how badly she had been hurt.

• Li Haichuan declined to intervene against Shuyu True Lord, while Ji Yue watched to assess Chen Beiwu's strength.
• Yun Chuyao suppressed Shu You with her Nascent Soul pressure until Chen Beiwu appeared and defended her.
• Chen Beiwu demanded that Yun Chuyao take one saber strike, warning that she would die if she could not withstand it.
• Yun Chuyao accepted the challenge, and Chen Beiwu struck her with Saber Intent that cut through her defenses and caused her aura to collapse.
• Ji Yue recognized Chen Beiwu's extraordinary saber attainment, and Yun Chuyao concealed that the strike had cost her one life before conceding defeat.

After Chen Beiwu defeated Yun Chuyao, she warned him that Zhao Caixuan could not be trusted and sought to join the Mirror Moon Sect as a guest attendant. Yun Chuyao later discovered that Chen Beiwu’s saber intent had left a grave wound she could not heal, forcing her to consider asking him for help.

• Yun Chuyao healed her visible saber wound before meeting Chen Beiwu, then spoke with him privately about True Lord Miaoyu and Zhao Caixuan’s involvement in the Blazing Sun Ruins.
• Chen Beiwu refused to intervene in Yun Chuyao’s feud with True Lord Miaoyu, and Yun Chuyao asked him to convey her request to join the Mirror Moon Sect as a guest attendant.
• After Yun Chuyao left, she concealed herself in her cave abode and the wound from Chen Beiwu’s saber strike reappeared, revealing that her strength had fallen to the Nascent Soul middle stage.
• Yun Chuyao froze herself with the Northern Darkness Cold Gang Jade Pot True Scripture, but after thawing and trying further methods, she found the saber intent still worsening and realized Chen Beiwu might be the only one able to remove it.

Chen Beiwu oversaw the auction that established Protectorate Immortal City’s reputation with rare pills refined by Master Iron Egg. The chapter ended with Li Haichuan recognizing the pill’s mark and realizing that Iron Egg was a dog whose alchemy surpassed his own.

• Zhao Caixuan entered Treasure Gathering Tower in disguise while Chen Beiwu recognized her but chose not to expose her.
• Yun Chuyao visited Chen Beiwu, watched the auction, and privately considered joining Protectorate Immortal City, though she remained wary of the saber intent within her.
• Shu You opened the auction with an upper-grade Foundation Establishment Pill refined by Master Iron Egg, which sold for thirty-nine thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Chen Beiwu explained that the auction’s rare spirit herbs would help attract alchemists and other skilled cultivators to Protectorate Immortal City.
• Shu You presented a Liquid-Transition Golden Core Elixir bearing Iron Egg’s distinctive mark, and Li Haichuan recognized that its refiner was a dog with greater alchemy skill than his own.

The auction in Protectorate City drew False Nascent Soul cultivators with the Infant-Restoration Pill and announced that Master Iron Egg would accept disciples, boosting the city’s influence. After Luo Haoxuan won the pill and chose to remain in the city, an attacker disguised as Suspended Mirror True Lord ambushed him, and Chen Beiwu intervened, exposing the attack as a plot to slander Protectorate Immortal City.

• Ji Yue realized that Master Iron Egg was the black canine spirit pet who had once been a Second-Tier Alchemist, and the bidding for the Liquid-Transition Golden Core Elixir climbed to five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Shu You offered the Infant-Restoration Pill to Golden Core cultivators who joined Protectorate City under substitute household registration, and Luo Haoxuan won it for nine thousand upper grade spirit stones.
• Shu You announced that Master Iron Egg would establish a school at Iron Pill Peak and accept qualified alchemy disciples from across the Earth Evolution Realm.
• Luo Haoxuan chose to stay in Protectorate City with the Infant-Restoration Pill, but a disguised attacker struck him with an ancient silver mirror and shattered his Six-Flame Glazed Shield.
• Chen Beiwu arrived to protect Luo Haoxuan, blocked Suspended Mirror True Lord’s silver rays, and accused the attacker of impersonating a Mirror Moon Sect True Lord to slander Protectorate Immortal City.

Chen Beiwu defeated Zhu Jinglong’s avatar in Protectorate Immortal City and used its karmic connection to kill the original body, Myriad Transformations True Lord Qi Chengyi, in the distant Soul Refining Sect Branch Hall. The great fortune he gained completed the transformation of the three Fortune Crimson Dragons, which began producing hazy purple qi.

• Chen Beiwu activated the city’s formation to trap Zhu Jinglong, then struck him down with his saber intent after Zhu summoned his Dharma Form.
• Zhao Caixuan identified Zhu Jinglong as Qi Chengyi and warned Chen Beiwu that the True Lord would seek revenge, but Chen Beiwu said he had no chance to do so.
• Qi Chengyi suffered backlash from his avatar’s death and prepared to send Golden Core avatars against Protectorate City.
• A growing sense of danger drove Qi Chengyi to raise the Ten Thousand Souls Formation, activate his Profound Treasure, summon substitute-death puppets, and call for help.
• Chen Beiwu traced the karmic link between the avatar and Qi Chengyi, sending his saber intent across the distance to kill Qi Chengyi despite his defenses.
• The fortune from Qi Chengyi’s death completed the three Fortune Crimson Dragons’ transformation, and they produced hazy purple qi.

Chen Beiwu enforced Protectorate Immortal City's ban on violence, then negotiated the Blazing Sun Ruins expedition with Zhao Caixuan and arranged for Ji Yue to join. Yun Chuyao joined the Mirror Moon Sect after Chen Beiwu removed the Saber Intent afflicting her, leaving her free to pursue her own revenge against Zhao Caixuan.

• Chen Beiwu ordered Myriad Transformations True Lord's head hung over the southern city gate as punishment for breaking the city's no-violence rule, and stopped Zhao Caixuan and Yun Chuyao from fighting.
• Ji Yue praised Protectorate Immortal City's grand formation, learned Chen Beiwu had laid it, and agreed to stay in contact while Chen Beiwu proposed bringing him to the Blazing Sun Ruins.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhao Caixuan agreed to explore the Blazing Sun Ruins in one month, split the proceeds equally, and include Ji Yue, while Chen Beiwu insisted Zhao Caixuan enter as his concubine rather than Dao Companion.
• Zhao Caixuan asked whether Chen Beiwu feared her betrayal, and he replied that he would accept defeat if she could outwit and kill him.
• Yun Chuyao offered to join Protectorate City in exchange for Chen Beiwu killing Zhao Caixuan, but he refused and gave her the Mirror Moon Sect's Guest Elder Token and contract instead.
• After Yun Chuyao signed the contract, Chen Beiwu extracted the Saber Intent from her and warned her not to repeat their earlier misunderstanding.

Chen Beiwu examined Ji Yue’s incomplete Grand Void Formation Sect formation and invited him to join Protectorate City to explore the Blazing Sun Ruins. After preparing weapons and defenses, Chen Beiwu departed with Ji Yue and Zhao Caixuan, while the Five Great Sects’ leaders gathered at One-Line Sky to assess him.

• Ji Yue showed Chen Beiwu the Five-Direction Womb Treasury Transformation and Defense Formation, and Chen Beiwu identified it as an incomplete Grand Void Formation Sect design that he could only partly restore.
• Ji Yue offered a Central Heaven Pill as a deposit, and Chen Beiwu suggested exploring the Blazing Sun Ruins and invited him to join Protectorate City.
• Chen Beiwu bought saber techniques and a Radiant Body Heart Armor through the Myriad Treasures Society to prepare for the expedition.
• A month later, Ji Yue joined Protectorate City, and Chen Beiwu left with Ji Yue and Zhao Caixuan after entrusting Shu You with the city's defenses.
• At One-Line Sky, the four Sect Masters and Su Lanyue waited for Chen Beiwu, while Zhu Wuya viewed the expedition as a planned step toward Chen Beiwu's path to Spirit Transformation.

Chen Beiwu entered the Blazing Sun Ruins with Zhao Caixuan, Ji Yue, and Su Lanyue, while Zhu Wuya warned him about powerful rivals and concealed dangers. Deep in the ruins, Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable awakened and began altering the Pure White Heavenly Road to force two chosen vessels into a deadly contest.

• Chen Beiwu arrived among the True Lords, drawing wary attention from the sect masters, and Zhu Wuya warned him that Puppet Blood True Lord concealed formidable strength.
• Zhu Wuya explained the Blazing Sun Ruins’ regions and dangers, then gave Chen Beiwu a map and brought him and his companions to Flame Mountain.
• Chen Beiwu used the Formation Sect True Disciple Token to cross the fierce astral fire, and Su Lanyue joined him, Zhao Caixuan, and Ji Yue at the Grand Void gate.
• Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable awakened in Myriad Radiance Hall and chose two cultivators as vessels, declaring that only the final victor would inherit his legacy.
• Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable altered the Pure White Heavenly Road between the outer and inner regions.