Recaps

Shi Wujian challenged Chen Beiwu in the Immortal Alliance competition, using time-based arts and the Zhouhua Grotto-Heaven’s Time Worm against him. Chen Beiwu unleashed his Primordial Origin Dharma Form and defeated Shi Wujian, leaving the Time Worm unconscious.

• Yunguang True Venerable offered Shi Wujian a pill to help him defeat Chen Beiwu, but Shi Wujian refused and chose to use the contest to advance his cultivation.
• Shi Wujian and Chen Beiwu began their duel before an audience of powerful cultivators and sect prodigies.
• Shi Wujian used a decoy and time-based attacks, while Chen Beiwu’s companion beasts countered him and drove him to summon the Torch Dragon Dharma Form and Time Worm.
• Chen Beiwu broke free of the Torch Dragon Dharma Form’s restraints and manifested his Primordial Origin Dharma Form.
• Chen Beiwu overwhelmed Shi Wujian and knocked the Time Worm unconscious, winning the contest.

Shi Wujian broke through during his duel with Chen Beiwu and unleashed the Dragon of Ten Directions, confident he had secured victory. Chen Beiwu countered with a newly comprehended saber strike and left Shi Wujian at his mercy.

• Shi Wujian awakened Heavenly Timing Anchoring the Scene, restored his body to peak condition, and reached Nascent Soul Perfection.
• Shi Wujian merged with his time insect and unleashed the Dragon of Ten Directions, which overwhelmed the arena and threatened Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu endured the temporal attack with his companion divine weapons and Dharma Form Descends as Deity, then revealed that he had also advanced during the battle.
• Chen Beiwu used Northern Emperor Slaying Immortals to cut through Shi Wujian's defenses and placed his saber against Shi Wujian's neck.

Chen Beiwu won the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament undefeated and claimed its champion’s reward, the Heaven-Connecting Pill. After considering how to use his newfound fortune to advance his companions, he met Lunar Saintess Gu Qinghan, who explained the pill’s unusual nature and revealed it to him.

• Chen Beiwu defeated Shi Wujian, who conceded while vowing to win next time, and Chen Beiwu declared that the fight had forced him to use only fifty percent of his strength.
• Chen Beiwu was announced as the tournament’s undefeated champion, and the Jade Purity Immortal Sect celebrated his victory.
• Chen Beiwu toured the Lunar Grotto-Heaven with Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing, then reflected that he needed more fortune to help his companions advance and strengthen his own path to Spirit Transformation.
• The remaining tournament results placed Shi Wujian second, Che Zhengyuan third, Zhu Wu fourth, and Xuanyuan Yu fifth.
• Gu Mingxi escorted Chen Beiwu to Guanghan Palace, where Lunar Saintess Gu Qinghan summoned him and explained that the champion’s reward was a Heaven-Connecting Pill with formidable strength and escape abilities.

Chen Beiwu learned that Gu Qinghan had rescued Chen Qin from a demon but that she could only be restored with rare medicine, and Gu Qinghan urged him to forge the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body before advancing to Spirit Transformation. On the journey back to the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, Chen Beiwu heard he might rank tenth in the Jade Purity Golden Register and learned about the privileges that came with a top-ten placement.

• Gu Qinghan revealed Chen Qin in an ice coffin and explained that a Fox Demon had destroyed most of her soul, leaving Fate-Reversing Soul Grass as a possible cure.
• Chen Beiwu thanked Gu Qinghan for saving Chen Qin, asked to take her with him, and agreed to consider Gu Qinghan's advice about delaying Spirit Transformation until after forging the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body.
• Chen Beiwu left Guanghan Palace with the Heaven-Connecting Pill, arranged for his parents and Xu Lingling to stay at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, and avoided visiting the Huang Household's branch lineage for now.
• Aboard the Lunar Grotto-Heaven's Flying Boat, Wei Huiwen told Chen Beiwu that the sect might place him tenth in the Jade Purity Golden Register, and Yu Zhaohua said the rumor was likely true.
• Yu Zhaohua described the top-ten benefits, including an independent spirit peak, access to fifth-tier treasures, and the chance to subdue Fifth-Tier Creation Origin Beasts; Chen Beiwu resolved to pursue the top five and seek entry to the sect's hidden forbidden region.

Chen Beiwu earned a place in Jade Purity Sect’s Golden Register and chose Huncheng Peak and a primordial five-elements ancestor leaf as his rewards. The sect master promised him access to the Jade Purity secret forbidden zone if he forged the primordial myriad tribulations body, where he might meet an immortal beast legacy species capable of saving Chen Qin.

• Profound Subtlety True Venerable and Great Vast True Venerable discussed Chen Beiwu’s rise, the coming Two-World War, and whether he could gain the immortal beast legacy species’ recognition.
• Chen Beiwu met Violet Firmament Venerable, who ranked him tenth in the Jade Purity Golden Register and let him choose Huncheng Peak as his cultivation ground.
• Chen Beiwu chose a primordial five-elements ancestor leaf from the sect’s treasury rather than a Creation Treasure, hoping to help Xuele advance her bloodline.
• Violet Firmament Venerable offered Chen Beiwu entry to the Jade Purity secret forbidden zone if he forged the primordial myriad tribulations body, and Chen Beiwu accepted the challenge.
• Chen Beiwu asked how to save Chen Qin, and Violet Firmament Venerable explained that a Heaven-Mending Eagle in the forbidden zone could restore her soul and preserve her cultivation foundation.

Chen Beiwu learned that forming a contract with the Heaven-Mending Eagle might require forging the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body, then settled into his new cultivation ground at Huncheng Peak. There he acquired a wisp of Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune and decided to save it while continuing his cultivation.

• The Jade Purity Sect Leader explained that Immortal Beast Legacy Species descended from Heaven-Quasi Immortal Beasts and Primordial Chaos Dao Beasts, and said Chen Beiwu might gain the Heaven-Mending Eagle’s notice by forging the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable told the Yuyue Guardian that reviving the woman in Chen Beiwu’s ice coffin would cost more resources than Chen Beiwu could afford.
• Chen Beiwu entered Huncheng Peak and saw a wisp of Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune on a cliffside platform, which Nine-Breath Chaos absorbed.
• Chen Beiwu explored the ancient cave abode and let Xuele take the fertile medicine-field soil for its Five-Qi Origin Forest.
• Chen Beiwu found that feeding the fortune purple qi barely increased its size, considered using it to advance Xuele’s bloodline or create a fortuitous encounter, then chose to keep it and cultivate.

Chen Beiwu arranged for the Shangyu Huang Household to return the Huang main lineage’s belongings, including the long-sought Taiyi Supreme Northern Fortune Divine Statue. The statue initially seemed ordinary, but Chen Beiwu sensed an anomaly in the fortune within Chaos Heaven and Earth and realized it held something more.

• Chen Beiwu gave his father two Calamity-Breaking Golden Elixirs and discussed his mother’s cultivation and the Huang Household’s lineage heirloom with his family.
• Chen Beiwu asked Shi Wujian to help recover the Huang Household’s main-lineage belongings, and Shi Wujian ordered them delivered to Huncheng Peak.
• Shi Wujian told his maid he had helped Chen Beiwu in gratitude for the enlightenment he gained from their tournament fight, and planned to repay him with a crushing defeat in their next match.
• Chen Beiwu received the returned belongings and searched them with his companions, finding the Taiyi Supreme Northern Fortune Divine Statue among the ordinary objects.
• Chen Beiwu examined the statue without detecting a response, but then noticed an anomaly in the Nine Fortunes and Three Origins fortune within Chaos Heaven and Earth.

Chen Beiwu read the Huang Household ancestor’s hidden account on the Taiyi Supreme Northern Fortune Divine Statue and learned how a higher-dimensional Dao Venerable had ruined the ancestor’s attempt at Void Refinement. The ancestor’s teachings awakened an ancient immortal scripture in Chen Beiwu, but he resolved to treat it only as a reference and remain cautious about his own path.

• Chen Beiwu used the three origins of fortune and the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability to read seal characters that only he could see on the statue.
• Chen Beiwu learned that the ancestor had carried Nine-Breath Chaos from Myriad Origin Star, lost to a powerful Dao Venerable, and fled to Heavenly Abyss Star to rebuild his cultivation through human fortune and beast taming.
• Chen Beiwu wondered whether Nine-Breath Chaos and the Immortal Alliance’s Dao Fruits were part of schemes to cultivate immortal seedlings, and considered creating his own cultivation method instead of relying on inherited arts.
• Chen Beiwu read the ancestor’s final account and received an enlightenment vision that formed the Taiyi Infinite Northern Fortune Seal and revealed the Taiyi Chaos Cavern Nine Profundities Supreme Sage All-Encompassing Eight Assemblies Infinite Northern Fortune Immortal Scripture.
• Chen Beiwu chose not to rely heavily on the ancient scripture, while the dispersed seal characters became five strands of purple qi absorbed into Nine-Breath Chaos.
• Chen Beiwu considered the ancestor’s fate a warning and questioned whether the ancestor had known Nine-Breath Chaos’s true origins.

Chen Beiwu decided to expand the Mirror Moon Sect’s influence by conquering the secluded Profound Evolution Realm alone, hoping to gather resources and cultivation methods. While crossing the Miasma Ruins, he followed a Golden Core elder and two Foundation Establishment cultivators, then watched the elder die to a Poison Charm Corpse and confronted the survivors.

• Chen Beiwu returned to the Southern Wild Region and learned that the Heavenly Saint Sect and Eight Desolations Sect were fighting for supremacy while both sought an alliance with the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Chen Beiwu rejected the alliances and announced that he would conquer the Profound Evolution Realm alone, while Shu You agreed to gather cultivation methods for him.
• Chen Beiwu traveled by flying boat to the Northern Evolution Realm and entered the Miasma Ruins, where he spotted a Golden Core elder leading two Foundation Establishment cultivators toward a hidden legacy.
• The Golden Core elder threatened the two cultivators, but a Poison Charm Corpse killed him as they watched.
• Chen Beiwu revealed himself to the two Foundation Establishment cultivators and remarked that they seemed to have unusual backgrounds.

Chen Beiwu learned that Li Xianzong carried a Thousand-Sound Cicada capable of leading him to the Corpse King Cave and calming its Heavenly Corpse King. He used the gu to find the cave, where Desolate Gu True Lord Tie Musheng had also arrived seeking the Heavenly Cicada Gu.

• Chen Beiwu saw through Li Xianzong and Ma Wenli's attempt to lure him into a trap, learned the Thousand Gu Sect had fallen, and spared them after reading their memories.
• Chen Beiwu explained that the Heavenly Cicada Gu could grant its owner a chance to comprehend death and advance to half-step Spirit Transformation, and that Li Xianzong's Thousand-Sound Cicada could locate the Corpse King Cave.
• Tie Musheng led Li Xingyuan and another Nascent Soul True Lord through the Miasma Ruins as Li Xingyuan used a Bone Nether Gu to find the cave's direction.
• Chen Beiwu struggled to navigate the strange formation, so Golden Egg used its profound ability to make Li Xianzong reveal his Thousand-Sound Gu and lead the way to the ancient stone gate.
• Tie Musheng sensed that someone had entered the Corpse King Cave before him and ordered his companions to kill them.

Chen Beiwu’s group reached the burial chamber deep inside Heavenly Corpse Cave, where the Heavenly Cicada Life-Extending Gu rested atop the coffin of the slumbering Heavenly Corpse King. As Xinling recorded the chamber’s formation, Tie Musheng sensed Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg from afar and fled with his companions.

• Golden Egg triggered a Thread-Cutting Gu ambush, but Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg killed it and sensed the dangerous power of the Heavenly Corpse King within the cave walls.
• Chen Beiwu’s group crossed a path covered in Corpse-Nourishing Moss and found the Heavenly Cicada Life-Extending Gu in a formation-protected burial chamber above a Purple-Gold Coffin.
• Chen Beiwu ordered Li Xianzong to retrieve the Gu, but Li Xianzong admitted he could not cross the formation, so Chen Beiwu had Xinling record its design and anchored the Ten Directions Gate in the chamber.
• Aji detected four approaching Nascent Soul True Lords, and Chen Beiwu recognized that the Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator had already begun retreating after sensing him.
• Tie Musheng used the Earth-Deficiency Gu to perceive Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg, then fled with Desolate Gu True Lord; Li Xingyuan and the other True Lords followed in terror.

Chen Beiwu captured the Desolate Gu Sect’s fleeing elders and confronted its Sect Master, Tie Musheng, at the Heavenly Corpse Cave’s exit. After Chen Beiwu killed Tie Musheng with one finger and restored him, Tie Musheng submitted but warned that persuading the sect’s supreme elders would be difficult.

• Zhiling captured the thin cultivator, while Iron Egg defeated Gu-Capturing True Lord and planted a Burning Sun Ember Seed in him.
• Golden Egg stopped Li Xingyuan, who offered to help retrieve the Heavenly Cicada Gu, then ordered him to follow as it pursued Tie Musheng.
• Tie Musheng met Chen Beiwu at the stone gate and refused to make the Desolate Gu Sect a subordinate of the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Chen Beiwu destroyed Tie Musheng’s Heavenly Gu defense and challenged him to survive a finger strike.
• Chen Beiwu’s Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger erased Tie Musheng, then restored him, prompting Tie Musheng to submit and warn that the sect’s supreme elders might resist.

Chen Beiwu forced Tie Musheng to promise that the Desolate Gu Sect would recognize the Mirror Moon Sect as its superior sect within three years, then sent Li Xingyuan to break the Heavenly Corpse Cave’s formation. Li Xingyuan opened the Purple-Gold Coffin, and the Heavenly Corpse King attacked him as the chapter ended.

• Tie Musheng agreed to make the Desolate Gu Sect submit to the Mirror Moon Sect within three years, while Li Xingyuan offered Chen Beiwu the Thousand Gu Sect’s legacy and allegiance.
• Chen Beiwu ordered Li Xingyuan to break the Heavenly Corpse Cave’s formation, and Li Xingyuan spent a month using the Heavenly Corpse Token to unravel part of it.
• Li Xingyuan explained that he needed to lure the Heavenly Corpse King beyond the Four Sacred Pillars to expose a flaw in the formation, but Chen Beiwu refused Tie Musheng’s offer of the Corpse-Suppressing Stele.
• Li Xingyuan activated the Heavenly Corpse Token, broke the coffin’s seals, and opened the Purple-Gold Coffin.
• The Heavenly Corpse King emerged and vanished toward Li Xingyuan, who realized he could not resist its attack.

Chen Beiwu captured the Heavenly Corpse King, obtained the Heavenly Cicada Gu, and examined Emperor Script that revealed ancient sect destructions and failed teleportations. The script left him questioning why cross-region teleportation had failed before the Heaven-Severing and Earth-Isolating Grand Formation existed.

• Aji suppressed and captured the Heavenly Corpse King, and Xuele sealed him inside the Five-Qi Origin Forest for a possible puppet refinement.
• Li Xingyuan opened a Spatial Passage to the burial chamber, where Chen Beiwu sensed Emperor Script on the coffin lid that only he and Aji could perceive.
• Li Xingyuan gave Chen Beiwu the secret art for retrieving the Heavenly Cicada Gu, and Chen Beiwu began cultivating it while Li Xingyuan stood guard outside the cave.
• Six days later, the Heavenly Cicada Gu hatched and flew to Chen Beiwu, who decided to study it and the secret art for hidden dangers while it matured.
• Chen Beiwu examined the Emperor Script and saw accounts of sects destroyed by a great demon and a relocation attempt whose Ancient Teleportation Formations all failed.
• Chen Beiwu questioned why teleportation had failed in year 9,963 of the Great Wilderness Era, before the Heaven-Severing and Earth-Isolating Grand Formation was established.

Chen Beiwu discovered a mysterious Heavenly Star Path in the Purple-Gold Coffin but set aside the search and turned his attention to bringing the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect under his command. After learning of the sect’s good reputation, he visited its leader, Lan Xinyi, who suspected his arrival was connected to the Desolate Gu Sect’s mobilization and postponed the Immortal-Eating Banquet.

• Chen Beiwu saw Venerable Teng Yuan leave the Thousand Gu Sect for the Eastern Land and found an inscription directing later disciples to follow the Heavenly Star Path in times of calamity.
• Chen Beiwu asked Li Xingyuan about the Heavenly Star Path and the Profound Evolution Realm’s forbidden lands, then learned that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect was respected for healing people and treating subordinate sects fairly.
• Chen Beiwu asked Li Xingyuan to arrange a visit to the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect as part of his plan to bring the realm’s remaining hegemonic powers under his command.
• Lan Xinyi and the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s Grand Elders received Chen Beiwu’s visiting card and grew wary of its timing, especially after discovering that the Desolate Gu Sect was mobilizing cultivators.
• Lan Xinyi postponed the Immortal-Eating Banquet and prepared to receive Chen Beiwu, who arrived at Ten Thousand Poisons Valley and sensed a trace of purple qi around her.

Chen Beiwu visited the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect to rally it under the Mirror Moon Sect, but the sect accused him of taking its missing Jade Ridge King Serpent and attacked him. Chen Beiwu killed He Suxin with his saber and repelled Lan Xinyi, then prepared to suppress the gathered cultivators and find the real culprit.

• Chen Beiwu asked Lan Xinyi to acknowledge the Mirror Moon Sect as the superior sect, but she refused and ordered him to leave.
• After Chen Beiwu departed, the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect discovered that its Jade Ridge King Serpent had vanished and suspected him of taking it.
• Lan Xinyi led the sect’s forces after Chen Beiwu, demanded that he return the King Serpent, and surrounded him with Zhao Zhixin and four Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Guo Tianyu, He Suxin, Deng Buming, and Jing Xinyan attacked Chen Beiwu, who used his saber to cut down He Suxin.
• Lan Xinyi struck Chen Beiwu with Flower-Touching Ten-Thousand Corrosions, but his Azure Radiance Ten-Thousand Spirits Wall repelled her attack.
• Chen Beiwu denied taking the King Serpent and said he would suppress the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect before searching for the culprit.

Chen Beiwu’s forces battled the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and he defeated Lan Xinyi in a three-attack wager by forcing her back with his Immortal-Slaying Saber Intent. Lan Xinyi accepted the loss, leaving the sect bound to follow Mirror Moon Sect’s lead and cooperate in finding the King Serpent thief.

• Guo Tianyu and Deng Buming attacked Li Xingyuan, who feigned death after Chen Beiwu secretly assured him he would intervene if needed.
• Zhao Zhixin used the Ten Thousand-Gansu Poison Dissolving-Soul Profound Formation against Chen Beiwu, but Iron Egg and Zhiling created an opening that let Chen Beiwu break the formation and render Zhao Zhixin unconscious.
• Lan Xinyi acknowledged that Chen Beiwu had not stolen the King Serpent and wagered that he could not force her back in three attacks; she agreed that her sect’s True Lords would apologize if he won.
• Chen Beiwu struck Lan Xinyi twice with his Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber, but her Erosion True Intent let her endure without retreating.
• Chen Beiwu unleashed his full Immortal-Slaying Saber Intent, overwhelmed Lan Xinyi’s resistance, and forced her to stagger backward, winning the wager.
• Lan Xinyi accepted defeat, agreeing that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect would follow Mirror Moon Sect’s lead and help search for the King Serpent thief.

Chen Beiwu secured the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s submission to the Mirror Moon Sect while agreeing to preserve its autonomy and traditions. As he investigated the missing Jade Ridge King Serpent, Lan Xinyi revealed that Spirit Transformation Venerables sleeping in Guixu Mountain sometimes hunted rare creation beasts, and Chen Beiwu questioned why the Mirror Moon Sect’s records omitted the secret.

• After the Ten Thousand Poisons Fairy admitted defeat, Chen Beiwu gained fortune, and Xuele healed He Suxin at Lan Xinyi’s request.
• Lan Xinyi agreed to make the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect subordinate to the Mirror Moon Sect within seven days, and Chen Beiwu let her remain sect master.
• Lan Xinyi asked to preserve her sect’s autonomy, avoid involvement in regional conflicts, and recover the Jade Ridge King Serpent; Chen Beiwu agreed to her requests and required stability.
• Lan Xinyi explained that the Jade Ridge King Serpent was an ultimate demon king with 9,999 years of Dao practice, then took Chen Beiwu to inspect the place from which it had vanished.
• Lan Xinyi named the Desolate Gu Sect, the Cangmo Sect, and Guixu Mountain’s ancient inhabitants as suspects, then revealed that sealed Spirit Transformation Venerables sometimes sought rare creation beasts for pills.
• Chen Beiwu reassured his companions that they would not be taken, then asked Lan Xinyi why the Mirror Moon Sect’s records said nothing about Guixu Mountain’s secrets.

Chen Beiwu exposed Zhao Zhixin as the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect traitor who had delivered the Jade Ridge King Serpent to the Cangmo Sect in exchange for Spirit Transformation pill formulas. He offered to spare Zhao Zhixin if he taught Iron Egg to refine the pills, but Zhao Zhixin would rather die than teach a Demon King.

• Chen Beiwu questioned five Ten Thousand Poisons Sect Grand Elders about the Jade Ridge King Serpent and singled out Zhao Zhixin to remain.
• Chen Beiwu revealed that Zhao Zhixin had betrayed the sect for two Spirit Transformation pill formulas and had sent the king serpent to Heavenly Sand Cliff in the Desert Ruins.
• Zhao Zhixin admitted he had traded the serpent for a chance to refine Nine Deaths Exchanging for Truth Pills and attain Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Beiwu examined the formulas and offered to spare Zhao Zhixin if he explained his Cangmo Sect contacts and taught Iron Egg to refine the pills.
• Iron Egg approached Zhao Zhixin, who realized it was a dog and refused the offer, saying he would rather die than teach a Demon King.

Chen Beiwu and his companions searched the Desert Ruins for the Cangmo Sect, whose hidden headquarters rode on the Abyss-Suppressing Horned Dragon while its leader prepared to help Yellow Dragon True Lord pursue Spirit Transformation. Iron Egg detected Cangmo Sect disciples, and Chen Beiwu used their translocation tokens to place a spatial anchor on their jade slips before they vanished.

• Zhao Zhixin agreed to guide Iron Egg in alchemy and revealed his dealings with the Cangmo Sect.
• Chen Beiwu found no trace of the Jade Ridge King Serpent at Heavenly Sand Cliff and decided to seek the Cangmo Sect in the Desert Ruins.
• Zhai Cang learned that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect had become affiliated with the Mirror Moon Sect and ordered Cangmo Sect disciples to remain inside while Yellow Dragon True Lord pursued Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Beiwu and Lan Xinyi spent days searching the Desert Ruins until Iron Egg detected two Cangmo Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators hiding in a cave abode.
• Golden Egg trapped the two cultivators in an illusion, Zhiling marked their translocation tokens with jade slips, and Chen Beiwu placed spatial anchors on them before they teleported away.

Chen Beiwu and his companions broke into the Cangmo Sect, where Chen Beiwu killed True Lord Hengsha and the sect’s leaders tried to lure the intruders into a trap. Following Golden Egg’s warning, the group bypassed the invitation and found a dying Submerged-Gold Horned Dragon beneath the sect.

• True Lord Hengsha activated the Cangmo Sect’s defenses and attacked Zhiling, but Chen Beiwu emerged from hiding and killed him with the Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger.
• Xuele captured Hengsha’s fleeing Nascent Soul, while Lan Xinyi reflected on her reasons for aligning the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect with the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Zhai Cang rejected his deputy sect master’s plan to risk confronting Chen Beiwu, choosing instead to use the sect formation to delay him until Zhai Cang’s master emerged from seclusion.
• After the formation opened a passage toward the sect’s heart, Chen Beiwu sensed a powerful dragon below and followed Zhiling through a Spatial Passage instead.
• Chen Beiwu and his companions found a dying Submerged-Gold Horned Dragon whose bloodline and essence had already been drained.

Chen Beiwu and his allies defeated Cangmo Sect’s ambush, learned that the Jade Ridge King Snake had been eaten and Yellow Dragon True Lord was alive, then confronted the ancestor in Sky-Masking Cave. Yellow Dragon True Lord activated the Ninefold Evolving Yellow Sand Sky-Shrouding Grand Formation and trapped them inside.

• Zhai Cang and six other Cangmo cultivators ambushed Chen Beiwu while the Hidden Gold Horned Dragon attacked, but Aji froze and defeated them.
• Aji extracted the Hidden Gold Horned Dragon’s heart, and Chen Beiwu questioned the captured Cangmo cultivators about the Jade Ridge King Snake.
• Shi Jin revealed that the Jade Ridge King Snake had been eaten by the mountain-guarding horned dragon and that Yellow Dragon True Lord had drained the dragon’s blood essence.
• Golden Egg used the Great Expansion Determining Truth Profound Ability on Zhai Cang, allowing Chen Beiwu and Lan Xinyi to discover Yellow Dragon True Lord’s hiding place in Sky-Masking Cave.
• Yellow Dragon True Lord detected the intruders, attacked Chen Beiwu, and activated the Ninefold Evolving Yellow Sand Sky-Shrouding Grand Formation to trap Chen Beiwu and Lan Xinyi.

Chen Beiwu forced Yellow Dragon True Lord to end the confrontation and negotiate compensation for the captured Jade Ridge King Serpent. The Cangmo Sect agreed to become subordinate to the Mirror Moon Sect, and Chen Beiwu planned to inspect its treasury before entering seclusion to prepare for breakthroughs and Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Beiwu summoned his Primordial Origin Dharma Form, and Yellow Dragon True Lord stopped the formation and offered an apology after seeing its immense power.
• Lan Xinyi demanded a drop of the Jade Ridge King Serpent's heartblood and a Cangshen Pill, while Yellow Dragon True Lord offered compensation and acknowledged the Mirror Moon Sect as his superior sect.
• Chen Beiwu demanded a Dragon-Rising Pill and a drop of the Abyss-Suppressing Horned Dragon's life-bound essence blood, threatening to fight and revealing a powerful origin talisman.
• Yellow Dragon True Lord surrendered the requested items, and Lan Xinyi accepted the settlement for the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.
• Chen Beiwu said the Mirror Moon Sect would not interfere in affiliated sects' internal affairs but would inspect the Cangmo treasury and collect tribute every ten years.
• Lan Xinyi left to cultivate, while Chen Beiwu prepared to inspect the treasury and then enter seclusion.

Chen Beiwu received the Mountain-Opening Heaven-Splitting Art from Lan Xinyi, explored the Cangmo Sect’s treasury, and later used the Nine Fortunes, Three Origins to seek a path toward creating his own cultivation method. The Jade Purity Sect Leader then received a Dao Venerable Edict announcing that the Heavenly Ruins would open as the Two-World War approached.

• Lan Xinyi gave Chen Beiwu the Mountain-Opening Heaven-Splitting Art, a perilous Spirit Transformation secret art, and Chen Beiwu accepted it for study.
• Chen Beiwu took half the upper grade spirit stones and selected treasures from the Cangmo Sect treasury, while Xuele gathered rare profound medicines and Chen Beiwu copied cultivation methods.
• After returning to Huncheng Peak, Chen Beiwu studied the Mountain-Opening Heaven-Splitting Art for ten years but concluded that its risky approach did not suit him.
• Chen Beiwu used the Nine Fortunes, Three Origins to pursue creating a supreme immortal cultivation method, then realized he needed to study more Spirit Transformation and Void Refinement methods.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader received a Dao Venerable Edict warning of an approaching great calamity and announced that Great Luo Heaven would open the Heavenly Ruins to prepare cultivators for the Two-World War.

Yuyue sought permission to enter the Heavenly Ruins and chose Chen Beiwu as a potential companion, while cultivators in the Jade Purity Immortal Sect competed for the few available places. As Chen Beiwu remained in seclusion, Golden Egg reached the Demon King limit and awakened Furnace Method-Derivation.

• The Jade Purity Sect Leader told Yuyue and Qinghe that they could enter the Heavenly Ruins by cultivating alongside a suitable Spirit Transformation Venerable or a peerless Nascent Soul True Lord, and Yuyue chose Chen Beiwu.
• Yue Shan offered Su Miao a treasure to yield her place in the Heavenly Ruins, but she refused and suggested he might persuade Chen Beiwu with a rare pill.
• Golden Egg used the Three-Aspect Melting Furnace and dragon resources to reach the Demon King limit in ten years while Jiang Chuan waited outside Huncheng Peak.
• After Golden Egg's breakthrough, Chen Beiwu discovered that he had become a Teng Dragon Seed with a new fifth-tier Origin Art, Furnace Method-Derivation.