Recaps

Aji wounded Yan Changxing, who withdrew rather than break his self-sealing restrictions, while Chen Beiwu refused to pursue him. Zhen Yuanzi and two other powerful cultivators arrived seeking the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, and Chen Beiwu fought Nine-Origin True Venerable to protect it; Nine-Origin immobilized him with Words Manifest as Dharma.

• Aji used his yin-yang and four-seasons powers to strike Yan Changxing, severely injuring him despite his Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Yan Changxing withdrew into the void, and Chen Beiwu told Aji that guarding the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape mattered more than pursuing their enemies.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Nine Origins, and Northward Gaze appeared, and Chen Beiwu recognized Zhen Yuanzi as a Cultivation Magnate.
• Chen Beiwu stepped aside when the newcomers said they had come for the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, then attacked Nine-Origin True Venerable as he approached it.
• Nine-Origin True Venerable countered Chen Beiwu's saber with great sun true fire and used Words Manifest as Dharma to restrict him.

Chen Beiwu and Aji fought Nine-Origin True Venerable and Beiwang True Venerable, who secretly let themselves lose after learning of the powerful protection behind Chen Beiwu. Zhen Yuanzi then discovered Chen Beiwu’s hidden secret and moved to capture him, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape finished its breakthrough and stood between them.

• Chen Beiwu revealed the Divine Firmament Demon-Slashing Origin Talisman, prompting Nine-Origin True Venerable to retreat and secretly warn him about Beiwang True Venerable’s Thousand-Eyes Immortal Art.
• Beiwang True Venerable attacked Chen Beiwu with the Jade Heaven Seal, then quietly told him its weakness, allowing Chen Beiwu to pierce his chest with a saber strike.
• Zhen Yuanzi stepped forward and used his pressure to force Chen Beiwu toward submission, then searched his memories and sensed that he carried Dao resonance and Spirit Vigor from beyond Myriad Origin Star.
• Chen Beiwu prepared to escape with the Heaven-Escaping Talisman, but Zhen Yuanzi declared he could not leave and reached to seize him.
• The pitch-black pillar collapsed, and the newly transformed Battle-Devouring Demon Ape appeared before Chen Beiwu and challenged Zhen Yuanzi.

Chen Beiwu, Aji, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape fought to escape Zhen Yuanzi, whose avatar unleashed a powerful formation to capture them. Chen Beiwu used a concealed means of teleportation to vanish from the formation, but Zhen Yuanzi began tracking them toward the Western Evolution Realm.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape attacked Zhen Yuanzi while shielding Chen Beiwu and Aji, then used Wind Concealment to ambush him as Chen Beiwu's saber strike failed.
• Zhen Yuanzi restrained Chen Beiwu, but Aji's Two Forms, One Qi attack coincided with a punch from the concealed Battle-Devouring Demon Ape that wounded him.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape opened a spatial path for Chen Beiwu and Aji, but Zhen Yuanzi activated the Fire-Forged Cosmic Lesser Yang Demon-Burning Grand Formation.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Heaven-Escaping Talisman, and he, Aji, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape vanished from the formation without obstruction.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized Chen Beiwu had escaped and used divination to track him toward the Western Evolution Realm.

Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape fled Zhen Yuanzi’s pursuit and headed for the Heavenly Star Path, but Zhen Yuanzi prepared a trap at its entrance. One Origin True Venerable appeared at Clearheart Lake, disrupted Zhen Yuanzi’s formation, and forced him to withdraw.

• Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Escaping Talisman to reach the Western Evolution Realm, where he and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape realized Zhen Yuanzi was still tracking them.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape refused Chen Beiwu’s offer of a companion beast contract and proposed escaping through the Heavenly Star Path in the Yellow Evolution Realm.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape teleported to Huidan Market and set out for Clearheart Lake, while Zhen Yuanzi divined their destination and prepared a fifth-tier origin formation there.
• Zhen Yuanzi waited at Clearheart Lake in a powerful avatar, but a crowned cultivator arrived unnoticed and silently severed his control over the formation.
• The crowned cultivator named himself One Origin, and Zhen Yuanzi, recognizing the feared figure, chose to leave.

Chen Beiwu followed the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape through Clearheart Lake and entered the deadly Heavenly Star Path. After they destroyed a Punishment Mechanism Skeleton that ambushed them, the cave split open and a strange passage appeared.

• The crown-wearing cultivator left Clearheart Lake, betting that Chen Zi'ang might reach the Heavenly Star Path and affect the formation sealing the Southern Wild Region.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape descended through Clearheart Lake, overcame its soul-chilling depths, and found a hidden cave leading into the Heavenly Star Path.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape paid Chen Beiwu three drops of Demon Ape Blood Essence and two hairs, then warned him that the Heavenly Star Path was lethal and that Five-Viscera Demons hunted within it.
• The group found the remains of a Spirit Transformation Venerable killed by a Punishment Mechanism Skeleton, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape led them around the bones.
• A Punishment Mechanism Skeleton ambushed Chen Beiwu, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape and the others destroyed it with their attacks.
• The cave split open after the skeleton's destruction, forming a distorted Spatial Passage and sending obscure information into Chen Beiwu's mind.

Chen Beiwu activated the altar’s Spatial Passage with his Crimson Fortune and entered the depths of the Heavenly Star Path, where he encountered a mysterious figure named Yuan. Yuan offered him the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect’s legacy in exchange for becoming its next sect master, but Chen Beiwu refused and faced an ominous threat.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape warned Chen Beiwu that the Heavenly Star Path’s mutated trials had killed every cultivator who attempted them, and advised him not to chase Xing Jihai.
• After three days, Chen Beiwu reached an altar and used Crimson Fortune to ignite its jade lamp, opening a Spatial Passage into the path’s depths.
• An eternal True Dragon sensed the altar’s light and used Heavenly Observation and Dao Evolution to examine Chen Beiwu, reacting with surprise at his origins.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the ruins of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect, where he met Yuan, an imposing cultivator who offered to make him the sect’s next master.
• Chen Beiwu declined Yuan’s offer out of loyalty to the Mirror Moon Sect, and Yuan warned him that refusing had consequences as mortal danger surged around him.

Yuan told Chen Beiwu how the Hunyuan Saint Xuanhuangzi had nearly refined the Southern Wild Region before the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect’s Dao Venerable sealed him beneath the Heavenly Star Path. Yuan then forced Chen Beiwu into the Heavenly Abyss Trial, where Chen Beiwu discovered the first stage required him to comprehend a Dao art before crossing a deadly river.

• Chen Beiwu followed Yuan into the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect ruins after warning that he would not surrender the sect’s inheritance under pressure.
• Yuan recounted how Xuanhuangzi, a Hunyuan Saint from the Azure Blue Realm, devastated the Southern Wild Region and was sealed in the Heavenly Star Path by the sacrifice of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect’s Dao Venerable.
• Yuan urged Chen Beiwu to obtain the Dao Venerable’s inheritance, but Chen Beiwu refused and was abruptly sent into the Heavenly Abyss Trial as his companions vanished.
• Chen Beiwu tested the Heavenly Abyss River and found that it dissolved a Fourth-Tier Mysterious Treasure and pulled down anything that tried to fly above it.
• Chen Beiwu read the stele’s Ancient Seal Script and realized he needed to reach the introductory level of its Heavenly Abyss Dao Art within a year to cross the river.
• Rather than begin comprehending the Dao art, Chen Beiwu closed his eyes to rest and prepared to negotiate terms with Yuan.

Yuan revealed that he was the artifact spirit Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons and offered Chen Beiwu three requests if he passed the Heavenly Abyss Trial and relinquished command of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron. Chen Beiwu comprehended the trial stele’s scripture, reached its introductory level, and began crossing the Heavenly Abyss River with heavenly abyss true qi.

• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that passing the trial could earn him the Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable’s legacy and the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron, then offered three requests in exchange for its command.
• Yuan identified himself as Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons, explained the trial’s dangers, and promised to help Golden Egg advance its bloodline if Chen Beiwu agreed to attempt the trial.
• Chen Beiwu agreed, used two wisps of purple qi to create fortuitous encounters, and began comprehending the supreme Dao art on the stone stele.
• Chen Beiwu’s sudden enlightenment gave him insight into uniting the Great Daos, and the Eternal True Dragon observed his unusually rapid progress.
• After two months, Chen Beiwu reached the introductory level of the Heavenly Abyss Scripture of Melting the Void, Embracing the Real, and Returning to the Origin and used its true qi to step onto the Heavenly Abyss River.
• Chen Beiwu turned the river’s waves into a path, while Golden Egg’s attempt to touch the water left its scales corroded.

Chen Beiwu crossed the Heavenly Abyss River, earned an Abyss True Pill, and learned the second trial would pit him against a restricted clone of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable. He entered the trial but was defeated instantly by the first finger strike, leaving the trial marked as failed.

• Chen Beiwu reached the island after crossing the Heavenly Abyss River and received an Abyss True Pill for his aptitude and comprehension.
• Chen Beiwu declined Yuan's offer to transform Golden Egg's bloodline and instead accepted a Heavenly Water Pill for it.
• Chen Beiwu discovered that the second trial required him to survive three moves from a Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable clone, whose cultivation matched his own.
• Chen Beiwu entered the trial with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji, but their abilities were weakened by the projection.
• A colossal finger struck before Chen Beiwu could use a Profound Ability, collapsing his Nascent Soul and causing the stele to declare the trial failed.

Chen Beiwu repeatedly challenged the Heavenly Abyss Trial, learned that its Dao Venerable avatar used the Abyssal Sinking technique, and briefly blocked it before being overwhelmed by a greater power. After a year of studying and failing, he began creating an art by simplifying the Great Daos he had been trying to combine.

• Chen Beiwu and his companions were expelled from the Bronze Giant Stele when the Dao Venerable avatar struck, and Chen Beiwu realized its projected strength was diminished.
• Chen Beiwu failed dozens of attempts, discovered that the avatar's finger used Abyssal Sinking, and blocked it with Northern Emperor Dao Edict before an enormous palm crushed him.
• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that the trial favored cultivators of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art and that he would need a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable Companion Beast or major accomplishment in the art to pass quickly.
• Yuan judged Chen Beiwu slightly stronger than the Southern Wasteland Dao Sects' Dao Children in combat without external aids, and Chen Beiwu chose to keep studying and challenging the trial.
• After a year of study and repeated defeats, Chen Beiwu reconsidered how to combine the Great Daos and began creating an art by discarding some of them.

After years of studying the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art, Chen Beiwu learned to imitate its advanced techniques with Primordial Origin and devised a plan to borrow the Heavenly Abyss River’s power for the trial. He overcame the trial’s final attack, but the Dao Venerable’s Abyss-Transformed Profound Ability consumed his projected avatar as the trial collapsed.

• Chen Beiwu demonstrated the Abyssal Return Palm and Abyss-Sinking Finger, using Primordial Origin to wield techniques beyond his Heavenly Abyss Dao Art cultivation stage.
• In the trial, Chen Beiwu blocked the Dao Venerable’s finger strike and palm strike, then withdrew when the final Abyssal Transformation Strike threatened his projection.
• Chen Beiwu enlisted Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji to transform into divine weapons and used the Sundial Four Seasons Mirror to bring Heavenly Abyss River Water into the trial.
• With the river’s power, Chen Beiwu overcame the Dao Venerable’s final attack and believed he had passed the trial.
• The trial space collapsed, and an Abyss-Transformed mark spread across Chen Beiwu’s palm, consuming his projected avatar.

Chen Beiwu passed the Heavenly Abyss Trial and received the sect’s Dao Lineage inheritance, advancing the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art to the pinnacle of major accomplishment and gaining the Dao-Casting Long River. He began the master recognition ritual with the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and discovered that it was producing fortune his Nine-Breath Chaos could absorb.

• Chen Beiwu awoke after three years immersed in the inheritance and found that his Heavenly Abyss Dao Art had reached the pinnacle of major accomplishment, granting him the Dao-Casting Long River Profound Ability.
• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that he had to undergo the master recognition ritual to unlock more of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect inheritance, and Chen Beiwu agreed after checking that the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape was unharmed.
• Chen Beiwu approached the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and passed the scrutiny of three former Void Refinement Dao Venerables, whose spiritual wills appeared before him.
• Chen Beiwu touched the Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and began the ritual, while his Nine-Breath Chaos absorbed the Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune emerging from it.

Chen Beiwu gained the initial acknowledgment of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and negotiated treasures from Yuan, including the Five-Colored Vine and a chance to master the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror. Yuan sealed most of the mirror’s power so Chen Beiwu could refine it safely, then demanded that he relinquish control of the cauldron, leaving Chen Beiwu suspicious.

• Chen Beiwu discovered that the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron had produced a complete strand of Nine Fortunes, Three Origins, but found he could barely move the Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact.
• Yuan gave Chen Beiwu a Five-Colored Vine to help Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji attempt the Demon Venerable realm safely.
• Chen Beiwu asked for a quasi-Dao soldier, and Yuan offered the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror, whose powers included piercing illusions, locking targets, annihilating foes, and creating copies.
• Aji and Golden Egg tested the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and endured only briefly before Chen Beiwu took their place and withstood its trial using the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art.
• Yuan stopped Chen Beiwu when the mirror’s full power threatened to kill him, sealed most of its power, and then asked Chen Beiwu to relinquish control of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.

Chen Beiwu escaped the Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons’ attempt to possess him when Nine-Breath Chaos devoured their spirit, leaving a miniature Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron in his Chaos Heaven and Earth. After returning to the Immortal Alliance, he sought help for Xuele’s breakthrough, then went back to the Heavenly Star Path to claim the weakened cauldron.

• Yuan froze space and time, blocked Chen Beiwu’s escape, and demanded that he master the Three Abysses Dragon-Transformation Secret Art or submit to possession.
• Yuan invaded Chen Beiwu’s Sea of Consciousness, but Nine-Breath Chaos appeared and devoured the Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons’ spirit, consuming half a strand of Chen Beiwu’s Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune.
• Chen Beiwu found a miniature Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron in his Chaos Heaven and Earth, left it untouched, and teleported back to the Immortal Alliance after the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape declined to join him.
• The death of the cauldron’s spirit caused upheaval across the Profound Evolution Realm; Zhen Yuanzi suspected Chen Zi'ang was involved, while One Origin True Venerable learned that the path to Void Refinement could open in five hundred years.
• Chen Beiwu asked Violet Firmament Venerable for access to Huncheng Peak’s Creation Dao Resonance to help Xuele advance, but agreed to wait five years for pills.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Heavenly Star Path to attempt a full refinement of the weakened Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.

Chen Beiwu lifted the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron, discovered cross-region passages to three regions, and returned to the Immortal Alliance with Spirit Transformation resources. At Azure-Ming Peak, he watched his eldest senior brother Yue Chenfeng progress through the early trials of Spirit Transformation, though a divination left Chen Beiwu uneasy.

• Chen Beiwu successfully lifted the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron after it responded to the remnant essence in his consciousness, then spent five years studying it.
• Chen Beiwu found cross-region passages to the Eastern Land, Western Heaven, and Northern Profound regions, then returned to the Immortal Alliance to collect three pills from Violet Firmament Venerable.
• Violet Firmament Venerable told Chen Beiwu that Yue Chenfeng had entered seclusion to attempt Spirit Transformation, and Chen Beiwu went to Azure-Ming Peak to observe.
• Chen Beiwu joined Su Muyu, Jiang Chuan, and Mo Chen outside Taiyuan Blessed Land as they discussed Yue Chenfeng's four Spirit Transformation trials.
• Yue Chenfeng completed Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, then formed the Fivefold Court of Origin a year later; Chen Beiwu sensed unease and cast a divination.

Chen Beiwu lifted the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron, found cross-region passages after five years of refining it, and returned to the Immortal Alliance. He watched his eldest senior brother Yue Chenfeng begin the trials of Spirit Transformation, but a vision of five-colored light stirred an uneasy feeling in him.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape failed to lift the cauldron without suffering a severe backlash, but Chen Beiwu used his connection to make it shrink and raise it.
• Chen Beiwu spent five years studying the cauldron and found passages to the Eastern Land, Western Heaven, and Northern Profound regions.
• Violet Firmament Venerable gave Chen Beiwu three pills and urged him to observe Yue Chenfeng’s Spirit Transformation attempt at Azure-Ming Peak.
• Chen Beiwu joined Su Muyu, Jiang Fu, and Mo Chen outside Taiyuan Blessed Land as they discussed the four trials of Spirit Transformation.
• Yue Chenfeng completed Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, then a year later produced a five-colored vision as he attempted Five Qi Returning to the Origin, prompting Chen Beiwu to divine the outcome.

Chen Beiwu and the Azure-Ming Lineage mourned Yue Chenfeng, who died during his attempt to attain Spirit Transformation, while Chen Beiwu prepared Xuele to advance as a fifth-realm demon venerable. Meanwhile, Chen Beiwu located the entrance to a cross-region transmission passage and planned to open it after Xuele had spent another month preparing.

• Chen Beiwu sensed ominous tribulation aura around Taiyuan Blessed Land, and Su Muyu, Jiang Chuan, and Mo Chen divined conflicting signs of great misfortune and great fortune.
• After months of oppressive stillness and gathering tribulation clouds, Yue Chenfeng failed his Spirit Transformation breakthrough and died, and the Azure-Ming Lineage wore mourning white.
• Cave-Ming Everlasting gave Chen Beiwu and the other disciples his insights on attaining the Dao, while Violet Firmament Venerable investigated whether Yue Chenfeng's death had involved outside interference.
• Chen Beiwu told Xuele to continue cultivating the five-colored vine, then applied for its advancement; He Zhengyu approved the application, and Jiang Chuan worried that the timing was hasty.
• Great Vast True Venerable told Profound Subtlety True Venerable about a captured ruined Great Thousand World, and they decided it was worth visiting.
• Chen Beiwu found an altar matching the Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron at the bottom of the Heavenly Abyss River, and Xuele asked for a month to improve its chances of becoming a Demon Venerable.

Xuele passed the bloodline tribulation and broke through to the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, forging an unprecedented Bloodline True Form from the Origin-Returning Vine bloodline and Taiyi Heaven-Cutting Sword intent. The chapter ended with Chen Beiwu and the other Companion Beasts seeing how profoundly Xuele had changed.

• Chen Beiwu used Fortune Edict Embryo to help Xuele complete twelve rounds of blood tempering and awaken a Creation True Spirit.
• A five-colored pillar of light enveloped Xuele, who faced a powerful Five-Qi Vine in the bloodline tribulation and endured its attacks, including the Taiyi Heaven-Cutting Sword.
• Xuele awakened from the trial, passed the Third Tribulation of Returning to Venerability, and forged an unprecedented Bloodline True Form to enter the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable realm.
• Xuele’s breakthrough sent auspicious clouds across the area, while Jiang Chuan, Mo Chen, Su Muyu, and Evergreen True Venerable reacted to the phenomenon.
• Chen Beiwu examined Xuele’s changed form and recognized sword intent resembling that of the Taiyi Sin-Slaying Sword, while the Companion Beasts sensed Xuele’s new fearsome presence.

Xuele ascended to the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, gained formidable swordsmanship, and transformed its origin meridian into a Taiyi True Form that awakened Chen Beiwu’s Taiyi Sword Spiritual Root. Chen Beiwu discovered Xuele’s Five Reversals could restore Chen Qin, and Xuele revived her from the Ice Coffin.

• Chen Beiwu refined the bloodline origin qi Xuele’s ascension sent through their Companion Beast Contract while Golden Egg challenged Xuele to spar.
• A Five-Phases Purgatory Calamity formed over Huncheng Peak, and Xuele destroyed it with a casual sword strike, astonishing Golden Egg and the others.
• Chen Beiwu examined Xuele’s transformed meridians, discovered its Taiyi True Form had granted him Taiyi Sword Intent, and found Xuele’s aptitude and dao practice had greatly improved.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Xuele’s Five Reversals Creation Origin Art could revive the dead and brought out Chen Qin in the Ice Coffin.
• Xuele used five-colored radiance to heal Chen Qin, who opened her eyes and asked where she was.

Chen Beiwu learned that Chen Qin had awakened with an incomplete soul and that Xuele had gained powerful new Demon Venerable abilities. After his master summoned him to Azure-Ming Peak, Chen Beiwu heard of an immortal scripture that could refine an entire middle thousand world into a cultivator’s Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and he called the method a violation of heaven’s harmony.

• Chen Beiwu discovered that Chen Qin had lost most of her memories and understanding, while Xuele admitted it could not fully restore her soul; Chen Qin soon fell asleep in the Ice Coffin.
• Chen Beiwu tested Xuele’s Taiyi Sword Lock on Golden Egg and Aji, and the sword light swiftly sealed their powers.
• Xuele explained that its Taiyi True Form Inner Landscape could alter the laws of the world and manipulate others’ magic power, while its Taiyi Golden Shuttle could evade tracking and formations.
• Chen Beiwu received a jade slip from his master and went to Azure-Ming Peak, where the Azure-Ming Horned Dragon led him to Evergreen True Venerable.
• Evergreen True Venerable explained that the Supreme Primordial Heaven-Stealing Dao Ascension Immortal Scripture could refine a middle thousand world into a Heaven and Earth Manifestation; Chen Beiwu said the method violated heaven’s harmony, and his master began to reveal that it went further.

Evergreen True Venerable gave Chen Beiwu the Evergreen Seed, which contained a world-refining cultivation method, and offered to help Xuele refine the Great Sen World. After Xuele revealed its new rank to Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling, Chen Beiwu activated the ancient altar and prepared to open a path to distant regions.

• Evergreen True Venerable explained how the Supreme Primordial Chaos Immortal Scripture of Stealing Heaven and Ascending the Dao worked, and warned Chen Beiwu that no cultivator who forcibly refined an entire Middle Thousand World had ever attained Void Refinement.
• Evergreen True Venerable offered to seek permission for Xuele to refine the Great Sen World and gave Chen Beiwu the Evergreen Seed containing the scripture.
• Evergreen True Venerable revealed an emerald light carrying his eldest senior brother's aura, then said the Five-Qi Vine's Dao path might not suit the other being's Companion Beast.
• Chen Dong learned he had been appointed Chief Executive of Fallen Dragon Prefecture, and he and Huang Xiaoling realized Xuele's rise to Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable had likely made the appointment possible.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape challenged Xuele to fight, but Xuele refused, and Chen Beiwu used the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and Xuele's origin qi to activate the ancient altar.

Chen Beiwu activated the cross-region altar, sent the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape to the Northern Profound Region, and then traveled with Xuele to the Eastern Land Region. After discovering the region was strangely depleted of spirit vigor, he learned they had arrived in remote Minxin Commandery and decided to build themselves up there before approaching the Great Shang Imperial Capital.

• Chen Beiwu sent the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape through the altar to the Northern Profound Region, then waited until its spatial anchor stabilized.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Immortal Alliance, instructed Xiao Yan and Chi Quan, acquired two Supreme Grade Spirit Stones, and prepared to travel east with Xuele.
• The Great Shang Immortal Emperor questioned the Fengchang Minister about obscure heavenly secrets and remarked that the Imperial Star had shifted while the Purple Tenuity Star dimmed.
• Chen Beiwu arrived in the Eastern Land Region and found the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect branch and surrounding land had unusually thin spirit vigor.
• Chen Beiwu and Xuele met a leopard demon disguised as a woodcutter, who led them to the foot of the mountain and revealed they were in remote Minxin Commandery.
• Chen Beiwu decided to establish themselves in Minxin Commandery and seek clean identities before entering the Great Shang Imperial Capital.

Chen Beiwu traveled toward Guan County after hearing rumors of a dragon, then encountered Chen Zi'ang under attack and chose to assume his identity. He left the real Chen Zi'ang and his book boy Xiaochuan in ice coffins, intending to use the identity to enter Great Shang's court system.

• Chen Beiwu and his companions heard that a dragon had caused floods in Minxin Commandery and decided to head to Guan County.
• At an abandoned temple, Chen Beiwu met the pursued official Chen Zi'ang and his book boy, Xiaochuan.
• Xie Tianyi and Zhao Tiansu attacked Chen Zi'ang, but Chen Beiwu subdued them with his Nascent Soul aura and destroyed them.
• Chen Beiwu told Chen Zi'ang he wanted to take his identity, and Chen Zi'ang asked him to govern Guan County well and protect its people from the evil dragon.
• Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and Golden Egg's ability to put Chen Zi'ang and Xiaochuan to sleep, then stored them in ice coffins for possible future discipleship.

Chen Beiwu took over as Guan County Magistrate by assuming Chen Zi'ang’s identity, then confronted a sacrifice of a virgin boy and girl in defiance of Great Shang law. The sacrificial procession’s elderly leader challenged him to prove that the county could withstand the Dragon King’s wrath.

• Chen Beiwu examined Chen Zi'ang’s official seal, seized Great Shang’s national Fortune from it, and decided to take the magistrate’s position despite its political risks.
• Chen Beiwu arrived in Guan County, completed the handover with Li Jin and Guangyu, and approved requests for grain relief after hearing about flood-related shortages.
• Gongs and drums heralded a Dragon King Sacrifice, and Chen Beiwu found that the procession carried a virgin boy and girl as offerings.
• Chen Beiwu cited Great Shang’s laws against sacrificing people and threatened punishment, while the elderly officiant invoked an exception for communities unable to resist the god they feared.

Chen Beiwu stopped the sacrifice of Xiaocao and Dashi, then revealed his plan to use a new Ascension to God Method to help Golden Egg become an Orthodox God. Golden Egg chose to aim for the Dragon King of Jianjiang Estuary first, while Chen Beiwu prepared to test the method.

• Chen Beiwu rejected Golden Egg's suggestion to kill the sacrificial procession and promised to handle the Dragon King sacrifice his own way.
• Chen Beiwu rescued Xiaocao and Dashi, postponed the sacrifice, and ordered Li Jin and Guangyu to keep the children safe until it was over.
• Li Jin and Guangyu discussed their doubts about Chen Beiwu's ability to deal with the evil dragon at Jianjiang Estuary and decided to wait and see who prevailed.
• Chen Beiwu explained to Golden Egg that he had developed an incomplete Ascension to God Method based on divine investiture and the authority of heaven and earth.
• Golden Egg asked to become the Wu River Dragon King, but Chen Beiwu explained that he would need to start by defeating the Dragon King of Jianjiang Estuary.
• Chen Beiwu turned his Divine Sense toward Jianjiang Estuary, preparing to test the Ascension to God Method.