Recaps

Chen Beiwu revealed his hidden cultivation and used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror to overpower and capture the wounded Heavenly Intent Salamander. The Salamander was sealed inside the mirror, while Li Yueyin had been swallowed and the fate of Guangyu True Venerable and Silver Sword True Venerable remained unclear.

• Li Yueyin summoned the Shattered Moon Remnant Light and attacked the Heavenly Intent Salamander, but it shattered her weapon, swallowed her, and healed its wound.
• After breaking free of the Demon-Imprisoning Tower, the Heavenly Intent Salamander turned on Chen Beiwu and demanded his submission.
• Chen Beiwu revealed his Spirit Transformation Late-Stage cultivation and brought forth the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror, prompting the Salamander to flee.
• Chen Beiwu used Heavenly Illumination to strip away the Salamander's powerful transformed state and suppress its cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu activated Heavenly Annihilation and sealed the weakened Heavenly Intent Salamander inside the mirror.

Chen Beiwu fed Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele portions of the Heavenly Intent Salamander, and their cultivation surged as they digested its flesh. Iron Egg awakened the sealing profound ability Sun and Moon in the Sky, while Chen Beiwu kept the salamander alive because he planned to use its Heavenly Heart to contract an Immortal Beast Legacy Species.

• Chen Beiwu cut a piece of Yuan Belly from the captured Heavenly Intent Salamander and cooked portions for Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and himself.
• Chen Beiwu guarded the three companions as the salamander meat greatly advanced their cultivation, while the Demon Venerable ordered Purple Palace True Venerable's remnant will to dispose of the Great Shang Spirit Transformation Venerables.
• Golden Sword True Venerable found that the Demon-Imprisoning Tower suppressed his Fate-Twisting Formation Disk, then Purple Palace True Venerable's remnant will confronted the cultivators and asked them to help unseal the tower's path.
• Golden Egg's dao practice rose to 34,000 years, but Iron Egg's aura surged even more dramatically as his dao practice reached 36,000 years.
• Iron Egg awakened the fifth-tier Creation Origin Art Sun and Moon in the Sky, which manifested the sun and moon to seal the myriad dharmas.
• Golden Egg suggested repeatedly harvesting flesh from the salamander, but Chen Beiwu refused because the salamander might detonate its valuable Heavenly Heart.

Xuele’s cultivation surged after eating Heaven’s Will Salamander flesh, strengthening its Taiyi Sword Intent and awakening four offensive Profound Abilities. At the top of the Demon-Imprisoning Tower, Chen Beiwu faced Purple Palace Remnant Thought’s reincarnation ritual, secured the Zique Pearl, and escaped by spatial displacement, while a wild laugh sounded from the depths of the Sea of Consciousness.

• Xuele rose to 42,000 years of cultivation, and Chen Beiwu gained insight into its Taiyi Sword Intent and four sword intents.
• Chen Beiwu followed the mist to the tower’s summit and found Spirit Transformation Venerables held as sacrifices around the Half-Step Ancient Demon’s corpse.
• Purple Palace Remnant Thought trapped Chen Beiwu and revealed that he needed him to complete the Ancient Demon reincarnation ritual.
• Chen Beiwu demanded the Zique Pearl, and the Demon Venerable ordered Purple Palace Remnant Thought to hand it over before the ritual.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the Zique Pearl and vanished through spatial displacement, leaving Purple Palace Remnant Thought furious as laughter rose from the Sea of Consciousness.

After the Zique Pearl triggered Purple Palace Demon Venerable’s possession of Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele fought to protect him while Chen Beiwu confronted the demon soul in his sea of consciousness. Chen Beiwu and his companions managed to resist the powerful demon, who then summoned the Demon-Subduing Stele to turn the battle.

• Chen Beiwu studied the Zique Pearl, and Purple Palace Demon Venerable possessed his body, revealing a Twelfth-Grade Ancient Demon Lotus mark.
• Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele attacked Purple Palace Demon Venerable, combining their abilities to break through his defenses and help Chen Beiwu regain control.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Purple Palace Demon Venerable’s demon soul in his sea of consciousness, and the demon guessed that Chen Beiwu possessed the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.
• Chen Beiwu fought back in his own sea of consciousness, then joined with the three beasts through their companion contracts to battle Purple Palace Demon Venerable to a standstill.
• Purple Palace Demon Venerable, unable to subdue Chen Beiwu, summoned the Demon-Subduing Stele.

Chen Beiwu used the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and Nine-Breath Chaos to thwart Purple Palace True Venerable’s attempt to seize the artifact, while the Wu River Dragon King withdrew to prepare its reincarnation ritual elsewhere. After considering what to do with the Zique Pearl, Chen Beiwu gained the Fortune-Casting Heavenly Art, which could create treasures that gathered fortune and evolved Companion Beast bloodlines.

• Purple Palace True Venerable summoned the Demon-Subduing Stele and used its power to probe Chen Beiwu’s Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.
• Chen Beiwu revealed the cauldron and crushed the Nine-Headed Demon-Subduing Demon, but Purple Palace True Venerable escaped after leaving spiritual black blood on the artifact.
• Nine-Breath Chaos consumed the remaining demonic qi phantoms, while the Wu River Dragon King learned that its demonic soul avatar had failed and moved the Purple Palace Cave Abode to conceal its reincarnation ritual.
• Chen Beiwu examined the Zique Pearl, learned its Heavenly Purple Dao Marrow had already been used, and weighed whether to consume the pearl to advance his cultivation.
• Nine-Breath Chaos spat out a black lump, and Chen Beiwu received the Fortune-Casting Heavenly Art, which could forge Fortune Supreme Treasures and help Companion Beasts evolve.

Chen Beiwu learned that his fortune was not yet sufficient to activate the Fortune-Casting Heavenly Art, then reunited with Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing before preparing to explore an Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World with Yuyue Guardian. As they traveled through the Two-World Gate, Yuyue Guardian erased a hostile force that had disrupted the passage.

• Chen Beiwu discovered that he could use fortune-bearing objects to refine a Fortune Supreme Treasure, and learned that Gu Qinghan had found a dead egg linked to the Baxia Demon Emperor in the Ancient Yao Realm.
• Chen Beiwu met Xu Lingling and Xu Ziqing, spent a week with them, and said their Dao Companion Union Ceremony would take place with his Spirit Transformation ceremony.
• Liang Tiancheng reported Dao resonance signatures at the Half-Step Void Refinement level in an Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World, and Chen Beiwu agreed to explore it with Yuyue Guardian.
• Yuyue Guardian proposed a one-year treasure-hunting competition with a restricted condition as the stakes, and Chen Beiwu accepted.
• Liang Tiancheng completed maintenance on the Two-World Gate, and Chen Beiwu and Yuyue Guardian entered the passage toward the Emperor Sequence world.
• When Chen Beiwu sensed malice and spatial turbulence in the passage, Yuyue Guardian used her power to eliminate the hostile force and calm the passage.

Chen Beiwu and his companions entered the Kongming Realm to hunt for treasures while Kongming Ancestor ordered the realm’s Spirit Transformation Venerables into seclusion. After a Shadow Leopard ambushed Golden Egg, Chen Beiwu helped Golden Egg turn the fight around, leaving the Demon Venerable badly dissolved but not yet confirmed dead.

• Kongming Ancestor ordered Heavenly Void Cave sealed and the Spirit Transformation Venerables to join him in seclusion, fearing powerful visitors from beyond the realm.
• Chen Beiwu and Yuyue Guardian entered the Kongming Realm, agreed to hunt separately for a year, and chose different directions.
• Chen Beiwu found a spiritual Huayu Year Marrow and gave it to Xuele to store and cultivate rather than consume immediately.
• After three months of hunting without encountering local Venerables, Chen Beiwu arrived as a Shadow Leopard ambushed Golden Egg near a Kongqing Vine.
• Golden Egg summoned the Three Offices and Three Rivers Dragon Court, and Chen Beiwu used Clear Source One Finger to break the Shadow Leopard’s shadow form as the dragon’s waters dissolved most of its body.

Chen Beiwu subdued the shadow leopard and learned that the Kongming Realm’s Kongji Mother Tree was a priceless Dao tree, while Yuyue Guardian fought six cultivators sent to delay her. Chen Beiwu met the Kongming Ancestor at Gushan Pavilion, where a strange phenomenon stirred a response from his Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

• Chen Beiwu suppressed the shadow leopard’s Primordial Spirit, searched its soul, and learned the history of the Kongming Realm and the Kongji Mother Tree, also known as Biming Kongsang.
• Chen Beiwu promised to spare the shadow leopard if it revealed the Kongji Mother Tree’s location, then followed it across the desert toward Gushan Pavilion.
• Yuyue Guardian found the Kongji Mother Tree, but six experts trapped her in the Great Proving Kongji Chaos-Spirit True Formation; she struck back with a Death Spirit Vigor Lotus and wounded two of them.
• The Kongming Ancestor considered taking Chen Beiwu hostage, but a terrifying intuition warned him against attacking, so he invited Chen Beiwu to witness a supposedly millennial phenomenon at Gushan Pavilion.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the Kongming Ancestor’s invitation and sat for tea; his Heaven and Earth Manifestation stirred as if answering the phenomenon.