Recaps

Chen Beiwu made slow progress contemplating the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, then gained permission to enter the Jade Purity Mountain Range. There he reunited with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox Cub, whose growing fortune suggested extraordinary potential.

• Chen Beiwu used the Three Purities Companion Scenery Immortal Art to deepen his understanding of the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, but after a month he still could not forge a heaven-bestowed final scenery.
• Chen Beiwu spent another month tempering his body before the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele, then learned from Jiang Chuan that his application to enter the Jade Purity Mountain Range had been approved.
• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox Cub sensed Chen Beiwu arriving and rushed from its riverside boulder to meet him.
• Chen Beiwu found Third-Realm Demon Generals tending a beast blood vine, recognized that it had an owner, and stopped the Five-Qi Vine from trying to seize it.
• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox Cub ran into Chen Beiwu's arms, and he saw that it had advanced to the peak of the Second-Realm Lesser Demon level and carried greatly strengthened purple Qi.

Chen Beiwu brought the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox to meet her mother, Demon King Zi Yao, while weighing the risks of forming a Companion Beast contract. After Zi Yao welcomed him and served Cloudmist Tea, Chen Beiwu entered a profound state of Dao enlightenment and began refining his cultivation scenery.

• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox gave Chen Beiwu the Beast King Fruit and agreed to let the Five-Qi Vine transplant her Beast Blood Vine.
• Chen Beiwu carried the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox to meet her parents, and Demon King Zi Yao sent Bai Li to escort them into her cave abode.
• Chen Beiwu met Demon King Zi Yao, resisted her overwhelming allure, and both were astonished by the other's cultivation and fortune.
• Demon King Zi Yao served Chen Beiwu Cloudmist Tea, which sent him into Dao enlightenment and helped him correct his Heaven-Bestowed Middle Scenery while attempting to forge his Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery.
• Demon King Zi Yao noticed that the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox had given away the Beast King Fruit, while the little fox hid her head among her tails.

After Chen Beiwu emerged from enlightenment, Demon King Zi Yao questioned him about his values and his bond with companion beasts, then allowed him to spend more time with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox. The next morning, Chen Beiwu took the fox cub to the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele to continue pursuing his heaven-bestowed final scenery.

• Demon King Zi Yao explained that Cloudmist Tea had sent Chen Beiwu into enlightenment, and the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox affirmed that she wanted to choose him.
• Chen Beiwu emerged from enlightenment with the heaven-bestowed initial and middle sceneries reflected in his eyes, and Demon King Zi Yao tested his views on companion beasts.
• Chen Beiwu described his companion beasts as family and fellow Daoists, and Demon King Zi Yao agreed to let him spend more time with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox while she assessed him.
• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox leaped into Chen Beiwu's arms, and he left the cave abode with her as Demon King Zi Yao warned White Fox and Bai Li not to offend him.
• The next morning, Chen Beiwu studied the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox on his shoulder, drawing attention from nearby cultivators while Xu Xiu worried about the consequences of opposing him.

Xue Tianyi resumed the forbidden Divine Seed Visualization Method and was arrested by the Law Enforcement Bureau, while Supervising Censor Jin Zhaoyang accused Chen Beiwu of involvement in a major Ancient Demon Cult case. Chen Beiwu agreed to accompany the investigators, and Han Zhongli and Yu Yuanlong recognized the accusation as a factional maneuver.

• Xue Tianyi decided to cultivate the Divine Seed Visualization Method to improve his divine sense and advance his prospects.
• Silver-robed Law Enforcement Bureau cultivators arrested Xue Tianyi on suspicion of practicing an Ancient Demon Cult method.
• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox sensed malice toward Chen Beiwu, who detected three Law Enforcement Bureau True Lords approaching him.
• Jin Zhaoyang identified himself as a Supervising Censor and said Chen Beiwu had to answer questions about an Ancient Demon Cult case, barring him from contacting his masters.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to go with Jin Zhaoyang's investigators while the surrounding cultivators speculated about his alleged ties to the Ancient Demon Cult.
• Han Zhongli and Yu Yuanlong discussed the accusation as factional maneuvering, and Han Zhongli judged that Chen Beiwu had no Ancient Demon Cult entanglements.

Chen Beiwu was questioned by Supervising Censor Jin Zhaoyang over alleged ties to the Ancient Demon Cult, then cleared and released. Jin later reported to Xiao Yu, whose scheme was to warn Chen Beiwu and stir suspicion around him while publicly proving his innocence.

• Jin Zhaoyang questioned Chen Beiwu about Xue Tianyi and the Ancient Demon Cult, and Chen denied any involvement.
• Chen infused the Righteousness-Discerning Stone with his Law Power, which shone white and cleared him of practicing the God-Stealing Technique.
• Chen challenged Jin over why Yu Zhaohua, Mo Qingshuang, and Ye Xinya had not been questioned, then left after making his displeasure clear.
• Jin explained to his envoys that questioning Chen upheld the Law Enforcement Bureau’s duty to investigate everyone, regardless of status.
• Jin reported to Xiao Yu that he had questioned Chen and let him go, and Xiao ordered him to issue an announcement proving Chen’s innocence while allowing public suspicion to delay Chen’s advancement.

After the Law Enforcement Bureau questioned Chen Beiwu, Yue Chenfeng and the other senior disciples identified Law-Breaking True Lord Xiao Yu as the likely force behind it. Chen Beiwu asked where Xiao Yu could be found, then revealed he planned to challenge him to a Life-and-Death Platform Contention after reaching Nascent Soul.

• Chen Beiwu returned to the Water-Evolving Residence and learned from Jiang Chuan that Yue Chenfeng and the others had heard about the Law Enforcement Bureau's questioning.
• At the Cloud-Evolving Residence, Chen Beiwu asked Yue Chenfeng who had been behind the Bureau's actions, and Yue Chenfeng brought up the Tianyuan Xiao Clan and Xiao Yu.
• Su Muyu and Mo Chen concluded that Xiao Yu was trying to keep Chen Beiwu out of the Jade Purity Sequence Golden Register, while Yue Chenfeng offered to handle the matter.
• Chen Beiwu asked where Xiao Yu frequented, alarming his senior siblings, who thought he meant to ambush and kill the Nascent Soul Middle Stage True Lord.
• Chen Beiwu clarified that he wanted to assess Xiao Yu's strength and, after attaining Nascent Soul, challenge him to a Life-and-Death Platform Contention to settle their grievance.

Chen Beiwu considered challenging Xiao Yu to a Life-and-Death Platform match, but agreed to meet him under Yue Chenfeng’s supervision instead. After learning Dao Venerable Guangcheng had praised Chen Beiwu as someone who could bear the Sect’s fortune, the Jade Purity Sect Leader warned Venerable Xuanyuan against rumors or slander; Xuanyuan then confronted Xiao Yu, who defied his father’s rebuke.

• Chen Beiwu proposed Life-and-Death Platform Contention against Xiao Yu, but his senior disciples warned that Xiao Yu’s cultivation and strength made the match dangerously risky.
• Chen Beiwu set aside the death match for now and agreed to meet Xiao Yu, with Yue Chenfeng insisting he would witness the encounter.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader told Venerable Xuanyuan that Dao Venerable Guangcheng had praised Chen Beiwu as resembling him and capable of bearing the Sect’s fortune.
• Venerable Xuanyuan agreed that no rumors or slander about Chen Beiwu should be spread, openly or privately.
• Venerable Xuanyuan forced Xiao Yu to kneel and accused him of choosing a petty, arrogant way to deal with Chen Beiwu.
• Xiao Yu insisted he had done nothing wrong and challenged Venerable Xuanyuan for being afraid of a mere Golden Core cultivator.

Chen Beiwu decided to keep observing the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox before sharing his secret, then learned that Xiao Yu had been punished by removal from the Jade Purity Golden Register. Chen Beiwu still demanded a public apology and visited Xiao Yu, where he saw a terrifying Fortune Radiance surrounded by signs of calamity and wronged souls.

• The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox shared Fourth-Tier Profound Liquid with Golden Egg, and Chen Beiwu asked her to keep his secret while deciding to watch her longer.
• Yue Chenfeng told Chen Beiwu that the Sect Master had removed Xiao Yu from the Jade Purity Golden Register for failing to control his subordinates and breaking sect rules.
• Chen Beiwu called the punishment too light and said Xiao Yu must kneel and apologize publicly; he asked Yue Chenfeng to arrange a meeting with him.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader allowed Chen Beiwu to pursue Xiao Yu, reasoning that the confrontation could test Chen Beiwu and warn the Tianyuan Xiao Clan.
• At Feather Immortal Pavilion, Xiao Yu considered his options and met Chen Beiwu and Yue Chenfeng, while Chen Beiwu saw ominous Fortune Radiance and the wails of wronged souls around him.
• Iron Egg used Karmic Fire Heeding Sin on Xiao Yu but detected no sinful power.

Chen Beiwu learned more about Xiao Yu’s hidden past, then became Jade Purity’s Current Chief Disciple and received powerful treasures and pills from the Sect Leader. Back at Azure-Ming Peak, he prepared for a breakthrough by having Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine compete for the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill.

• Yue Chenfeng told Xiao Yu that Chen Beiwu belonged to the Grotto-Ming Evergreen Lineage, then revealed that Chen Beiwu had been appointed Chief Disciple and would collect his jade slip at Jade Purity Hall.
• Yue Chenfeng told Chen Beiwu that Xiao Yu had been unknown before the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination, when his performance revealed him as a scion of the Tianyuan Xiao Clan.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader made Chen Beiwu the Current Chief Disciple, gave him a fourth-tier Chief Disciple Jade Slip, and granted him the Purple Mansion Nascent-Soul-Nourishing Pill and Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill ahead of schedule.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Azure-Ming Peak and decided to prepare Golden Egg or the Five-Qi Vine to advance to Fourth-Realm Demon King while he pursued the Purple Mansion Heaven-Opening Nascent Soul Transformation Secret Record.
• Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine agreed to fight for the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill, and Chen Beiwu promised to find them a suitable Duel Platform the next day.
• Chen Beiwu decided to wait before using the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability against Xiao Yu, since they had only just met.

Chen Beiwu arranged a duel between Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine to decide who would receive the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill, but their evenly matched strengths led them to yield the pill to each other. The next day, Chen Beiwu brought Golden Egg to the Three Lights Pool to prepare for its advancement to Fourth-Realm Demon King, while deciding to add another safeguard first.

• Chen Beiwu rented the Azure-Ming Peak Duel Platform, and Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine began a spar under its fourth-tier restrictions.
• Golden Egg and the Five-Qi Vine exchanged powerful attacks, but Golden Egg could not overcome the Vine’s recovery, and the Vine could not break through Golden Egg’s defenses.
• As sunset fell, the Five-Qi Vine conceded, but Golden Egg offered it the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill; Chen Beiwu instead told Golden Egg to advance first and set an example.
• The following day, Su Muyu introduced Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg to the Three Lights Pool, whose metal, wood, and water energies suited Golden Egg’s breakthrough.
• Chen Beiwu stopped Golden Egg from entering the pool and said he needed to provide an additional safeguard before it cultivated there.

Chen Beiwu used a strand of fortune and the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill to help Golden Egg advance to the fourth-realm demon king. After ten years, Golden Egg succeeded and formed an innate demon domain, while a surge of law power began flowing back to Chen Beiwu through their Companion Beast Contract.

• Chen Beiwu transformed a strand of fortune into a fortuitous encounter for Golden Egg, divined an auspicious breakthrough, and secured approval for the advancement.
• Golden Egg entered Three Lights Pool and began cultivating with Chen Beiwu as Iron Egg, the Five-Qi Vine, and the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox kept watch.
• Several months later, the advancement began, producing vast heavenly phenomena and draconic might that drew Yu Zhaohua, Chai Jing, True Lord Su Miao, and numerous Nascent Soul True Lords to observe.
• Golden Egg completed the Three Immortalities, consumed the Myriad Spirits King-Transforming Pill, and worked with Chen Beiwu to open an innate demon domain.
• After ten years, Golden Egg reached the fourth-realm demon king, and his law power poured into Chen Beiwu through their Companion Beast Contract.

Chen Beiwu reached the threshold of Nascent Soul as Golden Egg broke through to the Fourth-Realm Demon King and endured a powerful heavenly tribulation without injury. Chen Beiwu examined Golden Egg’s new abilities, including the Great Expansion Determining Truth Origin Art, which could turn illusions into temporary reality.

• As Chen Beiwu cultivated, his Yang Spirit embryo gained form and wisdom light, bringing him close to becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Golden Egg rose into the sky to face the Three Lights Forgiveness-Silence Heavenly Tribulation and devoured all twenty-seven thunderbolts.
• Golden Egg returned unharmed as a Demon King, and Chen Beiwu examined his transformed body, Spirit Root purities, and sixteen hundred years of Dao practice.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Golden Egg’s Revolving Three Lights True Domain was complete but needed time to mature before he could use it.
• Golden Egg used Great Expansion Determining Truth to create a Jade Sword Fish that persisted while he expended Law Power, though its flesh tasted like his favorite Metal-Iron Stone.

Chen Beiwu tested how Golden Egg’s Great Expansion Determining Truth could turn her illusions into temporary reality, then emerged from seclusion after helping her master her Demon King power. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu negotiated with the Ancient Demon Cult for a Fifth-Tier God-Delivering Stele by agreeing to create an opportunity to capture Chen Beiwu, and Golden Egg firmly rejected True Lord Su Miao’s proposal to pair their Companion Beasts.

• Chen Beiwu found that Great Expansion Determining Truth could preserve some cultivation insights and training from Golden Egg’s illusions, settling on a time ratio of six days inside the illusion for each day in reality.
• Xiao Yu suffered a dangerous disturbance from his God-Delivering Stele, contacted the Ninth Venerable, and offered information and Primordial Origin True Essence in exchange for a Fifth-Tier stele.
• The Ninth Venerable agreed to provide the stele if Xiao Yu helped the Ancient Demon Cult capture Chen Beiwu alive, and Xiao Yu agreed to lure Chen Beiwu away from Heavenly Abyss Star.
• Chen Beiwu emerged from seclusion at Three Lights Pool, where True Lord Su Miao and other Nascent Soul True Lords congratulated him on Golden Egg’s advancement to Fourth-Realm Demon King.
• True Lord Su Miao suggested that their Companion Beasts grow close, but Golden Egg reacted with dragon might, and Chen Beiwu refused on her behalf.
• Golden Egg declared that she would never agree to the proposal, even after a thousand years, and True Lord Su Miao accepted her refusal with a smile.

Chen Beiwu received True Lord Su Miao’s guidance on forging Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery, then met exchange students Mo Yuan and Mu Yunzhi in the Great Origin Heaven Realm. After Mo Yuan objected to Chen Beiwu being given priority, Chen Beiwu defended his standing, and Mo Yuan accepted his reasoning.

• True Lord Su Miao advised Chen Beiwu that he could take over as acting Student Department Minister, but Chen Beiwu said cultivation came first and asked her how to forge Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery.
• True Lord Su Miao explained Shared-Contemplation Scenery, and Chen Beiwu quickly grasped her instruction before leaving to contemplate the Landscape Steles.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Great Origin Heaven Realm, where Jade Purity cultivators yielded their place in line to their Chief Senior Brother.
• Mu Yunzhi and Mo Yuan introduced themselves to Chen Beiwu as exchange students from the Jade Floss Immortal Sect and Sword Abyss Immortal Sect.
• Mo Yuan argued that the order for contemplating a Landscape should follow seniority and worthiness rather than rank, and Chen Beiwu countered that the worthy could stand before their seniors.
• Mo Yuan accepted Chen Beiwu’s reasoning, leaving the Jade Purity cultivators surprised by how quickly he backed down.

Chen Beiwu and Mu Yunzhi observed the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, but Chen Beiwu’s deeper comprehension triggered a Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery and a manifestation across the Jade Purity Immortal Sect. The chapter ended with He Zhengyu and Jiang Chuan recognizing that Chen Beiwu had stirred Great Luo Heaven.

• Mu Yunzhi questioned Chen Beiwu about his place in the Lunar Grotto-Heaven, and he dismissed her questions while warning himself not to grow close to her.
• Mu Yunzhi induced a Dao note from the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, drawing attention from the Jade Purity cultivators.
• Mo Yuan perceived that Chen Beiwu had already merged with the stele’s meaning as Chen Beiwu’s companions helped him forge his Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery.
• Chen Beiwu revealed a vast vision of a world shaped by primordial origin, the five elements, a Three-Aspect True Dragon, and a radiant sun.
• Chen Beiwu activated his Suppress Divine Ability and was drawn into the stele as purple clouds and golden lotuses appeared across the Jade Purity Immortal Sect.
• He Zhengyu told Jiang Chuan that a Jade Purity Heavenly Prodigy had comprehended the stele and stirred Great Luo Heaven, and they recognized Chen Beiwu as the prodigy.

Chen Beiwu received the descent of a Void Refinement Dao Venerable and, through enlightenment at the Chaos Primordial Origin Union with the Dao Stele, formed a primordial origin true seed and gained primordial origin Dao origin. After leaving the gathering, he headed to Jade Purity Peak to request leave and prepare for Nascent Soul formation.

• Yu Zhaohua recognized the purple Qi and golden lotus phenomenon, and Moonlight True Venerable told her Chen Beiwu had caused it and asked whether she would reconsider him; Yu Zhaohua refused, insisting she would pursue only the Great Dao.
• Yu Yuanlong and Han Zhongli inferred that Primordial Origin Dao Venerable had descended, while Venerable Xuanyuan and the Jade Purity Sect Leader discussed Chen Beiwu and the Xiao Household as they played a board game.
• A voice asked Chen Beiwu what the Dao was, and his insights led him to dissolve his immortal dharma body’s power and form a primordial origin true seed within his golden core.
• Chen Beiwu answered that Primordial Origin was the beginning of all dharmas and ancestor of all Daos, then received primordial origin Heavenly Gang Dao origin and emerged from enlightenment.
• Mo Yuan congratulated Chen Beiwu, and Mu Yunzhi sincerely acknowledged his achievement; Chen Beiwu left without lingering, prompting another cultivator to warn that he needed to prepare for Nascent Soul formation.
• Chen Beiwu went to Jade Purity Peak to ask the sect leader for leave, return to his hometown, and make preparations for his seclusion.

Chen Beiwu asked the Jade Purity Sect Leader for pills to support his companions’ breakthroughs, while rumors about his rise spread and others considered challenging him. He left with two King-Blood Source-Stabilizing Pills in exchange for a future task he could refuse.

• Rumors about Chen Beiwu’s achievements spread through the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, and Xiao Yu heard suspicions about his rise but received no proof of a hidden organization behind him.
• Zeng Changshou urged Zhu Wu to wait before challenging Chen Beiwu, but Zhu Wu rejected the idea of waiting until the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament.
• Chen Beiwu told the Jade Purity Sect Leader that the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable had not imparted the Primordial Origin Immortal Technique to him.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Jade Purity Sect Leader for Nascent Soul Formation Mystic Pills and Foundation-Stabilizing Profound Pills, explaining that he wanted to protect his foundation if a breakthrough failed.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader inferred that Chen Beiwu wanted pills for his companion beasts and gave him two King-Blood Source-Stabilizing Pills in return for a future task that Chen Beiwu could refuse.

Chen Beiwu visited Demon King Zi Yao to formalize his Companion Beast Contract with the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox, whose true name he chose as Zhiling. After the contract awakened her bloodline, she consumed a Beast King Fruit and began advancing to the Third-Realm Demon General realm.

• Chen Beiwu apologized to Demon King Zi Yao for the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox missing eleven years of visits, and Zi Yao said her bloodline was nearly ready for the Beast King Fruit.
• Demon King Zi Yao offered Zhiling a lavish Five Profound Dowry, explaining that it was a family blessing rather than a betrothal gift.
• Chen Beiwu named the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox Zhiling and gave the Five-Qi Vine the name Xuele.
• Chen Beiwu established a Companion Beast Contract with Zhiling, awakening her dormant bloodline.
• Chen Beiwu gave Zhiling a Beast King Fruit, and she began breaking through to the Third-Realm Demon General realm.

Zhiling smoothly awakened her bloodline and advanced to a Third-Realm Demon General, gaining powerful golden-core quality and spatial abilities. Chen Beiwu examined her new talents and saw her suppress Xuele in a miniature grotto-heaven, though her current strength limited how long she could hold him.

• Zhiling endured the Two-Nine Heavenly Thunder Calamity and formed a Radiant Spirit Bright Heart Golden Core as she advanced into a Demon General.
• Chen Beiwu declined Bai Li's offer to attend him, and Zhiling stayed with him instead of sleeping in Demon King Zi Yao's residence.
• Chen Beiwu examined Zhiling's meridians and discovered her innate Heaven Grade origin meridian, immense Dao Practice, and newly awakened Profound Abilities.
• Zhiling used Heaven and Earth Within the End to draw Xuele into her miniature grotto-heaven and suppress him.
• Zhiling explained that she could suppress Xuele for three days in his current state before the miniature world began to destabilize.

Chen Beiwu examined Zhiling’s deadly Great Void Claw, accepted her Storage Ring, and returned to Pingchen County after a month of training. He reunited with his parents, whose new status reflected his own fame, and his mother urged him to find a dao companion before attempting the dangerous path to Nascent Soul.

• Chen Beiwu learned that Zhiling could use Great Void Claw up to ten times a day, and she demonstrated the ability by silently erasing a boulder.
• Zhiling gave Chen Beiwu her Storage Ring as her dowry, shared nine fourth-tier Profound Medicines with Xuele, and placed the ring on his hand; Chen Beiwu later found it filled with treasures but lacking the Nascent Soul Formation Mystic Pills Iron Egg and Xuele needed.
• Chen Beiwu stayed in Purple Lake Prefecture for a month while Zhiling learned treasure arts from Demon King Zi Yao, then traveled home to visit his family.
• On the train, Chen Beiwu overheard passengers praising his reputation and discussing Pingchen County’s possible promotion, then met his father, Chen Dong, who had become acting county head.
• Chen Beiwu learned that his mother, Huang Xiaoling, had taken up fishing livestreams and returned home to find her urging him to meet potential dao companions before pursuing Nascent Soul.

After returning home, Chen Beiwu rebuffed his mother’s attempts to arrange a marriage and took Zhiling through the Ten Directions Gate to the Southern Wasteland. There, he discovered a wounded Mirror Moon Sect cultivator being pursued and followed her, leaving her fate unresolved as her pursuer threatened her.

• Chen Beiwu refused Huang Xiaoling’s marriage plans and declined an invitation to speak at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School’s anniversary celebration.
• Chen Beiwu told Zhiling that he controlled a passage to a world Beyond the Domain, then brought her through the Ten Directions Gate to the Southern Wasteland.
• Chen Beiwu found signs that someone had recently entered his cave abode and deduced that a wounded Golden Core cultivator from Mirror Moon Sect had passed through.
• Zhiling recognized the world’s unusual spirit vigor, and Chen Beiwu warned her that the Southern Wasteland was part of a ruined great thousand world that might still harbor formidable beings.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhiling followed the wounded female cultivator across the Barren Mountain Range as a male cultivator pursued her and threatened to capture her.

Jiang Yuyan killed Zhou Bo'en with a concealed soul-slaying talisman, but Chen Beiwu confronted her afterward. When she revealed that forces from the Western and Yellow Evolution Realms planned to attack Danstarr Market, Chen Beiwu spared her and rushed to protect Fairy Yun Wan.

• Jiang Yuyan lured Zhou Bo'en within range and killed him with a concealed Three-Yin Soul-Slaughter Talisman, then took his Storage Ring and Golden Core.
• Chen Beiwu appeared and confronted Jiang Yuyan over killing her master and betraying the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Jiang Yuyan offered Chen Beiwu information and revealed that the Western Evolution Realm's Three Great Demon Sects and the Yellow Evolution Realm's Four Great Sects planned to attack the Earth Evolution Realm's Mountain Annihilation World.
• Jiang Yuyan warned Chen Beiwu that Danstarr Market, where Fairy Yun Wan was stationed, would be attacked within days.
• Chen Beiwu seized Jiang Yuyan and had Zhiling use Treading the Void Fur-Escape to rush toward Danstarr Market, promising to spare Jiang Yuyan if her warning was true.

At Danstarr Market, Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er faced an attack by the Scarlet Sun Sect’s Upper Sun Army and tried to escape after the market’s defenses fell. As the attackers cornered them and they began to detonate their Golden Cores, Chen Beiwu appeared and stabilized them with Primordial Origin True Vapor.

• Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er discussed pill production and suspected an insider after shipments to the front lines were attacked.
• The Upper Sun Army, led by three Golden Core peak-stage Scarlet Sun Generals, breached Danstarr Market’s defenses and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er fled with some pill supplies, but the army surrounded them and the Scarlet Sun Generals demanded they surrender.
• Li Wan'er suspected the attackers were targeting Chen Beiwu, and Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er began detonating their Golden Cores rather than be captured.
• Chen Beiwu broke through space, embraced Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er, and used Primordial Origin True Vapor to stabilize their Golden Cores.

Chen Beiwu rescued Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er at Danstarr Market, destroyed the Upper Sun Army, and exposed True Person Zhou as a traitor. As Chen Beiwu restrained Zhou, an unfamiliar Nascent Soul True Lord appeared, leaving the three disciples facing a new threat.

• Chen Beiwu arrived as Li Wan'er and Yun Yishu faced the Scarlet Sun Sect forces, and he dismissed their worries about the Golden Core enemy.
• The Scarlet Sun Generals raised the Heavenly Cycle Scarlet Sun Banner and formed a battle array with three hundred Upper Sun Army soldiers.
• Chen Beiwu used the Jade Void Scarlet Radiance Seal to destroy all three hundred soldiers and severely wound the Scarlet Sun Generals, while Yun Yishu realized he was still not a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen Beiwu questioned the survivors, learned that True Person Zhou was suspected of colluding with the Scarlet Sun Sect, and searched the Scarlet Sun Generals' souls for information.
• True Person Zhou fled, but Chen Beiwu stopped him with a finger and dragged him back to the ground.
• An unfamiliar Nascent Soul True Lord appeared, and Li Wan'er stood beside Chen Beiwu as the newcomer’s pressure filled the area.

Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg confronted True Lord Shangyi, an Azure Spirit Sect Pill King who had infiltrated Mirror Moon Sect territory. Golden Egg overwhelmed Shangyi’s defenses and Zhiling captured his nascent soul, leaving Yun Yishu astonished by Chen Beiwu’s victory.

• True Lord Shangyi appeared in Danstarr Market, and Yun Yishu and Li Wan'er recognized him as a powerful Azure Spirit Sect Nascent Soul True Lord and Pill King.
• Chen Beiwu challenged Shangyi’s motives and declared that he would capture him to learn what the Azure Spirit Sect and Scarlet Sun Sect were plotting.
• Shangyi attacked Chen Beiwu with the Heavenly Thunder Nail, but Golden Egg caught the treasure with its dragon claw and revealed itself as a powerful three-headed flood dragon.
• Golden Egg shattered Shangyi’s Azure Abyss Shield and successive protective treasures, while Chen Beiwu disrupted Shangyi’s attempt to escape with the Grand Void Space-Rending Talisman.
• Golden Egg destroyed Shangyi’s body, and Zhiling captured his fleeing nascent soul as Chen Beiwu declared the fight over.