Recaps

Chen Beiwu entered the Blazing Sun Ruins with Su Lanyue, Zhao Caixuan, and Ji Yue, then discovered that the lava passage led to a Grand Void Formation Sect Dao Child trial. The Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar tested each candidate, and Chen Beiwu endured its heat with ease, receiving the Fire-Forged Cosmic Lesser Yang Demon-Burning Grand Formation inheritance.

• Chen Beiwu sensed the ruins suppressing Nascent Soul combat strength, while Iron Egg detected an unseen presence spying on the group.
• Zhao Caixuan led Chen Beiwu and Ji Yue through a hidden passage inside a volcano, where Chen Beiwu found a Grand Void Formation Sect Dao Child trial stele.
• Chen Beiwu began the trial and learned that the Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar offered greater rewards to candidates who endured increasingly difficult tests.
• Zhao Caixuan failed to endure touching the pillar for half a quarter-hour, while Ji Yue passed that test but withdrew after failing to embrace it for a quarter-hour.
• Chen Beiwu touched and embraced the pillar without discomfort, passed both assessments, and received the Fire-Forged Cosmic Lesser Yang Demon-Burning Grand Formation inheritance.

Chen Beiwu failed to lift the Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar but made it tremble, then passed the second trial by comprehending a Fire Origin Seal. In the third trial, he encountered a Radiant Profound Chi Dragon whose true power seemed far greater than the stone stele’s stated assessment.

• Chen Beiwu used his full strength and Primordial Origin Dharma Form against the Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar, making it tremble before its force sent him staggering back.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable watched Chen Beiwu leave and considered whether such a talented cultivator could serve the sect or become a threat.
• Chen Beiwu comprehended a lower-grade Fire Origin Seal in the Grand Void Formation Dao Origin Explanation, while Ji Yue failed to discern one and was expelled.
• Chen Beiwu entered the third trial and found a Radiant Profound Chi Dragon sleeping in a vast lava cavern.
• Chen Beiwu questioned the stone stele’s claim that the dragon was only one realm above him, since its presence suggested far greater strength than its listed cultivation.

Chen Beiwu withdrew from the impossible third Dao Child trial and joined Zhao Caixuan and Ji Yue at the Pure White Heavenly Road, where the cultivators entered the Lesser Yang Realm through golden rings. After enduring the Lesser Yang True Fire with Iron Egg’s protection, Chen Beiwu activated his Array Key and arrived in the realm facing a deadly golden arrow.

• Chen Beiwu withdrew from the third trial after the Radiant Profound Chi Dragon nearly attacked him, and Blazing Sun True Venerable tried to recruit the young beast whose bloodline carried two True Dragon lineages.
• Chen Beiwu reunited with Zhao Caixuan and Ji Yue, then joined them at the Pure White Heavenly Road, where he met Xin Yu, Zheng Zhongyuan, and other Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Zheng Zhongyuan explained that golden rings containing Lesser Yang Array Keys had appeared, and the gathered cultivators agreed to enter the rings together.
• Chen Beiwu endured the Lesser Yang True Fire with Iron Egg’s Sun-Devouring Nirvana protection, then activated his Array Key after a quarter-hour.
• Chen Beiwu arrived in the Lesser Yang Realm and sensed danger as an indestructible golden arrow shot toward the Nascent Soul in his spiritual terrace.

Chen Beiwu defeated Yu Xianghua, then chose to teleport to the Mountain and River Hall, where rival sects were stalled over a medicine field containing a five-thousand-year-old Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus. Xuele could not pass through the fifth-tier restrictions protecting it, but Chen Beiwu believed he could return for the lotus later.

• Yu Xianghua ambushed Chen Beiwu with a disguised attack, but Chen Beiwu exposed the trick, endured the wound, and destroyed Yu Xianghua's Nascent Soul.
• Chen Beiwu learned that the available relocation destinations were the Mountain and River Hall, Supreme Treasure Hall, and Archive Hall, then chose the Mountain and River Hall.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Mountain and River Hall and found Xin Yu, Ji Yue, Ning Liangyu, Su Lanyue, and cultivators from other sects arguing over how to divide the medicine field's herbs.
• Xin Yu told Chen Beiwu that the cultivators were focused on a five-thousand-year-old Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus, a legendary ingredient for Spirit Transformation Pills.
• Chen Beiwu confirmed that Xuele could not bypass the fifth-tier restrictions around the lotus, but he resolved to return for it using the Ten Directions Gate.

Yun Kui broke a medicine-field restriction and took a Fukui Dragon Orchid while Ning Liangyu and Su Lanyue agreed to eliminate the other cultivators competing for the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus. Chen Beiwu rescued Xin Yu from Ning Liangyu’s attack, and the chapter left him and his companions weighing whether to risk challenging the two sects for the treasure.

• Yun Kui used Nascent Soul origin essence blood and the True Venerable’s guidance to break a restriction, then picked a six-thousand-year-old Fukui Dragon Orchid while Ning Liangyu deterred the other True Lords.
• Ning Liangyu proposed that the Eight Desolations Sect and the Heavenly Craft Talisman Sect join forces to clear the field, and Su Lanyue agreed.
• The two sects ambushed the gathered cultivators; Ning Liangyu attacked Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu, but Chen Beiwu’s saber strike wounded her and moved himself and Xin Yu away.
• Su Lanyue ordered Granny Fu to seal off the area with a profound formation as Ning Liangyu continued attacking the other True Lords.
• Eight thousand li away, Chen Beiwu watched over the injured Xin Yu and learned from Xuele that five True Lords had fallen before the connection to its puppets was cut off.
• Chen Beiwu dismissed Golden Egg’s doubts about Ji Yue and considered what to do about the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus, while Xuele wondered whether they should still try to seize it.

Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu reached the Heavenly Treasures Hall, where Xuele discovered nine rare treasures protected by a deadly formation. Elsewhere, Zheng Zhongyuan confronted Zhao Caixuan and was gravely wounded when she revealed strength approaching Nascent Soul Perfection.

• Chen Beiwu decided to wait for an opportunity to challenge the alliance guarding the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus, while Iron Egg tracked Zhao Caixuan and Ji Yue.
• After recovering, Xin Yu led Chen Beiwu toward Senior Brother Zheng, and they reached the Heavenly Treasures Hall by teleportation.
• Xuele sent a Five-Qi Puppet into the hall, where the formation destroyed it after revealing nine treasures, including a Dragon-Transformation Pill and Longevity Wood.
• Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu left the hall to seek Senior Brother Zheng, while Ji Yin Zi and Li Chuanhai stayed behind to await his arrival.
• Zheng Zhongyuan followed Zhao Caixuan to a hidden spatial passage, then confronted her when she refused to explain where she had gone.
• Zhao Caixuan escaped Zheng Zhongyuan's attack, stabbed him through the chest, and engulfed him and his Five Phases Profound Treasures in Silver Needles.

After learning that Senior Brother Zheng had fallen, Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu headed for the Archive Hall, where Corpse-Ghost True Lord Zhao Qianxun and Yu Long ambushed them. Chen Beiwu killed the Primordial Nether Ghost King with one slash, but his Profound Blade lost some of its spirituality as Zhao Qianxun turned his anger on him.

• Xin Yu discovered Senior Brother Zheng's jade slip had shattered, and she and Chen Beiwu set out to find another exit from the Blazing Sun Ruins.
• Near the Archive Hall, the Primordial Nether Ghost King's Shadow-Ghost Hand attacked Xin Yu, but Iron Egg swallowed it.
• Zhao Qianxun and Yu Long revealed themselves and demanded that Chen Beiwu return the Shadow-Ghost Hand, threatening to kill him and Xin Yu if he refused.
• Zhao Qianxun's forces attacked, and the Primordial Nether Ghost King used Hanging-Soul Ghost Lantern to restrain Xin Yu's Nascent Soul.
• Chen Beiwu struck down the fleeing Primordial Nether Ghost King with the Profound Blade, weakening the blade's spirituality and enraging Zhao Qianxun.

Chen Beiwu opened the Archive Hall after breaking its formation, then searched its scriptures with Xin Yu and their companions. Zhiling found a record linking a cultivator named Huang to the Southern Wasteland’s great calamity, leaving Chen Beiwu poised to learn more about the ancient disaster.

• Zhao Qianxun accepted Chen Beiwu’s strength and agreed to end their conflict, while Yu Long asked whether Chen Beiwu could handle formations.
• Chen Beiwu used the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk and Xinling’s aid to break the Archive Hall’s restrictions, then trapped Zhao Qianxun and Yu Long outside as he and Xin Yu entered.
• The Archive Hall verified Chen Beiwu’s and Xin Yu’s True Disciple Tokens and granted them access to texts in the Profound and Yellow sections.
• Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu searched the shelves with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Zhiling, and Xuele, but Chen Beiwu could not access the Spirit-Transformation sections without a Grand Void Dao Child Token.
• Zhiling led Chen Beiwu to a record describing how the cultivator Huang failed in his quest for immortality, fell into demonhood, and began the Southern Wasteland’s great calamity.

Chen Beiwu searched the Blazing Sun Ruins, learned about the Grand Void Formation Sect, and recorded a suspicious Spirit Transformation method while the Blazing Sun True Venerable plotted to use it against him. After repairing a Teleportation Formation with Xinling, Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu were thrown somewhere unexpected, where he encountered a mysterious young beast surrounded by immense fortune.

• Chen Beiwu read records of the four regions and the Grand Void Formation Sect, then found and copied the Ninefold Void-Purging Spirit Transformation Method despite sensing that it hid a danger.
• The Blazing Sun True Venerable revealed that the method was bait and ordered Zhao Caixuan to make the Nascent Soul cultivators in the Mountain and River Hall fight to the death to raise a Gu King.
• Chen Beiwu and Xin Yu found a Teleportation Formation that required a Dao Child's or elder's token, then located another one that could lead outside the ruins.
• Chen Beiwu and Xinling spent twelve days repairing the second Teleportation Formation, and Chen Beiwu tested it before he and Xin Yu stepped onto it.
• The teleportation went wrong, leaving Chen Beiwu dazed; he awoke to a cat-sized young beast licking his cheek and saw immense fortune swirling around it.

Chen Beiwu agreed to cooperate with Aji, the beast imprisoned in the Dragon-Subduing Hall, in exchange for help obtaining resources and surviving Blazing Sun True Venerable. After Aji gave him the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus, Chen Beiwu entered the Dao Child trial and faced a late-stage Demon King Radiant Profound Chi Dragon.

• Aji explained that it had saved Chen Beiwu from Blazing Sun True Venerable and offered to help him obtain resources if he secured the Grand Void Formation Sect's Dao Child Token and helped it escape the Dragon-Subduing Hall.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to cooperate, and Aji supplied the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus while confirming that Senior Sister Xin had likely teleported out of the Blazing Sun Ruins.
• Chen Beiwu and Aji signed a contract, and Chen Beiwu summoned Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling before entering the Dao Child examination.
• Su Lanyue and Ning Liangyu discovered that the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus had vanished from the Medicine Field, but the two sects' True Lords could not find who had taken it.
• Chen Beiwu passed two trials and arrived at Molten Rock Mountain, where he faced a late-stage Demon King Radiant Profound Chi Dragon for the final examination.

Chen Beiwu and his companions passed the Dao Child trial by killing the Radiant Profound Chi Dragon, and Chen Beiwu received a Dao Child Token. He then negotiated with the young beast for the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus’s platform, agreeing to help with the next steps of its plan.

• Chen Beiwu, Golden Egg, Xuele, and Iron Egg fought the Radiant Profound Chi Dragon, whose Ash-Dust True Domain threatened to overwhelm them.
• Chen Beiwu joined with Golden Egg to form a Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and killed the Radiant Profound Chi Dragon with a slash he named Slay the True.
• Chen Beiwu received the Dao Child Token and planned to use it to seek the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus and further cultivation inheritances.
• Chen Beiwu confronted the young beast in the Dragon-Subduing Hall and demanded lotus leaves as proof of its sincerity before proceeding with their plan.
• The young beast offered Chen Beiwu the more valuable lotus platform instead, and he accepted it while agreeing to continue their cooperation.

Chen Beiwu negotiated with Aji over a fifth-tier heavy artifact and then reached the Heavenly Treasures Hall, where the major sects faced off over its treasures. Ning Liangyu crushed Li Chuanhai with a glance, and Chen Beiwu and Ji Yue entered as the hall’s doors opened.

• Chen Beiwu agreed to retrieve a fifth-tier heavy artifact for Aji, but insisted it belonged to him under their Contract; Aji offered him the other treasures in the Heavenly Treasures Hall as compensation.
• Chen Beiwu discussed his cautious plans with Zhiling, Iron Egg, Golden Egg, and Xuele before heading to the Heavenly Treasures Hall.
• Ji Yue offered Chen Beiwu two Formation-Breaking Awls in exchange for the Fire-Forged Cosmic Lesser Yang Demon-Burning Grand Formation, which Chen Beiwu claimed not to possess.
• Inside the hall, Ji Yin Zi, Gu Jianfeng, and Li Chuanhai challenged Ning Liangyu over the Eight Desolations Sect’s actions, and Ning Liangyu declared that her sect had killed their rivals.
• Li Chuanhai attacked Ning Liangyu, who weakened him with a glance and drove the other True Lords into silence.
• Chen Beiwu and Ji Yue entered the Heavenly Treasures Hall as its doors opened.

Chen Beiwu entered the Heavenly Treasures Hall with Ji Yue and faced Ning Liangyu’s accusation that he had stolen the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus, which he truthfully denied. As the factions divided the hall’s treasures, Aji revealed that the Star River itself was the Void Star Fate-Reversing Shuttle and explained how Chen Beiwu could use his Dao Child Token to reach it, leaving Chen Beiwu to weigh the risks of claiming it.

• Chen Beiwu and Ji Yue joined the True Lords, whose attention turned to Chen Beiwu’s formidable reputation and cultivation.
• Ning Liangyu accused Chen Beiwu of stealing the Calamity-Crossing Golden Lotus, but he denied it, and she and Su Lanyue reconsidered their suspicions.
• Su Lanyue proposed dividing the treasure areas, and Ning Liangyu, Gu Jianfeng, and Ji Yin Zi agreed to assignments for their factions.
• Aji told Chen Beiwu that the Star River was the Void Star Fate-Reversing Shuttle and that the Dao Child Token could let him briefly command it and enter the Dragon-Subduing Hall.
• Chen Beiwu negotiated with Aji and chose the infant-transformation stone, pure yang liquid, and Earth Mother Pill, while Aji warned that taking more could drain his power and kill him.
• Iron Egg objected when Xuele considered forming a companion beast contract with Aji, and Chen Beiwu dismissed the idea as too dangerous and unlikely to benefit him.

Chen Beiwu weighed Aji’s instructions while the Nascent Soul True Lords tried to breach the Heavenly Treasures Hall’s Star River Restrictions, triggering a devastating killing formation. He activated the Dao Child Token and escaped with Aji to the Dragon-Subduing Hall, where Aji warned that Blazing Sun True Venerable might target Chen Beiwu for possession.

• Chen Beiwu questioned Xinling about using the Dao Child Token, and Xinling judged that activating the Void Star Fate-Reversing Shuttle would not consume much of his power.
• Su Lanyue failed to break the Star River Restrictions with the Seven Mysteries, Seven Bans, Seven Formation Flags, while Ning Liangyu’s attack also failed.
• Yun Kui used resentment blood to crack the restrictions, then secretly activated the Heavenly Treasures Hall’s killing formation and vanished.
• The killing formation devastated the Nascent Soul True Lords, and Chen Beiwu activated the Dao Child Token to escape with Aji.
• Su Lanyue, Ji Yin Zi, and Gu Jianfeng fought over the Spirit Transformation Pill as the survivors searched for the hidden treasures.
• In the Dragon-Subduing Hall, Aji gave Chen Beiwu the infant-transformation stone, pure yang liquid, and Earth Mother Pill, then warned that Blazing Sun True Venerable might try to possess him.

Chen Beiwu was tasked by Aji with destroying the Void-Evolving Hall, while Tianyuan Yin stole a Spirit Transformation Pill and headed toward the hall in search of a creation sanctum. Chen Beiwu, Ji Yue, and Zhao Caixuan reached a hidden spatial passage, where Aji warned that it led to Blazing Sun True Venerable’s Sitting-in-Transcendence Site.

• Aji told Chen Beiwu to destroy the Void-Evolving Hall’s formation pivot, and Chen Beiwu asked whether the Grand Void Formation Sect held any Spirit Transformation Pills.
• Ji Yue bypassed the Heavenly Treasures Hall’s restrictions, stole a jade bottle containing a Spirit Transformation Pill, and escaped as the four Nascent Soul True Lords mistook him for Tianyuan Yin.
• Tianyuan Yin decided he could not return to the Heavenly Saint Sect with the pill and hurried toward the Void-Evolving Hall, hoping to find a creation sanctum nearby.
• Chen Beiwu met Zhao Caixuan outside the Void-Evolving Hall, and she offered to reveal a nearby treasure site if he became her dual cultivation Dao companion.
• Zhao Caixuan led Chen Beiwu and Ji Yue to an abandoned complex, where a spatial passage opened; Aji warned Chen Beiwu that it led to Blazing Sun True Venerable’s Sitting-in-Transcendence Site.

Chen Beiwu, Ji Yue, and Zhao Caixuan entered the Blazing Sun Ruins’ Truth-Seeking Hall, where they joined other True Lords to defeat its puppet guards. Inside, they found the remains of the Blazing Sun True Venerable and the Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar, while Chen Beiwu saw a terrifying sight through his Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability.

• Aji warned Chen Beiwu not to enter the place where the Blazing Sun True Venerable had died, but Chen Beiwu followed Zhao Caixuan and Ji Yue through the spatial passage.
• Ji Yue divined terrible ill fortune and realized that he could not escape the tribulation awaiting him in the Blazing Sun Ruins, but he concealed the result from Chen Beiwu and Zhao Caixuan.
• Chen Beiwu and his companions reached the Truth-Seeking Hall, where Zhao Qianxun and Yu Long were fighting six fourth-tier True Lord puppets.
• Chen Beiwu and Xuele subdued two puppets, while Zhao Caixuan, Zhao Qianxun, Ji Yue, and Yu Long defeated the others, causing the hall doors to open.
• The group found the jade-white remains of the Blazing Sun True Venerable holding the Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar, and Zhao Qianxun and Ji Yue coveted the remains and the storage ring.
• Chen Beiwu stayed motionless as his Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability revealed a terrifying sight that the other Nascent Soul True Lords could not see.

Chen Beiwu realized that the Blazing Sun Ruins were part of Blazing Sun True Venerable’s Dharma Form, allowing the Venerable to observe everyone inside. When Zhao Qianxun tried to become the Venerable’s disciple, the Venerable killed him instantly with a spoken command, leaving the other cultivators afraid to act.

• Chen Beiwu saw the figures and their fortunes within Blazing Sun True Venerable’s Dharma Form and understood that the Venerable controlled the ruins.
• Golden Egg considered approaching the jade-white skeleton, but Chen Beiwu warned it against acting rashly.
• Zhao Qianxun entered the hall, knelt before the skeleton, offered tea, and asked Blazing Sun True Venerable to accept him as a disciple.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable condemned Zhao Qianxun’s lack of propriety, and Zhao Qianxun and his Golden-Armored Corpse King dissolved into ash.
• Chen Beiwu recognized the killing as a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s Words Manifest as Dharma while the other True Lords recoiled in fear.

Zhao Caixuan revealed her allegiance to Blazing Sun True Venerable, who resurrected himself and announced a deadly trial to choose a disciple and heir to the Grand Void Formation Sect. The eight contenders gathered in the Truth-Seeking Hall as he seized Tianyuan Yin’s Spirit Transformation Pill for the trial’s prize.

• Zhao Caixuan bowed to Blazing Sun True Venerable, who transformed from a skeleton into a living cultivator and welcomed the gathered Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable killed Yu Long for speaking, then questioned Chen Zi'ang about why the group had entered the ruins.
• Chen Beiwu answered that they sought treasures and an inheritance, and Blazing Sun True Venerable offered them a chance to become his disciple by surviving a deadly formation trial.
• Ning Liangyu, Su Lanyue, Gu Jianfeng, Ji Yin Zi, and Puppet Blood True Lord Yun Kui joined the other contenders, bringing the group to eight.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable took Tianyuan Yin’s Spirit Transformation Pill and declared it a prize for the trial.

Chen Beiwu entered the Heaven-Born Heaven-Slain Truth-Seeking Grand Formation, where he faced Ji Yin Zi after Blazing Sun True Venerable rearranged the opponents. Chen Beiwu summoned an immense primordial origin dharma form, startling Ji Yin Zi and drawing Blazing Sun True Venerable’s recognition of him as a potential equal.

• Blazing Sun True Venerable revealed the Spirit Transformation Pill as the prize and forced the Nascent Soul True Lords to enter the formation.
• Chen Beiwu entered the formation and found himself surrounded by fire spirits, while Xinling explained the formation’s three layers and warned that it was dangerous for him.
• Chen Beiwu decided to seek out the other True Lords, but Blazing Sun True Venerable altered the formation and brought Chen Zi'ang face-to-face with Ji Yin Zi.
• Ji Yin Zi attacked Chen Beiwu with his extreme yin dharma form and ghostly roar, but Chen Beiwu resisted with help from his companions.
• Chen Beiwu manifested a towering primordial origin dharma form, frightening Ji Yin Zi and surprising Blazing Sun True Venerable.

Chen Beiwu defeated Ji Yin Zi, who died acknowledging his loss, and Blazing Sun True Venerable offered Chen Beiwu the chance to become his Personal Disciple. Before Chen Beiwu could answer, Ning Xuanji arrived in the ruins and was ordered to leave or die.

• Chen Beiwu broke Ji Yin Zi's escape and defeated him after Ji Yin Zi unleashed the three Yin Dharma Form; Ji Yin Zi died accepting his loss.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable questioned Chen Beiwu about his unusual Taiyi Dao and offered to make him his Personal Disciple.
• Ning Liangyu and Su Lanyue fought over the passage to the next level until Ning Xuanji's Spirit Transformation Dharma Form appeared and took Ning Liangyu away.
• Ning Xuanji greeted Blazing Sun True Venerable and sought a chance to cooperate, but Blazing Sun True Venerable ordered him to leave or die.

Ning Xuanji and Blazing Sun True Venerable clashed over a bargain, while Chen Beiwu escaped the battle’s fallout and later discovered Zhao Caixuan had been manipulating him under a True Venerable’s orders. Blazing Sun True Venerable demanded that Chen Beiwu become his disciple or vessel, but before Chen could choose, the ruins shook and a dragon roared.

• Blazing Sun True Venerable tested Ning Xuanji, who offered his reincarnation method in exchange for a Spirit Transformation Pill, the Creation Sanctum, and Chen Beiwu’s life.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable defended Chen Beiwu as the Grand Void Formation Sect’s Dao Child, and Ning Xuanji fought him while Chen Beiwu fled with help from the four little ones and the Five Phases Bright King Wings.
• Su Tianhe attacked Blazing Sun True Venerable with a fifth-tier formation artifact and offered to leave in exchange for a Spirit Transformation Pill.
• Zhao Caixuan gave Chen Beiwu a key to the Void-Evolving Hall and admitted that a True Venerable had forced her to bring talented cultivators into the ruins.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable appeared, explained that entering the Void-Evolving Hall was necessary for his cultivation method, and ordered Chen Beiwu to choose between discipleship and becoming his vessel.
• The ruins shook, and an earth-shaking dragon’s roar rang out just as Chen Beiwu prepared to decide whether to flee.

Aji escaped the Dragon-Subduing Hall and fought Blazing Sun True Venerable, who defeated it and extracted its dragon essence blood. Blazing Sun True Venerable then tried to claim Chen Beiwu as a vessel, but Chen Beiwu offered a Soul-Locking Stone in exchange for two Tribulation-Crossing Lotus Seeds and safe passage; when the bargain failed, he prepared to escape.

• Aji broke free of the Dragon-Subduing Hall and confronted Blazing Sun True Venerable while Chen Beiwu and the others fled the ensuing battle.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable used the Pure Yang Formation-Suppressing Pillar and his formation to defeat Aji and extract its Glazed Essence Blood.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable asked Chen Beiwu to become his vessel, but Chen Beiwu refused and offered a Soul-Locking Stone as part of a bargain.
• Chen Beiwu demanded two Tribulation-Crossing Lotus Seeds and a promise of safe passage, then revealed his Heaven-Escaping Talisman as leverage.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable rejected the bargain and attacked, leaving Chen Beiwu preparing to use the Heaven-Escaping Talisman to escape.

Blazing Sun True Venerable killed Tianyuan Yin and negotiated with Chen Beiwu over the Soul-Locking Stone, demanding that Chen Beiwu rebuild the Grand Void Formation Sect. After the Qianyang White Dragon and Kunyin Black Dragon emerged from Aji and fought Blazing Sun True Venerable, Chen Beiwu secured Aji in the trade, and Blazing Sun True Venerable handed the weakened dragon over.

• Blazing Sun True Venerable burned Tianyuan Yin to death, then demanded that Chen Beiwu become the Grand Void Dao Child and restore the Grand Void Dao Lineage in exchange for a trade.
• When Blazing Sun True Venerable refused to trade the Tribulation-Crossing Lotus Seed, Chen Beiwu admitted he could not control Aji, while Aji awakened the Qianyang White Dragon and Kunyin Black Dragon within himself.
• The two Dragon Souls attacked Blazing Sun True Venerable, who defeated them after a devastating battle and emerged gravely injured, with Aji unconscious and greatly weakened.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable renewed his demand for the Soul-Locking Stone and Chen Beiwu's promise to rebuild the sect, but Chen Beiwu refused unless the deal included Aji.
• Blazing Sun True Venerable agreed to give Aji to Chen Beiwu, who challenged him to prove he dared to make the offer, and Blazing Sun True Venerable tossed the little dragon to him.

Chen Beiwu left the Blazing Sun Ruins with the gravely injured Aji after trading the Soul-Locking Stone, then returned to his cultivation cave and tried to restore Aji’s bloodline. His first attempt consumed much of his golden core’s origin without healing Aji, but he refused to give up and prepared to try again.

• Blazing Sun True Venerable handed Aji to Chen Beiwu in exchange for the Soul-Locking Stone, and Chen Beiwu waited until they reached the ruins’ outer region before completing the trade.
• Chen Beiwu emerged from the Blazing Sun Ruins and reunited with Xin Yu and Zhu Wuya, who drove off the Azure Spirit Sect’s sect master and escorted him away.
• Chen Beiwu told Zhu Wuya what had happened in the ruins, then declined to return to the sect and traveled to Protectorate Immortal City to enter seclusion.
• Chen Beiwu used his Primordial Origin Profound Ability to try to restore Aji’s bloodline, but Aji’s injuries did not improve even as the attempt consumed two-thirds of Chen Beiwu’s golden core origin.
• Chen Beiwu stopped the attempt before his vitality was gravely damaged, rejected Golden Egg’s suggestion to devour Aji, and resolved to recover his strength and try again.

Chen Beiwu continued trying to revive Aji while planning to expand Protectorate City and attract cultivators with offers of discipleship and cultivation abodes. He discovered Li Quan’s Azure-Horned Ox had a rare alchemy talent, then returned to the Immortal Alliance and read reports of its prodigies’ victories in the Cangyuan Realm.

• Chen Beiwu failed to awaken Aji’s consciousness, but continued treating him and considered how to handle the Calamity-Crossing Lotus Platform and Aji’s future identity.
• Shu You reported that Protectorate City had completed twelve thousand cave abodes and registered a growing population of cultivators, and Chen Beiwu ordered her to recruit more disciples.
• Chen Beiwu offered personal discipleship to the top ten recruits and cultivation abodes to top performers in the Beast Taming Lineage competitions.
• Shu You told Chen Beiwu that Li Quan had reached Foundation Establishment, and Chen Beiwu went to observe him making pills with Li Qing, an Azure-Horned Ox whose spirit art transformed failed pills into fine medicines.
• Chen Beiwu recognized Li Qing’s faint Chenghuang bloodline and approved Iron Egg taking Li Quan as a disciple.
• Back at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, Chen Beiwu read reports that Immortal Alliance prodigies had claimed the other shore flower and brought the Nineteen Continents of Yaoqian into Alliance territory.