Recaps

Chen Beiwu visited Exquisite True Lord to arrange the refining of Pure True Pills and Dao-Traveling Pills, but she redirected him to another pill master. After Iron Egg spotted a flaw in her pill refining, Exquisite True Lord offered a new bargain involving her Sun-Chasing Hound.

• Chen Beiwu asked Yu Zhaohua to recommend a trustworthy fourth-tier profound pill master, and she gave him a jade slip for her aunt, Exquisite True Lord.
• Yu Zhaohua learned that Chen Beiwu had reached the Nascent Soul middle stage and resolved to catch up to him.
• Chen Beiwu brought Iron Egg to Exquisite True Lord's cave abode, where he found an abundance of rare medicines, materials, and pills.
• Exquisite True Lord declined to refine Chen Beiwu's pills and gave him a jade slip for Red Cloud True Lord instead.
• Iron Egg noticed a flaw in the residue from Exquisite True Lord's pill furnace, and she offered to pair Iron Egg with her fifth-tier Sun-Chasing Hound for a share of their offspring.

Chen Beiwu rejected Exquisite True Lord’s suggestion that Iron Egg breed with the Sun-Chasing Hound, then negotiated pills and a chance for Iron Egg to learn alchemy by observing her. After Iron Egg impressed Exquisite True Lord with its insight into a failed pill refinement, she invited it to help tend her furnace and test its theory.

• Exquisite True Lord offered a breeding arrangement for Iron Egg, but Chen Beiwu refused and accepted instead a deal for Xuele to tend her Fifth-Tier Origin Medicines.
• Exquisite True Lord learned Iron Egg was a self-taught fourth-tier lower-grade Profound Pill Master and tested its knowledge by asking it to identify ingredients in failed furnace residue.
• Iron Egg identified most of the ingredients and proposed that the pill had failed because its ingredients were combined at the wrong time.
• Exquisite True Lord agreed to test Iron Egg’s timing theory and invited it to help tend the fire in her cave abode, while Chen Beiwu accompanied it.
• Chen Beiwu traded the Neck Metal Ox Horn, heart’s blood, and ox hide for Pure True Pills and Dao-Traveling Pills, with Exquisite True Lord promising four more bottles within a hundred years.

Chen Beiwu cultivated, watched Exquisite True Lord begin refining Calamity-Deliverance Profound True Pills, and helped Iron Egg and Golden Egg advance over the following years. After Aji’s soul finally awakened in the Southern Wasteland, Aji questioned Chen Beiwu’s motives for saving him.

• Chen Beiwu refined a Pure True Pill while Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling practiced shared cultivation, then returned to the Southern Wasteland to enlighten the still-unconscious Aji.
• Exquisite True Lord taught Iron Egg about alchemy and began refining a batch of Calamity-Deliverance Profound True Pills, which Chen Beiwu hoped to trade for his Calamity-Crossing Lotus Platform.
• Chen Beiwu resumed seclusion; Iron Egg advanced after refining Scarlet Fire Jade Shedding and a Dao-Traveling Pill, and Golden Egg later broke through to the Nascent Soul middle stage.
• Chen Beiwu emerged, guided Chi Quan to a breakthrough, and gained a reputation as the Great Enlightenment Immortal Master.
• Chen Beiwu visited Aji and used his Primordial Origin Profound Ability, after which Aji awakened and asked why Chen Beiwu had saved him.

Chen Beiwu persuaded the gravely injured Aji to form a Companion Beast Contract, offering a chance to restore his bloodline and cultivation. After examining Aji’s damaged Three Meridians, Chen Beiwu stabilized his injuries and said he would prepare to cast the Ancient Secret Art within twenty years.

• Chen Beiwu challenged Aji to admit he wanted revenge, but Aji passed out from his severe soul and bodily injuries.
• Three days later, Aji awoke, ate Chen Beiwu’s beast feed, and offered a Spirit Transformation opportunity in exchange for being released; Chen Beiwu instead proposed helping restore his cultivation and bloodline.
• Aji accepted Chen Beiwu’s proposal to form a contract, and Chen Beiwu used his essence blood to cast the Companion Beast Contract, causing two true dragon phantoms to appear briefly in his Nascent Soul’s vision.
• Chen Beiwu examined Aji’s Three Meridians and found his origin meridian badly cracked, his attribute meridian diminished, and nearly all of his ten thousand Dao marks darkened.
• Aji sensed that the contract had increased his cultivation, while Chen Beiwu stabilized his injuries and said he needed up to twenty years to prepare for the Ancient Secret Art.

Chen Beiwu planned a campaign against the Azure Spirit Sect and led a force toward Huidan Market, where he discovered Xu Chengxiu had agreed to help arrange his assassination. Chen Beiwu demanded the market, and Xu Chengxiu accepted while preparing to defend himself.

• Chen Beiwu explained to Zhu Wuya why the Mirror Moon Sect should attack the Azure Spirit Sect, and Zhu Wuya approved the plan and offered eight hundred Waning Moon Dao Soldiers.
• Chen Beiwu gathered his forces in Protectorate City, assigned Shu You to defend the city, and chose Jiang Yuyan, Yu Pan, Mo Li, and Wang Hao to march with him.
• At Huidan Market, Xu Chengxiu learned that the Azure Spirit Sect was offering a Profound Nascent Soul Pill for Chen Beiwu’s death and negotiated for an additional Nascent Soul Calling Pill in exchange for the market.
• Chen Beiwu entered Danxin Pavilion unnoticed and overheard Xu Chengxiu discussing the bounty and the transfer of Huidan Market.
• Chen Beiwu demanded that Xu Chengxiu hand over the entire market, and Xu Chengxiu agreed to support the Mirror Moon Sect before retreating and raising his defenses.

Chen Beiwu killed Xu Chengxiu in Huidan Market and drew the attention of its powerful guardians. Facing Lu Xian, Guo Lu, and their allies, Chen Beiwu and his Demon Kings prepared to seize control of the market.

• Chen Beiwu struck down Xu Chengxiu with an undetected saber slash, destroying his golden core and claiming half a strand of great fortune.
• Golden Egg killed a black-robed cultivator as Xuele looted the Danxin Pavilion, but the attack exposed their presence to Huidan Market’s experts.
• Lu Xian arrived and attacked Chen Beiwu with the Azure Thunder Sword, while Golden Egg blocked the blow.
• Yun Tianfang and Guo Lu joined Lu Xian, but Liu Yiwei refused to take part.
• Chen Beiwu declared that his opponents were surrounded, and Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele released their Demon King presences to challenge the assembled True Lords.

Chen Beiwu and his companions battled three Nascent Soul True Lords at Huidan Market, where Lu Xian discovered Chen Beiwu’s illusion and redirected the fight. The chapter ended with Golden Egg shielding Chen Beiwu from Lu Xian’s lightning strike as Chen Beiwu launched a powerful finger attack.

• Yun Tianfang and Lu Xian agreed to face Iron Egg and Chen Beiwu, while Guo Lu targeted Xuele and the others assigned Golden Egg to Lu Xian.
• Xuele chose to fight Guo Lu, Iron Egg warned of her danger, and Chen Beiwu allowed the matchups while keeping Zhiling in support.
• Fire Lotus True Lord and Guo Lu attacked Chen Beiwu, but Lu Xian broke through the fire lotus and recognized Chen Beiwu’s illusion technique.
• Lu Xian ordered Azure Spirit cultivators to withdraw as Chen Beiwu struck Fire Lotus True Lord with the Profound Origin Return to Ruins Seal, forcing Lu Xian to intervene and suffer a setback.
• Lu Xian unleashed a lightning sword strike, and Golden Egg endured it with its Three-Aspect Indestructible Mystical Ability while Chen Beiwu advanced and activated the Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger.

Chen Beiwu and his companions fought Thunderclap True Lord’s allies at Huidan Market, where Iron Egg killed Fire Lotus True Lord and Xuele wounded Crimson Refinement True Lord before she vanished. Lu Xian then used the market’s grand formation and the Thunder-Inducing, God-Summoning technique to reach Nascent Soul perfection, and he demanded that Chen Beiwu surrender.

• Iron Egg killed Fire Lotus True Lord with Ten Calamities Soul-Suppression, then collected his body and spear while exhausted.
• Xuele used the Five-Qi Heaven-Stealing Hand and two puppets to injure Guo Lu, but she countered with a blood pearl and vanished with Xuele inside a sea of blood.
• Xuele reappeared safely on Chen Beiwu’s shoulder, while Chen Beiwu’s saber strike left Guo Lu gravely wounded and likely still alive.
• Lu Xian sheathed the Azure Thunder Sword and used Huidan Market’s Eight Directions Heavenly Circuit Lightning-Inducing Profound Formation to summon heavenly lightning and empower himself to Nascent Soul perfection.
• Liu Yiwei withdrew, fearing Thunderclap True Lord’s strength and the technique’s backlash, while Lu Xian offered to spare Chen Beiwu if he surrendered.

Chen Beiwu fought Thunderclap True Lord, whose lightning and swordsmanship initially overwhelmed him, but Chen Beiwu unleashed his Primordial Origin Dharma Form and trapped him. Yu Shuiyao joined Chen Beiwu with the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk as the battle turned toward suppressing Thunderclap True Lord.

• Thunderclap True Lord struck Chen Beiwu with Eight Directions Divine Thunder, but Chen Beiwu survived and Xuele, Golden Egg, and Iron Egg helped him withstand the Azure Thunder Sword.
• Chen Beiwu activated Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation and clashed with Thunderclap True Lord, but was wounded and recognized the gap in their speed and strength.
• Chen Beiwu summoned his Primordial Origin Dharma Form, then used Three-Scenery Wisdom Light and Dharma Form True Spirit to trap Thunderclap True Lord within it.
• Liu Yiwei left the market after sensing the turn in the battle, while Azure Spirit Sect cultivators fled and looted amid the confusion.
• Yu Shuiyao sealed Huidan Market with the Seven-Kill Profound Formation and brought the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk to Chen Beiwu, offering to help suppress Thunderclap True Lord.

After Chen Zi'ang killed Thunderclap True Lord and helped the Mirror Moon Sect seize Lingkai Pass, the Yellow Evolution Realm's Azure Spirit Sect and Earth Evolution Realm's Mysterious Sword Pavilion weighed how to respond to his growing power. Li Wan'er emerged from seclusion as a Profound Pill Master, while Ning Xuanji pressed the Blood Demon Venerable to honor his promise to kill Chen Zi'ang.

• True Lord Qingxuan learned that Thunderclap True Lord had died and Huidan Market had fallen, then sought counsel from True Lord Changqing, who said Chen Zi'ang's momentum could no longer be stopped.
• Wuming told Sword Lord Xiaoyao that Chen Zi'ang had slain a Nascent Soul Peak True Lord and asked him to recruit the prodigy, but Xiaoyao refused because Chen Zi'ang was a saber cultivator and lacked the Taiyi Sin-Slaying Sword's recognition.
• Sword Lord Xiaoyao left the Sword Mound Abyss to meet the Earth Evolution Realm's sword cultivators and ordered Wuming to guard it.
• Li Wan'er emerged from seclusion as a Profound Pill Master and learned from Zhu Wuya that Chen Zi'ang was safe at Linglan Pass, which the Mirror Moon Sect had occupied after his defeat of Thunderclap True Lord.
• Ning Xuanji confronted the Blood Demon Venerable over his promise to let Chen Zi'ang grow powerful, and the Blood Demon Venerable assured him that Chen Zi'ang would die.

Chen Beiwu captured Huidan Market and Lingkai Pass, killed Thunderclap True Lord after he refused to surrender, and withdrew his forces to Protectorate City with prisoners and resources. As the Four Great Sects debated retaliation and Chen Beiwu gathered fortune for Aji, Li Xiaoyao of the Mysterious Sword Pavilion arrived at the City Lord's Manor.

• Chen Beiwu offered Thunderclap True Lord a place in the Mirror Moon Sect, but killed him when he refused to betray the Azure Spirit Sect, gaining two fortunes.
• Chen Beiwu's army seized Lingkai Pass, collected its resources and prisoners, and returned to Protectorate City rather than risk a counterattack.
• The Four Great Sects found Lingkai Pass abandoned and stripped bare, while True Lord Qingxuan and the Scarlet Sun Sect's sect master called for an invasion of the Earth Evolution Realm.
• Li Haichuan heard that Chen Zi'ang had killed Thunderclap True Lord and considered joining Protectorate City to advance his prospects.
• Chen Beiwu's beasts refined their gains as he used the Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion Divine Ability to form a wisp of purple Qi for Aji.
• Li Xiaoyao appeared outside the City Lord's Manor and introduced himself as being from the Mysterious Sword Pavilion.

Sword Lord Xiaoyao visited Chen Beiwu to test his Saber Intent, then left with a new insight into his own Sword Dao. Chen Beiwu arranged protection for Protectorate City and began preparing to restore Aji’s bloodline, though Aji doubted the treasures would be enough.

• Shu You recognized Li Xiaoyao as Sword Lord Xiaoyao and led him to meet Chen Beiwu.
• Li Xiaoyao offered a Cavern Truth Pill in exchange for Chen Beiwu’s full-strength saber strike, and Chen Beiwu accepted after Xuele examined the pill.
• Chen Beiwu’s Slay the True Saber Intent shattered Li Xiaoyao’s Xiaoyao Sword Intent, but Li Xiaoyao caught the strike between two fingers and praised Chen Beiwu’s cultivation path.
• After Li Xiaoyao departed, Shu You reported that Desolation True Lord was holding back the allied army, and Chen Beiwu arranged for two Nascent Soul True Lords to guard Protectorate City before leaving to help Aji.
• Chen Beiwu gathered bloodline medicines and awakened Aji, who doubted that the treasures could restore its badly damaged bloodline.

Chen Beiwu used the Fortune Edict Embryo Divine Ability to help Aji reconstruct its bloodline, and Aji fused its Qian Yang and Kun Yin dragon powers into a giant egg. After three months, the transformation’s cultivation feedback greatly strengthened Chen Beiwu and his companion beasts, and he investigated why the newly transformed Aji had become so affectionate.

• Xuele used the Five-Qi Origin Forest to restore Aji’s strength enough to prepare for its transformation.
• Chen Beiwu used the Fortune Edict Embryo Divine Ability to awaken Aji’s bloodline, but the Qian Yang dragon power overwhelmed its Kun Yin bloodline.
• Chen Beiwu used the divine ability again, and Aji activated Yin-Yang Self-Certification to fuse the two bloodlines into a giant egg.
• A heavenly tribulation struck as Aji’s transformation completed, and a Nascent Soul True Lord in Jisong City reported a suspected Chi Dragon Demon King transformation.
• After three months, the shared cultivation feedback raised Chen Beiwu to Nascent Soul Middle Stage Perfection and greatly increased his companions’ cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu sensed Aji’s unusually affectionate emotions and probed its three meridians through their companion beast contract.

Chen Beiwu discovered that Aji had transformed into an egg after awakening extraordinary defensive and destructive abilities. He decided to seek Immortal Alliance guidance and resources to help Aji grow and eventually emerge from its shell.

• Aji rushed into Chen Beiwu’s arms at tremendous speed, nearly injuring him, and Chen Beiwu explained that Aji had reverted to an embryonic egg to reshape its bloodline.
• Chen Beiwu examined Aji’s meridians and found its five-element spiritual roots had returned to 97 (99), while its Dao practice had reached 7,999 years.
• Chen Beiwu discovered Aji’s Limitless Embryonic Treasury ability, which made it immune to harm below Spirit Transformation, and Golden Egg’s attack was annihilated without damaging the shell.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Aji’s Two Forms, One Qi ability could erase the cultivation of beings below Spirit Transformation, but it consumed considerable strength, so he did not ask for a demonstration.
• Aji could not cultivate the Primordial Origin Immortal Technique while its body remained unformed, so Chen Beiwu resolved to seek Immortal Alliance support and resources for its growth.

Chen Beiwu asked to travel to the Cangyuan Realm as a Star-Conqueror, and Violet Firmament Venerable approved while granting him treasures and resources for protection. Chen Beiwu registered at the All-Stars Pivot and received confidential intelligence on the realm, leaving other cultivators suspecting favoritism.

• After Chen Beiwu finished his lecture, he declined requests to take on disciples and asked Chi Quan to establish a True Martial Society within the sect.
• Chen Beiwu visited Violet Firmament Venerable and requested permission to join the All-Stars Pivot and travel to the Cangyuan Realm to seek twofold Dao-proving.
• Violet Firmament Venerable gave Chen Beiwu a Divine Firmament Demon-Slaying Origin Seal and a Dragon-Tiger Heaven-Flipping Seal, and arranged for him to receive resources and All-Stars Pivot approval.
• Chen Beiwu exchanged his Jade Purity Golden Register eligibility for central sovereign jade marrow, completing the resources needed for twofold Dao-proving.
• At the All-Stars Pivot, Lu Yao registered Chen Beiwu as a Star-Conqueror without an assessment and provided him with Grade-A Confidential Reports on the Cangyuan Realm.
• The cultivators in the private room saw Chen Beiwu receive confidential intelligence without paying merits and suspected corruption.

Chen Beiwu prepared to enter the Cangyuan Realm, chose a low-reward mission to minimize risk, and became suspicious of Dipper-Shift True Lord. After crossing through the Two-World Gate, he met Realm Master Wang Yuan, who reviewed his mission and approved of his caution.

• Chen Beiwu learned about Great Qian's Demon Martial Arts and agreed to travel to the Cangyuan Realm with the next Star-Conqueror group.
• Lu Yao offered Chen Beiwu several dangerous missions, but he asked for simpler options and chose one with a base reward of only one merit point.
• Three days later, Chen Beiwu met Dipper-Shift True Lord at the All-Stars Pivot and sensed that his fortune was strange, while Zhao Lu identified him as a Nascent Soul True Lord of the Langya Wang Clan.
• Lu Yao opened the Two-World Gate, and Chen Beiwu entered it after Dipper-Shift True Lord and the other Star-Conquerors.
• In the Cangyuan Earth Immortal Realm, Wang Yuan introduced himself as the Realm Master and asked to see Chen Beiwu's mission.
• Wang Yuan saw that Chen Beiwu had chosen only a cautious, low-reward mission and praised his prudence.

Chen Beiwu learned from Wang Yuan that Chen Qin had disappeared on Yuyuan Island, but suspected the information was bait and secretly headed to Fengdu Island instead. Meanwhile, Sea-Splitting True Venerable assigned Dipper-Shift True Lord to hunt Chen Beiwu, who arrived at the entrance to the Eternal Night Sea Region and was approached by merchant Li Wanquan.

• Chen Beiwu asked Wang Yuan to investigate Chen Qin, and Wang Yuan said she had vanished on Yuyuan Island but might still be alive.
• Chen Beiwu accepted Wang Yuan’s Jade Slip and announced that he would go to Yuyuan Island, while Wang Yuan warned him about the nearby Eternal Night Sea Region.
• Three days later, Chen Beiwu revealed that Yuyuan Island was false information and suspected the Xiao Household might use it to set a trap; he believed Chen Qin was alive elsewhere.
• Sea-Splitting True Venerable declined to personally target Chen Beiwu for the offered Five-Origin Self-Venering Pill and ordered Tiansu to handle the matter for a Calamity-Deliverance Profound True Pill.
• Dipper-Shift True Lord received the order to capture or kill True Martial True Lord and eagerly began considering how to find him first.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at Fengdu Island in disguise, where Li Wanquan of the Treasure Source Commerce Association stopped him and guessed he was a cultivator heading to Youyun Island.

Chen Beiwu traveled toward Youyun Island aboard a Treasure Source Commerce Association ship after agreeing to supply Li Wanquan with Longevity-Extending Pills in exchange for help gathering resources. When Great Qian officials searched the ship for Zhu Wu, Chen Beiwu questioned their Sea Patrol General and learned that Martial Ancestor Bai Qi had defeated Zhu Wu, though the account seemed impossible to him.

• Chen Beiwu agreed to trade Longevity-Extending Pills for passage to Youyun Island and help acquiring materials for his mission.
• Chen Beiwu spent two months cultivating aboard Li Wanquan's ship while it crossed the Eternal Night Sea Region.
• Sea Patrol General Zhao Jingxuan stopped the ship and searched for Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivators, causing Li Wanquan to fear Chen Beiwu would be exposed.
• Chen Beiwu used an unseen question to make Zhao Jingxuan reveal that the court wanted Zhu Wu, chief disciple of Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven.
• Zhao Jingxuan claimed Martial Ancestor Bai Qi had grievously wounded Zhu Wu, and Chen Beiwu doubted that Bai Qi could have defeated him.

Chen Beiwu questioned Zhao Jingxuan, then traded a Blood-Cleansing Pill for Li Wanquan’s map and clues to a sleeping Earth Qilin. A month later, as the merchant ship crossed the Black Tide, Chen Beiwu glimpsed a powerful presence marked by purple auspicious clouds and chose not to draw its attention.

• Chen Beiwu learned Zhao Jingxuan’s account of Zhu Wu and Fairy Startling Swan, questioned him about his martial method, and had Golden Egg send the Sea Patrol Office warships away.
• Li Wanquan begged Chen Beiwu for help and revealed that his family knew of an injured Earth Qilin sleeping beneath Other Shore Island.
• Chen Beiwu refused to make Li Wanquan a disciple, so Li chose a Blood-Cleansing Pill in exchange for a map and a finger bone that could signal the qilin’s proximity.
• After a month, the merchant ship entered the Eternal Night Sea Region’s Black Tide and continued toward Youyun Island using Star-Calling Flowers.
• Chen Beiwu spotted purple auspicious clouds within the Black Tide, sensed a fortune surpassing Aji’s, and pretended not to notice them.

Chen Beiwu reached Youyun Island, where he encountered Zhu Wu and learned that Gu Yong was about to challenge Bai Qi. Gu Yong’s Netherdark Mysterious Civet helped him land a blow, but Bai Qi soon seized the advantage and revealed his overwhelming strength.

• Chen Beiwu had Golden Egg alter Li Wanquan’s memories, then teleported to Youyun Island.
• Bai Qi warned Bai Zhao about the danger posed by cultivators from the Five Great Grotto-Heavens and the Thirteen Immortal Sects.
• Chen Beiwu recognized Zhu Wu in disguise at a market stall, and Zhu Wu invited him to talk elsewhere.
• Bai Qi confronted Gu Yong, who challenged him and flew out of Youyun Island to fight.
• Gu Yong and the Netherdark Mysterious Civet briefly stunned Bai Qi and severed his head, but Bai Qi seized Gu Yong and began overpowering him.

While Gu Yong and Bai Qi continued their duel, Chen Beiwu followed Zhu Wu toward Other Shore Island and began searching the dangerous island. He discovered a cave filled with rare profound medicines that appeared to be bait for a powerful White-Warmth Spider King, and paused to consider how to deal with it without damaging the medicines.

• Gu Yong fought Bai Qi with little pressure, while Golden Egg and Chen Beiwu observed that both fighters were holding back.
• Iron Egg sensed that Zhu Wu had left Youyun Island for Other Shore Island, so Chen Beiwu set off after him.
• Che Zhengyuan, Shi Wujian, and Xuanyuan Yu discussed a hidden observer and their hopes of taming the Calamity-Heart Fox.
• Chen Beiwu reached Other Shore Island, killed a Henggong Whale, and explored inland as the island's dense fog suppressed Divine Sense.
• Chen Beiwu found a cave with five rare profound medicines and identified warm bai yu and nearly invisible threads as signs that a White-Warmth Spider King had prepared a trap.

Chen Beiwu lured the White-Warmth Spider King out of its cave and attacked it with a grand formation to seize its treasured Profound Medicines. The Spider King escaped by self-detonating, but Chen Beiwu obtained a Cavern Mystery Flower and decided to use it as he began preparing to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• Chen Beiwu asked Aji to help lure the White-Warmth Spider King from its cave while he and his companions prepared the Star-Dipper Life-Breath Seven-Kill Grand Formation.
• Aji drew the White-Warmth Spider King into the formation, where Chen Beiwu and Xuele attacked it and seized several Profound Medicines.
• The White-Warmth Spider King self-detonated to escape, destroying the formation and leaving its body reduced to white ash.
• Chen Beiwu identified one of the seized medicines as a Cavern Mystery Flower and decided to keep its stem while giving Xuele the other medicines.
• Chen Beiwu announced that he would undertake Twofold Dao-Proving to reach the Nascent Soul Late Stage and revealed a Cavern Truth Pill to substitute for a Truth-Seeking Pill.

Chen Beiwu cultivated the Cavern Mystery Flower to advance Great Mystery Guarding the One to Major Accomplishment, forming a Five Virtues Physique foundation and a truth-revealing One-Guarding Bell. He then completed Twofold Dao-Proving, reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and awakened the Heavenly Ear Profound Ability, leaving him able to hear Xinling’s unspoken thoughts.

• Che Zhengyuan, Shi Wujian, and Xuanyuan Yu investigated the ravine where a Perfection Spider King had fled, then followed Che Zhengyuan southwest in search of the Calamity-Heart Fox.
• Chen Beiwu found a secluded cultivation site on Other Shore Island and used the Cavern Mystery Flower to advance Great Mystery Guarding the One to Major Accomplishment.
• Chen Beiwu’s One-Guarding Mirror transformed into the One-Guarding Bell, and he learned that his balanced Five Phases Spirit Roots had laid half the foundation for Five Qi Returning to the Origin.
• Chen Beiwu refined a Two-Origin Platform and began Companion Shared Truth with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji.
• After three years, Chen Beiwu reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage and awakened the Heavenly Ear Profound Ability.
• Chen Beiwu heard Xinling’s private thoughts and wondered whether his Heavenly Ear was unusually powerful or whether all Nascent Soul True Lords could hear others so easily.

Chen Beiwu helped his companion beasts refine their cultivation, and Xuele broke through to the late Demon King stage while awakening Transplanting Flowers and Grafting Trees, which Chen Beiwu could use to absorb medicinal essences. Meanwhile, the Calamity-Heart Fox plotted to exploit its pursuers to obtain Qilin blood, as Chen Qin agreed to Senior Hu’s risky plan to pursue Nascent Soul advancement.

• Golden Egg failed to break through, Iron Egg strengthened his Great Heaven Pure Hell Aspect, and Chen Beiwu helped Zhiling control the powerful Shared Cultivation feedback.
• Xuele surpassed four thousand five hundred years of Dao Practice, reached the late Demon King stage, and awakened Transplanting Flowers and Grafting Trees.
• Chen Beiwu confirmed that he could use Xuele’s Profound Ability to absorb a treasured medicine’s medicinal properties directly.
• Che Zhengyuan, Shi Wujian, and Xuanyuan Yu searched for the Calamity-Heart Fox, while a distant clash drew them toward Zhu Wu’s trouble.
• The Calamity-Heart Fox tracked Earth Qilin and planned to use its pursuers to kill Qilin and seize its heart’s essence blood.
• Chen Qin accepted Senior Hu’s plan to use the Calamity-Heart Fox’s marrow blood, despite the risks and limits it would impose on her cultivation.

Chen Beiwu followed Bai Qi’s group to a hidden Broken True Realm, where the Earth Qilin and Calamity-Heart Fox faced four grotto-heaven chiefs. Nearby, Chen Qin and Senior Hu waited for a chance to capture the fox as the battle began.

• Chen Beiwu overheard Bai Qi’s group discussing the Earth Qilin and secretly followed them to its vicinity.
• Chen Beiwu discovered that Bai Qi’s group had entered a Broken True Realm and found a way to enter it quietly.
• The Calamity-Heart Fox called on the Earth Qilin for help, but the Qilin offered to help the four pursuers capture the fox instead.
• Zhu Wu attacked the Earth Qilin, while Shi Wujian and Xuanyuan Yu fought the Calamity-Heart Fox and Che Zhengyuan joined the attack.
• Chen Qin questioned whether they should intervene, and Senior Hu told her to wait until the Calamity-Heart Fox gained the upper hand.