Recaps

Chen Beiwu and Aji drove Yan Changxing away, but three formidable Spirit Transformation cultivators arrived to claim the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape. Chen Beiwu stood against the Nine-Origin True Venerable after he threatened the ape, and the chapter left him immobilized by the True Venerable's Words Manifest as Dharma.

• Aji struck Yan Changxing with its Yin-Yang and four-seasons power, badly injuring him despite his Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Yan Changxing withdrew rather than undo his self-sealing restrictions, and Chen Beiwu explained that protecting the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape mattered more than pursuing him.
• Chen Beiwu and Aji discovered three powerful cultivators on a mountain peak, including Zhen Yuanzi, while Su Tianhe and Yan Changxing recognized the visitors' extraordinary status.
• Zhen Yuanzi said they had come for the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, and Chen Beiwu stepped aside before the Nine-Origin True Venerable began approaching it.
• Chen Beiwu attacked the Nine-Origin True Venerable to block his path, but the True Venerable shattered his saber light and used Words Manifest as Dharma to immobilize him.

Chen Beiwu and Aji fought Nine-Origin True Venerable and True Venerable Beiwang, but both venerables secretly let Chen Beiwu prevail. Zhen Yuanzi then moved to seize Chen Beiwu and uncover his secret, until the newly transformed Battle-Devouring Demon Ape appeared to protect him.

• Aji's Cosmic Wheel briefly weakened Nine-Origin True Venerable, but Chen Beiwu's Divine Firmament Demon-Slashing Origin Talisman made the venerable wary, and he withdrew.
• Nine-Origin True Venerable warned Chen Beiwu about True Venerable Beiwang's abilities, while privately hoping to earn Chen Beiwu's favor.
• True Venerable Beiwang attacked with the Great Heaven-Suppressing Seal, then secretly revealed its weakness; Chen Beiwu cut through the seal and wounded him with his Soaring Heavens Saber Intent.
• Zhen Yuanzi unleashed his power, suppressed Chen Beiwu, and searched his memories, discovering a secret that interested him more than the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape.
• As Zhen Yuanzi tried to seize Chen Beiwu, the Black Pillar collapsed and the transformed Battle-Devouring Demon Ape stepped between them.

Chen Beiwu, Aji, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape fought to escape Zhen Yuanzi, who revealed a powerful formation and tried to capture them. Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Escaping Talisman to vanish with his companions, leaving Zhen Yuanzi to investigate their escape and pursue them through their karmic connection.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape attacked Zhen Yuanzi and used Wind Concealment to land several blows while Chen Beiwu and Aji tried to help.
• Zhen Yuanzi trapped Chen Beiwu with his control over space, but Chen Beiwu escaped briefly with the Flowing-Light Void Cloak and Aji struck with Two Forms, One Qi.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape opened a spatial path for Chen Beiwu and Aji, while Zhen Yuanzi activated the Fire-Forged Cosmic Lesser Yang Demon-Burning Grand Formation.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Heaven-Escaping Talisman, and he, Aji, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape vanished from the formation without obstruction.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized Chen Beiwu had escaped and began tracing his karmic connection toward the Western Evolution Realm.

Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape fled Zhen Yuanzi by traveling toward the Heavenly Star Path, where Spirit Transformation Venerables could not safely follow. As Zhen Yuanzi prepared a trap at Clearheart Lake, One Origin appeared and forced him to withdraw.

• Chen Beiwu escaped to the Western Evolution Realm, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape warned that Zhen Yuanzi would find them within an hour.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape refused Chen Beiwu’s offer of a Companion Beast Contract and proposed seeking refuge in the Heavenly Star Path, hidden in the Yellow Evolution Realm.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape teleported to Huidan Market and headed for Clearheart Lake, while Zhen Yuanzi divined their plan and set a trap there.
• Zhen Yuanzi prepared a stronger avatar and a Fifth-Tier Origin Formation at Clearheart Lake to intercept Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape.
• One Origin appeared at Clearheart Lake, severed Zhen Yuanzi’s control of the formation flags, and ordered him to leave.
• Zhen Yuanzi recognized One Origin’s honorific and withdrew rather than risk confronting him.

Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape entered the Heavenly Star Path beneath Clearheart Lake, where they encountered the remains of powerful cultivators and learned about the Five-Viscera Demons. After the Demon Ape destroyed Xing Jihai, the cave split open into a distorted Spatial Passage and mysterious information flooded Chen Beiwu’s mind.

• The Crown-Wearing Cultivator left Clearheart Lake after wondering whether Chen Zi'ang would become the child of Fortune who could affect the Heaven-Severing and Earth-Isolating Grand Formation.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape descended through the lake, endured its soul-chilling depths, and found a damaged bead containing rare fifth-tier origin ores near the hidden cave entrance.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape gave Chen Beiwu three drops of Essence Blood and two hairs, then led him into the Heavenly Star Path, where Chen Beiwu’s companions felt terror from the dangers within.
• Chen Beiwu and the Demon Ape passed heaps of ancient corpses and learned that a Spirit Transformation Venerable had died to Xing Jihai, a Five-Viscera Demon.
• Xing Jihai ambushed Chen Beiwu, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape and Chen Beiwu’s companions attacked, and the Demon Ape destroyed the Strange Demon with Battle-Devouring Origin Fire.
• The cave split into a distorted Spatial Passage after Xing Jihai’s apparent defeat, and obscure information surged into Chen Beiwu’s mind.

Chen Beiwu opened the passage into the depths of the Heavenly Star Path and encountered Yuan, a powerful figure connected to the ruined Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect. Yuan offered him the Sect’s inheritance if he became its next Sect Master, but Chen Beiwu refused, and Yuan ominously asked whether he understood the consequences.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape warned Chen Beiwu against taking the Heavenly Star Path trial and explained that the five demons used its deadly trials to weaken their prey.
• Chen Beiwu lit the altar’s jade lamp with crimson fortune, opening a passage into the depths, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape entered with him.
• An Eternal True Dragon observed Chen Beiwu from the depths and reacted with surprise to his unusual Dao resonance.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape reached the ruins of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect, where Chen Beiwu encountered a powerful figure calling himself Yuan.
• Yuan offered Chen Beiwu the Sect’s inheritance in exchange for becoming its next Sect Master, but Chen Beiwu refused because he would not abandon the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Yuan asked Chen Beiwu whether he knew what happened to those who refused him, as mortal danger filled the air.

Yuan told Chen Beiwu how the Hunyuan Saint Xuanhuangzi was defeated and sealed beneath the Heavenly Star Path, then demanded that Chen Beiwu inherit the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect's legacy. Yuan sent Chen Beiwu into the first stage of the Heavenly Abyss Trial, where Chen Beiwu discovered he had to learn a Dao art to cross the Heavenly Abyss River and chose to negotiate before beginning.

• Yuan explained that Xuanhuangzi had nearly refined the Southern Wild Region before nine Dao Venerables defeated him and the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect's Dao Venerable sacrificed his Great Dao to seal him in the Heavenly Star Path.
• Yuan warned Chen Beiwu that the seal would not last forever and said he wanted Chen Beiwu to undertake the Heavenly Abyss Trial and obtain the Dao Venerable's inheritance.
• When Chen Beiwu refused, Yuan transported him away from the others and began the first trial: crossing the Heavenly Abyss River within a year.
• Chen Beiwu tested the river and found that it dissolved a fourth-tier treasure and prevented a spirit stone from floating above it.
• Iron Egg found an inscribed stele, and Chen Beiwu realized its seal script contained a Dao art he needed to master at an introductory level to cross the river.
• Chen Beiwu decided to rest and negotiate terms with Yuan before attempting the trial.

Chen Beiwu learned that Yuan was the artifact spirit Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons and agreed to attempt the Heavenly Abyss Trial in exchange for three conditions. After comprehending the Heavenly Abyss Dao Scripture, Chen Beiwu crossed the Heavenly Abyss River, while Golden Egg discovered the water still corroded him.

• Yuan revealed that he was the artifact spirit of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and offered Chen Beiwu three conditions if he passed the trial and relinquished command of the artifact.
• Yuan explained that the trial could transform Golden Egg's bloodline, but Chen Beiwu accepted the trial without choosing that transformation as a condition because it risked exposing his secrets.
• Chen Beiwu used two wisps of purple Qi to create fortuitous encounters and gained insight into the Dao art on the stone stele.
• After two months, Chen Beiwu reached the introductory level of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Scripture and used its true Qi to cross the Heavenly Abyss River.
• Golden Egg tested the river water, had his scales corroded, and withdrew his claw.

Chen Beiwu crossed the Heavenly Abyss River, received rewards from Yuan, and learned the Second Trial required surviving three attacks from a Dao Venerable avatar matched to his realm. He entered the trial but was defeated instantly by the avatar’s first finger strike.

• Chen Beiwu reached the island after crossing the Heavenly Abyss River and received an Abyss True Pill for his aptitude.
• Chen Beiwu declined Yuan’s offer to transform Golden Egg’s bloodline directly, and Yuan refined a Heavenly Water Pill for Golden Egg instead.
• Chen Beiwu found the Bronze Giant Stele and learned the Second Trial required facing the Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable and surviving.
• Yuan explained that the trial projected the challengers’ essence, Qi, and spirit, and that Chen Beiwu needed to survive three moves from a half-step Spirit Transformation avatar.
• Chen Beiwu touched the stele and entered the trial with his companions, but the avatar’s first finger strike shattered his projected Nascent Soul and caused him to fail.

Chen Beiwu repeatedly challenged the Heavenly Abyss Trial’s second stage, learned that its Abyss-Sinking Finger attacked the mind and soul, and managed to break the first strike before a vast palm overwhelmed him. Yuan explained that the trial favored practitioners of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art, and after a year of failed attempts Chen Beiwu began reconsidering how to combine the Great Daos into a new art.

• Chen Beiwu repeatedly failed the second trial and discovered that the Dao Venerable’s finger was the Abyss-Sinking Finger, which submerged an opponent’s mind, Nascent Soul, and True One.
• Chen Beiwu used Northern Emperor Dao Edict to break the Abyss-Sinking Finger, but a colossal palm formed from the firmament crushed him and ended the attempt.
• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that the trial favored the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art and that he would need either a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable Companion Beast or major accomplishment in the art to pass quickly.
• Chen Beiwu asked Yuan to compare him with the Dao Sects’ Dao Children, and Yuan judged Chen Beiwu slightly stronger in combat without external objects or Companion Beasts.
• After a year of studying and repeatedly failing the trial, Chen Beiwu reconsidered his plan to fuse many Great Daos and began creating an art by letting some of them go.

After years of trial and cultivation, Chen Beiwu used his Primordial Origin Immortal Technique to master Heavenly Abyss profound abilities beyond his current stage. He harnessed the Heavenly Abyss River to withstand the trial’s final strike, but its abyssal power consumed his projected avatar as the trial space collapsed.

• Chen Beiwu showed his companions Abyssal Return and explained that his Primordial Origin Immortal Technique let him substitute Primordial Origin for the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art.
• Chen Beiwu blocked the trial’s finger and palm strikes with Abyss-Sinking Finger and the Northern Emperor Dao Edict, then withdrew before the final Abyssal Transformation Strike could endanger his actual body.
• After Chen Beiwu said he had not passed, he turned Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji into Shared-Cultivation Divine Weapons and used the Sundial Four Seasons Mirror to draw Heavenly Abyss River water into the trial.
• Chen Beiwu combined the river water with his Primordial Origin power and Abyssal Return, then gathered the final strike’s black line in his palm and declared victory.
• The trial space collapsed, and a black dot spread across Chen Beiwu’s palm, consuming his projected avatar and turning it into part of the trial space.

After passing the Heavenly Abyss Trial, Chen Beiwu received the Heavenly Abyss Dao Lineage inheritance and began the master recognition ritual for the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron. As the ritual drew in his Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune, he suspected the cauldron was the true fortuitous encounter tied to his Three-Origin Fortune.

• Chen Beiwu awoke after three years unconscious and discovered the inheritance had raised his Heavenly Abyss Dao Art to the utmost Major Accomplishment and granted him the Dao-Casting Long River Profound Ability.
• Yuan explained that Chen Beiwu needed to undergo the master recognition ritual to unlock more of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Lineage inheritance, and Chen Beiwu agreed after checking that the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape was safe.
• Yuan revealed the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and warned Chen Beiwu to restore his freedom after recognition, promising the remaining conditions and the full inheritance in return.
• Chen Beiwu passed the scrutiny of three former Void Refinement Dao Venerables and began imprinting his consciousness on the Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.
• The cauldron's Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune flowed into Chen Beiwu, and his Nine-Breath Chaos began absorbing it as he wondered whether the cauldron was his true Three-Origin fortuitous encounter.

Chen Beiwu gained the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron’s preliminary acknowledgment and received treasures from Yuan to help his companions and strengthen himself. After Yuan sealed most of the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror’s power so Chen Beiwu could refine it safely, Yuan asked him to relinquish control of the cauldron, leaving Chen Beiwu suspicious.

• Chen Beiwu found that the cauldron had manifested a complete strand of Nine Fortunes, Three Origins, but could barely move it even with the Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons’ help.
• Yuan gave Chen Beiwu a Five-Colored Vine to help Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji withstand attempts to attain the Demon Venerable realm.
• Chen Beiwu asked for a quasi-Dao soldier, and Yuan offered him the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror, a powerful treasure with abilities to reveal, lock, annihilate, and mimic its targets.
• Aji endured two hundred breaths with the mirror, while Golden Egg lasted fifty; Chen Beiwu endured its assault for half an hour before Yuan intervened to keep him from dying.
• Yuan sealed most of the mirror’s power so Chen Beiwu could attempt its initial refinement, then asked Chen Beiwu to relinquish control of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.

Chen Beiwu escaped Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons’ attempt to possess him when Nine-Breath Chaos devoured the Dao Artifact spirit, leaving a miniature Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron in Chaos Heaven and Earth. After returning to the Immortal Alliance and arranging to study it, Chen Beiwu went back to the Heavenly Star Path to claim the weakened cauldron.

• Yuan froze space and time, stopped Chen Beiwu from escaping, and demanded that he master the Three Abysses Dragon-Transformation Secret Art or surrender his body through their causal contract.
• Yuan invaded Chen Beiwu’s sea of consciousness and overwhelmed his defenses, but Nine-Breath Chaos appeared and instantly devoured Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons, consuming half a measure of Chen Beiwu’s Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune.
• Chen Beiwu found a miniature Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron in Chaos Heaven and Earth, refused the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s company, and teleported back to the Immortal Alliance.
• Celestial upheavals alerted Zhen Yuanzi and One Origin True Venerable that the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron’s spirit had fallen, while One Origin True Venerable discussed the coming war between the two regions.
• Chen Beiwu asked Violet Firmament Venerable to remove Huncheng Peak’s restriction, then returned to the Heavenly Star Path to attempt to refine the weakened Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.

Chen Beiwu lifted the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and discovered cross-region passages after five years of study. Back at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, he watched as his eldest senior brother Yue Chenfeng began the trials for Spirit Transformation.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape failed to lift the cauldron without being badly injured, but Chen Beiwu raised it after the artifact recognized his initial refinement.
• Chen Beiwu spent five years studying the cauldron and found passages to the Eastern Land, Western Heaven, and Northern Profound regions.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Immortal Alliance, received three pills from Violet Firmament Venerable, and learned that Yue Chenfeng was attempting Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Beiwu joined Su Muyu, Jiang Chuan, and Mo Chen near Taiyuan Blessed Land to observe Yue Chenfeng's seclusion and learned about the four Spirit Transformation trials.
• Yue Chenfeng completed Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, then completed the Fivefold Court of Origin a year later; Chen Beiwu sensed unease and cast a divination.

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

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

Chen Beiwu and the Azure-Ming Lineage mourned Yue Chenfeng, who died attempting to attain Spirit Transformation Venerable status. Chen Beiwu then prepared Xuele’s advancement and located the entrance to a cross-region passage, where Xuele asked for a month to improve its chances of success.

• Chen Beiwu sensed ominous Calamity Qi around Yue Chenfeng’s breakthrough, and Su Muyu, Jiang Chuan, and Mo Chen divined conflicting omens of misfortune and great fortune.
• After the tribulation clouds gathered and all signs of activity vanished, Cave-Ming Everlasting and the Jade Purity Sect Leader arrived, and the Azure-Ming Lineage mourned Yue Chenfeng’s death.
• Chen Beiwu encouraged Xuele to advance, applied for the necessary breakthrough, and received He Zhengyu’s approval.
• Profound Subtlety True Venerable learned of Yue Chenfeng’s death and Chen Beiwu’s plans, then heard from Great Vast True Venerable about a ruined former Great Thousand World captured by the Immortal Alliance.
• Chen Beiwu used the Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron to find the cross-region passage altar beneath the Heavenly Abyss River, and Xuele asked for a month to raise its chances of attaining Demon Venerable status.

Xuele completed the Third Tribulation of Returning to Venerability and became a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable by forging an unprecedented Bloodline True Form. Its transformation left Chen Beiwu and the others recognizing that Xuele had become a fearsome sword vine.

• Chen Beiwu used Fortune Edict Embryo to help Xuele complete twelve rounds of blood tempering and condense its Creation True Spirit.
• Xuele faced a Five-Qi Vine in its bloodline tribulation, endured months of combat, and awakened after joining its recovery power with the Taiyi Heaven-Cutting Sword strike.
• Xuele rejected the ordinary path of becoming an Origin-Returning Vine and forged its bloodline from its Dao Practice, Innate Demon Domain, and the sword intent it had gained.
• Xuele's breakthrough sent Five-Colored Radiance across Huncheng Peak, and Jiang Chuan, Mo Chen, Su Muyu, and Evergreen True Venerable recognized its ascension.
• Chen Beiwu sensed that Xuele's new sword intent resembled the Taiyi Sin-Slaying Sword, while Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Zhiling, and Aji saw Xuele as an unrivaled sword vine.

After Xuele advanced to Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, its sword power transformed Chen Beiwu’s spirit roots and it revealed a healing art capable of reviving the dead. The chapter ended with Chen Qin waking after Xuele treated her injuries.

• Chen Beiwu refined the bloodline origin Xuele’s breakthrough sent through their Companion Beast Contract while Golden Egg challenged Xuele to spar.
• Xuele casually destroyed the Five-Phases Purgatory Calamity with a single finger, revealing its formidable Sword Dao and stopping Golden Egg from fighting it.
• Chen Beiwu examined Xuele’s transformed meridians and discovered that its Taiyi True Form granted him the Taiyi Sword Spiritual Root and a Fifth-Tier Creation Origin Art called Five Reversals.
• Chen Beiwu brought out Chen Qin’s Ice Coffin, and Xuele used Five Reversals to restore her nearly imperceptible presence.
• Chen Qin opened her eyes and asked where she was.

Chen Beiwu discovered that Xuele’s recovery of Chen Qin had left her with the mind and memories of a newborn, while Xuele demonstrated powerful new Taiyi abilities. After visiting his master, Chen Beiwu learned about an Immortal Alliance scripture that could refine an entire Middle Thousand World into a cultivator’s Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and he called the method a violation of heaven’s harmony.

• Chen Beiwu found that Chen Qin had lost her memories and much of her soul despite Xuele restoring her cultivation, and he placed her back in the Ice Coffin.
• Chen Beiwu tested Xuele’s Taiyi Sword Lock on Golden Egg and Aji, and both were subdued as Xuele revealed its ability to evade formations and tracking with Taiyi Golden Shuttle.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Xuele’s Taiyi True Form Inner Landscape could alter the attributes of Heaven and Earth Spirit Vigor and manipulate opponents’ Law Power.
• Chen Beiwu received a summons from his master and traveled to Azure-Ming Grotto-Heaven, where the Azure-Ming Horned Dragon led him to Evergreen True Venerable.
• Evergreen True Venerable explained that the Supreme Primordial Unity Heaven-Stealing Dao-Ascension Immortal Scripture could refine a Middle Thousand World into a cultivator’s Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and Chen Beiwu said the method violated heaven’s harmony.

Evergreen True Venerable explained the risks and methods of cultivating the Supreme Primordial Chaos Heaven-Stealing Immortal Scripture of Dao Ascension, then gave Chen Beiwu an Evergreen Seed and offered to seek permission for Xuele to refine the Great Sen World. After Xuele revealed her new Demon Venerable realm to Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling, Chen Beiwu joined her at the Heavenly Star Path and activated the ancient altar.

• Evergreen True Venerable told Chen Beiwu that cultivators who forcibly refined entire worlds could suffer heavenly punishment and cited True Venerable Chang Tian Zhenhao, who reached Spirit Transformation Perfection but later died after failing to attain Void Refinement.
• Evergreen True Venerable offered to apply for permission for Xuele to refine the Great Sen World's principles and gave Chen Beiwu an Evergreen Seed containing the cultivation scripture and a means to summon his protection.
• After Chen Beiwu left, Evergreen True Venerable revealed a jade-green light containing his eldest senior brother's presence and said he hoped the being would fare better in its next life.
• Xuele called Chen Dong and Huang Xiaoling to announce that she had become a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, and Chen Dong learned he was being transferred to become Fallen Dragon Prefecture's Chief Executive.
• Chen Beiwu brought Xuele to the Heavenly Star Path, where she refused the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape's invitation to fight.
• Chen Beiwu and Xuele joined their power to activate the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron, causing the ancient altar to light up.

Chen Beiwu activated the cross-region altar, sending the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape to the Northern Profound Region before traveling with Xuele and his companions to the Eastern Land Region. After discovering that they had arrived in a remote, spiritually depleted area of the Great Shang Imperial Dynasty, Chen Beiwu decided to establish a safe identity there before approaching the capital.

• Chen Beiwu chose the Eastern Land Region for himself and the Northern Profound Region for the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, then sent the ape through the altar first to test the passage.
• After confirming the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape had arrived safely, Chen Beiwu returned to prepare, studied the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron with Xuele, and then activated the altar to travel east.
• The Great Shang Immortal Emperor questioned the Fengchang Minister about obscured Heavenly Secrets and noted that the Imperial Star had shifted and the Purple Tenuity Star had dimmed.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at a ruined Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect branch and found that the surrounding Eastern Land Region had unusually thin Spirit Vigor.
• Chen Beiwu spoke with a Leopard Demon woodcutter, learned they were in remote Shuxian Greenwater Mountain under Minxin Commandery, and chose to seek a secure identity there rather than head straight to the Imperial Capital.

Chen Beiwu traveled toward Guan County after hearing rumors of a dragon and planned to solve his identity problem by taking the name of a real person. When he encountered Chen Zi'ang being hunted, he killed the attackers and arranged to assume Chen Zi'ang's identity, leaving the real Chen Zi'ang and his attendant Xiaochuan in a suspended state.

• Chen Beiwu and his companions heard that a dragon had caused floods in Minxin Commandery, and they set off for Guan County to investigate.
• At an ancient temple, Chen Beiwu met Chen Zi'ang and his attendant Xiaochuan, just as Xie Tianyi and Zhao Tiansu arrived to kill Chen Zi'ang.
• Xie Tianyi and Zhao Tiansu attacked Chen Zi'ang, but Chen Beiwu revealed his Nascent Soul power and turned both pursuers to ash.
• Chen Beiwu said he wanted to take Chen Zi'ang's identity, and Chen Zi'ang agreed after asking him to protect Guan County from the Evil Dragon.
• Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and Golden Egg's ability to put Chen Zi'ang and Xiaochuan to sleep, then stored them in ice coffins for safekeeping.

Chen Beiwu took over Chen Zi'ang's identity and office as Guan County Magistrate, then discovered that locals were preparing a Dragon King Sacrifice involving a boy and a girl. He stopped the procession and cited Great Shang law, but an old Foundation Establishment man challenged him to prevent another flood if he refused the sacrifice.

• Chen Beiwu used the official seal to seize Great Shang's national fortune and headed to Guan County to take office as Chen Zi'ang.
• County Deputy Li Jin and County Commandant Guang Yu welcomed Chen Beiwu, completed the handover, and told him that flooding had caused grain shortages.
• Chen Beiwu approved documents requesting grain aid before gong and drum sounds announced a Dragon King Sacrifice outside the county office.
• Chen Beiwu stopped the procession when he saw that a boy and a girl were being carried as offerings, and he cited Great Shang laws against sacrificing living people.
• A Foundation Establishment old man argued that the sacrifice was permitted if local cultivators could not contend with the Dragon King, and asked whether Chen Beiwu could prevent another flood.

Chen Beiwu halted the Dragon King Sacrifice and rescued Xiaocao and Dashi, promising to devise a plan within two days. That evening, he proposed using the sacrifice to test a godhood ascension method by challenging Jianjiang Estuary’s Dragon King, while Golden Egg set his sights on becoming the Wu River Dragon King.

• Guan County residents feared the consequences of refusing the Dragon King Sacrifice, while Golden Egg suggested killing the procession and Zhiling and Xuele rejected the idea.
• Chen Beiwu said the sacrifice could proceed under his direction, then freed Xiaocao and Dashi from the sedan chairs and postponed sending them home.
• Chen Beiwu ordered Li Jin and Guangyu to shelter the children until the sacrifice was over, and the procession dispersed without a fight.
• At the County Deputy’s residence, Guangyu and Li Jin worried about the Dragon King Sacrifice and agreed to wait and see whether Chen Beiwu could handle the evil dragon.
• Chen Beiwu explained how divine honors and authority worked, then asked Golden Egg to test his ascension to godhood as the Jianjiangkou Dragon King.
• Golden Egg said he wanted to become the Wu River Dragon King, and Chen Beiwu warned that he would first have to defeat Jianjiang Estuary’s current Dragon King.