Recaps

Chen Beiwu met the Thirty-Three Heavens Sea-Calming Pearl’s Dinghai Artifact Spirit and sparred with him to experience Primordial Unity Power. After Dinghai overcame Chen Beiwu’s attacks, Chen Beiwu used Returning to the Source Through Purity, and his strike tore Dinghai’s robe before it mended.

• Yuyue brought Chen Beiwu to meet Senior Dinghai, but Seven-Treasure True Venerable first demanded that she return the treasures she had taken.
• Yuyue returned a Purple Gold Coin and Emperor Brocade Armor, then accompanied Chen Beiwu through a void passage to the Yellow Heaven Sea.
• Dinghai recognized Chen Beiwu’s potential and agreed to spar with him after Chen Beiwu accepted the challenge.
• Chen Beiwu’s Immortal-Slaying Saber Intent and Heaven-Cutting Sword Intent failed against Dinghai’s Primordial Unity Dao Awareness, and Dinghai dispersed his Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Chen Beiwu activated Returning to the Source Through Purity, restoring his manifestation and striking Dinghai’s robe hard enough to leave a tear that soon mended.

Chen Beiwu sparred with the Dinghai Artifact Spirit, learned three methods for wielding Primordial Chaos Dao Artifacts, and received an inheritance Jade Slip. After Dinghai sent him and Yuyue to the Jade Purity Treasury’s fourth floor, they encountered a powerful, wealthy cultivator who recognized Chen Beiwu.

• Chen Beiwu used Returning to the Source Through Purity to return a trace of Primordial Unity Dao Essence and lightly injure the Dinghai Artifact Spirit, but exhausted much of his Dharma Form Yuanzheng.
• The Dinghai Artifact Spirit explained the Blood-Contract, Divine-Spirit Entrustment, and Heaven-and-Earth Refinement Methods, including the dangers and costs of each.
• The Dinghai Artifact Spirit gave Chen Beiwu an inheritance Jade Slip containing all three refinement methods, and Chen Beiwu considered using Divine-Spirit Entrustment Refinement on the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron as a last resort.
• The Dinghai Artifact Spirit transported Chen Beiwu and Yuyue to the fourth floor of the Jade Purity Treasury, where they found a wealthy, slightly plump man examining a silver bow.
• The man greeted Yuyue and asked whether Chen Beiwu was the recently renowned Clear Source Wondrous Dao True Venerable, while Yuyue reacted with gravity.

Zhou Daoheng invited Yuyue to help refine Fire Divine Sons, but Chen Beiwu became interested in the Manifestation Bow he had restored and attempted to win its recognition. Inside the bow, Golden Egg awakened at the Demon Venerable Mid-Stage and unexpectedly gave the answer the Artifact Spirit wanted, leaving Chen Beiwu wondering whether Zhou Daoheng had misunderstood the bow.

• Zhou Daoheng asked Yuyue to help refine Specially Made Fire God Seeds, and she hesitated because their previous artifact experiment had nearly injured them both.
• Chen Beiwu declined Zhou Daoheng's recommendations and chose the Manifestation Bow, a restored Quasi-Dao Artifact once wielded by the Fallen-God Dao Venerable.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Treasure-Summoning Token and entered the Manifestation Bow's test, while Zhou Daoheng and Yuyue wagered on how long he would last.
• The Manifestation Bow's Artifact Spirit asked Chen Beiwu what it meant to manifest sainthood, and Golden Egg awakened at the Demon Venerable Mid-Stage within Chen Beiwu's Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Golden Egg said manifesting sainthood meant showing off before others, and the Manifestation Bow agreed that making a name was its purpose, surprising Chen Beiwu.

Chen Beiwu attempted the Manifestation Bow’s Shared Cultivation trial, using his profound ability to match the bow’s Dao resonance and create a Manifestation Silver Bullet. He failed to draw the bow far enough, and the Manifestation Bow explained that its chosen wielder must be a True Venerable capable of shooting down a Middle Thousand World, leaving Chen Beiwu short on cultivation and the bow’s present power uncertain.

• Golden Egg touched the bow pouch first but was returned to the silver-white space after failing to resonate with the Manifestation Bow’s intent.
• Chen Beiwu endured the pouch’s growing weight and used Tracing the Source Through Pure Origins to match the bow’s Dao resonance, causing a Manifestation Silver Bullet to form.
• Chen Beiwu drew the bowstring four thousand zhang, but the Manifestation Bow declared his resonance trial a failure because he could not draw it far enough.
• The Manifestation Bow told Chen Beiwu that its wielder had to be a True Venerable capable of shooting down a Middle Thousand World.
• The Manifestation Bow claimed it had once destroyed Middle Thousand Worlds even when wielded by a Spirit Transformation Venerable, but its wording suggested it might no longer possess that power.

Chen Beiwu failed to win the Manifestation Bow’s allegiance, but he and Yuyue agreed to help Zhou Daoheng research the Specially Made Fire God Seed in exchange for one of the weapons or several Star God Divine Sons. At Whirling Flame Clear Void, Mingjin Sun Liquid awakened Iron Egg’s bloodline, and a year later Iron Egg began his breakthrough to Demon Venerable as his bloodline ancestor return descended.

• Chen Beiwu emerged from the Manifestation Bow’s resonance trial without winning its allegiance, though the bow had slightly lowered its cultivation requirement.
• Chen Beiwu asked Zhou Daoheng about buying Specially Made Fire God Seeds, and Zhou invited him to join the research; Yuyue negotiated for a weapon or three or four Star God Divine Sons if the project failed.
• Zhou Daoheng took Chen Beiwu and Yuyue to Whirling Flame Clear Void and showed them Mingjin Sun Liquid, whose dangerous power required Yuyue’s life-and-death samsara fire to stabilize.
• Mingjin Sun Liquid’s Qi stimulated Iron Egg’s bloodline, and Zhou Daoheng offered Whirling Flame Clear Void as a place for Iron Egg to attain the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable realm.
• After a year, Iron Egg’s breakthrough began as a black radiance overwhelmed the lava sky and the bloodline ancestor return descended.

Iron Egg spent five years refining its bloodline ancestor’s remnant before overcoming it and beginning the Second Return-to-Venerable Calamity, while Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg watched. The Sun-Devouring Divine Lord intervened in Iron Egg’s bloodline trial, and Iron Egg faced a Great Sun that demanded it kneel.

• Profound Subtlety True Venerable warned Great Vast True Venerable that Iron Egg’s Sun-Devouring Great Dao might draw the Sun-Devouring Divine Lord’s attention.
• After five years of struggle, Iron Egg used [Fixing Time] and the Great Heaven Pure Hell Aspect to burn away its bloodline ancestor’s remnant.
• Chen Beiwu helped Iron Egg complete Nine Rounds of Blood Tempering and Spirit Condensation, allowing it to pass the Second Tribulation of Returning to Venerability and enter its bloodline calamity.
• The Sun-Devouring Divine Lord sensed Iron Egg’s progress, created a Great Sun as a trial, and sent it into Whirling Flame Clear Void.
• Iron Egg endured the Great Sun’s attacks, recognized its connection to the Sun-Devouring Divine Lord, and began to lose its strength under the Divine Lord’s commanding gaze.

Iron Egg endured his bloodline tribulation and forged the Yingze True Form by comprehending the Sun and Moon Waxing and Waning Great Dao, becoming a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable. After the breakthrough, Chen Beiwu discovered Iron Egg’s new form had changed his Spiritual Root Purity and concealed an Attribute Meridian he could not perceive.

• Iron Egg chose to merge fully with his bloodline under the Great Sun’s pressure, then developed the Yuyi Great Dao’s True Intention as his golden sun markings emerged.
• Iron Egg drew forth a silver-white pillar and a Moon Wheel, combining the sun’s and moon’s traces to comprehend the Sun and Moon Waxing and Waning Great Dao.
• The Sun-Devouring Divine Lord watched Iron Egg’s breakthrough, praised his potential, and departed as Iron Egg began forming his Bloodline True Form.
• Outside the Whirling Flame Clear Void, Zhou Daoheng realized that thirty percent of the Mingjin Sun Liquid in his locked furnace had vanished during Iron Egg’s breakthrough.
• Iron Egg completed the Third Tribulation of Returning to Venerability, became a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, and revealed his sun-and-moon-patterned form to Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu examined Iron Egg’s new meridians and discovered that his Spiritual Root Purities shifted while Iron Egg’s Attribute Meridian remained beyond his perception.

Iron Egg advanced to Demon Venerable, helped Zhou Daoheng create the Specially Made Fire God Seed, and Chen Beiwu was appointed chief of the Divine Excursion Department. Chen Beiwu learned that the damaged Ancient Yao Realm was approaching Jade Purity Grotto-Heaven and suspected it had been defeated by the Myriad Heavens Realm, while he remained focused on opportunities in the Eastern Land Region.

• Iron Egg absorbed the Sun and Moon Responding-to-the-Stars Origin Calamity, and Chen Beiwu discovered its cultivation had reached Demon Venerable Mid-Stage.
• Golden Egg challenged Iron Egg, lost by one move, and then Iron Egg helped Zhou Daoheng and Chen Beiwu research the Mingjin Sun Liquid.
• Zhou Daoheng completed the Specially Made Fire God Seed and gave one each to Chen Beiwu and Yuyue.
• Violet Firmament Venerable appointed Chen Beiwu chief of the Divine Excursion Department and sent Zhou Daoheng and Yin Zhengyuan to Great Luo Heaven.
• Violet Firmament Venerable told Chen Beiwu that a damaged Ancient Yao Realm was approaching Jade Purity Grotto-Heaven and might have been defeated by the Myriad Heavens Realm.
• Chen Beiwu accepted that he would not enter the dangerous Ancient Yao Realm and considered seeking a Void Refinement opportunity in the Eastern Land Region instead.

Chen Beiwu took charge of the Divine Excursion Department and met the Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact Realm-Setting Instrument, which tested him and promised to help if he faced danger. After returning to the department, he learned that the shifting Ancient Yao Realm was only three hundred thousand heaven-patrolling distances from Heavenly Abyss Star.

• Yuyue Guardian escorted Chen Beiwu to the Divine Excursion Department and explained its small staff and demanding history of chiefs.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Divine Excursion Pavilion, where Liang Tiancheng welcomed him while Li Zhengfu ignored him and secretly planned to exploit the new chief's presumed neglect.
• Chen Beiwu completed the handover with Liang Tiancheng and asked to see the Divine Excursion Forbidden Ground, while suspecting that Li Zhengfu was an infiltrator.
• Chen Beiwu met Realm-Setting Senior, endured its test of his mettle, and received permission to awaken it with the Heaven-Probing Disk if danger arose.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the department and learned from Liang Tiancheng that the Ancient Yao Realm was approaching Heavenly Abyss Star.

Chen Beiwu exposed Li Zhengfu as an Ancient Demon Cult infiltrator and confronted a trace of Heaven-Slaying Demon Venerable before the Jade Purity Immortal Sect's Sect Master intervened. After taking charge of the Divine Excursion Department's world-searching work, Chen Beiwu watched Iron Egg try the Heaven-Seeking Platform, and Yuyue prepared to take a turn.

• Chen Beiwu questioned Liang Tiancheng about Li Zhengfu, then revealed Li Zhengfu's Blood Nascent Soul and God-Delivering Stele as evidence of his forbidden cultivation.
• Chen Beiwu searched Li Zhengfu's soul, triggering a deadly attack from a trace of Gu Tiangan, the Heaven-Slaying Demon Venerable.
• Iron Egg and Golden Egg intercepted the attack, and Chen Beiwu seized and suppressed it before Gu Tiangan's manifestation vanished.
• Violet Firmament Venerable appeared, confirmed the danger had passed, and praised Chen Beiwu for taking charge of the Divine Excursion Department.
• Liang Tiancheng showed Chen Beiwu and the Companion Beasts how the Heaven-Seeking Platform scanned for worlds; Iron Egg tried it for three days without finding anything valuable.
• Yuyue, recalling her earlier success at finding a Middle Thousand World, offered to try the Heaven-Seeking Platform herself.

Yuyue discovered a valuable violet-radiance middle thousand world, then Chen Beiwu’s first search revealed an Emperor Sequence world whose half-step Void Refinement ruler attacked the Divine Excursion Department. Dao Venerable Guangcheng appeared, subdued the attacker effortlessly, and was recognized by Yuyue as the Jade Purity Immortal Sect’s Dao Venerable.

• Iron Egg yielded his place to Yuyue, who used Realm-Probing Sky-Walking to locate a violet-radiance middle thousand world.
• Chen Beiwu took over the Heaven-Seeking Platform and, after several days, uncovered an Emperor Sequence middle thousand world.
• The world’s half-step Void Refinement ruler manifested across the void and attacked Chen Beiwu and the Divine Excursion Department.
• Dao Venerable Guangcheng arrived and dispelled the attacker’s overwhelming presence, reassuring Chen Beiwu that Jade Purity disciples were protected.
• The ruler attempted to flee, but Dao Venerable Guangcheng restored him to the void and forced him to his knees.
• Yuyue bowed to Dao Venerable Guangcheng, while Liang Tiancheng and the other Nascent Soul True Lords trembled and Chen Beiwu greeted him calmly.

Dao Venerable Guangcheng rewarded Chen Beiwu, invited him into his tutelage and clan, and offered him a chance to pursue the Ancient Yao Realm’s opportunities, but Chen Beiwu declined the risks and accepted a mission to develop an Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World. After Dao Venerable Guangcheng departed, Chen Beiwu inspected the jade slip of immortal merit and found that its most valuable directories were beyond his authorization.

• Dao Venerable Guangcheng awarded Chen Beiwu one point of Jade Purity immortal merit for discovering an Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World and privately invited him to become his personal disciple.
• Chen Beiwu declined the discipleship offer because he already had a master, and he also resisted Dao Venerable Guangcheng’s proposal that he marry his great-granddaughter, though he agreed to meet her.
• Dao Venerable Guangcheng explained the history of Demon Emperor Baxia and revealed that the Baxia Blood Emperor Armor held an unfinished Origin Great Dao and could be exchanged for a Dao-Proving Pill.
• Chen Beiwu declined to risk entering the Ancient Yao Realm, and Dao Venerable Guangcheng assigned him to examine and develop the Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World while warning that higher-realm cultivators would be crushed if they intervened.
• After Dao Venerable Guangcheng left, Chen Beiwu examined his jade slip and discovered that one point of Jade Purity immortal merit could not unlock the Dao Beasts, Dao Artifacts, or Dao Pills directories.

Chen Beiwu exchanged for and consumed a Three-Five Dao Lotus, accelerating his cultivation before returning to Guan County to investigate his vanished clone. He discovered that a peak Demon Venerable Fuyu Yuanpeng had been deliberately killed there, and suspected Princess Yinling or the Ninth Prince had arranged the attack.

• Chen Beiwu rejected the Heavenly Crown Flower and Pure Yang Grass, then exchanged one Jade Purity Immortal Merit for a Three-Five Dao Lotus and invited Yuyue to explore the Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World with him.
• Chen Beiwu consumed the lotus and spent a year refining it, advancing his cultivation while Xuele awakened and improved its Taiyi Heaven-Cutting Sword Intent.
• Chen Beiwu left a Mirror-Illuminated Clone behind and traveled with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele to investigate the Eastern Land Region, where he found his clone's presence erased and a new magistrate in Guan County.
• Xuele revealed images showing a peak Demon Venerable Fuyu Yuanpeng attacking Guan County and being beheaded by two Sword Venerables, whose battle also destroyed Chen Beiwu's clone.
• Chen Beiwu deduced that the attack had targeted Guan County and its Dragon King, and suspected Princess Yinling or the Ninth Prince; Golden Egg sensed that Guan County's people had begun worshipping Slay the Dragon Sword Immortal instead.

Chen Beiwu discussed how to hide Chen Zi'ang’s identity and concluded that the Earth Church could provide protection while he searched for the Purple Palace Cave Abode. After meeting Shen Yuxia on the Wu River, he revealed the attack on Guan County and refused her offer to recommend him as a disciple to a Spirit Transformation Venerable; Shen Yuxia then took him to Earth Mother Island.

• Iron Egg and Golden Egg warned Chen Beiwu that acting without a cover identity could attract the Great Shang Imperial Dynasty, but Chen Beiwu said he could keep using Chen Zi'ang’s identity and suspected the attackers had come for the Purple Palace Cave Abode.
• Chen Beiwu argued that the Earth Church’s influence had helped Chen Zi'ang survive at Chaoge, then contacted Shen Yuxia using White Rainbow True Lord’s token.
• Shen Yuxia killed a fourth-realm demon king on the Wu River and met Zhao Yuanyuan, who had reached the True Venerable realm and proposed that they search together for the Purple Palace Cave Abode.
• Chen Beiwu met Shen Yuxia and explained the Guan County attack, crediting Golden Egg with his escape and cultivation advance.
• Shen Yuxia offered to recommend Chen Zi'ang to a Spirit Transformation Venerable, but Chen Beiwu refused to take a new master and said he could reach the True Venerable realm on his own.
• Shen Yuxia took Chen Beiwu to Earth Mother Island, while Zhao Yuanyuan watched them leave and chose not to interfere.

Shen Yuxia brought Chen Beiwu to meet Primordial Mother Wudang, hoping the Earth Church leader would take an interest in him. After Wudang tested Chen Beiwu’s abilities, he revealed enough strength to wound her, leaving Shen Yuxia stunned.

• Shen Yuxia arrived at Earth Mother Island with Chen Beiwu and told Li Hu she had found a Venerable Seed for Primordial Mother Wudang.
• Shen Yuxia took Chen Beiwu to Tide Pavilion, where he refused the idea of taking a master but agreed to wait for Wudang’s response.
• Two days later, Primordial Mother Wudang arrived and examined Chen Beiwu, then asked him to use his strongest Profound Ability against her.
• Chen Beiwu demonstrated the Silent Earth Finger, but Wudang sensed he was holding back and asked if that was his full strength.
• Chen Beiwu transformed Golden Egg into a Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and struck Wudang, drawing blood from her shoulder.

Chen Beiwu refused offers from Primordial Mother Wudang and Golden Sage Primordial Mother to become their disciple, choosing to remain loyal to True Lord Longkui. Golden Sage Primordial Mother invited him to the upcoming Dao-Buddhist contention and promised him a dead Primordial Chaos Dao Egg if he defeated the Buddhist Sect’s Heavenly Prodigies.

• Primordial Mother Wudang praised Chen Beiwu’s saber strike and offered to take him as her final disciple, promising Earth God Grass after he said he already had a master.
• Golden Sage Primordial Mother arrived and offered Chen Beiwu a dead Primordial Chaos Dao Egg, prompting the two Primordial Mothers to let him choose for himself.
• Chen Beiwu consulted his fortune status and refused both offers, explaining that he could not take another master while already being True Lord Longkui’s disciple.
• Golden Sage Primordial Mother gave Chen Beiwu a jade slip and invited him to join the Dao-Buddhist contention, offering the Dao Egg if he defeated the Buddhist Sect’s Heavenly Prodigies.
• Shen Yuxia took Chen Beiwu to verify his identity and obtain an Earth Church True Lord Token, then told him that she would participate in the contention and mentioned the Buddhist Sect’s exceptional Buddha Son.

Chen Beiwu learned about the Eastern Land Region and went to the Wu River to complete a mission, where the Purple Palace Cave Abode suddenly emerged. As powerful cultivators and river clans reacted to the spectacle, Han Cangyue invited Chen Beiwu to join his group.

• Chen Beiwu obtained an Earth Church Identity Jade Slip and studied the region’s history and resources in its Scripture Repository Hall.
• Chen Beiwu chose to accept Wu River missions while searching for the Purple Palace Cave Abode, rather than risk drawing the attention of Void Refinement Dao Venerables at the Dao-Buddhist Grand Assembly.
• Zhao Yuming and Li Yueyin discovered the Purple Palace Cave Abode at Wolfwalk Island, whose emergence sent a vast pillar of purple light into the sky.
• The Profound Origin Heavenly Turtle ordered his clan to stay away, Bai You summoned the Thunder Eel Clan’s Demon Kings, and Qiu Chen led the Jade-Horned Horned Dragon Clan away from the Wu River.
• Chen Beiwu encountered the cave abode’s emergence while collecting flying fish fin tips, then met Shen Yuxia, Han Cangyue, and Shen Susu as they approached the site.
• Han Cangyue invited Chen Beiwu to join their group exploring the Purple Palace Cave Abode.

Chen Beiwu and his companions entered the Purple Palace Cave Abode, crossed the Heavenly Mountain Wind gorge with Golden Egg’s help, and were separated by a spatial passage. Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg found a lifelike ice sculpture containing a brilliant purplish-red bead, while the others’ whereabouts remained unknown.

• Shen Susu shared a map of the Purple Palace Cave Abode, and Shen Yuxia led Chen Beiwu, Han Cangyue, and Shen Susu toward its entrance despite warnings about Silver Moon True Venerable.
• The group found Silver Moon Sword Intent and learned that Silver Moon True Venerable had carved through the Heavenly Mountain Wind gorge ahead of them.
• Chen Beiwu had Golden Egg test the weakened wind, then led the group through the gorge and into a spatial passage.
• The passage scattered Shen Yuxia, Han Cangyue, and Shen Susu away from Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu sensed nothing ahead but saw an ice sculpture holding a glittering purplish-red bead, and Golden Egg reacted in horror.

Chen Beiwu discovered that a false Zique Pearl concealed a Desolate Demon, which he defeated before learning that Purple Palace True Venerable had supposedly become a Desolate Demon after dying as a human. Unsure how much to trust the demon’s claims, Chen Beiwu decided to continue exploring the Purple Palace Cave Abode, relying on Silver Moon True Venerable to take the lead.

• Chen Beiwu detected demonic Qi inside the ice sculpture and realized it was tempting him and his companions with a false Zique Pearl.
• Chen Beiwu struck the pearl with Abyssal Transformation, exposed the Desolate Demon, and caught its true body as it tried to flee.
• Chen Beiwu questioned the Desolate Demon, which claimed there was no Zique Pearl in the cave abode and that Purple Palace True Venerable had died as a human before beginning a new life as a Desolate Demon.
• The Desolate Demon destroyed its own body and fled as black Qi, but Chen Beiwu used Taiyi Heaven-Cutting to eradicate it.
• Chen Beiwu considered the demon’s claims and the possibility that Purple Palace True Venerable had sought a path to Void Refinement as a Desolate Demon.
• Chen Beiwu dismissed his companions’ concerns and chose to keep exploring, expecting Silver Moon True Venerable to lead the way.

Chen Beiwu encountered Purple Palace True Venerable’s remnant will and the imprisoned Wu River Dragon King, who each offered him a way to survive the sealed Purple Palace Cave Abode. In the Outer District, the Spirit Transformation Venerables learned that Purple Palace True Venerable planned to become a Desolate Demon, while his phantom announced inheritance trials to Shen Yuxia and the others.

• At the Inkstone Pool, Silver Sword True Venerable sensed a hidden Evil Presence, and Thunder Eel Demon Venerable and other Spirit Transformation Venerables arrived.
• In the Inner District, Purple Palace True Venerable’s remnant will offered Chen Beiwu the Zique Pearl if he helped kill its original self, but Chen Beiwu continued onward.
• Chen Beiwu entered the middle Teleportation Passage and found the Wu River Dragon King, who explained that a Demon-Subduing Stele had trapped him for three thousand years.
• The Wu River Dragon King asked Chen Beiwu to use the Zique Pearl to help break the stele’s seal, while Purple Palace True Venerable’s remnant separately offered him a way to escape with the pearl.
• In the Outer District, the Spirit Transformation Venerables read a jade slip revealing Purple Palace True Venerable’s plan to become a Desolate Demon, and Silver Sword True Venerable led them toward the Inner District.
• At Lianyao Mountain, Purple Palace True Venerable’s phantom announced that those who passed three trials would qualify to inherit the Purple Palace Inheritance and the Zique Pearl.

The Wu River Dragon King revealed that a half-step Ancient Demon was sealed in the Demon-Imprisoning Tower and proposed using its body to enter the Purple Palace Cave Abode Forbidden Zone and stop Purple Palace True Venerable’s transformation. Chen Beiwu and the Spirit Transformation Venerables approached the tower, but its powerful formation concealed it, leaving them to confront an obstacle beyond even Li Yueyin’s sword strike.

• The Wu River Dragon King told Chen Beiwu that Purple Palace True Venerable had sealed a half-step Ancient Demon in the Demon-Imprisoning Tower and that he wanted its body to help stop Purple Palace True Venerable’s transformation.
• The Wu River Dragon King gathered Chen Beiwu, Li Yueyin, Black Bell True Venerable, True Venerable Guangyu, Golden Sword True Venerable, and Thunder Eel Demon Venerable, then proposed that they obtain the Demon’s body to reach the Forbidden Zone and claim the Zique Pearl.
• Black Bell True Venerable warned Chen Beiwu to distrust the Wu River Dragon King and offered him protection, while Chen Beiwu resolved to watch for a chance to help her despite sensing her fatal calamity.
• Li Yueyin led the group through the void passage toward the Demon-Imprisoning Tower, while she and Golden Sword True Venerable agreed to leave Chen Beiwu alone until he had served his purpose.
• The Demon-Imprisoning Tower vanished behind a fifth-tier upper-grade Origin Formation, and Li Yueyin’s perfected Silver Moon Sword Intent failed to disturb it.

True Venerable Guangyu broke the formation hiding the Demon-Imprisoning Tower, but the Spirit Transformation Venerables could not overcome the Desolate Demon Restriction on its gate. Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg opened it with help from the Wu River Dragon King, leaving Chen Beiwu suspicious of the Dragon King’s true strength as the tower’s mysterious entrance appeared.

• True Venerable Guangyu traded a fifth-tier Origin Pill for Thunder Eel Demon Venerable’s blood essence and used it to reveal the Demon-Imprisoning Tower.
• Li Yueyin and several Spirit Transformation Venerables tried to break the tower gate’s Desolate Demon Restriction, but their attempts failed.
• The Wu River Dragon King urged Chen Beiwu to try and lent Wu River True Form power through Golden Egg, while Chen Beiwu checked Golden Egg for signs of control.
• Chen Beiwu had Golden Egg use the Clear Source Profound Ability, which melted the restriction, and Li Yueyin cut open the gate with Moon Wheel Sword Qi.
• As the gate opened onto a mysterious void, Chen Beiwu suspected the Wu River Dragon King had concealed how much strength it still possessed.

Chen Beiwu entered the Demon-Imprisoning Tower with Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai, where they encountered a Heavenly Intent Salamander, a rare Creation Origin Beast. As Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai tried to capture it, the salamander pierced Li Yueyin through the chest.

• True Venerable Guangyu divined that the group faced a deadly predicament, but Li Yueyin entered the Demon-Imprisoning Tower and the others followed.
• The tower separated Chen Beiwu, Li Yueyin, and Yu Tianhai from the other Spirit Transformation cultivators, and they found gravestones bearing their names and one for Purple Palace Dao Venerable.
• A Heavenly Intent Salamander appeared beside the gravestones, and Chen Beiwu recognized it as a valuable Creation Origin Beast he wanted to capture.
• Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai agreed to attack the salamander while Chen Beiwu stood back, and Yu Tianhai began setting up the Great Radiance Thunder Pivot Origin Formation.
• The salamander withstood Li Yueyin's sword attacks, vanished through its Heavenly Eye Profound Insight, and pierced her chest, shattering her defensive Origin Artifact.

Li Yueyin and True Venerable Guangyu tried to subdue the Heavenly Intent Salamander, but it broke free and transformed into a Heavenly Intent Nine-Patterned Dragon. The dragon trapped the Spirit Transformation Venerables in its True Form Domain Fusion, while Chen Beiwu and his companions prepared to act.

• Li Yueyin attacked the Heavenly Intent Salamander with Four Strings, Four Layers, but it swallowed her Silver Moon Sword Intent and later cracked her bonded Silver Moon Sword with its eyelids.
• True Venerable Guangyu trapped the salamander in the Great Radiance Thunder Pivot Origin Formation, but the creature’s power forced him to detonate the formation and retreat.
• The salamander transformed into a Heavenly Intent Nine-Patterned Dragon, and Yu Tianhai invited Chen Beiwu to cooperate while Li Yueyin prepared to escape.
• The dragon ignored Chen Beiwu and targeted Li Yueyin, Yu Tianhai, and True Venerable Guangyu, suppressing their defenses with True Form Domain Fusion.
• True Venerable Guangyu recognized that they would die unless they joined forces to break the dragon’s domain.

The Heavenly Intent Salamander overwhelmed Yu Tianhai and Li Yueyin inside its True Form Domain, while Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg escaped the battle. Yu Tianhai revealed a God-Slaying Nail but was killed when the Salamander used Heavenly Will Replaces the Light, and Li Yueyin prepared to fight with a Quasi-Dao Soldier as Chen Beiwu readied an escape.

• Yu Tianhai called on Li Yueyin and Chen Zi'ang to fight the Heavenly Intent Salamander, but Li Yueyin failed to escape and began preparing a sword strike that needed thirty breaths.
• The Heavenly Intent Salamander attacked with Yusu Locking Rosy Clouds, and Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg withdrew after Golden Egg used Three Offices True Gang to escape the domain.
• The Salamander killed Yu Tianhai with Heavenly Will Convergence, while Li Yueyin told Chen Beiwu to hold on until her attack was ready.
• Yu Tianhai reappeared with the God-Slaying Nail and struck the Salamander, but it used Heavenly Will Replaces the Light to evade the nail, seized Yu Tianhai, and devoured his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Yueyin said she needed only twenty breaths to kill the Salamander, which recognized her Quasi-Dao Soldier as Chen Beiwu prepared the Ten Directions Gate to flee.