Recaps

Zhao Changfeng led Chen Jian to Song Zejun and Zhou Jin, hoping to expose their suspected ties to demon spirits, but the attack made the gathered cultivators turn against him. As Chen Jian and the others pressed the couple, Zhou Jin revealed that they had never denied their involvement with demon spirits.

• Zhao Changfeng led Chen Jian and Ruan Meizhen to the shack where Song Zejun and Zhou Jin were hiding, but refused to approach closer.
• Chen Jian announced Zhao Changfeng's name and accusations, then attacked the shack with his Yin Ghost Spirit-Seizing Banner.
• Song Zejun recognized Zhao Changfeng and said he had thought the young man was dead, while Zhao Changfeng realized the couple had not come to town because of him.
• Shen Yanrong, Qin Hui, and Ruan Meizhen condemned Zhao Changfeng, and Cui Pinyuan worried that Chen Jian's attack would drive the couple away.
• Chen Jian continued attacking with a three-headed, six-armed fiend, and Qin Hui agreed to join him; Zhou Jin's umbrella repelled the strike and destroyed many yin ghosts.
• Zhou Jin narrowed her eyes and said that she and Song Zejun had never denied their involvement with demon spirits.

Zhao Changfeng resisted a Demon Spirit with his blood shadow and willpower, then used Heavenly Heart Demon Seeding to refine it and rescue Ruan Meizhen. As Song Zejun and Zhou Jin left Tamu Town unhindered, Zhao Changfeng began saving others possessed by Demon Spirits.

• Cui Pinyuan attacked Song Zejun and Zhou Jin with his Blazing Sun Demon Art, but Zhou Jin unleashed the Demon Spirits hidden in her parasol, causing deaths and chaos across Tamu Town.
• A worm-shaped Demon Spirit invaded Zhao Changfeng, who tore it apart with a blood shadow infused with willpower and refined its evil thought inside his Small Cauldron.
• Zhao Changfeng vomited out a hard, black demon core, then drew the Demon Spirit out of Ruan Meizhen and refined it as well.
• Song Zejun and Zhou Jin fought Cui Pinyuan, Chen Jian, Shen Yanrong, and Qin Hui, then walked out of Tamu Town while their opponents let them go.
• Ruan Meizhen realized Zhao Changfeng had saved her and seen through Song Zejun and Zhou Jin, as Zhao Changfeng rushed through town to rescue others invaded by Demon Spirits.

Zhao Changfeng rescued people across Tamu Town from demon spirits and collected the willpower they generated, while Song Zejun and Zhou Jin escaped. After Shen Yanrong apologized and Zhao Changfeng returned to cultivating, Shi Yue offered him two thousand spirit stones to kill Chen Haoming.

• Zhao Changfeng absorbed demon spirits from their victims, rescued them, and Ruan Meizhen collected the demon cores he left behind.
• Shen Yanrong realized Zhao Changfeng had been right about Song Zejun and his wife, while Song Zejun reminded Zhou Jin that Song Ziyan had not been their real child.
• After the demon spirits' attack ended, Zhao Changfeng counted twenty-seven demon spirits and refused Shen Yanrong's invitation to discuss what to do next.
• Shen Yanrong apologized to Zhao Changfeng for doubting him, but he returned to his stone house to cultivate with the Essence-Devouring Demon Art.
• Shi Yue visited Zhao Changfeng, apologized for his earlier greed, and offered him two thousand spirit stones to kill Chen Haoming.

Zhao Changfeng agreed to help Shi Yue kill Chen Haoming in exchange for spirit stones, then offered Ruan Meizhen spirit jade for help staging an act to kill Chen Haoming. The chapter ended with Ruan Meizhen asking what he wanted her to do.

• Shi Yue told Zhao Changfeng that Chen Haoming planned to kill him and offered to pay for revenge; Zhao Changfeng agreed to the deal for three thousand spirit stones, half in advance.
• Zhao Changfeng examined Shi Yue’s memories and found that his grief over his two dead sons had become a powerful obsession-born inner demon.
• Cui Pinyuan urged Ruan Meizhen and Qin Hui to seek reinforcements, while Shen Yanrong praised Zhao Changfeng for helping defend Tamu Town.
• Shi Yue gave Zhao Changfeng fifteen pieces of spirit jade as an advance payment.
• Zhao Changfeng offered Ruan Meizhen twenty demon cores and five pieces of spirit jade in exchange for helping him stage an act to kill Chen Haoming.

Chen Haoming decided to kill Zhao Changfeng and accused him of colluding with demon spirits. When Chen Haoming confronted him at dawn, Zhao Changfeng provoked him with a humiliating story about Ruan Meizhen, and Chen Haoming charged to attack.

• Chen Haoming refined another fellow disciple's corpse and told Chi Jingchen he would kill Zhao Changfeng at dawn.
• The surviving City Guard Army burned their fallen comrades, and Qin Hui and Shen Yanrong resolved to apologize to Zhao Changfeng with spirit stones.
• Chen Jian questioned Cui Pinyuan about traces of the True Yang Art in his Blazing Sun Demon Art, and Cui Pinyuan admitted his past as a True Yang Sect disciple.
• Shi Yue watched Chen Haoming and Zhao Changfeng, then saw Zhao Changfeng approach Chen Haoming with Ruan Meizhen at dawn.
• Chen Haoming accused Zhao Changfeng of secretly colluding with demon spirits, and Zhao Changfeng taunted him about his relationship with Ruan Meizhen.
• Chen Haoming flew into a rage and charged at Zhao Changfeng.

Zhao Changfeng faced Chen Haoming, who had succumbed to the murderous backlash of his demonic art and accused Zhao of being a Demon Spirit spy. Zhao provoked Chen Haoming into attacking, then destroyed his blood shadow and killed him with five black-and-red blood shadows.

• Cui Pinyuan and Chen Jian recognized that Chen Haoming’s slaughter backlash was driving him to seek out Zhao Changfeng, and neither believed Zhao was a Demon Spirit spy.
• Zhao Changfeng activated the Blood Shadow Movement Technique and taunted Chen Haoming, while urging Ruan Meizhen to control her anger and endure his public display of intimacy.
• Chen Haoming lost control, raised the Blood God Saber, and attacked Zhao Changfeng with a massive blood shadow.
• Zhao Changfeng sent five smaller black-and-red blood shadows against Chen Haoming’s attack, tearing apart the blood canopy and breaching Chen Haoming’s defenses.
• Zhao Changfeng’s blood shadows entered Chen Haoming’s body and tore him apart, killing him.

Zhao Changfeng killed Chen Haoming and claimed his Blood God Saber, then saw Shi Yue sink into despair after the deaths of his sons and his revenge targets. He gave Shi Yue a reason to keep living by suggesting he might one day reach the Extinction Sect and learn whether his sons had reincarnated.

• Zhao Changfeng defended himself before the witnesses, and Cui Pinyuan confirmed that he detected no demon-spirit contamination in him.
• Zhao Changfeng collected Chen Haoming's Blood God Saber and other possessions, but his small cauldrons rejected his attempt to refine Chen Haoming's flesh.
• Zhao Changfeng was affected by Shi Yue's inner demon and experienced the grief and hardships of Shi Yue's life, including the deaths of his two sons.
• Shi Yue lost his will to live after Chen Haoming and Zhang Mu died, so Zhao Changfeng gave him a bronze bell and urged him to seek the Extinction Sect's reincarnation secret art.
• Shi Yue regained a faint hope of seeing his sons again, and the scenes of his life vanished from Zhao Changfeng's second cauldron.

Zhao Changfeng recruited Shi Yue by promising to help investigate the reincarnation of his sons, then learned from Shi Yue about Cui Pinyuan’s hidden spirit beast stores and Earth Yin Cold Spring. As members of the Primal Demon Temple approached, Cui Pinyuan urged Zhao Changfeng and Chen Jian to strengthen themselves before they lost access to the cavern and its resources.

• Zhao Changfeng reflected on Shi Yue’s despair and his own search for answers about his separated body and soul, while Ruan Meizhen worried about the approaching Primal Demon Temple party.
• Ruan Meizhen told Zhao Changfeng that Shi Yue might know where to find ranked spirit beasts, so Zhao Changfeng went to speak with him.
• Zhao Changfeng promised to help Shi Yue fulfill his wish if Shi Yue would work for him, and Shi Yue agreed.
• Shi Yue’s information led Zhao Changfeng to Cui Pinyuan’s underground cavern, where Cui stored spirit beast carcasses around an Earth Yin Cold Spring.
• Cui Pinyuan exchanged Zhao Changfeng’s valuables for seven second-rank spirit beast carcasses and told him to refine them there before the Primal Demon Temple party arrived.

Zhao Changfeng cultivated with a second-rank Greenbone Snake while Chen Jian proposed that he claim Cui Pinyuan’s spirit beasts and the earth yin cold spring before the Primal Demon Temple arrived. Zhao Changfeng agreed in exchange for Chen Jian swearing not to kill him for half a year, and Chen Jian went to speak with Cui Pinyuan.

• Zhao Changfeng absorbed the Greenbone Snake’s power and realized the spirit beasts could raise his cultivation substantially.
• Chen Jian worried that the Primal Demon Temple would discover the earth yin cold spring and proposed that Zhao Changfeng claim it and Cui Pinyuan’s spirit beasts.
• Chen Jian offered Zhao Changfeng all the stored spirit beasts in exchange for half a month of access to the spring to refine his yin ghosts.
• Zhao Changfeng agreed but demanded that Chen Jian swear not to kill him for half a year, specifying their identities, location, and the consequences of breaking the oath.
• Chen Jian swore the oath and hurried off to speak with Cui Pinyuan.

Zhao Changfeng advanced to the middle Yuanqi Stage, but Shi Yue’s murder by the Primal Demon Temple caused him severe injuries and exposed a new threat to his cultivation. At Shi Yue’s corpse in Tamu Town, Zhao confronted the sect’s disciples over the Earth Yin Cold Spring as they mocked Ruan Meizhen.

• Zhao Changfeng tempered his body with a second-rank spirit beast and reached the middle Yuanqi Stage, though the demon art’s killing urge began to overtake him.
• Shi Yue’s death manifested as an image in Zhao’s Second Cauldron and halted the First Cauldron’s willpower production; Zhao realized Shi Yue had been killed by the Primal Demon Temple.
• Zhao found Shi Yue’s corpse beside the ruined stone house and learned from Ruan Meizhen that Xiang Lin had killed him for practicing the Primal Demon Temple’s Profound Yin Scripture.
• Ruan Meizhen told Zhao that the Primal Demon Temple had forced returning rogue cultivators back to Tamu Town, where the sect’s party claimed ownership of the Earth Yin Cold Spring.
• Zhao argued that the spring belonged to the Crippled Demon Sect, but Xiang Lin humiliated Ruan Meizhen by recounting how Xu Lang had once rejected her at the sect’s gates.

Zhao Changfeng challenged Xiang Lin to defend Shi Yue and Ruan Meizhen, then killed the Primal Demon Temple disciple in a brutal duel. After Tong Yi agreed to honor their bargain and leave the Earth Yin Cold Spring and spirit beasts to Zhao Changfeng, Zhao hurried to the Hidden Site of the Spirit Beasts, and Ruan Meizhen followed.

• Zhao Changfeng offered to fight Xiang Lin to the death in exchange for the Primal Demon Temple receiving the Earth Yin Cold Spring and spirit beasts if Xiang Lin survived, and Tong Yi accepted.
• Xiang Lin attacked Zhao Changfeng with the Profound Yin Scripture and the White Paper Fan, River of Forgetfulness, while Zhao fought back with the Blood God Saber.
• Zhao Changfeng split Xiang Lin's yin river, destroyed his fan, and cleaved him in two with the saber.
• Tong Yi agreed to honor Zhao Changfeng's bargain, and Zhao rushed toward the Hidden Site of the Spirit Beasts to recover his strength.
• Ruan Meizhen chased after Zhao Changfeng, while Chi Jingchen and the Crippled Demon Sect disciples wondered whether Zhao and Ruan were a couple.

Tong Yi planned to let the demon spirit tide kill Zhao Changfeng and everyone else in Tamu Town, while Chen Jian decided to strike against the Primal Demon Temple disciples. After recovering from a demonic art backlash, Zhao Changfeng agreed to join the plan and take responsibility for the rogue cultivators and City Guard Army, leaving the four conspirators as the intended survivors.

• Tong Yi told the Primal Demon Temple disciples that Zhao Changfeng would die during the demon spirit tide and that they would leave no witnesses behind.
• Chen Jian heard Tong Yi's scheme through an Echo Stone and proposed that he and Cui Pinyuan kill Tong Yi and the other Primal Demon Temple disciples when the tide arrived.
• Ruan Meizhen helped Zhao Changfeng recover from backlash caused by unrefined spirit beast blood qi, and he gave her permission to take the venomous spirit beasts.
• Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan told Zhao Changfeng about Tong Yi's plan and asked him to help.
• Zhao Changfeng agreed to the plan, assigning Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan to handle Shen Yanrong and Qin Hui while he dealt with the remaining rogue cultivators and City Guard Army.

Zhao Changfeng continued strengthening his Blood Shadow Art and helped Ruan Meizhen prepare to attempt a breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm. He secretly planted a demon-seed obsession in Cui Pinyuan and learned from the second cauldron that Cui Pinyuan had abandoned his righteous sect to survive.

• Shen Yanrong worried that revealing Zhao Changfeng’s actions to the Primal Demon Temple had caused trouble, but Qin Hui reassured her that the Temple was their only support against the Demon Spirit Tide.
• Zhao Changfeng concluded that his blood shadows could not hold more willpower until he refined and strengthened his qi and blood, then resumed cultivating with frozen spirit beasts.
• Ruan Meizhen told Zhao Changfeng she had recovered to the Great Perfection of the Yuanqi Stage and wanted to attempt another breakthrough, and he promised to protect her.
• Zhao Changfeng borrowed five pieces of spirit jade from Cui Pinyuan and secretly used the Heavenly Heart Demon-Seeding Great Art to plant his demon-seed obsession in him.
• Cui Pinyuan accused Chen Jian of intending to kill him to conceal their actions, and Chen Jian offered to resolve his dependence on the Earth Yin Cold Spring if he helped kill Tong Yi.
• Zhao Changfeng viewed Cui Pinyuan’s memories in the second cauldron and saw him abandon his Righteous Sun Sect identity to cultivate demonic arts after apologizing at his master Cao Ming’s grave.

Zhao Changfeng reasoned that the Demon Dao’s brutal cultivation methods helped humanity resist the Unordered Zone, while the Righteous Dao’s slow progress left it vulnerable. When a powerful Demon Spirit invaded him, he broke free of its illusion and helped Ruan Meizhen overcome her inner-demon obsession, allowing her to reach the primordial spirit realm.

• Zhao Changfeng examined Cui Pinyuan’s guilt and concluded that the Demon Dao’s rapid cultivation offered a grim answer to the threat from the Unordered Zone.
• A powerful Demon Spirit appeared in the cave, invaded Zhao Changfeng’s body, and attacked his mind and vital organs.
• The Demon Spirit dragged Zhao Changfeng into an illusion at the Primal Demon Temple’s mountain gate, where he recognized that “Zhan Jingsi” was the Demon Spirit.
• Zhao Changfeng urged Ruan Meizhen to help him and attacked the Demon Spirit with his saber, breaking the illusion’s hold.
• Ruan Meizhen opened her upper dantian and reached the primordial spirit realm.

Zhao Changfeng killed a third-rank demon spirit that had emerged from the Earth Yin Cold Spring, while Ruan Meizhen advanced into the Primordial Spirit Realm. As more demon spirits gathered and Chen Jian warned that an invasion was coming, Zhao Changfeng reached the late Yuanqi Stage and the group prepared to fight.

• Zhao Changfeng explained how he killed the third-rank demon spirit and showed Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan its demon core.
• Chen Jian deduced that the demon spirit had targeted him and Tong Yi, and Ruan Meizhen completed her breakthrough into the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan killed second-rank demon spirits emerging from the Earth Yin Cold Spring and predicted that the demons would soon invade in force.
• Ruan Meizhen demonstrated her newly formed Slaughter Art, and Zhao Changfeng finished tempering his body and entered the late Yuanqi Stage.
• Chen Jian sensed the demon spirits approaching and summoned the Yin Ghost Spirit-Seizing Banner.

As a massive Demon Spirit Tide overwhelmed Tamu Town, Zhao Changfeng and Ruan Meizhen entered the battle after Ruan Meizhen’s breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm. Zhao Changfeng easily killed the Demon Spirits she revealed and led her toward the City Guard Army, leaving the question of their survival until after the fight.

• Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan prepared to join the fight, while Zhao Changfeng urged Cui Pinyuan to stay alive and Ruan Meizhen wished Zhao Changfeng the same.
• Demon Spirits swarmed Tamu Town, killing rogue cultivators and attacking the City Guard Army as Tong Yi’s group exposed and destroyed them with the Yin Reflection Mirror.
• Ruan Meizhen made a second-rank Demon Spirit visible, and Zhao Changfeng killed it with the Blood God Saber and absorbed its malevolent willpower.
• Zhao Changfeng told Ruan Meizhen to reveal Demon Spirits while he killed them, then chose to head for the City Guard Army where the spirits were gathering.
• Ruan Meizhen questioned whether they should protect the City Guard Army, but Zhao Changfeng argued they might later report them to the Beichen Demon Kingdom and urged her to focus on fighting the Demon Spirits.

Zhao Changfeng reached the City Guard Army and rescued soldiers from invading Demon Spirits, but a third-tier Demon Spirit possessed Shen Yanrong. Unable to save her, Zhao Changfeng killed her and collected the Demon Core, telling Qin Hui not to blame him.

• Zhao Changfeng and Ruan Meizhen arrived at the City Guard Army's position, where Zhao Changfeng rescued several soldiers by drawing out their invading Demon Spirits.
• Zhao Changfeng killed more Demon Spirits while Qin Hui congratulated Ruan Meizhen on entering the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• Shen Yanrong told Zhao Changfeng that Tong Yi's group was facing third-tier Demon Spirits while Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan hunted weaker ones.
• A third-tier Demon Spirit possessed Chi Jingchen and invaded Shen Yanrong after he broke through Qin Hui and Shen Yanrong's defenses.
• Zhao Changfeng split Shen Yanrong's body with his saber, collected the Demon Core, and told Qin Hui he could not draw a third-tier Demon Spirit into himself.

After Zhao Changfeng killed Shen Yanrong to stop her third-rank demon spirit, he and Ruan Meizhen joined Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan in abandoning Tamu Town as the demon spirits overwhelmed its defenders. They fled toward Heavenly Shield City, but Teng Kun’s Black Demon Mountain passed overhead without stopping, leaving Zhao Changfeng worried that Heavenly Shield City was also in danger.

• Zhao Changfeng killed possessed Shen Yanrong, and Qin Hui stayed behind to defend her body and Tamu Town.
• Zhao Changfeng and Ruan Meizhen fought demon spirits from a tower, and he told her he would have taken a demon spirit into himself to save her.
• Chen Jian and Cui Pinyuan urged Zhao Changfeng and Ruan Meizhen to retreat, and the four left Tamu Town despite Ruan Meizhen’s hesitation.
• The four fought their way across the desert while Zhao Changfeng killed pursuing demon spirits and gathered their Demon Cores.
• Teng Kun’s Black Demon Mountain flew overhead toward Heavenly Shield City without noticing or stopping for the deserters.
• Zhao Changfeng watched the Demon Mountain disappear and feared that something had happened in Heavenly Shield City.

Teng Kun’s passage saved the survivors at Tamu Town, while Zhao Changfeng, Ruan Meizhen, Chen Jian, and Cui Pinyuan traveled toward Heavenly Shield City. Chen Jian’s Yin Ghost discovered that Demon Spirits had already overrun the city, leaving Ruan Meizhen’s family and the group’s safety uncertain.

• Teng Kun’s strike wiped out the Demon Spirits surrounding Tamu Town and saved Qin Hui and the three surviving disciples of the Primal Demon Temple.
• Tong Yi ordered Qin Hui to report Zhao Changfeng and Ruan Meizhen’s desertion and Chen Jian’s involvement, then led the survivors back toward Heavenly Shield City.
• Cui Pinyuan traded his two Third-Rank Spirit Beasts to Zhao Changfeng for his lower-rank Demon Cores and Chen Jian’s help with his Demon Flame backlash.
• Zhao Changfeng used the Ice-Ridge Serpent to temper his blood while Cui Pinyuan absorbed the cold poison, and the group continued toward Heavenly Shield City.
• Chen Jian sent a Yin Ghost to scout Heavenly Shield City and learned that Demon Spirits were running rampant inside.

As demon spirits ravaged Heavenly Shield City, Zhao Changfeng deduced that Song Zejun and his wife intended to use the Soul-Pacifying Bead to kill Teng Kun and let a high-rank demon spirit take his place. The group charged into the city to warn Teng Kun, but Song Zejun and his wife blocked their way, and Chen Jian revealed that he was a powerful cultivator of the Three Calamities Realm.

• Chen Jian described the demon spirit siege of Heavenly Shield City and suspected Song Zejun and his wife had helped high-rank demon spirits cross the world membrane.
• Zhao Changfeng pieced together the couple’s scheme and concluded that the Soul-Pacifying Bead might be a trap meant to kill Teng Kun and enable a demon spirit to assume his identity.
• Chen Jian decided to risk entering Heavenly Shield City to send a warning, and Zhao Changfeng, Ruan Meizhen, and Cui Pinyuan followed him through the demon-infested streets.
• Song Zejun and his wife blocked the group in an alley, and Chen Jian transformed into a powerful yin ghost and summoned his banner’s forces to face them.
• Song Zejun recognized Chen Jian as a cultivator of the Three Calamities Realm, and Zhao Changfeng cursed Chen Jian for hiding his strength.

Chen Jian secretly used a Yin Ghost to warn Teng Kun that the Soul-Pacifying Bead might be part of a plot against him. After Teng Kun faced another assault on Demon Mountain, the Demon Spirits retreated, leaving Chen Jian and the others relieved.

• Chen Jian hid his Three Calamities Realm cultivation and led Zhao Changfeng, Cui Pinyuan, and Ruan Meizhen to shelter while he contacted a Yin Ghost near Demon Mountain.
• Teng Kun comforted the soul of his descendant Lin'er, housed in a fifth-rank Brain-Devouring Snake, and prepared to use the Soul-Pacifying Bead to suppress his internal backlash.
• Chen Jian's fox-shaped Yin Ghost warned Teng Kun that Song Zejun and his wife might have conspired with high-rank Demon Spirits to kill him using the Soul-Pacifying Bead.
• Teng Kun weighed Zhao Changfeng's warning against the danger of facing another attack without the bead, then told Chen Jian that he understood.
• Chen Jian and the others watched as Demon Mountain shook under another assault, and the Demon Spirits eventually retreated.

Zhao Changfeng and his companions survived the demonic disaster in Heavenly Shield City, and the high-rank Demon Spirit Song Ziyan revealed herself before fleeing toward the realm membrane. Qin Qingyao arrived and learned that the Demon Spirit had targeted Teng Kun and the aberrations sealed by their sect.

• Zhou Jin tried to lure Zhao Changfeng outside by confessing that she and Song Zejun had murdered his family, but he stayed calm and refused to take the bait.
• Chen Jian and the others believed Zhao Changfeng had long known the truth about his parents and had patiently plotted his revenge against Song Zejun and Zhou Jin.
• The high-rank Demon Spirit appeared as Song Ziyan, then flew toward the realm membrane as the Demon Spirits scattered from Heavenly Shield City.
• Qin Qingyao arrived at Demon Mountain, and Ruan Meizhen hurried away after identifying her as the Crippled Demon Sect's celebrated elder.
• Teng Kun told Qin Qingyao that the Demon Spirit had tried to devour his primordial spirit and use his identity to release the aberrations, and that Zhao Changfeng's warning had saved him.

After the demon-spirit attack devastated Heavenly Shield City, Ruan Meizhen mourned her family while Tong Yi accused Zhao Changfeng and the others of abandoning their post. Teng Kun defended them, dismissed the city lord’s concerns, and offered Ruan Meizhen and Zhao Changfeng Demon Tokens, though Zhao still needed the sect’s approval to become a formal disciple.

• Ruan Meizhen returned to the group and revealed that her mother, brother, and sister-in-law had died in a well during the demon-spirit attack.
• Chen Jian learned that nearly a hundred thousand people had died in Heavenly Shield City and saw Tong Yi arrive with two companions.
• Tong Yi accused Zhao Changfeng, Chen Jian, and Ruan Meizhen of fleeing Tamu Town, but Teng Kun said he had ordered them to go to Heavenly Shield City.
• Teng Kun rejected Qi Donglin’s attempt to shift responsibility for the city’s losses onto him and sent the gathered onlookers away.
• Teng Kun gave Ruan Meizhen a Demon Token, making her a formal disciple, and offered Zhao Changfeng one pending approval from the sect.

Zhao Changfeng passed Teng Kun’s inspection and earned the elder’s promise of a formal disciple’s future rewards. As he prepared to leave Heavenly Shield City, he threatened Chen Jian into looking after Cui Pinyuan, who was deeply moved by his kindness.

• Ruan Meizhen told Teng Kun that Zhao Changfeng had sought revenge for his murdered family, and Zhao Changfeng explained how he had uncovered Song Zejun and his wife’s schemes.
• Teng Kun inspected Zhao Changfeng’s cultivation, heard how he had fought the demon spirits and planned to kill Tong Yi’s group, and praised him for his talent and service.
• Teng Kun promised to report Zhao Changfeng’s contribution to the sect master and said they would leave after dark.
• Chen Jian announced that he and Cui Pinyuan would leave, while Zhao Changfeng asked Chen Jian to keep Cui safe.
• Zhao Changfeng threatened to reveal Chen Jian’s Three Calamities Realm cultivation if anything happened to Cui, and Cui vowed never to forget Zhao Changfeng’s kindness.

After Shen Yanrong's death, Qin Hui rejected Qin Qingyao's offer to join the Crippled Demon Sect and chose the Primal Demon Temple. Zhao Changfeng traveled back toward the sect, met Teng Ling, learned about her bond with the Brain-Devouring Snake, and arrived at the central landmass, where Ruan Meizhen explained how the sect's chains harvested power from prisoners below.

• Qin Hui stayed beside Shen Yanrong's corpse, and Qin Qingyao told him Zhao Changfeng had been right to kill her before he chose to go to the Primal Demon Temple.
• Zhao Changfeng encountered Teng Ling, who asked for low-rank Demon Cores and revealed that she was suppressing the Brain-Devouring Snake's soul.
• Teng Ling visited Teng Kun and urged him to let her go to the Unordered Zone, while they vowed to kill the man from the Primal Demon Temple.
• Teng Ling visited Zhao Changfeng several more times to eat Demon Cores, and he learned that they helped restore her strength after battles.
• Ruan Meizhen warned Zhao Changfeng not to provoke the fifth-rank Brain-Devouring Snake as Demon Mountain neared the sect.
• Zhao Changfeng and Ruan Meizhen reached the central landmass, where she explained that chains drew spiritual power, vitality, and soul energy from prisoners underground.