Recaps

Leng Que, Golden Vulture Lady, and Lin Kuangdao were battered by traps while hunting Dragon Hall apprentices, and the traps forced them to split up. Leng Que finally detected a human with a powerful golden aura and charged toward him, intent on killing him.

• Lin Kuangdao triggered a moonlight trap disguised as a Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and was left too injured to continue hunting.
• Leng Que and Golden Vulture Lady left Lin Kuangdao to recover and continued through the forest, wary of more traps.
• Golden Vulture Lady was cut by poisoned silver threads and concealed herself to suppress the poison, leaving Leng Que to hunt alone.
• Leng Que sensed a golden-lit human with a powerful aura and flew toward him, determined to kill him.

Leng Que attacked Meng Youjun on Appearance Cliff Mountain and overwhelmed his Sixth Realm Divine Body. Yue Wen rushed in despite Meng Youjun’s warning and killed Leng Que with the Brass Little Sword empowered by Demon-Slaying Power.

• Leng Que encountered Meng Youjun and attacked him, while Meng Youjun’s Great Dream Immortalization Art failed against Leng Que’s Soul Dao Demon Seal.
• Leng Que defeated Meng Youjun’s Divine Body with his spiritual power and Evil King Bead, leaving Meng Youjun badly cracked and ready to detonate himself.
• Yue Wen heard Qi Dian identify a demonic scent and flew toward the battle, ignoring Meng Youjun’s warning to run.
• Leng Que abandoned Meng Youjun and attacked Yue Wen with the Evil King Bead, expecting to kill the human Dragon Gate Champion.
• Yue Wen poured three strands of Demon-Slaying Power into the Brass Little Sword and struck Leng Que down, purifying his Demon Form and scattering his remains.

Blue Throne arranged for demon geniuses to assassinate human cultivators in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, but Yue Wen swiftly killed Leng Que and led his team to hunt the remaining demons. The injured Golden Vulture Lady fled in terror as Yue Wen and his companions pursued her.

• Blue Throne told Purple Throne that he had sent three demon geniuses into the Celestial Phenomenon Realm to hunt human geniuses, including Zhu Sanqing’s disciple.
• Yue Wen killed Leng Que with one strike, looted his Storage Artifact, and warned Meng Youjun to alert the other teams about demon assassins.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, Zhao Xing'er, and their companions formed their Combined Supernatural Powers and followed a demonic scent across the mountain.
• Golden Vulture Lady recognized Leng Que’s bones and realized Yue Wen had killed him, then fled when the human team approached.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er taunted the fleeing Golden Vulture Lady as they pursued her, leaving her terrified and pleading for help.

Yue Wen and his team caught up with Golden Vulture Lady, who led them to Lin Kuangdao, and killed both demons in a brief fight. After collecting their rewards, they heard Meng Youjun and the other Dragon Hall teams rushing to help.

• Meng Youjun went to alert the other teams while Yue Wen pursued the wounded Golden Vulture Lady, who fled toward Lin Kuangdao's hiding place.
• Golden Vulture Lady plunged into Lin Kuangdao's mist and convinced him that she had brought human prey, then urged him to fight alongside her.
• Lin Kuangdao and Golden Vulture Lady attacked Yue Wen's team, but Yue Wen empowered Zhao Xing'er with Demon-Slaying Power, and she flattened Lin Kuangdao with one hammer blow.
• Yue Wen resisted Golden Vulture Lady's illusion and killed her with the Giant Gate Sword Art, then searched the battlefield for the demons' Storage Artifacts and broke down Lin Kuangdao's remains.
• Qi Dian, Liu Yuanjun, Jiang Hongxiu, and Xing'er questioned the power Yue Wen had used, and Yue Wen called it his burning sense of justice.
• Meng Youjun arrived with the other three Dragon Hall teams, shouting that they had come to help.

Yue Wen and the other Dragon Hall apprentices ended their contest after killing demons and retrieved the traps they had left on Appearance Cliff Mountain. They found their Teleportation Formation destroyed and were blocked from leaving by purple-qi-enhanced Appearance Clan soldiers, leaving them stranded as Xiao Peng failed to challenge the falcon leader.

• Yue Wen told the gathered apprentices that he and his allies had killed three demons, and they agreed to end the contest and report the danger.
• The eastern, southern, and northern Dragon Hall groups returned to collect their valuable traps and fake Celestial Phenomenon Fruit, revealing that each had carelessly left them behind.
• The groups reached the Teleportation Formation and discovered its patterns had been destroyed, while the Western Sea group waited nearby.
• Yue Wen and the others tried to leave Appearance Cliff Mountain, but a squad of Appearance Clan soldiers blocked the path under the chancellor's orders.
• Xiao Peng fused with his elephant partner and claimed his authority as the kingdom lord's disciple, then backed down and apologized when the purple-qi falcon overwhelmed him.

The Appearance Clan rebelled in the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom’s capital, while Yue Wen and the others broke free of a formation on Appearance Cliff Mountain and learned the rebellion was backed by the White Demon Cult. The chapter left the capital in chaos and the captured falcon questioning whether the Demon Race had deceived it.

• The Lion-Headed Appearance Clan member seized control of the palace, imprisoned the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord, and killed Appearance Clan members who tried to escape with their human partners.
• The Lion-Headed Appearance Clan member urged the rebels to treat humans as enemies as fighting spread throughout the royal capital.
• Yue Wen, Meng Yuheng, and the others attacked the Light Curtain, and Dongfang Jianqi shattered it with a sword strike.
• Yue Wen threatened to dissolve and devour a captured falcon Appearance Clan member, which then revealed that the Fish Chancellor had ordered the formation and promised the Appearance Clan freedom with power from the Demon Realm.
• Jiang Hongxiu identified the mark on the falcon as the White Demon Cult’s Demon Seed Seal, which amplified its viciousness and could turn it into a puppet.
• Yue Wen challenged the falcon’s belief that the Demon Race had come to bring freedom, leaving it stunned.

Yue Wen disguised himself as a demon, infiltrated the Fish Chancellor’s residence, and captured the rebel leader while uncovering the Demon Race’s plans. He learned that a force of a hundred demons would soon arrive, and the group prepared to confront them before they could retake the capital.

• Yue Wen persuaded the group to target the rebellion’s ringleaders and infiltrate the Fish Chancellor’s residence rather than wait for reinforcements or attack the capital outright.
• Yue Wen disguised himself as a demon and used a Demon Race Spy’s Insignia to gain an audience with the Fish Chancellor.
• Yue Wen convinced the Fish Chancellor that the Purple Throne could offer him greater rewards, then learned that the Blue Throne planned to bring a hundred demons through a teleportation formation west of the capital.
• Yue Wen gave the Fish Chancellor Consciousness Sea Rippling Liquid, knocked him unconscious, and carried him out without being detected.
• Yue Wen returned with the captured Fish Chancellor and told the group they had to defeat the arriving demonic army before they could retake the capital.

Yue Wen killed the demon spy guarding the Celestial Phenomenon Realm’s teleportation formation and organized the human prodigies to trap the invading army. As the demons prepared to depart, their arrogant general led them toward the very ambush Yue Wen had prepared.

• Yue Wen tricked Demon Spy 167 into turning around, killed him, and took his badge and storage artifact.
• Yue Wen told the gathered Dragon Halls’ prodigies to prepare an ambush instead of hiding from the incoming demon army.
• Shen Yaoguang, Lin Youqing, Xu Lingchan, Fang Qingyuan, and the others began building an illusionary trapping array and placing their trap artifacts around the teleportation formation.
• In the Demon Realm, white demon soldiers discussed their families and plans for life after their overseas assignment.
• The demon general boasted that he had arranged to lead the expedition to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, then ordered his soldiers to set off.

Yue Wen led Pan Wushan and the demon army into a forest ambush prepared by the human cultivators, who overwhelmed the demons with traps, illusions, and coordinated attacks. As the surviving demons were routed, Pan Wushan swallowed a Demon Form Pill and summoned a powerful sixth-realm demon form.

• Yue Wen welcomed Pan Wushan and his troops to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, then led them toward the capital while warning that Human Realm cultivators could threaten them.
• Yue Wen teleported away as hidden traps detonated throughout the forest, killing many demons and throwing the rest into chaos.
• The Western Sea Dragon Palace's Great Dream Immortalization Art restrained the survivors while Yue Wen and the human geniuses attacked them.
• Pan Wushan rallied nearby white demons into a defensive formation, but Yue Wen disabled it and Xing'er shattered its barrier with the Sword-Thunder Spike.
• Pan Wushan swallowed a Demon Form Pill and summoned a towering black mountain as his sixth-realm demon form.

Yue Wen and the human geniuses defeated Pan Wushan, who offered intelligence about the White Wolf Army and a Dao Source Profound Crystal Mine in exchange for his life. After Pan Wushan escaped, Yue Wen tracked him down and killed him with the help of a poisoned Phantom Spirit Demon Snake.

• Yue Wen shattered Pan Wushan's demonic peak form, and Pan Wushan begged for his life by offering intelligence and treasure.
• Pan Wushan revealed that the White Wolf Army had invaded the Black Sand Realm to seize a Dao Source Profound Crystal Mine, and Yue Wen agreed to keep him alive for further questioning.
• While the human geniuses looted the battlefield, Pan Wushan used a hidden pill to teleport away and fled to a secluded cave.
• Yue Wen tracked Pan Wushan using the yin metal Dao rhythm he had secretly planted on him, while a Phantom Spirit Demon Snake poisoned the escaped commander.
• Yue Wen defeated the weakened Pan Wushan with the Brass Greatsword, and Pan Wushan died.

Yue Wen collected a huge reward for killing Pan Wushan, then returned with the human geniuses and reported their victories to the Dragon Hall. After the rebellion was put down, the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord honored the rescuers with Celestial Phenomenon Fruits and gave Yue Wen a Supreme Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and a Golden Radio.

• Yue Wen killed Pan Wushan, gained over seven hundred pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money, and concealed the traces of Little Black Snake's feeding.
• Yue Wen led the human geniuses back to the Teleportation Formation, where Hao Luoxiao learned that they had killed the demon geniuses and wiped out the demon garrison.
• The Dragon Hall repaired the formation and sent a force that captured the rebels, freed the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord, and quelled the rebellion.
• The kingdom lord held a banquet and awarded each human genius a Celestial Phenomenon Fruit.
• The kingdom lord presented Yue Wen with the Supreme Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and his personal Golden Radio.

The Dragon Hall apprentices returned to a lavish welcome and received rewards for their victories in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm. Yue Wen entered the East Sea Dragon Hall’s Treasury of Treasures and found the Vajra Spike he had been seeking, whose inscriptions hinted at its buried history.

• Ao Yuanzhong welcomed Yue Wen and the returning apprentices, praising their achievements in the Heavenly Phenomenon Fruit Contest and the battle against the Demon Race garrison.
• Ao Yuanzhong rewarded each returning apprentice with a magical artifact, increased cultivation allowances, and time in a supreme-grade spiritual pool.
• Yue Wen and four companions passed strict inspections and entered the Treasury of Treasures under supervision.
• Yue Wen browsed the collection, finding unusual treasures and a pill once refined by a disciple surnamed Bai.
• Yue Wen located the Vajra Spike and translated its inscriptions about lost love, the Rock Mausoleum, and eternal life beneath the earth.

Yue Wen chose a hive of Spirit-Eared Bees from the Dragon Hall treasury and asked Da Long about the Dragon Script on the Vajra Spike. Da Long revealed that the mark belonged to Ao Zang, the Love-Burying Dragon King, and identified Rock Mausoleum as the tomb where Ao Zang buried his wife.

• Yue Wen compared three treasury treasures and chose the Spirit-Eared Bees for their ability to gather information.
• Yue Wen took the black stone hive from the treasury and searched for Rock Mausoleum on his phone, but found nothing.
• Yue Wen showed Da Long the Dragon Script from the Vajra Spike and paid him ten pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money for information.
• Da Long explained that Ao Zang gained the Yin Earth Great Dao after demons and monsters killed his wife during the Dragon Clan's flight.
• Da Long said Ao Zang became the Love-Burying Dragon King, fought evil spirits, and buried his wife at Rock Mausoleum, where the Vajra Spike's Dragon Script had been engraved.

Yue Wen and his companions revealed the underhanded Magical Artifacts they had chosen before Ao Yuanren led them to the Supreme Spirit Pool to claim their cultivation time. At the pool’s enclosing wall, Yue Wen sensed the Earth Dragon Pearl trembling with the feeling of a long-awaited reunion.

• Zhao Xing'er showed Yue Wen her Spirit-Tempering Needle, while Qi Dian and Liu Yuanjun described how they would use poison and a Shadowless Spike in combat.
• Jiang Hongxiu revealed that she had chosen a fire seed that produced the Soul-Seizing Flame, prompting Yue Wen to lament the spread of dirty tricks among the Apprentices.
• Ao Yuanren congratulated the Apprentices for their victory and explained that each had earned one hundred hours in the spirit pools, including the Supreme Spirit Pool.
• Ao Yuanren gave the Apprentices identity-bound black cards and guided them through the entrance to the spirit-pool Secret Realm.
• Yue Wen sensed the Earth Dragon Pearl tremble with a feeling of reunion when he looked at the wall surrounding the Supreme Spirit Pool.

Yue Wen discovered that the spirit pool walls were an ancient Spirit-Locking Formation, which Da Long linked to Ao Zang and the stolen contents of the Rock Mausoleum. He suspected Ao Yuanren’s family had looted the mausoleum and that Ao Yuanren was tied to the Snake Mountain affair, then chose a Night Dragon Body path and asked Ao Yuanren to gather its rare materials.

• Yue Wen found that the Earth Dragon Pearl vibrated near the spirit pool walls, and Da Long identified them as Ao Zang’s Spirit-Locking Formation.
• Da Long suggested the walls had been taken from the Rock Mausoleum, leading Yue Wen to suspect that the Vajra Spike had also come from there and that Ao Yuanren’s family had looted the site.
• Yue Wen considered seeking information from the Void Dragon King’s side and the Heart-Ripping Woman to learn more about Ao Yuanren and the Snake Mountain expedition.
• Yue Wen studied the True Dragon Method and chose to forge a Night Dragon Body using five indispensable rare materials, with two treasures he already owned as possible additions.
• Yue Wen gave Ao Yuanren the list of materials, and Ao Yuanren promised to begin gathering them.

The Blue Throne ordered Qimo Li to investigate Yue Wen and prepare an assassination, fearing the human prodigy’s future threat. Meanwhile, Yue Wen questioned the Heart-Ripping Woman through the Demon Emperor Hide, uncovering a startling warning about Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb before Duan Shousheng suspected his true identity.

• The Blue Throne learned that Yue Wen had killed three Demon Race geniuses and destroyed their Celestial Phenomenon Realm plan, then ordered Qimo Li to gather intelligence for an assassination.
• Yue Wen imagined advancing to the Sixth Realm, visited Immortal Dew Valley, and opened the Demon Emperor Hide from the Black-Gold Great Hall.
• Yue Wen asked the Heart-Ripping Woman who had ordered the expedition to Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb, and she said the East Sea Hall Lord had personally sent her.
• The Heart-Ripping Woman warned that Snake Mountain was a trap for walking corpse puppets, while Duan Shousheng knocked her unconscious and told Yue Wen to ask another question.
• Duan Shousheng accused Yue Wen of not being a demon.

Yue Wen revealed to the Snake Mountain group that he was human and claimed to be a Living Immortal’s disciple, hoping to gain their trust and learn how to rescue them. Heart-Ripping Woman then recalled that Ao Yuanren had spoken with the fallen Tiger Heavenly Emperor in the burial chamber and accused him of colluding with the Demon Race.

• Yue Wen deduced that Snake Mountain’s inhabitants had been refined into puppets by the fallen Tiger Heavenly Emperor and were trapped under its control.
• Yue Wen told Duan Shousheng that he was human and a disciple of a Living Immortal, then promised to seek a rescue if the group provided useful information.
• Duan Shousheng and the others quickly pledged loyalty to Yue Wen and explained that killing the being controlling them might also destroy them.
• Duan Shousheng said the being beneath the mausoleum was a fallen legendary hero whose name might wake it, and that it would need to release its control willingly.
• Heart-Ripping Woman recalled that Ao Yuanren had made a deal with the being inside the burial chamber and accused him of colluding with the Demon Race.

Yue Wen used rare Dragon Hall materials to forge a new dharma body in the supreme spirit pool, enduring severe pain as his body took shape. The Azure Dragon Pearl and Earth Dragon Pearl merged with him, unleashing such power that the spirit pool’s barriers shattered.

• Yue Wen considered the secrets surrounding Snake Mountain and decided to seek the Void Dragon King’s help dealing with Ao Yuanren.
• Ao Weilian delivered Yue Wen’s costly body-forging materials, and Yue Wen took them to the supreme spirit pool.
• Yue Wen swallowed the Supreme Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and used the Cangwu Fetal Bone, Chaos Divine Soil, Clear Light Soul-Reflecting Pearl, and Jade Aperture Glazed Light to forge his dharma body.
• As Yue Wen’s body grew stronger, the Azure Dragon Pearl and Earth Dragon Pearl entered his qi sea and transformed his spiritual energy into powerful dragon breath.
• The spirit pool erupted into violent tides, its barriers crumbled, and the apprentices watched the supreme spirit pool explode.

Yue Wen completed his Dharma Body forging and reached the Sixth Realm, but the Spirit-Locking Formation merged with the Earth Dragon Pearl and its destruction unleashed the Supreme Spirit Pool’s Spiritual Qi, leveling the surrounding Dragon Hall landmarks. After the East Sea Hall Lord let Yue Wen leave for lack of evidence, Da Long saw his new body and reacted with shock.

• The Spirit-Locking Formation resonated with the Earth Dragon Pearl’s Dao Marrow and became the Guizang Ruins, a Great Dao Projection Yue Wen could summon.
• Yue Wen completed his Dharma Body forging, ascended to the Sixth Realm, and discovered that the spirit pool and nearby Dragon Hall buildings had been destroyed by the Spiritual Qi surge.
• The East Sea Hall Lord Ao Yuanzhong stopped the Spiritual Qi tide and questioned Yue Wen, who denied knowing what had happened and credited the Dragon Hall for his powerful Dharma Body.
• Ao Yuanzhong let Yue Wen go because he lacked proof and could not detain Zhu Sanqing’s disciple, then ordered the Dragonkin Attendants to investigate the Spirit-Locking Formation’s destruction.
• Yue Wen returned to his residence and asked Da Long to inspect his Dharma Body, prompting Da Long to react with profound shock.

After forging his supreme night dragon body, Yue Wen discovered its Night Concealment ability and learned how his two Dragon Pearls could strengthen his cultivation and combat power. Meanwhile, Qimo Li and Shui Ming arrived at East Sea University under assumed identities and planned to replace their target rather than kill him outright.

• Da Long explained that Yue Wen's supreme night dragon body was a rare supreme body, and Yue Wen discovered its Night Concealment ability.
• Da Long explained that Yue Wen's earth and wood Dragon Pearls could help him cultivate and provide extra spiritual power in battle.
• Professor Yan and her students arrived at East Sea University, where a student told them a spiritual power wave had destroyed half the campus.
• After reaching their hotel, Professor Yan addressed Qi Li and Chen Miao as Qimo Li and Shui Ming, revealing their covert identities.
• Shui Ming proposed poisoning their fifth-realm target, but Qimo Li warned that killing a Living Immortal's disciple in the Dragon Hall would be too dangerous.
• Qimo Li told Shui Ming they would use her specialty to take the target's place.

Gong Yao, formerly known as He Nanyan, followed the Nightmare God Divine Cult’s order to give Yue Wen a Heaven and Earth Mirror containing a Nightmare Wraith Creature, which was meant to kill him and take his place. After Ao Weilian reported that investigators could not determine the cause of the Supreme Spirit Pool explosion, Jiang Hongxiu delivered Gong Yao’s congratulatory gift to Yue Wen.

• Gong Yao contacted the Cult Leader and learned that the Heaven and Earth Mirror’s wraith was meant to kill Yue Wen and replace him.
• Gong Yao recalled that she had reincarnated as Gong Yao to infiltrate the Dragon Hall, but Wang Jiangchen’s return had forced her to resume serving the Nightmare God Divine Cult as He Nanyan.
• Ao Weilian told Yue Wen and his companions that the Supreme Spirit Pool’s barrier formations had come loose, but investigators could not identify why, and they might still be questioned.
• Yue Wen denied causing the disaster, while Ao Weilian asked him to give notice and accept an escort before entering the inner district.
• Yue Wen stayed in his room to consolidate his Dharma Body, and Jiang Hongxiu brought him Gong Yao’s congratulatory gift in a Storage Artifact.

Qimo Li and Shui Ming prepared to assassinate Yue Wen and replace him with Shui Ming, while Yue Wen discovered that a gifted bronze mirror contained a dangerous Mirror Nightmare Wraith. After learning how the creature replaced its victims, Yue Wen began devising a way to turn the trap against it.

• Qimo Li briefed Shui Ming on the Dragon Hall sentries and the plan to kill Yue Wen, possess his body, and escape in his identity.
• Shui Ming agreed to use her Yin Water abilities and the Heaven-Shielding Formation to infiltrate Yue Wen's residence and seize his body.
• Yue Wen sensed danger before uncovering the black cloth over Gong Yao's bronze mirror and took it to Da Long for inspection.
• Da Long identified the mirror's occupant as a Mirror Nightmare Wraith that could replace anyone reflected in its surface.
• Yue Wen proposed pretending to be the wraith or restricting its movements with an identical reflection, and Da Long called him wicked.

Yue Wen trapped the mirror wraith in an immobile puppet, but Shui Ming arrived and tried to possess the body. The wraith and Shui Ming began battling over it while the concealed Yue Wen watched, leaving him with an unexpected opportunity.

• Yue Wen used Night Concealment and a puppet body to trick the mirror wraith into replacing it, leaving the creature unable to move.
• A demonic formation and poisonous mist entered the room, and Shui Ming formed from water and mist, mistaking the puppet for Yue Wen.
• Shui Ming entered the puppet's body as Yin Water and attacked the mirror wraith's spiritual power.
• The mirror wraith fought back, trapping Shui Ming in a battle of spiritual powers while Yue Wen remained hidden and observed.

Yue Wen watched Shui Ming and the mirror Nightmare Wraith battle inside the puppet, then ambushed them with his Guizang Ruins projection. He destroyed the frozen Nightmare Wraith, but Shui Ming merged with the projection and surged toward him, insisting that he could not kill her.

• Shui Ming and the mirror Nightmare Wraith fought inside the puppet, each struggling to survive as their spiritual power damaged its body.
• Shui Ming used her Great Dao of Yin Water and Abyssal Silent Sand to freeze the mirror Nightmare Wraith after it stopped burning its yin fire.
• Yue Wen attacked both weakened opponents with his Guizang Ruins projection, declaring that they had no right to call him despicable in his own room.
• Guizang Ruins ground down the frozen mirror Nightmare Wraith, but Shui Ming merged with the projection to escape its erasure.
• Shui Ming surged through Guizang Ruins toward Yue Wen and vowed to kill him.

Yue Wen killed the demon-blood assassin Shui Ming after defeating the Mirror Nightmare Wraith, earning enough Evil-Suppressing Money to become a ten-thousandaire. He learned Shui Ming had entered the Dragon Hall disguised as a student and chose to use the lead to lure out the people behind the attempts on his life.

• Yue Wen burned Shui Ming inside the Guizang Ruins with demon-slaying power, then used his Brass Greatsword to destroy her hidden soulflame and kill her for good.
• Yue Wen recovered and counted more than eleven thousand three hundred Evil-Suppressing Money coins from the two Seventh Realm kills.
• Yue Wen told Perfected One Nagiko what had happened and asked the Azurefall Profound Gate to coordinate with the Dragon Hall, detain Gong Yao, and investigate the assassin's entry.
• Ao Weilian reported that Shui Ming had posed as Chen Miao in a Wutang University exchange delegation and that the fake student Qi Li remained inside the Dragon Hall.
• Yue Wen told Ao Weilian not to arrest Qi Li yet because he wanted to spring a trap on her.