Recaps

Qing Chen fought the eerie corpse-ghost art hidden in a series of paintings, destroying the bride’s ghost before a gigantic Rag Doll attacked him. He met the Rag Doll’s punch head-on with his combined Buddhist and demonic powers, forcing it to stagger backward.

• A Silver-Armored Corpse shattered the painting of the bride, triggering two bronze saber qi strikes that Qing Chen’s Gold-Armored Corpse and Silver-Armored Corpse intercepted.
• Rusty scissors attacked Qing Chen from above, but he shattered them with the Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal and destroyed the female Grudge Ghost behind them.
• Qing Chen saw the bride painting reappear with a new scene and recognized that the paintings contained an unusual corpse-ghost art.
• A ghostly howl briefly dazed Qing Chen, allowing a fifty-to-sixty-foot Rag Doll to kick a Silver-Armored Corpse aside and punch at him.
• Qing Chen reinforced himself with Buddhist and demonic power and met the Rag Doll’s punch with his own, making it stagger backward.

Qing Chen battled the paintings’ attacks in the passage, using his refined corpses, swords, and powerful body to withstand their assaults. After he destroyed the Young Girl Rag Doll Painting, Human-Faced Blood Moths from a third painting struck at him with green slime, and his concealed blood lotus was ready to respond.

• Qing Chen realized the passage walls absorbed attacks and reflected their force, while his three refined corpses fought the rag doll.
• The painted girl attacked Qing Chen with tracking silver needles, which he fought off with his Dark Yin Swords and hardened body.
• Qing Chen combined the Six Jia Evasion Void technique with the Three Yin Sword Formation to evade the needles and close in on the Young Girl Rag Doll Painting.
• A fissure opened in the pregnant woman’s painting, releasing Human-Faced Blood Moths that fired dark green slime at Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen smashed the Young Girl Rag Doll Painting, then sensed the slime closing in as the blood lotus he had concealed between his brows awaited its moment.

Qing Chen destroyed the three Corpse Demon Paintings and obtained a Blood Jiangshi True Mansion Token bearing one blood mark, which granted access to the Outer Hall. After passing through a bone gate, he found himself separated from the passage by blood-red fruit peel.

• Qing Chen used the Demon Lotus Karmic Fire and his other abilities to withstand the human-faced blood moths and destroy the three Corpse Demon Paintings.
• The White-Robed Pregnant Woman Painting shattered, and its apparition vanished before it could finish speaking.
• The paintings burned away and revealed a Blood Jiangshi True Mansion Token with one blood mark, which Qing Chen secured in a Storage Bag.
• Qing Chen continued down the passage and cautiously passed through a bone gate.
• The bone gate vanished behind Qing Chen, and blood-red fruit peel sealed off the passage containing the three paintings.

Qing Chen discovered that the stele offered him a choice between remaining in the Outer Hall and entering the Inner Hall trial, where greater dangers and rewards awaited. Encouraged by his meditation cushion’s response and his own resolve, he chose to advance.

• Qing Chen found a stone stele in the forest of blood-colored fruits and read its instructions for the Blood Jiangshi True Mansion trials.
• Qing Chen realized that pressing the outer handprint would let him search for treasures safely, while pressing the inner handprint would send him into another trial.
• Qing Chen weighed the Inner Hall’s opportunities against the danger of confronting Golden Core Stage cultivators and recalled Xu Jiuling’s warning about the token’s limits.
• Qing Chen saw his old meditation cushion glow and sense a connection to the inner handprint.
• Qing Chen recalled choosing the dangerous Brahma Demon-Refining Art and resolved to pursue the opportunity, declaring that he would advance.

Qing Chen entered the Inner Hall trial and found himself on a floating platform above a deadly river, facing an iron-chain bridge called Naihe Bridge. As he sent his summoned ghosts and demons ahead to scout, an unknown creature emerged from the blood mist and swallowed the Grudge Ghost general.

• Qing Chen pressed the stele’s inner handprint, opened a blood-colored vortex, and stepped into the Inner Hall trial.
• The vortex carried Qing Chen to a floating stone platform where he found an iron-chain bridge extending into the blood mist.
• Qing Chen summoned three Armored Corpses and the White Bone Demon Mara Banner, then ordered its Grudge Ghosts and White Bone Demons to scout the bridge.
• The Grudge Ghosts struggled to fly over the bridge, and Qing Chen discovered a tablet naming the crossing Flowing Sand River and Naihe Bridge.
• An unknown creature lunged from the blood mist and swallowed the Grudge Ghost general.

Qing Chen sent a Foundation Establishment White Bone Giant Wolf cavalry squad onto the Naihe Bridge to investigate the blood mist and the shark demons. The squad encountered a strangely coordinated formation of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, whose defenses resisted its charge.

• Qing Chen’s scouts discovered that Red-Eyed Shark Demons were devouring the demons, monsters, ghosts, and fiends sent ahead, and he suspected several lurked by the Naihe Bridge.
• Qing Chen sent a carefully selected White Bone Giant Wolf cavalryman and three peak Qi Refining wolves deeper into the blood mist to investigate.
• The exploration squad traveled farther than the earlier scouts without attracting the shark demons’ attention.
• A band of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals led by a patterned Spirit Serpent approached and formed ranks, their clattering shells slowing Qing Chen’s soldiers.
• Qing Chen ordered the White Bone Giant Wolf cavalry to charge, but the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals’ formation dispersed much of the attack and resisted being broken.

Qing Chen tested the demonic creatures on the Naihe Bridge and discovered that the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals were Dao soldiers sustained by the blood mist. After his Wolf Cavalry was overwhelmed by a huge horde, he concluded that traveling in a large group attracted deadly attacks and that a smaller party was safer.

• Qing Chen recognized the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals as Dao soldiers made of killing intent, while he remained uncertain about the nature of the blood mist.
• Qing Chen's Wolf Cavalry broke through the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals' formation and killed the Spirit Serpent commanding them.
• Hundreds of demonic creatures, including Spirit Snake Great Demons, attacked and overwhelmed the Wolf Cavalry, while their demonic sound shattered Qing Chen's divine sense.
• Qing Chen estimated that the Naihe Bridge concealed a vast, potentially overwhelming number of demonic creatures and that their attacks could threaten even powerful cultivators.
• Qing Chen worked out that larger groups attracted more demonic creatures and concluded that traveling alone or with only a few companions was safer.

Qing Chen discovered that the Naihe Bridge was a dangerous trap and chose to travel alone through the blood mist instead. Near the Flowing Sand River, he realized the monsters were made of condensed Killing Intent and saw an opportunity to refine his body.

• Qing Chen sent Demon General Pojun across the Naihe Bridge and confirmed that it drew little attention, but sensed something watching him near the far end.
• Qing Chen had Pojun leave the bridge and enter the blood mist, where the sense of being watched disappeared.
• Qing Chen took his other summoned creatures into the White Bone Demon Mara Banner and flew through the blood mist, using his supplies to sustain the Magic Power cost.
• Qing Chen spotted many other Naihe Bridges and saw shrimp soldiers and crab generals besieging one of them, but continued onward without getting involved.
• Qing Chen reached the area around the Flowing Sand River and realized the shrimp soldiers, crab generals, and spirit snakes were formed from condensed Killing Intent.
• Qing Chen began hunting lone monsters, believing their Killing Intent could help him refine his body.

Qing Chen discovered that the monsters in the Trial Space contained high-grade yellow springs baleful intent and considered how it could strengthen his cultivation. Elsewhere, Ding Buxing tried to persuade Chu Feikong to trade the Blood Cliff Scripture for treasure locations and help crossing the Quicksand River Secret Realm.

• Qing Chen collected yellow springs baleful intent from monsters and found it refined better than the blood baleful intents he had used before.
• Qing Chen realized the yellow springs baleful intent came from the Netherworld Ghost Cave and suspected the Flowing Sand River connected to the netherworld.
• Qing Chen recalled True Person Budong's teaching that a stronger physical body could draw his magic power upward through a cycle of mutual cultivation.
• Ding Buxing met Chu Feikong in the Inner Trial Grounds and gave him a jade slip containing testimony about the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion trial.
• Chu Feikong questioned Ding Buxing's motives and mocked his cultivation, while Ding Buxing offered treasure locations and a way through the Quicksand River Secret Realm.
• Ding Buxing reminded Chu Feikong that his Navigation Token and warnings had helped Chu Feikong enter the mansion and survive its dangers.

Qing Chen refined a bottle of yellow springs baleful intent with the Brahma Demon-Refining Art, greatly advancing his body tempering. He then ventured farther through the Flowing Sand River trial to gather more killing intent, until he sensed a fierce battle at a Naihe Bridge.

• Qing Chen used the Brahma Demon-Refining Art to tame the yellow springs baleful intent and endure its painful tempering of his body.
• After more than half a month, Qing Chen had refined the entire bottle and saw his Immovable Wisdom King Heart Method progress as much as nearly half a year of cultivation.
• Qing Chen decided to gather more yellow springs baleful intent, hoping to break through the sixth heaven of his body-tempering method.
• Qing Chen erased the traces in his cave and continued toward the Naihe Bridge, fighting Shrimp Soldiers, Crab Generals, and demon beasts mostly with his physical strength.
• After traveling for several hours, Qing Chen sensed violent energy fluctuations coming from a Naihe Bridge ahead.

Qing Chen recognized High Person Qingxia and Chu Feikong fighting in the blood mist, then saw an Impermanence Sect cultivator attack Qingxia with a Glazed Net Spirit Talisman. Cornered and weakened, Qingxia destroyed her high-grade whisk in a desperate attempt to survive.

• Qing Chen heard High Person Qingxia accuse an attacker of ambushing her and recognized Chu Feikong's voice.
• Chu Feikong attacked High Person Qingxia, while she used her azure whisk to fend him off despite the Lingxi Springheart Ember weakening her.
• Chu Feikong overwhelmed Qingxia and drove her into a desperate retreat through the blood mist.
• An Impermanence Sect Glazed Net Spirit Talisman appeared and descended toward the exhausted Qingxia.
• Qingxia poured her remaining spiritual power into her high-grade whisk and made it self-destruct.

Xue Qingxia destroyed her High-Grade Spirit Artifact to escape Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing, but her attack exposed Qing Chen, who was hiding nearby. After Ding Buxing revealed Qing Chen’s strength and past deeds, Chu Feikong abandoned his contempt, leaving the three men in a tense standoff as Xue Qingxia approached Qing Chen.

• Xue Qingxia detonated her fly whisk, shredding the blood mist, damaging the Glazed Net Spirit Talisman, and forcing Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing to fend off the deadly fibers.
• Stray fibers threatened Qing Chen’s hiding place, so he knocked them away and revealed himself to Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing.
• Xue Qingxia recognized Qing Chen, called him Senior Brother, and rushed toward him while asking him to help her escape.
• Qing Chen activated the Formless Demon God aspect of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art and confronted Chu Feikong.
• Ding Buxing recognized Qing Chen and secretly informed Chu Feikong about his strength and his past victory over Yue Xipo.
• Chu Feikong grew wary of Qing Chen, and the men stopped attacking as they settled into a tense stalemate.

Qing Chen knocked out Xue Qingxia and sealed her senses and the pill's effects before turning on Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing. He sent three armored corpses to attack them, leaving both men struggling to defend themselves.

• Xue Qingxia collapsed against Qing Chen under the Lingxi Springheart Ember's effects, and he knocked her unconscious rather than let her draw him into trouble.
• Qing Chen sealed Xue Qingxia's acupoints and senses, suppressing the pill's medicinal power inside her.
• Qing Chen summoned three armored corpses and ordered them to attack Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing.
• The gold-armored corpse struck Chu Feikong with the Mysterious Yin Demon Fist, forcing him backward and scattering blood mist.
• Ding Buxing blocked one silver-armored corpse with his Red-Gold Shield Spirit Talisman, but the other cracked the barrier and injured him.

Qing Chen fought Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing until Ding used a bamboo flute to summon swarms of Dao soldiers and bargain for their lives. Ding offered Qing Chen cultivation secrets and information about the Inner Hall, including a page mentioning the Ghost Mantis Token, but Qing Chen demanded that both men swear Netherworld Heart Demon Oaths before leaving.

• Qing Chen's three armored corpses overwhelmed Chu Feikong and Ding Buxing, badly wounding them and damaging Ding's spirit talismans.
• Ding Buxing played an eerie bamboo flute that drew shrimp soldiers and crab generals through the blood mist, then warned Qing Chen he could summon thousands more.
• Ding Buxing offered Qing Chen a harvesting method related to High Person Qingxia, a Voice Transmission Talisman, and information about an opportunity in the Inner Hall.
• Qing Chen examined Ding Buxing's silver-foil page and discovered that it mentioned the Ghost Mantis Token left by the Descendants of the Great Qin Imperial Clan.
• Qing Chen agreed to let Ding Buxing and Chu Feikong leave only if they swore Netherworld Heart Demon Oaths never to reveal what had happened.

Qing Chen let Ding Buxing escape but stopped Chu Feikong, who fought the three Armored Corpses before Qing Chen ambushed and subdued him. With Chu Feikong restrained, Qing Chen turned to examine the unconscious Xue Qingxia’s Spirit Body.

• Ding Buxing and Chu Feikong swore Netherworld Heart Demon Oaths, and Qing Chen allowed Ding Buxing to leave while keeping Chu Feikong behind.
• Chu Feikong protested, then pleaded for his life when the three Armored Corpses surrounded him; Ding Buxing abandoned him and fled.
• Chu Feikong unleashed his Boundless Blood Sea Secret Technique, but the three Armored Corpses shattered it with their Mysterious Yin Demon Fists.
• Qing Chen struck Chu Feikong with the Immovable Wisdom King Palm, then sealed his acupoints, sent Yellow Springs baleful intent through his meridians, and planted a demon seed in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qing Chen examined the unconscious Xue Qingxia’s Spirit Body and searched her clothes and Storage Bag.

Qing Chen harvested the essence of Xue Qingxia’s Phoenix-and-Phoenix Reversal Spirit Body to advance his cultivation, combining it with qi and blood from the White Bone Banner. One month later, Xue Qingxia stood guard as he continued circulating his art, while the essence-harvesting left her dependent on him.

• Qing Chen used “Transplanting Flowers and Grafting Trees” to draw spiritual essence from the unconscious Xue Qingxia and refine it with the “Brahma Demon-Refining Art.”
• Qing Chen summoned the White Bone Banner and absorbed its high-grade qi and blood alongside Xue Qingxia’s essence, nearing a breakthrough at the fifth level of his cultivation art.
• When Xue Qingxia struggled, Qing Chen restrained her and used the Cloud-and-Rain Mount Wu Form to harvest the remaining essence, creating a spiritual energy vortex around them.
• One month later, Xue Qingxia cleaned the cave and stood guard over Qing Chen as he continued cultivating.
• Xue Qingxia’s cultivation had declined, and she felt an unexplained dependence on Qing Chen after her spirit-body essence was harvested.

Qing Chen sent the badly injured Xue Qingxia out of the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion and gave her a high-grade alchemy furnace. Afterward, he reflected on how harvesting her spiritual essence had advanced him to Foundation Establishment late stage and the sixth layer of his cultivation art.

• Qing Chen judged that Xue Qingxia was too injured to help him in the mansion and ordered her to return to the Condensed Jade Sect’s spirit boat to watch several people for him.
• Qing Chen gave Xue Qingxia the Three-Turn Scarlet Jade Furnace, and she gratefully accepted it.
• Xue Qingxia crushed her Blood Jiangshi True Mansion Token and teleported out of the ancient mansion.
• Qing Chen confirmed he had broken through to Foundation Establishment late stage after absorbing Xue Qingxia’s spiritual essence.
• Qing Chen’s Brahma Demon-Refining Art advanced to its sixth layer, allowing him to begin manifesting the Heartless Demon Aspect.

After advancing the Brahma Demon-Refining Art to its sixth layer, Qing Chen tested his increased power in the Blood Jiangshi True Mansion and headed deeper into the Ancient Mansion. He left Chu Feikong sealed in a Bronze Coffin for later refinement and prepared to fight a swarm of demonic creatures.

• Qing Chen’s breakthrough strengthened his magic power and divine sense, and increased the number of Dao Heart Seed Demon Seals he could maintain to five.
• Qing Chen sealed the nearly lifeless Chu Feikong in a Bronze Coffin, intending to refine him into a second living corpse after leaving the Ancient Mansion.
• Qing Chen traveled deeper through the blood mist on the Bridge of Helplessness and was surrounded by more than three hundred Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals.
• Qing Chen used the basic Blood Blade Spell to cut down more than twenty creatures, while his armored corpses collected Yellow Springs Baleful Intent.
• Qing Chen considered how further refining his magic power might help him reach the Pseudo-Core realm, then merged with the Formless Demon God to face the charging swarm.

Qing Chen fought through increasingly dangerous hordes in the Ancient Mansion and reached six vortexes leading to mysterious paths. After watching several cultivators choose their routes and failing to find Ding Buxing, he discovered the Demon Lotus Stone was pointing toward the White Bone Path.

• Qing Chen slaughtered a horde of demonic creatures, and his three armored corpses collected the Yellow Springs baleful intent.
• Qing Chen continued through the blood mist, facing larger waves and stronger demonic creatures, and noticed several broken Naihe Bridges.
• Qing Chen found six vortexes labeled Blood Jiangshi Path, Moonstar Path, Nanhua Path, White Bone Path, Evil Spirits Path, and Hell Path.
• Qing Chen hid and watched a Three Corpse Demon Sect cultivator enter the Blood Jiangshi Path, Xu Jiuling enter the Nanhua Path, a Cold Mountain Temple monk enter the Hell Path, and Zhang Chengfeng enter the Moonstar Path.
• Qing Chen searched for Ding Buxing with his White Bone Giant Wolf puppets but found no trace of him.
• Qing Chen sensed the Demon Lotus Stone glowing and saw its blood-red light point toward the White Bone Path.

Qing Chen entered the White Bone Path and discovered a realm filled with Mara Qi, undead creatures, and a force that seemed to command a second White Bone Demon Mara Banner. After overwhelming its lesser defenders, he was struck by a powerful flying monster and staggered back.

• Qing Chen recalled his White Bone Giant Wolves, set aside the Ancient Teleportation Formation, and entered the White Bone Path.
• Qing Chen found himself amid mountains of bones and Mara Qi, where Grudge Ghosts, White Bone Demon Soldiers, and more than thirty White Bone Giant Wolves attacked him.
• Qing Chen wondered whether another White Bone Demon Mara Banner existed, then empowered himself with the Formless Demon God and destroyed scores of attackers.
• A fast, four-legged, two-winged monster with an eagle-like head swooped down and struck Qing Chen's raised fist, forcing him back before it flew away.

Qing Chen struggled to keep up with the Di Jiang Demon General as it attacked with overwhelming speed and support from surrounding demons. He used his Yin-Thunder Wings to turn the fight around and trapped the Demon General in lightning chains.

• Qing Chen recognized the Di Jiang Demon General and realized its speed surpassed his Six Jia Evasion Void technique.
• The Di Jiang Demon General repeatedly attacked Qing Chen while White Bone Demon Soldiers and Grudge Ghosts distracted him, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Qing Chen summoned the Yin-Thunder Wings bestowed by True Person Budong and used them to gain the speed advantage.
• Qing Chen unleashed Yin-Thunder Chains from his wings and trapped the Di Jiang Demon General in a net of lightning.

Qing Chen used the Heartless Demon Aspect to cripple Demon General Di Jiang and bind it with yin-thunder chains, then exposed and pursued the source of the mara qi. He destroyed the translucent crow guarding the bone demon banner and collected its Yellow Springs baleful intent, but still needed a fresh Core Formation demonic creature’s inner core or a True Person’s golden core to reach the Seventh Heaven.

• Qing Chen summoned the Heartless Demon Aspect, whose Avīci Heartless Seal shattered Demon General Di Jiang’s claws and weakened it before the yin-thunder chains bound it.
• Qing Chen recognized the mara qi as the Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching divine ability and burned it with Sixth-Turn Demon Lotus Karmic Fire.
• The blood mist fled, but Qing Chen caught it with his Yin-Thunder Wings and restrained it with his Demon Seed Divine Sense, revealing a white-bone demon banner and a translucent crow-like creature.
• Qing Chen struck and shattered the demonic creature, then collected its Yellow Springs baleful intent in a spirit bottle.
• Qing Chen concluded that he had enough baleful energy to cultivate to the Seventh Heaven but still needed a fresh Core Formation Stage demonic creature’s inner core or a True Person’s golden core.

Qing Chen claimed the Dijiang Demon Mara Banner before the collapsing White Bone Path sent him through a portal to the Cloudfoot Celestial Palace. He used the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion Token to enter the palace’s protective barrier, reaching a new stage of the legacy trials.

• Qing Chen examined the Dijiang Demon Mara Banner, planted his divine soul imprint in it, and stored it in a Spatial Ring.
• The White Bone Path began to collapse, so Qing Chen used the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion Token as blood mist formed a second marking on it and opened a teleportation vortex.
• Qing Chen was pulled through the vortex and arrived in a vast plaza before the Cloudfoot Celestial Palace.
• Qing Chen recognized the palace from his Master's Jade Slip and hurried toward it.
• Qing Chen pressed the command token against the palace’s protective membrane, opened a passage, and cautiously entered.

Qing Chen reunited with Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun at Cloudfoot Heavenly Palace, where they learned that the palace offered a place for secluded cultivation under a ban on magical combat. He joined a gathering of elders and disciples, leaving them stunned by his Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation and fearsome reputation.

• Qing Chen met Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun after leaving the passage into Cloudfoot Heavenly Palace.
• Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun were astonished that Qing Chen had reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and Xu Jiuling predicted he could attain Golden Core or even Pseudo-Nascent Soul.
• Xu Jiuling explained that Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion Tokens allowed them to cultivate in the palace, but magical combat was forbidden and would cause expulsion.
• Qing Chen decided to use the quiet cultivation opportunity to absorb his accumulated Yellow Springs Baleful Intent and strengthen his body.
• Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun led Qing Chen to a courtyard where three Pseudo-Core elders and several Foundation Establishment disciples gathered, and the disciples fell silent at his cultivation and reputation.

Qing Chen used the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion Token and gained an exceptional Grade-A cave abode after it detected his Brahma Demon-Refining Art, then began cultivating with Yellow Springs Baleful Intent. Outside the mansion, Ten Thousand Souls True Person told Heavenfire True Person that the trials were going smoothly and warned their group to stay together and wait for the Sect Master's chosen moment.

• Qing Chen greeted the elders and disciples in the courtyard before heading toward the seclusion chamber.
• Qing Chen used the token at the stele, which upgraded his Inner Sect privilege to a Grade-A cave abode after detecting his pure magic power and solid foundations.
• Qing Chen entered Cloudfoot Celestial Palace, Grade-A Cave Abode Number Twelve, and marveled at its dense spiritual energy.
• Qing Chen began refining Yellow Springs Baleful Intent with the Brahma Demon-Refining Art in the cave abode.
• Heavenfire True Person privately asked Ten Thousand Souls True Person about the trial, and Ten Thousand Souls said the entrance trials were going smoothly.
• Ten Thousand Souls True Person told Heavenfire True Person that their group must stay together in the Inner Hall and wait for the Sect Master's chosen moment.