Recaps

Xuangu and his companions encountered Penglai Spirit Island cultivators trying to seize a rogue cultivator’s Red Dragon Scale Grass in Demon Lotus City. Qing An intervened on behalf of the city’s rules, confronting Penglai’s representatives as the dispute threatened to escalate.

• Xuangu recognized True Lord Yunmiao, Young Master Lingxu, Chongxu, and other Penglai cultivators gathered outside the Ten Thousand Grasses Pavilion.
• A Penglai disciple demanded the rogue cultivator’s Red Dragon Scale Grass despite the cultivator having already bought it, then threatened him and reached for the jade box.
• The Ten Thousand Grasses Pavilion shopkeeper confirmed the sale and offered a comparable spirit fruit, but the Penglai disciple refused and threatened the cultivator.
• Qing An arrived with two Demon Lotus Sect Punishment Hall Inspectors and ordered the Penglai cultivators to obey Demon Lotus City’s ban on forcible seizure.

Ye Wushang arrived in Demon Lotus City as Penglai Spirit Island’s conflict with the Demon Lotus Sect escalated over a Red Dragon Scale Grass. He asserted Qing Chen’s authority and left Dharma Nascent Soul Chongxu gravely wounded with a single sword strike.

• A Penglai disciple tried to seize a rogue cultivator’s Red Dragon Scale Grass, and Chongxu used his Dharma Nascent Soul pressure to injure the Demon Lotus Inspectors who intervened.
• Jia Daoyi and Zhaoshenzi confronted Chongxu, but True Lord Yunmiao backed Penglai and demanded the spirit herb, bringing the two sides close to a fight.
• Ye Wushang arrived from Jade Rock Mountain, asked the rogue cultivator whether he had bought the herb, and then asked the Penglai disciple whether he wanted it.
• When Chongxu challenged him, Ye Wushang declared Demon Lotus City to be Qing Chen’s territory and struck Chongxu with an azure sword thread, destroying his right arm and piercing his shoulder.

Ye Wushang gravely wounded Chongxu with a casual sword strike as powerful figures gathered in Demon Lotus City, while Qing Chen watched from afar and suspected the disturbance was a probe of his strength. The chapter ended when True Person Budong unleashed a vastly strengthened Immovable Wisdom King Heart Method outside the city, sending a golden pillar into the sky.

• Ye Wushang struck Chongxu with a wisp of Sword Path laws, leaving the Dharma Nascent Soul True Lord embedded in a wall and badly injured.
• Yuan Lingzi arrived with Penglai Spirit Island’s people, while Ye Wushang noticed powerful observers from across Gouwu Sea and prepared to challenge Yuan Lingzi.
• Qing Chen monitored the city with his Demon Seed Divine Sense and concluded that Penglai Spirit Island’s troublemaking was meant to test his strength.
• Qing Chen considered giving the Yin Marrow Bone Pearl to Lin Changsheng, then sensed a powerful eruption three hundred li outside Demon Lotus City.
• True Person Budong’s strengthened Immovable Wisdom King Heart Method produced a golden pillar that scattered the clouds and drove the sea into towering waves.

True Person Budong approached the Immortal Realm by forming a Wisdom King Grotto-Heaven, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators across the region. Qing Chen raced to support him, leaving Budong on the verge of a breakthrough.

• True Person Budong’s grotto-heaven prototype appeared within a golden pillar of light, and the Vajra Mound Treasure Pagoda helped it evolve.
• Qing Chen emerged from Demon Lotus Palace in a Five-Dragon Carriage Talisman pulled by five flood dragons and sped toward Budong’s mountain.
• Budong’s foundation fell short as he struggled to complete the grotto-heaven’s evolution.
• Qing Chen remotely mobilized parts of the Demon Lotus City and Cangming Island mountain-guarding formations, pouring earth-vein killing intent into Budong.
• As Budong’s body began to break under the strain, Qing Chen’s immense immortality Wisdom King true blood descended to protect him.

True Person Budong passed the Immortal Realm trials with Qing Chen’s help, and the Vajra Mound bestowed a supreme treasure that stabilized his new Grotto-Heaven. His breakthrough turned Qing Chen’s Nascent Soul Ceremony into a celebration for master and disciple, while True Lord Yunmiao and Yuan Lingzi reconsidered their plan to test Qing Chen.

• Qing Chen lent Budong his Qi-Blood Power to activate the Vajra Mound, which helped Budong establish his Grotto-Heaven.
• Budong withstood the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Pass and the Three-Colored Thunder Pool Tribulation, attaining the Immortal Realm.
• The Vajra Mound condensed a drop of Grotto-Heaven Golden Body Liquid, which entered Budong and strengthened his Grotto-Heaven.
• Cultivators in Demon Lotus City witnessed Budong rise with the Treasure Pagoda, and Hui'an recognized him as a True Lord.
• True Lord Yunmiao and Yuan Lingzi reconsidered their plan to probe Qing Chen after witnessing the strength of his allies and Budong’s breakthrough.

Qing Chen returned to Demon Lotus City and used his Yang Spirit, battle technique, and two laws to form a pseudo-domain, slaughtering Penglai Spirit Island’s delegation. He killed Chongxu and Young Master Lingxu, wounded True Lord Yunmiao, and left the street drenched in blood.

• Qing Chen arrived above the Penglai Spirit Island group and unleashed his Yang Spirit: Dominion, suppressing the cultivators’ divine souls.
• Qing Chen combined blood path and magnetic origin rule power into a pseudo-domain and brought it crashing down on the delegation.
• Chongxu’s Dharma Body was destroyed, and Qing Chen captured his Dharma Nascent Soul in the Di Jiang Demon Banner.
• True Lord Yunmiao attacked Qing Chen to protect Young Master Lingxu, but Qing Chen shattered his cloud palm and severely wounded him.
• Qing Chen killed Young Master Lingxu and captured his Dharma Nascent Soul in the Di Jiang Demon Banner.
• Qing Chen killed more than a dozen Penglai disciples with a ripple of true essence, covering the street in blood.

Qing Chen overwhelmed Penglai Spirit Island’s Yuan Lingzi, leaving Demon Lotus City in ruins. He then announced that the Condensed Jade Sect would merge into the Demon Lotus Sect as the Condensed Jade Hall, with True Lord Budong as its first Hall Master and one of the Four Great Devil Lords.

• Qing Chen’s pseudo-domain shattered Yuan Lingzi’s defenses and sent him crashing through a city wall.
• Qing Chen surveyed the devastation in Demon Lotus City while Ye Wushang and True Lord Yunmiao emerged from the rubble.
• Qing Chen privately spoke with True Lord Budong, who acknowledged that his disciple had become a true sect leader.
• Qing Chen announced that the Condensed Jade Sect would merge into the Demon Lotus Sect as an independent Condensed Jade Hall.
• Qing Chen appointed True Lord Budong as the hall’s first Hall Master and named him the Immortality Wisdom King, one of the Four Great Devil Lords.

Qing Chen clashed with Penglai True Lord after defeating Penglai Spirit Island’s cultivators in Demon Lotus City, then drew him away to fight above the sea. Their battle was set to decide the Gouwu Sea’s order for the next thousand years.

• Qing Chen ordered Jia Daoyi to repair Demon Lotus City and charge the costs to Penglai Spirit Island’s cultivators, warning the gathered factions against causing trouble.
• Penglai True Lord arrived and threatened Qing Chen, then formed his Purple Firmament Thunder Spear to attack.
• Qing Chen countered with the Blood River God-Slaying Spear, and the clash shattered Penglai True Lord’s lightning spear and forced him to retreat.
• Qing Chen challenged Penglai True Lord to fight outside the city and flew toward the open sea, with Penglai True Lord pursuing him.
• The two faced off above the sea as cultivators gathered to watch a battle that would determine the Gouwu Sea’s order for the next thousand years.

Qing Chen battled Penglai True Lord at sea and withstood his most powerful thunder strike, impressing the watching cultivators with his strength. Penglai True Lord's attack remained locked against Qing Chen's spear as Abbot Hui'an reconsidered his plans and Yinji became captivated by Qing Chen's physical power.

• Qing Chen struck Penglai True Lord with Blood River-Heaven-Cleaving, then broke through his lightning prison with Blood River-Demon-Sweeping.
• Penglai True Lord summoned Purple Firmament-True Thunder, and Qing Chen met the enormous thunderbolt head-on with Blood River-God-Slaying.
• Qing Chen halted his descent and began forcing the thunderbolt upward as his blood path rules clashed with its thunder arts rules.
• Abbot Hui'an watched in horror and decided he would need to change his plans for Qing Chen.
• Tower Master Yinji admired Qing Chen's powerful body and qi and blood as he resisted the thunderbolt.

Qing Chen split Penglai True Lord’s Purple Firmament True Thunder and closed in on him, forcing the True Lord to draw the Thunder Marsh Sword. Their clash escalated as Qing Chen countered the sword’s lightning cascades with his spear, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yinji watched Qing Chen with growing desire, while Mad Shark True Lord decided he was valuable enough to ally with rather than avenge old grudges.
• The deputy Mirror Lord reconsidered Xiao Canglan’s order to intervene after seeing Qing Chen’s strength and chose to wait for Penglai True Lord to use his legacy treasure.
• Qing Chen broke through Penglai True Lord’s Purple Firmament True Thunder and used his Five Elements evasion art and magnetic rule power to pursue him.
• Penglai True Lord summoned the supreme-grade Thunder Marsh Sword and unleashed a barrage of lightning sword cascades at Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen met the cascades with his Blood River God-Slaying Spear and Soul-Shocking Spear Technique, trading blows with Penglai True Lord.

Qing Chen fought Penglai True Lord in a fierce duel, but Penglai True Lord overwhelmed him with the Thunder Marsh Sword and blasted him into the sea. As Penglai True Lord unleashed a deadly finishing attack into the crater, someone declared that the Di Jiang Demon Banner should return to its original owner.

• Qing Chen used his speed, magnetic origin rules, and Blood River God-Slaying Spear to press Penglai True Lord, even landing a powerful strike that sent him flying.
• Penglai True Lord unleashed Thunder Marsh True Form-Overturning the Sea Thunderstorm, trapping Qing Chen and smashing his arms with a devastating blow that sent him crashing into the sea.
• Penglai True Lord, enraged and fearing Qing Chen might become a threat, prepared to kill him with Thunder Marsh Sword Scripture: Annihilation.
• Penglai True Lord thrust a pillar of purple lightning and azure sword light into the sea crater, while someone called out that the Di Jiang Demon Banner should return to its original owner.

Qing Chen was battered by Penglai True Lord’s lightning strike when Feng Jiuling launched a hidden attack with the Sky-Splitting Feather. As both attacks closed in on him beneath the sea, the chapter left his survival uncertain.

• Feng Jiuling seized the chance to attack Qing Chen with the Sky-Splitting Feather while Penglai True Lord’s lightning pillar descended.
• The watching cultivators feared Qing Chen’s death, while True Lord Budong stopped Ye Wushang from rushing to help and said Qing Chen still had another move.
• Old Monk Hui'an doubted Qing Chen could survive the combined attacks, while Tower Mistress Yinji regretted that he might die before she could introduce him to Big Sister.
• Sea-Calming True Lord sensed that Qing Chen’s Qi Mechanism had grown more violent instead of disappearing, and Mad Shark True Lord considered whether to intervene.
• At the bottom of the sea, Qing Chen knelt amid shattered reefs as the lightning pillar and Sky-Splitting Feather closed in on him.

Qing Chen unleashed the Six Demons Pulling the Coffin, using two chains infused with the life-and-death rules to hold back Feng Jiuling and Penglai True Lord. As the clash drove him to the brink, the immense pressure and expenditure finally fused the unrefined powers within him.

• Qing Chen stopped suppressing his power and manifested all six White Bone Demon Mara Banners, forming a vortex above the sea.
• Qing Chen summoned the Six Demons Pulling the Coffin, whose two chains of life-and-death rules struck Feng Jiuling’s Sky-Splitting Feather and Penglai True Lord’s annihilating lightning pillar.
• Feng Jiuling urged Penglai True Lord to endure, believing Qing Chen’s injuries and the technique’s enormous cost would soon exhaust him.
• As the phantom coffin weakened, Old Monk Hui'an recognized that Qing Chen was forcing a breakthrough in battle, while the gathered cultivators watched tensely.
• Despite his broken arms and the weakening blood infant, Qing Chen reached his limit and fused the unrefined powers within him under extreme pressure.

Qing Chen absorbed pure qi, blood, and rule fragments as his Nascent Soul middle-stage bottleneck loosened, but Penglai True Lord and Feng Jiuling realized he was using their attacks to temper himself. They unleashed forbidden techniques against his White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin, which began to crack while Qing Chen remained seated inside with his eyes closed.

• Qing Chen's Blood Nascent Soul swallowed qi, blood, and rule fragments, and the breakthrough bottleneck began to loosen.
• Penglai True Lord and Feng Jiuling recognized Qing Chen's transformation and decided to use their trump cards to kill him before he could break through.
• Penglai True Lord sacrificed Nascent Soul essence to unleash Thunder Marsh Myriad Tribulations, while Feng Jiuling crushed a Jade Pendant to empower Black Bird God-Splitting.
• The two attacks shattered Qing Chen's Life-and-Death Rules Chains and battered the White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin.
• Penglai True Lord and Feng Jiuling intensified their attacks, deepening the coffin's cracks until Qing Chen was visible inside, still seated with his eyes closed.

Qing Chen broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage inside the White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin and gained new mastery of Blood Path power, the Lawless Devil Aspect, and his evasion art. He stabilized the coffin formation and brought the Blood River God-Slaying Spear under his control as the battle continued.

• As the coffin neared destruction, Qing Chen awakened and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Qing Chen condensed a third strand of Blood Path Rules, comprehended the Lawless Devil Aspect, and advanced his Minor Five Elements One-Origin Evasion Art to its third level.
• Qing Chen burned the reserves in one Brahma Aperture to repair and reinforce the coffin, shocking Feng Jiuling and Penglai True Lord.
• Qing Chen's True Essence and Demon Seed Divine Sense surged, letting him overpower the pressure of the surrounding battlefield.
• Qing Chen took control of the six Demon Banners and stabilized the coffin formation while summoning the Blood River God-Slaying Spear.

Qing Chen unleashed Lawless Blood Seal against Feng Jiuling and Penglai True Lord, overpowering their combined attacks with a massive demonic Blood Seal and the White Bone Coffin’s demonic dragons. Feng Jiuling’s Wind Blade collapsed, Penglai True Lord’s Thunder Sea began to be swallowed, and Feng Jiuling tried to flee.

• Qing Chen summoned the Lawless Devil Aspect and formed the enormous Lawless Blood Seal as Feng Jiuling and Penglai True Lord pressed their attacks.
• Qing Chen’s Blood Seal and the White Bone Coffin’s bone dragons collided with Feng Jiuling’s Wind Blade and Penglai True Lord’s Purple Thunder Sea, creating a devastating shock wave.
• The Blood Seal dissolved Feng Jiuling’s Wind Blade and damaged his Divine Soul, leaving him badly injured.
• The freed Blood Seal power struck Penglai True Lord’s Thunder Sea and began swallowing it, damaging the Thunder Marsh Sword.
• Feng Jiuling lost his will to fight and used Wind-Path power to transform into a breeze and attempt to escape.

Qing Chen exploited Feng Jiuling’s betrayal to badly wound Penglai True Lord, then pursued the fleeing cultivator across the Gouwu Sea. Penglai True Lord survived Qing Chen’s attacks and tried to reach Feng Jiuling, while Qing Chen continued striking at his back.

• Feng Jiuling fled and used a gray storm to paralyze Penglai True Lord’s escape route, leaving him exposed to Qing Chen’s attack.
• Qing Chen’s blood seal, demonic dragons, and Blood River God-Slaying Spear broke through Penglai True Lord’s defenses and grievously wounded him.
• Qing Chen used the Five Elements Void-Breaking Evasion Art to block Penglai True Lord, who detonated dozens of fourth-tier talismans and fled under their cover.
• Qing Chen protected himself with death energy, pursued Penglai True Lord on the Five-Dragon Carriage Talisman, and struck at him with blood-colored spear radiance.
• Penglai True Lord blocked the spear radiance with a lightning shield and surged ahead, hoping to catch up with Feng Jiuling.

Qing Chen used the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda’s projection to halt Penglai True Lord’s escape, then seized the opening to swallow him into the White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin. Penglai True Lord was trapped inside as death energy began corroding his protective lightning.

• Qing Chen pursued the wounded Penglai True Lord across the sea, using the Primordial Magnetism Pearl to disrupt his lightning escape technique.
• Penglai True Lord veered toward an island with a suspected fallback formation, but Qing Chen summoned the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda’s phantom in his path.
• Penglai True Lord attacked the pagoda and retreated from its vortex, believing it to be a genuine Spirit Treasure capable of suppressing him.
• Qing Chen used the distraction to send the White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin around behind Penglai True Lord.
• The coffin swallowed Penglai True Lord and closed, leaving him trapped inside as its death energy corroded his protective lightning.

Qing Chen defeated and captured Penglai True Lord inside the Immortal-Burying Coffin, then heard warnings about powerful enemies and opportunities tied to the Immortal-Locking Cult. Penglai True Lord ultimately destroyed himself rather than face further humiliation.

• Qing Chen burned the Essence Blood in his Brahma Apertures and used the Lawless Blood Seal, empowered by the Rules of Death, to crush Penglai True Lord's defenses.
• Qing Chen sealed Penglai True Lord's Magic Power and Divine Soul, subdued the Thunder Marsh Sword, and demanded his last words.
• Penglai True Lord revealed the Demon Lotus Holy Sons in the Reincarnation Dead Sea, the Immortal-Burying Valley's connection to the Immortal-Locking Cult, and threats from the Black Bird Heaven-Bearing Sect, other factions, Xiao Canglan, Hui'an, and the Qing Household.
• Penglai True Lord asked Qing Chen to preserve Penglai Spirit Island's legacy, then ignited his remaining origin lightning intent and Divine Soul, killing himself.

After Penglai True Lord destroyed his own divine soul, Qing Chen fed his body to the Di Jiang Demon Banner and relentlessly purged the surrounding sea before returning to Cangming Island. Meanwhile, Demon Lotus City celebrated Qing Chen’s victory as other factions weighed the consequences of his rise.

• Qing Chen extinguished the purple lightning fire after Penglai True Lord’s divine soul vanished, then let the Di Jiang Demon Banner consume the corpse and begin transforming.
• Lian Chengbi and Duan Lang reported that their body cultivators had purged the nearby sea, and Qing Chen ordered them to continue while he searched the area himself.
• Qing Chen scoured the sea for hidden life, killed anything he found, and finally headed back toward Cangming Island.
• Cultivators in Demon Lotus City praised Qing Chen’s victory, while True Lord Budong worried about his disciple’s thirst for slaughter and Abbot Hui'an regretted misjudging the balance of power.
• The Deputy Mirror Lord criticized Qing Chen’s pursuit of Penglai True Lord and warned that it could provoke a fight to the death between the Demon Lotus Sect and Penglai Spirit Island.

Qing Chen returned to Demon Lotus City with Penglai Spirit Island’s Thunder Marsh Sword, revealing that he had killed Penglai True Lord. He accused Penglai Spirit Island of conspiring with the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom and the Golden Tent Khanate to destabilize the Gouwu Sea and attack Great Jin.

• Cultivators speculated that Penglai Spirit Island’s defeat would reshape the balance of power in the Gouwu Sea.
• The Deputy Mirror Lord assumed Qing Chen had failed to kill Penglai True Lord and advised him to stabilize his cultivation.
• Qing Chen revealed the Thunder Marsh Sword, silenced the crowd, and demonstrated its power by destroying a distant hill.
• Qing Chen confirmed that he had pursued and killed Penglai True Lord.
• Qing Chen declared that Penglai Spirit Island had secretly colluded with the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom and the Golden Tent Khanate to overturn the Gouwu Sea and sever Great Jin’s eastern sea barrier.

At Qing Chen's Nascent Soul Ceremony, he accused Penglai Spirit Island of treason and rallied the gathered cultivators to attack it for its riches. Mad Shark True Lord returned with the corpses of Yuan Lingzi and True Lord Yunmiao, leaving the war effort poised to begin.

• Qing Chen blamed Penglai Spirit Island and Feng Jiuling for colluding with foreign enemies, then declared that the Demon Lotus Sect would root out traitors in the Gouwu Sea.
• Qing Chen turned his Nascent Soul Ceremony into a rally for war, promising the spoils of Penglai Spirit Island to participating sects and cultivators.
• The assembled cultivators, tempted by Penglai's resources and weakened defenses, voiced support for Qing Chen's campaign.
• Abbot Hui'an worried about Qing Chen's motives, while Tower Lord Yinji considered how the Blissful Union Tower could profit from the coming conflict.
• Mad Shark True Lord returned and presented the mutilated corpses of Yuan Lingzi and True Lord Yunmiao as his contribution to the campaign.

Qing Chen defended Kuang Sha’s killing of Yuan Lingzi and True Lord Yunmiao by branding them traitors and silencing the Deputy Mirror Lord’s objections. He left the confrontation committed to wiping out Penglai Spirit Island and thanked Kuang Sha for serving Great Jin.

• Kuang Sha killed Yuan Lingzi and True Lord Yunmiao, prompting the Deputy Mirror Lord to accuse him of violating the agreement between Wu Gui and Xiao Spirit Venerable.
• Qing Chen declared that Penglai Spirit Island had conspired with foreign enemies and called the dead True Lords accomplices, praising Kuang Sha for executing traitors.
• Qing Chen challenged the Deputy Mirror Lord to say whether he sided with Great Jin or the alleged traitors, then cited his titles and the damage at his ceremony to justify the killings.
• The Deputy Mirror Lord said he would report Qing Chen to Heavenly Abyss Pass and the Lord Spirit Venerable, but Qing Chen said evidence would emerge when Penglai Spirit Island was destroyed.
• Qing Chen thanked Kuang Sha on behalf of the Demon Lotus Sect for killing the two True Lords.

Qing Chen turned the crowd’s fury over Penglai Spirit Island into support for his campaign, forcing the Deputy Mirror Lord to address him as Sect Leader. He established the Gou Wu Whale Army Reserve and declared the assault on Penglai the first step toward uniting the Gouwu Sea.

• Qing Chen and Kuang Sha accused Penglai Spirit Island of treachery, prompting cultivators to call for its destruction.
• Qing Chen challenged the Deputy Mirror Lord’s appeal to Great Jin’s rules and overwhelmed him with killing intent until he addressed Qing Chen as Sect Leader.
• Qing Chen drew Yuan Lingzi and True Lord Yunmiao’s bodies into the Di Jiang Demon Banner.
• Qing Chen invoked his Great Jin titles and authority to establish the Gou Wu Whale Army Reserve to exterminate the Penglai rebels.
• Qing Chen urged cultivators of the Gouwu Sea and neighboring regions to unite, calling the assault on Penglai their first show of strength.

Qing Chen tried to unite the Gouwu Sea's sects into the Gou Wu Whale Army and fund a campaign against Penglai Spirit Island with his Nascent Soul Ceremony gifts. Abbot Hui'an and three major sect leaders rejected the plan, leaving the gathering divided and Qing Chen's campaign uncertain.

• Qing Chen promised the sects shares of territory, spoils, and Imperial Dynasty resources if they joined his army and fought Penglai Spirit Island.
• Qing Chen ordered Lin Changsheng, Xu Jiuling, and Su Zixuan to collect his congratulatory gifts and place them in the army's Military Supply Depot.
• Yinji, Sea-Calming True Lord, and Heavenly Pool True Lord looked to Abbot Hui'an to determine whether the major powers would support Qing Chen.
• Abbot Hui'an warned that raising an army could provoke Great Jin and said his sect could not spare forces for the Gou Wu Whale Army.
• Yinji, Sea-Calming True Lord, and Heavenly Pool True Lord each announced that their sect would not join the army or campaign.