Recaps

Qing Chen, Qing Sanxiao, and Five Gu True Lord were attacked by five coordinated Jingmo Centipedes while crossing the blood sea. Qing Sanxiao unleashed the Eight Extremes Dragon-Elephant Seal against three attackers, but the monsters rapidly recovered.

• Five Jingmo Centipedes emerged from the blood sea and surrounded the boat, attacking it in coordinated formation.
• Qing Chen hurled the Blood River God-Slaying Spear into a centipede, then recalled it with the Budong Dark Gold Baleful-Subduing Essence-Augmenting Light.
• The two largest centipedes unleashed shrieks that shook the cultivators’ divine souls, while the others attacked the boat from multiple directions.
• Qing Sanxiao was caught where three centipedes converged and used his Vajra Ring and Eight Extremes Dragon-Elephant Seal to knock them back.
• The largest centipede survived the blow, grew new bone spurs, and recovered within several breaths.

Qing Sanxiao and Five Gu True Lord were pushed to reveal their full strength against the Jingmo Centipedes, while Qing Chen assessed their abilities from the sidelines. After the two men began turning the battle around, Qing Chen stopped holding back and launched an attack on the mid-fourth tier centipede.

• The Jingmo Centipedes coordinated their attacks, forcing Qing Sanxiao and Five Gu True Lord to fight under pressure.
• Five Gu True Lord summoned his five Gu insects and united them into a powerful humanoid Gu beast that poisoned and crippled a large centipede.
• Qing Sanxiao rallied and struck back at the remaining centipedes with his dragon and elephant phantoms and vajra ring.
• Qing Chen assessed the strengths and weaknesses of Qing Sanxiao and Five Gu True Lord while continuing to fight the centipede at the stern.
• Qing Chen launched himself into the air and plunged down toward the mid-fourth tier centipede, declaring that he would kill it.

Qing Chen slaughtered the Crystal Mo Tribe centipedes with his spear and fists before charging into the largest centipede’s mouth. He called for Qing Sanxiao to attack, and Qing Sanxiao began summoning the Eight Extremes Dragon-Elephant Seal.

• Qing Chen killed one centipede with repeated spear strikes and seized its Crystal Mo Tribe Origin Core.
• Qing Chen joined Qing Sanxiao, killed the two smaller centipedes, and took their Origin Cores.
• The largest centipede charged Qing Chen, who plunged into its spinning mouthpart and battered it from within.
• Qing Chen called for Qing Sanxiao to make his move, and Qing Sanxiao enlarged his Vajra Ring and invoked the Eight Extremes Dragon-Elephant Seal.

Qing Chen and Qing Sanxiao killed a giant centipede, while Five Gu True Lord defeated another. As the three men considered their next moves, a fast-moving disturbance approached the boat from afar.

• Qing Chen and Qing Sanxiao attacked the hundred-zhang centipede from inside and outside until it died, and Qing Chen took its crystals.
• Qing Sanxiao apologized for a deliberate attack that had nearly struck Qing Chen, while both men privately assessed each other's strength.
• Five Gu True Lord used his Humanoid Gu Beast to tear apart the last giant centipede.
• Qing Chen felt the deck tremble as something raced toward the boat, and the three men prepared for danger.
• Qing Chen spread his Primal Magnetism Divine Light into the sea and shifted into a triangular formation with Qing Sanxiao and Five Gu True Lord.

Qing Chen and his companions encountered Flying Bear True Lord, Qing Xuansu, and Tuoba Ye on the blood sea after a fierce battle. Flying Bear True Lord found no Rebirth Furnace Fire Seed Fragment among them and hesitated to attack, while Qing Chen mocked his scrutiny.

• Five Gu True Lord asked whether more enemies were approaching, and Qing Sanxiao indicated that the disturbance was not caused by Jingmo Centipedes.
• A yellow light emerged from the blood mist, revealing Flying Bear True Lord, Qing Xuansu, and Tuoba Ye aboard a boat like theirs.
• Flying Bear True Lord scrutinized Qing Chen and his companions while Qing Sanxiao and Five Gu True Lord readied themselves for a possible fight.
• Qing Chen assessed his improved cultivation and combat strength as Flying Bear True Lord searched them for a Rebirth Furnace Fire Seed Fragment.
• Flying Bear True Lord sensed no fragment among the three and considered whether fighting them would be worth the effort.
• Qing Chen grinned and asked Flying Bear True Lord whether he had finished staring at him.

Qing Chen discovered that Flying Bear True Lord possessed a Fire Seed Fragment but hid his strength as a massive disturbance drew them across the blood sea. At its source, Golden Toad Granny and Wei Yixiao had fused two fragments and left Silver Moon Wolf King badly wounded, while he denounced Wei Yixiao as a traitor.

• Qing Chen sensed a Fire Seed Fragment on Flying Bear True Lord and decided to conceal his own strength rather than attack.
• A distant explosion sent a towering blood column into the sky, and Flying Bear True Lord and Qing Chen's group hurried toward it.
• Golden Toad Granny held a pearl containing two fusing Fire Seed Fragments while Silver Moon Wolf King lay grievously wounded aboard another boat.
• Silver Moon Wolf King accused Wei Yixiao of betraying the Demon Race and warned that the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom would retaliate.

Wei Yixiao reflected on his life as a pawn between the Gu Tribe and the Demon Race while Golden Toad Granny warned him to remain loyal to the Gu Tribe. She killed Silver Moon Wolf King and promised Wei Yixiao White Snake True Lord's remains, leaving his future tied to her trust and rewards.

• Wei Yixiao remembered how the Gu Tribe and Demon Race had used him for over three hundred years, until he cared only about surviving and controlling his own fate.
• Golden Toad Granny offered Wei Yixiao Yinshi Marquis's and Crimson-Chain Serpent Demon's corpses but refused his request for White Snake True Lord's remains, warning him to serve the Gu Tribe.
• Golden Toad Granny attacked Silver Moon Wolf King with her Golden Toad phantom and swallowed him, then took his demon core.
• Golden Toad Granny told Wei Yixiao he belonged to the Gu Tribe and promised him White Snake True Lord's remains if he continued working for them.

Golden Toad Granny and Wei Yixiao fled with the Fire Seed Fragments after Li Hanyi broke through her barrier, but Flying Bear True Lord arrived and accused Li Hanyi of keeping a discovery to himself. The chapter left Li Hanyi and his companions facing Flying Bear’s suspicion.

• Golden Toad Granny explained that Wei Yixiao’s bloody reputation had secured his place in the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom, while the Southern Borderlands’ Gu Tribe was his only refuge in the Nanhua Realm.
• Li Hanyi appeared outside Golden Toad Granny’s barrier and attacked it with his righteous sword light.
• Golden Toad Granny concealed the boat with Gu Arts and escaped with Wei Yixiao and the two Fire Seed Fragments.
• Li Hanyi shattered the barrier, but he and Linghu Jiu Jian found the sea of blood empty and could not track the escapees.
• Flying Bear True Lord arrived with two Sinking Blackwood Boats and accused Li Hanyi of hiding the phenomenon from him.

Li Hanyi cleared himself of suspicion over the Blood Pillar and revealed that the Rebirth Tower’s Fire Seed Fragments were real, exposing that Flying Bear True Lord had concealed his own fragment. Flying Bear admitted he possessed one, leaving the group aware of his secret.

• Li Hanyi used the White Jade Dharma Sword to protect Linghu Jiu Jian and Tie Shou, then told Flying Bear True Lord that Golden Toad Granny had fled before he arrived.
• Li Hanyi showed the group his Fire Seed Fragment and explained that he had no others, while the lingering Gu Dao aura supported his account of Golden Toad Granny creating the Blood Pillar.
• Tuoba Ye, Qing Sanxiao, and Five Gu True Lord said they had not known about the fragments, making Flying Bear True Lord realize he had exposed his own knowledge of them.
• Tuoba Ye challenged Flying Bear True Lord for hiding the fragments and concealing his reason for rushing to the Blood Pillar.
• Flying Bear True Lord revealed a dark-red Fire Seed Fragment from the Rebirth Furnace and claimed he had thought everyone already knew about it.

Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord learned that the High Priest might be aiding Golden Toad Granny, then joined Qing Sanxiao, Qing Chen, and Tuoba Ye in attacking Five Gu True Lord. The chapter ended as Flying Bear True Lord's enormous Dharma Form brought its paws down on him.

• Li Hanyi questioned Five Gu True Lord about his connection to Golden Toad Granny, and Five Gu revealed that the High Priest had ordered him to follow her.
• Flying Bear True Lord warned that Golden Toad Granny and the High Priest might have fused multiple Fire Seed Fragments and urged everyone to unite against them.
• Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord decided Five Gu True Lord was too dangerous to leave alive, and Qing Sanxiao launched the first attack.
• Qing Chen wounded Five Gu True Lord, and Tuoba Ye struck him with a giant hand while Five Gu summoned a Humanoid Gu Beast to defend himself.
• Flying Bear True Lord attacked with his Flying Bear Dharma Form and brought its enormous paws down toward Five Gu True Lord.

Li Hanyi questioned the gravely wounded Five Gu True Lord about the High Priest and Golden Toad Granny, but the Golden Cicada Gu turned on its master and detonated, killing him and injuring the nearby True Lords. Five Gu True Lord left no remains, and the survivors faced the aftermath of the blast.

• Flying Bear True Lord overwhelmed Five Gu True Lord and destroyed several of his Gu insects.
• Li Hanyi promised to spare Five Gu True Lord if he explained the High Priest’s plans and Golden Toad Granny’s objective.
• Five Gu True Lord began revealing that the High Priest controlled a fifth-tier Heart-Tearing technique, but the Golden Cicada Gu attacked him from within.
• Qing Chen retreated as Five Gu True Lord’s body erupted in golden-green light, unleashing a deadly blast across the boat.
• Qing Sanxiao and Tuoba Ye were badly injured, while Flying Bear True Lord endured the explosion behind his Flying Bear Armor.
• The blast destroyed Five Gu True Lord’s body and soul, leaving a smoking hole in the boat’s deck.

After Five Gu's death, Li Hanyi calmed the shaken cultivators by arguing that the High Priest's power had limits and sharing the barrier's aura for study. Qing Chen declined to examine it and urged the group to find Golden Toad Granny, leaving Tuoba Ye offended by his bluntness.

• Qing Sanxiao and Tuoba Ye identified the attack as the fifth-tier Heart-Rending Gut-Breaking Gu and warned that the Gu Tribe could complete the Fire Seed Fragment.
• Li Hanyi blamed himself for Five Gu's death, then argued that the High Priest could not sustain her power and that her methods were not invincible.
• Li Hanyi shared the barrier's recorded aura so the cultivators could study it, while Qing Chen stood apart above the Blood Sea.
• Li Hanyi invited Qing Chen to examine the aura, but Qing Chen declined and suggested they find Golden Toad Granny instead.
• Tuoba Ye accused Qing Chen of dismissing Li Hanyi and the High Priest, and Qing Chen told him he was getting worked up again.

Qing Chen revealed that he had used the Demon Seed Divine Sense power to trace Golden Toad Granny after she killed Yinshi Marquis. With Li Hanyi and the others accepting him as their guide, the boats pursued her northeast while Qing Chen secretly focused much of his attention on his Sea of Qi.

• Qing Chen explained that he had planted a Demon Seed on Yinshi Marquis and sensed that the marquis had died near Golden Toad Granny.
• Qing Chen revealed that the Demon Seed had dispersed but left behind a faint Golden Toad Gu Aura that he could follow.
• Li Hanyi and the other True Lords agreed to let Qing Chen guide the pursuit, and Qing Chen pointed northeast.
• The three Sinking Blackwood Boats traveled for hours, while Qing Chen periodically adjusted their course and secretly focused on his Sea of Qi.

Qing Chen uncovered a hidden divine sense imprint left by Wei Yixiao and saw memories revealing Golden Toad Granny’s Fire Lingzhu and its connection to a distant benefactor. The imprint fell silent after exposing the bead’s power and purpose, leaving Qing Chen to recognize it as a tracking beacon.

• Qing Chen used the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda to strip away the seal around Wei Yixiao’s hidden divine sense imprint and cautiously examined it.
• Qing Chen saw Golden Toad Granny kill Yinshi Marquis after condemning him for failing to act as expected.
• Golden Toad Granny activated the Fire Lingzhu, drawing on power sent from beyond the Blood Sea to strengthen her barrier.
• A distant voice told Golden Toad Granny that the Fire Lingzhu could unleash power comparable to a top-ranked Nanhua Realm cultivator’s attack, but required a day to recharge after half an hour.
• The voice instructed Golden Toad Granny to gather at least three fragments to form Samadhi True Fire, and Qing Chen concluded the divine sense imprint was a tracking beacon.

Wei Yixiao secretly used Qing Chen to draw Golden Toad Granny and the High Priest into conflict, but his Black Pagoda could not locate his junior brother. Qing Chen decided to act against them first and warned his allies that their last trace of Golden Toad Granny’s aura would soon vanish.

• Wei Yixiao refined his enemies’ corpses while fighting the Crystal Mo Giant Pythons and realized Qing Chen had touched the mark he left in the Blood Sea.
• Wei Yixiao hoped Qing Chen would provoke a fight with Golden Toad Granny and the High Priest, allowing him to erase the secrets of his past as a Gu Tribe inside agent.
• Wei Yixiao used his Black Pagoda to trace Qing Chen, but a powerful force blocked the pagoda’s probing.
• Qing Chen studied the information from Wei Yixiao’s mark and decided to strike before Golden Toad Granny and Zhao Ningyi succeeded.
• Qing Chen told Li Hanyi and the others that the Demon Seed’s remaining aura was fading and would disappear within four to six hours.

Qing Chen and the others sacrificed two ships to speed toward their enemies, while Zhao Ningyi warned Golden Toad Granny that they had been discovered. The chapter ended with Zhao Ningyi revealing that Wei Yixiao could be sacrificed to let the Fire Lingzhu unleash a strike of Samadhi True Fire.

• Qing Chen persuaded the group to concentrate the power of all three ships into one, and they scuttled the other two before racing through the Blood Sea.
• Qing Chen tracked the beacon as the ship approached its target, while the others replenished their power and prepared to fight.
• Flying Bear True Lord pushed the ship to even greater speed and warned everyone not to shirk when they met their enemies.
• Golden Toad Granny received a message from Zhao Ningyi that their pursuers had caught up, despite the protections of the Sea of Suffering Hell.
• Zhao Ningyi told Golden Toad Granny the Fire Lingzhu could be used for only a quarter of an hour and revealed that Wei Yixiao could be sacrificed to fuel a strike of Samadhi True Fire.

Li Hanyi and four other experts launched a surprise attack on Golden Toad Granny, nearly killing her before she escaped beneath the Blood Sea and unleashed the High Priest’s power. The blast scattered their formations and drove the attackers back, leaving them facing the real threat.

• Golden Toad Granny waited aboard the damaged Sinking Blackwood Boat after sealing Wei Yixiao beneath it.
• Li Hanyi, Flying Bear True Lord, Tuoba Ye, and Linghu Jiu Jian attacked Golden Toad Granny from several directions, while Qing Chen waited for an opening.
• The attackers shattered Golden Toad Granny’s defenses, and Qing Chen twisted one of her arms with the No-Sentient-Beings Seal.
• Flying Bear True Lord struck the boat where Golden Toad Granny had been, but she vanished beneath the Blood Sea.
• Golden Toad Granny unleashed a blazing blast from beneath the deck that scattered the attackers, and Li Hanyi warned them it was the High Priest’s power.

Golden Toad Granny used the Fire Lingzhu to unleash overwhelming flames and attack the group. Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord joined forces against her, but she remained confident as their confrontation continued.

• Golden Toad Granny emerged restored and empowered by the Fire Lingzhu, then sent two fire dragons sweeping across the Blood Sea.
• The flames badly burned Tuoba Ye, damaged Linghu Jiu Jian’s Flying Swords, and threatened Flying Bear True Lord.
• Li Hanyi urged the others to fight together and fused his three Rules Threads into the Spring and Autumn Great Righteousness sword technique.
• Flying Bear True Lord summoned his Dharma Form and attacked Golden Toad Granny with perfectly fused Sharp Metal Rules Threads.
• Qing Chen let the flames strike him and pretended to be dead while he watched Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord confront Golden Toad Granny.
• Golden Toad Granny remained confident in the Fire Lingzhu’s power and declared that she would shatter their techniques with one strike.

Golden Toad Granny trapped Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord in a compressed fire net and demanded their Fire Seed Fragments. When she threatened the others and began counting down, Qing Chen rose from the Blood Sea and interrupted her.

• Golden Toad Granny used the Fire Lingzhu to trap Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord in a shrinking fireball.
• She offered to release them in exchange for their Fire Seed Fragments, then threatened to let only the first man who surrendered live.
• Golden Toad Granny told the wounded figures nearby to attack the prisoners, promising life to the first three who acted, and began counting down.
• Qing Chen emerged from the Blood Sea, and Golden Toad Granny impatiently demanded that he speak.

Golden Toad Granny killed Qing Xuansu after he urged her to attack Qing Chen, then hid how little power remained in the Fire Lingzhu. As she kept Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord trapped in the fireball, a dark-gold blast erupted beneath the boat and struck her.

• Qing Xuansu accused Qing Chen of stalling and offered to help Golden Toad Granny attack Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord.
• Golden Toad Granny rejected Qing Xuansu's interference and killed him with a flaming saber and the Golden Toad Staff, destroying his body and Nascent Soul.
• Qing Sanxiao, Tuoba Ye, Linghu Jiu Jian, and Tie Shou realized they could not withstand Golden Toad Granny's attacks.
• Golden Toad Granny concealed that the Fire Lingzhu had nearly exhausted its surplus power while the fireball continued to suppress Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord.
• The deck suddenly shuddered, and a dark-gold blast tore through the boat and struck Golden Toad Granny despite her attempt to shield herself.

Wei Yixiao broke free of Golden Toad Granny’s seal and joined Qing Chen in attacking her. Trapped between them and unable to defend herself while maintaining the Fire Lingzhu’s suppression, Golden Toad Granny chose to detonate the pearl, freeing Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord as the fireball shattered.

• Wei Yixiao broke Golden Toad Granny’s seal, revealed his late Immortal Realm strength, and unleashed the Eight-Armed Wisdom King Demon-Sweeping Myriad-Jun Body.
• Qing Chen revealed that his earlier weakness had been an act, powered himself up, and summoned the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to unleash the Law-less-Blood-Seal.
• Wei Yixiao and Qing Chen attacked Golden Toad Granny from opposite sides, leaving her unable to defend herself while the Fire Lingzhu suppressed the people trapped inside.
• Golden Toad Granny reversed the Fire Lingzhu and detonated it, causing the fireball holding Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord to expand and shatter.

Golden Toad Granny detonated the Fire Lingzhu, severely injuring Li Hanyi, Flying Bear True Lord, and the others while Qing Chen survived behind his White Bone Immortal-Locking Gourd. The blast tore open spatial rifts in the Sea of Suffering Prison, and Qing Chen emerged as the strongest combatant still able to fight.

• Golden Toad Granny detonated the Fire Lingzhu, unleashing tricolored flames that blasted vast craters and spatial rifts into the Blood Sea.
• Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord were badly injured, while Qing Sanxiao, Tuoba Ye, and Linghu Jiu Jian suffered further damage.
• Golden Toad Granny used the Fire Lingzhu's remaining power to protect herself, but the blast and her previous wounds left her aura unsteady.
• Wei Yixiao summoned the Myriad-Jun Blackstone Pagoda to shield himself from most of the explosion.
• Qing Chen transformed his Six Demon Banners into the White Bone Immortal-Locking Gourd and emerged nearly unharmed after the blast passed.
• Qing Chen saw the Sea of Suffering Prison breaking apart and judged himself the strongest combatant left on the Blood Sea.

Qing Chen and Wei Yixiao overwhelmed Golden Toad Granny in their fight for the Fire Lingzhu. After Wei Yixiao seized her Golden Toad Staff, Qing Chen tore the Fire Lingzhu from her forehead.

• Qing Chen used the Lawless Devil Aspect to wound Golden Toad Granny and break her left arm while Wei Yixiao trapped her and struck with the Eight-Armed Wisdom King.
• Qing Chen struck Golden Toad Granny with the Blood River God-Slaying Spear, and Wei Yixiao followed with another attack that left her badly injured.
• Qing Chen drove Golden Toad Granny into the Blood Sea and weakened her until Wei Yixiao’s Myriad-Jun Blackstone Pagoda forced her back.
• Qing Chen knocked the Golden Toad Staff from Golden Toad Granny’s hand, and Wei Yixiao seized and subdued it with the pagoda.
• Qing Chen used Primal Magnetism Divine Light to pull the Fire Lingzhu from Golden Toad Granny’s forehead.

Qing Chen caught the Fire Lingzhu after stopping Wei Yixiao’s sudden attack, but the Sea of Suffering Hell began collapsing before he could secure the pearl. The shattered realm revealed the Rebirth Furnace, drawing everyone’s attention to the enormous treasure beyond it.

• After Golden Toad Granny released the Fire Lingzhu, Wei Yixiao attacked Qing Chen with a dark gold saber, but Qing Chen blocked him with the White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin.
• Qing Chen caught the Fire Lingzhu and found that its fused Fire Seed Fragments remained sealed from his divine sense.
• The Sea of Suffering Hell’s dome shattered, and powerful suction swept fallen cultivators’ and monsters’ essence souls toward the void.
• Qing Chen steadied himself with his Primal Magnetism Divine Light as everyone saw the Rebirth Furnace beyond the collapsing realm.
• The Fire Seed Fragments controlled by Li Hanyi, Flying Bear True Lord, and Qing Chen struggled violently toward the furnace.

As the Rebirth Furnace began to collapse around the Blood Sea, Qing Chen held the Fire Lingzhu while the surviving cultivators considered their chances. Li Hanyi decided to use the Li Household cauldron to escape with Linghu Jiu Jian and Tuoba Ye, but someone challenged his decision to leave while Qing Chen could still fight.

• The furnace fire surged and pieces of the Sea of Suffering Prison Dome crumbled as Qing Chen kept the Fire Lingzhu wrapped in True Essence.
• Flying Bear True Lord, Tuoba Ye, Linghu Jiu Jian, and Qing Sanxiao each reacted to Qing Chen's strength, while Wei Yixiao watched Golden Toad Granny and weighed his plans.
• The furnace's rising heat and bloody stench made the remaining cultivators feel as if they were undergoing ritual refinement.
• Li Hanyi told Qing Chen that he could not take his Fire Seed Fragment out and prepared to activate the Li Household cauldron's one-use escape power.
• Li Hanyi asked Linghu Jiu Jian and Tuoba Ye to leave with him, and someone challenged him for preparing to escape while Qing Chen still had strength to fight.