Recaps

Qing Chen visited True Disciple Peak after Gu Jianchun summoned him, where he received 2,500 sect Contribution Points for his role in a major sect decision. With his existing points, he had enough to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Qing Chen traveled to True Disciple Peak and showed the guards the Voice Transmission Talisman proving Gu Jianchun had summoned him.
• The guards learned Qing Chen had just become an Inner Sect disciple and courteously guided him up the peak.
• Qing Chen reached Gu Jianchun’s palace, where Gu Jianchun welcomed him and said Qing Chen’s help had secured his position.
• Gu Jianchun told Qing Chen the sect would avoid acting rashly against the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island and awarded him 2,500 Contribution Points.
• Qing Chen added the reward to his existing points and realized he had enough to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Gu Jianchun explained that Qing Chen would have to wait for a Foundation Establishment Pill, then offered to obtain one using his larger quota. He also proposed that Qing Chen gain the Yue Household’s backing by becoming Dao companions with Yue Lingshan, a main-line daughter with a middle-grade spiritual root.

• Gu Jianchun told Qing Chen that Foundation Establishment Pills were limited and offered to exchange for one on his behalf.
• Gu Jianchun described the sect’s master-disciple, lineage, and Ascetic Cultivator connections, and said he and Daoist Wine belonged to the Third Grand Elder’s camp.
• Gu Jianchun explained that cultivators with middle-grade spiritual roots had less appeal as disciples to Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Gu Jianchun suggested Qing Chen become Dao companions with a female cultivator of the Yue Household to gain the lineage’s support.
• Gu Jianchun revealed that the Yue Household’s main-line daughter was named Yue Lingshan and had a middle-grade spiritual root.

Qing Chen accepted the Yue Household’s marriage proposal and learned that it would tie him to Gu Jianchun, Xu Jiuling, and their faction. He then sought Gu Jianchun’s advice on choosing a secret art from the Scripture Repository’s second floor, leaving with several promising options to consider.

• Gu Jianchun explained that Qing Chen and Yue Lingshan would become equal Dao companions once Qing Chen reached Foundation Establishment, and described the political motives behind the Yue Household’s offer.
• Qing Chen agreed to the arrangement, recognizing that the alliance could give him powerful backing within the sect.
• Qing Chen asked Gu Jianchun for advice about his one opportunity to choose a cultivation method or secret art from the Scripture Repository’s second floor.
• Gu Jianchun recommended the Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers and Little Soul-Locking Void-Piercing Sword for combat, the Nine-Bend Cloud-Brushing Evasion Technique for escape, and the Spirit-Concentrating Formula to complement Qing Chen’s Brahma Demon-Refining Art.

After choosing a Mystic Grade evasion technique and settling into Inner Sect Peak, Qing Chen spent two and a half years cultivating as tensions built on Earth Jade Island. He joined a large Condensed Jade Sect force heading to Sea Prosperity Island to destroy the Xu Household, but suspected the conspicuous expedition was bait for a greater threat.

• Qing Chen told Gu Jianchun he already possessed a High-Tier Yellow Grade soul-refining Mystic Art, then accepted his advice and left for the Scripture Repository.
• Qing Chen selected the Nine-Bend Cloud-Brushing Evasion Technique, copied accounts of Foundation Establishment breakthroughs, and returned to his residence at Inner Sect Peak.
• Qing Chen wondered why Mo Qiuxian had not troubled him, then spent two and a half years cultivating while trouble brewed over Earth Jade Island.
• Miao Long told the cultivators aboard the War Treasure Ship that the Xu Household had betrayed the Condensed Jade Sect and ordered them to kill anyone who refused to surrender.
• Qing Chen assessed the sect's overwhelming force against the Xu Household and questioned why the sect had spent so long preparing such a conspicuous expedition, suspecting it was bait for a stronger enemy.

As the Condensed Jade Sect prepared to attack the Xu Household, Qing Chen reflected on his hidden ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivation, strengthened arsenal, and plans to use multiple Foundation Establishment Pills. The chapter left him awaiting the expedition, with the challenges of Foundation Establishment still ahead.

• Qing Chen saw the Condensed Jade Sect assemble a massive War Treasure Ship and recognized that Xu Jiuling had been preparing the strike for years.
• Qing Chen noticed Li Feiyu, Xu Jiuling’s three personal disciples, and Mo Qiuxian among the assembled cultivators, while Yue Lingshan was absent.
• Qing Chen reviewed how he had reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining and accumulated powerful artifacts, a strengthened demon seed, and a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Qing Chen recalled Gu Jianchun’s explanation of the mana gate and the risks of taking multiple Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Qing Chen reasoned that his tempered body might let him take two pills together, while the White Bone Dao-Building Pill could serve as a last resort.
• Qing Chen considered the physical body and spiritual sense gates that would follow the mana gate on the path to Foundation Establishment.

Qing Chen led the Eleventh Mysterious Blood Squad aboard a warship to purge the Wang Household on Yellow Peace Island under the sect’s wartime orders. As the squad approached, Qing Chen planned to offer surrender before destroying the Lineage, while privately anticipating its accumulated wealth.

• Miao Long ordered squads led by Inner Sect disciples to purge the Xu Household’s allied islands within ten days, sparing mortals but leaving no future threats.
• Qing Chen was appointed captain of the Eleventh Mysterious Blood Squad and assigned to Yellow Peace Island, where the Wang Household had nearly fifty disciples and was allied with the Xu Household.
• Qing Chen assembled his twenty-seven squad members and set out aboard a sect-issued Mysterious Blood Warship.
• Gao Yuliang asked how Qing Chen would handle the order to act at his discretion, and Qing Chen said the Wang Household might survive if it surrendered with its entire Lineage.
• Qing Chen acknowledged that Deputy Captain Xu Xiake might oppose the plan, but said the squad had to follow the sect’s wartime laws.
• As he waited for the warship to reach Yellow Peace Island, Qing Chen privately anticipated finding valuable treasures in the Wang Household’s accumulated wealth.

Qing Chen rejected Xu Xiake’s plea to spare noncombatants and led the Condensed Jade Sect’s warship to Yellow Peace Island. The chapter ended with Qing Chen firing the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon at the island’s protective formation, throwing its defenders into chaos.

• Qing Chen offered Xu Xiake a promised reward for cooperation, but Xu Xiake insisted on following sect rules and accepting surrenders instead of slaughtering the innocent.
• Qing Chen claimed Hall Master Xu had privately ordered him to root out staunch supporters of the Xu Household, but Xu Xiake denied receiving those instructions and argued against indiscriminate killing.
• The Mysterious Blood Warship reached Yellow Peace Island and hovered before its Boundless Falling Wood Formation.
• Qing Chen ordered the cultivators aboard to power the warship’s formation and fired its Spirit-Annihilating Cannon at the island’s protective barrier.
• The cannon blast shook the formation, injured its defenders, and prompted Wang Household cultivators to fear that the Condensed Jade Sect intended to wipe them out without offering surrender.

Qing Chen led the Condensed Jade Sect's Mysterious Blood Warship in an assault on Yellow Peace Island, while Wang Anquan tried to protect the Wang Household through negotiation. After the Wang Household refused Qing Chen's ultimatum, the warship's Spirit-Annihilating Cannon destroyed the island's protective formation.

• Qing Chen's warship fired on Yellow Peace Island before the Wang Household could strengthen its protective formation.
• Xu Xiake scolded Qing Chen for attacking without a declaration of war, so Qing Chen sent a disciple to deliver an ultimatum.
• Wang Anquan offered to submit to questioning and surrender people connected to the Xu Household, but demanded that the rest of his lineage be spared.
• After an hour passed, Qing Chen rejected the Wang Household's response and ordered the warship's formation powered to its maximum.
• Qing Chen fired a pitch-black arrow from the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon, shattering the Wang Household's protective formation.

Qing Chen led the Condensed Jade Sect assault on the Wang Household island, destroying Huang'an City with the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon and trapping the survivors. He ordered his forces to kill everyone as the island became a slaughterhouse with no escape.

• Qing Chen fired the Spirit-Annihilating Cannon at Huang'an City, destroying its buildings and killing cultivators and mortals caught in the blast.
• Qing Chen activated the Mysterious Blood Warship's Island-Trapping Grand Formation, sealing the island and nearby waters behind a red mist.
• The Wang Household cultivators tried to resist and flee, but Qing Chen steered the warship through them while Condensed Jade Sect disciples attacked from the air and sea.
• Qing Chen ordered his forces to leave no one alive, and the disciples killed the fleeing cultivators and collected their bodies and Storage Bags for merit records.

Qing Chen led the Mysterious Blood squad against the Wang Household, overpowering its defenders while waiting for a hidden trump card to appear. Wang Anquan revealed a Second-Tier Spirit Talisman bearing the Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers, and Qing Chen answered by summoning the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal.

• Qing Chen rejected Gao Yuliang’s suggestion to wear down the Wang Household from the Mysterious Blood Warship and led the squad into battle.
• Qing Chen used three High-Grade Magical Artifacts to overwhelm Wang Ping'an and the long-bearded elder, while the Mysterious Blood squad crushed the Wang Household forces.
• Wang Ping'an accused Qing Chen’s side of slaughtering the Wang Household despite its surrender, but Qing Chen continued fighting and waited for a hidden enemy to act.
• Wang Anquan retreated and revealed a Second-Tier Spirit Talisman carrying the aura of the Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers.
• Qing Chen recalled his weapons and summoned the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal to counter the talisman.

Qing Chen defeated the second-tier spirit talisman and pursued the fleeing Wang Anquan and the long-bearded elder with his Cloud Gallop technique. The elder sacrificed his life to delay Qing Chen, allowing Wang Anquan to reach the trapping formation's barrier.

• Qing Chen used the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal, strengthened with Blood Qi Manifestation, to destroy the talisman's smoke attack.
• Wang Anquan and the long-bearded elder fled toward the trapping formation while Qing Chen's companions praised his strength.
• Qing Chen pursued them using the third-bend Cloud Gallop technique and quickly closed the distance.
• The long-bearded elder stayed behind, burned his essence blood, and detonated his Thunder Hammer and Tortoiseshell Shield to delay Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen defended himself with the Mystic Ice Pearl and Mystic Light Mirror, and the elder's body crumbled to ash.
• Wang Anquan reached the formation barrier and looked back in grief as the elder died.

Qing Chen pursued Wang Anquan beyond the warship’s formation, where Mo Qiuxian revealed himself and attacked from the shadows. Qing Chen summoned a Netherworld Demon Spider to engage Wang Anquan while he prepared to face Mo Qiuxian, whose corpse aura emerged.

• Wang Anquan used two Spirit Talismans to break through the formation barrier, and Qing Chen ordered his team to finish off the remaining Wang Household cultivators before pursuing him.
• Qing Chen replenished his magical power during the chase, then used the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal to overwhelm Wang Anquan’s weapons.
• A hidden Black-Poison Awl and three Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers Spirit Talismans attacked Qing Chen, but his defensive artifacts and countering talismans stopped them.
• Qing Chen sensed the attacker and identified him as Mo Qiuxian, who revealed himself and threatened to kill him.
• Qing Chen summoned the Netherworld Demon Spider to attack Wang Anquan while he focused on Mo Qiuxian, who began emitting dense corpse aura.

Qing Chen used Foundation Establishment lightning talismans to pin down Mo Qiuxian, who had revealed himself as a Copper-Armored Corpse, and killed Wang Anquan with the Mystic Ice Pearl. He then fled the battlefield on his flying sword, heading away from the Mysterious Blood Warship.

• Mo Qiuxian transformed into a Copper-Armored Corpse and withstood Qing Chen’s empowered Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal.
• Qing Chen used one lightning talisman to badly wound Wang Anquan and two others to hold Mo Qiuxian at bay.
• Qing Chen fired three ice arrows from the Mystic Ice Pearl, killing Wang Anquan and freezing his body as it sank to the seabed.
• Qing Chen put away the Sun-Moon Red-Gold Seal and fled on his flying sword, moving away from the Mysterious Blood Warship.

Qing Chen lured Mo Qiuxian across the sea and activated a trapping formation to confront him, but Mo Qiuxian used a corpse-qi art to disrupt his control. The chapter ended with Qing Chen summoning the White Bone Demon Mara Banner as the two prepared to fight inside the formation.

• Mo Qiuxian pursued Qing Chen on a flying boat, then used two Foundation Establishment evasion Spirit Talismans to keep pace as Qing Chen led him in circles.
• While fleeing, Qing Chen secretly dropped Formation Plates into the sea and stopped at the place he had chosen for their battle.
• Qing Chen activated the Azure Waves Spirit-Trapping Formation, enclosing more than a hundred zhang of sea around them.
• Mo Qiuxian cast the Mysterious Yin Corpse Curse, Drought Demon Spirit Edict, and disrupted Qing Chen's connection to the formation.
• Qing Chen deployed the White Bone Demon Mara Banner and challenged Mo Qiuxian to see whose grave the enclosed sea would become.

Qing Chen used the White Bone Demon Mara Banner to trap Mo Qiuxian in a Hundred-Demon Battle Formation, but Mo Qiuxian unleashed a corpse-explosion technique that began overwhelming the banner. Qing Chen struggled to keep the formation going as Mo Qiuxian pushed toward him.

• Qing Chen attacked Mo Qiuxian's soul with the banner's Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching ability, but Mo Qiuxian endured it with the Mysterious Yin Corpse Curse.
• Mo Qiuxian charged Qing Chen with the Mysterious Yin Demon Fist, while Qing Chen summoned Grudge Ghosts and White Bone Demons and formed a Hundred-Demon Battle Formation.
• Mo Qiuxian fought the demon soldiers, whose formation weakened him and whose shattered bodies repeatedly re-formed through the banner's power.
• Mo Qiuxian used the Mysterious Yin Corpse Explosion with his demon fists, blasting apart the banner's creatures and gaining a chance to break through toward Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen strained to control the banner and reflected that he had been fortunate to gain the backing of Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun.

Qing Chen summoned the Pojun White Bone Demon God and trapped Mo Qiuxian in a brutal battle, but Mo Qiuxian unleashed his strongest corpse-qi technique and broke through the formation. As both fighters and their forces were badly damaged, Mo Qiuxian began invoking the Flying Blood Corpse Aspect, a supreme spell that required foundation establishment cultivation.

• Qing Chen restored his spiritual sense with medicinal pills and summoned the Pojun White Bone Demon God to reinforce the faltering battle formation.
• Mo Qiuxian fought the demon god and rejected Qing Chen's offer to surrender, declaring his unwavering ambition to seek the Dao.
• Mo Qiuxian unleashed Corpse Mountain Blood Sea Qi, corroding the formation and tearing open a massive breach.
• Qing Chen ordered the White Bone Demons to self-destruct, and the Pojun White Bone Demon God stopped Mo Qiuxian's torrent with a colossal bone-saber slash.
• Mo Qiuxian's body and the demon god were left badly damaged, but Mo Qiuxian began transforming and summoned the Flying Blood Corpse Aspect.

Qing Chen and Mo Qiuxian unleashed their strongest life-consuming techniques against each other, and Qing Chen's empowered Pojun White Bone Demon God shattered Mo Qiuxian's Flying Blood Hanba Manifestation. Mo Qiuxian died on the reef after reciting his final words, while the badly wounded Qing Chen remained alive.

• Mo Qiuxian activated the Flying Blood Hanba Manifestation at the cost of his life, and Qing Chen resolved to fight without holding back.
• Qing Chen burned ten drops of essence blood and poured their power into Pojun's six bone blades, merging them into an enormous blood-red blade.
• The blood-red blade destroyed the Flying Blood Hanba Manifestation and shattered Mo Qiuxian's Copper-Armored Corpse Body, while the clash also left Qing Chen gravely weakened.
• Mo Qiuxian admitted that his dharma artifacts had been inferior, then lowered his hand and spoke of his regrets and departed loved ones.
• Mo Qiuxian recited his verse about seeking the Dao and died, urging Qing Chen to step over his corpse and continue onward.

After killing Mo Qiuxian, Qing Chen recovered in a hidden underwater cave and searched the contents of his storage bag. He found a Foundation Establishment Pill, the complete Brahma Demon-Refining Art, and the Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art, leaving him with valuable new means to advance his cultivation.

• Qing Chen confirmed Mo Qiuxian was dead, sealed his corpse in the Jade Coffin, and left the battlefield.
• Qing Chen settled in an underwater cave and discovered that Mo Qiuxian's storage bag contained intact jade slips and several strange coffins holding old clothes.
• Qing Chen found a Foundation Establishment Pill, giving him a second pill for his planned breakthrough.
• Qing Chen discovered that a jade slip contained the complete Brahma Demon-Refining Art, which could support cultivation through the late Core Formation stage.
• Qing Chen found the Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art and began reading it, hoping to learn how Mo Qiuxian had forged his Copper-Armored Corpse body.

Qing Chen studied Mo Qiuxian’s cultivation methods and learned that his records pointed to a secret realm on Immortal-Severing Island. Nearly twenty years later, after a campaign against the Wang Household, Qing Chen reported to Xu Jiuling that a man in black had ambushed him.

• Qing Chen read about the Life-Corpse Path and Corpse Puppet Path in the Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art, but did not choose between them.
• Qing Chen learned that Mo Qiuxian had gained his opportunities in a secret realm on Immortal-Severing Island and resolved to plan a return there.
• Nearly twenty years passed, and Qing Chen turned forty.
• Qing Chen reported to Xu Jiuling that he and Junior Brother Xu had eliminated the Wang Household of Yellow Peace Island without losing any Condensed Jade Sect members.
• Qing Chen told Xu Jiuling that after pursuing the fleeing Wang Household head, a man in black ambushed him.

Qing Chen reported Mo Qiuxian’s ambush to Xu Jiuling, who promised to handle the matter and ordered Qing Chen to return to the sect to recover. Before leaving, Qing Chen advised Gao Yuliang on the coming campaign and entrusted him with protecting Xu Xiake.

• Qing Chen showed Xu Jiuling Recording Stones proving Mo Qiuxian had joined the Wang Household rebels in attacking him, and Xu Jiuling agreed to deal with the matter discreetly.
• Xu Jiuling accepted Qing Chen’s Qi-Blood Inner Elixir Art offering, told him to practice it while recovering, and promised to report his merits to the sect.
• Xu Jiuling ordered Qing Chen to return to the sect and recommended Xu Xiake as captain and Gao Yuliang as deputy captain of the Eleventh Mysterious Blood Squad.
• Qing Chen warned Gao Yuliang that the campaign’s hardest battles and factional dangers still lay ahead, and instructed him to keep Xu Xiake safe while letting him take the credit.
• Gao Yuliang delivered Storage Bags of Wang Household corpses and spoils to Qing Chen, including an unregistered Glazed Jade Buddha.

After returning from the front, Qing Chen collected his wartime rewards and learned about the sect’s limited wartime treasure exchange. He spent nearly all his contribution points on a Foundation Establishment Pill and Iceheart Spirit-Guarding Incense, then went to Earth Jade Market to relax.

• Qing Chen accepted Gao Yuliang’s Storage Bag and told him to support and protect the new captain and the team.
• Qing Chen left the battlefield aboard a Spirit Ship, recovered from his injuries during the journey, and returned to the Condensed Jade Sect.
• Qing Chen collected 3,600 Contribution Points at the General Affairs Hall for his military merits and for presenting the sect with a Mystic Art.
• A General Affairs Hall disciple explained the wartime treasure exchange, and Qing Chen reviewed its list of rare treasures.
• Qing Chen exchanged nearly all his wartime points for a Foundation Establishment Pill and a stick of Iceheart Spirit-Guarding Incense.
• Qing Chen entered Earth Jade Market to relax after finishing his sect business.

Qing Chen visited the Formation Treasure Pavilion and reviewed Su Zixuan and Pan Yuelian’s progress, then rewarded them with spirit stones, Dharma artifacts, and medicinal pills. He left the shop with confidence in its growing role as one of his foundations.

• Qing Chen asked Su Zixuan about the pavilion’s business, learning that it had earned roughly three thousand spirit stones and that her cultivation had reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining.
• Su Zixuan reported that Pan Yuelian had reached the fifth layer of Qi Refining and could craft low-grade Dharma artifacts.
• Qing Chen summoned Pan Yuelian, rested in the rear courtyard with both women, and then asked them to prepare supplies and withdraw three thousand spirit stones.
• Qing Chen inspected the spirit talismans, formation plates, and spirit stones, then selected valuable Dharma artifacts and medicinal pills from his storage.
• Qing Chen gave the items to Su Zixuan to distribute and urged her to keep advancing her cultivation and formation studies.

Qing Chen used his Spirit Stones to buy high-quality late First Order demonic beast carcasses, then returned to Auspicious Cloud Abode to replenish the White Bone Demon Mara Banner in seclusion. He began refining the carcasses and cultivator remains, with the banner growing stronger as the formations concealed the surging Mara Qi.

• Qing Chen decided to buy cultivation materials with Spirit Stones instead of seeking more violent ways to obtain them.
• Qing Chen visited shops in Earth Jade Market and bought around thirty intact late First Order demonic beast carcasses for six thousand five hundred Spirit Stones.
• Qing Chen returned to Auspicious Cloud Abode and activated its restrictive formations before entering the seclusion chamber.
• Qing Chen used the White Bone Demon Mara Banner to refine demonic beast carcasses and cultivator remains, drawing their white bone essence and vitality into the banner.

After the White Bone Demon Mara Banner advanced to mid-grade, Qing Chen spent nearly a year reaching peak Qi Refining and began his attempt to establish his foundation. A Foundation Establishment Pill stirred his mana into a violent surge, leaving the breakthrough underway.

• The White Bone Demon Mara Banner devoured the demonic beast carcass and advanced from low-grade to mid-grade.
• Qing Chen cultivated for nearly a year, reaching peak Qi Refining and completing the third layer of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art.
• Qing Chen prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment with Iceheart Spirit-Guarding Incense and began compressing his mana.
• Unable to transform his mana with his middle-grade spiritual root alone, Qing Chen swallowed a Foundation Establishment Pill, whose medicinal energy made his mana surge wildly.

Qing Chen risked taking three Foundation Establishment Pills and used the White Bone Dao-Building Pill to survive their violent effects as he forced his mana to liquefy and drew in spiritual energy. The breakthrough was still underway as Di Huaiyi and other Inner Sect disciples noticed the influx and discussed its dangers.

• Qing Chen saw wisps of mist and Moon Laurel Qi interfere with his mana liquefying, so he swallowed his remaining two Foundation Establishment Pills.
• As the pills' power threatened to tear apart his body and meridians, Qing Chen took the White Bone Dao-Building Pill, which repaired the damage while he kept compressing his mana.
• After three agonizing days, Qing Chen liquefied most of his mana, triggering a vortex that pulled spiritual energy into his dantian.
• Qing Chen's spiritual sense guided the incoming energy through the fourth level of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art, strengthening his cultivation, body, and spiritual sense.
• At Inner Sect Peak, Di Huaiyi and other disciples noticed the spiritual energy gathering around Qing Chen and discussed the remaining challenges of Foundation Establishment.
• Xue Yubing challenged Lin Changsheng's concern about the dangers of Foundation Establishment, saying that cultivation required facing risk.