Recaps

Qing Chen gathered Cao Banxian’s treasures, strengthened his cultivation, and built influence through Su Zixuan’s shop before joining the investigation of the Mysterious Mountain Island massacres. The evidence led him to confront Yue Zhimu and Ding Buxing, whose betrayal brought the investigation into direct combat.

• Qing Chen killed Fairy Lingxiao, gathered the remaining essence from his enemies, and uncovered Cao Banxian’s wealth and valuable techniques, artifacts, and Pojun White Bone Demon Banner.
• Qing Chen gave Su Zixuan resources and control of the Formation Treasure Pavilion, then cultivated to the seventh layer of Qi Refining and prepared to face Mo Qiuxian.
• Qing Chen and Su Zixuan entered Elysium’s secret auction, where Qing Chen bought sea-serpent and shark carcasses, Red Bone Armor, and Luo Yan Thirty-Six Fingers talismans.
• Qing Chen helped Gu Jianchun defeat the cultivators pursuing Gu Jianchun’s auction rival, then joined Gu’s investigation of disappearances and massacres on Mysterious Mountain Island.
• Qing Chen, Di Huaiyi, and Chu Feikong investigated the ruins of Liangshan Stronghold and found signs of a demonic sacrifice, including a black jade pendant that Qing Chen had secretly planted.
• Gu Jianchun’s party traced the pendant to the Xu Household and Blackwood Island’s Unbroken Suffering and Joy, then found Yue Zhimu, Ding Buxing, and an injured patrol disciple near another sacrifice.
• Qing Chen secretly followed Yue Lin’s party, found Yue Lin and a Condensed Jade Sect disciple dead, and confronted Yue Zhimu and Ding Buxing after Ding confessed to embracing demonic cultivation.
• Yue Zhimu and Ding Buxing attacked Qing Chen from opposite sides, and Qing Chen countered with the Mother-Son Thundershadow Swords and Mystic Light Mirror.

Qing Chen uncovered Chu Feikong’s blood-sacrifice scheme, fought him, and seized evidence and captives while advancing his cultivation. He returned to the Condensed Jade Sect, where he was promoted to Inner Sect disciple and received his new duties and benefits.

• Qing Chen killed Yue Zhimu, forced Ding Buxing to reveal the White Bone Blood Pool’s location, and fed its remains to the White Bone Demon Mara Banner until it became a Low-Grade Spirit Artifact.
• Qing Chen returned to the Condensed Jade Sect with Ding Buxing’s recorded testimony, exposing the traitors’ ties to the demonic path and the Xu Household, while the sect ordered Xu Baichuan held under house arrest.
• Qing Chen investigated He Fei’s family and followed their trail to the Yue Household, then discovered signs linking Chu Feikong and the Xu Household to the island disappearances and blood sacrifices.
• Qing Chen found Chu Feikong and Xu Baichuan beside an underground blood pool and recorded their conspiracy before confronting Chu Feikong as Chu transformed into a blood demon.
• Qing Chen summoned Demon General Pojun and battled Chu Feikong, then escaped with a hundred cultivator skeletons and subdued Qin Zigu and Pan Yuelian.
• Qing Chen forced Qin Zigu to confess Mo Qiuxian’s dealings with the Xu Household, turned Qin into a Grudge Ghost, and used Pan Yuelian as his subordinate while advancing to the eighth layer of Qi Refining.
• Qing Chen gave Gu Jianchun an edited Projection Stone implicating Chu Feikong, the Xu Household, and an unidentified Golden Core sect, then returned to the Condensed Jade Sect and received advice from Gao Yuliang about its factions.
• Xu Jiuling promoted Qing Chen to Inner Sect disciple, issued him a Mystic Blood Token and contribution points, and Li Feiyu explained his benefits and cultivation requirements.

Qing Chen led the assault on the Xu Household’s allied islands, killed Mo Qiuxian after a fierce battle, and returned to the sect with new resources. He then attempted Foundation Establishment, leaving his breakthrough underway as spiritual energy gathered around him.

• Gu Jianchun rewarded Qing Chen and urged him to ally with Yue Lingshan, while Qing Chen chose the Nine-Bend Cloud-Brushing Evasion Technique from the Scripture Repository.
• After years of cultivation, Qing Chen joined the Condensed Jade Sect’s campaign against the Xu Household’s allies and became captain of the Eleventh Mysterious Blood Squad.
• Qing Chen attacked Yellow Peace Island, destroyed the Wang Household’s formation, and led the slaughter of its cultivators despite Xu Xiake’s objections.
• Qing Chen pursued Wang Anquan and fought Mo Qiuxian, ultimately killing Mo Qiuxian after a deadly battle at sea.
• Qing Chen reported his campaign to Xu Jiuling, returned to the sect, received merit points, and exchanged them for a Foundation Establishment Pill and Iceheart Spirit-Guarding Incense.
• Qing Chen supplied Su Zixuan and Pan Yuelian with valuable goods, then bought demonic beast carcasses and refined them to strengthen the White Bone Demon Mara Banner.
• After reaching peak Qi Refining, Qing Chen swallowed Foundation Establishment Pills and the White Bone Dao-Building Pill, endured three days of pain, and began liquefying his mana as spiritual energy gathered around him.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Qing Chen became a Twelve Routes Inspector and imposed his authority on Mysterious Constancy Island. He manipulated the island’s lineages into gathering at Hidden Spirit Island, where his prepared formations attacked their forces.

• Qing Chen emerged from seclusion after achieving Foundation Establishment, distributed spirit stones to the disciples, and asserted sect rank over Yue Lingshan and Lin Changsheng.
• After hearing about the sect’s battles and receiving the post of Twelve Routes Inspector, Qing Chen arrived at Mysterious Mountain Island and accepted the Yue Household’s support for his marriage to Yue Lingshan.
• Qing Chen left for Mysterious Constancy Island, killed the Thirteen Bandits of Yin Mountain, and confronted the Chang Household over its influence and the neglected Inspector’s Manor.
• Qing Chen punished the stationed disciples, demanded reports from the island’s lineages, and ordered them to send Qi Refining cultivators against lesser bandit strongholds.
• Chang Silang arranged an expedition against the Three Pythons Bandits to obtain a treasure map and put Qing Chen in a difficult position, while Qing Chen secretly guided Chang Ping'an to the hidden treasures.
• Qing Chen recognized that the recovered Jade Slip and Treasure Map led to Hidden Spirit Island, then let the lineages assemble an expedition there while he and Su Zixuan prepared a trap.
• The allied force battered the cave abode’s restrictions with battle formations, suffering heavy casualties before Chang Zhan, Liu Lie, and Cao Zheng broke through the ward.
• Qing Chen unleashed Grudge Ghosts and White Bone Demon Soldiers as Su Zixuan activated the Thirteen-Road Spirit Snake Formation, and the summoned pythons lunged at the intruders as the three lineage leaders formed a countering formation.