Recaps

Qing Chen won the Individual Competition and helped Lin Changsheng’s battalion triumph in the Army Competition, then spent years strengthening himself as the Immortal Dynasty prepared for war. He accepted Tie Ming’s protection and entered the campaign for Qiongzhou as Miao-Conquest Deputy General, tasked with attacking Miaochong Prefecture.

• Qing Chen defeated Zhao Pan, Young Master Lingxu, and Zhaoshenzi, then advanced through the Individual Competition and finished second after beating Qingpeng True Person, Wuxin Dharma Master, and Jian Yi.
• Lin Changsheng led Battalion Sixty-One to a decisive victory over Battalion Four, while Qing Chen conceded to Fierce-Eyed Vajra in the Ranking Competition.
• Qing Chen exchanged rare treasures and spirit stones for cultivation resources, then learned that Wu Gui and the Miao Gu Clans had seized much of Lingnan Circuit and that the army was preparing for war.
• Four and a half years later, Qing Chen defeated Fierce-Eyed Vajra, advanced to peak Golden Core, and improved his Pojun Battle Halberd and armor.
• Tie Ming proposed an alliance and protection for Qing Chen in exchange for his service, and Qing Chen pledged himself as Tie Ming’s loyal general.
• Tie Ming ordered Qing Chen to lead two hundred thousand troops into Qiongzhou, and later nominated him to command a force in the campaign.
• Wei Ting appointed Qing Chen Miao-Conquest Deputy General over thirty thousand troops and ordered the armies to prepare to march in four months.
• Tie Ming gave Qing Chen intelligence about Miaochong Prefecture and a Tiger Tally identifying him as a retainer of the Iron Household.

Qing Chen gathered and trained the Miao-Conquest Army, then advanced into Miaochong Prefecture and used his outpost to draw its forces into battle. The arc ends with his thirty thousand troops fighting Ma Kui’s forty thousand, as Qing Chen disrupts the enemy’s formations and presses the attack.

• Tie Ming supplied Qing Chen with resources and a tiger tally, and Chan Master Wuxiang gave him two divisions to bring his Miao-Conquest Army to thirty thousand.
• Qing Chen unified the three divisions under his command, imposed military discipline, and appointed Ye Wushang, Wuxin Dharma Master, and Lei Bao as division commanders.
• Qing Chen trained the army in combined formations, then led it by Giant Whale Treasure Ships toward Anman Prefecture and Miaochong Prefecture.
• Qing Chen confronted Jia Daoyi over Anman Prefecture’s unfinished camp, collected supplies with Tie Qingniu’s help, and moved his army to Wind-Splitting Gorge.
• Qing Chen built an outpost to provoke a decisive battle, while Ma Kui assembled forty thousand troops and Qing Chen secretly prepared a hidden fleet and trained body cultivators.
• Qing Chen spread recruitment offers among local cultivators, then challenged the defenders and sent Wuxin Dharma Master and Lin Changsheng to defeat their first battalion.
• Ma Kui launched an all-out assault, but Qing Chen charged before the enemy formations were ready and fought through the encirclement with his thirty thousand soldiers.
• Qing Chen blocked Ma Kui’s Giant Ghost Claw with the Blood Prison Heaven-Crushing Formation, sent Lin Changsheng and Ye Wushang against the Front Army, and used a Giant Whale Treasure Ship to keep Ma Kui occupied.

Qing Chen seized much of Miaochong Prefecture, earned command of its forces, and broke through to the Immortal Realm as the war with Hundred Poisons True Lord and Purple Spider True Lord intensified. After luring Purple Spider True Lord into a trap and killing him, Qing Chen turned his attention to the remaining demon banners.

• Qing Chen’s forces captured Withered Skeleton, Black Miasma, Coiled Snake, and Poison Drool Counties, defeated Ma Kui’s army, and drove the survivors back to Miaochong Prefectural City.
• Xiao Canglan promoted Qing Chen to Fifth Rank and gave him authority over Miaochong Prefecture, while Tie Ming warned him that Hundred Poisons True Lord was advancing.
• Qing Chen rewarded his soldiers and their families, then entered seclusion and used the Golden Flood Dragon Blood Marrow Heart, asura flesh, and demon banners to reach the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Jiuling reported that Tie Ming’s forces were suffering losses and Miaochong Prefecture’s troops and supplies were strained, so Qing Chen secretly positioned troops to counter an attack on Withered Skeleton County.
• Purple Spider True Lord and Hundred Poisons True Lord coordinated an assault, while Qing Chen concealed elite troops and arranged for Tie Ming to keep Hundred Poisons True Lord occupied.
• Qing Chen sprang a surprise attack on Purple Spider True Lord’s forces at Withered Skeleton County, and Lin Changsheng’s defenders struck from the front as Qing Chen shattered the enemy’s formation and badly wounded its leader.
• Qing Chen and Venerable Flameheart stopped Purple Spider True Lord’s escape, and Qing Chen killed him with the Pojun Battle Halberd after his Heart-Devouring Purple Spider Gu failed.
• Qing Chen sealed Purple Spider True Lord’s Nascent Soul and identified the Moon-Eroding Way and Guisi Lingyuan as clues to the remaining demon banners.

Qing Chen withdrew from Qiong Prefecture, formed his Nascent Soul, and gained new command authority before returning to the front. He led a renewed assault on Miaochong Prefecture, where the battle against Hundred Poisons True Lord escalated until Qing Chen revealed the Vajra Mound.

• Lin Changsheng captured White Stone County and three other county cities, then ambushed and defeated the stranded Qiong Prefecture Rebel Army as Hundred Poisons True Lord ordered his forces to withdraw and defend their lines.
• Xiao Canglan promoted Qing Chen and Tie Ming, gave Qing Chen command over Miaochong, Qiong Prefecture, and Anman, and authorized him to expand his army to 150,000.
• After leaving Qiong Prefecture, Qing Chen traveled anonymously to Min Prefecture and rented a secluded cave abode in the Hidden Dragon Mountain Range.
• Qing Chen formed his Nascent Soul, overcame an extraterrestrial heavenly demon and the Three-Colored Thunder Pool Tribulation, and manifested Blood Path laws as he completed his breakthrough.
• Qing Chen used the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda’s heavenly-secrets permission to witness a battle in Immortal-Burying Valley and saw a Nine-Headed Demon Venerable escape with a rune-marked object.
• Qing Chen returned to the front and joined Tie Ming in a surprise assault on Miaochong Prefecture City, using Primordial Magnetism Formation-Breaking Ballistas to smash its defenses.
• Qing Chen’s fleet traded heavy bombardment with Hundred Poisons True Lord’s defenders, then Qing Chen ordered his troops into battle against the Gu Armor Army and the enemy’s poison formations.
• Hundred Poisons True Lord unleashed the Myriad Poisons Blood Baleful Intent Formation, and Qing Chen organized his army’s defense before combining his power and Blood Path laws to summon the Vajra Mound and suppress the blood cloud.