Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo hid in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after luring dozens of pursuers into a tunnel, hoping they would encounter a dangerous centipede. As he waited and healed, Little Dragon revealed a possible Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit nearby.

• A fast pursuer warned the others that the Snake King was ahead, but the group continued into the freshly dug tunnel after Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Xiaoduo entered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to heal and hide, leaving the pursuers to advance toward the centipede he hoped they would meet.
• Little Dragon reported that no one else was approaching from outside, and Zuo Xiaoduo chose to wait and cultivate rather than leave the pagoda.
• Little Dragon described an underground tree bearing red fruits that resembled Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit, and Zuo Xiaoduo planned to inspect it and promised Little Dragon a droplet if it was genuine.

Ye Changqing and his companions entered Star Beast Forest to search for Zuo Xiaoduo, unaware that he had lost contact with Grandma Shi. Meanwhile, seventy-six bounty hunters followed Zuo Xiaoduo’s long tunnel, growing wary of one another as they pressed toward its end.

• Ye Changqing learned that Zuo Xiaoduo had entered Star Beast Forest and led his team deeper into the forest to find him.
• Ye Changqing assumed Zuo Xiaoduo was safe because Yu Jiaren was with him, not knowing Zuo Xiaoduo had used the Heavenly Origin Evasion Technique and left Grandma Shi’s protection.
• Seventy-six pursuers advanced through Zuo Xiaoduo’s tunnel, including six God-Imperial experts, forty-three Cloud Transformation experts, and the concealed Starving Ghost.
• Two pursuers suggested Zuo Xiaoduo might have escaped through another route, but the others dismissed the idea after finding no sign of another tunnel.
• The pursuers remarked on the tunnel’s great length and how cleverly Zuo Xiaoduo had hidden its entrance inside a tree hollow.

Seventy-six bounty hunters followed Zuo Xiaoduo underground, mistaking the growing danger for an expected ambush by his protectors. They stepped onto Zuo Xiaoduo’s chain-triggered landmines just as the enraged centipede prepared to strike.

• The hunters praised Zuo Xiaoduo’s choice of hiding place while pressing onward to capture him for the bounty.
• The group sensed loose soil and a threatening presence ahead, assumed Zuo Xiaoduo’s helpers were waiting in ambush, and continued forward despite their growing fear.
• The enormous centipede aboveground grew furious, believing the approaching humans intended to raid its lair.
• The lead hunter triggered one of Zuo Xiaoduo’s chain-triggered landmines, then argued with the hunters behind him when they urged him to keep moving.
• A fierce baleful aura descended upon the hunters.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s landmines collapsed the tunnel and provoked both the buried experts and the Centipede King into a confrontation. The seventy-six experts blasted their way toward the surface as the enraged Centipede King prepared to face them.

• The Centipede King rushed toward the group, but Zuo Xiaoduo’s landmines exploded and brought down the tunnel.
• The collapse stirred the Centipede King’s killing intent, and the seventy-six experts attacked together and blasted through the earth.
• The experts pushed off falling chunks of soil as they surged toward the surface, bracing for a fight to the death.
• The Centipede King tried to dig up the intruders, but the upheaval below knocked its enormous body onto its back.
• The Centipede King righted itself, fixed its gaze on the ground where the experts were about to emerge, and readied itself to fight.

The Centipede King attacked the seventy-six cultivators who emerged from underground, killing many despite their coordinated efforts. Starving Ghost wounded him by severing a foreleg, but the survivors were poisoned and the Centipede King’s rampage continued.

• The seventy-six cultivators emerged underground and spotted the enormous Centipede King, then leaped into the air hoping to escape.
• The Centipede King mistook their flight for an attack, engulfed them in poisonous mist, and killed eighteen with his claws and feet.
• More than thirty masters struck the Centipede King’s legs with Body and Sword as One, but their weapons barely harmed him.
• Starving Ghost led seven God-Imperial masters in a combined attack and severed one of the Centipede King’s forelegs.
• The enraged Centipede King unleashed venom and crushed more cultivators, killing three of the seven God-Imperial masters and poisoning the remaining fighters.

Starving Ghost and three others were trapped by the Centipede King while poisoned, and a crowd rushed to Poison Mist Valley after hearing the explosions. Ye Changqing and the others dispersed the poisonous mist and entered the valley, where they found the enormous Centipede King and dozens of corpses; Ye Changqing searched anxiously for Zuo Xiaoduo.

• The Centipede King coiled around Starving Ghost and three others, trapping them as they slowly succumbed to its poison.
• Ye Changqing, Grandma Shi, and others rushed toward the explosions, suspecting that Zuo Xiaoduo had been found.
• After learning the fighting was in Poison Mist Valley, Ye Changqing and thousands of experts worked together to blow away the poisonous mist.
• Zhan Xiaofei warned Minister Nan that the poison could form clouds and fall as deadly rain, asking him to alert the major cities.
• The crowd took antidote pills and entered the valley, where they saw the Centipede King and dozens of corpses; Ye Changqing searched for Zuo Xiaoduo.

Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing realized Zuo Xiaoduo had likely lured his pursuers into a trap, where the Centipede King had cornered Starving Ghost and three others. Starving Ghost blamed Zuo Xiaoduo and begged his brothers to avenge him, while Wen Xingtian furiously defended his student and taunted Hanging Ghost.

• Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Zuo Xiaoduo was absent and had probably used the land mines to lure pursuers to the Centipede King.
• The Centipede King trapped four humans in a circle, and Starving Ghost warned Hanging Ghost and Drowning Ghost not to try to save him because its venom had reached his organs.
• Starving Ghost blamed Zuo Xiaoduo for the trap and urged his brothers to kill him, though Starving Ghost had never met or seen Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Hanging Ghost promised to avenge Starving Ghost, and Wen Xingtian laughed at him and declared that Starving Ghost deserved to die.
• Hanging Ghost accused Wen Xingtian of failing to act like an exemplary teacher, and Wen Xingtian insulted him and said such manners were wasted on beasts.

Wen Xingtian taunted Hanging Ghost while Hidden Dragon High Martial recorded the gathered bounty hunters, and Hanging Ghost tried to rally them against the school. No one joined him, leaving him furious and trapped between protecting his brother and avoiding a hopeless fight.

• Wen Xingtian cursed Hanging Ghost for standing by while his sworn brother faced death, and Hanging Ghost stayed back rather than challenge Hidden Dragon High Martial.
• Wen Xingtian mocked Hanging Ghost as he traded curses, while Zhan Xiaofei and the others recorded the gathered people as enemies of the school.
• Hanging Ghost urged the bounty hunters to unite against Hidden Dragon High Martial before they could be picked off one by one.
• Wen Xingtian ridiculed Hanging Ghost's appeal, and the others refused to join because attacking the school's teachers would bring consequences far worse than pursuing Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Hanging Ghost seethed as he considered leaving, but his trapped brother's gaze and the shame of abandoning him held him in place.

The Great Centipede killed Starving Ghost and the other three trapped people while Hanging Ghost and Drowning Ghost watched helplessly. Wen Xingtian mocked the brothers for leaving without retrieving Starving Ghost’s body, and they departed as his corpse began to decay.

• Wen Xingtian taunted Hanging Ghost for staying to watch the fight, while Hidden Dragon High Martial’s teachers recognized where Zuo Xiaoduo’s shamelessness came from.
• Starving Ghost urged Hanging Ghost and Drowning Ghost to leave, then he and the three others made a hopeless charge at the Great Centipede.
• The Great Centipede bound the four with its antennae, bit them in half, and killed them; Hanging Ghost and Drowning Ghost grieved over Starving Ghost’s death.
• Ye Changqing led Hidden Dragon High Martial away, and Wen Xingtian mocked Hanging Ghost for not daring to retrieve his brother’s body.
• Hanging Ghost said Starving Ghost’s poisoned corpse would soon turn to pus, then led Drowning Ghost away as Wen Xingtian ridiculed them to the onlookers.

Wen Xingtian’s group traveled toward Zuo Xiaoduo while preparing for a potentially deadly confrontation, and Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after compressing his True Essence Power. He learned that a giant centipede had killed his pursuers and began planning to collect their spoils, then grew curious about the treasures guarded by Star Beast kings.

• Wen Xingtian kept shouting after Hanging Ghost even as Hidden Dragon High Martial’s group traveled hundreds of li, while Ye Changqing explained that he was signaling their presence to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Ye Changqing warned the group not to split up and said they might have to sacrifice themselves to help Zuo Xiaoduo escape.
• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the Annihilation Sky Pagoda at night after Little Dragon confirmed the area was safe.
• Little Dragon told Zuo Xiaoduo that the giant centipede had killed all seventy-six pursuers, and Zuo Xiaoduo sent him back to find their Space Rings and weapons.
• Little Dragon reported that the centipede was guarding a nearly ripe treasure beneath a cliff, and Zuo Xiaoduo asked about it and learned that the tiger and snake Star Beast kings guarded treasures too.

Little Dragon explained that the three demon kings were guarding ancient Demon Race inheritances and treasures that could transform them. Zuo Xiaoduo learned what each treasure was and left eager to claim the Heavenly Tiger Moonlight Paste, even though he could not use it himself.

• Little Dragon explained that the Winged Sword Tiger, Snake King, and Centipede King had gained power from ancient Demon Race inheritances.
• Little Dragon said the Winged Sword Tiger guarded Heavenly Tiger Moonlight Paste, which would mature within days and help awaken his bloodline further.
• Zuo Xiaoduo heard about the Heavenly Tiger Moonlight Paste and wished he could take it and sell it, despite knowing it probably would not benefit him.
• Little Dragon explained that the Snake King guarded a maturing Snake Soul Fruit nurtured by the soul crystal of an ancient snake demon.
• Little Dragon revealed that the Centipede King guarded a single-horned flood dragon's intact remains and three Dragon Soul Ginseng plants, which could help the centipede awaken its dragon bloodline and possibly become a true dragon.

After learning that the Dragon Soul Ginseng could greatly increase cultivation and strengthen Star Souls, Zuo Xiaoduo reluctantly held back from confronting the centipede and prepared to retrieve the nearby Space Rings. Once Little Dragon confirmed the centipede had returned beneath the cliff, Zuo Xiaoduo crawled through a tunnel toward the loot.

• Little Dragon told Zuo Xiaoduo that the three Dragon Soul Ginseng plants could regrow and that each plant could add at least two thousand years of cultivation to a human.
• Zuo Xiaoduo imagined the benefits of the ginseng but reminded himself that he could not afford to provoke the centipede.
• Little Dragon returned at evening and reported that the centipede had gone back beneath the cliff.
• Zuo Xiaoduo unraveled clothes and twisted their threads into more than a hundred long cords to retrieve the Space Rings.
• After Little Dragon confirmed the centipede was gone, Zuo Xiaoduo crawled through the tunnel toward the spot.

Zuo Xiaoduo reached the surface beneath the Centipede King and tried to retrieve the Space Rings without being noticed. The Centipede King caught on and repeatedly snapped his threads, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo stuck underground and frustrated.

• Zuo Xiaoduo crawled through the collapsed tunnel and stopped fifty feet below the surface, where Space Rings lay scattered among the earth.
• The Centipede King repeatedly lashed the ground whenever it sensed Zuo Xiaoduo moving through the soil.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sent a thread toward a Space Ring and slowly reeled it in, but the Centipede King flicked the Ring away and snapped the thread near the surface.
• After waiting an hour, Zuo Xiaoduo tried again, but the Centipede King snapped his thread once more.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reached for another Ring with a longer thread, and the Centipede King again cut it at the last moment, amused by his repeated attempts.

Zuo Xiaoduo spent two nights trying to retrieve Space Rings from the Centipede King’s hoard, recovering thirty-six while forty remained just out of reach. After the Centipede King killed a bounty hunter who tried to take them, it immobilized Zuo Xiaoduo as he attempted to retreat.

• Zuo Xiaoduo tested the Centipede King’s limits and managed to retrieve three of his first six targeted Space Rings.
• Zuo Xiaoduo spent two nights and a day pulling at the seventy-six rings, collecting thirty-six and leaving forty piled ten meters away.
• A bounty hunter swooped down to grab the pile, but the Centipede King speared him with a feeler and dragged him away, adding his Space Ring to the pile.
• Zuo Xiaoduo decided to abandon the remaining rings and began crawling away, but a savage aura immobilized him.

Zuo Xiaoduo was trapped by the Centipede King, who repeatedly immobilized him and then used demonic power to make him retrieve a ring, revealing that he wanted Zuo Xiaoduo to keep playing with the treasure. The Centipede King killed two more treasure hunters, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo stuck beside the rings as his unwilling toy.

• The Centipede King immobilized Zuo Xiaoduo whenever he tried to flee, then released him and repeated the trick until Zuo Xiaoduo was terrified.
• The Centipede King controlled Zuo Xiaoduo’s hand with demonic power and made him use a cord to retrieve a ring.
• The Centipede King moved the remaining rings away and waited for Zuo Xiaoduo to understand that he was expected to keep retrieving them.
• Two more men tried to snatch the rings with spirit silkworm silk, but the Centipede King severed their threads and killed them with his antennae.
• The Centipede King added the two men’s Space Rings to the pile, bringing its total to forty-two.

Zuo Xiaoduo remained trapped under the Centipede King's control, repeatedly fishing for rings while the Centipede King turned it into a game. Meanwhile, Ye Changqing and the others continued searching for him, and Wen Xingtian and Zhan Xiaofei discussed the deaths of those seeking the bounty.

• The Centipede King immobilized Zuo Xiaoduo and forced him to resume dragging rings with a thread, cutting it whenever it reached ten meters.
• Over four hours, Zuo Xiaoduo acquired nine rings as the Centipede King repeatedly let him take a few, while other people who tried to steal rings were killed and added to the pile.
• Zuo Xiaoduo realized the Centipede King was toying with him and feared that his apparent gains were only bait, but he remained trapped and unable to leave.
• Ye Changqing and the others wondered where Zuo Xiaoduo had hidden, though they were certain he was still somewhere in the Star Radiance Mountain Range.
• After another person screamed near the Centipede King, Wen Xingtian blamed Zuo Xiaoduo, and Zhan Xiaofei argued that the victims had been bounty hunters caught in Zuo Xiaoduo's trap.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian realized Zuo Xiaoduo might be heading for the Space Rings guarded by the Centipede King, and hurried back to find him. They left in separate teams to avoid revealing Zuo Xiaoduo’s location, while Tian Wujiang was left behind after Ye Changqing warned him off.

• Wen Xingtian and Zhan Xiaofei discussed how the Centipede King had lured more than a hundred people to their deaths with the Space Rings left behind by earlier victims.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing realized Zuo Xiaoduo might be unable to resist the rings and feared he would confront the Centipede King.
• Ye Changqing split the group into small search teams and told them to gather at the centipede when they heard his signal.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian flew back toward the centipede, anxious that Zuo Xiaoduo might still be there.
• Ye Changqing threatened Tian Wujiang when they passed him, and Tian Wujiang decided to search elsewhere.

Zuo Xiaoduo remained trapped with the Centipede King, who forced him to make ropes while killing anyone who tried to approach. The Centipede King’s game was interrupted when a powerful newcomer survived his attack and made him recoil.

• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian collected Space Rings from the people they killed, and Wen Xingtian eventually handed Ye Changqing forty of his spoils.
• Bounty hunters avoided Hidden Dragon High Martial because they feared being killed without a pretext to justify the fight.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued twisting ropes from clothing while the Centipede King broke them for amusement, and the pile of Space Rings grew to a hundred and thirty.
• The Centipede King left his post and ambushed people who approached the rings, killing each one who tried their luck.
• A newcomer plunged into the pit and survived the Centipede King's kick, knocking the enormous centipede backward.
• The Centipede King struck at the newcomer with two legs in the next clash.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian watched the Centipede King’s territory, hoping to find Zuo Xiaoduo among the poisonous mist and the vast heap of Space Rings. They discovered that Zuo Xiaoduo was alive and playing with the rings, though they remained unable to understand the strange game.

• A powerful newcomer fled after failing to defeat the Centipede King, and Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian approached no closer than two thousand meters.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian spotted the enormous heap of Space Rings and concluded that Zuo Xiaoduo was probably still alive nearby.
• A thin red thread dragged a ring away from the heap until it snapped, then an emerald-green thread repeated the maneuver.
• The Centipede King sent the displaced rings flying back onto the main heap, and another thread reached out again.
• After watching for two hours, Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian realized that Zuo Xiaoduo and the Centipede King seemed to be playing.

Zuo Xiaoduo remained trapped in a bizarre ring-snatching game with the Centipede King while Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian watched. Ye Changqing then recognized the Golden Dragon Sword attackers as the four enemies who had crippled his cultivation, and the old grudge resurfaced.

• Zuo Xiaoduo dragged rings toward his side as the Centipede King repeatedly snapped the line and carried them away, though Zuo managed to keep three rings.
• Four cultivators secretly entered the area and decided to steal the rings rather than pursue the bounty on Zuo Xiaoduo because Ye Changqing was present.
• The Centipede King watched Zuo Xiaoduo make more rope and became eager to take the furry source of its threads.
• Three figures launched a coordinated Golden Dragon Sword attack at the Centipede King.
• Ye Changqing recognized the attackers as the four cultivators who had trapped him years earlier and severely damaged his heart meridians.

Ye Changqing recognized the three swordsmen attacking the Centipede King as the men who had once damaged his heart meridians, and he and Wen Xingtian waited to identify all four before settling their feud. When the hidden fourth man rushed for the Space Rings, the centipede revealed its Nine-Headed Centipede true form and struck to intercept him.

• Ye Changqing told Wen Xingtian that the three attackers were among the four men who had once ganged up on him and injured his heart meridians.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian watched the three Guixuan Peak experts battle the Centipede King, judging that it was stronger than Feitian level and still holding back.
• The three attackers combined their Sword Qi into a golden dragon and severed seven or eight of the centipede's legs.
• The hidden fourth man raced across the clearing and reached for the pile of Space Rings.
• The centipede revealed its Nine-Headed Centipede true form and sent one head to intercept the fourth man with a dense cloud of poisonous mist.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian witnessed the Four Swords of the Kingly Way battle the Centipede King, while the Space Rings and a severed leg mysteriously vanished. Ye Changqing recognized the four as old friends who had secretly caused his past injury, but chose to protect Zuo Xiaoduo rather than pursue them.

• The Centipede King struck the Four Swords of the Kingly Way as one of them tried to retrieve the Space Rings, but found only dirt where the rings and a severed leg had been.
• The Centipede King wounded and poisoned the masked man, who fled after shouting for his companions to leave.
• Wen Xingtian urged Ye Changqing to pursue the wounded men, but Ye Changqing refused, prioritizing Zuo Xiaoduo's safety.
• Ye Changqing identified the four attackers as the Four Swords of the Kingly Way, the Central Plains King's attendants and his former friends.
• Ye Changqing realized that the four men who had once searched for a cure for him were the ones who had gravely wounded him years earlier.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian realized the Central Plains King's Manor was connected to Old Cheng's encounter, while the Centipede King unleashed his full strength against the Four Swords of the Kingly Way. Zuo Xiaoduo seized the distraction to steal the rings and a severed centipede leg, then escaped deeper underground.

• Ye Changqing reminded Wen Xingtian of Old Cheng's report and warned that the connection to the Central Plains King's Manor required careful planning.
• The enraged Centipede King unleashed his poisonous mist, divine ability, and many limbs, forcing the Four Swords of the Kingly Way into a desperate defense.
• The leader of the four called for Golden Dragon Four Directions Return to Position and ordered the group to unite and withdraw after one move.
• Zuo Xiaoduo waited for the hidden man's second attack, then collapsed the ground beneath the rings and swept the rings, soil, and a severed centipede leg into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo plunged down his deep tunnel unnoticed as the battle continued above.

Zuo Xiaoduo escaped with 211 Space Rings and a severed centipede leg, then imagined returning to loot the battle. The Four Swords of the Kingly Way escaped the Centipede King after a fierce clash, leaving him wounded but able to regrow his legs.

• Zuo Xiaoduo fled underground with the rings and centipede leg, pleased with his haul.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Little Dragon about his gains and speculated that he could return to collect more spoils.
• The Four Swords of the Kingly Way combined their sword attack and injured the Centipede King, but his venomous counterattack grievously wounded them.
• The Four Swords of the Kingly Way fled, while the Centipede King regrew his severed legs after landing.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian escaped the Centipede King and concluded that Zuo Xiaoduo had slipped away while it kept him captive. Zuo Xiaoduo continued toward the Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit, resting in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after his prolonged contest with the centipede.

• The Centipede King found the rings and Zuo Xiaoduo gone, then returned to the cliff where the Dragon Soul Ginseng was nearly ripe.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian realized they had narrowly escaped and inferred that the Centipede King had toyed with Zuo Xiaoduo before he got away.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian set off to search for Zuo Xiaoduo, following the tunnel route even though he had already turned elsewhere.
• Zuo Xiaoduo headed for the Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit and entered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to recover.
• Zuo Xiaoduo replenished his depleted energy with the Dragon Blood Flying Knife, draining its stored power and deciding it needed recharging.