Recaps

Wang Ba returned to the Eastern Saint Garrison, learned that the Heavenly Gate Sect was locked in a stalemate with the Incense Dao because stronger forces on both sides were holding back, and resumed his cultivation and work. At Yutang Mountain, Zheng Yuanhua revealed that the Dream Lord might revive and that the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture had to be recovered, while a larger confrontation seemed imminent.

• Wang Ba returned to the Chicken Farm, helped Bu Chan harvest the Spirit Rice, and learned that the Heavenly Gate Sect had been losing skirmishes against the Incense Dao.
• Wang Ba reasoned that the Heavenly Gate Sect's Gold Core cultivators were avoiding direct action because the Four Great Sects could provoke a wider battle, then returned to his work and cultivation.
• At Yutang Mountain, Li Canghai confronted Zheng Yuanhua for allowing a Heavenly Gate Sect cultivator to kill his Attendant Cultivator.
• Zheng Yuanhua told Li Canghai that a Third-Tier Envoy would arrive because the Dream Lord might revive after a faint outline appeared on the Divine Statue.
• Zheng Yuanhua and Li Canghai suspected that the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture had reached the Heavenly Gate Sect's Nascent Soul-level Sect Master and agreed they needed to recover it.
• Zheng Yuanhua explained that he had let the Heavenly Gate Sect score a loss to discourage its third-tier cultivators from intervening, and he anticipated the skirmishes would soon escalate.

Ning Daohuan secured the elders’ agreement to prepare for war against the Chen Kingdom’s five sects while pursuing covert plans involving the Mountain-Sea Sect and Spirit Chickens. Wang Ba completed the first step of his Law Power training and returned to the Swordwave Garrison to learn the next one.

• Ning Daohuan led a council where Lu Yuansheng described the stalemate with the Chen Kingdom’s five sects, and the elders debated whether to fight or withdraw.
• Ning Daohuan argued that entering Great Jin was their only viable path and declared that a battle with the five sects was unavoidable; Lu Yuansheng reported that trouble on the Western Sea coast might soon create an opening.
• After the elders left, Lu Yuansheng told Ning Daohuan that their agents had been planted in the Mountain-Sea Sect, and he reported that Cheng Shu’s Spirit Chicken could briefly reach second-tier supreme grade after receiving part of the Fanming Primordial Spirit.
• Ning Daohuan ordered Cheng Shu to keep breeding Spirit Chickens and said he would grant the Eastern Saint Sect’s wish to reclaim Fanming, though he intended to thwart them.
• Wang Ba spent two months learning to dissect an Eel-Tailed Toad instantly with Law Power, completing the first step, then waited for Spirit Beasts to hatch and cultivated them.
• When the Teleportation Array opened, Wang Ba took a batch of Spirit Chickens back to the Swordwave Garrison to find Bao Chao and learn the second step.

Wang Ba learned to prepare processing solutions for Spirit Beasts by recording experiments, then decided to leave Swordwave Garrison to find more beasts and refine his methods. After preparing for the trip and claiming several newly accessible weapons from old Storage Bags, he departed with Jia Ten Five and his other Spirit Beasts.

• Wang Ba practiced preparing processing solutions, recorded his results, and discovered patterns while processing several kinds of Spirit Beasts.
• Bao Chao showed Wang Ba a Burrowing Rabbit, whose unusual teeth caused Wang Ba's solution to explode and taught him that some ingredients needed special treatment.
• Wang Ba bought more Spirit Beasts, studied a map from the Spirit Beast Shop's proprietor, and decided to explore beyond Swordwave Garrison for new specimens.
• Wang Ba refined two Storage Bags from the Moon-Mirror Prefecture campaign and found Spirit Stones, resources, second-tier talismans, and the Iris Formless Needles.
• Wang Ba learned how to use the human-skin drum and black jar, practiced with his newly acquired weapons, and left Swordwave Garrison with Jia Ten Five and his other Spirit Beasts.

Wang Ba explored the forests around Swordwave Garrison, collecting spirit beasts and materials while searching for resources beyond the sect’s reach. After reaching the dangerous Wood-Forest Island, he chose to avoid it and fly toward a passage leading outside the garrison’s encirclement.

• Wang Ba compared maps and set out to find Shield-Armored Giant-Headed Turtles, hoping to collect unfamiliar spirit beasts and materials.
• Wang Ba found the turtles’ stream habitat empty but collected the Blood-Sucking Black Leeches that infested it.
• Wang Ba explored deeper into the forest, gathering spirit herbs, spirit beasts, and materials while finding no second-tier spirit beasts.
• Wang Ba reached a ravine opposite Wood-Forest Island and learned from his map that passages between the danger zones led beyond Swordwave Garrison toward settlements and ghost markets.
• Wang Ba decided not to enter Wood-Forest Island and doubled back to fly toward a safer passage.

Wang Ba traveled out of Swordwave Garrison, captured a Snowflake Python, and found a bird egg before surviving an ambush by Song Buping of the Profound Puppet Dao. After learning about ghost markets and accepting a Market Entry Token, Wang Ba left the forest and reached inhabited lands.

• Wang Ba used his Spirit Beasts to capture a second-tier Snowflake Python and collected a nearly hatched egg from a nest containing second-tier feathers.
• Two Foundation Establishment corpse puppets ambushed Wang Ba, but his Azurewater Spirit Turtle blocked their attacks, and he forced Song Buping into the open.
• Wang Ba showed his Heavenly Gate Seal and Bai Yu's Voice Transmission Talisman, prompting Song Buping to apologize and offer him a Qi Refining Realm ghost-market token.
• Song Buping explained ghost-market rules and warned Wang Ba that larger markets were controlled by powerful cultivators and that rogue cultivators could be harvested for profit.
• Wang Ba accepted the Market Entry Token, sealed it against possible communication, and flew beyond the forest until he saw signs of human habitation.

Wang Ba used the Dream Creation Technique to make Wu Hai believe he was Zhu Jianyi’s friend and learned how to enter a ghost market beneath the Jinlan River. After arriving at the market, Wang Ba found little of interest until Wu Hai greeted Zhu Jianyi.

• Wang Ba met Wu Hai at a butcher’s stall in Li Sanwan, and Wu Hai denied that the town had a market.
• Wang Ba used the Dream Creation Technique to convince Wu Hai that he was a friend of Zhu Jianyi, who had connections to several ghost markets.
• Wu Hai accepted two lower-grade Spirit Stones and promised to take Wang Ba to the nearby Jinhe City ghost market without an entry token.
• Several days later, Wu Hai led Wang Ba beneath the Jinlan River through a passage opened by a Water-Repelling Talisman.
• Wang Ba explored the underground market and found little worth buying before Wu Hai spotted Zhu Jianyi and called out to him.

Wang Ba attended the Jinhe Ghost Market, where Zhu Jianyi sold Crimson Origin Pills containing mysterious flesh worms. Wang Ba used his Dream Creation technique to extract information from Zhu Jianyi, but Zhu broke free and recognized Wang Ba as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Zhu Jianyi arrived at the Ghost Market and announced that his master, True Cultivator Lin, had advanced in cultivation and sent him to sell treasures.
• Zhu Jianyi distributed Crimson Origin Pills cheaply to the cultivators, and Wang Ba noticed a living flesh worm inside his pill that had no Divine Soul presence.
• Wang Ba followed Zhu Jianyi and used the Dream Creation technique to make him believe Wang Ba was his junior brother.
• Zhu Jianyi revealed that he had distributed offspring worms from a second-tier Yin-Food Bug and carried entry tokens for Ghost Markets with second-tier treasures.
• Zhu Jianyi broke free of Wang Ba's influence and attacked with the Soul-Grasping Hand, but Wang Ba crushed the technique with overwhelming Law Power.
• Zhu Jianyi sensed Wang Ba's Foundation Establishment presence and stared at him in shock and terror.

Wang Ba subdued Zhu Jianyi and learned about the sinister Yin-Food Bugs, but Zhu Jianyi’s soul-searching revealed little about the Ghost Markets. Wang Ba tested whether he could give lifespan to a cultivator, triggering a failed transformation and a deadly explosion before he fled with Zhu Jianyi and a surviving disciple.

• Wang Ba restrained Zhu Jianyi and his followers, then learned that Zhu Jianyi distributed Yin-Food Bugs that drained cultivators to nourish True Cultivator Lin and his mother insect.
• Wang Ba questioned Zhu Jianyi about the entry requirements for nearby Ghost Markets, but Zhu Jianyi claimed an oath prevented him from revealing them and offered to guide Wang Ba instead.
• Wang Ba soul-searched Zhu Jianyi and discovered that speaking about the Exquisite Ghost Market’s requirements caused Zhu Jianyi to suffer a dangerous backlash, leaving Wang Ba with little information.
• Wang Ba deposited lifespan into an unconscious Qi Refining cultivator and watched the man begin undergoing a transformation resembling an attempt at Foundation Establishment.
• The cultivator’s body failed to withstand the transformation and exploded, so Wang Ba collected the remains and escaped with Zhu Jianyi and one surviving low-level cultivator as others approached.

Wang Ba forced Zhu Jianyi to reveal how to enter the Exquisite Ghost Market, then followed him through a Teleportation Array into the market. The chapter leaves Wang Ba arriving amid the Ghost Market’s crowded stalls and announcements.

• A middle-aged scholar learned that Chang Qu, Lin Wu, and Lu Xin had died, then caused destructive waves on the river while wondering who had attacked his people.
• Zhu Jianyi awoke in a tree hollow surrounded by the remains of his companions and realized Wang Ba had kept him alive because he was useful.
• Wang Ba told Zhu Jianyi that he had planted something inside him and promised to release him after completing a Ghost Market trade if he cooperated.
• Zhu Jianyi led Wang Ba to Cloud Dragon Valley and explained that the Exquisite Ghost Market opened during the full moon inside a bandit stronghold.
• The two descended through the stronghold’s dungeon and water prison, then used a Teleportation Array powered by Zhu Jianyi’s twenty Lower-grade Spirit Stones.
• Wang Ba arrived in the Exquisite Ghost Market and heard vendors advertising goods and news about a young palace master and a traveling sword cultivator.

Wang Ba entered the real Exquisite Ghost Market after swearing a Heart Demon Oath and learned how its hidden entrance worked. He bought six Mountain-Moving Apes and several books, then acquired the Golden Wind Jade Dew Art before someone recognized Zhu Jianyi.

• Zhu Jianyi led Wang Ba through a decoy market, where Wang Ba signed a Heart Demon Oath and followed a coded command through a Teleportation Array to the real Exquisite Ghost Market.
• Wang Ba bought six Mountain-Moving Apes from a Foundation Establishment cultivator, paying with Spirit Chicken Essence, talismans, and other supplies, and exchanged Voice Transmission Talismans with the seller.
• Wang Ba bought assorted books and cultivation notes after deciding the market's pills and talismans were poor in quality.
• Wang Ba bought the Golden Wind Jade Dew Art, which could be practiced by perfecting the Golden Wind Swift Arrow Technique and transforming it into a second-tier water-attribute law technique.
• As Wang Ba prepared to leave, someone nearby recognized Zhu Jianyi and asked what he was doing there.

Wang Ba discovered Zhu Jianyi had betrayed him and used him to test whether depositing lifespan could trigger a breakthrough in a cultivator’s flesh, causing Zhu Jianyi to explode. He then headed north toward the Canglan Ghost Market, where he noticed that Wu Hai’s Divine Soul had vanished.

• Zhu Jianyi warned Wang Ba about the disguised True Cultivator Gao by calling him Martial Uncle Gao, and the man later flew toward Jinhe City to investigate.
• Wang Ba questioned Zhu Jianyi about other ghost markets and learned the location of the Canglan Ghost Market, then caught him trying to secretly leave a message.
• Wang Ba used an illusion to conceal what he was doing and deposited lifespan into Zhu Jianyi, whose flesh grew uncontrollably and exploded.
• Wang Ba concluded that depositing lifespan could strengthen a cultivator’s flesh but might cause an explosion when the cultivator’s Law Power could not keep up.
• Wang Ba flew north alone and, while passing over Wu Hai’s home in Li Sanwan, noticed that Wu Hai’s Divine Soul was gone.

Wang Ba discovered that Yin-Food Bug Offspring concealed the divine soul presence of its host, giving him a possible way to escape the Heavenly Gate Sect’s Spirit-Entrusting Token. In Jinhe City, Lin Xiwen identified Wang Ba as a suspect in Zhu Jianyi’s disappearance, then learned that Zhu Jianyi was dead.

• Wang Ba examined Wu Hai and found that a Yin-Food Bug Offspring concealed the presence of the man’s otherwise intact divine soul.
• Wang Ba fed Wu Hai Spirit Chicken Essence, removed the matured bug from his dantian, and realized it might help him evade the Heavenly Gate Sect’s soul-tracking restraints.
• Wang Ba placed the bug in a Yellow-Throated Spirit Turtle and confirmed that it also concealed the spirit beast’s divine soul presence, though not completely.
• Lin Xiwen questioned Jinhe City’s city lord about Zhu Jianyi’s disappearance and used a water mirror to narrow the suspects to Wang Ba.
• Li Qu arrived and told Lin Xiwen that Zhu Jianyi had been at the Exquisite Ghost Market with an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator; after recognizing Wang Ba’s face, Lin Xiwen sensed that Zhu Jianyi was dead.

Fellow Daoist Lin mobilized allies to hunt the killer who had taken Jianyi’s Yin-Food Bug offspring, while Wang Ba traveled to Canglan City and explored its Exquisite Ghost Market. After buying a Spirit-Supporting Candle technique and learning how to reach the market’s second level, Wang Ba hid nearby to practice his Golden Wind Swift Arrow Technique as he waited for other ghost markets to open.

• Fellow Daoist Lin revealed his Foundation Establishment late stage cultivation and asked Xi Meng, the city lord of Jinhe City, and Fellow Daoist Li to alert nearby ghost markets and help find the killer.
• Wang Ba reached Canglan City, subdued its city lord Liu Yaodong, and learned about the nearby ghost markets, including the Exquisite Ghost Market.
• Wang Ba entered the local Exquisite Ghost Market and bought the second-tier law technique Spirit-Supporting Candle to test the offspring Yin-Food Bugs.
• Liu Yaodong told Wang Ba how to enter the second level of the Exquisite Ghost Market, which would next open in over a month.
• Wang Ba declined Liu Yaodong’s offer to stay at the city lord’s residence, hid nearby, and began practicing the Golden Wind Swift Arrow Technique.

Wang Ba mastered the Golden Wind Jade Dew Art and Spirit-Supporting Candle, then learned that Lin Xiwen was searching for him and decided to leave for the Heavenly Gate Sect after visiting the ghost markets. As he set out with Liu Yaodong, he changed their destination from Luofu Ghost Market to the more distant Nixia Ghost Market.

• Wang Ba began converting his Law Power into Jade Dew Law Power, but Liu Yaodong warned him that Lin Xiwen had circulated his portrait while searching for Zhu Jianyi’s killer.
• Wang Ba decided to return to the Heavenly Gate Sect after visiting both ghost markets, then used his lifespan to master the Golden Wind Jade Dew Art and combined its jade dew with the Iris Formless Needles.
• Wang Ba also mastered the Spirit-Supporting Candle, though he lacked the Hundred-Fragrance Bee beeswax needed to make its candles.
• Li Qu persuaded a Luofu Ghost Market steward to alert Lin Xiwen if Wang Ba appeared there, offering him Stonefire True Origin Pills in return.
• Wang Ba first chose to visit Luofu Ghost Market, but after Liu Yaodong explained that Nixia Ghost Market was closer, he changed their destination to Nixia Ghost Market.

Wang Ba explored the bustling Nixia Ghost Market, traded Spirit Chicken Essence for useful goods, and gathered resources to raise his Mountain-Moving Ape. After recognizing True Cultivator Gao from the Exquisite Ghost Market, he hurried to leave, unaware that Li Qu had marked him with Musk Horn Incense.

• Liu Yaodong explained how the Nixia Ghost Market operated openly between the Song and Yan Kingdoms, and helped Wang Ba obtain a concealment law artifact.
• Wang Ba traded Spirit Chicken Essence for a second-tier middle-grade robe artifact and browsed the stalls for techniques, spirit beasts, and supplies.
• Wang Ba bought a Mountain-Moving Ape Illustrated Compendium, learned that his quiet ape was a rare natural king, and arranged to acquire materials for nurturing it.
• Wang Ba bought Hundred-Fragrance Bees, other spirit beasts, and a second-tier high-grade flying law artifact, spending nearly all his savings.
• Wang Ba recognized True Cultivator Gao, left the market immediately, and Li Qu revealed that Musk Horn Incense had marked him.

Wang Ba returned safely to the Heavenly Gate Sect after Li Qu tracked him, while Lin Xiwen abandoned the pursuit upon learning Wang Ba belonged to the sect. Zhao Feng arrived too late for the Nixia Ghost Market and learned where to find another market, while Wang Ba advanced his work processing Spirit Beast parts.

• Wang Ba flew toward the Heavenly Gate Sect, and Li Qu pursued him with a Musk Hound carrying the scent of Musk Horn Incense.
• Li Qu discovered Wang Ba had entered the Heavenly Gate Sect's territory and summoned Lin Xiwen, who gave up pursuing him and accepted Li Qu's Musk Hound.
• Zhao Feng arrived after the Nixia Ghost Market had closed and questioned cultivators until Liu Yaodong told him about the Exquisite Ghost Market.
• Zhao Feng decided to wait at Liu Yaodong's estate for the Exquisite Ghost Market to open in a little over a month.
• At Swordwave Garrison, Wang Ba finished processing Spirit Beast organs and tissues, impressing Bao Chao by quickly achieving the second step.

Wang Ba returned to the Eastern Saint Garrison and learned that the Incense Dao threat had worsened and that Cheng Shu was close to breeding a supreme-grade Spirit Chicken, which could end the sect’s protection of him. Facing possible deployment to the front lines, Wang Ba hurried back to the Swordwave Garrison and prepared to advance his Mountain-Moving Ape.

• Bao Chao taught Wang Ba about Spirit Chef utensils, purification Law Seals, and fire control, and Wang Ba eventually produced Spirit Chicken Essence with nearly sixty percent purity.
• Wang Ba returned to the Eastern Saint Garrison, where he found the garrison depleted and learned from Bu Chan that two Incense Dao Gold Core True Persons had appeared, severely injuring Bai Yu.
• Wang Ba cleared most of the Spirit Beasts from the Chicken Farm and planned to advance the Mountain-Moving Ape before studying the Yin-Food Bug Offspring’s concealment ability.
• Wang Ba visited Bai Yu, who warned that Cheng Shu was close to breeding a second-tier supreme-grade Spirit Chicken and that Wang Ba would likely lose his exemption from front-line service.
• Wang Ba returned to the Swordwave Garrison, secured land and an array disc for his Spirit Beasts, and began preparing the future Mountain-Moving Ape king for a bloodline breakthrough.

Li Qu suspected Lin Xiwen’s cultivation secret was connected to the deaths of low-level cultivators and used a musk hound to watch a Heavenly Gate Sect cultivator. Meanwhile, Wang Ba successfully advanced the mountain-moving ape king and prepared his other apes for a thunder tribulation before leaving Swordwave Garrison; in Jinhe City, someone learned that the watched cultivator had finally come out.

• Lin Xiwen lost contact with another yin-food bug offspring and blamed the recent Demonic Dao cultivators and Zhao Swordsman for the losses.
• Li Qu suspected Lin Xiwen’s cultivation progress depended on the low-level cultivators and decided to target the Heavenly Gate Sect cultivator who had killed Zhu Jianyi.
• Li Qu used Musk Horn Incense and a musk hound to keep watch for the cultivator’s movements.
• Wang Ba fed the mountain-moving ape rare spirit medicines and treated it until it advanced to second-tier middle grade as Wu Ape King.
• Wang Ba named the other six mountain-moving apes Wu One through Wu Six, prepared them for tribulation, and left with the group.
• A figure entered an unoccupied cultivation chamber in Jinhe City after hearing a musk hound bark and exclaimed that the cultivator had finally come out.

Wang Ba tested his lifespan-acceleration theory by forcing Wu One through a Minor Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, which turned out to involve three bolts and left the ape stronger but briefly hostile. As Wang Ba began the same process with the other Mountain-Moving Apes, Zhao Feng sensed the unusual tribulation and flew toward it to investigate.

• Wang Ba brought Wu One and the other Mountain-Moving Apes to a remote site and accelerated Wu One’s maturation by depositing lifespan into him.
• Wu One survived three increasingly powerful bolts of heavenly lightning, reached the second tier, and rapidly began regenerating.
• Wu One attacked Wang Ba, but the Wu Ape King defeated him and forced him to submit; Wang Ba fitted him with a new Spirit Beast Ring and put him away.
• Wang Ba began depositing lifespan into the remaining Mountain-Moving Apes, and more thunderclouds gathered overhead.
• Outside Canglan City, Zhao Feng killed an invading Demonic Dao cultivator with one sword strike and asked Liu Yaodong about the Exquisite Ghost Market.
• Zhao Feng sensed the strange, weak heavenly tribulation, told Liu Yaodong he was leaving, and flew toward it.

Li Qu ambushed Wang Ba, but the Wu Ape King and Wang Ba’s techniques turned the attack against him. Zhao Feng arrived just after Wang Ba killed Li Qu, recognizing his junior brother beneath the thunderclouds.

• Li Qu followed the Musk Hound to find Wang Ba and planned to capture him and seize his belongings.
• Zhao Feng sensed a strange thunder tribulation and spotted Wang Ba, then noticed Li Qu approaching and rushed to intervene.
• Wang Ba recognized Li Qu as the cultivator he had met at the ghost markets and tried to escape, but Li Qu trapped him in a web Law Artifact.
• The Wu Ape King blocked Li Qu’s hammer and endured two Heavenly Thunder Seeds while Wang Ba freed himself from the trap with Jia Ten Five and Jia Ten Six.
• Wang Ba struck the Human-Skin Drum to stun Li Qu, then used jade-dew droplets and Iris Formless Needles to kill him.
• Zhao Feng arrived and revealed himself before Wang Ba, his face filled with shock.

Wang Ba reunited with Zhao Feng, received advice and learned the Lightless Technique, then reluctantly allowed the injured Wu Ape King to undergo its lightning tribulation. Meanwhile, Lin Xiwen killed a demonic cultivator near Jinhe City and learned from his Musk Hound that Wang Ba had left the Heavenly Gate Sect.

• Wang Ba and Zhao Feng compared their experiences, and Zhao Feng explained why Wang Ba had defeated the Foundation Establishment middle stage rogue cultivator so easily.
• Zhao Feng pointed out flaws in Wang Ba's fighting and taught him the Lightless Technique, which Wang Ba quickly mastered.
• Wang Ba showed Zhao Feng the spirit turtle parasitized by a Yin-Food Bug Offspring, and Zhao Feng suggested finding a method to cultivate a second Dantian.
• The Wu Ape King insisted on facing its lightning tribulation despite its injuries, and Wang Ba gave it resources and lifespan before a silver bolt struck.
• Lin Xiwen killed a green-robed demonic cultivator near Jinhe City and fed his remains to a human-faced bug.
• Lin Xiwen's Musk Hound recognized Wang Ba's scent, and Lin Xiwen realized the junior from the Heavenly Gate Sect had left the sect.

Wang Ba watched the Wu Ape King survive its tribulation and advance to second-tier high grade, then saw Zhao Feng kill Lin Xiwen with a single sword strike. Wang Ba took Lin Xiwen’s Yin-Food Bug Mother and belongings, unaware that a Phantom had followed him from a Law Artifact.

• The Wu Ape King endured the sixth bolt of tribulation lightning after Zhao Feng gave it a Thunderlight Python Inner Core, then awakened with silver fur and second-tier high-grade strength.
• Lin Xiwen arrived and demanded to know whether Wang Ba had killed his disciple, then attacked him and the Wu Ape King.
• Zhao Feng revealed himself as a powerful sword cultivator and killed Lin Xiwen with one sword strike.
• Wang Ba found the Yin-Food Bug Mother on Lin Xiwen’s body and collected his belongings, while Zhao Feng left for Canglan City.
• A Phantom detached itself from a Law Artifact and silently followed Wang Ba.

Lin Xiwen’s remnant soul tried to possess Wang Ba, but the Faceless Divine Statue in Wang Ba’s Spiritual Platform devoured part of him and drove him out. Near death, Lin Xiwen possessed a spirit rooster while Wang Ba gathered his beasts and flew back to the Heavenly Gate Sect.

• Lin Xiwen’s remnant soul survived Zhao Swordsman’s attack and charged into Wang Ba’s Spiritual Platform to seize his body.
• The Faceless Divine Statue trapped Lin Xiwen in its temple, bit off part of his body, and devoured his scattered remains when he escaped.
• With his soul badly damaged, Lin Xiwen possessed the male spirit chicken after rejecting the Wu Ape King and Azurewater Spirit Turtle as hosts.
• Wang Ba sensed something had entered and left his Spiritual Platform, then rewarded the Wu Ape King and fed his other spirit beasts.
• Wang Ba collected his spirit beasts and flew toward the Heavenly Gate Sect, smiling as he glanced back at True Cultivator Lin’s corpse.

After possessing Jia Ten Five, Lin Xiwen discovered that a mysterious system promised him more lifespan for producing offspring and began breeding with Female Spirit Chickens. Wang Ba revealed that he had fabricated the system and Lin Xiwen’s supposed short lifespan to manipulate him into breeding Spirit Chickens.

• Lin Xiwen examined his Spirit Chicken body, worried about his weak Divine Soul and short lifespan, and reluctantly ate Chicken Feed to avoid drawing Wang Ba’s attention.
• A system appeared to offer Lin Xiwen more lifespan for producing offspring, and he decided to accept it despite doubting its claims.
• Lin Xiwen struggled to mate with a Female Spirit Chicken, then succeeded after watching other chickens and resolved to continue.
• Wang Ba explained that he had recognized Lin Xiwen’s remnant soul in Jia Ten Five and implanted the false system and lifespan illusion to make him breed Spirit Chickens.
• Wang Ba took out the Yin-Food Bug Mother, which he considered his greatest gain from the journey.

Wang Ba examined the Yin-Food Bug Mother and the spoils from True Cultivator Gao, then prepared spirit cuisine and discovered a rare second-tier high-grade bird had hatched. As he left for Canglan City, Lin Xiwen realized his spirit chicken body was altering his instincts and swore revenge over the eggs Wang Ba cooked.

• Wang Ba found the Yin-Food Bug Mother had recovered to second-tier supreme grade but chose not to bond with it until he understood its risks, and he fed it Spirit Chicken Essence.
• Wang Ba searched True Cultivator Gao's belongings, identified the hostile one-horned dog as a tracking Musk Hound, and found a bird egg beginning to hatch.
• Wang Ba refined ten basins of spirit cuisine and discovered that a favored spirit chicken had laid two fertilized eggs.
• Lin Xiwen watched Wang Ba cook six eggs and realized his spirit chicken body had made him think of them as his offspring, prompting him to vow revenge.
• Wang Ba found the bird had hatched into a second-tier high-grade chick, fed it rice gruel, packed his spirit beasts, and rode toward Canglan City.