Recaps

The Everlasting Immortal Sect rescued Ye Chen from the Evil Lord of Indulgence, but the Evil Lord had left behind a seed that would make Ye Chen pregnant with an evil fetus. After learning about the technique, Jiang Yantian ordered World Defier to recruit the Evil Lord into the Demon Domain.

• The Everlasting Immortal Sect's three experts drove off the Evil Lord of Indulgence and carried the injured Ye Chen away for treatment.
• The Evil Lord of Indulgence escaped, confident that the mark he had left would eventually bring Ye Chen back to him.
• Jiang Yantian learned that the Evil Lord's technique would cause Ye Chen to carry an evil fetus that could only be removed by its creator.
• Jiang Yantian decided the Evil Lord would make a useful recruit and ordered World Defier to find him at Yin Baleful Intent Mountain and bring him into the Demon Domain.

Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu went to find Big Beard and the others, arriving as Qin Yuan and Chen Tian argued over Su Chengfen. Their linked arms and Ji Chu’s changed demeanor revealed their closeness, leaving Qin Yuan consumed by jealousy and disbelief.

• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu left the Star-Picking Tower to find Big Beard and the others.
• Qin Yuan raged at Chen Tian for eating breakfast he had prepared for Su Chengfen, while Chen Tian mocked and provoked him.
• Big Beard and Liu Mang restrained Qin Yuan as Su Chengfen tried to stop the argument.
• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu entered the inn, and Big Beard and Liu Mang noticed their linked arms and Ji Chu’s softened demeanor.
• Qin Yuan saw Ji Chu beside Jiang Yantian and was overwhelmed by resentment, jealousy, and disbelief.

Qin Yuan tried to stop Ji Chu from calling Jiang Yantian her husband, convinced she was being deceived, but the inn’s guests turned on him and mocked him. He remained stubbornly convinced he was right, even as a confrontation threatened to break out.

• Qin Yuan and Chen Tian watched Jiang Yantian with hatred, while Jiang Yantian enjoyed their helpless anger beside Ji Chu.
• Ji Chu told the bearded man that she and her husband had already eaten and moved closer to Jiang Yantian.
• Qin Yuan interrupted Ji Chu and accused her and Jiang Yantian of behaving inappropriately as husband and wife.
• The bearded man, Liu Mang, and the inn’s guests condemned Qin Yuan and mocked his jealousy.
• Qin Yuan shouted at the spectators, who rose as if ready to fight, and he decided to endure the insult for now.

Ji Chu rejected Qin Yuan’s self-righteous interference and affirmed that Jiang Yantian was her husband. Qin Yuan convinced himself she was only acting out of jealousy and stepped forward to stop her from leaving, while Jiang Yantian prepared to intervene.

• Ji Chu told Qin Yuan that her relationship with Jiang Yantian was none of his business and that she did not need permission to call him her husband.
• Qin Yuan mistook Ji Chu’s disgust and decision to leave with Jiang Yantian as an attempt to make him jealous and win his attention.
• Qin Yuan regretted not pursuing Ji Chu sooner and decided he had to stop her from leaving Black Gorge with Jiang Yantian.
• Ji Chu ordered Qin Yuan to get out of her way when he tried to explain himself.
• Jiang Yantian lost patience with Qin Yuan and prepared to attack if he said another word.

Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu left the inn after he covertly triggered a crushing attack that buried Qin Yuan and Chen Tian, then continued toward the Demon Domain. At the Everlasting Immortal Sect, the badly injured Ye Chen recovered while a refined young man entered his room with medicine.

• Chen Tian insulted Qin Yuan, and the two began fighting while Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu prepared to leave.
• Jiang Yantian lightly waved his hand, then led Ji Chu out of the inn as a massive palm appeared in the sky.
• The palm crushed the inn and pinned Qin Yuan and Chen Tian beneath it, where their lips accidentally touched.
• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu headed toward the outskirts of the Demon Domain while Su Chengfen and others dealt with the wreckage.
• At the Everlasting Immortal Sect, Ye Chen lay severely injured and sensed the sect around him as he recovered.
• A refined young man carrying medicine entered Ye Chen's room, and Ye Chen noted the man's strength and talent.

Ye Chen recognized Li Xuanji as a gifted attendant whose talents and ambitions had gone unrecognized, and resolved to help him when he could move and speak again. Elder Lian arrived with medicine refiners to examine Ye Chen, including a strikingly beautiful woman who captivated Ye Chen and Li Xuanji.

• Li Xuanji delivered items to Ye Chen, then lamented that he knew how to treat Ye Chen but feared the elder would not believe him.
• Ye Chen recognized Li Xuanji's talent and sympathized with his thwarted ambitions, recalling his own rise from hardship to become the Purple Firmament Sword Lord.
• Ye Chen resolved to help Li Xuanji once he had the chance, though he could not yet move or speak.
• Elder Lian entered with several pill refiners and medicine refiners to diagnose and treat Ye Chen.
• A beautiful woman among the medicine refiners drew Ye Chen's and Li Xuanji's attention.

Li Xuanji tried to warn the elders treating Ye Chen that their approach would worsen the death Qi in his body, but they ordered him to leave. Before he could go, he sensed a nascent womb palace inside Ye Chen and announced that Ye Chen might become pregnant, provoking Elder Lian's fury.

• Li Xuanji admired Fairy Fengyin and asked Elder Lian to let him stay and observe Ye Chen's treatment.
• The elders rebuked Li Xuanji for overstepping his place as an odd-job disciple and ordered him to leave.
• Li Xuanji realized that the elders' plan to repair Ye Chen's meridians and seal his Qi sea could trap the death Qi inside him and worsen his condition.
• As Li Xuanji turned to go, he sensed a faint, embryonic womb palace in Ye Chen's abdomen.
• Li Xuanji announced that Ye Chen had opened a womb palace and might become pregnant, leaving everyone stunned.
• Elder Lian furiously called Li Xuanji's claim nonsense and ordered him out.

Li Xuanji insisted that an unconscious senior had a hidden pseudo womb palace and warned the Medicine Refining Hall that the senior would become pregnant within three days. The elders rejected his diagnosis and threw him out, but Li Xuanji remained convinced they would soon beg him for help.

• Li Xuanji told the elders that the unconscious senior had a pseudo womb palace, drawing their anger and ridicule.
• Li Xuanji explained that his knowledge came from an ancient fragment and said the elders had failed to detect the hidden condition.
• Li Xuanji proposed testing his diagnosis with powdered thousand-year-old human placenta and three drops of blood essence.
• The elders accused Li Xuanji of reckless claims, and Elder Lian blasted him out of the Medicine Refining Hall.
• Li Xuanji struggled to his feet and predicted that the elders would come begging him to treat the senior within three days.

Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu arrived at the Everlasting Immortal Sect, where he disguised himself as Fuqing before they entered. The disciples accepted Jiang Yantian’s claim that they belonged to the sect and let them pass without question.

• Li Xuanji expected Ye Chen’s injuries to worsen and planned to use his alleged ability to treat a false womb palace to advance his status.
• Ye Chen grew angry at Li Xuanji for claiming he had a womb palace and resolved to deal with him later.
• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu reached the Everlasting Immortal Sect after tracking Ye Chen’s presence.
• Jiang Yantian veiled Ji Chu, transformed into Fuqing’s appearance, and entered the sect with her.
• When disciples questioned them, Jiang Yantian said they were sect members, and the disciples let them continue without checking.

Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu toured the Everlasting Immortal Sect while he revealed that they had come to ensure Ye Chen’s safe delivery. Ji Chu was stunned to learn that Ye Chen himself was pregnant, then suggested broadcasting the birth across the heavens, leaving Jiang Yantian teasing her for having a mischievous streak.

• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu explored the Everlasting Immortal Sect, and he dismissed its grandeur as meaningless before absolute power.
• Ji Chu asked why they had come, and Jiang Yantian explained that someone they knew was about to give birth and that the child had to be born safely.
• Jiang Yantian told Ji Chu that Ye Chen, whom World Defier had sent flying after a Dao discussion, was pregnant and due to give birth soon.
• Ji Chu questioned how a man could be pregnant, then agreed they should congratulate Ye Chen and proposed using All-Heavens Projection to show the birth to cultivators everywhere.
• Jiang Yantian kissed Ji Chu and teased her for having a little wickedness in her bones, while she blushed and denied it.

Jiang Yantian secretly set the building where the elders were treating Ye Chen ablaze with Red Lotus Karmic Fire. The fire disrupted the treatment, worsened Ye Chen’s injuries, and left him badly burned as the elders began to suspect Li Xuanji.

• Jiang Yantian left Ji Chu outside the crowd and approached the building where the elders were treating Ye Chen.
• Jiang Yantian secretly sent Red Lotus Karmic Fire to the building, and it quickly engulfed the structure.
• The disciples’ spells failed to extinguish the fire, and Elder Lian returned from outside blackened, warning that it was karmic fire.
• The elders stopped treating Ye Chen and carried him out, causing the treatment’s immortal essence to spiral out of control and make him vomit blood.
• The karmic fire burned Ye Chen’s backside, and disciples stamped on him until the flames began to fade.
• Elder Lian demanded to know who caused the fire, and a disciple suggested that Li Xuanji might be taking revenge.

Elder Lian suspected Li Xuanji had set the fire and ordered two inner sect disciples to bring him in for questioning, threatening to have him suppressed if he resisted. Unaware of the danger, Li Xuanji assumed they had come to invite him for help with Ye Chen, and welcomed their arrival with smug confidence.

• Elder Lian recalled Li Xuanji's defiant behavior and suspected he was responsible for setting the fire.
• Elder Lian ordered two inner sect disciples to find Li Xuanji and bring him to him, with instructions to suppress Li Xuanji if he refused.
• Jiang Yantian suspected Li Xuanji was another Child of Fortune, while Ji Chu watched Ye Chen and wondered why her husband ignored Fairy Fengyin.
• Li Xuanji relaxed in his courtyard, convinced the elders would soon seek his help with Ye Chen's condition.
• Two inner sect disciples arrived at Li Xuanji's courtyard, and he mistook them for messengers sent to invite him.

Li Xuanji argued with two disciples sent to bring him before the elders, misunderstanding their accusations as a rude invitation. After they attacked and he shattered their spiritual net, he agreed to go confront the elder and explain their behavior.

• Li Xuanji told the two disciples he expected the elders to summon him and complained that he had been dismissed, mocked, and beaten.
• The disciples accused Li Xuanji of arson and demanded that he explain what he had done and admit his wrongdoing, so he refused to treat the illness and sat back down.
• The two disciples attempted to seize Li Xuanji with a spiritual net, but he broke it with a burst of force.
• Li Xuanji accused the disciples of deliberately provoking him and then agreed to go with them to ask the elder whether they had been ordered to invite or arrest him.
• Li Xuanji and the two disciples set off to meet the elders, while Li Xuanji imagined making a name for himself.

Jiang Yantian learned that Li Xuanji was the sect master's illegitimate son, while Li Xuanji was brought before the elders and accused of defying them. Elder Lian forced him to his knees, and Li Xuanji defended his medical advice as Elder Lian rebuked him.

• Jiang Yantian's notification identified Li Xuanji as a late-stage Integrated Body cultivator and the Everlasting Immortal Sect master's illegitimate son.
• Two inner disciples escorted Li Xuanji to the square, where he saw Ye Chen severely injured and suspected that the elders' fire therapy had worsened his condition.
• The inner disciples presented an Image-Recording Stone that showed Li Xuanji arguing with them and fighting them outside the menial courtyard.
• Elder Lian viewed the recording, grew furious, and unleashed his Immortal Essence to force Li Xuanji to kneel.
• Li Xuanji asked what wrongdoing justified his public humiliation and argued that he had only pointed out the elders' misdiagnosis.
• Elder Lian accused Li Xuanji of making excuses and angrily called him a wretch.

The elders accused Li Xuanji of setting a karmic fire to murder them, and the crowd turned against him as Jiang Yantian stirred them up. As Elder Lian ordered Li Xuanji taken into custody, Li Xuanji cursed the elders, and everyone heard him.

• Elder Lian accused Li Xuanji of arson, while Li Xuanji insisted he had been resting and knew nothing about the fire.
• Jiang Yantian and Ji Chu blamed Li Xuanji, and Elder Lian played a recording of Li Xuanji's words as supposed evidence of his guilt.
• Jiang Yantian called for a duel, and the crowd surged toward Li Xuanji, trampling the injured Ye Chen in the chaos.
• Elder Lian declared Li Xuanji guilty and ordered him taken into custody.
• Li Xuanji cursed the elders just as the crowd fell silent, and everyone heard him.

After Elder Lian sentenced Li Xuanji to the Punishment of Dao Severing for his alleged crimes, Li Xuanji erupted in anger and cursed the elder and sect. Elder Lian abandoned the plan to imprison him and unleashed a massive palm strike as the disciples watched.

• Elder Lian ordered enforcement disciples to arrest Li Xuanji and announced that he would receive the Punishment of Dao Severing in three days.
• Li Xuanji realized imprisonment would leave him no chance to escape and shouted that he quit the sect and his servant job.
• Li Xuanji accused Elder Lian and the other elders of poor treatment, scapegoating him, and falsely charging him with arson.
• Elder Lian, enraged by Li Xuanji's insults, declared that he would teach him a lesson and formed a huge palm of power that pressed toward him.

Elder Lian nearly crushed Li Xuanji, but the Everlasting Immortal Sect's sect master intervened and saved him. The sect master arrived before the gathered disciples and looked at the battered servant with guilt and heartache, leaving Elder Lian to wonder about Li Xuanji's connection to him.

• Elder Lian brought a massive hand down on Li Xuanji, who refused to surrender and raised his chopping blade to resist.
• Jiang Yantian told Ji Chu that someone would stop Li Xuanji's execution because the servant had a hidden background.
• The sect master's Qi intercepted Elder Lian's attack, and the resulting collision sent a shock wave through the grounds.
• The sect master arrived, prompting the disciples and Elder Lian to bow and greet him.
• The sect master looked at the wounded Li Xuanji with heartache and guilt, while Elder Lian suspected the servant had a connection to him.

After Li Fenghuai saved Li Xuanji, the sect master silently scrutinized him while the gathered disciples speculated about his interest. Jiang Yantian revealed that Li Xuanji was Li Fenghuai’s illegitimate son, leaving the crowd stunned and the claim unconfirmed.

• Li Xuanji recognized Li Fenghuai as the old man he had met several times at the Jade Osmanthus Pavilion and respectfully thanked him for saving his life.
• Li Fenghuai stared at Li Xuanji without responding, prompting the assembled disciples, elders, and stewards to whisper about why he favored a servant disciple.
• Jiang Yantian sent a booming voice transmission across the square, claiming Li Xuanji was Li Fenghuai’s illegitimate son and urging the crowd to applaud their reunion.
• The crowd erupted in disbelief, then began pointing out Li Xuanji’s resemblance to Li Fenghuai and questioning whether the claim was true.

Rumors spread through the Everlasting Immortal Sect that Li Fenghuai was Li Xuanji’s father, and Jiang Yantian publicly taunted Li Fenghuai to confess or swear an oath. Li Xuanji began to suspect the claim was true, while Li Fenghuai raged at the unseen speaker and Ye Chen lay injured on the ground.

• Sect disciples speculated that Li Fenghuai had fathered Li Xuanji, and the rumor spread across the square.
• Li Fenghuai angrily demanded that the hidden accuser reveal himself and deny the allegation.
• Jiang Yantian mocked Li Fenghuai and challenged him to confess or swear an oath to the Devil Emperor.
• Li Xuanji recalled that a Rogue Cultivator had brought him to the sect without explaining his origins, and he began to believe Li Fenghuai might be his father.
• Li Fenghuai blasted Qi into the sky but failed to find Jiang Yantian, who continued provoking him.
• Ye Chen, lying on the ground, weakly asked if anyone would help him.

Jiang Yantian used a hidden voice transmission to expose Li Fenghuai’s alleged abandonment of Li Xuanji, while Fairy Fengyin realized the voice came from the handsome young man beside her. The chapter ended with Li Fenghuai furiously denying the accusations as Jiang Yantian prepared to inflame the scandal further.

• Fairy Fengyin ignored the commotion over Li Xuanji and focused on the storybook she had found, about the Imperishable Devil Emperor pursuing a pill refiner.
• Fairy Fengyin noticed that the voice accusing Li Fenghuai came from Jiang Yantian, though everyone else searched the sky for its source.
• Fairy Fengyin approached Jiang Yantian, drawing Ji Chu’s suspicion that she might be attracted to her husband.
• Jiang Yantian accused Li Fenghuai of abandoning his biological son, Li Xuanji, in the servants’ courtyard and betraying his former lover out of fear of his wife.
• Li Fenghuai roared at the unseen accuser and denied fabricating the allegations, while Jiang Yantian planned to provoke him further.

Jiang Yantian discovered that Fairy Fengyin could hear his shouted thoughts, while Li Xuanji pressed Li Fenghuai to clarify whether they were related. Li Fenghuai’s oath proved they had no blood ties, leaving him devastated and furious as he continued swearing.

• Fairy Fengyin confronted Jiang Yantian after hearing his words, and Jiang tested her ability by shouting an insult at Li Fenghuai.
• Fairy Fengyin admitted she was uninterested in getting involved and walked away to read, while Jiang continued provoking the gathering.
• Li Xuanji demanded that Li Fenghuai clarify whether he was his father, fearing rumors would dishonor his parents.
• Li Fenghuai swore that he and Li Xuanji had no blood relation, and golden light confirmed the oath was true.
• Li Fenghuai realized he had raised another man’s child and struggled to contain his rage toward Li Xuanji.
• Li Fenghuai repeatedly swore the same oath, each time confirmed by golden light, as the gathered disciples urged him to stop.

After the Forbidden Zone Oath convinced Li Fenghuai that Li Xuanji was not his son, he flew into a murderous rage and attacked him. Jiang Yantian secretly blocked the strike, leaving Li Xuanji unharmed and Li Fenghuai convinced that the mysterious protector was the man who had cuckolded him.

• Li Fenghuai remembered his affair with Gui Ting and became consumed by the belief that he had raised another man's child for nearly a thousand years.
• Convinced the oath proved Li Xuanji was not his son, Li Fenghuai charged at him with murderous intent.
• The elders and disciples watched in alarm as Li Xuanji froze in terror and Li Fenghuai's attack shook the sect entrance.
• Jiang Yantian secretly raised an invisible barrier that stopped Li Fenghuai's strike and protected Li Xuanji.
• When the dust cleared, Li Xuanji stood unharmed, and Li Fenghuai suspected that his hidden protector was the man who had cuckolded him.

Jiang Yantian impersonated the Purple Firmament Sword Lord Ye Chen and claimed Li Xuanji was his son, using fabricated revelations about Li Fenghuai’s past to provoke him. The elders grew suspicious of one another as Li Fenghuai broke down in rage, while the real Ye Chen remained helpless and confused.

• Jiang Yantian claimed to be Ye Chen, Li Xuanji’s biological father, leaving the real Ye Chen stunned and unable to speak.
• Jiang Yantian taunted Li Fenghuai by claiming he had secretly raised Ye Chen’s son for nearly a thousand years and had once shared a romance with the boy’s mother.
• Li Fenghuai’s humiliation and suspicion turned into renewed hatred toward Li Xuanji, while the onlookers pieced together why he had first protected and then attacked the boy.
• Jiang Yantian claimed Li Fenghuai’s beloved had been his mount and that several elders had also been involved with her.
• The elders denied involvement but began suspecting one another, while Li Fenghuai roared in anguish at realizing he had raised another man’s son alone.

Jiang Yantian claimed that Li Xuanji was his son and spun an increasingly scandalous story about Li Xuanji’s mother, aiming to humiliate Li Xuanji and shatter Li Fenghuai’s faith in her. The accusations left the sect’s elders suspecting one another as the crowd began to believe the detailed tale.

• Li Fenghuai reeled as Jiang Yantian’s claim that several people had been involved made him question the woman he had loved.
• Li Xuanji angrily challenged the voice in the sky and demanded proof that its speaker was his father.
• Jiang Yantian claimed that Li Xuanji’s mother had been pursued by Nie Renwang and Xiongba as a status symbol.
• Jiang Yantian said he had fathered Li Xuanji, then left the pregnant woman to find Li Fenghuai to raise the child.
• Jiang Yantian claimed the woman had also sought out other men, making the crowd mock Li Fenghuai and the elders eye one another with suspicion.

Jiang Yantian’s accusations left the Everlasting Immortal Sect in chaos, with Li Fenghuai humiliated and Li Xuanji close to Qi deviation. Fairy Fengyin read a storybook predicting the sect master’s wife’s arrival and the coming brawl, and the prediction began unfolding as she attacked Li Fenghuai.

• Jiang Yantian confirmed that Li Xuanji was his biological son, then departed, leaving the elders accusing one another and Li Xuanji consumed by rage.
• Fairy Fengyin found that her storybook described the scene and predicted the sect master’s wife would arrive, fight Li Fenghuai, and leave the elders wounded.
• The sect master’s wife tore through the void and attacked Li Fenghuai, accusing him of disgracing her and the Everlasting Immortal Sect.
• Li Fenghuai fought back and defended Ting-with Yuting, while the couple traded accusations and the elders rushed to separate them.