Recaps

Lin Fei rescued Ji Yaoguang and effortlessly overwhelmed Bai Pojun and the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders. As Bai Pojun knelt before him, Yao Xinyi revealed that Lin Fei was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.

• Bai Pojun attacked the wounded Ji Yaoguang, but Lin Fei pulled her into his arms and healed her injuries.
• Bai Pojun sent the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders’ web at Lin Fei, who erased it with a finger.
• Lin Fei struck the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders with a vast palm of light, flattening her into the ground while sparing her life.
• Lin Fei set Ji Yaoguang down and declared that Bai Pojun must die, forcing him to his knees with his killing intent.
• Yao Xinyi arrived and proclaimed that Lin Fei was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, honored even by the Immortal Emperor of the Eastern Sea.

Lin Fei killed Bai Pojun after revealing that he could resurrect Ji Yaoguang, then rewarded Yao Xinyi and gave Wu Moling the bracelet and Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders. After Yao Xinyi arranged a hotel stay, Lin Fei called out her attempt to share a room with him.

• Bai Pojun learned that Lin Fei regarded immortals as ants and realized the Bai family had provoked a vastly greater being.
• Lin Fei revealed that he could resurrect Ji Yaoguang and said he had given Qing Mingyu a second life, leaving Bai Pojun devastated.
• Lin Fei killed Bai Pojun and destroyed the Sacrificial Ring, then accepted Ji Yaoguang's plea to spare Yao Xinyi.
• Lin Fei gave Yao Xinyi Qi Gathering Pills and handed Emperor Shun's Enci Bracelet and the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders to Wu Moling after Ji Yaoguang refused them.
• Yao Xinyi arranged a hotel stay and claimed only two rooms were available; Lin Fei told her to ask directly if she wanted to serve him in bed.

Lin Fei waited among the villa ruins as Dragon Hidden arrived to investigate the destruction and confronted him. After Lin Fei demonstrated his power and revealed his connection to Dragon Hidden’s lord, Chen Longxiang, the team’s suspicion gave way to shock.

• Lin Fei sent Yao Xinyi back to Kuncheng and told Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling to find a hotel while he waited in the ruins.
• Dragon Hidden members arrived by helicopter, surrounded Lin Fei, and aimed their weapons at him.
• Lin Fei extinguished the searchlights and sent the Dragon Hidden members mental images of what had happened, easing their suspicions.
• When Hawkeye questioned him about sparing the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, Lin Fei said he had subdued her and asked whether Little Chen had come.
• Lin Fei explained that he had helped Chen Longxiang establish Dragon Hidden, then told Hawkeye to call Chen and report that the matter was handled.
• After speaking with Chen Longxiang, Hawkeye turned back to Lin Fei in shock.

Lin Fei spoke with Chen Longxiang after defeating the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, then faced Bai Zhan, whose father Bai Pojun had died. Meanwhile, Datura suspected Lin Xinyu was alive and posted an astronomical bounty to find her.

• Chen Longxiang thanked Lin Fei for stopping the disaster in Rongcheng and ordered Dragon Hidden to withdraw.
• Hawkeye and the Dragon Hidden team left, marveling at Lin Fei's power as he remained seated among the ruins.
• Bai Zhan arrived, learned that Bai Pojun was dead, and knelt before Lin Fei in grief.
• Datura lamented the Dark Night Organization's failures and feared Lin Fei's continued interference.
• Datura recalled Nightmare's interest in preserving a flawless work of art and suspected the missing Lin Xinyu was the person Patriarch Wangliang sought.
• An astronomical bounty appeared on the dark web, featuring a photograph of a girl with a gardenia in her hair.

After Lin Fei declined the Qing family's offer of lodging and Qing Lixue's invitation to spend the day with him, he prepared to investigate Black Bamboo Valley. The next morning, the Bai family gathered outside his hotel to beg forgiveness, drawing a crowd and the media.

• Lin Fei declined Qing Fen's offer to stay at the Qing family villa and settled into a hotel instead.
• Qing Lixue thanked Lin Fei, apologized for once mistaking him for a charlatan, and invited him to spend the next day with her, but he refused because he planned to investigate Black Bamboo Valley.
• Qing Fen told Qing Mingyu to secure a new villa for Lin Fei at auction, whatever the cost.
• The next morning, Bai Zhan led members of the Bai family to the Grand Hyatt Chunxi Road, where they knelt with thorn rods to beg forgiveness.
• Reporters and spectators gathered outside Lin Fei's hotel, eager to see whom the Bai family had come to meet.

Lin Fei dismissed the Bai family's plea for forgiveness and left the hotel amid reporters' questions. He then told Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling he was taking them to Black Bamboo Valley to help them reach the Grandmaster Realm.

• Bai Zhan and the Bai family knelt before Lin Fei and begged him to punish them for their sins.
• Lin Fei said the blame belonged to Bai Pojun and Bai Poju, forgave the rest of the family, and sent them home.
• Reporters crowded Lin Fei as he left, while Wu Moling kept them back and led Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang to the Bugatti Veyron.
• Lin Fei told Wu Moling to drive to Black Bamboo Valley, whose records described disappearances and deaths among those who entered.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling he planned to help them reach the Grandmaster Realm.

Lin Fei invited Ji Yaoguang to travel with him to Black Bamboo Valley, and she happily accepted, treating the outing as a date. At the company, Han Enci learned they had left and later planned to win a mountain estate villa at auction so he could use it to woo Meng Xue.

• Lin Fei asked Ji Yaoguang to travel with him to Black Bamboo Valley, and she agreed after Wu Moling encouraged her.
• Wu Moling declined to accompany them, while Ji Yaoguang wondered if the trip would be her first date with a man.
• Wu Moling told Han Enci that Ji Yaoguang had gone on a trip with Lin Fei, and Han Enci accepted that he could not compete with Lin Fei.
• Meng Zhe called Han Enci about the mountain estate villa auction, and Han Enci invited him and his sister Meng Xue to attend.
• Han Enci planned to win the villa and use it to persuade Meng Xue to get together with him.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang explored Black Bamboo Valley, where Lin Fei identified an ancient cultivation ruin and found two groups nearby. They came upon ancient martial artists fighting Three-Eyed Azure-Tailed Wolves, and Lin Fei left their fate uncertain as Steward Wu attacked the pack’s alpha.

• Lin Fei sensed a powerful force across Black Bamboo Valley and identified it as the remains of an ancient sect’s formation.
• Lin Fei found two groups in the valley and led Ji Yaoguang toward the sound of wolves howling.
• Lin Fei identified the creatures surrounding a group of martial artists as Three-Eyed Azure-Tailed Wolves.
• Steward Wu charged through the wolf pack to attack its alpha while the other martial artists fought to survive.
• Ji Yaoguang asked Lin Fei to help the besieged group, but Lin Fei refused and remarked that they might not be good people.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang watched the Wu Family battle a wolf pack in Black Bamboo Valley, then Lin Fei identified how the group was resisting the miasma. The Wu Family suspected Ji Yaoguang had a protective treasure and proposed joining forces, but Lin Fei saw through Steward Wu’s plan to use them as cannon fodder.

• Ji Yaoguang asked how Lin Fei knew the newcomers were bad people, and Lin Fei recognized them as the Wu Family of Jinling from their surname, accents, and knowledge of Black Bamboo Valley.
• Steward Wu killed the alpha wolf with the Saber Sect technique Gale and Raging Fire, causing the remaining wolves to scatter.
• Steward Wu noticed Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang and challenged them for standing aside while the Wu Family fought.
• Lin Fei deduced that the Wu Family members used atractylodes to resist the valley’s miasma, and Steward Wu questioned how Ji Yaoguang remained unaffected without it.
• Steward Wu suggested that the group travel together, and Lin Fei bluntly accused him of wanting to use them as cannon fodder.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang joined Wu Mou's group as they traveled deeper into Black Bamboo Valley, where Lin Fei uncovered a hidden cultivator's cave. After triggering its Myriad Spirits Tribulation Killing Array, Lin Fei erased the array's engravings with a casual sweep of his hand.

• Lin Fei agreed to travel with Wu Mou's group, while Wu Mou secretly plotted to seize Ji Yaoguang's poison-immunity treasure and exploit them.
• As the group entered a region of dead, blackened trees and thicker miasma, Wu Mou noticed Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang remained unaffected.
• Lin Fei broke open a rubble wall and revealed a cave abode, then entered it despite Wu Mou's warning.
• Lin Fei found Spirit Stones in the cave and broke one free, triggering the Myriad Spirits Tribulation Killing Array.
• The array attacked Lin Fei with blood-red killing lights, but he erased its engravings with a sweep of his hand.

Lin Fei found a few cultivation resources in the cave dwelling before triggering a flood of demonic qi. He pretended to be gravely injured, emerged alive, and drew Wu Mou’s attention to the Spirit Stones in his hand.

• Lin Fei collected low-grade Spirit Stones and gathered the surviving spirit bud grass and earth cloud grass, along with their spiritual soil.
• Lin Fei exposed the cave owner’s skeleton beneath the herb patch, triggering a collapse and releasing a vast cloud of demonic qi.
• Lin Fei breathed in the demonic qi and pretended it had badly injured him, then produced several Spirit Stones and said he would put on a show.
• Wu Mou and the others fled from the cave, convinced that Lin Fei had been killed by the demonic qi.
• Lin Fei emerged alive but feigning exhaustion, and Wu Mou stared intently at the Spirit Stones in his hand.

Lin Fei faked his death from demonic qi corruption to expose Wu Mou’s treachery and lure him into attacking. He effortlessly withstood Wu Mou’s saber strike, leaving Wu Mou shocked as Lin Fei declared that his saber had broken.

• Lin Fei pretended to die, convincing Ji Yaoguang and Wu Mou that the demonic qi had killed him.
• Wu Mou seized Lin Fei’s Spirit Stones and ordered his men to strip Ji Yaoguang to find her treasure.
• Lin Fei appeared behind Wu Mou and revealed that he was alive, then threatened to kill him.
• Wu Mou attacked Lin Fei with Gale and Raging Fire, but the strike rebounded as if against an iron wall.
• Lin Fei told Wu Mou that his saber had broken.

Lin Fei shattered Wu Mou’s saber and revealed that he had taught the Saber Emperor Yang Zhenbei, leaving Wu Mou terrified and kneeling. When Wu Mou tried to attack Ji Yaoguang, an unseen force hurled him into a mountainside, while Lin Fei remained beside her.

• Wu Mou discovered that his treasured saber had broken against Lin Fei’s forehead, though Lin Fei was unharmed.
• Lin Fei claimed that Yang Zhenbei and Jiang Liuyun had been his students, then showed Wu Mou a vision of himself teaching Yang Zhenbei a saber technique that split the sea.
• Wu Mou recognized Lin Fei’s role in Yang Zhenbei’s technique, lost his will to fight, and begged Lin Fei to spare his life.
• Ji Yaoguang returned to Lin Fei, and his unharmed appearance startled Wu Mou’s men.
• Wu Mou lunged at Ji Yaoguang when Lin Fei did not move, but an invisible force smashed him into the mountainside and shattered his Protective Gang Qi.

Lin Fei killed Wu Mou and his men, then asked Ji Yaoguang about camping as night fell. At an auction in Rongcheng, Han Enci tried to impress Meng Xue by bidding on a mountain villa estate, but another bidder raised the price to one hundred million.

• Lin Fei revealed that he had feigned weakness to expose Wu Mou and his men, then killed Wu Mou with a streak of dark light.
• Wu Mou's men fled, but Lin Fei crushed them into blood mist with a snap of his fingers.
• Lin Fei asked Ji Yaoguang whether she had ever camped in the wilderness as dusk fell.
• Han Enci arrived at the auction with Meng Zhe and Meng Xue, then embarrassed himself by choking on a cigar and setting his cape on fire.
• Han Enci bid seventy-five million for the mountain villa estate, but an unseen bidder offered one hundred million.

Qing Mingyu offered a hundred million for a mountainside villa estate to give to Lin Fei, silencing Han Enci when he learned who the gift was for. Meanwhile, Lin Fei guided Ji Yaoguang through rapid cultivation, and she reached the late body tempering stage in just two hours.

• Qing Mingyu bid a hundred million for the villa estate and confirmed he would not withdraw his offer.
• Han Enci challenged Qing Mingyu but backed down after learning the villa was for Lin Fei.
• The auction hall reacted with astonishment as the guests considered Lin Fei’s influence in Rongcheng and Western Shu Province.
• Lin Fei gave Ji Yaoguang the Spirit Stones and taught her the Yaoguang Immortal Art while guiding her cultivation.
• Ji Yaoguang reached the late body tempering stage in two hours and asked Lin Fei whether cultivation was always so simple.

Lin Fei helped Ji Yaoguang reach the Grandmaster Realm in just a few hours, then gave her combat knowledge through a vision of two legendary assassins. The chapter ended with him identifying them as Emperor Zhuanxu’s sons, Wangliang and Qiongchan.

• Lin Fei gave Ji Yaoguang a Qi Gathering Pill and told her to absorb its power with the Spirit Mountain Immortal Art.
• Ji Yaoguang entered the Qi Refining realm and became a Grandmaster, then punched through and toppled a thick tree to test her strength.
• Lin Fei teased Ji Yaoguang after she kicked the tree while wearing a skirt, and they returned to the wooden shelter for the night.
• Ji Yaoguang worried that she was the weakest Grandmaster because she lacked fighting skills, so Lin Fei sent combat knowledge into her mind.
• Ji Yaoguang watched a vision of two skilled assassins fighting and asked who they were; Lin Fei named them Wangliang and Qiongchan.

Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang about Wangliang’s rivalry with Qiongchan and explained that another group in Black Bamboo Valley had been trapped by an array. Meanwhile, an Illusion Sect agent offered Datura information and urged him to draw Heaven Ranking Grandmasters into targeting Ji Yaoguang.

• Lin Fei recounted how Wangliang escaped Qiongchan, founded the Shadow Sect, and became a legendary assassin, while Ji Yaoguang asked about the group beyond the Wu Family’s party.
• Lin Fei said the other group had reached the sect ruins but was trapped by an array and was unlikely to face danger that night.
• Datura rejected false tips about Lin Xinyu and met a black-robed stranger who recognized his Shadow Blade as a Shadow Sect weapon.
• The stranger identified himself as an Illusion Sect representative and gave Datura information about Lin Xinyu, codenamed Gardenia, before proposing cooperation.
• The Illusion Sect representative said his sect also wanted Ji Yaoguang dead and suggested spreading news of her so Heaven Ranking Grandmasters would pursue her for her immortal power.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang entered the Black Bamboo Bewitching Formation, where Lin Fei destroyed the bamboo demon and broke the formation. He left the Sound Sect cultivators alive, but dismissed the demon’s remains as another trash medicinal ingredient.

• Lin Fei led Ji Yaoguang into the black bamboo grove and challenged the hidden bamboo demon to reveal itself.
• The bamboo demon attacked with a storm of bamboo leaves, but Lin Fei stopped them in midair and toppled the entire grove with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Lin Fei shielded the trapped Sound Sect members from the destruction, breaking the formation and allowing them to see the wounded bamboo demon.
• Lin Fei cut the bamboo demon in two with an invisible sword strike, while the Sound Sect cultivators watched in awe.
• The bamboo demon returned to its original form as a split stalk of black bamboo, and Lin Fei called it another trash medicinal ingredient.

Lin Fei rescued the Sound Sect from the black bamboo, gave them a valuable harvest, and warned them to keep Yin Shuangtong’s Double Pupils secret. He and Ji Yaoguang continued toward the Demon Sect ruins, where Lin Fei revealed that a Black Flame Fire Phoenix lay buried beneath the burning ground.

• Lin Fei introduced himself to the Sound Sect and revealed that Yin Shuangtong had saintly Double Pupils, warning that her frail body could not withstand their power.
• Liu Qing asked Lin Fei to help Yin Shuangtong see, but he sent the group back with the two pieces of black bamboo as a gift for her.
• Lin Fei warned the Sound Sect not to reveal Yin Shuangtong’s Double Pupils and gave her a jade pendant that could save her life.
• After the Sound Sect departed, Lin Fei teased Ji Yaoguang about being jealous and told her Yin Shuangtong was descended from his former maid, the Jade Zither Fairy.
• Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang reached the scorching Demon Sect ruins, where Lin Fei clarified that the creature buried beneath the burning ground was a Black Flame Fire Phoenix, not a turkey.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang explored the scorched ruins of Black Bamboo Valley, gathered ancient treasures, and left for Flying Cloud Mountain Villa. Meanwhile, Datura found Lin Xinyu and told her that Nightmare was dead, leaving her stunned.

• Lin Fei led Ji Yaoguang through the ruins and gave her an ice soul dark iron longsword and a Nascent Soul cultivator’s spirit lamp.
• Ji Yaoguang activated the lamp and unleashed a fire dragon, which Lin Fei dispelled before warning her to handle it carefully.
• Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang left Black Bamboo Valley, learned Qing Fen had bought Lin Fei a mountain villa, and headed toward it.
• Datura arrived at Lin Xinyu’s village and offered her an unparalleled weapon to help her take revenge.
• Lin Xinyu denied having any revenge to take until Datura revealed that Nightmare was dead.

Lin Xinyu took up Heavenly Punishment, revealing that Wangliang's remnant soul was inside her but could not seize her Immortal Embryo body. As she absorbed the weapon's power and rose to the Grandmaster Realm, she stopped Datura's attack and demanded that he kneel.

• Datura showed Lin Xinyu proof of Nightmare's death and said Lin Fei, a Great Grandmaster, had killed him.
• Datura revealed Heavenly Punishment and urged Lin Xinyu to take it, explaining that it would burn anyone it had not chosen.
• Lin Xinyu seized Heavenly Punishment, triggering a sky-darkening display that led Datura to kneel and hail Wangliang.
• Lin Xinyu said she was still herself and explained that Wangliang's remnant soul was inside her, leaving them in a struggle where one would eventually consume the other.
• Datura attacked when Lin Xinyu's cultivation surged as she absorbed Heavenly Punishment's power, but she caught his blade with two fingers and ordered him to kneel.

Lin Xinyu defeated Datura and forced him to summon the Dark Night Organization, while Wangliang revealed how the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages had broken Heavenly Punishment. Meanwhile, Lin Fei returned to his new estate in Rongcheng and decided it needed maidservants.

• Lin Xinyu overpowered Datura, forced him to kneel, and ordered him to gather every member of the Dark Night Organization.
• Wangliang offered to teach Lin Xinyu the Great Blood Refinement Technique, and she agreed to pursue revenge despite the risk to her life.
• Lin Xinyu learned that a stray sword qi from the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages had killed Wangliang and broken Heavenly Punishment during a battle over three thousand years earlier.
• Lin Fei returned to his luxurious estate in Rongcheng, where Qing Lixue gave him the keys and showed him around.
• Lin Fei told Qing Lixue that his estate was missing maidservants.

Lin Fei accepted four maids arranged by Qing Lixue and gave his disciple Bai Zhan a cultivation art completed by his deceased eldest senior brother, Lin Yuan. The chapter left Bai Zhan wondering about Lin Yuan’s death after Lin Fei said he would have to kill him again if he were alive.

• Qing Lixue asked Lin Fei about maids, and he explained that he had sent his former attendants to the Immortal Realm while he stayed behind to search for Yaoguang.
• Qing Lixue arranged for four young maids to serve Lin Fei, and he named them Chunhua, Xiayue, Qiushui, and Dongxue.
• Bai Zhan visited Lin Fei and found him being attended by the maids; Lin Fei dismissed them and gave Bai Zhan Spirit Bud Grass to improve his cultivation.
• Lin Fei taught Bai Zhan the Golden Scale Dragon Abyss Art, an Immortal Emperor-level cultivation art focused on tempering the body.
• Bai Zhan learned that Lin Yuan had completed most of the art and was his eldest senior brother; Lin Fei said Lin Yuan was dead and that he would have to kill him again if he were alive.

Lin Fei invited Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling to stay at his estate, where he gave Wu Moling resources to break through to the Grandmaster Realm. As Ji Yaoguang struggled with her growing feelings for Lin Fei, the Douque Palace’s elders used the Water Cloud Mirror to investigate whether she had been an immortal in her previous life.

• Lin Fei sent Bai Zhan away, then invited Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling to stay at his mountain estate.
• Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling marveled at the estate and its four maids, and Lin Fei gave Wu Moling Spirit Stones and Qi Gathering Pills for her breakthrough.
• Lin Fei shared pastries and tea with Ji Yaoguang, who realized she had developed feelings for him but feared his kindness was meant for Empress Yaoguang.
• Su Mingyue and Su Qing poured their true essence into the Water Cloud Mirror to determine whether Ji Yaoguang had been an immortal in her previous life.

Su Mingyue and Su Qing failed to use the Water Cloud Mirror to view Ji Yaoguang’s past and decided to send disciples to recruit her, fearing rival sects would target her. Unaware of the danger gathering around her, Ji Yaoguang went to work while Lin Fei left for Mount Qingcheng, and Wu Yang led a group to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa to seize her ancient sword and oil lamp.

• The Water Cloud Mirror repelled Su Mingyue and Su Qing, injuring them as they tried to reveal Ji Yaoguang’s previous life.
• Su Mingyue concluded that Ji Yaoguang had been an immortal and urged recruiting her while warning that evil sects might exploit her body and power.
• Ji Yaoguang went to work as usual, while Lin Fei headed to Mount Qingcheng to help Zhang Xiaoling advance his cultivation.
• Wu Yang and his men arrived at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa after Black Dog reported that Lin Fei was wealthy and influential.
• Wu Yang dismissed Black Dog’s concerns and revealed that he wanted Ji Yaoguang’s ancient sword and oil lamp, not revenge for Steward Wu.