Recaps

Jiang Shifei and Wu Caojun joined forces to fight their way through the ferocious beasts and reach the true secret-realm entrance, while Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling followed behind. Beneath the forest, the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall used human blood to revive a giant Devil Venerable, who demanded still more blood.

• Wu Caojun persuaded Jiang Shifei to help kill the beast blocking the way, and the beast fled before they could attack.
• Yu Ling kept Ji Wuchang hidden as two black-robed figures and then members of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall passed by.
• The fleeing beast led the groups into a fight with more ferocious beasts, killing Hu Baochao and three of Jiang Shifei's men before the survivors moved on.
• A giant black skeleton underground absorbed blood and Devil Qi, began regrowing flesh, and murmured that it needed more human blood.
• Wu Caojun and Jiang Shifei's groups fought blood-eyed beasts, losing another of Jiang Shifei's men and Zhou Fujian before reaching the true secret-realm entrance.
• Two black-robed men poured the blood of ten thousand people underground to revive the Devil Venerable, who telepathically demanded more.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling discovered that a Devil Race member was absorbing the dissipating Devil Qi and preparing to revive, while Wu Caojun opened the barrier to Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb. Recognizing the secret realm from his past life, Ji Wuchang resolved to keep the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art from anyone else.

• Ji Wuchang noticed the Devil Qi thinning, and Yu Ling’s thoughts revealed that a Devil Race follower was reviving and could reach the Dao Severing Realm or even the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• Ji Wuchang urged Yu Ling to leave, and the two headed away from the place where the Devil Qi was gathering.
• Wu Caojun grieved the deaths of Zhou Fujian and Hu Baochao as Jiang Shifei watched the entrance to the true secret realm with excitement.
• Wu Caojun used four banners depicting the Four Symbols to form a grand formation and begin opening the barrier before the bronze door.
• Two black-robed figures and the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall watched, planning to enter Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb for objects needed by their lord and the Devil Venerable.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the secret realm from his previous life and resolved to prevent anyone else from obtaining the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art.

Wu Caojun and his companions entered the secret realm after destroying the Four Symbols Grand Formation, while two black-robed figures forced open the barrier for the others. Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling entered the left passage, where Ji Wuchang burned several corpses, angering a Devil Race man whose chains were beginning to break.

• Wu Caojun attacked Jiang Shifei, then entered the secret realm with Tian Huafeng, Ma Xinsheng, and Wang Chunmian as the Four Symbols Grand Formation collapsed.
• Two black-robed figures used a devil saber to reopen the barrier, and Jiang Shifei led his remaining followers into the secret realm after them.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling followed the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall through the bronze door and chose the left passage.
• Ji Wuchang burned three corpses as they advanced, unknowingly destroying the Devil Race man's blood food.
• The Devil Race man roared in anger, received blood from the black-robed figure in the other passage, and snapped another chain, leaving nine remaining.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling reached the plaza beyond the passage, where the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation blocked their way. With the other groups gathered there, Wu Caojun proposed choosing six people to break the formation, while a black-robed man singled out Jiang Shifei’s group for the extra participant.

• Ji Wuchang checked in at Venerable Purple Flame's tomb and used twelve years of cultivation to advance Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, extending Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to ten thousand zhang.
• A black-robed man attacked Ji Wuchang with a silent blade, but Ji Wuchang evaded it and joined Yu Ling in striking the attacker until his phantom vanished.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling burned another corpse and passed through the barrier at the end of the passage into a plaza guarded by thirty-six bronze men.
• They found Wu Caojun’s group, the black-robed men, the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, and Jiang Shifei’s reduced group gathered at the formation.
• Wu Caojun said six people had to attack the formation from different directions, and a black-robed man proposed one from each of five teams plus another from the largest team, directing his threat at Jiang Shifei.

Ji Wuchang entered the formation’s Heavenly Nobility Star gate and killed a black-robed man, revealing the man as a member of the Devil Race. Another black-robed man sacrificed himself to summon a Devil Flame Beast, while the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall blocked the survivors from fleeing.

• Ji Wuchang warned Yu Ling not to rescue him if he became trapped, then stepped forward to enter the formation.
• Wu Caojun explained the six life gates and said the formation would stop if someone destroyed the bronze figure at the Heavenly Chief Star.
• Ji Wuchang chose the Heavenly Nobility Star gate, and Ma Xinsheng chose the Heavenly Wealth Star gate.
• When a black-robed man demanded Ji Wuchang’s entrance, Ji Wuchang swiftly beheaded him and exposed his Devil Race identity.
• Yu Ling stopped the second black-robed man from escaping, but he sacrificed his life to summon a Devil Flame Beast through a token.
• Jiang Shifei and his companions tried to flee, but the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall blocked the passage and threatened to kill anyone who withdrew.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling joined forces with Wu Caojun’s group to escape a fifth-rank Devil Flame Beast by entering the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation. The beast and the others followed them inside, where the activated formation’s bronze statues began moving with drawn sabers.

• A fifth-rank Devil Flame Beast emerged from the passage, and Qi Heming’s group attacked it.
• The beast burned a wounded Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall member to ashes, then Qi Heming lured it toward Jiang Shifei and Wu Caojun’s group with blood.
• Wu Caojun proposed entering the formation together, and Ji Wuchang agreed on the condition that he and Yu Ling take the Heavenly Wealth Star and Heavenly Nobility Star entrances.
• Ji Wuchang, Yu Ling, Wu Caojun, Tian Huafeng, Ma Xinsheng, and Wang Chunmian entered the formation, activating its mist and bronze statues.
• Jiang Shifei, Qi Heming, their followers, and finally the Devil Flame Beast entered the formation to escape or pursue the others.

Ji Wuchang led Yu Ling out of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation before it became a killing formation, then asked her to help him obtain flame spirit crystals from a volcano filled with Flame Beasts. Yu Ling drew the million-strong swarm away from the volcano, leaving Ji Wuchang to search the beasts’ nests.

• Ji Wuchang took Yu Ling’s hand and led her through the formation, escaping just before it fully activated and killed one of the trapped people.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling crossed the herb fields and reached the volcano, where he explained that flame spirit crystals lay among the Flame Beasts’ nests.
• Yu Ling agreed to lure the Flame Beasts away and struck the volcano’s crater to provoke them.
• Yu Ling killed more than a thousand Flame Beasts, then fled as the enraged swarm poured from the crater and pursued her.

Ji Wuchang retrieved a Flame Spirit Crystal and an indestructible fiery-red stone from the volcano, then offered the stone to Yu Ling in exchange for her help luring away the Flame Beasts. As the two faced the palace’s defensive barrier, injured survivors emerged from the formation and the enraged Flame Beasts charged at them.

• Ji Wuchang found only one Flame Spirit Crystal in the magma, took it and a mysterious fiery-red stone, and escaped the volcano as Yu Ling eluded the Flame Beasts.
• Yu Ling tested the stone with her low-grade spirit weapon, failed to mark it, and offered Ji Wuchang a drop of fire phoenix essence blood for it.
• Ji Wuchang gave the stone to Yu Ling, saying she deserved half the credit for luring away the Flame Beasts, and the two turned toward the palace.
• The Flame Beasts discovered their guarded treasures were gone and poured out of the volcano as eight injured people, including Wu Caojun, Tian Huafeng, Jiang Shifei, and Qi Heming, escaped the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation with the wounded Devil Flame Beast.
• The Flame Beasts saw the survivors and charged at them in a fury.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling escaped the Flame Beasts by entering the palace through a weak side entrance, but a Devil Race expert emerged from beneath the plaza and confronted the beasts. Though he slaughtered many with powerful attacks, the Flame Beasts’ mass self-detonation wounded him, and he demanded that Venerable Purple Flame reveal any remaining defenses.

• The Flame Beasts devoured the wounded Devil Flame Beast and pursued Wu Caojun, Jiang Shifei, Qi Heming, and the others toward the palace, killing another injured cultivator on the way.
• Ji Wuchang led Yu Ling through the palace’s weak side entrance and explained that he knew the secret realm from a map and account he had obtained.
• The ground shook, the thirty-six bronze figures exploded, and a Devil Race expert emerged from underground, declaring that he had outlasted Venerable Purple Flame.
• The Flame Beasts turned on the Devil Race expert, who killed large numbers of them with a palm strike and the Ancient Devil Heaven-Shrouding Hand.
• The remaining Flame Beasts rushed the expert and self-detonated in vast numbers, inflicting wounds that made him stagger as he demanded more of Venerable Purple Flame’s defenses.

Venerable Purple Flame reformed from the Flame Beasts’ souls and magma to confront the wounded Ancient Devil Tahe, while Ji Wuchang realized the secret realm’s survivors may have been possessed. Their battle raged above the collapsing volcano as Qi Heming and his companions secretly prepared a formation and marked Ji Wuchang as a target.

• The Flame Beasts’ gathered spiritual power formed a phantom that stopped Ancient Devil Tahe’s attack on the palace.
• Yu Ling explained that Venerable Purple Flame had split his soul among the Flame Beasts and reassembled when they died, and Ji Wuchang connected this to the strange survivors from his previous life.
• Venerable Purple Flame absorbed magma to form a body and confronted Tahe, who revealed that he had restored his broken devil body with fresh blood.
• Tahe and Venerable Purple Flame exchanged powerful attacks, destroying the volcano as their devil and fire dragons fought in the sky.
• Qi Heming and two companions secretly set up a formation, and Qi Heming looked toward Ji Wuchang with a strange smile because he was one of their targets.

Venerable Purple Flame sacrificed himself to weaken Tahe, but Qi Heming used the Resentful Demon Formation to drag the ancient demon into a mysterious passage. Qi Heming then targeted Ji Wuchang, and despite Yu Ling's attempt to cut him free, Ji Wuchang was being pulled toward the passage.

• Tahe overpowered Venerable Purple Flame until Purple Flame used Purple Flame Burns Heaven and Earth to trap him in a golden bowl of purple flames.
• Tahe shattered the bowl and emerged badly weakened, while Purple Flame's remnant soul escaped into the palace barrier.
• Qi Heming and his two companions used Tahe's blood to activate the Resentful Demon Formation and dragged Tahe into a void passage.
• Qi Heming and his companions then offered Ji Wuchang as a sacrifice, and black chains seized him despite his teleportation away.
• Yu Ling severed dozens of chains with her sword, but Ji Wuchang continued to be dragged toward the passage.

Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang broke free of Qi Heming’s trap, but Venerable Purple Flame possessed Jiang Shifei as the secret realm collapsed. After Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling left with the Lightning Origin, Purple Flame returned to the realm and discovered the lightning lake had been drained.

• Yu Ling shattered the chains and killed Qi Heming’s two attackers, while Ji Wuchang used his Divine Soul Dao Platform to break free and attack Qi Heming.
• Qi Heming escaped through a pitch-black passage, and the palace seized Jiang Shifei before sinking underground and opening a path out of the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang realized Venerable Purple Flame had chosen Jiang Shifei as his host, then left the secret realm with Yu Ling; Wu Caojun and Tian Huafeng departed separately.
• Nearly six hours later, Venerable Purple Flame emerged in Jiang Shifei’s body and celebrated his return.
• Venerable Purple Flame went to claim the Lightning Origin but found the lightning lake diminished, and cursed whoever had taken his opportunity.

Yu Ling took Ji Wuchang to the Heavenly Star Sect and arranged for him to meet Elder Zhou before she left Yunchuan Academy. After Ji Wuchang improved his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, Yu Ling brought him back toward the academy, leaving his future connection to the sect in place.

• Ji Wuchang spent twenty-nine years of cultivation experience mastering the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, gaining the ability to shrink the ground within three hundred li.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling traveled northeast through Lingtai Province and reached the Heavenly Star Sect in Heavenly Star Province.
• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang she would soon leave Yunchuan Academy and introduced him to Elder Zhou, the Heavenly Star Peak master, as someone he could seek out later.
• Yu Ling said she and Ji Wuchang had to return to Yunchuan Academy and left with him before Elder Zhou could speak further.

Yu Ling brought Ji Wuchang to the newly opened Land of Heavenly Loss, where they entered a misty valley and chose the right-hand passage. Six rogue-cultivator bandits followed them to a cliffside platform, believing the passage was a dead end, and closed in on them.

• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang that visiting Elder Zhou had been incidental and that she had come to explore the Land of Heavenly Loss.
• Ji Wuchang recalled exploring the dangerous land in his previous life, when only four of ten people had returned.
• Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang paid the entrance fee and chose the first path on the right after reaching a four-way junction.
• Chen Chujin and the Blood Baleful Intent Sixth Brother followed them, intending to rob them and seize Yu Ling.
• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang to wait until they left the passage before killing the pursuers.
• The six bandits confronted Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling on a platform above sheer cliffs, mocking them for choosing a supposed dead end.

Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang crossed a blood bridge into a teleportation gate that separated them, while Yu Ling and Yu Gang discussed whether Ji Wuchang might be the surviving child of a forbidden Ji-Li union. Yu Ling had brought him there to test whether the blood pool would awaken his bloodline, and she followed him through the gate seeking an answer.

• Yu Ling killed the six men following her and Ji Wuchang, then used their blood to reveal a bridge across the mist.
• Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang crossed the bridge and reached a teleportation gate; Yu Ling warned that it would send them to different places and gave him a sensing jade token.
• Ji Wuchang entered the gate, and Yu Gang emerged from the void to ask Yu Ling whether she intended to nurture him.
• Yu Gang described a rumor that a surviving child of a Ji Family lord and a Li Family woman might be about fifty, but noted that Ji Wuchang was nineteen and showed no bloodline power.
• Yu Ling proposed that Ji Wuchang might have been sealed in a raw stone from birth, then said she had brought him to the blood pool to see whether it would awaken his bloodline.
• Yu Ling entered the teleportation gate with Yu Gang, intending to find out what Ji Wuchang would reveal.

Ji Wuchang entered the Land of Heavenly Loss, where the lack of spiritual power and distorted terrain forced him to rely on stored resources. After escaping a flock of Ghost Eagles, he learned from Ji Yaoyao that the land was an ancient battlefield between humans and the Devil Race.

• Ji Wuchang found that the Land of Heavenly Loss had no spiritual power and ground ten times harder than normal, which also weakened Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Seven fifth-rank Ghost Eagles pursued Ji Wuchang, and he used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch repeatedly to escape them at the cost of half his spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang restored his spiritual power with spirit stones and hurried away to avoid another encounter with the Ghost Eagles.
• Ji Yaoyao identified the place as the Land of Heavenly Loss and explained that it had been an ancient battlefield where the human race defeated the Devil Race at great cost.

Ji Wuchang learned about the Heavenly Star Sect’s origins and searched the Land of Heavenly Loss for a Supreme’s skeleton to help Ji Yaoyao resurrect. A Flame Devil Turtle and growing flocks of Ghost Eagles pursued him, and he spotted a formidable figure ahead as his escape continued.

• Ji Yaoyao explained that the Heavenly Star Sect had been founded by people left behind after an ancient battle, and that it served as a stepping stone to Jiangshan Academy.
• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang to search the Blood Pool for a complete Supreme’s skeleton, and he agreed to help her.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that the hill beneath him was a camouflaged Flame Devil Turtle and fled using Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Ghost Eagles joined the pursuit, and Ji Wuchang swallowed Primordial Qi Pills while repeatedly using his escape technique.
• More than twenty Ghost Eagles and the Flame Devil Turtle continued chasing Ji Wuchang until he spotted a towering, ferocious figure ahead.

Ji Wuchang escaped the ferocious beasts by using the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s pressure, then witnessed the Land of Heavenly Loss transform as rosy light brought daylight and spiritual energy. He hid near a group led by Gu Qieyong, who warned that night was approaching and that they were searching for the legendary Blood Pool.

• Ji Wuchang summoned the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s phantom, frightening off the Violent Demon Ape and Ghost Eagles as the Violent Demon Ape and Flame Devil Turtle fought.
• Ji Wuchang watched the battle while recovering, until rosy light appeared and both beasts fled or buried themselves beneath rocks.
• The rosy light filled the Land of Heavenly Loss with heat and mixed energies, allowing Ji Wuchang to absorb fire-attribute spiritual power.
• Ji Yaoyao explained that the land’s damaged laws made it operate by its own rules, with daytime lasting twelve hours and barriers disappearing in daylight.
• Ji Wuchang sensed people, hid nearby, and overheard Gu Qieyong warn his eight companions about the deadly night as they searched for the Blood Pool.

Gu Qieyong led a group through the Land of Heavenly Loss in search of the legendary Blood Pool, while two rival groups joined them and Ji Wuchang followed from hiding. As the heat grew unbearable, one of Gu Qieyong’s companions collapsed before they found the pool.

• Gu Qieyong explained that ancient texts and a ferocious beast’s vitality convinced him the Blood Pool existed and could improve their innate aptitude.
• Wang Zishun, Li Qinyi, Li Luoyi, and Liu Zhi of the Heavenly Leisure Sect arrived and insisted on joining Gu Qieyong’s group.
• Gu Qieyong revealed that Wang Quanfu, Yang Guohao, and Dang Qinglai had also followed them, bringing the number of competing groups together.
• Ji Wuchang realized Gu Qieyong had spotted him and continued following the party as Gu Qieyong searched for the Blood Pool.
• The heat intensified as the party traveled, and four hours later one of Gu Qieyong’s companions collapsed.

As Gu Qieyong led the group toward the blood pool, Ji Wuchang used the extreme heat to cultivate and broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm sixth level. After spending his draws and a flash sale on an Appearance Enhancement Card, he detected that his senior sister Yu Ling was nearby.

• Gu Qieyong gave the exhausted travelers Water Ling Pills and led them onward, while Ji Wuchang noticed his concealed disgust and killing intent.
• Ji Wuchang absorbed the heat through his cultivation, strengthened his body, and advanced from the Purple Mansion Realm fifth level to the sixth.
• Ji Wuchang used two system draws and received 250 Fortune Points, then bought an Appearance Enhancement Card in a flash sale.
• Ji Wuchang crushed the card and felt his skin become smoother, then checked the system shop and his updated cultivation status.
• Ji Wuchang felt Yu Ling's sensing jade token grow hot, indicating that she was within two hundred li.

Ji Wuchang killed Liu Zhi and Qian Long after Gu Qieyong’s group sent them to deal with him. While they remained unaware of the deaths, Gu Qieyong directed the others to destroy a hill, revealing a formation beneath it.

• Gu Qieyong said the blood pool was likely below the hill and pointed out Ji Wuchang following them.
• Gu Qieyong and Wang Zishun each sent a subordinate to kill Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang swiftly killed Liu Zhi and Qian Long, absorbed their Primordial Spirits, and erased the traces of the fight.
• Gu Qieyong placed thirteen markers around the hill and told the others to strike them together.
• The group blasted the peak apart, revealing a formation beneath it.

Gu Qieyong revealed that the formation required six human sacrifices and had his allies capture and kill six followers to activate it. Their blood summoned a massive devil eye that alerted people across the Land of Heavenly Loss to the Blood Pool, while Ji Wuchang stayed to see what would happen next.

• Gu Qieyong explained that six people had to be sacrificed to fill the formation’s blood-shaped grooves and identified six of his followers as the offerings.
• Yang Guohao, Wang Quanfu, Dang Qinglai, Wang Zishun, Li Qinyi, and Li Luoyi seized the six followers as they tried to flee.
• Gu Qieyong ordered the six captives killed, and their blood flowed across the Devil Creature designs into the formation.
• The captives’ bodies shriveled as the completed formation released six pillars of Devil Qi that converged into a huge blood-red devil eye.
• Ji Wuchang watched the devil eye appear, while people across the Land of Heavenly Loss recognized it as a sign that the Blood Pool had appeared and rushed toward it.

The blood-red devil eye bewitched people across the Land of Heavenly Loss, driving them to slaughter one another so their blood could fuel the opening of a blood-pool passage. Ji Wuchang resisted its influence and suspected Senior Sister Yu Ling had come prepared for the blood pool, while powerful forces began pouring into the region.

• Ji Wuchang nearly succumbed to the devil eye’s murderous influence, but his Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured the murderous aura and restored his clarity.
• Dang Qinglai killed Yin Feilan, and her blood streamed into the devil eye; Yang Guohao wounded Wang Quanfu, whose pain broke the eye’s bewitchment and whose severed arm regenerated at the cost of his blood essence.
• Wang Zishun killed Li Luoyi while bewitched, then regained his senses as her blood and Primordial Spirit were drawn toward the devil eye.
• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang that the eye was a key to opening a blood-pool passage, and Ji Wuchang suspected Senior Sister Yu Ling had come for the blood pool with a Dao Protector.
• The devil eye announced that fifty more sacrifices were needed, then twenty-five more, as forces from across Heavenly Star Province rushed into the Land of Heavenly Loss.
• Gu Qieyong severed Dang Qinglai’s leg, breaking his bewitchment; Dang Qinglai fled in terror as Gu Qieyong regained his own clarity.

Ji Wuchang entered a hidden passage after the six blood pool passages appeared and fought his way through its dangers. He discovered a stone puppet blocking the route ahead and faced it as its ninth-level Soul Splitting Realm power emerged.

• Six Devil Creatures absorbed the red pillars, opened six blood pool passages, and then exploded as the formation collapsed.
• Ji Wuchang entered a separate passage that appeared beneath the character for “blood” just before it sealed.
• Ji Wuchang advanced through the crimson passage, destroyed a giant skeleton, and killed five venomous red snakes with his small swords.
• Ji Wuchang reached a secret chamber and realized the stone man guarding its stone door was a real body turned into a puppet after its Primordial Spirit had been extracted.
• Ji Wuchang struck the stone man with Great Sun Divine Fist, destroying one of its eyes, then dodged its attack and prepared another punch as its aura revealed ninth-level Soul Splitting Realm strength.

Ji Wuchang defeated the stone man, found a blood-red token, and opened the sealed Blood Pool Secret Realm. He and Yu Ling were drawn into a blood-red space above the vast pool as the other entrants stared at it with intense longing.

• Ji Wuchang bound the stone man with the Immortal-Binding Rope, shattered its head, and caught a blood-red token marked "Blood" as it flew out.
• Ji Wuchang opened the stone door and discovered a plaza filled with hundreds of thousands of human and Devil Race skeletons.
• Ji Wuchang reached a blood-red stele inscribed "Blood Pool," and his token resonated with it, causing the stele to shatter the barrier overhead.
• Yu Ling flew to Ji Wuchang as an indifferent voice announced that nine in ten people entering the Blood Pool would die, then a suction force pulled everyone inside the stele.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling arrived in a blood-red space above a vast blood pool, where the gathered entrants felt their blood boil and gazed down greedily.