Recaps

News spread that a newly revealed underwater secret realm was likely the former site of the Azure Sea Sect, drawing cultivators and major factions from across the provinces. At Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion, Chi Qianzhu told her master An Fanmei that Ji Wuchang had been chosen to enter the realm, prompting An Fanmei to arrange to meet him while Chi Qianzhu warned her not to harm him.

• Seven-colored radiance appeared over the ocean between Long River Province and Azure Sea Province, and news spread that an ancient secret realm lay beneath it.
• Cultivators from nearby provinces rushed toward the site after rumors identified the realm as the vanished Azure Sea Sect's former grounds.
• An Fanmei visited Chi Qianzhu at Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion and warned her that the Fire Phoenix Sect might investigate the rumors.
• Chi Qianzhu named Ji Wuchang among those chosen to enter the secret realm, and An Fanmei recognized him as the boy Chi Qianzhu had begged her to take along years ago.
• Chi Qianzhu told An Fanmei that Ji Wuchang had reached Dao Severing Realm Second Level and asked her not to hurt him.
• An Fanmei agreed to arrange a meeting with Ji Wuchang, while Chi Qianzhu said she only wanted to watch him from afar.

Ji Wuchang mastered the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger and gathered information about the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus before joining An Fanmei’s group on their journey to the ancient secret realm. Their flying boat reached the sea near the realm, where many factions had gathered, including the Fire Phoenix Sect.

• Ji Wuchang spent thirty years of cultivation perfecting the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger and checked his system status.
• Ji Wuchang heard cultivators discuss the secret realm, the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus, and the bounties offered for it.
• Ji Wuchang sensed an unseen watcher in Heavenly Fragrance City and went to meet An Fanmei’s group at the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion.
• An Fanmei led the group aboard her flying boat, where the other nine cultivators looked down on Ji Wuchang because of his lower cultivation.
• After five days of travel, Ji Wuchang’s group reached the sea near the secret realm, and Luo Suxing raised the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion flag as their boat approached the gathered factions.

Ji Wuchang faced a deadly contest after An Fanmei agreed that the fight for the contested position could end in death. He entered the sky to confront the Yuan Clan’s Dao Severing Realm seventh-level fighter as onlookers mocked his lower cultivation.

• Ji Wuchang learned that Qin Tianyang and Yuan Jinan both claimed the spot occupied by the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion and proposed settling the dispute through a contest between their weakest members.
• Yuan Jinan arrived and challenged An Fanmei to follow the old rules, while Ji Wuchang’s companions expected him to fight first because he had the lowest cultivation.
• An Fanmei ordered Ji Wuchang to fight and told him he must win, and Ji Wuchang calmly flew into the sky.
• Onlookers mocked Ji Wuchang’s Dao Severing Realm third-level cultivation as the Yuan Clan’s burly Dao Severing Realm seventh-level fighter emerged with an iron staff.
• Yuan Jinan asked whether the fight could be to the death, and An Fanmei nodded in agreement.

Ji Wuchang faced Yuan Dapang and killed him with the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger, stunning the crowd. Yuan Jinan tried to intervene but was blocked by An Fanmei, then apologized with a pill before returning to the Yuan Clan’s flying boat.

• Yuan Dapang challenged Ji Wuchang and attacked him with an enormous iron staff.
• Ji Wuchang dodged onto the staff and killed Yuan Dapang with the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger.
• Yuan Jinan tried to stop Ji Wuchang, but An Fanmei blocked him and condemned his interference.
• Ji Wuchang took Yuan Dapang’s storage ring and returned to the flying boat as the crowd reacted with shock and praise.
• Yuan Jinan offered a pill as compensation, and An Fanmei sent it to Ji Wuchang.

Ji Wuchang walked along the beach with Chi Qianzhu, who revealed that they had known each other before his memories became incomplete. She promised to help him obtain a Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus in the coming secret realm, while Ji Wuchang was left suspecting someone had erased part of his childhood memories.

• An Fanmei and the other six Supremes left the flying boat to meet the Fire Phoenix Sect's delegation.
• Chi Qianzhu invited Ji Wuchang to walk on the beach, where she explained that the secret realm lay underwater and would appear at midnight.
• Ji Wuchang told Chi Qianzhu how he had met Li Xueqin during the Thousand-City Battle and that Li Xueqin was now queen of the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
• Chi Qianzhu mentioned the Old Huang Temple in Muye City, prompting Ji Wuchang to realize she knew him from before and that he could not remember much of his childhood.
• Chi Qianzhu removed her veil and introduced herself again, and Ji Wuchang concluded that someone had erased some of his memories.
• Chi Qianzhu promised to help Ji Wuchang obtain one of the two Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotuses in the secret realm, and he said he had come prepared.

Hou Jian and the Hou Clan learned that Ji Wuchang was at the secret realm and plotted to kill him without exposing themselves to the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion. They planned to frame him as Xiao Xueqing’s fiancé and arrange attacks through the Long River Sect, the Yuan Clan, and hired cultivators.

• Hou Shangtian confirmed that Ji Wuchang had killed Hou Liangyun and warned that Ji was Zhou Haotian’s chief disciple, making the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion a dangerous enemy.
• Hou Yulin proposed tying Ji Wuchang to the Xiao Family so the Long River Sect would target him instead of the Hou Clan.
• Hou Jian decided to tell Ma Anshan that Ji was Xiao Xueqing’s fiancé and had helped her disappear, and to urge Ma to enlist the Yuan Clan.
• Hou Jian ordered the Hou Clan to bribe strong rogue cultivators to assassinate Ji inside the secret realm while Hou Clan members waited in the shadows.

Ji Wuchang watched seven Supreme Realm experts open the secret realm early and entered with Chi Qianzhu’s group, hoping to find the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus. The unstable gate was overwhelmed by sixth-rank ferocious beasts and collapsed, leaving the fate of those inside uncertain.

• Ji Wuchang saw the secret realm’s barrier and palace appear over the sea as seven Supreme Realm experts revealed themselves.
• The female Supreme announced that those below the Celestial Phenomenon Realm could enter during a brief opening that night.
• The seven Supremes formed a formation and forced open a gate in the barrier, allowing cultivators to enter.
• Before Ji Wuchang entered with the fifth group, Chi Qianzhu warned him that they would be randomly separated inside.
• Terrifying presences of many sixth-rank ferocious beasts battered the gate, and the seven Supremes failed to keep it open as it shattered and the secret realm vanished from view.

Ji Wuchang entered the secret realm and discovered that its fierce beasts left no Fortune Points, though a sixth-tier beast dropped a mysterious white pearl. After he watched a woman with a longbow rescue two junior sisters, a pack of snow-white wolves charged toward them, and she urged the younger women to flee.

• Ji Wuchang found that slain fierce beasts faded away without granting Fortune Points, but one sixth-tier beast left behind a white pearl that he stored in a box.
• Ji Wuchang sensed a fight and saw two Dao Severing Realm Fourth Level women being attacked by two sixth-tier fierce beasts while Zhao Fei waited nearby.
• Zhao Fei wounded one beast, but it lunged at an injured woman, so Ji Wuchang prepared to intervene.
• A Dao Severing Realm Eighth Level woman with a longbow killed both beasts with arrows and was greeted by the two women as their Second Senior Sister.
• A pack of at least thirty snow-white wolves, including roughly fifteen sixth-tier beasts, approached, and the Second Senior Sister told her junior sisters to flee.

Ji Wuchang discovered that the white beads inside the snow-white wolves could fuse and grow, and suspected they were connected to the secret realm. Trapped between two wolf packs, he urged the others to fight and charged into battle.

• Ji Wuchang collected two beads from slain wolves and raced ahead of Zhao Fei and the three women as the pack pursued them.
• The longbow woman shot a wolf, provoking the pack to unleash howls that injured the group and drove Zhao Fei to run faster.
• Ji Wuchang spotted wolves blocking their path and used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to see the beads sustaining them.
• Ji Wuchang placed one bead beside another in a box, and the smaller bead fused into the larger one, which grew and showed a faint trace of silver.
• With nearly sixty wolves closing in, Ji Wuchang told the group to attack the smaller pack ahead, and the longbow woman fired as he beheaded a sixth-tier wolf.

Ji Wuchang helped Zhao Fei and the others escape the giant white wolves, then discovered that a silver bead formed a map of the secret realm. He tested his theory about the beads by killing another wolf pack and collecting their drops.

• Ji Wuchang slew several giant white wolves with his sword and used Thousand Thunder Kill to save Zhao Fei and the two injured women from the pack.
• Ji Wuchang collected the wolves’ white beads and found a silver bead in his box.
• Ji Wuchang infused the silver bead with soul power, causing it to enter his mind and form a map that showed his location at the secret realm’s outer edge.
• Ji Wuchang left the others behind, doubled back, and killed another pack of giant white wolves with Grinding Yin and Yang.
• Ji Wuchang collected the pack’s white beads and watched their small drops combine into a thumb-sized bead before placing everything in the box.

Ji Wuchang discovered that collected beads merged by color, then disguised himself and began selling altered secret-realm maps. After proving his strength by killing a pack of black bears, he drew interested buyers, and someone arrived to purchase the first map.

• Ji Wuchang watched white beads combine into silver beads and realized only beads of the same color could fuse.
• Ji Wuchang copied an incomplete version of his map onto twenty jade slips, disguised himself in Myriad Souls Hall robes, and set up a map stall.
• Ji Wuchang killed more than a dozen sixth-rank black bears with the Netherworld Sword and collected their beads, causing the silver bead to gain a faint golden trace.
• Ji Wuchang told the surviving cultivators that his ancestors had ties to the secret realm and defended his decision to sell maps.
• Ji Wuchang offered each jade slip for 120,000 low-grade spirit stones, discounted the first sale to 100,000, and required buyers to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• A voice from afar announced that it would buy a map, startling the gathered cultivators.

Ji Wuchang refused to sell Yao Wucheng a secret realm map for a cheap price and brutally killed him after Yao Wucheng threatened him. As more people arrived, they watched in fear as Ji Wuchang searched Yao Wucheng’s soul, destroyed it, and burned his corpse.

• Yao Wucheng offered Ji Wuchang one thousand low-grade spirit stones for the map and promised the Long River Sect’s protection, but Ji Wuchang refused.
• Yao Wucheng threatened Ji Wuchang, who bound him with the Immortal-Binding Rope and beat him while insulting him.
• Ji Wuchang repeatedly smashed Yao Wucheng into the ground as Zhao Fei and others arrived and watched.
• Ji Wuchang captured Yao Wucheng’s Primordial Spirit, searched his soul, and crushed it, earning 1401 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang took Yao Wucheng’s storage ring and burned his corpse while the onlookers watched in terror.

Ji Wuchang sold genuine secret realm maps before discovering that ferocious beasts were funneling travelers toward a valley guarded by thunderclouds. When he tested the lightning, his Thunder Dragon absorbed it, and Ji Wuchang drew down enough bolts to engulf the valley.

• Ji Wuchang offered secret realm maps for one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones each and proved one was genuine to Nian Yuandie.
• Nian Yuandie swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to reveal the map, and Ji Wuchang sold six maps before leaving for another location.
• Ji Wuchang found that sleeping ferocious beasts blocked nearly every route through the secret realm, directing travelers toward a valley marked on his map.
• Ji Wuchang flew above the valley and was struck by lightning from its thunderclouds.
• Ji Wuchang's Thunder Dragon absorbed the lightning, so he drew down more bolts until they engulfed the entire valley.

Ji Wuchang set up a paid escort service through the lightning zone, while Nian Yuandie and Zhao Fei led a growing group of cultivators fleeing fierce beasts toward the valley. The group reached the valley with the beasts close behind, as Yan Yuliang, Yuan Tieniu, and Qin Hesheng still eyed Zhao Fei over his secret-realm map.

• Ji Wuchang blocked the valley entrance and advertised lightning protection for five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones per person, offering a free map after the crossing.
• Nian Yuandie and Zhao Fei guided cultivators along their map, but nearly thirty newcomers brought hundreds of pursuing fierce beasts behind them.
• Yan Yuliang, Yuan Tieniu, and Qin Hesheng demanded copies of Zhao Fei's map, and Zhao Fei said a Heavenly Dao Oath prevented him from sharing it.
• A cultivator at the rear was caught and killed by the beasts, prompting the group to race toward the valley.
• Nian Yuandie shot down a beast threatening someone at the rear, and the fleeing cultivators drew closer to the valley.

Ji Wuchang confronted Yan Yuliang, Qin Hesheng, Yuan Tieniu, and their followers at the lightning-sealed valley entrance as beasts gathered behind them. After Yuan Tieniu threatened him, Ji Wuchang launched a sudden slaughter, leaving the rest of the attackers under assault.

• Ji Wuchang watched the fleeing cultivators reach the valley entrance, where lightning blocked their way and ferocious beasts pursued them.
• Zhao Fei told the crowd that Ji Wuchang had sold him a secret realm map, while Ji Wuchang said he was now giving maps away under the conditions written on the cliffs.
• Yan Yuliang demanded a map and threatened Ji Wuchang, while Qin Hesheng and Yuan Tieniu joined in pressuring him.
• When Yuan Tieniu demanded an answer, Ji Wuchang appeared beside him and stabbed him through the temple.
• Yan Yuliang, Qin Hesheng, and their followers attacked, but Ji Wuchang slipped behind them and killed several with a single sword strike, then obliterated escaping Primordial Spirits.
• The system announced that Ji Wuchang had slain Yuan Tieniu, Yan Zhongshan, and Qin Fugui and gained Fortune Points.

Ji Wuchang killed Yan Yuliang, Qin Hesheng, and the other men who had challenged him, then turned his attention to the ferocious beasts to collect their white beads. Nian Yuandie joined the attack, and the others began preparing to fight alongside her.

• Qin Hesheng and Yan Yuliang tried to appease Ji Wuchang with an apology and an offer of spirit stones, but he refused to spare them.
• Ji Wuchang used an exploding iron staff, the Immortal-Binding Rope, and his attacks to kill Yan Yuliang and Qin Hesheng, then burned the corpses and collected the storage rings.
• Ji Wuchang drew in the baleful Qi and remnant-soul power with the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities while the onlookers watched in fear.
• Ji Wuchang attacked the ferocious beasts with a sword strike and gathered several white beads.
• Nian Yuandie urged everyone to attack the beasts and fired three arrows that became white tigers and tore apart three of them.

Ji Wuchang and the others collected white beads from sixth-rank fierce beasts, which merged into silver beads and then a golden token marked “Medicine King Valley.” The token showed Ji Wuchang a blurred image of the Nine-Color Immortal Herb, leaving him with a glimpse of a rare treasure’s location.

• Several people tried to enter the gorge, but its lightning struck them and forced them to retreat.
• Ji Wuchang used the Great Void Phantom Technique to evade attacks and killed more sixth-rank fierce beasts while collecting their white beads.
• Nian Yuandie merged ten white beads into a silver bead and learned it contained a secret-realm map, realizing Ji Wuchang had concealed the source of his map.
• An old man revealed how white beads merged into silver beads, prompting the crowd to attack the fierce beasts for them.
• Ji Wuchang merged enough beads to form a golden token bearing the words “Medicine King Valley.”
• The token showed Ji Wuchang a blurred image of the Nine-Color Immortal Herb, which Ji Yaoyao had described as an herb that could turn a good-for-nothing into a cultivation genius.

After obtaining a golden bead that revealed rare medicinal ingredients and a map to a palace, Ji Wuchang left the beast-filled valley and offered to escort others through its deadly lightning gorge for a fee. He led twenty-seven people through while absorbing the lightning to strengthen himself.

• Ji Wuchang saw the golden bead reveal the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus, the Nine-Color Immortal Herb, human-shaped ginseng, and a map showing a palace deep in the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang stopped fighting the ferocious beasts and invited others to cross the lightning gorge with him, asking each person for five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones and promising a map.
• After Ji Wuchang withstood the gorge’s lightning unharmed, the group paid him, and all twenty-seven people followed him into the valley as hundreds of ferocious beasts gathered behind them.
• Ji Wuchang endured the lightning and channeled it into his Purple Mansion, where the Thunder Dragon devoured it, while the Divine Soul Dao Platform consumed lightning entering his soul sea.

Ji Wuchang reached an ancient tower surrounded by the Eight Methods Cloud-Reversing Formation and joined seven cultivators preparing to activate it. Unaware that the formation would consume one of them as a sacrifice, he pressed his palm to the formation with the others.

• After escaping the lightning, Ji Wuchang flew into the secret realm's second region and found a tower-shaped structure.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that a formation surrounded the tower and that eight people were needed to activate it.
• Hou Wuqing and the other cultivators agreed to let Ji Wuchang join them in breaking the formation.
• A woman from the Fire Phoenix Sect explained that the formation could open a passage to another region, while concealing its deadly sacrifice.
• The eight cultivators pressed their palms against the formation to activate it.

Ji Wuchang used the formation’s spiritual power to strengthen himself and broke through to the Dao Severing Realm Fourth Level while the others struggled to keep the formation active. The Eight Methods Cloud-Reversing Formation finally opened a void passage.

• Eight cultivators fed spiritual power into the Eight Methods Cloud-Reversing Formation, which rapidly drained them as its runes began to light up.
• Ji Wuchang used his Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram to absorb the incoming power, then circulated the Power of the Five Elements to temper his organs.
• The other seven cultivators noticed the strain and took pills to replenish their spiritual power while Ji Wuchang continued absorbing the formation’s power.
• Ji Wuchang’s cultivation rose to the Dao Severing Realm Fourth Level, startling the other cultivators.
• Hou Wuqing announced that the formation was almost active, and the runes joined together as a void passage appeared at its center.

Ji Wuchang remained trapped in the Eight Methods Cloud-Reversing Formation with four Dao Severing Realm Seventh Level cultivators, while a mysterious mark in his soul absorbed their spiritual power. The mark erupted with a terrifying presence and swallowed the Fire Phoenix Mark, leaving Ji Wuchang facing an unknown upheaval.

• Hou Wuqing, the Fire Phoenix Sect woman, and another Dao Severing Realm Eighth Level elder escaped the formation through the spatial passage.
• The four remaining Dao Severing Realm Seventh Level cultivators tried to force Ji Wuchang to sacrifice himself, but he mocked them and continued absorbing their spiritual power.
• The four cultivators took pills and resolved to outlast Ji Wuchang as the formation drained them.
• The mysterious mark in Ji Wuchang's soul shook violently and drew spiritual power from both the formation and Ji Wuchang's body.
• The mark pulled the Fire Phoenix Mark from Ji Wuchang's Primordial Spirit and swallowed it into the purple river.

Ji Wuchang used a section of white bone to awaken the Fire Phoenix Marrow, which the mysterious mark absorbed along with the Fire Phoenix’s Primordial Spirit. As thunder struck the mark’s green leaf, Ji Wuchang awakened a trace of Bloodline Power, while the four Dao Severing Realm Seventh Level cultivators remained close to death.

• As the mysterious mark drained spiritual power from Ji Wuchang and the four nearby cultivators, Ji Wuchang brought a section of white bone into his sea of consciousness.
• The purple river drew purple Qi into the bone, releasing Fire Phoenix Marrow that transformed into a gigantic Fire Phoenix phantom.
• Purple chains bound the Fire Phoenix and dragged it into the purple river, where it vanished and left a green leaf behind.
• Thunderclouds gathered, and lightning struck the green leaf behind Ji Wuchang, turning the bolts into runes that strengthened its glow.
• The green leaf sent vitality into Ji Wuchang, awakening a trace of Bloodline Power that he sensed could multiply his strength.

Ji Wuchang awakened a trace of bloodline power after draining four enemies, then entered another formation and arrived at Medicine King Valley’s outer sect buildings. He found a group blocked by a barrier and recognized that the statues beyond it held traces of primordial spirit power, just as a man ordered him over.

• Ji Wuchang drained the spiritual and soul power of four trapped men, awakened bloodline power, and watched the last three die before entering the spatial passage.
• Several groups entered the same passage after finding the four corpses, while Chi Qianzhu led another group through a different formation.
• Ji Wuchang emerged in a depleted herb garden, gathered some leftover herbs, and found Hou Wuqing and more than thirty others stopped by a barrier.
• Using the Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil, Ji Wuchang identified Medicine King Valley’s outer sect buildings and sensed primordial spirit power within the statues outside them.
• A man pointed at Ji Wuchang and ordered him to come over.

Ji Wuchang confronted the White Wolf Sect members at the barrier and revealed his overwhelming strength by tearing apart two Dao Severing Realm seventh-level fighters. The White Wolf Sect’s eighth-level leader attacked him with the White Wolf Bloodline, leaving the battle unresolved.

• A White Wolf Sect man ordered Ji Wuchang to serve as a blood sacrifice to open the barrier, and Ji Wuchang asked if he was being addressed.
• One of the sect’s Dao Severing Realm seventh-level fighters charged Ji Wuchang, who vanished and tore him in half.
• The White Wolf Sect leader summoned a huge white wolf phantom and roared at Ji Wuchang, who hurled the corpse halves at him.
• Ji Wuchang appeared beside another seventh-level fighter, tore him apart, and absorbed his Primordial Spirit.
• Hou Wuqing and the Fire Phoenix Sect woman realized they had underestimated Ji Wuchang as the White Wolf Sect leader lunged at him with his wolf phantom.

Ji Wuchang crushed Chang Yushu’s White Wolf Sect attack and refused to stop fighting when the sect elder yielded. After insulting the elders who tried to intervene, he faced a group of Dao Severing Realm cultivators who surrounded him and launched a spear attack.

• A White Wolf Sect cultivator attacked Ji Wuchang with the White Wolf Devours the Moon technique, but Ji Wuchang hurled corpses into the wolf’s mouth and tore apart another sect member.
• Ji Wuchang smashed the white wolf phantom with Mountain Fist, then battered Chang Yushu through his shield and flames.
• Chang Yushu asked to end the fight, but Ji Wuchang declared that only one of them would survive.
• An old man tried to mediate, and Ji Wuchang cursed him and challenged him to fight.
• The old man joined Chang Yushu and a spear-wielding Dao Severing Realm eighth-level cultivator in surrounding Ji Wuchang, and the spearman attacked with a torrent of spear phantoms.