Recaps

Ji Wuchang attacked Ma Xiaoguang, Sun Anwei, and Qiu Hualian, using Grinding Thunder and Fire to scatter them before killing Sun Anwei and Qiu Hualian. The crowd was left terrified by his strength and the revelation that he belonged to the Ji Family.

• Ji Wuchang rejected Ma Xiaoguang's plea and struck the three with Divine Soul Spikes.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed Grinding Thunder and Fire, and the woman and the Myriad Souls Hall figures recognized the Ji Family's World-Destroying Millstone Technique.
• The millstone shattered the three opponents' sword attacks and damaged their Dharma Aspects, leaving them separated.
• Ji Wuchang killed Sun Anwei with Mountain Fist, destroying his White Wolf Bloodline shield and annihilating his Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang pierced Qiu Hualian with his lightning wings, killing her and collecting her storage ring alongside Sun Anwei's.
• The crowd, including Jia Hailong and Su Hao, realized that their lives could also be in danger.

Ji Wuchang killed Ma Xiaoguang after stopping his escape through a void passage, then returned to the plaza. The surviving factions feared him and abandoned plans to challenge him as they waited for the secret realm events to conclude.

• Ma Xiaoguang fled, but Ji Wuchang intercepted him and struck with the Great Sun Divine Fist.
• Ma Xiaoguang unleashed the Long River Sword Intent, but Ji Wuchang’s successive blazing suns shattered his sword lights and destroyed his body.
• Ma Xiaoguang’s Primordial Spirit tried to escape through a void passage, but Ji Wuchang immobilized the passage and pierced him with a flying needle, killing him.
• Ji Wuchang collected Ma Xiaoguang’s storage ring and returned to the plaza, where the survivors watched him in fear.
• Hou Aiguang, Hou Langyuan, Jia Hailong, Su Hao, and the others gave up on competing with Ji Wuchang, while he spared the two people from the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion.

Ji Wuchang entered Dingxin Hall after the barrier around Medicine King Hall vanished, avoiding the main hall because a terrifying expert had already appeared inside. He found signs of a violent battle on Dingxin Hall’s lower floors and continued toward the third floor.

• After three days of waiting, Ji Wuchang saw a golden-eyed woman inside Medicine King Hall, who warned him not to spy on her again.
• The barrier around Medicine King Hall dissipated, and cultivators rushed toward the palace as its medicinal fragrance spread across the platform.
• Ji Wuchang chose Dingxin Hall instead of the main hall, while Su Hao, the Myriad Souls Hall figures, and the Hou Clan members entered the main hall.
• Ji Wuchang found the first floor of Dingxin Hall wrecked and identified deep marks that suggested the fighters had possessed immense strength.
• After finding nothing on the first two floors, Ji Wuchang headed up to the third floor.

Ji Wuchang discovered that the inconspicuous cauldron on Dingxin Hall’s third floor concealed a hidden garden and entered it using Thousand Poison Venerable’s method. He found ancient spirit herbs and then spotted a Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb, while the golden-eyed woman watching Medicine King Hall remained unaware that his puppet clone had fooled her.

• Ji Wuchang smashed the withered-herb cauldrons on the third floor and found nothing inside them.
• Thousand Poison Venerable revealed that the small cauldron by the window contained Dingxin Hall’s hidden fourth floor and taught Ji Wuchang how to enter.
• Ji Wuchang left a puppet clone behind and entered the cauldron, while the golden-eyed woman’s Primordial Spirit scanned the clone and withdrew.
• Ji Wuchang found a garden filled with spiritual power and spirit herbs more than two thousand years old, then began collecting them.
• The Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities trembled, and Ji Wuchang spotted a Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb with nine differently colored leaves.

Ji Wuchang secretly acquired the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb and a mysterious jade-like object, while Thousand Poison Venerable took a Supreme Weapon pill furnace. After leaving Dingxin Hall, Ji Wuchang saw another Supreme Weapon appear above the main hall, drawing a crowd of powerful cultivators.

• The Dao Platform emerged from Ji Wuchang's soul sea and absorbed the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb, hiding it from Thousand Poison Venerable.
• Thousand Poison Venerable asked for the pill furnace, but the Heaven-Locking Coffin drew it inside after Ji Wuchang sensed it was a Supreme Weapon.
• Ji Wuchang collected the spirit pool's liquid and secretly put away the mysterious jade-like object at the bottom, then dismissed Thousand Poison Venerable's questions.
• Ji Wuchang left Dingxin Hall and headed toward the main hall, where a long saber appeared amid a terrifying presence.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the saber as a Supreme Weapon as more than a dozen Dharma Aspects surrounded it.

Ji Wuchang watched as cultivators battled over a Supreme Weapon saber, while suspecting the secret realm held a purpose beyond the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb. Chi Qianzhu emerged with the Emotion-Severing Branch’s inheritance and its Emotionless Sword, then headed toward the main hall as Qi Yongxuan grabbed the saber.

• Ji Wuchang recalled the four Supreme Weapons he possessed and watched Xue Lingxuan withdraw from the contest for the saber.
• A Myriad Souls Hall cultivator demanded that the others yield the Supreme Weapon, but Qi Yongxuan refused, and a battle erupted between their forces.
• Ji Wuchang suspected the golden-eyed woman had another purpose in the secret realm and observed Qi Yongxuan holding his own against Myriad Souls Hall.
• Chi Qianzhu appeared with celestial phenomenon realm fifth level cultivation, and a Myriad Souls Hall cultivator recognized that the Emotion-Severing Branch had left an inheritance.
• An Xiangqin joined Chi Qianzhu and revealed that she had obtained the Emotionless Sword; the two flew toward the main hall.
• Qi Yongxuan unleashed his saber intent and seized the Supreme Weapon saber’s hilt.

Qi Yongxuan escaped the gathered attackers with a talisman, and An Xiangqin arrived to learn that Ji Wuchang had killed Mu Jufen and Deng Xiaoyan. She attacked Ji Wuchang, who destroyed her body with the Great Sun Divine Fist, leaving her divine soul exposed as Chi Qianzhu intervened.

• Qi Yongxuan used a special talisman to vanish before Jia Hailong, the Myriad Souls Hall cultivator, Su Hao, and the others could hit him.
• An Xiangqin and Chi Qianzhu arrived, and Qin Juan told them that Ji Wuchang had killed Mu Jufen and Deng Xiaoyan.
• An Xiangqin lost control of her pressure and then charged at Ji Wuchang, while Chi Qianzhu hesitated to stop her.
• Ji Wuchang struck An Xiangqin with the Great Sun Divine Fist, shattering her Dharma Aspect and exploding her physical body.
• An Xiangqin's divine soul fled in despair as Chi Qianzhu's blood-red sword light struck Ji Wuchang's great sun.

Ji Wuchang killed An Xiangqin, and Chi Qianzhu chose to leave without fighting him as the Medicine King Hall’s pillars of light began to rise. Warned that the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb’s emergence would draw terrifying powerhouses, Ji Wuchang fled the Medicine King Valley and reached a barrier using the golden token.

• Chi Qianzhu saved half of An Xiangqin’s Primordial Spirit and confronted Ji Wuchang, who told her he had killed An Xiangqin because she attacked him.
• Chi Qianzhu collected An Xiangqin’s storage ring and left without attacking Ji Wuchang, while her Dao of Ruthlessness advanced.
• Red and orange pillars of light rose from the Medicine King Hall, and the Thousand Poison Venerable warned Ji Wuchang to flee before powerful cultivators arrived.
• After a yellow pillar appeared, Ji Wuchang saw terrifying figures and a giant dragon attacking a barrier in the sky, and blood streamed from his eyes.
• Ji Wuchang followed the Thousand Poison Venerable’s directions to a valley, opened its barrier with the golden token, and flew inside.

Ji Wuchang escaped the secret realm after witnessing the overwhelming power of the experts gathered around a colossal Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb, and the sight injured him and exposed how weak he was by comparison. After survivors emerged, news spread that Ji Wuchang had killed the Yuan Clan’s and Long River Sect’s members as well as three Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion elders, prompting three Supreme Realm experts to seek revenge.

• Ji Wuchang used a teleportation formation to escape, but looking at the colossal Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb and the experts surrounding it with his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil made him bleed and reconsider his strength.
• Ji Wuchang emerged in a forest, resolved to become stronger, and set off to learn where he had arrived.
• More than three hundred survivors emerged from the sea after the golden-eyed woman spared them, and the seven Supreme Realm experts arrived to question why their people had not come out.
• An Fanmei found Chi Qianzhu among the survivors and took her, Qin Juan, and the others away without discussing the missing elders.
• After learning that Ji Wuchang had killed their people, the Long River Sect's ancestor and Yuan Jinan confronted An Fanmei, who pledged to kill Ji Wuchang herself because he had also killed three Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion elders.

After leaving the Medicine King Valley Secret Realm, Ji Wuchang reached Anyi City and planned to travel to Fire Phoenix Province to collect an origin of fire. A Supreme decree named him as a wanted man across Azure Sea Province, so he disguised himself and prepared for the dangers ahead.

• Ji Wuchang arrived in Anyi City, learned it was in Azure Sea Province, and decided to head toward Fire Phoenix Province and then Jiangshan Academy.
• A Supreme decree appeared in the sky, ordering cultivators to kill Ji Wuchang on sight and offering one million low-grade spirit stones for information about him.
• Ji Wuchang decided to stay and hunt Supremes, then altered his hair, clothes, appearance, and suppressed his cultivation to make himself harder to recognize.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at Anyi City and received five years of cultivation and five Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang browsed the System Shop for ways to fight powerful enemies but exchanged for nothing, choosing to wait until he encountered danger.

Ji Wuchang arrived in Cloud Wing City and prepared to take revenge on the Qin Clan, whose ties to the Ancient Dao Sect had made it a target. After encountering Su Hao, Qin Wugang, and Gong Yonghui in a teahouse, he secretly began laying a formation around the Qin Clan at night.

• Rogue cultivators across four provinces used Ji Wuchang’s name to mock the hunt, while major factions struggled with false sightings and growing clashes with their disciples.
• Ji Wuchang reached Cloud Wing City, learned that the Qin Clan was linked to Ancient Dao Sect ancestor Qin Tianyang, and decided to wipe out the clan.
• Ji Wuchang disguised himself as an aged Dao Severing Realm Second Level cultivator and listened to cultivators discuss the search in a teahouse.
• Su Hao, Qin Wugang, and Gong Yonghui entered the teahouse but failed to recognize Ji Wuchang, who left without alerting them.
• Ji Wuchang exchanged forty thousand Fortune Points for an Earthfire Dragon-Slaying Formation and planted its flags around the Qin Clan grounds after nightfall.

Ji Wuchang prepared to destroy the Qin Clan and the Ancient Dao Sect, while the Qin Clan celebrated Qin Daqiang’s thousandth birthday and secretly agreed to cooperate with the White Wolf Sect against him. The celebration was abruptly trapped beneath a barrier when Qin Jingang’s birthday gift exploded.

• Ji Wuchang watched the Earthfire Dragon-Slaying Formation he had concealed around the Qin estate and learned that the Qin Clan would gather for Qin Daqiang’s thousandth birthday.
• Chang Yunhai arrived at the Qin Clan celebration and persuaded Qin Daqiang and Qin Wugang to cooperate with the White Wolf Sect in hunting Ji Wuchang.
• Qin Jingang presented Qin Daqiang with a token he had bought from a mysterious old man.
• The token flew out of its box and exploded, causing a barrier to envelop the Qin estate as several Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts rushed into the air.

Ji Wuchang’s formation trapped the Qin Clan beneath a barrier and unleashed devastating flames across its estate. As Qin Tianyang arrived to face the destruction, the surviving Qin Clan elders believed he could save them.

• Ji Wuchang watched from among the rogue cultivators as the Earthfire Dragon-Slaying Formation activated and sealed the Qin Clan beneath a barrier.
• Chang Yunhai and the other Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators attacked the barrier, but it held as flames erupted beneath the Qin estate and incinerated its residents.
• Qin Daqiang protected Qin Wugang while Qin Wugang blamed Ji Wuchang and crushed the ancestor’s token to summon Qin Tianyang.
• The flames intensified, melting Dharma Aspects and killing a Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivator as the Qin Clan struggled to survive.
• Qin Tianyang arrived above the burning estate, and the Qin Clan elders took heart at his presence.

Venerable Qingyue ambushed Qin Tianyang as the Qin Clan was trapped in Ji Wuchang’s Earthfire Dragon-Slaying Formation. After Qingyue wounded him, Ji Wuchang used Thousand Poison Venerable’s power to activate the Heaven-Locking Coffin and trap Qin Tianyang, leaving the coffin poised to crush him.

• Venerable Qingyue appeared behind Qin Tianyang and wounded him with her spear before attacking with a storm of black swords formed from her hair.
• Qin Tianyang fought back, but Qingyue’s spear broke through his defenses, knocked him from the sky, and left black swords lodged in his chest.
• Ji Wuchang’s Earthfire Dragon-Slaying Formation erupted beneath the Qin Clan, killing most of its remaining members in the flames.
• Ji Wuchang appeared above Qin Tianyang with the Heaven-Locking Coffin, using Thousand Poison Venerable’s Supreme presence to immobilize him.
• Ji Wuchang shouted at Qin Tianyang and brought the Heaven-Locking Coffin down toward his skull.

Ji Wuchang, Venerable Qingyue, and Thousand Poison Venerable battled Qin Tianyang in Cloud Wing City, and Ji Wuchang knocked the Supreme Realm expert from the sky. As the Qin Clan fell into ruin, Qin Wugang regretted provoking Qin Tianyang against Ji Wuchang.

• Qin Tianyang used a mysterious earthenware jar to repel the Heaven-Locking Coffin while Venerable Qingyue attacked him with her spear and black-sword-like hair.
• Qin Tianyang struck Ji Wuchang back with his saber, then moved to kill him while sending the jar toward Venerable Qingyue.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed his strongest techniques and bloodline power, and Thousand Poison Venerable strengthened the Heaven-Locking Coffin's attack.
• The Heaven-Locking Coffin smashed Qin Tianyang from the sky, and Venerable Qingyue severed his right arm as he crashed into Cloud Wing City.
• Su Hao's Dharma Aspect broke apart, and the flames engulfed him until he turned to ashes.
• Qin Wugang asked Ji Wuchang whether he intended to wipe out the Qin Clan and regretted having incited Qin Tianyang against him.

Ji Wuchang battled Qin Tianyang, who survived his attack and trapped Venerable Qingyue inside an earthenware jar. Ji Wuchang escaped Qin Tianyang’s attacks, but Qin Tianyang’s strike battered the Qin Clan’s formation and sent its defenders into the flames.

• Ji Wuchang, injured by the backlash of his techniques, faced Qin Tianyang as the wounded Supreme recovered and returned to the fight.
• Ji Wuchang sent Venerable Qingyue to attack, but Qin Tianyang used his earthenware jar to suck her inside.
• The Heaven-Locking Coffin freed Ji Wuchang from Qin Tianyang’s immobilization, and Ji Wuchang counterattacked with his sword technique.
• Qin Tianyang caught Ji Wuchang’s sword light, used Void Confinement to block his escape technique, and struck back with a massive palm.
• Ji Wuchang used Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique and Grinding Yin and Yang to shatter the confinement and escape the palm strike.
• Qin Tianyang’s palm struck the Earthfire Dragon-Slaying Formation, cracking its barrier and transferring the force into the formation, where flames engulfed Qin Daqiang, Chang Yunhai, and the others.

Ji Wuchang killed the Qin family members and battled Qin Tianyang with Venerable Qingyue’s help. After Thousand Poison Venerable immobilized Qin Tianyang with the Heaven-Locking Coffin, Ji Wuchang unleashed the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities, destroying Qin Tianyang’s head and crushing his chest.

• Ji Wugang, Qin Daqiang, Chang Yunhai, and the Ancient Dao Sect elders were burned to ashes as Ji Wuchang’s attack destroyed the Qin family forces.
• Ji Wuchang summoned eleven split-soul clones and used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique against Qin Tianyang, breaking Qin Tianyang’s Void Confinement and releasing Venerable Qingyue from the earthenware jar.
• Venerable Qingyue fought Qin Tianyang while Ji Wuchang recovered and arranged with Thousand Poison Venerable to immobilize Qin Tianyang for one breath.
• Qin Tianyang rushed at Ji Wuchang, but Thousand Poison Venerable activated the Heaven-Locking Coffin and pinned him in place.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities, and its Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python shattered Qin Tianyang’s head as the Heaven-Locking Coffin caved in his chest.

Ji Wuchang killed Qin Tianyang by combining Qianji Poison, soul attacks, and lightning, then turned his attention to the earthenware jar. He bound and battered the jar with Venerable Qingyue’s help and demanded that it submit or be destroyed.

• Ji Wuchang stopped Qin Tianyang’s regenerating head, poisoned him with Qianji Poison, and struck his Primordial Spirit with the Soul Annihilation Technique.
• Ji Wuchang trapped Qin Tianyang’s Primordial Spirit in Thunder Purgatory, where the lightning and poison destroyed it.
• Ji Wuchang sent the Immortal-Binding Rope toward the earthenware jar as it approached Qin Tianyang’s Primordial Spirit.
• Venerable Qingyue struck the earthenware jar, and Ji Wuchang stamped it with Heaven-Treading Steps before binding it with the rope.
• Ji Wuchang attacked the jar with Divine Soul Spikes and World-Destroying King Yu’s Heavenly Eye, then ordered it to submit or be destroyed.
• Qin Tianyang’s Primordial Spirit tore apart and vanished completely.

Ji Wuchang took Qin Tianyang’s earthenware jar and headed to the Ancient Dao Sect to destroy it. After Venerable Qingyue shattered the sect’s defenses, Ji Wuchang killed Cang Baxue and captured Cang Xiaoshan’s escaping divine soul as the Ancient Dao Sect fell into chaos.

• After Qin Tianyang died, Ji Wuchang erased his imprint on the earthenware jar and claimed it, though its artifact spirit was near death.
• Ji Wuchang left the ruined Qin Clan and traveled to the Ancient Dao Sect with Venerable Qingyue.
• Venerable Qingyue struck the Ancient Dao Sect’s protective formation until it broke, while Ji Wuchang announced that he had killed Qin Tianyang and would wipe out the sect.
• Cang Xiaoshan ordered the Ancient Dao Sect’s people to flee, and Cang Baxue urged the disciples to escape before attacking Ji Wuchang in a suicidal charge.
• Ji Wuchang stopped Cang Baxue and killed her, while Venerable Qingyue pierced Cang Xiaoshan and Ji Wuchang seized his escaping divine soul.

Ji Wuchang plundered and destroyed the Ancient Dao Sect, then threatened every force that had placed a wanted notice on him. As news spread, several powerful figures arrived at the ruins, and Yuan Jinan proposed an alliance against Ji Wuchang.

• Ji Wuchang and Venerable Qingyue hunted the Ancient Dao Sect members, killing those at the Dao Severing Realm or above while the rest fled.
• Ji Wuchang plundered the sect's resources, took three disguising masks and the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Suppressing Claw, and crushed Cang Xiaoshan's Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the Ancient Dao Sect, destroyed its buildings, and left a blood-red threat at its mountain gate before departing.
• News of the Ancient Dao Sect's destruction and Qin Tianyang's death spread throughout Azure Sea Province and beyond.
• A Supreme from the Fire Phoenix Sect arrived at Ancient Dao Mountain, followed by Long River Ancestor, Yuan Jinan, and An Fanmei.
• Yuan Jinan urged An Fanmei and Long River Ancestor to discuss how to face Ji Wuchang, and they agreed they needed to join forces.

After recovering from his battle with Qin Tianyang, Ji Wuchang broke through to the Dao Severing Realm Sixth Level and strengthened two of his techniques. Meanwhile, Chi Qianzhu and Luo Suxing decided to leave Azure Sea Province, and Nian Yuandie received shocking news at the Nian Lineage.

• Chi Qianzhu told Luo Suxing she wanted to leave for Heavenly Sword Province before Ji Wuchang acted, and Luo agreed to approach her master with her.
• Ji Wuchang recovered from his injuries, broke through to the Dao Severing Realm Sixth Level, and cultivated the Heavenly Dipper Demon-Suppressing Claw to great perfection.
• Ji Wuchang spent Fortune Points to deduce the Divine Soul Spike's higher cultivation methods and then cultivated it to great perfection.
• Ji Wuchang examined an incomplete ancient map from Qin Tianyang's storage ring, stored it with the clay jar, and departed after checking his system status.
• Nian Yuandie broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm First Level, then crushed a jade slip after reading its contents.
• Nian Huaigu appeared before Nian Yuandie, and she bowed to the Supreme Realm ancestor of the Nian Lineage.

Nian Huaigu told Nian Yuandie that Ji Wuchang had killed Qin Tianyang and that several factions were preparing to target him, then offered to send her to Heavenly Chen Academy. He revealed that their branch came from Arrow Cloud Province and had fled after backing the losing candidate for Lineage head, and he planned to escort the family back before his strength failed.

• Nian Huaigu congratulated Nian Yuandie on reaching the Celestial Phenomenon Realm and warned her against arrogance.
• Nian Huaigu confirmed reports that Ji Wuchang had killed Qin Tianyang and said the Yuan Clan, Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion, Long River Sect, Fire Phoenix Sect, and Myriad Souls Hall were taking action or investigating him.
• Nian Huaigu offered to send Nian Yuandie to Heavenly Chen Academy, where a teacher owed her branch a favor.
• Nian Huaigu revealed that their Nian Lineage came from Arrow Cloud Province and was one of its three great divine archery Lineages.
• Nian Huaigu explained that his elder brother had led their branch away after backing the eldest young master, who lost the Lineage head position to the third young master with the Ji Family's support.
• Nian Huaigu said the main Lineage had agreed to let them return, and he would escort them to Arrow Cloud Province before the Fire Phoenix Sect could threaten Nian Yuandie.

Ji Wuchang arrived in Thousand Fires City seeking a hidden origin of fire, but the Fire Phoenix Sect sealed off the volcanoes and placed the city under watch. He hoped the rogue cultivators would challenge the restriction, giving him a chance to take the origin without confronting the sect directly.

• Ji Wuchang learned that Yu Ling had entered the Celestial Phenomenon Realm and killed a Supreme Realm expert from the Myriad Souls Hall.
• Ji Wuchang entered Thousand Fires City to find the origin of fire hidden beneath one of its volcanoes.
• A Supreme Realm expert from the Fire Phoenix Sect announced that no one could enter the volcanoes without the sect's permission, on the pretext of searching for a missing spirit beast.
• Five Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators spread out around Thousand Fires City and watched the city.
• Ji Wuchang decided to wait for rogue cultivators to challenge the Fire Phoenix Sect's restrictions and use the ensuing disorder to pursue the origin of fire.

Ji Wuchang slipped into a volcano while the Fire Phoenix Sect fought off intruders and discovered the origin of fire deep within a hidden cave. The intelligent flame warned him to leave, but Ji Wuchang admitted he had come to claim it.

• Black-clad cultivators attacked the volcanoes, and a seventh-level Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivator wounded the Fire Phoenix Sect's fighters and drew their attention.
• Ji Wuchang used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to reach a volcanic crater and plunged into the magma.
• Ji Wuchang found a spiritual barrier deep in the magma, passed through it with the Great Void Phantom Technique, and evaded a savage beast concealed there.
• Ji Wuchang found and buried the bones of a fire-attribute cultivator, then continued deeper into the cave.
• Ji Wuchang encountered an intelligent origin of fire shaped like a monstrous beast and declared that he had come for it.
• The origin of fire threatened to reduce Ji Wuchang to ashes unless he left at once.

Ji Wuchang followed a wisp of the Origin of Fire to its true body, which was trapped in a vast formation deep beneath the cave. The Origin of Fire offered him half its power if he freed it, but warned that the formation’s creator might soon return to refine it.

• Ji Wuchang pressured the Origin of Fire to follow him, and it revealed that its true body was trapped underground.
• The Origin of Fire led Ji Wuchang through a magma pool to a formation where thirty-six iron chains fed power into its true body.
• Ji Wuchang saw the wisp merge with the flame held beneath the formation’s bowl-shaped center.
• The Origin of Fire offered Ji Wuchang half its power if he broke the formation and restored its freedom.
• The Origin of Fire said the formation’s creator visited every five hundred years, bore a seven-colored flame mark between his brows, and might soon return to refine it.