Recaps

Ji Wuchang learned that the sect had offered him a chance to undertake the Ancestral Land Trial, and he eagerly went to see Sect Master Zhen Yaotian. Meanwhile, Cai Ping considered Ji Wuchang a dangerous but irrelevant rival and focused on his ambition to seize the Longevity Sect and rule Boyun Province.

• Meng Caihong urged Ji Wuchang to accept the Ancestral Land Trial, explaining that only the sect’s top disciples had received the opportunity.
• Ji Wuchang recalled that the ancestral land held the consciousnesses of six Longevity Sect ancestors and decided he wanted to seek their inheritance.
• Ji Wuchang left to visit Sect Master Zhen Yaotian and encountered Cai Ping on the way, exchanging polite congratulations.
• Cai Ping asked his teacher whether he could kill Ji Wuchang in a surprise attack, but the aged voice warned him against provoking someone with nine Dao Platforms.
• Cai Ping resolved to eliminate anyone who obstructed his plan to take the sect master’s position and eventually rule Boyun Province.

Ji Wuchang convinced Zhen Yaotian that he had not attacked Xiao Fan in the secret realm and received the key and information for the Longevity Sect’s ancestral land. Xiao Fan then set out to train, still intent on killing Ji Wuchang, while Zhen Yaotian gave him a protective jade slip.

• Zhen Yaotian tested Ji Wuchang about Xiao Fan’s injuries, and Ji Wuchang denied attacking him while preparing to flee if the situation turned against him.
• Zhen Yaotian accepted Ji Wuchang’s explanation, gave him a bronze token and a jade slip about the ancestral land, and revealed that it was located in Beast Burial Mountain.
• Ji Wuchang returned the cracked jade slip, thanked Zhen Yaotian, and left after hearing his encouragement to train and compete in the upcoming sect tournament.
• Xiao Fan appeared before Zhen Yaotian with his injuries healed and his cultivation at Qi Refining ninth layer; he blamed Cai Ping for the secret-realm attack but still considered Ji Wuchang a threat to eliminate.
• Xiao Fan asked to leave and train before attempting Foundation Establishment, and Zhen Yaotian approved while warning him not to rush and giving him a jade slip containing a strike with thirty percent of his strength.

Ji Wuchang traveled to Hundred Beasts City to enter Beast Burial Mountain and joined a team of rogue cultivators planning to gather medicinal herbs. After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Fourth Layer, he set out with the team into the mountain.

• Ji Wuchang told Meng Caihong about the sect leader's inquiry, and she warned him to be careful and travel with others.
• Ji Wuchang left the sect, arrived at Hundred Beasts City after ten days, and gained four years of cultivation from a check-in at the south gate.
• Ji Wuchang used the reward to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Fourth Layer, then went to the square to find a team entering Beast Burial Mountain.
• Ji Wuchang joined Huang Jianye's team, which also included Mi Rong, Bai Yuanfu, and Ge Chongshan, to gather medicinal herbs over a hundred years old.
• Ji Wuchang and the other four ate lunch, left Hundred Beasts City, and entered Beast Burial Mountain.

Xiao Fan recruited Xin Chanzi and Azure Sparrow Sect members to kill Ji Wuchang, while Ji Wuchang entered Beast Burial Mountain with a group of rogue cultivators. A suspicious team led by Lu Da arrived at their campsite, and Ji Wuchang realized they had come for him.

• Xiao Fan told Xin Chanzi that Ji Wuchang had opened nine Dao Platforms and asked him to help kill him.
• Xin Chanzi agreed to enlist rogue cultivator teams and Azure Sparrow Sect members, and Xiao Fan decided to join the hunt.
• Ji Wuchang learned that Huang Jianye and Mi Rong were cousins, revealed that he was an inner disciple of the Longevity Sect, and later received Ji Yaoyao's warning that people were following them.
• Lu Da and four companions arrived at the group's camp, and Ji Wuchang recognized from Lu Da's gaze that they were targeting him.
• Lu Da proposed merging his team with Huang Jianye's, leaving Huang Jianye inwardly regretting his earlier joke.

Ji Wuchang discovered that Lu Da and his companions had come to kill him, so he struck first and used the darkness to hunt them down. After killing Lu Da’s companions, he faced Lu Da directly, leaving the outcome of their fight unresolved.

• Lu Da surrounded Ji Wuchang with his group and arranged for one man to throw lamb onto Ji Wuchang’s clothes as a pretext to attack him.
• Ji Wuchang killed the man and another companion, dodged Lu Da’s punch, and vanished into the night.
• Lu Da shouted Ji Wuchang’s name, revealing that the group had come to kill him, while Ji Wuchang waited nearby for another chance to strike.
• As Lu Da buried the two bodies and the fire dimmed, Ji Wuchang killed the woman Yanyan with his Heart-Treading Steps.
• Ji Wuchang met Lu Da’s palm with his Wind and Thunder Fist, was knocked into the last man, and killed him with a punch to the throat.

Ji Wuchang defeated Lu Da’s companions and watched Lu Da battle a lame gray wolf before demanding to know who had hired him. Lu Da revealed that Xin Chanzi of the Azure Sparrow Sect had placed a bounty on Ji Wuchang, leaving Ji Wuchang with the identity of his enemy.

• Ji Wuchang overpowered Lu Da, killed the last attacker, and let the terrified Lu Da flee while he collected the fallen men’s storage rings.
• Lu Da encountered a lame second-rank gray wolf, which knocked him down and tore flesh from his calf.
• Lu Da fought back, injured one of the wolf’s hind legs, and forced it to retreat several dozen meters.
• Ji Wuchang emerged from a nearby tree and offered to spare Lu Da if he named the person who had sent him.
• Lu Da said Xin Chanzi of the Azure Sparrow Sect had offered a thousand low-grade spirit stones for Ji Wuchang’s head, and swore that he was telling the truth.

Ji Wuchang learned that Xin Chanzi had organized the bounty on him and returned to Hundred Beasts City in disguise. He joined Zhang Tieniu’s team, which was preparing to hunt him, and confirmed that Xin Chanzi had arranged for only a few groups to take the job.

• Ji Wuchang learned from Lu Da that Xin Chanzi had sent people after him, then killed Lu Da and took his storage ring.
• Ji Wuchang changed his appearance and traveled back to Hundred Beasts City, avoiding fierce beasts with Ji Yaoyao’s warnings.
• The next morning, Ji Wuchang met Zhang Tieniu, who invited him to join a team seeking the bounty on Ji Wuchang.
• Zhang Tieniu said that he, Zhang Tongniu, and Zhang Jinniu were the only bounty hunters openly involved, and that Young Master Xin had said few people were needed.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to join Zhang Tieniu’s team.

Ji Wuchang traveled deeper into Beast Burial Mountain with Zhang Jinniu, Zhang Tongniu, and Zhang Tieniu while learning about the Red Centipede and White Snake teams. After finding Bai Yuanfu and Ge Chongshan dead, he grew furious and resolved to hunt down Xiao Fan.

• Zhang Tongniu explained that Red Centipede and White Snake were poison-skilled cultivators at the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Ji Wuchang decided to kill Xiao Fan and Xin Chanzi despite the risk of provoking the Azure Sparrow Sect.
• The group found Bai Yuanfu's corpse, and Zhang Jinniu and Zhang Tieniu buried him.
• The group found Ge Chongshan's mutilated corpse and buried him, while Ji Wuchang suspected Red Spider had killed both men because they had associated with him.
• Ji Wuchang's anger and killing intent grew, and he asked Yaoyao to watch for Xiao Fan so he could kill him.

Huang Jianye and Mi Rong faced death after Red Spider and her group broke through their defensive formation, but a black-clad man killed Red Spider and the remaining attackers. The two men survived, recognizing that the stranger had saved them before he disappeared.

• Red Spider and four companions battered the cave’s defensive barrier while the wounded Huang Jianye and Mi Rong prepared to fight to the death.
• After the barrier broke, Huang Jianye and Mi Rong rushed out and killed the group’s weakest man.
• Huang Jianye hurled his sword at Red Spider’s younger sister as Mi Rong charged her, while Red Spider lashed at Huang Jianye.
• A black-clad man appeared and killed Red Spider, then swiftly slew two more attackers.
• Mi Rong killed Red Spider’s wounded younger sister, and he and Huang Jianye laughed with relief after the black-clad man vanished.

Ji Wuchang reached the aftermath of Red Spider’s death with the three Zhang brothers, who decided to leave before a new group arrived. He recognized the newcomers as the White Snake Squad and prepared to target White Snake first.

• Ji Wuchang joined Zhang Jinniu, Zhang Tongniu, and Zhang Tieniu at the grisly scene where Red Spider and the others had been killed.
• The three brothers buried the other dead but left Red Spider’s body untouched because of their history with her and the poisonous insects on her.
• Zhang Jinniu claimed their second uncle was holding a wedding, and after Zhang Tieniu pointed out that their uncle was dead, Zhang Jinniu struck him and invited Ji Wuchang to leave with them.
• Ji Wuchang chose to stay and explore, while Zhang Jinniu prepared to head back with his brothers.
• Zhu Yang mocked the three brothers as five members of the White Snake Squad arrived; White Snake examined Red Spider’s head, and Ji Wuchang recognized the group and resolved to kill her first.

Ji Wuchang killed White Snake and her companions, collected their belongings, and let Zhang Jinniu and his brothers escape. He then traveled deep into Beast Burial Mountain, where his bronze token guided him toward the Longevity Sect’s ancestral land.

• Ji Wuchang approached White Snake under the name Li Dazhuang, then struck her with Heart-Treading Steps and killed her with Silent Extinction Netherlight Slash.
• Ji Wuchang killed White Snake’s four companions, while Zhang Jinniu, Zhang Tongniu, and Zhang Tieniu fled.
• Ji Wuchang took White Snake’s storage ring and found the Spirit Snake Steps scroll, which he kept for the Longevity Sect’s new disciples.
• After gathering the spirit stones and other items, Ji Wuchang headed deeper into Beast Burial Mountain to visit the Longevity Sect’s ancestral land.
• Six or seven days later, Ji Wuchang used the warming bronze token to determine the direction of the ancestral land.

Ji Wuchang fought a third-tier fierce beast guarding the entrance to the Longevity Sect's ancestral land, using the battle to temper his skills until the beast fled. He entered its cave, used his bronze token to open a stone door, and was pulled through a vortex into the ancestral land.

• Ji Wuchang confronted a third-tier fierce beast that guarded the entrance to the Longevity Sect's ancestral land.
• Ji Wuchang dodged the beast's attacks and struck it repeatedly with his combat techniques until it fled after more than a hundred exchanges.
• Ji Wuchang rested, then followed his bronze token to the beast's cave and passed through a barrier using the token.
• Ji Wuchang's bronze token opened the stone door, and a vortex pulled him inside.

Ji Wuchang discovered a dangerous black rope in the ruins of a vast secret realm, but Ji Yaoyao subdued it and revealed it was a damaged Supreme Weapon. He claimed the Immortal-Binding Rope as his own and vowed to restore its power.

• Ji Wuchang explored the enormous ruins and found a black rope hidden beneath a meditation cushion atop a pillar.
• The rope attacked and bound Ji Wuchang, but Ji Yaoyao emerged from his storage ring to save him.
• Ji Yaoyao struck the rope, destroyed its lingering obsession, and identified it as a damaged Supreme Weapon.
• Ji Yaoyao explained that the ownerless weapon could potentially be restored and grow into a higher-grade weapon.
• Ji Wuchang picked up the rope, read the name Immortal-Binding Rope, and declared that it would follow him.

Ji Wuchang reached the ancestral inheritance platform but rejected the ancestors’ condition that he remain in the Longevity Sect forever. After checking in at the secret realm, he gained sixteen years of cultivation and advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm fifth layer.

• Ji Wuchang arrived at a platform where three of the six ancestral inheritances had already been claimed.
• Ji Wuchang awakened the three remaining ancestors’ Celestial Phenomenon Realm wills and learned they required him to swear never to leave the Longevity Sect.
• Ji Wuchang refused the condition, believing he would not limit his ambitions to one sect, and left without an inheritance.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the ancestral secret realm and received sixteen years of cultivation and sixteen Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang absorbed the reward and advanced from the Foundation Establishment Realm fourth layer to the Foundation Establishment Realm fifth layer.

Xin Chanzi and Xiao Fan searched Beast Burial Mountain for Ji Wuchang, then devised a plan to use Xiao Fan as bait. Xin Chanzi and Xiao Fan each intended to exploit the other, and the chapter ended with Xin Chanzi planning to secretly plant a gu worm in Xiao Fan after Ji Wuchang was killed.

• Xin Chanzi's group learned that Ji Wuchang had defeated the three ox-headed men and went into Beast Burial Mountain to kill him.
• Xiao Fan suspected that Ji Wuchang had entered the Longevity Sect's Ancestral Land Secret Realm, though he did not know its location.
• Xin Chanzi arranged for Xiao Fan to act as bait while Xiong Jian'an secretly protected him.
• The seven split into two groups, with Xin Chanzi and Huang Meng following behind Xiao Fan's party.
• Huang Meng warned Xin Chanzi that Xiao Fan was untrustworthy, and Xin Chanzi revealed that he planned to have Xiong Jian'an plant a gu worm in Xiao Fan after they killed Ji Wuchang.

Ji Wuchang returned from the secret realm, found signs that a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator had wounded the fierce beast, and went searching for Xiao Fan and his group. He secretly watched Xin Chanzi and three others fight a Tiger-Leopard Beast, killed one man as he flew toward him, and saw the beast maul Huang Meng before Xin Chanzi stabbed it in the throat.

• Ji Wuchang checked in for his fourth day in the secret realm, refined his ten Dao Platforms, and returned to the cave.
• Ji Wuchang found a long trench, blood, and the fierce beast’s severed tail, and concluded that a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator from the Azure Sparrow Sect had attacked it.
• Ji Wuchang set out to find Xiao Fan and his group, then discovered Xin Chanzi and three others battling a Tiger-Leopard Beast.
• The Tiger-Leopard Beast sent a Foundation Establishment cultivator flying toward Ji Wuchang, who killed the man with Void Kill.
• The Tiger-Leopard Beast tore flesh from Huang Meng’s shoulder, and Xin Chanzi thrust his sword into its throat.

Ji Wuchang took the newborn Tiger-Leopard Beast cub after its mother died, then watched Xiong Jian'an fight the male beast. When Xiao Fan arrived, Ji Wuchang recognized him and prepared to act.

• Xin Chanzi, Huang Meng, and Cai Nanjiang killed the female Tiger-Leopard Beast, but its larger mate arrived and chased them away.
• Ji Wuchang found the newborn cub beside its dying mother, cleaned it with the Minor Rain Technique, fed it a Primordial Qi Pill, and placed it in a spirit beast pouch.
• Ji Wuchang followed the fleeing group, then hid when a Purple Mansion Realm expert approached.
• Xiong Jian'an arrived to protect Xin Chanzi and fought the third-tier Tiger-Leopard Beast while Cai Nanjiang, Xin Chanzi, and Huang Meng lay severely injured.
• Ji Wuchang recorded the fight and spotted Xiao Fan approaching, recognizing him as a target he intended to kill.

Ji Wuchang ambushed Xiao Fan, who had followed him to the forest, and killed him despite Xiao Fan’s desperate appeals to his master. Ji Wuchang also destroyed Xiao Fan’s escaping soul and purple token, leaving Xiao Fan completely dead.

• Ji Wuchang struck Xiao Fan from behind, then severed his arms and legs with Autumn Wind Kill.
• Ji Wuchang revealed that he had maimed Xiao Fan before and threatened to destroy the Xiao Family after killing him.
• Ji Wuchang took Xiao Fan’s storage ring, and Zhen Yaotian’s soul emerged and greeted Ji Wuchang as young master.
• Ji Wuchang beheaded Xiao Fan and set his body on fire, but Xiao Fan’s soul escaped with a purple token.
• Ji Yaoyao struck down the purple token, and Ji Wuchang burned it with purple flames until Xiao Fan’s soul was destroyed.

After Xiao Fan’s death, Ji Wuchang discovered his Divine Soul Devouring ability and sent Tian Shuang to help the Tiger-Leopard Beast kill the Azure Sparrow Sect members. Xin Chanzi summoned his father, Xin He, whose consciousness descended and attacked the beast.

• The system rewarded Ji Wuchang with 550 Fortune Points for killing Xiao Fan, and he drew the purple token into his sea of consciousness after sensing its power to nourish his divine soul.
• Ji Wuchang asked Tian Shuang to help the Tiger-Leopard Beast kill the people fighting nearby, then headed toward the battle.
• Tian Shuang struck Xiong Jian'an with his divine soul, and the Tiger-Leopard Beast bit off his legs before killing him and leaving Tian Shuang to devour his Primordial Spirit.
• Tian Shuang knocked Xin Chanzi, Huang Meng, and Cai Nanjiang from the air, leaving them vulnerable to the Tiger-Leopard Beast.
• Xin Chanzi crushed a jade slip to summon his father, Xin He, whose consciousness appeared and attacked the Tiger-Leopard Beast.

Ji Wuchang killed Xin Chanzi, Huang Meng, and Cai Nanjiang, then had Tian Shuang destroy the Xiao Family branch in Muye City. After returning to the Longevity Sect, he explained why he rejected the ancestral inheritance and accepted seven days of lightning punishment in Wind Thunder Valley.

• Ji Wuchang used Void Kill to kill Xin Chanzi, Huang Meng, and Cai Nanjiang, and learned that only Xin Chanzi had enough Fortune Points to earn a reward.
• Ji Wuchang left Beast Burial Mountain and later sent Tian Shuang to kill everyone in the Xiao Family branch in Muye City and plunder its treasury.
• Ji Wuchang traveled back toward the Longevity Sect while tempering his Dao Platforms and body and practicing the Jade Shattering Finger.
• Ji Wuchang told Zhen Yaotian that he rejected the ancestral inheritance because accepting it required an oath never to leave the sect.
• Zhen Yaotian sentenced Ji Wuchang to seven days of lightning punishment in Wind Thunder Valley, where the sect announced his punishment to all disciples.

Ji Wuchang began his seven-day punishment on the Lightning Punishment Platform, using its immense lightning power to cultivate Wind and Thunder Slash and strengthen his techniques. By the end, he had repeatedly formed a lightning blade covered in runes, though he had not yet unleashed the attack.

• Cang Qing told Meng Caihong that Ji Wuchang had been punished, but Meng Caihong reassured her that she already knew and told the others to focus on cultivation.
• Jia Yuanliang opened the Lightning Punishment Platform before Huang Wanqiu, Zuo Yan, and the gathered disciples, then Ji Wuchang stepped onto it and was engulfed by lightning.
• Jia Yuanliang gave Ji Wuchang a jade slip to crush if he could no longer endure the punishment, then sealed the platform and lowered it into the lightning pool.
• Ji Wuchang sat cross-legged and used the lightning to temper his nine Dao Platforms while beginning to cultivate Wind and Thunder Slash.
• Ji Wuchang repeatedly condensed and dissipated a lightning blade until it grew several times larger and became covered in lightning runes.

Ji Wuchang refined his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, endured six days on the Lightning Punishment Platform, and advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm Sixth Layer. As the platform rose at the end of his trial, Zhen Yaotian prepared to offer him a chance to leave Boyun Province.

• Ji Wuchang combined the Spirit Snake Steps and Eight Trigrams Wandering Dragon Steps with the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, creating a faster, more unpredictable movement technique.
• Jia Yuanliang reported Ji Wuchang’s six-day endurance to Zhen Yaotian, who decided to offer him an opportunity to leave Boyun Province if he passed one final test.
• Zhen Yaotian destroyed Xiao Fan’s cracked life tablet and chose not to investigate his death.
• Ji Wuchang reached the Foundation Establishment Realm Sixth Layer, then used two lottery draws that each awarded Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang resumed refining lightning in his dantian, but the Lightning Punishment Platform rose and ended his trial.

Zhen Yaotian offered Ji Wuchang the Longevity Sect’s remaining recommendation to Yunchuan Academy’s selection trials, provided he reached the Foundation Establishment Realm seventh layer within half a year. Ji Wuchang accepted the challenge and left determined to claim the place that had gone to Cai Ping in his previous life.

• Zhen Yaotian praised Ji Wuchang for surviving seven days of lightning punishment and offered him a chance to compete for a place at Yunchuan Academy.
• Zhen Yaotian explained that the academy recruited through the Three-Province Arena Trials, where only the top twenty could enter, and that Boyun Province had five allocated places.
• Ji Wuchang realized the recommendation had likely belonged to Cai Ping in his previous life, who had disappeared and later returned with greatly improved cultivation.
• Zhen Yaotian set the condition that Ji Wuchang reach the Foundation Establishment Realm seventh layer within half a year or the place would go to Cai Ping.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to work for the place, kept the discussion secret, and left the main peak determined to compete.

After returning to Little Bamboo Peak, Ji Wuchang reviewed the risks surrounding the deaths of Xin Chanzi and the others and planned how to meet the four conditions for opening a purple mansion. The next day, powerful members of the Azure Sparrow Sect arrived at the Longevity Sect.

• Ji Wuchang visited Meng Caihong, who praised him without reproaching him for giving up the inheritance, then listened as Zeng Linghong complained about being assigned to teach the junior disciples.
• Ji Wuchang reviewed the deaths of Xin Chanzi, Xiong Jian'an, and the others, realizing the Azure Sparrow Sect might investigate and implicate him.
• Ji Wuchang recalled a promising figure from Yunchuan Academy as a replacement for Xiao Fan and expected Li Gubei to join the academy as well.
• Ji Wuchang considered the four requirements for opening a purple mansion, prioritizing a fire-attribute beast for soul fusion and considering Xiao Fan's purple token as the mansion's anchor.
• After resting overnight, Ji Wuchang saw several Azure Sparrow Sect members approach the Longevity Sect, led by a woman at the Soul Splitting Realm Sixth Level.

Xin He of the Azure Sparrow Sect and Xiao Xuan of the Xiao Family confronted the Longevity Sect with accusations against Ji Wuchang. After Ji Wuchang was summoned to the main hall, Xiao Xuan recognized his extraordinary rise in cultivation, while the accusations remained unresolved.

• Xin He arrived at the Longevity Sect with a Soul Splitting Realm sixth-layer woman and demanded to see Sect Master Zhen.
• Xiao Xuan arrived soon after, and Pei Yuanqing escorted her to the main peak.
• Ji Wuchang moved his belongings into the System Space and learned that Ji Yaoyao could conceal herself from the visitors.
• Xin He accused Ji Wuchang of killing Xin Chanzi and Azure Sparrow Sect members, while Xiao Xuan investigated whether he had exterminated Xiao Fan's Xiao Family.
• Meng Caihong worried that Ji Wuchang might be responsible but resolved to protect him if he was.
• Yue Zhen brought Ji Wuchang before the hall, where Xiao Xuan noticed his rapid rise from Qi Refining Realm sixth layer to Foundation Establishment Realm sixth layer.