Recaps

Ji Wuchang dominated the contest for Jiangshan Academy, then traveled with Ji Yongming to Kaiyuan City and drew the attention of Princess Aorou and the city’s powerful families. After killing pursuers sent against him, he left the city as Ji Yongming’s Ji Family Army completed the Samsara Formation.

• Ye Tingnan and Zhou Anye fought Huang Yuqi together before the Nine Nether Lineage conceded their match as a draw, and Gu Shouxin and Yang Chenchao battled until both were badly injured.
• Ji Wuchang entered the contest for Jiangshan Academy, defeated Gu Shouxin, Fang Chengjian, and Lü Haoyang, and claimed the Nine Nether Underworld Fire and other spoils.
• Ji Wuchang killed Lü Yongsheng in the sky, prompting the Nine Nether Lineage to demand his belongings until an ancient Supreme Realm Seventh Layer expert arrived and drove its fighters away.
• The factions granted Jiangshan Academy half the Saint King Secret Realm places, and Ji Wuchang left with Ji Yongming after several days at the academy.
• The Heavenly Dragon Ranking named Ji Wuchang tenth, while he and Ji Yongming reached Kaiyuan City and learned that Yu Ling was at Heavenly Chen Academy.
• Ji Wuchang traded a Heaven Rank Supreme Grade combat technique for the Vermilion Bird Arrow, then killed the imperial guards who pursued him after Princess Aorou’s companion challenged him.
• Ji Wuchang lured Nan Dusheng and the other pursuers outside the city, killed them with his techniques and Ji Yongming’s Jade Slip, and departed Kaiyuan City.
• Princess Aorou gathered powerful forces to hunt Ji Wuchang, Xia Guojiang agreed to help Zhen Miaoqing search for him, and Ji Yongming’s Ji Family Army completed the Samsara Formation.

Ji Wuchang used the name Chai Wudi to enter Heavenly Chen Academy, survived Li Courtyard’s volcano, and chose Chen Qirong as his master. After claiming a cave abode, he defeated Xiao Dong, prompting concern that Xiao Cheng would retaliate.

• Ji Wuchang lured Princess Aorou’s pursuers into the Samsara Formation, where he and Ji Yongming’s group killed the two Supreme Realm Fifth Level cultivators and captured their Primordial Spirits.
• Nan Xiaotian learned that the Ji Family had attacked Aorou but let Ji Wuchang escape, and Ji Wuchang reunited with Zhen Miaoqing before agreeing not to escalate the conflict with the Nan Family.
• Ji Wuchang adopted the name Chai Wudi and set out for Heavenly Chen Academy, while Chai Wuzong arranged for Song Qianshang to teach him if he placed in the Outer Court Grand Competition’s top hundred.
• Ji Wuchang chose Li Courtyard and entered its volcano for the assessment, where he absorbed its flames, advanced to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Second Level, and fought the eighth-rank Fire Qilin Beast for its Essence Blood.
• Song Qianshang and Chen Qirong broke through the barrier to retrieve Ji Wuchang, who chose Chen Qirong as his master and learned about the academy’s competitions and cave abodes.
• Ji Wuchang claimed Xiao Dong’s cave abode, stopping his iron staff with a punch and shattering his Dharma Aspect when Xiao Dong attacked.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed the Great Sun Divine Fist against Xiao Dong, and Yan Liang warned Yang He that Xiao Cheng would not accept his defeat.

Ji Wuchang defeated the rivals who targeted his cave abode, reclaimed a building, and tested himself against Yu Ling while beginning to consider how to forge his own Dao. As the Eight Courtyards Grand Competition began, Song Qianshang wagered his position on Li Courtyard’s performance, and Ji Wuchang placed a huge bet on Li Courtyard to win.

• Ji Wuchang killed Zhan Yanlong, then defeated and killed Yan Liang and Yang He in the Void Arena, exposing their plot and alarming the academy’s masters.
• Ji Wuchang reclaimed Song Yeche’s cave abode by defeating him, then Yu Ling recognized him as her junior brother and battled him to a draw.
• Ji Wuchang refused Liao Qing’s offer of direct entry to the inner courtyard and resolved to enter through the competition, while Chen Qirong urged him to forge his own Dao.
• Ji Wuchang learned from Thousand Poison Venerable and Ji Yaoyao that the Age of Dharma Decline had begun and that creating his own path would be difficult and dangerous.
• Song Qianshang led Li Courtyard to Qian Courtyard for the competition and accepted Zhang Wenliang’s wager that would cost him his position if Li Courtyard lost.
• Ji Wuchang spotted an evil presence among Qian Courtyard’s competitors, then bet thirty million low-grade spirit stones on Li Courtyard taking first place.

Ji Wuchang dominated the Eight Courtyards Grand Competition as Chai Wudi, earning Li Courtyard first place and a place in the inner academy. There he escaped Xiao Xueguang’s spatial formation, discovered a new spatial technique, and began navigating poison threats and rivalries.

• Master Zhao wagered five hundred million low-grade spirit stones against Qi, while Ji Wuchang observed the powerful inner-courtyard figures arriving for the competition.
• Xiao Xueguang explained the token-stealing survival contest and opened the gate, sending Ji Wuchang and the other competitors into the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang defeated Li Feiqiao and several other contestants, taking their tokens and surviving the secret realm’s void storms by absorbing their power.
• Ji Wuchang rescued Xiao Cheng, joined forces with him to lure opponents, and defeated Jiu Huaitian and other Zhen Academy fighters.
• After Ji Wuchang’s strength alarmed the academy leaders, Xiao Xueguang ended his participation and awarded Li Courtyard first place, while Xiao Cheng continued competing.
• Ji Wuchang became Xiao Xueguang’s disciple and entered the inner academy, where Xiao tested him by trapping him in a spatial formation.
• Ji Wuchang broke the formation by absorbing its spatial power, learned Threefold Space, and discovered that Zhan Gu'an had arranged for him to be poisoned with Qianji Poison.
• Yu Ling showed Ji Wuchang the inner academy and its Mission Hall, where he sought help obtaining five aggregates precious blood as Nan Cai'er and her companions chose a mission.