Recaps

Yang Zhen flirted with Boat Mistress Yun while turning her teasing into an exchange of lofty sayings, impressing the people in the cabin hall. After Luo Wuchen misinterpreted one of his lines and drew laughter from the crowd, Yang Zhen wondered why Boat Mistress Yun had come to seek him out.

• Boat Mistress Yun descended the stairs, and Yang Zhen took her hand and praised her beauty in front of Hua Youyue and the crowd.
• Boat Mistress Yun teased Yang Zhen about his honeyed words and glanced toward Hua Youyue, who watched his response with a smile.
• Yang Zhen answered with sayings about friendship and fate, winning Boat Mistress Yun's approval and impressing the gathered onlookers.
• Luo Wuchen mocked Yang Zhen as a toad who wanted to be Boat Mistress Yun's neighbor, prompting both women and the crowd to laugh at him.
• A burly man spat out his noodles at Luo Wuchen's remark, and Yang Zhen wondered why Boat Mistress Yun had sought him out.

Yang Zhen discussed the Pill Appreciation Conference on Donglin Island with Boat Mistress Yun, who invited him to cooperate with the Flower Moon Pavilion. After she whispered an offer to him and departed, Hua Youyue pressed him to reveal what she had said.

• Boat Mistress Yun invited Yang Zhen and Hua Youyue to speak privately, but Yang Zhen asked her to join them for a meal instead.
• Boat Mistress Yun agreed to sit beside Yang Zhen, stunning Luo Wuchen and the other guests.
• Boat Mistress Yun asked Yang Zhen about pill refining and proposed that they work together at the Pill Appreciation Conference on Donglin Island.
• Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue was going to Donglin Island to seek a pill from a grandmaster pill refiner.
• Boat Mistress Yun whispered an offer to Yang Zhen, then left and told him to think it over.
• Hua Youyue asked what Boat Mistress Yun had said, and Yang Zhen claimed she had only said he would find out later.

Yang Zhen traveled to Donglin Island for the Pill Appreciation Conference after making a loose exchange agreement with the Flower Moon Pavilion. As the conference approached, he learned that Hua Youyue hoped to ask Master Meng Bailou for a pill, and Yang Zhen offered to help if Meng refused.

• Yang Zhen accepted an agreement with Boat Mistress Yun that gave the Flower Moon Pavilion first right to exchange for his goods and asked him to help when he could.
• Hua Youyue warned Yang Zhen not to offend the respected alchemists attending the conference, especially Elder Chi, but Yang Zhen insisted he was low-key.
• Yang Zhen enjoyed an extravagant meal and a performance aboard the Flower Moon Pavilion during the two-day journey to Donglin Island.
• Elder Yao confronted Yang Zhen about the betting pool and demanded a hundred thousand crystals for his wager on Sun Yushi, while Yang Zhen tried to bargain him down.
• Yang Zhen heard that Master Meng Bailou planned to refine a high-grade seven-star pill at the conference and told Hua Youyue he would help if Meng would not.

After learning that Nascent Soul experts were hunting him, Yang Zhen bargained with Elder Yao for Thousand Faces, a mask that could disguise his appearance and voice. Just as Yang Zhen tried it on, a blood-red eruption revealed that the long-sought ruins were on Donglin Island, and Elder Yao rushed him toward them.

• Hua Youyue warned Yang Zhen to focus on cultivation, but Elder Yao interrupted and told him that Nascent Soul experts were searching for him over his actions on Donglin Island and the crystals he had won.
• Elder Yao offered Yang Zhen Thousand Faces, a disguise mask capable of deceiving even Void Refinement experts, and Yang Zhen haggled over its price.
• Yang Zhen traded part of his Jade Lingzhi and Colorful Cloud Dew for the mask, then used it to create a handsome new appearance.
• A blood-red wave of Qi erupted from Donglin Island's center, shaking the island and revealing the location of the ruins.
• Elder Yao grabbed Yang Zhen and hurried toward the ruins so they could be among the first to enter.

Yang Zhen and Elder Yao investigated a bloody phenomenon on Donglin Island and learned it might conceal Great Sage Chenxue’s inheritance. As Yang Zhen approached the entrance, someone cried that it was the Upper Gen Mirror World, leaving him confused and hesitant to enter.

• A mountain collapsed on Donglin Island, releasing a vast bloody light that drew cultivators toward the ruins.
• Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen and Elder Yao that the secret treasure was connected to Great Sage Chenxue, whose inheritance might include the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art.
• Elder Yao urged the group to enter the bloody light, and Yang Zhen rushed ahead on the Startling Thunder Sword.
• Yang Zhen fooled the crowd by denying he was Yang Zhen, claiming the sword belonged to him because Yang Zhen had swindled him out of crystal stones, and introducing himself as Li Xiaoyao.
• As Yang Zhen reached the bloody light, someone shouted that it was the Upper Gen Mirror World, and Yang Zhen stopped to ask what that meant.

Yang Zhen was swept into the Upper Gen Mirror World, a dangerous realm created by Great Sage Chenxue, and discovered it resembled the primeval world inside the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda. He encountered Sun Yushi, who recognized him and attacked, but Yang Zhen vanished before Sun Yushi could strike.

• A cultivator explained that the Upper Gen Mirror World was created by Great Sage Chenxue, who had severed his Dao to refine it and leave behind a grand scheme.
• A violent surge from the world swept Yang Zhen inside before he could escape.
• Yang Zhen found himself in a dense, primeval realm and noticed its resemblance to the ninth level of the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda.
• Yang Zhen followed a distant pillar of bloody light and confronted Sun Yushi, who had recognized him by the Startling Thunder Sword.
• Sun Yushi unleashed his Nascent Soul Realm pressure and challenged Yang Zhen, who vanished and mocked Sun Yushi's lack of strength.

Yang Zhen fought Sun Yushi, using absurd poems to conjure an ocean, warhorses, and a woman with a riding crop, until Sun Yushi died. After burying him, Yang Zhen found his Golden Core had stopped changing and rushed toward another Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

• Sun Yushi attacked Yang Zhen with powerful poetic sword techniques, and the pressure caused Yang Zhen's Golden Core to stir.
• Yang Zhen countered with comic poems that manifested a raging ocean and charging warhorses, overwhelming Sun Yushi.
• Yang Zhen's poem conjured a woman with a riding crop, who struck Sun Yushi as he was swallowed by the attacks.
• Sun Yushi died after refusing Yang Zhen's request to teach him his technique, and Yang Zhen gathered his belongings and buried him.
• Yang Zhen found his Golden Core had stopped moving again, then sensed another Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and ran toward the fluctuations.

Yang Zhen mistook a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator pulling up a Jade Firmament Root for a villain and challenged him to a fight. Their battle drove Yang Zhen into a state of insight, but the exhausted cultivator fled, leaving Yang Zhen chasing him and offering treasures to lure him back.

• Yang Zhen attacked the middle-aged cultivator, believing he was harming a woman, then discovered he was pulling up a Jade Firmament Root.
• The middle-aged cultivator attacked, and Yang Zhen used the danger to sense the changes in his Golden Core.
• Yang Zhen and the middle-aged cultivator fought for two hours until the cultivator grew exhausted and ran away.
• Yang Zhen chased the fleeing cultivator, cursing him and calling for him to stop and fight.
• Yang Zhen offered the cultivator a pile of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, drawing the attention of the cultivators below.

Yang Zhen defeated the Golden Core Realm cultivators who tried to stop him and chased after a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, but another Nascent Soul Realm expert emerged and drew his attention to a hidden world. He entered it in search of treasures, where the people inside recognized him and sent for an elder.

• Dozens of Golden Core Realm cultivators attacked Yang Zhen, but his Great Evolution Wind and Thunder Sword sent many tumbling from the sky and made the middle-aged cultivator flee.
• Yang Zhen removed Thousand Faces and revealed that he was Yang Zhen, prompting more cultivators to run; the middle-aged cultivator recognized him and fled again rather than reclaim his crystal stones.
• A saber-wielding Nascent Soul Realm expert burst from underground demanding his crystal stones, and Yang Zhen clashed with him as other cultivators closed in.
• Yang Zhen noticed the world within a world beneath the ground and rushed inside, leaving the saber-wielding Nascent Soul Realm expert to follow.
• The people inside the world within a world recognized Yang Zhen and tried to hide their belongings, while a young man told a young female disciple to fetch the elder.

Yang Zhen found a Natural Dao Mark hidden among Blood Crown Flowers, tricked Lu Heng and the others into ignoring it, and carried off the stone. Outside, a Ninth Level Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and the others surrounded him and demanded he surrender it, leaving Yang Zhen preparing to fight.

• Yang Zhen entered the hidden chamber and spotted a Natural Dao Mark on a stone while Lu Heng and the others gathered Blood Crown Flowers.
• Yang Zhen told the group the stone was the chamber’s greatest treasure, then lifted it and left while they dismissed his warning and guarded the flowers.
• A Ninth Level Nascent Soul Realm old man attacked Yang Zhen with a sea of fire and demanded he put down the stone.
• Lu Heng and the gathered cultivators surrounded Yang Zhen and joined the demand, while Yang Zhen raised the Startling Thunder Sword and unleashed his presence.

Yang Zhen unleashed a devastating sword strike that defeated the Nascent Soul Realm elders and Golden Core Realm cultivators attacking him, then broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm. As the survivors fled, a terrifying blood-colored force erupted from a nearby mountain, and Yang Zhen recognized the power of a Sage Realm figure.

• The Ninth Level Nascent Soul Realm elder, Lu Heng, and the Golden Core Realm cultivators attacked Yang Zhen while he focused on the sword in his hand.
• Yang Zhen raised the Startling Thunder Sword and unleashed a golden sword strike that wounded the elder, severed Lu Heng at the waist, and killed the other attackers.
• Yang Zhen's Golden Core shattered under the pressure, and a nascent soul formed as he declared that he had a sword strike of his own.
• A cultivator who had been hiding behind a boulder fled, and the other onlookers scattered in terror.
• A blood-colored wave of force surged from a nearby mountain, and Yang Zhen admired the power of the Sage Realm figure behind it while lamenting that he had used less than one percent of the sword strike's power.

Yang Zhen stabilized his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, cooked a pot of Tenfold Tonic Soup, and met a talking fat cat that claimed to be a qilin. The cat stole his soup, and Yang Zhen chased it through the Upper Gen Mirror World as cultivators watched.

• Yang Zhen spent half a day stabilizing his cultivation after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, then made soup from heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
• After drinking most of the Tenfold Tonic Soup, Yang Zhen absorbed its power and advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm First Layer.
• A fat cat tried to steal the soup, spoke to Yang Zhen, and insisted that it was a qilin.
• Yang Zhen struck the cat and traded the soup for rare treasures the cat offered, then realized the cat had stolen the pot.
• Yang Zhen chased the cat through the Upper Gen Mirror World while they taunted each other and passersby recognized him.

Cultivators gathered at a mountain in the Upper Gen Mirror World and struggled against a restriction that grew stronger with their cultivation. Just as they arranged to take turns cultivating on the steps, Yang Zhen and a fat cat raced toward them, throwing their plans into chaos.

• Elder Qu climbed to the twentieth step but was blasted back down by the mountain's restriction.
• Hua Youyue said she had reached the fifteenth step and felt a brief pain in her Spirit Sea, prompting speculation that opening a Spirit Sea helped cultivators climb.
• Elder Qu and Sect Master Wang proposed assigning places by cultivation so the gathered cultivators could take turns cultivating on the steps.
• Elder Qu and the other cultivators settled into positions on the steps and prepared to cultivate.
• Yang Zhen chased the fat cat toward the mountain, and the crowd recognized him with alarm.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat disrupted the cultivators gathered on the mountain steps as they chased each other upward. After reaching the twentieth step and revealing his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, Yang Zhen defied Sect Master Wang and threatened to curse him to death.

• Hua Youyue left her place on the fifteenth step to greet Yang Zhen, explaining that he was her friend despite the others’ protests.
• Shameless Cat raced past the gathered cultivators to the thirty-ninth step and taunted Yang Zhen into chasing him.
• Yang Zhen charged onto the steps, and the Qi surging from his ascent blasted nearly everyone off the mountain path.
• Yang Zhen mocked the fallen cultivators, revealed his Nascent Soul Realm breakthrough, and continued climbing after Shameless Cat.
• Sect Master Wang threatened Yang Zhen, who answered that he would curse the Void Refinement Realm expert to death if he kept provoking him.

Yang Zhen taunted three Void Refinement Realm experts who waited below the stone steps, then began cooking with the wretched cat as his accomplice. The chapter ended with Yang Zhen challenging the cat to kick the three elders if his cooking proved delicious.

• Yang Zhen insulted Sect Master Wang, Elder Qu, and Elder Tie from the steps, while the three experts sat down to wait for him to come down.
• Yang Zhen said he could live on the steps for years, then joked with the wretched cat about food and beat it until it agreed to eat whatever he cooked.
• Yang Zhen took out a wooden board and began preparing a fire and ingredients while the three experts struggled to contain their anger.
• Yang Zhen challenged the wretched cat to kick the three experts if he made a delicacy fit for this world, and the cat admitted it had picky tastes.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat cooked mutton on the mountain and taunted three Void Refinement Realm experts into anger. After Shameless Cat hit Sect Master Wang with his urine and made him spit blood, the pair ate while the crowd watched, and Shameless Cat began asking Yang Zhen how he had climbed the mountain unharmed.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat bet that the cat could make the three Void Refinement Realm experts cough up blood in exchange for a feast.
• Shameless Cat tried to piss on Sect Master Wang, then celebrated after he splashed urine across the man's face.
• Sect Master Wang spat blood in rage, and Shameless Cat turned his attention to Elder Qu while Yang Zhen praised his shamelessness.
• Yang Zhen cooked vinegar-scented lamb chops as the crowd watched and the Void Refinement Realm experts simmered with anger.
• Shameless Cat asked Yang Zhen how he had climbed the mountain unharmed, and Yang Zhen asked what was happening there.

Yang Zhen used Dao Mark stones from Shameless Cat to climb toward the mountaintop, where the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art was said to be. After Yang Zhen reached the eight hundredth step and unleashed a vast surge of blood Qi, Shameless Cat fled, leaving Yang Zhen safely standing on the steps with another Dao Mark stone.

• Shameless Cat claimed the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art was on the mountaintop and gave Yang Zhen two Dao Mark stones to help him climb.
• Yang Zhen noticed the three Void Refinement Realm experts coveted the stones and cautiously climbed while Shameless Cat distracted them with loud cries.
• Yang Zhen reached the eight hundredth step, triggering a massive wave of blood Qi that blanketed the mountainside.
• Shameless Cat used the confusion to sprint past the three experts and flee, while Sect Master Wang pursued the cat.
• Yang Zhen remained on the step and revealed that he had a third Dao Mark stone in his storage ring.

Yang Zhen reached the mountaintop with three Dao Marks and began singing, enraging the experts below while Shameless Cat taunted Sect Master Wang. A huge torrent of Qi and Blood then poured into Yang Zhen, and he realized his talent had upgraded the dangerous Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art, leaving him in grave danger.

• Yang Zhen revealed his third Dao Mark, climbed to the mountaintop, and declared that he wanted to sing.
• Shameless Cat evaded Sect Master Wang's attacks, complained about losing two hairs, and urged Yang Zhen to learn the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art.
• Yang Zhen sang at the gathered cultivators, provoking Elder Qu and Elder Tie into charging up the mountain before its restrictions threw them back.
• Shameless Cat copied Yang Zhen's song while continuing to evade Sect Master Wang.
• A funnel of Qi and Blood poured into Yang Zhen, who spat blood and fell to one knee as the onlookers feared he could not endure it.
• Yang Zhen realized his talent had upgraded the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art, making the inheritance even more dangerous to cultivate.

Yang Zhen endured the brutal Blood Refinements Profound Art as onlookers expected him to die, while Hua Youyue urged him to rise. He stood and rejected Great Sage Chenxue’s Dao, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Sect Master Wang laughed at Yang Zhen, then suffered a heart-demon eruption and was knocked unconscious by Elder Qu and Elder Tie.
• The Shameless Cat and Hua Youyue watched Yang Zhen struggle as cultivators mocked him and predicted his death.
• Hua Youyue shouted for Yang Zhen to get up, and Yang Zhen heard her through his pain.
• Yang Zhen spread his arms, stopped resisting, and deactivated the Ancient Elephant Lightning Defense Body, letting the wave of blood tear through him.
• Yang Zhen rose and declared that he did not want Great Sage Chenxue’s Dao, astonishing Sect Master Wang and everyone present.

Yang Zhen rejected and severed Great Sage Chenxue’s Dao, shocking the cultivators who had gathered to witness his inheritance. He then recovered by refining his Qi and Blood into a powerful Dragon-Elephant Prison-Shaking Body, while Shameless Cat crept toward the three Void Refinement Realm experts.

• Yang Zhen declared that he did not want Great Sage Chenxue’s Dao, but the heavenly chorus and celestial phenomena revealed that he had obtained it.
• Yang Zhen shouted “Break!” and severed the Dao, enraging the onlookers and Sect Master Wang.
• Shameless Cat praised Yang Zhen for choosing to cultivate his own Dao, then sneaked toward the three Void Refinement Realm experts.
• Yang Zhen gathered his Qi and Blood, healed his wounds, and formed the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Shaking Body, greatly increasing his power.
• Yang Zhen dressed and noticed Shameless Cat sneaking up behind the three experts, suspecting he was planning another scheme.

Shameless Cat distracted Sect Master Wang, Elder Qu, and Elder Tie while Yang Zhen prepared to strike, but the Mirror World violently transformed and separated Yang Zhen from everyone. In a vision beneath a blood-red sun, Yang Zhen saw Great Sage Chenxue battle a ten-meter winged giant before Shameless Cat’s cries for help broke through again.

• Shameless Cat kicked Sect Master Wang, Elder Qu, and Elder Tie in the face, then fled as the three Void Refinement Realm experts pursued him.
• Yang Zhen leaped down with a powerful golden sword strike and targeted the wounded Sect Master Wang as the three experts charged him.
• The Mirror World shook and collapsed into ruins, and an invisible force swept everyone away, leaving Yang Zhen alone beneath a blood-red sun.
• Yang Zhen saw Great Sage Chenxue use the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art to annihilate a ten-meter winged giant with a punch.
• Yang Zhen heard Shameless Cat yelling for help and wondered who was attacking him.

Yang Zhen rushed to Shameless Cat’s aid, then faced three enraged Void Refinement Realm experts who attacked him together. As their combined techniques engulfed him, Yang Zhen laughed and declared he would take them all on, while blood-red light erupted from the force around him.

• Yang Zhen reached Shameless Cat and found the cat unharmed despite being surrounded by three Void Refinement Realm experts.
• Shameless Cat mocked the experts, and they blasted the cat away before turning their anger on Yang Zhen.
• Hua Youyue tried to help Yang Zhen, but Elder Yao warned that she could not overcome three Void Refinement Realm experts.
• The three experts launched sword, fist, and hammer attacks at Yang Zhen, determined to kill him.
• Yang Zhen challenged all three as their attacks engulfed him, and blood-red light surged through the violent waves of force.

Yang Zhen endured the attacks of three Void Refinement Realm experts and fought Sect Master Wang with his Blazing Flame Thousand-Motion Sword. After Yang Zhen staggered back, Sect Master Wang suddenly collapsed, leaving Yang Zhen to challenge Elder Qu and Elder Tie.

• Yang Zhen withstood the three experts' combined attack and charged at Sect Master Wang.
• Sect Master Wang unleashed the Blazing Flame Thousand-Motion Sword, and Yang Zhen met its Sword-Rays with a punch.
• Yang Zhen was blasted back, injured and exhausted, while Elder Qu and Elder Tie assumed he had been defeated.
• Sect Master Wang collapsed to the ground, and Elder Qu rushed to him in alarm.
• Yang Zhen recovered his footing and asked Elder Qu and Elder Tie whether they would attack him one at a time or together.

Yang Zhen faced Elder Qu and Elder Tie after defeating Sect Master Wang, while Hua Youyue risked Long Moon Pavilion’s interests to protect him. Yang Zhen killed Elder Qu and drove Elder Tie to flee, then asked Hua Youyue if he was handsome.

• Elder Qu proposed that he and Elder Tie join forces to kill Yang Zhen, and Hua Youyue stepped forward to defend him.
• Elder Tie threatened Long Moon Pavilion’s prospects at the Pill Appreciation Conference through his connection to Grandmaster Ma, but Hua Youyue refused to abandon Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen told Hua Youyue to let him fight the two elders and unleashed a powerful strike against their attack.
• Yang Zhen crashed into the stone steps but rose and demanded to fight again; Elder Tie urged Elder Qu to kill him, then fled.
• Yang Zhen shattered Elder Qu’s fists and internal organs, then turned to Hua Youyue and asked if he was handsome.

After defeating two Void Refinement Realm experts and driving Elder Tie away, Yang Zhen woke to learn that Donglin Island was searching for him. He discovered that Grandmaster Ma had handed the Long Moon Pavilion’s Six-Star Life Pill formula and pills to the Donglin Medicine Association, and vowed to confront him.

• Yang Zhen collapsed after killing two Void Refinement Realm experts and frightening Elder Tie away, and Hua Youyue and Elder Yao tended to him.
• Yang Zhen woke at an inn and learned that news of his feats had spread across Donglin Island and that people were looking for him.
• Yang Zhen asked Hua Youyue about the alchemy grandmaster she had sought, and she said they would handle the matter themselves.
• Elder Yao explained that the Long Moon Pavilion had shared its Six-Star Life Pill formula with Grandmaster Ma while establishing itself on Donglin Island.
• Yang Zhen learned that Grandmaster Ma had given the formula and pills to the Donglin Medicine Association, then asked where he was so he could confront him.