Recaps

After Chen Shuangbai defeated Net Chan Dao’s forces, the Profound Firmament Sect submitted to the Vast Waves Alliance and brought its unfinished Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum to Calming Waves City. The alliance leaders agreed to manage the treasure jointly and decided that every sect would contribute materials to forge its missing drumsticks.

• Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Suwen met Han Zhao and Zhao Shiyong, who respectfully addressed Chen as True Lord Xuhong instead of as an old friend.
• True Lord Xuanyuan agreed to travel to Calming Waves City and meet True Lord Jihai as the Profound Firmament Sect joined the Vast Waves Alliance.
• True Lord Jihai, True Lord Suwen, Chen Shuangbai, and Old Man Fish Pillow examined the unfinished Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum in a sealed hall.
• Old Man Fish Pillow proposed that the alliance jointly manage the drum and use it to anchor the alliance’s fortunes once it became a Spirit Treasure.
• Chen Shuangbai agreed to joint management and asked every allied sect to contribute spiritual materials for forging the drumsticks.

Chen Shuangbai returned to the Jade Spring Sect and consulted Vast Sea Elder about completing the [Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum], then resumed cultivating as turmoil spread across the seas and the continent. The Flood Dragon Clan’s expansion drove demons into human waters, while the Arrayed Mystery Sect saved Lotus Temple and brought the Buddhist Alliance into the Orthodox Mystery Alliance’s fold.

• Chen Shuangbai returned to the Jade Spring Sect and asked Vast Sea Elder to assess how to forge the [Ninefold Heaven-Conquering Thunder Drum]’s matching drumsticks.
• The Flood Dragon Clan drove most of the Sixteen Demon Caves from the outer seas, forcing Demon Cultivators into the coastal waters and devastating human settlements and fleets.
• Gao Yi told Chen Shuangbai that Beigong Xuan had injured Tower Lord Yunlai during negotiations, prompting human factions in the coastal waters to retreat.
• True Lord Jinxuan arrived with the [Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow] and pierced Dao Lord Beiku’s Buddhist Dharma manifestation, saving Lotus Temple from destruction.
• The Buddhist Alliance dissolved and joined the Arrayed Mystery Sect, extending the Orthodox Mystery Alliance’s territory from the Zheng Kingdom into the Yuan Kingdom.

The Arrayed Mystery Sect obtained the Green Goat Expounding Mystery Pearl from the Lotus Temple, then allied with the Net Chan Dao and left the Lotus Temple exposed to its enemies. As the alliance’s assault pushed the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect toward defeat, Chen Shuangbai arrived at Yandang Pass with Vast Waves Alliance reinforcements and asked about the fighting.

• Tongchi and Baolin gave the Green Goat Expounding Mystery Pearl to the Arrayed Mystery Sect, while Baoyun left with some disciples and the Lotus Temple joined the sect.
• The Arrayed Mystery Sect allied with the Net Chan Dao, and Beiku killed Baolin and besieged Tongchi inside the Lesser Lotus Pure Land.
• The Arrayed Mystery Sect and Net Chan Dao attacked the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect, overrunning seven strongholds and later killing five Golden Core cultivators and one Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Sword Alliance delayed sending aid, while the Vast Waves Alliance weighed whether it needed to defend its territory from the advancing front.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived at Yandang Pass with Feiguang, four disciples, and Vast Waves Alliance reinforcements, then asked Zhou Jin about the fighting and its commander.

Chen Shuangbai arrived to reinforce the beleaguered Heavenly Star Mystic Sect at Yandang Pass, where the Orthodox Mystery Alliance and Net Chan Dao had gathered six Nascent Soul True Lords. As the enemy forces converged, Xuanchengzi, True Lord Baishi, and True Lord Jinxuan arrived, bringing three Nascent Soul Late Stage powers face to face.

• Hong Qing told Chen Shuangbai that the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect had lost ten branch altars, eight Golden Core cultivators, and one Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Three days later, Chen Shuangbai saw six Nascent Soul True Lords among the attacking forces at Yandang Pass, while Hong Qing explained that True Lord Mysterious Peak had been killed.
• Chen Shuangbai unleashed his Divine Abilities above Yandang Pass, and the six enemy Nascent Souls regarded him warily.
• Xuanchengzi arrived in his hexagonal mystic tower, and he and True Lord Baishi exchanged accusations about their past conflict.
• True Lord Jinxuan arrived as Xuanchengzi and True Lord Baishi brought their Nascent Soul Late Stage powers into a clash that shook the surrounding region.

True Lord Baishi and True Lord Jinxuan began an all-out battle with their sect-guarding treasures, while Xuanchengzi attacked Chen Shuangbai at Yandang Pass. Chen Shuangbai dodged Xuanchengzi’s palm strike and countered with his treasured sword, leaving their duel unresolved as the fighting threatened the defenders and the pass.

• True Lord Baishi accused True Lord Jinxuan of betraying the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s reputation, then summoned the Five Dragons Five Luminaries Devil-Suppressing Wheel and attacked him.
• True Lord Jinxuan countered with the Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow and warned Baishi that Xuanchengzi could destroy the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s disciples and territory.
• At Yandang Pass, Xuanchengzi challenged Chen Shuangbai for intervening on the Heavenly Star Alliance’s behalf, and Chen Shuangbai answered with a sword strike that marked Xuanchengzi’s mystic tower.
• Xuanchengzi unleashed blue-and-white mystic flames that consumed cultivators and threatened Yandang Pass, then struck Chen Shuangbai with his palm.
• Chen Shuangbai evaded the blow and struck from behind with his treasured sword; Xuanchengzi blocked it with his palm, and their clash sent shock waves across the battlefield.

Chen Shuangbai unleashed his swordsmanship against Xuanchengzi, destroying his soul banner and hexagonal mystic tower and taking out one of his eyes. As Xuanchengzi rose to fight back, Chen Shuangbai challenged him to stop dodging.

• Chen Shuangbai used [Foot-Long Silk] to unleash [Zhengguang Jielin Jade Pool Flying Immortal Sword], severing Xuanchengzi's black soul banner and annihilating its fiends and yin ghosts.
• A scarlet comet struck Xuanchengzi before he could escape, wounding his right eye and tearing a huge breach into his hexagonal mystic tower.
• Xuanchengzi summoned the tower to shield himself, but Chen Shuangbai's follow-up strike shattered it as Xuanchengzi fled into the distance.
• Xuanchengzi's right eye turned pitch-black with scarlet and black-gold light as black-gold flames covered his body, and he accused Chen Shuangbai of destroying his eye.
• Chen Shuangbai's eyes turned scarlet as he invoked the comet's baleful power and asked Xuanchengzi why he was dodging.

Xuanchengzi used the True Net Cult’s techniques to suppress Chen Shuangbai, then transformed into a towering Dharma Body and greatly increased the power of his Long Firmament Mystic Thunder. Chen Shuangbai escaped the strike with the Grand Yin Authority but was wounded and faced the strengthened Xuanchengzi in the void.

• Xuanchengzi’s dark-gold attacks failed to hit Chen Shuangbai, whose crimson sword light severely damaged Xuanchengzi’s black soul banner and hexagonal mystic tower.
• Xuanchengzi spread Withering and Flourishing True Qi to force Chen Shuangbai out of hiding, then trapped him with six talismans and struck with Long Firmament Mystic Thunder.
• Chen Shuangbai unfolded the Water-Heaven Pure White Dharma Realm, whose five-colored watery light weakened Xuanchengzi’s thunder.
• Xuanchengzi used Locking Heaven and Earth to suppress Chen Shuangbai, then transformed into a Dharma Body with a six-colored Dharma wheel.
• Chen Shuangbai broke free of the talismans but was blasted toward the manifest world by Xuanchengzi’s strengthened Long Firmament Mystic Thunder.
• Chen Shuangbai escaped using the Grand Yin Authority, suppressed the dark lightning in his wounded body, and recognized Xuanchengzi’s technique as the True Net Mystic Heaven Six Methods.

Nascent Soul cultivator Feiguang used its speed and demonic fire to pressure the Renewed Net Sect and kill a black eagle, while Xuanchengzi revealed his late-stage strength and overwhelmed Chen Shuangbai. As Chen Shuangbai's power began to transform under the pressure, Xuanchengzi launched a white halberd of Metal Qi at him.

• Feiguang's attacks forced the Renewed Net Sect and Arrayed Mystery Sect Nascent Soul cultivators to fight defensively while supporting the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
• Feiguang caught the black-robed Renewed Net Sect Daoist and his black eagle with demonic fire, burning the eagle to ash before the Daoist sacrificed his right arm and escaped.
• Xuanchengzi revealed his [Six Heavens Mystic Wheel Heavenly King True Body] and declared that Chen Shuangbai's path ended there.
• Chen Shuangbai endured Xuanchengzi's pressure as the Moon Comet Star's insights and his manifestations began to change.
• Xuanchengzi condensed a white halberd from Metal Qi and hurled it at the locked-in-place Chen Shuangbai.

Chen Shuangbai survived Xuanchengzi’s devastating halberd strike by deliberately approaching the Moon Comet’s true intention. He revealed his second Sword Intent, [The Flowing Crimson Pearl Sword That Pierces the Hidden Dark], as Xuanchengzi prepared to strike again.

• Xuanchengzi’s white halberd pierced Chen Shuangbai and devastated the battlefield, leaving the sword immortal seemingly near death.
• Hong Qing feared the consequences for his household if Chen Shuangbai died and the Jade Spring Sect sought vengeance.
• True Lord Baishi moved to aid Chen Shuangbai, but True Lord Jinxuan stopped him and the two resumed fighting.
• Xuanchengzi prepared to extract Chen Shuangbai’s soul, but Chen Shuangbai opened his crimson-star eyes and revealed that he had endured the strike deliberately to approach the Moon Comet’s true intention.
• Xuanchengzi attacked with two white halberds, and Chen Shuangbai raised [Foot-Long Silk] and revealed his second Sword Intent, [The Flowing Crimson Pearl Sword That Pierces the Hidden Dark].

Chen Shuangbai revealed a second Sword Intent and overwhelmed Xuanchengzi, carving apart his Dharma Body and sending him crashing into the earth. The crimson star then tore across the Yong Kingdom, leaving mountains severed in its wake.

• Xuanchengzi realized Chen Shuangbai possessed two Sword Intents and was left stunned by his sword talent.
• Chen Shuangbai used Dew-Drinking Radiance to restore his wounds while his crimson Sword Intent grew stronger.
• Xuanchengzi's attack failed, and Chen Shuangbai's Sword Intent cut away half of his Six Heavens Mystic Wheel Heavenly King True Body.
• True Lord Jinxuan and True Lord Baishi stopped fighting and watched in shock as Chen Shuangbai praised Xuanchengzi's Dharma Body.
• Chen Shuangbai's crimson comet struck Xuanchengzi and shattered his Heavenly King Dharma Body.
• Xuanchengzi was hurled into the earth, and the crimson star raced across the Yong Kingdom, cutting mountains apart with its shock waves.

Chen Shuangbai defeated Xuanchengzi and rejected True Lord Jinxuan’s offer to negotiate, then cleaved through Jinxuan’s thunder arrow and left him nearly destroyed. The battle ended with Chen Shuangbai still focused on the helpless Xuanchengzi.

• Chen Shuangbai pulled the battered Xuanchengzi into the air and left him unable to move.
• True Lord Jinxuan arrived with the injured True Lord Baishi and offered Chen Shuangbai terms to spare Xuanchengzi.
• Chen Shuangbai refused to negotiate, and True Lord Jinxuan fired a golden-and-purple thunder arrow from the [Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow].
• Chen Shuangbai struck with the [Flowing Scarlet Pearl Pierces Hidden Darkness Sword] and split the thunder arrow into four.
• Chen Shuangbai’s sword intent shattered True Lord Jinxuan’s purple-gold cauldron and destroyed his upper body.
• Chen Shuangbai turned back toward Xuanchengzi as the watching cultivators stared in shock.

After Chen Shuangbai killed Xuanchengzi with his second Sword Intent, the armies withdrew and the cultivation world reeled from the fall of a Nascent Soul late stage cultivator. Chen Shuangbai recuperated in the Jade Spring Sect’s Dew Radiance Pool while True Lord Qingchen stood guard and Yajie warned that his dangerous gambles could bring ruin.

• Xuanchengzi’s teleportation talisman broke, and Chen Shuangbai killed him with the crimson Sword Intent, destroying his Dharma body and soul.
• Xuanchengzi’s death sent ominous celestial signs across the Yong Kingdom and shocked the cultivation world.
• The Net Chan Dao and Orthodox Mystery Alliance armies withdrew from the Yong Kingdom, followed by the Heavenly Star Alliance and Vast Waves Alliance forces.
• True Lord Qingchen returned to the Jade Spring Sect after learning Chen Shuangbai was injured and guarded him as he recuperated in the Dew Radiance Pool.
• Yajie warned True Lord Qingchen that Chen Shuangbai’s willingness to gamble with his life could lead to disaster, and Qingchen accused Yajie of sounding jealous.

Gao Ling told the Gao Clan patriarch about Chen Shuangbai’s victory at Yandang Pass and his breakthrough to a second Sword Intent, leaving the patriarch determined to secure the Jade Spring Sect’s patronage. He ordered Gao Ling to bring a treasured spiritual resource and the clan to visit Chen Shuangbai and make up for Yi’er’s neglected apprenticeship gift.

• Gao Ling reported the conflict with the Flood Dragon Clan, and the Gao Clan patriarch urged the eight great immortal markets and their allies to stand together against Beigong Xuan.
• Gao Ling recounted how Chen Shuangbai defeated Xuanchengzi, wounded True Lord Jinxuan, killed Xuanchengzi, and turned the situation in the Yong Kingdom around.
• Gao Ling revealed that Chen Shuangbai had comprehended a second Sword Intent and was not yet two hundred years old, shocking the Gao Clan patriarch.
• The Gao Clan patriarch worried that the clan’s relationship with the Jade Spring Sect was not close enough and decided to seek Chen Shuangbai’s patronage.
• The Gao Clan patriarch ordered Gao Ling to take a supreme-grade fourth-tier spiritual resource and clan members to visit Chen Shuangbai and present it as Yi’er’s overdue apprenticeship gift.

After consulting his ancestor, Gao Ling led the Azure Wave Gao Clan to Jade Spring Sect to curry favor with Chen Shuangbai, prompting rival immortal-market leaders to rush there as well. True Lord Qingchen told them that although Chen Shuangbai’s true body was recovering in seclusion, they could speak with his incarnation.

• The Gao Clan ancestor ordered Gao Ling to use a precious fourth-tier spiritual resource as a gift and secure the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal’s favor for Gao Yi and the clan.
• Gao Ling gathered the branch leaders and Gao Hao, then set out for Jade Spring Sect with gifts.
• Gu Nianzhou and An Yuanzhen arrived at the sect and discovered that Gao Ling had beaten them there.
• At Jade Soul Palace, True Lord Qingchen explained that Chen Shuangbai’s true body could not receive them because he was recovering from injuries.
• Gao Ling described his visit as a belated congratulatory gift, and True Lord Qingchen offered to let the three market heads speak with Chen Shuangbai’s incarnation.

After healing from Xuanchengzi’s attack during thirty-odd years of seclusion, Chen Shuangbai emerged and learned that the sect had received gifts from visitors impressed by his victory. He advised his four disciples, then revealed that he still held two sword intents within himself, sustained by the Great Yin Dao Fruit.

• Chen Shuangbai emerged from the treasure pool after thirty-odd years, his wounds healed, and Zhanlu updated him on the sect’s visitors and gifts.
• Chen Shuangbai examined his four disciples and saw that their cultivation had advanced during his seclusion.
• Gao Yi told Chen Shuangbai he had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and begun to approach sword essence.
• Chen Shuangbai bestowed sword intent on Gao Yi and advised him to strengthen his foundation before advancing to Golden Core.
• Chen Shuangbai guided his other disciples and sent them away after Lu Xiangyuan joked that his emergence would unsettle people outside the sect.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed a gold-white bird and a scarlet cross in his palms, showing that he held two sword intents because of the Great Yin Dao Fruit.

Chen Shuangbai recovered from his long seclusion after reconciling his two Sword Intents and refining his cultivation arts. After rewarding his disciples and aiding Ding Chengyu, he went to meet the Jade Parasol Tree, whose spiritual intelligence had awakened.

• Chen Shuangbai examined how his Grand Yin and Moon Comet Sword Intents strengthened his Divine Abilities and reflected on the evolution of his five-colored water art.
• After several months cultivating in the Dew Radiance Pool, Chen Shuangbai recovered to his peak and returned to the sect.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Feiguang with a sword cultivation method tailored for his fourth disciple, Gao Yi.
• Chen Shuangbai congratulated Ding Chengyu on reaching the middle Golden Core stage and gave him compassionate sweet spirit water to remedy his aptitude.
• Ding Chengyu told Chen Shuangbai that the Jade Parasol Tree had awakened with intelligence comparable to a Golden Core cultivator and wished to meet him.
• Chen Shuangbai took Ding Chengyu to Parasol Tree Valley to meet the Jade Parasol Tree.

Chen Shuangbai visited Parasol Tree Valley, where Qingxing revealed a new fruit created with the Supreme Origin Azure Wood. After learning that True Person Mei’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul had run into trouble, Chen Shuangbai brought the fruit to him, but the chapter left the nature of the complication unresolved.

• Chen Shuangbai entered Parasol Tree Valley with Ding Chengyu and met Fang Xiao beneath the Jade Parasol Tree.
• Qingxing manifested as an azure sparrow and gave Chen Shuangbai an Azure Parasol Tree Star Fruit, explaining that it could heal injuries and repair foundations but could only be condensed once every ten years.
• Chen Shuangbai instructed Fang Xiao to care for Qingxing, then returned to the Myriad Phenomena Hall and proposed sending the fruit to True Person Mei.
• True Lord Qingchen said the fruit had arrived at the right time, and Chen Shuangbai realized True Person Mei’s Nascent Soul breakthrough had encountered complications.
• Chen Shuangbai sensed disordered frost-and-snow Sword Essence inside True Person Mei’s hall and asked whether something had gone wrong with his cultivation.

True Lord Ling Yuan completed her advancement to the Nascent Soul realm with help from True Lord Qingchen and Chen Shuangbai. As the Vast Waves Alliance prepared to invade the Orthodox Mystery Alliance, Chen Shuangbai ordered Zhanlu to guard the sect and took Shenyang and Feiguang with him to war.

• True Lord Qingchen used an Azure Parasol Tree Star Fruit to calm the restless Sword Essence surrounding True Person Mei as she advanced.
• One year later, True Person Mei emerged as True Lord Ling Yuan, having successfully entered the Nascent Soul realm.
• True Lord Ling Yuan thanked Chen Shuangbai, and she and True Lord Qingchen praised his loyalty to the Jade Spring Sect after he left their discussion.
• The Vast Waves Alliance assembled its fleet near Sunken Jade Valley and began advancing toward Zhao Kingdom to attack the Net Chan Dao and Orthodox Mystery Alliance.
• Ding Chengyu told Chen Shuangbai that the Qian Kingdom and Wu Country armies would cross Yong Kingdom, while the Turbid Wave Pavilion and Flower Washing Sword Sect feared displeasing the Heavenly Star Alliance.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Zhanlu to guard the sect and chose Shenyang and Feiguang to accompany him into battle.

The Vast Waves Alliance launched a three-pronged invasion of Yuan Kingdom and Zheng Kingdom, while its Jing Kingdom army stopped at the Profound Firmament Sect in Zhao Kingdom. After securing the sect’s outward cooperation, Chen Shuangbai announced that he would uproot the Black River Water Manor on its behalf.

• The Vast Waves Alliance sent three armies into Yuan Kingdom and Zheng Kingdom, while the Sword Alliance and Heavenly Star Alliance made no move to stop them.
• The Wu Country and Qian Kingdom armies broke through the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s forward outposts after three days of battle.
• Chen Shuangbai’s army stopped at the Profound Firmament Sect, where True Lord Xuanyuan welcomed him and supplied the cultivators.
• Chen Shuangbai asked whether the Black River Water Manor still controlled half of Zhao Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai told True Lord Xuanyuan that he would uproot the Black River Water Manor that day.

True Lord Xuanyuan received Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal’s decree bearing the word “Scram” and ordered Zhao Shiyong to deliver it to the Black River Water Manor. The decree killed the Black Flood Dragon, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lord, and left Zhao Shiyong and the watching cultivators stunned.

• Feiguang gave True Lord Xuanyuan the Sword Immortal’s jade-silk decree, which bore the single word “Scram.”
• True Lord Xuanyuan hesitated over provoking the Black Flood Dragon, but Han Zhao urged him to deliver the decree, and Zhao Shiyong set out for the water manor.
• The next day, True Lord Xuanyuan witnessed golden-white radiance and crimson light strike the Black Flood Dragon amid a storm.
• The Black River Water Manor’s crystal palace collapsed, and the Black Flood Dragon’s corpse was pinned to the sky as dragon blood rained down.
• Zhao Shiyong recalled that the Black Flood Dragon had attacked him after reading the decree, only to be slain by the Sword Intent released from it.

Chen Shuangbai led his army into the Yuan Kingdom, where sect representatives asked him to destroy the Compassionate Chan Way. He saw their request as partly sincere and partly self-serving, and the chapter ended with him weighing their appeal.

• Chen Shuangbai ordered Feiguang to keep the Black Flood Dragon’s remains for the sect after warning the Flood Dragon Clan not to meddle in the inner seas.
• Chen Shuangbai’s army reached the Yuan Kingdom after half a month, and representatives from six immortal sects and three unorthodox paths requested an audience.
• True Lord Xuantong thanked Chen Shuangbai for killing Xuanchengzi, whose Renewed Net Sect had recruited disciples from Yuan Kingdom sects.
• True Lord Xuantong said the Compassionate Chan Way had persecuted Yuan Kingdom cultivators and asked Chen Shuangbai to eradicate it, offering the assembled sects’ full strength in support.
• Chen Shuangbai recognized that the representatives’ gratitude was genuine but that their desire to eliminate the Compassionate Chan Way was partly driven by ambitions to expand.

Chen Shuangbai confronted Dao Master Beiku at Lotus Temple and discovered that the Compassionate Chan Way had linked its Three Paths Sea of Suffering Grand Formation to Yuan Kingdom’s earth veins. As Beiku prepared to unleash the formation, a crimson-black baleful star immobilized the temple, leaving him facing a mysterious power that began to form a bright moon.

• Chen Shuangbai surveyed Lotus Temple and saw its disciples, the Compassionate Chan Way’s core disciples, and three Nascent Soul cultivators bound into the Three Paths Sea of Suffering Grand Formation.
• Dao Master Beiku appeared and challenged Chen Shuangbai, claiming his formation could withstand the dual Sword Intents that had defeated Xuanchengzi.
• Chen Shuangbai discovered the formation was connected to Yuan Kingdom’s earth veins, and True Lord Xuantong condemned Beiku for endangering the kingdom’s fortune.
• Beiku declared that sacrificing the world’s living beings was justified by the Compassionate Chan Way’s mission to cleanse its supposed filth.
• A crimson-black cross-shaped baleful star appeared above Lotus Temple and slowed the formation, its monsters, and the effort to wrench out the earth veins.
• Beiku recognized an unseen power as the Nascent Soul cultivators and flying boats vanished, while a golden-white bird joined the baleful star and their radiance began forming a bright moon.

Chen Shuangbai severed the Lotus Temple’s earth-vein connections and defeated Beiku by unleashing the Moon Comet Sword Intent against the Compassionate Chan Way master’s empowered grand formation. The battle ended with Beiku dead and his body split into four pieces.

• Chen Shuangbai briefly froze everyone’s thoughts with an imitation of the Power of Time, then used the [Truth-Revering Purple Radiance Heavenly Gate of Inherited Illumination] to sever the Lotus Temple’s earth-vein connections.
• Beiku recognized Chen Shuangbai’s display as the Power of Time and demanded to know what other trump cards he had.
• Beiku activated the [Three Paths Sea of Suffering Grand Formation], sacrificing Lotus Temple disciples and drawing power from the formation’s three Nascent Soul anchors to strengthen himself.
• Beiku transformed into a mountain-sized demonic Dharma manifestation and fired a devastating beam of bloody light at Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai countered with the crimson cross-star, broke through the grand formation, and cleaved Beiku’s Dharma body into four pieces.
• Chen Shuangbai taunted Beiku as the master’s body became a stone statue and the formation’s black flames, blood vines, and lotuses dissipated.

Chen Shuangbai discovered the ruined Lotus Temple Pure Land and confronted Tongchi, its last surviving cultivator, who was dying from Beiku’s corruption. Tongchi passed into nirvana after entrusting the Pure Land to Baoyun and giving Chen Shuangbai the New Frost Spirit Osmanthus Treasure Branch.

• Chen Shuangbai used his Dharma sight to see Tongchi trapped in the corrupted Lesser Lotus Pure Land.
• Tongchi recognized that Chen Shuangbai had killed Beiku with dual Sword Intents and bowed to him.
• Tongchi admitted responsibility for the Lotus Temple’s downfall and said he would not ask forgiveness.
• Tongchi asked Chen Shuangbai to deliver the Pure Land into Baoyun’s hands and offered him the New Frost Spirit Osmanthus Treasure Branch.
• Chen Shuangbai accepted the branch and agreed to Tongchi’s request, after which Tongchi’s golden body disintegrated into motes that extinguished the remaining black flames and blood rain.

Chen Shuangbai secured the Grand Yin spiritual resource from Lotus Temple and stationed the Vast Waves Alliance in the Yuan Kingdom to prevent the Compassionate Chan Way from returning. He then led the fleet toward the Renewed Net Sect, where Shenyang had begun attacking its island stronghold.

• The Vast Waves Alliance left disciples and ships near Lotus Temple, and a Jade Spring Sect disciple announced that a Nascent Soul True Lord would oversee the area to keep the Compassionate Chan Way from rising again.
• Chen Shuangbai examined the New Frost Spirit Osmanthus Treasure Branch and Swaying Moon Sunken Cold Treasure Mirror, while Foot-Long Silk's sword spirit guarded the branch.
• Chen Shuangbai led the fleet across the Yuan Kingdom's coastal waters toward the Renewed Net Sect, leaving Qingsongzi to oversee the battlefield in the Zheng Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang tore open the void and appeared above the Renewed Net Sect's island, where Shenyang was striking its grand formation.