Recaps

Chen Shuangbai decided to deal with Yuandu and Yan Nanlai before leaving Celebrated Splendor Continent, and summoned allies to help hunt Yuandu. He revealed that a piece of Yuandu’s flesh could be used in a Shaman Incantation to locate his true body.

• Chen Shuangbai recognized that his cultivation was constrained by Celebrated Splendor Continent and resolved to remove Yuandu and Yan Nanlai before departing.
• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal and Hong Qing arrived at the Jade Soul Palace after Chen Shuangbai summoned them.
• Chen Shuangbai explained that Yuandu had destroyed the seal on [Black and Yellow Land], released the Nether Sparrow, and hidden in an unknown otherworldly space.
• Chen Shuangbai showed Zhu Ling and Hong Qing a piece of Yuandu’s flesh and blood, which he had cut from him in their previous fight.
• Chen Shuangbai said he could use the flesh to have someone cast a Shaman Incantation and trace Yuandu’s true body.

Chen Shuangbai arranged for True Lord Qingchen and Azure Cloud Sword Lord to pursue Yuandu while he prepared to deal with Yan Nanlai with Hong Qing’s help. At the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect, a mysterious man confronted Hong Qing and pressed him to admit his resentment over the sect’s decline.

• The Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman used the Soul-Chasing Crow Carving to trace Chen Shuangbai’s target, but the Sword Intent on Chen Shuangbai drove away the tribe’s ancestral spirit.
• Chen Shuangbai gave the carving to True Lord Qingchen, who left with Azure Cloud Sword Lord to hunt Yuandu while Chen Shuangbai prepared to rely on Hong Qing against Yan Nanlai.
• Hong Qing brooded over the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s decline after the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal forced it to seal its mountain.
• A mysterious dark-green-robed man appeared inside the sect’s grounds, ignored Hong Qing’s threats, and challenged him to accept the humiliation and decline of his sect.

Yan Nanlai learned that Chen Shuangbai possessed two Sword Intents and planned to wait until he recovered an item from the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect before confronting him. Chen Shuangbai gathered allies and traveled there to meet Hong Qing, who presented the token used to lure their enemy out.

• Yan Nanlai merged with his dark-green-robed incarnation and resolved to retrieve an item from the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect before challenging Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai received Hong Qing's message that someone had contacted him, then summoned Old Man Fish Pillow, True Lord Suwen, Zhu Ling Sword Immortal, and Yuan Jun Sword Lord.
• Chen Shuangbai sent the group through the Heavenly Gate Spirit Treasure to a valley outside the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
• Hong Qing met Chen Shuangbai in the valley and showed him the jade cicada token he had received.

Chen Shuangbai used Hong Qing to draw Yan Nanlai into a meeting, where Yan Nanlai revealed himself as the mastermind behind the attempted exchange. Chen Shuangbai and three allies sealed the area around him, leaving Yan Nanlai trapped beneath a Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate.

• Hong Qing told Chen Shuangbai how Yan Nanlai’s agent had offered him a demonic Secret Method in exchange for the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s inheritance.
• Chen Shuangbai had Hong Qing use the jade cicada to arrange an in-person meeting on the next full-moon night.
• Hong Qing met Yan Nanlai’s avatar at Canyuan Mountain and refused to exchange the inheritance until Yan Nanlai showed his true body.
• Yan Nanlai appeared in his true body as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and used demonic mysteries to influence Hong Qing.
• Hong Qing resisted Yan Nanlai’s influence, and Chen Shuangbai and three others sealed the space and earth veins around him.
• Chen Shuangbai addressed Yan Nanlai as his martial uncle and said he had gone to great lengths to meet him.

Chen Shuangbai trapped Yan Nanlai inside the Truth-Revering Purple Haoming Mystic Heaven Gate and a sword formation, then confronted him over his betrayal of the sect and Senior Sister A Heng. Yan Nanlai refused to surrender and drew his sword, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Yan Nanlai recognized Chen Shuangbai’s heavenly gate and used hazy colored light to resist its suppression.
• Haoming Boy captured Yan Nanlai’s Yin-Yang Two-Headed Python, while Chen Shuangbai and Yan Nanlai exchanged accusations and hollow pleasantries.
• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal, Yuan Jun Sword Lord, Old Man Fish Pillow, and Hong Qing formed the Blazing Heavenly Light Sword Formation around Yan Nanlai.
• Yan Nanlai offered to return the cauldron and compensate the Jade Spring Sect, but Chen Shuangbai demanded to know about the Devil Cultivation Method and asked about Senior Sister A Heng.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed that A Heng had been imprisoned for fifty years, then left the sect after requesting that her cultivation be crippled, and blamed Yan Nanlai for her fate.
• Yan Nanlai drew a sword and challenged Chen Shuangbai to prove he could keep him there.

Yan Nanlai’s defenses and substitution-rebirth technique failed to stop Chen Shuangbai’s Moon Comet Sword Intent, so he summoned the Six Desires Heavenly Devil to turn the battle against his attackers. The Heavenly Devil agreed to fight in exchange for two hundred thousand living souls and set its sights on Chen Shuangbai’s Dharma body.

• Chen Shuangbai’s sword strike destroyed Canyuan Mountain and its devils, while Yan Nanlai dodged the attack and the Purple Sun Heavenly Fire unleashed by Haoming Boy.
• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal and the four sword-pillar cultivators activated the [Blazing Heavenly Light Sword Formation], forcing Yan Nanlai to spend more Law Power as Chen Shuangbai shattered his three ancient mirrors.
• Chen Shuangbai plunged the Grand Yin treasured sword into Yan Nanlai and destroyed his body, but Yan Nanlai revived by consuming one of the three shadows beneath him.
• Yan Nanlai summoned a Desire Realm Heavenly Devil, whose presence suppressed the fighters’ spiritual attacks and manifested as a many-eyed, serpent-bodied devil god.
• Yan Nanlai promised the Six Desires Heavenly Devil two hundred thousand living souls and Chen Shuangbai’s flesh and divine soul in exchange for killing Chen Shuangbai.

Chen Shuangbai fought the Six Desires Heavenly Devil and Yan Nanlai, using his sword arts to overcome their attacks. After Yan Nanlai fused with the Golden Scripture of Desire Realm Celestial Person Manifestation, Chen Shuangbai briefly drew out the gentle Martial Uncle Yan’s will and learned why he had wanted Senior Sister A Heng to hate him, before Yan Nanlai’s true self returned and admitted defeat.

• Chen Shuangbai repeatedly cut down and suppressed the Six Desires Heavenly Devil, but the devil regenerated and attacked with corrosive balls of light.
• Chen Shuangbai concealed his presence and struck Yan Nanlai through his layered golden rings, destroying one of Yan Nanlai’s remaining lives.
• Yan Nanlai threatened Chen Shuangbai with a treasure cauldron, then fused the stolen Golden Scripture of Desire Realm Celestial Person Manifestation into his body and swallowed the Six Desires Heavenly Devil.
• Chen Shuangbai pinned Yan Nanlai with [Foot-Long Silk] and called forth Martial Uncle Yan’s gentle will, which said he had been fabricated and wanted Senior Sister A Heng to keep hating him so she could go on living.
• Yan Nanlai’s true self resurfaced, sighed that his centuries of plotting had failed at the final step, and conceded that Chen Shuangbai had won.

True Lord Qingchen and Azure Cloud Sword Lord defeated Devil Lord Yuandu, while Chen Shuangbai recovered the Golden Scripture and confirmed Yan Nanlai was dead. Chen Shuangbai revealed that Yan Nanlai had been the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s former disciple Qian Guansong, exposing a centuries-old succession scandal and leaving Hong Qing unable to deny the truth.

• True Lord Qingchen brought back a remnant of the Night Devil Beast’s flesh and reported that he and Azure Cloud Sword Lord had killed Devil Lord Yuandu.
• Chen Shuangbai showed True Lord Qingchen the recovered Golden Scripture of the Desire Realm Celestial Person's Transformation and Birth and confirmed Yan Nanlai was dead.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed that Yan Nanlai’s real name was Qian Guansong, a former Golden Core True Person of the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
• Chen Shuangbai explained that Qian Guansong had exposed Guanjing’s role in Guanquan’s Qi Deviation, then left the sect after True Lord Baijing covered up the accusation.
• Chen Shuangbai confronted Hong Qing with clues that Yan Nanlai had once been a member of the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect, and Hong Qing could not deny it.

The chapter recounted Qian Guansong’s long plot to steal a devil cultivation inheritance and described how Chen Shuangbai’s victories reshaped the cultivation world over sixteen years. With the conflict settled and the Jade Spring Sect flourishing, Chen Shuangbai taught his four disciples until a streak of multicolored light arrived at Jade Screen Peak.

• True Lord Qingchen explained how Qian Guansong had engineered Yan Nanlai’s birth and infiltrated the Jade Spring Sect to steal the [Golden Scripture of Desire Realm Celestial Person Transformation and Birth].
• Sixteen years passed, and Chen Shuangbai became the strongest cultivator on the Celebrated Splendor Continent after killing four Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators.
• The Jade Spring Sect and its Spirit Sea Prefecture branch expanded, while the Jade Spring Sect and the Sword Alliance maintained their alliance.
• Jade Wave Immortal Market challenged Clouds Arrive Immortal Market for influence at sea, and the Flood Dragon Clan remained quiet under Chen Shuangbai’s watch.
• Chen Shuangbai stayed at Jade Screen Peak to teach his four disciples, until a streak of multicolored, glassy light arrived.

Chan Master Baoyun visited Chen Shuangbai to reclaim the Lesser Lotus Pure Land, and Chen Shuangbai agreed on the condition that Lotus Temple could not reestablish itself anywhere on the mainland. After Baoyun departed, Chen Shuangbai bestowed the Daoist name Cherished Edge on his newly Golden Core disciple Gao Yi.

• Chan Master Baoyun asked Chen Shuangbai to return the Lesser Lotus Pure Land so he could restore Lotus Temple's lineage.
• Chen Shuangbai agreed to return the Pure Land but forbade Baoyun from rebuilding Lotus Temple in Yuan Kingdom or anywhere else on the mainland.
• Baoyun accepted the condition, thanked Chen Shuangbai, and departed with the Pure Land restored to him.
• Lu Xiangyuan joked that Baoyun might have fought Chen Shuangbai, and Chen Shuangbai teased her while revealing he could still use Sword Intent without Foot-Long Silk.
• Chen Shuangbai named his newly Golden Core disciple Gao Yi Cherished Edge and explained that he hoped Gao Yi would keep his brilliance hidden and cultivate his edge in obscurity.

Yao Jie visited Great Thunder Mountain as its disciples completed the forty-nine-year refinement of a Spirit Treasure shuttle. After Chen Shuangbai collected it and departed, Yao Jie unexpectedly regained his youth and wept in gratitude.

• Yao Jie declined Shi Zhang's suggestion to pursue Golden Core, choosing to save Merit Points for Foundation Establishment ritual implements for Du Shaoqi.
• After half a year, Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang arrived as the shuttle's refinement ended, and Chen Shuangbai thanked the branch disciples for their work.
• Chen Shuangbai collected the completed shuttle and stepped through a purple-gold gate into a thunderstorm-filled realm.
• Shi Zhang noticed that Yao Jie had become a black-haired, middle-aged man, and Yao Jie bowed toward Chen Shuangbai's departure and wept.

Chen Shuangbai brought the Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle to the Buried Wind Ocean to expose it to Yin Lightning and white electricity, preparing it for a future crossing to the Eastern Radiance Continent. After meeting Fu Qianlan and Aunt Yuan at the sect’s lightning-attracting formation, he began the shuttle’s refinement beneath the gathered lightning.

• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang arrived at the edge of the Buried Wind Ocean, where Chen Shuangbai explained that he intended to use the outer region’s Yin Lightning and white electricity to refine the divine shuttle.
• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang flew to the six palaces and met Fu Qianlan and Aunt Yuan, who had been overseeing the sect’s formation.
• Fu Qianlan and Aunt Yuan led Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang into the Six Harmonies Lightning-Attracting Formation and explained how it gathered lightning and electricity.
• Chen Shuangbai sent the Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle into the formation, where it began receiving the lightning’s baptism.

Chen Shuangbai left a second sword intent on the Sword Stele, and the paired intents drew sword cultivators from across Celebrated Splendor Continent. He then arrived at Spirit Sea Prefecture and entered Cavern Abyss Palace, where he found Zhanlu cultivating a treasure banner.

• Chen Shuangbai left his second sword intent on the Sword Stele, where it resonated with his first and formed a gold-and-white bird cradling a crimson cross-shaped comet.
• Sword cultivators flocked to the Sword Alliance to witness the two intents, and the Jade Spring Sect joined the Sword Alliance in compiling records of Chen Shuangbai's life and sword cultivation.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived at Spirit Sea Prefecture and was welcomed by Gu Changgeng and the other Golden Core cultivators.
• Chen Shuangbai toured Cavern Abyss Heaven, praised its upkeep, and went to Cavern Abyss Palace.
• Chen Shuangbai found Zhanlu cultivating a treasure banner that contained a bright moon reflected in water and showed an affinity with his divine ability.

Chen Shuangbai and Zhanlu drew out a wisp of a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s Divine Ability from the Cavern Abyss Heaven and infused it into the Clear Waves Reflecting the Moon Banner. The banner completed its transformation, and Chen Shuangbai’s Great Yin Divine Ability resonated with it.

• Chen Shuangbai decided to cultivate more abilities beyond his Sword Intent and joined Zhanlu to investigate the Clear Waves Reflecting the Moon Banner.
• Zhanlu sensed traces of the Grotto-Heaven’s former master in the banner and explained that it could bear the wisp of the wondrous they sought.
• Chen Shuangbai secluded himself with Zhanlu for thirty-six years as they used the banner and the Grotto-Heaven to locate the wisp.
• Zhanlu stabilized the sky-blue pearl containing the Spirit Transformation Divine Ability, and Chen Shuangbai helped send it into the banner.
• The banner settled after absorbing the wisp, and Chen Shuangbai’s Great Yin Divine Ability resonated with it.

Vast Sea Elder completed the [Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle], whose newly born spirit could take human form and speak. Chen Shuangbai decided to cross the Buried Wind Ocean to Eastern Radiance Continent despite his elders’ concerns, and the shuttle spirit entered his service.

• After forty-nine years of tempering, the [Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle] was completed and escorted back to [Azure Firmament Heaven].
• Vast Sea Elder revealed the shuttle spirit, explained how he had nurtured its intelligence, and introduced it to the four Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Vast Sea Elder asked who would use the shuttle to cross the Buried Wind Ocean, and Chen Shuangbai declared that he would go.
• Chen Shuangbai rejected the suggestion that he wait until reaching the Nascent Soul late stage, saying he would not let fear or years of closed-door cultivation hold him back.
• True Lord Qingchen accepted Chen Shuangbai’s decision, and Vast Sea Elder assigned the shuttle spirit to serve him.

Chen Shuangbai restored Yan Heng’s sight and told her how Yan Nanlai’s story ended, after which she established Jade Spring Temple. Back at the Jade Spring Sect, Chen Shuangbai shared a heartfelt farewell with Yi Chongyue before preparing to leave the next day.

• Chen Shuangbai restored Yan Heng’s sight and told her the truth about Yan Nanlai, and she accepted the revelation with tears and relief.
• Yan Heng left her life as a village physician and established Jade Spring Temple as its female temple master.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to Deer Deep Waters Peak and met Yi Chongyue, who accepted his bow and walked with him.
• Yi Chongyue acknowledged Chen Shuangbai’s secrets but told him he would always be the disciple he was proudest of.
• Chen Shuangbai bowed to Yi Chongyue, thanked him for his guidance, and wished him longevity and success in reaching Nascent Soul before departing the next day.

Chen Shuangbai prepared to leave Qinghua for the Eastern Radiance Continent to find the Jade Spring Sect’s ancestral sect. After bidding farewell to his master and disciples and receiving a jade token, he set off toward the Buried Wind Ocean.

• Chen Shuangbai met Yi Chongyue and the True Lords at the True Disciple Hall in Azure Firmament Heaven.
• Chen Shuangbai offered incense to the patriarchs and learned that Jade Spring High Person had asked for his true likeness not to be preserved because he regretted never returning to the ancestral sect.
• Chen Shuangbai chose to take Shenyang, Zhanlu, and his spirit beasts, while leaving his four disciples behind and entrusting Chen Fuguang with Jade Screen Peak.
• Chen Shuangbai gave his disciples final instructions and told Gao Yi to study the sword edict while forging his own path.
• True Lord Qingchen gave Chen Shuangbai a jade token made by Jade Spring High Person as proof of identity for the ancestral sect.
• Chen Shuangbai boarded the Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle, departed for the Buried Wind Ocean, and called out, “Everyone, take care!”

Chen Shuangbai and his companions continued through the Buried Wind Ocean aboard the Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle, following a route preserved by the Jade Spring Sect. As the group waited out the perilous crossing, Chen Shuangbai urged everyone to cultivate and learn what they could from the ocean.

• Chen Shuangbai learned that the shuttle's resources could sustain them for three years as it endured the lightning and baleful winds.
• Chen Shuangbai reviewed Jade Spring High Person's recorded route through the Buried Wind Ocean and confirmed that the shuttle spirit was following it.
• Chen Shuangbai visited Shenyang inside the shuttle, then entered the self-contained space within Haoming Boy's true body.
• Chen Shuangbai found Haoming Boy listening to Changming read stories and sampled spirit dishes prepared by Zhanlu.
• Chen Shuangbai pulled Gray Ball from the soil, then told everyone to cultivate during the crossing and seek insight from the Buried Wind Ocean.

After barely escaping the Buried Wind Ocean, Chen Shuangbai recovered aboard a Shen Household ship and reached the Eastern Domain. He arrived at Clear Peace Ferry in disguise and was approached by a young man offering a map of Eastern Radiance Continent.

• Chen Shuangbai escaped the Buried Wind Ocean after piloting the damaged Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle through its deadly storms for three years.
• Chen Shuangbai healed aboard Shen Wanjin's ship after saving the Shen Household fleet from Bandit Cultivators, then rewarded Shen Wanjin with Mystic Light Illuminating Life Pills and departed.
• Chen Shuangbai disguised himself as a blue-robed Daoist and arrived at Clear Peace Ferry, where he observed the lively mix of mortals and cultivators.
• A young man approached Chen Shuangbai, guessed he was new to Clear Peace Ferry, and offered him a map of Eastern Radiance Continent.

Chen Shuangbai studied Eastern Radiance Continent and decided to visit the surviving branches of the Heavenly River Lineage in search of the Jade Spring Sect’s ancestral seat. Months later, while crossing Great Chu territory, he was intercepted by the Great Chu Immortal Patrol Bureau for traveling without registering at checkpoints.

• At Clear Peace Ferry, Chen Shuangbai studied a map and learned that Eastern Radiance Continent was divided among several regions and powerful dynasties and sects.
• Chen Shuangbai found that the Heavenly River Lineage had splintered more than four thousand years earlier and that the jade token’s [Vast Source] inscription did not match the names of its known surviving branches.
• Chen Shuangbai decided to visit Pillow Stream Mountain, the Jade Clarity Palace, the Mystic Nether Sect, and Heavenly Wave City to search for the ancestral seat.
• After staying at Clear Peace Ferry and learning about local customs, Chen Shuangbai traveled for several months while gathering resources to repair the [Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle].
• Changming explained that Great Chu strictly controlled high-grade cultivation resources, and Chen Shuangbai continued across its territory while keeping his disguise.
• Zhao Wuwei and two cultivators from the Great Chu Immortal Patrol Bureau surrounded Chen Shuangbai’s flying boat and demanded to know why he had not registered at the checkpoints.

Chen Shuangbai passed an Immortal Patrol Bureau inspection by registering under the false name Deng Li, then learned that Great Chu was hunting a devil summoned by the Huang Clan in Anyang Commandery. He decided to leave before the surrounding commanderies were further sealed off.

• Zhao Wuwei stopped Chen Shuangbai's flying boat and demanded an explanation, but rejected Chen Shuangbai's offered bribe and required him to register his name and Law Power imprint.
• Chen Shuangbai registered as Deng Li and noticed pure Devil Qi on Zhao Wuwei's subordinates; Zhao Wuwei left without revealing details of their mission.
• Chen Shuangbai told Feiguang that Zhao Wuwei's sea of consciousness was protected by a seal that might have come from a Spirit Transformation cultivator or a Spirit Treasure.
• Feiguang gathered news that the Huang Clan in Anyang Commandery had sacrificed the populace to summon a devil, prompting Great Chu's Divine Martial Bureau to dispatch Nascent Soul cultivators and control nearby commanderies.
• Chen Shuangbai decided to leave the city quickly, fearing that the devil hunt would make travel even more difficult.

Chen Shuangbai witnessed Marquis Xuanling destroy a devil outbreak and execute a corrupted cultivator before the marquis sensed traces of the Heavenly River Lineage. The chapter left Chen Shuangbai’s whereabouts uncertain after Xuanling found only an empty flying boat.

• Chen Shuangbai saw a pillar of Devil Qi erupt and devils attack mortals as three Divine Martial Bureau cultivators tried to contain the outbreak.
• Marquis Xuanling arrived and split the devil’s mass of flesh with his trident, then sealed its remains in the Clear Night Evil-Suppressing Vase.
• Marquis Xuanling berated the bureau cultivators and burned their corrupted colleague to ashes after removing the Devil Qi.
• Marquis Xuanling sensed remnants of the Heavenly River Lineage, found a flying boat among the mountains, and reduced it to ash after discovering it was empty.

Chen Shuangbai evaded Marquis Xuanling, whose compass could track the Heavenly River Dao arts, and tested its limits before a mysterious Daoist confronted the marquis. The Daoist revealed himself as the one Marquis Xuanling had been chasing, setting up a direct encounter.

• Marquis Xuanling destroyed Chen Shuangbai’s flying boat and searched for him, but Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang stayed concealed under the Grand Yin Authority.
• Chen Shuangbai left the area, but Marquis Xuanling tracked him with a south-pointing spoon compass and declared him a Heavenly River remnant.
• Chen Shuangbai repeatedly revealed himself at different locations to test the compass, while Marquis Xuanling attacked the mountains and eventually lost his lock on Chen Shuangbai.
• A purple-gold light enclosed Marquis Xuanling, and a Daoist in blue robes appeared behind him.
• The Daoist asked Marquis Xuanling whether he recognized the person he had chased.

Chen Shuangbai, disguised as a blue-robed Daoist, fought Marquis Xuanling and took the south-pointing compass used to track Heavenly River remnants. After a clash of powerful attacks, Chen Shuangbai defeated him, and news of the marquis’s near-fatal wound spread through Great Chu.

• Marquis Xuanling confronted Chen Shuangbai and demanded to know why he possessed the Heavenly River’s direct-lineage Dao arts.
• Chen Shuangbai struck Marquis Xuanling’s flying wheel with his bamboo sword, damaging its spiritual workings and sending it crashing into the mountains.
• Marquis Xuanling attacked with lightning, but Chen Shuangbai redirected his sword and touched his wrist, making him drop the south-pointing compass.
• Marquis Xuanling unleashed a devastating trident strike, and Chen Shuangbai answered with a crimson-black comet sword strike that nearly cut the marquis in half.
• Qi Xuan and the others found Marquis Xuanling gravely wounded, and news of his defeat spread throughout Great Chu.

Chen Shuangbai hid in a merchant caravan under the identity of Lin Zhou while traveling toward Great Chu’s Dingyang Pass, wary of the Spirit Transformation Profound Lords who had nearly discovered him. He sent Feiguang to scout the heavily guarded pass, where Feiguang was spotted and killed by a pale-blue mystic strike.

• Chen Shuangbai changed his appearance and joined Zhou Yuan’s Golden Scale Trading Company caravan as the hired Golden Core cultivator Lin Zhou.
• Zhou Yuan asked Lin Zhou to help the caravan through Dingyang Pass, and Chen Shuangbai agreed while worrying that the pass might house a Spirit Transformation Profound Lord.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Feiguang ahead in peregrine falcon form to observe Dingyang Pass and count its Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Feiguang spotted five Nascent Soul True Lords inside the pass, including three whose unstable realms suggested pills or a secret method had helped them advance.
• A pale-blue mystic light shot from Dingyang Pass and killed Feiguang, and two armored Great Chu cultivators arrived to burn the mountainside before leaving.