Recaps

Chen Shuangbai consolidated his authority, refined a powerful Yin Thunder method, and destroyed the Compassionate Light Temple after uncovering its crimes. After surviving an assassination attempt and killing Bai Xiuyuan, he confronted Bai Zhixing, whose demonic power revealed the brothers’ connection to a demon king.

• Chen Shuangbai seized the Golden Seal of Guardianship from the Zhao Household and accepted compensation from the county’s four households.
• After breaking through to the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining, Chen Shuangbai discovered and refined the Midnight Month Cold Light Yin Thunder Method.
• Chen Shuangbai tried to settle the dispute between Lady Yun and Bai Zhixing, then began weakening the Azure Flood Dragon Society after Bai Zhixing escaped their clash.
• Chen Shuangbai refined his Yin Thunder and used it to kill Huikong and Huiming after a poisoned attendant led him to the Compassionate Light Temple.
• Chen Shuangbai exposed the temple’s crimes, secured the Jade Spring Sect’s support, and learned that the Great Buddha Temple was angered by the sect’s response.
• Bai Xiuyuan hired Black Cloud Cave to assassinate Chen Shuangbai, but Chen killed Ye Youqi when the assassin infiltrated the academy.
• Bai Xiuyuan lured Chen Shuangbai to a manor and attacked him, but Chen killed him with Yin Thunder and learned from scales on his corpse that the Bai brothers were connected to a demon king.
• Chen Shuangbai brought Bai Xiuyuan’s head to the Azure Flood Dragon Society, where Bai Zhixing revealed his demonic power and faced Chen’s attack.

Chen Shuangbai restored order in Wind Howling County, then joined Zhao Shiyong, Yu Laoliu, and Lady Yun to seek a treasure beneath the river. After being separated underground, Chen and Zhao infiltrated the Heart-Eroding Stronghold’s expedition and fought its envoy, Fang Mo, leaving Chen to face him alone after Zhao was poisoned.

• Chen Shuangbai defeated Bai Zhixing at Wind Howling Ford, while Wei Chengfeng drove off the Black Flood Dragon phantom and Bai escaped, and Chen then arranged relief for the ford’s victims and cultivated until Wind Howling County recovered.
• Zhao Shiyong challenged Chen Shuangbai to a contest, lost their spar, and later proposed that they explore a dangerous treasure site beneath the river, and Chen agreed and recruited Yu Laoliu and Lady Yun.
• Chen Shuangbai and the others followed Yu Laoliu’s Azure Flood Dragon Fish through underground waterways, where Blind Arrow Ghost Fish attacked and Zhao’s strike swept Chen into darkness.
• Chen Shuangbai reunited with Lady Yun and Zhao Shiyong, and the three fought the Water Salamanders guarding a pool before finding mature spiritual pearls inside a petrified river clam.
• Chen Shuangbai and Zhao Shiyong disguised themselves as Heart-Eroding Stronghold cultivators and entered the underground cavern, where they secretly sabotaged the formation attacking the mushroom demon.
• Chen Shuangbai and Zhao Shiyong attacked Fang Mo and his guards during the formation battle, killed Hei Sha and White Raven, and fought Fang as he defended himself with the White Bone Lotus Seat.
• Fang Mo’s concealed Profound Bone Snake Puppet poisoned Zhao Shiyong, leaving Chen Shuangbai alone against Fang, and Chen combined the Green Parasol Tree Sword and Cold Spring Sword into a flood dragon that swallowed Fang and slammed into the ground.

Chen Shuangbai returned from Wind Howling County with top garrison honors, advanced rapidly in cultivation, and prepared for the sect’s coming conflict with the Heart-Eroding Stronghold. The arc ended with him fighting other disciples inside the Sharp Mountains and Embracing Rivers Painting as the Martial Edge Trial narrowed around him.

• Chen Shuangbai defeated Fang Mo, then exposed Han Shouke’s disguise and worked with Zhao Shiyong to kill him and claim the profound yin crystal marrow.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to Wind Howling County, strengthened the academy, refined pills, and later left the county after bidding farewell to his pupils and Zhuang Wen and Bi Sheng.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to the Jade Spring Sect, reported his A-plus garrison assessment, and learned that conflict with the Heart-Eroding Stronghold was drawing nearer.
• Chen Shuangbai advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining, reunited with Lu Zhiyuan, Huang Shanglan, He Qi, and Fu Qianlan, and earned a place in the Jade Dew Hall’s circle of alchemists.
• Chen Shuangbai placed first in garrison merit with an upper A, then joined He Qi and Fu Qianlan at the Martial Edge Trial.
• True Person Bo opened the trial inside the Sharp Mountains and Embracing Rivers Painting, where Chen Shuangbai quickly defeated opponents and raised his score.
• Chen Shuangbai found a hidden disciple in an ancient tree, but the disciple’s allies revealed themselves and trapped Chen Shuangbai in a formation that forced his flying pouch toward the ground.

Chen Shuangbai won the Martial Edge Trial, accepted Yi Chongyue as his master, and established himself as an inner disciple. After half a year of cultivation, he joined Jade Spring Sect’s expedition against the Heart-Eroding Stronghold, where the allied sects planned a night ambush.

• Chen Shuangbai defeated the trial’s challengers, including Lu Zhiyuan, Jiao Ming, Ji Ruohua, and Wei Zheng, and became the Martial Edge Trial champion.
• Du Zifeng gave Chen Shuangbai the Clear Waves Reflecting the Moon Banner, which Chen later used to capture the infiltrator Yu Shao during a third assassination attempt against the sect’s prodigies.
• Chen Shuangbai declined True Person Mei’s offer and became Yi Chongyue’s disciple, receiving gifts, a treasury key, and instruction in alchemy.
• Chen Shuangbai settled at Verdant Hills Stream, selected new cultivation methods, and spent half a year cultivating before Yi Chongyue summoned him to Heavenly Spring Peak.
• Yan Nanlai announced that disciples would support the righteous path against the Heart-Eroding Stronghold, and Yi Chongyue selected Chen Shuangbai for the expedition.
• Yue You told the Jade Spring cultivators that the Stronghold outnumbered Empty Sword Sect’s Foundation Establishment fighters and had killed Martial Uncle Yun with Heaven-Maiming Fire.
• Yue You asked Jade Spring to form three teams of combat-focused disciples for a night ambush, and Exalted Cultivator Wu said the weakened Leng Wuhuan could be targeted.