Recaps

After Qin Hao’s death was revealed, Wei Shanhe and Nangong Hai blamed Chu Yunfei and confronted Wen Daoyuan, who defended the Pill Pavilion by citing the competition’s rules. The sect leaders’ accusations left Chu Yunfei facing a greater danger when he emerged from the secret realm.

• Qin Yangui sensed that Xue Tu had secretly arrived as the Puppet Sect’s supreme elder.
• Wei Shanhe discovered that Qin Hao’s life-bound jade token had shattered and announced that the Cangyun Sect’s Holy Son was dead.
• Wen Daoyuan and Wen Jiao concluded that Chu Yunfei was likely responsible for the deaths of the three sects’ heirs and worried about the danger awaiting him outside the secret realm.
• Wei Shanhe confronted Wen Daoyuan and accused Chu Yunfei of killing Qin Hao, while Nangong Hai joined the accusation over Nangong Wuhen’s death.
• Wen Daoyuan invoked the competition’s rule that life and death inside the secret realm were left to fate and challenged the sects to accept their heirs’ defeat.

Wen Daoyuan exposed the three sects’ plan to surround Chu Yunfei, while their leaders demanded accountability for their successors’ deaths. Wen Heshan revealed himself to defend the Pill Pavilion, and the chapter ended with him challenging the Puppet Sect’s Xue Tu to fight.

• Wen Daoyuan argued that the three sects’ successors had died because their sects had plotted to kill Chu Yunfei, leaving Wei Shanhe, Nangong Hai, and Yin Xiaotian unable to rebut her.
• Yin Xiaotian threatened to destroy the Pill Pavilion if it sheltered Chu Yunfei, prompting Wen Heshan to appear and suppress him with his Dao Mysterious Realm power.
• Wen Jiao and Wen Daoyuan recognized Wen Heshan as the Pill Pavilion’s ancestor, and Qin Yangui identified his cultivation as the Dao Profound Third Level Realm.
• Xue Tu emerged from the void and freed Yin Xiaotian from Wen Heshan’s pressure, then challenged Wen Heshan over defending Chu Yunfei.
• Wen Heshan declared that Chu Yunfei belonged to the Pill Pavilion and challenged Xue Tu to fight.

Wen Heshan defeated Xue Tu’s Heaven-Burying Palm with a single finger and drove him back, revealing a vast gap in their strength. The clash left the Puppet Sect unable to press the Pill Pavilion, while Wen Heshan prepared to strike Xue Tu in return.

• Xue Tu unleashed his Nether Corpse Heaven-Burying Palm at Wen Heshan, while the surrounding sects and imperial forces withdrew or watched warily.
• Wen Heshan shattered the palm with an azure finger and pierced through the corpse Qi.
• Xue Tu blocked the remaining force with his life-bound corpse coffin but was driven back dozens of zhang and barely suppressed his injury.
• The crowd fell silent, and Yin Xiaotian realized the Puppet Sect could no longer pressure the Pill Pavilion through Xue Tu.
• Qin Yangui judged that Wen Heshan’s strength was approaching the Dao Mysterious Realm Third Layer peak, while Mo Yinsheng considered him a temporary variable.
• Wen Heshan told Xue Tu he would return a finger strike for the palm strike he had received.

Wen Heshan defeated Xue Tu in public and stopped short of killing him when Ling Changkong intervened. The sects and hidden powers prepared for a greater conflict when the Heavenly Mystic Secret Realm reopened in three days.

• Wen Heshan shattered Xue Tu's defenses and injured him and his bonded corpse puppet with a single finger strike.
• Xue Tu threatened to refine Chu Yunfei into a corpse puppet when the secret realm reopened, and Wen Heshan prepared to strike again.
• Ling Changkong intervened, warned Wen Heshan and Xue Tu against fighting in the imperial city, and separated them with an imperial barrier.
• Ling Changkong considered the broken restriction node and vanished stabilizing mountain in the Heavenly Mystic Secret Realm, while Wen Heshan suspected hidden Dao Mysterious Realm cultivators were watching.
• Xue Tu and the Puppet Sect remained in the imperial city, while Wen Heshan concealed himself and the sects prepared for the secret realm's reopening in three days.

Chu Yunfei realized that Ling Zhantian had likely arranged to collect the corpses of cultivators with special physiques, while the secret realm’s remnant soul separately sought his body. He gathered the fallen disciples’ remains and spoils, then agreed to explore deeper into the ruins with his companions.

• Chu Yunfei and Xiaoxiao Dragon concluded that Yin Hanmei’s corpse had been taken for its Nether Puppet Spirit Physique essence, and Chu Yunfei suspected Ling Zhantian was behind it.
• Chu Yunfei decided to use the corpses in the underground palace to strengthen himself, but postponed breaking through until he could find a safer place.
• Chu Yunfei collected the Cangyun Sect and Puppet Sect disciples’ corpses, storage rings, puppet cores, and spiritual artifacts, amassing resources that could help him reach the Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level.
• Wu Changge praised Chu Yunfei’s strength and promised to challenge him after reaching the Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer, while Xiao Yihan acknowledged Chu Yunfei’s overwhelming skill.
• Xiao Yihan invited Chu Yunfei and the others to explore the deeper ruins, and Chu Yunfei agreed.

Chu Yunfei led the group deeper into the ruins, where they found cultivation techniques and spiritual weapons. After the group divided the techniques, they discovered two heaven rank weapons in a second side hall.

• Chu Yunfei allowed the Rogue Cultivators to compete for ownerless opportunities as long as they did not provoke him, and Situ Shuang'er chose to keep exploring with the group.
• Zhao Manshan opened a side hall, where a Rogue Cultivator triggered a restriction and was wounded before Chu Yunfei identified how to disable the traps.
• Chu Yunfei helped the group break the restrictions and claim the cultivation techniques, including a heaven rank middle grade art that Xiao Yihan took for the Heavenly Edict Sect.
• The group divided the remaining techniques and continued deeper into the ruins.
• The group found seven weapons still glowing with spiritual light, including a saber and seal that radiated the pressure of heaven rank spiritual weapons.

Chu Yunfei claimed a heaven rank battle saber to feed his growth-type Abyss-Devouring Sword and accepted sixth-grade Meridian-Protecting Pills, while the group shared the other treasures. They reached a still-active bronze door that blocked Chu Yunfei’s divine sense, and his sword trembled as they faced the ruin’s inner core.

• Chu Yunfei chose the heaven rank middle grade battle saber because the Abyss-Devouring Sword could advance by devouring weapons, while Xiao Yihan took the Mountains and Rivers Seal.
• The group broke the formations and divided the remaining spirit weapons, with the five earth rank weapons going to the Divine Martial Sect and the most helpful rogue cultivators.
• Wu Mingyue found six preserved sixth-grade Meridian-Protecting Pills and gave them to Chu Yunfei, who needed them to heal the damage to his meridians.
• Zhao Manshan praised Chu Yunfei for sharing the treasures fairly, contrasting his conduct with the Cangyun Sect and Puppet Sect.
• The group reached a towering bronze door covered in active formation patterns, and Si Yunshu confirmed its restriction was still working.
• Chu Yunfei’s divine sense was repelled by the door, while the Abyss-Devouring Sword trembled in its sheath.

Chu Yunfei recognized that the bronze gate required blood essence and warned everyone not to attack it, but five greedy cultivators ignored him and were devoured by its restrictions. Their blood opened the gate, and the pill fragrance flowing from within drew the crowd’s attention to the treasures beyond.

• Chu Yunfei identified the gate’s blood-powered restrictions and warned the gathered cultivators to stay back and avoid attacking it.
• Situ Shuang'er arrived with nearly a thousand cultivators, who became eager after smelling pills behind the gate.
• Hong Tiankui and four other cultivators accused Chu Yunfei of withholding the treasures and attacked the gate despite the warnings.
• The restrictions pulled the five attackers onto the gate and drained their blood, flesh, and souls while Chu Yunfei and Xiao Yihan stopped others from approaching.
• The five victims’ blood activated the gate, its doors swung inward, and a visible mist of pill fragrance poured out.