Recaps

Chu Yunfei reached the Divine Sea Realm, uncovered clues about the Blood Baleful Intent Tower, and reconnected with Lin Wanyin while the Seven Sects Grand Competition approached. After strengthening himself through seclusion, he learned that Ling Zhantian had targeted Ling Chengxuan and might also be after Ling Xueyao’s physique.

• Chu Yunfei broke through to the Divine Sea Realm, uncovered the Samsara Soul-Forging Scripture, and tempered his soul before arriving in the imperial capital.
• Wen Daoyuan told Chu Yunfei that the Jade Firmament Sect had been destroyed and its Nine-Aperture Life-Restoring Pill stolen, while Chu Yunfei suspected Ling Zhantian was involved.
• Chu Yunfei met Qin Yangui, returned Lu Shaoyuan’s remains and letter, and joined her in suspecting that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower was behind a hidden scheme connected to the grand competition.
• Chu Yunfei and Lin Wanyin reconciled, confessed their feelings, and resumed their relationship while Situ Shuang'er secretly overheard them.
• Chu Yunfei prepared for the competition by cultivating, asking Wen Jiao to gather demonic beast corpses and soul-nourishing herbs, and reaching the Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer with refined origin energy.
• A woman in black demonstrated dangerous mind-controlling power, killed a rogue cultivator through his own men, and announced that she looked forward to seeing Qin Hao face Chu Yunfei.
• Ling Chengxuan revealed to Chu Yunfei that he was the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s young tower master and that Ling Zhantian had murdered his birth family to obtain his special physique origin.
• Ling Chengxuan explained that Ling Zhantian planned to use a demonic formation and special physique origins to repair his Dao injuries, and Chu Yunfei realized Ling Xueyao could be a target.

Ling Chengxuan exposed Ling Zhantian’s sacrifices and the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s infiltration before dying in the emperor’s formation. Chu Yunfei prepared to rescue Ling Xueyao, investigated his lost origins, and resolved to enter the tournament’s secret-realm trap while Yao Yue pursued him over a ruins map.

• Ling Chengxuan warned Chu Yunfei that Ling Zhantian had sacrificed the princes for their origins and would eventually target Ling Xueyao.
• Ling Chengxuan gave Chu Yunfei evidence of the Blood Baleful Intent Tower’s infiltration and blood rite plans before Ling Zhantian killed him, while a hidden wisp of his true spirit escaped.
• Chu Yunfei prepared a weapon against Ling Zhantian, defeated Yao Yue after she sought his ruins map, and concealed that her suppressed cultivation would recover naturally.
• Lin Wanyin revealed Chu Yunfei’s forgotten past, leading him to suspect that Chu Batian had transferred his constitution’s origin to save Situ Shuang'er.
• Zhao Baimei discovered a death tribulation through divination and asked to borrow Yan Guining’s Dao Fruit origin to avert it.
• Xiaoxiao Dragon told Chu Yunfei that someone was tracing his karmic connection and that another person in the lower realm was concealing his karmic thread.
• Qin Yangui and Wen Daoyuan reported purges of infiltrators, and Chu Yunfei resolved to enter the imperial family’s secret-realm tournament despite recognizing its trap.
• Yao Yue repeatedly asked Chu Yunfei to strike her again because she mistakenly believed his supposed restoration technique would strengthen her recovering cultivation.

Chu Yunfei entered the Heavenly Mystic Secret Realm, survived a possession plot, and killed Nangong Wuhen after defeating several enemies. He reached palace ruins where rival sects gathered over hidden treasures, while Li Tianxing set a blood ritual in motion.

• Ling Zhantian used Ling Xueyao’s safety to lure Chu Yunfei into a trap, while Chu Yunfei entered the competition determined to face him.
• At the sect gathering, Chu Yunfei admitted killing Han Kui and Chen Xuanhai, and the Pill Pavilion defended him against the elders’ accusations.
• Ling Changkong warned Chu Yunfei that a remnant soul planned to possess him, but Chu Yunfei realized the attempt could become the soul’s fatal weakness.
• Inside the secret realm, Chu Yunfei killed Fang Linxiao and his Cangyun Sect disciples, then defeated Han Qingshan and Qi Xiu.
• Chu Yunfei pursued Nangong Wuhen, overcame his sword array and Nangong Hai’s soul imprint, and beheaded him.
• Xie Yunyi witnessed Chu Yunfei’s victory and hurried to warn Qin Hao, while several sects gathered at palace ruins and Li Tianxing began a blood ritual.
• Chu Yunfei reached the ruins and learned of a soul herb and spear artifact behind a dangerous formation as Qin Hao waited to attack him.
• Zhao Manshan challenged the sects’ control of the ruins, and Wu Changge and Yue Chenzhou prepared to fight before a woman on the stone platform objected.

Chu Yunfei and the cultivators fought through the secret realm’s formations and deadly beasts, then clashed over the Seven-Transfusion Soul-Concentrating Flower. After Chu Yunfei killed Qin Hao and the Puppet Sect fighters, the remaining cultivators discovered signs of a larger plot, while the Puppet Sect vowed revenge outside.

• Situ Shuang'er urged the factions to work together, but Qin Hao’s demands for the treasures nearly sparked a fight until Xie Yunyi arrived and ordered the Cangyun Sect disciples to leave.
• Xiao Yihan and the Heavenly Edict Sect joined Chu Yunfei’s side, and the cultivators attacked the main hall’s formation until Chu Yunfei exposed its shifting core and found the true formation eye.
• A Li entered the secret realm unseen, swallowed a mountain concealing a restriction node, and left the remnant soul enraged by its disappearance.
• The cultivators entered the underground palace and fought the Blood-Scaled Crocodile and Crimson-Armored Ancient Ape, while Situ Shuang'er killed the ape and Chu Yunfei claimed the Seven-Transfusion Soul-Concentrating Flower.
• When Qin Hao and Yin Hanmei demanded the flower, Chu Yunfei revealed his Divine Sea Realm cultivation and killed Yue Chenzhou, Yin Hanmei, and scores of their forces.
• Chu Yunfei killed He Yang and Qin Hao after defeating Situ Shuang'er, sparing her but warning no one against seeking revenge would stop him.
• The survivors found blood flowing through the palace’s cracks and discovered Yin Hanmei’s corpse had vanished, while Yin Xiaotian learned of her death and the Puppet Sect’s supreme elder vowed to make her killer a corpse puppet.