Recaps

Li Huazhong learned from Wen Buyuan that his master's failed Tribulation Crossing was likely connected to a real Immortal Treasure, and he understood the meaning of his master's final words as a refusal to accept an immortal fate against his Dao. He returned to the Pill Workshop to investigate the Immortal Treasure secret and recognized that He Xinxian's presence stirred his master's lingering remnant.

• Li Huazhong spent three years investigating his master's failed Tribulation Crossing before paying Wen Buyuan to seek answers at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Wen Buyuan told Li Huazhong that the Immortal Treasure rumors were true and that his master's death was likely connected to them.
• The mysterious master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion sent Li Huazhong the pronouncement, “Immortal fate is hard to defy; hard to become immortal fate,” which helped him understand his master's final words.
• Li Huazhong began tracking Immortal Treasure news and returned to the Pill Workshop to serve as an examiner at the Three-Tier Alchemy Assembly.
• When He Xinxian appeared, Li Huazhong sensed that she carried a secret connected to his master's death, but he did not use a soul-searching technique on her.

Yang Yuanzhao and He Xinxian passed the Three-Tier Alchemy Assembly assessment after obtaining Pill-Breath Spiritual Resonance, but He Xinxian feared that the Immortal’s power inside her had exposed itself to Li Huazhong. Li Huazhong kept his suspicions to himself, leaving He Xinxian unaware that he had noticed something unusual.

• Li Huazhong ended the assessment, and Yang Yuanzhao and He Xinxian were the only two of the six who passed.
• Yang Yuanzhao congratulated He Xinxian, while she hid her anxiety over the Immortal’s power forcibly drawing Pill-Breath Spiritual Resonance into her body.
• He Xinxian worried that the power’s uncontrolled intervention had revealed her secret to Li Huazhong and might bring disaster upon her.
• Yang Yuanzhao and He Xinxian thanked Li Huazhong, whose calm expression reassured He Xinxian that he had not detected the power.
• Li Huazhong chose not to expose what he had perceived, since other pill cultivators would still take the assessment and might be He Xinxian’s accomplices.

Chen Yang’s hidden assistance helped an elderly independent alchemist pass the Pill Origin Ceremony assessments, while Li Huazhong watched him as a possible danger in the Profound Pill Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Xiao Yao continued tempering her dragon body in the Furnacefire Grotto-Heaven’s lava.

• Chen Yang arranged with Yang Yuanxing and Yang Lingshu to recruit the elderly alchemist as Heaven-Clearing Academy’s future Grand Elder of Alchemy, and used his divine power to help him pass the assessment.
• On the fiftieth day of the assessments, the elderly alchemist used the power of an Upper Immortal to overcome difficulties and entered the Pill Origin Ceremony.
• Li Huazhong resolved to watch the elderly, peak-Spiritual Connection cultivator closely during the ceremony and the treasure hunt in case he tried to prove his Dao recklessly.
• Xiao Yao’s avatar kicked the last two Spiritual Connection cultivators carrying Upper Realm auras out of the Furnacefire Grotto-Heaven, while the other six of the nine discovered cultivators vanished in a great fog.
• Xiao Yao completed the foundational reshaping of her body and began painfully shedding and regrowing her dragon scales in the lava.

Xiao Yao, the Xuanhuang Dynasty’s Eldest Princess, visited the mountain and met several young royal descendants. After warning Xiao Chen and Xiao Yu about the dangers within the royal clan, she was recognized by Xiao Ning and left the gathered descendants awed and uneasy.

• Xiao Yu and Xiao Chen learned Xiao Yao was the Eldest Princess and bowed to her.
• Xiao Yao asked whether the siblings knew how their elder brothers had died, then advised them to understand the royal clan’s dangers and act with care.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yu followed Xiao Yao up the mountain and encountered Xiao Ning leading other royal descendants.
• Xiao Ning recognized Xiao Yao, sent a clansman to alert the elders at the summit, and led the group in paying respects to the princess.

After more than three years of cultivation, Xiao Jin and Xiao Yu reached the Essence Condensation Sixth Layer and discussed why Xiao Yao had summoned the imperial clan’s young cultivators. Xiao Yao began testing their skills by sparring with them, and the chapter left Xiao Jin and Xiao Yu ready to enter the hall and face her.

• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Jin why Xiao Yao had arrived, and Xiao Jin guessed she wanted to assess their skills and spar with them.
• Xiao Yao blasted two True Person clan cultivators out of the hall, then ordered the remaining Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators inside.
• The two injured cultivators reassured the others that Xiao Yao’s sparring would not damage their foundations, though they suffered painful injuries.
• Xiao Yao sent the seven Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators flying from the hall, leaving five unconscious and two barely conscious.
• Xiao Jin and Xiao Yu stepped forward voluntarily, determined to fight Xiao Yao despite knowing she was stronger.

Xiao Yao attended the Pill Origin Ceremony with several top young cultivators following her, making her first formal appearance before Azure Waves’ powers. Before the ceremony began, she learned that Sword Immortal Taicang would oversee their operation in the Secret Realm.

• The Pill Workshop Venerable created a private seat for Xiao Yao, and the Elders recognized the importance of her arrival.
• Xiao Yao took her seat with Han Fenghua, Xiao Jin, Xiao Yu, and Long Shou behind her; Long Shou reflected that his defeat to her had exposed flaws in his cultivation.
• Han Fenghua told Xiao Yao that the others would cooperate with them in the Secret Realm.
• Xiao Yao learned that Sword Immortal Taicang from Meishan would serve as Celestial Overseer and welcomed the news.

At the Pill Origin Ceremony venue, Kang An worried about his missing Third Sister until Fan Ting reassured him, while Yang Yuanzhao tried to learn more about He Xinxian’s alchemy tome. He Xinxian returned to her cave dwelling and found an unfamiliar elderly cultivator waiting outside.

• Kang An told Fan Ting that he feared for Third Sister, who had given her crystal to Kang An and Kang Chen and had not completed the trial.
• Fan Ting comforted Kang An, suggesting Third Sister might have entered the ceremony by another means, and led him away to see what their Second Sister had found.
• Yang Yuanzhao asked He Xinxian about the latter half of an ancient alchemy tome while they played chess, but she avoided the subject.
• He Xinxian returned to her cave dwelling after the chess game and found an unfamiliar elderly cultivator waiting outside.

Wang Sanjin revealed that he had fused the immortal power with his divine soul and claimed he had subdued its remnant will. He offered to teach He Xinxian how to tame it in exchange for her help in the upcoming Secret Realm treasure hunt.

• Wang Sanjin released his immortal power, and He Xinxian warned him that the Venerables guarding the area could discover it.
• Wang Sanjin said the immortal power had gone unnoticed by a Daoist Academy Venerable, the True Intent examiner, and the Medicine God.
• He Xinxian asked how Wang Sanjin knew she had not mastered the immortal power, and he showed her how deeply he had fused it with his divine soul.
• Wang Sanjin said he had defeated the remnant will of the immortal power and that it had since submitted to him.
• Wang Sanjin offered to teach He Xinxian his methods for taming immortal power if she joined him in the Secret Realm treasure hunt.

Wang Sanjin gave He Xinxian written instructions for controlling the immortal power, but the ink secretly weakened her senses and helped the power invade her sea of consciousness. Just as Wang Sanjin expected his scheme to succeed, he sensed the Immortal Treasure’s aura, while Yang Yuanzhao arrived to summon He Xinxian and Wang Sanjin to meet Lord Medicine God.

• He Xinxian agreed to join forces with Wang Sanjin but insisted that he teach her in writing.
• Wang Sanjin gave He Xinxian notes, and she used their method to suppress the immortal power within her.
• The notes released a scent that weakened He Xinxian’s senses as the immortal power reached toward her sea of consciousness.
• Wang Sanjin sensed He Xinxian’s condition through the ink and expected the immortal power to take control of her.
• Wang Sanjin sensed the Immortal Treasure’s aura, and Yang Yuanzhao arrived at He Xinxian’s cave to summon her and Wang Sanjin to meet Lord Medicine God.

The Pill Origin Ceremony began with a Venerable’s pill-refining exposition, while Li Huazhong watched He Xinxian and Wang Sanjin for signs of their Immortal Treasures’ influence. He suspected Azure Waves’ peak experts were already investigating the treasures and realized he might not be alone in opposing them.

• The Pill Workshop opened the Pill Origin Ceremony with the Venerable’s exposition, allowing cultivators from many Dao paths to gain insight.
• Li Huazhong brought Yang Yuanzhao, He Xinxian, and Wang Sanjin to a nearby viewing platform and observed their reactions.
• Li Huazhong found Yang Yuanzhao’s identity convincing, but saw that Wang Sanjin’s Dao comprehension was being driven by his Immortal Treasure while He Xinxian’s insights remained her own.
• Li Huazhong suspected the Immortal Treasures were a means for higher cultivators to control Azure Waves and reasoned that the region’s peak experts had already begun taking action.
• Li Huazhong saw the newly added guest seat as a possible sign that Xiao Yao and other great-house cultivators had come to investigate the Immortal Treasures.

At the Pill Origin Ceremony, the Pill Workshop Venerable revealed that the sentient Mystic Pill he had refined wanted to choose its own master. He set the rules for the selection and drew eligible cultivators into the venue to meet it.

• Chen Yang told Chen Huaien he would send him to the Pill Workshop for further study once the higher cultivator matter had progressed.
• The Mystic Pill dodged the Pill Workshop Venerable when he tried to retrieve it from the furnace, displaying its sentience to the assembled cultivators.
• The Pill Workshop Venerable explained that the Mystic Pill wanted to choose a cultivator it favored as its master.
• The Pill Workshop Venerable announced that cultivators below the Mystic Insight Realm could approach the pill and try to earn its recognition.
• The Pill Workshop Venerable used spatial power to surround the furnace and draw cultivators from the mountain pavilions and viewing platforms into the center of the venue.

Wang Sanjin used immortal power to race through the curtain and reach the pill furnace first, prompting powerful clans to send their own cultivators into the trial. As the others watched, he reflected on how the Immortal Treasure’s power had carried him beyond the limits of his former life.

• He Xinxian suppressed her immortal power and entered the curtain, while Wang Sanjin used immortal power to speed ahead.
• Wang Sanjin quickly passed Yang Yuanzhao, prompting the great clans to send their disciples into the curtain.
• Ning Jiu asked Ling Shuang about Nangong Jingxin, and Ling Shuang identified her as a talented early-stage True Intent cultivator.
• Ning Jiu said Xiao Yao’s strength left no suspense about the mysterious pill, and Ling Shuang promised to arrange a discussion of the Dao between them.
• Wang Sanjin emerged from the curtain and reached the azure pill furnace, reflecting on how the Immortal Treasure had changed his fate.

Nangong Jingxin and Yang Yuanzhao tested their auras against the Mysterious Pill, but only Yang Yuanzhao drew its strong interest before Wang Sanjin secretly interfered. As more cultivators entered the core area, Wang Sanjin continued plotting to steal Yang Yuanzhao’s treasure once they reached the Secret Realm.

• Nangong Jingxin cast golden light into the pill furnace, but the Mysterious Pill’s spirit thread circled her before returning inside.
• Yang Yuanzhao offered scarlet fire true essence, attracting the Mysterious Pill’s intent, which surged toward the spirit pearl in his body.
• Wang Sanjin secretly used immortal power to distract the Mysterious Pill and make its mysterious intent withdraw from Yang Yuanzhao.
• Yang Yuanzhao asked Chen Yang for instructions, then pretended to lament that he could not keep the mysterious intent.
• Wang Sanjin comforted Yang Yuanzhao while plotting to seize his Immortal Treasure in the Secret Realm.
• Han Fenghua and other cultivators arrived in the core area at Xiao Yao’s instruction.

Xiao Yao effortlessly took the mystic pill from Wang Sanjin despite his immortal power, leaving the cultivators stunned. After they recognized her and discussed her immense fortune and status, Yang Yuanzhao approached the shaken Wang Sanjin to lament how close he had come.

• Wang Sanjin tried to use his immortal power to reclaim the mystic pill from Xiao Yao, but it had no effect.
• Xiao Yao put away the mystic pill and returned to the uppermost space without speaking.
• The cultivators discussed the masked female cultivator and gradually recognized Xiao Yao, then speculated about her presence at the Pill Origin Ceremony and the Danyuan Secret Realm.
• The cultivators acknowledged that Xiao Yao's fortune and standing had eclipsed every other contender at the ceremony.
• Yang Yuanzhao approached Wang Sanjin and regretted that he had been so close to subduing the mystic pill.

Li Huazhong invited Yang Yuanzhao, He Xinxian, and Wang Sanjin to enter the Danyuan Secret Realm with him, while Wang Sanjin’s strange behavior and He Xinxian’s doubts revealed the immortal power’s influence over them. Li Huazhong recognized that He Xinxian could still be saved and intervened when Wang Sanjin tried to affect her, before the ceremony moved on to the Living Pill Capture.

• Li Huazhong invited Yang Yuanzhao, He Xinxian, and Wang Sanjin to accompany him into the Danyuan Secret Realm as pill apprentices, and all three accepted.
• He Xinxian began to suspect that immortal power had been steering her toward the Secret Realm and felt an overwhelming fatigue in her sea of consciousness.
• Wang Sanjin reached for He Xinxian under the guise of concern, but Li Huazhong blocked him and used dharma light to restore her clarity.
• Li Huazhong sensed He Xinxian’s struggling will and resolved to save her from the evil immortal’s influence.
• The Pill Origin Ceremony held more opportunities for visiting cultivators, including the eagerly anticipated Living Pill Capture.

The chapter explained how the New Heaven cultivators used specially forged treasures to communicate and travel through the Danyuan Secret Realm. Their equipment relied solely on Immortal Dao methods, keeping the alliance between Canglan’s two Daos hidden from the Upper Realm cultivators.

• The chapter described how most cultivators struggled to explore the Secret Realm, while True Intent and Mystic Insight cultivators could traverse space only by resonating with an Elixir Spirit Space.
• Chen Yang, Dark Underworld Venerable, Qin Changsheng, and other Canglan experts supported Ling Shuang, Xiao Yao, Ning Jiu, Yang Yuanzhao, and the operation’s other executors.
• Six peak Canglan cultivators forged three treasures so New Heaven members could transmit messages, receive them, and escape through space.
• Xiao Yao and the others received Ling Shuang’s Thought Transmission through sensitive pink down, while Ling Shuang sent it using a scale from the Palace Master of Penglai Palace.
• New Heaven cultivators carried Snail Shells that could use Tidal Surge to traverse the Secret Realm in an emergency, though their use was limited.
• Chen Yang chose not to include Divine Dao power in the treasures, fearing the Upper Realm cultivators would detect the alliance between Canglan’s two Daos.

Chen Yang sent the Blood Sun Venerable God to join Xiao Yao and the New Heaven cultivators against the Upper Realm cultivators, while advising Frost Flower to learn from the coming battle. Elsewhere, as Li Huazhong began refining pills, Wang Sanjin asked He Xinxian whether she wanted Zhao Yuancheng’s Immortal Treasure, and she declined to pursue it.

• Chen Yang sent Blood Sun’s form, body, will, and spirit into the avatar Xiao Yao carried and explained to Frost Flower why Blood Sun should lead the fight alone.
• Chen Yang told Frost Flower that Lin Qiao was heading to the Five Directions Immortal Mansion and that Frost Flower would eventually need to face the immortal cultivators himself.
• Blood Sun greeted Xiao Yao, explained that he would serve as bait until the Upper Realm cultivators revealed their methods, and began spreading his divine power through the Elixir Spirit Spaces.
• Li Huazhong prepared a pill furnace in a Secret Realm, and Yang Yuanzhao tended its fire with the Pill Workshop cultivators.
• Wang Sanjin asked He Xinxian whether she wanted Zhao Yuancheng’s Immortal Treasure, and she said she did not want to invite further trouble or pursue the Secret Realm’s opportunities.

He Xinxian and Wang Sanjin sensed the Immortal Treasure’s aura during Li Huazhong’s alchemy, but He Xinxian resisted its pull while Wang Sanjin plotted to seize it. Wang Sanjin planned to take Li Huazhong’s immortal power first, then capture Zhao Yuancheng and claim the treasure.

• He Xinxian and Wang Sanjin’s immortal power surged toward the Immortal Treasure’s aura, leaving Wang Sanjin disoriented.
• He Xinxian rejected the chance to pursue the treasure, resolving that immortality without freedom was not worth seeking.
• Li Huazhong stabilized Wang Sanjin’s divine soul and, believing his excuse was false, separated him from the other alchemy cultivators to rest.
• Wang Sanjin welcomed the chance to leave the alchemy work and prepared to seize Li Huazhong’s immortal power before taking Zhao Yuancheng and the Immortal Treasure.
• Wang Sanjin decided to strike when Li Huazhong focused on completing the pill, expecting that another portion of immortal power and the treasure would let him defeat even the True Dragon Imperial Daughter.

Wang Sanjin surrendered his body to the Ascendant Will and tried to kill He Xinxian, but Li Huazhong stopped him with spatial sorcery. When He Xinxian collapsed from rampaging immortal power, Li Huazhong used his master's remaining will to restrain it and try to save her.

• As Li Huazhong prepared to complete the elixir, Wang Sanjin gave control of his body to the Ascendant Will and attacked He Xinxian with a green needle.
• Li Huazhong blocked the needle with a spatial barrier and pursued Wang Sanjin as he fled through the Elixir Origin Space.
• He Xinxian spat blood and collapsed, so Li Huazhong sent an avatar after Wang Sanjin and examined her with his true body.
• Li Huazhong sensed evil immortal power endangering He Xinxian's soul and answered his master's command to save her.
• Li Huazhong sent the remnant of his master's will into He Xinxian's body, where it restrained the rampaging immortal power.

The Ascendant Will, controlling Wang Sanjin, battled Yang Yuanzhao with fire, ice, blood, and spatial techniques. After figuring out how Yang Yuanzhao’s borrowed spatial defense worked, it surrounded him with narrowing tributaries of blood, leaving him under pressure.

• Yang Yuanzhao attacked Wang Sanjin with golden true fire, but the Ascendant Will countered with ice techniques.
• The Ascendant Will cut Wang Sanjin’s neck to draw blood, then used Blood River Surge to evade Yang Yuanzhao’s Meteor Firestorm and launch blood attacks.
• Yang Yuanzhao asked Yun Xiang for help and used Mirage Echo to shield himself with layered spaces.
• The Ascendant Will identified the weakness in Yang Yuanzhao’s spatial defense and sent hundreds of blood tributaries to surround and crush him.

Chen Yang realized that multiple Void Realm cultivators were behind the Ascendant Will, while Nangong Jinghe lost contact with his true body in the Upper Realm. After Yang Yuanzhao escaped Wang Sanjin, the chapter revealed that Nangong Jinghe’s true body had also walked into a trap.

• Chen Yang connected Yang Yuanzhao’s Golden Flame Spirit Body Art to the Lingxiao Dao Academy and told Nangong Jinghe, who discovered that an unknown force had severed his connection to his true body.
• Yang Yuanzhao refused to explain where he had learned the art and attacked Wang Sanjin, who sliced his Golden Flame Spirit Body in two.
• Yang Yuanzhao escaped using his treasure of Creation, and Wang Sanjin chose not to pursue him despite an angry voice urging him to kill or seize Yang Yuanzhao.
• Wang Sanjin’s shifting expressions and argument with himself revealed that multiple Void Realm cultivators were involved in the Ascendant Will.
• Wang Sanjin followed the scent of Blood Sun’s divine power, while Nangong Jinghe’s true body was led by a senior fellow disciple to the Heavenly Sea Clear Pool and realized they were not alone.

Wang Sanjin’s Ascendant Will approached a Creation Origin that could grant a blood-art divine ability, but someone reached it first and moved it through space. The wills pursued while deciding to conceal their aura and investigate before acting.

• Five days after clashing with Yang Yuanzhao, Wang Sanjin’s Ascendant Will located a Creation Origin associated with blood arts.
• The wills discussed how rare divine abilities were and how the Sea Pavilion True Lord had given them methods to find Creation Origin.
• As Wang Sanjin rested, the wills planned to cross the remaining realm barriers, claim the divine ability, and escape the Danyuan Secret Realm in a new host.
• The wills sensed that a cultivator had reached the Creation Origin and that the treasure was moving through space.
• The Ascendant Will used spatial power to pursue, then the wills slowed down, hid their aura, and chose to investigate before making a plan.

Xiao Yao revealed that the Canglan Immortal Intent had told her about the Upper Realm cultivators and their search for the ancient relic. She then transformed into battle armor and attacked Wang Sanjin, declaring that only one of them would leave alive.

• Xiao Yao told Wang Sanjin she recognized the relic and knew he and the other souls came from the Upper Realm.
• Xiao Yao revealed that she knew Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou were also searching for the relic, but had kept that knowledge secret.
• Xiao Yao explained that the Canglan Immortal Intent had shared the secret with her, astonishing the Ascendant Will.
• Xiao Yao formed her Dragon Breath battle armor and told Wang Sanjin that Upper Realm souls nourished Azure Waves cultivators.
• Xiao Yao vanished and closed in on Wang Sanjin before he could cast a spell.

Xiao Yao fought the Ascendant Will controlling Wang Sanjin, who used the Upper Realm’s Spatial Devouring Art to absorb her dragon breath. The Ascendant Will summoned more devouring spheres as Xiao Yao formed a vision of the Purple Cloud Golden Sun.

• Xiao Yao released Yang Yuanhong’s suppression and revealed her Purple-Gold True Dragon form.
• Xiao Yao attacked Wang Sanjin with dragon breath, but the Ascendant Will absorbed it using the Spatial Devouring Art.
• The Ascendant Will mocked Xiao Yao and formed three more devouring spheres around Wang Sanjin.
• Xiao Yao stopped attacking directly and formed a vision of the Purple Cloud Golden Sun.

The Ascendant Will joined forces with his other Treading-Void Split Soul and used an Upper Realm art that suppressed dragon bodies to strip away Xiao Yao’s defenses. With her true form exposed and four devouring orbs locked onto her, Xiao Yao was left in grave danger.

• The Ascendant Will realized Xiao Yao’s endless Dragon Shadows were meant to exhaust his four devouring orbs and wear down Wang Sanjin’s body.
• He asked the other Treading-Void Split Soul for help, and the two joined their strength.
• The Ascendant Will unleashed an azure dragon-suppressing art that evaporated Xiao Yao’s Dragon Shadows and filled her with instinctive fear.
• With Xiao Yao’s true dragon form exposed, the Ascendant Will sent four devouring orbs to lock onto her body.