Recaps

After being stripped of his heir status and assigned to guard the royal mausoleum, Ling Yun discovered that he had a system and received powerful cultivation treasures. The chapter left him with a path to rebuild his strength despite his shattered dantian.

• Ling Yun recovered memories of his transmigration and learned that his dantian had been destroyed when a mysterious man in black ambushed him.
• The elders stripped Ling Yun of his position as Spirit King's heir and ordered him to guard the royal mausoleum.
• Ling Yun suspected Madam Wang had arranged the assassination and feared he would be left vulnerable in the manor.
• Ling Yun searched for a way to restore his cultivation, then activated the All-Heavens Sign-In System.
• Ling Yun opened his transmigration gift pack and received the Myriad Dao Immortal Scripture, the Great Emperor inheritance of four true Daos, and a Primordial Immortal Pill.

Ling Yun went into house arrest at the royal mausoleum and used the Primordial Immortal Pill to restore his dantian, awaken the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos, and advance to the peak of the Essence Condensation Realm. He gained powerful cultivation rewards and a flying-sword artifact, then resolved to grow stronger in the dangerous Ling Kingdom.

• Ling Yun followed Madam Wang’s men to the royal mausoleum, where he planned to cultivate in seclusion.
• Ling Yun swallowed the Primordial Immortal Pill, which remade his body and dantian and awakened the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos.
• Ling Yun broke through to the peak of the Essence Condensation Realm and received the Myriad Dao Immortal Scripture and a Great Emperor’s inheritance.
• Ling Yun checked in at the royal mausoleum and obtained the sixth-tier supreme-grade artifact Three-Inch Flying Immortal.
• Ling Yun recognized the artifact as the former weapon of the first Spirit King and resolved to become stronger as his father remained gravely ill.

Ling Yun practiced his inherited spells in the royal mausoleum and met A Tong, who brought him a healing pill after becoming the disciple of the Divine Desolation Sect’s sect master. The next morning, Ling Yun checked in and received the Flying Sword Technique, but using it nearly exhausted his true essence, so he resolved to break through to the Core Formation Realm.

• Ling Yun tested Wind-Slaying Slash and Ten Thousand Layers of Saber Aura, then consolidated his cultivation in the royal mausoleum.
• A Tong visited Ling Yun with a Minor Rejuvenation Pill and revealed that the Divine Desolation Sect’s sect master had taken him as a disciple.
• A Tong promised to seek a way to restore Ling Yun’s dantian, while Ling Yun urged him to focus on cultivating at the Divine Desolation Sect.
• Ling Yun checked in at the royal mausoleum and received the sixth-tier Flying Sword Technique, which he comprehended quickly.
• Ling Yun used the Flying Sword Technique with the Three-Inch Flying Immortal, nearly exhausted his true essence, and decided to advance to the Core Formation Realm.

Ling Yun cultivated for three days at the Royal Mausoleum and broke through to the Core Formation Realm. After testing his improved flying-sword technique and stabilizing his cultivation, he checked in at the mausoleum and received a talisman-making gift pack.

• Ling Yun noticed the Royal Mausoleum's dense Spiritual Qi and cultivated at the tomb of Ling Tian, the Primordial Spirit King Duke.
• After three days of refining his spiritual essence, Ling Yun condensed it into a golden core and reached the Core Formation Realm.
• Ling Yun tested the Three-Inch Flying Immortal with the Flying Sword Technique and found he could sustain the attack for a quarter of an hour.
• Ling Yun meditated until his new cultivation stabilized and resolved to remain cautious despite his increased strength.
• Ling Yun checked in at the Royal Mausoleum and received a talisman-making gift pack, prompting him to consider the Talisman Dao Great Emperor's inheritance.

Ling Yun opened the system gift pack and received extensive talisman-making supplies, then watched two Core Formation Realm strangers investigate the tomb of the first Spirit King. He let them leave, suspecting they were scouts for a stronger enemy, possibly a Primordial Spirit Realm expert, and began considering how to protect the Spirit King's Manor.

• Ling Yun opened the gift pack and received 30,000 sheets of talisman paper for each tier from one to nine, along with other talisman-making materials.
• Ling Yun sensed two black-robed figures approaching the royal tombs and concealed himself to observe them.
• The two Core Formation Realm cultivators used a blood-marked disc to locate the resting place of the first Spirit King's remains.
• Ling Yun considered attacking the intruders but decided they were likely scouts and that stopping them might alert their powerful master.
• Ling Yun watched the two figures leave and worried that a Primordial Spirit Realm expert might threaten the Spirit King's Manor.

Ling Yun learned talisman-making from the Heavenly Talisman Great Emperor’s inheritance and successfully inscribed a fifth-tier Heavenly Eye Spell using his divine sense. His weekly sign-in at the royal mausoleum then rewarded him with a supreme-grade fifth-tier Spirit Devouring Spell.

• Ling Yun learned to make talismans with spirit cinnabar and quickly crafted many supreme-grade fourth-tier talismans.
• Ling Yun began training his divine sense to inscribe the fifth-tier Heavenly Eye Spell, enduring pain and exhaustion through repeated practice.
• Ling Yun completed the Heavenly Eye Spell after two days of work and recovered in his cabin.
• Ling Yun used his weekly sign-in at the royal mausoleum and received a supreme-grade fifth-tier Spirit Devouring Spell that could destroy a Primordial Spirit.

Ling Yun placed a Heavenly Eye Spell to watch the Spirit King's Manor and saw King Chen's Commandery Princess arrive with a young man to address her marriage agreement with the original Ling Yun. Their party was repelled by the manor's gateway artifact, and Madam Wang learned of the princess's visit, suspecting she had come to break off the agreement.

• Ling Yun attached a Heavenly Eye Spell to a tree overlooking the royal tombs and used it to observe the Spirit King's Manor.
• King Chen's Commandery Princess arrived at the Spirit King's Manor with a young man and said she had come to resolve her marriage agreement with Ling Yun.
• When the guards blocked their entry, the young man challenged them and the driver released his Core Formation Realm pressure.
• The Spirit King's Manor's gateway struck back with a flood-dragon presence, sending the driver flying and leaving the princess and her companion disheveled.
• The princess identified herself as King Chen's Commandery Princess and asked the guards to inform Madam Wang of her visit.
• Madam Wang heard of the visitor and rebuked a youth who laughed at the prospect of the princess breaking off her agreement with Ling Yun.

Madam Wang ordered Ling Yun’s engagement to King Chen’s Commandery Princess formally annulled, and Ling Yun learned the history behind the betrothal. After an attendant took his fingerprint on the divorce letter, Ling Yun reconsidered whether Madam Wang had crippled him and resolved to watch the manor for clues.

• Madam Wang explained to Ling Fei that Ling Yun’s condition made the Spirit King's Manor vulnerable to blame, then ordered an attendant to prepare a letter of divorce in Ling Yun’s name.
• Ling Yun used the Heavenly Eye Spell to witness King Chen’s Commandery Princess arriving and recalled how the Spirit King had agreed to her childhood betrothal to him.
• An attendant rushed to the Royal Mausoleum and pressed Ling Yun’s fingerprint onto the letter of divorce before hurrying away.
• Ling Yun wondered whether Madam Wang was protecting him from outsiders and reconsidered his belief that she had crippled him.
• Ling Yun decided to keep watching the manor with the Heavenly Eye Spell until he found clues about who had attacked him.

Chen Ling and Dai Cheng visited the Spirit King's Manor, where Madam Wang rejected Chen Ling's betrothal and exposed her motives. Dai Cheng challenged the manor after Madam Wang forced Chen Ling to the floor.

• Dai Cheng demanded that the Spirit King's Manor welcome him, but a guard kept the visitors waiting and explained the manor's history as they walked through it.
• Madam Wang received Chen Ling, Dai Cheng, and the coachman in a hall where the manor's senior Core Formation Realm members gathered.
• Madam Wang presented Chen Ling with a letter repudiating her betrothal to Ling Yun and accusing her of infidelity with Dai Cheng.
• Madam Wang explained that Chen Ling wanted the manor to end the betrothal so she could pursue Dai Cheng, then pressed her to the floor with her power.
• Dai Cheng helped Chen Ling up and threatened the Spirit King's Manor by invoking his connection to Elder Lengyue of the Moon-Gazing Sect.

Dai Cheng was bewitched into unleashing his master's jade-pendant trump card, summoning a Primordial Spirit Realm figure that devastated the Spirit King's Manor. Madam Wang and the others activated the manor's defenses, and the palm strike broke apart before it could destroy them, while five mysterious flashes flew toward the royal mausoleum.

• Ling Fei denounced Chen Ling and warned Dai Cheng that she was scheming, but Dai Cheng continued urging her to sign the divorce letter and leave with him.
• A strange voice inside Dai Cheng urged him to kill Chen Ling, and Madam Wang knocked Chen Ling unconscious when Dai Cheng's behavior grew alarming.
• Dai Cheng crushed his jade pendant and summoned a terrifying Primordial Spirit Realm figure, whose Dharma body destroyed the hall and struck at the manor.
• Madam Wang wielded the Spirit King's Halberd to hold back the figure's palm while the others activated the manor's protective formations.
• The palm imprint broke apart in midair and partly struck the formation, as five cold flashes flew toward the royal mausoleum.

After Chen Ling died and Dai Cheng went mad in the Spirit King's Manor, Ling Yun pieced together that her broken-engagement visit had concealed another objective. He feared the manor had become entangled in a larger plot involving the Primordial Spirit Realm expert and several other threats.

• Ling Yun watched the clash from the royal tomb and feared that the Primordial Spirit Realm expert behind the attack might target him or the manor.
• Madam Wang and the manor elders found Chen Ling dead as her body crumbled into ash, while Dai Cheng remained deranged.
• Madam Wang ordered the elders to guard Dai Cheng, check the manor's formations, and prepare to seek an audience with the Emperor.
• Ling Fei reflected on the power of the Primordial Spirit Realm after witnessing the destruction of the main hall.
• Ling Yun concluded that Chen Ling's visit had likely been a smokescreen and worried that the manor was caught in a wider conspiracy.

After Dai Cheng’s soul tablet flickered, Leng Yue and another furious elder left the Moon-Gazing Sect to find whoever had harmed him. Unaware of their approach, Ling Yun prepared for trouble by making talismans and obtained a powerful sixth-tier divine ability from his weekly check-in.

• Leng Yue saw Dai Cheng’s soul tablet flickering and learned that something had happened to her disciple.
• A beautiful elder joined Leng Yue, and the two Sha demons flew from the Moon-Gazing Sect toward the Spirit King's Manor.
• Ling Yun made Heavenly Eye Spells, Divine Wood Spells, Wind Blade Talismans, and a Spirit-Sealing Sigil over seven days.
• Ling Yun used his weekly check-in at the royal mausoleum and obtained the Heaven-Reaching Heaven-Lamenting Hand.
• Ling Yun restored himself and began practicing the new sixth-tier divine ability.

Ling Yun mastered new divine abilities, advanced to the Late Core Formation Realm, and formed his first Life Talisman while cultivating the Heavenly Talisman Great Emperor’s inheritance. He also began practicing the Spirit Refining Technique and discovered that his Life Talisman granted him spiritual sense comparable to a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.

• Ling Yun practiced the Heaven-Reaching Heaven-Lamenting Hand and Cloud Immortal Soaring Steps, adding them to his perfected Flying Sword Technique as danger around the manor continued to loom.
• Ling Yun cultivated at the Royal Tomb Mountain Range and advanced from the Core Formation Realm to the Middle Core Formation Realm.
• Ling Yun studied the Life Talisman inheritance and formed his first Life Talisman, triggering a concealed Great Emperor phenomenon and advancing his cultivation to the Late Core Formation Realm.
• Ling Yun practiced the Spirit Refining Technique, strengthening his soul beyond others at his cultivation level.
• Ling Yun discovered that his Life Talisman's crimson eye could scan thirty li, giving him spiritual sense comparable to an Early Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.

Ling Yun watched the Spirit King's Manor through the Heavenly Eye Spell as Dai Cheng's condition worsened and the imperial elder declared his soul dormant. Madam Wang chose to offer the manor's Heavenly Soul Flower to keep Dai Cheng alive and protect the manor from a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.

• Ling Yun used the fifth-tier Heavenly Eye Spell to observe the Spirit King's Manor and saw Dai Cheng restrained amid violent frenzies.
• The imperial elder arrived and said Dai Cheng's soul had fallen dormant and showed signs of death.
• The elder explained that soul-nourishing medicine could sustain Dai Cheng until his master purged the evil art's corruption.
• Madam Wang recalled the Heavenly Soul Flower and decided to use the treasured spiritual medicine to save Dai Cheng and safeguard the manor.
• Madam Wang entered the manor's protected treasure vault and found the luminous Heavenly Soul Flower in a miniature restriction.

Dai Cheng died after an evil eye destroyed his soul and consumed the Heavenly Soul Flower, leaving Ling Yun to realize the Spirit King's Manor faced an imminent crisis. Dai Cheng's enraged master and a woman in red rushed toward Myriad Phenomena City as the manor discovered his death.

• The royal elder used the Heavenly Soul Flower to protect Dai Cheng's damaged soul, then left with Madam Wang and the others.
• An evil eye appeared in Dai Cheng's sea of souls, destroyed his remaining soul, and devoured the Heavenly Soul Flower before disappearing.
• Ling Yun watched Dai Cheng die and suspected Chen Ling's power or a force behind her was plotting to destroy the Spirit King's Manor.
• Dai Cheng's master learned from his shattered soul tablet that he had died, swore vengeance, and flew with the woman in red toward Myriad Phenomena City.
• The manor discovered Dai Cheng's body, and the royal elder concluded that someone had killed him after the Heavenly Soul Flower vanished.

Leng Yue and Xue Yue attacked the Spirit King's Manor to avenge Leng Yue's slain disciple, but the manor's protective formation held off their first assault. As the sisters prepared to continue their attack, Ling Yun considered whether he could influence the crisis from the royal mausoleum.

• Leng Yue and Xue Yue arrived above the Spirit King's Manor and demanded that the person who killed Leng Yue's disciple come out and die.
• Madam Wang ordered the manor's protective formation activated, rallied the clan, and asked the royal elder to explain what had happened to the two women.
• Leng Yue and Xue Yue unleashed paired silver and crimson moon spells against the manor's formation.
• Ling Yun sensed the spells from the royal mausoleum and wondered whether his cultivation and Life-bound Talisman could help affect the situation.
• The formation withstood the attack, and Xue Yue recognized it as an incomplete sixth-tier formation before the chapter recounted how the sisters rose to power in the Moon-Gazing Sect.

Leng Yue and Xue Yue destroyed the Spirit King's Manor's grand formation while seeking vengeance for Dai Cheng, but the Spirit King appeared with his halberd to protect Madam Wang and Ling Fei. Madam Wang realized he was only forcing himself to fight despite the poison that had spread through his body.

• Leng Yue demanded her disciple back, learned Dai Cheng was dead, and threatened to kill everyone in the manor unless they explained his death.
• Ling Fei insulted Leng Yue and blamed Dai Cheng's death on the woman who had manipulated him, prompting Leng Yue to target him.
• Leng Yue and Xue Yue used the Bright Moon Sword and Blood Spirit Silk to break the manor's grand formation and devastate its grounds.
• Leng Yue's sword light struck toward Ling Fei, but Madam Wang shoved him aside and faced the attack herself.
• The Spirit King's Halberd stopped the sword light, and the Spirit King appeared to shield Madam Wang and the manor.
• Madam Wang remembered that the Spirit King had intended to save his last strength for a crisis and knew he was still gravely weakened by poison.

The Spirit King confronted Leng Yue and Xue Yue over their attack on the Spirit King's Manor, and the other three great kings arrived to help him face the Moon-Gazing Sect elders. When Leng Yue refused to retreat, she and Xue Yue unleashed the Moon-Gazing Sect’s core inheritance against the five Primordial Spirit Realm experts.

• The Spirit King told Leng Yue and Xue Yue that their disciple’s death was not the Spirit King's Manor’s fault and that the manor had even spent a Heavenly Soul Flower trying to help him.
• Xue Yue said they would kill the Spirit King and his people in revenge, and the Spirit King warned the sisters to leave within three breaths.
• The Spirit King summoned the Mystic King, the Light King, and the Azure King, surrounding Leng Yue and Xue Yue with five Primordial Spirit Realm experts.
• Xue Yue revealed her Late Primordial Spirit Realm cultivation, but the Spirit King gave the sisters one final chance to withdraw.
• Leng Yue called on Xue Yue to use the Moon-Gazing Sect’s core inheritance, and Xue Yue unleashed Holy Cold Heavenly Moon, sending a vast field of holy light down upon the five kings and royal elder.

Ling Yun discovered that his third uncle, Ling Guang, and a guest elder were allied with the mastermind behind the attacks on him and the royal mausoleum. He killed Ling Guang and crippled the guest elder, but an eerie green flame consumed the elder before he could reveal his master's identity.

• Ling Yun sensed intruders at the royal mausoleum and recognized Ling Guang and a guest elder from the Spirit King's Manor.
• Ling Guang and the guest elder revealed that they served the same master and planned to finish Ling Yun off.
• Ling Yun connected the attacks on himself and the Spirit King's Manor to a single mastermind, then confronted the two men in disguise.
• Ling Yun pierced both men's dantians, reducing their cultivation, and killed Ling Guang when he charged at him.
• The guest elder agreed to name his master, but eerie green flames engulfed him and burned him to ash.

After killing Ling Guang, Ling Yun accepted the harsh rules of his new world and waited at the royal mausoleum for the enemy behind the attack. King Chen arrived at Primordial Spirit Realm Perfection, but Ling Yun struck his Primordial Spirit with a Spirit Devouring Spell, leaving him convulsing and near destruction.

• Ling Yun burned Ling Guang's corpse, then resolved to abandon his old notions and fight to survive.
• King Chen revealed that the Heavenly Soul Flower had helped him reach Primordial Spirit Realm Perfection and that he intended to claim the Forbidden Heart.
• Ling Yun recognized King Chen at the royal mausoleum and learned that he had come to kill him.
• King Chen attacked, but Ling Yun dodged his first blow and used Divine Wood and Wind Blade talismans to delay him.
• When King Chen's next attack left him no time to evade, Ling Yun unleashed a Spirit Devouring Spell that tore into King Chen's Primordial Spirit.
• Ling Yun was wounded by the blast and fell to his knees, while King Chen convulsed as more than half of his Primordial Spirit was destroyed.

Ling Yun killed King Chen after the Spirit Devouring Spell was blocked by strange green flames, then searched his remnant soul to learn that King Chen served the evil cultivators. The soul search revealed a threat from an unknown presence and left Ling Yun suspecting that the Forbidden Heart in the Royal Mausoleum was the evil cultivators’ target.

• King Chen's green flames protected his Primordial Spirit from the Spirit Devouring Spell, but Ling Yun attacked him with the Flying Sword Technique and killed him.
• Ling Yun captured King Chen's fading remnant soul and used the Soul Search Technique to examine its fragmented memories.
• Ling Yun saw King Chen ask a powerful presence for permission to steal and destroy the Forbidden Heart, learning that King Chen was one of the evil cultivators' nether envoys.
• An unknown gaze attacked Ling Yun through the soul-search connection, but Ling Yun severed his divine sense and repelled it with the crimson light and the Spirit Refining Technique.
• Ling Yun recalled the ancient calamity caused by the evil cultivators and suspected King Chen had targeted the Royal Mausoleum to retrieve the Forbidden Heart.

As the Spirit King sensed thieves targeting the Royal Mausoleum, he joined the other three kings to confront Xue Yue and Leng Yue. The four kings combined their ancestral inheritances into a power beyond the Dao Palace Realm and unleashed it against the trapped Moon-Gazing Sect elders, while Ling Yun watched from the Royal Mausoleum after defeating King Chen.

• The Spirit King sensed a disturbance at the Royal Mausoleum and warned Xue Yue and Leng Yue that he would not let them interfere before the truth was investigated.
• Madam Wang explained to Ling Yun and Ling Fei that the four royal manors and imperial family shared an inheritance that could surpass the Dao Palace Realm when united.
• Xue Yue and Leng Yue attacked with Moon-Gazing Lone Shadow, but the Spirit King, Mystic King, and Light King used ancient runes to suppress and trap them.
• The Azure King joined the other three kings, and their four runes summoned four holy figures above Myriad Phenomena City.
• The four kings invoked Four Saints Slay Spirits and sent the united holy light crashing down on Xue Yue and Leng Yue as Ling Yun watched from the Royal Mausoleum.

The Spirit King and the other kings joined forces to defeat Leng Yue and Xue Yue, but the Spirit King’s poison worsened and he rushed to the Royal Mausoleum. Finding King Chen dead and Ling Yun missing, he believed Ling Yun had been killed, while Ling Yun watched from afar and chose to remain hidden.

• The four kings unleashed a powerful combined technique that made Leng Yue and Xue Yue disappear, then parted ways as the Spirit King’s poison continued to weaken him.
• The Spirit King ordered his people to take him to the Royal Mausoleum, where Madam Wang admitted she had sent Ling Yun there after his cultivation was crippled.
• At the mausoleum, the Spirit King found King Chen’s corpse, traces of Ling Yun’s blood, and no sign of Ling Yun, and concluded that an intruder had likely killed him.
• The Spirit King left with Madam Wang, Ling Fei, and the others, demanding a full account of what had happened.
• Ling Yun appeared on the Royal Mausoleum and decided to let everyone believe he was dead until he was strong enough to explain himself.

Madam Wang recounted how Ling Yun had been crippled and how King Chen had conspired against the Spirit King's Manor, while the Spirit King suspected the Forbidden Heart was the target. As his Sinister Insect poison overwhelmed him, he entrusted the manor's future and its secrets to Madam Wang.

• Madam Wang told the Spirit King the full story of the past three months, including the manor stripping Ling Yun of his heir status and King Chen's role in the attacks.
• The Spirit King wondered whether the attackers sought the Forbidden Heart and learned that Third Brother and Guest Elder Zhao were missing.
• The Spirit King's poison worsened, and he warned Madam Wang that his Sinister Insect poison could infect her if she approached.
• The Spirit King admitted his hopes and pressure had helped drive a wedge between Ling Fei and Ling Yun, and Madam Wang confessed her regret.
• The Spirit King ordered Madam Wang to raise Ling Fei, prepare him to lead the manor, uphold the Ling Clan's mission, and seal the Royal Mausoleum.

Ling Yun secretly intervened when the Spirit King was dying from Sinister Insect poison, using the Poison-Inducing Technique to stabilize him. Back in the Royal Mausoleum, Ling Yun studied the insect and realized he needed to learn the Pill Dao and prepare a specialized antidote.

• The Spirit King gave Madam Wang his final instructions as the Sinister Insect poison spread through his body.
• Ling Yun appeared in disguise and persuaded Madam Wang to let him treat the Spirit King after she revealed the poison was caused by a Sinister Insect.
• Ling Yun dissolved the poisonous vapor and sealed most of the poison in several acupoints, leaving the Spirit King stable but not cured.
• Ling Yun told Madam Wang to prepare for his return and keep his whereabouts secret, then vanished before her.
• Back in the Royal Mausoleum, Ling Yun concluded that he needed to study the Pill Dao and refine an antidote, and learned that a fully developed Sinister Insect could threaten a Creation Realm cultivator.