Recaps

Ling Yun studied the Witchcraft and Gu Pill Physician's legacy to find a cure for the Spirit King's Sinister Insect poison. He found that a Cold Essence Pill could treat it, but the rare ingredients were costly, so he prepared to learn pill refining and gather practice supplies.

• Ling Yun searched the Ancient-Transcending Alchemy Classic and learned that the Spirit King's Sinister Insect caused yang Sha poison.
• He found that Twenty-One Ice Mystic Needles made from lone cold ice heart could remove the poison, but the rare material was unlikely to be available nearby.
• After ruling out other remedies, Ling Yun discovered the Cold Essence Pill and learned that it needed to be administered three times.
• He calculated that the pill's four main ingredients would cost over ten million low-grade spirit stones and worried the manor might not find them all.
• Ling Yun decided to master pill refining, obtain a pill furnace and low-tier herbs for practice, and consider selling the Talismans he had made.

Ling Yun secretly left the Royal Mausoleum and went to the Heavenly Treasure Tower to sell talismans and buy supplies for pill refining. He listed a vast quantity of talismans to Zhang Yu, who was stunned and asked whether the inventory was real.

• Ling Yun slipped out of the Spirit King's Manor and crossed Myriad Phenomena City toward the Heavenly Treasure Tower.
• Ling Yun entered the tower and was escorted to the fifth floor after revealing his Core Formation Realm cultivation.
• Ling Yun explained that he needed to prepare for refining a Cold Essence Pill before the Spirit King's poison overcame him.
• Ling Yun listed hundreds of talismans of various tiers and grades for Zhang Yu to buy.
• Zhang Yu recovered from his shock and asked Ling Yun to confirm that the talismans were genuine.

Ling Yun sold a thousand third- and fourth-tier talismans at the Heavenly Treasure Tower for 810,000 low-grade spirit stones and received a privileged crystal card. He bought a stock of spirit medicines, set aside funds for a quasi-fifth-tier pill furnace at the next day's auction, and left to prepare for refining the Cold Essence Pill.

• Zhang Yu appraised Ling Yun's talismans and valued them at 810,000 low-grade spirit stones, marveling at their number and quality.
• Ling Yun accepted a Heavenly Treasure Tower crystal card, which provided virtual transactions and a permanent ten percent discount.
• Ling Yun asked Zhang Yu to exchange the proceeds for third-tier and higher spirit medicines and to find him a high-grade pill furnace.
• Zhang Yu told Ling Yun that the next day's auction would feature a quasi-fifth-tier pill furnace, and Ling Yun reserved 200,000 spirit stones for it.
• Zhang Yu returned with a storage ring containing several thousand kinds of spirit medicines and gave Ling Yun his crystal card.
• Ling Yun studied basic alchemy knowledge while he waited, then left the Heavenly Treasure Tower with his purchases.

Ling Yun returned to the Spirit King's Manor and gave Madam Wang the ingredients and deadline for preparing the Cold Essence Pill antidote. He then studied the Witchcraft and Gu Pill Physician's Pill Dao inheritance, and later left the Royal Mausoleum for the Heavenly Treasure Tower.

• Ling Yun secretly transmitted the Cold Essence Pill's ingredients to Madam Wang and told her to gather them within half a month.
• Madam Wang summoned the manor's senior members and set them to work finding the medicinal ingredients.
• Ling Yun studied pill grades, refining flames, and the Witchcraft and Gu Pill Physician's pill-refining techniques.
• After a day of study, Ling Yun dressed in a black robe and mask and headed toward the Heavenly Treasure Tower.

Ling Yun attended the Heavenly Treasure Tower’s auction to obtain a pill furnace, while Spirit King's Manor bidders gathered ingredients for the Cold Essence Pill. After the Sea Essence Pearl was sold, the Mother Si Suppression Furnace was revealed and bidding began.

• Ling Yun entered the Heavenly Treasure Tower’s crowded auction and waited for the pill furnace he had come to buy.
• He watched Spirit King's Manor representatives repeatedly bid on ingredients for the Cold Essence Pill, recognizing Madam Wang’s arrangement.
• The auctioneer completed the first ninety-nine lots, and the head steward took over to present the final three treasures.
• The Sea Essence Pearl was auctioned off as Ling Yun waited for the item he wanted.
• The head steward unveiled the Mother Si Suppression Furnace, and bidders began competing for it.

Ling Yun won the Simu Suppression Furnace after Mo Xian and Old Woman Jiang drove its price up, then became interested when the auction revealed a wisp of Crimson Gold Spirit Fire. The steward disclosed that the flame had lost its source, leaving its buyers with less than a one-in-ten chance of cultivating it into a usable Spirit Fire.

• Mo Xian and Old Woman Jiang competed for the Simu Suppression Furnace until she bid 140,000 low-grade spirit stones and he gave up.
• Ling Yun bid 150,000 low-grade spirit stones, winning the furnace and fulfilling his purpose at the auction.
• The steward brought out a crimson crystal core that released intense heat, and Ling Yun recognized the sealed flame as Spirit Fire.
• The steward identified the flame as Crimson Gold Spirit Fire and described its power and rarity, stirring the auction hall into an uproar.
• The steward revealed that the wisp had lost its source and had less than a one-in-ten chance of producing a new Spirit Fire source.

Ling Yun considered bidding on the originless Crimson Gold Spirit Fire, hoping the Spirit-Nurturing Method could restore it, while wealthy buyers competed fiercely for it. As the price climbed, the Azure King Manor's chief attendant emerged as a determined bidder, and Ling Yun suspected the manor wanted the fire to strengthen its powers.

• The chief steward warned that the Crimson Gold Spirit Fire might go out if absorbed incorrectly, but many attendees remained tempted to bid.
• Jiang Lian asked whether valuable items appraised by the Heavenly Treasure Tower could be used in a transaction, and the chief steward confirmed they could.
• Ling Yun realized his remaining fifth-tier talismans could support his bid for the spirit fire.
• The chief steward opened bidding at 100,000 low-grade spirit stones, and the price quickly exceeded the Simu Suppression Furnace's price.
• The Azure King Manor's chief attendant bid 230,000 low-grade spirit stones, while Ling Yun recalled the manor's powerful Azure Feather Mystic Fire and suspected the attendant was determined to win.

Ling Yun outbid the Azure King Manor's chief Attendant and Jiang Lian for a wisp of sourceless Spirit Fire, using a Divine Wood Spell Talisman valued at five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones. He won the fire for five hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones, spending the last of his funds and believing it would help him greatly.

• The Azure King Manor's chief Attendant raised the bid to three hundred and twenty thousand low-grade spirit stones, causing the remaining rival bidders to withdraw.
• Jiang Lian offered a fifth-tier Crimson Mystic Bird egg, which the chief steward valued at four hundred and fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Ling Yun bid a Divine Wood Spell Talisman, and the chief steward valued it at five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones after discovering it had been inscribed using divine sense.
• Jiang Lian added sixty thousand spirit stones, but Ling Yun raised his bid to five hundred and fifty thousand by adding fifty thousand more.
• Jiang Lian stopped bidding, and the chief steward awarded the Spirit Fire to Ling Yun, who paid his remaining fifty thousand spirit stones.

After the auction, Ling Yun killed Jiang Lian and four Pill Empyrean Sect members who tried to rob him, then returned to the Royal Mausoleum to examine their loot. He found a mysterious half-damaged jade pendant and turned his attention to practicing alchemy.

• Ling Yun lured Jiang Lian out of hiding and learned she planned to seize his auction winnings with help from four Core Formation Realm Perfection fighters.
• Jiang Lian and the four attackers launched a barrage of techniques, but Ling Yun blocked them with a Spiritual Yuan palm imprint and killed all five with the Three-Inch Flying Immortal.
• Ling Yun burned the attackers’ bodies, collected their storage rings, and escaped before Myriad Phenomena City’s guards arrived.
• At the Royal Mausoleum, Ling Yun found Pill Empyrean Sect tokens, destroyed them, and took more than a million spirit stones from the rings.
• Ling Yun discovered a half-damaged jade pendant marked with the partial characters “Dong... Li,” then began studying alchemy.

Ling Yun began refining pills with earth-vein fire while Madam Wang secured the Ice Essence Grass from the Azure King in exchange for the Spirit King's Supreme Yang Fire Essence if his detoxification succeeded. As Madam Wang prepared to leave, the Azure King attacked a white figure invading her manor, but a few wisps of its mist escaped.

• Ling Yun drew up earth-vein fire in the Royal Mausoleum and began refining pills with the Simu Suppression Furnace.
• Madam Wang found the Cold Marrow Liquid, Spirit Warmth Jade, and Azure Spirit Flower but could not locate the Ice Essence Grass, so she asked the emperor for help.
• The emperor sent Madam Wang to the Azure King, who agreed to provide the Ice Essence Grass in return for the Spirit King's Supreme Yang Fire Essence if he survived detoxification.
• The Azure King ordered an elder to give Madam Wang the Ice Essence Grass, and Madam Wang prepared to return to the Spirit King's Manor.
• A white figure provoked the Azure King, who attacked it with Spirit of Azure Feathers; most of its mist was burned, but a few wisps escaped.

The Azure King learned that evil cultivators were infiltrating Myriad Phenomena City and joined the Ling Emperor in preparing to purge them. The Azure King, Mystic King, Light King, and imperial family's grand elder exposed and killed the Heavenly Treasure Tower's master, while Leng Yue and Xue Yue's souls vanished with her.

• The Azure King ordered her manor sealed and its Royal Mausoleum protected as she discussed the emerging evil cultivators with the Ling Emperor.
• The Ling Emperor told the Azure King to expose and kill the Soul Nether Envoy, who had infiltrated the Heavenly Treasure Tower as its master.
• The Azure King, Mystic King, Light King, and imperial family's grand elder attacked the Heavenly Treasure Tower and destroyed its seventh floor.
• The tower master revealed her evil-cultivator form and unleashed vengeful souls as the grand elder exposed her crimes to the watching crowd.
• The four Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators overwhelmed the tower master, reducing her to ash as Leng Yue and Xue Yue's soul shadows dispersed.

Ling Yun completed ten days of pill refining, advanced his Life Talisman cultivation, and received the ingredients Madam Wang had gathered for the Cold Essence Pill. As he began preparing to refine it, Madam Wang warned Ling Fei that the kingdom faced a threat from evil cultivators.

• Ling Yun refined nine divine-quality fifth-tier low-grade Spirit Dissolution Pills and ended his ten days of pill refining.
• Ling Yun cultivated his Life-bound Talisman and advanced from Early Core Formation Realm to Middle Core Formation Realm.
• Ling Yun went to the Wang residence, where Madam Wang gave him the gathered ingredients for the Cold Essence Pill, and he said the result would be known in half a month.
• Ling Fei questioned whether Ling Yun was a quack after the Wang residence spent ten million spirit stones on the ingredients, but Madam Wang told him to stay out of it and remain at home.
• Ling Fei asked whether the tower master of the Heavenly Treasure Tower had been killed, and Madam Wang confirmed it was done by the three kings and the great elder on His Majesty's order.

Ling Yun carefully refined the Cold Essence Pills, overcoming the clash of the ingredients and the strain on his pill furnace. The furnace exploded, but he survived and emerged with three eighth-grade Cold Essence Pills.

• Ling Yun reviewed the Cold Essence Pill recipe and spent half a day preparing before beginning the refinement.
• Ling Yun fused the Ice Essence Grass with the Cold Marrow Liquid using the Ancient Fusion Refining Method over three days.
• Ling Yun spent ten days refining the four main ingredients and thirty-one auxiliary ingredients into a single mass of medicinal liquid.
• Ling Yun used his cultivation to reinforce the Simu Suppression Furnace as he brought the mixture to a boil and triggered the final pill-forming reactions.
• The Simu Suppression Furnace shattered in a massive explosion, leaving a huge pit near a predecessor's tomb.
• Ling Yun coughed blood but revealed three eighth-grade Cold Essence Pills in his hand.

Ling Yun used the Cold Essence Pill to remove most of the poison afflicting the Spirit King, then returned to the Royal Mausoleum to hide himself. After obtaining the Heart of Heavenly Illusion through a monthly sign-in, he concealed the mausoleum and settled into a new cabin, ready to focus on cultivation.

• Ling Yun finished refining the Cold Essence Pill and used it to eliminate ninety percent of the strange poison in the Spirit King, leaving Madam Wang two more pills to complete the cure.
• Ling Yun left before the Spirit King woke and returned to the Royal Mausoleum, where he used his monthly sign-in to obtain the Heart of Heavenly Illusion.
• Ling Yun activated the Heart of Heavenly Illusion to conceal the Royal Mausoleum and hide the damage from his pill-refining accident.
• Ling Yun built a secluded wooden cabin in the forest and reflected on his plans to develop his spirit fire, Life Talismans, formations, artifact crafting, and cultivation.

Ling Yun began nurturing the Crimson Gold Spirit Fire in his dantian and continued cultivating as the Spirit King prepared the royal manor for a threat from demonic cultivators. The Spirit King sealed the Royal Mausoleum and left to meet the emperor with the other kings, while Madam Wang took charge of the manor.

• Ling Yun used the Spirit-Nurturing Method on the Crimson Gold Spirit Fire and placed its crystal core in his dantian to cultivate a Spirit Fire origin.
• Ling Yun resumed cultivating the Myriad Dao Immortal Scripture and planned to reach Core Formation Realm Perfection within a year.
• On the seventh day after the Spirit King awakened, he activated the Royal Mausoleum's hidden formations and sealed it against the outside.
• Madam Wang told the Spirit King that Azure King had said only he knew what she had traded with him, and the Spirit King recalled that she had given him Supreme Yang Fire Essence.
• The Spirit King left the manor's affairs with Madam Wang and went to the palace with the other kings to meet the emperor.

The Ling Emperor and the four kings gathered to discuss the evil cultivators’ growing presence and the clues uncovered in their manors. They resolved to protect the Ling Kingdom and destroy any evil cultivators who appeared, while the Ling Emperor prepared to attempt a breakthrough before their enemies regained their full strength.

• The Spirit King revealed that King Chen had infiltrated his manor ten years earlier and had plotted to reach the Forbidden Heart before dying in the Royal Mausoleum.
• The Azure King suggested that the mysterious person who cured the Spirit King’s poison might have killed King Chen, and the Spirit King described the eighth-grade Cold Essence Pills used to treat him.
• The Azure King and the other kings reported few traces of evil cultivators in their manors, leading the Ling Emperor to suspect their enemies had found another strategy.
• The Ling Emperor reminded the kings of their ancestors’ oath to protect the land and ordered them to annihilate any evil cultivators who appeared.
• The Azure King asked whether the evil cultivators’ Dao Palace Realm experts had returned to full strength, and the Ling Emperor said he would attempt to break through before they did.
• The kings left after their discussion, and calls to suppress evil cultivators spread throughout the Ling Kingdom along with stories of the seven branches of ultimate evil.

After a year of seclusion in the Royal Mausoleum, Ling Yun reached Core Formation Realm Perfection while gaining strength beyond an ordinary Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator. His yearly sign-in awarded him True Spirit Qi, which he infused into the Crimson Gold Spirit Fire to help it become a Mystic Spirit Fire, and he then returned to his cottage.

• Ling Yun cultivated in seclusion for a year as the evil cultivators remained hidden, advancing both his Spiritual Yuan and Talisman Yuan to Core Formation Realm Perfection.
• Ling Yun discovered his spiritual sense could reach sixty li and completed the Eye of Deception, a Life-bound Talisman spell that could disrupt an enemy’s senses.
• Ling Yun used his yearly sign-in at the Royal Mausoleum and received the heaven-and-earth spiritual treasure True Spirit Qi.
• Ling Yun infused True Spirit Qi into the Crimson Gold Spirit Fire and returned it to his dantian to continue nurturing its transformation.
• Ling Yun consolidated his cultivation and left the Royal Mausoleum for his cottage.

Ling Yun studied the Divine Formation Great Emperor’s inheritance to learn about the Royal Mausoleum’s powerful grand formation. After mastering Yin-Yang Two Aspects Formation Flags, he tested them by setting up a Metal Astral Formation, leaving him eager to expand his combat abilities.

• Ling Yun noticed formation patterns around the first Spirit King's tomb that carried an aura like the Heart of Heavenly Illusion, suggesting the Royal Mausoleum’s grand formation was a terrifying sixth-tier killing formation.
• Ling Yun studied the Formation Emperor Canon and learned about the Divine Formation Great Emperor, the Divine Formation Sect, and the use of formation foundations to activate formations.
• Ling Yun tore up a spirit silkworm silk garment and made simple formation flags, then chose to practice carving the Yin-Yang Two Aspects Formation Core.
• Ling Yun completed nine Yin-Yang Two Aspects Formation Flags after practicing day and night.
• Ling Yun used the flags to set up a Metal Astral Formation and saw it unleash golden astral Qi powerful enough to rival a strong spell.

Ling Yun examined the three formations protecting the Spirit King's Manor and realized that the deepest layer was beyond his ability to identify. After resolving to grow strong enough to face the returning evil cultivators, he reached toward the mysterious formation and was plunged into darkness.

• Ling Yun identified the active Thousand Shield True Li Formation as a sixth-tier defense powered by earth veins.
• Ling Yun recognized the hidden Seven Killings Forbidden Formation as a peak sixth-tier killing formation capable of threatening Dao Palace Realm experts.
• Ling Yun could not determine the deepest formation's tier or origins and wondered whether it predated the first Spirit King.
• Ling Yun decided to keep growing stronger and remain hidden until he could face the evil cultivators expected to emerge again.
• Ling Yun extended his spiritual sense toward the third formation and was overwhelmed as his senses fell into darkness.

Ling Yun discovered an underground palace whose seven murals revealed a possible history of the Ling Clan, the evil cultivators, and the world's founding ancestors. He opened a sealed stone door with his Spirit King blood, then stared in shock at what lay beyond it.

• Ling Yun emerged from darkness into an underground palace and entered a vast hall displaying seven ancient murals.
• Ling Yun studied the first murals, which showed a world-shattering demonic claw and scenes of evil cultivators ravaging the world.
• Ling Yun recognized the five beasts around a golden figure as the Ling Clan's guardian totems and suspected they were tied to the clan's true origins.
• Ling Yun interpreted the later murals as depicting a great battle between the golden figure's side and the evil cultivators, followed by the seven ancestors founding the Ling Kingdom.
• Ling Yun left the hall and used his Spirit King blood to open a stone door carved with a spirit flood dragon.
• Ling Yun saw the scene beyond the door and reacted with shock.

Ling Yun explored a hidden world and realized its enormous black flood dragon was likely the Spirit Flood Dragon shown in the Ling Clan’s mural. He concluded that the dragon’s pearl was the Forbidden Heart guarded by the Spirit King’s Manor, and feared that the weakened Ling Clan would face an all-out attack from the evil cultivators.

• Ling Yun entered the hidden world and saw a colossal black flood dragon whose immense pressure kept him from approaching.
• Ling Yun reasoned that the dead, undecayed flood dragon might have reached the Mortal Transcendence stage and that the luminous pearl in its mouth was a Dragon Pearl.
• Ling Yun connected the flood dragon to the Spirit Flood Dragon in the Ling Clan’s mural and inferred that the clan descended from powerful Saint Realm beings.
• Ling Yun concluded that the Dragon Pearl was the Forbidden Heart protected by the Spirit King’s Manor and the Ling Clan’s foundation against the evil cultivators.
• Ling Yun realized that the Ling Clan was now at its weakest and feared the evil cultivators would try to annihilate it when they emerged.

Ling Yun cultivated in the small world until he broke through to the Early Primordial Spirit Realm, and the system began upgrading. As a storm swept through the world, the flood dragon’s corpse opened its eyes and addressed him as the “Holy descendant.”

• Ling Yun discovered that the dragon pearl had created the small world and its dense Spiritual Qi, so he stayed to cultivate and study the three inheritances.
• His divine sense reached a bottleneck, and Ling Yun used the Spirit Refining Technique and his Life-bound Talisman to withstand the primordial divine radiance.
• Ling Yun’s soul formed a Primordial Spirit, and he advanced to the Early Primordial Spirit Realm.
• The system congratulated Ling Yun on his breakthrough and announced a free upgrade with new services.
• The flood dragon’s corpse opened its eyes as an unprecedented storm descended, and a voice called Ling Yun the “Holy descendant.”

Ling Yun learned from the dragon corpse that he and the people of the Ling Kingdom were descendants of Saint Evil Slayer, whose ancient struggle with the Seven Absolutes Evil Saint shaped the origin of the Forbidden Heart and the kingdom. The dragon corpse warned that the evil path was showing signs of returning, while Ling Yun wondered whether the long-running feud was nearing its conclusion.

• Ling Yun watched the dragon corpse awaken and heard it identify pure saint blood within him.
• The dragon corpse showed Ling Yun a vision of the Seven Absolutes Evil Saint sacrificing ten empires and fighting Saint Evil Slayer across several battles.
• The dragon corpse revealed that Saint Evil Slayer slew the Seven Absolutes Evil Saint in the Eastern Desolation, where the evil saint's power was divided into seven sealed parts.
• The dragon corpse explained that five spirit beasts and several of Saint Evil Slayer's descendants created the Forbidden Heart and founded the Ling Kingdom to suppress the evil path's future return.
• Ling Yun realized that the Ling Kingdom's people were saint descendants and wondered whether their inherited fate was reaching its conclusion.

Ling Yun learned why the Ling Clan's branches inherited the five spirit beasts' legacies and how the clan planned to destroy the Seven Absolutes Evil Saint's remaining power. The dragon corpse recognized Ling Yun's rare Forbidden Physique and declared that he might offer the Ling Clan another way forward.

• The dragon corpse explained that the five branches of the Ling Clan inherited ninth-tier legacies from the five half-saints, while only the clan leader and successor could learn the saint's legacy.
• The dragon corpse revealed that the Ling Kingdom's seven ancestors had been loyal core members of the five branches, and that the five spirit beasts had sacrificed their cultivation to enter the Eastern Desolation and forge the Forbidden Hearts.
• The dragon corpse warned Ling Yun that the Evil Saint's power would be reborn within ten years, when the Forbidden Hearts would emerge and the Ling Kingdom's long mission would be fulfilled.
• Ling Yun vowed to fight the evil cultivators, and the dragon corpse identified him as the possessor of a Forbidden Physique.
• Ling Yun admitted that he possessed a special physique without naming the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos, and the dragon corpse celebrated him as a possible new hope for the Ling Clan.

Ling Yun received the Dragon Transformation Technique from Dragon Venerable and rapidly mastered half of the Half-Saint inheritance. He awakened the technique’s dragon bearing and manifested a black true dragon behind him.

• Ling Yun introduced himself as the son of the present Spirit King, and Dragon Venerable welcomed him as a descendant of their lineage.
• Dragon Venerable explained that he was a Half-Saint and offered Ling Yun a supreme inheritance suited to his existing natal art.
• Dragon Venerable passed on the Dragon Transformation Technique, which let Ling Yun briefly conjure a true dragon’s power and bearing in human form.
• Ling Yun memorized the incantation and began cultivating, astonishing Dragon Venerable by mastering half the technique in a single day.
• Ling Yun envisioned a flood dragon transforming into a true dragon, then opened his eyes as a black true dragon manifested behind him.