Recaps

Ling Yun rebuilt his cultivation in the Royal Mausoleum while the Spirit King's Manor faced attacks tied to evil cultivators seeking the Forbidden Heart. After killing King Chen and letting the manor believe he was dead, Ling Yun secretly stabilized the poisoned Spirit King and set out to find a cure.

• Ling Yun activated the All-Heavens Sign-In System, restored his ruined dantian with the Primordial Immortal Pill, and began cultivating in the Royal Mausoleum.
• Ling Yun advanced to the Core Formation Realm, acquired talisman-making skills, and discovered that intruders were searching for the first Spirit King's remains.
• Madam Wang confronted Chen Ling and Dai Cheng over the broken betrothal, but Dai Cheng summoned a Primordial Spirit Realm figure whose attack damaged the manor.
• Dai Cheng died after an evil eye consumed his soul and the Heavenly Soul Flower, prompting Leng Yue and Xue Yue to attack the Spirit King's Manor.
• The Spirit King and three other kings fought Leng Yue and Xue Yue while Ling Yun uncovered Ling Guang and a guest elder plotting against him, then killed King Chen and learned he sought the Forbidden Heart for evil cultivators.
• The four kings unleashed their combined inheritance against Leng Yue and Xue Yue, while the Spirit King grew weaker from poison and ordered the Royal Mausoleum sealed.
• Ling Yun let the Spirit King's Manor believe he had died, then secretly treated the Spirit King by containing most of the Sinister Insect poison.
• Ling Yun returned to the Royal Mausoleum and resolved to study the Pill Dao to make an antidote, learning that a mature Sinister Insect could threaten a Creation Realm cultivator.

Ling Yun cured the Spirit King, grew stronger in seclusion, and uncovered the Ling Clan’s hidden history and its duty to suppress the Seven Absolutes Evil Saint. He received Dragon Venerable’s inheritance and began mastering the Dragon Transformation Technique as the Evil Saint’s return drew near.

• Ling Yun sold talismans, bought the Simu Suppression Furnace, and won the Crimson Gold Spirit Fire at auction before killing Jiang Lian and four attackers who tried to rob him.
• Ling Yun refined three eighth-grade Cold Essence Pills, curing ninety percent of the Spirit King’s poison, then spent a year cultivating until his Spiritual Yuan and Talisman Yuan reached Core Formation Realm Perfection.
• Ling Yun explored the Royal Mausoleum’s ancient formations, entered a hidden underground palace, and discovered that a dragon pearl called the Forbidden Heart sustained a concealed world.
• Ling Yun cultivated within that world, formed a Primordial Spirit, and learned from the awakened dragon that he carried pure saint blood and that the Ling Clan descended from Saint Evil Slayer’s lineage.
• The dragon explained that the Forbidden Hearts suppressed the Seven Absolutes Evil Saint’s power and warned that the Evil Saint would be reborn within ten years, while Ling Yun vowed to fight the evil cultivators.
• Dragon Venerable welcomed Ling Yun as a descendant, passed on the Dragon Transformation Technique, and watched him manifest a black true dragon after mastering half the technique in one day.