Recaps

Lei Chong and Shi Hao fought the Rain Clan guards after smashing the Rain Manor’s gate, and Lei Chong swiftly defeated them. As they took the Rain Clan’s Eight Vicious Swords, powerful figures inside the manor launched the Nine Heavens of the Rain Path.

• A middle-aged Rain Clan cultivator confronted Lei Chong and Shi Hao, and Lei Chong struck him down with lightning.
• Experts from the Rain King Mansion attacked with the Eight Vicious Swords, but Lei Chong destroyed them and killed the attackers with purple lightning.
• Lei Chong seized the stone casket, learned the sword formation and its incantation, then gave the casket to Shi Hao.
• Several figures from deep within the Rain Manor unleashed the Nine Heavens of the Rain Path, covering the area in a curtain of rain.

Lei Chong defeated the Rain Clan's Nine Heavens of the Rain Path and seized much of their divine decree, but the remaining fragments gathered in a statue and manifested the Rain God. The Rain Clan celebrated as the Rain God appeared to protect them.

• The Rain Clan unleashed the Nine Heavens of the Rain Path, but Lei Chong shattered its colossal lotus with lightning.
• The Rain Clan summoned the Rain God's illusory figure, which Lei Chong destroyed with a lightning Suanni and a net of lightning.
• A divine decree appeared in the Rain Clan's ancient temple, and Lei Chong's true body arrived as his spirit body returned to him.
• Lei Chong used the Divine Illumination Lamp and lightning to weaken and seize the decree while Shi Hao and Little Pagoda took some of its power.
• The remaining decree fragments flew to the divine statue after Lei Chong destroyed the temple, and the statue manifested the Rain God's illusory form.

Lei Chong and Shi Hao escaped the Rain Clan’s manor with its divine decrees, but the Rain God’s statue pursued them into the mountains. Lei Chong defeated the statue’s projection and staged the demonic spider’s remains beside it to frame the Rain Clan, leaving Shi Hao unsure whether the plan would work.

• Lei Chong seized and sealed the remaining divine decrees, then fled the Rain Clan’s manor with Shi Hao as the Rain God’s statue gave chase.
• The statue tracked them out of the imperial capital using a raindrop, but Lei Chong shook it off and hid with Shi Hao in the void using beast hide.
• The Rain God’s statue found their hiding place and attacked, and Lei Chong fought it for over a hundred exchanges until he suppressed it and its projection faded.
• Lei Chong placed part of the demonic spider’s body beside the statue and claimed the Rain Clan should be blamed for its death.
• Shi Hao understood Lei Chong’s plan but questioned whether it would work, since the demonic spider had supposedly died the previous month.

Lei Chong arranged a cover story for the divine statue’s reappearance, passed pieces of the divine decree to Shi Hao and Little Pagoda, and returned to Medicine Capital. There, he refined a Divine Being’s imprint, purged impurities from his primordial spirit, and emerged from three days of contemplation with his spirit acting on its own.

• Lei Chong told Shi Hao to spread the story that the divine statue and a giant spider had vanished together a month earlier, then warned him that Demon Spirit Lake might come to investigate.
• Lei Chong gave pieces of the divine decree to Shi Hao and Little Pagoda before leaving a spirit body behind and returning to Medicine Capital.
• Lei Chong refined the decree’s spiritual imprint, stripped away the Rain God’s will, and swallowed the purified essence.
• Lei Chong used golden flames to burn impurities from his primordial spirit, including lingering rules from an Immortal King of the Foreign Realm.
• Lei Chong contemplated the Divine Being’s insights for three days, and when he opened his eyes, his primordial spirit punched at the void.

Lei Chong mastered the basics of the God-Striking Technique and went to buy medicinal ingredients in the Medicine Capital. After he purchased a rare body-tempering precious medicine, a pure-blooded White Tiger tried to take it.

• Lei Chong used the bone fragment to comprehend the God-Striking Technique and branded its rune into his primordial spirit.
• Lei Chong tested the technique by sending a golden imprint from the inn toward Divine Medicine Valley, then crushed the bone fragment.
• Lei Chong bought medicinal ingredients from street vendors and identified a rare precious medicine that tempered the body.
• Lei Chong agreed to buy the precious medicine, but a pure-blooded White Tiger demanded it and reached for it.

Lei Chong killed the White Tiger with the God-Striking Technique, prompting the Divine Flame Man to confront him in Divine Medicine Valley. Lei Chong’s spirit body wounded the Divine Flame Man’s primordial spirit, and his awakened true body trapped him in a golden lightning net.

• Lei Chong killed the White Tiger with a God-Striking Technique rune and stored the pure-blooded creature’s corpse.
• The Divine Flame Man learned of the White Tiger’s death and set out with his pure-blooded followers to avenge him.
• In Divine Medicine Valley, Lei Chong’s spirit body clashed with the Divine Flame Man, whose divine flames shattered against its lightning.
• Lei Chong’s spirit body struck the Divine Flame Man with a golden mark that injured his primordial spirit, but the Divine Flame Man realized Lei Chong could not use the technique again immediately.
• Lei Chong awoke and sent out a vast golden lightning net that enveloped the Divine Flame Man.

Lei Chong battled the Divine Flame Man, whose Chaos Disk restored him after Lei Chong injured his primordial spirit. Lei Chong endured and absorbed the Divine Flame Man’s divine fire, then continued fighting while secretly contacting Heavenly Desolation, which responded after Lei Chong offered to help locate the enemies who had ambushed the Kunpeng.

• Lei Chong injured the Divine Flame Man with lightning, but the Chaos Disk dispersed the lightning, healed his injuries, and blasted Lei Chong away.
• The Divine Flame Man trapped Lei Chong in a prison of divine fire, but Lei Chong used the Golden Spin Ripple Technique to absorb the flames and break free.
• Lei Chong summoned a lightning suanni and used Kunpeng wings to destroy the Divine Flame Man’s flame figures as their battle tore through the valley.
• Lei Chong recalled that Heavenly Desolation had asked him to find the surviving True Immortals who ambushed the Kunpeng and that he had promised to report clues with a special incantation.
• Lei Chong chanted the incantation during the fight, and Heavenly Desolation sent a ripple into his mind in response.

Lei Chong defeated the Divine Flame Man, but their fight escalated when the Reincarnation Disk and Heavenly Desolation confronted each other above the formation. After the treasures ended the clash and departed, a familiar flame appeared in Divine Medicine Valley, revealing the ball of light’s presence.

• Lei Chong unleashed his full strength and defeated the Divine Flame Man, who used the Reincarnation Disk to defend himself.
• Heavenly Desolation’s halberd intervened against the Reincarnation Disk, and their clash sent dangerous gray mist into the formation.
• Heavenly Desolation and the Reincarnation Disk ended the confrontation, while Lei Chong confirmed that the people he sought had left traces in the formation.
• Heavenly Desolation departed to rebuild its body, and the Divine Flame Man led his servants away from Lei Chong.
• A strange flame appeared in Divine Medicine Valley, and Lei Chong recognized it as the ball of light from the formation.

After the formation collapsed, Lei Chong and the Divine Flame Man fought over the exposed treasures and the mysterious symbols in the flames. Lei Chong uncovered a hidden gate and sent a spirit body through it, where it remained alive but lost clear contact with him.

• Lei Chong sent spirit bodies to collect divine materials from the broken formation, and the Divine Flame Man ordered his servants to seize them.
• Lei Chong warned the Divine Flame Man's servants to stay back, then his spirit bodies and the Divine Flame Man's spirit bodies battled over the materials and symbols.
• The Divine Flame Man failed to control the symbols with his first-generation runes, while Lei Chong recognized that they were symbols rising from the soil rather than flames.
• Lei Chong's rune-covered hand reached into the soil despite the Divine Flame Man's warning, revealing a gate of light and an altar beneath the formation.
• Lei Chong sent a spirit body through the gate, and the altar teleported it away while its faint connection to him remained.

As powerful factions gathered at Divine Medicine Valley to investigate the phoenix-like flames, Jin Lie tried to force Lei Chong to reveal what he knew. Lei Chong answered with a sudden strike, beginning a confrontation as more formidable newcomers arrived.

• The Divine Flame Man sent another spiritual body through the gate of light, while Lei Chong watched and kept sensing his own surviving spiritual body beneath the vortex.
• Reports of the flames drew powerful figures to the Medicine Capital, including Yue Chan, Granny Xihua, the Witch, and their Venerable followers.
• The Witch questioned Lei Chong about how long he had been at the valley, and he claimed he had arrived less than an hour earlier.
• Jin Lie arrived, became interested in the True Phoenix-like flames, and decided Lei Chong was the easiest person to pressure for information.
• After Jin Lie threatened to probe Lei Chong's divine sense, Lei Chong attacked first with a huge hand.

Lei Chong entered the secret realm ahead of the other factions and explored a volcanic region, where he found a Vermilion Bird’s rune bone and Primal True Feather. Unable to move the bone, he began studying its complete runes to comprehend its precious technique.

• The Heaven Severing Sect elder stopped Lei Chong from fighting Jin Lie, and Lei Chong rushed through the gate of light after his spiritual body returned.
• The Divine Flame Man followed Lei Chong into the secret realm, where the Reincarnation Disk revealed that anyone above the Venerable Realm was suppressed.
• Lei Chong circled the mountain, found its protective formation blocked access to the phoenix nest, and headed for the volcanoes behind it.
• Lei Chong reached a glowing ancient tree and found a Vermilion Bird’s rune bone and Primal True Feather in its nest.
• Lei Chong failed to move the rune bone and began studying its runes, discovering that its precious technique differed from those of later-generation descendants.

Lei Chong mastered the Vermilion Bird Art and lifted the rune bone from the True Phoenix nest, while the factions below struggled to break the mountain’s formation. Jin Lie found Lei Chong atop the tree and demanded that he come down.

• Lei Chong studied the rune bone, manifested the Vermilion Bird’s fire and fierce attacks, and mastered the art’s initial stage.
• Jin Lie tried to break the formation before the mountain with his wings, was thrown back injured, and withdrew as others examined the barrier.
• The formation revealed silhouettes of divine birds, and the factions speculated that learning their precious techniques might open the way.
• Lei Chong used his Vermilion Bird runes to lift the rune bone, realizing that taking it would make him essential to breaking the formation.
• Jin Lie followed Lei Chong to the ancient tree and ordered him to come down.

Lei Chong fought Jin Lie, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, and used Vermilion Bird techniques to overcome his powerful attacks. After Jin Lie lost a leg and his feather swords were burned away, divine flames engulfed him, leaving Lei Chong reaching to seize the roasted Peng.

• Lei Chong unleashed a Vermilion Bird formed from divine flame, which struck Jin Lie’s talon and forced him to reveal his true form.
• Jin Lie merged with a gigantic Golden-Winged Great Peng while Lei Chong merged with a Vermilion Bird, and they clashed repeatedly in the sky.
• Jin Lie formed crimson war spears from his blood and attacked Lei Chong, but Lei Chong destroyed them and sliced off one of Jin Lie’s legs.
• Jin Lie sent his golden feathers flying as swords, but Lei Chong’s divine flames burned them and engulfed Jin Lie.
• Lei Chong smelled Jin Lie’s roasted flesh and reached out to grab him.

Lei Chong killed Jin Lie, claimed the Vermilion Bird’s Primal True Feather, and escaped a fight with the cultivators who came to investigate. He learned the Bi Fang Precious Technique from afar and seized the Bi Fang’s rune bone while the Divine Flame Man fought nearby.

• Lei Chong crushed Jin Lie, destroyed his primordial spirit, and took his body and the Vermilion Bird’s rune bone and Primal True Feather.
• A group of cultivators confronted Lei Chong over Jin Lie’s death, but he overwhelmed them and drove them off.
• Lei Chong found another immortal bird’s nest but left when he could not approach it safely amid the flames and gathered cultivators.
• Lei Chong observed the Divine Flame Man fighting over the Bi Fang’s rune bone and used his Heavenly Eye to learn the Bi Fang Precious Technique from a distance.
• Lei Chong rode a flaming Bi Fang to the nest, scattered the fighters, and seized the Bi Fang’s rune bone.

Lei Chong used the Bi Fang, Li Fire Crow, and Azure Luan Precious Techniques to seize their rune bones while outrunning the cultivators who tried to stop him. He then mastered the final bird’s precious technique and took its rune bone, bringing him within reach of collecting all five.

• Lei Chong picked up the Bi Fang rune bone, and the Divine Flame Man blocked the furious cultivators from pursuing him.
• Lei Chong reached the Li Fire Crow’s nest, mastered its Precious Technique, and took its rune bone while Yue Chan chose to keep studying instead of chasing him.
• Lei Chong escaped the pursuing Venerables and stole the Azure Luan rune bone after quickly mastering its Precious Technique.
• Lei Chong reached the final nest, studied the divine bird’s technique, and seized its rune bone, leaving him with all five.

Lei Chong seized the rune bones, drove off the Western Sect monks, and headed for the giant mountain. He challenged the powerful figures guarding its formation, sending five spirit bodies to try to break through while the others attacked him.

• Lei Chong defeated the seven Western Sect monks, killing two and severely wounding the other five, then refused to give the Witch the rune bones.
• The Witch realized Lei Chong had comprehended the runes and followed him toward the giant mountain, hoping he could break its formation.
• Lei Chong reached the mountain and faced eight or nine powerful figures, including the green-haired Demon Spider, who demanded to know where he had gone.
• Lei Chong sent out spirit bodies carrying the Divine Illumination Lamp, the Five Fowl Fan, and the Black Iron Whip, but Demon Spider's attack revealed that the lamp's power was suppressed.
• Lei Chong sent five flame-wreathed spirit bodies toward the formation, and Demon Spider recognized the five immortal birds and urged the others to attack.
• As the powerful figures assailed Lei Chong, his five spirit bodies sent illusory immortal birds into the formation's screen of light, where they overlapped with its five phantom figures.

Lei Chong fought off deities trying to reach the shrinking gate and entered it with the Witch, escaping their attacks. They hurried toward the mountain’s summit to gain strength before their pursuers could follow, and discovered a broad medicine field along the way.

• The altar vanished, the immortal birds’ remaining powers manifested as Precious Techniques, and the gate of light began to shrink.
• Deities attacked Lei Chong as he blocked their path to the gate, leaving him badly injured.
• The Witch arrived to protect Lei Chong, and he used sword rays to fend off the attackers before bringing her through the gate.
• The gate closed behind Lei Chong and the Witch, while the deities outside failed to break through.
• Lei Chong and the Witch hurried up the mountain and found a broad medicine field on its slope.

Lei Chong used the Heaven Ascending Ladder to bypass the formation and harvest the Phoenix Blood Grass and the other medicines. After the other cultivators negotiated with the Divine Flame Man to secure his help, Lei Chong and the Witch reached the palace atop the mountain, where they felt a terrifying presence.

• Lei Chong and the Witch found Phoenix Blood Grass and other medicines beyond a curtain of light, and Lei Chong used his Heaven Ascending Ladder to cross the formation.
• Lei Chong sent a spiritual body across the ladder, and it gathered every herb along with the scarlet soil beneath the Phoenix Blood Grass.
• The cultivators discovered that the Divine Flame Man was preventing others from learning the Bi Fang Precious Technique, and Yue Chan negotiated with him on their behalf.
• The Divine Flame Man agreed to help open the formation after the deities swore blood oaths not to attack him before the final contest for the True Phoenix Precious Technique.
• Lei Chong and the Witch climbed to the summit, saw a divine parasol tree and a palace, and pressed on after the palace's overwhelming presence briefly subsided.

Lei Chong and the Witch found the immortal medicine pool and the True Phoenix altar, where Lei Chong helped the Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang begin repairing itself. When the gods and Venerables reached the palace, the weapon opened a rift in the air.

• The Witch and Lei Chong collected the remaining immortal medicinal liquid and entered the palace to seek the True Phoenix Precious Technique.
• Lei Chong recognized the broken Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang on the altar and used the Phoenix Wing Slash as Phoenix Blood Immortal Gold and Phoenix Blood Stones fused into it.
• The gods charged into the hall and attacked Lei Chong and the Witch, but the trembling Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang repelled their strikes.
• The remaining Venerables entered, and a Heaven Severing Sect elder confirmed that the Witch was unharmed.
• The Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang glowed with fire and opened a rift in the air above the altar.

Lei Chong entered the upper palace after the flames vanished, where the gathered cultivators found a True Phoenix bone guarded by a curtain of light. As a battle erupted around the altar, the Demon Spider blocked Lei Chong's route and met his lightning-charged fist with a palm.

• The Demon Spider threatened Lei Chong, but the Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang stopped their fight before the flames in the crack faded.
• The Western Sect's Divine Being and other cultivators rushed into the upper palace, followed by Lei Chong despite the Witch's warning.
• The cultivators saw a scarlet True Phoenix bone floating above an altar, and Jin Gang stood guard nearby.
• A Divine Being ambushed Jin Gang, triggering a chaotic battle in which Yue Chan and the Divine Flame Man stood out among the attackers.
• The Witch summoned a stone bead but chose to challenge Yue Chan fairly, while Lei Chong attacked the Demon Spider.
• The Demon Spider blocked the crack, and Lei Chong's lightning-wreathed fist collided with his jade-green palm.

Lei Chong fought the Demon Spider Divine Being in the palace while trying to draw a response from the True Phoenix bone with the Thunder Emperor and Kunpeng techniques. The phoenix bone stirred during their battle, and Lei Chong struck the Demon Spider between the brows with a golden mark.

• Lei Chong and the Demon Spider exchanged powerful attacks, and Lei Chong burned the spider's venomous web with the five immortal birds' divine flames.
• Lei Chong's lightning wings turned poisonous smoke into blades that struck several Demon Spider Venerables, and the Demon Spider inhaled the smoke to save them.
• Lei Chong transformed into a Kunpeng and shattered the Demon Spider's black sabers, but the phoenix bone gave no response to his techniques.
• The Demon Spider revealed his giant emerald-green form and attacked Lei Chong as the phoenix bone trembled and flames appeared around it.
• The Demon Spider pierced Lei Chong's phoenix wing, but Lei Chong sent a golden mark into the Demon Spider's brow after the spider failed to intercept it.

Lei Chong killed Demon Spider and seized the True Phoenix rune bone from the altar, then fought off the cultivators trying to take it while attempting to comprehend its incomplete precious technique. He continued dodging attacks through the hall, with a True Phoenix beginning to manifest around him.

• Lei Chong struck Demon Spider's primordial spirit, killed him, and collected his corpse before driving back the Demon Spirit Lake Venerables.
• The phoenix bone awakened, and the cultivators rushed the altar, but its image repelled their attempts to seize it.
• Lei Chong reached for the bone with a phoenix-wing arm, took it, and used lightning to hold off the attackers while he began comprehending the technique.
• Jin Gang broke through Lei Chong's lightning and attacked, interrupting his comprehension, as Lei Chong discovered that the rune bone was incomplete.
• Lei Chong injured Jin Gang's primordial spirit with an imprint, but other cultivators' attacks prevented him from finishing Jin Gang.
• Lei Chong fled through the hall with lightning wings, the Earth-Shrinking Talisman, and the Void Beast Hide while continuing to study the rune bone.

Lei Chong shattered the True Phoenix rune bone to escape a fierce battle, then entered the first hall and studied the True Phoenix Precious Technique while healing his injuries. As the fighting above worsened and other cultivators gathered rune fragments, flames suddenly appeared overhead, forcing the Venerables to flee into the palace.

• Lei Chong killed five Venerables and wounded more than ten before shattering the rune bone and slipping into the first hall.
• An Immortal Mountain Venerable tried to bring a rune fragment through the crack, but its flames burned him to ashes and the fragment returned to the palace above.
• The Divine Flame Man, Yue Chan, the Witch, and Jin Gang each obtained rune fragments and began studying them amid the deadly battle.
• Lei Chong used the True Phoenix Precious Technique to heal his severe injuries while continuing to comprehend it.
• The battle above intensified, and the Venerables rushed into the palace as flames appeared overhead; Lei Chong looked up in alarm.

Lei Chong studied and absorbed the True Phoenix Nirvana Flame, improving his grasp of the incomplete Nirvana Art while other survivors fought over the runic bones. When flames engulfed the altar again, Lei Chong rushed for the rift, but Jin Gang blocked his way and attacked.

• The Witch teased Lei Chong for returning early, and he explained that he had fled after being surrounded while more than half the group had died.
• Lei Chong used the True Phoenix Art to heal his injuries as the others repeatedly battled above and retreated from the flames.
• After his injuries healed, Lei Chong entered the altar chamber and drew its Nirvana Flame into himself, replenishing his flame and partially completing the Nirvana Art.
• Jin Gang attacked Lei Chong at the altar, then was wounded by a Divine Being’s surprise sword strike while Lei Chong continued searching the altar.
• The altar trembled and flames spread as the runic bones gathered above it, prompting everyone to flee toward the rift.
• Jin Gang stood in front of the rift and struck at Lei Chong as he rushed to escape.

Lei Chong endured the Nirvana flames and climbed the altar in the third-level hall, where he seized a rune bone and passed through a fiery gate. He entered a new space with a curtain of light, while those below believed he had died.

• Jin Gang used his alms bowl to draw in Lei Chong’s God-Striking Technique, then retreated through the crack and left Lei Chong trapped in the flames.
• Lei Chong used the True Phoenix Art, Nirvana Flame, and help from immortal birds to approach the altar’s fiery gate despite being badly burned.
• In the first-level hall, Jin Gang and the others assumed Lei Chong had died, and several expressed relief or hostility.
• Lei Chong climbed the altar, seized the rune bone at the center of the fiery gate, and carried it through as the gate vanished.
• Lei Chong entered a new hall containing a curtain of light.