Recaps

Zhou Yi investigated a bronze pot from an ancient tomb and discovered that a fragile spiritual vein had begun forming, confirming that heaven and earth were reviving. He returned to his pawnshop and learned from Xiao Ran’s messages that Xiao Ran had encountered a ghost.

• Zhou Yi used Dream Inception Art on Boss Gu and learned that the bronze pot had come from an ancient tomb in Qiong Province.
• Zhou Yi read the Azure Ghost Tribe elder’s memories and discovered the pot was the Four Seas Pot, a Dharma treasure taken from the tomb.
• Zhou Yi found a tiny spiritual vein beneath the tomb, watched it grow for half a year, then accidentally destroyed it with a lightning strike.
• Zhou Yi returned to his pawnshop, concluded that spiritual veins would emerge over the coming centuries, and decided to investigate likely sites through an official identity.
• Zhou Yi read Xiao Ran’s messages and learned that Xiao Ran had repeatedly seen a ghost near Line Seven and dispersed it by punching it.

Xiao Ran hunted a ghost at a metro station and, with guidance from White True Monarch, helped the authorities confirm its existence and investigate it. Zhou Yi watched the research from afar, then discovered that a Yin-Fiend Spirit Vein beneath the station had created the ghost and trapped it there.

• Xiao Ran confronted a ghost in the station restroom, but patrol officers arrested him after his talismans and religious tools failed to harm it.
• White True Monarch told Xiao Ran that his Spirit Eyes let him see ghosts and explained how Ox Tears could give others temporary Yin-Yang Eyes.
• Xiao Ran persuaded the patrol captain to obtain Ox Tears, and the station was closed so researchers could study the ghost.
• Zhou Yi used the internet to nudge events forward, then secretly watched researchers question the ghost and learned that it had been a murdered company owner betrayed by a young master surnamed Zhu.
• Zhou Yi examined a spirit vein beneath the station and deduced that it would become a Yin-Fiend Spirit Vein and had created the ghost, which could not leave the area for now.

Zhou Yi watched the court turn ghost research into a ruthless state project while Xiao Ran struggled with guilt over Number Zero’s destruction. Xiao Ran left with the Origin Returning Art and a promise to seek justice when he grew strong enough.

• Zhou Yi preserved the spirit vein beneath the laboratory by surrounding it with surveillance and detonation restrictions.
• Commissioner Wang ordered researchers to increase the electrical torture of Number Zero until the ghost scattered into ashes and smoke.
• Xiao Ran visited Zhou Yi with a Buddhist Demon Suppression Pagoda and told him that Number Zero had died in the Investigation Bureau’s experiment.
• Zhou Yi suggested that Number Zero’s death was deliberate and warned that Ferocious Souls and Vengeful Ghosts would grow more numerous and violent.
• Xiao Ran admitted that guilt over Number Zero had become a torment, while Zhou Yi explained that revenge would have to wait until Xiao Ran had strength.
• Zhou Yi gave Xiao Ran the Origin Returning Art and told him to seek an explanation for Number Zero once he had mastered it.

Zhou Yi helped Xiao Ran begin cultivating and sent him to intervene in a crime, then spent a night discussing medicine with the ghost of doctor Liu Hong. After Liu Hong departed for reincarnation, Zhou Yi sensed spiritual energy gathering near the Execution Grounds and worried that the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade was only a few years away.

• Xiao Ran cultivated with the Origin Returning Art, and Zhou Yi encouraged him to follow Dao Lord Xuanxiao's example and contact Li Chao.
• Zhou Yi told Xiao Ran about a girl abducted at the Chen Estate, and Xiao Ran transformed himself, killed the assailant, and carried out her corpse.
• As year's end approached, Zhou Yi arranged scriptures and artifacts on a display shelf in his pawnshop and refined a phone Mystic Item into a ring.
• Liu Hong entered the pawnshop and realized he was a ghost; he and Zhou Yi discussed medicine through the night.
• Liu Hong refused Zhou Yi's offer to stay, left to see his son and enter reincarnation, and Zhou Yi used a Buddhist secret art on him.
• Zhou Yi sensed faint spiritual energy near the Execution Grounds and reflected that the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade was only a few years away.

Zhou Yi considered how modern society could defend itself against ghosts and later heard about a case involving strange deaths. After learning the victims had been gnawed from within, he identified the culprit’s method as gu refinement.

• Zhou Yi decided to share cultivation methods online and develop protective Daoist robes to help people survive the coming ghost calamities.
• Number Sixteen asked Zhou Yi to exorcise her evil, and he hurried across the city to help her.
• Zhou Yi learned that Gu Fangzhai’s owner had been arrested for suspected tomb robbery and smuggling, though Boss Zhao suspected a powerful person had framed him over a treasure.
• Xiao Ran visited Zhou Yi with Li Chao, who thanked him for passing on a medicinal formula and asked for help investigating deaths caused by evil arts.
• Xiao Ran gave Zhou Yi an iron ring said to have belonged to Prince Chu of Great Qian, and Li Chao explained that the victims’ organs had been gnawed.
• Zhou Yi concluded that the deaths were caused not by insect control but by gu refinement.

Zhou Yi taught Xiao Ran a tracking spell and learned that Li Chao had found a spiritual vein, then accepted a group of ghosts into Kunlun Grotto-Heaven under soul contracts. Xiao Ran faced an approaching death calamity, while the newly arrived ghosts were greeted by a cursing Daoist child.

• Zhou Yi explained the origins of gu arts, learned about Li Chao's discovery of a spiritual vein in Qingliang Mountain, and lent him an ancestral martial arts manual.
• Zhou Yi taught Xiao Ran the Thousand-Mile Tracking spell and noticed a death calamity gathering around him, but declined Xiao Ran's offer to become an Investigation Bureau consultant.
• Lu Yuan led a group of ghosts to Yu Jian Pawnshop, where Zhou Yi made them form soul contracts before sending them into Kunlun Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Yuan and the other ghosts recognized the Jianmu Tree and realized they had entered the legendary Kunlun Grotto-Heaven.
• A Daoist child came out of the temple while cursing at a game on his phone, startling the ghosts.

The Spirit Ginseng Child recruited ghosts to train as Nether Soldiers while Zhou Yi considered the growing threat of Ferocious Souls and Vengeful Ghosts. A retired professor died in Immortal Capital, then revived in a younger body and declared himself Heavenly Lord Yuanling.

• The Spirit Ginseng Child ordered the ghosts to cultivate for a year before gathering benevolent yin souls and forming Nether Soldiers, then recruited a King-rank gamer to help with an urgent task.
• Zhou Yi decided the ghost-training plan could help suppress ordinary yin souls, but worried about the growing number of ghosts and the resentment fueling them.
• Zhou Yi used the Minor Heaven Severing Art after a retired Immortal Capital history professor died, and the Oracle Slip declared, "I am The Evasion One!"
• A seven-colored light from an ancient stone bead entered the professor's body, reviving him and restoring his appearance.
• The revived professor asked where he was, learned that more than a thousand years had passed, and announced, "I am Heavenly Lord Yuanling!"

Zhou Yi revealed his identity as a cultivator to the Xu Family and began planning to rebuild his sect without cooperating with the court. In Yi City, Xiao Ran tracked a murderer to a basement, where Blood Cloud Child faced an Investigation Bureau assault squad after completing his Blood Shadow Divine Power.

• Zhou Yi told the Xu Family that he was a cultivator from a thousand years ago and promised cultivation opportunities to relatives with spiritual roots.
• Zhou Yi rejected Xu Ce's suggestion to cooperate with the court and approved Xu Yu's plan to recruit disciples through the internet.
• Xiao Ran used a bloodstained scrap and a tracking art to locate a murderer on the second basement level of Central Tower.
• Investigation Bureau squads found Blood Cloud Child seated in a blood pool amid desiccated corpses and prepared to attack.
• Blood Cloud Child declared that he had just refined the Blood Shadow Divine Power, and the squads fired rockets and machine guns at him.

Blood Cloud Child fought the Investigation Bureau’s squad and cornered Xiao Ran, but Zhou Yi revealed himself as Heavenly Lord Yuanling and destroyed the demon. Zhou Yi learned Blood Cloud Child’s history and reflected on the Blood God Sect’s escape from an ancient calamity.

• Blood Cloud Child possessed the captain, but the captain detonated his combat suit and grievously wounded him before the squad attacked again.
• Blood Cloud Child escaped into the building, resisted Xiao Ran’s illusion, and prepared to devour him as the command center debated an annihilation strike.
• Protective spiritual light saved Xiao Ran, and Zhou Yi appeared, identified himself as Yuanling, and struck Blood Cloud Child with the Supreme Clarity Talisman.
• Zhou Yi ignored Blood Cloud Child’s pleas, destroyed him, and examined the wisps of his remaining soul.
• Zhou Yi learned that Blood Cloud Child had escaped the Blood Demon Child’s slaughter, sealed himself away for a thousand years, and resumed cultivating after breaking free half a year earlier.

After Zhou Yi escaped with Xiao Ran and Li Chao, the court investigated the mysterious Heavenly Lord Yuanling and debated how to respond to the emergence of immortal cultivators. The Investigation Bureau director argued that cultivation techniques could not be suppressed and proposed a technological method for granting people spiritual power.

• Zhou Yi used the Supreme Clarity Talisman to take Xiao Ran and Li Chao underground and escape.
• The commander learned that Heavenly Lord Yuanling was Elder Xu and ordered an investigation into his sudden recovery and the murderer’s transformation.
• Investigation Bureau headquarters debated whether to contact Elder Xu, but Director argued the central issue was the spread of cultivation techniques.
• Director explained that the court feared losing power because spiritual roots were rare and cultivation could produce a new force beyond its control.
• Director revealed that researchers had infused spiritual-energy particles into mice and called for patriots to test the proposed New Cultivation Method.

The court and Royal Family backed human trials of Subject Zero Elixir, a dangerous formula that fused beast bloodlines into people to create powerful fighters. After inspecting the laboratory, Zhu Jin promised Professor Hong more funding and test subjects, leaving the research poised to expand.

• The director told Investigation Bureau officials that the court required human trials of the New Cultivation Method, and said he would take the elixir himself alongside members of the Royal Family.
• Zhu Jin visited Subject Zero Laboratory and pledged twenty billion to support Professor Hong's research.
• Professor Hong showed Zhu Jin mutated beasts, including Number 1895, whose body fused into a mass of flesh that advanced despite gunfire.
• Professor Hong demonstrated footage of Number Seven transforming into a horned, ox-like fighter whose explosive power left him exhausted and difficult to control.
• Zhu Jin pledged another thirty billion and said the Royal Conglomerate would purchase people from countries that permitted population trading to provide more test subjects.
• Professor Hong explained that the elixir implanted mutated beast organs and that incompatible bloodlines could produce monsters; Zhu Jin demanded a thirty-percent success rate and promised him a princely title if the research succeeded.

Professor Hong promised Zhu Jin that the Subject Zero Laboratory would safely develop the elixir, while the intelligent Six Ears secretly sought its formula to aid the Demon Race. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi prepared to spread the One Qi Sect’s cultivation manuals across the Nine Provinces through an official website.

• Zhu Jin offered Professor Hong and the other attendants royal support for their families and warned that the laboratory’s Ferocious Beasts must never escape.
• Six Ears disguised himself as a mindless test subject and listened to the researchers, hoping to obtain the Subject Zero Elixir formula for the Demon Race.
• Xu Ce showed Zhou Yi the One Qi Sect’s website, which would let applicants register and download manuals after their Dao oaths passed review.
• Zhou Yi ordered the sect’s website promoted throughout the Nine Provinces, and Xiao Ran and Li Chao went to notify the court.
• Zhou Yi produced gold to fund the promotion, while Xu Ce arranged to sell it and Xiao Ran reported the sect’s plans to the Investigation Bureau.
• Xiao Ran worried that the court might secretly copy the manuals, but Zhou Yi explained that the website offered only the first three levels of Qi Refinement and would help spread cultivation to people with spirit roots.

Li Sheng discovered that an online cultivation manual was real, awakened Mana, and left his ordinary city life to cultivate with his family in his hometown. After earning money through pills and advancing in cultivation, he began refining a Mystic Item for protection.

• Li Sheng registered for the One Qi Sect Outer Disciple website, recited the Tai Xuan Scripture Qi Refining Chapter, sensed spiritual qi, and produced Mana in half an hour.
• Li Sheng studied the sect website, learned that his rapid cultivation indicated exceptional spiritual roots, and began to embrace the Path of Immortality.
• Li Sheng resigned, sold his city house, and moved his family to their mountain village, where he reached the completion of the first level of Qi Refining in half a month.
• Li Sheng made Body Tempering Pills, helped his family advance in martial arts, and earned several decades' worth of wages selling pills to fellow disciples.
• Li Sheng decided to refine a Mystic Item for protection, produced a small lump of Refined Iron, and chose to make a Flying Needle.

The Cabinet accepted that cultivation could no longer be suppressed and approved nationwide spirit-root testing and accelerated research into the Subject Zero Elixir. After the meeting, Emperor Mingxiang joined the Chief Minister and the Red Alliance leader for dinner, where they discussed the balance of power in Great Zhou.

• Emperor Mingxiang and Wei Zheng privately discussed the spread of the One Qi Sect and the Royal Family’s prospects in the new era.
• Wei Zheng urged Emperor Mingxiang to form marriage ties with cultivators who had top-grade spirit roots.
• The Investigation Bureau director accepted responsibility for the spread of cultivation techniques and offered to join the Subject Zero Laboratory.
• The Cabinet unanimously approved universal spirit-root testing and faster development of the Subject Zero Elixir.
• The Chief Minister invited Emperor Mingxiang and the Red Alliance leader to dinner, where they recalled how the Royal Family had become a figurehead under alternating New Party and Red Alliance rule.

The Chief Minister persuaded Emperor Mingxiang and Alliance Leader Zhang to work together to enter Kunlun and take a guarded object, with Mr. Wei expected to help. After returning from a year of sealing spirit veins, Zhou Yi found Zhuangyuan Street thriving on the trade in ancient Mystic Items and heard how widespread hopes of cultivating immortality had become.

• The Chief Minister told Emperor Mingxiang and Alliance Leader Zhang that Kunlun could counter the One Qi Sect, and revealed that the Red Alliance knew how to open the Immortal Gate but lacked the hardest object in the world.
• The Chief Minister said there had been progress locating the object, which was enshrined in the Golden God Cathedral, and asked Emperor Mingxiang to help recruit Mr. Wei; Emperor Mingxiang agreed to consult his uncle-in-law.
• Zhou Yi returned to Zhuangyuan Street after spending a year sealing more than thirty spirit veins, though he had found none of their accompanying spiritual objects.
• Zhou Yi found antique shops selling imitation Mystic Items and warned Shopkeeper Xu not to deceive cultivators.
• Shopkeeper Xu explained that ordinary customers bought Mystic Items in hopes of breaking through spiritual-root limitations, amid widespread rumors and public fascination with cultivation.

Zhou Yi appraised a mysterious crimson fan for Xiao Ran and Li Chao, then sensed Emperor Mingxiang beginning the ceremony to enter Kunlun Grotto-Heaven. The five-colored gateway opened at the imperial palace, leaving the seventeen chosen participants poised to enter.

• Boss Xu boasted that his third son had become an outer disciple of the One Qi Sect, while Zhou Yi reflected on cultivation's growing influence.
• Xiao Ran and Li Chao complained that Zhou Yi had sold them antiques that appeared to be ancient Mystic Items, then revealed they had reached the fourth level of Qi Refinement after sharing a Yin Spirit Mushroom.
• Xiao Ran showed Zhou Yi a crimson plantain-leaf fan found in a grave, and Zhou Yi identified it as the lost Divine Fire Fan and gave the pair two top-grade Mystic Items.
• Zhou Yi sensed Emperor Mingxiang conducting a ceremony at the imperial palace and left Xiao Ran and Li Chao to attend to it.
• Emperor Mingxiang placed the tiger fang and Great Ancestor Zhou's letter in the formation, and a five-colored gateway opened for the seventeen participants.

Zhou Yi warned Emperor Mingxiang and the Red Alliance that the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade would threaten the mortal world, and Emperor Mingxiang left Kunlun to alert Great Zhou. The court and the One Qi Sect prepared for the calamity, while Zhou Yi remained confident that the Nine Continents would overcome it and flourish.

• The Spirit Ginseng Child received Emperor Mingxiang and delivered his ancestor Zhu Kang’s letter to Zhou Yi, who praised Zhu Kang and the Red Alliance.
• Zhou Yi revealed that the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade would arise as heaven and earth revived, and Emperor Mingxiang volunteered to warn the mortal world in exchange for cultivation arts.
• Great Zhou mobilized its military, and Emperor Mingxiang publicly announced the coming ghost calamity and urged the people to prepare.
• The court suppressed unrest, organized defenses, and worked with the One Qi Sect to stabilize Cloud Continent as news of the calamity spread to other continents.
• In Ningde Ward, the Investigation Bureau screened cultivators and assigned them to help guard against ghosts while Zhou Yi listened to locals discuss the calamity.
• Zhou Yi felt reassured by the people’s confidence and planned to slay the winged tiger and return after the ghost calamity to find the Nine Continents flourishing in cultivation.

Zhou Yi warned the Nine Provinces that the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade was imminent, then gathered its ghosts into the Myriad Souls Banner as the court and military fought back. After the calamity passed, he celebrated and flew into the depths of the East Sea.

• Zhou Yi used an auspicious divination to conclude that the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade was about to arrive and warned cultivators across the Nine Provinces through the One Qi Sect app.
• Zhou Yi transformed into an old daoist and waited above the capital while residents gathered under military protection.
• At midnight, rising yin energy produced countless ghosts, and the army attacked them with lightning weapons and drones.
• Zhou Yi used the Myriad Souls Banner to collect the capital's ghosts, then flew from city to city to clear ghost domains.
• Several days later, Zhou Yi completed the Myriad Souls Banner with the ghosts he had gathered and placed it at the entrance to the Daoist temple in Kunlun Grotto-Heaven.
• After the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade ended, Zhou Yi celebrated for a month and flew into the depths of the East Sea.

Twenty years after the Subject Zero Laboratory created the Subject One Elixir, Six Ears awakened with intelligence, devoured the researchers, and escaped with the elixir formula. Twenty years later, he unleashed a horde of Ferocious Beasts on Green Ghost City and revealed his plan to spread laboratories across the Nine Provinces, leaving the humans facing a growing threat.

• Great Zhou increased its support for Subject Zero research after the ghost calamity, and twenty years later Professor Hong's laboratory successfully created Subject One Elixir.
• Test Subject No. 1827 awakened as Six Ears, broke free of his chamber, and devoured Professor Hong and several other researchers.
• Six Ears escaped underground with the laboratory's experts and memories, while alarms rang too late to stop him.
• Twenty years later, a flood of Ferocious Beasts attacked Green Ghost City, overwhelmed its defenders, and slaughtered its citizens.
• Six Ears watched the massacre with a pig-headed Demon Race member and explained that Demon Race brothers were establishing laboratories to multiply the Ferocious Beasts.

After five hundred years of secluded cultivation in the East Sea, Zhou Yi expanded the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven by breaking open the Tiger Emperor’s sealed fang. He prepared to return to the Nine Provinces with the Spirit Ginseng Child, who wondered whether its favorite game still existed.

• Zhou Yi trapped the Tiger Emperor in a formation, learned that the Demon Sage had discovered an extraterritorial continent, and destroyed the Tiger Emperor’s soul three years later.
• Zhou Yi returned to Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, continued cultivating, and split his Spirit Soul between the tiger fang and Yuanling’s pearl.
• Over the centuries, the Spirit Ginseng Child recovered its Dao heart and asked Zhou Yi when the Jianmu Tree would produce a branch.
• After five hundred years, the tiger fang shattered, doubling Kunlun Grotto-Heaven’s area; Zhou Yi drew in islands and decided to return to the Nine Provinces.
• The Spirit Ginseng Child eagerly asked Zhou Yi whether Glory of the Nine Provinces still existed.

After five hundred years away, Zhou Yi returned to the Nine Provinces and found the seas and Binhai overrun by unintelligent monsters called Ferocious Beasts. A diary in Binhai’s ruined bunker revealed that the beast tide had destroyed much of Great Zhou and that Cloud Province was the last place still resisting.

• Zhou Yi returned to the Nine Provinces, where a monstrous serpent attacked him; he found its Spirit Soul chaotic and unlike that of the Demon Race.
• As Zhou Yi approached the continent, he saw countless grotesque sea monsters fighting and devouring one another.
• Zhou Yi reached Binhai and found the former city reduced to overgrown ruins, with relics of its human inhabitants scattered beneath the vegetation.
• Zhou Yi discovered a bunker filled with monsters and the skeletons of its defenders, then found a diary belonging to General Xu An.
• Zhou Yi learned from Xu An’s diary that the Ferocious Beast tide had overrun Qiong Province, Buddha Province, Azure Province, and Binhai, leaving Cloud Province as the last region still resisting.

Zhou Yi discovered that Subject Zero Elixir had enabled the Demon Race to overrun Nine Provinces, leaving humanity confined to the shrinking territory around Immortal Capital. After saving Shen Cheng from a demon plot in Yu City, Zhou Yi learned about humanity’s resistance and continued toward Liang City with him.

• Zhou Yi found the ruins of Xuan City and read a Jade Slip describing its fall to a beast tide in the 650th year of Great Zhou.
• Shen Cheng entered the ruins of Yu City to seek genetic elixirs, but the Rat King gave him insect eggs to spread and used him to hatch Formless Demon Mosquitoes.
• Zhou Yi arrived, cleansed the eggs from Shen Cheng, killed the Rat King’s Ferocious Beast servants, and damaged the Rat King’s mind while searching its memories.
• Zhou Yi learned that escaped laboratory experiments had produced the Demon Race’s Subject Zero, Subject One, and Subject Two Elixirs, and that only the cities near Immortal Capital remained to humanity.
• Shen Cheng told Zhou Yi about the Nine Provinces Human Alliance, Martial Path University, and the threatened city of Liang City; Zhou Yi took him there and promised it would not fall.

Zhou Yi arrived in the embattled Human Alliance and saw how humanity used technology and cultivation to resist the Ferocious Beasts. He joined Martial Path University as an escape-arts teacher, leaving Xiao Hong with knowledge about the spiritual-energy limit and the ancestral vein.

• Zhou Yi visited Liang City with Shen Cheng, watched soldiers repel a Ferocious Beast incursion, and gave Shen Cheng Swift Travel Talismans before departing for Immortal Capital.
• Zhou Yi entered Immortal Capital and saw its heavy defenses, scarce supplies, and dispirited residents before making his way to Martial Path University.
• Zhou Yi bypassed the university's defenses and met Xiao Hong, introducing himself as Tang Xuan, a Rogue Cultivator from the East Sea.
• Zhou Yi explained that spiritual energy currently limited cultivators to peak Foundation Establishment and gave Xiao Hong Pure Serenity True Monarch's book about the ancestral vein.
• Xiao Hong accepted Zhou Yi as a teacher, and Zhou Yi chose to teach escape arts to help preserve humanity.

Tang Xuan began teaching Evasion Arts at Martial Path University, impressing his students and fellow instructors with his knowledge. After learning that Subject Zero Elixir could transform cultivators into demons, he asked the instructors to help him obtain Subject One and Subject Two Elixirs.

• Tang Xuan appointed Gu Chen class monitor, taught Evasion Arts, answered students’ questions, and assigned them to write why they cultivated immortality.
• Tang Xuan gave the best assignment a rat demon corpse as a reward and left the jade chime with Gu Chen.
• Xiao Hong summoned Tang Xuan after the ancient cultivation teachers watched his lecture, but an assistant injected him when signs of demonic transformation appeared.
• Xu Pu, Liu Yan, and Guan Yan explained that Subject Zero Elixir altered people with exotic-beast bloodlines and could eventually turn them into demons.
• Tang Xuan asked the instructors for Subject One and Subject Two Elixirs, and one offered to gather ten doses.

Zhou Yi distributed elixirs, taught students about survival arts and the pursuit of longevity, and urged them to strengthen their Dao hearts instead of rushing to the battlefield. He sent Qingfeng and Mingyue to investigate the Demon Race and ghosts, while a divination omen of the Demon Saint suggested that Prime Minister Turtle and the other two demons might soon emerge; Zhou Yi then turned to studying and preserving the new cultivation arts.

• Liu Yan gave Zhou Yi five doses each of Subject One Elixir and Subject Two Elixir, and Zhou Yi advised Liu Yan that seven days later would be an auspicious time to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou Yi taught a crowded class about combining talismans with escape arts and explained the origins of qi and blood, then identified Han Chao’s pursuit of longevity as the class’s best homework answer and gave him a rat demon corpse.
• Zhou Yi warned his students that their heavy baleful aura endangered their cultivation, ordered Gu Chen to lead daily scripture recitations, and told the class that Kunlun would shoulder the coming calamity.
• Zhou Yi sent Qingfeng and Mingyue to infiltrate the Demon Race, investigate its Golden Core demon kings and ghost forces, and mark their locations; his divination produced the omen Demon Saint.
• Public criticism branded True Person Tang a traitor to humanity, while Zhou Yi ignored the backlash and studied elixir-based cultivation methods so he could preserve them for future generations.