Recaps

Red Leaf Ridge led the effort to destroy the Heavenly Devil Domain in West Ox Embrace Province, then treated cultivators afflicted by lingering demonic imprints. After deciding to investigate the passage beneath the province, Qu Jianlei secured the Dao Palace’s cooperation and set out for the Forgotten Peninsula.

• Qu Jianlei helped organize warship training and sales while Jing Yuexin negotiated with the major factions over supplies, teleportation access, and a Dao Palace expedition to the Forgotten Peninsula.
• When West Ox Embrace Province fell into a Heavenly Devil Domain, Red Leaf Ridge led the allied forces in attacking it, and Broken Blade split the barrier apart after Wind Forgotten and another Tree Race member weakened it.
• Qu Jianlei used the Small Tripod to absorb the province’s Demonic Qi, while Red Leaf Ridge and its allies rescued trapped cultivators and fought escaped Heavenly Demons.
• After the Small Tripod revealed a spatial weak point beneath the province, Red Leaf Ridge investigated the lingering corruption and treated seventeen afflicted cultivators, capturing their Out-of-Body imprints.
• Duo Gan told Jiang Hui and Jade Forest Matron that Red Leaf Ridge planned to enter the passage and investigate the suspected Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon, while the Book Pavilion and Star Palace agreed to protect Cangwu in their absence.
• Sanjiang Commander offered to guard Red Leaf Ridge’s Channel Entrance during Qu Jianlei’s trip, and Qu Jianlei agreed to transfer half the warships to the Dao Palace before the expedition.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Duo Gan, Wen Yu, and Guan Fei entered the Forgotten Peninsula, crossed a valley barred to Jiao Daoren, and reached a forest of towering trees that Wen Yu warned could eat people.

Qu Jianlei’s group explored the Forgotten Peninsula, then used a Curse Art and the Dao Stele to destroy an Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon. Red Leaf Ridge returned to the Cangwu Realm, where Jing Yuexin coordinated the response and negotiated with allied factions.

• Qu Jianlei’s group entered the Trial Cave Dwelling, explored a palace, overcame its defenses, and claimed rare materials, a Profound Water Source, and a withered Jianmu sprout.
• After defeating eighteen puppets, the group found Star Tapir bones, disturbed an Out-of-Body presence, and escaped the valley with Paranoid’s help.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Red Leaf Ridge and prepared to hunt the Heavenly Demon, while the Heroic Spirits warned him about the karmic cost of devouring damaged Ritual Artifacts.
• Red Leaf Ridge and the Book Pavilion entered the Endless Void and fought Heavenly Demons until a powerful enemy appeared and forced Qu Jianlei’s ship to flee alone.
• Qu Jianlei used the Dao Stele to resist the Heavenly Demon’s invasion, then began a thirteen-day Curse Art ritual while the fleet evaded attacks.
• The Dao Stele destroyed Qu Jianlei’s ship and unleashed its power, while Jing Yuexin’s group held out until Hypocrite confirmed the Heavenly Demon had been destroyed.
• Red Leaf Ridge reunited with the Book Pavilion, cleared remaining Devil Qi, and returned to the Cangwu Realm, where Qu Jianlei identified the Five-Colored Light Beam as the sign of an Out-of-Body cultivator’s fall.
• Jing Yuexin told the factions that Red Leaf Ridge had used a Curse Art against the Heavenly Demon, accepted Bitter Sea’s Withering Prosperity Rule, and negotiated trades with Bitter Sea and the Art Academy.

Red Leaf Ridge collaborated with Star Palace and the Book Pavilion to study Heavenly Demons, then fought off a mysterious force that disrupted their array. Wen Yu’s revelations deepened suspicions of a hidden plot, while the expulsion project prepared for a real-world test.

• Jing Yuexin traded improved Light Arts for rules, negotiated for Restoration Fluid, and learned that Bitter Sea’s request for five hundred portions could not be met.
• Qu Jianlei completed the Bitter Sea transaction, then learned that Withering Prosperity might activate the Heart of Time and joined Red Leaf Ridge’s preparations to explore the Forgotten Peninsula.
• Paranoid and Mu Yu led Dongsheng cultivators into the Forgotten Peninsula, while Red Leaf Ridge helped restore order and received word that Bitter Sea was raising Heavenly Demons.
• Jing Yuexin, Jiang Hui, and Jade Forest Matron formed a three-faction Heavenly Demon research partnership, and Xing Tong built the Encircle Devil Grand Array with the Soul Locking Banner.
• Qu Jianlei discovered Yi He had disappeared, repaired the Spring Examination Brush for the Third Pavilion Lord, and learned that Wen Yu’s Forgotten Peninsula expedition might be tied to a dangerous investigation.
• An Illusionary Heavenly Devil infiltrated the research team and attacked Jing Yuexin, then escaped the grand array after Qu Jianlei divined its flight.
• During the Ke Family Siblings’ celebration, the Heavenly Demons advanced together and a black tentacle attacked, but Qu Jianlei and his allies drove it away before it escaped.
• Wen Yu told Qu Jianlei that he suspected someone was engineering the calamity to reach the Out-of-Body Realm, and Qu Jianlei later considered whether the culprit was a Great Venerable tied to the Book Pavilion’s faction.

Qu Jianlei tested whether the Forgotten Peninsula could contain exiled Heavenly Demons, then joined the factions in facing an escalating demonic threat and a hidden Out-of-Body presence. After the threat fled, signs suggested Bu Hu’s missing team was about to break out of the Restricted Area.

• Qu Jianlei tested the Peninsula by teleporting exiled Heavenly Demons inside and confirmed that one dissipated there, while the factions debated the danger and Red Leaf Ridge continued its research.
• Qu Jianlei and the factions observed strange reactions to Heavenly Demons inside the Peninsula, then discovered that its retaliation had triggered a Demonic Qi eruption near High Mountain City.
• Qu Jianlei rejected an invitation to meet the Art Venerable, while True Immortal Jin Ge revealed that he wanted Qu Jianlei’s help obtaining a small world from the Peninsula.
• Upper Realm Masters Yuan and Yan investigated the Restricted Area, but an Out-of-Body aura and a Space Vortex struck their party, swallowing Master Yuan and leaving Master Yan and the Discipline Guardian badly injured.
• Bu Hu arrived from Houde, restricted access to the Peninsula, and led an investigation into the Restricted Area while Qu Jianlei and the factions worked to contain the growing Heavenly Demon threat.
• Heavenly Demons surged throughout the Peninsula, and a Devil Qi Barrier advanced toward the defenders as Qu Jianlei prepared to confront the likely Out-of-Body Great Venerable.
• Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge battled the barrier with Red Leaf Ridge’s Broken Blade until the Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon fled, then Hypocrite warned Qu Jianlei that his Curse Art could not yet kill an uninjured foe.
• Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Jin Ge, and Wen Yu concluded that Bu Hu’s team was likely to break out within three days, and a Star Palace disciple reported massive energy fluctuations approaching the Restricted Area entrance.