Recaps

Yang Shan gained Flower Sect techniques and the Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor’s inheritance while advancing within Soul Hall. After Soul Hall launched a mission to capture Venerable Yao, Yang Shan joined the hunt and used Players as bait for a confrontation with Wang Tianhao’s forces.

• Yang Shan refined a Three-Colored Fire Bodhi Pill, gave Tang Huo'er the Three Thousand Thunder Movement inheritance, and left for the Flower Sect after making clear he could not promise to marry her.
• Yang Shan exposed Hua Jin’s conduct to the Flower Sect elders, reunited with Yun Yun, and used Chen Zhanghao’s Flower Grace Token to enter Flourishing Flower Valley and meet Yu Fairy.
• Yang Shan learned about Yu Fairy’s love for Lei Zhanghao, then completed Flourishing Flower Fairy’s trials and earned the Heaven Rank Sea Abyss Illusion Arts and Heaven Rank Ghoul Stealth Art.
• Yang Shan helped Sound Valley pursue a spirit vein opportunity, then joined Hun Dan and Wu Ying to kill the Soul Devouring Wolf and entered the Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor’s inheritance trial.
• Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor recognized Yang Shan’s cultivation of Supreme Void Power and named him a potential inheritor, telling him to return to Fallen Soul Valley once his soul reached the Heaven Realm.
• Yang Shan advanced to Three-Star Dou Zun, learned that Yao Chen had returned, and agreed to accompany Black White Heavenly Venerate on Soul Hall’s mission to capture Venerable Yao alive.
• Yang Shan mastered Ten Thousand Souls Finger, searched Spirit Spring Valley with Wu Ying, and claimed its Sweet Spirit Spring Eye while Players crowded around asking to join Soul Hall.
• Yang Shan and Wu Ying revealed themselves as Wang Tianhao’s forces attacked, and Yang Shan’s controlled Soul Piercing Finger explosions left Wang Tianhao’s Vitality Shield badly depleted.

Yang Shan helped the Players locate and rescue Yao Chen, then negotiated a truce with Gu You and Soul Hall. He turned to preparations for the Southern Domain’s Dou Saint ruins and strengthened his ties with Wind and Thunder Pavilion before setting his sights on Eastern Dragon Island.

• Wang Tianhao’s Players attacked Yang Shan and Wu Ying, while Yang Shan and his allies fought back and drew attention for Wu Ying’s resemblance to Protector Wu.
• Yang Shan disguised himself as Mystic Venerable, evaded the Players, and hunted in Spirit Spring Valley before Soul Hall forces and the Players converged on Venerable Yao in Dead Soul Mountain.
• Yang Shan’s allies raided the Lost Soul Branch Hall as Soul Hall captured Venerable Yao, and Yang Shan later joined the Players in preparing to find him.
• Yang Shan discovered the Lost Soul Branch Hall’s underwater town, freed Venerable Yao, and killed Diabolic Sun Heavenly Venerate and Old Mu Bone while his allies battled Hun Xian’s forces.
• Gu You intervened and negotiated with Venerable Yao, who accepted a year’s reprieve by blaming the Lost Soul Branch Hall rather than Soul Hall.
• Yang Shan returned Venerable Yao to his allies, received a Naling from him, and arranged for Hun Dan to involve the Ancient Seven Clans’ chosen ones in the Southern Domain ruin.
• Yang Shan defeated Lei Ying, Lei Xiong, and Lei Hao at Wind and Thunder Pavilion, then ordered the pavilion to strengthen its forces and sent Fei Tian to scout the Southern Domain.
• Thunder Lord gave Yang Shan an invitation to the Ten Thousand Beasts Ceremony, and Yang Shan decided to visit Eastern Dragon Island first.

Yang Shan helped Feng Qing'er strengthen her bloodline, won Spiritual Peach Mountain for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and left the ceremony to rescue Xiao Xun'er. He found her within an illusion that trapped them in a village, where she ultimately revealed herself before vanishing.

• Yang Shan secretly took Zi Yan from Eastern Dragon Island, then brought her disguised to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to visit Feng Qing'er.
• Feng Qing'er emerged from the Bloodline Secret Realm with a complete Ninth Grade Bloodline and Demon Phoenix Profound Thunder, and Yang Shan taught her Overload.
• At the Ten Thousand Beasts Ceremony auction, Yang Shan won the Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Body jade slip and the Immaculate Profound Crystal.
• Yang Shan defeated Sword Rage Howl, then beat sixteen Players in a battle for Spiritual Peach Mountain, securing the mountain for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Gu Zhen told Yang Shan that Xiao Xun'er was trapped in an array, so Yang Shan and Zi Yan left the ceremony to reach the Sealing Spirit Relic.
• Yang Shan entered the illusion formation and found himself in a village without cultivation, where he met a girl with Xiao Xun'er's voice who called herself Yang Shan.
• After fifteen days in the village, Yang Shan gave Yama to the girl so she could defeat attackers threatening the villagers, and she revealed that she was Xiao Xun'er as the illusion began to freeze.

Yang Shan strengthened his ties with Xiao Xun'er and the allied pavilions while preparing for the Creation Saint Relic, where powerful factions gathered and competed to enter first. He and Zi Yan passed the relic’s trials and reached a grassland of ten stone gates, leaving their next path undecided.

• Yang Shan and Zi Yan defeated a Tunling Clan attacker with Xiao Xun'er, and the Sealing Spirit Saint revealed the clan’s history and warned that it could return.
• Yang Shan subdued Gu Yao, presented Xiao Xun'er's recording to the Ancient Clan commanders, and helped secure his appointment as Purple Immortal Pavilion’s Honorary Deputy Pavilion Master.
• Xiao Xun'er formalized the alliance between the Purple Immortal Pavilion and the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, while Yang Shan arranged a Space Channel and prepared for the Pill Gathering.
• Yang Shan brought Su Yitang to meet his parents, where she signed their marriage and gift agreements and later spent New Year’s Eve with him.
• With Version 4.0 underway, Yang Shan joined Soul Hall’s plans for the Creation Saint Relic and helped Hun Dan seek Xiao Ding’s cooperation for the Xiao Clan’s operation.
• Yang Shan gathered allies at Venerable Battle Valley, then came to Burning Flame Valley’s aid when the Heavenly Underworld Sect challenged Tang Zhen’s camp.
• As factions assembled outside the relic, Yang Shan prepared with Zi Yan, entered ahead of the others when the barrier vanished, and passed seven trials to reach ten stone gates.
• Yang Shan asked Zi Yan to sense the three unmarked gates, then exchanged farewells with Jiu Feng and left with her.