Recaps

Qi Yuan recruited Jiang Lingsu, explored the forbidden areas through his game, and helped Jin Li use the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area to strengthen Aunt Qin. As Shinguang Sect’s Foundation Establishment Tournament began, Qi Yuan welcomed its guests while Jiang Lingsu asked him to find a mysterious individual.

• Qi Yuan arrived late to the recruitment ceremony and accepted Jiang Lingsu as his junior sister after she explained that the Universe Mirror had shown her a future catastrophe.
• Qi Yuan shared his revised Seven Colors Flame Refining Art with Jiang Lingsu, cleared the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area in the game, and used a Divine Brush to change its entry rules.
• Qi Yuan advised Zhuge Miao on improving the Nourishing Essence Pill formula and received an Amethyst Jade Bamboo in exchange.
• Jin Li followed Qi Yuan’s ladder advice into the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area, gathered precious medicines, and later used its exercise-based cultivation boost to strengthen Aunt Qin and her followers.
• Qi Yuan explored the dangerous Attire Forbidden Area, learned from Jin Li that its demons coordinated less effectively at night, and began hunting them after dark.
• Qi Yuan learned that the Foundation Establishment Tournament would offer a Yellow Flower Fruit, while Jin Li prepared for Aunt Qin’s duel against Nanfeng Nation’s National Teacher.
• Jiang Lingsu gave Qi Yuan a thousand Spirit Stones to find a mysterious individual, and Qi Yuan accepted as his kitchen knife showed signs of improving his combat strength.
• The Foundation Establishment Tournament began, and Qi Yuan welcomed representatives from various sects and the Changshan Prince at Shinguang Sect’s mountain gate.

Qi Yuan destroys Black Mountain Sect, then conquers the Attire Forbidden Area with Little Bride and gains control of its Imperial Guards. As Jin Li faces a plot to slaughter the capital, Qi Yuan arranges for the guards to be summoned to help her.

• Qi Yuan wins the Foundation Establishment Tournament, then disguises himself as the Masked Man and kills Chu Tianxiong, Chicken Worshipping Ancestor, and the Black Mountain Sect disciples in Rong City.
• Qi Yuan learns Black Mountain Sect’s strength, travels to Bloodless City, and single-handedly destroys the sect before publicizing Yu Linglong’s Purple Bamboo Body.
• Qi Yuan returns to Shinguang Sect and reveals that his attempt at Foundation Establishment failed, while Jiang Lingsu discovers his cultivation is at Qi Refining Completion.
• Qi Yuan bonds with Little Bride, explores the Attire Forbidden Area, and learns that the last Attire Division Imperial Guards await awakening after an invasion by Enemies from Beyond the Territory.
• Wen Zhongyong’s attempt to curse Qi Yuan backfires, and Qi Yuan later kills the Ugly Clothing Monster Emperor, gaining Polluted Fragments of Heavenly Dao and control of the Attire Division Imperial Guards.
• Sima Ting conspires with the Demon Race and Heavenly Fortune Holy Gate to slaughter the capital and forge the Bloodless Emperor Staff, while Jin Li faces a citywide blockade.
• Qi Yuan tells Jin Li he can send the Imperial Guards to help, and she orders Kong Qi and Duke Yu to build a God Sacrifice Platform to summon them.

Qi Yuan mastered the Five Elements and conquered the Yin Yang and Heaven’s End forbidden grounds, then left the game to find Jin Li in the Moon Gazing Continent. While Jin Li waited for him, Qi Yuan became involved in the Moon Imperial Clan’s struggle and agreed to protect its Saintess.

• Jin Li exposed the Soul Burial Banner Array during the God Sacrifice ceremony, and the Attire Division Imperial Guards defeated the Demon Race emperor and Sima Ting.
• Qi Yuan entered the Five Elements Forbidden Ground, completed the Five Elements, earned the five ancestors’ recognition, and received the cultivation insights of fifty-three experts.
• Qi Yuan defeated Burying Flower, took on the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground, and began the 129,600 battles required to control Heaven’s End.
• Qi Yuan killed Zhu Lianhua and Wang Shuang after discovering their plot against the Shinguang Sect, then cleared Heaven’s End and defeated its Golden Armor Divine General.
• Qi Yuan left Heaven’s End without his game interface and traveled toward the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree, where he buried the remains of murdered children.
• Qi Yuan reached Seventh Moon Lake seeking Jin Li, while July told Jin Li that Qing Luo had been her younger sister and Jin Li’s mother.
• Qi Yuan agreed to protect Moon Girl for twenty-six days and asked the Moon Imperial Clan to establish the Moon Dynasty and July Town.
• Qi Yuan killed the seven advancing Emperors from the Hundred Cities Alliance with one sword strike while eating beside Moon Girl.

Qi Yuan returned to the Azure Wave World, survived the Dragon Seizing Competition, and passed Withered Wood True Lord’s test, gaining a place in the Eastern Land Pride Battle. He reentered the game and defended No Return City against wave after wave of demonic abominations as the Myriad Paths Gate appeared above the Azure Sky.

• Qi Yuan and Moon Girl destroyed the Hundred Cities Alliance’s army, and Qi Yuan then entered Land's End alone to battle the Extraterrestrial Demons.
• Qi Yuan killed the Extraterrestrial Demons and confronted Grand Sun, whose attack destroyed Land's End before Qi Yuan awoke in the Attire Forbidden Area.
• Qi Yuan joined the Dragon Seizing Competition, killed the old emperor and Po Lang in the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm, and rescued Little Bride from the Crystal Coffin.
• Qi Yuan killed Luo Jing and learned the Light Palace planned to provoke a Hundred Kingdoms Blood War, then escaped Ning Tao’s attempt to seal his memories in the Flowing Wind World.
• Qi Yuan killed Zu Yuan True Person and the Black Chicken Old Demon, passed Withered Wood True Lord’s test, and agreed to represent him in the Eastern Land Pride Battle.
• At Dong Xian’s coronation, the Light Palace demanded that Great Shang surrender Qi Yuan and Kang Fulu, but Dong Xian refused.
• Qi Yuan entered No Return City with Little Bride, cleared its demonic abominations, and met Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao as they raised Great Xia’s military banner.
• Qi Yuan defended No Return City against repeated armies, reached level sixty, and saw the Myriad Paths Gate appear above the Azure Sky.