Recaps

Li Qing learned from Elder Xu that the Cold Wind Secret Realm held a newly born Nether Cold Fire, a Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire that might help his cultivation. After completing his artifact-refining commission, he headed to research the fire and the secret realm in preparation for a possible future expedition.

• Li Qing drank Drunken Moon Wine with Elder Xu, and the wine slightly increased his spiritual power as they grew closer.
• Li Qing asked Elder Xu about Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, and Elder Xu revealed that he had seen Nether Cold Fire in the Cold Wind Secret Realm nearly eighty years earlier.
• Elder Xu described the secret realm's dangerous conditions and its valuable spirit herbs, and asked Li Qing to refine him a Top-grade Magic Tool someday in return for the information.
• Elder Xu told Li Qing that he had also witnessed a Core Formation True Person wield Great Sun Golden Flame during an exchange with Sky Swallowing Ancestor.
• Li Qing collected the Contribution Points for his commission and left the Artifact Refining Hall, eager to research Nether Cold Fire and the Cold Wind Secret Realm.

Li Qing learned about the Cold Wind Secret Realm and resolved to prepare over the next century to obtain its Nether Cold Fire while pursuing other ways to strengthen himself. He then spent more than two months refining artifacts to accumulate Contribution Points, completing another Flying Sword commission for Cheng Jinxiao.

• Li Qing studied the Cold Wind Secret Realm and learned that it opened every two hundred years, then began planning to enter and obtain the Nether Cold Fire.
• Li Qing read about Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires and decided not to rely solely on the secret realm, while prioritizing the accumulation of Contribution Points for the coming pill restock.
• Li Qing accepted numerous artifact-refining commissions from Qi Refining stage disciples at the Artifact Refining Hall over two months.
• Li Qing took Cheng Jinxiao's fourth Flying Sword commission and found that his Fire Essence Crocodiles were exhausted from breathing Demonic Fire.
• Li Qing used another Formation Eye to refine Cheng Jinxiao's Flying Sword, which emerged from the Black Furnace in less than three days.

Li Qing visited the Merit Hall to exchange Contribution Points for pills, but found that the Purple Sun Pill quota had been reduced after Lingyun Sect sold spirit herbs to Tianhe Sect. He teamed up with Chu Lingyi to obtain Shadow Spider silk for his Sky Net Banner and left with pills and the silk, while Chu Lingyi continued developing a Shadow Escape Talisman.

• Li Qing joined the External Affairs Elders at the Merit Hall, where they learned that the Purple Sun Pill quota had fallen by thirty percent because Lingyun Sect had sold spirit herbs to Tianhe Sect.
• Li Qing spotted Shadow Spider's Silk Sac among the Merit Hall goods and recognized its silk as a key material for refining the Sky Net Banner.
• Li Qing and Chu Lingyi agreed to split the silk while Chu Lingyi kept the sac, then exchanged their Contribution Points for the materials and Li Qing obtained bottles of Purple Sun Pills and Clear Profound Pills.
• Chu Lingyi explained that she wanted the silk sac for her research on a Shadow Escape Talisman, and Li Qing offered to buy some if she succeeded.
• Chu Lingyi returned to the Talisman Hall to continue her research, while Li Qing flew back to his cave abode to use his pills.

After five years in Lingyun Sect, Li Qing had strengthened his cultivation and volunteered to oversee the upcoming Ascension Ceremony. Sect Master Xu Yun was deeply moved by Li Qing’s sincere letter and accepted his offer, planning to choose a second elder by lot.

• Li Qing spent all his Contribution Points on pills and spiritual materials, then refined two bottles of pills over four months.
• Five years after joining Lingyun Sect, Li Qing remained at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage but had improved his spiritual power and reached the second rank in Body Arts.
• Sect Master Xu Yun sent elders a request to oversee the next Ascension Ceremony and escort the new disciples back to the sect.
• Li Qing volunteered, hoping that gaining experience leading teams might help him qualify to lead disciples into the Cold Wind Secret Realm in the future.
• After most elders declined, Sect Master Xu Yun read Li Qing’s letter, treasured it, and agreed to send him to the ceremony with a second elder chosen by lot.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing arrived at Lingyun Marketplace to oversee the coming Ascension Ceremony, where Li Qing planned to find treasures to help him subdue the Nether Cold Fire. He entered the Myriad Treasures Tower and received an invitation to its second floor.

• Li Qing traveled with Shen Ningbing to Lingyun Marketplace and noted her Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation.
• A Lingyun Sect disciple showed the elders the Ascension Ceremony roster, and Li Qing asked to be notified of applicants with Heavenly or Special Spiritual Roots.
• Li Qing settled into his cultivation cave and decided to search the marketplace for soul-protecting and yang treasures to prepare for subduing the Nether Cold Fire.
• Li Qing displayed his status as a Lingyun Sect elder while browsing the marketplace and spotted the Myriad Treasures Tower.
• A woman in a pink qipao greeted Li Qing at the Myriad Treasures Tower and invited him to the second floor.

Li Qing visited the Myriad Treasures Tower to trade for items that could protect his divine soul and a treasure of utmost Yang. He exchanged a fifteen-hundred-year Sky Star Grass and a Foundation Establishment Pill for Soul Protection Pills and a Golden Fire Crow tail feather, then left the tower.

• Li Qing requested divine-soul-protecting items and treasures of utmost hardness and utmost Yang at the Myriad Treasures Tower.
• A female cultivator presented Soul Protection Pills and a Golden Fire Crow tail feather, explaining their properties and the feather's high value.
• Li Qing offered a Foundation Establishment Pill for the feather, but the female cultivator said it was not enough.
• Li Qing added a fifteen-hundred-year Sky Star Grass, and the tower's appraiser confirmed its age and accepted the exchange.
• Li Qing took the Soul Protection Pills and Golden Fire Crow tail feather, then departed as the appraiser praised Chan'er for the transaction.

Li Qing presided over Lingyun Sect’s Ascension Ceremony and watched Lu Fan defeat Tang Zhan with a powerful body-refining secret art. When Tang Family Patriarch Tang Lushan attacked Lu Fan, Li Qing intervened, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Li Qing admired the Golden Fire Crow tail feather, then cultivated until the day of the Ascension Ceremony arrived.
• Li Qing addressed the gathered cultivators, activated the arena’s protective formation, and reviewed the roster with Shen Ningbing.
• Lu Fan faced Tang Zhan, a dual-spirit-root descendant of the Tang Family, and Li Qing recognized Lu Fan as a formidable Body Cultivator.
• Lu Fan unleashed a secret art, shattered Tang Zhan’s defensive Magic Tool, and knocked him off the arena.
• Tang Lushan charged onto the arena to attack Lu Fan, and Li Qing blocked him with Mountain Spear and challenged his disrespect toward Lingyun Sect.

Tang Lushan tried to attack Lu Fan during the Ascension Ceremony, but Li Qing and Shen Ningbing stopped him and the matches continued under strict warning. After the ten strongest cultivators were selected and the ceremony ended, Li Qing led the forty-seven successful recruits toward Lingyun Sect, where a goshawk’s cry greeted them as they left the ice lake.

• Tang Lushan attacked Lu Fan, but Li Qing blocked him and Shen Ningbing prepared to fight, forcing Tang Lushan to retreat with Tang Zhan.
• Li Qing warned everyone to follow Lingyun Sect’s rules, and the Ascension Ceremony continued over several days as contestants advanced.
• A gloomy young man with a goshawk and an elderly companion discussed their effort to keep Lingyun Sect neutral and prevent it from aiding Tianhe Sect.
• The fifty finalists fought for ten Foundation Establishment Pills, and Li Qing watched Lu Fan display his unusual Body Arts inheritance.
• After no one challenged the ten victors, Li Qing declared the Ascension Ceremony over, with forty-seven cultivators successfully joining Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing led the new recruits out of Lingyun Market across the frozen lake, where a goshawk cried as they emerged.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing encountered Ling Ying, a former Flying Eagle Bandit now serving the Shangqing Sect, and Liu Hongyuan near Lingyun Sect’s marketplace. Shen Ningbing tested Ling Ying in battle, and the chapter ended as both sides summoned powerful companions for a combined strike.

• Li Qing recognized the scarlet-eyed Sky-Rending Eagle as a Second-tier Demonic Beast and ordered the cultivators to return to the marketplace.
• Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan emerged from the mist and said they had come from the Shangqing Sect to visit Lingyun Sect.
• Ling Ying challenged Shen Ningbing, and Li Qing warned her about Ling Ying’s Wind Spiritual Root and his coordination with the Sky-Rending Eagle.
• Shen Ningbing and Ling Ying exchanged attacks with ice and wind while Li Qing and Liu Hongyuan watched each other warily.
• Ling Ying called the Sky-Rending Eagle to join his final strike, and Shen Ningbing summoned an ice-blue butterfly that Liu Hongyuan identified as a Frost Jade Ice Butterfly.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing battled Ling Ying and his Sky-Rending Eagle, whose strength matched the Frost Jade Ice Butterfly despite the icy terrain. After the two sides parted, Li Qing returned to Lingyun Market with Shen Ningbing, while Ling Ying considered drawing the Lingyun Sect into trouble at Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain; Li Qing then tested a Beast Transformation Talisman with the eagle’s blood.

• Shen Ningbing summoned the Frost Jade Ice Butterfly and fought Ling Ying’s Sky-Rending Eagle, and their attacks collided in a blizzard that left both sides slightly injured.
• Li Qing declined to accompany Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan to the Lingyun Sect, then helped Shen Ningbing when she weakened from the strain of using the butterfly’s power.
• Shen Ningbing revealed that the Frost Jade Ice Butterfly had tried to break free of their Spirit Contract, and she and Li Qing returned to Lingyun Market to recover.
• Ling Ying told Liu Hongyuan that his Sky-Rending Eagle had mutated after consuming a strange crystal, and he considered sending the Lingyun Sect to deal with trouble near Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain.
• Li Qing took the blood from the Sky-Rending Eagle’s feathers and imprinted it onto a Beast Transformation Talisman.

Li Qing visited Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion to learn about Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire and discovered that Daoist Lingmiao had once wielded Nether Cold Fire. Intelligence linked Lingmiao to the Forbidden Speech Snowfield, leaving Li Qing wondering whether that fire was connected to the Nether Cold Fire in the Cold Wind Secret Realm.

• Li Qing completed the Sky-Rending Eagle imprint on the Beast Transformation Talisman, then left his cave to gather news while Shen Ningbing recovered.
• At Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion, Li Qing bought a collection of intelligence about Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, but most of it was too old or involved cultivators beyond his reach.
• A blue-clad attendant told Li Qing that someone had reported traces of Daoist Lingmiao in Mu Kingdom and showed him intelligence that Lingmiao had wielded Nether Cold Fire.
• Li Qing paid for details linking Lingmiao to a token found near the Forbidden Speech Snowfield and learned that Lingmiao may have fled toward Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain.
• Li Qing considered whether Lingmiao's Nether Cold Fire had later fallen dormant and reignited in the Cold Wind Secret Realm eighty years ago.

Li Qing learned that tensions between Tianhe Sect and Shangqing Sect were rising as their old treaty neared its end, then returned to Lingyun Sect with Shen Ningbing and forty-seven new disciples. He waited to see whether Lu Fan would establish his foundation, and after Lu Fan failed, Li Qing planned to offer him a Foundation Establishment Pill in exchange for his body-tempering inheritance.

• A Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion attendant told Li Qing that Shangqing Sect was provoking Tianhe Sect as the treaty obligations between them were about to expire.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing escorted forty-seven new disciples safely to Lingyun Sect, where Li Qing welcomed them through the mountain gate.
• Li Qing decided to wait for Lu Fan to fail at Foundation Establishment before offering him a pill for his body-tempering inheritance.
• Lu Fan swallowed his Foundation Establishment Pill while only at the ninth layer of Qi Refining, and eight immortal seedlings attempted Foundation Establishment.
• Ning Yuan succeeded, but Ye Sun, Zhang Rishan, Lu Fan, and the other five candidates failed, leaving only one success among the eight.
• Li Qing felt relieved that Lu Fan had failed and decided to wait a few more days before offering him help.

After failing Foundation Establishment, Lu Fan took the only available assignment and was placed in Ice Prison’s deepest cell, where a mad former elder’s cries nearly drove him to madness. He resolved to attempt Foundation Establishment without a pill, just as a visitor arrived offering him one.

• Lu Fan chose to guard Ice Prison after finding that the desirable sect assignments had already been taken.
• Lu Fan learned that Zheng Donghe had arranged for him to guard the deepest part of Ice Prison as revenge for refusing to lend him a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Lu Fan spent a day listening to a powerful mad former elder’s soul-affecting cries and demanded to change assignments.
• Senior Brother Lin told Lu Fan he had to keep the assignment for at least three months unless he achieved Foundation Establishment and became an elder.
• Lu Fan decided to attempt Foundation Establishment without a pill, but an unidentified visitor offered him a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Li Qing gave Lu Fan a Foundation Establishment Pill in exchange for Lu Fan’s body-tempering technique, then revealed who had been tormenting him. Lu Fan prepared to try Foundation Establishment again, while Li Qing left Zheng Donghe to face Lu Fan’s anger.

• Li Qing found Lu Fan after his desperate attempt at Foundation Establishment and urged him not to give up or let his enemies drive him to ruin.
• Li Qing offered Lu Fan a Foundation Establishment Pill in exchange for the True Body of the Brahma King technique, and Lu Fan handed over the incomplete manual.
• Li Qing accepted the technique, gave Lu Fan the pill, and warned him that Zheng Donghe had instigated the trouble.
• Lu Fan restrained his anger toward Zheng Donghe and began preparing for a second Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Li Qing left, reflecting that revealing Zheng Donghe’s role was a small act of revenge that kept him personally uninvolved.

Li Qing began cultivating the True Body of the Brahma King and learned that its rapid gains came at a severe cost in qi and blood, then visited the Artifact Refining Hall to hear about new materials and the sect’s unchanged assignments. Meanwhile, Sect Master Xu Yun rejected the Shangqing Sect’s proposed alliance, and Ling Ying resolved to find a way to occupy the Lingyun Sect as the Shangqing Sect prepared to deal with the Tianhe Sect.

• Li Qing tried cultivating the True Body of the Brahma King, stopped when it consumed too much qi and blood, and felt his strength and physique improve.
• Li Qing planned to advance his qi and blood through the Nine Revolutions and use body tempering to build combat power while his qi cultivation progressed slowly.
• At the Artifact Refining Hall, Elder Wen told Li Qing that a shipment would include the spinal bones of a Second-tier Demonic Beast, and that the usual artifact-refining assignments would remain unchanged.
• Sect Master Xu Yun rejected Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan’s proposal for an alliance, insisting that the Lingyun Sect follow its ancestral teachings and stay out of other sects’ disputes.
• After leaving the Lingyun Sect, Ling Ying told Liu Hongyuan to follow him deeper into the snowfields so they could find something to occupy the Lingyun Sect.

Lu Fan succeeded in Foundation Establishment without relying on a Foundation Establishment Pill, shocking the Lingyun Sect. He stormed the Ice Prison, forced its disciples to name Zheng Donghe as the one who had arranged his punishment, and flew off to confront him.

• Lu Fan began attempting Foundation Establishment in his courtyard, and disciples across the sect—including Zheng Donghe and the Ice Prison staff—assumed he would fail.
• Lu Fan’s spiritual aura surged and stabilized, confirming his successful Foundation Establishment, and he immediately flew toward the Ice Prison.
• Lu Fan entered the Ice Prison and slapped Senior Brother Lin, demanding to know who had arranged to place him in its deepest section.
• The Ice Prison disciples named Zheng Donghe, and Lu Fan publicly pretended not to believe their accusation while slapping them until they repeated it.
• Lu Fan declared that he would confront Zheng Donghe and flew toward his residence with murderous momentum.

Li Qing completed his Artifact Refining Hall quota and studied second-tier inheritance while preparing to refine a Top-grade Magic Tool. After visiting the newly imprisoned Lu Fan, he decided to seek out the Ice Prison’s mad old senior.

• Li Qing refined a High-grade Magic Tool, the Ice Cloud Umbrella, and completed his sect artifact-refining quota.
• Li Qing studied second-tier artifact-refining inheritance, including unusual composite spiritual patterns, while planning to refine a Top-grade Magic Tool using a wild bull spinal bone.
• Li Qing heard that Lu Fan had attacked Zheng Donghe after reaching Foundation Establishment and had been imprisoned, then went to visit him.
• Li Qing confirmed Lu Fan had not revealed his involvement with the Foundation Establishment Pill and reassured him that the sect would likely release him soon.
• Li Qing heard the mad old man in the Ice Prison and went to visit the former Foundation Establishment Late Stage elder.

Li Qing visited the imprisoned Elder Wu Yuan and discovered that the Soul Nurturing Bell could quiet his rampaging soul. After Wu Yuan briefly regained his senses, he began teaching Li Qing the dangerous Soul Core method before the chapter ended.

• Li Qing approached Wu Yuan’s sealed cell and was nearly overwhelmed by the elder’s soul-shaking cries and laughter.
• Li Qing rang the Soul Nurturing Bell, and Wu Yuan grew calm enough to ask him to continue.
• Wu Yuan asked who led the Lingyun Sect, learned that Xu Yun was sect master, and refused Li Qing’s offer to summon help.
• Wu Yuan said he wished to die quietly in the Ice Prison and offered Li Qing the techniques and inheritances left in his memories.
• Li Qing asked about Wu Yuan’s Core Formation method, and Wu Yuan began teaching him the forbidden Soul Core technique.

Li Qing received Elder Wu Yuan’s warnings about the dangerous Soul Pill method, then learned that Wu Yuan had regained consciousness only to spend his final days in peace. After Wu Yuan died and was buried by the sect, Li Qing tried the method, found it too dangerous for his current cultivation, and turned to artifact refining instead.

• Li Qing thanked Elder Wu Yuan for teaching him the Soul Pill method and left the Ice Prison, reflecting on how Wu Yuan’s reckless pursuit of advancement had ruined his promising path.
• The Ice Prison guards noticed Wu Yuan had gone quiet, investigated, and discovered that he had regained consciousness, prompting news to spread through Lingyun Sect.
• Sect Master Xu Yun visited Wu Yuan and offered life-extending medicines, but Wu Yuan refused them and chose to die quietly in the Ice Prison.
• Sect Master Xu Yun buried Wu Yuan in the sect’s back mountain, where important elders gathered to mourn the fallen legend.
• Li Qing attempted to cultivate the Soul Pill method but found that splitting his divine soul nearly made it collapse, so he restored it with the Soul Nurturing Bell and Thousand-Year Sky Star Grass.
• Li Qing decided to postpone the method until his divine soul was stronger and focused on studying the second-rank artifact refining inheritance and refining the Sky Net Banner.

Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan traveled into Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain to ask Crocodile Venerable to loosen an ancient seal and distract the Lingyun Sect from the Shangqing Sect’s planned attack on the Tianhe Sect. Crocodile Venerable accepted after Ling Ying offered a mysterious Crimson Crystal, but said it could only loosen the seal, not open it outright.

• Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan followed the Water Condensing Mirror deep into Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain and found Crocodile Venerable resting as a stone egg in an ice pit.
• Crocodile Venerable’s overwhelming aura forced Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan to their knees until Ling Ying presented the Water Condensing Mirror and explained True Person Linglong’s request.
• Ling Ying offered Crocodile Venerable the promised Water Spirit Pearl fragment and the Tianhe Sect’s inherited cultivation arts if the Shangqing Sect defeated the Tianhe Sect.
• Crocodile Venerable doubted the offer and questioned whether the Tianhe Sect could possess any part of a Five Elements Spirit Pearl.
• Ling Ying gave Crocodile Venerable a mysterious red crystal core, which Crocodile Venerable recognized as carrying dense killing intent and buried beneath the snow.
• Crocodile Venerable agreed to help but warned Ling Ying that it could only loosen the ancient seal atop the snow mountain.

Crocodile Venerable triggered a massive avalanche while using ancient Demonic Script to break the seal of the Cold Wind Secret Realm atop Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain. As the tremors and cold reached Lingyun Sect, Chu Mingyi reported the disturbance, but a Law Enforcement elder dismissed it as an ordinary avalanche.

• Crocodile Venerable protected Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan from the avalanche while striking the summit seal with mysterious imprints.
• Ling Ying told Liu Hongyuan that Lingyun Sect had been founded to guard the Ancient Demon Clan sealed within the snow mountains, and said the sect could handle the remnants if they were released.
• Lingyun Sect’s mountain-gate disciples felt prolonged tremors and growing cold, though the senior disciples initially dismissed them as effects of a routine avalanche.
• Chu Mingyi flew to the sect to report the disturbance after the mountain-gate disciples agreed that something was wrong.
• A Law Enforcement Hall elder waved off Chu Mingyi’s report, saying avalanches on the snow mountain were common.

Crocodile Venerable opened a gap in the seal beneath Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain, then departed with Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan fleeing the scene. Meanwhile, Li Qing began refining a Sky Net Banner and left off shaping the wild ox spine after purging its Killing Intent.

• Elder Wei Han dismissed reports of tremors and falling temperatures near the mountain gate as ordinary disturbances.
• Crocodile Venerable weakened the Extreme Ice Demon Sealing Formation, allowing demonic qi to escape through a fissure.
• Crocodile Venerable left with the crimson crystal, and Ling Ying and Liu Hongyuan fled beyond Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain.
• Li Qing prepared to refine a Sky Net Banner with his Black Furnace and Innate True Fire.
• Li Qing spent three days and nights purging Killing Intent from a late second tier wild ox spine, then recovered his mana.
• Li Qing resumed refining the spine, planning to reduce its size and melt its essence for the banner.

Li Qing completed the Sky Net Banner’s prototype and began inscribing its spirit patterns as the Shangqing Sect mobilized its forces and launched a war against the Tianhe Sect. The chapter left Lingyun Sect Master Xu Yun uneasy about why Shangqing Sect had attacked so suddenly despite Lingyun Sect’s presence.

• Li Qing refined the Sky Net Banner’s materials, finished its prototype, and began engraving its spirit patterns.
• True Person Linglong summoned the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise and asked it to suppress the Tianhe Sect’s formation.
• The Shangqing Sect awakened its powerful hidden cultivators, mobilized its forces, and formally declared war on the Tianhe Sect.
• Cultivation Noble Families across the Liang Kingdom sent descendants to support the Shangqing Sect, and news of the war spread throughout the Qingling Region.
• Sect Master Xu Yun received the report and questioned why the Shangqing Sect would attack without accounting for Lingyun Sect.

Li Qing finished refining the Sky Net Banner, a Top-grade Magic Tool, and tested its ability to immobilize a Second-tier Demonic Beast. At an urgent sect meeting, Sect Master Xu Yun revealed that Lingyun Sect had been founded to guard Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain, where the surviving ancient demons were suppressed.

• Li Qing refined the Sky Net Banner and gained seventy years of lifespan.
• Li Qing used the banner to immobilize Rice Bucket, then released him after testing its mana cost.
• Li Qing joined the elders at Cloudy Sky Hall after Sect Master Xu Yun urgently summoned them.
• Chu Lingyi told Li Qing that the Shangqing Sect had formally declared war on the Tianhe Sect.
• Xu Yun recounted that ancient demons had once devastated the Qingling Region and that Lingyun Sect was founded to guard Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain, where the remaining demons were suppressed.

After the seal at Forbidden Speech Snow Mountain broke, Lingyun Sect prepared for the ancient demons to escape and ordered its elders to investigate the formation. Li Qing returned to his cave dwelling and began planning how to survive the coming danger.

• Sect Master Xu Yun announced that the Extreme Ice Demon Sealing Formation had an expanding breach and would fail completely within ten years.
• Li Qing suspected Shangqing Sect had sabotaged the formation, while Sect Master Xu Yun said the surviving ancient demons might have weakened over the millennia.
• Sect Master Xu Yun declared that he would lead elders into the formation once the breach allowed Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators to pass, and that all elders would investigate in ten groups.
• Sect Master Xu Yun placed Lingyun Sect on a war footing and warned that anyone fleeing would be treated as a sect traitor.
• Li Qing resolved to strengthen his defenses over the next year by cultivating the Blood Burning Secret Method and considering the True Body of the Brahma King, while using his new Contribution Points for supplies.