Recaps

Li Qing ascended from the Human Realm and crossed the dangerous void toward the Spirit Realm, where the Formless Sage Ancestor ambushed him with an army of Dao Bodies. As Li Qing neared his destination, a Void Refinement stage Dao Body struck him down, but his immortal estate blocked the attack and carried him unconscious into the Spirit Realm.

• Li Qing burned open a passage with his four Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires and entered the void, using his Spirit Realm Beacon and Kunpeng Divine Power to find his way.
• Li Qing encountered a colossal white whale and fled a spatial storm caused by its passing.
• Li Qing reached a region of stars representing small worlds and encountered the Formless Sage Ancestor's Dao Bodies, who revealed that they had been waiting to kill him.
• Li Qing fought the Dao Bodies, destroyed two, and then spent his vitality essence to escape their growing encirclement.
• A Void Refinement stage Dao Body attacked Li Qing near the Spirit Realm, but the body he destroyed was a Yin corpse and Li Qing's immortal estate blocked the follow-up strike.
• The immortal estate fell with Li Qing toward the Spirit Realm as he lost consciousness.

Li Qing survived his forced arrival in the Spirit Realm and slowly recovered from his injuries before meeting a giant from the Giant Spirit Race. He learned that he was on Tonggu Continent, where humans were vassals of the Giant Spirit Race, and that the region’s recent war against the Treant Race had ended.

• Li Qing woke beneath the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion in a vast crater, confirmed that Rice Bucket was alive, and found himself gravely injured in the Spirit Realm.
• Li Qing used pills to recover for sixteen days, restoring his bones and much of his ability to move.
• A giant carrying a bone club approached the crater after sensing Li Qing’s spiritual sense, and Li Qing cautiously tried to communicate with him.
• Li Qing and the giant communicated in Ancient Demon Language, then the giant taught him the Spirit Realm’s common language and the Giant Spirit Race’s language.
• The giant told Li Qing that he was on Tonggu Continent, where humans were vassals of the Giant Spirit Race, and warned him about the hostile Treant Race in the south.
• The giant explained that the Giant Spirit Race and Treant Race had just ended a long war, and that humans would receive rewards for their help.

Li Qing traveled across the Tonggu Continent toward a human city, fending off a griffonman who tried to take his Wind Thunder Silver Wings. He reached Xuangu City seeking a place to recover and information about the continent, where a city guard reacted with fervor upon learning he was an ascender from the lower realm.

• Guli explained the Giant Spirit Race’s strength and directed Li Qing southwest toward a human city.
• Li Qing flew across the vast Tonggu Continent and encountered a griffonman who demanded his Wind Thunder Silver Wings.
• When the griffonman attacked, Li Qing wounded him with the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame, then chose to leave rather than risk trouble for the humans.
• Li Qing arrived at Xuangu City, entered through its guarded gate, and received a city-entry token after the formation inspected him.
• Li Qing asked about renting a cave abode and obtaining information, then told a city guard he had ascended from the lower realm; the guard reacted with fervent reverence.

Li Qing explored Xuangu City's cultivation market, learned how Merit Points worked, and discovered that a piece of Leaving Fire Profound Jade bore patterns linked to the Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch. The City Lord summoned him and welcomed him warmly, leaving Li Qing about to enter the City Lord's Mansion.

• Li Qing entered Xuangu City's cultivation market, where he saw rare spirit herbs and learned that the stall owner wanted True Spirit descendant essence blood for a Yang Marrow Root.
• Li Qing examined a piece of Leaving Fire Profound Jade, learned it cost thirty thousand Merit Points, and asked how to earn and spend them.
• The Profound Yellow True Flame told Li Qing that the jade's patterns came from the Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch, and Li Qing decided to earn Merit Points before trying to buy it.
• The City Lord's Imperial Guards located Li Qing through his entry token and invited him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• The City Lord identified Li Qing as an ascender, noted his damaged meridians, and welcomed him into the mansion.

Li Qing learned from Lingxu City Lord about the Spirit Realm’s heavenly tribulations and the need for Dust Settling Pills, then sought out Pill Master Jian to arrange for a batch. He also heard about a possible opportunity to enter the Tianguang Secret Realm and left Pill Master Jian’s cave abode facing a costly alchemy fee.

• Lingxu City Lord explained that Spirit Transformation cultivators faced a minor heavenly tribulation every three hundred years, and that Li Qing’s ascension accident had spared him one for now.
• Lingxu City Lord told Li Qing to seek Dust Settling Pills from Old Man Jian and offered him a possible human-race slot in the Tianguang Secret Realm if he recovered in time.
• Li Qing inspected Xuangu City’s mission monument, assessed the value of Merit Points, and decided to visit the alchemist surnamed Jian.
• Pill Master Jian recognized Li Qing’s severed meridians and offered a Dragon Tiger Vein Renewing Pill before learning that Li Qing wanted Dust Settling Pills.
• Pill Master Jian realized Li Qing was the city’s new ascender and quoted five thousand Merit Points to refine a batch, with the medicinal ingredients charged separately.

Li Qing gathered Merit Points by taking artifact-refining commissions, rented a cave dwelling, and discovered that spirit medicines and Jiu'er from the Eternal Night World were changing rapidly in the Spirit Realm. He began recovering from his injuries and considered testing whether Spirit Medicine Seeds could be altered by the Eternal Night World’s environment.

• Li Qing negotiated with Old Man Jian to refine Dust Settling Pills for thirteen thousand Merit Points, but left when he could not afford the cost or a cave dwelling.
• Li Qing completed nearly every artifact-refining commission in the city, earned twenty-eight hundred Merit Points, and rented a cave dwelling.
• Li Qing inspected the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion and found that its Eternal Night World spirit medicines had grown rapidly and that Jiu'er was undergoing a transformation.
• Li Qing concluded that the changes likely came from the different flow of time between the Eternal Night World and the Spirit Realm, and sealed away the rapidly growing Blood Lotus.
• Li Qing spent more than twenty days reconnecting his meridians, then stopped before his mana recovered to the Spirit Transformation stage to avoid triggering a heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qing considered placing Spirit Medicine Seeds in the Eternal Night World to see whether its environment would change them, and decided to look for seeds in the city.

Li Qing sold the Yellow Weasel’s flesh and hide at a Xuangu City market, earning tens of thousands of Merit Points while seeking a buyer for the Spirit Treasure Bone Arrow. After agreeing to consign the unsold arrow to the Jinfeng Merchant Guild’s auction, he left for Old Man Jian’s cave abode to obtain a Dust Settling Pill and restore his spiritual power.

• Li Qing rented a market stall and displayed the Yellow Weasel’s flesh, hide, and refined Bone Arrow, drawing a crowd with the arrow’s brilliant spiritual light.
• Li Qing set fixed prices for the flesh and hide, sold them for tens of thousands of Merit Points, and refused Hou Xianshe’s demand for the Yellow Weasel’s Essence Blood.
• Hou Xianshe threatened Li Qing by invoking his lineage, but Li Qing dismissed him and Hou Xianshe backed down.
• A manager from the Jinfeng Merchant Guild offered to consign the Bone Arrow to an auction in the Giant Spirit Race, and Li Qing agreed if it remained unsold.
• After three days passed without an offer for the Bone Arrow, Li Qing packed up and headed to Old Man Jian’s cave abode to obtain a Dust Settling Pill.

After restoring his cultivation and cleansing away his lower-realm aura, Li Qing survived his first Spirit Realm minor heavenly tribulation and drew the Lingxu City Lord’s attention. The Lingxu City Lord offered him a Tianguang Secret Realm slot in exchange for seeking Creation Source Liquid, and Li Qing met the other human cultivators who would enter with him.

• Li Qing took fifteen Dust Settling Pills, restored his cultivation, and advanced closer to the middle Spirit Transformation stage.
• Li Qing flew outside Xuangu City and endured his minor heavenly tribulation, using Golden Night True Thunder and Violet Void Divine Lightning to temper his body before swallowing the remaining thunderclouds.
• The Lingxu City Lord watched Li Qing’s tribulation and, recognizing him as an unusually powerful ascender, considered giving him a Tianguang Secret Realm slot.
• The Lingxu City Lord offered Li Qing a slot and asked him to gather Creation Source Liquid to help with his next Great Heavenly Tribulation; Li Qing agreed after confirming that conflict in the realm would not endanger Xuangu City.
• Li Qing accompanied the Lingxu City Lord to the City Lord’s Mansion, met the other three human cultivators entering the secret realm, and received a jade slip containing intelligence about its dangers and opportunities.

Li Qing learned about the Tianguang Secret Realm and its rare treasures while preparing to enter it for the Lingxu City Lord’s sake. After acquiring Ghost Eye Purple Gold from the Hou family and studying the realm’s intelligence, he discovered that Pure Origin Dew could greatly aid advancement to Void Refinement.

• Fuya tried to charm Li Qing into visiting her, but he resisted and declined her invitation; Hu Sheng then told him that Old Lord Black Nether would pursue the Earth Spirit Grass Fruit and Pure Origin Dew rather than focus on gathering Creation Source Liquid.
• Li Qing found Hou Xianshe being beaten by the Hou Family Patriarch for offending him, then accepted the patriarch’s Ghost Eye Purple Gold Ore in exchange for considering the Hou family’s request for Ancient Savage Beast blood essence.
• Li Qing refined the ore into Ghost Eye Purple Gold and decided it could serve as the main material for his second killing sword.
• Li Qing studied the Tianguang Secret Realm intelligence and learned that its Condensing Light Lake could improve cultivation potential and that Pure Origin Dew from Life Severing Cliff could help cultivate Purple Extreme Heavenly Light.
• Li Qing learned that Purple Extreme Heavenly Light could increase the chance of advancing to Void Refinement by at least thirty percent.

Li Qing sought to strengthen himself before the Tianguang Secret Realm opened, so he gathered ingredients and learned to refine Jade Bone Pills. After improving through repeated attempts, he made seventy-eight pills, then began taking one and considered using the formula to earn Merit Points.

• Li Qing decided to improve his combat power before the Tianguang Secret Realm opened and harvested 223 Luoyu Red Fruits from the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qing spent nearly all his Merit Points on twenty-six Old Polygonatum branches and leaves, the last ingredient needed for Jade Bone Pills.
• Li Qing’s first attempt at refining Jade Bone Pills produced only failed pills, so he reviewed his methods and refined the next batch more carefully.
• Li Qing successfully made four Jade Bone Pills in his second batch and continued refining, producing seventy-eight pills after more than thirty days of work.
• Li Qing stopped when his soul reached its limit, planned to make and sell more Jade Bone Pills, and swallowed one to test its effects.

Li Qing arranged with Sikong of the Jinfeng Merchant Guild to auction Jade Bone Pills and his Bone Arrow, then traveled with the guild’s caravan to Giant Spirit King City. After arriving at the city’s Outer Areas, the caravan prepared to proceed on foot because formations prohibited flight.

• Li Qing refined four Jade Bone Pills and sensed that they were strengthening his bones toward a jade-bone physique.
• Sikong visited Li Qing to confirm the Bone Arrow’s auction consignment and invited him to travel with the guild to Giant Spirit King City.
• Li Qing agreed to consign twenty Jade Bone Pills, and he and Sikong finalized the auction arrangements after the guild verified the pills’ effects.
• Li Qing joined the Jinfeng Merchant Guild’s caravan from Xuangu City, where he encountered Old Lord Black Nether aboard the spirit vessel.
• The caravan passed Giant Spirit Mountain and reached the Outer Areas of Giant Spirit King City, where Sikong ordered the spirit vessel to descend because flight was prohibited farther in.

Li Qing arrived in Giant Spirit King City with the Jinfeng merchant caravan, saw the power and wealth of the other races, and learned about valuable exchanges available for Merit Points. At the auction, he heard rival leaders discuss the formidable young fighters preparing for the next Tianguang Secret Realm and quietly noted potential opponents.

• Li Qing and the Jinfeng merchant caravan arrived in Giant Spirit King City, where the Flying Spirit Race received a grand welcome while the humans were left with modest lodgings.
• Li Qing inspected the Merit Exchange Record and saw rare treasures, Qiongqi True Blood, Fanming Pills, and Spirit Medicine Seeds, but left without making an exchange.
• Li Qing spent two days meditating at the caravan’s courtyard before the Jinfeng Merchant Guild’s auction began.
• Li Qing watched representatives of the continent’s races enter the auction, including Old Black Bull from Savage Bull Ridge, who traded insults with Chixiao of the Night Owl Race.
• Tunhai calmed Old Black Bull and Chixiao by reminding them that their young cultivators were preparing for the Tianguang Secret Realm, and Li Qing memorized their comments about the Little Bull King and the Flying Spirit Race’s luan-blooded pair.

At the Jinfeng Merchant Guild auction, Li Qing’s Jade Bone Pills drew strong interest and earned him a large sum of Merit Points, which he planned to use to strengthen himself before entering the Tianguang Secret Realm. The auction continued through several rare treasures and ended with the mysterious Daoist Canon being offered, leaving Li Qing intrigued by the strange scripture.

• Sikong opened the auction as Chixiao and Tunhai discussed the human race’s Tianguang Secret Realm slots and the Lingxu City Lord’s coming tribulation.
• Sikong auctioned twenty of Li Qing’s Jade Bone Pills in four batches, and the last bottle sold to Old Black Bull for twenty thousand Merit Points, bringing the total to thirty-eight thousand.
• A fragmentary map of an immortal island in the Western Sea failed to sell, while Tunhai won the Ancient Dragon Rock for fifty-three thousand Merit Points.
• Li Qing traded a bone arrow spirit treasure to Master Mo for thirty Fanming Pills after Master Mo outbid the other bidders.
• Sikong presented a Gold attribute exotic treasure and then offered a copy of the Daoist Canon without a reserve price, while Li Qing wondered at the scripture’s mystery.

After the auction, Li Qing left Giant Spirit King City alone and encountered a battle between Old Black Bull and Chixiao, then fled when Mo Ying pursued him. Li Qing fought off Mo Ying’s first attacks with his spirit fires and Peerless Hammer, but the faster Night Owl caught up and launched another strike.

• Li Qing received twenty-seven Fanming Pills and more than thirty thousand Merit Points from Sikong, then spent Merit Points on Old Polygonatum branches and spirit herb seeds.
• Li Qing slipped out of Giant Spirit King City alone and flew around Giant Spirit Mountain toward Xuangu City.
• Li Qing witnessed Old Black Bull fighting Chixiao and the Night Owl Race, while Old Lord Black Nether agreed to help Old Black Bull in exchange for Ox God Pills and Thousand-Year Ox Gallstone.
• Chixiao spotted Li Qing and ordered Mo Ying to kill him, forcing Li Qing to flee at top speed.
• Mo Ying caught up, but Li Qing burned his black-feather attack to ash and struck back with the Peerless Hammer, leaving claw marks on it.
• Mo Ying attacked again at night, and Li Qing wrapped himself in spirit fire as Mo Ying pulled back from the flames.

Li Qing killed Mo Ying after surviving his Night Owl Race attack, then hurried toward Xuangu City while fearing retaliation from the Flying Spirit Race. Elsewhere, Old Black Bull and Black Nether defeated Chixiao and his Night Owl companions, and Black Nether discovered evidence of Li Qing’s victory as he headed back to Xuangu City.

• Mo Ying wounded Li Qing with Night Shadow Kill, but Li Qing used spirit fire to reveal him and cut him down with the Immortal Slaying Sword and Myriad Swords Return to Origin.
• Li Qing collected Mo Ying’s remains, treated his wounds in a concealed cave, and continued toward Xuangu City while considering hiding in the Eternal Night World if the Flying Spirit Race pursued him.
• At Giant God Mountain, Old Black Bull and Black Nether overwhelmed Chixiao and the other Night Owl Race members as dawn stripped away their night-enhanced strength.
• Black Nether captured the Night Owl members’ yin souls and Chixiao’s Primordial Spirit, while Old Black Bull killed Chixiao’s physical body and arranged to deliver Black Nether’s promised Thousand-Year Ox Gallstone to Xuangu City.
• Black Nether declined Old Black Bull’s invitation to Savage Bull Ridge and, after finding Mo Ying’s burned feathers and traces of Li Qing’s sword qi, recognized Li Qing’s victory and considered cooperating with him in the Tianguang Secret Realm.

Li Qing recovered in Xuangu City, sold Jade Bone Pills to the Jinfeng Merchant Guild, and used Fanming Pills to rapidly increase his cultivation before pausing to stabilize himself. The Flying Spirit Race learned that humans had been involved in the deaths of its cultivators, leaving Xuangu City facing possible annihilation without Giant Spirit Race mediation.

• Li Qing learned that the Jinfeng Merchant Guild caravan from Giant Spirit King City had been attacked and that Sikong had barely survived an assault by a mysterious Void Refinement-stage being.
• Sikong arranged for Li Qing to supply the Giant Spirit Race with Jade Bone Pills at three thousand Merit Points each, and Li Qing agreed to monthly deliveries.
• Li Qing refined Jade Bone Pills and sold fifty to the Jinfeng Merchant Guild for 135,000 Merit Points after its commission.
• Li Qing swallowed fourteen Fanming Pills, rapidly increasing his cultivation, then stopped to let his body and Nascent Soul adjust before refining more Jade Bone Pills.
• A Jinfeng Merchant Guild representative told Li Qing that the Flying Spirit Race had learned humans were involved in the deaths of its clansmen and had attacked another caravan.
• Li Qing feared war with the Flying Spirit Race, while the representative warned that Xuangu City faced annihilation unless the Giant Spirit Race intervened.

Li Qing stayed in Xuangu City as the Flying Spirit Race surrounded it and the Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor attacked, demanding the deaths of every human Spirit Transformation cultivator. As the city's formation neared collapse, Giant Spirit Race reinforcements led by Gu Tian arrived to confront the Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor.

• Li Qing decided to remain in Xuangu City, where he continued cultivating and kept the Eternal Night World ready as a refuge.
• A returning escapee reported that the Flying Spirit Race was killing those who fled, and the race soon surrounded the city's outskirts.
• The Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor attacked Xuangu City twice, killing hundreds of thousands of mortals with the second strike.
• The Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor demanded that the city surrender every human Spirit Transformation cultivator, while the Lingxu City Lord refused and struggled to defend the formation.
• As the formation began to fail and Li Qing prepared to escape, Gu Tian of the Giant Spirit Race arrived and told the Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor to stop.

Gu Tian stopped Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor from destroying Xuangu City, but the city had to pay a heavy compensation and the Flying Spirit Race planned to target its strongest cultivators in the Tianguang Secret Realm. After a year of preparation, Li Qing reached the middle phase of the Spirit Transformation stage and resolved to find another way to protect himself before entering the realm.

• Gu Tian persuaded Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor to end his attack on Xuangu City, while Lingxu agreed to compensate the Flying Spirit Race and keep the human candidates for the Tianguang Secret Realm unchanged.
• Golden Peng Ancient Ancestor withdrew his troops but ordered Qingluan and Hongluan to watch the human cultivators in the secret realm, suspecting one of them had killed his disciple.
• Li Qing reflected on the human race’s weakness, returned to cultivation, and Xuangu City spent the next year paying compensation as tensions between the Flying Spirit Race and Savage Bull Ridge worsened.
• Li Qing exchanged Jade Bone Pills for Merit Points, used them to obtain Fanming Pills, and advanced to the middle phase of the Spirit Transformation stage while strengthening his body.
• Li Qing judged his increased strength insufficient for the Tianguang Secret Realm and decided to seek another way to protect himself.

Li Qing strengthened his Wind Thunder Silver Wings with Night Owl Race feathers, bought a Leaving Fire Profound Jade, and set out with the Lingxu City Lord and three companions for the Tianguang Secret Realm. The group reached Savage Bull Ridge to avoid Flying Spirit Race interception, where a golden minotaur blocked their way and demanded to know their business.

• Li Qing refined the Night Owl Race feathers into his Wind Thunder Silver Wings, giving them the nocturnal divine ability Starry Night, then cooked and ate the stripped wings.
• Li Qing bought the Leaving Fire Profound Jade for ten thousand Merit Points and let the Profound Yellow True Flame examine it, but it could only confirm that the Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch had inscribed its markings.
• The Lingxu City Lord summoned Li Qing, Fuya, Hu Sheng, and Old Lord Black Nether, then led them out of Lingxu City aboard a concealed spirit boat.
• The Lingxu City Lord chose to travel to Savage Bull Ridge and enter the Tianguang Secret Realm through the Savage Bull Race rather than risk going to Giant Spirit King City.
• After more than ten days without encountering Flying Spirit Race experts, the group neared Savage Bull Ridge, where a golden minotaur carrying a massive axe descended and challenged them.

Li Qing and his companions reached Savage Bull Ridge to await entry into the Tianguang Secret Realm, but an encounter with a mysterious azure calf led the Brutal Ox Clan to summon him before its elders. The clan’s powerful old ancestor invited Li Qing to become Savage Bull Ridge’s first foreign Guest Elder, leaving him unsure how to respond.

• Lingxu City Lord secured permission from Savage Bull Ridge for his group to stay and use its Tianguang reception platform, then returned to Xuangu City.
• Fuya entered Li Qing’s cave dwelling and tried to seduce him, but both heard an unseen being swallow and searched the cave with their spiritual senses.
• Li Qing and Fuya found a tiny azure calf outside; Fuya caught it, but it escaped onto Li Qing’s shoulder and showed him unusual affection.
• A white minotaur accused Fuya of profaning the clan’s Sacred Ox and led Li Qing and the calf into Savage Bull Ridge’s inner region.
• A Body Integration Realm elder asked why the Sacred Ox was attached to Li Qing, then invited him to become the clan’s first foreign Guest Elder.

Li Qing declined Savage Bull Ridge’s offer to become a guest elder, but stayed under its protection while carrying the mysterious Sacred Ox. He entered the Tianguang Secret Realm with the Savage Bull Ridge group and, after landing in a stone forest, was attacked by a colossal beast emerging from a lake.

• Li Qing refused to join Savage Bull Ridge because its cultivation arts would not suit him and he wanted to pursue his own Dao path, so the clan’s ancestor let him stay until the secret realm opened.
• The Sacred Ox clung to Li Qing, and Fuya fled after probing its sea of consciousness; Savage Bull Ridge later held a banquet where Li Qing met the powerful Little Bull King.
• More than a month later, Li Qing and the other entrants traveled with a Savage Bull Ridge elder to the Reception Dao Platform and were sent into the Tianguang Secret Realm.
• Li Qing landed in a stone forest, concluded that he was somewhere in the realm’s southeastern region, and discovered that a nearby lake was not Condensing Light Lake.
• As Li Qing took flight to continue exploring, a colossal beast burst from the lake and attacked him.

Li Qing was swallowed by a Spirit Devouring Beast in the Tianguang Secret Realm, but used his Kunpeng Treasure Art to kill it and escape. The beast’s blood opened a hidden chamber beneath the lake, where Li Qing found a crystal coffin, a remarkable Golden Jade Armor, and notes from its resentful owner.

• A Spirit Devouring Beast swallowed Li Qing and suppressed his mana while its corrosive stomach fluid began to refine him.
• Li Qing used the Kunpeng Treasure Art to break out from inside the beast, kill it, and store its corpse before its valuable blood essence could drain away.
• Li Qing noticed the beast’s blood seeping into the lakebed and poured out a bottle of Yellow Weasel blood essence to activate an ancient pattern.
• Li Qing entered the passage beneath the lake and sealed its opening to keep the lake water from draining and attracting attention.
• Li Qing found an underground chamber containing a crystal coffin with a skeleton wearing powerful Golden Jade Armor, along with fragile notes he memorized using Spiritual Sense.
• Li Qing read the final note, in which the coffin’s owner lamented dying without having his grievance cleared or his mana cultivation restored.

Li Qing broke through the threads sealing an underground chamber, took the Golden Brocade Armor and a mysterious spirit-gold scripture page, and refined the armor enough to test its defenses. He reached the Fluorescent Grassland to seek Earth Spirit Grass Fruit, unaware that someone was watching and waiting for more valuable prey.

• Li Qing burned through the invisible crystal threads, opened the coffin, and retrieved the Golden Brocade Armor after paying his respects to the remains inside.
• Li Qing found and stored a spirit-gold page written in an unfamiliar script, then left the chamber with the other records preserved in his sea of consciousness.
• Li Qing flew west, hid in a hill, and refined the Golden Brocade Armor, discovering that it could withstand ordinary Void Refinement stage attacks when fully activated.
• Li Qing crossed the mountains and entered the Fluorescent Grassland, where he planned to search for Earth Spirit Grass Fruit.
• A hidden observer dismissed Li Qing as a minor human cultivator and waited for a bigger target to arrive.

Li Qing defeated and killed two Spirit Transformation-stage griffons in the Fluorescent Grassland, then collected their spoils and ate their wings. A brilliant pillar of light appeared in the distance, drawing cultivators toward it as Li Qing set out to investigate.

• Two Griffons attacked Li Qing, but his Golden Brocade Armor blocked the Late Deity Transformation griffon's Storm Feather.
• Li Qing burned the Griffons with the Great Sun Life-Extinguishing Flame and trapped them with the Life-Extinguishing Furnace; one died inside the furnace while the other's Demon Spirit fled.
• Li Qing chased down and destroyed the Late Deity Transformation griffon's Demon Spirit with Kunpeng Extreme Speed.
• Li Qing collected the Griffons' blood essence and spirit stones, then roasted and ate their wings while assessing his strength.
• A dazzling pillar of light appeared across the Fluorescent Grassland, and Li Qing flew toward it as cultivators converged on the disturbance.

Li Qing and Guli joined the cultivators gathered around a dangerous heavenly-light pillar, where the Flying Spirit Race threatened Li Qing and Fuya until Guli and Savage Bull Ridge defended them. When the pillar faded, dozens of Earth Spirit Grass Fruit appeared underground, and the gathered cultivators rushed to claim them.

• Li Qing encountered Guli on the Fluorescent Grassland, and the two agreed to explore the unusual light pillar together.
• Li Qing and Guli found Fuya among cultivators from several races, and they learned the pillar was dangerous heavenly light that would soon subside.
• Flying Spirit Race cultivators moved to attack Li Qing and Fuya, but Guli and members of Savage Bull Ridge stood in their way.
• Qing Yuan arrived, demanded to search Li Qing and Fuya's sea of consciousness, and faced Guli and Savage Bull Ridge's refusal.
• The pillar faded and revealed dozens of Earth Spirit Grass Fruit among underground vines, prompting Guli and the other cultivators to rush into the crater.