Recaps

Li Qing taught artifact refinement at the Grand Academy while studying Master Ying’s formation inheritance and the Xuanming Realm’s writing. After more than half a year, student Liu Qing forged the first magic treasure under his instruction, earning the promised reward of a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure.

• Li Qing demonstrated the Immortal Slaying Sword and taught students how combining Dao patterns could create unique treasures.
• Li Qing studied Master Ying’s formation inheritance and considered adapting existing formations for his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation Diagram.
• Li Qing continued teaching artifact refinement, advising students on their designs and explaining the limits of combining Five Elements Dao patterns in a spiritship.
• More than half a year later, Liu Qing successfully forged a Crimson Flame Silk using the Fire Melting Pattern and Wind Evasion Pattern.
• Li Qing praised Liu Qing and confirmed she would receive a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure forged by him before she graduated.

After a year and a half at the Grand Academy, Li Qing prepared to proctor the year-end assessment in the dangerous Valley of Hundred Flowers, where he hoped to steal natural Dao patterns while refining his Human Seed Bag. The disciples were sent into the valley, while Dean Chen received a warning that the Joyful Union Demonic Sect had been unusually active there.

• Li Qing learned that the year-end assessment would take place in the Valley of Hundred Flowers and studied its dangers, including mutated Demonic Flowers and the Three Extremes Alliance’s presence.
• Li Qing decided to refine his Human Seed Bag in the valley and attempt to steal its natural Dao patterns using the Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns secret art.
• Dean Chen announced the assessment’s team rules and delivery task, prompting the disciples to scramble for teammates before he randomly assigned those left out.
• Dean Chen sent the disciples and instructors into a painting world, then traveled to Master Ying’s secret realm to ask for passage to the Valley of Hundred Flowers.
• Master Ying warned Dean Chen that the Joyful Union Demonic Sect had recently made unusual movements in the valley, then sent him there while Xia Wushuang remained trapped as a sweeping servant.

Li Qing used the Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns to refine the Human Seed Bag during the Grand Academy’s ten-day assessment at the Valley of Hundred Flowers. Dean Chen realized the technique might restore the valley without damaging its terrain and asked Li Qing to hand it over to the academy, offering a reward as Li Qing considered what to request.

• Dean Chen brought the Grand Academy’s disciples to the Valley of Hundred Flowers, explained the assessment rules, and started the ten-day trial.
• Master Huang Yuan assigned the masters to judge or oversee the assessment, and Li Qing chose to enter the valley as an overseer.
• Li Qing sensed the valley’s natural Dao patterns and imprinted some onto the Human Seed Bag to refine it.
• Dean Chen noticed Li Qing’s technique and realized it might remove the Origin Demonic Energy without destroying the valley’s foundation.
• Dean Chen asked Li Qing to give the technique to the academy and offered him a reward, including a Mysterious Iron Token for the Xuantian Divine Hall.
• Li Qing decided that handing over the exposed technique was prudent and began weighing what to ask for in return.

Li Qing traded his Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns for Dean Chen’s promise to have Dean Ying forge a formation for his treasured swords, but the Xuantian Divine Hall appeared before he could finish refining the Human Seed Bag. As Dean Chen evacuated the Grand Academy disciples and prepared to shield them from descending forbidden beings, Li Qing fled toward Nanfeng County City to avoid being summoned into danger near the hall.

• Li Qing offered Dean Chen the secret art behind his Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns, and Dean Chen promised to have Dean Ying forge a formation for Li Qing’s swords and grant him academy rewards.
• Li Qing resumed refining the Human Seed Bag while Dean Chen painted and the Grand Academy disciples explored the Valley of Hundred Flowers.
• The Xuantian Divine Hall appeared above the valley, and Dean Chen ended the examination and ordered the disciples and masters to withdraw to Nanfeng County City.
• Li Qing told Dean Chen that he had a Mysterious Iron Token and fled toward Nanfeng County City before the hall could summon him.
• Dean Chen covered the valley with a painting scroll as forbidden beings attacked, and he urged someone to come out.

The Xuantian Divine Hall appeared above the Valley of Hundred Flowers, drawing powerful beings from across the Canglan Continent who failed to break or move it. When the hall summoned everyone holding a Mysterious Iron Token, Li Qing entered its gateway, leaving Dean Chen worried about his fate.

• The Xuantian Divine Hall emerged above the Valley of Hundred Flowers, and experts from across the Canglan Continent gathered near Nanfeng County City.
• A Golden-winged Great Peng Bird and a nine-halo phantom failed to move the hall, and the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird offered protection and Peng Clan rewards to whoever brought him the Heavenly Mandate Immortal Fruit.
• Li Qing remained in Nanfeng County City, relieved he had left the Valley of Hundred Flowers and waiting for the Xuantian Divine Hall's summons.
• Powerful beings tested the hall with attacks and treasures, but none could force it open, and they eventually departed.
• The Xuantian Divine Hall sent out light gates for Mysterious Iron Token holders, and Li Qing entered one with his Mysterious Iron Shield.
• Dean Chen worried that Li Qing might die inside the Xuantian Divine Hall and regretted not first demanding his strange secret art.

Li Qing crossed a Chaos Sea inside the Xuantian Divine Hall, discovered a Chaos Green Lotus he could not approach or claim, and moved on through a light gate. In a Bronze Relic, he learned that excavated artifacts could be offered at an altar to directly increase his cultivation, so he began mining faster.

• Li Qing found that the Chaos Sea dissolved anything that touched it and that Two Realms Travel could not take him to the Eternal Night World.
• Li Qing spotted a Chaos Green Lotus growing in the sea, but his attacks and attempts to claim it failed, so he continued to a light gate.
• Li Qing entered a Bronze Relic where four people were breaking Bronze Stone to find artifacts, and the red-skinned yaksha explained that only pure magical power could break the stones.
• Li Qing excavated Bronze Prayer Beads and placed them on a Bronze Altar, which increased his cultivation by the equivalent of three to five years of meditation.
• Li Qing realized the altar rewarded every excavated artifact with cultivation gains and began breaking Bronze Stone faster.

Li Qing and the red-skinned Yaksha destroyed much of the Bronze Relic to reveal more Ancient Bronze Artifacts, awakening a Bronze Colossus comparable to the Body Integration Realm. Li Qing and four others stayed to fight it, and their combined attacks began melting its armor, though Li Qing suspected the battle was not over.

• Li Qing and the red-skinned Yaksha destroyed much of the Bronze Relic, causing many Ancient Bronze Artifacts to appear, and Li Qing seized thirty-four of them.
• A Bronze Colossus rose from beneath the relic, killed an early Void Refinement cultivator, and drove most of the others toward the exit.
• Li Qing, the red-skinned Yaksha, a Silver Glow Giant Wolf, a crossbow-wielding female cultivator, and a young Puppet Master stayed to battle the colossus.
• The Red Yaksha blocked the colossus's spear while the wolf, the female cultivator, and Li Qing attacked; the Puppet Master sent wooden puppets to restrain it.
• Li Qing formed the Myriad Flames Burn Heaven Formation, melting the colossus's armor, but he sensed that the fight was not so simple.

Li Qing and the others defeated the Bronze Colossus by exploiting its weakness to spirit treasures, then divided its remains and used the Bronze Altar to gain cultivation. After introducing themselves, the group prepared to part ways as Li Qing headed through the light gate to explore another space.

• The Bronze Colossus absorbed the group’s spells and released the captured flames, but the Puppet Master youth explained that spirit treasures could damage it and that its puppet core powered its movements.
• Li Qing, Red Yaksha, the werewolf, and the crossbow-wielding woman damaged the Colossus’s foot and brought it down, allowing Mo Bai’s Sky Roaming Falcon puppet to extract its core.
• The group divided the Colossus’s remains, and Li Qing sacrificed his share at the altar, gaining nearly two thousand years of cultivation without advancing from the early Void Refinement stage.
• Duan Jingsi, Ye Ming, Xiao, Mo Bai, and Li Qing introduced themselves and discussed the dangers of encountering a true Body Integration Realm expert.
• Li Qing left the group and walked toward the light gate to seek opportunities in another space.

Li Qing entered a cemetery where a powerful Vengeful Spirit attacked him with sinister winds and began taking over his body. As the spirit discovered Li Qing’s secrets, it abruptly recognized him as the Demon Venerable’s successor.

• Li Qing arrived in a corpse-strewn cemetery, found a Body Integration Realm Gold Splitting Beast, and stored its body after failing to cut it apart.
• A sinister wind overwhelmed Li Qing’s defenses, and he discovered the cemetery had no exit as more tornadoes surrounded him.
• The Vengeful Spirit whispered to Li Qing and invaded his body, freezing him despite his spirit fires and other protections.
• Li Qing transformed into a Nine-headed Serpent, but the spirit continued its possession and displayed the complete Kunpeng True Form using his Kunpeng Divine Power.
• As Li Qing’s eyes turned white and the spirit prepared to claim his body, it sensed his fate and exclaimed that he was the Demon Venerable’s successor.

Li Qing learned from a lingering immortal that his lifespan-enhancing artifact refinement and other abilities came from the Demon Venerable’s inheritance, making him a hunted successor. Cast through a gate into a strange ocean, he discovered his Kunpeng Treasure Art had become complete and began studying it to escape.

• A female vengeful spirit recognized Li Qing as a successor of the Demon Venerable and explained that his Chaotic Void fate and artifact-refinement ability exposed his identity.
• The woman recounted how she had been punished and reduced to a lingering thought after a nine-revolutions immortal pill escaped, then warned Li Qing that the Xuantian Divine Hall had nearly made him a target for True Immortals.
• As Li Qing fell through a light gate, the woman revealed that the Immortal Palace had once ordered the successors of the Demon Venerable killed and urged him to conceal his identity.
• Li Qing landed in a peculiar ocean of Weak Water that dragged him downward and prevented him from swimming or using mana.
• Li Qing found that the Kunpeng Treasure Art in his mind had become a more complete version containing the Sky-Roaming Giant Kun and Void Sky Roc forms, and he began cultivating it to escape the ocean.

Li Qing escaped the Weak Water sea and entered a chamber where five Body Integration Realm cultivators were trapped by the Six Extremes Sky Locking Array. While they waited for someone strong enough to face the vacant pillar’s Desolate Gale trial, Li Qing studied the array’s Fine Iron pillars and tried to reproduce their mysterious refining method, but failed.

• Li Qing used his Kunpeng form to cross the Weak Water sea, found the light gate, and entered a new space before reverting to human form.
• He discovered five Body Integration Realm cultivators occupying pillars in a six-pointed formation, including Prince Ning, and learned that the Six Extremes Sky Locking Array trapped them there.
• The Cloud Robe woman explained that each pillar imposed a different trial and that the vacant Xun Men Extreme exposed its occupant to the deadly Desolate Gale.
• Li Qing declined to attempt the trial, explored the chamber, and restored his Kunpeng Divine Power while the others waited for another cultivator to arrive.
• Li Qing examined a Fine Iron pillar, sensed its complex Dao patterns, and repeatedly failed to reproduce its internal-refining art using ordinary Fine Iron.

Li Qing abandoned his unsuccessful attempt to understand the Fine Iron Pillar and used his time in the Xuantian Divine Hall to develop the Spirit Transformation chapter of the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture. When the Body Integration Realm cultivators asked him to face the Desolate Gale, Prince Ning secretly urged him to demand compensation from the others, and the Merman Race expert began by offering a jeweled crown.

• Li Qing stopped studying the Fine Iron Pillar and began cultivating while refining his Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture.
• Li Qing devised a Spirit Transformation method that used five destructive Five Elements wonders to temper the body and improve its spiritual roots.
• After nearly a year passed without anyone else entering, the Body Integration Realm cultivators discussed trying to break the Six Extremes Sky Locking Array by sending Li Qing into the Desolate Gale.
• Prince Ning gave Li Qing a sixth-rank Wind Returning Talisman and secretly instructed him to pretend they were strangers and demand treasures from the other cultivators.
• Li Qing warned that he could not guarantee he would survive the Desolate Gale, and the other cultivators agreed to provide more support.
• The Merman Race expert brought out a crown set with multicolored pearls and crystals.

Li Qing accepted several treasures and techniques from the other cultivators before joining them to activate the Six Extremes Sky Locking Array. As the Desolate Gale battered him, he tried to endure and use its power to test whether his Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture could nurture a Wind Attribute Spirit Root.

• The Merman Race expert gave Li Qing the Deep Blue Crown, while the white-robed woman gave him Soul Protecting Pills and taught him the Mist Void secret technique.
• The Ghost Horn Race expert gave Li Qing flood dragon essence blood, and the burly man gave him the Golden Saint Treasure Body art on a Golden Slip that Li Qing recognized as Golden Thunder Bamboo.
• Li Qing and the others stood on the six Fine Iron Pillars and sent Spiritual Power into them, activating the Six Extremes Sky Locking Array.
• The Desolate Gale attacked Li Qing, damaging his Golden Brocade Armor and then breaking through his mana defenses until he used the Deep Blue Crown for protection.
• As the gale withered Li Qing's body and weakened his divine soul, he swallowed a Soul Protecting Pill and circulated the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture to try to nurture the gale's essence within himself.

Li Qing endured the Desolate Gale to refine its power into a Dao seed, pushing his body to the brink as the Six Extremes Sky Locking Array collapsed. A Seven-Colored Sapling appeared, and the Integration Stage cultivators fought over it while Li Qing’s cracked body began shedding skin.

• Li Qing activated the Deep Blue Crown only when the Desolate Gale nearly extinguished his life, then used Void Mist and repeated protection to keep refining the gale inside his body.
• As the array weakened, Li Qing endured the Desolate Gale without relying on the crown and refined its final wisp into a Dao seed just as the formation collapsed.
• A light gate appeared, the Fine Iron Earth gave way, and a Seven-Colored Sapling emerged beneath it.
• Zhan Xiong rushed for the sapling, but Fairy Yunni restrained him while the other cultivators tried to discover what it was.
• King Ning and the Ghost Horn Race expert fought over the sapling as the other cultivators blocked one another, while Li Qing’s body cracked and a piece of dry skin fell away.

Li Qing awakened from the Desolate Gale and broke through to the middle Void Refinement stage, then recognized the seven-colored tree as the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree. The cultivators fought over it but could not move it, and the Xuantian Immortal Hall teleported them away as it closed.

• Li Qing shed his desiccated skin, recovered from the erosion of desolation, and advanced to the middle Void Refinement stage.
• Li Qing recognized the tree as the Nine Marvelous Immortal Tree, and Zhan Xiong explained that it was an incomplete Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree with extraordinary potential.
• The five Body Integration Realm cultivators rushed to claim the tree and fought fiercely while Li Qing watched for a chance to act.
• Zhan Xiong, the Merman Race expert, the Ghost Horn Race expert, King Ning, and Fairy Yunni each tried to take the tree, but none could move it.
• The Xuantian Immortal Hall began closing, and its light teleported the cultivators away before they could claim the tree.

After the Xuantian Divine Hall teleported everyone else away, Li Qing remained behind and tried unsuccessfully to take the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree. The hall’s Artifact Spirit revealed that Li Qing was a Successor of the Demon Venerable and offered the tree, other treasures, and immortal arts in exchange for Li Qing taking it to the immortal realm when he ascended; Li Qing accepted the deal.

• The Xuantian Divine Hall teleported its visitors away, but Li Qing remained in the space containing the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree.
• Li Qing tried to uproot the tree, store it, and cut through the reinforced ground, but none of his efforts worked.
• The Artifact Spirit of the Immortal Imprisonment Hall appeared and explained how it had recognized Li Qing as a Successor of the Demon Venerable.
• The Artifact Spirit offered the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree in exchange for Li Qing taking it to the immortal realm, but Li Qing hesitated because the immortal realm had once ordered Demon Venerable successors killed.
• Li Qing negotiated for additional rewards, and the Artifact Spirit offered Chaos Origin when he reached the Body Integration Realm, a World Stone, and immortal arts alongside the tree.
• Li Qing agreed to the transaction and promised to take the Xuantian Divine Hall with him when he ascended to the immortal realm.

Li Qing explored the Xuantian Immortal Hall and learned several Immortal Arts, including the Golden Cicada Molting Technique and the fire-based Void Flame. After the hall sent him back to Nanfeng County City, he worried about how much time had passed and resolved to keep the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree secret.

• Li Qing learned the immortal world's language, read the incomplete ice Dao art Cold Sky Flash, and memorized its inscriptions despite being unable to cultivate it.
• The Xuantian Immortal Hall brought Li Qing to a decay-filled prison cell, where he comprehended the Immortals' collaboratively created Golden Cicada Molting Technique.
• Li Qing learned the fire-element Immortal Art Void Flame, then inspected other techniques that were unsuitable for him.
• The Xuantian Immortal Hall explained that killing an Immortal brought Karmic Obstacles, said it had given Li Qing everything valuable except the Chaos Origin, and sent him away.
• Li Qing returned to Nanfeng County City in the Great Yu Kingdom and worried that others might have noticed his extended stay inside the hall.
• Li Qing resolved not to reveal the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree to anyone.

After learning that Xuantian Immortal Hall's closing had drawn little attention to him, Li Qing took stock of his treasures and chose to return to Jade Capital City after refining his Human Seed Bag. In the Valley of Hundred Flowers, he completed the artifact and was confronted by a mysterious Body Integration Realm cultivator who wanted to learn his method.

• Li Qing gathered reports about Xuantian Immortal Hall and learned that his own presence there had gone unnoticed, despite the valuable treasures and breakthroughs others had gained.
• Li Qing reviewed his gains, including his improved cultivation, completed Kunpeng Treasure Art, Wind Spiritual Root, Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree, and Realm Stone, and decided to return to Jade Capital City after visiting the Valley of Hundred Flowers.
• Li Qing entered the Valley of Hundred Flowers and extracted its natural Dao patterns to finish refining his Human Seed Bag, finding abandoned cave abodes and fields of Heavenly Desire Flowers along the way.
• Li Qing completed the Mysterious-grade Spirit Treasure, Human Seed Bag, and attracted a young man in white robes who praised his method and asked him to teach it.
• Li Qing sensed the stranger was a human Body Integration Realm cultivator and demanded his name before discussing any deal.

Li Qing fought Qin Yu, the newly advanced Young Sect Master of the Joyful Union Demonic Sect, after Qin Yu tried to seize his secret refining technique. Li Qing escaped using his Kunpeng inheritance and headed back to Nanfeng County City to teleport to Jade Capital City.

• Qin Yu used his Soul-Swaying Bell to try to make Li Qing reveal the Heaven-Stealing Dao Patterns, but Li Qing resisted and counterattacked.
• Qin Yu summoned Demonic Flowers and pollen, while Li Qing burned them away with the Great Sun Golden Flame and struck at Qin Yu with his sword.
• Qin Yu paralyzed Li Qing's left arm, and Li Qing identified him as the Joyful Union Demonic Sect's Young Sect Master before transforming into a Nine-headed Serpent.
• Qin Yu summoned the Heavenly Demon Maiden Manifestation, which destroyed three of Li Qing's serpent heads and trapped him in space.
• Li Qing escaped the manifestation's bite with his Kunpeng form, shocking Qin Yu with his speed and revealing his Kunpeng inheritance.
• Li Qing flew back to Nanfeng County City and planned to use the Teleportation Array to travel to Jade Capital City.

Li Qing returned to Jade Capital City after escaping the Joyful Union Demonic Sect’s Young Sect Master and asked Dean Chen to arrange a meeting with Master Ying about a formation for his four killing swords. As Master Ying began studying Li Qing’s swords, Xia Wushuang revealed that he knew a formation that could suit Li Qing’s needs.

• Li Qing returned to the Grand Academy and told Dean Chen about his battle with the Joyful Union Demonic Sect’s Young Sect Master and his suspicions about the man’s interest in his secret art.
• Dean Chen agreed to honor their earlier deal and took Li Qing to meet Master Ying, an Eighth-rank Formation Master.
• Li Qing found Xia Wushuang trapped in Master Ying’s formation and asked Master Ying to spare his friend.
• Li Qing described his plan for a four-sword formation, and Master Ying agreed to consider a suitable formation concept after examining the Immortal Slaying Sword and Immortal Trapping Sword.
• After Master Ying sealed and then released Xia Wushuang’s mouth, Xia Wushuang said he knew an unnamed formation that would suit Li Qing.

Xia Wushuang demonstrated the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation and won Master Ying’s wager, leading Li Qing to choose it as the foundation for his future sword formation. After securing promises of rare materials, Xia Wushuang asked Li Qing to help him with two people on the Tianyuan Continent.

• Master Ying and Xia Wushuang wagered a core formation material as they each demonstrated a formation for Li Qing’s four killing swords.
• Master Ying displayed a simplified Heavenly Meteor Nine Tribulations Formation, while Xia Wushuang’s Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation revealed far greater power and countless transformations.
• Xia Wushuang offered Primordial Spirit Crystal and arranged for Li Qing to obtain a Myriad Law Stone, and Li Qing chose the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation despite its other rare material requirements.
• Xia Wushuang asked Li Qing to take him away, but explained that he already had a master and could not accept Master Ying as his direct disciple.
• Xia Wushuang told Li Qing he could never return to the Tianyuan Continent and asked him to kill two people there in the future.

Li Qing settled into cultivation at the Grand Academy while the Great Yu Kingdom prepared to seize the Valley of Hundred Flowers. The sovereign announced his abdication and made control of the valley the condition for inheriting the throne, setting the Princes and their allies into motion.

• Li Qing entrusted Master Ying with refining the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation into a formation diagram, memorized two assassination targets, and returned to his cave abode to cultivate.
• Li Qing began nourishing the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree into the Immortal Slaying Sword and cultivating the Void Flame.
• Eight divisions of Sky Cavalry gathered in Nanfeng County as the Joyful Union Demonic Sect appeared in the Valley of Hundred Flowers, and the sovereign announced his intention to abdicate.
• The palace decreed that whoever brought the Valley of Hundred Flowers into Great Yu territory would become the next sovereign, prompting Princes to rally ministers and allies.
• Prince An secured support from foreign-race patriarchs and planned to seek the Mo Family's backing, while Prince Huai won over the Yan Family, which issued mobilization orders.

Prince Li Yang began his Body Integration Realm breakthrough as the princes raced to claim the Valley of Hundred Flowers, which the emperor had made the test for succession. After Li Yang entered his tribulation, the three rival forces converged on Nanfeng County City and King Ning led his troops toward the valley.

• Court ministers argued over which prince to support until a eunuch announced that Prince Li Yang had begun breaking through.
• A five-colored kirin appeared above Jade Capital City, and Li Qing learned that whoever brought the Valley of Hundred Flowers into Great Yu's territory would inherit the throne.
• After two days, Prince Li Yang reached the Body Integration Realm and entered a Great Heavenly Tribulation, attacking the Heavenly Lightning Palace head-on.
• Prince An, Prince Huai, and King Ning arrived at Nanfeng County City with their forces, where the city lord told them the Eight Heavenly Cavalry had already advanced toward the Valley of Hundred Flowers.
• King Ning ordered his troops to set out for the Valley of Hundred Flowers.

Prince Li Yang survived his tribulation, entered the Body Integration Realm, and received an imperial title and fiefs, but failed to recruit Dean Chen, Master Ying, or the Grand Academy’s masters to support his bid for the throne. Meanwhile, the Great Yu princes and the Joyful Union Demonic Sect moved toward a battle for Valley of Hundred Flowers, and Li Yang prepared to send his Heavenly Wolf Division there.

• Prince Huai and Prince An discussed Prince Ning’s departure and the dangers of confronting the Joyful Union Demonic Sect, then set out for Valley of Hundred Flowers.
• Qin Yu led disciples and elders from the Joyful Union Demonic Sect’s halls and Blood Fiend Peak out to meet the approaching Great Yu forces.
• Prince Li Yang survived his tribulation, advanced to the Body Integration Realm, received six rounds of heavenly dao empowerment, and was granted the title of Prince Liyang along with two counties and three hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Prince Liyang asked Dean Chen, the Grand Academy’s masters, and Master Ying for support, but they all declined or refused to meet with him.
• Ministers told Prince Liyang that the Eight Heavenly Cavalry had clashed with the Joyful Union Demonic Sect and urged him to mobilize his Heavenly Wolf Division for Valley of Hundred Flowers.

Li Qing overcame the difficulty of using an immortal art by adapting the incomplete Spirit Fusion Art to sustain Void Flame. After receiving Prince Ning’s secret letter, he learned that Prince Ning suspected Prince An and Prince Huai of colluding with the Shadow Race and tasked him with protecting his family and investigating the princes.

• Li Qing discovered that ordinary mana and Kunpeng Divine Power could not sustain Void Flame, then found the incomplete Spirit Fusion Art in the Demon Venerable’s memories.
• After months of experimentation, Li Qing fused three Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires with Kunpeng Divine Power and his mana, enabling him to use Void Flame for five breaths.
• Qin Yu refused to leave the besieged Valley of Hundred Flowers, learned that the Spiritual Hou Clan demanded two ten-thousand-year Heavenly Desire Flowers, and discovered that his father had secretly arrived.
• A mole delivered Prince Ning’s secret letter to Li Qing, which accused Prince An and Prince Huai of possible ties to the Shadow Race and assigned him two tasks.
• Li Qing burned the letter and resolved to protect Prince Ning’s family while considering how to investigate Prince An and Prince Huai.