Recaps

Li Qing expanded the Black Market, seized a Primordial Stone from Shangqing Sect elders, and advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage. After the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty fell, he prepared for the turmoil surrounding the missing Ancestral Emperor Sword and trained new martial artists.

• Li Qing demonstrated the Scarlet Crystal’s ability to transform a White Feather Snake, then sold the remaining crystals at the Black Market gathering.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing escaped a Puppet Master’s ambush, took his Second-tier Puppet, and began training Xiangyang City orphans in martial arts.
• Li Qing learned of King Jing’s Tomb, where a Thousand-Year Yin Corpse emerged and ravaged cultivators, then gathered Red Crystals and Illusion Toxin Mushrooms for a second trade fair.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing lured Mu Maocai and three Shangqing Sect elders into an illusion and captured them, then Li Qing questioned Zhang Da about the sect and Lingyun Sect remnants.
• Li Qing kept the Shangqing Sect’s Primordial Stone and Heavenly Thunder Seed, while Shen Ningbing found the complete Crimson Blazing Heaven Art, and Zhang Da accepted the task of managing the Black Market.
• Li Qing cultivated for two years and reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage as the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty was destroyed and the Ancestral Emperor Sword disappeared.
• Li Qing fitted Zhang Da with a divine-sense-controlled mechanical arm, ordered him to expand the Black Market’s intelligence network, and sought Skyfire Treasure Liquid and Azure Jade Spirit Water.
• Li Qing taught three aspiring martial artists the Nine Revolutions of Qi and Blood as cultivators began searching for the Ancestral Emperor Sword and the righteous and demonic paths announced a region-wide auction.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing secured the spirit items needed for Core Formation, and Shen Ningbing formed her core while Li Qing advanced to the False Core stage. Li Qing strengthened his soul in the Eternal Night World and returned to find the Black Market had located Skyfire Treasure Liquid as new dangers and rivalries emerged.

• Li Qing learned of the joint auction and traveled to Ancient Imperial City with Shen Ningbing, where he bought treasures and learned that the Miraculous Treasures Pavilion held Skyfire Treasure Liquid and Azure Jade Spirit Water.
• Shen Ningbing began forming her core, and Li Qing fought off Zhang Xiao and Gui Fan when they approached her cave abode.
• Shen Ningbing formed her core and refused True Lord Yue Xuan’s invitation to join Moon Chasing Palace, while Li Qing received a Pure Moon Pill for his Golden Saber Talisman Treasure.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing traded for information about the Yin-Yang Spirit Liquid, then followed True Person Mu Long to the Yin-Yang Cave after he accepted Li Qing’s Soul Returning Grass.
• Li Qing entered the cave with Shen Ningbing and endured its Profound Yin Energy as she retrieved the Yin-Yang Spirit Liquid, leaving him at the peak of Foundation Establishment.
• Li Qing returned to Nanyang Spirit Peak, purified his true essence, and secured Purple Mansion Spirit Liquid from Wang Chan by promising to deliver a Third-tier Red Crystal within three years.
• Li Qing cultivated the Soul Core method in the Eternal Night World for three years, transformed his soul, and Rice Bucket advanced to late second tier.
• Li Qing investigated the Blood Lotus Sect in Baolian City and learned it controlled mutations and bought Exotic Beast bodies before returning to his cave and discovering that the Black Market had found Skyfire Treasure Liquid.

Li Qing formed his Golden Core, secured a place at Nanyang Spirit Peak, and forged his Natal Magic Treasure before traveling to the Eternal Night World. There he rescued Lin Jing, destroyed the Blood Lotus Sect, and learned of the martial path’s new Innate Realm as they set out to hunt a Third-order Exotic Beast.

• Li Qing formed his Golden Core with Shen Ningbing guarding his cave, then revealed his Pseudo Spiritual Root aptitude at his celebration and chose an alliance with Gui Fan after their spar.
• Li Qing used Nether Cold Fire to break the seal on Gui Fan’s Demon Origin Gold in exchange for dragon marrow, then refined the Primordial Peerless Hammer as his Natal Magic Treasure.
• After Gui Fan defeated Zhang Xiao and the Three Demonic Sects declared war on Taiyi Sect, Li Qing went to the Eternal Night World to investigate the Blood Lotus Sect and search for Third-tier Red Crystal.
• Li Qing searched the Blood Lotus Sect’s abandoned Scripture Repository and found cultivation methods, divine abilities, an alchemy inheritance, and a map to a former secret realm where a Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire had been found.
• Li Qing rescued Lin Jing from Elder Zhu, restored her with his blood, and destroyed the Blood Lotus Sect’s headquarters before killing Elder Zhu and the Blood Lotus Sect Master.
• Li Qing killed the blood lotus with the Heavenly Thunder Seed and Primordial Peerless Hammer, reunited with Lin Jing, and told her to continue the qi-and-blood martial path with Miao Xi.
• Li Qing met Miao Xi and Yan Xishan, tested their new Innate Realm, and named its piercing qi Innate True Qi.
• Li Qing agreed to let Lin Jing accompany him to hunt a Third-order Exotic Beast, and they traveled west on Rice Bucket toward the One-Eyed Giant Deer.

Li Qing explored the Spirit Devouring Realm, acquired the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame’s Origin Fire Seed, and returned to the Eternal Night World as the realm collapsed. He later traveled with Zhao Tianxiong to the Ancient Battlefield for Golden Silkworm Silk, refined a Golden Jade Armor and its imitation, and began considering a new approach to artifact refining.

• Li Qing killed several Third-order Exotic Beasts, subdued the Chattering Worm and named it Chong Jiu, then opened the Secret Realm with Lin Jing.
• Li Qing met a nameless old woman in the Spirit Devouring Realm and learned that taking the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame would collapse the realm.
• Li Qing returned to the realm, found the old woman dead, refined the extinguished Origin Fire Seed and escaped the collapsing realm inside the Black Furnace.
• Li Qing avoided the faction war, took artifact-refining work and began cultivating the Origin Tempering Technique while Zhang Da gathered information for him.
• Li Qing agreed to help Zhao Tianxiong obtain Golden Silkworm Silk in exchange for the materials to refine a Golden Jade Armor and a promise of aid in a manageable crisis.
• Li Qing killed Wulong when he learned the cultivator had abducted children to refine a Nine Sons Demonic Child, then traveled with Zhao Tianxiong to Great Flame Immortal City and entered the Ancient Battlefield.
• Li Qing burned an ancient devil’s remnant soul, gathered uncontaminated Golden Silkworm Silk and collected three vital Golden Silkworm Eggs with Zhao Tianxiong.
• Li Qing refined the Golden Jade Armor and an imitation, then experienced a brief enlightenment from Moon Palace Brew and wondered whether spiritual patterns could lead toward Dao patterns.