Recaps

Li Qingyuan cultivated the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body, converting his Jade Pattern Blood Demon Body and condensing six Wind God Marks before using lightning to temper himself. After locating his Middle Dantian, he began the process of physical Core Formation.

• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Feminine Gate to deduce the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body’s levels and learned that its fifth level could let him wield wind and thunder through the Wind Thunder Intent Realm.
• Li Qingyuan spent a month using Wind Attribute talisman papers, spirit milk, and elixirs to convert his body-refining cultivation, reach Peak Second-tier body refinement, and condense six Wind God Marks.
• Li Qingyuan drew repeated lightning strikes from the lightning pool to temper his body and searched within himself for the Middle Dantian.
• Li Qingyuan found the Middle Dantian near the Shanzhong acupoint, summoned three lightning bolts, and began physical Core Formation.

Li Qingyuan completed Physical Core Formation in the earth thunder pool, greatly strengthening his body and advancing his Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body. After probing the pool and deciding he could not reach its center, he was suddenly teleported away when his jade slip activated, leaving him to curse True Person Miao Le.

• Li Qingyuan endured earth thunder for three months and condensed a Crimson Core, reaching early-stage perfection in Tier 3 physical cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan tested his new strength by smashing stone pillars, breaking a Second-grade High-rank artifact, and repelling a third-grade low-rank flying sword with his body.
• Li Qingyuan forged a second Thunder God Mark, then learned his magic power had advanced close to Peak Foundation Establishment.
• Li Qingyuan rewarded the Flame Dragon Lizard with a promised masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill and put it and Ji Kun into his Space Ring.
• Li Qingyuan entered the thunder pool, advanced a hundred zhang, and turned back when the danger threatened to exceed his ability to return.
• Li Qingyuan waited near the pool, but his jade slip activated on its own and teleported him into the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, prompting him to curse True Person Miao Le.

A Nascent Soul Elder revealed himself as the force behind the demonic beasts and prepared to kill the surviving cultivators. He used the secret realm’s formation to teleport Li Qingyuan into the valley, where the Jade Scorpion King attacked him.

• The Nascent Soul Elder fed ninety Blood Pills to the Blood Red Soil, then collapsed the valley barrier and revealed his Primordial Spirit Body to the battered survivors.
• Zhao Tongxuan and the other remaining cultivators realized they faced a Spirit Transformation powerhouse as the Elder ordered the demonic beasts to surround them.
• The Elder used the secret realm’s formation and Li Qingyuan’s jade slip to teleport him into the valley, where Li Qingyuan arrived with his defenses ready.
• The Elder recognized Li Qingyuan as another Blood Pill Great Medicine and ordered Xiao Yu to kill him.
• The Jade Scorpion King attacked at full strength, and Li Qingyuan prepared to fight for his life.

Li Qingyuan and Blood Shadow fought the Third-grade Late-stage Scorpion King while the Nascent Soul Elder slaughtered cultivators to refine blood pills. As the Elder’s spiritual pressure left Li Qingyuan helpless and the Scorpion King moved to kill him, a rooster’s crow awakened Li Qingyuan and terrified the beast, which recognized the Sky Swallowing Chicken.

• Li Qingyuan blocked the Scorpion King’s attack with the Primordial Cone, rallying the human cultivators to keep fighting.
• Li Qingyuan and Blood Shadow battled the Scorpion King with talisman arrays and weapons, but could not break its defenses, and the Scorpion King’s power surged.
• The Nascent Soul Elder refined Xuan Ya and Xuan Dan into blood pills, while the human forces suffered heavy losses.
• The Nascent Soul Elder unleashed overwhelming spiritual pressure on Li Qingyuan, leaving him unable to defend himself as the Scorpion King struck.
• A rooster’s crow broke through Li Qingyuan’s spiritual darkness and made the Scorpion King’s power disperse; the Scorpion King cried out, recognizing the Sky Swallowing Chicken.

Ji Kun revealed power that made the Scorpion King recognize him as a Sky Swallowing Chicken, while Li Qingyuan and the cultivators faced the Nascent Soul Elder’s killing array. When the Elder’s Breathing Soil struck Li Qingyuan, the Breathing Soil vanished, leaving the Elder horrified.

• Ji Kun’s cries terrified the Scorpion King and nearby demonic creatures, and Ji Kun tore open the Scorpion King’s skull before the Nascent Soul Elder suppressed him and let it escape.
• The Scorpion King identified Ji Kun as a Sky Swallowing Chicken, and the Nascent Soul Elder declared his intention to claim Ji Kun as a spirit pet.
• The Nascent Soul Elder activated the immortal mountain’s killing array, but Ji Kun used his eggshell and essence blood to form a Primordial killing array that held it back.
• Li Qingyuan fed Ji Kun spirit milk and hundreds of pills to sustain the eggshell’s defenses while gathering the surviving cultivators around him.
• The Nascent Soul Elder summoned Breathing Soil and shattered Ji Kun’s defenses, but Li Qingyuan stepped in front of Ji Kun and was struck between the brows.
• The Nascent Soul Elder’s Breathing Soil vanished, and he cried out in terror.

Li Qingyuan survived the Nascent Soul Elder’s attack when the Mysterious Feminine Space devoured the Breathing Soil, grew into a small world, and captured the elder. After sparing him temporarily and making him a servant, Li Qingyuan thwarted Tie Wushuang’s attempt to kill him and seize his Storage Bag.

• The Mysterious Feminine Space absorbed the blood-red Breathing Soil, formed a small world, and captured the Nascent Soul Elder along with it.
• Li Qingyuan discovered he could partly control the space’s refining power and stopped and resumed it at will while the elder begged for his life.
• The Nascent Soul Elder offered to protect Li Qingyuan and alter the cultivators’ memories, and Li Qingyuan spared him temporarily in exchange for his help.
• Tie Wushuang attacked the dazed Li Qingyuan, but Ji Kun blocked the strike and carried Li Qingyuan away as the other cultivators debated joining the attack.
• The Nascent Soul Elder reappeared weakened and bowed to Li Qingyuan as his master, leaving Tie Wushuang and the other cultivators stunned.

Li Qingyuan killed Tie Wushuang and the cultivators who had attacked him, then ordered the survivors’ memories altered to conceal his identity. He harvested the secret realm’s Heavenly Infant and Samsara Fruit Trees, duplicated them in his Mysterious Feminine Space, and left the Scorpion King and its demons at Ji Kun’s mercy.

• Li Qingyuan ordered the Nascent Soul Elder to kill the cultivators who begged for mercy, while Ji Kun captured Tie Wushuang alive.
• The Nascent Soul Elder searched Tie Wushuang’s soul for the Heavenly Gang Gate’s techniques, and Li Qingyuan killed him after he tried to curse him.
• Li Qingyuan had the survivors knocked unconscious and their memories adjusted to hide his identity, then uprooted the Heavenly Infant Fruit Tree and duplicated it in his Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Li Qingyuan identified the valley’s ancient treasure tree as the Samsara Fruit Tree, made the Nascent Soul Elder uproot it, and watched it duplicate inside the space.
• The Nascent Soul Elder promised to conceal Li Qingyuan’s memories from future searches, and Ji Kun asked to eat the Scorpion King because its core could help him advance.

Li Qingyuan let Ji Kun consume the Scorpion King, gathered valuable battlefield resources, and hid his power by staging a near-fatal defeat for himself and altering Li Yunmei’s memories. After the survivors left, he returned to the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm with the Nascent Soul Elder to search for the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, and the elder recognized that Li Qingyuan likely had a Wood Spirit Body.

• Li Qingyuan gave the Scorpion King to Ji Kun, who killed it and took its Demonic Beast Core and Demonic Core.
• Li Qingyuan ordered the Nascent Soul Elder to kill the remaining Tier 3 Great Demons while he collected valuable materials and stored them in the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Li Qingyuan asked the Nascent Soul Elder to take him off the Trial Continent, but the elder said his current power could only open a deadly Spatial Rift.
• Li Qingyuan staged severe injuries, had the Nascent Soul Elder alter Li Yunmei’s memories to match the other survivors, and pretended to be unconscious among them.
• The survivors woke, believed a demon lord had taken the Heavenly Infant Fruits and vanished with the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, and departed to recover and search for resources.
• After the survivors left, Li Qingyuan entered the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm with the Nascent Soul Elder and asked about the Wood Ascending Heaven Art; the elder guessed that Li Qingyuan had a Wood Spirit Body.

Li Qingyuan forced the Nascent Soul Elder to reveal why he had guided Miao Le and sought Wood Spirit Bodies: he wanted a Longevity Seed, which could empower a cultivator and allow them to pursue the legendary Green Wood Longevity Art. The Elder handed Li Qingyuan the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, and Li Qingyuan was stunned by its opening line.

• Li Qingyuan questioned the Nascent Soul Elder, who admitted that he had secretly guided Miao Le to cultivate the Wood Longevity Art and arranged for her to seek the Wood Ascending Heaven Art.
• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Feminine Space to refine the Elder’s Primordial Spirit origin until he confessed that he had sensed Miao Le’s Wood Spirit Body from her blood.
• The Elder explained that combining the Wood Ascending Heaven Art and the Wood Longevity Art could produce a Longevity Seed, either through dual cultivation or by refining two cultivators.
• The Elder described the Longevity Seed’s benefits, including poison immunity, greater endurance, extended life, and the ability to cultivate another Wood Attribute technique and eventually the Green Wood Longevity Art.
• The Elder led Li Qingyuan to a pavilion and gave him a jade slip containing the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, whose first line left Li Qingyuan stunned.

Li Qingyuan acquired the supreme Wood Ascending Heaven Art, escaped the Trial Secret Realm, and returned to the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province with the surviving cultivators. The Corpse Puppet Sect’s patriarch confronted the survivors, demanding to know where his disciples were.

• Li Qingyuan learned that the Wood Ascending Heaven Art was a supreme Cultivation Treasure Technique, and Zhao Guangzheng revealed his name before Li Qingyuan took him into the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Li Qingyuan used his Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body and Wind Shadow Escape to reach the secret realm’s exit rendezvous point ahead of the others.
• Twenty-one other Foundation Establishment Cultivators arrived, while Li Qingyuan reflected that the Nascent Soul Sect and Corpse Puppet Sect disciples had all died.
• Zhao Tongxuan and the other survivors mourned their fallen companions before the spatial transit passage opened and carried them back to the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province.
• The survivors emerged in a mountain range, where the Yin Sha True Monarch confronted them and demanded to know where the Corpse Puppet Sect disciples were.

After the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm disaster, the Nascent Soul True Lords searched the survivors' memories and learned that an ancient demonic cultivator had returned to life. Yin Sha True Monarch tried to seize Li Qingyuan and Zhao Tongxuan, but Miao Le revealed her hidden strength and forced the conflict to a halt; she then summoned Li Qingyuan to walk with her.

• Yin Sha True Monarch, Myriad Phenomena True Monarch, and True Lord Xuantian demanded answers about their missing disciples and ordered the survivors' souls searched.
• Zhao Guangzheng protected Li Qingyuan's memories, allowing the True Lords to see the ancient demonic cultivator's scheme and the disappearance of the Heavenly Infant Fruits.
• Yin Sha True Monarch demanded that Miao Le hand over Li Qingyuan and Zhao Tongxuan, but Miao Le and True Person Yun Le prepared to resist him.
• Miao Le revealed a Fourth-grade Puppet, and True Lord Xuantian persuaded Yin Sha True Monarch to leave without starting a fight.
• After the other True Lords departed, Miao Le invited Li Qingyuan to accompany her on the Three-Colored Cloud Vapor Flying Artifact.

True Person Miao Le rescued Li Qingyuan and offered him a prestigious position and protection while he attempted Core Formation. After five years of secluded cultivation, Li Qingyuan reached the False Core Realm and prepared to form his core.

• True Person Miao Le brought Li Qingyuan back to Three Joys Immortal City, promised him a Chief Steward Elder position after he formed his core, and offered to guard him during the attempt.
• Zhao Guangzheng told Li Qingyuan that Miao Le wanted to cultivate mutual understanding with him for dual cultivation and that they could condense a Longevity Seed together.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his cave mansion, rested for seven days, and began seclusion to attempt Core Formation.
• After five years of refining five premium Primordial Chaos Pills and cultivating, Li Qingyuan reached the False Core Realm with power comparable to Early-Stage Core Formation prodigies.
• Li Qingyuan decided to proceed with Core Formation and looked toward Miao Le Palace.

Li Qingyuan visited True Person Miao Le, who offered him support and guidance as he prepared to form his core. Their conversation ended when his question about Five-Element Spirit Roots shocked her.

• Li Qingyuan arrived at Miao Le Palace and met with True Person Miao Le.
• Miao Le asked Li Qingyuan to call her Sister and arranged a cultivation residence and attendants for his seclusion.
• Li Qingyuan confirmed that he had obtained the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, and Miao Le advised him to form his core before studying its general outline.
• Miao Le promised him a Spirit Condensing Pill, a Third-grade High-rank cultivation residence, and guidance on Core Formation.
• Li Qingyuan asked whether Five-Element Spirit Roots were necessary for advancing cultivation, and Miao Le choked on her tea in surprise.

True Person Miao Le explained how spirit roots absorbed and filtered spiritual energy, and why rarer roots cultivated faster. After ten days of discussing the Dao with Miao Le, Li Qingyuan believed he could reach Core Formation, and she promised him a great gift if he succeeded.

• Miao Le demonstrated how single- and multi-attribute spirit roots transformed or filtered Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.
• Miao Le described the cultivation speeds and Core Formation prospects of different spirit roots, then warned Li Qingyuan to seize the treasures of unusually successful Pseudo Spirit Root or Mixed Spirit Root cultivators.
• Miao Le recounted how a Nascent Soul cultivator who seized a supreme treasure from a Five-Element Mixed Spirit Root cultivator attained Spirit Transformation and founded the Great Xuan Dynasty.
• Miao Le explained that rare spirit roots were precious, while Five-Element and Pseudo Spirit Roots were common, and Li Qingyuan thanked her for clearing up his confusion.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le discussed cultivation for ten days, after which Li Qingyuan said he thought he could reach Core Formation and Miao Le promised him a great gift if he succeeded.

Li Qingyuan entered seclusion at Miao Le Palace to break through to Core Formation, while True Person Miao Le and her brothers discussed her hidden strength and Three Joys Immortal City's prospects. After more than a month of gathering power, Li Qingyuan reached the decisive moment of his breakthrough and released a Core Formation anomaly.

• True Person Miao Le brought Li Qingyuan to her secluded cave abode and urged him to enter seclusion and Impact Core Formation Stage.
• Li Qingyuan dismissed the attendants, placed Ji Kun, the Flame Dragon Lizard, and Blood Shadow on guard, and ordered Zhao Guangzheng to kill any threat, even True Person Miao Le.
• Li Qingyuan gathered spiritual energy from the Third-grade High-rank Spirit Vein and spent more than a month refining and compressing his magic power without forming his core.
• True Person Yun Le, True Person Ya Le, and True Person Miao Le discussed Li Qingyuan's foundation and Miao Le's concealed power, and Miao Le said she needed only one more opportunity to condense a Nascent Soul.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a premium Spirit Condensing Pill at the final moment of his breakthrough, and tyrannical spiritual light erupted from him into the sky.

Li Qingyuan successfully formed a Core Formation at sixty-six and tested his newfound speed, divine sense, and strength. After refining his magic power through the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, he received a summons from his master.

• Li Qingyuan formed a green Core Formation with help from his Physical Core Formation, then tested his speed, divine sense, and strength.
• Li Qingyuan reflected on his progress and resolved to reach Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation before returning to his cave dwelling to study the Wood Ascending Heaven Art.
• Li Qingyuan mastered the Art’s first layer and refined his magic power into Yang Wood Magic Power, further deepening and purifying his foundation.
• Zhao Guangzheng warned Li Qingyuan to cultivate a Longevity Seed and conceal the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, since powerful cultivators coveted it.
• A black-clad female cultivator arrived and told Li Qingyuan that his master requested his presence.

Li Qingyuan visited True Person Miao Le in her lakeside pavilion, where she arranged a moonlit setting and performed a seductive dance for him. After he praised her, Miao Le kissed him and asked him to achieve Unification of Mind and Spirit with her that night.

• Li Qingyuan entered the pavilion alone and discovered that True Person Miao Le had concealed the garden beneath a fourth-grade formation.
• True Person Miao Le descended beneath the artificial moonlight and danced for Li Qingyuan while a Core Formation female cultivator played the Jade Flute.
• Li Qingyuan watched the dance, drank his own spirit wine, and praised Miao Le's beauty and performance.
• Miao Le warmed Li Qingyuan's wine with her hand, then asked whether her dance pleased him.
• Miao Le took Li Qingyuan's cup, intertwined their hands, kissed him, and invited him to achieve Unification of Mind and Spirit.

Li Qingyuan and True Person Miao Le completed a year-long Yin Yang Union ritual that formed a Longevity Seed and helped Miao Le begin forming her Nascent Soul. She departed with a Heavenly Infant Fruit to aid her breakthrough, while Li Qingyuan discovered his cultivation and divine sense had advanced dramatically.

• Li Qingyuan and True Person Miao Le joined their Wood cultivation arts, completing 108 circuits each day as a green cocoon formed around them.
• After a year, the cocoon shattered and a powerful heavenly phenomenon announced Miao Le’s Nascent Soul breakthrough to Three Joys Immortal City.
• Miao Le told Li Qingyuan she had at least an eighty percent chance of forming her Nascent Soul with the Longevity Seed’s help.
• Li Qingyuan gave Miao Le a Heavenly Infant Fruit, raising her chance of success, and she promised to keep their union secret before leaving to form her Nascent Soul.
• Li Qingyuan found that the Longevity Seed had fused with his Core Formation, his magic power had reached the perfection of Early-Stage Core Formation, and his divine sense had advanced to Late-Stage Core Formation.

Miao Le faced a powerful lightning tribulation as she advanced toward the Nascent Soul Realm, and the Longevity Seed absorbed tribulation power to strengthen and heal her. Yin Sha and Myriad Phenomena considered interfering but feared the Human King's rules, then were stunned when Miao Le produced what appeared to be a Heavenly Infant Fruit.

• True Person Yun Le and True Person Ya Le recognized that Miao Le’s Nascent Soul lightning tribulation suggested an aptitude rivaling the Human King’s and worried about whether she would survive it.
• Li Qingyuan learned from Zhao Guangzheng that lightning tribulations arose from the Heavenly Dao, while Zhao Guangzheng silently resented losing the chance to claim the Longevity Seed.
• Miao Le used a puppet, the Four Symbols Talisman Array, and her peach blossom Natal Magic Tool to withstand the first bolt as the Longevity Seed absorbed the lightning and began transforming her body and Nascent Soul.
• As further bolts struck, Miao Le continued using her defenses while her Golden Core spiritual power nourished a forming Nascent Soul.
• Yin Sha and Myriad Phenomena discussed killing Miao Le but decided against defying the Human King's rules, then doubted Three Joys Immortal City could provide the resources she needed to survive.
• Miao Le took out an emerald object resembling a Heavenly Infant Fruit, leaving Yin Sha and Myriad Phenomena unable to believe what they were seeing.

True Person Miao Le survived her heavenly tribulation and advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, becoming True Monarch Miao Le. Three Joys Immortal City acclaimed her as sect master, and she announced that Three Joys Immortal Sect would be founded in three months, while a selection fifteen years away loomed over the new sect.

• True Person Miao Le swallowed the Heavenly Infant Fruit, endured the final lightning strikes, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm as True Monarch Miao Le.
• Three Joys Immortal City’s cultivators hailed Miao Le as sect master under the founding rules, while Yun Le and Ya Le called for Three Joys Immortal Sect to be established.
• Yin Sha and Myriad Phenomena recognized that Miao Le could defeat either of them in a one-on-one fight, and True Lord Xuantian appeared to congratulate and support her.
• Yin Sha warned Miao Le that the Human King Hall Selection would take place in fifteen years, then left with Myriad Phenomena.
• True Lord Xuantian advised Miao Le to recruit gifted cultivators, and Miao Le ordered Three Joys Immortal Sect to be founded in three months during her Nascent Soul celebration.

After entering the Nascent Soul Realm, Li Qingyuan planned a Natal Magic Tool and learned from Zhao Guangzheng how to imitate the legendary Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword. He decided to forge it using attainable substitutes, setting a new goal for his cultivation.

• Li Qingyuan and True Monarch Miao Le spent several days together, and Li Qingyuan entered the Nascent Soul Realm before leaving in disarray.
• Li Qingyuan reviewed the Qin Family's Third-grade Mid-rank Artifact Refining Inheritance and decided to plan a Natal Magic Tool.
• Zhao Guangzheng proposed imitating the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword, whose original refinement required three nearly unobtainable sacred materials.
• Zhao Guangzheng explained that Li Qingyuan's Wood Spirit Body and Longevity Seed could imitate Jianmu, while the Nine Yang Spirit Ganoderma and Diamond Spirit-Breaking Stone could replace the other materials.
• Li Qingyuan asked Zhao Guangzheng to teach him how to refine the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword.

Li Qingyuan learned the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword refinement method and settled the Lei family debt with Li Yunmei before arranging a trap for True Person Chi Yun. After hearing reports of a powerful bandit near Falling Cloud Valley, Chi Yun recognized Li Qingyuan and flew east to confront him.

• Zhao Guangzheng transmitted the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword refinement method to Li Qingyuan, who noted that its required materials would take decades to gather.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that she had arranged for Steward Mo to capture Lei Xing and had killed him after returning to Three Joys Immortal City.
• Li Qingyuan revealed Ji Kun and the Flame Dragon Lizard to reassure Li Yunmei, then instructed her how to draw True Person Chi Yun out.
• Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei led outer disciples on a trial where a powerful bandit attacked them and expressed hatred for True Person Chi Yun.
• After questioning Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei, True Person Chi Yun identified the bandit as Li Qingyuan and rushed toward Falling Cloud Valley.

Li Qingyuan, disguised as Zhen Youde, ambushed True Person Chi Yun, also called Red Cloud, and defeated him with help from the Blood Shadow Clone and Ji Kun. After killing Red Cloud and taking his treasures, Li Qingyuan discovered a Third-grade Mid-rank Alchemy Path Inheritance in the Storage Bag.

• True Person Chi Yun ordered three Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators to search Falling Cloud Valley for the thief and revealed that the Three Joys Immortal Palace had issued a citywide kill order.
• Li Qingyuan, disguised as Zhen Youde, attacked True Person Chi Yun with the Halberd of Subduing with Virtue and revealed that he had achieved Physical Core Formation.
• Li Qingyuan used the Nine Fiend Demonic Cauldron Technique to overwhelm True Person Chi Yun, while the Blood Shadow Clone killed the three Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators.
• The Blood Shadow Clone and Li Qingyuan trapped True Person Chi Yun, and Ji Kun disrupted his control of three Third-grade Mid-tier Talisman Papers with a divine-sense attack.
• Li Qingyuan struck True Person Chi Yun with the Flame Burst Spell, killed him with the Primordial Cone, and took his Wind Fire Furnace, Storage Bag, and talisman papers.
• Li Qingyuan inspected the Storage Bag and found a Third-grade Mid-rank Alchemy Path Inheritance.

Li Qingyuan returned to Three Joys Immortal City, prepared for his new role in Miao Le’s sect, and upgraded the Cloud Mist Sword before attending the sect’s founding ceremony. The Human King’s edict appointed Miao Le Heavenly Inspector of the Great Xuan Dynasty, while Zhao Guangzheng detected Soul Transformation Artistic Conception in the decree and suspected the Human King had reached Spirit Transformation.

• Miao Le stopped Li Qingyuan from killing Mo Yun, explained that she needed him to guard her new sect, and appointed him its Third-grade Master Alchemist.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his cave abode, ordered Zhao Guangzheng to watch for Miao Le, replicated his resources, and studied artifact refining.
• After three months of forging, Li Qingyuan upgraded the Cloud Mist Sword to a third-grade low-rank flying sword, then went to Three Joys Immortal Sect’s founding ceremony.
• The Human King’s edict appointed Miao Le Heavenly Inspector and granted her the Sky-Slaying Sword and Heaven-Patrolling Brocade Robe, shocking the gathered Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Zhao Guangzheng sensed Soul Transformation Artistic Conception in the edict, and Li Qingyuan wondered whether the Human King was a Spirit Transformation mighty figure.

True Monarch Miao Le became Yue Kingdom’s Heavenly Inspector and established the Three Joys Immortal Sect as a major Nascent Soul Sect. During the sect’s recruitment and appointment ceremony, Li Qingyuan revealed his dual Core Formation cultivation and impressed the assembled cultivators.

• True Monarch Miao Le received the Human King’s Edict, was recognized as Yue Kingdom’s Heavenly Inspector, and welcomed guests to her Nascent Soul and sect-founding ceremonies.
• After the seven-day feast, True Monarch Miao Le began recruiting disciples and appointed elders to lead the Three Joys Immortal Sect’s halls.
• True Monarch Miao Le named Zhao Tongxuan and Li Qingyuan as Nascent Soul Seeds, prompting confusion among the crowd over Li Qingyuan’s identity.
• Li Qingyuan revealed that he was the rogue cultivator previously known as Liu Chuan and released his early third-rank body-cultivation aura.
• Li Qingyuan also revealed his Core Formation cultivation, showing that he had formed a core in both body cultivation and Qi Refinement.
• Miao Le privately realized Li Qingyuan had concealed his greater cultivation and Late-Stage Core Formation divine sense.