Recaps

Yun Die led Xiao Baiyi, Mo Ni, Li Qingyuan, and the other Spirit Lords through the Blood Demon Forbidden Area toward her great-grandfather’s grotto-heaven, explaining the Blood Demon Sect’s history as swarms of Blood-devouring Bats attacked. Mo Ni killed a Void Refining bat demon and pressed deeper with Li Qingyuan while Ji Kun eagerly anticipated the demon infants and bats.

• The Spirit Lords agreed to seek Yun Die’s great-grandfather’s Alchemy Path Inheritance and followed her into the Blood Demon Forbidden Area.
• Yun Die explained that the Blood Demon Sect had once been a powerful Mahayana sect and that her clan had spent three generations gathering information about the area.
• Thousands of Blood-devouring Bats attacked, and Void Refining Dao Lords cleared the way as the group pushed through increasingly powerful swarms.
• Mo Ni and Li Qingyuan fought several times, drawing attention to Mo Ni’s strength while Li Qingyuan concealed much of his own.
• A Void Refining blood bat demon warned the group to stop at the Blood Demon Sect’s forbidden ground, but Mo Ni killed it with her Butterfly Transformation Technique and Cold Moon Sword Light.
• Mo Ni ordered Li Qingyuan to follow her onward as more Void Refining bat demons and tens of thousands of bats approached, while Ji Kun eagerly claimed the demon infants and bats for himself.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun slaughtered the Blood-devouring Bats, but a Blood Bat Demon Emperor appeared and attacked Mo Ni. The Body Integration cultivators engaged the emperor while Shen began forming a seal to trap it.

• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun joined forces to kill several Void Refining Blood-devouring Bats, and Ji Kun devoured their demonic infants to strengthen its cultivation.
• Mo Ni gave Ji Kun a Late Void Refining Stage demonic infant, then asked to ride it for two days.
• Xiao Baiyi intercepted a crimson sneak attack from the Blood Bat Demon Emperor and protected Mo Ni, Li Qingyuan, and Ji Kun.
• The Blood Bat Demon Emperor demanded that the cultivators leave the Blood Demon Sect's forbidden ground, while Fairy Yun Die explained the constraints imposed by the Immortal Alliance Convention.
• Seven Body Integration Spirit Lords attacked the emperor to restrain it, and Shen began deploying a formation as Xiao Baiyi blocked the emperor's escape.

Li Qingyuan and Mo Ni hunted the retreating Blood-devouring Bats while the Body Integration Spirit Lords fought the Blood Bat Demon Emperor. After Ji Kun swallowed several demon infants and fell into another cocooned slumber, an enraged voice drew everyone's attention.

• Xiao Baiyi, the Sturdy Man, Fairy Yun Die, and four other Body Integration Spirit Lords trapped the Blood Bat Demon Emperor in a devastating battle.
• Mo Ni caught a fleeing Peak Void Refining Stage Blood-devouring Bat and killed it with one strike of her Long River Sword Qi, then gave its demon infant to Ji Kun.
• Li Qingyuan used his Thunder Fire Golden Body and Six-Colored Heavenly Tribulation to defeat another Peak Void Refining Stage Blood-devouring Bat, while Ji Kun swallowed its demon infant.
• Mo Ni praised Li Qingyuan and gave Ji Kun the demon infant she had captured; Ji Kun swallowed it along with many others, became stuffed, and cocooned itself to sleep.
• An unwilling roar from the Blood Bat Demon Emperor drew Li Qingyuan, Mo Ni, and the other Void Refining Dao Lords' attention.

Fairy Yun Die led the group into her great-grandfather’s hidden grotto-heaven, where they crossed a powerful killing formation and discovered an illusion of the Nine-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation. She claimed her great-grandfather’s inheritance lay beyond it and sent two Peak Void Refining cultivators ahead while the Spirit Lords hesitated.

• Shen Lin trapped the bloodthirsty bat in a seventh-rank formation, then Fairy Yun Die led the group to the Blood Demon Cave’s entrance.
• The cultivators entered a vast Small World and triggered a powerful restrictive killing formation, which the Body Integration Spirit Lords crossed using their defenses and abilities.
• Xiao Baiyi protected Mo Ni and Li Qingyuan as they crossed the formation, while Mo Ni reflected on the vast gap between Void Refining cultivators and Spirit Lords.
• The group saw a seemingly world-spanning Nine-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation, but Xiao Baiyi, Shen Lin, and the Skeletal Bewitching Woman recognized it as an illusion.
• Fairy Yun Die said her great-grandfather had passed two lightning tribulations before being ambushed during his third, then urged her two Peak Void Refining servants to fulfill their promise and proceed.

Li Qingyuan and the others entered three regions of Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation illusions, which shattered several cultivators’ Dao Hearts and threatened their future advancement. Li Qingyuan entered the azure thunder and recognized the trials as Yun Yan’s recorded experiences, then stepped into the lightning because its power was illusory.

• Two Peak Void Refining cultivators entered the golden tribulation, but emerged with shattered Dao Hearts and injured Primordial Spirits after Fairy Yun Die suppressed their heart demons.
• A Black Fox woman also succumbed to the golden illusion, while Hu Meier believed Hu Chong had passed after he remained inside for hours.
• Fairy Yun Die directed the group to split among the golden, azure, and yellow thunder regions, and Li Qingyuan entered the azure region with Mo Ni.
• Shen Lin followed Li Qingyuan into the azure thunder, while other venerable spirits and Void Refining Dao Lords entered the three regions.
• Li Qingyuan realized the illusion reproduced Yun Yan’s sensations of undergoing three heavenly tribulations, but that the lightning’s power itself was unreal, and he stepped forward to face it.

Li Qingyuan passed through the heavenly lightning illusion and explored the grotto-heaven, harvesting rare spirit plants as he headed toward its core. He spotted a spirit plant in the form of a child wearing a ganoderma cap and learned it was a Six Yang Divine Ganoderma, then raced after it.

• Li Qingyuan crossed the Nine Layers of Heavenly Thunder illusion with ease and joined Fairy Yun Die and Shen Lin; Mo Ni arrived shortly afterward.
• Fairy Yun Die, Shen Lin, and Mo Ni departed separately to seek opportunities, with Mo Ni following Fairy Yun Die while Li Qingyuan continued alone.
• Li Qingyuan collected and duplicated numerous Fifth-tier and Sixth-tier Spirit Plants, including the Purple Spirit Ganoderma required for his sect mission.
• Li Qingyuan spotted a childlike spirit plant wearing a ganoderma cap, and Old Zhao identified it as a Six Yang Divine Ganoderma.
• Li Qingyuan decided the Six Yang Divine Ganoderma could help transform his Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and pursued it at peak Void Refining Stage speed.

Li Qingyuan agreed to help Shen Lin capture the Spirit Mushroom Doll, though he distrusted the powerful Body Integration cultivator and used the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp to retaliate against Shen Lin’s spying. Shen Lin maintained the appearance of cooperation and prepared to lure the doll into their formation.

• After losing track of the Spirit Mushroom Doll, Li Qingyuan tried to contact his senior siblings, but Shen Lin destroyed his Sound Transmission Jade Talisman and blocked his escape.
• Shen Lin trapped Li Qingyuan in his domain, then backed down when Li Qingyuan threatened to summon Haoran Dao Venerable’s avatar.
• Shen Lin proposed they capture the doll together, offering Li Qingyuan its mushroom cap while keeping the doll for himself; Li Qingyuan agreed to strengthen a Sky Binding Formation with Thunder Fire Power.
• Li Qingyuan used Earth Evasion to place formation flags underground while Shen Lin secretly tracked him with his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qingyuan summoned the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp, wounding Shen Lin’s Primordial Spirit with its backlash, then continued infusing the formation flags with Thunder Fire Power.
• Shen Lin concealed his anger, praised Li Qingyuan, and told him to set the formation once the flags were ready, claiming he had a way to lure out the Spirit Mushroom Doll.

Li Qingyuan secretly altered Shen Lin’s Sky Binding Formation while preparing to trap the Spirit Mushroom Doll, and Zhao Guangzheng helped him plan an escape. Shen Lin lured the doll into the formation with precious Dragon Saliva Incense, and the chapter ended as Li Qingyuan was called on to act while thunder-fire threads closed around it.

• Li Qingyuan placed thirty-eight formation flags and secretly changed their Restriction Runes on Zhao Guangzheng’s advice, giving himself a way through the barrier and adding a hidden advantage.
• Shen Lin insisted that Li Qingyuan remain in the formation to help capture the Spirit Mushroom Doll, and Li Qingyuan warned that he could call on Haoran Dao Venerable for protection.
• Shen Lin lit a bowl of Dragon Saliva Incense, while Li Qingyuan hid underground and recovered his power by refining Golden Cores.
• After several days, the Spirit Mushroom Doll followed the incense into the formation and leapt toward the bowl.
• Shen Lin activated the Sky Binding Formation, trapping the doll as it tried to flee, and called for Li Qingyuan to act while thunder-fire threads descended over it.

Li Qingyuan helped Shen Lin capture the Six Yang Divine Ganoderma, but Shen Lin immediately tried to kill him and revealed that assassination organizations had placed a bounty on him. Li Qingyuan survived and called on the Crystal Immortal Coffin’s power to destroy Shen Lin, leaving the Ganoderma secured and one use of its aid remaining.

• Shen Lin struck the Spirit Mushroom Doll with a powerful attack, forcing it back into its Six Yang Divine Ganoderma form.
• Shen Lin used the Sky Binding Formation to trap the Ganoderma and told Li Qingyuan to cut off its cap as agreed.
• Li Qingyuan turned his thunder-fire blade against Shen Lin’s incoming attack, and his Butterfly Seal blocked four strikes before shattering.
• Li Qingyuan survived with a second Butterfly Seal and a Mahayana Clone jade slip, while Shen Lin revealed the bounty on Li Qingyuan and threatened his senior sister and senior brother.
• Li Qingyuan refused Shen Lin’s offer to share the Ganoderma and asked the Crystal Immortal Coffin to kill him.
• The Crystal Immortal Coffin froze the area and annihilated Shen Lin, then warned Li Qingyuan it would act below Mahayana only once more.

Li Qingyuan defeated Spirit Lord Shen Lin, collected his treasures, and continued toward the core region, where he found Xiao Baiyi and Yun Die battling four Spirit Lords over rare elixirs. The group paused before an enormous Elixir Pagoda whose ancient fire demanded that anyone seeking its inheritance undergo a trial.

• Li Qingyuan thanked the Immortal Coffin Female Corpse for sparing him, then collected Shen Lin’s magic treasure, resources, formations, Six Yang Divine Ganoderma, and formation notes.
• Li Qingyuan wondered where Xiao Baiyi and Yun Die had gone, then encountered their battle against four Spirit Lords near the core region.
• Yun Die’s opponents accused her of keeping three exceptionally valuable elixirs; Xiao Baiyi negotiated for her to hand over one and warned the others against escalating the fight.
• The six Spirit Lords ended their battle and approached the Elixir Pagoda, whose Vermilion Bird-shaped Divine Fire announced a trial for those seeking its inheritance.
• Old Zhao recognized the pagoda as a Half-step Mahayana treasure containing a seed of Southern Bright Illusory Fire and urged Li Qingyuan to take it.

Li Qingyuan entered Yun Yan the Elixir Master's Treasure Pagoda and encountered a memory trial that taught him how to refine Nirvana Elixirs. After passing the lesson, he gained improved pill-refining knowledge and a new gate appeared before him.

• The cultivators rushed into the Illusory Fire Refining Heaven Pagoda after Yun Die revealed its identity and the power of its Southern Bright Illusory Fire Seed.
• Xiao Baiyi led Mo Ni and Li Qingyuan into the pagoda, warning them to stay close because of Yun Yan's dangerous posthumous arrangements.
• Li Qingyuan entered an independent space filled with memory bubbles and was transported into a scene of Yun Yan teaching pill refinement.
• Yun Yan selected Li Qingyuan to refine a Nirvana Elixir, then praised his result and instructed him on improving his technique.
• The illusion shattered, leaving Li Qingyuan with improved pill-refining skills, and a voice summoned those able to refine Nirvana Elixirs through a newly formed Crimson Flame Gate.

Li Qingyuan and four other alchemists entered the Pill Dao Inheritance trial, where they answered questions about cultivation and alchemy. After Li Qingyuan argued that the highest Pill Dao refined pills, humans, and Heaven, a vast will in the Illusory Fire Refining Heaven Pagoda praised his insight.

• Li Qingyuan, Xiao Baiyi, Fairy Yun Die, Hu Meier, and the Sturdy Man's servant answered what cultivation meant, and Fairy Yun Die and Li Qingyuan were transported to a deeper trial space.
• The Sturdy Man's servant, Xiao Baiyi, and Hu Meier refined pills of Sixth Tier Low Grade or above to pass the first trial.
• The five reunited and were asked whether cultivation and alchemy were the same Great Dao.
• The Sturdy Man's servant claimed that alchemy and cultivation were identical and was expelled, while Fairy Yun Die, Hu Meier, Xiao Baiyi, and Li Qingyuan passed with different answers.
• Li Qingyuan described cultivation as a form of Pill Dao, declaring that at its pinnacle one refined pills, humans, and Heaven, prompting a vast will to praise him.

Yun Yan the Elixir Master revealed how he became a Mahayana Primordial Spirit and exposed Yun Die as a descendant of the pair who betrayed him. After killing Yun Die, he invited Li Qingyuan to inherit his Pill Dao legacy.

• Li Qingyuan and Yun Yan the Elixir Master agreed that pill refinement and other crafts could each be forms of cultivation, and Yun Yan recognized Li Qingyuan as a kindred Daoist.
• Yun Yan identified Yun Die as his great-granddaughter and granted her a drop of blood that revealed the truth of his betrayal and transformation into a Mahayana Primordial Spirit.
• Yun Yan accused Yun Die of belonging to the Zhao Family and attacked her with the Southern Bright Illusory Fire; Xiao Baiyi and Hu Meier refused to intervene.
• Yun Yan killed Yun Die, while Xiao Baiyi observed that Yun Yan's Mahayana Primordial Spirit was incomplete and weakened each time it used its power.
• Yun Yan praised Li Qingyuan's cultivation and Pill Dao attainments, then asked him to inherit his legacy and pursue the Ninth Tier Quasi-Immortal Pill and Tenth Tier Immortal Pill.

Yun Yan the Elixir Master offered Li Qingyuan his eighth-tier Pill Dao Inheritance in exchange for three conditions, including protecting the Yun Clan and helping it rise again. After Xiao Baiyi and Hu Meier erased their memories of the pagoda, Yun Yan sent them away and refined the remaining witnesses; Xiao Baiyi’s Dream Butterfly restored his memories as he waited to learn the third condition.

• Yun Yan offered Li Qingyuan his Pill Dao Inheritance and asked him to satisfy three conditions.
• Yun Yan asked Li Qingyuan to protect any surviving Yun Clan bloodline, help worthy descendants restore the clan, and secretly pass them a copy of the inheritance.
• Yun Yan offered to kill the cultivators remaining in the pagoda, but Li Qingyuan identified Xiao Baiyi and Hu Meier as allies and warned that killing everyone would bring trouble.
• Xiao Baiyi and Hu Meier erased their memories of the pagoda and were teleported away, while Yun Yan refined the remaining cultivators and erased their memories.
• Xiao Baiyi's Dream Butterfly restored his copied memories, and he decided to return to the sect and cultivate toward the Integrated Body Late Stage.

Yun Yan the Elixir Master asked Li Qingyuan to fulfill three conditions in exchange for his Pill Dao inheritance, including helping him pursue rebirth through an immortal pill. After they swore their oaths, Yun Yan entered Li Qingyuan’s Mud Pill Palace and discovered that Li Qingyuan’s space could suppress him, so he agreed to teach Li Qingyuan’s External Incarnation.

• Yun Yan the Elixir Master explained that his weakened Primordial Spirit could not kill an Integrated Body Peak Stage cultivator and joked that he might seize Li Qingyuan’s body.
• Yun Yan revealed his plan to teach Li Qingyuan alchemy and eventually fuse his Primordial Spirit with a ninth-rank immortal pill to gain a new body.
• Li Qingyuan and Yun Yan swore to fulfill their respective promises and completed the exchange of oaths.
• Yun Yan and the Illusory Fire Refining Heaven Pagoda entered Li Qingyuan’s Mud Pill Palace, where the space suppressed Yun Yan until Li Qingyuan lifted its pressure.
• Li Qingyuan explained that his External Incarnation shared his knowledge, and Yun Yan agreed to teach it Alchemy Skill.

After returning from the grotto-heaven, Li Qingyuan completed a private Spirit Plant mission for Purple Cloud Fairy and discovered her mysterious connection to the Six Void Dream Butterfly. She gave him the butterfly and Yellow Millet Dream wine to aid his cultivation, then revealed that she hoped he would one day help reopen the immortal road.

• Li Qingyuan returned to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect with Mo Ni and Xiao Baiyi after the grotto-heaven expedition, where two of the eight Spirit Lords had died.
• Li Qingyuan delivered a Purple Spirit Ganoderma and three other Spirit Plants to Purple Cloud Fairy at Wo Yun Peak and received a token to finalize his mission.
• Purple Cloud Fairy examined the Six Void Dream Butterfly, infused it with the laws of time and space, and told Li Qingyuan that his understanding would help him begin the Great Dream Heart Sutra.
• Purple Cloud Fairy returned the butterfly to Li Qingyuan and gave him Seventh-tier Yellow Millet Dream wine to aid his cultivation and temper his state of mind.
• After Li Qingyuan left, Purple Cloud Fairy wondered why she could not see through his past life and wished for him to someday stand beside her and reopen the immortal road.

Li Qingyuan spent eight years cultivating Dream Butterfly Evasion before marking his thousandth birthday alone and remembering his lost family. Bing Ling'er surprised him with a birthday celebration, then confessed she wanted him rather than the soul blood he returned to her.

• Li Qingyuan had Yun Yan swear to keep the Mysterious Feminine Space secret, then sent his clone to learn alchemy while he cultivated.
• Li Qingyuan's allies and companions trained in seclusion as he advanced Dream Butterfly Evasion to minor mastery over eight years.
• On his thousandth birthday, Li Qingyuan drank alone beneath the moon and mourned his family and Luo Ling.
• Bing Ling'er arrived with fireworks, longevity noodles, and gifts after learning Li Qingyuan's birth date from her father.
• Li Qingyuan returned Bing Ling'er's soul blood, but she refused it and told him she wanted him.

Li Qingyuan rejected Bing Ling'er’s offer to become his concubine and returned her soul blood before beginning cultivation with the Great Dream Heart Sutra. After drinking Yellow Millet Dream wine, he fell asleep to create a dream, while the Purple Cloud Fairy wondered whether he would create one or enter a dream connected to reality.

• Bing Ling'er confessed her admiration for Li Qingyuan and offered to become his concubine, but he said he had no interest in a new Dao companion and returned her soul blood.
• Bing Ling'er left, resolved not to give up on becoming Li Qingyuan’s dual cultivation partner.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Great Dream Heart Sutra’s second layer, Dream-Entering Cultivation, and considered how cultivation and insights gained in a dream could return to reality.
• Li Qingyuan drank the Seventh-Tier Spirit Wine Yellow Millet Dream and fell into a deep sleep as his mind began creating a dream.
• The Purple Cloud Fairy reflected that dreams and reality shared karma and wondered whether Li Qingyuan would create a dream or enter the real world through one.

Luo Changfeng struggled from an orphaned collateral disciple to the Extreme Dao, but his breakthrough burned away his life. As he died, the Luoshen Clan welcomed a divinely blessed goddess, Luo Ling, and sealed the clan’s territory to hide her birth.

• Luo Changfeng trained in the Luoshen Clan’s collateral branch, established his foundation at thirty, formed his core at eighty, and became a Nascent Soul True Lord at two hundred and thirty.
• Luo Changfeng received guidance and a Nirvana Elixir from his teacher, Luo Xuankong, then spent a century in seclusion preparing to reach Extreme Dao Soul Transformation.
• Luo Changfeng broke through his innate limitations and attained the Extreme Dao, but his essence, qi, and spirit continued burning until he died.
• The Luo River’s waters surged, and the Luoshen Clan’s leaders and powerful cultivators gathered as the Spirit of Luo River blessed a newborn female infant.
• The clan patriarch sealed the infant’s cultivation and reincarnation power, named her Luo Ling, and ordered the clan’s territory sealed and its inhabitants’ memories of her birth erased.
• Luo Changfeng died and murmured that the name Luo Ling seemed familiar.

After awakening from a ten-year dream in which he lived a thousand years as Luo Changfeng, Li Qingyuan absorbed the cultivation power gained in the dream and improved his strength. He emerged from seclusion with newly refined elixirs and brought gifts to Zuoqiu Ling, leaving his visit poised to surprise the other elder brother as well.

• Li Qingyuan awoke grieving for Luo Changfeng and Luo Ling, then circulated the Great Dream Heart Sutra and absorbed the magic power gained in the dream.
• After a year of seclusion, Li Qingyuan finished refining the dream’s power and reckoned that ten years of dreaming had given him the gains of a century of cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Ji Kun and Little Flame remained in cultivation while his Second Yuan Clone studied alchemy under Yun Yan.
• Yun Yan presented three Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pills and two batches of Heavenly Origin Void Pills, which Li Qingyuan replicated.
• Li Qingyuan visited Zuoqiu Ling and offered him a Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pill, prompting Zuoqiu Ling to recognize the seventh-tier elixir.

Li Qingyuan gave valuable pills to Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin, then asked them to show him the vacant fief of an Eighth Peak Silver Robe Elder. They brought him to the hundred-thousand-li territory and Zuoqiu Ling summoned its clans and cultivators to pay respects.

• Li Qingyuan presented Zuoqiu Ling with a Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pill and Heavenly Origin Void Pills, and Zuoqiu Ling accepted them warmly.
• Huyan Xin arrived, received the same gifts from Li Qingyuan, and accepted the Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pill he had been saving resources to obtain.
• At the banquet, Li Qingyuan asked about the vacant fief of the Eighth Peak's fifth Silver Robe Elder, and Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin agreed to accompany him.
• The three flew more than two million li, and Zuoqiu Ling identified the vacant hundred-thousand-li region as Li Qingyuan's fief.
• Zuoqiu Ling revealed his ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Form and ordered the local clans and cultivators to come pay their respects.

Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin summoned the cultivators of a vast territory to announce Li Qingyuan as their new Silver Robe Elder and lord. Li Qingyuan challenged six Void Refining Dao Lords to test their strength, then defeated them all with a single sword strike.

• Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin gathered the cultivators within a hundred-thousand-li region and announced that a Silver Robe Elder would govern them on the Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s behalf.
• Li Qingyuan appeared in his silver robe, and Huyan Xin warned the assembled cultivators to obey him as their lord.
• Li Qingyuan asked six Void Refining cultivators to withstand ten exchanges and offered each a Heavenly Origin Void Pill if they succeeded.
• Deng Taixuan and five other Dao Lords attacked Li Qingyuan together after he urged them to come at him all at once.
• Li Qingyuan unleashed his Thunder God Body, Thunder Fire Golden Body Dharma Form, Slaughter Domain, and Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword, shattering the six Dao Lords’ combined attack with one strike.

Li Qingyuan defeated six Void Refining cultivators, claimed his territory, and revealed that he was a Sixth-tier Alchemist. After securing the Lord’s Mansion and receiving lavish tributes from local families, he established plans for them to help govern his territory and offered them discounted elixirs.

• Li Qingyuan defeated the six Void Refining cultivators, who recognized him as the renowned Heavenly Chosen and pledged themselves and their forces as his retainers.
• Li Qingyuan gave the six Huiyuan Pills and revealed he could refine Sixth-tier elixirs, then parted ways with Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin.
• Li Qingyuan activated the Lord’s Mansion formation, entered seclusion, and waited for the local families to arrive and pay their respects.
• The three great families and other local powers brought tributes to the Lord’s Mansion, where Old Zhao used seven Void Refining Soul Slaves to manage their arrival.
• Li Qingyuan ordered the families to form a Lord’s Mansion Elder Council and patrol guards, accepted their tributes, and offered his retainers Fifth-tier and Sixth-tier elixirs at sixty percent of market prices.

Li Qingyuan traveled to Wind Fire Valley to find Yun Yan the Elixir Master's descendants and discovered that the Zhao Family had taken control of the Yun Clan. He left after witnessing Yun Feng accept the Zhao Family's support and compromise the Yun Clan's future, hoping to find someone among the descendants still worth helping.

• Li Qingyuan sold fifth-tier and sixth-tier elixirs, left the newly established Lord's Mansion, and asked Yun Yan the Elixir Master where his family lived.
• Yun Yan directed Li Qingyuan to Wind Fire Valley on the border of Tianfeng Domain and Liusha Domain, and Li Qingyuan reached the Yun Clan's lands after a month's journey.
• Li Qingyuan entered the clan grounds disguised as a butterfly, while Zhao Qiong worried about his elder sister's attempt to seize Yun Yan's remains and Pill Dao inheritance.
• Yun Feng told Zhao Qiong that Yun Clan geniuses had died and requested more marriage alliances; Zhao Qiong offered elixirs and Zhao Clan cultivators in return for the Yun Clan's continued submission.
• Yun Feng accepted the elixirs and left, believing they might help him advance, while Li Qingyuan silently departed and judged that Yun Feng had sacrificed the Yun Clan's chance to rise.

Yun Ji fled the Yun Clan lineage to escape a forced marriage to Zhao Qingquan, but Yun Tong caught up and tried to take her back. Just as she activated a Nascent Soul Detonation Pill, Li Qingyuan killed Yun Tong and offered to take her as his disciple.

• Yun Ji mourned her dead brother and learned that Elder Yun Hua had ordered her to marry Zhao Qingquan after she formed a Nascent Soul.
• Yun Ji concealed her anger, accepted the Earth Infant Pill, and later fled Wind Fire Valley under the pretext of a mission.
• Yun Tong revealed that he had followed Yun Ji on Yun Feng's orders and attacked her when she tried to escape to the Liusha Domain.
• After Yun Tong defeated her defenses, Yun Ji activated a Nascent Soul Detonation Pill, choosing to die rather than be forced into Zhao Qingquan's hands.
• Li Qingyuan appeared, annihilated the pill and Yun Tong, then praised Yun Ji and asked her to become his disciple.