Recaps

Li Qingyuan killed Lei Chen, gathered materials, strengthened his cultivation, and survived True Person Chi Yun’s pursuit while keeping his identity hidden. After declining to compete for an Ancient Secret Realm trial, he agreed to join Yun Lang’s expedition to a cave mansion linked to a vanished Core Formation cultivator.

• Lei Xing reported Liu Chuan’s wealth to Lei Chen, who plotted to use Li Yunmei as bait, but Li Qingyuan tracked down and killed Lei Chen before rescuing her.
• Li Qingyuan hunted Death Spirit Dragon Pythons and a Two-winged Blood Tiger, then refined Dragon Tiger Auspicious Elixirs and advanced his body cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan traded Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pills with Shang Xiuxin for two Second-grade High-rank Talisman Scripts and produced hundreds of talismans.
• After True Person Chi Yun attacked him over Ji Kun, Li Qingyuan wounded him with Ji Kun’s Primordial Cone and escaped into the Dead Spirit Abyss.
• Li Qingyuan returned to Three Joys Immortal City after three months, hid with Li Yunmei in his cave abode, and advanced his body refinement while studying the Nine Fiend Demonic Cauldron Technique.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan about the Ancient Secret Realm trials, but he worried that competing would expose his disguise and remained undecided.
• Li Qingyuan bought rare materials, refined and upgraded pills, and continued secluded cultivation while Ji Kun reached Peak Second-tier.
• Yun Lang gathered Li Qingyuan, Hua Mei'er, Fang Tian, Nangong Jin, and Chunyu Xing to discuss a Core Formation cultivator’s cave mansion, and Li Qingyuan agreed to join their expedition.

Li Qingyuan entered the Ancient Secret Realm, where he gathered treasures, killed rivals, and clashed with powerful sect cultivators while strengthening Ji Kun. He rejoined Zhao Tongxuan’s group and learned that Core Formation cultivators who once remained in the realm had vanished when it reopened.

• Li Qingyuan joined Yun Lang’s expedition to the cave ruins, but Chunyu Xing betrayed the group and fed Yun Lang, Hua Mei’er, Fang Tian, and Nangong Jin to the Four-Eyed Crimson Infant.
• True Person Miao Le intervened, killed Chunyu Xing, defeated True Person Wan Luo, and discovered Li Qingyuan’s Wood Spirit Body before urging him to form a Core and enter the trial.
• Li Qingyuan advanced his divine sense, prepared for the selection tournament, and won Arena Nine under the name Liu Chuan to qualify for the Ancient Secret Realm.
• True Person Miao Le warned Li Qingyuan about the realm’s dangers, gave him a map and guidance to the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, and asked him to protect Shang Xiuxin.
• Li Qingyuan entered the secret realm with Three Joys Immortal City’s cultivators, then separated from the group and killed Corpse Puppet Sect disciples who tried to rob him.
• Li Qingyuan waited for rival sects and a Demonic Crown Crane to weaken one another, then killed Huang Xiu’s disciples, took the crane’s treasures, and slew Huang Xiu after escaping his formation.
• Xuan Dan pursued Li Qingyuan after sensing him near Xuan Ya, but Li Qingyuan escaped and fed Ji Kun elixirs and demonic cores until it began to emit a Tier 3 Great Demon aura.
• Li Qingyuan met Zhao Tongxuan and Li Yunmei in a trading town, where Zhao revealed that Core Formation cultivators who once stayed in the realm had vanished when it reopened decades later.

Li Qingyuan seized inheritances and spirit milk, helped Ji Kun break through, and turned Blood Shadow into his controlled clone. When the Nascent Soul Elder unleashed a demonic beast tide on the cultivators, Li Qingyuan escaped and found an Earth Thunder Pool where he began cultivating the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body.

• Li Qingyuan entered the Spirit Transformation Grotto-heaven, claimed the Burning Wood Technique and other rewards from the Myriad Laws Hall, and defeated a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet to obtain a Fourth-tier Spell.
• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Zhen Youde, infiltrated the Pill Treasure Pavilion, killed Shangguan Sha and the trapped cultivators, and escaped Blood Shadow after the Pill Tower exploded.
• Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei killed Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun, then Li Qingyuan helped break the spirit-pool formation and received twelve drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Li Qingyuan refined Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pills for Ji Kun, who formed a seven-colored Demonic Core and advanced to Tier 3 Great Demon.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun defeated Blood Shadow, and Li Qingyuan used a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead to turn him into a Core Formation Divine Fiend Clone.
• Li Qingyuan won the incomplete Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body technique at the auction, but a Nascent Soul Elder soon unleashed demonic beasts on the cultivators gathered around the Heavenly Infant Fruit.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun killed the pursuing Purple Flame Lion Roc, made the Flame Dragon Lizard Li Qingyuan’s spirit pet, and found an Earth Thunder Pool where Li Qingyuan began studying the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body.

Li Qingyuan survived the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, formed both a physical core and a green Core Formation, and helped True Person Miao Le advance to the Nascent Soul Realm. As Miao Le founded Three Joys Immortal Sect, Li Qingyuan killed True Person Chi Yun and revealed his cultivation as a dual-core cultivator.

• Li Qingyuan was teleported into the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, where he helped the survivors fight the Nascent Soul Elder and Ji Kun revealed himself as a Sky Swallowing Chicken.
• Li Qingyuan captured the Nascent Soul Elder, concealed his identity from the survivors, and took the Heavenly Infant Fruit Tree and Samsara Fruit Tree into the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Li Qingyuan escaped the secret realm, returned to Three Joys Immortal City, and spent five years cultivating before forming a green Core Formation with help from his physical core.
• Li Qingyuan mastered the first layer of the Wood Ascending Heaven Art and joined True Person Miao Le in cultivating a Longevity Seed, which strengthened them both.
• True Person Miao Le used a Heavenly Infant Fruit to survive her Nascent Soul tribulation and became True Monarch Miao Le, then founded Three Joys Immortal Sect.
• Li Qingyuan planned a Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and killed True Person Chi Yun after luring him to Falling Cloud Valley, taking his alchemy inheritance and other treasures.
• At the sect’s founding ceremony, Miao Le named Li Qingyuan a Nascent Soul Seed, and he revealed his identity as Liu Chuan and his Core Formation and early third-rank body-cultivation realms.