Recaps

Jiang Ping'an repeatedly struck the Old Hag with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning inside the Zhennan Marquis Estate. The Old Hag died in the eighth strike, but the Zhennan Marquis and Zhao Yinglong also perished while trying to save or escape her.

• The Old Hag woke from a nightmare, fled the underground chamber, and panicked through the estate until the Zhennan Marquis restrained her.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Heavenly Punishment Divine Eye to strike the estate with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, breaking its defensive barrier and exhausting Bodhisattva Yuanwei's protections.
• The Zhennan Marquis caught the seventh lightning bolt with his body and threw the Old Hag away, dying as he saved her.
• The Old Hag clung to Zhao Yinglong while he and his family pleaded with her to let go.
• Jiang Ping'an struck a final time, killing the Old Hag and Zhao Yinglong.

White Emperor City learned that the Old Hag, the Zhennan Marquis, and Zhao Yinglong had died in a lightning strike, while Zhao Yingpeng inherited the marquis title and received a secret art from the Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord. Jiang Ping'an returned to Yujing, told Jiang Shuyue they had to leave the Great Qian Kingdom, and parted from Princess Bailing after giving her an Enlightenment Tea Leaf.

• White Emperor City residents spread rumors about the Old Hag dragging the Zhennan Marquis and Zhao Yinglong to their deaths, ruining the estate's reputation.
• Zhao Yingpeng inherited the marquis title, but Su Yingluo took control of the estate's real power.
• The Pudu Mountain Buddha Lord gave Zhao Yingpeng the Mountain-Sea Sutra, promising it could help him suppress Jiang Ping'an.
• Jiang Ping'an returned to the Guangling Marquis Estate and told Jiang Shuyue that they had to leave the Great Qian Kingdom before Foreign Race Saints and Demon Emperors arrived.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Princess Bailing to move Jiang Manor's family to Yujing, and she explained she had to remain to fulfill her clan's hopes of cultivating a Saint.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Princess Bailing an Enlightenment Tea Leaf before leaving with Jiang Shuyue.

Jiang Ping'an took Jiang Shuyue out of the Great Qian Kingdom with Lin Zihan and gave his mother a Longevity Peach without telling her what it was. After Lin Zihan revealed its value, Jiang Shuyue returned the second peach to Jiang Ping'an, grateful but unwilling to accept more than one.

• Jiang Ping'an and Jiang Shuyue left the Great Qian Kingdom aboard his treasure ship, and Lin Zihan joined them.
• After days of travel across the Endless Ocean, Jiang Ping'an gave Jiang Shuyue a Longevity Peach, which she ate and slept deeply after consuming.
• Jiang Shuyue offered her second Longevity Peach to Lin Zihan, who revealed that it could extend a person's lifespan and was coveted even by Saints.
• Jiang Shuyue confronted Jiang Ping'an about the peach and returned it, refusing to accept a second one despite his offer.

Jiang Ping'an refused to sell Lin Zihan his last Longevity Peach but promised to consider selling another if he found one. After returning to Ping'an City, he introduced his mother, Jiang Shuyue, to his household and gave her Enlightenment Tea Leaves to support her cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an told Lin Zihan he would not sell his remaining Longevity Peach, and Lin Zihan offered to pay any condition for a future peach.
• Jiang Ping'an said he no longer needed Lin Zihan to guard the city or mine, leaving her to consider what deposit she could offer.
• A month and a half later, Jiang Ping'an and his companions returned to Ping'an City, where Jiang Shuyue was amazed by the city her son had built.
• Jiang Ping'an introduced Jiang Shuyue to Lan Yu, Princess Yunhua, and Hu Yan'er, and Jiang Shuyue welcomed Yunhua and gave her a top-grade Spirit Artifact.
• Jiang Ping'an arranged for Gui Henian, Zhu Yan, and the Golden-Winged Peng to meet Jiang Shuyue, then gave her five Enlightenment Tea Leaves to aid her cultivation.

Jiang Ping'an traveled to the Northern Ice Plains to search for the Enlightenment Tea Tree, enduring increasingly dangerous gale winds as he searched. Deep within the plains, he heard a mysterious woman’s voice address him and insist he was not someone else.

• Jiang Ping'an learned that the Golden-Winged Peng had advanced to the Demon King realm and prepared it to accompany him to the Northern Ice Plains.
• Jiang Ping'an gave the Golden-Winged Peng a Spirit Treasure, then left Ping'an City with it a few days later.
• After eight days of flight, Jiang Ping'an reached the Northern Ice Plains and ventured inside, testing the gale winds and finding that his Primal Chaos Body Protection True Qi could barely withstand them.
• More than four months later, Jiang Ping'an entered the depths, where black, corrosive gale winds repeatedly battered him and a woman’s voice spoke to him through the wind.
• Jiang Ping'an continued searching through the black gale winds, and the mysterious voice told him, "You are not him."

Jiang Ping'an encountered a resentful woman who had waited seventy or eighty thousand years for Ye Wuji, and promised to help her find him in exchange for her help locating the Enlightenment Tea Tree. He found and harvested the tree, then traded a Divine Origin Crystal for one of its branches.

• Jiang Ping'an endured the Black Gale Winds and learned that the resentful woman was waiting for Ye Wuji, a man she had not seen for seventy or eighty thousand years.
• Jiang Ping'an promised to find Ye Wuji, and the woman agreed to take him to the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• The Black Gale Winds carried Jiang Ping'an to the tree, which he grabbed before it could escape.
• Jiang Ping'an picked thirty-four Enlightenment Tea Leaves and proposed trading a Divine Origin Crystal for a branch.
• The Enlightenment Tea Tree accepted the crystal, and Jiang Ping'an broke off one of its branches.

Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, entrusted Princess Yunhua with cultivating the Enlightenment Tea Tree branch, and searched for information about Ye Wuji. After spending his Enlightenment Tea Leaves on insights into the eighth volume of the "Dao Scripture," he decided to delay cultivation until he had fully understood it.

• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City and learned that Jiang Shuyue had advanced to the Law Manifestation Realm.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Princess Yunhua an Enlightenment Tea Tree branch to cultivate in Chenghe Courtyard, then stayed the night with her and Qian'er.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Palace Master Yunshui and Lan Yu about Ye Wuji, but neither knew of him; he decided to ask the Ye Family Ancient Clan.
• Jiang Ping'an converted his Enlightenment Tea Leaves into Proficiency Points and raised his eighth-volume "Dao Scripture" proficiency to seven billion.
• Jiang Ping'an absorbed the new insights, recognized a possible deviation in his cultivation method, and chose to wait until he fully comprehended the volume before cultivating.

Jiang Ping'an approved the construction of Moonrise City to ease Ping'an City's crowding and create jobs, then warned Shen Shui'er about the dangers of advancing to the Dao Inquiry Realm with her fast-track cultivation art. Concerned that several popular arts left cultivators vulnerable to Heavenly Tribulations, he summoned Zhang Zhe to help issue guidance on cultivating the Heaven's Mandate Scripture.

• Zhang Zhe told Jiang Ping'an that Ping'an City's population had neared five million, straining its Heavenly Essence and leaving many people without work, and proposed building a new city beside the Azure River.
• Jiang Ping'an assessed several candidates and appointed Song Siming to oversee the new city's construction.
• Jiang Ping'an named the city Moonrise City, organized investment and construction, and assigned Liu Xixu to build its defensive array and Spirit Gathering Array.
• Shen Shui'er told Jiang Ping'an she planned to advance to the Dao Inquiry Realm, and he advised her to temper herself outside the city or cultivate the Heaven's Mandate Scripture first.
• Jiang Ping'an summoned Zhang Zhe to help inform cultivators of five fast-track arts that they should cultivate the Heaven's Mandate Scripture before facing major Heavenly Tribulations.

Jiang Ping'an, Lan Yu, and the Golden-Winged Peng traveled to the Ye Family Ancient Clan’s Grotto-Heaven World to honor Ye Qingtian’s invitation. They reached Ye Clan City and were settled in Hongbin Courtyard to await Ye Qingtian, while Jiang Ping'an wondered why the Ancient Clans did not protect the wider Human Race.

• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu set out for the Ye Family Ancient Clan on the Golden-Winged Peng after more than half a year had passed since their return from the Northern Ice Plains.
• At Tianyuan Mountain, Jiang Ping'an introduced himself as Ye Chenzhou and explained that Ye Qingtian had invited him, so the patrol escorted the travelers to the Grotto-Heaven World.
• Jiang Ping'an, Lan Yu, and the Golden-Winged Peng entered the Ye Clan’s sunlit world and traveled for a day and a half to Ye Clan City.
• The guide warned Jiang Ping'an that the founding ancestor’s inscription above the city gate had never yielded enlightenment to anyone, though Jiang Ping'an believed his panel and Proficiency Points might help him understand it.
• The guide lodged Jiang Ping'an and his companions in Hongbin Courtyard and said Ye Qingtian would meet him in a few days.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu discussed why the Ancient Clans let the Human Race suffer, and Jiang Ping'an concluded that he still knew too little about the Great Barrens World to judge their circumstances.

Jiang Ping'an comprehended the Ye Clan divine power Instant Eternity Severance, which could consume an enemy's lifespan, then learned he was expected to attend a poetry meet. He arrived at Still Water Garden with Lan Yu, where a crowd awaited the poems composed there.

• Jiang Ping'an spent thirty million Proficiency Points to comprehend Ye Clan: Instant Eternity Severance, a divine power that could make an enemy expend one thousand years of lifespan.
• Lan Yu told Jiang Ping'an that the Ye Family Fifth Elder had postponed their meeting and invited him to a banquet five days later and the Still Water Poetry Meet the next day.
• Jiang Ping'an admitted he could not compose poetry himself but planned to borrow famous poems and lyrics he remembered.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu explored the streets, and Lan Yu enjoyed guessing lantern riddles until late at night.
• The Ye Family Fifth Elder sent someone to escort Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu to Still Water Garden, where the guide explained that successful poets could become famous throughout Ye Clan City.

At the Still Water Poetry Meet, Jiang Ping'an faced scorn from the gathered Ancient Clan youths, who doubted he could write poetry. As the first challenge neared its end, he copied Cao Cao’s “Guan Cang Hai,” leaving the crowd to see what they thought of his work.

• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu entered Still Water Garden, where guests whispered that he was too uncultured for the poetry meet.
• Jiang Ping'an surveyed the gathering and encountered Ye Gucheng, Ye Wang, Yang Tingyu, Xiao Pojun, and Zhou Qingyang.
• Ye Qingxuan greeted Jiang Ping'an, drawing jealous looks from men who knew he was to marry into the Ye Family Ancient Clan.
• A Ye Clan Elder announced water as the first poetry topic, and the other participants began composing while Jiang Ping'an snacked on Spirit Melon seeds.
• With the incense nearly burned out, Jiang Ping'an picked up his brush and wrote a poem about the vast sea, copying Cao Cao's “Guan Cang Hai.”

Jiang Ping'an stunned the Still Water Poetry Meet by writing “Guan Cang Hai,” winning the water theme and spreading his fame throughout Ye Clan City. As the moon theme began, the crowd watched expectantly while he waited until the incense had burned past halfway before raising his brush again.

• Jiang Ping'an wrote “Guan Cang Hai,” whose vast artistic conception shocked everyone at the Still Water Poetry Meet.
• Ye Wang praised the poem, and the elder declared Ye Chenzhou, Lord of Ping'an City, the winner of the water theme.
• Ye Gucheng was humiliated by his defeat, while Yang Tingyu grew resentful as he noticed Ye Qingxuan watching Jiang Ping'an.
• People copied and circulated “Guan Cang Hai” throughout Ye Clan City, where Ye Qingxuan regretted missing the poem's creation and considered Jiang Ping'an's talent.
• The elder announced the moon as the second theme, and the gathered poets fixed their attention on Jiang Ping'an.
• Jiang Ping'an leisurely drank his Spirit Tea, then raised his brush after the incense had burned past halfway.

Jiang Ping'an stunned the Still Water Poetry Meet with “Ba Jiu Wen Yue,” a poem that moved cultivators with its vision of the moon’s eternity and humanity’s fleeting lives. As the poem spread through Ye Clan City, Ye Qingxuan raced to Still Water Garden, hoping to witness Jiang Ping'an create another divine poem.

• Jiang Ping'an began “Ba Jiu Wen Yue” with plain-sounding lines, disappointing the crowd before his later verses restored their interest.
• Jiang Ping'an completed the poem with lines about people passing like water beneath the unchanging moon, leaving the pavilion silent and its guests shaken.
• Ye Wang praised the poem as a work of divine craftsmanship, and the crowd celebrated Jiang Ping'an while Ye Qingxuan and Lan Yu admired him.
• “Ba Jiu Wen Yue” spread rapidly through Ye Clan City, moving people across the city, including high-ranking Ye Clan members.
• After hearing the poem, Ye Qingxuan regretted missing the poetry meet and hurried toward Still Water Garden as others also gathered to see Jiang Ping'an.

Jiang Ping'an’s poems drew the Ye Clan Third Elder and Seventeenth Elder to Still Water Garden, where the third topic, longevity, became his uncontested performance. He wrote four lines that challenged the pursuit of immortality and depicted time’s power over even the sun and moon, while the elders waited for his next line.

• The Ye Clan Third Elder and Ye Clan Seventeenth Elder arrived above Still Water Garden, and the Seventeenth Elder recited a poem that conjured a vision of time and the river of life.
• Ye Qingxuan and other members of the Ye Clan arrived to watch, while Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu reacted to the crowd gathering overhead.
• The venerable elder announced longevity as the third poetry topic, and the other participants gave up composing as they waited for Jiang Ping'an.
• Jiang Ping'an wrote that he laughed at fleeting life and questioned when the Dao of longevity could be attained.
• Jiang Ping'an wrote that the Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit would sink and fall away, and the Ye Clan elders awaited his next line.

Jiang Ping'an finished a defiant poem, and the power released as he wrote its final line overwhelmed everyone at Still Water Garden. The Ye Clan elders apologized and brought him to Guanzhi Palace, where the clan patriarch offered him a meeting with Ye Qingxue.

• Jiang Ping'an wrote that people need not bow to heaven and earth and should split chaos to establish heaven and earth, while his aura blasted everyone from the pavilion.
• Ye Changtian praised the poem, apologized to Jiang Ping'an, and invited him to Guanzhi Palace; Ye Wentian and Lan Yu accompanied them.
• People across Ye Clan City discussed Jiang Ping'an's poem and strength, while Ye Gucheng, Yang Tingyu, and the others were left dejected.
• Ye Huitian offered for Jiang Ping'an to meet his unmarried daughter Ye Qingxue, and Jiang Ping'an agreed.

Ye Qingxue met Jiang Ping'an at a banquet in Guanzhi Palace, where her penetrating gaze unsettled him and he declined her requests. After he left, she told Ye Huitian that she was interested in his secrets, and he warned her not to investigate someone the Ye Family hoped to win over.

• Ye Huitian summoned his daughter, Ye Qingxue, to meet Jiang Ping'an at the banquet.
• Ye Huitian praised Jiang Ping'an’s achievements and poems, and Ye Qingxue asked him to recite them; Jiang Ping'an refused.
• Ye Huitian asked Ye Qingxue to show Jiang Ping'an around, but Jiang Ping'an declined and returned to Hongbin Courtyard aboard his Top-Grade Treasure Ship.
• Lan Yu told Jiang Ping'an that Ye Qingxue’s gaze seemed able to see through her, and Jiang Ping'an dismissed the concern.
• Ye Qingxue told Ye Huitian she was interested in Jiang Ping'an’s secrets, and he warned her not to pry into them.

Jiang Ping'an chose Ye Qingluan as his bride and spent several days touring the Ye Family grotto-heaven with her. They agreed to marry and exchanged treasured gifts before Jiang Ping'an prepared to return to Ping'an City to arrange the betrothal ceremony.

• Jiang Ping'an attended a banquet hosted by Ye Huitian and Ye Qingtian, then told Ye Qingtian that Ye Qingluan was the woman he preferred.
• Ye Qingluan took Jiang Ping'an on a tour of the grotto-heaven, where he described the dangers facing humans in the Great Barrens World.
• Ye Qingxue reflected that her Crystal Soul Jade Physique could not see through Jiang Ping'an's secrets and resolved to learn more about him after he joined the Ye Family.
• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan agreed to marry, and Jiang Ping'an planned to return to Ping'an City before sending her betrothal gifts.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Ye Qingluan the Magnetic Jade Bottle as an engagement token, and Ye Qingluan gave him a Blessing Talisman in return.

Jiang Ping'an gained his mother’s approval to marry Ye Qingluan and sent a grand betrothal convoy to the Ye Family Ancient Clan, setting the wedding for half a year later. While waiting in Ping'an City, he witnessed the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell become a Top-Grade Spirit Treasure and leave its heavenly tribulation stronger than ever.

• Jiang Ping'an told Jiang Shuyue about Ye Qingluan, explained why Princess Bailing could not marry him, and received his mother’s approval for the marriage.
• Jiang Ping'an prepared betrothal gifts worth more than one billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones and sent them toward the Ye Family Ancient Clan under Peng Qingyang’s leadership, with Lan Yu and Gui Henian guarding the convoy.
• Jiang Ping'an arranged for the wedding to take place half a year later and spent the following weeks with his mother while Incarnation Ye Bumei handled his refining work.
• Jiang Ping'an nourished the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell in his Cultivation Chamber until its innate Spirit of the Artifact was born.
• Jiang Ping'an carried the bell more than two thousand li from Ping'an City and watched it absorb the heavenly tribulation without damage.
• The Eternal Soul Suppression Bell became a Top-Grade Spirit Treasure, with the powers to suppress Divine Souls, unleash Annihilation Golden Lightning, and control lightning while breaking evil.

Jiang Ping'an led a grand wedding procession toward the Ye Family Ancient Clan to fetch his bride, using the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell to repel a Winged Race attack along the way. After a little over a month of travel and several disturbances, the procession reached Tianyuan Mountain, where the Ye Family Ancient Clan's grotto-heaven entrance was located.

• Peng Qingyang reported that the betrothal-gift fleet had returned safely from the Ye Clan Grotto-Heaven and praised Jiang Ping'an's poem.
• Jiang Ping'an set out for the Ye Family Ancient Clan with a wedding procession, using four dragons borrowed from Yunshui Palace to pull the flagship.
• Three Winged Race Venerables rallied a huge force to attack the procession as it crossed Winged Race territory.
• Jiang Ping'an rang the Eternal Soul Suppression Bell, incapacitating Winged Race members within thirty li and causing many to fall from the sky, while the three Venerables escaped.
• Jiang Ping'an let the wedding procession continue, and after more than a month of travel it arrived at Tianyuan Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an arrived at the Ye Family Ancient Clan to marry Ye Qingluan and asked Fifth Elder Ye Qingtian about the erased ancestor Ye Wuji. He learned that records of many great figures had been destroyed or lost, leaving Human Race history in the Great Barrens largely fabricated or incomplete.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Ye Clan City with a wedding procession led by four dragons, drawing crowds and a formal welcome from the Ye Family Ancient Clan.
• While waiting for the wedding preparations, Jiang Ping'an asked Ye Qingtian about Ye Wuji, whose name he had heard from a mysterious voice in the Northern Ice Plains.
• Ye Qingtian explained that an unspeakable existence used a great divine ability to erase Ye Wuji from memory and records, and linked the erasure to the highest level of the Karmic Cataclysm Fist.
• Ye Qingtian recounted that Ye Wuji had possessed the Ancient Sacred Body, nearly wiped out the Dragon Race, and created the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone before disappearing along with his sword.
• Jiang Ping'an asked to see the replica sword kept in the ancestral shrine, and Ye Qingtian agreed to take him after the wedding when he returned with Qingluan.
• Ye Qingtian had never heard of Great Emperor Yuan Zhao and said that much of Human Race history in the Great Barrens had been erased, fabricated, or lost.

Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan married in a lavish ceremony in Ping'an City, with Jiang Shuyue receiving their bows as the honored elder. After celebrating with guests and the city’s people, Jiang Ping'an joined Ye Qingluan in the bridal chamber, where he promised to reveal his origins when the time was right.

• Jiang Ping'an received Ye Qingluan from the Ye Family Ancient Clan and led the wedding procession safely back to Ping'an City with her lavish dowry fleet.
• Ye Qingluan lifted her veil to admire the vast, festively decorated Ping'an City as the wedding procession arrived.
• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan completed their wedding rites and bowed to Jiang Shuyue, who wept with happiness as she received them.
• Jiang Ping'an thanked the wedding guests, including representatives from the Great Qian Kingdom and several Ancient Clans, while Xiao Yizhuo praised his deeds in the Divine Origin Ruins.
• Jiang Ping'an raised a toast to the people of Ping'an City, who celebrated his wedding throughout the city.
• Jiang Ping'an lifted Ye Qingluan's veil, promised to tell her about his origins later, and joined her in the bridal chamber.

Jiang Ping'an inspected Moonrise City with Ye Qingluan, gave Liu Xixu a Saint-rank formation to study, and considered her warning about Qingqiu City. He chose not to seize the foxes’ city, arranged to escort Lan Yu to the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone after returning from Falling Dusk Mountain, and left with Ye Qingluan to visit her family.

• Jiang Ping'an and Ye Qingluan inspected Moonrise City, where Song Siming welcomed them and workers built the city under Jiang Ping'an's allocation system.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Liu Xixu the Myriad Waters Formless Return Holy Formation and asked her to see whether it could replace or upgrade Ping'an City's defenses.
• Liu Xixu urged Jiang Ping'an to investigate the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor and take charge of Qingqiu City, but Jiang Ping'an decided to consider her suggestion and later chose not to take the city because of Princess Yunhua.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Princess Yunhua and checked that the Enlightenment Tea Tree branch she cared for had become a Clarity Tea Tree.
• Lan Yu asked to enter the Dragonfall Forbidden Zone, and Jiang Ping'an asked her to wait until after his planned journey to Falling Dusk Mountain.
• After their three months of newlywed life ended, Jiang Ping'an prepared gifts and accompanied Ye Qingluan to visit the Ye Family Ancient Clan.

Jiang Ping'an visited the Ye Family Ancient Clan, received a Chengyuan Imitation Sword, and went to the Northern Ice Plains to tell Ye Wuji’s resentful wife that her husband had died. After the truth enraged her, he traveled to Falling Dusk Mountain seeking Enlightenment Tea Leaves and entered alone.

• Ye Qingtian gave Jiang Ping'an a Chengyuan Imitation Sword, which Jiang Ping'an tested and found suited his fighting style.
• Jiang Ping'an arranged for Ye Qingluan and Ye Bumi to oversee Ping'an City, then left for the Northern Ice Plains.
• Jiang Ping'an showed Ye Wuji’s resentful wife the imitation sword and told her Ye Wuji had died, provoking her fury and a violent gale.
• Jiang Ping'an watched the storm ravage the Northern Ice Plains for several days, then departed for Falling Dusk Mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an sent the Golden-Winged Peng back to Ping'an City and resolutely entered Falling Dusk Mountain alone.

Jiang Ping'an searched Falling Dusk Mountain for the Enlightenment Tea Tree, but the mountain's forces suppressed his Spiritual Sense and stripped away his cultivation at midnight. After surviving a Dusklight Beast attack without his powers, he waited for his cultivation to return, only to find it still gone when the forces changed again.

• Jiang Ping'an entered Falling Dusk Mountain, found his Spiritual Sense limited, and discovered that he could not fly there.
• Jiang Ping'an searched the mountain and found a golden skeleton beside a Spirit Treasure, then felt his cultivation stripped away at midnight as his body aged to forty.
• Dozens of airborne Dusklight Beasts attacked, and Jiang Ping'an blinded them with a crude wooden spear before escaping to hide.
• Jiang Ping'an refused to cultivate with the mountain's Heavenly Essence or eat its fruit, then waited in a cave for nightfall.
• When the mysterious forces switched at midnight, Jiang Ping'an's cultivation did not return, and he cursed in frustration.

Jiang Ping'an pushed deeper into Falling Dusk Mountain after losing his cultivation, enduring hunger and thirst until he discovered he could regain strength by absorbing starlight and moonlight. After more than half a year, he reached Heroic Peak, where he found the ruins of a vast settlement and hoped they held a way to restore his cultivation.

• Jiang Ping'an entered the depths of Falling Dusk Mountain and blinded two Dusklight Beasts with his wooden spear.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled for days without eating or drinking and realized that the Dusklight Beasts remained weak even deep in the mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an found a golden Demon Emperor skeleton whose lingering aura suggested its cultivation had not been completely lost.
• Jiang Ping'an collapsed from exhaustion, then discovered he could absorb starlight and moonlight through his skin to regain strength and relieve his thirst.
• Jiang Ping'an continued absorbing starlight and moonlight as he traveled through Falling Dusk Mountain for more than half a year.
• Jiang Ping'an reached Heroic Peak and found the ruins of stone buildings and palaces, which he believed might offer a way to recover his cultivation.