Recaps

Ji An survived the True Demon hunt at Mist Mountain, advanced his cultivation, and secured resources and commissions that strengthened his ties with the Wan Clan, the Golden Puppet Sect, and his own sect. The arc ended with Ji An reaching the fifth layer of Golden Core and Lin Jiuxiao preparing to return to the Western Continent.

• Ji An joined True Person Wuxuan in searching the demonic mist, but the True Demon killed Wuxuan and fled after Ji An struck back with lightning and soul attacks.
• Ji An helped defeat Abudu alongside True Person Yunyan and True Person Zhenyue, then purified its bone blade and later agreed to refine medicine for Zhenyue’s cousin, Huayin.
• Ji An strengthened his body through the Immovable Wisdom King Art and advanced the Gourd World’s Spirit Vein to third-tier High-Grade.
• Ji An returned to Black Stone Mountain, broke through to mid Golden Core, and gave Lin Jiuxiao pills and resources to support their sect.
• Ji An passed True Person Lieyang’s Bao Hua Pill trial and bought Purple Cloud Jade Ganoderma Pills, then commissioned Puppets and traded Azure Dragon Wood for Puppet-refinement methods.
• Ji An refined Three Yang Meridian-Opening Pills that eased Huayin’s icy immortal veins, and exchanged spirit fruits for more cultivation pills.
• Ji An sold True Demon bone materials to Wan Jinrong and Wan Chenggang for thirty-nine Purple Cloud Jade Ganoderma Pills, and received Yin Thunder Beads and a Demon-Breaking Golden Shuttle.
• Ji An cultivated to the fifth layer of Golden Core, improved several arts, raised the Gathering Origin Tree’s grade, and gave Lin Jiuxiao more than four hundred and sixty Fire Origin Pills before his return west.

Ji An established Crimson Flame Pavilion in Cloud Sea Immortal City, weathered a coordinated supply blockade and an ambush, and negotiated a wary truce with rival pill shops. He advanced his cultivation and expanded his resources, while True Lord Xuanji grew suspicious of his spirit wood and sought a chance to draw him out of the city.

• Ji An supplied Lin Jiuxiao with cultivation resources and advice, then bought powerful spells and defensive techniques from True Person Guang Ji and helped Blue Shell advance with a Gui Water Meridian Cleansing Pill.
• Ji An strengthened his spells, met True Person Feiyun and arranged a pill-refining agreement, then reunited with Han Yan and prepared for the Five Elements Sect Ruins.
• Ji An and Han Yan opened Crimson Flame Pavilion, developed supply and pill-refining partnerships, and arranged for Wan Jinrong to upgrade his banners and craft spirit-nurturing gourds.
• Ji An sold Azure Dragon Wood to True Lord Xuanmu, but large pill shops coordinated to cut off Crimson Flame Pavilion’s materials, prompting him to seek other suppliers and commissions.
• After the Li Clan pledged its support, Ji An survived an ambush by True Person Mingyue and True Person Fengxia, killed them, and recovered a jade slip containing a Nascent Soul Pill formula.
• Ji An and Han Yan held a Trade Fair that exchanged pills for complete sets of materials, then Ji An negotiated with rival shops to limit sales of Origin Seeking pills and avoid further conflict.
• Ji An cultivated for years, advanced his Immovable Wisdom King Art and Golden Core realm, and received Wan Jinrong’s completed Ren Water Gourd.
• Ji An supplied Han Yan with resources for the sect as True Lord Xuanji investigated the source of his high-grade Vajra Bodhi Wood, while Ji An continued cultivating spirit plants and seeds in the Gourd World.

Ji An explored the Five Elements Sect Ruins, claimed its highest inheritance, and prepared to leave Central Continent for the Western Continent. The arc ended with him arriving at Harmony Peak as a Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation began.

• Ji An refined Phoenix Nirvana Pills for True Person Huayin, helped suppress her cold poison, and obtained the Plain Cloud World Banner before joining True Person Feiyun on the journey to the Five Elements Sect Ruins.
• Ji An entered the polluted ruins, defeated demons and pursued cultivators, then killed True Person Changle and captured True Lord Xuanji after they tried to ambush him.
• Ji An survived a Nascent Soul fiend with the Stone Turtle’s help and completed the Five Elements trials, earning the sect’s essential inheritance and promising to pass it on to worthy disciples.
• Ji An left the ruins, killed True Lord Xuanji with Chaos Divine Thunder, and decided to leave Cloud Sea Immortal City for the Western Continent with True Monarch Lianshan.
• Ji An improved the Gathering Origin Tree and learned from True Monarch Lianshan how its leaves could make Five Qi Pills, while arranging his departure and helping Li Haoran and Qin Yan choose their own paths.
• Ji An continued refining Phoenix Nirvana Pills for True Person Huayin and gave Qin Yan methods and secrets for refining Five Elements banners.
• Seven years later, Ji An and Qin Yan boarded a merchant airship for the Western Continent, where Ji An saw Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation clouds over Harmony Peak and hurried toward them so the Stone Turtle could absorb Dao resonance.

Ji An strengthened the Golden Spirit Sect and his own cultivation while preparing for the True Demon Tribulation, refining Nether Bone Fire, and upgrading his treasures. After True Monarch Lianshan sacrificed his remaining years to aid Ji An, Ji An mourned him and continued developing the Gourd World as a Golden Message Sword arrived.

• Ji An witnessed a demonic cultivator break through to Nascent Soul, then brought the Five Elements Sect inheritance and Nascent Soul Pill formula to the Golden Spirit Sect and urged it to prepare defensively.
• Ji An helped Green Deer and Liu Yu reach Golden Core, recruited the Five-Colored Deer, and later guided it through its own Golden Core tribulation.
• True Lord Yuxiao negotiated a pact with the demonic cultivators, but Ji An discovered that Demon Seeds had contaminated the negotiators and advised the sect on detection and purification.
• Ji An helped the sect prepare Thunder Pearl production and strengthen its Spirit Vein, then refined the Nether Bone Fire after the Stone Turtle absorbed its demonic intent.
• Ji An reached late Golden Core, shared cultivation resources with the sect, and developed a five-banner defensive domain while Qin Yan improved his pill furnace.
• Ji An accompanied True Monarch Lianshan away from the sect, where Lianshan burned his Nascent Soul to raise his cultivation from Layer Six to Layer Nine before dying under Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Ji An mourned Lianshan, advanced his Departing Fire Burns the Heavens spell, and saw the Gathering Origin Tree become a Fourth Order Heaven and Earth Spirit Tree.
• Ji An advised Han Shan, confirmed the Gourd World's Spirit Vein had reached Third Order Top-Grade, and received a Golden Message Sword from Golden Fur.