Recaps

Li Xuan accepted Xu Yan as his disciple and invented a cultivation method, while Xu Yan took his teachings to heart and advanced far beyond Li Xuan’s expectations. After Xu Yan entered martial arts, Li Xuan gained the same technique’s mastery and power, leaving Xu Yan stunned by his master’s display.

• Xu Yan insisted on becoming Li Xuan’s disciple and eventually won his agreement with valuable gifts, while Li Xuan invented cultivation stages and told him to enter the path within a year.
• Xu Yan sensed his qi and blood, completed Skin Tempering, and advanced through Iron Bone and Copper Bone by interpreting Li Xuan’s fabrications as profound guidance.
• Xu Yan returned home for medicine, killed a Red-Eyed Tiger in Evil Fiend Forest, and used its meat and Precious Medicine to advance his Bone Refining.
• Xu Yan returned to Li Xuan with the tiger’s pelt and medicine, completed Golden Bones, then sought the pressure needed to break through toward Jade Bone.
• Xu Yan fought and killed a Fire Mane Wolf, completed Jade Bone, and returned to begin Organ Refining.
• Xu Yan completed Organ Refining and united his Vital Energy, triggering Bone and Muscle Thunderous Roar and entering martial arts.
• Li Xuan panicked when he realized Xu Yan had mastered his invented technique, but a golden light granted Li Xuan flawless Jade Bone and immense Vital Energy.
• Xu Yan celebrated his breakthrough, then watched Li Xuan send Vital Energy a hundred zhang into the sky and was stunned by his master’s power.

Xu Yan advanced through the Qi and Blood Realm, mastered new techniques, and helped Li Xuan leave the mountain village. He returned to protect the Xu Family from political persecution and defeated Jiang Pingshan’s army, while Li Xuan learned about the Tianmu Cult and considered seeking another disciple.

• Xu Yan became Li Xuan’s true disciple, explained how he had tempered a Jade Bone and completed Organ Refining, and learned the name and limits of the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Xu Yan comprehended Li Xuan’s cultivation incantation, gained further strength, and set out for home after Li Xuan agreed to let him visit his parents.
• Xu Yan killed the bandits on Black Wind Mountain, then returned to Li Xuan, who taught him the Dragon Subduing Palm and the principles of martial techniques.
• Xu Yan mastered the Dragon Subduing Palm and Light Swan Movement Technique, reached minor accomplishment in the Qi and Blood Realm, and learned Li Xuan’s method for entering the Innate Realm.
• Li Xuan and Xu Yan went to Yunshan County, where the Tianmu Cult and the authorities revealed that the Xu Family was threatened because of its ties to the Third Prince’s faction.
• Xu Yan stopped the Prefect of Donghe Commandery from arresting his parents, rejected Kou Ruozhi’s offer to become the Tianmu Cult’s Great Sage Heavenly Duke, and confronted the Divine Might Army.
• Xu Yan defeated Jiang Pingshan’s Divine Might Army outside the city and prevented the Tianmu Cult from seizing the defeated soldiers, while Li Xuan heard more about the cult and its Heavenly Mother.

Li Xuan accepted Meng Chong as a disciple and developed Body Cultivation Martial Dao while Xu Yan’s victories pushed him toward the Innate Realm. When the demonic cultivator Xue Wuxin brought danger to Yunshan County, Xu Yan and Meng Chong advanced in battle before Li Xuan killed him and learned about the Inner Domain.

• Li Xuan took Meng Chong as a disciple, taught him the Great Sun Golden Bell Shield, and watched him discover its sun-inspired intent and form a unified, bell-like body.
• Xu Yan humbled the Tianmu Cult, defeated the Divine Might Army, and unsettled the Qi court, which showered the Guo family with honors to discourage rebellion.
• Xu Yan brought treasures and weapons from the imperial treasury to Li Xuan, then taught martial cultivation to his family while Li Xuan made Shi Er his servant and began teaching him Skin Tempering.
• Xu Yan reached great completion in the Qi and Blood Realm and comprehended the Innate Realm, while Li Xuan advanced into the Innate Realm through the golden finger.
• Xue Wuxin drained the blood of young nobles searching the mountains for a master, and Xu Yan investigated the victims before confronting him at a relay station.
• Xu Yan fought Xue Wuxin with the Dragon Subduing Palm and Shape-Shifting Evasion, while Xue Wuxin fled toward Yunshan County and attacked Meng Chong, triggering his breakthrough to Golden Bone tempering.
• Li Xuan bound and killed Xue Wuxin, who revealed the Inner Domain’s martial grades and Grandmaster Realm, and Li Xuan found his cultivation manual and two Spirit Crystals.
• Li Xuan explained how Xu Yan could pursue the Innate Realm by using himself as a bridge to heaven and earth, while Xu Yan asked to learn swordsmanship and Meng Chong resolved to enter the martial path.

Xu Yan and Meng Chong advanced their martial arts, while Li Xuan encountered the ancient Taicang booklet and welcomed Su Lingxiu as a new disciple. Su Lingxiu began building the Medicinal Dao and formed its rudimentary tome, which gave Li Xuan the complete version.

• Xu Yan achieved Clear Sword Heart, reached the Innate Realm, and defeated Xie Lingfeng in their encounters, showing him the path toward True Martial Dao.
• Meng Chong mastered the Wind Thunder Diamond Fist, won the Wu Kingdom’s martial gathering, and returned with rare medicines and the ancient Taicang booklet.
• Xie Lingfeng and Hu Shan visited Li Xuan, learned how to refine their True Qi, and left after sharing knowledge and Spirit Crystals with Xu Yan and Meng Chong.
• Xu Yan developed Heavenly Thunder Flash, while Meng Chong began nurturing his saber and studying the Great Sun Golden Body.
• Su Lingxiu buried Steward Zheng and his steward, then traveled with Aunt Zhou to Yunshan County and introduced herself to Li Xuan.
• Li Xuan accepted Su Lingxiu as his disciple and taught her alchemy and the Medicinal Dao, while she devised pill formulas and arranged to make an Alchemy Furnace.
• Xu Yan returned and helped Su Lingxiu sense Vital Energy, after which she formed the rudimentary Medicinal Dao Tome and Li Xuan received its complete version.