Recaps

Lin Fan learned from a Moon Raven that a young woman at the Paper Making Building was the daughter of a Commandery Governor and was plotting to escape with her guard, Wang Jie. The next morning, Lin Fan went to the Paper Making Building with Xi Yun at his side.

• Lin Fan spent the night with Xi Yun, then sent a talisman transformed into a Moon Raven to spy on two people at the Paper Making Building.
• The young woman asked Wang Jie whether he liked her and offered herself to him, but he slapped himself, reaffirmed his vow to protect her, and refused to take advantage of her.
• After the Moon Raven returned, Lin Fan learned that the young woman was a Commandery Governor's daughter and wondered how she had ended up at Paper Figure Peak.
• The next morning, Lin Fan rose from bed with Xi Yun and went to the Paper Making Building with her following close behind.

Lin Fan obtained books on the Paper Figure Art, was placed in charge of the Paper Making Building, and learned the art’s basics through the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit. He made a paper tiger and brought it to life with his blood, filling the building with a roar.

• Lin Fan had Xi Yun buy fifteen hundred books about the Paper Figure Art after he nearly ran out of books to copy.
• A Dark Green Paper Figure told Lin Fan that Xue Jie had been confined for three months and assigned Lin Fan to manage the Paper Making Building.
• The Dark Green Paper Figure gave Lin Fan a Basic Paper Figure Art manual and signed him up for Elder Liang’s lesson at Ascension Tower three days later.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Basic Paper Figure Art to entry level and studied how to create paper figures.
• Lin Fan shaped a paper tiger from special paper and used his blood to give it eyes, triggering a burst of blood light and a roar that shook the Paper Making Building.

After his first paper tiger tried to attack him, Lin Fan learned that the Basic Paper Figure Art contained a hidden flaw that could let its creator control cultivators and use them to reach the Dao Integration Realm. He fused the art with the Shadowless Escape Technique, creating the apparently complete Shadowless Paper Figure Art.

• Lin Fan refined a white paper tiger, which entered his sea of consciousness and attacked him.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint destroyed the tiger and identified a hidden flaw in the Basic Paper Figure Art: it lacked a control method and could make its cultivators vulnerable to backlash or possession.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint warned Lin Fan that the art could let its creator draw power from paper figures refined by other cultivators to pursue the Dao Integration Realm.
• Lin Fan used his Fusion Dao Fruit to combine the Shadowless Escape Technique with the Basic Paper Figure Art, spending one hundred years of lifespan.
• Lin Fan checked his cultivation panel and found the new Shadowless Paper Figure Art in place of the two original techniques.

The Dark Green Paper Figure reported on Lin Fan’s progress as Paper Figure Peak prepared for rebirth, while the Paper Figure Child’s blood-feeding ritual killed nearly a hundred slaves. Three days later, Lin Fan attended Elder Liang’s Paper Figure Art lecture at Ascension Tower, where disciples gathered to learn her craft and seek her inheritance.

• The Dark Green Paper Figure told a mysterious figure that it had taught Lin Fan the technique, and the figure declared its plan to elevate Paper Figure Art into the strongest art.
• The Paper Figure Child summoned the slaves to a Daoist temple, where its chanting drove them to smash their heads and it absorbed their blood.
• A woman followed the slaves, but an unseen figure covered her mouth and kept the Paper Figure Child from noticing her.
• Lin Fan watched the ritual and realized the Paper Figure Child was growing stronger and killing more slaves with each feeding.
• Three days later, Lin Fan entered Ascension Tower, where disciples gathered for Elder Liang’s Paper Figure Art lecture and hoped to win her favor and inheritance.

Lin Fan attended Elder Liang’s lesson on the Paper Figure Art, where Guo Wei and Gu Lian argued over two methods of cultivation. Lin Fan proposed combining them, but the disciples dismissed his idea, and Elder Liang expressed disappointment.

• Elder Liang arrived at Ascension Tower and recognized Lin Fan as a new Paper Figure Peak disciple who had brought the peak a unique cultivation inheritance.
• Elder Liang explained that the Paper Figure Art could be cultivated by using paper figures as clones or by refining oneself into a paper figure.
• Guo Wei argued that paper figures worked best as clones, while Gu Lian favored transforming oneself into an indestructible paper figure.
• Elder Liang asked Lin Fan for his opinion, and he suggested combining the two methods.
• The disciples mocked Lin Fan’s proposal, and Elder Liang said it would take exceptional talent to make it work before Lin Fan withdrew into silence.

An injured Paper Figure Peak disciple sought refuge with Master Xing, who agreed while secretly binding him with a pill and ordering him to spy. Meanwhile, Lin Fan advanced the Shadowless Paper Figure Art and reached the Ninth Grade of the Cloud Soaring Realm.

• A wounded disciple claimed Paper Figure Peak had tortured him and cut off his resources, and asked Master Xing to take him in.
• Master Xing agreed but ordered the disciple to remain at Paper Figure Peak and gather intelligence for the sect, then gave him a Golden Cloud Blood Pill that placed his life under Master Xing's control.
• After the disciple left, a woman in a jade-green dress warned Master Xing that he was untrustworthy, but Master Xing said the pill made him useful.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Shadowless Paper Figure Art to entry level and outlined a two-headed tiger paper figure.
• Lin Fan discovered that his mental power had grown and his cultivation had advanced to the Ninth Grade of the Cloud Soaring Realm.

Lin Fan strengthened his paper figure and divine soul, then resolved to cultivate four arts to their limits before pursuing Dao integration. At the Paper Making Building, a series of skinning murders continued, and Lin Fan began considering how to investigate the killer.

• Lin Fan refined the Two-headed Paper Tiger without suffering backlash and advanced the Black and White Yama Art to the eighth layer.
• Lin Fan decided to master talismans, swordsmanship, ghost-cultivation arts, and the Paper Figure Art before seeking Dao integration.
• Lin Fan told Xi Yun he would petition to make her his personal maidservant so she could leave the Paper Making Building.
• After another corpse was found skinned, Lin Fan brought Xi Yun into his cultivation room to discuss the string of murders.

Lin Fan uncovered Yunmeng Sect spies infiltrating the Paper Making Building and secretly hunted them down. After killing eighteen, he suspected their focus on Paper Figure Peak concealed a larger plan.

• Old Dog Wang met a new female slave who revealed herself as a black figure, killed him, and planned to collect ten more human skins.
• Lin Fan caught the black figure, searched its soul, learned it was a Yunmeng Sect spy, and destroyed it.
• Lin Fan tracked down another spy using an insect call and a two-headed paper tiger, then searched its soul.
• Lin Fan secretly killed Yunmeng Sect spies over the following days as they tried to damage the Paper Making Building.
• After killing his eighteenth spy, Lin Fan wondered why the Yunmeng Sect focused on Paper Figure Peak and suspected something was amiss.

Lin Fan formed the Black and White Yama Dharma Body after perfecting the Black and White Yama Art, then repeatedly tried to fuse the dangerous Sky Swallowing Demonic Art. After many costly failures, he successfully combined it with the Desolate Heaven Bright King Dharma Form to create the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art.

• Xue Jie visited Lin Fan and said the higher-ups had assigned him to manage Beast Taming Building, so he would not return to Paper Making Building.
• Lin Fan spent the remaining time copying books before using 250 years of lifespan to perfect the Black and White Yama Art.
• Lin Fan formed the Black and White Yama Dharma Body and realized it could suppress ghost cultivators in battle.
• Lin Fan attempted to fuse the Sky Swallowing Demonic Art, spending hundreds of years of lifespan as the Fusion Dao Fruit repeatedly failed.
• The Fusion Dao Fruit successfully fused the Sky Swallowing Demonic Art and Desolate Heaven Bright King Dharma Form into the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art.

After fusing his cultivation arts into the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art, Lin Fan handed control of the Paper Making Building to Ding Yu and focused on copying books to gain longevity. As Ding Yu expanded his influence among the slaves, Lin Fan suspected Paper Figure Peak was draining their vitality, while a weakened man prepared to help a girl escape.

• Lin Fan confirmed that the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art had replaced his two former arts while preserving his Bright King Dharma Form and removing the arts’ flaws.
• A Dark Green Paper Figure assigned Ding Yu to assist Lin Fan at the Paper Making Building, and Lin Fan arranged a place for him to stay.
• Lin Fan gave Xi Yun a Maidservant Token so she could leave the Paper Making Building and serve in his cave dwelling.
• Lin Fan let Ding Yu manage the building and continued copying books, gaining around eighty years of longevity each day as Ding Yu recruited slaves and selected women to serve as cauldrons.
• Lin Fan suspected Ding Yu was fattening the slaves to supply the Paper Figure Child with vitality and blood, and concluded that a powerful figure at Paper Figure Peak was nearing the Unification Realm.
• A weakened man told a graceful young girl that the Paper Figure Arts had drained the slaves’ strength and promised to find a chance to help her escape.

A Paper Figure Peak disciple reported rising Yunmeng Sect activity and heard that the peak’s sacrifices had been forgotten in the current age. Lin Fan learned that Xi Yun was really Bai Zhen of the imperial city’s Bai Family, then a violent explosion shook Paper Figure Peak as he and Bai Zhen woke.

• A dark-green paper figure reported increased Yunmeng Sect spies to a mysterious white figure, who warned it against asking questions.
• The white figure recalled Paper Figure Peak’s past battles and lamented that the age had made its reputation and Paper Figure Art forgotten.
• Xi Yun asked Lin Fan why he had kept her by his side, and he said she resembled someone and might eventually be sent away.
• Xi Yun revealed that her birth name was Bai Zhen and that she came from one of the imperial city’s four great families.
• Lin Fan reassured Bai Zhen that he would not mistreat her, and she embraced him.
• A violent explosion shook Paper Figure Peak while Lin Fan and Bai Zhen were in bed, and Lin Fan quickly dressed and handed her clothes.

Yunmeng Sect launched a major assault on Paper Figure Peak, and Lin Fan discovered that he was one of their targets. After killing two Yunmeng Sect Direct Disciples, he chose to hide and observe the battle, leaving his next move dependent on whether Paper Figure Peak survived.

• Lin Fan sensed the attack on Paper Figure Peak and told Xi Yun to stay behind and conceal her connection to him.
• Two Yunmeng Sect Direct Disciples recognized Lin Fan from a wanted portrait and demanded that he reveal his secrets.
• Lin Fan used his movement art to seize the two men, searched their memories, and learned that nearly four hundred disciples and seven mighty experts were attacking Paper Figure Peak.
• Lin Fan killed the two Direct Disciples and learned that the Yunmeng Sect was targeting the Paper Making Building and trying to capture him.
• Lin Fan avoided enemy search parties and hid in a secluded place, planning to remain at Paper Figure Peak if it held or infiltrate the Yunmeng Sect if it fell.
• Lin Fan sent Ancient Demon Talismans to investigate the fighting while keeping himself out of the battle.

Lin Fan tracked the battle between the Yunmeng Sect and Paper Figure Peak as a hidden fourth enemy turned the fight against the peak’s elders. Amid the chaos, Brother Jie and the Commandery Governor’s daughter nearly escaped, but a paper figure attacked them before a black shadow intervened.

• Lin Fan learned that three Yunmeng Sect experts were fighting three elders of Paper Figure Peak and suspected more enemies remained hidden.
• A fourth Yunmeng Sect expert appeared and engulfed the three elders in black radiance.
• Brother Jie led the Commandery Governor’s daughter along a secret route away from the Paper Making Building, but collapsed before they could cross the final cliff.
• Brother Jie tried to protect the girl from a pursuing paper figure, and she ran ahead as he fell wounded.
• A black shadow appeared and shattered the paper figure, annihilating its divine soul.

Lin Fan discovered that the Yunmeng Sect was abducting Paper Figure Peak disciples while the peak was under attack, and he secretly protected Xi Yun from another attacker. The battle culminated in the detonation of a powerful Paper Figure Child, collapsing several peaks.

• Lin Fan noticed that practitioners from Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak had not arrived to help Paper Figure Peak.
• Guo Wei led a group of Paper Figure Peak disciples away, but two Yunmeng Sect experts intercepted them and forced them onto a flying boat.
• Lin Fan realized the Yunmeng Sect's actions suggested a more complicated plan than a straightforward attack on Paper Figure Peak.
• A Yunmeng Sect cultivator broke into the courtyard and tried to abduct Xi Yun, but Lin Fan killed him before he could harm her.
• An argument erupted atop Paper Figure Peak, and a Paper Figure Child detonated, sending a devastating shockwave through the surrounding peaks.

After the attack devastated Paper Figure Peak, Lin Fan was promoted to direct disciple and tasked with rebuilding the Paper Making Building. A month later, he suspected the injured Paper Figure Peak Master could no longer control the Paper Figure Child and chose to advance his Flowing Cloud Sword Dao.

• Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak cultivators arrived too late to prevent the destruction of Paper Figure Peak, and Lin Fan later found Xi Yun safe in the detached residence.
• Two days after the battle, the surviving cultivators counted hundreds of casualties, including Ding Yu, while the Paper Figure Peak Master remained gravely injured and secluded.
• The Dark Green Paper Figure promoted Lin Fan to direct disciple, gave him foundational arts, and ordered him to rebuild the Paper Making Building and train suitable slaves.
• Lin Fan received 531 new slaves, rebuilt the Paper Making Building, and resumed production.
• A month after the upheaval, Lin Fan noted that the Paper Figure Child had not devoured Blood Qi and suspected the Paper Figure Peak Master remained badly injured.
• Lin Fan resolved not to reveal his strength before reaching the Dao Integration Realm and asked the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Flowing Cloud Sword Dao to the entry level.

Lin Fan advanced his sword arts and questioned Bloodlight Demon Saint about using sword dao as the basis for Dao Integration. He then sent Ghost Mother Wuji into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to strengthen Wuji Sail’s Yin spirits, while planning to seek Dao Integration objects for several different paths.

• Lin Fan cultivated the Flowing Cloud Sword Dao, gaining insights into a potential supreme sword body, then advanced the Starry Sky Sword Control Technique.
• Lin Fan asked Bloodlight Demon Saint whether Dao Integration was possible without a special object and learned about sword cultivators who had used Treasure Swords or earth-vein spiritual power.
• Lin Fan resolved to pursue Dao Integration in sword dao, talismans, ghost cultivation, and Paper Figure Art, keeping his plans secret from Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• Ghost Mother Wuji reported that some of Wuji Sail’s hundred thousand Yin spirits had become Yin Generals and grown stronger.
• Lin Fan ordered Ghost Mother Wuji to lead the Yin spirits into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to hunt demons and advance further.
• Lin Fan considered using the transformed Yin spirits as a Dao Integration object for ghost cultivation, while seeking suitable objects for sword dao and Paper Figure Art.

Lin Fan took a frightened escaped slave from the Paper Making Building into his residence as a maid, then rejected Ling Xiaoxiao’s offer to return to Lingxiao Peak. The chapter ended with a dark-green paper figure praising Lin Fan’s loyalty and suggesting Paper Figure Peak might yet rule Ling Xiao Sect.

• The Paper Making Building’s overseer executed a newcomer who objected to being assigned there, then assigned the other newcomers to machine rooms.
• Lin Fan stepped in when the overseer singled out a delicate girl and took her to his residence as a maid.
• Lin Fan told the girl to adapt to her role, while Xi Yun welcomed her and explained that Lin Fan had saved her from the Paper Making Building.
• The girl gradually adjusted to life in Lin Fan’s residence, though she had not yet become as comfortable serving him as Xi Yun.
• Ling Xiaoxiao visited Lin Fan, criticized his choice to join Paper Figure Peak, and urged him to return to Lingxiao Peak with Master Xing’s offer.
• Lin Fan affirmed that he was a disciple of Paper Figure Peak, and a dark-green paper figure praised his loyalty and hinted that the peak’s future remained uncertain.

Lin Fan considered the threat to Paper Figure Peak and focused on keeping his place there, while Ghost Mother Wuji explored an abyss filled with Yin energy. Back at the courtyard, Lin Fan let the girl he had brought there try to leave, then gave her the name Xi Yan after she returned.

• Lin Fan suspected that sending Chen Quan's childhood sweetheart to Paper Figure Peak was a threat, but decided to keep lying low as long as he could stay and copy books.
• Ghost Mother Wuji entered an abyss in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and discovered a gathering place for Yin Souls.
• Ghost Mother Wuji defeated the Black-Faced Ghost King and absorbed its ten thousand Yin Spirits into the Wuji Sail.
• Lin Fan asked the girl in his courtyard whether she wanted to leave and let her attempt to go down the mountain.
• The girl returned after learning she could not leave as a maidservant, and Lin Fan told her to follow Xi Yun's arrangements and named her Xi Yan.

Lin Fan advanced the Spirit Control Secret Records, learned to make Shadow Talismans, and began refining talismans as a possible path to the Unity Dao realm. At the Paper Making Building, he found Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak disciples inserted into Paper Figure Peak’s defenses, hinting at a brewing conflict within the sect.

• Lin Fan spent 250 years of lifespan to advance the Spirit Control Secret Records to Minor Accomplishment and learned the Shadow Talisman rune.
• Lin Fan made a Shadow Talisman whose hidden shadow could evade even his soul sense, then sent it out to spy.
• Lin Fan decided that talismans themselves could be his object for entering the Unity Dao realm and spent the following nights making more than a hundred talismans.
• Lin Fan found Lingxiao Peak Outer Disciples stationed at the Paper Making Building, claiming they had been assigned to reinforce its guards.
• The dark-green paper figure told Lin Fan that Luoyun Peak had also sent disciples to Paper Figure Peak and ordered him to keep the building secure.

Xi Yun urged the escaped girl to accept her place at the residence, and the girl renamed herself Xi Yan. At Paper Figure Peak, Elder Liang sent Xiao Kong to Lingxiao Peak with a letter that secretly ordered Elder Xing to kill him, and he was caught trying to flee.

• Xi Yun reminded the girl that Senior had saved her and advised her to fulfill her duty; the girl agreed and took the name Xi Yan.
• A dark-green paper figure warned Elder Liang that Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak had placed over a hundred disciples at Paper Figure Peak, including in the Paper Making Building.
• Elder Liang explained that the Sect Master had sent reinforcements while the Peak Master remained in seclusion, then gave the paper figure a letter for Elder Xing.
• Xiao Kong delivered the letter to Elder Xing, who revealed its instruction that the bearer could be killed.
• Xiao Kong split into paper-figure afterimages to escape, but Elder Xing sealed the doors and skewered them with Black Order Divine Chains.

Lin Fan uncovered signs of an impending upheaval within Ling Xiao Sect as disciples from Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak were placed throughout important areas. Yang Ling revealed that the Eerie Source had overrun her home in Shangyang Commandery, leaving Lin Fan to wonder whether the force behind it was connected to the mysterious altar.

• Lin Fan learned through his Shadow Talisman that Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak disciples had been planted across Paper Figure Peak and other important areas, so he spread Avatar Talismans to observe the sect.
• Lingxiao Peak disciples blocked Lin Fan from approaching his separate courtyard and ordered their fellows to keep watch over him.
• Lin Fan warned Xi Yun and the other girl to remain in the cave abode, and the girl later revealed that her name was Yang Ling and that she was the daughter of Shangyang Commandery's governor.
• Yang Ling told Lin Fan that the Eerie Source had transformed demonic evils and cultivators into relentless killers, causing several cities in Shangyang Commandery to fall and cutting off all distress signals.
• Yang Ling explained that her father had helped her escape, but Lin Fan suspected the Eerie Source might be connected to the mysterious altar that had caused chaos in Wei and Jin.

Lin Fan used a controlled body to uncover Lingxiao Peak’s plans against Paper Figure Peak, while Elder Liang ambushed the Paper Figure Peak master after revealing her betrayal. The master escaped the attack with a Substitute Paper Figure and condemned Elder Liang for conspiring with Lingxiao Peak.

• Lin Fan took control of a Lingxiao Peak disciple’s body with the Shadow Talisman and learned that Lingxiao Peak was preparing to attack Paper Figure Peak.
• Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak disciples appeared across Paper Figure Peak, setting up checkpoints as Lin Fan tracked the sect with talismans.
• Elder Liang disguised herself as a damaged paper figure and lured Paper Figure Peak’s master into healing her, then bound him with black runes.
• Elder Liang revealed that she had destroyed Xue Jie’s other two paper figure bodies, and the runes killed him as he tried to flee.
• The master escaped Elder Liang’s attack using a Substitute Paper Figure and accused her of betraying him and joining Lingxiao Peak.

The Paper Figure Peak Master revealed that she had recovered and used Elder Liang and Xing Ruchu to expose the plot against her before killing them. She then led an assault on Lingxiao Peak and confronted the Masked Man, who had been expecting her.

• The Paper Figure Peak Master revealed her recovery, identified Elder Liang as a traitor, and killed her and Xing Ruchu after they attacked.
• The Paper Figure Peak Master headed to Lingxiao Peak, killed the mountain-gate guards, and sent hundreds of paper figures to attack the peak.
• A man at a cave dwelling recognized that the scheme had failed and made his way toward the Sect Master's Floating Palace.
• The Paper Figure Peak Master fought through Lingxiao Peak, defeated several elders, and arrived at the Floating Palace, where the Masked Man was waiting for her.

The Paper Figure Peak Master and Ling Xiao Sect Master Wang Hua fought a deadly battle over the Wuchen Sword Flame and their competing Harmonization objects. The badly wounded Wang Hua appeared doomed, but his sudden smile left the outcome uncertain.

• Wang Hua revealed that he had lured the Yunmeng Sect into attacking Paper Figure Peak to injure the Paper Figure Peak Master and steal his Harmonization object.
• Wang Hua attacked with the Wuchen Sword Flame, but the Paper Figure Peak Master survived by fusing his soul into a Paper Figure Child and using the Wumeng Ancient Mirror to hide his recovery.
• The Paper Figure Peak Master sent waves of Paper Figures against Wang Hua, who answered by activating a formation powered by Lingxiao Peak's spiritual veins.
• Both fighters exhausted their forces, and the Paper Figure Peak Master used the Nirvana Ghost Pearl to blast Wang Hua to the ground.
• As the Paper Figure Peak Master prepared to strike Wang Hua's brow, Wang Hua suddenly smiled.

Lin Fan intervened in the battle between the Ling Xiao Sect Master and the white-robed youth, killed both after searching their souls, and took their treasures. Disguised as the white-robed youth, he claimed he had slain the sect master’s murderer and silenced the arriving Lingxiao Peak disciples with force.

• The Ling Xiao Sect Master and the white-robed youth exhausted their strongest attacks, but Lin Fan’s Calamity Immortal Soldier Talisman incapacitated them both.
• Lin Fan emerged from hiding, revealed himself as Yu Zifeng, and used Soul Searching Technique on the white-robed youth before killing her and taking the Nirvana Ghost Pearl.
• Lin Fan searched the Ling Xiao Sect Master’s soul, killed her, and took the Dustless Flame.
• Lin Fan transformed into the white-robed youth’s likeness as Lingxiao Peak disciples arrived, then used the Two-headed Paper Tiger to kill those who confronted him.
• Lin Fan claimed the sect master had been killed and that he had slain the murderer, while the remaining disciples stayed silent under his pressure.