Recaps

Li Yun strengthened himself by refining Sage Constant medicines and merging pages of the Wonder Books, while Ancestral City and other factions maneuvered around the path to the Ancestral Realm. The arc ended with a planned Illusory World Book exchange drawing new Sages and making Li Yun a target.

• Li Yun cultivated in hiding for millennia, then transformed the Supreme Immortal Gate and destroyed the Sage Constant True Spirits of Ancient Eternity and the World-Shocking Sword Master.
• Li Yun searched countless Boundary Seas for Blue Star, then went to Origin Dragon Boundary Sea after Sage Nan Hu said Sage Chuanlin might know its location.
• Li Yun killed Sage Nan Hu and defeated the Azure Nightmare Sacred Hall’s Sages after they tried to rob him, then destroyed the hall and seized its medicines.
• Li Yun trapped and refined Sage Anche, learning about the Forbidden Zone and the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders before infiltrating Ancestral City and looting the Ancient Cang Divine Court.
• Cang Jiulong revealed to the city lords that the supposed Ancestors had died inside the Gate of Myriad Wonders and proposed using Ancestral City to help them reach the Ancestral Realm.
• Li Yun merged pages of the Illusory World Book into the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, reached Late Sage Constant, and discovered a hidden Secret Realm in the Azure Abyss Domain.
• Li Yun seized thirty more Illusory World Book pages from the Azure Abyss Divine Court, proposed a page exchange, and secretly planned to use it to locate and seize other pages.
• Canglan Sage arranged the exchange in Ancestral City for three thousand years later, while word of the assembly spread and someone targeted Li Yun in disguise.

Li Yun gathered hundreds of pages of the Illusory World Book, used them to strengthen the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, and drew the attention of powerful factions and Half-Step Ancestors. After the Miluo Holy Court exposed his theft, he hid in a hunting association, where his search brought him face to face with two Half-Step Ancestors.

• Li Yun tricked Sage Cangling and Sage Huaiyuan into surrendering thirty-seven pages, then hunted down Music Sage’s group and took seventy-two more from the Celestial Music Domain.
• Li Yun defeated Black Rock Sage and received 217 pages in exchange for agreeing to kill Divine Emperor Heaven, who had tormented Black Rock Sage through three thousand reincarnations.
• Li Yun cultivated on Obsidian Mountain, acquired twenty-six pages from Black Rock Sage and 103 from the reincarnating Dreadbound Lord, then fled to the Boundary Sea when Purple Firmament Ancestor destroyed the mountain with purple lightning.
• Purple Firmament Ancestor sent three Half-Step Ancestors to search for the person who had peered into the Forbidden Zone, while Divine Emperor Heaven confronted Black Rock Sage, who exploded himself into ink-dark light.
• Li Yun awoke with his strength at twelve times Peak Sage Constant, investigated rumors of another Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, and joined the Miluo Holy Court to access its Secret Realm.
• Li Yun sent the other Rogue Cultivators into the illusory expanse and stole the Miluo Holy Court’s 308 pages of the Illusory World Book, then absorbed them and raised his strength to fifteen times Peak Sage Constant.
• After the Miluo Holy Court exposed the theft, Li Yun disguised himself as Hua Tiandu, joined the Cloudslayer Association, and secretly cultivated for five years as factions searched for him.
• Li Yun reached twenty times Peak Sage Constant but could no longer absorb Myriad Wonders Aura, then feigned weakness when two Half-Step Ancestors appeared before him and introduced himself as Rogue Cultivator Hua Tiandu.

Li Yun infiltrated Ancestral City, stole the real Illusory World Book, and killed Jin Tiantong before returning to the Primordial Land to cultivate. As the Blood God Cult invaded, Li Yun entered the Gate of Myriad Wonders, leaving the Half-Step Ancestors unsure whether he had survived.

• Li Yun infiltrated Ancestral City under false identities, studied the Illusory World Book, and stole Wan Shenfeng’s real copy while the Sages pursued decoys.
• Cang Jiulong used the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders as bait, but Li Yun recognized the displayed copy as fake and kept the real scripture as he cultivated.
• Jin Tiantong tracked Li Yun through a mark in the Illusory World Book, but Li Yun killed him and returned to the Primordial Land to grow stronger.
• As Cang Jiulong publicly challenged Li Yun, a Blood God Cult invasion struck the Primordial Land, and Li Yun captured Blood Souls to learn about the world beyond the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• Li Yun raised his cultivation in the Gorge Rift, killed a Half-Step Ancestor who demanded the real scripture, and entered the Forbidden Zone.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders drew Li Yun inside as its damaged chip began to mend, while the gate’s backlash devastated the Blood God Cultists.
• The Purple Firmament Ancestor failed to break through the Gate’s curtain, which then sent out a wave that reduced every Blood God Cult Blood Soul in the Primordial Land to ash.

Li Yun returned to Blue Star after centuries away and used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to rebuild his strength under the name Li Fenghua. After saving Zhao Family Village and escaping Xiantian Town with Mengmeng, he reached Sand City, where Qiao Tai recognized his extraordinary cultivation.

• The Azure Dragon War Academy declared the Primordial Land its trial ground, and Xie Wufeng later demanded that Li Yun appear in Azure Dragon Holy City within three years.
• The Blood God Cult seized the Gate of Myriad Wonders, which carried Li Yun out of the Limestone Cave and eventually deposited him back on Blue Star.
• Li Yun mastered the Gate of Myriad Wonders, discovered its cultivation system, and advanced rapidly while using the name Li Fenghua.
• Li Yun met Zhao Sanshan, demonstrated mastery of the Zhao family’s martial arts, and helped the villagers defeat Uncle Lin’s Baleful Corpse.
• Li Yun learned that the real Zhao Jiufeng was dead and discovered from Wang Genxuan’s memories that nine Stone Coffins lay beneath the ancestral hall.
• Li Yun left Zhao Family Village with Zhao Sanshan, then escaped Xiantian Town through a hidden tunnel with Mengmeng after she revealed Bailixiang’s danger.
• Mengmeng brought Li Yun to Sand City and asked Qiao Tai to recommend him to the Yellow Martial Sect.
• Qiao Tai met Li Yun and recognized that he had reached the legendary Body Tempering Tenth Level.