Recaps

Xu Yi took control of Pavilion Master Fang's flying vessel and nearly crashed it through a narrow mountain pass before Blood Bat Demons ambushed the passengers. The group slaughtered the attackers, but Pavilion Master Fang suspected the unusual daylight assault had been planned.

• Xu Yi and Pavilion Master Fang discussed cultivation and the flying vessel's oil-powered mechanical design.
• Xu Yi took the compass and piloted the vessel wildly, angering the passengers before steering it through a narrow gap between two peaks.
• Dozens of Blood Bat Demons emerged from the pass and attacked the vessel.
• Elder Lei and the other cultivators fought back, killing nearly a hundred Blood Bat Demons.
• Pavilion Master Fang noted that Blood Bat Demons usually avoided light and questioned whether the ambush had been planned.

Xu Yi and the others fought off successive waves of Blood Bats while traveling on the flying boat, but a powerful Blood Bat Demon King appeared and threatened them. Pavilion Master Fang warned everyone to cooperate as the Demon King faced them.

• The Yun Family Steward and the stern middle-aged man criticized Xu Yi for not helping fight the first wave of Blood Bats, but Xu Yi challenged them and Pavilion Master Fang defused the quarrel.
• Countless Blood Bats attacked the flying boat, and Pavilion Master Fang ordered the shield array activated.
• Xu Yi raised and then lowered the boat as the Blood Bats battered the shield until it shattered.
• Elder Lei and the others held back the remaining Blood Bats while the archers fired Thunderbolt Arrows, killing many of them.
• A shrill cry made the Blood Bats retreat into two ordered wings as a massive Blood Bat Demon King arrived.
• Pavilion Master Fang warned everyone that the Demon King had reached the Sapience Stage or possibly the Mid Enlightenment Stage and urged them to fight together.

The Blood Bat Demon King demanded a human blood sacrifice, while Pavilion Master Fang tried to unite the group against it. After the Shui Family Second Elder sowed distrust among the guards, the demon attacked and shattered the group’s defenses, leaving him captured and Xu Yi thrown into the pavilion.

• The Blood Bat Demon King revealed its intelligence by writing in blood, and Pavilion Master Fang warned that it had reached at least the Mid Enlightenment Stage.
• The demon demanded a dozen or twenty people as a blood sacrifice, and Elder Lei offered to provide fish instead.
• Pavilion Master Fang urged everyone to stand together, but the Shui Family Second Elder suggested sacrificing guards, causing the Black Armored Guard to lose trust and turn their arrows toward the group.
• The Blood Bat Demon King lunged through the group’s weapons and swept more than thirty Black Armored Guards into the lake.
• Xu Yi was flung into the pavilion, and the Blood Bat Demon King seized the Shui Family Second Elder and carried him into the air.

The Blood Bat Demon King revealed how he had manipulated the cultivators into abandoning the Black Armored Guard, then slaughtered Second Elder Shui and fed the fallen guards to his followers. With the survivors cornered aboard the flying boat, he attacked Pavilion Master Fang’s group, whose limited True Qi made it unclear how they could withstand him.

• The Blood Bat Demon King explained that he had planned to use the demand for blood offerings to divide the cultivators and target the Black Armored Guard, whose Thunderbolt Arrows threatened him most.
• The Blood Bat Demons killed the Black Armored Guard and captured Second Elder Shui, whom the Blood Bat Demon King tore apart and drained before devouring the guards’ corpses.
• Pavilion Master Fang ordered the survivors to defend the entrances and avoid the water, while Yun Er mocked Elder Xue and Elder Lei rebuked him.
• The Blood Bat Demon King lunged at Pavilion Master Fang, seized his halberd, and forced him to release it after the group struck him with weapon qi.
• Pavilion Master Fang and the others worried that their finite True Qi could not withstand the demon king, who attacked again with a new strategy.

Pavilion Master Fang and the others rejected the Blood Bat Demon King’s demand for human sacrifices, but the demon split their group by offering the two men in white a chance to escape. After a fierce battle, the survivors boarded the flying boat and fled into the clouds.

• Pavilion Master Fang formed a circle with the others as the Blood Bat Demon King halted and offered to spare them in exchange for blood from other cultivators.
• The white-clothed scholar and the stern middle-aged man accepted the demon’s demand, but Pavilion Master Fang refused to help it prey on humans.
• The Blood Bat Demon King offered to spare the two men in white, and they fled, only to be intercepted by the Blood Bat Demons.
• A red flash blasted off half the Demon King’s wing, and a second strike killed it, leaving its steel claws behind.
• Pavilion Master Fang, Elder Lei, and the cold and beautiful woman survived the swarm, and the sickly man in green piloted the flying boat away with the two battered men aboard.

Xu Yi accepted jade tokens from Madam Feng and Elder Lei after secretly using two powerful Cloud Burst Arrows to kill the Blood Bat Demon King. When the white-clothed scholar accused him of waiting too long to help, Xu Yi killed him with a streak of weapon aura.

• Madam Feng and Elder Lei offered Xu Yi their family tokens in gratitude, and Pavilion Master Fang urged him to accept them.
• Xu Yi recalled hiding in the pavilion and fashioning a bow from iron essence and Dragon Beard before firing two Cloud Burst Arrows at the Blood Bat Demon King.
• Xu Yi collected the demon king’s steel claws and accepted the jade tokens, while lamenting the loss of his two precious arrows.
• The white-clothed scholar accused Xu Yi of deliberately letting everyone suffer, and Xu Yi swept weapon aura across his neck, beheading him.

After the group reached Huiyin Mountain, Xu Yi prepared for an exchange event amid reports that violent demons were attacking travelers. He entered a stone cavern to have his offering inspected and presented Chen Fenglei's Judge's Brush.

• Zuo killed the white-clothed scholar, destroyed his Yin soul, and planned to blame the death on the Blood Bat Demon King.
• Xu Yi practiced drawing the silver bow with the dragon whisker until exhaustion, then slept as the flying boat traveled to its destination.
• Xu Yi arrived at Huiyin Mountain and was told to stay in his room after the organizers reported demon attacks and moved the exchange forward.
• Xu Yi read the Myriad Demon Records while waiting for Pavilion Master Fang to summon him to the exchange venue.
• Xu Yi entered a stone cavern for qualification inspection and presented Chen Fenglei's Judge's Brush, which the white-bearded old man dismissed as low-grade junk.

Xu Yi sold several valuable artifacts to the white-bearded appraiser in exchange for red jade palms and credit to spend at the Ullambana Festival gathering. After receiving his bidding tokens, he followed a maid into a chamber where a black robe awaited.

• Xu Yi traded Shui Zhongjing's Flame Spear for one red jade palm and Jiang Nanxun's Golden Spear for two.
• The white-bearded old man told Xu Yi that the gathering had top-grade magic robes, Heavenly Thunder Pearls, pills, and other rare treasures.
• Xu Yi sold Qi Ming's Sumeru Ring and Chen Fenglei's Sumeru Ring for four more red jade palms.
• The old man gave Xu Yi a crystal holding 410,000 gold in credit and told him he had to spend at least 200,000 gold.
• Xu Yi followed a maid in green through a small door and found a long black robe on a stone table.

Xu Yi attended the Ullambana Festival exchange and watched rare medicines, Blood Artifacts, and armor sell at auction. He entered the bidding for a Top-grade magic robe and drove the price to fifty thousand gold, leaving the other bidders stunned.

• Xu Yi followed the festival rules, attended the opening ceremony, and took a seat in the exchange hall.
• The auction began with Precious Medicines, including a Yin Embryo Fruit, which sold for twelve thousand gold; Xu Yi made no bids.
• Blood Artifacts and defensive armor followed, with a golden saber selling for two hundred and thirty thousand gold and a Moon Rhino Armor for twenty thousand.
• When a Top-grade magic robe came up for auction, Xu Yi used his red jade palm to join the bidding and waited as the price rose.
• Xu Yi aggressively bid fifty thousand gold for the robe, prompting numbers eighty-seven and thirty to withdraw.

Xu Yi used aggressive bids to secure two Top-grade magic robes and two bottles of Top-grade Essence Restoration Pills, while his tactics drove up the prices of the remaining robes and discouraged rivals. After establishing a strong presence in the auction, he stopped bidding on later bottles and conserved his money.

• Xu Yi bid fifty thousand gold to win the second Top-grade magic robe after buying the first one.
• Number Eight won the third Top-grade magic robe for sixty-two thousand gold, and Number Forty-Eight took the last one for seventy thousand gold.
• Xu Yi ignored the less useful pills, then bid against Number Twenty-Five until the latter won the first bottle of Top-grade Essence Restoration Pills for ninety-three thousand gold.
• Xu Yi won the second bottle of Top-grade Essence Restoration Pills with a sixty-thousand-gold bid after the hall fell silent.
• Xu Yi let two more bottles go without bidding, choosing to conserve the momentum he had built.

Xu Yi bid on rare auction items, securing the Lesser Heavenly Dipper Formation and a box of Heavenly Thunder Pearls while spotting a golden cultivation manual like the one in Jiang Nanxun’s Sumeru Ring. After the Sumeru Rings were auctioned, an unhatched Exotic Beast Egg appeared, leaving Xu Yi interested in the next lot.

• Xu Yi bought one bottle of Top-grade Essence Restoration Pills and one bottle of Top-grade Qi Replenishing Pills, then watched the remaining bottles sell for over seventy thousand gold each.
• Xu Yi recognized an auctioned golden cultivation-manual slip as resembling the one in Jiang Nanxun’s Sumeru Ring and grew excited about its likely value.
• Xu Yi won the Lesser Heavenly Dipper Formation for one hundred and forty thousand gold, while another bidder bought the Sky Locking Formation for three hundred and thirty thousand.
• Xu Yi won a box of three Heavenly Thunder Pearls for one hundred thousand gold, leaving him with two jade palms and two hundred and ninety thousand gold.
• The auction sold five Sumeru Rings, then brought out a pure-white Exotic Beast Egg that had failed to hatch for three years.

Xu Yi spent heavily at the auction to secure spirit soil for Qiu Wa, then watched a Divine Essence Pill go up for bid and struggled to resist it. He had not yet decided whether to spend his remaining resources on the pill.

• Xu Yi watched buyer number three win the unknown Exotic Beast Egg for one million one hundred thousand gold.
• Xu Yi bid two hundred and fifty thousand gold and won the box of spirit soil, which he valued for Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi reviewed his purchases, including three Top-grade magic robes, Essence Restoration Pills, Qi Replenishing Pills, the Lesser Heavenly Dipper Formation, and the spirit soil.
• The Man in Purple Robe presented a low-grade Divine Essence Pill and announced a starting bid of eighty thousand gold.
• Xu Yi felt tempted to bid for the pill but hesitated, knowing he might need more than one when he reached Sea Transformation.

Xu Yi watched the Blazing Fire Talisman sell for 2.3 million gold, collected the items he had won, and brought out the Ghost Fangs at the exchange. A cultivator offered to trade for them, and Xu Yi asked for a flying mount, leaving the deal unresolved.

• The final Divine Essence Pills sold for 250,000 and 310,000 gold, and the Blazing Fire Talisman sparked a fierce bidding war before Guest Number One bought it for 2.3 million gold.
• The Man in Purple Robe closed the exchange, and Xu Yi collected his purchases from a sealed stone chamber and tipped the green-skirted maid.
• Xu Yi returned to the hall and found that the Ghost Fangs from the Blood Bat Demon King drew a crowd when he displayed them.
• A tall cultivator identified the fangs as nearly Ghost King-level and offered to trade for them to use as the core of a Yin-attribute Scepter.
• Xu Yi asked the cultivator for a suitable flying mount in exchange for the Ghost Fangs.

Xu Yi traded the Ghost Fangs and fifteen thousand gold for a valuable Mechanical Bird, then spotted a poison seller whose quiet stall made him suspect a catch. The chapter left him approaching the seller and wondering what the danger was.

• Xu Yi insisted on trading the Ghost Fangs for a flying mount, and the black-robed man revealed a Mechanical Bird.
• The man explained the Mechanical Bird’s capabilities, and Xu Yi agreed to compare offers for it and the Ghost Fangs.
• Xu Yi sold the Ghost Fangs for twenty-five thousand gold and paid the fifteen-thousand-gold difference to acquire the Mechanical Bird.
• Xu Yi learned to operate the Mechanical Bird and considered selling the Blood Bat Demon King's steel claws before deciding he could earn money another way.
• Xu Yi noticed a quiet stall marked with the character for poison and hurried over, thinking of Azure Light and Shui Zhongjing.
• Xu Yi wondered why the poison stall had attracted so few people and suspected it concealed a loophole.

Xu Yi traded the Blood Bat Demon King's steel claws for a Mang Gu Pearl that could ward off most poisons and 70,000 gold in banknotes. With his purchases and sales complete, he surveyed the spoils in his Sumeru Ring, pleased that he had exceeded his goals for the trip.

• Xu Yi rejected the black-robed man's deadly poisons but became interested when the man offered treasures that could ward off poison.
• Xu Yi showed the man the Blood Bat Demon King's steel claws, and the man offered a Mang Gu Pearl in exchange.
• Xu Yi insisted that they establish the value of both treasures before trading, then learned the claws were worth 150,000 gold and the pearl 80,000 gold.
• Xu Yi and the black-robed man agreed to the trade, and Xu Yi received the Mang Gu Pearl and 70,000 gold in banknotes.
• Xu Yi finished selling and buying what he had planned, then inspected the gains in his Sumeru Ring.

Xu Yi returned from the Ullambana Festival with a hoard of treasures and waited for the Divine Essence Pill rather than rushing to rescue Qiu Wa. On the flight home, Madam Feng offered him a position with the Feng family, and he spotted a river crowded with dead Yin Lice below.

• Xu Yi inventoried his treasures, judged his strength, and decided to wait for the Divine Essence Pill before going to the Tianshan Sect for Qiu Wa.
• The exchange meeting ended, and Xu Yi attended the banquet, ate at five different tables, then returned to his room to read and sleep.
• Pavilion Master Fang summoned Xu Yi, and he joined the others aboard a flying boat heading home.
• Madam Feng offered Xu Yi a well-paid retainer position with the Feng family, and Xu Yi said he would consider it.
• Xu Yi took the flying disc down from the boat and recognized the Yin River below, where countless dead Yin Lice floated on the surface.

Xu Yi trained relentlessly with his silver bow and entered a state in which every arrow struck its target. Meanwhile, at Xue Leng Peak, a woman in white had stood alone by a precipice for three days.

• Xu Yi concluded that the Yin River’s overflow was connected to the tomb expedition and returned to the city without investigating.
• Madam Feng renewed her offer of a guest-retainer position, and Xu Yi promised to visit her in a few days.
• Xu Yi rented a secret chamber at Alchemy Hall and practiced archery with his silver bow, at first struggling to hit the moving targets.
• Xu Yi pushed past exhaustion until his archery flowed effortlessly and every arrow struck its mark.
• At Xue Leng Peak of the Tianshan Sect, a woman in white stood alone on a cliff for three days.

Xue Zihan spent a long night worrying about Yi, the scoundrel who had saved her at the Ancient Tomb, and resolved to repay her debt by curing Ginseng Baby. At dawn, she continued borrowing Precious Medicines from fellow disciples, leaving her reputation at Xue Leng Peak in tatters.

• Xue Zihan recalled Yi’s strange songs and bold promise to brave fire and water for her, then worried that he might have died after fighting Jiang Nanxun and being surrounded by powerful cultivators.
• Xue Zihan vowed that Yi had to survive and repay the debt he owed her, and she passed the night turning over the Ancient Tomb events in her mind.
• At dawn, Senior Brother Zhao handed Xue Zihan a vermilion fruit, and she gave him an IOU promising repayment within three years.
• Xue Zihan’s repeated requests for Precious Medicines had made her notorious at Xue Leng Peak, where disciples struggled to refuse her.
• Senior Brother Zhao finally gave Xue Zihan his medicine after hiding in his cave for three days, relieved once she left with it.

Xue Zihan defied Fairy Yuqing to keep caring for Qiu Wa, a gravely withered Ginseng Baby, and her master ultimately agreed to let her try. Fairy Yuqing then explained the Tianshan Sect’s relationship with its Main Gate, the Upper Three Heavens, and revealed that Xue Zihan would be recommended for its selection contest in three months.

• Xue Zihan hid Qiu Wa from Fairy Yuqing and pleaded to continue caring for her despite the debts she had incurred for Precious Medicine.
• Fairy Yuqing relented, letting Xue Zihan keep Qiu Wa but requiring her to repay the debts herself.
• Fairy Yuqing warned Xue Zihan about talented competitors gathering at the Ancient Tomb and urged her not to neglect her cultivation.
• Fairy Yuqing announced that she would recommend Xue Zihan for the Main Gate selection contest in three months.
• Fairy Yuqing explained that the Tianshan Sect was a branch of the Upper Three Heavens, one of Great Yue’s Seven Great Orthodox Sects.

Xue Zihan refused Fairy Yuqing’s demand that she take the Main Gate examination, while Xu Yi completed seven days of punishing training and went to the Feng Household in Elder Xue’s disguise. The Feng Household recognized Madam Feng’s jade token and opened its long-closed central gate for him.

• Fairy Yuqing ordered Xue Zihan to consider the Main Gate examination, but Xue Zihan said she wanted to remain by her master’s side; Fairy Yuqing gave her three months to reconsider.
• Xu Yi recovered from exhaustion with Qi Replenishing Pills and a huge meal after completing his extreme training.
• Xu Yi recalled enduring five episodes of Warrior’s Stillness during seven days of training, improving his archery, senses, and body.
• Xu Yi cleaned up, disguised himself as Elder Xue with the Hundred Transformations Box, and headed directly to the Feng Household.
• The Feng Household’s guards recognized Madam Feng’s jade token, and its central gate opened to welcome Xu Yi.

Xu Yi confronted the Feng family head and the family’s honorary elders when they demanded to test his strength. He defeated the Feng family head in a brief clash, leaving everyone stunned by his power.

• Madam Feng welcomed Xu Yi at the Feng family estate and introduced her husband, the Feng family head.
• Several honorary elders challenged Xu Yi, and he accused the Feng family head of treating him as an untrusted guest.
• The Feng family head admitted he wanted to see Xu Yi’s abilities, and Xu Yi challenged him to a fight to the death.
• Xu Yi struck the dark-faced Giant Man and shattered his magical robe, sending him flying and making him spit blood.
• Xu Yi blocked the Feng family head’s powerful palm, reset his dislocated arm, and hurled the Feng family head backward with a stronger counterattack.

Xu Yi used his strength to secure a position as the Feng Family’s chief honorary elder, then learned that the family planned to kill him. In a secret chamber, Old Qiu identified Xu Yi as someone disguised with a Hundred Transformations Box.

• Xu Yi defeated the Feng Family challengers, accepted the chief honorary elder position, and received his first year’s salary from the Feng Family head.
• The Feng Family head announced plans for a grand ceremony welcoming Xu Yi and left him to celebrate with the family members.
• Xu Yi drew out the Eldest Young Master, who revealed that the Feng Family planned to kill Xu Yi within ten days.
• Old Qiu told the Feng Family head and Madam Feng that Xu Yi had changed his appearance using a Hundred Transformations Box.

The Feng Family's head and Madam Feng decided to use Elder Xue temporarily before killing him, but a Calamity Cloud over Qixia Mountain drew their attention to a rumored divine pill. Xu Yi realized the cloud might be connected to Qi Ming and the Divine Essence Pill, and the Feng Family sent him with its younger generation to the mountain.

• The hunchbacked old man warned the Feng Family's head that Elder Xue was dangerous, and they agreed to use him only briefly before disposing of him.
• Madam Feng proposed killing Elder Xue for his wealth, and the Feng Family's head agreed to wait for an opportunity.
• A strange blue-green Calamity Cloud appeared over Qixia Mountain, prompting rumors of a rare treasure or divine pill.
• Xu Yi recognized Qixia Mountain as the Pill Cauldron Sect's home and suspected the cloud was linked to Qi Ming, the Myriad Transformation Cauldron, and the Divine Essence Pill.
• The Feng Family's head sent Qingyang, Third Brother, the elders, and elite disciples toward Qixia Mountain, ordering Xu Yi to oversee them.
• The Feng Family's group reached Qixia Mountain, where crowds of martial artists and villagers had already gathered.

The Feng Family reached the Pill Cauldron Sect and pushed past the Shui Family’s blockade before joining the other families at the sect’s mountain-protecting formation. A confrontation with the Lei Family erupted, and Xu Yi’s explosive arrow damaged a Yun Family elder’s treasured spear.

• The Feng Family’s Third Elder led the group toward the Pill Cauldron Sect, where they saw two Shui Family men kill a green-robed elder.
• Young Master Feng challenged the Shui Family’s claim to the road, and Xu Yi ordered the Feng Family to charge through Shui Mingyue’s blockade.
• The Feng Family reached the mountain gate and found the Shui, Lei, and Yun Families gathered before the protective formation.
• Young Master Lei provoked Feng Qingyang by insulting Old Ancestor Feng, and Xu Yi fired a Cloud Burst Arrow at him.
• A Black Robed Elder deflected Xu Yi’s arrow, but it exploded, sending Young Master Lei flying and breaking the elder’s Azure Water Thorn.

Xu Yi helped the Four Great Families break through the Pill Cauldron Sect’s mountain-protecting formation, then watched them slaughter the sect’s defenders while he searched for Qi Ming. The family leaders gathered at a massive iron gate where Yun Mou offered to use a Heavenly Thunder Pearl if everyone shared its cost.

• Xu Yi destroyed the Yun Family Elder’s Azure Water Thorn with a Cloud Burst Arrow and warned Young Master Lei not to provoke him again.
• The Black Robed Elder urged the Four Great Families to attack the Pill Cauldron Sect’s formation, and their combined assault quickly brought it down.
• The crowd rushed through the mountain gate and was ambushed by the Pill Cauldron Sect’s hidden defenses, while Xu Yi retreated to prepare for danger.
• Xu Yi returned to find the Four Great Families overpowering the sect’s defenders, and he moved toward the center to search for Qi Ming.
• Xu Yi reached a massive iron gate with the family leaders, where Yun Mou proposed using his Heavenly Thunder Pearl if the others shared the cost.