Recaps

Xu Yi killed the Hemp-clothed Daoist priest and silenced the Leopard-headed middle-aged man to keep the Ice Fire Rabbit family’s hiding place secret. He changed his plan and stayed with Old Man Su, demanding that the honored guest be summoned there.

• The pink rabbit revealed that the Ice Fire Rabbits had helped Xu Yi, and the Hemp-clothed Daoist priest attacked him while accusing him of aiding demons.
• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner, Mechanical Bird, and Coral Horn to kill the Hemp-clothed Daoist priest and take his Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi agreed to accompany Old Man Su, while the pink rabbit urged him not to worry about the Ice Fire Rabbit family’s safety.
• When the Leopard-headed middle-aged man threatened to expose what was in the pool, Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to make him disappear.
• Xu Yi decided to stay and guard the pool, told Old Man Su to summon the honored guest, and swallowed Clarity Pills mixed with Soul Replenishing Liquid.

Xu Yi remained trapped in a standoff until Young Master Xu sent Ari and seven Sin Army cultivators to seize him alive. After their united souls countered the Soul-Summoning Banner, an icy mist rose from the pool, and Xu Yi urged the Ice Fire Rabbit clan to flee.

• Xu Yi replenished his exhausted yin soul while more than twenty Soul Sensing experts hesitated to attack him.
• On the dragon boat, Ambassador Song complained that his forces had failed, and Young Master Xu ordered Ari to bring Xu Yi back alive.
• Ari and seven cloaked Sin Army cultivators entered the cave and announced that Xu Yi must come with them.
• The eight cultivators joined their divided souls to resist the Soul-Summoning Banner, and Xu Yi's attack on A Jin was stopped by Ari's purple-qi palm.
• Icy mist burst from the pool, and Ari recognized the scent of Water element Spirit Stones.
• Xu Yi sent a message urging the Ice Fire Rabbit clan to escape and considered resisting capture despite the order to take him alive.

Xu Yi tried to protect the Ice Fire Rabbits from Ari and the seven cloaked men, but the rabbits emerged from the Cold Fire Pool and joined the fight. The Sin Army veterans shifted their formation to target Gray Rabbit, leaving the battle unresolved.

• A Yue identified the Cold Fire Pool and used red powder to draw out the Ice Fire Rabbits, while Xu Yi attacked him with three Heaven’s Thunder Pearls.
• Ari realized Xu Yi had no True Fiend Qi and told the other cloaked men that Xu Yi’s meridians had been severed.
• Pink Rabbit, Gray Rabbit, and a white rabbit emerged from the pool, and Xu Yi declared he would fight beside them.
• The three late-stage Ice Fire Rabbits battled the eight cloaked men, who used coordinated Killing Intent attacks to counter them.
• Ari’s group changed tactics and concentrated their attacks on Gray Rabbit, prompting Pink Rabbit and the white rabbit to rush to her defense.

Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to rescue Ari and the other cloaked figures, then fought off the crowd that turned on the Ice Fire Rabbits. His soul was nearly spent, and he urged the rabbits to retreat as the attackers scattered.

• Xu Yi sent three divided souls into the Soul-Summoning Banner, which swept Ari and the seven other cloaked figures inside and ended their assault.
• Ari urged the onlookers to seize the Ice Fire Rabbits, and the gathered experts attacked them while Xu Yi struggled to recover his soul.
• Xu Yi charged into the formation and killed the first Liquid Condensation expert to attack with the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Xu Yi killed the red-clad young man with another strike from the banner, frightening the crowd into weakening their attacks and scattering.
• Xu Yi told the Ice Fire Rabbits to retreat because he could no longer hold on.

Xu Yi killed A Yue by using the Soul-Summoning Banner to hold the Sin Army’s souls together while he attacked, but the surviving members retaliated and left him badly injured. As the Ice Fire Rabbits faced a choice between saving Xu Yi and saving the last young rabbit, both were in immediate danger.

• A Yue spread red powder to lure the Ice Fire Rabbits, while Xu Yi told them to hold off the Sin Army as he targeted A Yue.
• Xu Yi shattered his soul armor and used the Soul-Summoning Banner and Soul-Shaking Bell to restrain the Sin Army’s linked souls.
• Xu Yi’s Mechanical Bird pierced A Yue’s defenses and killed her, enraging the other seven members of the Sin Army.
• A Shui and A Huo struck Xu Yi with Baleful Intent, but he swallowed a Source Pill and began healing.
• A Shui crushed the bottle, and the two young rabbits leaped from the pool toward the red powder; Ari killed one and sent the others’ attacks toward the remaining rabbit and Xu Yi.

Xu Yi and the Ice Fire Rabbits fought the cloaked figures until the mountain collapsed, leaving the rabbits and several others badly injured or missing. As rescuers searched the ruins, Young Master Xu learned Xu Yi was still unaccounted for, while Ari confronted Ambassador Song over the deaths of his comrades.

• The pink Ice Fire Rabbit sacrificed itself to block the black energy attack, and Xu Yi sent a soul thread from the Soul-Summoning Banner into the sky before the mountain collapsed.
• Young Master Xu ordered a rescue after the collapse, and the searchers dug out the survivors and three badly wounded Ice Fire Rabbits.
• Ambassador Song reported that four people, including Xu Yi, were missing and might have fallen into a strange, freezing pool that resisted their senses.
• Young Master Xu saw that a rescuer's leg had frozen solid and realized the mission to capture the Talisman Master had likely failed.
• Ambassador Song tore off Ari's cloak and berated the convicts, and Ari answered that two of his battlefield brothers had died while holding their grievance beads.

Ari and the remaining Sin Army killed Ambassador Song and formed the Great Evolution Array of Rotation to resist the cultivators who rushed to claim them. The array reflected the attackers’ energy in a devastating blast, leaving the survivors afraid and asking what kind of array it was.

• A Yue’s emerging soul was shattered, and Ari realized that A Huo’s grievance pearl meant he had died as well.
• A Xing killed Ambassador Song, captured his soul, and dissolved his body, declaring that the Sin Army would not live as slaves.
• Ari rejected Young Master Xu’s demand that they surrender and ordered the remaining cloaked figures to form the Great Evolution Array of Rotation.
• Hundreds of cultivators attacked, but the array absorbed their combined strike and returned it as a red blast that killed and wounded many.
• Young Master Xu returned on his Mechanical Bird, and the high-cheekboned old man apologized and asked him to identify the array.

Young Master Xu explained that the Great Evolution Array of Rotation reflected attacks and could only be overcome by waiting for its soul-power supply to run out. Ari revealed his Yin Soul Bathing cultivation and an Earth Soul Talisman, while Young Master Xu responded by producing a medium-grade Array Breaking Stone.

• Young Master Xu identified the Great Evolution Array of Rotation and explained that it turned attacks back on those who launched them.
• Young Master Xu said the array would eventually weaken because sustaining it drained the Yin Souls, and the crowd decided to wait.
• Ari’s Yin Soul emerged from its bath, revealing that he had reached the Perfected Mid Soul Sensing Stage.
• Ari produced an Earth Soul Talisman, stunning the crowd and making Young Master Xu fear the consequences of the Sin Army’s escape.
• Young Master Xu brought out a medium-grade Array Breaking Stone, prompting the crowd to hope they could break the array.

Ari used the Earth Soul Talisman to draw the Netherworld Divine General, then offered him a Sumeru Ring and continued toward becoming a Yin Venerable. As the Minor Yin Tribulation struck the Great Evolution Array of Rotation, Young Master Xu struggled to keep the formation together and recalled a battlefield tactic for avoiding repeated strikes.

• Young Master Xu rallied more than eighty Soul Sensing experts to draw the Array Breaking Stone’s formation while Ari activated the Earth Soul Talisman.
• The Netherworld Divine General confronted Ari over taking an Earth Soul, but accepted Ari’s Sumeru Ring and departed.
• A pure-white soul rushed toward Ari, and Young Master Xu warned the crowd that they would be trapped in Shatai Valley if Ari became a Yin Venerable.
• The Minor Yin Tribulation began as the crowd nearly completed the formation, and lightning bolts blasted two groups of cultivators into ashes.
• Many experts fled, but Young Master Xu kept the formation growing and recalled Master Qin’s story about soldiers hiding where spirit cannons had already struck.

Ari reached the Yin Venerable realm and used his True Soul to defeat Young Master Xu’s force, leaving the surviving Soul Sensing experts at his mercy. As Ari and the Black Cultivators collected the survivors’ Sumeru Rings and Life-Death Gu, he mourned the loss of their two brothers.

• Young Master Xu directed the cultivators to break Ari’s array, but the Calamity Cloud dispersed and Ari’s newly formed True Soul attacked them.
• Ari destroyed Young Master Xu’s Mechanical Bird, incapacitated him, killed two fleeing Soul Sensing experts, and erased nearly two hundred Condensed Liquid experts with his soul sense.
• Ari opened his eyes after attaining the Yin Venerable realm, and the five hooded figures congratulated him.
• Ari rejected their celebration, lamented their dead brothers, and ordered them to deal with the surviving Soul Sensing experts.
• A Jin collected the survivors’ Sumeru Rings, while A Tu revealed that the Life-Death Gu from the red-robed author of Minor Records of Cangshan had been taken.

A Ri’s group forced their captives to swallow Life-Death Gu and argued over whether to keep a noblewoman alive, while A Mu was allowed to approach her. As the group killed the wounded Ice Fire Rabbits, Xu Yi’s Origin Blast Bead detonated, collapsing the mountainside and sending him into a sealed cold pool.

• A Tu made the Soul Sensing Realm captives swallow Life-Death Gu and ordered them to collect Sumeru Rings from the battlefield.
• A Ri decided to keep the noblewoman alive as a possible shield, and A Mu begged to have his way with her before A Ri finally allowed him to approach her.
• A Ri ordered A Tu to kill the three wounded Ice Fire Rabbits, and A Tu killed the white and gray rabbits as the mother rabbit watched in grief.
• Xu Yi’s final wisp of Yin Soul detonated the Origin Blast Bead he had planted in the cavern ceiling, causing the mountainside to collapse.
• The blast swept Xu Yi into the mountainside and down into a cold pool, where falling boulders sealed him in.

Xu Yi survived the Rebirth Pill by combining its power with the cold pool and his Fire Gang Malice, restoring his body, soul, and meridians while the Fierce Rhinoceros heartblood transformed him into a massive beast. He emerged from the collapsing mountainside, saw the rabbits’ severed heads, and charged at King Bala and the pink Ice Fire Rabbit as A Tu prepared to stop him.

• The Rebirth Pill’s yin-and-yang energies combined with Xu Yi’s Fire Gang Malice and the cold pool, healing his injuries and restoring his Life Source Power and yin soul.
• The pill’s taiji vortex pulverized the Fierce Rhinoceros heartblood, causing its remaining power to regenerate and expand Xu Yi’s meridians while violently transforming his body.
• Xu Yi’s body grew into a giant beast, and he smashed through the collapsing mountainside to escape the cold pool.
• Xu Yi saw the bloodied heads of the white and gray rabbits, recognized King Bala and the pink Ice Fire Rabbit, and erupted with killing intent.
• Xu Yi charged forward with enough force to collapse the ground, and A Tu summoned bottles of Life-Death Gu and warned that they had to stop him.

Xu Yi transformed into a gigantic figure, killed Ari and the remaining attackers, and absorbed their souls into the Soul-Summoning Banner. After the banner changed and Xu Yi’s rage began to overwhelm him, the mother rabbit’s squeaks brought him back to his senses, and he gave her medicine as she lay near death.

• Xu Yi stomped through the battlefield, crushing more than thirty Life-Death Gu and killing their Soul Sensing owners while Ari rescued A Tu.
• Ari attacked Xu Yi with his Frost Sword, but Xu Yi’s lightning ring destroyed Ari’s divided soul and Xu Yi’s Fire Gang Malice broke through his frost.
• Xu Yi crushed Ari’s body, captured his true soul with the Soul-Summoning Banner, and sealed it in a Soul Collecting Bottle.
• The Soul-Summoning Banner absorbed black shadows and changed color, while Xu Yi killed A Tu and the four fleeing fighters and gathered their black beads and Yin Souls.
• Xu Yi’s killing rage stirred his desire toward the woman in white, but the mother rabbit’s squeaks brought him back to himself, and he fed her a Source Pill and Precious Medicine.

Xu Yi witnessed the mother rabbit die after entrusting him with her jade-colored newborn, Su Xiao Ruo, and then encountered the woman he had rescued, unaware she was Young Master Xu. He left her safely behind, honored the rabbits, and settled into a hidden cave to attempt a breakthrough before the martial ban ended.

• The dying mother rabbit gave Xu Yi her newborn, Su Xiao Ruo, and asked him to care for it and someday take it to its hometown; three demon cores entered the infant and revealed its jade-colored form.
• Young Master Xu woke and found Xu Yi naked, but he covered himself, apologized, gave her a Sumeru Ring, and fled without recognizing her.
• Young Master Xu realized she had escaped death and laughed as Xu Yi's Mechanical Bird disappeared into the distance.
• Xu Yi returned to the battlefield, gathered the rabbits' remains, sank them in the cold pool, and bowed to them three times.
• Xu Yi carved out a cave in a cliff and decided to attempt a breakthrough into the Soul Sensing Realm before the martial ban lifted.

Xu Yi trained to open the Dragon Gate and broke through into the Mid Soul Sensing Stage in eighty days. After checking on the recovering jade rabbit, he left the cave and tested his newfound ability to fly and his strengthened body.

• Xu Yi placed the injured jade rabbit in medicinal water, then began cultivating to break through into the Soul Sensing Realm.
• Xu Yi repeatedly washed his Boundless Sea with gang malice and sent his Yin Soul to strike the Spiritual Terrace, resting and replenishing himself as needed.
• On the eightieth day, Xu Yi opened the Dragon Gate and advanced through the Early Soul Sensing Stage into the Mid Soul Sensing Stage.
• Xu Yi found that his Yin Soul could enter the Sea of Malice, though it was not yet strong enough to bathe there.
• Xu Yi checked the jade rabbit, tucked it against his chest, and burst out of the sealed cave using gang malice to fly.
• Xu Yi tested his stronger body by hurtling toward the surrounding walls, confident in his Bronze Skin and Iron Bones.

After breaking through and recovering his strength, Xu Yi left Shatai Valley and returned to Autumn Water City, where he visited the Tianxia Association. There, Steward Fang faced accusations from other stewards over his refusal to give up the supplies Xu Yi had entrusted to him.

• Xu Yi tested his immense strength and expanded perception, then flew out of Shatai Valley and confirmed the way was clear.
• Xu Yi disguised himself with a Body Concealing Pill, rode a Mechanical Bird to Autumn Water City, and strolled through the streets before entering the Tianxia Association.
• Xu Yi showed his VIP token and was escorted to the VIP room while Steward Fang’s opponents demanded that he be stripped of his position.
• Steward Fang accused Steward Liu and Steward Gao of coveting the treasures he had kept for Xu Yi, who had been missing for months.
• Steward Liu claimed that the association owned the Wind element Talisman Paper and Water element Spirit Stone and accused Steward Fang of trying to keep them for himself.

Steward Fang faced a coordinated attempt by his rivals in the Tianxia Association to strip him of his position and seize Xu Yi’s supplies. When Xu Yi arrived and Steward Liu tried to detain him, Xu Yi struck Liu down, leaving the meeting hall stunned.

• Steward Liu and Steward Gao accused Steward Fang of bringing turmoil to the Tianxia Association, and Vice President Qin ordered Fang to step down.
• Steward Fang refused to surrender the Wind element Talisman Papers and Water element Spirit Stone, then drew his sword when Steward Liu challenged him.
• Steward Xu announced that the honored guest had arrived, and Vice President Qin voided the decision to remove Steward Fang so they could meet him.
• Xu Yi entered the meeting hall, but Steward Liu mocked him and said he would not be allowed to leave.
• Xu Yi pierced Steward Liu’s soul garment, paralyzed him, and slammed him into the exotic-iron wall.

Xu Yi overwhelmed the Tianxia Association after Steward Liu attacked him and challenged his identity as a Talisman Master. He proved his identity to Steward Fang, displayed the spoils from killing nearly a hundred Soul Sensing experts, and left the hall unopposed.

• Xu Yi battered Steward Liu against the wall, then dismissed Vice President Qin's warning about the Tianxia Association.
• Steward Liu sealed the hall and accused Xu Yi of faking his identity because his revealed cultivation was only mid-stage Soul Sensing.
• Xu Yi repeated the words he had once spoken to Steward Fang, convincing Fang that he was the same senior Talisman Master.
• Xu Yi explained that injuries from killing enemies had weakened his qi and blood, then covered the table with hundreds of Sumeru Rings and nearly a hundred artifacts.
• Steward Liu knelt, apologized, and slapped himself, while Vice President Qin released the seal so Xu Yi could leave.
• Xu Yi went to a tower and leaned against its railing in the drizzle, lost in thought.

Xu Yi liquidated the treasures he had collected through the Tianxia Association, learning that the assets were worth far less than he had expected. He then sought advice about caring for a demon beast and offered to buy Old Dog Chen’s Spirit Beast Bag, leaving the two to negotiate its replacement.

• Steward Fang apologized for Steward Liu’s punishment and gave Xu Yi fifty thousand Spirit Stones from the Tianxia Association’s purchase of his goods.
• Xu Yi learned that the wealth taken from more than five hundred and sixty cultivators amounted to far less than he had expected because most carried few Spirit Stones and magical artifacts were difficult to sell.
• Steward Fang handed Xu Yi Wind element Talisman Paper and a Water element Spirit Stone in exchange for the Swift Body Talisman.
• Xu Yi asked Steward Fang to find an expert at breeding demon beasts, and Steward Fang brought in Old Dog Chen from the Myriad Monster Garden.
• Old Dog Chen explained that demon beasts should be kept in Spirit Beast Bags from the Myriad Spirit Pavilion, then refused to sell his own bag.
• Xu Yi offered to arrange a replacement Spirit Beast Bag for Old Dog Chen and pay him ten extra Spirit Stones.

Xu Yi traded for a Spirit Beast Bag and learned that the dying rabbit was a legendary Ice Fire Rabbit, then used a Water element Spirit Stone to revive her briefly and stored her to recover. He next asked Zhao Wuji for advice about a third-tier artifact that had lost its connection to its master’s soul.

• Xu Yi paid Old Dog Chen four hundred Spirit Stones for the Spirit Beast Bag and asked him to identify the rabbit.
• Old Dog Chen recognized the rabbit as a rare Ice Fire Rabbit whose balanced water and fire nature might one day make her extraordinarily powerful.
• Xu Yi used a Water element Spirit Stone to feed the rabbit, and she woke briefly before falling asleep again.
• Xu Yi bound himself to the Spirit Beast Bag and placed the rabbit inside to recuperate.
• Steward Fang brought Zhao Wuji to Xu Yi, who asked how to handle a third-tier artifact that could no longer be controlled after losing its soul connection.

Xu Yi learned about growth-type magical items, recruited Steward Fang to work for him, and tested his soul before making three wind talismans. The effort exhausted him, while the soul test triggered a devastating explosion in the Tianxia Association’s equipment vault.

• Zhao Wuji explained that magical items capable of self-adjustment were rare growth-type treasures, and Xu Yi paid him ten Spirit Stones before sending him away.
• Xu Yi offered Steward Fang a position handling his affairs, and Fang gladly accepted.
• Xu Yi used a Soul Measuring Tablet, which showed his strength as Tier Two and his resilience as Tier Five before exploding.
• At the same time, a massive device in the Tianxia Association’s equipment vault exploded, destroying the vault and scattering its contents.
• Xu Yi used four Spirit Stones and three wind talismans to make one Swift Wind Talisman and two Swift Body Talismans, then collapsed from the strain on his Yin Soul.
• After resting and recovering, Xu Yi realized that controlling three strands of his soul at once had been far more taxing than he expected.

Xu Yi arrived in Bayi City and learned that the prefecture’s new enfeoffments at Immortal Martial Cliff were beginning after the Martial Restriction battles. As he watched hopeful cultivators gather for opportunities, the chapter left him hearing about the hardships faced by those at the bottom.

• Xu Yi completed three Wind element talismans, discovered that the ordeal had strengthened his Yin soul, and gave Steward Fang a Swift Body Talisman before leaving Autumn Water City.
• Xu Yi traveled by teleportation array to Bayi City, paid the commercial tax, and hired a green-uniformed guide to show him around.
• Xu Yi saw a fighting contest at the Resentment Resolution Platform and thought of Uncle Mu and Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi noticed dragon boats rising near the Food Fragrance Quarter and learned that a new round of enfeoffments was beginning at Immortal Martial Cliff.
• The guide explained that many peak Liquid Condensation cultivators had gathered to seek positions with newly formed forces and improve their prospects.

Xu Yi learned how Martial Edicts shaped sect competition and how Huaixi Prefecture profited when they vanished, then hurried to Immortal Martial Cliff to receive his appointment. Two Golden Armored Generals told him the appointments had ended, but disagreed about when the deadline passed.

• The man in green uniform explained that eighty-one first-rank sects were taking part in the trial and described how sect leaders dealt with their Martial Edicts.
• The man in green uniform told Xu Yi that officials profited when destroyed Martial Edicts were replaced for promising local talents, and Xu Yi rewarded him before leaving on a Mechanical Bird.
• Xu Yi flew northwest to Immortal Martial Cliff, where two Golden Armored Generals challenged him for entering a restricted government compound.
• The two Golden Armored Generals told Xu Yi that appointments had ended, one saying two days ago and the other saying yesterday.

Xu Yi entered the mountain gate to have his Martial Edict inspected and secure a place in a sect, but he grew wary after hearing other applicants complain of mistreatment. At Three Stars Tower, he confronted a drunken official and smashed the table, destroying a Shadow-Sound Pearl that had been recording the proceedings.

• Xu Yi gave two Golden Armored Generals Spirit Stones and received directions to the mountain gate.
• A green-robed attendant inspected Xu Yi's Martial Edict and sent him to Three Stars Tower.
• Xu Yi overheard two applicants complain that officials in Huaixi Prefecture mistreated outsiders without titles.
• A drunken Confucian-robed official demanded something from Xu Yi, who angrily smashed the table.
• The official noticed that Xu Yi had destroyed the Shadow-Sound Pearl recording the hall and recognized him as a monster.

Xu Yi learned what the Martial Edict and sect leader status allowed him to do, along with the heavy obligations and dangers of founding a sect. He decided the access to Huaixi Prefecture’s First-level Armory made the status worthwhile.

• Xu Yi gave the middle-aged scholar ten Spirit Stones, and the scholar agreed to help after Xu Yi destroyed the Shadow-Sound Pearl monitoring him.
• The middle-aged scholar used Xu Yi’s blood to activate the Martial Edict and showed him its technique for seizing members’ Heart Souls.
• The middle-aged scholar explained that the Martial Edict let sect leaders file complaints with government offices and granted them entry into the ruling class.
• The middle-aged scholar told Xu Yi that a First-level sect owed Huaixi Prefecture ten thousand Spirit Stones each year, had to answer its calls, and faced the Martial Prohibition Trial in three years.
• The middle-aged scholar revealed that sect leaders could enter Huaixi Prefecture’s First-level Armory, and Xu Yi decided the benefit made the status worthwhile.