Recaps

Xu Yi used the Flying Eagle cloaked figure’s urgency to recover the Shadow-Sound Pearls to gain the initiative in their fight. After discovering that his defenses could withstand the figure’s water spells, Xu Yi trapped him with a fire talisman, but the Flying Eagle cloaked figure countered with a high-grade metal talisman.

• Xu Yi taunted the Flying Eagle cloaked figure with possibilities involving Princess Yinqiu and the Shadow-Sound Pearls, then attacked with the Heavenly Spear Technique.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure struck Xu Yi with a water sword, but Xu Yi survived and mocked him before launching more Heavenly Spears.
• Xu Yi’s attacks put the Flying Eagle cloaked figure on the defensive as his divine sense and limited True Essence left him with few advantages.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure rushed Xu Yi with a barbed spike, but Xu Yi activated a Flame Burst Talisman that surrounded him with black fire.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure activated a high-grade metal talisman, whose Talisman Field Devour effect extinguished the flames.

Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu lured the Flying Eagle cloaked figure into a prepared ambush after he fled their first encounter. Xu Yi captured the figure’s escaping spirit with the Soul-Summoning Banner, which briefly flared with signs of change before settling down.

• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure fled Xu Yi after using his Level 1 Grade 4 Talisman, then headed southeast to capture Princess Yinqiu.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure pursued Young Master Xu, whose Body Protection Talisman Robe resisted his spells and water attacks.
• Young Master Xu lured the Flying Eagle cloaked figure into a narrow cave, where Xu Yi’s hidden talisman trap engulfed him in black flames.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure escaped the flames as a spirit, but Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to bind and capture it.
• The Soul-Summoning Banner blazed and trembled as three Law Patterns stirred, then dimmed, leaving Xu Yi unsure how it had changed.

Xu Yi and Young Master Xu escaped after killing Zhou, while Xu Yi realized the Yun Family would pursue him. Young Master Yun’s attack on the Chaotic Star Sea collapsed when the magnetic storm erupted, leaving his army devastated and his position as heir at risk.

• Young Master Xu praised Xu Yi for killing Zhou and gave him Zhou’s Sumeru Ring, which contained a Yin-Poison Thorn and nearly a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xu Yi took Young Master Xu east with a Swift Wind Talisman, refusing to leave her behind as they fled toward the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Young Master Yun’s Jiannan Road army ambushed the Star Sea forces and destroyed most of their dragon boats.
• The magnetic storm erupted again and devastated Yun Zhongge’s twenty thousand troops, while he survived using a treasured family relic.
• Yun Zhongge realized his carefully arranged plan had been defeated and feared the Yun Family elders would remove him as heir.

Yun Zhongge learned that Flying Eagle had been killed and raced toward the Chaotic Star Sea to capture Princess Yinqiu and salvage his family’s political position. Meanwhile, Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu fled deeper into the sea as its magnetic storm intensified, leaving Yun Zhongge’s fate uncertain.

• A clan elder told Yun Zhongge that Flying Eagle’s life token had burned and his soul was extinguished, leading Yun Zhongge to suspect a Yang Venerate had intervened.
• Yun Zhongge realized his plan had failed and that the destruction of Jiannan Road’s army could endanger his father’s political ambitions, so he headed for the Chaotic Star Sea to kill Xu Yi and capture Princess Yinqiu.
• At the edge of the Chaotic Star Sea, Xu Yi told Princess Yinqiu that the magnetic storm might destroy Yun Zhongge’s army and explained the Yun Family’s marriage scheme.
• Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu used a series of Swift Wind Talismans to travel more than eighteen hundred li into the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi drove the strengthened Lightning Control Art and continued carrying Princess Yinqiu farther into the sea.

Xu Yi and Young Master Xu used the True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl to hide underwater while Xu Yi refined Fire Talismans to prepare for Yun Zhongge. When Yun Zhongge caught up, Xu Yi chose to face him rather than flee.

• Xu Yi searched for defensible terrain, and Young Master Xu revealed a True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl that let them move freely underwater.
• Xu Yi bound Young Master Xu with Clear Wind Silk and refined Fire Talismans while using the Spirit Gathering Array and maintaining their escape.
• Xu Yi failed once, then refined a Level 1 Grade 4 Fire Talisman and a Level 1 Grade 3 Fire Talisman before exhausting the fire spirit power.
• After Xu Yi sensed danger, he and Young Master Xu left the underwater space and spotted Yun Zhongge approaching.
• Young Master Xu urged Xu Yi to escape, but Xu Yi decided to confront Yun Zhongge and told her to act natural.

Xu Yi prepared Young Master Xu for her confrontation with Yun Zhongge, whose attacks failed against her defenses until he used his paired hammers to disorient her and moved in to seize her. A streak of blue light then shot up from beneath her feet as Yun Zhongge reached for her.

• Xu Yi gave Young Master Xu protective robes before vanishing, and she set off for a coral reef after receiving a message through her Spiritual Connection Jade.
• Yun Zhongge confronted Young Master Xu, who accused him of using their engagement to lure the Star Sea forces into an attack and taunted him about her betrayal.
• Yun Zhongge attacked with spiritual sense and the Ten Flames Sword, but Young Master Xu’s defenses stopped both attacks.
• Yun Zhongge summoned his Lu Yin Bai Hua Hammers and struck them together, using their shrill sound to incapacitate Young Master Xu.
• Yun Zhongge moved close and reached for Young Master Xu’s back, but a streak of blue light shot up from beneath her feet.

Xu Yi ambushed Yun Zhongge to protect Princess Yinqiu, then revealed himself and fought the Heir of the Yun Family underwater. Their first exchanges left them both unharmed as their divine senses clashed across the boiling sea.

• Xu Yi struck Yun Zhongge with a Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talisman and a flying sword, forcing Yun Zhongge to unleash a Level 1 Grade 4 Earth Mystical Talisman that devastated the surrounding sea.
• Xu Yi escaped the blast with Young Master Xu, and Yun Zhongge recognized him as the killer of his eight personal guards.
• Xu Yi admitted his identity and attacked Yun Zhongge, whose hereditary flame swords failed to penetrate Xu Yi’s Fire Malice and wall of thought.
• Yun Zhongge realized Xu Yi had cultivated a Boundless Sea and possessed extraordinary divine sense, while Xu Yi taunted him in the water that weakened his spells.
• The two exchanged more than a thousand strands of divine sense each, boiling the water within five hundred zhang without either being injured.

Xu Yi and Yun Zhongge’s spiritual-sense battle reached a stalemate, so Xu Yi used Young Master Xu’s apparent departure to provoke Yun Zhongge into attacking. Their schemes collided in a fierce exchange that left Xu Yi badly burned, while Yun Zhongge was struck by a sudden attack whose source remained unclear.

• Xu Yi arranged for Young Master Xu to pretend to leave, hoping to make Yun Zhongge attack and create an opening to use his Flame Burst Talisman.
• Yun Zhongge rushed Xu Yi with the True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl and unleashed his Hundred Flames Sword, while Xu Yi activated his talisman.
• The two attacks took effect together, surrounding Xu Yi with blazing swords and Yun Zhongge with thick black smoke.
• Young Master Xu rushed back, shielded Xu Yi, and used Swift Body Talismans to carry him out of the flame swords’ reach, though Xu Yi was badly burned.
• After Young Master Xu brought Xu Yi to safety, Yun Zhongge cried out in pain as blue light flashed and snow and ice poured down.

Xu Yi and Yun Zhongge survived the devastating black flames, but both were gravely injured, and Yun Zhongge fled after Mu Guangming intervened. Xu Yi recovered enough to ask whether Yun Zhongge had been killed, and Mu Guangming told him that Yun had escaped.

• Yun Zhongge used protective treasures and a Frost and Snow Talisman to survive Xu Yi's black flames, then cut away his burned and frostbitten flesh as it regenerated.
• Young Master Xu tried to save Xu Yi with pills, and Xu Yi urged her through their Spiritual Connection Jade to flee while Yun Zhongge was still wounded.
• Young Master Xu refused to leave Xu Yi, and Yun Zhongge approached them, vowing to avenge his injuries.
• Mu Guangming attacked Yun Zhongge with black divine sense, but Yun's Skull Ring blocked it and Yun escaped.
• Mu Guangming brought Xu Yi and Young Master Xu aboard a dragon boat, where Xu Yi learned Yun Zhongge had gotten away.

Xu Yi recovered from his wounds after Mu Guangming took Young Master Xu away as a hostage to protect the Chaotic Star Sea. After two days of hiding underwater, Xu Yi’s true soul healed, and he began weighing the battle’s consequences and his next steps.

• Mu Guangming told Xu Yi that the battle had largely succeeded, but the Heavenly King Calming Pill could only temporarily suppress Xu Yi’s raging poison fire.
• Mu Guangming admitted that the Chaotic Star Sea needed Princess Yinqiu as a hostage, and Young Master Xu offered to stay so Mu Guangming would treat Xu Yi.
• Mu Guangming gave Xu Yi the Fire Gathering Spiritual Art and took Young Master Xu away, promising that he would be safe in the Chaotic Star Sea for a time.
• Xu Yi used the art to control the Fire Spirit Power and recover most of his injuries, then warned Mu Guangming’s steward that he would become the Chaotic Star Sea’s enemy if Princess Yinqiu came to harm.
• Xu Yi hid underwater with the Hidden Spirit Pearl and meditated for two days until his true soul recovered, then considered the battle’s gains and what to do next.

Xu Yi reflected on his battle with a Yang Venerate and realized he needed spirit stones to make powerful Fire Talismans before he could rescue Young Master Xu. Unable to return to Huaixi because of the Yun family’s threat, he learned that Yun Mingmie had come seeking the Shadow-Sound Pearl recording that could expose him.

• Xu Yi decided that improving his cultivation and making high-grade Fire Talismans were his priorities, but he lacked the spirit stones to do so.
• Xu Yi considered trading spirit stones through the United Merchant Association, then ruled out returning to Huaixi because Yun Zhongge could use his bloodline credentials to track him down.
• Xu Yi worried that the Yun family might retaliate against Yan Zi, though he believed they were unlikely to know of her connection to him.
• Steward Fang told Xu Yi that Young Master Yun Qi had come to see him, and Xu Yi recognized him as Yun Mingmie.
• Yun Mingmie demanded that Xu Yi return the Shadow-Sound Pearl or destroy it, fearing the secret recording of Yun Zhongge’s operation.

Xu Yi and Yun Mingmie arranged a meeting to trade for a technique that could block the Yun Family’s bloodline tracking. Xu Yi prepared for a possible ambush and met Yun Mingmie at Three Saints Mountain, where the story left them about to negotiate.

• Yun Zhongge blamed Xu Yi for the failed campaign against the Chaotic Star Sea and accused a clan traitor of helping him, alarming Yun Mingmie, who feared Xu Yi’s Shadow-Sound Pearl could expose his betrayal.
• Yun Mingmie contacted Xu Yi and offered a secret technique to block bloodline attraction in exchange for a face-to-face meeting and a blood-restriction oath.
• Xu Yi agreed to meet near the border of the Chaotic Star Sea and the Northern Sacred Court, then prepared Wind talismans in case Yun Mingmie or the Yun Family ambushed him.
• Yun Mingmie proposed Three Saints Mountain, and Xu Yi reached the site, checked the surrounding area, and greeted Yun Mingmie as he arrived.

Yun Mingmie ambushed Xu Yi with help from a Yun family elder, who shattered Xu Yi’s True Soul and took his Sumeru Ring. As Yun Mingmie’s soldiers prepared to carry Xu Yi back to the Yun estate, Xu Yi’s golden lightning freed his True Soul from the elder’s cage, though he remained bound and believed to have lost his Qi Sea Realm.

• Yun Mingmie lured Xu Yi into range, and Thirteenth Uncle-Ancestor struck Xu Yi with a soul attack, seized his Sumeru Ring, and left Yun Mingmie to take him to the Yun estate.
• Yun Mingmie revealed that he had arranged the ambush to eliminate Xu Yi as a threat and hoped to obtain the Shadow-Sound Pearl.
• Yun Mingmie’s soldiers bound Xu Yi with a Dragon-Locking Rope and restrained his Dazhui Acupoint while the soul cage tortured his True Soul.
• Xu Yi’s golden lightning destroyed the white cage and restored his True Soul’s consciousness, allowing him to realize that Yun Mingmie had betrayed him.
• Xu Yi found that his Qi Sea Realm had vanished, while Yun Mingmie ordered his soldiers to take the restrained prisoner back to the family estate.

After the Yun household destroyed Xu Yi’s Qi Sea and captured him, Xu Yi used the Heart Reversal Art to escape, killed several armored soldiers, and subdued Yun Mingmie. He recovered at Three Saints Mountain and forced Yun Mingmie to conceal his escape when the Yun elders demanded that he return with Xu Yi.

• Xu Yi feigned insanity while using the Heart Reversal Art to break free of the Dragon-Binding Rope and summon his bone sword.
• Xu Yi killed several armored soldiers, then forced Yun Mingmie to swallow a Life-Death Gu and knocked him unconscious with his divine sense.
• Xu Yi brought Yun Mingmie to Three Saints Mountain and spent a day recovering from his injuries while keeping him captive.
• When Yun Mingmie awoke, Xu Yi made him answer the Thirteenth Clan Elder’s transmission without revealing that Xu Yi had escaped.
• The Thirteenth Clan Elder demanded to know why Yun Mingmie had not returned, while the Yun household located Xu Yi at the edge of the Chaotic Star Sea.

Xu Yi used Yun Mingmie to mislead the Yun family while traveling toward Shatai Valley, then killed him after realizing the bloodline pull made escape impossible. He located a fragment of space and prepared to return to Da Yue.

• Yun Mingmie told Thirteenth Clan Elder that a patrol search had delayed him, then traveled with Xu Yi toward Bayi City and Shatai Valley.
• At Seventh Elder Yun’s urging, Thirteenth Clan Elder set out for Huaixi Prefecture to investigate Yun Mingmie’s suspicious reports.
• Xu Yi stopped the dragon boat in a mountain valley and told Yun Mingmie he had chosen the place for his corpse.
• Xu Yi bound Yun Mingmie, let the Life-Death Gu bottle shatter, and destroyed his newly forming soul and resentful soul.
• Xu Yi used the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique to locate a fragment of space and decided to make another trip to Da Yue.

Xu Yi escaped to Great Yue after his cultivation crisis and reunited with Huang Xuanji and the realm’s Soul Sensing experts. He announced rules for distributing thirteen Earth Soul Talismans and asked them to find a way to save someone whose Qi Sea had been shattered.

• Xu Yi entered the fading spatial fragment, leaving the Yun Household’s Thirteenth Clan Elder unable to find him.
• Xu Yi returned to Great Yue, suppressed the Great Cloud Tribulation, and told Huang Xuanji’s messenger to summon his old friends to Futuo Mountain.
• Xu Yi met Huang Xuanji at his former cave dwelling, and more than twelve Soul Sensing Realm experts gathered there.
• Xu Yi announced that thirteen Earth Soul Talismans would be distributed according to contributions of Precious Medicines, with the top ten receiving talismans outright and the rest drawing lots.
• Xu Yi asked the experts to help find a way to save someone whose Qi Sea had been shattered, prompting their alarm and disbelief.

Xu Yi returned to his birthplace after distributing the Earth Soul Talismans, then spent a month recovering while brooding over his shattered Qi Sea and his limited future. When his Body Concealing Pill dispersed the dark clouds, he realized the world was a natural Thunder Spirit Land and found new hope.

• Xu Yi asked the cultivators to search for any clue to rebuilding a shattered Qi Sea, then distributed thirteen Earth Soul Talismans among the Soul Sensing Realm powerhouses.
• Xu Yi shared a final night of drinking with Yuan Qinghua and watched him depart, fearing they would never meet again.
• Xu Yi returned to Xu Family Village, rebuilt his old home, and spent a month there recovering his life force, injuries, and true soul with Precious Medicines.
• Xu Yi realized his supply of Body Concealing Pills was running low and briefly considered dying beneath the gathering thunderclouds before deciding not to give up.
• Xu Yi swallowed a Body Concealing Pill, causing the dark clouds to clear, and recognized the world as a natural Thunder Spirit Land.

Xu Yi found a way to cultivate the remaining levels of the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art by using the Great Cloud Tribulation and the Nielong River to control the lightning’s force. After two years of relentless training, he reached Great Perfection, but ran out of Body Concealing Pills and could no longer stop the Cloud Tribulation from attacking him.

• Xu Yi realized the thunder-filled sky could serve as the Thunder Spirit Land he needed to cultivate the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art’s second and third levels.
• Xu Yi endured repeated lightning strikes, using the woods and the Nielong River to weaken their force while tempering his body and replenishing himself with Precious Medicine.
• Xu Yi repeated the training over two years, consuming tens of millions of Precious Medicine and bringing the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art to Great Perfection.
• After mastering the second level, Xu Yi found that even the Bone Sword could barely mark his skin.
• Xu Yi exhausted his Body Concealing Pills, leaving him unable to hide his aura or stop the Cloud Tribulation from continuing its assault.

After mastering the third layer of the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art, Xu Yi emerged with a solid True Soul and fifth-tier divine sense, then drove away the cultivators who had gathered around him. He remained in his quiet mountain home and celebrated his freedom by preparing a feast.

• Xu Yi completed the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art after enduring nearly two years of lightning, and the tribulation clouds finally dispersed.
• Xu Yi ordered the tens of thousands of cultivators watching him to leave, then used his divine sense to destroy their caves and threaten them until they fled.
• Xu Yi realized his True Soul had grown solid and his divine sense had advanced to the fifth tier, despite his cultivation remaining at the Yin Venerate Realm.
• Xu Yi gathered sheep, pheasants, and fish with his divine sense, prepared a fire, and covered the roasted game with honey.
• Xu Yi ate the feast after nearly two years without ordinary food and savored the taste.

Xu Yi finished cultivating and confronted Huang Xuanji and the other cultivators about the deaths of four people who had attempted to reach the Yin Venerable realm. He refused to advise them until they found clues about repairing a shattered Qi Sea Realm, then received a visitor named Dao Xuan.

• Xu Yi sensed Huang Xuanji, Qing Mingzi, and the others approaching and heard that four cultivators had died attempting to break through to the Yin Venerable realm.
• Xu Yi realized the four had likely died to cloud tribulation because they lacked Body Concealing Pills.
• Huang Xuanji and the others begged Xu Yi for guidance, but Xu Yi demanded they first make progress on his request to find a way to repair a shattered Qi Sea Realm.
• Xu Yi dismissed the group, who left treating his request as essential to breaking through to the Yin Venerable realm.
• Dao Xuan arrived from the northwest and asked Xu Yi for an audience.

Dao Xuan offered Xu Yi the Raging Wind Talisman in hopes of saving Wuji Temple, and Xu Yi rewarded him with a powerful cultivation art. Huang Xuanji then presented Xu Yi with a mysterious bottle whose energy resonated with his bloodline, leaving Xu Yi eager to learn more.

• Dao Xuan told Xu Yi he had a treasure to offer, then gave him the Raging Wind Talisman booklet he had found in Dao Yan’s alchemy room.
• Xu Yi recognized the talisman’s value and promised to help Wuji Temple, then gave Dao Xuan a jade slip containing the Lightning Control Art.
• After Dao Xuan departed, Xu Yi called over Huang Xuanji, who said his treasure was worth more to him than reaching the Yin Venerable rank.
• Huang Xuanji handed Xu Yi a pure white bottle containing a pale yellow strand that emitted faint dragon roars, and Xu Yi sensed its extraordinary energy.

Xu Yi agreed to take Huang Xuanji out of the world in exchange for an explanation of a mysterious treasure. Huang Xuanji revealed that he had recovered a wisp of True Dragon Imperial Qi and offered it, along with his notes on how to store it.

• Huang Xuanji knelt before Xu Yi and asked him to take him out of the world, and Xu Yi agreed.
• Huang Xuanji identified the treasure as True Dragon Imperial Qi and linked it to the Nine Heavens True Dragon Sword.
• Huang Xuanji explained that the Imperial Family had used the Dragon River, the National Monument, and the people’s faith to restore the Qi within the sword.
• Huang Xuanji recounted how a trace of the Qi revived his fading body and Yin Soul after he was gravely wounded.
• Huang Xuanji said he had recently recaptured the remaining Qi and gave it to Xu Yi with a booklet describing its properties and storage method.

Xu Yi studied Dao Yan’s Raging Wind Talisman and waited for the bloodline pull to fade, but news of Elder Shanyang’s tomb drew him west to Taiping Mountain. He learned that Qing Mingzi, Lotus Great Master, and Yan Yangzi were already fighting over the tomb’s texts.

• Xu Yi accepted Huang Xuanji’s True Dragon Imperial Qi booklet and exchanged a Sound Transmission Pearl with him.
• Xu Yi studied the Raging Wind Talisman and regretted killing Dao Yan, whose research had made the talisman easy to understand.
• Xu Yi delayed returning to the Northern Sacred Court while waiting for the bloodline pull to fade, though worry about Princess Yinqiu grew.
• Huang Xuanji told Xu Yi that Elder Shanyang’s tomb had been unearthed at Taiping Mountain and that three experts were fighting over its texts.
• Xu Yi rushed west and learned that powerful groups searching for ways to resume cultivation after the Qi Sea was shattered had found the tomb.

Xu Yi stopped the battle over the books from Elder Shanyang's tomb and read the recovered writings, but found them unremarkable. As he prepared to remove Elder Shanyang's coffin, he uncovered a hidden record of the legendary Qingcang Dialogue.

• Xu Yi arrived at Taiping Mountain and used his divine sense to stop the battle over the books from Elder Shanyang's tomb.
• Xu Yi collected the books, ordered everyone to register with Huang Xuanji for rewards, and sent the crowd away.
• Xu Yi read the writings and found that their teachings on physical cultivation were already common knowledge.
• Xu Yi sensed a hidden barrier in the tomb and uncovered writing concealed beneath dust on the walls of the coffin room.
• Xu Yi recognized the writing as notes of a conversation between Qingsongzi and Cangshu, identifying it as the lost Qingcang Dialogue.

Xu Yi read the Qingcang Dialogue and reconsidered what it meant to have his qi sea destroyed. He left Elder Shanyang's Ancient Tomb believing that only the passage to his qi sea might have been damaged, giving him hope that it could be repaired.

• Xu Yi read the Qingcang Dialogue and found its final discussion of tangible and intangible vessels especially insightful.
• Xu Yi questioned Cangshu's claim that a qi sea would remain intact until the Seven Souls perished, since cultivators' qi seas were often said to be destroyed.
• Xu Yi realized that Qi Sea Realm cultivation had been common in Cangshu's era, so Cangshu and Qingsongzi could not have overlooked the apparent contradiction.
• Xu Yi conjectured that damage to his qi sea might actually have severed the passage connecting it to his body, leaving the qi sea itself intact.
• Xu Yi gained faith that the connecting passage could be repaired and left the tomb with renewed hope.