Recaps

Xu Yi turned the Hidden Spirit Pearl case into a chance to expose Zhao Tingfang and Third Young Master Zhao, while building his power and confronting the First Division’s obstruction. After Zhao Tingfang died in their clash, Xu Yi faced an official hearing and began recounting the case to Bei Ming.

• Big Beard Zhu used a Shadow-Sound Pearl recording to accuse Feng Ting Shu of stealing the Hidden Spirit Pearl, but Xu Yi persuaded the court that Feng was trying to protect someone else and came away with the pearl hidden.
• Xu Yi confronted Leng Xing at a First Division meeting, accepted the Boundary Barrier Pearl, and learned he had been appointed Deputy Head Official of the First Section.
• Xu Yi studied the Hidden Spirit Pearl, strengthened his understanding of his cultivation, and agreed to join Steward Fang’s expedition into the Gloomy Forbidden Area.
• When Deputy Director Zhao withheld the First Section’s funds, Xu Yi arrested Xiong Jiukui repeatedly and pressured him to reveal that Third Young Master Zhao possessed a stolen Azure Dragon Jade Pendant.
• Xu Yi arrested Zhao Bingkun, confronted him with the pendant and Xiong Jiukui’s testimony, and learned that he had used Xiong Jiukui to obtain blood for a Silver Corpse.
• Xu Yi used a Hidden Spirit Pearl recording of Zhao Tingfang and Zhao Bingkun discussing corpse refining to demand a blood-binding art and one hundred thousand spirit stones, then killed Zhao Tingfang after he attacked.
• Xu Yi reported Zhao Tingfang’s death to Guan Zongyuan, then faced Jiang Beiming at a joint hearing on Immortal Martial Cliff until Bei Ming arrived to investigate and asked Xu Yi to recount the case.

Xu Yi exposed Zhao Bingkun’s crimes, defeated Jiang Beiming, and took charge of the Discipline Department’s First Section. After resolving Gong Xiuhua’s family crisis, Xu Yi prepared a large expedition into the Gloomy Forbidden Area, where his group arrived without knowing the way to the promised Spirit Mine Vein.

• Xu Yi presented evidence linking Zhao Bingkun and Zhao Tingfang to the crimes, then accepted Jiang Beiming’s challenge and killed him in the arena.
• Han Xuedao proposed Xu Yi as Chief of the First Section, and Elder Qin asked him to find three mid-grade Water Spirit Stones in the Gloomy Forbidden Area.
• Gong Xiuhua confronted Su Qin and Gong Dao Yi over the Yin Cha Worm, and Xu Yi later intervened to free him before he crippled Gong Zhongyue and left the Gong family.
• Xu Yi studied Zhao Tingfang’s notes, prepared talismans, and met Gu Mou, who offered knowledge of the Gloomy Forbidden Area in exchange for an Earth Soul Talisman.
• Xu Yi and Steward Fang recruited an expedition team, imposed safeguards on its members, and arranged transport as the fog over the Gloomy Forbidden Area began to disperse.
• Qiu Dao Ming provided the Endless Flying Boat, and Xu Yi led five hundred people through Ren Kong City’s teleportation array into the Gloomy Forbidden Area.
• Xu Yi’s party used a Blue Separation Flower to determine direction, but Gu Mou admitted he had never visited the area and could not locate the Spirit Mine Vein.

Xu Yi seized a Spirit Mine Vein, uncovered a conspiracy against him, and defeated the Two-headed Dirty Black Snake to claim the Supreme Spirit Demon Jade. Back on Cold Sun Peak, he learned more about Divine Sense from Elder Qin and discovered a way the Spirit Opening Pill could strengthen it.

• Xu Yi found the Spirit Mine Vein with Yun Mingmie’s dragon boat nearby, captured Yun Mingmie, and forced him and his men to help mine it.
• Xu Yi questioned Yun Mingmie about the Adamant Talisman and Spirit Opening Pill, learned about the True Spirit Circle, and forced him to record the Heart Reversal Art.
• Xu Yi found several gold-element Spirit Mine Veins, but a deep freeze halted mining at the main vein, where Old Gu suspected a Two-headed Dirty Black Snake guarded Supreme Spirit Demon Jade.
• Xu Yi exposed Third Elder Zhou as a traitor who had been signaling two pursuers, then used Zhou as bait and lured the pursuers into the icy mine.
• The Black-haired Daoist and yellow-bearded middle-aged man fought the Two-headed Dirty Black Snake and perished, while Xu Yi emerged to battle the wounded demon himself.
• Xu Yi weakened the snake demon, fed it tens of thousands of Spirit Stones, and retrieved the Supreme Spirit Demon Jade, a Jade Bone Sword, and more than eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones from the fallen pursuers.
• Xu Yi and Yun Mingmie robbed flying boats before Xu Yi returned to Cold Sun Peak, where he met Elder Qin and learned about Divine Sense and the Spirit Opening Pill’s potential to raise it to the second rank.

Xu Yi strengthened his divine sense, secured rare treasures and spirit stones, and crushed a political plot in the Discipline Department by defeating Elder Xia under a life-and-death contract. His promotion to Third-rank Star Official left his new post unexplained, while he returned to Cold Sun Peak to keep refining his transforming bone sword.

• Elder Qin identified Xu Yi’s bone sword as a Shapeshifting Demon Bone, gave him a Sword Control Art, and exchanged an Earth Soul Talisman for Xu Yi’s promise to the man in black.
• Xu Yi formed divine sense, traded for spirit stones at the United Merchant Association gathering, and won a Hundred Spirits Battle Robe and a Heaven Soul Talisman at auction.
• Xu Yi used the Supreme Spirit Demon Jade as collateral for an association loan, then bonded with his bone sword and tested the robe’s defenses.
• Xu Yi led arrests against the Feng, Jiang, Zhao, and Gong families, then confronted Han Xuedao and forced him to consider appealing Xu’s transfer to the Discipline Hall.
• Xu Yi arrested Director Hu and sent a report to Elder Xia’s Courtyard, where Elder Xia arrived and ordered soldiers to seize him.
• Xu Yi signed a life-and-death contract with Elder Xia, defeated him with his divine sense and bone sword, and captured his True Soul Figure in the Soul Locking Bottle.
• Gong Xuedao arrived with an order promoting Xu Yi to Third-rank Star Official, while Deputy Envoy Cen relayed Elder Qin’s invitation to Green Isle after the great battle.
• Xu Yi learned the Supreme Spirit Demon Jade had sold for thirty million Spirit Stones, bought mid-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones, and refined his bone sword into a small knife.