Recaps

Zhang Qingyuan advanced through the Inner Sect Grand Competition, refining his body in Wind Thunder Valley and defeating several leading disciples. After securing a place in the top five and breaking through to the late stage of True Essence Fifth Layer, he prepared for the next bout while restoring his Sword Seed.

• Zhang Qingyuan crushed Zhou Qingshan in the semifinals, then won sixteen consecutive matches before facing Fu Qiaolei.
• Zhang Qingyuan defeated Fu Qiaolei’s Thunder Dragon attack and continued winning to qualify for the Finals with the best record in Group D.
• Zhang Qingyuan tempered his body in Wind Thunder Valley, absorbing thunder vitality until his armor broke, his body-refinement art reached minor accomplishment, and he advanced to the middle stage of True Essence Fifth Layer.
• Zhang Qingyuan defeated Qi Xiao in the Finals’ first round with his Qiankun Sword, advancing to the top twenty.
• Zhang Qingyuan overcame Gu Qingtong’s Fish and Dragon techniques with his Sword Pellet and a final punch, earning a place in the top ten.
• Lin Yan left Cloud Water Sect to pursue greater strength and gave Zhang Qingyuan notes on Yuwen Shaohuan before Zhang Qingyuan prepared to face Yan Kuangtu.
• Zhang Qingyuan used his Seed Sword Technique, One Sword Green Lotus Blooms, to defeat Yan Kuangtu and secure a place in the top five, then broke through to the late stage of True Essence Fifth Layer.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to his Cave Dwelling to stabilize his breakthrough and restore his Sword Seed as Golden Light appeared in his dantian.

Zhang Qingyuan defeated Yuwen Shaohuan to claim third place in the Inner Sect Grand Competition, then pursued cultivation and investigated the Proficiency Panel’s connection to his former phone. After teaching Lu Yunxi and returning to the Hall of Enlightenment, he refined the Great Evolution Technique and returned to seclusion.

• Zhang Qingyuan restored most of his Sword Seed and entered the finals, where he learned Yuwen Shaohuan had been sent to trouble him by Senior Brother Yuan and was personally chosen by Daoist Ming Shui for the South Sea.
• Zhang Qingyuan defeated Yuwen Shaohuan with his Green Lotus Sword Seed, despite suffering severe injuries, and secured third place in the competition.
• You Xiaosheng defeated Zuo Qingtian to win the competition, while Zhang Qingyuan accepted third place and gained fame across Yuzhou.
• After half a year of recovery, Zhang Qingyuan visited the Hall of Enlightenment, where the Enlightenment Stone helped him recognize that the Proficiency Panel came from his former phone.
• Zhang Qingyuan accepted the vacant dean position at the Eighty-Seventh Branch, taught the disciples, and agreed to guide Lu Yunxi for three years.
• Zhang Qingyuan advanced to the True Essence Sixth Layer and then the Mid Stage while helping Lu Yunxi improve her cultivation.
• Zhang Qingyuan combined a spiritual sense secret technique with the panel’s computational power to create the Great Evolution Technique and returned to the Hall of Enlightenment to develop it further.
• After Zhang Qingyuan left the Hall exhausted, the old cultivator decided to give him the Jade Slip if they met again, and Zhang Qingyuan returned to seclusion to refine the Great Evolution Technique.

Zhang Qingyuan advanced his Sword Momentum, became Daoist Ming Shui’s Core Disciple, and joined Wu Shanming’s expedition into Yan Wusheng’s ruins. The Zhao Family trapped the explorers for a blood sacrifice, while Zhang Qingyuan cultivated in the magma as the Zhao Family moved toward the relic’s core.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to deduce Sword Momentum, cultivated it, and demonstrated its power at the Eighty-Seventh Branch.
• Zhang Qingyuan protected Lu Yunxi from her family’s attempt to take her, then became Daoist Ming Shui’s Core Disciple and received the Town Origin Cauldron.
• Zhang Qingyuan developed a recording function for the Great Evolution Technique and copied thousands of techniques and martial arts from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Wu Shanming invited Zhang Qingyuan to explore Yan Wusheng’s Cave Dwelling, and they traveled to Sanchuan County with Flying Rat and the other cultivators.
• The Zhao Family collapsed the Four Extremes Mystic Fire Formation, scattered the explorers into the relic, and revealed its plan to sacrifice nine True Essence Realm cultivators for its Old Ancestor.
• Zhang Qingyuan, Wu Shanming, and Flying Rat hunted Fire Spirits, suspected the Zhao Family’s deception, and became trapped above a magma sea.
• Zhang Qingyuan cultivated in the magma and used Fire Spirit Cores to derive his own Artistic Conception of Fire while Flying Rat searched for an exit.
• Zhao Zuzhi and Zhao Tianji continued gathering victims and led the Zhao Family toward the relic’s core to prepare the Blood Sacrifice Formation.

Zhang Qingyuan escaped the Cave Heaven Relic after helping destroy the Zhao Family’s Blood Soul Great Formation and uncovering its connection to the Blood God Sect. Back at the Eighty-seventh Branch, he studied Yan Wusheng’s Broken Sword and the inherited jade slips before focusing on perfecting the Great Evolution Technique.

• Zhang Qingyuan defeated the Four-armed Great Monster, formed a Natal Blood Pact with the wounded Blazing Sky Qilin Snake, and named it Little Fire.
• Zhang Qingyuan, Wu Shanming, and Flying Rat found Tong Feiyan fighting the Zhao Family, and Zhang Qingyuan killed Zhao Tianji as the Blood Pool began to glow.
• Little Fire damaged the altar while Zhang Qingyuan killed Zhao Zuzhi and then faced the Zhao Family Patriarch with Little Fire’s borrowed strength.
• Wang Yuènián arrived carrying the Zhao Family Old Ancestor’s head, killed the Patriarch, and explained the Zhao Family’s plan to use the Blood Soul Great Formation to advance their Old Ancestor.
• Wang Yuènián broke the formation’s core and led Zhang Qingyuan and the others out of the relic, after which Cloud Water Sect sealed the site and destroyed the Zhao Family.
• Tong Feiyan gave Zhang Qingyuan, Wu Shanming, and Flying Rat the Sanchuan County alliance’s cultivation inheritances, and Zhang Qingyuan later spent over a month recording the jade slips.
• Little Fire gave Zhang Qingyuan Yan Wusheng’s Broken Sword, whose Dao Rhyme helped Zhang Qingyuan deepen his understanding of Spark Burns Nine Heavens and the Artistic Conception of Fire.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Eighty-seventh Branch, organized the jade slips, and began perfecting the Great Evolution Technique before using his third opportunity at the Hall of Enlightenment.