Recaps

Zhang Qingyuan strengthened his cultivation and returned to Huashan County, where he avenged his parents and uncovered the hidden forces targeting the Zhang Family. He began refining Heavenly One Divine Water and the family’s Earth techniques to prepare for the fight ahead.

• Zhang Qingyuan perfected the Great Evolution Technique, taught the Separate Courtyard Disciples, and received Wu Zhengzong’s Jade Slip before leaving the sect for the South Sea.
• Shen Jiliang ambushed Zhang Qingyuan to seize the Jade Slip, but Zhang Qingyuan defeated him and kept the treasures in his Storage Bag.
• Zhang Qingyuan visited the Zhang Family, paid respects at his parents’ grave, and learned that Lianyun Stockade had attacked the family’s caravan.
• Zhang Qingyuan destroyed Lianyun Stockade and killed Li Hongbo, then withstood three attacks from the middle-aged Daoist-robed cultivator before being allowed to leave.
• The Old Clan Leader revealed the Zhang Family’s Thick Earth Sect inheritance and explained that Li Hongbo had been used to weaken the family and steal it.
• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to reach the True Essence Seventh Layer, learned the incomplete Earth Covering Seal, and spent ten days refining Heavenly One Divine Water.

Zhang Qingyuan claimed the Thick Earth Sect inheritance, killed Liu Daoyan, and returned to stabilize his cultivation before heading back to the Moon Liên Islands. There, Yang Yuntian challenged him and was nearly killed by Zhang Qingyuan’s single sword strike, while the islands were left intact.

• Zhang Qingyuan refined the Heavenly One Divine Water as rival cultivators planned to seize the Thick Earth Sect inheritance and plotted against him.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the secret realm, passed its earth-element trials, comprehended Earth Intent, and found a sealed Earth Attribute Supreme Treasure.
• The Black Robe Old Daoist attacked Zhang Qingyuan after escaping Liu Daoyan, but Little Fire helped Zhang Qingyuan kill him.
• Zhang Qingyuan confronted Liu Daoyan at the inheritance ground and killed him with a palm combining Thick Earth, Blazing Fire, and Water Momentum, then escaped as the secret ground collapsed with the inheritances and spoils.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Zhang Family, stabilized his True Essence Seventh Layer cultivation, and gave most of the Thick Earth Sect inheritance to the Old Clan Leader before returning to the Moon Liên Islands.
• Rival island powers tried to enlist Yang Yuntian against Zhang Qingyuan, but Yang Yuntian punished them for their deception and flew to the Moon Liên Islands to challenge him.
• Yang Yuntian battered the Moon Liên Islands’ protection array, but Zhang Qingyuan appeared and stopped his attack with a single sword move that left Yang Yuntian near death and saved the islands.

After restoring the Moon Liên Islands and strengthening his cultivation, Zhang Qingyuan traveled into the Deep Sea Zone to seek the Thick Earth Sect’s treasure. He uncovered the Sea Clan’s plans to attack the South Sea and infiltrated their trial ground, where he learned the Third Prince was advancing on the hidden treasury.

• Zhang Qingyuan drove off the conspirators who had exploited his absence, restored the Moon Liên Islands’ protections, and entrusted their affairs to Zhang Changyang before entering seclusion.
• Zhang Qingyuan strengthened his cultivation and mastered the Earth Covering Seal, then agreed to attend Peng Li’s South Sea convention after learning about the Sea Clan threat.
• Zhang Qingyuan sparred with Liang Long, won by half a move, and recognized that his Time Passing in a Flash technique wielded genuine spatial power.
• Zhang Qingyuan traveled through the Deep Sea Zone, where battles with Sea Beasts strengthened him and Little Fire found Sky Tide Fine Gold.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Third Prince was assembling an army to attack the South Sea and had made the Thick Earth Sect’s treasure site a trial ground for elite Sea Clan warriors.
• Zhang Qingyuan disguised himself as a Sea Clan member, defeated Aguna in the Warrior Assembly, and entered the Trial Holy Land.
• Zhang Qingyuan broke through a trapping formation, found Origin Spirit Pills, and advanced to the True Essence Seventh Layer Late Stage.
• Zhang Qingyuan crushed Zamuhe and his followers, searched Zamuhe’s memories, and learned that the Third Prince was attacking the core region’s loosening formation, so he headed there to reach the treasury first.

Zhang Qingyuan escaped the Sea Clan, advanced his cultivation, and pursued knowledge of the Five Elements while traveling toward Tianheng Island. After discovering that Yang Yuyan possessed a technique tied to the Divine Wood Seal, he was mistaken for her ally and faced her pursuers.

• Zhang Qingyuan fought the Sea Clan’s High Priest and Third Prince at the treasury, then escaped with a jade box as the Third Prince vanished into a collapsing space channel.
• Zhang Qingyuan evaded Ouyang Shihong by opening a passage with the jade box, then examined the Breath Soil and learned it could rapidly advance his cultivation.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Moon Liên Islands, rested, and refined the Breath Soil until he reached the True Essence Seventh Layer Peak.
• Zhang Qingyuan left the islands, searched Black Markets for inheritances, and acquired the Grass and Trees Soldier Summoning technique, which he began to comprehend with the Great Evolution Technique.
• Zhang Qingyuan tested the technique on a deserted island and summoned six Treants before Yang Yuyan fled there with pursuers on her heels.
• Yang Yuyan was struck by the Scarred Villainous Big Man, whose group accused Zhang Qingyuan of helping her hide Medicine King Valley’s Divine Wood Seal.
• The pursuers battled Zhang Qingyuan’s Treants, which regenerated from severe injuries until the Scarred Villainous Big Man destroyed them with an empowered hammer.
• The Grey Clothed Big Man attacked Zhang Qingyuan with his War Blade, but Zhang Qingyuan stopped the blade between two fingers.