Recaps

Zhang Qingyuan uncovered links between the Five Elements lineages, advanced his Wood cultivation, and entered the Divine Wood Secret Realm to seek inheritances. After rescuing Wei Tianxing from Hu Feiyu’s group, Zhang Qingyuan and Wei Tianxing were trapped inside a powerful formation.

• Zhang Qingyuan killed the men hunting Yang Yuyan, learned that the Divine Wood Seal was tied to the Ancient Five Elements Sect, and accepted the seal from Yang Yuyan.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to Tianheng Island, learned that Daoist Ming Shui was nearing the end of his life, and chose to pursue the Way of Five Elements despite his master’s warning.
• Daoist Ming Shui gave Zhang Qingyuan ancient Five Elements records and a token for Daoist Tongmu, and Zhang Qingyuan reached the True Essence Eighth Layer before leaving for Tianmu Peak.
• Zhang Qingyuan reunited with Qian Sen, then impressed Daoist Tongmu by defeating Wei Tianxing with six Treants and demonstrating Wood Life Intent.
• Zhang Qingyuan chose to enter the Divine Wood Secret Realm rather than accept an incomplete Wood Element inheritance, and he defeated three Spider Puppets to receive an inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan absorbed the inheritance’s Dao Essence, learned a life-giving palm technique, and obtained another inheritance that showed him how to advance Wood Life Intent toward Wood Life Momentum.
• Wei Tianxing refused to join Gongsun Lan’s alliance, then was hunted and attacked by Hu Feiyu’s group while Zhang Qingyuan watched from nearby.
• Zhang Qingyuan stopped Hu Feiyu from attacking Wei Tianxing and healed his wounds, but Hu Feiyu’s followers trapped them both in the Five Wood Elemental Formation.

Zhang Qingyuan mastered new Five Elements techniques in the Divine Wood Secret Realm, then returned to the South Sea and prepared the Zhoushan cultivators to attack Xiansha Island. The assault became a trap, and Hu Qianjun betrayed the human cultivators as a powerful Sea Clan figure sealed them inside.

• Zhang Qingyuan broke Hu Feiyu’s formation, defeated him and his companions, and learned from Wei Tianxing that Gongsun Lan had found a way to locate the Divine Wood Consciousness.
• Zhang Qingyuan defeated Zhang Meng, broke through to the Spirit Essence Realm Eighth Level Middle Stage, and opened the Ancient Gate with his Divine Wood Seal.
• A mysterious being told Zhang Qingyuan about the cataclysm, the Abyssal Demons, and the Five Elements path, then sent him to cultivate on an emerald cushion that deepened his elemental insights.
• Zhang Qingyuan left the Divine Wood Secret Realm, returned to the Moon Liên Islands, and spent several years stabilizing his cultivation while seeking a path to Gold Element power.
• When the Sea Clan invaded the South Sea, Zhang Qingyuan saved Er Gou and Xiao Cao, slaughtered Sea Clan forces, and helped lead the Zhoushan cultivators’ decision to attack Xiansha Island.
• Zhang Qingyuan led more than a thousand cultivators in an assault on Xiansha Island, where Sea Clan fighters resisted after the humans breached the island’s defenses.
• A blood-red barrier trapped the attackers as a powerful Sea Clan figure appeared, and Hu Qianjun stabbed Kuang Yudao from behind with a blood-red spear.

Zhang Qingyuan defeated the Sea Clan at Xiansha Island, then joined the war at Tianheng Island and killed a Blood Demon Sect cultivator who sought to turn him into a puppet. While uncovering a cultivation method from the Nine Continents Continent, he refined his control over Essence, Qi, and Spirit, but a clash between Cave True experts left him injured.

• Zhang Qingyuan killed the transformed Sea Clan Expert at Xiansha Island with Little Fire’s help, then led the human forces to victory and claimed the Sea Clan’s treasures.
• After news of Zhang Qingyuan’s victory spread, he broke through to the True Essence Ninth Layer, refined Breath Soil, and traveled to Tianheng Island as the Sea Clan prepared to attack.
• Zhang Qingyuan fought while concealing his strength during the battle at Tianheng Island, and secretly killed the Sea Race Grand Priestess when she challenged him.
• Li Tianchou tried to capture Zhang Qingyuan and refine him into a Blood God Puppet, but Zhang Qingyuan pierced the Blood River Bell with his concealed Sword Pellet and killed him.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered that Li Tianchou belonged to the Blood Demon Sect and studied the sect’s techniques, using the Great Evolution Technique to uncover a way to strengthen and unify his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Zhang Qingyuan successfully cultivated the method linking his Three Treasures, gaining precise control over his True Essence, and decided to gather fellow disciples to ambush the Blood Demon Sect cultivators.
• A Cave True expert tore through the headquarters’ defensive formation, and Zhang Qingyuan fled before the experts’ clash sent a devastating shockwave across the area and injured him.

After surviving the aftermath of the Cave True battle, Zhang Qingyuan killed Shi Mengduo, advanced his cultivation, and rejected an attempt to recruit him into the Steadfast Faction. He entered the transformed Yuantian Realm to aid his fellow disciples, where he gained a breakthrough as Ye Han and Lu Longcheng pursued their own dangerous encounters.

• Zhang Qingyuan escaped the Cave True battle, became lost in the deep sea, and secretly followed injured Blood Demon Sect cultivators to Five-Finger Island.
• Zhang Qingyuan ambushed the weakened Shi Mengduo after Hu Dong'an was killed, then defeated and killed Shi Mengduo.
• Zhang Qingyuan found a hidden realm containing an Intercontinental Teleportation Array and refined a Gold Element treasure, improving his Sword Pellet and Metal Element comprehension.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the Ninth Stage middle stage, returned to the Moon Liên Islands, and drove off Luo Wenmu after refusing to join the Steadfast Faction.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that Ye Han had returned as a True Disciple and later received a plea for help from Zhao Yuanyang and Shen Hongzhou, whose group was trapped in the Yuantian Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the Yuantian Realm as Ye Han killed Ma Quanzhang, while You Xiaosheng rescued Zhao Yuanyang and joined him, Liu Zhouwu, and Shen Hongzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan killed the cultivators who fought over Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk, absorbed it for seven days, and broke through to the late ninth stage before being transported out of the trial space.
• Zhang Qingyuan followed Zhao Yuanyang’s plea-for-aid token as Ye Han defeated Huangtian Cult remnants and Lu Longcheng discovered the inheritance of Crimson Gold Daoist.