Recaps

Yang Zhengshan weathered the conflict around Baiyun Immortal City, then joined the scramble for Sun Cave Heaven and gathered treasures while fighting rival cultivators. He reached the Sea of Blazing Sun and found Cloud Skiff and Baiyun True Lord’s remaining disciples, leaving their cooperation unresolved.

• Yang Zhengshan watched Baiyun Immortal City survive the attack by the Earth-Shaking Tigers and Golden-Winged Eagles, then learned Yellow Springs Hall had used corpse-control techniques to foment the wider conflict.
• Yang Zhengshan comprehended the Wither and Flourish Divine Ability and learned that Sun Cave Heaven, with the Sun True Sect’s inheritance, would soon fall near Jade Valley.
• Yang Zhengshan prepared for the expedition and entered True Yang Heaven with Yunxiao, Hong Fuxiu, and Kou Ta after the Void Rift opened.
• Yang Zhengshan seized a green gourd Spirit Artifact in the palace ruins, killed Feng Guiyue, and collected more treasures with his companions.
• Yang Zhengshan found a concealed cave abode, took its ancient Spirit Pines and Scale Vines, and helped defeat Wang Henglie and his companions when they attacked.
• True Person Cangji claimed the opportunity of the Nine Tripod Divine Pill, while Yang Zhengshan and his companions fled the fires spreading through the mountain forest.
• Yang Zhengshan led his group to the Sea of Blazing Sun, where they encountered a battle over a Sun True Sect hall and found Cloud Skiff and Baiyun True Lord’s remaining disciples hiding aboard a Flying Boat.
• Yang Zhengshan agreed to approach the disciples about cooperating, while Yun Bi dismissed the Lingxiu Yang Family as a minor cultivation family.

Yang Zhengshan secured the Nine Tripod Divine Pill and helped Yunxiao survive its power, then secluded himself and formed a Wither and Flourish Golden Core. He discovered the Spirit Source Land was the Life Realm Immortal Palace and ended the arc by making it a dao arena for his family and allies.

• Yang Zhengshan and Yun Ge’s group broke into the protected courtyard, where Yunxiao seized and swallowed the Nine Tripod Divine Pill amid a chaotic battle.
• Yang Zhengshan escaped with the gravely injured Yunxiao to the Spirit Source Land, stabilized him, and later brought Kou Ta and Hong Fuxiu there as they joined its people.
• Yang Zhengshan began refining the Supreme Demon Core Pill as Sun Cave Heaven fell, and the factions fought over Great Sun Mountain while he kept the Spirit Source Land hidden.
• Yunxiao formed a False Core and accepted the position of Immortal Hall Master, while Jingshui returned, defeated Wuchang Ghost Sect forces, and helped Jian Changhe reach Core Formation.
• Yang Zhengshan used a Nine-Patterned Bodhi Seed to form his Wither and Flourish Golden Core, endured the lightning tribulation, and discovered that his soul was the Spirit of Artifact of the Life Realm Immortal Palace.
• Yang Zhengshan refined the Great Void Twelve Golden Crystal Lotus, expanded the Spirit Source Land to ten thousand miles, and learned from Zhongli Yue about the Tianxian Law and the Great Void’s realms.
• Yang Zhengshan organized the Immortal Palace for his cultivators, gave Yunxiao a Nine-Patterned Bodhi Seed, and declared the palace their dao arena.

Yang Zhengshan helped establish the Tianyun Sword Sect, secured allies and resources, and survived an attack by True Lord Chiyuan with help from Qingyuan Fox Venerable. After a decade of cultivation and new dealings with the Xia Xian Sect, he entered the Immortal Fate Trading Fair, where valuable spiritual items drew his attention.

• Yang Zhengshan discovered the Sun True Scripture, rebuilt the Dharma Transmission Hall, and later joined Jian Changhe in founding the Tianyun Sword Sect with Baiyun True Lord, Que Lingyu, Yunxiao, and True Monarch Chihua.
• At the sect’s founding ceremony, Yang Zhengshan used his Wither and Flourish Divine Ability to weaken the Earth-Shaking Tiger King and drain Old Ghost Huangquan’s Yin Longevity, while Heaven recognized the new sect.
• Yang Zhengshan and Jian Changhe were ambushed by True Lord Chiyuan and his spirit pet, but Yang Zhengshan escaped with help from Qingyuan Fox Venerable, who asked him to restore the Qingling Amber Sacred Tree’s cave heaven.
• Yang Zhengshan advised Qingyuan Fox Venerable to make the Sacred Tree the master of Qingyuan Cave Heaven, and she rewarded him with the Zhenyue Seal and Flowing Shadow Shuttle.
• Yang Zhengshan’s allies gained council seats in True Sun Immortal City as the Yang Family opened shops there, while he cultivated for ten years and comprehended the Great Void Dao Intent and Body Transformation into Formlessness.
• After returning to the Tianyun Sword Sect, Yang Zhengshan agreed to help True Monarch Chixia reconcile with Qingyuan Fox Venerable, who promised the Qingyuan Fox Clan would stop troubling the Xia Xian Sect.
• Chixia taught Yang Zhengshan about Dao Intent, the Golden Core Realm, and travel through the Great Void before Yang Zhengshan joined Baiyun True Lord at the Immortal Fate Trading Fair.
• Yang Zhengshan entered the trading fair’s hidden palace hall and displayed three pills, then noticed five Fourth-grade Spiritual Items and Deep Sea Yin Spring Paste that suggested a sea demon was present.

Yang Zhengshan dealt with the fallout from the Immortal Fate Trading Fair, sheltered the Green Ox Demon King, and helped defend the Yunxiao Mountain Range from the Wuchang Ghost Sect’s upheaval. After years of cultivation, he created the Four Realms of Spear Dao and learned of a pill that might save Yu Qingyi if her Core Formation failed.

• Yang Zhengshan escaped the Great Void after a sea demon pursued him, killed Shui Ji, and returned to Baiyun Immortal City with his rare loot.
• Tianji Pavilion investigated True Monarch Changming’s disappearance, but its search found no connection between Yang Zhengshan and the Immortal Fate Trading Fair.
• Yang Zhengshan developed his spear techniques, pierced the Life Realm Immortal Palace’s spatial barrier, and later helped Yu Qingyi after she broke through.
• Lin Xiqiu offered Yang Qingyu a Soul Gathering Bead, while An Wusheng and Yu Yuan began attacking demon settlements as the Struggle for Authority approached.
• As fleeing beasts invaded the Yunxiao Mountain Range, Yang Zhengshan rescued Wen Yu’s forces, rallied reinforcements, and persuaded the Green Ox Demon King to settle in the Life Realm Immortal Palace.
• Yang Zhengshan and the assembled forces fought the beast horde, while Yang Zhengshan sent the Demon King Zheng Zhang south to avoid the coming conflict.
• After Baiyun True Lord emerged from seclusion at the late Golden Core stage, Yang Zhengshan spent years cultivating and refined his insights into the Four Realms of Spear Dao for his descendants and the Dharma Transmission Hall.
• Old Ox gave Yang Zhengshan the recipe for a Myriad Wood Evergreen Pill, which could preserve a remnant soul, but Yang Zhengshan lacked the ingredients and formation needed to refine it for Yu Qingyi.