Recaps

Shi Lan reclaimed the stolen army supplies, built her reputation by defeating challengers, and won the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s martial gathering. After helping Gu Qingcang recover, she accepted access to a blood pool and reviewed her progress.

• Shi Lan defeated You Hong and the warriors who ambushed the Demon Suppression Army, then tracked down the accomplices and reclaimed most of the stolen supplies.
• Shi Lan confronted Sikong Qian at the Qianyun Sect, and Liu Huaxing let her decide his fate after the sect returned the spirit crystals.
• Shi Lan raised her reputation in Ancient Phoenix City by defeating a string of Xiantian Realm challengers and agreed to compete in the Heavenly Thunder Hall gathering for part of the Spirit-Opening Jade Dew.
• Shi Lan replaced Chu Chen in the tournament, defeated Yuan Guanhai and other opponents, and won the championship after Shen Tianlan conceded despite reaching the Earth Fiend Realm.
• Shi Lan gave the Seven Treasures Spirit-Opening Jade Liquid to Gu Rentong, took a Voidshard Crystal from the treasury, and received the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s protection after Shen Tianlan forfeited.
• Shi Lan agreed to sell the Yuchang Sword to a black-clad man, moved her group to the city lord’s manor, and met Gu Qingcang, whose damaged mind Gu Rentong treated with the jade elixir.
• Shi Lan used most of the elixir in Gu Qingcang’s treatment, watched the chains around his fortune break, and accepted access to Gu Rentong’s underground blood pool as compensation.
• Shi Lan returned to the stone chamber and reviewed her cultivation, abilities, and reputation on the system panel.

Shi Lan advanced into the Earthly Fiend Realm, took command of a thousand-man force, and joined Bai Weiyang’s campaign against the Demon Race. The army won its first major battle at the cost of more than six thousand lives, and Shi Lan returned to the warships with her surviving troops.

• Shi Lan refined Phoenix blood, broke through to the ninth level of the Xiantian Realm, and then opened an acupoint to enter the Early Earthly Fiend Realm.
• Shi Lan left Ancient Phoenix City with Wu Lingkong and her companions, defeated Earth Fiend Realm ambushers, and answered a Demon-Suppressing Army summons.
• Bai Weiyang mobilized the Heavenly Thunder Hall and assigned Shi Lan nearly a thousand soldiers after testing her strength.
• Shi Lan learned that Liu Ziming’s father was likely dead, reorganized her troops, and cultivated the Spirit Transformation Pill’s power while the crowded warship traveled west.
• Bai Weiyang recruited more than a hundred Taixu Academy scholars, and the army set out toward the battlefield.
• The Demon Suppression Army fought through a beast tide as Lei Wuji and Bai Weiyang confronted powerful demons, while Lin Yusheng and the scholars battled the two demon kings.
• Shi Lan activated the Demon Slaughtering Array, helping her troops defeat the remaining beasts as more than six thousand people died.
• Shi Lan returned to the warships with her surviving troops while Bai Weiyang ordered the dead gathered for burial beneath a memorial stele.

Shi Lan advanced her cultivation amid the Demon-Suppression Army’s battles, then was swept far from the battlefield by a spatial storm. Stranded in the Demon Domain, she recovered, gained a sword spirit and demon followers, and began using her apparent authority to pursue her quest.

• Shi Lan advanced her Jade Forging Art and joined Bai Weiyang’s forces as they prepared to fight the Demon Race, volunteering to lure out a Demon King.
• Shi Lan’s bait drew a golden-haired Demon King, while Jiyun, Bai Weiyang, Lei Wuji, and Lin Yusheng fought him and other demons attacked the warship.
• Yan Jun and other human experts joined the escalating battle, but the humans were overwhelmed as the warship crashed and Shi Lan led her soldiers through the beast horde.
• A red-haired Heavenly Demon targeted Shi Lan, and after Luo Xiuhan escaped, Samsara took control of her body and ignited a spatial storm that swallowed demons and beasts.
• Shenluo carried the badly injured Shi Lan through spatial currents to the West Mou Mountain Range, where Tian Bai mistook her for a demon king and she chose to remain in the Demon Domain.
• Shi Lan drew the Golden Rainbow Star-Chasing Sword and forced its spirit to stay with her, then healed and cultivated until she reached the middle Earth Fiend Realm.
• Shi Lan avoided a confrontation with Bashan and ordered Tian Bai to keep a lower profile, but the arrival of the Azure Moon Demon King silenced the mountain range.
• Shi Lan’s aura made the Azure Moon Demon King bow, and she demanded five hundred Earth Fiend Realm or stronger demon beasts as he questioned whether she belonged to the demigod race.

Shi Lan founded the Lan Clan before entering the Guiyun Sword Emperor’s trial, where she lived through the Qianyuan Dynasty’s collapse and refused to claim the inheritance at the cost of countless lives. Wuxu revealed that her refusal had passed the first trial, then set her against Guiyun’s incarnation in a second trial.

• Shi Lan accepted Cang Yue’s gifts, including a rare Moon-Essence Skirt, and strengthened her Jade Forging Art by absorbing demon-beast essence.
• Shi Lan founded the Lan Clan with Cang Yue, Yuan Ning, and Yu Yang, then added Tian Bai to the clan and received a reputation reward.
• Shi Lan discovered a hidden teleportation array beneath a river and was carried into the world created by the Guiding Cloud Sword Emperor.
• The Guiding Cloud Sword Emperor sealed Shi Lan’s power and set her a three-year trial to take control of the lands around Qingzhou City.
• Shi Lan took A-Qi and Old Hong into the mountains, where she seized a dragon vein’s spiritual qi and fortune before Wu Xu attacked and the Qianyuan Dynasty issued a bounty for her capture.
• Shi Lan trained A-Qi and secluded herself for over a year, then entered the Xiantian Realm and refused the Hidden Mountain Sect’s request to help assassinate Emperor Zhao Yi.
• Wuxu revealed that Shi Lan had passed the first trial despite rejecting the inheritance, destroyed her body, and showed her the Qianyuan Dynasty’s collapse within Guiyun Realm.
• Wuxu identified himself as the Wuxu Sword’s spirit, explained the worlds within Guiyun Realm, and set a second trial requiring Shi Lan to defeat Guiyun’s incarnation in three chances.
• Shi Lan blocked Guiyun’s opening strike with the Violet Star Seven-Star Halberd as a black phenomenon formed around her.