Recaps

Yun Zimo persuaded Iron Protector to cooperate by offering him a path to freedom from the Soul Hall, then used Origin Sword Force to bind him. With Tie Yi now under his command, Yun Zimo planned to travel south and prepare a false death report for Xuan Protector before a replacement arrived.

• Yun Zimo sealed Wu Ying back into the jade bottle and asked Iron Protector whether he wanted to become a Soul Hall elder and gain freedom.
• Iron Protector revealed the Soul Lock and Soul Tablet that bound him to the Soul Hall, while Yun Zimo questioned whether becoming an elder could truly free him.
• Yun Zimo and Yao Lao used Origin Sword Force to brand Iron Protector's soul, and Iron Protector pledged his obedience as Tie Yi.
• Tie Yi said the sword mark had quieted his thoughts, and Yun Zimo ordered him to travel south and prepare Xuan Protector's death report before a new Heaven-rank protector arrived.
• Yun Zimo returned the Bone Flame Ring to Xiao Yan and said it would soon be time to set out.

After nearly a month in seclusion, Yun Zimo prepared to leave the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Yun in search of a breakthrough opportunity. They arranged for Nalan Yanran to serve as acting sect master under Yun Shan’s guidance and said their farewells before Yun Zimo visited Xiao Yan.

• Yun Yun told Yun Zimo she wanted Nalan Yanran to manage the sect so she could travel south with him.
• Yun Shan agreed that Nalan Yanran could serve as acting sect master, with him assisting her, and accepted Yun Zimo and Yun Yun’s seals.
• Yun Zimo gave Yun Leng his Jia Ma Alliance development plan and left the mountain with Yun Yun to bid farewell to others.
• Yun Zimo visited Xiao Yan, reminisced with him about their first meeting, and gave him a jade bottle to restore some of Elder Yao’s soul power.

Yun Zimo prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire for the Central Plains, saying farewell to his friends and giving them help and advice. After he departed with Yun Yun, Zi Yan set out to pursue her own goal, while Lin Xiuya drew his sword to deal with parasites in the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yun Zimo gave Yao Lao soul-restoring supplies and discussed Xiao Yi Xian’s approaching danger and the treasures needed to resolve the Woe Poison Body.
• Yun Zimo left Lin Xiuya behind to roam freely, then accepted a Soul-Warming Storage Ring from Gu He before saying farewell.
• Yun Zimo warned Medusa about the Central Plains, suggested she take the name Cai Lin, and gave her information pointing to a possible snake-people ancestral land in the Nine Nether Deep Underworld.
• Yun Zimo comforted Zi Yan, who gave him a tracking mark, then wrote letters to Xiao Yi Xian and Ren Xia and departed south with Yun Yun.
• Zi Yan left Misty Cloud Mountain to pursue her own goal, while Lin Xiuya drew Qingling and identified himself as a tenth-generation disciple of the Punishment Hall.

Yun Zimo and Yun Yun traveled south and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who joined them despite the lethal danger of her Woe Poison Body. Later, Yun Zimo operated as chief protector of the Soul Hall Northwest Branch and prepared for the cautious Protector Zhi’s arrival as a strange figure neared Heaven Burial Ravine.

• Yun Zimo declined to visit Jiuling City, believing Ren Xia could lead Jiuling Palace without him.
• Yun Zimo and Yun Yun met Xiao Yi Xian on a Blue Eagle, and the two women revealed they had become close friends.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed that she had reached four-star Dou Zong, and Yun Zimo worried that her Woe Poison Body was growing stronger despite its seal.
• The three travelers and the Blue Eagle set off south together toward the Great West Continent.
• At the Soul Hall Northwest Branch, Yun Zimo reviewed the reports and learned that Protector Zhi was expected soon after traveling for more than half a year.
• A concealed figure moving through a forest near Heaven Burial Ravine said he was almost there.

Yun Zimo, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian met Protector Zhi at Heaven Burial Mountain Ravine, where his attempt to combine a sickle and hammer produced a mysterious phenomenon that shocked Yun Zimo. Days later, Protector Zhi attacked the trio, but after sensing something in Yun Zimo’s will, he let them go and wondered whether they came from the same path or trade.

• Yun Zimo and the others waited with Tie Yi at the ravine until Protector Zhi arrived and inspected them, recognizing that they possessed physical bodies.
• Protector Zhi attempted to combine a black sickle and hammer, causing a strange energy disturbance before he dismissed everyone to ponder the result.
• Yun Zimo, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian left the ravine, but Protector Zhi later intercepted them with a clone while his true body remained in the hall.
• Protector Zhi revealed his overwhelming strength, seriously injuring Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun and knocking Yun Zimo unconscious.
• Protector Zhi sensed something unusual in Yun Zimo’s will, released the trio, and returned to the hall wondering whether Yun Zimo was from the same path or trade as him.

Yun Zimo used Xiao Yi Xian’s Origin Sword Force and the energy in the medicinal pool to repel Protector Zhi’s lingering Dou Zun power, then swallowed the remaining gray energy with the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s power. As he began recovering, Protector Zhi sensed his growing vitality and wondered whether Yun Zimo was connected to a mysterious person.

• Xiao Yi Xian sent Origin Sword Force into Yun Zimo’s sea of consciousness, allowing him to mobilize the Three Treasures and drive Protector Zhi’s power from his life origin.
• Yun Zimo gathered the gray energy with the medicinal liquid, and the resulting disturbance woke Yun Yun, who told Xiao Yi Xian she was nearly fully recovered.
• Yun Yun’s gentle energy helped push the gray qi toward Yun Zimo’s dantian, where the Heaven-Swallowing Python swallowed it and left a strange mass of energy behind.
• Yun Zimo could not affect the strange energy, so he focused on repairing his meridians, bones, and organs.
• Protector Zhi sensed Yun Zimo’s strengthening life force, questioned whether he was connected to a certain person, and recalled learning of the Jia Ma Empire through Yun Zimo’s will.

Yun Zimo and his companions reached the foot of the Hengduan Mountain Range after fleeing a Gale Wolf pack across the Mohican Ten-Thousand Mile Plain. They left the wolves behind, and Yun Zimo looked toward the notorious mountain range, wondering what dangers lay ahead.

• Yun Yun told Yun Zimo they would reach the Hengduan Mountains after crossing the grassland, but Yun Zimo soon led the group into a desperate flight from pursuing Gale Wolves.
• Yun Zimo learned that Yun Yue had stolen the Gale Wolf clan’s collected sun and moon essence while searching with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Qingfeng for the Spring of Life.
• Yun Zimo tried to negotiate with the wolf clan leader, but the wolves refused and chased the group across the prairie.
• Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian carried the group into the Hengduan Mountain foothills, where the wolves stopped at the range’s edge and retreated.
• Yun Zimo scolded Yun Yue for stealing the wolves’ treasure, but Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian defended him, and Yun Zimo agreed the matter would not happen again.

Yun Zimo and his companions traveled through the Hengduan Mountain Range, where they subdued a pure-blood Underworld Snake and used its Underworld Snake Vine to suppress Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body. They continued south in search of treasures, though they still had not found the Heavenly Poison Dragon Scorpion Beast.

• Yun Yue spotted an Underworld Snake Vine guarded by a seventh-rank pure-blood Underworld Snake, and Yun Zimo assigned the group roles to capture it.
• Yun Zimo, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian subdued the Underworld Snake, while Yun Yue retrieved the vine.
• Yun Zimo used the Beast Language Technique to make the Underworld Snake regard him as its big brother, named it Yun Ming, and asked it to help Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yun Ming merged the Underworld Snake Vine into Xiao Yi Xian, and after half a month her Woe Poison Body was suppressed again.
• Yun Zimo’s group continued south through the mountains, encountering and fighting several ancient beasts while searching for the Heavenly Poison Dragon Scorpion Beast.

Yun Zimo and his companions hid from two powerful Dou Zun fighting in the Hengduan Mountain Range. After the fighters left, Yun Zimo decided they could not delay any longer and would first break through to Dou Zong before heading south.

• Yun Yue provoked an eighth-rank Wind Demon Lion-Tiger Beast, but Yun Zimo warned him not to attract more trouble near the center of the Hengduan Mountain Range.
• Yun Zimo sensed a battle approaching and hid with Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others among the trees.
• Old Monster Xing and Old Monster Hou fought fiercely, revealing the strength their Dou Zun techniques retained despite the mountain's suppressive force.
• Old Monster Xing and Old Monster Hou left, but Old Monster Hou returned to search for a disturbance while Yun Zimo's group stayed concealed.
• After waiting until nightfall to confirm the two had gone, Yun Zimo resolved to break through to Dou Zong and then head south.

Yun Zimo climbed Qingtian Peak to cultivate under its crushing pressure, where his body and soul began transforming in unexpected ways. After several days of ascent, he reached a mysterious figure who seemed to have been calling him.

• Yun Zimo told Yun Yun he would enter seclusion on Qingtian Peak and refuse to leave until he broke through to Dou Zong.
• Yun Zimo climbed the peak with his Dou Qi dispersed, while Xiao Yi Xian followed with her Woe Poison Origin shielding her from much of the pressure.
• A strange call guided Yun Zimo deeper into the mountain, and an unknown energy strengthened his body and refined his soul power into a clear spring of soul liquid.
• Yun Zimo's spiritual perception grew clearer, and he sensed that his body and soul had advanced beyond the mortal realm without reaching the Spirit Realm.
• After several more days of climbing, Yun Zimo heard an aged voice say he had finally arrived and saw a hunched figure sitting cross-legged in midair.

Yun Zimo met Hun Yizi, a dying old man who offered him an inheritance, but the offer concealed an attempt to possess his body. Yun Zimo revealed that he had lured Hun Yizi into his sea of consciousness and forced him to kneel and beg for his life.

• Yun Zimo approached Hun Yizi on Qingtian Peak and learned that the Heaven-Lifting Might had transformed him and was slowly killing him.
• Hun Yizi offered Yun Zimo his inheritance, then died and sent a flash of light into Yun Zimo's brow as Yun Zimo bowed.
• Hun Yizi revealed his plan to possess Yun Zimo and began breaking through the layers of Yun Zimo's sea of consciousness while Xiao Yi Xian guarded him.
• Yun Zimo let Hun Yizi pass through the soul membrane, exposing the truth and terrifying him into trying to flee.
• Yun Zimo confronted Hun Yizi with seven figures in his sea of consciousness, and Hun Yizi knelt and begged him to spare his life.

Yun Zimo faced Hun Yizi after the Soul Clan castoff tried to seize his body, and defeated him inside his sea of consciousness. He left Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng to sort through Hun Yizi’s memories and refine him, which could help them reach Dou Zong.

• Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng struggled to sort through the memories Hun Yizi had left behind in Yun Zimo’s sea of consciousness.
• Hun Yizi revealed that he was a castoff of the Soul Clan and attacked Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng, tearing apart their Wind Sweeps Away Clouds technique.
• Yun Zimo joined Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng to strike Hun Yizi with Supreme Sovereign and stabilize the damaged sea of consciousness with Origin Sword Domain.
• Hun Yizi tried to destroy Yun Zimo with a berserk blast, but Yun Zimo suppressed him with Heaven-Lifting Might and erased his aura.
• Yun Zimo told Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng to refine Hun Yizi and continue sorting through his memories before leaving the sea of consciousness.

Yun Zimo explained Hun Yizi’s tragic past, destroyed his corpse and scrolls, then continued climbing Qingtian Peak with Xiao Yi Xian. After enduring the mountain’s pressure and completing a profound transformation at the summit, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun at the foot of the mountain.

• Yun Zimo recounted how Hun Yizi rose from an exiled, crippled outcast to Dou Zun before the Heaven-Lifting Might broke him, then destroyed Hun Yizi’s corpse and scrolls.
• Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian continued toward the summit, but Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body fully manifested and forced her to stop as Yun Zimo pressed on alone.
• Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng tried to stop Yun Zimo, but he ignored them and continued until he reached the summit and collapsed.
• Yun Zimo absorbed energy from heaven and earth inside a cocoon and emerged transformed after more than three months.
• Yun Zimo rejoined Xiao Yi Xian at the summit, then took her to the foot of the mountain, where Yun Yun greeted them with tears of joy.

Yun Zimo left Qingtian Peak with a wisp of Heaven-Lifting Might and reflected on the nature of immortals and the mystery of his world. He recalled surviving his breakthrough by facing an illusion of his former life, then emerged with a Spirit Realm soul and Dou Zong strength.

• Yun Zimo explained to Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian that he had only touched a small part of an immortal’s belief, then wondered whether his world was real or an illusion.
• Yun Zimo left Qingtian Peak with Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, having gained its acknowledgment and a wisp of Heaven-Lifting Might.
• Yun Zimo recalled that, during his breakthrough, his body shattered and he saw the village chief from his former life before choosing to continue his cultivation.
• Yun Zimo unified his Three Treasures with Yun Yue, Yun Qingfeng, White Dragon, and Azure Tiger, forming the Wind and Cloud scripture’s black-and-white sword.
• Yun Zimo achieved a Spirit Realm soul and Dou Zong strength, broke out of the cocoon, and thanked the forces that had aided him.

Yun Zimo and his companions descended through the Hengduan Mountains after he freed Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng as independent beings. They reached the southern foothills disguised as Southwest Continent natives, where the stationed guards sensed their auras.

• Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng greeted Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Zimo explained that he had given them complete souls and intellects.
• Yun Zimo led the group south, avoiding eighth-rank magical beasts and gathering rare medicinal ingredients as they crossed the mountains.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that Yun Ming was sleeping to adapt to the new environment, and Yun Zimo warned the group to remain cautious.
• Yun Zimo learned about the Southwest Continent and the nearby Lishan Sect from people traveling in the mountains.
• Yun Zimo and his companions changed their clothes and appearances, practiced the Southwest dialect, and headed directly for the southern foothills.
• Yun Zimo dropped the Origin Sword Force barrier, exposing the group's auras, and the guards called out to them.

Yun Zimo and his companions met Ba'er of the Mangshan Tribe after crossing the Beijue Mountain Range, and accepted his invitation to visit the tribe. They arrived at the farming settlement, where Yun Zimo's interest in the nearby Jumang Tribe remained on his mind.

• Ba'er questioned Yun Zimo and his companions about their origins, then invited them to the Mangshan Tribe after recognizing their bearing as that of northerners.
• Ba'er summoned Elder Baye and explained his belief that the visitors were powerful travelers from the north.
• Yun Zimo and his companions traveled across the plain by carriage while Ba'er learned their names and Yun Zimo wondered about the nearby Jumang Tribe.
• Ba'er brought the group to the Mangshan Tribe, where people spotted the returning carriage and gathered to welcome them.

Yun Zimo and the Mangshan Tribe chief reached the Jumang Tribe and found it slaughtered, then confronted a masked Dou Zong responsible for the massacre. Yun Zimo attacked the killer in close combat, and the fight continued in midair.

• Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng strolled through the Mangshan Tribe, where Yun Yue greeted the residents and wondered whether Yun Zimo had reached the Jumang Tribe.
• The Mangshan Tribe chief explained the Jumang Tribe’s origins and led Yun Zimo and Ba'er toward its settlement.
• Yun Zimo sensed blood, teleported to the Jumang Tribe, and found its residents dead with no survivors in the settlement.
• Yun Zimo found the Mangshan chief battling a black-robed Dou Zong who admitted he had feared the Jumang Divine Birds while slaughtering the tribe.
• Yun Zimo struck the mysterious man with a swift finger-sword, then fought him at close quarters, intent on making him suffer as his victims had.

Yun Zimo fought the Crane Camels He Lou and Li Tuo while Chief Mang Shan tried to protect Ba'er from three other raptors. As Ba'er fled toward the Great Plains and Mang Shan blocked pursuit, Yun Zimo spotted the opening he had been waiting for.

• Yun Zimo's claw attacks overwhelmed He Lou until Li Tuo arrived, and the two Crane Camels joined forces against him.
• Yun Zimo recognized the Crane Camels' speed and watched their attacks while shifting to defense, then let his aura weaken to lure them in.
• Chief Mang Shan's staff broke as he fought three raptors, and he urged Ba'er to escape while Ba'er wished for the strength to help.
• He Lou and Li Tuo attacked Yun Zimo from opposite sides after he revealed an opening, while Mang Shan blocked a raptor pursuing Ba'er.
• Ba'er flew toward the Great Plains as Yun Zimo calmly declared that he had finally found his chance.

Yun Zimo defeated five Crane Camels, but they died with their souls destroyed before he could learn who had sent them. After the slaughter left Ju Li as the Jumang Tribe’s young chief, she resolved to survive, restore her tribe, find the hidden mastermind, and avenge her family before becoming Yun Zimo’s disciple.

• Yun Zimo overwhelmed He Lou, Li Tuo, and three other Crane Camels, then discovered that all five had died after their souls collapsed.
• Mang Shan suspected that someone had manipulated the Crane Camels and arranged the massacre of the Jumang Tribe.
• Ju Li returned from training, found her parents and clansmen dead, and collapsed into grief at their graves.
• Yun Zimo wounded Ju Li to shock her out of despair, healed her, and challenged her to consider why she wanted to become his disciple.
• After kneeling for three days, Ju Li declared that she would survive, rebuild the tribe, uncover the mastermind, and take revenge, then formally became Yun Zimo’s disciple.

After Ju Li joined Yun Zimo’s tutelage, Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to teach her different paths of cultivation. Yun Zimo then met Mangshan’s hidden supreme elder, Yi Feixuan, whose power and mind-affecting soul talent made him wary.

• Yun Yun welcomed Ju Li as her disciple and offered to teach her wind-attribute Qi Methods and Dou Techniques.
• Ju Li disbanded the Jumang Tribe, sent surviving clansmen toward different refuges, and chose to follow Yun Zimo alone.
• Mangshan told Yun Zimo that he had reported the Jumang Tribe’s case to the Continental Tribe Alliance, then brought him to meet Yi Feixuan.
• Yun Zimo recognized Yi Feixuan as a nine-star Dou Zong and learned of the elder’s violent reputation and long retreat from public life.
• Yi Feixuan’s soul talent stirred goodwill in Yun Zimo, but Yun Zimo resisted its influence and remained suspicious of him.

Yun Zimo learned from Yi Feixuan that the alliance’s upper ranks had deliberately allowed the Crane Camel remnants to survive and would suppress anyone investigating them. Yun Zimo left the Mangshan Tribe to protect its people, while Yi Feixuan stayed behind and fought the alliance’s black-robed pursuer to defend them.

• Yun Zimo showed Yi Feixuan the five Crane Camel corpses, and Yi Feixuan warned him to stop investigating and leave the Southwest Continent.
• Yun Zimo deduced that the alliance’s upper ranks had knowingly let the Crane Camel remnants escape, and Yi Feixuan confirmed the alliance would not help Mang Shan.
• Yi Feixuan offered to hold off Yun Zimo’s pursuers, but Yun Zimo decided to leave rather than risk involving the Mangshan Tribe.
• Yun Zimo said farewell to Ba'er and the Mangshan Tribe, then headed south with Yun Yue and the others.
• A black-robed alliance pursuer threatened the kneeling Mangshan Tribe, but Yi Feixuan blocked his attack and declared he would protect them.

Yi Feixuan fought the black-robed alliance envoy while a Crane Camel attacked the Mangshan Tribe and forced its people to reveal Yun Zimo’s direction. The attackers flew south after Yun Zimo, leaving Yi Feixuan to return to a devastated tribe as Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng departed without intervening.

• Yi Feixuan threatened the black-robed man as they fought, but a Crane Camel flew toward the Mangshan Tribe.
• The Crane Camel overpowered Mangshan, terrorized the tribe, and killed and injured people while demanding Yun Zimo’s whereabouts.
• A clansman revealed that Yun Zimo had gone south, and the Crane Camel killed him before flying south with other bird shadows.
• The black-robed man escaped Yi Feixuan and threatened to report him to the Alliance, while Yi Feixuan hurried back to the Mangshan Tribe.
• Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng watched Ba'er and the injured girl from above the clouds, then left without helping.

Yun Zimo lured the black-robed man and the Crane Camels away from the Mangshan Tribe, then prepared to confront them with Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng. The pursuers surrounded the twin brothers, but Yun Zimo, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Ming appeared to surround them in turn.

• Yun Zimo used phantoms to delay the black-robed man and the Crane Camels while leading them away from the Mangshan Tribe.
• Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng confirmed that the pursuers were heading south, then joined Yun Zimo's group to choose a place to confront them.
• The black-robed man attacked Yun Yue and Yun Qingfeng, mistook them for the only two opponents, and ordered five Dou Zong to surround them.
• Yun Yue revealed that Yun Zimo, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Ming had appeared behind the black-robed man and the Crane Camels, surrounding them.

Yun Yue trapped Black Robe and four Crane Camels inside his cloud illusion, while Yun Ming demanded a fair fight and battled them alone. After taking heavy injuries, Yun Ming revealed his true form as an Underworld Snake, shocking Black Robe.

• Yun Yue concealed the opponents in Cloud Pavilion Illusion—Sky Net and warned Yun Zimo that they should capture them alive to question Yi Feixuan.
• Yun Ming asked to fight Black Robe and the four Crane Camels alone, and Yun Zimo agreed after warning him to be careful.
• Yun Yue restored the enemies’ senses, but Black Robe could not escape the cloud illusion and had to face Yun Ming.
• Yun Ming fought the four Crane Camels with his bare hands, then taunted Black Robe into joining the battle.
• Black Robe joined the siege and wounded Yun Ming, who roared and transformed into an enormous Underworld Snake.

Yun Zimo and his companions subdued the black-robed man and four Crane Camels, but a Dou Zun intervened and spirited the man away after the Crane Camels died. Yun Zimo remained confident that the confrontation was only beginning.

• Yun Zimo restored Yun Ming to his senses, healed him, and took over the fight while A Li watched his techniques.
• Yun Zimo and Yun Yun used the black-robed man and Crane Camels to teach A Li, while Xiao Yi Xian attacked them with poison.
• Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian tormented the captives until a Crane Camel revealed they sought revenge for their elder brother and feared the Alliance.
• Yun Zimo moved to kill the leading Crane Camel, prompting the black-robed man to activate a blood-colored rune and call for his lord.
• A Dou Zun appeared, killed the four Crane Camels, and took the black-robed man away, though Yun Qingfeng severed one of his arms.
• Yun Zimo said the game had only just begun.