Recaps

After attending Meng Guan’s gathering, He Song learned what a Nascent Soul breakthrough required and spent twenty years strengthening his talisman treasures and spiritual artifacts. He retrieved his completed Golden Core puppet, then traveled to Yan Yun Prefecture, where he bought a cultivator’s Golden Core and rewarded Xiao Qing for her help.

• He Song toured the One Yang Sect with Wei Fan, attended Meng Guan’s gathering, and gave Wei Fan one of the three Eight Treasures Breaking Wall Pills he had refined.
• He Song asked True Monarch Luo Jing about Nascent Soul breakthroughs and learned that a Purifying Spirit Pill and an attribute-matched treasured land could improve his chances.
• He Song entered seclusion, upgraded his six White Rainbow Mountain-Splitting Talismans, and forged and refined the Ruyi Zijing Ding, Nine Nether Ink Scale Armor, and White Jade Leaf.
• After twenty years, He Song learned that the conflict between Snow Wind Palace and Double Sha Sect remained limited, then reviewed reports of unrest near Yan Yun Prefecture.
• He Song retrieved his completed Golden Core puppet from Luofeng Prefecture, named it Idle Cloud, and decided to attend the Yan Yun Prefecture auction after learning it would feature a cultivator’s Golden Core.
• He Song met Ghost-Faced True Monarch and privately bought the genuine Golden Core for 150,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, avoiding the auction.
• He Song gave Xiao Qing a second golden-armored guard, advised her about reaching Golden Core, and heard her suggest that Ghost-Faced True Monarch might be a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He Song refined Ghost-Faced True Monarch’s Golden Core into a Lunar Yin Puppet, then pursued a teleportation array remembered from Silver Moon True Monarch’s memories. After studying and activating the array without traveling through it, he recovered his hidden treasures and set out to find Void Stones and materials while avoiding dangerous attention.

• He Song cautioned Xiao Qing against targeting Ghost-Faced True Monarch, refined the man’s Golden Core into a Lunar Yin Puppet, and warned Xiao Qing to keep their connection secret.
• He Song considered the Thick Earth Sect’s possible Nascent Soul inheritance but postponed investigating it until Yan Shan True Monarch was gone.
• He Song prepared to explore the spirit land from Silver Moon True Monarch’s memories, left Clear Wind guarding his treasures, and traveled to Northern Sun Immortal Province.
• He Song found a concealed chamber of Hidden Rock Jade containing nine pillars, a platform, and a disk that he identified as a teleportation array.
• He Song memorized the array’s patterns and materials, then tested it with Spirit Stones and studied its activated runes without risking a teleportation.
• He Song withdrew from the array, retrieved his treasures from Clear Wind, and used the Realm-Entry Puppet Control Technique to control him.
• He Song decided to search for Void Stones and array materials while avoiding Northern Sun Prefectural Capital and Yan Yun Prefecture, and considered traveling to Greenwood Immortal Province.

He Song sought a profound escape art while studying a teleportation formation, and Zhou Ruo became his local source of information in Red Maple Prefecture. After mastering the formation and Gale Escape Technique, He Song traveled to Parasol Province to negotiate for a Void Stone, where he left Wen Zhu considering his offer.

• He Song traveled to Greenwood Prefectural Capital, arranged for Clear Wind to appear as his superior, and asked Crimson Gold True Lord to procure teleportation-array treasures while learning about Spirit Wind Valley’s exceptional escape arts.
• He Song moved to Red Maple Prefecture and enlisted Zhou Ruo to gather information, promising rewards while refusing her suggestion that he kill the Wu Family for its inherited escape art.
• He Song avoided a dangerous Golden Core cave-dwelling contest, then traveled in disguise to North Wind Prefecture Capital and bought a profound escape art from Pōkōng for twenty thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• He Song rewarded Zhou Ruo with a Foundation Establishment Pill and Spirit Stones in exchange for monthly reports, then left Red Maple Prefecture for Cloud Province Capital.
• He Song learned that Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s enforcers had killed Ghost-Faced True Monarch, returned secretly to his cave abode, and studied the teleportation formation with spirit tea from True Monarch Yuehua.
• After ten years He Song mastered the teleportation formation, then mastered the Gale Escape Technique in four more years, but still needed a Void Stone to build the formation.
• True Monarch Luo Jing informed He Song that a Void Stone was available in Parasol Immortal Province, and He Song traveled there and met its consignor, Wen Zhu.
• He Song offered Wen Zhu 275,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones and promised future assistance in exchange for the Void Stone, while True Monarch Ruoyun approved of the offer.

He Song acquired Void Stones, tested his teleportation array, and traveled east while uncovering the history of the One Yang Sect and its connection to the Nine Yang Sect. He reached Lingyun Capital, bought local pill formulas, and settled into a protected Guest Elder residence, where he considered the Evil Repelling Pill’s usefulness with his Hidden God Technique.

• He Song bought a Void Stone from True Person Wenzhu, refined a teleportation array, and confirmed it worked through tests with stones, beasts, and an evil cultivator.
• He Song traveled east, bought another Void Stone from True Lord Miao Tian, and learned from Ruoshui that the Nine Yang Sect had founded the One Yang Sect as an outpost before the two sects lost contact.
• He Song journeyed toward the Nine Yang Sect, obtained maps from Frostchill, and learned that Purple Bamboo Capital had a teleportation array and useful Pavilion resources.
• He Song bought a meditation cushion from True Lord Qingyang but declined the offered pill formulas and talisman collections after finding them familiar.
• He Song used the Pavilion’s teleportation array to reach Lingyun Capital, where Frost Spirit True Lord explained how internal arrays shared travelers’ information.
• He Song bought five pill formulas, chose a Guest Elder residence in Lingyun Capital, secured it with formations and a Heavenly Dipper Divine Thunder Array, and reviewed the Evil Repelling Pill formula.