Recaps

Li Yuan expanded his mines and marketplace, strengthened his cultivation and businesses, and uncovered attacks on the Golden Core Formation Platform before secretly taking it. As trade revived and the sect pushed back the Dark Abyss Society, he continued developing his alchemy, talisman crafting, and spirit fields.

• Li Yuan redirected the Wang Family’s fire vein into his Fiend Ore mine, made Enduring Qi-Blood permanent, and began producing Fire Fiend Stones through a growing network of mines.
• Li Yuan advanced his alchemy, array, soul, and body-refining skills while helping maintain the Golden Core Formation Zone and suspecting that inconsistent materials had caused a failed Golden Core Formation.
• Li Yuan expanded Wulin Marketplace’s shops and defenses, formed a deal with the Short-Bearded Cultivator for Spirit Fields, and captured a live Rock-Armored Savage Bull to fulfill their bargain.
• Li Yuan discovered that Demonic Cultivators and disguised Demonic Beasts were attacking the Ruins, slipped through a restriction, and equipped the Golden Core Formation Platform before it could be taken north.
• Li Yuan concealed his role as Yuanyang Sect personnel investigated the missing platform, improved his Spirit Fields, and traded Fire Fiend Swords while continuing to monitor the suspected mole.
• Li Yuan found and dismantled a Demonic Gathering Array, acquired its Array Eye, and made Fire Fiend Edge permanent after trading for a Red Flame Pill.
• Li Yuan made Medicine-Refined True Body permanent, accepted a mission against Demonic Cultivator strongholds, and helped Yuanyang Sect forces dismantle Dark Abyss Society outposts.
• Li Yuan equipped a Sha Crystal to accelerate Fiend Stone production, watched Wulin Marketplace recover as trade reopened, and advanced his Soul-Controlling Art and Tier 2 Talisman Crafting Art.

Li Yuan strengthened his cultivation and defenses while Wulin Marketplace absorbed fleeing cultivators and he investigated a mole aiding the Dark Abyss Society. After repairing a teleportation array in Mo Province, he returned to uncover a concealed Spatial Node Outpost and began cultivating Fiend-Condensing Pills.

• Li Yuan welcomed Ji Huaiyuan’s displaced family to Wulin Marketplace, traded resources with them, and helped manage the growing influx of refugees.
• Li Yuan advanced his body-tempering, talisman, and demonic cultivation, strengthened the marketplace’s arrays, and set a trap that let him kill three Demonic Cultivators while concealing his strength.
• Li Yuan acquired Sun Tong’s supply caches, retrieved the Jade Marrow Ganoderma, and refined Shangyuan Pills that strengthened his Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Li Yuan uncovered signs of a mole’s messages to the Dark Abyss Society and used false patrol information to ambush attackers, then secured a Restriction Box and made several defensive affixes permanent.
• Li Yuan helped construct a Third-Order Teleportation Array, received a partial Golden Core Formation Manual, and accepted Chen Yi’s mission to repair a teleportation array in Mo Province.
• Li Yuan repaired the ancient array in Mo Province despite an attack, opened the Restriction Box to find a Dark Magic Token, and returned to learn that the Demonic Cultivators were turning toward Liang Province.
• Li Yuan followed the mole and three Demonic Cultivators to a concealed Spatial Node Outpost in Ghost Mist Forest and memorized its location.
• Li Yuan cultivated Fiend Soul Grass, refined Fiend-Condensing Pills, began unlocking Fiend-Condensing Heart Wall, and arranged monthly supply contracts for marketplace materials.

Li Yuan formed a Demonic Qi Golden Core, expanded his control over the marketplace, and investigated the Abyss Rift and the Dark Abyss Society’s routes. After being sent into the Branch Hall as a scout, he killed a Fiend Demon Sect Golden Core cultivator in Mo Province and began collecting the spoils.

• Li Yuan developed Ghostly Concealment, investigated Withered Bone Valley, and learned that Tianyue Sect had entered Liang Province.
• Li Yuan discovered the Demonic Qi Dantai Core in Mo Province, built Spirit-Demon Conversion Arrays around a Large Spirit Vein, and formed a Mid-Grade Demonic Qi Golden Core.
• Li Yuan uncovered information about the Abyss Rift, strengthened his cultivation and alchemy, and negotiated with Elder Shen for guides and support in exchange for supplies.
• Li Yuan traced the Dark Abyss Society’s North Line to a base beneath the Mystic Stone Mine, then refined a Third-Order Low-Grade Tianyuan Pill.
• Li Yuan found a Jade Tablet that could help temper his Life-Bound Dharma Artifact, while Tianyue and Yuanyang Sect teams located the Branch Hall’s outer main gate.
• Li Yuan reorganized Ghost Mist Marketplace after Yuanyang Sect withdrew its deacons, advanced his artifact refining, and forged Golden Body Armor.
• Li Yuan joined a Tianyue and Yuanyang Sect expedition into the Branch Hall, where the groups found a cracked Jade Bead and True Person Xuanpu, a Yuanyang Sect Elder, and True Person Blood Fiend arrived to confer.
• Li Yuan killed the Fiend Demon Sect commander and three attendants in Mo Province, improving his combat techniques as he gathered their spoils.