Recaps

Li Yuan infiltrated Fiend Demon Sect and Yuan Sect operations while restoring the Jade Bead and uncovering the Mysterious Nether Sect’s vast sealing network. After completing Chen Yi’s mission at the Abandoned Post Station, he brought back intelligence and a Golden Core Formation Material, while keeping key discoveries to himself.

• Li Yuan rebuilt the marketplace defenses, stole Tianyue Sect’s Jade Bead, and began repairing it while the sects investigated the loss.
• Li Yuan disrupted the Fiend Demon Sect’s supply network, uncovered plans to target Withered Bone Ridge, and found that both sects were pursuing the Mysterious Nether Sect’s ruins.
• Li Yuan traveled through Water Province, discovered a coastal sealing node, and returned with materials that helped him repair the Jade Bead and strengthen his water techniques.
• Li Yuan used the restored array atlas and spirit-vein pulses to identify the sealing network’s nodes, then learned that opening the Inner Hall required a Late Golden Core Spirit Cultivator and Demonic Cultivator working together.
• Li Yuan tracked Yuan Sect agents, killed a team preparing to breach Withered Bone Ridge, and discovered a flaw in the restriction that could be exploited.
• Li Yuan agreed to infiltrate the Abandoned Post Station for Chen Yi, observed a Lu Family exchange, and memorized the contact point’s routes, codes, and dispatch records.
• Li Yuan killed the two cultivators who followed him, found a Void Nether Stone and ancient Array Dao materials, and learned that the Fiend Demon Sect suspected an intelligence leak.
• Li Yuan gave Chen Yi a limited report and received Golden Core Formation Material, then warned him that the Fiend Demon Sect might move its operations into concealed channels.

Li Yuan expanded his trade network and cultivation while the factions gathered over Withered Bone Ridge. He entered a hidden Mysterious Nether Sect chamber, took its Spirit-Demon Source Stone, and sensed others approaching as the Spatial Rift contracted.

• Li Yuan traced the array-material trail to Shiyi Studio, seized its hidden goods and evidence, and uncovered a connection to the Fiend Demon Sect.
• Li Yuan established a trade route between Liang and Water Provinces, acquired a Portable Abode, and refined three spirit vein branches to make Spirit Vein Refining permanent.
• Li Yuan prepared an auction, advanced his talisman and artifact-refining skills, and watched the factions gather around Withered Bone Ridge.
• Li Yuan broke through to the Mid Golden Core Stage and used Realm-Breaking Tempering to reach the Late Golden Core Stage, while gaining stronger spatial perception and improving his techniques.
• Li Yuan investigated the ridge’s restriction, delayed shattering his core, and declined to commit to Zhou Mingyuan’s ten-year Spirit Contract immediately.
• Li Yuan perfected Void-Splitting Slash, completed the Ghost-Erosion Dagger and Profound Nether Spirit Disk, and bought three small spirit veins from a cultivator who secretly marked him.
• Li Yuan perfected the Mysterious Nether Fiend Technique and Shift Technique, made the Teleportation Stone permanent, and entered a hidden chamber beneath the valley.
• Li Yuan found research on Spirit-Demon Fusion, gained Spirit-Demon Affinity and Spatial Micro-Perception, then removed the Spirit-Demon Source Stone and fled as the rift contracted and nearby auras approached.

Li Yuan pursued the Lingxu Secret Realm’s collapse core, gathered resources, and prepared to replace his Demon Core with a Spirit Core. The arc ended with him forming a Supreme Grade Spirit Core and reaching the peak of the Early Golden Core Stage.

• Li Yuan fought off cultivators at the Mysterious Nether Sect Ruins, then accepted a Yuan Sect Elder's seat and an Abyssal Demon Ring.
• Li Yuan strengthened his abilities, accepted Zhou Mingyuan’s mission to investigate White Underworld Sect remnants, and traveled toward Water Province.
• Li Yuan hunted demonic sea demons, acquired their cores and inheritance, and learned techniques for arrays, talismans, and water-based cultivation.
• Li Yuan helped stabilize the Lingxu Secret Realm, but Blood Fiend True Person and a Yuan Sect cultivator destroyed his array and caused the realm to collapse.
• Li Yuan seized and equipped the Small Realm Collapse Core, escaped his attackers, and used it to enter a temporary Void Interlayer.
• Li Yuan completed Vein-Extraction Spirit Transformation and formed Myriad Spirits Returning to Veins, then studied Spirit-Demon Unification and planned to shatter his core.
• Li Yuan attended the Kunpeng Alliance Auction, bought cultivation items, and inspected Tianyue Sect’s long-distance teleportation array.
• Li Yuan shattered his Demon Core in a concealed chamber, formed a Supreme Grade Spirit Core, and reached the peak of the Early Golden Core Stage.

Li Yuan advanced his cultivation, expanded his skills and ventures, and explored an underwater ruin before helping establish a new marketplace. When the factions opened the Mysterious Nether Sect Ruins, Zhou Mingyuan seized an Earth Origin Spirit Fetus and escaped with Li Yuan’s help, leaving Li Yuan to flee with several relics.

• Li Yuan strengthened his Golden Core, reached the Mid Golden Core Stage, joined the Loose Cultivator Alliance, and helped defeat sea monsters during its Deep Sea Purge Mission.
• Li Yuan repaired an underwater Teleportation Array, reached a sealed chamber, and discovered that its Spirit Gathering Array had sustained the Lower Realm’s spiritual energy.
• Li Yuan advanced his artifact-refining skills, acquired the Clear Abyss Pupil Technique, and began planning a Life-Bound Dharma Artifact using the Universal Transformation Array Pattern.
• Li Yuan helped construct a detection and guard array at Withered Bone Ridge, established a marketplace branch with the Wang Family, and uncovered the abandoned Canglan Sect’s records and cultivation methods.
• Li Yuan crafted communication tokens, earned Mystic Magnetic Refined Gold by saving the Ge Family from a demonic beast attack, and improved his cultivation and marketplace operations as factions prepared to open the Mysterious Nether Sect Ruins.
• Li Yuan entered the ruins in disguise as the restrictions failed, then found an Earth Origin Spirit Fetus and searched the Branch Hall while the other cultivators fought over it.
• Zhou Mingyuan used Li Yuan’s Spatial Rift to seize the Great Pearl and escape with the Spirit Fetus, then gave Li Yuan the Small Pearl.
• Li Yuan escaped a Yuan Sect cultivator through a Spatial Rift, sorted the relics and Affixed items he had collected, and returned to Wulin Marketplace.