Recaps

Nangong Haoran met Gongsun Jiuniang, leader of the Pink Gang, and agreed to protect her women in exchange for their intelligence network. As Gongsun Jiuniang offered him wine, Nangong Haoran accepted it, unaware that he had fallen into her trap.

• Nangong Haoran went to an inn after receiving an invitation and the Great Learning Commentary from Water Moon Scholar.
• Gongsun Jiuniang told Nangong Haoran how she founded the Pink Gang to protect vulnerable women and asked him to shelter them amid the coming turmoil.
• Gongsun Jiuniang offered the gang's information network in exchange for Nangong Haoran's protection, and he agreed to their partnership.
• Gongsun Jiuniang ordered food and poured Nangong Haoran a cup of wine, which he accepted.

Li Qing sold monster corpses, spiritual herbs, magical artifacts, and materials for 2,905 Curse-Grade Essence Stones, then used the proceeds to cultivate the Five Grains Turning Wheel Curse. His breakthrough triggered severe pain and attacks from invisible entities, which his techniques and Sword Qi fought off.

• Li Qing sent five disguised Shadow Paper Dolls to sell his gathered resources in Hundred Gates Alley.
• The dolls sold thirty-nine spiritual herbs, eight magical artifacts, thirty-four types of materials, and twenty-six monster corpses for a total of 2,905 Curse-Grade Essence Stones.
• Li Qing calculated that he could use 365 strands of mana to cultivate the Five Grains Turning Wheel Curse, then refined Essence Stones to build up his power.
• After a day of cultivation, Li Qing completed the curse, which spread through his internal organs and linked with the curse inscriptions on his body.
• As Li Qing endured the painful breakthrough, strange invisible entities approached and attacked him, but his protective techniques and Sword Qi struck them down.

Li Qing endured waves of Anomalies and completed the third stage of the True Method Realm, strengthening his internal organs before leaving to prepare for Su Muqin’s test. Meanwhile, a mysterious Daoist sealed the ancient corpse in the Immortal Coffin and departed, as Su Muqin noticed the aberrant qi weakening and faced the arrival of three powerful figures.

• Li Qing fought off Anomalies inside and outside his body until the pearl’s radiance calmed the disturbances, allowing him to complete the internal-organs stage of the True Method Realm.
• Li Qing recovered Dharma power with Essence Stones, collected the remaining stones, left a Shadow Paper Doll in Feng River City, and departed to prepare for Su Muqin’s test.
• A mysterious figure in a black Daoist robe reached the Immortal Coffin beneath the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range and placed a black talisman on the corpse, stopping its black qi.
• The mysterious figure took the coffin and left, while the remaining black qi weakened and began to dissipate.
• Su Muqin sensed that the aberrant qi had weakened and looked down as three powerful figures approached.

Su Muqin and three powerful cultivators investigated the tomb after the black mist was cleared, discovering that someone had taken the corpse from the main burial chamber. Their attempt to uncover the intruder’s identity ended when a mysterious spell shattered their vision of the past.

• Three cultivators from Confucianism, the Military School, and the Painting School arrived and used a scripture’s light to dispel the black mist.
• The Military School and Confucian cultivators recognized that someone had restored part of the valley’s dragon vein, while the Painting School cultivator detected traces of Western monks and the Miscellaneous School.
• The group entered the tomb through a door painted onto the dragon-severing stone and found that the mercury lake had been drained.
• Su Muqin identified the lake’s former Galaxy Star Formation, and the Painting School cultivator’s creatures guided the group through nine passages to the main burial chamber.
• A magical bird revealed a past scene of a shadowed figure placing a talisman on the corpse and taking away the coffin, but a mysterious spell shattered the vision and destroyed the bird.

Su Muqin theorized that Zhang Daqian had built the tomb to use the dragon vein to nurture an ancient corpse, while Li Qing investigated from the shadows. After the Jade Tablet confirmed Li Qing’s suspicions that Zhang Daqian was a conscious ancient corpse who had appeared under many identities, Li Qing grew wary of hidden impostors and his own recent carelessness.

• Su Muqin argued that Zhang Daqian had constructed the tomb in Yang Province to nurture an ancient corpse with the dragon vein’s essence, and the Confucian Sect and Military School cultivators decided to investigate him.
• Li Qing watched the group retreat through his Shadow Paper Doll, then continued toward Golden River City while planning to visit Ma Bowen’s tomb in Goose City afterward.
• Li Qing wondered why the Jade Tablet described tombs belonging to figures who should have been long-lived cultivators, and guessed that Zhang Daqian himself might be the corpse in the Immortal Coffin.
• Li Qing recorded his theory that Zhang Daqian had used avatars or puppets to pursue resurrection, and the Jade Tablet revealed that the ancient corpse had assumed different identities throughout history.
• Li Qing feared that ancient corpses might be hiding among the living, reconsidered exposing his true appearance to Gongsun Jiuniang, and resolved to act more cautiously.

Li Qing investigated a blood-red token taken from Qin Zeming and discovered that it was connected to Requiem, a secret organization working toward Divine Heaven’s descent. As Shadow Paper Dolls gathered information in Golden River City, Li Qing prepared to begin his plan against Su Muqin.

• Li Qing created a third-stage Flesh Seed and sent a Shadow Paper Doll to replace the seed at the Zhang Family Ancient Battlefield.
• Li Qing sealed and examined the token taken from Qin Zeming, then used his records to investigate the organization behind it.
• Li Qing learned that Requiem had secretly influenced the world for 3,300 years and sought to bring about Divine Heaven’s descent.
• Li Qing resolved to stay cautious and grow stronger while vowing to confront whoever threatened his safety.
• Shadow Paper Dolls recorded information and selected candidates in Golden River City, and Li Qing reviewed their findings through the Jade Tablet.

Li Qing recruited Zhao Mingyu and Mu Xingchuan for his network, then covertly compelled Confucian cultivator Li Zhengdao to prepare twenty Force-Borrowing Talismans. By the end, Li Zhengdao had sealed spells and mana into all twenty talismans for Li Qing’s plan to disguise himself as a Confucianism cultivator.

• Li Qing used the Heavens Civilization Torrent to make Zhao Mingyu pledge himself to the glory of humanity.
• Li Qing had a Shadow Paper Doll offer Mu Xingchuan gold, and Mu Xingchuan agreed to work for it.
• Li Qing subdued Li Zhengdao with Doomsday Mist Extinguishing Transcendence and the Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body, then instructed him through the Heavens Civilization Torrent.
• Li Zhengdao used the Force-Borrowing Talismans to seal seven attack spells, seven other spells, and as much mana as possible into twenty talismans.
• After a day of recovering his mana and continuing the work, Li Zhengdao completed all twenty Force-Borrowing Talismans.

Li Qing acquired twenty Force-Borrowing Talismans and arranged to buy Heavenly Meteorite, then decided to risk summoning a Baleful Intent-Grade Anomaly because he could not afford to wait. He set up a weakened Qimen Dunjia Formation in a remote valley and found a herd of wild boars as potential prey.

• Li Zhengdao completed his talisman task, received a mission to travel to Feng River City and befriend Nangong Haoran, then left Golden River City.
• Li Qing took the twenty Force-Borrowing Talismans and went to Myriad Treasures Pavilion to order three jin of Heavenly Meteorite for fifty Curse-Grade Essence Stones.
• Li Qing paid Shopkeeper Feng a five-stone deposit and left with an order slip to collect the Heavenly Meteorite within three days.
• Li Qing weighed the danger of summoning a Baleful Intent-Grade Anomaly against the urgency of his plans and decided to take the risk.
• Li Qing traveled to a remote valley, set up the Qimen Dunjia Formation, and located a herd of wild boars.

Li Qing used the Demon Summoning Technique to sacrifice wild boars and summon a terrifying Anomaly. He trapped it inside his Qimen Dunjia formation and battered it with endless attacks, ending as a sword light descended through the flames.

• Li Qing knocked out a herd of wild boars and had Shadow Paper Dolls carry them into the sealed valley.
• Li Qing sacrificed the boars with the Demon Summoning Technique, resisting the strange sounds and forces that accompanied the ritual.
• A three-zhang Anomaly emerged from a black pool and charged at Li Qing.
• Li Qing escaped into the Qimen Dunjia formation, which trapped the Anomaly in a landscape of fire and lava.
• The formation battered the Anomaly with meteors and eruptions while Li Qing struck it with Heaven and Earth Turning Wheel Tribulation Qi.
• A delicate streak of sword light flashed down through the flames as the Anomaly continued to roar and struggle.

Li Qing tested his tactics against Baleful Intent-grade Anomalies, destroying one and trapping a mysterious-looking humanoid Anomaly inside a formation. He alternated fire and ice to weaken it, but the battle remained unresolved as the creature’s body began to crack apart.

• Li Qing killed a direct-attack Anomaly and collected its Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stone.
• Li Qing reviewed Anomaly types and decided to use formations and a Shadow Paper Doll to identify threats before confronting them.
• Li Qing summoned another Anomaly, retreated from the formation, and used the Shadow Paper Doll to observe its smooth, featureless humanoid form.
• Li Qing trapped the Anomaly in a formation and attacked it with vines, fire, and falling meteors while avoiding its sorrowful cries.
• Li Qing changed the formation from a fiery landscape to a frozen one, causing the Anomaly's skin to crack and peel away.

Li Qing refined three divination artifacts and combined them with a Qimen Dunjia formation, causing unnatural thunderclouds and moisture to gather near Golden River City. Lei Yifeng suspected a supernatural cause and sent out divine soldiers to investigate.

• Li Qing destroyed the second and third Fiend-tier Anomalies, collected their Essence Stones, and used an Evil-Suppressing Talisman to conceal his aura.
• Li Qing obtained a Heaven-and-Earth Meteorite and forged it into the Cosmic Star Disk, inscribing it with the Cosmic Star Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Diagram.
• Li Qing inscribed the Cosmic Stellar 108 Hexagram Diagram onto his tortoiseshell and refined his three Worldly Copper Coins into divination artifacts.
• Li Qing brought the artifacts to his Qimen Dunjia formation and activated them, drawing dark clouds, wind, thunder, and heavy moisture over the area.
• Lei Yifeng recognized that the thunderclouds were unnaturally formed and dispatched golden divine soldiers made with Scatter Beans into Soldiers to investigate.

Li Qing refined three hexagram artifacts by tempering them with heavenly lightning while his Shadow Paper Dolls intercepted a divine soldier searching for him. The artifacts became fine-grade, and Li Qing returned to Golden River City as the sky cleared, though the city's experts suspected the lightning had been deliberately caused.

• Li Qing opened the Qimen Dunjia Formation to heavenly lightning and used his techniques to protect the three divination artifacts from being destroyed.
• Shadow Paper Dolls lured a divine soldier into the forest, where one secretly infused it with Calamity Qi before lightning struck and destroyed it.
• Lei Yifeng learned that one of his eight divine soldiers had been destroyed and created a replacement to continue the search.
• The three artifacts absorbed the lightning and became fine-grade hexagram artifacts, which Li Qing collected before leaving the valley.
• Li Qing returned to Golden River City as the clouds dispersed, and Lei Yifeng and the other experts suspected the lightning was unnatural.

Li Qing calculated the likelihood of his cultivation plan succeeding and decided it needed adjustments, while his Shadow Paper Doll continued luring the Anomaly toward Golden River City. Su Muqin arrived to investigate Li Wushuang as Li Qing disguised himself and ate breakfast in the city.

• Li Qing used his divination artifacts and the Myriad-Star Divine Communion Curse to examine the possible outcome of his plan, then resolved to make adjustments.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll kept leading the Anomaly that had become Lou Xingyue toward Golden River City, following his new command to change direction.
• Su Muqin considered three explanations for why no one had tried to stop his investigation and continued toward Golden River City to inspect Li Wushuang.
• Li Qing, disguised as Li Wushuang, ate a large breakfast at a street-side stall in Golden River City.

Li Qing considered whether cultivators and Dao Lineages were part of a vast food chain, then went to the Novelist Academy to assess its achievements. After reviewing the academy’s records with headmaster Lei Yifeng, he and the others were startled by a huge roar from beyond the city.

• Li Qing connected Human Elixirs, Aberration, and cultivation to a terrifying food chain, and resolved to hide himself until he understood the world's truth.
• Li Qing presented his Jixia Academy World Patrol token at the Novelist Academy and asked to see its headmaster.
• Headmaster Lei Yifeng welcomed Li Qing and led him into the academy, where they discussed the assessment.
• Lei Yifeng showed Li Qing records of students, branch academies, enrollment, expenditures, and results, which Li Qing reviewed as genuine achievements.
• A huge roar sounded beyond the city, startling Li Qing, Lei Yifeng, and the others.

A Disaster-level Anomaly that had once been Lou Xingyue attacked Golden River City, prompting the city’s leaders to gather cultivators and prepare a counterattack while seeking reinforcements. Li Qing joined the defenders and secretly watched for Su Muqin, as the Anomaly’s assault strained the city’s formation.

• A freezing formation spread across Golden River City, leaving Lei Yifeng, Li Qing, and three instructors unaffected while the city’s mortals were frozen.
• Lei Yifeng, Feng Lieyang, and Fang Yujie gathered atop the city wall and identified the attacker as a Disaster-level Anomaly; Feng Lieyang ordered True Method Realm cultivators to attack and requested Soul Spirit-level reinforcements.
• Li Qing arrived at the wall and recognized the Anomaly as Lou Xingyue, whose transformed body battered the city’s formation.
• Li Qing secretly deployed Shadow Paper Dolls to watch for Su Muqin while more than thirty True Method Realm cultivators gathered.
• Feng Lieyang urged the cultivators to unite against the crisis and promised to petition the imperial court for rewards.

Feng Lieyang, Fang Yujie, and Lei Yifeng joined forces to hold back the Disaster-grade Anomaly while Li Qing attacked with borrowed Confucian Sect mana and concealed his true strength. After half a day of fighting, Li Qing learned that Su Muqin had been spotted on the road to Golden River City.

• Feng Lieyang ordered the cultivators to attack the Anomaly while he, Fang Yujie, and Lei Yifeng led the defense.
• Lei Yifeng summoned 365 Divine Soldier Beans, Fang Yujie created a Tiger Tally Phantom Body, and Feng Lieyang empowered them with Righteous Qi Armor.
• Fang Yujie's phantom led the divine soldiers in the form of a giant tiger, which struck and battled the Anomaly as the True Method Realm cultivators attacked from behind.
• Li Qing used Li Zhengdao's borrowed mana to control the Golden Needle and destroy the Anomaly's regenerating arms, while keeping his strength at an ordinary level.
• After half a day of fighting, Li Qing received word that Su Muqin had been spotted traveling from Feng River City toward Golden River City.

Golden River City's defenders battered Lou Xingyue's Anomaly with Lei Yifeng's thunder spell and their strongest attacks, but it regenerated and continued assaulting the city wall. Su Muqin then acted against the Anomaly, while Li Qing watched for his move.

• Lei Yifeng completed the ritual for Nine Heavens Demon-Extinguishing Divine Thunder and struck Lou Xingyue's Anomaly while the golden tiger pinned it down.
• Lei Yifeng ordered the cultivators to attack, and Li Qing added Blue Sky Divine Fire to their spells.
• Lou Xingyue's Anomaly shed its charred body, regenerated at two-thirds its former size, and crashed into Golden River City's formation.
• Su Muqin studied Li Qing and resolved to create a life-and-death crisis to reveal his true strength.
• Su Muqin formed a vast starlit chessboard and enclosed the Anomaly in its squares of light, and Li Qing was glad he had finally acted.

Su Muqin and Golden River City’s cultivators killed the Disaster-class anomaly Lou Xingyue, who had been a cultivator from the School of Diplomacy, and cleansed the contamination left by the battle. After apologizing for the attack, Su Muqin departed while continuing to scrutinize Li Qing, who concealed any reaction.

• Feng Lieyang activated Golden River City’s Golden Armor Fills the City formation, and a hundred thousand illusory soldiers joined Su Muqin’s starlight assault on the anomaly.
• Su Muqin dropped a massive chess piece onto Lou Xingyue, shattering his many-armed defense and pinning him to the ground.
• The golden-armored soldiers tore Lou Xingyue apart, leaving behind an Essence Stone that flew into Su Muqin’s hand.
• Su Muqin used starlight to restore the damaged land and clear away the contamination, while Li Qing and the others recovered on the city wall.
• Su Muqin told the city’s cultivators that Lou Xingyue had been a guardian from Two Realms City who underwent Aberration after being injured and schemed against following the Slaughter Demon Sect incident.
• Su Muqin continued to scrutinize Li Qing, then left the aftermath to the city officials; Li Qing gave no sign that he recognized Lou Xingyue.

Li Qing set out from Golden River City toward Yang Province City while Su Muqin secretly watched for flaws in his performance. An Anomaly attacked him beside a river, leaving him gravely wounded and swept away by the current as Su Muqin’s test continued.

• Li Qing stayed vigilant at Fragrance Pavilion and his inn while Su Muqin watched him from afar.
• Li Qing left for Yang Province City on foot, displaying the Confucian Sect mana that Su Muqin was monitoring.
• After a day of travel, Li Qing stopped beside a river to eat grilled fish and flatbread.
• An Anomaly charged Li Qing, resisted his Golden Needle and Blue Sky Divine Fire, and struck him with a roar that shattered his protective light.
• The Anomaly slashed Li Qing across the chest, and he fell into the river and was carried away.

Li Qing survived Su Muqin’s test and convinced him that Li Wushuang was not involved, while secretly recovering and confirming his cover held. Meanwhile, Wang Qianqiu and Zhu Yiba expanded their power in Dragon Path City and Two Realms City, as Li Qing continued monitoring their hidden forces.

• Master’s projection healed Li Qing and punished Su Muqin for attacking a World Patrol member, then Su Muqin left after acknowledging the lesson.
• Li Qing washed ashore, pretended not to know why his wounds had healed, and recovered his cultivation inside a tree hollow.
• Su Muqin returned the next day, concluded Li Qing had used only Confucian Sect techniques, and departed, while Li Qing reflected that he had planned for every loophole.
• Li Qing considered leaking information about Su Muqin to the Demonic Path but decided to avoid further trouble and stay quiet for another month.
• Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll planted a new Flesh Seed in the ancient battlefield, where it slept at the center of the formation.
• Wang Qianqiu secretly gathered power in Dragon Path City, while Zhu Yiba’s influence and support grew in Two Realms City; Li Qing watched the forces around them.

Li Qing headed toward Goose City to investigate Ma Bowen’s grave while using a Shadow Paper Doll to travel by boat toward Yang Province City. In Two Realms City, Su Muqin warned the Dao lineages that a deeply concealed organization was infiltrating them and proposed a plan to draw it out, which Li Qing learned about and chose to ignore.

• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll by boat toward Yang Province City and traveled overland toward Goose City, where Ma Bowen’s grave was believed to be.
• Su Muqin reported to the gathered Divine Soul Realm experts that he had found no clear clues about the mysterious organization and suspected it was targeting the Hundred Schools of Thought.
• Hua Qiankun suggested consulting divination masters, but Su Muqin said divination could not reveal the organization without decisive evidence or an item belonging to the Supreme Dao Foundation’s owner.
• Su Muqin proposed testing how much internal information the organization could obtain by luring it out.
• Li Qing received news of Su Muqin’s plan through the Hundred Things Eye and decided not to respond to the bait.
• Li Qing recalled that Ma Bowen was a celebrated Military School strategist from Goose City whose descendants had failed to inherit his legacy.

Li Qing encountered a shifting ancient house in the barren mountains and used a Shadow Paper Doll to investigate it while staying hidden underground. The doll was drawn into the house and forced to attend a banquet, where the master asked its name.

• Li Qing noticed the wilderness residence reappearing in the Mist and suspected it was a dangerous Anomaly, so he avoided entering it himself.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls to search for a way out and prepared a doll on the donkey as a decoy.
• A Shadow Paper Doll reached the open sky beyond the Mist, giving Li Qing a coordinate as the house closed in on the donkey.
• The frightened donkey crashed through the house's gate, carrying the Shadow Paper Doll inside, while a servant led the doll toward the hall and took the donkey away.
• The Shadow Paper Doll was compelled to join a banquet before an old man in a brocade robe, who welcomed it as the main character and asked how it was addressed.

Li Qing escaped a mysterious Anomaly that nearly forced his Shadow Paper Doll into a deadly funeral wedding. Continuing down the Earth Origin River, he found a Toad King’s underwater lair and subdued its inhabitants, ending with the Toad King under his control.

• A mysterious force made Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll agree to marry an elegant woman in a funeral hall, but Li Qing sensed danger and destroyed the doll before the ceremony was complete.
• The Anomaly’s inhabitants became wax corpses and the hall erupted with ghosts, so Li Qing used World-Walking Star-Shifting to escape beyond the mountain range.
• Li Qing reached the Earth Origin River, launched a small boat, and traveled downstream while fishing.
• Li Qing sensed a water Monster and appeared in an underwater palace where the Toad King and his followers were gathered.
• Li Qing overwhelmed the toad Monsters with Dense Mist and blows, brainwashed the Toad King, and used Wish Spell to erase the other Monsters’ memories.

Li Qing encountered a brutal bandit army led by a strange Child of Destiny and secretly investigated their mountain stronghold. He discovered a library of cultivation books and a bizarre pool filled with blood and bones.

• Li Qing traveled toward Yang Province City while waiting for his substitute to arrive.
• Li Qing came across a merchant caravan and watched as hundreds of bandits slaughtered its members.
• Li Qing recognized the red-armored bandit chief as a Child of Destiny and decided to experiment with controlling him.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll to investigate the bandits' defensible mountain stronghold and record its cultivation books.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll discovered a strange pool piled with blood and white bones at the rear of the stronghold.

Li Qing investigated Yun Baishan and learned that the White Mountain Bandits were Demon Blood Dao Soldiers sustained by human flesh and equipped through a blood-and-bone pool. He discovered a safer ritual recorded by the Jade Tablet, then watched the bandits feast as he considered his next move.

• Li Qing recorded his findings about the White Mountain Bandits and used the Jade Tablet to identify Yun Baishan, the Demon Blood Path, and the soldiers’ powers and weaknesses.
• Li Qing learned that Yun Baishan planned to forge an invincible army and that his three hundred Dao Soldiers could become a major threat if equipped with demonic armor.
• Li Qing concluded that Yun Baishan would be easier to defeat while alone and planned to attack him at night before he could form a military formation with his men.
• Li Qing discovered a modified blood ritual that used livestock instead of human sacrifices and considered its potential for preventing Aberration.
• The White Mountain Bandits feasted on slaughtered livestock at the stronghold, while Li Qing watched without intervening.