Recaps

Li Qing observed the battle between Divine Soul Realm experts and used his Shadow Paper Dolls to help Mouse Little Brother and the other Monster Kings break out. He spotted a dangerous battlefield-born Son of Destiny among Yang Province City's Dao soldiers, then returned to the sealed city outskirts and opened three chests full of Essence Stones.

• Li Qing watched Zhu Chengli, the King of Yang Province, and other Divine Soul Realm experts clash with the giant golden ape and the other formations.
• After the grand formation shattered, Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls secretly aided Mouse Little Brother and the Monster Kings as they broke out, then stayed near the battlefield and pretended to fight Yang Province City's Dao soldiers.
• Li Qing noticed a squad leader in Yang Province City's army whose Tribulation Qi and heavenly secrets influenced his soldiers and brought calamity upon nearby demons, identifying him as another dangerous Son of Destiny.
• Li Qing planned to have the gang leaders he had subdued join the squad leader's command and support his rise in Yang Province City.
• Li Qing returned to the sealed outskirts of Yang Province City, dug a cave, and opened three chests packed with Essence Stones.

Li Qing cultivated the Heaven and Earth Marrow Cleansing Curse, enduring a devastating assault on his body and mind as his spinal marrow transformed. After recovering his memories and suppressing the first anomaly, he faced a pink phantom that attacked again after taking human form.

• Li Qing used his Essence Stones to weave 365 strands of Dharma Power, then began cultivating the Heaven and Earth Marrow Cleansing Curse.
• The curse scoured Li Qing’s spinal marrow, inflicting extreme pain while whispers and illusions threatened to erase his memories and turn him monstrous.
• A golden torrent restored Li Qing’s memories, and he used his Dharma Body and other powers to suppress the mind-altering force.
• As his marrow and blood transformed, darkness surrounded Li Qing and an unknown anomaly caused an unbearable itch throughout his body.
• A pink phantom attacked Li Qing’s mind, but his Dharma powers and golden relic pearl repelled its radiance before it became a person and unleashed another torrent of pink light.

Li Qing completed the first four steps of the True Method Realm after resisting a dangerous pink radiance, then learned that the battle outside had turned against the Demon Race. As the enemy leaders fled or fell, Mo Tianyun sent tens of thousands of bird puppets down to attack the demon army.

• Li Qing drew on the Blood Demon Seed to drive the pink radiance from his mind and completed the Heaven and Earth Marrow Cleansing Curse.
• Li Qing replenished his power, created a Flesh Seed, and sent a Shadow Paper Doll toward the ancient battlefield.
• Zhou Yulong used a logic relic to grievously wound Mr. Centipede, while Green Snake Gentleman fled.
• The Yang Province prefect crushed Green Snake Gentleman with the Yang Province Seal, and Great Ape King fled as Zhu Chengli, the King of Yang Province, and Zhou Yulong pursued him.
• Crimson Flame Patriarch escaped from Mo Tianyun, who then unleashed tens of thousands of bird puppets against the Demon Race army.

After the Monster Path army was crushed, the Great Ape King appointed Mouse Little Brother acting alliance leader and left for the Southern Frontier. Li Qing learned of the appointment and the latest developments in Yang Province, then went to Wild Goose Mountain’s grotto-heaven to alter its formations and prepare a trap for the Great Ape King.

• Yang Province City’s army routed the Monster Path forces, killing the three Demon Kings of Wild Goose Mountain while the Great Ape King disappeared.
• The Great Ape King returned to the grotto-heaven, appointed Mouse Little Brother acting alliance leader, and gave him its control token before leaving for the Southern Frontier.
• Li Qing saw the exchange through Mouse Little Brother’s memories and planned to seize the movable grotto-heaven and set a trap for the Great Ape King.
• Li Qing learned that Zhu Chengli had killed Crimson Flame Patriarch and that spies from the four lineages had been uncovered near Yang Province City.
• Li Qing planned to use Mouse Little Brother’s intelligence to help Zhao Qiankun expose spies and gain merit, then arrived at the grotto-heaven to modify its formations.

Li Qing learned about new Restrictions and formations, hunted Anomalies in Wild Goose Mountain, and gathered materials to make an Ideal Vacuum Homeland formation. In Yang Province City, he discovered a Medicinal Cuisine Hall and considered the recipes in the Compendium of World Miscellaneous Arts.

• Li Qing studied the Greater and Lesser Nebula Restrictions, Vacuum Illusory Grand Formation, Greater and Lesser Nebula All-Heavens Seal, and Ideal Vacuum Homeland, then decided to renovate the grotto-heaven.
• Li Qing used Shadow Paper Dolls to hunt Anomalies in Wild Goose Mountain and collected Essence Stones, relying on his Dao artifact Sword Pellet to kill a True Method Realm Anomaly in one strike.
• Li Qing returned to Yang Province City, ate a large meal at There Is an Inn, and sent Shadow Paper Dolls to buy materials for refining formation flags and talismans.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls bought void divine iron and other formation materials in Hundred Gates Alley, spending five Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stones and one hundred Curse-Grade Essence Stones.
• Li Qing noticed the Medicinal Cuisine Hall and recalled that the Compendium of World Miscellaneous Arts contained ten recipes capable of perfectly extracting medicinal ingredients' essence.

Li Qing refined a command banner inscribed with the Ideal Vacuum Curse, but the work drew him into a mind-bending anomaly that he barely escaped. He suspected that the apocalyptic tribulation feared by Ma Bowen had already begun.

• Li Qing organized his supplies at There Is an Inn and forged six rods from void divine iron.
• Li Qing wove the rods with ice silkworm spirit thread and used Dreamwater to inscribe the Ideal Vacuum Curse on the banner.
• As he refined the banner, strange voices and dreamlike figures tried to draw Li Qing into delusions and violent visions.
• Li Qing resisted the anomaly with his protective techniques, and his civilization torrent consumed the negative emotions rising in his mind.
• Li Qing destroyed the attacking illusion with a burst of starlight as the final inscription collapsed, then wondered whether the apocalyptic tribulation had begun.

Li Qing took control of the grotto-heaven’s formation and gave Mouse Little Brother a new control token. Back in Yang Province City, Ma Mingyue invited Zhao Qiankun to Bright Moon Restaurant, where Zhao arrived to meet him.

• Li Qing planted six formation flags in the grotto-heaven and used them to take control of its original formation.
• Li Qing created a control token that let its holder command the grotto-heaven’s formations and restrictions.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll to give Mouse Little Brother the token and told him he could use the grotto-heaven’s power against intruders.
• Li Qing returned to Yang Province City and observed that Ma Mingyue was cultivating the Blood Slaughter Codex and seeking a way to approach Zhao Qiankun.
• A burly messenger invited Zhao Qiankun to Bright Moon Restaurant on behalf of Ma Mingyue, and Zhao agreed to go.

Zhao Qiankun met with Ma Mingyue, leader of the Money Gang, and agreed to form an alliance after learning about Ma’s connections and concerns over the coming conflict among Dao Lineages. Li Qing then prepared to use Ma’s intelligence network to help Zhao Qiankun identify spies in Yang Province City.

• Ma Mingyue hosted Zhao Qiankun at Moonlight Tower and revealed that he had cultivated to Essence Refining and served as a Rogue Cultivator.
• Ma Mingyue explained that the Money Gang was controlled by powerful interests and proposed allying with Zhao Qiankun to survive the coming upheaval.
• Ma Mingyue described Zhao Qiankun’s military merits and offered the Money Gang’s thousand members and citywide connections as support.
• Zhao Qiankun accepted the alliance, and Ma Mingyue pledged that the Money Gang would follow him.
• Li Qing approved of the alliance and selected spies from the Monster, Demon, Ghost, and Buddhism paths for Ma Mingyue to present to Zhao Qiankun.

Zhao Qiankun rose rapidly in the military after using information from Ma Mingyue to capture four suspected spies, while Li Qing learned that Yang Province’s powers planned to exploit his intelligence to trap cultivators of the four paths. As conflict gathered across the province, Li Qing focused on gathering resources and preparing for the Yang Fire Tribulation.

• Zhao Qiankun received Ma Mingyue’s list of four people linked to the paths of Monsters, Demons, Ghosts, and Buddhism, then became a military captain in command of fifty soldiers.
• Zhao Qiankun confirmed the four people were suspicious, arrested them with his squad leaders, earned merit, and became the disciple of a great general.
• Li Qing learned of Zhao Qiankun’s success and decided to clear high-ranking spies from the new cities while leaving a few in Yang Province City to pass information.
• The King of Yang Province and his allies discussed using a local secret as bait to draw out cultivators of the four paths, turning Li Qing’s intelligence into a trap.
• Li Qing learned of the plan through Wen Zhengming’s Hundred Things Eye and began targeting wilderness areas where Anomalies had gathered to collect Essence Stones and prepare for the Yang Fire Tribulation.

Li Qing used his dream projection to hunt Anomalies in the Eight Hundred Li Cool Mountain Water Marsh while studying King of Yang Province’s trap for the four paths. As rumors of healing golden light spread, an old monk ordered his spies to investigate Yang Province City.

• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls to survey the water marsh, then directed his dream projection to kill a three-headed Baleful Intent Rank Anomaly and recover its Essence Stone.
• Li Qing learned that King of Yang Province had prepared a trap to lure cultivators of the Monster, Demon, Ghost, and Buddhism paths with rumors of golden light, and had enlisted Master Tianyang to deliver a killing blow if needed.
• Li Qing turned his attention to studying information about the Yang Fire Great Tribulation.
• An old monk received reports that golden light had cured illnesses in Yang Province City and ordered his spies to investigate the incident.

Li Qing studied the Yang Fire Tribulation and learned that surviving it fused vitality with Qi Fate to create a Life Fire whose grade depended on the scale of the tribulation. He decided to use King of Yang Province’s scheme as the foundation for his own tribulation, drawing in greater powers to pursue a Supreme Life Fire and uncover Yang Province City’s secret of immortality.

• Li Qing read about an instructor whose Yang Fire Tribulation triggered a resentful Infernal Hell Painting that killed him.
• Li Qing recorded his theory that the chaos surrounding his tribulation would affect an area, giving him a chance to control the situation.
• Li Qing learned from the Jade Tablet that surviving the tribulation produced Life Fire through the fusion of vitality and Qi Fate.
• Li Qing concluded that a sufficiently powerful tribulation might let him forge a Supreme Life Fire, but would bring immense danger.
• Li Qing resolved to exploit King of Yang Province’s scheme, draw stronger powers into the storm, and investigate Yang Province City’s secret of immortality.

Li Qing considered possible explanations for the mysterious treasure of Yang Province City, but the Jade Tablet offered no clues, so he planned to seek records in the major Dao Lineages’ Scripture Repositories. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhihui briefed the four leaders of the northern war on the Black Hand, concluding that its mastermind was likely in Yang Province and had arranged the Heaven-Calculating Strategist Ma Bowen incident.

• Li Qing listed nine theories about the mysterious treasure, but the Jade Tablet gave no response.
• Li Qing decided he needed more information and planned to infiltrate the major Dao Lineages’ Scripture Repositories with dream projections after dealing with the Anomalies in Liang Mountain Marsh.
• Yuan Zhihui met with Black Lotus Madam, Demon Bull King, Bone Bright Venerable, and Samsara King, then outlined the Black Hand’s appearances and the incidents linked to it.
• Yuan Zhihui inferred that the Black Hand had either powerful spies or a heavenly-secret treasure, and proposed confronting it with an open scheme.
• Yuan Zhihui judged that the Black Hand’s mastermind was probably in Yang Province, targeting Ma Bowen’s tomb, and revealed that Lou Xingyue had died after investigating the Black Hand.

Yuan Zhihui devised a forceful plan to find the mysterious Black Hand, and Demon Blood Lady began abducting suspected Supreme Dao Foundation achievers in Dragon Path City. Li Qing learned that seven suspects had disappeared and realized the four paths might be targeting him.

• Yuan Zhihui proposed capturing the ten suspects, searching their souls, and provoking the Black Hand if direct investigation failed.
• Yuan Zhihui assigned Demon Blood Lady to target suspects connected to the Commander Summoning Token and sent the others to arrange the operation.
• Demon Blood Lady ambushed Wu Yulong in Dragon Path City, knocked him unconscious, and sent him away in a carriage.
• Demon Blood Lady continued hunting the suspects, with seven of the ten currently in Dragon Path City marked for capture.
• Li Qing learned that seven suspects had disappeared, suspected the four paths were investigating him, and began recording information.

Li Qing learned that Yuan Zhihui had arrived to lead the four paths’ hunt for the hidden Black Hand, making his identity and future actions more dangerous. He sent a warning to the righteous factions, who recognized Yuan Zhihui and decided to watch the two sides clash.

• The Jade Tablet deduced that the four paths were capturing the ten suspects and identified Yuan Zhihui as the strategist behind their plan to expose the Black Hand.
• Li Qing realized that Yuan Zhihui’s wisdom could uncover his secrets, and he considered abandoning Li Wushuang’s identity after using it for one final move.
• Li Qing spread the warning that seven suspects had disappeared and the remaining three would likely be targeted.
• In Two Realms City, Su Muqin and the Dao cultivators discussed the warning, and Su Muqin identified Yuan Zhihui as the likely strategist.
• Su Muqin urged the group to let Li Qing and Yuan Zhihui fight while they waited to benefit from the outcome.

Li Qing prepared a plan to survive the Demonic Path’s attempt to expose him and used divination to estimate its chances. As the Dao Lineages and other powers weighed whether to intervene, Master decided to give Li Wushuang additional protection.

• Li Qing concluded that he could no longer use Li Wushuang’s identity and planned to rely on White Robe and the World Patrol token against Yuan Zhihui.
• Li Qing used the star chart and Worldly Copper Coins to divine his plan’s prospects, then judged it had at least a seventy percent chance of success.
• The Dao Lineages and the Demon Extermination Hall learned that the Demonic Path was capturing their successors and that the Black Hand had been drawn into the conflict.
• Chen Yilong advised Wang Qianqiu that the Demon Extermination Hall should avoid intervening and let the opposing forces weaken each other.
• Master learned of the Demonic Path’s impending moves and resolved to give Li Wushuang more protection.

Li Qing entered Yang Province City disguised as Li Wushuang to assess its three academies while the Dao Lineages secretly watched for a chance to seize him. After completing the assessments, he prepared to begin the next stage of his plan at dusk.

• Master used a mysterious seal to send protection through the World Patrol token, and Li Qing sensed the added safeguard.
• The Dao Lineages stopped attempting to rescue the missing True Method Realm disciples and secretly focused their attention on three cultivators, including Li Wushuang.
• Li Qing transferred his treasures to his clone, concealed his power with the Qi-Locking Art, and entered Yang Province City carrying only a few Force-Borrowing Talismans and the World Patrol token.
• Li Qing arrived at Benevolence Academy, where Zhu Chengli welcomed him, and began assessing the city's three major academies.
• After finishing the assessments and sending out the letters, Li Qing smiled at dusk and announced that it was time to begin.

Li Qing prepared to disappear at There Is an Inn, enjoying a final meal before changing clothes and setting up a concealed means to resist capture. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhihui concluded that the mysterious Black Hand was inexperienced and claimed its Supreme Dao Foundation expert was among the ten targets.

• Li Qing entered There Is an Inn, ordered a fine meal and room, and ate while cultivators watched from outside.
• Li Qing changed into a snow-white robe, hung the World Patrol token at his waist, and swallowed a Thunderbolt Fire Bead linked to the Blood Demon Seed.
• Li Qing prepared to detonate the bead if captured, then lay down and fell asleep.
• Yuan Zhihui reviewed a message and said the Black Hand had made a crude move that revealed its lack of experience with Dao Lineage politics.
• Yuan Zhihui told Bone Bright Venerable and the others that the Black Hand’s Supreme Dao Foundation expert was certainly one of the ten targets.

Yuan Zhihui ordered Demon Blood Lady to capture the ten suspects while he went to investigate the caster of the Supreme Dao Foundation. Demon Blood Lady abducted Li Qing, who remained conscious under her seal as eerie signs of Aberration appeared during her cultivation.

• Yuan Zhihui decided to capture all ten people and sent Demon Blood Lady to act while he traveled to investigate the Supreme Dao Foundation caster.
• A shadow infiltrated Li Qing's room, replaced him with a puppet, and carried the real Li Qing away unnoticed.
• Su Muqin sensed the abduction and secretly followed the shadow through Yang Province City.
• Demon Blood Lady revealed herself, carried Li Qing into a carriage, and mused about cooking and consuming him.
• Li Qing stayed conscious despite being sealed and recognized that Demon Blood Lady's cultivation was accompanied by whispers, a sinister wind, and a writhing blood-colored shadow.

The Demon Blood Lady abducted Li Qing from Yang Province City and brought him to a hidden residence near Two Realms City, where Yuan Zhihui planned to search the captives’ souls. Su Muqin tracked them to the residence but sensed a powerful threat and discovered it was a yin residence.

• The Demon Blood Lady left Yang Province City with Li Qing while Su Muqin followed unseen, and the city’s cultivators discovered the decoy and reported the abduction to Jixia Academy.
• Master sensed Li Qing heading toward Two Realms City and secretly sent a faint fluctuation into Li Qing’s World Patrol token.
• The Demon Blood Lady brought Li Qing to an ancient residence near Two Realms City, where Yuan Zhihui confirmed he was the last captive and ordered the captives brought in for soul searches.
• Su Muqin reached the residence, sensed a Primordial Spirit master within, withdrew ten li, and used a mirror spell to identify the place as a yin residence.

Su Muqin discovered that a Primordial Spirit Realm expert was interrogating captives inside the yin residence, while recognizing the danger the site posed to Two Realms City. Yuan Zhihui began searching the captives’ souls for someone with a Supreme Dao Foundation and turned his suspicion toward Li Qing.

• Su Muqin saw a Primordial Spirit Realm expert and several captives in the yin residence, suspecting a plot to create a life-forbidden zone near Two Realms City.
• Yuan Zhihui introduced himself to the captives and said he had taken them to find whoever possessed a Supreme Dao Foundation.
• Wu Yulong recognized Yuan Zhihui as the Buddhist Sect cultivator of the Wisdom Record and questioned why the search involved them.
• Yuan Zhihui searched Wu Yulong’s soul, leaving him convulsing and near death as the other captives watched in terror.
• A captive tried to crawl away, but Demon Blood Lady kicked him back into the room.
• Yuan Zhihui identified Li Qing as his greatest suspect, citing his rapid rise to the True Method Realm after Dragon Path City’s calamity.

Li Qing used his logical relic, the white clothes, to trap Yuan Zhihui, who identified Li Qing as the one who forged the Supreme Dao Foundation before the relic consumed him. As Li Qing neared death, his Master emerged from the token and rescued him, while Demon Blood Lady pursued them and the Yin Residence was destroyed.

• Yuan Zhihui questioned Li Qing, then tried to seize his soul when Li Qing refused to show fear.
• Li Qing activated the white clothes with the Wish Spell, and the logical relic engulfed him and Yuan Zhihui.
• Yuan Zhihui recognized the relic and said Li Qing had forged the Supreme Dao Foundation and would never die before the white clothes consumed him.
• Li Qing's token released his Master, who used righteous Dao radiance to tear open the white clothes and escape with him.
• Demon Blood Lady used Void Evasion to pursue Li Qing and his Master as the white clothes destroyed the Yin Residence.

Su Muqin deduced that Li Wushuang had planned the attack on Yuan Zhihui, while a hidden Shadow Paper Doll kept White Robe concealed in the ruins. Demon Blood Lady failed to catch the fleeing Master and feared the Demonic Path would blame her for the failed mission and Yuan Zhihui’s death.

• Su Muqin questioned a survivor, concluded Li Wushuang had targeted Yuan Zhihui with a logic relic, and suspected Li had backup plans.
• A Shadow Paper Doll hid White Robe in a Universe Bag as Su Muqin and the rescued survivors left the yin residence.
• Yue Taishan, Yang Minglin, and other cultivators searched the ruins but found nothing and departed.
• Su Muqin returned to search the ruins again, then left without discovering the hidden Shadow Paper Doll.
• Demon Blood Lady pursued the white radiance toward Dragon Path City and attacked with Blood Chain Explosion, but the Master escaped.
• Demon Blood Lady feared the Demonic Path would make her a scapegoat after Yuan Zhihui’s death and the mission’s failure.

Li Qing survived being mutilated by activating Life and Death Reversal Path Continuation, which restored his body completely. He explained to Master that he had allowed himself to be captured to draw out the person behind the plot, relying on the World Patrol token as a last resort.

• Master brought Li Qing to a remote valley and asked whether he had any last words, believing his injuries were fatal.
• Li Qing activated Life and Death Reversal Path Continuation, regrew his flesh and skin, and returned to peak condition.
• Li Qing covered his naked body with mist and thanked Master for saving him.
• Master marveled at Li Qing's spell and asked where it came from, but Li Qing gave no answer.
• Li Qing told Master he had deliberately allowed himself to be captured to meet the person behind the scheme and had carried the World Patrol token in case he needed help.

Li Qing learned that Master would be able to intervene less often and that using Logic Relics could be fatal, then asked about Yang Province City's longevity secret. Master revealed only the name “Longevity Seed” before vanishing, and Li Qing recorded his suspicions about Master’s coming Tribulation and Yuan Zhihui’s apparent survival.

• Master praised Li Qing’s deduction and courage, warned that Yuan Zhihui had orchestrated the incident, and said Li Qing should be more cautious because Yuan Zhihui might not truly be dead.
• Master told Li Qing that his ability to intervene would diminish and warned him never to use another Logic Relic before reaching a certain realm; Li Qing said the Pujiang Dragon King had given him the relic.
• Li Qing vowed to continue serving as the World Patrol while hiding his identity, and Master promised to intervene when necessary as long as Li Qing held the token and remained there.
• Li Qing asked about Yang Province City’s secret, and Master said the first Master’s records named it the “Longevity Seed” but offered no explanation.
• After Master vanished, Li Qing recorded his deduction that Master faced a potentially fatal Tribulation next year and his suspicion that Yuan Zhihui had not truly died.

Li Qing learned that Master’s upcoming ascension would open a world-spanning Immortal Killing Tribulation, and that Yuan Zhihui had survived by using a Wisdom Dharma Body. He decided to turn the approaching chaos into cover for his own tribulation, beginning with an investigation of Yang Province City’s longevity seeds.

• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet’s records describing Master Kong Yu’s Heaven and Earth Killing Tribulation, which would begin on the first day of the eleventh month and draw powerful beings into a long cycle of slaughter.
• Li Qing discovered that Yuan Zhihui had not died: his lost body was a clone, while his true body had cultivated a Wisdom Dharma Body that could survive as long as a trace of wisdom remained.
• Li Qing reasoned that Master’s tribulation would attract powerful enemies and recalled that the Demonic Path’s earlier attempt to destroy Dragon Path City might have been part of it.
• Li Qing planned to make the Immortal Killing Tribulation part of his own Yang Fire Tribulation and use it to draw away northern powers on November 1st.
• Li Qing resolved to investigate Yang Province City’s longevity seeds first, while also planning to expose the mysterious organization Dian and other hidden figures.