Recaps

Li Qing went into hiding near Yang Province City while Yuan Zhihui deduced that Li Wushuang was his incarnation and vowed to hunt him down. Su Muqin inspected the Yin House and left, but Li Qing kept watching for anyone else who might be lying in wait.

• Li Qing recalled a Shadow Paper Doll carrying his treasures and flew back toward Yang Province City to recover his strength before returning.
• At Great Wheel Temple, Yuan Zhihui concluded that Li Wushuang was Li Qing's incarnation and that a supreme treasure enabled his schemes.
• Yuan Zhihui decided Li Qing would soon face the Yang Fire Tribulation and vowed to track him down.
• Su Muqin searched the Yin House for the Logic Relic, found no sign of it, and flew toward Two Realms City.
• Li Qing kept observing the ruins with a Shadow Paper Doll until another phantom appeared and vanished, then called the watcher an annoying schemer.

Li Qing used divination to learn that Yuan Zhihui knew about his trump card and planned to capture him, then prepared to investigate Yang Province City’s immortal species. As he entered the city, a range-type anomaly sealed off a street and trapped him among chilling, smiling figures.

• Li Qing divined a possible future in which Yuan Zhihui captured him and extracted the Jade Tablet from his body.
• Li Qing restored his notes and learned Yuan Zhihui had deduced his identity, his treasure, and his plans for the Yang Fire Great Tribulation.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls toward Liang Mountain Marsh to hunt anomalies and gather Essence Stones while he entered Yang Province City.
• Li Qing decided to investigate the immortal species and began writing in his record book as the street around him fell silent.
• Li Qing found himself trapped on a short street surrounded by cold shops and smiling figures, and recognized the danger of a logical, range-type anomaly.

Li Qing investigated the Four Shops Street anomaly and learned that anyone who tried to leave was dragged into a shop and consumed according to its rules. He stayed still through the supernatural cold, observing the shopkeepers and their wares as he waited for a chance to survive.

• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll toward the end of the street, where the bookstore owner seized it and dragged it inside.
• The owner gave the Shadow Paper Doll a book, and it was sucked inside when it opened the book.
• Li Qing consulted his records and learned that the anomaly forced people into shops when they tried to leave, while survivors escaped by waiting without triggering its logic.
• Li Qing remained motionless as the street grew bitterly cold, protected by a faint golden light.
• Li Qing observed that the shopkeepers acted like mindless enforcers of rules and saw human-skin patterns among the silk shop's wares.

Li Qing endured a dangerous logic-type Anomaly through the night and emerged safely at dawn, then resumed his search for the Longevity Seed. Meanwhile, in Two Realms City, Su Muqin and representatives of several schools concluded that Li Wushuang was the creator of the Supreme Dao Foundation and planned to report the discovery.

• Li Qing examined the grotesque restaurant and antique shop, then used the Human Path Undying Dharma Body and Heavens Civilization Torrent to clear the Anomaly's mental assault.
• As night fell, Li Qing resisted the supernatural cold and endured the trapped street until a rooster crowed at dawn.
• The Anomaly vanished, leaving Li Qing in an alley; he escaped to the main street and bought Yang Province fried rice.
• Li Qing decided to begin investigating the Longevity Seed again.
• Su Muqin told the assembled soul cultivators that Li Wushuang had used a Logic Relic to kill Yuan Zhihui and escaped its backlash with the World Patrol token.
• Yue Taishan and Yang Minglin agreed that Li Wushuang was the creator of the Supreme Dao Foundation and said they should report the news to their sects.

Su Muqin concluded that Yuan Zhihui had exposed Li Wushuang as the Supreme Dao Foundation's forger to force the Hundred Schools of Thought to search for him. Li Qing realized the danger and hid his identity, while Liu Luoguo confronted Master at Jixia Academy and demanded that he hand Li Wushuang over.

• Su Muqin deduced that Yuan Zhihui had revealed Li Wushuang's identity to make the Hundred Schools of Thought find him, then seize him.
• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet's report, judged Yuan Zhihui a dangerous opponent, and decided Li Wushuang would disappear until needed.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll with his World Patrol token away and resolved to sever his connections while continuing to search for the Longevity Seed.
• Liu Luoguo visited Master at Jixia Academy and demanded that he surrender Li Wushuang, offering to help him through his coming Tribulation.
• Master refused, declaring that Jixia Academy's rules protected Li Wushuang as long as he did not break them.

Master refused Prime Minister Liu Luoguo and the leaders of the three great Daoist Sects, who wanted him to hand over Li Wushuang in exchange for help with his Tribulation. As rumors spread and Dragon Path City became the center of a gathering crisis, Li Qing saw the turmoil through the Jade Tablet and noted that Master had upheld his rules.

• Prime Minister Liu Luoguo warned Master that refusing to help would endanger his Tribulation, but Master insisted on following his own path and sent him away.
• Dragon Tiger Daoist, Starry Night Daoist, and Hundred Treasures Daoist demanded that Master hand over Li Wushuang, claiming they would help him overcome his Tribulation in return.
• Master told the three Daoists that Li Wushuang had left and that he could no longer locate him; the leaders departed after learning Li had discarded his World Patrol token and gone into hiding.
• Visitors flocked to Jixia Academy for information, while rumors identifying Li Wushuang as the creator of the Supreme Dao Foundation spread and drew suspicious people to Dragon Path City.
• The powers of Monster, Demon, Ghost, and Buddhism gathered in a mysterious space as a vast crisis formed around Dragon Path City, and Li Qing saw the turmoil through the Jade Tablet.

As Rogue Cultivators searched for Li Wushuang, Li Qing investigated the Longevity Seed in Yang Province City and traced its possible origins to three locations. At Lockstone Well, strange laughter and bell sounds drew him into a vision of a ruined city beneath a crimson moon, where a black figure slaughtered the townsfolk.

• Rogue Cultivators searched cities for information about Li Wushuang, while Li Qing ordered his subordinates to hide and quietly gather intelligence.
• Li Qing reviewed records identifying the Longevity Seed as a person who appeared in Yang Province City every sixty years, and noted Lockstone Well, Blue Moon, and the Wordless Ancient Stele as its first appearance sites.
• Li Qing went to Lockstone Well, lifted its stone cover, and startled two children watching him from a nearby doorway.
• Li Qing peered into the dry well and heard eerie children's laughter and bell-like clinking sounds.
• Li Qing found himself in a vision of a ruined city beneath a crimson moon, where a black figure slaughtered ordinary townsfolk who charged at it.

Li Qing resisted a deadly illusion at the Lockstone Well and recorded what he had seen, then went to Blue Moon Bridge to investigate the butcher’s trail. Under the blue moon, the bridge revealed an ancient scene where the butcher moved eerily across it, and Li Qing began documenting his poses.

• Li Qing resisted the Lockstone Well’s pull and voice with his defenses, then realized he had nearly fallen into it.
• Li Qing replaced the well’s stone cover and recorded the vision of a butcher slaughtering over a thousand people and throwing their corpses into the well.
• Li Qing identified Blue Moon Bridge as a likely place connected to the butcher and traveled there to investigate.
• Li Qing waited until night, when the moonlight turned blue and the bridge revealed a ruined ancient scene with scarlet water flowing beneath it.
• Li Qing saw the butcher dancing and twisting across Blue Moon Bridge and sketched his movements in his record book.

Li Qing investigated Blue Moon Bridge and the Wordless Stele, finding that both were connected to strange rituals and the pursuit of immortality. At the stele, he witnessed a vision of a butcher performing a rite, while Stone Stele Old Man vanished into dust after reaching for it.

• Li Qing watched the butcher dance on Blue Moon Bridge, then saw blue phantom Anomalies attack him and collected the Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stones they left behind.
• Li Qing went to the Wordless Stele and recognized the dying Stone Stele Old Man, who had spent decades trying to uncover its secrets.
• The Wordless Stele changed before Li Qing, revealing a vision of a butcher performing a rite before an altar and chanting a Curse about immortality.
• Stone Stele Old Man cried out for immortality, charged at the stele, and turned into dust when he touched it.

Li Qing recorded the butcher’s ritual at the Wordless Stele, and the Jade Tablet revealed how the flawed Longevity Seed ritual differed from a complete version that could grant a hundred thousand years of life. He planned to leak the secret to draw northern powerhouses into a conflict, while anticipating that Master’s longevity tribulation would become another major event.

• Li Qing watched the butcher complete a Curse ritual at the Wordless Stele, endure a transformation in darkness, and emerge as an ordinary-looking middle-aged man.
• Li Qing returned to normal space and recorded what he had witnessed at Lockstone Well, Blue Moon Bridge, and the Wordless Stele.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that the original Longevity Ritual created undying beings bound to their sacrificial site, while a revised ritual using Logic Relics could grant a hundred thousand years of life.
• Li Qing decided to package and leak the Longevity Ritual’s secret to draw northern powerhouses into the coming conflict.
• Li Qing identified Master’s longevity tribulation as the next major event and suspected that people were already plotting to kill him.

Li Qing created an ancient map of Yang Province City that concealed a false Longevity Seed ritual, then made aged copies with different discrepancies to bait powerful factions into conflict. He planned to draw northern cultivators and other threats into entanglements before his tribulation, while searching for a safe place to survive it.

• Li Qing used Wish Spell to create a detailed map of Yang Province City from 3,300 years ago, hiding the old Longevity Seed sacrificial method within its lines and setting its ritual for November 1.
• Li Qing altered the map to look aged and decided to make copies so the mysterious, advanced map would attract attention.
• Li Qing planned to identify powerful figures across the north and lure them into a designated area so he could survive his Yang Fire Tribulation.
• Li Qing considered how to entangle northern Dao Lineages, his Master's approaching tribulation, and mysterious figures such as the Memorial Organization, Zhang Daqian, and Ma Bowen in conflicts that would prevent them from threatening him.
• Li Qing made ten aged fake maps, each with a different discrepancy, intending for factions to compare them, fight over them, and eventually use the genuine map to uncover the false ritual.

Li Qing used a wish spell to plant a fake ancient painting and make Ma Mingyue lure Zhao Qiankun into believing it concealed a secret of longevity. Zhao Qiankun took the painting and began planning to present it publicly as a path to advancement.

• Li Qing caused the Antique Studio shopkeeper to believe a painting was a priceless three-thousand-year-old depiction of Yang Province City and planned to auction it.
• Ma Mingyue received Li Qing's command, brought the painting to Bright Moon Restaurant, and summoned Zhao Qiankun.
• Ma Mingyue claimed the painting hid the ancient characters for “longevity” and showed Zhao Qiankun how the buildings' lines formed them.
• Zhao Qiankun took the painting in his Universe Bag after Ma Mingyue said he had sent away everyone else who knew of it.
• Zhao Qiankun decided the painting could help him rise from Company commander to Deputy General, but resolved to reveal it publicly to avoid being silenced.

Zhao Qiankun decided to use the ancient painting to secure protection and rewards, while Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll watched as Mouse Little Brother presented a forged lead about the painting to the Great Ape King. The Great Ape King took the map and rewarded Mouse Little Brother with a powerful cultivation technique, leaving Li Qing to observe how quickly the Great Ape King was growing.

• Zhao Qiankun decided to spread fake maps and present the ancient painting publicly to Han Xiaotian so powerful figures could not silence him without consequence.
• The Lord of All Monsters ordered Mouse Little Brother to show the ancient painting to the Great Ape King and claim it contained writing about immortality.
• Mouse Little Brother contacted the Great Ape King, who came to Wild Goose Mountain and confirmed the connection between the map and the characters.
• The Great Ape King rewarded Mouse Little Brother by teaching him the first two layers of the Spirit Devouring Record and took the map with him.
• Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll watched the Great Ape King leave, and Li Qing noted that his aura had grown stronger.

Li Qing used the Wish Spell to guide Huang Yuliang toward recognizing a secret on an ancient painting auctioned in Yang Province City. Huang persuaded Shang Qiujun to buy the painting, and Shang won it for ten thousand taels of gold.

• At the auction, Huang Yuliang asked Shang Qiujun whether the mortals’ gathering might offer valuable treasures, and Shang explained how antiques could conceal relics from ancient cultivators.
• Li Qing activated the Wish Spell outside Yang Province City, influencing Huang to recognize two characters on the ancient painting and guiding him to the auction.
• The auctioneer revealed a map of Yang Province City from the Great Yu Dynasty, and Huang spotted something that astonished him.
• Huang asked Shang to buy the painting at any price, and Shang agreed.
• After a Rogue Cultivator bid one hundred thousand taels of silver, Shang raised the offer to ten thousand taels of gold and won the painting.

Huang Yuliang deciphered hidden characters on the ancient map as meaning “ritual” and hurried to give it to the Academy of Heavenly Principle, while a Rogue Cultivator spread rumors that it recorded a Longevity Ritual. After General Han Xiaotian presented the King of Yang Province with another copy, the King suspected someone was laying a conspiracy and set out to question Zhu Chengli.

• Huang Yuliang showed Shang Qiujun that patterns in the ancient map formed characters meaning “ritual,” and said the 3,300-year-old artifact would be difficult to decipher.
• Shang Qiujun worried that the Rogue Cultivator at the auction had noticed the map’s significance, so Huang Yuliang took it to the Academy of Heavenly Principle.
• Influenced by a strange power, the Rogue Cultivator posted notices claiming Shang Qiujun’s map recorded a mysterious Longevity Ritual, and the rumor spread throughout Yang Province City.
• The King of Yang Province learned that Shang Qiujun had given the map to Huang Yuliang and decided to visit the Academy of Heavenly Principle to ask Zhu Chengli about it.
• Han Xiaotian showed the King another ancient map that his captain Zhao Qiankun had acquired before the auction, and the King recognized characters naming the Longevity Ritual.
• The King suspected someone had planted the maps as part of a hidden scheme and ordered the search to continue before going to meet Zhu Chengli.

Li Qing used the Wish Spell to manipulate Demonic Path spy Wang Xiaolun into stealing an ancient map and delivering it to a contact at a ruined temple. The black figure accepted the apparently genuine map and promised to let Wang Xiaolun cultivate.

• King of Yang Province went to Principle Academy to question Zhu Chengli about what had happened.
• Li Qing used a Shadow Paper Doll and the Wish Spell to steer Wang Xiaolun into searching the prince's study for the map.
• Wang Xiaolun took an ancient painting from a scroll tube and left the royal manor with it, unaware the tube had vanished and the theft had been manipulated.
• Wang Xiaolun carried the painting to a ruined Mountain God Temple and waited for a Demonic Path contact.
• A black figure arrived, questioned Wang Xiaolun, and examined the map, finding it genuine despite suspecting something was amiss.
• Wang Xiaolun asked to become a cultivator, and the black figure agreed to grant his wish.

Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll witnessed the Shadow Demon Daoist devour Wang Xiaolun, while news of the Longevity Ritual drew the major powers into a struggle. As Li Qing built an intelligence network and refined Essence Stones, he learned that Yuan Zhihui planned to exploit Master’s tribulation to lure Li Wushuang into a deadly trap.

• The Shadow Demon Daoist killed Wang Xiaolun by feeding him to his Shadow Demon, and Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll watched from hiding.
• Over two days, the Longevity Ritual and its eleven ancient paintings became known, drawing Dao Lineages and experts toward the north ahead of a rare sacrificial opportunity.
• Li Qing’s Dream Projection gathered 100 Baleful Intent-Grade Essence Stones and 1,000 Curse-Grade Essence Stones, which Li Qing refined to increase his mana and vital essence.
• Li Qing sent the Dream Projection to establish an intelligence network across North Province and Yang Province so he could prepare for Master’s tribulation.
• Li Qing received information that Yuan Zhihui planned to draw out Li Wushuang by leaking news of Master’s Heaven and Earth Killing Tribulation, then strike while they tried to overcome it.

As the Master prepared to face a tribulation that could trigger a great calamity, Li Qing waited while the Emperor Kuntai considered how to protect Great Tang. Kuntai entered a hidden underground palace and activated a blood-red cauldron as red liquid poured from a vision of a shattered world.

• Li Qing judged that the four paths would likely attack during the Master's tribulation and returned to There Is an Inn to wait for his preparations to finish.
• The Master read a Confucian intelligence report, realized his tribulation would begin the great calamity, and left to make his own arrangements.
• News of the Master's coming tribulation spread across Great Tang, drawing cultivators toward Dragon Path City.
• Emperor Kuntai concluded that the Master and Sima Changkong were outmatched and resolved to hold back the Daoist Sect leaders to preserve Great Tang's balance.
• Emperor Kuntai opened a concealed passage beneath his palace, reached an underground altar, and used his imperial seal to make red liquid pour into a blood-red cauldron.

Emperor Kuntai sacrificed part of himself to summon a bound monster and ask it to distract the Daoist Sect’s three great leaders during his Master’s tribulation. Meanwhile, Li Qing went to Hundred Gates Alley for materials to make more Hundred Things Eyes and discovered a dangerous Logic Relic hidden in a jade ring.

• Emperor Kuntai used a curse and a blood sacrifice of children to summon a twisted monster bound by blood-colored characters.
• Emperor Kuntai asked the monster to draw the Daoist Sect’s three great leaders away from his Master’s tribulation, and the monster granted his wish at the cost of half his internal organs.
• Li Qing bought materials to refine more than a hundred Hundred Things Eyes and searched Hundred Gates Alley for overlooked treasures.
• Li Qing sensed the aura of a Logic Relic hidden inside a green jade ring and decided to obtain it.

Li Qing bought an azure jade ring and two monster materials, then stopped Han Yilong from taking the ring by force. After Han Yilong gathered City Guard soldiers to watch the alley, Li Qing disguised himself and secretly inflicted Calamity Qi on him before walking away.

• Li Qing bargained with an Aberration-afflicted Rogue Cultivator and bought the ring, cow monster horns, and monster essence blood for twelve Curse-Grade Essence Stones.
• Han Yilong arrived and tried to seize the ring, but Li Qing knocked his hand away and refused to surrender it.
• The crowd identified Han Yilong as the son of Han Xiaotian, and Han Yilong threatened Li Qing before leaving to gather people.
• Li Qing changed his appearance with the Qi-Concealing Bead and left Hundred Gates Alley while Han Yilong and City Guard soldiers watched the exits.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll beneath Han Yilong's feet and flooded him with Calamity Qi without being detected.

Li Qing uncovered the Green Jade Ring’s lethal logic and stored it with his other Logic Relics, then expanded his covert network across Yang Province. By the end, his forces had secretly taken control of gangs throughout the province and begun training scattered Dao soldiers.

• Han Yilong was struck by goose droppings, fell unconscious from the stench, and became a citywide laughingstock as Li Qing heard the rumors.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to learn that the Green Jade Ring carried Zhang Qianyu’s hatred and could possess a woman who wore it, killing any man who touched her.
• Li Qing stored the ring in his Universe Bag and reflected that collecting ten Logic Relics could grant a longevity bloodline and a hundred thousand years of lifespan.
• Li Qing refined 120 Hundred Things Eyes, and dream projections distributed them across Yang Province’s fifty largest cities.
• Li Qing’s network secretly brought gangs across the province under Zhao Qiankun’s indirect influence and placed Hundred Things Eye holders under contract.
• Gang leaders recruited elites to train as Dao soldiers, who were stationed in small groups at hidden locations throughout Yang Province.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet’s intelligence network to assess the forces likely to threaten his Master during the coming tribulation. He found a possible way to lend his Master lifespan and planned to test it, hoping to turn the conflict into a devastating loss for his enemies.

• Li Qing outlined a secret plan to gather more than twenty thousand Dao soldiers across Yang Province and North Province, placing them under the control of gang leaders loyal to him.
• The Jade Tablet compiled information from across Yang Province, revealing hidden bases, spies, supplies, and the identities of powerful cultivators.
• Li Qing concluded that seven of the Ten Great Cultivators and the Monster, Buddhist, Ghost, and Demonic factions might join Master's tribulation, which he believed Master had to survive.
• Li Qing considered using a Force-Borrowing Talisman and a Commander Summoning Token to lend lifespan to Master, then found the Borrowed Lifespan Technique in his compendiums.
• Li Qing decided to test whether borrowed lifespan could be sealed and summoned, and imagined using the tribulation to destroy his enemies' strongest fighters.

Li Qing tested the Borrowed Lifespan Technique by having Ma Mingyue create a talisman and take ten years from a Money Gang traitor. The talisman empowered the Commander Summoning Token to summon a Foundation Establishment war-soul puppet, and Li Qing planned to obtain a Dharma Manifestation cultivator’s lifespan to summon one from the Longevity realm.

• Li Qing set up a Qimen Dunjia Formation, obtained three Baleful Intent-level Essence Stones, and bought two sets of materials for the Borrowed Lifespan Technique.
• Ma Mingyue performed the ritual in a valley and used a Force-Borrowing Talisman to take ten years of lifespan from a bound Money Gang traitor.
• Ma Mingyue killed the weakened traitor and left, while Li Qing destroyed the altar and sent a Shadow Paper Doll carrying the talisman to the Zhang Family Ancient Battlefield.
• The Shadow Paper Doll used the talisman with the Commander Summoning Token, which absorbed the stolen lifespan and summoned a Foundation Establishment war-soul puppet.
• Li Qing decided to seek a Dharma Manifestation cultivator’s lifespan and considered asking his Master to trade ten years for a Longevity realm war-soul puppet.

Li Qing searched for resources to strengthen himself and identified a Demonic Path stronghold in Qu County that he planned to investigate. At the teahouse, a shopkeeper intervened after his waiter assaulted a starving mother and her son, giving them food and money.

• Li Qing reviewed the Jade Tablet’s records and chose a secret Demonic Path station in Qu County as a resource site to investigate.
• A waiter shoved a frail mother to the ground and kicked her young son when he tried to defend her.
• Teahouse customers condemned the waiter, and the shopkeeper came out to stop him.
• The shopkeeper gave the mother and son flatbreads and thirty copper coins to help them seek refuge with relatives.

Li Qing discovered an Anomaly aura on the flatbreads Shopkeeper Sun gave to a poor mother and child, bought the bread to keep them from eating it, and arranged for the Money Gang to help them. He took the bread to a dungeon to investigate what caused the aura.

• Shopkeeper Sun gave the mother and child wrapped flatbreads, but Li Qing noticed an unusual aura on them and secretly followed them with a Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing warned the mother and child not to eat the bread, bought it for a tael of silver, and directed them to the Money Gang headquarters on Orchid Street for work.
• The mother thanked Li Qing and set off with her child, while Li Qing had already instructed Ma Mingyue to give them a way to live.
• Li Qing found an Anomaly aura on the three flatbreads, though the bread in the teahouse kitchen showed no such aura.
• Li Qing suspected the bread became tainted after passing through the waiter's hands and took it to a Money Gang dungeon to conduct an experiment.