Recaps

Li Qing and Wu De discovered a bone palace floating above an abyss and explored its halls, finding an ancient stargazing instrument and a palace that appeared to belong to a female master. They ended inside Kunxi Palace, where green flames burned beneath a strange statue.

• Li Qing and Wu De reached the abyss and saw a vast palace and an army of objects floating in the cold Qi.
• Li Qing and Wu De entered the ranks of bone statues, sensed dormant Killing Intent, and cautiously crossed to the palace square.
• Li Qing and Wu De explored Stargazing Hall, identified its ancient mechanical stargazing instrument, and Wu De took it for safekeeping.
• Li Qing and Wu De searched the other halls on the left, finding only ordinary furnishings, then went to the Three Palaces and Six Courtyards behind the main hall.
• Li Qing and Wu De entered Kunxi Palace, where they saw ghastly white furnishings, a strange statue, and green-flamed candles on an altar.

Li Qing and Wu De searched an ancient palace, finding perfectly preserved corpses and a library filled with a million books from the Great Gan Dynasty. Li Qing learned why the Dao Lineages had wiped out the Great Tang imperial bloodline and left determined to investigate its power to block all methods.

• Li Qing and Wu De found a woman and a child lying intact in separate chambers, then discovered similarly preserved corpses throughout the palace complex.
• Li Qing and Wu De entered a vast library hall and used spells and a Shadow Paper Doll to examine its books without damaging them.
• Li Qing learned from the records that ten dynasties had risen and fallen, and that the Great Tang Dynasty's imperial bloodline had been exterminated because its emperors could block all methods.
• Li Qing resolved to study that ability and investigate whether the Otherworldly Heaven had escaped its seal.
• Wu De identified the collection as records from the Great Gan Dynasty and spent half a day gathering its million volumes.

Li Qing discovered that a powerful Formless Anomaly was suppressed beneath the underground palace and warned Wu De before they entered the main hall. They planned to inspect the palace’s treasure cautiously and escape as soon as they could.

• Li Qing and Wu De found no valuable items in the other palaces and returned to the stairs guarded by bone terracotta soldiers.
• Li Qing looked into the abyss, heard whispers, and recorded the danger in his Record Book.
• The Jade Tablet identified the darkness as the Formless Anomaly, a void-class threat capable of matching the Longevity Realm that would escape if its suppressor vanished.
• Wu De returned after sending their collected treasures outside, and Li Qing told him about the anomaly beneath the abyss.
• Wu De agreed they should inspect anything valuable in the main hall carefully and preserve a way to escape.

Li Qing and Wu De entered the underground palace’s main hall, where they discovered a Jade Cauldron containing mysterious phoenix blood and learned the treasures’ ancient origins. Li Qing decided to claim the blood for his plans to forge the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, while Wu De realized they had found legendary items.

• Li Qing and Wu De evaded the charging terracotta soldiers by using World-Walking Star-Shifting to reach the main hall, where the soldiers returned to their positions.
• Li Qing and Wu De found a white-robed man seated on a throne and a Jade Cauldron containing a drop of crimson blood.
• Wu De touched the cauldron, and Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to identify it as an ancient human-path witch artifact paired with mysterious phoenix blood.
• Li Qing decided to obtain the phoenix blood as a material for forging the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and considered seeking other rare blood for his plans.
• Li Qing told Wu De what the treasures were, and Wu De reacted with excitement at their legendary value.

Li Qing and Wu De searched the fallen Heavenly Palace, divided its treasures, and took the phoenix blood and Human Path shamanic artifact before fleeing as an Anomaly outbreak began. The palace’s corpses transformed into monsters as the two raced toward the exit.

• Wu De explained the value of the Human Path shamanic artifact and phoenix blood, and Li Qing agreed to keep searching the palace.
• In the left side hall, Li Qing claimed six rare Dharma Materials he needed while Wu De took the other three.
• Li Qing recognized the right side hall as the tomb owner’s preserved room, and he and Wu De left it in silence.
• Li Qing took the phoenix blood, while Wu De claimed the Human Path shamanic artifact; the palace began descending, and they fled.
• A terrifying outbreak filled the palace with noise, and the pale corpse and other sleeping corpses transformed into monsters.

Li Qing escaped the underground palace with Wu De, then returned to the Capital City area as a void-level Anomaly erupted at Hidden Dragon Mountain. Li Qiuxian and Ming Shen Kong sealed off the mountain and confronted the spreading darkness, while Li Qing’s attempt to observe the crisis was blocked by mist.

• Li Qing used World-Walking Star-Shifting to carry Wu De more than two hundred li from the hidden valley, and Wu De gave him six Divine Jade Fruits before departing for his sect.
• Li Qing reflected that Wu De would not recognize him next time, then wondered how to deal with Li Qiuxian.
• A void-level Anomaly spread darkness and anomalous power across Hidden Dragon Mountain, drawing Li Qiuxian’s attention and prompting him to alert the Capital City.
• Ming Shen Kong joined Li Qiuxian, and the two covered Hidden Dragon Mountain in white mist before transforming into giant forms and attacking the spreading darkness.
• The roars from the mountain frightened nearby residents and alerted cultivators, while Li Qing returned to the Capital City outskirts and sent his Divine Body to the Southern Frontier.
• Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll could not see through the mist covering Hidden Dragon Mountain.

Li Qing learned that True Dragon Blood could be found through the Pujiang Dragon King or beneath the Pu River, while Qilin Blood might be in the Southern Frontier. He changed course to visit the Dragon King, arriving at the Pu River Dragon Palace and gaining entry.

• Li Qiuxian and Ming Shen Kong found an ancient tomb containing a powerful Anomaly suppressed by a black treasure sword, then planned to track Li Wushuang through the trade in ancient books and treasures.
• Li Qing watched the tomb through a Shadow Paper Doll and left another doll there to observe it.
• Li Qing used the Record Book to learn that the Pujiang Dragon King had a trace of True Dragon bloodline aura and that Qilin Blood might exist in the Southern Frontier.
• Li Qing decided to visit the Pujiang Dragon King to pursue True Dragon Blood and obtain materials for forging the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger.
• Li Qing arrived at the Pu River Dragon Palace, where the Dragon King's servants let him enter.

Li Qing met the Pujiang Dragon King, learned that others had sought to capture him, and proposed a bargain involving True Dragon blood and the Great Tang’s dragon vein. The Dragon King accepted Li Qing’s terms and produced a Logic Relic to formalize their agreement.

• The Pujiang Dragon King told Li Qing that someone had asked him to seize anyone resembling Li Qing in exchange for help overcoming the tribulation of longevity, but he had refused to trust them.
• Li Qing asked for True Dragon Blood, and the Pujiang Dragon King warned him that the source beneath the Pu River’s water eye was too dangerous to enter.
• Li Qing explained the threat posed by the Six Paths Investiture of Gods and offered to help the Dragon King survive the chaotic age and transform his bloodline in exchange for essence blood and ten years of lifespan.
• Li Qing offered to reveal the location of the Great Tang’s dragon vein, and the Pujiang Dragon King agreed to the proposed terms.
• The Pujiang Dragon King produced the Contract White Paper, a Logic Relic that would enforce their deal and punish anyone who violated it.

Li Qing and the Pujiang Dragon King signed a contract exchanging information about a dragon vein for true dragon blood and ten years of lifespan. The Dragon King showed Li Qing the Pu River Water Eye, whose record revealed it was only an indescribable tributary, before inviting him to celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Dragon Palace.

• Li Qing used the Record Book to verify that the Contract White Paper was a derivative logic relic capable of binding beings below the Immortal level, and he and the Pujiang Dragon King signed an agreement.
• Li Qing asked to see the Pu River Water Eye, and the Pujiang Dragon King led him through the Dragon Palace, a grotto-heaven Dao artifact.
• The Pujiang Dragon King showed Li Qing the Water Eye and warned that its pressure would grind anything entering it into nothingness.
• Li Qing recorded the Water Eye and learned from the Jade Tablet that it was an indescribable tributary, leaving him shaken by the greater world that might lie beyond it.
• Li Qing returned to the Dragon Palace with the Pujiang Dragon King and accepted his invitation to celebrate New Year’s Eve with him and Long'er.

Li Qing spent New Year's Eve as a guest of the Pujiang Dragon King, gave Long'er a lost spell, and received an unsettling warning that danger was approaching the world. He left the Dragon Palace in haste to pursue true dragon's blood and qilin blood, while the Pujiang Dragon King suspected something had happened.

• The Pujiang Dragon King hosted Li Qing for a New Year's Eve banquet, where Li Qing gifted Long'er the End-of-Days All-Law Erasure Curse.
• The Pujiang Dragon King recognized the spell as a lost art from the Bone God Sect and thanked Li Qing for the valuable gift.
• After the banquet, Li Qing heard a mysterious voice warn that danger was approaching the world, and the Jade Tablet recorded an immense threat.
• Li Qing decided to continue seeking true dragon's blood and travel to the Southern Frontier for qilin blood and an intelligence network.
• Li Qing left the Dragon Palace without delay, and the Pujiang Dragon King guessed that something had happened.

Li Qing established an information network across the Southern Frontier and discovered that three Demon Race geniuses were competing to unite its forces against the Nine Provinces. He left his agents with orders to join those Children of Destiny.

• Li Qing traveled to the Southern Frontier and learned how its 108 cities and four great lineages were ruled.
• He decided to rely on Eyes of Myriad Spirits because the Southern Frontier lacked large organizations he could control for information gathering.
• Li Qing planted Eyes of Myriad Spirits throughout every tribal city and brought 324 Foundation Establishment demons under his control.
• The first information update identified the Great Ape King, the Dragon God Prince, and the Qilin Prince as Children of Destiny vying to rule the Southern Frontier.
• Li Qing learned the victor would unite the forces of Demon Race, Buddhism, Ghost, and Demon to attack the Nine Provinces, then ordered his agents to seek service with the three rivals.

Li Qing used the Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls to gather Southern Frontier records and learned that the Kirin Blood was hidden in Spirit Beast City. After entering the city in disguise, he prepared to infiltrate the noble families' book repositories, beginning with the Tuku Family.

• Li Qing collected unsealed records from declining families across the Southern Frontier and used the Jade Tablet to identify Spirit Beast City as the place where the Kirin Blood was hidden.
• Li Qing disguised himself as a monkey demon merchant and entered Spirit Beast City.
• Li Qing surveyed the city, identified its noble families and guarded book repositories, and arranged a concealed base underground.
• Li Qing gathered supplies and refined talismans for the Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls before beginning his operation at the Tuku Family's repository.

Li Qing used subtle calamities to infiltrate nearly all of Spirit Beast City’s family libraries and learned that the qilin blood was hidden in the Spirit Beast Temple. Since a Dharma Form cultivator guarded the temple, Li Qing began preparing a conflict between the Spirit Beast Tribe and the Earth Dragon Tribe to draw him away.

• Li Qing inflicted diarrhea on guards at ten minor families, letting Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls enter their Library Towers and steal information unnoticed.
• Over five days, Li Qing used minor incidents to infiltrate nearly ninety percent of the family libraries, but left the great families’ towers alone because Divine Soul Realm guards were too difficult to distract.
• Li Qing learned from the Jade Tablet that the qilin blood was hidden in the Spirit Beast Temple, where a Dharma Form Realm cultivator stood guard.
• Li Qing found that the Earth Dragon Tribe and Spirit Beast Tribe were longtime rivals, and began searching for a way to provoke conflict between them.
• The Spirit-Taming Princess took several young masters on a boat outing across the Pearl of the Southern Frontier, while Yellow Dragon Child gathered more than a hundred demon soldiers nearby; both groups were surrounded by Calamity Qi.

Yellow Dragon Child raided a harbor at the Pearl of the Southern Frontier, defeated the Spirit-Taming Princess, and captured her. The news reached Spirit Beast City and its White Tiger Dharma Form Patriarch, who saw the incident as a chance to provoke a contest between the Qilin Prince and the True Dragon Young Master.

• Yellow Dragon Child led monster soldiers in a massacre at a harbor, where they attacked resource-gatherers and killed the cultivators who resisted.
• The Spirit-Taming Princess and her male consorts joined the battle, but Yellow Dragon Child’s forces gained the upper hand and killed four of her five consorts.
• The Spirit-Taming Princess fled, but Yellow Dragon Child pursued her, overcame her attacks, and sealed her cultivation before capturing her.
• Yellow Dragon Child returned to the slaughtered harbor with the Spirit-Taming Princess and ordered his troops to gather everything and leave.
• The news enraged Spirit Beast City’s nobles and the Qilin Clan, while the White Tiger Dharma Form Patriarch considered using the incident to stage a contest between the Qilin Prince and the True Dragon Young Master.
• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to reconstruct the meeting of Spirit Beast City’s upper echelons.

The Qilin Patriarch planned to lure Earth Dragon City’s forces into an ambush at the South Mountain Mine, but Li Qing used Tula Mingde to expose the Spirit Beast City army. Earth Dragon City prepared to send the True Dragon Prince against the attackers, leaving both sides moving toward a confrontation.

• The Qilin Patriarch won approval from the White Tiger Patriarch and other leaders to attack the South Mountain Mine and use the fighting to ransom the Spirit-Taming Princess.
• Li Qing learned of Spirit Beast City’s plan and arranged for a Shadow Paper Doll to guide Tula Mingde out of the mine with a tempting scent.
• Tula Mingde spotted the Qilin Prince and an army of ten thousand Dao soldiers near South Mountain, then raced to warn Earth Dragon City.
• Li Qing concluded that Earth Dragon City could now anticipate the ambush and reflected on how disrupted heavenly secrets might conceal his schemes.
• The Earth Dragon Patriarch proposed that the True Dragon Prince capture the attackers and use the victory to strengthen his reputation, and the Heavenly Cripple Patriarch and two Primordial Spirit cultivators agreed.

True Dragon Prince led Earth Dragon City forces toward South Mountain Mine after Tula Mingde warned him that Qilin Prince had brought a large army there. The battle began at the mine, while Li Qing watched from afar and waited for a chance to search the Spirit Beast Hall for traces of Qilin Blood.

• Tula Mingde warned True Dragon Prince that Qilin Prince and over ten thousand Dao soldiers were near South Mountain Mine.
• True Dragon Prince returned to Earth Dragon City, where Earth Dragon Patriarch confirmed that someone had disrupted Heaven's secrets and ordered twenty thousand more Dao soldiers dispatched.
• Qilin Prince sent Big Bear with two thousand Dao soldiers to take South Mountain Mine and concealed his remaining forces in an ambush.
• Li Qing monitored the battlefield with Shadow Paper Dolls and waited outside the Spirit Beast Hall for the White Tiger Patriarch to leave.
• True Dragon Prince reached South Mountain Mine with three thousand Dao soldiers and ordered an attack, beginning a battle against the Spirit Beast City forces guarding the mine.

True Dragon Prince and Qilin Prince maneuvered against each other over South Mountain Mine, with Qilin Prince escaping an ambush by taking refuge behind a powerful defensive formation. As both sides summoned reinforcements, Li Qing’s Myriad Shadow Paper Doll watched their plans unfold.

• True Dragon Prince attacked South Mountain Mine, while Qilin Prince led a concealed force to ambush his army from behind.
• True Dragon Prince revealed that he had anticipated the ambush, but Qilin Prince formed a Golden Roc and charged into South Mountain Mine with his army.
• Qilin Prince’s forces joined the mine’s defenders and formed a Black Tortoise formation, holding off True Dragon Prince’s surrounded army.
• True Dragon Prince sent a letter to the Patriarch to request help breaking the formation, while Qilin Prince contacted the Qilin Patriarch for protection and reinforcements.
• The Qilin Patriarch warned Qilin Prince that True Dragon Prince might bring a Dharma Form cultivator, then left Spirit Beast City as Li Qing’s Myriad Shadow Paper Doll continued observing both sides.

Li Qing infiltrated the Spirit Beast Temple to find the Qilin Blood and discovered it was held inside an untouchable Logic Relic oil lamp. He learned that he needed the lampshade held by the White Tiger Patriarch, leaving him to plan how to steal it before Emperor Kuntai's death.

• The White Tiger Patriarch suspected a spy after learning a trap had been discovered, fortified the Spirit Beast Temple, and left.
• Li Qing entered the temple by analyzing and slipping through its arrays, then found a Taotie statue and an altar holding an oil lamp with azure liquid beneath its black oil.
• Li Qing tried to take the lamp but could not touch it, and the voices within it revealed its strange power.
• Li Qing's records identified the lamp as the Logic Relic Untouchable Light, which could only be touched after being extinguished with its lampshade.
• Li Qing learned that the White Tiger Patriarch held the lampshade and that it would be away from him during preparations for the monthly Anomaly-cleansing ritual.
• Li Qing decided he had to plan a theft quickly, as only four or five months remained before Emperor Kuntai's death and he still needed the Qilin Blood for his preparations.

Li Qing planned to steal the White Tiger Patriarch’s lampshade during his monthly ritual by engineering a crisis and drawing the Azure Phoenix Patriarch to Spirit Beast City with phoenix blood. As the Southern Frontier conflict escalated, Li Qing began preparing the bait and continued gathering information in the White Tiger Family.

• Li Qing used the Record Book to learn when and where the White Tiger Patriarch would bathe and perform his monthly ritual, then placed five Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls at likely spots for his clothes and Universe Bag.
• Li Qing chose the Azure Phoenix Patriarch of nearby Hundred Birds City as the opponent to lure, since phoenix blood would attract him.
• Li Qing sent talismans carrying phoenix-blood aura toward the Southern Frontier while his Divine Body established informants and Eyes of Myriad Spirits in Hundred Birds City.
• Earth Dragon Patriarch shattered Qilin Prince’s formation at South Mountain Mine, and True Dragon Prince’s forces routed Qilin Prince’s army until Qilin Patriarch covered its retreat; only three thousand of Qilin Prince’s ten thousand Dao soldiers returned.
• After three days of gathering intelligence, Li Qing sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll into the White Tiger Family and used a Qi Transfer Talisman to collect the White Tiger Patriarch’s lingering aura.

Li Qing used a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to plant a false trace of Phoenix Blood in the bones beneath Falling Dragon Pool, drawing Qingluan Feitian to the site. The Azure Luan Ancestor sensed the trace on Qingluan Feitian and captured him to search his memories for its source.

• Li Qing sent a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to Falling Dragon Pool, where it found the bones of a mysterious cultivator beneath the pool.
• The Paper Doll burned talismans carrying Phoenix Blood and White Tiger Patriarch auras, then planted a trace of Phoenix Blood in the skeleton's spine.
• Qingluan Feitian sensed the Phoenix Blood aura at Falling Dragon Pool and became driven to borrow the Path-Illuminating Mirror from his uncle-in-law.
• The Phoenix Blood trace drew Qingluan Feitian past the Azure Luan Family's garden, where the Azure Luan Ancestor detected it.
• The Azure Luan Ancestor captured Qingluan Feitian and used a spiritual art to search his memories for the aura's source.

The Azure Phoenix Patriarch traced the Phoenix Blood at Falling Dragon Pool to the White Tiger Patriarch and suspected that it might be a trap. As Li Qing’s plan reached its next stage, the White Tiger Patriarch entered his bathing chamber while Li Qing’s paper doll waited near his sealed Universe Bag, with the Azure Phoenix Patriarch secretly inside the family grounds.

• The Azure Phoenix Patriarch destroyed Qingluan Feitian, learned of Phoenix Blood at Falling Dragon Pool, and sent a phantom to investigate.
• The Azure Phoenix Patriarch found the Phoenix Blood’s trace on a skeleton and identified the lingering aura as belonging to the White Tiger Patriarch.
• The Azure Phoenix Patriarch failed to divine the truth, suspected the White Tiger Patriarch had obscured the heavenly secrets, and sent an incarnation to Spirit Beast City.
• Li Qing detected the Azure Phoenix Patriarch’s arrival and prepared to proceed with his plan on the day of bathing and incense burning.
• The White Tiger Patriarch activated the Spirit Beast Temple’s formations and entered his bathing chamber, where his Universe Bag remained sealed and exposed.
• Li Qing watched as his Myriad Shadow Paper Doll stayed hidden beside the Universe Bag while the Azure Phoenix Patriarch’s true body infiltrated the White Tiger Family.

Li Qing used a staged clash between the White Tiger Patriarch and the Azure Phoenix Patriarch to steal the Qilin Blood from the Spirit Beast Temple. He escaped with the blood while the two patriarchs pursued a decoy, but they closed in on the Divine Body.

• Li Qing lured the Azure Phoenix Patriarch to attack the White Tiger Patriarch by making it seem that phoenix blood was within reach.
• During their clash, a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll stole the White Tiger Patriarch's Universe Bag, and the Divine Body broke its restrictions and took a lampshade from inside.
• Li Qing reached the Spirit Beast Temple, extinguished the oil lamp, and retrieved the Qilin Blood, sealing it in a jade vial.
• The White Tiger Patriarch and the Azure Phoenix Patriarch discovered the Qilin Blood was gone and pursued a trace of its aura, while a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll left the city by another route.
• The Divine Body fled with the Qilin Blood, but the two patriarchs caught up and surrounded it with distorted radiance.

Li Qing escaped the Azure Phoenix and White Tiger Patriarchs after stealing the Qilin Blood, but the Taotie Demon God sealed the Southern Frontier with an array to find him. From the Capital City, Li Qing learned that the array revealed bloodlines and locked down all life in the region.

• Li Qing used a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll to escape the Azure Phoenix and White Tiger Patriarchs, then sent his Divine Body toward the Southern Frontier.
• The Taotie Demon God questioned the two patriarchs about the Qilin Blood and concluded that Azure Phoenix Patriarch had been manipulated into serving as a weapon.
• The Taotie Demon God activated the Southern Frontier Seal, covering the region with Mist that exposed the bloodlines of Demon Race and Southern Rong inhabitants.
• Li Qing used the Record Book and Myriad Shadow Paper Dolls to investigate the Mist and learned that the Myriad Spirit Soul-Locking Array could reveal the true nature of every living thing within its range.

Li Qing learned that the Southern Frontier was sealed by an array and discovered that the Taotie Demon God was searching for him at the Nine Provinces border. He chose to travel through the Southern Sea toward the Buddhist Path or Ghost Path, but longevity-realm Demon Race cultivators were already searching the forest ahead.

• Li Qing studied the Myriad Spirits Heaven-Sealing Curse and slipped through a gap in the Southern Frontier formation to retrieve the Myriad Shadow Paper Doll.
• A powerful figure searched the border with a spell nearly akin to the Dao, forcing Li Qing to hide the paper doll as a dead object in the shadows.
• Li Qing used Cosmic Mind Star Divination and saw a figure with a giant beast behind him seize his Divine Body and Qilin Blood at the Nine Provinces border.
• Li Qing identified the figure as the Taotie Demon God and decided to return to the Nine Provinces by way of the Southern Sea and the Buddhist Path or Ghost Path.
• The Taotie Demon God deduced that Li Wushuang was behind the search for Qilin Blood and Phoenix Blood and vowed to capture him.
• Li Qing followed gaps in the formation as his paper dolls rebuilt the information network, which revealed more than a hundred longevity-realm Demon Race cultivators searching the forest ahead.

Li Qing entered the Southern Frontier Grottoes to evade the Longevity Realm cultivators pursuing him and mapped the caverns with Shadow Paper Dolls. After the Jade Tablet revealed a route through the grottoes, his divination showed a human face that could kill him if he encountered it, leaving him wary before he set out.

• Li Qing changed course and entered the Southern Frontier Grottoes, sending Shadow Paper Dolls ahead to explore while he stayed at the entrance.
• Li Qing mapped the caverns over three days and recorded the dangers he observed, including abnormal creatures and passages where the dolls turned to ash.
• The Jade Tablet restored a detailed map that showed a route mostly through safe areas, with one dangerous stretch.
• Li Qing used Cosmic Mind Star Divination and saw a deathly pale human face behind him; in the vision, his Divine Body collapsed after he turned to look at it.