Recaps

Zhou Xinglong transformed into a monster after dying in a horrifying vision, and Qian Jinchuan sacrificed himself trying to stop him. Zhou Suhua trapped his son in a Chessboard and agreed to eliminate him under Dragon Path City's rules.

• Li Qing appeared before Zhou Xinglong in a vision and killed him as monstrous limbs and tendrils consumed him.
• Zhou Xinglong mutated in the Real World into a massive monster, and Qian Jinchuan attacked him with Chaos Slash.
• Qian Jinchuan fought through the Mist's corruption, charged Zhou Xinglong, and detonated himself in an explosion.
• Zhou Suhua arrived and trapped the monster in a Chessboard, shrinking Zhou Xinglong into a chess piece.
• A black-armored man said Zhou Xinglong had to be eliminated under the rules, and Zhou Suhua agreed to do it himself.

Zhou Suhua killed his Aberrated son, Zhou Xinglong, and discovered evidence of a hidden conspiracy targeting the Zhou Family, but his attempt to trace the culprit failed. Meanwhile, Li Qing watched the Blood Demon Seed absorb another monster and hurried to advance his own plan as the Demonic Path’s scheme neared.

• Zhou Suhua destroyed Zhou Xinglong with the Chessboard spell and searched his room for clues after suspecting a plot against the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Suhua found Qian Jinchuan’s remains and an empty hidden compartment, then used Karma Soul-Chasing Incense to track what had been taken.
• Zhou Suhua’s pursuit led nowhere because someone had interfered with causality, and he resolved to wait for the enemy to reveal themself.
• Li Qing assessed his plan to deal with Zhou Suhua and noticed the Blood Demon Seed absorbing a third monster in the Demon Suppression Palace.
• Li Qing realized the Blood Demon Seed was nearing activation while the Shadow Paper Doll had found no decisive case information, so he decided to speed up his plan.

Li Qing erased the traces of Curse Daoist’s death and prepared for the Demonic Path’s plan while searching for a way to intervene. After learning that recent Aberrations had caused hundreds of disappearances and deaths, he began to question whether his own memories had been altered and decided to preserve them on the Jade Tablet.

• Li Qing dismantled and destroyed Curse Daoist’s belongings, leaving a closed loop that concealed the deaths of Curse Daoist, Zhou Xinglong, and Qian Jinchuan.
• Li Qing waited for information about the Demonic Path while observing Jixia Academy students as potential candidates for his plan.
• Zhou Suhua secretly placed a tracking spell on Li Qing, which Li Qing detected and used as an opportunity to set a trap with a Shadow Paper Doll wearing his clothes.
• Li Qing crafted thirty talismans and learned that their success rate was only about thirty percent.
• Li Qing recorded more than twenty recent anomaly cases involving at least five hundred missing or dead people, then realized Aberrations might erase memories and decided to record his own memories on the Jade Tablet.

After uncovering the Demon Sect’s decade-long plan to destroy Dragon Path City, Li Qing identified 245 suspected conspirators and cultivated the Dream Entry Technique. He left Jixia Academy at night to begin carrying out his own plan, approaching a scholar’s courtyard.

• The Jade Tablet revealed how the Blood Demon Sect, Hundred Desires Demon Sect, and Chujiang Ghost King Palace planned to attack Dragon Path City and kill the Jixia Academy Master.
• Li Qing wrote a detailed plan to find everyone involved and prepared the Shadow Paper Dolls to investigate them.
• Li Qing cultivated the Dream Entry Technique, using a Dream Spirit Flower and his blood to create a thread of spirit that could enter another person’s dream.
• Over two days, the Shadow Paper Dolls uncovered suspects, and Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to confirm 245 people linked to the Demon Sect.
• Li Qing left Jixia Academy at night and went to the courtyard of an unremarkable scholar.

Li Qing entered Fang Yaoguang’s dream and shaped it around a world-shaking event, then left him a book describing dangers in Dragon Path City. Fang Yaoguang discovered signs that the book was real and imagined becoming a hero, but he abruptly woke after falling from his chair.

• Li Qing chose Fang Yaoguang, a Novelist School heir hungry for recognition, to experience an extraordinary event that could inspire a celebrated novel.
• Li Qing entered Fang Yaoguang’s dream and altered his vision of receiving praise for writing the peerless novel Sun and Moon Journey.
• Fang Yaoguang woke to find a book titled Dragon Path City Kuntai Year Nineteen Chronicles on his desk and read its alarming account.
• Fang Yaoguang witnessed a cultivator drain a child’s life and found a strange lump of flesh buried beneath the pavilion at Jixia Academy, matching details in the book.
• Fang Yaoguang decided that exposing the plot would make him a hero and provide material for a successful autobiographical novel, then suddenly fell and woke in confusion.

Fang Yaoguang investigated the people and places from his dream and confirmed that the visions were real. After finding the corpses of abducted children in Li Yuanwai’s cellar, he decided to report the Demonic Path practitioners to his Master.

• Fang Yaoguang used the Dream Entry Technique’s subconscious suggestion to visit the pavilion at Jixia Academy and confirm that a blood-red mass lay underground.
• Fang Yaoguang sent a clay double to watch Zhang Yifeng at the city gate but found nothing unusual about him.
• Fang Yaoguang investigated Master Qin’s boat and sensed Demonic Path magic in the pink mist filling her room.
• Fang Yaoguang searched around twenty pleasure boats and found signs of Demonic Path practitioners on at least three people.
• Fang Yaoguang sent a clay double into Li Yuanwai’s cellar and found at least ten shriveled children’s corpses.
• Fang Yaoguang resolved to report the crimes to his Master.

Fang Yaoguang reported a dream revealing the Demonic Path’s plot against Dragon Path City, and the Master promised to protect him while preparing to strike back. Meanwhile, Li Qing tested his Shadow Paper Doll against the Library Tower’s restrictions and sent a concealed, talisman-enhanced doll into a deeper room.

• Fang Yaoguang gave the Master a book detailing the Demonic Path’s plan and explained that he had seen it in a dream and verified several names.
• The Master told Fang Yaoguang to remain in Jixia Academy under his protection, then suspected the Yin-Yang School might be behind the dream and vowed to defend Dragon Path City.
• Wenzhang entered the Library Tower, where Li Qing used a plain Shadow Paper Doll to test the room’s hourly restrictions and destroyed it when they detected it.
• Li Qing enhanced another Shadow Paper Doll with three talismans and concealed it in a student’s shadow as the student entered a deeper room of the Library Tower.
• Li Qing’s talisman-enhanced shadow slipped through a gap between the floor strips and entered the room unseen.

Li Qing searched the Library Tower and discovered that its deeper collection was protected by a powerful restriction, so he began studying a talisman that could let him pass through it unnoticed. He also uncovered the Master's plan to use the Blood Demon Seed to lure out Demonic Path leaders, and saw a chance to exploit the resulting distraction.

• Li Qing searched the library's books and found fewer than five hundred works about the True Method Realm, with no cultivation techniques or spells.
• Li Qing sent his shadow underground, but a powerful restriction blocked it, so he destroyed the shadow before the restriction could detect it.
• Li Qing studied the stackable Myriad Transformation Talisman, which could help him merge with restrictions and slip past them.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls monitored suspicious people as mysterious watchers and returning Underground Academy instructors appeared around Jixia Academy.
• Li Qing read the Master's Counterattack Plan and learned that the Master intended to use the Blood Demon Seed to draw out and kill Demonic Path leaders.
• Li Qing decided the Master's plan might leave fewer guards at the Library Pavilion, creating an opportunity for him.

Li Qing tested his talismans against the restrictions in Jixia Academy’s underground mechanism room, then used a map to choose a safe location for his tribulation plan. After the Blood Demon Seed devoured its tenth terrifying monster, it announced that the plan would begin at midnight the next day.

• Li Qing sent a concealed Shadow Paper Doll into the Library Tower, where a Myriad Transformation Talisman let it pass the underground restrictions and reveal strange books and a hidden guard.
• The Shadow Paper Doll self-destructed, and the guard sensed that something might have entered the room before leaving.
• Li Qing wrote a plan for surviving the tribulation and confirmed that the Jade Tablet could not deduce the future from it.
• Li Qing mapped dangerous locations in Dragon Path City and selected a seemingly safe place to carry out his plan.
• The Blood Demon Seed devoured its tenth terrifying monster and told Li Qing that the plan would begin at midnight the next day.

Li Qing watched as Zhou Suhua and hidden forces prepared to strike during a coordinated attack on Dragon Path City. At midnight, a Flesh Tree spread parasitic seeds through the city as the Master confronted the attackers, and Li Qing unleashed Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes.

• Zhou Suhua accepted the Blood-Armored Person's mission to kill Jixia Academy figures and secretly added Li Wushuang to his list of targets.
• The Master learned that the attackers would move that night and kept his people ready to capture them.
• Li Qing disguised himself, entered the Seven Treasures Pagoda, and watched Dragon Path City from its seventh floor.
• Zhou Suhua discovered that Li Qing was missing from his room and went to seek Elder Zheng while Shadow Paper Dolls and another hidden figure watched him.
• At midnight, the Blood Demon Seed transformed into a giant Flesh Tree that sent parasitic seeds across Dragon Path City as fires and hostile auras erupted.
• The Master answered the attack with Haoran Righteous Qi, but three figures struck at him amid a flood of blood-red radiance, and Li Qing unleashed Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes.

Li Qing used a Shadow Paper Doll to infiltrate Jixia Academy’s Library Tower and rapidly record cultivation methods and strange records while a prepared army fought the invading monsters and Demonic Path cultivators. After the doll crumbled, he watched the ongoing battle through his remaining avatars and recognized the North Province King leading the troops.

• A colossal monster and more than a hundred withered creatures advanced on the city as fighters clashed at Jixia Academy.
• Tens of thousands of soldiers surged into the city and attacked the monsters and evil-radiance cultivators, while Black Blood Daoist claimed the Blood Demon Seed had already taken root.
• Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll into the empty Library Tower to record Spirit Consciousness Realm and Divine Soul Realm cultivation methods, along with books on mad cultivators, forbidden stories, and eerie travelogues.
• The Shadow Paper Doll ran out of time and crumbled, but Li Qing was pleased with the information it had gathered.
• Li Qing surveyed the battlefield through his remaining Shadow Paper Dolls and recognized the North Province King leading the soldiers.

As Dragon Path City's defenders activated the Five Elements Reversal Death-Defying Array, Li Qing stopped Blood Demon Son from detonating the Blood Demon Seed and confronted his spiritual imprint within it. The imprint was overwhelmed by Li Qing's Humanity River, leaving the Blood Sea World without its control.

• The North Continent King and his soldiers fought a tentacled monster as Dragon Path City's army gained ground.
• Five towering figures activated the Five Elements Reversal Death-Defying Array, trapping the blood mist and forcing two Demonic Path cultivators to retreat.
• The two cultivators transformed into monstrous forms, but the array's radiance suppressed their attacks and protected the battlefield.
• As cultivators suppressed the Blood Demon Seed at Jixia Academy, Blood Demon Son tried to make it detonate and destroy the Demon Suppression Palace.
• Li Qing commanded the Blood Demon Seed to destroy itself instead, then used Humanity's Righteous Path Is Vicissitudes to confront Blood Demon Son's spiritual imprint.
• Li Qing's Humanity River clashed with Blood Demon Son's imprint and shattered it into fragmented information.

Li Qing defeated the Blood Demon Seed’s spiritual mark, took control of the seed, and hid it from the approaching Blood Demon Son. As the Master struck down the demonic threat above Dragon Path City, Zhou Suhua searched for Li Qing at Jixia Academy and walked into a trap.

• Li Qing destroyed the Blood Demon Seed’s spiritual mark, absorbed fragments of its information, and gained control of the seed and its Flesh Giant Tree.
• Sensing the Blood Demon Son approaching, Li Qing concealed the seed among the shattered bones inside the Demon Suppression Palace.
• Li Qing coughed blood after the spiritual battle, then witnessed the Master split the enormous demon-god face and destroy the people of the Demonic Path.
• Zhou Suhua decided to flee to the Southern Barbarian Lands after killing Li Qing, and followed a mark to Jixia Academy.
• Zhou Suhua found Li Qing’s empty room, where two Shadow Paper Dolls waited with Thunderbolt Fire Beads.

Li Qing witnessed the aftermath of the battle in Jixia Academy, then survived his tribulation and began forging his Dao Foundation. As strange whispers revealed fragments of terrifying realities, a mysterious name briefly appeared on the Confucian Sage’s page in the Book Mountain and Sea of Learning.

• Li Qing's Thunderbolt Fire Beads distracted Zhou Suhua, but the Master killed Zhou Suhua with a jade-green Divine Ruler as Elder Zheng returned.
• The Master ordered the battlefield cleared, and the Novelist School altered the city's ordinary people's memories while Li Qing resisted the power.
• Li Qing's Calamity Qi transformed into a new power, and his vital essence formed three thousand gray threads as he forged his Dao Foundation.
• Eerie whispers flooded Li Qing's mind with fragmented visions, but Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes swept the information away.
• A phantom name appeared on the first page of the Confucian register, then vanished, leaving a great Confucian shocked.

Li Qing achieved a Supreme Dao Foundation, prompting the Confucian Sect, Daoist Sect, Demonic Path, and other schools to search the world for him. He kept his breakthrough secret and returned to Jixia Academy under his Li Wushuang identity.

• The Confucian Sect, Demonic Path, Daoist Sect, and other lineages detected a Supreme Dao Foundation and ordered searches for everyone who had achieved Foundation Establishment that day.
• Li Qing realized his Dao Foundation could condense 3,000 strands of vital energy and decided to conceal his achievement.
• Li Qing recalled gaining fragments of the Blood Demon Sect's cultivation method from his clash with the Blood Demon Son and planned to have the Jade Tablet optimize it.
• Li Qing chose not to reveal his breakthrough in Dragon Path City, fearing the teacher would connect him to the city's recent calamity.
• Li Qing descended the Seven Treasures Pagoda and identified himself to soldiers as Li Wushuang, World Patrol of Jixia Academy.

Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy after the attack and told Elder Zheng that he had hidden from Zhou Suhua by setting a trap in his room. He learned Zhou Suhua was dead and that the Academy had repelled the Demonic Path’s assault, then went to his restored room to await the end of the crisis before seeking information on the True Method Realm.

• Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy and told Elder Zheng he had stayed away after noticing Zhou Suhua had marked him, leaving a trap in his room.
• Elder Zheng told Li Qing that Zhou Suhua had sided with the Demon Sect and was executed by the Master for planning to assassinate Academy instructors.
• Li Qing celebrated Zhou Suhua’s death and joked with Elder Zheng, lifting the elder’s gloomy mood.
• Elder Zheng explained that the Demonic Path had tried to breach Dragon Path City, but the Master’s preparations protected the Academy, though civilians suffered casualties.
• Li Qing returned to his restored room and decided to wait until the crisis was over before applying for information on the True Method Realm.

After Dragon Path City recovered from the battle, the Master speculated that a hidden powerhouse was using a prodigy to prepare for an unprecedented tribulation, and resolved to protect the city. Li Qing listened to news of growing wars beyond the city and considered expanding his intelligence network without using a spell that might intensify his own tribulations.

• Elder Zheng reported the battle's casualties and aftermath to the Master, including the Blood Demon Sect's trap and the absence of the suspected Black Hand.
• The Master speculated that a Supreme Dao Foundation prodigy and a hidden powerhouse were behind the conflict, and warned that a chaotic age and unprecedented tribulation were beginning.
• The Master told Elder Zheng to hold fast to Dragon Path City and prevent the chaos from spreading there.
• Li Qing heard reports that the southern, western, and eastern borders had been breached and considered how to learn about dangers throughout the world.
• Li Qing decided that Shadow Paper Dolls were not enough for his intelligence network, but rejected using Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes on informants because it could worsen his tribulations.

Li Qing encountered an Aberration in the form of a woman in white and used Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes to protect his mind, though she continued following him. He recorded the Blood Sea Killing Manual and learned that powerful Dao Lineage figures were searching for him, leaving him to hide his identity and plan his next steps.

• Li Qing saw a woman in white who repeatedly appeared beside him and asked whether she was beautiful.
• Li Qing used Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes to drive the Aberration's voice from his mind, then returned to Jixia Academy, where the woman remained visible only to him.
• Li Qing wrote down the Blood Sea Killing Manual and concluded that he needed more information before weaving his 3,000 wisps of essence into mana.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls gathered rumors that cultivators were searching for people who had completed Foundation Establishment on the fifth day of the fifth month in the nineteenth year of Tai Kun.
• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet's account that powerful Dao Lineage figures sought him and the Humanity's Overview Manual, and he resolved to protect his identity while preparing to seek information about the True Method Realm.

Li Qing prepared a cover story for his breakthrough and told Elder Xu he had passed the Human Tribulation by killing two Anomalies. Elder Xu grew suspicious and went to investigate Dragon Fishing Pool, unaware that the Shadow Paper Doll was following him.

• Li Qing quietly planned how to conceal his identity and fabricated a story about passing the Human Tribulation.
• Li Qing drank with Elder Xu, who said he planned to retire, and claimed he had killed two Anomalies at Dragon Fishing Pool.
• Elder Xu became more suspicious of Li Qing and weighed reporting him against the risks to himself and his grandson.
• Elder Xu left Dragon Path City and examined the Anomaly remains at Dragon Fishing Pool while the Shadow Paper Doll followed him.
• Elder Xu concluded that Li Qing had immense reserves and suddenly turned to confront someone nearby.

Li Qing evaded Elder Xu’s tests and guarded himself against the eerie white figure before returning to the Library Tower to copy its True Method Realm collections. The Jade Tablet revealed a vast catalogue of cultivation arts and the complete General Compendium of Worldly Human Dao, leaving Li Qing with a new path to study.

• Elder Xu tried twice to draw out Li Wushuang, then returned to his room at Jixia Academy while Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll followed and hid outside his door.
• The eerie white figure asked Li Qing if she was beautiful, and he resisted her influence by covering his mouth before cultivating.
• Li Qing brought Elder Xu wine at the Library Tower, and Elder Xu let him enter the room of True Method Realm books before wishing him a lasting path to immortality.
• Li Qing used his Shadow Paper Doll to copy the Library Tower’s books while selecting several texts to study himself.
• The Jade Tablet recorded hundreds of True Method manuals and diagrams, along with the General Compendium of Worldly Human Dao and its nine innate spells.

Li Qing discovered that the Jade Tablet could fuse the second-rate techniques from Jixia Academy into a powerful foundation, then used them to weave Myriad Dao mana. After his nine innate spells transformed, he concluded that he needed hundreds of mana structures to advance his cultivation.

• Li Qing realized that the Jade Tablet could combine second-rate inheritances and noted that techniques for the Spirit Consciousness Realm and Divine Soul Realm remained inaccessible.
• Li Qing found that weaving one strand of Myriad Dao mana required 365 strands of essence and began forming mana with Myriad Daos Myriad Qi Domain.
• Li Qing completed his first mana structure, whose gray mist transformed all nine of his innate spells and strengthened his body.
• Li Qing wove eight mana structures, then refined sixty Essence Stones taken from Curse Daoist to gain more essence and form additional mana.
• Li Qing determined that advancing through the True Method Realm required enough mana structures to weave each stage's curse arts, including 365 structures for Myriad Things Golden Body Curse.

Li Qing studied the True Method Realm and discovered the Demon Summoning Technique as a way to earn Essence Stones. After testing it, he summoned an Anomaly that was killed by a mysterious falling stone, while the woman in White Robe drew closer to him.

• Li Qing calculated that completing one Myriad Things Golden Body Curse would require 4,441 Curse-Grade Essence Stones and worried about future resources and changing identities.
• Li Qing learned that the improved Hundred Shadows Technique required Dead Man's Blood and gave Shadow Paper Dolls the ability to leap between shadows.
• Li Qing inscribed the Demon Summoning Curse on his left hand and summoned an Anomaly by sacrificing a chicken outside Dragon Path City.
• Li Qing's Heaven and Earth Turning Wheel Tribulation Qi had no apparent effect on the Anomaly, but a black shadow struck it with a stone and killed it.
• Li Qing found an Essence Stone in the crater and realized the woman in White Robe had moved closer, prompting him to consider using an Evil-Extinguishing Talisman against her.

Li Qing researched a treasure that might suppress Aberrant Contamination and tested spells on the phantom woman, but Calamity Qi had no effect on her. He drew an Evil-Extinguishing Talisman that destroyed the phantom and silenced its voice, though a new tribulation was still brewing.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet's restored history to learn that Ye Baizhen had likely suppressed his Aberrant Contamination with a treasure buried in his tomb beneath White Dragon Shoal.
• Li Qing tested Calamity Qi on the phantom woman, but it could not sense or affect her.
• Li Qing prepared a Flesh Placenta as a backup body and resolved to replace its Flesh Seed whenever he advanced a realm.
• Li Qing drew an Evil-Extinguishing Talisman after five attempts and activated it against the phantom woman.
• Golden flames consumed the phantom woman, silenced her voice, and lifted the sinister pressure from Li Qing.

Li Qing survived the white-clad phantom's final attack and prepared three Evil-Extinguishing Talismans. After seeing Elder Xu leave Jixia Academy, Li Qing hunted an Anomaly in the forest and resolved to use a talisman daily as eerie aura gathered around him.

• The white-clad phantom lunged at Li Qing but passed through him, and he finished making three Evil-Extinguishing Talismans.
• Li Qing met Elder Xu at Jixia Academy and watched him depart after resigning.
• Li Qing traveled to a forest beyond the city and killed a wild boar to trigger Demon Summoning Technique.
• Li Qing suppressed the fear caused by the summoned Anomaly and cut it apart with sword light, obtaining its Essence Stone.
• Li Qing put the Essence Stone away and decided to use an Evil-Extinguishing Talisman every day as eerie aura accumulated around him.

Li Qing spent half a month hunting Anomalies and strengthening his combat skills, but the approaching calamity and a renewed Aberrant Contamination left him worried. He returned to Jixia Academy and asked Elder Zheng how to suppress the contamination.

• Li Qing defeated Anomalies and harvested 301 Essence Stones, raising his maximum magic power to twenty-nine units while improving his combat experience and resistance to distortion.
• Li Qing calculated that his cultivation was advancing too slowly to prepare for the calamity due in about six months, and wondered whether summoning a True Method Realm Anomaly could speed things up.
• An unseen presence called to Li Qing from behind, but he resisted the urge to turn and used his Evil-Extinguishing Talismans and Ten Directions Reflection Infinite Observation to dispel the threat.
• Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy and visited Elder Zheng, claiming he had spent the past half month practicing spells.
• Li Qing told Elder Zheng that he had encountered Aberrant Contamination four times in the past month and asked how to suppress it.