Recaps

Li Qing sold Platinum Divine Armor, Golden Mechanism Puppets, and Ghost Spirit Lamp Oil to Zhang Sanbiao at the Dao Soldier Pavilion for 4,200 Curse-Grade Essence Stones. He left with the payment, intending to complete the first realm of the True Law.

• Li Qing entered the Dao Soldier Pavilion in Hundred Gates Alley to sell goods through his Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing negotiated with Zhang Sanbiao and sold 200 sets of Platinum Divine Armor for 17 Curse-Grade Essence Stones per set.
• Li Qing sold two Golden Mechanism Puppets to Zhang Sanbiao for 250 Curse-Grade Essence Stones each.
• Li Qing sold a gourd of Ghost Spirit Lamp Oil to Zhang Sanbiao for 300 Curse-Grade Essence Stones.
• Zhang Sanbiao paid Li Qing 4,200 Curse-Grade Essence Stones, and Li Qing counted the payment before leaving.

After selling treasures from White Dragon Shoal, Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy and used his gains to cultivate the Myriad Things Golden Body Curse. He completed the curse and, emerging from three days of cultivation, found the city unusually quiet and began investigating a serial decapitation murder case.

• Zhang Sanbiao suspected Li Qing's Platinum Divine Armor came from Ye Baizhen's legendary tomb, but he did not pursue him.
• Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy, where he sensed heightened surveillance, and absorbed his Essence Stones in seclusion.
• Li Qing formed all 365 curse sigils into the Myriad Things Golden Body Curse, which strengthened his body with a golden network and triggered strange voices that Heavens Civilization Torrent suppressed.
• Li Qing used the rest of his gains, leaving forty Curse-Grade Essence Stones in reserve, and decided to place informants.
• Li Qing went out hungry after three days of cultivation, noticed the streets and shops were unusually quiet, and sent Shadow Paper Dolls to investigate.
• Li Qing learned through the Shadow Paper Dolls that a serial decapitation murder case was underway.

Li Qing recruited the leaders of Dragon Path City’s three major gangs to gather intelligence, then prepared to expand his surveillance network with the Hundred Things Eye. The chapter left him ready to begin crafting the artifact as he pursued complete control of the city’s information.

• Li Qing investigated the recent decapitation cases and decided he needed to move faster while remaining vigilant.
• Li Qing used Heavens Civilization Torrent to recruit Cao Dechun and ordered him to collect and organize information.
• Li Qing recruited Wei Yuguo and Zhang Blackskin, subduing Zhang after he attacked with black flames.
• Li Qing left a Shadow Paper Doll with each gang leader and returned to Jixia Academy.
• Li Qing studied the Hundred Things Eye artifact, which could place up to one hundred illusory eyes on objects to gather information.

After receiving a warning about a deadly Anomaly, Li Qing planned how to avoid powerful investigators and refined a batch of Hundred Things Eyes. By the morning of the third day, he had stored ten completed artifacts and began cultivating a Blood Oath Curse Talisman.

• Fang Zhengming warned Li Qing that a hidden, special-series Anomaly had killed several people in Dragon Path City and urged instructors to sound the alarm if they sensed danger.
• Li Qing concluded that even powerful figures had limits and planned to master concealment methods from his six Compendiums of the World.
• Li Qing sent his Shadow Paper Doll to buy materials for the Hundred Things Eye, then collected them outside Jixia Academy.
• Li Qing inscribed the Hundred Eyes Curse onto an eyeball and refined it into a Hundred Things Eye, leaving the artifact to absorb the sun and moon’s essence.
• Li Qing refined ten Hundred Things Eyes, with five attempts failing, then began cultivating a Blood Oath Curse Talisman.

Li Qing recruited the starving refugee Fang Dewen to serve as a recorder, offering him a stable life and the power of a Hundred Things Eye in exchange for eternal loyalty. After Fang Dewen implanted the eye and swore a blood oath, Li Qing gave him money and taught him a concealed Martial Art.

• Li Qing found the starving scholar Fang Dewen and offered him food, shelter, money, and a mysterious power if he served as a recorder forever.
• Li Qing demonstrated his strength and showed Fang Dewen a Hundred Things Eye, which Fang Dewen agreed to implant in his left eye despite the pain.
• Li Qing had Fang Dewen swear a blood oath of eternal loyalty and secrecy, with death as the punishment for breaking it.
• Li Qing gave Fang Dewen gold beans and imparted a Martial Art that could be cultivated to the Essence Refining realm without revealing him as a cultivator.

Li Qing established a surveillance network across Dragon Path City by giving Fang Dewen the Hundred Things Eye and monitoring key locations with sub-eyes. As he prepared for the possible Anomaly, he learned Fang Yaoguang had rapidly reached the Viscera Realm, while an armored figure patrolled the city at night.

• Li Qing brought Fang Dewen to a residence outside Dragon Path City, taught him to place sub-eyes on one hundred objects, and instructed him to record what they observed.
• Fang Dewen began watching more than a hundred locations through the Hundred Things Eye, while Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy as Li Wushuang.
• Li Qing noted that his sub-eye network and the networks of the three major gangs and Fang Dewen now covered nearly all of Dragon Path City, including its government offices, the North Province King's Estate, and Jixia Academy.
• A Shadow Paper Doll showed Li Qing that Fang Yaoguang had returned home and advanced to the Viscera Realm, with strong Dharma power and a hazy radiance.
• Li Qing refined ten Evil-Extinguishing Talismans, sealed himself in a hollow beneath his room with them, and began cultivating while his Shadow Paper Dolls searched the city.
• An armored figure wreathed in Mist patrolled the streets with hidden cultivators, and Li Qing would have recognized the handsome cultivator as the man he had met at White Dragon Shoal.

Wang Qianqiu confronted a decapitation monster while Li Qing monitored strange figures in Dragon Path City and used the Jade Tablet to uncover the monsters’ abilities. Li Qing suspected the anomalies were correcting karmic fate and began planning to use Wang Qianqiu against them.

• Wang Qianqiu investigated a scream and attacked a decapitation monster, but it vanished before his sword could strike it.
• Li Qing saw Li Dewen emerge from Fang Yaoguang’s room and suspected the monster could disguise itself as a human.
• Li Qing recorded the recent cases, and the Jade Tablet revealed that two anomalies could teleport to each other and steal identities by touching and devouring victims.
• Li Qing realized Fang Yaoguang and Li Dewen were dead and wondered whether the anomalies were correcting karmic fate.
• Li Qing considered using Wang Qianqiu to fight the monsters, then followed him as he returned home and went to bed.

Li Qing used the Dream Entry Technique to plant a vivid dream in Wang Qianqiu, leading him to suspect Fang Yaoguang was a monster. Wang Qianqiu investigated and watched Fang for two days, but found no proof and remained uncertain.

• Li Qing entered Wang Qianqiu's dream, where Wang saw a monster's face before the dream abruptly ended.
• Wang woke convinced the dream had revealed a clue, but on his way to the Demon Extermination Hall he spotted the monster leaving Fang Yaoguang's home.
• Wang secretly entered Fang Yaoguang's courtyard and saw him transform, devour a hen, and attack; Wang was decapitated in the dream before waking in terror.
• Wang suspected the dream might be prophetic, armed himself, and went to investigate Fang Yaoguang's neighborhood while Li Qing followed with a Shadow Paper Doll.
• Wang watched Fang Yaoguang for two days without seeing anything suspicious and began to wonder whether he had misidentified him.

Wang Qianqiu confirmed that Fang Yaoguang was acting strangely and reported his suspicions to Chen Yilong, who warned that a hidden person might be manipulating him. Li Qing learned that Chen Yilong suspected the Black Hand behind the chaos and decided Dragon Path City was no longer safe.

• Wang Qianqiu watched Fang Yaoguang leave his home at midnight in a cold, unnatural state and confirmed that something was wrong with him.
• Wang Qianqiu went to the Chen Residence and told Chen Yilong about his dream, his stakeout, and the two suspected beheading Anomalies.
• Chen Yilong said someone might be using Wang Qianqiu to target Fang Yaoguang and ordered him to stay at the Chen Residence while he investigated.
• Chen Yilong wondered whether the Black Hand was connected to the mysterious person who had completed Foundation Establishment on the fifth day of the fifth month in the nineteenth year of Kun-Tai.
• Li Qing overheard Chen Yilong's suspicions through the Shadow Paper Doll and concluded that Dragon Path City was no longer safe.

Li Qing discovered a twenty-year conspiracy to place Li Qiankun on the throne of the North Continent and decided to use it to redirect suspicion from the Dream Black Hand. He planned to inform the North Province King discreetly, then went to Master's Natural Abode.

• Li Qing realized that his repeated use of dream messages could expose him, so he planned to use different methods in each city and leave Dragon Path City within three days.
• Li Qing’s shadow followed Chen Yilong as Shadow Paper Dolls gathered information from the gangs and Fang Dewen’s records.
• The Jade Tablet revealed that Li Qiankun was secretly the child of the North Province King’s consort and her lover, and that the Hundred Schools had spent twenty years preparing him to claim the North Continent.
• Li Qing decided to tell the North Province King about the conspiracy so he would support his second son and keep Li Qiankun in check.
• The next day, Li Qing arrived at Master's Natural Abode and was invited inside.

Li Qing prepared to leave Jixia Academy for Two Realms City, while Master warned that a great calamity was approaching and gave him a letter for Taihe Academy. Meanwhile, the Demon Extermination Hall exposed Fang Yaoguang as a dead monster, and the North Province King killed his transformed third son as the two threats were subdued.

• Li Qing asked Master for permission to visit other academies and draw his Essence Stones in advance, then accepted a letter for Taihe Academy and planned to leave the next day.
• Master reflected on the coming calamity, the falling stars, and the many people suspected of being destined by heaven.
• Chen Yilong and the Demon Extermination Hall surrounded Fang Yaoguang, whose voice and memories revealed that the North Province King's third young master had already killed him.
• Fang Yaoguang transformed into a tentacled monster and vanished from Chen Yilong's spear, while instructors and Military School experts trapped the North Province King's third young master and another monster in a formation.
• The North Province King entered the courtyard and beheaded his third son after the young man cried out for help.

After the headless Anomaly incident was resolved at great cost, Li Qing prepared to leave Dragon Path City and investigated the Blood Demon Seed in the Demon Suppression Palace. He discovered that the palace was draining the seed’s vital essence and that its roots could breach the spacetime barrier, but an outside force destroyed the roots that passed through.

• The North Province King ordered Third Young Master's head put away, but tentacles erupted from it and attacked a guard, so a scarlet blaze burned both the guard and the head to ashes.
• The North Province King destroyed the two suppressed headless Anomalies, which left behind two Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stones, and news of the incident reached Jixia Academy.
• Li Qing planned to observe Wang Qianqiu, arranged for his subordinates to be watched by Shadow Paper Dolls, and bought a ship ticket for the next morning.
• Li Qing bought materials and crafted sixty Object Shapeshifting and Illusory Sound Art talismans to disguise and control his Shadow Paper Dolls.
• Li Qing sensed that the Demon Suppression Palace was draining the Blood Demon Seed and learned of its abilities, including roots that could pierce spacetime barriers.
• Li Qing sent the Blood Demon Seed's roots through the palace barrier, but a force from outside severed and vaporized them.

Li Qing explored the mist-filled interior of the Demon Suppression Palace and discovered that it drained the Blood Demon Seed’s vital essence. He used the seed to devour a powerful Anomaly, then realized he had to suppress its instincts or risk being consumed by them.

• Li Qing withdrew the Blood Demon Seed’s tentacles and dragged it through the ashes as the black mist steadily drained its vital essence.
• Li Qing sensed the mist growing denser in one direction and headed toward what he suspected was its source.
• Li Qing encountered a terrifying armored Anomaly and expanded the Blood Demon Seed into a Flesh Giant Tree to seize and devour it.
• Li Qing used Heavens Civilization Torrent to suppress the Blood Demon Seed’s instinctive influence and recognized that repeated use could erode his mind.
• Li Qing recovered much of the Blood Demon Seed’s spent power from the Anomaly and concluded that the Demon Suppression Palace contained extraordinary dangers.

Li Qing guided the Blood Demon Seed through the fog to an invisible spacetime barrier at the heart of the Demon Suppression Palace and discovered a strange tree nourished by black mist and infant-like anomalies. His Jade Tablet revealed that the palace had been built to cultivate the legendary Longevity Fruit Tree, and the chapter left him with its origins and secrets recorded.

• Li Qing sent the Blood Demon Seed through the fog, encountered numerous Anomalies, and found a circular spacetime barrier that he identified as the Demon Suppression Palace's core.
• He pushed the Blood Demon Seed's roots through the barrier and absorbed vital essence that rapidly strengthened his spiritual mark.
• Li Qing followed the roots into the core and discovered a black tree bearing infant-like figures that emitted the vital essence and spread fog beyond the barrier.
• Li Qing recorded what he had seen, and his Jade Tablet revealed that the Longevity Fruit Tree created its own grotto-heaven and that the Demon Suppression Palace existed to cultivate it.
• The Jade Tablet explained that the Longevity Fruit ripened every three thousand years, extended life by a hundred years, and released pure spiritual essence as it matured.

Li Qing discovered that the Longevity Fruit Tree would ripen in a year and a half and began preparing to claim it. He left Jixia Academy and used a Shadow Paper Doll disguised as Li Wushuang to board a merchant ship, while keeping his own whereabouts hidden.

• Li Qing learned that the Longevity Fruit Tree would ripen on the thirtieth day of the twelfth month in the twentieth year of Kun-Tai, but the Blood Demon Seed could not penetrate its protective black light.
• Li Qing planned to nourish his spiritual imprint with psychic essence and restore the Blood Demon Seed's power by hunting monsters before the fruit ripened.
• Li Qing refined nine hundred and sixty Curse-Grade Essence Stones, raising his upper limit to eighty-five strands of Dharma power and one hundred and seventy-five strands of essence.
• Li Qing silently left Jixia Academy, reflecting that he had begun his rise there and would not return for a long time.
• Li Qing transformed a Shadow Paper Doll into Li Wushuang, sent it aboard a merchant ship, and planned to act after it had been underway for a day so no one would suspect him of being the Dream Black Hand.

Li Qing used the Dream Entry Technique to show the North Province King a dream of his consort, Li Qinger, with Imperial Guard commander Qin Taikun, and their heir Li Qiankun greeting them. The North Province King investigated the old household records, uncovered suspicious deaths among witnesses, and ordered the estate sealed and Qin Taikun brought before him.

• Li Qing slipped into the North Province King's dream and created a scene suggesting Li Qinger and Qin Taikun had betrayed him, with Li Qiankun acknowledging them as his parents.
• The North Province King woke in fury and searched for the intruder, but Li Qing escaped using World-Walking Star-Shifting.
• The North Province King recognized the dream as the work of the Dream Black Hand and ordered records from Li Qinger's palace twenty years earlier brought to him.
• After reviewing the records, the North Province King learned that all seven people on duty at the time had died, including three servants beaten to death and four eunuchs executed by Qin Taikun.
• The North Province King suspected the Dao Lineages sought to leave his family without an heir and ordered the estate sealed, its formation activated, and Qin Taikun summoned.

Princess Consort Li Qing rushed to the royal manor’s main hall and found Li Longji had exposed her and Qin Taikun’s conspiracy and mortally wounded Qin Taikun. They transformed into Aberration monsters and fought back, but Li Longji’s Mystic Heaven Black Tiger Grand Formation killed them, leaving two Fierce-grade Essence Stones.

• Princess Consort Li Qing learned that Li Longji had sealed off the royal manor and hurried toward the main hall after hearing a familiar scream.
• Li Qing found Qin Taikun gravely wounded beneath the formation and confronted Li Longji, who accused them of shameful deeds and attacked them.
• Li Qing blocked Li Longji’s sword strike with her yin-yang power, but the formation shattered her defense and brought down a giant palm.
• Qin Taikun chose total Aberration to hold up the palm and urged Li Qing to escape, while Li Qing transformed into a monster and attacked Li Longji.
• Li Longji used the Mystic Heaven Black Tiger Grand Formation to crush both monsters, who briefly regained their awareness, embraced, and died, leaving two Fierce-grade Essence Stones.

Li Qing left Dragon Path City after setting his information network to expand while the North Province King moved against Li Qiankun. On the merchant ship bound for Two Realms City, he encountered Legalist disciple Shang Xuewen, and later learned that Li Qiankun had died.

• Li Qing confirmed that the North Province King was acting against Li Qiankun and expected the resulting investigation to expose the forces behind him.
• Li Qing returned to his merchant ship, leaving orders for his Shadow Paper Doll to manage Fang Dewen and the three major gangs and expand their information network.
• Li Qing met Shang Xuewen, a peak True Method Realm cultivator of the Legalist School, on the deck and displayed his World Patrol jade token.
• Shang Xuewen recognized Li Qing as a Jixia Academy World Patrol and considered the political struggle gathering around Two Realms City.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll received news from Fang Dewen and the three major gangs that Li Qiankun was dead.

Li Qing fled into the Taihe River when the ghost ship Orchid Garden appeared, then decided to secretly help Shang Xuewen confront it. The chapter ended as Shang Xuewen prepared to face the darkened ship, unaware that Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll was approaching with tribulation qi.

• Li Qing learned that the North Province King had killed Li Qiankun, taken command of the army, and disrupted the plot against him.
• Li Qing reviewed his plans to gather information from the four great academies and seek treasures in Zhang Family Realm near Two Realms City.
• Li Qing spotted Orchid Garden approaching the pleasure boat and escaped into the river, sending Shadow Paper Dolls to watch it.
• Shang Xuewen used his Law Decree to put everyone aboard the pleasure boat to sleep and prepared to confront the ghost ship alone.
• Li Qing located the ghost ship’s densest eerie essence, loaded a Shadow Paper Doll with tribulation qi, and sent it toward Orchid Garden as Shang Xuewen boarded the darkened ship.

Shang Xuewen fought his way through the tower ship with Legalist School spells, clearing its first two levels before confronting a powerful woman on the third. As her freezing wind and strength overwhelmed his defenses, Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll ambushed her with Calamity Qi.

• Shang Xuewen summoned two Guardian Deities and entered the cabin, where they destroyed the corpses that attacked him.
• On the second floor, two tentacled, dark-green monsters tore apart the Guardian Deities, but Shang Xuewen bound and strangled the monsters with chains.
• Shang Xuewen used the Law Curse to resist the monsters' disturbing influence, then cleared the rest of the second floor with his chain spells.
• On the third floor, Shang Xuewen opened a door to a crimson room and faced a woman whose freezing gale cracked his protective prison and chains.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Doll emerged behind the woman, engulfed her in Calamity Qi, and vanished into the shadows.

Shang Xuewen destroyed the Anomaly aboard the Netherworld Ghost Ship with the Law Sword, then erased the passengers’ memories before the ship collapsed. Li Qing ordered Ao Ming to expand his forces around White Dragon Shoal and discovered that the Blood Demon Seed had strengthened his spiritual imprint.

• Shang Xuewen struck the Anomaly’s core with the Law Sword, killing it and leaving behind a Baleful Intent-grade Essence Stone.
• Shang Xuewen escaped the collapsing Netherworld Ghost Ship, then used Command Art to awaken the passengers and make them forget what had happened.
• Li Qing returned to the merchant ship and noted that Monsters in the Taihe River had watched the battle before losing interest.
• Li Qing viewed Ao Ming and Carp King training more than a hundred soldiers equipped with Platinum Divine Armor at White Dragon Shoal.
• Li Qing instructed Ao Ming to cautiously conquer nearby tributary waters and collect information about humans and demons.
• Li Qing examined the Blood Demon Seed and found that its spiritual imprint had grown tenfold, sharpening his thoughts.

Li Qing used the Blood Demon Seed to strengthen his spirit, improving his control and comprehension as he searched the Compendiums of the World for a path to become a mastermind behind the scenes. In Two Realms City, three hidden figures investigated the failed plan against the North Province King and suspected a dream-manipulating force was protecting Dragon Path City from chaos.

• Li Qing absorbed half of the Blood Demon Seed’s spiritual source, strengthening his spirit and improving his control over his body and dharma power.
• Li Qing found that his increased spiritual strength helped him understand the formations and miscellaneous studies in the Compendiums of the World.
• Li Qing searched the Compendiums of the World for a method to become a new mastermind behind the scenes.
• The man in black reported that Li Qiankun had been killed and that the North Province King had swiftly executed his commander and consort before taking control of military affairs.
• The star-eyed man linked the incidents in Dragon Path City and the North Province King’s actions to a Dream Black Hand trying to prevent the city from falling into chaos.
• The black-and-white-robed figure expressed disbelief at the star-eyed man’s conclusion.

Hua Qiankun, Yue Taishan, and Lou Xingyue deduced that the Dream Black Hand was in Dragon Path City and might have forged a supreme Immortal Path foundation, so Hua Qiankun set out to find evidence. Unaware of their suspicions, Li Qing spent the third day fishing aboard a ship on the Taihe River.

• Hua Qiankun challenged the theory about the Dream Black Hand by pointing to the Demon Sect's secret plans, the hidden Anomalies, and the leaked dream arrangement.
• Hua Qiankun linked the events of Kun-Tai's nineteenth year to a forced tribulation crossing and suspected the Dream Black Hand had obtained Hundred Schools cultivation methods from Jixia Academy.
• Hua Qiankun proposed finding evidence against the Dream Black Hand so the Master could act, and Yue Taishan and Lou Xingyue agreed to the plan.
• Hua Qiankun left Two Realms City to investigate while Yue Taishan and Lou Xingyue stayed behind to keep order.
• Li Qing fished from the ship's deck, caught a black carp, and praised the sailors' service.

Li Qing investigated Panyang Lake and found fresh signs of Anomalies on its islands, then left the merchant ship to watch from shore. As the ship neared the lake’s exit at night, a strange sound drew the passengers toward the deck, where Shang Xuewen and Li Qing spotted a figure beneath the water.

• Li Qing met Shang Xuewen aboard the merchant ship and learned that Panyang Lake and its Seven Islands and Eighteen Sights belonged to the School of Names’ territory.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls to explore the islands and found a multicolored creature in the Five-Colored Fountain Pool, along with fresh traces of Anomalies on every island.
• Li Qing used World-Walking Star-Shifting to leave the ship and followed it from shore, keeping a Shadow Paper Doll substitute aboard.
• As night fell, a strange sound rose from beneath Panyang Lake, and the ship’s passengers began sleepwalking toward the deck.
• Shang Xuewen rushed onto the deck and saw a strange figure beneath the water, while Li Qing watched from shore and recognized that the danger had arrived.

Shang Xuewen saved the merchant ship from a lake Anomaly and ordered it toward shore, while Li Qing learned that the Chujiang Ghost King Palace was behind the Anomalies at Panyang Lake. Li Qing fled toward the lake's exit and began preparing for the danger ahead.

• Shang Xuewen used a spell to put the ship's passengers to sleep, then killed the Anomaly with his magic sword and recovered its Essence Stone as a black token vanished.
• Shang Xuewen woke the passengers, identified himself to the captain as a presented scholar, and ordered the ship to head for shore immediately.
• Li Qing saw the ship approaching his direction, used World-Walking Star-Shifting to reach the exit of Panyang Lake, and sent a Shadow Paper Doll toward the ship.
• Li Qing wrote down his theories about the Anomaly incident and consulted the Jade Tablet, which identified Ghost Spirit of the Chujiang Ghost King Palace as the one raising Anomalies to destabilize Panyang Lake and ensnare Panyang City's cultivators.