Recaps

Li Qing escaped Qingshi County, reached Jade City, and used the Jade Tablet and Spirit Summoning Tablet to survive monsters, sect agents, and hidden dangers. After discovering a secret cultivator market and reading Wang Dexiu’s diary, he learned more about the Dao Lineages and Foundation Establishment while weighing the risks of cultivating multiple arts.

• Li Qing fled Mr. Huayue’s monstrous attack, escaped Qingshi County, and received a Spirit Summoning Tablet from an old man in the rain.
• Li Qing used the tablet to kill a Blood Refining Art cultivator and save Wang Kuohai’s escort party from monsters and bandits on the road to Jade City.
• Li Qing entered Jade City with Wang Kuohai, refined his vital essence through the Jade Tablet, and mastered martial arts that sharpened his senses and strengthened his blade.
• Li Qing killed Zhang Yutai, a cultivator who tried to steal his blood essence, and took his scriptures, coded letter, and other belongings.
• Li Qing cultivated the Three Talents Blood Curse and Shadow Art, gaining control of a Burning Blood Flame and the ability to move through walls in shadow.
• Li Qing entered Jade City’s hidden night market, evaded a transformed seller, then killed a black-robed attacker and took a pouch containing cultivation materials and books.
• Li Qing read Wang Dexiu’s diary and learned of the Black Water Profound Sect’s scheme, the dangers of broken vows, the seven major Dao Lineages, and the stages of Foundation Establishment.

Li Qing joined the Demon Extermination Hall, investigated Anomalies, and uncovered a conspiracy linking the Blood Demon Sect to Wang Jie. As the conspirators launched their assault on Jade City, Huang Tairen and Fang Qingyu faced them at the Yellow Flower Pavilion.

• Li Qing traded cultivation arts, investigated linked diaries, and joined the Demon Extermination Hall under the name Qin Wuming.
• Li Qing completed the Water Transport Counselor Mansion mission, destroyed its Ghost Sound Anomaly, and earned merit for exposing its connection to the Blood Demon Sect.
• Li Qing discovered suspicious deaths at the Mass Grave and destroyed a Faceless Ghost Shadow, bringing his Spirit Blood Art close to completion.
• After the Blood Demon Sect attacked the All-Under-Heaven Escort Agency and Wang Kuohai disappeared, Li Qing used case files to uncover the sect’s conspiracy with Commander-in-Chief Wang Jie.
• Li Qing informed Huang Tairen of the conspiracy, while Huang Tairen and Prefect Fang Qingyu investigated the sect’s agents and prepared to capture Wang Jie.
• Li Qing stayed inside the Demon Extermination Hall, identified Wen Taiquan as a Blood Demon Sect agent, and passed the information to Huang Tairen.
• Huang Tairen assembled an ambush at the Yellow Flower Pavilion, but Wang Jie and a young nobleman recognized the trap and ordered an assault on Jade City.
• Wang Jie’s troops seized the gates and attacked the Yellow Flower Pavilion, where Huang Tairen and Fang Qingyu fought Wang Jie and Young Master Blood Spirit.

After fleeing Jade City, Li Qing traveled with Zhou Qingming, met the Dragon King, and reached Three Rivers City, where he entered the Ghost Market in disguise. Trapped in the Blood Bone Heavenly Maiden’s faction, he witnessed her forces clash with Xin Shenzi’s Mo Family Iron Cavalry as Xin Shenzi confronted her.

• Li Qing helped defeat the Jade City rebels, earned merit, and developed the second step of Humanity's Overview Technique before leaving the Demon Extermination Hall for Dragon Path City.
• Li Qing destroyed a Ghost Wedding Procession, rescued Zhou Qingming, and traveled with him by boat toward Three Rivers City.
• The Dragon King met Li Qing in the Dragon Palace, gave him a Qi-Concealing Bead and a Jixia Academy token, and asked him to protect Ao Long'er in two hundred years.
• After reaching Three Rivers City, Li Qing entered the Ghost Market in disguise and traded his Shadow Art for a Bronze Bell, a Bronze Fragment, and an Essence Stone.
• The Blood Bone Heavenly Maiden arrived at the Ghost Market, sealed its exits, and bound the gathered cultivators to her faction with Three-Corpse Divine Insects, while Li Qing concealed his resistance and registered as Sun Wukong.
• Li Qing was assigned to serve Niu Shisan and allied with Daoist Yellow Weasel, who explained the dangers of escaping the Ghost Market.
• Li Qing followed Niu Shisan's illusion into the Heavenly Maiden Temple and learned that the Blood Bone Heavenly Maiden planned to attack Three Rivers City and kill Xin Shenzi.
• Daoist Yellow Weasel warned Xin Shenzi of the plan, and Xin Shenzi sent the Mo Family Iron Cavalry against the temple at dawn before riding forward to face the Blood Bone Heavenly Maiden.

Li Qing left Three Rivers City, joined Jixia Academy as its World Patrol Officer, and used the Jade Tablet to compile the cultivation knowledge he found there. After Zhou Xinglong tried to kill him with a Hundred-Corpse Monster, the Academy punished Zhou Xinglong, but the Zhou Family continued plotting against Li Qing.

• Li Qing escaped Three Rivers City with treasures from the Heavenly Maiden Temple and witnessed Xin Shenzi trap the Blood Bone Heavenly Maiden in the Nine Fire Divine Array.
• Li Qing strengthened his body, sold stolen artifacts, and traveled to Dragon Path City, where he destroyed an Anomaly at a Mountain God Temple before entering the city in disguise.
• Li Qing showed the Master’s Token to Jixia Academy and became a World Inspector named Li Wushuang, with access to the Academy’s texts and freedom from orders except the Master’s.
• Li Qing studied at the Library Pavilion, and the Jade Tablet compiled the Hundred Schools’ techniques into the Humanity's Overview Manual, the Compendium of Worldly Spells, and five other compendiums.
• Zhou Xinglong plotted against Li Qing after losing the World Patrol position and used human-skin blood to turn a mutated corpse in the Mass Grave into a Hundred-Corpse Monster.
• Li Qing reported Zhou Xinglong to Elder Zheng, who brought the evidence before the Master and used Karma Soul-Chasing Incense to identify Zhou Xinglong as the monster’s creator.
• The Master expelled Zhou Xinglong and publicly disgraced him, while Li Qing accepted Zhou Suhua’s apology and Mystic Gold Divine Iron.
• Li Qing began recording books from a hidden library room, while Zhou Suhua urged Zhou Xinglong to seek cultivation through the imperial court and find Li Qing’s weakness.