Recaps

Li Qing strengthened his cultivation and divination tools while concealing his identity, then navigated Su Muqin’s investigation and several dangerous encounters. The stretch leaves him studying Yun Baishan’s bandits and planning to attack their leader before the soldiers can unite.

• Gongsun Jiuniang offered Nangong Haoran the Pink Gang’s information network in exchange for protection, and he agreed to shelter them.
• Li Qing completed the internal-organs stage of the True Method Realm and learned that a mysterious figure had removed the Immortal Coffin from the tomb.
• Li Qing discovered Requiem’s long-running effort to bring about Divine Heaven’s descent, recruited Zhao Mingyu and Li Zhengdao, and obtained twenty Force-Borrowing Talismans.
• Li Qing summoned and killed Anomalies to forge divination artifacts, then used them to prepare for his plans in Golden River City.
• Lou Xingyue’s Anomaly attacked Golden River City, and Li Qing helped fight it until Su Muqin destroyed it and explained Lou Xingyue’s transformation.
• Su Muqin tested Li Qing by sending an Anomaly against him, but Master’s projection intervened and punished Su Muqin for attacking a World Patrol member.
• Li Qing avoided a dangerous wilderness house in the Mist, escaped its funeral-hall Anomaly, and subdued the Toad King and his followers.
• Li Qing investigated Yun Baishan’s White Mountain Bandits, learned about their Demon Blood Path and planned army, and resolved to attack Yun Baishan before his men could form a military formation.

Li Qing manipulated the demon alliance and Yang Province’s factions while uncovering Ma Bowen’s Dream Grotto-Heaven. When the grotto-heaven opened, he explored its first layer, collected a token to reach the next layer, and witnessed a battle against a Disaster-level Anomaly.

• Li Qing defeated Yun Baishan, destroyed the bloodworm possessing him, and realized that controlling a Child of Destiny had triggered the world’s purge.
• Li Qing discovered that Great Ape King was organizing Yang Province’s demons, then used Mouse Little Brother and controlled demons to manipulate the alliance and expose its spies.
• Li Qing entered Yang Province City, uncovered the factions’ agents, and learned that the city concealed a secret tied to ancient legends.
• Li Qing found Ma Bowen’s descendants in Goose City and learned that their jade pendant could summon a Dream Grotto-Heaven, and he killed the rogue cultivator Zhang Bailong who had targeted them.
• Li Qing prepared a Dream Lamp and planted memories about the Heaven-Calculating Strategist’s inheritance, drawing the major factions toward Goose City.
• Ma Xiuwen opened the Dream Grotto-Heaven with his blood and the jade pendant, while Li Qing’s Shadow Paper Doll took him and his mother to safety.
• Li Qing explored the grotto-heaven’s first layer, observed its artificial Anomalies and a powerful cultivator, then gathered ten Essence Stones to assemble a token for the second layer.
• Li Qing saw a spirit-soul-level entity and a golden giant fighting a Disaster-level Anomaly.

Li Qing uncovered Ma Bowen’s sacrifice scheme, survived the Longevity Stele’s awakening, and expanded his influence while two sides prepared for war at Wild Goose Mountain. He stole the demons’ guarded supplies as the human army trapped the Demon Race at Falling Star Valley.

• Li Qing followed the Dream Grotto-Heaven’s layers to the Longevity Stele, learned Ma Bowen planned to sacrifice Goose City’s residents, and escaped when Ma Bowen awakened and destroyed the grotto-heaven.
• Li Qing returned to Yang Province, defeated the white-clothed Anomaly with his Sword Pellet, and discovered that its White Robe consumed anyone who answered its question.
• Li Qing warned key allies about the four great Dao Lineages’ rebellion plans, expanded his spy network, and investigated the forces gathering at Wild Goose Mountain.
• Li Qing learned that Yang Province City planned to track the demons through marked Anomalies, then helped Mouse Little Brother warn Great Ape King about the scheme.
• Great Ape King arranged an ambush at Falling Star Valley with Green Snake Gentleman, Mr. Centipede, and the Heaven-Burning Patriarch, while the human army advanced into Wild Goose Mountain.
• Li Qing slipped a Shadow Paper Doll into the demons’ grotto-heaven, bypassed the warehouse’s Frost Formation, and stole Essence Stones and a Fierce-grade Anomaly.
• Great Ape King prepared the Demon Race army after learning the grotto-heaven had been breached, but the human army trapped his forces at Falling Star Valley as Li Qing left with the stolen treasure.

Li Qing used the conflict between Yang Province City and the four paths to prepare for his tribulation, then let himself be captured to confront Yuan Zhihui. After escaping with Master, he learned Yuan Zhihui had survived and planned to use Master Kong Yu’s coming tribulation to draw away powerful enemies while investigating Yang Province City’s Longevity Seed.

• Li Qing completed the Heaven and Earth Marrow Cleansing Curse, renovated the movable grotto-heaven, and gave Mouse Little Brother a token to control its formations.
• Li Qing helped Ma Mingyue ally with Zhao Qiankun, who exposed four spies and earned military merit, while Li Qing gathered resources and studied the Yang Fire Tribulation.
• Yuan Zhihui organized the capture of ten suspects to expose the Black Hand, and Li Qing recognized the danger to his Li Wushuang identity and prepared to use White Robe and the World Patrol token.
• Demon Blood Lady abducted Li Qing and brought him to a yin residence, where Yuan Zhihui searched captives’ souls and identified Li Qing as his chief suspect.
• Li Qing activated the white clothes with the Wish Spell, trapping himself and Yuan Zhihui, and Master used the World Patrol token to rescue him as the yin residence was destroyed.
• Li Qing recovered from his injuries with Life and Death Reversal Path Continuation and told Master he had allowed himself to be captured to reach the scheme’s mastermind.
• Master warned Li Qing about Yuan Zhihui and revealed that Yang Province City’s secret was called the Longevity Seed, while Li Qing suspected Yuan Zhihui had survived.
• Li Qing learned that Master Kong Yu’s Heaven and Earth Killing Tribulation would begin on November 1st and planned to make it part of his own Yang Fire Tribulation while investigating the Longevity Seed and the organization Dian.