Recaps

Li Shun survived the Xiang Kingdom remnants’ attack, secured the Cold Mountain Venerable, and expanded his power while navigating Fang Xun and Changle Marquis’s plans. After cultivating a second Venerable and surrendering a Cold Mountain Lord, Li Shun earned a promotion and received the Twelve Longevity Method.

• Li Shun used Three Reflections Upon Myself to reverse his death in the Xiang Kingdom remnants’ assault, then began expanding Square Inch and pursuing longevity.
• Li Shun and Feng Guan spied on the remnants, but their plans led to Li Shun’s repeated deaths until he used a puppet to steal the Cold Mountain Venerable during Xiong Jin’s capture.
• The imperial court rewarded Li Shun and Feng Guan, but Li Shun reversed time to warn Feng Guan about an ambush and arranged an escort to protect him.
• Changle Marquis arrived to investigate Xiong Jin, then recruited Cold Mountain Grass laborers to search an abandoned mine for the Cold Mountain Soul.
• Li Shun found a Cold Mountain Lord in the mine and later swallowed the Cold Mountain Venerable, strengthening his soul and studying its growth.
• Li Shun cultivated a second Cold Mountain Venerable in Square Inch, learned that the two would fight each other, and investigated strange heat and silvery-white spheres.
• Li Shun surrendered a Cold Mountain Lord to Fang Xun, who promoted him to first-rank Gongshi and taught him the Twelve Longevity Method.
• Li Shun began circulating the Twelve Longevity Method at home.

Li Shun borrowed lifespan, survived Cold Mountain County’s destruction, and used Threefold Self-Reflection to uncover Fang Xun’s secrets and secure a way out. In East Mountain Town, he reunited with Li Qing and began preparing to stop Jiang Chongguang and Han Sushu from reaching Emperor Gan’s tomb.

• Li Shun borrowed more lifespan, accepted a post tending Cold Mountain plants under Fang Xun, and used Threefold Self-Reflection to reset Heaven and Earth before borrowing again.
• A flood devastated Cold Mountain County, and Fang Xun manipulated the Bright Light Formation while hunting Xiong Jin’s nephew, who escaped with Han Sushu.
• Fang Xun concealed the county’s losses, imprisoned Yu Shang and Wu Kuang, and secretly hollowed out the mountain as Li Shun created midges to observe events.
• Fang Xun killed Cheng Yishu, Yu Niang fatally wounded Fang Xun, and the mine collapse sank Cold Mountain County into ruins.
• Li Shun reset time, rescued Fang Xun as a puppet, learned about the rules of borrowed longevity, and followed Fang Xun’s demotion to East Mountain Town.
• Li Shun traveled with Fang Xun to East Mountain Town, reunited with Li Qing, and learned how Li Qing and Xiao Yuan had survived under Elder Wei’s care.
• Li Shun learned that Jiang Chongguang and Han Sushu were raiding Emperor Gan’s tomb, then resolved to strengthen East Mountain Town and divert them.

Li Shun navigated the Imperial Tomb’s reflections, mastered Confucian cultivation and pursued the power tied to his breakthrough while uncovering the Heavenly Man Book’s role in rewriting events. The arc left Shentu Xin’s tomb-burning catastrophe unfolding again, with his illusory figure appearing in Li Shun’s newly opened sixth plot.

• Li Shun discovered that his true body had died, survived an attack by his Lifespan-Seizing Shadow with Elder Wei’s Sword Branch, and learned from Li Qing how Imperial Tomb Heaven intercepted borrowed lifespan.
• Li Shun became Fang Xun’s registered disciple, quickly advanced through the Mortal Embryo Realm, and discovered that Square Inch Space preserved his state while the statues’ powers could distort his memories.
• Li Shun identified Jiang Chongguang as the person tied to his Earth Pass, but their meeting led to a Jun Family heir imprisoning them while he prepared to burn the Imperial Tomb.
• Li Shun spent nearly all his remaining lifespan breaking the seal, then witnessed the Imperial Tomb burn and collapse before golden hands reset the realm and erased the catastrophe from its pages.
• Elder Wei explained that the Hundred Schools had built the Heavenly Man Book and taught Li Shun Empty Boat, Self-Erasure, which Li Shun accepted and began cultivating.
• After the reflection reset, Li Shun became Fang Xun’s disciple again and reached the Mortal Embryo Realm’s completion as Jiang Chongguang returned to East Mountain Town and found his underground-palace treasures stolen.
• Jiang Chongguang fought the constables and Blood Armored Guards, then found Han Sushu, who identified Shentu Xin as the tomb-burning impostor and explained how to counter the guards.
• Shentu Xin burned the Imperial Tomb with his Life Qi flames, and Li Shun stored a wisp of his tribulation ash in Square Inch Space, where Shentu Xin’s illusory figure appeared on the sixth plot.

Li Shun entered the Imperial Tomb Burial Mound, recovered Lu Tinglan’s armor, and emerged decades older with imperial blood and Wu Peng’s inheritance. After the tomb’s restrictions ended and Imperial Tomb Commandery was reorganized, Li Shun and Fang Xun faced new journeys and political dangers.

• Li Shun transferred Shentu Xin’s [Life-Qi Furnace] trait to Fang Xun, then withdrew it and began seeking other rare traits for his perfect body.
• After black mist erupted beneath Langya, Li Shun found that Shentu Xin’s phantom had gained [Unbreakable Body], helping him open Square Inch Space’s seventh clearing.
• Li Shun entered the Imperial Tomb Burial Mound, where Elder Mu guided him through Zhanghua City to Lu Tinglan’s abandoned Wu Peng Armor.
• Li Shun claimed Wu Peng’s Azure Wood Invocation, spent fourteen years exploring the burial mound, and learned from Elder Mu that Mu Wujiu was Emperor Gan.
• Elder Mu identified Li Shun as an imperial descendant, gave him a blood seal, and sent him to find the Marquis of Changxin in Dai State.
• Li Shun escaped the burial mound with Han Sushu and Jiang Chongguang, returned to East Mountain Town, and broke with Fang Xun over the decision to send him inside.
• Elder Wei taught Li Shun the Emperor-Slaying Sword, while Fang Xun repeatedly apologized until Li Shun welcomed him back into the Spring-Autumn Brush Lineage.
• An imperial edict abolished Imperial Tomb Commandery, and Li Shun learned of plans to visit Linchuan as golden hands tore away the commandery’s false sky and restored sunlight.