Recaps

Lin Qing quelled the looting of Sunset Glow Valley, arranged the surviving factions’ affairs, and persuaded Shen Yurong and the Sun Family to leave Great Qi for Cloudrise City. After gathering the survivors and their supplies, five Flying Vessels departed for Cloudrise Immortal Sect.

• Lin Qing led the Sixth-Tier cultivators in stopping the factions plundering Sunset Glow Valley and gathered them in Sunset Glow Hall.
• Lin Qing left Great Qi’s affairs to Sixth Princess Duan Qinghuan and assigned the other five major factions to manage Autumn Mountain Sect while protecting its innocent disciples.
• Lin Qing told Shen Yurong to relocate Sunset Glow Valley’s survivors to Cloudrise City, promising they could rebuild at their ancestral home once the danger passed.
• Shen Yurong buried Yuan Kun and the other elders, recalled the scattered disciples, and let them choose whether to migrate.
• Lin Qing warned Sun Shaoping that the Sun Family was at risk from Darknight Demon Court and offered it protection if it relocated.
• After buying five gigantic Flying Vessels, Lin Qing led Sunset Glow Valley’s survivors and the Sun Family toward Cloudrise Immortal Sect.

On the journey back to Cloudrise Immortal Sect, Lin Qing apologized to Duan Qinghuan for killing her father, King Qi, before their fleets parted without reconciling. Later, when supplies mysteriously vanished from his vessels, Juechenzi identified a Void Beast aboard and offered to help capture it.

• Lin Qing and Duan Qinghuan met aboard their passing fleets, and Lin Qing apologized for killing King Qi; Duan Qinghuan suppressed her grief and said nothing.
• Lin Qing returned to his vessel, and the two fleets continued on separate paths with their former connection left behind.
• As Lin Qing's fleet traveled toward Cloudrise City, he detected spirit materials disappearing from a storeroom despite keeping his divine sense spread across the vessels.
• Lin Qing asked Juechenzi about the theft, and Juechenzi identified a Void Beast and promised to help capture it alive.
• Lin Qing recognized the beast's extraordinary value for making storage equipment and decided to stop near the Northern Chen Empire's capital to rest and buy the materials Juechenzi requested.

Lin Qing brought Yun Nian, Xing Mian, and Yuan Chong into the Northern Chen Imperial Capital while the rest of their migration party stayed aboard the Flying Vessels. After shopping along the central commercial street, the group reached the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild.

• Lin Qing landed the five Flying Vessels at the capital’s port and took Yun Nian, Xing Mian, and Yuan Chong into the city.
• Lin Qing hired a beast carriage to take them to the largest merchant guild in the capital.
• Lin Qing bought Clear-Mind Pills and Body-Tempering Pills for his companions and urged them to improve their cultivation.
• Lin Qing and the others browsed the central commercial street and arrived at the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild.

Lin Qing visited the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild to buy materials for capturing the Void Beast and learned that the essential Darkspace Obsidian could only be obtained at its auction. After purchasing the other materials, he watched the bidding begin and waited for the item he needed to come up.

• Song Nian told Lin Qing that the guild had most of his requested materials, but its Darkspace Obsidian was reserved for the semi-annual auction.
• Lin Qing and his companions were shown to a private auction suite, where they waited for the auction to begin.
• Su Wan opened the auction, and a customer bought the Azure Vein spirit sword for two hundred and thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Lin Qing declined to bid on other expensive items and paid Song Nian one million nine hundred thousand spirit stones for the assembled materials.
• Su Wan introduced the Darkspace Obsidian with a starting bid of one million spirit stones.

Lin Qing outbid Mo Shuxuan for the Darkspace Obsidian, spending all his Spirit Stones to secure the material needed for capturing the Void Beast. After Song Nian warned him that Mo might hold a grudge, Lin Qing left the auction with Yun Nian and the others, but Mo called out to stop them.

• Lin Qing raised the Darkspace Obsidian bid to three million Spirit Stones, then bid 3.1 million after Mo Shuxuan invoked his Cloudrise Immortal Sect status and offered 3.01 million.
• Mo Shuxuan abandoned the bidding, and Lin Qing won the Darkspace Obsidian for 3.1 million Spirit Stones.
• Song Nian delivered the treasure in a sealed jade box, accepted Lin Qing's full payment, and warned him that Mo Shuxuan might seek revenge.
• Lin Qing said he was unconcerned, then left the auction with Yun Nian and the other two to prepare to capture the Void Beast.
• An aged voice from behind Lin Qing called, "Stop!" as they reached the first-floor hall entrance.

Lin Qing confronted the Cloudrise Immortal Sect guest elder Mo Shuxuan at the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild and killed him after overpowering him. He left with Yun Nian and the others, while the guild staff waited until they were gone before cleaning up.

• Mo Shuxuan confronted Lin Qing and rebuked him for disrespecting an elder after recognizing his Cloudrise Immortal Sect robes.
• Lin Qing attacked Mo Shuxuan, shattered his spiritual-power strike, and seized him with a giant scarlet hand.
• The crowd recognized Lin Qing as the cultivator who had overseen the Cloudrise Immortal Sect Entrance Examination and marveled at his victory over an Eighth Tier cultivator.
• Lin Qing asked the Sect Master to check Mo Shuxuan's records, and the Sect Master authorized him to act.
• Lin Qing crushed Mo Shuxuan into a blood mist, took his Storage Ring, and left the guild with Yun Nian and the other two.

Lin Qing opened Mo Shuxuan's Storage Ring and found a fortune of Spirit Stones and valuable formation diagrams. With Juechenzi's guidance, he arranged the five Flying Vessels as bait and activated a Ninth Tier formation to trap the Void Beast.

• Lin Qing consulted Juechenzi about the materials for the trap, and Juechenzi confirmed they were suitable and explained how Void Beasts moved between layers of the void.
• Lin Qing broke open Mo Shuxuan's Storage Ring and found 4.3 million Spirit Stones, several high-tier formation diagrams, and the Ninth Tier diagram that required Darkspace Obsidian.
• Lin Qing resolved to settle accounts with the Demon Court after bringing the people of Sunset Glow Valley safely to Cloudrise City.
• Over five days, Lin Qing noticed spiritual materials disappearing from the fleet's storerooms, confirming the Void Beast was still following them.
• Juechenzi guided Lin Qing as he placed materials across the five Flying Vessels and positioned them over an uninhabited region.
• Lin Qing placed the Darkspace Obsidian and activated the formation, enclosing all five Flying Vessels in a spherical silver barrier.

Lin Qing defeated a Peak Eighth Tier Void Beast after the formation forced it out of hiding, and Juechenzi praised his combat strength. Juechenzi told Lin Qing to prepare to enter a Central Continent secret realm in two years and offered to teach him formations.

• The Ninth Tier formation forced the Void Beast out of its hidden layer of space, and Lin Qing faced it while Juechenzi protected the Flying Vessel’s passengers.
• The Void Beast distorted space to evade Lin Qing’s attacks and struck his shoulder, but Lin Qing endured its assault and smashed its legs apart.
• Lin Qing used divine sense to overwhelm the Void Beast’s Divine Soul, then killed it with a twist of its neck.
• Juechenzi praised Lin Qing and told him that an Independent Secret Realm in the Central Continent would open in two years and admit Eighth Tier cultivators.
• Juechenzi offered to teach Lin Qing formations and said he would arrange his travel to the Central Continent.

Lin Qing brought Sunset Glow Valley to Cloudrise City, secured the sect a district, and helped it establish a pill business. With the sect settled and operating steadily, he went to the Cloudrise Immortal Sect’s Mission Hall to cause trouble for the Darknight Demon Court.

• Lin Qing completed two months of formation practice, reaching Eighth-Tier Perfection, and arrived in Cloudrise City with Sunset Glow Valley and the Sun Family.
• Sun Shaoping met Lin Qing at Southeast Gate Number Five, revealed he had reached the Spirit Realm, and led Sunset Glow Valley to a district he helped them purchase.
• Lin Qing and the sect’s leaders renamed the district’s meeting hall Sunset Glow Hall and agreed to train disciples in alchemy using Lin Qing’s unique pill formulas.
• Sunset Glow Valley began producing and selling exclusive First and Second Tier pills, and Lin Qing supported the opening of its shops.
• After Sunset Glow Valley settled in, Lin Qing went to the Cloudrise Immortal Sect’s Mission Hall to target the Darknight Demon Court.

Lin Qing memorized targets on the Demon Court bounty list and declined Ling Shu’s invitation to join a team mission. After Sun Shaoping asked for help inscribing a powerful array onto a jade pendant, Lin Qing recognized it as at least a Tenth Tier spatial array and took him to Juechen Island to work on it.

• Lin Qing studied the Demon Court bounty notices, memorized familiar targets and their movements, and decided to hunt them without accepting a mission.
• Ling Shu, fifth on the Heaven Ranking, invited Lin Qing to join her team, but he declined and left the Mission Hall.
• Sun Shaoping contacted Lin Qing and asked him to help set up an array formation on a jade pendant.
• Lin Qing examined Sun Shaoping’s array diagram and judged the spatial array to be at least Tenth Tier, possibly Eleventh Tier.
• Lin Qing told Sun Shaoping to bring the materials to Juechen Island, warning that the array formation would take a long time to complete.

Lin Qing secretly traveled to Shattered Gold City, a lawless border region between the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and the Darknight Demon Court, while disguising himself to avoid detection. As he waited at a tea stall, several hostile figures began closing in on him.

• Lin Qing completed the Spirit-Silencing Meridian-Sealing Formation for Sun Shaoping, who thanked him and hurried away with the jade pendant.
• Lin Qing disguised his appearance and aura, then traveled by teleportation array to the Profound Heaven Empire before leaving the city under another disguise.
• After confirming no one was following him, Lin Qing flew for three days into the Heavenly Prodigy Trial Grounds along the border between the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and the Darknight Demon Court.
• Lin Qing arrived at Shattered Gold City, a ruined and lawless settlement, and sat at a roadside tea stall after entering without using the city gates.
• Several sinister figures watched Lin Qing from the street shadows and approached the tea stall.

Lin Qing calmly paid off Darkfiend Hall enforcers who tried to extort him in Shattered Gold City, then secretly healed the tea stall owner and considered the deeper conflict behind the region’s suffering. After Scarface reported the encounter to Darkfiend Hall, its young guest suspected that someone was fishing again.

• Lin Qing gave Scarface and the other enforcers 65,000 Spirit Stones in response to their escalating demands, then ordered them to leave and retrieved the money.
• Lin Qing left without paying for his tea but secretly used a Minor Healing Art to ease the old tea stall owner's ailments.
• Lin Qing considered how the conflict between the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and the Darknight Demon Court sustained suffering in the borderland, then rented a room at an inn.
• Lin Qing followed Scarface and the other enforcers with his divine sense as they returned to Darkfiend Hall's headquarters and reported the encounter to the Hall Master.
• The Hall Master asked the brocade-robed young man for his opinion, and the young man said that someone was fishing again.

Lin Qing used his conspicuous spending in Shattered Gold City to draw out hidden experts and identify Fang Xiao, a Demon Court genius. After Fang Xiao fled and exposed the Demon Court disciples in the city, Lin Qing escaped the ensuing pursuit, revealed his overwhelming strength, and began searching Fang Xiao’s soul.

• Lin Qing saw through a disguised youth in Darkfiend Hall but decided to wait rather than risk acting against an unknown faction.
• Lin Qing’s spending attracted spies and powerful cultivators to his inn, where he discovered Fang Xiao, the seventh-ranked genius on the Demon Court Heaven Ranking.
• Fang Xiao sensed Lin Qing’s probe, recognized the danger, and fled; Lin Qing pursued him while deliberately holding back his speed and strength.
• Fang Xiao revealed his identity and called on Darknight Demon Court disciples, setting off battles between them and Cloudrise Immortal Sect disciples across Shattered Gold City.
• Lin Qing and Fang Xiao escaped beyond the city, and Lin Qing unleashed his full strength, caught Fang Xiao, and began a soul search.

Lin Qing used Fang Xiao’s memories to hunt down Demon Court disciples, prompting the Darknight Demon Court to mobilize its Demon Seeds. After learning that Ming Ye planned to ambush Ling Shu’s group, Lin Qing raced to rescue them.

• Lin Qing searched Fang Xiao’s memories, killed him, and returned to Shattered Gold City in disguise.
• Lin Qing hunted more than a hundred Demon Court disciples across Shattered Gold City over the next dozen days.
• Darknight Demon Court elders learned that their disciples were being wiped out and, suspecting Cloud Hermit involvement, Ming Yuan ordered all Demon Seeds sent into the world.
• Lin Qing left Shattered Gold City and learned that Ming Ye had gathered top Demon Court prodigies to ambush Ling Shu’s training group.
• Lin Qing reported the threat to the Immortal Sect, received Ling Shu’s group’s location, and raced toward them at full speed.

Ling Shu and four Immortal Sect disciples were trapped by Ming Ye and the Darknight Demon Court’s Heaven Ranking prodigies, who used them as bait for a mysterious expert. Lin Qing arrived at the valley, where the exhausted captives warned him that he was the real target.

• Ling Shu and her companions approached a mist-shrouded valley to investigate a Blood-Selection Platform, but an Eighth Tier formation trapped them.
• Ming Ye and more than a dozen Demon Court prodigies emerged and surrounded the group, while Ling Shu learned they were being kept as bait.
• The Demon Court disciples attacked Ling Shu’s group for hours, leaving them badly injured, as Ming Ye waited for the mysterious expert to arrive.
• Lin Qing sensed the trapped disciples and hidden figures in the valley, and the Demon Court prodigies withdrew when they felt his divine sense.
• Lin Qing arrived above the valley, and Ling Shu and the others urgently told him to run because the Demon Court’s target was him.

Lin Qing rescued Ling Shu and the other captives by turning their trapping formation into a defense, then defeated three Eighth Tier Demon Seeds. The Demon Court identified him and decided to ask the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grotto to eliminate him rather than alert its ancestors.

• Lin Qing inspected the Eighth Tier trapping formation and modified it into a defensive formation to shield Ling Shu and the other four from the battle.
• Lin Qing dispelled the valley’s mist, revealing a Blood-Selection Platform and many captured, wounded Mortal Realm cultivators.
• Three Eighth Tier Demon Seeds confronted Lin Qing, but he caught one’s attack, seized him by the neck, and swiftly defeated all three.
• Ming Ye recognized Lin Qing and reported his identity to the Demon Court, whose leaders concluded that ordinary fighters could not stop him.
• The Demon Court’s Divine Realm experts discussed Lin Qing’s protection by Juechenzi and decided to ask the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grotto to act.

Lin Qing revealed his identity and overwhelmed the Darknight Demon Court’s forces, killing Ming Ye and crippling three Eighth Tier Demon Seeds. After searching their souls, he learned that other Demon Seeds were hunting Immortal Sect disciples elsewhere.

• Lin Qing dropped his disguise as the Demon Court geniuses attacked him with spells, and he killed Seventh Tier disciples as the battle turned in his favor.
• Ming Ye emerged with dozens of Mortal Realm cultivators as hostages and demanded that Lin Qing stop, but Lin Qing killed him with a beam of Spiritual Power.
• Lin Qing defeated the remaining three Eighth Tier Demon Seeds and crippled them after their Spiritual Power ran low.
• Lin Qing used Soul Search on the three Demon Seeds, acquired two Eighth Tier cultivation techniques, and learned that Demon Seeds were hunting Immortal Sect disciples elsewhere.

Lin Qing rescued Ling Shu and five other disciples, then learned that the Darknight Demon Court was hunting Cloudrise Immortal Sect disciples across the region. As Mingjin and a Ten Thousand Ghosts Grotto expert trapped them with attacks on their souls, Lin Qing shielded the others and fought Mingjin while Juechenzi prepared a teleportation formation.

• Lin Qing reported the Demon Seeds' hunt to the Cloudrise Immortal Sect, and the sect master ordered every available Cloud Hermit to reinforce the borderlands.
• Lin Qing freed Ling Shu and the other five disciples, kept them and several hundred surviving cultivators with him, and set out to hunt the remaining Demon Seeds.
• Mingjin descended in a Will Domain and attacked Lin Qing, but Juechenzi appeared through his Divine Sense Mark and confronted him.
• A Ten Thousand Ghosts Grotto expert used the Gilded Soul-Calming Bell to attack their souls, killing the Mortal Realm cultivators and severely hurting the others.
• Lin Qing shielded Juechenzi and the disciples with his divine sense while Juechenzi began setting up a Ninth-Tier Random Teleportation Formation.
• Mingjin charged Lin Qing, who met him with a Five-Element-enhanced punch and badly mangled Mingjin's right arm.

Lin Qing completed the Ninth-Tier Random Teleportation Formation while Juechenzi held off Mingjin and the Soul-Calming Bell’s assault. The formation activated and took Lin Qing and Ling Shu’s group away just as Juechenzi’s divine-sense phantom shattered, while Cloudrise Immortal Sect’s reinforcements rushed to intervene.

• The gray-robed elder used the Soul-Calming Bell to suppress everyone in its range as Mingjin prepared to attack before reinforcements could arrive.
• A blue-robed Cloudrise Immortal Sect ancestor left seclusion, prompting the sect’s Divine Realm experts to prepare to depart and awaken other seniors if needed.
• Mingjin unleashed his natal demonic blade, and Juechenzi stepped between him and Lin Qing to shield the formation work.
• Lin Qing finished placing the formation materials while Juechenzi’s phantom weakened under the combined attacks.
• Lin Qing activated the formation, pulled Ling Shu and the other four into its light, and teleported away as Juechenzi’s phantom shattered.

Lin Qing escaped Mingjin’s attack but landed with his companions in Corpseseep Marsh, where he sent them away and drew Mingjin after himself. As Mingjin began to soul-search him, Lin Qing’s desperate resolve awakened the Will known as Burning the Boats.

• Mingjin failed to kill Lin Qing before the teleportation formation carried him and his companions away, while Yunsong withdrew from the battle.
• Mingjin sensed that Lin Qing’s group had landed in Corpseseep Marsh and rushed after them.
• Lin Qing gave Ling Shu his Storage Ring and ordered her and the others east while he fled west to lure Mingjin away.
• Mingjin caught Lin Qing and wounded him with his demonic blade, then noticed the five kinds of spiritual power circulating in Lin Qing’s body.
• Mingjin seized Lin Qing with his Primordial Spirit and began a soul search, prompting Lin Qing’s Will, Burning the Boats, to erupt.

Lin Qing awakened his Burning the Boats will and broke free of Mingjin’s soul search, then destroyed Mingjin’s body and fought his Primordial Spirit. An Immortal Sect elder arrived, killed Mingjin, and told Lin Qing to call her Grand Martial Aunt.

• Lin Qing awakened Willpower, repelled Mingjin’s Primordial Spirit, and shattered Mingjin’s Will Domain.
• Lin Qing confirmed that Mingjin had only seen his recent memories and attacked Mingjin’s defenseless physical body.
• Lin Qing destroyed Mingjin’s body, prompting Mingjin’s enraged Primordial Spirit to charge him.
• Lin Qing and Mingjin fought evenly until a woman in azure robes appeared and shattered Mingjin’s Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Qing thanked the woman for saving him, and she told him to call her Grand Martial Aunt.

After defeating Mingjin and surviving a battle with a Divine Realm pursuer, Lin Qing was rescued by Qing Yao and returned to the Cloudrise Immortal Sect. Three days later, he woke to learn that the Demon Court had been forced to pay compensation, while the truth of his victory over Mingjin remained concealed.

• Lin Qing collapsed after the battle, and Qing Yao caught him and contacted Juechenzi, who asked her to conceal his Storage Ring and spiritual power.
• Qing Yao reunited Lin Qing with Ling Shu and the other four, returned his Storage Ring, and took them to the Profound Heaven Empire teleportation plaza.
• Qing Yao led Divine Realm experts and Cloud Hermit disciples toward the Land of Chaos to confront the Demon Court, while Ling Shu and the others escorted Lin Qing into the Immortal Sect.
• Lin Qing slept for three days as his injuries healed, then woke and learned from Juechenzi that the Demon Court had paid him one hundred million Spirit Stones and withdrawn its border disciples five million li.
• Lin Qing walked through the Heaven Ranking disciples' area, where sect disciples greeted him respectfully, and saw a gigantic black tower before Ling Shu and the others hurried over to him.

Lin Qing learned that the Trial Tower accelerated Seventh Tier cultivators’ Spirit Core condensation and entered it to test its effects. After reaching the sixty-fifth floor without difficulty, he decided to gather materials and cultivate in the tower.

• Ling Shu told Lin Qing that the Cloud Hermits and Demon Seeds had both withdrawn after the border conflict was mediated.
• Ling Shu explained that the Trial Tower’s increasing pressure accelerated cultivation and that Seventh Tier sect members could enter with an available chance.
• The duty disciple found that Lin Qing had ninety-nine tower entries available, and Lin Qing entered with Ling Shu and the others.
• Lin Qing felt the cultivation boost begin around the sixtieth floor as Ling Shu and another disciple stopped to cultivate.
• Lin Qing continued past Ling Shu’s limit and decided to prepare materials so he could go into seclusion in the Trial Tower.

Lin Qing returned to Juechen Island, where Qing Yao gave him the Demon Court’s hundred million Spirit Stones, promised to take him to the Central Continent in half a year, and marked his Storage Ring with her Divine Sense. He sorted Mingjin’s array materials and diagrams before heading to the Mission Hall.

• Lin Qing returned to Juechen Island after Juechenzi told him that Qing Yao wanted to see him.
• Qing Yao gave Lin Qing Mingjin’s Storage Ring and the hundred million Spirit Stones paid by the Demon Court as compensation.
• Qing Yao told Lin Qing not to run around and said she would take him to the Central Continent in half a year.
• Qing Yao placed her Divine Sense Mark on Lin Qing’s Storage Ring and gave him a Communication Token.
• Lin Qing transferred the Spirit Stones into his own ring and found array materials and a Ninth-Tier illusion array diagram in Mingjin’s Storage Ring.
• Lin Qing finished organizing the materials and flew toward the Mission Hall.

Lin Qing went to the Mission Hall to exchange the rewards for the Demon Court disciples he had killed, but a steward picked a fight over how Lin Qing addressed him. After Elder He intervened and offered to settle Lin Qing’s tasks personally, he told Lin Qing that he no longer needed contribution points.

• Lin Qing entered the Mission Hall to exchange the contribution points earned from his recent victories over Demon Court disciples.
• A Seventh Tier steward rebuked Lin Qing for calling him Senior Brother, and Lin Qing slapped him twice after he tried to fight back.
• The steward accused Lin Qing of violating sect discipline, but nearby disciples recognized Lin Qing and the steward realized who he was.
• Elder He arrived, heard Lin Qing’s account, and offered to handle his contribution-point settlement personally.
• In the rear hall, Elder He told Lin Qing that he no longer needed contribution points.