Recaps

Ji Yuan joined the Water Dragon Sect, advanced his alchemy and body tempering, and prepared for Foundation Establishment while the conflict over the Spirit Vein and the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven intensified. After reaching Physique Foundation Establishment and helping Big Clam advance, he returned to find the Discipline Hall had seized Tang Ran.

• Ji Yuan killed Yue Zhu and Wang Shan to fulfill Wen Lin’s revenge, then returned the heads and brought back the Millennium Green Hui Grass.
• Ji Yuan saved the badly injured Li Changhe, received his Ascension Token and Heaven-Escaping Shuttle, and later used the token to avoid a dangerous sect assignment.
• Ji Yuan joined the Water Dragon Sect after killing an Earth-Rending Demon Wolf, while Wen Ling’er’s rare wind spiritual root brought her family into the sect’s attention.
• Ji Yuan settled on Young Dragon Island, became an upper first-tier alchemist, and upgraded his Spirit Field to produce Millennial Illusion Spirit Grass and Dan Yuan Fruit.
• Ji Yuan declined to fight at Liancheng Mountain, learned that the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven might open in three years, and met the Iron Hammer Island Lord, who helped him reach Body Refining Completion.
• After Big Clam was injured by a venomous serpent, Ji Yuan killed the beast, expanded Mist Island’s facilities, and spent months cultivating and gathering supplies.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the Pigsty, collected hundreds of Aperture-Tempering Pearls, and achieved Physique Foundation Establishment before helping Big Clam break through to the Late Second Tier.
• Ji Yuan hunted in Cloud-Rain Marsh with Big Clam, then returned to Young Dragon Island and saw the Discipline Hall seize Tang Ran as Fang Jie urged him and Pi Fangzhi to await questioning.

Ji Yuan gathered resources, survived the fallout from Jian Zong’s death, and advanced his alchemy, talisman-making, and cultivation while choosing not to enter the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven. He established his foundation in seclusion and emerged to find Profound Water True Person questioning his absence, just as Hua Yaoyue identified him as her disciple.

• Ji Yuan investigated the Illusion-Heart Flowers with Dong Qian, helped Feng Yichen set fire to a Medicine King Valley warehouse, then killed Jian Zong while escaping pursuit.
• Ji Yuan reached Peak Qi Refining, gathered cultivation materials and artifacts, and advanced to second-tier talisman master and alchemist with Feng Zhitáo’s guidance.
• Ji Yuan sold his Two-Pattern Foundation Establishment Pill at the Greenleaf auction, then killed Yang Shunan and Yang Yunxiang to end the trouble against Du Wanyi.
• Ji Yuan caught Pi Fangzhi digging under his home by contacting Li Changhe, who captured Pi Fangzhi and rewarded Ji Yuan with the Azure Billows Nine Tribulations Sword Canon and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Ji Yuan declined to enter the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven and prepared protective talismans, while Du Wanyi joined the expedition and Han Feiyu and Feng Yichen encountered danger at Ghost Flood Dragon Lake.
• Ji Yuan rented an earth-vein Alchemy Room, refined twenty Foundation Establishment Pills, and established his foundation after a year in seclusion.
• Ji Yuan met Profound Water True Person after emerging, explained that he had entered seclusion to break through, and received Li Changhe’s support before Hua Yaoyue called him her disciple.

Ji Yuan establishes himself on Carefree Island, strengthens his cultivation and formations, and survives a demonic attack on Linhua City. He follows a secret text to Dragon Qi beneath Pear Blossom River, captures some, and glimpses a vast creature before returning to plan his next move.

• Hua Yaoyue accepted Ji Yuan as her disciple and taught him the Breath-Concealing Formula, while Yun Qianzai and Feng Zhitáo welcomed him as their junior brother.
• Ji Yuan claimed an island, named it Carefree, and developed Mist Island with powerful formations, a restored fish pond, and a Mass Burial Ground that could raise and strengthen Corpse Puppets.
• Ji Yuan refined pills for Han Feiyu and Du Wanyi, forged a Water Fortune Sword Embryo, and visited Zengtou City, where Lin Hu told him Wen Ling'er had disappeared after her Spiritual Root test.
• Demonic cultivators attacked Linhua City while Wu Nanchun was away, and Ji Yuan trapped three attackers in his formations, killed one, and mortally wounded another as Hu Li escaped.
• Hua Yaoyue warned Ji Yuan that the Demonic Dao sought Dragon Qi beneath Pear Blossom River, and Ji Yuan became a Second-Tier Formation Master under Yun Qianzai's instruction.
• Ji Yuan began forging a second Sword Embryo at Pear Blossom River, sensed Dragon Fortune within it, and discovered Shui Kai and Shui Yan competing over a secret text about a True Dragon beneath the river.
• Ji Yuan followed Shui Kai to the ancestral grave, killed the Azure Mist Hermit, destroyed a Blood-Congealing Baleful Refinement Formation, and captured Dragon Qi in a spirit-jade bottle.
• Ji Yuan found Shui Cang and his family gone, retrieved his Cave Abode, and left for the Water Dragon Sect after glimpsing a huge dark shape with lantern-sized eyes beneath Pear Blossom River.

Ji Yuan sought Rotfire Yin Locust in the Ghost-Seeking Escape, joined the Great Love Sect’s attack on the Divine Vulture Palace, and escaped with the materials and secrets he needed. Back at Liancheng Mountain, he killed Xuanweizi and Danxia for stealing the Spirit Vein, upgraded it, and returned to the sect after the elders took control of the investigation.

• Ji Yuan contracted the Ice Flood Dragon, learned of Xu Fugui and the Iron Hammer Island Lord’s deaths, and broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage with Hua Yaoyue’s guidance.
• Ji Yuan took leave from Liancheng Mountain to seek Rotfire Yin Locust, joined the Great Love Sect, and bargained for wood in exchange for fighting alongside them.
• During the assault on the Divine Vulture Palace, Ji Yuan killed Yin Boy, helped the Great Love Sect defeat the palace, and received Rotfire Yin Locust Wood before the Thousand-Heart Blood Fiend turned on its allies.
• Ji Yuan killed Ma Xingkong, obtained the Yin Ghost Sect inheritance and the Nine-Gate Soul-Calming Scripture, and returned to Mist Island to upgrade his Chicken Coop and prepare for the mine.
• Ji Yuan returned to Liancheng Mountain, discovered Xuanweizi and Danxia stealing from the Spirit Vein, killed them, and used the living black thread to claim and upgrade the stolen vein.
• Ji Yuan told Liu Yuan what had happened and handed the evidence to Profound Water True Person and Many-Treasure True Person, who brought the elders to inspect the mine and ordered its guards replaced.