Recaps

Li Fuchan escaped to the open sea, recovered inside the Resurrection Clam, and chose Dao Attainment, gaining a deeper understanding of Thunder Arts and his death visions. As he began rebuilding his flesh, he sensed the process would be unusually quick.

• Li Fuchan fled Black Mountain while Hua Hong and Huaqing failed to catch him, then Huaqing disguised her escape and pursued him toward the sea.
• Li Fuchan retrieved the Resurrection Clam, reached a deserted island, and entered it to recover; Huaqing later deduced his route and continued after him.
• Hua Hong stopped pursuing Huaqing and set out for Zongshedu Mountain, hoping to win the Mountain Lord's protection with his remaining treasures and pills.
• After half a year, Li Fuchan awoke and chose Dao Attainment instead of a new technique or magic treasure.
• Li Fuchan realized his improved Dao Attainment had drawn Li Thunder's attention and noted that his three present-state death visions remained unchanged.
• Li Fuchan began devouring yang essence in the Resurrection Clam, expecting his flesh to recover unusually quickly.

Li Fuchan advanced his cultivation on a deserted island, grasped the Lightning-Struck Wood Yang Aspect, and used Li Thunder to restrain the erosion of his Three Calamities. After another half year of preparation, he left the island and set course for the South of the Yangtze.

• Li Fuchan realized his damaged body had let him reach Outer Scenery early, then replenished his foundation with the ancient Pills.
• He waited for a thunderstorm to strike a dead tree and grasped the Lightning-Struck Wood Yang Aspect, strengthening his Dharma Power with Li Thunder.
• Li Fuchan directed Li Thunder into an unmanifested death scene and stabilized it, preventing his Three Calamities from eroding away and his spirit and mind from dissolving.
• He spent another half year practicing and sorting through his gains before building a small boat and leaving the island.
• Li Fuchan decided to cultivate in the South of the Yangtze, away from Jia Hua's schemes and the Northern Lands.

Li Fuchan reached Great Night Lake, where he met Huici, a monk whose presence frightened him into fleeing. Huici was left alone, still puzzling over why people feared him.

• Li Fuchan arrived at Great Night Lake and tried to hire a boat across, but the demonic cultivators aboard fled after mistaking him for a threat.
• Huici explained that the Yang Family was preparing a Lakeside Market, and Li Fuchan changed his appearance before asking about the southern lands.
• Huici introduced himself as the monk Mu Suli, prompting Li Fuchan to react with alarm and summon golden-crimson lightning.
• Li Fuchan seized the demonic cultivators and ordered them to move, then watched their boat disappear into the night.
• Huici removed his disguise and wondered whether another version of himself was harming people elsewhere before wading away across the lake.

Li Fuchan traded the heads of five Demonic Cultivators and a cultivation method for refuge and permission to trade at the Lakeside Market under the Ning Family’s protection. After settling in, he entered one of the death scenes manifested in his soul while Li Thunder continued wearing away the Tribulation Qi.

• Li Fuchan offered Li Hua a way to trade at the Lakeside Market in exchange for five calling cards, and revealed his connection to Li Thunder.
• Li Hua brought Li Fuchan’s offer to Ning Xiangyi, who learned that he had presented the heads of five Demonic Cultivators and their storage pouches.
• Huang Jihai disclosed that Li Fuchan had also offered the Purple Firmament Thunder-Script Treasure Talisman Register, prompting Ning Xiangyi to summon him.
• Ning Xiangyi accepted Li Fuchan as a Ning Family retainer, and Li Fuchan received twenty-two spirit stones and a letter to Master Gu for an Enchanted Sword.
• Li Fuchan settled in the Ning Family residence, dug a chamber underground, and entered one of the three death scenes in his soul.

Li Fuchan visited the Lakeside Market with Li Hua and Ning Xiu Fu, seeking Wu Earth materials for an enchanted sword. After Yang Bozhuo revealed that his family owned Qifu Essence Marrow but suggested it required rare Golden Duke, Li Fuchan charged his purchases to Yang Bozhuo’s account, provoking his anger and forcing Ning Xiu Fu to hurry him away.

• Li Fuchan and Li Hua traveled to the Lake, where Ning Xiu Fu welcomed them aboard the Ning Family’s ship.
• Li Fuchan asked Ning Xiu Fu about Wu Earth materials for forging a sword, and Ning Xiu Fu arranged an introduction to Yang Bozhuo.
• Yang Bozhuo invited Li Fuchan to browse his family’s ship and offered to put anything he liked on his account after learning he cultivated Li Thunder.
• Yang Bozhuo told Ning Xiu Fu that his family owned Qifu Essence Marrow, but that refining it required rare Golden Duke made through a lost Ancient Art.
• After receiving account slips, Yang Bozhuo accused Li Fuchan of being a Demonic Cultivator and ordered Ning Xiu Fu to leave with him.
• Li Fuchan told a shopkeeper to charge his purchases to Yang Bozhuo, and Ning Xiu Fu hurried him away when a teacup shattered in the cabin.

Ning Xiu Fu reported to Ning Xiangyi about Li Fuchan and recognized his attendant as Li Hua, the Demonic Cultivator who had attacked Eastwood Market. Ning Xiangyi decided to keep Li Fuchan, use Li Hua when useful, and have Li Fuchan teach Xiu Qing Thunder Arts as the Ning Family prepared for the Yang Family’s next moves.

• Ning Xiu Fu told Ning Xiangyi how Yang Bozhuo had invited Li Fuchan to join the Yang Family, and Ning Xiangyi said Yang Bozhuo had little power over spiritual treasures.
• Ning Xiu Fu identified Li Hua as the leader of the Demonic Cultivators who attacked Eastwood Market, and Ning Xiangyi noted Li Fuchan’s unusual abilities and knowledge.
• Ning Xiangyi asked whether the Ning Family should keep Li Fuchan, and Ning Xiu Fu argued that Li Fuchan was useful while Li Hua could be exploited and eventually disposed of.
• Ning Xiangyi praised Ning Xiu Fu’s loyalty and instructed him to learn more from Yang Bozhuo about the Yang Family’s plans for the north.
• Ning Xiangyi decided to invite Li Fuchan to teach Xiu Qing the Thunder Arts.

Li Fuchan instructed Ning Xiuqing in thunder arts and helped him condense his Thunder Sigil, but a Three-Passage Gu killed the young cultivator soon afterward. Li Fuchan escaped with Ning Xiuqing’s head after striking at Hu Shan, whose Gu Worms then turned against him.

• Li Fuchan taught Ning Xiuqing the principles of Li Thunder while Ning Xiuqing repeatedly extorted the Yang Family and shared the spoils with him.
• After the Ning Family’s peak Outer Scenery ancestor vanished, Ning Xiuqing chose to condense his Thunder Sigil early so he could help his family.
• Li Fuchan guided Ning Xiuqing through the thunder trial, then discovered that a Three-Passage Gu had killed him from within.
• Li Fuchan seized the Gu Worm and confronted Hu Shan, who demanded its release and let Li Fuchan take Ning Xiuqing’s head.
• Li Fuchan fled after firing a thunderbolt at Hu Shan, and the Three-Passage Gu in Hu Shan’s hand fell still as Golden Light spread through it.

After Ning Xiu Qing’s death, Yang Bozhuo visited the Ning Family and revealed the dark secret behind Ning Xinping’s cultivation and the family’s karmic ties to Buddhist cultivators. As the Ning Family prepared to close the coffin, they discovered an unexplained jade bottle containing an Origin-Restoring Pill.

• Yang Bozhuo feigned grief at Ning Xiu Qing’s mourning hall before meeting privately with Ning Xiu Fu.
• Yang Bozhuo told Ning Xiu Fu that Ning Xinping had devoured his siblings and children to attain Outer Scenery, and warned that the Ning Family could not escape its karmic ties.
• Ning Xiu Fu rejected Yang Bozhuo’s appeal for their friendship and left him with a piece of robe stained by the floor.
• Ning Xiangyi confirmed that Ning Xinping had warned him not to act rashly if he failed to return, then ordered the coffin closed.
• Ning Xiu Cong stopped Ning Xiu Rang from touching a mysterious jade bottle, and Ning Xiangyi discovered it contained an Origin-Restoring Pill.

Li Fuchan collected his newly forged sword from Gu Liuru, named it Awaiting Light, and learned about ancient lineages, the Yang Family’s Edge-Raising Pool, and a possible connection between Destiny and Life Force. He left with an old book to study, while Gu Liuru worried that turmoil was gathering over Great Night Lake.

• Li Fuchan went to Six-Rank Studio and collected the sword Gu Liuru had forged from four spiritual materials.
• Li Fuchan named the sword Awaiting Light, and his understanding of Li Thunder and his Dharma Power strengthened.
• Gu Liuru directed Li Fuchan to the Sixfold Truth Monastery for knowledge of the name-aspect method and explained the Edge-Raising Pool’s origins in Yangshe Xu’s Wandering Gold divine ability.
• Li Fuchan asked about Destiny, and Gu Liuru shared an ancient passage linking nature, Life Force, and the Hundred-Scene Profound Immortal Way.
• Gu Liuru gave Li Fuchan the book A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales, which contained accounts of Yangshe Xu and other ancient events.
• After Li Fuchan left, Gu Liuru worried that gathering storms over Great Night Lake might be difficult to survive.

Li Fuchan traveled to the Southern Border to cultivate and avoid Mu Suli, where he killed two Monsters preying on villagers. After he left, a white-clad cultivator rescued the villagers and found the surviving flower spirit, which he decided to take south with him.

• Li Fuchan left Eastwood Market Ward and chose the Southern Border as a place to cultivate and avoid Mu Suli.
• After entering the Southern Border, Li Fuchan found two Monsters torturing villagers and preparing to eat them.
• Li Fuchan killed both Monsters with his sword and Thunder Arts, then left despite the villagers' pleas for help.
• A white-clad cultivator arrived, gave the villagers food and water, and escorted them to an abandoned temple for shelter.
• The white-clad cultivator found a flower spirit alive among the lightning-scorched ashes and chose to travel south with it.

Lord Yang Hu learned that a Yang Family disciple had defected to Buddhism after seeing the Wisdom King, then received Xiu Fu, who confirmed the Ning Family had sent Xiu Cong south. In the Southern Border, Li Fuchan discovered his Tribulation Qi could annihilate the Flood Serpent Destiny and turn it into a new talisman.

• Lord Yang Hu ordered an investigation into the Yang Family disciple who had become a monk and warned his clan not to approach the Wisdom King.
• Xiu Fu told Lord Yang Hu that his eldest brother, Xiu Cong, had gone to the Southern Border with retainers and soldiers to persuade the Wisdom King.
• Li Fuchan completed his mastery of Lightning-Struck Wood after more than three months of fighting monsters in the Southern Border.
• Li Fuchan realized that the Flood Serpent Destiny belonged to Flying Earthworm and could not reach the Tribulation Qi without his permission.
• Li Fuchan released the Tribulation Qi to destroy the Flood Serpent Destiny, producing a gray talisman called Jiao-Driving Lightning.

Li Fuchan infused the gray Talisman Register into Awaiting Light, transforming the sword into the Outer Scenery Great Accomplishment treasure Light-Deceiving and greatly improving his control over lightning. Meanwhile, Fei Cai heard reports of the breakthrough and decided to ask the senior from South of the Yangtze for help against the Monsters near Filth Mountain.

• Li Fuchan judged the gray Talisman Register too specialized to use directly and chose to raise Awaiting Light's grade with it.
• The Talisman Register transformed Awaiting Light into a Lightning Serpent, whose power killed the Fierce Tiger guarding the Cave Abode.
• Li Fuchan bound the Lightning Serpent to Lightning-Struck Wood, gaining easier control of lightning and greatly accelerating his refinement of magical power.
• Li Fuchan summoned the sword, recognized its advancement to Outer Scenery Great Accomplishment, and renamed it Light-Deceiving.
• A cultivator reported the thunder and serpent cries near Filth Mountain to Fei Cai, who ordered gifts delivered and invited the senior to the Fei Household.
• Fei Cai resolved to seek the senior's aid in removing the Monsters entrenched around Filth Mountain.

Fei Yangxie and Liu Xian traveled to meet Li Fuchan, hoping to honor the Thunder Cultivator and possibly enlist his help against Filth Mountain. Li Fuchan suspected the Fei Lineage wanted him to confront the monster and considered seeking their Wandering Gold inheritance before finally acknowledging their visit.

• Fei Yangxie questioned Liu Xian about the power and reputation of Li Thunder, and Liu Xian explained that only a righteous person could cultivate it.
• Fei Yangxie suggested seeking an Ancient Buddhism monk as another possible solution to the Fei Lineage's troubles, but Liu Xian doubted they could find one.
• Fei Yangxie and Liu Xian climbed to Li Fuchan's cave and offered congratulations and gifts on his advance in Dao Attainment.
• Li Fuchan inspected the visitors, suspected they hoped to use his Li Thunder against the Outer Scenery Monster on Filth Mountain, and considered obtaining the Fei Lineage's Wandering Gold method.
• After leaving Fei Yangxie and Liu Xian waiting in silence for an incense stick, Li Fuchan thanked them for their gesture.

Li Fuchan accepted the Fei Household’s invitation after Fei Yangxie offered him their unused Gold-Gathering Secret Origin Art. At Greenbriar Mountain, Fei Cai explained that the household wanted Li Fuchan to stand with them at a Filth Mountain ceremony, where other clans planned to pressure them into increasing their tribute to Flying Light.

• Fei Yangxie invited Li Fuchan to Greenbriar Mountain, then offered the Fei Household’s Gold-Gathering Secret Origin Art when Li Fuchan politely declined.
• Li Fuchan emerged from the cave after drawing in the thunderclouds and agreed to accompany Fei Yangxie and Liu Xian to Greenbriar Mountain.
• Fei Cai welcomed Li Fuchan and presented him with the Gold-Gathering Secret Origin Art, then invited him to hear the household’s predicament.
• Fei Cai explained that Flying Light protected the Fei Household from other Monsters in exchange for six hundred blood meals every ten years.
• Fei Cai told Li Fuchan that rival clans planned to pressure the Fei Household to increase its tribute at an upcoming Filth Mountain ceremony, and asked Li Fuchan to stand behind them.

Li Fuchan agreed to accompany the Fei Household to its July 23 ceremony after sensing the precious Wandering Gold Spirit Object. Fei Cai planned to use the resulting clash with Filth Mountain’s monsters as cover to flee north, and intended to kill Li Fuchan if he survived and threatened the escape.

• Fei Cai offered Li Fuchan the Gold-Gathering Secret Origin Art and the clan’s Wandering Gold Spirit Object in return for his help at the ceremony.
• Li Fuchan quickly learned the art’s qi-gathering method, sensed the Spirit Object deep within Greenbriar Mountain, and agreed to attend the ceremony on the twenty-third of July.
• Fei Cai told Fei Yangxie that the Fei Household needed Li Fuchan’s support against the monsters and rival clans, and reasoned that Li Thunder would compel him to fight evil.
• Fei Cai confessed at the ancestral hall that he had arranged for the Hidden Worthies Gate to accept the Fei Household and planned to use the ceremony’s chaos to escape north.
• Fei Cai resolved to kill Li Fuchan himself if he survived the planned clash and endangered the clan’s escape.

Li Fuchan witnessed the Southern Border clans driving mortals to Filth Mountain as offerings and killed several people who abused or tried to stop them. He refused to rescue the captives, but ordered Fei Yangxie to take down a boy left hanging; Fei Cai watched him with murderous intent.

• The Southern Border clans marched toward Filth Mountain with chained mortals as offerings, and a steward killed an injured woman while Clan Troops recaptured a fleeing boy.
• Li Fuchan killed the steward and Clan Troops with lightning, then struck down a cultivator who had helped capture the boy.
• Fei Yangxie explained that the Fei Household had brought more than its required six hundred captives in case some died or escaped.
• Li Fuchan told Fei Yangxie to take down the boy, while the other clans discussed whether to change their attitude toward the Fei Household.
• Fei Cai watched Li Fuchan from his palanquin and vowed that Li Fuchan, Flying Light, and even himself could die for the Fei Household and its bloodline.

Li Fuchan accompanied Fei Cai and the other Household Heads to Filth Mountain, where they were brought before the demons for a gathering. He concealed his strength until the mountain’s king arrived, whom he recognized as an Evil Spirit and silently judged he might be able to fight.

• Monster underlings herded thousands of mortal offerings into an enclosed valley at the foot of Filth Mountain.
• A wolf demon stopped the Household Heads to demand gifts, then questioned Li Fuchan; Li Fuchan put it to sleep with thunder hidden in a red envelope.
• Fei Cai urged Li Fuchan to keep his sword and aura concealed as they entered the Demon Cave, where Li Fuchan saw that the women serving the demons were captive ghostly retainers.
• Li Fuchan watched the Household Heads and Monsters gather for a lavish feast, suppressing the trembling of his “Li Thunder” as he sensed the demons’ evil.
• The mountain’s king entered to the gathered Monsters’ obeisance, while Li Fuchan remained standing and recognized the ruler as an Evil Spirit.

At a gathering on Greenbriar Mountain, Flying Light recognized Li Fuchan as an Outer Scenery cultivator and challenged him to a sword dance, revealing his murderous interest in the Gold-Gathering Secret Origin Art and its Spirit Object. Li Fuchan struck first, leaving Flying Light wounded in the neck and the cavern’s monsters trembling.

• Flying Light reassured Fei Cai about the Fei Household’s tribute, then asked about the sword-bearing Li Fuchan.
• Flying Light challenged Li Fuchan to a sword dance, and the gathered cultivators realized Li Fuchan was an Outer Scenery cultivator.
• Li Fuchan deduced that Flying Light wanted the Spirit Object and had used the Fei Household to lure him into a scheme.
• Flying Light revealed his monstrous form and invited Li Fuchan to draw blood from him.
• Li Fuchan used the Thunder Escape Sword Art to wound Flying Light’s neck, then caught Light-Deceiving as it flew back.

Li Fuchan fought Flying Light in the Cave Abode, but the scaled fiend outmaneuvered him and killed him. Flying Light stood over Li Fuchan’s fallen body as the cave fell silent.

• Flying Light sealed the sword wound in its neck with blue-gold scales and forced Li Fuchan’s thunderfire out of its flesh.
• Li Fuchan attacked Flying Light with Light-Deceiving, and their swords shattered the Cave Abode’s furnishings while killing nearby thrall ghosts.
• Li Fuchan pierced Flying Light’s chest with thunderlight and pressed his attack with the Thunder Sigil, but Flying Light endured his repeated strikes.
• Flying Light baited Li Fuchan into striking empty air, transformed its head into a scaled maw, and swallowed his head.
• Li Fuchan’s headless body fell to the floor as Flying Light gave a low whimper.

Flying Light defeated Li Fuchan and Fuchan Li, then confronted Fei Cai over his apparent scheme against Filth Mountain. Before Flying Light could kill Fei Cai, another stranger calling himself Chanli Fu appeared to avenge two elder brothers, and Flying Light chased him into battle.

• Flying Light realized Li Fuchan’s lightning attacks had mostly served to force close combat, then accused Fei Cai of plotting against him.
• Fei Cai asked Flying Light to spare the Fei Household and revealed Fei Yiming’s ancient halberd, but Flying Light prepared to kill him.
• A disguised cultivator named Fuchan Li arrived demanding his elder brother, attacked Flying Light, and was killed after several dozen exchanges.
• Flying Light questioned Fuchan Li’s weak Blood Qi and demanded that Fei Cai explain the stranger’s origins, while Fei Cai was equally bewildered.
• Flying Light threatened to kill Fei Cai and hunt down Fei Yiming’s descendants, but another stranger named Chanli Fu appeared, claiming Flying Light had killed his two elder brothers.
• Flying Light pursued Chanli Fu and attacked him as Chanli Fu shouted for revenge.

Li Fuchan exposed Fei Cai’s trap, reclaimed his spirit talismans, and forced the Fei Household to surrender its possessions before letting them depart with food. He then explained how his false bodies and talismans had let him stay one move ahead, and returned to Filth Mountain to seek the Spirit Object.

• Li Fuchan returned to the cave, reclaimed Light-Deceiving and Brow Peak from the corpses, and confronted Fei Cai about the Fei Household’s scheme.
• Fei Cai learned that his household’s people had left, accepted that he had done his best for his master, and offered Li Fuchan his Life Force, but Li Fuchan took his Great Halberd instead.
• Li Fuchan stopped Fei Yangyu’s procession, ordered the Fei Household to surrender its Storage Bags, then gave them a bag of food for their journey to the Northern Lands.
• Li Fuchan explained that his false bodies, empowered by three spirit talismans, had enabled him to mislead Flying Light and survive the trap.
• Li Fuchan climbed Filth Mountain, sensed the Spirit Object inside it, and concluded that he had stayed one move ahead.

Li Fuchan escaped Flying Light after seizing the Fei Household’s possessions and learned more about the hidden fire repository beneath Greenbriar Mountain. While inspecting his spoils in a cellar, he found a booklet compiled from writings signed by Fei Yiming.

• Li Fuchan gathered the Spirit Object from Filth Mountain and realized that Xu Earth was the repository of fire beneath Greenbriar Mountain.
• Li Fuchan escaped as Flying Light discovered his deception and pursued him for several days before he reached a village cellar.
• After resting, Li Fuchan inspected the Fei Household’s Storage Bags and found Spirit Stones, Spirit Objects, magical artifacts, and the Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring.
• Li Fuchan discovered that the Azure Fish Ring held three grains of Fire Essence and sorted the rest of his spoils into Storage Bags.
• Li Fuchan found an untitled booklet of excerpts from letters, diaries, and historical texts, all signed Fei Yiming.

Fei Yiming’s chronicle recounted his rise from a mistreated mortal to the ruler of Greenbriar Mountain, his mother’s death, and his eventual transformation into Spirit Objects. A being who took on Fei Yiming’s appearance inherited his family’s crisis and chose the name Fei Cai.

• Fei Yiming’s account described how the Fang Family denied him cultivation, sent him as a sacrifice to demons, and how he escaped with an immortal art and later seized Greenbriar Mountain.
• Fei Yiming returned to Green Fish Village and learned that his mother had died clutching the twelve copper coins she had saved for him; he killed those who had mistreated her.
• Fei Yiming outmaneuvered Flying Light, reorganized the Fei Family, and later discovered that his cultivation method and pills had trapped him on a demonic path.
• Fei Yiming died as his flesh, bones, and organs transformed into Spirit Objects, and a monster used his bloodline to complete them.
• The being formed from the Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring read Fei Yiming’s records, took his appearance, and became Household Head to protect the Fei Family.
• When the old man who had recognized him asked him to choose a name, he recalled a voice from the past and called himself Fei Cai.

Li Fuchan emerged from his cellar after hearing that an immortal had rescued villagers from demons, only to realize he had been lured out by the monk Huici. Huici greeted him and asked for his help.

• Li Fuchan reflected on Fei Yiming's death and considered his cultivation plans before hearing villagers celebrate the return of men rescued from demons.
• A frightened old villager condemned the immortal for provoking the demons, while a messenger insisted the immortal had killed them.
• Li Fuchan left the cellar in a dazed state and headed toward the village entrance, where the rescued men and villagers had gathered.
• Light-Deceiving surged through Li Fuchan's meridians and a lightning arc broke his haze as he saw the white-clad monk Huici emerge from the crowd.
• Huici revealed that he had lured Li Fuchan out and asked him for help.

Huici asked Li Fuchan to help save the mortals on Filth Mountain by confronting the Demon Flying Light. When Li Fuchan reached the mountain, Flying Light fled instead of attacking, leaving Huici’s plan unresolved.

• Li Fuchan cautiously accepted Huici’s request and was taken to the foot of Filth Mountain.
• Huici asked Li Fuchan to save the mortals living on the mountain, explaining that he wanted to test what lay in his heart.
• Li Fuchan warned that Flying Light’s nature root and abilities would make it difficult to kill, so Huici wrote two characters meaning “immovable” on Li Fuchan’s palm to suppress them.
• Li Fuchan climbed the mountain with his aura exposed, and Flying Light roared at him before fleeing into the distance.