Recaps

Li Fuchan chased Flying Light, hoping it would keep fleeing so he could escape Huici, but a mysterious fragrance made Flying Light stop and fight. Li Fuchan suppressed its spiritual treasure with the characters “Immovable” and unleashed his full power, leaving Flying Light battered by lightning.

• Flying Light fled as soon as it saw Li Fuchan, and Li Fuchan pursued it, hoping the chase would take him away from Huici.
• Li Fuchan realized Wandering Gold was increasing Flying Light’s escape speed, while a gardenia fragrance stirred Flying Light to turn back and fight.
• Li Fuchan caught up with Flying Light, and both realized that someone had been manipulating their thoughts with the fragrance.
• Flying Light revealed a golden fruit that clouded Li Fuchan’s mind, but Li Fuchan countered it with the glowing characters “Immovable.”
• Li Fuchan unleashed golden-red lightning from his thunder Talisman Register, overwhelming Flying Light as its nature root remained suppressed.

Li Fuchan captured Flying Light for Huici, who then explained the Buddhist three corpses Dharma-Aspect doctrine. Li Fuchan realized Huici was likely Mu Suli’s good corpse and that his escape had forced Mu Suli to realize the Nirmanakaya Shakyamuni Aspect.

• Flying Light attacked Li Fuchan, but Li Fuchan struck him with lightning, stunned his Spiritual Nature with illuminating light, and sealed his sea of qi.
• Li Fuchan delivered the captive Flying Light to Huici at the foot of Filth Mountain.
• Huici asked Li Fuchan whether they had met before, then told a Buddhist story about a Buddha dividing his thoughts into three Dharma Forms.
• Li Fuchan considered how events might have unfolded without him and concluded that his actions had not changed the larger course of events.
• Li Fuchan inferred that Huici was probably Mu Suli’s good corpse and that Mu Suli had realized the Nirmanakaya Shakyamuni Aspect after Huici’s plans failed.

Li Fuchan stayed with Huici in the Demon Cave and agreed to help him evade the houses of the South of the Yangtze. At Narrow Gorge, Huici devoured thousands of imprisoned mortals, leaving Li Fuchan to witness the monk’s terrifying nature.

• Huici carried the defeated Flying Light into the depths of the Demon Cave, while Li Fuchan stayed behind and studied the Gold-Gathering Secret Origin Art.
• Huici returned with strangely transformed hands and asked Li Fuchan to suppress his aura, kill demons, and hold off pursuers from the houses of the South of the Yangtze.
• Li Fuchan accepted Huici’s request because he felt he could not safely refuse.
• Huici led Li Fuchan to Narrow Gorge, where thousands of mortals were imprisoned.
• Huici opened his mouth and sucked all the mortals into it, then turned to Li Fuchan and smiled.

Li Fuchan realized Huici had swallowed thousands of people into his Buddha Kingdom to build his strength, then set out for Wangci Mountain to destroy a magnetic jade monster. He found Ning Xiuqing’s Fate Jade and hoped it could lead him to Ning Family cultivators, while Ning Xiu Cong entered the Southern Border and sensed the jade responding to a nearby relative.

• Huici swallowed thousands of people and explained that Li Fuchan should use his Li Thunder to subdue a magnetic jade monster at Wangci Mountain.
• Li Fuchan headed north while plotting to alert the cultivators pursuing Huici, but realized he had no way to contact them.
• Li Fuchan found Ning Xiuqing’s Fate Jade in his Storage Bag and recognized it could resonate with nearby members of the Ning Family.
• Ning Xiu Cong led a discreet party into the Southern Border and decided they would first seek shelter and information at the Fei Household.
• Ning Xiu Cong’s Fate Jade began glowing, indicating that someone of the Ning Family bloodline was nearby.

Li Fuchan met Fengci at Wangci Mountain and learned that Huici had secretly influenced him with a gardenia petal. Fengci protected Li Fuchan from Huici, but after learning of Huici’s ambitious plans, he let the monk proceed and invited Li Fuchan to visit Wangci Mountain afterward.

• Li Fuchan arrived at Wangci Mountain and was confronted by Fengci, who questioned his connection to Welcome Ying Isle.
• Li Fuchan told Fengci that Huici had sent him there, and Fengci discovered Huici’s gardenia petal on Li Fuchan’s shoulder.
• Fengci removed the petal, revealing Huici’s thought-manifestation, and declared Li Fuchan under his protection.
• Fengci ordered Huici to leave the Southern Border or attain the Dao, but changed his attitude after learning of Huici’s ambition.
• Huici asked Li Fuchan to bring him two masses of qi, then vanished into petals on Li Fuchan’s shoulder.
• Fengci let Huici proceed and invited Li Fuchan to spend time at Wangci Mountain after Huici finished his business.

Li Fuchan secretly summoned Ning Xiu Cong to Filth Mountain, where Huici was staying. After discovering the mountain’s threat and inferring that Huici had trapped the Thunder Cultivator, Ning Xiu Cong alerted the Yang Family and resolved to prioritize rescuing Ning Xinping.

• Huici apologized to Li Fuchan and swore on his Life Force that he would never harm him, then entered the cave with Fengci’s items.
• Li Fuchan secretly used the Fate Jade to summon Ning Xiu Cong to Filth Mountain.
• Ning Xiu Cong found Greenbriar Mountain evacuated, heard that monsters on Filth Mountain demanded blood offerings, and suspected Ning Xinping’s summons was a lure involving Huici and the Thunder Cultivator.
• Ning Xiu Cong sent a message to the Yang Family about Huici’s presence and requested help, expecting them to send Ning Xinping.
• Ning Xiu Cong decided that rescuing Ning Xinping came first.

Huici helped Li Fuchan rescue mortals trapped by monsters and explained how the Yang Aspect of his Li Thunder cultivation worked. Li Fuchan gained a new understanding of his path, and Huici urged him to summon true heavenly lightning.

• Li Fuchan carried Huici across several monster-infested peaks, where Huici swallowed thousands of trapped mortals’ Life Forces.
• At a smoke-shrouded mountain, Li Fuchan prepared to descend and kill the monsters, but Huici stopped him to explain the dual nature of lightning-struck wood.
• Li Fuchan reflected on his past battles and realized that fighting on the ground naturally tempered his murderous intent while helping him recover and cultivate.
• Li Fuchan understood that advancing required aligning his cultivation with the Yang Aspect of his outer scenery rather than merely building magical power.
• Huici pointed out that no great monster ruled the mountain below and urged Li Fuchan to try summoning true heavenly lightning.

Li Fuchan used Jiao-Driving Lightning to kill the monsters tormenting the mortals, then began deducing why Huici had swallowed them. He suspected Huici was protecting the mortals inside his body and awaited the truth behind Mu Suli’s change to the Nirmanakaya Shakyamuni Aspect.

• Li Fuchan manifested the old, blackened tree and used Jiao-Driving Lightning to strike down every monster on the mountain while leaving the mortals unharmed.
• Li Fuchan purified the mountain, strengthened his Dharma Power with the Yang Aspect’s nourishing flames, and found that his li thunder was meant to strike down evil spirits.
• Huici swallowed the surviving mortals, and Li Fuchan noticed that li thunder gave no warning despite Huici’s actions.
• Huici returned to Filth Mountain, entered Narrow Gorge with Flying Light, and withdrew his presence as Li Fuchan kept watch outside.
• Li Fuchan deduced that Huici might have used Flying Light and magnetic force to transform himself and shelter the swallowed mortals inside his body.
• Li Fuchan likened Narrow Gorge to a porcelain kiln and anticipated learning why Mu Suli had changed his attainment to the Nirmanakaya Shakyamuni Aspect.

Ning Xinping reunited with Ning Xiu Cong in the Southern Border and learned what had happened with the Wisdom King and Li Fuchan. After Ning Xiu Cong revealed that he had brought the Ning Family’s people and treasures south, he urged Ning Xinping to leave for the Northern Lands so the family could survive.

• Ning Xinping left Greenbriar Mountain and reunited with Ning Xiu Cong, who led him to Grey Ash Mountain.
• The Ning Family’s six hundred Clan Troops greeted Ning Xinping as their ancestor, startling the Wang Clan with proof that he was an Outer Scenery True Person.
• Ning Xiu Cong told Ning Xinping that the southern body of the Wisdom King had aided endangered clans before turning south, where Ning Xinping was imprisoned by the Yang Family.
• Ning Xiu Cong described Li Fuchan’s history with the Ning Family, and Ning Xinping judged that Li Fuchan was indifferent rather than malicious.
• Ning Xiu Cong disclosed that he had brought the Ning Family’s treasures, formulas, spells, supplies, and direct-line Clan Troops south, then asked Ning Xinping to leave for the Northern Lands to preserve the family.

Ning Xinping rejected the Ning Family’s plan to flee north and prepared to sacrifice himself to secure the clan’s future. He reached the Narrow Gorge, shattered his Dao Fruit, and faced death with a final thought of Xiangyi.

• Ning Xiu Cong told Ning Xinping that the family intended to take him north while he stayed behind to persuade the Wisdom King Dharma Body to go north and die.
• Ning Xinping recalled abandoning the family in his youth and feared that leaving again would burden Ning Xiu Rang with the same guilt.
• Ning Xinping gave Ning Xiu Cong a Storage Bag and explained that he had arranged protection for the family through the Pivot Court, Azure Fish Peak, and a gifted young clansman sent to a great sect.
• Ning Xinping left to meet the Wisdom King Dharma Body, and Li Fuchan tried to stop him at the Narrow Gorge.
• Ning Xinping shattered his unchaste offering, saw two rabbits accuse him of being no sage, and murmured that Xiangyi was not the only one he could rely on.

Huici confronted Mu Suli and revealed why he had traveled south and drained the Buddha Kingdom. After Huici sacrificed himself to create a Porcelain Womb Blessed Land, Mu Suli set out to attain the Dao, while gardenia fragrance appeared near Mu Liang'er.

• Ning Xinping died, and a white rabbit swallowed a black rabbit before exploding and revealing Mu Suli.
• Mu Suli explained that he had drained the Belly Buddha Land and used the Porcelain Tower as a kiln, while Huici suppressed Li Fuchan's lightning.
• Huici told Mu Suli that neither of them could choose the dharma aspect they cultivated and explained how he had become an evil body while seeking to help mortals.
• Mu Suli returned the souls swallowed by the good body, and Huici released them into reincarnation before asking Li Fuchan to protect the Porcelain Womb Blessed Land.
• Huici disappeared into a blooming gardenia, and Mu Suli decided the Porcelain Womb would matter when his path changed before heading north to attain the Dao.
• Mu Liang'er passed the Flesh-and-Blood Wisdom King Temple and smelled gardenias.

After Mu Suli attained the Wisdom King Rank, Li Fuchan escaped the Porcelain Womb Blessed Land and headed to Wangci Mountain, seeking a conversation with Fengci. Fengci warned him away from the now-famous blessed land and questioned him about his Li Thunder cultivation as Li Fuchan weighed changing Dao Lineages.

• Mu Suli's announcement of attaining the Great Compassionate Wisdom King Rank reached Li Fuchan, who resolved to leave the Porcelain Womb Blessed Land before cultivators arrived.
• Li Fuchan set aside Huici's task and wondered how Huici had learned of his secret desire to change cultivation Dao Lineages.
• Li Fuchan recalled Fengci's words, changed course, and traveled to Wangci Mountain.
• Fengci met Li Fuchan at the mountain's foot, explained that his restrictive barriers prevented climbing, and invited him to sit for tea.
• Fengci warned Li Fuchan not to approach the Porcelain Womb Blessed Land, which had attracted too much attention.
• Fengci praised Li Fuchan's rare attainments in Li Thunder, while Li Fuchan considered the lineage's restrictions and his growing interest in Wandering Gold.

Fengci warned Li Fuchan that Welcome Ying Isle would likely keep him there because of his mastery of Li Thunder, then advised him to join the southern clans or sects in hunting Ming Beasts. As Li Fuchan weighed the opportunity against his desire to cultivate Wandering Gold, a sudden thought darkened his expression.

• Fengci told Li Fuchan that Welcome Ying Isle preserved the Jade Thunder lineage but forbade Li Thunder disciples from leaving after a disciple was nearly killed by a Flood Dragon.
• Li Fuchan recalled seeing Liang Shuping battle a great monster at sea and considered Welcome Ying Isle as a possible place to cultivate, though he feared being trapped there.
• Li Fuchan told Fengci he planned to keep traveling through the Southern Border while secretly intending to cultivate near Wangci Mountain.
• Fengci urged Li Fuchan to return to South of the Yangtze and join a sect or clan in the Northern Lands' return south, explaining that hunting Ming Beasts could greatly advance his dao attainment.
• Li Fuchan recognized the chance to improve his Li Thunder cultivation but wanted to cultivate Wandering Gold, and his gaze darkened as a thought struck him.

Li Fuchan left Wangci Mountain after Fengci rejected his attempts to stay, then realized that someone had secretly influenced his desire to cultivate “Wandering Gold.” Suspecting a powerful cultivator was behind it, he threatened to destroy the Spirit Object and demanded to speak with them.

• Fengci refused Li Fuchan’s requests to stay on Wangci Mountain and sent him away.
• Li Fuchan returned to his cave and examined the “whorl-circuit golden essence” inside the “Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring.”
• Li Fuchan questioned why he had become so fixated on switching to “Wandering Gold” despite having other ways to advance his cultivation.
• Li Fuchan recalled Gu Liuru’s advice and realized that someone had steered him toward “Wandering Gold” through the book “A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales.”
• Li Fuchan pointed “Light-Deceiving” at himself, used thunderfire to threaten the Spirit Object, and demanded to speak with the hidden cultivator.

Li Fuchan confronted the hidden being communicating through A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales and used repeated threats of suicide to test its limits. The being admitted it needed his help to refine a Divine Ability and proposed cooperation, but Li Fuchan rejected its audacious bargain and remained wary.

• Li Fuchan tried to kill himself, and the book used white light to preserve him while recording the moment in an ink portrait.
• Li Fuchan destroyed the whorl-circuit golden essence, then waited until the being agreed to talk.
• Li Fuchan asked for the being's true name and identity, but it said it had lost its name and body and could be regarded as a Magical Treasure.
• The being proposed helping Li Fuchan cultivate Li Thunder in exchange for his help refining the gold-gathering current into a Divine Ability, and offered to share destiny-bearers' refined destinies.
• Li Fuchan challenged the being to teach him its methods and give him its body, then attempted suicide again, prompting the book to capture another portrait as the being asked why he kept doing that.

Li Fuchan learned that Li Thunder’s conceptual image could help him cultivate Wandering Gold and that Three Nothing wanted to use the resulting Divine Ability to escape the book. He then asked Three Nothing how to guard against outside influence and received an explanation of the Hundred-Scene Profound Immortal Way’s cultivation stages.

• Three Nothing explained that Li Thunder could nail down a difficult Dao Fruit and revealed that he wanted Li Fuchan to cultivate Wandering Gold so he could refine its Dao Fruit into a Divine Ability.
• Li Fuchan inferred that the Purple Mansion Lord associated with Liang Shuping’s family had wanted to use Li Thunder to refine a Divine Ability, but someone had arranged for Liang Shuping’s second son to lose his Dao Attainment.
• Three Nothing warned that several Purple Mansion Lords might try to seize Li Fuchan because of his connection to Li Thunder, and Li Fuchan thanked him while questioning his motives privately.
• Li Fuchan asked how to avoid being secretly influenced by powerful cultivators, and Three Nothing said completing his Nature-and-Fate Root would eventually teach him.
• Three Nothing explained that the Hundred-Scene Profound Immortal Way progressed from Aperture Opening to Outer Scenery, Inner Vision, and Purple Mansion, with nature and fate united in a Dao Fruit.

Li Fuchan learned how Life Force could be used to influence him and rejected Sanwu’s offer to occupy his gaps, forcing Sanwu to explain how a Talisman Register could protect him. After they swore a Spirit Oath, Sanwu revealed that Huici had been shielding Li Fuchan from its influence and that Huici was under watch.

• Sanwu explained that cultivators could influence Li Fuchan by filling the gaps in his incomplete Life Force, and Li Fuchan realized this explained earlier events.
• Li Fuchan refused Sanwu’s offer to occupy his gaps and repeatedly threatened to kill himself with Light-Deceiving until Sanwu agreed to continue their discussion.
• Sanwu advised Li Fuchan to refine his Destiny into Register Qi through a Talisman Register, which could protect him from influence and potentially evade a Purple Mansion Lord’s power.
• Li Fuchan and Sanwu negotiated a future Talisman Register and swore a Spirit Oath to bind their agreement.
• Sanwu said Fengci and Huici had not identified it, then revealed that Huici’s white flower had occupied Li Fuchan’s Life Force gaps and protected him from Sanwu’s influence.

Li Fuchan agreed to travel to the Northern Lands to cultivate his lightning-struck wood yang aspect, while Three Nothing advised him to seek travel funds from Fengci. After Li Fuchan departed, Ning Xiu Cong waited in the rain near Filth Mountain, where washed-out human bones showed an old green hue.

• Three Nothing urged Li Fuchan to head north and take advantage of the turbulent spiritual atmosphere, and Li Fuchan agreed.
• Three Nothing suggested that Li Fuchan ask Fengci for money, but Li Fuchan refused to drain their relationship for immediate gain.
• Li Fuchan sealed A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales, bid farewell to Wangci Mountain, and left in a bolt of golden thunder.
• Ning Xiu Cong remained near Filth Mountain while an Azure Fish Peak senior sister surveyed the Porcelain Womb Blessed Land and prepared to take him back to the sect.
• Rain exposed old green human bones near Ning Xiu Cong, who wondered whether the thunder mourned the world.

After returning to the Northern Lands, Li Fuchan found that Black Mountain remained deserted and Xu Xuan had become a resentful, calculating household head. At Black Mountain, Xu Xuan heard a mysterious voice impart an immortal art he could practice without cultivation aptitude, and knelt to receive it.

• Li Fuchan reached the Northern Lands and found that Xu Xuan had not pursued immortality after discovering Black Mountain was deserted, while Xu Sansheng had died a month earlier.
• Xu Xuan worried that Xu Sansheng's ancestral instructions and Xu Wen's cultivation would threaten his authority over the household.
• Li Qingshui visited Xu Xuan and proposed arranging a marriage between Xu Wen and Qiao Niang of the Zhou family.
• Xu Xuan secretly went to Black Mountain at night and lamented that the chance for immortality had gone to Xu Wen instead of him.
• A mysterious voice spoke to Xu Xuan and offered him an immortal art he could practice without cultivation aptitude, and he knelt to receive it.

Li Fuchan confronted Jia Hua inside an illusion shaped like a woodcutter’s tale, using their conversation to resist Jia Hua’s magic. When Jia Hua’s trap came due at sunset, Li Fuchan broke through the illusion’s transformations and threatened him with an axe.

• Li Fuchan fled after sensing Li Thunder’s anger and reasoned that Peaceful Way Abbey’s interest in the Xu Household centered on Black Mountain.
• Jia Hua returned to Black Mountain, sensed someone watching Xu Xuan, and pursued the unseen observer.
• Li Fuchan asked the copy of A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales to shield him from Jia Hua’s illusion, then found himself dressed as a woodcutter.
• In the illusion, Li Fuchan and Jia Hua, disguised as an old shepherd, traded riddling remarks about firewood, cultivation, and sheep throughout the day.
• At sunset, Jia Hua revealed his plan to make Li Fuchan suffer for having no firewood, but Li Fuchan stood against the illusion and raised his axe at him.

Li Fuchan broke free of Jia Hua’s illusion and defeated him, then confronted him over the ambush. Jia Hua feared Li Fuchan’s power and offered compensation, which Li Fuchan accepted.

• Jia Hua’s Mirror Flowers and Moon in Water failed to restrain Li Fuchan, who forced him to concede defeat.
• Li Fuchan ended the illusion and demanded to know why Jia Hua had pursued and ambushed him.
• Jia Hua recognized Li Fuchan as a powerful Thunder Cultivator and worried that he might be connected to Dragonkind.
• Li Fuchan drew Light-Deceiving and threatened Jia Hua with his sword, lightning, and Jade Ring.
• Jia Hua apologized and offered compensation, and Li Fuchan agreed to settle the matter that way.

Jia Hua suspected that Li Fuchan was a cultivator from Welcome Ying Isle and considered recruiting him to help Peaceful Way Abbey hunt Ming Beasts. Li Fuchan played along with the suspicion and used Three Nothing’s knowledge to pass Jia Hua’s test.

• Jia Hua reasoned that Li Fuchan’s mastery of li thunder made him a likely cultivator from Welcome Ying Isle and a potential ally for the hunt.
• Jia Hua weighed Peaceful Way Abbey’s need to kill Ming Beasts and considered persuading Li Fuchan to affiliate with the sect.
• Li Fuchan pretended to be an arrogant overseas cultivator, while Jia Hua described Welcome Ying Isle and slipped in false details to test him.
• Li Fuchan consulted Three Nothing’s knowledge from inside his Storage Bag and corrected Jia Hua’s deliberate errors.
• Jia Hua became convinced that Li Fuchan came from Welcome Ying Isle.

Li Fuchan posed as a Direct Lineage cultivator of Welcome Ying Isle to pressure Jia Hua, refusing Peaceful Way Abbey’s offers of help and affiliation. Jia Hua stopped him from leaving by revealing the abbey possessed a spirit artifact of the Contrary Thunder path.

• Li Fuchan criticized Jia Hua’s understanding of Immortal Isle history and declined to visit Peaceful Way Abbey until later.
• Jia Hua offered the abbey’s assistance, but Li Fuchan said he would soon be senior to him and doubted the abbey could help.
• The narration revealed that Three Nothing had advised Li Fuchan to impersonate a Welcome Ying Isle cultivator, whose thunder lineage and reputation would lend him authority.
• Li Fuchan dismissed Jia Hua’s attempts to affiliate Peaceful Way Abbey with Welcome Ying Isle and prepared to leave.
• Jia Hua revealed that Peaceful Way Abbey possessed a spirit artifact of the Contrary Thunder path, surprising Li Fuchan and Three Nothing and making Li Fuchan stay.

Li Fuchan agreed to hunt Ming Beasts for the Peaceful Way Abbey while suspecting the hunt concealed a wider scheme. At Flying Yellow Mountain, Quan Yong received Jia Hua’s report and silenced Zilu after Zilu exposed the Abbey Master’s betrayal of his disciples.

• Li Fuchan accepted Jia Hua’s terms to hunt six hundred aperture opening-level Ming Beasts or twenty-one outer scenery-level beasts for the Peaceful Way Abbey.
• Li Fuchan suspected the Ming Beast hunt was tied to a broader plot involving the five thieves, Purple Mansion Lords, and conflict among cultivators.
• Jia Hua sent word of Li Fuchan’s agreement to Flying Yellow Mountain, and Quan Yong later received and destroyed the message.
• Zilu accused Quan Yong of harming his own disciples, ruining his martial uncle’s cultivation, and sending a junior sister to become the Wisdom King’s Wisdom Consort.
• Southern Peak defended Quan Yong, while Zilu condemned the Abbey Master’s pursuit of peace and lamented his own death.
• Quan Yong pressed his belly, and Zilu’s resentful voice fell silent.

Jia Hua rejected Quan Yong’s cautious plan and tried to reassure Li Fuchan that Peaceful Way Abbey would still give him the Contrary Thunder artifact. Li Fuchan saw the change in terms as an insult, denounced the abbey, and left after threatening anyone from it who practiced evil on the Hunting Grounds.

• Quan Yong warned Jia Hua to verify Li Fuchan’s identity and withhold the Contrary Thunder artifact until Li Fuchan had helped the abbey.
• Jia Hua decided to honor his original promise and offered Li Fuchan cultivation formulas and Spirit Objects as a temporary substitute for the artifact.
• Li Fuchan suspected the abbot had changed the deal for a reason, while Jia Hua offered to swear a binding oath upon his nature root.
• Li Fuchan called Peaceful Way Abbey deceitful, returned its gifts, and threatened its members if they practiced evil on the Hunting Grounds.
• Li Fuchan vanished in a bolt of Golden Thunder, leaving Jia Hua distressed that the abbey had offended him.