Recaps

Jiang Chengzi helped Wei Qingcheng’s party enter the Great Scorpion Pivot’s Secret Seal and retrieve an Ancient Arts text while Li Fuchan hid nearby. Quan Yong trapped Li Fuchan, gave him the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact, and demanded that he help Peaceful Way Abbey return south.

• Jiang Chengzi guided Wei Qingcheng and her party into the Secret Seal, where he used controlled Sword Qi to make a safe path through the bats.
• Wei Qingcheng found the Ancient Arts text, unaware that Li Fuchan was watching from a hidden chamber.
• Qu Chuling entered the Secret Seal, prompting Li Fuchan to flee, but Quan Yong stopped him and revealed that he had used a False Body to reach the chamber.
• Quan Yong explained that he had offered the Clear-Sight Subtlety Mirror to secure help from Yu Sword Gate or Boyue Mountain, then handed Li Fuchan the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact.
• Quan Yong declared that he wanted to return south and insisted that Li Fuchan help him lead Peaceful Way Abbey there.

Li Fuchan and Quan Yong swore a Spirit Oath and exchanged a series of concessions, with Li Fuchan obtaining the Errant Thunder Drum, a Magic Robe, an Enchanted Sword, and the Upper Pool Fishing Azure Art. Quan Yong then ordered him to sabotage the Great Compassionate Venerable Wisdom King's scheme, leaving Li Fuchan stunned.

• Li Fuchan agreed to join forces with Quan Yong, and they swore a Spirit Oath.
• Quan Yong explained the Errant Thunder Drum's powers, and Li Fuchan considered how it might work with the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra.
• Quan Yong agreed to give Li Fuchan the Yulun Magic Robe and an Enchanted Sword.
• Li Fuchan pressured Quan Yong into giving him the Upper Pool Fishing Azure Art, then resolved to replenish his Fate Root and reach Inner Vision before leaving the Northern Lands.
• Quan Yong told Li Fuchan to sabotage the Great Compassionate Venerable Wisdom King's scheme, and Li Fuchan's composure froze.

Li Fuchan pretended to accept Quan Yong’s request to kill Gao Gongjin, then trapped him with the Great Banner Pivot Heart-Locking Stele. With Quan Yong caught and the threat of being drawn into Purple Mansion schemes still looming, Li Fuchan returned to Tribulation Divination.

• Quan Yong asked Li Fuchan to kill Gao Gongjin, promising that a patron connected to the Peaceful Way Abbey would shoulder the consequences.
• Li Fuchan appeared to agree and followed Quan Yong, then used the Great Banner Pivot Heart-Locking Stele to trap him in an illusion.
• Quan Yong realized he had been trapped and sat before the stele, while Li Fuchan considered how his schemes had left him vulnerable to Quan Yong’s demands.
• Li Fuchan reflected that he had acted out of necessity to survive and advance his Dao Attainment, and feared Quan Yong might expose him to a Purple Mansion Lord.
• Li Fuchan returned to his hiding place and entered Tribulation Divination again.

Li Fuchan used the Errant Thunder Drum to wound Quan Yong’s Life Force and planted a spell in him before pulling him from the Stone Stele’s illusion. After Quan Yong tried to kill him and was forced back into the illusion, he agreed to continue cooperating with Li Fuchan.

• Li Fuchan decided to use Tribulation Qi for divination and make the situation more chaotic rather than risk being exposed to Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Li Fuchan struck the Errant Thunder Drum three times, sending dim gray lightning into Quan Yong and disrupting his Life Force.
• Li Fuchan used the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra to plant a protective spell in Quan Yong while he remained trapped in the Stone Stele’s illusion.
• Li Fuchan pulled Quan Yong from the illusion, but Quan Yong attacked him with Turbid Water and tried to kill him.
• Li Fuchan stopped the Sutra, dragged Quan Yong back into the illusion, then freed him again after refining away the Turbid Water.
• Quan Yong recognized that Li Fuchan could keep him in check and agreed to continue cooperating.

Li Fuchan accepted Quan Yong’s plan to draw Gao Gongjin out and went to Huaishuo Town, where he waited as forces shifted and Ming Beasts broke loose. When Quan Yong’s letter arrived, Li Fuchan struck the Yellow War Drum, while Gao Gongjin emerged from seclusion, convinced they had nowhere left to retreat.

• Quan Yong gave Li Fuchan the Yulun Magic Robe and instructed him to wait in Huaishuo Town until Gao Gongjin was forced to reveal himself.
• Li Fuchan entered Huaishuo Town and received the robe, deciding to use the unfolding tribulation divination to test his conjecture.
• Gao Huan left to guard White Forest Town, regretting that he had not named his child before departing.
• The Gao Household moved troops and cultivators as Ming Beasts escaped the Hunting Grounds and charged toward Huaishuo Town.
• Li Fuchan burned Quan Yong’s letter and struck the Yellow War Drum with lightning.
• Gao Gongjin emerged from seclusion, and Gao Gonglu urged him to return, but Gao Gongjin said they had nowhere left to retreat.

Mu Suli faced True Lord Changshu and True Lord Xiue over his plans, while Changshu’s Edict caused Quan Yong’s death through the Errant Thunder Drum. Changshu then transferred the order to kill Gao to Li Fuchan, who accepted the Edict and received the Jade Dawn Purple Qi Talisman.

• Mu Suli appeared before True Lord Changshu and True Lord Xiue, and Changshu accused him of taking the demon of the five thieves and plotting to seize “You.”
• Changshu tried to act against Quan Yong but discovered he had become a ghost, then sent an Edict into the Peaceful Way Abbey.
• Quan Yong realized the curse script was merging with him, but the Errant Thunder Drum sounded and killed him as the contrary thunder’s effect ended.
• Changshu’s Edict reached Li Fuchan in Huaishuo Town and transformed into the Jade Dawn Purple Qi Talisman, ordering him to kill Gao.
• Li Fuchan accepted the Edict, while Embrace-Lock Crouching Cicada secretly neutralized its influence and locked away a trace of qi.

Gao Changling was reborn during the Gao Household’s ancestral rites and resolved to prevent the clan’s destruction. As Gao Gongjin prepared to confront the Ming Beasts despite Gao Gonglu forbidding him to go, Gao Changling considered how to warn them.

• Gao Gongjin watched seven young cultivators perform the ancestral rites and questioned whether the Gao Household had any promising successors.
• Gao Changling realized he had been reborn to the time before the Ming Beasts attacked Huaishuo Town and resolved to save the Gao clan.
• Gao Changling met Gao Gonglu’s gaze with new resolve, and Gao Gonglu recognized him as a promising candidate for leadership.
• Gao Gongjin prepared to leave for Huaishuo with his bow, Inch Silk, despite Gao Gonglu warning that he would be killed.
• Gao Gonglu forbade Gao Gongjin from going, while Gao Changling searched for a way to convince the household leaders to heed his warning.

Gao Changling, reborn after the Gao Household’s destruction, sought to delay Gao Gongjin’s departure by making the household leaders wary of Gao Huan. His attempt to use Gao Shuying unsettled her pregnancy, and he sent a letter to Gao Huan in White Forest Town.

• Gao Changling recalled his previous life and resolved to make Gao Gonglu and Gao Gongjin afraid to leave by bringing Gao Huan back.
• Gao Changling visited Gao Shuying and learned that Gao Huan was defending White Forest Town.
• After Gao Changling left, Gao Shuying ordered the gifts discarded and a trusted physician summoned because her fetus had become dangerously unsettled.
• Gao Shuying warned her servant not to alert Gao Huan, saying she sensed something was wrong with Gao Changling.
• Gao Changling used his glimpse of Gao Shuying’s writing to send a letter to Gao Huan in White Forest Town.

Gao Changling revealed his memories of a previous life to Gao Gongjin, who chose to keep him and reconsidered leaving the mountain. After falling asleep, Gao Changling received an unseen message and woke in shock, realizing he had forgotten something crucial.

• Gao Huan burst into Gao Changling’s courtyard and seized him, accusing him of wanting to kill Shuying.
• Gao Gongjin stopped Gao Huan and persuaded Gao Changling to reveal his memories of his previous life.
• Gao Gongjin comforted Gao Changling after hearing about his hardships and his brothers’ loyalty.
• Gao Gongjin told Gao Gonglu the story and concluded that Gao Changling was likely not truly reborn, but decided to keep him and delay his departure.
• Gao Changling settled into a residence on the mountain, fell asleep from exhaustion, and woke after an unseen voice reminded him of something important.

Gao Gongjin learned that an unknown Daoist might come to kill him and decided to seek protection at Long Pearl Forest. He left after confronting Gao Gonglu about the sacrifices his brother had made for the Gao Household, and Gao Gonglu summoned Gao Huan to quell the unrest.

• Gao Changling warned Gao Gongjin that a Daoist would come to kill him, despite having previously described a different chain of events.
• Gao Gongjin concluded that the Great Compassionate Venerable Wisdom King meant to protect him and chose to travel immediately to Long Pearl Forest.
• Gao Gonglu tried to stop Gao Gongjin until he had fully bound himself to the karma of the Four Aspects of Slaying Bandits, but Gao Gongjin pushed his hand aside.
• Gao Gongjin used the Perfected Light Mirror Art to show Gao Gonglu his own hardened reflection and reminded him of the lives and family members he had risked to help Gao Gongjin.
• Gao Gongjin rode away with [Inch Silk], and Gao Gonglu later summoned Gao Huan of White Forest Town to quell the unrest.

Li Fuchan arrived at Zongshedu Mountain and fought Gao Gongjin, whose Immovable Seal and Inch Silk bow had let him kill Qu Cong and hold back the Immortal Sect disciples. After Li Fuchan killed Gao Gongjin with the Thunder Escape Sword Art, he revealed that the battle had brought Muffled Crow in Ambush to the turning point he had awaited.

• Gu Tong told Qu Chengong and Jiang Yan that Quan Yong was dead and revealed that Zongshedu Mountain held the key to Quan Yong's plans.
• Gao Gongjin used the Immovable Seal to restrain the Immortal Sect disciples and shot Qu Cong dead with Inch Silk.
• Li Fuchan arrived amid dark thunderclouds and attacked Gao Gongjin, breaking the Immovable Seal's restraint and destroying Gao Gongjin's three arrows.
• Mu Suli briefly transformed the Immovable Seal into a prohibition character to save Gao Gongjin, but True Lord Changshu intervened and suppressed Mu Suli.
• Gao Gongjin drew Inch Silk again, but Li Fuchan unleashed the Thunder Escape Sword Art, shattered two arrows, and killed him despite being pierced by the third.
• Li Fuchan declared that killing Gao Gongjin would not end Muffled Crow in Ambush, and True Lord Xiue laughed as Li Fuchan's eyes turned golden with crimson pupils.

Li Fuchan survived the arrival of True Lord Changshu, who explained that Muffled Crow in Ambush was the foretold transformation of Li Thunder and ordered him to go overseas. When Changshu tried to seize him, a thunder art activated and a grotto heaven summoned Li Fuchan away, leaving the Welcome Ying Isle True Lords to wonder what had happened.

• True Lord Xiue departed with the demon, and True Lord Changshu sent Mu Suli out of the Unseen Heavens.
• Li Fuchan waited at Zongshedu Mountain, having survived the first of three predicted death points and prepared for the second.
• True Lord Changshu arrived and identified Muffled Crow in Ambush as Li Thunder’s long-foreseen transformation, then told Li Fuchan to go overseas.
• Li Fuchan asked Changshu whether he had eaten people and ever lost, prompting Changshu to try to seize his life force.
• The Jade Pivot Thunder Canon activated through Embrace-Lock Crouching Cicada, and its lightning pinned the Unseen Heavens in place.
• A grotto heaven summoned Li Fuchan away as the thunder erupted, and the Great True Lord of Welcome Ying Isle arrived to question Changshu.

Li Fuchan used the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon’s doorway to escape a Purple Mansion Lord and discovered it led to the ruined Grotto Heaven of Separation, once belonging to the Thunder Palace. While investigating the palace, he triggered a crimson immortal book that stripped away his Outer Scenery and Li Thunder’s blessing, leaving him to wonder what had happened.

• Li Fuchan entered the doorway in the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and confirmed he could escape a Purple Mansion Lord by entering the world beyond.
• He explored the desolate Heaven of Separation, found the Jade Pivot Palace, and realized the Grotto Heaven had belonged to the destroyed Thunder Palace.
• Li Fuchan reviewed the gains from his Tribulation Divination, including his near-breakthrough to Inner Vision and the Errant Thunder Drum he had retained in reality.
• When Li Fuchan touched the Errant Thunder Drum, a palace opened and a crimson immortal book’s radiance enveloped him before the doors shut again.
• Li Fuchan discovered that his Outer Scenery and Li Thunder’s attention had vanished, though his Dao Attainment remained, and he wondered whether the immortal books had caused it.

Li Fuchan discovered that the Crimson Slips could suppress Muffled Crow in Ambush and lock away his Li Thunder cultivation, giving him a way to change Dao Lineages while retaining his Great True Person-level strength. He returned from the Heaven of Separation and deliberately challenged True Lord Changshu, breaking through to Inner Vision and forming his Dao Fruit before the Purple Mansion Lord survived his attack.

• Li Fuchan tested the Errant Thunder Drum and confirmed that the Crimson Slips could repeatedly suppress Muffled Crow in Ambush and Li Thunder's blessing.
• Li Fuchan decided to pursue his third point of certain death by attacking a Purple Mansion Lord, then entered the gateway in the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon.
• True Lord Changshu realized that the qi traces he had placed on several disciples had vanished, while those on Ning Xiuqing and Jiang Chengzi remained.
• Li Fuchan returned before True Lord Changshu and released his suppression of Muffled Crow in Ambush, causing his cultivation aura to surge as his body began to collapse.
• Li Fuchan confronted True Lord Changshu and broke through to Inner Vision, forming the Dao Fruit Muffled Crow in Ambush.
• Li Fuchan's thunderfire engulfed the three men; the Welcome Ying Isle Great True Lord emerged unharmed, while True Lord Changshu departed to heal a burn on his hand.

Li Fuchan reached early-stage Inner Vision and used a death vision to witness the Gao Household’s grief after Gao Gongjin’s death, then saw Ning Xiu Cong and Jiang Chengzi encounter a deadly secret within the Great Zhi Pivot’s Secret Seal. He concluded the Secret Seal might conceal a dangerous Grotto Heaven and chose not to pursue it.

• Li Fuchan formed the Muffled Crow in Ambush Dao Fruit, strengthened by his merit for striking two Purple Mansion Lords with Li Thunder.
• Li Fuchan’s death vision showed Gao Gonglu telling his sons that Gao Gongjin was dead, naming Gao Changchen as the next Household Head, and assigning Gao Changling and Gao Changchuan their duties.
• Gao Gonglu entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough, while Gao Changling found his letter asking that Gao Gongjin’s body be brought home if it was found.
• Li Fuchan watched the vision of Gao Gongjin’s death and reflected that the Gao Household had lost both brothers to the power of Purple Mansion Wisdom Kings.
• Li Fuchan saw Wei Qingcheng and Pivot Court disciples dead inside the Great Zhi Pivot’s Secret Seal, while Jiang Chengzi disappeared into what seemed to be a Grotto Heaven.
• Li Fuchan suspected the Grotto Heaven was linked to the Great Zhi Pivot’s inheritance but decided not to seek it because of the danger.

Gao Huan was captured and killed after slaying Xu Xuan, while Qifu Zhen searched for him and learned that Gao Huan, his sister-in-law, and their unborn child had died. Qifu Zhen left the Gao Household carrying his sister-in-law’s coffin, intending to take them home to the Grasslands before returning.

• Gao Huan led the Gao clan troops in driving Ming Beasts back and saved Qifu Zhen from a Lion-Shaped Ming Beast.
• Gao Huan vanished from the Hunting Grounds, later killed Xu Xuan with the ancient great medicine’s help, and was taken away by a Purple Mansion Lord as pill material.
• Qifu Zhen repeatedly tried to enter the Hunting Grounds to find Gao Huan, then returned to the Gao Household and asked Gao Changchen for help.
• Gao Changling showed Qifu Zhen Gao Huan’s shattered Life Tablet and told him that his sister had died by suicide and her unborn child had also died.
• Qifu Zhen asked to take his sister-in-law home, insisting that Gao Huan’s true name was He Liuhun and that their home was in the Grasslands.
• Qifu Zhen left the Gao Household carrying a jade coffin and promised to return after burying He Liuhun’s belongings, his sister-in-law, and their child in the Grasslands.

The vision showed the Northern Wei Six Mountains gathering to return south, while Gu Tong arranged protection for the Fei Household and Jiang Yan waited for Qu Chengong. After the vision shattered, Li Fuchan killed Quan Yong, declared his first act of pursuing his own wishes would not be his last, and entered the portal.

• The Peaceful Way Abbey’s Quan disciples cried out to return south, and Gu Tong prepared to lead the Hidden Worthies Gate south with them.
• Fei Yangxie offered Gu Tong the Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring in exchange for protection, and Gu Tong gave him a letter offering several paths to safety.
• Jiang Yan learned that Jiang Chengzi remained missing and waited for Qu Chengong before leading Boyue Mountain south.
• Qu Chengong arrived, and Jiang Yan called for the gathered cultivators of the northern sects to return south.
• Li Fuchan killed Quan Yong with Sword Qi, then entered the portal after declaring that acting according to his own wishes would not be his last such act.

After the Crimson Slips took away Li Fuchan’s “Muffled Crow in Ambush,” he explored the Heaven of Separation and considered how to change his cultivation path. He decided to seek other Dao Lineages by summoning masters of Secret Seals, and began drawing one up for an audience.

• Li Fuchan studied “Muffled Crow in Ambush” for three months before striking the Errant Thunder Drum and allowing the Crimson Slips to take the Dao Fruit.
• The Crimson Slips hesitated briefly, apparently recognizing Li Fuchan’s merit for subduing and slaying an Immortal Mystic, but still stripped away his Dao Fruit, Dharma Power, and cultivation realm.
• Li Fuchan sensed the Secret Seals and Blessed Lands beneath the Grotto Heavens and realized he could summon Secret Seal masters’ consciousnesses into the Heaven of Separation.
• Li Fuchan ruled out the “Wandering Gold” path as too difficult and risky, and considered the “Shi Water” path while seeking other cultivation arts.
• Li Fuchan used the “Jade Pivot Thunder Canon” to inspect Secret Seals and began summoning the master of one he considered promising.

Zhang Yuanqing refined pills and traded through his Cinnabar Pool Cave secret seal before Li Fuchan unexpectedly drew his consciousness into another place. Li Fuchan sent him back unharmed and continued searching secret seals for what he wanted.

• Zhang Yuanqing killed an armored sea monster, refined its carcass, and began preparing pills in a secluded cave abode.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered Cinnabar Pool Cave, traded for two sword pellets, and arranged to obtain Snow Toad skins.
• Li Fuchan pulled Zhang Yuanqing's consciousness into a gloomy world as he emerged from his secret seal.
• Zhang Yuanqing prostrated himself and begged an unseen senior to spare his life.
• Li Fuchan found nothing useful among Zhang Yuanqing's possessions, kicked him out, and resumed searching for secret seal masters.
• Zhang Yuanqing awoke in his cave abode with his belongings intact and tried to forget what had happened.

Li Fuchan summoned Liu Cuo into the Grotto Heaven and recognized that the Liu Clan’s cultivation formula followed the Lesser Yin Dao Lineage. After Liu Cuo offered the formula and sword pellets, Li Fuchan sent him away, apparently connecting the pellets to a previous visitor.

• Li Fuchan rejected a third-grade Duan Wood cultivation method and summoned Liu Cuo through the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon.
• Liu Cuo introduced himself, surrendered his possessions, and waited cautiously for Li Fuchan to reveal his intentions.
• Li Fuchan recognized that Liu Cuo’s aura resembled Muffled Crow in Ambush and deduced that the Liu Clan followed the Lesser Yin Dao Lineage.
• Liu Cuo offered additional Spirit Objects and the Autumn Union Shaoling Embracing the Alchemy Classic, but Li Fuchan remained silent.
• Liu Cuo presented twenty-three silver-white sword pellets, and Li Fuchan recognized them as matching those carried by a previous visitor before throwing Liu Cuo out.

Liu Cuo was manipulated into killing Zhang Yuanqing, then Li Fuchan used the resulting confusion to seize Liu Cuo’s Secret Seal and set up a way to obtain a Handwritten Order from the Liu Household. Li Fuchan chose to cultivate Lesser Yin and prepared to pursue the Yang Aspect required by his chosen cultivation classic.

• Liu Cuo suspected that Rogue Person of Cinnabar Pool had tricked him in the blessed land, then learned from Liu Kang that his eldest son had died during a failed breakthrough.
• Liu Cuo encountered Zhang Yuanqing at Sea-Watching Tower, recognized his reaction to a sword pellet, and chased him from the Market Ward.
• Liu Cuo killed Zhang Yuanqing with Lesser Yin Spell Light, realized he had been manipulated, and hurried back to Evening Yin Island before entering the Secret Seal.
• A drumbeat cleared Liu Cuo’s thoughts, and Li Fuchan used the Errant Thunder Drum to leave him suspended between life and death while inheriting his Secret Seal.
• Li Fuchan explained that he had arranged Liu Cuo’s public return to the Liu Household so he could later obtain a Handwritten Order, then chose Lesser Yin cultivation and retrieved the Autumn Union Shaoling Embracing the Alchemy Classic.

Li Fuchan destroyed Liu Cuo's fetal elixirs, completed his lesser yin Outer Scenery, and impersonated Liu Cuo to enter Transformation-Contemplation Cave. Meanwhile, a possible chance to obtain a Spirit Object from the Flood Dragon Palace left Liu Hui fearing a deadly conflict between the Liu clan's two branches.

• Li Fuchan discovered that Liu Cuo's sword pellets were refined from infants, destroyed the fetal elixirs, and renamed the Secret Seal Fetal Breath Cave.
• Li Fuchan locked away the increasingly dangerous "Li Thunder" and spent a year cultivating the "Autumn Union Shaoling Embracing the Alchemy Classic" until his Outer Scenery was complete.
• Li Fuchan forged Liu Cuo's Handwritten Order and entered Transformation-Contemplation Cave in Liu Cuo's guise to seek the Yang-Moving Aspect.
• Liu Hui gave Liu Kang a newborn child for the ancestor and refused to abandon the childbirth-based cultivation that had killed previous Household Heads.
• Liu Kang bribed a red-scaled monster and learned that serving the Flood Dragon Palace at a gathering twenty years later could earn the clan a needed Spirit Object.
• Liu Hui sent Liu Kang to inform the ancestor, then hurried after him when he realized that Liu Cuo's possible refusal to risk the lesser yin branch could provoke bloodshed within the clan.

Li Fuchan resisted Muffled Crow in Ambush’s attempt to drive him into killing the Liu Clan, then used Tribulation Divination to destroy its image and confront Li Thunder. After Liu Hui killed him in the divination, Li Fuchan reclaimed Li Thunder’s Yang Aspect and returned to his Lesser Yin cultivation.

• Li Fuchan halted his urge to seize the Liu Clan’s Spirit Objects and returned to the Heaven of Separation, recognizing that Muffled Crow in Ambush was manipulating his thoughts to provoke him into killing.
• Li Fuchan entered Tribulation Divination, used the Errant Thunder Drum to kill Liu Cuo, and attacked Evening Yin Island with golden thunder and crimson fire.
• Li Fuchan destroyed the island’s protective formation while sparing mortals and Lesser Yin cultivators, but killed the First Lineage members who had eaten humans.
• Liu Kang tried to protect Liu Hui and help him escape, while Liu Hui’s fellow Lesser Yin cultivators gathered to shield him from Li Fuchan.
• Li Fuchan relinquished control of his aura and invited Liu Hui to kill him; Liu Hui pierced his heart, causing the image of Muffled Crow in Ambush to collapse.
• Li Fuchan chose consciousness in the Heaven of Separation, reclaimed Li Thunder’s Yang Aspect through the Alchemy Book, and declared himself a cultivator of Lesser Yin.

Li Fuchan left the sea where Zhang Yuanqing had died and assessed the losses and gains from his Tribulation Divination. He planned to cultivate the Lesser Yin path, refine his accumulated tribulation qi, and advance toward Outer Scenery Great Accomplishment.

• Li Fuchan watched cultivators from the Looking Seaward Tower stage a fight to carry Zhang Yuanqing’s Pill Furnace away, while a red-robed youth fell for their bait and planned to investigate the tower.
• Li Fuchan secluded himself on a deserted island and realized Tribulation Divination had cost him more than half his Li Thunder Dao attainment, though it had purged Li Thunder’s influence and yielded Lesser Yin spell arts.
• Li Fuchan decided to refine tribulation qi with spiritual Kan Water and Di Fire, and reviewed how to cultivate the form and intent of Autumn Moon Joining Frost.
• Li Fuchan copied Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light and the Shaoling Sword Scripture, considering how to combine the latter with his Thunder Escape Sword Art.
• Li Fuchan set aside the copied spell arts and began circulating the Autumn Union Shaoling Embracing the Alchemy Classic.

Three years after reaching full mastery of Outer Scenery intent, Li Fuchan prepared for a rite and went to Looking Seaward Tower to seek supplies. There, its manager Wenren Qingyi recognized signs of his Northern Lands origins and recounted her turbulent journey to the Western Sea.

• Li Fuchan reflected on his cultivation and planned to use the Autumn Moon Joining Frost Qi he had taken from Transformation-Contemplation Cave for two rites.
• Li Fuchan decided he needed a Lesser Yin Spirit Object to complete his Life Force before using Tribulation Qi to augment Embrace-Lock Crouching Cicada.
• Li Fuchan rode to Looking Seaward Tower, a major Market Ward near Evening Yin Island, to look for the items he needed.
• Wenren Qingyi, the tower's Outer Scenery manager, came downstairs to welcome Li Fuchan after spotting him approach.
• Li Fuchan asked whether Wenren Qingyi came from the Northern Lands, and she revealed how calamities had driven her from the Northern Lands through several seas before she settled at Looking Seaward Tower.