Recaps

Li Fuchan transformed Li Thunder, intervened in the Ning Family’s crisis, and completed his Yang Aspect before evading the forces drawn to his hidden destiny. When Three Nothing trapped him through A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales, Li Fuchan exposed the book’s hold over reality and escaped its illusion.

• A gardenia restored Li Fuchan and helped him transform Li Thunder, but he chose to restart his divination after realizing the growing dangers around him.
• Li Fuchan concealed his cultivation within the Ning Family and recognized that Ning Xiuqing was being targeted to pressure the household.
• Ning Xiuqing died from the Three-Passage Gu after asking Li Fuchan to protect his father and elder brothers.
• Li Fuchan destroyed Hu Shan and Li Hua beneath the Dark Clouds, completing Muffled Crow in Ambush and reaching minor attainment of Outer Scenery.
• As the Ning Family’s Direct Lineage departed Warm-Cool Mountain, Li Fuchan formed new registers and completed the intent of his Yang Aspect.
• Li Fuchan rejected the dangerous gateway in Flying Earthworm Cave, entered seclusion, then fled when he sensed someone pursuing him.
• Gu Liuru used A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales to lure Li Fuchan to a bridge, where Three Nothing tried to trap him in the book’s story.
• Li Fuchan deduced how Three Nothing used the book to influence reality, tore its illustration in half, broke the illusion, and walked away with the book.

Li Fuchan pursued his plans in the Northern Lands while manipulating Quan Yong and the surrounding sects, but Quan Yong began closing in on his disguises. The arc left Quan Yong seeking the Thunder Cultivator’s help as Li Fuchan’s schemes drew attention toward the Gao and Yuchi Households.

• Li Fuchan transformed A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales into the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and began cultivating Gold-Pressing Thunder.
• Gongyang Ling ordered Wei Qingcheng to seek the Great Zhi Pivot’s Secret Seals and bring back Ning Xiu Cong, while Liang Fangning set out plans to keep Ning Xiucong confined.
• Gao Gonglu and Gao Gongjin agreed to rely on Mu Suli rather than risk the Gao Household for Gao Xianxiang, as Li Fuchan turned his attention to Gao Huan and Jia Hua.
• Li Fuchan killed Jia Hua after Jia Hua refused to help force Quan Yong down from Flying Yellow Mountain, prompting Quan Yong to descend and retrieve Jia Hua’s body.
• Quan Yong used the Clear-Sight Subtlety Mirror to find the secret seal and gave Wei Qingcheng its location and entry method, sending the Pivot Court envoys to the Hunting Grounds.
• Quan Yong pursued the stranger demanding the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact, but Li Fuchan escaped with a Rare Image spirit talisman and Quan Yong discovered the Pivot Court had secured the Great Pivot’s Secret Seal.
• Li Fuchan used a false body to collect tribute from the Gao Household, but Quan Yong caught it and took the Flying Firmament Magic Robe as Li Fuchan escaped.
• Li Fuchan’s false body tried to collect tribute from the Yuchi Household, where Yuchi Yuanqing destroyed it, leaving Quan Yong unable to locate Li Fuchan’s true body, and Quan Yong then decided to seek the Thunder Cultivator’s help.

Li Fuchan turned Quan Yong’s coercion into a confrontation with Gao Gongjin and True Lord Changshu, then used the Heaven of Separation to escape and investigate a new cultivation path. After shedding Li Thunder’s influence and adopting Lesser Yin cultivation, he arrived at Looking Seaward Tower to seek needed Spirit Objects.

• Li Fuchan swore a Spirit Oath with Quan Yong, trapped him in an illusion, and used the Errant Thunder Drum to force his continued cooperation.
• Li Fuchan accepted True Lord Changshu’s Edict and killed Gao Gongjin despite Mu Suli’s intervention.
• Li Fuchan escaped True Lord Changshu into the Heaven of Separation, then returned and formed Muffled Crow in Ambush while burning Changshu’s hand with thunderfire.
• Li Fuchan witnessed the Gao Household’s losses and the northern sects’ departure through his death vision, then killed Quan Yong and entered the portal.
• Li Fuchan surrendered his Dao Fruit and cultivation to the Crimson Slips, summoned Secret Seal masters, and manipulated Liu Cuo into killing Zhang Yuanqing before taking Liu Cuo’s Secret Seal.
• Li Fuchan adopted the Autumn Union Shaoling Embracing the Alchemy Classic, destroyed infant-derived fetal elixirs, and entered Transformation-Contemplation Cave in Liu Cuo’s guise.
• Li Fuchan used Tribulation Divination to purge Li Thunder’s influence by attacking Evening Yin Island and allowing Liu Hui to kill him.
• Li Fuchan resumed Lesser Yin cultivation and visited Looking Seaward Tower, where Wenren Qingyi welcomed him and recounted her flight from the Northern Lands.

Li Fuchan joined Azure Ram Temple, reached the Outer Scenery True Person realm, and entered the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto. Inside the Blessed Land, he manipulated Human Reversal and fought Wei Shuo, leaving her defeated beneath his broken halberd.

• Li Fuchan refined the Longxu Golden Branch, then killed Suo He after Wenren Qingyi had already struck him down, and traveled south as the Azure Ram Temple issued an edict against Wandering Gold cultivators.
• At Great Night Lake, Li Fuchan killed Yang Family cultivators Xi Yuan and Xi Hong, pledged allegiance to Azure Ram Temple, and defeated a Pivot Court obstacle before True Lord Chi Sui recruited him.
• True Lord Chi Sui gave Li Fuchan a magic robe and enchanted sword, taught him about Dao Fruits, and filled his incomplete Life Force, raising him to the Outer Scenery True Person realm.
• After Yang Xicheng emerged from seclusion, the conflict around the Yang Family escalated, Changyin carried him overseas, and an unseen hand seized Li Fuchan as the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto began.
• Li Fuchan entered the Blessed Land using the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and Heaven of Separation, investigated its rulers and hidden hegemonic arts, and used False Bodies to evade Wei Shuo and Wei Xinyun.
• Li Fuchan copied the Year Kingdom’s Hegemonic Art, concluded that someone was using the Blessed Land to create a great tide, and resolved to hasten Human Reversal, provoking the three kingdoms into war.
• Li Fuchan abducted Wei Xinyun from the palace and followed the army’s route, while Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang pursued him after realizing someone was accelerating Human Reversal.
• Wei Shuo attacked Li Fuchan with six flying swords, but he turned the swords against her with the Errant Thunder Drum and Deviating from Its Proper Course, then defeated her and held his broken halberd to her brow.