Recaps

Xuan Guang healed Yu Xiuyuan and prepared Jiang Yang and the others to enter Huai Tan Palace. As the palace opened, Xuan Guang sent his disciples upward on a magically grown vine before it descended.

• Xuan Guang diagnosed Yu Xiuyuan’s severe injuries and healed him with a willow twig and Yi Wood Divine Powers.
• Xuan Guang warned Yu Xiuyuan to avoid Geng Metal and Wu Earth for three months, then sent him with Zhi Yu back to Cuiwei.
• Xuan Di told Xuan Guang that the time had come, and they brought their disciples to Cloudtop as Huai Tan Palace opened.
• Five Foundation Establishment cultivators vanished from the summit, and Xuan Guang gave Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian Spring-Blossom Peach Talismans while Xuan Di equipped Zhang Yunbai.
• Xuan Guang grew a vine into the clouds, and Jiang Yang, Chu Qingjian, and Zhang Yunbai rode it upward toward Huai Tan Palace.

Xuan Guang and Feng Yi entered Huai Tan Palace as the Purple Mansion cultivators watched and sent their disciples inside. Feng Yi revealed to Mo Yu that the palace concealed a sealed entrance to a grotto-heaven, and that he planned to use conflict within the palace to help open it.

• Xuan Guang rode vines to Huai Tan Palace ahead of the Luan-kind, and a cultivator identified him as the Emerald-Bearing Sword Immortal.
• Feng Yi entered the palace in a blaze of separation fire without objecting to Xuan Guang's advance, while onlookers argued over the Luan-kind's power.
• Huai Tan Palace settled atop Lone Peak, and the Purple Mansion cultivators sent their disciples inside to compete for its treasures.
• Feng Yi watched the Great Void as Mo Yu asked whether he sought the grotto-heaven, and he confirmed that Huai Tan Palace contained an entrance to it.
• Feng Yi told Mo Yu that True Lord Qingya had sealed the entrance and that the factions' fighting inside the palace would help open the grotto-heaven.

Jiang Yang entered the ancient secret realm and broke into a palace hall guarded by a spirit array, where he claimed two ancient mystic artifacts and uncovered a rare xun wood Purple Mansion Spirit Treasure. As other cultivators arrived, he concealed his most valuable find and prepared to leave.

• Jiang Yang landed in the secret realm, separated from his senior sister, and rushed to claim a nearby palace before other cultivators arrived.
• Jiang Yang used his mystic pupils to identify the spirit array’s weak points and broke through its shield with three sword strikes.
• Jiang Yang took a jade ruler and a xun wood Round Fan from the hall’s jade platforms and gathered several other valuable objects.
• Jiang Yang searched the hall again, spotted a hidden compartment beneath the throne’s Meditation Cushion, and found a Jade Box containing a xun wood Purple Mansion Spirit Treasure.
• Jiang Yang shut the box to suppress the treasure’s manifestations and concealed it before the arriving cultivators could notice.

Jiang Yang claimed a Spirit Treasure and fought Su Han and Gong Chudan when they demanded his valuables. As a Purple Mansion cultivator’s power began pulling them away, Jiang Yang revealed a golden eye and ordered them to freeze.

• Jiang Yang put away the Jade Box and left the hall as Su Han and Gong Chudan arrived.
• Gong Chudan attacked Jiang Yang with her Palace Lantern, and Jiang Yang severed her hand with his sword while wounding her with Sword Essence.
• Su Han and Gong Chudan fought together but struggled to withstand Jiang Yang’s sword light, and Gong Chudan’s wound would not heal.
• Jiang Yang used Silencing the Cold Cicada as Gong Chudan cried for her master, prompting a Purple Mansion cultivator’s power to begin extracting the pair from the Secret Realm.
• Gong Chudan taunted Jiang Yang as she was lifted away, and Jiang Yang revealed a golden Double Pupils eye and said, “Freeze!”

Jiang Yang killed Gong Chudan after using his mystic pupils to break True Person Yungong’s divine power, then traveled deeper into Huai Tan Palace. He found a Purple Mansion spirit thunder on the Mystic Platform at Heart-of-the-Lake Island, where six cultivators were fighting over it.

• Jiang Yang used his mystic pupils to unravel the force lifting Gong Chudan and dragged her down.
• Jiang Yang killed Gong Chudan, took her Storage Bag and palace lantern, and left the Palace Pavilion.
• True Person Yungong discussed his failed divine power with another Purple Mansion cultivator and decided to question the disciple who escaped.
• Jiang Yang flew deeper into Huai Tan Palace and reached Heart-of-the-Lake Island, where he spotted Purple Mansion spirit thunder on the Mystic Platform.
• A golden-armored cultivator battled several opponents near the Mystic Platform, and someone cried out, “Senior sister!”

Jiang Yang joined Chu Qingjian in the struggle for the Purple Mansion spirit thunder, ambushing one of her opponents and helping drive off the others. After the crimson-robed Yan Heng also defeated his rivals, he greeted Jiang Yang, leaving the remaining cultivators facing off over the prize.

• The crimson-robed young man used a powerful fire talisman against two opponents, then fought them with a Bright Lamp as they refused to withdraw.
• Chu Qingjian's two opponents teamed up against her, using kan water and cold qi to challenge her Pivot Thunder.
• Jiang Yang secretly approached the battlefield and stabbed the kan water cultivator with Touching Green Moss.
• Chu Qingjian followed with a thunder attack, weakening the kan water cultivator until the white-robed cold-qi cultivator fled.
• The crimson-robed young man used his Separation Fire Palace Lantern to drive off his two opponents.
• The crimson-robed young man turned to Chu Qingjian and Jiang Yang, recognized Jiang Yang, and introduced himself as Yan Heng.

Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian secured Yan Heng’s claim to the Purple Mansion spirit thunder after he yielded it and delivered Yun Zhen’s invitation to meet beneath the spirit locust in the Central Palace. As Chu Qingjian slowly worked to free the thunder, Jiang Yang revealed he had another bolt that could help her.

• Yan Heng yielded the spirit thunder to Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian, then relayed that Yun Zhen and the others were waiting beneath the Void Star Spirit Locust Tree in the Central Palace.
• Jiang Yang explained Yan Heng’s background and Yun Zhen’s identity to Chu Qingjian as they descended toward the Mystic Platform.
• Chu Qingjian began unraveling the shield around the Purple Mansion execution thunder while Jiang Yang stood guard.
• Chu Qingjian said a second bolt of execution thunder could help draw out the trapped thunder and speed the process.
• Jiang Yang produced a bronze box and revealed that it contained Foundation establishment spirit thunder called Thunderbolt and Lightning.

Jiang Yang gave Chu Qingjian a Thunder Pearl, helping her break through the Mystic Shield and safely secure its Purple Mansion spirit thunder. Afterward, he examined the dead Kan Water cultivator’s belongings and reflected on how Weak Water had constrained the Kan Water path.

• Jiang Yang gave Chu Qingjian the Thunder Pearl, and she refined it to help dissolve the Mystic Shield.
• Jiang Yang gathered the Kan Water cultivator’s remains and took his Storage Bag, Azure Banner, and Silt Source Gate token.
• Jiang Yang recognized the cultivator’s Silt Source Gate affiliation and considered how Weak Water had displaced Kan Water.
• Chu Qingjian carefully transferred the Purple Mansion spirit thunder into a Wooden Box and sealed it with three Talismans.
• Chu Qingjian praised the Mystic Platform but realized they could not move it, then Jiang Yang told her to keep the Thunder Pearl.

Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian traveled to the Void Star Spirit Locust Tree at the heart of Huai Tan Palace, where they reunited with Yun Zhen and Ying Huang. Yun Zhen explained that the ancient tree was a Purple Mansion spirit root and that its blossoms and fruits were treasures.

• Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian agreed to travel together toward the spirit locust after leaving Heart-of-the-Lake Island.
• The two flew past weaker cultivators hiding among the palace ruins and reached the enormous tree in a valley.
• The tree’s twig-chill whistling wind drained Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian until Yun Zhen called them below the treetops, where the wind dispersed.
• Jiang Yang reunited with Yun Zhen and Ying Huang and introduced Chu Qingjian, who exchanged courteous but tense greetings with them.
• Yun Zhen revealed that the Void Star Spirit Locust Tree was the greatest opportunity in Huai Tan Palace, describing its Mystic Star Locust Blossoms and Mystic Void Spirit Locust Fruits as treasures.

Yun Zhen revealed the Void-Star Spirit Locust’s treasures and began shaking its spirit blossoms and pods, while the Luan-kind prepared to transplant the tree. Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian raced to collect the scattered treasures as other cultivators converged.

• Yun Zhen explained that the Void-Star Spirit Locust produced twelve spirit blossoms and three spirit treasure pods, and Jiang Yang recognized its connection to an old spirit seed he possessed.
• Yun Zhen told Jiang Yang she had invited him to gain an early advantage and said her household planned to transplant the tree.
• Yun Zhen tapped the trunk three times with the Golden Striker, scattering twelve blossoms and releasing three pods.
• Ying Huang urged them to act, and Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian split up to pursue the falling treasures.

Jiang Yang collected several Pagoda Flowers and claimed a Purple Mansion Spirit Seed after Han Gui yielded it to him. As cultivators fought over the remaining treasures and Yun Zhen began moving the Immortal Tree, Jiang Yang headed toward Chu Qingjian, who was attacked after securing another Spirit Seed.

• Jiang Yang gathered Pagoda Flowers and spotted a Purple Mansion Spirit Seed in the clouds.
• Han Gui recognized Jiang Yang, yielded the Spirit Seed to him, and departed to seek another treasure.
• Jiang Yang identified the treasure as a Transmission Seed, stored it, and saw cultivators battling over the remaining Spirit Treasures as the Immortal Tree began to rise.
• Jiang Yang flew to Chu Qingjian after spotting her among the fighting cultivators.
• Chu Qingjian seized a Spirit Seed, but a crimson attacker tried to sever her arm, prompting her to counterattack with golden thunder.

Chu Qingjian fought off cultivators pursuing the Spirit Seed, then faced the monks Jing Chen and Jing Wu when they demanded it from her. As the monks overwhelmed her, Jiang Yang arrived and severed one statue’s head with his sword.

• A cultivator revealed that Chu Qingjian had the Spirit Seed, drawing five pursuers who tried to surround her.
• Chu Qingjian used Heavenly Balance Strategy and her Golden Mace to escape, while Jiang Yang stirred up confusion among the pursuers to help her.
• After Chu Qingjian shook off the pursuing cultivators, Jing Chen and Jing Wu appeared and demanded the Spirit Seed.
• Chu Qingjian attacked the monks, but they transformed into six-armed golden statues and drove her back until she was injured and nearly trapped.
• Jiang Yang broke free from his own fight, joined Chu Qingjian, and severed one golden statue’s head with his sword.

Feng Yi pulled the Void-Star Spirit Locust from Huai Tan Palace, exposing a grotto-heaven protected by a True Lord’s seal. As cultivators fled its dangerous entrance, Jiang Yang struck Monk Jing Chen, and the monks prepared to escape when the immortal tree rose from Return Valley.

• Feng Yi used his divine powers to extract the spirit locust from Huai Tan Palace, while Mo Yu watched and discussed the palace’s inevitable collapse.
• The exposed site revealed a grotto-heaven entrance, and two Purple Mansion cultivators were afflicted by a powerful transformation when they tried to enter.
• Feng Yi explained that a True Lord’s seal had protected the grotto-heaven, and Mo Yu realized why he had remained confident.
• Jiang Yang struck Monk Jing Chen, severing his head and damaging his golden body, so Jing Wu took him into his Pure Land and joined their bodies.
• Jing Chen urged Jing Wu to subdue Jiang Yang, but Jing Wu called for them to flee as a giant tree rose from Return Valley.

Jiang Yang and Chu Qingjian survived the battle at Sandalwood Palace, and Chu Qingjian gave him the Void-Star Spirit Locust Fruit. Bai Tang awakened and told Jiang Yang she sensed a Grotto-Heaven, prompting him to return to the central Return Valley while Chu Qingjian stayed behind to recover.

• Jing Wu struck Chu Qingjian from behind, then used the lightning's force to escape with Jing Chen.
• Chu Qingjian gave Jiang Yang the Void-Star Spirit Locust Fruit, leaving him with two of the three Spirit Seeds.
• Jiang Yang revealed that Bai Tang had awakened and warned him of a Grotto-Heaven's aura as the Purple Mansion Spirit Root flew away.
• Jiang Yang cleared debris from a side hall, helped Chu Qingjian sit, and gave her an elixir for her injuries.
• Jiang Yang asked Chu Qingjian to accompany him to the central Return Valley, but she declined, and he left alone.

Jiang Yang found the hidden entrance to Azure Corner Heaven in Return Valley, but Bai Tang warned him that a deadly calamity guarded it. The Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting then opened the way into the grotto-heaven, leaving Jiang Yang ready to enter.

• Jiang Yang used his mystic pupils to reveal the hidden entrance to Azure Corner Heaven in Return Valley.
• Bai Tang remembered that the entrance was covered by the Dark Calamity of Xuan Xun Harmony and stopped Jiang Yang from approaching it.
• Bai Tang told Jiang Yang that they could summon the local Earth Deity for help and asked him to retrieve his Spirit Summoning and Command spellbook.
• The Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting flew from Jiang Yang's sleeve and settled against the entrance, undoing its seal.
• Bai Tang told Jiang Yang that the painting had become the entrance and that he could enter the grotto-heaven.

Jiang Yang used the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting to enter Azure Corner Heaven, where he examined the mountain gate and Zhonghai Hall. He left with the painting secured and sixteen jars of Immortal Brew, while Bai Tang's memories of the grotto-heaven remained unclear.

• Jiang Yang questioned whether the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting could truly open Azure Corner Heaven, then decided to enter despite suspecting that greater powers were guiding events.
• Jiang Yang passed through the painting and arrived at Azure Corner Heaven, where he retrieved the scroll and tucked it away for the eventual return journey.
• Jiang Yang crossed the mountain gate marked Twofold Unceasing and asked Bai Tang whether the sight stirred her memories; Bai Tang suggested they go farther inside.
• Jiang Yang explored Zhonghai Hall, found it empty of people, and discovered rows of spirit-wine jars in its storeroom.
• Jiang Yang opened one jar, admired its potent fragrance, and collected all sixteen jars of Immortal Brew in his Storage Bag.

Jiang Yang explored the Grotto-Heaven, discovered that its Golden Seventh Merchant Wind greatly enhanced movement, and found Langhuan Pavilion guarded by a powerful spirit array. Unable to enter, he searched a nearby retreat and obtained an entry token and two mysterious Jade Talismans from a cultivator’s remains.

• Jiang Yang found sixteen jars of Immortal Brew in Zhonghai Hall and took two Ritual Vessel cups before leaving.
• Jiang Yang flew toward a nearby Jade Tower and learned from Bai Tang that the Grotto-Heaven’s Golden Seventh Merchant Wind enhanced movement.
• Jiang Yang reached Langhuan Pavilion, recognized it as the source of the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter, and found its entrance blocked by a formidable spirit array.
• Jiang Yang searched a nearby Quiet Retreat and found the remains of a Foundation Establishment cultivator along with a Langhuan Pavilion entry token.
• Jiang Yang buried the cultivator’s remains and its Xun Wood Spirit Treasures, then picked up two Jade Talismans that fell from a sleeve.

Jiang Yang explored Langhuan Pavilion and searched its catalog for the missing fifth divine power tied to his master Xuan Guang. After failing to find it among the Yi Wood methods, he searched for the Upper Mystic Position, hoping it would reveal a path forward.

• Jiang Yang entered Langhuan Pavilion with the Access Token and used its catalog to browse the Dao Canon.
• Bai Tang emerged from Jiang Yang and accompanied him as he moved to the pavilion's second floor.
• Jiang Yang learned that the Wind-Xun Spirit-Rhinoceros Talismans could let someone flee through the Great Void for thirteen breaths.
• Jiang Yang searched the second-floor catalog for Yi Wood methods but found no trace of the fifth divine power, Green Tip Above.
• Jiang Yang reconsidered Xuan Di's words and searched the catalog for the Upper Mystic Position.

Jiang Yang discovered the Cave Mystery Marvelous Unity Heart-Aiding Formula, which could help Xuan Guang cultivate his fifth divine power, and copied several rare texts for himself and Shang Qingzheng. He joined Bai Tang on the Langhuan Pavilion’s third floor, where his token failed to grant access to nine immortal slips on a jade dais.

• Jiang Yang found and copied the Cave Mystery Marvelous Unity Heart-Aiding Formula for Xuan Guang’s Upper Mystery cultivation.
• Jiang Yang searched for Broadwood methods, mystic-pupil arts, and Musical Dao texts, collecting rare spells and cultivation methods for himself and Shang Qingzheng.
• Jiang Yang found the rare sixth-grade Pitch-Within Great Cluster Divine Scroll and copied the Void-traversing spell Wind Rushes Through the Void.
• Jiang Yang finished searching and found Bai Tang standing before a jade dais on the Langhuan Pavilion’s third floor.
• Jiang Yang presented his token to the jade dais, but its gentle force pushed him away from the nine immortal slips.

Jiang Yang and Bai Tang traveled to the Sword-Washing Pool, where Bai Tang followed a mysterious call toward the source of her doubts about her identity. They reached the Pearl Hall, but the chapter ended before they discovered what awaited inside.

• Jiang Yang failed to use his disciple token on the nine immortal slips, and Bai Tang explained that only the Dao Lord's immortal edict could open them.
• Bai Tang recalled that she wanted to visit the Sword-Washing Pool, and Jiang Yang agreed to take her there.
• Bai Tang guided Jiang Yang to an Immortal Palace, where they found the Sword-Washing Pool dried up and strewn with rusty swords.
• Bai Tang reflected on the contradictions in her belief that she was a sword spirit, then followed a voice calling to her.
• Bai Tang led Jiang Yang to the Pearl Hall, where they found two Kui Ox carvings and a stone tablet bearing an inscription about Elixir Nature.

Jiang Yang and Bai Tang reached the Three Immortal Platforms, where Bai Tang encountered a woman identical to herself and fell into a trance. The woman, Qing He, revealed that she was connected to Bai Tang and had been calling Jiang Yang for help for centuries.

• Jiang Yang and Bai Tang entered the grand hall and found a tender sprout on the Immortal Platform Profound Seat surrounded by visions of growth and destruction.
• A woman identical to Bai Tang appeared on the seat, and Bai Tang stood motionless as Jiang Yang tried to rouse her.
• The woman introduced herself as Qing He and told Jiang Yang that she and Bai Tang were one and the same.
• Qing He explained that she had guided Jiang Yang to the Three Immortal Platforms, including through Fang Xu and the Ancient Cultivator Legacy eight years earlier.
• Qing He said she had called for help forty-nine times over the past twelve hundred years.

Jiang Yang learned that Qing He had summoned him for help across twelve hundred years, and that she was a remnant of the deceased True Lord Qing Tang, who had once occupied the Execution Thunder position. He agreed to rescue Qing He from the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms and asked her how to proceed.

• Qing He told Jiang Yang that twelve hundred years had passed since the Broadwood fruit position reappeared and that she had called for help forty-nine times.
• Qing He explained that Jiang Yang's Broadwood cultivation and Conjoined Branch technique showed the fruit position had favored him.
• Qing He described how the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms had tormented her for twelve hundred years, leaving her thoughts muddled and stripping away her fortune and lifespan.
• Jiang Yang recognized the immortal platform from a prophecy and realized the woman before him was not his senior sister, Chu Qingjian.
• Qing He revealed that she was a remnant of True Lord Qing Tang, had used the White Du Sword as her vessel, and had been sent out of the grotto-heaven as Bai Tang.
• Jiang Yang set aside his doubts and asked Qing He how he could rescue her.

Jiang Yang joined forces with Qing He to break the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms’ restraints, awakening Sword Intent and freeing her. Bai Tang then explained the nature of golden nature and revealed the origins of True Lord Qing Tang’s remnant.

• Qing He said Jiang Yang could free her by combining his divine status with her strength to break the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms.
• Qing He used Daybreak Separation, and Bai Tang merged into Jiang Yang, flooding him with sword principles and advancing his Sword Intent.
• Jiang Yang unleashed the Two Aspects Unraveling Mystery Sword, then collapsed from the strain after draining his Qi Sea.
• Qing He teased Jiang Yang, then let Bai Tang take over so he could speak with her.
• Bai Tang explained that golden nature was a fragment of Dao fruit and identified her remnant as True Lord Qing Tang’s Upper Thunder Transforms into Destruction Thunder, Shifting Stations Nature.

Jiang Yang learned how thunder wood lost its thunder and why its old cultivation methods could not lead to a present-day position. Qing He revealed that she had spent twelve hundred years compiling methods for the five cracking wood divine powers and planned to cultivate the path herself.

• Bai Tang explained that thunder wood was stripped of earth altar thunder, leaving its fruit position transformed and its old methods ineffective for later cultivators.
• Jiang Yang asked why no cracking wood cultivation methods existed, and Bai Tang revealed that she was compiling them.
• Jiang Yang recognized that Qing He had taken over Bai Tang’s body and allowed her to speak.
• Qing He described revising the cracking wood divine powers, including transforming thunder wood’s principal-position art into “Disintegration and Analysis.”
• Qing He declared that she intended to attain cracking wood anew.

Qing He explained that she planned to use her golden nature to reincarnate through the Nether Bureau and cultivate anew, then asked Jiang Yang to help her avoid the Bureau’s envoys and keep her plans secret. She persuaded him that her success could help him restore the wood path and advance toward a golden position, and they prepared to leave the grotto-heaven to open hidden Dao Canon caches.

• Qing He told Jiang Yang that golden nature could preserve her memories and spiritual essence through reincarnation, allowing her to cultivate anew with exceptional gifts.
• Qing He explained that she could not safely appear outside the grotto-heaven and asked Jiang Yang to help her reincarnate without being exploited by Nether Yin Envoys or attracting attention.
• Jiang Yang questioned why Qing He needed to reincarnate, and she said that attaining a golden position would let her help him restore the wood path and reach the fruit position of cracking wood.
• Qing He admitted she could not guarantee success but urged Jiang Yang to keep advancing with the grand tide, and he agreed to help her.
• Qing He proposed that they leave the grotto-heaven and open Dao Canon caches at treasure sites she knew.