Recaps

Yu Shan failed to undo the Fate Divine Power afflicting three Shang Clan Elders and told Shang Sibai to find whoever had caused it. Jiang Yang and Zhiyang discussed Jiang Yang’s decision to sever Cong Huaijin’s feelings for him and agreed to leave any lingering consequences to Chu Qingjian.

• Yu Shan examined the threads above the three elders and admitted that he could not remove the divine power.
• Shang Sibai begged Yu Shan to restore the elders, but Yu Shan advised him to seek the person responsible and refused to erase their minds.
• Jiang Yang reflected on his return from the Snowfield, where he had settled Shang Qingzheng’s concerns and helped prepare her for a future breakthrough.
• Zhiyang accused Jiang Yang of mishandling Cong Huaijin’s affection, and Jiang Yang worried that cutting those ties might harm her soul.
• Jiang Yang decided to wait for Chu Qingjian to emerge from seclusion before addressing any consequences for her disciple, then ordered Zhiyang to leave.

Zhiyang left to exchange the Jade Sparrow Token for a Grand Pill for Shang Qingzheng, while Jiang Yang checked Cong Huaijin’s condition and rewarded her with the Azure Banner. After discovering his divine powers had grown through feedback from Shang Qingzheng, Jiang Yang began examining his treasures and tasted spirit wine from the Grotto-Heaven.

• Jiang Yang gave Zhiyang the Jade Sparrow Token, Purple Mansion spirit resources, and the Wu Earth Small Seal, instructing him to obtain a Grand Pill for Shang Qingzheng and check on her work.
• Jiang Yang examined Cong Huaijin’s karmic threads, found no serious change in her, and gave her the Azure Banner as a reward.
• Jiang Yang meditated and realized his divine powers had advanced, likely through feedback from Shang Qingzheng’s cultivation and emotional changes.
• Jiang Yang wondered why Bai Tang had given him no feedback, then began sorting through items he had not yet examined.
• Jiang Yang opened a jar of aged spirit wine from the Grotto-Heaven and drank a ladleful, finding its spirit vigor overwhelming.

Jiang Yang refined the spirit wine and examined the rare treasures he had acquired, including the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting and Myriad Mysteries Cosmic Light Gourd. After sorting through several scripture scrolls, he prepared to test one he had been unable to open before.

• Jiang Yang discovered that removing the spirit wine’s killing aura left potent spiritual liquid, then drank some and compressed its vigor into a qi pellet.
• Jiang Yang refined the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting, an Ancient Spirit Artifact with five wondrous powers, and tucked it into his sleeve as a hidden trump card.
• Jiang Yang identified the Myriad Mysteries Cosmic Light Gourd’s Cosmic Union power, which could absorb and suppress many kinds of attacks, and hung the gourd at his waist.
• Jiang Yang reviewed three scripture scrolls, including the Wind Rushes Through the Void traversal art and the Secret Dao Art of Mysterious Canopy Nurturing the Origin and Sheltering Manifestation.
• Jiang Yang returned to the stubborn scroll he had been unable to open years earlier and prepared to examine it with his Purple Mansion cultivation.

Jiang Yang deciphered the azure Dao Scroll and discovered it contained a gold-seeking method for the [Longevity Oak] position, along with a way to redirect some of the lifespan cost of his life-exchange technique to his Spirit Sword. He welcomed Bi Xingjian to the pavilion and reassured him that their senior-junior bond remained close.

• Jiang Yang read the azure scroll, whose dialogue about the Great Chun tree described how cultivation and Dao Lineages adapted to the changing world.
• Jiang Yang realized the scroll was a gold-seeking method for the [Longevity Oak] position and reasoned that fortune qi and official fortune qi might also have corresponding surplus positions.
• Jiang Yang concluded that he could shift much of the lifespan cost of his Lifespan-Slash Life-Exchange Method onto the Spirit Sword he had nurtured within him.
• Jiang Yang sensed a visitor, set down the scroll, and went out to greet Bi Xingjian.
• Jiang Yang led Bi Xingjian into the pavilion and told him that they remained close fellow disciples despite Jiang Yang having advanced ahead.

Jiang Yang learned that the [Crimson Mansion Cloud Whirlpool Lotus] had matured into a Purple Mansion Spirit Treasure and went to harvest it before it drained the peak’s spirit spring. He secured the lotus, then replanted a rhizome and added [Radiant Purple Glaze] so the transformed treasure land could benefit the peak’s future disciples.

• Bi Xingjian told Jiang Yang that the [Crimson Mansion Cloud Whirlpool Lotus] had ripened into a Purple Mansion Spirit Treasure and warned that it was turning the spirit spring into purple qi.
• Jiang Yang and Bi Xingjian traveled to the spring, where they found the lotus thriving amid thick purple qi and the water nearly depleted.
• When Jiang Yang tried to harvest it, the lotus tore free and fled, but his spell-light net caught it and returned it to his hand.
• Jiang Yang replanted a piece of the lotus’s rhizome in the depleted pool and added [Radiant Purple Glaze] to support its future growth.
• Jiang Yang offered the lotus platforms that grew there to Bi Xingjian and future successor disciples as a benefit for the peak.

Jiang Yang entrusted Bi Xingjian with the newly formed Spirit Spring, then began refining a rare lotus Spirit Treasure into a mysterious mansion. Meanwhile, Zhiyang traveled to Cinnabar Cliffs and Azure Walls and was welcomed by a disciple sent to meet him.

• Jiang Yang left Bi Xingjian to oversee the Spirit Spring he had created and returned to his lodge with the crimson mansion cloud whirlpool lotus.
• Jiang Yang began refining the lotus into his body to create a mysterious mansion that could store his possessions.
• Zhiyang flew north along the Jin River, admired the prosperous lands, and observed the powerful spirit array protecting the Zheng Kingdom's capital, Qi.
• Zhiyang continued to Cinnabar Cliffs and Azure Walls, where a female disciple greeted him and explained that her master was occupied in the Elixir Chamber.
• Zhiyang accepted the disciple's explanation and asked her to lead the way.

Zhen Qing discovered that the sleeping girl sent to the Cave-Arcane Heaven had suffered backlash from the Moon-Cold Curse and had touched the Dream-Traveling Immortal-Returning Pillow, a Position Relic tied to True Lord Lou Wan. The Immortal Maiden decided to keep the girl in heaven to study the Dao and make her own move amid the resulting entanglements.

• Zhen Qing visited the Immortal Maiden and found a sleeping girl on a jade platform in the side hall.
• Zhen Qing examined the girl and identified her Taiyin cultivation, night-mooring frost foundation, Perceive Obscurity Method, and Moon-Cold Curse backlash.
• The Immortal Maiden explained that the girl had contacted the Dream-Traveling Immortal-Returning Pillow, a Position Relic linked to True Lord Lou Wan and its dream-based visions of the future.
• Zhen Qing offered to send the girl away to avoid karmic entanglement, but the Immortal Maiden stopped her.
• The Immortal Maiden ordered Zhen Qing to announce that she favored the girl and intended to keep her in heaven to study the Dao.

Zhiyang visited Qin Siwei to discuss two ancient batches of pills from Azure Corner Heaven, learning that she could open one furnace but needed help with the other. He then asked her to refine a Purple Mansion breakthrough Grand Pill for Shang Qingzheng, and began explaining her cultivation background.

• Zhiyang arrived at Yu Zhao Hall and met Qin Siwei in the Elixir Chamber while she tended three furnaces.
• Qin Siwei explained that both batches of ancient pills were deteriorated, but one could be opened after a few more days of nurturing.
• Qin Siwei said the other batch needed a stronger flame and offered three options: Purple Mansion attached fire, Purple Mansion-grade penglite, or a Separation Fire Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Zhiyang accepted that only one batch might be salvaged, noting that the other could wait another thirty to fifty years.
• Zhiyang gave Qin Siwei a seal token and asked her to refine a Purple Mansion breakthrough Grand Pill for Shang Qingzheng.
• Qin Siwei asked about Shang Qingzheng's cultivation, and Zhiyang began describing her Mystic Sound lineage and ancient cultivation method.

Zhiyang obtained the Precious Flower Calyx Elixir from Qin Siwei for Shang Qingzheng’s planned breakthrough. While traveling through the Great Void, he encountered Wen Yong, who accused him of killing his senior brother and attacked.

• Qin Siwei chose Silver Bell Calyx and Golden Chrysanthemum of the Empty Valley to refine a breakthrough elixir, and Zhiyang offered her spirit resources as payment.
• Qin Siwei accepted two resources and spent half a month refining the Precious Flower Calyx Elixir, which could increase magic power and nourish the mind and consciousness.
• Zhiyang stored the elixir for Shang Qingzheng and left Qin Siwei’s residence.
• Zhiyang traveled through the Great Void, sensed someone nearby, and called for them to reveal themselves.
• A young Daoist in an apricot robe appeared and identified himself as Wen Yong, then demanded that Zhiyang repay his senior brother’s life.

Zhiyang fought Wen Yong, who had mistaken him for the killer of his senior brother after recognizing the Wu-Xu Guarded Simplicity Seal. Zhiyang’s sword strike nearly killed Wen Yong, but Wen Yong survived by activating Sovereign’s Flawlessness.

• Zhiyang evaded Wen Yong’s attack with his Fate Divine Power and used Conjoined Branch to assess his opponent’s strength.
• Wen Yong summoned Wu Central Palace to suppress Zhiyang, but Zhiyang countered with the Wu-Xu Guarded Simplicity Seal.
• Wen Yong recognized the seal as his lineage’s artifact and accused Zhiyang of killing his senior brother.
• Zhiyang accepted the accusation without explaining the mix-up, drew his Spirit Sword, and charged Wen Yong.
• Wen Yong used Pivot Image Inquiring Locust Mystic Art to weigh down Zhiyang, but Zhiyang’s sword strike forced Wen Yong to activate Sovereign’s Flawlessness to survive.

Zhiyang attacked Wen Yong, whose formidable defensive divine abilities could not withstand the Sword Immortal’s strike. Wen Yong escaped with his head and a fragment of his rising sun, but Zhiyang judged him nearly dead.

• Wen Yong recognized Zhiyang as a Sword Immortal and decided to flee while trying to learn more about him.
• Zhiyang locked onto Wen Yong and unleashed the Day-Opening, Night-Closing Sword of Dual Principles Unraveling the Mysteries.
• Wen Yong activated Sovereign's Flawlessness and Wu Central Palace, but Zhiyang’s sword intent shattered his defenses and ravaged his dharma body.
• As the sword intent spread toward his rising sun, Wen Yong cut off his own head to preserve it and escaped with his head carried by his hair.
• Zhiyang recovered his strength and concluded that Wen Yong had escaped with only a small remnant of his rising sun and was as good as dead.

After Zhiyang returned from defeating Wen Yong, Jiang Yang assessed his strength and resumed refining the Purple Qi Lotus. Five years later, sect leader Xuan Di summoned Jiang Yang to discuss whether he would accept disciples as the sect prepared to recruit newcomers.

• Zhiyang told Jiang Yang that he had killed Wen Yong, and they discussed the consequences of offending Locust Image Mountain.
• Jiang Yang considered what the battle had revealed about Zhiyang's abilities and his own prospects against powerful Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Zhiyang handed over the remaining resources, while Jiang Yang kept the elixir for Shang Qingzheng and continued refining the Purple Qi Lotus.
• Jiang Yang spent five years in seclusion, delivered the elixir to Shang Qingzheng, and advised her to prepare carefully before attempting her breakthrough.
• Xuan Di summoned Jiang Yang to the Ancestral Court and asked whether he would accept disciples during the sect's upcoming recruitment.

Jiang Yang agreed to attend the sect’s Apprentice-Selection Ceremony and consider taking disciples. At the ceremony, he examined six children and focused on Wei Jingxing, a gifted boy from the Bright Departure Sect whose eagerness to become Jiang Yang’s disciple revealed his cunning.

• Xuan Di asked Jiang Yang to take one or two disciples and help ease the Sect Leader’s burden, and Jiang Yang agreed to inspect the candidates.
• Half a month later, Jiang Yang joined Xuan Di and Zhi Qiu in the Golden Hall for the selection ceremony.
• Xuan Di identified Wei Jingxing, sent by the Bright Departure Sect and linked to the Xuanzhu Wei Clan, as a child whose placement was difficult to arrange.
• Jiang Yang examined all six children with his mystic pupils, noting Wei Jingxing’s exceptional aptitude and a hemp-clad girl’s unusually strong root bone.
• Jiang Yang asked Wei Jingxing his name and background, and Wei Jingxing declared that he had severed ties with his past and asked Jiang Yang to accept him as a disciple.
• Jiang Yang saw through Wei Jingxing’s thoughts with his fate divine power and recognized how cunning the boy was.

Jiang Yang selected Wei Jingxing and Chen Suxin as his disciples and brought them to Zhouhui Valley. After assigning Chen Suxin as senior sister, he prepared baths and robes for the children, then left them to wash and dress.

• Jiang Yang chose Wei Jingxing and Chen Suxin from the six children, while Zhi Qiu selected another boy.
• Jiang Yang brought the two children to Zhouhui Valley and formally accepted them as his disciples.
• Jiang Yang named the older Chen Suxin senior sister and Wei Jingxing second junior brother.
• Jiang Yang created wooden bathing tubs, filled them with warm water, and told the children to wash.
• Jiang Yang left Dao Academy robes beside the tubs and warned the children to be dressed when he returned.

Jiang Yang’s new disciples, Wei Jingxing and Chen Suxin, settled into their new robes and shared a meal before discussing their cultivation paths. Chen Suxin chose the Sword Dao, while Jiang Yang considered how to guide Wei Jingxing and pass down his master Xuan Guang’s sword teachings.

• Wei Jingxing and Chen Suxin bathed, and Wei Jingxing told Chen Suxin that their master was a powerful Sword Immortal.
• Jiang Yang returned with spirit rice, Silver-Eyed Fish, and vegetables, and the children ate together.
• Jiang Yang asked his disciples what they wanted to cultivate, and Wei Jingxing left the choice to his master.
• Chen Suxin decided she wanted to learn the sword from Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang approved Chen Suxin’s choice because her Giant Gate Court suited Sword Qi and he wanted to preserve Xuan Guang’s Sword Dao.

Jiang Yang recognized Wei Jingxing’s unusual talent and gave him a longevity qi cultivation method, while he provided Chen Suxin with beginner techniques and planned to find her a tutor. After Jiang Yang left, Wei Jingxing tried to make Chen Suxin call him senior brother, but she punched him and demanded that he call her senior sister.

• Jiang Yang examined Wei Jingxing’s spirit aperture, suspected it was connected to the Innate Life-Nourishing True Fire, and confirmed that Wei Jingxing could read the golden scroll.
• Jiang Yang gave Wei Jingxing the Secret Method of Mysterious Shelter, Origin Nurturing, and Shaded Dao Manifestation.
• Jiang Yang gave Chen Suxin the Dew Essence Consumption Method and the Cave-Origin One-Qi Sword, then summoned someone to tutor her and deliver meals.
• After Jiang Yang left, Wei Jingxing showed Chen Suxin his Spirit Stones and offered them if she called him senior brother.
• Chen Suxin punched Wei Jingxing in the eye and told him to call her senior sister because Jiang Yang had said they must treat each other with affection.

Chen Suxin and Wei Jingxing settled onto Jiang Yang’s immortal peak under Cong Huaijin’s care while Jiang Yang studied a traversal art in seclusion. When he entered the Great Void to practice, a huge fiery figure confronted him and demanded that he return something.

• Chen Suxin punched Wei Jingxing, who recovered quickly and insisted they fight again, before offering to teach her to read.
• Cong Huaijin arrived to care for the two disciples and led them to settle on the immortal peak.
• Jiang Yang left the children’s basic instruction to Cong Huaijin and cultivated Divine Abilities before studying “Wind Rushes Through the Void.”
• Chen Suxin advanced in cultivation and showed talent with the sword, often beating Wei Jingxing in practice.
• Jiang Yang entered the Great Void to practice and encountered an enormous fiery figure that demanded he return something.

Jiang Yang accepted Yun Zhen’s invitation to attend her ceremony at the Green Parasol Court and traveled there three months later. He saw through the court’s illusion and was welcomed by Old Tree Lord, who directed him inside to meet Yun Zhen.

• A separation sparrow named Chitong delivered Yun Zhen’s invitation, and Jiang Yang promised to attend her ceremony.
• Jiang Yang spent the next three months studying cultivation methods and refining his Secret Arts while his double managed the sect.
• Jiang Yang traveled south through the Great Void toward the Green Parasol Court, taking care because he had previously been ambushed.
• Jiang Yang used his Mystic Pupils to see through the illusion concealing the Green Parasol Court and its gathering of luans, phoenixes, and other birds.
• Old Tree Lord welcomed Jiang Yang and invited him to go inside to see Yun Zhen.

Jiang Yang was invited into Yang Separation Grotto-Heaven to visit Yun Zhen after she attained her Divine Ability. They reunited alone in her courtyard, where Yun Zhen revealed that her innate Divine Ability was called No Blame.

• Two maids escorted Jiang Yang through the Green Parasol Court's gateway into Yang Separation Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Yang entered Yun Zhen's courtyard and congratulated her on attaining her Divine Ability.
• Yun Zhen explained that she had invited only Jiang Yang because she had few friends and her Grotto-Heaven was not open to everyone.
• Yun Zhen told Jiang Yang that her innate Separation Fire Divine Ability was called No Blame.

Yun Zhen explained the Five Edicts of the Sovereign's Path to Jiang Yang, including Weak Water's true-position Divine Ability, Sovereign's Immeasurability. She then gave him a feather cloak woven from feathers she had shed, leaving Jiang Yang moved by the personal gift.

• Yun Zhen described No Blame and explained that it belonged to the Five Edicts of the Sovereign's Path, along with the other four Virtue Dao Lineages' Divine Abilities.
• Jiang Yang realized that Sovereign's Immeasurability was Weak Water's true-position Divine Ability, while Position Follows the Flow was only a substitute.
• Yun Zhen asked Jiang Yang for a gift, then invited him to guess what she had prepared for his attainment of the Dao.
• Jiang Yang guessed that Yun Zhen's gift was a feather garment, and she revealed the Feather-Gathering, Heart as One Cloak.
• Yun Zhen told Jiang Yang the cloak contained every plume she had shed from childhood until she attained her Divine Ability.