Recaps

Jiang Yang agreed to travel with Zhao Xixun and Qingyan toward the Blessed Land’s inner region, while the injured Jiang Junrui chose to leave on his own. As the three flew toward the Threefold Gate, they discussed the disciples they had encountered.

• Zhao Xixun showed Jiang Yang and Qingyan a map of the Blessed Land and invited Jiang Yang to join her journey beyond the Threefold Gate.
• Jiang Yang agreed to travel with Zhao Xixun and Qingyan, while Jiang Junrui declined to join them because his injuries left him unable to fight.
• Jiang Junrui said he had gained enough resources for Foundation Establishment and planned to leave the Blessed Land on his own.
• Jiang Yang, Zhao Xixun, and Qingyan flew above the clouds, using Zhao Xixun’s map to guide their route.
• Qingyan said she had met Zhang Yunbai, who had chosen to travel alone, and Zhao Xixun described how she had found the map after being trapped in a pavilion.

Jiang Yang and his companions reached the Threefold Gate, where Dongmen Shu used an apparent Spirit Treasure trade to entrap and kill three cultivators who attacked him. Jiang Yang crossed into Mystic Capital Peach Radiance, a beautiful region deep within the Qingyu Mountain Blessed Land, still searching for Shang Qingzheng.

• Jiang Yang used the Spirit Crane to locate Shang Qingzheng and learned she was within ten thousand miles, south in the direction of the Threefold Gate.
• At the gate, Dongmen Shu of the Yi Sword Gate offered to trade Spirit Resources for materials to forge a Spirit Sword, but Jiang Yang and his companions had nothing he wanted.
• After Jiang Yang passed him, three black-robed cultivators attacked Dongmen Shu to seize the displayed treasures, and Dongmen Shu swiftly killed them and searched their Storage Bags.
• Jiang Yang realized Dongmen Shu had laid a trap for anyone tempted to attack him, and Zhao Xixun criticized the sword cultivator for dressing killing and robbery as a defensible scheme.
• Jiang Yang, Zhao Xixun, and Qingyan passed through the gate into Mystic Capital Peach Radiance, a land of mist, radiant clouds, flowers, and peach-pink petals.

Jiang Yang discovered that the untouchable peach blossoms were likely Mystic Capital Yancai, then left Zhao Xixun and Qingyan to follow a spirit crane toward Shang Qingzheng. He reached the vast Peach Blossom forest and reunited with her.

• Qingyan identified the blossoms as Yancai, also called Mystic Capital Flowers, whose gathered petals could form Peach Radiance Water that warded off evil and misfortune.
• Jiang Yang recommended that Zhao Xixun and Qingyan visit Junguang Hall, then excused himself and flew away to search for Shang Qingzheng.
• Zhao Xixun remarked that Jiang Yang seemed to belong to someone, while Qingyan warned her not to become a lovesick fool.
• Jiang Yang followed the spirit crane through the Threefold Gate, avoided several groups of fighting cultivators, and passed Zhang Yunbai as four people pursued him.
• Jiang Yang arrived at a vast Peach Blossom forest, where his spirit crane met another crane guiding Shang Qingzheng, and the two were reunited.

Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng reunited in Peachwell Grove and shared how they had been separated and what they had encountered in the Blessed Land. Shang Qingzheng then showed Jiang Yang a mysterious Pill she had taken from the Star-Picking Pavilion, leaving its identity unknown.

• Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng found each other in Peachwell Grove, where they wandered among the blossoms and caught up.
• Shang Qingzheng told Jiang Yang that she had gotten lost, fought Lineage cultivators at the Star-Picking Tower, and escaped through a Mystic Stratagem Spirit Array after taking the tower’s treasures.
• Jiang Yang worried that Shang Qingzheng had been in danger, and she assured him that she had ways to protect herself and was nearing foundation establishment.
• Shang Qingzheng opened a sealed Wooden Box and showed Jiang Yang a pale-pink Pill bearing six profound markings.

Shang Qingzheng offered Jiang Yang a Mystic Fortune Illumination Pill to improve his aptitude, and he finally accepted it after realizing it could explain his secretly improving Spirit Root. They reconciled through an awkward, affectionate moment, and Jiang Yang prepared to show her a rare musical score.

• Shang Qingzheng explained the pill’s diminished ancient powers and its present ability to improve Spirit Root aptitude, then offered it to Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang refused the pill, while Shang Qingzheng insisted she had saved it for him and grew tearful when he kept declining.
• Jiang Yang accepted the pill to comfort Shang Qingzheng, and she cried as he reassured her and held her hand.
• Jiang Yang realized the pill could provide a plausible explanation for his improving aptitude, and Shang Qingzheng shyly withdrew her hand after he put it away.
• Jiang Yang changed the subject and brought out a rare musical score to show Shang Qingzheng.

Jiang Yang showed Shang Qingzheng the ancient Phoenix-Approaching Score, and they considered whether its author, Shang Wensu, might have been her ancestor. Shang Qingzheng played the score for Jiang Yang, whose sword dance stirred a new, still-distant intent within him.

• Jiang Yang showed Shang Qingzheng the Phoenix-Approaching Score, and she explained how ancient Musical Dao scores used symbols rather than ordinary notation.
• Shang Qingzheng identified Shang Wensu as the score’s author and wondered whether he was her ancestor, while Jiang Yang speculated about the Palace of Guarding the Void and the Seeing Simplicity Pavilion.
• Shang Qingzheng agreed to play the score on her flute after Jiang Yang suggested she put it away.
• Shang Qingzheng’s music evoked a gathering of birds, and Jiang Yang drew his sword and danced among the peach petals.
• Jiang Yang sensed a new intent taking root within him, though he could not yet bring it forth.

Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng shared a shy first kiss in the pavilion, then walked through the peach grove together. He gave her a colorful bouquet, which she happily accepted.

• Jiang Yang hesitated to kiss Shang Qingzheng until Bai Tang secretly pushed him toward her.
• Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng kissed, and he awkwardly moved his hands after she called his attention to them.
• Shang Qingzheng asked Jiang Yang to take a walk, then offered him her hand as they left the pavilion.
• Jiang Yang told Shang Qingzheng about the Yancai trees as they strolled through the peach grove.
• Jiang Yang surprised Shang Qingzheng with a bouquet of spirit flowers and peach blossoms, and she said she loved it.

Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng explored the peach grove, discovered two joined trees, and decided to travel together to Jun Guang Hall, where the Blessed Land’s legacy was said to be held. They reached the crowded hall and Jiang Yang spotted several fellow disciples and a familiar face.

• Shang Qingzheng asked how Jiang Yang could collect the Mystic Capital Flowers, and he let her believe it was a secret before they continued through the grove.
• Jiang Yang identified two intertwined peach trees as possibly formed through the Rootstock Method, then took Shang Qingzheng’s hand as they admired them.
• Jiang Yang told Shang Qingzheng about Jun Guang Hall and offered her the choice to wait outside; she chose to come with him and said she could protect herself.
• Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng flew toward the hall, lamenting the damage cultivators had caused to the Blessed Land’s buildings along the way.
• Jiang Yang recognized Qingyan, Zhao Xixun, Zhang Yunbai, and Dongmen Shu among the cultivators gathered at Jun Guang Hall, then noticed another familiar face.

Jiang Yang reunited with his Rain Xiang Mountain fellow disciples outside Junguang Hall, where the three major Sects had joined forces to keep other groups away. When another party challenged Yi Sword Gate’s claim to the hall, Dongmen Shu agreed to settle the dispute by force.

• Jiang Yang spotted Qin Dingyi and a white-robed woman who looked almost identical to her, then cautiously led Shang Qingzheng down to join his fellow disciples.
• Qingyan and Zhao Xixun welcomed Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng, and Zhao Xixun explained that Yi Sword Gate, Threefold Way, and Rain Xiang Mountain had driven off lesser groups and claimed the area around Junguang Hall.
• Qingyan and Zhao Xixun told Jiang Yang that a Spirit Array protected the hall and a guardian at its entrance demanded a secret password, so the cultivators planned to break in by force.
• Four cultivators arrived and asked to claim a place near the hall, but Dongmen Shu told them Yi Sword Gate had already claimed it.
• After the leading man challenged Dongmen Shu to settle the dispute through their skills, Dongmen Shu accepted, and Qingyan explained that the Sects took turns driving off newcomers.

Dongmen Shu killed a cultivator who challenged the group, and the remaining disciples gathered at an ancient hall guarded by an array spirit demanding the Immortal Edict. After their guesses failed, Qin Dingying proposed using the Twelve Heavenly Stems Method to break the array, and the cultivators agreed to follow her instructions.

• Dongmen Shu pierced the middle-aged man through the chest, collected his Mystic Artifact and Storage Bags, and let the man's companions flee.
• The cultivators gathered at the hall entrance after no one else came to challenge them.
• Qin Dingying proposed that they cooperate to break the array before competing for what lay inside.
• The array spirit appeared and demanded that they recite the Immortal Edict, rejecting their guesses.
• Qin Dingying explained that she could use the Twelve Heavenly Stems Method and assigned male and female cultivators to the yang and yin stem positions.

Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng joined the cultivators preparing to break Jun Guang Hall’s array, but Tai Pei’er revealed she knew the Immortal Edict and led them through a hidden entrance. The three entered the hall while the others remained outside attempting to break the array.

• Qin Dingying assigned the cultivators positions to disrupt the array, and Qin Dingyi recognized Jiang Yang but held back from confronting him.
• Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng left the assigned positions and found Tai Pei’er waiting beside a Xiezhi statue.
• Tai Pei’er told Jiang Yang she could enter without breaking the array and greeted Shang Qingzheng.
• Tai Pei’er recited “Primordial Void, True Eternity” to the Divine General, who opened the spirit array.
• Jiang Yang, Shang Qingzheng, and Tai Pei’er passed through the array and entered Jun Guang Hall.

Tai Pei'er led Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng to three sealed Purple Mansion Spirit Treasures of the Three Yin Way, including the Taiyin treasure she hoped to use to change her Dao Lineage. She offered to share them with her companions, and Jiang Yang agreed to help break the shields.

• Tai Pei'er hurried Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng through the Jade Toad Swallowing the Moon passage as the formation outside began to tremble.
• They found three stone platforms holding spirit treasures, and Tai Pei'er recognized the Great Lunar Radiance Instrument and the Taiyin treasure she had long sought.
• Bai Tang identified the three treasures as Purple Mansion Spirit Treasures of the Three Yin branch: Taiyin, hui yin, and nether yin.
• Jiang Yang considered the value of the treasures but decided not to betray Tai Pei'er, who had brought him and Shang Qingzheng to them.
• Tai Pei'er offered one treasure to each of them and asked them to work together to break the mystic shields; Jiang Yang agreed.

Tai Pei'er, Jiang Yang, and Shang Qingzheng opened two stone platforms and claimed their Purple Mansion-grade spirit treasures before a rumble warned that cultivators outside might have broken through the formation. They began opening the final platform, hoping to leave before the others reached them.

• Tai Pei'er revealed that the three platforms held Purple Mansion-grade spirit treasures and asked to keep the Great Lunar Radiance Instrument, which Jiang Yang agreed to.
• The three broke the first shield, and Tai Pei'er took the Great Lunar Radiance Instrument, a Taiyin-path spirit treasure.
• They opened the second platform and revealed the Perfect Crescent of Darkness, a Hui Yin spirit treasure that Jiang Yang wanted; Shang Qingzheng let him take it.
• A loud rumble led Jiang Yang to suspect that cultivators outside had broken the formation, so Tai Pei'er urged them to hurry.
• The three gathered at the final platform and began breaking its spiritual shield.

Jiang Yang, Shang Qingzheng, and Tai Pei'er claimed the Nether Yin Spirit Treasure before escaping into the side hall, where another cultivator emerged carrying Solar Sun Essence. Tai Pei'er and Bai Tang warned Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng to flee as the commotion turned dangerous.

• Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng took the Square Fang Vessel, the Nether Yin Spirit Treasure, from the final platform while Tai Pei'er explained its uncanny nature.
• The cultivators broke the array outside Jun Guang Hall, and Qin Dingyi decided to seek revenge on the young man from Rain Xiang Mountain for her severed arm.
• The trio returned to the side hall, where Tai Pei'er urged Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng to leave before they investigated the corridor beneath the Golden Crow mural.
• A cultivator emerged carrying Solar Sun Essence, drawing attacks from nearby cultivators and making Tai Pei'er and Bai Tang urgently warn Jiang Yang and Shang Qingzheng to escape.

Jiang Yang fled Jun Guang Hall with Tai Pei'er and Shang Qingzheng as the Sun Essence erupted, then used layered defenses to shield them from its devastating radiance. The three huddled beneath the failing Mystic Shield, waiting to learn whether they would survive.

• Jiang Yang grabbed Tai Pei'er and Shang Qingzheng and raced from the hall as the Sun Essence transformed in its holder's grasp.
• A cultivator cut off the Sun Essence holder's arm, and the orb erupted, vaporizing nearby cultivators and blasting apart Jun Guang Hall.
• Jiang Yang fled through the corridors with Shang Qingzheng's flute strengthening his movement while Tai Pei'er guided him.
• Jiang Yang sheltered with the two women behind a bronze cauldron and reinforced the Mystic Shield with origin water, Shang Qingzheng's Talismans, and Tai Pei'er's jade token.
• The Sun Essence's radiance melted the cauldron and broke through the jade token and Talismans, leaving the Mystic Shield to shield the three as it began to evaporate.

Jiang Yang, Shang Qingzheng, and Tai Pei'er survived the Sun Essence's catastrophic radiance and learned why the spirit treasure had erupted. The blast exposed a hidden passage beneath Jun Guang Hall, and the three decided to explore the Underground Palace below.

• Jiang Yang waited until the radiance faded, then woke Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er beneath his Mystic Shield.
• Tai Pei'er explained that the unstable Taiyang Solar Sun Essence had transformed during the cultivators' struggle and unleashed the destructive radiance.
• Jiang Yang saw that the blast had devastated Jun Guang Hall and agreed with Tai Pei'er that they should leave the scorched area.
• The floor collapsed beneath the three, revealing a hidden passage and stairs descending into an Underground Palace.
• Jiang Yang proposed exploring below, and Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er agreed to go with him.

Jiang Yang, Tai Pei'er, and Shang Qingzheng entered the ancient Cave Abode and found that its complete lack of Spirit Vigor had ruined its medicinal garden. Jiang Yang discovered the final testament of Nan Lüzi, the founder of Qingyu Mountain Blessed Land, and began learning why he had fled the Immortal Mansion.

• Jiang Yang led Tai Pei'er and Shang Qingzheng down a hidden passage to an ancient door marked with the Immortal Edict, "Primordial Void, True Eternity."
• Jiang Yang opened the door, and the three found a cramped Cave Abode with no Spirit Vigor.
• Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er examined a medicinal garden where the spiritual herbs and fruit had withered away.
• Jiang Yang entered a small courtyard and found Nan Lüzi's final testament beside a bundle of wooden slips.
• Jiang Yang read that Nan Lüzi had stolen an immortal scripture after failing to obtain the means to attain the Dao, but could not understand its characters.

Jiang Yang and the two women discovered Nan Lüzi’s letter and a mysterious heavenly scripture in the thatched cottage. Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er could not read the slips, while Jiang Yang recognized their characters and began to study the profound cultivation method.

• Jiang Yang read Nan Lüzi’s letter, which described his regret and asked whoever found the scripture to return it to the Mysterious Capital Immortal Mansion.
• Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er returned from the withered medicinal garden, and Jiang Yang showed them the letter and wooden slips.
• Shang Qingzheng struggled to lift the exceptionally heavy slips before spreading them open on the desk for the three of them to read.
• Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er found the scripture impossible to comprehend and suffered dizziness, while Tai Pei'er concluded that it had chosen Jiang Yang as its reader.
• Jiang Yang recognized the characters from his awakened Dao Fruit and read the scripture’s full title and opening, realizing it was a profound foundational immortal art.

Jiang Yang deciphered an ancient Wood Virtue cultivation method and realized it could become his Dao Lineage, though he could not explain or recite its contents to Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er. After they entrusted him with the scripture, the three prepared to leave the cottage and choose which path to explore.

• Jiang Yang studied the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter and learned that it cultivated the [Entwined Lotus Fate Divine Power], a path far more difficult than modern cultivation methods.
• Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er told Jiang Yang they could neither remember nor understand the scripture, and Jiang Yang discovered he could not speak its contents aloud.
• Tai Pei'er suggested Jiang Yang keep the scripture because only someone with the right affinity could read it, and Shang Qingzheng agreed.
• Jiang Yang accepted the wooden-slip text and found that it no longer felt as heavy as Shang Qingzheng had described before storing it in his Storage Bag.
• Jiang Yang, Shang Qingzheng, and Tai Pei'er decided to leave the cottage, with a collapsed hidden passage and an unexplored southern cave opening before them.

Jiang Yang, Shang Qingzheng, and Tai Pei'er chose the southern passage after leaving the Underground Palace, while the story shifted to the Southern Hall, where the Yi Sword Gate and Threefold Way groups explored separately. The two parties converged on the pavilion beside the Cold Pool and unexpectedly met there.

• Jiang Yang chose the southern route with Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er because the Northern Hall was blocked by molten iron.
• Jiang Yang led the two women up a steep, winding passage toward a faint light.
• Dongmen Shu warned his junior brother that the Threefold Way had likely manipulated the Twelve Heavenly Stems method to scatter the Yi Sword Gate disciples.
• Qin Dingying led Qin Dingyi and two disciples through the Southern Hall, while Qin Dingyi suggested investigating the northern side after they finished exploring.
• Qin Dingying's group and Dongmen Shu's group entered the pavilion terrace from opposite sides and met unexpectedly.

Dongmen Shu and Junior Brother Jin found spirit treasures and six Immortal Peaches in the Pavilions, but Qin Dingying’s party ambushed them and demanded the fruit. With Jin wounded and the group outnumbered, Dongmen Shu offered to surrender the Peaches and leave, while Jin began urging a desperate escape.

• Dongmen Shu and Junior Brother Jin entered the Pavilions and took a jade wine vessel and a Glazed Glass Cup.
• Dongmen Shu identified the six fruits as Immortal Peaches, stored three, and told Junior Brother Jin to preserve the rest for refining Longevity Pills.
• Qin Dingying attacked from behind and wounded Junior Brother Jin, then arrived with three companions to demand the Peaches.
• Dongmen Shu offered the remaining platter and a safe departure, but Qin Dingyi pointed out that six people would have to divide the six Peaches.
• Junior Brother Jin secretly urged Dongmen Shu to seize the treasures and escape on their swords.

Dongmen Shu traded four Peaches for an apparent escape route, then fled with his injured junior brother as the Threefold Way pursued them. At the Cold Pool exit, Jiang Yang found the abandoned Peaches and was confronted by a Threefold Way disciple, who lost his nerve when two powerful women appeared beside Jiang Yang.

• Dongmen Shu offered four Peaches to Qin Dingying and her companions in exchange for clearing the western exit, then set the tray beside the Cold Pool and fled with his junior brother.
• Qin Dingyi attacked with a smoking-flask Mystic Artifact, while Qin Dingying sent a companion after the fleeing pair and pursued them herself.
• Jiang Yang and the two women reached the sealed cave exit, moved the stone stele, and emerged beside the Cold Pool.
• Jiang Yang found the tray of Peaches and picked it up, recognizing the fruit and its familiar fragrance.
• A Threefold Way disciple accused Jiang Yang of stealing the Peaches and threatened him with a Black-Green Mystic Sword.
• The two women emerged behind Jiang Yang, and the disciple immediately backed down and called it a misunderstanding.

Jiang Yang refused to surrender the Spirit Fruit to the Threefold Way and fought Qin Dingyi and Qin Dingying with Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er. Qin Dingyi's Baleful-Hunting Jade Smoke Flask shrouded the battlefield as the sisters engaged Jiang Yang.

• Jiang Yang explained that a Threefold Way cultivator had demanded the Spirit Fruit, then tried to leave with Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er.
• The young man blocked Jiang Yang, but his Black-Green Spell Sword was broken before Qin Dingying and the others arrived to save him.
• Qin Dingyi recognized Jiang Yang and demanded the Spirit Fruit, but Jiang Yang denied her request and insisted it belonged to whoever found it.
• Qin Dingyi activated the Baleful-Hunting Jade Smoke Flask, and Jiang Yang assigned Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er to fight the other opponents while he faced the sisters.
• Qin Dingyi concealed herself in the baleful mist and sent a Baleful Blade toward Jiang Yang as Qin Dingying tried to withstand his sword qi.

Jiang Yang fought Qin Dingyi and Qin Dingying in the baleful mist while Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er engaged their own opponents. Shang Qingzheng's Clear Melody disrupted Qin Dingyi's bell attack, allowing Jiang Yang to pierce Qin Dingyi through the chest.

• Jiang Yang shattered Qin Dingying's blade and pressed her with sword qi until she cast Pure Yin Winterlight.
• Shang Qingzheng used her flute's Jade Bamboo Clear Melody against a woman defending with a stone disk, while Tai Pei'er trapped the wounded young man beneath her mystic umbrella.
• Qin Dingyi joined Qin Dingying in a combined defense against Jiang Yang, who overwhelmed their spells and ambushes with his swordsmanship.
• Qin Dingyi activated the Netherfiend Heavenly Sound Bells, but Shang Qingzheng's Clear Melody dispelled their confusion from Jiang Yang's mind.
• Jiang Yang seized the opening and drove his sword through Qin Dingyi's chest.

Qin Dingyi and Qin Dingying fought Jiang Yang while Tai Pei'er and Shang Qingzheng battled their own opponents in the baleful mist. After Jiang Yang unleashed a devastating sword strike, Qin Dingyi sacrificed her entire body to activate the Ninefold Nether Hidden Yin Sacrificial Method and send Qin Dingying fleeing as a Black Bat.

• Jiang Yang kept attacking the badly wounded Qin Dingyi, while Qin Dingying tried to seal her wound and urged her to retreat.
• Tai Pei'er trapped and subdued a young man with metal qi chains, then entered the thickening mist to regroup.
• Shang Qingzheng weakened the Threefold Way woman with the Peaceful Martial Truce Melody, and Tai Pei'er arrived to help her.
• Jiang Yang drew his Spirit Oak sword and unleashed Long Rainbow Drinks from the Ravine, breaking through the baleful mist and overwhelming the sisters' defenses.
• Qin Dingyi performed the Ninefold Nether Hidden Yin Sacrificial Method despite Jiang Yang's attack, sacrificing her body, blood, and cultivation to transform into a Black Bat that carried Qin Dingying away.