Recaps

Jiang Yang killed Qin Dingying, while the other enemy escaped, and reunited with Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er unharmed. He shared the captured Spirit Fruits with them, and Tai Pei'er believed they might extend her clan elder’s life.

• Jiang Yang sealed the Jade Pot after Qin Dingying was killed, causing the baleful mist to dissipate.
• Jiang Yang found Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er safe in a nearby corridor, where they discussed how they had helped each other during the fight.
• Jiang Yang said he had killed Qin Dingying but failed to catch the remaining enemy, who escaped using a secret art.
• Jiang Yang gave Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er one Spirit Fruit each to share the spoils of the battle.
• Tai Pei'er heard Jiang Yang say the peaches might prolong life and promised that the Tai clan would repay him, thinking of its aging elder, Tai Fu Wei.

Jiang Yang, Shang Qingzheng, and Tai Pei'er agreed to leave the Blessed Land after securing their gains. Jiang Yang sent the women out ahead while he flew back to Peachwell Grove for an undisclosed task.

• Tai Pei'er carefully stored her Spirit Fruit, while Jiang Yang placed his fruits in an Ice Jade Box.
• Jiang Yang decided there was little left to explore and led Shang Qingzheng and Tai Pei'er toward the exit.
• The three reached the Threefold Gate, where Jiang Yang told the women to leave without him because he had something important to do.
• Tai Pei'er warned Jiang Yang that he had to return within one day, and Shang Qingzheng agreed to wait for him outside.
• After the women passed through the gate, Jiang Yang flew alone on his sword and returned to Peachwell Grove.

Jiang Yang searched Peachwell Grove for spiritual energy to cultivate the Broadwood divine power Conjoined Branch and found the Conjoined Tree he needed. After cutting off a branch, he noticed it resembled the Peach Branch in his sea of consciousness, leaving him to consider the possible connection.

• Jiang Yang studied the Immortal Art and decided to cultivate Broadwood, but worried that its rare spiritual energy would make entering the Dao difficult.
• Jiang Yang recalled two viable Lotus Seeds in Perching Crane Hall and considered asking Bi Xingjian or Xuan Guang to help grow a Twin Lotus.
• Jiang Yang found the pair of joined Peach trees in Peachwell Grove and recognized them as the Conjoined Tree needed for his cultivation.
• Jiang Yang cut a little over three feet from the trees' connecting branch, judging that the spirit roots would recover.
• Jiang Yang noticed that the flowering branch resembled the Peach Branch in his sea of consciousness and wondered whether the likeness was more than coincidence.

Jiang Yang returned from the Blessed Land and reunited with True Person Xuan Xi and the other disciples as the entrance began to close. Just as the True Persons’ efforts to hold it open were fading, a woman in yellow appeared before Xuan Xi and greeted her.

• Jiang Yang left the Flower Sea, passed through the Blessed Land’s exit, and emerged at Clear Isle Mountain.
• Jiang Yang greeted True Person Xuan Xi and reunited with Qingyan, Shang Qingzheng, Zhang Yunbai, and the injured Zhao Xixun.
• Zhao Xixun explained that a collapse in Jun Guang Hall had injured her, and Jiang Yang realized the Sun Essence explosion had caused it.
• Shang Qingzheng told Jiang Yang that True Person Tai had taken Tai Pei'er to Duguang and invited him to visit.
• The Blessed Land’s entrance began to close, so the True Persons joined their divine powers to hold it open while they waited for anyone still inside.
• A woman in yellow appeared before True Person Xuan Xi and greeted her as Xi Yu.

True Person Qing Si visited True Person Xuan Xi and discussed the treasures and history of Qingyu Mountain Blessed Land. After learning about a Spirit Fruit guarded by the Yi Sword Gate, Qing Si wondered if its owners would eventually seek her help.

• True Person Qing Si traded for treasures in Qingyu Mountain Blessed Land and lamented the damage disciples had caused to its resources.
• Qing Si and Xuan Xi discussed the Blessed Land’s origins in the Ancient Jin Kingdom and the mysterious death of Great True Person Nan Lüzi.
• Qing Si noticed Jiang Yang, learned he was Xuan Xi’s senior brother’s disciple, and praised his appearance.
• Qing Si told Xuan Xi she had sensed a Spirit Fruit at the Yi Sword Gate, where Ling Qing had kept it hidden from her.
• Xuan Xi suggested the Yi Sword Gate might eventually bring the Spirit Fruit to Qing Si for help, and Qing Si asked Xuan Xi to show her any treasures she had found.

Xuan Xi and Qing Si inspected the disciples’ gains from the Blessed Land, with Xuan Xi clarifying that the juniors could keep their Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment treasures while Purple Mansion finds belonged to their peaks. The inspection began with Jiang Junrui and then Qingyan and Zhao Xixun, whose collection included rare spirit materials that caught Qing Si’s interest.

• Xuan Xi warned Qing Si not to use demonic sect practices to inspect the disciples’ Storage Bags and explained the rules for their gains.
• Xuan Xi told the disciples to present their spirit materials but exempted Jiang Yang on Xuan Guang’s instructions.
• Qing Si identified Jiang Junrui’s Pills as an ordinary Foundation Establishment Pill, while Xuan Xi found only one jade shard among his odds and ends.
• Qing Si inspected Qingyan and Zhao Xixun’s abundant collection and recognized a Qiangqing Origin Fruit and a Chongyang Osmanthus Branch as rare Xun Wood materials.
• Qing Si invited Qingyan and Zhao Xixun to name anything they wanted in exchange for the rare items.

Qing Si traded beauty-preserving elixirs to Qingyan and Zhao Xixun, while Xuan Xi examined Zhang Yunbai’s offerings and discovered a Purple Mansion spirit treasure. Jiang Yang then asked Qing Si to identify five bottles of elixirs he had found in the Blessed Land, and she began examining them.

• Qing Si told Qingyan and Zhao Xixun she had no suitable Qi Refining elixirs, then offered each a Radiant Beauty and Youth-Preserving Elixir in exchange for their spirit treasures.
• Qingyan and Zhao Xixun accepted the pills and withdrew after completing the trade.
• Xuan Xi questioned Zhang Yunbai about the many blood-speckled items he had brought, and Zhang Yunbai said they belonged to cultivators who had attacked him.
• Zhang Yunbai presented a Jade Box containing the Purple Mansion spirit treasure Plain-Bearing Evening Cloud, which Xuan Xi took to keep for True Person Xuan Di.
• Jiang Yang asked Qing Si to identify five bottles of Spirit Elixirs from the Blessed Land, and he laid them out for her to inspect.

Qing Si examined Jiang Yang’s elixirs and discovered that two bottles had transformed into potent Gu Poison pills. She kept them for study and gave Jiang Yang a Jade Sparrow Token that would let him ask her to refine a batch of elixirs, while she continued examining the final bottle.

• Qing Si identified a weakened elixir as a Foundation Establishment-tier pill that helped refine true essence, and Jiang Yang happily put it away.
• Qing Si examined a luminous green pill and explained that it had transformed over centuries from a Wood Virtue elixir into a poison pill.
• Qing Si told Jiang Yang that the poison pills could harm cultivators outside the Gu Poison path and asked to keep the two bottles for study.
• Jiang Yang left his reward to Qing Si’s judgment, and she gave him Marrow Jade as a token for a future batch of free elixirs.
• Xuan Xi explained the token’s value, and Jiang Yang accepted it gratefully as Qing Si turned to the final bottle.

Qing Si identified Jiang Yang’s white pills as ancient Beast Pills that could awaken spirit and intelligence, while warning that their effects on humans were uncertain. As Xuan Xi and Qing Si inspected Shang Qingzheng’s scant finds, Qing Si opened a jade box and released a powerful, mouthwatering fragrance.

• Qing Si examined Jiang Yang’s three white pills and recognized them as Grand Pills originally made to raise spirit beasts.
• Qing Si said the pills could awaken intelligence and might strengthen human spirit sense, while Xuan Xi urged Jiang Yang to be cautious and save one for True Person Xuanyan to test.
• Jiang Yang put the pills away and considered giving one to Little Sixteen.
• Xuan Xi selected a talisman-covered Square Fang Vessel from Shang Qingzheng’s belongings and decided to conceal its contents.
• Qing Si opened an emerald-green jade box, releasing a rich fragrance that made everyone nearby swallow involuntarily.

After the Blessed Land closed, Qing Si and Lin Xi Yu recognized Shang Qingzheng’s spirit fruit as a rare West Peak Spirit Peach and negotiated for Qing Si to refine it into Pills while preserving its pit. Shang Qingzheng then revealed that she had also found a Purple Mansion spirit treasure, leaving Lin Xi Yu worried about how her disciple came to possess two such treasures.

• Qing Si and Xuan Xi recognized Shang Qingzheng’s fruit as a legendary West Peak Spirit Peach after she said she had picked it up.
• Qing Si pleaded to refine the peach, and Lin Xi Yu agreed on the condition that Qing Si take a fee and save the pit for her.
• Lin Xi Yu praised Shang Qingzheng and promised to reward her for earning the foremost merit on their peak.
• Shang Qingzheng revealed there was another item in the Square Fang Vessel, and Lin Xi Yu learned it was a Purple Mansion spirit treasure.
• Lin Xi Yu worried that Shang Qingzheng lacked the destiny to possess two Purple Mansion treasures and wondered whether someone had arranged for her to find them.

Jiang Yang returned to Rain Xiang Mountain with the other disciples and settled back into his Courtyard on Fushu Peak. He sorted through the treasures and records he had collected, including a rare Spirit Artifact he planned to ask his master to refine.

• True Person Xuan Xi led Jiang Yang and the others through the Great Void back to Rain Xiang Mountain after True Person Qing Si and Shang Qingzheng parted ways.
• Lin Xi Yu brought the disciples through the sect array and ordered them to copy and submit the cultivation texts and other records they had obtained.
• Jiang Yang returned to his Courtyard on Fushu Peak, rested, and then emptied his Storage Bag to inventory his gains.
• Jiang Yang sorted his cultivation methods, records, and artifacts, including the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting and the Stillness and Unity Furnace.
• Bai Tang told Jiang Yang to ask his master to refine the painting so Jiang Yang could use it without revealing how he had obtained it.

Jiang Yang sorted through his treasures and learned that Bai Tang had grown quiet because she was conserving energy. He discovered that sword intent from him could replenish her, but the chapter ended without explaining how he would obtain it.

• Jiang Yang organized his Pills and Spirit Treasures, setting aside the [Thunderbolt and Lightning] and [Perfect Crescent of Darkness] while considering what to do with his Spirit Peaches.
• Jiang Yang asked Bai Tang why she had been quiet, and she explained that she had been sleeping more to reduce her energy consumption.
• Jiang Yang offered Bai Tang the Spirit Peaches, but she said they could not help her because she had no corporeal body.
• Bai Tang told Jiang Yang that sword intent, or possibly sword essence, could replenish her energy.
• Bai Tang explained that the sword intent had to come from Jiang Yang, since he was the sword's master.

Jiang Yang learned that Bai Tang needed sword essence or sword intent to replenish herself, so he resolved to cultivate sword essence and avoid making her intervene. After failing to find his master, Xuan Guang, in seclusion, he visited his fourth senior brother, Bi Xingjian, who welcomed him back from the Blessed Land.

• Bai Tang told Jiang Yang that sword essence could barely replenish her, while sword intent would be much more effective, and she would tell him how when the time came.
• Jiang Yang resolved to cultivate sword essence and avoid actions that would force Bai Tang to expend her strength.
• Jiang Yang went to report to Xuan Guang but learned from Wei Rui that his master remained in secluded cultivation.
• Jiang Yang visited Bi Xingjian, who asked how his trip to the Blessed Land had gone and invited him inside.

Jiang Yang asked Bi Xingjian to cultivate two rare Purple Mansion Lotus Seeds into a Twin Lotus, and Bi Xingjian agreed to nurture them at a White Jade Spring. The chapter left Bi Xingjian engrossed in a Yi Wood cultivation manual Jiang Yang had given him.

• Bi Xingjian welcomed Jiang Yang and listened enviously as he described the Blessed Land.
• Jiang Yang showed Bi Xingjian a Purple Mansion Lotus Seed and asked him to grow a Twin Lotus.
• Bi Xingjian explained the seed was weak and that planting a second Lotus Seed alongside it would greatly improve its chances of survival.
• Jiang Yang produced his second Lotus Seed, and Bi Xingjian agreed to cultivate both at the White Jade Spring.
• Jiang Yang gave Bi Xingjian the Seasonal Renewal Spirit-Nurturing Incantation, and Bi Xingjian became absorbed in reading it while Jiang Yang played with Butterfly-Bearing.

Jiang Yang gave Bi Xingjian a Spirit-Opening and Wisdom-Awakening pill for Butterfly-Bearing, and Bi Xingjian hurried to take the cat to True Person Xuanyan. Back at his courtyard, Jiang Yang began seclusion by taking the Mystic Fortune Illumination Pill to prepare for changing cultivation methods and Foundation Establishment.

• Jiang Yang realized his Spirit-Opening and Wisdom-Awakening pill might help Butterfly-Bearing and told Bi Xingjian about its effects.
• Bi Xingjian accepted the pill after Jiang Yang explained that a True Person had found no danger beyond the Three Qi of the Baleful Plague Calamity.
• Jiang Yang asked Bi Xingjian to care for his Twin Lotus, and Bi Xingjian promised to do so.
• Bi Xingjian carried Butterfly-Bearing and the pill away to see True Person Xuanyan.
• Jiang Yang returned to his courtyard, settled into meditation, and took the Mystic Fortune Illumination Pill to begin refining its medicinal power.

Jiang Yang emerged from secluded cultivation with improved aptitude after taking the Grand Pill, then continued studying the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter until his master Xuan Guang summoned him. He presented the treasures he had brought back from the Blessed Land and asked Xuan Guang about the Spirit Peach and the Broadwood path.

• Jiang Yang swallowed the Grand Pill and spent a little over a month in secluded cultivation, during which the Peach Branch disrupted his visions of the stars.
• Jiang Yang discovered that his spirit aperture had improved to Earth Grade, raising his spirit-vigor absorption efficiency by about thirty-five percent and bringing him close to the peak of late Qi Refining.
• Jiang Yang practiced his sword art and studied the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter while preparing to change his Dao path.
• Xuan Guang summoned Jiang Yang after emerging from seclusion, and Jiang Yang presented the treasures he had obtained in the Blessed Land.
• Xuan Guang recognized Jiang Yang's Spirit Peach as a West Peak Spirit Peach and explained its origins before Jiang Yang asked why Peach Radiance trees still survived in the Blessed Land.

Xuan Guang explained why the West Peak Spirit Peach was so rare and let Jiang Yang keep the Spirit Treasures he had found. When Jiang Yang asked for a high-grade Sword Art, Xuan Guang gave him the Four Seasons Cloud's End Sword Canon, the foundation of his own Sword Dao.

• Xuan Guang told Jiang Yang that the West Peak Spirit Peach drew its power from the ancient union of Broadwood and Longevity Qi, which could no longer be recreated.
• Jiang Yang offered his Spirit Treasures to Xuan Guang, but Xuan Guang insisted that Jiang Yang keep them because he had earned them himself.
• Jiang Yang asked Xuan Guang where to find a high-grade Sword Art, unaware that his master specialized in the Sword Dao.
• Xuan Guang gave Jiang Yang the Four Seasons Cloud's End Sword Canon and explained that he could begin by cultivating the sword of any one season.

Xuan Guang taught Jiang Yang about the Sword Dao, revealed his Sword Intent, and said he hoped Jiang Yang would inherit his sword lineage. Seven days later, Jiang Yang began replacing his Yi Wood cultivation method with the Broadwood Immortal Art, and his dissipated cultivation started to return in its new form.

• Xuan Guang gave Jiang Yang a Sword Canon and taught him that Sword Intent was the Sword Dao's ultimate attainment.
• Xuan Guang revealed his Bearing Emerald Sword Intent and said Jiang Yang was the disciple he most hoped would inherit his Sword Dao mantle.
• Jiang Yang left Xuan Guang a peach in a jade box before departing.
• Seven days later, Jiang Yang resolved to cultivate the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter and asked Bai Tang to stand guard.
• Jiang Yang dissipated his cultivation, then followed the Broadwood method to rebuild his magic power as his Yi Wood cultivation transformed.

Jiang Yang completed his transition to the Broadwood Dao Lineage and emerged from months of seclusion at Qi Refining Peak. He read Shang Qingzheng’s letters and learned that she had entered seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment.

• Jiang Yang refined his magic power into Broadwood magic power, gaining far greater quality at the cost of quantity and slower recovery.
• Jiang Yang took Pills and cultivated for four or five months, restoring his magic power and reaching Qi Refining Peak.
• Jiang Yang emerged from seclusion and practiced his Sword Art in the mountain courtyard.
• Jiang Yang read Shang Qingzheng’s first letter, which reported her success in the Blessed Land and her preparations for Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Yang read Shang Qingzheng’s second letter and learned she had entered seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment and could not reply for a while.

Jiang Yang learned that Shang Qingzheng was preparing for Foundation Establishment and sent her a letter before visiting Bi Xingjian to check on the spirit lotus. Bi Xingjian showed him the blooming lotuses at White Jade Spring and confirmed that the cultivation project had succeeded.

• Jiang Yang read that Shang Qingzheng was preparing to attempt Foundation Establishment and wrote to congratulate her while sharing news of his own upcoming seclusion.
• Jiang Yang sent the letter by spirit crane and went to see how Bi Xingjian's spirit lotus had grown during the past half year.
• Bi Xingjian led Jiang Yang to White Jade Spring at the back of Fushu Peak and explained how he had combined and nurtured the spirit seeds there.
• Jiang Yang saw the blooming purple lotuses, including a twin lotus, and Bi Xingjian declared that his work had succeeded.

Jiang Yang learned that the Crimson Mansion Cloud Whirlpool Lotus he had asked Bi Xingjian to grow could eventually form a Mysterious Mansion and store magic power. With the twin lotus ready, he returned to his courtyard to begin gathering the spiritual energy needed to build his immortal foundation.

• Bi Xingjian told Jiang Yang that True Person Xuanyan had used Jiang Yang’s Elixir to treat Butterfly-Bearing, which was recovering under Xuanyan’s care.
• Jiang Yang refused Bi Xingjian’s offer to repay him, insisting that growing the spirit lotus settled their debt.
• Bi Xingjian identified the Crimson Mansion Cloud Whirlpool Lotus and explained its ancient uses, including forming a Mysterious Mansion that could store belongings and magic power.
• Bi Xingjian said the pond’s lotuses were foundation establishment rank, while the carefully cultivated twin lotus might eventually reach Purple Mansion rank after centuries of growth.
• Jiang Yang returned to his courtyard, where he prepared to gather spiritual energy from the twin lotus and reflected on how cultivating it would help him enter the Dao.

Jiang Yang gathered Double-Tier Pure Essence and Mysterious Min Lingxi for more than a year, believing the work itself had begun his foundation establishment. With both spiritual energies complete, he flew away to enter seclusion and attempt his breakthrough.

• Jiang Yang reviewed the methods for gathering Double-Tier Pure Essence and Mysterious Min Lingxi and decided to gather both himself.
• Jiang Yang bought the materials he needed at Chuanwu Market Ward, paying Gao Yuezhen extra for True Fire red copper.
• Jiang Yang gathered lingxi at noon and pure essence from the Violet Lotus at White Jade Spring each day while studying the Dao Chapter and practicing swordsmanship.
• Over a little more than a year, Jiang Yang completed both portions of spiritual energy and felt his Dao heart and cultivation deepen.
• Jiang Yang sealed the two bottles and flew away to enter seclusion and attempt his breakthrough.

Bi Xingjian warned Xuan Guang that Jiang Yang had changed cultivation methods and refused the peak’s spiritual energy, but Xuan Guang allowed him to proceed. Jiang Yang began his foundation-establishment breakthrough using his unusual Dao Chapter, with Bai Tang standing guard.

• Bi Xingjian reported that Jiang Yang had returned the Yi Wood spiritual energy and planned to enter seclusion with a different cultivation method.
• Bi Xingjian urged Xuan Guang to intervene, but Xuan Guang said he had examined Jiang Yang’s unusual dao lineage and drove Bi Xingjian from the mountain.
• Jiang Yang prepared his spiritual energy and elixirs in his meditation chamber and asked Bai Tang to guard the entrance.
• Jiang Yang activated the Mysterious Pivot Thunder All-Heavens Broadwood True Essence Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter and swallowed two portions of spiritual energy.
• Jiang Yang’s energy channels and qi and blood were drawn toward a single point as he continued the foundation-establishment process.

After establishing the Conjoined Branch and reaching Foundation Establishment, Jiang Yang discovered that his memories of the first twelve years of his life were missing, suggesting they had been tampered with. A new Flower Bud on the Peach Branch granted him the Heaven-Bestowed Talent Peach Bow and Thorn Arrows, whose second ability he found especially promising.

• Jiang Yang completed his breakthrough into the Dao and established the Conjoined Branch after seven years of cultivation.
• During his recovered memories, Jiang Yang realized he had been reincarnated as an infant, but his memories from infancy to adolescence were missing.
• Jiang Yang suspected someone had erased or sealed his memories and decided to investigate the mystery when his cultivation advanced.
• A new Flower Bud sprouted on the Peach Branch and showed Jiang Yang a portentous verse he could not interpret.
• The Dao Fruit bestowed Peach Bow and Thorn Arrows, a talent that could ward off calamity and evil, slay demons, and exert another powerful ability that Jiang Yang found satisfying.

After establishing his foundation, Jiang Yang examined the overbearing combat effects of his innate Peach Bow and Thorn Arrows ability and the changes to his cultivation. He learned more about the Broadwood Dao lineage, though its workings remained partly unclear to him.

• Jiang Yang learned that Peach Bow and Thorn Arrows could suppress opponents’ old qi, punish one person marked unjust, and make a forceful attack impossible to evade, with limits on each effect.
• The Peach Branch settled back into Jiang Yang’s sea of consciousness, and he examined his enhanced spirit sense, liquid true essence, and immense strength after Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Yang realized Foundation Establishment cultivators vastly outclassed Qi Refining cultivators and concluded that fighting across an entire realm was nearly impossible.
• Jiang Yang examined his immortal foundation and learned that his Broadwood path suppressed earth virtue, could support Ding and Li fire, and feared shrine thunder and remnant metal.