Recaps

The Incense Accumulation Sect helped Yan Ji establish the Fragrant Fox Clan, then fought the Netherworld Sect over Black Valley and its contaminating wells. After Li Ling drove off Hundred-Eyed Boy, the sect secured the region and began developing its trade network.

• After the White Gull Kingdom’s rebellion failed, Luo Qiyin left the capital to live as a rogue cultivator.
• Mo Qingheng and Li Ling expanded the academy’s efforts to help more disciples establish their foundations and carry the Incense Path forward.
• Li Ling refined Flavorless Incense, then learned that the Heavenly Demons had left Gathering Grotto Continent as the region’s suffering worsened.
• Yan Ji found the Heavenly Fox Palace, and Li Ling helped her defeat Ma Qiong and inherit the Demon Queen’s legacy.
• Yan Ji created the Fragrant Fox Clan’s incense-based path and became a Demon Emperor, repelling Ma Tu and his Netherworld Sect allies.
• Li Ling adapted Yan Ji’s inheritance method, while Chi Yingting and Fang Lin uncovered the Netherworld Wells’ role in spreading harmful soil.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect planted snow-reflecting orchids, defeated Ma Tu, and accepted the surrender of the Horse Demons.
• Li Ling battled Hundred-Eyed Boy, who reached Spirit Transformation and escaped, then helped the sect secure Black Valley and establish a trading hub.

Li Ling advanced to the Dharma Body Realm as the Incense Accumulation Sect expanded its influence, entered the struggle over reincarnation, and joined the war against the Netherworld Sect. The sect helped defend the Purple Mansion Palace, but new demonic reinforcements threatened the continuing campaign.

• Li Ling emerged from seclusion with Clear-Mind Incense, then advanced through the Xiyi Dharma Body and revealed his Dharma Body Dao Fruit at the sect’s millennium celebration.
• Li Ling joined the Heavenly Court’s offensive at Shici Mountain, defeated Venerable Lianwu, and helped seize the Ageless Tree’s immortal root.
• After the Heavenly Court took control of yin lifespan, Li Ling supported its decree, and Nie Yingzhi built ghost-officer systems and a minor reincarnation cycle with the Scripture of Deliverance.
• Li Ling refined Past-Wisdom Incense from Fu Qing’s research, and the sect spread it while preparing for the Netherworld Sect’s widening invasion.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect sheltered the fallen Longevity Blessed Land and sent disciples to aid the Purple Mansion Palace after its own defenses came under attack.
• Ye Zhen advanced to Nascent Soul during the fighting, led the disciples in weakening the corpse hordes, and helped them escape a demonic ambush.
• Han Zhen and Luo Zhen advanced to Nascent Soul as Li Ling arrived, defeated the demonic attackers with his disciples, and helped the Orthodox forces drive them back.
• Li Ling rewarded the Three True Disciples and learned that the Netherworld Sect’s reinforcements included Demon Venerable Hundred-Eyed Boy.

Li Ling helped the Heavenly Court break the Netherworld Sect’s defenses, then built the Incense Accumulation Sect’s influence in the Pure Land and awakened its ghostly inhabitants. He left Qi Xue’s hold on the Ten-Thousand Regions Ghost Kingdom weakened as Li Ling’s transformation of its land, people, and memories continued.

• Li Ling defeated Hou Xun and helped drive back the Demonic Path forces, then forged the Incense Accumulation Treasure Censer and prepared the Incense Accumulation Sect for the coming war.
• Long Leshui led the sect’s forces into the Netherworld Pure Land, where Qi Xue and his allies ambushed the Heavenly Court army with the Soul-Losing Wind and annihilated the Wealth and Tai Sui Divisions.
• Li Ling entered the Netherworld Sect’s formation, used the Incense Path to take control of the yin wind, and turned it against the demonic forces before Qi Xue withdrew.
• Li Ling took charge of the Li Ling Ghost Kingdom, established new bases, and helped Xie Shaojing found the Myriad Spirits Sect to unite ghost Dao and incense cultivation.
• Li Ling developed the Wisdom Dharma Body and vowed to awaken all beings through incense, drawing Qi Xue into a confrontation in which Long Leshui broke through to Nascent Soul and formed his White Bone Dharma King Form.
• The Nether King Palace Master rescued Qi Xue, while Li Ling and his allies recognized that Qi Xue’s Deathless Dao Fruit depended on his influence over the Ten-Thousand Regions Ghost Kingdom.
• Li Ling used the Ten Thousand Directions Kingdom and spirit incense to reshape the land and its people, gradually displacing Qi Xue’s influence and causing the new generation to forget the kingdom’s past.

Li Ling helped the Heavenly Court defeat the Nether King Palace, then faced the Netherworld Sect’s Ten Thousand Demons Grand Array and its spreading Nether Heaven corruption. After developing Primordial Orchid as a means to counter the defilement, he entered the array to pursue his deathless Dao fruit, drawing Nether Heaven’s response.

• Li Ling traveled through the past within his Spring and Autumn Great Dream Art, awakened spirits across the Pure Land, defeated Qi Xue, and claimed the ghost kingdom’s earth-vein origin.
• The Heavenly Court organized the Underworld and launched an all-out assault on the Nether King Palace, where Li Ling helped defeat Demon Venerable Red Fang and the demonic defenders.
• The Mystic Heaven Emperor descended amid the battlefield’s deaths, and Li Ling gained sudden enlightenment as the Emperor and the Heavenly Court fought the Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Nether Heaven’s incarnation.
• Li Ling entered the Nether Heaven incarnation’s spiritual space and helped defeat her, then absorbed the Other Shore Flower’s origin and rebuilt his Dao Fruit in seclusion.
• The Netherworld Sect assembled the Ten Thousand Demons Grand Array around the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, while the Heavenly Court defended its territories and prepared to break through.
• Mystic Heaven Emperor shattered part of the array and the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, but Nether Heaven’s source matter corrupted the battlefield and transformed many righteous cultivators into monsters.
• Li Ling’s research revealed that Primordial Orchid could absorb defilement and weaken the demons, so he entered the array and released true-nature human incense to pursue his deathless Dao fruit.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable and the other demons sensed Li Ling’s advancement, and Nether Heaven sent a female corpse avatar from a blood pool.