Recaps

Li Ling ended You Heng’s demonic calamity and secured the Que Luo Immortal Abode, then fought off the Sky Sword and Xiwu Sects as they tried to seize or sabotage it. The fighting ended with Mu Qingsi forming a high-grade core and joining Li Ling to defeat Jian Fenghao’s force, while Li Ling spared the remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators.

• Li Ling used Formless Incense and spirit incense to reach the corpse in the time-looping palace, learned that You Heng and the Stone of Time had caused the calamity, then removed the stone and helped destroy You Heng’s demonic shadow.
• Li Ling organized an alliance to manage the Immortal Abode, discovered its Immortal Mountain spirit vein, and began restoring its grand array with help from arriving reinforcements.
• Lin Xi’s forces ambushed Shu Changsheng’s party, and Lin Xi later entered the abode to fight Li Ling, who badly wounded him with Spirit-Bewildering Incense before he escaped.
• Lin Xi and Jian Fenghao led an invasion through the Boundary Wall, but Li Ling killed Lin Xi and negotiated Jian Fenghao’s withdrawal while arranging exchanges with the Xiwu Sect.
• Jin He led a Xiwu Sect attack on the Southern Foothills Mine, where Mu Qingsi formed a high-grade core, awakened the power of the Cosmic Void, and killed Zhu He.
• Li Ling and Mu Qingsi captured Jin He and pursued the surviving attackers, while Jian Fenghao intercepted Lin Dongpi and Wang Shuo and later brought his forces to negotiate with Li Ling.
• Li Ling exposed a wooden puppet disguised as Zhu He and trapped Jian Fenghao’s force in the Water-Moon Mirror’s minor cave heaven, where he and Mu Qingsi joined powers and killed Jian Fenghao and the remaining senior cultivators.

Li Ling consolidated the Que Luo Immortal Abode, imposed a new order on the North Sea, and confronted the Incense Perception Cult and his missing disciple Li Ying. After Li Ying escaped, Li Ling learned that Yan Buyong’s Reincarnation Path might have changed him, leaving their next meeting uncertain.

• Li Ling secured the Que Luo Immortal Abode, honored fallen cultivators’ inheritances, and oversaw its relocation into the chaos void before reconnecting it to the North Sea.
• Li Ling opened the Immortal Abode’s secret realm to settle territorial disputes, empowered new regional rulers, and organized support for new sects and enterprises.
• As the North Sea stabilized, Li Ling investigated the Incense Perception Cult’s spread through Great Qian and helped Zhu Lisheng arrange raids, punishments, and extraditions.
• Li Ling found Li Ying hiding with Yao Lingxian, learned that Li Ying had fused with Yan Buyong’s Dao Fruit, and ended their master-disciple relationship after Li Ying resisted him.
• Li Ling took Yao Lingxian away, while Li Ying fought Huo Luo and disappeared after a battle that left Huo Luo badly wounded.
• Li Ling brought Yao Lingxian to Zhu Lisheng and asked Great Qian to eradicate the cult’s forces, then One-Mind Daoist explained Yan Buyong’s Reincarnation Path and warned that Li Ying might no longer be himself.

Li Ling pursued the Orchid of the Secluded Valley, reached Nascent Soul through Orchid-Inspired Enlightenment, and uncovered the Netherworld Sect’s plan to turn the West Sea into a blood sea. The arc left Li Ling and his companions trapped in a shifting cave heaven as its seal began to loosen.

• One-Mind Daoist told Li Ling that Yan Buyong and the Netherworld Sect might be preparing to establish the Underworld, and Li Ling later realized that the factions were contesting authority over the next era.
• Li Ling entrusted Chi Yingting with the Incense Path and the sect’s leadership, then left to seek earthly incense and pursue cultivation.
• Following a dream omen to Jade Lang Mountain, Li Ling took the Orchid of the Secluded Valley from the Merchant Association’s vault during Wan Chengbo’s attack and absorbed its memories.
• Li Ling achieved Orchid-Inspired Enlightenment, advanced to Nascent Soul, and used Heavenly Ascension Spirit Incense to guide the dead and rescue survivors.
• After the Merchant Association framed Li Ling and Mu Qingsi for the robbery, its hired attackers ambushed them, but Li Ling defeated the ambushers and made surviving members of Heaven-Piercing Tower investigate the organization.
• At Lai’er Island, Li Ling and Mu Qingsi discovered the Water Demon Palace and fought Elder Luan and You Yuque after a Nether Serpent emerged from its sealed door.
• Li Ling and Mu Qingsi entered a passage into a realm connected to the Underworld and Nether River, where You Yuque’s Netherworld Sect allies arrived above the ruins.
• As the cave heaven shifted and Nether Serpents attacked, Li Ling led his companions through the stone gate into another identical realm, where a sealing object began to loosen.

Li Ling defeated the Netherworld Sect’s leaders and organized relief for the ravaged Misty Wave Kingdom while expanding the Incense Path. He discovered his origin in the Primordial Orchid as powerful sect envoys arrived to negotiate.

• Li Ling defeated the colossal serpent and uncovered the secluded orchids, then learned from Yellow Cloud True Person that the Heavenly Court had supported his Incense Path.
• Li Ling confronted the Merchant Association over its attempt to scapegoat his group and secured a foothold in Jade Lang Mountain.
• Immortal Long and Han Xiuguang began a mass sacrifice in the Misty Wave Kingdom, but Li Ling killed them and destroyed their altar.
• Li Ling organized resistance and relief, recruited local cultivators, and divided seized resources among his sect and supporters.
• Fang Lin was betrayed by Huang Jin, awakened as a radiant skeleton, and became Li Ling’s disciple in the Incense Path.
• Li Ling’s forces spread incense and drove demonic threats from the region, while he harvested secluded orchids and refined Three Marvel Incense.
• Li Ling dreamed of the Primordial Orchid and realized his soul and true spirit originated from it, as envoys from three major powers arrived to negotiate.