Recaps

Fang Qianyuan claimed the Innate Hundred-Treasure Transforming Furnace and defeated the factions that tried to seize it. After returning to the Azure Cloud Sect, he learned about several Cat Clan companions with unusual abilities.

• Fang Qianyuan entered the ancient city, defeated its puppet guards, and discovered a refining furnace in the Pill Institute.
• Fang Qianyuan refused to surrender the furnace, and Huang Yunhao’s group challenged him in a wagered battle for it.
• Fang Qianyuan defeated the assembled opponents, and Huang Yunhao conceded before Fang Qianyuan and Lang Dong left for the sect with the furnace.
• The Cloaked Man sent mutated Warriors against Huang Yunhao, Liu Shiyin, and Zhu Tao after Fang Qianyuan’s group had departed.
• Fang Qianyuan and Lang Dong returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, where Tang He identified the furnace and Yu Shixian promised Fang Qianyuan a reward.
• Qian Duoduo introduced Fang Qianyuan to Miao Huan, Little Shadow, and Little Moon, whose combat skills and unusual powers intrigued him.

Fang Qianyuan secured a share of the Azure Cloud Sect’s Refining Furnace output, fought off covert investigators, and advanced to the Fifth Transformation. Sent to the Northern Frontier as war loomed, he uncovered signs of a wider conflict and stopped a Spirit Herder’s sacrifice before continuing his investigation.

• Tang He and the Azure Cloud Sect’s Pill Way craftsmen tested the Refining Furnace, and Yu Shixian told Fang Qianyuan it could produce more than a hundred Five Qi Returning to Origin Pills each month.
• Fang Qianyuan negotiated a share of the furnace’s output, then chose Miao Huan for lifeform manifestation and commissioned spell-breaking Claw Gauntlets for her.
• Fang Qianyuan received pills and a Seal spirit creature as the sect concealed the furnace’s value, while Yu Shixian showed him accusations linking him to three elders’ deaths.
• Zuo Da and Zuo Er secretly investigated Fang Qianyuan, but he detected them and lured them into a valley, where his Black Wind True Meaning defeated their summoned beasts and exposed them.
• Zuo Da and Zuo Er took poison and died, and Fang Qianyuan kept their Concealment Immortal Veil before consuming pills to break through to the Fifth Transformation.
• Yu Shixian sent Fang Qianyuan to Xilan City to assess the Spirit Taming Sect’s frontier buildup, where Ye Tianming warned him that powerful factions might be driving events toward war.
• After learning that the Spirit Taming Sect had ordered an attack on the Southern Wilds, Fang Qianyuan resolved to use the conflict to grow stronger.
• Fang Qianyuan and Little White confronted a Spirit Herder sacrificing rogue cultivators, defeated Suanni, and consumed its Spirit Essence after Miao Huan killed the Herder with a concealed strike.

Fang Qianyuan fought through a coordinated ambush in the Forest Sea, losing Wormfish but killing Wei Baojun and many of the encirclement’s fighters. He escaped with Wei Baojun’s Divine Wind Treasure Fan, which greatly amplified his Wind Path power, unaware that the Spirit Taming Sect had marked it as bait.

• Fang Qianyuan attacked Yin Family camps, killed Yin Ziyang and Yuan Chun, and learned that Elder Tianheng held the original Space Dao manual.
• Wei Baojun and Feng Yan organized a Four Symbols Spirit Formation to trap Fang Qianyuan in the Forest Sea and exhaust him with repeated assaults.
• Fang Qianyuan’s enemies destroyed Wormfish, driving him to attack the formation’s defenders and kill Kun Fifteen.
• Fang Qianyuan broke through the formation’s mist and defenses, killed Yin Li, Yin Ze, Zong Wujin, Lin Xiuying, Pang Shaosong, and Wei Baojun, and defeated the remaining fighters.
• Fang Qianyuan escaped the Grand Formation with Little White and Miao Huan, then claimed Wei Baojun’s Divine Wind Treasure Fan.
• Wei Huan arrived, learned of Wei Baojun’s death, and revealed that the Spirit Taming Sect had placed a Hidden Mark on the fan.
• Fang Qianyuan tested the fan and combined it with Little White’s Wind Blade Frost Sword to freeze and shred the surrounding forest.

Fang Qianyuan uncovered new clues about the Flying Immortal Records, then accepted command of the Northern Frontier Army and gathered allies around him. As the war intensified, he confronted Wei Huan’s looming challenge and a rampaging Firelight Beast threatening his camp.

• Fang Qianyuan fought Wei Huan, overcame his countermeasures with Little White’s help, and won Wei Huan’s concession before leaving the woods.
• Fang Qianyuan reached Zhouluo City, reviewed intelligence on the war and the Flying Immortal Records, and met Wang Xuanji to discuss peace and the bird-script text.
• Fang Qianyuan arranged investigations into the hidden mastermind, captured Yin Fan, and exchanged a bird-script text for Yin Fan’s Transcendent Transformation text.
• Fang Qianyuan returned to Xilan City and accepted appointment as commander of the allied forces in the Northern Frontier, then recruited a personal guard and staff.
• Fang Qianyuan welcomed Wen Qingfei, Li Yan, and other allies, while his aides devised the Frightened Bird plan to disrupt the Spirit Taming Sect’s airborne supply routes.
• After the enemy countered the air attacks, Fang Qianyuan led Little White into battle and routed enemy experts, then discussed how to counter Wei Huan’s appointment.
• Wei Huan brought his army near the Vanguard Camp as Fang Qianyuan weighed the allies’ losses and watched Ma Su’s troops intercept a rampaging Firelight Beast.
• Fang Qianyuan suspected the Beast Taming Hall controlled the Firelight Beast, but the scholar warned that its handler might be hidden and the spreading forest fire threatened the camp.