Recaps

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Li Ping built his talisman-making skill and strengthened his ties in Windmist Immortal City while avoiding the dangers surrounding Dai Sangyu and Lin Yue. He advanced to second-tier talisman crafting, sold his first batch of talismans, and pursued a secret chance to acquire a cultivation method.

• Li Ping consolidated his Foundation Establishment, discovered the Inheritance Tree, and declined Meng Qingyi’s Guest Elder offer after Dai Sangyu questioned him about Lin Yue’s stolen Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Li Ping reunited with Zhang Tie and Old Lin, renewed the Shared Boat Association, and used the Inheritance Tree to master first-tier upper-grade talisman making.
• Li Ping sold talismans through Miao Rou, bought second-tier magic artifacts, and decided against traveling to see Yan Guike after the news of his rejection made the journey dangerous.
• Li Ping kept the Shared Boat Association’s membership fixed, met the Bai Family Ancestor, and later traded the use of his name for purple-patterned spiritwood without accepting a guest elder position.
• Li Ping used the Purple Phoenix brush, spiritwood, and other materials to advance to second-tier mid-grade Talisman Maker, then produced lower-grade talismans for sale and kept mid-grade ones for protection.
• Gu Musheng told Li Ping about Senior Wang’s secret access to the Secret Arts Pavilion, and Li Ping sold six talismans before arriving disguised to pursue the opportunity.

Li Ping chose the Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art, settled on Immortal Peach Mountain, and began using pill refining to strengthen his cultivation and repair his body. As the Shared Boat Association formalized its Foundation Establishment Fund and the Wang Family struggled with failed breakthroughs, Li Ping took in Bai Lin and sought escape arts.

• Li Ping saw through the Wang Family’s Secret Arts Pavilion scheme, took the Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art, and warned Gu Musheng not to follow the family’s secret route.
• Li Ping rented a cave abode on Immortal Peach Mountain, where he met Master Hu and learned that the Wang Family Ancestor had commissioned Foundation Establishment Pills.
• At the Shared Boat Association gathering, Li Ping gave his sworn siblings spirit talismans and proposed a rule that members could not lower their annual contributions to the Foundation Establishment Fund.
• Li Ping acquired Lü Caibai’s pill-making inheritance and refined Qi-Boosting Pills, using their primordial aura to strengthen his Longevity Art and repair his injuries and damaged foundation.
• Wang Xingwei failed two attempts at Foundation Establishment, and Wang Qu Yan sent him to manage the Spirit Herb Garden in Fishing Square.
• Li Ping built up a large supply of pills and recognized that his Longevity Art could restore physical damage but not extend his lifespan or heal his divine soul.
• Bai Mingde brought Bai Lin to serve Li Ping, who gave her work managing his courtyard and planting spirit herbs.
• Li Ping sold hundreds of bottles of pills to Miao Rou, bought herbs for Qi-Nourishing Pills, and asked her to show him escape arts with side effects.

Li Ping mastered the Bloodwing Escape Art, honored Yan Guike’s last request, and married Bai Lin while the Shared Boat Association grew stronger. As a manipulated Beast Tide struck the Immortal City and the Bai Family, Li Ping stayed behind to defend the city and supply talismans, while Teng Feng was transported to Great Zhou.

• Li Ping learned the Bloodwing Escape Art’s dangerous cost, used the Longevity Art to endure its training, and mastered it before restoring his vital essence.
• Li Ping declined Master Hu’s invitation to seek vermilion fruit, received Yan Guike’s final letter, and decided to bring Yan Guike’s descendants to the Immortal City.
• Li Ping expanded the Shared Boat Association’s succession rules, and he and Bai Lin confessed their love and married.
• Protector Yan and Miao Rou stole a Blazing Arrow Eagle egg, then Miao Rou removed its Blood Talisman and drew the eagles and other beasts toward the Immortal City.
• Teng Feng entered a Teleportation Formation to escape a third-tier beast and emerged in Great Zhou, where Minggu promised to help him advance.
• Li Ping refused to leave for High Ridge Mountain but gave the Bai Family five Flameburst Talismans, while Bai Lin returned to help defend her family.
• Windmist True Person and Little Azure Dragon defended the Immortal City as the Beast Tide killed many cultivators, including the Wang Family Ancestor.
• Li Ping agreed to supply Meng Qingyi with up to fifteen second-tier lower-grade talismans each month, while Cheng Yao carried the grieving Wang Xingwei back to the Spirit Herb Garden.

After the beast tide ended, Li Ping survived Yan Kun’s attack, strengthened his position, and helped Zhang Tie establish his foundation. He traveled to the Jiang Kingdom to secure land for Daoist Ji’s family, then uncovered an underground spirit vein and went to investigate it.

• Li Ping made talismans during the siege, then watched Senior Huang, Windmist True Person, and Little Azure Dragon drive off the demon beasts after Dai Sangyu secured Huang Yunzi’s help.
• Li Ping survived Yan Kun’s attack by detonating his talismans, destroyed Yan Kun’s remnant soul, and obtained the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon and a third-tier alchemist inheritance.
• Li Ping exposed Wang Li’s fraud, helped arrange repayment to the swindled cultivators, and rebuilt his cave abode after returning from High Ridge Mountain with Bai Lin.
• Li Ping began cultivating the Sacred Canon, hosted Daoist Ji and his family, and arranged work and guidance for Yan Hengchuan and Ji Shuxuan.
• At the Immortal City Auction, Zhang Tie won a Foundation Establishment Pill, and he later completed Foundation Establishment and joined Windmist True Person’s lineage.
• Li Ping traveled to the Jiang Kingdom, visited Yan Jingxing, and defeated the Yu Household’s ancestor to buy Little Plum Mountain’s hundred-mu spirit land.
• Li Ping gave Daoist Ji the land’s Contract Deed for the Ji Lineage’s use, then killed the Flower-Scaled Python guarding the hidden passage and shared its materials with Daoist Ji.
• Li Ping found a Jade Condensation Grass bearing an unripe golden Bloodline Fruit, then followed Daoist Ji deeper into the passage and stepped into a blast of cold.