Recaps

Li Ping escaped the collapsing Qingyun Secret Realm with Xiao Yunzhi and settled in Snowflight City, where he advanced his cultivation, built ties with the Snowflight Sect, and prepared for the approaching Beast Tide. The story left Li Ping meeting Xie Xing to learn about the Heavenly Craft Sect, while Xiao Yunzhi pursued Core Formation.

• Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi escaped the collapsing Qingyun Secret Realm, crossed an icy underground world, and reached the Far North, where they learned the region’s human settlements faced foreign races.
• Li Ping settled with Xiao Yunzhi in Snowflight City, reunited with Ji Shuxuan, and spent years gathering puppet materials and refining Jia San before reaching late-stage Foundation Establishment at age one hundred.
• Li Ping proved his skill as a second-tier upper-grade pill refiner to the Snowflight Sect, while Shi Yutong told him the Ice Flood Dragon had destroyed the Heavenly Craft Sect and warned him of its power.
• The Ice Flood Dragon’s rampage sparked a Beast Tide, and Li Ping gathered materials, refined more puppets, and learned the complete Myriad Spirits Divine Sense Art might be in Silver Moon City.
• Shi Yutong secured the Snowflight Sect’s third-tier spirit vein for Xiao Yunzhi’s Core Formation attempt in exchange for three future services, and Xiao Yunzhi entered seclusion.
• Li Ping refined two batches of Foundation Establishment Pills for Shi Yutong and gained permission to use the sect’s spirit vein for his own future Core Formation attempt.
• Li Ping helped Ji Nianyuan enter the Snowflight Sect, completed his sixth second-tier upper-grade puppet, and met Xie Xing to ask about the Heavenly Craft Sect.

Li Ping survived the fall of Silver Moon City and the attack on the Snowflight Sect, then Xiao Yunzhi uncovered the truth behind the city’s destruction and secured a divine sense art for him. The stretch ended with Daoist Gaoji offering Li Ping puppet-making research in exchange for a fourth-tier puppet and the revival of the Heavenly Craft Sect’s tradition.

• Xie Xing approached Li Ping about a Heavenly Craft Sect vault, while the Seven Immortals of the North Pole began plotting to seize Li Ping’s supposed treasure.
• Silver Moon City fell to demon beasts and the Barbarian Bone Tribe, True Person Mu Yun died, and Li Ping returned to a Snowflight City under lockdown.
• Li Ping refined a Profound Heart Pill for True Person Qian Xue, but Long Jie sabotaged the Snowflight Sect’s formation and rogue cultivators invaded.
• Li Ping escaped the sect, killed the Seven Immortals of the North Pole and Long Jie, then returned after True Person Qian Xue defeated the attackers.
• Xiao Yunzhi formed her core, accepted Shi Yutong’s missions, and traveled to investigate Silver Moon City and seek millennium ice jade at the Ice Sea.
• Daoist Gaoji told Xiao Yunzhi that a Nascent Soul Cultivator had destroyed Silver Moon City, and offered her cold jade in exchange for an oath to kill the Ice Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yunzhi returned with the complete Myriad Spirits Divine Sense Art for Li Ping, introduced him to Daoist Gaoji, and reported that she had obtained the means to forge the Sun-Moon Ring.
• Daoist Gaoji gave Li Ping the five-level divine sense art and offered his puppet research in exchange for a fourth-tier puppet and the restoration of the Heavenly Craft Sect’s tradition.

Li Ping formed a Golden Core, returned to the Western Wasteland, and secured treasures and Foundation Establishment Pills for allied lineages. He reunited with old friends in Windmist Immortal City, where Ye confronted Gu Musheng about the Ten Thousand Arts Pavilion’s accounts.

• Li Ping reached Golden Core cultivation in the Far North, refined Yan Liming’s Essence-Devouring Sword, and left Snowflight City with Ji Nianyuan after arranging for Ji Shuxuan’s ashes to be divided between his family and A Yun.
• Li Ping returned to the Western Wasteland, exposed and killed Lin Zhixing and his allies when they tried to ambush him, then visited Ji Shuchen at Little Plum Mountain.
• Li Ping reunited with Yan Hengchuan and Yu Peiling, revealed that he had formed a Golden Core, and warned them to keep the third-tier spirit vein beneath Little Plum Mountain secret.
• Li Ping cleared the Cold Pool of its demon beasts, explored the hidden island’s abode, and discovered a map to a Teleportation Formation to Great Zhou and a method for cultivating a second Golden Core.
• Li Ping used two thousand-year-old Golden Marrow Jade Zhi to refine Foundation Establishment Pills and gave ten each to Yan Hengchuan and Ji Shuchen before leaving for Windmist Immortal City.
• Li Ping reunited with Gu Musheng and Zhang Tie after nearly seventy years, while arranging for Gu Musheng to gather materials for a third-tier puppet.
• Li Ping joined Zhang Tie, Gu Musheng, Cheng Yao, Bai Qing, Wang Xingwei, and Li Qingshan for a reunion banquet, where Ye arrived to question Gu Musheng about the Ten Thousand Arts Pavilion’s accounts.

Li Ping pursued cultivation and artifact-refining opportunities while dealing with Meng Qingyi’s death and rescuing Meng Wanjun. After gaining a new spirit flame and refining inheritance, he turned toward Great Zhou and began plotting to use Zhou Lingyan to access a Secret Arts Pavilion.

• Ye Chen confronted Gu Musheng over the sale of Ten Thousand Arts Pavilion materials, but Li Ping’s Core Formation aura forced Ye Chen to kneel and kowtow before dismissing him.
• Li Ping declined offers to become an elder in the Immortal City or Purple Cloud Valley, accepted a smaller favor from Meng Qingyi, and escorted her toward Donghua Mountain while evading Qu Youkong’s attempt to expose her.
• Li Ping found the Cloudmist Mountains Teleportation Formation in ruins, gathered spirit materials with the Earth Spirit Mouse, and learned that Xiao Yunzhi had disappeared when the Qingyun Secret Realm collapsed.
• Li Ping avoided Red Thunder Old Monster and Zhou Lingyan in Donghua Mountain, returned to Jiang Kingdom, and entered seclusion, where he formed a second golden core and began refining a Third-Tier Puppet.
• Meng Wanjun found Meng Qingyi dead and read her advice to avoid the Immortal City and build a relationship with Li Ping, while Li Ping learned Purple Cloud Valley had taken control of the city.
• At the Donghua Mountain auction, Li Ping bought the Purple Crystal Furnace and traded an Essence Condensation Pill for the Two-Polarity Starflame and other materials, then nurtured the flame on Gray Island.
• Li Ping rescued Meng Wanjun from Tang Ning and her accomplices, then cultivated his body to the second tier and evolved the Two-Polarity Starflame into two Lunar Coldflames.
• Li Ping inherited True Person Blazing Fire’s artifact-refining skills and learned about the growing strength of the Ji Lineage, then decided to seek materials in Great Zhou and began planning to impersonate Zhou Lingyan to enter a Secret Arts Pavilion.