Recaps

Yi Yang discovered that Shen Biluo had been hiding in the Blood Pool and watched her and the other Nine Evil Sect elders overwhelm the gathered warriors. As Shen Biluo began draining their vital blood to heal herself, Yi Yang launched a concealed, all-or-nothing attack, leaving its outcome unknown.

• Shen Biluo appeared behind Wei Xinyuan and immobilized him, while Yi Yang recognized her as the gravely injured Dharma Body Realm elder he had been hunting.
• Zhongli Qing and Zhao Fengxian emerged from the Blood Pool and helped Shen Biluo defeat the local warriors, including Wei Qingfeng and Miss Wang.
• Shen Biluo placed a Blood Bead in the Spiritblood True God Statue, activating a Blood Array that began draining the captives' vital blood to heal her injuries.
• Yi Yang decided to strike before Shen Biluo could recover and approached the altar under the concealment of the snowfall.
• Yi Yang unleashed White Tiger Howls at the Moon with the Mysterious Abyss Saber, sending a black tiger-shaped blade gleam toward Shen Biluo's heart.

Yi Yang killed Zhao Fengxian with a surprise saber strike, then fought Shen Biluo after she transformed into an incomplete Dharma Body and used a Divine Power to disable his right arm. He wounded her serpent tail and tried to retreat, but Zhongli Qing ambushed him from behind.

• Shen Biluo used her power to drag Zhao Fengxian into Yi Yang's black saber strike, and Zhao died as the attack devoured his vitality.
• Yi Yang revealed himself and advanced on Shen Biluo, who transformed into an incomplete Dharma Body and attacked him with blood swords.
• Shen Biluo's Divine Power severed Yi Yang's sensation in his right arm, but he caught the Mysterious Abyss Saber with his left hand and blocked her strike.
• Yi Yang used his Profound Intent Calamity-Extinguishing Finger to punch a hole through Shen Biluo's serpent tail, then caught his saber and retreated.
• Zhongli Qing burst from the ground in a wormlike monster form and lunged at Yi Yang from behind.

Yi Yang used a divine sense attack to incapacitate Zhongli Qing, then killed him while evading Shen Biluo’s assaults. Shen Biluo retreated toward the Blood Pool and began drawing power from the Spiritblood True God Statue, leaving Yi Yang to prepare to stop its activation.

• Yi Yang escaped Shen Biluo’s sword strike and the blood worm’s attack, then identified Zhongli Qing as the first target he needed to eliminate.
• Yi Yang struck Zhongli Qing’s Sea of Consciousness with Heart Prison, Body Incineration, leaving him trapped in terror while Shen Biluo attacked with blood threads and blood mist.
• Yi Yang evaded Shen Biluo’s attacks, broke the blood threads, and killed Zhongli Qing with a punch as the blood worm vanished.
• Shen Biluo retreated toward the Blood Pool behind a wall of blood and began drawing power from the Spiritblood True God Statue.
• Yi Yang felt his right hand recover, gripped the Mysterious Abyss Saber, and prepared to end the fight before the statue fully awakened.

Yi Yang killed Shen Biluo after she drained the Qinggang County martial artists to restore her strength, completing Jiang Zhongtian’s mission. As he prepared to recover, Shen Biluo’s severed head opened its eyes and released a terrifying pressure beyond the Dharma Body Realm.

• Yi Yang pierced Shen Biluo’s blood wall with Astral-Breaking and charged through the opening.
• Shen Biluo drained Su Lie, Wei Qingfeng, Gu Changfeng, Lin Tian, Zhao, and dozens of other martial artists to heal her injuries.
• Shen Biluo attacked Yi Yang with Blood Sea Severance, but he redirected the blood lines with his divine sense at the cost of his left hand and sight.
• Yi Yang struck Shen Biluo’s back with Vermilion Bird Burns the Flame, then burned her organs with Organ-Burning and beheaded her with the Mysterious Abyss Saber.
• Yi Yang realized he had killed all three targets and completed his mission, but Shen Biluo’s severed head opened its eyes and unleashed pressure beyond the Dharma Body Realm.

After killing the three Profound Connection Realm cultivators, Yi Yang was attacked by Spiritblood True God's divine will, but the Heart Ape Divine Venerable's power forced it to retreat and offer its essence. Yi Yang returned to his body with new questions about the gods, spared two surviving Nine Rivers Sect disciples, and destroyed the Spiritblood True God Statue.

• Shen Biluo's head awakened with Spiritblood True God's power and sent a strand of divine will into Yi Yang's consciousness.
• Yi Yang's Heart Ape Mind Guarding Art manifested as a Golden Giant Ape, whose golden flames burned away Spiritblood True God's attacks.
• Yi Yang pretended to be the Heart Ape Divine Venerable, causing Spiritblood True God's divine will to retreat and leave behind its essence.
• Yi Yang returned to his body, collected the dead cultivators' belongings, and found the unconscious Wei Xinyuan and Miss Wang beneath the ruins.
• Yi Yang gave Wei Xinyuan and Miss Wang Hemostatic Pills and ordered Xu Min to guard them.
• Yi Yang shattered the Spiritblood True God Statue with a strike.

Yi Yang dismantled Qinggang County’s local factions, seized their hoarded grain and records, and restored order by distributing relief to the starving townspeople. After arranging for a handover and deciding to remain temporarily, he went to meet two awakened Nine Rivers Sect disciples and find out why they had returned home.

• Yi Yang ordered Xu Min to raid seven faction strongholds and seize their grain and account books, then broke into the Wei Family estate himself.
• Yi Yang found evidence that the Wei Family had withheld disaster-relief grain, sold people as blood food, and profiteered from the famine; Xu Min reported capturing the other strongholds and rescuing imprisoned young women.
• Yi Yang ordered the women released and the seized grain distributed in the central square, where he and the Pacification Guards organized relief for Qinggang County’s residents.
• Yi Yang gave old Li extra grain and money for his family, while Zhang Laosan recognized Yi Yang’s disguise and received his allotted grain.
• Yi Yang arranged for the remaining supplies and the town’s administration to be handed over, then chose to stay and maintain order while the townspeople recovered.
• A Pacification Guard reported that two Nine Rivers Sect martial artists had awakened and demanded to see Yi Yang, who went to question them about their return from the Ten Thousand Demon Stronghold.

Disguised as Li, Yi Yang told Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci that the Nine Evil Sect had been dealt with and that Wei Xinyuan’s father was dead. After learning why the Nine Rivers Sect disciples were in Qinggang County, he exposed the Wei Family’s crimes and warned them to flee before the Heaven Patrol Office arrived; he then resolved to monitor the inquiry into Li Chengyan’s death while waiting for Jiang Zhongtian’s people.

• Yi Yang introduced himself as Li of the Heaven Patrol Office and told Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci that the Nine Evil Sect had been dealt with.
• Yi Yang revealed that Wei Xinyuan’s father and other local leaders had been killed, and Wei Xinyuan angrily accused him of failing to save them.
• Yi Yang struck Wei Xinyuan with divine sense and forced him to apologize before asking why the Nine Rivers Sect disciples were in Qinggang County.
• Wang Guci explained that they were investigating the death of Elder Li Chengyan, whom Yi Yang remembered killing.
• Yi Yang condemned the local leaders’ crimes and warned Wei Xinyuan to take his family and flee before the Heaven Patrol Office investigated them.
• Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci left, and Yi Yang decided to watch the Nine Rivers Sect’s investigation while waiting for Jiang Zhongtian’s people.

After ten days of cultivation in Qinggang County, Yi Yang broke through to the Profound Connection Second Realm, Manifestation, and his embryonic Dharma Body transformed both his strength and his appearance. He left the breakthrough confident that he could contend with opponents in the Dharma Body Realm.

• Yi Yang used his remaining cultivation resources to push the Wood True Yang Scripture’s Profound Light Realm progress to its limit, then took a Profound Essence Foundation-Stabilizing Pill to begin his breakthrough.
• Yi Yang’s Profound Light Seed shattered, sending profound light through his body and forming a solid embryonic Dharma Body in his qi sea.
• Yi Yang’s consciousness merged with the embryonic Dharma Body, restoring his appearance to his youthful age of around twenty and strengthening his body and Golden Giant Ape.
• Yi Yang tested his increased strength and found that the Dharma Body’s amplification let him easily defeat martial artists of the Profound Connection Second Realm and gain the upper hand against those in the Dharma Body Realm.
• Yi Yang declared that his enemies would now face his Dharma Body.

After breaking through, Yi Yang weighed the danger of using the divine thought origin Spiritblood True God had given him and tried to absorb it. The origin’s corrupting thoughts nearly overwhelmed him, but the Golden Giant Ape purified them with heartfire, leaving the process underway.

• Yi Yang examined the divine thought origin and decided its power might let him reach the spirit-seizing realm despite the risks.
• When Yi Yang touched the origin with his divine sense, it pulled him into a blood-colored space where worshippers’ fanatical thoughts began corrupting his mind.
• Yi Yang activated the Heart Ape Mind Guarding Art, and the Golden Giant Ape shattered the illusion and freed his consciousness.
• Yi Yang concluded the origin carried impurities from its worshippers rather than a deliberate trap, and he ordered the Golden Giant Ape to purify it.
• The Golden Giant Ape seized the origin and engulfed it in heartfire, burning away the black mist of madness and resentment.

Yi Yang waited for the Spiritblood True God’s divine thought origin to be purified while a sudden attack erupted at Qinggang County’s south gate. He killed a Shaman Kingdom commander and recognized the people the cavalry had been pursuing.

• Yi Yang learned that purifying the divine thought origin would take several months, but decided to wait while focusing on his other cultivation arts.
• Yi Yang sensed chaos at the city gate, and Xu Min reported fighting there before Yi Yang hurried to the south wall.
• Yi Yang saw Shaman Kingdom cavalry pursuing a wounded group led by a sword-wielding woman.
• A Shaman Kingdom commander attacked the woman, but Yi Yang’s blade astral force split the commander and killed him.
• Yi Yang saw that the people pursued by the cavalry were all familiar to him.

Yi Yang rescued Lu Qinglan and the other Heroes Ranking martial artists from pursuing Shaman Kingdom cavalry, then stood against their commander, Tong Bale. As the cavalry formed the Barbarian Blood Battle Formation, Yi Yang drew the Mysterious Abyss Saber and faced its attack.

• Yi Yang killed a Shaman Kingdom officer with a saber strike and recognized Lu Qinglan, Luo Kaishan, and Xie Yungui among the fleeing martial artists.
• Yi Yang leaped down from the city wall to shield the wounded group, while Xu Min brought the Pacification Guard out to support him.
• Tong Bale confronted Yi Yang as returning scout squads increased the cavalry force to nearly a hundred riders.
• The Great Yu martial artists panicked as the cavalry gathered its military force, and some prepared to flee while Lu Qinglan watched Yi Yang.
• Tong Bale demanded that Yi Yang stand aside, but Yi Yang drew the Mysterious Abyss Saber and challenged him to withstand his strikes.
• Tong Bale ordered the cavalry to attack, and they formed the Barbarian Blood Battle Formation beneath the phantom of a gigantic one-horned beast.

Yi Yang confronted the Shaman Kingdom cavalry outside Qinggang County and destroyed their battle formation, defeating its commander Tong Bale. After the surviving pursuers were killed, Yi Yang collected Tong Bale’s belongings and led the injured Great Yu martial artists into the city.

• The Shaman Kingdom cavalry formed a Barbarian Blood Battle Formation, while Luo Kaishan and Xie Yungui urged Yi Yang to retreat behind the city walls.
• Tong Bale transformed into a beastlike form and ordered his cavalry to attack, but Yi Yang charged the formation and cleaved its military might apart with one saber strike.
• Yi Yang withstood Tong Bale’s powerful attack, pierced his organs with the Calamity-Extinguishing Finger, and smashed him into a pit.
• The routed cavalry fled, but Yi Yang’s blade astrals and Xu Min’s archers killed the remaining pursuers.
• Lu Qinglan bowed to Yi Yang, who took Tong Bale’s storage pouch and short blade, killed him, and ordered the group to enter the city.

After rescuing Lu Qinglan’s squad, Yi Yang learned that the Qingzhou Army had been devastated by a Shaman Kingdom ambush near Tooth-Copper City. He concluded that Shang Yu, a Martial Grandmaster, was behind the attack and that a larger plot was unfolding.

• Yi Yang ordered Xu Min to take the badly injured martial artists to a medical clinic, then summoned Lu Qinglan to speak with him privately.
• Lu Qinglan recounted how two volleys of arrows destroyed the Qingzhou Army’s camp and severely wounded Chu Tiankuo and her grandfather, Lu Zui.
• She explained that the Shaman Kingdom cavalry attacked as the army fled, and that Tong Bale had pursued her squad to use her as bait for Lu Zui.
• Yi Yang deduced that the arrows’ power indicated a Martial Grandmaster and identified Shang Yu as the likely attacker in Tooth-Copper City.
• Yi Yang realized that Shang Yu’s plan reached beyond defeating the Qingzhou Army and drew him into a dangerous, larger scheme.

Zhang Feng confronted Yi Yang on the road to Crossing Peak Stronghold, suspecting him of killing Li Chengyan and intending to take him back to the Nine Rivers Sect. Yi Yang’s identity and cultivation were exposed, and Zhang Feng attacked him with a giant hand of condensed mist.

• Zhang Feng learned from Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci that Yi Yang had intervened in Qinggang County, then suspected him because he had been near the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains when Li Chengyan disappeared.
• After waiting three days, Zhang Feng ambushed Yi Yang and the survivors returning from Tooth-Copper City on the mountain road.
• A warrior addressed Yi Yang as Lord Yi, allowing Zhang Feng to identify him; the other warriors distanced themselves, while Lu Qinglan considered stepping forward and obeyed Yi Yang’s signal to stay back.
• Zhang Feng accused Yi Yang of killing Li Chengyan and used his power to seal the road, while Yi Yang judged that escape was impossible and prepared to fight.
• Yi Yang revealed the Mysterious Abyss Saber and his Profound Connection Second Realm cultivation, and Zhang Feng attacked him with a giant hand formed from mist and True Qi.

Jiang Zhongtian arrived in time to stop Zhang Feng from killing Yi Yang and forced the Nine Rivers Sect elder to back down. After revealing the army’s disastrous ambush and questioning Zhang Feng over a possible leak, Jiang Zhongtian led Yi Yang and the Heaven Patrol Office martial artists back to Crossing Peak Stronghold.

• Jiang Zhongtian pierced Zhang Feng’s blue qi hand with his silver spear and shielded Yi Yang from the attack.
• Jiang Zhongtian demanded evidence for Zhang Feng’s accusations and used his Heavy Mountain divine power to force Zhang Feng toward his knees.
• Jiang Zhongtian revealed that the army had suffered a devastating Shaman Kingdom ambush, Elder Chu was unconscious, and Lu Zui was missing.
• Jiang Zhongtian suggested Zhang Feng’s visit to Elder Chu’s camp and his attack on Yi Yang made the Nine Rivers Sect look as if it had leaked military intelligence.
• Jiang Zhongtian led Yi Yang, Luo Kaishan, Xie Yungui, and the other Heaven Patrol Office martial artists toward Crossing Peak Stronghold, while Zhang Feng left with Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci.

After learning that a Lu Family Grandmaster had sacrificed Lu Zui and thousands of Qingzhou Army soldiers for family interests, Yi Yang resolved to become powerful enough to avoid being used as a pawn. He began studying the divine art Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal, which could improve his chances in an upcoming secret-realm expedition.

• Yi Yang recalled Jiang Zhongtian explaining that the Lu Family Grandmaster had deliberately let Shang Yu rout the army to eliminate Lu Zui and Lu Qinglan, then saved Chu Tiankuo while abandoning the others.
• Jiang Zhongtian told Yi Yang that the Grandmaster would face no consequences because the powerful factions valued his status above the lives of ordinary soldiers and Lu Zui.
• Yi Yang concluded that he needed enough strength to protect himself, Yuexin, and his own people from becoming pawns of stronger factions.
• Yi Yang took out the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal, a divine art Jiang Zhongtian had given him as payment and as a deposit for their planned secret-realm expedition.
• Yi Yang studied the art's instructions and began forming its intricate hand seals, relying on his physique, healing ability, and Heavenly Mandate panel to master it.

Yi Yang mastered the beginner stage of the Awakening of Insects Style and used his Golden Giant Ape to break the chaotic influence of three Spiritblood True God Statues, extracting their divine thought origins. He began purifying the three drops to advance his divine sense, expecting to reach Illusion-Breaking perfection within ten days.

• Yi Yang forced open six hidden meridians in his arms and formed the Awakening of Insects Seal, summoning a thunderclap over Crossing Peak Stronghold.
• Yi Yang opened three boxes containing Spiritblood True God Statues and used the Golden Giant Ape to shatter the illusions assaulting his consciousness.
• Yi Yang extracted three small drops of divine thought origin from the statues and discarded the broken remains.
• Yi Yang stopped purifying the larger drop from Qinggang County and ordered the Golden Giant Ape to refine the three new drops.
• Yi Yang estimated that he would purify and absorb the three drops within ten days, bringing his divine sense to Illusion-Breaking perfection.

Yi Yang cultivated the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal and sought the Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit to support his bone tempering. He learned that a wary martial artist had brought the fruit to the Black Market, while Jiang Zhongtian had left to lead a new army toward Tooth-Copper City.

• Yi Yang emerged from five days of cultivation with a more solid lightning seal and found that his appearance still looked middle-aged.
• Xu Min reported that he had gathered the five hundred-year-old yang-aspect ingredients but could not find the Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit in the city's medicine shops.
• Xu Min told Yi Yang that a wrapped martial artist had offered the fruit for a specific high-grade pill and a hundred spirit crystals before disappearing into the South District Black Market.
• Yi Yang ordered Xu Min to identify the martial artist and locate him without raising suspicion, saying he would negotiate for the fruit himself.
• Xu Min reported rumors that Jiang Zhongtian had left the stronghold to lead five thousand troops across the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains toward Tooth-Copper City, while Yi Yang knew Jiang had volunteered for the battle.

Jiang Zhongtian left to attack Tooth-Copper City, hoping to defend Crossing Peak Stronghold’s authority and climb into the Hidden Dragon Ranking’s top hundred. Yi Yang realized the city was vulnerable in his absence and resolved to obtain the Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit before Zhang Feng could act against him.

• Jiang Zhongtian’s motives for going to war were revealed: he sought a decisive victory to fend off rival powers and earn the resources needed to become a Martial Grandmaster.
• Yi Yang sent Xu Min to the South District Black Market in plain clothes and warned him not to pry into powerful people’s affairs.
• Yi Yang considered how Crossing Peak Stronghold’s prominent experts were incapacitated and feared that Zhang Feng might exploit Jiang Zhongtian’s departure to seize him.
• Yi Yang assessed his progress in Divine Bone Blood Refining and decided he had to get the Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit.

Yi Yang visited Lu Qinglan in West City after learning that her servant had offered a Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit for sale, hoping to buy it for his cultivation. Lu Qinglan gave him the fruit as repayment for saving her, and explained that her servant had found it while searching the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains for her missing grandfather; Yi Yang was stopped as he left.

• Yi Yang learned that the Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit was in West City and went alone to find its owner.
• Yi Yang discovered that the seller was Lu Qinglan's old servant, Uncle Fu, and asked Lu Qinglan to name a price for the fruit.
• Lu Qinglan offered Yi Yang the fruit as thanks for saving her from Tong Bale's pursuers, but he asked why Uncle Fu had ventured into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.
• Lu Qinglan explained that she had sent Uncle Fu to search for her grandfather, who had disappeared into the mountains after being pursued by two Shaman Kingdom experts, and that Uncle Fu had found the fruit during the search.
• Yi Yang accepted the fruit, placed it in his Storage Ring, and started to leave, but Lu Qinglan called him back.

Yi Yang accepted Lu Qinglan’s offer of an incomplete Spirit Weapon armor in exchange for joining her search for her grandfather in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, agreeing to leave in five days. Meanwhile, Zhang Feng learned that Jiang Zhongtian had left Crossing Peak Stronghold and began preparing to seize Yi Yang.

• Lu Qinglan offered Yi Yang the Azure Cloud Flowing Light Armor if he accompanied her into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains to find her missing grandfather.
• Yi Yang weighed the danger against the armor and his chance to strengthen himself, then agreed to meet Lu Qinglan in five days.
• Uncle Fu questioned whether Yi Yang could protect Lu Qinglan, but she explained why she trusted his abilities and connections.
• Wei Xinyuan told Zhang Feng that Jiang Zhongtian had left Crossing Peak Stronghold with the Heaven Patrol Office’s experts.
• Zhang Feng ordered his men to watch Yi Yang’s residence and planned to enter the city to kill him once his injuries healed.

Yi Yang spent five days in seclusion, reaching minor accomplishment in Iron Bone, perfecting his Illusion-Breaking divine sense, and advancing the Awakening of Insects Style. He left for West City to meet Lu Qinglan and enter the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.

• Yi Yang brewed the five hundred-year herbs and Golden Sun Snake Heart Fruit into Bone-Tempering Soup, then spent three days refining his bones in the medicinal bath.
• Yi Yang reached minor accomplishment in Iron Bone, gaining enough physical strength to uproot a ten-thousand-jin rockery and contend with a Profound Connection Second Realm martial artist.
• Yi Yang purified and swallowed three drops of divine thought origin, expanding his divine sense to six hundred zhang and reaching Illusion-Breaking perfection.
• Yi Yang's three Heart Ape Mind Guarding Art offensive techniques advanced to minor accomplishment, and he estimated he had a seventy percent chance of defeating Zhang Feng while wearing the Azure Cloud Flowing Light Armor.
• Yi Yang advanced the Awakening of Insects Style to minor accomplishment, then left to meet Lu Qinglan in West City and venture into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.

Yi Yang agreed to help Lu Qinglan search the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains for her grandfather, setting strict conditions and preparing to slip out of Crossing Peak Stronghold with her. Three days later, Zhang Feng arrived to find Yi Yang’s residence empty and sought help from Chu Tiankuo to track him down.

• Yi Yang met Lu Qinglan and learned that her grandfather might be in one of three locations in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, while her family’s Life Tablet showed he was still alive.
• Yi Yang required Uncle Fu to remain in the city and Lu Qinglan to follow his orders; she agreed and gave Yi Yang the Azure Cloud Flowing Light Armor to wear.
• Yi Yang planned to evade Zhang Feng by concealing his and Lu Qinglan’s movements, and the two left through the courtyard’s back door that night.
• Three days later, Zhang Feng entered Crossing Peak Stronghold with Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci and found Yi Yang’s courtyard abandoned.
• Zhang Feng decided to seek Chu Tiankuo’s help in locating Yi Yang.

Zhang Feng sought Chu Tiankuo’s help finding Yi Yang, and Chu Tiankuo learned that Yi Yang had left for the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains with Lu Qinglan. Chu Tiankuo manipulated Zhang Feng into pursuing them so he could seize the Lu family’s inheritance, but his lingering injuries from Shang Yu’s arrow left him fearing the journey ahead.

• Zhang Feng asked Chu Tiankuo to use Heavenly Heart Sect informants to locate Yi Yang, whom he accused of killing Li Chengyan.
• Chu Tiankuo secretly ordered his steward to investigate Yi Yang, then learned that Yi Yang and Lu Qinglan had left for the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains three nights earlier.
• Chu Tiankuo realized Lu Qinglan might possess the Lu family’s spirit-weapon armor and inheritance, and devised a plan to let Zhang Feng fight Yi Yang and Lu Zui before taking the spoils himself.
• Chu Tiankuo told Zhang Feng that Yi Yang had gone with Lu Qinglan to find Lu Zui, then gave Zhang Feng Black-Iron Crow Armor to persuade him to pursue Yi Yang and bring him back alive.
• Zhang Feng took Wei Xinyuan and Wang Guci and hurried out to enter the mountains, while Chu Tiankuo privately planned to follow after they had weakened their targets.
• Chu Tiankuo coughed up black blood and recognized that Shang Yu’s distant arrow had crippled thirty percent of his cultivation, leaving him worried his injuries would delay his own trip into the mountains.

Yi Yang killed a Flame-Mane Bear with a lightning-charged punch, then hurried with Lu Qinglan toward the distant battle where her grandfather might be. From a hidden vantage point, they found the devastated battlefield occupied by two bizarre figures, while Lu Zui was nowhere to be seen.

• Yi Yang killed the Flame-Mane Bear with a single punch and harvested its meat while Lu Qinglan watched in astonishment.
• Lu Qinglan pointed out the route to Blackwind Ravine and asked whether Yi Yang's lightning strike was a divine power; he said it came from a cultivation art.
• Yi Yang sensed three powerful beings fighting ahead, and Lu Qinglan decided they should investigate because her grandfather might be there.
• Yi Yang carried Lu Qinglan toward the battle using his movement and concealment arts, then hid with her in a tree near the ruined valley.
• Yi Yang and Lu Qinglan saw no sign of Lu Zui in the battlefield's central pit, where a paper-white figure and an enormous fat man stood.