Recaps

Yi Yang used his strange cultivation advantage to grow stronger, survive the Greenwood Mountain crisis, and eliminate the men threatening his household. The arc left him facing a new conflict as Yi Xun’s family tried to take his home and farmland for Yi Zhanzhi’s apprenticeship.

• Yi Yang began practicing the Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art and secretly killed Sun Mazi after discovering he was stalking him for the purplewood.
• Yi Yang sold purplewood for medicine, then joined Wang Yue’s snake hunt, where the giant snake and the hunt’s human betrayals left several men dead.
• Yi Yang killed Wang Yue, took the Crimson Origin Fruit, and used a Nine Evil Sect token to disguise his murder of Yang Er.
• Yi Yang advanced through cultivation and learned the Nine Peaks Saber while villagers searched for the missing men from the mountain.
• After Peng Qing and Lu Cheng’s allies beat Yang Hui, Yi Yang killed both Shengcang Martial Hall disciples and returned home without revealing his role.
• Yi Xun arrived with Yi Zhanzhi and demanded that Yi Yang sell his home and farmland to fund Yi Zhanzhi’s martial apprenticeship.
• Yi Yang refused to surrender his property despite Yi Xun’s anger and Yi Zhanzhi’s warning, while Jiang Yuexin stood up for him.

Yi Yang joined the Heaven Patrol Office, concealed his cultivation and survived a series of attacks while the county prepared a purge of the Nine Evil Sect. After the campaign, Tang Hao agreed to arrange Yi Yang’s death, and Yi Yang broke through to the qi-blood fifth level.

• Yang Shuqing investigated Yang Er’s murder, but Yi Yang killed him and his two men on Greenwood Mountain and took their valuables.
• Zhao Gang helped Yi Yang join the Heaven Patrol Office, where he was assigned to the Archive Hall and began cultivating with access to medicinal resources.
• The County Commandant sent men to ambush Yi Yang, but Yi Yang killed them and hid their bodies.
• Yi Yang reached initiation in the Five-Organ Internal Refining Force and secretly took a black-patterned saber from the blood array at Stone Bridge Abandoned Village.
• Yi Yang resisted Mu Fenghai’s Thunderous Sound Mantra and hid the fact that he had entered the village’s ancestral hall.
• As Qi Shujian organized a purge of the Nine Evil Sect, Yi Yang declined to join and killed Fang Yu after Fang Yu threatened him.
• The purge succeeded, and Yi Zhanzhi returned to acclaim while Zhao Gang came back wounded and warned Yi Yang that Tang Hao had advanced and allied with the County Commandant.
• The County Commandant paid Tang Hao to arrange Yi Yang’s death, while Yi Yang endured a medicinal bath and advanced to the qi-blood fifth level.

Yi Yang survived Tang Hao’s betrayal and the Nine Evil Sect attack, then hid his growing strength while climbing the Heaven Patrol Office assessment rankings. He received command of the Sunbright Tower and began investigating its manager’s ties to the great Lineages.

• Yi Yang killed Tang Hao, then fought and killed Jiang Liang and two bandits during the attack on the Heaven Patrol Office.
• Zhou Jiang brought Yi Yang sunshine flowers and silver to settle their grievance, and Yi Yang convinced him that he had reached the Inner Qi Realm.
• Yi Yang secretly advanced to the sixth level and concealed his strength during the assessment, defeating Zheng Qiao and several challengers to reach thirteenth place.
• Zhang Songqing crippled Yi Zhanzhi, while Qin Ju, Wang Qiongyu, Tang Ji, and Zhao Tong qualified for the Golden Sun Temple contest.
• Chen Wuya appointed Yi Yang Acting Patrol Commander and Master of the Sunbright Tower, giving him access to discounted elixirs and a new source of income.
• Yi Yang inspected the Sunbright Tower’s ledgers and learned that Ye Yang had routed most high-grade pills to the three great Lineages’ underground channels.

Yi Yang entered the Inner Qi Realm, took charge of South City Prison, and stopped a coordinated attack that exposed the Zhang Family’s plot. After Yunlin County’s powerful factions were brought down, Qi Shujian offered Yi Yang a path to advancement, and Yi Yang asked him to investigate Pang Qing and the Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art.

• Yi Yang traced the Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art to Pang Qing’s family, then exposed Ye Yang’s pill theft and sale to the Li Family and helped bring him and his associates to justice.
• Chen Wuya and Song Tiecheng appointed Yi Yang head jailer of South City Prison, where Yi Yang formed his dantian qi sea and entered the Inner Qi Realm.
• Yi Yang found Zhang Family agents embedded in the prison and waited for them to move against Feng Haiyuan before sending Chen Wuya a warning.
• When the prison riot began, Yi Yang fought through the attackers, killed Feng Haiyuan and his rescuers, and then killed Wang Gongqin and Zhang Bonian outside the prison.
• Qi Shujian killed Zhang Qiheng and the escaped Nine Evil Sect altar master, while Song Tiecheng and Qin Ju led raids against the Wang Family and the Red Tiger Gang.
• Qi Shujian offered Yi Yang a promotion or a recommendation for the deputy director assessment, and Yi Yang chose the recommendation and asked him to investigate Pang Qing and the art’s surviving records.