Recaps

Lan Yue’s gossip repeatedly exposed secrets across the Southern Spirit Sect while she acquired the Immortal Sword Silver Snow and struggled to learn Sword Flight. After uncovering the origins of her master Guangji’s reputation, she agreed to travel with Silver Snow to the North Ridge Sacred Ground for the Four Regions Tournament and met Guangji as he emerged from seclusion.

• Lan Yue’s gossip about the heroine led Yun Chong and the elders to discover that Yun Xi was his daughter, while the Sixth Elder took Luan Ning as his disciple after rescuing her from a demonic beast.
• Lan Yue visited the Hidden Sword Pavilion, where Yun Xi awakened the Cangwu Wooden Sword, strange spirit swords gathered, and Lan Yue summoned Silver Snow from the Blood Pool.
• Silver Snow chose Lan Yue, who advanced in cultivation but repeatedly failed to master Sword Flight as her gossip exposed Elder Lu’s relationships and Elder Whitebrow’s past.
• The Scarlet Moon Sect Master confronted Elder Whitebrow over his treatment of her daughter, then tried to recruit Lan Yue, but Yun Chong kept Lan Yue at the Southern Spirit Sect.
• Lan Yue explored the Four Arts Hall and uncovered that her secluded master Guangji had disguised himself as a woman, earning the name Fairy Guangji through a distorted story and a sighting.
• Lan Yue and Silver Snow agreed to travel to the North Ridge Sacred Ground for the Four Regions Tournament, and Lan Yue greeted Guangji when he emerged from seclusion.

Lan Yue uncovered the truth about Yuan Xia’s missing child, helped Yuan Shuo escape, and learned of ruins and dangers gathering around the Southern Spirit Sect. As she began studying Formation Arts, her companions’ predicted futures and her own schemes kept drawing the elders’ attention.

• Guangji exposed Lan Yue’s lack of Sword Flight skill, then trained her until she could stay balanced on Silver Snow.
• Lan Yue revealed that Yuan Bao was a human-ghost hybrid and that Yuan Shuo, Yuan Xia’s real child, was being hidden and drained of blood in the Spirit Artifact Hall.
• Lan Yue sent Silver Snow to find Yuan Shuo, and Yuan Su carried the rescued boy away for treatment after recognizing him as Xiaxia’s child.
• Lan Yue learned that the Ghost Creature had been killed and that a Demon Abyss Rift had taken Yuan Bao, then accepted cold jade pendants with Yun Xi and Li Bai.
• Lan Yue exposed the Second Elder’s curse and learned that hidden ruins would appear on Spirit-Denuded Island, prompting the Southern Spirit Sect to move to protect them.
• Lan Yue found the unconscious male lead in creature form and persuaded Yun Xi to keep him as a spirit beast.
• Lan Yue enrolled in Formation Arts while Yun Xi, Yuan Shuo, and Li Bai chose their own studies, and Little Fruit proved able to draw complete formations.
• Lan Yue’s revelations about Li Bai’s future alarmed the elders, while she was expelled from the Formation Pavilion after Little Fruit copied her diagram.

Lan Yue’s gossip, formation work, and schemes drew the sect into a series of embarrassing revelations and special training. At Green Silk Mountain, she led her companions through a prolonged battle with an Armored Demon Beast, and Yuan Shuo said he knew its weakness.

• Lan Yue uncovered the history between Elder Fang and Elder Duanmu, and their old feelings became public across the sect.
• Gu Zhuo woke as Little Yellow and stayed near Yun Xi, while Lan Yue continued her formation work and gained gifts by sharing gossip.
• Lan Yue exposed Wu Tianyu’s past with Poison Bees, and the twins settled on Spirit Moon Peak as the elders arranged special training for the Grand Competition.
• Lan Yue helped Elder Whitebrow disguise himself as a fairy maiden, but Elder Duanmu summoned her back and led the disciples to Green Silk Mountain.
• The disciples were trapped with a colossal Demon Beast, and Lan Yue escaped underground with Luo Sen before proposing they defeat ten smaller beasts instead.
• Lan Yue’s group ambushed ten demon beast cubs, completed the assigned task, and then chose to keep training against the Armored Demon Beast.
• After fighting the beast through the night and into daylight, the group rested as Yuan Shuo said he knew its weakness.

Lan Yue and the Southern Spirit Sect entered the early-opening ruins, where she befriended demon beasts, uncovered hidden treasures, and became trapped in a Primordial Formation Pagoda. The group remained scattered among separate trials as Lan Yue climbed the pagoda and Yun Xi passed the Spirit Herb Garden trial.

• Lan Yue reached Foundation Establishment through repeated battles with the Armored Demon Beast, and the elders agreed to let the North Ridge Sacred Ground explore the ruins in exchange for Tower of the Abyss access.
• The elders investigated Xing Hao’s suspicious ties to the Greenstone Sect, then led the disciples to Spirit-Denuded Island, where Yun Li entered the ruins without permission.
• The ruins separated the disciples, and Lan Yue survived among spiders by stealing spirit fruits before befriending Spider Brother and helping the Scaled Snake protect its eggs.
• Lan Yue entered a hidden space, collected spiritual treasures, persuaded the Enlightenment Tea Tree to join her System Space, and escaped with two Space-Biting Spirit Rats following her.
• Lan Yue and the Southern Spirit Sect disciples entered a Primordial Formation that separated them into different trials, while the elders outside struggled to monitor the ruins and investigated the Greenstone Sect’s concealed Demon Abyss Rift.
• Lan Yue used the System and the Enlightenment Tea Tree to study the Formation Pagoda’s patterns, solved its floors, and reached the fifth floor ahead of the other cultivators.
• Yun Xi revived the Spirit Herb Garden with Lan Yue’s formation disks, passed its trial, and was transferred to the second trial.
• Yuan Shuo began forging a Spirit Artifact in the Crimson Flame Land, while Wu Tianyu tried to breed an Earthfire Gu Insect.