Recaps

Ye Han’s Absolute Frost Divine Sword rebelled, wounded him, and rampaged through his Purple Cauldron Space, nearly killing Fairy Jade Orchid. He subdued it with his golden-core strength and Demon-Sealing Chains, but the sword remained dangerous.

• The Absolute Frost Divine Sword tried to escape, wounded Ye Han with its icy slash, and fled into the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Inside the space, the sword unleashed icy sword-rays that destroyed spirit medicine and cut apart Fairy Jade Orchid’s Bamboo House.
• Fairy Jade Orchid escaped the sword’s attack with a Blood Escape Talisman, and Ye Han expelled the sword from the space.
• Ye Han seized the sword’s hilt, forced it to quiet down, and bound it with two Demon-Sealing Chains.

Ye Han restrained the Absolute Frost Divine Sword, but its rampage injured his arm and devastated the Medicine Garden in the Purple Cauldron Space. After clearing most of the damage, he agreed that Fairy Jade Orchid could travel with him when he returned to the Azure Profound Sect, while the sword’s flames still burned on his arm.

• Ye Han bound the Absolute Frost Divine Sword with two Demon-Sealing Chains and stored it, but the sword left his arm numb and aflame.
• Fairy Jade Orchid told Ye Han that the sword had ravaged the Medicine Garden, where its icicles and azure-blue flames threatened the spirit medicines.
• Ye Han used Purple Runes Vortex and Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder to clear nearly all the icicles from the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Fairy Jade Orchid asked to travel and seek new insights because her cultivation and progress in the Way of Formation had stalled.
• Ye Han agreed that Fairy Jade Orchid could leave the Purple Cauldron Space when he returned to the Azure Profound Sect, then thought of his sect and the people he missed.
• A stab of pain brought Ye Han back to the present as the azure-blue flames continued burning on his arm.

Ye Han escaped the glacier with White Snow after the Creation Immortal Stone injured his arm, but he concealed that he had captured the stone inside the Absolute Frost Divine Sword. As they set off for Heavenly Billows, neither knew the way out of the Heavenly Snow Mountain Range, and White Snow realized they were lost.

• Ye Han used the Nine-Turn Vajra Art to clear the cyan-blue flames from his wounded arm, then found the route out of the glacier frozen shut.
• Ye Han summoned White Snow, who broke through the glacier wall and carried him outside.
• White Snow recognized Ye Han's injury as the work of a Creation Immortal Stone and explained its immense value, while Ye Han hid that he had imprisoned it inside the Absolute Frost Divine Sword.
• Ye Han and White Snow headed toward Heavenly Billows, but without the Palace Gate Spirit Stone to guide them, they flew for hours and got lost.

Ye Han and White Snow escaped the Heavenly Snow Mountain Range by following the wind and reached the crater left by the Black Dragon's tribulation. As White Snow celebrated their progress, blue-glowing icicles suddenly attacked them.

• White Snow admitted that he had gotten Ye Han lost in the snowstorm.
• Ye Han told White Snow to follow the wind blowing outward from the mountain range's depths.
• White Snow flew with the wind, and the pair stopped circling the same area.
• Ye Han and White Snow recognized the vast crater left by the Black Dragon's tribulation transcendence.
• Blue-glowing icicles suddenly shot toward Ye Han and White Snow, and Ye Han sensed someone familiar.

Ye Han and White Snow encountered the Glacier King, one of the Demon Kings who had pursued them before, and fought him above his frozen lake. The Glacier King coveted Ye Han’s unusually pure physical aura and attacked, while White Snow charged to defend his master.

• White Snow countered the Glacier King’s icicle barrage with gold-and-silver wind blades, then clashed with his enormous rune-covered claw using a giant fist of ice.
• The Glacier King recognized Ye Han and White Snow as the pair who had taken the blood-formed flower, and recalled surviving the Black Dragon’s rampage that killed the Ice Mist King and many other Demon Kings.
• Ye Han deliberately revealed his pure physical aura to lure the Glacier King out, knowing the enemy would covet his body.
• White Snow cursed the Glacier King for wanting to devour Ye Han and charged at him.
• The Glacier King tore ice from his body to form two battle axes, then met White Snow’s charge with a wave of freezing wind and crossed strikes.

Ye Han and White Snow fought the Glacier King, and Ye Han’s Great Geng Sword Art combined with demon-breaking divine thunder pierced the king’s defenses. The Glacier King regenerated and fled toward the frozen lake, but three golden Vajra Avatars burst out to intercept him.

• The Glacier King sealed the surrounding space and attacked Ye Han and White Snow with spinning icicle battle axes.
• White Snow countered with gold-and-silver feather sword-rays, while the Glacier King attacked with weapons formed from his body.
• Ye Han vanished from White Snow’s back and struck the Glacier King from behind with a purple-gold lightning sword-ray, breaking his icicle armor and piercing him.
• The Glacier King re-formed his body with his innate divine ability and decided to flee rather than continue fighting Ye Han and White Snow.
• As the Glacier King plunged toward the frozen lake, three golden Vajra Avatars burst out of the ice to intercept him.

Ye Han and White Snow overwhelmed Glacier King with their combined attacks, and Ye Han killed him with the Great Geng Sword Art. When a streak of icy energy fled from Glacier King's corpse, Ye Han told White Snow to eat it as the Purple Cauldron trembled in his divine sense sea.

• Glacier King rushed toward the frozen lake while Ye Han formed the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation to trap him.
• Glacier King shattered the formation's pillar and froze its rune chains, but White Snow struck his back and helped the chains bind him.
• Glacier King tried to break free and begged Ye Han for mercy, but Ye Han unleashed the Great Geng Sword Art and split him in two.
• White Snow pecked Glacier King's corpse, and a streak of icy energy escaped as Ye Han ordered White Snow to eat it.
• The Purple Cauldron trembled in Ye Han's divine sense sea.

Ye Han ordered White Snow to devour Glacier King's escaping primordial spirit and demon beast soul, preventing the mysterious woman in the Purple Cauldron from taking them. Afterward, Ye Han collected Glacier King's remains for a purpose of his own.

• White Snow swallowed Glacier King's primordial spirit and demon beast soul with its Demon Core, despite Glacier King's plea for mercy.
• Ye Han explained that he had meant to capture the souls with the Ghost Skull Mirror, but chose White Snow to keep them from the mysterious woman in the Purple Cauldron.
• The Purple Cauldron trembled in anger as White Snow consumed the souls, while Ye Han worried the woman might become dangerous if she revived.
• Ye Han cut Glacier King's corpse into pieces, retrieved its Demon Core and Beast Crystal, and asked White Snow if it wanted the corpse.
• White Snow refused to eat Glacier King's corpse, so Ye Han stored it in the Treasure Refining Furnace for an important use.

Ye Han fed his newly bred Poison Centipede Insects the Glacier King's remains while flying on White Snow, then considered the severe injury to his right arm. He suspected the Azure Profound Divine Palace might be connected to the Creation Immortal Stone and could hold a way to heal him.

• Ye Han teased White Snow about serving as his mount, then put the Treasure Refining Furnace into the purple cauldron space.
• Ye Han released thousands of Poison Centipede Insects to devour a huge piece of the Glacier King's corpse.
• Ye Han reflected on how his numb, injured right arm blocked cultivation and could cause lasting damage to his body.
• Ye Han recalled finding the Creation Immortal Stone in the Ice Cave Hollow after the Purple Cauldron took the Azure Profound Divine Palace and wondered whether the palace could help heal his arm.

Ye Han examined the Azure Profound Divine Palace and discovered a tiny hole pierced through it by the Creation Immortal Stone, then gained insight from studying the ancient traces left on its surface. After White Snow carried him out of the Heavenly Snow Mountain Range, Ye Han refused to return directly to the Azure Profound Sect and said they had to go somewhere else first.

• Ye Han inspected the Azure Profound Divine Palace and found that a fingernail-sized hole passed through its base and roof, apparently made by the Creation Immortal Stone.
• Ye Han suspected the Creation Immortal Stone’s attack was connected to the Azure Profound Sect’s decline and recognized that the palace’s ancient battle scars could teach him about old spells and Divine Abilities.
• Ye Han reflected on his hardships, entered a profound state of insight, and devoted himself to studying the marks on the palace.
• White Snow carried Ye Han out of the Heavenly Snow Mountain Range and suggested they return to the Azure Profound Sect.
• Ye Han told White Snow they needed to go somewhere else first, and White Snow asked where.

Ye Han arrived in Storm City after a beast tide and searched for windspirit cold iron to refine his life-bound treasure. He heard that Zhang Qingshan had fought the Storm Demon King and wondered whether the cultivator was his Senior Brother Zhang.

• Ye Han reached Storm City and learned from the guards that the city had recently survived a beast tide.
• Ye Han entered the city, where cultivators were selling demon beast carcasses and materials from the battle.
• Ye Han searched the street vendors for windspirit cold iron but found nothing suitable.
• Ye Han headed toward the largest shop and overheard cultivators praising Zhang Qingshan and a powerful fairy for facing the Storm Demon King.
• Ye Han recognized Zhang Qingshan's name and wondered if he was his Senior Brother Zhang.

Ye Han questioned three cultivators in Storm City about the beast tide and heard that Daoist Spirit had stolen the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell from a secret realm. Their description made them suspect Ye Han was Daoist Spirit, but he denied it and asked about Zhang Qingshan.

• Ye Han stopped three foundation establishment cultivators and asked about the beast tide and Zhang Qingshan.
• The female cultivator explained that a rumored treasure-filled secret realm in Storm Gorge had drawn cultivators into the Storm Demon King's territory.
• The cultivators said the Storm Demon King and other demon kings had entered the secret realm, where Daoist Spirit took the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and escaped.
• The two male cultivators added that Daoist Spirit had used Storm City as a decoy and described him as a young golden core cultivator from Heavenly Billows.
• The three cultivators suspected Ye Han was Daoist Spirit, but he denied it and asked how Zhang Qingshan had held off the Storm Demon King.

Ye Han learned that Zhang Qingshan and a fire-using female cultivator had helped defend Storm City from a Beast Tide, then failed to find enough windspirit cold iron for his Life-Bound Treasure. As he set off toward Heavenly Billows, Storm City’s defensive formation activated and a new Beast Tide approached.

• Ye Han questioned three cultivators and heard that Zhang Qingshan had held off the Storm Demon King while a female cultivator used fire spells to fight the Beast Tide.
• Ye Han gave the three cultivators Spirit Artifacts and left to search Storm City’s largest shop for windspirit cold iron.
• Ye Han found only a reserved, fist-sized piece of windspirit cold iron and bought materials for refining pills and crafting talismans instead.
• Ye Han decided not to abandon the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel and set off toward Heavenly Billows to return to the Azure Profound Sect.
• Storm City’s defensive Restriction Formation activated, and a warning announced that a Beast Tide was approaching.

A second, larger beast tide approached Storm City, led by three demon kings while the city's defenses remained damaged. Ye Han tried to leave but was mistaken for Daoist Spirit, and the Storm City lord flew toward him.

• Ye Han flew to the city wall after hearing that another beast tide was coming and saw hundreds of demon beasts, including at least three demon kings.
• The cultivators on the wall panicked as Storm City's lord considered whether the city could be defended without its repaired restrictions and the departed Zhang Qingshan.
• The Storm Demon King advanced with the Purple-Scaled Demon King and the Land Calamity Demon King, seeking the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and planning to attack Storm City.
• The cultivators spotted Ye Han in the sky and accused him of being Daoist Spirit, blaming him for provoking the beast tide.
• Ye Han realized something was wrong when a cultivator claimed to recognize him, and Storm City's lord shouted “Daoist Spirit!” as he flew toward Ye Han.

Ye Han denied being Daoist Ling and warned the Lord of Storm City that the city’s damaged defenses could not withstand the three Demon Kings. As the Demon Beasts attacked Storm City, the Storm Demon King identified Ye Han as Daoist Ling and claimed he carried the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell, while Ye Han recognized the demon king’s saber as Windspirit cold iron.

• Ye Han denied being Daoist Ling and said Storm City’s defensive formation would fail against the three Demon Kings.
• The Lord of Storm City accused Ye Han of bringing the Demon Beasts and urged the Cultivators to defend the city.
• The Demon Beast army attacked Storm City’s Restrictive Barrier, and the Cultivators fought back.
• The Storm Demon King pointed out Ye Han and told the Purple-Scaled Demon King and the Land Calamity Demon King that he had the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.
• The Storm Demon King brought out a massive black saber, and Ye Han identified its material as Windspirit cold iron.

Ye Han discovered that the Storm Demon King mistook him for Daoist Ling and spotted the demon king’s windspirit cold iron saber. He escaped Storm City’s damaged barrier and unleashed his Blood-Spotted Ants against the attacking beasts, while the city’s defenders questioned whether he was Daoist Ling.

• Ye Han wondered whether someone who looked exactly like him had impersonated him and drawn Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan to Storm City.
• Ye Han recognized that the Storm Demon King’s Black Long Saber was forged from windspirit cold iron and decided to pursue him.
• Ye Han broke through Storm City’s damaged Restrictive Barrier, astonishing the Storm City Lord and the cultivators defending the city.
• Seven or eight Flying Bull Beasts attacked Ye Han outside the barrier, so he released over a thousand Blood-Spotted Ants, which rapidly devoured the beasts and their souls.
• Ye Han slapped his Storage Bag again, and icy figures descended from the sky.

Ye Han used venomous insects and metal puppets to disrupt the demon beasts attacking Storm City, then confronted the Storm Demon King. When the Storm Demon King and the other two demon kings attacked him together, Ye Han’s fate remained uncertain.

• Ye Han activated the Puppet God Technique, combining metal puppets into giant warriors that drove back the demon beasts, while his venomous insects slaughtered flying beasts.
• A bamboo-hatted cultivator recognized Ye Han, then vanished as the three demon kings approached.
• The Storm Demon King attacked Ye Han with his windspirit cold iron saber, but Ye Han’s Great Geng Sword Art and demon-breaking divine thunder shattered the saber light.
• The Storm Demon King called on the Purple-Scaled Demon King and Land Calamity Demon King to attack Ye Han alongside him.
• The three demon kings surrounded Ye Han with saber light, sonic shock waves, and massive claw strikes, as the Storm City lord refused to help.

Ye Han fought the three Demon Kings, then trapped them inside the Great Heaven-Covering Formation and attacked them while concealing his abilities from Storm City. The battle ended in silence after only a dozen or so breaths, leaving the Storm City cultivators wondering how Daoist Ling had become so powerful.

• Ye Han dodged the three Demon Kings' attacks and countered the Storm Demon King, then held all three off with his sword and talismans.
• Ye Han activated the Great Heaven-Covering Formation, trapping the Storm Demon King, Purple-Scaled Demon King, and Land Calamity Demon King in a gray mist.
• Ye Han entered the formation and used the Nine-Turn Vajra Art while the formation's huge figures kept the Demon Kings from escaping.
• After a fierce battle lasting only a dozen or so breaths, the fighting fell silent, and the Storm City cultivators speculated that the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell had made Daoist Ling so powerful.

Ye Han killed the three Demon Kings who threatened Storm City, then left without accepting the city lord’s invitation. On the way back toward Heavenly Billows, he discovered that the person mistaken for “Daoist Ling” was his exact double.

• Ye Han used the Great Heaven-Covering Formation and his divine abilities to kill the three Demon Kings, while the Blood-Spotted Ants and Metal Puppets drove off the remaining Demon Beasts.
• The lord of Storm City tried to invite Ye Han inside, but Ye Han refused and warned him not to follow; a man in a bamboo hat secretly pursued Ye Han after he left.
• Ye Han rode White Snow away from Storm Plain with the Storm Demon King's black windspirit cold iron saber and told White Snow to stop asking for the Demon Kings’ spoils.
• Ye Han wondered who had been impersonating Daoist Ling and noted that he still had no news of Zhang Qingshan.
• Ye Han spotted a man reading on a distant mountain peak and realized the man had exactly the same face as him.

Ye Han reunited with Teacher Lan Qing, whom he had abandoned in a lake more than a hundred years earlier, and discovered that Lan Qing’s reborn body looked exactly like his own. Over a familiar meal, Lan Qing confirmed he was the Daoist Ling from Storm City, and Ye Han asked whether he had obtained the opportunity connected to the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.

• White Snow mistook Lan Qing for an impostor and tried to attack, but Ye Han stopped it and went to meet him.
• Ye Han recognized Lan Qing and explained that he had left him in the lake while fleeing a Demon King, though Lan Qing teased him about his old schemes.
• Lan Qing said the Rebirth Gourd had rebirthed him in Ye Han’s image because it remembered Ye Han’s appearance.
• Lan Qing invited Ye Han to share familiar dishes and wine, and the two toasted to their past in Green Ox Village.
• Ye Han asked whether Lan Qing was the Daoist Ling from Storm City, and Lan Qing confirmed it.
• Ye Han asked whether Lan Qing had obtained the opportunity connected to the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.

Teacher Lan Qing asked Ye Han to return to the dangerous Heavenly Secret Hall and help recover his original body, but Ye Han resisted his appeals and threats. Teacher Lan Qing then revealed a treasure and asked whether Ye Han was truly uninterested.

• Teacher Lan Qing toasted Ye Han for saving his life, but Ye Han said he was not interested in the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and asked him to state his real purpose.
• Teacher Lan Qing explained that his Rebirth Gourd body had limited potential and that he wanted Ye Han to return to the Heavenly Secret Hall to recover his original body.
• Ye Han questioned the danger and Teacher Lan Qing’s motives, and Teacher Lan Qing tried to persuade him with promises of opportunities and guidance.
• Ye Han rejected Teacher Lan Qing’s appeals, while Teacher Lan Qing joked about using Ye Han’s appearance to harm his reputation.
• Teacher Lan Qing released a burst of treasure light from his Storage Bag and asked Ye Han whether he was really uninterested in the treasure.

Ye Han accepted the Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell from Teacher Lan Qing and negotiated the time required to help him recover his physical body. The chapter ended with Teacher Lan Qing handing over the bell’s cultivation method and a token formalizing their fifty-year pact, while Ye Han raised one more condition.

• Teacher Lan Qing revealed that the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell was a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure and offered it to Ye Han, explaining that he had a way for Ye Han to wield it.
• Ye Han realized Teacher Lan Qing had used his appearance while traveling and had deliberately made the bell’s ownership appear connected to Ye Han.
• Ye Han accepted the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and prepared to leave, but Teacher Lan Qing reminded him that he still needed the method to activate it.
• Teacher Lan Qing asked Ye Han to help him recover his physical body, and the two haggled until Ye Han secured a fifty-year delay.
• Teacher Lan Qing gave Ye Han a Token for the Fifty-Year Pact and the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell Cultivation Method, and Ye Han added that he had another condition.

Teacher Lan Qing reclaimed a new body with the Rebirth Gourd, while Ye Han left for Heavenly Billows and weighed his future return to the Heavenly Secret Hall. Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan received an emergency assembly signal from the Azure Profound Sect.

• Teacher Lan Qing used the Rebirth Gourd, revealed it was a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure, and told Ye Han he would seek him out in fifty years.
• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan had already left Storm City for Heavenly Billows, and Ye Han departed on White Snow.
• Ye Han studied the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell instructions and decided to return to Heavenly Billows while delaying another trip to the Heavenly Secret Hall until his arm healed.
• Beneath a cliff on Storm Plain, an unknown furious voice cursed the humans and vowed revenge over the loss of the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.
• Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan received a flashing emergency signal on their Azure Profound Sect Identity Tokens.

Ye Han returned to Heavenly Billows and learned that the Azure Profound Sect had reopened after a century in seclusion while the Three Divine Sects expanded their power. After gathering information in Azure Cloud City, he decided to return to the sect, first intending to settle a matter that had troubled him for years.

• Ye Han rode White Snow to Heavenly Billows, studying the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and using the Purple Cauldron's power to suppress his injuries along the way.
• Ye Han discovered that the Three Great Sects had united as the Three Divine Sects and were expanding into neighboring Golden Soil.
• Ye Han went to Azure Cloud City to learn what had happened while he was away and heard cultivators speculate about his strength and the Azure Profound Sect's summons.
• Ye Han learned that the Azure Profound Sect had sealed its mountains for a hundred years after he left and had reopened in recent years.
• Ye Han concluded that the sect appeared safe and prepared to return, deciding first to settle a long-standing matter.

Ye Han visited Han Qiushui at Heavenly Peace Market, initially offering to let go of his old betrayal, but discovered him trying to contact the Zhuge Family and captured him. As Ye Han departed with the Zhuge token, he realized the family had targeted him and that Han Qiushui had been acting as its puppet.

• Ye Han appeared before Han Qiushui and said he had come only to visit, despite Han Qiushui confessing that he had once betrayed him to the Black Mountain Cult.
• Han Qiushui secretly activated a black token bearing the Zhuge name after Ye Han left, but Ye Han returned and caught him in the act.
• Han Qiushui tried to escape with a Blood Escape Talisman, but Ye Han struck him with divine sense and froze him with Icicles Storm.
• Ye Han took the Zhuge token and absorbed Han Qiushui into the Treasure Refining Furnace before leaving Heavenly Peace Market.
• Ye Han suspected the Zhuge Family had targeted him and that Han Qiushui had been its puppet.