Recaps

Yun Huang recalled how Yun Si adopted Yun Qing and made Ji Huang call him elder brother, then set out for the Netherworld Ghost Realm with Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick. An old memory stopped him at the passage, leaving the three frozen in place as the story returned to Yun Qing and Ji Huang’s awkward encounters in the Ji Clan.

• Yun Huang remembered Ji Huang’s shocked reaction when Yun Si declared Yun Qing his elder brother, and the brothers silently accepted their new relationship.
• Yun Huang dismissed Qing Kitty as a stray cat, then opened a path to the Netherworld Ghost Realm and started toward it with Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick.
• Another memory made Yun Huang stop after two steps, and he remained motionless for an hour while Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick waited impatiently.
• Yun Si’s adoption of Yun Qing became known throughout the Ji Clan, though Ji Huang kept the elder-brother arrangement secret.
• Yun Qing and Ji Huang repeatedly met in the Ji Clan and exchanged restrained nods; they encountered each other in a corridor again.

Ji Huang punished a Ji Clan elder for plotting to harm Yun Qing, then Yun Huang emerged from his memories on the Immortal Path, halted by recollections of their first meeting and their later encounter. He stood with only two footprints behind him, unable to move for an hour.

• After Yun Qing and Ji Huang passed each other in the Immortal Grove, a Ji Clan elder urged Ji Huang to cripple Yun Qing.
• Ji Huang ordered the elder's proposed punishments carried out, and his Black Guard severed the elder's limbs and Dantian.
• Ji Huang had the Black Guard destroy the elder's Divine Platform and divine soul for daring to judge what belonged to his mother.
• Ji Huang told the Black Guard to report the events truthfully to the Lady Sovereign, leaving Yun Qing's fate to her.
• Yun Huang emerged from his memories on the path to the Netherworld Ghost Realm, where two remembered encounters had halted him for an hour.

Yun Qing overcame his hesitation and called Yun Si “Mother,” and she accepted him warmly. Later, after the Ji Clan targeted him over Ji Huang’s punishment of an elder, Yun Qing went to Yun Si to complain.

• Yun Huang tried to enter the Netherworld, but Yun Si barred him and memories from Ten Thousand Ages ago overtook him again.
• Yun Qing gave Yun Si a handmade sachet and nervously called her “Mother.”
• Yun Si smiled, accepted the name, and praised the sachet, while Ji Huang saw them and quietly left.
• After Ji Huang punished a Ji Clan Elder, the elder’s relatives directed their resentment at Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing went to Yun Si and loudly pretended to cry about the Ji Clan’s harassment.

After Yun Qing told Yun Si that the Ji Clan Elders had humiliated him, she took him to the Ancestral Shrine and entered him into the Ji Clan’s main-lineage Genealogy as Ji Shuo. She silenced the Elders’ objections and left them to reckon with her authority as a Dao Lord.

• Yun Qing pretended to sob as he told Yun Si that the Ji Clan Elders had insulted him and threatened to expel him.
• Yun Si took Yun Qing to the Ji Clan’s Ancestral Shrine and wrote the name Ji Shuo into the main-lineage Genealogy.
• Yun Si told Yun Qing that Ji Shuo was his name in the Ji Clan, and he obediently said he liked it.
• The Ji Clan Elders protested that Yun Qing lacked Ji Clan blood and could not be added to the legitimate lineage.
• Yun Si dismissed the Elders’ objections, told them to send Ji Bingqian to speak with her, and criticized the clan’s fixation on bloodline and declining fortunes.
• The Elders remained afraid to challenge Yun Si, recognizing that she was a Dao Lord.

Yun Si entered Yun Qing into the Ji Clan genealogy as Ji Shuo, leaving Ji Huang privately irritated but unwilling to challenge her decision. The family shared a quiet tea until Ji Bingqian and several Ji Clan elders arrived at the Immortal Abode.

• Yun Si added Yun Qing to the Ji Clan genealogy under the name Ji Shuo and ordered the elders to announce it throughout the clan.
• Ji Huang learned of the name change from Black Armor and went to the Immortal Abode, though he kept his objections to himself.
• Yun Qing delighted in his new name while Yun Si teased him, and Ji Huang joined them for tea.
• Ji Bingqian arrived with several Ji Clan elders, and Yun Qing judged him favorably at first glance.

Ji Bingqian visited Yun Si and wrongly assumed she had added Yun Qing to the Ji Clan Genealogy out of jealousy over another woman. Yun Si dismissed him and criticized his cultivation, while Yun Qing and Ji Huang quietly bonded over their shared bewilderment at their father.

• Ji Bingqian arrived and agreed that the Ancestral Shrine's doors should be replaced, then accepted Yun Qing as Shuo despite the elders' distress.
• Ji Bingqian took Yun Si's hand and claimed she had added Yun Qing to the Genealogy because she was jealous of a woman at the Jade Splendor Terrace.
• Yun Qing and Ji Huang exchanged looks and silently agreed that Ji Bingqian's reasoning made no sense, bringing the brothers closer.
• Yun Si withdrew her hand, told Ji Bingqian to leave, and criticized him for reaching only the eighth level of Solar God Blood.
• Ji Bingqian insisted Yun Si's actions had been caused by jealousy, leaving Yun Qing and Ji Huang bewildered again.

Yun Si explained that her marriage to Ji Bingqian had been a strategic alliance between their clans, but Ji Bingqian revealed he had mistaken her sacrificial dance and proposal for proof that she loved him. The chapter left Yun Si disgusted by his misunderstanding and dismissing him as a useless fool.

• Ji Huang told Yun Qing that Ji Bingqian possessed the purest Solar God Bloodline in a hundred generations.
• Yun Si told Ji Bingqian their marriage alliance had served the Yun and Ji Clans' shared plans, and asked whether anything else mattered.
• Ji Bingqian insisted Yun Si had married him because she loved him, citing her sacrificial dance and marriage proposal at the Wei River.
• Yun Si asked what Ji Bingqian had understood from the heavenly signs during her dance, and he admitted he had focused on her rather than the signs.
• Yun Si realized Ji Bingqian had mistaken the ritual and heavenly signs for romantic gestures, called him a useless fool, and turned away.

Yun Si took Yun Qing and Ji Huang away from the Ji Clan after rejecting Ji Bingqian’s attempt to strike her. The Ji Clan elders then encouraged Ji Bingqian to pursue other women, and he began to reconsider his marriage.

• Ji Huang called Ji Bingqian trash after hearing that his birth had been part of Yun Si’s plan.
• Ji Bingqian erupted in anger and tried to strike Yun Si, but the Ji Clan elders pinned him down and warned him that she was a Dao Lord.
• Yun Si left with Yun Qing and Ji Huang, reflected that Ji Huang had not inherited his father’s brains, and decided to give him the Yun surname.
• Ji Bingqian smashed the pavilion’s furnishings after Yun Si departed, while the elders soothed him and urged him to consider other women.
• Ji Bingqian listened as the elders mentioned the Saintess of the Mysterious Yin Platform and the Goddess of the Red Glow God Clan as possible admirers.

Ji Bingqian’s elders schemed to arrange more matches for him, while Yun Si decided the Ji Clan no longer belonged in her plans. Yun Huang continued across the Netherworld passage as Ji Shuo’s past breakthrough to Immortal King came back to him.

• Ji Bingqian agreed to consider the beauties the Ji Clan elders proposed, while the elders planned to arrange other gifted women to bear his children.
• Yun Si overheard the elders’ scheme and decided to remove the Ji Clan from her plans, while Yun Qing and Ji Huang drank tea with her.
• Yun Huang reached the third step above the Netherworld passage, wondered what Yun Si intended by helping Yun Qing regain his memories, and took his fourth step.
• Yun Huang recalled that Yun Qing had cultivated relentlessly for years after Yun Si named him Ji Shuo.
• Ji Shuo’s breakthrough to Immortal King caused a dramatic celestial phenomenon, while Ji Huang continued refining his Dao Foundation near the peak of the Immortal Lord Realm.

Yun Qing discussed his sword practice with Yun Si and Ji Huang, showing them his Spirit Sword, Azure Jade. Yun Si advised him on becoming part of this world, while Yun Qing wondered why Ji Huang was delaying his breakthrough; the gathering ended with Yun Qing tasting a delicious Vermilion Fruit.

• Yun Qing joined Yun Si and Ji Huang for tea and helped keep their conversation going.
• Yun Qing showed them his Spirit Sword, Azure Jade, and Ji Huang interpreted the meaning behind its name.
• Yun Si asked about Yun Qing’s sword practice and explained that finding his own great Dao would lessen the world’s rejection of him.
• Yun Qing wondered why Ji Huang had not yet crossed from the peak of the immortal lord realm into the immortal venerable realm.
• Yun Si offered Yun Qing a Vermilion Fruit, and he bit into it and found it delicious.

Ji Huang broke through to the mid-Immortal Venerable Realm and attained the Emperor Lingxiao Dao, while Yun Qing reached the middle stage of the Immortal King Realm. Yun Qing recognized that Ji Huang had attained the same Dao as Yun Si, and Ji Huang sensed that Yun Si had already reached the true Dao Lord Realm.

• Yun Qing enjoyed Vermilion Fruits with Yun Si and Ji Huang during their peaceful years together.
• Ji Huang emerged from seclusion, broke through to the mid-Immortal Venerable Realm, and attained the Emperor Lingxiao Dao.
• Yun Qing completed his seclusion at the middle stage of the Immortal King Realm and witnessed Ji Huang's Dao-attainment phenomena.
• Yun Qing realized Ji Huang's Dao resonance matched Yun Si's, but Yun Si reassured him and told him not to worry.
• Ji Huang sensed that Yun Si's Dao had already reached the true Dao Lord Realm.

Ji Huang recognized the Dao aura of his mother, Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, and accepted that they might one day clash over the Great Dao. The chapter revealed that the eight directions divine platforms had secretly allied to seize Ji Huang’s Solar God Bloodline, leading to their ambush of Yun Si at the Wei River.

• Ji Huang recognized his mother’s Dao aura and reflected that their pursuit of the Great Dao could eventually bring them into conflict.
• After Yun Si shattered Ji Bingqian’s hopes, Ji Bingqian took several women from the eight directions divine platforms as concubines and had many children.
• The Ji Clan elders believed the marriages would strengthen ties with the eight directions divine platforms and perhaps produce exceptional heirs.
• The eight directions divine platforms secretly allied to seize Ji Huang’s radiant sun divine blood to reverse the decline of their own bloodlines.
• The eight directions divine platforms sent two Dao Lords and dozens of Immortal Venerables to ambush Yun Si at the Wei River.

Yun Si and Yun Qing traveled to the Yun Clan to celebrate the birth of Yun'e and the First Elder’s son, whom Yun Si named Yun Che. Their journey was interrupted when an enemy ambush overturned the Wei River and summoned eight Divine Platforms.

• Yun Si and Yun Qing crossed the Wei River with their procession to visit the Yun Clan and congratulate Yun'e and the First Elder on their newborn son.
• Yun Si recalled defeating the First Elder in their final martial competition and praised his stewardship of the Yun Clan as acceptable.
• Yun Si chose the name Yun Che, wishing the child an unimpeded Dao and a heart clear of worldly mists.
• Yun Si sensed danger and ordered the procession to stop as the Wei River fell unnaturally quiet.
• The Wei River overturned, and eight sky-obscuring Divine Platforms appeared around the procession.

The Eight Directions Divine Platforms ambushed Yun Si with two Dao Lords and dozens of Immortal Venerables, intending to kill her before Ji Huang could rise and claim the Radiant Sun divine blood. Yun Si began overpowering their formation, while Yun Qing realized the attackers knew Ji Shuo was with her and might target him as her weakness.

• The Eight Directions Divine Platforms sealed the Wei River and surrounded Yun Si with two Dao Lords and dozens of Immortal Venerables.
• Yun Si dismissed their justification for the ambush and ordered the Cloud Valor Guards to protect Ji Shuo.
• Yun Qing entered the Guards’ protective formation, knowing he was too weak to help Yun Si fight.
• Yun Si repelled the formation’s attacks, destroyed its water dragons, and sent the divine power surging back toward the attackers.
• Yun Qing realized the sealed formation showed the Eight Directions Divine Platforms had prepared extensively and knew Ji Shuo was accompanying Yun Si.

Ji Huang prepared two new spiritual dishes to share with his mother and Yun Qing, unaware that Yun Si and Yun Qing had been ambushed at the Wei River. Yun Si held off two Dao Lords and a formation of Immortal Venerables, but the battle left the Cloud Valor Guards badly wounded and Yun Qing in danger.

• Ji Huang learned that his mother and Ji Shuo were nearing the Eastern Region and kept the Phoenix-Perching Glazed Cup and Chaos Azure Lotus Cake to bring to their next tea gathering.
• At the Wei River, Yun Si and Yun Qing's party faced an ambush by two Dao Lords and dozens of Immortal Venerables.
• Yun Si countered the Dao Lords while the Cloud Valor Guards formed battle arrays to shield Yun Qing, suffering heavy casualties.
• Yun Si opened a path for several guards to retreat, then knocked back the red-robed Dao Lord's attack with a palm strike.

Yun Qing was captured by a hidden third Dao Lord while Yun Si was trapped fighting two others in the Eight Gods Annihilation Formation. The skeletal elder used Yun Qing as a hostage, forcing Yun Si to halt her assault as the attackers threatened his life.

• Yun Si spotted a third Dao Lord emerging from a tear in the void and shouted for Yun Qing to retreat.
• The three Dao Lords attacked, and Yun Si drove two back but could not reach Yun Qing in time.
• The skeletal Dao Lord shattered the Cloud Valor Guards’ formation, struck down their commander, and seized Yun Qing.
• Yun Si demanded that the elder release Yun Qing, but he crushed Yun Qing’s shoulder and threatened to kill him if she made a move.
• The other two Dao Lords pinned Yun Si in place while the skeletal elder held Yun Qing hostage.

Yun Qing sacrificed himself by activating the Spirit-Devouring Curse Formation so he would not remain a hostage and burden Yun Si. After his body and soul vanished, Yun Si was left grieving as Heavenly Origin rejected his true spirit.

• Yun Qing saw that the Dao Lords were using him as a hostage to distract Yun Si and decided to free her from that burden.
• Yun Qing activated the Spirit-Devouring Curse Formation he had planted on himself, preventing the Dao Lord from stopping its effects.
• Yun Qing mocked the Dao Lord and told Yun Si that the name she had given him sounded lovely before his body and divine soul disintegrated.
• Yun Si cried out for Ji Shuo as his sword fell into the Wei River and he vanished completely.
• Yun Si realized that Heavenly Origin rejected Ji Shuo's true spirit because he had not reached the Immortal Lord Realm or anchored his path in its Great Dao.

Yun Qing’s death drove Yun Si to destroy two of the Eight Directions Divine Platforms’ Dao Lords, but the battle and her search through the World Sea left her mortally injured. After Yun Si died, Ji Huang endured the threats against him and eventually became Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, awakening from his memories in Heaven Beyond Heaven.

• After Yun Qing’s True Spirit vanished beyond reach, Yun Si fought the Eight Directions Divine Platforms, killed two Dao Lords, and suffered devastating injuries.
• Ji Huang and Yun Si resumed their quiet life in the Flower Court, where she concealed the severity of her injuries and prepared for his future.
• When Ji Huang confronted Yun Si about how long she intended to live, she said she was tired and told him to walk his own path.
• Yun Si died, leaving Ji Huang alone with one teacup in the Flower Court as the Eight Directions Divine Platforms and Ji Clan moved against him.
• In Heaven Beyond Heaven, Yun Huang emerged from his memories and identified himself as Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang.

As Yun Huang’s memories and Gui Lingyue’s dream-weaving restored the last fragments of Yun Qing’s past, Yun Qing relived his existence as a little black clump of primordial qi in the Chaos Sea. The crystal completed his memories, and he finally heard the voices that had once guided him toward rebirth.

• Yun Huang’s memories flowed into the crystal above the stage, restoring the past of Ji Shuo, whose soul had been reassembled through the efforts of his relatives and Gui Lingyue.
• Gui Lingyue confirmed that Yun Qing’s memories were nearly complete and his Divine Soul had stabilized, then vanished in a shower of red petals.
• Yun Qing dreamed of drifting through the Chaos Sea as a little black clump of primordial qi, gaining awareness after seeing a vision of the immortal world.
• Little Black Blob chased and swallowed strands of gray current until he grew too heavy to float and sank into a long, unconscious silence.
• After Ten Thousand Ages, a ray of heavenly light and indistinct voices guided Little Black Blob upward, and the crystal restored those voices to Yun Qing’s memory.

Yun Che and the Yun Clan elders tried to summon Yun Si through the Soul-Tracing Secret Rite, but she did not respond, leaving their plan to guide Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang into reincarnation in jeopardy. Yun Che chose to attempt the costly rite once more, while a little black mass of qi drifted closer to the formation’s light beneath the clan.

• Yun Che and the elders activated the Soul-Tracing Secret Rite, but Yun Si gave no response despite the formation reaching its ninth layer.
• The elders worried that without Yun Si, no one could restrain Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang if he lost control after returning.
• Yun Che weighed the rite’s immense cost against the danger of abandoning the clan’s plan, then decided to try again.
• A little black mass of qi rose toward the light drawn by the formation, though it remained far from the exit.
• Yun Che restarted the formation and appealed to his aunt, saying the Yun Clan had no other choice.

Yun Che and the Yun Clan elders attempted to revive Lady Sovereign Yun Si, but the Soul-Tracing Secret Rite instead brought forth her adopted son Ji Shuo, reborn as a newborn named Yun Qing. Yun Si’s presence vanished after naming him, leaving Yun Che to wonder who would raise the child.

• Yun Che and the elders called for Yun Si to return, and the Soul-Tracing Ancient Formation responded by summoning a strange soul.
• Yun Si revealed that the soul belonged to her adopted son Ji Shuo, whom Yun Che recognized as his aunt’s son and the elder brother of His Majesty.
• Yun Che and the elders accepted Yun Si’s choice, and Ji Shuo’s soul merged into the formation as a newborn infant.
• Yun Si named the child Yun Qing and departed, while the elders welcomed him into the Yun Clan.
• Yun Che looked at the crying infant and realized no one had decided who would raise him.

Yun Qing regained his lost memories and realized Yun Si was missing after restoring them, but the Immortal Court Seal could not reach Brother Huang. He found his younger relatives unconscious and began waking them so they could help him search the Ghost Realm.

• Yun Qing recovered his memories of Yun Si, Ji Shuo, and his past as Qing Yun, then woke on the abandoned Red Gauze Opera Stage.
• Yun Qing noticed Yun Si was gone and concluded she was preparing to do something dangerous, so he tried unsuccessfully to contact Brother Huang with the Immortal Court Seal.
• Yun Qing jumped off the stage despite his weakened body and found Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, and Yun Tianluo unconscious in a heap.
• Yun Qing used the Clear-Mind Soul-Calming Art to slap Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, and Yun Tianluo awake, telling Yun Tianluo he would explain later.

Yun Qing gathered the Yun Clan and hurried toward the Nether River, while Yun Huang was blocked from entering the Ghost Realm again and forced to revisit memories of his past. The memories revealed how Azure Jade became the Immortal Court’s ceremonial sword.

• Yun Qing woke the Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan and ordered them, along with Yun Tianluo, to follow him to the Nether River, calling Yun Tianluo his cousin’s grandson.
• Yun Jinglei teased Yun Tianluo about the sudden change in his generational standing, and Yun Tianluo struck him with his folding fan.
• Yun Huang tried for a fifth time to enter the Ghost Realm, but the passage rejected him and subjected him to forced enlightenment.
• Yun Huang recalled that, after reaching the peak of power as Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, he began to think again about his mother, Yun Si, and his elder brother, Ji Shuo.
• Yun Huang took Azure Jade from his mother’s treasury and hung it in the Immortal Court’s main hall, where it became the court’s ceremonial sword.

Yun Huang realized Yun Si had likely been preventing him from entering the Ghost Realm, but the Netherworld Path vanished when he tried to cross it, and Yun Qing did not answer his calls. Concluding that the Ghost Realm had sealed itself off, Yun Huang set out for the Heavenly Origin Western Territory to open another way in.

• Yun Huang realized Yun Si might have intended to stop him from entering the Ghost Realm, and he ordered the Netherworld Path to open.
• The passage vanished, leaving Yun Huang astonished as the Ghost Realm shut him out.
• Yun Huang called Yun Qing through their karmic connection, but received no answer from beyond the Netherworld Barrier.
• Yun Huang concluded that the Ghost Realm had been completely sealed off and decided to open another path himself.
• Yun Huang headed for the Heavenly Origin Western Territory, where Yun Qing and the others had entered the Ghost Realm.

Yun Si watched Gui Lingyue perform a ghost opera as they discussed whether he had carried out her plans, while Yun Ruyi tried to keep Lin Muyao from seeing the ghost too clearly. The performance abruptly stopped at its most beautiful moment.

• Gui Lingyue performed a ghost opera for Yun Si and Yun Ruyi beside the Nether River.
• Yun Si asked Gui Lingyue whether everything was done, and he assured her it was before she accused him of secretly keeping things for himself.
• Gui Lingyue ignored Yun Si’s accusation and continued singing about parting and death.
• Lin Muyao tried to get a better view of Gui Lingyue, but Yun Ruyi pressed her back into the Fortune Pouch and warned that she might fall into the Nether River if she saw his face clearly.
• Gui Lingyue abruptly stopped spinning onstage at the height of his performance.