Recaps

Ye Fei settled into Jiang Mengyun’s Cave Abode, tended her Herb Garden, and began learning alchemy while Jiang Yiyun openly pursued him. After Jiang Mengyun advised her to improve her cultivation rather than distract him, Jiang Yiyun decided to return to Divine Feather City until she reached qi refining perfection.

• Ye Fei gave Jiang Yiyun a separate stone chamber, then watered the Herb Garden with pool water from the Azure Dragon Sword.
• Jiang Yiyun told Ye Fei that she missed him, but he hurried away to study the Alchemy Formula Jade Slip, Pill Canon, and Bronze Alchemy Furnace.
• Ye Fei memorized the alchemy instructions and practiced pill-forming hand techniques inside his Cave Abode for half a month.
• Jiang Yiyun complained that Ye Fei was avoiding her, then ran to Jiang Mengyun and asked her aunt to teach him a lesson.
• Jiang Mengyun urged Jiang Yiyun to cultivate until she reached qi refining perfection so she could enter the Divine Feather Secret Realm alongside Ye Fei.
• Jiang Yiyun agreed to return to Divine Feather City and work toward qi refining perfection.

Ye Fei used Jiang Mengyun’s earthfire to attempt alchemy, hoping to make Qi-Replenishing Pills as his first step toward refining Skin Refining Pills. After a failed first batch, he succeeded on his second attempt and ended the chapter with six pills, four lowest-grade and two low-grade.

• Ye Fei asked Jiang Mengyun for time away to use Qilin Peak’s earthfire, and she offered him a stone chamber with earthfire in her cave abode.
• Ye Fei used the Medicine God Cauldron and four spirit herbs to begin refining Qi-Replenishing Pills, but his first batch exploded when he merged the medicinal liquids incorrectly.
• Ye Fei realized he needed to merge all four liquids at the same rate, then successfully liquefied and purified the herbs and combined their medicinal liquids on his second attempt.
• Ye Fei shaped the medicinal paste into six pills and completed the final alchemy step while Jiang Mengyun watched and approved of his progress.
• Ye Fei successfully refined six pills, catching four lowest-grade pills and two low-grade pills, though he was disappointed by their quality.

Ye Fei improved his alchemy through intensive practice, then made Skin Refining Pills and followed Jiang Mengyun to Falling Waterfall Peak to begin body refinement. After enduring the waterfall for four hours while his skin repeatedly grew back and was torn away, he collapsed, leaving Jiang Mengyun unsure what to do.

• Ye Fei refined sixty batches of Qi-Replenishing Pills in two days, improving his speed and producing some middle-grade pills.
• Ye Fei refined all fifty stalks of Shipi Grass into sixty Skin Refining Pills, and Jiang Mengyun took him to Falling Waterfall Peak.
• Jiang Mengyun warned Ye Fei that a Skin Refining Pill's potency could be fatal without the waterfall's impact to aid body refinement.
• Ye Fei swallowed a Skin Refining Pill and stood beneath the waterfall, where his clothes were shredded and Jiang Mengyun saw him naked.
• Ye Fei circulated the body-refinement formula for four hours as the waterfall tore his skin and the pill's potency regenerated it, then he collapsed unconscious.
• Jiang Mengyun looked at the unconscious, naked Ye Fei and wondered what to do.

Ye Fei endured repeated rounds of waterfall training and Skin Refining Pills until he successfully tempered his skin. Jiang Mengyun confirmed his progress, and he left amazed by his newfound toughness but warned to beware of spirit artifacts.

• Jiang Mengyun gave the unconscious Ye Fei a pill, and he woke and dressed himself.
• Ye Fei returned to the waterfall with Skin Refining Pills, enduring the pain as his skin grew tougher.
• After progressing to using fifteen pills, Ye Fei found the waterfall and the pills no longer affected his skin, so Jiang Mengyun told him to stop.
• Ye Fei tested his tempered skin by dragging his magical artifact longsword across his arm, but it left no mark.
• Jiang Mengyun warned Ye Fei that spirit artifacts could still hurt him, and Ye Fei stared at her enchanting smile.

Ye Fei completed his fifth spiritual root cleansing and cultivated beneath the Azure Dragon Pool, where he reached the seventh level of Qi Refining before hitting another bottleneck. After spending vast resources on a sixth and then a seventh cleansing, he found that his cultivation still could not advance, leaving him afraid that the late stage of the seventh level was his limit.

• Jiang Mengyun brought Ye Fei back to Jade Maiden Peak after he lost control, and he set aside his confusion and entered the Azure Dragon Sword.
• Ye Fei used demon beast carcasses, spirit herbs, and two hundred lower-grade spirit stones to mature the Spirit-Washing Tree, then completed his fifth spiritual root cleansing.
• The Azure Dragon told Ye Fei he could cultivate a hundred zhang beneath the Azure Dragon Pool, where he used the dense spiritual energy to advance to the seventh level of Qi Refining over two months.
• After reaching a bottleneck, Ye Fei spent two thousand five hundred lower-grade spirit stones to mature the Spirit-Washing Tree and completed his sixth cleansing, then advanced two minor stages in three months.
• Ye Fei used more than three thousand spirit herbs to mature the tree for his seventh cleansing, but his cultivation remained stuck at the late stage of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Ye Fei returned to Hidden Dragon Village after accepting that his cultivation was blocked, hoping to visit his father. There he learned that Ye Canglong had disappeared after killing an immortal master, and Wang Lin surrounded Ye Fei and demanded to know where he was.

• Ye Fei failed to circulate true qi beyond his dantian and decided to visit Ye Canglong.
• Ye Fei tended his spirit medicines, then asked Jiang Mengyun for permission to go home; she gave him a map Jade Slip and a Golden Sword Talisman Treasure.
• Ye Fei flew north to Hidden Dragon Village and found the courtyard and wooden house where he had grown up were gone.
• Liu Dashuan recognized Ye Fei, threatened to report him to the Wang Household, and ran back toward the village.
• Wang Lin arrived with armed men and demanded to know where Ye Canglong was, claiming he had killed an immortal master and fled.

Ye Fei confronted Wang Lin and the Wang Household’s cultivator, Chen Shi, in Hidden Dragon Village and learned more about the disciple his father had killed. Chen Shi called Wang Hai for help, and Wang Hai arrived by Flying Sword to face Ye Fei.

• Wang Lin ordered his men to seize Ye Fei, but Ye Fei knocked them down with a wave of sound and let Wang Lin flee for reinforcements.
• Ye Fei learned that the men had been coerced and allowed them to stay rather than punish them.
• Chen Shi arrived from the Wang Household and claimed he was only guarding Elder Wang’s ancestral residence, while secretly sending a message for help.
• Chen Shi confirmed that Ye Canglong had killed an eighth-level Qi Refining Inner Sect Disciple after the disciple provoked him.
• Ye Fei noticed Chen Shi’s hidden actions, and Chen Shi warned that Wang Hai was coming.
• Wang Hai arrived on a Flying Sword after Chen Shi announced that he had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Ye Fei defeated Wang Hai in their rematch and killed him despite his threats. He then turned to Chen Shi and demanded to know why he had stayed in Hidden Dragon Village.

• Wang Hai attacked Ye Fei with his Long Ruler, but Ye Fei countered with the Third Sword of the Nine Leaning Luo Swords and grievously wounded him.
• Wang Hai mocked Ye Fei and challenged him again, but Ye Fei revealed two Spirit Artifact Longswords and defeated him with another strike.
• Ye Fei walked toward the helpless Wang Hai and beheaded him, then felt his cultivation bottleneck had disappeared.
• Chen Shi reacted in terror to Wang Hai's death, and Ye Fei appeared beside him, took Wang Hai's belongings, and demanded to know why Chen Shi had stayed in Hidden Dragon Village.

Ye Fei learned that the Wang Household had been secretly mining a Spirit Stone Mine beneath Hidden Dragon Village, then confronted Wang Lin and was caught in a clash between two talismans that destroyed the estate. After escaping underground with the Wang Household’s and Chen Shi’s treasures, Ye Fei prepared to search the mine, but an enraged voice demanded to know who had annihilated the Wang Household.

• Chen Shi revealed that Wang Changqing had kept the Spirit Stone Mine beneath Hidden Dragon Village as private property, and Ye Fei killed Chen Shi after taking his map and Storage Pouch.
• Ye Fei spared the laborers and pursued Wang Lin, who had fled to the Wang Household Estate and retrieved a powerful Talisman Paper.
• Wang Lin attacked Ye Fei with a Giant Sword formed by the talisman, and Ye Fei used his Jade Talisman to counter it.
• The two attacks exploded, leveling the Wang Household Estate and killing everyone inside while Ye Fei survived with minor injuries.
• Ye Fei used the Earth Escape Technique, collected Chen Shi’s and Wang Hai’s Storage Pouches, and counted thousands of Spirit Stones among their contents.
• As Ye Fei studied the mine map and prepared to dig deeper, an enraged voice demanded to know who had annihilated the Wang Household.

Ye Fei hid inside the Azure Dragon Sword, broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, and waited for a chance to steal the Spirit Stones mined by Void-Surpassing Gate disciples. Just as he prepared to seize the accumulated Storage Pouches, a mocking voice called out Wang Changqing from above.

• Ye Fei escaped Wang Changqing's divine sense by hiding inside the Azure Dragon Sword and cultivated underground until he broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
• Wang Changqing searched the area, then reported the Spirit Stone mine to the Void-Surpassing Gate, whose disciples arrived and began mining.
• Ye Fei found the disciples and their Storage Pouches, but chose to wait rather than risk being discovered by a stronger cultivator.
• As the mined Spirit Stones accumulated to more than a hundred thousand, Ye Fei learned the disciples had finished mining and prepared to take the pouches by force.
• A strange voice mocked Wang Changqing from above the cave abode, and Ye Fei recognized it with shock.

Ye Fei used Deng Chao’s distraction to steal more than thirty Storage Pouches of Spirit Stones from Wang Changqing’s cave. In Linwu Town, Deng Chao revealed that Ye Fei was the son of his master, Ye Canglong.

• Deng Chao appeared and challenged Wang Changqing, drawing his attention away from the disciples.
• While the disciples watched the fight, Ye Fei hid the Storage Pouches inside the Azure Dragon Sword and escaped south.
• Wang Changqing discovered the Storage Pouches were gone and, fearing a nascent soul powerhouse had taken them, returned to the Void-Surpassing Gate.
• Ye Fei flew to Linwu Town and found Deng Chao at a roadside stall, where Deng Chao said Ye Fei was his master’s son.
• Deng Chao named Ye Canglong as his master, leaving Ye Fei astonished that he was truly his father’s disciple.

Ye Fei learned from Deng Chao that his father was his master and that his mother, Fairy Luo Yue, had ascended to the Upper Realm. After hearing about the approaching Divine Feather Secret Realm, Ye Fei returned to the Free and Easy Gate, where Jiang Mengyun asked him to take her inside.

• Deng Chao told Ye Fei that his father was his master, though he did not know where Ye Canglong was or how to contact him.
• Deng Chao revealed that Ye Fei's mother was Fairy Luo Yue, the former strongest person in the Divine Feather Kingdom, and that she had ascended over a decade earlier.
• Deng Chao warned Ye Fei to reach the peak of Qi Refining before the Divine Feather Secret Realm opened in less than half a year, and gave him a Voice Transmission Jade Plaque.
• Ye Fei returned to Jade Maiden Peak at the Free and Easy Gate ten days later.
• Jiang Mengyun asked Ye Fei to take her into the Divine Feather Secret Realm.

Ye Fei agreed to enter the Divine Feather Secret Realm so Jiang Mengyun could search for the soul-devouring ganoderma, and she gave him Azure Cloud Pills to prepare. After cleansing his spiritual root twice and counting his Spirit Stones, Ye Fei began cultivating with a pill, leaving him to build strength before the realm opened.

• Jiang Mengyun explained that qi refining cultivators needed the Divine Feather Secret Realm’s mortal-cleansing herb to reach foundation establishment and said she planned to seek the soul-devouring ganoderma there.
• Ye Fei agreed to enter the secret realm, and Jiang Mengyun gave him Azure Cloud Pills with four months remaining until it opened.
• Ye Fei tended the Herb Garden, returned to his cave abode, and counted 123,500 Spirit Stones inside the Azure Dragon Sword.
• Ye Fei spent nearly eight thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones to complete two more spiritual root cleansings, enduring severe pain during the ninth cleansing.
• Ye Fei took an Azure Cloud Pill and circulated the Free and Easy True Formula, rapidly converting its medicinal power into true qi.

Ye Fei advanced to the peak of the qi refining ninth layer, began refining true spirit pills, and learned that the Yinluo Banner could help secure the God-Devouring Zhi. He went to Divine Feather Peak to meet fellow secret-realm entrants, where a white-clad young man called Du Yuan over before he could answer Ye Fei’s question.

• Ye Fei cultivated with Azure Cloud Pills for two months and reached the peak of the qi refining ninth layer.
• Ye Fei practiced alchemy for a month and refined his first batch of genuine low-grade Qi-Replenishing Pills.
• Jiang Mengyun explained that the Yinluo Banner would be useful against low-level yin souls while obtaining the God-Devouring Zhi, and Ye Fei handed it to her.
• Jiang Mengyun urged Ye Fei to visit Divine Feather Peak and meet other elite disciples before the secret realm opened.
• Ye Fei saw more than eighty late-stage qi refining disciples sparring at Divine Feather Square and met Du Yuan, who asked if he was entering the secret realm.
• A handsome young man in white summoned Du Yuan before he could answer Ye Fei’s question.

Ye Fei stepped in to protect Du Yuan from Jiang Feng and challenged Jiang Feng to a public spar. Ye Fei effortlessly defeated Jiang Feng’s attacks, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Jiang Feng tried to force Du Yuan into another spar, but Ye Fei offered to fight Du Yuan instead and Du Yuan accepted.
• Jiang Feng challenged Ye Fei and agreed that if he lost, he would apologize to Du Yuan; the crowd gathered to witness the match.
• Jiang Feng thrust his longsword at Ye Fei’s heart, but Ye Fei blocked it with his arm and sent Jiang Feng staggering backward.
• Jiang Feng unleashed Thousand-Blade Slash, but Ye Fei’s Golden Goose Across the Sky shattered the sword shadows and drove Sword Qi toward him.
• Ye Fei dispelled the Sword Qi before it struck Jiang Feng, and the square fell silent at his display of power.

Ye Fei defeated Jiang Feng with his bare fists and learned that his mixed spiritual roots and body cultivation helped explain his strength. Jiang Mengyun also revealed that the Nine Leaning Luo Swords he bought cheaply was Luo Ying’s supreme technique.

• Jiang Feng challenged Ye Fei again, but Ye Fei shattered his three attacks with his fists, forcing Jiang Feng to concede and apologize to Du Yuan.
• Ye Fei praised Du Yuan for standing up for himself, then spoke with the disciples preparing to enter the Divine Feather Secret Realm and confirmed he would join them.
• Ye Fei asked Jiang Mengyun why he was stronger than other Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators, and she explained the advantages of cultivating both qi and body with multiple spiritual roots.
• Jiang Mengyun told Ye Fei that magic treasures and secret arts also shaped a cultivator’s strength, and revealed that the Nine Leaning Luo Swords was Luo Ying’s supreme technique.

Ye Fei visited Luo Ying before the trip to the Divine Feather Secret Realm and received several protective treasures from her and Ning Siyu. After training with the gifts, he prepared to leave for Divine Feather Valley with Jiang Mengyun, keeping their plan secret from Jiang Yiyun.

• Jiang Mengyun urged Ye Fei to visit Luo Ying, so he flew to Green Bamboo Peak and met Ning Siyu.
• Luo Ying gave Ye Fei the Elephant Armor Art and Shadowless Boots, while Ning Siyu lent him her Vajra Umbrella.
• Ye Fei refined the Vajra Umbrella and Shadowless Boots, tested the boots’ speed, and began cultivating the Elephant Armor Art.
• After twenty days, Jiang Mengyun reminded Ye Fei to keep his promise to take her into the secret realm and told him not to tell Jiang Yiyun.
• Jiang Mengyun said she would enter the Azure Dragon Sword before they set out, and Jiang Yiyun arrived at Ye Fei’s cave abode.

Ye Fei accompanied Jiang Yiyun to Sunset Peak for the journey to the Divine Feather Secret Realm, where Luo Ying gave him a map and the unique jade plaque needed to enter the Formation God Hall. The group set out aboard Luo Ying’s flying ship, with Ye Fei tasked to retrieve something from the hall after entering the secret realm.

• Jiang Yiyun visited Ye Fei, showed off her changed appearance, and later left with Jiang Mengyun.
• Jiang Mengyun told Ye Fei to escort Jiang Yiyun to Sunset Peak, then secretly followed and entered the Azure Dragon Sword.
• At Sunset Peak, Jiang Yiyun reassured the disciples that her Scent-Concealing Armor would keep Demon Beasts from being drawn to her.
• True Person Qinghuai assembled the disciples, and Luo Ying brought them aboard a flying ship bound for the secret realm.
• Luo Ying gave Ye Fei a map and the purple jade plaque, telling him to enter the Formation God Hall and retrieve something.

Luo Ying told Ye Fei to enter the Divine Feather Secret Realm and retrieve the Array Canon and Super Array Disk from Formation God Hall, explaining that his father had opened its entrance but never entered. After arriving at Divine Feather Valley, Ye Fei saw a graceful figure aboard an approaching flying ship and wondered if she had come too.

• Luo Ying revealed that Ye Fei's father had lost his sight while breaking through Medicine God Hall's entrance array and assigned Ye Fei to finish his task at Formation God Hall.
• Luo Ying explained that Ye Fei needed to retrieve the Array Canon and Super Array Disk before seeking the God-Devouring Zhi, then helped him study the secret realm's map.
• Ye Fei memorized the map during the journey, and Luo Ying's flying ship reached Divine Feather Valley two days later.
• Luo Ying gave the disciples Storage Pouches with Locator Jade Disks and map Jade Slips, then handed Ye Fei a Storage Ring to hold the sect's harvest.
• Ye Fei inspected the empty Storage Ring and noticed a graceful figure on a rapidly approaching flying ship, wondering if she had come too.

Ye Fei saw Liu Qianqian again as cultivators gathered outside Divine Feather Valley, where Luo Ying and Huo Qiuyang’s sect leaders exchanged threats. When the secret realm opened, Ye Fei entered and found himself alone in a quiet forest before discovering an unfamiliar white-robed woman inside the Azure Dragon Sword.

• Ye Fei recognized Liu Qianqian, his former childhood sweetheart, and she was shocked to see him at the ninth Qi Refining layer.
• Luo Ying explained to Ye Fei that cultivators had to compete for scarce resources, and Ye Fei decided he would not give up.
• Huo Qiuyang challenged Ye Fei outside the Free and Easy Gate’s ship, but Luo Ying subdued him with spiritual pressure before his father intervened.
• Luo Ying and the Rakshasa Gate’s sect leader traded threats about what would happen inside the secret realm.
• After the Five-Colored Light Gate opened, Ye Fei entered the secret realm with the Free and Easy Gate’s disciples and arrived alone in a silent forest.
• Ye Fei entered the Azure Dragon Sword and found an unfamiliar white-robed woman beside the Azure Dragon Pool.

Ye Fei and Jiang Mengyun traveled to the Formation God Hall and entered its central octagonal tower. The tower sealed itself behind them, leaving them trapped inside.

• Jiang Mengyun removed her Human-Skin Mask, and Ye Fei brought her out of the Azure Dragon Sword into the Divine Feather Secret Realm.
• Jiang Mengyun led Ye Fei southeast toward the Formation God Hall, using her divine sense to avoid other people.
• Jiang Mengyun guided Ye Fei through a concealed passage in a cliff and used his purple Jade Plaque to open the protective formation.
• Ye Fei and Jiang Mengyun reached a meadow and entered the six-story octagonal tower, which Jiang Mengyun identified as the place holding what they sought.
• The tower doors shut behind them, and Ye Fei found that the entrance had vanished into a seamless wall.

Ye Fei and Jiang Mengyun discovered that the Octagonal Tower trapped them until they passed its trials, then deciphered the first floor’s shattered characters. As the tower sent a painful stream of insight into Ye Fei, Jiang Mengyun used a peculiar fragrance to distract him.

• Jiang Mengyun and Ye Fei learned from the wall inscriptions that they had to pass five trials to escape the six-floor Array God Tower.
• After two days of fruitless study, Ye Fei realized the black runes were pieces of characters cut apart by a sword.
• Ye Fei and Jiang Mengyun assembled the fragments into golden characters, which transformed into a strand of light and entered Ye Fei’s mind.
• Ye Fei cried out in agony as the golden strand poured into him, and Jiang Mengyun tried to help him endure the pain.
• Jiang Mengyun removed one of her undergarments beneath her robe, releasing a fragrance that made Ye Fei stop crying and stare at her in a daze.

Ye Fei studied the formation insights forced into his Sea of Consciousness and used them to break through the barriers blocking the staircase in the Array God Tower. He and Jiang Mengyun reached the third floor, where another puzzle awaited and Jiang Mengyun worried that Ye Fei would have to receive more insights.

• Ye Fei grabbed Jiang Mengyun while dazed by the incoming insights, and she kicked him into the tower wall before the golden thread disappeared into his brow.
• Jiang Mengyun gave the unconscious Ye Fei a pill, and he pretended to struggle with pain as they climbed to the second floor.
• Ye Fei studied the formation knowledge in his Sea of Consciousness and learned how to break the barriers covering the stairs.
• Ye Fei broke the barriers in two batches, digesting the remaining insights between them, and reached the third floor with Jiang Mengyun.
• Ye Fei found that the third floor resembled the first, and Jiang Mengyun worried that he would have to receive insights again.

Ye Fei and Jiang Mengyun climbed the Array God Tower, where Ye Fei received more formation insights and nearly lost control while absorbing them. He stopped himself from crossing a line with Jiang Mengyun, then passed out, leaving her troubled as he began crying out in pain again.

• Jiang Mengyun failed to move the third-floor text fragments, so Ye Fei pieced them together and endured the painful reception of the Array God’s legacy.
• Jiang Mengyun went up to the fourth floor, where Ye Fei studied his insights, passed the formation test, and reached the fifth floor.
• Ye Fei and Jiang Mengyun pieced together the fifth-floor characters, and Ye Fei suffered far worse pain as he received the insights.
• When Jiang Mengyun tried to support him, Ye Fei pulled her into his embrace and grabbed her, but he came to his senses after seeing her tear and pushed her away.
• Ye Fei passed out after the golden light vanished, while Jiang Mengyun waited beside him and wondered how she could face him.
• Ye Fei suddenly cried out in pain again as Jiang Mengyun sat beside him.

Ye Fei endured the pain of digesting the energy from the fifth floor, then broke the formations on the Array God Tower’s sixth floor and collected the Array Canon and three formation discs. He and Jiang Mengyun left the tower and traveled to gather mortal-cleansing herbs before heading to Soul-Devouring Valley.

• Ye Fei digested the energy that had nearly overwhelmed his Sea of Consciousness and followed Jiang Mengyun to the sixth floor of the Array God Tower.
• Ye Fei used his new formation knowledge to break the barriers and take the Array Canon and the Defense, Attack, and Time formation discs.
• Ye Fei searched the valley’s empty pavilions, found Jiang Mengyun by the five-colored barrier, and left with her.
• Jiang Mengyun told Ye Fei they would gather mortal-cleansing herb before going to Soul-Devouring Valley, then flew with him to a dense forest.
• Jiang Mengyun pointed out a patch of mortal-cleansing herbs and told Ye Fei to gather some and try transplanting them into the Azure Dragon Sword.