Recaps

After more than twenty years in seclusion, Han Li rescued a group of Azure Spirit Sect cultivators fleeing a fifth-grade fish demon and learned that a Beast Tide had transformed the Outer Sea. The chapter ended with the middle-aged cultivator telling him that the world outside now belonged to the Demon Beasts.

• Uncle-Master Sun led four young cultivators toward a mist-shrouded island while a fifth-grade fish demon pursued them.
• The group entered an Illusion Array, but the fish demon followed them to a second formation barrier.
• Han Li killed the fish demon with an azure sword strike and let the cultivators enter his valley.
• Han Li questioned Uncle-Master Sun, who explained that Demon Beasts had hunted human cultivators since the Beast Tide more than twenty years earlier.
• Uncle-Master Sun told Han Li that the world outside now belonged to the Demon Beasts.

Han Li learned that a beast tide destroyed Blackstone City and severed the route to the Inner Sea, while an unknown Nascent Soul cultivator saved many survivors and slew a level-nine flood dragon. In Tianxing City, Lin Yun met with Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing, who had found hope of escaping the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain but feared they lacked the lifespan to reach Deity Transformation.

• A middle-aged cultivator told Han Li how the beast tide destroyed Blackstone City’s teleportation array and killed the Azure Spirit Sect’s Core Formation elder during the attempted escape.
• The cultivator said an unknown Nascent Soul senior teleported many low-level cultivators and mortals to safety and later killed a level-nine flood dragon.
• Han Li learned that Man Huzi, Patriarch Extreme Yin, and other Inner Sea cultivators had been on Strange Abyss Island, while war between the Star Palace and Inverse Star Alliance kept further aid from arriving.
• Han Li dismissed the middle-aged cultivator but ordered him to keep Han Li’s identity secret; the cultivator’s daughter then begged Han Li to cure her paralyzed father.
• Lin Yun congratulated Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing on glimpsing a way to escape the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain, and they said their remaining lifespans might not be enough to reach Deity Transformation.

Lin Yun learned the location and dangers of the Ancient Teleportation Formation leading to Great Jin, then traveled to investigate it. He found that the space containing the formation would not return for another eighty-odd years.

• Ling Xiaofeng told Lin Yun where the Ancient Teleportation Formation was and warned him about the true devil qi; he gave Lin Yun a white jade token for the Star Palace elder guarding the site.
• Wen Qing asked Lin Yun to look after Ling Yuling while she and Ling Xiaofeng entered seclusion, and Lin Yun agreed.
• Lin Yun gave Ling Yuling the Sixth Turn Return-to-Elixir Method and told her to keep the secret art private.
• Lin Yun traveled to a barren island and showed the Star Palace elder his token, gaining access to the site of the formation's hidden space.
• The elder revealed that the space's entrance would not appear for another eighty-odd years, and Lin Yun realized it had been banished elsewhere until its appointed return.

Lin Yun found a concealed spirit stone mine on the barren island that would become Jade Spirit Island and gathered the strange silver sand sealing its spiritual energy. He reforged the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi with new materials, giving Silver Moon hope of temporary freedom and the treasure several additional abilities.

• Lin Yun learned the Ancient Teleportation Formation would not become accessible for more than eighty years, then left the island where it was guarded.
• A month later, Lin Yun reached the barren island north of Silver Shark Island and sent Silver Moon into its stone peak to investigate.
• Silver Moon found a high-grade spirit stone mine beneath the peak and brought Lin Yun gray-green stone containing fine silver sand that sealed spiritual energy.
• Lin Yun recognized the silver sand’s usefulness and had Silver Moon gather more of it without letting spiritual energy escape.
• Lin Yun melted down the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi and reforged it with Wu earth essence, precious materials, the silver sand, and five-element divine sand.
• Lin Yun completed the Jade Ruyi, preserving its original abilities while adding durability, speed, spiritual-energy sealing, and the power to break through five-element materials.