Recaps

Shi Qingyun emerged from the magma and fought the treasure-seeking crowd, killing many while completing a formation beneath them. He activated the formation’s Ice Shackles technique, trapping the remaining attackers in a moonlit expanse of water.

• Shi Qingyun burst from the magma wearing a mask and carrying two swords, then killed a saber-wielding attacker who demanded his treasure.
• The crowd charged Shi Qingyun together, and he used Eight Directions Step to evade their attacks and kill many of them.
• As the attackers burned their blood essence and pressed their assault, Shi Qingyun retreated to a stone pillar and declared that the formation was ready.
• Shi Qingyun transformed his swords into the Two Worlds Fan and activated Myriad Encompassment · Supreme Yin Limitless · Ice Shackles.
• The formation trapped the attackers in a vast expanse of water beneath a bright moon, and Shi Qingyun commanded it to crush them.

Shi Qingyun killed Shi Hong after surviving the attack, then waited at Godfall Mountain for powerful cultivators drawn by the deaths of their clansmen and rumors of treasure. As they tried to seize him and claim his body, he activated a formation fueled by the corpses, and the elder lunged to stop him.

• Shi Qingyun caught Shi Hong's arrow, then killed him when he begged for mercy.
• Several powerful Inscription Realm cultivators arrived, and a white-bearded elder recognized a dead clansman among the bodies and blamed Shi Qingyun.
• The newcomers argued over the treasure, while the elder offered to search Shi Qingyun's soul and secretly planned to possess his body.
• Shi Qingyun completed the runes he had been laying into the ground and rose under the elder's pressure.
• Shi Qingyun activated a vast formation that drained the corpses into skeletons and gathered their energy in blood-red runes.
• The elder formed a giant golden hand and clawed toward Shi Qingyun as someone shouted that he was escaping.

After escaping the explosion at Godfall Mountain, Shi Qingyun survived his journey through the void with Little White’s help and recovered from his injuries. He learned that he had gained a remnant Qilin technique, then set out for the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

• Shi Qingyun emerged from the void ten thousand li from Godfall Mountain, where Little White dragged him from the river and fed him its five-colored blood to revive him.
• The Stone Emperor suppressed the Azure Flame beneath Godfall Mountain and found nothing left at the site of the explosion.
• Shi Qingyun awoke beneath a tree and used his divine power to heal himself and Little White, while energy from his cultivation accelerated their recovery.
• Shi Qingyun realized the Sacrifice Formation had transported him far away, judged that using it again was too dangerous for his body, and recognized that he had comprehended a Qilin Remnant Move.
• After healing further and checking his map, Shi Qingyun confirmed he was still in the Stone Kingdom and used the Eight Directions Step to travel toward the Imperial Capital.

Shi Qingyun arrived at Deer-Chasing Academy with the War Goddess and was accepted by its Mountain Master, who sensed an approaching calamity. After leaving the hall, Shi Qingyun faced Tuoba Qing’s demand to stay away from the War Goddess.

• Shi Qingyun returned to the Imperial Capital, visited No-Envy Pavilion hoping to thank Demoness, and found she had already left.
• The War Goddess found Shi Qingyun and took him to Deer-Chasing Academy, where the disciples warmly welcomed her.
• The War Goddess introduced Shi Qingyun to the Mountain Master and explained that he wanted to join the academy.
• The Mountain Master accepted Shi Qingyun and directed him to study at the Book Repository, then reflected on a coming great calamity.
• Tuoba Qing’s lackeys confronted Shi Qingyun and warned him to stay away from the War Goddess, and Tuoba Qing demanded that he understand their meaning.

A year after joining the Deer-Chasing Academy, Shi Qingyun strengthened his cultivation and mastered new uses of his lightning techniques. After learning that the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land was burning, he reflected on his next breakthrough, then caught an arrow bearing a message demanding his return.

• Shi Qingyun manifested ten Yin-Yang Cave Heavens, absorbed their Yin-Yang qi, and promised Little White more the next time he activated his Dao Body.
• Shi Qingyun trained in a storm, using lightning to cultivate the Thunderbird Precious Technique and enhance his Eight Directions Step and qilin strike.
• Shi Qingyun asked academy disciples about the burning of the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land, then left to consider the year he had spent cultivating and his approaching Spirit Transformation Realm breakthrough.
• An arrow wrapped in golden light flew toward Shi Qingyun, who caught it and watched its runes form several lines of text.

Shi Qingyun confronted Tuoba Hai and his masked followers outside the Deer-Chasing Academy, defeating them with his lightning powers and Two Worlds Fan. After killing Tuoba Hai, he sensed a shackle on himself and decided to find the woman who had helped him.

• Shi Qingyun left the Deer-Chasing Academy after deciding to settle matters with Tuoba Hai.
• Tuoba Hai and his men waited in the mountains, posing as bandits to conceal their ties to the Tuoba Family.
• Shi Qingyun dodged Tuoba Hai's opening attack and destroyed the rhinoceros summoned by his Precious Technique.
• Shi Qingyun fought off Tuoba Hai's followers, killed one of them, and wounded Tuoba Hai in their clash.
• Shi Qingyun appeared behind Tuoba Hai and stabbed through his torso before he could finish charging up, killing him.
• Shi Qingyun sensed a shackle on himself and vanished, intending to find the woman who had helped him.

Shi Qingyun used the Yin-Yang terrain at a lake between a snowy mountain and a volcano to draw on its forces and attempt to break through the limit of the Cave Heaven realm. He completed the formation and summoned two enormous dragons, then began drawing his ten Cave Heavens together as heavenly might gathered overhead.

• Shi Qingyun met the Demoness at the No-Envy Tower, received a map to a Yin-Yang convergence site, and promised to repay her two favors.
• Shi Qingyun reached the lake between the snowy mountain and volcano and used his divine power to calm its volatile energy.
• Shi Qingyun formed a Yin-Yang formation around the lake and meditated, drawing in the world's Dao essence through his ten Cave Heavens.
• Shi Qingyun broke the chains of Yin-Yang Qi around himself and declared that his own momentum would move the momentum of heaven and earth.
• Shi Qingyun's formation awakened two enormous red and gold dragons from the mountains, while storms gathered above the lake.
• Shi Qingyun joined his hands and began drawing his ten Cave Heavens together as the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram faded and the lake became still.

Shi Qingyun shattered his ten cave heavens and merged their fragments into a Taiji Cave Heaven, surviving the transformation as his Dao Body healed and his protective formation broke. He then faced the descending Thunder Dragons with his new power, turning the surrounding area pitch-black as time seemed to slow.

• Shi Qingyun endured the collision of his Yin-Yang Cave Heavens and shattered them one by one while lightning and dragons fought overhead.
• Shi Qingyun’s cave heaven fragments assembled into a Chaos Cave Heaven, which merged with his Taiji Dao Diagram to form a Taiji Cave Heaven.
• A White-Robed Immortal entered the Yin-Yang Fish, sending distilled cultivation insights into Shi Qingyun’s mind as his Dao Body transformed and healed.
• Shi Qingyun’s formation shattered, the Golden-Red Twin Dragons exploded, and the Thunder Dragons descended toward him.
• Shi Qingyun summoned his Taiji Cave Heaven and turned the area pitch-black, slowing the wind and seemingly slowing time.