Recaps

Di Yi led Shi Yunfeng and the Stone Village group through the Great Wilderness, where they witnessed its dangers and learned a technique for escaping through the void from a pursuing Mottled Tiger. After the Mottled Tiger finally fled, the group continued onward, still relying on Di Yi and the Golden Hou to survive the journey.

• An enormous underground creature split the mountains as it emerged, but the Golden Hou roared and drove it away.
• Shi Yunfeng and the others steeled themselves to continue after seeing how dangerous the Great Wilderness was.
• Shi Yunfeng told Di Yi that the Mottled Tiger had resumed its pursuit, and Di Yi encouraged the group to keep studying its void-tearing technique.
• The Golden Hou fought the Mottled Tiger until it fled through the void, while Shi Yunfeng and the others confirmed they had learned most of its precious technique.
• Di Yi led the group onward through the Great Wilderness, where even the Golden Hou sometimes encountered creatures it could not defeat.

Di Yi led Shi Yunfeng and the others out of the Great Wilderness toward Cloud-Rushing Town on the Stone Kingdom's border. After merchants mistook the Golden Hou for an unusual dog, the group continued toward the town, where strangers from a prince or lord's residence were seeking rare beasts.

• Di Yi led Shi Yunfeng and the others through the Endless Mountains, where they mastered the Mottled Tiger's precious technique and neared the Western Frontier's border.
• Shi Yunfeng spoke with villagers and traveling merchants, learning that they had reached the Stone Kingdom's borderlands near Cloud-Rushing Town.
• The merchants warned that Cloud-Rushing Town faced attacks and that strangers from a prince or lord's residence were hunting rare beasts, including animals like the Golden Hou.
• When Di Yi suggested the Golden Hou was a Golden Hou, the merchants laughed and showed him a bamboo scroll depicting a different creature as a hou.
• Di Yi concluded that the Golden Hou's identity was less likely to cause trouble outside the Great Wilderness, and he led the group toward Cloud-Rushing Town.

Shi Yunfeng and the others arrived at Cloud-Rushing Town and parted from Di Yi, who left the Golden Hou at a care station. Meanwhile, Yu Qing and his companions learned of the Golden Hou and decided to seize it as a gift for a cherished jewel of their clan.

• Shi Yunfeng and the others reached Cloud-Rushing Town and marveled at its imposing walls.
• The city guards let Di Yi enter but required him to leave the Golden Hou at a designated care station.
• Di Yi parted from Shi Yunfeng and the others to explore the town and seek information about cultivation methods.
• Yu Qing berated the slightly plump middle-aged man for failing to find information about vicious beasts and Primordial Remnants.
• A second young man suggested finding a cute animal instead, and the middle-aged man reported that an unusual golden dog had arrived in town.
• Yu Qing and the others decided to take the Golden Hou as a gift, and Yu Qing ordered the middle-aged man to arrange it.

Di Yi learned about the Stone Kingdom’s many cultivation factions in Cloud-Rushing Town, then went to meet a wealthy man who wanted to buy the Golden Hou. When Di Yi refused and tried to leave with the Golden Hou, the man’s subordinates surrounded him.

• Di Yi asked a restaurant waiter about nearby cultivation academies and heard about the Martial Hall, End Point Academy, Xiao Academy, and many prominent factions farther inland.
• Town guards told Di Yi that an important man wanted to buy the Golden Hou, and Di Yi went to meet him.
• The slightly plump middle-aged man offered Di Yi fierce beast blood essence and his friendship in exchange for the Golden Hou.
• Di Yi rejected the offer and led the Golden Hou away, so the man ordered his subordinates to surround him.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou killed a Rain Clan retainer and his men after they tried to seize the Golden Hou. Yu Qing learned that Di Yi’s companions had gone to the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land and planned to use the Rain Clan’s Treasure Tool and the city lord to capture Di Yi.

• The slightly plump middle-aged man ordered his men to attack Di Yi and take the Golden Hou.
• The Golden Hou killed the men at the front with lightning, and Di Yi killed the middle-aged man with a punch that shattered a hill.
• Di Yi and the Golden Hou left the scene as city guards arrived and sensed trouble ahead.
• Yu Qing learned that the dead man represented the Rain Clan and that the killer’s name was Di Yi.
• Yu Qing’s men reported that Di Yi’s companions had entered the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land and might be linked to its lost First Ancestral Land.
• Yu Qing decided to enlist the city lord and use the Rain Clan’s Treasure Tool to capture Di Yi.

Di Yi continued toward the Central Giant City, but the Cloud-Rushing Town City Lord’s soldiers ambushed him over the death of a Rain Clan member. When they attacked despite Di Yi’s explanation, the Golden Hou wiped them out, leaving their fate clear.

• Di Yi decided to head for the Central Giant City to find routes and travelers who could help him reach the major academies.
• Yu Qing persuaded the City Lord to arrest Di Yi, claiming the Rain Clan deserved justice for a man Di Yi had killed.
• The City Lord’s commander confronted Di Yi and accused him of killing a man and fleeing, but dismissed Di Yi’s claim of self-defense.
• The commander ordered his troops to attack Di Yi, and the Golden Hou unleashed a burst of power that annihilated them.

The City Lord and Yu Qing framed Di Yi as a foreign spy and summoned Cloud-Rushing Town’s sacrificial spirit to support their attack. Di Yi and the Golden Hou resisted their powerful treasured arts, and Di Yi revealed a Fierce Bird art as the battle continued.

• After the Golden Hou wiped out the soldiers, the City Lord agreed with Yu Qing to portray Di Yi as a foreign spy and seek help from Cloud-Rushing Town’s sacrificial spirit.
• Cloud-Rushing Town’s sacrificial spirit received the City Lord’s message and sent a streak of crimson light toward them.
• The City Lord and Yu Qing’s group reached Di Yi and attacked him without warning.
• The City Lord empowered his Fierce Tiger art with bone beads, while Yu Qing and the others unleashed a rain-based treasured art against Di Yi and the Golden Hou.
• The Golden Hou countered the Fierce Tiger with lightning, and Di Yi manifested a Fierce Bird through a treasured art.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou overwhelmed the middle-aged City Lord and Yu Qing’s group, revealing Di Yi’s strength in the blood moving extreme realm. Di Yi ended the fight by killing the City Lord with one punch before the Rain Clan’s fighters could complete their array.

• The Golden Hou shattered the middle-aged City Lord’s Fierce Tiger technique with a thunderous attack, forcing him to rely on his Treasure Tool.
• Di Yi’s rain pierced Di Yi’s opponents’ bird manifestation, leading Yu Qing to conclude that Di Yi had reached the blood moving extreme realm.
• Yu Qing and the Rain Clan fighters decided to form an array and kill Di Yi rather than risk letting him live or reporting his identity to the clan.
• Di Yi realized his precious technique lacked power against opponents with higher cultivation and chose to end the battle directly.
• Di Yi reached the middle-aged City Lord and destroyed his Fierce Tiger and Bone Beads with one punch, killing him before Yu Qing’s group finished forming their array.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou defeated Yu Qing and the Rain Clan group after Di Yi used true understanding to study their Nine Heavens of the Rain Path. As they left the ruined mountain ridge, a crimson sword struck at Di Yi, and he turned toward Cloud-Rushing Town.

• Yu Qing and the others sacrificed their lives to unleash the Rain Clan’s Nine Heavens of the Rain Path against Di Yi.
• The Golden Hou’s thunder pool overwhelmed the first two heavens, while Di Yi studied the technique’s runes and understood its essence.
• The Golden Hou unleashed its full power, shattered the rain-curtain realm, and killed Yu Qing and the others with lightning.
• Di Yi lamented that the Golden Hou had ended the battle before he could study more of the technique, then said he could deduce its remaining runes.
• A crimson sword streaked toward Di Yi’s skull, but he intercepted it, then looked toward Cloud-Rushing Town.

Di Yi confronted Cloud-Rushing Town's Sacrificial Spirit, explained that false information had led to attacks on him, and continued traveling after the misunderstanding was resolved. Beyond the town, he and the Golden Hou encountered a great bird and a group that appeared to be hunting it, then moved on through the Great Wilderness.

• Cloud-Rushing Town's Sacrificial Spirit questioned Di Yi, who explained why people in the town had attacked him.
• Cloud-Rushing Town's Sacrificial Spirit accepted Di Yi's account, promised to resolve the matter, and withdrew its divine sense as Di Yi departed.
• Di Yi restrained the Golden Hou from attacking a peaceful great bird flying above them.
• Di Yi spotted people riding a giant feather and flying nearby, apparently pursuing the great bird, and guessed they might be after its eggs.
• Di Yi reflected that life beyond the Great Wilderness was not much different and continued onward with the Golden Hou.

Di Yi reached the mountains around the Heaven Mending Pavilion after a month of traveling and learning about the Stone Kingdom. He felt reassured by the Pavilion’s reputation and the kindness it showed local villagers as he continued toward it with the Golden Hou.

• Di Yi chose the Heaven Mending Pavilion and walked more than eight hundred thousand li to reach its mountain region.
• Di Yi saw disciples and visitors arriving on fierce beasts and spirit birds, including a dragon elephant, a Five-Colored Peacock, and a royal carriage from the Fire Kingdom.
• Passersby wondered why so many powerful clans and royal families had arrived at once, and Di Yi suspected a major event was drawing them together.
• Di Yi heard villagers praise the Heaven Mending Pavilion for letting them enjoy its spiritually rich lands and decided he had chosen a good place.

Di Yi reached the Heaven Mending Pavilion and tried to explain that he had come to join it, but the old man at the mountain gate doubted his claims. Di Yi finally said he had come to visit younger siblings, and the old man invited him to meet the children sent by the Fire Kingdom.

• Di Yi reached the Heaven Mending Pavilion's boundary and admired its vast stores of old medicinal plants and spirit plants.
• At the mountain gate, the old man warned Di Yi not to touch the plants and assumed he had come to support younger siblings.
• Di Yi said he wanted to join the Heaven Mending Pavilion, but the old man disbelieved him after seeing his strength and the Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique.
• Di Yi insisted he was only in the Blood Moving Realm and was not from the Fire Kingdom, but the old man accused him of lacking integrity.
• Di Yi claimed he had come to visit younger siblings, and the old man offered to take him to see the promising children sent by the Fire Kingdom.
• Di Yi replied that the old man might be disappointed, prompting him to ask why.

Di Yi accompanied an elder to the Primordial Battlefield to watch the trials, where he revealed that he could see through the runic barrier hiding the candidates. His ability shocked the assembled clans and sects, while the elder began doubting his assumption that Di Yi was from the Fire Kingdom and related to its young prodigies.

• The elder explained that Di Yi's younger siblings were competing for places in the Ancient Sacred Academy, and Di Yi asked whether he could enter the academy or cultivate in the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• The elder led Di Yi to the Primordial Battlefield, where representatives of powerful clans and sects waited outside the ongoing trials.
• Di Yi saw through the runic barrier and identified a Wood Clan genius and the Blazing Sun Marquis Estate's daughter fighting a flood dragon.
• The assembled observers were alarmed that Di Yi could see through a barrier made by the Sacrificial Spirit without using a Precious Technique or spiritual heavenly eye.
• Di Yi spotted a Fire Kingdom girl performing a Precious Technique, and the elder admitted he might have been wrong about Di Yi being from the Fire Kingdom or having younger siblings among the candidates.

Di Yi’s revelation that he knew the Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique stirred the Fire Kingdom’s people, who considered recruiting him rather than confronting him. Huo Yun'e introduced herself to Di Yi and began asking about his connection to the Fire Kingdom.

• Di Yi told Elder Gu that his unusual strength came from being different, leaving the gathered clans and sects astonished.
• The Fire Kingdom’s people suspected Di Yi knew their exclusive Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique and debated whether he might belong to their imperial family.
• Huo Yun'e decided the Fire Kingdom should win Di Yi over, and her younger brother teased her about seeming lovestruck.
• Elder Gu left to check on the third battlefield’s results after telling Di Yi he would return to discuss his admission to the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Huo Yun'e introduced herself to Di Yi, learned his name, and asked whether he and Elder Gu had misunderstood each other about his origins.

Di Yi rejected Huo Yun'e’s attempt to link him to the Fire Kingdom through the Precious Technique he learned in Stone Village, insisting the matter had nothing to do with him. As the trial at the Third Primordial Battlefield ended and the clans gathered to claim resources for the Ancient Sacred Academy, Huo Yun'e planned to keep trying to get close to him.

• Huo Yun'e suggested Di Yi might belong to a distant branch of the Fire Kingdom because he had learned its supreme Precious Technique, but Di Yi said he came from another world.
• Di Yi considered whether the technique came from Stone Village’s great black cauldron, then told Huo Yun'e that its possible connection to the Fire Kingdom had nothing to do with him.
• Huo Yun'e’s younger brother teased her about failing to win Di Yi over, and she said she had plenty of time to pursue him.
• The Third Primordial Battlefield trial ended, and Heaven Mending Pavilion elders praised the strong children who had earned places.
• The clans and great sects gathered to support their descendants and secure the best resources at the Ancient Sacred Academy, while Huo Yun'e told her brother she had a clever plan to approach Di Yi.

Di Yi sought admission to the Heaven Mending Pavilion, and the white-haired elder accepted him despite being unable to teach him directly. The elder brought Di Yi to the Genius Camp, where he would live, and began showing him around the Pavilion.

• The white-haired elder described the Ancient Sacred Academy and its chaotic path, which Di Yi hoped to visit someday.
• Di Yi asked to join the Heaven Mending Pavilion and explained that he had only recently learned about cultivation and knew little beyond basic blood moving cultivation.
• When Di Yi turned to leave after the elder hesitated, the elder accepted him as a Pavilion member, granting him access to restricted grounds and the scripture repository but assigning him no instructor.
• The elder brought Di Yi to the Genius Camp, explained that it housed talented cultivators from the great tribes, and began guiding him around the Pavilion.

Di Yi studied the cultivation realms and broke through from the Blood Moving Realm to the Cave Heaven Realm, opening four Cave Heavens before ten mysterious true spirits awakened in his Sea of Potential and manifested six more. The Golden Hou sensed the spirits’ terrifying power and trembled in fear.

• Di Yi reviewed the cultivation stages and concluded that the six mortal realms formed the path toward godhood.
• Di Yi chose a quiet spot beneath the moon and advanced into the Cave Heaven Realm after perfecting his Blood Moving cultivation.
• Di Yi opened four Cave Heavens and absorbed the essence they drew from the surrounding world.
• Ten masses of light awakened in Di Yi’s Sea of Potential, and the remaining six manifested six additional Cave Heavens.
• The Golden Hou sensed the ten true spirits’ overwhelming power and shook with terror.

Di Yi completed ten cave heavens, which eased his injuries, and wondered how to proceed beyond the usual cultivation path. When a terrifying ghost appeared in the Genius Camp and chased Lie Wan'er, she fled to Di Yi for help.

• Di Yi sensed ten powerful Precious Techniques within his cave heavens but could not uncover their origins, and he suspected they might reveal something about his lost past.
• The ten cave heavens merged with Di Yi, forming a cycle that produced vital essence and further alleviated his injuries.
• Di Yi decided not to force his cultivation to follow ordinary methods and returned to the Genius Camp with the Golden Hou.
• A ghost appeared in the Genius Camp, terrifying the disciples and chasing Lie Wan'er; Elder Zhuo Yun fled to summon the Senior Elder and told her to seek Di Yi.
• Lie Wan'er reached Di Yi's house and begged him to save her as the ghost followed close behind.

Di Yi protected Lie Wan'er from the Elder Paranormal and learned that the ghost sought its own sword, which lay in the Hundred Broken Mountains. After Di Yi offered to handle the threat, the Elder Paranormal began targeting people across the Heaven Mending Pavilion, leaving Di Yi and Tao Ye searching for a way to stop the spreading disturbance.

• Di Yi shielded Lie Wan'er from the Elder Paranormal, and the ghost vanished when Di Yi tried to analyze its origin.
• Tao Ye brought Di Yi, Lie Wan'er, Cheng Ji, and other elders to the Ancient Hall, where he explained that the Elder Paranormal sought its sword in the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Di Yi volunteered to deal with the Elder Paranormal, and Tao Ye and Elder Zhuo Yun briefed him and the targeted disciples on what they knew.
• After several quiet days, the Elder Paranormal began targeting ordinary disciples whenever Di Yi went to confront it, spreading panic through the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Di Yi concluded that he could not protect everyone or track the ghost across the vast pavilion, so he went to Tao Ye for help.

Tao Ye brought Di Yi to meet the Heaven Mending Pavilion's dying Sacrificial Spirit and asked him to help save it, but Di Yi could not safely give his blood. The Sacrificial Spirit awakened and reacted with shock when Di Yi spoke, unable to perceive who was beside Tao Ye.

• Tao Ye agreed to bring Di Yi to the Sacrificial Spirit after Di Yi said his plan to draw out the Elder Paranormal had failed.
• Tao Ye revealed that the Sacrificial Spirit was declining and had at most a hundred years left, despite the Heaven Mending Pavilion's efforts to preserve it.
• Tao Ye asked Di Yi for some of his blood to help revive the Sacrificial Spirit, but Di Yi refused because his blood contained dangerous Black Blood.
• Tao Ye led Di Yi to the Sacrificial Spirit, a withered Gourd Vine sleeping in the rear courtyard.
• The Sacrificial Spirit told Tao Ye to let the Elder Paranormal make trouble until the Hundred Broken Mountains opened, then became alarmed when Di Yi spoke and asked who was there.

Di Yi and Tao Ye spoke with the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Divine Vine, which revealed that the Elder Paranormal was the pavilion’s founding ancestor, now a remnant soul. The Divine Vine also warned of recurring calamities that erased the truth and destroyed most Venerables, leaving Tao Ye to wonder whether Di Yi would still be there when the next one came.

• Di Yi explained that beings without physical eyes could not perceive him through spiritual sight or divine perception, and introduced himself to the Divine Vine.
• The Divine Vine revealed that the Elder Paranormal was the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s first Pavilion Master, who had planted the vine before dying in ancient times.
• The Divine Vine explained that the founder’s remnant soul needed his sword and was causing trouble in an attempt to preserve hope for the pavilion.
• The Divine Vine described recurring great calamities that erased the truth and caused most Venerables to vanish, while sparing those below that level.
• The Divine Vine suggested Di Yi might end the cycle if he remained in the Eight Regions, and Tao Ye worried he would leave before the calamity arrived.

Di Yi agreed to retrieve the Elder Paranormal’s sword from the Hundred Broken Mountains to restore its clarity, and set out with the Golden Hou. He and the Golden Hou crossed the void and arrived in an unfamiliar place.

• Di Yi promised the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Sacrificial Spirit that he would intervene in the coming calamity and retrieve the Elder Paranormal’s sword.
• The Sacrificial Spirit opened a passage toward the Hundred Broken Mountains, and Di Yi returned to fetch the Golden Hou.
• The Sacrificial Spirit identified the Golden Hou as a first-generation pureblood Golden King of the True Hou and explained how lightning would awaken its mind and knowledge.
• Di Yi led the Golden Hou through the passage, and they emerged in an unfamiliar place.

Di Yi entered the Hundred Broken Mountains ahead of its scheduled opening, passing through a hidden gateway with the Golden Hou. His arrival stirred Broken Void City, while he set off inside the secluded world to find the Hundred Herb Garden.

• Di Yi discovered that the Hundred Broken Mountains lay beyond a glowing gateway hidden by chaos and entered it with the Golden Hou.
• Di Yi gently broke through the gateway's obstruction, causing its Selection Runes to shatter and the passage to fall dormant behind him.
• The sudden opening alarmed the people of Broken Void City, and informants sent word as an old man predicted the great clans and major sects would gather.
• Di Yi emerged into the Hundred Broken Mountains, where the Golden Hou plunged into a lake and enjoyed the abundant spiritual energy.
• Di Yi left the entrance and headed for the Hundred Herb Garden, one of the few major sites not fully explored.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou traveled through the little world toward the Hundred Herb Garden, where rare spirit medicines were said to grow. After the Golden Hou defeated creatures guarding the region, Di Yi and his companion entered the garden.

• Di Yi used the glowing bird corpse overhead to orient himself and continued toward the Hundred Herb Garden with the Golden Hou.
• The Golden Hou frightened off a Flying Python, and Di Yi used Void Crossing to shorten their journey.
• Di Yi and the Golden Hou reached the mountains around the garden and saw auspicious vapor rising above its medicinal plants.
• The Golden Hou killed a hideous creature and then defeated a powerful Primordial Remnant that challenged it.
• Di Yi called the Golden Hou back, stroked its head, and led it into the Hundred Herb Garden.

Di Yi entered the Hundred Herb Garden and learned from an awakened parasol tree about the Spirit-Connecting Divine Flower, which might help the Golden Hou develop speech. He headed toward the flower near the Undying Spring, while the Golden Hou stopped to feast on spiritual medicines.

• Di Yi entered the Hundred Herb Garden, where its strange power suppressed divine radiance and runes, but had no effect on him.
• The Golden Hou tore apart a purple vine that attacked it, then tried to attack a nearby parasol tree until Di Yi stopped it.
• The parasol tree told Di Yi that pollen from the Spirit-Connecting Divine Flower had awakened its intelligence and said the flower could enlighten primitive life-forms.
• The parasol tree directed Di Yi and the Golden Hou toward the flower beside the Undying Spring in the deepest part of the garden.
• As they traveled deeper, the Golden Hou rushed into a medicinal field, ate spiritual medicines, and brought Di Yi a pile of the most vigorous plants despite the field's dangerous power.