Recaps

Lin Shisan discovered that the Five Elements Divine Refinement had evolved, revealing that he could use other flames for alchemy, and began making Body Tempering Liquid. His first attempt went wrong when lightning crackled inside the furnace and threatened to make it explode.

• After days of waiting, Lin Shisan found that the Five Elements Divine Refinement had not changed, so he tested whether leaving it alone in the Little Black Cauldron would let it evolve.
• After another night, Lin Shisan found the evolved Five Elements Divine Refinement, which completed its pill formulas and explained that strong Divine Sense could substitute other flames for pill fire.
• Lin Shisan chose to practice alchemy with the little flowerpot and began brewing Body Tempering Liquid in the Alchemy Pill Furnace.
• As Lin Shisan prepared to add the final green infant flower, lightning surged through the furnace and churned the liquid, making him fear that it was about to explode.

Lin Shisan’s first attempt at refining pills ended in a dangerous explosion, but Han Yansong saved him and then broke the seal on his Dantian. Lin Shisan’s power flowed again, and his Jiaolong True Spirit began evolving toward a Hornless Dragon.

• Lin Shisan’s Alchemy Pill Furnace exploded, and an emerald wall created by Han Yansong shielded him from the violent Body Tempering Liquid.
• Lin Shisan thanked Han Yansong, and the two discussed their past actions involving Feng Qingye and Mu Ling’er.
• Han Yansong suspended Lin Shisan and inflicted intense pain while breaking the seal on his Dantian.
• Lin Shisan’s sealed power returned, his blocked channels opened, and his body was reforged while his cultivation remained at the body tempering fifth layer.
• Lin Shisan’s Jiaolong True Spirit gained another Reverse Scale and developed a bump on its forehead as it began evolving toward a Hornless Dragon.

Han Yansong transmitted the Nine Tribulations Taiji Art to Lin Shisan, who astonishingly perceived its written teachings and inherited light-and-shadow figures. Impressed, Han Yansong invited Lin Shisan back to the Tai Chi Hall and recognized him as his junior brother, while Lin Shisan remained confused and worried about his poisoned fate.

• Han Yansong transmitted the Nine Tribulations Taiji Art to Lin Shisan, who saw its Taiji Diagram, script, and figures of light and shadow.
• Han Yansong realized Lin Shisan had absorbed the art's highest teachings and was a rare Great Fortune Bearer.
• Han Yansong helped Lin Shisan up and asked whether he would return to the Tai Chi Hall.
• Lin Shisan hesitated, believing his False Spiritual Root disqualified him and saying he had only a few days left to live.
• Han Yansong told Lin Shisan to seek the owner of the Seven-Day Immortal if he wanted to return or needed help, and said Lin Shisan was the junior brother he had acknowledged.

Xue Yaotian sensed the Heartlock reconnect with Lin Shisan, while Lin Shisan mastered the Taiji Seal after beginning to cultivate the Nine Tribulations Taiji Art. Pang Yue then came to pay his respects as Lin Shisan’s martial nephew and delivered a Storage Ring from Han Yansong, leaving Lin Shisan unsure how to respond to Pang Yue’s extraordinary courtesy.

• Xue Yaotian sensed the Heartlock reconnect after four months and realized Lin Shisan had reappeared, but felt no power being drawn from her.
• Lin Shisan released the Jiaolong True Spirit and formed a rotating yin-yang taiji diagram, using the Taiji Seal to pierce a small hill.
• Pang Yue emerged from behind a tree, introduced himself as Han Yansong’s nominal disciple, and respectfully addressed Lin Shisan as Martial Uncle.
• Pang Yue explained that his Dao foundation had withered and his dantian had turned to stone, then gave Lin Shisan a Storage Ring from Han Yansong.
• Lin Shisan accepted the ring and asked Pang Yue to thank Han Yansong, but remained uncomfortable with Pang Yue’s excessive respect.

Lin Shisan developed his alchemy and business with Zheng Qian while secretly testing the Little Black Cauldron, and Han Yansong went to Nine Nether Mountain to obtain five ghost flowers. Han Yansong left with the flowers after an encounter that hinted at the connection between the mountain’s leader and Mu Ling'er.

• Lin Shisan bought a red-tailed golden ginseng and thunderwood from Zheng Qian, then used his alchemy and trading to earn fifty Spirit Stones over the next month and a half.
• Lin Shisan improved his Body Tempering Liquid until he refined his first batch with ten star markings, while his attempt to evolve a living spiritual herb failed and killed it.
• Han Yansong arrived at Nine Nether Mountain and demanded five ghost flowers from its inhabitants.
• Han Yansong broke the old woman’s black tentacles with his Taiji Seal, and the mountain’s leader gave him five ghost flowers.
• Han Yansong left after the leader asked about Ling'er, and a middle-aged woman resembling Mu Ling'er emerged from the darkness.

Lin Shisan refined a Spirit-Gathering Pill for the first time and discovered that it bore two pill marks. His success gave him a major step toward meeting Zhao Xun’s requirement to become a disciple and serve as a doorman on Sunset Glow Peak.

• Lin Shisan welcomed Pang Yue’s granddaughter Pang Yan'er and gave her the candied hawthorn he had promised.
• After Pang Yue and Pang Yan'er left, Lin Shisan paid his respects at his father Lin Qinghan’s memorial and prepared to refine a Spirit-Gathering Pill.
• Lin Shisan used Spirit-Gathering Grass and fifteen other medicinal herbs to refine the pill through a lengthy process of heating, cooling, and forming it with spiritual fire.
• Lin Shisan opened the furnace and found that his first Spirit-Gathering Pill had two pill marks, making it a first-grade Spirit Pill.

Lin Shisan advanced to the sixth stage after the Jiaolong True Spirit swallowed a Spirit-Gathering Pill and released spiritual energy, then learned that demonic energy had been secretly introduced into his body. The chapter left him worried about Mu Ling'er and the growing danger at Tai Chi Hall.

• The Jiaolong True Spirit swallowed Lin Shisan's Spirit-Gathering Pill, then released spiritual energy that helped him break through to the sixth stage.
• Lin Shisan flew around the Courtyard with Pang Yan'er until Pang Yue arrived and called her away.
• Pang Yue gave Lin Shisan a Ghost Flower and explained that Feng Qingye had secretly used demonic medicinal herbs to put demonic energy in his body.
• Pang Yue said the Ghost Flower could remove the demonic energy and warned Lin Shisan to stay inside while the Law Enforcement Team investigated signs of activity from the Demon Cave.
• Lin Shisan asked about Mu Ling'er, but Pang Yue said there was still no news of her, leaving Lin Shisan uneasy about the danger at Tai Chi Hall.

Han Yansong suppressed the Demon Spirit inside Mu Ling'er but kept her confined until she became herself again, grieving over the dark-skinned boy's death. At the small market, Zheng Qian told Lin Shisan that the Azure Cloud Mountains had executed 150 suspected Demon Cave Spies and named Tie Dan as the leader of the operation, leaving Lin Shisan wondering whether Zheng Qian had recognized him.

• Han Yansong used a ghost flower and a Taiji Diagram to draw out and trap the Demon Spirit afflicting Mu Ling'er.
• Mu Ling'er awakened and told Han Yansong that demonic energy had entered the dark-skinned boy's heart and that he should check whether the boy was dead.
• Han Yansong said the Pulse Master of Deer Gate Peak had executed the boy and left his body exposed atop the peak, while Mu Ling'er mourned him.
• Han Yansong refused to release Mu Ling'er until she became herself again, then returned to the sect leaders' graves and wept as he cleaned them.
• Zheng Qian told Lin Shisan that the Azure Cloud Mountains had executed 150 suspected Demon Cave Spies and that Tie Dan had led the operation.
• Lin Shisan's heart lurched when Zheng Qian named Tie Dan, and he wondered whether Zheng Qian had recognized him.

Lin Shisan bought Spirit-Gathering Grass from Zheng Qian, then killed two robbers who ambushed him and discovered Tie Dan had been watching. Tie Dan confronted Lin Shisan, confident in his newly gained strength and impending promotion.

• Lin Shisan paid Zheng Qian eighteen Spirit Stones for Spirit-Gathering Grass and Thunderwood, then sold him diluted Body Tempering Liquid for eight Spirit Stones.
• Lin Shisan recalled Zheng Qian's warning about Tie Dan and Chen Yang, then led his pursuers to a deserted stretch of hills.
• Two masked Servant Disciples tried to rob Lin Shisan, but he defeated them in two exchanges and killed the fourth-layer robber.
• The second robber died of fright after Lin Shisan took the stolen goods, and Lin Shisan called out the people hiding behind the hill.
• Three people emerged, including Tie Dan, who confronted Lin Shisan and revealed his recent breakthrough to the seventh layer of Body Tempering and expected promotion.

Lin Shisan killed three Inspection Team members who tried to ambush him, defeating Tie Dan with his Reverse Scale and Taiji Diagram. Before dying, Tie Dan sent a message to Chen Dong, leaving Lin Shisan's enemies alerted to the killings.

• Tie Dan and two Inspection Team members surrounded Lin Shisan and moved to kill him.
• Lin Shisan took Huzi's blue sword and killed him with it.
• Lin Shisan used Feng Qingye's flying sword to kill the crew-cut man who attacked him.
• Tie Dan attacked with his striped tiger dao seed, but Lin Shisan's white tiger phantom tore it apart and injured him.
• Tie Dan stabbed Lin Shisan's chest, but the Reverse Scale stopped the dagger, and Lin Shisan struck him from behind with a Taiji Diagram.
• Tie Dan crushed a yellow Message Stone to send information to Chen Dong before he died.

Chen Dong rushed to investigate the Small Market after receiving a broken message about Lin Shisan and Deer Gate Peak, while Lin Shisan discovered that heart-devouring demonic qi was influencing him after he killed several people. After Tie Dan’s death sparked a search, Lin Shisan learned the Law Enforcement Team had arrived at the Seven-Day Immortal.

• Chen Dong received Tie Dan’s broken message mentioning Lin Shisan and Deer Gate Peak, then sent ten Law Enforcement Team members to the Small Market to capture a supposed Demon Cave Spy.
• Lin Shisan felt a craving for blood after killing five people and found heart-devouring demonic qi forming a skull over his heart.
• The demonic qi tried to control Lin Shisan and urge him to devour the corpses, but the Jiaolong True Spirit’s roar drove it away after Lin Shisan struck his head and regained control.
• Lin Shisan fled the scene, leaving Tie Dan and four other bodies behind.
• Pang Yue told Lin Shisan that Tie Dan’s death had prompted a three-day search of the Small Market led by Chen Dong and that the Law Enforcement Team could not search the Seven-Day Immortal without a special written order.
• A blue-robed servant announced that the Law Enforcement Team had arrived.

Lin Shisan feared the Law Enforcement Team’s arrival, but discovered its captain, Little Dragon, was Pang Yue’s devoted junior and treated Lin as his great-granduncle. Little Dragon left a hundred-year spirit-gathering grass for Pang Yue, who passed it to Lin after the heart-devouring demonic energy subsided, leaving Lin eager to refine graded Spirit-Gathering Pills.

• Lin Shisan prepared to fight when the Law Enforcement Team arrived, but Little Dragon went to greet Pang Yue with deep respect.
• Pang Yue introduced Lin Shisan as his great-granduncle, and Little Dragon respectfully greeted him.
• Little Dragon explained that he had come to visit Pang Yue, not search the Seven-Day Immortal, and offered him a hundred-year spirit-gathering grass.
• Pang Yue sent Little Dragon away and guarded the doorway with the servant in blue while the ghost flower diluted Lin Shisan’s demonic energy for about an hour.
• Pang Yue gave the spirit-gathering grass to Lin Shisan, who realized its quality could let him refine graded Spirit-Gathering Pills.

Chen Dong searched the Small Market for Lin Shisan and heard that Grandpa Pang’s maternal clan uncle resembled him, but he ordered Yun Yan to keep quiet and search for Zheng Qian instead. Meanwhile, Lin Shisan refined a Spirit-Gathering Pill and anxiously awaited its formation, hoping it would bear pill marks.

• Chen Dong learned from Yun Yan that Senior Brother Zhou had sensed demonic qi in Grandpa Pang’s maternal clan uncle’s courtyard and had been punished after reporting it to Senior Brother Long.
• Yun Yan said the maternal clan uncle resembled Lin Shisan, so Chen Dong warned him not to spread the rumor and told him to find Zheng Qian for information about Lin Shisan.
• Lin Shisan began refining a Spirit-Gathering Pill after Pang Yue left, using half a stalk of hundred-year spirit-gathering grass and fifteen kinds of spiritual herbs.
• Lin Shisan completed the long refining process and waited for the pill to form, anxious to learn whether it would have pill marks.

Lin Shisan survived a bout of demonic possession and completed a three-mark Spirit-Gathering Pill, then imprisoned the Jiaolong True Spirit to keep it from eating the pill. The chapter ended with Yun Yan beating Zhao Qian on a road near the Small Market while demanding Lin Shisan’s whereabouts.

• Lin Shisan’s hatred for his father’s murderer stirred the Heart-Devouring Demonic Qi, and he nearly succumbed to demonic possession before the Jiaolong True Spirit forced it back into hiding.
• Lin Shisan saw a temporary cross-shaped Demon Cave Spy mark on his chest disappear and recalled Pang Yue’s warning to guard his thoughts during the Ghost Flower’s work.
• Lin Shisan opened the cauldron and found a flawless Spirit-Gathering Pill bearing three marks, making it a second-grade Spirit Pill worth far more than its production cost.
• Lin Shisan snatched the pill away from the Jiaolong True Spirit and confined it in his dantian to stop it from eating the pill.
• Yun Yan struck Zhao Qian and demanded to know where Lin Shisan was, while Zhao Qian insisted he barely knew him.

Chen Dong and Yun Yan interrogated Zheng Qian about Lin Shisan, while Lin Shisan cultivated the Nine Heavens True Dragon Art under the full moon. The chapter left Lin Shisan sensing several people rapidly approaching after his cultivation stirred up trouble.

• Yun Yan threatened Zheng Qian with his saber, and Zheng Qian revealed that a man named Mu Fang who resembled Lin Shisan lived at the Seven-Day Immortal.
• After learning Mu Fang was supposedly an alchemist, Chen Dong decided Zheng Qian had to die to keep their investigation secret.
• Zheng Qian's hidden green snake pierced Yun Yan's neck, then vanished as Yun Yan's body healed and followed Chen Dong like a walking corpse.
• Lin Shisan stopped Little Dragon from stealing Spirit-Gathering Grass and realized it was reminding him to cultivate beneath the full moon.
• Lin Shisan arranged 108 Spirit Stones into a Rune and absorbed starlight, which suppressed the heart-devouring demonic qi on his chest.
• Lin Shisan sensed several people rapidly approaching and realized he had stirred up trouble.

Lin Shisan’s starlight cultivation drew powerful figures to the Seven-Day Immortal, where a barrier protected him from a clash between Cao Li and Ning Jiuying. The chapter ended with Ning Jiuying easily knocking back five reinforcements as the battle continued.

• Lin Shisan urged the Jiaolong True Spirit to return while its excess starlight left it trapped and cultivators converged on his courtyard.
• A huge bowl-shaped barrier appeared over the Seven-Day Immortal, and its shock opened a crack that let the Jiaolong True Spirit escape into Lin Shisan’s dantian.
• Cao Li and Ning Jiuying emerged nearby, and their Yellow Dragon Realm power struck Lin Shisan hard enough to make him spit blood.
• The protective formation activated fully, allowing Lin Shisan to see Cao Li confront Ning Jiuying in the sky.
• Ning Jiuying summoned infant-sized skulls and hurled them at five approaching cultivators, knocking them away and marking their chests with red skulls.

Ning Jiuying attacked Deer Gate Peak, but Han Yansong appeared and overwhelmed him, forcing him to sacrifice an arm and flee. The arm’s remaining power crashed into Lin Shisan’s courtyard, where Lin Shisan fell into the pit it created.

• Ning Jiuying defeated the elders defending Deer Gate Peak and prepared to face incoming reinforcements.
• Han Yansong appeared, punched Ning Jiuying into submission, and ordered him to leave.
• Ning Jiuying severed his right arm as the price for escaping, then fled into the void after Han Yansong nodded.
• Ning Jiuying’s severed arm fell through the Seven-Day Immortal's Restricting Formation and struck the ground near Lin Shisan.
• The Jiaolong True Spirit roared, startling Lin Shisan into falling into the deep pit left by the impact.

Lin Shisan discovered a moving arm and a sinister demonic presence beneath his courtyard, then learned from Pang Yue that Ning Jiuying had been driven off and Deer Gate Peak was temporarily safe. After the arm transformed into pure green light and the Heart-Devouring Demonic Qi devoured it, Lin Shisan fell as the qi became a Heart-Devouring Demon Spirit and tried to possess him.

• Lin Shisan suppressed the restless Heart-Devouring Demonic Qi with the Taiji Seal and leaped out of the pit.
• Pang Yue and Yan'er rushed to Lin Shisan, and Pang Yue explained that Ning Jiuying had been wounded and driven away from Deer Gate Peak.
• Lin Shisan concealed how well he controlled the Heart-Devouring Demonic Qi, then returned to the pit and found the moving arm gone.
• Lin Shisan saw the arm reappear as a spectral skull and then become a pure green light that the Ghost Flower's glow had cleansed of demonic qi.
• The green light plunged into Lin Shisan's chest, and the Heart-Devouring Demonic Qi swallowed it before turning into a Heart-Devouring Demon Spirit that tried to possess him.

Lin Shisan endured the Demon Spirit’s attempt to take over his sea of Divine Sense, then used the Jiaolong True Spirit to trap and weaken it. He sealed the surviving Demon Spirit and tested a pattern from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, but the Nine Heavens True Dragon Art nearly broke his body.

• The Demon Spirit occupied most of Lin Shisan’s sea of Divine Sense and condensed into a miniature form while Yun Yan celebrated its imminent success.
• Yun Yan revealed himself as Feng Qingye, whose earlier death had been another shell, and thanked Lin Shisan for helping him reach the Demon Spirit realm.
• Lin Shisan summoned the Jiaolong True Spirit and used prepared electric arcs to trap the Demon Spirit, then diluted much of it with a Taiji Diagram.
• Lin Shisan failed to eradicate the remaining Demon Spirit with Thunderwood, sealed it, and arranged 108 Spirit Stones in a pattern from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
• The Jiaolong True Spirit refracted starlight for Lin Shisan’s Nine Heavens True Dragon Art, but one encounter broke his bones and nearly destroyed his body.

Lin Shisan repeatedly endured the Jiaolong True Spirit’s starlight attacks to weaken the Demon Spirit, but the final barrage left him buried and unconscious. Feng Qingye revealed himself as Yun Yan, admitted Zheng Qian had been a Demon Sect spy, and told Lin Shisan that the Demon Sect was invading Tai Chi Hall while its defenders were away.

• Lin Shisan ordered the Jiaolong True Spirit to strike the weakened Demon Spirit again, but it mistook his gesture and hit him with five beams of starlight.
• Yun Yan found Lin Shisan unconscious in a pit and revealed that he was Feng Qingye, the Pavilion Guardian Lin Shisan had once killed.
• Feng Qingye admitted that he had occupied Zheng Qian’s body and confirmed Zheng Qian had been a Demon Sect spy.
• Feng Qingye told Lin Shisan that Pang Yue and Han Yansong could not come to his aid because the Demon Sect was launching a major invasion of Tai Chi Hall.

Feng Qingye tried to kill Lin Shisan, but Pang Yan'er and Pang Yue arrived and disrupted him. Feng Qingye took Yan'er hostage to force Lin Shisan not to activate the Plum Blossom Mark, while Lin Shisan threatened to detonate his Demon Spirit.

• Lin Shisan worried that Mu Ling'er might be in danger after learning the Demon Sect had invaded Tai Chi Hall, but Feng Qingye dismissed his concern and offered to fulfill a final wish.
• Lin Shisan told Feng Qingye his regret was not having wiped him out completely, prompting Feng Qingye to attack him with killing intent and a Green Snake.
• Pang Yan'er rushed in with Pang Yue and a Qingyi Attendant, and Feng Qingye seized Yan'er as a hostage.
• The Qingyi Attendant revealed he had entered the Dao and was working for Feng Qingye, who admitted he had bought him off to learn about Lin Shisan and Yan'er.
• Feng Qingye demanded that Lin Shisan refrain from activating the Plum Blossom Mark when Feng Qingye took over his body, or Yan'er would die.
• Lin Shisan threatened to detonate his Demon Spirit if Feng Qingye harmed Yan'er or Pang Yue, leaving Feng Qingye uneasy.

Lin Shisan defeated Feng Qingye and rescued little Yan'er, but breaking his seal left him badly injured. The Qingyi Attendant accidentally killed Pang Yue, leaving Yan'er bereaved.

• Feng Qingye threatened little Yan'er and Pang Yue to force Lin Shisan to let the Demon Spirit enter his sea of Divine Sense.
• Lin Shisan lured Feng Qingye's Demon Spirit into a trap and used the Taiji Seal to destroy it and Feng Qingye's final strand of Divine Sense.
• Feng Qingye's octopus began devouring little Yan'er, but Lin Shisan broke the seal on his Dantian and pulled it free with the Jiaolong True Spirit and power of starlight.
• Lin Shisan collapsed from his injuries and the Soft-Spirit Powder, while the Qingyi Attendant fled after accidentally stabbing Pang Yue.
• Little Yan'er realized Pang Yue had died and was left unable to cry out from grief.

Lin Shisan killed the fleeing Qingyi Attendant with Feng Qingye's Flying Sword, but the Law Enforcement Team mistook him for the Demon Cave spy Feng Qingye. Little Dragon arrived, found Pang Yue dead, and prepared to face Lin Shisan while still misunderstanding who he was.

• Chen Dong arrived to find Pang Yue and Yun Yan dead and accused Lin Shisan of killing them.
• When Law Enforcement Team members blocked Lin Shisan, he used his Flying Sword to kill the Qingyi Attendant as it fled.
• Little Dragon arrived and ordered his men to seize Lin Shisan, mistaking him for Feng Qingye because he held Feng Qingye's Flying Sword.
• Lin Shisan caught Little Yan'er as she fainted, while Little Dragon discovered Pang Yue's body and erupted in rage.
• Chen Dong and his men pointed toward Lin Shisan, and Little Dragon readied himself to confront the supposed Feng Qingye.

Chen Dong manipulated Little Dragon into attacking the weakened Lin Shisan, hoping to eliminate Lin Shisan and profit from the fallout. As the fight turned, Chen Dong betrayed Little Dragon, but Junior Brother Zhan took the fatal blow meant for him.

• Chen Dong falsely blamed Lin Shisan for the deaths of Pang Yue and Yun Yan, inflaming Little Dragon's desire for revenge.
• Little Dragon attacked Lin Shisan with a flying sword, but Lin Shisan's Flying Sword and Jiaolong True Spirit stopped the strike.
• Chen Dong urged the Law Enforcement Team to form the Seven-Star Sword Formation, and its combined attack overwhelmed Lin Shisan's defenses.
• Lin Shisan noticed Chen Dong shifting the formation's energy sword and warned Little Dragon, but Little Dragon's flying sword pierced Lin Shisan's chest.
• Chen Dong stabbed at Little Dragon from behind, and Junior Brother Zhan blocked the blow with his body, leaving Little Dragon furious at Chen Dong.

Little Dragon killed Chen Dong after Chen Dong threatened Pang Yan’er, only for Lin Shisan to reveal that Pang Yue was alive and had killed Chen Dong to save her. Lin Shisan confronted Pang Yue about his demonic nature but refused to harm him, leaving Pang Yue astonished by his acceptance.

• Little Dragon grieved over Junior Brother Zhan’s death and attacked Chen Dong, demanding to know why he had killed him and blamed the Old Master.
• Chen Dong claimed he had not killed Grandpa Pang, then threatened to kill the unconscious Pang Yan’er when Little Dragon refused to back down.
• Pang Yue and Lin Shisan struck Chen Dong down and sent Little Yan’er to Little Dragon outside the courtyard.
• Lin Shisan told Pang Yue he had recognized his disguise and suspected the ghost flower was draining the demonic qi in Pang Yue’s body.
• Pang Yue asked Lin Shisan to care for Little Yan’er, but Lin Shisan said Pang Yue should raise her himself and explained that he saw no reason to kill someone who had never harmed him.