Recaps

Li Dalong fought his way through the Spirit-Devouring Immortal Ants and found their powerful queen deep in the mine. After destroying her nest with talismans and pursuing her through collapsing tunnels, he killed her with the Soul Chaser Sword.

• Li Dalong used the Void Evasion Art to slip past the ants and locate the Spirit-Devouring Immortal Ant Queen in her nest.
• He activated twenty Flame Dragon Talismans and three Heaven-Burning Light-Breaking Talismans, then vanished as the queen's sonic divine-soul attack struck him.
• The talismans scorched the nest and triggered a mine collapse, severely injuring the Spirit-Devouring Immortal Ant Queen while she fled through the tunnels.
• Li Dalong followed the fleeing queen and stabbed her head with Wind-Breaking from the Grand Void Sword Formula.
• He split the Spirit-Devouring Immortal Ant Queen open with the Soul Chaser Sword and killed her.

Li Dalong cleared the remaining Spirit-Devouring Immortal Ants from the mine and returned home to rest with his family. Over the years, he watched Li Chenxi and Ye Tianqi grow and cultivate, and took his wives and sons on regular journeys throughout the Immortal Realm.

• Li Dalong recovered from the poison and exhaustion, then swept the mine for seven days and killed every remaining Spirit-Devouring Immortal Ant.
• Li Dalong reported the mine cleared to Ke Meili and returned home, where he spent time with Li Chenxi as the boy advanced into the early Qi Refining Realm.
• Ke Xialing emerged from seclusion, reunited with Li Chenxi and Li Dalong, and shared a family dinner with them.
• Ye Wuxia emerged from seclusion and joined Li Dalong in preparing to visit their son Ye Tianqi.
• Over the years, Li Chenxi reached the Foundation Establishment Realm and Ye Tianqi reached the late Qi Refining Realm while Li Dalong and his wives accompanied their sons as they grew.
• Li Dalong regularly took his family traveling through the Immortal Realm, where they saw the hardships ordinary cultivators faced.

Zhou Tianlong traveled with five junior sisters to Liangban Stockade, where he discovered and bought a piece of ore from a small shop. As he tried to leave, an arrogant young man demanded the ore, and one of the young man’s lackeys blocked Zhou Tianlong’s path.

• Zhou Tianlong and his five junior sisters arrived at Liangban Stockade to rest and browse its shops.
• Zhou Tianlong bought a piece of ore that the shopkeeper claimed was raw Yuehua spirit jade for three hundred and seventy high-grade immortal stones.
• A young man entered the shop and demanded that Zhou Tianlong hand over the ore, offering to pay double.
• Zhou Tianlong ignored the young man and prepared to leave, but a middle-aged lackey stepped in front of him.

Zhou Tianlong refused Zhao Sheng’s attempts to take the ore he had bought, despite threats from Zhao’s Lingxu Sword Sect lackeys. After recognizing it as valuable Stars Essence Gold, Zhao Sheng let him leave and secretly sent Yuan Yao to follow him, while Zhou Tianlong went with his junior sisters to find food and gather information about the Small Secret Realm.

• Zhao Sheng and Yuan Yao tried to make Zhou Tianlong surrender his ore, but Zhou refused their offers and threats.
• The manager refused Zhao Sheng’s request to reclaim the ore because he had already sold it to Zhou.
• Zhou sent his five junior sisters outside, and Zhao changed his approach after noticing them.
• Zhao ordered Yuan Yao to follow Zhou and his junior sisters after they left the shop.
• Zhou recognized the ore as Stars Essence Gold rather than Yuehua Spirit Jade and led his junior sisters toward a restaurant to rest and hear news about the Small Secret Realm.

Zhou Tianlong and his five junior sisters entered the Small Secret Realm and headed into the mountains, unaware that Yuan Yao was following them for Zhao Sheng. They stopped at a stream beneath the mountains, while Yuan Yao continued to trail them and report their movements.

• Zhou Tianlong and his junior sisters left the restaurant and flew out of Liangban Stockade toward the Small Secret Realm, while Yuan Yao reported their departure to Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng gathered his companions and followed Zhou Tianlong's group, intending to seize the stars essence gold and the women, but they entered the Small Secret Realm before he could confront them.
• Zhou Tianlong and his five junior sisters surveyed the Small Secret Realm and set off toward the mountains to find demon beasts and resources.
• Yuan Yao entered the Small Secret Realm behind them and pursued them while urging Zhao Sheng to catch up.
• Zhou Tianlong led his junior sisters to a stream at the foot of a mountain, where they played in the water and he rested on a large rock.

Zhou Tianlong led his five junior sisters into the mountains to escape an ambush by Zhao Sheng and Lingxu Sword Sect cultivators, then set up a defensive formation and confronted them. After Zhao Sheng demanded the ore and the girls, Zhou Tianlong struck first, killing one lackey and charging at another as the rest attacked.

• Zhou Tianlong sensed hostile cultivators approaching, warned his junior sisters, and led them into the mountains with their pursuers close behind.
• Zhou Tianlong stopped at a valley, placed his five junior sisters inside a Defensive Formation, and prepared to face Zhao Sheng and his men.
• Zhao Sheng surrounded Zhou Tianlong's group and demanded the ore, while also claiming the girls for himself.
• Zhou Tianlong threw an Explosive Thunderfire Talisman and attacked the early-stage Golden Immortal lackey, killing him with a single strike.
• Zhou Tianlong hurled another talisman to hinder the remaining attackers and lunged at a middle-stage Golden Immortal lackey.

Zhou Tianlong fought Zhao Sheng and his men, killing Yuan Yao after already killing another lackey. Zhao Sheng then attacked the Defensive Formation to force Zhou Tianlong to defend it, and Zhou Tianlong began closing in on him while fending off Mu Zhihong.

• Zhao Sheng intercepted Zhou Tianlong’s attack and ordered Mu Zhihong and Yuan Yao to kill him as the junior sisters supported Zhou Tianlong from inside the Defensive Formation.
• Zhou Tianlong lured Yuan Yao into lowering his guard, then stabbed him and threw his corpse at Zhao Sheng to escape a counterattack.
• Zhao Sheng ordered Mu Zhihong to keep Zhou Tianlong occupied and hurled talismans at the Defensive Formation, leaving its barrier dim and the Formation Plate cracked.
• Zhou Tianlong monitored Zhao Sheng and edged closer while fighting Mu Zhihong, who wounded him superficially and grew confident that he could kill him.

Zhou Tianlong tricked Zhao Sheng’s group into dropping their guard, then killed Zhao Sheng in a sudden attack. Zhao Sheng’s three lackeys fled, leaving the battle unresolved around the Cloud Glow Sect’s Defensive Formation.

• Zhou Tianlong pretended Mu Zhihong had wounded him badly, then threw Explosive Thunderfire Talismans at Mu Zhihong and a lackey to distract them.
• Zhou Tianlong rushed Zhao Sheng and struck at him, but Zhao Sheng’s Jade Tablet blocked the Sword Qi before shattering.
• Zhao Sheng’s Flying Sword collided with Zhou Tianlong’s protective shield, and the impact left Zhao Sheng unable to defend himself.
• Zhou Tianlong pierced Zhao Sheng with his Flying Sword and smashed his head with a palm strike, killing him.
• Zhao Sheng’s three lackeys stopped their rescue attempt and fled in separate directions.

After Zhou Tianlong killed Zhao Sheng, he concealed his severe exhaustion, recovered with his junior sisters’ help, and led them back toward the Cloud Glow Sect. Meanwhile, the Lingxu Sword Sect discovered Zhao Sheng’s Soul Token had shattered, setting the stage for its response.

• Zhou Tianlong drove Mu Zhihong and his two companions away, then returned to the Defensive Formation and accepted care from his junior sisters.
• Zhou Tianlong’s five junior sisters tended his wounds while he refined a Healing Pill and recovered over the next day.
• Zhou Tianlong asked whether they should continue into the mountains, and the junior sisters agreed to return to the Cloud Glow Sect.
• Zhou Tianlong put away the cracked Formation Plate and led the group toward the sect.
• A disciple guarding the Lingxu Sword Sect’s Soul Hall noticed that Zhao Sheng’s Soul Token had shattered.

After learning that Zhao Sheng’s Soul Token had shattered, Zhao Zhengqiu struggled with grief and rage while Wuya Zi urged him to keep the sect steady. Three days later, investigators identified Zhou Tianlong and his companions, and Zhao Zhengqiu confronted a captured lackey, who begged for his life.

• The Soul Hall duty disciple told Zhao Zhengqiu that Zhao Sheng’s Soul Token had shattered, and Zhao Zhengqiu killed him in a rage.
• Zhao Zhengqiu saw Zhao Sheng’s broken Soul Token and nearly succumbed to grief and cultivation deviation before Wuya Zi steadied him.
• Zhao Zhengqiu ordered an investigation into Zhao Sheng’s death, and Wuya Zi told him to wait for the results and consider the sect before acting.
• Zhao Zhengqiu vowed to avenge Zhao Sheng and wipe out the enemy’s family while waiting for the investigators to return.
• Three days later, Wuya Zi’s investigators identified Zhou Tianlong and his companions after capturing a middle-stage Golden Immortal lackey.
• The captured lackey begged Zhao Zhengqiu for mercy as Zhao Zhengqiu looked at him coldly.

After Zhao Sheng’s death, Zhao Zhengqiu sent a force from the Lingxu Sword Sect to demand Zhou Tianlong from the Cloud Glow Sect. The two sects faced off as Ke Meili and her elders refused to accept Dong Xianming’s threats.

• Zhao Zhengqiu killed Zhao Sheng’s attendant and ordered the attendant’s family executed, while Grand Elder Wuya Zi supported seeking revenge but cautioned against starting a war.
• Zhao Zhengqiu agreed to send three early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal elders, led by Dong Xianming, to seize Zhou Tianlong.
• Dong Xianming and his Enforcement Hall disciples arrived at the Cloud Glow Sect and demanded that Sect Leader Ke Meili hand over Zhou Tianlong for killing Zhao Sheng.
• Ke Meili questioned the accusation and secretly informed Li Dalong, while Zhou Yong stayed protected inside the sect.
• Dong Xianming threatened to destroy the Cloud Glow Sect without presenting evidence, and its elders pushed back against his demands.

The Lingxu Sword Sect, led by Dong Xianming, attacked the Cloud Glow Sect and demanded that it surrender Zhou Tianlong. The Cloud Glow Sect held behind its Defensive Array and fought back, but Li Dalong and Dong Xianming remained locked in battle.

• Ke Meili activated the Cloud Glow Sect's Defensive Array, stopping Dong Xianming and his disciples from entering the sect grounds.
• Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples refused to surrender Zhou Tianlong, despite Dong Xianming's threats.
• Dong Xianming ordered the Lingxu Sword Sect disciples to attack the Cloud Glow Sect across its Defensive Shield.
• Li Dalong charged at Dong Xianming, and the two exchanged fierce attacks without either breaking through the other's defenses.

Li Dalong fought the Lingxu Sword Sect’s elders while defending the Cloud Glow Sect and killed Liu Xi and Zhang Xin with surprise attacks. Injured but determined, he faced Dong Xianming alone and prepared to kill him.

• Li Dalong searched for an opening while battling Dong Xianming and the Lingxu Sword Sect’s forces.
• Li Dalong ambushed Liu Xi with the Grand Void Sword Formula and killed him before Dong Xianming could intervene.
• Li Dalong attacked Zhang Xin, broke his Protective Barrier, and cut him in two despite Dong Xianming’s attempt to stop him.
• Dong Xianming’s attack injured Li Dalong internally, but Li Dalong concealed the injury and blocked the blow with his Defensive Shield and Immortal Defensive Armor.
• Li Dalong challenged Dong Xianming and continued watching for an opening as they prepared to fight to the death.

Li Dalong killed Dong Xianming after defeating the Lingxu Sword Sect’s three elders, then withdrew to heal as the sect’s surviving enforcement disciples fled. At the Lingxu Sword Sect, Zhao Zhengqiu learned that all three elders had fallen and was left devastated by the failed operation.

• Li Dalong seized an opening in Dong Xianming’s attack, pierced his defenses, and cut him in two.
• The Cloud Glow Sect celebrated Li Dalong’s victory, while the surviving Lingxu Sword Sect enforcement disciples fled.
• Li Dalong hid his injuries, returned home, and healed in the Creation Cultivation Tower for seven days.
• The Soul Hall guard reported Elder Liu Xi’s death to Zhao Zhengqiu, who realized the Cloud Glow Sect was stronger than he had thought.
• After learning Elder Zhang Xin had also fallen, Zhao Zhengqiu ordered Dong Xianming recalled, but Dong did not answer the Communication Jade Talisman.
• Zhao Zhengqiu learned Dong Xianming had fallen too and slumped into despair over the loss of all three elders.

After Li Dalong killed three elders of the Lingxu Sword Sect, Zhao Zhengqiu ordered the weakened sect to seal its mountain for five hundred years. The Cloud Glow Sect’s immediate crisis passed, but Li Dalong and Ke Meili began considering how to use the Lingxu Sword Sect’s enemies to prevent future retaliation.

• Zhao Zhengqiu ordered the Lingxu Sword Sect to recall its disciples and seal its mountain for five hundred years.
• Rival forces prepared to attack the Lingxu Sword Sect, but its mountain closure thwarted their plans, while ambushers killed many returning disciples.
• Elder Li entered seclusion after the Cloud Glow Sect repelled the invasion and celebrated his victory over the three Great Luo Golden Immortal elders.
• Ke Meili confirmed that the Lingxu Sword Sect had sealed its mountain and learned that nearly thirty percent of its disciples had been lost.
• Li Dalong met Ke Meili, then suggested contacting the Lingxu Sword Sect’s hostile forces to find a chance to eliminate the threat permanently.

Li Dalong entered a hundred years of seclusion while the Cloud Glow Sect grew stronger and Ke Meili reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm. Ke Meili resolved to find the lover she had lost long ago, and Ke Xialing and Li Dalong began asking what was troubling her.

• Ke Meili asked Li Dalong to establish two more Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Formations for the Cloud Glow Sect, and he agreed while warning her to keep them secret.
• Li Dalong entered the Creation Cultivation Tower and spent a hundred years in seclusion, advancing toward the mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• During Li Dalong's seclusion, Cloud Glow Sect disciples and elders advanced in cultivation, and Ke Meili broke through to the early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ke Meili's greater strength brought back memories of her former lover, who had been taken away by his powerful lineage, and she resolved to find him.
• Ke Xialing noticed Ke Meili's distress and asked her what she was keeping from them while Li Dalong and Li Chenxi were present.

Ke Meili revealed her past romance with a man from a secluded Aristocratic Clan and decided to seek him out, while Ke Xialing learned that her father was alive. When Ke Meili activated the Jade Talisman, the Ai Lineage head in the Nine Luminaries Realm sensed her message and prepared to visit her, despite his elders’ objections.

• Ke Meili told Ke Xialing and Li Dalong that her lover’s Lineage had forced him away and that she intended to find him.
• Ke Xialing urged her mother to search for her father, and Ke Meili promised to tell him about Ke Xialing and Chenxi.
• After instructing Ke Xialing, Li Dalong, and Zhou Yong about the Cloud Glow Sect, Ke Meili left and traveled for a month to the place where she had parted from her lover.
• Ke Meili infused Immortal Power into the Jade Talisman, breaking it into fragments and activating its message.
• The Ai Lineage head sensed the Jade Talisman, remembered his former lover, and decided to go to the Immortal Realm.
• Second Grandfather Ai Guizhong and other elders urged the Ai Lineage head to stay and prioritize the Lineage’s crisis and marriage alliances.

Ai Sheng defied his lineage elders and returned to the Immortal Realm after Ke Meili's Jade Talisman signaled danger. He found her safe, learned she had become a Great Luo Golden Immortal and founded the Cloud Glow Sect, and reunited with her after more than a hundred thousand years apart.

• Ai Sheng told Ai Guizhong and the lineage elders that he would leave to find Ke Meili, refusing to sacrifice his love to his duties as patriarch again.
• Ai Guizhong condemned Ai Sheng's decision, and the elders left the Council Hall while Ai Sheng resolved to seek Ke Meili.
• Ai Sheng endured months of danger opening a passage to the Immortal Realm, then followed the Jade Talisman's signal to find Ke Meili.
• Ai Sheng and Ke Meili embraced and wept as they reunited after more than a hundred thousand years apart.
• Ke Meili told Ai Sheng that she had reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm and founded the Cloud Glow Sect, where she was now sect leader.

Ai Sheng reunited with Ke Meili and their daughter, Ke Xialing, at the Cloud Glow Sect and met her husband, Li Dalong, and their son, Li Chenxi. After the family celebrated together, Ai Sheng told Ke Meili that the Ai Lineage was being suppressed by outside powers and faced dwindling resources and possible collapse.

• Ke Meili told Ai Sheng that their daughter, Ke Xialing, had been born after he left and had taken her surname.
• Ai Sheng followed Ke Meili to the Cloud Glow Sect, where he and Ke Xialing joyfully met for the first time.
• Ke Xialing introduced Ai Sheng to her husband, Li Dalong, and their son, Li Chenxi, who greeted him as their father-in-law and grandfather.
• The family returned to Ke Meili's home and shared a happy reunion before Li Dalong took Ke Xialing and Li Chenxi home.
• Ke Meili asked about the Ai Lineage, and Ai Sheng explained that outside suppression had cut off allies and resources, threatening the lineage's survival.

Ke Meili devised a resource-trading plan to help Ai Sheng’s Lineage overcome its crisis in the Nine Luminaries Realm and offered support from her son-in-law, Li Dalong. Ai Sheng returned to the Nine Luminaries Realm with Li Dalong and the resources Ke Meili had given him, intending to keep Li Dalong hidden as a surprise force.

• Ke Meili proposed trading resources between the Nine Luminaries Realm and the Immortal Realm to attract allies and relieve the Lineage’s shortage.
• Ke Meili told Ai Sheng that Li Dalong was a powerful Great Luo Golden Immortal who had killed three Lingxu Sword Sect Elders and had strong connections through his wife.
• As tensions in the Nine Luminaries Realm worsened, Ai Sheng prepared to leave the Cloud Glow Sect, and Ke Meili asked Li Dalong to accompany him.
• Ai Sheng accepted Li Dalong’s help, then departed with him and the Storage Ring Ke Meili had provided.
• Li Dalong opened a spatial passage to the Nine Luminaries Realm, where Ai Sheng secretly brought him back to the Lineage.

Ai Sheng began improving the Ai Lineage's cultivation resources and planning its development, prompting the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley to plot an attack. Li Dalong defeated three assassins who infiltrated the estate, and Ai Sheng prepared to ready the lineage for a larger assault.

• Ai Sheng secretly settled Li Dalong in a secluded part of the Ai Lineage estate and distributed Immortal Realm resources to help its younger members cultivate.
• Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan agreed to send people to investigate the Ai Lineage, seize members for interrogation, and assassinate important figures.
• Three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal elders from the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan infiltrated the estate and approached Li Dalong's hiding place.
• Li Dalong swiftly defeated all three elders before they could attack the Ai Lineage.
• Ai Sheng thanked Li Dalong and decided to prepare the lineage for an attack, while Li Dalong's presence was no longer a secret.

After three Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan elders sent to assassinate members of the Ai Lineage were killed, Zi Yun Ye gathered his clan to decide how to respond. The elders and disciples debated revenge and investigation, and Zi Yun Ye’s clan had not yet chosen a course of action.

• Zi Yun Ye learned that Elder Changxi, Elder Wei, and Elder Jinhua’s Soul Tokens had shattered and realized the assassination had failed.
• Zi Yun Ye summoned the elders and elite disciples to the Discussion Hall to discuss the three elders’ deaths.
• Ziyun Yiliu and another disciple urged the clan to destroy the Ai Family, but Zi Yun Ye silenced them.
• Elder Ziyun Luoyun questioned whether someone had intervened or the Ai Family was hiding its strength.
• Ziyun Guoyu advised consulting Fallen Soul Valley and investigating before acting, while others proposed joining forces with the valley or confronting the Ai Family.

After the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley suspended their campaign against the Ai Lineage, Li Dalong began assassinating their members, leaving both forces weakened and distrustful. He discovered their plan to launch a joint assault on the Ai Lineage and warned Ai Sheng, who prepared to rely on Li Dalong against their strongest fighters.

• Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan agreed to suspend their next operation against the Ai Lineage and investigate the force behind the deaths of three Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan elders.
• Ai Sheng asked Li Dalong to target important members of the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley, and Li Dalong began a string of assassinations using Ai Sheng's intelligence.
• Li Dalong's attacks killed senior members and disciples, drove the two forces to retreat and protect their remaining members, and stirred suspicion between their leaders.
• Li Dalong discovered that Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan planned a joint assault to wipe out the Ai Lineage and immediately informed Ai Sheng.
• Ai Sheng warned that the Ai Lineage would struggle to withstand both forces and asked Li Dalong to help fight their strongest members, while urging him to preserve himself if the enemy proved too powerful.

The Ai Family prepared for an attack by the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley, but the enemy advanced its assault to three days away. When the battle began, Li Dalong fought the allied army’s strongest fighters while Ai Sheng prepared to use the lineage’s last Violet Firmament Thunder Prison Talisman.

• Li Dalong advised Ai Sheng to reinforce the Defensive Array, seek outside support, and let him hold off the enemy’s top fighters.
• The Ai Lineage began preparing for war, but learned that the Purple Cloud Aristocratic Clan and Fallen Soul Valley would attack in three days.
• Ai Sheng revealed the lineage’s remaining Violet Firmament Thunder Prison Talisman and planned to use it while Li Dalong occupied the enemy’s leaders.
• The allied army led by Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan attacked the Ai Family, whose members fought back despite being outnumbered.
• Li Dalong inflicted heavy losses on the allied army’s top fighters and evaded Zi Yun Ye and Chu Nuohan when they attacked him together.