Recaps

Li Dalong used the Check-In System to rebuild his cultivation, protect the Righteous Qi Sect from successive attacks, and secretly help Zhou Yong restore the sect. After Zhou Yong married Yun Yao and their daughter Zhou Xue was born, Li Dalong broke through to the Spirit Transformation stage.

• Li Dalong checked in at the forbidden rear mountain, received an innate spirit body, and restored his dantian and meridians before rapidly cultivating and gaining powerful system rewards.
• Li Dalong reached the Nascent Soul Realm, discovered the history of the Ancestral Grounds, and found the Blood Demon Blade in the cave where Ouyang Zhenhua had imprisoned the Blood Slaughter Ancestor.
• When the Devil Race threatened the Righteous Qi Sect, Li Dalong used a Spirit-Explosion Pill to kill Blood Demon and Xiahou Yeming, then broke into the Ancestral Grounds and learned how Ouyang Zhenhua had sealed the enemy forces.
• Li Dalong secretly equipped Zhou Yong with a Spirit-Gathering Array, then killed Shi Hao and the allied sect leaders when they attacked the Righteous Qi Sect and mortally wounded Dongfang Leng.
• After Dongfang Leng died, Li Dalong revealed his identity as the sect’s mysterious rescuer to Zhou Yong and gave him a sword formula, but kept living in the forbidden grounds.
• Li Dalong killed the Spirit Monkey Demon Sage and the Ten Great Demon Venerables during their invasion, then helped Zhou Yong secretly establish a Spirit-Gathering Array for elite disciples.
• Zhou Yong married Yun Yao and, with Li Dalong’s protection, defeated a rebellion led by Nangong Jing and Nangong Xun, and the couple later had a daughter, Zhou Xue.
• Li Dalong agreed to train Zhou Xue and used a Fire Essence Jujube to break through to the early Spirit Transformation stage.

Li Dalong defended the Righteous Qi Sect from the Dao Alliance and the Heaven-Severing Church, then searched Misty Canyon for Zhou Xue after she vanished there. He rescued her and discovered that Soul-Devouring Demons were invading through a spatial rift, leaving them facing new enemies deep in the canyon.

• Zhou Yong refused to join Feng Jinglei’s Dao Alliance, so Li Dalong went to its headquarters, killed Feng Jinglei, and warned the Cultivation World not to threaten the Righteous Qi Sect.
• As the Heaven-Severing Church attacked the sect, Li Dalong killed Jingbian Shihuang’s forces and later forced Zhan Tian to end his campaign against the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Li Dalong advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence realm while Zhou Xue returned to the sect, grew stronger, and led disciples on a mission into the Demon Beast Forest.
• After Yan Zhan pursued Zhou Xue into Misty Canyon, Zhou Yong searched for her and fought the Scarlet Radiance Demon Sage, who left him gravely wounded.
• Li Dalong rescued Zhou Yong, then killed the Scarlet Radiance Demon Sage, Yan Zhan, and the Purple East Heavenly Demon Lord before destroying the Crimson Flame Tiger Tribe’s camp.
• Li Dalong crafted ropes and descended into Misty Canyon, where he found Zhou Xue injured after she had fought a strange creature and helped her recover.
• Li Dalong and Zhou Xue explored the canyon and learned from a demon’s memories that Soul-Devouring Demons had entered through a spatial rift.
• Li Dalong and Zhou Xue followed the rift’s fluctuations to a gloomy cave, where a wolf-like demon attacked and a frost-covered demon emerged.