Recaps

Jiang Yi demonstrated his new fire techniques by defeating Qiao Yu in a spar, then discussed entering [Gathering Grotto Continent] to seek his Foundation Establishment opportunity. In [Divine Empyrean Thunder City], the Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord ordered Eastern Victory Continent cultivators to kill Jiang Yi, fearing [Lesser Yang] would threaten [Sun].

• Jiang Yi and Qiao Yu sparred at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, and Jiang Yi used his Three Yang Refining True Fire to overcome her swordsmanship.
• Qiao Yu offered to help Jiang Yi deal with trouble and warned that entering [Gathering Grotto Continent] could draw attacks from [Immortal Dao] True Disciples.
• Jiang Yi said he believed his Foundation Establishment opportunity lay in [Gathering Grotto Continent] and could not wait the forty-eight years his Heavenly Book predicted.
• The Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord used his Dharma eye to glimpse Jiang Yi’s protected fortune and concluded that the Xiantian Sect’s Dao Child was tied to [Lesser Yang].
• The Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord issued the [Demon-Suppressing Order], commanding Eastern Victory Continent immortal cultivators to spare no effort to slay Jiang Yi.

Jiang Yi cultivated the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining and met Shao Guansu, who offered the Shao Clan’s resources in exchange for a chance to serve him. Shao Guansu revealed that his clan possessed a sealed Jueyin Woman, but a young woman in blue appeared at the hall doors before he could explain further.

• Jiang Yi refined Qian-Heaven True Jun Qi and realized he needed more to perfect the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining.
• Jiang Yi met Shao Guansu, who apologized for testing him and explained that the declining Shao Clan hoped to pledge allegiance.
• Shao Guansu offered pill-making skills, Earth-Lung Fire Essence, and a Tribulation-Dispelling Fruit-Pill to support Jiang Yi.
• Shao Guansu revealed that the Shao Clan had found a Jueyin Woman sealed inside a law-crystal coffin.
• A young woman in blue appeared at the hall doors and fixed Shao Guansu with an icy gaze.

Jiang Yi finished refining Qian-Heaven True Jun Qi, improved his casting speed, and traveled to Qian Peak Grotto-Heaven to study a clone technique. On the journey, Luo Xuanming told him that monks from the Western Maitreya Continent had taken Jiang Yi’s grandfather, and Jiang Yi used the Heavenly Book to ask what fate awaited him.

• Jiang Yi completed his ten-day cultivation session, discovered he could cast Dao techniques much faster, and spent several days reading and resting in the classics division.
• After consulting the Heavenly Book, Jiang Yi invited Luo Xuanming to accompany him to Qian Peak Grotto-Heaven to seek the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.
• Luo Xuanming reported that fighting had unsettled the Three Ridges, that the Dragon Aspect Manor had become the Sea-Covering Sect, and that the Acacia Sect had been annexed by the True Gu Sect.
• Luo Xuanming told Jiang Yi that monks from the Western Maitreya Continent had escorted an old man identified as a Buddha Child’s sacred father back across the sea.
• Jiang Yi suspected the Buddhist Dao wanted to claim a connection to his complete Sage King destiny, and Profound Mystery True Person reassured him that the monks had taken his grandfather.
• Jiang Yi asked the Heavenly Book whether his grandfather faced fortune or misfortune as the flying carriages reached Qian Peak Grotto-Heaven.

Jiang Yi entered the Grand Regular Dragon Pavilion on Qian Peak to study the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art, hoping its ability to create two cultivating bodies would help him make the most of his limited time. As he began using the Heavenly Book to aid his comprehension, Pang Zhongwang arrived at the pavilion.

• Jiang Yi and Luo Xuanming entered Qian Peak, where Jiang Yi learned he would have to wait several days to meet Sect Master Qin Baiyu and that Yuan Xiao was using the Universe Light Land.
• Jiang Yi brought Luo Xuanming to the Grand Regular Dragon Pavilion, where Luo Xuanming went to choose a cultivation method of his own.
• Jiang Yi summoned the Book Immortal and examined the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art, learning that it could create two bodies that cultivated independently.
• Jiang Yi began practicing the art, then decided to use the Heavenly Book to speed his comprehension.
• Pang Zhongwang arrived outside the pavilion, intending to cultivate in the Universe Light Land and comprehend another Divine Ability.

Pang Zhongwang sought to reserve the Universe Light Land and challenge Jiang Yi’s place in the sect, but Jiang Yi arrived after advancing to the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining and overwhelming Pang’s destiny. Jiang Yi revealed that he had more Dao merit than Pang and ordered the steward to open the cultivation ground for him.

• Pang Zhongwang reflected on his Water Virtue cultivation and resented Jiang Yi’s effortless good fortune and the clan’s reluctance to oppose him.
• Pang asked the Hall of Great Illumination’s steward to exchange his Dao merit for ten days in the Universe Light Land, but learned that Jiang had priority after Yuan Xiao finished cultivating.
• Yuan Xiao urged Pang not to antagonize Jiang, and Pang argued that Jiang might fail to break through the shell barrier.
• Jiang Yi arrived amid overwhelming radiance, having perfected the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining after studying the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.
• Pang’s Emperor-Wang Water and destiny were suppressed by Jiang’s Sage King destiny, while Yuan Xiao yielded his place in the Universe Light Land to Jiang.
• Jiang learned that Pang had eighteen instances of Dao merit while he had twenty-eight, then told the steward to open the Universe Light Land for him.

Jiang Yi refined the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art in the Universe Light Land, creating two indistinguishable art bodies. After emerging from seclusion, he lent Qu Liuer ten Dao merits for the upcoming Hong Water Dharma Assembly, provoking Pang Zhongwang and leaving him furious and injured.

• Jiang Yi entered the Universe Light Land and spent about a hundred days comprehending the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.
• Jiang Yi successfully formed two art bodies and tested their abilities, then had them meditate on different Daoist arts while he cultivated.
• Pang Zhongwang waited outside the Hall of Great Illumination, resenting Jiang Yi for claiming the cultivation grounds and resolving to defeat him.
• Jiang Yi emerged from seclusion and met Qu Liuer, who explained that she wanted to cultivate before the Hong Water Dharma Assembly.
• Pang Zhongwang said he had pledged eighteen Dao merits for the Universe Light Land, but Jiang Yi lent Qu Liuer his remaining ten merits so she could claim the time.
• Pang Zhongwang nearly attacked Jiang Yi, then backed down after Qu Liuer restrained him and Jiang Yi reminded him of Luo Qingya; after Jiang Yi left, Pang Zhongwang spat blood and accused him of damaging his Dao Foundation.

Jiang Yi completed tempering his Dao Foundation, found Qiao Yu battling a deity at Flowing Reed Mountain, and accepted the Golden-Thread Robe she had obtained to protect him on his coming journey to [Gathering Grotto Continent]. The Hong Water Dharma Assembly began gathering on a vast island, where Fuli Zi watched for Jiang Yi as a powerful treasure ship arrived.

• Jiang Yi learned he had reached twelve-tenths grand perfection and discovered that Qiao Yu had gone alone to forbidden Flowing Reed Mountain.
• Jiang Yi saw Qiao Yu drive back a three-headed deity with her Geng Metal innate Dao art, then helped close the gateway with the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool's great array.
• Qiao Yu gave Jiang Yi the Golden-Thread Robe to help protect him on his journey to [Gathering Grotto Continent], and Jiang Yi accepted it while teasing her about marriage.
• Cultivators and True Disciples gathered on an island in Hong Water for the Dharma Assembly, where Fuli Zi wondered whether Jiang Yi would attend.
• A five-tiered warship arrived over the island, scattering the Qi Refining cultivators, while a young Daoist in a dark-cloud robe stood on its deck.

At the Hong Water Dharma Assembly, the Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples challenged the Xiantian Sect’s presence in the sky, and Yue Ziqi trapped Liu Jing in his Nine-Curve Soul-Ensnaring Smoke. The Great Wei Treasure Palace arrived, dispersed the smoke, and forced the Great Talisman Sect’s disciples to yield the sky.

• Fuli Zi, Yue Ziqi, Yu Changqing, and Xu Wan arrived for the Great Talisman Sect, while Feng Yuan assessed their strength from the Xiantian Sect’s encampment.
• Feng Yuan sent Liu Jing to invite the Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples down, and Yue Ziqi responded by laying Nine-Curve Soul-Ensnaring Smoke across the sky.
• Liu Jing entered the smoke with his Barrier-Clearing Bronze Mirror, but Yue Ziqi’s winding formation disoriented him and exhausted his Law Power.
• Feng Yuan prepared to rescue Liu Jing, but the Great Wei Treasure Palace arrived and scattered the smoke, allowing Liu Jing to escape.
• The Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples moved aside for the descending palace, and Yue Ziqi complained about the Dao Child’s grand conveyance.

Jiang Yi arrived at the Hong Water Dharma Assembly in the Great Wei Treasure Palace and received a Talisman Edict that let him enter the Gathering Grotto Continent. After True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai opened the Imaginative Heaven for the contests, Yue Ziqi challenged Gu Changling, and Jiang Yi suspected Gu Changling was injured.

• Jiang Yi emerged from the Great Wei Treasure Palace, greeted Feng Yuan and the Eight Peaks' disciples, then had the palace regulate their Spirit Aura.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai arrived and announced the rules, awarding Jiang Yi one of the six Talisman Edicts.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai opened the Imaginative Heaven as the arena for the contests between the two sects.
• Yue Ziqi entered the Imaginative Heaven and challenged Gu Changling directly.
• Gu Changling's murky yellow radiance entered the Imaginative Heaven, and Jiang Yi suspected he was injured.

Jiang Yi watched Gu Changling and Yue Ziqi fight over the Talisman Edict at the Hong Water Dharma Assembly, recognizing that Gu Changling was injured and had been discarded by True Lord Luo. Gu Changling’s decisive attack failed to overcome Yue Ziqi, who won the match, while Gu Changling left with his Primordial Essence damaged.

• Jiang Yi reasoned that True Lord Luo had treated Gu Changling as an expendable pawn after Gu declined the Yellow Dragon Gall, and he noticed that Gu was injured.
• Gu Changling opened the match by raising mountains with the Great She Precious Jun True Art, while Yue Ziqi flooded the battlefield with Circulating Life-Stealing Destiny Tribulation Water and demons.
• Gu Changling used Profound Yellow One-Steaming Great Capture to imprison Yue Ziqi and his water, but Yue used the Blood Swallow method to consume his python robe and advance to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.
• Gu Changling admitted that their contest would be decided in one move and charged Yue Ziqi, who met him head-on; both were injured, but two of Gu’s four auspicious clouds vanished.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai declared Yue Ziqi the winner, and Gu Changling cupped his hands to Yue before leaving Imaginative Heaven.

Jiang Yi sent Gu Changling a healing pill while considering how to win his allegiance, and warned Feng Yuan that Yu Changqing had mastered a technique that undermined Feng Yuan’s advantage. After Yue Ziqi won the first Talisman Edict but suffered severe injuries, the Great Talisman Sect chose Yu Changqing to challenge Feng Yuan next.

• Jiang Yi sent Profound Mystery True Person to give Gu Changling a Nine-Sprout True-Nurturing Pill and reflected on whether he could offer Gu the support needed to rebuild his Dao Foundation.
• Gu Changling accepted the pill while believing his defeat and ruined cultivation were consequences of refusing True Lord Luo’s order to obstruct Jiang Yi.
• Feng Yuan recognized that Gu Changling had lost because of his injuries and worried that the Xiantian Sect would fall behind in the remaining Dharma Assembly duels.
• Yue Ziqi returned to the Great Talisman Sect’s lodgings after defeating Gu Changling, vomited blood, and used Fuli Zi’s profound medicine to suppress his injuries.
• Yu Changqing volunteered to challenge Feng Yuan, and Fuli Zi approved the match after Yu revealed that he had mastered Earth-Nourishing Harmony.
• Jiang Yi warned Feng Yuan that Yu Changqing’s Wood Virtue could benefit from Feng Yuan’s Fire Virtue, and Feng Yuan realized the danger and thanked him.

Jiang Yi advised Feng Yuan on how Yu Changqing’s Wood Virtue techniques might be countered, and Feng Yuan used that insight to win their Hong Water Dharma Assembly duel. The victory restored the Xiantian Sect’s morale, while the Great Talisman Sect was left wondering how Jiang Yi had seen through Yu Changqing’s plan.

• Jiang Yi explained to Feng Yuan how fire and earth could counter Yu Changqing’s Jia Wood cultivation, warning him about [Earth-Nourishing Harmony].
• Yu Changqing challenged Feng Yuan, and the two fought in [Imaginative Heaven] as their sects watched.
• Feng Yuan used Samadhi Fire and the Burning Wood Law Saber, but Yu Changqing revealed his towering Jia Wood form, strengthened by [Earth-Nourishing Harmony].
• Feng Yuan used fire to scorch the earth supporting Yu Changqing’s Dao Foundation, then split his divine tree body with the Burning Wood Law Saber.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai declared Feng Yuan the winner, and the Great Talisman Sect’s Fuli Zi wondered how Jiang Yi had anticipated Yu Changqing’s methods.

After Feng Yuan defeated Yu Changqing, Jiang Yi planned to take four Talisman Edicts from the Great Talisman Sect by sending Qu Liuer against Xu Wan and Yuan Xiao against Fuli Zi. Qu Liuer won her match, and Yuan Xiao entered the next battle after drinking a pot of Mortal Dust Brew without losing his resolve.

• Feng Yuan defeated Yu Changqing by exploiting the Five Phases to damage his Dao Foundation, and Fuli Zi gave the injured Yu Changqing a Sweet Dew Branch.
• Feng Yuan credited Jiang Yi with guiding his victory, and Jiang Yi summoned the other True Disciples to plan their next matches.
• Jiang Yi proposed that Qu Liuer fight Xu Wan and Yuan Xiao fight Fuli Zi to secure more Talisman Edicts, and the disciples agreed.
• Qu Liuer challenged Xu Wan and returned to the Great Wei Treasure Palace with a golden Talisman Edict, indicating she had won.
• Yuan Xiao drank the entire pot of Mortal Dust Brew, remained clear-minded, and entered the Minor Realm to challenge Fuli Zi.

Yuan Xiao fought Fuli Zi for the final Talisman Edict, first overcoming his True Lord-bestowed protection and then using a hidden counter to defeat the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner. Fuli Zi conceded, and Yuan Xiao wondered how Jiang Yi had known the banner’s secret and advised him to use the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.

• Fuli Zi used the Great Abyss Longevity Talisman to withstand Yuan Xiao’s sword attacks, then proposed a contest of three moves.
• Yuan Xiao shattered Fuli Zi’s Life-Nourishing One-Qi Gui with his first move and launched a second full-strength strike.
• Fuli Zi revealed the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner, which created a duplicate of Yuan Xiao and transferred its injuries to him.
• Yuan Xiao used the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art to escape the transferred wounds and appear unharmed above the battlefield.
• Fuli Zi conceded, and Yuan Xiao took the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner while wondering how Jiang Yi had anticipated the treasure and its counter.

Yuan Xiao defeated Fuli Zi by countering the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner with a transformation art Jiang Yi had taught him. The Great Talisman Sect’s disciples suspected foul play and asked Fuli Zi to seek arbitration, while Jiang Yi’s companions celebrated his quiet role in the Xiantian Sect’s victory.

• Fuli Zi accepted his defeat to Yuan Xiao and left Imaginative Heaven without demanding the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner back.
• Yu Changqing, Yue Ziqi, and Xu Wan argued that Yuan Xiao could not have known how to counter the ancient treasure without secret interference, and they urged Fuli Zi to request arbitration from True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai.
• Fuli Zi warned that arbitration could bring further embarrassment to the Great Talisman Sect, but agreed to go after Yu Changqing offered to stake his position as a True Disciple.
• The Eight Peaks’ disciples celebrated as Yuan Xiao returned to the Great Wei Treasure Palace with the Talisman Edict and received congratulations from Qu Liuer, Feng Yuan, and Gu Changling.
• Yuan Xiao thanked Jiang Yi for revealing Fuli Zi’s treasures and teaching him the countering art, leaving the others astonished by Jiang Yi’s insight.

After the Hong Water Dharma Assembly, Jiang Yi was summoned by True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai to answer the Great Talisman Sect’s challenge to his guidance of the Xiantian Sect’s disciples. Jiang Yi agreed to face all of its true disciples at once, while the chapter then shifted to cultivators in Hongde Blessed Land benefiting from a surge of Dao thunder in [Divine Empyrean Thunder City].

• Jiang Yi received praise from the Xiantian Sect’s disciples for guiding their victory, while Gu Changling privately weighed the bleak choices left after his Dao foundation was damaged.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai summoned Jiang Yi to investigate the Great Talisman Sect’s doubts about the assembly results, prompting Yuan Xiao, Qu Liuer, and Feng Yuan to follow in support.
• Jiang Yi learned that the Great Talisman Sect wanted him to demonstrate his Dao understanding and refused its proposed draw, inviting all its true disciples to challenge him together.
• In Hongde Blessed Land, Qi Refining cultivators gathered at the Five Thunder Daoist Field and praised the Dao thunder’s revelations and the chance to advance to Foundation Establishment.

Daoist Lingxia’s reckless criticism during the Great Dao’s thunderous revelation brought him a karmic sentence, while Qingfeng and Hanqiang earned a chance for promotion. Officials in Divine Empyrean Thunder City identified Cao Qiu and other noble-born cultivators as potential Immortal Seedlings, and considered whether they would borrow Foundation Establishment to hunt the new lord of Lesser Yang.

• Qingfeng rebuked Lingxia for criticizing the Dao Lineage, and Lingxia agreed to fast and cleanse his Dao heart.
• The Great Dao’s thunderous voice granted Qingfeng and Hanqiang insight into thunder arts, but Lingxia gained nothing from listening.
• An official at the Censure Office crossed out Lingxia’s name and sentenced him to lose his origins and suffer rebirth as a pig or dog, while recommending Qingfeng and Hanqiang for promotion.
• Officials discovered that Cao Qiu, Qin Xiaoyun, Qu Jin, and Jun Jiusi had awakened past-life memories and might qualify as Immortal Seedlings by cultivating the Thunderclap Art for Sweeping Away Demons.
• An adviser suggested that the True Lord might be preparing the noble-born Immortal Seedlings to kill the new lord of Lesser Yang, luring them with the prospect of favor from the Sun Dao Track.

Jiang Yi entered [Consciousness Aggregate Heaven] to discuss the Five Phases with the Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples and demonstrated their cycles of generation and restraint. After exposing the flaw in Yu Changqing’s Wood Virtue cultivation, Jiang Yi offered to discuss the Five Phases’ numerical principles.

• Yuan Xiao, Qu Liuer, and Feng Yuan stood behind Jiang Yi when the Great Talisman Sect challenged him to discuss the Five Phases, and Gu Changling offered to lead a fight if needed.
• Jiang Yi accepted True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai’s test of his Dao Wisdom and entered [Consciousness Aggregate Heaven] with Yu Changqing.
• Jiang Yi explained that generation and restraint must remain balanced, then demonstrated the Five Phases transforming through True Steaming.
• Jiang Yi revealed that Yu Changqing’s excessive Wood Qi had left his Dao Foundation vulnerable and explained how Feng Yuan had exploited that weakness.
• Yu Changqing admitted his inferiority and apologized, while Jiang Yi announced that he could also discuss the Five Phases’ numerical principles.

Jiang Yi explained the Five Phases and defeated Yu Changqing, who severed his own Dao foundation as promised. Jiang Yi used the sacrifice to understand that a natal treasure could anchor his own foundation, then the Xiantian Sect was declared winner of the Hong Water Dharma Assembly.

• Jiang Yi demonstrated the generation and transformation of the Five Phases, silencing the assembled disciples while Gu Changling and Yuan Xiao praised him.
• Feng Yuan and Yue Ziqi prepared to duel, but True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai immobilized them and ordered the disciples to wait until the assembly ended.
• Yu Changqing acknowledged defeat and severed his Dao foundation, allowing Jiang Yi to study how a cultivator anchored insubstantial True Xi and destiny nature in a tangible object.
• Jiang Yi realized the [Upside Down] Slaying Sword could serve as his natal treasure and considered how it might suit his path toward Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Yi left [Consciousness Aggregate Heaven], and True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai announced the Xiantian Sect as the victor of the Hong Water Dharma Assembly.
• A golden beam rose above Central Heaven, and a gray-robed Daoist remarked that the Great Talisman Sect had no outstanding Dao talents besides Zhang Yuansheng.

The Manifest Netherworld Profound Dao Lord and Yuanzuo discussed the Great Talisman Sect’s plans, while Jiang Yi accepted gifts and a karmic favor from True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai. Seven days later, Jiang Yi received the Heavenly Book’s answer for forging his Dao Foundation and began circulating its True Steaming Law Power.

• Yuanzuo challenged the Manifest Netherworld Profound Dao Lord over his gamble on Jiang Yi and warned that the Great Talisman Sect had prepared to preserve [Earth Virtue].
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai gave Jiang Yi a Crown Bone Buddha Sharira, and Yuan Xiao handed him the Miesheng Mara Sutra Pillar after defeating Fuli Zi.
• Jiang Yi accepted Guangzhao Jinghai’s favor in exchange for resolving an old karmic cause after establishing his foundation, and Guangzhao’s blessing brought him closer to that realm.
• Jiang Yi returned to the Great Wei Treasure Palace, where cultivators praised his achievements, and spent seven days in meditation as [Gathering Grotto Continent] approached.
• Jiang Yi used the Heavenly Book to deduce his Dao Foundation, settling on the ten-thousand-chariot imperial law and Five Directions Paying Homage to the Origin, then released True Steaming Law Power throughout the hall.

Jiang Yi reached the threshold of forging his Dao Foundation, but the Shell Pass blocked his progress, so True Lord Lu directed him to seek Ziwu Fire and use a copper coin to find Lai Buyi at Gathering Grotto Continent. The chapter ended with Sect Master Qin Baiyu revealing that Gathering Grotto Continent was bait intended to draw out those resisting the Sun.

• Profound Mystery True Person saw Jiang Yi manifest signs of Destiny Nature joining together and realized he was preparing to establish his foundation.
• Jiang Yi stopped his attempt when his true steaming Law Power could not break through the Shell Pass, and Profound Mystery True Person explained the benefits of using heavenly timing and earthly advantage.
• True Lord Lu told Jiang Yi to obtain Ziwu Fire, then gave him a copper coin to take to Lai Buyi for a survey of the terrain at Gathering Grotto Continent.
• True Lord Lu warned Jiang Yi that Thunder Pivot had empowered Immortal Seedlings with borrowed Foundation Establishment strength and said many Immortal cultivators secretly practiced demonic arts.
• After Jiang Yi left, Sect Master Qin Baiyu told True Lord Lu that Gathering Grotto Continent was bait meant to draw out those who could no longer tolerate the Sun's dominance.

Jiang Yi learned that the Xiantian Sect had arranged Gathering Grotto Continent as a chance for him to establish his Dao, while rival Dao Child Hechu could still threaten his standing. He gathered companions and reached Five Elders Peak, where the Eight Sects’ gathering began with Yuan Xiao fighting Nie Ying.

• True Lord Lu learned from Qin Baiyu that Luo Tiansu had found Ning Hechu’s reincarnation and had used Gu Changling to test the path for him, while Jiang Yi would have to prove himself at Gathering Grotto Continent.
• Jiang Yi resolved to stop being a pawn, visited Qu Liuer, and invited Qiao Yu to accompany him to Gathering Grotto Continent in search of Ziwu Fire and Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Yi and Qiao Yu traveled by the Great Wei Treasure Palace to the Dian River, where Profound Mystery True Person explained that Five Elders Peak had formed from an ancient Foundation Establishment cultivator’s death.
• Feng Yuan and Qu Liuer arrived with their Talisman Edicts and junior disciples, while Yue Ziqi had already reached Five Elders Peak.
• Yuan Xiao arrived fighting Nie Ying of the Primordial Chaos Sect, and Feng Yuan identified them as longtime rivals who served as whetstones for each other.

Jiang Yi stopped Yuan Xiao and Nie Ying’s battle with a True Lord’s talisman while the cultivators waited for Gathering Grotto Continent to open. As the realm appeared, a hidden True Lord turned an Outer Dao assassin into a supposed protector of Jiang Yi, who then prepared to enter with an invitation.

• Yuan Xiao and Nie Ying clashed with their signature arts until Jiang Yi used True Lord Xu’s talisman to separate them and end their fight.
• Yuan Xiao and Nie Ying explained that they had become enemies over a vast piece of Geng Metal Essence, and Yuan Xiao mocked Nie Ying for losing it.
• A disguised Outer Dao Yin-Yang Dharma King watched Jiang Yi, but True Lord Xu captured him and altered his memories so he believed he was an incarnation tasked with protecting the Dao Child.
• True Lord Xu noted that other Outer Dao figures were also positioned to protect Jiang Yi while he considered drawing out a major enemy in Eastern Victory Continent.
• Two days later, Gathering Grotto Continent appeared above the Dian River, and Feng Yuan told Jiang Yi to use his Talisman Edict to answer its invitation before entering.

Jiang Yi entered [Gathering Grotto Continent] as the sects’ True Lords argued over whether his escort violated the rules. In the mortal realm, imprisoned Daye princess Yao Yun endured forced labor while secretly praying to summon a Tribulation Child.

• Jiang Yi used his Golden Talisman Edict to enter [Gathering Grotto Continent], guiding Qiao Yu and Shao Guansu inside with him.
• Qu Liuer and Yuan Xiao entered the realm, while Nie Ying and Yue Ziqi prepared to follow.
• True Lord Xinghuo Fuming challenged True Lord Lu over Jiang Yi’s True Lord escort, and True Lord Fengqi Heji urged them to stop arguing.
• True Lord Lu confronted True Lord Tao over her past schemes against Jiang Yi and defended his chances of succeeding to [Lesser Yang].
• Yao Yun labored in a Liyang prison mine with Eunuch Chen, who secretly intended to trade her and the Profound Finger Treasure Map to King Wu.
• Yao Yun recalled her enemies, prayed for a Tribulation Child to descend, and hoped to restore the Daye Dynasty.

Jiang Yi arrived in [Gathering Grotto Continent] and found Yao Yun in danger after she escaped Bitter Prison Mountain. He killed Chen Jin and placed his Primordial Spirit in a wild dog, while Yao Yun’s fate and Jiang Yi’s purpose in the Mortal Realm remained unresolved.

• Jiang Yi crossed into [Gathering Grotto Continent], glimpsed Jambudvipa Vast Land, and felt the great world’s Heaven’s Will suppress his power.
• Yao Yun escaped Bitter Prison Mountain with Chen Jin’s help, but Chen Jin demanded the Profound Finger Treasure Map and revealed he had learned her secrets from her younger brother.
• Chen Jin defeated Yao Yun’s attempt to attack him with Storm Pear Blossom Needles and stopped her from killing herself after she bit off half her tongue.
• Yao Yun’s prayers summoned Jiang Yi, who appeared in the burial ground and recognized that his karmic bond was tied to her.
• Chen Jin pretended to pledge himself to Yao Yun and Daye, but Jiang Yi saw through his thoughts and granted his wish to have his body shattered and labor like a dog by killing him and putting his Primordial Spirit into a wild dog.