Recaps

Song Yan advanced his cultivation, uncovered a devil cultivator plot, and gained the legacy of the Sword Sect before joining a joint sect mission. The mission ended with him trapped in a secret realm, where Wan Songran warned him that Wang Xi was hunting them.

• Song Yan refined and sold high-quality Qi-Nourishing Pills, then found a strange bead that drew him into an illusory realm and taught him a Divine Sense mnemonic.
• Song Yan advanced to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, strengthened his Divine Sense through the bead’s trials, and received a mission to deal with rogue cultivators in Shiliang Town.
• Song Yan and Xiao He confronted Lu Xiaowei and his companions, uncovered their use of walking corpses and the Spirit-Transforming Blood Pill, and killed them before paper figures escaped with a message.
• Song Yan reported the devil cultivator clues, sold suspicious goods through Granny Qin, and shattered the seventeen steles in the Two-Pole Realm to inherit the Sword Sect’s token and teachings.
• Song Yan joined Granny Qin at the night market, traded Spirit-Transforming Blood Pills and Rebirth Nails for Yellow Sprout Pills, and agreed to meet Wu Huaguo and her husband about a possible cave-abode expedition.
• Song Yan joined Lu Ziye and other sect disciples at Silent Valley, where the joint mission led them to battle a Crucian Qiu and lesser demons near Hidden Moon Pool.
• Wang Xi and Shen Huai plotted to kill selected rival sect disciples, but a spatial rift opened and swept Song Yan, Wang Xi, and others into the Cloud Forest Secret Realm.
• Song Yan treated his injury and searched for an exit, while Wan Songran used his Ancient Flute and warned Song Yan that Wang Xi was hunting them and could locate the exit with his Jade Pendant.

Song Yan survived the Xuanyuan Sect’s accusations, rebuilt his cultivation, and deepened his Sword Dao before joining Qin Ying’s search for Gu Qingqing. In Peach Blossom Hollow, the group uncovered Jiang Xiao’s blood-refining scheme, and the arc ended with Li Qingfeng disrupting Jiang Xiao’s formation as Qin Ying prepared to strike.

• Wan Songran lured Wang Xi to the marsh, where Song Yan and Wan Songran fought him until Song Yan’s heavenly thunder and broken flying sword killed him.
• Wan Songran attacked the exhausted Song Yan, but Xiao He shielded him and Song Yan killed Wan Songran before escaping toward the secret realm exit.
• Song Yan severed his spiritual roots to create the Sword Mansion of the Dao-Subduing, planted a sword Dao seed, and later returned to the Dongyuan Sect with Xiao He.
• Song Yan protected Xie Xing’s convoy from assassins, then faced Shen Yu’s accusation over Wang Xi’s death until Daoist Li Jun drove the Xuanyuan Sect away.
• Song Yan discovered Xie Tianji’s hidden sword post in Xie Chan’s clay figurine, and copying it with the Two-Pole Bead formed an incomplete heart of the Dao-seeker within his Sword Dao Seed.
• After restoring his cultivation and completing sect missions, Song Yan joined Qin Ying and Li Qingfeng to investigate Peach Blossom Hollow and search for Gu Qingqing.
• Song Yan and the others found Gu Qingqing bound in a bridal sedan and fought Jiang Xiao and Bai Yulu, while Jiang Xiao activated a Blood Qi formation and attacked Qin Ying with an Immortal Sword.
• Song Yan killed Bai Yulu and freed Gu Qingqing, while Li Qingfeng killed a controlled cultivator and later disrupted Jiang Xiao’s formation as Jiang Xiao re-formed from blood.

Song Yan refined Heart Demon into Unmoored Boat, advanced his cultivation, and gained allies and treasures during an expedition into Lin Qinglong’s painted cave abode. After learning Shan Zifeng planned to target him, Song Yan gathered intelligence and killed Shan in an ambush.

• Song Yan and his companions defeated Jiang Xiao, and Qin Ying offered Song Yan a place among her disciples, but Song Yan later asked Qin Xijun to become his master.
• Song Yan drew Heart Demon into the Two-Pole Realm, experienced Zhou Ziyin’s tragic past, and refined the surviving ancient sword into his life-bound flying sword, Unmoored Boat.
• Song Yan joined Wu Huaguo and Rong Xiaofeng on an expedition into Lin Qinglong’s painted cave abode, where they fought talisman guardians and rogue cultivators and claimed their spoils.
• After returning from the painting, Song Yan exchanged the Artlessness fragment and other spoils for the expedition’s middle-grade Spirit Stones, then used the gains from refining Deadwood Wind-Thunder to reach the Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
• Shan Zifeng learned Song Yan was rebuilding his cultivation and ordered an investigation, while Song Yan used a human-skin mask to ask Shao Sichao about Shan’s cultivation, connections, and plans.
• Song Yan bought a Ren Water Spirit-Transforming Talisman and Qi-Replenishing Pills at auction, then prepared an ambush along Shan Zifeng’s escort route.
• Song Yan countered Shan Zifeng’s fire techniques, broke through his defenses with Sword Dao True Essence and hidden Sword-Rays, killed him, and left with Xiao He carrying Shan’s Heaven and Earth Bag.

Song Yan joined the Flower Festival at Beiya Mountain, where a Devil Cultivator’s scheme and the ancient sword Joined Branches advanced his plans for sword cultivation. After returning to Dongyuan Sect with Liang Feng’s pledge, Song Yan sought a Breakthrough Pill and found Lin Qing recovering from a serious injury.

• Song Yan refined Shan Zifeng’s veil, learned how it detected spiritual items, and discovered the notes on Sword Cultivators among Shan Zifeng’s possessions.
• Song Yan joined the Flower Festival mission to Beiya Mountain, where he reunited with Sheng Nian and received warnings about Liang Feng and the gathering.
• Song Yan placed third in the Flower-Sea Spirit Search, won the ancient Flying Sword Joined Branches, and secretly revived a Moon-Bearing Lotus Seed.
• A Five-Ghost Spirit-Disrupting Array drove the valley’s creatures into a frenzy, and the Yellow-Robed Little Daoist Child exposed Liang Feng’s attempt to steal a Spirit Pearl before Song Yan revealed the genuine lotus seed.
• Song Yan visited Sword-Casting Manor, where Joined Branches entered a defective Sword Case and showed him Yan Gui’s memories of Hua Luo and the making of the sword.
• Song Yan absorbed the Sword Case’s spiritual lights into his Seed of the Sword Dao, endured a surge of Sword Qi, and nearly reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• Song Yan gave Liang Feng the genuine lotus seed after Liang Feng pledged his trust, then returned to Dongyuan Sect with the visiting disciples.
• Song Yan searched for a Breakthrough Pill but found none in the inner sect treasury, then visited Lin Qing and found his spiritual power unstable after a recent injury.