Recaps

Song Yan joined the Eastern Wilderness front, destroyed the Demon Spirit Sect, and fought Shi Yunhao over an ancient sealed sword. Zhou Yan died breaking the Blood Slaughter Rebirth Formation at Baiyun Mountain, while Shi Yunhao withdrew as reinforcements approached.

• Song Yan reunited with Xiao He, fought Meng Tian, and accepted Ye Yin’s sea chart and commission before heading to the Eastern Wilderness.
• Song Yan rescued Fan Jingchen and Huliang Village, then reached Blackwater Pass and was assigned to command Great Serpent Mound.
• Song Yan killed the Demon Spirit Sect’s Golden Core elders, razed its base, and defeated a Golden Core Devil Cultivator who crossed into Great Serpent Mound.
• Shi Yunhao prepared to free an ancient flying sword at Cloud-Parting Valley by sacrificing captives and weakening Gao Xing, while planning to endanger nearby commoners.
• The Seed Demon Way trapped Li Yi’s force at Baiyun Mountain, and Zhou Yan sacrificed his life to break the Blood Slaughter Rebirth Formation with Fang Cunsheng’s help.
• Song Yan confronted Shi Yunhao at Cloud-Parting Valley as the ancient sword broke free, while Xiao He intercepted Ku Qian.
• Song Yan fought Shi Yunhao’s Dharma Body, and Liu Tianfang disrupted the Demon Spirit Sect cultivator’s attempt to seize the sword.
• After learning that Li Yi had routed the Seed Demon Way and that Heaven’s Deputy Office forces were approaching, Shi Yunhao withdrew with Ku Qian.

Song Yan returned to the Chu Kingdom, killed Lü Ketai and helped Ju Luyi defeat the Xuanyuan Sect before she won the Nine Veins Grand Competition. He later went to the Mohist School as Ruan Zhi’s Dao protector, where the Juzi contest began inside Mechanism City.

• Song Yan left his military post, visited the Sword Sect Ruins with Deng Ke, and passed the Eighteen-Pavilion Crossing by mastering basic sword forms.
• Song Yan reached the Nine Veins Grand Competition, killed Xiao Langyu and Lü Ketai, and Ju Luyi escaped Deng Yu’s illusion and killed her.
• Song Yan called on the Righteous Path to hunt the Xuanyuan Sect’s remnants, then returned to the Dongyuan Sect and confronted Qin Xijun about her hidden past and the Phoenix feather.
• Ju Luyi won the Nine Veins Grand Champion title for the Dongyuan Sect, and Song Yan prepared to travel to the Central Region with her and Sheng Yun.
• Song Yan received Ruan Zhi’s request to serve as her Dao protector in the contest for Juzi and traveled to the Mohist School with Xiao He and Xiao Ju.
• Song Yan learned that Ruan Zhi risked death if she lost the contest and agreed to help her search Mechanism City for the truth about Unsolved Spiritual Resonance.
• Song Yan and Ruan Zhi entered Mechanism City and earned eighteen points in the cooking, medicine, and mechanical craftsmanship trials with Xiao He’s help.

After Ruan Zhi became the Mohist School’s Juzi, Song Yan entered Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum in search of Thunder-Charged Fushi Stone and became separated from the other cultivators. He battled Jiang Jin, discovered the extent of his ability to blur illusion and reality, and destroyed him, while Jiang Ding remained to be dealt with.

• Ruan Zhi won the Juzi candidacy and received the Mohist School’s Juzi Token and Mo Dian, while Song Yan chose the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge and learned that Abyssal Chime could be reforged with thunder-charged fushi stone.
• Song Yan set out for Xuanyuan and agreed to enter Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum, where twenty-eight cultivators would explore under restrictions that reduced their cultivation to Qi Refining, Third Layer.
• Song Yan’s group fought an Immortal Qin General Terracotta Warrior, and Song Yan and Tang Hulu destroyed it by breaking its chest and pinning its Ancient Talisman.
• Song Yan became separated from the other cultivators inside the mausoleum, where his Ancient Jade manifested a boy who later remembered that his name was Zhao Zheng.
• Song Yan used Zhou Zhu’s mechanism diagram to navigate the tunnels and found an intact teleportation array that might lead to the Eastern Sea, but he chose not to activate it.
• Song Yan and Zhao Zheng reached a clay-figurine version of Handan, where Song Yan found Jiang Ding pursuing the injured Yun Wu and challenged him over the Hehuan Sect poison.
• Jiang Jin emerged from Jiang Ding’s blood talisman, overwhelmed Song Yan, Xiao He, and Su Xueming, and left Song Yan near death before Song Yan used shifting illusions and Mirror Flower Shadow to make his wounds real and destroy him.
• Jiang Jin revealed that Jiang Ding had disgraced him by using his name and asked the others to kill Jiang Ding after the teleportation array’s protection ended.

Song Yan left the Imperial Mausoleum with a completed Sea Chart and reached the Star Dark Sea, where he became involved with the Worry-Relief Pavilion and Peach Blossom Island. The arc ended with Song Yan and several Golden Core cultivators agreeing to join an expedition to a hidden island in the Ruin Sea.

• Song Yan entered the Imperial Mausoleum’s Mound with Wu Mengliu, found treasures in the Qin capital, and faced Ying Zheng’s banquet alongside the other cultivators.
• Song Yan fought Shi Yunhao, then received Tai'e and a mysterious object from Ying Zheng before leaving the mausoleum.
• Song Yan completed the Sea Chart, identified Penglai Immortal Island, and set off toward the Eastern Sea with the twelve thunder-charged fushi stone statues for Master Xu to use in reforging Tai'e.
• Song Yan returned to the Mound with Xiao He, activated an ancient teleportation formation, and arrived on Floating Jade Island in the Star Dark Sea.
• Song Yan defeated Qu Zhao and Qu Zhuang, drove off the Sea Wasteland Society’s raiders, and learned about Chivalrous Heroes Island and the nearby islands.
• Song Yan traveled to Chivalrous Heroes Island, established ties with the Worry-Relief Pavilion, and declined Yang Zhiyi’s request to investigate the Sea Wasteland Society’s past robbery.
• Song Yan attended Peach Blossom Island’s banquet and auction, won an Immortal Skirt for Xiao He, and defeated Xu Xiaoyu’s attempt to use the Soft Dream Floating Fuxin Art on him.
• Song Yan and Shen Xu joined Jade Flute True Lord, Junhe Fairy, Zhan Chuan True Lord, Yang Zhiyi, Han Changsheng, and Tie Zhengming in agreeing to explore a hidden island in the Ruin Sea.