Recaps

Ye Qingyun served Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi a meal that introduced them to unfamiliar dishes and rice piled in large bowls. Xiao Shi attained enlightenment and broke through while eating, and Shen Tianhua then asked Ye Qingyun for a large basin so he could eat from it too.

• Ye Qingyun chased Xiao Shi out of the kitchen after she proved unable to help him cook.
• Ye Qingyun served red-braised pork, stinky tofu, stir-fried tomatoes and eggs, and large bowls of rice to Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi.
• Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi tried the dishes and eagerly ate more rice after discovering how delicious the food was.
• Xiao Shi attained enlightenment and broke through from the middle stage to the late stage of the Origin Gathering Realm during the meal.
• Shen Tianhua asked Ye Qingyun for a large basin, claiming that he always ate from one.

Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi ate excessively at Ye Qingyun’s home, and Shen Tianhua gained a hundred years of lifespan without breaking through. After they left Floating Cloud Mountain, they met Bai Suyi as she was heading toward the mountain.

• Ye Qingyun served Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi a large meal, and both ate until they were uncomfortably full.
• After finishing the last mouthful of rice, Shen Tianhua felt new vitality and realized his lifespan had increased by a hundred years.
• Ye Qingyun gave Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi digestive tablets and warned them not to overeat, which Shen Tianhua interpreted as a lesson against haste.
• Shen Tianhua refused Xiao Shi’s suggestion to visit Ye Qingyun regularly, saying they should not disturb the secluded expert.
• As Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi prepared to leave, they encountered Bai Suyi, who asked whether they had come down from Floating Cloud Mountain.

Bai Suyi returned to Floating Cloud Mountain for another fire-cupping treatment from Ye Qingyun, while Shen Tianhua and Xiao Shi left after spotting a true dragon in the storm clouds. Ye Qingyun removed fewer worms than before, but Bai Suyi suddenly vomited blood and collapsed unconscious.

• Bai Suyi arrived to visit Ye Qingyun, and Shen Tianhua considered taking her as a disciple before Xiao Shi provoked her over her master and sect.
• Xiao Shi revealed her Origin Gathering cultivation as she and Bai Suyi prepared to fight, but a storm and a true dragon appeared in the clouds.
• Shen Tianhua recognized the dragon and hurriedly took Xiao Shi away; the clouds cleared, and Bai Suyi went to Ye Qingyun's courtyard alone.
• Bai Suyi told Ye Qingyun that the previous fire-cupping treatment had helped, and he began another treatment while they were alone together.
• Ye Qingyun removed the cups and found fewer tiny white worms, but Bai Suyi suddenly spat blood, collapsed, and lost consciousness.

Ye Qingyun treated Bai Suyi after her body turned ice-cold, and antibiotics helped her recover. After Bai Suyi left to investigate evil cultivators who abducted children, an eerie black figure appeared near Floating Cloud Mountain’s marketplace.

• Bai Suyi suddenly lost consciousness as her body grew dangerously cold, and Ye Qingyun warmed her with heating, hot-water bottles, and quilts.
• Ye Qingyun suspected the poisonous insects inside Bai Suyi were multiplying, so he gave her an antibiotic from his medicine chest.
• Bai Suyi regained warmth and woke up, then thanked Ye Qingyun after he explained that he had saved her life.
• Bai Suyi said she had to meet fellow disciples investigating evil cultivators who abducted children, and Ye Qingyun cautioned her to be careful as she left the mountain.
• An eerie black figure appeared in the marketplace near Floating Cloud Mountain and welcomed the chance to strike there.

Ye Qingyun named the little beggar Guo Xiaoyun after accepting a bun as repayment for stolen pears. As he headed back to Floating Cloud Mountain, men from the Song Clan abducted him, believing he was a reclusive expert.

• Ye Qingyun learned that children from three families had gone missing and suspected the evil cultivators targeting children were responsible.
• The little beggar gave Ye Qingyun a bun he had bought with money from selling medicinal herbs, promising to repay him for twenty stolen pears.
• Ye Qingyun gave the little beggar the name Guo Xiaoyun, and the boy happily rejoined his fellow beggars.
• A mounted party led by a black-armored man surrounded Ye Qingyun and tied him up, while Damao calmly headed back up the mountain with the rabbit.
• The black-armored man said they belonged to the Song Clan and had come to capture the supposed reclusive expert on Floating Cloud Mountain.

Ye Qingyun was kidnapped by the Song Clan, who mistook him for the reclusive master behind Chi Yanyu’s recent victories. He denied his identity and tried to leave, but Song Chenglong attacked him, and an invisible force stopped the fatal strike just before it landed.

• Song Tao brought Ye Qingyun to the Song Residence, where Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong questioned him.
• Song Xiaotian explained that the Supreme Hao Gate and Prime Minister Cao Huayuan had abandoned the Song Clan after learning that a reclusive master had helped Chi Yanyu.
• Song Xiaotian realized Song Tao had brought back an ordinary-looking man, but Song Tao showed them a portrait that matched Ye Qingyun.
• Ye Qingyun claimed he was Ouyang Feng, a herb gatherer, and denied being Ye Qingyun so he could leave.
• Song Chenglong attacked Ye Qingyun from behind, but an invisible ripple stopped his palm three inches from Ye Qingyun’s back.

Ye Qingyun was accused of injuring Song Chenglong and faced the Song Clan, though the gray rabbit secretly defended him and his unseen power defeated their attackers. Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong knelt and begged forgiveness, and Ye Qingyun's words were accompanied by a Buddha phantom that left Song Xiaotian proclaiming Buddhist truth.

• Song Chenglong was thrown backward and lost a front tooth after the gray rabbit secretly protected Ye Qingyun.
• Song Xiaotian accused Ye Qingyun of hurting his son and ordered the Song Clan martial artists to seize him.
• The gray rabbit secretly beat the Song Clan martial artists as they attacked, leaving Ye Qingyun unharmed.
• Song Xiaotian attacked Ye Qingyun, but his palm collapsed and the recoil hurled him through a wall.
• Song Xiaotian slapped Song Chenglong, then both father and son knelt and begged Ye Qingyun to forgive them.
• Ye Qingyun told them that recognizing and correcting their faults could earn forgiveness, and a Buddha phantom appeared as Song Xiaotian declared it Buddhist truth.

Ye Qingyun taught Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, unaware that a phantom Buddha behind him had revealed his Buddhist power. His recitation sent Buddhist light across the Heavenly Martial Dynasty and prompted monks in the Western Realm to search for the newly appeared Buddhist Holy Son, while the Song father and son declared they had attained enlightenment.

• Ye Qingyun mistook Song Xiaotian's devotion for Buddhist belief and urged the Song father and son to repent of their past misdeeds.
• The phantom Buddha's light revealed the father and son's evil deeds to them, and they admitted their guilt and promised to do good.
• Ye Qingyun taught the Song father and son the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and told them to recite it three times each day.
• The phantom Buddha blazed with light as Ye Qingyun recited the sutra, drawing attention from across the Heavenly Martial Dynasty and the Western Realm.
• A senior monk in the Western Chan Temple identified the source as the Buddhist Holy Son and dispatched monks to the Southern Wilderness.
• After hearing the sutra, Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong declared in unison that they had attained enlightenment.

After Ye Qingyun sent the Song father and son away with instructions to recite the Heart Sutra and do good deeds, they began performing misguided acts that frightened the people around them. The chapter ended when a young beggar told Ye Qingyun that Guo Xiaoyun had been kidnapped and taken east by someone in black.

• Ye Qingyun returned to Floating Cloud Mountain as the Song father and son respectfully escorted him, then they built a shrine featuring a golden statue with his face.
• The Song father and son began doing good deeds, but Song Chenglong carried an old woman back across a river she had already crossed.
• Song Xiaotian filled in a village well to keep children from falling into it, leaving the villagers furious.
• The Song father and son noticed people fleeing from them and decided they needed to step up their efforts.
• A young beggar told Ye Qingyun that someone in black had taken Guo Xiaoyun the previous night and headed east.

Ye Qingyun followed Damao to a valley where Guo Xiaoyun and many other children had been captured for an evil ritual. He killed twelve black-clad cultivators with a sniper rifle, but the skeletal leader caught his next bullet, leaving Ye Qingyun to confront him with two pistols.

• Ye Qingyun armed himself with weapons and armor, then went east with Damao to search for Guo Xiaoyun.
• Damao led Ye Qingyun to a valley filled with unconscious children and black-clad cultivators channeling gray Qi into a skeletal man.
• Ye Qingyun found Guo Xiaoyun alive near the valley entrance and used a suppressed sniper rifle to kill all twelve cultivators.
• The skeletal man noticed his disciples were dead, searched for the attacker, and caught Ye Qingyun's bullet in his hand.
• Ye Qingyun stepped into the valley with two pistols and accused the skeletal man of practicing evil arts and harming children.

Ye Qingyun bluffed the strange man by claiming to be the legendary Dugu Qiubai, then shot him when he was distracted. The wounded man begged for mercy, but rescuers led by an imposing old man arrived in the valley with Bai Suyi among them.

• Ye Qingyun claimed to be Dugu Qiubai and invented stories about guiding Xu Changfeng and defeating Martial Emperor Dongfang Su.
• Ye Qingyun invoked Shen Tianhua, whose name frightened the strange man into believing Ye Qingyun was an even greater expert.
• Ye Qingyun shot the strange man twice, causing gray Qi to leak from the bullet wounds.
• The strange man fell and begged Ye Qingyun to spare him, but Ye Qingyun refused because of the children he had killed.
• An old man and a group of young men and women entered the valley, announcing that they had found the abducted children; Bai Suyi was with them.

Ye Qingyun rescued Guo Xiaoyun and subdued Old Freak Evil Heaven, whom Gongsun Yue killed after arriving with Bai Suyi. Gongsun Yue claimed the credit while dismissing Ye Qingyun, but Bai Suyi warned him that both Xu Changfeng and the Martial Emperor had paid Ye Qingyun their respects.

• Ye Qingyun told Bai Suyi and Gongsun Yue that he had subdued Old Freak Evil Heaven.
• Old Freak Evil Heaven mocked Gongsun Yue and asked Ye Qingyun to kill him, but Gongsun Yue struck him dead.
• Ye Qingyun woke Guo Xiaoyun and took him away, leaving the other children to the Nine Spirits Sect.
• Gongsun Yue invited Ye Qingyun to share the credit, but Ye Qingyun declined and left with Guo Xiaoyun.
• Gongsun Yue planned to claim sole credit, and Bai Suyi confronted him before revealing that Xu Changfeng and the Martial Emperor had visited Ye Qingyun.

Ye Qingyun returned to Floating Cloud Mountain with Guo Xiaoyun while the martial world celebrated Gongsun Yue for killing Old Freak Evil Heaven. As monks from the Western Realm arrived seeking the Buddhist Holy Son, Ye Qingyun offered to take Guo Xiaoyun as his disciple.

• Gongsun Yue regretted mistreating Ye Qingyun, while Bai Suyi explained that she had tried to warn him with signals.
• Ye Qingyun brought Guo Xiaoyun home, fed him porridge, hid his gear, and fell asleep beside him.
• The Nine Spirits Sect returned the rescued children, and Gongsun Yue gained widespread fame for killing Old Freak Evil Heaven.
• Xu Changfeng questioned how Gongsun Yue had defeated Old Freak Evil Heaven, while Chen Gongwang ordered his disciples to watch the troublesome Song Clan.
• Dozens of monks entered the Heavenly Martial Dynasty to seek the Buddhist Holy Son, who was believed to be southwest.
• Ye Qingyun found Guo Xiaoyun tending the courtyard and offered to take him as his disciple and teach him skills.

Ye Qingyun accepted Guo Xiaoyun as his disciple, gave him a hundred-tael red envelope, and offered to send him to a cultivation sect, but Guo chose to stay with his master. Meanwhile, Gongsun Yue and Bai Suyi visited Ye Qingyun’s home and, finding him away, presented his new disciple with a gift.

• Ye Qingyun accepted Guo Xiaoyun as his disciple and gave him a hundred taels in a red envelope.
• Guo Xiaoyun asked Ye Qingyun to teach him cultivation, but chose to remain with him instead of going to a cultivation sect.
• Gongsun Yue brought Bai Suyi to Floating Cloud Mountain to visit Ye Qingyun and repair their relationship with him.
• Bai Suyi and Gongsun Yue found Guo Xiaoyun working in the courtyard and learned that Ye Qingyun was away buying things.
• Gongsun Yue gave Guo Xiaoyun a jade bottle of Essence Profound Pills as a first-meeting gift.

Guo Xiaoyun and Bai Suyi received Gongsun Yue at Floating Cloud Mountain and astonished him by casually drinking spiritual liquid, but Ye Qingyun did not return. As Guo Xiaoyun went down the mountain to search for his master, Ye Qingyun was still being pestered by Huikong, who insisted he was the Buddhist Holy Son.

• Gongsun Yue and Bai Suyi visited Guo Xiaoyun and gave him pills, then discovered the tea he served was spiritual liquid.
• Guo Xiaoyun gulped down two cups of spiritual liquid, and Gongsun Yue mistook him for a peerless genius with a special constitution.
• Gongsun Yue drank three cups of tea and found his Spiritual Qi had become thirty percent more substantial, while Bai Suyi managed only a small sip.
• When Ye Qingyun failed to return by late afternoon, Guo Xiaoyun sent Gongsun Yue and Bai Suyi away, then headed down the mountain with Damao to look for him.
• Ye Qingyun angrily rejected Huikong's claim that he was the Buddhist Holy Son, then challenged Huikong to explain what Mahayana Dharma was.

Ye Qingyun explained the Mahayana Dharma to Huikong, persuading him that Buddhist practice meant seeking enlightenment while saving all sentient beings. Huikong abandoned his plans to return to the Western Zen Ancient Temple and gathered fellow monks to tell them he would stay and cultivate elsewhere.

• Huikong described the three trainings and Noble Eightfold Path as the Mahayana Dharma, but Ye Qingyun called them Hinayana teachings and explained the Bodhisattva Path and its vows to save sentient beings.
• Ye Qingyun told Huikong that the Buddha was everywhere and that one could cultivate outside a temple, shaking Huikong's convictions.
• Huikong knelt before Ye Qingyun, declared that he had heard the true Dharma, and asked to follow him.
• Ye Qingyun declined to take Huikong along, but Huikong resolved to stay and cultivate where he was instead of returning to the Western Zen Ancient Temple.
• Huikong gathered several dozen monks and announced that he would no longer return to the temple or the Western Realm, telling them that the Buddha was everywhere.

Ye Qingyun discovered that Guo Xiaoyun could paint with uncanny skill, while Buddhist monks gathered at the foot of Floating Cloud Mountain to follow Ye Qingyun as their Holy Son. The Song father and son arrived to help build temples and learned from Huikong that the monks believed Ye Qingyun was a Buddhist Holy Son.

• Guo Xiaoyun told Ye Qingyun that Gongsun Yue and Bai Suyi had visited, then ate all eight Essence Pills without harm.
• Ye Qingyun found that Guo Xiaoyun already knew how to write and could paint eggs, fruit, and landscapes flawlessly without instruction.
• Huikong led dozens of monks to Floating Cloud Mountain, where they began building temples to guard and follow the Buddhist Holy Son.
• The Song father and son hurried to the mountain with Song Clan martial artists to help build the temples.
• Huikong told Song Xiaotian that the monks had come from the Western Realm because they regarded Ye Qingyun as their Buddhist Holy Son.

Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong became monks, while Ye Qingyun reluctantly named Huikong’s temple Shaolin Temple as Buddhist temples sprang up around Floating Cloud Mountain. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Martial Dynasty learning that an allied army had breached its eastern border.

• Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong asked Huikong to let them become monks, and he tonsured them and gave them the Dharma names Xuhai and Xuzhu.
• Huikong went to Ye Qingyun to ask him to name the temple, and Ye Qingyun told him to call it Shaolin Temple.
• Ye Qingyun saw that more than a dozen temples were being built in a circle around Floating Cloud Mountain, as Huikong and the other Buddhists planned to remain near him.
• A border guard brought an urgent report to Dongfang Su, who announced that the Nebula Dynasty, Purple Sun Dynasty, and Phoenix Dance Dynasty had allied and seized a border pass with an army of one million.

After the Heavenly Martial Dynasty sent He Yun to stop a million-strong invasion, Guyue sought Ye Qingyun’s help, but Ye Qingyun chose to flee rather than fight. He Yun’s forces were routed, and as the allied army surrounded Floating Cloud Mountain, Huikong arrived with monks to protect Ye Qingyun.

• Dongfang Su sent He Yun with four hundred thousand troops to halt the three dynasties’ million-strong allied army in the Eastern Realm.
• Guyue reminded Dongfang Su that Ye Qingyun lived on Floating Cloud Mountain, then hurried there to ask Ye Qingyun to help defend the dynasty.
• Ye Qingyun refused to fight and began packing to leave with Guo Xiaoyun, while Guyue returned empty-handed.
• He Yun’s troops were routed in less than a day, and the allied army advanced toward Floating Cloud Mountain.
• As Ye Qingyun and Guo Xiaoyun prepared to flee, Huikong arrived with monks and said they would fight to protect Ye Qingyun.

Ye Qingyun was trapped on Floating Cloud Mountain as the allied army invaded the Heavenly Martial Dynasty, while Huikong and the monks vowed to defend him. As Martial Emperor Dongfang Su prepared to lead the campaign himself, the monks confronted the army and Huikong summoned the Immovable Wisdom King.

• Ye Qingyun abandoned his plan to leave Floating Cloud Mountain and entrusted his safety to Huikong and the monks.
• After He Yun was defeated, Guyue told Martial Emperor Dongfang Su that Master Ye had refused to help, and Dongfang Su resolved to lead the campaign personally.
• Huikong and the monks assembled at Shaolin Temple to block the million-strong allied army led by Zhao Jingming, Wu Sanjing, and Sun Zhao.
• Huikong demanded that the generals leave Floating Cloud Mountain, explaining that their Buddhist Holy Son was cultivating there, but Zhao Jingming insisted the army needed the mountain as its headquarters.
• When the generals threatened the monks, Huikong and the others revealed their Buddhist power, and Huikong summoned the Immovable Wisdom King.

Huikong and the monks defended the Buddhist Holy Son at Floating Cloud Mountain against Zhao Jingming and the million-strong army, but spell-breaking arrows and sheer numbers pushed them toward defeat. A true dragon appeared in the storm clouds and obliterated over ten thousand soldiers, leaving the army stunned.

• Zhao Jingming ordered volleys of ordinary and spell-breaking arrows against Huikong and the monks, then sent his cavalry to attack.
• Huikong and the monks fought back against the army, but their numbers and Spiritual Qi dwindled as they suffered injuries.
• Huikong used the Buddhist Lion's Roar to rescue a wounded monk, leaving himself nearly drained of Spiritual Qi.
• Dark clouds gathered over the battlefield, and a true dragon appeared among them.
• The true dragon unleashed a powerful blast that erased a vast stretch of ground and killed over ten thousand soldiers.

A true dragon blasted the allied army of the three dynasties, killing a hundred thousand soldiers and sending the rest fleeing. The Heavenly Martial Dynasty celebrated the victory as Dongfang Su prepared to thank Ye Qingyun, while Ye Qingyun and Guo Xiaoyun hid beneath a bed, fearing the troops had reached their house.

• A true dragon unleashed two blasts of dragon flame, killing a hundred thousand soldiers and causing the allied army to flee in panic.
• Huikong and the monks concluded that the dragon belonged to Ye Qingyun and began tending to their injuries so they could thank him.
• Victory reports reached the imperial court, and the messenger explained that the dragon had routed the allied army at Floating Cloud Mountain.
• Dongfang Su ordered troops to restore the Eastern Realm's defenses and decided to visit Floating Cloud Mountain with Guyue and precious gifts.
• Ye Qingyun and Guo Xiaoyun hid beneath a bed, trembling as footsteps sounded outside their courtyard.

Ye Qingyun and Guo Xiaoyun emerged after Huikong and the monks defeated the enemy, while the monks mistakenly believed Ye Qingyun had saved them through his profound cultivation. Martial Emperor Dongfang Su arrived at Floating Cloud Mountain and met Guo Xiaoyun, leaving the new disciple stunned by the emperor’s presence.

• Huikong and the injured monks knelt before Ye Qingyun to thank him, but he believed they had saved his life by driving off the enemy.
• Huikong and the monks decided not to correct Ye Qingyun and praised his supposed choice to cultivate as a mortal.
• Song Xiaotian and Song Chenglong explained that they had joined the Buddhist order, and Ye Qingyun joked that Song Chenglong’s Dharma name, Xuzhu, had great prospects.
• Dongfang Su and Guyue flew to Floating Cloud Mountain after seeing huge craters and temples, and suspected Ye Qingyun was the Buddhist Holy Son.
• Ye Qingyun introduced his disciple Guo Xiaoyun to Dongfang Su, leaving Guo Xiaoyun shocked to meet the Martial Emperor.

Ye Qingyun accepted Dongfang Su’s gifts and gave the Heaven-Plundering Sword and soft armor to Guo Xiaoyun. News that a true dragon had defeated the three dynasties’ allied army spread, prompting martial arts experts to head for the Heavenly Martial Dynasty to meet Ye Qingyun.

• Dongfang Su and Guyue visited Ye Qingyun, who accepted their gifts of a sword and soft armor.
• Ye Qingyun learned that Guo Xiaoyun liked the treasures and gave both to his disciple.
• Ye Qingyun told Dongfang Su that Huikong and the monks had driven back the attacking army, and asked that they be rewarded.
• Dongfang Su returned to the capital and sent rewards to Huikong and the other monks, who accepted them because Ye Qingyun had requested it.
• Reports of the allied army’s defeat spread through the three great dynasties, revealing that a true dragon had routed it.
• Rumors about Ye Qingyun and his true dragon reached the martial arts circles, whose powerful figures set out for the Heavenly Martial Dynasty to meet him.

Experts from the three great dynasties headed for Floating Cloud Mountain after their allied army was defeated, prompting Dongfang Su and the three great sects to mobilize in support of Ye Qingyun. As Ye Qingyun casually played the guqin, the arriving experts stopped in midair to watch him.

• Guyue told Dongfang Su that nine top experts and more than twenty others from the three great dynasties were heading for Floating Cloud Mountain, and Dongfang Su ordered the three great sects to go support Ye Qingyun.
• Xu Changfeng and the leaders of the Nine Spirits Sect and Supreme Hao Gate mobilized their people and set out for Floating Cloud Mountain.
• Xiao Shi told Shen Tianhua that Ye Qingyun's true dragon had annihilated a hundred thousand enemy soldiers, and Shen Tianhua decided to go confront the approaching experts.
• Ye Qingyun brought out his guqin, tuned it, and began playing for Guo Xiaoyun.
• The experts from the three great dynasties and the three great sects arrived overhead, heard Ye Qingyun's music, and stopped to look down at him.