Recaps

Ling Yi upgraded Mystifying Steps into Qingyun Steps, gained the ability to fly, and reached the mountain where the gold mine lay. After he subdued a gold-striped white tiger, a woman attacked it, leaving Ling Yi to intervene before her sword struck.

• Ling Yi spent Upgrade Points to advance Mystifying Steps into Qingyun Steps at Great Perfection, raising his physique to 99 and gaining the ability to fly.
• Ling Yi flew to the mountain containing the gold mine, and the system told him to enter a natural cave to find its main vein.
• Ling Yi sensed a gold-striped white tiger, branded it with his Divine Seal, and began drawing it toward him.
• A woman rushed in and swung her sword at the tiger, mistaking Ling Yi's warning for concern about her safety.
• The gold-striped white tiger turned toward the woman and roared as her sword neared its neck.

Ling Yi subdued the golden-striped White Tiger and learned that its ancient White Tiger bloodline could eventually grant it the ability to change size. After rescuing the injured woman and using Divine Sense to communicate with her, he asked her name and purpose, but she remained wary and wondered whether he was a mountain spirit.

• The golden-striped White Tiger's roar sent the woman in red flying, and Ling Yi stopped the tiger from biting her.
• Ling Yi ordered the White Tiger not to attack humans without permission and claimed him as a mount.
• The system revealed that the White Tiger carried an ancient divine beast's bloodline and explained how bloodline upgrades might awaken its transformation ability.
• Ling Yi decided to save his remaining Upgrade Points for emergencies instead of risking them on the White Tiger's bloodline.
• The woman woke up deafened by the roar and tried to attack Ling Yi and the tiger, so Ling Yi used Divine Sense to communicate and asked who she was and why she had come.
• The woman questioned Ling Yi's identity and wondered whether he was a mountain spirit in human form.

Ling Yi questioned Huo Yan'er about her search for the gold mine, then explored the cave and found its main vein. The system estimated that the entire deposit was worth 5,224,322 Upgrade Points, but warned that devouring it would collapse the cave.

• Ling Yi learned that Huo Yan'er had used the Cloud Transformation Art to evade the guards and investigate the rumored gold mine, then left her with Little White.
• Little White kept watch over the hungry Huo Yan'er, who fell asleep in the tiger’s warm fur.
• Ling Yi entered the cave and found old human remains, signs of past excavation, and increasingly large deposits of gold ore.
• Ling Yi reached the cave’s vast deepest chamber, lit it with desk lamps, and found a main vein stretching between the eastern and western walls.
• The system estimated the main vein was worth 5,224,322 Upgrade Points and warned Ling Yi that devouring the entire deposit would collapse the cave.

Ling Yi devoured the gold mine’s main vein, triggering a mountain collapse while his physique advanced to Immortal Physique and he gained new Divine Abilities. After teleporting himself, Huo Yan'er, and Little White to safety, he received a mission to establish the number one faction in Jianghu.

• Ling Yi began devouring the gold mine’s main vein and spent Upgrade Points to raise his physique.
• As the mountain collapsed around him, Ling Yi advanced through Transcendent Physique and Dao Physique, gaining Intimidation and Haki.
• Trapped by falling rock, Ling Yi reached Immortal Physique, gained Teleportation, and escaped the cavern.
• Ling Yi teleported Huo Yan'er and Little White to another mountain, where they watched the gold mine mountain sink into a deep pit.
• The system triggered Main Mission 1, ordering Ling Yi to establish his own number one faction in Jianghu for three rewards.

After gaining a vast number of Upgrade Points and a new system function, Ling Yi found a direction in Huo Yan'er’s knowledge of the Inscription Technique. Huo Yan'er drew a flame rune for him, and Ling Yi began copying it in the air with his Divine Ability.

• Ling Yi examined his new Upgrade Point Recycling Function, increased daily points, and the rewards from reaching a constitution of 10,000.
• Ling Yi asked Huo Yan'er to prove her worth, and she offered to teach him the Inscription Technique to avoid being eaten by Little White.
• Huo Yan'er explained that inscriptions were Dao characters used in crafting and that learning them required talent, then drew a flame rune on the ground.
• Ling Yi sensed Genki change as the rune was completed and committed its shape to memory.
• Ling Yi formed a brush from golden light and began drawing the rune in the air with his Divine Ability.

Ling Yi created a Genki fireball with Rune Technique and upgraded it into a powerful Fire Spirit, which he could control despite its lack of consciousness. He left Huo Yan'er with instructions to conceal the truth about the gold mine and descended the mountain on the gold-striped White Tiger.

• Ling Yi used Haki to write a fire-character rune in the air and created a Genki fireball, then stabilized and controlled it with a Divine Seal.
• Ling Yi upgraded the Genki fireball repeatedly, turning it into a Fire Spirit with the power to command flames and disperse into Genki.
• Ling Yi tested the Fire Spirit by making it land in his palm and then disperse above his head.
• Ling Yi told Huo Yan'er to spread word that the gold mine was false and the mountain had collapsed, then said she was free to go.
• Ling Yi clarified that he was not a spirit creature and did not eat people, then rode Little White down from the peak.

Ling Yi upgraded Little White and 500 sparrows, granting them new abilities and strengthening their bond with him. After spending the day with Little White, he told Ling Yun he wanted to establish a faction.

• Qin Yue, Ling Yun, and Qin Yuan welcomed Little White and eagerly took turns riding and cuddling her.
• Ling Yi purified Little White’s bloodline, giving her the Size Manipulation Divine Ability, and she shrank to house-cat size.
• Ling Yi upgraded 500 sparrows into Spirit Sparrows, awakening their intelligence and granting them Perception, Size Manipulation, Qi and Blood Shield, and Feathers of Steel.
• Ling Yi discovered he could communicate mentally with the sparrows over several li through the Divine Seal.
• After the women spent the day playing with Little White, Ling Yi told Ling Yun he wanted to establish a faction.

Ling Yi told Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin Yuan that a coming calamity had prompted him to create a faction, and spun Qin Yuan an elaborate account of his supposed life on Blue Star and in the Immortal Realm. He dismissed their concerns about the Great Qian Kingdom and ended by insisting that the first priority was naming a faction destined to rule the world and beyond.

• Ling Yun supported Ling Yi's plan, while Qin Yue and Qin Yuan worried about what his faction might mean.
• Ling Yi claimed an immortal had warned him that the world would soon face calamity, and said he wanted to create a faction to prepare for it.
• Qin Yuan described the kingdoms around Great Qian, but Ling Yi challenged her limited view of the world and asked how much lay beyond those borders.
• Qin Yuan revealed she knew about Blue Star from novels and movies, then asked whether Ling Yi was a transmigrator.
• Ling Yi denied being a transmigrator and invented a story about spending decades on Blue Star and in the Immortal Realm before returning with special abilities.
• Ling Yi said no one could stop him from taking the throne if he wanted it, then declared that naming his faction was the most important first step.

Ling Yi named his new faction the Lookout and decided to establish its territory by upgrading Little Ye Village. After hearing about the Blood Demon Sect’s mysterious female leader and her modern inventions, he suspected she might be a transmigrator like himself.

• Qin Yue described the Blood Demon Sect as an ancient, powerful faction led by a mysterious woman who was suspected to be a Grandmaster or stronger.
• Ling Yi learned that soap, perfume, fireworks, stockings, and lampshades had appeared in Great Qian over the past year, and suspected the Blood Demon Sect leader was a transmigrator and possibly the protagonist.
• Ling Yi named his faction the Lookout, and the three women approved of the name.
• Ling Yi said the Lookout needed territory and announced that he would upgrade Little Ye Village rather than seize the Northern Frontier King’s lands.
• Ling Yun asked whether Ling Yi meant he would upgrade all of Little Ye Village as he had upgraded their home.

Qin Yuan decided she no longer wanted to become empress, but planned to save Great Qian by helping Ling Yi build the Lookout. Meanwhile, Ling Yi chose to develop Little Ye Village into a structure he called the Lookout’s Divine Palace, though its full upgrade remained far beyond his budget.

• Qin Yuan told Qin Yue to soak every computer except the one in Ling Yi’s room in water, claiming she would wash them, and warned her to keep Ling Yun from finding out.
• Ling Yi overheard Qin Yuan’s plan and decided to arrange a Lookout elder position for her.
• Ling Yi considered the power and hidden presence within max-level Rune Technique, but judged that fully reconstructing the strange presence would cost at least a hundred million Upgrade Points.
• Ling Yi chose Little Ye Village’s Demon Hall upgrade, renamed it the Lookout’s Divine Palace, and found that upgrading the building without Divine Runes cost ten thousand Upgrade Points.
• The system offered to inscribe a Demon Hall rune formation for a hundred thousand Upgrade Points, and Ling Yi insisted that it was the Divine Palace.

Ling Yi upgraded Little Ye Village into the Demon Hall and activated a Spirit Gathering Array that converted Heaven and Earth Genki into Spiritual Qi. Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin Yuan arrived after breaking through into the Grand Master Realm, while Ling Yi anticipated that the powerful effects might not last.

• Ling Yi spent 10,000 Upgrade Points to upgrade Little Ye Village into the Demon Hall and another 100,000 to inscribe a perfection-level Rune Array.
• A petite woman in black watched the palace, walls, and golden formations appear around Little Ye Village, then began cultivating after feeling stronger from breathing the changed air.
• The system gave Ling Yi the God-Demon Token and control over the Demon Hall's formations, including the Spirit Gathering Array, which converted Genki into Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin Yuan broke through from the Master Realm Late Stage into the Grand Master Realm after the Spiritual Qi spread through the Demon Hall.
• Ling Yun asked Ling Yi what he had done, and he told the three women he had only upgraded Little Ye Village and that they should get used to future surprises.

Ling Yi renamed the Lookout the God-Demon Hall and appointed Qin Yuan and Qin Yue as its left and right deputy hall masters. Huo Yan'er explained that armies had surrounded the area and asked to join the hall, while Ling Yi left her acceptance to Qin Yuan.

• Ling Yi used the God-Demon Token to give Qin Yuan, Qin Yue, and Ling Yun Demon Hall brands, then renamed the Lookout the God-Demon Hall.
• Qin Yuan used the hall's formation to bring Huo Yan'er out of hiding, and Huo Yan'er explained that thirty thousand soldiers had surrounded the area near Red Maple Town.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Number One and his men were holding the army at bay, and he told Qin Yuan and Qin Yue to develop the God-Demon Hall as its left and right deputy hall masters.
• Huo Yan'er asked to stay and join the God-Demon Hall, and Ling Yi told her to ask Qin Yuan for permission.
• Ling Yun asked what her role would be, and Ling Yi told her she was the hall master.

The Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader described how three ordinary-looking sparrows wounded her while she investigated Butterfly Valley, revealing that she possessed Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation and defenses like a magic treasure. The army remained stalled outside the valley as Wei Wuji interrupted her and was struck down for it.

• The Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader restored her pierced hand and told Qin Shengtian, Jiang Biehe, and Wei Wuji that she had been injured by a sparrow.
• She explained that three sparrows attacked her high in the air, moving swiftly without flapping their wings and carrying bodies hard enough to pierce her defenses.
• The Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader revealed that she cultivated in the Foundation Establishment Realm and that her path had been cut off in this world.
• Wei Wuji interrupted her with a mocking remark, and the Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader made him spit blood for disobeying her warning.

Jiang Yanran discovered that two sparrows near the command tent possessed powerful Spiritual Power and learned they belonged to a master at the God-Demon Hall beyond Butterfly Valley. As the armies debated how to reach the gold mine, Jiang Biehe chose to take the longer route rather than risk confronting the experts guarding the valley.

• The sect leader crippled Wei Wuji’s ability to use True Yuan and warned him that knowingly provoking the Poison Baleful Energy Sect would bring its full retaliation.
• Jiang Yanran noticed two sparrows near the command tent, and Wei Wuji’s silver needles stopped before reaching them.
• Jiang Yanran realized the sparrows were rich in Spiritual Power, introduced herself, and asked to meet their master.
• The sparrows told Jiang Yanran to visit the God-Demon Hall beyond Butterfly Valley and warned the armies that the route through the valley was closed.
• The sparrows grew to the size of calves and flew away, while Jiang Yanran followed them toward Butterfly Valley.
• Wei Wuji argued against a detour to the gold mine, but Jiang Biehe decided the armies should go around the valley to avoid its powerful defenders.

Jiang Biehe persuaded Qin Shengtian and Wei Wuji to let him scout Butterfly Valley, while Jiang Yanran discovered the God-Demon Hall’s Spiritual Qi-converting array and requested an audience with the person inside. Ling Yi heard her call and worried that another woman’s arrival meant he was being treated as the protagonist.

• Jiang Biehe rejected retreat as an option and offered to negotiate with the people at Butterfly Valley the next morning.
• Qin Shengtian and Wei Wuji agreed to let Jiang Biehe scout the valley and then returned to their camps.
• Jiang Yanran followed two giant sparrows through Butterfly Valley and found the God-Demon Hall, where Heaven and Earth Genki surged toward it.
• Jiang Yanran recognized that the hall’s array converted Genki into Spiritual Qi, but she could not pass the rune formation protecting it.
• Jiang Yanran called out to request an audience, and Ling Yi heard her from inside the Demon Hall and worried about being treated as the protagonist.

Ling Yi questioned Jiang Yanran about her identity and her knowledge of converting Yuan Qi into Spiritual Qi, then learned she had been a Mahayana sect master a million years ago. Jiang Yanran began explaining the catastrophe that sealed the Ascension Passage and transformed the world, while Ling Yi remained wary and his system investigated the strange power surrounding her.

• Ling Yi tested Jiang Yanran with a password and accused her of being a transmigrator, but she denied it while admitting the inventions were hers.
• Jiang Yanran asked how Ling Yi had converted Yuan Qi into Spiritual Qi and said she might have died without Jiang Hai, a transmigrator from ten thousand years earlier.
• Ling Yi refused to let Jiang Yanran into his home, and his system reported that her soul was protected and carried an aura from the same source as itself.
• Jiang Yanran removed her disguise, introduced herself as the former sect master of the Clear Garden Sect, and said she had been a Mahayana Stage expert a million years ago.
• Ling Yi created an illusionary café, and Jiang Yanran tasted his coffee and Spirit Tea while he asked about the calamity.
• Jiang Yanran explained that the Ascension Passage had suddenly been sealed, Spiritual Qi had become Yuan Qi, and cultivation had declined through successive stages of martial practitioners.

Ling Yi learned that the severed Karma behind the world’s dimensional descent had led to the demon hall, while his system explained Jiang Yanran’s history with Jiang Hai and the exploitative Goose Factory System. Jiang Yanran sought steady Spiritual Power from Ling Yi and offered to work for him, and Ling Yi began outlining the benefits and conditions.

• Jiang Yanran told Ling Yi that the Ascension Passage had sealed without warning and Spiritual Qi had become Genki, and that her investigation traced the cause to Karma severed at the demon hall.
• Ling Yi’s system revealed that Jiang Hai had transmigrated into Jiang Yanran, whose soul overcame his, and that she had inherited his Goose Factory System.
• Ling Yi learned that the Goose Factory System had repeatedly raised the cost of Jiang Yanran’s cultivation, eventually demanding ten billion taels for a realm.
• Jiang Yanran decided she wanted to escape the system by obtaining a stable supply of Spiritual Power from Ling Yi and offered to work for him.
• Ling Yi offered Jiang Yanran unlimited Spiritual Water and Spiritual Qi, then prepared to state his conditions.

Ling Yi negotiated with Jiang Yanran for control of her Goose Factory System and protection for those around him, while she sought his help recovering her cultivation and rescuing her disciples. After upgrading Divine Seal into God-Demon Seal, Ling Yi agreed to her request and swore to help once she reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Jiang Yanran rejected Ling Yi's demand to place a mark on her soul but agreed to have the Blood Demon Sect serve the God-Demon Hall.
• Jiang Yanran shot at Ling Yi after mistaking his unfinished third condition for an insult, and he clarified that he wanted her Goose Factory System and her silence about transmigrators.
• Jiang Yanran agreed to Ling Yi's conditions except the soul mark, explaining that she needed his help to recover her Nascent Soul cultivation and find her disciples.
• Ling Yi spent 540,000 Upgrade Points to upgrade Divine Seal into God-Demon Seal, which could forcibly mark anyone below an immortal.
• Jiang Yanran asked Ling Yi to swear that he would help rescue her disciples after she reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and Ling Yi made the oath.

Ling Yi let Jiang Yanran settle in the God-Demon Hall and chose to absorb the Goose Factory System’s origin, upgrading his own system and gaining the Upgrade Sharing module. The next morning, he joined the women gathered in the Hall’s main room and began announcing their official positions.

• Ling Yi brought Jiang Yanran to Little Ye Village, gave her instructions for using the God-Demon Hall, and left her to cultivate.
• Jiang Yanran reflected on her past, the Goose Factory System, and her plan to regain her peak strength.
• Ling Yi chose to have the Everything Upgrade System absorb the Goose Factory System’s origin, unlocking Upgrade Sharing.
• The next morning, Ling Yi found Ling Yun, Qin Yue, Qin Yuan, Huo Yan'er, and Jiang Yanran chatting in the main hall.
• Ling Yi announced that he would formalize the women’s appointments and establish their positions in the God-Demon Hall.

Ling Yi established the God-Demon Hall’s leadership and assigned its first missions, while Ling Yun accepted the role of hall master. As the group cultivated and prepared for the hall’s rise, Ling Yi received a mission to investigate a little beggar named Zhao Chen in Dafeng City.

• Ling Yi appointed Ling Yun as hall master, Qin Yuan and Jiang Yanran as deputy hall masters, and Qin Yue and Huo Yan'er as guardians.
• Ling Yi assigned Jiang Yanran the task of making the God-Demon Hall Great Qian’s strongest force and Qin Yuan the task of bringing order to the realm.
• Ling Yun chose to learn by observing Qin Yuan, while Qin Yuan and Jiang Yanran stayed behind to cultivate before carrying out their duties.
• Ling Yi looked after the Spiritual Fields and livestock as Number One reported the armies’ withdrawal and an earthquake in Dafeng City.
• The system sent Ling Yi on a mission to investigate the little beggar Zhao Chen in Dafeng City, rewarding him with increased daily Upgrade Points and a Personal Space function.

Ling Yi left Little Ye Village and walked toward Dafeng City, finding famine and desolation along the way. In Red Maple Town, he killed six Jianghu guests who threatened him and the innkeeper, then invited the innkeeper to travel with him.

• Ling Yi left the God-Demon Hall in Little Ye Village and walked north toward Dafeng City, passing abandoned villages and roadside bones.
• Ling Yi found the only open inn in Red Maple Town, where the innkeeper tried to send him away to protect him from six armed Jianghu guests.
• Ling Yi revealed a large piece of silver, drawing the guests' attention and prompting one to attack while the innkeeper tried to escape with the little girl.
• Ling Yi shot all six Jianghu guests dead with his finger, then erased their corpses and the blood from the inn.
• Ling Yi asked why the innkeeper had stayed in Red Maple Town, then told him to pack up and come along the next morning after learning he could cook.

Ling Yi, Zhou Xing, and Zhou Ling traveled slowly through famine-stricken North Leaf Province, where Zhou Xing explained that corrupt officials and powerful clans hoarded the region’s grain. After a cavalry patrol returned to requisition their ox cart, one rider recognized Ling Yi and the captain cautiously asked whether he was the young master.

• Zhou Xing’s account revealed that he had shared food with refugees before defending himself with his bow when they turned on him.
• Ling Yi asked why they had encountered no refugees that day, and Zhou Xing explained that most were heading south to escape North Leaf Province.
• Zhou Xing described how clans, grain merchants, and officials hoarded enough grain to withstand years of drought while ordinary people starved.
• A group of cavalrymen rode past Ling Yi’s ox cart, then turned back and surrounded it to requisition it.
• One rider recognized the group, and the captain asked Ling Yi if he was that young Master.

Ling Yi learned that an earthquake near Dafeng City had opened a black hole filled with powerful humanoid monsters and rumors of an ancient immortal's cave abode. He sent Old Zhou and his granddaughter toward Little Ye Village, then teleported to Dafeng City, where soldiers were capturing zombies outside the city.

• Ling Yi used Intimidation to freeze twenty cavalrymen and spared them after their captain revealed that an earthquake near Dafeng City had opened a black hole releasing numerous powerful, slow-moving humanoid monsters.
• The captain told Ling Yi that people suspected the black hole led to an ancient immortal's cave abode containing immortal treasures, and Ling Yi let the cavalrymen leave.
• Ling Yi warned Old Zhou that Dafeng City was unsafe and directed him to seek shelter in Little Ye Village, where he could give Ling Yi's name.
• Old Zhou's granddaughter urged him to trust Ling Yi and go to Little Ye Village, then privately remarked that Ling Yi's immense Qi and Blood could threaten even a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
• Ling Yi teleported to Dafeng City and saw thousands of soldiers capturing gray-skinned zombies by binding their feet with ropes.

Ling Yi learned that a cave near Dafeng City led to an enormous immortal abode filled with sealed palaces and Demonic Monsters. After controlling the city’s officials and explorers with the God-Demon Seal, he took a spatial bracelet from Wei Tiansheng and discovered it still carried its living owner’s Spiritual Sense imprint.

• Ling Yi questioned Zhen Furen, who explained that the cave transported people into a vast immortal abode where Demonic Monsters emerged from sealed palaces.
• Zhen Furen described how visitors could enter the cave only once a day and were expelled after three shichen, then identified the returning governor Wei Tiansheng and the inscription expert Huo Wudao.
• Ling Yi recognized Huo Wudao’s cultivation technique as one associated with Huo Yan’er’s family and used the God-Demon Seal on the returning officials and explorers.
• Ling Yi ordered Wei Tiansheng to hand over his gains, and Wei gave him a dark-gold bracelet set with six red gems.
• Ling Yi discovered that the bracelet contained spatial inscriptions and a Spiritual Sense imprint, suggesting its owner was still alive and might crave Spiritual Qi.

Ling Yi upgraded a bucket of water into Spiritual Water, helping Wei Tiansheng break through to the Master Realm and become his servant. When a young beggar with Earthly Gang Realm cultivation arrived, Ling Yi recognized him as the bracelet’s owner and completed a system mission, which unlocked a Personal Space that could store living things.

• Ling Yi turned a bucket of water into Spiritual Water and allowed Wei Tiansheng to drink from it.
• Wei Tiansheng broke through from the Innate Realm to the Master Realm and pledged himself to Ling Yi, who told him to bring Demonic Monsters for study.
• A commotion erupted outside, and an unusually powerful young beggar forced his way through the soldiers and knocked Wei Tiansheng aside.
• Ling Yi sensed that the beggar was an Earthly Gang Realm Martial Practitioner and recognized that his bracelet belonged to the youth.
• Ling Yi completed a system mission, activating a Personal Space module that could store living things, and questioned the system about the apparent duplicate reward.