Recaps

After discovering that readers had gained cultivation insights from his fabricated Nine Yin Manual, Ling Yi withdrew his money and moved off campus with Yuan Xiaolei. Their plans were interrupted when Bai Yunjiang followed them to their apartment, and Ling Yi left Bai Yunjiang badly injured in a fight.

• Ling Yi told Yuan Xiaolei that the Nine Yin Manual was made up, then withdrew his money and decided to buy a computer and phone and rent a place.
• Bai Yunjiang and three classmates followed Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei as they bought equipment and rented a large apartment.
• Ling Yi offered Yuan Xiaolei a room, and she agreed to share the apartment while planning changes to its furnishings.
• Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei found Bai Yunjiang and his companions waiting outside the apartment building, and Yuan Xiaolei became furious that they had followed her.
• Yuan Xiaolei revealed her Ninth-Stage Martial Apprentice strength, but Ling Yi stepped forward and broke Bai Yunjiang's left arm with a Fivefold Heavy Fist.

Ling Yi tested whether his system could record martial techniques by practicing Tai Chi Fist and Graceful Steps upon the Waves, then explored how to develop skills from fictional martial arts. After defeating Long Xiaotao and showing off his strength, he left school with Yuan Xiaolei, warning off a boy who tried to stop them.

• Ling Yi crippled Bai Yunjiang, then went shopping with Yuan Xiaolei and returned home to test his ideas about the system.
• Ling Yi practiced Tai Chi Fist and confirmed that the system recorded it as a martial technique.
• Ling Yi completed the 512 steps of Graceful Steps upon the Waves, which the system recorded and which let him draw in Genki while he practiced.
• Ling Yi considered which martial arts from Jin Dada's fourteen Heavenly Books he could learn without internal power, then went to class the next day.
• Long Xiaotao provoked Ling Yi after class, but Ling Yi knocked him away with one slap.
• Ling Yi met Yuan Xiaolei at the school gates and used a punch's gust to send away a boy who tried to stop them leaving.

After Hao City was threatened by an early beast tide and flying demonic beasts trapped the city, Ling Yi used his popularity on the Martial Practitioner Network to draw attention to the crisis. He then focused on becoming stronger, deciding he needed defensive, ranged, and sword martial skills.

• Yuan Xiaolei explained that Ling Yi had avoided punishment for crippling Bai Yunjiang because she intervened and the principal wanted to protect the author of The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
• Ling Yi withdrew the enormous tips his novel had earned and began writing another update while Yuan Xiaolei read beside him.
• Tie Bi and his classmates escaped a charging pack of Thorn Wolves, which attacked Hao City's walls without retreating and raised fears that the beast tide had begun early.
• After learning that flying demonic beasts had appeared and the airport was sealed, Ling Yi hurried home and posted a leave notice on the Martial Practitioner Network to alert its powerful users that Hao City was trapped.
• Ling Yi checked his system and resolved to quickly learn defensive and ranged martial skills and a powerful sword technique.

As flying demonic beasts threatened Hao City, Emperor Chi and other powerful figures discussed Ling Yi’s importance and decided to observe his choices without interfering. Ling Yi expanded his system’s martial-skill records through unconventional training and prepared for the coming crisis by buying weapons and practicing new abilities.

• Wang Qian called Emperor Chi, who was heading to Hao City after learning that humans had raised the flying demonic beasts, and the two discussed protecting Ling Yi while allowing him freedom.
• Emperor Chi said he would test Ling Yi’s character and might have Princess Chi Ni spend time with him if he proved decent.
• Ling Yi gained the Hidden Weapons, Sword Momentum, and Perception skills, then had Yuan Xiaolei strike his back until the system recorded Bronze Skin and Iron Bones.
• Ling Yi ran through the streets at night and acquired the Rapid Speed skill, then considered training resistance to attribute-based attacks.
• As Hao City was sealed and armed against the threat, Ling Yi skipped school and bought an alloy longsword and boxes of steel needles with Yuan Xiaolei.

Ling Yi trained Yuan Xiaolei in reflexes and discovered that a strange black-robed man had come to test him. After Ling Yi’s hidden weapons and Two-Star Fist revealed his extraordinary strength, the man was knocked back but remained airborne, leaving Ling Yi to wonder whether he needed to use his trump card.

• Yuan Xiaolei trained with Ling Yi’s swinging-can exercise and quickly improved her ability to dodge.
• Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei saw unnatural fog over Hao City, and Yuan Xiaolei warned that a beast tide would arrive within three to five days.
• A black-robed man attacked Ling Yi with a Genki skill, but Ling Yi countered with steel needles and a curving hidden-weapon technique.
• The black-robed man was revealed to be Emperor Chi, who had come to test Ling Yi and became intrigued by his hidden weapons.
• Ling Yi unleashed a barrage of needles and struck Emperor Chi from behind with Two-Star Fist, sending him flying before Emperor Chi steadied himself in midair.

Ling Yi fought Emperor Chi, whose attack had been a test, and revealed that he could fly and use a powerful technique despite being a Martial Apprentice. After discussing his suspected tenth-stage realm with Yuan Xiaolei, Ling Yi returned to writing while Emperor Chi and Yuan Jiyun discussed protecting him and the importance of his cultivation methods.

• Ling Yi used Graceful Steps upon the Waves and Tai Chi Fist to immobilize Emperor Chi briefly, then struck him with Two-Star Fist; Emperor Chi praised him and demanded updates to The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
• Emperor Chi left, and Yuan Xiaolei told Ling Yi she could not explain her connection to him; Ling Yi then asked whether Martial Apprentices could reach a tenth stage, and Yuan Xiaolei agreed to try.
• Ling Yi refused to join the Joint Defense Army, then returned home with Yuan Xiaolei after the fog cleared and began writing his novel.
• Emperor Chi told Yuan Jiyun that Ling Yi could wield strength beyond his realm and use the Genki of heaven and earth, while Yuan Jiyun speculated that Ling Yi had developed a cultivation system.
• Emperor Chi said he had arranged secret protection for Ling Yi and proposed giving him the Dragon Armor and Dragon Sword; Yuan Jiyun decided he should speak with Yuan Xiaolei.

Ling Yi finished The Legend of the Condor Heroes and added Tai Chi and Eight Trigrams diagrams that sent powerful cultivators into a frenzy. After receiving Emperor Chi’s Dragon Armor and studying the commenters’ revelations about cultivation, he confirmed his theory when Yuan Xiaolei reached Martial Apprentice Tenth Stage Great Perfection and struck with ten tons of force.

• Ling Yi completed The Legend of the Condor Heroes, added explanations of its martial arts, and included Tai Chi and Eight Trigrams diagrams that sparked heated discussion among powerful cultivators.
• Yuan Xiaolei delivered a black case from an old senior, and Ling Yi found the valuable Dragon Armor Set inside and tried it on.
• Ling Yi studied the commenters’ remarks and concluded that cultivators’ poor foundations and neglect of the mind might explain why no one could surpass the Martial God Realm.
• Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei spent a week training and working, and Yuan Xiaolei learned to dodge the suspended drink can every time.
• Yuan Xiaolei reached Martial Apprentice Tenth Stage Great Perfection, and Ling Yi tested her punch and confirmed that her strength had reached ten tons.

Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei faced the approaching beast tide as Hao City prepared for battle, while Ling Yi kept his strength in reserve. When the mist cleared, the city’s defenses fought off waves of Demonic Beasts, but the battle became a war of attrition until dozens of flaming projectiles struck the enemy ranks.

• Ling Yi told Yuan Xiaolei he was not strong enough yet and warned her to keep his affairs private, though he remained cautious about trusting anyone completely.
• A sustained alarm warned Hao City that a beast tide was coming, and Ling Yi reviewed his powerful martial techniques while Emperor Chi struggled to understand meridians.
• Three days later, the mist cleared to reveal an enormous army of Demonic Beasts outside Hao City, and the city’s soldiers opened fire as the beasts charged.
• Hao City’s forces used guns, cannons, flamethrowers, and grenades to repel the advancing beasts, but their ammunition dwindled as more enemies poured from the Mist Forest.
• Dozens of flaming projectiles launched from within Hao City and exploded among the Demonic Beasts, raising mushroom clouds.

Ling Yi intervened when third-tier Demonic Beasts threatened to overrun Hao City, then subdued a force of flying beasts with his Tai Chi Diagram. Yuan Xiaolei landed beside him as the flying Demonic Beasts lay suppressed.

• Ling Yi donned the Dragon Armor and used Sword Momentum to kill the third-tier Demonic Beasts attacking Hao City, turning the battle around.
• Emperor Chi watched Ling Yi’s extraordinary growth and wondered about his cultivation method while choosing not to interfere.
• Hundreds of third-tier flying Demonic Beasts arrived over Hao City, and Ling Yi stopped the city guards from firing on them.
• Ling Yi summoned a vast Tai Chi Diagram that suppressed the flying Demonic Beasts and prevented them from using their Genki.
• Yuan Xiaolei jumped down beside Ling Yi as he began circling the restrained great roc.

Ling Yi subdued the flying Demonic Beasts by using pain-inducing talismans to develop Beast Taming and Healing, then left most of the newly controlled beasts to protect Hao City. After teleporting away with Yuan Xiaolei, Emperor Chi questioned the black crow he had taken about its presence in Great Qian Empire.

• Ling Yi tortured a great roc with frost Qi until it submitted, then experimented on it and gained the Beast Taming and Healing skills.
• Ling Yi branded the flying Demonic Beasts with Taming Talismans, kept five for himself, and assigned the rest to Lin Xiong to guard Hao City's airspace.
• Yuan Xiaolei translated Ling Yi's gestures for Lin Xiong and requested a flying Demonic Beast of her own.
• Emperor Chi arrived and asked Ling Yi for a beast; Ling Yi gave him a black crow after Yuan Xiaolei explained that Emperor Chi had given him dragon armor.
• Ling Yi teleported away with Yuan Xiaolei, while Emperor Chi flew toward the Dragon Capital and questioned the black crow about violating his no-fly decree.
• The black crow told Emperor Chi that it and the other beasts had been raised by Martial Practitioners from Ailefen Country and were cooperating with them in exchange for Yuan Crystals.

After reaching Martial Venerable, Ling Yi discovered that his system only granted experience once a year and chose to attend Hao City Advanced Martial Academy rather than move to Dragon Capital. Powerful figures decided not to approach him after Emperor Chi warned them off, but three girls from Dragon Capital arrived in Hao City and tried to secure a place in Ling Yi’s manor.

• Three days after the beast tide, Ling Yi advanced to Martial Venerable and found that his system’s experience gains had changed from daily to yearly.
• When Yuan Xiaolei asked which academy he planned to attend, Ling Yi chose Hao City Advanced Martial Academy instead of a school in Dragon Capital.
• After Yuan Xiaolei told Yuan Jiyun about Ling Yi’s choice, Wang Qian and other powerful figures considered going to Hao City, but Emperor Chi forbade them from disturbing Ling Yi.
• Three days later, Wang Xiaoyun, Liu Chengcheng, and Chi Ni transferred into Ling Yi’s class and came from Dragon Capital.
• Yuan Xiaolei introduced the three girls to Ling Yi at his manor, and Liu Chengcheng offered him three small goals to let them stay for a year.

Yuan Xiaolei defeated Liu Chengcheng despite their realm difference, then learned Graceful Steps upon the Waves from Ling Yi and broke through to the Martial Practitioner Realm. Chi Ni tried the technique and discovered it could help her control primordial Qi, then shot into the air.

• Liu Chengcheng and Yuan Xiaolei fought over a month of manor cleaning, but Yuan Xiaolei dodged Liu Chengcheng’s attacks and caught her full-powered punch without moving, winning the bet.
• Ling Yi shaped the concrete into an Eight Trigrams diagram and demonstrated Graceful Steps upon the Waves once for Yuan Xiaolei.
• Yuan Xiaolei practiced the footwork, broke through to the Martial Practitioner Realm, and revealed that her strength had reached twenty tons.
• Chi Ni stepped onto the Eight Trigrams diagram and found that Graceful Steps upon the Waves boosted her cultivation and let her control primordial Qi.
• Chi Ni followed the sensation and flew into the air as an afterimage.

Ling Yi finished his entrance examination, then published The Smiling, Proud Wanderer and drew the martial arts big shots into studying the Nine Swords of Dugu. He demonstrated sword intent to Chi Ni, while Yuan Xiaolei began a blindfolded challenge against Wang Xiaoyun and Liu Chengcheng.

• Ling Yi passed the strength test and won ten arena bouts before surrendering; Yuan Xiaolei and the other girls also met the admission cutoff for Hao City First High Martial Academy.
• During the month-long vacation, Ling Yi finished The Legend of the Condor Heroes and wrote The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, including a detailed analysis of the Nine Swords of Dugu and a list of 830 acupoints.
• The martial arts big shots eagerly embraced the Nine Swords of Dugu but remained skeptical about acupoints, while Yuan Xiaolei and the other girls believed Ling Yi's claims.
• Chi Ni asked Ling Yi about sword intent, and he used a willow switch to block her frost-covered sword before carving a mark and the character for intent into the ground without using Genki.
• Yuan Xiaolei wagered that Wang Xiaoyun and Liu Chengcheng could not land an attack on her while she was blindfolded and confined to a small circle; the two accepted, and the challenge began.

Ling Yi took Yuan Xiaolei and the others into the Mist Forest to gather cottonwood for a wooden training mannequin. After they entered, Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei sensed an approaching threat and warned the group to prepare.

• Yuan Xiaolei evaded Liu Chengcheng and Wang Xiaoyun's attacks while blindfolded, then teased them about cooking and laundry.
• Ling Yi demonstrated the Nine Swords of Dugu to the four girls, and Wang Xiaoyun realized the sword art exposed how difficult it was to defend against.
• Ling Yi decided to find cottonwood in the Mist Forest, and the four girls eagerly packed for the trip.
• Ling Yi stored the girls' backpacks in his Personal Space, and the five registered at Hao City's gates before heading into the forest.
• Yuan Xiaolei recounted how Ling Yi had helped repel the beast tide as the group entered the Mist Forest.
• Ling Yi and Yuan Xiaolei sensed guests approaching, and Yuan Xiaolei told the others to get ready.

Ling Yi and his companions survived a Janpunese ambush in the Mist Forest, where he confiscated sixty-five Demonic Core Bombs and killed two Martial Venerables. He sent Pengpeng toward the Janpunese Country with the bombs, leaving his promised retaliation underway.

• Ling Yi sensed sixty-five buried Demonic Core Bombs and stored them in his Personal Space before the ambush could detonate them.
• Ling Yi revealed a hidden Janpunese Martial Practitioner, and Chi Ni killed him before the attackers launched a concealed-weapon barrage.
• Chi Ni, Wang Xiaoyun, Liu Chengcheng, and Yuan Xiaolei fought off the Janpunese Martial Practitioners, while Ling Yi protected them by drawing incoming weapons into his Personal Space.
• Two Janpunese Martial Venerables confronted Ling Yi and argued that his strength threatened peace, but Ling Yi killed them with two Nebula Fist punches.
• Ling Yi showed Chi Ni a map and summoned Pengpeng, then gave the great roc Demonic Beast the sixty-five Demonic Core Bombs to drop in the Janpunese Country.

After retaliating against Janpenese and preparing a human meridian model, Ling Yi and his companions headed to Hao City First High Martial Academy, where another attack targeted them. Ling Yi recognized that the attackers carried fourth-tier Demonic Beast inner cores and prepared to strike back.

• Chen Long's Zodiac Team discussed Ling Yi's retaliation against Janpenese and admitted they had secretly learned Graceful Steps upon the Waves.
• Ling Yi built houses in the Mist Forest while waiting for Pengpeng, then returned to Hao City with his companions after Pengpeng completed its mission.
• A news report announced that Janpenese's capital had been destroyed, and Chi Ni thanked Ling Yi for his retaliation.
• Ling Yi began carving a cottonwood model of human meridians, while Chen Long's team repelled repeated attacks on him over the following weeks.
• Ling Yi and the girls drove through heavy traffic to Hao City First High Martial Academy and decided to buy a nearby villa instead of living on campus.
• Ten men charged toward Ling Yi and his companions at the academy gates, carrying what Ling Yi recognized as fourth-tier Demonic Beast inner cores, and he raised his hand to use The Snap.

After foiling another Janpenese attack, Ling Yi prepared his flying Demonic Beasts and secretly left for Janpenese to investigate their artificial demonic core bombs. His disappearance alarmed his companions and brought a furious Emperor Chi rushing back to Hao City.

• Ling Yi sent the ten Janpenese attackers away through spatial vortices, and Chen Long ordered Zi Shu to find the people who had helped them enter Hao City.
• Ling Yi trained five flying Demonic Beasts in his Personal Space, learned they were close to mastering attribute Qi, and told them to prepare for a trip to Janpenese.
• Ling Yi suspected Janpenese could manufacture artificial fourth-tier demonic cores and decided to investigate, while keeping his plans and abilities guarded from others.
• After enrolling at Hao City First High Martial Academy, Ling Yi discussed his next novel with Chi Ni and planned to write Heavenly Dragon.
• Five days later, Ling Yi left a note saying he would return in ten days to half a month and vanished; Yuan Xiaolei suspected he had gone to Janpenese.
• Emperor Chi learned Ling Yi had left and flew from Dragon Capital to Hao City in a fury.

Ling Yi uncovered Janpenese’s plan to use artificial tier-four demonic core bombs against the Great Qian Empire and flew to America to trace their source. Meanwhile, Emperor Chi ordered the Asura Army to destroy the Liu Clan, and Ling Yi arrived at a hidden American research base.

• Ling Yi learned that Janpenese planned to detonate twenty thousand demonic core bombs across 108 Great Qian cities on October tenth, Emperor Chi’s birthday, and confiscated the bombs.
• Ling Yi set off for America aboard a Thunder-Eating Bird to investigate the source of the artificial demonic cores.
• Emperor Chi reprimanded his guards, ordered the Asura Army to Hao City, and learned that the Liu Clan had colluded with Janpenese to target Ling Yi.
• Chi Ni vouched for Liu Chengcheng, who revealed her estrangement from the Liu Clan and her knowledge of its past crimes.
• The Asura Army destroyed the Liu Clan, killed its ancestor, and imprisoned most of its legitimate line.
• Ling Yi reached a concealed research base beneath a mountain basin in America.

Ling Yi destroyed America’s artificial Demonic Core bomb base, recovered its equipment and technology, and spent months hunting down the bombs sent to countries bordering the Great Qian Empire before returning to Hao City. After a year of laying low and saving experience, he broke through to the Extreme Golden Core Realm, first layer.

• Ling Yi infiltrated America’s base, learned it had produced ten million artificial Demonic Core bombs, and took its equipment, documents, and remaining bombs before destroying the facility.
• Ling Yi spent two months locating and retrieving or destroying the six million bombs sent to countries bordering the Great Qian Empire, then returned to Hao City and reunited with Yuan Xiaolei, Wang Xiaoyun, Liu Chengcheng, and Chi Ni.
• Ling Yi and the four girls left school after trouble caused by jealous students and moved back to their manor.
• After a year passed, Ling Yi used his accumulated experience points and transformed his Genki into a seven-colored bead, reaching the Extreme Golden Core Realm, first layer.

Ling Yi survived a brutal lightning tribulation and gained an Ascension Orb that let him delay ascending to the upper realm. Before returning to the manor, he gave Emperor Chi a cultivation model and a storage ring loaded with demonic-core bombs and production materials, while preparing his companions for the path ahead.

• A lightning tribulation followed Ling Yi to the Mist Mountain Range, where he endured increasingly powerful bolts and a multicolored attack without serious injury.
• The tribulation vanished, and a pillar of light appeared, but Ling Yi resisted ascension and teleported back to his manor with an Ascension Orb above his head.
• Ling Yi explained that he could choose when to ascend, and Emperor Chi arrived to ask about the tribulation.
• Ling Yi gave Emperor Chi a model marked with meridians and acupoints, then made storage rings and handed over one containing demonic-core bombs, a production line, and technical documents.
• Ling Yi gave storage rings to Yuan Xiaolei and the other women, told them they could eventually reach the Martial God Realm, and judged that Emperor Chi would struggle because his meridians were blocked.

Ling Yi ascended to the upper realm and was abruptly made the personal disciple of Qi Yun, the dying peak master of Cloud Sword Peak. After developing a skill that could create objects, Ling Yi learned that he had to compete in the sect tournament the next day to keep his new home from being abolished.

• Yuan Xiaolei and the others resolved to cultivate until they could ascend and find Ling Yi, while resenting that he had left without saying goodbye.
• Ling Yi ascended, fell from the sky into the ground, and was claimed as a disciple by Qi Yun, peak master of Cloud Sword Peak in the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect.
• Qi Yun gave Ling Yi his possessions, made him Cloud Sword Peak's master while he entered death-seclusion, and left him to study the sect's jade slips.
• Ling Yi experimented with elemental skills and created a new ability that produced objects such as a golden sword and a smartphone.
• Su Yunhao visited Ling Yi and warned him that Cloud Sword Peak would be abolished unless Ling Yi placed in the top three of the sect tournament beginning the next day.

Ling Yi watched the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect’s tournament while reflecting on Qi Yun’s failing condition and the vast resources his nominal master had left him. As the personal disciples’ competition began, Sect Leader Fengyunzi told Ling Yi that he had to place in the top three or surrender Cloud Sword Peak with Qi Yun.

• Ling Yi sensed that Qi Yun was suffering from inner demons during his life-or-death seclusion and concluded that breaking through without finding his own Dao was unlikely.
• Ling Yi reviewed the sect’s cultivation system and its tournament rules, then went to Wind and Cloud Peak to watch the disciples compete.
• Ling Yi saw combat puppets, talismans, formations, and other techniques in the outer, middle, and inner peak tournaments, which concluded by midday.
• Ling Yi recalled that Qi Yun had given him a vast collection of cultivation materials, spirit stones, treasures, and jade slips accumulated over a thousand years.
• Fengyunzi explained that Ling Yi had to place in the top three of the personal disciples’ tournament or give up Cloud Sword Peak with Qi Yun.

Ling Yi killed Su Yunhao in the tournament and then destroyed sect master Fengyunzi with a single Nebula Fist, leaving the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect behind. Bored on Cloud Sword Peak, he began compiling introductory science textbooks to see how science might interact with cultivation.

• Ling Yi drew the first tournament lot and defeated Su Yunhao by catching his sword between two fingers and killing him with a punch.
• Fengyunzi dismissed the spectators, then ordered Ling Yi to continue the tournament while eyeing his power and hidden opportunity.
• Ling Yi teleported in front of Fengyunzi and killed him with a level-twenty-one Nebula Fist, reducing him to ash.
• Ling Yi flew back to Cloud Sword Peak and decided the sect's future did not concern him as long as no one disturbed his leisure.
• Ling Yi spent more than half a year writing introductory textbooks on physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics to introduce scientific knowledge to the cultivation world.

Three years after Ling Yi remained on Cloud Sword Peak, Yuan Xiaolei and the others ascended to join him, while the Great Qian Empire unified Blue Star after defeating an invasion. When the weakened Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect faced a threat from rival sects, Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo sought Ling Yi’s help, and he considered turning to Qi Yun for support.

• Yuan Xiaolei, Wang Xiaoyun, Liu Chengcheng, and Chi Ni reunited with Ling Yi on Cloud Sword Peak, where they discussed their victory over the allied countries and the Great Qian Empire’s rise to dominance on Blue Star.
• Situ Leiyun became sect master after Fengyunzi’s death was concealed, but the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect grew vulnerable without a Spirit Transformation Realm expert.
• Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo told Ling Yi that four Spirit Transformation Realm experts were coming to probe the sect under the pretext of discussing the Starry Sky Mystic Realm.
• Situ Leiyun explained that the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, also called the Starry Sky Ancient Road, opened every three thousand years and would open again in ten years.
• After Ling Yi learned the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect needed powerful support, he looked toward the room where Qi Yun was cultivating in seclusion.

Ling Yi rescued Qi Yun from death seclusion, restored his health, and helped him break through, but beat him after Qi Yun attacked him. A decade later, Ling Yi and his companions joined the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect on the journey to the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, stopping with the other sects at the Wild Stone Plain before heading to Knowhere.

• Ling Yi broke the formation, restored Qi Yun with his life force, and helped him reach the spirit transformation realm, but Qi Yun turned on him with a sword strike.
• Ling Yi sealed Qi Yun's Nascent Soul and had him beaten for days, while his seven-colored Spiritual Power helped Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo reach the peak of the ninth level of the spirit transformation realm.
• Ling Yi threw Qi Yun off Cloud Sword Peak the next day, and Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo led the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect through a decade of growth until they reached the dao integration realm.
• Situ Leiyun told Ling Yi that the Starry Sky Mystic Realm would open in six months, and Ling Yi, Yuan Xiaolei, the others, Situ Leiyun, and Cheng Huo set out by flying boat.
• The group reached the Wild Stone Plain, where Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo agreed with other dao integration realm experts to wait for the remaining cultivators before traveling to Knowhere.