Recaps

Ling Yi defeated and devoured the seal Guardian, gaining powerful abilities and discovering that Demon Lord Hali had been warned about Blue Star. He named his planned organization the Spirit Suppression Bureau and refused Situ Ren’s offer to have the Divine Spirit Cult join, while learning that the Paranormal Bureau had at least seven members stronger than Liu Feng.

• The seal Guardian attacked Ling Yi after demanding to know how he had attained godhood, but Ling Yi shattered the Guardian’s fist and pierced his head with sword shadows.
• The Guardian sent a message to Demon Lord Hali through a spatial rift, then collapsed into spiritual power that Ling Yi devoured.
• Ling Yi acquired the Guardian’s Space Manipulation and Spiritual Power Voice Transmission abilities, along with the Spirit Refining Art and knowledge of three arrays.
• Ling Yi told Liu Feng to apply for a new Paranormal Bureau and named it the Spirit Suppression Bureau.
• Situ Ren offered the Divine Spirit Cult’s nearly fifty thousand Spiritual Power users to the new bureau, but Ling Yi refused.
• Situ Ren explained that at least seven people in the Paranormal Bureau were stronger than Liu Feng and truly controlled the organization.

Ling Yi took in the Divine Spirit Cult and established the Spirit Suppression Bureau, then moved to seize the Dangfeng City Paranormal Bureau’s headquarters. The chapter ended with Zhao Tuohai and Bai Hongjiang waiting for a response from their superiors as Ling Yi’s ten-minute eviction order took effect.

• Ling Yi left the sealed land untouched, returned to Dangfeng City, and learned from Liu Feng that the Spirit Suppression Bureau had been approved on the condition that it win the World Spiritual Power User Legion Tournament.
• Situ Ren offered evidence of corruption in the Paranormal Bureau, and Ling Yi appointed him to gather the Divine Spirit Cult’s core members for the new bureau.
• Situ Ren brought six thousand Divine Spirit Cult members to Dangfeng City, and Ling Yi used his Deliverance Divine Ability to make them obey before converting their temporary spirit bodies into normal spirit bodies.
• Ling Yi led the six thousand Spiritual Power users to the Dangfeng City Paranormal Bureau headquarters and ordered its occupants to leave within ten minutes.
• Zhao Tuohai and Bai Hongjiang received no response from their superiors, and Zhao Tuohai angrily questioned whether they would surrender the headquarters without a fight.

Ling Yi seized the Dangfeng City Paranormal Bureau’s base, expanded and cultivated the Spirit Suppression Bureau, and reached the Void Return Realm by devouring ancient spirit bodies. Liu Feng then briefed him on the World Spiritual Power User Competition, whose champion would gain access to the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.

• Ling Yi broke through the Paranormal Bureau’s defenses, teleported its personnel far away, and claimed its base for the Spirit Suppression Bureau.
• Ling Yi gave Lin Ruonan the joke position of Situ Ren’s exclusive superior and converted incoming Divine Spirit Cult followers while they joined the bureau.
• Over half a month, the Spirit Suppression Bureau grew to more than fifty thousand members, while Ling Yi collected and devoured the ancient battlefield’s spirit bodies and reached the Void Return Realm.
• Liu Feng reminded Ling Yi about the World Spiritual Power User Competition and explained that the champion would receive access to the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.
• Ling Yi learned that thirty-seven countries would each send ten Spiritual Power users to individual and team events, with only one overall champion.

Ling Yi prepared his team for the World Spiritual Power User Competition, boosting their strength and learning about the dangerous Heavenly Court Secret Realm. After they arrived on the island arena, he sent Situ Ren to train thousands of Spiritual Power users while his true body headed for Antarctica to reach the secret realm ahead of the others.

• Ling Yi chose Situ Ren, Lin Ruonan, Jiang Hongming, and six others for the competition, and Lin Ruonan rejected Situ Ren’s attempt to keep her from going.
• Ling Yi strengthened the nine other competitors’ bodies and spirit bodies to the peak of Black High-Grade, reaching Demigod Tier.
• Liu Feng warned the team about the powerful American, English, and Janpenese competitors and explained the dangers of the Thirty-Three Heavens in the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.
• The team arrived on the island, where Liu Feng left for the monitoring center and Ling Yi drew Situ Ren into World in the Palm for hard labor training six thousand Spiritual Power users.
• Ling Yi revealed that his apparent self was a clone and flew his true body toward Antarctica to reach the secret realm’s teleportation passage early.

Ling Yi defended Ancient Country’s ring and effortlessly killed challengers from Janpunese Country and Kereun, leaving Morpheus to order Sen San to test him personally. Meanwhile, Ling Yi reached the Heavenly Court Secret Realm’s location in Antarctica, opened a spatial rift, and entered it.

• Ling Yi took the ring, killed two Janpunese Spirit Bodies with projected mental power, and then wiped out Kereun’s challengers.
• At Morpheus’s urging, Sen San sent a Janpunese fighter in physical form, but Ling Yi immobilized and killed him with overwhelming pressure.
• Morpheus ordered Sen San to go up and test Ling Yi himself.
• In Antarctica, Ling Yi found the spatial node where the Heavenly Court Secret Realm’s passage had appeared and tore open a spatial rift.
• Ling Yi jumped into the spatial rift.

Ling Yi conquered the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, advanced his Spirit Body and cultivation, and defeated Demon Lord Hali. After returning to Blue Star, his heavenly tribulation vanished and his sealed memories were restored, prompting him to set out for the next world.

• Ling Yi devoured the first floors’ Spiritual Power and heavenly soldiers, advancing his Spirit Body beyond God Tier and his main body to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ling Yi’s clone dominated the island competition, and Ling Yi withdrew after revealing to Liu Feng that his main body had entered the secret realm.
• Ling Yi killed the Paranormal Bureau officials who confronted him, then fought through the secret realm to its thirty-third floor.
• Demon Lord Hali offered Ling Yi control of the Spirit Devouring Pagoda in exchange for gathering Spiritual Power, but Ling Yi captured Hali’s clone and tracked down his main body.
• Ling Yi returned to Dangfeng City with the Spirit Devouring Pagoda, where his heavenly tribulation dispersed and his sealed memories were unsealed.

Ling Yi retired from his role as Great Yan’s Nation-Guarding Grand General and settled in the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range, where the Longevity Sign-In System awakened. His first sign-ins extended his lifespan and granted him a Personal Space ability, leaving him eager to discover what future rewards would bring.

• Ling Yi asked Ji Wuyun to let him retire, and Ji Wuyun granted his request while awarding him a hereditary marquis title, farmland, and gold.
• Ling Yi left the Yan Capital without collecting his rewards and settled beside the lake where he had first arrived in the world.
• The Longevity Sign-In System awakened and revealed that Ling Yi had a lifespan of 62/65, along with daily and monthly sign-in options.
• Ling Yi signed in for ten years of lifespan and a Personal Space that let him store and retrieve inanimate objects within a one-meter range.
• Ling Yi tested the Personal Space on stone and fish, then reflected on his transmigration, his adopted father’s disappearance, and the life that had led him to become a general.

After discovering Yan Wuji’s records and the Illusory Demon Art, Ling Yi learned that immortal cultivators existed but found he had no spiritual roots. His system could convert lifespan into physique, and after building up his lifespan, he raised his physique to 10 and prepared to travel to Ten Thousand Peaks Town for the monthly sign-in.

• Ling Yi entered Yan Wuji’s long-forbidden room and found the books “Illusory Demon Sect” and “Illusory Demon Art” in the remains of a rotted meditation cushion.
• Ling Yi read Yan Wuji’s diary, learning how the Illusory Demon Sect was destroyed and about the Immortal Cultivation Realm, its rare spiritual roots, and the importance of staying alive.
• Ling Yi read the Illusory Demon Art, and his system recorded it and updated to let him spend lifespan to increase his physique.
• Ling Yi spent one year of lifespan to raise his physique from 1 to 2 and realized he had no spiritual roots and could not cultivate.
• Ling Yi signed in for several days, accumulated lifespan, and learned that the monthly sign-in location was Ten Thousand Peaks Town.
• Ling Yi spent eight years of lifespan to raise his physique from 2 to 10, gaining immense strength as he prepared for the journey.

Ling Yi found Ten Thousand Peaks Town massacred, rescued its sole survivor Liu Wei, and gained the Body-Protecting Thorn Formation through sign-in. After learning the attackers were connected to the Ninth Young Master, he destroyed their mountain stronghold, though some soldiers escaped; half a month later, an uninvited guest arrived at his secluded home.

• Ling Yi discovered nearly ten thousand dead in Ten Thousand Peaks Town and found Liu Wei hiding in a haystack.
• Ling Yi buried the townspeople, received seven years of lifespan and the Body-Protecting Thorn Formation from the system, and promised Liu Wei he would avenge the victims.
• Liu Wei told Ling Yi that the attackers had met with the town commander and mentioned the Ninth Young Master.
• Ling Yi tracked the attackers to a mountain stronghold and used the Protective Thorn Formation to repel their arrows before killing the commander and many soldiers.
• Ling Yi returned to his secluded home with Liu Wei, while surviving soldiers spread news of his appearance; half a month later, an uninvited guest descended into his lakeside courtyard.

A mysterious woman retrieved Yan Wuji’s books from Ling Yi’s courtyard but spared Ling Yi and Little Liu Wei, prompting them to leave Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain. Ling Yi settled in Nanli Autonomous City and prepared to enter Nanli Desolate Valley for his monthly sign-in, leaving Little Liu Wei behind.

• A beautiful cultivator demanded the things Yan Wuji had left behind, took two books, and flew away without harming Ling Yi or Little Liu Wei.
• Ling Yi left the courtyard with Little Liu Wei, and the next day the emperor’s Imperial Guard Special Operations Team and several princes’ Jianghu experts arrived searching for him.
• Ling Yi reached Nanli City, the autonomous city he had helped establish, and rented an inconspicuous courtyard.
• The system’s new monthly sign-in location appeared: the deepest part of Nanli Desolate Valley, which Ling Yi feared might contain Demonic Beasts.
• Ling Yi told Little Liu Wei to stay home while he went to the valley, planning to ask Bai Zhengdao to take her in after he returned.

Ling Yi entered Nanli Desolate Valley, where signing in granted him a World Tree that transformed his personal space into a small world and gave him short-range teleportation. He discovered a two-headed python by a frigid pool and began beating it after his Protective Thorn Formation reflected its attacks; the arriving immortal cultivators witnessed the fight.

• Ling Yi bought a detailed map and jumped into Nanli Desolate Valley, while a Golden Core Realm cultivator warned his disciples that Ling Yi was a powerful martial expert.
• Ling Yi signed in and received a World Tree Seed, which grew into a World Tree and transformed his personal space into a small world with dense Spiritual Qi and teleportation within 341 meters.
• Ling Yi teleported through the valley and encountered a frigid pool, where a two-headed python emerged and charged at him.
• The python repeatedly struck Ling Yi's Protective Thorn Formation, which reflected damage and severely injured it.
• Ling Yi grabbed the python by its tail and smashed it against the ground, while the thirty immortal cultivators arriving on flying swords watched.

Ling Yi traded the frost python to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect in exchange for testing Little Liu Wei's spiritual roots, then entrusted her to the sect after she revealed a rare sixth-grade water heavenly spiritual root. After parting from her, Ling Yi spent a month farming in his Personal Small World before his system sent him to the distant Golden Cauldron Sect for his next sign-in.

• Su Ming agreed to test Little Liu Wei and accept her into the Ten Thousand Swords Sect if she had spiritual roots, so Ling Yi brought them to Nanli City.
• Little Liu Wei's testing stone revealed a sixth-grade water heavenly spiritual root, and Ling Yi seized Ye Yan after detecting his killing intent toward her.
• Su Ming explained that Ye Yan was the sect's favored third-grade earth-root disciple, but Ling Yi killed him to protect Little Liu Wei.
• Little Liu Wei reluctantly agreed to cultivate with Su Ming, and Ling Yi warned him that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect would pay if she were mistreated.
• Ling Yi returned to Nanli City, spent a month stocking and farming inside his Personal Small World, and learned that his next sign-in required him to reach the Golden Cauldron Sect.
• Ling Yi stored his courtyard in his Personal Small World and set off for the Golden Cauldron Sect.

Ling Yi killed a Wangshu Sect elder who tried to capture him, then discovered the Reverse Mortal Immortal Art and a new system function that let him exchange physique for cultivation. He reached Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Realm and continued south, learning to use Spiritual Sense and fly on a sword.

• Ling Yi watched the Wangshu Sect recruit disciples, but refused an elder’s invitation to join as an inner disciple.
• The elder followed Ling Yi and attacked him, so Ling Yi used Teleportation to seize and slam the elder into the ground, killing him.
• Ling Yi took the elder’s flying sword and storage pouch, tore the pouch open, and found the Reverse Mortal Immortal Art among its contents.
• The system updated, revealing that Ling Yi could spend lifespan to increase physique and physique to increase cultivation; he used the art to learn how the Wangshu Sect made Qi and Blood Pills from martial practitioners.
• Ling Yi exchanged 100 physique points to reach Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Realm, developed Spiritual Sense, and tested flying with the elder’s sword.

Ling Yi reached the Golden Cauldron Sect as Yan Ling attacked it to avenge the destruction of the Illusory Demon Sect. After his Protective Thorn Formation reflected her attack and severely wounded her, Ling Yi learned that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect was also among her targets and completed his sign-in, receiving the Divine Ability Infinite Inheritance.

• Ling Yi advanced to the fifteenth level of the Qi Refining Realm and observed the besieged Golden Cauldron Sect from his personal small world.
• Jin Wudi and the Golden Cauldron Sect elders discussed Yan Ling's revenge for the destruction of the Illusory Demon Sect and feared the sect could not withstand her Spirit Transformation Realm power.
• Yan Ling attacked the Golden Cauldron Sect's formation, broke through it, and prepared to strike again despite Jin Wudi's plea for mercy.
• Ling Yi appeared before Yan Ling to complete his sign-in, and his Protective Thorn Formation reflected her flaming attack and severely injured her.
• Jin Wudi explained the old conflict to Ling Yi, who realized Yan Ling might attack the Ten Thousand Swords Sect as well.
• Ling Yi completed the sign-in and received the Divine Ability Infinite Inheritance.

Ling Yi protected the Ten Thousand Swords Sect from Yan Ling, then returned to the Great Yan Nation after the sign-in system selected the Yan Capital. He found the capital tense and bloodied, and paid a waiter to explain what had happened there during his absence.

• Ling Yi persuaded Yan Ling to delay attacking the Ten Thousand Swords Sect for ten years, then used his Personal Small World to seize Jin Wudi's Heaven-Refining Cauldron when Jin Wudi attacked him.
• Yan Ling declared that she would erase the Golden Cauldron Sect, while Ling Yi left and later checked on Little Liu Wei, finding her safe and favored as Wan Jianyi's personal disciple.
• Ling Yi learned that May's sign-in at the Ten Thousand Swords Sect had given him the Sword Heart, and the system selected the Yan Capital as his early-June sign-in location.
• Ling Yi returned to the Yan Capital, saw soldiers throughout the streets and blood near the imperial city, then offered a waiter silver in exchange for news about the past few months.

Ling Yi reunited with the dying Ji Wuyun, granted him ten years of lifespan and Golden Core cultivation, and used the Inheritance Contract to ensure he kept the gift secret. After severing his last ties to the Great Yan Nation, Ling Yi returned to his neglected marquis’s residence and spotted a black cat with a mouse.

• A waiter told Ling Yi that seven princes had died in the succession struggle and that Ji Wuyun was critically ill.
• Ji Wuyun told Ling Yi about the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s planned Immortal Ascension Assembly and Ji Wufeng’s death sentence for the Ten Thousand Peaks Town massacre.
• Ji Wuyun asked Ling Yi to protect the Great Yan Nation and the young Ji Wuyou, but Ling Yi refused to commit to ten years of service.
• Ling Yi granted Ji Wuyun ten years of lifespan and enough cultivation to reach the first level of the Golden Core Realm, then ordered him to keep the gift secret.
• Ling Yi left the imperial palace and returned to his neglected marquis’s residence to take it into his Personal Small World.
• Ling Yi saw a black cat catch a mouse in the courtyard.

Ling Yi turned a black cat into a Demonic Beast, then learned that his new sign-in location, the Star Soul Secret Realm, was a closely guarded secret of the Moon Gazing Sect. He decided to follow Yan Ling to the sect and enter the realm despite the trouble it might bring.

• Ling Yi used 10 physique points to turn a black cat into a Qi Refining Realm Demonic Beast and took it with him.
• Ling Yi returned to Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain and found the lakeside courtyard destroyed, then waited for the system's next sign-in location.
• Ling Yi learned that the Star Soul Secret Realm was the new sign-in location and hurried to the Mystic Fire Sect to ask Yan Ling about it.
• Yan Ling's master revealed that the secret realm's entrance was inside the Moon Gazing Sect and told Yan Ling to bring Ling Yi there.
• Ling Yi weighed the risks of getting involved with the Moon Gazing Sect but decided to go with Yan Ling and enter the Star Soul Secret Realm.

Yan Ling brought Ling Yi to the Moon Gazing Sect, where sect master Qingyue said he had to join the sect and accept a Forgetting Soul Curse to enter the Star Soul Secret Realm. When Ling Yi refused and tried to leave, Elder Songfeng attacked him, and Ling Yi's Body-Protecting Thorn Formation reflected the elder's Spiritual Sense and Spiritual Power attacks.

• Yan Ling explained the Moon Gazing Sect's structure and introduced Ling Yi to Qingyue and the sect's elders.
• Qingyue told Ling Yi that the Star Soul Secret Realm opened in three days and required him to join the sect and accept a Forgetting Soul Curse.
• Ling Yi rejected the conditions and turned to leave, so two elders blocked his path.
• An elder struck Ling Yi, but the Body-Protecting Thorn Formation reflected the blow and sent him stumbling back.
• Elder Songfeng attacked Ling Yi with Spiritual Sense and Spiritual Power, but the reflected Spiritual Sense left him unconscious before his reflected attack hit him.

Ling Yi revealed the overwhelming power of his Divine Abilities at the Moon Gazing Sect and learned that the Star Soul Secret Realm would open in three days. After settling into the sect, he shared a meal with Yan Ling, who told him the story of her life with Old Man Yan.

• Ling Yi reflected the force of Elder Songfeng's attack with the Body-Protecting Thorn Formation, then summoned Sword Heart and destroyed the upper half of the Moon Gazing Sect's sect master's hall with a giant golden sword.
• Qingyue announced that the Star Soul Secret Realm would open in three days, and Yan Ling explained that the sect had no texts about the wider world for Ling Yi to read.
• Yan Ling settled Ling Yi in the Heavenly Listening Hall, where he brought out his marquis's residence and cooked a meal for himself and his black demon cat.
• Yan Ling accepted Ling Yi's invitation to eat and asked him about Old Man Yan; Ling Yi described his lonely childhood, and Yan Ling recounted how she and Old Man Yan fell in love, fled together, and began cultivating after discovering a cave abode.

Ling Yi entered the Star Soul Secret Realm with Qingyue and the Moon Gazing Sect disciples, then received the Star Disc as his sign-in reward. He discovered the realm lacked Spiritual Qi and wondered what Qingyue had concealed, while Yan Ling feared her master's decision would bring disaster upon the sect.

• Ling Yi questioned Yan Ling about Old Man Yan's message, then traveled with Yan Ling to meet Qingyue.
• Qingyue gave Ling Yi a secret realm token and explained the Star Soul Secret Realm's entrance, treasures, dangers, and powerful entrants.
• Qingyue took Ling Yi and ten Moon Gazing Sect disciples to the Eye of Death, where three thousand cultivators gathered before the tokens transported them into the realm.
• Ling Yi signed in and received the Star Disc, learning it could enable long-distance communication and attacks or protection powered by starlight.
• Ling Yi sensed that the realm had no Spiritual Qi but believed his abilities would keep him strong; nearby, Yan Ling apologized to the sky and worried that her master's choice might create an enemy for the Moon Gazing Sect.

Ling Yi learned that the Star Soul Secret Realm’s token could not take him out for fifty years, then gathered information from disciples and fought off cultivators who attacked him. He found a hidden chamber by cutting through its formation and entered to discover a piece of black jade.

• Ling Yi realized his token could not teleport him out and suspected the Moon Gazing Sect had concealed the secret realm’s rules from him.
• Ling Yi subdued ten Teng Snake Sect disciples, and Cheng Feng explained that tokens allowed cultivators to leave only once every fifty years and could detect formations and restrictions.
• Ling Yi traveled across the grassland, killed a group of Thousand Yuan Sect cultivators who attacked him, and collected their belongings and tokens.
• Ling Yi followed his token’s reaction to a circular formation and used his Sword Heart Divine Ability to cut an opening through it.
• Ling Yi entered a small sealed chamber and saw a piece of black jade on a stone platform.

Ling Yi acquired the Acquired Five Elements Art and later obtained a Nine Provinces map that updated his system with a radar showing nearby people and hostility. The map revealed enemies from the Moon Gazing Sect and a surviving Thousand Yuan Sect cultivator, while Ling Yi discovered the Pill God Sect as his new sign-in location.

• Ling Yi touched the black jade, prompting a system update that granted him mastery of the five elements and caused five rule-fruits to form on the World Tree in his Personal Small World.
• Cheng Feng and the other nine cultivators sensed the Personal Small World's Spiritual Qi grow richer and resolved to cultivate diligently for Ling Yi.
• Yan Ling and ten Moon Gazing Sect juniors arrived at the emptied opportunity site, where they found its formations and restrictions still intact.
• After half a month, Ling Yi learned from a group of Pill God Sect cultivators that a surviving Thousand Yuan Sect formation expert had spread word of his power throughout the secret realm.
• Ling Yi took a Nine Provinces map jade slip from the Pill God Sect group, and the system updated with a radar map that showed hostile red dots, including Yan Ling's group and the surviving Thousand Yuan Sect cultivator.
• Ling Yi located the Pill God Sect on the Nine Provinces map and received a prompt asking whether to spend ten lifespan points to travel to its coordinates.

Ling Yi used the Dragon Radar Map to reach the Pill God Sect, gained the Hundred Foods Divine Ability, and accidentally appeared in Ao Xiaomeng’s room, prompting the sect to issue a wanted notice for him. Back in Wind City, he developed mobile phones and sent Cheng Feng and ten others to spread them through the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

• Ling Yi tested the Dragon Radar Map’s teleportation costs, then traveled to the Pill God Sect to claim his August check-in reward.
• Ling Yi gained the Hundred Foods Divine Ability, which could turn targets into delicacies with effects determined by their energy.
• Ling Yi startled Ao Xiaomeng in her room and fled; the Pill God Sect issued a wanted notice after her scream.
• Ling Yi established a phone shop in Wind City and spread affordable phones with communication, entertainment, and other functions.
• Ling Yi gave Cheng Feng and ten others phones and ordered them to sell the devices throughout the Immortal Cultivation Realm for one spirit stone each, promising to protect them from danger.

Ling Yi learned that the Pill God Sect had seized Liu Wei and threatened to refine her into pills, so he attacked the sect and rescued her. After escaping Ao Wudi’s killing strike, Ling Yi returned to torment the Pill God Sect, leaving Ao Wudi and Lian Wuyou vowing revenge.

• Cheng Feng told Ling Yi that the Pill God Sect had issued a wanted notice for him and captured Liu Wei after destroying the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Ling Yi traveled to the Pill God Sect, heard Ao Wudi threaten to refine Liu Wei into pills, and killed the elders in the Sect Master's Hall with his attacks.
• Ao Wudi summoned his bonded Divine Herding Cauldron, forcing Ling Yi to teleport to Liu Wei’s location and rescue her.
• Ling Yi took Liu Wei to the Star Soul Secret Realm and escaped as Ao Wudi and Lian Wuyou arrived at the empty chamber.
• Ling Yi returned to the Pill God Sect, turned a group of its disciples into pills, and escaped again while Ao Wudi and Lian Wuyou pursued him.

Ling Yi used the upgraded Body-Protecting Thorn Formation to defeat Ao Wudi and destroy his ability to fight. He spared Ao Wudi, Lian Wuyou, and Ao Xiaomeng under threat of controlling Ao Xiaomeng, ordered them to dissolve the Pill God Sect, and returned to Wind City.

• Ao Wudi attacked Ling Yi with Nine Tribulations True Fire, but Ling Yi's upgraded Body-Protecting Thorn Formation reflected the flames and left Ao Wudi badly burned and powerless.
• Ling Yi confronted Ao Wudi over the destruction of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and the harm done to him, then prepared to kill him.
• Lian Wuyou arrived with Ao Xiaomeng, and Ling Yi's resolve to kill the family faded as Ao Xiaomeng wept over her father.
• Ling Yi used the Inheritance Contract on Ao Xiaomeng and demonstrated his control by ordering her to slap herself before stopping her.
• Ling Yi ordered Ao Wudi and Lian Wuyou to announce the Pill God Sect's dissolution within three days and returned to Wind City in the Star Soul Secret Realm.