Recaps

Ling Yi offered the people at Wu Family Manor cheap goods and support, while Advisor Zheng organized them to build a warehouse and expand the manor’s operations. On the road to trade with County Commandant Su, Zhang Changwu ran over Black Whirlwind Li Kui with his heavy truck, and Su’s runner later found the bloody aftermath.

• Ling Yi told the people at Wu Family Manor that he would sell abundant goods at low prices, extend credit, and support anyone without a livelihood.
• Advisor Zheng organized the people to build a warehouse, set uniform prices, seek craftsmen, and expand the manor guard army.
• Ling Yi gave Advisor Zheng a hundred modern crossbows and several thousand bolts.
• Black Whirlwind Li Kui blocked Zhang Changwu’s heavy truck and attacked it with his axes.
• Zhang Changwu accelerated, struck Li Kui, and drove through the tree blocking the road.
• County Commandant Su’s runner found Li Kui’s remains, retrieved his bloodied axes, and rode back to report.

Ling Yi equipped Wu Family Manor with armor and weapons, expanded its trade and defenses, and helped its reputation spread across the region. As Yanggu County’s gentry plotted to seize the manor, County Commandant Su brought in Wu Yong of Mount Liang Marsh to help.

• Ling Yi prepared chain mail, blades, and a Zhuge repeating crossbow for Wu Family Manor, then told Zhang Changwu and Adviser Zheng to reproduce the crossbow and keep their weapons secret.
• Ling Yi ordered Zhang Changwu to train drivers for a heavy-truck fleet, while Wu Family Manor recruited people, built facilities, and began selling cheap food and modern goods.
• Wu Family Manor’s rice and other supplies benefited Yanggu County’s people, and its heavy trucks carried goods farther afield as the manor’s fame grew.
• County Commandant Su gathered local gentry at Lion Tower and proposed taking control of Wu Family Manor and eliminating Wu Dalang.
• Ximen Qing warned the gathering that Wu Family Manor had abundant food, hundreds of sets of chain mail, and powerful vehicles, making a direct attack dangerous.
• County Commandant Su declared that Yanggu County could enlist outside help, then introduced Wu Yong, a military adviser from Mount Liang Marsh.

Wu Yong gathered Mount Liang Marsh, County Commandant Su, Ximen Qing, and prominent families to plan an attack on Wu Family Manor, while Ling Yi prepared defenses and protected Sister Pan. The chapter ended with Wu Song arriving at the manor and claiming to be Ling Yi’s brother.

• Wu Yong persuaded Wang Lun to send five hundred Mount Liang men and organized four hundred more men to attack Wu Family Manor before year’s end.
• Ling Yi tested a homemade bomb made from firework gunpowder, then told Zhang Changwu to make more after hearing that County Commandant Su had held a banquet with Yanggu County’s prominent families.
• Ling Yi showed Sister Pan a nail gun and protective gear, and told her they would stay in a larger RV because the manor might be attacked.
• County Commandant Su ordered three truckloads of instant noodles from Wu Family Manor, and Ling Yi supplied several hundred sets of protective equipment for the guards.
• Zhang Changwu told Ling Yi that a nine-chi-tall man named Wu Song had arrived outside the manor and claimed to be his brother.

Wu Song reunited with Ling Yi at Wu Family Manor, where the brothers sparred before Wu Song warned him of Mount Liang’s planned attack. Wu Song helped prepare the manor’s defenses, and the chapter ended as Wu Yong’s bandits arrived and searchlights suddenly illuminated them.

• Wu Song reached Wu Family Manor after learning Mount Liang planned to attack, and Ling Yi tested him with a punch before the brothers sparred.
• Ling Yi defeated Wu Song after they traded blows, then revealed the manor’s advanced weapons and equipment to him.
• Wu Song warned Ling Yi that Wu Yong had persuaded Wang Lun to attack the manor, and the brothers drank together while discussing their experiences.
• Adviser Zheng reported that County Commandant Su, eight local gentry, and Mount Liang had assembled a thousand men to raid the manor and target Wu Song’s wife.
• Wu Song took charge of preparations, inspected the manor’s weapons, and made defensive arrangements with Adviser Zheng and Zhang Changwu.
• Wu Yong brought several hundred Mount Liang bandits to the manor at the hour of the Rat, but more than a dozen searchlights suddenly illuminated them.

Ling Yi defended the Wu Family Manor, killed Wu Yong and Ximen Qing, and won fame across the land. Later, Wu Song complained about Ling Yi’s devotion to Sister Pan and learned that his gossip had hurt her reputation, while Sister Zhang stopped him from apologizing in the middle of the night.

• Ling Yi leaped from the manor wall and slaughtered Wu Yong’s bandits, then killed Wu Yong after the homemade bombs exploded.
• Ling Yi and Wu Song discussed their ambitions, and Ling Yi refused to seek the throne while offering to support Wu Song if he wanted it.
• Zhang Changwu’s men killed Ximen Qing with homemade bombs, and the manor’s victory spread throughout the land.
• County Commandant Su sent Ling Yi ten thousand taels of gold, while Ling Yi left the manor’s affairs to Wu Song and spent his time with Sister Pan.
• Wu Song complained about Sister Pan to Zhang Changwu and Adviser Zheng, and Ling Yi beat him for it.
• Sister Zhang struck Wu Song with a pot and told him that his gossip had damaged Sister Pan’s reputation, then stopped him from apologizing late at night.

Wu Family Manor’s growing prosperity drew Emperor Huizong of Song and Gao Qiu’s attention, while Ling Yi welcomed Lu Zhishen and Song Jiang among the manor’s refugees. When a palace eunuch arrived with an imperial edict, Ling Yi ignored County Commandant Su’s taunts and seized him by the neck.

• Gao Qiu persuaded Emperor Huizong of Song to summon Wu Da through an amnesty and recruitment edict, hoping to take over Wu Family Manor’s businesses.
• Lu Da arrived at Wu Family Manor and challenged Ling Yi to a fight, but Ling Yi’s strength sent him flying and earned his respect.
• Song Jiang, wanted for Yan Poxi’s murder, settled at Wu Family Manor and began helping Adviser Zheng with his work.
• Ling Yi expanded the manor’s organization with membership rules, secure facilities, and a school run by Sister Pan.
• Adviser Zheng reported that County Commandant Su had arrived with a palace messenger and an imperial edict for Ling Yi.
• When County Commandant Su taunted him, Ling Yi grabbed him by the neck and hurled him into the air.

Ling Yi rejected the court's amnesty, used a helicopter and explosives to attack Gao Qiu and frighten Emperor Huizong into making him sage teacher with authority over the realm. After five years of transforming Great Song and enjoying a life of leisure, Ling Yi began another transmigration and arrived in a modern fictional world as a wealthy heir with no apparent ties to its plot.

• Ling Yi dismissed the imperial edict's offer of amnesty, rejected Song Jiang's argument for accepting it, and ordered Zhang Changwu to prepare explosives and meet him at the south gate.
• Ling Yi took Wu Song, Song Jiang, Adviser Zheng, and others aboard a helicopter, picked up the terrified eunuch to guide them, and flew to the capital.
• Ling Yi dropped explosives on Gao Qiu's residence, killing Gao Qiu, then bombed part of the imperial palace and terrified Emperor Huizong.
• Emperor Huizong visited Wu Family Manor, listened to Ling Yi's ideas for governing, and later appointed him sage teacher with authority to oversee the realm.
• Over the next five years, Great Song established free schools and compulsory education, while Ling Yi stayed behind before leaving a clone and starting another transmigration.
• Ling Yi arrived in a modern fictional world as a wealthy heir and walked out of Dafeng City Stadium amid a crowd denouncing the Round Association.

After the Troubled Football Team lost 7-0 to Shite Country, Ling Yi decided to use his inexhaustible wealth to build an amateur team capable of beating the world’s strongest sides. He recruited his streamer roommate Cong Yajing to help find players, and they prepared to announce the plan on her stream.

• Ling Yi met Cong Yajing outside their apartment and joked about her Sword Princess cosplay before they discussed the Troubled Football Team’s humiliating loss.
• Ling Yi showed Cong Yajing his vast bank balance and transferred her ten million, then offered her the money as pay for streaming football with him.
• Ling Yi laid out plans to recruit players with huge salaries, buy a stadium, hire a top coach, and offer enormous prizes for matches.
• Ling Yi explained his recruitment plan to Cong Yajing, who agreed to use her Quiet Ya'er account despite worrying about its small audience and online abuse.
• Ling Yi arranged for Cong Yajing to stream that night, promised to send out ten million in red packets, and agreed to appear with her.

Ling Yi used Cong Yajing’s livestream to announce a lavishly funded amateur football team and attack the Troubled Football Team and the Round Association. As his stream went viral, players from the Troubled Football Team privately celebrated and plotted to exploit the controversy to destroy the Round Association.

• Cong Yajing turned off her beauty filter and gave viewers ten million in red packets, drawing a surge of attention to her livestream.
• Ling Yi appeared, promised daily ten-million red packets, showed his bank balance, and demanded that the platform stop restricting the stream.
• Ling Yi announced an amateur team with ten-million annual salaries, offered a hundred-million salary for a coach, and invited challengers to compete for a billion in one month.
• Ling Yi and Cong Yajing spent two hours livestreaming and giving out gifts; her follower count soared, and clips and stories about the event spread widely.
• Old Fan and other Troubled Football Team players discussed using Ling Yi’s anger and wealth to stir public outrage and bring down the Round Association.
• The players planned a million-yuan party and a secretly filmed video to post online, while Old Zhang continued contacting city bosses and A-Jian prepared to post on social media.

Ling Yi and Cong Yajing launched their plan to prove the Round Association, not football, was the problem by buying a stadium, a hotel, and an event company to build an amateur team. The chapter ended with Ling Yi returning home for instant noodles despite having offered his new staff lavish meals.

• Cong Yajing questioned why she was so angry about the Troubled Football Team, and Ling Yi blamed the Round Association’s corrupt system and the players’ lack of effort.
• Ling Yi bought Dafeng City Stadium on Cong Yajing’s livestream, then bought a nearby star-rated hotel as her audience and follower count surged.
• After Cong Yajing struggled to field calls from people seeking to join the team, Ling Yi told her to turn off her phone and hired Yuan Zhuoyun’s 32-person company to organize inquiries.
• Ling Yi bought Yuan Zhuoyun’s company and assigned it to sort applications, hire staff, and prepare for the professional teams’ arrival.
• Ling Yi ordered strict surveillance of the future players and staff, including livestreaming their monitoring, and put Yuan Zhuoyun in charge.
• Ling Yi went home with Cong Yajing, who asked why he chose instant noodles over the hotel’s abalone and lobster.

Ling Yi used a prediction radar from Yin Wanqing to glimpse his next transmigration worlds, then poured himself into building a football team and livestreaming its progress. When the Round Association threatened to block the team, Yuan Zhuoyun arrived and warned its representatives to worry about themselves.

• After telling viewers about Ling Yi’s wealth and eccentric frugal habits, Cong Yajing helped send the story trending.
• Ling Yi called Yin Wanqing, who advised him to leave the current world within a year and gave him a Transmigration World Prediction Radar.
• Ling Yi activated the radar and saw predictions for Jade Dynasty, Transformers, Wind and Cloud, and an unknown webnovel world, leading him to suspect the author controlled his transmigrations.
• Ling Yi began assembling a football team, while Cong Yajing announced that his company had bought the streaming platform and would broadcast the process openly.
• Round Association representatives threatened to prevent the team from playing or streaming, and Ling Yi ordered his lawyers to respond.
• Yuan Zhuoyun entered the office and warned the Round Association representatives to worry about themselves.

After thirty-six cities refused to host Troubled Football Team matches, Ling Yi built a new team through a seven-day open selection and prepared it to face the national team. He revealed that Lin Feng was the team’s secret weapon and hinted that he would eventually leave this world, leaving the team and his assets to Lin Feng.

• Yuan Zhuoyun told Ling Yi and the others that thirty-six cities had jointly refused to host Troubled Football Team matches, and Ling Yi ordered the hotel to replace its security staff.
• Ling Yi announced a three-stage player selection, and after seven days he formed a thirty-player team and made its training public.
• The Round Association ordered Troubled Football Team to win the match against Ling Yi’s team, which was scheduled for half a month later.
• Ling Yi summoned Lin Feng, revealed that he knew Lin Feng’s true strength, and told him to act as the team’s secret weapon by focusing on interceptions and passes.
• Ling Yi told Lin Feng he would eventually leave this world and hand over his assets and team, while Lin Feng agreed to keep their conversation secret from the livestream viewers.

Ling Yi’s team defeated the Troubled Football Team after exposing the players’ staged resistance and private scheming, triggering the Round Association’s downfall. Ling Yi then left the world, while Lin Feng met Yin Wanqing and Ling Yi arrived in a corpse-strewn village in a Zhu Xian-based world.

• The Troubled Football Team stripped off their logo-covered jerseys before the match, then scored first as Teacher Wojian praised their apparent resistance.
• Ling Yi suspected the team was acting, and hidden cameras livestreamed the players admitting they hoped to trick him into hiring them.
• Lin Feng entered in the second half and led Ling Yi’s team to a crushing victory, while the Troubled Football Team continued pretending to grieve.
• Lin Feng revealed the changing-room footage had been broadcast, and the Round Association was abolished as the players were banned and nearly sixty people were imprisoned.
• Half a month later, Lin Feng told Cong Yajing that Ling Yi had left, then met Yin Wanqing, who offered him a chance to transmigrate between worlds.
• Ling Yi emerged into a village filled with corpses in a novel world set against the backdrop of Zhu Xian.

Ling Yi questioned Zhang Xiaofan about the Grass Temple Village massacre and deduced that divine monk Puzhi had been driven mad by the Bloodthirsty Bead and killed the villagers. After stopping Zhang Xiaofan from rushing off for revenge, Ling Yi urged the three survivors to join the Qingyun Sect, just as Tian Buyi arrived to investigate the village.

• Ling Yi asked Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu what had happened, then challenged Zhang Xiaofan’s account after sensing blood fiend Qi on him.
• Ling Yi identified the Bloodthirsty Bead and explained its power and dangers; Zhang Xiaofan admitted that Puzhi had given it to him and taught him Great Brahman Prajna.
• Ling Yi deduced that Puzhi had slaughtered Grass Temple Village after the Bloodthirsty Bead’s balefulness overwhelmed him, leaving Zhang Xiaofan devastated.
• Ling Yi revealed that the Bloodthirsty Bead had destroyed his own distant hometown and explained how his family had sent him away with the Reincarnation Pill and a teleportation talisman.
• Zhang Xiaofan tried to run off to find Puzhi, but Ling Yi stopped him and urged the three survivors to join the Qingyun Sect before seeking revenge.
• Tian Buyi arrived with two young men to investigate and bury the dead, then examined Ling Yi, Lin Jingyu, and Zhang Xiaofan with surprise.

After Tian Buyi took Ling Yi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Lin Jingyu to Big Bamboo Peak, Ling Yi chose an aura and discussed the Bloodthirsty Bead with Su Ru. Su Ru learned that Puzhi had massacred Grass Temple Village and that Zhang Xiaofan knew Great Brahman Prajna, leaving her concerned about the boy’s situation.

• Lin Jingyu told Tian Buyi that two mysterious fighters had caused the Grass Temple Village massacre, while concealing the Bloodthirsty Bead and Puzhi’s role.
• Tian Buyi brought Ling Yi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Lin Jingyu to Big Bamboo Peak, where Su Ru welcomed them and invited them to eat.
• Zheng Hai arrived at Grass Temple Village, offered gold to two Qingyun Sect disciples, and persuaded them to take him to the sect.
• Ling Yi activated a Level 2 Passive Amplification Aura and told Su Ru that he came from the Swamp Forest and that the Bloodthirsty Bead had caused its destruction.
• Su Ru examined the Bloodthirsty Bead, warned the disciples to keep it secret, and questioned Ling Yi about the Swamp Forest and the Grass Temple Village massacre.
• Ling Yi identified Divine Monk Puzhi as the killer, and Su Ru learned that Zhang Xiaofan had cultivated Great Brahman Prajna.

Ling Yi joined Big Bamboo Peak and began cultivating the Tai Chi Mysterious Purity Dao, while suspecting that the Jade Dynasty World was connected to the Primordial World. His first cultivation session drew an enormous spiritual Qi vortex over the Qingyun Sect, alarming the sect leaders and prompting Daoxuan to conceal Ling Yi’s possible Innate Dao Body.

• Ling Yi chose Tian Buyi’s Big Bamboo Peak over the other Qingyun Sect masters, while Lin Jingyu chose Daoist Cangsong.
• Daoist Cangsong suddenly coughed up blood after Ling Yi’s misfortune aura triggered the injuries he had sustained fighting Divine Monk Puzhi over the Bloodthirsty Bead.
• Ling Yi identified Cangsong as the mysterious fighter from that encounter, accepted Tian Buyi as his master without kneeling, and received the Jade Purity Realm cultivation method.
• Ling Yi found the Tai Chi Mysterious Purity Dao familiar and wondered whether the Jade Dynasty World had been created by the Three Pure Ones, resolving to investigate the Heavenly Book.
• Ling Yi’s cultivation formed a vast spiritual Qi vortex that drew Daoxuan and the peak leaders to Big Bamboo Peak, where Daoxuan suspected Ling Yi had an Innate Dao Body and activated the sect’s grand formation to hide the disturbance.
• Cangsong arrived with his injuries apparently healed and privately decided to accelerate his plans, while Zeng Shuchang watched from nearby with a cold smile.

Ling Yi completed his cultivation and amazed Tian Buyi with a sea of Spiritual Qi too vast for him to measure, despite still being at the first level of the Jade Purity Realm. Cangsong’s hostile feelings triggered Ling Yi’s Passive Misfortune Aura, leaving him gravely injured, while Zheng Hai escaped after discovering his weakened state; Ling Yi later warned Tian Buyi to pay attention to Zheng Hai.

• Tian Buyi examined Ling Yi and found that his first-level Jade Purity Realm cultivation contained an immense, seemingly boundless sea of Spiritual Qi.
• Daoxuan asked Cangsong to keep the mountain gate’s grand formation active, and Tian Buyi voiced concern about Daoxuan’s trust in him.
• Cangsong’s inner forces erupted as he left Big Bamboo Peak, and he flew beyond the sect before coughing up blood and collapsing.
• Zheng Hai encountered the injured Cangsong and fled using the Tai Chi Mysterious Purity Dao and the Sword Control Technique, prompting Cangsong to summon help with a communication talisman.
• Ling Yi teased Tian Ling'er by claiming Zheng Hai was a demonic cultivator, then Tian Buyi corrected her and told her to stop disturbing Ling Yi’s cultivation.
• Ling Yi told Tian Buyi he knew of Zheng Hai but had never met him, and urged his master to keep an eye on him if they met again.

Ling Yi encountered Lu Xueqi in the mountains behind Big Bamboo Peak, where his misfortune aura caused her to sprain her ankle and faint after being frightened by snakes. He healed her and sent a message to Tian Buyi, while his new spell impressed the disciples at the main hall.

• Ling Yi caught the hungry Soul Devourer Staff, destroyed the weak intelligence inside it, and decided to give the weapon to Zhang Xiaofan.
• Lu Xueqi challenged Ling Yi to a spar, and he agreed after realizing Master Shuiyue had likely sent her.
• Ling Yi’s misfortune aura made Lu Xueqi fall and sprain her ankle, then frightened her into fainting when snakes appeared.
• Ling Yi sent a magical bird carrying a message to Tian Buyi, healed Lu Xueqi, and waited beside her.
• Tian Buyi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples watched Ling Yi’s bird transform into a tiny figure and deliver its message, and Tian Ling’er asked to learn the technique.

Ling Yi demonstrated his self-created Weapon Art to Lu Xueqi and taught her its Dao resonance, while a veiled woman in dark green secretly studied it. After Lu Xueqi left, the woman slipped out of Qingyun Sect, intrigued by Ling Yi and his plans to travel with Lu Xueqi.

• Ling Yi and Lu Xueqi tested the Weapon Art in a sword fight, and he explained that its spiritual Qi weapons faded when their energy ran out.
• Ling Yi taught Lu Xueqi the Weapon Art’s Dao resonance, while a veiled woman in dark green secretly contemplated it nearby.
• Lu Xueqi grasped the art’s essence, and Ling Yi warned her to keep it secret from everyone, including Master Shuiyue.
• Ling Yi suggested that Lu Xueqi seek permission to gain experience and said he would accompany her; the two shared a quiet moment beneath the moon before she returned.
• The veiled woman left Qingyun Sect before dawn and remarked that Ling Yi was interesting, amused by the prospect of his upcoming journey.

Ling Yi and Lu Xueqi traveled to Mount Kongsang to investigate demonic bat attacks, where they protected a stranger and sealed the valley with flaming swords. Ling Yi then left with Lu Xueqi, while a message bird delivered his secret technique inheritance to Su Ru back at Qingyun Sect.

• Ling Yi met Lu Xueqi at Grass Temple Village, and they flew to Mount Kongsang to investigate the demonic bat attacks.
• Ling Yi and Lu Xueqi rescued Zheng Hai from a swarm of demonic bats, then pursued the retreating bats to a valley.
• Ling Yi replenished Lu Xueqi's magical power and filled the valley with miniature flaming swords that could endure for months.
• Ling Yi recognized Zheng Hai's cultivation method as the Tai Chi Mysterious Purity Dao and departed north with Lu Xueqi, leaving Zheng Hai behind.
• Tian Buyi worried that Ling Yi's departure could expose him to Cangsong and the Ghost King, while Su Ru received Ling Yi's secret technique inheritance through the message bird.

Su Ru demonstrated Ling Yi’s Weapon Art to Tian Buyi, while Ling Yi and Lu Xueqi encountered Biyao and You Ji pursuing Zheng Hai over his place on the Myriad Demons Kill Order. After Zheng Hai revealed a secret linking Cangsong to the Ghost King, Ling Yi led everyone outside Jing City and prepared to fight You Ji.

• Su Ru showed Tian Buyi her Weapon Art, and they agreed to keep it secret until Ling Yi returned.
• Ling Yi and Lu Xueqi explored Jing City before Zheng Hai crashed down in front of them, pursued by Biyao.
• Ling Yi stopped Biyao’s saber, and You Ji said Zheng Hai was named on the Ghost King Sect’s Myriad Demons Kill Order.
• Zheng Hai claimed his name had appeared on the order after he saw Cangsong injured, alarming Lu Xueqi and prompting You Ji to fear the Qingyun disciples had learned too much.
• Ling Yi took Zheng Hai and Lu Xueqi outside the city, where Zheng Hai recognized Ling Yi as a fellow countryman and then stood aside.
• Ling Yi summoned his Weapon Art and faced You Ji, who identified herself as the Vermilion Bird Envoy and challenged him to fight.

Ling Yi defeated You Ji with the Weapon Art, then explained his theory that the Heavenly Book had severed the Jade Dynasty World's path to immortality. He declared that he would restore that path and slay the immortals, and gathered allies while exposing Zheng Hai's outsider status.

• You Ji attacked Ling Yi with the Vermilion Bird Seal, but Ling Yi used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to overpower her and stopped his Sword Qi before it could kill her.
• Biyao learned that Ling Yi had deliberately let her discover the Weapon Formula, while Lu Xueqi realized he had left Dao resonance for Biyao to find.
• Ling Yi proposed that the Heavenly Book had cut off the world's path to immortality, and declared that he would break the seal, restore that path, and slay immortals.
• You Ji, Biyao, Lu Xueqi, and Zheng Hai offered to help Ling Yi, who argued that the distinction between righteous and demonic cultivators was not the same as the distinction between good and evil.
• Ling Yi passed the Weapon Art to You Ji and told her to master it before they could challenge the immortals.
• Zheng Hai asked Ling Yi to change his physique, but Ling Yi said the world rejected him and that it did not dare refuse Ling Yi.

Ling Yi calmed the tension between Biyao and Lu Xueqi by telling them a story, but Zheng Hai’s interruption stirred their curiosity and jealousy. Later, Ling Yi encountered Zhou Yixian and Zhou Xiaohuan in Jing City, and Zhou Yixian fled before returning bedraggled while Ling Yi shared a meal with Xiaohuan.

• Ling Yi told Biyao, Lu Xueqi, and You Ji the story of Empress Ruthless, but Zheng Hai interrupted with details that prompted questions about the rest of the tale.
• Ling Yi told Lu Xueqi and Biyao to focus on mastering the Weapon Formula during a month of training, and both women left in a bad mood.
• Ling Yi went out to think about improving the Weapon Art and ran into Zhou Yixian and Zhou Xiaohuan on the streets of Jing City.
• Zhou Yixian recognized Ling Yi, grabbed Zhou Xiaohuan, and tried to escape with an unreliable Earth Escape Technique, leaving Xiaohuan behind.
• Ling Yi reassured Xiaohuan that his ill-fortune would not harm her, introduced himself, and took her to a restaurant for a meal.
• Zhou Yixian found Ling Yi and Xiaohuan before they finished eating, looking bedraggled.

Ling Yi learned from Zhou Yixian how the Heavenly Book appeared and transformed cultivation, then gave Zhou Yixian and Zhou Xiaohuan the Weapon Art inheritance. A month later, Ling Yi left with Lu Xueqi while You Ji and Biyao set out for the Southern Border to seek more volumes of the Heavenly Book, leaving Zheng Hai to return to an empty courtyard.

• Ling Yi questioned Zhou Yixian about Qingyunzi, the Heavenly Book, and the cultivation world before the Heavenly Book appeared.
• Zhou Yixian recounted how the Heavenly Book descended after a half-month upheaval, split into five parts, and was later discovered by Qingyunzi, who founded the Qingyun Sect.
• Ling Yi passed the Weapon Art inheritance to Zhou Yixian and Zhou Xiaohuan, who declined to return to the Qingyun Sect with him.
• After a month, Ling Yi departed with Lu Xueqi, while Biyao protested that Lu Xueqi had broken their agreement.
• You Ji and Biyao decided to travel to the Southern Border to retrieve Heavenly Book volumes, and Zheng Hai returned to find the courtyard deserted.

Ling Yi returned to Qingyun and told Tian Buyi and Su Ru about the Weapon Art and the danger surrounding the sect. With the Seven Peaks Martial Tournament approaching, he and Lu Xueqi prepared for trouble from Cangsong while demonstrating how powerful the Weapon Art had become.

• Ling Yi warned Lu Xueqi that Cangsong might use the Seven Peaks Martial Tournament to expose himself and start a conflict between the righteous and demonic factions.
• Ling Yi returned to Big Bamboo Peak with Lu Xueqi and learned that Zhang Xiaofan, Du Bishu, and Tian Ling'er had gone down the mountain, while Qi Hao had been confined after returning from an attack by the Demonic Sect.
• Ling Yi gave Tian Buyi and Su Ru the Weapon Art inheritance and discussed Cangsong, the Ghost King Sect, and whether to tell Daoxuan about the technique.
• Ling Yi said he would enter the Seven Peaks Martial Tournament and stop Cangsong if he caused trouble, then Tian Buyi challenged him to a test of strength.
• Lu Xueqi fought Master Shuiyue using the Weapon Art until Shuiyue called off the match, then ordered Lu Xueqi to cultivate in seclusion until the tournament.