Recaps

After the Stone Gate transported Li Qingshan into the Yang God World, he identified Hong Yi, Chan Yinsha, and a thousand-year-old clam bearing a Primordial Feminine Heavenly Pearl. He seized the clam to make contact with the world’s powers, and Chan Yinsha attacked him to reclaim her prize.

• The Stone Gate transported Li Qingshan from the Shrouding the Heavens World to an unfamiliar ocean in the Yang God World.
• Li Qingshan sensed Hong Yi practicing his Yin Spirit visualization and recognized him as a favored son of destiny.
• Li Qingshan identified Chan Yinsha attempting to draw a Primordial Feminine Heavenly Pearl from a thousand-year-old clam.
• Li Qingshan summoned a giant hand of seawater and lifted the clam and the surrounding water into the air.
• Chan Yinsha confronted Li Qingshan and unleashed her Wind and Lightning Rend the Void technique.

Chan Yinsha unleashed her strongest wind-and-thunder attack against Li Qingshan, but he stood unharmed and effortlessly suppressed her. After freeing her, he calmly asked why she had such a fiery temper, leaving her shaken and cautious.

• Chan Yinsha used her essence blood and jade flute to summon a devastating lightning attack against Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan remained untouched as his invisible field dispersed the lightning and its destructive force.
• Chan Yinsha was horrified by the gap in their strength and found herself unable to flee when Li Qingshan sealed her spirit and the surrounding space.
• Hong Yi observed the confrontation from afar, suppressed his alarm, and stayed hidden while watching what happened.
• Li Qingshan asked Chan Yinsha why she had such a fiery temper and released his hold over her, while she kept herself still and cautious.

Li Qingshan ended Chan Yinsha’s attack on the thousand-year-old clam and invited her and Hong Yi to discuss the Dao. As he protected the clam and created three lotus thrones, Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi were left awed by his apparent power.

• Chan Yinsha bowed to Li Qingshan, apologized for attacking, and claimed she needed the clam’s pearl to save an old friend.
• Li Qingshan invited Hong Yi to join them, and Hong Yi introduced himself and explained that he had witnessed Li Qingshan dissolve the thunderbolts.
• Li Qingshan decided to spare the thousand-year-old clam, and Chan Yinsha accepted his decision without protest.
• Li Qingshan asked Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi to explain the current state of the Dao, then enclosed the clam in a peaceful sphere of water so it could continue nurturing its pearl.
• Li Qingshan created three lotus thrones from water essence, astonishing Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi with what appeared to be creation from nothing.
• Li Qingshan considered what he had learned about this world’s Divine Soul Immortal Arts and the stages of Ghost Immortal tribulation.

Li Qingshan explained the stages and power of the Yang God World's martial path, then gathered Hong Yi and Chan Yinsha for a discussion of the Dao. He brought Jin Xun'er from Hong Yi’s camp to join them and asked to borrow the Great Zen Temple scriptures she had inherited, leaving the group seated together in a tranquil gathering by the sea.

• Li Qingshan’s account described how the martial path progressed from bodily tempering to Human Immortal mastery over space and rules.
• Chan Yinsha chose to accept Li Qingshan’s invitation to discuss the Dao, and Hong Yi joined them on soul-nourishing water-lotus thrones.
• Li Qingshan told Hong Yi he wanted to meet Jin Xun’er and study the Great Zen Temple teachings she had inherited.
• Li Qingshan transported Jin Xun’er from the army camp to the gathering, where Hong Yi reassured her.
• Li Qingshan asked Jin Xun’er to lend him the Great Zen Temple methods and invited her to listen to the discussion; she agreed.

Li Qingshan drew down stellar power to nourish Hong Yi, Chan Yinsha, Jin Xun'er, and the old clam, then studied Chan Yinsha’s water lightning technique and vastly amplified it. Chan Yinsha began demonstrating her Five Thunder Orthodox Method, leaving the chapter as a giant divine form rose behind her.

• Li Qingshan quietly created a space where stellar power poured down and strengthened everyone gathered on the water lotuses.
• Jin Xun'er displayed her Compassionate Mother Bodhisattva Form, which soothed the old clam and revealed her Great Compassion Soul Restoration Sutra.
• Chan Yinsha condensed seawater into a heavy droplet and demonstrated her Water Essence Condensed Lightning Technique.
• Li Qingshan analyzed Chan Yinsha’s technique, recreated it with refined Dao patterns, and unleashed a vastly more powerful explosion at sea.
• Chan Yinsha began demonstrating the Five Thunder Orthodox Method, forming a lightning seal as a gigantic divine form appeared behind her.

Li Qingshan analyzed Chan Yinsha’s Thunder Duke Giant Spirit Form and combined its artistic conception with his own Great Dao to create vastly more powerful manifestations. Impressed, Hong Yi offered another visualization method and began manifesting the Destruction Wisdom King.

• Chan Yinsha directed her Thunder Duke Giant Spirit to create a net of lightning that threatened Yin Spirits and ghosts.
• Li Qingshan studied her method, then manifested a towering Thunder Duke Giant Spirit and a Great Might Heavenly Dragon Bodhisattva using his own Dao patterns.
• Li Qingshan unleashed a sea of lightning across the small world, overwhelming Chan Yinsha’s manifestation and nearly crushing Hong Yi’s Yin Spirit with its lingering might.
• Hong Yi overcame his hesitation and offered to share another visualization method with Li Qingshan, who dismissed the manifestations and invited him to proceed.
• Hong Yi chanted and manifested the Destruction Wisdom King, a four-faced, eight-armed demonic god formed from golden light and raging flames.

Li Qingshan studied Hong Yi’s Buddhist and demonic visualization methods and the Dragon Elephant Dharma Seal, finding ways to combine the Yang God Method with the Shrouding Method. Jin Xun’er then shared the Great Compassion Soul Restoration Sutra, leaving Li Qingshan to absorb the night’s insights.

• Hong Yi demonstrated the Destruction Wisdom King’s red lotus fire and destructive eye, and Li Qingshan praised its Dao resonance.
• Hong Yi offered to share his visualization methods and the Dragon Elephant Dharma Seal’s secret Marrow Training technique, and Li Qingshan asked him to explain them.
• Hong Yi described several Buddhist and demonic visualizations and the Dragon Elephant Dharma Seal, and Li Qingshan considered how their principles could complement the Shrouding Method.
• Li Qingshan approved of Hong Yi’s teachings, and Jin Xun’er offered to share the Great Compassion Soul Restoration Sutra and Compassionate Mother Bodhisattva visualization.
• Jin Xun’er explained her soul-restoration method in detail while Li Qingshan absorbed the insights shared by her, Hong Yi, and Chan Yinsha.

Li Qingshan explained the fundamental principles behind cultivation to Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun'er, deepening their insights and strengthening their cultivation. He then began gathering the stars’ radiance to offer Chan Yinsha a reciprocal gift, leaving the nature of that gift unrevealed.

• Li Qingshan absorbed insights from Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun'er, then described how fundamental principles underlay their different arts.
• Li Qingshan taught the group about the Dao and its source laws as wondrous phenomena filled the isolated world.
• Chan Yinsha’s Ghost Immortal bottleneck loosened, Hong Yi glimpsed a way to unite his studies, Jin Xun'er’s cultivation grew smoother, and the thousand-year-old clam refined moonlight more efficiently.
• After the hour-long discourse ended, Li Qingshan told the three he would repay their sincerity with a reciprocal gift.
• Li Qingshan assessed Chan Yinsha’s progress in water and lightning arts and said she still needed further refinement to withstand heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qingshan beckoned to the stars, drawing starlight, moonlight, sunlight, and other celestial radiance into a brilliant pillar in his palm.

Li Qingshan used star power and lightning Dao resonance to refine Chan Yinsha’s soul and raise her to a One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal. Overwhelmed with gratitude, Chan Yinsha offered her secret teachings and asked to follow him, and Li Qingshan regarded her with faint appreciation.

• Li Qingshan enveloped Chan Yinsha in star power, purifying her soul and bringing her to the peak of the Ghost Immortal realm.
• Li Qingshan drew lightning tribulation Dao resonance from the void and used it to temper Chan Yinsha’s thoughts.
• Chan Yinsha became a One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal with a pure yang soul and a stronger foundation.
• Li Qingshan gave Chan Yinsha the water lotus throne, which entered her ancestral aperture and helped stabilize her soul.
• Chan Yinsha bowed to Li Qingshan, thanked him for his aid, and asked to serve and follow him.
• Chan Yinsha offered Li Qingshan spheres containing her core insights and secret teachings, and he looked upon her with faint appreciation.

Li Qingshan declined Chan Yinsha’s offer of allegiance and then guided Hong Yi’s Yin Spirit toward purity and integration. Hong Yi broke through from Manifestation into the Ghost Immortal realm, leaving the encounter transformed by his sudden advancement.

• Li Qingshan lifted Chan Yinsha to her feet, declined her fundamental teachings, and urged her to consolidate her new Pure Yang realm.
• Chan Yinsha accepted Li Qingshan’s decision and bowed respectfully before he turned to Hong Yi.
• Hong Yi, awed by Chan Yinsha’s tribulation and Li Qingshan’s guidance, waited eagerly for his own instruction.
• Li Qingshan praised Hong Yi’s broad learning, advised him to unify his insights, and sent a speck of starlight into his Yin Spirit.
• The starlight harmonized Hong Yi’s Buddhist, demonic, and martial insights, transforming his Yin Spirit and stirring his distant body’s Qi and blood.
• Hong Yi opened his eyes with a purified, solid Yin Spirit and entered the Ghost Immortal realm.

Li Qingshan elevated Hong Yi to the Ghost Immortal realm and gave him a lotus platform, prompting Hong Yi to offer him the Past Amitabha Sutra, whose insights strengthened Li Qingshan’s primordial spirit. Li Qingshan then gave Jin Xun’er her own lotus platform and began gathering the remaining starlight and Dao resonance into a halo above his palm.

• Li Qingshan revealed that Hong Yi’s Ghost Immortal realm was genuine and gave him the azure water lotus, which merged into his Yin Spirit.
• Hong Yi, moved by Li Qingshan’s generosity, revealed the Past Amitabha Sutra and offered it to him as a token of sincere trust.
• Li Qingshan comprehended the sutra’s principle of anchoring existence in the past, deepening and strengthening his primordial spirit.
• Li Qingshan gave Jin Xun’er the azure water lotus, which entered her brow and became a treasure that nourished her soul.
• Li Qingshan gathered the remaining starlight and Dao resonance above his palm into a halo filled with tiny vortices of light.

Li Qingshan bestowed Jin Xun'er with a new cultivation art and helped her advance before ending the gathering and vanishing into the starlight. Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun'er departed with their gains, while the thousand-year-old clam absorbed the lingering Dao resonance.

• Li Qingshan strengthened Jin Xun'er's Yin Spirit and demonic body, raised her to Body Attachment and Marrow Training, and gave her the Starlight Marrow Refining Art.
• Li Qingshan declared the discussion of the Dao over, then departed in a torrent of starlight after saying they might meet again.
• Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi reflected on Li Qingshan's guidance, while Jin Xun'er wondered if he was an immortal.
• Chan Yinsha bowed and left, Hong Yi returned to his body in the military camp, and Jin Xun'er headed toward land.
• The thousand-year-old clam absorbed the lingering starlight and Dao resonance, gaining clearer spiritual insight and a firmer Dao foundation.

Li Qingshan discovered the Present Buddha’s hidden statue beneath Giant Whale Island and recognized its doctrine of grasping the power of the present as a complement to the Past Amitabha Sutra. As he examined the statue’s wooden interior, he sensed something strangely familiar within it.

• Li Qingshan surveyed Giant Whale Island and recognized its inhabitants as remnants of fallen powers, including surviving Great Zen Temple warrior monks.
• Li Qingshan sensed the Dao resonance of grasping the present and slipped through the island’s defenses into a cavern underground.
• Li Qingshan found a red-gold Buddha statue and identified it as the Present Buddha from its posture and carved scriptures.
• Li Qingshan compared the Present Buddha’s direct, forceful doctrine with the Past Amitabha Sutra and began examining the statue.
• Li Qingshan discovered that the statue was carved from unusual wood with a network of veins, and felt a strange familiarity as he studied it.

Li Qingshan retrieved half of the Present Tathagata Scripture from a hidden small chiliocosm and studied its methods for cultivating 108 acupoints. By practicing its Earth Pole acupoints, he resonated with the earth’s power and gained new insight into the Dao of the earth; he then began comparing the scripture’s teachings with the Shrouding Method.

• Li Qingshan located a stable small chiliocosm inside the Buddha statue and retrieved an ancient scripture from it.
• Li Qingshan identified the text as half of the Present Tathagata Scripture, containing methods for cultivating 108 acupoints, and expected the remaining half and its general outline to appear in the Universe Bag.
• Li Qingshan compared the scripture’s acupoint cultivation with the Shrouding Method and focused on the two Earth Pole acupoints beneath the soles of the feet.
• Li Qingshan visualized the earth star and resonated with the ground, extending his perception through its veins and sensing its primordial magnetism and power.
• Li Qingshan gained new insight into the Source Heaven Book’s Source Arts and began systematically studying the scripture’s acupoints alongside the Great Dao of Shrouding the Heavens.

Li Qingshan traced the Universe Bag to Monk Jingren on Heaven-Absolving Mountain and demanded the Great Zen Temple treasure. Monk Jingren surrendered it, leaving Li Qingshan with the bag and the scripture fragments he hoped to find inside.

• Li Qingshan recalled that the Universe Bag held the other half and general outline of the Present Tathagata Scripture, and considered the dangers tied to the Wild Continent and Yang An.
• Li Qingshan crossed the sea to the Wild Continent and used the Movement secret art to reach Heaven-Absolving Mountain.
• Li Qingshan located Monk Jingren, the Great Zen Temple's surviving heir, and demanded the Universe Bag he had guarded for twenty years.
• Monk Jingren recognized Li Qingshan's overwhelming power and admitted that he possessed the treasure.
• Monk Jingren handed the Universe Bag to Li Qingshan, who identified it as a container refined from a Human Immortal's skin and tendons.

Li Qingshan retrieved the Present Tathagata Scripture’s guiding principles from the Universe Bag and used them to deepen his understanding of his own Dao, glimpsing the path toward the Limitless Seal. He passed his insights to Monk Jingren, who broke through to a new realm, then left Heaven-Absolving Mountain as the change altered the course of future events.

• Li Qingshan drew the hidden guiding page of the Present Tathagata Scripture from the Universe Bag and studied its ten Buddha seals.
• Li Qingshan sent his understanding of the scripture to Monk Jingren, repaying him for the karmic debt of taking the treasure.
• Monk Jingren practiced the ten seals, awakened a new fist intent, and broke through to a higher realm.
• Li Qingshan compared the scripture’s principles with his Seven Seals of Yuanshi and discovered a direction toward the nascent Limitless Seal.
• Monk Jingren thanked Li Qingshan, while Li Qingshan realized that Jingren’s increased strength could change Champion Marquis Yang An’s future encounter with him.
• Li Qingshan left Heaven-Absolving Mountain, leaving Monk Jingren and a new variable in the world’s unfolding conflicts.

Li Qingshan secluded himself in the Wild Continent to contemplate the Limitless Seal and the origins of the Dao. Meanwhile, Hong Yi led a campaign against coastal pirates, found a scripture that challenged his ideas about merit and virtue, and continued his advance across Giant Whale Island.

• Li Qingshan settled in a chaotic mountain range and deepened his understanding of the Limitless Seal and the Seven Seals of Yuanshi.
• Hong Yi advanced his cultivation of the Past Amitabha Sutra and led his first independent campaign against the sea raiders.
• After Hong Yi's forces reached Giant Whale Island, he killed the pirate leader Lü Mei and discovered the Discourse on Merit and Virtue in his clothing.
• Hong Yi read that scripture's claim that merit and virtue came from recognizing and following one's true nature, and began questioning the teachings that had shaped him.
• Hong Yi subdued the expert Lei Lie, pressed through Giant Whale Island's palaces with the Peach God Sword, and found a copy of the Battle Buddha's Notes.

Li Qingshan emerged from secluded cultivation and followed his karmic connection to Hong Yi, arriving as Hong Yi and Chan Yinsha faced Peacock King Xing Xuan at sea. Xing Xuan claimed Meng Shenji had been gravely wounded, but a True Dragon appeared and challenged his account.

• Hong Yi’s Battle Buddha’s Notes recorded the monk’s past battles with powerful figures, while Hong Yi’s victory over Lü Mei earned him recognition in the expeditionary army.
• Li Qingshan ended his seclusion, sensed Hong Yi’s presence and urgency, and traveled across the Wild Continent to find him.
• Li Qingshan arrived above the sea and recognized Hong Yi and Chan Yinsha, then identified their opponent as Peacock King Xing Xuan.
• Chan Yinsha challenged Xing Xuan after breaking his Metal Essence Sword Sha, but Xing Xuan manifested five elemental sword pellets and demanded that she withdraw.
• Xing Xuan claimed that he and his allies had grievously wounded Meng Shenji, but an ancient voice from the sky called him a liar.
• A vast crimson cloud appeared, and a gigantic claw emerged, revealing a real True Dragon above the sea.

The Nine Fire Flame Dragons forced the Peacock King’s incarnation to flee with Xing Yuxian, allowing Hong Yi to seize the initiative against Wei Taicang’s fleet. The enemy ships surrendered without a fight, and Hong Yi discovered a vast store of weapons and Dharma-Breaking Fire Arrows aboard them.

• The Nine Fire Flame Dragons halted the Peacock King’s attack, and Xing Xuan escaped with Xing Yuxian inside a five-colored shield of light.
• Hong Yi ordered his troops to attack Wei Taicang’s fleet while the enemy soldiers were still shaken by the clash.
• The fleet’s young commander ordered the ships to lower their sails, raise white flags, and surrender without resistance.
• Hong Yi’s forces received the surrendered ships and found large stocks of armor, weapons, black bows, and Dharma-Breaking Fire Arrows.

Hong Yi gained Wei Liancheng’s fleet and learned secrets about the Great Qian court and Meng Shenji. As Li Qingshan watched Meng Shenji’s creations distract their pursuers, he reflected on the history connecting Meng Shenji, Hong Xuanji, and Hong Yi.

• Hong Yi took possession of more than a hundred warships and their weapons after Wei Liancheng led his men to surrender and offered the Wei family’s True Martial Saint Body.
• Wei Liancheng revealed that past Great Qian emperors had cultivated Daoist arts, that the Heavenly Book of Fortune protected Yang Pan and Yang Yuan, and that Meng Shenji was recovering after his eighth lightning tribulation.
• Li Qingshan observed that Xing Xuan, Xing Mou, Nalan Anhuang, and other pursuers were chasing nine Nine Fire Flame Dragons created by Meng Shenji rather than his hidden true body.
• Li Qingshan studied a flame dragon’s creation and life force, gaining insight into the Great Dao of flames.
• Li Qingshan recalled how Meng Bingyun had revealed Meng Shenji’s secluded body to Hong Xuanji, enabling Hong Xuanji and Yang Pan to destroy it and force Meng Shenji into reincarnation.

Li Qingshan intercepted the Lifeless Old Mother, mastered the secrets of her Future Lifeless Sutra, and began integrating the Great Zen Temple’s three supreme scriptures. He reviewed the Past Amitabha Sutra’s methods for guarding and strengthening the soul, leaving himself ready to study the unified inheritance further.

• Li Qingshan watched Hong Yi’s ship sail toward the Divine Wind Kingdom, then left to settle his remaining affairs in the Yang God World.
• Li Qingshan reached Wuyuan Province and blocked the Lifeless Old Mother, who had come to kill Hou Qingchen.
• Li Qingshan subdued the Lifeless Old Mother and examined the Future Lifeless Sutra, learning how its seven faith-powered incarnations could merge into the Vacuum Great Hand Seal.
• Li Qingshan gathered the Great Zen Temple’s three supreme scriptures and began combining their teachings into a complete cultivation system.
• Li Qingshan reviewed the Past Amitabha Sutra’s soul trials, Amitabha Form, and methods for resisting inner demons and preserving one’s true nature.

Li Qingshan studied the Past Amitabha Sutra, Present Tathagata Sutra, and Future Lifeless Sutra, considering how their powers could unite and how faith worked differently across worlds. He reflected on the Great Zen Temple’s destruction before departing the Yang God World with new insights for his future cultivation.

• Li Qingshan examined the Future Lifeless Sutra’s stages, faith-based powers, and Lord of the Future incarnation, then considered applying its methods in the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Li Qingshan compared how faith functioned across different worlds and reasoned that combining the Past and Future Sutras could refine faith while protecting the soul.
• Li Qingshan identified restrictive inheritance, political threats, internal divisions, and difficult cultivation as reasons the Great Zen Temple had fallen despite possessing three supreme scriptures.
• Li Qingshan reflected on the temple’s lost inheritance and concluded that its destruction had resulted from intertwined internal and external causes.
• Li Qingshan deepened his understanding of the three Buddhist scriptures and faith before stepping away and fading from view.

Li Qingshan intercepted Su Mu, Tai Shang Dao’s holy maiden, in the waters off Nanyang and pressed her to demonstrate her sect’s supreme arts. Su Mu unleashed the Clock of the Ultimate Time and then the Tower of the Great Universe, while Li Qingshan resisted the first and studied the second as their confrontation continued.

• After dealing with the Lifeless Old Mother, Li Qingshan meditated off Nanyang while waiting for Su Mu to arrive.
• Su Mu appeared, and Li Qingshan identified her and revealed that she was traveling toward Hong Yi, leaving her wary of how much he knew.
• Su Mu explained her views on Tai Shang Dao, Meng Bingyun, and her interest in Hong Yi, while Li Qingshan challenged her to make a move.
• Su Mu summoned the Clock of the Ultimate Time, but Li Qingshan’s understanding of the Future Lifeless Sutra let him resist its attempt to freeze his thoughts and power.
• Li Qingshan attacked with Five-Colored Divine Light, and Su Mu transformed the clock into the Tower of the Great Universe, which trapped and dispersed his attack through layers of space.

Li Qingshan defeated Su Mu’s Tower of the Great Universe and compelled her to explain Tai Shang Dao’s space-and-time arts and acupoint teachings. After gaining the insights he sought, he decided to leave the Yang God World, but first planned to visit the former site of the Great Zen Temple.

• Li Qingshan shattered Su Mu’s Tower of the Great Universe and held his Five-Colored Divine Light over her.
• Su Mu abandoned resistance after sensing Li Qingshan’s overwhelming presence and explained Tai Shang Dao’s Two Scriptures of Space and Time and the twenty-four divine acupoints.
• Li Qingshan compared the Yang God method of acupoint cultivation with the Shrouding Method and considered how their principles could strengthen his foundation.
• Li Qingshan studied the teachings alongside the Wushi Scripture and gained new insight into the laws of space and time.
• Li Qingshan judged that his purpose in the Yang God World was essentially fulfilled and chose to return after visiting the former site of the Great Zen Temple.

Li Qingshan traveled to the ruins of the Great Zen Temple to find its hidden inheritance palace and encountered the dragon spirit of Mount Tai Shi beneath the temple. After subduing it, he studied how its nature compared with innate spirits in the Shrouding the Heavens World, gaining new insight but no immediate grasp of the Dao of Saint Spirits.

• Li Qingshan arrived at the ruined Great Zen Temple and saw that the Great Qian Dynasty had excavated its pagoda forest and taken the monks’ remains and relics.
• Li Qingshan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to descend beneath the temple and found a glowing pearl and a booklet in an underground chamber.
• The dragon soul of Mount Tai Shi emerged from the pearl and challenged Li Qingshan, then submitted after sensing the Primordial Heart Seal’s power.
• Li Qingshan promised the dragon soul a chance at reincarnation and drew it into his palm for examination.
• Li Qingshan compared the dragon soul’s nature with Saint Spirits and Immortal Medicines, gaining a broader understanding of how spirit and Dao differed between the two worlds.