Recaps

Li Qingshan tested his Gang Jin against renowned masters before entering a South China Sea typhoon to complete his cultivation. After enduring a lightning strike, he broke through to shatter the void and behold the gods, then calmed the storm with his fist.

• Li Qingshan formed Gang Jin and tested his Inner Gang against Ba Liming, whose fist force met his evenly.
• Li Qingshan exchanged fist intent with Chang Mei, the leader of GOD, and both recognized the other's formidable strength.
• Li Qingshan trained underwater in the South China Sea, then rose into a developing typhoon to face nature's power.
• Li Qingshan let lightning strike him and guided its energy through his body, breaking through his final bottleneck.
• Li Qingshan perceived the acupoint deities within himself and used a casual punch to calm the storm, while meteorological centers watched the typhoon dissipate.

After returning to City C, Li Qingshan reunited with Tang Zichen and helped train her disciple Wang Chao. He then traveled through the mortal world to deepen his understanding before the stone gate summoned him to return.

• Li Qingshan quietly practiced in a City C park and gave Wang Chao advice that helped him unify his Jin.
• Tang Zichen visited Li Qingshan, and they discussed the path beyond seeing the gods and shared insights into cultivation.
• Tang Zichen introduced Wang Chao to Li Qingshan as his senior brother, and Li Qingshan trained him in martial arts and the Crystal Visualization Method.
• Li Qingshan taught Wang Chao a final lesson in martial arts and urged him to preserve his true heart.
• Li Qingshan traveled across the land, reflecting on ordinary life, then meditated beside a river in Binhai City and reached a clearer state of mind.
• As the stone gate summoned him, Li Qingshan began to vanish and bid farewell to Tang Zichen and Wang Chao.

Li Qingshan returned from the Dragon and Snake World to find that only four hours had passed in his own world. He absorbed the scarce surrounding energy and ignited his immense Qi and blood to break through, leaving his power contained but vastly increased.

• Li Qingshan returned to his room after two years away, though only four hours had passed in the main world.
• He examined his transformed body and wondered whether the Stone Gate had adapted him to other worlds and improved his potential.
• Li Qingshan sensed the main world's faint spiritual energy and his body greedily drew energy from the surrounding area.
• He released his suppression and ignited the Qi and blood stored in his body to break through the barrier in his cultivation.
• Li Qingshan's body and divine sense underwent a dramatic transformation, and he contained the breakthrough's phenomena within himself.

After reaching Primordial Breathing, Li Qingshan condensed a Divine Seed because the world lacked the spiritual Qi and S-rank technique needed to form a Sacred Embryo. He began planning a scholarly cover for his cultivation, secretly strengthened his parents, and sensed that the world held greater mysteries as he continued to cultivate.

• Li Qingshan used his true self as a seed and successfully condensed a Divine Seed, gaining a clearer sense of the laws between heaven and earth.
• He concluded that cultivating inward through his body's hidden potential was more effective than relying on the world's scarce spiritual Qi.
• Li Qingshan secretly nourished his parents with spiritual Qi and pure energy, improving how they felt without revealing his cultivation.
• He decided to pursue classical Chinese at a top university and eventually become a professor so he could study ancient texts and visit historical sites.
• That night, Li Qingshan sensed the Divine Seed resonating with the stars and resolved to keep cultivating as he investigated the world's hidden mysteries.

Li Qingshan’s Divine Seed awakened several natural abilities, including flight, inner vision, sensing the laws of heaven and earth, and gathering Solar True Force. He continued cultivating in secret, improved his parents’ health, and looked ahead to the stone gate opening so he could travel to another world.

• Li Qingshan discovered that his Divine Seed let him fly freely through the air without relying on Qi or external support.
• Li Qingshan used True Illumination of Inner Vision to perceive the vital forces, organs, and hidden divine treasures within his body.
• Li Qingshan sensed the laws of heaven and earth at sunrise and gathered a thread of Solar True Force to nourish himself and his Divine Seed.
• Li Qingshan practiced his abilities in secret while maintaining his ordinary routine and quietly healing Li Guoqiang and Su Wan.
• Li Qingshan pushed Heaven-Human Resonance to its limit beneath the stars and resolved to keep cultivating until the mysterious stone gate opened again.

Six years after returning from the Dragon and Snake World, Li Qingshan recognized Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Xiaoman, and Lin Jia on the new-student roster and realized he was on Earth at the opening of the events he remembered from Shrouding the Heavens. He located Ye Fan and Pang Bo on campus and prepared to teach their class, anticipating the journey that would begin at Mount Tai.

• Li Qingshan continued his university career and cultivation, while the stone door in his mind remained silent.
• Wang Qinian told Li Qingshan that the new ancient Chinese freshmen included several promising students, and Li Qingshan began reviewing their rosters.
• Li Qingshan saw the names Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Xiaoman, and Lin Jia and recalled the major events and figures of Shrouding the Heavens.
• Li Qingshan realized that Earth’s depleted essence Qi explained his sense of stillness and that the shackles within him were tied to the Body as the Seed method.
• Li Qingshan used the roster photographs to find Ye Fan and Pang Bo on campus and watched them talk together, unaware of their future.
• The teaching secretary assigned Li Qingshan’s class to a regular schedule, and Li Qingshan looked forward to meeting his new students.

At Jiangcheng University, Li Qingshan taught Ye Fan and his classmates how ancient writing could guide the mind and spirit, while secretly laying foundations for cultivation. Ye Fan began practicing Li Qingshan’s visualization method, and Li Qingshan awaited the Stone Gate’s next opening or the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin.

• Li Qingshan introduced himself to Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Xiaoman, Lin Jia, Zhou Yi, and the rest of the class, sensing the unusual vitality and potential in Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
• Li Qingshan taught that ancient characters reflected the ancestors’ perceptions of heaven, earth, and nature, prompting Ye Fan and several classmates to consider their deeper meaning.
• During discussions after class, Li Qingshan encouraged Ye Fan and others to calm their minds and use intuition alongside objective scholarship when studying ancient writing.
• A month later, Li Qingshan taught Ye Fan a simple visualization method for clearing distractions and focusing his mind, presenting it as a study and meditation technique.
• Ye Fan practiced the method in his dormitory and found himself calmer, clearer-headed, and more energetic, while Li Qingshan concluded that he had begun sowing the seeds of future cultivation.

Two years after beginning his teaching post, Li Qingshan continued guiding Ye Fan and his classmates while quietly cultivating and searching Earth for remnants of ancient cultivation. After returning from Mount Hua, he decided to prepare for an expedition to Kunlun before the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin arrived.

• Ye Fan declined Lin Jia’s movie invitation to study, and Li Qingshan lent him an old book about the evolution of the concept of Qi.
• Li Qingshan taught Ye Fan breathing and guiding exercises, unaware that Ye Fan’s spirit and physique were already improving under his simplified cultivation methods.
• Li Qingshan visited his parents and confirmed that his secret care and adapted exercises had greatly improved their health.
• Over two years, Li Qingshan searched Mount Shu, Mount Mang, Dunhuang, and other places, finding only remnants such as faded runes, fragments of scriptures, and a rusted Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• After returning from Mount Hua, Li Qingshan wrote “Kunlun” and began planning an expedition there before the next long holiday.

After deciphering the shifting star-chart gateway to Kunlun, Li Qingshan arranged summer fieldwork, reassured his family, and traveled to the mountains. He followed the growing essence Qi toward the predicted entrance, which was expected to fluctuate within days.

• Li Qingshan compared the Mount Hua carving with ancient texts and used the stars and earth veins to calculate Kunlun's shifting gateway and its next active window.
• Li Qingshan received Dean Wang's approval for a summer research trip to the west and promised to stay in touch.
• Li Qingshan persuaded Su Wan and Li Guoqiang to accept his trip, promising to contact them regularly and preparing protective talismans for them.
• Li Qingshan gathered rare spiritual materials, drew protective talismans, and finalized the gateway's timing and coordinates.
• Li Qingshan flew to Urumqi Airport and entered the Mount Kunlun Range, where the Chaos Divine Seed responded to the unusually dense essence Qi.
• Li Qingshan advanced toward the snow peaks, tracking the stars and earth veins as he neared the predicted gateway region.

Li Qingshan entered the ancient formation surrounding the true Kunlun and found a dangerous paradise filled with dense spiritual energy. After rescuing a little jade-horned snake from a Zheng, he named it Xiaobai and gained a guide to the secret realm.

• Li Qingshan used the stars and earth veins to open a brief passage through the ancient grand formation and entered the hidden Kunlun realm.
• Li Qingshan explored cautiously through the perilous landscape and noticed a small jade-horned snake watching him.
• Li Qingshan saw the snake fleeing a Zheng while carrying a purple spirit herb, and he drove the beast away with a precise strike and a punch.
• Li Qingshan offered the snake pure essence Qi; the grateful snake offered him its herb, but he told it to keep the prize and asked it to guide him.
• The snake agreed to guide Li Qingshan in exchange for daily essence Qi, accepted the name Xiaobai, and led him deeper into the secret realm along safer paths.

Li Qingshan explored the ancient Kunlun secret realm with Xiaobai, finding a damaged Saint's pill-refinement record and three weakened pills before uncovering a complete sword-control inheritance and a broken sword containing Great Luo silver essence. They continued onward, with Xiaobai guiding Li Qingshan around lethal dangers.

• Li Qingshan entered a hidden chamber behind a waterfall, paid respects to a skeleton, and found incomplete pill-refinement notes and three weakened pills that could strengthen divine sense.
• Li Qingshan gave Xiaobai one of the pills, then explored Kunlun's ruined lake, abandoned medicinal fields, and ancient stone remnants while gathering thousand-year-old herbs.
• Xiaobai led Li Qingshan to the roots of a dead tree, where he found a broken sword containing Great Luo silver essence and a complete Light-Splitting Shadow-Manifesting Sword Control Technique.
• Li Qingshan memorized and secured the sword technique and broken sword, then rewarded Xiaobai with heaven and earth essence Qi.
• Xiaobai helped Li Qingshan avoid a valley hiding a powerful winged beast and an area of multicolored crystals filled with deadly spatial rifts.

Li Qingshan found the Sun True Scripture, a complete Emperor Scripture, at an ancient altar in the Kunlun Mountains and defeated the battle puppet guarding it. He sat before the divine stele to study the inheritance.

• Li Qingshan and Xiaobai crossed an ancient maze formation and reached the ruins of the Immortal Pool, where Xiaobai sensed dangerous pressure and stopped.
• Li Qingshan discovered an incomplete fragment of the Dao Scripture in a mountain crevice, then followed the solar holy power to an ancient altar.
• Li Qingshan deciphered the divine stele and obtained the Sun True Scripture, along with fragments of several secret techniques.
• An ancient battle puppet emerged from the dark red mountain and attacked Li Qingshan for trespassing and coveting the Emperor Scripture.
• Li Qingshan used his Guoshu skills and the Sun Emperor Fist to break the puppet's arm and destroy its chest rune, defeating it.
• Li Qingshan sat before the divine stele and immersed himself in studying the Sun True Scripture.

Li Qingshan hid in a cave with Xiaobai and cultivated the Sun True Scripture, opening a vast Bitter Sea and forming a peak Life Spring in a single day. He began stabilizing his extraordinary new power while Xiaobai guarded the cave.

• Li Qingshan returned to Xiaobai and asked the snake to lead him to a safe cave for secluded cultivation.
• Xiaobai led Li Qingshan to a hidden cave, where Li Qingshan arranged protective runes and prepared to cultivate.
• Li Qingshan used the Sun True Scripture to open a vast Bitter Sea filled with extraordinary phenomena and strengthen his body.
• After consolidating his Bitter Sea for a day, Li Qingshan drew out a powerful Life Spring and reached the peak of the Life Spring Realm.
• Li Qingshan shared a tiny amount of gentle Life Spring divine power with Xiaobai, who grew stronger and returned to guard the entrance.
• Li Qingshan continued refining his divine power and stabilizing his realm instead of rushing into the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

Li Qingshan built a Divine Bridge, overcame the trials of the Other Shore, and completed nine cycles of life and death to reach the utmost Other Shore Realm. He then began refining his Dao Bell, leaving the small artifact embryo to grow in his Bitter Sea as he looked toward the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

• Li Qingshan formed a sturdy crimson-gold Divine Bridge across his Bitter Sea and stepped onto it toward the Other Shore.
• Li Qingshan rejected illusions of his past life, worldly power, death, and future dangers, keeping his Dao heart steady as he crossed the bridge.
• Li Qingshan endured the Other Shore's nine lives and nine deaths, emerging with a greatly strengthened source and completing the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm.
• Li Qingshan chose a bell as his artifact and formed its divine-pattern embryo using the Sun True Scripture.
• Li Qingshan refined the dark red metal into a three-inch bell, named it the Dao Bell, and placed it in his Bitter Sea to be nourished by divine power.

Li Qingshan completed the Dao Palace Secret Realm in Kunlun, opening and perfecting all five organ Divine Treasuries and awakening the three selves’ chanting. After testing his new power and feeding Xiaobai, he began nourishing his embryonic Dao Bell with Five Elements Divine Runes.

• Li Qingshan opened and perfected the Heart Divine Treasury, then cultivated the Lung Divine Treasury.
• Over the following days, Li Qingshan opened the Liver, Spleen, and Kidney Divine Treasuries and formed a perfect five-element cycle.
• The Departed Self, Present Self, and Dao Self began chanting within Li Qingshan, greatly deepening his comprehension.
• Li Qingshan tested his perfected Dao Palace’s power and discovered the Heart Fire Tempering and Lung Metal Sword Qi abilities.
• Li Qingshan fed Xiaobai life essence Qi, then sent five divine runes to nourish and temper his embryonic Dao Bell.

Li Qingshan discovered the Sun Sacred Clan’s Nine Yang Sundial and received its guidance on using thunder to endure the Four Extremes heavenly tribulation. After copying the Lightning-Attracting Mark as the sundial and valley collapsed, he left Kunlun with Xiaobai, intending to stabilize his Dao foundation and prepare for a breakthrough.

• Li Qingshan followed Xiaobai into a valley protected by formations and found the ancient Nine Yang Sundial.
• Li Qingshan activated the sundial with solar divine power, summoning a projection of the Sun Sacred Clan’s seventeenth-generation high priest.
• The high priest explained that the sundial could time heaven’s thunder and guide it into a cultivator to help withstand the Four Extremes heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qingshan memorized the Lightning-Attracting Mark, while the sundial’s power awakened Xiaobai’s bloodline and strengthened its body.
• As the valley collapsed, Li Qingshan copied the Lightning-Attracting Mark onto beast hide and escaped with Xiaobai before the sundial was buried.
• Li Qingshan left Kunlun, planning to stabilize his Dao foundation and prepare to break through to the Four Extremes.

After Xiaobai benefited from the destruction of the sundial ruins, Li Qingshan studied the Sun Sacred Clan’s inheritance and began comprehending the Lightning-Attracting Mark. He used the Nine Yang Sundial fragments to identify when and where to attempt his breakthrough to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

• Xiaobai awakened new potential after absorbing the ancient presence released when the sundial restriction was destroyed.
• Li Qingshan examined the sundial fragments, sensed their Solar Sacred Force, and considered the Sun Sacred Clan’s connection to the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• Xiaobai showed Li Qingshan an ancient crater on Kunlun’s western slopes where lightning gathered, but he chose to study his inheritance before attempting a breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan settled in Xiaobai’s cave and used his Divine Seed and Dao Palace to begin mastering the Lightning-Attracting Mark, producing a faint arc of electricity.
• Li Qingshan studied the stars with a Nine Yang Sundial fragment and determined that lightning Qi would gather on Kunlun’s western frontier nine days later, making it the right time for his Four Extremes breakthrough.

After completing the initial mastery of the Sun True Body, Li Qingshan followed Xiaobai to an earthfire abyss to find materials for forging his Dao Bell. He killed the fire lizard guarding the fissure and decided to refine the artifact there.

• Li Qingshan tempered his body with lightning and demonstrated that his Sun True Body could withstand powerful strikes and crush dark iron stone.
• Li Qingshan examined his Great Luo Silver Essence, Crimson Flame Hou bones, and Sun Sand, then learned from Xiaobai about an earthfire fissure and its Fire Marrow Crystals.
• Li Qingshan followed Xiaobai through the mountains to the Earthfire Abyss and sensed a fire lizard demon with strength comparable to a peak Dao Palace cultivator.
• Li Qingshan used a miniature true sun to overwhelm the fire lizard's earthfire attack and kill it in a single strike.
• Li Qingshan collected the fire lizard's tailbone and Fire Marrow Crystals, then chose the abyss as the place to forge his Dao Bell.

Li Qingshan and Xiaobai gathered fire marrow crystals in the Earthfire Abyss, where Xiaobai entrusted him with its lifebound reverse scale and bound their lives together. He then forged a dark-gold lightning-attracting bell artifact embryo and stored it in his Bitter Sea to nurture it.

• Li Qingshan collected fire marrow from a fire lizard’s tailbone, and Xiaobai used its jade horn to pry loose more than twenty fire marrow crystals.
• As they returned through a sudden downpour, Xiaobai gave Li Qingshan its lifebound reverse scale, forming a deep bond between their souls, and he promised they would share fortune and misfortune.
• After the rain stopped, Li Qingshan drew earthfire from the Earthfire Abyss and melted sun sand, fire lizard bone fragments, Great Luo Silver Essence, and a fire marrow crystal.
• Li Qingshan inscribed and suppressed the Lightning-Attracting Mark, then condensed the molten materials into a dark-gold bell with a silver lightning pattern.
• Li Qingshan stored the completed artifact embryo in his Bitter Sea, where it began to be nourished by his divine power.

Li Qingshan discovered that the ancient formation in the Sun Sacred Clan’s ruins was collapsing, releasing spatial fissures and baleful battle spirits. He repaired its formation eye, but an ancient remnant intent struck Xiaobai, leaving it weakened and asleep as Li Qingshan began nursing it back to health.

• Li Qingshan noticed the Dao Bell embryo resonating with the failing ancient formation as cracks opened in the sky and black mist poured out.
• Li Qingshan fought the battle-spirit phantoms, using the bell’s resonance and his Five Elements Divine Abilities to destroy them and trace them to the formation markings.
• Li Qingshan found the damaged formation eye stone and used the sundial fragment, Solar True Force, and Lightning-Attracting Dao Marks to repair it.
• An ancient remnant intent attacked Li Qingshan’s sea of consciousness, but his Divine Seed obliterated it; the lingering pressure caused Xiaobai to collapse into a protective sleep.
• Li Qingshan carried Xiaobai back to the cave dwelling and used a spirit-nourishing pill to begin restoring it.

Li Qingshan prepared to use a powerful heavenly tribulation to break through into the Four Extremes Secret Realm and refine his bell. As the tribulation reached its peak, he went to Thundercliff and began his breakthrough, with Xiaobai waiting under protection.

• Li Qingshan spent three days restoring Xiaobai after the little one was injured by an ancient restriction’s remnant thought.
• A fierce tribulation cloud formed over Mount Kunlun, and Li Qingshan sensed its lightning stirring his Lightning-Attracting Mark and weakening the barrier to the Four Extremes.
• Li Qingshan refined formation-marked stones into the bell, strengthening its Dao marks as he prepared to draw tribulation lightning into his body.
• He decided to wait until the lightning reached its peak before breaking through, while Xiaobai pledged to stay with him.
• Li Qingshan placed Xiaobai under a protective restriction, flew to Thundercliff, and declared that he would open the Bridge of Heaven and Earth.

Li Qingshan faced an extraordinary lightning tribulation on Thundercliff, using each strike to temper his body and draw closer to heaven and earth. As a devastating Nine Dragons Lightning Tribulation descended, he met it with his Sun Emperor Fist.

• Li Qingshan began the Four Extremes Scroll of the Sun True Scripture on Thundercliff, and his Divine Seed stirred as his body connected with the power of heaven and earth.
• Li Qingshan endured the first two lightning strikes, refining their power to strengthen his left arm and gaining greater command of the surrounding essence Qi.
• Li Qingshan drew Nirvana Divine Lightning into his left leg, then charged into successive strikes that tempered his limbs and left him injured by the mixed three-colored lightning.
• Li Qingshan discovered that the tribulation had exceeded the limits described in the Sun True Scripture when nine illusory lightning dragons formed in the clouds.
• Li Qingshan answered the fifth strike, a ten-zhang pillar of nine-dragon lightning, with Sun Emperor Fist: Burn the Heavens and Boil the Seas.

Li Qingshan survived the Nine Dragons Lightning Tribulation and entered the Four Extremes Secret Realm, while the Dao Bell developed the beginnings of an artifact spirit and new powers. After sensing a mysterious presence deeper in Mount Kunlun, he returned to his cave, refined three Nine Yang Body-Tempering Pills, and swallowed one to strengthen his new cultivation.

• Li Qingshan fought the nine lightning dragons, damaged their central dragon, and completed the First Extremity of the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• The Dao Bell absorbed the remaining lightning, formed the beginnings of an artifact spirit, and gained the ability to gather and refine Solar True Force.
• Li Qingshan tested his new strength and the bell’s power, then accepted a three-thousand-year-old purple lingzhi from a blue luan.
• Li Qingshan sensed a malicious presence behind ancient formations deeper in Mount Kunlun, but left to consolidate his cultivation and refine the Dao Bell.
• Li Qingshan studied his cultivation and alchemy notes, refined three Nine Yang Body-Tempering Pills, and swallowed one to strengthen his Four Extremes foundation.

Li Qingshan shattered the Divine Seed that had been restraining his cultivation, and its fragments transformed his body into what seemed to be an enhanced Innate Dao Embryo. After discovering his newfound ability to resonate with and command the laws and essence Qi of heaven and earth, he sensed an unexplored disturbance at the heart of the Earthfire Abyss.

• Li Qingshan realized the Divine Seed was obstructing the Dao Palace Secret Realm's natural resonance with heaven and earth, while Xiaobai and two divine-beast descendants warned him of a watching presence in Kunlun.
• Li Qingshan used the Five Deities of the Dao Palace to strike the Divine Seed, shattering it and scattering its golden motes throughout his body.
• The Divine Seed's power strengthened Li Qingshan's Secret Realms and flesh, and the Five Deities bowed as the Great Dao resonated through him.
• Li Qingshan discovered that he could perceive the laws of heaven and earth and draw essence Qi to himself, then used wood-attribute Qi to revive a withered blade of grass.
• Li Qingshan suspected his transformed constitution was an enhanced Innate Dao Embryo, then sensed a disturbance deep in the magma at the heart of the Earthfire Abyss.

Li Qingshan discovered an ancient tortoise shell in the Earthfire Abyss, and its sacrificial power resonated with his shattered Divine Seed, bringing him to the brink of a breakthrough. After preparing with refined Origin Pills, he endured the Four-Nine heavenly tribulation at Thundercliff and emerged transformed, having reached the second stage of the Four Extremes.

• Xiaobai led Li Qingshan to Fire Spirit Fruits, after which he entered the magma and found an ancient tortoise shell bearing secrets of a sacred altar.
• The shell crumbled when Li Qingshan tried to activate it, but its sacrificial thought-force resonated with his Divine Seed and stirred his Four Extremes breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan suppressed the breakthrough, refined the thousand-year-old lingzhi into three Origin Pills with Xiaobai's help, and traveled to Thundercliff to undergo the tribulation.
• A devastating Four-Nine lightning tribulation struck Li Qingshan and devastated the surrounding mountains, while Xiaobai watched from a crevice.
• Li Qingshan endured the tribulation with his innate Dao embryo and Sun True Body, then emerged with a transformed body and a profound resonance with the Great Dao.