Recaps

Li Qingshan helped Ye Fan grow stronger, confronted threats at Jade Pool, and prepared for the Primordial Races’ awakening. As tensions mounted in the Northern Region, his Stone Gate connected him with selves across other worlds, while one of his incarnations founded the Hua dynasty and expanded it westward.

• Li Qingshan and Gu Tianshu entered Saint Cliff, subdued the Three-Legged Golden Crow, and retreated when the Investiture of the Gods suppressed the Undying Daoist.
• At Taixuan Sect, Ye Fan defeated Zhao Hao and the stronger Li Yun, while Li Qingshan comprehended Nine Secrets: Jie and helped Hua Mingxuan sever the Ruthless One Lineage’s hold on Hua Yunfei.
• Li Qingshan led Ye Fan through Saint Cliff to obtain Nine Secrets: Xing, then helped him break the Innate Dao Diagram’s curse and reach minor accomplishment in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• At Jade Pool, Li Qingshan welcomed the Holy Prince and guests to the Flat Peach Gathering, protected Ye Fan from accusations about the Ruthless Great Emperor, and demonstrated the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• When Gu Daoya and a Blood Moon Clan Half-Saint demanded territory for the awakening Primordial Races, Li Qingshan subdued the Half-Saint and demanded that an Ancestor King come negotiate.
• As ancient clans reclaimed Northern Region lands, Li Qingshan revealed that he had spared the Half-Saint as bait, while Huo Qizi kept Fire Qilin Cave out of the conflict and went to seek his father.
• After three months without a Blood Moon Clan response, Li Qingshan connected with five selves through the Stone Gate, learned ways to gather them, and had Lin Qingyao spread rumors to provoke the clan’s Ancestor King.
• Taizu united the Han lands, founded the Hua dynasty, enacted reforms against powerful clans, and sent Xu Tiande west to capture Samarkand and establish the Protectorate General to Pacify the West.

Li Qingshan destroyed the Blood Moon Clan, mastered the Nine Secret: Bing, and prepared to return to Earth after bidding farewell to Lin Qingyao. He crossed the Starry Sky Ancient Road, survived his Saint Tribulation, forged his own Dao, and continued toward home after defeating the Primordial God.

• Li Qingshan killed the Blood Moon Saint, then destroyed the Blood Moon Clan and its ancestral land by turning his tribulation against them.
• Li Qingshan gathered three Other Selves, resolved to surpass the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and mastered the Nine Secret: Bing at the Qin Sect.
• Li Qingshan found Earth’s coordinates and the Feathered Scripture in the Feathered Ancestral Temple, then told Gu Tianshu and Lin Qingyao that he planned to return home.
• Li Qingshan and Lin Qingyao shared an intimate farewell, and he left Jade Pool with a Moonlight United Hearts pendant for her.
• Li Qingshan reached a ruined altar in a distant star region and endured his Saint Tribulation, reforging the Pangu Banner and Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag as Saint Weapons.
• Li Qingshan defeated the tribulation’s Great Emperor imprints, became a Saint of the fifth heaven, and forged his own Dao scripture through the Seven Seals of Yuanshi.
• On Primordial God Star, Li Qingshan killed the Ancestral Tree Saint and resisted the Primordial God’s control of Mu Kui, Feng Ling, and Qing Luo.
• Li Qingshan destroyed the Primordial God’s incarnation, spared the dying Mu Kui, and resumed traveling through the stars toward Earth.

Li Qingshan traveled through the Yang God World, shared teachings that advanced Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun’er, and gathered the Great Zen Temple’s scriptures. After confronting Su Mu and studying Tai Shang Dao’s arts, he visited the ruined temple and discovered a dragon soul beneath it.

• Li Qingshan met Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi at sea, then invited Jin Xun’er to join their discussion of the Dao and their cultivation methods.
• Li Qingshan shared his insights with Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun’er, advancing Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi into the Ghost Immortal realm and strengthening Jin Xun’er.
• Li Qingshan found the Present Tathagata Scripture in a Buddha statue, retrieved its other portions from Monk Jingren, and taught Jingren its ten Buddha seals.
• Hong Yi defeated Lü Mei and took command of surrendered ships, while Li Qingshan watched him face Peacock King Xing Xuan and witnessed Meng Shenji’s Nine Fire Flame Dragons intervene.
• Li Qingshan subdued the Lifeless Old Mother and studied the Great Zen Temple’s Past, Present, and Future scriptures, combining their teachings into a broader cultivation system.
• Su Mu challenged Li Qingshan with Tai Shang Dao’s Clock of the Ultimate Time and Tower of the Great Universe, but he overcame her and learned about the Two Scriptures of Space and Time.
• Li Qingshan visited the ruined Great Zen Temple, found a dragon soul beneath it, and promised it a chance at reincarnation.