Recaps

Lu Li built a secret partnership with Great Xia, using its support to improve his cultivation and survive in the Azure Pool Sect while Group 749 developed ways to study spirit ore. After killing Ma Liu to protect his secret, Lu Li kept his distance from Great Xia, which formally supported his family and told Lu Yao that her brother was on a national mission.

• Lu Li contacted Great Xia through the jade pendant, and Li Yuanchao arranged for him to receive tools and later sent researchers a cultivation manual and Azure Gold Spirit Ore.
• Group 749 analyzed the Five Elements Instruction, and Wang Zhiwen sent Lu Li an improved method that helped him reach the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• Bai Yi’s breakthrough strengthened the Bai Household’s position, while Lu Li concealed his progress and planned to enter the outer sect after a cautious six-month wait.
• Group 749 expanded its Southern Heavenly Gate project, recruited experts, and began developing equipment and methods to purify spirit ore.
• Lu Li secretly contacted Great Xia in the mine, but Ma Liu overheard him and tried to exploit what he had discovered.
• Lu Li shot Ma Liu, hid his corpse in the jade pendant, and decided to reduce contact with Great Xia while he spent six months mining and cultivating discreetly.
• Li Yuanchao arranged formal support for Lu Li’s parents and sister, and soldiers told Lu Yao that Lu Li was serving on a strategic mission and secured her admission to Jinghua University.

Lu Li advanced through the Azure Pool Sect while sharing cultivation and artifact-refining knowledge with Great Xia, whose researchers turned his discarded furnace slag into a cross-world Law Armor. The armor worked in Lu Li’s world, and the arc ended with him wary of Ye Chenfeng’s invitation to explore a Foundation Establishment cave abode.

• Lu Li entered the outer sect, contacted Great Xia, and learned that Bureau 749 had purified Azure Gold Spirit Liquid and was studying cultivation.
• Lu Li used the optimized Five Elements Instruction and spirit liquid to advance, then took a furnace-slag mission and began sending its residue to Great Xia for analysis.
• Great Xia’s researchers simulated a way to awaken the slag’s properties, relocated to a new underground base, and formed Bureau 749 with Lu Li as honorary group leader.
• Lu Li learned artifact refining from Xu Xiong and Master Wu, helped Xu Xiong complete a magic armor, and sent his observations and slag samples to Great Xia.
• Lu Li reached the Seventh Layer of Qi Refinement, concealed his cave abode, and worked with Bureau 749 on the first cross-world artifact refinement.
• The machine-made armor activated in Lu Li’s world, and he and Wang Zhiwen concluded that Blue Star lacked the Spiritual Qi needed to make it work there.
• Lu Li tested the armor, gave Xu Xiong Spirit Fire Grenades before Xu Xiong left the sect, and accepted artifact commissions to earn resources.
• Lu Li studied artifact inscriptions, sent Great Xia his research and test data, then rejected Ye Chenfeng’s invitation to a dangerous expedition and resolved to keep his distance.

Lu Li refined artifacts and armor, helped Great Xia begin testing cultivation, and uncovered a newborn spirit vein while facing Bai Sheng’s threat. After killing Bai Sheng with the Spirit Machinery mech, Lu Li sent spirit rice, combat data, and a soul-controlling Law Artifact to Great Xia, where researchers began investigating cultivation and souls.

• Lu Li repaired Ye Chenfeng’s damaged sword, then used Great Xia’s research to become an artifact craftsman and build powerful combat armor.
• Great Xia tested ten candidates for spirit roots, found that Lu Dahai, Xu Mu, and Zhang Xuanqing had them, and saw Xu Mu successfully draw Qi into his body under Lu Li’s guidance.
• Lu Li accepted a mission in Clearwater Commandery after recognizing signs of a newborn spirit vein, while Bai Sheng pressured him to marry into the Bai Household.
• Great Xia supplied Lu Li with weapons and the Spirit Machinery mech, and Lu Li discovered that Bai Sheng was secretly following him.
• Lu Li revealed Chengying and killed Bai Sheng after the mech’s defenses thwarted his Law Artifacts and talismans.
• Lu Li continued toward Clear River Commandery, sent Great Xia half a bag of spirit rice and the mech’s combat data, and asked Xu Mu to help research cultivation.
• Great Xia established workshops to study spirit rice and the Yin Soul Banner, and Xu Mu demonstrated controlling a soul body while researchers recorded its behavior and brainwave resonance.

Lu Li took Lu Changming and Lu Changye as disciples, found a spirit vein and spirit stone mine, and survived a battle with Li Xian using the Chengying Mecha. Back on Blue Star, spirit soil sparked Spiritual Qi research and cultivation experiments as Great Xia prepared a military exercise to distract foreign attention from Jing City.

• Lu Li took the brothers Gousheng and Goudan as disciples, named them Lu Changming and Lu Changye, and learned that their powers foretold danger and good fortune at a cost.
• Lu Li collaborated with Zhou Zhenhua, Su Qing, and Li Mingyuan on a Spirit Vein detection Law Artifact, then used its prototype to find a growing spirit vein and a spirit stone mine beneath a barren mountain.
• Lu Li broke through to the Qi Refinement Eighth Layer while his disciples began cultivating, and he concealed the spirit vein with a formation and a holographic projection.
• Ye Chenfeng and Lu Li confronted Li Xian, who broke into Foundation Establishment-level strength, but Lu Li used the Chengying Mecha’s laser cannon to kill him.
• Lu Li returned to Azure Pool Sect with his disciples, while Wang Zhiwen reported that a laboratory mouse’s soul had been transferred into a robotic mouse without its consciousness.
• Lu Li sent Spirit Soil and a damaged Chengying Mecha to Great Xia, where the soil triggered Spiritual Qi readings and Xu Mu collapsed after speaking of a crack in a cage.
• Bureau 749 developed Spiritual Qi detectors and began cultivation and crop experiments in the new spirit field, while foreign agents Mark and Jenny were caught near Jing City.
• Li Yuanchao secured approval for the secret Raging Waves plan, and Zhang Lijian announced Great Xia’s blue-water nuclear strike force exercise in the Pacific.