Recaps

While Great Xia prepared for Spiritual Qi’s revival, Lu Li emerged from five years of seclusion, established his foundation, and joined Supreme Refinement Peak. His investigations into the sect’s secret assembly and strange conditions in Azure Pool continued as he sent cultivation knowledge to Great Xia, which reported a major problem across the three commanderies.

• Great Xia staged open-ocean drills and encouraged the Beautiful Country to believe they were aimed at securing Australian minerals, while Bureau 749 installed unusual streetlights and prepared for Spiritual Qi’s revival.
• Li Yuanchao formalized Great Xia’s self-cultivation guidelines and proposed a cultivation administration, while Lu Dahai’s contact with an Yinghuo Artifact Inscription revealed his rare physique and made him Bureau 749’s second cultivator.
• Bureau 749 tested Zhang Xuanqing’s spiritual irrigation and Xu Mu’s mouse-soul transfer into a bionic robot, then tracked research and Lu Dahai’s constitution for five years.
• Lu Li emerged from seclusion at the peak of Qi Refinement, guided Lu Changming and Lu Changye, and then established his foundation in cave abode A-9.
• Lu Li refined the jade pendant into his spirit platform and showed Great Xia its vision of a mysterious figure and a heaven-splitting flying knife, while Lu Dahai revealed his cultivation and Lu Yao’s strong mental power.
• Ye Chenfeng warned Lu Li to avoid the Hastening the Seedlings to Immortal Ascension Assembly, and Lu Li learned from Wu Changgeng that it was a secret-realm trial for selecting True Disciples and granting a Dao fruit.
• Lu Li joined Supreme Refinement Peak, developed the Five Elements Essence Condensation Scripture, and sent Great Xia cultivation insights while studying artifact-crafting methods and improving his combat armor plans.
• True Lord Chiyang gave Lu Li an incomplete third-tier artifact-crafting method, and Lu Li sent it to Great Xia after arranging for Lu Changming and Lu Changye to tend his spirit fields.
• Li Yuanchao told Lu Li that the entire Azure Pool Three Commanderies had a major problem.

Lu Li's forced attendance at the assembly exposed Azure Pool as the Nether Toad Patriarch's breeding ground, and his jade pendant shattered its secret realm and Spirit Vein. Trapped under True Lord Yuanhao's supervision, Lu Li sent Spirit Vein fragments to Great Xia, where Li Yuanchao launched nationwide cultivation preparations.

• Li Yuanchao proposed that Azure Pool farmed cultivators, and Lu Li demonstrated an automatic Pill Furnace but failed to avoid the assembly.
• Lu Li taught Xu Xiong commercial methods while Xu Xiong gathered pill orders and promoted automatic Pill Furnaces.
• Ye Chenfeng accompanied Lu Li into the secret realm, killed Bai Kun, and helped defend Lu Li after a Dao Fruit entered his mouth.
• Lu Li retrieved Wu Changgeng's soul and refined enough of the Dao Fruit to reach the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage before the realm began killing its cultivators.
• Lu Li's jade pendant absorbed the realm's blood-colored meridians and tore it open, while Elder Jian escaped with Ye Chenfeng and the great toad demon devoured four True Lords.
• True Lord Yuanhao took control of Azure Pool Sect and told Lu Li that they would manage the Nether Toad Patriarch's blessed land and prepare its blood-food offerings.
• Lu Li secretly sent Spirit Vein fragments to Bureau 749, increasing Spiritual Qi at its base and accelerating Great Xia's cultivation preparations.
• Li Yuanchao launched Great Wall Foundation Establishment, distributed cultivation guidelines through universities, and approved training placements for 2,813 veterans with Spirit Root aptitude.

Lu Yao joined Great Xia’s cultivation research while Lu Li built resources and prepared for the growing conflict around Azure Pool. The great demons’ battle exposed Azure Pool’s false sky and revealed Nether Toad’s weakness, giving Lu Li an opening to take control of the blessed land.

• Thomson’s president ordered him to uncover Great Xia’s plans as Great Xia screened foreign nationals, mobilized its armed fleets, and opened its nuclear missile silos.
• Lu Yao joined Bureau 749, reunited with Lu Dahai, and learned that her exceptional Divine Sense could help Great Xia develop a virtual path for preserving and cultivating consciousness.
• Lu Li reported Azure Pool’s crisis to Great Xia, sold pills to its desperate disciples, and helped Great Xia establish the Cultivation Administration and prepare a vanguard for crossing realms.
• Lu Li trained Changming and Changye in combat while traveling through devastated regions, where he fought outside cultivators and learned from their maps about the Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture.
• Lu Li advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and planned to use Great Xia’s soul research and the jade pendant to subdue Nether Toad after reaching Golden Core.
• Lu Li and Great Xia prepared for a possible confrontation with the Nascent Soul demon as Great Xia researched his cultivation methods and tested ways to combine nuclear weapons with Spiritual Power.
• Nether Toad fought Golden Ape and Heavenly Wolf, and their battle shattered Azure Pool’s false sky and exposed the starry heavens.
• Golden Ape and Heavenly Wolf withdrew, Nether Toad retreated into its blessed land, and Lu Li recognized an opportunity to take over and develop Azure Pool.

Lu Li reached Golden Core and worked with Great Xia to capture and rewrite the Nether Toad Patriarch’s soul, turning him into an ally. With the Prefecture-Breaking War approaching, Lu Li and Great Xia planned to strengthen Azure Pool in secret and build a force capable of exploiting the conflict.

• Lu Yao and Bureau 749 developed a plan to create a Nascent Soul-level soul using spiritual power and nuclear fusion, while Great Xia mobilized people and industry to support the experiment.
• Lu Li returned to secluded cultivation as Great Xia prepared its soul experiment, and Li Ming began Qi Introduction after finding a cultivation document.
• Wu Qiya abducted Ye Chenfeng and Zong Qing, but Ling Shuangyu killed him, and Zong Qing was carried away by the scale and later rescued by Xu Xiong.
• The Nether Toad Patriarch attacked Azure Pool, but Zong Qing’s Mountains and Rivers Seal drew Jingfeng and Canyue into the battle, and the ensuing clash left the Patriarch unconscious.
• Lu Li formed a Golden Core, used his jade pendant to send the Nether Toad’s soul to Great Xia, and Lu Yao successfully rewrote its memories so it believed it had returned to Blue Star.
• Lu Li summoned the Nether Toad’s soul back into its body, made it his ally, and took control of Azure Pool while assigning its disciples to stabilize the sect.
• Nether Toad explained the coming Prefecture-Breaking War, and Lu Li and Great Xia devised a hundred-year plan to strengthen Azure Pool, develop Spirit Machinery, and raid the Demon Manor’s rear holdings after its forces advanced.
• Lu Li studied the Western Continent’s powers and defenses, then questioned why Jingxi Prefecture was losing despite having more Void Return cultivators than the Demon Manor.