Recaps

Li Yan approached the residence of Qianyu Sect’s strongest cultivator, intending to poison him, but the man detected Li Yan before he could carry out his plan. Li Yan fled toward the bamboo grove, evading the man’s flying sword as the pursuit began.

• Li Yan assessed his strengthened Zhili Poison and planned to poison the Integrated Body Middle Stage cultivator without attracting attention to himself.
• After failing to identify which cottage the cultivator occupied, Li Yan used Stealth Night Concealment to approach along the stone path.
• A robust middle-aged man opened a cottage door, spotted Li Yan, and accused him of trespassing.
• Li Yan retreated toward the bamboo grove, and the man sent his sheathed longsword flying after him.
• Li Yan dodged the sword and partially lost his concealment; the man was surprised by his movement arts but still did not recognize him.

Li Yan’s disguised avatar infiltrated Qianyu Sect to poison the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivator, but the burly Body Integration Realm expert caught it and attempted a Soul Search. Li Yan detonated the avatar to escape, and the cultivator realized the body had been an avatar.

• Li Yan’s avatar fled after the burly cultivator attacked, but a gray sword scabbard struck it unconscious and sealed its spiritual power.
• The burly cultivator pulled Li Yan’s avatar close and began a Soul Search while the real Li Yan waited in disguise at a sentry post.
• Li Yan opened his eyes and ordered the avatar to explode, blasting the bamboo cottage and spreading deadly poison across the cultivator’s arm and his natal sword’s scabbard.
• The burly cultivator searched for remnants of Li Yan’s soul, found no blood in the crater, and realized the destroyed body had been an avatar.

Li Yan’s incarnation self-destructed after the Qianyu Sect patriarch exposed it, injuring Li Yan but failing to kill the patriarch. Li Yan escaped the sect as the patriarch sealed it, while Lu Hongfeng collapsed from poison, leaving the alarmed sect in chaos.

• The Qianyu Sect patriarch recognized the destroyed incarnation as a duplicate controlled by someone inside the sect and swept his Divine Thought across the grounds.
• Li Yan endured severe pain from the incarnation’s self-destruction, confirmed that the patriarch had survived, and fled from his hidden lookout toward the valley exit.
• The patriarch activated the Sect Protection Array and ordered that no disciple leave, but Li Yan used a captured Nascent Soul Cultivator’s token to escape through the exit.
• The patriarch left the formation to pursue the intruder and ordered Lu Hongfeng to inspect the disciples inside the sect.
• Lu Hongfeng became muddled by poison and collapsed as red markings spread across his face.

Li Yan’s poison traps incapacitated the three Void Refinement Realm cultivators in Qianyu Sect, prompting Su Nanzi to pursue him while sending Divine Thought incarnations to help his disciples. As Su Nanzi attacked Li Yan, he learned that two elders had already died, leaving the chase unresolved.

• Li Yan’s poison caused Lu Hongfeng and two other Void Refinement Realm cultivators to collapse, while the visiting cultivator remained unharmed.
• Su Nanzi pursued Li Yan with his true body and sent three Divine Thought incarnations to rescue the fallen cultivators.
• Li Yan fled beyond Qianyu Sect’s grand formation, reasoning that his carefully placed poison traps had worked.
• Su Nanzi struck at Li Yan with an illusory palm, but the poison on his arm flared and weakened his attack.
• Li Yan dodged the attack as Su Nanzi received word that two of the three fallen elders had died instantly.

Li Yan escaped Su Nanzi’s attack after poisoning him and revealed that the Five Immortals Sect knew of Su Nanzi’s ambush scheme. Su Nanzi recognized the Gui Water Immortal Sect’s involvement and pursued Li Yan in rage, while Li Yan considered his goal of disrupting the scheme achieved.

• Su Nanzi learned that Lu Hongfeng had survived the poison only because of a protective rune, but remained near death despite treatment.
• Li Yan broke free of Su Nanzi’s weakened palm strike and fled through the snow and rubble.
• Li Yan taunted Su Nanzi and revealed that he knew about the ambush, prompting Su Nanzi to recognize him as a Gui Water Immortal Sect cultivator.
• Su Nanzi realized the Five Immortals Sect had used Xin Jin Immortal Sect cultivators as bait while Gui Water Immortal Sect cultivators infiltrated the Qianyu Sect.
• Su Nanzi vanished in pursuit of Li Yan, who concluded that exposing the scheme would force Su Nanzi to abandon it and draw other hostile forces’ attention.

Li Yan fled Su Nanzi after poisoning him, but Su Nanzi intercepted him and attacked, suspecting the pursuit might lead into an ambush. Li Yan defended himself with a rotating water disc, but Su Nanzi turned his sword and scabbard into yin-yang forces that shattered it and struck Li Yan.

• Li Yan used his erratic movement technique to flee while Su Nanzi pursued, struggling to contain the poison in his arm.
• Su Nanzi intercepted Li Yan beside a mountain peak and attacked with his sword and scabbard, while remaining wary of a possible ambush.
• Li Yan blocked the weapons with a rotating water disc, and Su Nanzi transformed them into swimming fish that followed the disc's flow.
• Su Nanzi's sword and scabbard changed back at the disc's center and shattered it, sending two streams of force into Li Yan's body.

Li Yan fought Su Nanzi, a powerful Body Integration cultivator from the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect, and found himself badly outmatched despite his preparations and Five Immortals Sect techniques. He disrupted Su Nanzi’s attack with the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and blocked a follow-up strike with a Heavy Water Bead, but the battle remained dangerous.

• Li Yan used his Dragon Scale Talisman to withstand Su Nanzi’s first attack, but the impact injured him and made him spit blood.
• Su Nanzi pressed his attack with seamless sword-and-sheath transformations, driving Li Yan into a life-or-death crisis.
• Li Yan unleashed the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak, briefly disrupting Su Nanzi’s control of his magic treasures.
• Su Nanzi maintained his attack through the disorder and sent a black-light strike past Li Yan’s head.
• Li Yan dodged and raised a Heavy Water Bead to block Su Nanzi’s longsword, whose movement was dragged by the bead’s immense gravity.

Li Yan used the shifting gravity of his Heavy Water Bead to disrupt Su Nanzi’s attacks and escape, but Su Nanzi struck him with a concealed sword sheath and badly injured his shoulder. As Li Yan’s cultivation fell to the Middle Void Refinement Realm, he hurled two more Heavy Water Beads at his pursuer.

• Su Nanzi pressed Li Yan with a relentless sword assault, while Li Yan varied the Heavy Water Bead’s gravity to turn the sword aside and break free.
• Li Yan fled after throwing the Heavy Water Bead, but Su Nanzi sent his hidden sword sheath through the void to attack him from the side.
• The sword sheath struck Li Yan’s left shoulder blade, breaking bones and disrupting his body until his aura fell to the Middle Void Refinement Realm.
• Su Nanzi revealed that he had shifted the longsword’s force into the sword sheath and mocked Li Yan’s defenses as he pursued him.
• While falling, Li Yan forced his strength into motion and threw two Heavy Water Beads behind him without turning around.

Su Nanzi fought Li Yan, whose Heavy Water Beads and mist repeatedly let him escape underground. Su Nanzi deduced that the Five Immortals Sect’s scheme had unfolded differently than he first believed, then learned Lu Hongfeng had died from poison.

• Su Nanzi dodged Li Yan’s Heavy Water Beads and dispersed the mist with a palm strike, but discovered Li Yan fleeing underground.
• Su Nanzi concluded that three Five Immortals Sect cultivators had likely traveled together and that the exposed cultivators had not been bait in a planned ambush.
• Li Yan used his mist to evade Su Nanzi’s attacks and flee in different directions underground.
• Su Nanzi pursued Li Yan across the snowfield, then froze when news from his avatar revealed that Lu Hongfeng had died despite treatment.

After Lu Hongfeng’s death, Su Nanzi tried to seal and capture Li Yan, but Li Yan vanished during a blast underground. Su Nanzi searched and refined the cavern without finding him, then realized the Heavy Water Beads had been involved.

• Su Nanzi mourned Lu Hongfeng and cast a powerful spell to seal the surrounding thousand li and capture Li Yan.
• Li Yan released Pitch-Black Night and mentioned Yu Mingshan and Sha Weigang, making Su Nanzi suspect they had also fallen into trouble.
• Li Yan blasted apart the underground mist and disappeared, leaving Su Nanzi unable to locate him despite searching the sealed area.
• Su Nanzi refined the underground cavern, found dense Gui Water spiritual power, and wondered whether Li Yan had self-destructed a clone.
• After half an hour of searching, Su Nanzi found no trace of Li Yan and realized the Heavy Water Beads had helped him escape.

Li Yan escaped Su Nanzi by disguising himself as a Heavy Water Bead and fleeing through a dangerous route he had prepared in turbulent space, though his injuries left him badly weakened. He continued spreading warnings about Qianyu Sect, and two days later Jiang Xuan brought unexpected intelligence to Mo Sen, Li Yan’s senior brother.

• Su Nanzi realized Li Yan had hidden his true body among the Heavy Water Beads and raged at being outmaneuvered by a much weaker cultivator.
• Li Yan sped through turbulent space along a route marked with Sand Star King Stones and traps, recovering as he prepared to spread news about Qianyu Sect.
• Li Yan explained that he had sacrificed two avatars and suppressed his cultivation to conceal the switch between his real and false bodies, then set out to leave warnings for Five Immortals Sect cultivators.
• Jiang Xuan and Mo Sen met secretly at an inn, where Jiang Xuan disguised himself as Mo Sen’s master while Mo Sen posed as his injured disciple.
• Jiang Xuan told Mo Sen that he had learned something unexpected while gathering information about Qianyu Sect.

Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan debated whether the conflicting reports of an attack on Qianyu Sect were true or a trap aimed at them. They chose to approach cautiously and reached a market town near the sect to gather more information, still unsure whether anyone had discovered them.

• Jiang Xuan told Mo Sen that an unknown intruder had killed several Void Refinement Realm cultivators at Qianyu Sect, injured Su Nanzi, and escaped.
• Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan considered whether Su Nanzi had been preparing for an enemy, whether someone had attacked before he could leave, or whether Qianyu Sect was spreading false reports to lure them out.
• Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan decided to investigate Qianyu Sect cautiously, disguising themselves and watching for signs that they were being followed.
• Over the next half month, the pair heard increasingly detailed reports of the attack and saw hostile forces gathering, but their attempts to detect surveillance found nothing.
• Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan entered a lively market town seven or eight days from Qianyu Sect to seek more reliable information.

Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan followed warning marks through a market and an immortal cultivation city, where they found a jade slip from Li Yan revealing that the Qianyu Sect was an ambush set by the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect. They realized they had nearly been trapped and left with the warning, marveling at Li Yan’s actions and strength.

• Mo Sen spotted a Gui Water Immortal Sect warning mark in the market, and he and Jiang Xuan found seven more while gathering information.
• Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan followed the marks for six days to an immortal cultivation city, where they retrieved a jade slip using their sect’s secret code.
• Li Yan’s message warned that the Qianyu Sect served the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect and had prepared an ambush for suspected Five Immortals Sect members.
• Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan realized their cautious information gathering had still left traces, and they acknowledged that they had nearly walked into the enemy’s trap.
• Jiang Xuan wondered whether Li Yan had reached the Body Integration Realm, while Mo Sen concluded that Li Yan’s stealth, experience, poison arts, or other methods had helped him survive.

After recovering from his injuries, Li Yan made his way back to the Wangliang Sect, enduring attacks from cultivators and escaping a lustful female Body Integration Realm cultivator along the way. He returned to find Zhao Min, Gong Chenying, Wei Zhongran, and Bai Rou absent, but Li Zhaoyan answered his message and arrived to greet him.

• Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan wondered why Li Yan had left so hurriedly and concluded that his rapid cultivation marked him as an extraordinary genius.
• After healing, Li Yan resumed his journey home, defeated cultivators who hunted him, and escaped a female Body Integration Realm cultivator who pursued him for two days.
• Li Yan arrived at the Wangliang Sect and returned to his residence, but Zhao Min and Gong Chenying were not there.
• When Zhao Min, Gong Chenying, Wei Zhongran, and Bai Rou did not reply to his messages, Li Yan contacted Li Zhaoyan.
• Li Zhaoyan replied, hurried to the residence, and joyfully reunited with Li Yan.

Li Zhaoyan told Li Yan that Zhao Min and Gong Chenying had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, that Chen Ying had given birth to their son Little Lun, and that the family had left the Wangliang Sect for the Tianli Clan. She also revealed that Wei Zhongran was away on a mission tied to the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect, leaving Li Yan eager to learn what had happened since his departure.

• Li Zhaoyan told Li Yan that Zhao Min and Gong Chenying had advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm and that Gong Shanhe had visited and guided Little Beast's cultivation.
• Li Zhaoyan explained that Gong Chenying had given birth to a son called Little Lun, whom the family nicknamed Little Beast because of his extraordinary strength.
• Li Zhaoyan said Gong Chenying, Zhao Min, and Little Beast had left with Gong Shanhe for the Tianli Clan, leaving a jade slip for Li Yan in the cultivation room.
• Li Zhaoyan told Li Yan that Wei Zhongran had also reached the Void Refinement Realm and was away on a sect mission.
• Li Zhaoyan revealed that Wei Zhongran's mission concerned the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect, which was suspected of involvement in the family's near-destruction in the lower realm and the danger in the Ghost Domain.

Li Yan learned that the Wangliang Sect, the Life Extinction Sect, and the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had agreed to explore a dangerous secret realm, while he also caught up with Li Zhaoyan about Bai Rou and their family’s arrivals in the Immortal Spirit Realm. The chapter ended with Li Yan asking his grown daughter whether she had someone she fancied and expressing regret for being away so much.

• Li Zhaoyan told Li Yan that the three sects had agreed to explore a dangerous secret realm, where Spirit Transformation and Void Refinement cultivators faced heavy casualties.
• Li Zhaoyan explained that Bai Rou had been in long-term seclusion, likely trying to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Li Yan was reassured that she seemed safe.
• Li Zhaoyan told Li Yan that Li Wuyi, Yan Longzi, Wei Chituo, and the others had safely ascended and were cultivating in the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Li Yan asked Li Zhaoyan not to tell Li Wuyi and the others that he had returned, so he could visit them himself and surprise them.
• After discussing Li Zhaoyan’s cultivation, Li Yan asked whether she fancied anyone and apologized for spending so little time with her, her mother, and the others.

Li Yan spoke with Li Zhaoyan about her cultivation and learned she had fallen for Ling Qingyun, agreeing to meet him in three days. He then read Gong Chenying and Zhao Min’s message about traveling with Gong Shanhe to the Tianli Clan to obtain the next cultivation method for the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, leaving him reflecting on their desire to advance.

• Li Zhaoyan told Li Yan that she liked Ling Qingyun, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage disciple of Four Symbols Peak, and explained that her mothers and master approved of him.
• Li Yan learned that Ling Qingyun’s lineage was friendly toward ascended cultivators and agreed to meet him in three days.
• Li Zhaoyan left, relieved that Li Yan had agreed to consider her relationship.
• Li Yan read Gong Chenying’s jade slip and learned that she planned to travel with Gong Shanhe to the Tianli Clan for the next cultivation method of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
• Zhao Min’s message said she also planned to obtain the cultivation method and might qualify without taking the clan’s test because of her status as Qing'a King's Dao Companion and Li Yan’s contributions to the Tianli Clan.
• Li Yan reflected that Gong Chenying and Zhao Min wanted to improve their cultivation and considered how quickly his own cultivation had advanced.

Li Yan considered Zhao Min’s need for a new cultivation path and postponed traveling to the Tianli Clan while he investigated Wangliang Sect affairs. At the sect, Miao Wangqing tended the courtyard as Li Wuyi continued cultivating, and Li Yan set out to visit his senior brothers.

• Li Yan understood that Zhao Min had gone to the Tianli Clan to seek a path beyond the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk and to continue studying the Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
• Li Yan decided he could visit the Tianli Clan later but first needed to meet Li Wuyi and investigate the sect’s negotiations with the Netherworld and the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.
• Miao Wangqing recalled how the Chi Mei Envoy had brought her and Second Senior Brother to the Immortal Spirit Realm, where she reunited with Li Wuyi, Wei Zhongran, and the others.
• Miao Wangqing found joy in tending spiritual fields and completing cultivation-related sect missions, while her cultivation advanced steadily.
• Li Wuyi watched Miao Wangqing in the courtyard and continued cultivating, encouraged by his progress despite not yet making a major breakthrough.

Li Wuyi paused his cultivation and joined Miao Wangqing in watering the spirit plants, using the task to settle his state of mind. As he neared the final ridge, Miao Wangqing suddenly looked toward the courtyard gate.

• Li Wuyi reflected on the sect's protection of its newly ascended cultivators and longed to gain experience beyond the Wangliang Sect's sphere of influence.
• Li Wuyi found that Li Changting was away and left his cultivation chamber to help Miao Wangqing water the spirit plants.
• Li Wuyi joked with Miao Wangqing as he took up the bucket and began watering the plants.
• Li Wuyi focused on watering, while Miao Wangqing recognized that the task was helping him resolve an obstruction in his cultivation.
• Miao Wangqing suddenly turned to look toward the courtyard gate as Li Wuyi neared the final ridge.

Li Yan reunited with Li Wuyi and Miao Wangqing in the Wangliang Sect after returning from a long mission, and they gathered their close companions to celebrate. As Li Changting and Wei Chituo arrived, the chapter ended with Wei Chituo accompanied by an unfamiliar woman in a dark green robe.

• Li Yan entered Li Wuyi's bamboo courtyard and reunited with Li Wuyi and Miao Wangqing, who welcomed him warmly.
• Li Yan told them that his mission had taken a long time but that he had completed it without injury, and Li Wuyi sent messages inviting their companions to gather.
• Li Zhaoyan arrived, greeted Li Wuyi and Miao Wangqing, and went with Miao Wangqing to pick spiritual fruits.
• Li Changting arrived and embraced Li Yan, then teased him about the other absent disciples.
• Wei Chituo arrived at the courtyard gates with a graceful female cultivator dressed in a dark green robe.

Li Yan reunited with Wei Chituo, who brought Ye Huaiqing to meet him and introduced her as his sister-in-law. The group sat down together, and Li Changting privately explained Ye Huaiqing’s background to Li Yan.

• Ye Huaiqing recalled how she had gradually confirmed that Wei Chituo’s powerful junior brother was real and grew nervous about meeting him.
• Li Yan greeted Wei Chituo at Li Wuyi’s courtyard, while Li Wuyi and Li Changting realized Wei Chituo had come to surprise him.
• Wei Chituo teased Li Yan about visiting Li Wuyi first, then introduced Ye Huaiqing as his sister-in-law.
• Ye Huaiqing freed her hand from Wei Chituo’s and respectfully greeted Li Yan as Elder Li.
• Li Yan welcomed Ye Huaiqing, and Wei Chituo quietly asked him what he thought of her.
• After everyone sat down, Li Changting privately told Li Yan about Ye Huaiqing’s background.

Li Yan learned that Li Wuyi and the others had carefully investigated Ye Huaiqing and found her sincere love for Wei Chituo genuine. When the group reunited for wine, Li Wuyi insisted they follow Li Changting’s old custom, leaving Li Yan and the others wary of her gu wine.

• Li Changting told Li Yan that Ye Huaiqing was a diligent, low-profile native cultivator with no suspicious connections or history.
• Li Wuyi, Miao Wangqing, and Li Changting had secretly investigated Ye Huaiqing after learning she and Wei Chituo were in love, and Wei Zhongran had confirmed there was nothing wrong.
• Li Wuyi continued watching the couple for years until he was satisfied that Ye Huaiqing and Wei Chituo genuinely cared for each other.
• Li Yan felt happy that Wei Chituo had found love again after grieving for a former beloved who had died.
• Miao Wangqing and Li Zhaoyan returned, and Li Changting brought out jars of her medicinal wine.
• Wei Chituo tried to offer his treasured wine instead, but Li Wuyi refused and insisted that they drink Li Changting’s wine according to Small Bamboo Peak’s old rule.

Li Yan reunited with his fellow disciples and learned that Wei Zhongran and Li Yuyin had grown close. The Sect Master summoned Li Yan to discuss his mission and the agreement among the three sects, leaving him to understand that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect was using a secret-realm bargain to ease tensions without admitting responsibility for past attacks.

• Li Yan returned to his residence, shared stories with his fellow disciples, and learned that Li Yuyin had reached Spirit Transformation and grown close to Wei Zhongran.
• Li Wuyi warned Li Yan that Wei Zhongran and Li Yuyin might eventually become a couple, and Li Yan felt happy for them.
• The Sect Master summoned Li Yan and asked about the outcome of his mission, while acknowledging the sect's debt to him and its support for his family.
• Li Yan described what he had heard about the secret realm and the three-sect negotiations, and the Sect Master confirmed the arrangement.
• The Sect Master explained that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had offered the secret realm as a way to ease conflict despite suspicious evidence linking it to the attacks on Li Yan and the Wangliang Sect.

Li Yan learned how the Wangliang Sect and Life Extinction Sect had settled their disputes with the Netherworld Underworld and the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect, then avoided a secret-realm mission that could expose his Five Immortals Sect identity. He met Li Zhaoyan’s suitor, Ling Qingyun, and judged him a promising match for his daughter.

• The sect master explained that the Wangliang Sect and Life Extinction Sect had secured Netherworld resources after negotiations over Fa Nan and the other ghost, while the Netherworld Underworld concealed the fate of the real culprit.
• The sect master and Li Yan left the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect secret-realm mission unmentioned, and Li Yan decided not to go because the sect could recognize him as a Five Immortals Sect cultivator.
• Li Yan considered whether the conflicts with the Netherworld Underworld and Yin-Yang Chaos Sect could truly be over, while both sides intended to settle their grievances later.
• Li Zhaoyan brought Ling Qingyun to meet Li Yan, and the nervous Nascent Soul cultivator impressed him with his character and cultivation prospects.
• Li Yan approved of Ling Qingyun as a likely companion for Li Zhaoyan, valuing his chances of advancing along the path of immortality.

Li Yan approved of Li Zhaoyan and Ling Qingyun’s relationship, then checked on Qianji’s slow recovery in Tuban. Four months later, Bai Rou’s impending Spirit Transformation tribulation drew Li Yan to the Wangliang Sect’s rear mountains, where he reunited with Li Zhaoyan as the tribulation clouds gathered.

• Li Zhaoyan teased Ling Qingyun by telling him that Li Yan considered him acceptable, while Li Yan privately explained that he wanted their Dao companion ceremony to wait until Zhao Min and Gong Chenying returned.
• Li Yan entered Tuban and found Qianji’s soul continuing to recover, with its remaining gap between the three souls and seven spirits still slowly closing.
• Four months later, Li Zhaoyan urgently alerted Li Yan that Bai Rou had sensed her Spirit Transformation Heavenly Tribulation and had gone to the sect’s rear mountains.
• Li Yan flew to the tribulation grounds, assessed the gathering clouds, and found Li Zhaoyan and Ling Qingyun with two Four Symbols Peak cultivators.
• Li Zhaoyan recognized Li Yan as he descended and greeted him with relief.