Recaps

Li Yan’s plan led Elder Tang, Master Lan, Zuo Qiudan, and Shangguan Tianque to ambush Elder Shi inside Returning Goose Pavilion and capture her soul and body without alerting the market. As Elder Hu waited for Elder Shi to begin their operation against Li Yan and Tang Feng, he grew concerned when she failed to appear.

• Li Yan proposed secretly replacing several Returning Goose Pavilion attendants, and Elder Tang’s group rehearsed the plan before entering Bone Echo Market.
• Zuo Qiudan and Shangguan Tianque disguised themselves as Golden Core Realm attendants while Elder Tang and Master Lan tracked Elder Shi and her companions by sensing their souls.
• After Zuo Qiudan led the disguised Elder Shi to her room, Shangguan Tianque briefly altered its formation so Elder Tang and Master Lan could enter and set an ambush.
• Master Lan weakened Elder Shi with a Soul-Severing Seal, and Elder Tang subdued her soul, stored her body, and sealed her soul in a jade box.
• Elder Hu waited for Elder Shi at their agreed time, then crushed a voice-transmission talisman when she did not appear.

Elder Hu discovered that Elder Shi and both targets, Li Yan and Tang Feng, had vanished from their rooms, leaving him to realize that Chunyang Hall’s planned attack on Pojun Sect had been outmaneuvered before it began. Overcome by rage, he collapsed, then awoke after wandering through darkness.

• Elder Hu crushed a paired transmission talisman and summoned Chunyang Hall’s eight Void Refinement elders after Elder Shi failed to respond.
• Elder Hu persuaded the innkeeper to open Elder Shi’s room and found it empty, with a jade slip saying she had left to cast aside the mortal world.
• Elder Hu used a technique to control the innkeeper’s consciousness and ordered him to open Li Yan’s and Tang Feng’s rooms.
• Elder Hu and the elders found both rooms empty and realized their enemies had vanished.
• Elder Hu spat blood and passed out, then opened his eyes after experiencing an endless darkness filled with distant voices and figures.

After Elder Hu awoke outside Bone Echo Market, he accepted that Pojun Sect had captured Elder Shi and sent his followers to gather intelligence rather than launch a rescue. The chapter revealed how Elder Tang and Master Lan had secretly taken Elder Shi and escaped with Li Yan and Tang Feng, while Elder Hu began a cautious investigation.

• Jiang Cangfeng told Elder Hu that the group had read the jade slip, fled Bone Echo Market, and gathered on a remote mountain after Elder Hu lost consciousness.
• Elder Hu concluded that Pojun Sect had carefully lured them into a trap and captured Elder Shi, while the jade slip warned Chunyang Hall to withdraw.
• Elder Hu questioned his followers, then divided them into groups to investigate Pojun Sect, Bone-Eroding Ravine, and Heart-Severing Cliff.
• Elder Hu chose to investigate Bone Echo Market himself and delayed confronting Pojun Sect because he feared its power and worried the jade slip might be another trap.
• Elder Tang and Master Lan used a prepared escape route to take Elder Shi, Li Yan, and Tang Feng out of the Returning Goose Pavilion inn.
• Shangguan Tianque and Zuo Qiudan released the two servants whose memories had been altered, then left the market with the others and headed toward Pojun Sect.

Li Yan and the others captured Elder Shi, learned Chunyang Hall and the Moji Dao Sect’s intentions, and killed her before returning to strengthen the Pojun Sect’s defenses. Elder Hu’s investigation failed to uncover their allies or expose their schemes, and he ended the chapter secretly testing the Pojun Sect’s powerful protective array.

• Elder Tang used Elder Shi’s likeness to record a second jade slip, setting a trap for Elder Hu if he sought help from the market town’s cultivators.
• Li Yan and the others performed a Soul Search on Elder Shi and learned that Chunyang Hall’s other leaders had been reluctant to get involved and that the Moji Dao Sect wanted the Pojun Sect eliminated.
• Elder Tang killed Elder Shi after learning what Chunyang Hall and the Moji Dao Sect intended.
• The Pojun Sect strengthened its defenses while Elder Hu’s investigation in Bone Echo Market failed to identify the Pojun Sect’s allies or find evidence of the jade-slip scheme.
• Elder Hu led eight Void Refinement Realm elders to the Pojun Sect, then failed to break its protective array in secret.

Li Yan entered seclusion and tried to comprehend a strand of Qiongqi power, which pulled him into a vision where he became a wounded Qiongqi fighting a stronger rival. The chapter left him charging into a clash as his opponent thrust a glowing horn toward his throat.

• Elder Hu abandoned his watch after sensing the power of Pojun Sect’s formation and receiving no news of Elder Shi.
• Li Yan entered seclusion and released the foreign Qiongqi power inside him to study its strength.
• The foreign power transformed into a three-inch Qiongqi and tore through Li Yan’s own power, forcing him to form a matching phantom and fight it.
• Li Yan was drawn into a vision of nine red suns, where he became a Qiongqi battling a stronger rival across a scorched landscape.
• The rival charged Li Yan with its glowing horn, creating spatial rifts that slowed his advance.

Li Yan’s Qiongqi Purgatory Art reached the threshold of Body Integration Realm, bringing an imminent heavenly tribulation that he knew could kill him. He left farewell jade slips for those close to him, then sought Elder Tang’s guidance before heading to the Dizhen Domain to face the trial.

• Li Yan used the power of the nine suns through his Qiongqi horn to stop and destroy the charging Qiongqi.
• The Qiongqi phantom entered Li Yan’s Shanzhong acupoint, revealing that Prison-Horn Light Convergence had appeared and that a Body Integration heavenly tribulation would arrive within seven days to three months.
• Li Yan accepted the danger of the tribulation and inscribed jade slips for his friends and family, including secret-language instructions for Ding Shuying.
• Li Yan told Elder Tang that he had gained insight into Body Integration through a body-refining cultivation art and asked for guidance on surviving the tribulation.
• Elder Tang gathered Master Lan, Tang Feng, Shangguan Tianque, and Zuo Qiudan, and they discussed the increasing danger of heavenly tribulations with Li Yan.

Li Yan prepared to break through to the Body Integration Realm in the Dizhen Domain, where a brutal Heavenly Tribulation tested his strength. After seven days of thunder, he survived and restored his badly damaged body, leaving Elder Tang and Xue Tieyi relieved.

• Elder Tang arranged for Lan Feng and Tang Feng to remain behind while he took Li Yan back to the Dizhen Domain and summoned reinforcements for the Pojun Sect.
• At the silver desert, Li Yan gave Elder Tang a storage ring of restricted jade slips, then settled down to prepare for his breakthrough near the Dream-Returning Ant's tongue.
• After thirty-four days, the red light in Li Yan's chest rose toward his crown, summoning violent winds and pitch-black clouds that gathered into a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Golden thunder struck Li Yan, and he shattered the first bolt with a punch while Xue Tieyi and Elder Tang watched from across the desert.
• The Heavenly Tribulation lasted seven days and left Li Yan bloodied, blackened, and missing half his body, but he absorbed the tribulation's essence and restored himself before Elder Tang and Xue Tieyi reached him.

After three years of consolidating his breakthrough, Li Yan stabilized at the early Body Integration Realm and prepared to leave the Silver Desert. He reflected on the ordeal of body-cultivation tribulation and discovered how greatly his divine sense had advanced.

• Li Yan completed his final training stance at the edge of the Silver Desert and confirmed that his Body Integration Realm had stabilized.
• Li Yan recalled surviving the seven-day tribulation through sheer endurance and considered why body cultivators faced especially difficult breakthroughs.
• Li Yan thought of Min'er, A-Ying, and Gu Yue, and hoped his breakthrough would help them pursue the Body Integration Realm as well.
• Li Yan tested his enhanced divine sense and learned that it could form independent divine thought avatars.
• Li Yan considered the tradeoffs between avatars made only from divine thought and those made with essence blood, which could cultivate independently but weakened the main body.

Li Yan tested the changes brought by entering the Body Integration Realm, finding that his techniques, defenses, and physical abilities had grown dramatically. He discovered that his Qiongqi and Undying Underworld Phoenix powers had merged to transform Phoenix Soaring, and confirmed that his Zhili Poison remained intact despite no longer residing visibly in his body.

• Li Yan tested True Spirit Armor and Prison Breaker, finding that the armor could endure attacks from Body Integration Early Stage cultivators and that Prison Breaker could shatter a powerful array with one strike.
• Li Yan received the Primordial Heaven-Slaying Strike inheritance and found that Flame-Feather Meteor Arrows had advanced, allowing him to fire three silent, elusive arrows at once.
• Li Yan combined Qiongqi power with Phoenix Soaring, manifested illusory Demonic Wings, and accidentally flew across the Silver Desert into a mountain.
• Li Yan tested the mutated Phoenix Soaring and learned that the wings could propel him at immense speed and fold around him to block attacks.
• Li Yan examined his body and discovered that Zhili Poison had vanished from his chest and abdomen, then summoned and transformed it at his fingertip without difficulty.

Li Yan discovered that reaching the Body Integration Realm had fused Zhili Poison with his flesh and sea of consciousness, giving him automatic defenses against attacks and soul searches. After stabilizing his realm, he returned to the Pojun Sect with Elder Tang and learned that Chunyang Hall had not attacked again, though it might be preparing a decisive assault.

• Li Yan tested his transformed Disjointed Poison Body and found Zhili Poison automatically blocked a Soul-Seeking Technique and counterattacked through his clone.
• Four days later, Li Yan left the restricted area, where Elder Wang recognized that he had successfully reached the Body Integration Realm.
• Li Yan met Elder Tang and Xue Tieyi, confirmed that his realm had stabilized, and learned that Chunyang Hall had not attacked the Pojun Sect for several years.
• Elder Tang warned that Chunyang Hall might be gathering strength for another assault, while Xue Tieyi and the sect had prepared their defenses.
• Li Yan and Elder Tang teleported back to the Pojun Sect, where its cultivators gathered to welcome Li Yan after his breakthrough.

Li Yan returned to the Pojun Sect after breaking through to the Body Integration Realm, and Shangguan Tianque announced his advancement to the entire sect. Li Yan agreed to a grand celebration, giving the shaken sect new confidence as its cultivators hoped to stand more securely beside the Prison clan.

• Tang Feng reported Li Yan’s successful breakthrough, and Shangguan Tianque proclaimed the news throughout the Pojun Sect.
• Li Yan returned with Elder Tang and greeted the assembled elders, including Tang Feng, Bu Luo, and Qianji.
• Shangguan Tianque urged Li Yan to hold a grand ceremony to raise the sect’s morale, and Li Yan agreed.
• The elders discussed the celebration, and Shangguan Tianque saw the Pojun Sect’s cultivators regain their spirit.
• The Pojun Sect’s elders welcomed Li Yan’s advancement as a source of strength and a chance to stand more equally with the Prison clan.

Li Yan prepared for a grand ceremony marking his breakthrough, instructed Qianji in cultivation, and began practicing Body Integration Realm spells. Just before the ceremony, explosions struck the Pojun Sect’s mountain gate, leaving cultivators dead and wounded as Li Yan rushed to the scene.

• Li Yan agreed to hold the Pojun Sect’s celebration a month later, despite preferring a simpler ceremony.
• Elder Tang sent Elders Liu and Hua back to the Dizhen Domain to protect Elder Hao.
• Li Yan answered Qianji’s cultivation questions and arranged to travel with him to Guiqulaixi to collect refining materials.
• Li Yan practiced Body Integration Realm spells while the Pojun Sect prepared for the ceremony.
• Explosions rocked the mountain gate, and Li Yan rushed there to find Pojun Sect cultivators dead or gravely wounded.

Li Yan and the others rushed to treat Pojun Sect’s wounded as four Body Integration Realm cultivators attacked its mountain gate. The attackers had spent years tracing Pojun Sect’s backing to Heart-Severing Cliff, and the chapter ended with the formation holding under their assault while the sect faced a planned attempt at destruction.

• Zuo Qiudan, Bu Luo, and Yu Banjiang arrived and joined Li Yan, Shangguan Tianque, and Elder Tang in treating Pojun Sect’s wounded.
• Li Yan identified the four attackers outside the mountain gate as a beautiful middle-aged woman, a thick-bearded man, Elder Wei, and Elder Hu, who were battering the Sect Protection Array.
• Elder Wei recalled how Elder Hu had reported Elder Shi’s disappearance, prompting Chunyang Hall and Moji Dao Sect to debate Pojun Sect’s powerful backing and whether to destroy it.
• Moji Dao Sect sent the beautiful middle-aged woman and the thick-bearded man with Elder Wei and Elder Hu to investigate Pojun Sect’s suspected allies before attacking.
• After years of investigation, the four concluded that Heart-Severing Cliff was likely behind Pojun Sect and launched their assault on its mountain gate.

Four Body Integration Realm cultivators attacked Pojun Sect, and their assault killed nearly a hundred people before they could break the sect’s protection array. Enraged, Li Yan rushed outside alone in disguise, while Master Lan struggled to hold the array and the attackers prepared to enter.

• The four confirmed Heart-Severing Cliff’s role in supporting Pojun Sect and secretly approached its mountain gate to break the protection array.
• Their attempts triggered the array’s defenses, so they unleashed a concentrated assault that devastated the surrounding forest and killed nearly a hundred Pojun Sect members.
• Li Yan saw the deaths and left the sect alone despite Shangguan Tianque’s attempt to stop him; Elder Tang followed him outside.
• Master Lan took control of the protection array and realized it could withstand the four attackers for only a few more breaths, while the outer trapping array had already been destroyed.
• Li Yan changed his appearance into that of a bald, withered old man as he emerged, while the beautiful middle-aged woman ordered the others to capture Pojun Sect’s Void Refinement Realm cultivators alive.

Li Yan ambushed the four cultivators attacking the formation, killing the beautiful middle-aged woman before turning on Elder Hu. The chapter ended with Li Yan bearing down on Elder Hu, who struggled to resist his overwhelming strength.

• Li Yan rushed through the beautiful middle-aged woman's golden defense and struck her, but her Three-Colored Leaf blocked his knee.
• Li Yan used a Soul-Splitting Slash to disrupt the woman's magic, then crushed her with his Demonic Wings and took her spatial magical treasures.
• Elder Tang attacked the thickly bearded man as the other cultivators reacted to Li Yan's ambush.
• Elder Hu launched two Life-Seizing Nails at Li Yan, but Li Yan appeared before him and struck down with his fists.
• Elder Hu roared and tried to raise his saber as Li Yan's immense force pinned him down.

Li Yan and Elder Tang swiftly killed three of the four Body Integration Realm attackers, while Li Yan let Elder Wei escape to warn the Moji Dao Sect and avoid endangering Chunyang Hall and his friendship with Chongyangzi. They returned to the Pojun Sect, where Shangguan Tianque realized how easily they had overwhelmed their powerful enemies.

• Li Yan killed Elder Hu after destroying the middle-aged beauty, while Elder Tang used a soul technique to kill the thick-bearded man.
• Li Yan stopped Elder Tang from pursuing Elder Wei, who escaped after deciding to retreat.
• Li Yan explained that he wanted Elder Wei to report the Pojun Sect's strength and that sparing him could help protect Chunyang Hall and Chongyangzi.
• Li Yan and Elder Tang returned to the sect, and Li Yan resumed his original appearance.
• Shangguan Tianque watched them return and realized Li Yan and Elder Tang had killed three powerful attackers in moments.

Li Yan and Elder Tang killed the invaders who attacked the Pojun Sect, while Elder Wei escaped after they deliberately let him go to report what happened. As he fled, Elder Wei realized the Pojun Sect’s backers might be a Demon Race faction in the Heavenly Demon Grassland.

• Li Yan and Elder Tang appeared at the sect gate after killing three invaders and wounding Elder Wei, shocking Shangguan Tianque, Zuo Qiudan, Tang Feng, and the disciples.
• Li Yan ordered Shangguan Tianque and Zuo Qiudan to return with him, leaving Bu Luo and Yu Banjiang to tend to the wounded.
• Li Yan kept Elder Hu’s soul alive so Elder Wei could report the invaders’ deaths, and the group returned to learn more about Chunyang Hall and the Moji Dao Sect.
• Elder Wei flew for over two hours and concluded that Li Yan and Elder Tang had intentionally spared him so he could carry back their warning.
• Elder Wei reconsidered the Pojun Sect’s allegiance and suspected its backers were a Demon Race faction within the Heavenly Demon Grassland.

Elder Wei realized that the Pojun Sect was protected by a powerful Demon Beast clan and hurried back to report, leaving the Moji Dao Sect to weigh its next move. The story then shifted to Star Dome City, where two women browsed the puppet shops of the Meteor Palace’s famed cultivation hub.

• Elder Wei deduced that the Pojun Sect had allied with a powerful Demon Race clan that could deploy several Seventh-Stage Monster Beasts.
• Elder Wei decided to return to the Moji Dao Sect with his findings, believing the sect would investigate cautiously before attempting to destroy the Pojun Sect.
• Elder Wei concluded that Chunyang Hall had lost half its strongest fighters and that its remaining leaders would struggle to preserve the sect.
• The narration introduced Star Dome City, the Immortal Spirit Realm’s renowned puppet-trading city ruled by the Meteor Palace.
• Two women walked through Star Dome City, looking into shops for items they liked.

Bai Rou and Shuang Qingqing visited Star Dome City to sell puppets and buy materials for the Muliu Sect, whose new home they had established near the city. The sect had grown cautiously amid repeated battles, and the women arrived at a familiar shop to trade its puppets.

• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou discussed their limited spirit-stone budget as they explored Star Dome City.
• Shuang Qingqing had taken control of a small puppet sect near Star Dome City, and Bai Rou agreed its location suited the Muliu Sect.
• Shuang Qingqing established the Muliu Sect in the area, recruited carefully, and joined it to a local alliance after demonstrating her strength.
• The Muliu Sect grew to more than seventy members but endured repeated battles, casualties, and serious injuries to Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou.
• Bai Rou and Shuang Qingqing reached a familiar Star Dome City shop to sell puppets, rotating among shops to avoid accepting low prices.

Bai Rou and Shuang Qingqing sold puppets and went to the free market to buy materials, where Bai Rou unexpectedly reunited with Guan Man. Guan Man explained how she and Bai Ting had reached Star Dome City, leaving Bai Rou surprised to learn the fox had taken her surname and called her Master.

• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou sold puppets, bought cultivation materials, and headed to the free market, where Shuang Qingqing hoped to find an old Golden Bell Branch.
• Guan Man recognized Bai Rou and revealed that she was from Guan Village, which Bai Rou and Li Yan had once saved.
• Guan Man explained that Bai Ting had taken human form, adopted Bai Rou's surname, avenged the foxes by killing the two goshawks, and called Bai Rou Master.
• Guan Man recounted that a Void Refinement Realm deacon of Meteor Palace had noticed her puppet-making talent and wanted to take her as a registered disciple.

A Meteor Palace deacon offered to take Guan Man as her registered disciple, prompting Guan Feng to weigh the risks and potential benefits for Guan Village. Guan Man and Bai Ting both chose to go to the market town, where the deacon learned that Guan Feng knew almost nothing about Meteor Palace.

• The Meteor Palace deacon explained why she wanted Guan Man as a disciple and gave her six days to decide; Guan Man returned home and told Guan Yuanxiang and Guan Feng about the offer.
• Guan Feng realized Meteor Palace was likely a super sect and warned Guan Man about the risks, while she decided to accept the chance to gain resources and help Guan Village.
• Guan Man planned to leave with Guan Feng, and Bai Ting insisted on joining so she could search for Bai Rou and Li Yan; she gave Guan Feng a jade slip for them.
• Guan Feng brought Guan Man and Bai Ting to the inn, where the Meteor Palace deacon discovered that he knew little about her sect.

Guan Man recounted how she and Bai Ting had joined Meteor Palace, then reunited with Bai Rou in Star Dome City. Bai Rou agreed to meet Bai Ting, who had searched for her and Li Yan for years, and Guan Man led her and Shuang Qingqing to a shop to wait.

• Guan Man told Bai Rou that she and Bai Ting had traveled to the Main Dao Realm, where Guan Man became the Meteor Palace steward’s disciple and Bai Ting became an outer disciple.
• Guan Man explained that Bai Ting had remained determined to search for Li Yan and Bai Rou, while Shuang Qingqing teased Bai Rou about being mistaken for Bai Ting’s mother.
• Bai Rou asked whether Bai Ting was nearby, and Guan Man said Bai Ting was in the sect and urged Bai Rou to stay so they could meet.
• Bai Rou agreed to meet Bai Ting and the little fox, and Guan Man led Bai Rou and Shuang Qingqing into a nearby shop to arrange a private room and send a message.

Bai Rou learned that Guan Man had recognized her because Bai Ting had entrusted her with searching for the benefactors who once helped her. After verifying Guan Man’s discretion and hearing how Guan Village was faring, Bai Rou met Bai Ting as she arrived at the private room.

• Guan Man explained that Bai Ting had revealed Bai Rou’s appearance to her and privately asked her to search for Bai Rou and Li Yan.
• Bai Rou disclosed that her surname was truly Bai, then used the moment of Guan Man’s surprise to cast the Soul-Bewitching Technique and confirm what Guan Man knew.
• Guan Man told Bai Rou that she had formed a Nascent Soul and that Guan Village had eased its attacks on the Rain-Nourishing Sect after suffering losses in a counter-ambush.
• Guan Man described sending puppet cultivation methods and materials to Guan Village through merchant guilds.
• Bai Ting arrived at the room and called to Guan Man and Senior Bai from outside.

Bai Ting reunited with Bai Rou after searching across realms and was accepted as her disciple. Though Bai Rou initially urged her to stay at Meteor Palace, Bai Ting chose to return to the Muliu Sect with Bai Rou and Shuang Qingqing.

• Bai Ting recognized Bai Rou, wept, and called her Master as they reunited.
• Bai Rou explained her connection to the Cangxuan Realm and introduced Shuang Qingqing as the Muliu Sect's ancestor.
• Bai Rou offered to let Bai Ting keep her name and acknowledged their renewed bond.
• Bai Rou urged Bai Ting to remain at Meteor Palace, but Bai Ting explained that she had stayed an outer disciple so she could leave after finding her masters.
• Guan Man described Bai Ting's sacrifices and limited cultivation resources, and Shuang Qingqing decided to bring her to the Muliu Sect.
• Bai Rou agreed that Bai Ting could return with them after packing and settling matters at Meteor Palace.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou saw a chance to supply Muliu Sect puppets to Meteor Palace through Guan Man’s master, while Pojun Sect maintained its defenses and Li Yan reunited with old companions after Ren Yanyu’s breakthrough. The chapter left the puppet deal under discussion and Li Yan still concerned about Elder Hao’s silence and the difficulty of advancing his cultivation.

• Guan Man explained that her master purchased practice puppets for Meteor Palace and could consider replacing the current supplier with Muliu Sect.
• Shuang Qingqing planned to tailor puppet samples to Meteor Palace’s needs and gradually sell new designs that its disciples would take years to study.
• In the North Pasture Realm, Pojun Sect stayed vigilant against Moji Dao Sect while Soul Suppressing Palace kept the Prison Race’s strength and origins concealed.
• Li Yan and Qianji returned after gathering materials for Qianji’s natal magic treasure and learned that Ren Yanyu had advanced to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Yan, Shangguan Tianque, Ren Yanyu, and Zuo Qiudan gathered to reminisce about Pojun Sect’s past and the hardships they had survived.
• Li Yan checked on Elder Hao in Dizhen Domain but found no change, while Elder Tang and Master Lan entered seclusion and Li Yan reflected on the difficulty of later cultivation breakthroughs.