Recaps

Li Yan continued cultivating in the Pojun Sect while the Phoenix Four Clans investigated the sect’s sudden relocation and learned it had broken with its former backing. When Ming Qi and Ming Yu arrived to check on Zuo Qiudan, Li Yan agreed to meet them.

• Li Yan reflected with Tang Feng on the difficulty of advancing through the later stages of the immortal path, while Elder Hao’s aura slowly changed in a hidden region of Dizhen Domain.
• Li Yan returned to cultivation, focusing on the Gui Water True Scripture while remaining available for news from Chunyang Hall and the Moji Dao Sect.
• Ming Feng investigated the Pojun Sect’s relocation after Zuo Qiudan’s message revealed its new location in a distant, chaotic territory.
• The Phoenix Four Clans learned that the Pojun Sect had vanished after its former backer tried to force Zuo Qiudan to join its sect.
• Ming Qi and Ming Yu arrived at the Pojun Sect to assess the situation, and Zuo Qiudan asked Li Yan whether he would meet them.
• Li Yan replied that he would go meet the sisters.

Li Yan decided to meet Ming Qi and Ming Yu, whose investigation of the Pojun Sect had brought them to question Zuo Qiudan about the sect’s powerful enemies and hidden backing. Zuo Qiudan confirmed their reports without revealing the sect’s true strength, leaving the sisters to suspect it had allied with a powerful Demon Race force in the Heavenly Demon Grassland.

• Li Yan planned to reveal himself to Ming Qi and Ming Yu and use their response to assess the Phoenix Four Clans’ intentions.
• Ming Qi asked Zuo Qiudan whether the Pojun Sect’s past battles had been caused by powerful enemies connected to its former backers.
• Ming Qi and Ming Yu recalled evidence of battles involving Body Integration Realm experts and marveled that the Pojun Sect had survived and grown so formidable.
• Zuo Qiudan confirmed that their information was basically accurate but neither confirmed nor denied Ming Yu’s question about a Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator.
• Ming Yu suspected the Pojun Sect had pledged itself to a powerful Demon Race force in the Heavenly Demon Grassland, and Ming Qi considered the idea plausible.

Ming Qi and Ming Yu visited Zuo Qiudan and learned that the Pojun Sect was thriving despite recent conflicts. As Zuo Qiudan prepared to ask about Ming Feng, a visitor arrived whose voice left the sisters astonished.

• Ming Qi explained that she and Ming Yu had come to check on Zuo Qiudan and had once considered taking him away if the Pojun Sect was in trouble.
• Zuo Qiudan thanked the sisters for their concern, and they discussed his Void Refinement Realm breakthrough and their own progress.
• Ming Yu described how the Phoenix Four Clans had allied to secure their future and revised their rules, including restrictions on intermarriage.
• Zuo Qiudan sensed someone touching the cave abode's formation and opened the door.
• An aged voice greeted Ming Qi and Ming Yu, and they recognized it with astonishment.

Li Yan revealed his true appearance to Ming Qi and Ming Yu, who recognized him as the senior brother they had known in Yellow Qi Valley. The reunion left the sisters shocked and embarrassed, while Zuo Qiudan realized Li Yan had chosen to meet them openly.

• Li Yan arrived at Zuo Qiudan's cave residence, where Ming Qi and Ming Yu recognized him as the mysterious old man who had helped their clan.
• Li Yan removed his disguise, revealing his true face and leaving the sisters stunned.
• Ming Yu accidentally called Li Yan "Black Senior Brother," while Ming Qi recognized him as Senior Brother Li.
• Zuo Qiudan was surprised by the sisters' familiar forms of address, and Li Yan recalled their old teasing in Yellow Qi Valley.
• Ming Qi tried to bow and apologize for their past disrespect, while Li Yan used his Dao resonance to calm the sisters.

Li Yan revealed to Ming Qi and Ming Yu that he had been the mysterious gray-robed elder they met in Yellow Qi Valley, explaining his past cultivation and his ties to the Pojun Sect. The sisters accepted him as a senior brother and began piecing together the strength and possible origins of his true sect.

• Li Yan told Ming Qi and Ming Yu that the gray-robed elder in Yellow Qi Valley had been his true body, and asked them to call him Senior Brother.
• Ming Qi asked about Li Yan's past cultivation, and he confirmed he had been in the Spirit Transformation Realm then and was now in the Body Integration Realm.
• Li Yan explained that he held an elder's position in the Pojun Sect but that it was not the sect he had truly come from.
• Ming Qi inferred that Li Yan's true sect might be more powerful than the Pojun Sect and had supported it, while Ming Yu recalled their clues about the Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence.

Li Yan met Ming Qi and Ming Yu at Pojun Sect, discussed the sect’s troubles and the Phoenix Four Clans’ possible aid, and exchanged cultivation knowledge with them. After the women left, they questioned whether Li Yan’s story about the Ancient Inheritance Hall was true and suspected his sect had uncovered clues to the Undying Underworld Phoenix inheritance.

• Li Yan told Ming Qi and Ming Yu that Pojun Sect remained on alert after repelling Chunyang Hall’s attacks, and Ming Qi promised the Phoenix Four Clans would help if needed.
• Li Yan and Ming Qi recalled their escort mission in Yellow Qi Valley, including how Ming Qi had fled while he was caught in a formation.
• Li Yan led Ming Qi and Ming Yu around Pojun Sect and exchanged cultivation methods with them, with both sides gaining valuable insights.
• Ming Qi and Ming Yu declined Li Yan’s invitation to stay and left Pojun Sect to return to the Heavenly Demon Grassland.
• Ming Yu and Ming Qi discussed the hidden experts and dangerous formation at Pojun Sect, then questioned Li Yan’s account of entering the Ancient Inheritance Hall.

Ming Qi and Ming Yu pieced together Li Yan’s past actions and concluded that his caution had concealed goodwill toward their clan. As Li Yan returned to cultivation and waited to see how the Phoenix clans would respond to his identity, five years passed without Moji Dao Sect retaliating for its two slain Body Integration Realm cultivators.

• Ming Qi explained why Li Yan’s earlier searches, Silver Sand trade, and help in Jieyou Realm suggested his actions had been personal and not hostile to their clan.
• Ming Yu wondered whether Li Yan might secretly belong to the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan, and Ming Qi teased her for calling him Senior Brother so readily.
• A woman at a snowy lakeside remembered her past with a man and wept while clutching the Wangliang Sect token that had once helped her sense his presence.
• Li Yan returned to his cave dwelling to study the force-channeling methods Ming Qi and Ming Yu had shared, then resumed cultivating the power of the Undying Underworld Phoenix.
• Five years passed as more Pojun Sect disciples went out, while Moji Dao Sect sent no powerful cultivators to avenge its two dead Body Integration Realm cultivators.

After five years of strengthening the Pojun Sect and remaining wary of its enemies, Li Yan emerged from seclusion and prepared to travel with Qianji to find a homeland for the Snow Mosquito clan. He left the sect’s affairs in Ren Yanyu’s hands and gave Ding Shuying guidance before setting out.

• Li Yan emerged from five years of seclusion with improved cultivation and a newly mastered Force Circulation Method, while the Pojun Sect’s defenses had reached their current limits.
• Li Yan told Ren Yanyu that he and Qianji would travel to the Heavenly Demon Grassland to find suitable territory for Qianji’s Snow Mosquito clansmen, and explained why the Moji Dao Sect was unlikely to attack rashly.
• Li Yan spoke with Tang Feng, who agreed to the plan and was pleased to open territory for the Soul Prison Clan.
• Li Yan inspected Ding Shuying’s progress in the Gui Water True Scripture, guided her cultivation, and told her he might take her to the Cangxuan Realm and the Five Immortals Sect after she formed her Nascent Soul.
• Li Yan told Qianji that he had found information about a possible home for the Snow Mosquito clan, making Qianji joyful and easing his worries about his growing clansmen.

Li Yan and Qianji set out toward the Heavenly Demon Grassland to search for a suitable home for the Snow Mosquito Clan, accepting that the mission could fail. Meanwhile, Shuang Qingqing secured a profitable trade contract for the Muliu Sect and left Star Dome City with Bai Rou after stocking up on supplies.

• Li Yan warned Qianji that their search in the Heavenly Demon Grassland was dangerous and uncertain, but promised to do his utmost to find a place for the Snow Mosquito Clan.
• Shuang Qingqing’s puppet impressed Guan Man’s master, who signed a cooperation contract with the Muliu Sect on behalf of Meteor Palace.
• The Muliu Sect delivered its first batch of puppets, and Guan Man’s master praised their quality and paid the agreed price.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou spent the day buying materials and supplies across Star Dome City after the successful transaction.
• Shuang Qingqing checked that no one was following them and left the city with Bai Rou, having bought enough supplies to last the sect for years.

Bai Rou and Shuang Qingqing traveled back toward the Muliu Sect with supplies when they sensed a fierce battle nearby and hid beneath a river. A fleeing hooked-nosed man collided with a red-lit pursuer, who killed him and collected his treasures, leaving the pursuer’s identity unknown.

• Bai Ting received Bai Rou’s instruction in the Muliu Sect and learned that her senior sister, Li Zhaoyan, was in another powerful sect in the Cangxuan Realm.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou traveled through several teleportation arrays and set out from a market town on the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix.
• Shuang Qingqing sensed two powerful cultivators approaching and hid with Bai Rou beneath the river rather than investigate the distant battle.
• A wounded hooked-nosed man tried to use the hidden travelers to escape but was intercepted by a red-lit pursuer.
• The red-lit pursuer killed the hooked-nosed man, crushed his Nascent Soul, destroyed his corpse, and took his magic treasures.

Meng Shangmo killed the hooked-nosed cultivator but was brutally punished by the silver-robed young man, who forced him to leave on a Six-Winged Bat. Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou recognized Meng Shangmo and pursued him, but the silver-robed young man's Integrated Body Early Stage cultivation made them wary.

• Meng Shangmo survived the duel with the hooked-nosed cultivator, killing him at the cost of serious injuries.
• The silver-robed young man arrived, berated Meng Shangmo for delaying the mission, crushed his shoulder, and jabbed his forehead wound with an iron rod.
• The silver-robed young man took Meng Shangmo's acquired treasures and rode away on his Six-Winged Bat.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou recognized Meng Shangmo as the elder who had helped them in the lower realm, and Shuang Qingqing identified the young man as an Integrated Body Early Stage cultivator.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou pursued the Six-Winged Bat beneath the river's surface, hoping to meet Meng Shangmo.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou followed the silver-robed young man after he enslaved and mistreated Meng Shangmo, hoping to learn who he was and find a chance to help. They tracked the pair to an inn, where the silver-robed young man left without Meng Shangmo, giving them a possible opening to contact him.

• Shuang Qingqing saw the silver-robed young man crush Meng Shangmo’s shoulder, torment him, take his treasures, and force him to carry him in his true form, then sent Bai Rou an account of what she had witnessed.
• Shuang Qingqing pursued the silver-robed young man with Bai Rou, while they considered whether he belonged to a sect connected to Meteor Palace and whether they could get help to rescue Meng Shangmo.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou followed the pair into a market city and learned that they were not heading for its teleportation array.
• The silver-robed young man and Meng Shangmo entered an inn, so Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou checked in as well.
• The silver-robed young man briefly swept the inn with his divine sense and left; Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou noticed that Meng Shangmo was no longer with him.

Shuang Qingqing tracked Meng Shangmo to an inn and found him enslaved by the silver-robed young man. She reunited with him in private, and Meng Shangmo realized she had witnessed his humiliation at the marketplace.

• Shuang Qingqing considered following the silver-robed young man but instead learned that Meng Shangmo was still at the inn.
• She sent Bai Rou outside to watch for the silver-robed young man, then went alone to Meng Shangmo’s room.
• Meng Shangmo recognized Shuang Qingqing and let her inside after she told him someone was keeping watch outside.
• Shuang Qingqing explained how she had found him, and Meng Shangmo realized she had seen him being stepped on at the marketplace.
• Meng Shangmo expressed shame over meeting Shuang Qingqing in his current condition.

Shuang Qingqing learned how Calamity Son had enslaved Meng Shangmo and examined the restriction in his Nascent Soul. She offered a risky plan to free him, but Meng Shangmo hesitated because he feared for her and Bai Rou’s safety against a Body Integration Realm poison cultivator.

• Shuang Qingqing asked Meng Shangmo to explain his predicament and whether Calamity Son could return at any time.
• Meng Shangmo recounted how Calamity Son had captured him, planted a restriction in his Nascent Soul, and forced him to serve as a mount and servant.
• Shuang Qingqing inspected the restriction and judged that she had a fifty percent chance of rescuing Meng Shangmo.
• Shuang Qingqing revealed that Bai Rou was outside with her and that she had no Body Integration Realm cultivator accompanying her.
• Meng Shangmo worried that Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou would be in danger if they faced Calamity Son.

Shuang Qingqing and Meng Shangmo planned to ambush the Calamity Son by exploiting his anger over an auction rival. When he attacked Shuang Qingqing above a swamp, their trap caught his legs and sent him falling, revealing Meng Shangmo’s betrayal.

• Shuang Qingqing confirmed she had a way to protect herself and asked Meng Shangmo to kill her if their plan failed; Meng Shangmo gave her the address of his clan.
• Shuang Qingqing explained the plan to Meng Shangmo, and they prepared to act against the Calamity Son.
• The Calamity Son bought his desired auction item but blamed a rival bidder for making him spend eleven extra Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, then placed a hidden mark on that person.
• The Calamity Son ordered Meng Shangmo to pursue the marked target and stopped above a swamp when the target appeared to be Shuang Qingqing.
• As the Calamity Son moved to attack Shuang Qingqing, black matter trapped his legs, and the Six-Winged Dark Spirit Demon Bat escaped from beneath him.
• The Calamity Son realized Meng Shangmo had helped Shuang Qingqing ambush him and cursed Meng Shangmo for betraying him.

Shuang Qingqing ambushed Calamity Son with poison-bearing puppets disguised as flying swords, while he tried to kill Meng Shangmo with a bodily restriction. Calamity Son recognized her Puppet Arts too late and struggled to escape the puppets draining his spiritual power.

• Calamity Son activated the restriction inside Meng Shangmo as Shuang Qingqing attacked him with a swarm of flying swords.
• Calamity Son used crimson poison to corrode the swords and the black puppets clinging to his legs, but the swords released Yin Baleful Marrow and Meng Shangmo survived the restriction.
• Calamity Son realized Shuang Qingqing was a puppet master and that the apparent swords were poison-loaded puppets.
• Shuang Qingqing's black leg puppets continued draining Calamity Son's spiritual power as he dodged the Yin Baleful Marrow.
• Calamity Son unleashed purplish-red poison that began eroding the leg puppets, but they remained attached and continued consuming his spiritual power.

Shuang Qingqing used a red lotus puppet to protect Meng Shangmo’s Nascent Soul from Calamity Son’s restriction, then rescued him while keeping Calamity Son trapped in the ambush. The fight continued as she entered the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix puppet, whose power surged and sent a Black-Skinned Bone Serpent flying.

• Calamity Son counterattacked with two Black-Skinned Bone Serpents while Meng Shangmo endured the restriction’s soul-tearing pain atop Shuang Qingqing’s green leaf.
• The red lotus puppet suppressed the restriction by shielding Meng Shangmo’s Nascent Soul from the laws of heaven and earth, though it severed his body’s connection to his Nascent Soul.
• Shuang Qingqing judged that Calamity Son might have left a tracking mark on Meng Shangmo and decided to resolve the threat at its root rather than simply send him away.
• Shuang Qingqing swept Meng Shangmo into the Spirit Storage Space and dodged the pursuing Black-Skinned Bone Serpents on the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix.
• Shuang Qingqing sent flying swords at Calamity Son to keep him entangled, then entered the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix puppet.
• The Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix’s aura surged, and its crystalline wing struck one Black-Skinned Bone Serpent and sent it flying.

Shuang Qingqing overwhelmed Calamity Son with her puppets and flying swords, severing his arm and pressing an attack toward his head. The chapter ended as she continued her assault, revealing how her upgraded Flying Sword Puppet Arts combined her control with Bai Rou’s and layered power through formations.

• Shuang Qingqing’s Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix reflected much of the Black-Skinned Bone Serpent’s attack, destroying it in a single exchange.
• Calamity Son tried to escape Shuang Qingqing’s attacks, but her puppets corroded his legs while dozens of flying swords pursued him.
• Calamity Son used Taiji Roundness Unloading Force to deflect the swords, but one unusually powerful puppet sword pierced his defenses and severed his arm.
• Poison in Calamity Son’s blood corroded the sword, while his green mucus stopped its next strike near his head.
• Shuang Qingqing revealed that Bai Rou was helping control the powerful sword puppet and that she had enhanced her Flying Sword Puppet Arts with poison and formation methods inspired by Arhat Statues.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou coordinated a layered attack that broke through Calamity Son’s defenses and destroyed his body. Calamity Son escaped as a Nascent Soul, but the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix struck the space where he was teleporting.

• Shuang Qingqing explained how her Nether Mountain puppets weakened Calamity Son before Bai Rou led the special Flying Sword Puppets’ compounded strike.
• Bai Rou pierced Calamity Son’s defenses twice, while the Nether Mountain puppets sent black spikes into his legs and disrupted his meridians.
• Shuang Qingqing commanded the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix to attack as Bai Rou’s broken sword struck Calamity Son’s head and destroyed his body.
• Calamity Son escaped as a golden Nascent Soul by teleporting, and the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix fired red light at the wavering space.

Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou killed Calamity Son and his Black-Skinned Bone Serpent, then fled the scene before anyone could arrive. They reunited with Meng Shangmo in a hidden cave hundreds of thousands of li away.

• Calamity Son tried to escape through the void, but Shuang Qingqing's Star-Scar Pursuit trapped and destroyed his Nascent Soul.
• Shuang Qingqing killed the Black-Skinned Bone Serpent with the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix after it fled from her.
• Bai Rou rejoined Shuang Qingqing, who confirmed she was uninjured and acknowledged her help in destroying Calamity Son's body.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou cleared away the traces of the battle and left on the Purple-Winged Ice Phoenix.
• Shuang Qingqing brought Meng Shangmo out of the Spirit Storage Space in a concealed cave, where he recognized her divine sense and remained guarded.

Shuang Qingqing told Meng Shangmo that the Calamity Son was dead, removed the red lotus restriction’s controlling treasure, and helped Meng recover his power. She invited him to return with her and Bai Rou to the Muliu Sect to recover before traveling home to his clan.

• Meng Shangmo woke in a mountain cave, and Shuang Qingqing told him that she had killed the Calamity Son.
• Shuang Qingqing reclaimed the Red Lotus, allowing Meng Shangmo’s Nascent Soul and power to return.
• Meng Shangmo thanked Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou and promised to repay their life-saving grace.
• Meng Shangmo explained that he had survived the Calamity Son’s restriction but lacked the resources and strength to travel back to his clan safely.
• Shuang Qingqing invited Meng Shangmo to accompany her and Bai Rou to the Muliu Sect to recover before continuing home.

Seven years after continuing their journey across the Heavenly Demon Grassland, Li Yan traveled alone through its dangerous central heartland while Qianji cultivated in Tuban. As Li Yan’s Ink Cloud abruptly swerved, an unexpected threat appeared nearby.

• Li Yan and Qianji searched the place where Donglin Tingyue had found Silver Sand, but Li Yan found no trace of the Undying Underworld Phoenix.
• Qianji stopped tempering himself against other Demon Beasts and entered Tuban to cultivate as Li Yan crossed the central grassland.
• Li Yan followed Chi Wu’s maps, avoided areas marked as ninth-rank Demon Beast habitats, and concealed his altered appearance while displaying Integrated Body Early Stage cultivation.
• Li Yan flew over the grassland and observed Demon Beasts and giant ants feeding on their prey below.
• As dusk fell, Li Yan suddenly changed course and veered Ink Cloud to one side.

Li Yan encountered four powerful Demon Cultivators and five disciples emerging from underground amid a fierce battle between two middle Body Integration Realm youths. After the black-robed man announced that he and the white-clad woman had stayed out of the fight and were leaving, Li Yan suspected the combatants were contesting a secret or treasure beneath the grassland.

• A violent clash blasted open a vast crater as the Purple-Robed Youth and Yellow-Robed Youth emerged from underground while fighting.
• The white-clad woman gathered her five Void Refinement Realm disciples into her Spirit Storage Space, and Li Yan revealed his early Body Integration Realm cultivation as the four cultivators watched him.
• Li Yan assessed the combatants, sensed that all four were Demon Cultivators, and searched the crater but found only earth and broken stone.
• The black-robed man said that he and the white-clad woman had been taking their disciples to gain experience, had not joined the fight, and intended to leave.
• Li Yan concluded that the group had emerged from a deeper underground site and suspected the two youths were fighting over a secret or treasure there.

Li Yan escaped the confrontation between Li Jiuchen and Su Wenzhou, but the two cultivators decided to pursue the witnesses and kill them. Su Wenzhou tracked Li Yan until his aura disappeared, while Li Yan turned invisible and followed the Moonlit Spirit Goose cultivators instead.

• The Moonlit Spirit Goose pair and Li Yan withdrew as Li Jiuchen and Su Wenzhou held back from attacking them.
• Li Jiuchen urged Su Wenzhou to kill the departing witnesses before they could reveal the hidden cavern and its treasures.
• Su Wenzhou agreed to settle his debt with Li Jiuchen later and pursued Li Yan, while Li Jiuchen went after the man and woman.
• Li Yan detected the pursuit, vanished using his concealment ability, and changed direction to follow the Moonlit Spirit Goose cultivators.
• Su Wenzhou lost Li Yan's aura and assumed the blue-robed cultivator had erased his tracks out of caution.

Su Wenzhou used the Great Luo Star Eyes to track Li Yan’s concealed movements, while Li Yan decided to turn back and kill the Yellow-Robed Youth for his tracking ability. The Moonlit Spirit Goose woman and her companion turned to confront the approaching Li Jiuchen, leaving five disciples behind to watch and defend themselves.

• Su Wenzhou used the Great Luo Star Eyes to spot traces left by Li Yan and pursued him, suspecting he was following the Moonlit Spirit Goose clan.
• Li Yan realized the Yellow-Robed Youth could track his trail, coveted his ability, and chose to turn back and kill him.
• The Moonlit Spirit Goose woman and the black-robed middle-aged man stopped, placed their five Void Refinement Realm disciples behind protective barriers, and flew to meet Li Jiuchen.
• The two Moonlit Spirit Goose cultivators discussed the approaching Yellow-Robed Youth and the troublesome boy in green, who might intercept him.
• Li Jiuchen sensed the Moonlit Spirit Goose woman and her companion turning back and flying toward him.