Recaps

Li Yan was trapped in a glacier formation by a middle seventh-tier serpentine Demon Beast and realized the creature had mistaken him for Bai Yan and Chi Wu. As the Demon Beast assessed him, its scheme became clear: it had lured the fox couple with false information about the Frost Marrow Jade Crystal Branch and prepared the trap to kill them, but Li Yan had arrived instead.

• Li Yan emerged inside the formation, judged the serpentine Demon Beast to be middle seventh tier, and found that his attempt to escape had failed.
• The Demon Beast questioned Li Yan about Bai Yan and Chi Wu, while Li Yan inferred that it had set a trap for the fox couple and mistaken him for them.
• The Demon Beast had planned to kill Bai Yan for his yin fire, blood essence, and soul so it could break through its cultivation bottleneck.
• The Demon Beast had planted false clues about the Frost Marrow Jade Crystal Branch and the Mystic Frost Insect to lure Bai Yan and Chi Wu into its secret realm.
• The Demon Beast waited for thousands of years, convinced its concealed formation would catch the fox couple, and arranged harmless crevasses before the deadly trap to lower an intruder's guard.

Li Yan was caught in the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast’s hidden formation and tried to escape by striking the barrier while keeping the demon at bay. The formation held against his first blow, leaving him to endure its icy attack and continue fighting for a way out.

• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast revealed himself and challenged Li Yan, who apologized and offered to leave while secretly gathering power.
• The demon refused to let Li Yan go and asked him to break the formation trapping him, prompting Li Yan to attack the barrier instead of his captor.
• Li Yan unleashed red spikes from Chi Wu’s bone and struck the formation with Qiongqi’s power, but the barrier withstood his blow.
• The formation’s white light swept toward Li Yan, who activated half a set of True Spirit Armor and launched another barrage of red spikes to keep the demon occupied.

Li Yan attacked the serpentine creature, but its vibrational power disrupted his strength and shattered his defenses, leaving him trapped beneath a barrage of white blades. As he struggled to understand the creature’s technique, he realized its law-turbulence was not Five Elements Chaotic Cloak but the result of extreme compression and vibration.

• Li Yan’s crimson spikes were pulverized by a vibration from the serpentine creature, and a formation blade struck his True Spirit Armor while he was momentarily stunned.
• The serpentine creature combined its innate vibrational power with the formation to disrupt Li Yan’s magical power, physical strength, and soul power, then launched a greatly strengthened white-blade attack.
• The white blade pierced Li Yan’s defenses and cut into his waist, but his Flawguard defense stopped it from penetrating farther.
• The serpentine creature sent more white blades toward Li Yan as the surrounding space compressed and vibrated, leaving him unable to gather his power or retreat.
• Li Yan recognized that the law-turbulence was caused by rapid compression and vibration rather than Five Elements Chaotic Cloak.

Li Yan countered the Serpent-Shaped Monster’s power-disrupting technique by using his nascent soul and the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to restore his strength and interfere with the vibrations. Still trapped and at a disadvantage, he prepared to unleash Prison Breaker at full power to escape the formation.

• Li Yan recognized that violent spatial vibrations were scattering his magical, soul, and physical power, then used his nascent soul to restore control over his magical power.
• Li Yan survived the Serpent-Shaped Monster’s second volley with hastily formed armor, a barrier, and Flawguard.
• The Serpent-Shaped Monster was shocked when Li Yan’s defenses returned and the vibrations began disrupting his innate divine ability.
• Li Yan unleashed the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak, interfering with the monster’s technique but failing to overpower it.
• Believing the formation caused the vibrations, Li Yan decided to break out and prepared to unleash Prison Breaker at full power.

Li Yan used the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and Prison Breaker to escape the serpentine demon’s formation, while the demon misidentified him as a Qiongqi and pursued him for his valuable bloodline. Li Yan tested the demon’s attacks with a length of red bone, then faced three silver arrows appearing at his forehead, dantian, and lower back.

• Li Yan disrupted the serpentine demon’s vibrating formation with the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and broke through it with Prison Breaker, briefly revealing his Qiongqi form.
• The serpentine demon mistook Li Yan for a Qiongqi and chased him, believing his bloodline would be valuable to capture.
• Li Yan retreated along his known route, confirmed that no other demon beasts were nearby, and slowed to confront his pursuer.
• The serpentine demon attacked Li Yan with two fangs, and Li Yan deflected them with a length of red bone while gauging their strength.
• As the serpentine demon prepared a killing move, three silver arrows appeared at his forehead, dantian, and lower back, causing sharp pain.

Li Yan fought the Serpent-Shaped Monster, discovering that its spatial vibrations were the innate ability of an Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast and could disrupt his power while strengthening the demon’s attacks. After escaping a near-fatal ambush, Li Yan weakened the ability with Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and charged back in, while the beast prepared to meet him.

• Li Yan’s Flame-Feather Meteor Arrows struck the Serpent-Shaped Monster by surprise, but its defense stopped them and left it only slightly wounded.
• Li Yan rushed in to press his advantage, but the monster’s spatial vibrations slowed him and scattered his power, allowing its fangs to slash his shoulder and lower back.
• Li Yan used his remaining strength to escape the vibration range, then realized the spatial vibrations were the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast’s innate divine ability rather than the formation.
• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast pursued Li Yan and engulfed him in its vibrations again, but Li Yan used Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to weaken the effect.
• Li Yan turned and charged toward the beast to attack at close range, and the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast welcomed his approach with murderous intent.

Li Yan struggled to escape the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast’s vibration domain, realizing that he could not safely fight the stronger monster at close range. He chose the underground glacier’s complex terrain to evade pursuit and wear down the beast’s power.

• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast intensified its vibrations and attacked Li Yan with its stinger and fangs, but Li Yan blocked the fangs with his hammers and escaped the domain.
• Li Yan fled as the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast pursued him, then concluded that his Five Elements Chaotic Cloak could only weaken the monster’s Divine Ability while his cultivation remained in the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Yan avoided the gorge entrance, where the monster could activate its formations, and plunged into a deep glacial fissure instead.
• Li Yan planned to use his superior movement technique and the glacier’s difficult terrain to evade attacks and exhaust the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast.
• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast followed Li Yan underground and recognized that his caution had kept him from the traps elsewhere in the secret realm.

Li Yan fled through the underground glacier while the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast pursued him, intent on capturing him as a spirit pet. When Li Yan appeared to prepare for a head-on fight, he instead drew the beast into a hidden realm that replaced the ice cave with a starry mass grave.

• Li Yan dodged the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast’s attacks through the glacier, but could not widen the distance between them.
• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast grew eager to capture Li Yan and study what he believed was Qiongqi bloodline and abilities.
• Li Yan stopped in a deep ice cave and rejected the beast’s offer to make him a spirit pet.
• When the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast unleashed his vibration ability, Li Yan rushed deeper into the cave instead of confronting him.
• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast sensed danger, then found that Li Yan and the ice cave had vanished, leaving him in a desolate starry realm filled with graves.

Li Yan tricked the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast into entering the Great Annihilation Star-Burial Diagram, where the formation sealed the beast’s vibration divine ability and tore into his body. Li Yan appeared after the beast’s resistance faded and began attacking him, while the formation threatened to turn his soul into another ghost star.

• The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast mistook Li Yan’s lingering killing intent for a sign of his presence and rushed into the formation’s burial ground.
• Li Yan used the Great Annihilation Star-Burial Diagram, fueled by a hundred supreme-grade spirit stones, to trap the beast beneath its blood-red stars.
• Ten red beams sealed the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast’s vibration divine ability as claws shattered his protective barrier and wounded him with poison.
• Li Yan observed that the formation would refine the beast’s soul into a slaughtering ghost star when he died.
• As the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast’s consciousness blurred, Li Yan appeared and struck him repeatedly with streams of force, making his head drop.

Li Yan used a Soul Search on Xiu Han and learned that the secret realm was his private lair, that he had leaked the false Frost Marrow Jade Crystal Branch information to lure Bai Yan and Chi Wu, and why he had mistaken Li Yan for a demon. After dismissing the formation, Li Yan brought out the badly injured Xiu Han and began another, more thorough Soul Search.

• Li Yan waited inside the Great Annihilation Star-Burial Diagram while his Divine Thought avatar searched Xiu Han, then absorbed the avatar's findings.
• Li Yan confirmed that Xiu Han was the only Demon Beast in the secret realm and that he had hidden it as a private cultivation refuge and treasure cache.
• Li Yan learned that Xiu Han had leaked the Frost Marrow Jade Crystal Branch information to lure Bai Yan and Chi Wu, hoping to use Bai Yan's cultivation and blood essence to break through.
• Li Yan discovered that Xiu Han had recognized the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak from clan records but had later suspected Li Yan was a Qiongqi or related demon after seeing him manifest Qiongqi.
• Li Yan dismissed the formation, brought out the unconscious and gravely wounded Xiu Han, and began another Soul Search using methods to verify his memories.

Li Yan settled the Snow Mosquito clan in the secret realm and inspected it with Qianji to ensure it was safe. He left Xiu Han alive as a soul slave to guard the realm, while Qianji delighted in his new home and imagined uniting the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• Li Yan and Qianji inspected the secret realm, including the lake, while Li Yan worried he might have missed dangers in Xiu Han's memories.
• Qianji assigned the Snow Mosquito clan territories in the realm, with the richest area serving as his palace.
• Li Yan and Qianji recalled how Li Yan had chosen Qianji from a swarm of low-stage Snow Mosquitoes and helped the clan find a home.
• Li Yan flew off with Qianji and the black-robed Xiu Han, whom Li Yan had made a soul slave to guard the secret realm.
• Qianji joked that Li Yan's discerning eye might help him unite the Immortal Spirit Realm, then followed him into the snow with Xiu Han.

Li Yan arranged for Xiu Han to protect Qianji and the Snow Mosquito Clan, using soul arts to bind Xiu Han to his commands while preserving his strongest ability. After exploring the secret realm and warning Qianji about its dangerous cold spring, Li Yan began cultivating in an underground glacier to protect the clan as Qianji settled into leadership.

• Li Yan decided Qianji should remain in the secret realm to cultivate and lead the Snow Mosquito Clan, with Xiu Han staying to guard him.
• Li Yan removed one of Xiu Han's corporeal souls, made him his own soul slave, and ordered him to obey Qianji and protect him; Xiu Han's cultivation fell but he retained enough strength to defend the clan.
• Li Yan gave Qianji one of Xiu Han's drops of essence blood, divided into a hundred portions, and warned him to refine it gradually.
• Li Yan and Qianji explored the secret realm and discovered that a cold spring became lethally cold for living beings below four hundred zhang, though it could help cultivators break through.
• Li Yan tested the cold spring beyond its dangerous depth and found he could withstand it as a Body Integration Realm cultivator.
• Li Yan entered an underground glacier to cultivate while protecting the Snow Mosquito Clan, leaving Qianji with Xiu Han and the secret realm's defensive formations.

Li Yan refined Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast Essence Blood, gained the Nine Heavens Shaking Divine Ability, and spent years comprehending the Gui Water True Scripture until it advanced to the Body Integration Realm. He examined the new continuations of his cultivation methods and remained in seclusion, with his plans for Ding Shuying still ahead.

• Li Yan refined one drop of Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast Essence Blood and gained the Nine Heavens Shaking Divine Ability, then refined a second drop without awakening another ability.
• Li Yan practiced Nine Heavens Shaking and compared its effects with the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak, entering a prolonged state of comprehension.
• After more than eleven years, Li Yan formed the Five-Element Wheel and advanced the Gui Water True Scripture to the Body Integration Realm without undergoing another Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Yan examined the expanded Gui Water True Scripture and found new continuations for his cultivation methods, including Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos and Stealth Night Concealment.
• Li Yan decided to keep the Wing Guard Dharma Treasure for now and planned to bring Ding Shuying back to the Five Immortals Sect later.

Li Yan advanced his understanding of the Gui Water True Scripture and learned that its ultimate technique, “Gui Water Without a Trace,” tied his bonded Dharma Treasures to the pursuit of eternal life. He tested his newly revealed Body Integration Realm techniques and detected that “Nine Heavens Shaking” had subtly influenced “Five Elements Chaotic Cloak.”

• Li Yan learned that “Soul-Seizing Killing” had advanced into “Gui Water Without a Trace,” the Gui Water Immortal Sect’s ultimate technique for its bonded Dharma Treasures.
• Li Yan discovered that he had to refine his two Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to the “Void-and-Real Shadowless Stage” and “Departing Dragon Stage” before dissolving them into his Nascent Soul at the “Formless Stage.”
• Li Yan realized that the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike’s artifact-refining verse had long foreshadowed the technique’s ultimate stages and the sect’s pursuit of eternal life.
• Li Yan speculated that Dong Fuyi had likely reached no further than the “Void-and-Real Shadowless Stage” with his bonded Dharma Treasure.
• Li Yan tested the new incantations for “Five Elements Chaotic Cloak” and observed the Five Elements Laws distorting the ice cave without damaging it.
• Li Yan sensed the faint vibration of “Nine Heavens Shaking” within “Five Elements Chaotic Cloak” and connected their appearance to his breakthrough in the Gui Water True Scripture.

Li Yan broke through in spell cultivation but discovered that “Nine Heavens Shaking” and “Five Elements Chaotic Cloak” were beginning to merge, leaving him uncertain whether their power would strengthen or cancel out. He left the secret realm after confirming Qianji’s preparations were progressing, while Qianji continued organizing and providing for the Snow Mosquito Clan.

• Li Yan tested both techniques and found that each had begun to show traces of the other, worrying that their merging might weaken or destroy one of his important abilities.
• Li Yan reflected on how the Heavenly Demon Grassland had exposed the limits of relying on body cultivation and decided to continue cultivating the two techniques before judging their effects.
• Li Yan gathered his formation flags, left his cultivation site, and used his Divine Sense to confirm that Qianji’s work across the secret realm was proceeding in an orderly manner.
• Qianji held a meeting in the ice palace, where elders reported on the Snow Mosquito Clan’s branches and their preparations for self-sufficiency.
• Qianji maintained Li Yan’s system of regular reports as the clan expanded its spirit fields and used Li Yan’s supplies and spirit stones to support its growth.
• Two of Qianji’s dao companions, who had long been at the Nascent Soul Late Stage, had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm over the preceding years.

Qianji managed the Snow Mosquito Clan as its members grew rapidly in strength, then reunited with Li Yan, who checked on the clan and prepared to leave. Li Yan departed with Qianji remaining behind, armed with plans and safeguards to protect the clan.

• Qianji ruled the Snow Mosquito Clan with strict monthly audiences and executed five Nascent Soul Realm elders who had concealed information and stolen clan resources.
• Li Yan appeared after Qianji dismissed the clan elders, and Qianji greeted him warmly and told him about the clan’s progress.
• Li Yan learned that the secret realm was stable and that no powerful enemies had attacked, then spent several days preparing to leave.
• Li Yan and Qianji emerged from the secret realm onto the Heavenly Demon Grassland, where Li Yan ordered Qianji to return and explained how to flee and contact the Pojun Sect if the clan faced disaster.
• Qianji stayed behind despite wanting to accompany Li Yan, confident that the Snow Mosquito Clan would thrive with the poisons and formations Li Yan had left to protect it.

Li Yan left Qianji after reinforcing the Snow Mosquito clan’s secret realm and set out for the Pojun Sect, avoiding the dangerous territory of the Ink-Blood Thunder Roc clan. During the journey, he tested how his blue-green cauldron affected the small dark-yellow cauldron, which began changing as it absorbed the larger cauldron’s power.

• Li Yan prepared Qianji to destroy the secret realm’s formations and escape through its teleportation array if the clan faced disaster, then departed after encouraging Qianji to grow stronger.
• Li Yan traveled toward the Pojun Sect, avoided investigating the Ink-Blood Thunder Roc clan’s territory, and escaped fights with Demon Race clans along the way.
• Li Yan examined the walnut-sized dark-yellow cauldron and recalled that it could conceal a Nascent Soul and nourish it during its first visits.
• Li Yan tested the blue-green cauldron and found that it drained most living beings and spiritual objects but nurtured wood-attribute treasures and spirit plants at the cost of its own spiritual energy.
• Li Yan placed Clear Luminous Silk in the blue-green cauldron, where it grew nearly undetectable threads, then put the dark-yellow cauldron inside it and observed the inner forest’s trees turning crystalline.