Recaps

Li Yan revealed that he had recovered from the poison and challenged the Elder Dragon Jiao to continue, forcing him to concede and retreat with the gravely injured Xiye. After the other visitors departed, Xie Fengkai asked Li Yan whether the Elder Dragon Jiao still had poison in his body, and Li Yan confirmed that suppressing it would consume much of his power.

• Li Yan showed the Elder Dragon Jiao two Spirit Recovery Pills and demanded that they continue the contest, while Xiye struggled to react from the ground.
• The Elder Dragon Jiao realized Li Yan had been testing him and that his own nameless pills were gone, then admitted that he and Xiye were no match for Zhang Ming.
• The Elder Dragon Jiao carried Xiye away from the platform, leaving the four visiting cultivators to exchange farewells and depart.
• Xie Fengkai decided to investigate the weakened Ghost Jiao Clan, while Wanxiang declined to join him.
• Xie Fengkai asked Li Yan whether the Elder Dragon Jiao remained poisoned, and Li Yan said suppressing the remaining poison would require thirty to forty percent of his power.

After pretending the poison contest had left him weakened, Li Yan secretly pursued Elder Longjiao, hoping to kill him and the female cultivator while others provided cover. He reached the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan too late, and later learned that Elder Longjiao’s careful precautions had thwarted his plans.

• Xie Fengkai left after Wanxiang and Wancang protected Li Yan from his suspected plan to ambush Elder Longjiao.
• Li Yan returned to his shop, let Su Yuan and Xie Tongyi believe he was purging poison, then secretly vanished to pursue Elder Longjiao.
• Li Yan searched for Elder Longjiao and the other cultivators, intending to strike if their pursuers failed to kill them.
• Li Yan reached the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan and found its Sect Protection Array already activated, with no trace of Elder Longjiao or the others.
• Li Yan later learned from Xie Fengkai at Longhua Temple that Elder Longjiao had prepared a fallback plan against the expected ambush.

Li Yan failed to find the Old Dragon-Floodwyrm or the Ghost Floodwyrm Clan's hidden cultivation grounds, but he resolved to target the clan's Golden Core cultivators. After Xing Ming learned of Zhang Ming's role in the battle, he prepared to go to Sacred Devil City, while Li Yan tested how much his Fragmented Poison Body had advanced.

• The Third Elder of the Four-Eared Ape Clan and another cultivator held off their allies to cover the Old Dragon-Floodwyrm's escape, and the pursuers lost his trail.
• Li Yan learned what had happened from Xie Fengkai and decided to find a way to kill the Ghost Floodwyrm Clan's two Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Yan searched the Ghost Floodwyrm Clan's grounds but could not locate the Old Dragon-Floodwyrm or the female Golden Core cultivator's secluded cultivation sites.
• Xing Ming read a report about Zhang Ming's accomplishments and ordered Zhu Luomu to strengthen contact with the Sacred Devil Palace and send back details of the battle.
• Xing Ming decided to travel to Sacred Devil City himself, entrusting Zhu Luomu with sect responsibilities and a token for emergencies.
• Li Yan released a small amount of Fragmented Poison Body toxin, which drained the spirituality from two pots of Purifying Brahma Bamboo, and wondered whether his poison could now threaten Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

Li Yan told Xing Ming that he was a poison cultivator whose body and spiritual power could poison his opponents, and warned that he could not reliably provide antidotes for the sect’s planned poisonous pills. They agreed the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan posed an ongoing threat, and Xing Ming insisted Old Dragon Flood Dragon had to be killed.

• Li Yan anticipated the need to grow stronger so he could find Zhao Min and return home across worlds.
• Xing Ming arrived in Saint Demon City and met Li Yan privately, praising his victory over the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan.
• Li Yan revealed that his cultivation followed a crude poison-cultivation method and explained that he had poisoned the Spirit Restoration Pills with his own spiritual power.
• Li Yan advised the sect to make its own poisonous pills for the Holy Devil Palace because most poisons he made would have no antidote.
• Li Yan told Xing Ming he had secretly visited the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan but found no chance to attack because its defenses were strict.
• Xing Ming recounted Old Dragon Flood Dragon’s decades-long pursuit and eventual murder of a former rival, then agreed that he had to be eliminated.

Li Yan cultivated his dealings with the Holy Devil Palace while investigating the Ghost Wyrm Clan’s hidden lairs and sharing knowledge with Xing Ming. After testing Li Yan’s poison pills and growing closer to him, the palace’s Chu began discussing body cultivation, giving Li Yan an opening to pursue his plan.

• Li Yan asked Xing Ming for cultivation guidance, and their discussions gave both cultivators new insights into each other’s knowledge.
• Li Yan investigated the Ghost Wyrm Clan while Xing Ming reported that Elder Dragon Wyrm and Xi Ye remained hidden in one of several heavily guarded locations.
• Su Yuan completed Falling Star Valley’s arrangements with the Holy Devil Palace after the Ghost Wyrm Clan delivered two overdue batches of pills.
• Li Yan gave Chu poison pills, and Chu secretly tested one on a condemned Black Devil Race cultivator, who died within fifteen minutes and dissolved into foul water.
• Chu grew closer to Li Yan through discussions of cultivation, and Li Yan began talking about the Devil Race’s innate advantages in body refinement as he prepared to test his plan.

Li Yan used a fabricated tale about the Ice Soul Blue Jade Body to learn that Zhao Min was probably in the Holy Devil Palace. He left with his identity and location still unknown to her, and wondered how to make contact.

• Li Yan described a supposed encounter with an Ice Soul Blue Jade Body to the Chu-surnamed cultivator, who revealed that his master sought someone with that constitution.
• The Chu-surnamed cultivator questioned Li Yan about the encounter and promised favors in exchange for secrecy, then went to report the news to his master.
• After the Chu-surnamed cultivator left, Li Yan concluded that Zhao Min was almost certainly in the Holy Devil Palace and returned to his shop.
• Li Yan reviewed how he had carefully provoked the Chu-surnamed cultivator's reaction to confirm his suspicion about Zhao Min.
• Li Yan realized he could not find Zhao Min directly and would have to wait for her to use the Heart-Tangling Twin-Bloom Gu to sense him.

Li Yan deliberately wounded himself to trigger the Heart-Twining Twin-Born Gu and let Zhao Min sense his location, allowing the two long-separated disciples to reunite. They learned of each other’s ordeals and concluded that escaping the Lost Continent and the Holy Devil Palace would require finding a way to use the cross-realm teleportation array.

• Li Yan reasoned that Zhao Min might be in secluded cultivation, then injured his heart to make the Heart-Twining Twin-Born Gu signal a deathly crisis.
• Zhao Min sensed Li Yan’s peril, verified that the Gu had returned to calm, and realized that he had finally come near her.
• Li Yan recovered and opened his room to Zhao Min, who entered and reunited with him under the night sky.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min exchanged accounts of their years apart and discussed their need to escape the Holy Devil Palace’s control.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min determined that the cross-realm teleportation array was their only known route off the Lost Continent, but they lacked the spirit stones and Nascent Soul protection needed to use it safely.

Li Yan and Zhao Min discussed using the Black Devil Race's Divine Road to escape the Lost Continent, and Li Yan assured her that his spatial treasure could hide her from Spirit Transformation cultivators. After Zhao Min returned to the Holy Demon Palace, Dongli Qing encountered her and suspected she had secretly met someone.

• Zhao Min told Li Yan about the Divine Road as a possible route out of the Lost Continent, and he agreed they should investigate it further.
• Li Yan assured Zhao Min that his spatial magical treasure could conceal her from Spirit Transformation cultivators, and she chose to trust him.
• Zhao Min gave Li Yan sound transmission talismans, and they agreed on coded phrases for secret communication.
• Zhao Min decided to leave the Heart-Twining Twin-Bloom Gu in place after Li Yan said it let him know whether she was safe.
• Zhao Min returned to the Holy Demon Palace, where Dongli Qing intercepted her and questioned where she had been.
• After Zhao Min left without answering him, Dongli Qing suspected she had secretly met someone.

Li Yan and Zhao Min confirmed that the Black Devil Race’s Divine Road was too heavily guarded for them to use, while the remaining interrealm teleportation array required resources they could not obtain. Li Yan urged Zhao Min not to give up and to keep investigating, as she hinted that she had another concern to discuss.

• Dongli Qing failed to find Zhao Min after she left the Holy Devil Palace, then resolved to watch her more closely and discover whom she was meeting.
• Li Yan spent another year in Holy Devil City investigating passages between realms with Zhao Min and gathering information about the Divine Road.
• Zhao Min used her connection to Shangguan Changge to confirm that even Nascent Soul cultivators could not approach the Black Devil Race’s Divine Road without being detected by its Spirit Transformation guards.
• Zhao Min told Li Yan that the interrealm teleportation array was also out of reach because they lacked top-grade and high-grade spirit stones and a suitable defensive treasure.
• Li Yan encouraged Zhao Min to continue searching for answers beyond the known routes, then asked whether her actions had been discovered.

Li Yan told Zhao Min his conjecture that ancient teleportation passages had once connected the Lost Continent and the Qingqing Continent, supporting it with an ancient damaged jade slip. Zhao Min revealed that Dongli Qing’s disciple had followed her, leaving their secret meetings at greater risk, but agreed to investigate the passage records further.

• Li Yan examined an incomplete ancient jade slip that supported his theory that multiple cross-realm teleportation arrays had existed during the ancient war.
• Zhao Min told Li Yan that Dongli Qing had sent a disciple named Dongli Qing’s disciple to follow her, and that she had confronted him and warned Dongli Qing through him.
• Zhao Min explained that Dongli Qing might personally follow her next time, making it dangerous for her to meet Li Yan, and suggested they exchange information less frequently.
• Li Yan gave Zhao Min the damaged jade slip and explained his theory about hidden passages between the realms.
• Zhao Min agreed to search broader historical records for information about the passages and why they might have been destroyed or concealed.

Li Yan and Zhao Min considered whether hidden passages between realms could offer a way off the Lost Continent, then agreed to cultivate quietly. After refining the Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence during a two-year seclusion, Li Yan reached the peak of the early Golden Core stage and learned Zhao Min had found leads, but he secretly resumed his plan; eight months later, Su Yuan visited the prospering shop.

• Li Yan agreed that records of other passages between realms might have been erased, and Zhao Min left to investigate the leads in the damaged jade slip.
• Li Yan told Zhao Min he would enter seclusion and urged her to investigate quietly; after she left, he activated the Great Dragon-Elephant Array and refined the blood essence.
• Two years later, Li Yan emerged with his cultivation at the peak of the early Golden Core stage and his Qiongqi Purgatory Art at the peak of the early third level.
• Li Yan decoded Zhao Min's message that she had found leads and learned from Xingming that Old Dragon Wyrm had resurfaced, collected pills, and disappeared again.
• Li Yan decided not to reply to Zhao Min or Xingming and silently left the shop to carry out his plan without telling Zhao Min.
• Eight months later, Su Yuan visited the rear courtyard as the shop's business continued to thrive through its ties with the Holy Devil Palace.

Su Yuan delivered a message from the sect master to Zhang Ming, who had disappeared from his room, while Zhao Min received a transmission that left her distressed. A stooped old man in a bamboo hat entered Saint Demon City and secretly sent a message from an alley, leaving Zhao Min gripping her talisman in the Holy Devil Palace.

• Su Yuan recalled the sect’s growing profits, his reward with Xie Tongyi, and their search for a lean-faced cultivator before bringing the sect master’s jade slip to Zhang Ming.
• Su Yuan found Zhang Ming’s room empty and returned to the shop without delivering the message.
• Zhao Min received a voice transmission, read it, and murmured in distress about her junior brother.
• A stooped old man in gray entered Saint Demon City through its southern gate and paid for a temporary token.
• The old man reached a secluded alley near the eastern gate and sent a voice transmission talisman.
• Zhao Min stared toward a direction inside the Holy Devil Palace and repeatedly tightened her grip on the talisman.

Zhao Min secretly met a disguised old man in Holy Demon City while Zuo Qing followed her. Zuo Qing tried to capture the man, but the man escaped using his true form and a defensive treasure, leaving him to flee toward the eastern city gate.

• Zuo Qing learned that Zhao Min had left the Holy Demon Palace and personally followed her out of the city.
• Zhao Min evaded pursuit through the city and exchanged messages with a hunched old man in a remote alley using a jade slip.
• After Zhao Min left, Zuo Qing confronted the old man and tried to seize him for questioning.
• The old man escaped Zuo Qing's grasp by revealing a black flood dragon form and using a defensive magic treasure.
• The injured old man disguised himself again, concealed the blood he had spat out, and hurried toward the eastern city gate.

Li Yan fled Holy Demon City after Dongli Qing wounded him and pursued him, using a piece of the True Essence Pill to heal his shattered sea of consciousness. Once he escaped on Cloud-Piercing Willow, Dongli Qing abandoned his original suspicions and pursued him out of greed for the flying treasure.

• Dongli Qing pursued the stooped old man in gray toward the east gate, convinced he was hiding a secret connected to Zhao Min.
• Li Yan left Holy Demon City on Cloud-Piercing Willow and used a small piece of the True Essence Pill to heal his soul and sea of consciousness.
• Li Yan resolved to continue his plan against the powerful cultivator who had disrupted his connection with Zhao Min.
• Li Yan drove Cloud-Piercing Willow at full power and rapidly pulled away from Dongli Qing.
• Dongli Qing recognized Cloud-Piercing Willow as a Nascent Soul-grade flying treasure and chased Li Yan out of greed.

Zhao Min followed Li Yan’s plan to draw Dongli Qing away while Li Yan fled into a trap-filled cave. Dongli Qing broke through the cave’s concealment and pursued him, but the chapter ended as the traps continued to slow him.

• Dongli Qing pursued Li Yan, intent on capturing him and discovering the source of his treasures, while Zhao Min hid her concern and acted as though they were strangers.
• Zhao Min remembered how Li Yan had persuaded her to follow the plan, promising he could escape or hide in a special space.
• Li Yan led Dongli Qing into a forest, where Dongli Qing found and destroyed the concealed entrance to a cave.
• Dongli Qing raced through the cave, breaking its weak formations and evading crude traps as he tracked Li Yan.
• Dongli Qing reached a bend and grabbed the stone wall for support after flicking away a hanging vine noose.

Li Yan’s poison overwhelmed Dongli Qing, who became convinced the Black Devil Race had set a trap for him before losing his reason to murderous rage. Li Yan escaped deep underground while Dongli Qing’s rampage brought down the mountain range.

• Li Yan noticed Dongli Qing’s condition worsening as the poison spread through his body and damaged his nascent soul.
• Dongli Qing blamed the Black Devil Race for the attack and realized he needed to report the plot to his race.
• The poison clouded Dongli Qing’s mind and filled him with an urge to kill every living creature nearby.
• Li Yan tossed an inanimate object aside and used earth escape to burrow deep underground.
• Dongli Qing attacked a spider, and the resulting explosions and collapse drew the attention of nearby cultivators.

Shangguan Changge and three other Holy Devil Palace Nascent Soul cultivators investigated a violent disturbance near Holy Devil City and discovered that Dongli Qing had died from Li Yan’s poison trap. They found no attacker nearby and wondered whether a powerful cultivator had escaped or concealed themselves.

• Cultivators rushed toward the collapsed mountain range, but Senior Brother Yang warned them away by revealing the power of Holy Devil Palace’s Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Shangguan Changge and three White Devil Race Nascent Soul cultivators searched the devastated area and sensed Dongli Qing’s aura fading.
• Dongli Qing, poisoned by Li Yan’s trap and left without enough power to escape, wrote “Black Devil... flood dragon... flee...” before dying.
• Shangguan Changge and the others identified Dongli Qing’s ruined corpse and feared that his killer had been powerful enough to prevent his Nascent Soul from escaping.
• The four searched the area but found no other Nascent Soul cultivator, and Shangguan Changge dismissed the possibility that a Spirit Transformation cultivator had appeared.

Four Nascent Soul cultivators investigated Dongli Qing’s poisoned corpse, interpreted his last message as implicating the Black Devil Race and a flood dragon, and ordered a broad search. Zhao Min sensed a Spirit Transformation elder’s fury and worried about Li Yan, unaware that he had killed Dongli Qing.

• The four Nascent Soul cultivators examined Dongli Qing’s corpse and concluded that a carefully timed ambush had killed him with poison.
• They verified that Dongli Qing had written the bloodied message, then interpreted “Black Devil... flood dragon... fled...” as a clue to his attackers.
• Shangguan Changge identified the nearby Ghost Flood Dragon Clan as especially suspicious and proposed reporting to the Dongli branch, preserving the scene, and investigating the area.
• The handsome young man proposed seizing and Soul Searching nearby cultivators, and the four divided their tasks before a Spirit Transformation elder’s fury erupted from the Sacred Devil Palace.
• Zhao Min sensed the outburst from the Dongli branch and worried that Li Yan had been injured or captured, not realizing he had killed Dongli Qing.

Shangguan Changge realized Dongli Qing’s dying clue could expose Zhao Min, so she manipulated the investigation and concealed Zhao Min’s connection to him. She left to report Dongli Qing’s death, determined to protect Zhao Min and preserve her own plans.

• Shangguan Changge steered the other three Nascent Soul cultivators toward a harmless explanation of Dongli Qing’s final message and volunteered to report his death to the Dongli lineage.
• Shangguan Changge questioned Dongli Qing’s five disciples and learned that he had pursued Zhao Min outside the palace.
• Shangguan Changge used a divine ability to alter the disciples’ memories, making them believe Dongli Qing had pursued a suspected Black Devil Race spy.
• Shangguan Changge entered the Dongli lineage’s forbidden grounds, where boundless fury erupted, then flew out of Holy Devil City after the aura.
• Shangguan Changge resolved to protect Zhao Min, believing she was no spy and that her safety was essential to her own future plans.

Shangguan Changge investigated Dongli Qing’s death and concealed Zhao Min’s traces while Li Yan hid underground and reviewed his assassination plan. Over the following years, Li Yan prepared an ambush near Holy Devil City and tested his illusion poison on powerful cultivators, leaving a string of disappearances unnoticed.

• Shangguan Changge concluded that Zhao Min’s identity was not a problem, erased traces linking her to Dongli Qing’s death, and decided to investigate Zhao Min further in secret.
• Li Yan hid inside Tuban underground near the ambush site and checked his actions for anything that might endanger himself or Zhao Min.
• Li Yan recalled how he had planned to poison and ambush Dongli Qing, then spent more than two years refining Undying Nether Phoenix blood essence before proceeding with the plan.
• Li Yan surveyed three possible ambush locations near Holy Devil City’s east gate and studied the gates and devil guard army’s arrangements.
• Li Yan spent over four months testing illusion poison on Golden Core and false Nascent Soul cultivators, narrowly surviving several battles with backup poisons.
• Li Yan secretly challenged powerful cultivators across the Lost Continent, and none of his opponents survived or left behind a trace.

Li Yan completed his years-long poison ambush and killed Dongli Qing, but the Holy Devil Palace blamed the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan and exterminated it. Far away on another continent, a figure emerged from two ice peaks laughing.

• Li Yan prepared a vast cave ambush with hidden traps and carefully tested poisons, then persuaded Zhao Min to help lure Dongli Qing into it.
• Li Yan triggered the illusion poison as Dongli Qing approached, endured the backlash, and used Cloud-Piercing Willow to reach the cave.
• Dongli Qing unknowingly contacted the traps and poisons throughout the cave, and the toxins overwhelmed him and killed him.
• Shangguan Changge found a tattered corpse in the mountains, while the Holy Devil Palace accused the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan of colluding with the Black Devil Race and exterminated the clan.
• Shangguan Changge questioned whether the Black Devil Race assassin had truly existed, while Zhao Min’s identity remained absent from the clan’s memories.
• On a distant continent, a figure surged out between two ice peaks and laughed aloud.

A gray-robed old man escaped an ancient deathtrap and wondered about the fate of Li Yan and the Gui Water Immortal Sect’s other possible successors. Meanwhile, Li Wei’s family worried over Li Yan’s long absence, and Li Yan returned to Holy Demon City after learning that Dongli Qing had died and the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan had been wiped out.

• The gray-robed old man reached a new world after being trapped for three hundred and ten thousand years and planned to search for exceptional spirit roots and an heir.
• Li Wei and Li Wenwu unloaded the final cart of rice, and Wenwu told his father that Grandpa Guoxin had been injured by a deer while hunting.
• Li Wei warned Wenwu not to mention Li Yan because the subject distressed Li Wei’s parents, then privately wondered whether his missing brother was dead or alive.
• Xiao Yu told Li Wei that their children were visiting his parents, whose health and grief over Li Yan had worsened.
• Li Yan returned to Holy Demon City after evading pursuit and heard that Dongli Qing had died and the Ghost Flood Dragon Clan had been destroyed.
• Li Yan returned to the shop, where his expression shifted as he sat deep in thought.

Li Yan left Holy Demon City to return to his sect after receiving Star Mantis's summons, while Zhao Min remained trapped inside the sealed city and could not contact him. On the road, Li Yan noticed a distant battle involving human cultivators and stopped when he recognized them.

• Su Yuan delivered Star Mantis's jade-slip summons, and Li Yan decided to return to his sect while keeping his room ready for Zhao Min.
• Li Yan sent Zhao Min a coded message that he would be away, but she could not reply because Holy Demon Palace had sealed its exits after Dongli Qing's death.
• Li Yan passed the guards' checks and left Holy Demon City, then traveled south on the Cloud-Piercing Willow.
• Li Yan sensed a fight six hundred li away, recognized the combatants as human cultivators, and stopped to observe.
• Shuang Lianzhou tried to protect his unconscious wife and return to help a wounded gray-robed elder fighting two men and a tiger.

Li Yan appeared during the cultivator Ma and his companion’s attack on Old Ghost Shuang’s family, interrupting their attempt to force him to surrender the Divine Ju Technique. The two attackers could not discern Li Yan’s cultivation, and Ma cautiously addressed him while hoping to retain his advantage.

• The gray-robed old man’s lapse let the green-robed cultivator kill the red tiger, while Shuang Lianzhou returned to fight beside his father and the Three-Legged Azure Luan carried away his pregnant wife.
• Ma sealed the gray-robed old man’s spiritual power and threatened his family, while the green-robed cultivator wounded and subdued Shuang Lianzhou.
• Ma returned with Shuang Lianzhou’s pregnant wife and threatened to torture her and her unborn child as the green-robed cultivator began cutting Shuang Lianzhou’s neck.
• Li Yan’s voice interrupted the attackers, and he emerged from the darkness beside the gray-robed old man.
• Ma and the green-robed cultivator failed to detect Li Yan’s cultivation, and Ma cautiously asked whether he knew the Shuang family.

Li Yan exposed the value of the Divine Puppet Art while recognizing that Old Ghost Shuang was concealing the full strength of his puppet craft. Ma and the tall, thin cultivator launched a coordinated attack on Shuang Lianzhou’s family, but the chapter ended as Li Yan’s power suddenly slowed their spiritual energy.

• The gray-robed old man explained that the Divine Puppet Art was his family’s puppet-making inheritance and that the red tiger and Three-Legged Azure Luan were his creations.
• Li Yan saw through the old man’s attempt to hide the red tiger puppet’s true strength and judged that its combat power could approach the Golden Core Realm.
• Ma and the tall, thin cultivator realized the art’s value had been exposed and decided to kill Shuang Lianzhou’s family before fleeing.
• Ma attacked the pregnant woman and sent his broad-bladed saber toward Li Yan while the tall, thin cultivator struck at Shuang Lianzhou and the gray-robed old man.
• As the two cultivators launched their attack, the space around them tightened and their surging spiritual power slowed.