Recaps

Li Yan encountered Mu Guyue, the Nascent Soul Devil general he had once escaped, inside the cave dwelling. Mu Guyue attacked as Li Yan fled toward the entrance, and the chapter ended with him racing to escape her pursuit.

• Mu Guyue recognized Li Yan and decided to capture him and search his soul for information about their location.
• Li Yan sensed danger in the spirit plant garden and turned to leave, but Mu Guyue appeared and confronted him.
• Li Yan recognized Mu Guyue as the Devil general who had guarded Nameless Mountain and fled using Phoenix Soars to Heaven.
• Mu Guyue pursued Li Yan and slashed at him, but he narrowly evaded the attack and suffered a scalp wound.
• Li Yan pushed his movement technique to its limit and raced toward the cave dwelling's entrance, hoping to use the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief to escape.

Li Yan and Mu Guyue’s battle was disrupted when Mu Guyue’s suppressed lust poison overwhelmed them both, leaving them unable to control themselves. Li Yan awoke beneath a courtyard vine trellis beside the sleeping Mu Guyue, with the events of the night returning to him.

• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike and tried to deliver his Fragmented Poison Body at close range, but Mu Guyue knocked him away.
• Mu Guyue’s body erupted with heat and she breathed pale-red vapor onto Li Yan, while the poison also sent both their spiritual power and demonic power out of control.
• As Mu Guyue’s attacks weakened, Li Yan struck her wrists and knocked away her crescent hand-guard blades before her kick sent him into the spell restriction.
• Overcome by the lust poison, Li Yan and Mu Guyue lost their remaining clarity and became physically intimate.
• Li Yan awoke beneath a vine trellis beside the sleeping, unclothed Mu Guyue and remembered what had happened.

Li Yan escaped Yuheng Cave after waking beside the still-sleeping female demon general, then searched the neighboring cave dwellings for Xing Ming and Feng Moru. He found them trapped in Flowing Wave Cave and prepared to lead them out, fearing the demon general would soon break free.

• Li Yan found himself unharmed beside the sleeping female demon general, grabbed his storage items, and fled through the cave dwelling gate using the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief and Night Concealment Stealth.
• Li Yan emerged from Yuheng Cave, found the plaza empty, and tried the gates of Heaven Spirit Cave and Flowing Wave Cave with the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief.
• Li Yan entered Flowing Wave Cave and sensed Xing Ming and Feng Moru inside, then summoned the Snow Mosquito King and ordered it to use the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief when signaled.
• Xing Ming and Feng Moru, trapped in the empty cave dwelling for more than two days, received Li Yan's voice transmission and hurried to meet him.
• Li Yan urged Xing Ming and Feng Moru to leave immediately, warning that a terrifying existence could escape, while Feng Moru asked how they could get past the sealed exit.

Li Yan escaped the deep-sea cave abode with Xing Ming and Feng Moru, then swore a blood oath with them to keep its secrets hidden. Mu Guyue awoke after the encounter in Jade Balance Cave, weak and consumed by shame and murderous intent toward Li Yan.

• Li Yan led Xing Ming and Feng Moru out of the cave abode, concealed the opened restriction, and returned the Snow Mosquito King to its mysterious space.
• Meng Zhiyuan discovered the escape too late and feared that stronger cultivators would return to threaten his clansmen.
• Li Yan, Xing Ming, and Feng Moru reached the surface, agreed to conceal what they had found beneath the sea, and sealed their pact with a blood oath.
• Feng Moru left to recover, while Xing Ming and Li Yan discussed how they would explain Xuancai Jun's matter to Six Plates Hall.
• Mu Guyue awoke in Jade Balance Cave with little spiritual power and recalled what had happened, then resolved to kill Li Yan.

After fleeing the hidden cave, Li Yan left Mu Guyue behind, but she recovered, uncovered clues about his sect, and tried unsuccessfully to break into the Heavenly Spirit Cave. Four days later, Xing Ming and Li Yan returned to Starfall Valley, where Li Yan went straight to heal his wounds.

• Mu Guyue considered killing Li Yan but watched him flee without detecting any killing intent from him.
• Mu Guyue broke Li Yan's Storage Pouch imprint, searched his belongings, and learned that he was a Wangliang Sect cultivator who had come to the Lost Continent.
• A day later, Mu Guyue attacked the Heavenly Spirit Cave's restriction for several hours but could not break through, then concealed the underwater mountain peak with a formation.
• Meng Zhiyuan and his companions sealed the restricted area's connection to the outside world after Mu Guyue appeared, while Meng feared the danger to his clan.
• Four days later, Xing Ming and Li Yan returned to Starfall Valley, and Li Yan went directly to his cave abode to heal his wounds.

Li Yan analyzed his encounter with Mu Guyue, concluded her love poison had likely erupted accidentally, and checked his body for hidden dangers before meditating. At Falling Star Valley, Shuang Chongshan agreed to refine an early-stage intermediate puppet for the sect, and he went to meet a visitor after the materials arrived.

• Li Yan reasoned that Mu Guyue had been injured and afflicted with love poison, then inspected his body thoroughly and sent a sect transmission talisman.
• Zhu Luomu asked Shuang Chongshan to refine a mid-stage intermediate puppet, but Shuang Chongshan explained the difficulty and agreed to make an early-stage one.
• Shuang Chongshan kept to himself at Falling Star Valley while Shuang Lianzhou worked in the Shattered Star Chamber and Ming Ling cultivated in her room.
• Shuang Chongshan sensed a visitor, used his star-shaped token, and went toward the hall, pleased that the sect had prepared the puppet materials in only three days.

Li Yan questioned Shuang Chongshan about the Duye Clan’s formation experts, then revealed that he had captured Shuang Chongshan’s Fourth Aunt, a female cultivator surnamed Yang. After reuniting them, Li Yan heard Yang explain her connection to a secret cave beneath the sea, leaving her promise to keep its secret unspoken and unverified.

• Zhu Luomu summoned Shuang Chongshan to Li Yan’s cave abode, where Li Yan asked whether the Duye Clan had female Golden Core Realm cultivators skilled in formations.
• Li Yan dropped an unconscious woman before Shuang Chongshan, who recognized her as his Fourth Aunt and begged Li Yan to spare her.
• Li Yan explained that Yang had aided his enemy, but he had only sealed her spiritual power and knocked her unconscious; he let Shuang Chongshan speak with her and warned him not to undo the seal.
• After Yang awakened, Shuang Chongshan left them alone at her request, and Li Yan asked whether she had told him about the secret cave beneath the sea.
• Yang thanked Li Yan for saving Shuang Chongshan’s family and said she would never reveal anything about the secret cave, leaving Li Yan to decide whether to believe her.

Li Yan questioned Shuang Wuyan about her ties to Song Rongdao and the dangerous sea cave, then demanded that she forget what she knew about it. When she refused to let him alter her memories, Li Yan offered to keep her in Falling Star Valley under a poison-based bargain, leaving her to decide whether to accept.

• Li Yan restored part of Shuang Wuyan’s spiritual power and asked about her background and relationship with Song Rongdao.
• Shuang Wuyan explained that she had used the name Yang Yuehua while searching for her scattered Duye Clan, and that she had helped Song Rongdao explore ruins and break formations.
• Shuang Wuyan recounted how she had helped Song Rongdao investigate the sea cave and wondered how Li Yan’s group had tracked them.
• Li Yan warned Shuang Wuyan to forget the sea cave and implied that he might erase her memories; she refused to let him enter her soul and said she would rather die.
• Li Yan offered to poison Shuang Wuyan and keep her in Falling Star Valley until he resolved the sea-cave matter, promising an antidote and her freedom within one hundred years.
• Shuang Wuyan asked how she could trust Li Yan’s promise, and he rejected swearing an oath while reminding her that he could threaten her relatives if he chose.

Li Yan kept Shuang Wuyan in Falling Star Valley by poisoning her and offering her the status and resources of a guest elder, then arranged supplies for his planned seclusion. He returned to Sacred Demon City and found that the scrutiny around Dongli Qing’s death had eased, though he suspected the Sacred Demon Palace might be preparing a new trap.

• Li Yan persuaded Shuang Wuyan to remain in Falling Star Valley by pointing out that her exposed ties to Shuang Chongshan’s family could be used against her, then planted poison in her body and offered her cultivation resources in exchange for refining puppets or arrays.
• Shuang Wuyan refused an elder’s duties, agreed to cultivate in peace, and went to reunite with Shuang Chongshan’s family; Li Yan secretly used a Snow Mosquito to confirm that she had not revealed her underwater secret cave.
• Li Yan summoned Xing Ming, who learned from Zhang Ming about Shuang Wuyan and received two antidote pills that would delay her poison for ten years; Xing Ming then hurried to visit Shuang Chongshan.
• Li Yan planned to enter long-term seclusion if Zhao Min found no route of departure, while considering investigating other passages to the Desolate Moon Continent and preparing for his future Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.
• Zhu Luomu delivered spirit stones and pills to Li Yan, and seven days later Li Yan quietly left Falling Star Valley; four days after that, he returned to Sacred Demon City and noticed fewer Divine Senses watching him after Dongli Qing’s death.
• Li Yan suspected the Sacred Demon Palace had either slowed its investigation after finding no leads or begun plotting a new way to draw out those involved in Dongli Qing’s death.

Li Yan learned that Zhao Min had not contacted him and grew concerned that she might be unable to send word. After hearing about Holy Devil Palace’s crackdown and its retaliatory attacks, he resolved to enter the palace carefully to gather information, then settled into a new residence and spoke with the cultivator surnamed Chu.

• Su Yuan reported on Holy Devil City, including Holy Devil Palace’s strict inspections and rumors that it had retaliated against the Black Devil Race by assassinating powerful cultivators.
• Li Yan worried that Zhao Min might be in danger and decided not to send another sound-transmission talisman, choosing instead to gather information inside Holy Devil Palace.
• Li Yan rewarded Su Yuan with a Blood-Refining Amber Pill after Su Yuan arranged a spacious residence for him.
• Li Yan moved into the residence and visited Holy Devil Palace, where he learned that outside cultivators were confined to the outer palace and that departures and sound-transmission talismans could be monitored.

Mu Guyue spent ten years pregnant, repeatedly wavering between killing her unborn child and protecting him, while still planning to use his blood to find Li Yan. Thirty years later, Li Yan emerged from forty years of seclusion in Saint Demon City, stronger but stalled at a Golden Core bottleneck.

• Mu Guyue searched for Li Yan after returning from the Demon-Devouring Abyss but found no trace of him, then discovered she was carrying his child.
• Mu Guyue repeatedly tried to kill the child, but his joy and their blood bond weakened her resolve until she began to protect him.
• Mu Guyue remained in seclusion through her pregnancy, expecting to give birth soon and still considering using the child's blood essence to track Li Yan.
• Li Yan emerged after forty years of seclusion, having refined the remaining Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence and strengthened his body.
• Li Yan recalled that he had instructed Su Yuan to send Xingming antidotes for Shuang Wuyan every nine years and to watch for Zhao Min's message talisman.
• Li Yan realized he had reached the middle Golden Core Realm but failed to break through to the late stage, while his Qiongqi Purgatory Art had peaked at its third level.

After ending a forty-year seclusion, Li Yan learned that Zhao Min had sent no word and investigated the Holy Demon Palace and Falling Star Valley. A disturbance around the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant drew him into Tuban, where he found the egg still alive as the restrictions around it shook under surging fire spiritual energy.

• Li Yan emerged from seclusion, summoned Su Yuan, and learned that no transmission talisman had arrived and that Su Yuan had used four of the jade bottles while preserving records of sightings matching Li Yan's description of a person.
• Su Yuan reported that Li Yan's seclusion had lasted exactly forty years, described changes in Falling Star Valley, and confirmed that he had no news from the Holy Demon Palace about Zhao Min.
• Li Yan gathered information around Holy Demon City and visited the Holy Demon Palace, but remained worried by Zhao Min's silence.
• The Snow Mosquito King sent Li Yan a warning about an unusual disturbance near the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant in Tuban.
• Li Yan entered Tuban, found the egg alive amid violent fire spiritual energy, and calmed the trembling restrictions before the Snow Mosquito King asked whether the elephant was about to hatch.

Li Yan watched as the purple egg in the desert hatched into a powerful elephant, which transformed into a purple-robed youth and thanked him for granting it a body. The youth recognized Li Yan as his master, while the injured Snow Mosquito King arrived and discovered that the youth had reached the third tier without undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation.

• The Snow Mosquito King joined Li Yan to watch the purple egg pulse and crack beneath the five colored rings.
• The egg burst, and a tiny elephant swallowed its shell, grew enormous, and destroyed Li Yan's formation with its roar.
• Li Yan stopped the resulting sandstorm and restrained the Snow Mosquito King, but the elephant sent him flying before transforming into a purple-robed youth.
• The purple-robed youth knelt before Li Yan, thanked him for granting him a body, and congratulated him on reaching the Golden Core Realm.
• The Snow Mosquito King returned injured, recognized the youth as the former remnant-soul elephant, and realized he had reached the third tier without a Heavenly Tribulation.
• The purple-robed youth mocked the Snow Mosquito King's second-tier cultivation and offered to teach him if he kowtowed.

Li Yan named the newly embodied Purple God Dragon-Elephant Zi Kun and the Snow Mosquito King Qianji, then discussed their cultivation and kept them hidden in Tuban while he remained in Saint Demon City. After receiving Zhao Min’s urgent message, he met her and learned she had reached the peak of the mid-stage Golden Core Realm, though she had come to discuss an important matter.

• Li Yan named the Purple God Dragon-Elephant Zi Kun and the Snow Mosquito King Qianji, and Zi Kun explained that his body had formed at the third tier because it came from an ancient skull.
• Li Yan told Qianji and Zi Kun they must stay hidden in Tuban in Saint Demon City, promised to seek cold substances for Qianji, and caught Zi Kun up on events from the past seventy years.
• Su Yuan delivered Zhao Min’s jade slip to Li Yan, who replied that he was still in Saint Demon City.
• Zhao Min arrived at Li Yan’s courtyard, noticed his unease, and said she had reached the peak of the mid-stage Golden Core Realm in forty years.
• Li Yan asked Zhao Min whether she had gone somewhere to temper herself.

Zhao Min told Li Yan how the White Devil Race had forced her into a Dao Companion arrangement with a Nascent Soul cultivator, and Li Yan decided to hide her in his mysterious space immediately. As Zhao Min prepared to enter, she learned that Li Yan’s bonded spirit beasts could help her stay in contact with him.

• Zhao Min explained that she had spent more than forty years fighting in an ancient secret realm and had been ordered by the Supreme Great Elder to become a Nascent Soul cultivator’s Dao Companion.
• Zhao Min told Li Yan that the arrangement could be announced within five days, while the wedding date remained uncertain.
• Li Yan urged Zhao Min to leave the Holy Devil Palace and enter his mysterious space at once, and she agreed.
• Li Yan explained that he would send his divine sense inside every two to ten days and that Zi Kun and Qianji could relay messages to him.
• Zhao Min recognized that Qianji belonged to the Snow Mosquito Clan and suspected Li Yan had brought the mosquitoes out of the Pure Land Sect’s Northern Underworld Demon-Suppressing Tower using his mysterious space.

Li Yan brought Zhao Min into his hidden space and arranged a quiet place for her to stay while he gathered information in Saint Demon City. After he left, Qianji nearly damaged the surroundings by opening a bottle of powerful ice-beast cores, and he and Zi Kun debated what to call Zhao Min.

• Li Yan transported Zhao Min into his hidden space, where she met Zi Kun and Qianji and chose a quiet cave by the stream.
• Li Yan told Zi Kun and Qianji to obey Zhao Min, then gave Qianji four magic cores from Snowland Seven-Segment Insects and warned him to absorb them cautiously.
• Li Yan left to explore Saint Demon City and seek information, while Zhao Min reminded him to be careful during the next day or so.
• Qianji opened a jade bottle and released such intense cold that nearby grass froze and the stream filled with mist.
• Zi Kun stopped Qianji from opening the bottle further, and Qianji apologized after the grass began recovering.
• Qianji asked what to call Zhao Min, and Zi Kun suggested calling her “Mistress” because of her relationship with Li Yan.

Li Yan hid Zhao Min inside Tuban, drawing the attention of the Holy Demon Palace’s elders and then a Nascent Soul cultivator who had followed her. The intruder, Dao Yu, demanded to know where Zhao Min had gone, while Li Yan denied seeing her.

• After Zi Kun suggested that Zhao Min was Li Yan’s mistress, Zhao Min overheard that other female cultivators had once entered the place too.
• The Holy Demon Palace’s Supreme Grand Elder and Second Supreme Elder sensed a brief tremor in the sect-protecting formation, but found no sign of an attack and returned to cultivation.
• Li Yan decided to leave Holy Demon City with Zhao Min and sent Su Yuan a list of cultivation materials to purchase.
• A man in blue forcibly broke into Li Yan’s courtyard, intercepted the message to Su Yuan, and revealed himself as Dao Yu, a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Dao Yu demanded to know where Zhao Min had gone, while Li Yan denied that she had entered the courtyard.

Dao Yu followed Zhao Min to Li Yan’s courtyard, where Zhao Min vanished and left him questioning Li Yan. He attacked Li Yan to seize his movement ability, and the chapter ended as Dao Yu unleashed a courtyard-filling barrage of punches against Li Yan’s counterattack.

• Dao Yu learned that his lineage would announce his planned Dao Companion relationship with Zhao Min and secretly monitored her.
• Dao Yu followed Zhao Min to Li Yan’s courtyard, saw her disappear, and intercepted a voice transmission talisman containing only cultivation materials.
• Dao Yu searched Li Yan’s spirit storage pouch, found it empty, and tried to seize Li Yan for a Soul Search.
• Li Yan evaded Dao Yu’s grasp with his movement ability but found the courtyard exits sealed and his formation restrictions disabled.
• Dao Yu decided to take Li Yan’s movement ability and attacked with a barrage of fist shadows as Li Yan met him with overlapping strikes.

Li Yan endured Dao Yu’s assault while concealing a counterattack, then wounded the Nascent Soul Cultivator with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike. Dao Yu survived the ambush, and the two remained locked in the sealed courtyard.

• Dao Yu battered Li Yan while holding back, and Li Yan pushed his body to its limit to avoid being captured.
• Dao Yu broke Li Yan’s arm and shattered his knee, then moved in to Soul Search him as his consciousness faded.
• A disguised magic-treasure hair pierced Dao Yu’s palm, and its force briefly disrupted his soul.
• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike to pierce Dao Yu’s right eye and wound his soul, but Dao Yu dodged the fatal strike and recovered.

Li Yan escaped Daoyu’s attack by retreating into the Tuban space, where Zhao Min found him gravely wounded. As Li Yan began recovering, he warned her that Daoyu might discover the space or bring a Spirit Transformation cultivator to search for him.

• Daoyu attacked Li Yan with ten massive axes, but Li Yan vanished before they struck, leaving Daoyu baffled.
• Zhao Min saw Li Yan fall into the Tuban space with severe injuries, and he used silver light and pills to begin healing.
• Li Yan told Zhao Min that Daoyu had followed her, forced his way through the restrictions, and lost an eye to Li Yan’s counterattack.
• Li Yan explained that Daoyu might deduce he possessed an independent space and could summon a Spirit Transformation cultivator, then began meditating to recover.
• Zhao Min stayed beside Li Yan, while Zi Kun and Qianji returned and watched anxiously as Daoyu searched the courtyard without finding the space.

Daoyu realized Li Yan and Zhao Min had escaped using a powerful space-type treasure, then searched the deep pit and surrounding soil for days without finding them. After Nascent-Soul Flame worsened the pain in his soul, he was forced to stop, while the Holy Devil Palace's leaders investigated another fluctuation in the Sect Protection Array.

• Daoyu concluded that Li Yan had hidden a stable space-type treasure and used it to make Zhao Min and himself disappear.
• The white-haired young man and the gorgeous woman sensed a brief fluctuation in the Sect Protection Array and went to investigate.
• Daoyu searched the pit and nearby dust for four days, but found no trace of Li Yan, Zhao Min, or the treasure.
• Daoyu collected suspicious soil and burned it with Nascent-Soul Flame, but found nothing and aggravated the wound in his soul caused by the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• Daoyu decided he could not continue using Nascent-Soul Flame or remain indefinitely, and worried that the incident in Saint Demon City could damage the Holy Devil Palace's reputation.

Dao Yu reported that Zhao Min had vanished, prompting Mo Yu and Lan Bing to search the place where she disappeared. They found her inside a seemingly ordinary speck of dust that resisted Mo Yu’s immense power, and they concluded the object was a supreme spatial treasure.

• Dao Yu arrived injured and reported that Zhao Min had disappeared after leaving the palace several days earlier.
• Mo Yu and Lan Bing searched Sacred Demon City and confirmed that Zhao Min was nowhere in the palace or city.
• Dao Yu led Mo Yu and Lan Bing to the courtyard where Zhao Min had vanished, and Mo Yu discovered a tiny speck of dust buried in the pit.
• Mo Yu tried to crush the speck with increasing mana, but it remained unharmed and resisted even his great power.
• Lan Bing warned Mo Yu that the treasure required another method to open, and the two recognized its extraordinary value.
• Mo Yu erased and altered Dao Yu’s memories, then he and Lan Bing studied the floating speck of dust.

The White Devil Race’s white-haired youth tried to break the restriction on Li Yan’s spatial treasure while the beautiful woman investigated Li Yan and suspected his connection to Zhao Min. Inside the treasure, Zhao Min and Qianji noticed strange white lines forming in the sky, suggesting the space was changing under the pressure from outside.

• The white-haired youth and the beautiful woman concluded that Li Yan was likely Zhao Min’s junior brother and began trying to forcibly refine the spatial treasure.
• The white-haired youth trapped the treasure inside a formation and shaped it into a white sphere, while the beautiful woman agreed to study it with him.
• The beautiful woman received an investigation of Zhang Ming’s history, considered his possible links to Zhao Min and Dongli Qing’s death, and resolved to use Soul Search after they were pulled from the treasure.
• Zhao Min sensed a tremor in the spatial treasure and feared that a White Devil Race expert had found it.
• Qianji noticed faint white lines appearing across the sky as more lines formed and the earth spiritual qi began to stir.

Li Yan recovered inside Tuban and realized two powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators were attacking the spatial treasure from outside. As they struggled to refine Tuban, a mysterious Daoist appeared at the core of the Sacred Demon Palace’s sect-protecting formation.

• The white-haired young man and the gorgeous woman combined their powers to refine Tuban, but the treasure resisted their attacks.
• Li Yan woke from cultivation, saw signs of an attack on Tuban, and warned Zhao Min, Qianji, and Zi Kun that a Spirit Transformation cultivator might be targeting them.
• Li Yan concluded that Tuban could keep the attackers out but might trap them inside indefinitely, and he prepared to destroy his Primordial Spirit rather than be captured.
• Zhao Min identified the attackers as likely the Supreme Grand Elder and the Second Elder, prompting Li Yan to fear the consequences if they seized him.
• The white-haired young man and the gorgeous woman recognized Tuban as an earth-element spatial treasure and intensified their efforts to refine it.
• A Daoist slowly materialized at the core of the Sacred Demon Palace’s sect-protecting formation and emerged from his confusion.

A mysterious Daoist entered the Holy Demon Palace’s protected forest and discovered Li Yan and the others inside Tuban. After confirming Li Yan was an inheritor of the Gui Water Immortal Sect, he released the group and revealed his ties to the Five Immortal Sects, leaving Li Yan alive and Zhao Min wary of how he had arrived.

• The Daoist followed a familiar aura through the Holy Demon Palace’s formations and found Tuban in the forest.
• The Daoist sent Divine Sense into Tuban, and Li Yan sensed the intrusion and began to self-destruct as a face appeared in the sky.
• The face restrained Li Yan, Zhao Min, and the two demon beasts, then examined Li Yan and recognized the Gui Water True Scripture and the Five Immortal Sects.
• Li Yan identified himself as Dong Fuyi’s inheritor and guessed that the visitor was True Lord Qianzhong or Pei Buchong.
• After confirming Li Yan’s identity, the Daoist released the group and told Zhao Min and the demon beasts to stand aside.