Recaps

Li Yan recounted his experiences to True Lord Qianzhong, who assured him that Tuban could withstand the Holy Devil Palace and promised to consider a way for him to leave the Lost Continent. Qianzhong sealed the Five Immortals Sect’s secrets against Soul Search and revealed that he had come to the continent seeking Pangu Sand, but hinted that he might be in trouble.

• True Lord Qianzhong enclosed Li Yan in an earthy-yellow barrier and asked how he had ended up on the Lost Continent and joined another sect.
• Li Yan described his encounters with Dong Fuyi and Ping Tu, his time in the Phantom Sect, and his flight from the Holy Devil Palace; Qianzhong said Tuban’s defenses could not be broken and that he might help Li Yan leave the continent.
• Qianzhong questioned Li Yan about the secret realm, Ping Tu, and foreign cultivators, then concluded that the intruders were the group Ping Tu had driven out and that Ping Tu could defeat them with the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead.
• Qianzhong planted a restriction seal in Li Yan’s Divine Sense to protect the Five Immortals Sect’s secrets from Soul Search by cultivators below the Void Refinement Realm.
• Qianzhong told Li Yan to inform Dong Fuyi that he might need help, then explained that he had come to search for Pangu Sand, whose power could help him reach the Mahayana Realm.

True Lord Qianzhong sought information about Pangu Sand from Zhu Tian's Devil Race descendant while Saint Demon City faced destruction by Xiahou Shangxie's army. After forcing the enemy to withdraw, he obtained the information, and the city's leaders pleaded for his help strengthening their defenses, leaving him thinking about the struggles of Human Race cultivators in the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• True Lord Qianzhong met Zhu Tian's descendant in Saint Demon City and exchanged two cultivation materials for treasures before learning the man knew about Pangu Sand.
• As Xiahou Shangxie's army attacked Saint Demon City, True Lord Qianzhong offered to help in exchange for the Pangu Sand information, but Zhu Tian's descendant refused.
• When Saint Demon City faced its final battle, Zhu Tian's descendant agreed to trade the information if True Lord Qianzhong tied down a mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• True Lord Qianzhong left a warning for Xiahou Shangxie, who withdrew his army before dawn, and then received the information from Zhu Tian's descendant.
• Saint Demon City's leaders asked True Lord Qianzhong to strengthen their Sect Protection Array, and he considered the hardships faced by Human Race cultivators in the Immortal Spirit Realm.

True Lord Qianzhong explained how he strengthened the Holy Devil Palace array to help human cultivators and how Pei Buchong later searched for him on the Lost Continent. Li Yan learned Pei Buchong had stolen the Black Devil Race’s Boundary-Breaking Pearl incantation, then asked why True Lord Qianzhong had not sought out Tuban sooner.

• True Lord Qianzhong helped the original Devil Race strengthen its array in exchange for a promise not to suppress or exclude human cultivators, and the array later helped drive Xiahou Shangxie away at great cost.
• True Lord Qianzhong revealed that he had left Divine Thought and marks within the array and the Zhutian descendants, hoping to protect the array and learn whether his friend found the Pangu Sand.
• Pei Buchong awakened True Lord Qianzhong’s Divine Thought, learned his master might have gone to the eastern Lost Continent, and searched the Black Devil Race’s Divine Road for clues.
• After discovering the Black Devil Race’s plan to invade the Desolate Moon Continent, Pei Buchong hid among them for seven years and stole the jade slip for refining the Boundary-Breaking Pearl from a Devil Emperor’s clone.
• Pei Buchong left a message at the Black Devil Race palace, escaped the Devil Emperor’s pursuit, and returned to Saint Demon City before departing to continue searching for True Lord Qianzhong.
• Li Yan realized Pei Buchong had been behind the false Boundary-Breaking Pearl, then asked True Lord Qianzhong why he had not searched for Tuban earlier.

Li Yan learned more about Tuban and asked True Lord Qianzhong to help him and Zhao Min escape the Lost Continent. As True Lord Qianzhong went to assist them, he appeared before the Holy Devil Palace elders who had tried to refine Tuban and demanded an explanation.

• True Lord Qianzhong explained Tuban’s protections, sealed sect-related memories in Li Yan’s mind, and gave him the sect’s location in the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Li Yan asked how he and Zhao Min could return to the Desolate Moon Continent, and True Lord Qianzhong offered to guide them to a possible escape route discovered by Senior Brother Buchong.
• True Lord Qianzhong assured Li Yan that he would handle any danger to Falling Star Valley, and Li Yan asked to visit a shop before they left the city.
• The white-haired young man and the beautiful woman tried to refine Tuban, but its yellow light vanished before they could identify what had happened.
• True Lord Qianzhong appeared in the Holy Devil Palace’s rear mountain and accused the pair of attacking his disciple; the white-haired young man demanded his name as their powers stirred.

True Lord Qianzhong confronted the Holy Devil Palace’s two supreme elders over their treatment of Zhao Min and the old agreements between the Human and Devil Races. After effortlessly defeating their attacks, he announced that he would take Zhao Min to the Immortal Spirit Realm and vanished, leaving the elders shaken by the gulf in their strength.

• The beautiful woman attacked True Lord Qianzhong with a silver spear, but he stopped it with one finger and sent it flying back.
• The white-haired young man dropped a black mountain on True Lord Qianzhong, who used his horsetail whisk to break his control of the treasure and turn it back toward him.
• True Lord Qianzhong asked whether the Devil Race had abandoned its agreements with the Human Race and condemned the elders for targeting Human Race cultivators over a treasure.
• The white-haired young man and the woman realized True Lord Qianzhong was a great power of the Human Race and learned that Zhao Min was his successor.
• True Lord Qianzhong rejected the elders’ claims on Zhao Min, said he would take her to the Immortal Spirit Realm, and vanished from the forest.
• The beautiful woman admitted that she and the white-haired young man were far weaker than they had believed.

After True Lord Qianzhong left the Holy Devil Palace, its supreme elders concluded that Zhao Min would leave with Zhang Ming and resolved to protect Falling Star Valley. Li Yan returned to Saint Demon City, entrusted Su Yuan with a message and a poison pill, and prepared to depart.

• The Holy Devil Palace’s supreme elders realized True Lord Qianzhong’s power surpassed their understanding and summoned Shanggong Changge to question him about Zhao Min.
• The beautiful woman concluded Zhao Min had been reunited with Zhang Ming and had wanted to leave the palace, while the white-haired young man ordered that Falling Star Valley be secretly protected.
• True Lord Qianzhong returned Tuban to Li Yan, told him to meet outside the south gate, and warned him not to let Zhao Min out.
• Li Yan visited Su Yuan at Falling Star Valley’s city shop and gave him a jade slip, a bottle for Lin Xinghe, and a poison pill for his own protection.
• Su Yuan activated the teleportation formation to send the message and bottle to Lin Xinghe, not knowing Li Yan planned to leave for a while.

Li Yan traveled with True Lord Qianzhong to Heavenly Spirit Cave, where they found the ancient super interrealm teleportation formation intact. True Lord Qianzhong believed it led to the Qingqing Continent, but he still needed to test it before they could leave the Lost Continent.

• Li Yan received a complete antidote for Shuang Wuyan, while Li Yan left her choice to remain in Falling Star Valley or depart with her family up to her.
• True Lord Qianzhong took Li Yan east and warned that escaping the Lost Continent might require the Holy Devil Palace's super interrealm teleportation formation or a dangerous journey through turbulent space.
• The white-haired young man and the beautiful woman watched True Lord Qianzhong and Li Yan disappear, then discussed their concern about Zhao Min leaving the Holy Devil Palace.
• True Lord Qianzhong brought Li Yan to the seabed cave abodes discovered by Pei Buchong, where Li Yan recognized the place and spotted Dark Spirit Demon Bats watching them.
• True Lord Qianzhong guided Li Yan through Heavenly Spirit Cave's dangerous restrictions into a vast chamber containing an intact super interrealm teleportation formation.
• True Lord Qianzhong identified the formation as a Chencang Passage that likely led to the Qingqing Continent and began checking whether it worked.

Li Yan and Zhao Min learned that the hidden chamber was a supply route with an inter-realm transmission formation, and True Lord Qianzhong prepared to send them out of the Lost Continent. He produced a fire-element top-grade spirit stone to power the formation, revealing how dangerous such stones were to them.

• True Lord Qianzhong explained that the Chencang Passage had transported war supplies and that its inter-realm transmission formation could provoke a major conflict if discovered.
• True Lord Qianzhong told Li Yan to release Zhao Min and call him Senior, then went ahead to inspect the formation.
• Li Yan summoned Zhao Min and told her that True Lord Qianzhong would help them leave the Lost Continent; Zhao Min accepted his explanation despite her doubts.
• True Lord Qianzhong returned after confirming the formation still worked and explained that it needed a powerful source of energy and Nascent Soul-level protection for transmission.
• After Li Yan and Zhao Min admitted they lacked top-grade spirit stones, True Lord Qianzhong produced a fire-element stone and briefly released its power, frightening them with its destructive force.

Li Yan and True Lord Qianzhong planned to cross to the Qingqing Continent and discussed bringing the dying Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan with them. After True Lord Qianzhong entered the Heavenly Spirit Cave, the bats begged for help outside, but the cave remained silent, leaving them unsure whether their pleas could reach him.

• True Lord Qianzhong explained that he could cast a spell to protect Li Yan and Zhao Min during teleportation without escorting them himself, then noticed demon beasts outside the cave.
• Li Yan told True Lord Qianzhong that the visitors were Dark Spirit Demon Bats and relayed what he had learned about Pei Buchong’s promise to them.
• True Lord Qianzhong confirmed that the teleportation array likely led to the Qingqing Continent and agreed the bats could travel with Li Yan and Zhao Min in spirit beast pouches or his spatial treasure.
• Meng Zhiyuan and his four junior brothers and sisters argued over whether to attack Li Yan, then watched True Lord Qianzhong enter the Heavenly Spirit Cave without obstruction.
• The five Dark Spirit Demon Bats rushed to the cave, knelt, and pleaded for rescue while recounting their clan’s plight, but the cave stayed silent.

Meng Zhiyuan and four fellow Dark Spirit Demon Bats begged Zhang Ming and his companions to rescue their clan from the land of restrictions. True Lord Qianzhong agreed to let them assist Li Yan and Zhao Min on their journey, while concealing the teleportation array’s true destination and planning to seal the route behind them.

• Meng Zhiyuan and four clan members knelt and bled as they waited for Zhang Ming and the senior to emerge from the Heavenly Spirit Cave.
• Li Yan pretended not to understand Meng Zhiyuan’s pleas, and Meng explained that his clan needed help returning to the Azure Continent.
• True Lord Qianzhong questioned what the clan could offer, then agreed that its powerful members could assist Li Yan and Zhao Min on their trip to the Heavenly Spirit Clan.
• True Lord Qianzhong said the grand restriction array was nearing collapse and that he would stabilize it, then destroy the passage after they left, making their return to the sect a trial.

True Lord Qianzhong arranged for Meng Zhiyuan and the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan to travel to the Verdant Continent, binding them to support Li Yan and Zhao Min without revealing their identities. As the clan gathered for teleportation, Li Yan hoped its experts could provide information about reaching the Desolate Moon Continent.

• True Lord Qianzhong offered to send Meng Zhiyuan and his clansmen to the Verdant Continent if they kept Li Yan and Zhao Min's identities secret and helped them when asked.
• Meng Zhiyuan agreed to the conditions and promised that the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan would honor them.
• True Lord Qianzhong told Meng Zhiyuan to gather his clansmen, then advised Li Yan that surviving members could help him find information about the Desolate Moon Continent.
• Meng Zhiyuan's junior brothers and sisters opened a passage, and more than six hundred Dark Spirit Demon Bats arrived in the plaza.
• True Lord Qianzhong told the clan to put its members into spirit-storage pouches, and Meng Zhiyuan's group prepared six ancient pouches for the teleportation.

Li Yan and his companions departed for the Qingqing Continent through the Chencang Passage, while True Lord Qianzhong destroyed the teleportation array and prepared to return to the Immortal-Spirit Realm. Far away, Gong Chenying bid farewell to her Phantom Sect family before leaving for the Wind God Continent.

• Meng Zhiyuan and his four fellow disciples chose to remain outside the spirit storage bags together, and Meng gave Li Yan jade slips containing a map and evidence about his clan.
• Meng Zhiyuan recognized the Chencang Passage and realized his clan had likely guarded an abandoned fortress and army supply route.
• True Lord Qianzhong protected Li Yan and the others as they teleported toward the Qingqing Continent, then destroyed the array and sealed the passage.
• True Lord Qianzhong told Li Yan he hoped they would meet again in the Immortal Realm, and Li Yan promised to go there.
• Gong Chenying prepared to leave Small Bamboo Peak with her father, while Wei Zhongran and the other disciples saw her off.
• Gong Chenying embraced Zhao Zhi and asked Miao Wangqing to tell her when she became Dao companions with Li Wuyi.

Gong Chenying left the bamboo grove with her father as Zhao Zhi and Wei Zhongran discussed the uncertain fate of Zhao Min and Li Yan. On the Qingqing Continent, Bai Rou prepared to join Shuang Qingqing’s clan and learn its puppet arts, while another woman watched over the bustling Return and Come Back shops.

• Gong Chenying smiled at Miao Wangqing’s parting sorrow, and Lin Daqiao teased Li Wuyi before awkwardly alluding to Li Yan and Zhao Min’s disappearance.
• The burly man took Gong Chenying away, while Wei Zhongran told Zhao Zhi that the Wei family’s old ancestor had sent no news from the Lost Continent.
• Shuang Qingqing told Bai Rou that Li Yan had been swept into the barrier between realms and Zhao Min’s soul lamp remained vigorous, then said Bai Rou would be formally admitted to the clan.
• Bai Rou left with Shuang Qingqing for the clan’s ancestral rites, hoping Li Yan and Zhao Min had survived.
• At the Return and Come Back shops, a woman watched the busy street and asked how long they would stay on the Qingqing Continent.

Su Hong remembered Li Yan while Mi'er attended her, and Sun Guoshu completed a mission before planning to cultivate in seclusion. Li Yan and his companions survived a disorienting teleportation and reached a platform resembling the Chencang Passage, where they found a staircase and an unexplained stone door.

• Su Hong reminisced about her time on the Desolate Moon Continent and thought of Li Yan, whom she wanted to reprimand for holding her to ransom over Crystal Bone Water.
• Sun Guoshu turned in a Thundercloud Leopard mission, collected contribution points, and left to tend his injury before going into seclusion.
• Disciples speculated about Sun Guoshu's connections to Bai Rou and Small Bamboo Peak, while the duty disciple recalled that Bai Rou had helped him at a Small Bamboo Peak junior brother's request.
• Li Yan, Zhao Min, Meng Zhiyuan, and their companions endured a dizzying teleportation beneath the spinning Stabilize rune and arrived safely on a platform.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min recognized the surroundings as the Chencang Passage, found a staircase leading to a stone door, and could sense nothing beyond it.
• Meng Zhiyuan and the others reached them in poor condition, and Meng Zhiyuan was astonished that Li Yan and Zhao Min seemed far less affected by the teleportation.

Li Yan and Zhao Min helped Meng Zhiyuan and the Dark Spirit Demon Bats escape their hidden chamber, where they discovered the world above the sea and were freed from the laws of time. Meng Zhiyuan prepared to return to his clan while Li Yan and Zhao Min stayed behind, and Li Yan gave him spirit stones for the journey.

• After recovering, Meng Zhiyuan opened the stone door while his fellow disciples braced for danger.
• The group emerged onto a sea-facing cliff, and Meng Zhiyuan and the Dark Spirit Demon Bats wept at their first sight of the open sky and sea.
• Li Yan recognized that the world's laws had removed the laws of time from the Dark Spirit Demon Bats, and Meng Zhiyuan released his clanspeople so they could experience the outside world.
• Meng Zhiyuan prepared to return to his clan, while Li Yan and Zhao Min chose to remain nearby for a few days.
• Meng Zhiyuan gave Li Yan two spirit storage pouches, and Li Yan lent him thirty thousand spirit stones for the clan's journey home.

Li Yan and Zhao Min left the hidden island and traveled east across the boundless sea, keeping their destination uncertain. After six days navigating a violent storm, Li Yan sensed something ahead.

• Meng Zhiyuan led the Dark Spirit Demon Bats away, and Li Yan and Zhao Min waited until his divine sense could no longer reach them.
• Li Yan restored the cliff’s stone door and concealed the island beneath a new formation before leaving with Zhao Min aboard the Cloud-Piercing Willow.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min spent half a month crossing open water, cultivating and watching the moon as they searched for land.
• A storm filled the sky with dangerous lightning, and Li Yan guided the Cloud-Piercing Willow through the dark clouds at full speed.
• Six days into the storm, Li Yan detected something ahead, and Zhao Min turned to see what he had found.

Li Yan and Zhao Min crossed a desolate prairie and discovered a clan of fugitives hiding from the Tianlan Clan. After the clan attacked them, Zhao Min effortlessly stopped the assault, leaving the refugees to realize they faced Golden Core experts.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min reached a rainy prairie and decided to fly east in search of cultivators, a market, and information about the Qingqing Continent.
• After three days of flying, Li Yan sensed cultivators nearby and led Zhao Min toward them.
• A Guxi and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators hid with their clanspeople, fearing that the Tianlan Clan had tracked them down.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min appeared overhead and asked whether the pursuers were searching for the group.
• A Guxi and two other cultivators attacked, but Zhao Min stopped their spells and weapons without moving.
• The refugees recognized Li Yan and Zhao Min as Golden Core Realm experts and panicked.

Li Yan and Zhao Min encountered Agu Xi and his Giant Wood Clan, whom they initially mistook for enemies pursuing them. After learning that the clan had never seen outside cultivators, Li Yan heard Agu Xi’s account of the Tianlan Prairie and the Tianlan Clan’s history, leaving the travelers facing a new place and its conflict.

• Agu Xi ordered Ai Sang and Ai Ni to flee with the clansmen while he prepared to sacrifice his soul for a powerful attack, but Zhao Min sealed their spiritual power and stopped them.
• Li Yan asked whether the people pursuing the clan were green-clad guards, then he and Zhao Min began to leave when Agu Xi and the others refused to answer.
• Agu Xi called Li Yan back, and Li Yan invited him onto the Cloud-Piercing Willow after learning that the clan had never encountered outside cultivators.
• Agu Xi identified himself as a member of the Giant Wood Clan and explained that they were fleeing the Tianlan Clan’s slaughter on the Tianlan Prairie.
• Agu Xi recounted how the Tianlan Clan had kept the Giant Wood Clan and six other races in the prairie after their alliance against the Devil Race, then grew hostile as the other races’ powerful experts died or ascended.

Agu Xi recounted how the Tianlan Clan had imprisoned and tormented the seven clans, leaving the Giant Wood Clan near extinction. Li Yan refused to take on the Tianlan Clan, but Ai Ni’s account of the captives’ likely fate left the survivors pleading for help.

• Agu Xi explained that the Tianlan Clan had exiled the seven clans to the grasslands and hunted them for generations, while the deadly lightning blocked escape to the north and west.
• Agu Xi revealed that the Giant Wood Clan had only three Foundation Establishment cultivators left and that Tianlan pursuers were closing in after abducting girls and children.
• Li Yan offered Agu Xi a choice of spirit stones, pills, or an escape route, but Agu Xi instead begged him and Zhao Min to save the clan.
• Agu Xi claimed the Tianlan Clan’s Spirit Transformation cultivator had ascended and its two remaining Nascent Soul Cultivators were gravely wounded, but Li Yan remained unwilling to risk confronting them.
• Ai Ni knelt and described the torture and deaths awaiting the captured girls and children, as the Giant Wood clanspeople watched Li Yan and Zhao Min with desperate hope.

Li Yan and Zhao Min left the Giantwood Tribe behind, planning to draw out any Tianlan cultivators watching them and investigate the rumored wood essence pool. Meanwhile, Aguxi’s group endured a relentless pursuit, and he diverted them toward a hill so the exhausted mortals could find food and rest.

• Zhao Min urged Li Yan to help the Giantwood Tribe, and Aguxi offered Soul Search as proof of the wood essence pool’s value, but Li Yan and Zhao Min disappeared without answering.
• Aguxi told Aini that Li Yan and Zhao Min had left, then led the fleeing Giantwood people onward with Aini and Aisang guarding them.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min traveled toward the central Tianlan Grasslands, intending to provoke any hidden pursuer and later capture isolated Tianlan cultivators for Soul Search.
• A blue-robed squad caught the Giantwood Tribe after three days of hiding, wounded Aguxi, abducted a woman, and killed a tribesman before Aguxi and Aisang helped the group escape.
• Aguxi saw that the mortals were starving and exhausted, found a hill with cave openings, and sent Aini and Aisang to scout it.

Aini and Aisang discovered an ambush while searching for shelter, allowing Aguxi and the Giant Wood Clan to flee. The attackers broke through their defenses and left Aguxi, Aini, and Aisang nearly defeated, while the survivors faced capture or death.

• Aisang and Aini approached an empty cave, but Aini sensed something was wrong and warned Aisang to retreat.
• Blue-clad cultivators burst from concealment, and Aguxi turned away while Aini and Aisang raised a green barrier to cover the clan's escape.
• A burly late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and three companions shattered the barrier in less than three breaths and pursued the fleeing clan.
• Half an hour later, Aguxi stood wounded among the dead, Aini lay at his feet, and Aisang struggled to hold himself upright as the surviving mortals prepared to kill themselves rather than be captured.
• Aguxi ordered the four remaining Qi Condensation Realm disciples to retreat into the array as the blue-clad cultivators eyed the clan's women and children with predatory intent.

Li Yan and Zhao Min arrived just as Agu Xi and the surviving Giantwood clansmen faced annihilation by Tianlan cultivators, and Li Yan erased their attackers with his disjointed poison body. They rescued the survivors and departed aboard the Cloud-piercing Willow, while Agu Xi wondered about his mysterious benefactors.

• The Tianlan leaders attacked Agu Xi and the exhausted Aisang, targeting Aisang to draw Agu Xi into a fatal opening.
• The burly leader struck Agu Xi aside, leaving him unable to detonate his black flag as the other attackers closed in.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min appeared, and Li Yan made the Tianlan cultivators and their magical treasures vanish without a trace.
• Agu Xi accepted Li Yan's offer to leave and received spirit-storage bags, food, water, and pills for himself and his clansmen.
• Li Yan destroyed the fallen bodies to prevent anyone from tracking them, and the group departed through the rain aboard the Cloud-piercing Willow.

Li Yan and Zhao Min rescued Agu Xi and the Giant Wood Clan survivors, hoping their knowledge of the Wood Essence Pool would lead to a valuable discovery. Seven days later, they approached the southern edge of the Tianlan Grasslands with a clearer picture of the Qingqing Continent and its neighboring powers.

• Li Yan told Agu Xi he had intervened because the Tianlan clan cultivators had strayed from the righteous path, then placed Agu Xi in a spirit storage bag.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min discussed their gamble on the Wood Essence Pool after Zhao Min explained what she had learned about the Tianlan clan's exploitation of Giant Wood Clan women.
• Aini woke in a spirit storage bag, learned that Li Yan and Zhao Min had saved the clan, and was reunited with Aisang.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min traveled south for seven days and learned that the Qingqing Continent's cultivation world had few known Spirit Transformation cultivators and rarely encountered Nascent Soul experts.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min neared the border with the Kingdom of Tingyun, which had been at war with the Tianlan clan over cultivation resources for thirty thousand years.

Li Yan and Zhao Min traveled across the Tianlan Grasslands toward Tingyun Country, hoping to avoid trouble, until a Tianlan Tribe youth and his powerful gray-haired guard intercepted them. When the youth became suspicious of Li Yan’s speech, Li Yan and Zhao Min launched a surprise attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min abandoned their plan to visit the Tianlan Tribe’s core cities and followed a secluded route toward Tingyun Country.
• As they traveled, Zhao Min reflected on the grasslands’ beauty and Li Yan promised to accompany her back to the Desolate Moon Continent.
• A bare-chested young man riding a great white roc blocked their path and demanded to know where they came from and where they were going.
• Li Yan recognized the danger posed by the young man’s False Nascent Soul guard and tried to avoid revealing that he was not a native of the Qingqing Continent.
• The young man noticed Li Yan’s unfamiliar pronunciation and pressed him about where he had entered Tingyun Country.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min struck together, appearing where the young man had been as the gray-haired old man pulled him away in shock.

Li Yan and Zhao Min failed to assassinate Tielianggu and fled across the Heavenly Surge Prairie, pursued by Tielianggu and Wutu as reinforcements moved to intercept them. When a hidden Heavenly Surge clansman ambushed them, Zhao Min met his attack while Li Yan vanished to counter him.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min's attack missed Tielianggu after Wutu pulled him clear, and their strike killed the two women beside him.
• Tielianggu and Wutu chased Li Yan and Zhao Min, while Tielianggu used red grass to alert nearby clan members and arrange an interception.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min spotted an approaching Golden Core cultivator and changed course, but the pursuer behind them continued closing in.
• A concealed clansman attacked Li Yan and Zhao Min with a lightning-wreathed warhammer; Zhao Min blocked the blow with her palm as Li Yan disappeared into the night.
• Li Yan identified the attacker hiding in the grass, while the clansman sensed danger and slipped away through the grass without disturbing it.