Recaps

At the Phantom Sect’s celebration, Li Yan answered Nascent Soul cultivators’ questions about the Lost Continent while concealing what he knew about the Sacred Devil Palace. Below the platform, Bai Rou encouraged Sun Guoshu to focus on cultivation as she watched Li Yan, whose greeting had unsettled her feelings.

• Qi Jinghong asked Li Yan to describe the Lost Continent, and Li Yuyin jokingly demanded a supreme-grade spirit stone for the information.
• Li Yan reassured Qi Jinghong and gave the gathered cultivators a selective account of the Lost Continent, including its Black Devil and White Devil territories and the Divine Path.
• Bai Rou sat with Four Symbols Peak cultivators alongside Sun Guoshu and Tang Yuniang, while Sun Guoshu lamented his slow cultivation.
• Bai Rou urged Sun Guoshu to settle his thoughts and cultivate earnestly, then looked toward Li Yan and recalled how his greeting had unsettled her.

As cultivators gathered for Li Yan’s Nascent Soul ceremony, Li Wuyi’s arrival sparked a brief clash between the Phantom Sect and Great Profound Sect. The ceremony was disrupted when Yuyuan and her wounded party reached Laojun Peak and reported a deadly ambush by Devil Race remnants.

• Tang Yuniang listened to Bai Rou and the others, and concluded that Bai Rou’s feelings were directed toward Li Yan rather than Sun Guoshu.
• Li Wuyi arrived with Li Changting, Miao Wangqing, Wei Chi Tuo, and two unfamiliar cultivators, and Li Changting provoked Qiu Jiuzhen and the Great Profound Sect guests.
• Li Wuyi defused the quarrel, while pressure from the Nascent Soul cultivators forced both sides to sit down.
• More guests arrived as the ceremony approached, but several major sects, including Ten-Step Academy, had yet to send representatives.
• Mo Qing sensed an intruder, and Yuyuan arrived at Laojun Peak with several bloodied Golden Core cultivators, including Wang Lang.
• Wang Lang reported that two devil generals and more than ten devil fiends had ambushed them, killing Wu Shan and three junior brothers while Yuyuan burned her essence blood to lead the survivors to safety.

At the Phantom Sect gathering, Yu Yuan revealed that two Devil Generals had ambushed the Ten-Step Academy, prompting fears that other sects had also been attacked. Before Mo Qing could organize an investigation, conspirators launched a coordinated assault, leaving the platform and plaza in bloody chaos.

• Wang Lang and Yu Yuan reported that two Devil Generals had ambushed the Ten-Step Academy roughly thirty thousand li east of the Phantom Sect, and Hang Lin warned that other missing sects might also be in danger.
• Mo Qing began discussing an investigation, but Qi Jinghong and Hang Lin attacked him and Yu Yuan as other conspirators struck the Nascent Soul cultivators beside them.
• Li Yan disrupted Qi Jinghong's attack and saved Mo Qing, while Hang Lin wounded Yu Yuan before One Leaf Arhat intervened.
• Cultivator Ye killed Mu Zuowang and destroyed his Nascent Soul, while Great Mirror Chan Master attacked Li Yuyin and Wei Zhongran helped her escape.
• Conspirators ambushed cultivators across the plaza, killing dozens of Golden Core cultivators, and more than a hundred survivors flew into the air as fighting spread.

Li Yan stopped Qi Jinghong from attacking Mo Qing as the assembled cultivators uncovered Hang Lin and several Nascent Soul Cultivators as Devil Race agents. When Hang Lin activated a temporary spatial teleportation array to summon reinforcements, Mo Qing, Arhat Yiye, Wei Zhongran, Li Yan, and Li Yuyin attacked it while the others fought the traitors.

• Li Yan interrupted Qi Jinghong's attempted attack on Mo Qing.
• Mo Qing and the others realized Hang Lin, nine Tai Xuan Sect disciples, and several Nascent Soul Cultivators had betrayed the Human Race, while Hang Lin and the others' history revealed how the Devil Race had coerced and recruited them.
• Arhat Yiye and a wounded Tai Xuan Sect disciple confronted Hang Lin, but he ignored them.
• Hang Lin activated an array disk and opened a temporary spatial teleportation array to summon reinforcements.
• Mo Qing, Arhat Yiye, Wei Zhongran, Li Yan, and Li Yuyin attacked the opening as Wei Zhongran, Li Wuyi, the Pure Land Sect monks, and other cultivators charged the traitors.

Li Yan and the defenders of Phantom Sect fought off an ambush while Wei Zhongran’s attack and a mysterious finger from a black hole drove back the enemy Nascent Soul cultivators. Reinforcements from the Devil Race and other domains emerged through the portal, but Li Yan and Li Yuyin believed Martial Uncle Gu was still within the sect.

• Wang Lang gave Li Yuyuan the pill Li Yuyin sent and ordered the others to attack the enemies.
• Wei Zhongran broke through the defenders’ formation with a powerful strike, but a phantom hand from a black hole blocked his attack and blasted the fighters backward.
• Phantom Sect cultivators and their allies joined the battle, and both sides suffered casualties in the chaotic aerial fighting.
• A force of more than three hundred Devil Race and other-domain cultivators emerged from the black hole, including two devil generals and a black-robed mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Li Yan and Li Yuyin recognized the danger of the arriving force but silently concluded that Martial Uncle Gu’s presence in the sect meant the enemy was not enough to prevail.

Great Master’s assault on Phantom Sect was interrupted when Gu Jiuqi appeared and destroyed the teleportation formation, confronting him in the sky. Gu Jiuqi also recognized Sixth Master among the attackers, while Great Master prepared to hold him off for three hundred breaths.

• The Devil Race cultivators charged Li Yan and the others while Hang Lin and his companions hesitated over the fading teleportation array.
• A hidden point of cold light struck the black hole, and the resulting blast shattered Hang Lin’s formation disk as Gu Jiuqi appeared.
• Gu Jiuqi confronted Great Master, who had come to join the attack after ambushing cultivators elsewhere.
• Gu Jiuqi recognized the black-robed Nascent Soul cultivator as Sixth Master and mocked him for surviving their earlier battle with greatly diminished cultivation.
• Great Master assessed that no other Spirit Transformation cultivator had appeared and resolved to delay Gu Jiuqi for three hundred breaths.

Gu Jiuqi and Great Master renewed their battle above the Ninefold Heaven while their allies fought to decide the conflict below. Li Yan faced Qi Jinghong, who countered his soul attack with pure yang power, and the chapter left their duel continuing amid Qi Jinghong’s scorching scarlet cauldron.

• Gu Jiuqi pursued Great Master into the Ninefold Heaven, while Mo Qing and the others prepared to fight the Devil Race’s Nascent Soul cultivators below.
• Li Yan warned Bai Rou to protect herself and urged Li Wuyi, Zi Kun, and the others to coordinate defensively.
• The Devil Race fighters surrounded Mo Qing, Wei Zhongran, Li Yuyin, and One-Leaf, assigning multiple opponents to their strongest targets.
• Wei Zhongran charged two devil generals with his black-gold war hammers, while Grand Mirror Zen Master blocked Li Yuyin and Sixth Master and Hang Lin confronted One-Leaf.
• Qi Jinghong attacked Li Yan with his crimson brush, but Li Yan evaded and struck at his soul with a black rune.
• Qi Jinghong neutralized Li Yan’s soul attack with pure yang spiritual power, then transformed his brush into a blazing scarlet cauldron that burned away Li Yan’s following attack.

Li Yan defeated and killed Qi Jinghong by turning Qi Jinghong’s Stone-Melting Crimson Flame against him, then using the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike and his poison to destroy his nascent soul. The battle continued around them, with Li Yan’s side still facing seven nascent soul cultivators and badly outnumbered.

• Qi Jinghong forced Li Yan’s spectral soul threads into view and engulfed him in the crimson flame cloud.
• Li Yan emerged from the cloud and sent a blood-red attack through Qi Jinghong’s pure yang true fire, fatally wounding him.
• Li Yan stabbed Qi Jinghong with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike and used its poison to destroy Qi Jinghong’s nascent soul.
• Li Yan recalled that he had disguised his attacks as soul techniques to provoke Qi Jinghong into using the flame that could counter his own mysterious red-cloud treasure.

Li Yan discovered that the blood river in the Li Fire Mysterious Yellow Fan had strengthened the Flying Scythe Blood Mantises and found a way to compress its red clouds with the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water technique. In the battle, he killed Qi Jinghong in a few breaths and then turned his attention to Wei Zhongran, who was fighting two devil generals.

• Li Yan found that the eight Flying Scythe Blood Mantises had grown stronger in the blood river, subdued the hostile third-rank spirit essence, and refined all eight anew.
• Li Yan detected unfamiliar water spiritual energy in the blood river and discovered that practicing the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water technique could compress its red clouds.
• Li Yan used the Li Fire Mysterious Yellow Fan against Qi Jinghong, blocked his Pure Yang True Fire with Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos, and destroyed his nascent soul with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike and Nascent Soul Poison.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators on both sides were stunned by Qi Jinghong's death, while Li Yan took his storage ring and looked toward Wei Zhongran's battle.
• Li Yan saw that Wei Zhongran was holding his ground against two devil generals despite being forced to retreat.

Li Yan joined Li Yuyin against Great Mirror Zen Master while the battles across the battlefield continued. Bai Rou’s puppets killed the two Golden Core cultivators, though more than thirty puppets were destroyed.

• Wei Zhongran held off two demon generals, and Li Yan chose to help Li Yuyin rather than One Leaf Arhat, who said he could last roughly thirty more breaths.
• Li Yan flew to Li Yuyin as Sixth Mister urged his allies to attack with everything they had; Wei Zhongran shifted to delaying the demon generals.
• Bai Rou trapped two Golden Core cultivators inside her puppet formation and coordinated attacks against them.
• An azure python destroyed more than ten puppets before a crocodile puppet pierced its head, and one Golden Core cultivator’s aura vanished.
• Bai Rou’s puppets killed the second Golden Core cultivator, losing more than thirty puppets, and an armor-clad puppet brought her the men’s Storage Pouches.

Bai Rou, Li Wuyi, and Hu Chen Wuding turned the tide against their opponents with powerful abilities, while Qiu Jiuzhen fought fiercely despite her grief. The chapter left Qiu Jiuzhen trapped by a foreign cultivator’s sealing treasure as he swung both hammers toward her head.

• Bai Rou collected the damaged treasures and storage pouches of two slain Golden Core Realm cultivators, then summoned more puppets to frighten nearby enemies.
• Li Wuyi overwhelmed a South Sea False Nascent Soul cultivator and trapped him inside a blood-red character, where he was crushed to death.
• Hu Chen Wuding’s deep-blue mist shriveled and destroyed a massive devil cultivator who struggled to escape.
• Qiu Jiuzhen attacked an aged black-robed foreign False Nascent Soul cultivator, but he countered her with a patterned grasshopper and bound her with Withered Vine Dust.
• The aged black-robed foreign cultivator raised both hammers and swung them toward Qiu Jiuzhen’s temples while she remained sealed in place.

Baili Yuan rescued Qiu Jiuzhen from the aged foreign cultivator, while the battle between the cultivators and the Devil Race grew increasingly desperate. As the Nascent Soul fighters shifted opponents, Great Mirror Zen Master unleashed a new technique against Li Yan, revealing a manifestation fueled by power of faith.

• Baili Yuan pulled Qiu Jiuzhen free from the withered vine and urged her to recover before the enemy attacking him could reach them.
• Du Sanjiang stored the unconscious Wang Tian in a spirit storage pouch, and Li Changting did the same for the gravely wounded Miao Wangqing after his gu insects protected her.
• Arhat One Leaf was wounded by Hang Lin's flying sword while Wei Zhongran held off two devil cultivators, and Li Yan sent Li Yuyin to assist One Leaf.
• Li Yuyin intercepted Hang Lin as she left, allowing Li Yan to fight Great Mirror Zen Master without holding back.
• Great Mirror Zen Master withdrew his Vajra Bodhisattva and summoned kneeling figures of green smoke and a golden hoop, which Li Yan recognized as power of faith.

Grand Zen Master Dajing trapped Li Yan with mind power and prepared to kill him with flaming Buddhist beads, but Li Yan’s spiritual power broke the karmic threads and caused Dajing’s technique to backlash. Li Yan appeared before the helpless Dajing and struck at his head with both fists.

• Grand Zen Master Dajing used his mind power to ensnare Li Yan, while Wei Zhongran, Arhat Yiye, Mo Qing, and Li Yuyin tried to reach him.
• Dajing sent karmic threads into Li Yan, filling his consciousness with voices and leaving him motionless beneath the golden hoop.
• Li Yan’s five-element spiritual power surged through his meridians, severed the karmic threads, and dispelled the figures in his consciousness.
• Dajing ignited his eighteen Buddhist beads to attack Li Yan, but he suddenly spat blood as his mind power suffered a backlash.
• Li Yan vanished from beneath the beads, appeared before Dajing, and swung both fists toward his ears.

Li Yan broke free of Master Dajing’s power of thought and overwhelmed him with a poison-laced assault, then flew to aid Wei Zhongran after making the others believe Master Dajing’s Nascent Soul had escaped. The battle continued with Li Yan’s opponents now wary of his strength and his apparent ability to threaten Nascent Souls.

• Li Yan broke Master Dajing’s restraint with the Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos and launched a rapid assault, while Wei Zhongran blocked the demon generals from intervening.
• Li Yan battered Master Dajing with poisoned strikes that damaged his body and caused his Nascent Soul to grow groggy.
• Li Yan appeared to search for Master Dajing’s escaped Nascent Soul, while Mo Qing told him to stop and help Wei Zhongran.
• Hang Lin warned the others that Li Yan was a high-level poison cultivator, and Sixth Mister complained that Master Dajing had fled.
• Li Yan concealed that he had destroyed Master Dajing’s Nascent Soul and flew toward Wei Zhongran.

As the battle turned against the Devil Race and its allies, Great Master ordered a retreat while Gu Jiuqi attacked him. Li Yan’s fighting had helped change the tide, and Wei Zhongran kept an intermediate-stage devil general trapped as the chapter ended.

• Gu Jiuqi destroyed Great Master’s summoned talon and taunted him after the Devil Race lost two Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Great Master ordered Sixth Master and the others to retreat, while Gu Jiuqi attacked him with wine-condensed sword energy.
• Mo Qing and Arhat Yiye pursued the fleeing enemies, but Mo Qing delayed activating the grand formation to protect Laojun Peak’s low-level cultivators.
• Wang Lang chased a wounded South Sea traitor cultivator, while Qiu Jiuzhen reconsidered her earlier doubts after seeing Li Yan’s impact on the battle.
• Li Yan pursued an initial-stage devil general, and Wei Zhongran trapped an intermediate-stage devil general with ancient seal characters.
• Wei Zhongran urged the trapped devil general to self-detonate and struck one of his twin hammers, unleashing a violent aura.

Wei Zhongran used lightning, character runes, and a golden drum to destroy the mid-stage demon general’s body and trap his grievously wounded Nascent Soul. Li Yan pursued another demon cultivator to the sect-protecting formation’s boundary, where the demon produced a small gray stone as Li Yan closed in.

• Wei Zhongran used the twin hammers and lightning to draw the mid-stage demon general into a rotating pillar, then struck a golden drum three times and burst his body apart.
• The demon general’s Nascent Soul fled into the Gate character runes sealing the surrounding space, and Wei Zhongran trapped it despite exhausting and injuring himself.
• Li Yan sensed Mo Qing activate Phantom Sect’s sect-protecting grand formation and continued chasing a fleeing demon cultivator without using Wind Soaring Heaven.
• The demon cultivator struck the formation’s invisible boundary and endured its lightning retaliation as Li Yan caught up.
• As Li Yan closed in, the demon cultivator showed little panic and produced a small gray stone.

Li Yan and the Phantom Sect’s defenders watched invaders escape through spatial rifts opened with gray stones, while Gu Jiuqi recognized the stones as Sandstar Stones and realized the enemy had prepared a way through turbulent space. Great Master challenged Gu Jiuqi to follow him into turbulent space, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The devil cultivator opened a spatial rift with a gray stone and escaped, while Li Yan stayed behind and suspected the stone enabled the dangerous passage.
• Li Yan saw Devil Race and alien-domain cultivators use identical stones to flee through rifts, while Li Wuyi and One-Leaf Arhat’s pursuers could only watch.
• Gu Jiuqi recognized the stones as Sandstar Stones and realized they helped the invaders find exits through turbulent space beyond the Phantom Sect’s formation.
• Gu Jiuqi deduced that the devil and alien-domain cultivators had another treasure capable of protecting them from astral winds.
• Great Master taunted Gu Jiuqi and offered to continue their battle in turbulent space.

Great Master fled the Phantom Sect with Gu Jiuqi pursuing him, while Li Yan discovered that the enemy cultivators were escaping through the turbulent void and prepared to teleport away if necessary. Ping Tu recognized Great Master’s aura and urgently had Li Yan throw him the diamond crystal, leaving Li Yan unsure what Ping Tu intended.

• Great Master explained how Sand Star King Stones protected cultivators in the turbulent void and fled toward the edge of the Phantom Sect while Gu Jiuqi followed.
• Li Yan found that many enemies, including Hang Lin and the others, had disappeared, then left the grand formation and spotted Mo Qing and other cultivators nearby.
• When Li Yan sensed Great Master and Gu Jiuqi approaching, he contacted Ping Tu through the ancient round diamond crystal.
• Ping Tu recognized Great Master’s aura as belonging to a sect from the secret realm and ordered Li Yan to throw the crystal after the two fleeing cultivators.
• Li Yan hurled the crystal toward Great Master and Gu Jiuqi, and it vanished, cutting off his contact with Ping Tu.

The Great Master fled Gu Jiuqi but was teleported into the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead by Ping Tu, who intended to grind him down and take his nascent soul. The Great Master then found himself at the entrance to a silent, desolate street.

• While pursuing the Great Master, Gu Jiuqi watched him turn back toward Mo Qing and then vanish in a subtle spatial fluctuation.
• Li Yan contacted Ping Tu, who revealed that he had trapped the Great Master inside the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead and believed he could kill him with its power.
• Ping Tu considered trapping Gu Jiuqi too, but let the idea go after Li Yan pleaded for his martial uncle's safety.
• Li Yan left the forest to patrol for escaped enemies as Golden Core cultivators approached.
• Inside the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead, the Great Master examined a dim, deserted street lined with silent shops and taverns.

Great Master was drawn into a deadly independent space near the Phantom Sect, where a black shadow overwhelmed him and consumed his arm and staff. Meanwhile, Mo Qing and the others reviewed the battle’s heavy casualties, and Gu Jiuqi killed Sixth Master in the turbulent space.

• Great Master entered an isolated street after sensing a familiar aura and suspected it was connected to the secret realm he had sought.
• Great Master triggered deadly traps in several shops before a vast black shadow advanced, erasing everything in its path.
• Great Master’s attack accelerated the shadow, which engulfed his arm and staff and left him badly injured as it pursued him.
• Mo Qing and the others received the battle report, which listed five fallen Nascent Soul cultivators on Great Master’s side and said Great Master had escaped into turbulent space.
• Gu Jiuqi found Sixth Master in the turbulent space and killed him with a finger strike to the back of the head.

Gu Jiuqi reported the deaths and dangers he encountered in turbulent space, while Li Yan and the Wangliang Sect assessed the battle’s heavy casualties. Mo Qing and Arhat Yiye concluded that the enemy had suffered a major setback, though many losses remained uncertain.

• Gu Jiuqi’s attempt to search the Sixth Master’s soul triggered the restrictions in his sea of consciousness, destroying the nascent soul.
• Gu Jiuqi watched the cultivator surnamed Ye and eight others perish when they encountered a drifting fracture node in turbulent space.
• Li Yan learned that the gray stones were Sandstar Stones, while Mo Qing and the others estimated the enemy had lost roughly two hundred and thirty to two hundred and forty golden core cultivators.
• Li Yan sent the gravely injured Qianji to Tuban for recovery, while the Wangliang Sect counted its dead and treated the battle’s wounded.
• Mo Qing and Arhat Yiye discussed the losses and concluded that the enemy’s forces had been badly weakened and would struggle to mount another ambush for centuries.

After the battle, the four great sects agreed to compensate the fallen cultivators’ sects, purge suspected traitors, and publicize the Devil Race’s failed attack. Li Yan returned to Small Bamboo Peak, helped Miao Wangqing stabilize her damaged golden core, and checked on Bai Rou and Sun Guoshu at Four Symbols Peak.

• Wei Zhongran, Mo Qing, Arhat Yiye, Li Yan, and Li Yuyin agreed that the Taixuan Sect should compensate the victims’ sects and purge suspected traitors, while the four great sects would protect lineages whose leaders had fallen.
• Gu Jiuqi assured the others that Spirit Transformation cultivators on the Desolate Moon Continent would handle the Great Master, and Mo Qing announced the attack and the sects’ losses to the cultivation world.
• Li Yuyin returned to her peak and entered seclusion, while Li Wuyi stayed at Small Bamboo Peak, furious that Miao Wangqing and Qianji had nearly died.
• Li Yan checked Small Bamboo Peak’s wounded cultivators and spent five days stabilizing Miao Wangqing’s cracked golden core until it began to heal.
• Li Yan visited Four Symbols Peak, where Sun Guoshu explained that Bai Rou’s puppets had protected him during the battle and that he had survived despite severe injuries.

Li Yan comforted Bai Rou and Sun Guoshu after the battle, assuring them that the Great Master would not threaten them again, while Bai Rou chose to remain nearby and recover. Back in seclusion, Li Yan began studying the spoils from Great Mirror Zen Master and Qi Jinghong, discovering a vast fortune and several valuable treasures.

• Li Yan gave Bai Rou Divine Surplus Pills and warned her not to exhaust herself so recklessly in battle.
• Li Yan assured Bai Rou and Sun Guoshu that the Great Master would not appear again, and said his Nascent Soul celebration would be canceled.
• Bai Rou decided to stay and recover near the Phantom Sect so she could respond if enemies attacked.
• Li Yan returned to Small Bamboo Peak, sealed his courtyard, and prepared to enter seclusion after reflecting on his first battle as a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Li Yan broke Great Mirror Zen Master's storage restriction and found more than ten thousand high-grade spirit stones, valuable pills, and other treasures.
• Li Yan tested Great Mirror Zen Master's prayer beads, talismans, hoop, and rope, but could not uncover the beads' full abilities.

Li Yan examined Master Dajing’s spoils, learning about the limits of Secret-Traces Vajra Mountain Suppression and discovering a water-attribute supreme-grade spirit stone inside a trapped jade box. He stored the stone and continued sorting the pouch’s contents, where an unusually heavy demon beast tailbone caught his attention.

• Li Yan read Secret-Traces Vajra Mountain Suppression and concluded that Master Dajing had likely summoned only one Vajrapani Bodhisattva manifestation because of the art’s demanding spirit-root and spiritual-power requirements.
• Li Yan found no way to control the prayer beads’ thought power and decided to study Buddhist scriptures so he could better understand the art.
• Li Yan triggered and shattered the jade box’s powerful golden-hand restriction, then protected his cultivation chamber when the opened box released immense spiritual pressure.
• Li Yan identified the box’s contents as a water-attribute supreme-grade spirit stone, examined it, and stored it inside Tuban.
• Li Yan inspected the remaining spiritual plants and demon beast materials in Master Dajing’s pouch, then struggled to lift an unidentified six-foot tailbone.

Li Yan inspected Chan Master Dajing’s storage pouches and Qi Jinghong’s storage ring, uncovering immense wealth, two supreme-grade spirit stones, and three sheets of the Undying Underworld Phoenix’s essence blood. A map in Qi Jinghong’s jade box suggested he had tracked the silver paper across the Pure Land Sect and Ten-Step Academy territories, including locations tied to people Li Yan knew.

• Li Yan examined Dajing’s unidentified tailbone, herbs, beast materials, and Sandstar Stone, then found heaps of treasures and spirit stones in Dajing’s two gray pouches.
• Li Yan searched Qi Jinghong’s storage ring and discovered abundant materials, spirit stones, four powerful magical treasures, and another Sandstar Stone, but no cultivation methods.
• Li Yan opened two jade boxes and found two supreme-grade spirit stones, one earth-attribute and one wood-attribute.
• Li Yan broke the restriction on the final jade box and found three silver sheets of the Undying Underworld Phoenix’s essence blood.
• Li Yan read a map marked with seventeen locations, eight crossed out, and inferred that Qi Jinghong had searched for the silver paper, including at the Qiu, Zuo, and Huchen lineages.