Arc 50The Hidden Wind Cavern

Li Yan and Gong Chenying searched the Black Mirror Marsh for Gong Shanhe, uncovering a cavern of ghostly wind beasts and the imprisoned remnant soul Hong Yin. After escaping and returning to the Tianli Clan, the story shifted to the Northern Ice Continent, where Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong traced the traps targeting the Five Immortal Sects to the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.

  • Li Yan’s poison killed Wind Iron Beasts and Wind Goose Beasts, and he built a defensive line that gave the Tianli Clan a respite from the Wind Beasts.
  • Li Yan and Gong Chenying searched the Black Mirror Marsh for Gong Shanhe, discovered a hidden pit of violent wind pillars, and were separated when the winds swept them into a cavern.
  • Gong Chenying fought ghostly wind beasts and encountered Hong Yin, while Li Yan escaped the wind pillars and found Gong Shanhe imprisoned in a cavern.
  • Li Yan and Gong Shanhe tried to escape, but crimson-robed ghost cultivators trapped them in sinister wind until Hong Yin and Gong Chenying joined the fight and helped them flee.
  • Li Yan and Gong Shanhe escaped the swamp with Gong Chenying, the Sixth Elder, and Hong Yin, who revealed that she had sealed a powerful Yin Mountain Beast beneath the cavern.
  • Hong Yin agreed to visit the Tianli Clan, while Li Yan and Gong Shanhe returned with Gong Chenying and the Sixth Elder as Yan San and other Wind Beasts confronted them.
  • On the Northern Ice Continent, Dong Fuyi found Pei Buchong and learned that Pei had been searching for his missing master, True Lord Qianzhong.
  • Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong concluded that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had planted clues and traps to target the Five Immortal Sects.
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Ch. 1226Death Zone

Li Yan’s invisible poison trapped and killed the Wind Iron Beasts attacking a basin, sparing the Tianli Clan’s northern defensive line from the expected assault. After witnessing the poison’s power, the First Elder recognized Li Yan as the famed Bamboo Chaos and Ink Bone.

  • The First Elder, Second Elder, and Third Elder wondered whether Li Yan’s invisible poison could truly harm the wind beasts.
  • A-Ling and the other Tianli Clan warriors waited for the Wind Iron Beasts to round the mountain bend, but the expected attack did not arrive.
  • A cultivator ordered six squad captains, including A-Ling, to climb the beacon tower after wind beasts became trapped in the basin.
  • A-Ling and the others watched Wind Iron Beasts collapse in the basin and Wind Goose Beasts fall from the sky, apparently killed by Li Yan’s poison.
  • The Third Elder praised Li Yan’s poison and asked whether he could protect an entire defensive line; Li Yan said he had brought enough materials.
  • The First Elder recognized Li Yan as Bamboo Chaos and Ink Bone, and Li Yan silently acknowledged the identification.

Ch. 1227Ten Years of Life and Death, Boundless and Unclear

Li Yan completed a poison-based defensive line that sharply restricted the Wind Beasts’ attacks and gave the Tianli Clan’s exhausted warriors a chance to rest. After Gong Chenyin emerged from seclusion, she left with Li Yan and two demons to search for Gong Shanhe, while the three Elders stayed behind to hold off Yan San.

  • Li Yan asked the First Elder, Second Elder, and Third Elder to restrain the Wind Beasts’ fourth-rank fighters and provide formation tools while he built the defensive line.
  • Yan San and the other fourth-rank Wind Beasts repeatedly clashed with the Elders but failed to stop the defenses from closing off the enemy’s attack routes.
  • Li Yan paced his work by claiming he needed time to refine more poison, then finished the last section of the line as Tianli Clan warriors guarded the remaining gap.
  • A-Ling and her fellow warriors saw the new defenses bring a respite from the Wind Beasts, while Li Yan recovered in the forest under the Snow Mosquito clan’s guard.
  • Gong Chenyin left seclusion, and the next day she departed with Li Yan and two demons on the Cloud-Piercing Willow to search the locations marked on the Third Elder’s map for Gong Shanhe.

Ch. 1228Black Mirror Marsh

Li Yan and Gong Chenying reached the Black Mirror Marsh to investigate the disappearance of Gong Chenying’s father and the Sixth Elder, whose location the Tianli Clan had traced to its central region. Finding no clues above the surface, they descended into the seemingly bottomless marsh together, leaving their search underway in the darkness.

  • Li Yan brought Gong Chenying into Tuban, where she used its pure fire spiritual energy to refine the red-glowing spearhead and transfer her old halberd’s artifact spirit into it.
  • Li Yan and Gong Chenying arrived at the Black Mirror Marsh and discussed whether the Wind Beast clans had trapped Gong Chenying’s father and the Sixth Elder there.
  • Li Yan argued that the disappearance might have resulted from an unexpected situation rather than a deliberate trap, and the pair set out to find the marked location.
  • After searching the marsh’s central region for two days without finding clues, Li Yan gave Gong Chenying four Golden Bell Talismans for protection.
  • Li Yan enclosed them in a spiritual-energy barrier and led Gong Chenying down through the marsh’s surface into darkness.

Ch. 1229A Discovery

Li Yan and Gong Chenying descended through the swamp while searching for Gong Shanhe, and Gong Chenying discovered that the depths contained a Sky Eye Pit. They identified wind pillars trapped beneath an inverted vortex and prepared to descend farther into the unknown pit.

  • Li Yan regained his composure after briefly losing himself while close to Gong Chenying, and the two continued their descent through the swamp.
  • Gong Chenying sensed an inverted vortex and concluded that the swamp concealed a Sky Eye Pit whose wind pillars had not broken through the mud above.
  • Li Yan detected a hollow below them containing icy, sinister wind pillars, and Gong Chenying confirmed the discovery with her Divine Sense.
  • Li Yan and Gong Chenying reached the edge of a vast pit where the wind pillars churned beneath suspended mud.
  • After finding no weaker winds nearby, Li Yan chose to descend from their current location.

Ch. 1230Traceless Yet Seemingly Marked

Li Yan and Gong Chenying searched the Heaven-Eye Wind pit for Gong Shanhe and discovered a deep layer of rhythmic wind pillars too powerful to cross. Li Yan descended alone to investigate, finding tortured faces in the black winds as the cold and pressure rapidly drained his spiritual power.

  • Li Yan sensed ghostly yin energy in the violent wind pillars as he took Gong Chenying deeper into the pit.
  • After the wind pillars’ power surged more than tenfold, Li Yan escaped upward and learned that the rhythmic winds below blocked further descent and Divine Sense.
  • Li Yan and Gong Chenying searched the area for four days, then agreed that Li Yan would descend alone while Gong Chenying held a spiritual power rope and prepared a Golden Bell Talisman.
  • Li Yan entered the rhythmic wind pillars and found that they pulled him downward, while his Divine Sense revealed agonized human faces embedded in the black winds.
  • As gray ice formed over his barrier and his spiritual power dwindled, Li Yan found no trace of Gong Shanhe and decided to descend another hundred zhang for a quick search.

Ch. 1231Monstrous dragons churned heaven and earth

Li Yan descended into the wind column searching for Gong Shanhe and encountered a deadly attack from six black wind columns. After the spiritual power rope linking him to Gong Chenying broke, she was dragged into a wind column but forced her way out and emerged in a vast cavern.

  • Li Yan burned away the attacking gray-white faces, then realized the descent was too dangerous and tried to retreat.
  • Six black wind columns pinned Li Yan, but he used the Primordial Heaven-Suppressing Talisman and his full strength to strike them back and escape upward.
  • Li Yan deliberately broke the spiritual power rope to keep Gong Chenying from being pulled into the fight.
  • Gong Chenying dodged the surging wind columns, but a black column caught her and dragged her downward despite her Golden Bell Talisman.
  • Gong Chenying split the icy wall of the wind column with a powerful strike, escaped through the breach, and entered a cavern where she smashed through several stalactites.

Ch. 1232Scattered

Gong Chenying became trapped in a freezing cave amid powerful wind pillars and set off to search for another exit. Li Yan was caught in dense black qi, where a blood-robed cultivator attacked him with poison and increasingly powerful ghosts.

  • Gong Chenying found that Nascent Soul-level wind pillars surrounded the cave and that her Divine Sense could not safely probe beyond its entrance.
  • Gong Chenying carved the mark of Small Bamboo Peak into the cave wall and went deeper to seek another exit on her own.
  • Li Yan escaped the wind pillars pursuing him but was surrounded by crushing black qi that shattered his talisman and formed black frost over him.
  • A blood-robed man carrying an emerald-green flute appeared before Li Yan and summoned refined ghosts to attack him.
  • Li Yan burned the ghosts with fire, then exchanged blows with the man and recognized the poison spreading through his arm as yin-cold ghost poison.
  • The blood-robed man swung his flute again and unleashed a stronger, larger swarm of ghosts against Li Yan.

Ch. 1233Today, the Waters Were Still Cold

Li Yan was overwhelmed by two identical crimson-robed men and retreated into a cave, while Gong Chenying explored deeper inside and discovered that its seemingly low-level ghosts were actually a fourth race of wind beasts. She realized the discovery could endanger the Tianli Clan, then steadied herself and remained in the cave, still weighing what to do.

  • Two identical men in blood-dripping scholar's crimson robes attacked Li Yan with enormous ghost claws, and their frigid poison forced him to retreat.
  • Li Yan fled a thousand zhang and found himself inside a cave, where his Divine Sense could scan normally except toward the black mist at the entrance.
  • Gong Chenying searched the cave, killed thousands of ghostly creatures, and used Soul Search on a few survivors.
  • Gong Chenying learned the creatures feared going deeper into the cave and preferred its wind, leading her to identify them as a fourth race of wind beasts.
  • Alarmed by what the discovery meant for the Tianli Clan, Gong Chenying calmed herself and stood still to consider her next move.

Ch. 1234Ghostly Wind Beasts

Gong Chenying ventured deeper into the cave beneath the swamp, where ghostly wind beasts grew stronger with the dense icy yin energy. After defeating several second-rank beasts, she encountered a third-rank beast whose shield-bound tongue trapped her spear, leaving the fight unresolved.

  • Gong Chenying reasoned that the cave's wind beasts might have emerged more than ten years earlier and wondered why the Wind Goose Beasts and Wind Iron Beasts had not eliminated them.
  • Gong Chenying entered the cave's depths to search for a way out and killed a second-rank ghostly wind beast that ambushed her.
  • Gong Chenying killed several more ghostly wind beasts and learned from their memories that they grew stronger by absorbing icy yin energy and devouring one another.
  • Gong Chenying marked and explored branching passages, then encountered a mid-third-rank ghostly wind beast wielding a stone pillar.
  • Gong Chenying attacked the beast with her spear, but its rune-carved shield animated and its icy tongue wrapped around her spearhead.

Ch. 1235The Long Road Stretched Deep and Far

Gong Chenying killed a lean ghostly wind beast, then fought and evaded the growing pack pursuing her through the cave. She trapped herself in a narrow passage to force the pursuers to approach one at a time, where two peak third-tier beasts hesitated before her position.

  • Gong Chenying used the Sevenfold Waves force of her punch to destroy the lean man's body, then impaled and melted his fleeing demon core with her spear.
  • Gong Chenying sealed and collected the lean man's two magical treasures, but several powerful auras soon approached from deeper in the cave.
  • Over the next two days, Gong Chenying fought and fled from a growing group of ghostly wind beasts, injuring two while suffering wounds herself.
  • Gong Chenying concluded that eight third-tier beasts were pursuing her and chose a narrow dead-end passage as a place to counterattack.
  • Two peak third-tier ghostly wind beasts followed Gong Chenying into the passage, then stopped when they found her waiting around a tight bend.

Ch. 1236Unknown Travelers on the Road Ahead

Gong Chenying survived the old man's ambush in the passage, but an unseen figure seized her spear and immobilized her. Elsewhere, Li Yan realized the cave might be trapping him as it had trapped the Tianli Clan's clan leader and others.

  • The old man sent four marten-like demon beasts to distract Gong Chenying, then attacked her with a poisoned claw.
  • Gong Chenying recognized the illusion, destroyed the beasts, tore open a spatial rift to evade the claw, and forced the old man to retreat with his hand severed.
  • Gong Chenying used Melting Bamboo Shoot and pills to restore her magical power and treat her injuries before resuming meditation at the bend.
  • An undetectable figure appeared behind Gong Chenying, pinned her in place, took control of her spear, and stepped before her holding it.
  • Li Yan explored the cavern's branching passages and realized the cave might be trapping him and the missing Tianli Clan's clan leader and others.

Ch. 1237The Familiar Face of the East Wind

Li Yan explored the underground passages beneath the swamp and found Gong Shanhe, Gong Chenying’s father, imprisoned behind an array restriction. After confirming Li Yan’s identity and hearing why he had come, Gong Shanhe lowered the restriction and apologized for testing him.

  • Li Yan summoned Qianji and Zi Kun, established the Primordial Qi Supreme Clarity Array, and sent his Divine Sense through the branching passages.
  • Li Yan followed his markers to a cavern and broke through its restriction with a powerful punch, awakening the gaunt man inside.
  • Li Yan greeted the man as Clan Leader Gong and identified himself as Gong Chenying’s junior apprentice brother, then showed his Wangliang Sect token.
  • Gong Shanhe recalled reports that Li Yan had fallen at Yinmo Cliff and questioned how he had survived and reached the swamp.
  • Li Yan explained his long imprisonment, his search for Gong Shanhe and the Sixth Elder, and the Wind Beasts’ conflict with the Tianli Clan.
  • Gong Shanhe verified Li Yan’s identity, removed the array restriction, and apologized for his caution against Wind Beast disguises.

Ch. 1238Judging the Situation

Li Yan reunited with Gong Shanhe and learned that Gong Chenying might have been swept into the same hidden space as the Sixth Elder, where she could still be alive. Gong Shanhe explained Yan San’s scheme and how a mysterious ghostly wind beast had trapped him as a living furnace vessel, then rushed toward a spatial distortion at the cave’s dead end.

  • Gong Shanhe questioned Li Yan about A-Ying and the Tianli Clan, and Li Yan recounted how Yan San’s ambush had nearly destroyed the clan.
  • Li Yan explained that Gong Chenying had followed him into the area and disappeared after they encountered regularly swaying wind pillars.
  • Gong Shanhe reasoned that Gong Chenying might be trapped with the Sixth Elder, who had survived there for at least six months according to an earlier divination.
  • Gong Shanhe told Li Yan that Yan San had lured him and the Sixth Elder into the swamp, where ghostly wind beasts guarded a cave and a powerful creature might sleep beneath it.
  • Gong Shanhe described how recurring yin winds drained his blood and vital energy, leading him to suspect that a hidden being was keeping him alive as a furnace vessel.
  • When the yin wind returned for the third time, Gong Shanhe feigned collapse, raced to the cave’s deepest wall, and spotted lingering spatial distortions.

Ch. 1239Half the River Rustles, Half the River Glows Red

Li Yan and Gong Shanhe concluded that the cave’s terrifying power was using the sinister wind to drain their blood and vitality, then prepared to escape while Gong Shanhe recovered with Li Yan’s pills. Elsewhere, a nun’s remnant soul captured Gong Chenying, recognized her spearhead as belonging to Red Whisk Temple, and accused her of infiltrating the temple and stealing it.

  • Gong Shanhe told Li Yan how the sinister wind repeatedly drained him and explained his theory that the cave’s powerful being was injured and using ghostly wind beasts to guard him and Sixth Elder.
  • Li Yan and Gong Shanhe reasoned that the other Nascent Soul ghostly creature was likely guarding Sixth Elder, making it a good moment to escape, and Li Yan gave Gong Shanhe pills to restore his strength.
  • After recovering to about eighty percent, Gong Shanhe joined Li Yan in rushing toward the cave entrance while Li Yan kept his Divine Sense trained behind them.
  • A nun’s remnant soul suppressed Gong Chenying, used her spear to kill several Yin Mountain Beasts, and questioned Gong Chenying about Red Whisk Temple.
  • Gong Chenying identified herself as a member of the Tianli Clan and said she had never heard of Red Whisk Temple, but the nun accused her of stealing the temple’s spearhead and threatened to search her soul.

Ch. 1240The Bright Moon of Qin, the Passes of Han

Gong Chenying convinced the delicate-looking nun that the world above had changed and that the Red Whisk Temple might be gone. After learning about the present era and the Tianli Clan, the nun sensed powerful cultivators battling nearby and agreed to seek contact with Gong Chenying’s Junior Brother, hoping he could help her leave the underground seal.

  • The delicate-looking nun investigated the wind columns and realized the seal had weakened, the Red Whisk Temple was no longer detectable, and the wind outside could kill Nascent Soul cultivators.
  • The nun asked Gong Chenying for the year, then used Soul Search and confirmed that Gong Chenying had entered from beneath a swamp and had told the truth.
  • Gong Chenying explained that her Junior Brother had given her the crimson spearhead and described the Tianli Clan and the current situation on the Wind God Continent.
  • The nun sensed powerful auras clashing nearby, and Gong Chenying suspected that her Junior Brother was fighting there.
  • The nun refused to let Gong Chenying leave alone, but offered to signal her Junior Brother and promised to take Gong Chenying with her if he came, on the condition that he help her escape too.

Ch. 1241Taking First Place in the Imperial Examination

Gong Chenying found the unconscious Sixth Elder in the cave and learned that Gong Shanhe was not there, while Li Yan and Gong Shanhe confronted three Wind Beast avatars outside. As Gong Shanhe fought one opponent and Li Yan engaged the other two, the enemies sent seductive phantoms to overwhelm Li Yan’s Confucian treasures.

  • The delicate-featured nun told Gong Chenying that the Sixth Elder was in the cave, his vital blood drained by a Wind Beast, and that Gong Shanhe was not there.
  • Gong Chenying gave the unconscious Sixth Elder vital-blood-replenishing pills, placed him in her spirit storage pouch, and left him an explanatory jade slip.
  • Li Yan and Gong Shanhe left the cave and encountered three identical men in blood-dripping champion’s robes, then agreed that Gong Shanhe would attack one while Li Yan held off two.
  • Gong Shanhe struck his opponent with a powerful wind blade, while Li Yan used Qi Jinghong’s brush and inkstone to burn and repel the ghosts released by his two foes.
  • The two foes sent out seven seductive women whose pink mist strengthened the ghosts, weakening the brush’s flames as the phantoms advanced toward Li Yan.

Ch. 1242Top Graduate "Inscribed Name"

Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes and his Soul-Pulling Guided Kill technique to kill one blood-dripping top graduate in red robes and disrupt the other’s attack. He faced the surviving opponent as the black mist thinned and his Divine Sense suppression weakened.

  • The blood-dripping top graduate in red robes sent blood-red hats to suppress Li Yan’s inkstone while naked apparitions closed in on him.
  • Li Yan secretly used the Gui Water True Scripture to trace golden figures of both opponents inside his sleeves and inscribe Black Water Runes.
  • Li Yan’s rune struck the opponent controlling the naked apparitions, tore out his Life Soul, and caused his cultivation to collapse.
  • Li Yan pinned the weakened man’s Primordial Spirit with one Guiyi Water-Parting Spike and pulled out and annihilated his remaining souls and spirits with the other.
  • The second blood-dripping top graduate in red robes shattered Li Yan’s rune, forcing him to halt his attack as the man raised a flute and Li Yan recalled his damaged magic treasures.

Ch. 1243A Long Flute Holds Back a Thousand Mountains

Li Yan and Gong Shanhe fought their way toward escape after Li Yan killed one crimson-robed scholar, while Gong Chenying learned that they were nearby and prepared to leave the cave with the delicate nun. Just as Li Yan and Gong Shanhe began resisting the sinister wind, one scholar merged with the other, greatly increasing his power and intensifying the wind.

  • Li Yan killed one crimson-robed scholar with his soul technique, leaving him and Gong Shanhe facing two opponents against two.
  • The delicate nun described the fighters beyond the cave, and Gong Chenying recognized Li Yan and her father; the nun placed a restriction on Gong Chenying and set out with her to join them.
  • The crimson-robed scholars played their flutes, summoning the cave's sinister wind and freezing Li Yan and Gong Shanhe as they tried to escape.
  • Li Yan used his Five Elements cultivation method to resist the wind, while Gong Shanhe advanced by striking cracks into it with his punches.
  • One crimson-robed scholar shrank and entered the other's dantian, boosting the survivor's aura and strengthening the sinister wind's tearing force.

Ch. 1244Each Unleashed Their Full Strength

Li Yan struggled against the red-robed man's sinister wind while trying to keep Gong Shanhe from being dragged into the cave. Gong Chenying and a Buddhist nun intervened, injuring the red-robed man's avatar and giving the group a chance to escape as the cave's main body stirred.

  • Li Yan resisted the red-robed man's intensifying sinister wind by unleashing more of his strength, while Gong Shanhe was pulled toward the cave entrance.
  • Li Yan attacked the red-robed man with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike, but a Buddhist nun and Gong Chenying appeared and struck him with a spear and a golden Buddha finger.
  • The wounded red-robed man screamed as the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike pierced his shoulder, and a deep roar from the cave shattered the wind columns.
  • The Buddhist nun warned Li Yan and Gong Shanhe to flee because the red-robed man's main body had suffered a backlash but remained too powerful to face.
  • Gong Chenying urged her father and Li Yan to leave, and Li Yan stored her and the nun in his spirit storage pouch.

Ch. 1245The vanished temple

Li Yan and Gong Shanhe escaped the black swamp with Gong Chenying and Hong Yin, a soul who had sealed Gong Chenying as part of a transaction. Hong Yin asked about Red Whisk Temple and learned that it had stood in the swamp before vanishing, while Li Yan and Gong Shanhe quietly considered how to free Gong Chenying without fighting her.

  • Li Yan and Gong Shanhe escaped the swamp after enduring several days of attacks from controlled wind pillars.
  • Li Yan brought Hong Yin and Gong Chenying out of Tuban, and Gong Shanhe reunited with his daughter.
  • Hong Yin revealed that she had sealed Gong Chenying as part of a transaction and offered to remove the seal after asking about the Wind God Continent.
  • Hong Yin asked whether Gong Shanhe or Li Yan knew of Red Whisk Temple, and Gong Shanhe recalled that the temple had once stood in the swamp as a ruin.
  • Gong Shanhe told Hong Yin how the Tianli Clan's first High Priest found Red Whisk Temple and how its buildings later disappeared beneath the swamp.
  • Li Yan and Gong Shanhe secretly agreed that Hong Yin might be connected to the temple and decided to avoid fighting her while seeking a way to rescue Gong Chenying.

Ch. 1246Neither wind nor rain, nor clear skies

Hong Yin questioned Li Yan and Gong Shanhe about the red-glowing spearhead and the Flame Palace in the Northern Underworld Demon-Suppressing Tower. Unable to safely travel alone as a soul, she agreed to visit the Tianli Clan with Gong Chenying for three days before deciding whether to stay, while leaving Chenying sealed until she departed.

  • Hong Yin asked where the spearhead came from, and Li Yan said he had found it in the Flame Palace beneath Red Maple Pool on the Desolate Moon Continent.
  • Hong Yin questioned Li Yan about the Flame Palace, its monsters, and the eighteen pillars carved with Demon Beasts, then asked about the Wind God Continent.
  • Gong Shanhe proposed that Hong Yin visit the Tianli Clan, where she could study its records and receive soul-nourishing pills while seeking a suitable body.
  • Hong Yin agreed to visit the clan with Gong Chenying for three days, during which she would be free to explore outside its core areas, and promised to remove Chenying's seal when she left.
  • Gong Shanhe asked Gong Chenying to bring out the Sixth Elder so they could check his condition.

Ch. 1247Red Whisk's Past and the Junior Brother

Gong Shanhe confirmed that the Sixth Elder had been rescued, and Hong Yin revealed her past as a mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator who sealed a powerful Yin Mountain Beast beneath the swamp. She warned that the beast could awaken within ten to twenty years, leaving Gong Shanhe to consider the Tianli Clan’s options as Gong Chenying clarified her relationship with Li Yan.

  • Hong Yin briefly restored Gong Chenying’s divine sense, allowing her to release the Sixth Elder from her spirit storage bag; Gong Shanhe greeted him, and Li Yan supplied recovery pills before the Sixth Elder returned to rest.
  • Hong Yin identified the Wind Beasts as Yin Mountain Beasts and revealed that their sealed mid-fifth-tier leader could awaken within ten to twenty years.
  • Hong Yin recounted how she had been a mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator and supreme elder of Red Whisk Temple, which she sacrificed to seal the beast after years of fighting drained the temple’s forces.
  • Gong Shanhe recognized that the awakening could threaten the Tianli Clan and said he would consult the Great Elder about what to do, including the possibility of relocating.
  • Gong Chenying told Gong Shanhe that Li Yan was her junior brother from the same sect, prompting Hong Yin to reconsider their unusual senior-and-junior relationship.

Ch. 1248You again

Li Yan brought Gong Shanhe and the Sixth Elder back to the Tianli Clan, where the elders and warriors celebrated their return while Yan San and the Wind Beasts reacted with hatred. The chapter then shifted to the North Ice Continent, where an unknown yellow-robed Daoist faced a storm of icicles.

  • Gong Chenying told Gong Shanhe that Li Yan was the Qing'a King, and Gong Shanhe realized Li Yan was his daughter's Dao Companion and cultivated the Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
  • Hong Yin allowed Gong Chenying to speak privately with Gong Shanhe and warned that breaking her seal could damage her mind.
  • Gong Shanhe learned about Li Yan's deeds for the Tianli Clan, thanked him, and began speaking with him more openly.
  • A month later, Li Yan's party reached the Tianli Clan, and Gong Shanhe and the Sixth Elder rejoiced at their return.
  • Yan San and several fourth-rank Wind Beasts confronted the returning group as the Tianli Clan's elders and warriors welcomed Gong Shanhe and the Sixth Elder.
  • On the North Ice Continent, a yellow-robed Daoist repelled a barrage of icicles, which shattered nearby ice peaks and raised enormous waves.

Ch. 1249Footprints Emerge on the Northern Ice Continent

True Lord Qianzhong searched for a way out of a five-element-severing formation while his enemy waited for him to run out of resources. Meanwhile, Dong Fuyi tracked a white-robed young man to Crossing Dragon Ridge and confronted him outside his hidden cave.

  • True Lord Qianzhong taunted the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect's leader, then weighed three possible formation cores and the risk of choosing the wrong one.
  • The purple-haired giant watched True Lord Qianzhong through a stone-wall image and vowed to outlast him.
  • Dong Fuyi cursed the false rumors that had brought him to the Northern Ice Continent and recalled hearing about a white-robed young man who wielded four attributes.
  • Dong Fuyi searched the witnesses' souls, followed the young man's traces to Crossing Dragon Ridge, and found his concealed cave.
  • The white-robed young man emerged after Dong Fuyi aimed a finger at the cave wall, and Dong Fuyi said he wanted to test his strength.

Ch. 1250Returning Sunlight Enters the Deep Forest

Dong Fuyi defeated Pei Buchong in a brief clash, recognized him as a disciple of the Ji Earth Immortal Sect, and learned that his master, Qian Zhong, had gone missing while searching for Pangu Sand. Dong Fuyi concluded that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had planted clues and bait to lure members of the Five Immortal Sects into deadly traps.

  • Dong Fuyi broke through Pei Buchong’s golden armor and restrained him, then stopped before injuring him and asked where he had learned the Qilin Golden Armor.
  • Pei Buchong identified his master as True Lord Qianzhong, demonstrated his cultivation art, and confirmed Dong Fuyi’s identity before introducing himself as Pei Buchong.
  • Pei Buchong told Dong Fuyi that Qian Zhong had been missing for years and that he had tracked clues across realms to the Northern Ice Continent.
  • Pei Buchong recounted evidence that Qian Zhong had visited the Northern Ice Continent while seeking Pangu Sand, then vanished there.
  • Dong Fuyi revealed that he had also been lured by tempting information and nearly died in a red lightning tribulation, and he suspected someone was targeting the Five Immortal Sects.
  • Dong Fuyi concluded that the Five Immortal Sects’ enemy, the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect, was behind the traps and planted clues.
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