Recaps

Gong Shanhe returned to the Tianli Clan with news that a sleeping fifth-order wind beast threatened the region, prompting the elders to consider retreat while Li Yan watched over Gong Chen Ying and Hong Yin. Hong Yin removed Gong Chen Ying’s Divine Sense seal and began discussing Gong Shanhe’s offer to become a guest elder in exchange for help finding a physical body.

• Yan San and the other wind beasts retreated after seeing that Li Yan and Gong Shanhe were still ready to fight, and the Tianli Clan celebrated their leaders’ return.
• Gong Shanhe told the elders that a fifth-order wind beast slept beneath the swamp and that Yan San had hoped to use the threat to crush the Tianli Clan and advance to the fifth order.
• The Tianli elders discussed the danger and began considering evacuation sites, while Li Yan monitored Hong Yin as she studied the clan’s records with Gong Chen Ying.
• Hong Yin summoned Li Yan and Gong Shanhe to the archive, where Gong Chen Ying revealed that her Divine Sense seal had been removed.
• Hong Yin confirmed that she believed the Tianli Clan’s account and asked whether Gong Shanhe still wanted her to become a guest elder in exchange for help finding her a physical body.

Hongyin agreed to become Gong Chenying’s master, while the Tianli Clan prepared for a possible relocation to escape a fifth-tier wind beast. Li Yan received the fourth and fifth layers of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art and began cultivating them, where the chapter ended with impurities emerging from his body.

• Gong Shanhe agreed to help Hongyin find a Nascent Soul realm body within a hundred years, and Hongyin announced that she would remain with the Tianli Clan to teach Gong Chenying.
• Gong Chenying accepted Hongyin as her master, and Hongyin examined her unusual Three Talents Spirit Roots before beginning her instruction.
• Gong Shanhe gave Li Yan a jade slip containing the fourth and fifth layers of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art and confirmed that the clan had begun preparing to relocate within five to ten years.
• Li Yan returned to his cultivation room and studied the jade slip, then practiced a demanding posture for seven days.
• Li Yan’s muscles began rippling as grayish-white impurities seeped from his pores during his cultivation.

Li Yan broke through to the fourth layer of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, then joined the Tianli Clan elders and Nun Hongyin to discuss how to deal with the dormant fifth-tier Yinshan Beast beneath the swamp. Hongyin explained the beast’s weaknesses and the methods that might delay its awakening, leaving the clan to consider its limited options.

• Li Yan broke through to the fourth layer of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, slightly loosened his middle Nascent Soul bottleneck, and found that his speed and physical strength had improved.
• After more than twenty days of cultivation, Li Yan received the Grand Elder’s summons and went to Tianli Hall, where he found Hongyin and several clan elders waiting.
• Hongyin told Li Yan that Gong Chenying was studying the cultivation technique she had imparted and could not attend; Li Yan privately resolved to settle his grievance with the gloomy Fifth Elder.
• The Grand Elder explained that he had summoned Li Yan and Hongyin to seek advice about the Yinshan Beast beneath the swamp, while the Fifth Elder tried to frame Li Yan’s help as an obligation to the clan.
• Hongyin said the clan could not directly suppress the Yinshan Beast with its current strength, but more than four Nascent Soul Buddhist or Confucian cultivators might delay its awakening, and pure-yang witchcraft could also restrain it.

The Tianli Clan’s elders discussed how to face the fifth-grade Yinshan Beast and asked Li Yan to renew the poison defenses as their barrier failed. Li Yan agreed to supply enough poison for three months and negotiated to earn the sixth layer of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art by defending the clan for five years.

• The Tianli Clan’s elders considered their magic treasure and other options, while Li Yan noted that the Yinshan Beast’s damaged avatars might slow its true body.
• The elders questioned Hong Yin about the sealed beast, and she explained that it had been nourished by Heavenly Eye Wind while her own power had dwindled.
• The First Elder asked Li Yan to address the failing defenses, and Li Yan offered to refine poison for another three months once the clan supplied materials.
• Li Yan told the elders that further help would need to count as a contribution toward receiving more cultivation techniques, prompting a dispute over the clan’s terms.
• After an hour of negotiation, Li Yan agreed to defend the Tianli Clan for five years in exchange for the sixth layer of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, but the elders refused to offer its seventh and eighth layers.

Li Yan asked Hong Yin to assess his Buddhist prayer beads and learned how to activate the thought power within them in exchange for an unspecified future favor. He then asked whether four Vajrapani Bodhisattva images might be enough to suppress the fifth-tier Yin Mountain Beast, leaving Hong Yin to consider the possibility.

• Hong Yin told Li Yan that the Tianli Clan was seeking a physical body for her and agreed to visit his residence to hear his questions.
• Li Yan showed Hong Yin the Secret Trace Vajra Suppresses Mountains, and she judged that its single Vajrapani Bodhisattva image was far too weak to suppress the fifth-tier Yin Mountain Beast.
• Hong Yin agreed to teach Li Yan how to activate the magic treasure's thought power in exchange for a future favor within limits she specified, then gave him a jade slip with the method.
• Li Yan asked whether four Vajrapani Bodhisattva images could suppress the Yin Mountain Beast, recalling that Venerable Bright Tuo had refined four before ascending.
• Li Yan reasoned that the beast might still be weakened and that suppressing it longer could buy the Tianli Clan precious time.

Li Yan discussed strengthening the Buddhist beads with Hong Yin, but learned that refining more Vajrapani Bodhisattva manifestations required Buddhist knowledge and mind power she could not safely provide. He planned to involve Zhuo Lingfeng in a larger scheme to seal the fifth-tier Yin Mountain Beast, while Gong Chenying broke through into the false-core realm and began manifesting a demonic beast.

• Li Yan showed Hong Yin a Sinking True Dragon skull, and she confirmed its bone could be used to refine a Vajrapani Bodhisattva manifestation.
• Hong Yin warned that refining the Buddhist beads would disrupt their balanced mind power and could destroy the treasure, then refused to help because doing so might consume her soul.
• Li Yan apologized and decided to seek Zhuo Lingfeng's help, hoping to refine at least four Esoteric Vajra Mountain Suppression treasures and ultimately seal the Yin Mountain Beast completely.
• Hong Yin reflected on her plans for Gong Chenying, Red Whisk Temple's inheritance, and her intended journey to the Desolate Moon Continent.
• Gong Chenying's cultivation surged into the false-core realm, and an enormous phantom of a demonic beast appeared above her.

Gong Chenying stabilized her surging cultivation at the peak of the Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm, while Li Yan arranged poison materials and learned that Qianji had been troubled since their time in the swamp. After Qianji described sensing emotions in the black mist, Li Yan stood silently by the pavilion window.

• Gong Chenying's aura surged toward the Nascent Soul Realm as she cultivated the Red Lotus Burning Fire Scripture, but she suppressed it and stabilized at the peak of the Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm.
• Hong Yin watched Gong Chenying's cultivation settle and then left the chamber.
• Li Yan asked the Great Elder to prepare poison-pill and toxic-liquid materials for the defenses and said he would leave the Tianli Clan for a while.
• Zi Kun told Li Yan that Qianji had grown quiet and withdrawn since returning from the swamp.
• Li Yan questioned Qianji, who said he had sensed emotions in the black mist around the underground cave and later felt something surface in his mind.

Li Yan finished reinforcing the Tianli Clan’s defensive line and prepared to leave on a secret mission, confiding its startling purpose to Gong Chenying. Before departing, he offered her two drops of Undying Nether Phoenix essence blood, but she refused because she believed they were more important for his cultivation.

• Yan San threatened to destroy the Tianli Clan, but he still hoped to reach the fifth order and hesitated to detonate Sky Eye Pit.
• Li Yan spent more than three months reinforcing the front line, laying extensive poison and restrictions before returning to the clan.
• Li Yan congratulated Gong Chenying on reaching the peak of the False Nascent Soul realm and encouraged her to seek insight for her breakthrough.
• Li Yan secretly told Gong Chenying about his plans involving the seal and asked her to keep them confidential; she was shocked by what he intended to attempt.
• Gong Chenying kissed Li Yan and said she would ask her father about King Qing'a once the clan was more stable.
• Li Yan offered Gong Chenying two drops of Undying Nether Phoenix essence blood, but she refused, arguing that they were Li Yan’s best chance to strengthen his body.

Li Yan left the Tianli Clan and traveled to Shaman Temple to meet Zhuo Lingfeng, keeping the two demons and Snow Mosquitoes behind to protect Gong Chenying. After arriving, he asked Zhuo Lingfeng for help, leaving the nature of his request unresolved.

• Gong Chenying refused Li Yan's attempt to give her the essence blood and advised him to refine it to strengthen himself, while Li Yan chose to save the drops for her.
• Li Yan departed the Tianli Clan in secret, and the Great Elder and Third Elder warned him not to stay away too long; he left two demons and Snow Mosquitoes to guard Gong Chenying.
• Li Yan traveled south to Shaman Temple, avoiding others and killing several groups of wind beasts along the way.
• At Shaman Temple, Li Yan asked the guest-receiving monk to notify Chan Master Xuwu that an old friend surnamed Li had come to visit.
• Li Yan met Zhuo Lingfeng, who congratulated him on the Tianli Clan's reprieve from the wind beasts, and Li Yan said he had come to ask for help.

Li Yan asked Zhuo Lingfeng and Divine Monk Konghai to deduce how to upgrade his Buddhist prayer-bead treasure, offering Sandstar King Stones in return. After a year of research, they had made only partial progress, while a separate scene on the Northern Ice Continent ended with a young man asking whether a series of lured targets were connected.

• Li Yan showed Zhuo Lingfeng the prayer beads and refinement technique, and Zhuo Lingfeng judged that he and Divine Monk Konghai had a twenty-to-thirty-percent chance of deducing the method.
• Li Yan offered Zhuo Lingfeng four Sandstar King Stones, and Zhuo Lingfeng agreed to ask his master to help refine the treasure.
• Li Yan stayed at Shamen Temple to cultivate while Zhuo Lingfeng and Divine Monk Konghai studied the prayer beads and technique.
• After more than a year, Zhuo Lingfeng told Li Yan that they had made only slight progress and asked to involve the temple’s other two divine monks; Li Yan agreed.
• On the Northern Ice Continent, a gray-robed elder melted a burly man into black water, and a young man in white asked whether the seventeenth person he had lured out was connected to the others.

Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong traced the people spreading rumors about Pangu Sand and mixed spiritual roots toward their hidden source, while the Tianli Clan’s search for a place to relocate ran into major obstacles. Li Yan remained at Shamen Temple, cultivating despite Zhuo Lingfeng’s delayed answer.

• Dong Fuyi identified seventeen people who shared a concealed auxiliary technique and planned to trace their orders back to the main altar, while Pei Buchong urged him to remain undercover.
• The Fifth Elder reported that the Tian Gui Tribe had been wiped out by powerful wind beasts and that the Hengji and Yuxing Sects already controlled the other western relocation site.
• The Grand Elder told the Fifth Elder to investigate possible northern sites and return within three years as the Tianli Clan faced a worsening shortage of time.
• The Fifth Elder asked about Li Yan, and the Grand Elder said he had gone out to handle matters without explaining further.
• Li Yan continued cultivating at Shamen Temple after three and a half years, although Zhuo Lingfeng had not yet given him the promised answer.

Li Yan cultivated while waiting for Zhuo Lingfeng and the monks of Shamen Temple to devise a method for refining his Buddhist treasure. After a difficult seven-month refinement succeeded, Li Yan left the temple with four and a half powerful Vajrapani Bodhisattvas.

• Li Yan advanced his Nine Cauldrons Gui Water cultivation and continued strengthening his body through the Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
• Zhuo Lingfeng brought Li Yan the completed refining method and explained that their chances of success were below forty percent.
• After ten months of recovery and preparation, Zhuo Lingfeng led Li Yan into a secret chamber to begin the refinement with Monk-Sage Konghai.
• Monk-Sage Konghai suppressed repeated disturbances as Zhuo Lingfeng refined the Sunken True Dragon materials into four complete Vajrapani Bodhisattvas and one incomplete manifestation.
• Li Yan left Shamen Temple with the newly refined treasure after Zhuo Lingfeng encouraged him to depart.

Li Yan left Sand Gate Temple with a more powerful activation incantation for his magic treasure, then returned to the Tianli Clan and told Gong Chenying he had achieved his objective. He reunited with Gong Shanhe, who sought confirmation that Li Yan could delay the Yinshan Beast’s escape from its seal by at least ten years.

• Zhuo Lingfeng gave Li Yan a jade slip containing an incantation that could more than double the power of Vajra's Secret Mark Suppressing the Mountains, and Li Yan gave him seven Sandstar King Stones in thanks.
• After taking precautions to ensure no one followed him, Li Yan reflected on how Ling'e, Zhuo Lingfeng, and others had made his success possible.
• Li Yan returned to the Tianli Clan, greeted the Great Elder, and went to find Gong Chenying in his pavilion.
• Li Yan told Gong Chenying that he had basically achieved his objective and asked to discuss the next steps with her and the Clan Chief.
• Gong Chenying summoned Gong Shanhe, who arrived and asked whether Li Yan could delay the Yinshan Beast from breaking its seal by at least ten years.

Li Yan returned with a plan to reinforce Hongyin’s seal on the fifth-tier wind beast, potentially buying the Tianli Clan a thousand years or sealing the beast permanently. He demanded all remaining layers of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art if he succeeded, then proposed using the beast as leverage to make Yan San and the other clans end their war with the Tianli Clan; the group went to Hongyin to assess his magical treasure.

• Gong Shanhe learned that Li Yan had returned with a way to delay the fifth-tier wind beast and hurried to meet him.
• Li Yan explained that his Nascent Soul-level sealing treasure could reinforce Hongyin’s existing seal, and Gong Shanhe said Hongyin should judge whether it could work.
• Li Yan asked for all remaining layers of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art if he could seal the beast for a thousand years or permanently, and Gong Shanhe agreed to consider it if he succeeded.
• Li Yan proposed using the threat of the wind beast to make Yan San and the other clans abandon their attacks and make peace with the Tianli Clan.
• Gong Shanhe and Gong Chenying accompanied Li Yan to Hongyin’s residence so she could assess the treasure and the sealing plan.

Li Yan demonstrated the Buddhist-bead magic treasure, and Hongyin confirmed that its Dharma Idols could form a formation powerful enough to help seal the fifth-tier Yin Mountain Beast. Before Gong Shanhe could take the plan to the Great Elder, Hongyin revealed that reaching the beast’s true body meant confronting it at the most dangerous central wind eye of the Sky Eye Wind.

• Gong Shanhe reinforced the courtyard restrictions while Li Yan revealed the four and a half Dharma Idols housed in his Buddhist beads.
• Hongyin tested one Dharma Idol against Gong Shanhe and found its power comparable to a middle-stage Nascent Soul cultivator; she explained that the complete formation could suppress a late-stage Nascent Soul expert.
• Hongyin said the magic treasure could reinforce the seal on the Yin Mountain Beast, and Gong Shanhe agreed to discuss Li Yan’s plan with the Great Elder and the others.
• Hongyin stopped Gong Shanhe and explained that sealing the beast required approaching its true body, not entering the caves, which were merely the nostrils of its manifested image.
• Hongyin revealed that the beast’s true body was recovering at the central wind eye of the Sky Eye Wind, where the frigid power was strongest, and Gong Shanhe recognized the danger.

Li Yan proposed using his Buddhist formation and another ancient defensive formation to reinforce the seal on the fifth-tier wind beast, despite the dangers of reaching the Sky Eye Pit’s central wind eye. After the Tianli Clan’s elders agreed to investigate his plan, they tested the formation and learned how it could strengthen their defenses.

• Hong Yin warned Li Yan, Gong Shanhe, and Gong Chenying that reaching the central wind eye was extremely dangerous and that even a Spirit Transformation cultivator might struggle to seal the sleeping Yin Mountain Beast.
• Li Yan assured the others that the Grand Elder would not need to go, hinting that he could rely on a Spirit Transformation-grade treasure rather than asking a cultivator to act personally.
• Gong Shanhe gathered the Tianli Clan’s elders, explained Li Yan’s proposed plan, and negotiated with them over his request for the complete Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
• Li Yan demonstrated the Diamond Vajra Mountain Suppression Formation by having Hong Yin direct its full power at the Grand Elder, who survived the test.
• Li Yan explained that the Diamond Vajra Mountain Suppression Formation would be placed inside the Primordial Qi Supreme Clarity Formation, which could multiply its power and provide additional defensive and offensive functions.

Li Yan demonstrated that the Yuanqi Supreme Clarity Formation strengthened the Vajra Mountain-Suppressing Formation and could withstand even the Great Elder's ninety-percent-strength attack. The group judged that the reinforced seal could hold the sleeping fifth-tier wind beast for at least a hundred years, and they turned to planning how Li Yan would reach the Heavenly Eye Wind's eye and arrange the seal.

• Li Yan brought the Vajra Mountain-Suppressing Formation into the Yuanqi Supreme Clarity Formation, where the Great Elder tested its enhanced suppressive power.
• The Great Elder struck the formation barrier with sixty percent of his strength, then with ninety percent, and concluded that even his full strength would not break it.
• Hongyin said the reinforced seal could prevent the sleeping wind beast from escaping for at least a hundred years, provided the Buddhist Dharma treasure remained intact and the formation was maintained.
• The Second Elder questioned how Li Yan would protect himself while arranging the formation at the eye of the Heavenly Eye Wind, but Li Yan refused to reveal his method and reaffirmed his promise.
• The Second Elder reminded Li Yan that the ninth-level cultivation technique depended on persuading Yan San, and the group decided to invite Yan San out for a talk.

Li Yan proposed confronting Yan San to persuade the Wind Beasts to accept the Tianli Clan’s plan, and the Great Elder led the clan’s elders to the front line to negotiate. Yan San arrived suspicious of their intentions, and Li Yan challenged him to fight alone, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Great Elder agreed that the Tianli Clan would prepare to migrate while pressuring Yan San if he refused, and he decided to meet Yan San that day.
• Li Yan reassured Gong Shanhe that the risky plan should preserve his life, and the Great Elder and the clan’s elders accompanied him to the forward defense line.
• The Great Elder called for Yan San, drawing Tianli Clan cultivators and soldiers to watch as the clan’s leading Nascent Soul cultivators gathered.
• Yan San arrived with three fourth-order Wind Beasts and suspected the Tianli Clan had found a migration site or intended to attack them.
• Li Yan claimed he alone could face Yan San and proposed that they fight after both sides withdrew five thousand li, then suggested they rise ten thousand zhang if Yan San feared an ambush.

Li Yan faced Yan San in a duel high above the ground, revealing extraordinary speed, physical strength, and soul-attacking weapons. After trading several powerful blows without being defeated, Li Yan asked Yan San to reconsider the likely outcome of a decisive battle.

• Yan San sent his allies five thousand li away, and Li Yan followed him ten thousand zhang into the sky for their duel.
• Li Yan surprised Yan San with his speed and met Yan San's iron-hard tail feathers with a powerful body-refining strike.
• Li Yan hurled two black streaks that made Yan San's soul tremble, while Yan San's gray hammer struck Li Yan's bare palm without breaking through.
• Li Yan knocked Yan San's hammer aside, recalled the two black streaks, and asked whether he could continue exchanging blows and what a decisive battle would bring.

Li Yan used Illusory Poison and the Vajra Mountain-Suppressing Array to defeat and restrain Yan San after surviving his mountain-smashing attack. With Yan San’s defeat making the Wind Beast alliance’s hopes of victory collapse, Li Yan offered cooperation instead of driving him back into the Sky Eye Pit, leaving Yan San to consider the proposal.

• Yan San transformed into a black-robed old man, uprooted two mountains, and smashed them toward Li Yan, while the nearby forces raised barriers against the shockwaves and falling stones.
• Li Yan appeared above Yan San with four Dharma manifestations, revealing that Illusory Poison had made Yan San attack an illusory target.
• Li Yan used the Vajra Mountain-Suppressing Array to restrain Yan San and positioned the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike at his head, forcing Yan San to stop resisting.
• Li Yan asked whether Yan San still believed the three Wind Beast clans could win, and Yan San answered that the Tianli Clan could not reach the Sky Eye Pit and threatened him with what lay beneath the swamp.
• Li Yan told Yan San that the humans had come to propose cooperation, and Yan San fell silent as he considered the offer.

Li Yan defeated Yan San, then released him to propose an alliance against the sealed fifth-tier Yin Mountain Beast. The negotiations continued inside a restricted sphere, while Li Yan and Gong Chenying left, confident they could seal the beast or fight the wind-beast clans if talks failed.

• Li Yan overwhelmed Yan San, then withdrew his restraints and proposed that they cooperate against the fifth-tier beast beneath Sky Eye Pit.
• Li Yan told Yan San that the beast was a sealed Yin Mountain Beast and that the seal might last only about ten more years, offering more information if they negotiated.
• Yan San asked what Li Yan required, and Li Yan proposed that Yan San and Gong Shengguang support his sealing attempt and that both sides sign a blood pact against future invasions.
• After half an hour, Li Yan and Gong Chenying flew away as the leaders and experts of both sides continued negotiations inside a brightly colored sphere of restrictions.
• Li Yan told Gong Chenying that he would seal the beast himself if the negotiations failed, then lure out and kill the wind-beast clans' high-level experts.

Li Yan and Gong Chenying prepared for the joint sealing of the Yin Mountain Beast, while Gong Chenying delayed the expedition so Li Yan could strengthen himself. Five months later, after confirming his cultivation had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Gong Chenying revealed that he had still failed to meet her six-month deadline.

• Li Yan explained that he had about a sixty-percent chance of sealing the Yin Mountain Beast and discussed the risks of the Buddhist seals clashing or the beast awakening.
• Gong Chenying insisted Li Yan refine one drop of Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence before the mission, and they agreed to wait while negotiations proceeded.
• Gong Shanhe showed Li Yan, Hong Yin, and the elders the blood pact with Yan San's side, and Gong Chenying set the expedition for half a year later so Li Yan could master the sealing methods.
• Five months later, Hong Yin tested Li Yan's strength and confirmed that he had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage after increasing his power.
• Gong Chenying told Li Yan that she had given her father a six-month timeline, not five months, then flew away and left him standing in the array.

Yan San, the Grand Elder, and Li Yan traveled to Sky Eye Pit to seal the fifth-order wind beast. As they descended toward the wind-eye, black snowflakes disrupted Li Yan’s spiritual power and weakened his defenses.

• Yan San received the Grand Elder’s message that they would depart at dawn, then met Li Yan and the Grand Elder outside the Tianli Clan’s defensive line.
• Yan San carried Li Yan and the Grand Elder on a black-feather flight treasure toward Sky Eye Pit, leaving Gong Shanhe and Gong Chenying behind.
• Half a month later, the three descended beneath the swamp and reached the region of orderly wind pillars above the sealed beast.
• Li Yan and the others followed the strongest wind pillars downward, where thin pillars and upward-blown black snowflakes surrounded them.
• The black snowflakes spun into flywheels on Li Yan’s body, disrupting his spiritual power and weakening his protective barrier.

Li Yan, the Great Elder, and Yan San descended through the Sky Eye Wind’s deadly frigid winds, where they encountered the double-headed Yin Mountain Beast incarnation. Yan San moved to hold it back while the Great Elder took Li Yan deeper, but the creature attacked as they fled.

• Li Yan resisted the black snowflakes with defensive talismans and fire while the Great Elder confronted Yan San about concealing what he knew.
• The trio passed through the black snowflakes and entered the wind eye’s edge, where the frigid gale shattered their defenses and the Great Elder and Yan San protected them with magic treasures.
• Yan San explained that the wind eye’s core could lie as far as five hundred zhang below, and Li Yan insisted they descend.
• A double-headed incarnation of the Yin Mountain Beast appeared and recognized Li Yan and Yan San.
• Yan San attacked the incarnation with enormous shears as the Great Elder led Li Yan downward, but the creature countered with its hat wings and sent a sound wave toward the Great Elder.

Li Yan descended alone into the Eye of Heaven Winds while Yan San and the Great Elder fought the two-headed man above. He used the Stabilize rune to pass the winds that had stopped his descent, but found no sign of the wind beast at five hundred zhang and concluded it lay deeper.

• Yan San and the Great Elder agreed they had to join forces against the two-headed man, while Li Yan insisted on descending alone.
• Li Yan used the Primordial Qi Supreme Clarity Formation and the Cloud-Piercing Willow to plunge into the wind eye as Yan San and the Great Elder attacked the two-headed man.
• Li Yan found the chaotic winds prevented him from descending past roughly four hundred twenty zhang, even with the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water technique.
• Li Yan summoned the Stabilize rune given to him by True Lord Qianzhong, which dispersed the winds and allowed him to descend safely.
• Li Yan reached five hundred zhang, found only empty space, and determined that the wind beast must be deeper in the wind eye.