Arc 54Ascension and Recovery

Li Yan was forced from the Wind God Continent into the Immortal Spirit Realm, where he recovered from grave injuries and joined the Pojun Sect. After helping the sect survive a crisis and healing Yu Banjiang, he prepared to travel with Shangguan Tianque to the Endless Market.

  • Xue Longzi attacked the Tianli Clan, and Li Yan led a desperate counterattack before dragging Xue Longzi through spatial turbulence and into a deadly blood mist.
  • Li Yan survived the blood mist and arrived in the Immortal Spirit Realm, where Yu Banjiang rescued him and explained that he needed Immortalization Liquid to keep his soul from withering.
  • Li Yan received Immortalization Liquid from Shangguan Tianque and spent decades recovering in seclusion while news spread that the Tianli Clan had survived further attacks and grown stronger.
  • When the Dragon Capturing Sect attacked the Pojun Sect, Li Yan killed two of its leaders, and Shangguan Tianque’s forces destroyed the sect and took its territory.
  • Li Yan recovered his Divine Sense and Nascent Soul, then diagnosed Yu Banjiang’s intertwined souls and used a talisman to separate them.
  • Li Yan accepted a position as the Pojun Sect’s third elder, learned that reaching a cross-domain teleportation array meant crossing the Heavenly Demon Grassland, and found no trace of Return Home.
  • Li Yan agreed to accompany Shangguan Tianque to the Endless Market, prepared for the journey, and departed aboard an Azure Cloud Sparrow.
Chapters 1326–1350 Vol. 14 Read

Ch. 1326A Fierce Battle (Part One)

Xue Longzi attacked the Tianli Clan and the Wind Beasts, killing two fourth-tier Wind Beasts before the Great Elder, Hong Yin, and Li Yan blocked his strike. As Yan San returned and the two sides prepared to fight again, Hong Yin urged the others to hold Xue Longzi off until he was forced to retreat.

  • Xue Longzi attacked Yan San and the Wind Beasts, killing two before the Great Elder, Hong Yin, and Li Yan intercepted his next strike.
  • The Great Elder ordered Gong Shanhe and the others to retreat into the clan’s defensive formation while the three cultivators fought Xue Longzi.
  • The Great Elder and Hong Yin deflected Xue Longzi’s sword shadow as Li Yan opened a spatial rift to divert it, and the three were badly injured but survived.
  • Yan San escaped into Sky Eye Pit with the two surviving fourth-tier Wind Beasts and treated his wound while they fled deeper into the pit.
  • Xue Longzi accused the Tianli Clan of betraying the Human Race, while Li Yan and Wan Qingshe gave conflicting accounts of their earlier fight.
  • Yan San returned and warned the others that Xue Longzi could not stay long; Hong Yin proposed they work together to stall him until he retreated.

Ch. 1327Fierce Battle (II)

Hongyin, the Great Elder, Yan San, and Li Yan joined forces against the short-haired, black-robed man, whose Spirit Transformation-level abilities were weakened by a secret art and a tight deadline. Hongyin trapped his swords with karmic threads, and Li Yan’s soul attack disrupted him, leaving the battle unresolved.

  • Wan Qing flew away as Hongyin stepped forward to hold off the short-haired, black-robed man, and Li Yan joined the attack.
  • Hongyin summoned eighty-one flaming red lotuses whose heat formed karmic threads, entangling the man’s four flying swords.
  • The Great Elder’s Qiongqi phantom and Yan San’s transformed Wind Goose Beast attacked the man from behind while he examined Hongyin’s limited use of Karmic Law.
  • The short-haired, black-robed man recalled that he had come to seize the Tianli Clan’s resources and make an example of its peace negotiations with the wind beasts, but his concealment secret art left him little time.
  • Li Yan struck one of the entangled swords with a Black Water Rune, making the man suffer a sudden soul-rending pain and disrupt his spiritual power.

Ch. 1328A bitter battle (III)

Li Yan, the Great Elder, Yan San, and Hong Yin fought the short-haired Spirit Transformation cultivator, injuring him before he retaliated with devastating flying-sword attacks. The battle continued as Li Yan evaded a pursuing sword and suddenly closed in on the short-haired man, apparently preparing to use poison.

  • Li Yan disrupted the short-haired man's soul, allowing the Great Elder, Yan San, the Qiongqi, and the Wind Goose Beast to wound him before he unleashed power that shattered the beasts and badly injured Yan San and the Great Elder.
  • Li Yan suffered a painful soul backlash, while the furious short-haired man attacked again and Hong Yin struggled to hold back his flying swords.
  • The short-haired man sent hidden swords after the Great Elder, Yan San, and Li Yan; Hong Yin's golden light weakened them, but the Great Elder was driven downward and Yan San lost part of his tail and a claw.
  • Hong Yin's red lotuses shattered as she continued fighting, and she was wounded while maintaining her defenses.
  • Li Yan used Phoenix Soaring to escape his pursuing sword, then suddenly reappeared beside the short-haired man, who suspected Li Yan intended to poison him.

Ch. 1329Battle to the Bitter End (4)

Li Yan used the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to disrupt the short-haired, dark-robed man's control of spiritual energy and laws, giving Hongyin an opening to damage four flying swords. As the man began to regain control, Li Yan unleashed a hidden suction force that pulled half of him into empty space, while Scattered Poison gathered in Li Yan's palm.

  • Li Yan dodged the short-haired, dark-robed man's three swords and closed in despite a sword-qi counterattack.
  • Li Yan cast the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak, disrupting the man's control of his nine flying swords and the surrounding laws of heaven and earth.
  • Hongyin struck four of the man's flying swords with the red spear, cracking them and draining their spiritual energy.
  • The First Elder escaped the damaged thousand-legged centipede, while Yan San used his purple bead to knock away the pursuing flying sword.
  • The short-haired, dark-robed man began stabilizing the surrounding laws, but a suction force appeared beside him and pulled half his body into empty space as Li Yan formed Scattered Poison.

Ch. 1330A Fierce Battle (5)

Li Yan’s attempt to pull the burly man in the black robe with short hair into Tuban failed, but it frightened the Spirit Transformation cultivator and left Li Yan badly hurt. The enemy launched another devastating sword attack, forcing the Great Elder to activate True Spirit Armor while Li Yan and Hong Yin struggled to defend themselves.

  • Li Yan used Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and Tuban to try to trap the burly man in the black robe with short hair, but the man resisted and escaped as Li Yan suffered severe backlash.
  • The burly man in the black robe with short hair recognized that Li Yan and Hong Yin were weakening and unleashed another attack with four enormous flying swords.
  • Wan Qingshe realized how badly he had underestimated the Tianli Clan after seeing his master’s difficulties and the destruction of his flying swords.
  • The Great Elder kicked the injured Yan San out of danger, then activated True Spirit Armor at the cost of burning his Nascent Soul.
  • Li Yan tried to evade the giant sword but was trapped by the surrounding force, while Hong Yin summoned countless Maitreya Buddhas to blunt its strike and retreated under the impact.

Ch. 1331Battle to the Bitter End (6)

The short-haired man in the black robe overwhelmed Li Yan, Hong Yin, and the Great Elder, then turned his flying swords against the Tianli Clan’s grand formation. As the clan struggled to withstand a second assault, Gong Chenying silently urged Li Yan to run.

  • Hong Yin survived a Spirit Transformation sword strike with her Buddhist arts, while the Great Elder punched the enormous sword away and charged the short-haired man in the black robe.
  • Li Yan deflected a sword with a Blackwater Talisman, and a soul attack left the short-haired man briefly vulnerable, allowing the Great Elder to break his barrier and wound his forehead.
  • The short-haired man in the black robe sent more than a thousand flying swords against his opponents and the Tianli Clan, causing widespread destruction and casualties despite the clan’s defensive formation.
  • Gong Shanhe and the elders strained to maintain the formation as Qianji and Zi Kun watched helplessly, while Li Yan and Hong Yin fought off pursuing swords.
  • As the short-haired man gathered his swords for another assault, Gong Chenying rose with the other cultivators, looked at Li Yan, and mouthed, “Run!”

Ch. 1332A Lone Sail Vanishes into the Blue Sky

Li Yan used his speed, the Five Elements laws, and repeated multi-person teleportation talismans to drag the short-haired man in the black robe into the chaotic spatial currents, while Gong Chenying and the Tianli Clan survived the attack. Gong Chenying entered the void to search for Li Yan, as the injured Li Yan continued teleporting with his consciousness failing.

  • Li Yan rushed the short-haired man in the black robe and used the Five Elements laws and a spatial rift to teleport them both away from the Tianli Clan.
  • The short-haired man's flying swords and attacks weakened after he vanished, and the Tianli Clan halted its counterattack as the danger passed.
  • Wan Qingshe fled, but the First Elder, Gong Shanhe, and the Third Elder pursued him while Gong Chenying entered the void to look for Li Yan.
  • The short-haired man tried to attack during teleportation, but Li Yan activated another talisman and dragged him farther through the chaotic spatial currents.
  • Li Yan's repeated use of Five Elements Chaotic Cloak severely damaged his sea of consciousness, but he continued teleporting because he could no longer use the technique.

Ch. 1333Shaking Heaven and Earth

Li Yan repeatedly used Shaking Heaven and Earth to drag the short-haired man in the black robe through turbulent space, but they became trapped in a dangerous region where chaotic forces overwhelmed their defenses. As both men struggled against a blood-red mist and failing talismans, Li Yan began to break free through his superior physical strength.

  • Li Yan used the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and repeatedly cast Shaking Heaven and Earth, spending Melted Bamboo Shoot to sustain his spiritual power as he carried the short-haired man in the black robe through turbulent space.
  • Li Yan's next teleportation failed, and he realized that they had entered a dangerous gray region beneath a pitch-black rift.
  • The short-haired man in the black robe attacked Li Yan while trying to escape through the rift, and Li Yan struck toward the rift in an attempt to cut off his route.
  • Pale yellow lights erupted and disrupted their spells, drained their spiritual power, and pulled both men toward a deadly patch of blood-red mist.
  • Both men used talismans to resist the pull, but Li Yan began slowly freeing himself through his physical strength while the short-haired man in the black robe remained trapped.

Ch. 1334Four Years Beneath the Stars, with Battles Few and Far Between

Li Yan vanished after the short-haired man unleashed his Spirit Transformation power, and the man was killed by a sea of blood when he tried to escape through the black fissure. In a grassland realm ruled by Demon Beasts, a demon-eyed phantom wolf returned to its cave and revealed a bound, emaciated human lying beneath its green light.

  • The short-haired man unleashed his Spirit Transformation cultivation and struck Li Yan with an enormous phantom finger, sending him into the blood mist.
  • The short-haired man entered the black fissure, where pale yellow motes turned its darkness into a sea of blood that dissolved him.
  • A demon-eyed phantom wolf crossed the grassland cautiously and returned to its hidden cave dwelling after sensing danger.
  • The demon-eyed phantom wolf entered a concealed inner chamber and swallowed the green light suspended there.
  • The green light revealed a naked, emaciated man bound in red chains inscribed with a powerful restriction.

Ch. 1335Grass on the Boundless Plain

Li Yan woke in an old man’s pavilion after the Demonic-Eyed Phantom Wolf had captured him on the grasslands, and he gradually pieced together how he had escaped the blood mist. Unable to use his spiritual power or Divine Sense, he remained in the old man’s care while uncertain of his situation.

  • The Demonic-Eyed Phantom Wolf found Li Yan unconscious, failed to injure or poison him, and sealed him inside its cave.
  • An unidentified figure entered the cave, and Li Yan later woke in a pavilion with an old man in yellow watching over him.
  • Li Yan struggled to use his spiritual power and Divine Sense, and he and the old man discovered that they spoke different languages.
  • Li Yan recalled that Xue Longzi had attacked him in a dangerous space before Li Yan was blasted into the blood mist.
  • Li Yan reasoned that Xue Longzi had probably left the Wind God Continent and remembered using his Water-Avoiding Golden-Eyed Beast armor to slow the blood mist’s dissolution of his body.

Ch. 1336Pojun Sect

Li Yan survived the blood mist by stepping into an ascension node and awoke in the Immortal Spirit Realm, where Yu Banjiang of the Pojun Sect rescued him. After learning about his new surroundings and Yu Banjiang’s circumstances, Li Yan asked how he could obtain Immortalization Liquid.

  • Li Yan’s defenses failed in the blood mist, but he reached a patch of white light and was carried into the Immortal Spirit Realm.
  • A Demon-Eyed Illusion Wolf brought the unconscious Li Yan to its cave, where Yu Banjiang found and rescued him while searching for an Illusory Spirit Herb.
  • Li Yan learned that he had ascended to the Immortal Spirit Realm and that Yu Banjiang belonged to the Pojun Sect.
  • Li Yan worried about the loved ones he had left behind in the lower realm as he considered his sudden separation from them.
  • Yu Banjiang visited Li Yan and asked what he planned to do while recovering from his injuries.
  • Li Yan thanked Yu Banjiang and asked how he could obtain Immortalization Liquid.

Ch. 1337Immortal-Spirit Realm (1)

Li Yan learned that he had accidentally ascended to the Immortal-Spirit Realm, where his injuries and damaged Divine Sense left him vulnerable. Banjiang explained that Li Yan had to obtain expensive Immortalization Liquid within a year, then offered a way to receive it by joining the Po Jun Sect.

  • Li Yan examined his injuries and found his spiritual power nearly depleted, his sea of consciousness badly damaged, and his Nascent Soul barely detectable.
  • Li Yan questioned Banjiang and learned that he had been rescued from a cave dwelling after a third-tier Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf dragged him there.
  • Banjiang explained that Li Yan’s divine soul was being repelled by the Immortal-Spirit Realm and that he had to soak in Immortalization Liquid within a year or his soul would wither irreversibly.
  • Li Yan learned that a bottle of Immortalization Liquid cost about four hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
  • Banjiang told Li Yan that joining a sect was another way to receive Immortalization Liquid, then explained why Immortal-Spirit Realm sects sought cultivators who had ascended from the lower realms.

Ch. 1338The Immortal Spirit Realm (II)

Li Yan learned about the Immortal Spirit Realm’s four regions, the costly routes between them, and the dangerous ways to obtain Immortal Transformation Liquid. After Li Yan explained that his injuries would prevent him from helping the Pojun Sect, Yu Banjiang’s master, Shangguan Tianque, arrived to meet him.

  • Yu Banjiang told Li Yan that the Immortal Spirit Realm had four realms and that reaching an inter-realm teleportation array from the Pojun Sect could take nearly two hundred years by internal teleportation.
  • Li Yan realized the Five Immortals Sect was in the distant Cangxuan Realm and worried that his damaged sea of consciousness would prevent him from opening Tuban and retrieving spirit stones.
  • Yu Banjiang described hunting fourth-tier demon beasts in the Heavenly Demon Grassland as a dangerous alternative to joining a sect and buying Immortal Transformation Liquid.
  • Li Yan told Yu Banjiang that his injuries were severe and that, even if he joined the Pojun Sect, he would need to enter seclusion and could not assist it for an uncertain time.
  • Shangguan Tianque, Yu Banjiang’s master, arrived and introduced himself to Li Yan.

Ch. 1339Sounding Each Other Out

Li Yan met Shangguan Tianque and learned how vast the Immortal Spirit Realm was while waiting for the Pojun Sect’s decision about the Immortal Transformation Liquid. Shangguan Tianque and his Junior Sister discussed whether Li Yan might aid their struggling sect, and his offer to repay the liquid’s cost made the woman in red regard him more favorably.

  • Yu Banjiang reported Li Yan to Shangguan Tianque, who questioned Li Yan about his origins and confirmed he was an ascended cultivator from the Wind God Continent.
  • Shangguan Tianque told Li Yan that ascended cultivators were exceptionally rare in the vast Immortal Spirit Realm and promised an answer about the Immortal Transformation Liquid within three days.
  • Li Yan watched Yu Banjiang sweep the pavilion and reflected on his separation from the people he had left behind.
  • Shangguan Tianque told his Junior Sister that Li Yan was likely a Nascent Soul middle stage cultivator, and they discussed observing him and inviting him to serve as an honorary elder.
  • Shangguan Tianque suggested his Junior Sister disband the sect if he failed, but she angrily refused to abandon it.
  • Shangguan Tianque explained that Li Yan had offered to repay the Immortal Transformation Liquid if he failed to recover within sixty years, and his Junior Sister praised his refusal to take advantage of others.

Ch. 1340Immortal-Spirit Immortal

Li Yan settled into the Po Jun Sect to recover and learned about the Immortal-Spirit Realm, including the danger of remaining there without using the Immortalization Liquid. After he entered seclusion, the story shifted to a strange space in the Northern Ice Continent where light and darkness rapidly exchanged places.

  • Shangguan Tianque arranged for Li Yan to rest for half a year before using the Immortalization Liquid, and Banjiang moved him to a secluded cave residence.
  • Li Yan asked Banjiang for books and jade slips about the Immortal-Spirit Realm, but his damaged sea of consciousness left him unable to examine the jade slips.
  • Li Yan learned that the Po Jun Sect was a small sect under the Blood Lamp Sect and that the Immortal-Spirit Realm's laws would eventually reject his lower-realm soul without assimilation by the Immortalization Liquid.
  • Li Yan realized that returning to the Mortal Realm was currently impossible and entered cultivation seclusion to recover.
  • In a strange space in the Northern Ice Continent, the sky and ground repeatedly switched between light and darkness as two opposing forces shifted.

Ch. 1341Fellow Disciples at the Ends of the Earth

Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong infiltrated the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect on the Northern Ice Continent, fought its cultivators, and escaped after Dong Fuyi was badly injured. Half a year later, Li Yan continued recovering in seclusion, while Dong Fuyi and his companions traveled through the shattered void toward the Desolate Moon Continent to find him.

  • Dong Fuyi confronted Xiao Yunzong inside a yin-yang subsidiary formation, where Xiao Yunzong tried to delay him until reinforcements arrived.
  • Pei Buchong killed the sect’s cultivators outside the formation and cleaned away the bodies and traces of battle.
  • A badly wounded enemy escaped through a spatial rift, and Dong Fuyi emerged injured before ordering Pei Buchong to break the formation and free their companion.
  • Half a year later, Banjiang gave the recovering Li Yan a bottle of Immortal Transformation Liquid, which stabilized his soul after a day.
  • Dong Fuyi, a yellow-robed Daoist, and Pei Buchong traveled through the shattered void toward the Desolate Moon Continent, where Dong Fuyi intended to find Li Yan.

Ch. 1342White Clouds and Gray Dogs

True Lord Qianzhong, Dong Fuyi, and Pei Buchong set out for the Lost Continent to seek news of Li Yan and Ping Tu. Over the next thirty years, the Tianli Clan survived the Sword-Washing Sect’s destruction and repeated attacks, while Hong Yin and Gong Chenying eventually left to pursue answers and check Li Yan’s soul lamp.

  • True Lord Qianzhong sensed news of Li Yan through his Divine Thought on the Lost Continent, and he, Dong Fuyi, and Pei Buchong agreed to go there before returning to the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
  • Xue Longzi’s attempt to seize the Tianli Clan ended with Wan Qingshe dead and Xue Longzi dragged into a spatial rift by King Qing'a; the Skyfire wind beasts then destroyed the Sword-Washing Sect.
  • Sword cultivators attacked the Tianli Clan seven times over twenty years, but the clan and Yan San’s wind beasts fought them off at great cost, and the attacks eventually ceased.
  • Trade and cooperation between humans and wind beasts grew, while the Tianli Clan gained strength as its Third Elder and A Yuan advanced and the Fifth Elder recovered and broke through.
  • In the twenty-seventh year after Li Yan left, Hong Yin departed for the Desolate Moon Continent with Gong Chenying, Qianji, and Zi Kun to investigate the Red-Whisk Temple, while Gong Chenying planned to check Li Yan’s soul lamp.

Ch. 1343Thirty Years East of the River

Thirty years after Li Yan vanished from the Wind God Continent, Zhao Min encountered Hong Yin, Gong Chenying, and the others in turbulent space, while Li Yan remained in seclusion in the Immortal Spirit Realm. The Pojun Sect faced a provocation from the Dragon Capturing Sect as Li Yan slowly healed his damaged sea of consciousness.

  • Gong Chenying left the Wind God Continent with the two demons, while Su Hong mourned Li Yan’s disappearance and Zhao Min later set out to search for him.
  • Thirty-seven years into Li Yan’s seclusion, Mang Yan and three Dragon Capturing Sect cultivators demanded that Shangguan Tianque surrender five Pojun Sect disciples for a soul search.
  • Shangguan Tianque refused, recognizing the accusation as a pretext to weaken the Pojun Sect and target a promising disciple.
  • A Dragon Capturing Sect woman threatened Shangguan Tianque’s red-robed junior sister with violence, bringing the confrontation to the brink of battle.
  • Li Yan continued mending his sea of consciousness and estimated that he would need about ten more years before he could safely use a little divine sense.

Ch. 1344Beast Unleashed

Li Yan left seclusion after Banjiang told him that four Nascent Soul cultivators were overwhelming Shangguan Tianque and his junior sister. He joined the battle, killed Mang Yan with a single punch, and charged the sinister middle-aged man despite his soul-attacking bronze bell.

  • Banjiang interrupted Li Yan's seclusion to report that the sect was under attack and Shangguan Tianque and his junior sister were close to defeat.
  • Li Yan learned that the enemy had four Nascent Soul cultivators and rushed into the sky without waiting for further explanation.
  • Mang Yan and his allies pressed Shangguan Tianque and his junior sister, who argued over whether she should flee or stand with him.
  • Li Yan struck Mang Yan from behind, shattered his protective barrier, destroyed his body, and crushed his Nascent Soul before it could escape.
  • The sinister middle-aged man rang his bronze bell at Li Yan, but Li Yan resisted the soul attack and launched another savage attack at him.

Ch. 1345Like Fire Sweeping Through the Plains

Li Yan ignored a soul attack and killed Mang Yan and the sinister middle-aged man’s physical body, then returned to cultivation while Shangguan Tianque and his junior sister destroyed the Dragon Seizing Sect. Shangguan Tianque later negotiated with the Blood Lantern Sect, which sought to recruit Li Yan, and he and the woman in red resolved to keep him in the Broken Army Sect.

  • Li Yan resisted the copper bell’s soul attack, killed the sinister middle-aged man’s body, and collected the copper bell and three rings, while the man’s Nascent Soul escaped.
  • Li Yan returned to his cave residence and resumed cultivating, and Yu Banjiang watched in shock as the cave gates closed.
  • Shangguan Tianque and his junior sister killed the plump woman, pursued the wounded seductive woman, and destroyed the Dragon Seizing Sect.
  • Shangguan Tianque’s forces occupied the Dragon Seizing Sect’s territory, and he later agreed to pay the Blood Lantern Sect forty percent of the sect’s annual Attendant in exchange for protection and a settlement.
  • Shangguan Tianque learned that the Blood Lantern Sect wanted to recruit Li Yan, and the woman in red insisted that they keep him in their sect.

Ch. 1346Desert Unchanged, Snow as Before

Li Yan used the True Essence Pill to repair his sea of consciousness and awaken his severely damaged Nascent Soul, then spent years recovering in seclusion. He emerged and summoned Yu Banjiang, who feared he was about to leave the Army-Breaking Sect, but Li Yan only wanted to speak with Shangguan Tianque.

  • Shangguan Tianque and the woman in red discussed Li Yan’s refusal to meet them and decided to tell the Blood Lamp Sect that he remained in seclusion.
  • Li Yan endured the pain of opening Tuban and retrieved the True Essence Pill, then took it to treat his injuries.
  • Eight months later, Li Yan’s Divine Sense had recovered, and he visited the Snow Mosquito clan within Tuban while reflecting on Qianji and Zi Kun.
  • The True Essence Pill repaired Li Yan’s sea of consciousness and awakened his Nascent Soul, though the Nascent Soul remained badly damaged and his spiritual power had only partly returned.
  • Five years later, Li Yan emerged from seclusion and summoned Yu Banjiang, who worried that Li Yan intended to leave the Army-Breaking Sect.
  • Li Yan reassured Yu Banjiang and asked after Shangguan Tianque, and Yu Banjiang offered to send him a voice transmission.

Ch. 1347The Root of the Problem

Li Yan examined Banjiang and identified an unresolved problem with his divine soul: his Earth Soul and Human Soul had overlapped after being forced back into his body. He offered to help separate them with a talisman, but Banjiang was left to consider the dangerous procedure and consult Shangguan Tianque.

  • Banjiang allowed Li Yan to examine him, and Li Yan found that damage from Banjiang’s heart demon tribulation had not fully healed.
  • Li Yan explained that Banjiang’s Earth Soul and Human Soul had overlapped, causing dizziness during deep meditation.
  • Banjiang asked whether the problem could be repaired, and Li Yan warned that separating and restoring the souls could be fatal or leave him unconscious.
  • Li Yan offered to use a talisman to ease the pain of separating Banjiang’s soul, asking for no reward in return for Banjiang’s past help.
  • Li Yan urged Banjiang to consult Shangguan Tianque and suggested that Shangguan stand guard during the procedure.

Ch. 1348A settled heart

After leaving seclusion, Li Yan met with Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu and agreed to treat Yu Banjiang’s damaged soul. He declined an invitation to meet the Blood Lamp Sect, choosing to remain with the Pojun Sect, where his appointment as an elder was discussed.

  • Li Yan planned to learn about the North Pasture Realm and find a way to contact the lower realm before pursuing the Wangliang Sect or Guiyi Immortal Sect.
  • Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu arrived to welcome Li Yan, and Li Yan learned that the Pojun Sect had absorbed the Dragon Seizing Sect’s territory.
  • Yu Banjiang told Shangguan Tianque that Li Yan had identified a way to heal his soul, and Li Yan arranged to treat him after three days of recovery.
  • Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu told Li Yan how they had founded the Pojun Sect together and asked about his origins, but Li Yan shared little.
  • Shangguan Tianque invited Li Yan to meet the Blood Lamp Sect, but Li Yan refused and then agreed to stay in the Pojun Sect as they discussed his appointment as an elder.

Ch. 1349Helping Separate Souls

Li Yan joined the Breaker Army Sect as its third elder and helped separate Banjiang’s intertwined souls. After surveying the surrounding region, he returned to the sect with plans to recover his cultivation and investigate routes toward a cross-domain teleportation array, while his search for Return Home remained fruitless.

  • Li Yan accepted the Breaker Army Sect’s offer but declined a formal entry ceremony, and the sect announced him as its third elder.
  • Li Yan used a concealed talisman and brush to draw Banjiang’s intertwined souls apart while Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu watched.
  • Shangguan Tianque thanked Li Yan after he confirmed that Banjiang had possessed two intertwined souls rather than a simple injury.
  • Li Yan surveyed the region, attended the sect’s brief welcoming ceremony, and learned that the route to the nearest cross-domain teleportation array crossed the perilous Heavenly Demon Grassland.
  • Li Yan found no trace of Return Home in the marketplaces he visited and returned to the Breaker Army Sect, where disciples greeted him respectfully.

Ch. 1350A Journey Far Away

Shangguan Tianque asked Li Yan to accompany him to the Endless Market to bid on rare Silver Void Grass, and Li Yan agreed after learning the journey could be dangerous. Three months later, they set out together on a powerful Azure Cloud Sparrow.

  • Shangguan Tianque invited Li Yan to either accompany him to the Endless Market or guard the sect, and Li Yan chose to travel with him.
  • Shangguan Tianque revealed that he planned to bid on two four-thousand-year-old coexisting Silver Void Grasses and feared an ambush if they won them.
  • Li Yan agreed to prepare for the trip, and Shangguan Tianque gave him thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones as compensation.
  • Li Yan shut himself in his cave abode and cultivated for three months to recover his Nascent Soul.
  • Shangguan Tianque and Li Yan departed for the Endless Market aboard an Azure Cloud Sparrow, whose speed and quality impressed Li Yan.
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