Recaps

Li Yan traveled with Shangguan Tianque to a vast marketplace, learning about Meteor Palace puppets and the Immortal-Spirit Realm along the way. They settled at the Between Water and Clouds Inn ahead of an auction in seven days, while Shangguan Tianque hinted he might leave before then.

• Li Yan questioned Shangguan Tianque about the Azure Cloud Sparrow, and learned it was a rare, powerful puppet crafted by Meteor Palace and identifiable by its meteor insignia.
• Shangguan Tianque told Li Yan they were nearing the marketplace, where they paid the entry fee and learned a Void Refinement cultivator guarded the area.
• Shangguan Tianque led Li Yan to the Between Water and Clouds Inn and warned him that formations recorded conflicts and that the first person to provoke trouble would be punished.
• Li Yan and Shangguan Tianque discussed how mortals lived and worked in the Immortal-Spirit Realm, and Li Yan recalled his family and the village from his past.
• The inn attendant showed Li Yan and Shangguan Tianque their protected rooms, and Shangguan Tianque said the auction would take place in seven days and offered to advance Li Yan spirit stones if needed.
• Shangguan Tianque said he had matters to attend to and might not accompany Li Yan around the marketplace, prompting Li Yan to suspect he intended to leave before the auction.

Li Yan searched the market for a defensive formation and information about “Returning Home,” but found neither at a price or in a form he could use. He then explored a free market, where an item caught his attention, and began examining a stall.

• Li Yan inspected his inn room, set up a warning formation, and decided to search the market for better defenses.
• A masked woman of the mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm emerged from the neighboring courtyard, and she and Li Yan cautiously assessed each other before heading out.
• Li Yan visited shops, rejected overpriced formations, and learned that the market mainly served cultivators at the Spirit Transformation Realm and below.
• Unable to find information about “Returning Home” or a way to send messages to the lower realm, Li Yan went to the free market and lowered his aura to the mid-stage Golden Core Realm.
• As Li Yan browsed the stalls, he thought of Bai Rou, Sun Guoshu, Zhao Min, and the others, then stopped at a stall and began examining its wares.

Li Yan bought four Twin-Winged Flying Bear bones and a mysterious Red Handheld Lantern after sensing an aura resembling the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief's. Back in his room, he examined the lantern and discovered its faint aura vanished under close inspection, leaving him to investigate its materials by sight.

• Li Yan bought four beast bones from the portly middle-aged cultivator, then bargained for the Red Handheld Lantern and paid ten low-grade spirit stones.
• Li Yan sensed that the lantern's faint aura resembled the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief's, though he could not identify its source.
• Li Yan continued shopping before returning to the Water Amid Clouds Inn, where he noticed the black-robed masked woman entering her courtyard nearby.
• Li Yan examined the lantern with his Divine Sense and found its aura appeared from a distance but disappeared when he inspected it closely.
• Li Yan used magical power in his eyes to study the lantern's parts and found a sinew cord and a frame made of forty-nine warm, flexible Demon Beast bones.

Li Yan tested the red lantern and the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief without uncovering the lantern’s secrets before Shangguan Tianque invited him to a small trading gathering ahead of an auction. As they prepared to leave, Donglin Tingyue emerged from a nearby courtyard, and Shangguan Tianque introduced him to Li Yan.

• Li Yan examined the red lantern, tested it with flames, and tried using the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief as a wick, but neither produced a reaction.
• Shangguan Tianque contacted Li Yan and invited him to a trading gathering with Nascent Soul cultivators before the market auction.
• Shangguan Tianque offered Li Yan ten thousand high-grade spirit stones, and Li Yan thanked him.
• Shangguan Tianque said they would wait for another acquaintance, then a masked man emerged from the courtyard opposite Li Yan’s lodging.
• Shangguan Tianque introduced the man as Donglin Tingyue of the Donglin Lineage, surprising Li Yan.

Li Yan accompanied Shangguan Tianque and Donglin Tingyue to a private trading gathering, where the cultivators were surprised to meet the man who had killed Mang Yan. As the gathering assembled, Liu Huaigu of the Azure Ram Temple arrived, and Shangguan Tianque warned Li Yan that he was hostile to their sect.

• Shangguan Tianque introduced Li Yan to Donglin Tingyue, who was surprised that the quiet young cultivator had killed Mang Yan.
• Shangguan Tianque and Donglin Tingyue led Li Yan through a concealed path to a rented courtyard where a trading gathering was underway.
• Shangguan Tianque introduced Li Yan to Shentu Tianduan and the other attendees, who recognized Li Yan as Mang Yan's killer.
• Shentu Tianduan welcomed Li Yan and his companions, and Shangguan Tianque identified the gathering's human and Demon Race cultivators.
• Liu Huaigu arrived from the Azure Ram Temple, and Shangguan Tianque privately warned Li Yan that the Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator was powerful and hostile toward their sect.

At a small trading meet, Liu Huaigu needled Shangguan Tianque about his plans to acquire rare materials, while Li Yan observed the gathering of Nascent Soul cultivators. Shentu Tianduan opened the trading with a 2,700-year-old Iceflame Fruit, which the icy young man from the Mysterious Nether Ghost Serpent clan ultimately bought at a steep price.

• Liu Huaigu revealed that Shangguan Tianque was seeking materials for a breakthrough, then learned that the newly appointed Po Jun Sect elder beside him was Li Yan.
• Donglin Tingyue urged Shentu Tianduan to begin the trading meet before the cultivators could provoke a confrontation or test Li Yan's strength.
• Shentu Tianduan displayed a 2,700-year-old Iceflame Fruit, and Li Yan felt the ice law power within stir the Gui Water in his dantian.
• Shentu Tianduan set the Iceflame Fruit's starting price at 400,000 mid-grade spirit stones and explained that it might contain a thread of fire law power as well as ice law power.
• Donglin Tingyue, the icy young man from the Mysterious Nether Ghost Serpent clan, and the tall woman from the Frostcloud Crane clan competed for the fruit, driving its price sharply higher.
• The icy young man from the Mysterious Nether Ghost Serpent clan won the Iceflame Fruit, while Li Yan chose not to bid.

At the trading gathering, Donglin Tingyue offered a mysterious, indestructible silver sand as a reward for curing his younger brother’s unknown poison. Li Yan recognized that the toxin corroded and solidified spiritual power, and Liu Huaigu voiced a similar theory, but no cure had yet been found.

• Shangguan Tianque sold a rare wood-element pill ingredient for 370,000 mid-grade spirit stones after Liu Huaigu had repeatedly raised prices against his earlier bids.
• Donglin Tingyue presented mysterious silver sand that could attack the sea of consciousness and offered it in exchange for help treating his poisoned younger brother.
• The cultivators examined a piece of the victim’s flesh, but none recognized the poison or found a way to remove it.
• Li Yan determined that the toxin corroded and solidified spiritual power, causing the channels to petrify more severely than the flesh.
• Liu Huaigu proposed that the poison corroded spiritual power, and Donglin Tingyue asked what evidence supported his opinion.

At the trade meet, Li Yan demonstrated that he could remove the poison damaging Donglin Tingyue’s younger brother, surprising the gathered cultivators. Because his cure required him to personally use an immortal art rather than provide pills, Donglin Tingyue weighed the risks and ultimately asked him to accompany her to the Donglin Lineage.

• Liu Huaigu explained that the poison targeted spiritual power and said he needed to examine Donglin Tingyue’s younger brother before deciding how to treat it.
• Li Yan declared that he could treat the poison, then showed the others a piece of flesh whose damaged meridians had recovered after his technique removed most of the poison.
• Donglin Tingyue and Li Yan discussed the matter privately, and Li Yan revealed that his immortal art devoured magical power rather than relying on antidote pills.
• Donglin Tingyue considered the risks of letting Li Yan treat her brother directly, who could resist the poison for about a year, and decided to invite Li Yan to the Donglin Lineage.
• Li Yan said he could not leave immediately because he had other matters to attend to.

Li Yan and Shangguan Tianque secretly left the market after Shangguan Tianque won the twin-grown Sky Silver Grass at auction. They traveled southwest aboard the White Jade Boat with Donglin Tingyue, and the journey remained calm as they continued toward their destination.

• Donglin Tingyue offered to travel with Shangguan Tianque after he finished his business, and he agreed to her proposal.
• Four days later, Li Yan accompanied Shangguan Tianque to the auction, where Shangguan Tianque spent nearly all his spirit stones to win the Sky Silver Grass.
• Three nights later, Li Yan and Shangguan Tianque met outside the market in disguises, and Shangguan Tianque revealed that he had invited Donglin Tingyue to join them.
• Donglin Tingyue arrived, and the three boarded Shangguan Tianque's White Jade Boat to travel southwest while avoiding other parties.
• Five days into the journey, Li Yan kept watch while Shangguan Tianque and Donglin Tingyue meditated, and the group continued without incident.

Li Yan, Shangguan Tianque, and Donglin Tingyue were ambushed by six Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who suspected Shangguan Tianque was their target. The trio scattered to escape, and the attackers divided their forces to pursue them, leaving Li Yan facing a mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

• Li Yan sensed an attack and guided the White Jade Boat through a barrage of projectiles before the attackers surrounded the trio.
• The six ambushers revealed their Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, and Donglin Tingyue recognized the two matching red-robed masks as a reason to fear they had been targeted.
• The gaunt young man ordered the six to kill the trio, so Donglin Tingyue urged them to split up and break through.
• Li Yan and Shangguan Tianque agreed to scatter first, and the three left the White Jade Boat and flew in separate directions.
• The gaunt young man and a masked red-robed cultivator pursued Shangguan Tianque, while a mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm old man flew after Li Yan.

Li Yan lured the masked red-robed cultivator into a trap and killed him after escaping the ambush. Hu Changqi pursued Li Yan, unaware that the same attack had already severed his head, and the chapter ended with him realizing his own death.

• Donglin Tingyue used her clone illusion technique to split into two identical figures and draw her pursuers in opposite directions, while Li Yan escaped the old man's interception.
• Shangguan Tianque recognized Liu Huaigu as one of the attackers as they began fighting with full strength.
• The masked red-robed cultivator caught up to Li Yan and struck at him with lightning, but Li Yan's golden threads trapped the attacker and disrupted his access to spiritual energy.
• Li Yan revealed himself after the masked cultivator's lightning split the bald old man in two, then killed the immobilized attacker.
• The chapter recounted how Hu Changqi had accepted Liu Huaigu's offer to join the ambush, believing the promised reward outweighed the risks.
• Hu Changqi realized that his own headless body was still flying ahead as his severed head floated upward.

Li Yan killed Hu Changqi and ambushed the masked cultivator in red, but the man self-destructed before Li Yan could search his soul, hinting at a powerful figure behind the attack. Li Yan then turned toward Shangguan Tianque, who was badly wounded and fighting Liu Huaigu, another masked cultivator, and a Blood Jade Serpent Spider.

• Li Yan used Phoenix Soaring and Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to disable the masked man in red, then killed Hu Changqi and seized his storage ring.
• Li Yan tried to search the masked man's soul, but a hidden restriction triggered an explosion that destroyed the cultivator and his nascent soul.
• Li Yan suspected someone more powerful than the Green Ram Temple's late-stage cultivators was behind the attack, then hurried to help elsewhere.
• Shangguan Tianque fought and retreated against Liu Huaigu, a masked spirit beast master, and the Blood Jade Serpent Spider while badly injured and running low on magical power.
• Shangguan Tianque knocked the Blood Jade Serpent Spider away with his spear and dodged Liu Huaigu's Immortal-Striking Stone.

Li Yan arrived as Shangguan Tianque struggled against Liu Huaigu and the masked red-robed man, then used spell-disrupting attacks and repeated blows to overwhelm Liu Huaigu. The chapter ended with Liu Huaigu severely wounded and airborne, while Li Yan remained frustrated that the jade ring had kept his target alive.

• Shangguan Tianque blocked the Immortal-Smashing Stone with his shield while the Blood Jade Snake Spider used transparent silk to entangle his spear.
• Li Yan teleported behind the masked red-robed man and disrupted his spell, then struck him with Five Elements Wild Cloak and Demon-Sealing Nails.
• Li Yan rushed Liu Huaigu and struck him, but Liu Huaigu's jade ring shielded him from much of the force.
• Li Yan repeatedly disrupted Liu Huaigu's spells and punched him, sending him flying and injuring him despite the jade ring.
• Liu Huaigu's own unstable spell exploded and shattered the jade ring's defense, leaving him severely wounded as he saw Li Yan nearby.

Li Yan defeated Liu Huaigu, captured him and the masked red-robed man, and helped Shangguan Tianque survive the ambush. After Shangguan Tianque searched Liu Huaigu’s memories, they learned the attack stemmed from Liu Huaigu’s grudge over a Dragon-Capturing Sect cultivator’s death, while signs pointed to a broader threat against the Broken Army Sect.

• Li Yan used the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to disrupt Liu Huaigu’s powers, then shattered his protective golden light with a fourth punch and captured him.
• Shangguan Tianque pursued and killed the fleeing Blood Jade Snake Spider while Li Yan sealed Liu Huaigu’s Nascent Soul and searched his memories.
• Shangguan Tianque tried to search the masked red-robed man, but the restriction in the man’s sea of consciousness self-destructed and killed him.
• Shangguan Tianque searched Liu Huaigu’s soul, and Liu Huaigu’s body eventually burst apart; the search revealed his affair with a Dragon-Capturing Sect cultivator and his hatred of Shangguan Tianque over her death.
• Aboard the White Jade Boat, Shangguan Tianque and Li Yan discussed the information, which suggested that someone was targeting the Broken Army Sect.

Liu Huaigu plotted with three allies and two mysterious masked cultivators to kill Shangguan Tianque and Li Yan, but the ambush failed and Liu Huaigu died. Shangguan Tianque, Li Yan, and Donglin Tingyue reached Pojun Sect safely after a long detour, while the masked men’s backers remained unidentified.

• Liu Huaigu planned to kill Shangguan Tianque and Li Yan, then met two red-robed masked cultivators who offered to cooperate against Shangguan Tianque.
• Shangguan Tianque and Li Yan examined the masked men’s sparse belongings and concluded their enemies might fear the Blood Lamp Sect, but they could not identify the men’s origins.
• Shangguan Tianque and Li Yan found Donglin Tingyue hiding in a forest and brought him aboard the White Jade Boat after he escaped two pursuing cultivators.
• Shangguan Tianque, Li Yan, and Donglin Tingyue took a wide detour and reached Pojun Sect’s protective formation after more than twenty days.
• Ren Yanyu wanted to confront the Green Goat Temple over Liu Huaigu’s ambush, but Shangguan Tianque persuaded her to wait and keep their role in the deaths secret.
• Li Yan returned to his cave abode to inspect the gains from the journey.

Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu discussed Li Yan’s strength and agreed to treat him sincerely while he helped guard Shangguan Tianque’s next attempt to reach Spirit Transformation. In his cave abode, Li Yan examined the spoils from the masked men and tested several formations, discovering a powerful illusion formation but finding a defensive one weaker than expected.

• Ren Yanyu proposed that Li Yan was either an exceptional ascended cultivator or a Spirit Transformation cultivator hiding his realm, and Shangguan Tianque agreed to treat him sincerely without special rewards.
• Shangguan Tianque decided to refine a Spirit Communion Pill and attempt Spirit Transformation with Ren Yanyu and Li Yan guarding him.
• Ren Yanyu recalled that someone had sabotaged Shangguan Tianque’s previous breakthrough by sending a law-infused third-tier Demon Beast into his tribulation, and the pair suspected a possible connection to the masked men in red robes.
• Li Yan examined the spoils from Liu Huaigu and the other cultivator, kept the Immortal-Striking Stone, and set aside unfamiliar materials for Shangguan Tianque to identify.
• Li Yan tested six formations and found that the illusion formation could even deceive his powerful divine sense, while the defensive formation collapsed under one punch at sixty percent of his strength.

Li Yan discovered that Liu Huaigu's green ram's horn was a powerful defensive formation that required five high-grade spirit stones, then traveled with Donglin Tingyue to the Donglin Lineage. They arrived at the island stronghold, where Tingyue brought Li Yan inside as the patrolling cultivators watched.

• Li Yan activated the green ram's horn with five high-grade spirit stones and found it could withstand three attacks from an early-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Li Yan named the illusion formation Mirror Flowers and the ram's horn Do Not Open, then set out to obtain ice sand and send word to the Mortal Realm that he was alive.
• Donglin Tingyue and Li Yan flew to the Donglin Lineage, and she questioned him about how he and Shangguan Tianque escaped four Nascent Soul cultivators, but Li Yan deflected her questions.
• Donglin Tingyue told Li Yan she would take him to his residence before discussing his visit with her younger brother, and he agreed.
• Donglin Tingyue and Li Yan descended toward the lineage's island, where the patrolling cultivators recognized her and greeted her.

Li Yan waited four days before Donglin Tingyue came to ask him to treat her cousin, requiring a heart demon oath to keep the Donglin Lineage’s secrets. After they exchanged oaths and Li Yan received a map to the silver sand’s source, Donglin Tingyue led him into a remote forest to visit her cousin.

• Li Yan inferred that Donglin Tingyue’s cousin had been injured and waited in his courtyard for four days, growing increasingly vigilant.
• Donglin Tingyue asked Li Yan to swear by his heart demon that he would not reveal what he saw inside the Donglin Lineage, and offered him the remaining silver sand.
• Li Yan agreed, but asked to trade for any other silver sand and requested proof that the jade slip map and her claim that she had none left were genuine.
• Li Yan and Donglin Tingyue each swore the agreed heart demon oaths, and she gave him the jade slip map to the silver sand’s source.
• Donglin Tingyue led Li Yan through the secluded grounds of the Donglin Lineage and into a dark forest toward her cousin.

Li Yan entered the Donglin Lineage’s hidden cottage and discovered that the poisoned patient was the unconscious First Supreme Elder, not Donglin Tingyue’s younger cousin. After examining him, Li Yan warned that treatment might reduce his cultivation, but Yuan Shuiyun accepted the risk and asked him to proceed.

• Donglin Tingyue led Li Yan through a formation into a cottage guarded by a powerful black dog.
• Yuan Shuiyun explained that the Donglin Lineage had debated whether to let Li Yan treat the patient, then asked him to administer the treatment himself.
• After the bed’s barrier was removed, Li Yan recognized the patient as the Donglin Lineage’s First Supreme Elder and questioned why they had concealed his identity.
• Li Yan examined the First Supreme Elder and found that the poison had reached his nascent soul, leaving it unconscious.
• Li Yan warned that treatment could lower the First Supreme Elder’s cultivation, and Yuan Shuiyun accepted the risk.

Li Yan cured Donglin Qinglei of the poison that had left him comatose, then learned that Qinglei had been attacked by two masked men in red robes. After Li Yan described the techniques used by the attackers, Qinglei warned him to tell Shangguan Tianque to beware the Blood Lamp Sect.

• Li Yan used his Fragmented Poison Body to devour the poison in Donglin Qinglei, who awakened with his Nascent Soul's residual poison largely cleared.
• Donglin Tingyue returned the silver sand to Li Yan, and he stayed at the Donglin Lineage's residence while Donglin Qinglei stabilized his cultivation.
• Donglin Qinglei summoned Li Yan and revealed that he was Donglin Tingyue's grandfather and the husband of the old woman outside.
• Donglin Qinglei explained that two masked men in red robes had ambushed him, and a Dark Blazing Demon Hound helped him escape before the poison left him comatose.
• Li Yan described the techniques used by the red-robed attackers who had confronted him, and Donglin Qinglei concluded they belonged to a different group from his own attackers.
• Donglin Qinglei secretly warned Li Yan to tell Shangguan Tianque to beware the Blood Lamp Sect.

Li Yan learned from Ren Yanyu that the Blood Lamp Sect might be obstructing subordinate sect cultivators from reaching Spirit Transformation, and he considered whether to leave. Meanwhile, the Phantom Sect learned that Li Yan had vanished after confronting a Spirit Transformation cultivator, while Gong Chenying stayed with Zhao Min and the others as they awaited his return.

• Li Yan returned to the Broken Army Sect and learned that Shangguan Tianque had entered seclusion to refine pills, so he told Ren Yanyu what Donglin Qinglei had said about being ambushed while seeking a bonded spirit beast.
• Ren Yanyu explained that Donglin Qinglei needed a new bonded beast to pursue Spirit Transformation and revealed that Shangguan Tianque had also been sabotaged during a past breakthrough attempt; Li Yan suspected the Blood Lamp Sect was suppressing potential rivals.
• At the Phantom Sect, Mo Qing, Wei Zhongran, Li Yuyin, Zhao Min, Gong Chenying, Baili Yuan, and Li Wuyi inspected Li Yan's soul lamp after hearing that he had disappeared in turbulent space while fighting a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Gong Chenying announced that she and Li Yan had become Dao companions, and Yun Chunqu left the Phantom Sect several days later; Gong Chenying then stayed to spend time with Li Zhaoyan.
• Zhao Min helped Hongyin gain entry to the Northern Underworld Suppression Tower, while Qianji departed and Zi Kun settled on Small Bamboo Peak; the two demons secretly agreed to reach fourth-rank and search turbulent space for Li Yan.

The Wangliang Sect and the other three sects discovered that their shared secret realm had vanished, but even their Spirit Transformation cultivators could not explain why. Zhao Min suspected the yellow-robed Daoist was connected to the disappearance, and he left to search for Li Yan after learning that Li Yan had vanished into the void.

• The Heavenly Stele reported that the secret realm had disappeared, and Mo Qing entered the passage to confirm that its teleportation node was gone.
• Wei Zhongran traveled to the Ten-Step Academy, whose Nascent Soul cultivators accused the Wangliang Sect of destroying the passage, but none of the four sects or their Spirit Transformation cultivators discovered the cause.
• Zhao Min recalled that the yellow-robed Daoist had secretly visited her shortly before the secret realm disappeared and asked her where Li Yan was.
• Zhao Min told the yellow-robed Daoist that Li Yan had left the Desolate Moon Continent and disappeared into the void in the Tianli Clan's territory.
• The yellow-robed Daoist warned Zhao Min to keep his visit secret and said he would search for Li Yan and bring him back if he was alive.

Zhao Min awoke with the yellow-robed Daoist’s pills and a Nine Yang Mysterious Bird egg, and learned that he intended to search for Li Yan. Three days before the Wangliang Sect discovered the secret realm’s disappearance, True Lord Qianzhong returned with Ping Tu and began slaughtering the Demon Beasts that had attacked him.

• The yellow-robed Daoist left Zhao Min two pills and a Nine Yang Mysterious Bird egg, then put her to sleep before departing.
• Zhao Min awoke, remembered the Daoist’s promise to look for Li Yan, and resolved to wait for her husband’s safe return.
• A few days later, the Wangliang Sect’s secret realm disappeared, and Zhao Min kept the Daoist’s visit secret while considering how to give Gong Chenying a pill.
• True Lord Qianzhong, Dong Fuyi, and Pei Buchong reunited with Ping Tu in the secret realm, where Qianzhong healed him.
• After Ping Tu recounted what had happened, True Lord Qianzhong attacked the Demon Beasts and killed the races that had helped the Human cultivators target Ping Tu.

True Lord Qianzhong crushed the secret realm’s rebellious demon beast clans and forced the survivors to accept slave seals, then the group went to seek Li Yan. Dong Fuyi learned that Li Yan had vanished into turbulent space after fighting a Spirit Transformation cultivator and resolved to search for him.

• True Lord Qianzhong annihilated demon beast clans that Ping Tu identified as rebels, then gathered the remaining beasts and demonstrated his power through a prolonged massacre.
• True Lord Qianzhong offered the demon beasts extermination or eternal servitude; they accepted slave seals, and the fifth-tier old wolf hoped service might help him advance and survive.
• After sealing the secret realm’s passage, True Lord Qianzhong asked Dong Fuyi whether to destroy or punish the four great sects for stealing its resources, and Dong Fuyi proposed finding Li Yan first.
• Dong Fuyi and the others found no trace of Li Yan at the Wangliang Sect, so True Lord Qianzhong brought them to Zhao Min for answers.
• Dong Fuyi learned that Li Yan had been forced into turbulent space by a Spirit Transformation cultivator and had disappeared after using Shaking Heaven and Earth.
• Dong Fuyi grieved over Li Yan’s hardships and resolved to do everything he could to find him.

Dong Fuyi and True Lord Qianzhong failed to locate Li Yan through the fake soul lamp, so they set out for Wind God Continent to search for him. Meanwhile, Li Yan studied silver ice sand and discovered that its cloud-like vapor could gradually numb and freeze his Divine Sense.

• Dong Fuyi secretly gave Zhao Min a Nine Yang Mystical Bird egg, and he and True Lord Qianzhong decided to seek Li Yan through the Phantom Sect's soul lamp.
• Ping Tu revealed that Li Yan's soul lamp was fake, cutting off their only direct means of finding out whether Li Yan was alive.
• At Ping Tu's urging, Dong Fuyi and True Lord Qianzhong spared the Phantom Sect and the other three sects, then resolved to search for Li Yan on Wind God Continent.
• Dong Fuyi, True Lord Qianzhong, Pei Buchong, and Ping Tu left the Desolate Moon Continent, while Dong Fuyi first found Li Yan's soul lamp on Small Bamboo Peak.
• Li Yan drew out silver ice sand in the Heaven-Breaking Sect and tested its bluish-white clouds, discovering that prolonged exposure gradually numbed and froze his Divine Sense.