Recaps

Li Yan used Xiao Yun Sect’s memories to locate the glacial gorge where the Polar Ice Heart might be hiding, then descended and fought a spirit creature guarding the area. After Li Yan destroyed it, its core collided with a red lightning arc, triggering a sudden sense of danger.

• Li Yan learned that Xiao Yun Sect had seen a roughly three-inch Polar Ice Heart in a nearby gorge and had exaggerated its size to tempt him.
• Nine days later, Li Yan descended into the gorge he had identified from Xiao Yun Sect’s memories.
• Li Yan shattered ice around the gorge and attacked a snow-covered spirit creature with ice arrows.
• Li Yan overwhelmed the spirit creature and destroyed its crystalline body, exposing its red core.
• The core darted into a falling red lightning arc, which flared as Li Yan felt an intense warning of danger.

Li Yan faced a spirit creature whose mutated ability formed a net of linked red electric arcs, then tested the net with his Qiongqi attack and a red handheld lantern. The lantern repeatedly struck the red light and returned unharmed, leaving Li Yan baffled as the battle continued overhead.

• Li Yan realized the spirit creature could link red electric arcs into a giant net and evade its descending attack while probing it with Divine Sense.
• The red net attacked Li Yan's Divine Sense, so he sent a Qiongqi phantom upward using the "prison shatter" technique.
• The net trapped the Qiongqi and restored its broken nodes with blood-red light, preventing it from breaking free.
• Li Yan launched his red handheld lantern at the spirit creature's red light, and the electric arcs knocked it back without damaging it.
• Li Yan repeatedly sent the lantern into the red light and retrieved it, then stared at it in confusion when it remained intact.

Li Yan discovered that the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief could absorb the red lightning arcs and the monster that had been fighting his prison-breaking technique. The monster and its red net vanished into the kerchief, leaving Li Yan to ponder the strange connection between it and the fragile red handheld lantern.

• Li Yan tested the red handheld lantern against the red lightning arcs and found that it remained unharmed, though it still could not withstand even a small infusion of spiritual power.
• Li Yan struck the red net with a Wind Blade, which the lightning quickly destroyed, then brought out the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief.
• Li Yan sent the kerchief over the battlefield, and it absorbed the red light, the monster, and the entire red net.
• Li Yan dispelled the weakened Qiongqi phantom and watched the falling snow and red lightning arcs enter the kerchief without a sound.
• Li Yan recalled that he had sensed a similar aura in the lantern and kerchief, and realized the kerchief had revealed a power he had never discovered before.

Li Yan investigated the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief after it absorbed a sprite’s core and crimson lightning, suspecting that the ancient treasure might be repairing itself. He found faint reddish changes among its inner threads but could not locate what it had swallowed, leaving him wary of the kerchief’s unexplained transformation.

• Li Yan waited for changes in the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief, then took it and descended deep into the glacial gorge, where the snow and crimson lightning disappeared.
• Li Yan hid in an ice-covered cave, laid protective formations, and examined the kerchief, finding no outward change or disruption to his connection with it.
• Li Yan sent an incarnation to investigate the kerchief’s interior, keeping its dangerous crimson lightning away from his own sea of consciousness.
• The incarnation found chaotic crystalline threads with a barely visible reddish tint, but it could not locate the lightning, crimson net, or sprite’s core.
• Li Yan noticed that some intersections among the kerchief’s threads resembled the crimson net formed by the sprite.

Li Yan suspected that the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief and the hand-held red lantern were connected to the ice field, but tests showed no clear improvement in the kerchief’s power. He stored both treasures separately in Tuban under watch and continued searching the glacier for the Polar Ice Heart.

• Li Yan noticed similarities between the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief’s threads and the ice field’s red net, then tested the kerchief against a Ghost Trace formation barrier.
• Li Yan found that the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief’s restriction-breaking ability had barely changed and considered whether it had devoured too few red arcs or contained a hidden artifact spirit.
• Li Yan isolated the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief in Tuban and left concealed Divine Sense nearby to monitor it.
• Li Yan placed the hand-held red lantern in a separate area of Tuban and arranged the same precautions because its aura resembled the kerchief’s.
• Li Yan continued descending through the glacier in search of the Polar Ice Heart and spotted an ice creature resembling a vulture near a concealed cave entrance.

Li Yan searched a glacier cave for the Polar Ice Heart and seized an unusually cold ice pillar he suspected concealed it. The pillar proved to be a decoy, and the Polar Ice Heart escaped while the cave’s icicles attacked him.

• Li Yan silently traveled through the glacier, using his knowledge of local monsters and temperatures to search for the Polar Ice Heart.
• Li Yan noticed a flocculent substance among thin ice pillars and grabbed the pillar that seemed colder than its surroundings.
• The cave’s icicles broke loose and fell on Li Yan, who defended himself as ice fragments refroze into obstacles around him.
• Li Yan emerged from the ice fragments and examined the pillar, discovering its flocculent substance had vanished and realizing the Polar Ice Heart had left behind a false body.

Li Yan failed to catch the Polar Ice Heart after its decoy trapped him and its true body escaped. Four months later, the creature revealed it had remained hidden in the glacier and began planting new decoys.

• The Polar Ice Heart escaped while Li Yan was frozen by the decoy’s trap, and Li Yan searched the cave and glacier without finding it.
• Li Yan spent three days destroying the glacier’s surroundings and killing six spirit creatures, then left without forcing the Polar Ice Heart to appear.
• Four months later, the Polar Ice Heart revealed itself in the damaged cave and mocked Li Yan for failing to destroy the glacier’s natural environment.
• The Polar Ice Heart cleared poisoned ice from the cave and began placing four false bodies inside it, with plans to make two more outside.

Li Yan used his knowledge of the Polar Ice Heart’s growth conditions to lay a concealed Ghost Trace array across the glacial gorge and lure it into revealing itself. The Polar Ice Heart realized it had been tricked and fled through the ice, while Li Yan remained outside the cave with his plan underway.

• The Polar Ice Heart headed for the cave entrance, noticed that it could not get closer, and spotted Li Yan’s phantom watching from the ice.
• The Polar Ice Heart concealed itself and fled, cursing Li Yan for his patience as Li Yan’s true body waited outside the cave.
• Li Yan recalled records from the Blood-Eyed Toad and the Phantom Sect, concluding that the Polar Ice Heart would remain near the glacial gorge’s most suitable growing place.
• Li Yan feigned anger and destroyed parts of the area while secretly using the Gui Water True Scripture to assess changes in the laws and laying the Ghost Trace array across a wide range.
• Li Yan released his aura to attract ice sprites and killed them with Scattered Poison, concealing the array and hoping the Polar Ice Heart would emerge to remove the poison.

Li Yan used the Ghost Trace formation and carefully chipped away the ice concealing the Polar Ice Heart, forcing it to panic as its attempts to flee kept bringing it back to the cave. After detecting the creature among the ice fragments, Li Yan caught it with a noose, leaving it dangling helplessly in the air.

• Li Yan waited four months, then isolated the cave’s enormous block of ice with the Ghost Trace formation and demanded that the Polar Ice Heart come out.
• Li Yan punched away the ice bit by bit, using his controlled blows and divine sense to search for anything concealed among the fragments.
• The Polar Ice Heart fled through the ice, but it kept finding itself near the cave entrance as Li Yan’s blows drew closer.
• Li Yan noticed an ice fragment behaving differently, then threw it aside without revealing that he had found the Polar Ice Heart.
• The Polar Ice Heart rejoiced at what it thought was a successful escape, but Li Yan’s noose suddenly caught the ice containing it and suspended it in the air.

Li Yan captured the Polar Ice Heart and prepared to split it, intending to keep half for Zhao Min and give the rest to the Blood-Eyed Toad. The Polar Ice Heart revealed itself and offered to lead him to Snow Pearls and Dragon Lightning Essence, leaving Li Yan to question how far away the treasures were and whether it was telling the truth.

• Li Yan used the Hanging Ghost Noose and a Vermilion Bird flame technique to expose and restrain the Polar Ice Heart.
• Li Yan decided to cut the Polar Ice Heart in half, keeping a portion for Zhao Min and reserving the rest for the Blood-Eyed Toad.
• The Polar Ice Heart revealed a child's face and pleaded with Li Yan to spare it, offering to find him Snow Pearls and Dragon Lightning Essence.
• The Polar Ice Heart explained that Snow Pearls were its source and that Dragon Lightning Essence could temper Divine Sense.
• Li Yan questioned the Polar Ice Heart about the treasures' locations while keeping his killing intent poised.

Li Yan rejected the Polar Ice Heart’s proposal to guide him deeper into the icefield, despite its promises of treasure and help with cultivation. He decided to keep it for its ice attribute and considered severing half its body to fulfill his blood oath to the Blood-Eyed Toad.

• The Polar Ice Heart told Li Yan about a nearby Snow Pearl and a Dragon Lightning Essence in a region thick with red lightning, offering to guide him in exchange for its freedom.
• Li Yan distrusted the Polar Ice Heart’s claims and refused to venture farther into the dangerous icefield, deciding that the spirit itself was all he needed.
• When Li Yan threatened to kill it, the Polar Ice Heart begged for its life and claimed it could improve his ice cultivation by twenty percent.
• Li Yan questioned whether cutting off part of the Polar Ice Heart would preserve its cultivation benefits, while the spirit pleaded against being severed.
• Li Yan remained intent on taking half of the Polar Ice Heart to deliver to the Blood-Eyed Toad and satisfy his blood oath.

Li Yan cut away part of the Polar Ice Heart while preserving its intelligence by placing a restriction inside its core. He planned to keep it and recreate its icy cave environment in Tuban, though he still intended to test the effects before moving the Snow Mosquito race there.

• The Polar Ice Heart revealed that its body had to remain at least two inches long to preserve its intelligence and said it could still improve cultivation results by about ten percent.
• Li Yan decided to keep the Polar Ice Heart intelligent, plant a restriction in its core, and remove one and three-tenths inches from its body.
• After cutting it into two sections, Li Yan examined them and confirmed that both retained the same coldness and ice-law power despite their different sizes.
• The surviving Polar Ice Heart asked Li Yan to store it with ice from the cave, and he agreed without answering whether he would seek the Snow Pearl and Lightning Dragon Essence.
• Li Yan considered moving glacier ice into Tuban and recreating the cave environment for the Polar Ice Heart, while planning to test the conditions before relocating the Snow Mosquito race.

Li Yan moved the ice from the Polar Ice Heart’s cave into Tuban, his ice-element spatial treasure, and discovered that the space could sustain and help restore the weakened treasure. The Polar Ice Heart welcomed the unexpected refuge, while Li Yan continued refining the space’s ice-element laws to their current limits.

• Li Yan asked the Polar Ice Heart to move as much cave ice as possible and agreed to stop searching for Snow Pearls and Dragon Lightning Essence.
• Li Yan sealed off the Polar Ice Heart’s senses and transferred the cave’s ice into Tuban, leaving the treasure confused when it still appeared to be in the same cave.
• Li Yan revealed that the cave had been moved into an ice-element spatial treasure, and the Polar Ice Heart explored the self-contained space.
• The Polar Ice Heart confirmed that Tuban’s ice and laws provided about forty percent of the conditions it needed, enough to sustain it for roughly fifteen hundred years and allow it to recover slowly.
• Li Yan adjusted Tuban’s ice-element laws, pleased that the space could help the Polar Ice Heart recover.

Li Yan suspected the Polar Ice Heart had discovered his secret space, but learned it could sense the Melting Bamboo Shoot there and help it grow. He asked how old the Melting Bamboo Shoot needed to be for the Polar Ice Heart to accompany its growth.

• Li Yan prepared to leave the Polar Ice Heart in the cave while he observed the Snow Mosquito clan’s migration.
• The Polar Ice Heart hesitated while discussing Li Yan’s magical treasure, making him suspect it had seen through his secret space.
• The Polar Ice Heart revealed that it could sense the Melting Bamboo Shoot and described how it could accelerate the treasure’s growth and produce more liquid.
• Li Yan realized the Polar Ice Heart’s ability could revive the dwindling usefulness of his Melting Bamboo Shoot.
• Li Yan asked how old the Melting Bamboo Shoot needed to be for the Polar Ice Heart to accompany its growth.

Li Yan showed the Polar Ice Heart a two-thousand-year-old Melting Shoot and questioned it about the ice field’s spirit creatures and the shoot’s effects. The Polar Ice Heart realized Li Yan was from the Immortal-Spirit Realm, while Li Yan remained focused on the mysteries of the ice field and the two stronger Fusion Realm experts trapped there.

• The Polar Ice Heart offered to nurture a Melting Shoot sprout with Li Yan, then froze in astonishment when he revealed a piece of one.
• The Polar Ice Heart lunged for the Melting Shoot, but Li Yan suppressed it with the restriction planted in its core and demanded answers.
• The Polar Ice Heart explained that spirit creatures inherited knowledge from predecessors and gained innate understanding from the ice field’s laws of heaven and earth.
• The Polar Ice Heart said the two-thousand-year-old Melting Shoot could support Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators, while a shoot around three and a half inches long could benefit a Void Refinement Realm cultivator.
• The Polar Ice Heart inferred from Li Yan’s question that he was a cultivator from the Immortal-Spirit Realm, while Li Yan recalled that two far stronger Fusion Realm experts were trapped in the ice field.

Li Yan questioned the Polar Ice Heart about nurturing the Merging Shoot and its plans for growth and ascension. He left the Polar Ice Heart in a cave with the Merging Shoot under threat, while considering how he might benefit from their future symbiosis.

• Li Yan learned that the Merging Shoot could reach three inches and five fen in about five hundred years if it grew symbiotically with the Polar Ice Heart.
• The Polar Ice Heart explained that it could grow faster than the Merging Shoot, described their possible limits, and said it planned to wait until it was stronger before leaving the ice plains.
• Li Yan concluded that the Polar Ice Heart's distinctive ice abilities would attract dangerous attention if it traveled outside the ice plains.
• Li Yan ordered the Polar Ice Heart to recover and nurture the Merging Shoot, threatening to destroy it if anything went wrong and promising possible freedom if it obeyed.
• Li Yan left the cave, considering that he could later take another section of the Polar Ice Heart and use it with the Merging Shoot.

Li Yan moved glacier ice, snow, and the Snow Mosquito clan into Tuban’s far north, then left the dangerous ice plain after confirming his retreat route was safe. More than three years later, he reached the Soul-Suppressing Palace, where Elder Hao and Master Lan had arrived with the Soul Prison Clan and revealed the connection to the upper-realm sect.

• Li Yan moved glacier ice and snow into Tuban, where the red lightning arcs quickly vanished, and observed the changes in the new ice plain.
• Li Yan retreated from the glacial gorge, refined the red lightning arcs in his sea of consciousness, and stayed to monitor Tuban’s relocated ice and Snow Mosquitoes.
• After a year, Li Yan moved the entire Snow Mosquito clan to Tuban’s far north, where they swarmed across the ice plain.
• More than three years later, Li Yan found the Soul-Suppressing Palace and learned that Elder Hao and Master Lan had brought the Soul Prison Clan there.
• Elder Hao presented a token from the first-generation old sect master, and the lower-realm Soul-Suppressing Palace verified it and learned the upper-realm sect’s history.

Elder Hao and Master Lan forced the lower-realm Soul-Suppressing Palace to accept that it must return to the Soul Prison Clan, using their strength and ruthless punishments to crush resistance. Elder Hao announced that the Great Ancestor’s successor would arrive to preside over the sacrificial ceremony, leaving the sect shocked that the successor was still alive.

• Elder Hao revealed his Soul-Suppressing Palace token and used the Third Ancestor’s soul arts to prove his inheritance and intimidate the lower-realm cultivators.
• Elder Hao declared that Soul-Suppressing Palace would remain only as an outward-facing name and that its members would return to the Soul Prison Clan; Sikong Lai and others displayed the Second Ancestor’s token and their related techniques.
• Master Lan killed rebellious disciples and secretly marked their blood relatives, while the Grand Elder and sect master killed descendants who continued to harbor hatred.
• Elder Hao explained that the return fulfilled the Third Ancestor’s final wish, and the Grand Elder accepted that the lower-realm sect had to obey the ancestral instructions.
• Elder Hao postponed the sacrificial ceremony and announced that the Great Ancestor’s successor would arrive to preside over it, astonishing the disciples and the Grand Elder.

Li Yan and Elder Hao completed the reunification of the three branches into the Soul Prison Clan and organized its people, territory, and resources. Li Yan left clan management to Elder Hao and decided to keep the Soul Sect and his Dao Companions uninvolved until the clan was stronger.

• Elder Hao held a sacrificial ceremony with Li Yan, and the three branches formally reunited as the Soul Prison Clan.
• Li Yan reassured Sikong Lai that his clan had made the right choice, while Sikong Lai recognized that Elder Hao had been ready to kill the entire sect if it resisted.
• Li Yan visited Dai Yun and the others, learned that Elder Hao had given the branches abundant resources, and reorganized Great Ancestor's branch.
• Li Yan and Elder Hao adjusted the clan's leadership and assignments to bind the three branches together, while Elder Hao agreed to handle management.
• Li Yan refused to bring his Dao Companions into the clan or tell them about the Soul Sect until the Dizhen Domain had several more Body Integration Realm cultivators.

Li Yan learned why Elder Hao had purged dissenters from the Soul Prison Clan and heard that Elder Hao and Master Lan would stay behind to stabilize the lower realm and study its cultivation arts. After leaving the clan, Li Yan began searching the Northern Ice Continent for sects tied to the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.

• Li Yan learned that Liu Xuan and other dissenters from the Great Ancestor's branch had been killed and sent to reincarnate after Elder Hao uncovered their private dissatisfaction.
• Elder Hao told Li Yan that he and Master Lan would remain in the lower realm for years to stabilize the Soul Prison Clan, study its founders' techniques, and strengthen the formations.
• Li Yan explained that his contract with the Blood-Eyed Toad required him to return to the upper realm, and Elder Hao gave him four jade bottles containing two deadly soul poisons and their antidotes.
• Five days later, Li Yan secretly left the Soul Prison Clan after promising to visit Dizhen Domain when his obligation was complete.
• Li Yan concealed his identity and traveled around the Northern Ice Continent to investigate sects connected to the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.

Li Yan mapped the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s outposts on the Northern Ice Continent but avoided confronting them, choosing to preserve his hidden plans and buy time. He traveled toward the Desolate Moon Continent to bring his Second Senior Brother and Fourth Senior Sister to the upper realm, continuing his cultivation research along the way.

• Li Yan recorded the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s outposts and decided not to destroy them, since doing so could expose the Five Immortal Sects’ plans and interfere with his allies’ arrangements.
• Li Yan sensed a dangerous aura within a first-rate sect, concluded it likely belonged to the expert who had descended with Xiao Yunzong, and withdrew without investigating further.
• Li Yan abandoned his plan to seek out Elder Hao and kill the expert, reasoning that the expert’s search for Xiao Yunzong would delay a report to the upper realm.
• Li Yan traveled across the lower realm to the Lost Continent, intending to take his Second Senior Brother and Fourth Senior Sister to the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
• Li Yan continued carefully deducing the Void Refinement Realm Sacred Soul Transformation art and cultivating his Five Elements arts, though he had not completed a single Lesser Celestial Circuit.

Li Yan arrived in Holy Devil City and left southeast, planning to continue toward Qingqing Continent and return to Desolate Moon Continent. Unbeknownst to him, Zhu Hongyi and Yan He recognized him and secretly marked him while pursuing clues about the Five Immortals Sect.

• Li Yan arrived in Holy Devil City by teleportation and planned to leave without visiting the city's core.
• Li Yan flew southeast toward the city walls, intending to travel onward toward the cross-realm teleportation array to Qingqing Continent.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He recognized Li Yan in the crowd and Zhu Hongyi secretly placed a tracking mark on him.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He discussed keeping watch for Li Yan's fellow sect members as they followed him through the crowd.
• Zhu Hongyi's investigation into Amuer had led him and Yan He from Luo Gucheng to the Mortal Realm in search of the Five Immortals Sect.

Zhu Hongyi and Yan He spent years tracing Li Yan and Zhao Min’s past, following clues from the Tianlan Grassland to Holy Devil City before identifying Li Yan as their target. They secretly marked him with Shadow-evading powder as he left the city, unaware that their pursuit would bring him fatal trouble.

• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He investigated the Tianlan Tribe’s destruction and concluded that the cultivators they sought had likely come from elsewhere and included powerful body cultivators.
• After finding no useful clues on the Lost Continent, Zhu Hongyi and Yan He searched Holy Devil City but avoided provoking the Holy Devil Palace and found little information about Zhao Min or Zhang Ming.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He prepared to leave Holy Devil City and continue their search among Human Race sects, which might eventually lead them to Falling Star Valley.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He recognized Li Yan as their target and secretly dusted him with scarce Shadow-evading powder as they passed him.
• Li Yan left Holy Devil City and looked back at the mountain, recalling his early days there without realizing that Zhu Hongyi and Yan He were tracking him.

Li Yan sensed two powerful souls following him and suspected they belonged to cultivators from the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect. As he tested ways to evade them, Zhu Hongyi and Yan He decided to attack before he could reach the Five Immortals Sect.

• Li Yan’s attempt to circulate the Sacred Soul Transformation caused pain in his Life Soul, and he sensed powerful souls nearby.
• Li Yan used the Soul Awakening Art and detected two powerful pursuers more than ten thousand li behind him.
• Li Yan changed his flight path to test whether the pursuers were tracking him, and they changed direction with him.
• Yan He urged Zhu Hongyi to attack before Li Yan could reach the Five Immortals Sect’s entrance.
• Zhu Hongyi agreed to prepare an attack after Li Yan changed direction toward the southwest.

Li Yan realized that two powerful cultivators were pursuing him and suspected the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect, but he was suddenly ambushed by Zhu Hongyi and Yanhe, two Body Integration sword cultivators. He struggled to withstand their coordinated assault, and the chapter left him wounded and under mounting pressure as they tried to capture him alive.

• Li Yan noticed that two powerful souls changed course with him and concluded that they were targeting him, possibly because of Xiao Yunzong or the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yanhe launched a sudden joint attack as Li Yan tried to investigate Xiao Yunzong inside Tuban.
• Li Yan identified his attackers as two internal-sword cultivators and used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to defend against their relentless flying swords.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yanhe were surprised that Li Yan's treasures and physical defenses withstood their strikes, while Li Yan's Soul-Enticing Kill attempts were repeatedly interrupted.
• The sword attacks pierced Li Yan's defenses and drew blood, but his armor, body, and recovery kept the wounds from becoming immediately fatal as the two continued trying to capture him alive.