Recaps

Li Yan endured a relentless sword assault from Zhu Hongyi and Yan He, then deliberately released an aura above the Spirit Transformation Realm to trigger the lower realm’s rejection of Heavenly Dao. Zhu Hongyi and Yan He tried to suppress him before the rejection force swept them away, but Li Yan’s plan had already taken effect.

• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He overwhelmed Li Yan with precise sword attacks, leaving him badly wounded and unable to counterattack.
• Li Yan realized the two wanted to capture him alive and obtain the whereabouts of the Five Immortal Sect.
• Li Yan spotted a flaw in their blockade and released an aura above the Spirit Transformation Realm, drawing the world’s rejection force.
• Zhu Hongyi and Yan He recognized the danger and tried to seal Li Yan’s aura and interrupt its release.
• Li Yan continued pouring out his aura as the rejection force gathered, and the two attackers’ desperate suppression came too late.

Li Yan, Zhu Hongyi, and Yan He were forcibly expelled through a mysterious black gate into a perilous spatial passage. As Li Yan was torn apart by invisible spatial severance, he escaped into the “Tuban” space, leaving his avatar outside to protect it.

• A rune-covered black gate opened above the wilderness and pulled Li Yan, Zhu Hongyi, and Yan He away despite their attempts to resist.
• Elderly woman Feng and Shang Hu investigated the vanished cultivators’ chaotic traces, then sensed the Old Devil from the Sacred Demon Palace approaching.
• Li Yan was swept uncontrollably through a dark spatial passage where his right leg and part of his hand were severed by invisible spatial forces.
• Li Yan’s talismans and defenses failed as spatial severance inflicted devastating wounds across his body.
• With his life hanging by a thread, Li Yan switched places with his avatar and fled into the “Tuban” space while the avatar remained to protect it.

Li Yan survived the deadly spatial passage and reached a strange celestial river, where he encountered the badly injured Yan He. After learning Yan He knew his identity, Li Yan launched a sudden attack to kill him before the sword cultivator could retaliate.

• Li Yan replaced his collapsing avatar, endured spatial severing, and used talismans and Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to survive the void’s hazards.
• Li Yan narrowly avoided a spatial rift and nearly eleven hidden black holes before the pulling force stopped and he found himself beside a vast river of turbulent currents.
• Yan He emerged with half his body missing, and Li Yan concealed himself after recognizing the sword cultivator who had helped besiege him.
• Yan He cursed the Five Immortal Sect cultivator and attacked when he sensed Li Yan behind him, but Li Yan struck him with a Black Water Rune and Soul-Dragging Lure Kill.
• Li Yan stabbed toward Yan He’s dantian and reached for his heart as Yan He began breaking the rune, but a sharp voice behind Li Yan shouted, “How dare you!”

Zhu Hongyi escaped a deadly whirlpool in the long river, damaged his flying sword, and found Li Yan attacking Yan He. As Zhu Hongyi and Li Yan exchanged blows, Li Yan killed Yan He but was badly wounded by Zhu Hongyi’s sword strike.

• Zhu Hongyi escaped a whirlpool’s pull by using the Spirit Sword Primordial Unity Technique, but the force damaged his flying sword and Niwan Palace.
• Zhu Hongyi searched along the river and found Li Yan attacking Yan He, whom he believed had been ambushed.
• Zhu Hongyi attacked Li Yan from behind as Li Yan struck Yan He with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• Li Yan kicked the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike into Yan He, killing him as it pierced through his body.
• Li Yan used Qiongqi to briefly block Zhu Hongyi’s greatsword, but the sword destroyed Qiongqi and shredded Li Yan’s left palm and forearm.

Li Yan killed Yan He but was badly wounded before Zhu Hongyi pressed him with a relentless flying-sword assault. Li Yan kept retreating and defending, searching for an opening as Zhu Hongyi struggled to overcome his formidable body, spiritual power, and Divine Sense.

• Li Yan endured the silver-haired old man's strike and shattered Yan He's Nascent Soul, then retreated while injured.
• Zhu Hongyi saw Yan He collapse and furiously sent his flying sword after Li Yan.
• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike to block repeated attacks while retreating and suffering wounds from sword qi.
• Zhu Hongyi recognized that Li Yan's cultivation and Divine Sense were far stronger than he had expected, but continued attacking.
• After tens of thousands of exchanges, Zhu Hongyi began to doubt that he could defeat Li Yan without his junior brother's help.

Li Yan reversed the fight against Zhu Hongyi by unleashing Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos and pressing him with a close-range assault. Zhu Hongyi’s defenses still held, but he nearly got forced into a spatial rift and began to suspect Li Yan had driven him there deliberately.

• Li Yan endured Zhu Hongyi’s sword assault, then used Phoenix Soars to Heaven and a punch strengthened by Qiongqi and Undying Nether Phoenix phantoms to break the attack’s momentum.
• Li Yan closed the distance, regrew his left arm, healed his wounds, and attacked Zhu Hongyi with both Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes.
• Li Yan activated Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos, greatly increasing his magical power and trapping Zhu Hongyi beneath a relentless close-range barrage.
• Zhu Hongyi defended himself with dozens of flying swords, but Li Yan’s attacks kept him from escaping or counterattacking effectively.
• Li Yan’s assault drove Zhu Hongyi toward a spatial rift, and Zhu Hongyi wondered whether the maneuver had been intentional.

Li Yan used Five Elements Chaotic Cloak and relentless close-range attacks to disrupt Zhu Hongyi’s sword net and worldly power, while suffering devastating injuries from the sword qi. Zhu Hongyi’s defenses began to fail as Li Yan’s technique neared its limit, leaving both fighters close to collapse.

• Zhu Hongyi retreated from the unstable void while Li Yan continued attacking with Five Elements techniques.
• Zhu Hongyi realized Li Yan had used Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to disrupt the laws of heaven and earth and forced his sword net outward to escape.
• Li Yan intensified his attacks and used deadly poison to slow Zhu Hongyi’s flying swords, opening gaps in the sword net.
• Li Yan’s movement speed increased, and his poisoned attacks reached Zhu Hongyi’s bodily defenses, making Zhu Hongyi panic.
• Li Yan endured grave internal injuries from Zhu Hongyi’s sword qi and continued his assault as Five Elements Return to Primordial Chaos neared its end.

Li Yan used the Black Water Rune to inflict severe soul pain on Zhu Hongyi, then struck him with a powerful attack that the God-Slaying Sword blocked. Both men were gravely wounded, and as Zhu Hongyi fell, Li Yan began forming an illusory bow and arrow for another attack.

• Li Yan struck Zhu Hongyi’s barrier with the Black Water Rune, opening gaps in his defenses and tormenting his soul.
• Li Yan drove both fists and Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes into Zhu Hongyi’s abdomen, but a white light from Zhu Hongyi’s Dantian blocked the fatal blow.
• Zhu Hongyi’s Nascent Soul unleashed its God-Slaying Sword, which pierced Li Yan’s chest and abdomen as Li Yan’s attack sent Zhu Hongyi flying.
• Both Li Yan and Zhu Hongyi suffered severe injuries, while the God-Slaying Sword’s infant fire began burning inside Li Yan.
• Li Yan formed a nearly transparent phantom bow and an almost invisible blue arrow as Zhu Hongyi fell.

Li Yan defeated Zhu Hongyi by steering him into a vortex, but the uncontrolled flames and mana in Li Yan’s body left him unconscious and rampaging through the void. After a meteorite beast attacked him and was burned by his flames, Li Yan was hurled through a mysterious crack that closed behind him.

• Zhu Hongyi tried to evade Li Yan’s attacks and take antidote pills, but Li Yan’s arrow triggered the river vortex and swept Zhu Hongyi away.
• The uncontrolled Godslaying Sword struck Li Yan’s shoulder, causing the flames within him to overwhelm his consciousness and send him rampaging through the void.
• After five days, a crocodile-like meteorite beast attacked Li Yan when his mana was exhausted, but its teeth could not penetrate his body.
• Li Yan struck the meteorite beast’s head and burned its mouth with the flames inside him, forcing it to release him and fling him away.
• Li Yan’s unconscious body flew through a crack that opened in the void, and the crack closed after he passed through.

After recovering from her latest failed escape attempt, Mei Hongyu reflected on her tragic past and recalled the mysterious woman who taught her the Wind Brightness Art. Convinced that her imprisonment was only temporary and that she was destined to find her master, she resolved to deduce the next stage of the cultivation method herself.

• Mei Hongyu emerged from seclusion after recovering from injuries sustained in another failed attempt to escape her isolated prison.
• Mei Hongyu remembered losing her husband and son, then recalled how a mysterious woman had taught her the Wind Brightness Art and predicted she would seek her out one day.
• Mei Hongyu realized the woman's words suggested that her mortal ties and present imprisonment were temporary, and she abandoned her thoughts of suicide.
• Mei Hongyu decided to cultivate on and deduce the Wind Brightness Art beyond the Nascent Soul Realm, then prepared to return to the cave.

Mei Hongyu discovered Li Yan had been swept into her isolated space and nearly killed him before recognizing him. She used her treasured frost Pills to suppress the fire poison consuming his body, but after a day he remained unconscious and the flames had only partly weakened.

• Mei Hongyu sensed a wind pillar that might lead outside, but it vanished before she could enter it.
• She found an injured cultivator whose wounds were rapidly healing and prepared to kill him before he awoke.
• Mei Hongyu recognized the unconscious cultivator as Li Yan and stopped her sword just before it struck his head.
• She examined Li Yan and found his body engulfed in flames while his source spiritual power struggled to resist them.
• Mei Hongyu fed Li Yan frost Pills, but after one day he was still unconscious and the flames had diminished by only a little over twenty percent.

Mei Hongyu used her Wind Illumination Art to combine her power with Li Yan’s black water-attribute magic and suppress the fire poison ravaging his body. After enduring days of exhaustion and pain to clear the final flames, she saw Li Yan awaken and take a defensive stance.

• Mei Hongyu exhausted her fire-poison remedies and discovered that her Wind Illumination Art strengthened Li Yan’s black magic enough to extinguish patches of flame.
• Mei Hongyu positioned the unconscious Li Yan and spent six days directing her power through his body, fighting the spreading fire poison while replenishing her strength with pills.
• Mei Hongyu cleared the flames from Li Yan’s wounds and focused on the last stubborn patch near his Dantian.
• Mei Hongyu’s pill toxins flared as she forced her power onward, and a surge of Li Yan’s black magic submerged the remaining flames.
• Li Yan abruptly sat up, and Mei Hongyu greeted him as he instinctively raised his defenses.

Li Yan awoke in a desolate secret realm with Mei Hongyu, who had saved him after his battle with the silver-haired old man. After five months of recovery, he had regained less than forty percent of his strength and decided to learn more about their situation before continuing.

• Li Yan woke in a cave, recognized Mei Hongyu, and recalled fighting the silver-haired old man before losing consciousness.
• Mei Hongyu told Li Yan he was safe in an uninhabited secret realm, then left to refine the pill toxin in her body.
• Li Yan examined his injuries and realized Mei Hongyu had likely rescued him, while traces of the old man's Nascent Soul fire and wind-element power remained in his body.
• Li Yan set up formation flags and took Pills to recover from the damage to his spiritual power, meridians, Dantian, and sea of consciousness.
• Five months later, Li Yan had recovered less than forty percent of his strength, but his Dantian and sea of consciousness had stabilized, so he decided to investigate the situation.

Li Yan recovered from his injuries and reunited with Mei Hongyu in a barren, blue-lit secret realm where they had both become trapped. After learning about the realm and Mei Hongyu’s repeated attempts to find a way out, Li Yan proposed that they explore the dark blue halo together.

• Li Yan finished recovering, changed into blue robes, and thanked Mei Hongyu for saving his life.
• Mei Hongyu mistook Li Yan for Jiang at first and was reminded of a blue-robed youth from her past.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu exchanged accounts of how they had arrived in the secret realm while withholding details about the Desolate Moon Continent.
• Mei Hongyu guided Li Yan around the barren realm and described the dark blue halo, the blue-light gorge within it, and her dangerous attempts to pass through.
• Li Yan examined the halo with his Divine Sense and asked Mei Hongyu whether it might lead outside.
• Li Yan proposed that he and Mei Hongyu enter the halo together.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu investigated the dark azure halo and the places where wind pillars had appeared, but found no way out. Li Yan gave Mei Hongyu spirit stones and Pills so they could recover before trying the halo again, and she was astonished by the storage ring he gave her.

• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu entered the dark azure halo together, reached the thirty-li mark, and withdrew after Li Yan sensed a dangerous aura and judged that he needed to recover.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu searched the two places where wind pillars had appeared, but his attempts to find passages or break restrictions revealed no exit.
• Li Yan concluded that the two places were one-way entry nodes and proposed that they recover before investigating the halo again.
• Li Yan gave Mei Hongyu a storage ring, spirit stones, and Pills to help her heal and support their next attempt to escape.
• Mei Hongyu accepted the ring, examined its hundred-zhang space, and was startled by the mountain of spirit stones inside.

Mei Hongyu was stunned by the vast wealth of mid-grade spirit stones and sixth-grade Nascent Soul-nourishing Pills Li Yan gave her, then used them to advance her cultivation. After fully healing, Li Yan set out with her to investigate the dark-green barrier and seek a way out of their strange space.

• Mei Hongyu discovered that Li Yan had given her a mountain of mid-grade spirit stones and several sixth-grade Pills that nourished the Nascent Soul.
• Li Yan recovered from his injuries over several years while Mei Hongyu cultivated with the gifts and rapidly advanced her late Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Li Yan left his cave and asked Mei Hongyu whether she was ready to investigate the dark-green light barrier.
• Mei Hongyu joined Li Yan, and he instructed her to remain within his defensive perimeter and help only if necessary as they flew toward the barrier.
• Li Yan reflected on how his Five Immortals Sect techniques and mastery of the Five Elements could help him sense dangers in the space of chaotic currents.

Li Yan deduced that Luo Gucheng had traced him through Amuer and suspected that the sect was secretly seeking the Five Immortal Sects. Worried that the sword cultivators might uncover more about him, he decided to go to Luo Gucheng, then continued through the azure gorge with Mei Hongyu.

• Li Yan reflected on the two sword cultivators who had nearly killed him and pieced together how they might have followed clues from Amuer to the Lost Continent.
• Li Yan suspected Luo Gucheng wanted to find the Five Immortal Sects for itself and decided he could no longer wait to investigate the sect.
• Li Yan spread his protective spiritual radiance around Mei Hongyu and brought her along through the gorge.
• Li Yan pierced the azure light humanoid with golden flying needles, destroying it and causing the azure world around them to collapse.
• Mei Hongyu watched Li Yan advance through the gorge and realized that the powerful azure humanoids would have left her with no hope of escape alone.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu entered a pitch-black fissure and discovered a vast karst cave with a deadly vortex of black light that appeared to be a spatial severance. Li Yan tested the vortex with a powerful golden hammer while shielding Mei Hongyu, but the danger remained unknown.

• Li Yan investigated the fissure and warned Mei Hongyu that he might put her into his spirit-storage pouch if the danger required it.
• Li Yan brought Mei Hongyu into the fissure, where they forced their way through invisible resistance and emerged at the edge of a vast hollow cave.
• Mei Hongyu identified the slowly rotating black-light vortex below as a possible spatial severance after it shredded her Divine Sense.
• Li Yan summoned a massive golden hammer, connected it to himself with spiritual power, and sent it into the vortex while raising a green-rune shield in front of them.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu tested the enormous black-light vortex and concluded that its tearing power was deadly, then tried to fly toward the cavern ceiling as a possible exit. The vortex suddenly surged and dragged them back down, leaving Li Yan struggling to shield them and flee its force.

• Li Yan sent a golden hammer and then a defensive red coral artifact into the black-light vortex, severing each spiritual tether as the vortex rapidly destroyed them.
• Li Yan warned Mei Hongyu that they could not touch the vortex, and they decided to investigate the azure light above the cavern as a possible exit.
• Li Yan carried Mei Hongyu upward, but the vortex accelerated and unleashed tearing force when they had risen only about a zhang.
• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to cut through the first surge, then stood on the shears and deployed the Fuxi Disk to block further attacks.
• The vortex's force overwhelmed Li Yan's ascent, and he and Mei Hongyu began descending before he could reach the cavern wall.

Li Yan rescued Mei Hongyu from the black-light vortex by using the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes and lost his connection to the Fuxi Disk. They discovered a newly revealed path leading to the cavern’s green light, but could not determine whether it was a natural formation or a trap.

• Li Yan used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes to pull himself and Mei Hongyu away from the vortex while the Fuxi Disk was swallowed.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu landed against the cavern wall, and the Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes returned to his control as the vortex stopped attacking.
• Mei Hongyu spotted a narrow, spiraling path that had appeared along the cavern wall and led toward the green light above.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu examined the path and debated whether it was a trap, with Li Yan judging the odds evenly because the vortexes seemed natural but the path’s endpoints looked deliberate.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu entered a narrow, mist-covered mountain path that suppressed Divine Sense and attacked anyone who strayed beyond its edge. Li Yan led the way forward, but the pair had not yet found an exit or learned how far the path extended.

• Mei Hongyu set off to investigate the mountain path, and Li Yan followed when she vanished into the restriction.
• Li Yan found himself on a slick, narrow path bordered by a sheer wall and a mist-filled abyss where the black-light vortex lay.
• Li Yan used his movement technique to reach Mei Hongyu, and violent attacks shot from the abyss when he briefly extended beyond the path.
• Li Yan warned Mei Hongyu to stay within the path and led her forward under his defensive barrier.
• Li Yan realized the curved cave walls prevented them from flying directly to an upper section of the circular path.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu encountered a blood-red-dressed girl blocking the foggy mountain path. Li Yan discovered she had no soul and blasted her into the mist, but her strange resilience left him uncertain what she was.

• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu cautiously advanced through the fog until they found a blood-red-dressed girl sitting across the path.
• The girl begged Li Yan to take her away, but he shot her through the forehead with his Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• The girl continued speaking and walking despite the wound, and Li Yan realized she had no soul.
• Li Yan struck her with a Soul-Sundering Slash, which had no effect, then punched her and sent her flying into the fog.
• Li Yan recognized that her body had withstood his powerful punch far better than it had resisted the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.

Li Yan fought the blood-red-dressed little girl on a narrow mountain path, struggling against her uncanny speed, strength, and ability to vanish from his Divine Sense. After disrupting her access to the power of heaven and earth and breaking her golden sword, he redirected its broken tip toward her eye.

• The little girl in the blood-red dress ambushed Li Yan, but Mei Hongyu warned him of her position, allowing him to counter her attack with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• The girl forced back Li Yan’s Guiyi Water-Parting Spike, then recovered from being struck and charged at him with an arm transformed into a golden sword.
• Li Yan used Five Elements Chaotic Cloak to disrupt the laws of heaven and earth, weakening the girl’s attacks and helping his two Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes break her sword.
• Li Yan redirected the broken sword body and struck it with his fist, sending its sharp tip toward one of the girl’s eyes.

Li Yan fought the blood-red-dressed little girl on the mountain path, struggling to defend against her elusive close-range attacks while Mei Hongyu warned him of danger. He finally wounded her with a Flame-Feather Meteor Arrow, sending her into the fog, and prepared to test whether soul power could affect her.

• Li Yan deflected the little girl's attacks and repeatedly drove her back, but could not seriously injure her as Mei Hongyu watched their clash.
• The little girl attacked Li Yan from the fog while a second strike emerged from warped space ahead, and Mei Hongyu warned him just in time.
• Li Yan disrupted the laws of heaven and earth and used his knee to deflect the little girl's elbow, but her golden spike nearly pierced his heart.
• Li Yan bent backward to evade the spike, then counterattacked with a Flame-Feather Meteor Arrow that struck the little girl's back and sent her into the fog.
• Li Yan spread his soul power to probe the little girl and considered testing whether soul arts could affect her.

Li Yan and Mei Hongyu survived the blood-dressed girl’s attacks and tried to understand how she had sensed the danger. Li Yan decided they must leave the mountain path, relying on Mei Hongyu’s warnings as the hidden enemy waited for another chance to strike.

• Li Yan asked Mei Hongyu how she had sensed the girl’s true attacks, and Mei Hongyu said her perception was connected to her constitution.
• Mei Hongyu privately recalled that cultivating the Wind Clarity Art had greatly heightened her danger sense, a secret she had shared only with her deceased Dao companion.
• Mei Hongyu sensed no immediate danger, and Li Yan reasoned that the injured girl had withdrawn to seek a better opportunity for a sneak attack.
• Li Yan theorized that the intelligent girl was a powerful puppet left behind by a cultivator who had either died or disappeared, then asked Mei Hongyu to warn him of danger ahead.