Recaps

Li Yan and Zhao Min won access to the Giant Wood Clan’s Wood Essence Pool, then sought a route back to the Desolate Moon Continent and reunited with Shuang Qingqing. The arc left Shuang Qingqing asking the Giant Wood Clan’s patriarch to help her reach two allied cultivators, after revealing her extraordinary age.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min secured places in the Wood Essence Pool after Wusitu was poisoned by Li Yan’s courtyard defenses and Zhao Min defeated Ting Shan.
• Li Yan, Zhao Min, and Ye Mingxin entered the sacred forest, where the ancient spirit trees allowed them to cultivate early in the pool.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min absorbed the pool’s Wood Spirit Essence until it was exhausted, then learned that the Tianlan Clan had been destroyed and received aid from Ting Bixiao.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min visited Su Hong to seek a way back to the Desolate Moon Continent, and she connected the Soul Prison Clan’s history to a possible passage between continents.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min encountered Shuang Qingqing, who told them Wei Zhongran and his wife had survived and asked them to wait for Bai Rou while she sought help.
• Shuang Qingqing explained that Bai Rou was in her adversary’s hands, and Li Yan offered to approach the Giant Wood Clan and the Spirit Rhino and Thousand Flowers clans for assistance.
• Li Yan and Shuang Qingqing visited the Giant Wood Clan’s patriarch, who agreed to hear her request after she presented a seven-colored peacock token.
• Shuang Qingqing revealed that she came from the Heavenly Spirit Clan and was old enough to have ascended or died long ago, shocking the patriarch and Zhao Min.

Shuang Qingqing uncovered the truth about Bai Fengtian’s betrayal, reunited with her scattered descendants, and secured Bai Rou’s release with Li Yan’s help. Li Yan and Zhao Min then entered the Soul Prison Clan’s underground secret grotto, subdued a crossbow insect king, and discovered an unusual spiritual-energy fluctuation in a buried pagoda.

• Shuang Qingqing recounted how Bai Fengtian killed Shen Yuhuan, framed her, and drove her into chaotic space, while Li Yan agreed to help rescue Bai Rou.
• Li Yan sought help from Meng Shangmo, who promised to protect Bai Rou and helped Shuang Fengyan reconsider the accusations against Shuang Qingqing.
• Meng Shangmo brought Bai Rou to the confrontation, and Shuang Fengyan accepted Shuang Qingqing’s account and agreed to take her to the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
• Li Yan recognized the Divine Puppet Art’s mark and led Shuang Qingqing to Shuang Wuyan and Shuang Chongshan, descendants of Shuang Tongguan’s scattered branch.
• Shuang Fengyan learned of Bai Yihe’s role, restrained him, and joined Shuang Qingqing and the Third Elder in concealing her identity and protecting her descendants.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min entered the Soul Prison Clan’s underground secret grotto, evaded Ustu and his companions, and encountered a swarm of crossbow insects.
• Zhao Min subdued the crossbow insect king while Li Yan and Zi Kun held off the swarm, then stored the insects in Meng Zhiyuan’s spirit storage pouch.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min explored the ruined underground caverns and detected an unusual spiritual-energy fluctuation in a pagoda buried beneath the sand.

Li Yan and Zhao Min survived a deadly ambush, then entered a Soul Prison Clan trial that strengthened their souls over many years. After escaping, Li Yan returned to his old home on the Desolate Moon Continent and learned that his family had died while preserving their ancestral tablets.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min exposed the gray-robed elder and the blue-robed man’s ambush, killed them, and searched their belongings for auras and treasures.
• Wusitu and his companions attacked Li Yan and Zhao Min by the river, but Li Yan and Zhao Min defeated them and took the Blackcloud Frostcondensing Worm.
• Li Yan followed the damaged statue’s gaze and used the broken pottery jar to enter a Soul Prison Clan alley, where unseen Soul Spirits attacked him.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min realized that enduring the Soul Spirits’ attacks strengthened their souls, then spent years advancing through the alley as the spirits grew stronger.
• Li Yan reached the end of the alley, and he, Zhao Min, and Zi Kun escaped through a passage opened by the broken pottery jar.
• Li Yan recognized the valley as his old home on the Desolate Moon Continent and found Li Yue and the spirit tablets of his deceased family.
• Li Yan learned that Li Yue was Li Wei’s daughter and that his parents and Li Wei had died before his return, while Li Wei’s children had kept the family tablets in their ancestral cottage.

Li Yan and Zhao Min returned to the Phantom Sect, reunited with old companions, and spent decades in seclusion before Li Yan set out to temper his state of mind. In Yuhai City, Li Yan’s search for experience led him to Duke Cui, who recognized him as the supposedly dead Marshal Li and opened a hidden passage.

• Li Yan returned to the Phantom Sect with Zhao Min and reunited with her parents and their fellow disciples, learning how the sect and their old companions had fared.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min accepted positions as Wangliang Sect elders and entered long seclusion, while Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou returned to the Desolate Moon Continent.
• After Li Yan emerged without breaking through, he learned of deaths among his companions and Zhao Min’s progress, then became engaged to her as Li Wuyi married Miao Wangqing.
• Li Yan left the sect to seek enlightenment, revisited his old village and the place where Strategist Ji had died, then spent years living as a soldier, escort, and farmer without advancing.
• In Yuhai City, Li Yan entered Duke Cui’s search for a head martial instructor under the name Zhang Ming and tore apart the Yin-Yang Stones in the first test.
• Duke Cui recognized Li Yan’s appearance and voice, confronted him in private, and accused him of sullying the late Marshal Li’s name.
• Li Yan recalled Cui Feng from his dream of Fallen Immortal Slope and proved his identity with details of the battle, after which Cui Feng led him toward a hidden passage.