Recaps

Li Yan reunited with Gong Chenying during the Tianli Clan’s war against three Wind Beast tribes and helped turn the battle in the clan’s favor. He agreed to search for Gong Shanhe and the Sixth Elder in exchange for instruction in the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, while preparing a poison formation to defend the clan.

• Li Yan rescued Gong Chenying and the Tianli Clan from the Wind Beasts, then reunited with Gong Chenying, who told the elders he would be her future Dao companion.
• Gong Chenying told Li Yan about the clan’s factions, the missing Gong Shanhe and Sixth Elder, and the attacks that had weakened the Tianli Clan.
• Li Yan learned that Gong Chenying had never received Li Wuyi’s wedding letter and suspected that the Phantom Sect summons had also been intercepted.
• Gong Chenying insisted on joining Li Yan’s search, and the Great Elder offered him higher levels of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art for bringing back information or rescuing the missing leaders.
• Li Yan challenged the Second Elder’s demands and negotiated to defend the clan for three months in exchange for the fourth level, with further rewards for rescuing Gong Shanhe and the others.
• Li Yan passed the clan’s assessment, which showed that he had opened fifty meridians with the Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
• Li Yan surveyed the front lines, chose a basin where the Wind Beasts advanced through two mountain gaps, and prepared an unseen poison formation for their next attack.

Li Yan and Gong Chenying searched the Black Mirror Marsh for Gong Shanhe, uncovering a cavern of ghostly wind beasts and the imprisoned remnant soul Hong Yin. After escaping and returning to the Tianli Clan, the story shifted to the Northern Ice Continent, where Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong traced the traps targeting the Five Immortal Sects to the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.

• Li Yan’s poison killed Wind Iron Beasts and Wind Goose Beasts, and he built a defensive line that gave the Tianli Clan a respite from the Wind Beasts.
• Li Yan and Gong Chenying searched the Black Mirror Marsh for Gong Shanhe, discovered a hidden pit of violent wind pillars, and were separated when the winds swept them into a cavern.
• Gong Chenying fought ghostly wind beasts and encountered Hong Yin, while Li Yan escaped the wind pillars and found Gong Shanhe imprisoned in a cavern.
• Li Yan and Gong Shanhe tried to escape, but crimson-robed ghost cultivators trapped them in sinister wind until Hong Yin and Gong Chenying joined the fight and helped them flee.
• Li Yan and Gong Shanhe escaped the swamp with Gong Chenying, the Sixth Elder, and Hong Yin, who revealed that she had sealed a powerful Yin Mountain Beast beneath the cavern.
• Hong Yin agreed to visit the Tianli Clan, while Li Yan and Gong Shanhe returned with Gong Chenying and the Sixth Elder as Yan San and other Wind Beasts confronted them.
• On the Northern Ice Continent, Dong Fuyi found Pei Buchong and learned that Pei had been searching for his missing master, True Lord Qianzhong.
• Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong concluded that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had planted clues and traps to target the Five Immortal Sects.

Li Yan gathered a Buddhist sealing treasure and secured a pact between the Tianli Clan and Yan San’s side to confront the Yin Mountain Beast. The expedition reached the Sky Eye wind eye, where Li Yan descended alone but found the beast’s true body lay deeper than five hundred zhang.

• The Tianli Clan agreed to help Hongyin find a physical body, and she stayed to teach Gong Chenying while Li Yan began cultivating the Qiongqi Purgatory Art.
• Li Yan negotiated five years of defense service for the sixth layer of the art, then left to seek help refining his Buddhist beads into a stronger sealing treasure.
• Zhuo Lingfeng and Monk-Sage Konghai refined four complete Vajrapani manifestations and one incomplete one, allowing Li Yan to return with a treasure that could reinforce Hongyin’s seal.
• Li Yan demonstrated the formation’s strength to the Tianli elders, and Hongyin confirmed it could hold the Yin Mountain Beast for at least a hundred years if maintained.
• Li Yan defeated Yan San in a duel, then proposed that both sides cooperate against the beast and sign a pact against future invasions.
• After Gong Chenying arranged time for Li Yan to prepare, Yan San carried Li Yan and the Great Elder to the Sky Eye Pit, where they descended through the dangerous wind pillars and black snowflakes.
• The Yin Mountain Beast’s double-headed incarnation attacked Yan San and the Great Elder while Li Yan plunged alone into the wind eye using his formation and the Cloud-Piercing Willow.
• Li Yan used True Lord Qianzhong’s Stabilize rune to pass the chaotic winds, reached five hundred zhang, and found the beast lay deeper below.

Li Yan sealed the Yin Mountain Beast and secured the Tianli Clan’s trust, then joined Gong Shanhe in a covert mission against the Qionglin Sect after its ambush killed the Second Elder. Disguised as Yang Youxian, Li Yan assassinated Venerable Bihai and escaped, then fought the First Island Lord alongside Gong Shanhe.

• Li Yan sealed the awakened Yin Mountain Beast away from the wind eye, and Yan San and the Grand Elder confirmed the beast was trapped.
• Hong Yin verified the seal, and the First Elder granted Li Yan the sixth layer of the cultivation art with later levels contingent on continued stability.
• Li Yan defeated the Fifth Elder in a brief fight, while the Second Elder’s faction plotted to undermine him and demand more from the Qionglin Sect.
• After Li Yan studied the sixth layer in seclusion, Li Zhaoyan’s Red Sore Bee Gu mutated and destroyed her courtyard, while Mu Sha killed a silver-cloaked man on the Lost Continent.
• The Qionglin Sect ambushed the Second and Fifth Elders during negotiations, killing the Second Elder, and the Great Elder retaliated by damaging the sect’s defenses.
• Li Yan disguised himself as Yang Youxian, entered the Qionglin Sect, and poisoned and killed Venerable Bihai before escaping his cave residence.
• The First Island Lord pursued Li Yan, who revealed his Nascent Soul middle-stage strength and fought him until Gong Shanhe emerged to attack.
• The First Island Lord trapped Li Yan, but Li Yan escaped and struck him with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike, helping Gong Shanhe shatter his defenses and kill him.