Recaps

Li Yan survived the attack on the flying vessel, returned to the Broken Army Sect, and joined Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui in a hunt for a Great-Winged Golden Peng. The hunt drew the group into conflict with a powerful woman, and Li Yan fled into turbulent space with her in pursuit.

• Li Yan trapped Yuan and the green-robed elder in Tuban, rescued Chongyangzi, and learned of Heart Refining Valley’s plan to steal the Great Fruitless Fruit tree and undermine Chunyang Hall.
• Chongyangzi brought Li Yan, Jia Fugui, and Donglin Tingyue to the Great Fruitless Fruit tree, gave each a fruit, and escorted them back to Chunyang Hall, where Li Yan declined an offer to join.
• Li Yan returned to the Broken Army Sect, gave Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu a false account of the expedition, and resumed cultivation as conflict between the sects spread and later subsided.
• Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui returned with the Dark Blazing Demon Hound and reported that Returning Home might be near Dragon-Burying Abyss, and Donglin Tingyue also asked Li Yan to help capture a Great-Winged Golden Peng.
• Li Yan joined Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui in the Heavenly Demon Grassland, where they wounded and bound the Peng before a terrifying pressure forced them to flee.
• A powerful woman pursued the group after discovering her disciple, the Great-Winged Golden Peng, had been taken, and Li Yan became separated and she tracked him using her Golden Eye of the Grotto-Heavens.
• Li Yan evaded the woman with his concealment and movement techniques, but she recognized his Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence and continued pursuing him through the void.
• With his Shaking Heaven and Earth uses dwindling, Li Yan opened a rift with the Sand Star King Stone and entered turbulent space, and the woman followed him inside.

Li Yan escaped the Heavenly Demon Grassland’s turbulent space only to become trapped in Dizhen Domain, where he learned to pass as a Soul Cultivator and sought a way out through the Soul-Suppressing Palace. After joining the sect, he cultivated Sacred Soul Transformation and strengthened his Soul-Splitting Slash by connecting with his Soul Lodging Star.

• Li Yan escaped the middle-aged woman and emerged in a strange region where his Divine Sense and magical power were suppressed.
• Li Yan discovered he was in Dizhen Domain, learned of its Soul Cultivators and the Soul-Quelling Palace, and found that no one there had escaped.
• Li Yan disguised himself as a Soul Cultivator, studied their techniques, and spent years preparing to join the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
• Li Yan passed the sect’s assessment, impressed Grandmaster Lan with his Spirit Transformation-level soul power, and chose to study Sacred Soul Transformation.
• Li Yan cultivated for thirty years, united his three souls into a Gloom Essence body, and eventually sensed his Soul Lodging Star.
• Li Yan drew stellar power into his Nascent Soul and found that it more than doubled the power of his Soul-Splitting Slash.

Li Yan rescued Mu Guyue from Master Lan and spent years helping her decipher a formation before rebellion shook the Soul-Suppressing Palace. During the purge, Li Yan and Mu Guyue fought together to stop rebels emerging from a hidden teleportation array.

• Li Yan watched Mu Guyue defeat Storm Tiger, then secured her release from Master Lan by agreeing to help test her formation.
• Li Yan took Mu Guyue away without a soul imprint, and she asked him to rescue Tinglan as well.
• Li Yan trained in Master Lan’s formation for three years while Master Lan and Tang Feng investigated a conspiracy against the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
• Xiong Tianba’s agent Zhang Henian tried to trade for Mu Guyue, but Li Yan claimed she had been refined into a puppet.
• Xue Tieyi announced that five Void Refinement elders and nine outside forces had rebelled, and Li Yan joined the purge with fifty Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Yan and Mu Guyue found a hidden formation at Huangluyuan Manor, where rebels emerged as their team searched the estate.
• Li Yan and Mu Guyue broke the Five Ghosts Turning the Locust formation and fought the rebels, then teamed up against a tall, thin Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Li Yan led his companions back to Soul Suppression Palace, rescued Tang Feng, and learned that the Nine Great Powers threatened the sect while its Supreme Elders remained incapacitated. Sent to cultivate in the Hall of Culture and Martial Arts, Li Yan discovered that his broken clay jar could reveal lost formulas for the Sacred Soul Transformation, though its later instructions were missing.

• Li Yan stopped the purge and led his surviving companions toward the sect, surviving ambushes and recruiting Feng Hongyue as a reluctant protector.
• Li Yan and Mu Guyue rescued Jin Xueyu from enemy Nascent Soul cultivators, then refused his demand to join the guard army.
• Li Yan recognized Tang Feng under attack, hid him from three Spirit Transformation pursuers, and helped kill them with an illusory formation, poison, and the Azurefallen Devil Vine.
• Li Yan returned to Soul Suppression Palace with Tang Feng, who reported the rescue and the killing of the three pursuers to Xue Tieyi and Master Lan.
• Tang Feng told Li Yan that the Nine Great Powers had infiltrated and encircled Soul Suppression Palace, and Master Lan tested Li Yan’s Sacred Soul Transformation before proposing a year of cultivation.
• Tang Feng took Li Yan to the Hall of Culture and Martial Arts, where Li Yan recognized the martial general statue from the Soul Prison Clan’s ruins.
• Li Yan used his broken clay jar beneath the martial general statue and discovered that its beam revealed lost Sacred Soul Transformation formulas.
• Li Yan realized the formulas could complete his technique through the late Spirit Transformation Realm, but the jar’s damage had erased what might have followed.