Recaps

Li Yan left the Wangliang Sect with Zi Kun and Bu Luo, escaped an ambush by Amur, and visited the Soul Suppression Palace before crossing the Heavenly Demon Grassland. He killed Xiong Tianba and Su Qianqian, then found a mysterious tiny cauldron among their possessions.

• Li Yan left the Wangliang Sect with Zi Kun and Bu Luo, then encountered Amur at Xiqi Market and killed him after escaping a trap and pursuit.
• After decades of travel, Li Yan reached the Heavenly Demon Grassland, survived a Body Integration assassin’s ambush, and guarded Zi Kun through his tribulation into Spirit Transformation.
• Li Yan visited the Soul Suppression Palace, where Tang Feng described the sect’s efforts to rebuild the Dizhen Domain and search for a lower-realm passage.
• Li Yan left the Dizhen Domain and recognized Xiong Tianba and Su Qianqian traveling through the Heavenly Demon Grassland, then followed them.
• Li Yan used Snow Mosquitoes to draw Xiong Tianba and Su Qianqian toward a clash of Demon Beasts, then ambushed them and struck Xiong Tianba with the Severing Poison.
• Li Yan learned from Su Qianqian’s memories that she and Xiong Tianba had slaughtered a sect and planned to seize the Dizhen Domain, then killed her.
• Li Yan searched their possessions, found Soul Cultivator methods, and retrieved a tiny dark-yellow cauldron that Xiong Tianba had never identified.

Li Yan strengthened his body, then guided Zi Kun to the Purple Divine Dragon Elephant Clan, where Zi Kun proved himself and joined a branch. After returning to the Po Jun Sect, Li Yan learned that Chongyangzi was seriously injured and that Tinglan planned to pursue revenge.

• Li Yan reunited with Shangguan Tianque, delivered Mu Guyue’s gifts, and arranged for Buluo and Zi Kun to cultivate with the Po Jun Sect.
• Li Yan refined Undying Nether Phoenix bone marrow for more than fifteen years, reached the mid-stage Void Refinement Realm, and tested the extraordinary power of his right arm.
• Li Yan and Zi Kun traveled to the Heavenly Demon Grassland, where Li Yan trained Zi Kun through dangerous battles and helped him locate the Purple Divine Dragon Elephant Clan.
• The clan elders examined Zi Kun and recognized his rare Purple Dragon Fire, then invited him to join their branches and tested his combat ability.
• Zi Kun defeated Xiang He and Xiang Yehua, became a core clansman, and was accepted as a disciple by a Body Integration Realm master’s avatar.
• After Xiang He provoked him again, Zi Kun poisoned him and his companions, and Li Yan then left the clan and returned to the Po Jun Sect.
• Banjiang told Li Yan that the sect had obtained a Great Wuguo and that Chongyangzi was badly injured, prompting Li Yan to visit Pure Yang Hall.
• Tinglan told Li Yan that Chongyangzi and her father had been injured pursuing her mother’s killers, and she admitted that she and Chongyangzi’s disciples planned to take revenge.

Li Yan killed Yun Chen and Yun Xin, then returned to the Dizhen Domain and joined Elder Hao and Master Lan in searching the Soul Prison Clan ruins. Their discoveries pointed to the Sun-Obscuring Race as a possible cause of the clan’s destruction, while the vanished ruins sparked suspicion among the major powers.

• Li Yan infiltrated Sanze Temple, killed Yun Chen and Yun Xin, and left the temples unable to identify the killer.
• Tinglan learned of the monks’ deaths, while Chongyangzi suspected Li Yan but could not explain how he had reached Sanze Temple in time.
• Li Yan returned to the Dizhen Domain and joined Elder Hao and Master Lan on a journey to the Lost Continent, where they searched the Feng family’s Yin Tomb Caverns for clues to the Great Ancestor.
• Elder Hao, Master Lan, and Li Yan entered the Soul Prison Clan ruins and secretly killed the intelligent beings they encountered there.
• The three investigated the ruins and found evidence of a battle, including Soul Crystal Sprouts that Li Yan believed had formed a race and fought the Soul Prison Clan.
• Li Yan activated an underwater teleportation array with the broken wine jar, leading the group to the Second Ancestor’s concealed cave dwelling.
• Elder Hao and Master Lan found records of dealings with the Sun-Obscuring Race and suspected it had infiltrated and attacked the Soul Prison Clan.
• The ruins disappeared, prompting sects to accuse the major powers of hiding a massacre and dividing the treasures, while a silver-robed youth reported the disappearance to the Grand Elder in yellow.

Elder Hao, Master Lan, and Li Yan uncovered the Sun-Obscuring Clan’s betrayal of the Soul Prison Clan, weakened its ancestral tree, and found the hidden refuge where the clan’s descendants survived. After learning the Second Ancestor’s history and proving Li Yan’s inheritance, they secured Sikong Lai’s agreement to reunite the ancestral branches.

• Elder Hao, Master Lan, and Li Yan discovered that the Sun-Obscuring Clan had secretly practiced soul arts and betrayed the Soul Prison Clan, then killed its powerful cultivators and poisoned its ancestral tree.
• Li Yan traced the hidden teleportation passage to a refuge where Elder Hao proved their connection to the Soul Prison Clan and Li Yan demonstrated the Great Ancestor’s token.
• Sikong Lai confirmed Li Yan’s inheritance, and Hao Lixing recounted the group’s search and the defeat of the Sun-Obscuring Clan’s strongest members.
• Sikong Lai explained how the Second Ancestor had hidden the survivors in the refuge, later disappeared while seeking ascension, and left the clan to endure a costly campaign of vengeance and decline.
• Elder Hao gave Sikong Lai three days to consult the Great Ancestor’s descendants, while secretly leaving Divine Thought to guard the teleportation passage against sabotage.
• Sikong Lai investigated the Sun-Obscuring Clan’s condition and consulted the Soul Prison Clan’s branches, whose members disagreed over whether to recognize Li Yan.
• Sikong Lai confirmed the visitors’ account, agreed that the ancestral branches could return while remaining independent, and accepted Li Yan’s authority over the Great Ancestor’s branch.