Recaps

Li Yan used disguises and poison to eliminate the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivators pursuing him, while Zhao Ziming and Ling Yao helped protect his identity. After leaving them with captured enemies to deliver to the Five Immortal Sect, Li Yan escorted Mei Hongyu toward her sect and continued into the Main Dao Realm.

• Zheng Youlin told Yuan Zhen about the Five Immortal Sect’s killings, and Li Yan searched Zheng’s soul before using his identity to infiltrate Luo Gucheng.
• Li Yan killed Yuan Zhen and two elders, then worked with Ling Yao and Zhao Ziming to lure and poison Jiang Tianqing.
• Zhao Ziming and Ling Yao told Li Yan they had tracked Luo Gucheng’s search for him, and Li Yan thanked them for protecting his identity.
• Li Yan gave Zhao Ziming and Ling Yao Zheng Youlin and the captured Xiao Yunzong to take to the Five Immortal Sect, while Luo Gucheng elders found their leaders dead and blamed the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect.
• Li Yan met Mei Hongyu in the western Cangxuan Realm and escorted her toward her sect after a red-clad old woman ambushed her near Sunset City.
• Li Yan and Mei Hongyu reached the eastern Main Dao Realm, where Li Yan assembled a route to the Xianluo Sect from seven incomplete maps.

Li Yan parted from Mei Hongyu, advanced his Sacred Soul Transformation in seclusion, and resumed his journey across the Rouge Sea. A plot against the Tianyuan Trading Company trapped passengers inside a deadly formation, where Li Yan and a group of cultivators fought to find an escape.

• Yuan Shuang reunited with Mei Hongyu and took her to her sect, while Li Yan continued alone and later secluded himself to cultivate the Sacred Soul Transformation.
• Li Yan reached the Void Refinement Realm, restored his depleted body, and discovered that refining silver sand had greatly increased his strength.
• Li Yan rescued Ding Yushan and his family from Zhu Lixing, then continued toward the Rouge Sea and boarded a Tianyuan Mountain-Sea Whale.
• A Purple Flame Devil Lord and his allies attacked the whale to seize it, while Elder Wang tried to protect the passengers and direct them toward the array’s life gate.
• Li Yan joined a squad through a Light Gate and fought lava flood dragons on an island before escaping into a forest as other cultivators were killed or scattered.
• The black-robed elder and four gold-robed cultivators were trapped among poisonous Purple Blood Vines and fought a bearded spy controlling them.
• Su Young Master and the others uncovered a Light Gate, but the bearded man blocked it, and Manager Luo attacked him to keep him from hiding again.

Li Yan helped Su Liuyun, Yuan Yun, and Jin Thirty-One escape the Ten Gates Killing Formation and evade their pursuers. After the group recovered and parted ways, Su Liuyun reunited with Su Hong and told her how Li Yan had saved him.

• Jin Thirteen sacrificed himself to open the Light Gate, allowing Young Master Su and Jin Thirty-One to escape the bearded man with help from the beautiful woman.
• Yuan Yun and Li Yan searched the shifting Light Gates as the bearded man pursued Young Master Su's group toward the Red River.
• Li Yan poisoned and crippled the bearded man from behind, giving Young Master Su, Yuan Yun, and Jin Thirty-One time to cross the river and flee.
• The graceful woman in purple gauze pursued the group, but Li Yan appeared and drove her back before following them away from the formation.
• Li Yan revealed his identity to Young Master Su, who recognized him as the man his sister Su Hong had sought, then collapsed from the backlash of his secret technique.
• Li Yan took Su Liuyun, Yuan Yun, and Jin Thirty-One to an undersea refuge, where they recovered before boarding a Tianyuan Trading Company Mountain-Sea Whale.
• Li Yan accepted a travel talisman from Su Liuyun but declined his other gifts, then Su Liuyun returned to headquarters and told Su Hong that Li Yan had saved him.

Li Yan joined Su Hong at the Return and Come Again headquarters to investigate the leaks that had enabled repeated attacks. He traced the leak to storeroom staff and helped capture Jin Zhiyuan, while the organization prepared to use a Soul Search to learn more.

• A cultivator recognized Li Yan at East Yi City and directed him to meet Su Hong, who persuaded him to help find a spy within Return and Come Again.
• At headquarters, Li Yan reviewed the investigation records and traced the leaks to someone who allocated supplies or recorded accounts in the main altar’s storeroom.
• Li Yan and Su Hong narrowed the suspects to Xu Li and Lin Fengshan, then assigned the Gui Xi Army to monitor them and gather evidence.
• Lin Fengshan went to Ghost Market, where the watchers tracked his movements and identified Jin Zhiyuan as a possible contact.
• Li Yan realized Jin Zhiyuan might have passed intelligence along his route and ordered Su Hong to capture him quietly.
• Jin Zhiyuan’s past revealed that a mysterious faction had coerced him and his wife into serving as agents against Guiqu Laixi to protect their children.
• Li Yan and Su Hong lured Jin Zhiyuan to an ambush using Jin Nineteen disguised as Shopkeeper Hu, while Jin Thirty-One kept the real Shopkeeper Hu occupied.
• The ambush team sealed Jin Zhiyuan’s cultivation and brought him to the secret prison, where Su Hong said they could only perform a Soul Search.