Recaps

Li Yan and Gong Chenying uncovered Huiyan Hall’s assault on Prison Scale Island and rescued several Tianli Clan cultivators while seeking a way to escape. When they discovered Long Shixuan trapped by Miao Yuhong and a powerful enemy, Li Yan turned from the damaged teleportation array to intervene.

• Li Yan reached Prison Scale Island with the clan leader’s order, and Gong Chenying led him out of the prison area.
• Li Yan and Gong Chenying exposed the disguised Huiyan Hall infiltrators, captured three attackers, and learned they were there to rescue Sikou Lai.
• Li Yan and Gong Chenying joined Miao Lan and Lan Yu to search the island, then Li Yan killed two infiltrators and found the squad’s last survivor surrounded.
• Gong Chenying used her shamanic art to disrupt the attackers while Li Yan killed the cultivators besieging Gong Zhipeng’s chamber.
• Li Yan brought Gong Zhipeng, Miao Lan, and Lan Yu into his Spirit Storage Space and set out with Gong Chenying to inspect the damaged teleportation array.
• Miao Yuhong helped Lu Wujing trap Long Shixuan inside a white skeleton, and Long Shixuan struggled to break free.
• Li Yan abandoned his route to the teleportation array, reached Long Shixuan’s battle, and chose to use his Black God Shield against the enemies.

Li Yan helped the Tianli Clan survive Huiyan Hall’s attack, then returned to the Wangliang Sect and reunited with Hong Yin. He joined her search for the Red Buddha Temple’s legacy and helped break through a hidden formation, revealing a Stone Gate.

• Li Yan and Long Shixuan defeated the attackers on Prison Scale Island, where Miao Yuhong died and Lu Wujing and Zhang Du'an were captured.
• Long Shixuan explained Huiyan Hall’s use of the Brain-Entangling Corpse Gu, and Li Yan provided corpses and helped keep his role in the battle secret.
• Gong Chenying discovered her aptitude for shamanic arts, and Li Yan later returned to the Wangliang Sect with her, Zhao Min, Qianji, and Little Beast.
• Li Zhaoyan married Ling Qingyun, while Li Yan planned future visits to the Pojun Sect and the Undying Underworld Phoenix clans.
• Hong Yin reunited with Gong Chenying and Li Yan, then asked Li Yan to help investigate the disappearance of the Red Buddha Temple and find Jingting’s trail.
• Hong Yin led Li Yan through the salt lake and hidden caverns to a sealed site, where they used Five Elements techniques to weaken its formation.
• As Hong Yin’s strength waned, Li Yan secretly helped accelerate the formation’s collapse, revealing a Stone Gate in the rock wall.

Li Yan and Hong Yin uncovered Red Buddha Temple’s hidden inheritance and investigated a wind tunnel tied to the Wind God Continent’s calamity. Hong Yin left to rebuild her temple, while Li Yan returned to the Wangliang Sect and later reunited with Ping Tu and Pei Buchong, who had both reached the Body Integration Realm.

• Hong Yin opened the Stone Gate with Buddhist techniques, and she and Li Yan crossed the Red Desert to reach Red Buddha Temple’s hidden realm.
• Li Yan discovered a mechanism in the shrine, and Hong Yin used it to reveal a chamber containing Qing Yun’s remains and jade slip.
• Hong Yin deciphered Qing Yun’s record and explained Red Buddha Temple’s destruction, its hidden inheritance, and Jingting’s search for the source of the wind-beast scourge.
• Hong Yin opened the concealed treasure chamber, and she and Li Yan found a wind tunnel guarded by a powerful flame.
• Li Yan’s Red Handheld Lantern revealed its candle flame, extinguishing the tunnel’s wind, but he and Hong Yin found only a sealed wall beyond it.
• Hong Yin gave Li Yan the wind-cave records and the Red Lotus Burning Fire Scripture for Chen Ying, then stayed in the Cangxuan Realm to seek a place to rebuild Red Buddha Temple.
• Li Yan returned to the Wangliang Sect, gave Gong Chenying the scripture, and spent decades cultivating before emerging at a bottleneck.
• Ping Tu and Pei Buchong visited Li Yan, revealed they had both reached the Body Integration Realm, and Li Yan asked about the Five Immortals Sect and their purpose.

Li Yan, Pei Buchong, and Ping Tu investigated Qianyu Sect and set a trap to separate its two Body Integration cultivators. They killed Su Nanzi but failed to capture him alive, leaving them to revise their plan against Tian Xingwen.

• Pei Buchong told Li Yan that Mo Sen and Jiang Xuan had been defeated by Yan Qingchen and Liu Siyu, and Li Yan joined Pei Buchong and Ping Tu on their mission against Qianyu Sect.
• Li Yan, Pei Buchong, and Ping Tu infiltrated Yuanqi Market, learned about Qianyu Sect’s defenses, and concluded that Su Nanzi and Tian Xingwen were likely its only Body Integration cultivators.
• Pei Buchong destroyed the teleportation array as Su Nanzi’s avatar arrived, killing it and warning Su Nanzi that the market was dangerous.
• Su Nanzi went to Yuanqi Market, where Li Yan and Pei Buchong attacked him, but his caution spoiled their planned ambush and he fled.
• Ping Tu trapped Su Nanzi in a poison-filled formation, and he, Li Yan, and Pei Buchong coordinated their attacks until Su Nanzi’s resistance ended and he died.
• Li Yan, Pei Buchong, and Ping Tu regretted failing to capture Su Nanzi alive and reviewed their plan to draw out the remaining Qianyu Sect cultivator.
• The trio prepared an illusory Yuanqi Market inside the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead and planned to use captured disciples to lure an investigator into their ambush.
• Ping Tu sensed Su Nanzi inside the bead and warned Li Yan and Pei Buchong, who ambushed and killed him again while failing to capture him alive.