Recaps

Li Yan joined Pei Buchong and Ping Tu in destroying Qianyu Sect and its hidden networks, then returned to the Wangliang Sect before traveling with Qianji. In Star Flame City, Li Yan recognized the beleaguered Ding Shuying as the daughter of people he had once saved.

• Shopkeeper Zhu delivered Su Nanzi’s warning to Tian Xingwen, but Tian Xingwen suspected a trap and bound him before a hidden force erupted from Zhu and triggered an avalanche near Qianyu Sect.
• Li Yan, Pei Buchong, and Ping Tu attacked Qianyu Sect, killed its defenders, trapped Tian Xingwen and his allies, and destroyed the sect behind an illusion formation.
• The three attacked Qianyu Sect’s vassal forces and uncovered and destroyed Su Nanzi’s concealed assassin organization before calling off further assaults.
• Shuang Qingqing and Bai Rou completed their puppet studies and planned to establish the Muliu Sect, while Bai Rou advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Li Yan returned to the Wangliang Sect, entered seclusion, and later left with Qianji for the North Pasture Realm after Qianji reached Spirit Transformation.
• In Star Flame City, Zhang Yunhong used a false debt claim to threaten Ding Shuying and take control of her shop, while Li Yan and Qianji secretly watched.
• Li Yan entered Ding Shuying’s shop unseen and recognized her as Ding Yushan and Lin Zhiruo’s daughter after hearing how her parents had treated her fragile meridians.

Ding Shuying joined Li Yan as his disciple, and Li Yan returned to the Pojun Sect amid Chunyang Hall’s attempt to claim Zuo Qiudan. He proposed an alliance with the Soul Suppressing Palace to help the Pojun Sect escape Chunyang Hall’s control, then arrived at the palace to meet its leaders.

• Changsun Qiuhua entrusted Ding Shuying with her shop before dying, and Ding Yushan and Lin Zhiruo later died pursuing her family’s killers.
• Li Yan found Ding Shuying in danger, made her his disciple, and helped her kill Zhang Yunhong before taking her toward the Pojun Sect.
• Li Yan returned to the Pojun Sect and learned Chunyang Hall was pressuring the sect to hand over Zuo Qiudan.
• Zuo Qiudan told Li Yan he planned to enter Chunyang Hall and escape later, while Bu Luo said he would follow him if he left the sect.
• Li Yan proposed that the Pojun Sect leave Chunyang Hall’s jurisdiction and ally with the Soul Suppressing Palace as an equal partner.
• Li Yan and Shangguan Tianque secretly left the Pojun Sect, and Li Yan traveled alone through a concealed passage to the Soul Suppressing Palace.
• Elder Hao’s followers recognized Li Yan as the first ancestor’s disciple, and the palace’s leaders welcomed him as their Ancestor.
• Li Yan thanked the Soul Suppressing Palace leaders for their work and asked them to call him Elder Li instead.

Li Yan helped the Pojun Sect escape Chunyang Hall by relocating it to territory controlled by the Soul Suppressing Palace, then traveled with Qianji to visit Zi Kun. After uncovering a plot against Zi Kun, Li Yan watched him place third in the sequence ranking battle and begin choosing assistants for the battle-array assessment.

• Li Yan learned that the Soul Suppressing Palace had grown powerful and arranged a partnership to help the Pojun Sect relocate, with Shangguan Tianque choosing the Changlin Sect’s territory as its new home.
• Li Yan took control of Ma Peijin, Chunyang Hall’s spy, and arranged for him to pass along false information while Master Lan and Tang Feng built a secret teleportation route.
• When Chunyang Hall moved to requisition Zuo Qiudan, Shangguan Tianque led a secret evacuation of the Pojun Sect, and the sect resettled at Changlin under the Soul Suppressing Palace’s protection.
• After the Pojun Sect spent two years establishing itself, Li Yan and Qianji traveled to the Heavenly Demon Grassland, where Li Yan discovered Xiang He plotting with a concealed cultivator against Zi Kun.
• Li Yan warned Zi Kun that Xiang He and Xiang Fengsheng might target him during the clan’s sequence ranking battle, and Xiang Qing investigated and confirmed Xiang Fengsheng’s connection to Xiang He.
• Zi Kun defeated Xiang Qiong despite her illusion, then placed third in the single-combat matches without using his Zhili Poison.
• Xiang He vowed to face Zi Kun in the battle-array assessment, while Xiang Fengsheng missed the top ten and lost the chance to choose Zi Kun as an assistant.
• During the recovery period, Zi Kun began selecting four assistants and chose the injured Xiang Qing first.

Li Yan helped Zi Kun survive a clan-fueled battlefield ambush, then agreed to aid Xiang Yanxiu in exploring a Qiongqi-powered ruin. After Bai Yan and Chi Wu ambushed them, Li Yan captured Chi Wu and disrupted Bai Yan’s formation, leaving Xiang Yanxiu and Bai Yan facing off as the restriction faltered.

• Zi Kun exposed Xiang Fengsheng’s betrayal during the battle-array contest, won second place, and Xiang Longfei took Xiang Fengsheng to the clan elders.
• When the Black Wind Ghost Eagle Clan attacked, Xiang Yun and Xiang Wentian used a rumor to draw enemies onto Zi Kun, but Li Yan broke through the encirclement and rescued Zi Kun, Qianji, and other wounded cultivators.
• Xiang Yanxiu asked Li Yan to help suppress Qiongqi power in a ruin’s restriction, and Li Yan agreed after they signed a contract.
• Li Yan gave Zi Kun the Ornamental Pendant’s control incantation, then his damaged cauldron absorbed the pendant and restored a missing formation node.
• Li Yan and Xiang Yanxiu traveled to the hidden valley, where Bai Yan and Chi Wu confronted them and revealed they wanted Li Yan to suppress the cave’s restriction.
• Bai Yan and Chi Wu trapped Li Yan and Xiang Yanxiu in separate formations, but Li Yan paralyzed and captured Chi Wu, then learned the incantations governing Bai Yan’s formation.
• Li Yan waited for the right moment and disrupted the formation, while Xiang Yanxiu struck its faltering barrier and charged Bai Yan, who repelled him with a ribbon of cold light.