Recaps

Li Yan took command of a battered squad at Together Return Ridge, but the Devil Race shattered the formation and overwhelmed the defenders. He helped turn the battle with a series of ambushes before Wei Zhongran arrived, leaving Li Yan with a warning about the enemy’s treasures and his own squad’s weak defenses.

• Li Yan took over the depleted defense at Together Return Ridge and appointed Gong Yuantai deputy captain of Azure Sixteen Squad.
• Li Yan organized the defenders and activated the Yin-Yang Boundary River Formation against the approaching Devil Race army.
• The Devil Race’s Heaven-Shaking Thunderbolts shattered the formation and destroyed Together Return Ridge, but Li Yan survived under the rubble with Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant’s help.
• Li Yan gathered 141 survivors and led them into battle when the Devil Race charged, while Fengliang Mountain’s forces suffered heavy casualties.
• Li Yan slipped away from the retreating survivors and ambushed Devil Race cultivators, using Branches of the Same Breath to poison and kill several.
• Wei Zhongran arrived as Li Yan fought the Devil Race, and Li Yan continued killing poisoned enemies while Wei Zhongran protected him from their leaders.
• Wei Zhongran battled Lei Andao, a concealed Nascent Soul-level devil general, while Li Yan killed the short, stout devil cultivator who had pursued him.
• Wei Zhongran introduced Li Yan to the Golden Core cultivators, then told him that the Devil Race’s altar held eight magic treasures and that Li Yan’s squad had weakened the formation’s defenses.

Li Yan infiltrated the Devil Race’s territory and used a poisoned trap to destroy the enemy’s magic treasure, escaping as the fighting grew into a decisive battle. He returned to Windcool Mountain, resumed command of his team, and prepared to seek a rare cold treasure for his cultivation.

• Wei Zhongran assigned Li Yan to plant Annihilation Linglong beneath the valley altar, and Li Yan agreed after proposing that a Nascent Soul cultivator draw the devil general away.
• Li Yan found Zheng Xingfan and Zhong Mengyin in a cave, poisoned them, killed Zheng Xingfan, and planted Annihilation Linglong among the possessions Zhong Mengyin carried away.
• The treasure exploded in the valley, killing Zhong Mengyin and Fairy Red Candle and destroying the altar as Li Yan fled amid the devastation.
• Tie Dong pursued Li Yan, but Mo Qing intervened and helped him escape while the South Sea forces and Devil Race assembled for a decisive battle.
• Li Yan evaded a Golden Core pursuer, returned to Windcool Mountain, and reported to the gathered cultivators, who told him the battle had shifted far to the south.
• Gong Yuantai returned command of the Azure Sixteenth Team to Li Yan, who learned of the team’s heavy casualties and spoke privately with Bai Rou about their surviving comrades.
• Li Yan decided to seek a Wailing Cold Stone for his cultivation, then set the Snow Mosquito King and Purple God Dragon-Elephant against each other in Tuban.

Li Yan’s return from the battlefield was interrupted when the Devil Race destroyed Windcool Mountain and launched a massive assault at the Yin Demon Cliff fissure. Gu Jiuqi revealed himself as the Phantom Sect’s Chi Mei Envoy, while Li Yan joined the desperate fighting below the barrier.

• The Snow Mosquito King agreed to risk cultivating “A Thousand Beasts Devour the Dao,” and Li Yan began the technique’s second stage with the Little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant.
• Li Yan attended the battlefield’s aftermath, learned the casualty list, and reunited with Wei Zhongran and the gravely injured Elder Chigong.
• Zuo Qiudan gave Li Yan two improved Dustless Pills, then Shuang Qingqing questioned him about Gu Jiuqi and offered to make him a powerful puppet in exchange for information.
• Wei Zhongran gave Li Yan the remains of a Jade-Horned Snake, and Li Yan decided to return to the sect before the Devil Race’s attack destroyed Windcool Mountain.
• Great Master trapped Da Ling, Su Changyang, Zhan Tian, and Yuan Du in golden rings as Tu Tai tried to use the Lesser Realm-Breaking Pearl to open the Yin Demon Cliff fissure.
• A gray-robed elder stopped the pearl and revealed himself as Gu Jiuqi, the Phantom Sect’s Chi Mei Envoy, before confronting Great Master.
• Li Yan and the other cultivators descended near the fissure to fight the Devil Race, and Li Yan killed a demonic commander while Lin Daqiao questioned his true cultivation realm.

Li Yan and Zhao Min vanished into a strange realm after the Yin Devil Cliff fissure collapsed, and Zhao Min struggled to keep the unconscious Li Yan alive in the Lost Continent. She left a trail of raided sects and enemies while searching for a cure, then decided to take Li Yan to a market for help.

• Gu Jiuqi sent Wei Zhongran into the Yin Devil Cliff fissure with the genuine and imitation World-Breaking Pearls, and the pearls’ power began collapsing the passage between realms.
• Li Yan and the others fought to protect Wei Zhongran as he escaped the abyss, but Li Yan descended again to save Zhao Min and both were swept away into a strange space.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min endured tearing forces and crossed a crushing barrier, after which Li Yan brought Zhao Min out into a forest and collapsed from his injuries.
• Zhao Min sheltered Li Yan in a concealed mountain hollow, realized they were in the Devil Realm, and struggled to heal him while he remained unconscious.
• Zhao Min learned that they were on the Lost Continent and raided local sects for medicine, while Li Yan’s body healed but his aura and soul weakened.
• Yan Tantuo ambushed Zhao Min and pursued her after she escaped, but he ultimately gave up the chase and fled the region.
• Zhao Min returned to Li Yan and found his spiritual energy retreating toward his dantian, so she fed him condensed spiritual energy and decided to seek a remedy at a market.