Recaps

Li Yan recovered after Zhao Min joined Shangguan Changge, then crossed the Lost Continent seeking a way to contact her and uncover what she had arranged. He learned they were bound by paired gu, while Zhao Min began cultivating to find her own way home, and Li Yan left Mingdu City with the Cangyu Sect in pursuit.

• Shangguan Changge saved Li Yan by stabilizing his soul and took Zhao Min as her disciple, leaving Li Yan to recover in a Devil Race village.
• Li Yan learned that he and Zhao Min had crossed into the Lost Continent, recovered his strength, and discovered that Zhao Min had implanted Heart-Tangling Twin-Bloom Gu in both of them.
• Li Yan reached Mingdu City and studied the Lost Continent, learning about the rival Black and White Devil Races and deciding to seek Zhao Min through the Hundred Paths Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• The Pavilion’s black-clothed shopkeeper gave Li Yan little information about Zhao Min, and Li Yan discovered that a hidden teleportation formation had carried away the jade slip he left behind.
• Shangguan Changge ordered the shopkeeper not to help Li Yan, while Zhao Min read Li Yan’s message and committed herself to cultivating the Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk.
• Li Yan realized the Pavilion’s teleportation array might connect to the Saint Devil Palace, escaped the city, and recovered the Snow Mosquito King.
• Li Yan sent the Snow Mosquito King away with the Great Dragon Elephant Array to mislead the Cangyu Sect, then revealed himself and fled as Cultivator Min and five others pursued him.

Li Yan left Saint Demon City without finding Zhao Min and settled into Falling Star Valley under the identity Zhang Ming to pursue his plans. He joined Feng Tao’s mission to her clan, then entered the Feng Lineage’s tombs with the other cultivators, where a ghost battle left casualties and injuries.

• Li Yan defeated the Cangyu Sect pursuers, learned from a surviving cultivator that the Holy Devil Palace was involved, and left Saint Demon City after failing to reach Zhao Min.
• Disguised as Zhang Ming, Li Yan entered Falling Star Valley, passed its disciple assessment, and secretly worked to strengthen his body while investigating the earthfire chambers.
• When Feng Tao asked for help against ghosts attacking her clan, Li Yan negotiated a reward and future access to the Shattered Star Chamber before joining her party.
• Feng Tao’s group helped defeat the ghosts at her clan’s stronghold, and Li Yan learned that the Feng Lineage sold valuable Ghost Baleful Intent Pearls.
• Li Yan joined Fang Guangjun and the Feng Lineage’s expedition into the underground tombs after sensing a trace of killing intent.
• Fang Guangjun’s group entered the mass graveyard, cleared its outer tombs, and then proceeded into a central tomb filled with powerful ghosts.
• The cultivators fought off the ghosts with Fang Guangjun’s help, but a Feng Household member died, three were wounded, and Tian Denghu suffered soul corrosion.

Li Yan uncovered Fang Guangjun’s betrayal, found a crystalline skull linked to the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant, and helped it begin a perilous attempt to regain a body. As Falling Star Valley came under threat from four allied clans, the sect prepared for war and gathered its cultivators to resist.

• Li Yan found the Foundation Establishment ghost’s lair and a strange pottery jar, while Fang Guangjun killed cultivators and was ultimately slain by the gaunt ghost after Li Yan secretly interfered.
• The Feng Lineage discovered Fang Guangjun’s victims and learned from Tang Tian and Wu Yizhen’s souls that he had been a spy, then sent Zhu Luomu, Feng Tao, and Li Yan back to Falling Star Valley.
• Li Yan found a crystalline skull in an ancient battlefield beneath the lake, and the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant revealed it could use the skull to forge a physical body through Soul-Burning Fire Refinement.
• After preparing fire spiritual energy, Li Yan watched the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant enter the skull and begin burning its souls and spirits to refine a new body.
• Falling Star Valley suffered repeated attacks, and its red-robed Grand Elder ordered preparations for a likely assault while arranging an evacuation plan for elite disciples.
• Li Yan learned that Feng Tao had been summoned under secret orders and suspected the sect’s gathering of promising young disciples concealed a purpose beyond a single mission.
• Lie Changfeng and the allied clans prepared a major assault on Falling Star Valley, while Tian Xingzi and Lin Xinghe planned to use the sect’s grand formation against them.
• Falling Star Valley assembled nearly a thousand cultivators, and Tian Xingzi placed Lin Xinghe in command before his crushing spiritual attack terrified Li Yan and the gathered disciples.

Li Yan used Falling Star Valley’s formation and his hidden strength to turn the invading factions against one another, killing several powerful pursuers while concealing his role. As Tianxingzi’s formation drew Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying into a deadly trap, Li Yan rushed toward the battle and Lin Xinghe made a desperate sacrifice to fight them.

• Li Yan posed as Zhang Ming, accepted a restriction from Tianxingzi, and agreed to kill Foundation Establishment cultivators in exchange for using Falling Star Valley’s earth-fire vein.
• Tian Xingzi killed Sang Dongxing and badly wounded Lie Changfeng, then joined Lin Xinghe to defend the valley as enemy forces advanced.
• Xue Qianzong, Ning Ying, and Yu Rong led the invading forces through Falling Star Valley’s restrictive formation while Lin Xinghe drew pursuers away and the factions clashed across the valley.
• The Feng family’s ancestor and Sect Master Wang ambushed Gao Sha’s force, while Li Yan later used demonic mosquitoes and a concealed attack to kill Cui Ting and Ying Thirteen.
• Li Yan secretly helped the Feng family’s ancestor and Sect Master Wang escape, then killed Yu Rong after rescuing Zhu Luomu from her attack.
• Li Yan wiped out a pursuing force with his Snow Mosquitoes and silver swords, then warned Zhu Luomu not to claim credit for Yu Rong’s death.
• Tianxingzi and Lin Xinghe lured Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying into a cave formation, where Lin Xinghe separated them and struck Ning Ying with the Spirit Aperture Star-Shattering Art.
• Li Yan sensed restrained spiritual power underground and hurried toward the battle as Lin Xinghe, having sacrificed his future cultivation, produced an azure pill behind Ning Ying.