Chapter Summaries

True Lord Qianzhong arranged for Meng Zhiyuan and the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan to travel to the Verdant Continent, binding them to support Li Yan and Zhao Min without revealing their identities. As the clan gathered for teleportation, Li Yan hoped its experts could provide information about reaching the Desolate Moon Continent.

• True Lord Qianzhong offered to send Meng Zhiyuan and his clansmen to the Verdant Continent if they kept Li Yan and Zhao Min's identities secret and helped them when asked.
• Meng Zhiyuan agreed to the conditions and promised that the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan would honor them.
• True Lord Qianzhong told Meng Zhiyuan to gather his clansmen, then advised Li Yan that surviving members could help him find information about the Desolate Moon Continent.
• Meng Zhiyuan's junior brothers and sisters opened a passage, and more than six hundred Dark Spirit Demon Bats arrived in the plaza.
• True Lord Qianzhong told the clan to put its members into spirit-storage pouches, and Meng Zhiyuan's group prepared six ancient pouches for the teleportation.

Li Yan and his companions departed for the Qingqing Continent through the Chencang Passage, while True Lord Qianzhong destroyed the teleportation array and prepared to return to the Immortal-Spirit Realm. Far away, Gong Chenying bid farewell to her Phantom Sect family before leaving for the Wind God Continent.

• Meng Zhiyuan and his four fellow disciples chose to remain outside the spirit storage bags together, and Meng gave Li Yan jade slips containing a map and evidence about his clan.
• Meng Zhiyuan recognized the Chencang Passage and realized his clan had likely guarded an abandoned fortress and army supply route.
• True Lord Qianzhong protected Li Yan and the others as they teleported toward the Qingqing Continent, then destroyed the array and sealed the passage.
• True Lord Qianzhong told Li Yan he hoped they would meet again in the Immortal Realm, and Li Yan promised to go there.
• Gong Chenying prepared to leave Small Bamboo Peak with her father, while Wei Zhongran and the other disciples saw her off.
• Gong Chenying embraced Zhao Zhi and asked Miao Wangqing to tell her when she became Dao companions with Li Wuyi.

Gong Chenying left the bamboo grove with her father as Zhao Zhi and Wei Zhongran discussed the uncertain fate of Zhao Min and Li Yan. On the Qingqing Continent, Bai Rou prepared to join Shuang Qingqing’s clan and learn its puppet arts, while another woman watched over the bustling Return and Come Back shops.

• Gong Chenying smiled at Miao Wangqing’s parting sorrow, and Lin Daqiao teased Li Wuyi before awkwardly alluding to Li Yan and Zhao Min’s disappearance.
• The burly man took Gong Chenying away, while Wei Zhongran told Zhao Zhi that the Wei family’s old ancestor had sent no news from the Lost Continent.
• Shuang Qingqing told Bai Rou that Li Yan had been swept into the barrier between realms and Zhao Min’s soul lamp remained vigorous, then said Bai Rou would be formally admitted to the clan.
• Bai Rou left with Shuang Qingqing for the clan’s ancestral rites, hoping Li Yan and Zhao Min had survived.
• At the Return and Come Back shops, a woman watched the busy street and asked how long they would stay on the Qingqing Continent.

Su Hong remembered Li Yan while Mi'er attended her, and Sun Guoshu completed a mission before planning to cultivate in seclusion. Li Yan and his companions survived a disorienting teleportation and reached a platform resembling the Chencang Passage, where they found a staircase and an unexplained stone door.

• Su Hong reminisced about her time on the Desolate Moon Continent and thought of Li Yan, whom she wanted to reprimand for holding her to ransom over Crystal Bone Water.
• Sun Guoshu turned in a Thundercloud Leopard mission, collected contribution points, and left to tend his injury before going into seclusion.
• Disciples speculated about Sun Guoshu's connections to Bai Rou and Small Bamboo Peak, while the duty disciple recalled that Bai Rou had helped him at a Small Bamboo Peak junior brother's request.
• Li Yan, Zhao Min, Meng Zhiyuan, and their companions endured a dizzying teleportation beneath the spinning Stabilize rune and arrived safely on a platform.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min recognized the surroundings as the Chencang Passage, found a staircase leading to a stone door, and could sense nothing beyond it.
• Meng Zhiyuan and the others reached them in poor condition, and Meng Zhiyuan was astonished that Li Yan and Zhao Min seemed far less affected by the teleportation.

Li Yan and Zhao Min helped Meng Zhiyuan and the Dark Spirit Demon Bats escape their hidden chamber, where they discovered the world above the sea and were freed from the laws of time. Meng Zhiyuan prepared to return to his clan while Li Yan and Zhao Min stayed behind, and Li Yan gave him spirit stones for the journey.

• After recovering, Meng Zhiyuan opened the stone door while his fellow disciples braced for danger.
• The group emerged onto a sea-facing cliff, and Meng Zhiyuan and the Dark Spirit Demon Bats wept at their first sight of the open sky and sea.
• Li Yan recognized that the world's laws had removed the laws of time from the Dark Spirit Demon Bats, and Meng Zhiyuan released his clanspeople so they could experience the outside world.
• Meng Zhiyuan prepared to return to his clan, while Li Yan and Zhao Min chose to remain nearby for a few days.
• Meng Zhiyuan gave Li Yan two spirit storage pouches, and Li Yan lent him thirty thousand spirit stones for the clan's journey home.

Li Yan and Zhao Min left the hidden island and traveled east across the boundless sea, keeping their destination uncertain. After six days navigating a violent storm, Li Yan sensed something ahead.

• Meng Zhiyuan led the Dark Spirit Demon Bats away, and Li Yan and Zhao Min waited until his divine sense could no longer reach them.
• Li Yan restored the cliff’s stone door and concealed the island beneath a new formation before leaving with Zhao Min aboard the Cloud-Piercing Willow.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min spent half a month crossing open water, cultivating and watching the moon as they searched for land.
• A storm filled the sky with dangerous lightning, and Li Yan guided the Cloud-Piercing Willow through the dark clouds at full speed.
• Six days into the storm, Li Yan detected something ahead, and Zhao Min turned to see what he had found.

Li Yan and Zhao Min crossed a desolate prairie and discovered a clan of fugitives hiding from the Tianlan Clan. After the clan attacked them, Zhao Min effortlessly stopped the assault, leaving the refugees to realize they faced Golden Core experts.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min reached a rainy prairie and decided to fly east in search of cultivators, a market, and information about the Qingqing Continent.
• After three days of flying, Li Yan sensed cultivators nearby and led Zhao Min toward them.
• A Guxi and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators hid with their clanspeople, fearing that the Tianlan Clan had tracked them down.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min appeared overhead and asked whether the pursuers were searching for the group.
• A Guxi and two other cultivators attacked, but Zhao Min stopped their spells and weapons without moving.
• The refugees recognized Li Yan and Zhao Min as Golden Core Realm experts and panicked.

Li Yan and Zhao Min encountered Agu Xi and his Giant Wood Clan, whom they initially mistook for enemies pursuing them. After learning that the clan had never seen outside cultivators, Li Yan heard Agu Xi’s account of the Tianlan Prairie and the Tianlan Clan’s history, leaving the travelers facing a new place and its conflict.

• Agu Xi ordered Ai Sang and Ai Ni to flee with the clansmen while he prepared to sacrifice his soul for a powerful attack, but Zhao Min sealed their spiritual power and stopped them.
• Li Yan asked whether the people pursuing the clan were green-clad guards, then he and Zhao Min began to leave when Agu Xi and the others refused to answer.
• Agu Xi called Li Yan back, and Li Yan invited him onto the Cloud-Piercing Willow after learning that the clan had never encountered outside cultivators.
• Agu Xi identified himself as a member of the Giant Wood Clan and explained that they were fleeing the Tianlan Clan’s slaughter on the Tianlan Prairie.
• Agu Xi recounted how the Tianlan Clan had kept the Giant Wood Clan and six other races in the prairie after their alliance against the Devil Race, then grew hostile as the other races’ powerful experts died or ascended.

Agu Xi recounted how the Tianlan Clan had imprisoned and tormented the seven clans, leaving the Giant Wood Clan near extinction. Li Yan refused to take on the Tianlan Clan, but Ai Ni’s account of the captives’ likely fate left the survivors pleading for help.

• Agu Xi explained that the Tianlan Clan had exiled the seven clans to the grasslands and hunted them for generations, while the deadly lightning blocked escape to the north and west.
• Agu Xi revealed that the Giant Wood Clan had only three Foundation Establishment cultivators left and that Tianlan pursuers were closing in after abducting girls and children.
• Li Yan offered Agu Xi a choice of spirit stones, pills, or an escape route, but Agu Xi instead begged him and Zhao Min to save the clan.
• Agu Xi claimed the Tianlan Clan’s Spirit Transformation cultivator had ascended and its two remaining Nascent Soul Cultivators were gravely wounded, but Li Yan remained unwilling to risk confronting them.
• Ai Ni knelt and described the torture and deaths awaiting the captured girls and children, as the Giant Wood clanspeople watched Li Yan and Zhao Min with desperate hope.

Li Yan and Zhao Min left the Giantwood Tribe behind, planning to draw out any Tianlan cultivators watching them and investigate the rumored wood essence pool. Meanwhile, Aguxi’s group endured a relentless pursuit, and he diverted them toward a hill so the exhausted mortals could find food and rest.

• Zhao Min urged Li Yan to help the Giantwood Tribe, and Aguxi offered Soul Search as proof of the wood essence pool’s value, but Li Yan and Zhao Min disappeared without answering.
• Aguxi told Aini that Li Yan and Zhao Min had left, then led the fleeing Giantwood people onward with Aini and Aisang guarding them.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min traveled toward the central Tianlan Grasslands, intending to provoke any hidden pursuer and later capture isolated Tianlan cultivators for Soul Search.
• A blue-robed squad caught the Giantwood Tribe after three days of hiding, wounded Aguxi, abducted a woman, and killed a tribesman before Aguxi and Aisang helped the group escape.
• Aguxi saw that the mortals were starving and exhausted, found a hill with cave openings, and sent Aini and Aisang to scout it.

Aini and Aisang discovered an ambush while searching for shelter, allowing Aguxi and the Giant Wood Clan to flee. The attackers broke through their defenses and left Aguxi, Aini, and Aisang nearly defeated, while the survivors faced capture or death.

• Aisang and Aini approached an empty cave, but Aini sensed something was wrong and warned Aisang to retreat.
• Blue-clad cultivators burst from concealment, and Aguxi turned away while Aini and Aisang raised a green barrier to cover the clan's escape.
• A burly late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and three companions shattered the barrier in less than three breaths and pursued the fleeing clan.
• Half an hour later, Aguxi stood wounded among the dead, Aini lay at his feet, and Aisang struggled to hold himself upright as the surviving mortals prepared to kill themselves rather than be captured.
• Aguxi ordered the four remaining Qi Condensation Realm disciples to retreat into the array as the blue-clad cultivators eyed the clan's women and children with predatory intent.

Li Yan and Zhao Min arrived just as Agu Xi and the surviving Giantwood clansmen faced annihilation by Tianlan cultivators, and Li Yan erased their attackers with his disjointed poison body. They rescued the survivors and departed aboard the Cloud-piercing Willow, while Agu Xi wondered about his mysterious benefactors.

• The Tianlan leaders attacked Agu Xi and the exhausted Aisang, targeting Aisang to draw Agu Xi into a fatal opening.
• The burly leader struck Agu Xi aside, leaving him unable to detonate his black flag as the other attackers closed in.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min appeared, and Li Yan made the Tianlan cultivators and their magical treasures vanish without a trace.
• Agu Xi accepted Li Yan's offer to leave and received spirit-storage bags, food, water, and pills for himself and his clansmen.
• Li Yan destroyed the fallen bodies to prevent anyone from tracking them, and the group departed through the rain aboard the Cloud-piercing Willow.

Li Yan and Zhao Min rescued Agu Xi and the Giant Wood Clan survivors, hoping their knowledge of the Wood Essence Pool would lead to a valuable discovery. Seven days later, they approached the southern edge of the Tianlan Grasslands with a clearer picture of the Qingqing Continent and its neighboring powers.

• Li Yan told Agu Xi he had intervened because the Tianlan clan cultivators had strayed from the righteous path, then placed Agu Xi in a spirit storage bag.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min discussed their gamble on the Wood Essence Pool after Zhao Min explained what she had learned about the Tianlan clan's exploitation of Giant Wood Clan women.
• Aini woke in a spirit storage bag, learned that Li Yan and Zhao Min had saved the clan, and was reunited with Aisang.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min traveled south for seven days and learned that the Qingqing Continent's cultivation world had few known Spirit Transformation cultivators and rarely encountered Nascent Soul experts.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min neared the border with the Kingdom of Tingyun, which had been at war with the Tianlan clan over cultivation resources for thirty thousand years.

Li Yan and Zhao Min traveled across the Tianlan Grasslands toward Tingyun Country, hoping to avoid trouble, until a Tianlan Tribe youth and his powerful gray-haired guard intercepted them. When the youth became suspicious of Li Yan’s speech, Li Yan and Zhao Min launched a surprise attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min abandoned their plan to visit the Tianlan Tribe’s core cities and followed a secluded route toward Tingyun Country.
• As they traveled, Zhao Min reflected on the grasslands’ beauty and Li Yan promised to accompany her back to the Desolate Moon Continent.
• A bare-chested young man riding a great white roc blocked their path and demanded to know where they came from and where they were going.
• Li Yan recognized the danger posed by the young man’s False Nascent Soul guard and tried to avoid revealing that he was not a native of the Qingqing Continent.
• The young man noticed Li Yan’s unfamiliar pronunciation and pressed him about where he had entered Tingyun Country.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min struck together, appearing where the young man had been as the gray-haired old man pulled him away in shock.

Li Yan and Zhao Min failed to assassinate Tielianggu and fled across the Heavenly Surge Prairie, pursued by Tielianggu and Wutu as reinforcements moved to intercept them. When a hidden Heavenly Surge clansman ambushed them, Zhao Min met his attack while Li Yan vanished to counter him.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min's attack missed Tielianggu after Wutu pulled him clear, and their strike killed the two women beside him.
• Tielianggu and Wutu chased Li Yan and Zhao Min, while Tielianggu used red grass to alert nearby clan members and arrange an interception.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min spotted an approaching Golden Core cultivator and changed course, but the pursuer behind them continued closing in.
• A concealed clansman attacked Li Yan and Zhao Min with a lightning-wreathed warhammer; Zhao Min blocked the blow with her palm as Li Yan disappeared into the night.
• Li Yan identified the attacker hiding in the grass, while the clansman sensed danger and slipped away through the grass without disturbing it.

Li Yan and Zhao Min killed Nason during his ambush and escaped as Tielianggu, Wutu, and their junior sister pursued them. With two more Golden Core cultivators and guards waiting ahead, Li Yan and Zhao Min prepared to break through, but then abruptly turned to counterattack the pursuers.

• Li Yan poisoned Nason with Rebirth Through Molting while Zhao Min drew his attention, and the pair escaped with his magic treasure.
• Tielianggu, Wutu, and their junior sister found Nason missing and continued pursuing Li Yan and Zhao Min.
• Li Yan sensed two middle Golden Core cultivators and Foundation Establishment guards ahead, while Tielianggu kept sending Zhao Min obscene insults.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min decided to break through rather than risk concealing themselves or revealing their hidden forces.
• As the pursuers closed in, Li Yan and Zhao Min wheeled around and flew back toward Tielianggu and the others.

Li Yan and Zhao Min turned back to fight Telangu and his companions near the First Cloud Mountain Range, hoping to avoid being trapped by reinforcements. Telangu's sinister magic treasure ensnared Li Yan in a vision of his family being tortured, while Zhao Min was prevented from reaching him and the chapter left Li Yan apparently helpless beneath the attacking ghosts.

• Li Yan and Zhao Min charged back at Telangu, his junior sister, and Utu after Li Yan chose to fight near the First Cloud Mountain Range rather than risk a deeper pursuit.
• Telangu summoned his Eight Directions of Evil Spirits at Night, surrounding Li Yan with poisonous mist, vengeful ghosts, and grasping claws.
• The magic treasure showed Li Yan a horrifying vision of his parents and siblings being tortured, leaving him dazed as the ghosts seized his ankles.
• Zhao Min tried to warn Li Yan, but Utu blocked her voice with a soundproofing restriction and then watched her closely after sensing a brief unease.
• Zhao Min broke away to reach Li Yan, but Telangu's junior sister intercepted her while Telangu thickened the mist around Li Yan and declared him helpless.

Li Yan used illusion poison to ambush Lianggu, destroy his physical body, and seize his Golden Core. He flew south with Zhao Min while Lianggu’s allies followed, and Bate learned that Lianggu had been taken hostage.

• Li Yan revealed himself behind Lianggu and tore out his Golden Core after his illusion poison fooled Lianggu’s group.
• Li Yan told Zhao Min that the attack had been an illusion and explained that he had abandoned an attempt to assassinate the gray-haired old man.
• Li Yan refused to release Lianggu, sealed the Golden Core, and warned Wutu that Lianggu would die if they summoned more cultivators.
• Wutu stopped Lianggu’s junior sister from attacking and followed Li Yan and Zhao Min as they flew south.
• Bate received a message confirming that Lianggu had been taken hostage and called off the planned ambush.

Li Yan and Zhao Min tried to escape into the Yunlan Mountains, but Wutu’s wind-attribute speed let him intercept them. The pursuers caught up, and Li Yan’s close-range attack ended with Wutu knocking him into the air.

• Wutu demanded that Li Yan release Tielianggu and leave the Tianlan Grasslands, while Li Yan insisted that Bate and Balu clear a path.
• Li Yan tossed Tielianggu’s sealed golden core to Wutu and used Phoenix Soaring to pull Zhao Min past Bate and Balu.
• Wutu freed Tielianggu, then pursued Li Yan and Zhao Min and struck at them with a powerful wind-assisted palm.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min evaded Wutu’s attack, but he revealed himself as a wind-attribute cultivator and blocked their route to the Yunlan Mountains.
• As Tielianggu’s junior martial sister, Bate, and Balu caught up, Li Yan charged Wutu while Zhao Min moved to confront the junior martial sister.
• Wutu raked at Li Yan with scaled claws, but Li Yan slipped between them and punched; Wutu countered with his elbow and sent Li Yan flying upward.

Li Yan fought Wutu to a standstill with his body-refining skill, movement art, and a concealed poison, while Zhao Min battled the Skyfall Clan woman. Wutu was poisoned and Tielianggu’s Golden Core was captured, and the chapter left Zhao Min gripping the woman’s whip as their powers collided.

• Li Yan matched Wutu’s speed and close-range attacks, forcing him to recognize that Li Yan was a powerful mid-stage Golden Core cultivator.
• Zhao Min fought the tall, slender woman while Bate and Balu watched, and the woman summoned her Bloodfire Divine Crow.
• Wutu staggered from the fight after Li Yan poisoned him, and Li Yan revealed Tielianggu’s unconscious Golden Core.
• The tall, slender woman ordered Nasen to attack Zhao Min and intensified her assault, hoping to capture Zhao Min and obtain an antidote.
• Zhao Min’s arm displayed a demonic flower as she seized the woman’s whip, and the whip’s force collided with Zhao Min’s blue light and the crow’s red radiance.