Recaps

Fang Zelin crossed the Yongding River, learned martial arts and began cultivating after receiving a Qi refinement manual. He returned to Yingping Peak to grow spirit rice and build a home, while sharing martial arts guidance with other players and leaving Jiuchuan to train on his own.

• Fang Zelin rescued He Chenyi from the Yongding River and joined him and the water ghost Zhang Weichu on a raft, then persuaded Zhang Weichu to abandon his search for a replacement and fulfill his duties as a river ghost.
• Fang Zelin reached Anzi County, enrolled in a martial arts school, and began studying swordsmanship and Qi Force while Zhang Weichu earned Yin Merit by saving people from drowning.
• Fang Zelin sensed Qi Force in both worlds, received a Qi refinement manual from Zhang Weichu, and cultivated after a vision of an old fisherman sent water into his brow.
• Fang Zelin joined his senior brothers in hunting a beast on Wangqing Mountain, where he encountered a demon deer and answered its questions about Heaven and the Demon Race.
• The deer gave Fang Zelin spirit rice after his words prompted a realization, and Fang Zelin returned to Yingping Peak and planted the seedlings.
• Fang Zelin cultivated beside the spirit rice, built a wooden house with He Chenyi’s help, and asked the kappa to watch over the crop while he was away.
• Fang Zelin posted instructions for the Wind-Riding Sword Art and medicinal decoctions, then tended his fishing pond, spring-water pipe, bamboo, and thriving spirit rice while Jiuchuan trained at a martial hall.

Fang Zelin left Yingping Peak to seek cultivators and answers, encountering demons and dragons on his journey to Yueyang City. After climbing Ten Thousand Blades Peak, he found strange iron that absorbed lightning and Spiritual Qi, and began forging it.

• The white deer brought Fang Zelin a lingzhi, and he invited it to share his spirit rice when it ripened.
• Fang Zelin harvested the spirit rice with He Chenyi and Zhang Weichu, then set off to seek cultivators and learn more about immortality.
• Fang Zelin killed the Wild Wolf Gang leader after the gang tried to take the white deer, and wandering heroes later destroyed the gang.
• Fang Zelin exposed skeleton demons who tried to bewitch Wu Yong’s party, then traveled with them toward Yueyang City.
• At Yunmeng Marsh, Fang Zelin carved a poem into a rock and followed a dragon’s shadow to the Great Marsh Dragon King Temple, where he overheard the Dragon Kings discussing immortal affinity.
• Fang Zelin climbed Ten Thousand Blades Peak over several weeks, drove off a python with his spirit-infused knife, and befriended a red panda that shared berries with him.
• Fang Zelin reached the summit, dug up two pieces of iron from a scorched patch, and found that lightning heated them until they glowed.
• Fang Zelin returned to the peak and spent a month heating and hammering the iron, which absorbed Spiritual Qi as he cultivated, until he sensed how to forge it next.

Fang Zelin grew stronger in the Seeking the Dao World, regained the use of his legs, and learned to cultivate his sword and summon spirit rain. After tending his spirit rice at Yingping Peak, he prepared to leave in search of fellow cultivators.

• Fang Zelin investigated the disappearances at Zhao Family Village, killed three skeleton spirits, and received the Treatise on Supreme Resonance after burying a Daoist’s remains.
• Fang Zelin learned that the game world was real and entered it in his physical body, cultivating until the meridians in his legs healed and he could walk again.
• Fang Zelin visited the Jingyun City God, received a book of underworld rules and spells, and later returned to the mysterious mountain to fish with the old man.
• Fang Zelin returned to Yingping Peak, tended his spirit rice, and gave rice to Fan Youzong before Zhang Weichu escorted the water ghost away for an assessment of his Yin Merit.
• Fang Zelin studied a dragon’s rainmaking and developed the Lesser Cloud and Rain Technique, then declined He Chenyi’s request to help the Jing River Dragon King obtain a heavenly conferment.
• Fang Zelin named his treasured sword Bearing the Heavens and showed Zhang Weichu and He Chenyi his spirit rain as he cared for his rice plants.
• Fang Zelin invited Zhang Weichu and He Chenyi to taste the spirit rice when it ripened and confirmed he would then leave to seek fellow cultivators.

Fang Zelin saved a ginseng spirit, gained thirty years of cultivation, and began traveling toward Jiangnan while tending his spirit rice and helping people along the way. As rumors of unrest and supernatural threats spread, he joined Song Zheli’s group to explore Falling Stream Mountain.

• Fang Zelin learned from Li Tongming that cultivators existed, though finding them was difficult, while the white deer offered him a three-thousand-year-old ginseng in exchange for his guidance.
• Qingyun followed his divination to Wangqing Mountain and tried to seize the ripened ginseng spirit, but Fang Zelin refused to devour it and used the Treatise on the Supreme One's Response to suppress Qingyun’s inner demon.
• The ginseng spirit gave Fang Zelin ginseng juice, which added thirty years of cultivation when he drank it, and Qingyun later entered Seeking Dao Mountain after encountering Fang Zelin there.
• Fang Zelin began brewing spirit-rice wine, shared cooked spirit rice with Zhang Weichu, He Chenyi, the white deer, and the tiger demon, then set out toward Jiangnan and watered farmland along the way.
• In Qinlan City, Fang Zelin overheard scholars discussing his poems and warnings that strange spirits might signal trouble for Great Jin, and meanwhile, a weasel threatened Li Guangfeng’s family after he struck it.
• Fang Zelin’s peace spell pinned the weasel when it entered Li Guangfeng’s home, destroying its body and cultivation, and the village head recognized Fang Zelin’s protection and told the villagers to keep it secret.
• At Falling Stream Mountain, Fang Zelin heard Song Zheli’s legend of a sword splitting the mountain, accepted his invitation to explore, and began using Supreme Sensitivity after finding nothing unusual with Spiritual Power.