Recaps

Qi Yun survived the sect’s initiation trial, entered the Wuji Sacred Sect, and used his Law Technique Panel to develop reliable talisman-making and advance his cultivation. After Tang Shun’s death drew investigators and Wu Tao betrayed him, Qi Yun accepted Zheng Yi’s offer to act as bait but refined the offered flying sword instead of agreeing to follow the plan.

• Qi Yun completed the Clear Breeze Technique update with a spiritual herb, hid from the valley’s hunters, and survived the trial while Tang Shun slaughtered recruits and searched for his stolen Storage Bag.
• Qi Yun took Tang Shun’s Storage Bag, later lured Tang Shun into the woods, and killed him before joining the surviving recruits on their journey to the Wuji Sacred Sect.
• Qi Yun entered the Seventh Outer Prefecture, sold Basic Sword Qi, and used his earnings to buy materials and techniques that let him cultivate and produce talismans with guaranteed success.
• Qi Yun sold talismans in bulk, accumulated Sacred Yuan, and advanced to the Qi Refining Third Layer with a Qi Spirit Pill.
• Song Kun investigated Tang Shun’s death, while Wu Tao accused Qi Yun and helped Senior Brother Zhou try to lure him out of the Seventh Outer Prefecture.
• Qi Yun bought the Skull Incantation, learned that Song Kun was seeking records of Tang Shun’s group, and heard Zheng Yi’s proposal to use him as bait in exchange for protection.
• Qi Yun accepted Zheng Yi’s assignment, received the Azure Sky flying sword, mastered the Skull Incantation, and refined the sword without agreeing to serve as bait on Zheng Yi’s terms.

Qi Yun survived Song Kun and Zheng Yi’s scheme, then won the year-end assessment by claiming all nine Crystal Keys. After using new Law Techniques to repel disciples who targeted him, he was cleared of their deaths and received Li Chong’s proposal to ambush Yue Rong.

• Qi Yun killed Wu Tao, escaped Zhou Hao’s ghost pursuit, and lured Zhou Hao into a trap, where Song Kun intervened before Yang Cuan stopped him and sent Qi Yun out of the Remnant Realm.
• Qi Yun revived after sacrificing his protective skull, broke through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, upgraded his techniques, and entered the year-end assessment in the Mirage Thousand-Faced Realm.
• Qi Yun defeated Pang Xiao and Wen Zong, learned that defeated contestants were rescued from death, and watched the remaining disciples hesitate over the nine Crystal Keys.
• Yue Rong gathered the keys, killed Shen Fan, Du Yunian, Song Ping, and Song An, then surrendered the nine keys to Qi Yun before dying.
• Qi Yun opened the heavenly gate and became the Human Origin Champion, then studied True Person Ling’s teachings and began mastering “Profound Communion and Life Seizure.”
• Qi Yun tested his Law Techniques at Ninefold Hall, killed disciples who hunted him for his champion’s rewards, and gained more power after refining a Southern Mulberry Bird egg.
• Gao Kai’s soul-search cleared Qi Yun of killing fellow disciples, and Li Chong warned him to avoid further trouble before proposing that they join forces to ambush Yue Rong.

Qi Yun fought his way to the Hall of All Dharmas, gained a breakthrough and a new sword technique, then led Holy Sect disciples against the Zombie Alliance. The campaign ended with Qi Yun exposing a false Yuan Hai and confronting the Alliance’s new Law Corpse.

• Qi Yun defeated disciples who tried to ambush him, seized Dharma Enlightenment Bells at Old Dragon Pool, and escaped after Yue Rong’s defeat.
• Qi Yun killed a wounded demon child, refined its spiritual treasure, and received the Southern Ming Sword Devil Law Technique after Basic Sword Qi reached 100%.
• Qi Yun entered the Hall of All Dharmas, absorbed Wei Zhen’s cultivation insights, and broke through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer before burning a hidden heart-thought.
• Qi Yun spent four months strengthening the Iron Sand Method, then joined the Holy Sect’s campaign against the Zombie Alliance at Great Black Mountain.
• Qi Yun helped the disciples break through the Alliance’s array and fought a Bronze-Armored Corpse before the group regrouped at the devastated marketplace.
• Qi Yun and the disciples charged the Zombie Alliance, but Qi Yun identified the apparent Yuan Hai as an impostor and revealed that the Holy Sect had anticipated the trap.
• Qi Yun destroyed the marketplace array’s disc, weakening the zombies, while he and the false Yuan Hai fought and a Law Corpse attacked Qi Yun’s white-bone skulls.

Qi Yun returned from defeating the Zombie Alliance with a powerful patron, new rewards, and a growing cultivation. Forced into the Peach Garden Secret Realm, he fought rival sect cultivators, expanded his Skull Incantation, and ended the stretch facing Zhao Wuji and Ling Jiao'er.

• Qi Yun killed Yuan Hai, uncovered his storage bracelet, and used the Skull Incantation to drain the essence of Zombie Alliance cultivators until he stood over a mountain of corpses.
• Pei Lin announced Qi Yun as Double First-Place Champion, and Deng Yin recruited him as a future protector while promising support and giving him the Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries.
• Qi Yun refined his champion rewards, perfected his fifth-layer cultivation, and divined that a great calamity would arrive within three days.
• The Peach Garden Secret Realm opened, but an old True Person forced Qi Yun to enter despite his fears, where he fought dangerous creatures and discovered the Spirit Point system.
• Qi Yun killed an intruder, exchanged Spirit Points for a new Law Technique, and learned Gather Form and Disperse Qi, which let him become smoke and leave a lifelike false body.
• Qi Yun bound Du Yunian and Shen Fan, forced them to guide him through the Peach Garden, and defeated Yellow Springs Netherworld cultivators while learning that rival sects planned to surround the Holy Sect.
• Qi Yun’s Skull Incantation grew to twenty-seven skulls as he and his companions advanced to the fifteenth floor, where Ling Jiao'er tried to lure them into an illusion and Zhao Wuji intervened.
• Qi Yun fought Zhao Wuji, refined the Soul-Gathering Banner to increase his skulls to eighty-one, and seized Ling Jiao'er, telling her he wanted her to help him cultivate.