Recaps

Qi Yun survived the Peach Garden expedition, advanced into the inner court, and joined a mission against the three rival sects’ peripheral forces. At Ghost-Crying Market, he recorded an earth-vein node and escaped after freeing a dangerous prisoner as a distraction.

• Qi Yun used his skulls to defeat the three sects’ cultivators, reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, and entered the hidden Peach Garden, where he claimed a Longevity Peach before the Holy Sect evacuated its disciples.
• Deng Yin traded a Longevity Peach to Qingli for the Great Yin Mother Qi and gave it to Qi Yun, while explaining that it could support a dangerous Higher Vehicle Dao foundation.
• Qi Yun entered the Fuluo Prefecture assessment, gathered Blood Fuluo, refined True Essence, and found the Wood Phase Command Method in an ancient herb garden.
• Qi Yun uprooted an altar, triggering a secret-realm disaster, then earned inner-court admission and received an offer from the old fisherman to become a Secret Transmission True Cultivator.
• Qi Yun showed Deng Yin the Wood Phase Command Method and received a blood-jade hairpin for identifying recruits during an expedition, then stabilized his cultivation and accepted the mission against the three sects’ peripheral forces.
• Qi Yun disguised himself to enter Ghost-Crying Market, located the Xun-position node at Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion, and caused a riot with Immortal-Bewitching Incense to slip past its guards.
• Qi Yun recorded the node’s coordinates and attacked a shackled prisoner, but the prisoner proved invulnerable and offered information in exchange for gradual release.
• Qi Yun removed the prisoner’s final golden needle, then escaped when the freed man tried to devour him, leaving the prisoner to flee through the passage.

Qi Yun plundered Yellow Springs Netherworld strongholds, advanced his cultivation, and obtained Wu Yushan’s preparations and a sword inheritance. He later entered the sealed Yin Ruins on True Person Qianxin’s mission to seize the Earth Temple’s core, but fled a clay monk’s chanting inside the temple.

• Qi Yun looted Ghost-Crying Market during the Holy Sect’s assault, obtained the Stealing and Devouring Gu, and escaped with a Seven Kills Sect assassin’s golden ring.
• Qi Yun destroyed a Yellow Springs Netherworld stronghold and absorbed its lingering energies to reach the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• Qi Yun lured cultivators into attacking the wounded Wu Yushan, then ambushed him and refined his collapsing Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun recovered Wu Yushan’s cultivation records and Storage Ring, opened the Earthly Door Aperture, and defeated Seven Kills Sect assassins seeking the golden ring.
• Qi Yun adopted the identity Zhang Mazi, gathered corpses during the attack on Yin Bone Market, and upgraded his Soul Refining Banner.
• Qi Yun entered Sword Inquiry Forest with the golden ring, rejected its preset paths, and obtained the incomplete Nameless Swordsmanship.
• Qi Yun entered the Yin Ruins to cultivate and accepted True Person Qianxin’s mission to seize the Earth Temple’s core before a barrier sealed the ruins.
• Qi Yun left his Soul Refining Banner to hold off rival disciples, entered the Earth Temple, and escaped a clay monk’s enthralling chanting with the banner’s help.

Qi Yun gained power from the Earth Temple, built a talisman business, and killed Chang Qing during a hunt that revealed the Divine Silkworm Sect’s forbidden secret. After secretly raiding Li Hanyan’s treasure vault, Qi Yun attempted to break through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, but a black-robed figure used a ritual to unleash his inner demons.

• Qi Yun broke through the Earth Temple’s Buddhist defenses, accepted Mingxin’s inheritance, and relied on True Person Qianxin to defeat Mingxin’s remnant thought and escape the temple with new gains.
• Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect, strengthened his cultivation and Soul Refining Banner, and earned Sacred Yuan by producing Mystic Yin Slashing Law Talismans with resentful souls.
• Li Hanyan hired Qi Yun to kill Chang Qing, and Qi Yun ambushed Chang Qing at the ruined Divine Silkworm Sect before the two fought through its hidden pill sea and sealed chambers.
• Qi Yun killed Chang Qing as a Daoist phantom tried to possess him, then Deng Yin and Qianxin arrived as the phantom unleashed the ruins’ power and a True Lord suppressed it.
• Li Hanyan delayed Qi Yun’s Soul-Cleansing Elixir, so Qi Yun used Deng Yin’s help and stealth treasures to enter Li Hanyan’s private vault and take Foundation Establishment supplies.
• Qi Yun waited out Li Hanyan’s seclusion, then cultivated his three hun souls with the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror and prayer beads before attempting to reach the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Qi Yun’s hun souls began merging into a Divine Soul, but a black-robed figure used his birth characters and a crimson command flag to send Black Qi through a mysterious connection and provoke his inner demons.

Qi Yun entered Miluoluo Mountain to obtain a fire-element Foundation Establishment Object, then chose the perilous Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation and overcame its remnant bearer. After surviving the wind, fire, and water tribulations with Deng Yin’s protection, Qi Yun became a Supreme True Person and returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect.

• Qi Yun reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, sought Foundation Establishment materials, and entered Miluoluo Mountain, where he subdued Zhu Qing and Shi Xin and learned that a sentient object hid in Karma-Burning Valley.
• Qi Yun used Mingxin’s prayer beads to overcome the wrathful arhat guarding the Wisdom King Visage and claimed the fire-element Foundation Establishment Object.
• Deng Yin and True Person Qianxin offered Qi Yun the chance to pursue the perilous Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation, and Qi Yun accepted after learning its previous bearer had died in the Land of Dao Attainment.
• True Person Southern Dipper guided Qi Yun to contemplate the original Great Luo method, and Qi Yun formed his own Dao Foundation in the Innate One Qi Pool.
• In the Land of Dao Attainment, Qi Yun debated the former Great Luo True Person, surpassed his resentment in the contests, and refined it to complete his Supreme Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun spent fifty years mastering his foundation, then entered the Foundation Establishment Realm Heaven and endured the wind, fire, and water tribulations as hostile Dao Foundations attacked him.
• Deng Yin protected Qi Yun from the attackers and sacrificed himself to destroy them, allowing Qi Yun to overcome the tribulations and become a Foundation Establishment True Person.
• Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect, where Desolate Halberd Shattering Void True Lord presented him with a Bodhisattva’s severed arm and offered to introduce him to Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord.