Recaps

After returning to the Luozhen Sect, Li Yunjing agreed with Nangong Chengyu to expand the sect by establishing branches, then received the powerful healing art Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction from the Immortal Bone. He learned that the Immortal Bone came from an immortal and could grant further treasures and rapid cultivation gains by devouring devils.

• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and invited his fellow travelers to its upcoming Golden Core ceremony.
• Nangong Chengyu proposed recruiting more disciples and establishing Luozhen Sect branches in places such as the Annan Kingdom, and Li Yunjing agreed.
• Li Yunjing felt heat from his chest and received the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction, a healing art that could eventually resurrect its practitioner.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Immortal Bone came from an immortal rather than the White Bone Daoist’s Essence Blood.
• Li Yunjing discovered that the Immortal Bone needed to devour devils to increase his cultivation and grant him more treasures.

Li Yunjing discovered that the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction could restore him to peak condition, then used all seven of his Patriarch Incense Offerings on a lottery draw and received an Incense Offering Burner. After testing it, he met Su Zhen, who arrived with a request for the Luozhen Sect’s help.

• Li Yunjing cultivated the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction and discovered it could restore his depleted Law Power and exhausted body.
• Li Yunjing collected seven Patriarch Incense Offerings and spent them on a lottery draw, which produced an Incense Offering Burner.
• Li Yunjing tested the burner, collected a wisp of Incense Offerings, and used it to draw ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Su Zhen of the Departing Maple Sect had arrived to see him.
• Su Zhen congratulated Li Yunjing on attaining the Golden Core and asked the Luozhen Sect for help.

Li Yunjing agreed to help Su Zhen rescue five Departing Maple Sect disciples abducted by the Heavenly Star Bandits, though he suspected there was more to the attack. During the Luozhen Sect’s celebration, the Wangtian Jin Household arrived with a remarkable gift, leaving Li Yunjing to examine three treasures of great value.

• Su Zhen told Li Yunjing that the Heavenly Star Bandits had taken five Departing Maple Sect disciples and demanded half the sect’s resources as ransom.
• Li Yunjing suspected the bandits’ attack was unusual but promised to help find the disciples and warned Su Zhen that they might not be recovered alive.
• The Wangtian Jin Household arrived at the Luozhen Sect, and Jin Qiwu gave Li Yunjing a storage ring before asking to see Jin Xiaofeng.
• Li Yunjing examined the ring and found Pure Yang Jade, a Dao Turtle shell capable of limited divination, and a large piece of All Things Gold used to forge Law Treasures.

Li Yunjing hosted Ding Qifeng’s Golden Core ceremony, then discussed suppressing the Heavenly Star Bandits with the Immortal Alliance cultivators. Afterward, Shen Chun asked for advice about opposition to the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s planned auction, leaving Li Yunjing to decide how to respond.

• Li Yunjing and Ding Qifeng welcomed guests to the Golden Core ceremony, and Li Yunjing decided to repay them with a lecture on the Dao while Ding Qifeng planned to refine pills.
• Xiao Tianxing arrived and relayed that Cao Lie and the others could not attend.
• Li Yunjing told Sikong Ying and the other Immortal Alliance cultivators about the Heavenly Star Bandits, and Sikong Ying explained that the Alliance was offering merit points for suppressing bandits.
• Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying agreed to plan a campaign against the bandits on Heavenly Star Mountain and seek help from the Immortal Alliance headquarters.
• Shen Chun told Li Yunjing that other treasure pavilions in Xunxian Town opposed the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s planned auction, and Li Yunjing stopped to consider the problem.

Li Yunjing proposed creating the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce to bring Xunxian Town’s struggling treasure pavilions under the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s name and support. After the Golden Core ceremony ended, Nangong Chengyu celebrated the Luozhen Sect’s renewed prosperity and asked Li Yunjing to come with him for a gift.

• Li Yunjing proposed that other treasure pavilions join a Luozhen Chamber of Commerce, receiving support in exchange for adding its name to their own.
• Shen Chun understood that Li Yunjing aimed to build the chamber’s reputation and agreed to carry out his plan.
• Shen Chun delivered fifteen first-rank, Profound Grade robes from Black Mountain and reported that production could reach around thirty robes per month.
• Li Yunjing told Shen Chun to have Guan Xingzhou request whatever Black Mountain needed as its techniques and output improved.
• Li Yunjing completed his discourse on the Dao, ending the Golden Core ceremony, and the guests departed.
• Nangong Chengyu recalled the Luozhen Sect’s earlier Foundation Establishment banquet, praised its grand ceremony, and asked Li Yunjing to come with him for a gift.

Nangong Chengyu passed the Luozhen Sect’s Tiger-Shooting Bow to Li Yunjing, who bonded with the powerful weapon and learned not to fire it without a clear target. The next day, Li Yunjing drew fortune sticks that granted him a day of increased luck, then set out for the Great Howl Monastery.

• Nangong Chengyu led Li Yunjing to his grave and revealed the Tiger-Shooting Bow, a treasured weapon reserved for Luozhen Sect sect masters.
• Nangong Chengyu gave Li Yunjing the bow, and Li Yunjing bonded with it using his Essence Blood and nearly drained his Law Power when he drew its string.
• Nangong Chengyu warned Li Yunjing that firing the bow without a clear target could kill innocent people.
• The next day, Li Yunjing collected forty units of incense offerings at the Patriarch Hall and used ten for a prize draw.
• Li Yunjing drew a supreme-fortune Qian hexagram, which gave him a fifty percent luck boost lasting one day.
• Li Yunjing explained the fortune sticks to the disciple guarding the Patriarch Hall and left for the Great Howl Monastery.

Li Yunjing joined Chang Xu and the other Great Dream Market Plan representatives to investigate a sleeping clam demon blocking construction at the Great Dream Pool. Ji Zhengxin attacked it with his divine sword, and the chapter ended as violent waves and sword qi erupted from beneath the water.

• Li Yunjing traveled to the Great Howl Monastery, where Chang Xu welcomed him and led him into a pseudo grotto-heaven.
• Chang Xu showed Li Yunjing and five representatives a map of the Great Dream Pool and explained that an uninjurable Demon Core Mid Stage clam demon was preventing the market's construction.
• The group traveled to the Great Dream Pool, held their breath against its illusion-inducing mist, and reached the island where they planned to build the market.
• Li Yunjing briefly felt his consciousness grow heavy on the island, while Sect Leader Fu identified the sleeping clam demon as nearly six thousand years old.
• Ji Zhengxin attacked the clam demon with his crimson divine sword, sending waves surging over the island as sword qi shredded the surrounding mist.

Li Yunjing and the others failed to harm or move the clam demon obstructing construction of Great Dream Market, but it vanished after Li Yunjing secretly took a Jade Slip that appeared in its place. Back in his cave abode, he discovered the Jade Slip was a third-grade Law Treasure made from a pearl produced by a six-thousand-year-old clam demon.

• Li Yunjing reflected on his inability to condense Sword Intent as Ji Zhengxin failed to hurt the sleeping clam demon with his sword.
• Chang Xu and the others tried to move the clam demon, but their Law Power could not budge it.
• Li Yunjing's immortal bone trembled, and the clam demon appeared to turn into a Jade Slip; he picked it up and hid it from the others.
• Li Yunjing announced that the clam demon had vanished, and Chang Xu and Ji Zhengxin agreed that Great Dream Market's construction could proceed.
• Li Yunjing returned to his cave abode and learned that the Jade Slip was a third-grade Law Treasure fashioned from a six-thousand-year-old clam demon's pearl.

Li Yunjing refined the clam pearl Law Treasure and received news about the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance’s plan to head to Heavenly Star Mountain. He attended an auction in Carefree Heaven, where bidding began using gold beans and golden toads.

• Li Yunjing learned that the clam pearl created convincing illusions and began refining it.
• After three days, Li Yunjing completed the refinement and stored the clam pearl in his Dantian to nourish it.
• Li Yunjing received a message that the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance planned to set out for Heavenly Star Mountain the next day, along with an invitation to an auction in Carefree Heaven.
• Li Yunjing entered Carefree Heaven, presented his Immortal Alliance Token at the Moon-Gazing Pavilion, and was led to the Yi auction hall.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the auction booklet and learned that bidders would offer gold beans to golden toads, with unsuccessful bids refunded.

Li Yunjing watched the auction until the rare Fire Flood Dragon pearl and the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword with a Sword Rhyme Fruit came up. He passed on the pearl but aggressively bid until he won the sword and fruit for 520,000 gold beans.

• Li Yunjing watched the first thirty-two treasures sell, then saw the auction continue with a new auctioneer.
• The auctioneer offered a Fire Flood Dragon pearl, and Li Yunjing considered bidding but backed away as its price climbed to 248,000 gold beans.
• The auctioneer presented the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and a Sword Rhyme Fruit together, and Li Yunjing decided they suited his needs.
• Li Yunjing had an attendant bring him one million gold beans and raised his bid in large increments as other bidders competed.
• Li Yunjing won the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and Sword Rhyme Fruit for 520,000 gold beans, and the treasures were delivered to his private room.

After winning the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and Sword Rhyme Fruit at auction, Li Yunjing refined the sword and comprehended Myriad Manifestations Sword Intent. He joined the Immortal Alliance’s operation against the Heavenly Star Bandits as a squad leader, where True Person Chongyue asked whether he was a sword cultivator.

• Li Yunjing paid for the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and Sword Rhyme Fruit, then returned to his body and began refining the sword while swallowing the fruit.
• The Sword Rhyme Fruit helped Li Yunjing comprehend Myriad Manifestations Sword Intent, and he completed the initial refining of the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• Wang Qianxue summoned Li Yunjing to the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance and announced that headquarters and four other towns would help attack Heavenly Star Mountain.
• Wang Qianxue appointed Li Yunjing to lead the third squad, and he met its fifteen members before joining them to find True Person Chongyue.
• True Person Chongyue asked Li Yunjing whether he was a sword cultivator, and Li Yunjing replied that he knew a thing or two.

Li Yunjing demonstrated his sword technique to True Person Chongyue, then traveled with the Immortal Alliance vanguard to Heavenly Star Mountain. He chose to rescue the Departing Maple Sect disciples alone and opened the attack by killing a bandit leader.

• Li Yunjing displayed the Great Wall of Sword Qi, and True Person Chongyue praised his swordsmanship and offered to guide him.
• Li Yunjing and the others teleported to Heavenly Star Mountain, where the first division received assignments to attack the Heavenly Star Bandits' hideouts.
• Li Yunjing assigned his squad to split up, choosing to rescue the Departing Maple Sect disciples alone while the others attacked two other hideouts.
• Li Yunjing's squad eliminated the hidden sentries before he continued alone to the cliffside hideout.
• Li Yunjing shot the Middle Golden Core bandit leader in the head with a Law Power arrow.

Li Yunjing used the Tiger-Shooting Bow to destroy the bandits at a prison hideout, then rescued the imprisoned Departing Maple Sect disciples and arranged help for the other captives. As he headed for another hideout, he defeated and killed Jade-Faced Vajra Pan Xiuqi with his Myriad Manifestations Sword Intent.

• Li Yunjing destroyed the bandits at the cliff with one shot from the Tiger-Shooting Bow and descended to search the prison.
• Li Yunjing broke the second-grade array around a Departing Maple Sect disciple's cell and found all five sect disciples alive.
• Li Yunjing contacted another squad through his Immortal Alliance Token and left the arriving cultivators to rescue the imprisoned captives.
• Li Yunjing encountered a bandit cultivator near the next hideout and used the Myriad Manifestations Sword Intent to destroy the man's great seal.
• Li Yunjing overwhelmed the bandit with ten thousand Sword Intent beasts and killed him, identifying him as Jade-Faced Vajra Pan Xiuqi, one of the Heavenly Star Bandits' eight great guardians.

Li Yunjing killed Jade-Faced Vajra Pan Xiuqi and rejoined his squad, which then encountered a Corpse Yin Cult attack on Heavenly Star Mountain. The chapter ended as more than a dozen corpse monsters charged at them, including five at Early Golden Core.

• Li Yunjing learned that Pan Xiuqi had escaped the hideout, then told his squad he had killed the Golden Core Perfection bandit.
• Li Yunjing's squad praised him and set off to help fellow cultivators at another hideout.
• A pillar of white light appeared as black corpse water fell across Heavenly Star Mountain, reviving the dead and driving the living mad.
• A blue-robed cultivator warned Li Yunjing's squad that the Corpse Yin Cult had unleashed its Mahakala Corpse Refining Method.
• More than a dozen corpse monsters charged at Li Yunjing and the others, including five at Early Golden Core.

Li Yunjing and the first brigade survived the Corpse Yin Cult’s attack on Heavenly Star Mountain, then gathered at Sweeping Star Summit after the Immortal Alliance ended the corpse-monster threat. Wang Heng revealed that the demonic path planned to seize the Five Aggregates Plain and might start a war.

• Li Yunjing used the Slay Heaven Sword Formation to destroy five Early Golden Core corpse monsters, while his companions burned the remaining monsters to ashes.
• Li Yunjing’s group found True Person Chongyue, who told them to wait for the Immortal Alliance and High Person Xuanhao to handle the crisis.
• High Person Xuanhao’s actions dispersed the storm, stopped the corpse monsters, and burned them all to ashes.
• High Person Xuanhao summoned the cultivators to Sweeping Star Summit, where Li Yunjing saw Wang Heng among the assembled leaders.
• Wang Heng announced that the demonic path intended to seize the Five Aggregates Plain and might provoke great turmoil or start a war.

As the demonic path prepared to bring turmoil to the Five Aggregates Plain, Li Yunjing resolved to strengthen the Luozhen Sect. Wang Heng then revealed that the plain held an Immortal Artifact connected to Li Yunjing through the White Bone Daoist’s inheritance, and warned him to keep that connection secret.

• Wang Heng assured the assembled cultivators that the Immortal Alliance and righteous path would help defend the Five Aggregates Plain, then told them to prepare for turmoil.
• Su Zhen thanked Li Yunjing for rescuing his disciples and worried that the Departing Maple Sect might not survive the coming conflict.
• Li Yunjing decided to accelerate upgrades and construction at the Luozhen Sect, especially the Hall of Rebirth, and Xiao Tianxing brought him to meet Wang Heng.
• Wang Heng confirmed that an Immortal Artifact had created the Five Aggregates Plain and said Li Yunjing’s inheritance had formed a karmic connection to it.
• Wang Heng warned Li Yunjing not to reveal his connection to anyone and explained that the demonic path intended to conquer the plain to search for the artifact and gain an advantage in the coming struggle for the Dao Fruit.

Wang Heng warned Li Yunjing that the righteous path had to prevent the demonic path from obtaining the rare Dao Fruit, then urged him to pass along a personal message to his master. After the Heavenly Star Mountain mission ended, Li Yunjing learned he had earned ten thousand merits and began examining the Immortal Alliance exchange list as he returned to the Luozhen Sect.

• Wang Heng explained that the righteous path feared the demonic path would use the Dao Fruit to overturn their carefully maintained balance, and warned Li Yunjing to be careful.
• Wang Heng told Li Yunjing to tell his master to treat Qianxue well and to make an effort to give Wang Heng grandchildren.
• Li Yunjing learned that the bandits had been eliminated, the captives rescued, and the stolen treasures sorted for return or distribution among mission participants.
• Sikong Ying described the powerful items Xunxian Town could exchange its merits for, including Extreme Crossing Boats, Golden-Armored Divine Generals, and Five Elements Dao Soldiers.
• Li Yunjing checked his Immortal Alliance Token and found fifty thousand merits, of which forty thousand had been awarded for becoming a True Disciple and ten thousand came from the mission.
• Li Yunjing opened the exchange list in his token, then entered the teleportation array and left Heavenly Star Mountain.

Li Yunjing spent his fifty thousand merit on Golden-Armored Divine Generals, Extreme Crossing Boats, the Mystic Compassion Stele, and Heavenly Spirit Marrow to support the Luozhen Sect’s development. After learning that the teleportation formation was complete, he inspected it and considered sending Liu Qingsong and the other craftsmen to learn from the Immortal Alliance.

• Li Yunjing told Nangong Chengyu about his experience at Heavenly Star Mountain and passed along Wang Heng's words.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the Immortal Alliance Token's exchange list and spent ten thousand merit on ten Golden-Armored Divine Generals at Golden Core Perfection and thirty thousand on three Extreme Crossing Boats.
• Li Yunjing exchanged two thousand merit for the Mystic Compassion Stele to anchor the medical hall he planned to build.
• Li Yunjing spent his remaining eight thousand merit on Heavenly Spirit Marrow, hoping to expand the Spirit Vein beneath Serene Valley.
• Li Yunjing heard that the teleportation formation was complete, inspected it, and considered sending Liu Qingsong and the other Luozhen Sect craftsmen to learn from the Immortal Alliance.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s teleportation array to lv4, unlocking the ability to capture coordinates to other Dao Realms. He considered the chance to reach and potentially conquer a lesser thousand Dao Realm, then examined the requirements for the next upgrade.

• Li Yunjing added the teleportation array to the upgradeable structures and upgraded it to lv1, lv2, and lv3.
• Li Yunjing learned that a lv4 array could capture drifting Dao Realm coordinates and teleport to the corresponding worlds.
• Li Yunjing recalled how great sects conquered lesser thousand Dao Realms for their resources and potential recruits, and saw an opportunity for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing used Five Dao Jade from the sect’s collection to upgrade the teleportation array to lv4.
• Li Yunjing viewed the lv5 effects and requirements, which included faster coordinate capture and information about captured Dao Realms.

Li Yunjing captured coordinates for the unknown Mysterious Female Dao Realm but held off on entering it, then arranged for Luozhen Sect craftsmen to study at the Immortal Alliance headquarters. He completed the Hall of Sages, chose to enshrine both human and Luozhen Sect sages, and upgraded it to lv1.

• Li Yunjing captured the coordinates of the Mysterious Female Dao Realm, but decided not to teleport there without knowing what awaited him.
• Li Yunjing praised Liu Qingsong and the other craftsmen for completing the Hall of Sages and offered to fund their further study at the Immortal Alliance headquarters; they accepted.
• Li Yunjing made the Hall of Sages an upgradable building and decided it could enshrine both human race sages and Luozhen Sect patriarchs.
• Li Yunjing asked Mo Xuan to arrange copies of the patriarchs' portraits and gathered representative objects for human race sages, including writings by the Alchemy Ancestor.
• Li Yunjing placed the objects in the Hall of Sages and upgraded it to lv1, unlocking the ability to summon sages using prestige.

Li Yunjing summoned the Human Ancestor in the Hall of Sages, gaining sect-wide cultivation benefits, then upgraded the Hall of Rebirth to lv3. He learned that its next level could restore bodies for remnant souls, but its rare upgrade materials would be difficult to obtain.

• Li Yunjing spent 500 reputation to summon the Human Ancestor, whose effects improved cultivation for all Luozhen Sect members.
• Li Yunjing chose not to unlock the hidden effects or extend the Human Ancestor’s stay, saving his remaining reputation.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Hall of Rebirth from lv2 to lv3, allowing Spirit Stones to be used to rebuild a disciple’s body if their soul remained intact.
• Li Yunjing resolved to upgrade the Hall of Rebirth to lv4, which could rebuild bodies for remnant souls, but its required treasures were exceptionally rare.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s cultivation room and learned that its next level could grant a disciple an Innate Dao Body. He then discovered that the Immortal Alliance teleportation array had found coordinates for the unknown Mysterious Female Dao Realm, leaving Fang Hexuan astonished and unable to explain it.

• Li Yunjing left the Hall of Rebirth and upgraded the expanded cultivation room to level eight using Five Elements Spirit Sand.
• Li Yunjing saw that level nine could grant an Innate Dao Body, but its upgrade required Nine Profound Mica and further conditions.
• Fang Hexuan met Li Yunjing outside the cultivation room and asked whether its changes were his doing.
• Li Yunjing asked Fang Hexuan about Dao Realms and said the teleportation array had found coordinates for one.
• Fang Hexuan activated the array, found the Mysterious Female Dao Realm coordinates, and admitted he knew nothing about the realm.

Li Yunjing learned that Fang Hexuan would search the Black Mountain Secret Treasury for a Dao Realm Map that might mention the Mysterious Female Dao Realm. While waiting, Li Yunjing sought materials from the Immortal Alliance to upgrade the teleportation array and upgraded several Luozhen Sect buildings.

• Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that the Luozhen Sect's patriarchs might have left a Dao Realm Map in the Black Mountain Secret Treasury, then warned him to keep their discussion secret.
• Fang Hexuan left the Luozhen Sect for the Black Mountain Secret Treasury.
• Li Yunjing contacted Feiyao through his Immortal Alliance Token to request heavenly spirit gold sand and nine-colored seven-star iron for the teleportation array.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the sect panel and decided to upgrade the Oath Hall, Spirit Vein Pavilion, Welcoming Immortal Pavilion, and Disciple Quarters.
• Li Yunjing inspected the upgraded buildings' effects and requirements, including the Oath Hall's new benefits at level five and the Disciple Quarters' benefits at level eight.

After reaching the Golden Core Late Stage, Li Yunjing addressed Shen Chun’s difficulties establishing the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce and sent Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, and Fang Tong to recruit sect-backed treasure pavilions. As Li Yunjing prepared to study arrays, Feiyao’s clansman Feiyuan arrived with the Heavenly Spirit Gold Sand and Nine-Colored Seven-Star Iron he had requested.

• Li Yunjing finished refining the Hundred Lifetimes Tea’s power and advanced from the Middle Golden Core to the Golden Core Late Stage.
• Shen Chun told Li Yunjing that rogue cultivator shopkeepers had refused to join the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce because they feared the Luozhen Sect would take over their businesses.
• Li Yunjing and Shen Chun agreed to recruit sect-backed treasure pavilions and support willing rogue cultivator businesses as examples of the chamber’s benefits.
• Li Yunjing sent Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, and Fang Tong to approach the sects and lineages, then returned to his cave abode to study arrays.
• Feiyuan, a clansman of the absent Feiyao, arrived and delivered the Heavenly Spirit Gold Sand and Nine-Colored Seven-Star Iron to Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan decided to explore the Mysterious Female Dao Realm after learning of its connection to the Yunzhen Dao Realm. Li Yunjing upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s teleportation array to level five, enabling it to capture Dao Realm coordinates.

• Feiyuan gave Li Yunjing heavenly spirit gold sand and nine-colored seven-star iron as gifts from the Immortal Alliance, and Li Yunjing shared spirit stones with Feiyuan and Feiyao.
• Fang Hexuan returned with a Dao Realm Map and told Li Yunjing that the Yunzhen Dao Realm’s immortal island was actually part of the Mysterious Female Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan agreed to visit the Mysterious Female Dao Realm and discussed how to conduct themselves there.
• Li Yunjing informed Nangong Chengyu and Wang Qianxue of the plan and left the Luozhen Sect in Nangong Chengyu’s care.
• Li Yunjing used the two treasures to upgrade the teleportation array from level four to level five, allowing it to capture drifting Dao Realm coordinates.