Recaps

Li Yunjing learned that a Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance could weaken the Living Sacrifice Stele’s Curse, then traveled with Fire Dragon to the Chenwei Dao Realm. There, Gu Anchen told him about Si Wu’s defection and Tiger Jiao’s suspected ambitions, while Fire Dragon revealed himself as a living dragon.

• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that a Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance could appease the stele’s resentful souls and weaken the Curse, though the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water was still needed to eradicate it.
• Li Yunjing tasked Nangong Chengyu and Fang Hexuan with arranging the ritual, then brought Fire Dragon with him to the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and learned from Gu Anchen that Si Wu had defected to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom after being promised better treatment.
• Gu Anchen told Li Yunjing that his informants suspected Tiger Jiao was planning to swallow the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and rule the Chenwei Realm.
• Fire Dragon asked whether Tiger Jiao was the rare High Antiquity breed, shocking Gu Anchen and the disciple when they realized the dragon was alive.

Li Yunjing learned that the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion had lost its flying-ship forging technique to a traitor and hurried to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom with Gu Anchen and Fire Dragon. At the border, Little Tiger Jiao confronted them and announced that he would eat Fire Dragon.

• Gu Anchen identified the rare Tiger Jiao, and Fire Dragon vowed to kill it to avenge the dragons it had eaten.
• Gu Anchen explained that a traitor had destroyed the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s records for forging flying ships, warning Li Yunjing to guard against traitors in the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing abandoned the slow flying ship and had Fire Dragon carry him and Gu Anchen toward the Tiger Jiao Kingdom.
• At the kingdom’s border, Li Yunjing neutralized a gold-iron sand attack and learned that the Nascent Soul Late Stage Little Tiger Jiao was the Tiger Jiao’s son.
• Little Tiger Jiao challenged Fire Dragon, saying he wanted to taste a True Dragon.

Fire Dragon crushed Little Tiger Jiao and destroyed the eight Tiger Jiao Clan elders who came to rescue him. He left Little Tiger Jiao alive and challenged anyone else to come face him.

• Little Tiger Jiao attacked Fire Dragon, but Fire Dragon's Spirit Transformation pressure overwhelmed him and smashed him into the ground.
• Little Tiger Jiao used his natal Weak Water Jiao Lightning, but Fire Dragon burned it away and crushed his breastbone with Innate Li Fire.
• Eight Nascent Soul elders of the Tiger Jiao Clan arrived and attacked Fire Dragon to save Little Tiger Jiao.
• Fire Dragon killed the first three elders with a sweep of his tail, then destroyed the remaining five and their grand formation with a fireball.
• Fire Dragon pinned Little Tiger Jiao beneath his pressure and told anyone else who wanted to die to come all at once.

Fire Dragon killed Little Tiger Jiao, then effortlessly defeated and killed Old Tiger Jiao when he arrived seeking revenge. Father and son were both reduced to ashes, leaving Fire Dragon unchallenged.

• Fire Dragon killed Little Tiger Jiao as Old Tiger Jiao rushed toward him, burning his origin to tear through space.
• Old Tiger Jiao found his son's corpse and unleashed four lethal attacks against Fire Dragon, burning his bloodline origin and using the Tiger Jiao Clan's forbidden arts.
• Fire Dragon swept away Old Tiger Jiao's attacks with Innate Li Fire, destroying the weak water, Myriad Waters Mysterious Origin Pearl, lightning, and soul-killing incantation.
• Old Tiger Jiao realized Fire Dragon was not native to the Chenwei Dao Realm and had power beyond its limits.
• Fire Dragon crushed Old Tiger Jiao's Primordial Spirit and Demon Core, then burned both father and son to ash.

Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen arrived in the Tiger Jiao Kingdom’s capital after Fire Dragon defeated Tiger Jiao and his forces. Li Yunjing announced that Tiger Jiao was dead and that the Luozhen Sect would take over, leaving the capital’s humans and demons fearful and uncertain.

• Fire Dragon carried Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen safely to the capital, where its dragon might terrified the humans and demons.
• Gu Anchen confronted Fang Qiu, accusing him of stealing the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s supreme treasure and defecting to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom.
• Li Yunjing bound Fang Qiu with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and announced that Tiger Jiao was dead and the Luozhen Sect would take over the kingdom.
• When Fang Qiu called Li Yunjing a liar, Li Yunjing killed him with the sword.
• The capital’s residents panicked when Tiger Jiao did not appear, and Li Yunjing repeated his demand for the kingdom’s surrender.

Li Yunjing entered the Tiger Jiao Kingdom’s palace, where he found Si Wu looting the treasury and learned that Tiger Jiao was dead. After Gu Anchen killed the traitor, Li Yunjing explored the inner vault and discovered a purple pearl that transported him to a library and seemed to make written knowledge easy to understand.

• Li Yunjing entered the palace with Gu Anchen and found no demons related to Tiger Jiao there.
• Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen discovered Si Wu looting the treasury, and Gu Anchen revealed that Tiger Jiao was dead.
• Si Wu explained how he had taken Little Tiger Jiao’s treasures and opened the treasury, then begged Gu Anchen for forgiveness.
• Gu Anchen killed Si Wu and mourned him briefly before Li Yunjing gave the outer-vault treasures to the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
• Li Yunjing entered the inner vault and picked up a purple pearl, which transported him to a library where a passage’s meaning quickly became clear to him.

Li Yunjing discovered that the bead in the Chenwei Dao Realm treasury let him instantly understand artifact-refining texts, then found World-Cleansing Heavenly Water that could destroy the Curse stone stele. He returned the bead to Gu Anchen, left Fire Dragon to help secure the Tiger Jiao Kingdom, and departed for Tianyuan.

• Li Yunjing used the bead to master two artifact-refining books instantly and recognized it as the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion's supreme treasure.
• Li Yunjing searched the inner treasury and found World-Cleansing Heavenly Water, which could deal with the Curse stone stele in the Azure Jiao Marsh.
• Li Yunjing took the bead to Gu Anchen, who promised to train high-level artifact refiners for the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
• Gu Anchen admitted he could not guarantee control of the Tiger Jiao Kingdom, so Li Yunjing left Fire Dragon behind to help.
• Fire Dragon told Gu Anchen to call if danger arose, then departed to go for a stroll.

Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and learned that the cursed stele had caused more deaths despite the Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance. He used the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water to destroy the stele’s resentment, but the discovery of a buried coffin left a new mystery.

• Li Yunjing returned from the Chenwei Dao Realm and learned that several Luozhen Sect members, including Wang Shanming, Gu Lin, and Shui Yao, had died and been revived through the Pool of Rebirth.
• Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing that the Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance had failed to stop the deaths and seemed to anger the cursed stele.
• Li Yunjing revealed that he had found the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water, then joined Nangong Chengyu to meet Fang Hexuan and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators at the stele.
• Li Yunjing released the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water, which shattered the stele and erased its resentment, then allowed the water to leave.
• Li Yunjing ordered the remaining piece of the stele removed, and the cultivators uncovered a coffin buried beneath it.

After the Living Sacrifice Stele was destroyed, Li Yunjing and the others discovered an Immortal Burial Coffin beneath it. Five Spirits Lord warned that moving or opening the coffin would expose a powerful Corpse Liberation Immortal and bring his curse upon Li Yunjing, so everyone agreed to leave it untouched.

• The group debated whether to open the strange, undecayed coffin buried beneath the Living Sacrifice Stele and looked to Li Yunjing for a decision.
• Five Spirits Lord identified the coffin as an Immortal Burial Coffin containing the false body of a Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Five Spirits Lord explained that opening the coffin would ruin the immortal’s Corpse Liberation and could cause his resentment to torment Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing asked whether the coffin could be moved, and Five Spirits Lord warned that moving it would expose the immortal to the Heavenly Dao and invite a curse.
• Li Yunjing explained the coffin’s origins to the others, and they agreed not to move it.

Li Yunjing met Xiong Xiu, the Corpse Liberation Immortal whose Immortal Burial Coffin he had uncovered, and secured a promise of future help in exchange for protecting it. Xiong Xiu departed after asking Li Yunjing to guard the coffin, and the Five Spirits Lord revealed that Xiong Xiu had been probing Li Yunjing and might have killed them if he had discovered their presence.

• Li Yunjing had Jin Ruoxu's household guard the Immortal Burial Coffin, then returned to the Luozhen Sect to rest before heading to Black Wind Cliff.
• Xiong Xiu appeared in Li Yunjing's cave abode, restrained him, and explained that he had returned to Tianyuan after Li Yunjing exposed the coffin protecting his false death.
• Xiong Xiu offered Li Yunjing a reward for leaving the coffin intact, and Li Yunjing asked him to promise help three times.
• Xiong Xiu gave Li Yunjing a golden spirit talisman and asked him to keep the Immortal Burial Coffin safe in Azure Jiao Marsh.
• Xiong Xiu left through a rift in the void, and the Five Spirits Lord revealed that Xiong Xiu had been probing Li Yunjing and nearly discovered them.

Li Yunjing learned that Xiong Xiu’s talisman was safe and then upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s Spirit Field to lv8. He left the planted Origin Essence waiting for the field’s newly unlocked harvest effect to take hold.

• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that Xiong Xiu’s talisman was harmless and that their agreement was bound by the force of an immortal’s words.
• Li Yunjing remembered Xiong Xiu drinking from his teapot, threw out the tea set, and decided to upgrade the sect’s buildings.
• Li Yunjing found that his cave abode could not be upgraded because he had not killed enough enemies using an obtained Divine Ability.
• Jin Xiaofeng asked Li Yunjing when the planted Origin Essence would grow, reminding him that the Spirit Field’s harvest effect had not been active at lv7.
• Li Yunjing used five taels of five-colored soil of creation to upgrade the Spirit Field to lv8, unlocking its expanded crop planting range and additional harvest effects.

Li Yunjing considered the rare Nine Heavens Living Soil needed to upgrade the Spirit Field, then upgraded the Poultry Coop to Lv10 using treasures found in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven. He saw that the next upgrade required even rarer materials and live fowl with Five Sacred Birds bloodlines.

• Li Yunjing read the Spirit Field’s Lv9 effects and learned that its next upgrade required Nine Heavens Living Soil and more experienced spirit farmers.
• Li Yunjing told Jin Xiaofeng to wait for the Origin Essence to grow, then left the Spirit Field.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Poultry Coop to Lv10 with treasures he had found in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Yunjing read the Poultry Coop’s new effects, including the Human-Faced Owl’s ability to detect nearby threats.
• Li Yunjing concluded that the next upgrade would be difficult because Blazing Sun Jade Marrow was rare and live fowl with Five Sacred Birds bloodlines were hard to obtain.

Li Yunjing collected the Patriarch Hall’s incense offerings and considered how to meet its upgrade conditions, including finding a third-grade literary cultivator. He upgraded the cultivation room to lv9, then returned to the Patriarch Hall to spend his remaining incense offerings on a draw.

• Li Yunjing paid respects at the Patriarch Hall, collected 6,758 wisps of incense offerings, and saw that upgrading the hall required five Patriarch’s Divine Manifestations and a third-grade literary cultivator.
• Li Yunjing decided to issue a task to find a sect disciple willing to become a literary cultivator.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the cultivation room from lv8 to lv9 after confirming its conditions were met.
• Li Yunjing noted that the lv10 cultivation room could sometimes raise a cultivator’s cultivation by one minor realm, a benefit especially valuable to high-realm cultivators such as Fang Hexuan.
• Li Yunjing saw that more than six thousand incense offerings remained and returned to the Patriarch Hall to draw prizes.

Li Yunjing drew a Flat Peach Tree Spirit Seed, a sect output attribute, and the spirit tablet of Nine Spirits Holy Venerable, then upgraded the Hall of Sages and summoned the venerable’s departed soul. The summoned man appeared alive and asked whether he had entered reincarnation.

• Li Yunjing spent a thousand wisps of incense offerings and drew a Flat Peach Tree Spirit Seed that could become an Acquired Spirit Root with Chaos Spirit Breath.
• Li Yunjing drew the Foundation for the Ages attribute, which doubled the Luozhen Sect’s output.
• Li Yunjing drew the Spirit Tablet of Nine Spirits Holy Venerable and learned that it could be placed in the Hall of Sages.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Hall of Sages to Lv3 and placed Nine Spirits Holy Venerable’s tablet on the Sages’ Altar.
• Li Yunjing summoned Nine Spirits Holy Venerable without spending reputation, and the man appeared as a departed soul who could remain for a long time.

Li Yunjing welcomed the summoned soul of the Nine Spirits Holy Venerable and learned that he could help the Luozhen Sect by teaching and studying cultivation methods. After showing him the modern sect and its Scripture Repository, Li Yunjing left to upgrade the mountain gate.

• Li Yunjing explained to the bewildered Nine Spirits Holy Venerable that he had died and been summoned to help the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing checked the panel and found that the Holy Venerable could teach Dao, provide cultivation methods, and double sect members’ cultivation-method proficiency gains.
• Li Yunjing showed the Holy Venerable the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, and the two discussed how much cultivation and society had advanced since his era.
• The Holy Venerable read the first-grade Evergreen Instruction and reflected that better methods could have saved many lives in his time.
• Li Yunjing suggested that the Holy Venerable remain in the Scripture Repository to study history and improve the sect’s cultivation methods, and then left to upgrade the mountain gate.

Li Yunjing upgraded the mountain gate and completed the Luozhen Island Full-Territory Guardian Grand Formation, then prepared the Luozhen Sect for its attack on Black Wind Cliff. As preparations neared completion, someone arrived to ask when they would set out.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the mountain gate to lv8 and discovered that lv9 would unlock a formation protecting all of Luozhen Island.
• Li Yunjing laid the required defensive formation foundations across the island and upgraded the mountain gate to lv9, creating a barrier that could withstand Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators.
• Li Yunjing considered protecting all of Azure Jiao Marsh, then returned to the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven to prepare for the next day's attack on Black Wind Cliff.
• The Luozhen Sect readied both Extreme Crossing Boats, which Li Yunjing planned to rely on because the sect had too few powerful cultivators.
• A streak of rainbow light landed before Li Yunjing, and the arriving person asked when they would set out.

Li Yunjing led a force aboard two Extreme Crossing Boats to attack Black Wind Cliff, where they found mindless Demon Beasts and began a fierce assault. As countless beasts kept emerging, Fang Hexuan discovered his Divine Sense could not penetrate the cliffs, leaving the expedition facing an unknown threat.

• Li Yunjing discussed recruiting disciples from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm and Chenwei Dao Realm with Nangong Chengyu, then asked Xie Zheng and the others to help with recruitment.
• Li Yunjing ordered an immediate attack on Black Wind Cliff, and the two Extreme Crossing Boats blasted a gap in the cliffs with their Profound Thunder Cannons.
• Li Yunjing recognized that the charging Demon Beasts had lost their minds and ordered the boats to unleash full firepower while the cultivators protected their energy shields.
• The Extreme Crossing Boats killed many Demon Beasts, but more kept emerging, and Li Yunjing grew concerned about the boats' dwindling power sources and the absence of stronger foes.
• Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that his Divine Sense could not penetrate Black Wind Cliff and that he could not tell whether danger was present or his senses had been dulled.

Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan attacked Black Wind Cliff, but a blood-colored barrier tied to the Northern Dark Earth Vein suppressed their abilities and empowered the Demon Beasts. Li Yunjing used the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to briefly collapse the barrier, allowing them to retreat, but Mo Xuan reported that most of the Extreme Crossing Boat’s arrays had been disabled.

• A great bear emerged from beneath Black Wind Cliff, sacrificed its Essence Blood, and triggered a blood-colored barrier that disrupted the Extreme Crossing Boat and revived injured Demon Beasts.
• Fang Hexuan discovered that the barrier had severed his connection to the Principles of heaven and earth, and his attempt to break it injured him.
• The bear and eight Spirit Concentration Realm Demon Beasts attacked as the barrier’s fog weakened Fang Hexuan and damaged the two Extreme Crossing Boats.
• Li Yunjing brought out the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal, and the barrier collapsed temporarily, letting Fang Hexuan and the boats escape before it re-formed.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that almost all the arrays on the Extreme Crossing Boat had been blocked and could no longer be used.

After their assault on Black Wind Cliff failed, Li Yunjing returned to Luozhen Sect with both Extreme Crossing Boats destroyed and learned that the Northern Dark True Spirit needed his help reclaiming its earth-vein nodes. He left the seal to recover in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven and traveled to the Chenwei Dao Realm.

• Li Yunjing and the others escaped the failing Extreme Crossing Boats, which crashed and were later carried back to Luozhen Island, ruined beyond the sect's ability to repair.
• Li Yunjing told Nangong Chengyu that he would return to Black Wind Cliff after resting and rebuilding their strength.
• Li Yunjing infused the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal with Law Power, awakening the Northern Dark True Spirit within it.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit asked Li Yunjing to help reclaim its earth-vein nodes, and Li Yunjing agreed, though he postponed another attack on Black Wind Cliff.
• Li Yunjing placed the seal in a Spirit Gathering Formation in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, then teleported to the Chenwei Dao Realm.

Li Yunjing returned to the Chenwei Dao Realm and ordered the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion to forge the Extreme Crossing Boat in one month. He planned to move the work to Tianyuan and sought a formation expert to build a teleportation formation, but the elders warned him against approaching Zeng Yishui.

• Li Yunjing arrived at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion while Gu Anchen was meeting with its elders and supreme elders.
• Li Yunjing showed the Extreme Crossing Boat blueprints to the artifact refiners and demanded that they finish the ship within one month.
• Meng Chang promised to forge the ship in one month if Li Yunjing supplied thirty artifact refiners, including ten fourth-grade refiners.
• Li Yunjing agreed to recruit refiners from the Tiger Jiao Kingdom and take the team to Tianyuan to build the ship.
• Meng Chang recommended the formation cultivator Zeng Yishui, but the other elders objected and warned Li Yunjing that Zeng Yishui had a strange temper.

Li Yunjing traveled to Sword Valley to recruit Zeng Yishui to build a teleportation formation, but Zeng attacked him after he forced his way inside. The chapter ended as Zeng formed a powerful formation against Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen.

• Gu Anchen told Li Yunjing that Zeng Yishui was a reclusive Nascent Soul Late Stage formation master living in Sword Valley.
• Li Yunjing decided to seek Zeng Yishui's help and summoned Fire Dragon to carry him and Gu Anchen there.
• Gu Anchen explained that Sword Valley had once produced treasured swords, but its power had faded as sword cultivators dwindled.
• Li Yunjing called out to Zeng Yishui at the valley entrance, but after receiving no response, he told Fire Dragon to destroy the protective formation.
• Zeng Yishui appeared and attacked Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen, forming a powerful formation out of thin air.

Li Yunjing defeated Zeng Yishui by dismantling both of the formation master’s formations with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. After Zeng Yishui admitted defeat, Li Yunjing spared him and offered him a healing spirit pill, which Zeng Yishui swallowed despite his suspicions.

• Zeng Yishui trapped Li Yunjing in the Six Directions Heaven-Locking Formation, but Li Yunjing broke it with a single swing of his sword.
• Zeng Yishui summoned his treasures and burned his Essence Blood to unleash the Four Symbols Suppress Hell Sever Spirit Formation.
• Li Yunjing struck the formation’s nine core eyes, shattered its treasures, and collapsed the formation with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• The formation’s backlash injured Zeng Yishui, and Li Yunjing’s magnetic light locked him down until he could no longer resist.
• Zeng Yishui admitted defeat, but Li Yunjing said he had not come to kill him and gave him a healing spirit pill.
• Zeng Yishui doubted the pill was safe, then swallowed it anyway.

Li Yunjing persuaded Zeng Yishui to help build a large fourth-grade teleportation formation at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion by proving he came from the Tianyuan Dao Realm and offering access to its advanced Formation Dao. Zeng Yishui agreed, provided Li Yunjing kept his promise and let him study it.

• Zeng Yishui refined Li Yunjing's spirit pill and recovered from their fight.
• Li Yunjing asked Zeng Yishui to build a large fourth-grade teleportation formation at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion, but Zeng Yishui refused because he had unfinished business in Sword Valley.
• Li Yunjing offered to help Zeng Yishui reach higher realms and study the Tianyuan Dao Realm's Formation Dao.
• Li Yunjing demonstrated the unfamiliar second-grade Light-Concentrating Formation, convincing Zeng Yishui that he came from another Dao Realm.
• Zeng Yishui agreed to build the formation if Li Yunjing let him study the Tianyuan Dao Realm's advanced formations.

Li Yunjing discovered that the Sword Furnace had awakened a Sword Devil made from the resentment of broken swords, and he faced its assault with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. He offered the Sword Devil and its countless sword spirits a chance to enter his sword and be reborn, leaving their response unknown.

• Zeng Yishui explained that a damaged array had stopped the Sword Furnace from nurturing fine swords and led Li Yunjing and the others to it.
• The Nine True Magnetic Light Sword reacted violently to the Sword Furnace, and its appearance shattered the barrier and awakened the furnace.
• A Sword Devil emerged, made the others disappear, and attacked Li Yunjing with broken swords and resentful sword intent.
• Li Yunjing defended his sea of consciousness and used his sword intent to calm the Sword Devil's resentment rather than destroy it.
• Li Yunjing offered the sword spirits a home and a chance to be reborn inside the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.

Li Yunjing cleansed the Sword Devil of its resentment and gained a rare sword spirit for the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. After discovering a sword art in the ruined furnace, he also learned of a Sword Mother Crystal Embryo that could let swords and sword cultivators be reborn and advance without limit.

• Li Yunjing overcame the Sword Devil's resentment, and the purified sword spirit merged with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• Fire Dragon, Zeng Yishui, and Gu Anchen reappeared, and Zeng Yishui found that the sword furnace had lost all its spirituality.
• The sword spirit revealed a hidden Jade Slip containing the Purple Thunder Divine Firmament Sword Instruction, which Li Yunjing gave to Gu Anchen to copy for the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
• The sword spirit uncovered a Sword Mother Crystal Embryo, and Zeng Yishui identified it as a supreme treasure capable of letting swords and sword cultivators shed their old selves and advance without limit.