Recaps

Li Yunjing learned the Sword Mother Crystal Embryo’s power and chose to keep it for a suitable person rather than use it himself. Back at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion, he arranged for Zeng Yishui to build a large-scale teleportation array and heard Meng Chang’s claim that he had fully understood the Extreme Crossing Boat design.

• Zeng Yishui explained that the Sword Mother Crystal Embryo could make its user a supreme sword-path genius, but Li Yunjing stored it away rather than swallow it.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion with Zeng Yishui and chose an abandoned site for a large-scale teleportation array.
• Zeng Yishui said the array would take ten days to build, then agreed that Li Yunjing’s help could reduce the work to three days or possibly one.
• Meng Chang arrived and claimed he had completely comprehended the Extreme Crossing Boat design and found redundant parts that could be removed to save resources.
• Li Yunjing told Meng Chang to list the problems and discuss them with the others, then stopped him because he had something to discuss.

Li Yunjing returned to Tianyuan and upgraded the Luozhen Sect's Alchemy Chamber after Ding Qifeng asked for help reaching another state of enlightenment. The upgrade revealed that the next level could grant alchemy enlightenment, but its demanding conditions left Li Yunjing with a problem to solve.

• Li Yunjing instructed Meng Chang to customize the Extreme Crossing Boat for the Luozhen Sect, then returned from the Chenwei Dao Realm to Tianyuan.
• Li Yunjing found the Luozhen Sect peaceful, though its members remained eager to recover their pride after the setback at Black Wind Cliff.
• Ding Qifeng told Li Yunjing that a previous state of enlightenment had nearly made him a fourth-grade Alchemist, and asked him to seek the patriarch's help.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber from lv8 to lv9 after confirming its requirements were met.
• Li Yunjing saw that lv10 would offer a chance to trigger Dao of Alchemy Enlightenment, but its upgrade conditions gave him a headache.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber to lv10 after discovering its requirements had already been met, then upgraded the Scripture Repository to lv10. Nine Spirits Holy Venerable sensed the Repository had changed, but Li Yunjing denied knowing anything and left him wondering why.

• Li Yunjing discovered that Alchemy Ancestor Possession had triggered thirty-nine times, satisfying the Alchemy Chamber's upgrade condition, and upgraded it to lv10.
• Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng that the founding ancestor had agreed to help him pursue enlightenment, while warning him not to force a fortuitous encounter.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Scripture Repository to lv10 after confirming its prosperity requirement had long been met.
• Nine Spirits Holy Venerable sensed the Scripture Repository had changed and questioned Li Yunjing, who denied noticing anything and asked him about the books he had read.
• Li Yunjing assured Nine Spirits Holy Venerable that he would someday be able to see the world outside, then hurried away; Nine Spirits Holy Venerable realized Li Yunjing had lied.

Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden and training ground in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, discovering powerful new spiritual effects available at their next levels. He then visited the artifact refinement room, where Gu Lin and the Luozhen Sect’s artifact refiners were working.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden to lv8 and learned that lv9 could let mature spirit medicines carry Dao Rhyme Spiritual Light, but the garden still lacked the required Medicine Spirits and Spirit Medicine Embryo harvests.
• Li Yunjing looked for Nangong Ye in the medicine garden but found she was absent, so he left.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the training ground to lv8 and saw that lv9 could let sparring disciples share their Law Technique proficiency through Battle Technique Resonance.
• Li Yunjing encouraged the disciples training there and went to the artifact refinement room.
• Li Yunjing found Gu Lin managing the room, where artifact refiners and talented disciples from the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion were refining Law Artifacts in Azure Jiao Marsh.

Li Yunjing arranged for Gu Lin and talented disciples to observe the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion forging an Extreme Crossing Boat in the Chenwei Dao Realm, then upgraded several Luozhen Sect facilities. The talisman room could not be upgraded further without a third-grade talisman master, while the upgraded Oath Hall revealed new effects and requirements for its next level.

• Li Yunjing asked Gu Lin about the sect’s artifact refiners and invited him to bring talented disciples to observe the Extreme Crossing Boat forging in the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the artifact refinement room to level six and saw that level seven required ten successful exclusive-entry inscriptions and a third-grade artifact refiner.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the talisman room to level six, but found its next upgrade required a third-grade talisman master the sect did not have.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Oath Hall to level five after confirming the sect met its requirements.
• Li Yunjing read that the next Oath Hall level would add a chance for Oath Resonance and require five passed Heart-Testing Trials and a fourth-grade sect.

Li Yunjing upgraded several Luozhen Sect buildings, then spent nearly half a year cultivating and developing the Azure Jiao Marsh while waiting for news from the Chenwei Dao Realm. The Extreme Crossing Boats were nearly finished, and the marsh’s new market had become popular.

• Li Yunjing reviewed the upgrades for the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, Beast Taming Grounds, Welcoming Immortal Pavilion, Treasure Storage Pavilion, and Main Hall of Discipline.
• Li Yunjing returned to his cave abode and cultivated while awaiting news from the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Nearly half a year passed in the Tianyuan Dao Realm as the Extreme Crossing Boats were forged steadily in the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing opened the resource-rich Azure Jiao Marsh to outside merchants because transporting goods elsewhere was costly and slow.
• The Immortal Alliance and the Luozhen Sect established a popular market in the marsh, aided by Shen Chun's successful management of the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce.

Li Yunjing finally comprehended the Void-Hiding Spirit Divine Ability after an auspicious bell broke through his cultivation impasse. He integrated the ability into his Dao foundation and demonstrated his mastery by parting space and moving through the chamber without a trace.

• Li Yunjing exhausted his divine-soul power while repeatedly failing to comprehend the Void-Hiding Spirit runes, and his Dao heart began to waver.
• An auspicious light descended into Li Yunjing's sea of consciousness, and a clear bell joined the scattered runes and revealed that he needed to unite with the void rather than control it.
• Li Yunjing's divine soul and meridians recovered and strengthened as he comprehended the spatial laws and formed the complete Void-Hiding Spirit Law Seal.
• Li Yunjing absorbed the Law Seal into his fingertip, engraving the Void-Hiding Spirit into his Dao foundation, body, and divine soul.
• Li Yunjing silently parted the void and moved throughout the chamber as a streak of silver light before returning to his meditation cushion.

Li Yunjing inspected the two newly completed Black Crane Airships at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and examined their weapons, arrays, and cabins. He praised Gu Anchen, Meng Chang, and the artifact refiners for their work.

• Li Yunjing learned that nearly a month had passed in seclusion and traveled to the Chenwei Dao Realm to check on the airship’s progress.
• Li Yunjing arrived at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion as two colossal airships were completed in a surge of spiritual light.
• Li Yunjing used Void-Hiding Spirit to enter one airship and inspected its arrays, Spirit-Breaking Cannon, energy-core slots, and other features.
• The elderly artifact refiner celebrated completing the fourth-grade flying boat, and Gu Anchen, Meng Chang, and the other refiners joined him on the deck.
• Li Yunjing finished inspecting the airship and told the artifact refiners, “You’ve done well.”

Li Yunjing inspected the newly forged ships, named them the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats, and considered how to transport them back to the Luozhen Sect. At the celebration, Meng Chang revealed that building the ships had helped him become an artifact-refining master.

• Li Yunjing praised Gu Anchen and the artifact refiners for completing the two ships, while deciding privately to reward them with opportunities to study Tianyuan's techniques or settle there.
• Gu Anchen explained that the ships were designed for extreme speed and killing power, and Li Yunjing named them the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats.
• At the celebratory banquet, Li Yunjing considered using a large storage Law Treasure from the Taixuan Sect's legacy to transport the ships back to the Luozhen Sect.
• Meng Chang toasted Li Yunjing and revealed that forging the two ships had helped him comprehend a profound mystery and become an artifact-refining master.

Li Yunjing secured a storage gourd to transport two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats and ordered Meng Chang and Gu Anchen to forge a fleet. After returning from Chenwei to Tianyuan, he suffered the Strange Time Illness, but his withered right arm recovered and seemed stronger than before.

• Li Yunjing chose the storage gourd from the Taixuan Sect's Law Treasures and used it to store two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats.
• Li Yunjing told Meng Chang to lead the forging of more Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats and assigned Gu Anchen to oversee the process.
• Li Yunjing explained that a fleet of flying cloud boats would help the Luozhen Sect expand its territory and retake Black Wind Cliff.
• After returning from Chenwei to Tianyuan, Li Yunjing became dizzy as his right arm rapidly withered and lost its strength.
• Li Yunjing considered cutting off his arm, but it suddenly recovered and seemed stronger than his left arm.

Li Yunjing’s right arm remained strong after recovering, and he gathered the Luozhen Sect’s leaders to reveal two completed Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats. Eager to retake Black Wind Cliff, the sect prepared to depart after learning the boats’ controls.

• Li Yunjing waited to see whether his right arm would wither again, but it stayed strong, so he left the teleportation array.
• Li Yunjing summoned the Luozhen Sect’s higher-ups and announced that the time had come to attack Black Wind Cliff again.
• Li Yunjing revealed two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats, and the gathered leaders inspected them and learned they surpassed the Extreme Crossing Boat.
• Fang Tong asked who had forged the boats, but Li Yunjing did not reveal that Meng Chang and the others had made them.
• Li Yunjing agreed to set off immediately, then told everyone to learn how to operate the boats, whose controls had been changed.

Li Yunjing led the Luozhen Sect’s Nascent Soul Realm cultivators aboard two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats toward Black Wind Cliff, intending to destroy the Demon Beast stronghold. After learning the Northern Dark True Spirit could suppress the barrier for only three breaths, he launched an attack on the beast tide and ordered the boats to charge.

• Li Yunjing assigned the Luozhen Sect’s Nascent Soul Realm and higher cultivators to the assault on Black Wind Cliff and left lower-level cultivators behind.
• Aboard the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boat, Li Yunjing summoned the Northern Dark True Spirit, which said it could suppress the barrier for three breaths but could not locate its core.
• Li Yunjing decided to destroy Black Wind Cliff with the upgraded boats’ firepower while the barrier was down.
• At Black Wind Cliff, Demon Beasts swarmed out under the command of the Spirit Concentration Realm Perfection bear demon.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Thousand-Li Spirit Eye Array to mark Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beasts’ weak points, and the Spirit-Breaking Cannons blasted two paths through the horde.
• Li Yunjing ordered one Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boat to circle behind the Demon Beasts while the main boat advanced from the front at full speed.

Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan led the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats in destroying the Demon Beast tide, but grew wary when the expected barrier failed to appear. After the battlefield was cleared, the earth trembled and a blood-colored curtain of light descended from the sky.

• Li Yunjing ordered the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats to unleash their formations while the cultivators attacked the Demon Beasts.
• Fang Hexuan killed the great bear with divine lightning and joined the slaughter as the boats wiped out the beast tide.
• Li Yunjing ordered his people to collect Demon Beast materials after the boats landed, but he and Fang Hexuan worried that the barrier had not appeared.
• Li Yunjing rejected the idea that the barrier had run out of energy, reasoning that the Northern Dark Earth Vein should have replenished it.
• The earth trembled, and a red dot burst open into a blood-colored curtain of light that descended toward the ground.

Li Yunjing and his allies faced the blood-red barrier’s renewed assault and discovered that its core lay inside Black Wind Cliff. As the blood demon attacked their flying boats, they charged the Nine Heavens Mystic Crane Cannon to destroy the cliff.

• Li Yunjing ordered everyone onto the flying boats when the blood-red barrier appeared, and the barrier filled the area with corrosive mist.
• The mist formed blood spears, poisoned hands, and blood corpses that attacked the boats, while it eroded their defenses and afflicted cultivators with hallucinations.
• Li Yunjing asked Five Spirits Lord to locate the barrier’s core, and Five Spirits Lord found it inside Black Wind Cliff.
• Li Yunjing ordered the boats to fire their Nine Heavens Mystic Crane Cannons and destroy Black Wind Cliff.
• A blood demon emerged from the mist and attacked the boats, but their defensive formations held as the cannon finished charging.

Li Yunjing and the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats destroyed Black Wind Cliff’s blood barrier, then helped the Northern Dark True Spirit purify the polluted earth vein node. The spirit rewarded Li Yunjing with earth vein essence and proposed that claiming more nodes could restore it as an Ancestral Vein.

• Li Yunjing ordered the Nine Heavens Mystic Crane Cannon to fire, and two cannon blasts destroyed Black Wind Cliff’s barrier core.
• Li Yunjing released the Northern Dark True Spirit, which used the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to purify pollution around the node.
• Li Yunjing cut down black tentacles attacking the seal and lent his Law Power as the Northern Dark True Spirit removed the pollution’s roots from the earth vein core.
• The earth vein node returned to its pure ice-blue state, and the Northern Dark True Spirit gave Li Yunjing a drop of its source essence.
• Li Yunjing proposed taking more nodes and connecting them into a network, and the Northern Dark True Spirit said the network might let it become an Ancestral Vein again.

Li Yunjing heard the Northern Dark True Spirit’s plan to use a giant nest and accumulated earth vein essence power to rise beyond an Ancestral Vein. He then met a group of Biyuan People, a nearly vanished human lineage, and an elderly member approached him.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit told Li Yunjing about a ritual in which an earth vein built a giant nest to gather essence power and transform its fate.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit said the ritual was recorded in detail and appeared genuine, and Li Yunjing left him to handle it as he saw fit.
• Fang Tong told Li Yunjing that someone wanted to meet him and led him west.
• Li Yunjing discovered at least a hundred Biyuan People, a short-statured human lineage long absent from the Five Provinces.
• Fang Tong spoke with an elderly Biyuan man, who approached Li Yunjing leaning on a walking stick.

Li Yunjing learned that the Biyuan People believed he was the First Ancestor’s envoy, destined to help resurrect their ancestor, and discovered that three ancient races also wanted to follow him. The representatives explained that they sought his protection to ensure their races survived.

• Zhi Qianshu saluted Li Yunjing and explained the Biyuan People’s legend that the Luozhen Sect would destroy Black Wind Cliff and its leader would help resurrect their First Ancestor.
• Li Yunjing questioned the legend, but Zhi Qianshu insisted that its predictions had already come true and the Biyuan People would assist him.
• Zhi Qianshu told Li Yunjing that the Blood Cicada Race, Winged Human Race, and Crypt Race also wanted to follow him in exchange for an enormous secret realm.
• Zhi Qianshu summoned representatives of the three races on a Mountain-Bearing Beast, and they came before Li Yunjing.
• The Blood Cicada representative told Li Yunjing that the three races wanted to survive.

Li Yunjing accepted the Biyuan People, Blood Cicada Race, Winged Human Race, and Crypt Race as allies of the Luozhen Sect, valuing their abilities despite suspecting they might be involved in resurrecting the Biyuan People's first ancestor. He then set out with the Crypt Race member for a secret realm that only Great Qiu People could enter, and Fang Hexuan hinted that he might know why.

• Li Yunjing agreed to accept the three races, valuing the Blood Cicada Race's healing skills, the Winged Human Race's aerial strength, and the Crypt Race's underground expertise.
• The Crypt Race member revealed that a secret realm lay in a secluded valley five thousand li away and allowed only Great Qiu People to enter; Zhi Qianshu confirmed it.
• Li Yunjing sent Fang Tong to escort Zhi Qianshu and the Biyuan People to the Luozhen Sect, while the other two representatives went to gather their people.
• Li Yunjing traveled toward the secret realm with the Crypt Race member and wondered why it excluded other human populations.
• Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that he might know the reason for the restriction, though he was unsure whether his idea was correct.

Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that an ancient conflict among the human peoples had led to the Great Qiu People’s dominance and suggested the secret realm might hold clues about its cause. At the realm’s entrance, Li Yunjing touched a bronze door and vanished, and Fang Hexuan and the others disappeared after touching it too.

• Fang Hexuan explained that a biography in the Heavenly Palace described a war among the human peoples that nearly wiped out the Martial God People and left the Great Qiu People dominant.
• Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Xie Zheng followed a Crypt Race outsider to a barren valley and found a hidden cave behind a cliff that blocked Divine Sense.
• Fang Hexuan blasted a hole through the cliff, revealing a limestone cave and an ancient bronze door.
• Li Yunjing touched the bronze door and vanished in a flash of light.
• Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Fang Liushui touched the door and vanished as the Crypt Race outsider entered the cave, watching it with an unfathomable expression.

Li Yunjing and his companions entered a vast secret realm filled with ancient wonders, but the Five Spirits Lord identified it as the deadly Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return. They learned that finding its Myriad Spirits Crystal Core was the only way to escape, and Li Yunjing was directed toward an apparently safer area as Lu Xian asked what he had discovered.

• Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan’s group arrived in a world of ancient ruins, floating islands, and extraordinary Spiritual Qi.
• Fang Hexuan probed the surroundings and found that Divine Sense and escape techniques were severely suppressed.
• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that the realm was the Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return, a deathtrap whose apparent creatures were formed from accumulated emotions.
• The Five Spirits Lord explained that finding the Myriad Spirits Crystal Core was the only way to leave and could grant control over the ruins.
• The Five Spirits Lord directed Li Yunjing toward a region with strong signs of life that seemed less dangerous, and Lu Xian asked what Li Yunjing had discovered.

Li Yunjing led Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Xie Zheng to a hollow filled with High Antiquity Spirit Plants and helped them pass through its protective formation. At the hollow’s center, they found a towering stele covered in High Antiquity characters and carved with a phoenix.

• Li Yunjing sensed unusually dense life energy and guided the group through a region of deadly poisonous plants.
• The four discovered a hollow packed with rare High Antiquity Spirit Plants, but Fang Hexuan identified a protective Myriad Spirits Formation.
• Li Yunjing used the Ten Thousand Formations Celestial Pivot Banner to find a weak node and led the group safely into the formation.
• The group traveled toward the hollow’s center, where the Spirit Plants grew more potent and Spiritual Qi condensed into droplets.
• The four reached a huge black stone stele covered in High Antiquity characters, with a carved phoenix and red gemstone eyes.

Fang Hexuan deciphered the stele’s inscription and learned that the Qingyun Clan had left a legacy in the Myriad Spirits Garden while warning of a great devil sealed beneath it. As the ground began shaking, the seal broke, and a gigantic black-scaled claw emerged, turning the garden to ruins.

• Fang Hexuan read the stele and revealed that it recorded the Qingyun Clan’s legacy and warned its descendants not to disturb the seal beneath it.
• Li Yunjing told Lu Xian and Xie Zheng about the Qingyun Clan’s role in the survival and rise of humanity in Tianyuan.
• Fang Hexuan urged the group to leave the seal alone, and the four gathered more than half of the nearby Spirit Plants.
• The ground shook, and the Five Spirits Lord warned Li Yunjing that something underground was about to burst out.
• Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Xie Zheng flew into the sky as the stele cracked and an evil presence poured from the fissure.
• Fang Hexuan shielded Li Yunjing and ordered everyone to run, but a gigantic black-scaled claw emerged and reduced the Myriad Spirits Garden to ruins.

Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture to purify the Devil Qi and reveal the runes sustaining the Myriad Spirits Devil Master, allowing Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian to destroy them. As more devil soldiers emerged and the giant claw moved to destroy the stone stele, Fang Hexuan moved to stop it while the others held off the attackers.

• Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian attacked the giant claw, but their strikes barely harmed it, and Lu Xian warned that the Devil Qi devoured Law Power.
• The Five Spirits Lord identified the enemy as the Myriad Spirits Devil Master, and Li Yunjing purified devil plants and spreading Devil Qi with the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture.
• Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Spirit Eye to spot black runes within the Devil Qi, and Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian destroyed them at his direction.
• The fissure widened, releasing more Devil Qi and devil soldiers, while the giant claw reached for the stone stele to break the seal.
• Fang Hexuan unleashed Divine Firmament Divine Lightning against the devil soldiers and ordered Xie Zheng and Lu Xian to hold them off while he stopped the claw.

Li Yunjing discovered a hidden chamber containing a way to reinforce the great demon’s seal and learned that Zhi Qianshu had deliberately weakened it. Qingyun Neng’s remnant soul remained to help, while Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian continued fighting the demon outside.

• Fang Hexuan held off the great demon’s giant claw while Xie Zheng and Lu Xian fought the endless demon soldiers.
• The Five Spirits Lord sensed something unusual to the Xun southwest, and Li Yunjing followed the signal into a hidden chamber.
• Li Yunjing found bamboo slips and an Azure Wood Origin Crystal that could summon Qingyun Neng’s remnant soul to reinforce the seal.
• Qingyun Neng told Li Yunjing that someone had deliberately damaged the seal and identified the culprit as a Biyuan person.
• Li Yunjing realized Zhi Qianshu had likely weakened the seal to help resurrect the Biyuan People’s first ancestor.
• Qingyun Neng revealed that the culprit had destroyed the remnant souls and contingencies of the other six people who once helped seal the demon.

Li Yunjing fused with the Azure Wood Origin Crystal as a great devil threatened to break free, then faced Zhi Qianshu’s evil-intent body. His Demon-Slaying Lightning Eye awakened and blasted the enemy with golden lightning, purifying his Devil Qi.

• Grandmaster Qingyun warned Li Yunjing that the great devil’s second claw had entered the chamber and urged him to fuse with the Azure Wood Origin Crystal.
• Li Yunjing seized the crystal, reached Nascent Soul Perfection, and discovered Zhi Qianshu’s evil-intent body in the chamber.
• Zhi Qianshu explained that his evil-intent body had been sealed by his benevolent-intent body and had destroyed the other remnant souls while seeking the great devil’s power.
• Zhi Qianshu attacked Li Yunjing, who used the crystal’s power to defend himself and counter with Qingwei Light Blades.
• A golden vertical eye opened on Li Yunjing’s forehead, and he unleashed Demon-Slaying Divine Lightning that pierced Zhi Qianshu’s barrier and purified his Devil Qi.