Recaps

Li Yunjing rebuilt Luozhen Sect, developed its buildings and resources, and searched for Mo Xuan and Shui Yao after they vanished during the Golden Core cave abode mission. The pair returned injured and revealed that the Clear Wind Sect had deceived them, while their recovered treasures gave Luozhen Sect new resources and a powerful formation.

• Li Yunjing accepted Zhang Hanpeng as a disciple, sold Golden Jade Rice for Spirit Stones, and began repairing and upgrading Luozhen Sect’s buildings.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao returned to the sect, warned that they needed a Foundation Establishment cultivator to retain Immortal Alliance protection, and left to explore a Golden Core cave abode with Clear Wind Sect.
• Li Yunjing hired craftsmen to repair the sect and build a cave abode, while upgrading the Scripture Repository, Sect Grand Hall, and other buildings.
• Li Yunjing sold Pure Spiritual Qi and spirit eggs, bought spiritual supplies, and refined premium Yellow Sprout Pills in the repaired Alchemy Chamber.
• After hearing of heavy casualties at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Li Yunjing asked Gao Jin to search for Mo Xuan and Shui Yao, then rejected the mutilated corpses Gao Jin found as theirs.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao returned to Luozhen Sect badly injured, and Li Yunjing stabilized them with pills and spirit water.
• Mo Xuan revealed that the Clear Wind Sect had concealed the cave abode’s killing formation and sent mission-takers into danger, then gave Li Yunjing the treasures he and Shui Yao had recovered.
• Li Yunjing discovered that the storage bag held Spirit Stones, Foundation Establishment Pills, a second-tier Law Artifact, cultivation treasures, and a diagram of the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation.

Li Yunjing established the Luozhen Sect’s standing, guided Mo Xuan and Shui Yao to Foundation Establishment, and strengthened the sect while drawing new allies. After uncovering bandit cultivators’ influence over Seven Ingenuities Mountain, he agreed to protect the Wang Household from an imminent attack.

• Li Yunjing welcomed Mo Xuan and Shui Yao as elders, recruited Ge Shuyuan, Lü Hong, Hu Ruizhu, and Hu Ruiyang, and began expanding the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing entered seclusion, achieved Foundation Establishment, and preserved the sect’s Immortal Alliance membership when Wang Qianxue came to revoke it.
• Li Yunjing secured rice supplies and support from Jin Wuxu, bought cultivation methods and materials, and upgraded the sect’s buildings and defenses.
• Li Wan and Li Qiuchen apologized to Li Yunjing and asked him to protect the Wang Household, while Li Yunjing sent Lü Hong to investigate Seven Ingenuities Mountain.
• Lü Hong reported that local lineages were growing Illusory Spirit Flowers at the direction of bandit cultivators, and Li Yunjing decided to alert the Immortal Alliance and support the Wang Household if it had stayed out of the trade.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao reached Foundation Establishment, and Li Yunjing arranged a banquet, invited allies, and commissioned Jiang Chuan to forge a second-grade magic sword.
• Li Yunjing captured Purple Bamboo Pool bandits attacking Departing Maple Sect disciples, turned them over to Huo Junrui, and recruited Ding Qifeng as the Luozhen Sect’s prospective chief alchemist.
• Wang Shanming warned Li Yunjing that the Heavenly Star Bandits planned to help the Zhao Household attack the Wang Household that night, so Li Yunjing sent Mo Xuan and Wang Shanming to seek Immortal Alliance aid and began refining pills.

Li Yunjing strengthened the Luozhen Sect through new alliances, building upgrades, recruits, and a victory over the Heavenly Star Bandits. The campaign exposed the Li Household’s betrayal, while new agreements with the Golden Scale Sect and Hundred Artifacts Pavilion expanded the sect’s prospects.

• Li Yunjing welcomed Wang Qianxue and other guests to the Foundation Establishment Banquet, where the factions agreed to cooperate against the Heavenly Star Bandits.
• Wang Qianxue explained that Nangong Chengyu’s death was suspicious, and Li Yunjing suspected he had been killed with rare poison.
• Li Yunjing acquired a mysterious pagoda that revealed three inheritances, then upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s buildings and recruited new disciples.
• Li Yunjing signed a contract making the Wang Household subordinate to the Luozhen Sect, and Wang Qianxue warned him about the coming attack on the bandits.
• Li Yunjing joined the Immortal Alliance’s assault on the bandit hideout, killed a powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator, and helped capture Du Man.
• Du Man exposed Li Qiuchen and the Li Household’s collaboration with the bandits, and Wang Qianxue awarded Li Yunjing a Three-Transformation Golden Core.
• Li Yunjing agreed to take five Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices and negotiated a steady supply of spirit chicken eggs to the Golden Scale Sect in exchange for spirit birds and beast-taming arts.
• Gu Lin confronted Li Yunjing over Gu Xuan’s plans to join the Luozhen Sect, then learned that she did not want to inherit the pavilion.

Li Yunjing brought new elders, disciples, and resources into the Luozhen Sect while strengthening its halls and making alliances. He rescued Nangong Ye and returned with her to the sect, then began negotiating to buy a struggling pavilion in Xunxian Town.

• Li Yunjing refused to harm Sun Shaoyun, brought the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices into the sect, and began studying formations.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Oath Hall and finalized an agreement with the Golden Scale Sect to trade spirit chicken eggs for the Beast King Heart Sutra and spirit birds.
• Li Yunjing persuaded Gu Lin to join as an elder and make the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion a Luozhen Sect branch, then recruited Ding Qifeng as its alchemy elder.
• Li Yunjing established sect ranks and core Daoist methods, upgraded several buildings, and cultivated the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture.
• At the New Year oath ceremony, the patriarchs blessed the sect members, and Ding Qifeng received sudden enlightenment and spiritual treasures.
• Li Yunjing declined Hu An's request to protect the Annan Kingdom but encouraged him to cultivate and return to defend it, and Ge Shuyuan agreed to manage the Spirit Fields.
• Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing that Nangong Ye lived in Jiaohu Town, and they found her to be a spirit medicine whose illness was caused by Supreme Cloud Geng Metal Qi.
• Li Yunjing brought Nangong Ye to the Luozhen Sect and arranged for her to stay with Shui Yao, then negotiated with Shen Chun to buy the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.