Recaps

Chen Hongling killed Zhou An and sent Su Li after Tang Tianshu, who escaped and continued toward the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm’s central region. When Tang Tianshu followed distress signals from fifteen Blood Yin Sect disciples, he arrived to find many of them brutally slaughtered.

• Chen Hongling recovered from the pill Tang Tianshu gave her, killed Zhou An, and questioned Su Li about the masked demonic sect disciple.
• Chen Hongling gave Zhou An’s belongings to Su Li, secured his silence, and promised a Foundation Establishment Pill if he captured Tang Tianshu.
• Su Li chopped Zhou An into mincemeat and left; Tang Tianshu avoided confronting him and headed east.
• On the seventh day, Tang Tianshu sensed fifteen fellow disciples in danger and went to investigate, hoping to help and find an opportunity.
• Tang Tianshu arrived with a flourish and found a blood-soaked scene, with seven or eight disciples’ remains scattered about and three nailed to trees.

Tang Tianshu found the surviving Blood Yin Sect disciples after Kui San massacred their companions, then agreed to track Kui San in exchange for Gu Linglong’s Foundation Establishment Pill. He followed Kui San’s trail with two puppets and hid when the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation detected approaching cultivators.

• Tang Tianshu rescued Gu Linglong and the brothers Liu Wen and Liu Wu from the trees and treated their injuries.
• Liu Wen and Gu Linglong told Tang Tianshu that Kui San had ambushed their groups, killed many disciples, and fled after robbing them.
• Gu Linglong asked Tang Tianshu to track Kui San and promised him her Foundation Establishment Pill if he found him.
• Tang Tianshu accepted, learned the direction Kui San had gone, and set out with two puppets summoned by his soul-summoning bell.
• After using Gu Linglong’s invisibility talisman, Tang Tianshu detected cultivators approaching and retreated to watch through his puppets’ eyes.

Tang Tianshu used his puppet to intervene when Kui San attacked Su Li and Miao Qian, hoping to protect Su Li and test the puppet against a Qi Refining Stage cultivator. Su Li activated his Five Elements Sword Formation and weakened Kui San, but the chapter ended as Kui San punched through the puppet’s chest.

• Tang Tianshu watched Su Li rest inside defensive formations, then saw Miao Qian flee into the clearing with Kui San pursuing her.
• Su Li and Miao Qian fought Kui San, but Kui San seized Miao Qian’s bronze mirror and killed her as she tried to escape.
• Kui San advanced on Su Li before Tang Tianshu’s hardened puppet charged him and held him long enough for Su Li to strike his back.
• Su Li activated his Five Elements Sword Formation and pressed Kui San with flying swords and wind blades while the puppet prepared another attack.
• Kui San sent his black blade at Su Li’s spirit sword and punched straight through the puppet’s chest.