Recaps

Shi Jian advanced his Righteous Yang Lightning Immortal Foundation by cultivating and refining the Dao rhythm in a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s remains, while Shan Li’s cultivation continued to benefit from the vacant Treasured Earth Dao Fruit. Meanwhile, Shi Xiao explored the eastern Dao Realm and discovered a secluded mountain range protected by an unusual restriction, where he saw a human emerge.

• Shi Jian refined a wisp of Righteous Yang Lightning Dao rhythm from the remains, strengthening his Immortal Foundation after years of work.
• Shan Li’s Ten-Thousand-Layered Edge Dao rhythm grew more profound as she cultivated near the vacant Treasured Earth Dao Fruit.
• Shi Xiao traveled alone through the eastern Dao Realm, defeated two Nascent Soul opponents, and escaped a Spirit Transformation cultivator who pursued him.
• Shi Xiao found a verdant mountain range with abundant Spiritual Qi and a subtle lightning rhythm, then sensed a gentle restriction blocking his Divine Sense.
• Shi Xiao waited outside the mountains and watched a faint streak of light emerge from a valley, revealing a human figure.

Shi Xiao discovered the Dao Spirit Human Race’s secluded valley and its Purple Lightning Ginseng, which could aid his father’s lightning cultivation. He offered the clan protection in exchange for its harvest, and Chen Yan began gathering the elders to discuss submitting to the Lightning Bear Line.

• Shi Xiao met a Dao Spirit Human Race cultivator carrying Purple Lightning Ginseng and learned the clan had cultivated the herbs for generations.
• Shi Xiao entered the hidden valley, inspected its extensive ginseng fields, and met patriarch Chen Yan and the clan’s other leaders.
• Shi Xiao told Chen Yan that the ginseng would benefit the Lightning Bear Line and warned that the valley could not remain safe on its own.
• Chen Yan asked whether the clan would retain its cultivation method if it submitted, and Shi Xiao promised that the method and the clan would remain theirs.
• After Shi Xiao departed, Chen Yan summoned the elders to discuss seeking the Giant Bear Clan’s protection.

Chen Yan led the Dao Spirit Human Race to submit to Shi Xiao and the Lightning Bear Line in exchange for protection and a future settlement at the Lightning Plain. Shi Xiao left them a token to deter intruders and continued his journey south, while Chen Yan’s clan prepared to cultivate more Purple Lightning Ginseng.

• After Shi Xiao left, Chen Yan and the elders agreed that the Dao Spirit Human Race had little choice but to submit to a powerful clan for protection.
• Chen Yan gathered the clan’s cultivators and secured their agreement to submit after reminding them that a Savage Flood Dragon had nearly breached their restrictions.
• The next morning, Chen Yan formally submitted the Dao Spirit Clan to Shi Xiao, who promised that the Lightning Bear Line would protect them rather than enslave them.
• Shi Xiao learned that the clan had skilled Spirit Plant growers, artifact refiners, formation specialists, and builders, and planned to bring them to the Lightning Plain in several decades.
• Shi Xiao gave Chen Yan a Lightning Bear Line token infused with Spirit Transformation Dao might to protect the clan until he returned, and asked them to cultivate higher-tier Purple Lightning Ginseng.
• After Shi Xiao departed south, Chen Yan told a protesting elder that their ancestors had already abandoned their pride to survive, and that staying alive mattered most.

Shi Xiao traveled deeper into the Dao Realm’s resource-rich south, where he seized treasures and a Spirit Vein by killing those who stood in his way. He continued south convinced that the Nine Realms held only imperial clans and lesser races.

• Shi Xiao killed three Flood Dragon Lizards and took the Lightning Scale Grass, their remains, and two Mustard Seed Stones.
• He traveled south for several months, avoiding a battle between Nascent Soul groups when he saw no gain in joining it.
• Shi Xiao discovered a fourth-tier Spirit Vein beneath the territory of a small green snake race and attacked its settlement.
• He killed the green snake patriarch and destroyed the race, then extracted the Spirit Vein and stored it in his sleeve.
• Shi Xiao continued south, regarding those below the Nascent Soul realm as ants and other races as beneath the imperial clans.

Shi Xiao built a portable secret realm and continued plundering the southern Dao Realm, growing more destructive as his appetite for violence intensified. He left a lakeside settlement in ruins after abducting two female cultivators and killing the others.

• Shi Xiao used gathered Space Dao materials and Spirit Stones to create a small secret realm, then moved his Spirit Veins and collected treasures inside it.
• Shi Xiao traveled farther south, avoiding Spirit Transformation experts while killing Nascent Soul cultivators and expanding his secret realm through plunder.
• Shi Xiao found dozens of female cultivators refining something on an island in a lake and broke through their protective restriction.
• Shi Xiao sealed two Foundation Establishment cultivators with lightning talismans and took them into his secret realm.
• Shi Xiao destroyed the lake and marshes with lightning, killing the remaining cultivators as he reveled in the destruction.

Shi Xiao’s Purple Firmament Lightning resonance intensified his destructive impulses, and he abducted female cultivators and fathered thirteen mixed-blood children before settling his mind and reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage. As he prepared to return north, he discovered a Spirit Transformation inheritance secret realm underground and decided to enter it.

• Shi Xiao’s growing restlessness led him to abduct female cultivators and imprison them in his portable secret realm, where he treated them as breeding tools.
• Over the years, thirteen mixed-blood children were born, including Half-Demon Bear Humans, Dragon Bears, and Feather Bears; Shi Xiao provided for them but judged them by their aptitude.
• After twelve years of fighting and plundering, Shi Xiao’s restlessness eased, and he released some of the women while leaving cultivation inheritances for the children with good aptitude.
• Shi Xiao entered seclusion and, after three years, broke through from Nascent Soul Early Stage to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• While preparing to return north, Shi Xiao sensed residual Spirit Transformation and Space Dao resonance deep underground and dug until he found a cracked secret-realm entrance bearing an inheritance inscription.
• Shi Xiao decided the Spirit Transformation inheritance should be his and prepared to enter, trusting his treasures, abilities, and his parents’ divine thoughts to protect him.

Shi Xiao gathered rare treasures from the secret realm’s forest before entering its vast, spatially warped city. After finding a way through the shifting labyrinth, he reached a massive stone door and wondered if it led to the city’s core.

• Shi Xiao swept through the forest, collecting fourth-tier Spirit Plants and treasures, subduing some demonic creatures, and breaking the barriers around several fifth-tier spirit medicines.
• Shi Xiao found a sealed entrance in the city wall and opened it with his lightning, then entered the silent city and discovered that space distorted his Divine Sense.
• Shi Xiao crossed a stone bridge that vanished behind him and realized the city had become an enclosed labyrinth with buildings arranged in every direction.
• Shi Xiao tracked a faint Space Dao resonance, learned to follow the city’s slow spatial rhythm, and raced through a briefly stable passage.
• Shi Xiao reached a hundred-zhang stone door whose rune radiated powerful Space Dao presence and sensed something vast beyond it.

Shi Xiao entered Xu Yan’s secret chamber and discovered the inheritance of a perfected Spirit Transformation cultivator. When he took the Xu Yan Ring, Xu Yan’s remnant spirit tried to possess him, but Shi Jian’s Divine Sense destroyed it.

• Shi Xiao carefully examined the chamber, its treasures, and the skeleton before taking the Jade Slip.
• Shi Xiao learned that Xu Yan had failed to attain the Spaceless Dao Fruit and had left his inheritance and treasures for a successor.
• Shi Xiao touched the Xu Yan Ring, and Xu Yan’s remnant spirit invaded his sea of consciousness to possess his Nascent Soul.
• Shi Xiao fought back with Purple Firmament Lightning and activated two strands of Spirit Transformation Divine Sense.
• Shi Jian’s Divine Sense manifested as a giant bear and erased Xu Yan’s remnant spirit with lightning.

Shi Jian learned that Shi Xiao had survived a Spirit Transformation spirit remnant’s possession attempt, then returned to cultivating his Righteous Yang Lightning Immortal Foundation. Shi Xiao collected the secret realm’s treasures as it collapsed, but found the city outside disintegrating and faced a desperate escape.

• Shi Jian realized his divine sense had erased the spirit remnant that tried to possess Shi Xiao and resumed his cultivation, confident his son would survive.
• Shi Xiao awoke with damage to his soul and Nascent Soul, put on the Xu Yan Ring, and saw that the secret realm was collapsing.
• Shi Xiao gathered the treasures from the spheres of light, including fifth-tier Space Dao materials and the Spirit Transformation bones.
• Shi Xiao fled the stone chamber and found the city collapsing into chaotic spatial currents as the secret realm rapidly contracted.
• Shi Xiao cursed the old monster’s possible contingency and recognized that using Grandfather’s lifesaving measure would cost him dearly.

Shi Xiao escaped the collapsing secret realm with a Spirit Transformation treasure, then seized fragments of the realm to strengthen his portable secret realm. Badly injured but alive, he emerged with greatly improved resources and a legacy capable of sustaining his cultivation for years.

• Shi Xiao used Shan Wanling’s drill-shaped treasure to break through the secret realm’s spatial barrier and escape, though the passage wounded him and destroyed the treasure.
• Shi Xiao used lightning ropes to pull secret realm fragments from the collapsing space into his portable secret realm despite the clashing Dao essences.
• The fragments expanded Shi Xiao’s portable secret realm from a fifty-li radius to nearly a hundred li, reinforced its spatial barrier, and enriched its Spiritual Qi.
• Shi Xiao checked his injuries and reflected on the legacy he had obtained, including Spirit Transformation skeletons, rare treasures, spirit medicines, Space Dao materials, and the Xu Yan Ring.

Shi Xiao returned to the Lightning Plain after a perilous journey, bringing the Dao Spirit Human Race and his spoils back to his clan. After Shi Jian and Ancestor Shanyue examined the treasures, Shanyue proposed a marriage alliance between Shi Xiao and a descendant of the Mysterious Bear Lineage, and Shi Xiao agreed to try.

• Shi Xiao traveled north cautiously, avoiding fights and dangerous beasts after losing most of his trump cards.
• Shi Xiao collected the Dao Spirit Human Race and its Purple Lightning Ginseng plants, then led them to the Lightning Plain.
• Shi Xiao presented his spoils to Shi Jian and Ancestor Shanyue, who took the Xu Yan Ring for Shi Jian to refine and discussed trading one of the Spirit Transformation skeletons.
• Ancestor Shanyue proposed that Shi Xiao marry a young descendant of the Mysterious Bear Lineage to strengthen the clan alliance.
• Shi Xiao agreed to try the marriage arrangement, and Shanyue offered to introduce him to the she-bear.

Shan Yue told Shi Jian that the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan planned a limited campaign to drive the Spirit Race from its footholds in the Dao Realm, and appointed him to command the Spirit Marsh Plains war zone. Shi Jian accepted the mission, which would begin in three months and also seek to uncover and kill Bailu Lingyuan.

• Shan Yue explained that the Spirit Race had expanded across the Dao Realm and that the Earth Virtue Dao Venerable had ordered its footholds gradually removed.
• Shan Yue told Shi Jian that the Giant Bear Clan and Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan had approved him to command a war zone.
• Shan Yue showed Shi Jian a map of the Spirit Marsh Plains and assigned him to clear its Spirit Race footholds with five Spirit Transformation cultivators and eighty Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Shi Jian learned that the Spirit Race's forces were led by Bi Luo, a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator, and included two Middle Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Shan Yue set the campaign's start for three months later and said its central objective was to discover Bailu Lingyuan's whereabouts and kill him.

Shi Jian led a demon army into the Spirit Marsh Plains to dismantle the Spirit Race’s network of strongholds, beginning with its lightly defended southern outpost. After destroying the outpost, he ordered the army to continue north toward the next stronghold.

• Shi Jian showed the Ape Emperor Clan, Kui Lang Imperial Clan, and Lightning Beast Imperial Clan representatives his deployment plan, then led the assembled army aboard five white-bone warships.
• Shi Jian chose the southernmost Spirit Race outpost as the first target so he could test how quickly the Spirit Race would respond.
• Shi Jian ordered Golden Core Demon Beasts to attack the outpost’s perimeter while Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators charged the warships’ rune arrays.
• The warships’ volleys shattered the vine fortress, and Nascent Soul Demon Kings and Cang Wuji killed its two Nascent Soul defenders.
• Shi Jian ordered the warships to adjust formation and push north toward the next stronghold before dawn.

Shi Jian destroyed three Spirit Race outposts, then lured their main force to a marsh battlefield where the Beast Realm’s warships could support his troops. As he fought Bi Luo, the Spirit Race commander crushed an emerald jade talisman and unleashed a vastly greater Life Dao aura from deep within the Marsh Plains.

• Shi Jian led the five white-bone warships in destroying three Spirit Race outposts and deliberately let one Nascent Soul cultivator escape to warn the core stronghold.
• Shi Jian halted the fleet over the marsh’s open waters, arranged the warships in a formation, and prepared to draw the Spirit Race into battle there.
• On the eighth day, Bi Luo arrived with dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators and two other Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Shi Jian assigned his allies to meet them.
• Bi Luo attacked the warships with giant emerald vines as the Spirit Race cultivators launched a simultaneous assault, but the warships’ profound light disrupted their formation.
• Shi Jian transformed and engaged Bi Luo with his lightning spear while Yuan Chong, Lang Xin, and Cang Wuji fought elsewhere on the battlefield.
• Bi Luo crushed an emerald jade talisman, releasing a Life Dao aura from deep within the Marsh Plains that surpassed his own.

Shi Jian and Cang Wuji fought the Spirit Race’s Late Spirit Transformation cultivators as the Beast Realm gained the upper hand across the marsh plains. Shi Jian wounded Bi Luo and used the Xu Yan Ring to counter his techniques, but Bi Luo drew on a greater power as the battle continued.

• An unseen Spirit Race Late Spirit Transformation cultivator emerged from an emerald pillar of light, and Cang Wuji engaged him with the Bone-Splitting Axe.
• Shi Jian used the Xu Yan Ring to redirect Bi Luo’s attack and send a lightning spear through a spatial rift, then struck Bi Luo with a lightning-infused fist.
• Bi Luo unleashed decaying vines that injured Shi Jian, but Shi Jian retreated under the warships’ arcane fire and pierced Bi Luo’s shoulder with another lightning spear.
• Shi Jian assessed Bi Luo’s abilities as their Dao resonances grew more synchronized, while the Beast Realm forces gained the advantage on the other battlefields.
• Bi Luo ignored Shi Jian’s challenge and gathered Fate-Wielding Dao resonance as a greater Life Dao presence began to build beneath the marsh plains.

Bi Luo used the Spirit Race’s grand formation to reach Perfected Spirit Transformation and nearly killed Shi Jian, but Cang Wuji intervened and struck back. Bi Luo lost the formation’s power and fled, while Cang Wuji returned to help Shi Jian suppress the corrosive wound.

• Bi Luo drained the Spirit Marsh Plains through a grand formation, raising his cultivation to Perfected Spirit Transformation and badly injuring Shi Jian with a palm strike.
• Cang Wuji rescued Shi Jian, then killed the Late Spirit Transformation Spirit Race cultivator with one blow from the Bone-Splitting Axe.
• Cang Wuji wounded Bi Luo and disrupted his control as the grand formation’s power failed, forcing Bi Luo back to three perfected Immortal Foundations.
• Bi Luo used a jade talisman to flee into an underwater river, and Cang Wuji stopped pursuing him because the river’s lingering formation resonance made entry dangerous.
• Cang Wuji returned to Shi Jian and used Barbarian Bone Dao resonance to suppress the saprophytic power in his wounds.

After Bi Luo and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators fled, Shi Jian’s forces crushed the remaining Spirit Race troops and secured a decisive victory in the Spirit Marsh Plains. Shi Jian then inspected the captured core fortress and realized the Spirit Race had been building a lasting foothold in the Dao Realm.

• Bi Luo and two Middle Spirit Transformation cultivators escaped, and Shi Jian ordered the Beast Realm forces to pursue the fleeing Spirit Race troops.
• The Beast Realm forces hunted down the Spirit Race across the marshes, killing more than a hundred Golden Core cultivators and thirty-seven Nascent Soul cultivators while capturing four.
• Cang Wuji explained that Bi Luo’s vitality-draining formation could not be sustained, and Shi Jian said his injuries would require half a year to heal.
• After several days of pursuit, Shi Jian reviewed the casualties and judged the battle a great victory, with the Spirit Race losing a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator and the Beast Realm gaining the Spirit Marsh Plains.
• Shi Jian ordered his forces to clear the remaining strongholds and dismantle the Spirit Race’s formations and mapped underwater passages.
• Shi Jian and Cang Wuji entered the enormous core fortress, where Shi Jian saw that the Spirit Race had prepared to establish a lasting enclave in the Dao Realm.

Shi Jian completed the defenses of the Spirit Marsh Plains after driving out the Spirit Race, and reinforcements from the Sha Tiger and Black Eagle Imperial Clans arrived to strengthen the garrison. The Beast Realm secured the Plains as a forward foothold, but Bailu Lingyuan remained missing and the war was far from over.

• Shi Jian established three restrictions across the Spirit Marsh Plains and stationed cultivators to guard its Spirit Veins and perimeter.
• Six Spirit Transformation experts arrived: Hu Rong and two Sha Tiger Imperial Clan members, along with Diao Heng and two Black Eagle Imperial Clan members.
• Shi Jian welcomed Hu Rong and Diao Heng, who took command of the eastern and western flanks while his forces held the center.
• The garrison grew to eleven Spirit Transformation experts, backed by over a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators and several thousand Golden Core cultivators.
• Shi Jian reflected that the battle had strengthened his Righteous Yang Lightning and could help him advance to Late Spirit Transformation.
• Shi Jian recognized that Bailu Lingyuan, a Perfected Spirit Transformation expert with four Treasured Earth Immortal Foundations, was still unaccounted for and resolved that the Beast Realm must keep pressuring the Spirit Race.

Three Spirit Race Dao Venerables and more than seventy Spirit Transformation cultivators arrived in the Dao Realm, where the Immortality Dao Venerable outlined a plan to expand around the Spirit Marsh Plains rather than attack the Beast Realm directly. The Spirit Race prepared to seize territory from nearby clans and eventually encircle the Marsh Plains, setting the stage for a full-scale war.

• The Immortality, Decay, and Dharma Breaking Dao Venerables emerged from the realm passage at the Spirit Race stronghold, followed by more than seventy Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The Immortality Dao Venerable questioned Bi Luo about losing the Spirit Marsh Plains, and he accepted responsibility for the defeat.
• The Immortality Dao Venerable surveyed the Beast Realm's defenses in the Marsh Plains, while the Decay Dao Venerable noted that Feng Yue intended to block the Spirit Race's northward advance.
• The Decay Dao Venerable proposed that Spirit Race divisions expand east, west, and south by annexing nearby clans and taking their Spirit Veins.
• Bi Luo understood that the Spirit Race planned to surround the Marsh Plains over time, bringing the Spirit Race and Beast Realm toward a full-scale war in the Dao Realm.

The Eight Clans of the Dao Realm agreed to withdraw from the coming conflict between the Beast Realm and the Spirit Race, abandoning central territory to preserve their clans. Meanwhile, the Spirit Race rapidly expanded through the south by forcing small clans to surrender or destroying them.

• Cloud Transformation Dao Venerable described the forces gathering in the Dao Realm and warned that the eight clans faced the Beast Realm in the north and the Spirit Race in the south.
• Cloud Transformation Dao Venerable urged the eight clans to retreat east and west from the Spirit Marsh Plains, and the Dao Venerables agreed to avoid the conflict.
• Immortality Dao Venerable's Dao might helped the Spirit Race intimidate the southern clans as its forces began expanding from their stronghold.
• The Spirit Race forced a small savage beast clan to surrender its inheritance, spiritual items, and most of its Spirit Stones, while absorbing its Golden Core cultivators into auxiliary ranks.
• Over the next few months, the Spirit Race subdued or destroyed most small and midsized clans south of the Marsh Plains, and blocked fleeing clans from escaping north.

The Beast Realm and Spirit Race mobilized for war over the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit, building opposing lines of fortified passes as their Dao Venerables met in Heaven Beyond Heaven. With the higher powers occupied keeping one another in check, Shan Yue put Barbarian Bone Pass on alert as the Spirit Race prepared to probe its defenses.

• The six imperial clans opened spatial passages and sent their forces toward the Marsh Plains, where Shan Yue revealed he had reached Perfected Spirit Transformation.
• The Beast Realm built seven fortified passes, and Shan Yue took command of Barbarian Bone Pass with Shi Jian and Cang Wuji coordinating its defenses.
• Shan Yue told the assembled cultivators that Barbarian Bone Pass must hold and ordered the Giant Bear Clan to fight until the end.
• Earth Virtue Dao Venerable, Ancestor Egu, and Ultimate Dao of Strength Venerable faced the Spirit Race's three Dao Venerables before withdrawing to Heaven Beyond Heaven to keep each other occupied.
• Shan Yue ordered Barbarian Bone Pass to full alert, while Shi Jian felt the battlefield accelerating the formation of his Righteous Yang Lightning.

The Spirit Race attacked Barbarian Bone Pass, sending minor-race cultivators into a deadly vanguard before Bi Luo led twenty-three Spirit Transformation cultivators against the fortress. Shan Yue repelled their combined assault while Shi Jian killed one of their cultivators, but Bi Luo summoned five reinforcements as the battle continued.

• Shan Yue activated Barbarian Bone Pass’s defenses and ordered its warships and cultivators to attack the minor-race vanguard, which the Spirit Race drove forward despite heavy losses.
• Bi Luo led twenty-three Spirit Transformation cultivators out of the emerald clouds and attacked Barbarian Bone Pass.
• Shan Yue stopped the combined assault with a single strike, while Shi Jian wounded Bi Luo and Cang Wuji knocked back two Late Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Shi Jian used lightning and the Xu Yan Ring’s Space Dao essence to kill a Middle Spirit Transformation Spirit Race cultivator.
• Bi Luo summoned another five Spirit Transformation cultivators as reinforcements arrived from the southern horizon.

The Spirit Race reinforcements arrived at Barbarian Bone Pass, and Shan Yue, Shi Jian, and Cang Wuji met their assault. The battle spread into separate fights, with Shi Jian facing two Late Spirit Transformation cultivators and Cang Wuji drawing five Middle Spirit Transformation cultivators.

• Five Spirit Race reinforcements led by a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator arrived, bringing the enemy force to twenty-seven cultivators.
• Shan Yue unleashed his perfected Earth Dao might and struck down the Spirit Race’s combined attack, forcing Bi Luo and the others back.
• Bi Luo ordered the Spirit Race cultivators to scatter around Barbarian Bone Pass and attack from every direction.
• Shi Jian charged Bi Luo with a lightning spear, then trapped him with the Xu Yan Ring before a newly arrived Late Spirit Transformation cultivator deflected the attack.
• Bi Luo and the new Late Spirit Transformation cultivator joined forces against Shi Jian as his third Immortal Foundation solidified under pressure.
• Cang Wuji shattered the vine shield of three Middle Spirit Transformation cultivators, then prepared to fight five after two more arrived.

The Giant Bear Race and the Spirit Race fought fiercely at Barbarian Bone Pass as Shan Yue and Shi Jian battled the Spirit Race’s strongest experts. After Bi Luo called upon the Immortality Dao Venerable’s projected might, Shi Jian’s lightning attack gravely wounded him, and the Spirit Race’s morale collapsed as the battle continued.

• Cang Wuji, Shan Yue, Shi Jian, and the other Giant Bear Race experts engaged the Spirit Race forces across the battlefield.
• Shan Yue used his four perfected foundations to slow eight Spirit Race experts, injure them with Earth Dao attacks, and pierce a Late Spirit Transformation expert with a stone spear.
• Shi Jian fought Bi Luo and another Late Spirit Transformation expert, using the Xu Yan Ring to evade attacks and lightning spears to wound Bi Luo.
• Bi Luo healed himself with the great formation’s power, then crushed a talisman that brought forth a projection of the Immortality Dao Venerable’s might.
• Under the pressure of the projected might, Shi Jian’s embryonic Righteous Yang Lightning foundation solidified, and his lightning attack pierced Bi Luo and destroyed his internal organs.
• After the Dao Venerable’s might withdrew, the Spirit Race’s morale faltered, while Shan Yue urged his allies onward and the bone warships fired on the enemy.

After Bi Luo fell, the Spirit Race army began to retreat, but its Spirit Transformation cultivators turned back with Dao Venerable contingencies and caught the pursuing Giant Bear cultivators in a dangerous counterattack. Shan Yue, Cang Wuji, and Shi Jian fought to stabilize the battlefield as the Spirit Race renewed its strength with a blood-red talisman.

• Bi Luo fell into the marsh with grievous injuries, and Shan Yue ordered the Giant Bear army to pursue the retreating Spirit Race forces.
• Cang Wuji and Shi Jian chased the fleeing Spirit Transformation cultivators while the Giant Bear fighters inflicted heavy losses on them.
• A Late Spirit Transformation cultivator crushed an emerald jade talisman, and three others revealed powerful treasures as the Spirit Race turned to fight.
• The Spirit Race's treasures healed and strengthened its cultivators and slowed the Giant Bear pursuers, while Shi Jian wounded the wielder of the corrosive saber with Righteous Yang Lightning.
• Shan Yue manifested his mountain bear form and struck the Spirit Race attackers with a mountain phantom, allowing Cang Wuji and Shi Jian to counterattack.
• The Spirit Race leader crushed a blood-red jade talisman, healing the wounded Spirit Race cultivators and filling them with battle madness.