Recaps

Li Fan set aside his Primordial Chaos Art preparations to help Li Mingxi develop his Realm of Supreme Yang Illuminating the World. He showed Li Mingxi how to make the inner space self-sustaining, and Li Mingxi stayed to study the techniques he would need.

• Li Fan read the Primordial Chaos Root-Altering and Nature-Refining Blood Qi Spirit Art and decided to call it the Primordial Chaos Art.
• Li Mingxi visited Li Fan and presented his initial design for a light-and-heat-based Realm of Supreme Yang Illuminating the World.
• Li Fan explained that the realm needed a self-sustaining system and demonstrated how it could expand uncontrollably and collapse into a black hole without one.
• Li Fan stabilized the realm by adding a Supreme Yang spiritual plant, Supreme Yang light spirits, void spirits, and a great array as starting points for its development.
• Li Mingxi realized he needed to learn about spiritual plants, spiritual beasts, and arrays, and stayed to study introductory techniques.

Li Fan cultivated blood-qi spiritual plants and expanded his Blood Star Space while considering its limits. After watching the Thousand Mountains Great River, he suddenly comprehended its flowing power and strengthened his body, then shared a spiritual fruit with Li Mingxi.

• Li Fan planted blood-qi spiritual plants around Hot Spring Mountain and used a Qi Refining Perfection clone to reshape the terrain and earth veins for blood-qi circulation.
• Li Fan considered the limited capacity of the Blood Star Space and explained how its core and spatial layers supported its growth and living things.
• Li Fan watched the Thousand Mountains Great River and realized how flowing water could exert endless force, inspiring him to envision his Black Blood True Power as a surging blood river.
• Li Fan entered sudden enlightenment, causing his blood qi to surge through his body and strengthen his physique to the level of a Middle Realm Dao Foundation Human Immortal body refiner.
• Li Mingxi praised Li Fan's comprehension, and Li Fan gave him a blood-qi spiritual fruit that replenished their spirituality.

Li Fan inspected the Blood Qi transformation of Hot Spring Mountain and helped Li Mingxi develop a plan for his Supreme Yang inner landscape. Their discussion was interrupted by Zhang Longhu and Xu Xuan, whose elaborate inner landscapes left Li Mingxi feeling outmatched.

• Li Fan showed Li Mingxi the Blood Spirit Dawn Radiance Fruit and the Blood Qi changes spreading through Hot Spring Mountain.
• Li Mingxi outlined plans for his Supreme Yang inner landscape, and Li Fan suggested adding Supreme Yang wells or abysses to manage energy.
• Li Mingxi chose the Bright Light aspect of the Supreme Yang Dao and planned to use Bright Light Supreme Yang Qi as his core.
• Li Fan sensed visitors at the mountain-guarding grand formation and admitted Zhang Longhu and Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan showed the group his Realm of the Thunder Pool and Divine Mountain, prompting Li Mingxi to lament the gap between them.

Li Fan advised Xu Xuan on completing his [Thunder Ancestor Dao Scene] and learned how Zhang Longhu's [Realm of the True Altar Guarding the One] used True Qi to create a world. He then explained the risks and method of blood-sacrificing a spatial core as the group prepared to open their inner scene spaces.

• Li Fan told Xu Xuan to add Thunder Qi spirit plants and a control array to the [Thunder Ancestor Dao Scene].
• Li Fan examined Zhang Longhu's [Realm of the True Altar Guarding the One] and admitted he could not offer useful advice.
• Zhang Longhu explained how the Ancestral Altar of Ten Thousand Dharmas refined the truth within living beings to produce True Qi and expand his world.
• Li Fan warned the group that damage to a blood-sacrificed inner scene could cripple their cultivation and explained how to refine and control a spatial core.
• Xu Xuan and Zhang Longhu confirmed that blood sacrifice required the Blood Qi Dao's witness, and the group discussed their initial plans for opening their inner scene spaces.

Li Fan completed the Heaven-Mixing Environment and began cultivating the Primordial Chaos Root-Changing Nature-Refining Blood Qi Spirit Art. After transforming himself into chaos-blood qi, he began the process of refining it into Innate Blood Qi, while four spirit objects melted above the chaotic world.

• Jiang Wendao presented his Realm of the Serene Spirit World, and he and Zhang Longhu discussed its merits with Li Fan.
• Li Fan received the spirit objects and materials, then built the Heaven-Mixing Environment in Blood Star Hall by refining the Five Elements into Yin and Yang and then Chaos Qi.
• Li Fan performed the Chaos-Borrowing Sacrificial Rite and isolated four spirit objects from the Chaos Qi.
• Li Fan transformed his nature and life into Blood Qi, which merged with the Chaos Qi jade and burst into chaos-blood qi.
• The grand array compressed the chaotic world, drawing the chaos-blood qi toward the state of Chaos Qi as the four spirit objects slowly melted.

Li Fan refined the [Innate One-Nature Purple True Clear Yang Blood Qi], strengthening his Blood Nature and accelerating his cultivation while helping four companions open their inner spaces. Nearly four years later, Hot Spring Mountain manifested a [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene], and Li Fan prepared to refine it.

• Li Fan merged four spiritual objects into [Innate Blood Qi] and gained the [Purple True Clear Yang] Blood Nature, which combined their powers and raised his Blood Qi magic power to level 2.
• Li Fan tested his new Blood Nature on Blood Qi Dao spirit beasts, then replaced the Blood Qi within the Blood Palace with his new power.
• Zhang Longhu, Jiang Wendao, Xu Xuan, and Li Mingxi completed their inner spaces, which ranged from about twenty to forty li, and shared their gains with Li Fan.
• Li Fan spent three years cultivating until his magic power neared the limit of level 2, while his Blood Star Space expanded to a radius of 160 li.
• Hot Spring Mountain transformed and displayed a [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene], and Li Fan rejoiced that he could finally harvest and refine his first mysterious scene.

Li Fan refined the [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene] and the [Spring Mountain Mystic Scene] into the [Venerable Blood Palace], then traveled to [Heavenly River Star] to research spiritual plants and gather more mysterious scenes. On the Yellow Springs Continent, Liu Wuxin escorted him toward [Stream Ravine Mountain] and began explaining the local rules.

• Li Fan refined the [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene], gaining temporary access to the mysteries of sacrificed Dao Foundations.
• Li Fan refined the [Spring Mountain Mystic Scene] and learned that it embodied Hot Spring Mountain’s nourishing blood springs.
• After discovering he could not enter the Hundred Mountains Contest again, Li Fan applied to research spiritual plants at the intersection of Blood Qi Dao and other Dao lineages.
• Li Fan traveled from [Heavenly Immortal Star] to [Heavenly River Star] and chose to begin his research on the Yellow Springs Continent.
• Li Fan met Liu Wuxin, a captain of the river patrol water-soldier squad, who agreed to guide him to [Stream Ravine Mountain] and warned him to follow the local rules.

Li Fan settled on Stream Ravine Mountain in the Yellow Springs Continent and used the Venerable Blood Palace to transform its deadly environment while cultivating spirit plants suited to its yin-death energies. Two years later, the mountain had become blood-red, its planted trees were mutating, and strange forces continued attacking its protective array from the Yellow Springs streams.

• Liu Wuxin warned Li Fan to avoid the Yellow Springs Rivers and handed him the token controlling Stream Ravine Mountain’s mountain-guarding array.
• Li Fan inspected the empty mountain and established the Venerable Blood Palace, which transformed Yellow Springs Spiritual Qi into Blood Spiritual Primordial Qi and Blood Springs Spiritual Qi.
• Li Fan planted a Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant in a mountain stream and began cultivating Blood Birch Soul-Gathering Thousand-Banner Tree seedlings in areas rich with yin-death soul power.
• Li Fan watched the Yellow Springs streams turn red and yellow as unidentified things struck the mountain-guarding array from downstream.
• After two years, Stream Ravine Mountain had become a blood-red mountain, and its banner trees were growing and mutating.

Li Fan cultivated Blood Soul Banner Trees that could purify the Yellow Springs’ yin death soul power, then began harvesting the [Soul Creek Mystic Scenery]. When a Yellow Springs Water Ghost attacked his mountain array, Liu Wuxin warned him of its danger, and Li Fan turned to the mutated [Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant] for help.

• Li Fan cultivated a [Blood Soul Yin Banner Tree] that produced yin-soul fruit, then developed a [Blood Soul Banner Tree] that could infuse yin death soul power with a trace of vitality.
• [Stream Ravine Mountain] formed the [Soul Creek Mystic Scenery], and Li Fan began harvesting and refining it with his [Venerable Blood Palace].
• A giant figure in a bamboo hat attacked the mountain-guarding array and severed part of Li Fan’s spiritual sense when he probed it.
• Li Fan summoned Liu Wuxin, who identified the attacker as a Yellow Springs Water Ghost and warned that it could possess living people and return to life through them.
• Li Fan put away his spirit plants and noticed the [Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant] devouring soul shadows before returning to the Yellow Springs stream to fish; he connected with it using the [Blood Spirit Plant-Control and Artifact-Forging Technique].

Li Fan transformed the Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant into the [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia], a spirit plant weapon specialized in consuming souls and ghosts. After the river patrol sailors arrived and weakened the Yellow Springs water ghost, Li Fan used the rafflesia to devour it, then thanked the sailors with spirit wine before they departed.

• Li Fan nurtured the Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant and reshaped it into a jar-like weapon with stronger devouring power, naming it [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia].
• Three days later, Liu Wuxin and two other river patrol sailors arrived and blocked the Yellow Springs water ghost outside the mountain-guarding formation.
• Li Fan opened a small gap in the formation and sent out the [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia] to attack the water ghost as the sailors struck and restrained it with their ghost-beating whips.
• The [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia] devoured the Yellow Springs water ghost completely, demonstrating its [Devour Souls and Transform into Ghosts] ability.
• Li Fan gave each river patrol sailor a bottle of [Yin Blood Spirit Wine], then returned the rafflesia to [Stream Ravine Mountain] and watched the sailors leave.

Li Fan finished refining the Soul Creek Mystic Scenery, then traveled to Forest Star to take control of Pink Peach Mountain for his Blood Qi cultivation research. He began surveying its peach spirit plants and prepared to transform the mountain.

• Li Fan refined the Soul Creek Mystic Scenery, bringing his mana to level 3 completion and forming a blood soul creek in Blood Star Space.
• Li Fan left Heavenly River Star and headed for Forest Star to develop a spirit mountain.
• Chunhua told Li Fan that his application had been approved and led him through the Hundred Thousand Mountain Forests.
• Chunhua explained that Qingshan oversaw the forests while seeking to use their Qi Destiny to break through to the Purple Mansion.
• Li Fan received the token for Pink Peach Mountain, refined it, and took control of its mountain-guarding formation.
• Li Fan surveyed the peach spirit plants, then landed the Venerable Blood Palace on the summit and began spreading Blood Qi across the mountain.

After a thousand years of peace for the five human races, the Earth Ghost Dao and Beast Clan Alliance escalated their war, threatening human territory. Wang An sent Lu Tianxin with the flying sword Ruin Slaughter to the Starry Sky Magic Great Wall, where she prepared to confront the approaching Ghost Lords.

• Wang An reviewed the worsening conflict between the Earth Ghost Dao and Beast Clan Alliance, which had begun threatening the Gold Human Race and Silver Human Race.
• Wang An sent Lu Tianxin to defend the five human races and gave her the spirit-treasure flying sword Ruin Slaughter.
• Wang An told Chen Tianping and Ye Tianli that Dao Realm experts were testing the human races, but that they had means to resist them.
• Lu Tianxin reached the Starry Sky Magic Great Wall and told the Eternal Dharma King she had come to exterminate the invading demons.
• Lu Tianxin saw the Terror Dragon King and three other Dragon Kings fleeing from six Earth Ghost Dao Ghost Lords, while Ruin Slaughter dispersed the pressure of their approaching battle.