Recaps

Shen Yue endured his Spiritual Connection tribulation by uniting himself with the immortal mountain, then used Invoke Saint to make the final Thunder and Fire Tribulation explode before it could strike. After he reached the Spiritual Connection Realm, Yang Lingrui, his companions, and the Yang Clan cultivators congratulated him.

• Shen Yue calmly faced the Lightning Tribulation as Yang Lingrui shielded Yang Lingqing and Chen Huaien nearby.
• Shen Yue endured the first eight tribulations by fusing the bearing of his green mountain with the immortal mountain beneath him.
• As the ninth tribulation transformed into Thunder and Fire, Shen Yue told Yang Lingrui there was no need to retreat.
• Shen Yue invoked the saints of old and shouted “Retreat!”, causing the Thunder and Fire Tribulation to explode before it descended.
• Yang Lingrui, Yang Lingqing, Chen Huaien, and the Yang Clan cultivators congratulated Shen Yue on attaining Spiritual Connection, and Shen Yue returned their salute.

After Su Dingcang left the Northwest for the Central Region, the True Intent factions suspected he was seeking revenge and the Yang Clan learned of the situation from Jia Huarai. Yang Lingqing decided to wait half a year before acting, giving Chen Yang time to reach True Intent.

• Shen Yue consolidated his Spiritual Connection cultivation, sparred with Yang Yuanhong and Lin Qiao, then traveled east with Yang Lingrui.
• Northwest True Intent Cultivators detected Su Dingcang’s aura heading toward the Central Region and speculated that he was driven by anger rather than treasure-hunting.
• Huo Yuan proposed monitoring the Su Family and sending Jia Huarai to consult the Yang Clan.
• Jia Huarai entered the Yang Family Sacred Land and told Yang Lingqing and Yang Yuanhong about Su Dingcang’s departure and the Northwest factions’ discussion.
• Yang Lingqing asked whether several True Intent Cultivators could break the Su Family’s formation, then chose to wait half a year before deciding what to do.
• Yang Lingqing set the delay to allow time for Xue Qingluan’s breakthrough and for Chen Yang to advance to True Intent.

Three sect disciples hunted a wounded tiger demon deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where their Senior Brother used its blood scent to lure in more prey. After killing a wolf demon and capturing the tiger demon’s Primordial Spirit, the group decided to remain in the mountains for five more days.

• The Senior Brother led his Junior Brother and Junior Sister in pursuing an injured tiger demon for half a month into the inner region of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• The Senior Brother told his companions to wait two days for the weakened tiger demon to tire further, while the wounded beast’s scent attracted a wolf demon.
• The Senior Brother killed the wolf demon with a swift strike of Sword Qi and captured its Primordial Spirit.
• The tiger demon fled with its Primordial Spirit as it neared death, but the Senior Brother sucked it into a gourd.
• The three disciples chose to stay in the mountains for five more days to hunt additional Demon Beasts.

A Rock Snake Great Demon ambushed three cultivators who had come to collect demon corpses, overwhelming the leading sword cultivator and his two disciples. As the Senior Brother tried to escape with his Primordial Spirit, the Rock Snake trapped it and began dragging it into its mouth.

• After scouting the valley and finding no other Demon Beast activity, the three cultivators entered to retrieve the corpses.
• A Rock Snake Great Demon burst from the ground and bit the leading Senior Brother, while its stone spikes wounded the other two disciples.
• The Senior Brother summoned his incarnation to help his disciples escape, but the Rock Snake dispersed his Sword Qi with poisonous green smoke.
• The Senior Brother escaped the Rock Snake's jaws at the cost of both legs, then was poisoned and smashed against the valley walls.
• The Senior Brother fled with his Primordial Spirit, but a ray of spell light trapped it and pulled it toward the Rock Snake's mouth.

The rock serpent devoured the three sect sword cultivators and three Demon Beasts, then advanced to Spiritual Connection Perfection. Ning Jiu met Yang Lingrui and Shen Yue after they killed it, and challenged Yang Lingrui to a sword test.

• The rock serpent pursued the fleeing sword cultivators, killed them, and swallowed their bodies and Primordial Spirits.
• After devouring three Demon Beasts as well, the rock serpent transformed and reached Spiritual Connection Perfection.
• Yang Lingrui and Shen Yue struck from opposite directions, killing the rock serpent and cutting its body into pieces.
• Ning Jiu arrived and recognized Yang Lingrui and Shen Yue, noting that Yang Lingrui's aura stirred her Sword Heart.
• Ning Jiu greeted the two men and invited Yang Lingrui to test swords with her.

Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu fought a fierce discussion of the Dao while Shen Yue watched, confronting his own weakness and tempering his Dao heart. After their devastating clash, the winds and clouds settled, but neither fighter had shown any intent to hold back.

• Yang Lingrui agreed to test his strength against Ning Jiu, and Shen Yue agreed to bear witness.
• Ning Jiu opened with a powerful sword strike, but Yang Lingrui dodged it easily.
• Watching the battle, Shen Yue accepted his lack of strength, rekindled his fighting spirit, and tempered his Dao heart.
• Yang Lingrui opened the fourth eye of his Life Official Mask as Ning Jiu prepared to use her sixth sword.
• Yang Lingrui's giant axe and Ning Jiu's Frigid River Shattered Shadows collided, flattening the mountain forest below.
• Shen Yue rescued the Rock Serpent's corpse from the aftermath, and the sky fell still after the clash.

After Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu concluded their Dao discussion, they traveled with Shen Yue toward Yanlai City, where Ning Jiu explained why she had let three Meishan disciples die. At the city outskirts, Shen Yue refused to enter with Yang Lingrui, choosing to continue his journey alone so he could seek the Dao without relying on the Yang Clan’s connections or assistance.

• Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu ended their discussion of the Dao in a draw, though both recognized Ning Jiu had held back and Yang Lingrui had reached the peak of the Gold Ranking’s third page.
• Shen Yue gained insight from watching their fight, and the three discovered they were all headed for Yanlai City and traveled together.
• Shen Yue refused to take the Rock Snake Great Demon's corpse, so Yang Lingrui kept it after Ning Jiu deferred the decision to him.
• Shen Yue asked Ning Jiu why she had not saved the three Meishan disciples, and she said their greed, sluggishness, lack of courage, and self-inflicted danger made them unworthy of rescue.
• At Yanlai City's outskirts, Shen Yue declined to enter with Yang Lingrui, saying he needed to pursue the Dao alone and would never catch up if he kept accepting Yang Lingrui's help.

Shen Yue parted ways with Yang Lingrui to pursue his own Dao, while Chen Yang secretly left a protective trace of divine power in Shen Yue’s body. At Yanlai City, Yang Lingrui helped Ning Jiu investigate her missing junior brother and uncovered evidence of a Demon Child’s involvement.

• Shen Yue thanked Yang Lingrui, said they should part ways, and continued east; Yang Lingrui watched him leave, while Chen Yang’s divine power secretly entered Shen Yue’s body.
• Yang Lingrui returned to Yanlai City and told Ning Jiu that Shen Yue had left to seek his Dao; Ning Jiu reconsidered her judgment of Shen Yue.
• A Sun Clan True Intent Cultivator showed Ning Jiu her missing junior brother’s bloodstained broken sword and led her and Yang Lingrui into a preserved section of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Ning Jiu found no clear evidence of what had killed her junior brother, but Yang Lingrui sensed a faint crimson breeze among the stones through the Azure Nether Wind Breath.
• Ning Jiu identified the crimson breeze as remnants of Wind Dao sorcery carrying the aura of a Demon Child.

Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu identified the crimson breeze as the work of a Demon Child from the Vast Sea Demonic Land, whose infiltrators had been sent to gather intelligence, assassinate promising righteous cultivators, and sow discord. They realized the killer had left a broken sword as if deliberately provoking them, and wondered why he had risked exposing himself.

• Yang Lingrui explained that humble-born demonic cultivators usually hid their talent to avoid being exploited or killed by powerful Demon Sect figures.
• Bai Di changed the Demonic Dao by selecting talented cultivators as Demon Children and protecting them, earning their loyalty and strengthening his forces.
• After Chen Yang received the title Divine Descent and righteous Mystic Insight Venerables mobilized, Bai Di sent previously unseen Demon Children into the Central Region to spy, assassinate, and stir up conflict.
• Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu determined that one infiltrated Demon Child had killed Ning Jiu's Junior Brother, a Meishan sword cultivator.
• Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu wondered why the killer had left a broken sword behind and acted so boldly when he should have tried to conceal his identity.

Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu learned that disguised Demon Children had secretly assassinated righteous-path cultivators for years and planned to target the Wind Chasing Ceremony at Unreturning Wind Cave. As Yang Lingrui traveled there to meet the Dao Academy’s agents, a Demon Child prepared to attack two Golden Roll geniuses and hinted at a larger plot.

• The Sun Family True Intent Cultivator told Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu that seven Central Region geniuses had been killed by Demon Children whose disguises and concealment techniques made them difficult to track.
• He explained that the Demon Children had caused conflict among righteous factions and predicted that the wind-path killer would target the Wind Chasing Ceremony.
• Ning Jiu chose to return to Meishan to report her Junior Brother’s death, while Yang Lingrui accepted an immortal boat and set out for Unreturning Wind Cave.
• A Demon Child disguised as a village laborer secretly tended two injured Demon Children and gave them Infant Blood Pills made from newborns’ blood.
• The Demon Child revealed that he had killed a Meishan disciple and planned to target Jiang Yinkong and Yun Xiwu at the Wind Chasing Ceremony.
• He said he would seek a breakthrough in the Wind Cavern and, after returning, join his siblings in carrying out their planned Dragon Slaying Matter.

Cultivators from across the Central Region gathered outside Unreturning Wind Cave for the Wind Chasing Ceremony, where invited factions would enter first to seek wind-path opportunities and ancient treasures. Liu Yanqing recruited Dongfang Yinghao to travel with her and revealed that Yang Lingrui would also attend the ceremony.

• Cultivators from prominent factions gathered at the cloud-sea pavilion outside Unreturning Wind Cave while other factions and rogue cultivators waited for their chance to enter.
• Liu Yanqing searched for Dongfang Yinghao and found him at the pavilion.
• Dongfang Yinghao bragged about his strength, but Liu Yanqing persuaded him to join her by mentioning the Wind Cave Remnants whose locations she had learned.
• Dongfang Yinghao agreed to travel with Liu Yanqing and called her Immortal Maiden Listening Wind.
• Dongfang Yinghao told Liu Yanqing that Yang Lingrui would attend the ceremony, marking his first visit to the Central Region of Canglan.

Yang Lingrui arrived at the Fuyao Sect’s Wind Chasing Ceremony, where the gathered cultivators recognized him as the Azure Wind Mandate Official and a Gold Ranking prodigy. Teng Shechuan challenged him to withstand three moves, while Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong watched from above.

• Liu Yanqing told Dongfang Yinghao that Yang Lingrui had advanced rapidly on the Gold Ranking and would travel with a separate party.
• Yang Lingrui arrived at the pavilions, and the cultivators identified him as the Northwest Yang Clan prodigy known as the Azure Wind Mandate Official.
• Teng Shechuan of Wind Sand Valley greeted Yang Lingrui and proposed a contest in which Yang would try to receive three moves.
• Yang Lingrui accepted Teng Shechuan’s challenge as Yun Xiwu watched and noted his improved wind arts.
• Jiang Yinkong said he dared not calculate Yang Lingrui’s fate because of his strength and connection to Yuan Hong.

Yang Lingrui faced Teng Shechuan’s three killing moves during their dao discussion and effortlessly overcame each one. He left Teng Shechuan’s blood essence and spiritual marrow unharmed, and Teng Shechuan ended the exchange with gratitude and reverence.

• Yang Lingrui casually dispelled Teng Shechuan’s first two spells, including a wind technique that manifested a green-faced Ghost King.
• Teng Shechuan prepared a dangerous third technique using his blood essence and spiritual marrow, while Yun Xiwu stopped Jiang Yinkong and Chu Jingxiao from intervening.
• Yang Lingrui secretly used the Two Forms Divine Wind as Teng Shechuan cast his final spell.
• Yang Lingrui withdrew his defenses, yet Teng Shechuan’s spell burst into dust without injuring him.
• Yang Lingrui returned Teng Shechuan’s blood essence and spiritual marrow in wind balls, and Teng Shechuan bowed and thanked him.

Yang Lingrui defeated Teng Shechuan in their discussion of the Dao and joined Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, and Chi Tian at the cloud-sea pavilion before the Wind Cavern opened. There, Chi Tian questioned him about the Demon Child in Yanlai City, and Yang Lingrui presented evidence linking the suspect to a slain Meishan sword cultivator.

• Yang Lingrui overwhelmed Teng Shechuan, prompting cultivators to speculate that he ranked among the strongest on the Gold Ranking's third page.
• Yang Lingrui arrived at the cloud-sea pavilion, where Yun Xiwu welcomed him and asked him to call her Senior Sister.
• Jiang Yinkong asked Yang Lingrui about Yang Yuanhong and relaxed when he heard the Vaulting Dragon Lord was cultivating smoothly.
• Yang Lingrui sensed unusual power in Chi Tian, and Chen Yang recognized him as the Blood Corpse from the Blood Demon Blessed Land who had advanced to the Spiritual Connection Ninth Layer.
• Chi Tian asked Yang Lingrui about the Demon Child in Yanlai City, and Yang Lingrui confirmed the discovery and showed the group a crimson breeze left at the site where the Demon Child killed a Meishan sword cultivator.

Yun Xiwu planned to lure the Demon Child into an ambush in Unreturning Wind Cave, assigning Yang Lingrui and Chi Tian to draw him toward a hidden site. Yang Lingrui convincingly adopted He Shenglai’s arrogant manner to support their cover.

• Yun Xiwu, Chi Tian, and Jiang Yinkong examined a trace of the Demon Child’s wind art and deduced his strength, his group’s numbers, and their recent movements.
• Yun Xiwu designated herself and Jiang Yinkong as bait, planning to expose flaws and make the Demon Child choose a different target.
• Yun Xiwu assigned Yang Lingrui and Chi Tian to pose as master and servant and lure the Demon Child into one of three undisclosed regions of Unreturning Wind Cave.
• Yang Lingrui instantly imitated He Shenglai’s arrogant demeanor, impressing Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong.
• Yun Xiwu gave Yang Lingrui the map and instructed him to maintain his identity as a prodigy of the Northwest Yang Clan, with Chi Tian as his servant.

Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong discussed Chi Tian’s strength and Yun Xiwu sought advice on increasing her romantic fate with Yang Lingrui. As the Unreturning Wind Cave opened and the cultivators entered, Chen Yang arrived at the Divine Mausoleum and joined Wu Chang, anticipating Ling Rui’s move.

• Yun Xiwu told Jiang Yinkong that Chi Tian had fought Long Yuan, who entered seclusion afterward, and Jiang suspected Chi Tian was exceptionally strong.
• Yun Xiwu asked Jiang Yinkong to calculate her romantic fate with Yang Lingrui, and he revealed a method to strengthen their scant affinity.
• The spatial power at the Unreturning Wind Cave subsided, and Venerable Tian Shuo cleared the remaining fractures and opened its entrance.
• Yang Lingrui entered the Wind Cavern with Yun Xiwu’s group and headed toward the agreed meeting place to wait for Chi Tian.
• Chen Yang was drawn to the Divine Mausoleum, where Wu Chang greeted him, and Chen said Ling Rui’s move would make for a good show.

Wu Chang explained to Chen Yang how the rumored Divine Arrival True Person had prompted the righteous path to encircle the Demon Soil, and confirmed that Bai Di’s Demon Children were a contingency plan. In the Unreturning Wind Cave, Bai Sanli gained the trust of two righteous cultivators and learned where Gold Ranking prodigies had gathered.

• Wu Chang told Chen Yang that the righteous path’s sudden pressure on the Demon Soil followed rumors about the Divine Arrival True Person, and Chen Yang recognized the Demon Children as a contingency prepared by Wu Chang and Bai Di.
• Bai Sanli traveled with two Great Sect disciples in the Unreturning Wind Cave while concealing his Demonic Dao identity and displaying only restrained strength.
• Bai Sanli helped the disciples subdue a purple wind mass, was wounded by their joint attack, and accepted a healing pill and a share of the treasure.
• Bai Sanli asked the disciples about the Gold Ranking prodigies, and they showed him a newly discovered relic where the prodigies were currently gathered.

Bai Sanli killed two Great Sect disciples after they shared directions and a map, then traveled to the Wind Cavern. In the Divine Mausoleum, Chen Yang learned more about Wu Chang’s divine arts and reflected on their contest, while Bai Sanli arrived at a gathering of powerful cultivators and noticed two unfamiliar figures.

• Bai Sanli thanked two Great Sect disciples for their directions and map, then killed them after they parted and absorbed their blood vitality.
• Bai Sanli used the Cleansing Turbidity divine art to conceal himself and traveled toward the Wind Cavern.
• Wu Chang told Chen Yang that he knew several divine arts and could currently use five, and Chen Yang inferred that Wu Chang and Bai Di were awaiting the Demonic Dao’s counterattack.
• Chen Yang considered his contest with Wu Chang and resolved to judge their paths by victory on the board rather than by interfering outside it.
• Bai Sanli reached the gathering at the Wind Cavern, recognized several cultivators, and wondered about a masked cultivator in white and his unremarkable companion.

Bai Sanli entered the hidden inheritance intending to assassinate Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong, but he first searched for wind-path opportunities. Chi Tian then recruited him for a team gathering wind cultivators to open a hidden area near the prodigies, giving Bai Sanli an unsuspected route to his targets.

• Bai Sanli learned that Yang Lingrui had become a powerful Gold Ranking prodigy and considered him a possible assassination target.
• Jiang Yinkong sensed Bai Sanli among the cultivators and warned Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu, who decided to follow their plan and wait for him to reveal a flaw.
• The five True Intent Cultivators opened the spatial fold, and Yun Xiwu and the other cultivators entered the hidden inheritance.
• Bai Sanli searched for wind-path opportunities, obtained two items, and prepared to face seven approaching cultivators led by Chi Tian.
• Chi Tian recruited Bai Sanli into a team that needed twelve accomplished wind cultivators to open a hidden location, and Bai Sanli welcomed the chance to get close to his targets.

Chi Tian brought thirteen wind-path cultivators to the Hidden Treasure Square Stele so Yang Lingrui could test which ten were qualified to help open it. After two candidates failed, Yang Lingrui offered an extra opportunity to the three who lasted the longest, leaving the remaining cultivators focused on the test.

• Chi Tian gathered thirteen wind-path cultivators and brought them to the Hidden Treasure Square Stele, where Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu were waiting.
• Yang Lingrui insulted the candidates, then apologized after Yun Xiwu rebuked him; Bai Sanli judged him to be an arrogant, spoiled prodigy.
• Yang Lingrui gave each candidate a ball of Two Forms Divine Wind to test their mastery, and one cultivator failed after three breaths.
• A second cultivator failed about fifteen breaths later, leaving eleven candidates competing for the ten available places.
• Yang Lingrui promised an additional opportunity to the three candidates who could control their wind balls the longest.

Yang Lingrui screened Wind Dao cultivators by making them maintain wind clusters, then awarded the three who lasted longest before sending ten others to activate the stone stele. Bai Sanli drew Yang Lingrui’s attention with a skillful wind-net technique and explained that his unorthodox training had left his foundation unstable.

• Yang Lingrui’s promise of an additional reward unsettled the cultivators, and two failed to maintain their wind clusters.
• Bai Sanli concealed his true ability while using a wind net to envelop Yang Lingrui’s wind cluster, impressing Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu.
• After the rankings were decided, Yang Lingrui awarded the top three streams of wind breath and gave first place the Wind Cavern treasure Unreturning Wind Breath.
• Yun Xiwu arranged for the ten remaining cultivators to take part in the stone stele opportunity, and Bai Sanli was placed near Yang Lingrui.
• Yang Lingrui told Bai Sanli that his wind-net technique was clever but unstable, and Bai Sanli said his self-taught methods had weakened his foundation.

Bai Sanli concealed his identity while Yang Lingrui questioned him, then the Hidden Treasure Square Stele transported the group into ancient ruins. Separated from the others, Bai Sanli followed Jiang Yinkong to a secluded shrine but sensed a trap and realized his past actions had exposed him.

• Bai Sanli gave Yang Lingrui a prepared account of how he acquired his Wind Dao cultivation method, while Yang Lingrui watched him without strongly suspecting him.
• The Fuyao Sect elders activated the Hidden Treasure Square Stele, which spun out of control and transported the cultivators into a well-preserved ruin.
• The stele scattered the cultivators across three regions, leaving Bai Sanli with Jiang Yinkong and several Wind Dao cultivators.
• After exploring together, the group agreed to search separately, and Bai Sanli concealed his aura and followed Jiang Yinkong to a secluded place of worship.
• Bai Sanli sensed something was wrong, concluded that the mission had been arranged as bait, and traced his discovery to a broken sword he had failed to destroy after killing a sword cultivator near Yanlai City.

Bai Sanli recognized Jiang Yinkong’s proposal to split up as a trap and avoided the suspicious signs of treasure in the ruins. After returning, he remained concealed, while Yun Xiwu selected five cultivators for further investigation, revealing that she had created the treasure phenomena to lure him out.

• Bai Sanli realized Jiang Yinkong’s unusual proposal to split up could expose him, abandoned his assassination plan, and explored the ruins cautiously with other wind-path cultivators.
• Bai Sanli learned that Yun Xiwu had separated from her companions while Yang Lingrui kept three cultivators close as scouts.
• When a treasure phenomenon appeared, Bai Sanli and another cultivator avoided it, but an elderly cultivator who had missed the Unreturning Wind Breath went to investigate.
• Bai Sanli and his companion avoided later treasure phenomena, gathered lesser wind-path treasures, and were transported out after fifteen days without exposing his identity.
• Two Fuyao Sect elders examined the returning cultivators, then gave the ten wind-path cultivators tokens as rewards for opening the Square Stele.
• Yun Xiwu selected five cultivators, and Bai Sanli learned that she had caused all three treasure phenomena to lure him into a trap.

Yun Xiwu dismissed Yang Lingrui from the group and reclaimed his Azure Wind Token after confronting him about his treatment of other cultivators. After she left, Yang Lingrui tried to recruit the remaining Wind Dao cultivators, while Bai Sanli realized that Yang's behavior had disrupted the Fuyao Sect's screening trap.

• Yun Xiwu told Yang Lingrui to explore the Wind Cavern alone and reclaimed his Azure Wind Token, saying he needed to reflect on his conduct.
• Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, the five Wind Dao cultivators, and the two True Intent Cultivators departed, leaving Yang Lingrui behind.
• Yang Lingrui struck Chi Tian when his attendant tried to speak, then stopped the five Wind Dao cultivators from leaving.
• Yang Lingrui invited the five cultivators to travel with him and testify on his behalf, but three declined and were allowed to leave.
• Bai Sanli realized Yun Xiwu had taken Yang Lingrui's token because his actions had disrupted the Fuyao Sect's demon-catching screening.

Yang Lingrui suspected Bai Sanli of being a Demon Child and kept him close by pretending to invite him on the journey through the Wind Cavern. Bai Sanli accepted, unaware that Yang Lingrui had chosen him as a hidden hook, and the story left them traveling together with the other wind-path cultivator and Chi Tian.

• Yang Lingrui pressured Bai Sanli and the other wind-path cultivator until both agreed to travel with him.
• Yang Lingrui reviewed how his tests and observations had narrowed his suspicions, noting Bai Sanli's sudden change in behavior inside the Square Stele Ruins.
• After leaving the ruins, Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu exchanged information with Jiang Yinkong, revised their list of suspects, and separated the less suspicious people from the two main suspects.
• Yang Lingrui kept Bai Sanli and the other wind-path cultivator with him, while Yun Xiwu took the five people who were less suspicious.
• Yang Lingrui led Chi Tian, Bai Sanli, and the other wind-path cultivator into the Wind Cavern, unaware to Bai Sanli that he was being used as a hidden hook.