Recaps

Yang Lingrui led Chi Tian, Bai Sanli, and another wind-path cultivator into an unmapped region of Unreturning Wind Cave, using his Two Forms Divine Wind to locate a hidden remnant. They entered through a fissure he cut in the fierce-wind barrier, which closed behind them.

• Chi Tian warned Yang Lingrui that the map ended at the fierce-wind barrier, while Bai Sanli secretly planned to kill his companions and take the map.
• Yang Lingrui used his Two Forms Divine Wind to probe the barrier and find the location he remembered from secrets he had uncovered in the Azure Wind Token.
• Chi Tian praised Yang Lingrui and slighted Senior Sister Yun, so Yang Lingrui slapped and rebuked him before the others.
• Yang Lingrui manifested the green-faced Ghost King and used its giant axe to cut a fissure through the barrier.
• Yang Lingrui led the other three into the hidden remnant, and the fissure sealed shut behind them.

Yang Lingrui, Bai Sanli, Chi Tian, and another Wind Dao cultivator discovered and harvested a vast trove of Primal Wind Breath crystals. As they fled the treasure land after Yang Lingrui realized the crystals had supported its ceiling, the space began to collapse, delaying Bai Sanli’s plan to kill the others.

• Yang Lingrui sent Chi Tian to collect a glowing crystal, and Chi Tian shattered the wind blade it unleashed, revealing that the crystals contained high-quality Primal Wind Breath.
• Yang Lingrui, Bai Sanli, and the other Wind Dao cultivator gathered the crystals, with Yang Lingrui claiming most of them as they explored deeper.
• At a spatial rift, Yang Lingrui divided some of his gains between Bai Sanli and the other cultivator before the four headed back.
• Bai Sanli used the Divine Stone to confirm no True Intent Cultivator was present and prepared to attack the others.
• The ceiling began to loosen, and Yang Lingrui used the Two Forms Divine Wind to carry the group toward the entrance, warning that removing the crystals had destabilized the space.

Yang Lingrui exposed Bai Sanli as the hidden wind-method Demon Child and used the collapsing Place of Hidden Treasures to force him to reveal his true strength. Bai Sanli opened a rift in the wind barrier, but a familiar voice warned him there was no way out.

• Yang Lingrui noticed Bai Sanli’s hesitation and recognized that he had been harboring killing intent.
• Yang Lingrui and Chi Tian separated Bai Sanli from the group during the falling boulders, and Bai Sanli struck Chi Tian aside to escape.
• Bai Sanli discovered that Yang Lingrui and the other wind-path cultivator had already left the Place of Hidden Treasures.
• Bai Sanli released his sealed blood qi and used the Blood Fiend Divine Wind to tear open a rift in the wind barrier.
• A familiar yet unfamiliar voice told Bai Sanli there was no way out.

Chi Tian and Yang Lingrui cornered Bai Sanli, who transformed himself into a Blood Fiend tribulation to attack Yang Lingrui. Yang Lingrui challenged him to a Dao struggle to interrupt the transformation, and their contest began in the form of a cricket fight.

• Bai Sanli recognized Chi Tian’s trap, refused his offer to turn from the Demonic Dao, and fought back as Chi Tian attacked him.
• Bai Sanli escaped through a crack in the fierce wind barrier, but Yang Lingrui ambushed him with a life-ending axe strike and joined Chi Tian in suppressing him.
• Bai Sanli dissolved into a blood cloud and began forming a tribulation aimed at Yang Lingrui, prompting Yang Lingrui to propose a dangerous plan to Chi Tian.
• Yang Lingrui dissolved himself into the Two Forms Divine Wind and challenged Bai Sanli to a Dao struggle, which Bai Sanli accepted.
• Inside the Dao struggle, Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli faced off with crickets in a vermilion lacquer basin, naming their fighters the “Yellow Wind Brave” and “Blood Wind Iron Cavalry.”

Bai Sanli and Yang Lingrui competed with crickets while discussing Bai Sanli’s disguise and the lack of a path back to the righteous side. Their contest continued with Yang Lingrui narrowly winning a round before Bai Sanli brought out a stronger insect, as Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, and the others arrived outside the hidden legacy.

• Bai Sanli told Yang Lingrui that Chi Tian had urged him to turn back, and Yang Lingrui explained that Meishan would kill him for his blood debt.
• Bai Sanli and Yang Lingrui drew their first cricket match and began a second round, in which Bai Sanli’s Young Master Wind Come defeated Yang Lingrui’s Savage Wind Madman.
• Bai Sanli asked Yang Lingrui how he had acted so convincingly, and Yang Lingrui explained that Bai Sanli’s disguise faltered because he lacked conviction and did not act as the real Bai Sanli would have.
• Yang Lingrui sent out Thousand Split General, and it narrowly defeated Bai Sanli’s Black Nightmare Wind Demon.
• Bai Sanli began the next round with Blood Sacrifice Demon Child, and Yang Lingrui answered with Sky Severing Swordsman.
• Yun Xiwu, Jiang Yinkong, and the others arrived outside the hidden legacy.

Yun Xiwu and Jiang Yinkong entered the hidden treasury after learning that Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli were locked in a dangerous Dao struggle. Jiang Yinkong began calculating the precise moment to help Yang Lingrui capture Bai Sanli’s Primordial Spirit, while Chi Tian supplied him with qi and blood.

• Yun Xiwu learned that Yang Lingrui had returned to the hidden treasury and that his fate sign was entangled with the demon cultivator’s.
• Yun Xiwu persuaded the Fuyao Sect elders to let her and Jiang Yinkong enter first so they would not alert the demon cultivator.
• After entering, Yun Xiwu heard Chi Tian explain Yang Lingrui’s plan and warned Jiang Yinkong that they had only one chance to act.
• Jiang Yinkong used heavenly calculation to observe the Dao struggle and saw Bai Sanli’s scarlet wind phenomenon gaining the upper hand.
• Jiang Yinkong suffered backlash as he calculated, so Chi Tian channeled his qi and blood into him to help him continue.

Yang Lingrui admitted that he had entered the Dao contention knowing he would lose, while Bai Sanli revealed that his death would trigger a method that killed them both. As the final insect battle reached its climax, Yang Lingrui put on the Life Official Mask and called on Senior Sister Yun to act.

• Blood Fiend Marshal gained the advantage over Two Forms Judge as Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli faced off.
• Yang Lingrui told Bai Sanli that he had known he would lose and had initiated the Dao contention to delay him.
• Bai Sanli said his treasure would self-destruct if it sensed a True Intent Cultivator, killing him and implicating Yang Lingrui.
• Bai Sanli declared that their deaths were inevitable as Two Forms Judge launched its last charge against Blood Fiend Marshal.
• Yang Lingrui produced the Life Official Mask, put it on, and called for Senior Sister Yun to make her move.

Yang Lingrui revealed that his Dao battle had entangled his Primordial Spirit with Bai Sanli's, allowing him to redirect Bai Sanli's self-annihilation art onto himself. Bai Sanli realized too late that he had been deprived even of the death he had chosen.

• Yun Xiwu thrust the Azure Nether Longsword through Yang Lingrui and Bai Sanli, locking their Primordial Spirits together inside the Dao battle.
• Bai Sanli activated his self-annihilation art and watched his physical body disintegrate, confident that his Primordial Spirit would soon perish too.
• Yang Lingrui pointed out that Bai Sanli's Primordial Spirit remained intact because a tiny Azure Nether Wind Breath concealed it from the destructive art.
• Bai Sanli saw that Yang Lingrui had vanished, leaving only the Life Official Mask, and understood that Yang Lingrui had transferred the self-annihilation art onto himself.
• Bai Sanli became afraid when he realized that even his chosen death was no longer within his control.

Bai Sanli discovered that Yang Lingrui’s fused Divine Wind had made him unable to destroy his own Primordial Spirit, and he submitted to the Life Official who appeared through the mask. After the Fuyao Sect captured him, the others found Yang Lingrui’s Primordial Spirit dispersed throughout the hidden realm, and Yun Xiwu said he had sought to prove his Dao.

• Bai Sanli tried to destroy his Primordial Spirit with the newly formed Divine Wind, but the gentle wind strengthened it instead.
• The Life Official appeared beside Bai Sanli, declared mastery over life and death, and received Bai Sanli’s submission.
• Two Fuyao Sect True Intent Cultivators arrived and imprisoned Bai Sanli’s Primordial Spirit in a magic treasure.
• Yun Xiwu protected Yang Lingrui’s body and placed the Life Official Mask over his face.
• A Fuyao Sect elder found Yang Lingrui’s Primordial Spirit dispersed throughout the hidden realm and said he might have completed his Dao.
• Yun Xiwu said Yang Lingrui had entered the Dao struggle to prove his Dao.

Yang Lingrui met the departing True Person Juesheng after achieving the Killing Dao by taking his own life, and assured him that his elders and friends would bring him back. Chen Yang ended his game with Wu Chang and left the Divine Mausoleum; after returning to his Stone Body Clone, he heard Fuyao Sect cultivators object to leaving Qiwu behind for twenty years.

• Yang Lingrui met True Person Juesheng in the pale land, and Juesheng realized that Yang Lingrui had achieved the Dao by killing himself.
• Yang Lingrui told Juesheng he was certain his elders and friends would save him, and Juesheng departed with his obsession fulfilled.
• Chen Yang asked Wu Chang about the game, accepted his sincere admiration, and left the Divine Mausoleum.
• Wu Chang reflected on Yang Lingrui's achievement, bowed toward the Canglan Divine Palace, and left the Divine Mausoleum area.
• Chen Yang returned to his Stone Body Clone and heard two Fuyao Sect True Intent Cultivators protest leaving Qiwu alone for twenty years.

Yun Xiwu chose to remain in the Place of Hidden Treasures for up to twenty years to protect Yang Lingrui and gather his scattered Primordial Spirit. The Fuyao Sect approved her decision, supplied resources and spatial protection, and sealed the realm’s entrances while she began her vigil.

• Yun Xiwu explained that Yang Lingrui needed constant protection and that her Azure Nether Wind Breath gave her the strongest affinity for gathering his Primordial Spirit.
• Yun Xiwu said Yan Qing was better suited to become Chief Disciple, and a Fuyao Sect elder left to seek the Sect Master's decision while Yun Xiwu guarded Yang Lingrui.
• Chi Tian and Jiang Yinkong departed, and Yun Xiwu began gathering Yang Lingrui's Primordial Spirit in the Place of Hidden Treasures.
• The Fuyao Sect elder returned with the Sect Master's approval, a high-grade treasure to stabilize the space, and three spiritual veins to sustain Yun Xiwu and Yang Lingrui.
• The Fuyao Sect cultivators sealed the realm's entrances, leaving Yun Xiwu to remain with Yang Lingrui until his Primordial Spirit could be restored.

The Wind Chasing Ceremony ended, and a grieving Northern Wind Cultivator vowed to make the Fuyao Sect pay for his younger brother’s death. In Unreturning Wind Cave, Chen Yang reflected on Yun Xiwu’s feelings for Yang Lingrui and approved of the two growing closer.

• The Fuyao Sect collected twelve Unreturning Wind Breaths, awarded their owners Wind Dao principles and Fuyao Decrees, and declared the Wind Chasing Ceremony over.
• The Northern Wind Cultivator mourned his younger brother at the Wind Cavern and vowed to make the Fuyao Sect pay for what happened.
• The Northern Wind Cultivator revealed talismanic patterns on his fingers, vanished, and reappeared in a different body with a searing true-fire aura.
• After the Wind Cavern closed, Chen Yang, Yun Xiwu, Yang Lingrui, and Stone Immortal Venerable remained in the Place of Hidden Treasures.
• Chen Yang recalled that Yun Xiwu had feelings for Yang Lingrui and was pleased that she had stayed for twenty years.

Chen Yang welcomed Yun Xiwu’s devotion to Yang Lingrui and used his clone’s time in the Unreturning Wind Cave to study spatial laws. Meanwhile, a month-long aurora disrupted Canglan Continent, and Jiang Yinkong’s calculation ended with a warning that the heavens were about to change.

• Chen Yang decided Yun Xiwu was an ideal match for Yang Lingrui and resolved to grant them a True Intent-grade opportunity once he reached the True Intent Realm.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion announced that Yun Xiwu and Yang Lingrui had remained in the Wind Cavern for twelve years to pursue a major opportunity.
• A month-long aurora covered Canglan Continent, halted the sun-and-moon cycle, and left the great factions unable to contact the Upper Realm or explain the phenomenon.
• Jiang Yinkong used the Yantian Mirror to calculate the cause of the celestial abnormality and collapsed after warning that Azure Waves’s heavens were about to change.

Jiang Yinkong’s divination produced the prophecy “Stone Shatters Heaven Shocks,” which the Yantian Palace Venerables debated without understanding. At Lingxiao Dao Academy, Zhuang Xuanji prepared to ascend to the Void Realm and, after giving her disciples parting instructions and gifts, asked Luo Qianchou about the Upper Realm.

• Jiang Yinkong’s divination caused the Yantian Mirror to reveal the four-character prophecy “Stone Shatters Heaven Shocks.”
• The Yantian Palace Venerables debated whether the prophecy foretold a talented cultivator or an upheaval, then decided to convene the Canglan Righteous Path leaders.
• Zhuang Xuanji summoned Ye Chenfeng, Luo Qianchou, Long Zhu, and Chi Tian and announced she would enter the Void Realm the next day.
• Zhuang Xuanji gave her four disciples guidance and a Magic Treasure Pouch each, then dismissed Ye Chenfeng, Long Zhu, and Chi Tian.
• Zhuang Xuanji manifested before Luo Qianchou and asked the Martial Ancestor what the void Upper Realm was truly like.

Luo Qianchou told Zhuang Xuanji about the Eastern Region and advised her before her journey beyond Canglan. The next day, Zhuang Xuanji ascended to the Void Realm without a tribulation, leaving Canglan’s cultivators in awe.

• Luo Qianchou explained that he had traveled to the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion and revealed his plan to reincarnate and cultivate anew.
• Zhuang Xuanji told Luo Qianchou that the Canglan Immortal Intent had spoken to her, and he advised her about navigating the Void Realm and the domains beyond it.
• Zhuang Xuanji said she would leave Canglan the next day, choosing to leave a little regret behind rather than prolong her stay.
• Luo Qianchou told Zhuang Xuanji to visit the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion after reaching the Void Realm to learn the secret he could not yet reveal.
• Zhuang Xuanji ascended to the Void Realm, and the Mystic Insight Venerables across Canglan watched as she broke through without a tribulation.

After Zhuang Xuanji ascended from the Canglan Continent, the fortune tied to her settled upon Chen Yang and helped him complete his spatial Dao comprehension. Chen Yang broke through to the True Meaning Realm and told Yang Yuanliu that the Su Family’s fruit was ready to be picked.

• The Azure Waves Venerables reflected on Zhuang Xuanji’s departure, while the Canglan Continent faced the changes Jiang Yinkong had predicted.
• Chen Yang received a sudden surge of fortune, and Ku Yun explained that it had likely returned to the world when its former possessor left the continent.
• Chen Yang concluded that Zhuang Xuanji had ascended to the Void Realm and used the fortune to finish comprehending spatial Daoist Magic.
• Chen Yang ended the month-long aurora, broke through to the True Meaning Realm, and received congratulations from the Yang Clan cultivators.
• Chen Yang sent Yang Yuanliu a message that the Su Family’s fruit was ready to be picked.

Chen Yang prepared to take the Su Family’s West Vein Spirit Mine while Su Dingcang was away, and the Yang Clan gathered allies to confront the Su Family. Their move drew the attention of the Northwest’s other powers, who questioned whether the Yang Clan had a just cause to attack.

• Chen Yang planned to exploit Su Dingcang’s departure for the Central Region and seize the Su Family’s West Vein Spirit Mine, while keeping his role in the Su Family’s past disaster hidden from Nangong Jinghe.
• After Yang Yuanliu reported the situation, Murong Zhenlin sent the Tiger Chasing Dynasty’s two True Intent Cultivators to support the Yang Family’s actions.
• The Tiger Chasing Dynasty’s Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai, together with two True Intent Cultivators from the Donglai Sect, arrived above the Su Family’s grand formation without hiding their auras.
• Other Northwest True Intent Cultivators followed the four allies and realized that the Yang Clan was preparing to move against the Su Family.
• The observers worried that an attack without a clear justification would make the other powers fear that the Yang Clan might seize their resources next.

Yang Lingqing arrived with Xue Qingluan and Chen An to address the Yang Clan’s attack on the West Vein Spirit Mine. Backed by Chen An and several Northwest factions, she accused the Su Family of demonic crimes and announced a campaign to eliminate it.

• Duan Yun left the watching factions and joined Huo Yuan and the others, choosing to stand with them before the Yang Clan arrived.
• Yang Lingqing and Xue Qingluan arrived with Chen An, a Central Region cultivator who introduced himself as a Rogue Cultivator repaying a debt to the Yang Clan.
• Chen An yielded the central position to Yang Lingqing, leading the Northwest True Intent Cultivators to suspect he followed the Yang Clan’s command.
• Yang Lingqing handed jade slips to five cultivators and declared that the Yang Clan, Donglai Sect, the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, and Chuyun Pavilion would banish evil and eliminate harm in the Northwest after verifying the Su Family’s demonic crimes.

Yang Lingqing persuaded the Northwest factions to join the assault on the Su Family’s West Vein Spirit Mine, and Chen Yang demonstrated his formidable spatial Daoist Magic against the Su Family’s protective formation. The formation began to collapse, while the Northwest cultivators recognized the Yang Clan’s rising power.

• Yang Lingqing accused the Su Family of blood sacrifice and slaughtering mortals, giving the alliance justification to attack its spirit mine.
• Chen Yang volunteered to lead the assault and displayed spatial Daoist Magic that impressed Huo Yuan, Jia Huarai, and the Donglai Sect cultivators.
• The Yingxian Gate patriarch led the Northwest True Intent Cultivators in approaching Yang Lingqing and pledging their respect to the Yang Family Patriarch.
• Yang Lingqing welcomed the Northwest cultivators with humility and asked for their future assistance.
• Chen Yang formed a True Word Talisman and pressed it against the Su Family’s grand formation.
• Chen Yang commanded the talisman to ignite, and cracks spread across the formation until it neared collapse.

Chen Yang shattered the Su Family’s grand formation, allowing the Northwest cultivators to break it and uncover evidence of the Su Family’s blood sacrifices. They destroyed Su Huayan’s lingering vengeful spirit, leaving the West Vein Su Family finished whether or not Su Dingcang returned.

• Chen Yang damaged the Su Family’s grand formation with a single spell, then let Huo Yuan and the others continue the assault.
• Huo Yuan and four other True Intent Cultivators dismantled the formation in three hours, and the Northwest cultivators erased the released bloody Baleful Intent.
• The cultivators saw the deathly aura in the West Vein Spirit Mine and realized Yang Lingqing’s accusations against Su Dingcang were true.
• Su Huayan’s vengeful spirit emerged from the mine, and the cultivators recognized him as a former Su Family True Intent elder.
• Huo Yuan and the other cultivators attacked and erased Su Huayan’s spirit, then paid their respects as the West Vein Su Family became history.

After the Su Family’s formation fell, Yang Lingqing led the division of its remaining wealth among the allied factions. She left the story with the Yang Clan setting the terms for its growing influence in the Northwest, while Chuyun Pavilion offered to take only whatever remained.

• Yang Lingqing invited Chen An to choose something from the West Vein Spirit Mine, but Chen An declined, citing his debt of gratitude to the Yang Clan.
• Donglai Sect requested the Su Family’s Purple Qi Profound Crystals, and Yang Lingqing granted them after checking that the other factions had no objections.
• Huo Yuan requested a share of the Su Family’s resources, and Yang Lingqing promised that the Yang Clan would make up any shortfall from the mine’s future output.
• Duan Yun said Chuyun Pavilion would wait until the other factions had divided the spoils and then take what remained.
• Yang Lingqing warned Duan Yun that the Yang Clan would claim everything it was entitled to, and Duan Yun accepted that outcome as repayment for the Yang Clan’s past aid.

After the Yang Clan settled the division of the Su Family’s remaining wealth, Chen Yang inspected the depleted West Vein Spirit Mine and revealed a new divine ability. He then used Through the Secluded Path to remove the entire mine and surrounding land, leaving a vast abyss behind.

• Yang Lingqing promised compensation from the West Vein Spirit Mine’s future output to Chuyun Pavilion, and the Western forces entered the mine to inspect it.
• Chen Yang confirmed that the four spirit mine cores remained and explained that his Spirit Gathering ability could restore the mine within five years.
• Chen Yang revealed Through the Secluded Path, which connected the pocket-heaven spaces inside his true body and Stone Body Clones.
• Donglai Sect found the Ziyun Spirit Crystal vein but could not remove it without making it lose its spirituality, while Tiger Chasing found little wealth left behind by Su Dingcang.
• Chen Yang began uprooting the West Vein Spirit Mine, then used Through the Secluded Path to remove it along with the surrounding mountains, rivers, and earth.
• The Northwest True Intent Cultivators watched as the mine disappeared, leaving a deep, pitch-black abyss.

Chen Yang transferred the West Vein Spirit Mine into his spatial treasure, and Yang Lingqing arranged for the Yang Clan to safeguard the Donglai Sect’s Purple Qi Profound Crystal vein. With the Northwest powers gathered, Yang Lingqing led Chen Yang and Xue Qingluan to the Lanyue Sect, where she announced the Northwest Yang Clan’s arrival.

• Shenwu calmed the frightened demons in Chen Yang’s grotto-heaven and inspected its arrays after the secret realms joined around the enormous mineral vein.
• The Northwest True Intent Cultivators praised Chen Yang’s spatial treasure, while Yang Lingqing arranged for the Yang Clan to safeguard the Donglai Sect’s crystal vein until it could be separated.
• Chen Yang and the other cultivators sealed the mine pit, and Yang Lingqing noted that the Lanyue Sect was the only foremost Northwest power yet to arrive.
• Yang Lingqing invited the Northwest cultivators to accompany her to the Lanyue Sect, but had them wait outside its mountain gate while she, Chen Yang, and Xue Qingluan approached.
• Yang Lingqing used Chen Yang’s spatial voice-transmission art to announce that the Northwest Yang Clan had come to call.

Yang Lingqing, Xue Qingluan, and Chen Yang confronted Lanyue Sect, where Chen Yang overwhelmed Yue Wuxiang’s powerful moon technique with one finger. Yang Lingqing revealed that the Yang Clan had come to kill Yue Wuxiang eventually, but for now Xue Qingluan would discuss the Dao with his daughter.

• Ding Xiu and Chang Chengsheng emerged to greet the visitors, but Chen Yang’s True Word Talisman forced them to retreat into Lanyue Sect’s protective formation.
• Chen Yang’s yin lightning clashed with Yue Wuxiang’s Formless Moon Wheel Kill, devastating the surrounding land before Chen Yang erased the technique with one finger.
• Yue Wuxiang appeared and asked whether Yang Lingqing had brought Chen Yang to kill him.
• Yang Lingqing said the Yang Clan did intend to take Yue Wuxiang’s life, but not yet, and explained that Xue Qingluan had come to discuss the Dao with his daughter.

Yang Lingqing challenged Lanyue Sect to a duel to the death between Xue Qingluan and Yue Shuwang, with Tan Qianheng overseeing the fight. When Yue Shuwang appeared, Xue Qingluan sensed that something was wrong with her and demanded to know what Yue Wuxiang had done.

• Yue Wuxiang recognized Xue Qingluan, who reminded him of her former Senior Sister, Yue Shuwang.
• Yang Lingqing proposed a duel to the death over the Dao, declaring that the Northwest needed only one moon-path Heavenly Talent.
• Yue Wuxiang accepted the duel and asked Tan Qianheng to oversee it, with the gathered cultivators as witnesses.
• Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai discussed Yue Wuxiang's confidence, while Chen Yang and Yang Lingqing trusted Xue Qingluan to win.
• Yue Wuxiang summoned Yue Shuwang, and Xue Qingluan sensed that her former Senior Sister had been changed by what Yue Wuxiang did.