Recaps

Yi Xuan used No. 01 and an improved artifact-refining cauldron to turn grenade-making into a booming business, drawing Li Jingming into the venture for funding and protection. While training Liang Shi to help with production, Yi Xuan investigated Rootless cultivation and borrowed the Spirit Refining Instruction, then began considering a 3D printer to expand his workshop.

• Twenty years after losing his heir position and Spirit Root, Yi Xuan sold weapons near Azure Cloud Sect and cultivated in secret, advancing rapidly despite being a Rootless Person.
• Yi Xuan bought a sphere from Shi Zhenghao, used it to boot a computer, and spent years building No. 01 to process the Book of Technology and design devices.
• Yi Xuan demonstrated an air conditioner to Boss Lin and helped him make a deal to share fan profits with rival powers.
• When the sect imposed a rule threatening Yi Xuan’s place, Xiao Anhe explained the Law Enforcement Elder’s history with him, promised to protect Yi Xuan, and entered seclusion.
• After Mu Anqing used one of Yi Xuan’s grenades to help defeat a powerful Demon Beast, demand for grenades surged, and Yi Xuan devised molds and an automated cauldron to increase production.
• Yi Xuan hired Liang Shi to deliver grenades and expanded sales, then persuaded Young Master Li, revealed as Li Jingming, to invest two hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones in production and distribution.
• Yi Xuan visited the Scripture Pavilion to research Rootless People and learned about the Spirit Refining Instruction, a method for cultivating Divine Sense that had never been successfully mastered.
• Yi Xuan borrowed the Spirit Refining Instruction, trained Liang Shi to assemble grenades, and considered making a 3D printer to free his workshop for more production.

Yi Xuan developed Spirit Stone firearms, built a 3D printer and a robot workshop, and found a way to cultivate despite having no Spirit Root. After helping Shi Zhenghao kill the Evil Cultivator with a Barrett, Yi Xuan expanded grenade production and reached the Ninety-Ninth Layer, while Liang Shi discovered the vast underground base.

• Yi Xuan developed Spirit Stone firearms and traveled with Fatty Lin to the capital, where he bought Golden Flame and encountered Yun Shulan, a cultivator who questioned how cultivators treated ordinary people.
• Yi Xuan took Liang Shi as his disciple, had No. 01 teach him, and used Golden Flame to power a 3D printer that produced five Nüwa robots.
• Yi Xuan used No. 01 to simulate a cultivator’s sea of consciousness and optimize the Spirit Refining Decision, then began increasingly long cultivation sessions while Liang Shi advanced to the Qi Refining First Layer.
• Shi Zhenghao arrived wounded after being attacked by an Evil Cultivator, and Yi Xuan built a Barrett so Shi Zhenghao could fight back before reaching the Golden Core Realm.
• Shi Zhenghao used the Barrett to kill the Evil Cultivator from fifty li away, then gave Yi Xuan five blank souls and kept the soul-refining manual for himself.
• Yi Xuan increased grenade production to a thousand a day and advanced to the Ninety-Ninth Layer, while Liang Shi reached the underground base beneath Yi Xuan’s secret chamber.

Yi Xuan helped the Azure Cloud Sect survive the Gazing Immortal Sect’s attack, became its Sect Protector, and built Black Tortoise No. 1. After defeating Zhuo Ning in a challenge at the Origin Return Sect, Yi Xuan recruited him to assist with martial arts research and bound him through the Soul Control Technique.

• Yi Xuan optimized Liang Shi’s cultivation method, then discovered a Spirit Stone mine beneath his Household’s tunnels and reported it to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The Azure Cloud Sect seized the mine, but the Gazing Immortal Sect retaliated by attacking its mountain gate with Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Yi Xuan used Nüwa robots to kill and injure the attackers, and Xiao Anhe emerged from seclusion to drive the Gazing Immortal Sect away.
• The Azure Cloud Sect appointed Yi Xuan as Sect Protector, and he began developing weapons capable of confronting Nascent Soul experts.
• Yi Xuan built and piloted Black Tortoise No. 1, then learned from Xiao Anhe that martial arts could strengthen him despite his lack of a Spirit Root.
• At the Origin Return Sect, Yi Xuan challenged Zhuo Ning and used Black Tortoise No. 1 to defeat him, after which Zhuo Ning declared himself defeated by the sect.
• Yi Xuan invited Zhuo Ning to help with martial arts research, and Zhuo Ning revealed his royal background and offered to let Yi Xuan control his soul.
• Yi Xuan learned the Soul Control Technique from Li Yuntai and used it to bind a piece of Zhuo Ning’s soul.

Yi Xuan inherited the Puppet Technique, used it to build Pangu robots and complete the Firmament, then developed holographic technology and uncovered powerful Spirit Stones. The Azure Cloud Sect chose him to lead nine disciples to the Artifact Ruins, and the group began its journey aboard the Firmament.

• Yi Xuan received the Puppet Technique inheritance from the old supreme elder and, with No. 01, adapted its principles into robotics engineering to design and build Pangu robots.
• Yi Xuan and the Pangu robots assembled the Firmament, which he tested at Mach 9 before using it to bring Shi Zhenghao back to the sect and confine him until he began death seclusion.
• After recognizing Cui Yan’s Imaging Technique as holographic projection, Yi Xuan worked with Mu Anqing to analyze it and built a holographic projection device and responsive virtual-screen bracelet.
• Yi Xuan discovered exceptionally powerful Spirit Stones in the mine, and Xiao Anhe identified two of them as High-Grade and Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Cui Yan told Yi Xuan that the Azure Cloud Sect had chosen him to lead a team into the Artifact Ruins, and Yi Xuan reluctantly accepted and prepared for the expedition.
• Yi Xuan led nine Grain Avoidance Perfection disciples aboard the Firmament toward the Artifact Ruins, while He Hongfei questioned his appointment and Qiao Yu and Yan Siruo defended him.