Recaps

True Person Dayu used [Celebrate Yang's Balance] and [Night Star Fire] to harmonize Li Zhengjun's life foundation with his Bright Yang Dao Path, then gave him a cultivation method. After Yuhong and his companions left, Dayu warned Duan Hongyu against arrogance and assigned her a leading role in the upcoming [Radiant Bright Blessed Land].

• True Person Dayu used spiritual treasures, medicines, and [Celebrate Yang's Balance] to adjust Li Zhengjun's life foundation and strengthen his vitality.
• Li Zhengjun understood that [Night Star Fire] harmonized his body with the Bright Yang Dao Path and would aid him when he forged his Immortal Foundation.
• Dayu gave Li Zhengjun the Rhapsody of Great Bliss in Yin-Yang Coupling, and Yuhong thanked her before leaving with his companions.
• Dayu asked Duan Hongyu what she thought of Li Zhengjun, then teased her about marrying into the Li Household.
• Duan Hongyu rejected the idea and boasted that she would forge an Immortal Foundation, so Dayu cautioned her against arrogance.
• Dayu told Duan Hongyu to complete her alchemy assignments and prepare to shoulder the main burden for her at the [Radiant Bright Blessed Land].

Li Zhengjun tested the Mystic Mirror’s golden hall against Yuhong’s Divine Sense, terrifying Yuhong and confirming that the artifact could suppress the remnant soul inside Ye Xiufan. The Li Household then prepared Li Zhengjun’s plans for Gold-Bearing Mountain and presented him with a pill to hasten his cultivation.

• Yuhong learned that Li Zhengjun’s life foundation and soul had improved, and advised him to prepare for Qi Ingestion and seek the spiritual item at Gold-Bearing Mountain.
• Li Zhengjun activated the Mystic Mirror’s golden hall while Yuhong probed his sea of consciousness, and its overwhelming presence forced Yuhong to flee and left him unable to remember what he had seen.
• Yuhong concluded that the Mystic Mirror could imprison Ye Xiufan’s remnant soul, allowing the Li Household to control both Ye Xiufan’s Dao Path and the soul’s true spirit.
• Li Chenjun gave Li Zhengjun the Frozen Water Surging Waves Subdued Flow Scripture and asked him to guide Ye Xiufan into its Dao Path after Qi Ingestion.
• Li Zhengchen presented the Li Household’s plan to counter the Sun Household at Gold-Bearing Mountain, including Fire Virtue tools and support from Li Huchan and a Spirit Plant farmer.
• Li Zhengchen told Li Zhengjun that the Pill Hall had prepared a Fetal Breath pill to help him reach Embryonic Breathing Perfection.

Li Zhengjun accepted the Li Household’s plan to weaken the Sun Household and used the Scarlet Dawn Inception-Congealing Pills to accelerate his cultivation. After forming his Spirit Primordial Wheel, he prepared to deal with Gold-Bearing Mountain before returning to the Lineage to begin Qi Ingestion cultivation.

• Li Zhengjun accepted the Li Household’s preparations against the Sun Household and received seven bottles of pills to help form his Spirit Primordial Wheel.
• Li Zhengchen proposed exploiting resentment against the Sun Household by supporting Southern Yang of East Cliff Island against Northern Yang, and Li Zhengjun agreed to contact them.
• Li Yuankai told Li Zhengjun that Frozen Water spiritual objects were producing more and Ye Xiufan had begun cultivating and sought to visit Gold-Bearing Mountain.
• Li Zhengjun learned the Sun Household had come to spy on Gold-Bearing Mountain, then entered seclusion and consumed five bottles of Scarlet Dawn Inception-Congealing Pills.
• Li Zhengjun refined the remaining pills, completed his Spirit Primordial Wheel, and planned to deal with Gold-Bearing Mountain before returning to the Lineage to cultivate a Qi Ingestion method.

Li Zhengjun realized his cultivation corresponded to Qi Refinement Twelfth Layer in the Great Scarlet Realm and considered spreading the Yuyu Realm’s cultivation system as a possible achievement. He prepared to return to Gold-Bearing Mountain with two new companions and equipment, while Yuhong gave him a method for altering memories.

• Li Zhengjun noticed his Fetal Breath Sixth Layer corresponded to Qi Refinement Twelfth Layer and wondered whether teaching the Yuyu Realm’s system in the Great Scarlet Realm could count as an achievement.
• After emerging from seclusion, Li Zhengjun learned from Fang Yuan that the Sun Household had arrived in the capital to probe the Li Household’s strength, and he told Hall Master Yuankai to keep them occupied.
• In Chongming Hall, Li Zhengjun met Li Dongsheng and Li Huchan, who had agreed to undertake a dangerous mission in exchange for support for their families.
• Li Zhengchen presented Li Zhengjun with talismans and Law Artifacts prepared for the trip to Gold-Bearing Mountain, and Li Zhengjun said the supplies and his Spirit Primordial Wheel increased his confidence.
• Yuhong gave Li Zhengjun the Soul-Washing Incantation and advised him to use it to alter troublesome opponents’ memories after making them suffer.

Li Zhengjun arrived in the Great Scarlet Realm with Li Huchan and Li Dongsheng, then used Owl to learn about Ye Xiufan’s plans and prepare a way to track the remnant soul. At the Li Household’s cultivation residence, a cultivator named Yang Lei privately approached him with an opportunity.

• Li Zhengjun brought Li Huchan and Li Dongsheng to the Great Scarlet Realm and warned them to control their bloodlust around the Sun Household and the other households.
• Owl told Li Zhengjun that Ye Xiufan had advanced another realm and was seeking a chance to travel to Gold-Bearing Mountain.
• Li Zhengjun explained Ye Xiufan’s Fetal Breath cultivation progress and gave Owl a breathing Mnemonic that would let him track Owl’s location.
• Li Zhengjun entered the Li Household’s cultivation residence with Li Huchan and Li Dongsheng, leaving Owl to continue spying on Ye Xiufan and the remnant soul.
• Yang Lei, a cultivator from the Southern Yang branch on East Cliff Island, privately introduced himself to Li Zhengjun and offered him an opportunity.

Yang Lei of the Southern Yang sought Li Zhengjun’s help in exposing the Sun Household and sabotaging Sun Hongyao’s hunt for the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger. Li Zhengjun declined to sign their complaint but offered evidence and support against the Sun Household, then arrived at a crowded gathering in the main hall as the tiger hunt approached.

• Yang Lei told Li Zhengjun that the Southern Yang wanted to expose the Sun Household’s tribute fraud and prevent Sun Hongyao from obtaining the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger.
• Li Zhengjun refused to sign the document, wary of drawing the Li Household into the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect’s internal affairs.
• Li Zhengjun revealed that the Li Household had independently wiped out the Devil Cultivators of the Ning Kingdom, contradicting the Sun Household’s account of the campaign.
• Li Zhengjun suggested the Sun Household had used the extra tribute to support Sun Hongyao and promised Yang Lei copies of captured spies’ statements.
• Li Zhengjun agreed to do what he could to stop the tiger hunt, and Yang Lei left convinced that he was a good man.
• Li Zhengjun headed to the main hall and found more than sixty cultivators gathered there.

Sun Chengfeng sent Sun Chengling and allied households to Gold-Bearing Mountain, intending to weaken the Li Household and secure a Ginseng-Cloud Tiger for Sun Hongyao’s Foundation Establishment. Li Zhengjun led his people into the mountain with preparations for a confrontation, and the party discovered its spiritual resources were far richer than anyone had expected.

• Sun Chengfeng arranged for Sun Chengling to capture a Ginseng-Cloud Tiger while the Sun Household stirred other households against the Li Household.
• Sun Chengling and representatives of several households gathered at the Li Household and taunted Li Yuankai while waiting for Li Zhengjun.
• Li Zhengjun arrived with Li Huchan and Li Dongsheng, silenced the gathered cultivators with his spiritual pressure, and proposed they hunt the tiger together.
• Li Zhengjun sent Li Yuankai ahead to prepare a formation and brought Ye Xiufan along to help locate spiritual treasures on Gold-Bearing Mountain.
• The group reached Gold-Bearing Mountain and saw its fertile spirit fields and abundant spiritual essence, prompting the other households to resolve to drive the Li Household from Jade Wave Island.

Li Zhengjun used Li Huchan’s tiger form to draw the Sun Household and its allies away, leaving himself behind to deal with the real Ginseng-Cloud Tiger. Ye Xiufan learned of the deception from Jiang Liuyang and continued the chase while waiting for a chance to retrieve the spiritual object.

• Sun Chengling divided the search party across Gold-Bearing Mountain after his tracking method failed to locate the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger.
• Li Zhengjun and Li Huchan found the tiger concealed in the mountain mist, but Li Zhengjun held back because the other groups were nearby.
• Li Zhengjun ordered Li Huchan to transform and lure the searchers toward Jade Wave Pool, where the Li Household had prepared a formation.
• Li Huchan transformed into a tiger and escaped underground, prompting the Sun Household and allied cultivators to chase him while the Li disciples followed.
• Jiang Liuyang told Ye Xiufan that Li Huchan was a decoy and guessed Li Zhengjun planned to kill the real tiger for its demon core, then urged Ye Xiufan to keep pursuing the group.

Sun Chengling realized the tiger was a decoy and returned to the Li Household, while the pursuers entered the Li Household’s formation and attacked. Yang Lei chose to side with the Li Household, and Li Dongping activated the formation as the battle raged.

• Sun Chengling suspected the tiger was not the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger, ordered Sun Ming to continue the pursuit, and quietly returned to the Li Household.
• At Jade Wave Pool, Li Huchan killed a Sun Household cultivator, and Sun Ming urged the pursuers to attack the Li Household.
• Yang Lei decided to support the Li Household and struck a Sun Household cultivator, declaring that he and his allies had come to help.
• Sun Ming rallied the other cultivators against the Li Household and Yang Lei’s group, while the Li Household fought back with Law Artifacts and talismans.
• Li Dongping activated the formation around Jade Wave Pool and declared that he would show the attackers the Li Household’s true foundation.

The Li Household trapped the Sun Household cultivators inside its formation and crushed their assault, revealing that it had anticipated and countered their hidden killing move. With the Sun Household nearly wiped out and the Li Household largely unharmed, Yang Lei realized that switching sides had saved his life.

• Jiang Liuyang saw the Li Household’s formation rise around Jade Wave Pool and chose to leave the battle to pursue treasure with his companions.
• Li Dongping attacked the trapped Sun Household cultivators with the Seven Luminaries Bright-Subduing Profound Light Pagoda while Li Yuankai controlled the formation.
• Sun Ming rallied the Sun Household cultivators to attack, and Li Huchan used earthen walls to trap and slaughter many of their spirit beasts.
• Sun Ming ordered the buried wood spirits to strike, but Li Dongsheng had already killed them all beneath the ground.
• Li Dongping struck Sun Ming down, and the Li Household defeated the remaining Sun Household cultivators with few injuries.
• Yang Lei collapsed in relief, realizing that siding with the Li Household had saved him from the Sun Household’s defeat.

After the Li Household crushed the Sun Household, Yang Lei and the other allied families thanked Li Dongping, who prepared to bring them before Li Zhengjun. Meanwhile, Sun Chengling returned to the mountain and confronted Li Zhengjun over the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger, just as the tiger began to move.

• Yang Lei realized the Li Household had decisively defeated the Sun Household and suspected it was connected to a powerful Foundation Establishment sect.
• Yang Lei and the families that had switched sides thanked Li Dongping, who praised their loyalty and arranged to bring them before Li Zhengjun.
• Li Yuankai signaled Li Dongping not to expose the Sun Household's crimes yet, so Li Dongping took the survivors to hear Li Zhengjun's account.
• Sun Chengling returned to the mountain, unaware that his household had been defeated, and secretly prepared a Wood Virtue Technique Method attack against Li Zhengjun.
• Sun Chengling challenged Li Zhengjun's interest in the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger and boasted of the Sun Household's beast-taming skill, but Li Zhengjun denied he meant to tame it as the tiger suddenly moved.

Li Zhengjun used fire talismans to defeat Sun Chengling’s ambush and then subdued the Qi Refinement Great Perfection Ginseng-Cloud Tiger with Spirit Seizure and Nature Capture. The tiger became his obedient spirit pet, leaving Sun Chengling stunned by Li Zhengjun’s power and methods.

• The Ginseng-Cloud Tiger attacked Sun Chengling, who deployed three spirit beasts to fight it.
• The tiger used the Rosy Light Escape Method to ambush Sun Chengling and badly wound his shoulder.
• Li Zhengjun unleashed Olefin Fire Prairie-Blazing Talismans, burning away Sun Chengling’s buried wood spirits and leaving Sun Chengling and his beasts gravely injured.
• Li Zhengjun stopped the wounded Ginseng-Cloud Tiger’s attack with his bare hand and slammed it into the mountain rock.
• Li Zhengjun used Spirit Seizure and Nature Capture to make the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger submit, and it knelt and greeted him as its lord.
• Sun Chengling watched the tiger speak and obey Li Zhengjun, overwhelmed by a method he could not understand.

Li Zhengjun used the Soul-Washing Incantation to make Sun Chengling confess the Sun Household’s plot, then killed him before the gathered cultivators. After pardoning the surviving followers and delegating the cleanup, Li Zhengjun set off with his newly subdued Demon Beasts to search for Jiang Liuyang.

• Li Zhengjun subdued Sun Chengling’s Iron-Arm Vajra and Gale Falcon, while the Black-Shelled Turtle severed its own meridians rather than submit.
• Li Zhengjun cast the Soul-Washing Incantation on Sun Chengling, making him believe he had captured the Ginseng-Cloud Tiger and prompting him to reveal the Sun Household’s scheme.
• Sun Chengling killed the dying Black-Shelled Turtle without hesitation and boasted to Li Zhengjun about the plot as the gathered cultivators listened.
• Li Zhengjun exposed Sun Chengling’s crimes to the crowd and beheaded him with his magic sword, Shaoming.
• Li Zhengjun allowed the other households’ surviving cultivators to leave or testify against the Sun Household, then assigned cleanup to Li Yuankai and Yang Lei.
• Li Zhengjun left with the subdued Demon Beasts to search for Jiang Liuyang.

Jiang Liuyang brought Ye Xiufan to Gold-Bearing Mountain to harvest the matured Phoenix-Perching Golden Parasol Tree, hoping to restore his remnant soul. When Li Zhengjun arrived, Jiang tried to search his soul but was trapped in a golden hall, where he mistook Li Zhengjun for an immortal and bowed before him.

• Jiang Liuyang and Ye Xiufan waited for the first dawn light while the owl kept watch, unaware that it was secretly circulating Li Zhengjun's Cultivation Method.
• As the first ray of sunlight struck the ground, Jiang Liuyang used his Technique Method to raise the mature Phoenix-Perching Golden Parasol Tree from beneath the earth.
• Li Zhengjun arrived, and Jiang Liuyang decided to search his sea of consciousness despite Ye Xiufan being unable to sense danger.
• Jiang Liuyang's Great Soul-Searching Method led him into a golden hall, where an overwhelming force made him kneel before a radiant figure.
• Jiang Liuyang kowtowed and begged to know the figure's name, and Li Zhengjun spoke from the dais, proclaiming his cosmic authority.

Li Zhengjun bound Jiang Liuyang’s true spirit and recruited the remnant soul to serve the Li Household and spread its new cultivation methods. He gave Jiang Liuyang a Frozen Water cultivation path and promised him a chance at a new body once Ye Xiufan reached Purple Mansion, then sent him back to Gold-Bearing Mountain with a Jade Slip.

• Jiang Liuyang knelt before Li Zhengjun, offered his service, and asked to become his disciple.
• Li Zhengjun used the Mystic Terrace Spirit-Suppressing, Nature-Binding Instruction and the Mystic Mirror to take Jiang Liuyang’s true spirit.
• Li Zhengjun described the Yuyu Realm’s six-realm cultivation system, and Jiang Liuyang realized it could make advancement more efficient than traditional Qi Refinement.
• Li Zhengjun told Jiang Liuyang that Ye Xiufan’s destiny would help him escape his remnant-soul state once Ye reached Purple Mansion.
• Li Zhengjun gave Jiang Liuyang a Jade Slip containing Frozen Water Dao methods and ordered him to spread the new cultivation path.
• Jiang Liuyang returned to Gold-Bearing Mountain holding the Jade Slip and reflected that he had only now entered the gate of cultivation.

Jiang Liuyang joined the Immortal Venerable’s disciples and entrusted the Phoenix-Perching Golden Parasol Tree to Li Zhengjun, who discovered that Gold-Bearing Mountain could supply Bright Yang primal Qi. After returning to the Li Household, Li Zhengjun assigned the work of rebuilding the estate and hurried back to the Yuyu Realm to report the discoveries.

• Jiang Liuyang apologized to Li Zhengjun and agreed to help spread the Immortal Venerable’s teachings and raise Ye Xiufan’s cultivation.
• Jiang Liuyang gave Li Zhengjun the Phoenix-Perching Golden Parasol Tree, and Li Zhengjun realized it could awaken his Second Uncle and sensed Bright Yang primal Qi at Gold-Bearing Mountain.
• Jiang Liuyang woke Ye Xiufan, and the three returned to the capital of the Ning Kingdom and rejoined the Li Household.
• Li Zhengjun recorded the household’s battle contributions and assigned Dongping, Dongsheng, Yuankai, and Huchan tasks to clear and develop Gold-Bearing Mountain.
• Li Zhengjun returned to the Yuyu Realm through the Immortal Mirror to report the mountain, its Bright Yang Qi, and the Golden Parasol Tree to the Lineage.

Li Zhengjun arrived as True Person Zhaohuan sought help from Yuhong after Sunset Rosy Clouds nearly killed him. Yuhong explained that the Rosy Light Major Branch had appeared before its proper temporal sequence, suggesting a hidden plot against the three yang Dao Lineages; Zhaohuan entrusted Gao Yuning to the Li Household before vanishing.

• Li Zhengjun went to the Jade-Rinsing Garden, where Yuhong treated the injured True Person Zhaohuan and met his grandson Gao Yuning.
• Yuhong explained the difference between the Rosy Light Minor Branch, Rainbow and Nix, and the Major Branches, Crimson Rosy Clouds and Sunset Rosy Clouds.
• Yuhong used an inscription on his mystic stele to explain the temporal sequences and concluded that Sunset Rosy Clouds had emerged prematurely to weaken the three yang Dao Lineages.
• Zhaohuan recounted the attack on Crimson Firmament Mountain, and Yuhong warned that Zhaohuan was likely a target in a larger scheme and should flee the Chu Kingdom.
• Zhaohuan entrusted his possessions to Yuhong and asked him to protect Gao Yuning; Li Zhengjun proposed taking the boy into the Great Scarlet Realm to serve the Li Household.
• Gao Yuning offered his true spirit to Yuhong, and Zhaohuan urged him to live without seeking revenge before vanishing.

Li Zhengjun took a strand of Gao Yuning’s true spirit before Yuhong brought them into the Great Void to witness True Person Zhaohuan’s battle against two crimson-robed Purple Mansion cultivators. Zhaohuan was pierced and seemed defeated, but he tore off and swallowed all three of his Golden Crow legs, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Li Zhengjun took a strand of Gao Yuning’s true spirit with little resistance from the grieving disciple.
• Yuhong carried Li Zhengjun, Gao Yuning, and the other disciple into the Great Void, where they witnessed Zhaohuan facing two crimson-robed Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Yuhong explained Zhaohuan’s [Three-Legged Crow Feather] Divine Ability as the combatants exchanged attacks.
• The two cultivators trapped Zhaohuan in rosy light, sealed his wings, and pierced him with a crimson arrow.
• Zhaohuan tore off all three of his legs and swallowed them as the two cultivators celebrated their apparent victory.

Zhaohuan destroyed the Three-Legged Crow's legs and died, triggering the early manifestation of the Radiant Bright Blessed Land and the coming Golden Crow Sheds Its Feathers. Yuhong helped Gao Yuning escape to the Great Scarlet Realm, then returned to White Jade Mountain and discussed the Sunset Rosy Clouds Dao Lineage's plans with Li Zhengjun.

• Zhaohuan devoured the Three-Legged Crow's legs, died, and scattered into spiritual objects that drifted toward Crimson Firmament Mountain.
• Yuhong and the other Purple Mansion cultivators realized Zhaohuan's death had caused the Radiant Bright Blessed Land to manifest early, and they heard that Golden Crow Sheds Its Feathers was coming.
• Luo Hao apologized to Yuhong for Luo Yongying's offense, and Yuhong said their households should preserve their cooperation.
• Yuhong appeared to kill Gao Yuning in front of the Sunset Rosy Clouds cultivators, but later confirmed that Li Zhengjun had safely sent Gao Yuning and his true spirit to the Great Scarlet Realm.
• Yuhong told Li Zhengjun that Zhaohuan had been used to alter the spiritual atmosphere and suspected the Sunset Rosy Clouds cultivators were proxies for Falling Sunset Mountain.
• Yuhong asked Li Zhengjun what he had gained from his trip to Gold-Bearing Mountain.

Li Zhengjun and the Lineage elders planned for the Li Household’s future after discovering a Bright Yang spiritual land and preparing to build an immortal mountain. Li Zhengjun proposed bringing a nearly successful cultivator into the Great Scarlet Realm to quickly establish a Foundation Establishment cultivator as its protector while he entered seclusion.

• Yuhong praised Li Zhengjun for finding a way to save Li Chenwei and felt hope that his family might escape its fate of dying alone.
• Yuhong explained that the Bright Yang spiritual land could support spiritual seeds as the Three Yang Dao Lineage entered its final period of decline.
• Li Zhengchen said the Lineage had prepared the materials and plans needed to build an immortal mountain.
• Li Zhengjun warned that the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect would investigate the Li Household while he entered seclusion for Qi Ingestion.
• Li Zhengjun asked whether a Lineage cultivator was close to breaking through to Qi Ingestion, proposing to take that person into the Great Scarlet Realm to establish a Foundation Establishment protector.