Recaps

Chu Xinghe's failed blood-pill refinement produced valuable medicine and vitality-restoring demonic beast hearts, while Ma Liang's group developed living mechanical bodies. After Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen lost their Life Souls, Chu Xinghe secured a soul-transfer safeguard and entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits to rescue the missing souls and seek the Ancient God's Arm.

• Chu Xinghe directed Mu Xiaoqi into a furnace explosion that produced medicinal paste suited to demonic beasts, and the refiners credited him with inventing the Cauldron Explosion Medicine Refining Method.
• Ma Liang accelerated the demonic beasts' growth and mutated their hearts into vitality-restoring treasures, drawing gifts and favorable offers to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Ma Liang brought Ouyang Ming, Douding'er, Man Sheng, and Mu Bai together to develop living mechanical bodies, and the Beast God later proposed Spirit Blood Worms to improve their power supply.
• Zheng Yu and Hua Xichen returned from the Land of Bewildered Spirits without their Life Souls, and the Well Spirits elders linked the Star Gate to the Star Ghost Clan and the Ancient God's Arm.
• Gu Mingchao and Elder He investigated the Star Gate and reported that it could destroy the seals within three to five years while the missing souls might still survive beyond it.
• Chu Xinghe transferred his souls into his Xinghe Divinity and demonstrated that he could switch them between it and his body, securing a safeguard for his journey.
• Chu Xinghe abandoned his plan to die beyond the Star Gate after his companions supplied him and asked for gifts, then entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits alone.
• Chu Xinghe followed directions chosen by throwing his shoe, gathered rare treasures, and encountered An Ying, who described witnessing Fan Sheng's soul being drawn out and clung to him for a chance to escape.

Chu Xinghe entered the Star Gate to find the trapped prodigies and encountered the Buddha Domain, where he learned that its people had suppressed rather than killed the Soulless Ghosts. After the Bodhis tried to capture him, Chu Xinghe defeated them and left them humiliated while continuing to pursue a way to rescue the prodigies and close the Star Gate.

• An Ying revealed how he had used Chu Xinghe’s appearance and borrowed luck to escape the Land of Bewildered Spirits, then followed Chu Xinghe into the Star Gate.
• Chu Xinghe arrived alone in the Buddha Domain, where Clearwater City’s guards mistook him for a Soulless Ghost and attacked, and he shattered their Vajra and withdrew to prevent a blood sacrifice.
• An Ying disguised himself as Chu Xinghe, was captured and tortured, then escaped by transforming into a flower before hunters accidentally carried him away.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Buddha Domain had suppressed the Soulless Ghosts and set out for Mount Sumeru to find their souls and rescue the trapped prodigies.
• Venerable Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi and three other Bodhis tried to capture Chu Xinghe, but he broke Luoyin Bodhi’s restraints and tore through Duoluo Bodhi’s Myriad Heavens Buddha Realm.
• At the Mount Sumeru training ground, Chu Xinghe faced the assembled Bodhis and defeated their attacks, including Vanishing Shadow Bodhi’s strikes and Dayin Bodhi’s Buddha Sound bell.
• Chu Xinghe used Jianan Bodhi’s deepest desire to break his illusion and gave him a Clear Sight Pill for his blind mother.
• The Bodhis attacked with illusions and Buddhist treasures, but Chu Xinghe saw through their tricks, collected the treasures for Junior Brother Ouyang, and defeated them with his superior abilities.

Chu Xinghe secured the Buddha Domain’s cooperation and entered the Star Sea Abyss to rescue the captives’ souls. There, the Floating Immortal Island chose him as its master, but its inheritances repeatedly failed to bond with him.

• Chu Xinghe fought Buddha Mochuan, conceded before killing him, then met Little Buddha and learned that the Buddha Domain’s Great Buddha Lord sought help suppressing the Star Sea Abyss.
• The Great Buddha Lord explained that the Star Ghosts held the souls of captives including Guo Qizhen, Little Ji, and Leader Bai, and Chu Xinghe agreed to enter the Abyss with Little Buddha.
• Chu Xinghe offered the Buddha Domain vast supplies and promised support, winning its trust and arranging an expedition the following morning.
• Chu Xinghe, Little Buddha, and An Ying entered the Star Sea Abyss, where they saw the Floating Immortal Island and the ancient warriors who had sacrificed themselves to seal the Star Ghosts.
• The island followed Chu Xinghe while evading Little Buddha and An Ying, then invited Chu Xinghe to take its trial, after refusing and reconsidering, he passed when he took a single step.
• The ancient sages’ remnant soul declared Chu Xinghe their inheritor, and the island shrank into his palm and acknowledged him as master.
• The island’s inheritances repeatedly failed to bond with Chu Xinghe and returned, while Little Buddha realized he might be able to claim them.

Chu Xinghe, Little Buddha, and An Ying uncovered how the Buddha Lords had strengthened the Star Sea Abyss and descended to rescue the captured prodigies. An Ying sacrificed himself to save Chu Xinghe from the Origin Ancestor, leaving the Buddha Domain’s leaders to confront the truth about the ancient threat and Luojia’s plans.

• An Ying absorbed every inheritance on the Floating Immortal Island, which transformed into a World Seal that Chu Xinghe absorbed into his body.
• Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha learned from a captured Star Ghost that the Great Buddha Lords’ repeated interventions had empowered the Star Sea Abyss and awakened the Ancient God’s Right Arm.
• Chu Xinghe entered the Star Sea Abyss to investigate while An Ying was captured and tortured by the Star Ghosts, then escaped by disguising himself as Brother Playing You.
• An Ying found Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha, explained that the abyss was gathering souls to revive the Ancestor of Primal Souls, and led them toward the captured prodigies.
• Chu Xinghe followed the Shoe Art to a giant tree where the prodigies’ souls were sealed, but the Origin Ancestor appeared and seized control of Chu Xinghe’s body.
• An Ying used Suspended Shears and Chu Xinghe’s form to draw the possession runes onto himself, freeing Chu Xinghe, while the Origin Ancestor became trapped experiencing An Ying’s memories.
• Chu Xinghe escaped with Little Buddha inside the World Seal, broke through into the Buddha Domain, and watched the Great Buddha Lord seal the passage against Luojia.
• Luojia prepared to unleash a calamity on the Buddha Domain, while Chu Xinghe told the Buddhas that the Star Sea Abyss contained both Luojia and the Origin Ancestor and had been awakened by their first Great Buddha Lord.