Recaps

Gao Yunyi claimed the Gu King and left the Myriad Gu Pit with Ma Yi, whose mother and sister confronted them with an armed crowd. As the tribespeople prepared to seize them, the Gu King cried out.

• Gao Yunyi picked up the small cicada, learned it was the Gu King, and accepted it as his pet.
• Ma Yi hid the evidence of her embarrassment before following Gao Yunyi out of the tomb chamber.
• The Gu King’s presence subdued the Gu insects in the Myriad Gu Pit, and Ma Yi followed Gao Yunyi safely through them.
• Ma Yi emerged from the pit and found her mother, elder sister, and armed Black Miao tribespeople waiting outside.
• Ma Yi’s mother prepared to have Gao Yunyi and Ma Yi seized, while Ma Die watched resentfully.
• The Gu King fluttered its wings and let out an ancient-sounding cry as the crowd readied itself to act.

Gao Yunyi brought the Gu King out of the Myriad Gu Pit, and its power over the Gu forced the Black Li Stockade to submit to him. The Great Miao Chief and Ma Die both knelt, leaving Gao Yunyi in control of the Black Miao.

• The Gu King's cry silenced the mountain and made the bonded Gu of the Black Miao tremble, revealing that Gao Yunyi had won its recognition.
• The Great Miao Chief realized that tradition made Gao Yunyi the rightful Great Miao Chief, while Ma Die urged the tribe to seize him and the Gu King.
• Countless Gu insects poured from the Myriad Gu Pit and gathered around Gao Yunyi, frightening the Black Miao into laying down their weapons and kneeling.
• The Great Miao Chief knelt before Gao Yunyi and surrendered her position, while Ma Die resisted until Gao Yunyi told her to come to his room that night.
• Ma Die lowered her whip and knelt, leaving every Miao person present submitted to Gao Yunyi.

Gao Yunyi learned that awakening and bringing out the Gu King had made him Black Miao’s Great Miao Chief and a possible future Miao King. As Ma Die entered his room and Ma Yi resolved to change herself, preparations began for the Three Miao council and the God-Sacrificing Ceremony.

• The Great Miao Chief offered herself to Gao Yunyi to atone for what happened at the Myriad Gu Pit, then explained that he was expected to attend the Three Miao council about choosing the Chief Sacrifice.
• Gao Yunyi learned that the Black Miao prophecy linked possession of the Gu King to becoming the Miao King, and that only the Miao King could change the rules barring entry to the Beast God Abyss outside the God-Sacrificing Ceremony.
• The Great Miao Chief said she would obey Gao Yunyi whether or not he pursued the throne, and he invited her to please him in exchange for granting her request.
• Ma Die entered the room, and Gao Yunyi welcomed her as the Great Miao Chief watched.
• Ma Yi stayed outside, envied her mother and sister, and decided to change herself before setting off toward the Myriad Gu Pit.

The three Miao Chiefs gathered to decide who would preside over the Beast God ceremony, while Long Qing believed his son Long Yan was destined to unite the tribes as Miao King. Long Qing declared that Long Yan would rule, then summoned him before the chiefs with the Mountain Lord at his side.

• The Great Miao Chiefs of the Green, Black, and White Miao gathered to discuss this year's Beast God ceremony.
• Ma Wa opposed the Green Miao presiding again and demanded that the Black Miao take its turn.
• Long Qing rejected Ma Wa's challenge and declared that the Green Miao would preside every year from then on.
• Long Qing announced that his son was the future Miao King, destined to unite the three tribes.
• Long Yan entered the gathering, followed by the enormous multicolored tiger known as the Mountain Lord.

Long Yan entered the council hall with the Mountain Lord, and Long Qing used the tiger’s presence to demand that the other Miao chiefs accept his son as Miao King. When the Mountain Lord approached Ma Wa, she called for her master, and the tiger fled in panic from a green-robed figure at the door.

• Long Qing welcomed Long Yan into the council hall and claimed his son was destined to become Miao King.
• Ma Wa objected to Long Qing’s demand, while Long Yan explained that a stranger from the Central Plains had brought the Mountain Lord down the mountain.
• The Mountain Lord sniffed at Ma Wa, and Long Qing threatened her with the tiger unless she accepted Long Yan as king.
• Ma Wa called for her master as the Mountain Lord turned away and ran toward the door.
• A green-robed figure blocked the Mountain Lord’s path and greeted it as an old acquaintance.

Gao Yunyi entered the Miao meeting hall, where the Mountain Lord and Ma Wa served him and Bai Sang recognized him as the awakened Beast God. Long Qing struggled to accept the revelation as Bai Sang demanded that he show respect.

• The Mountain Lord rolled aside at Gao Yunyi’s command, while the White Miao Great Miao Chief recognized the Gu King on his shoulder.
• Ma Wa greeted Gao Yunyi as her master, and Long Yan knelt and moved his father out of Gao Yunyi’s way.
• Gao Yunyi took the seat of honor as the Mountain Lord served as his footrest and Ma Wa massaged him.
• Bai Sang revealed herself, knelt before Gao Yunyi, and declared that the White Miao would follow him as Lord Beast God.
• Long Qing challenged Bai Sang’s claim, and she warned him not to disrespect Lord Beast God.

Gao Yunyi was recognized by the Three Miao chiefs as the Beast God, and he asked them to lead him to the Beast God Abyss. Bai Sang agreed to escort him there in three days, despite the danger of the miasma and poisonous fog.

• Bai Sang declared Gao Yunyi the Beast God, citing the Gu King on his shoulder and the Mountain Lord at his feet.
• Long Qing rejected Bai Sang’s claim until Long Yan said he had met Gao Yunyi on Beast God Mountain and had ridden down with him on the Mountain Lord.
• Long Qing knelt before Gao Yunyi, and the Great Miao Chiefs of all Three Miao submitted to him.
• Gao Yunyi said he wanted to enter the Beast God Abyss, hoping the Miao could guide him to it.
• Bai Sang warned that the miasma and poisonous fog could only be safely crossed at the proper time, but Gao Yunyi said they could not harm him.
• Bai Sang agreed to return to Black Li Stockade in three days and escort Gao Yunyi to the Beast God Abyss.

Ma Yi emerged from the Myriad Gu Pit with a high-tier Love Gu, hoping to win more of Gao Yunyi’s affection. After learning that Gao Yunyi had become the Beast God, she tried to imitate her mother and elder sister to attract him, but he rejected her and she left in tears.

• Gao Yunyi returned to Black Li Stockade with the tamed Mountain Lord, and the clanspeople celebrated him as the Beast God.
• Ma Yi emerged from the Myriad Gu Pit with a Love Gu she had chosen to make Gao Yunyi love her.
• Ma Yi learned that Gao Yunyi had become the Beast God, then went home to change into a white nightgown.
• Ma Yi knelt before Gao Yunyi and said she could do what her mother and elder sister did, but he refused.
• Ma Yi asked whether her outfit looked nice, and Gao Yunyi gave her a perfunctory compliment before she left and cried outside the door.

Ma Yi gave Gao Yunyi ginseng soup while hiding her plan to use a Love Gu egg to make him love her. When she discovered that her Natal Gu had died, her hopes collapsed and she was left consumed by grief and hatred.

• Ma Yi brought Gao Yunyi ginseng soup, which he drank without suspicion, then hurried away after he questioned her sweating and pale appearance.
• Gao Yunyi asked Ma Wa and Ma Die whether they hated him, and their worshipful response displeased him, so he picked up a whip and approached them.
• Ma Yi returned to her room and revealed that she had exhausted her Essence Blood to make the Love Gu produce an egg for Gao Yunyi to swallow.
• Ma Yi found her Love Gu dead, spat blood over its corpse, and collapsed in despair as hatred filled her eyes.

The Miao people gathered at Black Li Stockade to welcome Gao Yunyi, whom they revered as the Beast God, and escort him to his divine domain. As Gao Yunyi departed with the chosen figures, Ma Yi watched from her darkened room, her hair having turned white overnight.

• The Miao people from all seventy-two stockades gathered outside Black Li Stockade and knelt in worship, treating it as Lord Beast God's sacred domain.
• Bai Sang and the White Miao Divine Attendant Corps arrived to welcome Gao Yunyi, and a tiger's roar from within the stockade warned the crowd not to look upon the Beast God's face.
• Gao Yunyi emerged riding a gigantic beast, and Bai Sang and the Divine Attendant Corps led the Miao people in welcoming him.
• Gao Yunyi told Bai Sang to proceed, while Ma Wa and her daughter watched the ceremony with overwhelming excitement.
• Ma Yi stayed behind in her sealed, dark room and watched her mother and elder sister attend Gao Yunyi; her hair had turned white overnight.

Gao Yunyi entered the Beast God Abyss and found its ruined divine temple and empty throne, where he tested the Gray Cicada’s power over time and space. The Gray Cicada’s cry distorted the world until everything collapsed into darkness.

• Gao Yunyi left Black Li Stockade in a divine palanquin as Miao people welcomed him on the journey to the Beast God Abyss.
• Gao Yunyi rode the Mountain Lord into the poisonous miasma with the Gu King, while Ma Wa and her daughter watched him depart with a sense he might never return.
• Gao Yunyi crossed the miasma unharmed and entered the Beast God Abyss, where he found a sacrificial plaza and the ruins of an ancient temple.
• Gao Yunyi climbed to the temple summit and sat on the solitary divine throne.
• Gao Yunyi ordered the Gray Cicada to demonstrate its control over time and space, and its cry warped the surroundings before they collapsed into darkness.

Gao Yunyi rejected the visions of the Gray Cicada and crushed it, insisting that only the present mattered. A year later, Ma Yi arrived at the Beast God Ceremony with her mother’s and older sister’s severed heads, then revealed her pact with the Gu God and unleashed a strange power against him.

• Gao Yunyi recalled visions of Miaojiang’s past, decided he did not believe them, and crushed the Gray Cicada.
• Ma Yi, now white-haired, climbed the thousand steps to the Beast God Abyss carrying a box and told Gao Yunyi she had come for the ceremony.
• Ma Yi opened the box to show her mother’s and older sister’s severed heads, saying she had brought them so they could see Gao Yunyi again.
• Ma Yi said she had fed her body to the myriad Gu in the Myriad Gu Pit and gained the Gu God’s power in exchange for the promise that Gao Yunyi would be hers.
• When Gao Yunyi remained unmoved, Ma Yi became furious, rose with an uncanny presence, and triggered a roar from beneath the Beast God Abyss.

The Gu God emerged from beneath the Beast God Abyss and revealed its hatred for Gao Yunyi, whom it recognized from a failed experiment. Ma Yi realized she had been used to summon it and, after it attacked her, warned Gao Yunyi to run.

• The Gu God erupted from the earth as a gigantic mass of Gu insects, bones, flesh, and poisonous miasma, while Gao Yunyi remained calm and pressed the Mountain Lord back down.
• Gao Yunyi recognized the Gu God as resembling a Cthulhu-like Great Old One and suspected it was a failed experiment he had created and buried.
• The Gu God fixed its millions of eyes on Gao Yunyi, and Ma Yi realized it had targeted him from the beginning and had used her as a pawn.
• Ma Yi confronted the Gu God for breaking its promise not to harm Gao Yunyi, but its uncanny presence made her vomit blood and collapse.
• Ma Yi crawled toward Gao Yunyi, apologized for endangering him, and urged him to run, while he looked at her without warmth.

Gao Yunyi faced the Gu God after his Red Dust Tribulation mission was completed, while Ma Yi died beneath a swarm of Gu insects. He revealed his restored divine power and annihilated the Gu God with the light of the Azure Sun.

• Gao Yunyi realized that Ma Yi’s love and hatred had revealed his Red Dust Tribulation, and his mission showed as complete.
• The Gu God broke its seal, blamed Gao Yunyi for imprisoning it, and advanced on the divine throne to take revenge.
• The Gu God’s insects swarmed over Ma Yi, killing her as she looked at Gao Yunyi with regret and despair.
• Gao Yunyi raised a finger and gathered light that dissolved the poisonous mist and burned through the approaching Gu insects.
• Gao Yunyi unleashed a pillar of Azure Sun light that swallowed and completely annihilated the Gu God.

Bai Sang and Long Qing led the Miao people in defending Bai'er Stockade from monsters created by Parasitic Gu, which Bai Sang believed were tied to the Demon God. When an evil presence emerged from the direction of the Beast God Abyss, the monsters launched a fiercer assault, leaving the defenders to hold the line.

• The survivors of the Miao stockades gathered at Bai'er Stockade as monsters overran the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and Bai Sang rejected retreating through the poisonous forest to the Beast God Abyss.
• Bai Sang identified the monsters as victims of Parasitic Gu and suspected someone had infected Black Li Stockade to empower the Demon God.
• Long Qing and the Miao warriors fought to defend the stockade, while Long Yan warned that its gate was close to breaking.
• Long Qing led the Green Miao warriors to reinforce the gate and drive back the monsters.
• An evil presence swept out from the forest near the Beast God Abyss, provoking the monsters into a fiercer assault, and Bai Sang shouted that the Demon God had emerged.

As monsters overwhelmed Bai'er Stockade, Long Yan risked his life to save Long Qing, while Bai Sang and the Miao people prayed to Lord Beast God. A radiant power erupted from the Beast God Abyss, freezing the monsters and carving a vast, scorched path through the forest and mountains.

• The parasitized Miao people swarmed Bai'er Stockade, broke through its gates, and began overrunning the settlement.
• Long Qing and Long Yan fought on the walls as Bai Sang rallied the defenders to fight for the Miao people and Lord Beast God.
• Long Yan saved Long Qing from the monsters but fell from the wall into their midst after his saber broke.
• Light rose from the Beast God Abyss, and the monsters stopped moving before they could attack Long Yan.
• A pillar of light blasted through the forest and mountains, destroying everything in its path and leaving a scorched trail where Gu poison and miasma had vanished.

Gao Yunyi recovered his powers after witnessing Gray Cicada’s vision of a god who had created and sealed a Devil Creature a thousand years earlier. He turned the dying Ma Yi into a zombie with a Corpse-Shedding Pill, leaving her alive but transformed.

• Gao Yunyi reached level 30, passed the Red Dust Tribulation, and regained his Law Power, skills, and system panel.
• Gao Yunyi watched an illusion in which a compassionate god created a Devil Creature to overcome death, then sealed it after it turned violent.
• Gao Yunyi suspected the god in the illusion was the unseen observer who had been watching him and defiantly looked toward the sky.
• Ma Yi used her final strength to apologize to Gao Yunyi, but he told her he did not care.
• Gao Yunyi fed Ma Yi a Corpse-Shedding Pill, and her damaged body healed as she became a gray-skinned zombie.

Ma Yi’s roar summoned the parasitized monsters to the Beast God Abyss, where she became their new queen as Gao Yunyi watched. He chose to leave her and the hundred thousand-odd Gu corpses in the abyss, while the survivors of Bai'er Stockade worshipped the event as a miracle of the Beast God.

• Ma Yi roared, and the hundred thousand-odd monsters stopped attacking Bai'er Stockade and marched toward the Beast God Abyss.
• Bai Sang and the other Miao survivors knelt and praised the Beast God, believing the events were a divine manifestation.
• Gao Yunyi watched the monsters gather beside Ma Yi, reflecting on how he had brought her back from the dead as a zombie.
• The Corpse Sha Qi gathered into Ma Yi, making her the queen of the Gu corpses and strengthening her new body.
• Gao Yunyi dismissed Ma Yi’s devotion and left her and the Gu corpses in the Beast God Abyss.

Gao Yunyi fed the Mountain Lord a pill that transformed him into a powerful black tiger, then reunited with Bai Suzhen and sat upon the throne formed by her coils. The black tiger submitted as his guardian while the Beast God Abyss’s vast ranks of Gu corpses stood beneath him.

• Gao Yunyi gave the Mountain Lord a pill, and Green Flame tempered the tiger’s body as he endured intense pain.
• The Mountain Lord shed his old fur, grew stronger and more intelligent, and bowed in submission to Gao Yunyi.
• Gao Yunyi summoned Bai Suzhen, whose Dragon Might made the Gu corpses tremble while Ma Yi watched with jealousy.
• Bai Suzhen pressed her head against Gao Yunyi’s hand, and he greeted her affectionately after their year apart.
• Bai Suzhen coiled her body into a throne for Gao Yunyi, while the black tiger guarded him before the silent Gu corpses.

Gao Yunyi renamed Ma Yi as Nüba and ordered her to remain in Beast God Abyss while he left with Bai Suzhen and the Mountain Lord. After watching him depart, Nüba erupted with resentment and evolved into a blue-eyed zombie.

• Bai Suzhen blocked Ma Yi from approaching Gao Yunyi, and Ma Yi stood back after realizing how distant she was from him.
• Gao Yunyi renamed Ma Yi as Nüba and forbade her from calling him Master, ordering her to stay in Beast God Abyss until he returned.
• Gao Yunyi formed a spirit contract with the Mountain Lord and left the abyss with Bai Suzhen, leaving Nüba and the Gu Corpses behind.
• After Gao Yunyi disappeared, Nüba released her Corpse Sha and evolved from a white-eyed zombie into a blue-eyed zombie.

After completing his tribulation and reaching Golden Core, Gao Yunyi received and equipped the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner despite its demonic appearance. Flying over a land suffering a devastating drought, he answered the people’s pleas for rain, and Bai Suzhen brought down a downpour.

• Gao Yunyi checked his transformed attributes after breaking through to Golden Core and received the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner as a system reward.
• Gao Yunyi equipped the banner, embracing its sinister appearance and deciding that no one could dictate whether a righteous disciple used an Evil Dao Law Treasure.
• Gao Yunyi flew over drought-stricken villages where the people prayed to Azure Profound Immortal Venerable for rain.
• Gao Yunyi signaled Bai Suzhen, who summoned clouds and rain over the parched land.
• The commoners rejoiced and thanked Azure Profound Immortal Venerable as the rain fell.

Empress Xiao Zhaohuang learned that the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable had reappeared in drought-stricken Eastern Sichuan and ordered a search for him while launching a harsh investigation into embezzled disaster relief. After court, she comforted Xiao Gaoyi, who missed his big brother, then returned to the Imperial Study and gazed at the portrait of the absent man.

• A report said the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable had summoned rain in drought-stricken Eastern Sichuan, and Xiao Zhaohuang ordered the Pacification Investigation Guard to track him without disturbing him.
• Xiao Zhaohuang discovered that Jingzhao Prefecture's disaster relief funds had been embezzled and ordered officials investigated, arrested, and stripped of their ill-gotten wealth while relief grain was distributed.
• Xiao Gaoyi listened to court proceedings while thinking about his absent big brother and the little courtyard where he had grown chives.
• After court, Xiao Zhaohuang warned Xiao Gaoyi to keep his thoughts steady, then reassured him that his big brother would return.
• Xiao Zhaohuang returned to the Imperial Study and stood lost in thought before a portrait.

Gao Yunyi heard the people of Great Liang praise him for ending the drought in Jingzhao Prefecture and visited the temple built in his honor. He quietly listened to worshippers’ prayers and wondered at their belief that he could grant every wish.

• Gao Yunyi listened in a restaurant as people praised the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable for saving the drought-stricken people, though he had acted partly to complete a mission.
• Gao Yunyi heard diners discuss the empress Xiao Zhaohuang and the corruption case in Jingzhao Prefecture, then left without correcting a man who mistook him for resembling his statue.
• Gao Yunyi walked through the crowded streets toward the Immortal Venerable's temple, keeping his ordinary appearance and using an invisible force to part the crowd.
• Gao Yunyi watched worshippers pray for their families, careers, harvests, marriages, and children, and was surprised they thought he could grant every request.

Gao Yunyi discovered that the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner needed actual ghosts, then gave the dying Zhao Bufan a choice between forgetting his family’s murder or becoming a vengeful spirit. Zhao Bufan chose revenge, and after he became a ghost and flew toward the Zhou Family, Gao Yunyi resolved to create ghosts himself.

• Gao Yunyi activated the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner at a mass grave, but the skill failed because it required ghosts.
• Gao Yunyi found Zhao Bufan dying beneath rocks after the Zhou Family had killed his family and left him to die.
• Gao Yunyi offered Zhao Bufan a Dust-Forgetting Pill for a new life or a Nether-Soul Pill that would turn him into a ghost and prevent reincarnation.
• Zhao Bufan chose the Nether-Soul Pill, became a vengeful ghost, and flew toward the Zhou Family to take revenge.
• Gao Yunyi watched Zhao Bufan depart and said he would create ghosts if none existed in the world.

Zhao Bufan returned as a vengeful ghost and took revenge on Master Zhou and the people who had helped destroy his family. After killing them and extracting their souls, he flew toward the mass grave, intending to imprison them in endless torment.

• Zhao Bufan entered the Zhou Family estate and confronted Master Zhou, who had boasted about destroying the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Bufan seized Master Zhou and poured resentful Sha into him while the servants’ weapons passed harmlessly through the ghost.
• Zhao Bufan sealed the estate and tormented the servants and steward with visions of the Zhao Family’s suffering.
• Zhao Bufan rejected Master Zhou’s pleas for mercy and killed him, then killed everyone in the Zhou Family who had taken part in persecuting the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Bufan drew the dead into wandering souls and flew toward the mass grave, vowing to keep them from reincarnation or release.