Recaps

After helping Xiao Zhaohuang ascend the throne, Gao Yunyi completed his mission and entered a year-long Red Dust Tribulation without his usual powers and tools. In Miaojiang, he became entangled with Ma Die and Ma Yi, then set his sights on the Beast God Abyss.

• Xiao Zhaohuang asked Gao Yunyi to help her become emperor, and he accepted while refining an assortment of pills from her gifts.
• Gao Yunyi visited Qiyun Mountain, where Murong Wudi challenged him, accepted the Demonic Path, and took a Demon Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Zhaohuang ascended the throne, but Gao Yunyi completed his mission and vanished after losing access to his game interface and Spirit Pet Bai Suzhen.
• Gao Yunyi met Long Yan in the wilderness and traveled toward Yandao Stockade, but chose Ma Die as the person he would pursue during his tribulation.
• Ma Die smuggled Gao Yunyi into Black Li Stockade, where her mother, the Great Miao Chief, tried to bind and control him without success.
• Ma Yi guided Gao Yunyi around Black Li Stockade, and he struck down guards who tried to stop them from entering the Myriad Gu Pit.
• Gao Yunyi led Ma Yi through the Gu-filled layers, where the insects fled from him and he crushed the Gu King, a cicada.
• After Ma Yi explained the Beast God’s place in Miaojiang lore, Gao Yunyi decided to visit the Beast God Abyss and drive him out.

Gao Yunyi became the Beast God, entered the Beast God Abyss, and defeated the Gu God after Ma Yi’s transformation and betrayal. He later returned to the wider world, where Zhao Bufan became a vengeful ghost and took revenge on the Zhou Family.

• Gao Yunyi won the Gu King’s recognition, and the Black Miao and then the Three Miao submitted to him as their rightful leader and Beast God.
• Gao Yunyi entered the Beast God Abyss, where Ma Yi arrived with her mother’s and sister’s severed heads and revealed she had gained the Gu God’s power to claim him.
• The Gu God emerged and killed Ma Yi, but Gao Yunyi passed his Red Dust Tribulation and annihilated the Gu God with Azure Sun light.
• Gao Yunyi revived Ma Yi as a zombie, renamed her Nüba, and left her commanding the Gu corpses in the abyss while he departed with Bai Suzhen and the Mountain Lord.
• Gao Yunyi reached Golden Core, received the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner, and used Bai Suzhen to bring rain to drought-stricken villages.
• Xiao Zhaohuang investigated embezzled disaster relief funds while Xiao Gaoyi worried about his absent big brother, and Gao Yunyi heard people praise the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable.
• Gao Yunyi found Zhao Bufan dying at a mass grave and offered him a new life or undeath, and Zhao Bufan chose to become a ghost.
• Zhao Bufan killed Master Zhou and the Zhou Family members who had persecuted his family, then gathered their souls and vowed to deny them reincarnation or release.