Recaps

Zhou Yi joined Dan Ding Sect, took a quiet post at Repentance Cliff, and built ties with fellow disciples while preparing for dangerous assignments. After killing the Luoshui Serpent Demon, he found its hidden spirit land, rebuilt his cultivation over decades, and left the He Family searching the same river for a water demon.

• Zhou Yi entered Dan Ding Sect as an independent cultivator, chose a secluded Cave Estate, and took the Blackwind Cave post at Repentance Cliff.
• Zhou Yi befriended Jiang Kang, studied the Sect Competition and sect factions, and joined Fang Chengfeng’s Purple Cloud Gathering to trade Foundation Establishment Pills for Spirit Stones and an array inheritance.
• After Jiang Kang left the sect, Zhou Yi accepted the long-uncompleted Luoshui Serpent Demon assignment, gathered eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, and lured the demon out with a river god sacrifice.
• Zhou Yi and the other cultivators trapped and killed the serpent demon, then he returned to the Luo River to search for its spirit land and reunited with Yellow Ox.
• Yellow Ox led Zhou Yi to Prime Minister Turtle, who revealed the serpent demon’s hidden Cave Estate, where Zhou Yi built a base and planted spirit herbs.
• Zhou Yi dispersed and rebuilt his cultivation over thirty years, returned to Dan Ding Sect as Zhou Can, and taught Thunder Methods while watching Xiao Tiezhun’s rise.
• Zhou Yi later broke through to Foundation Establishment for the fourth time, while He Dong and the He Family began searching the Luo River after sensing aquatic demon aura.

Zhou Yi built his power and domain in the Ten Thousand Mountains, aided the rise of human martial arts, and finally formed a Golden Core. He allied with Azure Wave Lake and took up the defense of Thorn Ridge, while preparing to test the Ancient Tortoise Shell.

• Zhou Yi took in the surviving He Family, then left Yun Province amid sect warfare and fought heretical cultivators before settling at Moyun Peak.
• Zhou Yi defeated Ao Dian and the other demon kings, bringing the surviving demons under his command and establishing Moyun Cave as his domain.
• Zhou Yi cultivated for decades, killed Poisonous Noble in an ambush, and found a Seven-Colored Lotus that he transplanted for his future core formation.
• Jin Jiu brought Zhou Yi Jin Ang’s method for condensing blood cores, and Zhou Yi named its new realm Embrace the Core as the method spread through Moyun City.
• Yellow Ox survived his lightning tribulation, took human form, and led Moyun City’s people to Thorn Ridge under the Dragon Palace’s rule.
• Zhou Yi endured his own lightning tribulation and condensed his Pseudo-Core into a Golden Core, then accepted Ao Cang’s invitation to join Azure Wave Lake.
• Zhou Yi swore loyalty to the Demon Race and agreed to guard northern Thorn Ridge with Yellow Ox, choosing treasures from the Dragon Palace treasury.
• After returning to Moyun Cave, Zhou Yi recalled that the Ancient Tortoise Shell had consumed the lifespan he spent on divination and decided to test its limits.

Zhou Yi joined Earthfire Palace, strengthened its disciples and defenses, and tried to protect it from the growing conflict in the East Sea. After Feng Yang died and Huo Yan turned against him, Zhou Yi used the Nether Curse to kill a demon king and resolved to punish others who preyed on humans.

• Zhou Yi discovered that the Ancient Tortoise Shell was Black Tortoise remains and a key to the Four Spirits Sacred Hall, then sent Yellow Ox inside to explore while he stayed outside.
• Yellow Ox obtained the Azure Dragon inheritance for Prime Minister Turtle and two other demons, but Zhou Yi fled the Dragon Emperor’s pursuit and escaped to Yun Province.
• Zhou Yi settled in the East Sea, opened Four Arts Hall on Red Cloud Island, and eventually joined Earthfire Palace as Grand Elder after Feng Yang was gravely injured and Huo Yan fled with the sect treasury.
• Zhou Yi built up Earthfire Palace by refining the Black Tortoise Divine Armor, teaching disciples, and supporting their cultivation, while nurturing the Jianmu Tree with Creation Jade Dew.
• Zhou Yi refused to merge Earthfire Palace into the Five Spirits Sect and warned Feng Yang that the demonic sects might seek refuge in the East Sea.
• Huo Yan and Blood Moon Demon Lord cursed Feng Yang to death, then targeted Zhou Yi, whose armor blocked most of the curse before he pursued and killed the fleeing Demon Lord.
• Zhou Yi learned the Nether Curse, used Huo Yan’s hair to cast it, and killed the Flying Bear Demon King after learning of his crimes against humans.
• Zhou Yi ordered Earthfire Palace’s elite disciples hidden in a secret spirit land and resolved to curse more Demon Kings who oppressed humans.

As spiritual energy vanished, Zhou Yi preserved Earthfire Palace’s inheritances and cultivated through centuries of decline while the old world’s history was rewritten. He later guided Qin Zheng and Lin Fan, defended Xiao Tiezhun’s legacy, and found a Dragon’s Reverse Scale that could aid his revenge.

• Zhou Yi’s scheme helped Xiao Tiezhun and the righteous alliance destroy the Ghost King Sect, while the demonic leaders severed the ancestral vein and plunged the provinces into spiritual decline.
• Zhou Yi moved Earthfire Palace underground, gathered its teachings, and used the growing Jianmu Tree to sustain his cultivation as his disciples and allies died and the sect was abandoned.
• Xiao Tiezhun defeated Jian Xuan and Miaoshan, then entrusted Zhou Yi with Dan Ding Sect’s core texts before Zhou Yi established a hidden refuge in the North Sea.
• Zhou Yi preserved the yellow ox’s consciousness within the Jianmu Tree, spent centuries cultivating, and later discovered that records blamed Xiao Tiezhun for Red Province’s destruction.
• Zhou Yi took in Qin Zheng, taught him to cultivate, and helped him understand that Dao Lord Xuanxiao’s reputation had been distorted, and Qin Zheng later returned to rule the Qing Kingdom.
• Zhou Yi trained Lin Fan with the Dividing Light Sword, then left him to pursue his own path as Emperor Taishi searched for Kunlun Mountain and sought to clear Xuanxiao’s name.
• Zhou Yi established Kunlun Mountain as his secluded residence and met Jin Jing, who told him that Moyun City’s ruler had grown unclear-minded and that the Qing Kingdom sought to annex the city.
• At Moyun City’s Golden God celebration, Zhou Yi received a Dragon’s Reverse Scale from Jin Jing’s family vault and gave Jin Jing unusual rice seeds in return.