Recaps

Zhou Yi helped establish the Celestial Court and its Heavenly Laws, then led campaigns that brought the dragon clans and other powers under its authority. Facing the danger of Spirit Transformation, he faked his death and revived in a small body on a hidden East Sea island while a Crimson Stone Egg passed from an ape’s nest to a Black Bear.

• Bai Suixin helped Zhou Yi arrange Blackwind Demon Lord’s ambush, but Zhou Yi lured Blackwind into a trap where Mending Heaven Sect disciples captured his remnant soul.
• Zhou Yi killed Heartless Fiend Lord, took control of Coiling Cloud Mountain, and later entered Spirit Mountain as Sanzang to study the Reincarnation Sutra.
• Zhou Yi proposed the Celestial Court and Deification Roll, secured Emperor Yuanding’s appointment as Heavenly Emperor, and helped assign divine offices to allies and other cultivators.
• After Dan Chen’s murder prompted a crackdown on Ling Yuan, Zhou Yi recited the Deification Roll and enfeoffed Emperor Yuanding and more than eighteen hundred gods.
• The Celestial Court brought the Eastern Divine Continent under its laws, while Zhou Yi stayed on Green Cloud Mountain and cultivated instead of joining the Heavenly Emperor’s discussions.
• Zhou Yi became Dragon-Suppressing Imperial Envoy, subdued the Shangwater Dragon Clan, and later saw the Celestial Court force several other clans to swear bloodline oaths.
• After nearly six hundred years in seclusion, Zhou Yi judged that he could not survive Spirit Transformation, arranged to fake his death, and revived in a small body on a hidden East Sea island.
• Gu Xiao and Bai Suixin visited Zhou Yi’s cenotaph and offered Han Zhao their help, while an ape’s Crimson Stone Egg was eventually found by a Black Bear.

Sun Changsheng rose from the Monkey Clan’s stone egg, learned cultivation from Zhou Yi, and became the Blood Demon Child whose assault shattered the Celestial Court. As Zhou Yi established a new identity as the seventh-generation Celestial Master, Yang Xuan grew into a powerful young demon and Zhou Yi confronted new threats around Green Cloud Mountain.

• The Monkey King left Monkey Mountain seeking immortals, crossed the East Sea with help from a whale family, and became Zhou Yi’s attendant Sun Changsheng at Longevity Temple.
• Sun Changsheng returned to Monkey Mountain, gathered the scattered stone monkeys, and secretly tried to revive them while building the Monkey Clan’s cultivation community.
• The Celestial Court recruited Sun Changsheng as a Heavenly Prison warden, where an Arhat Relic shattered and combined with his Blood God Clones, awakening his Blood Demon Child nature and raising him to Human Immortal.
• Sun Changsheng fought the Celestial Court, freed its prisoners, and devastated its palaces before the Heavenly Emperor persuaded the surviving gods to join demon lords in causing mortal calamities.
• Zhou Yi helped Xuan Yuan Sect endure for centuries, then feigned his death and returned to Green Cloud Mountain before becoming the seventh-generation Celestial Master at Azure Cloud Temple.
• Sun Changsheng and Yellow Ox became renowned powers, with Yellow Ox surviving his tribulation to become a Demon Saint and the first Demon Emperor.
• Yang Xuan displayed extraordinary strength from infancy, defeated the demons at a Green Cloud Mountain wrestling contest, and began visiting his demon friends.
• Zhou Yi wiped out Linyang City’s criminal Beggars’ Sect, killed a Daoist serving the Unforeseen Ghost God, and learned that Yang Si had returned to Green Cloud Mountain.

Yang Xuan’s rise reshaped the Celestial Court, while Zhou Yi led the Mending Heaven Sect, became a Human Immortal, and sent a divided soul into another world. The divided soul began a new life as a palace eunuch, where Zhou Yi navigated court intrigue and grew increasingly ambitious.

• Yang Xuan inherited the Witch God’s bloodline, rescued Zhao Yao from the Celestial Court, and became its God of War.
• Zhou Yi became leader of the Mending Heaven Sect and accepted the task of mending heaven while the Celestial Court’s power waned.
• Azure Lotus forced Yuanding to abdicate, and Zhao Yao became Heavenly Emperor before Yuanding tried to sell the world through the Gate of the Gods.
• Zhou Yi helped stabilize the world, matured the Jianmu Tree, became a Human Immortal, and watched Sun Changsheng and Qinglian ascend.
• Zhou Yi sent a divided soul through the void and traveled toward the Nine Provinces with the yellow ox and Spirit Ginseng Child.
• The divided soul awakened as a eunuch named Zhou Yi, studied the Ephemeral Bloom Manual, and took a palace post under Eunuch Xu.
• Zhou Yi used palace listening techniques to gather information, survived a purge, and began seeking greater power and a new patron.

After losing his patron, Zhou Yi survived the Cold Palace and rose to control three palace directorates by purging rivals and delivering confiscated wealth to Emperor Zhengtong. He built the Surveillance Bureau to enforce land surveys, then confronted the Pacification Office after Little Qu was killed.

• Zhou Yi left the Second Prince’s service, became Eunuch Zhu’s godson, and was sent to guard the Cold Palace, where he watched Consort Yuan, Empress Xia, and Zhao Ye die amid palace plots.
• After Emperor Hongwu died and Zhao Kai became Emperor Zhengtong, Zhou Yi became Superintendent of the Directorate of Palace Attendants, purged its corrupt eunuchs, and returned stolen wealth to the treasury.
• Zhou Yi exposed Eunuch Zhu’s embezzlement, seized two million taels, and earned promotion to Superintendent of the Directorate of Palace Affairs.
• Eunuch Jing told Zhou Yi about Innate cultivation and secret martial arts, while Zhou Yi investigated Eunuch Zhao and received leave to visit his family.
• Zhou Yi reunited with his parents, then returned to investigate poison in Virtuous Consort’s rouge, where he exposed Eunuch Zhao and took control of the Directorate of Imperial Supplies.
• Zhou Yi established the Surveillance Bureau to oversee land measurements, then crushed opposition at Yuntai Academy and used coerced confessions to implicate Minister Cui and other officials.
• Emperor Zhengtong imprisoned the officials and approved Zhou Yi’s staged punishment, while Zhou Yi ordered Little Qu to target the Wu Family after Consort Cui miscarried.
• After Little Qu was killed by bandits on his way back from Jiangnan, Zhou Yi suspected the Pacification Office and confronted Ji Yue with more than a hundred operatives.