Recaps

Chen Shi cultivated without his Divine Embryo, killed Li Xiaoding, and rescued Liu Fugui while Grandpa struggled to keep him alive. After recovering from death, Chen Shi sought another temple for cultivation and disappeared underwater during Granny Sha's attempt to recover her bronze lamp.

• Chen Shi lured Second Miss Zhao and the Imperial Guards into the porcelain kiln's domain, then entered the True King's Tomb and learned the Three Lights Righteous Qi Art.
• Chen Shi strengthened his body through cultivation while Grandpa suffered fits of hunger and tried to persuade Chen Tang to take him into the city.
• Chen Shi killed Li Xiaoding and his companions, then learned that Li Xiaoding had stolen another student's Divine Embryo rather than his own.
• Zhuge Jian refused to arrest Chen Shi and burned the records about him and Chen Yindu, while Chen Yindu killed Li Kefu and his remaining companions.
• Chen Shi advanced his cultivation at the Desolate Mountain Temple before a burning celestial object destroyed it and Black Pot saved him from the blast.
• Chen Shi rescued Liu Fugui, killed Iron Brush Old Man and Zhao Ming, and forced the Huangyang Village godmother to release three children's ghosts.
• Chen Shi died during an attack of his heart illness, but Grandpa, Granny Sha, and Black Dog brought him back before Grandpa took him to recover at Mirror Lake Villa.
• Chen Shi agreed to retrieve Granny Sha's bronze lamp in exchange for another temple's location, but a giant gu broke his tether and carried him underwater.

Chen Shi’s cultivation and violent clash with the Zhao family lead him into a growing mystery surrounding a porcelain kiln and the True King’s Tomb. When the kiln’s sealed demon awakens and spreads its domain, Granny Sha, Prince Xiao, Jin Hongying, and Li Jindou converge to confront it.

• Granny Sha summoned Chen Shi from the Underworld, and he returned with the Ram Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp before beginning to cultivate at the Mountain Lord Temple.
• After transforming his true blood and surviving hunger in the mountains, Chen Shi reached the Five Viscera Complete Truth stage and returned to Huangpo Village.
• Zhao Yue’s Imperial Guards killed Sanwang and pursued Chen Shi, who killed the guards, Zhao Yue, Zhao Xue'e, other Zhao family members, and He Lian Zheng.
• Prince Xiao guided Chen Shi through the Big Dipper’s talismanic stars, then brought him to Wuwang, where Chen Shi saw Jin Hongying attack Prince Xiao with cannons.
• Chen Shi rescued the wounded Prince Xiao and took him to Mirror Lake Villa, where Grandpa drove off Jin Hongying’s paper figures and warned Prince Xiao about Chen Shi’s growing Azure Ghost Hand.
• Chen Shi completed the tempering of his true bones, while Li Jindou investigated a ghostly kiln and Li Tianqing confronted Chen Shi about the deaths near Huangpo Village.
• Li Jindou discovered that the kiln’s domain centered on a movable Eight-Armed Mother Bodhisattva statue, and Chen Shi and Li Tianqing found a petrified Great Ming Treasure Ship nearby.
• Zhao Yanlong sent Zhao Cunyi to kill Chen Shi and Chen Yindu, but Grandpa revealed himself as Ganyang Mountain Person and burned Zhao Yanlong to ashes with a fire talisman.
• The Evil Bodhisattva awakened in the kiln, turning Zhao family forces and the surrounding land to porcelain as Granny Sha, Prince Xiao, Jin Hongying, and Li Jindou gathered to fight it.

Chen Shi and his companions survived the Evil Bodhisattva’s domain, where Chen Yindu destroyed the demon and then departed for the Underworld. After Grandpa followed him, Chen Shi began working as a talisman master and faced a new threat from Grandma Black Mountain.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing fought the Thread-Pulling Worm, then watched Ganyang Mountain’s demon domain turn villagers and the land to porcelain as they helped Huangpo Village survive.
• Chen Shi killed Zhao Ziyu after finding him responsible for the deaths of Ye Hongqiu’s students, then fled the Zhao family’s pursuit with Li Tianqing.
• Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and their companions evaded the Evil Bodhisattva and gathered at Mirror Lake Villa, where Li Tianqing’s observations of its talismans helped the others prepare to fight it.
• The Evil Bodhisattva defeated Prince Xiao, Jin Hongying, Li Jindou, and Granny Sha, but Chen Yindu destroyed it and was suppressed by Xuan Shan before his demonic domain could consume him.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing used the Hongyi Cannon to attack the fleeing Zhao family, and Chen Shi killed Zhao Yanliang, Zhao Duofu, and Zhao Tianbao.
• Grandpa took Chen Shi to visit Old Hu and Green Goat, then died and went to the Underworld, where Chen Shi lit his path and mourned him.
• Chen Shi rejected Chen Tang’s help, learned that Grandpa had left for the Underworld, and received books and the Water-Fire Tempering Art from Li Tianqing and Prince Xiao.
• Chen Shi began selling talismans and solving supernatural troubles, including freeing two infants from trapped Nascent Souls, before Grandma Black Mountain threatened him and he resolved to strengthen himself.

Chen Shi destroyed Grandma Black Mountain, discovered a hidden temple behind his head that gave him a divine embryo, and uncovered the conspiracy behind Shen Yusheng’s stolen one. The arc ended with Chen Shi challenging Xia Weiyin’s judgment as Fu Leisheng prepared to die for him.

• Chen Shi formed a Golden Core despite never cultivating the Divine Shrine and Divine Embryo realms, then killed Grandma Black Mountain by destroying her temple with a thunder-inscribed beam.
• Chen Shi investigated the county’s disappearances with Hu Feifei and Fu Leisheng, killed Magistrate Geng and Qu Ling, and completed the county examination despite examiners fearing his essay would be considered rebellious.
• Chen Shi discovered an ancient temple behind his head, where the Mountain Lord’s image appeared as his divine embryo, and survived a heavenly object that destroyed the Mountain Lord Temple.
• Tian Huaiyi failed to protect Shen Yusheng from the Myriad Souls Banner, and Fu Leisheng and Chen Shi found both men dead at the yamen.
• Chen Shi killed Zheng Shiyun after learning the Li family had bought Shen Yusheng’s divine embryo, then joined Fu Leisheng in confronting the Li family.
• Chen Shi used a thunder talisman to shatter four attackers’ Golden Cores while he and Fu Leisheng fought their way toward the Li family’s carriages.
• Sister-in-law Gu confessed to arranging Shen Yusheng’s murder and embryo theft, then died when heavenly thunder destroyed her Nascent Soul.
• Xia Weiyin demanded Fu Leisheng’s life for the Li family’s dead, and Fu agreed to die in exchange for Chen Shi’s safety, but Chen Shi stopped him and challenged Xia Weiyin’s judgment.