Recaps

Lu Qing killed the White Robe Youth, endured a five-colored tribulation to form a Perfect Golden Core, and defeated the Gray Robe Man when he came seeking revenge. The arc ended with Lu Qing killing the captive Gray Robe Man and recovering the Purity Lotus from his Storage Bag.

• Lu Qing lured the White Robe Youth away from Nine Li Village and killed him by transmitting the force of his War Blade through the youth’s Treasure Armor.
• Lu Qing returned to the village, learned that several elderly villagers had died from shock, then perfected his cultivation and began the Golden Core Tribulation.
• Lu Qing endured the Five-Colored Tribulation Lightning, formed a Perfect Golden Core, and received a Great Dao Chapter about Golden Core Mysteries.
• Lu Qing subdued the Five-Colored Winged Snake, named it Five Elements, and collected the White Robe Youth’s treasures and cultivation records.
• Wu Qianfeng traced his junior brother’s death to Nine Li Village, where Lu Qing admitted killing the White Robe Man and fought him.
• Lu Qing severed Wu Qianfeng’s arm, trapped him in an illusion, and took his Void Flying Boat back to the village.
• Lu Qing questioned Wu Qianfeng, searched his memories, and learned that the Purity Lotus was in his Storage Bag.
• Lu Qing incinerated Wu Qianfeng and his Divine Soul, then found the intact Purity Lotus in a Jade Box.

Lu Qing destroyed Hanging Sky Mountain’s Secret Realm, settled the Yan Family’s claims over Li Weitian’s descendants and the Ten Thousand Mountains, and began teaching cultivation in Nine Li Village. While traveling for resources with Xiao Yan, he intervened when Li Changbo attacked the Cold Water Palace and exposed the truth behind his wife and child’s deaths.

• Lu Qing attacked Hanging Sky Mountain, killed its elders, and destroyed much of the mountain before escaping its collapsing Secret Realm aboard the Void Flying Boat.
• Lu Qing confronted Yan Cangshan over Li Weitian’s map, demanded the return of Li Weitian’s descendants and the Ten Thousand Mountains, and later secured the Yan Family’s agreement to his terms.
• Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village, arranged for the Wei Family to care for Li Weitian’s descendants, and tested the villagers for cultivation aptitude, finding unusual potential in Grandpa Zhao before he died peacefully.
• Lu Qing met with Master of Heaven’s Secret Pavilion and learned the other Secret Realms had heard of Hanging Sky Mountain’s destruction, then traveled with Xiao Yan and their companions in search of spirit stone veins.
• Lu Qing brought Xiao Yan to Cold Water City, where he learned that Eternal Regret Sect Master Li Changbo had come to confront the Cold Water Palace Master over his late wife’s inheritance.
• Li Changbo overpowered the Cold Water Palace Master, injured her, and threatened to make her his soul slave until Lu Qing caught his Azure Flame and stopped him.
• Lu Qing freed the Cold Water Palace Master and used an illusion to make Li Changbo confess that he had arranged his wife’s capture and caused her and their child’s deaths.

Lu Qing gathered the Spirit Pearls, helped Chen Songqing survive his Golden Core tribulation, and joined the Holy Mountain’s effort to restrain the world’s rising conflicts. At the Holy Assembly, he stopped Meng Dian’s attack, stripped away his Netherworld Ghost Claw, and exposed the ancient cultivator hiding within it.

• Lu Qing left Cold Water Palace with the Fire Spirit Pearl, killed Li Changbo, and took his remaining treasures before reaching the Spirit Vein Land with Xiao Yan.
• Lu Qing cultivated in seclusion as factions searched for him, then rushed home after learning Chen Songqing was preparing for tribulation.
• Lu Qing helped Chen Songqing endure his Golden Core tribulation, and Chen Songqing formed a High Grade Golden Core before Lu Qing traveled to the Holy Mountain with Lin Zhi Rui.
• Lu Qing acquired the Golden Spirit Pearl from the Third Holy Master in exchange for a sword move and agreed to help the Holy Masters establish order amid the Spiritual Qi Revival.
• The Holy Assembly drew sects and powers to Holy City, where Meng Dian challenged the Holy Mountain Decree and demanded leadership for the Returning Origin Sect.
• The Holy Masters revealed they could not leave the Holy Mountain, and the First Holy Master asked Meng Dian to promise that his sect would protect ordinary people.
• Meng Dian attacked with a Netherworld Ghost Claw, but Lu Qing froze and dispersed it, then suppressed the assembly and seized the claw from Meng Dian.
• Lu Qing burned away the claw’s gray mist with the Southern Samadhi Fire, revealing Netherworld Old Man, who admitted that he had survived by possessing his spirit artifact’s Artifact Spirit.

Lu Qing gathered the Five Great Spirit Pearls, dealt with a corpse-refining evil cultivator and his master, and reunited with Xiao Yan. The arc ended with Xiao Li and Five Elements beginning their tribulations after refining Dragon Turtle True Blood.

• Lu Qing destroyed Netherworld Old Man and killed Meng Dian, then received Merit Golden Light after the Holy Assembly established its new prohibitions.
• Lu Qing brought the villagers of Yellow Sand Village to safety, persuaded Old Trees to leave with him, and gathered the Great Spirit Pearls by trading with the Dragon Turtle.
• After refining all five Great Spirit Pearls, Lu Qing strengthened his divine soul and formed the Five Colors Light.
• Lu Qing reunited with Xiao Yan, joined her companions in investigating Qiu Family Village, and watched her defeat the evil cultivator who had raised its dead villagers.
• Lu Qing followed the Red Smoke Thread to the Black-Robed Old Man’s hidden cave dwelling, destroyed its defenses, and killed him when his own demonic arts consumed him.
• Lu Qing returned to Cang Province with Xiao Yan and brought her, Xiao Li, and Five Elements to the Jade Cave Chamber.
• Lu Qing gave Xiao Li and Five Elements Dragon Turtle True Blood, and they began refining it as Lu Qing and Xiao Yan guarded them through their transformation.