Recaps

Bai Jin lent Daoist Duobao the Treasure Dropping Coin, which stopped and collected Bai Yu’s seven Immortal Slaying Flying Daggers and helped Duobao win the duel. After Duobao was injured by an exploding box, Tongtian and Eastern Emperor Taiyi agreed to a best-of-three contest, and Bai Jin learned he might be called to fight next.

• Bai Jin gave Holy Mother Wudang the Treasure Dropping Coin to pass to Daoist Duobao, and Duobao used it to collect Bai Yu’s seven Immortal Slaying Flying Daggers.
• Duobao forced Bai Yu to concede and pursued the box Bai Yu threw, but it exploded and injured him.
• Duobao crashed onto the mountain path, while Tongtian claimed the round and Eastern Emperor Taiyi argued that the contest should not count because an outsider had interfered.
• Yuanshi challenged Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who proposed a best-of-three contest, and Tongtian agreed.
• Holy Mother Wudang told Bai Jin he would fight a Golden Immortal, and Bai Jin protested that Jinling should take his place.

Bai Jin watched Shi Ji lose to Qi Hu, then challenged Ying Lian after Qi Hu wounded Shi Ji despite the concession. Bai Jin defeated Ying Lian with a strike during his bow, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi accepted the loss and left with his forces.

• Qi Hu fought Shi Ji and wounded her after Bai Jin called for the match to end.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi punished Qi Hu for disobeying, then asked Tongtian to lend him the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage; Tongtian asked Bai Jin to decide.
• Bai Jin declared his Sword Dao and challenged Ying Lian, who accepted the duel.
• Bai Jin struck Ying Lian while Ying Lian was bowing, defeating him with a wound across his chest and back.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi conceded, declared the karmic ties settled, and departed with his group.

At Shangqing Palace, Tongtian discovered that Duobao’s misfortunes had begun after he used Bai Jin’s Treasure Dropping Coin and restored Duobao’s chaotic fortune. Duobao thanked his master, while the coin remained with Tongtian.

• Bai Jin helped the injured Shi Ji leave, and Holy Mother Wudang teased him about how he had reacted when Duobao was hurt.
• Duobao was buried by a falling rock, then suffered a series of mishaps on his way to Shangqing Palace and asked Tongtian to uphold justice for him.
• Tongtian summoned Bai Jin, and Duobao thanked him for the Treasure Dropping Coin even as Bai Jin protested that he had only lent it.
• Tongtian took the coin and explained that using it further could bring Duobao close to perishing, prompting Duobao to realize it had triggered his bad luck.
• Tongtian rebuked Duobao for letting his chaotic fortune cloud his judgment, then gathered Duobao’s fortune back into a divine wheel.

Bai Jin reclaimed the Treasure Dropping Coin from Tongtian and obtained healing pills from Taishang for Shi Ji. Taishang also sent him to deliver tea to Nuwa at Buzhou Mountain, and Bai Jin set out with the errand ahead.

• Tongtian returned the Treasure Dropping Coin to Bai Jin after warning him about its cost and risks.
• Bai Jin visited Taishang, who praised his restraint during the duel and gave him healing pills for Shi Ji in exchange for delivering tea to Nuwa.
• Taishang told Bai Jin to find Buzhou Mountain by silently reciting its name, and Bai Jin accepted the tea box.
• Bai Jin gave Shi Ji the healing pills and told her to rest while he handled matters outside for a few days.
• Tongtian overheard Bai Jin describing him as cold on the outside but warm within, and Bai Jin hurriedly left Shi Ji's palace.

Bai Jin traveled from Mount Kunlun to Buzhou Mountain with tea for Nuwa and met her brother Fuxi. After sharing tea, Bai Jin listened as Fuxi played the zither, and the music carried him into a trance.

• Bai Jin left Mount Kunlun and spent several years traveling to Buzhou Mountain.
• Bai Jin followed a guiding sensation through the clouds to a valley where Fuxi was playing the zither.
• Bai Jin introduced himself and presented the tea Taishang had sent for Nuwa, and Fuxi explained that Nuwa was comprehending the Dao.
• Fuxi and Bai Jin sat in Nuwa's pavilion, where Fuxi brewed the tea with Cold Pond Heavenly Dew.
• Fuxi played the zither for Bai Jin, who became absorbed in the music and felt as though he were traveling between heaven and earth.

Bai Jin’s clay sculpture helped Nuwa complete her understanding of the Dao of Creation, and she began using the Qiankun Cauldron and Breathing Soil to create living beings. As her creations repeatedly turned back into clay, Bai Jin prepared to ask Fuxi a different question.

• Fuxi played music while Bai Jin comprehended the Dao of Speed, then took him to see Nuwa.
• Bai Jin shaped a Horned Wolf from soil, and his remark that it would be better alive inspired Nuwa to realize her Dao was complete.
• Fuxi took Bai Jin to watch Nuwa use the Qiankun Cauldron and Breathing Soil to create living creatures.
• Nuwa formed a monkey and a tiger that briefly came to life before turning back into clay.
• Bai Jin told Fuxi that his question was not why Nuwa’s creations turned back into clay.

Nuwa completed the Great Dao of Creation and prepared to create a new race called humans as the path to proving her Dao. As the era of saints began, the other major powers reacted to her attainment, and Bai Jin supplied Three Lights Divine Water for her first attempt.

• Nuwa's creation Dao connected with the Heavenly Dao, and immortals across the world sensed that she had attained sainthood.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian watched from Mount Kunlun, while Jieyin and Zhunti discussed abandoning the Profound Sect's Dao.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi told Dijun that the first saint had appeared, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to send Nuwa congratulatory gifts.
• Nuwa completed her clay-creature experiments, then asked Bai Jin what race she should create.
• Bai Jin described the primordial world as vast and lonely, and Nuwa decided to create a race in their likeness called humans.
• Nuwa lit the Qiankun Cauldron and asked Bai Jin for Three Lights Divine Water, which he poured into it.

Empress Nuwa created the Human Race with her essence blood and attained sainthood after receiving Heaven’s merit. She left for the Chaos to establish her Dao field, while Nuling claimed leadership of the newly created humans.

• Nuwa used her essence blood and the Qiankun Cauldron to create Nuling and other humans, then used the Gourd Vine to make their numbers reach ten thousand.
• Nuwa declared the creation of the Human Race, and Heaven’s merit made her a saint while granting merit to the Gourd Vine, the mud pool, and Bai Jin.
• The primordial world’s powerful beings bowed to Saint Nuwa, who announced that she would expound the Great Dao in the Chaos and asked Fuxi and Bai Jin to look after the humans.
• Nuwa accepted the blue luan and Colorful Phoenix as attendants and departed for the Chaos, while Fuxi and Bai Jin vanished from the valley.
• Nuling silenced the humans and declared herself their Clan Leader, arguing that she was the first person Nuwa created and that the Human Race should honor women above all else.

After advancing to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, Bai Jin learned that Fuxi was overseeing the Human Race and agreed not to interfere with their development. Fuxi relocated their settlement from Buzhou Mountain to a safer plain by a great river, where he immediately destroyed an approaching demon horde.

• Bai Jin broke through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, thanked Fuxi for guarding him, and joined him for tea.
• Fuxi explained that the Human Race had become a matriarchal society and that he and Bai Jin had been entrusted with its care; he urged Bai Jin to let the humans develop on their own.
• Fuxi said Buzhou Mountain was unsuitable for the Human Race and used pillars of light to lift their settlement and carry it south to a plain near a great river.
• Nuling asked why Fuxi had moved the humans, and he told them the new land had abundant resources and would be safer for their growth.
• Bai Jin spotted demon clouds approaching from the east, and Fuxi obliterated the demons with a single strike.

Fuxi and Bai Jin left their secluded guardianship of the Human Race after Nuwa invited them to Wa Huang Palace for a Dao lecture. Bai Jin understood nothing from the lecture, and Nuwa told him to return once he had found his own Dao.

• Fuxi and Bai Jin watched the Human Race multiply into tribes for three years while living in seclusion.
• A Colorful Phoenix arrived on Nuwa's order and invited Fuxi and Bai Jin to Wa Huang Palace, where the Human Race hailed them as Sacred Envoys as they departed.
• Bai Jin arrived with Fuxi at Wa Huang Palace, greeted Tongtian, the other great powers, and Nuwa, and took a seat beside Holy Mother Wudang.
• Nuwa expounded the Dao, but Bai Jin could not understand it and admitted that he had gained no insight.
• Nuwa recognized that Bai Jin had yet to comprehend his own Dao and invited him to return for another lecture when he did.

Nuwa concealed her intentions toward the Demon Race while Fuxi joined the Demon Court, prompting the Wu Clan to prepare for war. Back on Mount Kunlun, the Three Pure Ones questioned Bai Jin about Nuwa’s path to Sainthood, and he began describing what he and Fuxi had witnessed.

• Taiyi praised Nuwa for becoming a Saint and declared that the Demon Race had someone to rely on, while Dijun asked her to accept his ten sons as disciples and she refused.
• After the gathering ended, Nuwa told Fuxi to join the Demon Court and earn the Demon Race’s trust, revealing that she intended to let events unfold to her advantage.
• Dijun and Taiyi welcomed Fuxi into the Demon Court, and the Wu Clan learned of his decision and ordered its warriors to prepare for war.
• On Mount Kunlun, Tongtian, Taishang, and Yuanshi questioned Bai Jin about his connection to Nuwa and how she became a Saint.
• Bai Jin told the Three Pure Ones that he and Fuxi had entered the place where Nuwa comprehended the Dao and seen strange things, prompting them to ask for details.

Bai Jin told the Three Pure Ones how his offhand comment had helped Nuwa attain sainthood, then returned to Shangqing Peak. After junior disciples asked him to stop Qiu Shou Xian and Ling Ya Xian from taking over their scripture-reading spots, Bai Jin promised to act, and the rival disciples prepared to challenge them the next morning.

• Bai Jin explained that Nuwa had created humans and attained sainthood after he molded a cute Horned Wolf from mud and said he wished it were alive.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed Nuwa's achievement, and Yuanshi sent Duobao and Wudang away so the brothers could discuss the Dao.
• Shi Ji and other junior disciples told Bai Jin that Qiu Shou Xian and Ling Ya Xian had seized Mirror Lake and another place where they recited scriptures.
• Bai Jin told Shi Ji and the others to resume their morning class at Mirror Lake and promised to avenge a junior sister whose braids Qiu Shou Xian had tugged.
• The next morning, Ling Ya Xian and Qiu Shou Xian heard the disciples reciting scriptures and dismissed Bai Jin's authority compared with Duobao's.

Bai Jin confronted the Outer Sect Disciples who disrupted Mirror Lake, invoked their violations of sect rules, and ordered them into thirty years of seclusion. Ling Ya Xian challenged him, and Bai Jin began the duel with a Qing Tian Sword as Ling Ya Xian raised his twin swords.

• Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears warned Ling Ya Xian not to provoke Bai Jin because Bai Jin could report them to Shangqing Palace.
• The Outer Sect Disciples disrupted Shi Ji and the others’ scripture chanting at Mirror Lake with drinking and noisy play.
• Bai Jin struck the disciples who refused to leave Mirror Lake and declared that it belonged to their Master, not to them.
• Bai Jin questioned Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears about their rule-breaking and ordered the Outer Sect Disciples into thirty years of seclusion.
• Ling Ya Xian challenged Bai Jin, who accepted and summoned a Qing Tian Sword as Ling Ya Xian prepared to fight with his twin swords.

Bai Jin defeated Ling Ya Xian and disciplined the Outer Sect Disciples after arguing that their behavior at Mirror Lake dishonored Tongtian's intentions. Tongtian renamed the lake Quiet Self Lake and sealed the cultivation of those who had indulged there, while Bai Jin later explained his strict approach to Holy Mother Wudang.

• Bai Jin used the Qingxiao Sword to defeat Ling Ya Xian, breaking his shoulder and sending him crashing into a crater.
• Duobao questioned Bai Jin for acting harshly against fellow disciples, and Bai Jin argued that their drinking and feasting at Mirror Lake violated Tongtian's hopes for the place.
• Tongtian renamed Mirror Lake Quiet Self Lake and ordered the cultivation of the disciples who had indulged there sealed for ten years.
• Bai Jin warned the Outer Sect Disciples to obey sect rules and ordered them to sit and recite the Yellow Court Scripture under Shi Ji's guidance.
• Bai Jin told Holy Mother Wudang that he played the villain to keep the Outer Sect in line, then begged her to take over the role, but she declined.

Daoist Duobao warned Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian not to provoke Bai Jin, recounting his exploits and influence. The three disciples realized Bai Jin far surpassed their expectations, while Duobao admitted Bai Jin might soon be beyond even his level.

• Holy Mother Wudang declined Bai Jin’s suggestion that she play the villain and floated away.
• Daoist Duobao sealed a secluded valley and asked Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian why they had troubled Bai Jin.
• Duobao described how Bai Jin had defied the Western Sect, injured Bifang Demon God, taken the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, and outwitted Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
• Duobao warned the three disciples that Bai Jin was ruthless and ingenious, and that even he might not be able to save them if they provoked him.
• Duobao revealed that Bai Jin had attended Empress Nuwa’s lecture with Great God Fuxi and had guided a saint toward attaining the Dao.
• Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian were stunned as Duobao said Bai Jin might eventually outgrow him as an opponent.

Duobao and his fellow disciples devised ways to help their master and martial uncles attain sainthood, hoping to outshine Bai Jin. Duobao went to Taiqing Palace and began presenting his method to Taishang.

• Duobao urged Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian to find paths to sainthood for their master and martial uncles.
• Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Ling Ya Xian, and Qiu Shou Xian suggested ideas, but Duobao rejected their first proposals.
• After a day and a night of discussion, the group proposed that First Martial Uncle refine a Saint Pill, Second Martial Uncle refine a Saint Artifact, and their master create a Saint Formation.
• Duobao went to Taiqing Palace, where Taishang granted him an audience.
• Duobao told Taishang he had devised a method of attaining the Dao and asked to present it.

Duobao proposed that Taishang prove the Dao by refining a Saint Pill and Yuanshi by creating a Saint Artifact, prompting both to enter seclusion and consider his ideas. Duobao then reached Shangqing Peak, where he learned Bai Jin was meeting with Tongtian and asked Jinling to let him see their master first.

• Duobao suggested that Taishang refine a Saint Pill to gain Heaven and Earth's recognition, and Taishang sealed Taiqing Palace to consider the idea.
• Duobao urged Yuanshi to refine a Saint Artifact, and Yuanshi entered seclusion after deciding to think it over.
• Bai He the Attendant left Yuqing Peak to visit Bai Jin on Shangqing Peak.
• Duobao arrived at Shangqing Peak and found Jinling waiting while Bai Jin met with Tongtian.
• Duobao asked Jinling to let him enter first when Bai Jin finished, and she agreed.

Tongtian instructed Bai Jin about the uses of merit, and Bai Jin refined some of his merit into a coin modeled after Zixiao Palace. After returning to his palace, Bai Jin was visited by Bai He and Shi Ji, who arrived to play while their master was in seclusion.

• Tongtian warned Bai Jin not to use merit on the four Qing Tian Swords and told him to choose carefully how to refine it.
• Duobao entered Shangqing Palace after Bai Jin left, accidentally sealing Jinling out, and Jinling flew down the mountain in annoyance.
• Bai Jin returned to his palace and used the Treasure Dropping Coin to refine a thread of merit into a mysterious yellow coin bearing an image of Zixiao Palace.
• Bai He and Shi Ji arrived at Bai Jin's palace, and Bai He said she had come to play because her master was in seclusion.

While fishing with Bai He the Attendant and Shi Ji, Bai Jin learned that Duobao had advised his master on attaining sainthood and rushed to Shangqing Peak to stop him. Bai Jin and Duobao clashed over the advice, and their duel ended with both injured and their disciples scattered.

• Bai He the Attendant told Bai Jin that Duobao had advised the master to refine the first Saint Artifact between heaven and earth to attain sainthood.
• Bai Jin flew to Shangqing Peak, where Duobao blocked his way and said the master was in seclusion.
• Bai Jin accused Duobao of risking the master's safety, while Duobao insisted he could offer advice on the Saint Dao just as Bai Jin had helped Empress Nuwa.
• Duobao's Outer Sect Disciples cheered him as Bai Jin summoned the Qing Tian Sword and struck at him.
• Duobao countered with Defy the Heavens Slash, and the clash scattered and injured disciples before leaving both Bai Jin and Duobao wounded.

Bai Jin failed to find Tongtian and his two uncles before they left, while Holy Mother Wudang helped him get past Duobao. Duobao's followers praised his proposed paths to sainthood, and Gu Liang came to Bai Jin complaining about them.

• Holy Mother Wudang stopped Duobao from blocking Bai Jin, who hurried to Shangqing Palace to seek Tongtian.
• Bai Jin learned that Tongtian and his two uncles had already left, then told Holy Mother Wudang that Duobao's proposed paths to sainthood would fail.
• Holy Mother Wudang urged Bai Jin to heal and promised to persuade Duobao, while Shi Ji stayed with Bai He the Attendant.
• Duobao's followers praised his ideas and suggested an honorific title, while he insisted he was only offering a suggestion.
• Gu Liang visited Bai Jin as he healed and complained that Duobao's followers were annoying her.

Bai Jin dismissed the mushroom girl’s worries about Duobao and the Three Pure Ones, but seven years later their attempt to attain the Dao ended in disaster when Purple Cloud Divine Thunder struck. As Duobao regretted his role in their failed attempt, Houtu proposed an alliance between the Wu Clan and the Human Race to win Empress Nuwa’s support.

• Bai Jin reassured the mushroom girl that she need not fear Duobao and told her to focus on cultivating and comprehending the Dao.
• Seven years later, three Great Daos rose across the primordial world, prompting the immortals, Demon Court, Wu Clan, and Empress Nuwa to watch the Three Pure Ones’ attempt to attain the Dao.
• Purple Cloud Divine Thunder struck above the Eastern Sea, Buzhou Mountain, and Mingqiong Snow Mountain, causing explosions and devastation as the Three Pure Ones failed to attain the Dao.
• Bai Jin lamented the Three Pure Ones’ failure while Duobao flew away, regretting that he had urged them to follow his guidance.
• Houtu proposed visiting the Human Race and seeking an alliance so the Wu Clan could gain Empress Nuwa’s support.

Houtu persuaded Dijiang to consider whether the Human Race deserved the Wu Clan’s protection, while the Three Pure Ones punished Duobao after his failed attempt to help them attain the Dao. Bai Jin prepared a hotpot dinner to comfort Taishang and Yuanshi, then struggled to persuade his displeased master to join them.

• Dijiang dismissed Houtu’s alliance proposal and asked her to judge whether the Human Race deserved the Wu Clan’s protection, so Houtu left to visit them.
• Zhunti realized Taishang was refining pills with western earth-vein fire and called for him, but Taishang ignored him and left.
• The Three Pure Ones returned to Mount Kunlun, and Duobao reassured Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Ling Ya Xian, and Qiu Shou Xian after they reported the failed attempt to attain the Dao.
• Green and purple fingers repeatedly flicked Duobao’s head, then his Master sent him a paper bearing the character “Dao” and ordered him to study it in seclusion.
• Bai Jin prepared a hotpot dinner and successfully invited Taishang and Yuanshi, but his Master refused to leave Shangqing Palace and mocked his efforts to use the other two brothers to persuade him.

Bai Jin coaxed Tongtian into joining Taishang and Yuanshi for hotpot, then explained why he had tried to stop their attempt to attain the Dao. His reminder that the Three Pure Ones were Hongjun’s direct disciples led them to realize their Saint Dao lay in spreading enlightenment, and Bai Jin secured their promise to show him mercy if he offended his uncles.

• Bai Jin persuaded Tongtian to leave Shangqing Palace and join Taishang and Yuanshi for hotpot.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian sampled Bai Jin’s hotpot, and the meal eased the tension among them.
• Tongtian asked Bai Jin why he had been certain their attempt to attain the Dao would fail.
• Bai Jin suggested that the Three Pure Ones should inherit Hongjun’s Dao as his direct disciples, prompting them to realize their path was spreading enlightenment.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian thanked Bai Jin by granting his request for leniency if he ever offended his uncles.

Tongtian and Bai Jin toured the Primordial World, then visited the Human Race after Bai Jin heard their prayers. They found Taishang teaching the people the Dao and reached the temple where Nuwa, Fuxi, and Bai Jin were enshrined.

• Tongtian sent Bai Jin flying after Bai Jin asked him to remove his title as Head Outer Sect Disciple, and the next day the Three Pure Ones departed Mount Kunlun to seek the Saint's Dao.
• Tongtian ordered Bai Jin to lead the Kui Ox as they wandered across the Primordial World and observed its peoples.
• Bai Jin suggested visiting the Human Race, and Tongtian agreed after hearing that the people had been praying to Bai Jin.
• Kuafu stopped them while guarding the Human Race's territory, then let them pass after Bai Jin identified himself and Tongtian as the Supreme Pure One.
• Tongtian and Bai Jin found Taishang preaching to a gathered crowd of humans, and Bai Jin continued to the Human Race's ancestral temple.
• Bai Jin saw statues of Empress Nuwa, Fuxi, and himself inside the temple.

Bai Jin learned that the Human Race feared its long days and nights, then promised to bring their plea to Empress Nuwa. At Buzhou Mountain, Nuwa reached an agreement with the Three Pure Ones, and Taishang established the Human Teachings to attain the Dao.

• Four women guarding the Sacred Hall told Bai Jin that the Human Race’s descendants had weakening spiritual energy and could not endure the long days and nights.
• Bai Jin said he could not change the situation himself but would relay the Human Race’s plea to Empress Nuwa.
• At Buzhou Mountain, Nuwa agreed to sever her connection to Human Race fortune and stay out of its affairs in exchange for Taishang restraining the Two Sages of the West and avoiding the Witch-Demon Conflict.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian agreed that Taishang would attain the Dao first, and the gathered immortals and gods sensed his Great Dao rising.
• Taishang declared the establishment of the Human Teachings, using the Taiji Diagram to suppress its fortune and the Green Lotus Carrying Pole as his treasure of attaining the Dao.