Recaps

Li Xuanxiao exposed Song Qize as Liu Qiushui’s undercover agent and allowed himself to be captured so he could reach Asura Hall. He revealed his disguise as Daoist Lingxu and summoned Shu Mountain’s forces to attack Liu Qiushui’s stronghold.

• Li Xuanxiao revealed Song Qize’s secrets about Liu Qiushui, and Song Qize confessed that she had ordered him to lure Li Xuanxiao out of Shu Mountain.
• Li Xuanxiao used Song Qize to draw two Asura Hall cultivators into capturing him and carrying him to Asura Hall.
• Liu Qiushui confronted Li Xuanxiao, attacked him with fire dragons, and recognized that he was protected by Shu Mountain’s Spirit Concealment Art.
• Li Xuanxiao transformed into Daoist Lingxu as a powerful sword strike breached Asura Hall’s restrictions.
• Daoist Lingxu revealed the Green Lotus Precious Color Banner, and Shu Mountain’s elders and disciples teleported into Asura Hall.

After Shu Mountain devastated Asura Hall, Li Xuanxiao stayed in seclusion to stabilize his Supreme-grade Golden Core and refine his foundation. When Li Mengyun repeatedly tried to find him, he secretly sent her home, and years later she recognized the reason for her strange trips to Shu Mountain as he passed by.

• Shu Mountain captured or killed most of the demonic disciples at Asura Hall's holy hall, while Liu Qiushui escaped severely injured.
• Shu Mountain and the other four great immortal sects used information from prisoners to destroy Asura Hall's branch halls, while Li Xuanxiao cultivated in seclusion.
• Li Xuanxiao suppressed the power of his Supreme-grade Golden Core and made a five-year plan to stabilize and perfect his foundation.
• After divining an ill-omened peach blossom, Li Xuanxiao discovered that Li Mengyun was traveling to Shu Mountain and carried her back home before she could reach him.
• Li Mengyun repeatedly attempted to find Li Xuanxiao, but he returned her home each time; years later, she recognized him in a crowd and called out her thanks as he walked away.

Li Xuanxiao sold pills and magical artifacts at several markets to replenish his resources, then visited his hometown to pay respects at his parents’ funeral. Before returning to Shu Mountain, he found a ghost named Su Xiao waiting for her absent husband and gave her one month before his formation sent her into reincarnation.

• Li Xuanxiao borrowed money, refined pills, and sold them and his old magical artifacts at four markets.
• Li Xuanxiao secretly watched his family mourn his parents in Songyang Town, then left incense and kowtowed at their graves.
• Li Xuanxiao discovered a female ghost in a dry well and tried to send her into reincarnation with the Rebirth Mantra.
• Su Xiao explained that she had died while waiting for a scholar who promised to marry her.
• Li Xuanxiao placed a formation around the well and gave Su Xiao one month for her obsession to fade before the formation sent her into reincarnation.

Ling Xuanxiao met a virtuous water ghost and helped him reunite with his deceased wife, Su Xiao, so she could let go and reincarnate. After returning to Silver Sword Peak, Ling Xuanxiao resumed refining pills and dreamed of a threat against someone he was meant to protect.

• Ling Xuanxiao summoned a water ghost who had saved a drowning child and learned that it had once sacrificed its chance at reincarnation to save a father for his daughter.
• Ling Xuanxiao promised to seek the water ghost's appointment as a River God and told it that its wife, Su Xiao, was dead and trapped in a well in Songyang Town.
• The water ghost returned to Songyang Town and reunited with Su Xiao, whose lingering obsession vanished as she entered reincarnation.
• Ling Xuanxiao used a magical treasure to help the couple meet, then lamented its destruction and continued on his way.
• Ling Xuanxiao returned to Silver Sword Peak, reinvested his profits in alchemy supplies, and anticipated Shu Mountain's disciple selection.
• Ling Xuanxiao had a nightmare in which someone threatened to slaughter his sect and the world if they harmed a woman.

As Shu Mountain prepared for its next disciple recruitment, Li Xuanxiao inspected the sect for hidden dangers, then endured a foreboding dream and spent two months refining pills. He emerged ready to sell them, still wary of what the recruitment might bring.

• Li Xuanxiao surveyed Shu Mountain and recorded several disciples’ troubles as potential dangers to monitor.
• He checked that the cafeteria auntie had not been bullied, unaware that Sweeping Grandfather resented his attention to her.
• Sweeping Grandfather raged in his spatial domain and decided to find Li Xuanxiao something to do.
• Li Xuanxiao dreamed of a voice threatening to destroy Shu Mountain and the world if anyone harmed a woman, then resolved to stay and protect the sect.
• Li Xuanxiao entered seclusion and refined pills for two months, using half his strength before emerging to prepare to sell them.

Li Xuanxiao sold pills at Phoenix Crying Hollow Market, then used his avatars, poison, and a formation to kill five cultivators who ambushed him. A bald cultivator who had discovered three avatars attacked, but Li Xuanxiao defeated him while his true body remained hidden; the battle exposed the serious risks of his Outer Body Technique.

• Li Xuanxiao sold out his pills at the market while hiding multiple avatars in separate locations.
• After five cultivators followed him, Li Xuanxiao's first and second avatars killed the Golden Core cultivator with a poisoned silver needle and trapped the four Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Four Symbols Formation.
• Li Xuanxiao's avatars searched the bodies and dissolved them with Bone-Eroding Powder, while a bald cultivator revealed that he had killed Li Xuanxiao's third avatar.
• The bald cultivator used a Treasure Umbrella to counter the Crane-Top Silver Needles, but Li Xuanxiao bound him with Golden Locks and used a hooked staff to create an opening for the needles.
• Li Xuanxiao's true body, hidden in an underground cave, revealed that he had a fourth avatar and had planned the ambush after the bald cultivator first noticed him.
• Li Xuanxiao reflected that the bald cultivator had come close to finding his true body and that his Outer Body Technique divided his power and injured him when an avatar died.

Ling Xuanxiao captured an Eight-tentacled Octopus to study how its mimicry could improve his Body Double Technique, then returned to Silver Sword Peak and raised it as a Spirit Pet. Zhao Lu told him that recruitment had been moved up and Silver Sword Peak would soon have a new Peak Master, leaving him uneasy about what lay ahead.

• Ling Xuanxiao saw an Eight-tentacled Octopus fool five cultivators with a substitute, then captured it and brought it away to study its mimicry.
• Ling Xuanxiao dismantled his backup escape routes, avoided Su Wan and Jiang Luoshui, and returned safely to his hut on Silver Sword Peak.
• Ling Xuanxiao examined his spoils, rejected the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Method because it would make him bald, and asked the Eight-tentacled Octopus for guidance.
• Two months later, Zhao Lu found the tiny octopus under Ling Xuanxiao's blanket and mistook it for his lover before he explained that it was his Spirit Pet.
• Zhao Lu told Ling Xuanxiao that recruitment had been moved up by a month and Silver Sword Peak would get a new Peak Master, making him wary of the future.

After emerging from fifteen years of seclusion, Lu Ziyin became Silver Sword Peak Master and took Li Xuanxiao along to search for promising disciples. They saved Feng Liuli from a wolf demon, but villagers accused her of bringing disaster, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Lu Ziyin took over as Silver Sword Peak Master and assigned disciples to seek new recruits for Shu Mountain.
• Li Xuanxiao revealed he had reached Foundation Establishment and persuaded Lu Ziyin to let him accompany him down the mountain.
• After several days of finding no suitable candidates, Lu Ziyin and Li Xuanxiao encountered a wolf demon attacking a village and Lu Ziyin rescued Feng Liuli.
• Feng Liuli introduced her younger brothers, Fugui and Wangcai, and said her late grandfather Tiezhu had told her to join Shu Mountain when she turned sixteen.
• Villagers surrounded Feng Liuli and called her a calamity, blaming her for their misfortunes.

Lu Ziyin and Li Xuanxiao rescued Feng Liuli from villagers who blamed her for misfortune, and Li Xuanxiao helped her prepare for the journey to Shu Mountain. After leaving, he recorded her as a possible reincarnated great expert and resolved to watch her carefully.

• Villagers tried to beat Feng Liuli to death, but Lu Ziyin shielded her and claimed she had an ordinary fate after coughing blood while calculating it.
• Li Xuanxiao suspected Feng Liuli had a special bloodline that drew the ferocious beast to the village, and Feng Liuli said she intended to join Shu Mountain to protect others.
• Lu Ziyin left for Shu Mountain after Li Xuanxiao offered to handle matters, and Li Xuanxiao promised to teach Feng Liuli self-defense techniques.
• Li Xuanxiao rebuilt Feng Liuli’s hut, fed her and her younger brothers, celebrated her birthday, and taught her sword techniques before departing when her father returned.
• Li Xuanxiao recorded Feng Liuli as a possible reincarnated great expert and decided not to act against her without learning more.

Li Xuanxiao helped register candidates for Shushan’s disciple selection and grew alarmed at the unusual names and risks he encountered. He then witnessed Lu Ziyin identify Feng Liuli as his Calamity of Life and Death, and devised a plan to intervene before the assessment.

• Li Xuanxiao returned to Silver Sword Peak and questioned candidates, recording their risk levels while reacting to the names Ye Fan, Han Li, Wang Teng, and Gu Yue Fangyuan.
• Li Xuanxiao marked Gu Yue Fangyuan as a major risk and later recorded Feng Liuli’s information as the registration ended.
• Lu Ziyin followed the glowing spirit pearl to Servant Peak and realized Feng Liuli was his Calamity of Life and Death, but he chose not to kill her.
• Li Xuanxiao watched Lu Ziyin’s discovery through the Twin Image Stone and feared the consequences of their calamity.
• Li Xuanxiao worried that Feng Liuli would join Silver Sword Peak as Lu Ziyin’s disciple after the assessment, then announced that he had a great idea.

Ling Xuanxiao secretly questioned Gu Yue Fangyuan to determine whether he was a dangerous namesake, then learned that an unknown senior had told Gu Yue to use that name. Ling Xuanxiao returned to Silver Sword Peak convinced another transmigrator was hiding in the world.

• Ling Xuanxiao infiltrated Servant Peak at night and used a talisman to question the sleeping Gu Yue Fangyuan, who denied knowing him, refining relatives, or being a reincarnator.
• Ling Xuanxiao asked Gu Yue Fangyuan hundreds of questions and repeatedly checked that he was not pretending to be controlled before deciding he was low risk.
• Gu Yue Fangyuan said his real name was Gu Yue and recalled that a senior cultivator had told him to register at Shu Mountain as Gu Yue Fangyuan.
• Ling Xuanxiao concluded the senior was likely another transmigrator who had deliberately hidden their identity, and marked the unknown person as extremely dangerous.

As Feng Liuli advanced through the third trial, the Water Qilin’s affection for her stirred Huang Peiying’s jealousy, and Feng Liuli fought her way into the final four. Meanwhile, Lu Ziyin entered Silver Sword Peak’s back mountain for tea and fruit, then found himself unable to leave.

• Huang Peiying defended Feng Liuli from a rude disciple, but grew jealous when the Water Qilin approached and licked Feng Liuli instead of her.
• Li Xuanxiao watched the encounter and arranged for Zhao Lu to help track the trial’s low-risk participants while he monitored high-risk ones.
• Feng Liuli repeatedly won despite being underestimated and reached the final four, where she was set to face Huang Peiying.
• Feng Liuli told Li Xuanxiao she wanted to take first place and become Lu Ziyin’s disciple, while Lu Ziyin reflected that meeting her had drawn him into fate.
• Lu Ziyin went to Silver Sword Peak’s back mountain for calming tea, picked a colorful fruit, and discovered he could not walk out.

Lu Ziyin became trapped in a maze formation and risked missing Shu Mountain’s disciple selection while Feng Liuli fought for a place among the final four. With Lu Ziyin absent, Li Xuanxiao used a jade slip to accept Feng Liuli into Silver Sword Peak on his master’s behalf and promised to guide her personally.

• Lu Ziyin discovered that the back mountain formation had trapped him, and he avoided breaking it by force because it would damage the medicinal forest and tea gardens.
• Feng Liuli fought Huang Peiying, weathered her attacks, and lost when Huang Peiying used a magical treasure from her father.
• The Peak Masters offered Feng Liuli places at their peaks, but she insisted that she wanted to join Lu Ziyin at Silver Sword Peak.
• When the other Peak Masters pressed Feng Liuli to choose because Lu Ziyin was absent, Li Xuanxiao used a jade slip to persuade Daoist Master Lingxu to let him accept her on his master’s behalf.
• Feng Liuli agreed to join Silver Sword Peak and greeted Li Xuanxiao as her senior brother and Lingxu as her master.

Li Xuanxiao brought Feng Liuli to Silver Sword Peak and began training her with books and cautionary relationship stories. Meanwhile, Lu Ziyin remained trapped in a maze formation, mistaking a false formation eye for the real one.

• Lu Ziyin grew furious after falling into another maze formation and vowed to break it before leaving.
• Lu Ziyin found a false formation eye containing a book about a tenth method for solving formations and realized someone had planted it to help him escape the trap.
• Li Xuanxiao brought Feng Liuli to Silver Sword Peak, where Su Wan, Jiang Luoshui, and Lin Wanqing were helping with Shu Mountain's recruitment.
• Li Xuanxiao gave Feng Liuli a collection of books about relationships, betrayal, and handling accusations, then explained that she must cultivate her heart before her cultivation.
• Li Xuanxiao told Feng Liuli the cautionary stories of Miao Lu and Feng Yun and assigned her two written reflections.

After recovering from injuries caused by Silver Sword Peak’s sword formation, Lu Ziyin emerged from seclusion and saw Feng Liuli accused of stealing a treasure. He prepared to defend her, but she stunned everyone by loudly insulting Huang Peiying.

• Lu Ziyin missed disciple recruitment while studying formations, then was poisoned and injured by Silver Sword Peak’s sword formation before entering seclusion.
• Li Xuanxiao’s casual remark inspired Lu Ziyin to develop an eleventh method of breaking formations, delaying his return from seclusion by half a year.
• Lu Ziyin saw Huang Peiying and Huang Linqing accuse Feng Liuli of stealing Dragon Head Peak’s Seven Treasures Gourd and demand that her belongings be searched.
• Huang Peiying secretly kept the Seven Treasures Gourd in her sleeve and expected Feng Liuli to be framed when it was supposedly found in her cave dwelling.
• Lu Ziyin moved to defend Feng Liuli, but she suddenly pointed at Huang Peiying and shouted a string of insults, leaving the crowd silent.

Feng Liuli exposed Huang Peiying's attempt to frame her, and the Law Enforcement Hall punished Huang Peiying and her father. After meeting Lu Ziyin, Feng Liuli wondered why her old feelings for him had faded, then continued her Dao Heart lesson with Li Xuanxiao.

• Feng Liuli revealed the Seven Treasures Gourd in Huang Peiying's hand and accused her of trying to frame her.
• Huang Peiying slapped Feng Liuli, but Feng Liuli restrained her and slapped her back; Huang Linqing then punched Feng Liuli, who loudly called for help.
• The Law Enforcement Hall stripped Huang Linqing of his elder position and confined him for ten years, while Huang Peiying lost her stipend for three years and was assigned a year of hard labor on Servant Peak.
• Feng Liuli taunted Huang Peiying and met Lu Ziyin, declining his offer to cultivate by his side and admitting she feared revenge from Huang Peiying's Lineage.
• Feng Liuli returned to her cave dwelling, where Li Xuanxiao continued her Dao Heart lesson and asked her to recite the fifth paragraph.

Li Xuanxiao protected Feng Liuli’s family from Huang Peiying’s hired assassins and exposed the plot, bringing Huang Peiying and the Huang family before Shu Mountain. Feng Liuli forgave Huang Peiying, then stabbed Feng Liuli through the chest, leaving her intent unclear.

• Huang Peiying ordered her maid to arrange the murder of Feng Liuli’s family, and five assassins entered their home.
• Li Xuanxiao captured the assassins, recorded evidence of Huang Peiying’s scheme, and arranged for the Earth God to protect Feng Liuli’s family.
• Li Xuanxiao used his contracted spirit pet Xiao Ba to improve his Outer Body Technique and gave Xiao Ba another questionnaire.
• Four surviving assassins turned themselves in at Shu Mountain, and the Image Stone exposed Huang Peiying’s conspiracy, implicating her family.
• Huang Peiying begged Feng Liuli for forgiveness, and Feng Liuli said she forgave her before a sword pierced Feng Liuli’s chest.

Feng Liuli killed Huang Peiying for attempting to kill her, and Li Xuanxiao approved of her decisive response. He assessed his cultivation and equipment needs, then began a plan to amass wealth so he could cultivate in seclusion.

• Feng Liuli killed Huang Peiying, who had committed a capital offense under the sect rules.
• Lu Ziyin withdrew his hand from Feng Liuli, surprised by how decisively she acted.
• Li Xuanxiao learned what Feng Liuli had done and approved, relieved that his efforts had paid off.
• Li Xuanxiao reviewed his treasured swords, magical treasures, cultivation arts, and Five Elements Spiritual Root, noting that he needed more resources and further improvement.
• Li Xuanxiao walked out of his cottage on Silver Sword Peak and officially began his wealth-hoarding plan.

Ling Xuanxiao prepared to enter the Lesser Cold Secret Realm while trying to keep Zhao Lu and Feng Liuli safe during an upcoming training trip. After he armed them with traps and safety lessons, a series of mishaps stopped Lu Ziyin from leading the group himself.

• Zhao Lu complained that Ling Xuanxiao was neglecting her, so he ordered her to copy two books and increased her punishment after comparing her to Feng Liuli.
• Ling Xuanxiao chose the Lesser Cold Secret Realm as his source of materials and prepared to leave for a journey that could last several months.
• Zhao Lu told Ling Xuanxiao that Lu Ziyin would lead the Qi Refining Stage disciples down the mountain the next day, including her and Feng Liuli.
• Ling Xuanxiao equipped Zhao Lu and Feng Liuli with hidden defensive tools and made them recite his safety principles.
• Lu Ziyin refused to let another disciple lead the trip, but his cave collapsed and a Spirit Monkey ruined his clothes, forcing him to hand the task to someone else.

Li Xuanxiao completed a mission to discipline a black bear demon and discovered it had been secretly killing people with the help of its Hundred Beasts Fire. He then rushed into the Lesser Cold Realm just before its entrance closed.

• Li Xuanxiao left Shu Mountain aboard the Money Merchant Guild's Flying Ship to complete a Foundation Establishment mission before entering the Lesser Cold Realm.
• Li Xuanxiao seized a black bear demon and beat it, then told it to farm the fertile land instead of committing crimes.
• After Li Xuanxiao left, the black bear revealed to its wife that its Hundred Beasts Fire concealed its blood aura and that it planned to keep killing before moving away.
• Li Xuanxiao returned and dragged both black bears underground after overhearing their plan to eat more people before leaving.
• The Lesser Cold Realm's entrance opened under the joint watch of three sects, and cultivators rushed inside.
• As the entrance was about to close, Li Xuanxiao darted into the Lesser Cold Realm.

After a Beast Tide separated Feng Liuli from her fellow disciples, she met Shangguan Suiyun, the Ghost King of Supreme City, and accepted his offer to become her older brother. The two set off together to travel and have fun, leaving Feng Liuli’s return to Shu Mountain unresolved.

• Li Xuanxiao watched over Feng Liuli and Zhao Lu with a clone as Eleventh Senior Brother led the group through the secret realm.
• A Beast Tide attacked, but Feng Liuli and Zhao Lu used Li Xuanxiao’s poison to defeat the beasts before they became separated from Eleventh Senior Brother.
• Feng Liuli found a village where Shangguan Suiyun killed all its inhabitants with a wave of his hand and asked whether she feared him.
• Feng Liuli told Shangguan Suiyun that he seemed kind, and he said she reminded him of his younger sister before asking to become her older brother.
• Feng Liuli agreed to travel with Shangguan Suiyun instead of returning to Shu Mountain, and the two journeyed together beneath the moon.

Shangguan Suiyun asked Feng Liuli to leave Shu Mountain with him, then waited outside the sect while she went back. When Shu Mountain cultivators attacked him, Feng Liuli watched the battle and, remembering the innocent villagers he had killed, ordered them to kill him.

• Shangguan Suiyun persuaded Feng Liuli to return to Supreme City with him, and she agreed to say goodbye to her master and fellow disciples first.
• At Shu Mountain's outskirts, Shangguan Suiyun waited in a pavilion while Feng Liuli went ahead, and she tearfully wondered whether he was truly her brother.
• The Shushan Sword Formation activated, and Shangguan Suiyun used a sinister magical artifact to repel the disciples who confronted him.
• A giant flying sword descended from the sky and overpowered Shangguan Suiyun as he insisted that he would wait for Feng Liuli.
• Watching the fight through the Divine Mirror, Feng Liuli recalled Li Xuanxiao's warning and the village of common folk Shangguan Suiyun had slaughtered, then urged the disciples to kill him.

Li Xuanxiao cautiously traveled through the Lesser Cold Realm, gathering medicinal ingredients and avoiding battles until he spotted a woman apparently trapped by a giant spider. He stole her Bone-Washing Flower and Longevity Fruit, then escaped after defeating her spider Spirit Pet.

• Li Xuanxiao hid underground while his clones fought nearby, then looted the fallen cultivators and fled.
• Li Xuanxiao continued north, gathering medicinal herbs and spirit fruit while avoiding other cultivators.
• Li Xuanxiao stole the Bone-Washing Flower from a woman who had staged a rescue trap with her spider Spirit Pet.
• The woman set another trap, but Li Xuanxiao stole her Longevity Fruit and escaped her attack with a decoy.
• Li Xuanxiao knocked down the woman’s spider Spirit Pet, carried off its body, and ran as she shouted after him.

Li Xuanxiao stole valuables from a poison cultivator, fought a Puppet Master through his puppets, and rescued Shang Linqing from a poisonous forest. He left Shang Linqing somewhere safe with materials and advice, then departed.

• Li Xuanxiao stole the female cultivator’s hairpin and poison bottles, processed her spirit beast, and fled after erasing his traces.
• Li Xuanxiao searched for Essence Refining Stones and used his puppets to defeat a Snake Puppet, then robbed the opposing Puppet Master and left him alive in his undershorts.
• Li Xuanxiao recognized Shang Linqing as a fellow Shu Mountain disciple and carried her out of the poisonous forest to safety.
• Li Xuanxiao left a Twin Image Stone with Shang Linqing, returned to leave valuable materials, and wrote her advice to follow the righteous path.

Li Xuanxiao left the Lesser Cold Realm with a haul of rare materials after discovering that another transmigrator might be searching for people like him. Back at Shu Mountain, he learned Zhao Lu had reached Foundation Establishment and began investigating the unusual changes in Su Wan’s aura.

• Li Xuanxiao saw a mysterious message offering access to a treasure site in exchange for answers to questions that revealed the message’s author was likely a transmigrator.
• Li Xuanxiao avoided answering aloud, recited the Calming Incantation, and left the Lesser Cold Realm when it closed.
• Li Xuanxiao returned to Shu Mountain on Fanyue’s Wind Chariot, submitted his mission, and escaped Su Wan, who had come looking for him.
• Zhao Lu greeted Li Xuanxiao after bathing and told him she had reached Foundation Establishment; he denied that he had formed a Golden Core.
• Li Xuanxiao checked Su Wan’s recorded footage with an Image Stone to learn why her aura seemed restless.