Recaps

Zheng Fa entered the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars to find Water Mother and confronted her corrupted counterpart while the Nine Mountains Sect built new institutions and expanded its influence. He became a True Immortal and uncovered the God-Sealing List’s connection to the First Era’s Emperor, while the sect prepared to complete the array and faced the economic consequences of its expansion.

• Zheng Fa and Nishang Yuanjun found evidence that Water Mother had vanished inside the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars, and Zheng Fa entered it after arranging for the Nine Mountains Sect to establish its Immortal Court.
• Zheng Fa used Senior Sister Zhang’s deductions to navigate the array, then entered with Lunar Fairy and Azure Maiden to search for Water Mother.
• Zheng Fa took the Star Banner, exposed Water Mother’s betrayal, and was drawn with the others into a prison where Evil Water Mother threatened them.
• Zheng Fa endured tribulations and rebuilt his Dao Fruit as the Nine Mountains Sect learned how to restrain Evil Water Mother and began preparing to complete the star array.
• Senior Sister Zhang enlisted Tang Lingwu and the Modern World’s resources, while Han Qi opened a department store and expanded the Nine Mountains Sect’s influence in Strife-Free City.
• Zheng Fa became a True Immortal, damaged Evil Water Mother, and uncovered the God-Sealing List, which revealed the Sages’ battle against the First Era’s Human Sage, whom Water Mother identified as the Emperor.
• Water Mother offered to help locate and launch the array’s remaining stars, while Daoist Guhong accepted the economic losses caused by Nine Mountains Currency and the Heaven-Earth Bank.

Nine Mountains Sect repelled the Peacock Great Emperor, brought the Three Reclusive Immortals under its influence, and confronted the threat of the Earth Emperor Corpse. Zheng Fa sent his Maitreya Body to the Western Continent, where a ritual revealed that the Modern World had been carried there.

• Madam Thousand Mechanisms tried to destabilize Heaven-Earth Bank with mass withdrawals, but Han Qi repaid depositors and drew many back with lower interest rates.
• Xie Qingxue launched a Chaos space station to find Zheng Fa, while Nine Mountains Sect refined stars for the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars.
• Peacock Great Emperor’s forces attacked Nine Mountains stores, but their defenses and flying swords crushed the invasion, and Han Qi urged Daoist Guhong to join the Immortal Court.
• Xie Qingxue’s fleet conquered much of the Peacock Demon Kingdom before Peacock Great Emperor used the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain to threaten it.
• Zheng Fa used the Grand Array to defeat Peacock Great Emperor, then secured the Three Reclusive Immortals’ submission and established a self-governance treaty for the Golden Immortal Worlds.
• Zheng Fa and the Grand Elders concluded that the Earth Emperor Corpse was directing the Western Continent’s upheaval, so Zheng Fa sent his Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden to investigate.
• Maitreya Body witnessed how Blissful Incense exploited suffering in the Western Continent, while Azure Maiden discovered that Jade Pool’s Elixir Sea had become barren.
• At Jade Pool, Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden witnessed a ritual reveal Lu Mo, Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor, and the Earth Emperor Corpse, as Zheng Fa realized it had brought the Modern World to the Western Continent.

The Universal Salvation Temple grew into a powerful refuge while Zheng Fa advanced the Nine Mountains Sect and defeated the Supreme Dao’s attack. After unifying the Eastern Continent, he turned to the Blissful Heavenly Maiden’s growing influence, while Mu Qingyan and the Nine Sons of Taishang began considering the Nine Mountains Sect’s empirical approach to alchemy.

• Maitreya Body and Tang Lingwu led Federation cultivators to establish a colony in the Western Continent, where their farming, institutes, and aid to refugees helped Universal Salvation Temple flourish.
• Abbot Tianyun introduced Maitreya Body to the Dharma King Society, and Ganan revealed that Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor had developed a Buddhist method independent of the corrupted Pure Land.
• The Heavenly Emperor Body gathered Incense Power, attained Golden Immortality, and proclaimed the Nine Mountains Heavenly Code as the Nine Mountains Realm expanded.
• Xuan Chengzi and seven Sons of Taishang used the Twofold Dust-Particle Talisman to ambush the Heavenly Emperor Body in Vast Sun City, while the Four Direction Buddhas moved to attack Zheng Fa.
• Zheng Fa trapped Xuan Chengzi and two Golden Immortals in the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars, while his Sword Dao Body fought the Four Direction Buddhas and the Blissful Heavenly Maiden subdued Eastern Glazed Buddha Ancestor.
• Zheng Fa defeated the Supreme Dao’s forces, seized the Nine-Story Exquisite Pagoda and the Twofold Dust-Particle Talisman, and ordered the Supreme Dao to surrender its Xuanwei territories.
• After the Eastern Continent was unified, Zheng Fa assigned Mu Qingyan and the Alchemists Association to develop an antidote against Blissful Incense and encouraged Mu Qingyan to form her own judgment as a future leader.
• Zhao Jingfan showed the Nine Sons of Taishang how the Azure Wood Research Institute used experiments and the Heaven's Derivation Array Disk to test and improve alchemy formulas, and Longbrow Daoist asked Mu Qingyan how they could learn its methods.