Recaps

Li Xiuchang won the Future Ghost King Championship, advanced to Foundation Establishment, and impersonated a Black Soul Sect envoy on a mission to Nine Peaks Temple. Trapped in the Immortal Shade, he fought the Blood Monks and learned that the Blood Flower Sect leader knew the Demon Sealing Land’s location.

• Li Xiuchang helped mine Frost Cold Profound Copper, planted Spirit Plants in Mo Tu’s hidden village, and captured Fierce Ghosts to strengthen Paw Patrol.
• After reporting a Soul Demonic Path stronghold, Li Xiuchang accepted Elder Xu’s mission to impersonate a Black Soul Sect envoy and negotiated for cultivation resources and protection.
• Li Xiuchang used Beast King Bone Powder to strengthen himself, won the Future Ghost King Championship with Wangcai, and advanced to Foundation Establishment while concealing his cultivation.
• Elder Liu captured Tang Yan, and Li Xiuchang took his place at Nine Peaks Temple, where golden Buddha light transported him into an underground palace.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that the other supposed demonic envoys were undercover Righteous Path agents, then used his Vajra Dharma Image to lead them out into the Immortal Shade.
• Li Xiuchang and the agents traveled through the Immortal Shade with Brother Scar, but a Fat Daoist and eighteen Blood Monks cornered them in a strange forest.
• Li Xiuchang unleashed his Abacus Magic Treasure, destroying the Fat Daoist and the Eighteen Arhats, while a Blood Jade Tree produced eighteen new Blood Monks.
• Senior Brother Gui killed the Blood Monks and explained the Blood Bodhi Tree’s origin, while the Fat Daoist’s resentful soul revealed the Blood Flower Sect leader knew the Demon Sealing Land’s location.

After returning from the Immortal Shade, Li Xiuchang advanced his cultivation, expanded his businesses, and prepared for the Hundred Arts Competition while Zhang Wanzhi formed a High-grade Golden Core. Their reputations drew a Sword Seeking Sect challenge, and both agreed to travel there for a Divine Sword Heart-Questioning opportunity.

• Senior Brother Gui taught Li Xiuchang the Mind Monkey and Will Horse summoning art, gave him a Blood Bodhi Fruit, and helped him escort survivors out of the Immortal Shade.
• Li Xiuchang reunited with the sects, reported what happened underground, earned mission rewards, and joined the others in founding the Four Immortals Merchant Alliance.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that summoning the Mind Monkey and Will Horse transformed his Vajra Dharma Image, then expanded his medicine field, smoked-meat business, and spirit-creature collection.
• Li Xiuchang advanced to Third-grade Body Cultivation, began refining his blood with a Blood Bodhi Fruit, and helped Su Qingchun meet Zhao Yuansi.
• Li Xiuchang killed a deceitful Lizard spirit, prepared for the Hundred Arts Competition, and rose rapidly on the Annual Preaching Ranking through his spirit-dish posts.
• Zhang Wanzhi formed a High-grade Golden Core, and Li Xiuchang cooked at his banquet while the Immortal Dust Sect finished second in the Foundation Establishment tournament.
• Li Xiuchang reached Foundation Establishment Peak and advanced his Spirit Chef Arts, while Zhang Wanzhi chose to take a master rather than enter the Inner Sect.
• After rumors spread about the Immortal Dust Sect's hidden outer-sect talents, Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi agreed to visit the Sword Seeking Sect for sparring and the Divine Sword Heart-Questioning.

Li Xiuchang won the Sword Seeking Sect matches, completed a flawless tenth-grade Diamond Core, and took the Spirit Chef championship at the Hundred Arts Competition. He then traveled with Chen Changsheng on sect missions, where they uncovered a revenge plot at a desert cave abode and Li Xiuchang swiftly defeated its three conspirators.

• Li Xiuchang defeated Sword Seeking Sect disciples Yu Feng and Cui He with his Charcoal Array and kitchen knife, while Zhang Wanzhi beat Zuo Hanguang with a single spear strike.
• Li Xiuchang passed the Divine Sword Heart-Questioning trial by turning its sword techniques into his Equality Saber, gaining a kitchen-knife-shaped Sword Seed.
• Li Xiuchang formed two tenth-grade Diamond Cores after enduring thirty-six Core Tribulations, then secured first place on the Annual Preaching Ranking and received an Anointing of two thousand Preaching Posts.
• Li Xiuchang gained mastery in many cultivation arts, arranged for Zhang Wanzhi to forge his kitchen-knife Natal Magic Treasure, and traveled with Chen Changsheng to the Seal Heaven Sect.
• Li Xiuchang won the Spirit Chef competition with his innovative dish Gazing at the Stars, then persuaded Elder Wu to teach him the Target Locking Seal.
• While traveling with Chen Changsheng, Li Xiuchang learned of a cave abode beneath the quicksand at Moonfall Oasis, where Pu Hua and Ni trapped three cultivators in a formation.
• Pu Hua and Ni revealed their plan to avenge Pu Hua’s brother, but Chen Changsheng refused the proposed blood sacrifice and demanded half the cave’s gains.
• Chen Changsheng sealed the corridor against incoming cultivators, while Li Xiuchang knocked down the three conspirators with one punch apiece.

Li Xiuchang uncovered the Sand River Sect’s crimes, helped reseal the Blood Fiend Old Demon, and developed his cultivation while investigating the Immortal Shade with his Senior Brothers. As Chu Ya’s public confession to Xia Siyun ended in rejection, Li Xiuchang learned that the emotional thread between them had grown stronger.

• Chen Changsheng and Li Xiuchang exposed the Sand River Sect’s bandit cultivation, explored a cave dwelling, and pursued the Blood Infant’s master toward Ox Horn Ridge.
• Li Xiuchang destroyed the Yin Altar’s guardians, joined Chen Changsheng in confronting the Blood Fiend Old Demon, and helped reseal him before returning to the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Li Xiuchang refined the Soul Slicing Saber, strengthened his Second Diamond Core and malevolent spirits, and advanced his body cultivation while handling sect duties.
• Li Xiuchang investigated the mysterious residents of Eastern Geng District with Steady, learned formation-breaking, and discovered that the Immortal Shade was expanding and threatening the realm.
• Lu Yang explained the layered worlds and the search for refuge beyond the Immortal Shade, then began teaching Li Xiuchang to brew immortal wine.
• Li Xiuchang’s Golden Halberd Unicorn Beetle emerged from its pupa and chose the name Golden Horn, while Li Xiuchang’s Dao seed transformed into the Heart of Myriad Daos.
• Li Xiuchang delivered Chu Ya’s requested flowers and watched Chu Ya publicly confess to Xia Siyun, who rejected him.
• Li Xiuchang tried to comfort Chu Ya, who told him that the emotional thread between them had grown thicker after Xia Siyun’s rejection.