Recaps

Li Xiuchang traveled to the Zen Heart Realm to investigate the Reclining Buddha, but its trial sent him ascending to the Myriad Mountains Realm, where he reached the Nascent Soul Realm. After helping free Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu from a wooden-fish chess trial, Li Xiuchang returned with them to the Immortal Dust Sect.

• Li Xiuchang and his companions traveled through Sea Boat Realm to the Zen Heart Realm, where he collected spirit plants near the Reclining Buddha and Zhang Wanzhi opened the statue’s hidden trial.
• Li Xiuchang entered the Buddha-head trial after manifesting a lotus-platform Buddha, advanced his Body Cultivation, and deepened his Equalizer Dao while Mo Tu was forced to ascend.
• Li Xiuchang survived tribulations and ascended to the Myriad Mountains Realm, where he evaded a Heavenly Yin Sect elder and waited for Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu.
• Li Xiuchang defeated bandits who were hunting him, then cultivated in seclusion and formed a Diamond Nascent Soul in less than six years.
• Chen Changsheng found Li Xiuchang and brought him to rescue Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu from a Faceless Monk’s wooden-fish chess challenge.
• Li Xiuchang helped Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu win the team game, subdued two Nascent Souls as yin souls, and left the wooden fish with his companions.
• Li Xiuchang returned with Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu to the Immortal Dust Sect, where their companions welcomed them and Li Xiuchang checked on Jin Jiao and Little Chen the Turtle.

Li Xiuchang strengthened his cultivation and forces, harvested Golden Root Grass, and joined Mo Tu on a mission to investigate the Dark Heaven Realm. After surviving the realm’s brutal battlefield and killing Xi Hansong, they secured a chance to enter the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect.

• Li Xiuchang helped Chu Ya sever his love for Xia Siyun and form a Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul, then advanced his own cultivation by training two Nascent Souls together.
• Li Xiuchang learned that the Pure Land Realm had no way out, uncovered the histories of Lu Yang, Xia Siyun, and Chen Changsheng, and prepared for Chen Changsheng’s inter-realm teleportation project.
• Li Xiuchang reached fifth-rank Body Refining, gathered Yin Souls, and helped the Yin-Soul Wolf King reclaim its pack after discovering that the Golden Falcon had taken the Golden Root Grass.
• Li Xiuchang tricked the Golden Falcon away from the maturing Golden Root Grass, harvested its fruit, and refined it into the upgradeable Hundred Refinements Iron.
• Li Xiuchang took the Pig Demon as Little Zhu, strengthened his spirit forces and Golden Falcon, and prepared with Mo Tu to explore the Dark Heaven Realm.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu entered the Dark Heaven Realm, infiltrated the Earth Demon Sect, and were sent as expendable fighters to the frontier battlefield.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu captured Yin Souls and helped kill Xi Hansong, whose death sparked conflict between General Duan and General Wu.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu survived repeated battles and refused to return to the Earth Demon Sect unless they could enter the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect, securing an elder’s Dao Oath to arrange their study there within a year.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu destroyed the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect and established the Magic Dust Sect, while Li Xiuchang traveled through lower realms and deepened his cultivation. He returned to the Dark Heaven Realm, took a leadership role, and advanced his talisman research and Nascent Souls.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu infiltrated the Blazing Blood Demonic Sect, where Mo Tu defeated its ancestors and Li Xiuchang looted the sect and killed its cultivators.
• Mo Tu founded the Magic Dust Sect on the conquered territory and spread the New Demonic Path, while Li Xiuchang returned to the Immortal Shade Realm and advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Li Xiuchang studied artifact refining with Zhang Wanzhi, then traveled to the Pure Land Realm with Chen Changsheng and met monks who agreed to campaign against the Joyful Demonic Sect.
• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng journeyed through lower realms, attacked Joyful Demonic Sect forces, and helped open the passage beneath Yellow Jade Spring.
• After ascending through several realms, Li Xiuchang overcame his Inner Demon Tribulation, gained a major increase to his soul and Spiritual Sense, and returned to the Dark Heaven Realm.
• Mo Tu appointed Li Xiuchang Vice Sect Master of the Magic Dust Sect, and Li Xiuchang cultivated toward Spirit Transformation before developing a stable Gale Talisman pill talisman with Chen Changsheng.
• Li Xiuchang shared the pill-talisman method, continued cultivating and studying talismans, and his two Nascent Souls reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Li Xiuchang broke through to Spirit Transformation, helped the allied forces unify the Dark Heaven Realm, and weathered Ancestor Tianxiang’s attempts to target him. He explored the Origin World’s Dao trials, advanced his cultivation and arts, and ended the arc preparing to infiltrate demonic forces again.

• Li Xiuchang formed a Primordial Spirit, reached the Spirit Transformation Stage, and created a diamond clone that could wield his Cube Vajra Great Seal.
• Li Xiuchang defeated Corpse Oil Daoist and took control of his demonic corpses as the four great demonic sects invaded the Joyful Demonic Sect.
• The escalating battle forced numerous experts to ascend, while Ancestor Tianxiang targeted Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu, and Li Xiuchang escaped her after Mo Tu ascended.
• Chen Changsheng and Mo Tu returned with allied forces, defeated the demonic experts, and unified the Dark Heaven Realm under the Magic Dust Sect with Li Xiuchang as a Vice Sect Master.
• Ancestor Tianxiang abducted Chu Ya, but Ye Yuqiu fought her to protect him, and the Immortal Dust Sect’s Grand Elders intervened, and Ye Yuqiu agreed to help Chu Ya sever his love silks.
• Li Xiuchang formed a Golden Body, comprehended the Five Elements Dao, reached the middle stage of Spirit Transformation, and helped arrange for monks to assist Wenwen in the Divine Turtle Realm.
• Li Xiuchang explored Buddhist and other Dao trials in the Origin World, learned secrets from Shi Tian, and advanced his artifacts and spirit-plant cultivation in the Dark Heaven Realm.
• Xue Qingshan joined the Magic Dust Sect’s effort against demonic remnants, while Li Xiuchang and his Second Nascent Soul Clone reached the Void Refinement Stage, and Elder Xu then asked Li Xiuchang to infiltrate demonic forces again.