Recaps

Li Zhōujūn was chosen to face Xiao Yuanhuai, who announced he would visit Dao Tian Sect in ten days. Meanwhile, Mu Hongyan confronted Yu Linglong at the Jade Dragon Sect over the murder of her younger brother.

• Mu Taiyu told the mountain lords that Xiao Yuanhuai had defeated experts from three major sects, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to defend Dao Tian Sect's dignity.
• Xiao Yuanhuai appeared at the Azure Continent's border and declared he would visit Dao Tian Sect in ten days.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to Yunju Mountain, gave Lu Zhining the Taiyin True Scripture, and learned Mu Hongyan had gone to the Jade Dragon Sect.
• Mu Hongyan arrived at the Jade Dragon Sect and caught Yu Linglong's whip when the Young Sect Master attacked her.
• Mu Hongyan revealed that Yu Linglong had killed her younger brother, and Yu Linglong recognized her as the little beggar girl and prepared to eliminate her.

Mu Hongyan fought Yu Linglong at the Jade Dragon Sect, gaining the upper hand until Yu Fenghua intervened and sent her flying. Instead of avenging his daughter, Yu Fenghua reprimanded Yu Linglong and asked Mu Hongyan what had happened.

• Yu Linglong attacked Mu Hongyan with her Jade Dragon Whip, but Mu Hongyan easily dodged and mocked her lack of progress.
• Mu Hongyan enveloped Yu Linglong in mist and wounded her with repeated sword strikes while Yu Linglong wasted her strength lashing blindly.
• Mu Hongyan aimed a final strike at Yu Linglong’s throat, but a powerful force from the Jade Dragon Sect sent her flying.
• Yu Linglong complained to her father, Yu Fenghua, but he yelled at her and then asked Mu Hongyan what had happened.

Yu Fenghua punished Yu Linglong for killing Mu Hongyan’s younger brother, then tried to force Mu Hongyan to marry him. Mu Hongyan summoned Li Zhōujūn, whose terrifying aura appeared over the Jade Dragon Sect as he greeted her.

• Yu Fenghua sentenced Yu Linglong to three years at the Cliff of Contemplation and ordered her to apologize to Mu Hongyan.
• Yu Linglong apologized and left for the Cliff of Contemplation, while Mu Hongyan recognized that Yu Fenghua was trying to protect her daughter.
• Yu Fenghua proposed marriage to Mu Hongyan, but she refused and told him to kill Yu Linglong if he wanted her to agree.
• Yu Fenghua tried to seize Mu Hongyan, so she crushed the jade stone Li Zhōujūn had given her.
• Li Zhōujūn’s True Immortal aura enveloped the Jade Dragon Sect, and his phantom appeared in the sky to greet Mu Hongyan.

Li Zhōujūn forced Yu Fenghua to compensate Mu Hongyan with a place in the Jade Dragon Secret Realm. Ten days later, Xiao Yuanhuai arrived at the Dao Tian Sect seeking a contest with Li Zhōujūn, who appeared at the mountain gate to meet him.

• Li Zhōujūn pressured Yu Fenghua into giving Mu Hongyan a Jade Dragon Secret Realm spot as an apology, then warned her that she would still have to compete for its opportunities.
• After Li Zhōujūn's avatar vanished, the Jade Dragon Sect's elders discussed his formidable cultivation and Yu Fenghua resolved not to risk offending him.
• Ten days later, Xiao Yuanhuai of the Taixu Sect arrived at the Dao Tian Sect and publicly challenged the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord.
• The You Ran Mountain Lord received Xiao Yuanhuai at the gate while Li Zhōujūn and the Dao Tian Sect's leaders discussed the visitor.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared before Xiao Yuanhuai, who recognized him as the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord and grew excited.

Li Zhōujūn fought Xiao Yuanhuai while the system’s Fifty-Fifty ability let him match Xiao’s attacks, and Xiao eventually admitted defeat despite realizing Li was stronger. Li then revealed he was forty-six, shattering Xiao’s invincible heart and completing his mission, which earned him cultivation, a pill, and a divine ability.

• Xiao Yuanhuai challenged Li Zhōujūn to a fight, and Li caught his punches with ease as the mountain lords and disciples watched.
• Xiao Yuanhuai attacked with successive techniques, while Li Zhōujūn matched him and remained unharmed even after Xiao struck him in the chest.
• Xiao Yuanhuai realized Li Zhōujūn was stronger and asked him to fight at full strength, but Li could only continue matching him.
• Xiao Yuanhuai admitted defeat, vowed to cultivate until he could fight Li at the same realm, and turned to leave.
• Li Zhōujūn told Xiao Yuanhuai he was forty-six, completing the mission to shatter Xiao’s invincible heart and earning three system rewards.

After defeating Xiao Yuanhuai, Li Zhōujūn investigated a mysterious corruption in the Dark Abyss and met True Lord Wei Huo and his disciple. The three pressed deeper into the ravine after fighting human-faced spiders, and True Lord Wei Huo learned that his companion was the famous Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted the system's mission to investigate an anomaly in the Dark Abyss and flew there after greeting Sū Nán and Lu Zhining.
• Li Zhōujūn met True Lord Wei Huo and his young disciple, who explained that the Dark Abyss had become a Forbidden Land ten days earlier and that Wei Huo's eldest disciple had disappeared there.
• Li Zhōujūn, True Lord Wei Huo, and the girl found corpses and strange black stones that transformed into human-faced spiders.
• True Lord Wei Huo attacked the spiders with spirit fire, while Li Zhōujūn slapped one into ashes.
• True Lord Wei Huo learned that Li Zhōujūn was the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord and respectfully apologized for failing to recognize him.

Li Zhōujūn, True Lord Wei Huo, and Wu Shu encountered Linghuang’s corpse, which had been turned into a powerful puppet. The Spirit Dynasty’s National Preceptor revealed that he had created the Dark Abyss and used Linghuang as revenge for his son’s death.

• True Lord Wei Huo prepared to attack a black coffin, but Wu Shu appeared and warned them that her husband, Linghuang, lay inside.
• The coffin burst open, and Linghuang attacked True Lord Wei Huo, knocking him flying before standing obediently beside Wu Shu.
• True Lord Wei Huo accused Wu Shu of creating the Dark Abyss, but the Spirit Dynasty’s National Preceptor appeared and claimed responsibility for refining Linghuang’s corpse.
• The National Preceptor said Linghuang had killed his son, so he had made Linghuang’s corpse serve as his son’s vessel.
• Wu Shu attacked the National Preceptor with a golden phoenix, but Linghuang stepped in front of him, forcing Wu Shu to redirect her strike and shatter a nearby mountain.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Wu Shu and the Spirit Dynasty National Preceptor over their plot to turn Linghuang’s corpse into a puppet, only for Wu Shu to summon the Demon Realm’s Aha Demon Lord. Aha possessed Linghuang’s body and attacked Li Zhōujūn, beginning a battle between True Immortals.

• The Spirit Dynasty National Preceptor used Linghuang’s corpse to repel True Lord Wei Huo’s flames and revealed that he had refined the corpse into a puppet.
• True Lord Wei Huo asked Li Zhōujūn, the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, to intervene, and Li Zhōujūn challenged the National Preceptor to expose the mastermind.
• Li Zhōujūn identified Wu Shu as the one who ordered the plan, and she admitted her role while hinting that she had a trump card.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed his Ninth-grade Immortal Sword, but demonic energy surged into Linghuang’s corpse, and Wu Shu welcomed the arriving Devil Master.
• Aha Demon Lord possessed Linghuang’s corpse, identified himself as being from the Demon Realm, and attacked Li Zhōujūn with a colossal Dharma idol and its Bone Shattering Saber.

Li Zhōujūn revealed his True Immortal power and fought Aha Demon Lord in a fierce, evenly matched battle. Aha admired him as a kindred spirit, while Li Zhōujūn suggested he seek opponents in the Immortal Realm.

• Li Zhōujūn summoned his Sky-Covering Dharma Form, revealed his True Immortal strength, and completed his Dark Abyss investigation mission.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system-modified version of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and used its close-combat techniques to strike Aha Demon Lord's Dharma Form.
• Aha Demon Lord put away his weapons, and he and Li Zhōujūn traded blows while the people nearby watched in awe.
• Aha Demon Lord complained when Li Zhōujūn interrupted his talk with a punch, then asked Li Zhōujūn's name and called him a kindred spirit.
• Li Zhōujūn told Aha Demon Lord to seek opponents in the Immortal Realm, and Aha said he would conquer it someday, but not yet.

Li Zhōujūn tricked Aha Demon Lord into believing his name was Xiao Yuanhuai, then left the Dark Abyss and set out on foot. Seeking shelter from the rain, he entered a ruined temple and heard travelers arrive outside.

• Li Zhōujūn told Aha Demon Lord that his name was Xiao Yuanhuai, while the real Xiao Yuanhuai sensed a powerful presence targeting him in seclusion.
• Aha Demon Lord departed with Spirit Dynasty National Preceptor and Empress Wu Shu, and the Dark Abyss vanished.
• True Person Wei Huo praised Li Zhōujūn’s strength and speculated that he was delaying his ascent to the Immortal Realm to accumulate power.
• Li Zhōujūn walked toward Dao Tian Sect, entered a ruined temple out of curiosity, and started a fire as rain fell.
• A group of travelers arrived outside, and a man suggested that they spend the night in the temple despite someone already being inside.

Li Zhōujūn met Nàlán Cái, Nàlán Yè, and their guards while they sheltered from the rain in a temple, and heard Shí Yì describe a world where cultivators and monsters were rarely seen. When the Wang Family came after the Nàláns, their attackers fell silent, and Shí Yì discovered the ground outside covered in mutilated corpses.

• Li Zhōujūn welcomed Nàlán Cái’s party into the temple and spoke with Shí Yì, the Nàlán Family guards’ leader.
• Shí Yì told Li Zhōujūn about the Nàlán family’s journey to Chángkāng City and his past encounters with Immortal Masters.
• Shí Yì felt uneasy beneath the temple’s Buddhist statues, while Li Zhōujūn sensed that the Nàlán party’s situation was about to change.
• A voice outside threatened Nàlán Cái, and Shí Yì identified the attackers as members of the Wang Family.
• When no attackers entered the temple, Shí Yì went outside and returned pale, warning the others that corpses torn to pieces covered the ground.

Shí Yì warned Nàlán Cái and the others that the Wang Family guards had been brutally killed, while a supernatural presence outside the temple called to them in familiar voices. After Ā Jīn answered the voice of his dead acquaintance, the temple door shattered and the ghost killed a fleeing guard, leaving everyone in terror.

• Shí Yì told Nàlán Cái and the guards that the Wang Family people outside had been torn apart, and swore he was telling the truth.
• A voice impersonating Xiāo Shūyī called from outside, then mimicked the son of the square-faced guard, but Shí Yì warned everyone not to answer.
• The ghost called to the goateed guard and Ā Jīn using familiar voices, and Ā Jīn answered when he thought he heard Ā Zhū.
• The temple door shattered, revealing a mangled woman in white, and she split the guard with inverted-triangle eyes in two as he tried to escape.
• Shí Yì scolded Ā Jīn for answering the ghost, and Ā Jīn explained that he had mistaken its voice for Ā Zhū's.

The golden Buddha statue drove off the White-robed Woman and invited Nàlán Yè to become its disciple, but Li Zhōujūn challenged it as a fraud. A Great Dream True Buddha arrived and shattered the statue, revealing something terrifying within.

• The bronze Buddha statue glowed and forced the White-robed Woman to retreat into the woods.
• The statue asked Nàlán Yè to become its disciple, and she agreed to stay until its true body came for her the next night.
• Li Zhōujūn called the statue a little cricket and questioned its claim to be a True Buddha.
• The statue attacked Li Zhōujūn with a golden suppressing character, but a voice from outside dispersed it.
• A Great Dream True Buddha appeared, and the statue split apart as something inside began to emerge.

Li Zhōujūn and the Great Dream True Buddha met at the temple after the Buddha’s giant cricket escaped, then discussed the Dao as supernatural visions appeared around them. The True Buddha left praising Li Zhōujūn, while Shí Yì and the others became convinced he was a legendary immortal.

• A giant cricket emerged from the cracked bronze Buddha, but the Great Dream True Buddha captured it in a flying bowl and entered the room.
• The Great Dream True Buddha recognized Li Zhōujūn as a True Vehicle and respectfully greeted him.
• The Great Dream True Buddha confirmed that Nàlán Yè had spiritual insight but said he could not guide her into the Immortal Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn and the Great Dream True Buddha discussed moral dilemmas and cultivation as golden lotuses, mist, and enormous phantoms appeared around them.
• The Great Dream True Buddha thanked Li Zhōujūn for his insight, then departed, leaving Shí Yì and the others revering Li Zhōujūn as a legendary immortal.

Li Zhōujūn saved the dying Jiang Xiaobai and took him as a disciple, earning Void Immortal cultivation from the system. Jiang Xiaobai revealed that his family’s branch and the Zhang Family were conspiring to seize control of the Jiang Family’s main branch in Great Deer City.

• Nàlán Cái and the others thanked Li Zhōujūn as he left their house and continued along the mountain path.
• A badly injured young man fell in front of Li Zhōujūn, and the system identified him as a Child of Destiny.
• Li Zhōujūn gave the young man a Bone-Regenerating Pill and carried him beneath a tree to recover.
• The young man woke and introduced himself as Jiang Xiaobai, and Li Zhōujūn demanded that he become his disciple.
• After Li Zhōujūn revealed his Spirit Transformation power, Jiang Xiaobai kowtowed and became his disciple, earning Li Zhōujūn Void Immortal cultivation.
• Jiang Xiaobai told Li Zhōujūn that Jiang Family branch members had allied with the Zhang Family to take over the main branch’s shops and resources in Great Deer City.

Jiang Xiaobai returned to Great Deer City and confronted Jiang Suanjing, who was trying to seize control of the Jiang Family from the gravely injured Jiang Anlang. As Jiang Suanjing demanded the Great Patriarch’s position, Jiang Xiaobai declared that his plans would fail.

• Li Zhōujūn offered to help Jiang Xiaobai take revenge, but Jiang Xiaobai insisted on doing it himself, and Li Zhōujūn promised to support him.
• Jiang Suanjing pressured the injured Jiang Anlang to surrender the Great Patriarch’s position, backed by an alliance with the Zhang Family.
• Jiang Xiaobai returned to the Jiang Family hall, surprising Jiang Anlang and unsettling Jiang Suanjing.
• Jiang Xiaobai accused Jiang Suanjing and his son of crippling his meridians and pushing him off a cliff, while Jiang Suanjing denied knowing anything about it.
• Jiang Suanjing openly demanded that Jiang Anlang hand over the position, but Jiang Xiaobai said his plans would fail.

Jiang Xiaobai gave Jiang Anlang a pill that restored his injuries and strength, foiling Jiang Suanjing’s attempt to seize control of the Jiang Family. With Jiang Anlang back on his feet, Jiang Suanjing and his son were forced to kneel as the branch heads turned against them.

• Jiang Xiaobai offered Jiang Anlang a black Stretching-Eye-Opening Pill, but Jiang Anlang and the Jiang Family branch heads doubted it could help him.
• Jiang Xiaoyu arrived with Zhang Huilan, taunted Jiang Xiaobai, and revealed that he and Zhang Huilan were together.
• Jiang Anlang swallowed the pill and rapidly recovered, while Jiang Suanjing tore a talisman to summon reinforcements.
• Zhang Duogan arrived, saw Jiang Anlang’s recovery, and hurriedly left with Zhang Huilan rather than confront him.
• Jiang Anlang pressured Jiang Suanjing and his son to their knees, and the branch heads denounced Jiang Suanjing’s attempt to take power.

Jiang Anlang killed Jiang Xiaoyu and Jiang Suanjing for their betrayal, then reunited with Jiang Xiaobai and met his master, Li Zhōujūn. Li Zhōujūn gave Jiang Xiaobai a cultivation technique and a protective clone mark before Jiang Xiaobai headed to the rear mountain and encountered someone lying by the roadside.

• Jiang Xiaobai confirmed that Jiang Xiaoyu had crippled him and pushed him off a cliff, leading him to meet Li Zhōujūn.
• Jiang Xiaobai killed Jiang Xiaoyu, and Jiang Anlang killed Jiang Suanjing after rejecting his plea for mercy.
• Jiang Anlang thanked Jiang Xiaobai's absent master for saving them, and Li Zhōujūn entered the hall soon afterward.
• Li Zhōujūn offered to take Jiang Xiaobai to the mountain, but Jiang Xiaobai chose to make his own way in the world.
• Li Zhōujūn taught Jiang Xiaobai the Great Sun Golden Crow Scripture and placed a clone mark in his body for protection.
• Jiang Xiaobai set off for the rear mountain and stopped when he saw someone lying beside the road.

Jiang Xiaobai cared for Yao Tao after she fell into his world from the Immortal Realm, and over three months they grew close as he fell in love with her. Her family’s steward Lu Bei arrived to take her home, leaving Yao Tao asking whether she could stay.

• Jiang Xiaobai found the injured Yao Tao in the mountains, carried her to the Jiang Family estate, and had a maid care for her.
• Over three months, Yao Tao recovered and grew fond of Jiang Xiaobai, while he learned she had come from the Immortal Realm.
• Dark clouds gathered above the Jiang Family estate, and Lu Bei arrived on a colossal Kunpeng to bring Yao Tao home at her father's command.
• Yao Tao asked Lu Bei if she could refuse to return, and he narrowed his eyes as he examined Jiang Xiaobai.

Lu Bei warned Jiang Xiaobai that his feelings for Yao Tao would bring danger, but Jiang Xiaobai refused to give up on her despite the gulf between their status and cultivation. When Lu Bei attacked him with his aura, Jiang Xiaobai’s master arrived and dispersed it.

• Lu Bei offered Jiang Xiaobai pills powerful enough to raise his cultivation to the peak of the world, but Jiang Xiaobai refused them.
• Lu Bei warned Jiang Xiaobai not to entertain feelings for Yao Tao, but Jiang Xiaobai openly declared his love and vowed to earn the Yao Family’s recognition.
• Lu Bei described Yao Tao’s birth as a Golden Core cultivator and the powerful suitors seeking marriage alliances with the Yao Family, while Yao Tao defended Jiang Xiaobai.
• Lu Bei unleashed his immortal aura at Jiang Xiaobai, but a young man’s voice appeared and the aura scattered.
• Jiang Xiaobai recognized the newcomer as his master.

Li Zhōujūn’s Nascent Soul Imprint appeared to protect Jiang Xiaobai from Lu Bei, who opposed Jiang Xiaobai’s relationship with Yao Tao. Li Zhōujūn and Lu Bei exchanged attacks, leaving them apparently evenly matched as Lu Bei warned that the encounter was only the beginning.

• Li Zhōujūn’s Nascent Soul Imprint activated when Lu Bei threatened Jiang Xiaobai and dispelled Lu Bei’s pressure.
• Lu Bei explained that he wanted to take Yao Tao away because the Yao Family considered Jiang Xiaobai, a Qi Refining cultivator, unworthy of her.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Yao Tao whether she truly liked Jiang Xiaobai, and she blushingly agreed.
• Lu Bei declared that Jiang Xiaobai and Yao Tao could never be together, then attacked Li Zhōujūn with a claw strike.
• Li Zhōujūn countered with a storm of ice spikes, and Lu Bei shattered them, judging their strength evenly matched.
• Lu Bei warned Li Zhōujūn not to underestimate the Yao Family, while Li Zhōujūn answered with a faint smile.

Li Zhōujūn fought Lu Bei to a draw while defending Jiang Xiaobai and Yao Tao’s relationship, until Lu Bei summoned Yao Huangcun. Yao Huangcun refused to approve the young couple’s relationship and threatened Li Zhōujūn if he persisted.

• Lu Bei attacked Li Zhōujūn with a golden Dharma Seal, but Li Zhōujūn countered with Sword Qi, and both emerged unharmed.
• Jiang Xiaobai resolved to become powerful himself so he could earn the Yao Family’s respect and marry Yao Tao.
• Lu Bei declared he would take Yao Tao home and summoned his master by rubbing a lamp.
• Yao Huangcun appeared, and Lu Bei explained that Yao Tao loved a Qi Refining cultivator whose master was a Heavenly Immortal.
• Li Zhōujūn argued that love mattered more than the gap in cultivation, but Yao Huangcun refused to approve the relationship and threatened him.

Li Zhōujūn fought Yao Huangcun’s clone and used his Fifty-Fifty ability to match the Esteemed Immortal’s strength. After they acknowledged each other as fellow Daoists, Li Zhōujūn proposed a wager to settle Yao Huangcun’s objection to Jiang Xiaobai and Yao Tao’s relationship.

• Yao Huangcun attacked Li Zhōujūn with a giant hand made of vines, and Li Zhōujūn countered with an ice sword and a powerful strike.
• Li Zhōujūn and Yao Huangcun’s auras proved evenly matched, astonishing Lu Bei, Yao Tao, and Jiang Xiaobai.
• Yao Huangcun realized Li Zhōujūn was also an Esteemed Immortal and greeted him as a fellow Daoist.
• Yao Huangcun objected to his daughter being with Jiang Xiaobai, whom he considered unworthy.
• Li Zhōujūn argued that the couple loved each other and proposed a wager to Yao Huangcun.

Li Zhōujūn and Yao Huangcun agreed that Jiang Xiaobai would have a hundred years to ascend before Yao Huangcun approved his relationship with Yao Tao. After the Yao Family departed, Li Zhōujūn received a sword upgrade and a new mission to live among mortals for half a year.

• Li Zhōujūn proposed giving Jiang Xiaobai a hundred years to ascend, and Yao Huangcun accepted the wager.
• Yao Huangcun gave Jiang Xiaobai a hundred years to reach the Immortal Realm before he would approve the relationship, then took Yao Tao and Lu Bei away on Kunpeng.
• Jiang Xiaobai promised to work hard, and Li Zhōujūn encouraged him before his avatar disappeared.
• Li Zhōujūn's system upgraded the Ao Xue Flying Sword to a Second-Rank True Immortal Artifact and assigned him a mission to experience mortal life for half a year.
• Li Zhōujūn wondered whether the mortal-world mission would lead to an opportunity to show off.

Li Zhōujūn chose a resentment-filled mountain near a village for his six-month mortal-life trial and killed the Soul Cultivator sealed there. At Yi Yan Sect, True Person Yi Yan welcomed Yu Ziyue and Xiao Shi, unaware the threat had already been eliminated.

• Li Zhōujūn found a mountain filled with resentment and chose it as his secluded home for the system's trial.
• Li Zhōujūn used his Void Immortal Spiritual Sense to crush the Old Woman, a Nascent Soul Soul Cultivator who had nearly escaped her chains.
• Li Zhōujūn built a humble dwelling beside a stream on the mountain.
• True Person Yi Yan welcomed Yu Ziyue and Xiao Shi to Yi Yan Sect to help deal with the sealed Soul Cultivator.
• True Person Yi Yan explained how he had sealed the Soul Cultivator two hundred years earlier, and Yu Ziyue agreed to rest at the sect before going to the mountain the next day.