Recaps

Zhang Lingshan seized the auction’s treasures, settled old scores, and tracked Jiang Chenyu before learning that Golden Light Temple had taken his father. He gathered allies and cultivated a powerful golden body, then began investigating the expert behind the temple’s formation.

• Zhang Lingshan won the auction’s treasures, killed Yuchi Wenmin, Yuchi Dian, Gold Mountain Old Man, and several attackers, then took over the auction and fought Buddha Pity and Mu Hongwei.
• After returning to Jiang City, Zhang Lingshan collected compensation from the Yuchi Family and fought Qin Yunbi, then killed Qin Yunbi when he followed him out of the city.
• Zhang Lingshan tracked down Jiang Chenyu, killed her and Hong Gongyu, and escaped an ambush by Quiet Thunder Dharma Master and the Twelve Venerables.
• Zhang Lingshan learned that Zhang Zhongcheng had been taken to Golden Light Temple and traveled there with Kong Dagui, Xiahou Ge, Zhao Huanyang, and Celestial Crane Daoist.
• At the temple, Zhang Lingshan and his allies discovered that Zhang Zhongcheng resisted its formation and planned to move the Array Eye beneath the Great Buddha Statue.
• Zhang Lingshan mastered the Nine Yin Mysterious Art and used it to open Storage Bags, finding the Golden Light Body Protection Art and the hidden Golden Light Body Protection Divine Art.
• Zhang Lingshan cultivated the divine art until his heart, blood vessels, and bones transformed, then recovered and combined Protective Golden Light with the Violet Gold Body Shield.
• Zhang Lingshan questioned a captured Paradise Mountain heretic about the formation’s expert and recognized that the expert’s Cutting Intent had preserved or restored a tree’s vitality.

Zhang Lingshan entered the Demon Suppression Envoy selection, gathered allies in the Trial Land, and defeated Cang You'er and Nantang Yu while forming the Life and Death Wheels. At the Enlightenment Land, he reunited with Fei Xia and learned that the Zhang Family had long searched for his ancestor, Zhang Quyi, whose legacy was disputed.

• Zhang Lingshan raised Zhang Zhongcheng’s strength with Golden Light Body Protection Art and sacrificed remains and blood until Zhang Zhongcheng broke the Buddha statue, revealing a Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone that Zhang Lingshan refined into his heart.
• Zhang Lingshan restored vitality to Zhang Lingchuan’s bones, assembled the Wordless True Scripture, then left Jin City and entered the Mist Realm to compete for the Demon Suppression Envoy selection.
• Zhang Lingshan passed the selection’s initial trials, entered the Trial Land, and killed Hu Yanfei before joining Hua Wuyue and Chen Guangtuo to hunt a mountain god and seek the Enlightenment Land.
• Zhang Lingshan’s group followed Pei Tong’s Star Dipper Compass and used Fei Xia’s pendant to draw Cang You’er to them, where Zhang Lingshan and his allies defeated Cang You’er and Nantang Yu.
• Zhang Lingshan formed the Life Wheel and Death Wheel, drowned Nantang Yu in the Dead Qi Pool, and tamed the Dead Corpse Monkey before his group reached the Enlightenment Land.
• Zhang Lingshan reunited with Fei Xia and showed Zhang Xiufeng his genealogy, leading Zhang Xiufeng to recognize him as a descendant of Zhang Quyi and explain that the Zhang Family had searched for Zhang Quyi for generations.

Zhang Lingshan survived the Trial Land’s deadly layers, strengthened his abilities, and escaped with Pei Tong after defeating Big Eye. In Twin Cities, he killed Pei Qing and Yan Feng, uncovered the Fish Head Person’s incomplete cultivation method, and reunited Pei Tong with Pei Xingdou, who offered to help Zhang Lingshan find a complete inheritance.

• Zhang Lingshan entered the Second Layer, survived an ambush, and defeated its Mountain God before building Mountain God Armor and surviving Big Eye’s attack.
• Zhang Lingshan joined Zhang Diqi and Pei Tong, helped them advance to the Organ Nourishing Realm, and killed Zuoqiu Wufeng when he ambushed Zhang Diqi.
• Zhang Xiujie trapped Zhang Lingshan in ice, blinded him, and fled with Zhang Diqi, but Zhang Lingshan later gained Divine Consciousness and continued hunting with Pei Tong.
• Zhang Lingshan and Pei Tong found Thousand Year Stalactite Marrow, escaped the Third Layer, and returned to the Second Layer, where Zhang Lingshan defeated Big Eye and claimed its venom.
• Rooster guided Zhang Lingshan to the Wind Whisper Hundred Apertures Fruit and through the Abyssal Melody River, teaching him the Three Sovereigns Bell and Fish Dragon Art before leaving him and Pei Tong outside the river.
• Zhang Lingshan and Pei Tong disguised themselves and helped the Demon Suppression Division kill a fish-headed monster, then followed Pei Qing and Yan Feng’s trail to Twin Cities.
• Zhang Lingshan killed Pei Qing and Yan Feng, raided the South Sea Merchant Guild, and obtained the incomplete Flawless Leakless Skill after the Fish Head Person’s bargain failed.
• Zhang Lingshan demanded a meeting with Pei Xingdou, who reunited with Pei Tong and offered to help Zhang Lingshan obtain the complete skill or an inheritance from the Central Province Demon Suppression Division.

Zhang Lingshan survived Zhang Xianbai’s attempt to kill him, gained a position in the Demon Suppression Division, and secured recognition within the Zhang Family. After secretly killing Zhang Zenan and rescuing Zhang Xianfeng from the Zuoqiu Family, he prepared to reclaim the Fire Spirit Stone Mine as the site of his Hammer-Wielding Hall.

• Zhang Lingshan entered the Skill Transmission Pagoda as Feng Yuchuan, reached its ninth floor, and killed Zhang Xiujie after revealing his identity.
• Zhang Xianbai attacked Zhang Lingshan in the pagoda, but Zhang Lingshan survived through his Paradise Mountain inheritance and killed Zhang Xianbai when Li Bufan arrived.
• Li Bufan appointed Zhang Lingshan as the Demon Suppression Division’s Hammer Wielder and gave him three hundred official slots to establish his own enterprise.
• Zhang Lingshan passed through the Zhang Family’s Heart Questioning Stele, absorbed the Heart Ape’s mental power, and unknowingly helped Zhang Lingzhi obtain the Heart Inheritance.
• Zhang Lingshan merged his branch’s genealogy into the Zhang Family, gathered resources, and secretly followed Zhang Xianfeng toward Purple Cloud Ridge.
• Zhang Lingshan killed Zhang Zenan after refusing his offer of loyalty, and the Blood-Colored Crystal absorbed Zhang Zenan’s yin spirit.
• Zuoqiu Wuming defeated and captured Zhang Xianfeng, but Zhang Lingshan rescued him through his Flame Leopard Demonization and sent him Essence Blood to heal.
• Zhang Lingshan told Zhang Xianfeng that the Heart Inheritance was within him, then announced they would kill Zuoqiu Huang and reclaim the Fire Spirit Stone Mine for the Hammer-Wielding Hall.