Recaps

Meng Zhao defeated Shi Siming, drawing attention and shifting support toward the Meng Family, then joined Meng Hongdao and Meng Chuan in a secret clash with the Sun Family. He recruited Han Pu and secured his family’s loyalty as the Sun Family mobilized, ending with Lü Yue bringing urgent news.

• Meng Zhao defeated Shi Siming with a feigned display of exhaustion and the Mountain Crushing Strike, winning recognition from Shen Tianci and shifting guests’ support toward the Meng Family.
• Meng Jizu and Meng Hongdao revealed that the Sun Family planned to intercept a shipment of weapons, and Meng Hongdao ordered Meng Zhao and Meng Chuan to join a secret mission.
• Meng Hongdao led Meng Zhao and Meng Chuan through a hidden tunnel to a farmhouse, where Wang Tianlei’s fighters prepared to confront the Sun Family.
• The Meng Family ambushed Sun Chuanxing’s convoy, and its coordinated fighters defeated the attackers while Meng Chuan killed Sun Chuanxing and Wang Tianlei killed an Innate Master.
• Meng Zhao spared a skilled young Sun Family warrior and later recruited him as Han Pu, arranging safety for Han Pu’s family and giving him the Heavenly Fiend Saber Scripture.
• Sun Chuanshan warned Meng Zhao that the Sun Family was mobilizing forces and contacting local underworld figures, while Han Pu became one of Meng Zhao’s trusted aides.
• As Han Lu watched Meng Zhao practice, Lü Yue hurried into the courtyard with a grave expression.

Meng Zhao uncovered Hu Baiwan’s role in the assassination plot while seeking Tu Xiu’s treasure, and Jumoluo captured Magic Bat after a fierce battle. Magic Bat revealed more about Hu Baiwan and Shi Jie, then taught Meng Zhao a dangerous blood-transformation scripture in exchange for killing his former good brother, who held a key.

• Shi Jie warned Meng Zhao that Hell Path had been hired to kill him and explained that the Tuxiu Treasure required two keys, with the third likely held by Tu Xiu’s brother-in-law’s descendants.
• Meng Zhao learned that Meng Qinghuai was plotting against him with Meng Wen’s backing, while God of Wealth ordered Magic Bat to capture Meng Zhao alive.
• Meng Zhao enlisted the Heavenly Punishment Hall’s help against Magic Bat and set out with Jumoluo, who disguised himself among the party.
• Lü Yue killed Meng Qinghuai after Wang Ji’s drugged tea caused him to lose his cultivation and die, then arranged a cover story for the deaths of Wang Ji and her former husband.
• Meng Zhao found that Hu Baiwan had bought the Miao family’s key, and Magic Bat attacked him before Jumoluo intervened.
• Jumoluo defeated Magic Bat and prepared to take him to the Imperial Capital, while Meng Zhao questioned the captive about Hu Baiwan and Shi Jie.
• Magic Bat revealed Hu Baiwan’s ties to Hell Path and Prince Fu, warned that Shi Jie might have ulterior motives, and identified Shi Jie as his sworn brother’s acquaintance.
• Meng Zhao agreed to learn the Heavenly Bat Blood Transformation Scripture and promised to kill Magic Bat’s former good brother, who had a key to the Tuxiu Treasure.

Meng Zhao exposed Hu Baiwan’s schemes, helped the Meng Family dismantle the Hu Family’s power, and tricked Hu Yingming into surrendering the Supreme key. With Hu Baiwan preparing to flee, Meng Zhao chose to strengthen his position within the Meng Family rather than bargain for Hu Yingming.

• Meng Zhao rejected the Heavenly Bat Blood Transformation Scripture’s blood-drinking methods and taught Han Lu the Beauty Fist.
• After Meng Qinghuai was poisoned, Meng Zhao implicated Hu Baiwan by revealing that Magic Bat had tried to assassinate him, and urged the Meng elders to act against Hu Baiwan.
• Meng Zhao outlined a plan to expose Hu Baiwan as a Hell Path member while secretly seeking the treasure key, as the Meng Family intercepted Hu Baiwan’s messages and cut off his commercial influence.
• Meng Zhao and his allies deceived Hu Yingming into believing he had won Cui Jinyun’s favor, then captured him and took the ancient key marked Supreme.
• Meng Zhao learned from Shi Jie that the Tuxiu Treasure lay in a secret realm atop Dragon Head Mountain and that its three keys granted access and limited control over Worldly Power.
• Hu Baiwan learned that Hu Yingming and the key were missing, realized his family had been ruined, and decided to seek Meng Zhao before leaving Ji Prefecture.
• Meng Zhao absorbed the Fire Python Gall, then rejected Hu Baiwan’s invitation to trade for Hu Yingming and arranged to meet Leng Huifeng and the Meng elders about the Hu Family.

Meng Zhao used Hu Baiwan’s meeting to help destroy the Hu Family’s power and secure its hidden network, but Hu Yingxiong escaped and remained a threat. Meng Zhao then entered Tu Xiu’s Grotto-Heaven with Shi Jie, where their search for the inheritance ended in a confrontation over the treasure.

• Meng Zhao met Hu Baiwan at Ancient Dian Garden, traded Hu Yingming for the Hu Family’s personnel register, and revealed that the Meng Family and Heavenly Punishment Hall had begun their attack.
• Yang Jiu killed Geng Zongfang and Kang Liang, while Hu Baiwan killed Hu Yingming and took his own life after refusing to surrender his dignity.
• The joint forces exposed the Hu Family’s ties to Hell Path, but Hu Yingxiong escaped, and Meng Zhao secretly recruited Wang Xuan, Lu Mingtang, and Xu Dayong to find him.
• Wang Xuan brought a corpse identified as Hu Yingxiong to Meng Mansion, and Meng Zhao then invited Shi Jie to accompany him to Dragon Head Mountain.
• Meng Zhao and Shi Jie used their Treasure Keys to open the Grotto-Heaven and discovered that the keys let them wield Worldly Power inside it.
• Following Shi Jie’s map, Meng Zhao and Shi Jie crossed the Grotto-Heaven and found Tu Xiu’s palace, including halls of wealth, weapons, armor, medicine, and art.
• Shi Jie urged Meng Zhao to seize Shen Tianci’s map and key, but Meng Zhao offered him a share of the treasure if he left Ji Prefecture.
• Shi Jie refused, claimed the final treasure for himself, and attacked Meng Zhao with a Worldly Power-enhanced qi arrow.