Recaps

Meng Zhao bound Xie Wanzhi to his plans by offering help with his injuries and directing him against Yu Changkong, while securing the cooperation of the Xie family branches. Liang Muqiu avenged the destruction of her family by killing You Tiesheng, then discovered a Blood Coffin and a strange figure beneath the battlefield.

• Xie Jun agreed to report Xie Wanzhi’s movements to Meng Zhao, then met Xie Wanzhi, who ordered him to investigate Meng Family experts with Special Physiques.
• Meng Zhao revealed that his Primordial Spirit could perceive everything in Meng Family Village, planted a protective Primordial Spirit Seed in Xie Jun, and directed him to keep Xie Wanzhi away from trusted aides such as Lü Yue.
• Meng Zhao arranged for Xie Wanzhi to help capture and kill Yu Changkong, explaining that Yu’s death would weaken Beitang Sheng’s faction and that Xie Wanzhi would take public responsibility.
• Meng Zhao secured Xie Wanzhi’s agreement to cooperate with the Meng Family branches and keep away from Xie Jun, while revealing that the Chaos Grinding Mill might serve Nangong Yao’s attempt to complete his Chaos Body.
• Xie Wanzhi disclosed that Nangong Yao was seeking a Human Dao Supreme Divine Artifact, and Meng Zhao resolved to gather information and prevent Nangong Yao from wielding it.
• Liang Muqiu led Meng Family forces against You Family Manor, confronted You Tiesheng, and learned that the Plainclothes Alliance and Beitang Imperial Clan had driven the Liang Family’s destruction.
• Liang Muqiu pursued You Tiesheng into the mountains, bypassed his Nine-Nine Earth Dragon Array, and mortally wounded him with an Ice Lotus strike.
• Liang Muqiu killed You Tiesheng and uncovered a cavern containing a Blood Coffin topped with a blood-red lingzhi and a teenage-looking blood-red figure.

Meng Zhao accepted Yu Nanfeng into the Meng Family and discovered Nangong Yao’s control over her, while Xie Wanzhi fought Yu Changkong. After Yu Changkong’s death, Meng Zhao debated the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, who left to face Beitang Sheng.

• You Tiesheng transferred his Divine Essence into the Blood-robed Youth, but Liang Muqiu and Meng Zhao’s Scarlet Dragon Claw destroyed the youth and gathered his essence blood into a pill.
• Yu Nanfeng joined Meng Zhao’s Hall of Honored Retainers, revealed Nangong Yao was her teacher, and warned that Nangong Yao sought a Human Dao Supreme Divine Artifact through Xie Wanzhi.
• Meng Zhao found Nangong Yao’s Primordial Spirit Seed fused with Yu Nanfeng and proposed using dual cultivation and altered methods to free her from his control.
• Meng Zhao took Yu Nanfeng to watch Xie Wanzhi battle Yu Changkong, who broke free of the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord’s control and reached a flawed Half-step Heavenly Being state.
• Yu Changkong unleashed his wind-and-thunder killing move at Meng Zhao, who swallowed it into a Five Elements world, and Xie Wanzhi agreed to claim the kill.
• Meng Zhao debated the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord about the Demonic Path and the danger of erasing human evil thoughts, suspecting Beitang Sheng stood behind such a plan.
• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord withdrew to face Beitang Sheng, while Meng Zhao promised to treat Xie Wanzhi’s martial foundation after they returned to Meng Family Village.

Beitang Shu accepted the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord’s guidance to strengthen himself against Meng Zhao, while political unrest and a failed attack on the Meng Family reshaped the situation in Ji Prefecture. Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng traveled to the Arctic Ice Plains seeking the Supreme Scepter, uncovering the Hundred Clans’ divisions and their efforts to assassinate human prodigies.

• The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord met Beitang Shu and urged him to abandon his flawed Emperor Dragon path, guiding him toward the Blood Dragon Path and stronger imperial support.
• Meng Zhao prepared to leave for the Arctic Ice Plains with Zhao Rulíng as rebellions spread across Yuan and Cloud Prefectures and Liang Muqiu agreed to manage affairs in his absence.
• A force of Grandmaster-level fighters attacked Meng Family Village and died in its Five Elements Grand Array, while Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng crossed into the Arctic Ice Plains.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng questioned the You Clan chief, who explained that the unfinished Supreme Scepter had once commanded the fortune of sixty-seven clans and was last entrusted to the vanished Huai Queen.
• The You Clan chief directed them toward the Tiantian Clan, whose members had developed the Heaven and Earth Probing Technique and whose prodigy Six-Eared Listener of Heaven had studied under Lord Heaven Burial.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng learned that Heaven Burial had reached the Dao Seed realm and met Feng Ling, chief of the Tiantian Tribe.
• Feng Ling told Meng Zhao that the Hundred Clans tracked human talents and dispatched or hired assassins to kill promising prodigies before they became threats.

Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng investigated the Supreme Scepter’s history while building ties with the Tiantian Clan and preparing to help Feng Ling in a Clan War. Feng Ling revealed that Wu Zhiqi had shaped the scepter to rival Emperor Yu’s Nine Tripods, possibly with guidance from the Heavenly Demon lineage.

• Feng Ling explained the Dragon Clan’s origins and told Meng Zhao that the Supreme Scepter was a matter for the Hundred Clans, but agreed to share information after Meng Zhao offered to help stop the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord.
• Feng Ling revealed that the scepter had passed through many clans and might harm holders who lacked the united fortune of the Hundred Clans, while Meng Zhao suspected a conspiracy involving the clans that had opposed its forging.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng stayed among the Tiantian Clan, where Feng Ling asked for their help against the Lan Clan’s challenge to his tribe’s claim on the Divine Connection Post.
• Meng Zhao overheard concerns that Dragon Tree Monk’s Peacock King Sutra could let him control a clan heir, then began training Feng Susu in the Drunken Dream Fist as a potential future ally.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng discussed the risks posed by Dragon Tree Monk and the Beitang Imperial Clan, and agreed to help Feng Ling win the Clan War before seeking the Peacock King Sutra.
• Feng Ling identified Wu Zhiqi, the Huai River Demon God, as the one who had proposed forging the Supreme Scepter to rival Emperor Yu’s Nine Tripods after his defeat in the great flood.
• Feng Ling said Wu Zhiqi had inscribed his water calamities and disasters into the scepter, and Meng Zhao suggested that a Heavenly Demon inheritor had directed him to forge it using methods from the lineage of Chiyou.