Recaps

Meng Zhao strengthened his allies, learned more about Dragon City and the Lei Family’s defeat, and agreed to aid the Demon Venerable Hall. He joined Gu Sinan and Yun Fei in hunting defectors and prepared to face the Heaven Swallowing Dao Child as Luan Yeping’s group waited at a farmhouse.

• Meng Zhao ordered Doctor Yang to study the eleven Lei Family captives and advised Han Pu on healing, cultivation, and leading the search for the Ancient Battlefield while urging him to pursue Wang Xuemei.
• Lei Youbai discussed the Lei Family’s losses with Dragon City, who offered to find replacement fighters, but a Mysterious Black-Clad Man attacked them and a red-clad figure plunged Lei Youbai into darkness.
• Meng Zhao taught Lü Yue, Cao Zhan, and Zhou Hu the Azure Dragon Force, then met Gu Sinan and Yun Fei, who brought him Lei Youbai’s head and asked to use his fleet for the Demon Venerable Hall’s trade.
• Meng Zhao agreed to the Hall’s trade arrangement and joined Gu Sinan and Yun Fei in hunting its defectors, disguising himself as they traveled to Yellow Bridge Village.
• Luan Yeping persuaded Zhao Baojian and Yang Chu to seek protection from the Heaven Swallowing Dao Child, while Zhao Baojian and Yang Chu’s group plotted to replenish their vitality and await their contact.
• Meng Zhao watched Gu Sinan and Yun Fei subdue Zhao Baojian as he preyed on a farm family, then helped contain the fight while the pair spared him for interrogation.
• Zhao Baojian revealed that Luan Yeping and Yang Chu sought the Heaven Swallowing Dao Child’s protection and had brought stolen Demon Venerable Hall wealth, so Meng Zhao agreed to hold off the Dao Child if he intervened.
• Gu Sinan killed Zhao Baojian, and he, Yun Fei, and Meng Zhao prepared for reinforcements while Luan Yeping sent three disciples to search for Zhao Baojian.

Meng Zhao defeated Wei Qi, uncovered the Heaven Swallowing Dao Child’s scheme, and prepared to use Wei Qi to reach the Mishui Immortal Palace. After leaving Lingwu City for Kunnan County, he began building connections by offering protection to Chen Sheng’s widow and son.

• Meng Zhao fought and captured Wei Qi, a substitute for the Heaven Swallowing Dao Child, then learned about the Dao Child’s nine substitutes and the planned Demonic Assembly at Mishui Immortal Palace.
• Meng Zhao used the Sky-Illuminating Mirror to fuse a fragment of the Heaven Swallowing Sun Devouring Great Law with his cultivation method and created the Heavenly Capital Imperial Dragon Ziwei Scripture.
• Meng Zhao arranged to attend the gathering with Wei Qi, Gu Sinan, and Yun Fei, while Gu Sinan and Yun Fei lent him three Demon Venerable Hall treasures for a trade.
• Meng Zhao entrusted his affairs in Lingwu City to his subordinates, explained the danger of confronting the Heaven Swallowing Dao Child to Liang Muqiu, and departed for Kunnan County.
• In Kunnan, Meng Zhao learned that Chen Sheng’s widow, Chen Liu Shi, and son, Chen Tai, were abandoned by their former allies and threatened by the son of a tyrant Chen Sheng had killed.
• Meng Zhao recruited Zhang Dun and went with Wei Qi to the Chen Residence, where the one-eyed old guardian admitted them after hearing that Meng Zhao had come to honor Chen Sheng.
• Meng Zhao paid respects at Chen Sheng’s Spirit Hall and offered to protect Chen Liu Shi and Chen Tai, while Chen Liu Shi questioned his motives and warned him about their enemies.

Meng Zhao protected the Chen Family, arranged a future duel between Chen Tai and Xue Ying, and learned Xue Ying’s earth-vein art. He then traveled to Mishui Immortal Palace, where the Demon Gathering’s new Inner and Outer events offered him a chance to pursue Grandmaster instruction.

• Meng Zhao accepted the Chen Family’s cooperation, took charge of Chen Tai’s sword manual, and used the Divine Demon Eye to give Chen Tai and Zhang Dun temporary martial power against Lin Family raiders.
• After Chen Tai and Zhang Dun defeated the raiders, Meng Zhao explained their borrowed strength and confronted Xue Ying, who still intended to kill Chen Liu Shi.
• Meng Zhao negotiated a truce by promising that Chen Tai would fight Xue Ying in two years, then exchanged a fragment of the Heaven Swallowing Sun Devouring Great Law for Xue Ying’s Heaven Observation, Earth Surveying art.
• Xue Ying told Meng Zhao about the Mishui Demon Banquet, and Meng Zhao arranged protection for the Chen Family before traveling toward Mishui Immortal Palace with Gu Sinan, Yun Fei, and Wei Qi.
• At a clearing near the palace, Meng Zhao watched Xu Yanfei fight Pang Hui and learned that Xu Yanfei sought revenge for Pang Hui’s crimes against his family.
• The Mishui Immortal Palace Senior Disciple stopped the duel with a precise sword strike and announced that the Demon Gathering would have Outer and Inner events, with Grandmaster lectures and a martial treasure reserved for selected talents.
• Meng Zhao decided that the Inner Demon Gathering’s Grandmaster instruction mattered more than its treasure and believed his Purple Origin Dragon Body could help him qualify.

Meng Zhao entered Mishui Immortal Palace, impressed its Palace Master, and acquired a mysterious worm while building connections and planning a Sapphire wine business. As the Inner Demon Gathering approached, he joined a forum where He Liu appeared to be organizing Rogue Cultivators into a new power.

• Meng Zhao joined the Demonic Path gathering at Mishui Immortal Palace, where Niu Dali told him of the Heavenly Demon Palace heir and the Demonic Path’s rising fortunes.
• Meng Zhao reached the Palace Master with Wei Qi, whose exchange of three treasures for a porcelain bottle went through before the Palace Master exposed Meng Zhao’s false identity.
• Meng Zhao persuaded the Palace Master to let him prove himself in a duel, then used his understanding of Worldly Power to overcome the Immortal Palace Senior Disciple and earn an invitation to the Inner Demon Gathering.
• Meng Zhao opened the bottle and found a white worm, and Gu Sinan suspected it was an Eclosion Worm, while Meng Zhao doubted Gu Sinan’s motives and considered relying on Niu Dali’s connections.
• Meng Zhao revealed his identity to Niu Dali, Su Can, and Zheng Que, then proposed buying and reselling Sapphire wine across several prefectures and offered them a share of the profits.
• Meng Zhao arranged for Su Can and Zheng Que to protect the wine business, watched the Palace Master suppress a melee among visitors, and traded a martial art technique for Spirit Awakening Incense.
• Niu Dali brought Meng Zhao to He Liu’s gathering, where Meng Zhao spotted Xue Ying and later suspected He Liu was using the forum to unite Rogue Cultivators and build a power.