Recaps

Su Qing founded the Origin Opening Immortal Kingdom, brought the Far West’s mines and trade under his control, and established the Heroic Gathering. The competition began with Kaiyuan gaining attention through its strong performers, while Su Qing turned even the spirit-healing event into a showcase for his medical products.

• Su Qing hired Master Huizhen and the True Persons, opened heaven for Wang Ba Tian, then led his allies against the Heart-Piercing Demon before the Demonic Buddha escaped with its Dao Pattern origin.
• Su Qing reached West City, exposed True Person Zi Wei and Wu Gen Xiong in the Xian Qin Envoy’s murder, and declared the founding of the Origin Opening Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing secured support from cultivators and investors, confronted the Four Great Families, defeated their forces with Shield Axe Guardsmen and Transformers, and returned their mines to public ownership.
• Penglai ordered three hundred thousand Ghoul Dolls from Su Qing, while the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom expanded its mines, industry, and trade as conflicts and rivalries spread across the Western Sea.
• Su Qing and the Sloppy Daoist founded the Heroic Gathering, where Wei De Bao, Delong, Tiger Egg, Bear Two, Qing Lian, and others prepared to compete.
• The Heroic Gathering opened with Tong Chang announcing the competition rules, while True Lord Songshan lost several events before qualifying in a range of obscure contests.
• Su Qing’s Puppets earned Kaiyuan points across many events, and True Lord Songshan arrived at a venue determined to change Taoyuan Sect’s fate.
• Su Qing faced Fu Mankang in spirit healing, using puppets and Dao Patterns to treat patients and advertise his products until Fu Mankang realized he could not compete with him.

Su Qing dominated the Heroic Gathering’s combat and Puppet events while building Kaiyuan’s alliances and business ties, then helped settle the crisis after Shao Delong’s apparent death. The arc ended with Su Qing inviting his allies to explore the dangerous Abyssal Secret Realm and laying out a cautious plan to scout it.

• Su Qing defeated Wang Ba Tian, overcame the Lingbao Sword Cultivators’ formation with his Sword Puppets, and replicated the Dao Heaven Talisman Wall’s pattern to beat Great Evolution Divine Lord.
• Su Qing tried to recruit Great Evolution Divine Lord for Kaiyuan, but the god refused and left after giving Su Qing a divine art and Ancient Heavenly Court puppet blueprints.
• Su Qing defeated Qianxuzi after the Dao Law Evil Lord turned on its master, then destroyed the Evil Lord and collected its remains.
• Su Qing negotiated with Li Sanyang over Tiger Egg’s future as a disciple and sword guardian, then persuaded True Lord Taoyuan to join the Hall of Martial Arts as a lecturer.
• Su Qing deliberately yielded several matches to benefit Kaiyuan and its allies, but defeated True Monarch Suying to win the Puppet Master of All Heavens title.
• After Shao Delong collapsed when the life-and-death runes in his armor clashed, Su Qing discovered Delong was alive and helped keep the fused armor secret.
• Su Qing discouraged his allies from seeking revenge against the Eastern King Sect and revealed the Abyssal Secret Realm, proposing that they scout its Yama Palace with Puppets before committing to enter.

Su Qing prepared for the Abyssal Secret Realm, refined powerful puppets, and opened three Grotto-Heavens for Kaiyuan citizens and Witch tribes. After Penglai’s leaders challenged his actions, he marched there, forced political concessions, and imposed strict terms on the All Heavens sects, while the secret-realm expedition remained ahead.

• Su Qing secured support for the Anti-Demon Alliance and announced its plans, while Tiger Egg accepted Li Sanyang as his master and left to train at the Spirit Treasure Sect.
• Su Qing refined the North Sea Giant Kun and Dharma Eye puppets, then opened Azure Dragon, Nine Li, and Xingtian Grotto-Heavens for Kaiyuan citizens and Witch descendants.
• Liu Gandang pressured Third Prince Yun to lead a denunciation of Kaiyuan, but most alliance powers rejected action against Su Qing.
• Su Qing gathered his allies and puppet army to travel to Penglai, where Third Prince Yun tried to flee before the Azure Dragon King stopped him.
• Su Qing confronted Liu Gandang with evidence of the Cloud Dragon Realm’s dealings with demonic forces, then entered Penglai and agreed to protect its innocent residents while investigating its leaders.
• Su Qing accepted Penglai’s offers to restore the Liu, Liang, Ying, and Wang families and secure Kaiyuan’s influence, deciding against a full investigation of Penglai’s past.
• Su Qing demanded taxes, shared technologies, local employment, travel restrictions, and equal enforcement of Penglai law from the All Heavens sects, and Zhong Ze found that threats and Su Qing’s armor debt gave him little leverage.

Su Qing led an alliance into the Abyssal Secret Realm to reclaim Yama Palace and prevent Black Wukong and the underworld demons from gaining the Samsara Dao Pattern. After reaching the corrupted heart of the underworld, he discovered that the pattern conflicted with his Puppet Immortal path and chose to destroy the five remaining Supreme Treasures to stop the Samsara Demon.

• Liu Gandang backed Su Qing’s demands, and True Monarch Zhong Ze accepted 123 Dao Pacts rather than risk fighting or refusing him.
• Su Qing and Tong Chang organized a public expedition into the Abyssal Secret Realm, drawing cultivators and allies despite widespread fears of its dangers.
• The Great Sage Who Covers the Seas secretly entered the realm with Western Sea Demonic Beasts, while Su Qing assembled the coalition aboard the North Sea Giant Kun.
• Su Qing’s forces fought Void Demonic Creatures, Prison Suppressing Divine Elephants, Blood Mosquitoes, and the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas as they advanced toward Yama Palace.
• Jade Lotus and the Merit Wooden Fish defeated the Bridge of Life and Death Evil, allowing Su Qing to gain the Cause and Effect Dao Pattern and the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Su Qing imprinted the Five Elders Dao Patterns, advanced to Deity Transformation True Monarch, and used his new power to destroy the Seven Hells Black Dragon King.
• Su Qing used the Investiture of the Gods to win the Stone Officials’ allegiance, then led them and the True Monarchs into battle against the corrupted Yama Kings and underworld forces.
• Su Qing discovered that the Samsara Demon was gathering Supreme Treasures to complete the Samsara Dao Pattern, so he destroyed the Reincarnation Mirror and resolved to destroy the other five treasures despite the cost to his Puppet Immortal proficiency.