Recaps

Jiang Qiu pursued A'Xiong's scattered soul fragments through the Fourth Heaven's illusions while A Qiu's journey through the Southern Wilderness unfolded. After escaping the Dragon Emperor's Legacy, Jiang Qiu entered new worlds, ending one Blood Pact and becoming caught in a conflict between Weapon Demons and the Lion Clan.

• A'Ying guided Jiang Qiu's companions through the Third Heaven, where Jiang Qiu broke free of the illusion cycle and entered the Fourth Heaven with the Nine-Tailed Fox and One-Tail.
• Jiang Qiu explored real worlds inside spacetime vortices and watched A Qiu fight Evil God worshippers, take A'Xue as his companion, and reach the Ruins of Return with A Qing.
• A Qiu defeated the Demon King, ended sacrifices in Netherworld City, and ascended, while Jiang Qiu escaped the illusion with a remnant of A'Xiong's soul and pursued its other fragments.
• Jiang Qiu entered Qingqiu Village, where A-Li awakened her Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline and helped him confront the failing barrier, its sacrificial history, and the time-space loop.
• Jiang Qiu emerged from the Dragon Emperor's Legacy, learned Hua had become Snow and fused into him, then ascended to the Chaos Sea with Liu Zili.
• Jiang Qiu entered a Demon Vein rebellion, trapped the Blood Pact system inside a Mobius Strip, and freed its victims, though the Qingxu Temple Patriarch warned they had three sunrises left.
• Jiang Qiu entered another illusion, gained fox fire and a glimpse of his human past, then fled Gloomglow Forest as a scarlet sandstorm transformed it.
• Jiang Qiu reached the Crimson Blood Desert, where Weapon Demons revolted against the Lion Clan, a mixed-blood monarch emerged, and the Lion Clan Great Shaman awakened Thunder Beast remains to fight them.