Recaps

Ba Zunan and Hua Changdeng fought through Yincao, Hua Changdeng’s ascension, and the Ghost Ancestor’s merger as other Ancestor Gods moved against the Five Domains. With Qingju’s return, Ba Zunan completed his Dao and struck down Hua Changdeng, while the wider struggle over transcendence remained unresolved.

• Xu Xiaoshou escaped the Cold Palace Imperial Realm with the sealed Sui Yin Puppet as Ba Zunan gathered the Sword Sea, Famous Swords, and tribulation clouds to strengthen himself.
• Hua Changdeng drew Ba Zunan into Divine Court Yincao, where Ba Zunan defeated its ghostly generals and broke the Fengdu Gate, prompting Hua Changdeng to begin his Ancestor God Tribulation.
• Hua Changdeng became Ancestor Hua and merged with Ghost Ancestor, while Ba Zunan entered Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns and used the World-Toppling Sword Bone to separate Hua Changdeng from the Death God.
• Bei Huai attacked Ghost Buddha as Kui Leihan crossed his own tribulation, while Hua Changdeng restored his Ancestor God power and sealed the Five Domains against Ba Zunan.
• Ba Zunan’s Sword Self endured Hua Changdeng’s attacks and began to refine itself, but Hua Changdeng struck down his Divine Shedding before Qingju flew to Lingyu Mountain.
• Qingju restored Ba Zunan’s Sword Self, allowing him to complete his Dao and destroy Hua Changdeng’s body, spirit, and intent without triggering an Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation.
• The Devil Ancestor recognized Ba Zunan’s return to zero and resolved to wear him down, while other observers weighed whether to challenge or wait.
• Ba Zunan used Qingju and the Burial Sword Tomb’s Power of Reputation to strike Hua Changdeng with Heaven Abandoned, burning away Hua Changdeng’s remaining self.

Xu Xiaoshou uncovered Medicine Ancestor’s plans while Ba Zunan and Kong Yuhen remade the Time Realm. As Medicine Ancestor and Devil Ancestor moved to reshape the world, Yue Gongli fell and Shen Yi confronted the Devil Ancestor’s coffin.

• Xi delivered Hua Changdeng’s box to Yu Zhiwen, and Yu Zhiwen identified Medicine Ancestor as the one who had guided Hua Changdeng and declared Ghost Ancestor had fallen decades earlier.
• Kong Yuhen used the Six Ancient Gates to reshape the Time Realm, and Ba Zunan entered it after forcing the Three Ancestors to stabilize the passage.
• Xu Xiaoshou met Medicine Ancestor in the Flower Sea, impersonated Name Ancestor, and warned Medicine Ancestor not to obstruct the Time Realm’s remaking.
• Medicine Ancestor revealed a plan to turn a Zero-Return Ancestral God into a World Tree, with Sui Yin’s Technique Seed as its foundation.
• Medicine Ancestor appeared in Fusang City, where Kui Leihan struck him down and pursued his incarnations across the realms before Medicine Ancestor activated Living Beings’ Sacrificial Rite.
• Yue Gongli joined Sui Yin’s plan, fought Kui Leihan, and used the Technique Dog to swallow the City of the Living Futu, but the Spell Seed consumed him before he could see his sister.
• Shen Yi entered the demonic pool, broke through the Inverted Buddha Pagoda, and struck the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin, then joined with Grudge to manifest a Buddha body.
• Shen Yi trapped the fleeing Devil Ancestor within the Three Realms, cracked the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin with Star Shatter, and struck the Devil Ancestor as it began to speak.

Xu Xiaoshou confronted Bei Huai, uncovered Dao Qiongchang’s schemes, and joined forces with him as conflicts among the ancestors escalated. The arc left Sui Yin and the Medicine Ancestor locked in a decisive battle, with Sui Yin attacking through Consciousness Extraction and Possession.

• Xu Xiaoshou entered Crossroads Corner and fought Bei Huai, suppressing his escape and learning that Shouye’s surviving wills had become Black Night.
• Xu Xiaoshou followed Bei Huai’s trail to the North Sea and the White Mist Forbidden Zone, devoured Life Medicine Pool energy, and discovered the Xu-Grey Blight.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Dao Qiongchang divided the Xu-Grey Blight, then discussed their plans against A-Yao and the Medicine Ancestor.
• Xu Xiaoshou uncovered evidence that Dao Qiongchang had replaced Luo Jing as Saint Slave’s Sixth Seat and altered people’s memories, but later agreed to cooperate with him to retrieve Shouye’s consciousness through the River of Memory.
• Shen Yi defeated Han Ancestor and pursued the Devil Ancestor, while Sui Yin searched Bei Huai’s memories and became ensnared by Dao Qiongchang’s River of Memory.
• Purple Pet restored memories across the Five Domains, while Sui Yin gathered power and treasures before confronting Shennong Hundred Herbs at Siling Mountain.
• Sui Yin drained cultivators across the Five Domains, absorbed the Seven Trees Emperor, and transformed into his full three-headed, six-armed form.
• The Medicine Ancestor disrupted Sui Yin’s recovery and reversed his vitality through the River of Reincarnation, but Sui Yin endured and unleashed Consciousness Extraction and Possession against it.

Xu Xiaoshou helped Dao Qiongchang’s plan reshape the world while the Ancestor Gods fought over the New Heavenly Realm. He entered the Time Realm to cultivate the Ways of Body and Sword, but Yi Ji and Dao Qiongchang’s conflicting warnings left his next move uncertain.

• Xu Xiaoshou entered Medicine Ancestor’s Life Pattern World and helped Dao Qiongchang’s memory-based infiltration, then learned how to broaden his Way of Will and summon Nuozu’s attention.
• Dao Qiongchang achieved Zeroing and flooded the world with memories, allowing Kui Leihan to attack Medicine Ancestor while the Devil Ancestor advanced his plans through Purple Pet and Lei Xier.
• Kui Leihan sacrificed his Great Dao to establish the Ancestor Nian Divine Network, strengthening cultivators across the Five Domains, while Xu Xiaoshou rescued Lei Xier and destroyed Dao Xuanji’s incarnations.
• Xu Xiaoshou protected the amnesiac Mu Zixi with a pendant and left for the Time Realm, where he anchored himself with the Long River of Will and chose to cultivate the Ways of Body and Spirit.
• Xu Xiaoshou became a Half-Saint, perfected his Passive System, and used Dao-Seizing Tentacle to summon the War Ancestor’s Dharma Image and learn from him.
• Xu Xiaoshou absorbed the War Ancestor’s insights, advanced his Body Dao Disk, and discovered a memory of Yi Ji discussing the Black Turntable with Xi He, Jinren, and Kong Yuhen.
• At the Sea of Memories, Yi Ji warned Xu Xiaoshou that the Third Generation would possess and devour him, while Dao Qiongchang urged him not to trust anything he said and to kill Yi Ji.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised his Sword Dao Disk to 99%, manifested the River of Sword Dao and Long River of Body Dao, and advanced toward the tenth-stage Saint Emperor realm.