Recaps

After a disastrous alchemy assessment, Xu Xiaoshou earned a tenth-rank badge and learned that the White Cavern was about to open, prompting him to seek a banquet invitation. As an unknown assassin’s pursuit turned into a battle with Red Dog, Xu Xiaoshou seemingly killed him, but Red Dog revived and prepared to attack again.

• Xu Xiaoshou used his Little Bathtub to refine a Red-Gold Pill, but explosions injured Yunhe and wrecked the Pill Tower’s alchemy rooms.
• Shi Ti gave Xu Xiaoshou a tenth-rank badge after his attempt at a higher-grade pill caused a devastating explosion, then expelled him from the Pill Tower.
• Fu Xing told Xu Xiaoshou that the White Cavern would open soon and offered him an invitation to the City Lord’s night banquet, where factions competed for entry quotas.
• Xu Xiaoshou trained in spirit formations and repeatedly received warnings that he was being watched, so he contacted Jiao Tangtang for help against a suspected assassin.
• Red Dog confronted Xu Xiaoshou inside a Throne’s Domain, battered him unconscious, and tried to kill him, but Xu Xiaoshou’s Berserk Giant struck back.
• Xu Xiaoshou crushed Red Dog with the Berserk Giant and a black-gold qi bead, while Chong Dong contained the destruction and Xin Gugu rushed toward the city.
• Xu Xiaoshou found Red Dog apparently dead in the crater, but Red Dog revived through Heaven’s Dao, described his history with Black Snake, and threatened Xu Xiaoshou with a blood-red blade.

After a devastating clash with Red Dog, Xu Xiaoshou received the Canon of Sword Observation from a mysterious uncle and began cultivating its sword arts. As the White Cavern and the City Lord’s Manor Night Banquet approached, Xu Xiaoshou prepared to strike Zhang Taiying, while Mu Zixi confronted her growing distance from him and Zhang Taiying sought information about Xu Xiaoshou.

• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed Passive Fist on Red Dog, destroying the battlefield, and a scruffy uncle arrived, killed Red Dog, and saved Xu Xiaoshou with sword qi.
• The uncle gave Xu Xiaoshou the Canon of Sword Observation, subdued Chong Dong and the other Thrones, and made Xin Gugu promise to protect Xu Xiaoshou from enemies above the Throne realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou woke to find sword intent and the Canon in his mind, then began cultivating it with Hidden Pain and accidentally split the inn’s barrier and ceiling with a sword thought.
• Xu Xiaoshou moved with Xin Gugu and Mu Zixi into a new manor, learned how Origin Mansion could help evade Throne domains, and began preparing explosive pills for an attack on Zhang Taiying.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised Sword Mastery to Grandmaster, manifested the Void Sword Condensation Technique, and led Xin Gugu and A-Jie out on a night raid against the Zhang Clan.
• Mu Zixi heard an indifferent voice asking whether she would accept it, rejected it, and worried that her sealed memories and inability to keep up with Xu Xiaoshou were connected.
• Zhang Taiying raised the bounty on Xu Xiaoshou after an assassin failed, while Zhang Zhongmou volunteered to handle him and an attendant reported urgent news at the outer gate.

Xu Xiaoshou destroyed the Zhang Residence’s Scripture Repository, seized its treasures, and uncovered a dangerous carved fragment. After gaining Textile Mastery, he prepared to attend the City Lord’s Manor banquet and gather support and Passive Value.

• Xu Xiaoshou detonated eighteen furnaces of Innate Pill ingredients in Zhang Residence, then disguised himself and misled the searchers while heading for the Scripture Repository.
• Xu Xiaoshou fought Zhang Zhongmou and the Zhang family’s Thrones with A-Jie and Xin Gugu, then unleashed a sword strike that shattered the clan’s array and sliced apart the repository.
• Xu Xiaoshou bluffed Zhang Taiying into letting him leave, took the ruined half of the repository, and later returned to search its broken tower.
• Xu Xiaoshou opened a purple box and touched a bronze fragment, which showed him a blood-soaked vision of a Black Sword until A-Jie absorbed the demonic energy.
• Xu Xiaoshou planted spiritual medicines by the Origin Mansion’s Spirit Pool, then used a draw key to gain Textile Mastery and learned to weave spiritual needles and threads.
• Xu Xiaoshou built a Spirit Gathering Array, advanced his weaving techniques, and decided to attend the City Lord’s Manor banquet to seek Passive Value.
• Xu Xiaoshou demonstrated his new Weaving ability to Mu Zixi and Xin Gugu by drawing spiritual energy into the courtyard with a luminous diagram.

Xu Xiaoshou infiltrated the City Lord’s Manor, accidentally freed Fu Zhi from his own formation, and discovered that Xu Xiaoji had stolen the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate. After recovering the plate, Xu Xiaoshou used Xu Xiaoji as a sword to activate its array, leaving him inside as energy surged through it.

• Xu Xiaoshou arrived at the manor banquet with Mu Zixi and Xu Xiaoji, then drew the young talents’ attention when Wen Song and Chao Nong challenged him over Chao Shu’s death.
• Xu Xiaoshou slipped away with Mu Zixi and wrecked the hidden flower sea’s nested arrays, uncovering Fu Zhi, who had been trapped there for four years.
• Xu Xiaoshou convinced Fu Zhi that Weaving could reveal the principles beneath spiritual arrays, and Fu Zhi began to reconsider his understanding of the Dao.
• Fu Zhi discovered the Heavenly Pivot Mechanism Plate was missing, while Xu Zixi remained trapped inside it, and ordered the manor sealed and searched.
• Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Xu Xiaoji was hiding as a grain of sand, captured him, and learned that he could transform into anything and wielded a mysterious Throne-level power.
• Xu Xiaoji spat out the plate in a jade spirit box, and Xu Xiaoshou used Textile Mastery to decipher its Heavenly Secrets Inscriptions.
• Xu Xiaoshou forced Xu Xiaoji to transform into a sword and inserted him into the plate’s sword slot, activating the array as Xu Xiaoji screamed for him to pull him out.