Recaps

Xu Xiaoshou entered the Night Banquet with Mu Zixi, whose swallowed World Source Point left her powerfully changed, and secured White Cavern places through the spiritual and sword competitions. He began the alchemy contest under Shi Ti’s supervision, where his unconventional methods ended in a blinding burst of light.

• Xu Xiaoshou found Mu Zixi alive inside the unstable space, learned she had swallowed the World Source Point, and left with her for the Night Banquet.
• At City Lord’s Manor, Xu Xiaoshou convinced Shouye that he had fought and sealed the Gray Mist Man, then learned the White Cavern expedition would be its final opening.
• Xu Xiaoshou drove off Qiu Dejian and dominated the spiritual combat trials, earning five White Cavern slots while drawing Zhang Taiying’s hostility.
• Xu Xiaoshou arranged an ambush for Zhang Taiying, but Fu Xing’s rules barred him from challenging the Way of Spirit victors and the sword competition began.
• Xu Xiaoshou fought Gu Qing'san, adapting to his sword arts until his Sword Observation caused Sword Thought to form inside Gu Qing'san and badly injure him.
• Xu Xiaoshou went unchallenged long enough to earn fifteen sword competition slots, then watched Gu Qing'er and four Innate Sword Intent wielders claim the remaining places.
• Xu Xiaoshou joined the alchemy contest with a bathtub in place of a cauldron, and his distracted refining caused nearby alchemists’ cauldrons to explode.
• Under Shi Ti’s supervision, Xu Xiaoshou began refining an Extreme Dao Pill with fire seeds and unconventional ingredients, then a dazzling white light burst from his cauldron and engulfed the banquet hall.

Xu Xiaoshou killed Zhang Taiying, survived a Red Robes interrogation, and secured White Cavern slots while concealing his allies and powers. As he prepared to enter the cavern, he learned more about A-Jie and Elder Sang’s instructions, then clashed with outlaws in Eight Palaces Town.

• Xu Xiaoshou solved the White Cavern spirit array, earned a slot, and warned Su Qianqian that Tiansang City’s families might target her during the challenge matches.
• Xu Xiaoshou lured Zhang Taiying into the Flower Sea, where Xin Gugu, A-Jie, and Xu Xiaoshou fought him until A-Jie shattered his illusory image and Zhang Taiying died in the blast.
• Xu Xiaoshou defended his actions to Shouye, concealed the truth about his Ghost Beast allies, and secured protection from continued Red Robes surveillance.
• Fu Zhi declared that Zhang Taiying had colluded with Ghost Beasts and that the Zhang Clan would no longer exist in Tiansang City, while Xu Xiaoshou accepted eighteen Exquisite Stones.
• Xu Xiaoshou strengthened his skills, discovered Xu Xiaoji’s possible connection to Yousi Sword, and trained his Berserk Giant form with Xin Gugu.
• Ye Xiaotian appointed Xu Xiaoshou as a White Cavern squad leader, and Xu Xiaoshou learned from Qiao Qianzhi that A-Jie was a defective Heavenly Mechanism Puppet and that Gou Wuyue might seek Yousi Sword.
• Xu Xiaoshou intervened when Luo Qinglang challenged the outlaws in Eight Palaces Town, then used Luo Qinglang to batter Old Du’s men and slammed Old Du into the ground.

Xu Xiaoshou sold Exquisite Stones to enter the White Cavern, where he claimed Yanmang and bonded with the famed sword after battling a Ghost Beast and outwitting the gathered cultivators. He used the White Cavern’s map and Emberlight Fire Seeds to advance his cultivation, then clashed with Luo Yupo’s group while seeking a greater fire treasure.

• Xu Xiaoshou battered Old Du into agreeing to buy six Exquisite Stones for twenty million Spirit Crystals each, then sold more stones to secure entry for the Straw Hat organization when the White Cavern opened.
• After entering the White Cavern, Xu Xiaoshou teamed up with Yu Zhiwen, fought White Skeletons, and discovered that their energy cores contained Emberlight Energy Liquid.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen found Yanmang, but Zhong Qu transformed into a Ghost Beast and attacked them before Shouye drove him away.
• Shouye declared Yanmang belonged to Xu Xiaoshou, who charged cultivators for attempts to draw it until Gu Qing'er broke its seal but failed to claim it.
• Xu Xiaoshou lifted Yanmang, bonded with it, and met a Saint in the sword’s scorching inner world, where the Saint sent energy into his forehead before fleeing.
• Shouye invited Xu Xiaoshou to join the Red Robes, while Xu Xiaoshou used a map in the white seed to locate an Emberlight Grand Fire Seed and sought fire treasures with Yu Zhiwen.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Yanmang to decapitate thirty-six Master-level White Skeletons, swallowed an Emberlight Fire Seed, and advanced from Yuan Ting to Ju Wu.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen hid from Luo Yupo’s group near the High Flame Maples, but Yu Zhiwen exposed their presence and Xu Xiaoshou blasted Luo Yupo away.

Xu Xiaoshou pursued the Emberlight Grand Fire Seed into Spirit-Melting Marsh as the White Skeleton, the Three-Day Frost Calamity, and the Gray Mist Man converged. Trapped with the Gray Mist Man inside the Storyteller’s ancient-book space, Xu Xiaoshou drew the Emberglow Primordial Seed into his Yuan Ting with the White Pearl’s help.

• Xu Xiaoshou joined Qu Qing’er’s group to enter Spirit-Melting Marsh, where he and Yu Zhiwen encountered the White Skeleton and its Emberlight Grand Fire Seed.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yu Zhiwen survived the White Skeleton’s attacks, while Yu Zhiwen used her Heavenly Secrets arts to help defeat Zhang Zhongmou and Zhang Duoyu.
• The Storyteller arrived at White Cavern, while Mu Zixi and A-Jie reunited with Xu Xiaoshou near the White Bone Gate.
• Xu Xiaoshou harvested the High Flame Maple grove, then entered the underground cavern and tried to refine the Emberlight Grand Fire Seed upward.
• The refinement destabilized the cavern and caused a White Flame eruption as the White Skeleton and the Gray Mist Man converged on the Three-Day Frost Calamity.
• The Emberlight Grand Fire Seed and Three-Day Frost Calamity clashed, destroying Spirit-Melting Marsh and leaving Xu Xiaoshou separated from his companions.
• Xu Xiaoshou reunited with A-Jie and tried to seize both flames, but the Gray Mist Man trapped them inside a page of the Storyteller’s ancient book.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the White Pearl to draw the Emberglow Primordial Seed into his Yuan Ting, then realized the pearl might let the Wretched Saint reach him through a spatial rift.