Recaps

Xu Xiaoshou acquired the Bodhi Tree Root, the Blood Tree Yin Branch, and a fortune from selling Void Tokens while drawing the attention of major factions. As the Holy Spirit Hall took over the trade fair to investigate dark factions and Ghost Beast Hosts, Xu Xiaoshou stayed behind and left Mo Mo in charge.

• Mu Zixi drove the first Void Token's price sharply upward, but the Great String Celestial Sect won it for six billion Spirit Crystals.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed First Pavilion Under Heaven's presence at the trade fair, then obtained the Bodhi Tree Root from Hua Xiang after a confrontation with Dong Ling.
• Xu Xiaoshou planted the Bodhi Tree Root in his Origin Mansion and bought a scroll for making small spatial teleportation array disks.
• Xu Xiaoshou won the Blood Tree Yin Branch from Liu Changqing, learned that Xuan Wuji inhabited him, and persuaded them to coexist before recruiting Liu Changqing to First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou sold three Void Tokens to the Great String Celestial Sect and Xiu Mingyue's group, earning forty billion Spirit Crystals and repaying Liu Changqing for the branch.
• Xu Xiaoshou refused Night Cats' offer to help him escape the trade fair and prepared his companions for the Holy Spirit Hall's investigation.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered profound enlightenment, sent Xu Xiaoji out impersonating him, and left Mo Mo to manage the group.
• Cheng Ji announced the Holy Spirit Hall's takeover and search for dark factions and Ghost Beast Hosts, then challenged the gathered factions after Leng Qi resisted.

Xu Xiaoshou navigated the trade fair crisis as Yama pursued the Three Aversions Eye, while Rao Yaoyao’s forces closed in and Ba Zunan entered the conflict. After Yi lured Xu Xiaoshou away disguised as a little girl, Elder Sang’s safeguard gave him Saint power and the means to fight back.

• Xu Xiaoshou left the trade fair, learned that Shouye had recognized him, and contacted Ba Zunan to discuss Yama’s plan and the Holy Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Yincao and Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade took Jiang Xian’s Three Aversions Eye, but Xu Xiaoshou stole one eye before Ba Zunan arrived and drove them to flee.
• Rao Yaoyao assembled reinforcements as the trade fair’s Ghost Beast attacked, and Wuxia took Xiu Mingyue hostage before agreeing to surrender after an incense stick burned.
• Xin Gugu asked Xu Xiaoshou to save Wuxia, but the scruffy uncle stayed behind while Xu Xiaoshou and Storyteller fled from the Holy Spirit Hall’s Division heads.
• Yi, disguised as a little girl, bewitched Xu Xiaoshou into carrying her toward the trade fair, but Elder Sang’s Straw Hat brought him into the Taixu World and broke the enchantment.
• Elder Sang gave Xu Xiaoshou the Blackflame Deity and explained the Nine-Dragon Ancestral Burn Saint Image and refined Saint Blood, then urged him to protect Mu Zixi and keep advancing.
• Yi pierced Xu Xiaoshou’s chest, but Xu Xiaoshou broke free, used Elder Sang’s Saint power to burn through Yi’s domain, and struck at Yi’s Elder Sang disguise with Passive Fist.

Xu Xiaoshou survived Rao Yaoyao’s Red Dust Sword, escaped the Royal City crackdown, and learned that Ba Zunan still expected him to compete in the trials. While Sky City drew crowds to East Heavenly King City, Xu Xiaoshou transformed his power in seclusion and prepared to return to a city full of people discussing his exploits.

• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Yi and Teng Shanhai, but Rao Yaoyao interrupted before he could finish Teng Shanhai and challenged him with the Xuancang Divine Sword.
• Rao Yaoyao used the Red Dust Sword to trap Xu Xiaoshou in a life-questioning illusion, but Xu Xiaoshou accepted his past and shattered it, reaching the Master Stage’s Heavenly Phenomena.
• Xu Xiaoshou detonated ten Icefire Saint Seeds over East Heavenly King City, then vanished as Rao Yaoyao and the others protected the city and pursued the fleeing Saint Slave members.
• Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as Young Master Xu and faced Shouye’s investigation at First Pavilion Under Heaven, but the arrival of Sky City interrupted their confrontation.
• Mei Suren stopped Shouye from attacking Xu Xiaoshou, and Cen Qiaofu revealed that Ba Zunan had sent him to protect Xu Xiaoshou and explain the trials’ purpose.
• Cen Qiaofu told Xu Xiaoshou to place in the top three of the Royal City Trial and enter the Four Symbols Secret Realm, while Xiao Lian invited him to compete in the Alchemy Trial.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised his Sturdiness, Sword Mastery, and other skills to Throne level, then gained Conversion, Painting Mastery, and Great Feast through the Passive System.
• Xu Xiaoshou left seclusion as visitors gathered in East Heavenly King City, where a tavern keeper began recounting his exploits and passing blue-robed swordsmen recognized his name.

Xu Xiaoshou faced Rao Yaoyao’s investigation, learned more about the Half-Saints and the Holy Spirit Hall, then dominated the Alchemy Convention with a series of extraordinary refinements. He won the championship and the Peaceful Lake Little Azure Flower, whose power he recognized as comparable to several major heavenly flames.

• Rao Yaoyao challenged Mei Suren over his connection to Xu Xiaoshou, and Mei Suren rebuked her before explaining the Half-Saints’ place in the continent’s order.
• Mei Suren told Xu Xiaoshou how You Tu became a Saint after Hua Changdeng defeated Ba Zunan, and Xu Xiaoshou resolved to grow amid the chaos before challenging the established order.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the Alchemy Convention with Xiao Wanfeng and used Black Chickens to refine a perfect Thirst-Profound Pill, then taught the other contestants its hidden principles.
• Xu Xiaoshou deduced more pill formulas than the judges expected, refined a sixth-grade Little Thunderclap Pill, and earned full marks in the second round.
• Xu Xiaoshou ignored the judges’ suggestion to refine a Yinmock Blood Pill and instead produced a high-grade Lesser Body-Restoring Pill in the final round.
• Xu Xiaoshou continued refining after the deadline and successfully produced a mid-grade Throne Pill, which Dong Ling confirmed was safe to consume.
• Dong Ling announced Xu Xiaoshou as the convention champion and awarded him the Peaceful Lake Little Azure Flower, whose power Xu Xiaoshou recognized as rivaling several heavenly flames.