Recaps

Xu Yi lured a hidden sea demon into a one-on-one fight and used talismans and a Coral Horn to overcome the Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster’s attacks. After both sides stopped fighting, Xu Yi asked the lobster to acknowledge who had won.

• Xu Yi challenged the hidden sea demon to a one-on-one fight and offered to let it capture him if it won.
• Xu Yi descended into the lair, released purple mist, dodged the lobster’s whip, and pierced its shell with the Coral Horn.
• The Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster attacked again, but Xu Yi used four Swift Body Talismans to evade its whips and strike it once more.
• The lobster gave up fighting and explained that it did not want to cross blades again, while Xu Yi said he respected demons and had dear demon friends.
• Xu Yi asked the Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster to confirm whether he had won their fight.

After winning a wager against the Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster, Xu Yi learned that the Golden Scale Young Master might be southeast and set off to search for him. He then rushed to rescue Qiu Dao Ming and the Huaixi Prefecture group, who were surrounded by their three rival factions.

• Xu Yi persuaded the Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster to honor their wager and asked about the Golden Scale Young Master.
• The Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster denied knowing the young master's whereabouts but directed Xu Yi to search southeast.
• Xu Yi traveled southeast until Qiu Dao Ming contacted him and urged him toward the Kunli direction.
• Xu Yi hurried to the battle and found the Huaixi Prefecture group wounded and surrounded by more than fifty attackers from the other three factions.
• Xu Yi hurled a huge fire dragon into the attackers, scattering them and blasting away everything within three hundred zhang of the explosion.

Xu Yi confronted the teams that had attacked Huaixi Prefecture and killed Song Xitian when he challenged him. Tu Xingchen appeared to negotiate, while Xu Yi learned the roots of the conflict and concealed the limits of his dramatic attack.

• Xu Yi stopped his injured companions from explaining themselves and ordered them to treat their wounds.
• Song Xitian confronted Xu Yi, who killed him with a flash of golden light after demanding that someone more courageous speak for the crowd.
• Tu Xingchen, leader of Jinyang Prefecture, appeared and drew Xu Yi's attention as the other teams warned him of Tu's reputation.
• Qiu Dao Ming and Yang Jun explained that Huaixi's success in organizing and hunting, along with a failed attempt to capture a golden lion demon, had fueled the attack.
• Xu Yi recognized that his sky-splitting fire dragon strike took several breaths to prepare and was impractical in a real fight, though Tu Xingchen appeared shocked by its reported power.

Xu Yi endured Tu Xingchen’s relentless assault and won their contest when Tu could not break his defense. Before Xu Yi could settle Tu’s earlier attack on the Huai Xi scholars, the Golden Scale Lion freed imprisoned demons, and a host of great demons rose from the sea.

• Tu Xingchen attacked Xu Yi with his Thousand Rivers No Shadow movement technique and Frost Flower Sword, battering him for more than thirty breaths.
• Xu Yi held out against over a hundred blows, while his attacks wounded Tu; the two separated, and Tu admitted defeat.
• Xu Yi praised Tu’s skill and began to raise the issue of Tu’s attack on the Huai Xi scholars, but a cultivator reported that they had found the Golden Scale Lion.
• Another cultivator warned that the Golden Scale Lion had bitten through its cages and released many great demons, then the Dragon King Tyrannical Crab killed him and devoured his True Soul.
• The sea churned, and Tu Xingchen and the other cultivators fled as seventeen Tongyu Great Demons burst from the water.

After the Great Demons escaped, the cultivators fled the sea but found an invisible barrier blocking their retreat into the forest. The Golden Scale Young Master joined the demon horde, and the battle began in a chaotic collision that forced both sides to withdraw.

• The cultivators escaped the sea while the Great Demons pursued them, and all 218 candidates gathered on the beach.
• Tu Xingchen assessed the demons’ numbers and strengths, then organized the cultivators into formations; Xu Yi directed the Huaixi Prefecture squads.
• The Golden Scale Young Master arrived and cursed the humans, while his past revealed how their pursuit had driven him to free the imprisoned Great Demons at great personal cost.
• The Golden Scale Young Master’s fury stirred the demons, and more than eighty Great Demons clashed with over two hundred human cultivators.
• The attacks converged into a house-sized sphere of chaotic energy, forcing both sides to retreat.

Xu Yi and the Huaixi Prefecture cultivators fought off successive assaults from the sea demons after a devastating clash, buying time to recover. With the Golden Scale Young Master still in danger to the north, Xu Yi remained determined to fulfill Fierce Rhinoceros's request.

• A violent collision devastated the battlefield, and Xu Yi rallied the injured cultivators as the sea demons temporarily withdrew.
• Xu Yi spread the human formations apart and led Huaixi Prefecture south, where he faced an Eight-Bearded Great Serpent alone.
• Xu Yi killed the Eight-Bearded Great Serpent with his Coral Horn and seized its demon core while fending off the Five-Pointed Star Demon.
• A Snowy White Squid King trapped Xu Yi with its tentacles, but Gong Xiuhua, Qiu Dao Ming, and the others used their Eight Trigrams Array Disks to rescue him and drive the demons back.
• After the attackers retreated, Xu Yi urged the cultivators to heal and watched the Golden Scale Young Master to the north, determined to honor Fierce Rhinoceros's request.

Xu Yi captured the Golden Scale Young Master and forced the sea demons to retreat, but the Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster then seized Xu Yi. With the young master still in Xu Yi’s grasp, he used him to stop the demons from attacking and proposed negotiating underwater.

• The Golden Scale Young Master summoned a vast horde of sea demons, and Xu Yi’s group struggled to hold them back with the Eight Trigrams Array Disk.
• Tu Xingchen attacked the Golden Scale Young Master, but the young master vanished, and Tu Xingchen fell under assault from the great demons.
• Xu Yi used Tu Xingchen’s attack as cover to capture the Golden Scale Young Master, who halted his secret technique and made the demon horde retreat.
• The Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster ambushed Xu Yi with its whip and dragged him away.
• Xu Yi threatened to kill the Golden Scale Young Master if the demons harmed him, then proposed negotiating underwater.

Xu Yi rescued the Golden Scale Young Master from the forbidden land and brought him to Fierce Rhinoceros at the barrier. Fierce Rhinoceros explained how to free the trapped demons and welcomed Xu Yi's companions as fellow allies.

• Xu Yi forced the Great Demons to retreat by threatening the Golden Scale Young Master, then persuaded the Young Master that he had come to help him return home.
• The Crimson Gold Purple-Whiskered Lobster carried Xu Yi and the Golden Scale Young Master to the barrier, where Xu Yi contacted Fierce Rhinoceros.
• Fierce Rhinoceros told Xu Yi that a human could carry the Young Master through the barrier by wrapping him in a fragment of his soul.
• Xu Yi worried about leaving dozens of Great Demons behind, and Fierce Rhinoceros explained that the General could break the barrier after they returned with the Young Master.
• Xu Yi met Fierce Rhinoceros at the barrier, and Fierce Rhinoceros introduced Xu Yi to the gathered Great Demons as his old friend who had found the Young Master.

After Xu Yi helped Fierce Rhinoceros rescue the Golden Scale Young Master, Fierce Rhinoceros taught him the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique, which could help him locate a path back to Great Yue. Xu Yi learned that nearly three years had passed in Great Yue during the eight months he had spent in the Central Profound Continent.

• Fierce Rhinoceros told the gathered demons that the Golden Scale General would lift the restrictions after they rescued the Golden Scale Young Master.
• Xu Yi wrapped the Golden Scale Young Master's separated form in a wisp of his true soul and sent him through the restriction, then left the demons' lair.
• Fierce Rhinoceros promised Xu Yi a personal reward and taught him the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique, a chapter of his inherited Star Gazing Secret Art for finding spatial-fragment entrances.
• Xu Yi was relieved that the technique could help him find the route back to Great Yue, where he hoped to return soon for Yan Zi's sake.
• Fierce Rhinoceros explained that time flowed about four times faster in Great Yue, so the eight months they had spent in the Central Profound Continent amounted to nearly three years there.

Xu Yi escaped the Abundant Sea Market, received gifts and a warning from the Illusionary Form Great Demon of the Golden Scale Water Mansion, and returned to Immortal Pointing Hall. There, Tu Xingchen thanked him for saving his life, while Xu Yi worried that Yan Zi might not survive until he could return.

• Xu Yi found jade tablets explaining that Luting officials had ended the trial early and opened a concealed exit from the Abundant Sea Market.
• A black jade box struck Xu Yi and shattered, revealing demon cores, a Law Pattern-covered water bead, and a Shadow-Sound Pearl containing the demon sense of a Golden Scale Water Mansion demon.
• The demon in golden armor thanked Xu Yi with gifts, warned him against humans caging demons, and threatened revenge if they did so again.
• Xu Yi escaped through the concealed exit, traveled to Luting, and met the green-robed official who had guided his cohort.
• Xu Yi returned to Immortal Pointing Hall, where Tu Xingchen apologized and thanked him for saving his life.

Xu Yi earned the examination’s only superlative ranking and was appointed a Second-rank Star Official after placing first in points and saving candidates at Abundant Sea Market. When Lord Lu privately asked where he wanted to serve, Xu Yi chose to return to Huaixi Prefecture.

• Xu Yi exchanged his monster cores for points, bringing his total to five hundred and thirty.
• Lord Lu announced that Xu Yi had won the only superlative tier because he placed first in points and saved many candidates at Abundant Sea Market.
• The Court appointed Xu Yi a Second-rank Star Official while the other candidates received lower ranks and postings based on their tiers.
• Xu Yi completed the official verification process and received his Tiger Head Seal and blue robe.
• Lord Lu asked Xu Yi whether he wished to remain at the Court or return to Huaixi Prefecture, and Xu Yi requested a post in Huaixi.

After placing among the highest-ranked examination candidates, Xu Yi redeemed his points for the Lightning Control Art and returned to Huaixi Prefecture, where Deng Blackface discussed his future appointment. Xu Yi then went to Immortal Martial Cliff and summoned a scholar-robed man.

• Xu Yi used his examination points to redeem the Lightning Control Art, a movement technique powered by True Fire Malice.
• Xu Yi reunited with Gong Xiuhua and the other Huaixi candidates, then traveled with them back through a formation disk.
• Deng Blackface welcomed Xu Yi and explained that his high ranking had earned him a promotion to Second-rank Star Official and attracted the Tiger Fang Guard's interest.
• Deng Blackface advised Xu Yi against joining the Tiger Fang Guard, and Xu Yi gave his instructor a bag of spirit stones before they parted.
• Xu Yi went to a secluded pavilion at Immortal Martial Cliff and used a voice-transmission pearl to summon a middle-aged man in scholar's robes.

Xu Yi asked Old Zhang about the offices in Huaixi Prefecture and visited the Civil Administration Department to register his official status, leaving his assignment undecided. He then returned to Bayi City and arrived at the Ten Thousand Treasure Library to browse its books.

• Xu Yi asked Old Zhang to explain the prefecture's offices, and Old Zhang described their roles, benefits, and drawbacks.
• Xu Yi thanked Old Zhang with spirit stones and left without revealing which office he might choose.
• Xu Yi visited the Civil Administration Department on Mount Tai'a and registered his official status, but left his post unassigned.
• Xu Yi returned to Bayi City by Mechanical Bird and took over an air lane with his Tiger Head seal.
• Xu Yi arrived at the Ten Thousand Treasure Library, intending to browse its books.

After becoming a Second-rank Star Official, Xu Yi entered the Ten Thousand Treasure Library to study space fragments and learn how to travel safely back to Great Yue to find Yan Zi. He began researching the subject, hoping to find a reliable way to cross between worlds.

• Xu Yi presented his Tiger Head Seal, received a jade token, and entered the Ten Thousand Treasure Library with an attendant.
• The attendant explained the library's access restrictions, reading fees, and blood restriction, and Xu Yi tipped him for his help.
• Xu Yi entered a private reading room and paid five spirit stones to use it.
• Xu Yi completed the blood restriction and searched the library's catalog for books about space fragments.
• Xu Yi began studying space because his journey from Great Yue had scattered his companions, and he wanted a safer way to return and find Yan Zi.

Xu Yi studied ancient texts to learn about the world and space travel, then prepared to return to Great Yue to find Yan Zi and help Marquis Anqing. After burying his Sumeru Ring and reaching the space-fragment node at Shatai Valley, he used the technique to travel through space.

• Xu Yi spent two hours reading more than sixty texts, learning theories about the world's scope and methods for navigating space fragments.
• Xu Yi returned to Cold Sun Peak, dismissed his disciples' congratulations, and gave Zhao Wuliang two thousand spirit stones to distribute among newcomers.
• Xu Yi mastered the Lightning Riding Technique in three days and traveled to the lotus pond, where he buried his Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi spoke briefly with Old Cai, then flew to Shatai Valley to find the space-fragment node where he had first traveled through space.
• Xu Yi recited the incantation at the node, and the scenery changed as he traveled through space.

Xu Yi returned to the Great Yue world, paid respects at the graves of those he had lost, and went to Futuo Mountain in search of Yan Zi and Auspicious Duck. Finding them gone, he returned to the capital, where unfamiliar crowds and a transformed Grand Void Temple signaled that the world had changed; he hurried east, while a middle-aged man played with a baby and two children in a courtyard.

• Xu Yi crossed through a spatial node into the Great Yue imperial mausoleum, using a True Soul barrier to protect himself during the journey.
• Xu Yi visited the grave of Li Xiuluo and his wife, then left the mausoleum and flew south to Huiyin Mountain.
• Xu Yi returned to his old village, paid respects at the graves of Big Yellow, his family, Liao Chen, and Uncle Mu, and felt a knot in his heart loosen.
• Xu Yi went back to Futuo Mountain but found his cave dwelling empty, with neither Auspicious Duck nor Yan Zi there.
• Xu Yi returned to the capital, noticed unfamiliar regional accents and that the Grand Void Temple had become a Buddhist shrine, then boarded a Rail Train heading east.
• A middle-aged man played with a baby as two young children chased a yellow ball of yarn around a courtyard.

During the Naiman invasion of the divine capital, Zhou Old Six betrayed Yuan and led General Xin Si to the former residence of the Great Yue Myth, hoping to seize its treasures and Yuan’s wife. General Xin Si rewarded Zhou by granting him the woman, leaving Yuan beaten and his family in the invaders’ hands.

• Yuan’s wife tried to pawn the earrings the Great Yue Myth had given her because the family was running out of food, but Yuan refused and went to find another way to provide for them.
• Zhou Old Six and General Xin Si arrived with armored soldiers and surrounded Yuan’s residence.
• Zhou Old Six kicked Yuan down and threatened his family while demanding what he wanted from the house.
• Zhou Old Six told General Xin Si that Yuan had served the Great Yue Myth and that the residence had once belonged to him.
• General Xin Si praised Zhou Old Six for revealing the connection and granted him Yuan’s wife.

Xu Yi rescued Yuan Qinghua’s family from General Xin Si and his men in the Divine Capital, then revealed his identity to his former servant. Yuan Qinghua began explaining the War of National Annihilation after Xu Yi asked what had happened during his absence.

• General Xin Si’s men threatened Yuan Qinghua’s family, but Xu Yi arrived and caught the Heavenly Thunder Pearl before it fell into the general’s hands.
• Xu Yi burned two soldiers, forced the mustached man to kill himself, and swept General Xin Si and his troops out of the courtyard.
• Xu Yi sat with Yuan Qinghua and revealed his true face, prompting Yuan Qinghua to recognize his former master and weep.
• Yuan Qinghua told Xu Yi that rumors of his death or disappearance had spread and that the War of National Annihilation had begun.
• Xu Yi asked Yuan Qinghua to explain the war and the presence of barbarians and monk-soldiers in the Divine Capital.

Xu Yi learned that Great Yue had fallen to Naiman and the Heavenly Buddha Kingdom and heard how many of his old companions had died. After giving Yuan Qinghua money, he left to seek Auspicious Duck and find Yan Zi.

• Yuan Qinghua told Xu Yi how Great Yue’s weakened defenses led to its conquest and the slaughter of the imperial clan and nobles.
• Yuan Qinghua revealed that Senior Brother Lu, Marquis Anqing’s family, Huang Xuanji, and Master Zhou had died, while Zhao Baling had fled to Jinbei.
• Xu Yi asked about Auspicious Duck, and Yuan Qinghua recalled that the duck had mentioned living in seclusion near Shenfeng Mountain.
• Xu Yi gave Yuan Qinghua a Sumeru Ring containing thousands of gold coins.
• Xu Yi vanished and promised Yuan Qinghua that no one would disturb his family’s peaceful life.

Xu Yi searched three mountains for Auspicious Duck after Yuan Qinghua gave him an uncertain place name, but his exhausting search found nothing. Auspicious Duck finally arrived at Shengfeng Mountain and explained that they had been repeatedly missing each other because Yuan Qinghua had passed along the wrong mountain name.

• Xu Yi chose Shenfeng Mountain, Shengfeng Mountain, and Ancestor God Peak from a map and began searching at Shengfeng Mountain.
• Xu Yi spent three days calling across Shengfeng Mountain, then searched all three mountains for half a month without finding Auspicious Duck.
• Despairing, Xu Yi prepared to leave when two Giant Eagles dropped a hammock carrying Auspicious Duck onto him.
• Auspicious Duck cursed Xu Yi and Yuan Qinghua, then explained that he had told Yuan Qinghua to direct Xu Yi to Ancestor God Peak.
• Auspicious Duck described how he had repeatedly divined Xu Yi's location and hurried between mountains, only to miss him each time.

Auspicious Duck reunited with Xu Yi after exhausting himself searching, then advanced after swallowing a Spirit Stone. Xu Yi persuaded him to risk a limited calculation to locate Yan Zi, and Auspicious Duck began divining a rough area.

• Auspicious Duck used life essence to find Xu Yi, and Xu Yi gave him a mid-grade Spirit Stone, which he swallowed before passing out.
• Xu Yi meditated for three days while Auspicious Duck recovered and completed an advancement.
• Auspicious Duck boasted about his new strength, but Xu Yi silenced him by demonstrating his power and offering an azure Spirit Stone in exchange for help.
• Xu Yi promised more Spirit Stones and protection from any heavenly tribulation if Auspicious Duck calculated Yan Zi's location.
• Auspicious Duck agreed to narrow Yan Zi's location to an area the size of a city or mountain and brought out three ancient copper coins to begin.

Xu Yi found Yan Zi in the capital after ten days of searching and discovered that reviving him had left her aged and frail. Their reunion was interrupted when Xu Yi struck a man who had been berating her, sending him into a boiling soup pot.

• Auspicious Duck divined that Yan Zi was in the capital, and Xu Yi left for the Great Yue Imperial Mausoleum to meet him.
• A little boy called Tiger Head visited the old woman Yan Zi and asked to hear more stories about the blue-robed hero.
• Yan Zi struggled to draw water from a well, but Xu Yi stopped the crank and lifted the full bucket out with his power.
• Xu Yi greeted Yan Zi after finding her, and he was shaken by how much she had aged from spending her Life Source Power to revive him.
• A man from the kitchen berated Yan Zi, and Xu Yi sent him flying into a boiling soup pot.

Xu Yi reunited with Yan Zi and brought her to thank Third Madam for taking her in. At a Zhou Family gathering, he faced the family elders and a mocking demand for ten million Crimson Gold Coins.

• Xu Yi teased Yan Zi until she raised her head, then told her not to leave him again.
• Xu Yi took Yan Zi to find Third Madam, silenced a coarse-robed man who tried to interfere, and led her into the main courtyard.
• The red-faced elder ordered guards to seize Xu Yi and Yan Zi, but Third Madam knocked the guards back and went to Yan Zi.
• Xu Yi thanked Third Madam for caring for Yan Zi and promised to repay her kindness.
• The woman in purple mocked Xu Yi and demanded ten million Crimson Gold Coins on Third Madam’s behalf.

Xu Yi refused to kneel before the imperial edict, killed Eunuch Zhang, and prepared to leave the Zhou Family with Yan Zi. The Zhou Family tried to make Xu Yi take responsibility for the disaster, while Third Madam struggled to choose between helping him and protecting her clan.

• Xu Yi told Third Madam he would repay the Zhou Family with one million gold coins, then led Yan Zi toward the gate as the imperial edict arrived.
• Xu Yi refused to kneel before the emperor and told Eunuch Zhang to leave, despite Zhou Jintai's attempt to distance the Zhou Family from him.
• Commander Xue attacked Xu Yi, but Xu Yi stopped Blood Rain Sword between two fingers and killed Eunuch Zhang with a flash of red.
• Xu Yi tried to leave with Yan Zi, while the Zhou Family urged Third Madam to keep him there to bear the blame.
• The Zhou patriarch pleaded with Xu Yi, who instead asked Third Madam what she wanted; she hesitated between saving the Zhou Family and letting the two visitors go.

Xu Yi defended the Zhou Family while confronting forces from Great Yue, Naiman, and the Heavenly Buddha Kingdom over Eunuch Zhang’s death. Great Master Fa Tian arrived and struck Xu Yi, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xu Yi destroyed a dragon boat and defeated its occupants after Commander Xue identified him as Eunuch Zhang’s killer.
• Xu Yi berated Great Yue’s envoy and struck down the monks and officials who challenged him.
• Zhou Jintai begged Xu Yi to spare the Zhou Family and then tried to secure protection by offering the clan to the Buddhist fold.
• Great Master Fa Tian arrived, rejected Zhou Jintai’s plea, and attacked Xu Yi with a powerful palm strike.