Recaps

Xu Yi spared Bai Jizi from revealing the oath-bound Mysterious Transformation Art and asked him to guide the way deeper into Guangcheng Immortal Mansion. Bai Jizi explained his ties to the Fufeng Clan’s knowledge and led Xu Yi toward the mansion’s core, where they encountered endless clouds.

• Xu Yi released Bai Jizi from the restriction, healed him, and reaffirmed his promise to restore his freedom once his goal was achieved.
• Bai Jizi said a Blood Oath prevented him from teaching Xu Yi the Mysterious Transformation Art, and Xu Yi agreed not to press him for it.
• Bai Jizi explained that the Fufeng Clan of the ancient lands knew Guangcheng Immortal Mansion’s greatest secrets and had sent nearly all its members inside.
• Xu Yi asked Bai Jizi to lead him beyond the outer dwellings, and Bai Jizi guided him south while explaining that the mansion occupied the ancient Kongtong Mountain.
• Bai Jizi and Xu Yi climbed above a hundred zhang into endless clouds, and Xu Yi asked Bai Jizi what his plan was.

Xu Yi and Bai Jizi discovered that spirit essences could briefly steady the fog, while Qin Kong’s newly unified group searched for more. Their pursuit of Bai Jizi ended when they found a mysterious stone gate embedded in a cliff.

• Bai Jizi and Xu Yi used spirit essences to steady the fog, but their light faded, and they realized they had not moved from their starting point.
• Bai Jizi concluded they needed many spirit essences or a powerful expert to enter, and Xu Yi hinted that he had another plan.
• Qin Kong’s group collected spirit essences under a points system, bound by Blood Oaths, after uniting following internal fighting and losses.
• Qin Kong led his group in pursuit of Bai Jizi, hoping to recruit him, but Bai Jizi vanished near a cliff.
• Zhang Ji found a huge stone gate with a rusted copper ring embedded in the western cliff.

Xu Yi revealed himself in the cavern and defeated Qin Kong’s group with a devastating attack, then stopped them from leaving after they recovered. He used Wu Xiu Jia’s agony to warn Qin Kong, and pointed Bai Jizi toward him while making clear that Qin Kong held the spirit essences in his Starry Sky Ring.

• Qin Kong and the others followed a spirit essence into a cavern, where they found a treasure vault and fought a cloaked figure.
• The cloaked figure collapsed the passage and unleashed a series of explosions that incapacitated the cultivators and revealed him as Xu Yi, who had advanced in cultivation.
• Bai Jizi helped Xu Yi free the group from the rubble, and Xu Yi carried the survivors to the beach without killing them.
• Qin Kong tried to take his group away, but Xu Yi said he and Bai Jizi had gathered everyone there for a reason and would not let them leave.
• Wu Xiu Jia challenged Xu Yi, who trapped his Divine Infant and tortured him until he could barely move.
• Xu Yi called Wu Xiu Jia loyal to the core and told Bai Jizi to deal with Qin Kong, knowing Qin Kong had the spirit essences in his Starry Sky Ring.

Xu Yi and Bai Jizi debated how to gather more spirit crystals, then rescued Zeng Qingfeng from two pursuers. Xu Yi welcomed Zeng and agreed to follow his lead to a rumored treasure site.

• Qin Kong surrendered nine spirit crystals, and Xu Yi returned his other belongings and spared his life.
• Bai Jizi and the group discussed ways to obtain more spirit crystals, and Wu Xiu Jia suggested charging their enemies directly.
• Xu Yi ordered Qin Kong and the others to rescue Zeng Qingfeng, and they drove off his two pursuers and brought him back.
• Xu Yi greeted Zeng warmly and asked him for news, while Zeng feared Xu Yi still held a grudge against him.
• Zeng Qingfeng claimed to know a place that might hold treasure, and Xu Yi agreed to set out with him at once.

Xu Yi led his group to a dangerous palace and revealed that he intended to hunt whoever had set it up. After Zeng Qingfeng disclosed the palace’s history, Xu Yi drew its interior for Zhang Ji to identify, but the palace vanished when they returned.

• Zeng Qingfeng led Xu Yi and the others to a mysterious palace on a cliff, and Xu Yi decided to investigate its trap as a way to hunt its creator.
• Xu Yi warned the group to follow his orders, then confronted Zeng Qingfeng after realizing he had tried to lure them into danger.
• Zeng Qingfeng admitted that the palace had appeared in several places and that people who entered it never returned, so Xu Yi let him sleep instead of punishing him.
• Xu Yi drew the palace’s interior from a glance outside, and Zhang Ji identified its formation as the long-lost Qianji Xuanting Formation.
• After discussing the formation with Zhang Ji, Xu Yi led the group back to the palace, but it had disappeared.

Xu Yi punished his companions for their passivity, then led them to a hidden palace and broke through its deadly traps. He confronted the Ghost-faced Man, who became obsessed with Xu Yi’s ability to see through his plans, and Xu Yi struck first.

• Xu Yi used the Origin Seal Bead to punish the group and forced Bai Jizi to explain their agreement and help with the plan.
• Zeng Qingfeng led the group to the palace by following its movement pattern, and Xu Yi’s party rushed inside ahead of a guarded group of strangers.
• Xu Yi and his companions survived the palace’s traps, while Corpse Beetles sealed the entrance and trapped the gray-robed old man’s group outside.
• The Ghost-faced Man praised Xu Yi for breaking his three moves and accused him of possessing a secret art that pierced the world’s barrier against perception.
• Xu Yi attacked the Ghost-faced Man with a compressed blast of fire energy, shattering his mask and revealing a youthful face.

Xu Yi battled the Ghost-faced Man, who used a Divine Form and his Divine Infant to turn the fight around. Xu Yi’s companions overwhelmed the Ghost-faced Man’s centipede and halted his fleeing Divine Infant, leaving the confrontation poised for its finish.

• Xu Yi’s Nine Star Flowing Fire Technique pressured the Ghost-faced Man until he invoked the Divine Form Art and grew into a giant.
• Xu Yi manifested a Violent Ape, which overpowered the Ghost-faced Man’s giant body in the cramped chamber.
• The Ghost-faced Man sent his Divine Infant to attack the Violent Ape, and Xu Yi answered with his own Divine Infant, which drove the enemy back.
• The Ghost-faced Man summoned a two-headed Yellow Springs Centipede, but a tiny black speck attacked it and killed both heads.
• The black speck pursued the Ghost-faced Man’s Divine Infant and froze it in midair with a light breath.

Xu Yi killed the Ghost-faced Man, collected spirit crystals, and freed Bai Jizi and the others from the palace. After forcing the gray-robed old man’s group to surrender their spirit crystals and Origin Seal Beads, Xu Yi prepared to leave with the others.

• Xu Yi’s Chiwu Worm devoured the Yellow Springs Centipede and helped destroy the Ghost-faced Man’s Divine Infant, while the Soul-Summoning Banner absorbed it.
• Xu Yi collected twenty-three spirit crystals, found the jade token controlling the palace, and opened the sealed gate to free Bai Jizi, Qin Kong, and the others.
• Qin Kong confronted the gray-robed old man’s group for waiting to profit from the others’ fight, and they surrendered seven spirit crystals and swallowed Origin Seal Beads.
• Xu Yi showed Bai Jizi that they had gathered forty spirit crystals, and Bai Jizi agreed they could set out.
• Zhang Ji declared that everyone should follow Xu Yi’s lead and protect his interests, prompting Qin Kong’s anger.

Xu Yi used pain and rewards to establish a hierarchy among his captives, then led them through the mist into the core of Guangcheng Immortal Mansion. As the group searched for a way forward, Xu Yi sensed an unexplained chill and wondered whether something had approached unseen.

• Xu Yi inflicted unbearable pain on the gray-robed elder and the others, then rewarded Zhang Ji by putting five of Long's subordinates under his command.
• Xiong Chun proposed a points system for measuring loyalty and assigning rewards and punishments, and Xu Yi tasked him with creating it.
• Xu Yi led the group through the mist on a rope, and they were pulled through a gate into an immense plaza in the mansion's core.
• The group found the plaza blocked by a restriction as mist rose, and Bai Jizi identified Bell Hall, Sword Pavilion, South Clothing Tower, and North Clothing Tower as their likely destinations.
• Xu Yi felt a chill behind him but saw nothing, and he considered whether a powerful unseen figure could evade his senses.

Xu Yi fled Tao Jingsheng and three Black Eyebrow Empire cultivators into Bell Hall, where they cornered him in an empty stone chamber. As more cultivators entered, the pursuers found themselves sharing the room with twenty people and no treasures.

• Xu Yi confronted Tao Jingsheng, who called on three Black Eyebrow Empire cultivators to kill him.
• Xu Yi escaped their attacks and ran into Bell Hall, with the three pursuers following him.
• The pursuers cornered Xu Yi in a stone chamber and threatened to record his death with a Ruyi Pearl.
• More cultivators entered the chamber until the three pursuers counted twenty people in a room containing only ash and murals.

Xu Yi and the cultivators trapped two Lightning Tribulation Experts by attacking with their Divine Infants, then used the Chiwu Worm to destroy both their Divine Infants. Xu Yi collected the spoils and forced Elder Su of the Black Eyebrow Empire to swallow an Origin Seal Bead.

• The purple-robed young man attacked the chamber’s cultivators, who released their Divine Infants and overwhelmed his and the white-faced old man’s attacks.
• The purple-robed young man and the white-faced old man charged toward Xu Yi but were surrounded by the Divine Infants while Xu Yi watched.
• The purple-robed young man unleashed his Divine Infant, which scattered the attackers before it moved to strike Xu Yi.
• The Chiwu Worm shattered the purple-robed young man’s Divine Infant, and the Soul-Summoning Banner swallowed its remains.
• The Divine Infants tore apart the white-faced old man’s body, and the Chiwu Worm destroyed his fleeing Divine Infant.
• Xu Yi collected more than ten Spirit Essences, gave Elder Su an Origin Seal Bead, and ordered him to swallow it.

After defeating two Lightning Tribulation Experts, Xu Yi sent his followers to search the hall while he used the Minor Cloud Crane Art to open sealed cave abodes and collect their treasures. When intruders attacked him and Bai Jizi, Xu Yi’s followers killed them, and Xu Yi ordered everyone to stay together as they continued searching.

• Xu Yi made Zhang Ji take charge of the silver-bearded old man, then praised the group and ordered them to search the hall in squads.
• Xu Yi took Bai Jizi to a sealed stone chamber and used the Minor Cloud Crane Art to open its restriction.
• Xu Yi collected the chamber’s weapons, treasure boxes, and other goods, though many items had decayed or turned to ashes.
• Xu Yi opened two more chambers, but one was a workshop and the other a supply warehouse filled with ashes.
• Four people followed Xu Yi and Bai Jizi into the warehouse and demanded treasure, so Xu Yi’s nineteen followers killed them and Xu Yi took their materials.
• Xu Yi ordered his followers to stop searching separately and stay close to protect him.

Xu Yi discovered an invisible presence that had been following him and learned to see and communicate with it using Cloud Crane Pure Qi. He named the strange qi creature Hu Hu and left off asking whether it had once been someone's breath.

• Xu Yi realized a hidden presence had caused the familiar chill he felt when handling cave mechanisms.
• Xu Yi used Cloud Crane Pure Qi in his eyes and saw a round ball of qi floating nearby.
• Xu Yi discovered Hu Hu responded to his questions with two different calls that meant yes and no.
• Xu Yi named the creature Hu Hu and asked whether it had found him because it liked his Cloud Crane Pure Qi.
• Hu Hu slipped into Xu Yi's nose and back out, prompting Xu Yi to ask whether it had once been an exhaled breath.

Xu Yi comforted Hu Hu before joining the rush into the newly opened Main Hall. He seized a golden talisman amid the chaos and continued hunting for treasures as cultivators fought throughout the treasury.

• Xu Yi realized Hu Hu recognized Yin Jiao's portrait and comforted the lonely spirit, who stroked Xu Yi's head in return.
• Bai Jizi warned Xu Yi that the Main Hall's restriction was about to open, and Xu Yi left the cave with him and the others.
• The Main Hall doors shattered, and Xu Yi pushed through the fighting cultivators to enter with Bai Jizi.
• Following Bai Jizi's directions, Xu Yi seized the golden talisman from its jade box and blocked the attacks aimed at him.
• Xu Yi challenged the cultivators to attack him together, but they scattered to pursue other treasures, leaving battles to erupt across the hall.

Xu Yi watched Su Beihun seize control of the hall with a True Intent Supernatural Ability and stepped forward to challenge him despite Bai Jizi’s warnings. Su Beihun’s attack pierced Xu Yi’s chest, but Xu Yi remained standing and mocked him.

• Xu Yi ordered Lin Ming to reward whoever surrendered the most treasures and punish whoever surrendered the least as the group competed for treasures.
• A thief used a mysterious technique to steal the Purple Firmament Lard Jade, and Xu Yi recognized the person behind it but stared at them in shock.
• Su Beihun killed cultivators who challenged him and demanded that everyone hand over a treasure or die.
• Bai Jizi explained that Su Beihun wielded a True Intent Supernatural Ability and warned Xu Yi not to provoke him.
• Xu Yi stepped forward to rally the cultivators, but Su Beihun’s red light pierced his chest; Xu Yi survived with the help of spiritual liquid and taunted him.

Xu Yi helped rally the cultivators against Su Beihun, then followed a mysterious woman to a hidden wall bearing Yin Jiao’s records about Guangcheng Immortal Mansion. The woman thanked Xu Yi for his help, and he asked whether she was connected to the mansion.

• Xu Yi used Cloud Crane Pure Qi to force Su Beihun’s True Intent energy from his body and survived another attack.
• Xu Yi’s messages and taunts rallied the cultivators, whose combined attacks forced Su Beihun to retreat.
• Xu Yi pursued the woman he had been watching and followed Hu Hu to a concealed stone wall.
• The wall’s inscriptions described Yin Jiao’s prayers and remorse over the Outer Realm Demons, the stolen Suppressing Cosmos Demon Stone, and the ruined treasures of Guangcheng Immortal Mansion.
• The woman poured wine before the wall, and Xu Yi asked whether she was connected to Guangcheng Immortal Mansion.
• The woman recognized Xu Yi as the cultivator who had helped her and thanked him.

Xu Yi met Lian Yunshang, whose face was identical to Xia Zimo’s, but learned that she had no memories of him or their past. After noticing her companions were deceiving her, Xu Yi pursued them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xu Yi asked Lian Yunshang about her origins and tested her memory by mentioning the Yin Mountain Bandits and Beichen, but she recognized neither.
• Lian Yunshang gave spirit crystals to the four people she had agreed to travel with, who then hinted that she might be hiding more treasures.
• Xu Yi left Lian Yunshang and later received the treasures collected by Bai Jizi’s group, whose members agreed to destroy their Starry Sky Rings and use storage bracelets instead.
• Xu Yi saw Lian Yunshang’s four companions flying south together despite claiming they would split up, and he pursued them.
• The four companions stopped to face Xu Yi, confident that their strength and numbers gave them the advantage.

Xu Yi seized a contract bearing Lian Yunshang’s name and realized she was Xia Zimo’s body with a different soul. He then followed a terrifying display of power to find Liu Ziyi trapping hundreds of cultivators with his newly forged Infant Artifact, while Lian Yunshang remained among them.

• Xu Yi ordered Zhang Ji and his group to take the contract from the woman in red, then matched Lian Yunshang’s signature to Xia Zimo’s handwriting and accepted that they were no longer the same person.
• Xu Yi spotted a powerful streak of light and followed it to a plain where hundreds of cultivators were surrounded by purple spiritual energy.
• Bai Jizi told Xu Yi that Liu Ziyi of the Demon Tower had forged an Infant Artifact and warned him not to reveal himself.
• Xu Yi learned that Liu Ziyi had trapped the cultivators to avenge insults against the Demon Tower, while Su Beihun urged Liu Ziyi to execute them.
• A blue-robed elder challenged Liu Ziyi, but Liu Ziyi’s Infant Artifact became a venomous dragon and burned him to smoke.

Liu Ziyi challenged Lian Yunshang after Su Beihun revealed her White Horse emblem, but Xu Yi stepped in to take the sword strikes meant for her. Intrigued by Xu Yi’s confidence, Liu Ziyi agreed to fight him and launched his attack.

• Su Beihun pointed out the White Horse emblem on Lian Yunshang’s sleeve, and Liu Ziyi challenged her to demonstrate her skills.
• Lian Yunshang explained that she was only recuperating at White Horse Temple and refused Liu Ziyi’s challenge.
• Su Beihun threatened the crowd and insisted that Lian Yunshang take Liu Ziyi’s strike.
• Xu Yi stepped forward and offered to take two of Liu Ziyi’s strikes in Lian Yunshang’s place.
• Liu Ziyi grew curious about Xu Yi’s confidence and attacked him.

Xu Yi survived Liu Ziyi’s Blazing Sun Sword but was gravely wounded while protecting Lian Yunshang. As Lian Yunshang’s hidden identity emerged, she challenged Liu Ziyi to a move.

• Xu Yi swallowed Spiritual Liquid and used Cloud Crane Pure Qi to survive Liu Ziyi’s Blazing Sun Sword, then pulled it from his chest.
• Liu Ziyi and the crowd stared in shock as Xu Yi struggled to heal his injuries.
• Liu Ziyi attacked again, and Xu Yi dragged the sword from his abdomen before collapsing into Lian Yunshang’s arms.
• Lian Yunshang fed Xu Yi three pills and asked why he had risked his life for her; Xu Yi asked her what love was.
• Lian Yunshang completed a verse about vowing their lives to each other, crushed her prayer bead, and revealed the ancient bearing of a Spirit Seizing Great Method practitioner.
• Lian Yunshang challenged Liu Ziyi and sent a thin line of white breath toward him.

After Lian Yunshang escaped Liu Ziyi and Hu Hu opened the divine palace, Xu Yi entered it and found four damaged treasures, but continued searching for the Four Divine Blood. Hu Hu led him to a strange stone wall that might conceal another store of treasures.

• Lian Yunshang repelled Liu Ziyi with a strange white streak, sealed her vital acupoints, and disappeared while Xu Yi recovered from his injuries.
• Su Beihun moved to attack Xu Yi, but Hu Hu used a lightning rune to reveal the divine palace and draw the cultivators away.
• Xu Yi learned that Hu Hu had shrunk while shielding him from Liu Ziyi's sword strike and opening the palace gates.
• Xu Yi entered the palace and saw cultivators battling over the damaged Soul Falling Bell, Male-Female Sword, Eight Trigrams Purple Ribbon Immortal Robe, and Cloud Sweeping Robe.
• Xu Yi asked Hu Hu about other hidden stores, and Hu Hu led him to a smooth stone wall that reflected no figures.

Xu Yi entered the world beyond the stone wall with Hu Hu and recovered heartblood from a phoenix skeleton using his Divine Infant and the yellow ribbon. After they returned, Su Beihun ambushed him, then called for a conversation.

• Xu Yi and Hu Hu passed through the stone wall and found a massive, bloodless dragon skeleton floating above a green river.
• Xu Yi followed Hu Hu to a sea of flames surrounding a golden phoenix skeleton and failed to reach its heart by ordinary means.
• Xu Yi sent out his Divine Infant, and the yellow ribbon shielded it as he entered the flames and collected the phoenix heartblood.
• Xu Yi fled the flames with his Divine Infant badly injured and promised an angry Hu Hu that he would not take such risks again.
• Su Beihun struck Xu Yi with Sword Qi as he emerged from the wall, then stopped attacking and asked to talk.

Xu Yi lured Su Beihun into an explosive trap, killed him, and took his belongings. He then learned that a battle over two Immortal Spirit Marks had turned into a massacre after three Heavenly Decline Realm experts seized bodies, and he stopped near the battlefield to observe.

• Su Beihun demanded that Xu Yi hand over a treasure from beyond the stone wall, but Xu Yi refused and used the jade bottle as bait.
• Xu Yi detonated his explosives, transformed into an ape, and killed Su Beihun with the Primordial Sword Tooth.
• Xu Yi destroyed Su Beihun's Divine Infant with the Chiwu Worm, absorbed its remnants with the Soul-Summoning Banner, and collected his Starry Sky Ring.
• Xu Yi reached the divine temple and learned from Bai Jizi that Zhang Ji and everyone who had failed to escape were dead.
• Bai Jizi explained that a battle over two Immortal Spirit Marks had become a massacre when three Heavenly Decline Realm experts seized bodies and joined the fight.
• Xu Yi sent his companions to safety and stopped nearby to observe the battlefield.

Xu Yi witnessed a Purple Gourd absorb all thirteen Immortal Spirit Marks before his dark gourd caused it to explode. He found a mysterious Four-Colored Seal in the aftermath, searched the area with Hu Hu, and escaped the divine hall with Bai Jizi before its restriction closed.

• Xu Yi watched a Purple Gourd kill a Demon Race Great Master and swallow all thirteen Immortal Spirit Marks, beginning its advancement.
• Xu Yi's dark gourd stirred, and the Purple Gourd erupted in panic before exploding and unleashing a half-hour of violent winds.
• Xu Yi searched the emptied hall, gathered fragments of the Purple Gourd, and followed Hu Hu to a Four-Colored Seal buried in the sand.
• Xu Yi and Hu Hu searched the area for two hours, but Bai Jizi arrived and warned that the restriction was about to close.
• Xu Yi fled with Hu Hu and Bai Jizi, returning to the shore beside the Sea of Resentment where Qin Kong and the others waited.

Xu Yi tried to take Hu Hu out of Guangcheng Immortal Mansion, but Hu Hu could not survive beyond its boundary. Xu Yi was left outside as Hu Hu returned to the places they had shared, growing weaker and smaller.

• Xu Yi and the others reached the boundary, and Hu Hu surveyed Guangcheng Immortal Mansion before leaving with Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi pulled Hu Hu through the restriction, but Hu Hu stretched back toward it and slipped free, trapped inside the realm.
• Bai Jizi told Xu Yi that Hu Hu would cease to exist outside Guangcheng Immortal Mansion, and Xu Yi realized Hu Hu was born from Yin Jiao's final breath.
• Xu Yi activated the restriction and charged toward Hu Hu, but the boundary vanished and he fell into the void as Hu Hu drifted away.
• Bai Jizi, Qin Kong, and the others caught Xu Yi, while Hu Hu revisited the places he had shared with Xu Yi and gradually grew faint and tiny.