Recaps

Qi WuHuo completed intensive training under Daoist Qingyu, learning to refine qi instinctively, but sensed that his long stay had blurred his sense of time. After hearing of a Demon King preparing to become a Great Sage and resolving to investigate in Jinzhou, he tried to leave the mountain, only for Daoist Qingyu to demand that he defeat him first.

• Qi WuHuo discussed his understanding of ancient scripts and divine abilities with Holy Mother Taiyuan, who explained the demanding foundations expected of powerful cultivators.
• Daoist Qingyu trained Qi WuHuo to refine qi naturally, and Qi WuHuo eventually made the practice instinctive.
• Qi WuHuo spoke with Prince Qin, learned that a Demon King planned to prove himself a Great Sage, and asked for records about him and for Su Shengyuan to be invited back to public service.
• Qi WuHuo decided to go to He Lian Mountain to keep his promise, then travel to Jinzhou to investigate the Demon Saint.
• Daoist Qingyu confronted Qi WuHuo and said he could leave the mountain only if he defeated him.

Qi WuHuo challenged Daoist Qingyu and was soundly defeated, then learned that his grasp of the divine abilities he hoped to teach was incomplete. Daoist Qingyu intensified his lessons, and after two more days a visitor arrived in the town below He Lian Mountain.

• Daoist Qingyu demanded that Qi WuHuo fight him, and Qi WuHuo put aside his staff and attacked with the Blood River Sword.
• Daoist Qingyu broke Qi WuHuo’s sword techniques, formations, and divine abilities by using only the fundamentals, while Holy Mother Taiyuan explained why Qi WuHuo could not win.
• Under the pressure of the fight, Qi WuHuo instinctively used the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Daoist Qingyu shattered it with a tree branch and sent Qi WuHuo crashing into a wall.
• Daoist Qingyu questioned Qi WuHuo about the divine abilities he intended to teach, exposed gaps in his understanding, and told him he lacked the qualifications to teach them.
• Qi WuHuo returned to study and challenge Daoist Qingyu, who added zither practice to his lessons to temper Qi WuHuo’s mind.
• After two more days of training, Daoist Qingyu sensed a visitor arriving in the town below He Lian Mountain.

Qi WuHuo stayed on He Lian Mountain to strengthen his cultivation, then met the Weaver Girl after they played music together and discussed the Dao. The Weaver Girl revealed she was heading to town to find someone, and Qi WuHuo introduced himself as the person she sought.

• Great Celestial Venerable Yuqing and Houtu Empress Earthly Deity sensed the Weaver Girl approaching but chose not to interfere with Qi WuHuo's tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo refused to leave He Lian Mountain until he could defeat Daoist Qingyu, then visited Elder Tao and the local deities to explain that he was not ready to teach.
• The Black Bear nearly collapsed when he tried to lift Qi WuHuo's bronze staff, and Qi WuHuo warned him to finish replanting the Spirit Grass before his transformation would end.
• Qi WuHuo played Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor, and the Weaver Girl joined him on the flute; afterward, they discussed music and the Dao with the mountain spirits and local deities.
• The Weaver Girl decided to visit the town below He Lian Mountain to find someone, and Qi WuHuo revealed his name when she asked who he was.

Qi WuHuo returned the Northern Emperor Mirror to the Weaver Girl after learning its history, but she gave it back to him because she judged him worthy of its trust. He returned it again, left Yun Qin a way to contact him and a poem for the Northern Emperor's Son, and the Weaver Girl later declared him worthy of being a Dao companion.

• The Weaver Girl reclaimed the Northern Emperor Mirror from Qi WuHuo and explained that it had belonged to the first Human Emperor and was precious to the Northern Emperor's Son and her husband.
• After confirming Qi WuHuo had not deceived Yun Qin, the Weaver Girl gave him the mirror on the couple's behalf and left to preserve the friendship between him and her daughter.
• Qi WuHuo caught up with the Weaver Girl, returned the mirror, and explained that he had created another way for Prince Qin to contact him.
• Qi WuHuo asked the Weaver Girl to give Yun Qin snacks and left a poem for the Northern Emperor's Son on the mirror before departing.
• The Weaver Girl returned the mirror and snacks to Yun Qin, told her to remain in confinement, and reassured Yun Zhiyi that Qi WuHuo had no romantic feelings for Yun Qin.
• The Weaver Girl told Yun Zhiyi that Qi WuHuo was worthy of being a Dao companion, while Yun Qin studied the contact spell and its strange tricks.

Qi WuHuo struggled to unite his martial arts, spells, and divine abilities while Prince Qin revealed the Emperor’s decision to appease the Demon Race after atrocities in Jinzhou. As Qi WuHuo prepared to descend the mountain and confront the Great Sage, Yun Qin showed him a technique that finally sparked a breakthrough.

• Daoist Qingyu praised Xuanwei’s flawless Daoist heart and lamented that he was not his disciple.
• Qi WuHuo broke down his divine abilities and tried to combine them into a single system, but Daoist Qingyu said his understanding remained incomplete.
• Prince Qin told Qi WuHuo that the Emperor planned to send gifts and a royal envoy to congratulate the Great Sage, while a human cultivator who had defended the people was falsely blamed and executed.
• Prince Qin volunteered to serve as envoy so Qi WuHuo could learn the Great Sage’s location, and Qi WuHuo agreed to go to Jinzhou.
• Daoist Qingyu forced Qi WuHuo to fight through his grief and anger, then challenged him to defeat him before he could leave the mountain; Qi WuHuo lost.
• Yun Qin showed Qi WuHuo her [Snare] technique, and its patterns joined with his studies and battle experience to bring him a sudden breakthrough.

Qi WuHuo understood that change, rather than fixed forms, had to guide the unification of his divine powers, then spent days honing that new foundation against Daoist Qingyu. After Qi WuHuo won their final exchange, Daoist Qingyu approved his progress and let him descend the mountain.

• Yun Qin demonstrated her cloud-and-mist trick, helping Qi WuHuo realize that its core was change rather than any fixed sword formation.
• Yun Qin decided to learn sword techniques and went to ask the Weaver Star Lord for instruction.
• Qi WuHuo integrated his divine powers and challenged Daoist Qingyu again, refusing to use Yun Qin's sword formation because he wanted to win with his own methods.
• Qi WuHuo continued fighting and reflecting until he combined his techniques fluidly and met Daoist Qingyu in a decisive exchange.
• Qi WuHuo and Daoist Qingyu reached a mutual stalemate, and Daoist Qingyu cleared the way and told Qi WuHuo he could descend the mountain.

Qi WuHuo left Qingyu True Person’s abode and chose to remain on He Lian Mountain, where he taught the Dao to gods, spirits, and mortals. After seven days of instruction and insight, he formed his own Daoist lineage and became a True Person.

• Qi WuHuo bowed to Qingyu True Person, who disappeared along with Holy Mother Taiyuan and the courtyard, leaving Qi WuHuo and Qi Yuntun in the wilderness.
• Qi WuHuo returned to sleep instead of descending the mountain or pursuing alchemy and teaching, while Su Shengyuan received Prince Qin’s invitation to go to the Capital City.
• Su Shengyuan asked Qi WuHuo to accompany him, but Qi WuHuo refused; Su Shengyuan departed with Su Yue'er and the Capital City attendants.
• Qi WuHuo began teaching the Dao on He Lian Mountain, explaining cultivation methods, Primordial Prenatal Qi, techniques, the Flowing School, stillness, and motion over six days.
• On the seventh day, Qi WuHuo demonstrated how cultivation grew through the image of a plant, then formed a Daoist lineage through qi and declared himself a True Person.

Qi WuHuo broke through to the True Person realm and received Empress Houtu’s explanation of the arduous path to immortality. After returning home, he agreed to investigate Old Yellow Ox’s old connections when he went to the Demon Kingdom.

• Qi WuHuo stabilized his new True Person realm in three steps and explained that mastering its qi came down to the fundamentals.
• Empress Houtu tested Qi WuHuo’s knowledge of cultivation, taught him the stages from Transforming Qi toward the Yang Spirit, and offered him the option of an immortal edict.
• Empress Houtu described the dangers of pursuing the Great Dao and urged Qi WuHuo to remember the lessons she had shared.
• Empress Houtu departed after Qi WuHuo accepted her guidance as his gift, and the Mountain Gods and Earthly Deities thanked her.
• Old Yellow Ox asked Qi WuHuo to check on his old brothers in the Demon Kingdom, and Qi WuHuo agreed.
• Old Yellow Ox revealed that he had about a dozen connections in the Demon Kingdom and asked Qi WuHuo to choose one.

Qi WuHuo accepted a home and new title at Square Inch Mountain, then perfected a clothing-transformation art with Yun Qin. As turmoil gathered across the world, he descended the mountain as a True Person, while Prince Qin learned that Qi WuHuo was behind the shifting political situation.

• Old Yellow Ox gave Qi WuHuo tokens for seventeen old ventures and asked him to check on his scattered friends and offer wine and incense if they were gone.
• Yun Qin and Qi WuHuo combined their arts of changing clothes and weaving clouds into a divine art.
• Empress Houtu gave Qi WuHuo a land-deity token and made He Lian Mountain his home, renaming it Square Inch Mountain and establishing a temple there.
• Su Shengyuan learned from Prince Qin that Qi WuHuo had been directing the great changes in the world, while Su Yue'er met Li Qiongyu.
• Qi WuHuo completed the Clothing Transformation Incantation and descended Square Inch Mountain as Buddhist and Daoist cultivators prepared to oppose the Demon Kingdom's plan.

Qi WuHuo raced to intercept the wolf demon’s procession after learning that the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance had fallen into a trap. As the alliance’s cultivators faltered against the demons, Qi WuHuo arrived and halted the fighting with a single command.

• Qi WuHuo concluded that the wolf demon was luring the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance into an ambush and set out to find Prince Qin and infiltrate the procession.
• Prince Qin led human troops to block the alliance’s cultivators while the wolf demon’s formation and the women’s fear of reprisals undermined the attempted rescue.
• The wolf demon fought three True Persons in the sky as the other cultivators withdrew, then ordered his demons to attack them.
• The exhausted cultivators fought desperately as demons wounded and overwhelmed them.
• Qi WuHuo spoke the word “Freeze,” stopping the battle as it raged.

Qi WuHuo defeated the Great Demon King, rescued the human convoy from being sent to the Demon Kingdom, and disguised himself as a demon to follow the Great Demon King into Jinzhou. He arrived there in disguise, intent on confronting the Great Sage.

• Qi WuHuo killed the demons threatening the Buddhist and Daoist cultivators, then knocked the Great Demon King unconscious by turning the wolf demon's own Qi against him.
• Qi WuHuo found Prince Qin's convoy and offered to help the people avoid being taken to the Demon Kingdom without causing trouble when the rolls were checked.
• Qi WuHuo transformed strands of the people's hair into lifelike doubles so they could leave safely under assumed names.
• Qi WuHuo disguised himself as a demon, while the Great Demon King recovered and hurried toward the Demon Kingdom, wary of pursuit.
• Qi WuHuo followed the Great Demon King's route through the Jinzhou rift and returned to Jinzhou, preparing to seek out the Great Sage.

Qi WuHuo returned to his drought-stricken hometown in Jin Province and learned that the land’s earth vein had been drained, leaving its people and local Earth God near ruin. He entered the Celestial Court as an official of the Northern Emperor, intending to ask the Rain Master to bring a torrential rain.

• A cultivator in a bamboo hat told the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance that a blue-robed Daoist had protected refugees from betrayal, and Monk Deshen identified him as Qi WuHuo of Square Inch Mountain.
• The Daoist Sect’s banished immortal revealed herself as the Young Sect Master and asked the Immortal Peak True Person to let her escort them, save someone, and borrow water.
• Qi WuHuo reached Jin Province with Prince Qin and saw its drought-stricken people; his summoned rain mostly evaporated before reaching the ground.
• Qi WuHuo returned to his childhood home, found its courtyard ruined, and learned from the Earth God that a fallen Golden Crow and the Demon Race’s formation had damaged and drained Jin Province’s earth vein.
• Qi WuHuo told the Earth God he would seek the Rain Master’s help, then used his Exorcism Institute token to enter the Celestial Court as a Celestial Official.

Qi WuHuo brought rain to drought-stricken Jinzhou, completed Cauldron Relocation, and entered the Demon Kingdom with Prince Qin. When he intervened to save a human child, his disguise was exposed, and he revealed himself as Qi WuHuo of Square Inch Mountain.

• Qi WuHuo borrowed Heavenly Emperor Coins from Great Marshal Tianyou to hire the Rain Masters and water deities to bring rain to Jinzhou, and learned that Taibai had survived.
• Qi WuHuo returned to his hometown, honored his parents, and completed Cauldron Relocation as rain fell over Jinzhou.
• Qi WuHuo told Prince Qin he had brought the rain, then the two entered the Demon Kingdom disguised as demons and passed its checkpoint.
• Qi WuHuo stopped a pig demon from killing a human child, but the wolf demon recognized his disguise and accused him of being a Daoist.
• Prince Qin blamed Qi WuHuo for infiltrating the delegation, and Qi WuHuo killed the wolf demon and forced the Demon Race soldiers to their knees.
• Qi WuHuo took the child by the hand and revealed his identity as Qi WuHuo of Square Inch Mountain.

Qi WuHuo fought his way through a Demon Race garrison and faced Great General Tengshe, then hid in the city while seeking a way to infiltrate the Great Sage ritual. A Fox Clan Demon Immortal discovered him, but Qi WuHuo showed her a waist token that made her recognize him.

• Qi WuHuo and Prince Qin's cavalry attacked the Demon Race garrison, and Qi WuHuo redirected their arrows against the demons before fleeing with the child.
• Great General Tengshe arrived and fought Qi WuHuo, who overcame his Yang God Manifestation and escaped as the Demon Kingdom ordered a search for him.
• Qi WuHuo concealed himself beneath a waterside pavilion, reflected on his fight with Tengshe, and waited for a chance to enter the Great Sage ritual.
• A Fox Clan woman discovered Qi WuHuo, and he immobilized her before a powerful Fox Clan beauty appeared and questioned him.
• Qi WuHuo revealed a waist token bearing a golden ox swallowing the moon, and the Fox Clan Demon Immortal recognized it.

Qi WuHuo used the Golden Ox Swallowing Moon Token to secure the Fox Race's help and a chance to attend the Great Sage Green Lion's breakthrough ritual. The chapter ended with him discovering that the cleaned-up child had a human head, a serpent's body, and an extraordinarily powerful human aura.

• Su You recognized the token and agreed to shelter Qi WuHuo, then recounted how Uncle Niu had once protected and established the Fox Immortals' Zither Music Pavilion.
• Su You learned that Qi WuHuo was sixteen and brought him to meet the Fox Race's aged former beauty, who promised to repay Uncle Niu's debt.
• Qi WuHuo asked to watch the Great Sage Green Lion's breakthrough ritual, and the white-haired woman arranged for him to join the musicians.
• Qi WuHuo sensed that the white-haired woman was nearing the end of her life and wondered whether she faced the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• After Su You took the child to wash and dress, Qi WuHuo heard her crying and rushed over to find her transformed appearance: a human head above a green serpent's tail, with a greatly intensified human aura.

Qi WuHuo comforted Xiao Pengcao and disguised himself as a blind zither player in the Zither Music Pavilion, where his performance quickly made him famous. Meanwhile, Cui Yuanzhen’s party learned that Qi WuHuo had attacked a Demon Race border city, and the chapter ended as a fortune teller recognized the musician’s familiar aura and divined his identity.

• Qi WuHuo comforted Xiao Pengcao, promised not to sell her, and let her keep her old clothes while she slowly grew more at ease around him.
• Su You helped Qi WuHuo disguise himself as a noble blind zither player, and his performance at the Zither Music Pavilion drew acclaim and growing crowds.
• Cui Yuanzhen and the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance party found Jinzhou recovering from drought and suspected that Qi WuHuo had persuaded the heavenly gods to send rain.
• Demon Race soldiers told the party that Qi WuHuo had stormed a border city, killed a great general, and fought Great General Tengshe; Great Monk Deshen then killed their captive general.
• True Person Gongyang Yidong learned that Patriarch Lu had gone to hear the famous zither player instead of joining the party, while the gray-clad fortune teller brought a great monk to the pavilion.
• The gray-clad fortune teller saw Qi WuHuo perform, sensed a familiar aura, and froze when his divination revealed something unexpected.

Qi WuHuo reunited with a monk and a wary grey-robed fortune teller, who explained the monk’s demonic obstacle and warned that Xiao Pengcao’s rare nature would attract powerful pursuers if she cultivated. The fortune teller recognized her as a descendant of the Feng clan and then tried to divine who had taught Qi WuHuo to play the zither, only to be horrified by the result.

• Qi WuHuo met the monk and grey-robed fortune teller in a quiet room after the monk brought the reluctant fortune teller along.
• The monk told Qi WuHuo that he had taken Central Province’s baleful energy into himself and was facing a demonic obstacle rather than harming the city’s people.
• Qi WuHuo discussed cultivation and upholding the Dao with the monk, who praised his insight.
• The fortune teller recognized Xiao Pengcao’s extraordinary potential and warned that powerful beings would discover her if she began cultivating.
• The fortune teller told Xiao Pengcao that her origins belonged to the Feng clan and that she should bear the surname Feng.
• The fortune teller attempted to divine who had taught Qi WuHuo to play the zither, then froze and broke into a cold sweat.

Qi WuHuo witnessed Great Emperor Dongyue attack the Green Lion, only for the Great Sage Green Lion to kill him and revive the city’s dead. After seeing his enemy’s unmatched power, Qi WuHuo was summoned to meet the great sage.

• The fortune teller’s divination cracked his coins and left him kneeling, while Xiao Pengcao teased him and the monk taught Qi WuHuo a sealing array.
• Demon forces attacked the Zither Music Pavilion, and Great Emperor Dongyue emerged to fight them.
• Great Emperor Dongyue used Heavenly Manifestation to destroy the demons, but the Great Sage Green Lion killed him and restored the city and its dead.
• The fortune teller explained the Green Lion’s strength and his disciple’s limits, while Qi WuHuo realized how far beyond him the great sage stood.
• A green-haired man entered the pavilion and told Qi WuHuo that the great sage requested his presence.

Qi WuHuo went with Si You and Xiao Pengcao to meet the Great Sage Green Lion, concealing his identity as he entered the demon sage’s stronghold. After defending Xiao Pengcao from a powerful guest who wanted to take her, Qi WuHuo stood face-to-face with his mortal enemy, the Great Sage Green Lion, who invited him to play the zither.

• Si You agreed to accompany Qi WuHuo to the Great Sage Green Lion, and Xiao Pengcao insisted on going with them rather than risk being abandoned.
• Qi WuHuo concealed his aura and cultivation as the green-haired envoy led them through the Green Lion lineage’s sacred mountain and Forest of Stele Teachings.
• Qi WuHuo encountered Prince Qin fishing with a burly man in green, who took the zither and led the group toward the summit.
• A noble-looking woman tried to take Xiao Pengcao as her maid, but Qi WuHuo refused to trade her, and the burly man in green stopped the woman’s companion from attacking him.
• The burly man revealed himself as the Great Sage Green Lion and invited Qi WuHuo to play the zither, while Qi WuHuo remained calm despite standing near his mortal enemy.

Qi WuHuo discovered that the Green Lion Clan’s sacred ground concealed a ritual formation tied to the Great Sage Green Lion’s breakthrough. Inside it, he encountered the supposedly dead Great Emperor Dongyue and identified himself as the Empress’s emissary from Jinzhou, leaving Dongyue grief-stricken.

• The Great Sage Green Lion praised Qi WuHuo’s zither playing, gave him a pill to conceal Xiao Pengcao’s bloodline, and invited him to perform at a ceremony a month later.
• While touring the sacred ground, Qi WuHuo sensed that its formation drew power inward, and Si You helped him create a chance to investigate.
• Qi WuHuo transformed into an insect, slipped past two guarding demon immortals, and discovered the sacred ground was a ritual formation.
• The Great Emperor Dongyue attacked Qi WuHuo, but stopped when he saw the Earthly Deity token and suspected Qi WuHuo was the Empress’s emissary.
• Qi WuHuo identified himself as an emissary from Jinzhou, and Dongyue’s hostility faded into sorrow.

Qi WuHuo helped Great Emperor Dongyue break the formation concealing the Green Lion’s breakthrough ritual, then followed him to the Saint Embryo at its core. As Qi WuHuo touched the embryo, someone knocked at the door where Si You and Xiao Pengcao were staying.

• Great Emperor Dongyue gave Qi WuHuo Empress Houtu’s token and the Eastern Peak seal, asking him to deliver the seal to her and leave the sacred grounds.
• Qi WuHuo recognized the concealed formation and, with Great Emperor Dongyue shielding him, broke through its layers and defeated its sword formations.
• Great Emperor Dongyue led Qi WuHuo through the ritual to the Saint Embryo, which had been formed from Jinzhou’s ley lines and merged with the Great Sage Green Lion’s Yang Spirit.
• Qi WuHuo touched the Saint Embryo, and it glimmered in response.
• Someone knocked repeatedly at the door of the valley courtyard where Si You and Xiao Pengcao were staying, and Si You’s pupils contracted.

Qi WuHuo learned that Great Sage Green Lion had turned his ten thousand years of cultivation into a Saint Embryo and built a ritual array to break through to the strongest realm. Great Emperor Dongyue charged Qi WuHuo with destroying the array, and Qi WuHuo declared himself Green Lion’s tribulation as a drunken Daoist arrived at the Zither Music Pavilion.

• Huangyao visited Si You and questioned why Qi WuHuo was inside, while Xiao Pengcao rejected her offer of candy and a new home.
• Huangyao entered and offered to cure Qi WuHuo’s blindness or help him advance, but he refused and calmly sent her away.
• Qi WuHuo recalled how Great Emperor Dongyue explained that Green Lion had made the Saint Embryo from his vast cultivation and used the ritual array to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Great Emperor Dongyue said he would use the Dongyue Seal to buy Qi WuHuo a month to destroy the array, which was built on Jinzhou’s ley lines and the blood and souls of its people.
• Qi WuHuo told Si You that he had seen a chance for revenge and that he was Green Lion’s tribulation.
• As the Zither Music Pavilion’s staff worried about Qi WuHuo and the others, the grey-robed gentleman warned them about a drunken Daoist who had arrived downstairs looking for the zither-playing beauty.

Lü Chunyang arrived at Zither Music Pavilion seeking his sixteen-year-old senior brother, and Su You realized he meant Qi WuHuo. At the Green Lion Clan’s banquet, Qi WuHuo decided to remain with Huang Yao and Xiao Pengcao, leaving him inside Great Sage Green Lion’s territory as he planned to replace the clan’s protective ritual with the Great Dao Lord Sword Formation.

• A drunken Daoist fought the monk, shattering Zither Music Pavilion’s formation, then revealed that his name was Lü Chunyang and that he sought his senior brother.
• Lü Chunyang told the grey-robed gentleman that he had once orchestrated the Blood River Sword Sect’s fall and Great Sage Xiao Feng’s death, but the gentleman did not remember any of it.
• Su You realized Lü Chunyang was searching for Qi WuHuo, a sixteen-year-old True Person, and was shaken by the implication that he might be a True Lord’s talent.
• Qi WuHuo concluded that he needed to replace Great Sage Green Lion’s ritual with the Great Dao Lord Sword Formation, using slaughter in place of protection.
• At the banquet, Huang Yao insisted that Xiao Pengcao stay and asked Qi WuHuo to remain as well; Qi WuHuo agreed.

Qi WuHuo stayed at the Green Lion Clan’s grounds and secretly worked with Great Emperor Dongyue to undo the sacred formation. As the emperor taught him the Great Dao of Dongyue, he recalled the ordinary people and lives that had shaped his long years.

• Qi WuHuo heard demons mock Prince Qin as the prince danced and toasted them, then went to his quarters with Xiao Pengcao.
• Xiao Pengcao came to Qi WuHuo’s room because she was afraid to sleep alone, and he protected her with a Sword Qi formation.
• Qi WuHuo returned to the sacred fetus, where Great Emperor Dongyue woke and warned him to be cautious around Huang Yao.
• Qi WuHuo explained the situation at the Green Lion Clan, and he and Great Emperor Dongyue began altering the formation into a Sword Formation.
• Great Emperor Dongyue stopped Qi WuHuo when the work exhausted him, then began teaching him the Great Dao of Dongyue and ordered him to memorize it.
• As Qi WuHuo recorded the emperor’s teachings, Great Emperor Dongyue remembered the people and small kindnesses from his ten thousand years in Dongyue.

Qi WuHuo secretly worked to alter the Green Lion Clan’s ceremony formation while Huang Yao offered Si You an elixir and tried to take Xiao Pengcao. The Great Sage Green Lion discovered Qi WuHuo’s identity but helped him break through, while Lü Chunyang decided to seek the clan’s sacred grounds with the fortune teller’s help.

• Qi WuHuo struggled to understand the Great Emperor Dongyue’s teachings and continued memorizing the changes needed for the ceremony formation.
• Huang Yao offered to trade an elixir that could prolong Si You’s life for Xiao Pengcao, but Si You refused the bargain; Huang Yao left the elixir with Qi WuHuo.
• Qi WuHuo devoted the following days to altering the formation, while the Great Sage Green Lion visited him and invited him fishing.
• The Great Sage Green Lion taught Qi WuHuo a method of quieting the mind, helping him complete a quarter of the Samadhi step in the Four Righteousnesses and advance his Primordial Spirit.
• The Great Sage Green Lion recognized Qi WuHuo as a man from Square Inch Mountain but said he regarded him as a friend for now and helped him despite their possible future conflict.
• Lü Chunyang told Su You that they should go to the Green Lion Clan’s sacred grounds, then pointed to the fortune teller as their guide.