Recaps

A month after his wedding, Qi WuHuo learned that Qing Jingwei had died and reunited with the Fierce Tiger Mountain God before returning to the Celestial Court. Great Emperor Ziwei resigned as Northern Emperor and nominated Qi WuHuo, who accepted the seal and received new titles as the Celestial Court prepared to face the Great Tribulation.

• Qi WuHuo read that Qing Jingwei had fled after his formation was broken, then taken his own life, and burned the box containing the demon's head.
• The Fierce Tiger Mountain God visited Qi WuHuo, shared wine and stories of their years apart, and departed after bidding him farewell.
• Empress Houtu agreed to return to the Celestial Court, and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole accused Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole of violating the agreement concerning Fuxi.
• Great Emperor Ziwei admitted his violation, relinquished his office, and nominated Qi WuHuo to succeed him as Northern Emperor.
• Qi WuHuo caught the Northern Emperor's seal, and the Jade Emperor granted him the titles of Central Emperor Venerable, Xuantian Shangdi, and others while confirming him as Northern Emperor.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable, Supreme, and Shangqing set out to suppress the Great Tribulation as Qi WuHuo looked out over the mortal world.

Li Xuanzuo and two young companions investigated a suspected Longevity Cult site outside Jin Province and awakened an Ancient Buddha called the Longevity Buddha. As the Buddha attacked them, Yang Jian appeared, revealed himself as True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao, and said he had come on the Emperor’s orders to root out its contingencies.

• Li Xuanzuo traveled to Jin Province with two companions, reflecting on the human world’s prosperity and King Wei Wu’s declining health.
• The three followed their clues to an abandoned temple, where they found an Ancient Buddha idol and caught a man attempting a ritual.
• The temple’s cultists attacked, and their leader invoked the Longevity Buddha before the companions defeated the group.
• The Buddha absorbed the cultists’ flesh and blood, revived, and trapped Li Xuanzuo and his companions in an overwhelming vision.
• Yang Jian intervened, shattered the Buddha’s light, identified himself as True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao, and declared that he was acting on the Emperor’s orders.

Yang Jian defeated and captured the Stone Buddha, uncovering a connection to the Bodhi Fruit and Great Emperor Changsheng’s old schemes. After sending the captive to True Martial Manor and parting from Li Xuanzuo, Yang Jian returned to Louguan Dao, where he unexpectedly met Zhentian Great Emperor Lord.

• Yang Jian shielded Li Xuanzuo and the others, drove the Stone Buddha into the mountains, and ordered his divine generals to search the area and subdue demons.
• Sky-Pouncing Eagle and the divine generals trapped the Stone Buddha, and Yang Jian captured him with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd and forced him to reveal, “Bodhi Fruit.”
• Yang Jian sealed the Stone Buddha in a gourd and sent him to Ju Ling Shen True Lord, asking that Yang Erlang be credited with completing the task so he could earn merit for a Treasure Lamp for his younger sister.
• Yang Jian repaired the ruined temple and left after telling Li Xuanzuo to do good and avoid evil; Li Xuanzuo and his companions returned to the academy in Jin Province Prefectural City.
• At Louguan Dao’s Refining Yang Temple, Yang Jian learned that True Person Yin and True Person Xi were away, then found Zhentian Great Emperor Lord beneath a ginkgo tree and paid his respects.

Ming Xin returned to the mortal world to fulfill an old promise and met Gui Qiwu, a boy with extraordinary Human Dao Destiny who wanted to cultivate the Dao. After Gui Qiwu’s parents asked Ming Xin to take him along, Ming Xin carried the sleeping boy through the snow toward a new life of cultivation.

• Yang Jian told True Martial Great Emperor that the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor might target the ripening Bodhi seed, and True Martial said he had come to address the threat.
• Zhang Shu discovered Gui Qiwu had extraordinary aptitude for Human Dao Destiny, but the boy rejected that path and chose Daoist scriptures and the flute instead.
• Ming Xin arrived in Liang Village seeking an old friend, stayed there for more than a year, and recognized that Gui Qiwu reminded him of someone from the past.
• Gui Qiwu gave Ming Xin a roasted chestnut and told him to rest, prompting Zhang Shu and the Earth God to realize the Daoist was the thousand-year-old Ming Xin.
• Gui Qiwu’s parents asked Ming Xin to take their son with him, and Ming Xin agreed while revealing his identity.
• Ming Xin carried the sleeping Gui Qiwu through the snowy prefectural city and promised that they would cultivate together without the old troubles.

Qi WuHuo traveled toward the Buddhist Kingdom with Yang Jian, pausing to meet two old friends who died after another lifetime of Buddhist cultivation. When they reached Spirit Mountain, the Buddhist assembly welcomed him with great ceremony, and Ran Deng the Daoist announced that the Bodhi Fruit had ripened.

• Qi WuHuo let Yang Jian accompany him as they traveled west through the prosperous Human World toward the Buddhist Kingdom.
• Qi WuHuo and Yang Jian encountered two elderly monks arguing over their Buddhist understanding, and Qi WuHuo recognized them as old friends.
• After the monks exchanged final teachings and jokes, they died and entered nirvana again; Yang Jian learned that one was Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata reincarnated and the other was an incarnation of Golden Cicada Master.
• At Spirit Mountain, the Buddhist deities opened the way and welcomed Qi WuHuo with an elaborate ceremony, while Buddha Lord Amitabha Buddha and Maitreya Bodhisattva greeted him in person.
• Beneath the Bodhi Tree, Ran Deng the Daoist saw that the Bodhi Fruit had fully ripened and said that the Emperor Lord had arrived.

Qi WuHuo visited Ran Deng in the Buddhist kingdom to receive the ripened Bodhi Fruit, which he transformed into an innocent young boy. Ran Deng chose to remain in Buddhism, while Qi WuHuo left with the boy and ordered preparations that suggested a confrontation with Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole.

• Qi WuHuo met Ran Deng beneath a Bodhi Tree, and Ran Deng gave him the Bodhi Fruit promised a thousand years earlier.
• Ran Deng explained that he had found his own path and would not return to the True Martial Manor, and Qi WuHuo congratulated him on his decision.
• Qi WuHuo used the Bodhi Fruit's spiritual nature to create a young boy, then departed the Buddhist kingdom with the child.
• Qi WuHuo ordered Yang Jian to tell Ju Ling, Wang E, the Heavenly King, and Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng to prepare as thunder gathered over the Buddhist kingdom.
• Qi WuHuo and Ran Deng bid farewell, and Ran Deng returned beneath the Bodhi Tree, renewed his Buddhist vows, and became an eternal lamp.

Qi WuHuo wandered through the Human World with the Bodhi Fruit child, teaching him cultivation and considering whether to take him as a disciple. He brought the child to meet Master Qiu, where the child began his first lesson by asking what the Dao was.

• Qi WuHuo traveled with the Bodhi Fruit child through the Human World and taught him a breathing method, which the child quickly mastered.
• The child explored the Human World with delight, practiced cultivation, and asked Qi WuHuo to take him as a teacher.
• Qi WuHuo told the child that entering his school required affinity and the right disposition, then decided to take him to meet Master Qiu.
• Qi WuHuo brought the child to the Capital City and sent him into the Treasury Chamber to meet Master Qiu.
• After Master Qiu welcomed him, the child asked, "May I ask, what is the Dao?"

Qi WuHuo returned to the Capital City after a thousand years and quietly reunited with Qiu through a child who had come to learn about the Dao. As Qi WuHuo led the child away, a white-haired old friend watched them and accepted their parting.

• Master Qiu taught a child that the Dao was in his heart and encouraged him to question the answer.
• Qi WuHuo listened to a tavern storyteller exaggerate the Master's deeds, then left without revealing who he was.
• Qi WuHuo visited the plum grove near the Nine Steles, where the white-haired woman and Li Xuanzuo were also present.
• The child returned from the Treasury Chamber and asked Qi WuHuo whether he would visit the Master; Qi WuHuo said he had already seen him.
• Qiu realized that the Master had arranged for the child to meet Qi WuHuo, and Qi WuHuo led the child away as the white-haired woman watched from Dingyan Peak.

Qi WuHuo took the child across the world to meet old friends and learn why people chose to fight, then brought him to Square Inch Mountain and accepted him as his first disciple. He named the boy Bodhi.

• Qi WuHuo brought the child to visit the aged King Wei Wu, Li Zhai, who described the fear and sacrifices behind his military victories and explained that people had to know why they fought.
• Li Zhai shared wine with Qi WuHuo, recalled their past, and chose to die with the age he had helped bring to an end.
• Qi WuHuo traveled with the child through the seasons, visiting old acquaintances and places, including Central Province Prefecture City, where he played an ancient chess game with a young man surnamed Long.
• Qi WuHuo reunited with Chao Feng and Jiao Tu at the city gate, watched the sunset with them, and received their blessing to become an immortal.
• Qi WuHuo led the child to Spiritual Platform Square Inch Mountain, Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, and asked if he wanted to become his disciple.
• The child bowed to Qi WuHuo, who accepted him as his first disciple and granted him the title Bodhi.

Bodhi broke through to Primordial Prenatal Qi after months of cultivation on Square Inch Mountain, while Qi WuHuo recognized that Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole had reached his final opportunity to act. Qi WuHuo descended the mountain and met Changsheng, beginning their confrontation.

• Bodhi naturally achieved Primordial Prenatal Qi, then learned that Qi WuHuo had reached the same milestone in about a month and felt disheartened by his Teacher's genius.
• An earth deity delivered a letter and a ring from Empress Houtu, and Qi WuHuo learned that Nuwa, Ziwei Great Emperor, and Fuxi were occupied with urgent matters.
• Qi WuHuo realized the Six Realms were temporarily weakened and that Changsheng's chance to pursue the Reincarnation Tribulation was nearly gone.
• Qi WuHuo gave Bodhi a spiritual peach, then left Square Inch Mountain as Bodhi planted the peach pit and imagined taking disciples someday.
• Qi WuHuo encountered Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole beneath a pavilion, and Changsheng came to face True Martial.

Qi WuHuo confronted Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole and exposed how his promised universal longevity depended on controlling and sacrificing all living beings. Changsheng rejected Qi WuHuo’s alternative and challenged him to settle their opposing paths through battle.

• Great Emperor Changsheng invited Qi WuHuo into his pavilion and questioned him about whether a reincarnated being remained the same self.
• Qi WuHuo argued that Changsheng’s plan turned living beings into puppets and denied them the freedom to choose their own goals.
• Qi WuHuo revealed that Changsheng’s repeated cycles of cultivation and reincarnation were designed to strengthen the concept of longevity so Changsheng alone could survive the final tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo said he had left cultivation texts and the Hundred Schools of Thought in the Mortal World, allowing people to choose their own paths without interference.
• Changsheng dismissed Qi WuHuo’s challenge and declared that their disagreement could only be settled in battle, summoning a lightning spear as a sword cry rose from True Martial Manor.

True Martial Great Emperor and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole fought a battle whose shockwaves threatened the Six Realms. Zhang Xiaoyu reclaimed control of the Haotian cultivation body and used the Haotian Mirror to shield the common people, leaving the duel to continue without restraint.

• True Martial Great Emperor deflected Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole's lightning and severed his wrist with Tribulation Sword, but Changsheng quickly healed and continued attacking.
• Their battle shook the Four Seas and Six Realms, while Yin Virtue Ding Xiu True Lord ordered Black Impermanence and White Impermanence to ask Di Ting about the fight.
• Zhang Xiaoyu reclaimed the Haotian cultivation body's power, explaining that he wanted to protect the common people and trusted WuHuo more than himself.
• Zhang Xiaoyu cast the Haotian Mirror over the duel and bore its shockwaves himself, allowing True Martial Great Emperor and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole to fight without harming the realms.
• True Martial Great Emperor trapped Changsheng with Heaven Strikes with Five Thunders and unleashed the mastered One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones from four directions.

Qi WuHuo fought Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole through a prolonged battle inside the Haotian Mirror, using his incarnations and divine abilities to wear him down. He finally pierced Changsheng with a thousand-year-nurtured sword that severed his Great Dao, and declared him defeated.

• Qi WuHuo used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and other incarnations to attack Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole, who countered with lightning and myriad transformations.
• Qi WuHuo and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole fought at close range until their weapons and incarnations were shattered and both were forced into a contest of bodily strength and qi.
• Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole revealed that a human’s jealousy had sparked the calamities surrounding Empress Nuwa, but Qi WuHuo remained calm as their battle threatened to break the Haotian Mirror.
• Qi WuHuo trapped Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole nearby and summoned a sword of purple qi that True Martial Great Emperor had nurtured for a thousand years.
• The sword pierced Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole and severed the upper limit of his Dao Fruit, breaking his seemingly inexhaustible vitality.
• The Haotian Mirror shattered, Zhang Xiaoyu regained consciousness, and True Martial Great Emperor held the purple sword to Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole’s brow and declared his defeat.

True Martial Demon Queller defeated the Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole, but Changsheng destroyed his own Dao foundation and brought the Final Tribulation down twenty thousand years early to prove his Dao. The chapter ended with the calamity erupting across the Six Realms as Qi WuHuo tried to sever its lingering passages.

• Qi WuHuo defeated the Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole and tried to bind him for judgment by the Jade Emperor and the other Imperial Lords.
• The Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole shattered his restraints by collapsing his vitality inward and destroying his own Dao foundation.
• Changsheng broke Qi WuHuo's purple-qi sword and declared that he would prove his Dao through the Final Tribulation.
• Changsheng opened passages to the Final Tribulation, unleashing the Heat Death Tribulation, the Cold Silence Tribulation, and the Three Thousand Gods and Devils Tribulation across the Six Realms.
• Changsheng vanished after sacrificing himself to sustain the passages, while Qi WuHuo tried to sever them and the Final Tribulation erupted in full.

The Final Tribulation erupted across the Six Realms, unleashing Heat Death, Cold Silence, and god-demons that resurrected and grew stronger whenever they were killed. Fuxi and the other prepared allies arrived to reinforce the defenders, and Great Emperor Zhenwu and Great Emperor Ziwei stood ready to strike at the rift and end the calamity.

• Yang Jian, the celestial gods, and the other realms fought the invading god-demons as the Human Dao Destiny Grand Formation and other defenses held back the tribulations.
• Yang Jian discovered that the god-demons repeatedly resurrected, adapted to their attackers, and could not be destroyed while their source remained.
• Fuxi arrived and used the Jianmu Tree to trap the god-demons and drain their vitality, while he and the arriving allies bolstered the Six Realms.
• Qi WuHuo, Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole, Empress Nuwa, and Houtu Empress Earthly Deity joined the fight as the defenders rallied.
• Great Emperor Ziwei and Great Emperor Zhenwu stood together before the rift and raised their swords to bring the Final Tribulation to an end.

Qi WuHuo and the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole reopened the rift to Heaven beyond Heaven, allowing more Gods and Devils and the destructive forces of Heat Death and Cold Silence to threaten the Six Realms. As the battle worsened, Zhang Xiaoyu returned with the Sky-Covering Banner and threw it to Qi WuHuo.

• Qi WuHuo and the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole advanced toward the rift, but a God or Devil warned that the final tribulation would come twenty thousand years later and began closing it.
• The Supreme and the other Three Pure Dao Ancestors confronted the immense God or Devil who governed the creation of Heaven and Earth, and he argued that the tribulation was part of the natural order.
• The Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole reopened the rift, while Zhenwu fought the Gods and Devils pouring through it.
• Heat Death and Cold Silence collided and destroyed Penglai Island, while their effects spread across the Six Realms.
• Great Unity Salvation Heavenly Venerate brought back Zhang Xiaoyu, who used the Sky-Covering Banner to suppress the tribulations and hurled it toward Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo and Ziwei Great Emperor opened a passage to Outer Heaven, while the Six Realms joined forces to hold back the demons and gods. Qi WuHuo entered alone and reached the Three Pure Dao Ancestors, where he challenged the vast demon and god behind them.

• Jade Emperor sent the Sky-Covering Banner to Qi WuHuo, who used it to shield the Six Realms and open a passage into Outer Heaven as Ziwei Great Emperor guarded him.
• When the unstable passage could admit only Qi WuHuo, Ziwei Great Emperor gave him the Ziwei Sword, and Qi WuHuo charged through with it and True Martial Sword.
• Fuxi called on the Six Realms to clear Qi WuHuo's path, and Li Zhai, Ao WuLie, Huang Yao, Ao Cang, and others held back the attacking demons and gods.
• As the Heat Death Tribulation intensified and multiple suns appeared, Yun Qin fought beside the defenders and refused to leave while she waited for Qi WuHuo.
• In Outer Heaven, Qi WuHuo cut through the demons and gods surrounding the Three Pure Dao Ancestors and confronted the enormous demon and god, declaring that he had come to discuss the Great Dao.

Qi WuHuo joined the Three Dao Ancestors in battle against the Final Tribulation’s ancient God, while the era’s renewal began to devastate the Six Realms. He used his Taiyi Cultivation Body to forge a final sword and wound the God, but the sword shattered before it could finish the cut.

• Qi WuHuo told the ancient God that he had come seeking a way for all beings to live, then joined Supreme Pure Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable in attacking it.
• The Three Dao Ancestors appeared beside Qi WuHuo, and the ancient God’s power accelerated the tribulations until fragments of the breaking world fell into the Six Realms.
• Ao Zang transformed into his true dragon form to strike a falling world fragment, but it broke his horns and formed an unnamed island mountain above the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Qi WuHuo fought the ancient God with the True Martial Sword and Ziwei Sword, but the Heaven-Opening Axe shattered the Ziwei Sword before Taiqing intervened.
• Taiqing, the Emperor End-Tribulation Celestial Venerable, Supreme Xuanwei True Person, Primordial Heavenly King, and Great Dao Lord Yuchen helped Qi WuHuo overcome the ancient God’s defenses and approach its brow.
• Qi WuHuo transformed his Taiyi Cultivation Body into a sword and thrust it into the ancient God’s brow, but the blade shattered before completing the cut.

After the Taiyi Sword shattered, Qi WuHuo and the people of the Six Realms kept fighting, and he realized how to overcome the ancient God. Qi WuHuo used the True Martial Sword to drag the God into the present world, and the Gods and Devils began to lose their immortality as the True Martial Great Emperor started to crumble.

• The ancient God declared victory after the Taiyi Sword shattered, and despair spread among the people of the Six Realms.
• An old scholar awakened Human Dao Destiny, and the humans, Zhang Xiaoyu, the Heavenly Realm, and the Buddhist Kingdom renewed their assault on the Gods and Devils.
• Qi WuHuo realized that the people of this era had to drag the ancient God down from his future rank, then used a feint to reach him and struck with Sword Qi.
• The Great Dao rippled across the Six Realms, halting Heat Death and Cold Death and causing the Gods and Devils to lose their undying bodies.
• The True Martial Great Emperor looked back at the others as his sleeves began to crumble.

Qi WuHuo appeared to perish after closing the rift and ending the final tribulation, leaving Yun Qin gravely stricken and the Six Realms mourning him. Three months later, the tribulation’s lingering effects remained, a strange stone began absorbing the scattered Innate Spirits and Demons’ Qi, and Qi WuHuo was revealed to remain locked in a confrontation with the ancient god in the Outer Heaven.

• Qi WuHuo closed the rift between the Six Realms and the world beyond, then vanished with the Gods and Devils of the final tribulation.
• Old Yellow Ox rushed to Yun Qin, who touched the True Martial Sword and asked why Qi WuHuo had not returned before collapsing and fading the sword.
• Three months later, the Jade Emperor summoned the Six Realms to address the surviving Innate Spirits and Demons, while Ao Cang decided to visit True Martial Manor and pay his respects.
• A huge stone beneath a newly formed mountain in the Eastern Sea absorbed the scattered Qi of the Innate Spirits and Demons, and life began to emerge within it.
• The Six Realms struggled with the lingering effects of the tribulation and memorialized Qi WuHuo, while his black-robed form remained seated opposite the ancient god in the Outer Heaven.

Qi WuHuo bound himself to the ancient god of the Final Tribulation, trapping them together in Outer Heaven while the Three Pure Dao Ancestors departed with his messages for his family and allies. Believing the Six Realms could defeat the remaining gods, demons, Heat Death, and Cold Death, he challenged the ancient god to a game that would decide their futures.

• Qi WuHuo explained that he and the ancient god were bound in a balance, preventing either from escaping without restarting the Final Tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo gave the Three Pure Dao Ancestors letters and messages for Yun Qin, Xiao Yu, and others, and asked them to guide a student he had left at Square Inch Mountain.
• The Three Pure Dao Ancestors accepted Qi WuHuo's requests and departed, leaving him alone with the ancient god in Outer Heaven.
• The ancient god warned that Heat Death and Cold Death would continue toward the Void Collapse Tribulation, but Qi WuHuo argued that the Six Realms could eliminate the remaining traces of the Final Tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo drew a chessboard from starlight and invited the ancient god to wager the Six Realms' fate in a game lasting a thousand autumns.

After Qi WuHuo died in battle, Yun Qin awoke from a coma with her soul injury triggered and her grief transforming her black hair white. Though she told her family she was all right, she emerged from the quiet chamber still hollow-eyed, clutching True Martial Sword.

• Wang E and Old Green Ox worried that the nine growing suns threatened the mortal world while the Six Realms remained divided.
• The Heavenly Medicine Great Sage told Yun Zhiyi and Weaver Girl that Yun Qin’s triggered soul injury was not serious and that she needed quiet recovery.
• Yun Zhiyi and Weaver Girl found Yun Qin’s hair had turned white, her cultivation had fallen to the Earth Immortal level, and tribulation aura surrounded her.
• Yun Qin reassured her mother and the elders, while Empress Nuwa and Empress Houtu offered her places to stay and encouraged her to visit the mortal world.
• After sitting alone for several days, Yun Qin dressed, tied back her white hair, and emerged from True Martial Hall to tell her parents and Uncle Niu that she was all right.

Yun Qin left Heaven and returned to Qi WuHuo’s childhood home, where she met Su Qiaomei, a descendant of the family that had guarded his plum tree for a thousand years. As Su Qiaomei told her the story behind the family’s duty, Yun Qin sat beneath the blossoming tree and asked to hear about Qi WuHuo’s youth.

• Yun Qin told Yun Zhiyi and Weaver Girl that she wanted to visit the Human World alone, then left True Martial Manor to ease their worries.
• Yun Qin encountered a drought-stricken town near Square Inch Mountain, summoned rain, and realized she had reached the place where Qi WuHuo had lived as a youth.
• Yun Qin entered the preserved courtyard, touched the plum tree, and made it bloom as rain cooled the town.
• Su Qiaomei arrived to check the tree and explained that the Lingnan Su Family had guarded it for generations because of Old Ancestor Shengyuan’s bond with Qi WuHuo.
• Su Qiaomei described how Shengyuan had wanted to leave Qi WuHuo a reminder of his era, and Yun Qin asked her to tell a story about Qi WuHuo before he entered the Dao.

Su Qiaomei remembered meeting the white-haired Yun Qin, who had sought stories of Qi WuHuo, and carried their secret for centuries. Yun Qin traveled across the realms following Qi WuHuo’s traces and vowed to remain on Mount Tai, but Lingbao suggested that Qi WuHuo might not be dead.

• Su Qiaomei told Yun Qin what she knew about Qi WuHuo, and Yun Qin described his unknown year before leaving her a plum-blossom mark and asking her to keep their meeting secret.
• Centuries later, Su Qiaomei told children about Yun Qin, while Yun Qin arrived in Zhongzhou and heard Chao Feng and Jiao Tu recall Qi WuHuo’s youth.
• Yun Qin crossed Jinzhou and the Land of Ten Thousand Spirits, where Su You recounted Qi WuHuo’s adventures in the Demon Kingdom.
• Yun Qin visited places throughout the Human World that remembered Qi WuHuo, then climbed Mount Tai and told Di Ting she would stay to watch over his stories and the lands he had walked.
• Lingbao arrived on Mount Tai and told Yun Qin that Qi WuHuo might not be dead, leaving her stunned.

Yun Qin learned from the Shangqing Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable that Qi WuHuo was alive but could return only after attaining transcendence or after the Final Tribulation’s remnants were eliminated. Meanwhile, the Jade Emperor punished Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole’s faction, and Fu Lu Shou found a mountain whose earth veins could anchor the Three Islands of Penglai.

• The Shangqing Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable gave Yun Qin Qi WuHuo’s letter and explained that he was safe but could not return yet.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable told Zhang Xiaoyu and the assembled Immortals and Gods that Qi WuHuo could come and go freely after attaining transcendence, while the Final Tribulation’s remaining forces could also be defeated over time.
• Zhang Xiaoyu stripped Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole of his authority and reassigned the Thunder Division’s command to Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng, while Wang E received a new Celestial Venerable title.
• Fu Lu Shou traveled to the Eastern Sea to rebuild the Three Islands of Penglai, but their islands drifted until Shouxing found a mountain formed around a fallen Fragment of Heaven.
• Fu Lu Shou drew three earth veins from the mountain to anchor the islands, making it the Ancestral Vein of the Ten Prefectures and the Dragon Vein of the Three Islands.