Recaps

The Three Immortals of Penglai rebuilt the Three Islands of Penglai and settled on the Nameless Immortal Mountain, which they named Flower Fruit Mountain Blessed Land, Water Curtain Cave Grotto-Heaven. After Ao Guang and Taibai Jinxing persuaded them to leave, a strange stone was cast onto the mountain, where it absorbed the essence of heaven and earth.

• The Three Immortals of Penglai gathered supplies to rebuild Penglai, while Niu Jinnniu secretly substituted a troublesome Crimson-buttocked Monkey for one of Southern Pole Immortal's spirit beasts.
• The Crimson-buttocked Monkey escaped from Southern Pole Immortal's pouch and scattered much of its contents across the Nameless Immortal Mountain; the Three Immortals chose to let the fallen plants grow there.
• The Three Immortals carved out a cave behind a waterfall and named it Flower Fruit Mountain Blessed Land, Water Curtain Cave Grotto-Heaven, where they lived for a hundred years as the mountain flourished.
• Ao Guang warned Southern Pole Immortal that the Three Immortals were too close to the East Sea Dragon Palace, and Taibai Jinxing revealed that the Dragon King had been credited with clearing the East Sea of demonic aura.
• A huge stone was hurled by the waves onto the immortal mountain, where it settled in the place richest in spiritual energy and absorbed the Primordial Qi of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon.

Bodhi, Qi WuHuo’s disciple, traveled from Square Inch Mountain to the East Sea to obtain an object for controlling the floods, then rescued a monk and his young disciple from a demon. He recognized the old monk as Golden Cicada Master and sensed a familiar connection with the Young Monk, leaving him stunned by the possibility that he had met someone from his past.

• Bodhi continued cultivating and helping people, then received a mission to seek an object that could help tame the floods.
• At the East Sea Dragon Palace, Ao Guang led Bodhi to Ao Zang, who entrusted him with the object; Ao Zang praised Bodhi’s foundations and heard that Bodhi planned to visit his Teacher’s wife and her unborn child.
• While traveling through the Human World, Bodhi heard an old monk and the Young Monk fleeing a spider-like demon and killed it with Kill the Bandits.
• Bodhi recognized the old monk as Golden Cicada Master, while the monk remained puzzled about why Bodhi knew him.
• Bodhi sensed a familiar connection with the Young Monk, looked at him in shock, and said, “It was you...”

Bodhi met the old monk and his young disciple Wu Ming, then accompanied them toward a city while learning about the old monk’s past and compassion. After seeing them safely enter the city, Bodhi watched them depart, and the chapter ended by revealing their later identities as Shakyamuni and Candana Merit.

• Bodhi introduced himself to Wu Ming and offered to accompany the old monk and his disciple to the city.
• Wu Ming told Bodhi that demons had destroyed his village, and the old monk had helped him see his parents in the Netherworld before taking him as a disciple.
• The old monk described how a traveling monk had guided him to help others and find peace after his parents died.
• The old monk explained that people could carry one another across the sea of suffering, while Bodhi admitted that he missed his teacher.
• Wu Ming discovered that the old monk had mended his clothes and prayed for his teacher’s health before the old monk carried him into the city.
• Bodhi watched the monks disappear into the mortal world, and the chapter revealed that Wu Ming later became Shakyamuni and the old monk later became Candana Merit.

Bodhi visited Laojun to arrange for the Sea-Calming Iron to be reforged, then went to True Martial Manor as Yun Qin gave birth to a daughter. The immortals celebrated and named the child Bixia, while the Three Dao Ancestors’ good humor vanished when a fortune teller asked which of them she would honor as her teacher.

• Laojun told Bodhi that reforging the Sea-Calming Iron would take at least fifty-six years because the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace was damaged.
• Bodhi arrived at True Martial Manor, where the Jade Emperor and other powerful immortals guarded Yun Qin during her delivery.
• Fuxi told Bodhi he was going to have a little sister and urged him to protect her.
• Yun Qin gave birth to a girl, whom the immortals named Mount Tai Jade Maiden, Jade Maiden Yuanjun of Bixia, while her true name awaited Qi WuHuo’s return.
• The Three Dao Ancestors arrived to celebrate the birth and joined the banquet in disguised forms.
• A gray-robed fortune teller asked which Dao Ancestor the child would honor first, and the Three Dao Ancestors’ smiles froze.

After Bi Xia was born, the Three Pure Dao Ancestors and other immortals doted on her, but she chose Empress Houtu as her guide and grew up training at Mount Tai. Nearly two thousand years later, she still missed her absent father, while Yang Jian and Yang Chan comforted her; in Outer Heaven, Qi WuHuo told the demon that his return was near.

• The Three Pure Dao Ancestors argued over who should receive Bi Xia’s respects, but she chose Empress Houtu, who took her into the ranks of the Earthly Deities.
• Bi Xia grew up surrounded by powerful protectors and treasures, then began cultivating under Empress Houtu at Ruizhu Palace using Mount Tai as her spiritual vein.
• More than a thousand years later, Yang Chan visited Bi Xia on Jade Emperor Peak and comforted her when she remembered her father.
• Yang Jian arrived at Mount Tai, explained that the Innate Spirits and Demons were growing more unruly, and reassured Bi Xia that her father must be thinking of her.
• In Outer Heaven, Qi WuHuo told the demon that their parting would end when he returned, and said that moment was coming.

After two thousand years of confronting Qi WuHuo, the God and Devil of Creation broke their chess game and tried to escape, but Qi WuHuo pulled him down into the Six Realms. Their descent stirred the world, and on Flower Fruit Mountain an immortal stone burst open to reveal a Stone Monkey.

• The God and Devil of Creation attacked Qi WuHuo, then abandoned his divine body and severed their chessboard to escape.
• Qi WuHuo reformed the starry chessboard and dragged the God and Devil's true spirit down toward the Six Realms.
• Empress Nuwa, Empress Houtu Earthly Deity, Shakyamuni Buddha, and the Jade Emperor sensed Qi WuHuo's return, while Bi Xia murmured for her father in her sleep.
• Qi WuHuo and the God and Devil descended into the world, stirring the Dao and shifting the balance of fate.
• The immortal stone on Flower Fruit Mountain burst apart, and a Stone Monkey emerged and sat alone atop the mountain, gazing at the world.

The Jade Emperor and Empress Houtu learned of the stone monkey’s birth, while Zhao Ji wandered into an unfamiliar part of the mountains. He found a Daoist and a powerful man playing Go beside a stream.

• The Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind Ear reported the stone monkey’s birth to the Jade Emperor, who decided to leave it alone.
• Yang Jian told the Jade Emperor that the Six Realms were steadily restricting the Innate Spirits and Demons.
• Empress Houtu explained to Empress Nuwa that the monkey had once been the Saint Embryo connected to Wuhuo, and Empress Nuwa lamented that Bi Xia’s father had not returned.
• Zhao Ji left home to gather a Spirit Tree branch, carrying food from his mother after arguing with his father about marriage.
• Zhao Ji caught a rabbit and resolved to reconcile with his father, but became lost while following a stream through the mountains.
• Zhao Ji found a black-robed Daoist and a towering man playing Go, then hurried up to their board.

Zhao Ji watched Qi WuHuo defeat the ancient god in a game of Go, only to discover that three hundred years had passed and everyone he loved was gone. He followed the pouch’s directions to Square Inch Mountain, while Qi WuHuo returned to Yun Qin after a long separation.

• Zhao Ji became absorbed in Qi WuHuo’s Go match, and Qi WuHuo defeated the ancient god, ending their long conflict.
• Qi WuHuo gave Zhao Ji a brocade pouch and directions to return home, but Zhao Ji discovered that three hundred years had passed and his family had died.
• Zhao Ji visited his parents’ graves, opened the pouch, and set off for Square Inch Mountain with his axe.
• Yun Qin lamented how long she had waited for Qi WuHuo, then turned and saw him standing behind her.
• Qi WuHuo told Yun Qin that he had returned.

Qi WuHuo reunited with Yun Qin and their daughter Bi Xia after two thousand years, then told Empress Houtu that the God and Devil had been defeated and its remnant given a chance to become part of the world. He left with Yun Qin and Bi Xia to travel the mortal world before fulfilling a promise at the Heavenly Court.

• Qi WuHuo returned to Yun Qin, and the two embraced after their two-thousand-year separation.
• Bi Xia reached the summit of Mount Tai, recognized Qi WuHuo as her father, and asked him to hold her.
• Qi WuHuo explained to Empress Houtu that the God and Devil had been defeated and its remaining spirit might one day be reborn as the God of War of Mount Tai.
• Qi WuHuo said he would eventually go to the Heavenly Court to fulfill an old promise, but first he planned to travel the mortal world with Yun Qin and Bi Xia.
• Qi WuHuo departed with Yun Qin and Bi Xia, promising their daughter candied hawthorn as they left.

Qi WuHuo took Bi Xia through the Human World, then brought her to the Jade Emperor’s birthday banquet in the Ninth Heaven. When Bi Xia asked to see how powerful her father had once been, Qi WuHuo asked whether his armor was still there, signaling his return to battle against the remaining Innate Spirits and Demons.

• Qi WuHuo visited the Capital City with Bi Xia and remembered his old friends while tasting a dish whose recipe had endured for two thousand years.
• Qi WuHuo took Bi Xia around the Human World and then brought her to the Jade Emperor’s birthday feast in the Ninth Heaven.
• Qi WuHuo told Zhang Xiaoyu he had returned to fulfill their old promise and would leave the Heavenly Court, while promising to visit every year.
• The immortals discussed the remaining disasters and the battles against the Innate Spirits and Demons as the Jade Emperor and Zhentian Great Emperor Lord arrived.
• Bi Xia asked Qi WuHuo to show her how powerful he had been, and he asked the Jade Emperor whether his armor was still there.

Qi WuHuo celebrated Bi Xia’s birthday by extinguishing the Heat Death Tribulation and subduing the Cold Silence, then led the Immortals and Gods to destroy the Innate Spirits and Demons. After the Final Tribulation ended, Qi WuHuo left with his wife and children, setting aside his title and saying farewell to his fellow Daoists.

• Qi WuHuo donned Zhentian Great Emperor Lord’s armor and gave Bi Xia the sealed Heat Death Tribulation as a birthday present, which she passed to Zhang Xiaoyu.
• Qi WuHuo strengthened the black serpent at Xuan Ming’s place, enabling it to enter the North Sea and begin thawing the frozen waters while containing the Cold Silence Tribulation.
• Zhang Xiaoyu beat the Heavenly Drum as Qi WuHuo set out with the Immortals and Gods to confront the remaining Innate Spirits and Demons.
• Qi WuHuo arrived at the battlefield, and the assembled forces bowed to him as the Innate Spirits and Demons fled in terror.
• Qi WuHuo used Sever Heaven to destroy the Innate Spirits and Demons, ending the Final Tribulation before Bi Xia’s eyes.
• Qi WuHuo said farewell to the Immortals and Gods, then departed with his wife and children as his armor and celestial presence faded away.

More than a century after the great battle, Qi WuHuo lived quietly in Yong'an Town as a teacher and physician, where the Three Dao Ancestors visited him and accepted his choice to follow his own path. After they departed, Qi WuHuo met a monkey from Flower Fruit Mountain who had come seeking Immortal Destiny and introduced himself as Qi WuHuo.

• The legend of True Martial Great Dao Lord faded from the Celestial Realm while his memory endured among mortals, and Yang Jian rose to prominence.
• Butcher Zhang brought liquor and braised meat to Qi WuHuo and his three guests, and Taishang welcomed him to share their meal.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable invited Qi WuHuo to travel onward with the Three Dao Ancestors, but Qi WuHuo said he was already walking his own path.
• The Three Dao Ancestors said farewell to Qi WuHuo at the town gate and went their separate ways.
• Qi WuHuo found the townsfolk gathered around a monkey who had taken clothes and noodles, paid for them, and asked the monkey who he was.
• The monkey said he had come from Flower Fruit Mountain seeking Immortal Destiny, and Qi WuHuo introduced himself.