Recaps

Qi WuHuo learned that his duty as a judge might require him to execute the Jing River Dragon King despite owing him his life, and Ling Miao Gong warned that the choice would test his Dao heart. Ao Liu revealed that he planned to take responsibility for his son’s disaster and promised to return in seven days to face punishment.

• Ling Miao Gong explained to Qi WuHuo that choosing between justice and repaying Ao Liu’s kindness would be a profound tribulation, and Qi WuHuo left with his Dao heart shaken.
• Ling Miao Gong told another Mountain God that choices had no simple right or wrong, and that each person had to bear their consequences.
• Ling Miao Gong confronted Ao Liu, who admitted he had known for half a month that his son’s rainfall had spread the pestilence and planned to accept his son’s punishment.
• Ao Liu revealed that Qi WuHuo was the child he had saved in Jinzhou and said he wanted Qi WuHuo to execute him, believing his death could save his son and strengthen the young judge’s Dao heart.
• Ao Liu asked Ling Miao Gong for seven days to escort his niece and settle other matters, promised to return for punishment, and transformed into a dragon to depart.

Qi WuHuo investigated the Jing River Dragon King’s role in the Jinzhou calamity and realized his rain had saved millions, despite the North Pole Exorcism Department’s order to execute him. Still burdened by the judgment he must deliver, Qi WuHuo sat at the bridge where he had played chess with Ao Liu and faced the Dragon Prince.

• Qi WuHuo left Ling Miao Gong’s residence, reunited with Little Medicine Spirit, and returned to the city with Little Peacock.
• Qi WuHuo watched the sunset with Chao Feng and Jiao Tu, admitting that he faced choices he could not bring himself to make.
• Qi WuHuo questioned whether the North Pole Exorcism Department cared about the truth as he considered his duty to execute the Jing River Dragon King.
• Qi WuHuo examined the Jinzhou records and learned that rain during the calamity had saved more than seven million people, while the Jing River’s water level had reached a record low.
• Qi WuHuo sat beneath the tree where he had once played the Dragon-Slaying Game with Ao Liu, then looked up as the Dragon Prince arrived.

Qi WuHuo played seven Dragon-Slaying games with the young Dragon King, then resolved to repay Old Mr. Ao Liu’s kindness and accept the consequences of his choice. After learning that Ao WuLie had altered a rainmaking formation and put his father at risk, the young Dragon King sealed away the turtle chancellor, then admitted responsibility and changed the official records to name himself Jing River Dragon King.

• Qi WuHuo defeated the white-robed young Dragon King in seven Dragon-Slaying games and left after striking him with the sheathed Kill the Bandits Sword.
• Qi WuHuo understood that he must bear the consequences of killing Old Mr. Ao Liu and decided to repay the old dragon’s kindness first.
• The young Dragon King asked the retired turtle chancellor about altered rainfall and learned that his changed formation could bring severe punishment upon his father and himself.
• The young Dragon King sealed the turtle chancellor in the water palace and told his guards the old turtle wanted to rest.
• The young Dragon King brought gifts to the Penglai Department and asked its chief True Lord to change the Jing River water official’s name.
• Ao WuLie amended the celestial register, accepting responsibility as the Jing River Dragon King.

Yue Shiru delivered Cui Yuanzhen’s letter and learned she had gone to Jinzhou to investigate an old injustice, while Li Qiongyu read a poem that made her tell the young Prince Qin to praise its author more. Yue Shiru reached Refining Yang Temple, and the Seventh Prince began reading a military dossier about Jinzhou.

• Yue Shiru reached Central Province Prefecture City and delivered Cui Yuanzhen’s letter to the young Prince Qin and Cui Shaoqing.
• Yue Shiru told Cui Shaoqing that Cui Yuanzhen had gone to Jinzhou, and Cui Shaoqing abandoned his plan to bring her home.
• Li Qiongyu read the poem copied in Cui Yuanzhen’s letter and told the young Prince Qin he could praise its author more.
• Yue Shiru found Refining Yang Temple and asked to stay there at his elders’ request.
• The Seventh Prince received a dossier on the Jinzhou affair and opened it to read.

The Seventh Prince learned that his father had massacred the Black Armored Army at Jinzhou, then concealed his shock behind a night of revelry. After hearing a Jinzhou ballad and giving aid to its performers, he rode toward the palace with a knife.

• A military spy told the Seventh Prince that the emperor had slaughtered the Black Armored Army, and the prince stopped the spy from killing himself.
• The Seventh Prince hid his anguish, left his residence, and joined the sons of military families for a drinking party at Zui Tian Lou.
• He sang about the Jinzhou massacre, and his zither broke as he played a mournful verse.
• The Seventh Prince stopped to hear a blind old man and a girl sing a Jinzhou ballad, struck a beauty who insulted the song, and gave the performers his cloak and a valuable sword.
• The Seventh Prince took a Jinzhou meal knife and galloped toward the palace.
• A record of Young Lord Wang recounted his rise as a fierce general and stated that, at twenty-two, he took a knife into the forbidden palace.

The Seventh Prince confronted the emperor over the massacre of Jin Province, and the emperor admitted that he had ordered it to secure supreme power. The Seventh Prince’s last hope vanished, and he attacked his father in the hall.

• The Seventh Prince smuggled the Jin Province saber past the Imperial Guards and entered the palace to meet the emperor.
• The Seventh Prince asked how a younger brother, a father, and a ruler should conduct themselves, then accused the emperor of responsibility for Jin Province.
• The emperor admitted ordering the massacre and defended his choice as a bid for power, saying he would make the same decision again.
• The Seventh Prince called the emperor a traitor, unleashed his tiger-shaped fortune, and drove his blade into his father.

The Seventh Prince attacked the emperor after learning the truth about Jinzhou, but the emperor was revealed to be a double serving the white-clad ruler’s scheme. The Fourth Prince agreed to shelter the Seventh Prince’s people, while Qi WuHuo returned to Refining Yang Temple and effortlessly subdued the Pure Yang Sword.

• The Seventh Prince stabbed the emperor, lost his Human Dao Destiny, and was imprisoned after the emperor blamed the Demon Race.
• The white-clad emperor revealed that the wounded emperor was his double and ordered the double to take his own life after praising the Seventh Prince’s resolve.
• The military spy received the Seventh Prince’s Spirit Charm, brought the Jinzhou grandfather and granddaughter to the Fourth Prince, and asked him to protect them.
• The Fourth Prince agreed to shelter them and reflected on whether he had been hiding from confronting their father, then concluded the Seventh Prince had likely been imprisoned.
• Yue Shiru tried to summon the Pure Yang Sword with a jade hook, but the sword attacked him until an arriving Daoist stopped it with a finger.
• The little Daoist greeted the returning man as Martial Uncle Qi, and he introduced himself to Yue Shiru as Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo revealed that he was only sixteen and had reached the Primordial Prenatal Qi stage, while Yue Shiru learned the history of the murderous Refining Yang Sword. When Yue Shiru tried to report a Mountain God's dereliction of duty, the Great Earth God Liu Sheng fled at the sight of Qi WuHuo and finally addressed him as Judge Qi, Five Thunder Judge of the Central Pole of the North.

• Yue Shiru learned that Qi WuHuo was sixteen and had broken through to the Primordial Prenatal Qi stage less than a month earlier.
• Qi WuHuo caught and subdued the Refining Yang Sword when it attacked him, and Yue Shiru explained that it was forged from a fallen piece of the Blood River and had brought slaughter to its owners.
• Yue Shiru set up an altar to report the Jade Festival Mountain God's failure to deal with demonic energy, and summoned Liu Sheng, the Great Earth God of Ward Seventy-Three.
• Liu Sheng saw Qi WuHuo and tried to flee, but Yue Shiru caught him and asked about the Mountain God's dereliction.
• Liu Sheng revealed that the Jade Festival Mountain God and another Mountain God had been slain by the Five Thunder Judge of the Central Pole of the North, then saluted Qi WuHuo as Judge Qi.

Qi WuHuo arranged help for the displaced villagers and guided Prince Qin as the capital’s political upheaval began. He gave Prince Qin a path to seek revenge while protecting Li Qiongyu, then received a letter and military token from an old friend preparing to return to the capital.

• Qi WuHuo reassured the frightened Earth God, then told Yue Shiru he was searching for a place where the villagers could settle and earn a living.
• Qi WuHuo asked Prince Qin to arrange the villagers’ resettlement, and Prince Qin reported that the youngest prince was ill, Seventh Prince had entered the palace, and military leaders were aligning with Fourth Prince.
• Prince Qin wrestled with whether to return to the capital and risk Li Qiongyu’s safety, but Qi WuHuo gave him the authentic Ode to the Great Roc and offered the backing of three retired luminaries.
• Qi WuHuo explained how Prince Qin could gain support outside the court, protect his sister, and exploit the emperor’s concern for his reputation.
• Li Qiongyu announced that she would return to the capital, revealing that she understood Prince Qin’s intentions and had her own reasons to go.
• Qingying delivered Qi WuHuo a letter and a token that let him call upon more than three thousand retired Black Armored Army officers in Central Province.

Qi WuHuo celebrated New Year at Refining Yang Temple before receiving an omen that the Little Medicine Spirit was in mortal danger. He set out to help despite the warning that he might die, and Refining Yang Sword chose him as its wielder.

• Mingxin prepared New Year provisions with the old Daoist, Qi WuHuo, and Yue Shiru as the temple welcomed visitors and shared festive food.
• Qi WuHuo bought a peace knot and jade pendant, then practiced refining qi while Yue Shiru earnestly studied swordsmanship beside him.
• Qi WuHuo saw visions of the Little Medicine Spirit being swallowed and himself being killed, then realized that a dangerous disturbance threatened Central Province and the mountain gods.
• Qi WuHuo warned the old Daoist not to leave the city, but decided to go help the Little Medicine Spirit despite the danger and set aside his peace knot.
• Qi WuHuo summoned Refining Yang Sword, which flew to his hand and cast Lü Chunyang's inscription onto the temple floor, revealing that it had once turned against its master.

Qi WuHuo fought his way through a sudden outbreak of demons after a 3,600-year-old formation was broken, while the North Pole Exorcism Institute ordered him to hold Central Province. As he approached Ling Miao Gong to establish a formation, Old Mr. Ao appeared and reunited with him amid the rain.

• The Little Medicine Spirit hosted its animal friends on the mountain, but a demonic bird attacked and Qi WuHuo arrived in time to protect it and slaughter the fiendish birds with the Refining Yang Sword.
• Qi WuHuo contacted the North Pole Exorcism Institute through the Northern Emperor Mirror and learned that the formation's destruction had unleashed a coordinated assault; the battle generals told him to hold his ground and prepare to face a powerful enemy.
• Qi WuHuo entrusted the Little Medicine Spirit to the Earth God and set out to purge evil, cutting down a tree demon and other monsters on his way toward Ling Miao Gong.
• Qi WuHuo unlocked the Five Thunder Judge Seal's Violet Tenuity Jade Pivot Thunder, but a dragon's rain subdued the demons before he could strike.
• The dragon transformed into Old Mr. Ao and greeted Qi WuHuo, who returned his greeting.

Qi WuHuo and Ao Liu reached Ling Miao Mountain, where Ling Miao Gong was fighting a colossal demon, and joined the battle. As Qi WuHuo summoned the Big Dipper’s power to protect himself and empower his sword, the celestial star array activated on its own and drew down a mysterious eighth star.

• Ao Liu carried Qi WuHuo through Zhongzhou at tremendous speed, suppressing demons with his dragon’s roar and rain.
• Qi WuHuo and Ao Liu arrived at Ling Miao Mountain and found Ling Miao Gong battling a three-headed demon god.
• Qi WuHuo invoked the Northern Emperor’s Dharma, and the Refining Yang Sword pierced the demon’s palm when he let it act as it pleased.
• The Big Dipper’s starlight descended to shield Qi WuHuo and empower his sword, while Tian Shu and Tian Xuan Ju Men protected him.
• The celestial officials discovered the star-power array was operating by itself, and a mysterious star shining with firelight descended into the mortal world.

Qi WuHuo drew on the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s stellar power and fire to defeat a demon alongside Ling Miao Gong and Ao Liu, only to discover that the battle had concealed a demonic attack on Central Province Prefecture City. As the City Lord was revealed to have become a demon, an old Daoist from Refining Yang Temple descended the mountain to confront the spreading miasma.

• A Jade Tablet in the celestial sphere briefly flared with power, prompting star officials to realize that an anomaly had occurred.
• Qi WuHuo drew down the North Star’s power, gained the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s blessing, and pierced the Three Heads Six Arms demon’s hands with fire.
• Qi WuHuo fought beside Ling Miao Gong and Ao Liu, then used the Refining Yang Sword to break the demon’s weapons and survive its tribulation fire.
• Qi WuHuo stopped the tribulation fire and burned the demon to ash, while Ao Liu extinguished the flames in the sky.
• Qi WuHuo spotted black demonic energy streaming toward Central Province Prefecture City and realized the battle had been a diversion.
• The City Lord was revealed to be dead and transformed into a demon; after the demon killed a Martial General, the old Daoist from Refining Yang Temple descended the mountain to face the spreading miasma.

Demonic Beasts descended on Central Province Prefecture City during New Year festivities, overwhelming its people and defenses. As Jue Ming Temple’s monks completed a protective array at terrible cost, the abandoned Divine Martial Black Armored Army returned to defend the city.

• Demonic Beasts attacked more than two hundred Market Wards, and Daoists from Refining Yang Temple tried to protect civilians with swords and talismans.
• Zhen Jing opened Jue Ming Temple to refugees, sacrificed its Buddha statues to build a protective array, and led the monks in holding off the demons.
• Zhen Jing killed a demon-possessed child, cut off his own bitten wrist, and stayed outside the temple gate so the monks could seal the array; the demons killed him as the surviving monks finished it.
• A sesame-cake peddler rescued his family, then joined other men in arming themselves from the city armory with old armor and weapons.
• The city’s defenders faced a giant monster after a breach in the gate, but former cavalry captain of the Third Army of the Divine Martial Black Armored Army arrived with his soldiers and took the battlefield.

Qi WuHuo coordinated efforts to restore Human Dao Destiny across Central Province and fought to contain the demonic calamity while the city defenders held their lines. The chain formation was disrupted, but the demons still had to be destroyed, and a grey-robed monk continued holding back the monstrous force in the City Lord's Mansion.

• Qi WuHuo chose to protect Central Province's other cities instead of rushing to the prefectural city, and asked Ling Miao Gong and Ao Liu to spread warnings and organize local defenses.
• Qi WuHuo fought through demons with the Refining Yang Sword and thunder, then learned that the city's former lord had sacrificed himself to restore its Human Dao Destiny.
• The Human Dao Destiny formations in several cities were restored, stopping the demonic miasma from spreading farther, while Qi WuHuo continued toward the remaining demons despite his injuries.
• The Black Armored Army and Bai Hui Army reinforced the front line, and the defending general died fighting a wolf demon as soldiers took his place.
• An exhausted old Daoist fought his dead, demon-infected friend, Daoist Friend Li of Chun Sheng Temple.
• A grey-robed monk held back the demonic growth consuming the City Lord's Mansion with his Buddha light and refused to abandon the people.

As demons overwhelmed Central Province, Qi WuHuo used the Spirit Treasures he had once freed to devise a way to strike every demon at once. With the Earth Gods, cultivators, and people joining a vast altar, he unleashed a sword that swept through the province and destroyed the demons, leaving him with white temples and three centuries of lost lifespan.

• Qi WuHuo saved Zhou Lingyi and Old Mr. Zhou from a demon by drawing on the lingering power of a Spirit Treasure, then realized the spirits he had freed could never truly escape their refinement.
• Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong told Qi WuHuo that the demons were endless, and a corrupted Earth God exploded after revealing the enemy's plan to break the Heavenly Court's formation through mass casualties.
• Qi WuHuo proposed using the Spirit Treasures scattered across Central Province to sense and kill every demon at once, while Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong agreed to support his plan.
• Earth Gods, Water Officials, cultivators, and other allies formed a vast altar centered on Qi WuHuo, who used its power to turn Central Province's mountains and rivers into a map and summon a colossal Heavenly Manifestation.
• Qi WuHuo's Heavenly Manifestation unleashed Shangqing's third tribulation sword along the province's ley lines, killing the demons without harming the living and costing him three centuries of lifespan.

Qi WuHuo’s altar-powered sword strike destroyed every demon across a thousand li, but cost him three sixty-year cycles of lifespan. As the surviving defenders fought the last threats, a grey-robed monk took the demon’s remaining evil aura into himself to free its victims and walked away bleeding.

• Qi WuHuo’s sword strike annihilated the demons and ended the Heavenly Manifestation, leaving him with only about a hundred years to live.
• The surviving demon tried to attack the exhausted Qi WuHuo, but Ling Miao Gong, Ao Liu, and a true dragon fought him together.
• A warrior celebrated surviving the battle, then found his comrade Li Laosan dead and broke down in tears.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, the grey-robed monk absorbed the demon’s remaining evil aura and freed the trapped victims through Buddha light.
• The monk killed the demon’s final evil thought with a lion-roar punch, then left bearing the aura and reciting the Diamond Sutra.

Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong badly wounded Yue Lianqing, but his attempt to unleash the remaining demonic miasma failed because the Refining Yang Sword had swallowed it. As Yue Lianqing fled and was driven toward Qi WuHuo, the ancient mirror at Qi WuHuo’s waist awakened, and the chapter ended with Qi WuHuo recognizing his attacker as Yue Lianqing.

• Ao Liu restrained Yue Lianqing while Ling Miao Gong cleaved off his right arm with a blow empowered by the weight of the Central Continent’s mountains.
• Yue Lianqing tried to detonate the remaining demonic miasma, but his plan failed because the Refining Yang Sword had consumed it.
• Qi WuHuo saw the Refining Yang Sword settle after gorging on the demons, and the ancient mirror at his waist awakened after absorbing the rejected miasma and his blood.
• Yue Lianqing fled, then tried to seize the young Dragon King by pretending to be his friend, but the newly enthroned Jing River Dragon King blocked him and struck back.
• Ao Liu, Ling Miao Gong, and Ao WuLie attacked Yue Lianqing together and sent him crashing toward Qi WuHuo, who recognized him as Yue Lianqing.

Qi WuHuo used the Refining Yang Sword to wound Yue Lianqing, who revealed that he was Jidu Star Lord and confessed that Jinzhou and Central Province had been destroyed for the Star Lords’ amusement. As Luohu and other Star Officials closed in, the North Pole Exorcism Institute arrived to protect Qi WuHuo and confront them.

• Qi WuHuo’s rage awakened the Refining Yang Sword, letting him pursue Yue Lianqing through his escape art and pin him to a stone wall.
• Qi WuHuo questioned Yue Lianqing about Jinzhou, and Yue Lianqing admitted responsibility before explaining that Central Province had been chosen to punish Ao Liu and amuse the Star Lords.
• Yue Lianqing revealed himself as Jidu Star Lord, and Luohu and Taiyi Yuebo appeared as another Star Official’s attack descended on Qi WuHuo.
• A bloodstained North Pole Exorcism Institute warrior seized the Northern Emperor Mirror and shattered the incoming starlight with a punch.
• North Pole Exorcism Institute members arrived to shield Qi WuHuo, naming their former offices and current seats as they prepared to face the Star Lords.
• Tianyou arrived with the head of Tianyi Ziqi Star Lord and declared that the North Pole Exorcism Institute stood with Qi WuHuo.

Great Marshal Tianyou and the North Pole Exorcism Institute defeated the Four Hidden Stars, and Qi Wuhuo killed Jidu Star Lord to avenge Jinzhou. After learning that a greater enemy stood behind the rebellion, Qi Wuhuo joined the Institute and received the title Demon-Slayer.

• Tianyou warned Qi Wuhuo that the Four Hidden Stars feared the North Pole Exorcism Institute, then crushed their desperate attack with a single punch.
• Tianyou killed Luohu Star Lord and Taiyi Yuebo Star Lord, while the North Pole Exorcism Institute slaughtered the rebels’ forces.
• Tianyou gave Jidu Star Lord to Qi Wuhuo, who killed him while declaring himself a native of Jinzhou seeking revenge.
• Qi Wuhuo learned that an even more powerful figure stood behind the Four Hidden Stars and accepted a genuine North Pole Exorcism Institute token.
• Tianyou bestowed the title Demon-Slayer on Qi Wuhuo and fastened the Institute’s order to his waist.

Qi WuHuo learned about the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s ranks and Saints, then discovered that his damaged foundation could be repaired through a method purchased with his merit. Star Lord Taibai presented three cultivation texts, and Qi WuHuo considered the mysterious Primordial Ancestral Qi.

• Qi WuHuo examined his Demon Queller token as Star Lord Taibai explained the Institute’s ranks and the achievements required to become a Northern Pole Saint.
• Star Lord Taibai warned Qi WuHuo that his shortened lifespan reflected deep damage to his foundation, which could prevent him from reaching the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
• Star Lord Taibai explained that Qi WuHuo’s merit came from upholding order and could be exchanged for a cultivation method to heal his injuries.
• Star Lord Taibai showed Qi WuHuo the Central Heaven Northern Pole Complete Celestial Star Qi Refining Canon and the Ziwei Emperor Qi True Scripture as possible choices.
• Star Lord Taibai discouraged Qi WuHuo from choosing the rarely mastered Primordial Ancestral Qi, but Qi WuHuo examined its ancient Jade Book.

After Zhongzhou’s calamity was quelled, Qi WuHuo judged Ao Liu and Ao WuLie for their roles in it, condemning both to death. Ao Liu then sacrificed himself on the Dragon Slaying Platform to save his son, leaving his game of Go with Qi WuHuo unfinished.

• Star Lord Taibai showed Qi WuHuo the Primordial Ancestral Qi cultivation method and explained that rewards would come after the guilty were punished.
• Great Marshal Tianyou honored those who had fought in Zhongzhou and called the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s fallen generals to mind before turning to the crimes.
• Qi WuHuo explained that Ketu had targeted Ao Liu for saving Jinzhou, while local deities offered to surrender their merit to lessen Ao Liu’s punishment.
• Ao WuLie claimed responsibility, but Great Marshal Tianyou passed the Judge’s Command to Qi WuHuo, who ruled that both Ao Liu and Ao WuLie should be executed.
• Ao Liu knocked Ao WuLie away from the Dragon Slaying Platform and sacrificed himself upon it, dying with his soul extinguished.

After sentencing Ao Liu, Qi WuHuo preserved his remaining Life soul and witnessed the devastation in Central Province. Ao Liu used his final strength to send restorative rain across the region and help the dead souls reincarnate, before a mysterious Daoist intervened to give him a sliver of life.

• Ao Liu took Ao WuLie’s place on the Dragon Slaying Platform, and Qi WuHuo preserved the fragment of his Life soul with an edict.
• Ao WuLie begged to live, while Qi WuHuo left the judgment site and saw the devastation and immense losses in Central Province.
• Qi WuHuo reunited with Ao Liu’s brief manifestation, and Ao Liu said he had no regrets about choosing to save people.
• Ao Liu spent his remaining strength to summon healing rain and help the dead souls of Central Province reincarnate, while Qi WuHuo used an edict to aid him.
• As Ao Liu’s soul faded, a mysterious Daoist appeared, used a rain drop to give him a sliver of life, and identified himself as Taiyi Saves from Suffering.

Daoist Taiyi explained to Qi WuHuo that conflict among the Heavenly Court’s competing ideals had once shattered the Three Realms, and urged him to find his own answers as he endured the calamity. Meanwhile, the Northern Pole Exorcism Institute punished the Dragon Prince and moved against the Great Solar Emperor Lord, ending with its battle-generals demanding that he submit.

• Daoist Taiyi told Qi WuHuo that the Heavenly Court was divided by conflicting Dao Paths and explained how Haotian had once suppressed a chaos that destroyed order across the Three Realms.
• Daoist Taiyi warned Qi WuHuo that he had entered a great calamity, then departed after asking him to consider whether the Six Realms had a single, complete explanation.
• The Northern Pole Exorcism Institute stripped the Dragon Prince of his divine office and sentenced him to eight hundred years of torment followed by service as a vanguard battle general until his death.
• The Northern Pole Exorcism Institute’s deployment alarmed the Heavenly Court, and the Great Solar Emperor Lord criticized its harsh actions against the Four Hidden Stars and the Earth Gods.
• Former Star Lord Taibai and the Northern Pole Exorcism Institute’s battle-generals confronted the Great Solar Emperor Lord, accused him of 321 offenses, and ordered him to submit.

Qi WuHuo helped Central Province recover after the calamity and learned that Emperor Lord Donghua had orchestrated both the Jinzhou drought and the Central Province disaster to advance his Dao. He volunteered to execute Donghua, and True Lord Yi Sheng ordered him to carry out the sentence at noon the next day.

• Qi WuHuo treated the injured in Central Province while Yue Shiru noticed his newly white hair and the city’s slow return to normal.
• An Earth God coldly ignored Qi WuHuo, who continued back to the temple and found Mingxin stopping the injured old Daoist from drinking wine.
• Qi WuHuo used his North Pole Exorcism Institute token and learned that Taibai had been gravely wounded while helping capture Emperor Lord Donghua.
• A Thunder General revealed that Donghua had led the plots behind both Jinzhou and Central Province, seeking to use the calamities to advance toward the position of Taiyi.
• True Lord Yi Sheng asked who would execute Donghua, and Qi WuHuo volunteered, accepting the order to behead him at noon the next day.