Recaps

Qi WuHuo began cultivating the Great Dao, befriended the mountain spirits, and defeated Tantai Xuan after discovering his crimes. He inherited a sword box and took on the task of helping the ghosts Tantai Xuan had left behind.

• Qi WuHuo followed a mysterious voice into a mountain valley and carried an injured old man home, earning his trust through his kindness and resolve.
• After a dream of a life spent in government service, Qi WuHuo awakened his spiritual cultivation and learned to refine essence, Qi, and spirit.
• Qi WuHuo spared a thousand-year-old Huang Jing and attended the mountain spirits’ feast, where he cultivated primordial essence and helped the Fierce Tiger Mountain God correct his method.
• At the Li family banquet, Qi WuHuo confronted the Daoist Tantai Xuan, who had sold Li Yixian gold in exchange for fifteen years of Yang Longevity and demanded Qi WuHuo’s soul.
• The Fierce Tiger Mountain God subdued Tantai Xuan, and Qi WuHuo killed him after learning his token connected him to the Jin Province disaster, and the deities then destroyed his remaining soul.
• Before leaving to travel, the Fierce Tiger Mountain God gave Qi WuHuo the Black Iron Sword Box and urged him to inherit the Mountain God’s position, while Qi WuHuo returned home to find townspeople calling him Immortal Master Qi.
• The old man opened the sword box and revealed a scripture Tantai Xuan had used to raise the dead, then told Qi WuHuo to help the ghosts left behind.
• Qi WuHuo played his qin until the ghosts’ madness subsided, listened to their unfinished wishes, and agreed to carry messages to their families.

Qi WuHuo grows in cultivation, succeeds the Fierce Tiger Mountain God, and leaves home with the old man to become his disciple, Xuanwei. The arc ends as they reach the hall of his senior brother, Daoist True Person Yi, to invite him on a journey in search of the Dao.

• Qi WuHuo delivered the wandering spirits to the afterlife with his zither and the old man's secret recitation, then received the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance token from Elder Tao.
• Qi WuHuo read the Evil Cultivator's Record of Becoming Immortal, burned the book and rusted sword, and vowed not to follow its author's path.
• The Fierce Tiger Mountain God broke through, gave Qi WuHuo his seal and cultivation notes, and departed to travel the world.
• Qi WuHuo lectured the Mountain Gods and Earth Deities on cultivation, refined Qi Nourishing Elixirs, and prepared to leave town with the old man.
• The old man brought Qi WuHuo across a vast river, where Qi WuHuo met the host's daughter Yun Qin and was asked to become the old man's disciple.
• Qi WuHuo accepted the old man as his Teacher, completed the transmission rite, and received the Daoist title Xuanwei.
• Qi WuHuo exchanged gifts with Yun Qin and departed by boat with his Teacher to meet his senior brothers.
• Qi WuHuo and his Teacher reached Daoist True Person Yi's hall, where the Teacher told Qi WuHuo to ask Yi to join their search for the Dao.

Qi WuHuo visited his senior siblings, learned about their paths and the highest method of cultivation, then traveled to Central Province to seek Lü Chunyang. After a year of meditation above the Celestial River, he helped villagers, encountered local deities, and began exchanging cultivation methods with Yun Qin through the bronze mirror.

• Qi WuHuo urged True Person Yuyang to return to the sect, but Yuyang chose to remain among mortals and help the emperor, so the old man severed their teacher-disciple bond.
• Qi WuHuo met Yu Miao, who refused to abandon her plan to guide her husband through reincarnations, and received her Primordial Sword Canon.
• The old man taught Qi WuHuo about cultivation paths and tribulations, showed him Xuan Zhen’s grave, and sent him onward to find senior brother Lü Chunyang.
• Qi WuHuo reached Central Province Prefecture City, sheltered beggars in a Land God Temple, and used the bronze mirror to contact Qiong Yu.
• Qi WuHuo visited Zheng Xiu’s mother in Shuili Village and realized that a year had passed during his meditation, breaking his Obstacle of Knowledge and Perception as his cultivation surged.
• Qi WuHuo’s sword strike cut through Ling Miao Gong’s divination, and he later learned from Knows Nothing of Everything that he had meditated above the Celestial River and replenished his foundation with Yellow Sprout.
• Qi WuHuo met an old man who had brought rain to Jinzhou, gained insight into the circulation of energy, and continued exchanging messages with Yun Qin through the mirror.
• Old Yellow Ox helped Qi WuHuo present his communication spell as an ancient scripture, while Yun Qin studied the original Primordial Scarlet Script and learned its first character, Edict.

Qi WuHuo learned the Primordial Scarlet Script, developed the Spirit Treasure Dao, and used his Mystic Altar to contact allies across the realms while celestial powers took interest in him. After leaving Water Cloud Village to fulfill the dead’s final wishes, he reached plague-stricken Central Province, where the first signs of a Buddha’s Nirvana appeared.

• Qi WuHuo met Little Medicine Spirit in the mountains and learned that Ling Miao Gong had come to apologize for trying to divine his whereabouts.
• Yun Qin taught Qi WuHuo the Primordial Scarlet Script and Cloud Seal Scripts, and he wrote the Edict after grasping the script’s meaning.
• Qi WuHuo’s Edict transformed the recorded regrets into a trace of Shangqing qi, but his glowing hairpin broke the name-register ritual before it could mark him.
• Qi WuHuo created a Mystic Altar invocation as True Lord WuHuo and used it to send spirit pills to Elder Tao across the ley lines, while Great Master Xuan Du disrupted the Shangqing Celestial Lords’ attempt to identify him.
• Qi WuHuo and Yun Qin consulted Old Yellow Ox about the mysterious egg, and Old Yellow Ox gathered rare materials to strengthen the peacock egg’s foundation.
• Qi WuHuo comforted Lian Shulan with her daughter’s portrait and left Water Cloud Village after sending the girl’s lingering attachment to keep her company.
• Qi WuHuo settled temporarily in Central Province, carried Tantai Xuan’s victims’ final wishes to their families, and helped Mingxin distribute medicinal porridge as more people fell ill.
• Qi WuHuo and Mingxin helped suppress the plague with realgar water, while a blood-red glow appeared over the city and a monk declared that a Buddha had entered Nirvana.