Recaps

Qi WuHuo helped Medicine Master recover the true meaning of his vows, then uncovered the truth of the Jinzhou calamity and resolved to face the Human Emperor without endangering the people. As he prepared to return to Jinzhou, Shangqing Great Dao Lord began corresponding with him and Yuqing chose him for a five-hundred-year wager.

• Qi WuHuo challenged Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata’s teachings, helping him understand that cessation meant extinguishing his own Greed, Anger, and Ignorance rather than ending the desires of all living beings.
• Qi WuHuo used Medicine Master’s Buddha light to bring healing rain to Central Province, and Medicine Master restored the Pure Lapis Lazuli World before entering nirvana.
• Qi WuHuo welcomed the newly hatched Little Peacock, received an unreadable scroll from Yun Qin, and sent a reply to the black-robed Daoist whose image appeared within it.
• Qi WuHuo learned from the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance how forged orders and a Red Dragon-robed figure had contributed to the Jinzhou disaster, then met a dying veteran who apologized for failing to protect him.
• Qi WuHuo buried the veteran with his treasured sword, accepted the dead soldiers’ wishes, and decided to become the Human Emperor’s Teacher so he could replace the ruler without destabilizing the Human World.
• Qi WuHuo reached Primordial Prenatal Qi, resolved to return to Jinzhou, and began refining a wind technique while Yuqing chose him for a wager against Shangqing Great Dao Lord.
• Shangqing Great Dao Lord read Qi WuHuo’s reply and sent him another letter explaining how the self could guide the Dao through action and inaction.
• Qi WuHuo met the grey-robed monk at the medical shelter and learned that the old village chief had been injured after someone dug up the veteran’s grave.

Qi WuHuo forged his own sword path while using it to confront the Crown Prince’s abuses and punish officials and gods who failed the people. He learned that the Jing River Dragon King he was ordered to execute was Ao Liu, the dragon who had once saved his life.

• Qi WuHuo identified the Hidden Dragon Guard’s role in the Jinzhou massacre, studied Human Dao Destiny, and used the victims’ resentment to strike at the Crown Prince’s fate.
• Qi WuHuo learned from the Great Dao Lord and forged his own swordsmanship, naming his realization “Not Dao, Only Me,” while the Great Dao Lord chose him to represent him in a battle against Supreme Xuanwei five hundred years later.
• Qi WuHuo discovered that the Crown Prince was draining the Young Prince’s destiny, taught Prince Qin that the people were paramount, and secretly agreed to train him.
• Qi WuHuo intercepted Zhou Nu Chang and the Hidden Dragon Guards, killed them, and found the Ode to the Great Roc and Zhou Nu Chang’s ledger of secret aid to poor children.
• Qi WuHuo rescued Yue Shiru, cleared demonic energy from a ruined village, and confronted the Jade Festival Mountain God for neglecting his duty.
• Qi WuHuo invoked the Five Thunder Judge Seal and stripped the Jade Festival Mountain God and his officials of their stations, while Ling Miao Gong punished the divine general.
• Qi WuHuo learned from Ling Miao Gong that Ao Liu was the Jing River Dragon King he had been tasked with executing.

Qi WuHuo led the fight against the demonic assault on Central Province, then confronted the Star Lords behind it and judged Ao Liu for saving Jinzhou. After Ao Liu’s death, Qi WuHuo learned that Emperor Lord Donghua had orchestrated both calamities and accepted the order to execute him.

• Ao WuLie took responsibility for the Jing River disaster, while Qi WuHuo struggled with his duty to punish Ao Liu, who had saved millions in Jinzhou.
• The Seventh Prince confronted the emperor over the Jin Province massacre and stabbed him, while Qi WuHuo arrived in Central Province and helped protect its people.
• Qi WuHuo joined Ao Liu and Ling Miao Gong in battling the demons, then gathered allies to unleash a province-wide sword strike that destroyed them at the cost of centuries of his lifespan.
• Qi WuHuo and his allies exposed Yue Lianqing as Jidu Star Lord, and Tianyou arrived with the North Pole Exorcism Institute to defeat the Star Lords and their forces.
• Qi WuHuo judged Ao Liu and Ao WuLie guilty, but Ao Liu took his son’s place on the Dragon Slaying Platform and died after Qi WuHuo preserved a fragment of his Life soul.
• Taiyi Saves from Suffering gave Ao Liu a sliver of life and warned Qi WuHuo that he had entered a great calamity, while the North Pole Exorcism Institute punished the Dragon Prince and confronted the Great Solar Emperor Lord.
• Qi WuHuo learned that Emperor Lord Donghua had plotted both Jinzhou and Central Province to advance toward Taiyi, then volunteered to execute him.

Qi WuHuo carried out the execution of Emperor Lord Donghua, then faced death and entered the Underworld, where his yin virtue and Northern Emperor’s authority drew him into the conflict surrounding Fengdu City. After returning to the Human World, he helped Chu Hongtu and Yu Miao confront their past before continuing his journey and reconnecting with Yun Qin.

• Qi WuHuo diverted from his execution route to battle the heavenly blood river, then beheaded Emperor Lord Donghua and was proclaimed the Demon Queller True Lord.
• Li Zhai challenged the Human Emperor during the grand ceremony, and the resulting upheaval weakened Yao’s authority before Qi WuHuo left Central Province.
• Black and White Impermanence took Qi WuHuo to the Underworld, where his extraordinary yin virtue freed resentful souls and revealed that his damaged Primordial Spirit was near its limit.
• Qi WuHuo chose a colossal ancient zither in the Netherworld treasury, was taken into Fengdu City, and used the Northern Emperor’s Exorcism Order to address the Five Ghost Emperors before reporting their dispute.
• True Lord Tian Peng named Qi WuHuo the genuine Northern Emperor’s Envoy, promoted him to Right Judge of the Northern Pole Exorcism Institute, and gave him the scroll of Primordial Ancestral Qi.
• Qi WuHuo accompanied Chu Hongtu to Hezhou, where Chu recovered his memories of Yu Miao, chose to reclaim his life, and rode away with only three days remaining.
• Qi WuHuo left his sword manual and Teacher’s jade token in Yu Miao’s blessed land, and Great Master Xuan Du later identified her as the Supreme One Sect’s third disciple.
• As Qi WuHuo practiced Primordial Ancestral Qi, True Lord Tian Peng taught him to disguise his appearance, and Yun Qin reached him through the Northern Emperor Mirror to dance while he played the zither.