Recaps

Wu Zhiqi slaughtered the Huai River demons and nearly defeated Guizhenzi’s party before Zhou Yuan captured him in the Four Symbols Bottle. Zhou Yuan announced that he would preach the Dao for 3,600 years, and Guizhenzi and Madam Jiuzhen prepared to spread the news along the Huai River.

• Wu Zhiqi attacked the Demon King rogue cultivators who had tried to refine him and slaughtered them as they fled.
• Guizhenzi ordered his group to retreat to the Wei River Water Mansion, but Madam Jiuzhen warned that Wu Zhiqi was already charging toward them.
• Zhou Yuan recognized the white ape as Wu Zhiqi, realized that his cultivation had brought him into the world ahead of time, and sent out the Four Symbols Bottle.
• Wu Zhiqi used Summon Wind and Rain against Guizhenzi and the others, who gathered their strength for a desperate counterattack.
• The Four Symbols Bottle appeared, captured Wu Zhiqi, and departed after Zhou Yuan declared the matter concluded.
• Guizhenzi and Madam Jiuzhen thanked Zhou Yuan, then agreed to spread word of his Dao lecture to the Huai River’s affiliated tribes.

Zhou Yuan captured and subdued the newly born Wu Zhiqi, then tested his abilities and defeated his command of water. Wu Zhiqi accepted that he had lost, and Zhou Yuan began to teach him by sending divine light into his primordial spirit.

• Wu Zhiqi charged Zhou Yuan, who summoned the Nine-Section Bamboo Staff and beat him until he gave up fighting.
• Wu Zhiqi refused to submit, claiming Zhou Yuan had won only with treasures, and challenged him to compete in water divine abilities.
• Wu Zhiqi unleashed Churning Rivers and Seas, causing the Huai River to surge and frightening the tribes along its banks.
• Zhou Yuan commanded the water to become still, calmed the river, and asked Wu Zhiqi how his divine ability compared.
• Wu Zhiqi admitted defeat and worried that he would have to obey Zhou Yuan, who drew him close and sent divine light into his primordial spirit.

Zhou Yuan enlightened Wu Zhiqi about the Chaos Demon Ape's lingering will, accepted him as a disciple, and gave him a treasure and scripture to aid his cultivation. Meanwhile, living beings gathered at the Huai River for Zhou Yuan's upcoming Dao lecture, where the Dragon Elephant Tribe looked forward to attending as members of the Wei River Water Palace.

• Zhou Yuan explained that Wu Zhiqi had been born early and still carried the Chaos Demon Ape's lingering will, and Wu Zhiqi asked to become his disciple.
• Zhou Yuan accepted Wu Zhiqi as his disciple, and Wu Zhiqi offered him the remaining yang-attributed seed of the Innate Yin-Yang Twin Lotus.
• Zhou Yuan gave Wu Zhiqi the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead and the Yellow Court Scripture, telling him to recite it to suppress the demon ape's will.
• Living beings gathered at the center of the Huai River to hear Dao Lord Taiyuan lecture on the Dao.
• Long Shanying reassured the Dragon Elephant Tribe's young members that their place in the audience was arranged through their Black Water Guard membership.

Zhou Yuan expounded the Dao at the Huai River for 3,600 years, then established a platform where beings could discuss cultivation and hear him teach every 3,000 years. He sent Wu Zhiqi to Phoenix Perch Mountain with a jade slip for Empress Nuwa and Emperor Xi, hoping the visit would help his disciple and secure the demon race’s support for an unstated matter.

• Long Shanying led the Dragon Elephant Tribe to its appointed place among the lotus blossoms at the Huai River, where they saw Wu Zhiqi seated near the front.
• Zhou Yuan appeared at the Huai River and expounded the Dao for 3,000 years before answering questions for another 600.
• Zhou Yuan established a Dao Discussion Platform where beings could discuss cultivation and hear him expound the Dao for 100 years every 3,000 years.
• Zhou Yuan returned to the Water Palace and instructed Wu Zhiqi to deliver a jade slip to Empress Nuwa and Emperor Xi at Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan told Wu Zhiqi to exchange cultivation insights with the Phoenix Perch Mountain Dao Lineage and learn the Heaven and Earth Ice Purity divine ability.
• Zhou Yuan opened a passage to Phoenix Perch Mountain and sent Wu Zhiqi through, hoping the demon race would support his plans.

Wu Zhiqi reached Phoenix Perch Mountain to deliver a jade slip from Taiyuanzi to Empress Nuwa and Fuxi. Nuwa arranged for him to train in her Dao Lineage and gave him a Creation Scroll, while Fuxi prepared to meet Di Jun about Taiyuanzi’s marketplace proposal.

• Wu Zhiqi arrived at the northern edge of Phoenix Perch Mountain and questioned two Tai Xu Mountain cultivators about how to reach Nuwa and Fuxi.
• When the cultivators offered to guide him to their dojo, Wu Zhiqi sensed their malice, refused, and prayed to Nuwa for guidance.
• Nuwa sensed Wu Zhiqi’s prayer and used her divine power to bring him to the center of Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Wu Zhiqi gave Nuwa Taiyuanzi’s jade slip, and she ordered an Attendant Boy to take him to Caifeng for training as a Dao Lineage Seed.
• Nuwa bestowed her Creation Scroll on Wu Zhiqi and instructed him to learn from Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• After reading the jade slip, Fuxi decided to meet Di Jun and discuss the marketplace and the flourishing of the Acquired Merchant Dao.

Empress Nuwa considered Fuxi’s ties to the Demon Clan and recognized Taiyuanzi’s careful maneuvering through the Phoenix Perch Mountain Dao Lineage. Fuxi persuaded Di Jun to support Taiyuanzi’s Marketplaces, leaving Taiyuanzi with the right to establish them across Demon Clan territory and Tai Yi responsible for integrating the myriad races.

• Empress Nuwa worried that Fuxi cared too much about the Heavenly Court and recognized that Taiyuanzi’s Marketplace proposal benefited both him and the Phoenix Perch Mountain Dao Lineage.
• Fuxi arrived at Ling Xiao Palace and presented the Marketplace to Di Jun and Tai Yi as a way to encourage trade, cultural exchange, and unity among the Demon Clan’s races.
• Di Jun realized the Marketplaces could strengthen the Demon Clan and attract more races, then asked Fuxi who would own them.
• Fuxi explained that Taiyuanzi could offer the plan to the Witch Clan and Penglai as well, and warned Di Jun to weigh the karma involved.
• Di Jun granted Taiyuanzi the right to establish Marketplaces throughout Demon Clan territory and assigned Tai Yi responsibility for integrating the races.

Demon clans across the Changyuan Mountain Range mobilized to build Di Jun’s marketplace, while Zhou Yuan sensed Wuyi Mountain’s True Ascension to Profound Grotto-heaven emerging. He set out for Wuyi Mountain to claim the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin before anything changed.

• The old pig demon of Langlang Mountain planned to mediate among demon clans and promote his mountain as the marketplace site, then sent descendants to deliver his intentions.
• The Bull King of Woniu Mountain demanded that the marketplace be built on his mountain and ordered his subordinate to watch Sky Fox Cave’s Flesh Ganoderma.
• A woman of the Black Fish Clan learned of the marketplace and told her clansmen to protect their Spirit Fish for future trade.
• Demon clans throughout the region rapidly advanced marketplace construction in response to Di Jun’s decree.
• Zhou Yuan sensed an opportunity manifesting and identified it as Wuyi Mountain’s True Ascension to Profound Grotto-heaven.
• Zhou Yuan recalled that the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin lay within Wuyi Mountain and immediately departed the Water Palace.

Zhou Yuan encountered Granny Huai and the plant spirits of Hundred Herbs Valley while wandering the Primordial Great Land. He shared diluted Three Lights Divine Water with them, helping many awaken and transform, while the karmic connection that drew him there remained unexplained.

• Zhou Yuan observed that conflict among witches, demons, and the Primordial Divine Demon Dao Lineage was building Calamity Qi as they fought over resources.
• Zhou Yuan arrived at Hundred Herbs Valley and met Granny Huai, who explained that its plant spirits lived peacefully and tended spiritual herbs and earth veins.
• Granny Huai invited Zhou Yuan into the valley, and he accepted because he sensed an unclear karmic connection with the plant spirits.
• Zhou Yuan saw the valley's many kinds of vegetation and poured diluted Three Lights Divine Water over them as spiritual rain.
• The spiritual rain enlightened many plant spirits, who transformed into Daoist forms and thanked Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan thanked Granny Huai for explaining how Plant Spirits earned merit and left her a Jade Talisman to summon him if Hundred Herbs Valley faced danger. He then discovered Wuyi Mountain and met Pixiu, who proposed doing business with him.

• Granny Huai explained that Plant Spirits earned merit by clearing blockages in earth veins and spirit acupoints.
• Zhou Yuan accepted Gentleman's Tea, gave Granny Huai a Jade Talisman promising to arrive within a day if the valley was endangered, and departed.
• Zhou Yuan traveled tens of millions of miles and recognized the appearing Primordial Divine Mountain as Wuyi Mountain.
• Pixiu woke when Wuyi Mountain emerged, claimed the Innate Grotto-heaven was fated for it, and headed toward the mountain.
• At Wuyi Mountain, Pixiu asked Zhou Yuan whether he understood formations and proposed a business deal.

Zhou Yuan entered Wuyi Mountain despite its protective formation and found several spiritual treasures, including the two Innate Spiritual Treasures he needed to complete his Acquired Merchant Dao. He also discovered an Enlightenment Tea Tree and nourished it with Three Lights Divine Water while Pixiu waited outside.

• Pixiu promised Zhou Yuan a spiritual treasure from Wuyi Mountain if he broke its formation, and Zhou Yuan walked through the formation unhindered.
• Pixiu tried to enter after Zhou Yuan but struck the formation and decided to wait outside for him to return.
• Zhou Yuan entered True Ascension Profound Heaven and collected the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin and the Treasure Gathering Basin from its Daoist temple.
• Zhou Yuan searched Wuyi Mountain's Seventy-two Caves and found the Myriad Sword Gourd and the Thousand Jun Ruler.
• Zhou Yuan discovered an Enlightenment Tea Tree on Wuyi Mountain's summit and watered it with Three Lights Divine Water.

After mastering the Wuyi Mountain Dojo, Zhou Yuan decided to make the Pixiu his mount and lured it inside. The Pixiu challenged him for ownership of the dojo, but Zhou Yuan displayed overwhelming power, leaving the beast kneeling and begging forgiveness.

• Zhou Yuan finished refining the dojo's core and gained control over everything within Wuyi Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan opened the formation and summoned the Pixiu into Seeking Dao Palace, intending to make it his mount.
• The Pixiu claimed the dojo belonged to its sect and threatened Zhou Yuan, who countered that the Pixiu was trying to seize his dojo.
• Zhou Yuan wagered that whoever could summon clouds and rain would own the dojo, and the Pixiu used its Cloud Mist Banner to gather storm clouds.
• Zhou Yuan dispelled the Pixiu's rain and summoned a powerful wind and downpour of his own.
• The Pixiu recognized Zhou Yuan's overwhelming presence, fell to its knees, and begged forgiveness for challenging him.

Zhou Yuan spared Pixiu and made him his mount, Jin Chentao, then assigned him duties managing Wuyi Mountain. Zhou Yuan cultivated the grotto-heaven’s inhabitants with spiritual rain and entered seclusion, preparing to accomplish a Great Merit.

• Zhou Yuan spared Pixiu and accepted him as a mount, naming him Jin Chentao and warning him against greed.
• Zhou Yuan gave Jin Chentao a token and ordered him to seal the Seventy-two Caves and recruit inhabitants and managers for Wuyi Mountain.
• Jin Chentao agreed to manage the grotto-heaven after Zhou Yuan promised to teach him the Myriad Treasures Long River divine ability as a reward.
• Zhou Yuan sent a jade slip to summon key personnel from the water estate to help manage Wuyi Mountain and considered establishing his Taiyuan branch.
• Zhou Yuan used Enlightenment Tea leaves and Three Lights Divine Water to rain spiritual essence over Wuyi Mountain for nine days, awakening its plants and animals.
• Zhou Yuan said he had repaid his karma to Wuyi Mountain and entered seclusion to cultivate, intending to accomplish a Great Merit.

Zhou Yuan established a dojo at Wuyi Mountain and instructed Guizhenzi to bring Water Palace elites to organize it. Guizhenzi decided to move his clan there, while conflict over the Water Palace’s leadership exposed corruption among its True Ones.

• Guizhenzi received Zhou Yuan’s message that Wuyi Mountain would become his dojo and resolved to move his clan there.
• Guizhenzi told the Water Palace cultivators about the move; Old Man Qingrong volunteered to go, and Madam Jiuzhen accepted responsibility for managing the Water Palace.
• Guizhenzi said he would bring his own clan rather than select Water Palace officials, then agreed to take Old Man Qingrong with him.
• Guizhenzi designated Madam Jiuzhen to oversee the Water Palace after he left, but Jin Yuanzi and other True Ones challenged her appointment.
• Guizhenzi confronted the True Ones over their misconduct and prepared to remove them from the Water Palace.

Guizhenzi exposed and purged corrupt officials in the Huai River Water Manor, revealing his Taiyi-level power. Zhou Yuan established the Acquired Merchant Dao, and the Grand Pure Daoist and Daoist Zhunti ordered Marketplaces opened in Kunlun and at the border between East and West.

• Guizhenzi ordered the Black Water Guard to seize ten True Ones, and Mangcang charged at him with fiery bronze hammers.
• Guizhenzi summoned a giant tortoise shell that shattered Mangcang’s hammers and crushed him, prompting the Water Manor forces to attack the rebels.
• Zhou Yuan announced the creation of Marketplaces across the Primordial World and declared the Acquired Merchant Dao established.
• The Grand Pure Daoist approved the Merchant Dao and directed his disciples to establish a Marketplace in Kunlun.
• Daoist Zhunti sent the Pharmacist Daoist to establish a Marketplace at the border between East and West.

As the Acquired Merchant Dao spread, leaders of the witch, divine, and dragon races weighed its benefits against threats to their power, while East King Duke moved to establish a marketplace in the Four Seas. The chapter left Candle Dragon preparing the dragon race for conflict and wondering how his absent elder brother would respond.

• Di Jiang forbade all trade within witch race territories, while Houtu resolved to try to persuade him that the Merchant Dao could benefit their people.
• The old man in the Three Sovereigns Palace agreed to let Divine Demon Dao Lineages establish marketplaces, despite fearing the consequences for the Primordial Divine Race.
• East King Duke ordered a marketplace opened on Purple Mansion Continent and planned to draw Four Seas independent cultivators into the Dao Court.
• Dao Lord Chengying agreed to keep the continent vigilant after East King Duke revealed the power of his Pure Yang Sword.
• Candle Dragon ordered the dragon branches to gather the waterways and produce Great Luo Dao Lords before the Mystic Gate Opened Mountain, then wondered what his absent elder brother would do.

Zhou Yuan received the bulk of the Heavenly Dao Merit for establishing the Acquired Merchant Dao and condensed it into a Merit Golden Wheel rather than using it to raise his cultivation. As the Merchant Dao began bringing him fortune, he considered how he might claim a patriarch’s share of the Mystic Gate Immortal Path.

• The Heavenly Dao distributed merit to Phoenix Perch Mountain, the Heavenly Court, and the new Marketplaces for their roles in establishing the Acquired Merchant Dao.
• Nuwa accepted Phoenix Perch Mountain’s share and wondered whether merit was key to her path to attaining the Dao, while Di Jun accepted the Heavenly Court’s share and considered how to cultivate ties with Taiyuanzi.
• Twenty percent of the merit descended upon the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin and the Treasure Gathering Basin, turning them into innate merit spirit treasures.
• Zhou Yuan condensed his remaining merit into a Merit Golden Wheel instead of using it to advance his cultivation.
• Zhou Yuan realized that transactions would bring him a steady stream of fortune as the Acquired Merchant Dao developed.
• Zhou Yuan reflected on the fortune and status held by Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Mystic Gate patriarchs, and resolved that he might carve out a place as a patriarch of a Dao.

After completing To Be a Monarch with the World, Zhou Yuan discovered that the Acquired Merchant Dao’s growth had stalled because the great powers resisted its spread. He resolved to travel to the witch race and negotiate with Di Jiang, hoping commerce could unite the witch lineages and establish the Merchant Dao alongside the demon race.

• Zhou Yuan completed To Be a Monarch with the World, which redirected attacks against him onto heaven and earth at the cost of his merit and fortune.
• Zhou Yuan recognized that the Acquired Merchant Dao had reached a bottleneck because the Primordial Divine Demon Dao Lineage and the Primordial Three Clans opposed its spread in their territories.
• Zhou Yuan used the Five Elements Mystic Gate and the Heavenly Machine Chessboard to investigate the witch race and learned that Di Jiang was blocking commerce to oppose the demon race.
• Zhou Yuan concluded that Di Jiang’s hostility reflected the coming conflict between the witch and demon races and warned that unaffiliated powers should avoid choosing sides.
• Zhou Yuan decided to negotiate with Di Jiang, reasoning that the Acquired Merchant Dao could unite the witch lineages and strengthen the witch race.

Zhou Yuan emerged from seclusion and summoned Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong, praising their long service and clear Dao hearts. He offered to accept them as registered disciples, leaving them stunned by the chance to become students of an Innate Dao Lord.

• Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong discussed Mount Wuyi’s growing Dao lineage before hearing Zhou Yuan’s Jade Chime and hurrying to Seeking Dao Palace.
• Zhou Yuan welcomed the two cultivators and reflected on their loyalty and perseverance through two yuanhui of service.
• Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong thanked Zhou Yuan for taking them in and insisted that serving him had never been a hardship.
• Zhou Yuan announced his intention to spread his Dao lineage and named the monkey from the Huai River spirit as his eldest disciple.
• Zhou Yuan offered to accept Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong as registered disciples, then asked whether he was unworthy of being their teacher when they froze in disbelief.

Zhou Yuan took Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong as named disciples, gave them treasures and cave mansions, and expounded the Primordial Abyss True Scripture for eight hundred years. After they returned to their caves, Zhou Yuan set out to travel through the Primordial Great Land with Jin Chentao.

• Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong accepted Zhou Yuan as their master and received spiritual treasures, tea leaves, Three Lights Divine Water, and Cave Mansion Seals.
• Zhou Yuan explained that named disciples would oversee the Seventy-two Caves and other affairs of the Primordial Abyss Dao lineage.
• Zhou Yuan expounded the Primordial Abyss True Scripture for eight hundred years, and Guizhenzi comprehended heavenly secrets and water techniques while Old Man Qingrong gained Pill Dao and Wood Dao arts.
• Zhou Yuan told his disciples he would soon leave Wuyi Mountain and warned them not to leave after he sealed the mountain gate within the Chaos Void.
• Zhou Yuan summoned Jin Chentao and set out to travel through the Primordial Great Land on the Pixiu's back.

Zhou Yuan visited Langlang Mountain Marketplace to observe the Acquired Merchant Dao and its use of Five Virtues Coins. After learning how the marketplace operated, he offered a rare Blood Ginseng for exchange, and the old pig demon warned him it was a poor bargain.

• Zhou Yuan and Jin Chentao entered Langlang Mountain Marketplace, where a little pig demon offered to guide them for one Five Virtues Coin.
• The little pig demon explained the marketplace’s scale, its merit protection, and the Huai River lord’s businesses as he led Zhou Yuan through the bustling streets.
• Zhou Yuan reflected on the early development of the Acquired Merchant Dao before the little pig demon brought him to a Three-legged Golden Basin.
• An old pig demon explained that the Treasure Gathering Basin exchanged spiritual treasures for Five Virtues Coins, while the Myriad Treasures Pavilion accepted only those coins.
• Zhou Yuan offered a rare Blood Ginseng, and the old pig demon urged him not to exchange it because it could purify bloodlines and was worth far more than Five Virtues Coins.

Zhou Yuan inspected the Langlang Mountain Marketplace, then met Empress Houtu, who was concerned that the demon clan’s growing prosperity was leaving the shaman clan behind. He proposed that the shamans establish their own Marketplaces, but Houtu challenged his ties to the Demon Clan Heavenly Court, leaving Zhou Yuan to prepare to negotiate his way into shaman territory.

• The old pig demon traded Zhou Yuan’s blood ginseng through the Treasure Gathering Basin, producing Five Virtues Coins that Jin Chentao collected.
• Zhou Yuan assessed the demon clan Marketplaces and planned to have Guizhenzi appoint Wuyi Mountain envoys to audit them.
• Zhou Yuan let Jin Chentao explore the Marketplace, and Jin Chentao headed to Spring Breeze Courtyard after giving a little pig demon several Five Virtues Coins.
• Zhou Yuan met Empress Houtu and explained that demon clan Marketplaces strengthened the clan’s cohesion and racial fortune.
• Houtu said the shaman clan was falling behind and objected that Zhou Yuan’s Demon Clan Heavenly Court ties made the Acquired Merchant Dao unsuitable for her clan.
• Zhou Yuan realized Houtu’s visit could decide whether the Acquired Merchant Dao entered shaman territory and resolved to play along with her.

Empress Houtu recognized that Zhou Yuan’s Acquired Merchant Dao was uniting the demon race and sought to bring it to the witches, so she accepted his wager to decide its future through a Dao Performance. After Houtu appeared to defeat Zhou Yuan with her earth-element Dao, he revealed that his mastery of the Five Elements had transformed the battlefield, leaving the wager’s outcome unresolved.

• Empress Houtu observed how Zhou Yuan’s marketplaces were drawing demon clans together and worried that the witch race would fall behind.
• Zhou Yuan offered to abandon the demons and join the witches if he lost their Dao Performance, while Houtu would permit the Acquired Merchant Dao to spread among the witches if she lost; Di Jiang urged her to accept.
• Houtu manifested a Thick Earth Dao realm, and Zhou Yuan filled it with oceans, rain, rivers, and lakes using his Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Houtu countered with mountains and dust, and the water vanished from her Dao realm, leading her to claim victory and demand that Zhou Yuan join the witches.
• Di Jiang appeared and welcomed Zhou Yuan, but Zhou Yuan denied that he had lost and revealed Geng Metal emerging from the earth before the realm transformed into a raging ocean.
• Zhou Yuan explained that his Dao was not only the Great Dao of Water Element, but also the Great Dao of cycle.

Zhou Yuan secured the witch race’s agreement to adopt the Acquired Merchant Dao, but Di Jiang challenged him to a direct clash before accepting his strength. After their palms collided in the Great Void, Di Jiang agreed to support the construction of Marketplaces, advancing Zhou Yuan’s purpose.

• Di Jiang praised Zhou Yuan’s scheme, then attacked him with a massive spatial palm strike despite losing the wager.
• Zhou Yuan met Di Jiang’s attack head-on, infusing his palm with Five Elements Divine Thunder and World Creation intent.
• Their clash shattered layers of the Great Void, and Zhou Yuan suffered a Dao Injury while proving he could withstand Di Jiang.
• Di Jiang acknowledged Zhou Yuan’s strength and ordered every witch branch to build Marketplaces, with one yuan’s worth to be completed within ten thousand years.
• The Acquired Merchant Dao’s fortune rose as the witch race committed to the plan, and Zhou Yuan’s journey achieved its purpose.

Di Jiang explained why he had let Zhou Yuan leave, then urged the shamans to prepare for a future struggle with the demon race and the Mystic Gate. Zhou Yuan recovered while drifting through the River of Time, and eight hundred years later he awoke to a prayer from his followers.

• Di Jiang showed Zhu Jiuyin and the other ancestral shamans his Dao Injury and said they could not have kept Taiyuanzi, whose power and fortune made him dangerous to antagonize.
• Zhu Jiuyin reported that Ju Mang had contacted Kunlun and warned that the demon race might align with the Mystic Gate, but Di Jiang argued that Kunlun would not let the demons dominate alone.
• Di Jiang ordered the shamans to train their young and prepare to seize victory through battle, while Zhu Jiuyin and the others vowed to honor Pangu.
• Zhou Yuan drank Enlightenment Tea to heal his Dao Injuries and reflected on the Acquired Merchant Dao spreading among the shamans and his growing reputation as an ancient being.
• Zhou Yuan transformed into a fish and drifted through the River of Time until a prayer woke him after eight hundred years.

Granny Huai prayed for help as Old Fiend in Red Robes attacked Hundred Flowers Valley, and the valley’s formation fell. Granny Huai’s Willow Leaf destroyed his bone skulls, but he countered with a Blood-red Puppet, leaving her victory uncertain.

• Granny Huai offered incense and crushed a jade slip, hoping the green-robed Dao Lord would answer her plea to save Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Old Fiend in Red Robes bombarded the valley’s formation with a demonic dragon summoned from thirty-six white bone skulls.
• Old Fiend in Red Robes shattered the formation and sent the skulls to attack the valley’s Plant Spirits.
• Granny Huai unleashed a powerful Willow Leaf that annihilated the skulls, and Old Fiend in Red Robes revealed a Blood-red Puppet to confront its sword light.
• Granny Huai believed the valley had been saved, but red light flickered in the void and her relief vanished.