Recaps

Zhou Yuan uncovered the Black and White Divine Demon’s plot, advanced to the True One Realm, and gained allies and resources on his journey east. After claiming the Wei River Water God’s Golden Seal and reaching the Grand Unity Great Sage Realm, he prepared to manage the Water Mansion as war loomed across the Primordial World.

• Zhou Yuan used his formation and bamboo staff to kill the Black and White Divine Demon, then refined the Evil-Averting Golden Bamboo and broke through to the True One Realm.
• At Myriad Spirit Mountain, Zhou Yuan learned from Fuxi and Nuwa, formed the Innate Yin-Yang Primordial Chaos Divine Light, and killed a cultivator who tried to seize his power.
• Zhou Yuan reopened his marketplace, exchanged treasures and insights with Guizhenzi, and prepared as the Myriad Races Alliance mobilized against the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty.
• Zhou Yuan entered the Wei River Water Mansion, manipulated the conflict between the Eighteenth Prince and the rogue cultivators, and waited as the Water Lord and the prince fought over the Golden Seal.
• After a Dao Lord phantom defeated the Wei River Water Lord, Zhou Yuan knocked out the Eighteenth Prince, refined the Golden Seal, and claimed the title of Water God.
• Zhou Yuan crippled the Eighteenth Prince, discovered the Innate Water Eye and the Yellow Middle Plum, and chose to delay refining its incomplete Primordial Dao Embryo.
• The Tianshui Emperor prepared for war against the Phoenix Perch Mountain lineage as Fuxi, Nuwa, Di Jun, and Tai Yi moved to establish the demon clan’s Heavenly Court.
• Zhou Yuan reached the Grand Unity Great Sage Realm, recruited Old Man Qingrong and three cultivators to serve him, and announced that he would expound the Dao to the Water Mansion’s inhabitants.

Zhou Yuan established the Wei River Water Mansion, defeated Dao Lord Tianshui’s hidden bodies, and expanded his control across the Tianshui waterways and upper Huai River. After Empress Nuwa invited him to Phoenix Perch Mountain, Dao Lord Fuxi granted him access to the Creation Pavilion and promised to take him to the Thirty-three Heavens in ten thousand years.

• Di Jun founded the Demon Clan, gathered the races under its destiny, and received the Heavenly Emperor position as he revealed the Thirty-three Worldly Heavens.
• Zhou Yuan defeated Old Man Heavenly Sword, won Phoenix Perch Mountain’s support, and brought the Chessboard Mountain demons to the Wei River to establish his Water Mansion.
• Zhou Yuan organized the Wei River Water Mansion, protected the Dragon Elephant Tribe from the Golden Brilliance Imperial Dynasty, and developed his followers through instruction and cultivation resources.
• Zhou Yuan trapped Dao Lord Tianshui’s true spirit, uncovered his remaining Dao bodies, and killed the Green Flood Dragon in Yunmeng Dragon Palace before releasing Dragon Lord Ao Sheng.
• Zhou Yuan seized the innate water treasures, refined the Myriad Spirits Banner, and bound Ao Sheng and Ao Lin’s souls to serve him.
• Zhou Yuan led the Black Water Guard to take the Tianshui waterways and expanded across the upper Huai River, defeating opponents and absorbing their souls into the banner.
• Empress Nuwa invited Zhou Yuan to Phoenix Perch Mountain, where he requested access to its Daoist books and Dao Lord Fuxi granted him entry to the Creation Pavilion.
• Dao Lord Fuxi told Zhou Yuan to return in ten thousand years and travel with him and Empress Nuwa to the Thirty-three Heavens.

Zhou Yuan became the Heavenly River Water God, then broke through to become an Innate Dao Lord of the Water Element Cycle Great Dao. After defeating the Dragon Clan’s attack and claiming the lower Huai River, he left his forces to consolidate the region as a mysterious cave released a dangerous white-headed ape.

• Zhou Yuan absorbed the Creation Pavilion’s knowledge, completed the Greater Divine Ability Innate Five Elements Divine Thunder, and received the Heavenly River Water God appointment at Di Jun’s banquet.
• Zhou Yuan organized the Water Department, refused Zi Wei Star Lord’s offer to join the Star God Lineage, and later left the Heavenly Court to cultivate at the Wei River Water Mansion.
• Zhou Yuan used the Myriad Dao Book’s fiftieth Innate Divine Restriction to take Yellow Middle Plum’s innate foundation, fortune, divine abilities, and status, then manifested the Water Element Dao Fruit and completed his breakthrough.
• Ao Yuan led the Dragon Clan against the Wei River Water Mansion, where Zhou Yuan’s formation trapped the dragons as he completed his Dao and opened his own tributary of the River of Time.
• Zhou Yuan fought Dao Lord Guangfa and Candle Dragon, killed Guangfa and Ao Yuan, and forced Candle Dragon to yield the lower Huai River after Eastern Emperor Tai Yi intervened.
• Zhou Yuan clarified that his Dao was the Water Element Cycle Great Dao and envisioned a system to circulate water through the Primordial World.
• Guizhenzi led the Water Mansion’s forces to take the Huai River Dragon Palace, but a cave’s pale blue sphere split open and released a white-headed ape that crushed the White Brocade Rat’s head.

Zhou Yuan established his Dao lineage at Wuyi Mountain and spread the Acquired Merchant Dao through the demon and witch territories. After leaving his disciples to manage the mountain, he answered Granny Huai’s plea as Hundred Flowers Valley faced an attack.

• Zhou Yuan defeated Wu Zhiqi, accepted him as a disciple, and sent him to Phoenix Perch Mountain to learn from Nuwa and Fuxi.
• Fuxi presented Zhou Yuan’s Marketplace proposal to Di Jun, who authorized Marketplaces across demon territory and put Tai Yi in charge of integrating the races.
• Zhou Yuan explored Wuyi Mountain, claimed its treasures and grotto-heaven, and accepted the Pixiu Jin Chentao as his mount and manager.
• Guizhenzi put down a rebellion at the Water Palace as Zhou Yuan announced the Marketplaces and established the Acquired Merchant Dao, which received merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhou Yuan made Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong his registered disciples, taught them the Primordial Abyss True Scripture, and left Wuyi Mountain with Jin Chentao.
• Zhou Yuan visited a demon Marketplace, met Empress Houtu, and won their Dao Performance, persuading Di Jiang to order Marketplaces built throughout witch territory.
• Di Jiang acknowledged Zhou Yuan’s strength and prepared the witch clans for war, while Zhou Yuan healed his Dao Injury and drifted through the River of Time until Granny Huai’s prayer woke him.
• Old Fiend in Red Robes broke Hundred Flowers Valley’s formation and attacked its Plant Spirits, but Granny Huai destroyed his skulls before a Blood-red Puppet appeared.