Recaps

Yun Zhongzi returned to Golden Ao Island amid a growing feud between Daoist Duobao’s faction and Qingyuan’s disciples. He challenged Duobao’s claim to be Acting Sect Master, and Duobao revealed the Qingping Sword.

• Yun Zhongzi left Chentang Pass after warning Li Jing to handle matters carefully, then taught Lady Yin how to build a temple to revive Nezha.
• Wuzhiqi, Yuan Hong, and other disciples gathered on Golden Ao Island, angry over accusations that they had manipulated the Internet and stolen virtual currency.
• Yun Zhongzi returned and found his faction facing Daoist Duobao’s supporters, including Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiāo.
• Daoist Duobao mocked Yun Zhongzi’s influence and suggested that he become Acting Sect Master.
• Yun Zhongzi questioned why the Interception Sect had an Acting Sect Master, and Daoist Duobao revealed the Qingping Sword.

Daoist Duobao used the Qingping Sword to assert that he was the Interception Sect’s Acting Sect Master, but Yun Zhongzi challenged his account of how he gained authority. Duobao attacked when Yun Zhongzi refused to acknowledge his position, and Yun Zhongzi crushed the incoming seal with his bare hand.

• Daoist Duobao revealed the Qingping Sword and demanded that Yun Zhongzi recognize him as the Acting Sect Master of the Interception Sect.
• Yun Zhongzi questioned Duobao’s authority, noting that his master had been the sect’s Vice Sect Master and had never transferred power.
• Duobao claimed Yun Zhongzi’s master had vanished into a mysterious spacetime after entrusting him with the Qingping Sword and the sect’s affairs.
• Yun Zhongzi suspected that someone had plotted against his master, while Duobao insisted they focus on the sect’s future and stop dwelling on the past.
• Duobao lost his temper and hurled a suppressive seal at Yun Zhongzi to discipline him.
• Yun Zhongzi met the seal with his palm and crushed it into nothingness using the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.

Yun Zhongzi crushed Daoist Duobao’s Innate Spiritual Treasure and challenged his authority as Acting Sect Master. He warned that a clash between their Saint sword qi could destroy Golden Ao Island, leaving Duobao to decide whether to press the confrontation.

• Yun Zhongzi crushed the Innate Spiritual Treasure Daoist Duobao had attacked him with and mocked Duobao by asking him to bring out more treasures.
• Daoist Duobao accused Yun Zhongzi of defying his superior, but Yun Zhongzi and his supporters argued that Duobao had attacked him first.
• Daoist Duobao invoked his authority as Acting Sect Master and threatened the disciples with the Qingping Sword, silencing Yun Zhongzi’s supporters.
• Daoist Duobao demanded that Yun Zhongzi recognize him as Acting Sect Master, and Yun Zhongzi hinted that he might also have Saint sword qi protecting him.
• Yun Zhongzi warned that opposing Saint sword qi could destroy Golden Ao Island and kill countless disciples, then said Duobao’s side might still lose even without it.

Yun Zhongzi confronted Daoist Duobao over his master’s disappearance and the Interception Sect’s collapsed Internet, then left with nearly half the disciples. Meanwhile, Lady Yin rebuilt Nezha’s temple on Cui Ping Shan by helping the people, and its incense flourished.

• Yun Zhongzi accused Daoist Duobao of causing his master’s disappearance and failing to resolve the Internet’s collapse, and the two sides clashed at Preaching Cliff.
• Yun Zhongzi left with a large group of Jie Sect Disciples, while Daoist Duobao portrayed himself as powerless and won the remaining disciples’ sympathy.
• Yun Zhongzi learned that Jie Sect Disciples had used the search for him as a pretext to kill people at Chentang Pass, where Nezha had died.
• Yun Zhongzi gathered trusted disciples to learn what had happened in the Interception Sect, but postponed investigating his master’s disappearance while he stabilized the sect.
• After Chentang Pass began rebuilding, Lady Yin secretly built a temple for Nezha on Cui Ping Shan and helped local people until the temple’s incense flourished.

Lady Yin mourned Nezha at a temple in Cui Ping Shan, while Jin Zha and Muzha mistook his lingering presence for a spirit troubling her and went to tell Li Jing. Li Jing learned that a temple had appeared without authorization, but the chapter ended before he heard whom it honored.

• Lady Yin prayed to Nezha at the busy temple, grieving and asking him to recover as the misty Nezha comforted her.
• Jin Zha and Muzha followed Lady Yin to Cui Ping Shan, saw Nezha's statue, and suspected his ghost was pestering their mother.
• Jin Zha and Muzha left to report the temple to Li Jing, while Nezha continued protecting local people and fulfilling their wishes.
• Muzha told Li Jing that a new temple had appeared in Cui Ping Shan, and Li Jing asked whether it had been built without authorization.

Jin Zha and Muzha told Li Jing about a prosperous, unauthorized temple on Cui Ping Shan, where their mother had been worshipping. Believing the temple offered a chance to earn merit and restore the Human Emperor’s favor, Li Jing marched against it despite his sons’ warnings.

• Jin Zha and Muzha explained how they followed their mother to the newly built temple on Cui Ping Shan and noticed its strong Incense Power.
• Li Jing condemned the temple as an illicit shrine and decided that destroying it could earn him merit with the Human Emperor.
• Muzha and Jin Zha tried to dissuade Li Jing, but refused to identify the temple’s deity and urged him to leave the matter alone.
• Li Jing accused his sons of hiding a connection to the supposed evil god and demanded they explain what they knew.
• When the brothers stayed silent, Li Jing led tens of thousands of elite soldiers and retainers toward Cui Ping Shan.

Jin Zha and Muzha panicked after realizing their report about Lady Yin’s temple to Nezha might have prompted their father to attack it. Lady Yin revealed the temple had court approval, and Muzha urged her to hurry to Cui Ping Shan after warning that something terrible had happened.

• Jin Zha and Muzha worried that building a temple for Nezha could bring punishment on their family and decided to find Lady Yin.
• Lady Yin told her sons that the temple was dedicated to Nezha and that an expert had instructed her on how to revive him.
• Jin Zha and Muzha hid that their father had led soldiers and Immortals to besiege the temple as an evil shrine.
• Muzha accused Lady Yin of endangering the family, but she explained that she had official court approval and had the documents and seal to prove it.
• Muzha urged Lady Yin to hurry to Cui Ping Shan because something terrible had happened.

Lady Yin learned that Li Jing had taken an army to destroy Nezha’s temple on Cui Ping Shan and rushed to stop him. Li Jing’s forces reached the temple and prepared to break in, while its frightened caretakers hid inside.

• Muzha told Lady Yin that Jin Zha and he had unknowingly led Li Jing to believe the Cui Ping Shan temple was an unauthorized shrine, prompting him to march there with tens of thousands of soldiers.
• Lady Yin collapsed in shock, then recovered and ordered Jin Zha and Muzha to take her to Cui Ping Shan at once.
• Jin Zha used the Wind-Shielding Pearl to protect Lady Yin while he and Muzha traveled with her using Wind Escape.
• Li Jing gathered more than a hundred Immortals and tens of thousands of soldiers, then led them up Cui Ping Shan toward the temple.
• The temple’s commoner caretakers fled inside and shut the doors, and Li Jing ordered his soldiers to smash them down and kill anyone who resisted.

Li Jing led troops to massacre worshippers and destroy a temple he believed was an unauthorized evil shrine. When he discovered its idol depicted Nezha, he called it a frame-up and ordered the idol smashed and the temple burned, despite Jin Zha and Muzha pleading for mercy.

• Li Jing's soldiers stormed the temple, killing worshippers and destroying its buildings as the temple keeper protested.
• Li Jing accused the temple keeper of aiding demons and ordered him seized while soldiers searched the temple.
• Soldiers who found an idol resembling Nezha withdrew and urged Li Jing to inspect it.
• Li Jing saw the idol, feared the shrine was meant to slander him, and ordered it smashed and the temple set ablaze.
• Jin Zha and Muzha called out to their father, pleading with him to show mercy.

Li Jing burned down the temple and killed innocent people, while Lady Yin confronted him over his reckless actions and his treatment of Nezha. She revealed that the temple had the Human Emperor’s approval and threw its official documents at Li Jing.

• Li Jing ordered the temple burned after smashing its statue, and the fire consumed its occupants while Immortals guarded the area.
• Lady Yin saw the dead commoners and temple keeper, then struck Li Jing when he blamed her and dismissed her concerns.
• Lady Yin condemned Li Jing for failing to investigate before attacking the temple and for lacking affection toward Nezha.
• Li Jing insisted the temple was unauthorized and ordered Lady Yin to explain her actions to the Human Emperor.
• Lady Yin declared that the Human Emperor had approved the temple and threw the official documents at Li Jing.

After Li Jing discovered that Nezha’s temple had been legally approved, Lady Yin condemned him for killing its worshippers and destroying it, then sent reports to Chaoge and summoned the Ancestral Temple. As Li Jing faced an investigation and refused to accept blame, Jin Zha suggested rebelling against Great Shang.

• Li Jing found the temple’s approval documents and realized he had destroyed a legitimate temple and killed its people.
• Lady Yin accused Li Jing of ignoring her warnings, killing Nezha, and being unfit to command Chentang Pass, then vowed to report him to the Human Emperor.
• The nearby immortals withdrew, while a general escorted Lady Yin back; she and Li Jing ended the night at odds.
• Lady Yin sent a report to Chaoge and invited the Ancestral Temple and Yin Shang imperial family to investigate Li Jing.
• Muzha told Li Jing that Lady Yin had summoned investigators, and Jin Zha urged his father to rebel against Great Shang rather than let the Li family’s legacy be destroyed.

After his sons persuaded him that Yin Shang would punish the Li Family, Li Jing renounced his allegiance and fled with Jin Zha and Muzha to seek refuge in the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty. The three reached West Qi, where Li Jing doubted whether the city could offer him the future his sons had promised.

• Li Jing blamed Jin Zha and Muzha for the temple incident and listened as they urged him to leave Yin Shang.
• Jin Zha and Muzha praised the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty and convinced Li Jing that Yin Shang had treated him unfairly.
• Li Jing wrote a letter severing ties with Yin Shang and ordered the family to leave for Great Zhou.
• Li Jing, Jin Zha, and Muzha departed Chentang Pass under cover of night and traveled to West Qi.
• At West Qi City, Li Jing felt disheartened that the city seemed no larger than Chentang Pass.

Jin Zha brought word that his father, Li Jing, wanted to join West Qi, prompting Manjushri and Guangchengzi to arrange a grand welcome. Li Jing arrived alone, and after welcoming him, Ji Chang asked where his roster of followers was.

• Jin Zha told Manjushri that Li Jing had turned against Yin Shang and wanted to join West Qi.
• Manjushri informed Guangchengzi, who agreed to personally welcome Li Jing and ordered a grand ceremony.
• Ji Chang and West Qi’s officials welcomed Li Jing into the city, assuming he would later bring troops from Chentang Pass.
• Li Jing entered the banquet hall alone and declared that he had come to support West Qi’s cause.
• After exchanging pleasantries, Ji Chang asked Li Jing where his roster of followers was.

Li Jing arrived in West Qi alone, expecting his own allegiance to be enough, while Ji Chang and the Chan Sect disciples assumed he had brought Chentang Pass and its forces with him. The Immortals departed in disappointment, and Ji Chang explained that they valued Li Jing’s influence, territory, and ability to rally people, not just his personal presence.

• Ji Chang asked Li Jing to provide a roster of supporters, Immortals, troops, and strategic information from Chentang Pass.
• Li Jing admitted that he had come to join West Qi alone, leaving the banquet guests stunned and scornful.
• Leizhenzi rebuked Li Jing, while Ji Chang tried to save face by suggesting Li Jing had only come ahead to assess West Qi before returning to Chentang Pass.
• Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect disciples realized Li Jing had brought no forces and left the banquet in disappointment.
• After the Immortals departed, Ji Chang explained that they expected Li Jing to bring his influence, territory, and ability to rally people to West Qi.

Li Jing sought refuge in West Qi after he could no longer remain at Chentang Pass, but his account of blaming and mistreating his youngest son angered Leizhenzi and Ji Chang. Ji Chang sent Li away for the night and decided he would never entrust him with an important post.

• Ji Chang questioned Li Jing about coming to West Qi without bringing allies or subordinates, and Li admitted he could not return to Chentang Pass.
• Li Jing explained that he had fled after family troubles and recounted how he had long suspected his youngest son was a demon and blamed him for bringing misfortune.
• Leizhenzi angrily accused Li Jing of neglecting his son, making him bear responsibility for the crisis at Chentang Pass, and destroying his temple after his death.
• Ji Chang dismissed Li Jing for the night and resolved never to give him an important office.

Li Jing regretted joining West Qi after he received no honor or position, while Jin Zha and Muzha learned their masters had expected him to bring Chentang Pass and other regional lords with him. The next morning, Li Jing was left waiting outside court until a minister summoned him and angrily asked why he had fallen asleep there.

• Li Jing berated Jin Zha and Muzha for bringing him to West Qi, where he was mocked and assigned a western side room instead of receiving status or an office.
• Jin Zha and Muzha tried to comfort Li Jing, then went to ask Manjushri and Cihang for guidance.
• Manjushri and Cihang scolded their disciples for bringing Li Jing alone instead of securing his followers and regional allies for West Qi.
• Li Jing waited anxiously through the night, regretting that he had abandoned Chentang Pass for West Qi.
• At morning court, guards barred Li Jing from entering because he had no Great Zhou office or court regalia, so he waited outside and fell asleep.
• A minister came out to summon Li Jing for King Wen and rebuked him for sleeping outside the hall.

Li Jing was humiliated by West Qi’s officials and court before Ji Chang appointed him Vanguard Grand Marshal for the assault on Jiameng Pass. After arriving at the brutal front, Li Jing realized that his new post might force him to fight personally.

• Ji Jiu scorned Li Jing and ordered him to follow West Qi’s rules as he escorted him to the court.
• Ji Chang questioned Li Jing about why he had come to West Qi, and ministers pressed him to reveal the reasons he had left Chentang Pass.
• Ji Chang appointed Li Jing Vanguard Grand Marshal for the attack on Jiameng Pass and ordered him to depart at once.
• Li Jing received his official tokens and traveled alone to Jiameng Pass, while Jin Zha and Muzha silently escorted him.
• Li Jing saw the fierce fighting at Jiameng Pass and feared that he would have to enter battle himself.
• Jiang Ziya sounded the gong to withdraw the troops and summoned the lords and generals to meet Li Jing.

Jiang Ziya warmly welcomed Li Jing and gave him command of the West Qi forces, winning Li Jing’s trust despite the other commanders’ resentment. Li Jing then learned that West Qi’s army had not even reached Jiameng Pass because Demon Wind Stockade blocked the route with a dangerous Three Flavors Divine Wind formation.

• Jiang Ziya halted the attack and personally welcomed Li Jing, inviting him to a banquet and making Li Jing feel valued.
• Jin Zha and Muzha praised Jiang Ziya’s kindness, while the assembled lords and commanders complained that the welcome had interrupted their attack.
• Jiang Ziya assured Li Jing that the complaints were slander and entrusted him with military command, allowing him to command any of the assembled forces.
• Nangong Shi challenged Li Jing to capture Demon Wind Stockade, explaining that its demon and Yin Shang defenders wielded a lethal Three Flavors Divine Wind formation.
• Li Jing was astonished to discover that West Qi’s army had fought for so long without reaching Jiameng Pass.

Li Jing persuaded the Zhou camp to give him three thousand soldiers and ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals, promising to take Demon Wind Stockade within ten days. When the defenders unleashed the Three Flavors Divine Wind, an invisible force suppressed it completely.

• Nangong Shi and the other generals explained why Demon Wind Stockade and Jiameng Pass were difficult to attack.
• Li Jing demanded troops and ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals, pledging to breach Demon Wind Stockade within ten days and promising the immortals eighty percent of the credit.
• The ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals agreed to accompany Li Jing, expecting him to fail and refusing to fight if he could not suppress the Three Flavors Divine Wind.
• Li Jing drilled three thousand soldiers for ten days, then led them toward Demon Wind Stockade while the ten immortals watched from afar.
• Li Jing led his troops beneath Demon Wind Stockade, where the defenders unleashed the Three Flavors Divine Wind, but an invisible force suppressed it without stirring dust.

Li Jing’s forces captured Demon Wind Stockade after the Wind Settling Pearl nullified its Three Flavors Divine Wind, and Li Jing explained why he had kept the treasure’s role secret. A celebration eased tensions among the Zhou commanders, but Jiameng Pass’s commanding general then came out to challenge them.

• When the Three Flavors Divine Wind failed, Li Jing and ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals led the vanguard in breaking into Demon Wind Stockade, and the Zhou Army followed to seize it.
• After the Four Heavenly Kings withdrew, Jiang Ziya and Nangong Shi sent troops to occupy the surrounding Yin Shang strongholds.
• At a celebration, Li Jing told Jiang Ziya and the others that his master, True Man Du'e, had lent him the Wind Settling Pearl to suppress wind-based spells and formations.
• When the commanders criticized Li Jing for hiding his plan, he defended his decision as a life-risking gamble, and Jiang Ziya helped ease the dispute.
• As the Zhou camp prepared for battle after war drums sounded, Jiang Ziya learned that Jiameng Pass’s commanding general had come to challenge them.

Jiang Ziya tried to persuade Lu Ya to surrender, while Li Jing taunted and cursed him until Lu Ya returned to Jiameng Pass without retaliating. Li Jing grew confident during the quiet days that followed, but on the fifteenth day he suddenly fainted, prompting Jiang Ziya to rush to him.

• Jiang Ziya led over a hundred thousand troops to Jiameng Pass and urged Lu Ya to abandon Yin Shang and join Great Zhou.
• Lu Ya asked which of the West Qi commanders was Li Jing, and Li Jing insulted him and threatened to destroy the Demon Race.
• Lu Ya fixed Li Jing with a murderous stare, then returned to Jiameng Pass without making a threat or attacking.
• Li Jing claimed his insults had driven Lu Ya away, and the West Qi soldiers praised him.
• Li Jing stayed close to Jiang Ziya at first, then grew bolder as Jiameng Pass remained quiet for several days.
• On the fifteenth day, Li Jing suddenly fainted, and Jiang Ziya hurried to check on him.

Li Jing became mysteriously dazed and ill, prompting Jiang Ziya and Manjushri Guangfa to suspect Curse Arts, though neither could explain how he had been affected. Manjushri sent Jin Zha back with a Seven-Turn Resurrection Elixir while Li Jing remained under watch.

• Jiang Ziya examined Li Jing and suspected Curse Arts because his soul seemed to be dispersing and his consciousness was unclear.
• Jiang Ziya joked about Li Jing's burial and promised to find him a good feng shui site, leaving Li Jing, Jin Zha, and Muzha speechless.
• Jin Zha went to West Qi City and told Venerable Manjushri Guangfa that Li Jing had not left camp since cursing Lu Ya.
• Manjushri could not determine how Li Jing had been affected, so he gave Jin Zha a Seven-Turn Resurrection Elixir and told him to return and report any changes.

Li Jing’s condition worsened as Jin Zha and Muzha failed to find anyone willing or able to save him. On the twenty-first day after he insulted Lu Ya, Li Jing died in the Great Zhou camp from the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book.

• Jin Zha and Muzha sought help from Chan Sect figures and Loose Immortals, but no one would treat Li Jing because they feared provoking Lu Ya or could not identify the curse.
• Li Jing grew weaker and began vomiting blood as rumors spread through the Great Zhou camp that Heavenly Retribution had struck him.
• Jiang Ziya rushed to Li Jing’s side, and a Quasi-Saint identified the curse as the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book, which killed its victim on the twenty-first day.
• The soldiers realized Lu Ya had cursed Li Jing for insulting him, and Li Jing’s limbs and body were crushed by a mysterious force until he died.

Li Jing died under Lu Ya’s Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book, and Jin Zha and Muzha failed to revive him with the Seven-Turn Resurrection Elixir. Guangchengzi explained that the curse had scattered Li Jing’s True Spirit, but said its cost in blessings and Fortune Aura limited its threat.

• The immortals in the Great Zhou camp feared Lu Ya’s curse after seeing Li Jing die, while Jiang Ziya closed Li Jing’s eyes and Jin Zha and Muzha mourned him.
• Jin Zha gave Li Jing the Seven-Turn Resurrection Elixir, but it restored only his vitality and could not revive his curse-stricken soul.
• Jin Zha and Muzha carried Li Jing to West Qi and asked their masters for help, prompting Manjushri and Cihang to consult Guangchengzi about the curse.
• Guangchengzi said the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book dispersed its victim’s True Spirit, making Li Jing impossible to revive even with a powerful elixir.
• Guangchengzi reassured Manjushri and Cihang that using the curse consumed far more Fortune Aura than the victim possessed, making it unlikely Lu Ya could use it against Saint disciples.

After Guangchengzi explained that Li Jing would eventually be resurrected through the Investiture List, Jin Zha and Muzha buried him with Jiang Ziya’s help. Meanwhile, the conflict within the Interception Sect escalated, and Daoist Duobao accepted Guangchengzi’s offer of a pill to help him purge Yun Zhongzi’s faction.

• Guangchengzi told Jin Zha and Muzha that Li Jing would regain his consciousness after the Conquest of Zhou but become Haotian’s subject.
• Jin Zha and Muzha carried Li Jing’s body back to camp, and Jiang Ziya helped them choose an auspicious burial ground.
• Jin Zha and Muzha explained the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book’s limitations, restoring morale in the Great Zhou camp as its siege continued.
• Daoist Duobao’s faction clashed with Yun Zhongzi’s faction, and the fighting between Interception Sect disciples grew increasingly deadly.
• After negotiations with Yun Zhongzi failed, Daoist Duobao agreed to Guangchengzi’s conditions and took a pill that could temporarily make him a False Saint.
• Daoist Duobao ordered Immortal Dingguang to summon Yun Zhongzi and the others, threatening to stop being polite if they refused to submit.