Recaps

Qingyuan agreed to let the Demon Race and other living beings cultivate the Martial Path after Di Jun swore not to slaughter the Human Race on a large scale. Di Jun then asked how to obtain Merit, and Qingyuan explained that deeds benefiting the Primordial Wilderness could earn it.

• Di Jun offered Qingyuan a position in the Heavenly Court and promised protections for the Human Race, but Qingyuan refused the appointment.
• Di Jun asked to spread the Martial Path among the Demon Race, and Qingyuan agreed only if the Demon Race refrained from large-scale massacres of the Human Race.
• Di Jun swore that the Demon Race would lose its standing and the Heavenly Court would collapse if it exterminated the Human Race, then agreed to Qingyuan's restrictions around the Martial Dao Monument.
• Di Jun declared that all living beings could cultivate the Martial Path and asked Qingyuan how to obtain Merit.
• Qingyuan explained that anyone who served the Primordial Wilderness and benefited its living beings could obtain Merit.

Qingyuan advised Di Jun to gain Merit through marriage and Heavenly Rules, but refused a place in the Heavenly Court. Di Jun announced three policies, then the Witch Clan summoned Pangu True Body and routed the Demon Race.

• Qingyuan urged Di Jun to marry openly, establish family customs, and regulate the Primordial Wilderness through Heavenly Rules to earn Merit.
• Di Jun offered Qingyuan the position of Martial Path Master, but Qingyuan declined and focused on developing the Human Race and its Immortal Markets.
• Di Jun announced policies for Heavenly Marriage, Heavenly Rules, and Demon Race study of the Martial Path, but the demons resisted the Martial Path and postponed the marriage.
• The Heavenly Court promulgated Heavenly Edicts and received Merit, while ten percent of the Merit flew to the East Sea Coast.
• The Demon Race attacked the Witch Clan at Buzhou Mountain, but the Twelve Ancestor Witches formed the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array and summoned Pangu True Body.
• Pangu True Body struck once and devastated the Demon Race, leaving it in a crushing defeat.

The Twelve Ancestor Witches summoned the Pangu True Body and nearly destroyed the Demon Heavenly Court, forcing the Demon Race to flee. Dao Ancestor Hongjun intervened and ordered the Witch-Demon Two Clans to divide rule between Heaven and Earth; when the witches refused to stop, he shattered their Pangu True Body.

• The Pangu True Body annihilated countless demons and struck Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Demon Heavenly Court’s forces with devastating losses.
• Tai Yi gathered the remaining Demon Saints and Demon Gods’ power into the Chaos Bell and escaped with the core figures to the Nine Heavens, but the Twelve Ancestor Witches pursued them and wrecked the Heavenly Realm.
• Patriarch Minghe and the other great powers watched in shock as the Witch Clan appeared capable of threatening even the Saints.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived and ordered the Witch-Demon Two Clans to cease hostilities, declaring that demons would govern Heaven and witches would govern Earth.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches ignored Hongjun and attacked Di Jun and the others again, so Hongjun shattered the Creation Axe and broke apart the Pangu True Body.

After the Witch Clan devastated the Demon Heavenly Court with the Pangu True Body, Di Jun vowed vengeance and forced the surviving demons to commit to the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and the Hunyuan River Luo Array. He then confronted Qingyuan, accusing him of knowing the Demon Race would lose and failing to warn them.

• The Dao Ancestor stopped the fighting, stabilized heaven and earth, and ordered the Witch Clan not to start wars lightly.
• After the Twelve Ancestor Witches withdrew, Di Jun learned that only 372 Grand Unity Golden Immortals and fewer than one-tenth of the Taiyi and Golden Immortals remained alive.
• Di Jun vowed that the Demon Race and Witch Clan would never coexist under the same sky, promised compensation to survivors, and ordered the surviving Demon Gods to support the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array plan.
• Di Jun killed Demon Gods who objected to the array plan, then ordered preparations for a Heavenly Marriage and the creation of both the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and the Hunyuan River Luo Array.
• Di Jun found Qingyuan teaching a Little Girl on the East Sea Coast and angrily accused him of knowing the Demon Race would lose without warning them.

Qingyuan advised Di Jun that the Demon Race had been swept along by forces it could not stop, then continued teaching Little Girl how to make clothes. Di Jun worked to strengthen the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and asked Xi He to arrange a meeting between Qingyuan and Wang Shu, whose furious refusal left the request unresolved.

• Di Jun erupted at Qingyuan over the Demon Race's defeat, then apologized after Qingyuan challenged him and explained that the tide of events had been impossible to turn.
• Qingyuan accepted Di Jun's invitation to the Heavenly Marriage and taught Little Girl about making clothing while Di Jun returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun inspected the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array's reconstruction and asked Xi He to help recruit Wang Shu for a meeting with Qingyuan.
• Xi He visited Wang Shu and relayed Di Jun's request as though Qingyuan admired her and wished to meet her.
• Wang Shu rejected the idea, ordered Xi He to tell Qingyuan to focus on cultivation, and threatened to show no mercy if he made another impertinent request.

Xi He persuaded Di Jun to abandon his plan to marry Wang Shu and proposed using their future children to build ties with Qingyuan. Meanwhile, Qingyuan met the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao, who reported that the Martial Dao Beginning Tree was nearing maturity, and he went with them to gather the martial artists.

• Wang Shu dismissed Xi He after rejecting the idea of marrying the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect, and Xi He promised to explain her intentions to Di Jun.
• Di Jun accepted that he had offended Wang Shu and agreed not to raise the marriage proposal again; Xi He suggested their future children could become Qingyuan's disciple or spouse, and Di Jun carried her into the palace.
• Huang and the other Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao arrived to tell Qingyuan that the Martial Dao Beginning Tree was about to mature and that more than ten thousand elite human martial artists were waiting for his orders.
• Qingyuan led the Ten Ancestors to the Martial Dao True Realm Stele, where humans and demons gathered to cultivate and greeted him with respect.
• Qingyuan reflected that the flourishing Martial Path had advanced his own cultivation to the Eighth Realm Hunyuan and strengthened his Diamond Immortal Deathless Hunyuan Perfect body.

Qingyuan welcomed the Asura Race to learn the Martial Path and stopped a clash between them and the Demon Race. He brought Human Race martial artists into the Small Thousand World to claim fruit from the matured Martial Dao Beginning Tree, then prepared a separate gift for the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao.

• More than a thousand Asuras arrived at the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and paid respects to Old Ancestor Qingyuan, explaining that Patriarch Minghe had sent them to study and spread the Martial Path.
• Demon Gods challenged the Asuras, who mocked the Demon Race and nearly fought until Qingyuan suppressed both sides and forbade slaughter near the stele.
• Qingyuan announced that he would teach the Martial Path in twenty years for three hundred years, and the Asuras and Demon Race settled down to cultivate.
• Qingyuan met Huang, the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao, and more than ten thousand Human Race martial artists outside the Small Thousand World, then led them inside to claim one fruit each from the matured Martial Dao Beginning Tree.
• Qingyuan took Huang and the other nine ancestors to a nearby mountain and presented them with ten Immortal Apricots bearing the Wind Thunder Law.

Qingyuan persuaded the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao to strengthen their foundations with Wind Thunder Immortal Apricots, then preached the Martial Path to a vast gathering of beings. He revealed a path reaching toward Martial Dao Hunyuan but stopped short of teaching its method, leaving the listeners eager to continue.

• Qingyuan explained the value of strong foundations, and the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao accepted the Wind Thunder Immortal Apricots.
• The Ten Ancestors gained Wind Thunder abilities, deepened their foundations, and advanced toward the Early Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Qingyuan gathered more than a hundred million beings beneath the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and began preaching the Martial Path.
• As Qingyuan's teachings deepened, powerful beings and disguised Quasi-Saints listened intently to the Martial Path's higher realms.
• Qingyuan described Martial Dao Hunyuan but stopped before explaining its method, and he invited the listeners to discuss how to deduce what came next.
• Di Jun asked the Demon Saints and Demon Gods to assess the Martial Path, and they acknowledged its growing depth.

The Demon Race and Witch Clan secretly cultivated Qingyuan’s Martial Path while Hongjun recognized it as an orthodox Mystic Gate path, giving Qingyuan authority over it. As Qingyuan continued teaching, Zi spread clothing-making among the Human Tribes, signaling the emergence of another Ancestor of Humanity.

• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to prepare a grand Heavenly Marriage and, after hearing that the Witch Clan was helping rebellious demons, proposed building floating artifacts to govern the heavens.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches discussed deducing the Martial Path’s higher realms and planned to draw on Pangu’s power, while other beings and Saints also studied the path.
• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disk to deduce much of the Martial Path, then proclaimed Qingyuan its master and declared it an orthodox path of the Mystic Gate.
• Qingyuan realized Hongjun’s declaration was eroding the Martial Path’s Fortune Aura, but continued preaching, trusting that its cultivators’ strength would return to him.
• A Demon God Incarnation traveled with Zi among the Human Tribes as she wove and promoted clothing, and Qingyuan recognized that another Ancestor of Humanity was about to emerge.

Ziyishi spent seven hundred years teaching the Human Race to make and wear clothes, earning Human Dao Merit and becoming an Ancestor of Humanity. Qingyuan received Merit and new rewards as he considered ways to master the primordial forces of the Primordial Wilderness, while the Human Race welcomed Ziyishi.

• Ziyishi traveled among the Human Tribes, teaching people to weave clothing and explaining its importance for warmth, protection, and propriety.
• After seven hundred years of spreading her teachings, Ziyishi collapsed and died, and Qingyuan led countless humans in mourning her.
• Saint Nuwa declared that Ziyishi had fulfilled her merit by spreading the Weaving Principle and teaching shame, and eighty percent of the Human Dao Merit entered Ziyishi, ten percent entered her weaving tools and first animal-hide coat, and the remainder entered Qingyuan.
• Ziyishi rose to the Quasi-Saint realm, thanked Qingyuan for guiding her, and was welcomed as an Ancestor of Humanity by the Human Race.
• Qingyuan gained fifty million years of Daoxing, Mastery of Five Thunders, and the Human Dao Robe, then contemplated pursuing the primordial sources of lightning, wind, fire, water, and earth.

Ancestor Ziyi became the Human Race’s second Quasi-Saint ancestor, strengthening its destiny and drawing the Witch-Demon Two Clans’ attention. Qingyuan trained his Demon God Incarnations with Divine Firmament Purple Thunder, then accepted Bai Yan’s invitation to attend a Heavenly Court banquet with the Human Race leaders.

• Ancestor Ziyi became an Ancestor of Humanity after teaching humans to wear clothes, and the Human Race’s fortune grew.
• Saint Nuwa appointed an incarnation named Yue Lao to oversee Heavenly Emperor Di Jun’s marriage, while the Three Pure Ones and Two Shakya departed.
• Qingyuan recalled the Ten Demon God Incarnations and trained with them by refining their bodies using Divine Firmament Purple Thunder.
• After decades of thunder cultivation, Qingyuan and the ten incarnations were revealed on a mountain as their lightning vanished, prompting onlookers to fight over the crystallized peak.
• Bai Yan invited Qingyuan to the Heavenly Court banquet, and Qingyuan summoned Suirenshi, Ziyishi, and the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao to accompany him.
• Bai Yan brought out a carriage pulled by nine True Dragon corpses, and Qingyuan led the group aboard for their journey to Heaven.

Qingyuan and the Human Ancestors arrived at the Nine Heavens for the Heavenly Court’s wedding feast and were confronted by the Demon Race’s immense wealth and gathered Quasi-Saints. The banquet turned tense when Wang Shu challenged Qingyuan to perform after Fuxi played, accusing him of being all reputation and no substance.

• Bai Yan guided the Nine-Dragon Carriage carrying Qingyuan and the Human Ancestors to the Nine Heavens, where they saw the Heavenly Court’s lavish palaces and resources.
• Bai Yan led Qingyuan’s party into Lingxiao’s Ten Thousand Heavens Hall, where nearly a hundred Quasi-Saints and other powerful guests had gathered.
• Qingyuan greeted the assembled powers and took his seat; Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi toasted him, while Minghe moved beside him and greeted him warmly.
• Qingyuan noticed the Three Pure Ones sitting in silence, strange behavior from several sect disciples, and an unfamiliar fierce woman glaring at him.
• After Fuxi performed music for the guests, Wang Shu challenged Qingyuan to offer a piece for the Heavenly Emperor and dismissed him as a show-off, while Di Jun tried to stop the confrontation.

At Di Jun and Xi He’s wedding, Qingyuan faced criticism from Wang Shu and the assembled powers, then silenced them with two original zither pieces. After Di Jun accepted the melodies and rewarded him, the Heavenly Marriage began.

• Wang Shu challenged Qingyuan to perform for the wedding and accused him of failing to repay Di Jun’s support for the Martial Path.
• Qingyuan borrowed Fuxi’s zither and performed “Phoenix Seeks Phoenix,” moving the hall and earning praise from Di Jun and Fuxi.
• Di Jun asked for “Phoenix Seeks Phoenix,” and the Heavenly Court musicians recorded it; Fuxi exchanged a token with Qingyuan.
• After Wang Shu and Xiang Liu called for another piece, Qingyuan played “Cloud Palace Swift Sound,” which stunned the gathering.
• Di Jun accepted the second melody and gave Qingyuan a bottle of Imperial Flowing Sap; after three rounds of wine, the Heavenly Marriage began.

Di Jun and Xi He’s Heavenly Marriage established the Marriage Great Dao, giving Yue Lao control of the Marriage Register and granting Qingyuan a share of the merit. After the banquet, Qingyuan stopped Wang Shu and followed her to Moon Star, while Di Jun worried about what might happen between them.

• Di Jun and Xi He vowed to establish marriage rules, and the Heavenly Dao responded by granting merit as Yue Lao offered the Red Embroidered Ball to the Marriage Great Dao.
• Yue Lao’s Red Embroidered Ball became countless Marriage Red Threads, and the Marriage Register appeared in her hands.
• The Heavenly Dao Merit was divided among Di Jun and Xi He, Nuwa, Yue Lao and her treasures, and Qingyuan.
• Minghe offered to kill Wang Shu, but Qingyuan declined and asked to borrow a small flag instead.
• After the banquet ended, Qingyuan invited Wang Shu to hear his music, and she allowed him to follow her to Moon Star.
• Xi He reassured the worried Di Jun that Qingyuan’s visit to Wang Shu might benefit the Heavenly Court.

Qingyuan lured Wang Shu to the Moon Star under the pretense of performing a love song, then attacked her and overwhelmed her with his Martial Path power. He left her battered and the onlookers outside the concealed Moon Star mistaking the battle for a passionate encounter.

• The great powers outside Lingxiao Divine Palace watched Qingyuan follow Wang Shu to the Moon Star, while Patriarch Minghe stayed behind in case Qingyuan needed help.
• Wang Shu asked Qingyuan to perform his tune, and he deployed the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner to isolate the Moon Star from the outside world.
• Qingyuan revealed his intent by attacking Wang Shu with a series of devastating weapons and Martial Path techniques, destroying the Moon Palace and forcing her to rely on the Moon Origin to recover.
• Wang Shu summoned her spiritual treasure and Moon Great Dao Law, but Qingyuan continued beating her back with the aid of the Ten Demon God Incarnations.
• The great powers and Demon Heavenly Court heard sounds leaking through the banner and mistook Qingyuan's assault on Wang Shu for a passionate encounter.
• Di Jun, Patriarch Minghe, and the Asura Kings reacted with astonishment as Qingyuan's ferocity became apparent.

Qingyuan beat Wang Shu and broke a section from the Moon Laurel before trying to leave, but Wang Shu bound him with the Moon Star's origin and pinned him down. Qingyuan removed the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner, revealing their compromising position to the watching Primordial Great Powers and Demon Race.

• Patriarch Minghe warned the Asura Kings and Asura Generals against provoking Qingyuan again, and they admitted they feared his strength.
• Qingyuan attacked Wang Shu on the Moon Star, then used an axe to break off a large section of the Moon Laurel and collected it.
• Wang Shu bound Qingyuan with the Tai Shang Moon and the Moon Star's origin, pinned him down, and struck him as he struggled to protect his Human Dao Robe.
• Qingyuan removed the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner, exposing Wang Shu astride him to Di Jun, Tai Yi, Kunpeng, Fuxi, Patriarch Minghe, and the other onlookers.

Qingyuan escaped the Moon Star after his clash with Wang Shu, then learned that Patriarch Minghe could not reveal whether the Three Pure Ones had split. Troubled by his weakness, Qingyuan decided to cultivate the Thunder Dao and pursue authority over Heavenly Punishment, beginning by unleashing Divine Firmament Purple Thunder on his Ten Demon God Incarnations.

• Wang Shu realized the Moon Star had returned to the Primordial Stars Domain, and Qingyuan broke free of her restraint and fled after warning that he would repay the humiliation.
• Qingyuan gave the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner to Ancestor Minghe and left the Nine Heavens with the Human Race ancestors and Asuras.
• At his East Sea Coast dojo, Qingyuan asked Patriarch Minghe whether his masters had split, but Minghe denied knowing and hurried back to the Blood Sea.
• Qingyuan studied the power within his Spirit Mansion and resolved to become the Thunder Dao’s master and claim the vacant role governing Heavenly Punishment.
• Qingyuan summoned his Ten Demon God Incarnations and unleashed Divine Firmament Purple Thunder, engulfing them in lightning.

Qingyuan risked stealing a strand of Thunder Dao Origin, surviving three deaths after the Thunder Dao struck him with Chaos Divine Thunder. He repaired his damaged Demon God Incarnations and entered secluded cultivation, leaving the mountain under an oppressive aura of calamity.

• Qingyuan drew on the Thunder Dao River and seized a strand of its Origin, crushing and devouring the Five Elements divine thunder as he fled.
• The Thunder Dao retaliated with Chaos Divine Thunder, destroying Qingyuan’s body and Primordial Spirit three times before his Phoenix True Fire restored him.
• Qingyuan realized the Thunder Dao Origin could let him pursue Dao Integration and eventually control the Thunder Dao.
• Qingyuan found that his ten Demon God Incarnations had been badly damaged, then used Three Lights Divine Water and a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir to help them recover.
• Qingyuan entered prolonged secluded cultivation to nourish the Thunder Dao Origin, while the mountain grew oppressive enough to drive away passing cultivators.

After sealing the Thunder Dao Origin, Qingyuan answered An Chao’s desperate prayers by visiting the Tengshan Tribe and helping him build homes in trees. When torrential rain flooded the tribe and brought dangerous creatures into its dwellings, An Chao’s tree houses proved a safer refuge.

• Qingyuan finished sealing the Thunder Dao Origin and left to seek treasures to repair his incarnation, but paused when a Temple Deity relayed An Chao’s pleas for help.
• Qingyuan observed An Chao, an orphaned laborer mocked by the Tengshan Tribe, gathering materials to build a tree house that would keep out venomous creatures and beasts.
• Qingyuan arrived at the tribe in disguise, saw its leaders drive poor people away to avoid disturbing him, and left without meeting them.
• Qingyuan returned as a frail old man and befriended An Chao, teaching him building techniques and helping him make a spacious tree house.
• An Chao and other poor, elderly, and disabled tribespeople built homes in trees, enduring the tribe’s mockery as Qingyuan guided them.
• Several days of torrential rain flooded the Tengshan Tribe’s surroundings, and its people saw that An Chao and the others were living comfortably in their tree houses.

An Chao spent centuries teaching Human Tribes to build houses and defend themselves, eventually becoming Youchaoshi and earning Human Dao Merit that raised him to Quasi-Saint. As the Demon Race and Witch Clan grew wary of the Human Race, Youchaoshi learned that his old mentor might still be alive and recognized Qingyuan as Chui.

• An Chao taught the Tengshan Tribe to build tree houses, then left to spread the methods to other tribes across the wilderness.
• After the old man died on their journey, An Chao continued teaching tribes to build houses, walls, and defenses suited to their surroundings.
• More than a thousand years later, An Chao died while spreading his teachings and was honored as Youchaoshi, but Human Dao Merit revived him and elevated him to Quasi-Saint.
• The Merit was divided among Youchaoshi, an ordinary house, and Qingyuan, while the Demon Race and Witch Clan began to see the Human Race as a threat.
• Youchaoshi mourned the old man who had guided him, but Suirenshi and Ziyishi told him that the man might not have died.
• Qingyuan appeared, and Youchaoshi recognized him with uncertainty as Chui.

Qingyuan left the East Sea Coast after urging the Human Race to build its own future, then departed for Kunlun Mountains with Kong Xuan. There he found the mountains split apart and reflected on the sacred places that had been destroyed.

• Qingyuan told Suirenshi, Ziyishi, and Youchaoshi that the Human Race must stand on its own, then returned to the Interception Sect while promising to help in future crises.
• Suirenshi, Ziyishi, and Youchaoshi resolved to create a golden age for humanity, and Qingyuan watched them leave with renewed determination.
• Qingyuan awakened Kong Xuan and withstood his Five-Colored Divine Light, then revealed a more powerful Five-Colored Divine Thunder that forced Kong Xuan to yield.
• Kong Xuan carried Qingyuan toward Kunlun Mountains, where Qingyuan discovered that the range had been split in two, apparently by the Pangu Banner.
• Qingyuan guided Kong Xuan past the ruined sites of Heavenly Peak Plain, the Three Pure Ones Peaks, and his former Serene Peak Dojo.

Qingyuan returned to Kunlun and found Serene Peak occupied by Willow Immortal, who recognized him as his master and begged to leave with him. After hearing how the Three Pure Ones Split had unfolded, Qingyuan took Willow Immortal and the spirits of Serene Peak into his Great Thousand Worlds and set off for Qilin Cliff.

• Qingyuan and Kong Xuan arrived near Serene Peak, where plant spirits warned them away from the dojo of Immortal Willow Great Sage.
• Qingyuan recognized Willow Immortal at the heart of the mountain, and Willow Immortal attacked before realizing who had returned.
• Willow Immortal recognized Qingyuan as his master, uprooted himself, and knelt to beg Qingyuan to take him away.
• Willow Immortal recounted how conflicts between the Chan Sect and Interception Sect escalated after Qingyuan left, eventually contributing to the Three Pure Ones Split.
• Qingyuan agreed to take Willow Immortal and the spirits he had enlightened, then gathered them into his Great Thousand Worlds.
• Qingyuan urged Kong Xuan onward, and they flew toward Qilin Cliff in East Kunlun.

Qingyuan visited Venerable Yuanshi at Qilin Cliff, where Yuanshi rebuked him over his choices and drove him away. After Qingyuan and Kong Xuan left, Four Unlike tried to ambush them with help from Chan Sect disciples, but his senior brothers repeatedly abandoned him, leaving him to face Kong Xuan’s retaliation alone.

• Four Unlike insulted Qingyuan and the Interception Sect, so Qingyuan ordered Kong Xuan to slap him before they went to Jade Void Palace.
• Venerable Yuanshi scolded Qingyuan over his ties to the Human Race and Minghe, then ordered him never to return to Kunlun Mountains.
• Qingyuan left a basket of spirit fruits, bowed to Venerable Yuanshi, and departed with Kong Xuan for the East Sea Coast.
• Four Unlike trapped Qingyuan and Kong Xuan in an array and called on Juliusun, Taiyi, Huanglong, and the others, but they fled before Kong Xuan could confront them.
• Kong Xuan pinned Four Unlike down until Qingyuan stopped him, and Four Unlike slapped himself to appease them.
• When Four Unlike later claimed his senior brothers had returned to protect him, they vanished again, and Kong Xuan made him slap himself before leaving.

Qingyuan traveled to Shouyang Mountain to visit Saint Taiqing and found the Human Sect living peacefully along the East Sea Coast. After speaking with Taiqing, Qingyuan left knowing the Saint would not interfere with the conflict between the Three Pure Ones.

• Qingyuan resolved to become stronger and directed Kong Xuan to take him to the East Sea Coast.
• At Qilin Cliff, Venerable Yuanshi stopped White Crane Boy from kicking away Qingyuan’s fruit basket, sealed it from the passage of time, and resumed cultivation.
• Qingyuan arrived at the East Sea Coast, where the Human Tribes lived peacefully and followed the Dao, then asked locals to direct him to Shouyang Mountain.
• On the way up Shouyang Mountain, Qingyuan greeted Zhu Ganglie and Green Ox, gave them two bottles of Five Revolutions Golden Elixir, and asked after Xuandu, Zhenwu, and Du'e.
• Qingyuan visited Saint Taiqing, offered him the fruit basket, and learned from their conversation that Taiqing would not interfere in the Three Pure Ones’ split.

Qingyuan flew to Golden Ao Island after declining Zhu Ganglie’s dinner invitation, while Ao Guang went there to seek help against the Jie Sect Disciples abusing the East Sea Dragon Clan. Lü Yue beat Ao Guang and ordered the Dragon Palace’s resources surrendered, until Qingyuan’s familiar voice addressed him.

• Qingyuan declined Zhu Ganglie’s offer of dinner and flew toward the East Sea on Peacock.
• The East Sea aquatic clan leaders complained to Ao Guang about the Jie Sect Disciples’ abuses, and Ao Guang promised to seek help.
• Ao Guang resolved to ask Daoist Duobao and the Kunlun Mountain Disciples for assistance against the East Sea faction’s growing power.
• Lü Yue and his followers insulted Ao Guang, rejected his request to join the Interception Sect, and demanded the Dragon Palace’s resources.
• Lü Yue struck Ao Guang and ordered several hundred Jie Sect Immortals to attack his companions.
• A familiar voice greeted Ao Guang: “long time no see.”