Recaps

Wang Ping traveled from Thousand Wood Temple to improve his Spiritual Root, then returned and spent years cultivating toward Foundation Establishment. He joined Feng Miao’s investigation of shapeshifting Yao, and the group prepared a joint search of North Mountain after a Taiyin Sect ambush.

• Wang Ping became Daoist Yucheng’s personal Disciple, received the Daoist name Changqing, and began cultivating Qi Refining while learning swordsmanship and receiving Yulian, a Spirit Snake.
• After reaching Qi Refining, Wang Ping traveled to Yuanning County, where he helped Feng Miao and Cheng Ji fight Tiger Demons and uncovered the county’s ties to monsters and bandits.
• Wang Ping reached Sea City and let Daoist Yuanzheng improve his Spiritual Root through painful medicinal treatment, then returned to Thousand Wood Temple after hearing of devastation and a corpse-refining scheme in the region.
• Wang Ping spent years cultivating, completing one hundred Marrow Cleansings, nourishing a Huai Tree, and accepting Liu Shuang and Yang Ziping as disciples.
• Feng Miao told Wang Ping that hundreds of shapeshifting Yao might be hiding in Northern Mountain Forest, and Wang Ping helped her seek authority for a mountain search.
• Wang Ping and Feng Miao’s group tracked a Snake Demon in Shu County, but a Blood Skull ambushed them, killing Zuo Suzi before Gu Heng arrived and offered Sanhe Temple’s support.
• After learning the Snake Demon’s memories had been erased, Feng Miao urged an investigation of North Mountain, and Guangxuan and Zhao Qing pledged their temples’ support for the search operation.

Wang Ping helped defeat the North Mountain Demons, returned to Thousand Wood Temple, and developed explosives while advancing his cultivation to Foundation Establishment. After choosing the Taiyan Talisman and facing the threat of a wider conflict, he led temple disciples toward Sanwen County in response to an urgent summons.

• Wang Ping and the Mountain Search Troop fought the North Mountain Demons, and Wang Ping killed Tiger Demon before the survivors fled into the forest.
• Wang Ping and his companions uncovered a formation that drained captives’ Essence, Qi, and Spirit, then destroyed the array and returned to Thousand Wood Temple.
• Wang Ping learned the Five Elements Condensation Technique, refined it into Power Pills, and helped Thousand Wood Temple acquire the Bone Stone and Fire Crystal for a Strange Pavilion formation.
• Wang Ping completed Divine Soul Condensation and the Wood Spirit Art while Liu Shuang and Yang Ziping advanced in their cultivation and later left to gain experience.
• Wang Ping investigated Shen Dong’s connection to murders in Sanhe Prefecture, but Yang Ziping returned with word that Shen Dong had died and that the investigation would yield no results.
• Wang Ping stabilized his mountain’s spiritual energy and completed Foundation Establishment, then chose to pursue the difficult Taiyan Talisman under Daoist Yucheng’s instruction.
• Wang Ping saw Third Realm cultivators battle near Thousand Wood Temple and learned that an awakened demonic artifact had raised hundreds of thousands of Corpse Soldiers near Yongming Port.
• Wang Ping accepted a summons to Sanwen County, gathered twenty-five temple members with Zhao Qing, and set out with Liu Shuang and the others.

Wang Ping survived the campaign against the Corpse Soldiers, uncovered Tongyu’s connection to the Purgatory Banner, and returned to Thousand Wood Temple. After entering the realm and transforming into a Wood Spirit, he began preparing for his next cultivation steps as war and political upheaval spread.

• Wang Ping and Guangxuan scouted Yuma County, where they uncovered a demonic weapon and escaped the fighting after Daoist Yuanqing intervened.
• Wang Ping joined the campaign against the Corpse Soldiers, learned Gao Ding had been killed, and later killed Hong An during the wider battle.
• Wang Ping explored the underground palace and found the Purgatory Banner, where Tongyu’s Primordial Spirit revealed that Lord Xiaoshan had likely plotted against him.
• Wang Ping awakened Tongyu’s hidden Puppet beneath the Great Sea and returned to Thousand Wood Temple with his disciples after the campaign.
• Daoist Yucheng bound Tongyu’s lifeline to Wang Ping’s, and Wang Ping learned of his father’s death before preparing to enter the realm.
• Wang Ping spent two years cultivating with the Huai Tree’s spirit soul and completed his Spirit Talisman, transforming his body into Wood Spirit nature as he entered the realm.
• Wang Ping studied his new abilities, while Yulian advanced and Daoist Yucheng taught him the Seven Star Killing Array and the Taiyan Talisman’s Second Realm method.
• Wang Ping learned that Thousand Wood Temple needed a Fifth Seat quota, and Zhao Qing reported that war and rebellions had reshaped the Imperial Court as Liu Shuang brought two young disciples to him.

Wang Ping advanced to Fifth Seat, secretly prepared a plan against Baishui Sect, and investigated stolen Corpse Soldiers in Mozhou Road. After Baishui Sect was destroyed and Bai Zhuo attacked him, Wang Ping killed a First Day Evil Cultivator and linked him to the missing soldiers case.

• Wang Ping helped Liu Shuang sense Wood Spirit Qi, practiced sword arrays and poison, and awakened the puppet Zi Hong.
• Wang Ping attended a secret gathering where allies discussed Mozhou Road, Lord Xiaoshan, Changqing’s advancement, and plans for future action.
• Wang Ping learned Baishui Sect might be cutting off Huxin County’s water, then encountered Gao Zishi rescuing a youth wielding a demonic blade.
• Wang Ping accepted Su Hai as a Registered Disciple, became Fifth Seat, and began preparing a covert plan with Daoist Yucheng to strike Baishui Sect.
• Wang Ping implanted Five Elements spiritual objects into Li Xiangwen and Yang Tian, while Daoist Yucheng arranged for them to join Baishui Sect and destroy its assembly.
• Wang Ping went to Changwen Prefecture to investigate stolen Corpse Soldiers and found that an Artifact Cultivator had damaged the underground prison’s Sealing Array.
• Wang Ping’s investigation identified Zhang Jinglong as a leading suspect, while Baishui Sect was destroyed and Daoist Scripture Hall officials questioned Wang Ping about the Power Pill explosions.
• Bai Zhuo attacked Wang Ping, and a Gold Spirit Cultivator pursued him until Daoist Tongyu’s imprisonment technique let Wang Ping kill the attacker, whom he identified as a First Day Evil Cultivator.