Recaps

Wang Ping navigated shifting alliances and a gathering conflict as the factions converged on True Sun Mountain and fought over its Fire Spirits. The mountain was destroyed, Wen Yang advanced by fusing with a True Spirit, and Wang Ping learned that the Mysterious Jade Token could endanger his Primordial Spirit if used unrefined.

• Wang Ping weighed offers from Huodouzi and Ruan Chunzi while uncovering plans by Chang Jing, Wen Yang, and others to attack their rivals and allies.
• Yulian condensed her Primordial Spirit, and Wang Ping agreed to cooperate with the First Sect against Chang Jing while the Chu Army occupied Sanshui City.
• Wen Yang and Ruan Chunzi joined the assault on Chang Jing, and the resulting battle drew in the Sun Sect, First Day, First Sect, and other factions before Chang Jing died.
• Wang Ping prepared Chu forces around True Sun Mountain as fighting spread, the mountain barrier fell, and Luo Feng led First Day into its volcanic crater.
• Wang Ping and his allies fought off attackers around the mountain while Zhu Chen stole two Fire Spirits and Wen Yang attempted to advance by fusing with a Fourth Realm True Spirit.
• Wang Ping detonated his Puppet with a Power Pill, destroying True Sun Mountain’s main peak and leaving Wen Yang to suppress the Fire Spirit’s consciousness and advance.
• Wang Ping helped restrain Xu Chun, accepted the Crimson Jade Ruler from Daoist Guang Zuo, and learned from Huai Mo that the Five-Element True Spirits were created by Saint Taichu.
• Wang Ping ordered Wu Quan to rebuild True Sun Mountain and learned that the Sun Sect had helped form the Mysterious Jade Token, whose unrefined use could tear his Primordial Spirit through space.

Wang Ping rebuilt True Sun Mountain, learned more about Yao Emperor Yao Xi and the Jimin Association’s Saint, and dealt with the devastation caused by Xiu Yu. As the Chu Army approached Moon Mountain, he uncovered a Capital City plot against the worship procession and prepared to meet Lu Shan.

• Wang Ping retrieved and sealed the Monster Gathering Banner beneath True Sun Mountain, then welcomed Xuan Ling as his eleventh disciple.
• Wang Ping led a mass worship that advanced his Heaven Connecting Talisman, and Lord Xiaoshan revealed that Yao Emperor Yao Xi’s consciousness had been implanted in six people, including Xuan Ling.
• Wang Ping met Zhang Xinghuai and Lu Shan, heard about the Jimin Association’s Saint, and agreed not to interfere with their plans to seize territory during the coming war.
• Xiu Yu’s attacks devastated Huangde Prefecture and other parts of Pingzhou Road, so Daoist Wanzhi ordered him to build a sacrificial shrine and kneel until the region’s fortune recovered.
• Wang Ping exchanged the Crimson Jade Ruler with Ke Yue for a Fourth Realm Artifact Cultivator secret art and asked her to make Dong Can serve him and deal with Xiu Yu discreetly.
• Ke Yue warned Wang Ping that Capital City planned to use a Divine Art Array and sacrificial captains to attack him during the Moon Mountain worship procession.
• Wang Ping assigned his allies to capture suspected conspirators, studied the secret art’s low success rate, and gave Gan Xing a Primordial Spirit condensation method to help guard Moon Mountain.
• Liu Shuang reported confirmed ritual hosts and other suspects, and Zhang Xinghuai told Wang Ping that Lu Shan would arrive in five days.

Wang Ping prepared escape routes and joined the Chu Kingdom’s campaign as Xia Yao and the Chu Lord Marquis carried out rival plans centered on Lord Xiaoshan. The arc ended with Wang Ping meeting Jiang Cun, who explained that his brothers had drawn Linshui Prefecture into the conflict to investigate the True Dragon Realm.

• Wang Ping led a vast funeral procession for Liu Zixiu, while Lord Xiaoshan’s Divine Art descended and blackness spread across the eastern sky.
• Wang Ping learned that Lord Xiaoshan’s Puppet had lured out Ao Bing in Pingzhou Road, as Xia Yao prepared her enthronement and entered secluded cultivation.
• Wang Ping arranged concealed transfer routes and defenses, strengthened his plans around Moon Mountain, and discovered that Mingshui could use Spirit Toxin to destroy Puppet formations.
• Zi Hong was killed during the purge in Capital City, but his Puppet bird carried his memories to Wang Ping at True Sun Mountain.
• Le Xin told Wang Ping about the Five Elements true spirits and the risks surrounding Fourth Realm advancement, while Wang Ping resolved to avoid entangling himself in wider disputes.
• Wang Ping led the Chu Kingdom army across the Nong River, and its forces captured counties as Liu Yu prepared to proclaim the Marquis’s imperial claim.
• The Chu Lord Marquis ascended the throne before Lord Xiaoshan’s statue as prayers filled a golden divine realm, while Xia Yao activated the Imperial Court’s altar array in Capital City.
• Wang Ping met Jiang Cun at the front and learned that his elder brothers had brought Linshui Prefecture into the conflict to investigate the True Dragon Realm through the fortune of all living people.

Lord Xiaoshan fought to inherit Central Province’s power and advance by refining the Wood Spirit, while Wang Ping and his allies helped stabilize the process. After Lord Xiaoshan merged with True Monarch Huishan inside the Huai Tree, his form prevailed and sent a white sphere of light southward.

• Jiang Cun revealed that his third and seventh brothers helped plan the True Dragon Mirror and invited Wang Ping to watch Xia Yao before leaving for Capital City.
• Lord Xiaoshan led the assault on Capital City, where Emperor Yuanding prepared Xia Yao to inherit the Xia ancestors’ foundation as the city’s Divine Art Array consumed its people.
• Xia Yao inherited the silver-white sphere from Emperor Yuanding, then used her Divine Art Array against Lord Xiaoshan, who absorbed her territory into his map.
• Lord Xiaoshan absorbed the Sky-Veiling Talisman and Wood Spirit, then joined Wang Ping, Zi Luan, and Xiu Yu in a formation linked to his Divine Kingdom to stabilize the Wood Spirit.
• Lord Xiaoshan sent Wang Ping, Zi Luan, and Xiu Yu away before confronting Master Kaiyun and the other cultivators, then merged his Primordial Spirit with the Wood Spirit and began drawing the Heaven Stealing Talisman.
• Lord Xiaoshan fused his Primordial Spirit with the Heaven Stealing Talisman, and a vast Huai Tree grew as his spirit-body Physical Body melted, and cultivators who entered its forest disappeared.
• Lord Xiaoshan released Daoist Wuma from a sealed crystal and used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to expose another portion of Wood Spirit Origin within him.
• The Huai Tree fused Lord Xiaoshan and True Monarch Huishan into an irregular spirit vein, but Lord Xiaoshan’s form ultimately prevailed and sent a white sphere of light southward.