Recaps

Wang Ping navigated rival factions and prepared for Ao Bing’s attempt to claim divine power, which ended in a catastrophe that devastated Central Province. As he helped restore the land and establish the Taiyan Sect, he discovered a hidden chamber tied to the Wood Spirit and met Guan Xi there.

• Shen Xiaozhu survived her tribulation and formed a Primordial Spirit, while Wang Ping recognized the fiery aura accompanying Xu Chun’s advancement.
• Cang Ji and Xu Chun clashed in space, and Wang Ping intervened before Cang Ji turned toward Central Continent Star.
• Wang Ping met True Monarch Lieyang, made the prediction about Ao Hong and Ao Bing, and returned to prepare the Taiyan Sect and arrange support for Shen Xiaozhu’s advancement.
• Wang Ping assigned disciples to protect the Southern Dao Lineage and promote True Monarch Xiaoshan, while Ao Hong agreed to use Rongyang’s sealed Wooden Box against Ao Bing.
• Ao Bing’s birthday ritual drew intense faith-born spirituality, but spirit creatures pulled away his Primordial Spirit as Xu Chun and True Monarch Lieyang fought over the resulting power.
• True Monarch Lieyang destroyed Xu Chun’s Primordial Spirit and absorbed energy from the True Fire Banner, while the resulting inferno devastated Central Province and Wang Ping protected Thousand Wood Temple.
• Wang Ping helped clear the pollution, renamed True Sun Mountain Taiyan Mountain, and began restoring the region with Kai Yun and Zhi Gong as they planned the Taiyan Sect’s expansion.
• Wang Ping followed Wood Spirit runes beneath Sanhe Temple to a hidden chamber with a teleportation-marked bronze wall, where Guan Xi explained that Senior Yuxiao had foretold its opening for a particular person.

Wang Ping rebuilt the Taiyan Sect and spent a century cultivating the Wood Spirit, emerging with a powerful new body and the strength to challenge Cang Ji. He helped force the Taiyin Sect to leave the Southeast Islands while the Demon Race developed an outer-space Ecological Zone.

• Wang Ping discovered that the black sphere was Star Sea, learned it had belonged to Ancestor Master Yuxiao, and dealt with the devastation left by the Capital City disaster.
• Wang Ping restored Ruan Chunzi in a Puppet body, reorganized the Taiyan Sect, and began refining the Mask of Faces into a powerful Puppet.
• Wang Ping negotiated with Quan Wen over the Demon Race’s passage through Central Province, accepted its help restoring the region, and entered a century of secluded cultivation.
• Wang Ping absorbed the two Wood Spirit Origins as the Taiyan Sect rebuilt, the Demon Race and Central Province negotiated, and Daoist Chongxing warned him of conflicts within the Star God Alliance.
• Wang Ping’s Huai Tree merged with his Primordial Spirit, giving him a powerful Wood Spirit body and the ability to confront Cang Ji directly.
• Wang Ping welcomed Ao Hong and Zhi Gong, heard True Sun Sect’s warning about Yuqing Sect, and agreed to help Ao Hong oppose the Taiyin Sect.
• Wang Ping and Yulian joined Ao Hong and Bailin in battle against Cang Ji and Cang Lan, and Cang Ji agreed to move the Taiyin Sect from the Southeast Islands within half a year.
• Wang Ping inspected the Demon Race’s outer-space Ecological Zone, while Daoist Lin Shuang challenged Cang Ji’s claim that the Taiyin Sect’s campaign had protected its tradition.

Wang Ping strengthened Taiyan Sect’s position, resisted Ao Yi’s bid for power, and continued preparing to advance to the Fifth Realm. After completing his Wood Spirit Origin and learning more about True Monarch Xiaoshan and Yuxiao, he headed toward the Misty Sea with Yulian.

• Wang Ping reorganized the Dao Palace with Kai Yun and other faction leaders, then helped settle its regional structure and headquarters plans.
• Wang Ping oversaw Dong Can’s failed attempt to advance, traded a secret art to Kai Yun for the Seven Star Swords, and defeated him to secure Yuqing Sect’s Fourth Realm slot.
• Wang Ping and his allies prepared to stop Ao Yi, while Daoist Huai Mo advanced to the Fourth Realm and Ao Yi used the sect tournament to assert Linshui Prefecture’s authority.
• Wang Ping concluded that Ao Yi sought to gather fate and fortune to become a True Dragon, while political conflict spread across the Dao Palace and West Continent.
• Wang Ping completed his Wood Spirit Origin, gave Hu Qianqian Blessing Talismans, and later witnessed Jiang Cun begin his Fourth Realm tribulation.
• True Monarch Xiaoshan gave Wang Ping a Wood Spirit Origin and explained that he and Yuxiao had once tried to alter the future they foresaw.
• Wang Ping discovered necrotic particles in the Wood Spirit Origin and arranged for Kai Yun to purify it in return for help capturing a Fourth Realm True Spirit.
• Wang Ping and Yulian traveled to the Huai Tree and then Heavenly Palace City, where Wang Ping studied the Misty Sea’s spiritual energy before setting out toward its distant mist.

Wang Ping explored the Five Elements Halls, learned from Yuxiao about the world’s past, and built his strength while navigating the conflict over spirituality. After Ao Yi’s failed ascension and capture, Wang Ping began preparing to pursue the Fifth Realm and confronted the Jimin Association.

• Wang Ping and Yulian explored the Five Elements Halls, where Wang Ping encountered Yuxiao and learned about Yaoxi, the Eye of Delusion, and the halls’ history.
• Yuxiao gave Wang Ping a Wood Spirit Origin and a token for the Heavenly Palace, then urged him to rescue him and avoid entering the palace yet.
• Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple, escaped True Monarch Huishan’s attempt to question him, and managed the crisis caused by Huishan’s followers as the Taiyan Sect grew stronger.
• Wang Ping completed his Wood Spirit cultivation, helped Kai Yun capture a true spirit, and watched the conflict between Vajra Temple and Linshui Prefecture unfold without committing the Taiyan Sect’s full strength.
• Ao Yi began his ascension, but Wang Ping, Kai Yun, Rongyang, and their allies disrupted him after his spell formations drained West Continent’s spirituality.
• Prefect Yuxing captured Ao Yi in her Nine-Story Golden Pagoda, and Wang Ping helped arrange the aftermath while reorganizing the Dao Palace.
• Wang Ping told True Lord Yuanwu and his disciples that he planned to pursue the Fifth Realm, named Li Miaolin as his successor, and set preparations in motion across Central Continent.
• The Jimin Association attacked Wang Ping near Taiyin Sect, but he defeated them and took two Star God cores before asking Ao Hong to introduce him to the Dragon Lord.