Recaps

Lin Zhu’s disciples helped Western Qi defeat Zhang Guifang and the Four Sages while Wen Zhong gained new powers and returned to Chaoge. The arc ended with Lin Zhu helping Wen Zhong lead wronged souls through the Blood River, where Ksitigarbha and Diting stopped them.

• Nezha defeated Feng Lin and Zhang Guifang, and Lin Zhu completed and announced the Investiture of the Gods Platform before bringing the Nine Dragon Island Four Sages into the war.
• The Four Sages attacked Western Qi, but Deng Chanyu and Long Xuhu helped Jiang Ziya’s forces kill Wang Mo, Yang Sen, Gao Youqian, and Li Xingba, then Long Xuhu’s boulders helped rout Zhang Guifang’s army.
• Jin Chan drove back Yuan Futong’s rebels, fought Yaoshi Buddha above the North Sea, and helped Wen Zhong awaken his Tongtian Divine Eye and learn the Five Elements Escape Technique.
• Jiang Ziya trapped Lu Xiong’s army in snow and flood, capturing Lu Xiong, Fei Zhong, and You Hun, while Mo Xie destroyed Fei Zhong and You Hun’s souls.
• Su Hu’s forces defeated Chong Houhu at Chong City, but Long Ji rescued Chong Heihu and sent him to Western Qi, while Wen Zhong captured Xin Huan and recruited him and his sworn brothers.
• Wen Zhong returned to Chaoge and found the palace haunted by wronged souls as Su Daji and the other demons cultivated in secret, so he opened a passage to the Underworld and led the souls toward it.
• Wen Zhong fought Old Monster Styx in the Blood River until Lin Zhu drove him back, then Ksitigarbha and Diting stopped Wen Zhong and demanded to assess the souls.

Lin Zhu drew Laozi’s Qing Niu and Jie Sect disciples into the war, then helped Western Qi defeat Qing Niu and survive Yao Tianjun’s attempt to kill Jiang Ziya. The arc ended with Long Ji appointed to break the Ten Ultimate Arrays as Chan Sect immortals arrived in Xi Qi City.

• Lin Zhu spared Su Daji and the other two demons until after the Great Calamity, while Wen Zhong suppressed rebellions and prepared to campaign against the North Sea demons.
• Lin Zhu sent Shen Gongbao to Tushita Palace, where he recruited Qing Niu, who stole Laozi’s Diamond Cutter and Jade Purification Bottle and followed Shen Gongbao to Chaoge.
• Shen Gongbao and Qing Niu joined Wen Zhong’s campaign against Western Qi, where Qing Niu killed Huang Tianhua and several Huang family generals with the Diamond Cutter.
• Lin Zhu arrived in Xi Qi City and revealed Qing Niu’s identity, while Yang Jian resisted his treasures and eventually killed him with help from Long Ji’s illusion array.
• Shen Gongbao recruited the Ten Heavenly Lords, who set up their arrays outside Western Qi, while Yao Tianjun used the Soul Falling Array to incapacitate Jiang Ziya.
• Lin Zhu captured Jiang Ziya’s wandering soul, and Yang Jian and Long Ji stole the straw effigy so Lin Zhu could return Jiang Ziya’s souls and spirits to his body.
• Lin Zhu appointed Long Ji to lead Western Qi’s effort to break the arrays, while Yellow Dragon Perfected Person arrived and Chan Sect immortals descended over Xi Qi City.

Lin Zhu guided Shi Zongheng’s rise while Western Qi broke several of the Ten Deadly Arrays and Bo Yikao entered the Red Sand Array to endure its hundred-day calamity. At Silver Pass, Wen Zhong’s forces faced Yaoshi Buddha and the North Sea Alliance as Jin Chan confronted his old rival.

• Burning Lamp Daoist proposed leading the immortals, but Lin Zhu put Long Ji in command, and Western Qi began challenging the Ten Deadly Arrays.
• Long Ji’s chosen immortals broke several arrays, while Deng Hua, Han Dulong, Fang Bi, Xue Ehu, Xiao Zhen, Qiao Kun, Cao Bao, and Xiao Sheng died in the attempts.
• Lin Zhu trained Shi Zongheng, took him to the East Sea Dragon Palace for the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Needle, and brought him to Xuan Du, where he emerged from the Eight Trigrams Furnace as a Golden Immortal.
• Wen Zhong and Jin Chan’s campaign against the North Sea demons suffered heavy losses, and Yaoshi Buddha brought Precious Moon Daoist and Dao Gui into the alliance against Silver Pass.
• Shi Zongheng broke Bai Tianjun’s Flame Array and killed Yao Tianjun, while Yang Jian and Shi Zongheng rescued Yellow Dragon Perfected Person from the Red Water Array.
• Daoist Celestial Worthy of Morality and Long Xuhu broke Wang Tianjun’s Red Water Array, then Lin Zhu chose Bo Yikao to enter Zhang Tianjun’s Red Sand Array with Nezha and Lei Zhenzi.
• Bo Yikao, Nezha, and Lei Zhenzi were buried beneath the Red Sand Array’s multiplying spiritual sand, and Lin Zhu assured Tai Si that Bo Yikao would survive the hundred-day calamity.
• Wen Zhong led his forces out of Silver Pass, where Yaoshi Buddha urged surrender and Jin Chan challenged him, reminding him of the Glass Pagoda.

The North Sea Alliance destroyed Zhao Gongming and the Jie Sect reinforcements, but the Three Xiaos and Yang Jiao’s Precious Lotus Lamp turned the conflict into a deadly struggle at Silver Pass. As the war shifted to Western Qi, Lü Yue’s plague crippled the city, and Yang Chan returned from Fire Cloud Cave with medicine to cure it.

• Wen Zhong killed Dao Gui and struck the last fragment of his soul with the Chaos Thunder Incantation, while Jin Chan and Yaoshi Buddha’s forces fought to a stalemate at Silver Pass.
• Lin Zhu arranged for Zhao Gongming and Biyou Palace disciples to reinforce Silver Pass, but Maitreya lured them into the Ten Thousand Demons Array, where nearly a hundred Jie Sect disciples died.
• Mo Xie brought the news to Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, who defeated the North Sea demons and destroyed Maitreya’s Human Seed Bag, though Yaoshi Buddha and Precious Moon Daoist escaped.
• Yaoshi Buddha sent Yang Jiao to retrieve the Precious Lotus Lamp, and Yang Jiao used it to kill the Three Xiaos, Wen Zhong, and Fu Hao before claiming Silver Pass for himself.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan confronted Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan removed the lamp’s wick, causing Yang Jiao to turn to ash when he tried to use it.
• Lü Yue and his disciples afflicted Jin Zha, Mu Zha, Lei Zhenzi, and Wu Ji with plague arts, then spread plague pills through Western Qi’s water as Lin Zhu prepared the city’s defenses.
• Yang Jian, Princess Long Ji, Shi Zongheng, and Nezha killed Lü Yue’s four disciples when they attacked Western Qi’s gates, routing their troops, and Wei Hu later forced Lü Yue to flee.
• Yang Chan reached Fire Cloud Cave, where Fuxi, Shennong, and Sui Ren gave her medicine and taught her about bupleurum so she could return to Western Qi with a plague remedy.