Recaps

Kong Qiu endured the agony of rebuilding his physical body with the Nine-Colored Lotus Seedpod’s power while Daoist Hunyuan withdrew into the compass to recover his injured origin. By discovering his connection to the Heavenly Dao through Primordial Violet Qi, Kong Qiu realized he had become a Saint.

• Daoist Hunyuan explained that he wanted to use the Space-law lotus seed to awaken Di Jiang and said Kong Qiu needed the remaining seeds to gain power.
• Daoist Hunyuan’s primordial spirit vanished from the Nine-Colored Lotus Seedpod, and Xuanjiao sensed that he had withdrawn into the compass because his origin was injured.
• A nine-colored light appeared, and Kong Qiu began forming a body from the power of laws as Xuanjiao, Yang Jian, and Golden Lion felt the pressure of a Saint.
• Kong Qiu endured repeated waves of pain and gradually strengthened his consciousness by entering a state of profound stillness.
• Kong Qiu followed a faint purple thread through his body and saw the River of Fate and the mass of laws above it.
• Kong Qiu recognized the thread as Primordial Violet Qi, realized it connected his primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao, and understood that he had become a Saint.

Kong Qiu attained sainthood and explained that the Three Realms had to unite to protect their fortune, while Haotian sought guidance on how to assert his authority as Heavenly Emperor. Haotian left determined to claim the Human Emperor Seal and stop the West from spreading its teachings in the East, and Daoist Hunyuan promised to recover the Mortal Realm’s scattered Primordial Violet Qi.

• Kong Qiu reshaped the valley with the power of Heaven and Earth’s laws, and Haotian struggled to remain standing before him.
• Kong Qiu explained to Haotian and the others that the Three Realms were one world among many and that the Mortal Realm’s weakness threatened their shared fortune.
• Kong Qiu brought Haotian to Daoist Hunyuan, who told him his opportunity lay in ruling the Three Realms rather than becoming a Saint.
• Daoist Hunyuan advised Haotian to uphold the Heavenly Dao instead of pursuing power, but Haotian resolved to find the Human Emperor Seal and stop the West’s teachings from spreading in the East.
• Kong Qiu worried that Haotian’s plans would spark conflict, while Daoist Hunyuan promised to find and restore the Mortal Realm’s scattered Primordial Violet Qi.

After Kong Qiu became a Saint, visitors gathered at the valley, where Xuanjiao and Peng Demon King handled their arrival. Grand Master Xuandu, Kun Peng, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Daoist Hunyuan discussed the Jade Emperor Haotian and the West’s plan to use the Spiritual Stone Monkey to disrupt Heaven and the Underworld; Daoist Hunyuan resolved to urge them to limit the killings.

• Xuanjiao managed the visitors and teased Peng Demon King, who received an intelligence-enhancing pill from Grand Master Xuandu and mistook it for an insult.
• Kun Peng prepared to leave because he feared the Jade Emperor Haotian would move against the Demon Race, but Grand Master Xuandu urged him to stay and discuss the situation.
• Grand Master Xuandu explained that Haotian wanted to strengthen his authority by opposing Buddhism’s spread into the East, while Kun Peng described how the conflict could benefit the Heavenly Court.
• Grand Master Xuandu revealed that the West planned to send the Spiritual Stone Monkey to disrupt the Heavenly Palace and the Underworld, then use Buddhism’s intervention to gain influence and help clear demons from the Western Ox Continent.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi identified the West’s broader plan to transfer the Western Ox Continent and part of the Underworld to the Heavenly Court, and Daoist Hunyuan resolved to discourage excessive killings.

Peng Demon King challenged Chi You to a fight, and their battle revealed the terrifying strength of the Heavenly Roc and Chi You’s Weapon Domain and tearing power. Heavenly Ghost rescued Peng Demon King from Chi You’s final attack, and Peng Demon King admitted defeat.

• Peng Demon King insulted the Witch Clan and challenged its members, prompting Chi You to accept his challenge.
• Peng Demon King and Chi You exchanged powerful attacks, and Chi You summoned Heavenly Generals through his Weapon Domain.
• Peng Demon King’s speed and feather attacks destroyed Chi You’s formation and damaged his black domain sphere.
• Chi You tore open space with the Witch Clan’s divine ability, trapping Peng Demon King in its invisible force.
• Heavenly Ghost pulled Peng Demon King to safety, and the bloodied Peng Demon King bowed to Chi You and admitted defeat.

Kun Peng and Minghe helped Chi You understand how to refine his thoughts and attain the Dao, and Chi You became Sun Wu Zi, the Mortal Realm’s Military Saint. As Sun Wu left for the Mortal Realm to pursue the remaining steps of his cultivation, Yunxiao and Duanmu Ci arrived to attend Confucius’s sainthood.

• Kun Peng explained that Chi You’s incomplete military Dao came from failing to unite his ninefold Heavenly Generals, then gave him innate violet qi to seek the Mortal Realm’s Primordial Violet Qi.
• Minghe told Chi You that casting off the past meant severing the self, prompting Chi You to refine his evil thought with the fire of the Dao and condense the Great Wu Military Talisman.
• Chi You declared that he had passed away and become Sun Wu Zi, and Ruxian Palace recognized him as the Mortal Realm’s Military Saint.
• Sun Wu told Xiang Liu he would remain part of the Wu Tribe but had a duty to protect the Mortal Realm, then departed for it.
• Minghe and Kun Peng discussed their difficult paths to attaining the Dao before Yunxiao arrived with Duanmu Ci, who identified himself as Zigong and said he had come to attend his teacher’s sainthood.

Xuanjiao and the others discussed the missing arrivals and the dangers that might await at Taiji Hall. Meng Ke was trapped inside a crystal wall by the Disaster Beast Fei, but used his Confucian treasures to resist it and escaped after defeating it.

• Xuanjiao let Guanyin Bodhisattva and two Buddhist disciples enter Ruxian Palace, then worried that Meng Ke and the loose immortals of Penglai had not arrived.
• Peng Demon King described Taiji Hall as an enormous eight-sided structure guarded by beast images, while Xuanjiao suspected something had gone wrong there.
• Meng Ke probed a crystal wall at Taiji Hall, was pulled into its inner space, and saw Buddhist cultivators dissolve into light when he approached.
• Meng Ke used his Turtle Plate and ruler to block the wall's array and learned from Fei that the beast absorbed the essence of those who entered its territory.
• Fei tricked Meng Ke into riding on its back and tried to drain his power, but Meng Ke struck it with his ruler, forcing Fei to flee as Dao marks before Meng Ke left the crystal wall.

After Meng Ke warned Tian Lingzi against using Spiritual Sense on the crystal wall, Tian Lingzi was swallowed into a dark world filled with Golden Beetles that devoured Spiritual Power and could break through his starry domain. He captured and controlled some of the insects, but a huge Golden Armored Divine Insect appeared as his domain began to collapse.

• Meng Ke watched Tian Lingzi ignore his warning and enter the crystal wall, then could do nothing as the wall swallowed him.
• Tian Lingzi found himself in darkness amid sounds of stampeding beasts and used his starry domain to protect himself from golden rune-like insects.
• Tian Lingzi captured a Golden Beetle with his star net and refined it, but four other Golden Beetles attacked and drained his domain.
• Tian Lingzi infused the captured beetle with star essence and used it to wound one of the attackers, discovering that the insects' cries had sounded like a Savage Beast horde.
• Three Golden Beetles wounded the controlled insect and shattered Tian Lingzi's river of stars, while a half-foot-long Golden Armored Divine Insect appeared within his domain.

Tian Lingzi defeated the Golden Bug King at great cost, then was drained by the runes in the dark hall. He helped Yun Zhongzi and the Chan Teaching disciples escape, but Guiguzi chose to remain and seek an opportunity to temper his Three Thoughts.

• Tian Lingzi transformed into a star and unleashed the Eye of Destruction, destroying the Golden Bug King but exhausting his strength and half his primordial spirit.
• Tian Lingzi studied the hall’s Great Dao Runes and became entranced as they absorbed his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Yun Zhongzi, Guiguzi, and three others entered the hall, where Tian Lingzi warned them about the Golden Beetles and the danger of the runes.
• As a Beast Tide appeared, the Chan Teaching disciples found they could not withdraw their Spiritual Senses, so Tian Lingzi used the runes to free them.
• Guiguzi thanked Tian Lingzi but refused to leave, saying he sensed an opportunity to temper his Three Thoughts.

Old Ancestor Xuanbing entered the strange space behind a wall in Taiji Hall and fought the Chaos Beast, eventually freezing it and the surrounding chaotic energy. He prepared to refine the beast into his Ice Soul and remake his body as a Chaos Body.

• Old Ancestor Xuanbing entered the strange space despite Randeng Ancient Buddha’s reminder that the juniors they sent in had not returned.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing used his black-ice powers to battle the beast’s claws, while the claws damaged his life-bound black-ice orb and drained his Origin Qi.
• The Chaos Beast revealed its true form, appearing as a round, fire-red creature with four wings and six legs.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing unleashed Ice Realm Descends, freezing the Chaos Beast and the chaotic energy throughout the space.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing planned to refine the Chaos Beast into his Ice Soul and use the chaotic ice to remake his body as a Chaos Body.

Randeng Ancient Buddha tried to subdue Old Ancestor Xuanbing with Buddhist power and a golden-body restraint while the group fought through the Ice Sky Snow Land. The chapter ended as Old Ancestor Xuanbing revealed he could no longer suppress the Chaos Beast, whose pressure began to fill the space.

• Randeng Ancient Buddha used golden lotuses to protect the Du'e Boat and restore Indra while Old Ancestor Xuanbing's ice giant devoured the lotuses for power.
• Jin Chanzi attacked the ice giant, but Old Ancestor Xuanbing trapped him in an ice orb and froze his golden body before Indra rescued him.
• Randeng Ancient Buddha offered Old Ancestor Xuanbing the rank of Ancient Buddha, but Xuanbing refused to join the Buddhist faith.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing discovered golden symbols binding his power and learned Randeng Ancient Buddha had used a restraint drawn by the World-Honored One.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing warned that he could no longer suppress the Chaos Beast, and cracks spread across the ice sculpture as immense pressure filled the space.

Hua Dou arrived in Qin-era Xianyang and learned about the First Emperor’s harsh rule, including the book burning and execution of scholars. Unable to tell fortunes or use his old coins, he accepted the shopkeeper’s offer of a neighboring shop and took Peng Yi as his apprentice, planning to teach him medicine.

• Hua Dou narrowly avoided being struck by Zhang San’s horse and learned from a passerby that Qin Shi Huang had unified the realm and claimed the title of First Emperor.
• A shopkeeper explained that fortune-telling was forbidden after the First Emperor’s pursuit of immortality, the burning of books, and the execution of more than four hundred and sixty people.
• Hua Dou discovered that his coins were obsolete and agreed to write the shopkeeper a method for prolonging life in return for help finding a place to settle.
• The shopkeeper offered Hua Dou the neighboring shop and asked him to teach his son, Peng Yi, medicine.
• Peng Yi became Hua Dou’s disciple, and Hua Dou told him to join him in the mountains the next day to identify medicinal herbs.

Hua Dou discovered that the shopkeeper’s clan had been afflicted for generations by purple specks he had accidentally released long ago. After the shopkeeper died, Hua Dou absorbed the specks and found they were restoring his Origin Power, while he began to uncover a mysterious connection between Peng Yi and his past.

• The shopkeeper begged Hua Dou to save him from the purple specks inside his body and explained the deadly illness afflicting his bloodline.
• Hua Dou recognized the purple specks as remnants of the nebula he had created during the Western Zhou and realized they had consumed the shopkeeper’s vitality.
• The shopkeeper’s illness flared up, and Hua Dou absorbed the purple specks, easing the man’s pain before he died.
• The purple specks gathered into a nebula inside Hua Dou and began slowly repairing his Origin Power.
• Hua Dou brought Peng Yi to his father’s body and sensed a seal-like power within the boy connected to Righteous Qi and Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hua Dou tried to draw out and guide Peng Yi’s hidden power, but Peng Yi remained lost in grief and did not begin cultivating.

Hua Dou met Lü Ying, a descendant of Lü Buwei who suffered from the incurable Nine Yin Absolute Meridian, and agreed to stay at Uncle Fu’s residence to treat her. After preparing an altar, he began using spiritual power to open Peng Yi’s blocked meridians, leaving the boy in severe pain.

• Hua Dou taught Peng Yi to identify medicinal herbs while they walked through the forest.
• Lu Xing brought Hua Dou to Lü Ying, and Hua Dou diagnosed her with the Nine Yin Absolute Meridian, which he initially said had no cure.
• After learning that Lü Ying was Lü Buwei’s descendant, Hua Dou agreed to stay at Uncle Fu’s residence and use acupuncture to ease her symptoms.
• Hua Dou prepared cinnabar, Silk Cloth, and an altar, then used a talisman to send spiritual power into Peng Yi and force open his blocked meridians.
• Peng Yi woke in agony, followed Hua Dou’s instruction to recite a mantra, and eventually fainted as the spiritual power broke through his meridians.

Hua Dou, Ziyang, and Guiguzi entered the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor to destroy the Yin-soul formation and confront its Wu-clan master. They fought Bai Qi and the mausoleum’s ghosts, but the ghost chariot escaped deeper into the palace.

• Hua Dou explained that Peng Yi was the reincarnation of Wu Peng and that he had restored Peng Yi’s Dao Foundation so he could eventually help resolve the Karma binding him.
• Hua Dou and Ziyang agreed to meet at the Qin Mausoleum, where they joined Guiguzi to oppose the First Emperor’s Heaven-Defying Magic Array.
• Ziyang opened the mausoleum entrance with his sword, and the three reached the First Emperor’s bedchamber, where Bai Qi challenged them.
• Bai Qi summoned Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals, and a Ghost General forced Ziyang to one knee before Guiguzi drove it back.
• Guiguzi summoned Heavenly Thunder to destroy the ghosts, while Hua Dou warned that pure Yang energy was needed to keep them from reforming.
• Black Qi shielded Bai Qi’s ghost chariot from the thunder, and it fled deeper into the palace.

Hua Dou, Guiguzi, and Ziyang entered the Ghostly Netherworld Hall and faced Bai Qi’s Ghost General, whose Yin-powered attacks overwhelmed them. Hua Dou lent Ziyang the Golden Crow’s power to counter the hall’s Ghost Qi, but the Ghost General transformed into a Ghost Corpse; the chapter ended with Ziyang absorbing Hua Dou’s scattered yellow talismans as Guiguzi fused them with his primordial spirit.

• Hua Dou used Four Spirits Sealing Heaven Talismans to suppress the hall’s Yin Energy, revealing ranks of Terracotta Warriors and the Ghost General summoned by Bai Qi.
• Ziyang attacked the Ghost General but was beaten back, lost his sword, and abandoned his mortal body; Guiguzi rescued his primordial spirit from the General’s grasp.
• The Ghost General unleashed Raging Yin Wind, so Hua Dou drew on the Golden Crow’s power through his compass and Ziyang absorbed it to scatter the Yin Clouds.
• The Ghost General turned the Terracotta Warriors into ghost soldiers and raised waves of Grievance Qi, but Ziyang’s purple and golden sunlight burned the Yin forces away.
• The Ghost General transformed into a Ghost Corpse, extinguished Guiguzi’s flames, and struck Ziyang’s primordial spirit; Hua Dou then sent yellow talisman light toward it, which Ziyang absorbed as Guiguzi fused it with him.

Guiguzi transformed Ziyang’s primordial spirit into a powerful rune and destroyed the ghost corpse, then the group reached the Divine Hall of the Twelve Golden Men. Ziyang helped Hua Dou suppress the hall’s aura while Guiguzi disrupted its formation, but the chapter left Ziyang demanding that Guiguzi explain the hidden Spiritual Sense in his primordial spirit.

• Guiguzi forged Ziyang’s primordial spirit into a purple Dao Soul rune, which destroyed the ghost corpse and drove the Yin Energy back into the terracotta figures.
• Hua Dou explained Ziyang’s new power, then showed him how to draw runes as they followed Guiguzi into the Divine Hall.
• Hua Dou warned that Guiguzi was struggling to break the Twelve Golden Men’s formation, and Ziyang formed four runes to suppress the hall’s aura and give Guiguzi time.
• Guiguzi entered the Divine Hall, and Ziyang attacked him with a rune after noticing hidden Spiritual Sense in his primordial spirit.
• Guiguzi erased the attacking rune and took the primordial-spirit power it contained, prompting Ziyang to demand it back.

Guiguzi, Hua Dou, and Ziyang encountered Bai Qi’s divine form guarding the Divine Hall, and Guiguzi fought him after Bai Qi refused to let them pass. Bai Qi unleashed the power of the Golden Men and was defeated, then vanished in a burst of Primordial Violet Qi, leaving Guiguzi and Hua Dou to recognize his potential as a Martial Saint.

• Ziyang recognized Bai Qi in a mural, and Bai Qi appeared as a divine being who said the First Emperor had granted him a divine body to guard the Divine Hall.
• Bai Qi attacked Ziyang after he insulted Bai Qi’s loyalty, and Guiguzi challenged Bai Qi to a fight so the group could pass.
• Bai Qi met Guiguzi’s sword strikes with his powerful body and Martial Soul, but Guiguzi’s Immortal Slaying Sword Qi overwhelmed him.
• Bai Qi drew power from the twelve Golden Men and used a rune-covered saber to cut through Guiguzi’s sword qi, but Guiguzi held off his final attack.
• Bai Qi vanished in spiritual light, leaving behind Primordial Violet Qi containing his Martial Soul, and Guiguzi said Bai Qi could have become a Martial Saint.

In the Human Hall, Ziyang’s Spiritual Sense was swallowed by a mural depicting two mysterious figures with Great Destiny, and he experienced life as a starving child in a besieged town. After his grandmother died and his family faced hunger and cold, Ziyang searched for wild greens and collapsed, whereupon a golden rune-like light stirred his Spiritual Sense.

• Ziyang noticed two faint, purple-aura figures in a mural, and Hua Dou and Guiguzi said they had manifested through Heaven and Earth and bore Great Destiny.
• Ziyang sent his Spiritual Sense toward the mural, and a ripple swallowed it despite Guiguzi’s warning.
• In a freezing, besieged town, young Ziyang fought Brother Qiang after he stole food meant for Ziyang and his little sister.
• Ziyang’s grandmother died, and his mother comforted the children with a story about their soldier father returning with food and warm quilts.
• Ziyang left the alley to find food, ate wild greens and snow, and collapsed from weakness.
• A golden, rune-like light appeared, stirring Ziyang’s dormant Spiritual Sense and bringing him around.

Ziyang, Hua Dou, and Guiguzi crossed the Qin Mausoleum’s perilous Human Hall and became trapped inside the Mountain River Hall, a vast world shaped like the Qin dynasty. After Ziyang’s attempt to break the formation nearly destroyed them, they searched Mount Tai for a way out, but found no clue before Ziyang admitted he had forgotten where he sensed something unusual.

• Ziyang learned that the Human Hall’s murals could trap and kill his Divine Soul, though escaping them had refined his Primordial Spirit.
• Hua Dou, Ziyang, and Guiguzi entered the Mountain River Hall, a self-contained world representing the Qin dynasty’s territory.
• Ziyang attacked the mountains with Nine Stars Aligned, triggering a torrent of magma, while Guiguzi seized a jade talisman that calmed the formation.
• Hua Dou explained that Xu Fu may have created the Mountain River Hall to cultivate by reversing yin and yang with the Ghost Qi of the dead.
• The three searched Mount Tai for the formation’s path to survival but found nothing unusual.
• Ziyang said he had sensed something unusual, then admitted he had forgotten where it was.

Hua Dou, Ziyang, and Guiguzi entered the Heavenly Palace through the Hangu Pass gateway and confronted Qin Shi Huang’s ghost and the Ghost King. After the Ghost King revealed his role in the sacrifices and destroyed Qin Shi Huang’s ghost, he summoned Xu Fu, whose true nature remained a mystery as Hua Dou recognized that he had cultivated in the Mortal Realm.

• Hua Dou, Ziyang, and Guiguzi found the real gateway at Hangu Pass and entered the Heavenly Palace.
• The three discovered Qin Shi Huang’s coffin on a blood-channelled altar and confronted his ghost about the human sacrifices and his pursuit of immortality.
• Ghost King Bai Qi appeared and revealed that he had helped create the formation, blaming Qin Shi Huang for ordering the sacrifices that sustained his ghost.
• The Ghost King burned Qin Shi Huang’s ghost with Ghost Fire, and the coffin exploded, revealing a sheet of Human Skin covered in fading runes.
• The Ghost King claimed he had a Backup Plan and summoned Xu Fu, who said he had taken over Xu Fu’s body and gained power by devouring scholars’ Spiritual Senses.
• Hua Dou realized that Xu Fu had cultivated in the Mortal Realm.

After Ying Zheng’s sacrifice ended, Ziyang fought the Ghost King Bai Qi while Xu Fu watched, and Ziyang nearly exhausted his power before creating the Wheel of Destruction. Guiguzi stepped in against the Ghost King and trapped him and the ghost carriage inside a jade cauldron.

• Xu Fu explained that the Heavenly Palace’s formation had made living beings’ blood and Soul Power valuable cultivation resources, and Ziyang attacked him in anger.
• The Ghost King Bai Qi confronted Ziyang, using a black giant body and relentless attacks to overwhelm him.
• Ziyang formed a destructive rune wheel that severed the black giant’s arm, but the Ghost King’s two shadows trapped and destroyed the wheel before the giant retreated to the ghost carriage.
• The Ghost King summoned vengeful souls to attack Ziyang, but Guiguzi stopped him and summoned Heavenly Soldiers and Generals with the Art of Scattering Beans to Make Soldiers.
• Xu Fu recognized Guiguzi as the reincarnation of True Person Yu Ding, and Guiguzi sent a jade cauldron flying at the Ghost King, drawing him and the ghost carriage inside.

Guiguzi fought Xu Fu’s sand-based clones in the Qin Mausoleum and used the Eight Trigrams Compass of the Primordial Unity Immortal to overcome the sandstorm. Xu Fu revealed his plan to pursue a blood debt across realms, then vanished toward the Netherworld Land while his Good Thought and true body had already entered the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Xu Fu attacked Guiguzi with sand magic, but Guiguzi dodged into a stone chamber and used the Immortal Slaying Sword to destroy a soul fragment.
• Xu Fu created nine ghost-headed clones from the endless sand, and they surrounded Guiguzi with enormous sand walls.
• Guiguzi used his jade cauldron and summoned wind and rain, weakening the sand while his sword energy destroyed the clones.
• Guiguzi revealed that the Eight Trigrams Compass of the Primordial Unity Immortal had enabled the storm, and Hua Dou recognized Xu Fu’s connection to the Primordial Unity Immortal.
• Xu Fu explained that he sought revenge for his descendants and had separated his Good Thought from his evil thoughts and obsession.
• Xu Fu said his true body and Good Thought had entered the Earth Immortal Realm, then vanished toward the Netherworld Land to bear his sins.

Hua Dou and Guiguzi found the wounded Ying Zhao at Hangu Pass and explained how he could reach Taiyi in the Taiji World. As the Golden Crocodile entered the Earth Immortal Realm, Heaven and Earth unleashed a devastating lightning tribulation, leaving his golden soul helpless beneath the storm.

• Hua Dou and Guiguzi found Ying Zhao at Hangu Pass, healed him, and told him that Taiyi ruled a Heavenly Court in the Taiji World.
• Ying Zhao admitted that the Golden Crocodile had escaped him, and Hua Dou said they had come in pursuit.
• A passage appeared in the Earth Immortal Realm, and the Golden Crocodile emerged as lightning began striking him.
• The Golden Crocodile transformed into a tyrannosaur and then a golden dragon, but the tribulation destroyed his body and left only his soul.
• Hua Dou's radiance shielded the Golden Crocodile's soul from the lightning, and Ziyang wondered why he was not reacting.

Guiguzi attained sainthood after delivering the Vengeful Spirits and dividing the Mortal, Royal, and Immortal Dao among his thoughts. As Guiguzi and the Golden Crocodile departed for the Taiji World, Fusang Wood followed to help Crown Prince Lu Ya, and Hua Dou sent a mysterious Yellow Stone True Person to Earth.

• Crocodile Ancestor released the seeds of his evil thought and obsession; Hua Dou sent the obsession into reincarnation, while Guiguzi took the evil thought into his jade cauldron.
• Guiguzi used scriptures and lotus flowers to deliver the Vengeful Spirits, then called forth True Person Yu Ding to continue the work.
• Guiguzi separated his thoughts and assigned the Way of Divination to his Good Thought, the Royal Way to his thought of acting, and the Immortal Dao to True Person Yu Ding; Hua Dou declared him a Saint named Xuanweizi.
• Crocodile Ancestor became the Golden Crocodile and agreed to serve as Guiguzi's mount, and Hua Dou opened a passage for them to enter the Taiji World.
• Fusang Wood arrived and explained that Di Jun's Essence Blood could help Crown Prince Lu Ya escape the Divine Soul Pool, then entered the passage to the Taiji World.
• Hua Dou caught a Yellow Stone True Person falling from the passage and sent it beneath Xiapi in the East Sea, at the foot of Jibei Gucheng Mountain on Earth.

Hua Dou and Ziyang investigated the Grievance Qi on Flower-Fruit Mountain and discovered that its demons had been abducting and eating people from the Kingdom of Aolai. After Hua Dou began saving the victims’ spirits, he learned his former disciples planned to face an approaching calamity together, and he decided to stay with them.

• Ziyang detected Grievance Qi in the northwest of Flower-Fruit Mountain and brought Hua Dou there, where Lesser Demons surrounded them.
• Hua Dou learned the mountain was divided among several demon kings and found a valley full of human bones and vicious Vengeful Spirits.
• A Lesser Demon revealed that the demons abducted one person from the Kingdom of Aolai each day, and Hua Dou recited the Sutra for Saving People to dispel the spirits’ Grievance Qi.
• Xuanjiao arrived, recognized Hua Dou, and explained that Sun Wukong had gone to Heaven while Bull Demon King had left for the Western Ox Continent.
• Peng Demon King and Shituo Wang chose to remain with Xuanjiao despite Hua Dou’s warning that a calamity was near.
• Hua Dou decided to stay and protect his disciples, rejecting Ziyang’s and the others’ attempts to persuade him to leave.