Recaps

Xu Bai escaped Fierce Tiger Stronghold and used his progress bars to master new techniques while investigating the Extreme Life Sect. After killing Yun Xiang and Iron Calculation Immortal, he advanced as a Loose Cultivator, while Liu Xu began tracing the Iron Beads and Xu Bai found a letter at his feet.

• Xu Bai escaped Fierce Tiger Stronghold, killed its Great Stronghold Master and the Red-Clothed Corpse, then left for Sheng County with the escort guards.
• Xu Bai discovered that books and Yun Xiang’s Maple Leaf Tattoo could fill progress bars, gaining new techniques and learning about the Extreme Life Sect and its aberrations.
• Xu Bai killed a group of men who followed him, then used their nameless book to learn the Heart Slaughtering Technique and fuse it with his Bone Severing Heart Sutra.
• Xu Bai followed Yun Xiang to a clearing, exposed Iron Calculation Immortal’s betrayal, and killed him with Maple Leaves Like Rain and his Ghost-Head Saber.
• Xu Bai killed Yun Xiang after she offered him the Nameless Swordsman’s manual, then planted evidence pointing to the Extreme Life Sect and studied Iron Calculation Immortal’s Wild Divination Scripture.
• Xu Bai became a Ninth Rank Diviner, fused his realms into a Ninth Rank Loose Cultivator, and then advanced to an Eighth Rank Loose Cultivator by merging his heart sutras.
• Liu Xu investigated the murders, tracked the Iron Beads to a blacksmith shop, and left without finding Xu Bai, while the blacksmith couple revealed their sinister trade.
• Xu Bai woke the next morning, noticed his progress bar had increased, and found a letter at his feet.

Xu Bai eliminated the blacksmiths, uncovered Xiao Yue’s fate, and avenged her by killing Lin Fenghua. He then recruited Lin Fu and Liu Xu into a plan to expose County Magistrate Zhang, leaving Zhang with evidence of his bribery.

• Xu Bai killed the Nether Blacksmith and Yin Chef, buried their bodies, and Liu Xu later discovered the corpses and children’s bones hidden in their shop.
• Xu Bai bought the Fulong Escort Agency, helped its guards legitimize their money, and learned the Nameless Saber Scripture’s technique, which he fused into Severing Armor One Style.
• Liu Xu took Xiao Yue home, where Xu Bai found Xiao Yue and her parents dead, and Liu Xu erased them as they began turning into monstrosities.
• After County Magistrate Zhang protected Lin Fenghua, Xu Bai and Liu Xu entered the Lin Residence, where Xu Bai killed Lin Fenghua and disguised his death.
• Xu Bai completed the Chinese scholar tree’s progress bar and comprehended Inverted Yin and Yang, then fused it with the Four Directions Slaughter Heart Sutra.
• Xu Bai persuaded Lin Fu to expose County Magistrate Zhang’s bribery and arranged for Liu Xu to oversee the plan, while Liu Xu agreed to help avenge Xiao Yue.
• Xu Bai accepted a Fulong Escort Agency job to deliver a box to the Wu Family in the Capital City, found Lin Fu’s letter and bribery account book inside, copied the evidence, and left it outside Zhang’s room.

Xu Bai exposed County Magistrate Zhang, gained Vajra Body, and uncovered the Extreme Life Sect’s activities in Sheng County. The search led him, Liu Xu, and Wu Hua into Spring Rain Pavilion, where a powerful Sweeping Man forced them to flee.

• Xu Bai tricked County Magistrate Zhang with an empty box, while Liu Xu and Wu Hua prepared evidence that brought Lin Fu and then Zhang to ruin.
• Xu Bai defeated Wu Hua in their wager, and Wu Hua agreed to teach him Buddhist sutras as Liu Xu planned to expose Zhang.
• County Magistrate Zhang was executed after Xu Bai’s ledger led Daoist Priest Li to convict him, and Xu Bai later gained Vajra Body by studying with Wu Hua.
• Xu Bai destroyed the Red Gauze Strange Entity in the Chinese Scholar Tree, then found a woman’s skeleton in its roots and captured an Extreme Life Sect agent.
• The captured woman revealed the sect’s plans, and Wu Hua used the imitation Azure Lotus Platform to uncover her connection to Spring Rain Pavilion before Xu Bai killed her.
• Xu Bai persuaded Liu Xu and Wu Hua to disguise themselves and enter Spring Rain Pavilion, where they searched the rooms at night.
• A powerful Sweeping Man appeared behind Xu Bai, Liu Xu, and Wu Hua, forcing them to flee before he met a woman in yellow who warned him not to interfere.