Recaps

Hong Yun defeated Luohu, claimed the God-Slaying Spear, and took the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as his disciple. While Hong Yun refined the Demonic World's origin, the Demon Clan attacked the Dragon Clan, and Ancestral Dragon sought Hong Yun's help, but Hong Yun refused to intervene.

• Hong Yun trapped Luohu, took the God-Slaying Spear, and heard Ancestral Dragon explain how Luohu had stirred up war among the three races by promising destiny and Sainthood.
• Luohu revealed that he had nurtured the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus with the Demonic World's origin, then burned himself away after Hong Yun rejected his offers and promised to protect the lotus.
• Hong Yun accepted the black lotus as his disciple and taught it to find its own path in the Devil Dao, while Ancestral Dragon left to address the Dragon Clan's affairs.
• Hong Yun sealed Fire Cloud Cave and spent three hundred years refining the Demonic World's origin as Xuanming returned to the Witch Clan and Ancestral Dragon sought help for the besieged Dragon Clan.
• Ancestral Dragon asked Zhen Yuan Zi to sound out Hong Yun about mediating with the Demon Clan, while Di Jun recruited Kun Peng by offering him equal standing among the Demon Clan's rulers.
• Kun Peng declined a high position until he had earned merit, joined the Demon Clan, and offered to lead his Deep Sea Clan forces through the Eastern Sea to attack the Dragon Clan from behind.
• Hong Yun absorbed the Demonic World's origin, expanded his inner world into a minor thousand world, and emerged from seclusion when Ancestral Dragon begged him to save the Dragon Clan.
• Hong Yun said he lacked influence over the Demon Clan and refused to intervene, despite Ancestral Dragon explaining that Hong Jun had not answered and offering Fangzhang Island as a token of goodwill.

Hong Yun agreed to protect the Dragon Clan as Di Jun’s Demon Clan attacked it, and his mediation led to a three-move duel with Kun Peng. The arc ended with Hong Yun countering Kun Peng’s first two attacks using the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner.

• Hong Yun discovered that Di Jun was using the Dragon Clan campaign to unite the Demon Clan, then negotiated Ancestral Dragon’s support in exchange for the Myriad Dragon Armor and a promise of Spirit Pearls.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi brought Ancestral Dragon to Hou Tu, then went with Nu Wa toward the East Sea while Fuxi went to speak with Di Jun.
• Di Jun and Kun Peng led deep-sea beasts against the Dragon Clan, and Candle Dragon and Ying Long struggled to defend their people.
• Nu Wa urged Taiyi to spare the Dragon Clan, but Taiyi rejected her mediation and sent reinforcements to Di Jun’s army.
• Hong Yun arrived at the East Sea and stopped the beasts’ advance, then asked Di Jun to spare the Dragon Clan.
• Di Jun proposed a wager to settle the dispute, and Candle Dragon agreed to let Hong Yun fight on the Dragon Clan’s behalf.
• Kun Peng challenged Hong Yun to a three-move duel, and Hong Yun accepted and drew him into an independent space.
• Kun Peng attacked with Kun Peng Hall and a colossal black Kun, but Hong Yun’s banner subdued the hall and pierced the phantom.

Hong Yun settled the Dragon Clan dispute, gained the Jade Disc fragment, and accepted several disciples while strengthening ties with the Dragon and Witch Clans. The arc ended with Hong Yun deciding that Huluwa and Wu Tian needed worldly experience, while Hou Tu offered to take them to her tribe.

• Hong Yun defeated Taiyi, and Di Jun accepted that the Demon Clan would no longer trouble the Dragon Clan.
• Nu Wa restored life to the sea after Hong Yun’s battle, and Hong Yun used Heavenly Dao Merit to ease the karmic debt caused by the destruction.
• Candle Dragon showed Hong Yun the Dragon Clan’s hidden Jade Disc of Creation fragment and offered the Huangzhong Plum before asking him to accept a Dragon Clan disciple.
• Hong Yun chose Bai Li as his disciple, then welcomed Huluwa as Vajra and the transformed black lotus as Wu Tian.
• Huluwa and Wu Tian survived their tribulation, with Huluwa absorbing lightning into his gourd before Hong Yun told him to keep it.
• Hong Yun held a discipleship ceremony at the Crystal Palace, gave his disciples treasures, and accepted Ying Long as a guardian general after Zhen Yuan Zi’s suggestion.
• Xuanming offered to teach Bai Li, and Hou Tu offered to host Huluwa and Wu Tian, but Hong Yun declined the offer because the Witch Clan might spoil them.

East King Duke accepted Hongjun’s appointment as leader of the male immortals, while Hong Yun’s disciples discovered Fangzhang Island and clashed with scattered immortals seeking its treasures. As East King Duke and powerful figures in the East Sea moved toward the conflict, Hong Yun reached West Kunlun to meet West Queen Mother.

• Hong Yun sent Huluwa, Wu Tian, Bai Li, and Ying Long to explore Fangzhang Island while Zhen Yuan Zi stayed behind to refine the Yellow Plum.
• Hongjun appointed East King Duke and West Queen Mother leaders of the male and female immortals, and East King Duke later tried unsuccessfully to make West Queen Mother his Dao Companion.
• East King Duke lectured the scattered immortals at Zifu Continent, gaining their allegiance as Hongjun intervened to save him from a worsening tribulation.
• Wu Tian found Fangzhang Island’s hidden formation and shattered it with her annihilation bolt, revealing the island to her companions.
• Squid Daoist and Green Wave Daoist tried to seize Wu Tian’s black lotus and Fangzhang Island, but Wu Tian, Huluwa, Bai Li, and Ying Long defeated them and their followers.
• The four entered Fangzhang Island as its formation concealed it again, while Squid Daoist escaped and later lied to East King Duke about the confrontation.
• East King Duke learned that the island was Fangzhang Island and headed toward the East Sea as Candle Dragon also sensed its emergence and went to watch over Hong Yun’s disciples.
• Hong Yun arrived at West Kunlun and offered Lu Wu a gourd to announce his visit, then met West Queen Mother.