Recaps

Hong Yun defended humanity’s fortune from the Three Pure Ones and guided Taiqing toward founding Daoism. He then helped Hou Tu establish reincarnation, leaving Pingxin to govern the Underworld and strengthen the Earthly Dao.

• Xuan Du chose to serve the human race rather than become Taiqing’s disciple, and Hong Yun used the Human Dao Seal to protect humanity’s fortune from outside control.
• Taiqing’s attempt to establish the Human Sect led to a clash with Hong Yun and the Three Pure Ones, until Hong Yun persuaded Taiqing to found Daoism instead.
• Taiqing became a Saint, while Hong Yun refused Zhun Ti and Jieyin’s request to teach humanity and later resolved to help Hou Tu attain sainthood.
• Hong Yun showed Hou Tu the suffering of dead beings, prompting her to seek a way for souls and True Spirits to find shelter and return to life.
• Ming He tried to stop Hou Tu, but Hong Yun fought him and refined the Nether Blood Sea as Hou Tu realized she must become the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Hou Tu transformed herself to establish reincarnation, and Pingxin emerged in her likeness as the Great Dao bestowed merit and Hongjun asked her to guard the Earthly Dao.
• Pingxin appointed Xuanming, the Ten Kings of Hell, and Zhen Yuan Zi to govern the Underworld, while the Witch Clan’s fortune rose above the Demon Clan’s.
• Pingxin invited Nu Wa to cleanse living beings’ karma in the Underworld as she considered connecting the Earthly Dao with the Heavenly Dao.

Pingxin established her authority over reincarnation as Hong Yun strengthened the Underworld and transformed the lotuses to help his disciples. Hong Yun prepared his world for the Human Dao and reconciled with Tong Tian, who left with warnings about the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

• Pingxin merged with Hou Tu and settled her grievances with Ming He, while Ming He surrendered the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and Mosquito Daoist became lord of the Hungry Ghost Path.
• Yuan Shi established the Chan Sect and became a Saint, but Pingxin stopped his pressure from harming the Earthly Dao.
• Hong Yun helped Wu Tian strip away the powers of her Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, and the World-Purifying White Lotus took humanoid form as Wu Sheng.
• Wu Sheng asked Hong Yun to shatter her true form so she could follow the Path of World Purification, and Pingxin transformed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus into the Twenty-Four-Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus.
• Hong Yun incorporated the Reincarnation Purple Lotus into his Fire Cloud Cave World, then suppressed his breakthrough while waiting for the Human Dao to emerge.
• Di Jun completed the Myriad Stars Great Formation, while Hong Yun and Xuanming considered sheltering the Witch Clan in the Underworld during the coming war.
• Hong Yun reconciled with Tong Tian and received the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls for Wu Sheng, then demonstrated his Dao of the World.
• Tong Tian declined to lend Wu Tian the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation for now, and Hong Yun warned him of its risks and suggested borrowing Taiqing’s pagoda or trading the formation to Taiyi for the Chaos Bell.

Hong Yun helped Tong Tian attain Primordial Unity and establish the Interception Sect, while new disciples joined and the Three Pure Ones rejected Zhun Ti’s requests. Hong Yun then sought the Moon Star’s core, and Jieyin and Zhun Ti became Saints through vows to restore the West.

• Hong Yun advised Tong Tian to merge Sword Dao and Formation Dao, and Tong Tian created a world that helped him attain Primordial Unity.
• Tong Tian established the Interception Sect and became a Heavenly Dao Saint, then accepted San Xiao and Xuan Lang as disciples after Hong Yun brought them to Kunlun Mountain.
• Xuan Lang defeated Nan Ji in a fierce spar, and Tong Tian defended martial arts when Yuan Shi criticized it.
• Zhun Ti asked the Three Pure Ones to lend merit and allow Western teachings in the East, but Taiqing, Yuan Shi, and Tong Tian refused.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi traveled to the Moon Star, where Hong Yun explained how the Moon Laurel Tree Spirit might take human form with help from Wang Shu and the Fusang Tree’s complementary origin.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti vowed to establish the Western Sect and remain in the West until it prospered, gaining merit from Heaven.
• Zhun Ti became a Saint and shared his remaining merit with Jieyin, who united his Three Corpses and became a Saint as well.

Hong Yun helped Nu Wa counter the Western Sages’ influence, while Di Jun married Xi He and reorganized the stars. As the Witch-Demon calamity approached, Hong Yun sought safeguards for both clans, and Di Jun and Taiyi created the Eastern Wilderness Realm as a refuge for the Yao Tribe.

• Hong Yun supported Nu Wa as she confronted Jieyin and Zhunti’s effort to draw eastern beings west, and he helped clear the Human Race of their planted thoughts.
• Di Jun sought Wang Shu’s authority over the Moon Star for the Myriad Stars Great Formation, but Wang Shu refused to marry him and lent him runes instead.
• Nu Wa presided over Di Jun and Xi He’s Heavenly Marriage, and Di Jun reorganized the stars and established a calendar with the Heavenly Dao’s approval.
• Di Jun hosted the wedding, where Hong Yun and the Ancestral Shamans attended, while Zhun Ti later warned the Three Pure Ones that a great tribulation was approaching.
• Zhun Ti secured the Three Pure Ones’ agreement to recruit demons for the Mystic Gate, while Hong Yun’s proposal for a sham fight between the Witch and Demon Races failed to persuade Di Jun.
• Hong Yun urged Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin to prepare the Witch Clan for the changing order and proposed storing the Ancestral Shamans’ blood essence in the Six Paths of Reincarnation Hall.
• Hong Yun returned to Wang Shu with a rabbit and gained her agreement to help refine the Sun Star’s essence.
• Taiyi created a world inside the Chaos Bell with Di Jun’s help, and Di Jun named it the Eastern Wilderness Realm as a hidden refuge for the Yao Tribe.