Recaps

Bai Ruxue fought the cultivators after Xiao Mo’s death, killed Daoist Tianqiong, and collapsed from her injuries. Feng Qianqiu moved to kill her, but He Yeye intervened and declared that Bai Ruxue was under her protection.

• Feng Qianqiu ordered the cultivators to kill Bai Ruxue, and she transformed into a white dragon and attacked them.
• Bai Ruxue broke Feng Qianqiu’s formations and Daoist Tianqiong’s Exquisite Pagoda, then trapped Daoist Tianqiong with the summoned souls of ancient dragons.
• Feng Qianqiu’s Peach wood sword pierced Bai Ruxue, but she unleashed her full strength and annihilated Daoist Tianqiong.
• Bai Ruxue returned to human form and collapsed beside the place where Xiao Mo had died, still holding his silver-white scale.
• Feng Qianqiu’s sword strike toward Bai Ruxue was stopped by He Yeye, who appeared and declared that Bai Ruxue was under her protection.

He Yeye protected Bai Ruxue and told her that Xiao Mo had asked her to save Bai Ruxue before he died. In Heaven, a divine being gathered Xiao Mo’s scattered soul and sent it toward reincarnation, vowing to kill him when Heaven and Earth reunited.

• He Yeye drove off Feng Qianqiu and the other cultivators, then explained that she had saved Bai Ruxue to fulfill Xiao Mo’s request.
• Bai Ruxue said she had no reason to live without Xiao Mo, and He Yeye urged her to keep living for his sake.
• A divine being gathered Xiao Mo’s scattered soul fragments from a river in Heaven and sent his soul toward reincarnation.
• The divine being marked Xiao Mo’s soul so it could sense his whereabouts and vowed to kill him when it awoke after Heaven and Earth reunited.

Xiao Mo entered the River of Time and witnessed Bai Ruxue lead the Four Seas’ demons in destroying the Tianlan Sect. After explaining why she would not wage war on all of Myriad Laws Under Heaven, Bai Ruxue declared that any human cultivator who crossed into the Four Seas would die.

• Xiao Mo entered the Book of a Hundred Lives to see what happened after his death in Bai Ruxue’s life.
• Xiao Mo arrived at Tianlan Sect and found its grounds under attack by sea demons, including Xiao Qing.
• Bai Ruxue killed the Tianlan Sect’s sect master and told Kong Sheng that the sect was paying for its past attack on the North Sea.
• Bai Ruxue explained that she spared Myriad Laws Under Heaven because of its innocent people and the danger of wider conflict, then ordered her army back to the North Sea.
• Bai Ruxue declared that any human cultivator who crossed into the Four Seas would die.

After Bai Ruxue conquered the Four Seas and destroyed Tianlan Sect, Kong Sheng learned that Xiao Mo would be erased from history while his teachings would become a Confucian classic. Thirteen years after Xiao Mo’s death, Bai Ruxue entrusted the Four Seas to Xiao Qing and left to search for his scattered soul.

• Qi Daoming told Kong Sheng that the Human Alliance had decided to erase Xiao Mo from the history books but make Zhi Xing He Quan a Confucian classic without naming its creator.
• Kong Sheng said Bai Ruxue no longer cared what humanity thought of Xiao Mo or the world.
• Bai Ruxue returned to the North Sea, conquered the other seas, and became Lord of the Four Seas.
• Bai Ruxue ordered the Four Seas to search for a way to reassemble Xiao Mo’s Remnant soul while she strengthened her forces.
• Bai Ruxue handed the Four Seas to Xiao Qing and left to search for Xiao Mo, saying her whole life belonged to him.

Luo Yang left Baixi City to travel to the Yao Race World, while Bai Ruxue enlisted Shang Jiuli to paint the places Xiao Mo had visited in hopes of gathering his scattered soul. After a year, Bai Ruxue continued her search, and Shang Jiuli realized she remained trapped in memories of the past.

• Luo Yang reunited with Shang Jiuli and told her he was traveling to the Yao Race World to seek Xiaoyue and see Demon Suppressing City and the savage lands.
• Bai Ruxue asked Shang Jiuli to paint a long scroll of places Xiao Mo had visited, and they spent a year retracing his path.
• Shang Jiuli completed the five-li-long painting depicting Xiao Mo's two lifetimes and gave it to Bai Ruxue.
• Shang Jiuli warned Bai Ruxue that her search might be futile, but Bai Ruxue said she would not move on if that meant giving up on finding Xiao Mo.
• After Bai Ruxue left, Shang Jiuli sat alone in Xiao Mo's courtyard and admitted that she was the one still trapped in the past.

Four hundred years after Xiao Mo's death, Bai Ruxue found the Return to Origin Technique and went to the Netherworld Cold Spring to summon his soul. The scroll shattered, suggesting Xiao Mo had entered reincarnation, and Fuchen revealed that an ancient god of reincarnation might have intervened.

• Bai Ruxue found the Return to Origin Technique in a forbidden land and spent three years mastering it.
• Fuchen led Bai Ruxue to the Netherworld Cold Spring, where she waited for an Earth Nether Fish using a wisp of her divided soul as bait.
• As Xiao Mo's time in the River of Time ended, he touched Bai Ruxue's hair, and she suddenly sensed his presence.
• Bai Ruxue caught an Earth Nether Fish and cast Shang Jiuli's scroll toward it, but the scroll shattered and the fish escaped.
• Fuchen explained that a shattered summoning medium meant Xiao Mo's soul might have entered reincarnation and revealed the forbidden land was called the God Tomb.
• Fuchen said an ancient god who controlled reincarnation and life and death might have noticed Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo received rewards for completing Bai Ruxue’s second life and resumed practicing swordsmanship while the Book of a Hundred Lives prepared his fourth life. Jiang Qingyi watched him train at the Dao Seeking Altar and confronted him about who taught him his swordsmanship.

• The Book of a Hundred Lives awarded Xiao Mo the Heart of a Sage, a Merit Pill, and a Demon-Subduing Daoist Charm, then began preparing his fourth life.
• Xiao Mo inspected the Heart of a Sage within himself, swallowed the two pills, and practiced the Grass Character Sword Art.
• After four days in the Imperial Preceptor’s Residence, Jiang Qingyi went to the Dao Seeking Altar to see what path Xiao Mo was cultivating.
• Jiang Qingyi secretly watched Xiao Mo practice and recognized something familiar in his sword technique.
• Xiao Mo cut a wooden post in two with Sword Qi, and Jiang Qingyi appeared before him and demanded to know who taught him.

Jiang Qingyi taught Xiao Mo how to refine his sword technique and agreed to keep his practice at the Dao Seeking Altar secret. Before they parted, she asked him to call her “Master.”

• Xiao Mo told Jiang Qingyi a fabricated story about how he found the sword technique, and she questioned him about it.
• Jiang Qingyi copied Xiao Mo’s sword moves, improved their transitions, and guided him as he practiced.
• Xiao Mo asked Jiang Qingyi to keep his sword practice from the ministers, and she agreed that court affairs were not her concern.
• Jiang Qingyi asked to see Xiao Mo’s sword manual and offered to exchange one of the same grade and teach him when she had time.
• Jiang Qingyi suggested that teaching Xiao Mo made them master and disciple, then told him to call her “Master.”

Xiao Mo practiced swordsmanship, copied the Grass Character Sword Art, and left the palace in disguise to visit Jade Spring Lake. Yan Ruxue also agreed to visit the flowers there, setting the two on course to meet.

• Jiang Qingyi asked Xiao Mo to call her Master, then blushed and hurried away after he did.
• Xiao Mo bathed, copied the Grass Character Sword Art from memory, and learned it was the fourteenth day of June and the beginning of autumn.
• Xiao Mo ordered Wei Xun to prepare plain clothes and a carriage so he could leave the palace for a walk.
• Xiao Mo heard that Autumn Arrives flowers were blooming at Jade Spring Lake and decided to go see them.
• Xiao Chun told Yan Ruxue the flowers had bloomed, and Yan Ruxue agreed to visit Jade Spring Lake before entering the palace.

Xiao Mo met Yan Ruxue again at Jade Spring Lake after helping her retrieve a kite, and the two shared tea and talked about books and poetry. As they grew more comfortable with each other, Yan Ruxue recited the lines, “Take your hand in mine, and grow old together.”

• Xiao Mo arrived at Jade Spring Lake with Wei Xun and two guards, then spotted Yan Ruxue and Xiao Chun whose kite had become stuck in a tree.
• Xiao Mo had a guard retrieve the kite and returned it to Yan Ruxue, who invited him to share tea.
• Yan Ruxue brewed tea for Xiao Mo, and they discussed reading, manners, and poetry.
• Yan Ruxue told Xiao Mo that she liked two lines from “Guan Ju” and then recited, “Take your hand in mine, and grow old together.”

Yan Ruxue and Xiao Mo shared a pleasant conversation at Jade Spring Lake without revealing their identities, and Xiao Mo found her pastries oddly familiar. As Yan Ruxue prepared to enter the palace as his bride, she confessed to Xiao Chun that she had loved him for seven thousand years.

• Yan Ruxue and Xiao Mo exchanged thoughts about love, drank tea together, and parted with a box of pastries.
• Xiao Mo tasted an Osmanthus Cake, found its flavor familiar, and briefly looked back toward Jade Spring Lake before dismissing the thought.
• Yan Ruxue explained to Xiao Chun that she had kept their chance meeting simple by not exchanging names or identities.
• Yan Ruxue told Xiao Chun that she liked Xiao Mo and had loved him for seven thousand years, leaving Xiao Chun to protest that she was only nineteen.

Xiao Mo trained with Jiang Qingyi, learned the principles of the Sword Way, and advanced to Qi Cultivation Level 6 during their sparring. Jiang Qingyi accepted his invitation to lunch and chose buns again.

• Xiao Mo gave Jiang Qingyi the Grass Character Sword Art, and she exchanged it for the Wind Shadow Sword Art.
• Jiang Qingyi explained sword moves, Sword Qi, and sword intent, and advised Xiao Mo to practice both sword arts together.
• After an hour of practice, Jiang Qingyi tested Xiao Mo in repeated sparring matches and knocked his sword away several times.
• Xiao Mo sensed an opening in their final exchange, countered Jiang Qingyi, and broke through to Qi Cultivation Level 6.
• Xiao Mo invited Jiang Qingyi to lunch, and she agreed to eat buns again.

Xiao Mo shared steamed buns with Jiang Qingyi, who remembered how her master had once saved and raised her. In Heavenly Secrets City, He Yeye asked He Baihua about Xiao Mo and learned that his romantic entanglements might cost him his life.

• Xiao Mo told Jiang Qingyi that she seemed different from the people of the mountain, prompting her to recall her kind master.
• Jiang Qingyi remembered being saved from a bun shop owner by a man named Xiao Mo, whom she had called her master.
• He Yeye arrived at the Heavenly Secrets City lord's residence with He Gang and asked He Baihua about Xiao Mo.
• He Baihua said Bai Ruxue had asked her to divine Xiao Mo's fate and warned that his peach blossom tribulation might cost him his life.

Wang Xin began daily sutra recitations at Zhou’s Altar of Heaven in preparation for the emperor’s wedding, while officials whispered about her ability to read people’s thoughts and her past with a demonic sect’s Holy Son. At Kong Nian Temple, Xu Jing and Hui Jue discussed Wang Xin’s search for her senior brother, whom Xu Jing said was both the demon in her heart and her Buddha.

• Hui Ming welcomed Minister Yan Zhen and the Zhou officials to Hundred Lantern Temple, where Wang Xin finished praying and greeted them.
• Yan Zhen asked Wang Xin to recite sutras daily at the Altar of Heaven for the thirty days before the emperor’s wedding, and she agreed.
• Wang Xin learned the wedding rites from Yan Zhen and began reciting sutras at the Altar of Heaven.
• Wang Qi and Zhou Lu discussed Wang Xin’s reputed ability to sense emotions and her history with a demonic sect’s Holy Son, but Yan Zhen ordered them to stop gossiping.
• Hui Jue told Xu Jing that Wang Xin would not believe his tricks anymore and that the Myriad Dao Sect was searching for her senior brother.
• Xu Jing said Wang Xin’s senior brother was not only the demon in her heart but also her Buddha.

Wang Xin used the demonic saber Ink Dye to locate the man she believed to be her former-life master in the Zhou Dynasty, then resolved to search for him herself. Meanwhile, Yu Yunwei learned that the Myriad Dao Sect’s search array had likely found its previous Sect Master’s reincarnation in the Zhou Kingdom and sent disciples to investigate.

• Wang Xin finished reciting Buddhist scriptures on the Heaven-Worshiping Platform and used Ink Dye to search for its former master.
• Ink Dye’s black light flew toward the northern district of the Zhou Dynasty’s Imperial Capital, and Wang Xin decided she would search for him despite the crowds.
• Wang Xin worried that the man might bully her again, but told Chaos she would let him do it a couple more times.
• The Formation Hall Master reported that the Thousand Search Array had located the previous Sect Master’s reincarnation in the Zhou Kingdom with seventy percent certainty.
• Yu Yunwei ordered Wan'er and Green Tree to investigate the Zhou Dynasty and vowed to bring her Senior Brother back.

Jiang Qingyi helped Xiao Mo break through to Qi Cultivation Level 7, then saved him from Sword Qi backlash and ordered him to rest. After giving him the Nourishing Intent Art, she left, and Xiao Mo entered the fourth life in the Book of a Hundred Lives.

• Jiang Qingyi taught Xiao Mo swordsmanship for three days at the Dao Seeking Altar.
• Xiao Mo fused the Grass Character Sword Art and Wind Shadow Sword Art during a spar with Jiang Qingyi and broke through to Qi Cultivation Level 7.
• Sword Qi rampaged through Xiao Mo's Spiritual Meridian, and Jiang Qingyi forced it out before he could suffer further harm.
• Jiang Qingyi gave Xiao Mo pills and the Nourishing Intent Art, then told him to rest for three days.
• Xiao Mo accepted the Book of a Hundred Lives' prompt and entered its fourth life using his own name.

Xiao Mo entered his fourth life in the war-torn Western Regions and learned that he had three missions, including helping a Buddhist prodigy attain Buddhahood and uniting the demonic sects. After rejoining his four older companions, he heard that they had found Steward Fang’s hidden money and planned to steal it.

• The Book of a Hundred Lives told Xiao Mo about his orphaned life in the Western Regions and assigned him three missions.
• Xiao Mo considered the dangerous state of the Western Regions and waited for the little girl with a Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart to appear.
• Zheng Shanhan, Lou Tai, Tang Kuang, and Qian Zhenhao called Xiao Mo over and discussed their plans.
• Zheng Shanhan announced that Lou Tai had discovered Steward Fang’s hidden stash, and the five boys set off for Luofeng City to take it.

Zheng Shanhan and three brothers set out north to seek immortals, while Xiao Mo stayed behind to search for his family and wait for the little girl. After his brothers left, Xiao Mo spent several days alone in the village, and a noise outside his courtyard woke him on the fifth night.

• Zheng Shanhan persuaded his brothers to seek the Black Dragon Sect and become cultivators so they could protect themselves and their gold.
• Xiao Mo told Zheng Shanhan he would stay behind, claiming he wanted to find his uncle and aunt in the Liang Kingdom.
• Four days later, Zheng Shanhan gave Xiao Mo a share of the gold, and he and the other brothers left most of their food with him before heading north.
• Xiao Mo waited alone in the abandoned village for the little girl, but no one arrived for four days.
• On the fifth night, Xiao Mo woke suddenly after hearing a sound outside the courtyard.

Xiao Mo discovered a starving little girl in his kitchen and offered her food and a place to stay while they looked for her missing Sister Zi. She accepted on the condition that he not bully her and introduced herself as Jiang Xin, though Sister Zi called her A Xin.

• Xiao Mo heard a noise in the kitchen and found a filthy little girl hesitating over his leftover rice.
• Xiao Mo offered the girl food, and she ate the rice and drank water after he stepped back.
• The girl explained that she had been searching for Sister Zi since finding their cave empty two days earlier, and that she had refused to steal because Sister Zi taught her stealing was wrong.
• Xiao Mo offered to let the girl stay and help with chores in exchange for food while they searched for Sister Zi.
• The girl agreed, asked Xiao Mo not to bully her, and told him her name was Jiang Xin, but he could call her A Xin.

Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin spent the day together after she told him how she had been abandoned by her mother and separated from Big Sister A Zi. After Jiang Xin accidentally let their only fish escape, she feared Xiao Mo was angry and secretly returned to the stream at night to catch another one, asking him to stop being mad when she brought it back.

• Jiang Xin told Xiao Mo that her mother had left her during a famine and that Big Sister A Zi had taken her in with four other children before they all disappeared.
• Xiao Mo promised to search for news of Big Sister A Zi with Jiang Xin the next day, and the two went fishing for their food.
• Jiang Xin slipped and let the catfish escape, then repeatedly offered to let Xiao Mo hit or scold her for losing it.
• Xiao Mo woke during the night, found Jiang Xin gone, and searched the woods for her.
• Xiao Mo found Jiang Xin catching fish in the cold stream, and she returned with a catfish and asked him to stop being mad at her.

Xiao Mo took Jiang Xin to Luofeng City to exchange gold and search for news of A Zi. He learned that a swordswoman matching her description had flown toward Danyang Sect, leaving him to decide what to do with the lead.

• Xiao Mo cooked fish porridge with Jiang Xin, then agreed to let her accompany him into the city after she blackened her face to disguise herself.
• Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin traveled to Luofeng City, where Xiao Mo exchanged his gold for seventeen taels of silver at Ma Ji Pawnshop.
• Xiao Mo paid Feng Yue Tower for information about A Zi and heard that a woman matching her description had flown toward Danyang Sect with several children.
• Xiao Mo asked what Danyang Sect was, paid for more details, and learned that it was a modest alchemy sect led by a Golden Core cultivator.
• The woman at Feng Yue Tower thanked Xiao Mo for his manners and teased him by inviting him to become one of her husbands.

Xiao Mo learned that A Zi and the other children had gone to Danyang Sect, and Jiang Xin decided to go there to find them. Xiao Mo traveled with her, and as night approached on the road, Jiang Xin told him she would rather be scolded than left behind.

• An older girl offered Xiao Mo a place at Feng Yue Tower and gave him a map to Danyang Sect.
• Xiao Mo told Jiang Xin that A Zi was safe, and Jiang Xin decided to go to Danyang Sect to see whether A Zi and the other children were there.
• Xiao Mo insisted on accompanying Jiang Xin, and they bought a donkey and provisions before leaving Luofeng City.
• Xiao Mo checked that no one had followed them, then made Jiang Xin eat several meat buns before they continued toward Danyang Sect.
• As darkness fell, Jiang Xin asked Xiao Mo not to leave her behind, and then said he might as well scold her.

Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin traveled to Danyang Sect so Jiang Xin could find A Zi, whom the guards identified as Senior Sister Zixia. As the guards went to report their arrival, Zixia stood by an alchemy furnace while a man questioned why she had brought back only four children instead of the five their Master requested.

• Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin reached Blood Moon City, bought food, and left quickly to avoid attracting attention.
• While resting in a cave, Jiang Xin asked why Xiao Mo was kind to her, and he said he was softhearted and couldn't bear to see fools suffer.
• Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin reached Danyang Sect, where Jiang Xin asked the gate guards for Big Sister A Zi.
• The guards recognized A Zi as Senior Sister Zixia, and one went to report the children’s arrival.
• In Danyang Sect’s Alchemy room, a man asked Zixia why she had brought back four children when their Master had requested five.

Zi Xia’s fellow disciple Teng Ziming questioned why she had spared Jiang Xin, while Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin arrived at the Danyang Sect seeking her. Zi Xia reunited with Jiang Xin in the Alchemy room and revealed that Xiao Han and the others were inside the furnace.

• Teng Ziming questioned Zi Xia about sparing the mind-reading girl, and she threatened him with her sword.
• An Outer disciple reported that Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin had arrived, and Teng Ziming ordered that they be treated well.
• Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin were escorted through the Danyang Sect and taken to Zi Xia’s Alchemy room.
• Jiang Xin recognized Zi Xia’s voice, then sensed something was wrong and asked about Xiao Han and the others.
• Zi Xia told Jiang Xin that Xiao Han and the others were inside the Alchemy furnace.

Jiang Xin learned that Zi Xia had lured children to Danyang Sect to refine them into pills, and she and Xiao Mo were imprisoned for the same fate. When Mountain Ghost Sect invaded Danyang Sect, Xiao Mo seized the chaos to flee with Jiang Xin.

• Zi Xia revealed that she had brought Jiang Xin and dozens of other children to Danyang Sect to make pills, then ordered Jiang Xin and Xiao Mo imprisoned and prepared for sacrifice.
• Teng Ziming suggested using Xiao Mo for pills and keeping Jiang Xin alive, leaving Zi Xia to consider his proposal.
• At the guest peak, Xiao Mo endured daily Marrow Cleansing Pills while Jiang Xin blamed herself, and he urged her to live even if he died.
• A blast shattered the courtyard Formation as Mountain Ghost Sect invaded Danyang Sect, and Zhou Ye challenged Pill Daoist to battle.
• Xiao Mo took Jiang Xin's hand and ran toward the foot of the mountain amid the fighting.