Recaps

Zhang Chu investigated his master's disappearance in the Western Regions, uncovering Demonic Cult schemes at Desolate Manor and White Deer Academy. He reached Returning Geese Academy, freed imprisoned experts, and killed two Golden Boys guarding the Demonic Cult's operation.

• Zhang Chu completed the Heavenly Toad Undying Divine Skill's ninth layer, causing the Gu insects of Southern Border to gather and bow to him.
• Zhang Chu returned to Wanshan City, exposed Huang Zheng as the Bodhi Institute's treasure thief, and killed him after learning a strange poison had marked his spirit.
• Zhang Chu learned of Huang Xugu's last known stop at Yellow Wind Plain and traveled west, leaving Li Minghuai to guard True Martial Temple.
• At Desolate Manor, Zhang Chu saved Tu Xiong, Li Gang, Sun Youwei, and Wu Qingfeng from poison, then destroyed the compound and found a chamber where the Demonic Cult's Dao Child was being cultivated with human sacrifices.
• Zhang Chu killed the Dao Child and destroyed Desolate Manor, then accompanied Wu Qingfeng to White Deer Academy, where he killed Qin Cang and uncovered Zhou Jingshan's betrayal and the Demonic Cult's plans.
• Mo Li gave Zhang Chu the White Rainbow Sword Art and a map fragment pointing to an Underground Palace beneath Returning Geese Academy, and Zhang Chu set out for Yellow Wind Plain alone.
• Zhang Chu entered the Demonic Cult's prison, killed its guards, destroyed the dungeon while sparing the captives' cage, and freed the poisoned Righteous Path experts.
• Two Golden Boys attacked Zhang Chu using the Reverse Chaos Yin Yang Undying Ascend to Immortality Art, but Zhang Chu killed them and took the jade token marked “East.”

Zhang Chu rescued Sun Youwei, defeated the Horse Gang and Heavenly Evil Cult forces at Ghost Cry Gorge and Black Wind Camel City, and transformed his phenomena into a powerful Chaos Phenomenon. The secret letter revealed a wider cult plot to control the Western Regions, leaving Zhang Chu and Shen Zonglin weighing how to strike without alerting an infiltrated enemy.

• Zhang Chu freed captives at Yellow Wind Plain, killed the Third Golden Boy, and opened the Underground Palace with his jade tokens and True Martial Temple Token, finding it empty because his master had already taken its contents.
• Zhang Chu fused three supreme arts into the South Bright Longevity Technique, gained an undying body and third vision, then learned that Sun Youwei had disappeared and began investigating the Horse Gang.
• At Ghost Cry Gorge, Zhang Chu killed the Copper Refining Man and destroyed the Heavenly Evil Cult branch, then found and healed Sun Youwei, who warned that the cult and Horse Gang planned to seize the Western Regions.
• Zhang Chu refused to lead a Righteous Path alliance and went alone to Black Wind Camel City, where he killed Ma Xiong, Ma Lie, Ma Kui, and Ice Peak Old Man before destroying the Horse Gang headquarters.
• Shen Zonglin recognized Ice Peak Old Man’s black token as a relic of the Source Cult, and Zhang Chu ordered him to investigate the Source Cult and Heavenly Evil Cult in secret.
• Zhang Chu spent three million Merit Points fusing his four phenomena into the Chaos Phenomenon, forming a Divine Mansion Rudiment with vastly increased Spiritual Power.
• Shen Zonglin brought Zhang Chu a secret letter revealing the cult’s plan to control the Western Regions’ passes, and identified the Ancient Nether Abyss as its headquarters while warning that Sky Patrol Guard garrisons had been infiltrated.

Zhang Chu uncovered the Fu Character Stele, pursued the Medicine Dao Master’s experiments, and entered Illusionary City in search of the Bottom-Supporting Divine Technique. After defeating the Water Walker and the Swordsman, he began suppressing the White Eye, though its power repeatedly battered his Divine Mansion Rudiment.

• Zhang Chu entered Samsara Hall with Jiang Yao and Wu Qingfeng, exposed its illusions, and recovered the Fu Character Stele before the hall collapsed.
• Jiang Yao explained Dugu Weiwo’s history and the Seven Limits divine skills, while Zhang Chu chose to cultivate the corrupting Fu Character Technique.
• Zhang Chu joined the Western Regions Sky Patrol Guard, mastered two classics, and killed Zuo Xiao and the Blood Sand Thirteen Riders at Red Sand Ridge.
• Zhang Chu uncovered the Gold Powder and corpse experiments at White Bone Villa, then destroyed the immortal Flying Zombie and learned that Lady White Bone was the Medicine Dao Master.
• Zhang Chu strengthened the Sea Moon Residual Illumination Technique and traveled toward Western Regions Ancient City, where he killed Meng Huan and obtained a Shatuo Flower.
• Zhang Chu entered Illusionary City, saw through its false vision of Jiang Yao, and discovered that the city’s apparent stele and fighters were illusions before encountering the Ancient God Relic.
• Zhang Chu refused to surrender the relic and killed the Water Walker and the Swordsman, then recovered from their attacks as Zhu Xi warned him about the relic’s dangers.
• Zhang Chu resisted the White Eye’s influence and repeatedly used Chaos Qi to erase its rainbow blood, earning three million Merit Points while suffering severe backlash.