Recaps

Chen Changsheng’s Golden Age Gathering became a deadly contest inside the Buddha Pagoda, where rival powers wagered on the trapped prodigies and Follow the Heart’s release. The pagoda was destroyed in the ensuing battle, leaving the survivors buried beneath the wreckage as Chen Changsheng confronted someone nearby.

• Chen Changsheng announced the Golden Age Gathering in Avici World to draw out Follow the Heart and named Chen Feng as his chosen successor for the challenges.
• The prodigies entered the Buddha Pagoda to seek Follow the Heart and the Water Book Fragment, while Liu Yidao warned them that the gathering was a trap and the factions were treating them as expendable pieces.
• Chen Xiao, Xu Qianzhui, and Ruan Su Xian realized the pagoda was a cage designed to draw Dao Protectors into a deadly clash, but the sealed exits prevented their escape.
• Chen Changsheng and the Dao Protectors wagered realms on the trapped prodigies, while Cong Xin warned Heng Tian and the others to flee before his seal was broken.
• Ruan Su Xian left Xu Qianzhui and Chen Xiao to fight the Children of the Forbidden Ground, and Follow the Heart emerged to unleash a blood-red Bitter Sea Phenomenon around the pagoda.
• Liu Yidao wounded Jun Lin at the pagoda, then fought alongside the others after Follow the Heart killed seven prodigies and crushed him into blood mist.
• Liu Yidao held Follow the Heart for one breath, allowing Jun Lin, Chen Xiao, Xu Qianzhui, and the other prodigies to attack and destroy the Buddha Pagoda.

Chen Changsheng guided the younger generation through dangerous cultivation choices while preparing for the coming Dark Turmoil. He opened a clinic in the Water Realm, helped prodigies confront their injuries and convictions, and left Xu Qianzhui and Jun Lin considering the paths ahead.

• Chen Changsheng spared Follow the Heart after learning he had acted as a whetstone, then helped Liu Yidao survive the mark left by their battle.
• Wang Hao treated Jun Lin and offered to teach him to master the Double Pupils, but Jun Lin refused and chose to return them to the Supreme Heavenly Emperor’s lineage.
• Chen Changsheng gave Zhang Bairen Bright Immortal Rock for a sword sheath and set out to visit a Forbidden Ground, while Cui Hao Yu explained the irreversible costs of Chen Xiao’s chosen body-tempering path.
• Chen Changsheng challenged Yin Qi over the younger generation’s dangerous choices, then taught prodigies to find convictions strong enough to sustain them through battle.
• Chen Changsheng and Chen Mengjie opened a clinic, where she treated the prodigies and Chen Changsheng taught her to diagnose cultivation-related illnesses and charge consultation fees.
• Chen Changsheng showed Zhang Bairen the Netherworld Ghost Fire and explained his plans to fight the Wang family ancestor, then recruited Yun Ya Zi before Zhang’s intervention ended their glimpse into the past.
• Chen Changsheng treated Ku Mu and Luo Tong, told Zhao Wu Yu that his father had died protecting his clansmen, and challenged Zhao Wu Yu to learn from him before seeking revenge.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Xu Qianzhui might overcome Follow the Heart’s imprints through the Asking Heart Trial, then learned that Jun Lin’s stalled cultivation came from Law Conflict and said Wang Hao could help him.

Chen Changsheng set the younger generation on a three-month Mortal World Trial while confronting the Forbidden Grounds and guiding several companions through their own struggles. The trial began across the mortal world, where Jun Lin, Ling Dao, Liu Yidao, Zhang Zixuan, and others pursued uncertain paths.

• Chen Changsheng encouraged Ruan Su Xian to reclaim his resolve, and Ruan Su Xian declared he would fight for himself and resist the Dark Turmoil.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen were caught spying on a memory by Dream, then agreed to establish standards for the Heavenly Emperor and Great Emperor realms.
• Chen Changsheng sent cultivators into a three-month Mortal World Trial with strict seals and promised rewards, while Wang Hao wagered the Dark Turmoil on the younger generation’s fate.
• Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao challenged Chen Changsheng’s control of the era, and Ye Yongxian declared that he and Wang Hao would fight until one submitted.
• Jun Lin and Ling Dao struggled to find food in the trial until Liu Yidao gave them buns and advice on surviving as mortals.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Wu Du and Ku Mu shared one body, then sent Wu Du to treat Minister Gu’s daughter as part of the trial.
• Chen Changsheng taught Zhao Wu Yu and Wu Yu how deduction and the Bagua could model the world, while warning Zhao Wu Yu that her pursuit could cost her life.
• Liu Yidao told Xu Qianzhui that he had wagered with Bai Zhi over reforming Murong Xing Shuang, while Xu Qianzhui refused to let the trial turn them into beasts.

Chen Changsheng forced the cultivators to confront mortal desires and limits as the trial spread into the Water Realm and the Li Yang Dynasty. Xu Qianzhui became mortal, Jun Lin married Princess Wu Yang, and the rival groups moved toward a wider struggle in Chang’an.

• Liu Yidao agreed to stake Bai Zhi’s punishment on a trial with Xu Qianzhui, while Bai Zhi confronted Murong Xing Shuang and was left questioning his path.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the trial tested whether cultivators could understand mortal suffering, and he warned Bai Zhi that the Forbidden Ground and his own path were bound together.
• When the first trial failed, Chen Changsheng drew the Dao Protectors into a new competition and assigned a Righteous Dao Protector’s Great World to Wang Hao.
• Liu Yidao killed Wang Shanhuo as ordered, then brought her back and learned of her painful past, while Bai Zhi abandoned his Buddhist standing to take Murong Xing Shuang away.
• After Zhang Zixuan challenged Xu Qianzhui’s attempt to change his life, Xu Qianzhui asked Chen Changsheng to strip away his cultivation and make him mortal for sixty years.
• Liu Yidao led Xu Qianzhui’s group toward Chang’an as Ku Mu and Wu Du entered the Gu Residence, while Jun Lin pursued an alliance with Princess Wu Yang and married her.
• Wu Du discovered that Gu Jiu was pretending to be mad and asked her to make Ku Mu fall in love with her, but Ku Mu rejected Jun Lin’s offer to talk and said they would become enemies.
• Xu Qianzhui worried over his limited mortal life as Liu Yidao sent a distress message to the Crown Prince, and Ling Dao was appointed Crown Prince Tutor.