Recaps

Ma Yuxuan and Chen Changsheng investigated the disappearing Water Law while navigating Great Jing’s anomalies and political powers. Ma Yuxuan’s body began turning into an eerie treasure, and the arc ended as he prepared to investigate Mountain Hollow Village with Xue Huan, Wu Yan, and the mysterious Lao Luo.

• Ma Yuxuan destroyed the human-faced yellow eel in Yellow Mud Village’s Water God Temple, restoring the village’s water, then left after Chen Changsheng challenged him to consider the villagers’ desperation and the wider crisis.
• Chen Changsheng and Ma Yuxuan split up to investigate Great Jing, and Ma Yuxuan entered the Anomaly Suppression Bureau while Chen Changsheng took a night-watch post in Bright Capital City.
• Ma Yuxuan investigated the murder of Xue Huan’s family and learned from her that the Xue family had discovered a skeleton with the Imperial Jade Seal and evidence that Great Jing might run out of water.
• Ma Yuxuan fought the person behind the attacks and used his primordial spirit to injure the wielder of a Fifth-Tier Eerie Treasure, but his body remained lifeless until Chen Changsheng confirmed that it was turning into an eerie treasure.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that origin qi cultivation was suppressing their sea of bitterness cultivation and causing mutations, then urged Ma Yuxuan to find his own path and solve the water problem.
• Ma Yuxuan taught Xue Huan about cultivation and helped her increase her affinity with Origin Qi, while warning her that absorbing too much could turn her into a monster.
• Wei Zhou promoted Ma Yuxuan and gave him a Bone Artifact, while Ma Yuxuan told Xue Huan to sell most of the Xue Household’s assets and continued seeking a way to reconcile the two cultivation systems.
• Xu Nian hired Chen Changsheng to kill Ma Yuxuan, and Ma Yuxuan prepared for a dangerous mission to Mountain Hollow Village with Xue Huan, Wu Yan, and Lao Luo, whose hidden identity Ma Yuxuan had begun to suspect.

Ma Yuxuan and Chen Changsheng survived the anomalies in Mountain Hollow Village and uncovered the Great Jing Dynasty’s hidden history. As Chen Changsheng and Ma Yuxuan parted from Xue Huan and moved on, the other factions began preparing to face the Four Madmen by pursuing the mystery of the Immortal Domain.

• Ma Yuxuan entered Mountain Hollow Village with Xue Huan and Wu Yan, endured its wedding-feast anomaly, and helped defeat its eerie beings while Wu Yan and Luo Fen transformed into monsters.
• Chen Changsheng’s allies restored Ma Yuxuan and removed his Origin Qi contamination, while Chen Changsheng sent Nalan Zi Ping and others to confront Zhu Ge.
• The Divine Beasts recalled Chen Changsheng’s predictions about their declining authority and considered allying with him against the Four Madmen in exchange for the truth about the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Xue Huan and Ma Yuxuan would eventually grow apart, then used clues and experience to infer the Great Jing Dynasty’s hidden scheme.
• Chen Changsheng and Ma Yuxuan confronted the man who had killed the Great Jing emperor, learned that the emperor’s schemes had caused the Mountain Hollow Village disaster, and secured a promise to protect Xue Huan.
• Chen Changsheng restored Great Jing’s Water Law, and Ma Yuxuan said goodbye to Xue Huan before leaving with him.
• Zhang Bairen and his allies planned to lure out hidden experts with the Immortal Domain, while the Sword Ancestor explained the domain’s history and revealed Dream’s conflicts with his master’s remnant.