Recaps

Shen Hui joined Clear Wind Temple, advanced rapidly through cultivation, and developed a powerful fire art that trapped demons. After killing the Wolf Demon near Li Family Village, he returned to the temple and quickly mastered the Aura Observation Art.

• Shen Hui followed Ji Chen to Clear Wind Temple, became Qingxuan, and discovered a Parchment Interface that let him spend Dao Xing to advance his cultivation.
• Shen Hui learned the Minor Five Elements Art: Fire Control by studying the kitchen flames, then trapped a Crimson Imp in a Heart Lamp and used a Fire Ghost against yakshas during a hallucination caused by poisonous mushrooms.
• Shen Hui cooked for the temple, discussed the value of ordinary life and study, and began learning the Wood Nurturing Technique while visiting the Back Mountain Hot Spring.
• After hearing that a Wolf Demon was attacking people near Li Family Village, Shen Hui volunteered to hunt it and went with Jingming to investigate.
• The Wolf Demon recalled its rise through eating humans, then attacked Shen Hui with a boulder, but Shen Hui cut it down with fire.
• Shen Hui left the Wolf Demon's body on the hillside and told Jingming that the Heart Lamp had burned away his seven emotions and six desires.
• Shen Hui used his Dao Xing to learn the Aura Observation Art and impressed the Old Taoist by mastering it in one night.

Shen Hui developed his magic, defeated the Dark Yin Hermit, and traveled with Ji Chen to Qu County, where they began investigating its supernatural troubles. After uncovering a buried infant spirit and killing Scholar Li and a Qishan Sect cultivator, Shen Hui prepared to investigate Zhang Family Village.

• Shen Hui practiced new elemental arts, then killed the Dark Yin Hermit and destroyed his Demon-Subduing Banner.
• Shen Hui cultivated further, drew the Corpse Condensation Sword Refinement Dao Path, and learned to use the Jadeite Gourd.
• Shen Hui left the temple with Ji Chen and arrived in Qu County, where Magistrate Wang listed the county’s troubles.
• Shen Hui and the others investigated the Liu Family Old Residence, uncovered a buried infant skeleton, and destroyed the black qi causing the disturbance.
• Shen Hui confronted Scholar Li over wasting food, then used Li’s hair to track him to a hut outside the county.
• Shen Hui killed Scholar Li and burned the Qishan Sect cultivator who had allied with him.
• Shen Hui returned to Qu County, counted the cultivation points he had gained, and prepared to visit Zhang Family Village.

Shen Hui investigated Widow Wang’s death and the disappearance of children, uncovering a child sale tied to a county clerk while rescuing Xu Afu. After helping Monk Faming deliver a roadside ghost and recovering Zhang Qi’s stolen cart, Shen Hui headed to the Mass Grave, where they found a strange creature digging in a grave.

• Shen Hui defeated an ambush by members of White Bone Hall, and the Old Taoist warned him that his second senior uncle had sent the attackers before sending him to Zhang Family Village for the She Festival.
• Shen Hui opened Widow Wang’s coffin, exposed the old man and old woman as the parents of a Red-Skinned Imp, and burned the creature and the coffin before asking Monk Faming to join his investigations.
• Shen Hui used a tracking talisman to find the missing Xu Afu in an Yi village, where an old illusionist produced a government-stamped deed showing that Xu Youtian had sold the boy with county clerk Zhang Erhe as guarantor.
• Shen Hui returned Afu to Madam Zhao and decided to find the other missing children before pursuing Zhang Erhe, while Monk Faming warned him about opposing officials protected by the dynasty’s fortune.
• Shen Hui followed a lonely ghost to its bones in a drainage ditch, and Monk Faming delivered its spirit before Shen Hui buried the remains.
• Shen Hui confronted Xu Family Village after villagers dismantled Zhang Qi’s mule cart, recovered its parts, and made Zhang Qi take a plank from an old man’s coffin lid to repair it.
• Shen Hui, Zhang Qi, and Monk Faming set out for the county town, then stopped at the Mass Grave, where Zhang Qi spotted a gray-white, red-eyed creature digging into a grave.

Shen Hui killed Bai Yulian, buried the dead, and later destroyed a troupe that abducted and mutilated children. He rescued Lu Huan, who became Ji Chen’s disciple, and the arc ended as Shen Hui watched Fang Yan’s public execution with her.

• Shen Hui trapped the Earth Wolf in the Mass Grave, but Bai Yulian appeared and confronted him over the deaths of her disciple and niece.
• Shen Hui killed Bai Yulian with Divine Bing Fire Thunder, refined her remains into the Bone Sword White Skeleton, and helped bury the dead alongside Monk Faming and Zhang Qi.
• After Faming and Zhang Qi departed, Shen Hui investigated a traveling acrobat troupe that displayed and abused mutilated children.
• Shen Hui killed the troupe’s members and freed the children, then learned that the antlered girl Lu Huan had kept them alive with her flesh.
• Shen Hui brought Lu Huan to Ji Chen, who named her Jing Huan and let her stay on Deer Rest Mountain, while Shen Hui urged her to have time to live freely.
• Chen Shou reported that Fang Yan had confessed and that officials Zhao Liangcai and Liu An had been arrested for taking bribes and covering up the crimes.
• Shen Hui tested the Skin Stripping Technique and Bone Melting Seal on a chicken while Lu Huan watched, then took her to buy clothes.
• Shen Hui and Lu Huan joined the crowd at the East Market as Fang Yan’s execution began, and the executioner started slicing him.