Recaps

Shen Hui and his companions survived the corpse plague and a series of hauntings before reaching famine-stricken Zhaoyang, where Mo Yunsong sought grain for the refugees. Shen Hui grew a vast peach tree to feed them, then continued east with Lu Huan and encountered weasels disguised as innkeepers and a wary group of travelers.

• Shen Hui discovered that Bright Moon Nunnery was a Rakshasa’s trap, destroyed the ghost, and led his companions away from the burning nunnery.
• At Zhaoyang Commandery City, Shen Hui’s group faced a starving mob before entering the city and learning that refugees were being denied food.
• Shen Hui destroyed the white-clad ghost haunting Prefect Zhao’s residence, but learned the granaries were empty and the promised funds came from Zhao’s family wealth.
• Mo Yunsong tried to obtain grain from wealthy households, and Shen Hui offered him a Frost Peach that could extend his life.
• Mo Yunsong asked Shen Hui to exchange the peach for food, so Shen Hui planted its pit and a colossal peach tree fed the refugees outside the city.
• Shen Hui and Lu Huan continued east, uncovered weasels wearing human skins at a mountain inn, and buried their bodies with a thunder trap around a fox-carved coin.
• Shen Hui killed wild boars for food and shared a post station bonfire with travelers who had escaped a dangerous pursuer and suspected the pair might be spirits.

Shen Hui and Lu Huan crossed demon-haunted villages and ruined Echo Pavilion, then continued toward Jingzhou while helping travelers along the way. After killing Pei Wan and meeting Xu Ye, they learned of Penglai Island’s true nature and heard a story about an Old Taoist who died defending refugees.

• Shen Hui and Red Calamity killed a giant snake at a relay station, then Shen Hui and Lu Huan uncovered and destroyed the snake-worshipping monsters in a village.
• Shen Hui killed the monsters at Echo Pavilion, collected its treasures, and began learning to refine artifacts and play the Wind Flute.
• Shen Hui and Lu Huan met an old man who urged them to withdraw from the world, but Shen Hui affirmed that he would keep helping people and killing demons.
• Shen Hui and Lu Huan reached Falling Cloud Town, where Shen Hui wrote a poem at an inn before flying away in public and drawing the Old Man after them.
• Shen Hui and Lu Huan joined a wedding procession after Shen Hui destroyed an evil spirit, attended the wedding feast, and continued along the moonlit road.
• Shen Hui killed Pei Wan when she threatened him, and Xu Ye explained that she had pursued him for his essence-harvesting art.
• Xu Ye told Shen Hui and Lu Huan that Penglai Island was a giant whale and offered to send them Jiang Heng’s Swallowing Sea Sword Qi manuscript.
• Xu Ye recounted how an Old Taoist defended a peach tree that fed refugees from greedy officials and merchants, then died after summoning lightning.

Shen Hui and Lu Huan traveled through plague-stricken lands, destroyed the vine spirit consuming Cold Spring County, and reached Severed Connection Mountain. Shen Hui wiped out the Plague Emperor Sect and its allies, then returned to Lu Huan and began salvaging the mountain pavilion.

• Shen Hui and Lu Huan entered Cold Spring County with Miss Zhu’s party, where vines had overrun the city and seized its people.
• Shen Hui destroyed the vine spirit by severing its connection to the Mystic Response True Lord statue and refining the emerald pearl, causing the city’s vines to wither.
• Shen Hui completed the Great Five-Elements Extinction Divine Light, then released Miss Zhu’s survivors and parted from Xu Ye.
• Shen Hui and Lu Huan reached Floating Cloud County, where Shen Hui cured young men poisoned after visiting Severed Connection Mountain and learned the Plague Emperor Sect was involved.
• Shen Hui followed the military scout’s lead to Severed Connection Mountain and killed thousands of Plague Emperor Sect members with rain transformed into tiny fish.
• Shen Hui defeated Zhuge Qian and a white-haired Nascent Soul Cultivator, then used the remains of the sect members to comprehend Hundred-Sword Corpse Coffin.
• Shen Hui confronted a Corpse Refining Sect old man, destroyed his corpses, and pursued him, but the old man escaped by leaving a decoy behind.
• Shen Hui returned to Lu Huan, gathered valuable roof tiles from the pavilion, and inspected its purple-black pillars.

Shen Hui destroyed the Blood Banner Army in Floating Cloud County, protected its survivors, and continued south while investigating Corpse Demons. He gathered new companions and disciples, revealed his Golden Core cultivation, and set out to seek mountains and ancient ruins.

• Shen Hui explored the hidden cavern beneath the hot spring, refined Frost Chi, freed Crimson Luan, and collected the cave’s Gu creatures.
• Shen Hui freed a family trapped by an ancient locust tree, then reached Floating Cloud County and killed Officer Chen and the soldiers plundering its streets.
• Shen Hui killed the Blood Banner Army’s cultivators and soldiers, burned their camp, and protected Floating Cloud County’s survivors with enchanted well water, a tower, and a sword restriction.
• Shen Hui traveled south with Lu Huan, Patriarch Baoxue, and Daoist Feng, learning rumors about Nascent Soul True Lords and demons that could watch from afar.
• Shen Hui found a village overrun by Corpse Demons, buried the dead family, and took the surviving Hu Cheng to pursue an escaped demon.
• Shen Hui learned Swallowing Sea Sword Qi, accepted Hu Cheng as a disciple, and reunited with Lu Huan, Daoist Feng, Nie Yun, and Lu Xuansong.
• Shen Hui revealed that he had reached the Golden Core Realm, heard Nie Yun’s story and the news of Grand Void Temple’s collapse, then planned to seek mountains and ancient ruins.
• Shen Hui gave Nie Yun a Thunder Talisman for Sun Chengying and asked her to deliver it if she met him beneath the peach tree in Zhaoyang Commandery City.