Recaps

Aaron survived the court’s collapse, raised an army of revived soldiers, and began building the Supreme Way Sect as Great Song descended toward rebellion. He seized Lu Prefecture Market and demanded supplies from its prominent households, including Gu Yue.

• Aaron healed Pearl with a miraculous fruit, gained the Emperor’s favor, and was named Tongling Yuanmiao True Lord after demonstrating his powers at court.
• After the Emperor died, Aaron fled the court’s purge, killed Tong Jing and Wen Ruoming, and saw the realm’s dragon fortune collapse into chaos.
• Aaron raised fallen enemies as Six Jia Divine Soldiers and returned to his home village, where he built a school and taught villagers the Supreme Way Sect’s practical doctrines.
• Aaron founded the Supreme Way Sect with Tai Chong, Tai He, and Tai Yin, while Song Gongbao accepted amnesty and Poison Dragon backed Xiao Yang’s rebellion.
• Poison Dragon urged Xiao Yang to kill Chen Zitong, but Xiao Yang’s rebellion failed and Poison Dragon was left dying with Xiao Zi and Xiao Liang.
• Aaron led his soldiers to capture Black Wind Stronghold, revived the surrendered chief as Black Two, and killed imperial cavalry pursuing Poison Dragon.
• Aaron gave Poison Dragon a Fire Jujube, then seized the Patrol Inspectorate in Lu Prefecture Market and held local householders, including Gu Yue, to a demand for grain.

Aaron raised Xiao Liang as King of Liang, expanded Great Liang through conquest and sweeping reforms, and defeated Di You’s King of Wu. With Great Song’s army advancing, Aaron fortified Lishui County while Song Gongbao was driven into repeated assaults that left his fate uncertain.

• Aaron defeated the Phoenix Soaring Army, captured Jiangzhou Prefecture City, and crowned Xiao Liang King of Liang.
• Aaron built Great Liang’s administration around trained clerks, land surveys, new taxes, and military colonies, then destroyed the Five Nights Sect and confiscated land from households that had concealed it.
• Di You advanced against Great Liang, but Aaron’s forces defeated the King of Wu’s army, and Void Spirit Master killed Di You.
• Great Pine sent a large imperial army south, and Aaron marched to Lishui County with five thousand Six Jia Divine Soldiers to defend against it.
• The Exalted Bright Way’s Grand Master used a ritual that wounded Xiao Liang’s dragon aura, while Song Gongbao’s army suffered heavy losses taking Liang’s stockades.
• Gao Qiu ordered Song Gongbao to keep attacking Lishui County despite his losses, and Song led his troops onto the walls before Li Xuanfeng appeared and struck him down.

Aaron conquered the south and north, then overthrew Xiao Liang after the emperor tried to reclaim his mandate. Centuries later, as the Fate Controllers began draining spirituality from the Mortal World, Aaron protected a handful of believers and prepared to exile himself until his ritual was complete.

• Aaron’s forces took Goldstone City and Xu Prefecture, while he rejected Haoran’s reforms and crushed resistance with costly sieges and purges.
• Aaron marched north and defeated Wanyan Lie’s possessed army, killing the King of Gold and transforming King of Liang into a true dragon.
• Great Liang expanded under Xiao Liang, while Aaron’s disciples reported his political isolation and Xiao Liang secretly plotted against him.
• After Tai Yin exposed Xiao Liang’s plan to sacrifice to Heaven, Aaron suppressed the rebellion, killed Tai Chong and Tai He, and left the emperor’s fate to a public vote.
• The public vote condemned Xiao Liang, and Aaron executed him despite warnings of Heaven’s backlash, opening a passage to the Underworld as the scarlet moon appeared.
• Centuries later, Aaron used Xiao Lin to draw out Daoist Mystic Heart and confirmed that his Imprint ritual was complete, while foreseeing the Spirit Realm’s collapse.
• Raven revealed that the awakened Fate Controllers would drain spirituality from the Mortal World, and Aaron told his followers to prepare and pray to the Spirit of Void.
• As spiritual powers failed, Aaron preserved Lilliat’s abilities through the Secret Source, erased the Spirit of Void’s name from records and memories, and decided to exile himself until his ritual was complete.

Aaron recovered as Bai Zhu, mastered occult arts, and became embroiled in the struggle between the Heaven and Earth Society and the court. After his power erased the curse restraining the Others, he helped Bai Huasheng defeat Ji Shengshi and then prepared for the Fate Controllers’ War.

• Aaron escaped the rebels after killing Ma Dang, discovered the wax arts at Hawkins Wax Museum, and used a talisman to turn Sun the Flying Yaksha and her troops into wax.
• Aaron reached Jinhu, advanced his martial arts, and joined Cheng Dongnan to receive the World-Shocking Book, which he used to learn occult arts and transform his fighting techniques.
• Aaron killed Force Gang’s leaders and the Sixth Chief, then went to Tanka Harbor, where Cheng Dongnan and Nangong Wusheng fought as the court attacked the Heaven and Earth Society.
• Aaron fought Yang Kui, whose Crimson Creator power awakened during their battle, and summoned his main body to imprison part of the Crimson Creator’s will.
• Aaron returned to the Bai family, learned that Bai Huasheng was preparing a rebellion, and killed Huang Laohu before freeing Horse King God from the curse binding him.
• After Bai Huasheng seized Broad South Prefecture, Aaron spread his consciousness across Great Xuan and erased the curse power from the Others’ bloodlines.
• Ji Shengshi suppressed uprisings and surrounded Bai Huasheng’s forces, but Aaron killed him with a demonic tiger attack, and the Bai family later founded the Yue dynasty.
• Aaron learned that his true body needed him for the Fate Controllers’ War and sent his Second Nascent Soul to ascend and scout the way.