Recaps

Zeng Anmin returned from the Jiang Kingdom, revealed his identity to the Princess, and searched for the missing Bai Ziqing as the Demon Race moved against the capital. Zeng Shilin confronted Xiangliu at the Minister’s Residence, using the Ancestral Dragon Diagram in a plan that left him rapidly aging and Xiangliu fearing for its life.

• After defeating Gu Yuqing’s forces, Zeng Anmin left the Jiang Kingdom with Bai Ziqing and returned to the capital, where he told Zeng Shilin about his achievements and marriage to Empress Gu Xiangnan.
• Zeng Anmin revealed to the Princess that he was Wu Yanzu, then visited Qin Wanyue and learned she had entered the fifth rank.
• When Bai Ziqing disappeared, Zeng Anmin defied Eunuch Liu’s orders, learned Xu Zilin had gone to Two Rivers Prefecture, and followed clues that pointed to Zeng Shilin’s involvement.
• The Demon Emperor Sacred Ancestor learned that Zeng Shilin held the Confucian Sage’s Manuscript and set out, while Demon King Yangli headed for the Minister’s Residence.
• Zeng Anmin realized Dean Qin was Yangli and deduced that his father and Master Xu had let the Demon Race steal the Dragon Survey Map to help him fight Xiangliu, then rushed back to the capital.
• Zeng Shilin sent Concubine Lin and Huzi away before Master Xu arrived to support him, and Master Xu offered a seven-colored lotus root that could restore Zeng Shilin after his death.
• Xiangliu broke into the Minister’s Residence demanding the Confucian Sage’s Manuscript, and Zeng Shilin revealed that he had awakened the Ancestral Dragon Diagram with its true intent disguised by Vast Righteous Qi.
• As Zeng Shilin rapidly aged and fell to the ground, Qin Shouchang appeared and Xiangliu realized it might be about to die.

Zeng Anmin and Zeng Shilin survived the battle with Xiangliu, while Zeng Shilin’s sacrifice led to his resurrection and a new role as a Sage. During the spring examination, the Illusory Demon Lord invaded Master Xu’s formation, leaving Zeng Anmin to lead the trapped Confucian Cultivators against the red barrier.

• Zeng Shilin sacrificed himself to destroy Xiangliu, and Zeng Anmin used the Time Golden Lotus to revive his father as a Second Rank Sub-Sage.
• Zeng Shilin returned publicly from the dead, received the title of Duke of Qi, and told Zeng Anmin that the Confucian Sage had made him a disciple to investigate the Barbaric Mystery Realm.
• Zeng Anmin and Qin Wanyue’s families arranged their engagement, though Xu Mingxin’s divination delayed the betrothal and Zeng Anmin began drawing closer to the Princess.
• Zeng Shilin set the spring examination around the topic “Sages Descend Upon the Demon Mountain,” and Zeng Anmin led hundreds of scholars to volunteer for the campaign against the demons.
• After three months of training, Zeng Anmin joined the Princess’s force and killed the Great Strength Bull King with golden Vast Righteous Qi.
• The Illusory Demon Lord invaded Master Xu’s examination formation, and Master Xu restored the participants’ memories before warning them that he had lost control.
• Zeng Anmin led the Confucian Cultivators away from the Red Mist, then concluded that its towering wall was meant to trap them rather than attack them.
• Zeng Anmin powered himself with a spirit stone and punched the colossal red wall.

After surviving the Illusory Demon Lord’s furnace, Zeng Anmin became Southern Commander and investigated Xiang Wangxian’s murder, uncovering a child-trafficking plot tied to the Xi Huang Diagram. He killed Ji Qing while searching for Huzi, then learned Huzi had been rescued by the abbot of Fa'an Temple, who asked him to care for Yingchen.

• Zeng Anmin resisted the Illusory Demon Lord’s furnace, survived the collapse of her array, and returned safely to his father.
• Zeng Anmin became Southern Commander and agreed to help Bai Ziqing investigate Xiang Wangxian’s murder.
• Zeng Anmin questioned Bai Zihua and discovered that a black-clad man had forced him to kidnap children born on Ten Spiritual Day.
• Zeng Anmin connected the disappearances to the Dao Sect and narrowed the suspects to Ji Qing, Dean Shi, and Zeng Shilin.
• Zeng Anmin deduced that Ji Qing held the Xi Huang Diagram and told the Princess he suspected Ji Qing had killed Xiang Wangxian.
• Zeng Anmin realized Huzi had been born on a Ten Spiritual Day and rushed to West Mountain, where Ji Qing ambushed him.
• Zeng Anmin awakened the time-stopping fifth attribute of the Ancestral Dragon Diagram and killed Ji Qing, but found no Xi Huang Diagram.
• Zeng Anmin found Huzi at Fa'an Temple, where the abbot revealed Huzi’s Pure Wisdom Root and asked Zeng Anmin to look after Yingchen.

Zeng Anmin uncovered the Dao Sect’s attempt to seize Buddhist Destiny and confronted Daoist Master Jiyuan and the Dao Head at the convention. He survived the battle through Buddhist Destiny, though the necklace-like tattoo on his neck absorbed it along with the resentment power.

• Zeng Anmin killed Ji Qing, rescued Huzi from the black aura with a pill, and explained the case to Zeng Shilin.
• Emperor Jianhong rewarded Zeng Anmin and Zeng Shilin, appointed Zeng Shilin Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince, and ordered Ji Qing’s estate confiscated.
• Zeng Anmin found the Xi Huang Diagram in Ji Qing’s estate, and its Decay Qi entered his Sea of Consciousness until Master Hongji extracted and contained it.
• Elder Jiyuan wounded Zeng Rongyu with Chaoyuan Sword Qi, and Guanglingzi offered his Divine Soul Power to save her if Zeng Anmin established a nation.
• Zeng Anmin reached the third-rank Embrace Flame Realm, then rushed to Fa’an Temple when Daoist Master Jiyuan challenged the Buddhist monks to climb his Dao Heart Stairway.
• Zeng Anmin climbed to the top of the stairway, received a Dao Star from the Dao Ancestor Remnant Soul, and learned that he had gained control of Jiyuan’s Dao Heart.
• Zeng Anmin forced Jiyuan to confess, killed him, and shot out both eyes of the Dao Head’s Dharma Aspect, breaking its pressure and ending the attack on Fa’an Temple.
• Master Hongji transferred Buddhist Destiny into the dying Zeng Anmin, while the necklace-like tattoo on his neck absorbed it and the resentment power, and Zeng Anmin then woke as the tattoo burned hot.