Recaps

Li Xiaoyu gave Zhang Xiaofan the Ghost Path General Outline and refined a drop of Soul-Nurturing Liquid to preserve and strengthen Bi Yao’s remnant soul. Zhang Xiaofan accepted his friends’ help and found renewed hope of bringing Bi Yao back.

• Li Xiaoyu gave Ghost Li the Ghost Path General Outline, explaining that it might reveal how to restore Bi Yao.
• Ghost Li broke down in tears, and Lu Xueqi comforted him as he accepted Li Xiaoyu’s friendship and help.
• Li Xiaoyu used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to refine the life energy inside it into a drop of Soul-Nurturing Liquid.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the liquid could preserve and nourish Bi Yao’s remnant soul in the Joyous Union Bell.
• Zhang Xiaofan thanked Li Xiaoyu with a deep bow, his eyes filled with renewed hope.

Zhang Xiaofan used Soul-Nurturing Liquid to restore his connection to Bi Yao through the Joyous Union Bell, while Little Gray transformed into a Three-Eyed Divine Monkey. After the group escaped the collapsing Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor, they discovered Wan Renwang and the Ghost King Sect had trapped the exhausted Yellow Bird and Black Water Profound Snake in a formation.

• Zhang Xiaofan dripped Soul-Nurturing Liquid onto the Joyous Union Bell, restoring its glow and his faint connection to Bi Yao.
• Little Gray awakened after consuming the Undying Divine Medicine and transformed into a golden Three-Eyed Divine Monkey.
• Li Xiaoyu realized the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor was closing, and he, Zhang Xiaofan, and Lu Xueqi escaped just before its stone door shut.
• The group returned to the swamp and found the Yellow Bird and Black Water Profound Snake gravely wounded after their battle.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others saw Wan Renwang and the Ghost King Sect trapping the two weakened beasts in a formation of black banners.

Ghost King captured Yellow Bird with the Dragon Trapping Gate and tried to seize the wounded Black Water Profound Snake, but Li Xiaoyu arrived and shattered the formation. Li Xiaoyu restored Black Water Profound Snake’s strength as Ghost King attacked, leaving the beast ready to turn against him.

• Ghost King activated the Dragon Trapping Gate and bound Yellow Bird and Black Water Profound Snake, then absorbed Yellow Bird into the Dragon Subduing Tripod.
• As Ghost King moved to capture Black Water Profound Snake, Li Xiaoyu’s sword qi broke the formation and knocked out the Ghost King Sect disciples maintaining it.
• Li Xiaoyu confronted Ghost King, who threatened him and prepared to attack with the Dragon Subduing Tripod.
• Li Xiaoyu sent Pure Wood Vitality into Black Water Profound Snake, healing its wounds and restoring its strength.
• Black Water Profound Snake recognized Li Xiaoyu as its rescuer and turned its fury toward Ghost King.

Li Xiaoyu drove the Ghost King Sect away from the Death Swamp and sent the Black Water Profound Snake back into the mire, but suspected the Ghost King had a deeper plan. He went to seek answers from Jin Ping'er, who was startled when he appeared behind her.

• The Black Water Profound Snake struck the Dragon Subduing Tripod, forcing the Ghost King to abandon his attempt to capture it and retreat with Azure Dragon, You Ji, and the Ghost King Sect.
• Li Xiaoyu declined to pursue the retreating Ghost King and sent the grateful Black Water Profound Snake back into the mire.
• After the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor's gate closed, Li Xiaoyu worried that the Ghost King had another goal and decided to question Jin Ping'er.
• Li Xiaoyu left Lu Xueqi, Lin Jingyu, and Zeng Shushu behind and used Shrinking Ground to an Inch to find Jin Ping'er.
• Jin Ping'er attacked the unexpected visitor with her Purple Radiance Blade, but Li Xiaoyu caught it between two fingers.

Li Xiaoyu made a deal with Jin Ping'er to learn Ghost King's plan for capturing ancient beasts. Jin Ping'er revealed that he intended to create the Four Spirits Blood Array and summon the destructive Asura, leaving Li Xiaoyu aware that Ghost King had already secured two of the required beasts.

• Li Xiaoyu approached Jin Ping'er and asked why Ghost King was capturing ancient mythical beasts.
• Li Xiaoyu offered Jin Ping'er a favor and Green Cloud Sect's support in exchange for the truth, and she agreed after he promised not to harm Ghost Li unless Ghost Li made himself an enemy of the world.
• Jin Ping'er revealed that Ghost King planned to construct the forbidden Four Spirits Blood Array and named the Kui Ox, Yellow Bird, Taotie, and Black Water Profound Snake as its sacrifices.
• Li Xiaoyu realized Ghost King had captured the Kui Ox and Yellow Bird, while Li Xiaoyu had prevented him from taking the Black Water Profound Snake.
• Jin Ping'er warned Li Xiaoyu that Ghost King was shrewd and likely had backup plans.

Li Xiaoyu returned to Green Cloud Sect and warned Daoist Daoxuan and the peak Chiefs about the Ghost King's plan to create the Four Spirits Blood Array. After Xiao Bai arrived in his courtyard, she revealed that the Beast God was nearing resurrection and that its seal was weakening in the Southern Border.

• Li Xiaoyu hurried back to Green Cloud Mountain after Jin Ping'er told him about the Ghost King's plan to create the Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Li Xiaoyu warned Daoist Daoxuan and the peak Chiefs, who ordered alerts across Green Cloud Sect and summoned Heavenly Sound Temple and Incense Burning Valley to meet with them.
• Li Xiaoyu returned to his quarters on Morning Sun Peak and found Xiao Bai waiting in his courtyard.
• Xiao Bai told Li Xiaoyu that baleful energy was rising from the Southern Border and that the Beast God was about to be resurrected.
• Xiao Bai explained that the seal at the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave in the Hundred Thousand Mountains had begun to weaken.

Li Xiaoyu learned that the Beast God could be restrained by Mystic Fire and an ancient Dragon Soul, though it could not be destroyed. Xiao Bai revealed that a Dragon Soul might be found in the East Sea’s Dragon Tomb, a perilous forbidden place, and Li Xiaoyu resolved to go there.

• Li Xiaoyu recognized the Beast God’s resurrection and the Ghost King's Four Spirits Blood Array as simultaneous threats and planned to warn the Green Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Bai said the Beast God could not be eradicated but could be restrained by two powers: Mystic Fire and an ancient Dragon Soul.
• Xiao Bai identified Li Xiaoyu’s Mystic Fire Mirror as a weapon against the Beast God, but warned that his Cultivation was too weak to unleash its full power.
• Xiao Bai explained that a Dragon Soul could purify the Beast God’s baleful energy and revealed that one might be found in the Dragon Tomb in the East Sea.
• Xiao Bai described the Dragon Tomb as a dangerous sealed demiplane, and Li Xiaoyu prepared to seek it out.

After learning that the Beast God was nearing resurrection, Li Xiaoyu obtained permission from Daoist Daoxuan to seek the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons in the East Sea. He and Lu Xueqi reached the forbidden sea region, where Li Xiaoyu began searching for a way through the ancient seal.

• Xiao Bai told Li Xiaoyu that the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons lay behind an ancient seal that required mastery of spatial laws or a countering token to bypass.
• Li Xiaoyu reported the Beast God's impending resurrection and Xiao Bai's method of countering him to Daoist Daoxuan, then requested permission to search for the tomb.
• Daoist Daoxuan approved Li Xiaoyu's journey and said he would contact Heavenly Sound Temple and Incense Burning Valley to coordinate against the demon threat.
• Lu Xueqi joined Li Xiaoyu, and the two flew east together without saying farewell to anyone.
• Following Xiao Bai's directions, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi reached the ink-black forbidden sea after half a month of travel.
• Li Xiaoyu examined the ancient seal beneath the sea and suggested they could find its pattern and pass through its weakest point.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi broke through the restriction around the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons and entered its vast graveyard of dragon bones. After resting, they set out to find a dragon soul and followed a mysterious, sorrowful song deeper into the tomb.

• Li Xiaoyu explained how to locate the restriction’s weakest point, and Lu Xueqi used the Tianya Divine Sword to test its nodes with Thunder Power while he sensed for fluctuations.
• On the fifth day, Li Xiaoyu found an unstable node in the southeastern corner, and Lu Xueqi struck it with the Tianya Divine Sword as Li Xiaoyu used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to widen the breach.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi entered the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons, where they found a vast space filled with dragon bones and the Immortal-Slaying Gourd began absorbing the surrounding dragon energy.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi rested in a cave formed by a dragon skull, then decided to search the tomb for a dragon soul.
• When a sorrowful song drifted through the graveyard, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi concealed their auras and followed it past a forest of dragon ribs.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi encountered the Sea Siren Queen in the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons and learned that her clan guarded the Dragon Clan’s resting place. After she rejected Li Xiaoyu’s plea for a dragon soul and ordered them killed, they fought the Dragon Bone Guardians, and the Queen easily froze Li Xiaoyu’s sword energy.

• The Sea Siren Queen confronted Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi for trespassing in the Dragon Clan’s forbidden grounds.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that they sought a lingering dragon soul to stop the Beast God, but the Queen dismissed his reason and ordered the Dragon Bone Guardians to kill them.
• Hundreds of sea-siren warriors attacked, and Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi cut through their ranks with their swords.
• Li Xiaoyu charged the Sea Siren Queen and unleashed a storm of sword strikes.
• The Queen blocked his attack with her Deep Sea Black Ice trident, freezing and dissolving his sword energy.

Li Xiaoyu risked triggering the ancient restriction to gain an opening against the Sea Siren Queen, but a dragon skeleton awakened and revealed the Dragon Soul Fragment. As Li Xiaoyu reached for it, his Wine Gourd absorbed the fragment and began to shudder.

• The Sea Siren Queen overwhelmed Li Xiaoyu with icy attacks, leaving him wounded and struggling to hold his ground.
• Li Xiaoyu asked Lu Xueqi to hold off the Sea Siren Queen for three breaths, then used the Mystic Fire Mirror to send the ancient restriction into a violent frenzy.
• Li Xiaoyu attacked the Sea Siren Queen from behind while she tried to control the restriction, but the oldest dragon skeleton awakened and released a powerful dragon might.
• The Sea Siren Queen recognized the dragon skeleton as the Dragon Ancestor and dropped to her knees as it dissolved, revealing a golden Dragon Soul Fragment.
• Li Xiaoyu rushed toward the Dragon Soul Fragment, but his Wine Gourd flew out and devoured it, then shuddered.

Li Xiaoyu devoured the Dragon Soul Fragment with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, gained Geng Metal Dragon Qi, and was recognized as master of the Dragon Bone Guardian clan. After returning with Lu Xueqi to Green Cloud Mountain, he received an urgent report that the Beast God had caused a disaster in the Southern Border.

• The Immortal-Slaying Gourd absorbed the Dragon Soul Fragment, transforming its power and Core Sword Qi into Geng Metal Dragon Qi.
• The Sea Siren Queen declared that Li Xiaoyu had inherited the Dragon Ancestor's power and made him master of the Dragon Bone Guardian clan.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi left the Tomb of Ten Thousand Dragons, and he strengthened its restrictions with Geng Metal Dragon Qi before they flew to Green Cloud Mountain.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak and headed to Jade Purity Hall to report to the Sect Leader.
• A bloodied disciple arrived with an emergency message from the Southern Border, and Li Xiaoyu stabilized him as he began to report that the Beast God was involved.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to Green Cloud Sect as an emergency message reported the Beast God’s resurrection and devastation in the Southern Border. After hearing the survivor’s account, Daoist Daoxuan asked Li Xiaoyu what the sect should do.

• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to Green Cloud Sect after gaining the Dragon Bone Guardian clan’s allegiance and strengthening Li Xiaoyu’s Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• A blood-red emergency talisman arrived, and a gravely wounded disciple warned the sect that disaster had struck the Southern Border.
• The disciple reported that a Lich had incited the Li Tribe to attack the other tribes and sacrificed thousands of clansmen to break the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave’s seal.
• The Beast God rose, led a Beast Demon Army across the Southern Border, and slaughtered civilians while devastating villages.
• Tian Buyi and Shang Zhengliang urged Daoist Daoxuan to send forces to the Southern Border, and Daoist Daoxuan asked Li Xiaoyu for his view.

After the Beast God was resurrected and devastated the Southern Border, Li Xiaoyu urged the Green Cloud Sect to send an elite team to strike at the Beast God's lair. Daoist Daoxuan approved the plan and began deciding who would lead the team.

• A wounded disciple reported that a Lich called himself the Beast God Envoy, instigated civil war among the Five Tribes, and used tens of thousands of Li Tribe members to resurrect the Beast God.
• The Beast God led a Beast Demon Army that devastated villages across the Southern Border and slaughtered their inhabitants.
• Tian Buyi and Shang Zhengliang called on Daoist Daoxuan to send the Green Cloud Sect to aid the Southern Border and destroy the monsters.
• Li Xiaoyu warned that a large force risked being overwhelmed and proposed sending elite disciples to find and attack the Beast God's lair.
• Daoist Daoxuan accepted Li Xiaoyu's plan, then began discussing who would lead the team as someone volunteered.

Li Xiaoyu led the Dawn Squad from the Green Cloud Sect toward the Southern Border to fight the Beast God and rescue survivors. After five days, they found widespread devastation and detected a battle in a fog-shrouded valley, where they raced to help.

• Li Xiaoyu volunteered to lead the Dawn Squad to the Southern Border and received Daoist Daoxuan’s authority to make decisions for the mission.
• Li Xiaoyu summoned the Dawn Squad to Rainbow Bridge, where Lu Xueqi, Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu, Chu Yuhong, and the other disciples gathered.
• Li Xiaoyu led the squad south, and the group traveled for five days through increasingly blighted lands.
• The Dawn Squad reached the Southern Border and found villages destroyed and countless people killed by monsters.
• Li Xiaoyu stopped the disciples from acting on their anger and ordered them to search for survivors.
• Zeng Shushu used a divination compass to locate signs of life and an aura of evil in a fog-covered valley, and Li Xiaoyu led the squad there at full speed.

Dawn Squad arrived at Qili Cave and helped the Miao Tribe fight back against the Beast Demon Army, but the Lich unleashed skeletal hands that turned the battle against them. Li Xiaoyu and Ghost Li confronted the Lich together, leaving their reunion unresolved as they prepared to join forces.

• Dawn Squad reached Qili Cave as the Beast Demon Army besieged the village and its defenses neared collapse.
• Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad in a counterattack, inspiring the Miao Tribe warriors to fight back.
• The Lich raised tens of thousands of skeletal hands from the earth, crushing Miao Tribe warriors and trapping Dawn Squad in a new struggle.
• Li Xiaoyu charged the Lich while Lu Xueqi covered him, and Ghost Li cut apart the Lich's black lightning with a burst of sword energy.
• Ghost Li revealed that the Beast Demons had killed the Great Shaman and his people, then Li Xiaoyu reached the Lich first and asked Ghost Li to join forces.

Li Xiaoyu and Ghost Li killed the Lich and helped turn the battle against the Beast Demon Army, but Li Tribe shamans unleashed Black Fire Sorcery that destroyed Qili Cave and trapped the survivors. Li Xiaoyu used the Mystic Fire Mirror to counter the flames, ending with a towering Fire God phantom appearing above the battlefield.

• Li Xiaoyu and Ghost Li joined forces to defeat the Lich, who destroyed his staff to flee before Li Xiaoyu's sword energy pierced his heart and reduced him to dust.
• Tuma Gu rallied the Miao Tribe warriors to attack the leaderless Beast Demon Army and bewitched Li Tribe warriors as they scattered.
• Dozens of Li Tribe shamans cast Black Fire Sorcery, engulfing the battlefield and Qili Cave and killing warriors and civilians.
• Li Xiaoyu formed a Three Talents Origin-Returning Formation with the Dawn Squad to withstand the flames, then brought out the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Li Xiaoyu poured his Cultivation into the Mystic Fire Mirror, whose crimson light dispelled the black flames and summoned a towering Fire God phantom.

Li Xiaoyu and the Dawn Squad destroyed the Li Tribe’s black-flame formation, but Ghost Li lost control and attacked everyone around him. After Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi failed to restrain him, Li Xiaoyu summoned a Golden Dragon with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to suppress Ghost Li’s savage aura.

• Li Xiaoyu used the Mystic Fire Mirror to destroy the black-flame sea, leaving the Li Tribe shamans unconscious and the battlefield’s devastation exposed.
• Li Xiaoyu ordered the Li Tribe warriors killed, and the Dawn Squad charged them.
• Ghost Li succumbed to his anguish and the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod’s aura, attacking Li Tribe, Miao Tribe, and Dawn Squad fighters alike.
• Lin Jingyu tried to stop Ghost Li but was struck down, while Zeng Shushu rushed to help him.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi attacked Ghost Li with their swords, but his savage aura overwhelmed them and knocked them down.
• Li Xiaoyu poured his Upper Purity Realm cultivation into the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and summoned a Golden Dragon, which suppressed Ghost Li’s aura before diving toward him.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi pulled Ghost Li back from his heart demon with Dragon Qi, the Song of Righteousness, and reminders of his past. Ghost Li regained consciousness, learned he had lost control and killed people, and was overwhelmed with guilt.

• Li Xiaoyu shielded himself, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li inside a barrier of Geng Metal Dragon Qi as Ghost Li attacked it.
• Lu Xueqi recited the Song of Righteousness, joining her power with Li Xiaoyu's to stabilize the barrier and soothe Ghost Li's mind.
• Li Xiaoyu reminded Ghost Li of Grass Temple Village and Bi Yao, helping him resist the heart demon until he dropped the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod and collapsed.
• Li Xiaoyu withdrew the barrier and helped the unconscious Ghost Li away from the battlefield while Lu Xueqi prepared to return to the fight.
• Ghost Li woke, learned he had been possessed by a heart demon, and asked whether he had killed the people whose blood stained his hands.

Ghost Li regained his fighting spirit and joined forces with Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi to end the battle before the Beast God arrived. The three charged into the enemy army and began cutting a path through it.

• Lin Jingyu and Zeng Shushu arrived and found Ghost Li alive but silent after his fight with Lin Jingyu.
• Li Xiaoyu warned that the battle had to end quickly before the Beast God sensed the disturbance and came in person.
• Ghost Li picked up the Soul-Devouring Magic Rod and asked Li Xiaoyu to join forces with him.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li charged together into the Beast Demon Army and Li Tribe warriors.
• The three fighters used coordinated attacks to tear through the enemy forces, killing Beast Demons and freeing bewitched Li Tribe warriors.

After Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li led the survivors to wipe out the Beast Demon Army and Li Tribe warriors, the Beast God appeared and revealed his plan to destroy the world. He targeted Li Xiaoyu with a devastating attack, and Li Xiaoyu unleashed all his power to defend the people behind him.

• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Ghost Li turned the battle around, and the Dawn Squad and surviving Miao Tribe warriors joined them in defeating the Beast Demons and Li Tribe warriors.
• The Beast God descended over the battlefield, and his immense pressure forced nearly everyone to their knees.
• The Beast God identified himself and declared that he would cleanse the world, while Lin Jingyu tried and failed to rise against him.
• The Beast God chose Li Xiaoyu as his first target because he sensed a power in him that irritated him.
• The Beast God fired a destructive beam at Li Xiaoyu, who unleashed his Upper Purity Realm cultivation and the Geng Metal Dragon Qi to protect the people behind him.

Li Xiaoyu withstood the Beast God's devastating attack, but was badly injured as the Beast God declared his intention to erase the world and then withdrew. After Lu Xueqi caught Li Xiaoyu, the survivors of Qili Cave began tending to the dead and preparing for the Beast Demon Army's return.

• Li Xiaoyu clashed head-on with the Beast God's black beam and survived, though the impact left him badly wounded.
• The Beast God said he wanted to reduce the world to a void, threatened to make Li Xiaoyu watch everything he cherished burn, and then vanished, promising they would meet again.
• After the Beast God's pressure disappeared, Li Xiaoyu collapsed and Lu Xueqi caught him.
• Tuma Gu led the surviving Miao tribespeople in clearing bodies and rebuilding Qili Cave.
• Zeng Shushu led Dawn Squad in setting warning and defensive arrays around the ruins in case the Beast Demon Army returned.

After Jin Ping'er warned that the Ghost King had obtained Taotie and needed only the missing Black Water Profound Snake to complete the Four Spirits Blood Array, Li Xiaoyu decided to divide their forces. He would stay to fight the Beast God and entrusted Ghost Li with stopping the Ghost King, leaving the others shocked and suspicious.

• Li Xiaoyu received Jin Ping'er's warning that the Ghost King had obtained Taotie and needed only the Black Water Profound Snake to complete the Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Ghost Li struggled with the news, torn between the Ghost King, his adoptive father, and the threat to the world.
• Zeng Shushu and Lin Jingyu said they lacked the people to face both the Ghost King and the Beast God at once.
• Li Xiaoyu decided to lead the Dawn Squad and their righteous allies against the Beast God while asking Ghost Li to stop the Ghost King.
• The Dawn Squad members objected to trusting Ghost Li because he was the Ghost King's adopted son and the Ghost King Sect's deputy sect master.

Ghost Li agreed to stop the Beast God after Li Xiaoyu trusted him and promised to seek a way to revive Bi Yao. At Qili Cave, Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad and the Miao Tribe warriors into battle, but the awakened Beast God unleashed a devastating palm strike against them.

• Li Xiaoyu told Ghost Li he trusted him and promised to devote himself to finding a way to bring Bi Yao back to life, and Ghost Li agreed to stop the Beast God.
• At dawn, Li Xiaoyu gathered Dawn Squad and the surviving Miao Tribe warriors among the ruins of Qili Cave and arranged them into a Totem Battle Formation.
• Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad into the Beast Demon Army, while Lu Xueqi, Lin Jingyu, and Zeng Shushu fought at his side and the Miao Tribe warriors followed.
• The Beast God's true body emerged from the malevolent energy and rallied the retreating Beast Demons.
• The Beast God brought down a gigantic palm of malevolent energy toward the exhausted defenders, and resolve flashed in Li Xiaoyu's eyes.

Li Xiaoyu used the strength of tens of thousands to hold off the Beast God, then called on Xiao Bai to wield the Mystic Fire Mirror. The Eight Desolations Fire Dragon split the Beast God in half, but his remains began to reform.

• Li Xiaoyu gathered everyone's Spiritual Energy and clashed with the Beast God's destructive palm, but his strength began to fail.
• Li Xiaoyu called for Xiao Bai, who appeared behind the Beast God with the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Xiao Bai unleashed the mirror's crimson light, which melted the Beast God's black palm and revealed his wariness of her.
• Xiao Bai summoned the Eight Desolations Fire Dragon, which bit the Beast God in half.
• The Beast God's remains writhed amid the baleful energy and began to re-form.