Recaps

Zhao Fu left the Shadowfish Clan after giving Ying Xue and Ying Li Six Water Heaven Seals and continued searching for information about the Eightfold Water Worlds. In a royal city, he was caught up in the pursuit of a palace thief and later entered the palace, where he confronted Zhang You.

• Zhao Fu gave Ying Xue and Ying Li Six Water Heaven Seals, then left the Shadowfish Clan to search for the Eightfold Water Worlds on his own.
• Zhao Fu learned that a royal palace had been robbed but continued traveling without pursuing the matter.
• A black-clothed young man threw Zhao Fu a fish-skin map and claimed it was the item stolen from the palace, so the soldiers surrounded Zhao Fu and accused him of being an accomplice.
• Zhao Fu defeated the soldiers and restrained their burly leader, but released him after Zhang You asked him to spare the man.
• Zhang You identified the stolen item as the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map and later worried that the thief might have memorized it.
• Zhao Fu entered Zhang You's palace undetected, approached her, and held her while she struggled.

Zhang You explained the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map to Zhao Fu and asked him to eliminate the prince threatening her son. Zhao Fu killed Zhang Yi and his soldiers, then spared Zhang Yi’s household only after Zhang Ti agreed to give him the women.

• Zhang You told Zhao Fu that the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map was one of three maps leading to a trove, and asked him to kill the powerful prince threatening her son.
• Zhao Fu stormed Zhang Yi’s residence and defeated the prince despite his Emperor Heaven Realm power.
• Zhao Fu killed Zhang Yi and slaughtered the soldiers as he advanced through the residence.
• Zhang Ti pleaded for her family’s lives, and Zhao Fu agreed to spare the elderly and children in exchange for the women stepping forward.
• Zhang Ti and the other women remained behind after the soldiers led the rest of the household away.

Zhao Fu spared Zhang Ti and her family after Zhang You ordered their deaths, then learned the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map might be held by Reef City's City Lord. In Reef City, Zhao Fu confronted a pickpocket and her family, demanded the City Lord appear, and faced a sudden saber attack.

• Zhang You told Zhao Fu to kill Zhang Ti and her family, but agreed to spare them after he intervened.
• Zhang Ti offered to become Zhao Fu's woman if he promised to kill Zhang You, but he refused and left to find the thief.
• Zhao Fu tracked down Zhang Yu, who said he had stolen and discarded the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map by accident and reported that Reef City's City Lord might have one.
• In Reef City, Zhao Fu caught a girl trying to pick his pocket and carried her away despite her protests.
• Fierce Fat and his group attacked Zhao Fu, but he sent them flying and demanded the City Lord come out when the City Lord's mother asked him to release the girl.
• A figure appeared and swung a saber at Zhao Fu with enough force to seem capable of cleaving a mountain.

Zhao Fu obtained information about the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map by agreeing to destroy what mattered most to the Water Yi Kingdom king without killing him. He arranged for Water East Kingdom to invade, and Water Yi Kingdom fell within three days.

• Zhao Fu defeated the short-haired city lord and learned she would reveal the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map if he destroyed what mattered most to her father, the king of Water Yi Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu agreed to the short-haired woman's demand and asked Zhang You to attack Water Yi Kingdom, promising to kill its generals himself.
• Water East Kingdom launched its invasion, and Zhao Fu assassinated Water Yi Kingdom's generals, leaving its forces in disarray.
• Water East Kingdom broke through Water Yi Kingdom's defenses, captured its king and queen, and destroyed the kingdom within three days.

Zhao Fu obtained the Water Yi Kingdom’s Multi-Spirit Treasure Map and pursued the last map held by Blue Fish. After learning Blue Da’s second brother, Blue Stone, controlled it, Zhao Fu arranged to trade for the map, leaving Blue Stone caught between rescuing his eldest brother and the gray-robed woman’s objections.

• The short-haired woman told Zhao Fu the Water Yi Kingdom held a Multi-Spirit Treasure Map, and his people found it in the treasury.
• Zhao Fu left the captured handsome man’s fate to the short-haired woman, then took the consorts with him; the next day, he searched Blue Fish for the final map.
• Zhao Fu overheard Blue Da admit that his second brother, Blue Stone, had the map, and the flirtatious woman revealed she wanted it to obtain a spirit medicine.
• Zhao Fu showed the flirtatious woman his two maps and agreed to work with her to get the last one from Blue Stone.
• Blue Stone decided to trade his family’s map to rescue Blue Da despite the gray-robed woman’s protests, and a dignified woman entered asking about her captured husband.

Zhao Fu obtained the three Multi-Spirit Treasure Maps after killing Blue Stone and Blue Da, then fused them to locate the treasure within Blue Fish territory. After Blue Lamp took leadership of Blue Fish, Zhao Fu opened the hidden stone door and was pulled inside alone.

• Blue Stone handed Zhao Fu the Multi-Spirit Treasure Map, then tried to stab him and was killed; Zhao Fu also killed Blue Da and subdued Water Blossom and Blue Lamp.
• Zhao Fu fused the three maps, and Fish Jade identified the treasure’s location as being within Blue Fish territory.
• Water Blossom asked to take her husband’s body, while Blue Lamp collected Blue Stone’s corpse and agreed to return with Zhao Fu.
• Back in Blue Fish, Blue Lamp announced that she was the new leader, with Water Blossom’s support, and kept Blue Da and his brothers’ deaths secret.
• Zhao Fu opened the hidden stone door in the mountain wall, and its pulling force sucked him inside before Fish Jade or Blue Lamp could follow.

Zhao Fu defeated the Treasure Bear, overcame the traps and bronze gate inside the Many Spirits Treasure Trove, and found Fish Jade’s medicine but not the Eightfold Water World. He left the remaining treasures for Blue Lamp and the others to share with Water East Kingdom and continued his search.

• Zhao Fu recognized the treasure-filled scene as an illusion and defeated the Treasure Bear until it surrendered, then took it along.
• Zhao Fu triggered a passageway trap, stopped himself from falling onto the spears, and destroyed the danger below with a sword strike.
• Zhao Fu blocked the bronze gate’s beams and split the gate open with a powerful black sword light.
• Zhao Fu searched the treasure chamber for half an hour, found Fish Jade’s medicine, but did not find the Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu gave Fish Jade the medicine, allowed Blue Lamp and the others to take some treasures, and left to continue searching for the Eightfold Water World.

Zhao Fu left Blue Fish after spending one last night with Fish Jade, Blue Lamp, and Water Blossom, then rescued five Shadowfish Clan women from their pursuers. After learning they wanted revenge on the young master of the Red Water Sect, he agreed to help them capture him and planned to use the trip to gather information about the region.

• Fish Jade chose to stay with Blue Lamp and Water Blossom to help manage Blue Fish, and Zhang You arrived to collect the treasures Zhao Fu had left behind.
• Zhao Fu found five Shadowfish Clan women being hunted, killed their pursuers, and learned they had attacked the Red Water Sect’s young master after he tried to molest them.
• Zhao Fu told the women he was connected to the Shadowfish Clan’s Ten Great Assassins and claimed their clan leader was his woman.
• Ying Chun, Ying Fei, Ying Li, Ying Nuo, and Ying Yi agreed to go with Zhao Fu to capture the Red Water Sect’s young master and take revenge.

Zhao Fu helped Ying Yi and the others exact revenge on Hong Hu, then learned she knew of a hidden Eightfold Water World owned by the Red Water Patriarch. He accompanied Hong Hu back to the Red Water Sect, where he concealed his control over her from the sect master.

• Zhao Fu and the women defeated Hong Hu’s guards, captured Hong Hu, and discovered she was a woman; Zhao Fu then assaulted Hong Hu and the two women, Red Tune and Red Dew.
• Afterward, Hong Hu revealed under Zhao Fu’s control that the Red Water Sect possessed a hidden Eightfold Water World held by the Red Water Patriarch.
• Ying Yi and the others departed, while Zhao Fu decided to go to the Red Water Sect with Hong Hu, Red Tune, and Red Dew.
• Hong Hu tried to have Zhao Fu seized when they returned to the sect, but Zhao Fu controlled her and made her tell the sect members she was fine and that he was her best friend.
• Hong Baihui, the Red Water Sect’s sect master, arrived and warned Hong Hu to stop stirring up trouble.

Zhao Fu stayed at the Red Water Sect while seeking the Eightfold Water World, winning Hong Qiushui and several elders’ wives to his side. He waited for Red Water Patriarch to emerge from seclusion, with his new allies promising support.

• Hong Qiushui confronted Hong Hu about her capture, then Zhao Fu entered and gained control over Hong Qiushui and the maidservants.
• Hong Qiushui agreed that she and Hong Hu could marry Zhao Fu, while Hong Hu objected.
• Zhao Fu gave Hong Qiushui and Hong Hu Eightfold Water Seals and asked how to obtain the Eightfold Water World.
• Hong Qiushui learned that Red Water Patriarch was in seclusion for a few more days and returned to tell Zhao Fu.
• Hong Qiushui brought Hong Wei, Hong Yi, Hong Xiaoliu, Hong Shu, Hong Wu, and Hong Niaoyu to meet Zhao Fu; they sought Eightfold Water Seals and pledged their support.

Zhao Fu met the Red Water Patriarch and obtained her Eightfold Water World after proving that the treasures recognized him as their master. He gave her a Six Water Heaven Seal, and Hong Qiushui asked whether she could become the Red Water Sect's next sect master.

• Hong Qiushui praised Zhao Fu for mastering six Eightfold Water Worlds, and he agreed to give her daughter a Six Water Heaven Seal as well.
• After learning the Red Water Patriarch had an Eightfold Water World, Hong Qiushui visited her and told her that the person behind the Heavenly Water Pillar phenomenon had come to the sect.
• Zhao Fu showed the Red Water Patriarch his six Eightfold Water Worlds, and her own treasure glowed in response to him.
• The Red Water Patriarch gave Zhao Fu her Eightfold Water World, and he offered her a Six Water Heaven Seal in return.
• After receiving the seal, the Red Water Patriarch agreed to consider Hong Qiushui for the next term as sect master if she met the required standards.

Zhao Fu left the Red Water Sect after gaining the Eightfold Water World from Red Water Patriarch and learned that water abysses might contain more. He arrived at the Blood Octopus Abyss and prepared to investigate it despite the formidable creature dwelling there.

• Zhao Fu told Hong Qiushui he would leave soon, while Red Water Patriarch offered to seek information about other Eightfold Water Worlds.
• Hong Qiushui and her allies gathered more women around Zhao Fu and celebrated their strengthened position within the Red Water Sect.
• Red Water Patriarch reported that her Eightfold Water World had come from ruins with no further clues, then suggested searching water abysses.
• Zhao Fu left the Red Water Sect and traveled to the Blood Octopus Abyss, where a giant octopus had once severely wounded a Half-Immortal.
• Zhao Fu questioned a city innkeeper and searched nearby cities for news, but found no evidence of an Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu reached the vast, blood-colored abyss and considered entering despite the danger posed by the Blood Octopus.

Zhao Fu failed to find the Eightfold Water World in the Water Abyss but gained Blood Octopus’s support and learned that a famous thief might know where it was. He tracked the thief to the northern Waterside Region and questioned the innkeeper’s wife, who was said to be close to him.

• Zhao Fu met Blood Octopus in the Water Abyss, learned the Eightfold Water World was not there, and gave Blood Octopus some of its power in exchange for a promise of help.
• Shadowfish Clan women told Zhao Fu the Eightfold Water World had passed through a famous thief’s hands, and that the thief might be in the northern Waterside Region.
• Zhao Fu rewarded the women and then traveled to the northern Waterside Region to search for the thief.
• Unable to locate the thief, Zhao Fu visited an inn whose owner’s wife was rumored to be his mistress and asked her where the thief was.

Zhao Fu questioned the tavern landlady and a noblewoman for information about the thief who possessed the Eightfold Water World. He found one of the thief’s hidden caves, but the treasure was not there, and he returned to the noblewoman’s courtyard.

• Zhao Fu forced the landlady to admit she was the thief’s lover, and she directed him to several women who might know where the thief had gone.
• The landlady told Zhao Fu that a noblewoman involved with the thief might have information, so Zhao Fu entered her residence at night and questioned her.
• Zhao Fu threatened to expose the noblewoman, and she revealed one of the thief’s hiding places in a nearby mountain.
• Zhao Fu used the Evil Immortal’s abilities to enter the restricted cave and found several treasures, but not the Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu returned to the courtyard and found the noblewoman pushing away her husband, confused by her own reaction.

Zhao Fu questioned two women about the thief who possessed the Eightfold Water World, but neither revealed his whereabouts. After finding treasure hidden in a ruined temple, Zhao Fu sought information from a third woman, who also claimed to know nothing.

• Zhao Fu subdued a short man and questioned the noblewoman about the thief, but she said she knew nothing more.
• Zhao Fu captured the female general and pressured her for information, but she initially refused to betray the thief.
• Zhao Fu controlled the female general and learned of a hidden treasure chamber beneath a ruined temple, but the Eightfold Water World was not there.
• The female general took the chamber’s treasure, and Zhao Fu left to continue his search.
• Zhao Fu visited a beautiful woman in a green dress, who said she knew nothing and told him to leave.

Zhao Fu questioned two women connected to the legendary thief but learned nothing about the Eightfold Water World. When a woman in black attacked and fled with the thief’s wife, she revealed she belonged to the Thieves' Alliance, which Zhao Fu refused to fear.

• Zhao Fu survived the beautiful woman's poison, overpowered her, and questioned her about the thief and the Eightfold Water World, but she had no useful information.
• Zhao Fu searched the thief’s village and questioned his wife, who knew neither about his thefts nor the Eightfold Water World.
• A woman in black attacked Zhao Fu, but he repelled her and blocked her escape with the thief’s wife.
• The woman in black claimed she was from the Thieves' Alliance and warned Zhao Fu that many of its members were stronger than him, but he insisted they stay.

Zhao Fu captured the thief’s two companions and questioned them about his disappearance, then gathered the women who knew him to search for clues. They found the thief’s corpse beneath a cliff, and Zhao Fu recovered the Eightfold Water World from his robes.

• Zhao Fu subdued the woman in black cloth and the graceful woman, then learned the thief had been gone for more than a month after setting out to steal the Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu gathered the women who knew the thief and learned that his last known movements pointed along the female general’s route.
• Zhao Fu led the women through the sky, searching for the thief with the resonance of the Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu found a corpse wrapped in black cloth beneath a cliff, and the woman in black cloth recognized the dead thief.
• Zhao Fu took the octagonal crystal—the Eightfold Water World—from the thief’s robes.

Zhao Fu returned to the women after refining the eighth Eightfold Water World, promised to help protect them, then left to seek another one. He infiltrated the Pure Water Sect’s disciple assessment, where a line-cutter stepped ahead of him just before his aptitude test.

• After Zhao Fu left, the women discussed their fear of the mighty expert who had wounded the thief and taken the Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu returned the next day, and the women welcomed him before he explained that he had to keep collecting Eightfold Water Worlds and promised to help them if they faced trouble.
• Zhao Fu traveled to the next region, learned that the Pure Water Sect possessed an Eightfold Water World, and registered for its disciple assessment as a way to infiltrate the sect.
• At the assessment, applicants tested their aptitude at the Pure Water Steles, and Zhao Fu watched people receive different results before a young man in black cut ahead of him.
• The elder moved to stop the young man for breaking the rules, but an unexpected incident interrupted him.

Zhao Fu entered the Pure Water Sect examination and stunned the sect when the crystal stele released unprecedented twelve-colored light. The Sect Master welcomed him personally, and Zhao Fu left with him after agreeing to join the sect, while Shui Mu and Jin Qingwan abandoned the remaining assessments.

• Shui Mu produced seven-colored light on the crystal stele and was offered the chance to become a core disciple, but he chose to take the examination.
• Jin Qingwan also produced seven-colored light after shoving Zhao Fu aside, then joined the elders waiting for the next assessment.
• Zhao Fu tested the crystal stele, which released twelve-colored light and forced nearly everyone present to kneel before him.
• Sect Master Shui Wenwu invited Zhao Fu to join the Pure Water Sect and offered to take him as his disciple, while Zhao Fu said he would choose a master later.
• Zhao Fu left with Shui Wenwu without taking the remaining assessments, and Shui Mu and Jin Qingwan also withdrew.

Zhao Fu, Shui Mu, and Jin Qingwan chose their masters after impressing the Pure Water Sect with their potential, while two more talented candidates joined them. As the second trial began, Zhao Fu focused on obtaining the Eightfold Water World, and Shui Mu asked to spar with him.

• Zhao Fu revealed his face, declined the chance to become the Young Sect Master, and chose the woman in purple as his master.
• Shui Mu became the tall elder's disciple, while Jin Qingwan chose Shui Wenwu as her master.
• Jiao Miao and Han Shui emerged as other candidates whose three-colored stele lights let them advance directly; Han Shui chose the white-clothed elder, and Jiao Miao chose a middle-aged man in gray.
• The first trial ended, and participants began the second trial by fighting warriors formed from water.
• Zhao Fu thought about how to obtain the Eightfold Water World, and Shui Mu asked him to spar.

Zhao Fu faced Shui Mu in a public contest and overwhelmed him with his defense and attacks. As Zhao Fu turned to leave, Shui Mu got back up and insisted that he had not lost.

• Zhao Fu invited Shui Mu, Jin Qingwan, Jiao Miao, and Han Shui to compete against him together, and they surrounded him in the plaza.
• Shui Mu attacked with his spear and coral techniques, but Zhao Fu blocked them with a defensive barrier.
• Shui Mu shattered Zhao Fu's barrier with repeated charges, but Zhao Fu struck him and sent him flying before Shui Mu's spear could reach him.
• Shui Mu attacked again with a black drill, but Zhao Fu shattered it, then struck Shui Mu several times and drove him into the ground.
• Zhao Fu turned to leave, but Shui Mu got up and said that he had not lost yet.

Zhao Fu defeated Shui Mu and Jin Qingwan with ease during the sect’s second trial, while Han Shui and Jiao Miao declined to fight him. After Jin Qingwan yielded, the trial resumed, though the spectators eagerly awaited the third trial.

• Shui Mu launched a blood spear at Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu stopped it with the aura from his body.
• Han Shui and Jiao Miao declined to compete, while Jin Qingwan turned several hundred water warriors into golden warriors and sent them to attack Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu overcame Jin Qingwan’s warriors and resisted her palm attack, forcing her to escape with a life-saving method.
• Jin Qingwan attacked with seven golden knives, but Zhao Fu seized them, wounded her, and kept the knives after she yielded.
• Shui Wenwu ordered the second trial to resume, and Jellyfish left with an elder to have her injuries treated.

After passing the Pure Water Sect’s mental trial and becoming Shui Gu’s disciple, Zhao Fu learned from her that the Eightfold Water World lay beneath the Pure Water Land. Jin Qingwan later appeared to collect seven golden flying knives and promised to keep Zhao Fu’s secret.

• The water-tree trial eliminated many candidates, while several hundred passed and became Pure Water Sect disciples.
• Shui Gu introduced Zhao Fu to his senior siblings, and Shui Ning took him on a tour of the sect.
• Zhao Fu grew intimate with Shui Ning and asked her about the Eightfold Water World, but she had never heard of it.
• Zhao Fu asked Shui Gu about the Eightfold Water World, and she revealed that it lay beneath the Pure Water Land and supplied power to the sect’s cultivation formation.
• Jin Qingwan confronted Zhao Fu after he left Shui Gu’s residence, said she had heard them, and asked for her golden flying knives.
• Zhao Fu produced seven golden flying knives and invited Jin Qingwan to take them.

Zhao Fu confirmed that the Eightfold Water World lay beneath Pure Water Land and considered becoming the Young Sect Master to obtain it. Shui Gu offered to help him claim it if he could make the Eightfold Water World acknowledge him as its master.

• Jin Qingwan recovered her seven golden flying daggers from Zhao Fu, who let her leave unharmed.
• Zhao Fu confirmed that the Eightfold Water World was beneath Pure Water Land, then obtained permission to enter and sensed it encased in an extremely hard object.
• Shui Ning and Zhao Fu cultivated together, while Shui Mi and Shui Li saw signs of their relationship.
• Shui Mi asked to become Zhao Fu's woman, and he accepted her; Shui Gu then confronted him about seeking the Eightfold Water World.
• Shui Gu said she would withstand opposition and ask the Sect Master to release the Eightfold Water World if Zhao Fu could make it acknowledge him as its master.

Zhao Fu revealed that he already possessed eight Eightfold Water Worlds, and Shui Gu secured the Pure Water Sect’s agreement to give him its own. The sect offered the treasure on the condition that Zhao Fu accept the title of Young Sect Master, and he agreed before following Shui Wenwu to retrieve it.

• Zhao Fu showed Shui Gu his eight Eightfold Water Worlds, and she promised to protect him after realizing he had caused the earlier phenomenon.
• Shui Ning reported that the sect’s Eightfold Water World was in the Pure Water Land, and Zhao Fu later learned Shui Wenwu was willing to hand it over after consulting the elders.
• Shui Wenwu offered Zhao Fu the Eightfold Water World if he accepted the title of Young Sect Master, and Zhao Fu agreed.
• Shui Wenwu led Zhao Fu and the elders into the Pure Water Land, where he drew a rune-covered stone sphere containing the Eightfold Water World from the pool.