Recaps

Zhao Fu obtained the Pure Water Sect’s Eightfold Water World, then used the origins of all eight Eightfold Water Worlds to rebuild the sect’s pool as a stronger formation. After giving Jin Qingwan an Eightfold Water Seal, he faced Han Shui, who revealed she had come seeking the Eightfold Water World too.

• Shui Wenwu revealed the Eightfold Water World hidden inside a stone sphere, and it acknowledged Zhao Fu as its master.
• After the elders left, Zhao Fu promised Shui Gu he would search for the other Eightfold Water Worlds and later return.
• Zhao Fu used the origins of all eight Eightfold Water Worlds to construct a formation that made the Pure Water Sect’s pool at least four times stronger.
• Jin Qingwan asked what Zhao Fu had taken from the Pure Water Land, and he revealed the Eightfold Water World before giving her an Eightfold Water Seal.
• Han Shui demanded an Eightfold Water Seal, and Zhao Fu learned she had come to the Pure Water Land seeking the Eightfold Water World.

Zhao Fu and Han Shui left the Pure Water Sect to investigate the ruins of Han Shui’s family home, but they encountered an Alchemy Clan attack on a water race nation. As the nation’s queen and king were surrounded while fleeing, the queen refused to surrender, and the group faced the attackers’ threats.

• Han Shui told Zhao Fu that her family had vanished with an Eightfold Water World after an anomaly, and Zhao Fu offered to give her one and help find them in exchange for her agreement.
• Zhao Fu and Han Shui left the Pure Water Sect the next day and headed toward Han Shui’s former family home.
• Zhao Fu saw the Alchemy Clan breach a water race nation’s defenses and slaughter its soldiers.
• The nation’s queen fled with her teenage son and other people, but Alchemy Clan soldiers surrounded them on the way south.
• The king offered to surrender, while the queen and a woman in beige refused; other women considered surrendering as the attackers threatened them.

Zhao Fu rescued the queen and her people from alchemy soldiers and agreed to send them to the Pure Water Sect, while promising to help restore their country. After the queen and several women became close to him, Zhao Fu and Han Shui continued their search for her relatives.

• The queen prepared to break through with the woman in the beige dress, but Zhao Fu arrived and killed the lecherous man and a metal squid while shielding the group from an attack.
• Zhao Fu escorted the queen and her people to a secluded valley, where the queen asked him to protect them and help restore her country.
• Zhao Fu agreed to send the group to the Pure Water Sect and promised to do his best to help restore their country.
• The queen asked her son to call Zhao Fu Father, but Zhao Fu told the boy to use his name instead.
• The queen and her people set out for the Pure Water Sect, and Zhao Fu left with Han Shui to continue searching for her relatives.

Zhao Fu and Han Shui followed traces of the Eightfold Water World through frozen ruins and a village of victims, then encountered a pack of wolves carrying its power. After Zhao Fu captured the wolves, a man from the Snowfish Tribe confronted him over them, and Zhao Fu demanded that he hand over the Eightfold Water World.

• Zhao Fu sensed remnants of the Eightfold Water World's power in Han Shui's ruined home and followed the drifting motes with her.
• Zhao Fu and Han Shui found frozen corpses, then discovered a woman and three children hiding in a village from an invisible monster that had killed the villagers a month earlier.
• Zhao Fu agreed to take the survivors to a nearby city and led them through a snowy forest.
• A pack of white wolves attacked Zhao Fu's group, and he realized they bore the Eightfold Water World's power and might lead him to it.
• Zhao Fu captured the wolves, but a burly Snowfish Tribe man appeared, claimed he had raised them, and attacked after Zhao Fu demanded the Eightfold Water World.

Zhao Fu killed the white-wolf chieftain and questioned his wives about the Eightfold Water World, but they knew nothing of it. Xue Cha revealed that the stronghold had eaten meat from beasts killed by a monster a month earlier, and Zhao Fu found traces of the Eightfold Water World's power in the stored meat.

• Zhao Fu killed the burly chieftain after discovering that the man could not tell him where the Eightfold Water World was, then took control of the white wolves.
• Zhao Fu followed the wolves to their mountain stronghold and entered by claiming to be the chieftain's friend.
• Xue Yu, Xue Yi, and Xue Cha confronted Zhao Fu, and he revealed that he had killed their husband before overpowering them.
• Zhao Fu questioned the three women about monsters, and Xue Cha recalled that wild beasts had been killed nearby about a month earlier.
• Zhao Fu examined the meat stored in the stronghold's warehouse and confirmed it contained traces of the Eightfold Water World's power.

Zhao Fu left Snow Flower and the other women at the stronghold, then confronted its remaining chiefs after learning they might retaliate for the First Stronghold Master’s death. He overwhelmed the stronghold and forced its leaders to submit, sparing the Fifth Stronghold Master after Xue Qin promised obedience.

• Zhao Fu told Snow Flower she could stay in the village and learned from Xue Cha that four other stronghold masters shared control of the stronghold.
• Zhao Fu killed the Second Stronghold Master and the Fourth Stronghold Master, then took Xue Ying with him as the stronghold’s people gathered.
• Xue Qin ordered the crowd to attack Zhao Fu, but he blasted them aside and compelled Xue Qin to come with him.
• Zhao Fu confronted the Fifth Stronghold Master and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xue Qin promised that the stronghold would obey Zhao Fu, so he spared the Fifth Stronghold Master despite the youth’s defiant refusal to submit.

Zhao Fu subdued the stronghold and left with Han Shui to continue tracking the monster, but the trail vanished atop a vast sheet of ice. At a Snowfish Tribe, Xue Qiao brought Zhao Fu to meet her grandmother after he learned that something strange had afflicted the tribe.

• Zhao Fu restrained Xue Qin's fifth brother and forced Xue Mei and Xue Li to cooperate by threatening his life.
• Zhao Fu's group took control of the stronghold, and he told Xue Yi where to find her husband's corpse and the white wolves.
• Zhao Fu left the stronghold with Han Shui and searched for half a day, but the blue lights marking the monster's trail disappeared on a massive sheet of ice.
• Zhao Fu and Han Shui reached a large Snowfish Tribe, where a guard initially refused them entry.
• Xue Qiao recognized that Zhao Fu might help with the tribe's trouble and escorted him to see her grandmother.

Zhao Fu cured the Snowfish Tribe members afflicted by contaminated well water and learned that the illness came from the wounded monster’s blood. After replenishing his power with Xue Yan and several women, he left with Han Shui to continue tracking the monster.

• Xue Qiao brought Zhao Fu to her grandmother, chieftain Xue Yan, who asked him to examine a tribesman suffering from a frost-like illness.
• Zhao Fu drove the harmful Eightfold Water World aura out of the sick man and found blue liquid, apparently the monster’s blood, at the bottom of the well.
• Zhao Fu told Xue Yan to stop using the well, then replenished his power through dual cultivation with Xue Yan and Xue Qiao.
• Zhao Fu treated the tribe’s afflicted members, and they recovered as Han Shui worried about her family.
• Xue Yan brought women to help Zhao Fu recover further, and Zhao Fu told her he had to continue searching for the wounded monster with Han Shui.

Zhao Fu followed the monster’s blue aura to another tribe, where he cured the sick and became caught up in Xue Wu’s coup. After Xue Wu seized control, Zhao Fu rescued the former chief’s four wives and was left to decide what to do with them.

• Zhao Fu and Han Shui followed the blue aura to a large tribe, where guards were preparing to kill the people infected by the disease.
• Zhao Fu stopped the executions and cured the sick, then saw Xue Wu’s forces kill the tribal chief, Xue Qiu, and take control of the tribe.
• Xue Wu asked Zhao Fu to treat the remaining sick people, and he cured Xue Li while Xue Wu purged her opponents.
• Xue Li explained that Xue Wu had used the chief’s visit to launch her surprise attack and said the chief had mistreated the infected tribespeople.
• When Xue Wu ordered the former chief’s four wives, Xue Mei, Xue Yi, Xue Ling, and Xue Ti, killed, Zhao Fu asked to take them instead, and Xue Wu agreed.

Zhao Fu continued tracking the monster whose illness outbreak had reached the Snowfish Tribe twenty-five days earlier. He left Xue Wu’s tribe with Han Shui and traveled to Snowtime City with Snow Demon’s group, where the Snow Tiger Family offered them lodging and help gathering information.

• Xue Wu told Zhao Fu that her tribe’s illness began twenty-five days earlier, and he gave her the Eightfold Water World power before leaving.
• Zhao Fu and Han Shui met Snowfish Tribe members returning to Snowtime City, and the group agreed to travel together after learning Zhao Fu was the Pure Water Sect’s young sect master.
• Snow Demon asked Zhao Fu why he had come, and he said he was tracking a monster.
• The group arrived at Snowtime City and went to the Snow Tiger Family residence, where Snow Demon offered Zhao Fu and Han Shui a place to stay and help with their search.
• Xue Li and her daughter Xue Luo met the group inside the residence.

Zhao Fu investigated a strange illness in Snowtime City, discovered it was caused by poison, and cured the patients. After becoming entangled with Snow Demon, Xue Li, and Xue Luo, he learned that a small tribe had also fallen ill and agreed to investigate.

• Snow Tiger welcomed Zhao Fu, and Xue Luo and Snow Army escorted him to a camp where Zhao Fu identified the patients’ illness as poisoning and detoxified them.
• Snow Demon asked Zhao Fu to support her son’s bid to become family head and City Lord, and Zhao Fu agreed.
• Xue Li tried to persuade Zhao Fu to reject Snow Demon’s request, but Xue Luo caught them together and confronted her mother.
• Xue Luo revealed that a small tribe had arrived seeking help for a similar illness, and Zhao Fu asked her to take him there.
• Zhao Fu offered to recommend Xue Luo to the Pure Water Sect, and she happily agreed to go.

Zhao Fu cured patients in a tribe and continued searching for the monster linked to the Eightfold Water World, but found no further traces. After returning to Snowtime City, he met Xue Yu, who asked him to rescue her former lover Snow General from the Shadowfish Clan, and he agreed.

• Zhao Fu drove the blue aura from the frost-covered patients in a tribe and learned they had fallen ill ten days earlier.
• Zhao Fu searched around the tribe for the monster but found no traces, then agreed with Xue Luo to check other tribes for sick people.
• Snow Demon confronted Zhao Fu about Xue Luo, and later she and Xue Li joined him before he received an invitation from Xue Yu.
• Zhao Fu visited Xue Yu, who asked him to save Snow General, her former lover, from the Shadowfish Clan.
• Zhao Fu agreed to rescue Snow General, and Xue Yu promised to belong to him in return.

Xue Yu traded herself to Zhao Fu to save Snow General, then rejected Snow General's hopes of rekindling their relationship. After Zhao Fu returned to the Snow Demon's home, Xue Luo reported that she had found no information about a tribe afflicted by a strange illness.

• Xue Yu woke beside Zhao Fu, and he promised to have the Shadowfish Clan return Snow General.
• The Shadowfish Clan women brought Snow General to Zhao Fu and Xue Yu, and Zhao Fu arranged for his chains to be removed.
• Snow General tried to reconcile with Xue Yu, but she told him that she was Zhao Fu's lover and urged him to leave.
• Snow General departed in heartbreak, while Xue Yu cried and Zhao Fu comforted her.
• Zhao Fu gave the Shadowfish Clan women and Xue Yu the power of the Eightfold Water World, then returned to the Snow Demon's home.
• Xue Luo told Zhao Fu that she had found no tribe nearby suffering from a strange illness.

Zhao Fu found the monster’s trail in a Snowfish Tribe village and split up with Xue Yu, Xue Luo, Han Shui, Xue Shi, and the village chief to search. After Xue Yu escaped the chief’s attempted assault and Zhao Fu killed him, Xue Yu confronted Zhao Fu about his feelings for her and asked whether he would keep searching for the monster.

• Xue Yu told Zhao Fu that a Snowfish Tribe village had recently been attacked, and she led Zhao Fu, Xue Luo, and Han Shui there.
• The village chief took the group to the attack site, where Zhao Fu sensed the monster’s blue traces and agreed to search in separate teams.
• The chief tried to assault Xue Yu, but she expelled his poison and severely wounded him; Zhao Fu’s roots then killed the chief.
• Xue Yu found Zhao Fu with Xue Shi and asked whether he had sent her with the chief because he saw her as a tool, and Zhao Fu reassured her that he had been protecting her.
• Xue Yu asked Zhao Fu whether he still planned to search for the monster.

Zhao Fu captured the invisible monster and discovered it was Blue Water, Han Shui’s cousin, who had lost consciousness after the Eightfold Water World erupted. Back in Snowtime City, the group learned her family remained missing and considered whether the Eightfold Water World had fused with her; Zhao Fu’s test showed she had absorbed some of its source power but had not fused with it.

• After searching without success, Zhao Fu returned to Snowtime City with the others and later followed reports of dead beasts to a lake.
• Zhao Fu captured the invisible woman and discovered she did not possess the Eightfold Water World, then waited for her to regain consciousness.
• The woman identified herself as Blue Water and asked Zhao Fu to take her to her cousin Han Shui in Snowtime City.
• Blue Water told Zhao Fu and Han Shui that her father’s attempt to fuse the Eightfold Water World with the family had triggered a powerful eruption, after which she lost consciousness.
• Xue Yu suggested the Eightfold Water World might have fused throughout Blue Water’s body, but Zhao Fu tested her with his nine Eightfold Water Worlds and found she had only absorbed some of its source power.

Zhao Fu, Han Shui, and Blue Water followed traces of Blue Water’s kind while asking tribes about strange incidents. Their search led them to Xue Yi’s village, where Zhao Fu demanded to know when and where people had mysteriously fallen unconscious.

• Blue Water recalled that she had been injured while fighting over something, and Zhao Fu realized her blood might have poisoned the tribes.
• Zhao Fu found Blue Water’s lingering aura beneath the snow and later discovered another trace at a place where tribal members had fainted.
• Zhao Fu, Han Shui, and Blue Water rested together, and Han Shui told Blue Water that she had become Zhao Fu’s woman through a deal at the Pure Water Sect.
• A group led by a short-haired woman confronted Zhao Fu and demanded an item, but he bound them with chains and took control of the woman.
• Zhao Fu brought the woman, Xue Mu, to her village, where her sister Xue Yi appeared; he released Xue Mu and demanded that Xue Yi reveal when and where the strange incident had occurred.

Zhao Fu investigated the strange incident in the snowy forest and continued searching for Blue Water’s family member, which might possess the Eightfold Water World. In Frost City, he encountered Snow King’s deceptive attempt to win over Blue Water, while the search remained unresolved.

• Zhao Fu found traces of the Eightfold Water World in the snowy forest, restrained Xue Yi and Xue Mu, and questioned them about the incident.
• Xue Yi and Xue Mu agreed to move their village to Snowtime City after Zhao Fu departed with Han Shui and Blue Water.
• Blue Water sensed a family member inside Frost City, so Zhao Fu entered the city with her and Han Shui to investigate.
• Snow King let Zhao Fu’s group into Frost City, then staged a rescue at an inn after a group of men pretended to threaten the two women.
• Blue Water and Han Shui rejected Snow King, and the innkeeper warned Zhao Fu that Snow King belonged to one of the city’s three great families.
• Blue Water scolded Zhao Fu for acting as if he did not care about the women and urged him to find the family member quickly.

Zhao Fu searched Frost City for signs of strange incidents and learned that Xue Xun was plotting to become City Lord. After failing to find what he was looking for, he agreed to help her seize power and left when her husband arrived.

• Zhao Fu confronted Snow King, killed his burly guard, subdued him, and asked whether anything strange had happened in Frost City.
• Xue Qin arrived, and Zhao Fu restrained her; she mentioned that her aunt seemed strange and asked him to spare her family.
• Zhao Fu released Snow King and found Xue Xun discussing her effort to win support for becoming City Lord.
• Zhao Fu searched Xue Xun for what he sought, found nothing, and agreed to help her become City Lord in exchange for her becoming his woman.
• Xue Xun's husband returned, and she asked Zhao Fu to leave for a while.

Zhao Fu questioned members of the Snow family about strange events in Frost City, then defeated Snow Bai with her own spear technique and claimed to improve her aptitude. Snow Bai pointed him toward a mysterious family head, whom Zhao Fu went to investigate.

• Snow Gu confronted Xue Xun about secretly gathering people, then left without learning her plans.
• Zhao Fu asked Xue Xun and Xue Qin whether anything strange had happened, and Xue Qin directed him to check the other families.
• Zhao Fu appeared before Snow Xia and Xue Qin, asked about strange events, and left to find Xue Qin's brother before Xue Qin told him to check the other families instead.
• Zhao Fu challenged Snow Bai, copied her Snowflake Chaotic Spear after seeing it once, and defeated her with the same technique.
• Snow Bai told Zhao Fu that another family head had been acting mysteriously and seemed dangerous; Zhao Fu promised to improve her aptitude, then left after doing so.

Zhao Fu learned that Snow Sky’s family had prepared for Snow Xun’s plans and that the City Lord was close to giving birth, then reported the news to Snow Xun. Snow Xun still intended to seize Frost City, while Snow King warned her of a dangerous newcomer without realizing Zhao Fu was present.

• Snow Sky and his allies discussed protecting the City Lord, who was about to give birth, and suspected Snow Xun was uniting the other families against them.
• Zhao Fu returned to the inn and told Blue Water what he had discovered; she confirmed their relative might be in the city but could not pinpoint him.
• Zhao Fu told Snow Xun that Snow Sky’s family knew of her plans and had prepared, and Snow Xun decided to continue her bid to seize Frost City.
• Snow Xun asked Zhao Fu to investigate the City Lord’s birth and gather more information on Snow Sky’s family.
• Snow King warned Snow Xun that a dangerous person had arrived in the city, and Snow Xun agreed to handle the matter while Zhao Fu remained hidden nearby.

Zhao Fu searched Frost City’s City Lord’s Manor and Snow Sky’s household for information connected to the Eightfold Water World, while Xue Xun waited for him to learn what he was seeking. He left Xue Xiu unable to reveal his visit and promised Xue Gu he would return, but still had not found the hidden object.

• The Snow King overheard Xue Xun with Zhao Fu and realized she was calling Zhao Fu her husband, then left without confronting them.
• Xue Xun urged Zhao Fu to find accurate information so they could prepare, and he told her his search was connected to the Eightfold Water World.
• Zhao Fu searched the City Lord’s Manor, noticed a heavily pregnant woman in the garden, and left after finding nothing unusual.
• At Snow Sky’s household, Zhao Fu captured Xue Xiu, told her he was gathering information for Xue Xun, and controlled her so she could not reveal what he had said.
• Zhao Fu found Snow Sky’s wife, Xue Gu, while searching the household and promised to return after continuing to gather information.

Zhao Fu helped Xue Xun take control of the City Lord's Manor after Snow Sky surrendered to avoid casualties. As the City Lord's child was born, Zhao Fu discovered and subdued the Eightfold Water World, which had appeared as a little boy.

• Zhao Fu learned that Snow Sky had gone to the City Lord's Manor because the City Lord was about to give birth, and he informed Xue Xun.
• Xue Xun and Snow Bai led their families to the manor, where Snow Sky hesitated before surrendering after Xue Gu and Xue Xiu urged him to avoid casualties.
• Snow Sky's people lowered their weapons, and Zhao Fu waited on the rooftop for the City Lord's child to be born.
• Zhao Fu protected a room from an unseen attacker, then faced a little boy carrying the Eightfold Water World as the boy unleashed powerful attacks.
• Zhao Fu trapped the boy with a confinement barrier and iron chains, suppressing his power just as a baby cried out.

Zhao Fu freed Blue Water’s little brother and revealed that the Eightfold Water World held the family’s missing spirit bodies, promising to restore them. After Xue Fu gave birth, she offered to yield the City Lord position to Xue Xun and asked Zhao Fu for an unspecified favor.

• Zhao Fu removed the tenth Eightfold Water World from the little boy and released him from his chains, reuniting him with Blue Water and Han Shui.
• The little boy recalled seeing relatives in a blue space, and Zhao Fu explained that they were spirit bodies inside the Eightfold Water World whose physical bodies had been destroyed.
• Zhao Fu said he could refine the Eightfold Water World and create bodies for the spirit bodies, while the little boy and Blue Water retained powerful Eightfold Water World energy.
• Zhao Fu told Xue Xun he could help her become City Lord now that he had found the little boy.
• Xue Fu emerged after giving birth, agreed to yield the City Lord position to Xue Xun after settling matters, and asked Zhao Fu to help her later.

Zhao Fu used the Eightfold Water World to restore Xue Leng, Xue Wen, Xue Tian, and the rest of their family, then learned that Xue Fu wanted his help finding her child's father, Yuan Dao. After Zhao Fu visited Xue Xun, he returned to find Xue Tian openly expressing interest in becoming his woman.

• Zhao Fu used the Eightfold Water World to give more than forty people physical bodies, and Xue Wen explained that the family head had died when the artifact mutated.
• Xue Leng and the others thanked Zhao Fu, who explained that the Eightfold Water World acknowledged those with sufficient aptitude and could harm people who tried to force its power.
• Xue Fu asked Zhao Fu to find Yuan Dao, the mysterious man who had saved her and fathered her child; Zhao Fu agreed to ask around.
• Zhao Fu went to Xue Xun's home, where Snow King saw Xue Xun, his younger sister, and his mother enter Zhao Fu's room.
• Blue Water and Han Shui told Xue Wen that Zhao Fu was their man, and Xue Tian admitted that she liked him.
• Zhao Fu returned and embraced Xue Tian after she said she wanted to become his woman.

Zhao Fu learned that Yuan Dao had appeared in Imperial Valley, where a phenomenon might also be connected to the Eightfold Water World, and set off after Xue Fu as she went to search for him. They continued toward the valley together, and Zhao Fu suspected her newborn child had an unusual bloodline.

• Xue Xun became the new City Lord, while Xue Fu left with Zhao Fu and the others to search for Yuan Dao.
• A gray-robed elder reported that Yuan Dao had once appeared in Imperial Valley, where a phenomenon might be related to the Eightfold Water World.
• Xue Fu left the Pure Water Sect to find Yuan Dao, and Zhao Fu quietly followed her.
• When water apes frightened Xue Fu's crying child, Zhao Fu drove them away, and Xue Fu reluctantly continued traveling with him.
• At an inn, Xue Fu ate and rested with Zhao Fu, who promised to care for her and the child and said they would continue toward Imperial Valley.