Recaps

Su Zhan encouraged Liu Yanyan to help his sister and build his confidence, while Liu Zhenzhen thanked Su Zhan and warned him to stay inside. After learning the Grand Elder knew that Three Treasure Pavilion branches had been swindled, Su Zhan became more wary of him.

• Su Zhan praised Liu Yanyan for getting along well with others and urged him to rest so he could keep helping Liu Zhenzhen.
• Liu Zhenzhen thanked Su Zhan for encouraging Liu Yanyan to grow and said she would stop relying on him for everything.
• Liu Zhenzhen warned Su Zhan not to go out because three Three Treasure Pavilion branches had been swindled out of spirit medicines and were searching privately for the culprit.
• Liu Zhenzhen said the Grand Elder had confirmed the incident, though people outside did not know about it yet.
• Su Zhan wondered how the Grand Elder learned the news and resolved to pay closer attention to him.

Su Zhan learned why the Proud Sword Sect repeatedly provoked the Silent Sect and why Liu Zhenzhen tolerated their behavior. He understood that an old life-saving debt tied the sects together, though Liu Zhenzhen had been resisting the Proud Sword Sect’s demands.

• Liu Yanyan told Su Zhan about the Proud Sword Sect’s past insults, demands, and provocations at the Silent Sect.
• Su Zhan learned that the Silent Sect and the Proud Sword Sect had once been one sect and were still bound by a rule allowing the Proud Sword Sect to attend the Medicine King Grand Gathering.
• Liu Yanyan explained that the Proud Sword Sect’s sect master had saved Liu Zhenzhen’s master and the First Elder, after which the Silent Sect repeatedly repaid that debt with gifts and concessions.
• Liu Zhenzhen resisted the Proud Sword Sect’s demands, refusing to let it drain the Silent Sect’s resources.
• Su Zhan understood why Liu Zhenzhen had not driven the Proud Sword Sect away.

Liu Yanyan told Su Zhan how the Proud Sword Sect had attacked a Heavenly Snow Sect disciple and refused to apologize, worsening the blame on Liu Zhenzhen. Su Zhan advised Liu Yanyan to be patient while his sister weighed the sect’s opposition to severing ties with the Proud Sword Sect.

• Liu Yanyan arrived and told Su Zhan that a Proud Sword Sect disciple had sneak-attacked a Heavenly Snow Sect disciple after conceding, nearly piercing the disciple’s Dantian.
• Liu Yanyan said the Proud Sword Sect disciple had refused to apologize and that the Heavenly Snow Sect’s sect master was blaming Liu Zhenzhen.
• Su Zhan urged Liu Yanyan to advise his sister to cut ties with the Proud Sword Sect before it harmed the Silent Sect.
• Liu Yanyan explained that Liu Zhenzhen wanted to sever the relationship, but many sect members opposed it for the sake of reputation.
• Su Zhan acknowledged Liu Zhenzhen’s difficulties and warned Liu Yanyan to restrain himself so he would not give her more trouble.
• Liu Yanyan promised he would keep holding back, though he said he wanted to attack the Proud Sword Sect members.

Su Zhan challenged the three pavilion masters to prove the spirit medicines were theirs and revealed they were the same kinds used to deceive Liu Yanyan. The Silent Sect realized the pavilion masters were behind Liu Yanyan’s repeated humiliation and grew furious.

• The cultivators speculated about whether Liu Yanyan or the three pavilion masters were telling the truth about the spirit medicines.
• Su Zhan said the pavilion masters were making an unproven claim by insisting the medicines in his possession belonged to them.
• The three pavilion masters accused Su Zhan of disguising himself and swindling them, then demanded their medicines back.
• Su Zhan opened a brocade box and showed three spirit medicines, saying he had planned to give them to Liu Yanyan for the Medicine King Grand Gathering.
• The cultivators recognized the medicines as the same kinds involved in Liu Yanyan’s three earlier deceptions, and the Silent Sect grew furious at the pavilion masters.

Su Zhan exposed the Three Pavilion Masters and reclaimed three spirit medicines for Liu Yanyan at the Medicine King Grand Gathering. Liu Yanyan put them away while the furious Pavilion Masters demanded they be returned, watched by the dark-faced Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect.

• The Three Pavilion Masters rushed to take back the spirit medicines, but the Silent Sect members blocked them from reaching Su Zhan.
• Liu Yanyan gratefully realized Su Zhan had retrieved the medicines he had once been tricked into buying from the Three Pavilion Masters.
• Su Zhan told Liu Yanyan to keep the medicines and choose one for the Medicine King Grand Gathering.
• Liu Yanyan held back tears, put away the medicines, and smugly looked at the Three Pavilion Masters.
• The Three Pavilion Masters demanded the medicines back and glanced anxiously at the dark-faced Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect.

Su Zhan and Liu Yanyan kept the three spirit medicines after the pavilion masters failed to prove they belonged to them. The three were escorted out, leaving the cultivators to reflect on the scandal involving Treasure Pearl City’s four Treasure Pavilions.

• Su Zhan and Liu Yanyan insisted the three pavilion masters could not claim the spirit medicines without proof, while Liu Yanyan threatened them with the Silent Sect’s hostility.
• The three pavilion masters failed to prove their claims as the Silent Sect and the cultivators sided against them.
• Liu Zhenzhen declared the Silent Sect and the three pavilion masters enemies, then asked the Grand Elder to escort them out.
• After the pavilion masters left, Liu Zhenzhen apologized to the gathering for the disruption, but the cultivators said they had enjoyed the spectacle.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect said the scandal was worth witnessing and that the cultivators needed to know about it.

The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect presented a rare, four-hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Vein Vine and appeared certain he had won the Medicine King Grand Gathering. When Liu Yanyan could not answer his challenge, Su Zhan stepped forward.

• Liu Zhenzhen promised the cultivators they could meet the Pavilion Master of Flower Pavilion and seek compensation after the gathering, then resumed the competition.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect reluctantly displayed his Spirit Vein Vine, worried that its flaw might be noticed.
• The cultivators praised the rare spirit medicine, and the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect declared that no one could match it.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect taunted Liu Yanyan, who conceded that her three spirit medicines could not compete with the vine.
• Su Zhan stepped forward.

Su Zhan exposed the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect's Spirit Vein Vine as broken and explained that it had no practical medicinal value. The Sect Master tried to withdraw it from the Medicine King Grand Gathering, but Su Zhan called out his retreat as an admission.

• Su Zhan asked to inspect the Spirit Vein Vine, and the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect let him look while keeping it at a distance.
• Su Zhan declared that the Spirit Vein Vine was broken, startling the cultivators who could not see the damage.
• The Sect Master denied the claim and took the vine back, but Su Zhan explained that broken vines needed artificial support and had no medicinal potency.
• Several cultivators confirmed that Su Zhan's explanation matched what they had learned about Spirit Vein Vines.
• The Sect Master threatened to leave and tried to put the vine away, but Su Zhan said that doing so would amount to admitting it was broken.

Su Zhan challenged the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect to test whether his Spirit Vein Vine was broken by injecting Spiritual Qi into it. As the sect master hesitated, his disciple began the test himself, leaving the result unresolved.

• Su Zhan explained that Spiritual Qi would break the Spirit Vein Vine if it was damaged and called on the cultivators to witness a test.
• The cultivators supported Su Zhan, while the Sect Master of Heavenly Snow Sect demanded that the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect either agree or leave.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect hesitated because he did not know whether the vine was broken and feared the test might confirm Su Zhan's claim.
• The disciple of the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect stepped forward and began injecting visible Spiritual Qi into the Spirit Vein Vine before his master could stop him.

The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect’s disciple accidentally snapped the Spirit Vein Vine, confirming Su Zhan’s claim that it was broken. The Sect Master blamed his disciple to avoid admitting he had brought damaged Spirit Medicine, leaving the crowd to see through his excuse.

• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect’s disciple snapped the Spirit Vein Vine, and the cultivators recognized that Su Zhan had been right.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect glared at his panicked disciple but could not punish him because of his special identity.
• The disciple said he had not known the Spirit Vein Vine was broken, prompting the cultivators to laugh at the Sect Master’s concealment.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect blamed the break on his disciple’s carelessness, and the disciple accepted responsibility.
• The Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect insisted he had no need to bring broken Spirit Medicine, while regretting that he had chosen the Vine.

After the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect left the Medicine King Grand Gathering in disgrace, Liu Yanyan won and the Silent Sect celebrated. Their victory was overshadowed when they discovered that the Pavilion Master of Flower Pavilion had died while in their custody, leaving Liu Zhenzhen to question the two elders who had guarded him.

• Liu Zhenzhen barred the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect from continuing in the gathering, and he left with his people.
• Liu Yanyan won the Medicine King Grand Gathering with a spirit medicine plant, delighting the Silent Sect.
• The Pavilion Master of Flower Pavilion was found dead under the watch of two elders trusted by Liu Zhenzhen.
• Liu Zhenzhen asked the elders whether there had been any sound or movement, and they explained that the Pavilion Master had first pleaded and then tried to bribe them before falling silent.

Su Zhan examined the Pavilion Master of Flower Pavilion’s murder and concluded that the killer had struck while the victim trusted them. He discovered a hidden Teleportation Formation that could have let the killer enter, and Liu Yanyan recalled that the Silent Sect’s grounds had once belonged to the Liyun Sect.

• Two elders told Liu Zhenzhen that they had opened the hall after the sect master arrived and found the Pavilion Master of Flower Pavilion dead.
• Su Zhan observed the victim’s shattered Dantian and undisturbed appearance, concluding that someone he trusted had killed him with a single strike.
• Su Zhan rejected the idea that a Formation Dao expert had secretly broken through the Great Formation.
• Su Zhan revealed a concealed Teleportation Formation in a corner of the hall and said the killer had entered through it.
• Liu Yanyan recalled that the Silent Sect and Proud Sword Sect had taken over this site from the Liyun Sect with help from other sects.

Su Zhan and the others used a hidden Teleportation Formation and discovered that it led to a cave in the Silent Sect's rear mountain. Su Zhan then questioned the Grand Elder about his movements, leaving the others uncertain whether the longtime elder had betrayed the sect.

• Liu Zhenzhen suggested that hidden formations might remain and speculated that someone from the Silent Sect could have used them.
• Su Zhan led everyone through the formation, and they emerged in a cave in the Silent Sect's rear mountain.
• The Grand Elder wondered whether the formation had been made by someone from the former Liyun Sect or by someone in the Silent Sect.
• Su Zhan pointed out that the Grand Elder had taken a long time escorting the three pavilion masters and asked whether he had accompanied them to Treasure Pearl City.
• The Grand Elder defended himself, saying he had acted to protect the Silent Sect's reputation and was not siding with the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect.
• Su Zhan remained suspicious and pressed the Grand Elder to answer his question.

Su Zhan suspected the Grand Elder of conspiring with the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect and challenged his account of where he had been. Liu Zhenzhen supported Su Zhan, while the Grand Elder appealed to his loyalty to the Silent Sect.

• Su Zhan asked Liu Zhenzhen to summon guards and establish when the Grand Elder had returned from escorting the three pavilion masters away.
• The guards confirmed that the Grand Elder had been gone for a while, and he said he had followed the pavilion masters to ensure they would not return.
• Su Zhan rejected the Grand Elder's explanation and accused him of helping the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect silence the Pavilion Master of Flower Pavilion.
• The Grand Elder denied the accusations, and Su Zhan argued with him over whether the pavilion masters could be trusted as witnesses.
• Liu Zhenzhen told the Grand Elder that Su Zhan's concerns deserved an explanation, and the Grand Elder reminded her of his service and loyalty to the Silent Sect.

Liu Zhenzhen trusted Su Zhan’s suspicions and ordered the Grand Elder confined at the Bamboo Tower while the truth was investigated. The Grand Elder was left furious as Su Zhan prepared to escort him there.

• Liu Zhenzhen refused to change her mind despite the elders defending the Grand Elder, and told him to rest while the investigation continued.
• Su Zhan proposed sending the Grand Elder to the Bamboo Tower, where his formation would prevent him from escaping.
• Liu Zhenzhen agreed and asked Su Zhan to escort the Grand Elder to the tower.
• Liu Zhenzhen left with the elders, leaving Liu Yanyan behind as the Grand Elder tried to persuade her to let him return to his quarters.
• Su Zhan urged the Grand Elder to come along, and the Grand Elder stared at him with a dark expression.

Su Zhan confined the Grand Elder to his courtyard while he and Liu Yanyan discussed whether the elder had betrayed the Silent Sect. The Grand Elder maintained his innocence, and Liu Yanyan invited Su Zhan to his residence, where he thanked him at length.

• Liu Yanyan urged the Grand Elder to accept his suspension as a chance to rest, and the elder insisted he was loyal to the Silent Sect.
• The Grand Elder slowly led Su Zhan and Liu Yanyan to his courtyard, but Su Zhan activated the formation and sealed him inside.
• The Grand Elder searched the bamboo building and found no trace of anything Su Zhan had left behind.
• Liu Yanyan asked Su Zhan whether the Grand Elder might be involved, and Su Zhan said he suspected the elder had ties to the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect but could not prove it.
• Liu Yanyan invited Su Zhan to his residence and thanked him for his help.

Su Zhan refused Liu Yanyan’s two spirit medicines and urged him to warn Liu Zhenzhen about the Flower Pavilion. Liu Zhenzhen’s group found a masked thief taking the pavilion’s possessions, but let him go after he surrendered his Storage Ring.

• Liu Yanyan offered Su Zhan the two remaining spirit medicines, but Su Zhan told him to retrieve his belongings from the Flower Pavilion instead.
• Liu Yanyan warned Liu Zhenzhen, who suspected the Sect Master of Proud Sword Sect was behind the four pavilion masters’ betrayal.
• Liu Zhenzhen led the elders to the Flower Pavilion’s storeroom and found a masked figure taking its possessions.
• Liu Zhenzhen and the elders attacked the figure, who surrendered his Storage Ring after falling at a disadvantage.
• Liu Zhenzhen ordered everyone to let the figure leave, despite the elders’ reluctance to lose the chance to discover his identity.

Liu Zhenzhen let the man in black go after secretly marking him with spice that her Snow Butterfly could track, hoping to learn who had sent him. She and the others took the contents of Flower Pavilion, including a hidden room, and left while its people wondered who the man in black had been.

• Liu Zhenzhen overruled Liu Yanyan and the others, then let the man in black escape because she had marked him with spice detectable by her Snow Butterfly.
• Liu Zhenzhen explained that she planned to track the man in black and confirm who was behind the attack on Silent Sect.
• Liu Zhenzhen emptied the man in black’s Storage Ring and took everything from the Storehouse.
• Liu Zhenzhen and the others searched Flower Pavilion, found a secret room, took its contents, and left unopposed.
• Flower Pavilion’s elders and steward denied being the man in black, while others speculated about his identity.

Liu Zhenzhen left Flower Pavilion’s two well-regarded elders alone while secretly monitoring suspicious people and pursuing the man in black with Liu Yanyan and Su Zhan. Liu Yanyan realized the tracking spice clung to the cultivator, and he and Su Zhan discussed how the Silent Sect had gained everything in Flower Pavilion.

• The people who had served the Pavilion Master quietly left Treasure Pearl City because they feared they would not find work nearby.
• Liu Zhenzhen chose not to target Flower Pavilion’s two elders, instead assigning people to watch them and others she found suspicious.
• Liu Zhenzhen pursued the man in black with Liu Yanyan and Su Zhan while the elders remained to oversee the sect.
• Liu Yanyan asked whether changing clothes would foil their tracking, and Liu Zhenzhen confirmed that the spice clung to the cultivator himself.
• Su Zhan said the Silent Sect had profited from the Pavilion Master’s trick, and Liu Yanyan recalled that the elders had praised his blunder as a perfect trick.

Liu Zhenzhen thanked Su Zhan for helping her break the Silent Sect’s ties with the Proud Sword Sect, and he explained that the sect had seized its chance to win support. Following a Snow Butterfly to the Chen Family’s residence, they wondered whether the family was behind the recent deception and the man in black.

• Liu Yanyan said the Silent Sect was pleased with the compensation it had received from Flower Pavilion, and Liu Zhenzhen thanked Su Zhan for helping her cut ties with the Proud Sword Sect.
• Su Zhan told Liu Zhenzhen that her caution had been understandable and that the Proud Sword Sect’s greed had made the break possible.
• Liu Zhenzhen explained that she had prepared a booklet documenting the Proud Sword Sect’s demands to win over the Silent Sect’s elders and public support.
• Liu Zhenzhen promised Su Zhan a lavish gift, but he said he had only intervened because he could not stand watching the injustice.
• Su Zhan followed the Snow Butterfly to the Chen Family’s residence, where Liu Yanyan wondered whether the Chen Family had sent the man in black or arranged Flower Pavilion’s deception.

The tower ship carrying Su Zhan and Yuan Yuan departed for the secret realm, while Patriarch Yuan accepted Su Zhan’s pills and worried about whether he would live to see Yuan Yuan return. On the journey, Yuan Yuan denied caring about his father despite his companions recognizing his concern.

• The First Elder planned to ensure Su Zhan never returned, believing it would protect his dignity and let him deal with Su Zhan.
• Patriarch Yuan watched the tower ship depart and told the steward that Su Zhan had given him pills that could sustain him until Yuan Yuan returned.
• Patriarch Yuan refused to have the pills examined, saying he trusted Su Zhan and might not survive long enough to see Yuan Yuan again.
• Hun Tianlong asked Yuan Yuan if he was worried about his father, and Yuan Yuan denied caring about him.
• The First Elder and the Tenth Elder smiled at Yuan Yuan’s denial, knowing he and Patriarch Yuan were both too stubborn to admit their feelings.

Su Zhan teased Yuan Yuan, then used his status as the patriarch’s son to settle the young masters’ dispute over rooms aboard the tower ship. The young masters fell silent and left the top floor to Yuan Yuan.

• Su Zhan teased Yuan Yuan by pretending a pill for his worsening condition required him to first get a drink.
• Hun Tianlong laughed, drawing the attention of the young masters who were arguing over rooms aboard the tower ship.
• The young masters complained that Su Zhan’s group was laughing at them and told them to take whatever rooms were left.
• Su Zhan said Yuan Yuan deserved the top floor because he was the patriarch’s son and the most distinguished person present.
• The young masters fell silent, unable to challenge Su Zhan without seeming to disrespect Patriarch Yuan.

Yuan Yuan and Su Zhan claimed the tower ship’s top floor before the Yuan Household party reached the Haiyuan Secret Realm. Outside the realm, Yuan Yuan challenged the elders’ suspicion that he had brought hidden helpers from the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Yuan Yuan invoked his status as the Yuan Household’s eldest young master and took Su Zhan to the top floor, while the Grand Elder assigned the other rooms in order.
• The tower ship arrived at the Haiyuan Secret Realm, where powerful outsiders had gathered to watch the Yuan Household’s patriarch contest.
• Su Zhan spotted Patriarch Lin among those present, apparently there to help the Seventh Elder and Young Master Yuan Chou.
• The Ninth Elder asked Yuan Yuan why no one from the City Lord’s Mansion had come, and the elders wondered if he had hidden helpers among the explorers.
• Yuan Yuan said he had no reason to ask outsiders for help, embarrassing the young masters and elders within earshot of the gathered cultivators.

Yuan Yuan exposed the other young masters’ scheming, and they backed down under the Ninth Elder’s intervention. As the Haiyuan Secret Realm began to open, Su Zhan considered how the Yuan Household’s rivalries could benefit him and prepared for the danger ahead.

• Yuan Yuan’s public accusation drew everyone’s attention and left the young masters resentful and embarrassed.
• The Ninth Elder defended the group’s behavior as casual questioning, and Yuan Yuan let the matter go.
• Su Zhan recognized that the young masters’ ambitions and fear of losing power could create an opportunity for him.
• Powerful fluctuations at the entrance signaled that the Haiyuan Secret Realm was about to open, and the cultivators checked their supplies.
• Su Zhan anticipated that his enemies would target him inside the Secret Realm and relied on a countermeasure he had prepared.

Su Zhan and the others entered the revived secret realm, a barren and dangerous world. They encountered a powerful black scale demonic leopard as they began exploring.

• The Grand Elder warned everyone to rely on themselves inside the secret realm.
• Su Zhan rushed toward the newly opened entrance, followed by Yuan Yuan, Hun Tianlong, the Grand Elder, the Tenth Elder, and the other young masters.
• The group entered the secret realm and found a barren landscape filled with strange rocks, withered trees, and a pungent smell.
• Su Zhan urged his companions to stay calm, proceed carefully, and remain together.
• A black scale demonic leopard charged from the ruins, and the Grand Elder identified it as a powerful Devil Beast.