Recaps

Su Zhan led the Yuan Household through Blood Mist Forest, defeated Xue Ji, and uncovered the Black Demon Sect’s plan to seize the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven. The Sect Master then struck Su Zhan with a long-range soul curse, leaving him rigid as Yuan Ji despaired.

• Su Zhan survived the earth-core lightning, formed an Earth Thunder Body, and returned from the lava as the Yuan Household welcomed him back.
• Su Zhan led the Yuan Household into Blood Mist Forest, where poisonous fragrance and Mushroom People threatened the group before the Ancient Life Tree purified them and gained a new poison manual.
• Su Zhan absorbed Xue Ji’s poisonous mist, seized control of her flesh monsters, and defeated her Blood Sea Inner Demon attack.
• Su Zhan drained Xue Ji’s soul and learned that the Yuan Household’s bloodline was the key to the Central Altar and that the Black Demon Sect sought control of the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Zhan revealed the Yuan Household’s heritage, and its members thanked him for restoring their understanding of their role in the realm.
• The Black Demon Sect Sect Master activated the Ten Thousand Mile Soul Locking Grand Formation, turning Xue Ji’s remains into a Blood-colored Vertical Eye that confronted Su Zhan.
• The Sect Master cast Soul lock across ten thousand miles-death by curse, and Su Zhan went rigid as Yuan Ji despaired.

Su Zhan led the Yuan Household through the Black Demon Sect’s forest and bone-legion defenses, then climbed the Central Altar while absorbing the grotto-heaven’s Principles. At the summit, he and his six cultivation-method avatars began battling three awakened Obsidian Golems.

• The Blood-colored Vertical Eye’s Curse Seal entered Su Zhan’s sea of consciousness, where the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat purified it, and Su Zhan then shattered the demonic eye with a word.
• Su Zhan used Shennong Domain to pacify the Blood Mist Forest, bound the Bloodheart Demon Tree, and gave its Blood Bodhi to the Ancient Life Tree, which grew a ninth leaf embodying the Withering and Flourishing Principle.
• At the White Bone Wasteland, Su Zhan summoned the Blazing Dragon Venerate to rout the Dragon Knight Legion, then defeated three Black Demon Sect elders and their White Bone Demon God with his Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King.
• Su Zhan searched the elders’ souls and learned that the Sect Master planned to use the Ten Thousand Demons Heart-Devouring Blood Pool to corrupt the Yuan Household’s bloodlines and take their bodies.
• Su Zhan climbed the God-Ascending Steps by absorbing the grotto-heaven’s Principles, reaching the summit ahead of the Yuan Household and awakening the Central Altar’s formation.
• Three Obsidian Golems awakened and attacked Su Zhan, who called out six cultivation-method avatars to fight them.
• Blazing Dragon Venerate burned the Mace Golem’s protective membrane and rammed it, while Nine Heavens Divine Lightning struck a crack in the Giant Axe Golem and broke off a piece of obsidian.

Su Zhan defeated the Black Demon Sect Master's clone, restored the Yuan Household's grotto-heaven, and strengthened his cultivation methods in its tempering chamber. He entered the Demon Sea to confront the injured Sect Master and faced him in the sect's headquarters, where the Sect Master's domain weakened several of Su Zhan's powers.

• Su Zhan poisoned and disabled the three golems, then had his cultivation methods consume them and expose the Black Crystal at the altar.
• Su Zhan drained the Black Crystal, thwarted the trap's teleportation array, and entered the grotto-heaven's core, where he fought and erased the Black Demon Sect Master's manifestation clone.
• Su Zhan learned that the Yuan Household's bloodline sustained a dangerous seal, then helped restore the grotto-heaven and used its Principle Tempering Chamber to strengthen his cultivation methods.
• Su Zhan learned the seal had only seventeen percent of its power remaining and left the grotto-heaven to confront the Black Demon Sect Master in the Demon Sea.
• Su Zhan evaded the sect's protection formation and resisted the Sect Master's divine sense projection, while the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon took control of the demonized sea beasts and absorbed toxins.
• Su Zhan reached the Black Demon Sect headquarters, where Li Wusheng welcomed him and Su Zhan sensed a river of liquid Demonic Energy beneath the main hall.
• The Black Demon Sect Master challenged Su Zhan inside the hall and flooded it with Demonic Energy, which weakened Su Zhan's lightning and fire but strengthened his poison technique.

Su Zhan defeated the Black Demon Sect Master, looted the sect, and learned that the sealed Primordial Demon Embryo threatened the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven. After discovering that five Heaven-Mending Stones could reinforce the seal, Su Zhan prepared to seek the first one in the Azure Billows Sea as probes accelerated the seal’s decay.

• Su Zhan weakened the Sect Master by destroying the Black Demon Sect headquarters’ power nodes, then poisoned the fissure in his soul and defeated him while the Demon Whale ran amok.
• Su Zhan killed the Sect Master, recovered the sect’s treasury, and read his warning that a Primordial Demon Embryo lay sealed beneath the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Zhan returned to the Grotto-Heaven with the Black Demon Sect’s loot, strengthened his cultivation methods, and learned from Yuan Ji that five Heaven-Mending Stones could preserve the seal.
• Su Zhan found a tablet in the Skeleton Wasteland that named the five stones’ locations, including the Canglan Sea, Withered Bone Desert, Blazing Sun Volcano, Eternal Icefield, and Kunlun Ruins.
• Su Zhan discovered that three probes were eroding the seal and used the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon’s poison to paralyze two, while the largest probe resisted.
• Su Zhan chose the Azure Billows Sea as his first destination, received a golden totem key from the Grotto-Heaven Core, and told Yuan Ji to prepare to paralyze the first two probes.