Recaps

Yu Ci and his allies pursued the secrets of Donghua Palace, drawing in Wang Renye, escaped survivors, and cultivators hunting Ye Chi. The arc ended with the Demon Tide advancing south and the Ten Fiends surrounding a weakened group of Four Seas Society cultivators.

• Shen Wan and Rong Chang arranged a trading convention with the mysterious consignor of Xuanming True Water, while Yu Ci and Zhai Que'er agreed to investigate Donghua Palace and search for Madame Yellow Springs' relics.
• Gui Yan tracked a Spirit Gathering Pearl buyer underground, where Lin Xianzheng encountered Hu Dan, You Gongquan, and Xiao Jiu before a powerful presence forced them to lead him toward the spiritual vein.
• Yu Ci's group captured Wang Renye, the Savage King, and learned that a restriction tied to Madame Yellow Springs shielded his mind as they began examining the spiritual vein and Donghua Palace ruins.
• Xiao Jiu escaped with Hu Dan and You Gongquan on Lao Fei, but Shen Defu attacked them until Ye Chi killed him and helped the group flee.
• Gui Yan investigated a market disturbance after an ordinary woman's head exploded, while Yu Ci arranged a meeting through Daoist Huifeng and learned the Demon Tide had crossed the Cang River.
• Yu Ci met Ye Chi, who needed his help with Sea Crossing Incense, as Gui Yan confronted Four Seas Society cultivators who had pursued her for shares in Seagull Market shops.
• Devil Lord questioned the defeated Four Seas Society cultivators, and the Poison Origin Water Array surrounded them as they realized the Ten Fiends had arrived.

Yu Ci and his allies survived the Ten Fiends’ poison array and learned that a Northern Demonic Tribulation was spreading toward Donghua Mountain. As Shen Wan’s Xuanming True Water convention drew powerful factions together, Yu Ci gained access to the Donghua Palace ruins and an invitation to a symposium.

• Gui Yan disrupted the Poison Origin Water Array, and Yu Ci killed the Ten Fiends of the East Sea with the North Star Soul Control and Death Infliction Art.
• Yu Ci discussed Half-Mountain Island’s vulnerability with Ye Chi, then learned that the Northern Demonic Tribulation had crossed the mountains and sent Ye Chi north.
• Shen Wan treated a poisoned Siming Sect cultivator and organized a Xuanming True Water trading convention to draw buyers and strengthen Suixin Pavilion.
• Yu Ci and Zhai Que'er investigated the convention, where Xu Bo and Huo Lian examined artifacts and agreed to help appraise and collect materials.
• Yu Ci reunited with Gu Zhi and Jiang Shangyan at the auction, while Gui Yan used the right of first refusal to bid Xuanming True Water for a Donghua Relic’s Dharma Seal.
• Ghost Yan confronted Ghost God Sword and Dao Hua True Man at Suixin Pavilion, then rejected an invitation to have his name placed on the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram.
• The Xuanming True Water owner chose a damaged divine statue in a secret bid, and Ghost God Sword blocked Yu Ci and his companions as they left.
• Ghost God Sword gave Yu Ci a token for the Donghua Palace ruins, and the Sage Wisdom Walker invited him to a symposium before Ghost God Sword asked him to visit Taichu Peak in twenty days.

Yu Ci investigated a cursed gourd and Shen Wan’s connection to the True Text Spirit Talisman as a demon calamity gathered around Donghua Mountain. After confronting layered demonic realms and uncovering the Inverted Diagram, the group entered the ruins to investigate Donghua Palace and its relics.

• Yu Ci traced the gourd’s sword Qi and Buddhist sand to separate refinements, while Shen Wan deciphered the True Text Spirit Talisman and survived its trial by choosing life.
• Gui Yan captured Concubine Tao after Shen Wan’s faith connected with the talisman, and investigators began studying the gourd and the unconscious Black Heaven Cult disciple.
• Yu Ci joined Ghost God Sword, Sage Wisdom Walker, and other cultivators to probe the Rain Demon Cloud spreading across Donghua Mountain.
• Yu Ci’s group encountered high-grade Heavenly Demon Kin and a Layered Delusion Realm, where Zhai Que'er guided them through the distortions and Yu Ci helped defeat the corrupted Fenghua True Man.
• Zhai Que'er claimed the demon-domain anchor point and identified it as an Inverted Diagram, concluding that Donghua Palace stood at the center of a surrounding network of anchor points.
• The demon tide forced the cultivators to retreat, and Yu Ci questioned the rescued Lu Ya, who identified Lu Zhi and revealed clues about Madame Yellow Springs and Donghua Palace.
• Yu Ci learned that Madame Miao had become the Divine Consort Miao Hua Xian Niang and prepared to investigate the restored cavern and the Donghua Palace ruins.
• Yu Ci joined the expedition through the ruins, where Qi Baiyi warned of hidden Heavenly Demon Kin and Dao Hua True Man explained how the broken Donghua Formation had left the area exposed.

Yu Ci investigated the void rifts and Madame Yellow Springs’s hidden screens while Heavenly Demons spread across Donghua. The allied cultivators launched a coordinated assault on the Southern Eight Peaks, where a concealed enemy struck as Wan Tengshan shifted the sword formation.

• Yu Ci joined Ghost God Sword’s forces to disrupt a rift among the Southern Eight Peaks, where they found a Thousand Poison Dragon and learned that a full-scale Heavenly Demon invasion had begun.
• Yu Ci led his group west to investigate the rifts and descended into Nether Lake with Lu Ya, using ghostly scouts to map the lake and locate the moving Heart Hut.
• Yu Ci found Liu Guan’s Shadow Puppet and discovered landscape screens in Madame Yellow Springs’s dwelling that revealed hidden scenes from Donghua’s past.
• Yu Ci escaped Liu Guan’s search with Gui Yan and Lu Ya, then pursued more landscape screens as demons and outsiders gathered across the peaks.
• Yu Ci used the Netherworld Patrol Chariot to break through demon forces at Danxiao Peak and seize something from the mountain, while cultivators elsewhere organized a joint assault.
• Qi Baiyi and Wan Tengshan led the cultivators in defeating the weakened demons at Danxiao Peak, where Yu Ci and Lu Ya found a Kui Yin Demonic Nest marked with the character “Di.”
• Wan Tengshan led the allied cultivators toward the Southern Eight Peaks, where Sword Discussion Pavilion revealed the Blade Ants and launched the Great Avalanche Sword Formation.
• Yu Ci joined Wan Tengshan’s formation as it drove through the Heavenly Demons, but a hidden enemy struck precisely when Wan Tengshan shifted the formation.