Recaps

Yu Ci escaped Miao Xiang’s demonic crisis, then settled in Fengdu City under the name Jiu Yan while pursuing incense refining and keeping Lu Qing hidden from Lu Suhua. As Yu Ci uncovered the purpose of Half-Mountain Island’s incense, the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion broke free and its heavenly demons intensified the sect conflict.

• Yu Ci subdued Miao Xiang with the Immortal Binding Rope, then helped her absorb the True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade and learned of her ties to Zhao Yang and the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Lu Suhua tracked down Yu Ci and Miao Xiang, but Yu Ci destroyed her projection, and Miao Xiang spirited the group southwest.
• Zhang Yan began investigating the fish-dragon auction, while Ji Yuan learned that the spice buyer Jiu Yan had quietly established a manor in Fengdu City.
• Jiu Yan clashed with Guan Zheng over Sea Rain Incense, then refined the remaining incense to a higher grade and returned it to him.
• Yu Ci tried to make Cold Fragrance Clear Dew to alter Lu Qing’s aura, while Li Shan survived Zhao Zhu’s attack and escaped Fengdu City with Kou Chu.
• Zhan Shuicheng agreed to protect two souls in exchange for Rakshasa intelligence, and Yu Ci learned that Xin Yi’s actions had destabilized the earth veins around the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Yu Ci refined a pure piece of Infant Tongue Incense for Su Yu and agreed to continue refining Half-Mountain Island’s supply as part of a long-term partnership.
• Yu Ci learned that Half-Mountain Island needed Sea Crossing Fragrance to conceal Ye Bin’s growing tribulation, while sect clashes at the Graveyard of Grudges coincided with the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion breaking free and releasing stronger heavenly demons.

Xin Yi endured the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation and sealed the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, while Yu Ci’s pursuit of the Nine Nether Prison drew him into a wager with Zhan Shuicheng. The stretch left Yu Ci studying the hidden qi structure of a realm as Zhan Shuicheng and Jiu Yan entered one of its weak points.

• Tang He and the advancing outlaws entered the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion as the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation began, while Zhao Ziyue charged toward the opening.
• Yu Ci discovered Ling Xi Wanderer’s remnant spirit and its incense knowledge, then witnessed the red light trigger the tribulation as Black Robe sought the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament’s Profound Passage.
• Lu Suhua took the Profound Passage before Black Robe could claim it, and Zhai Que'er and Elder Long withdrew after visiting the black stone hall.
• Xin Yi manifested the Thirty-Six Heavens, destroyed Potadi’s demonic thought, and cast Zhao Ziyue down into Karmic Fire.
• Ci Qu drove the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion underground, but Xin Yi defeated Zhao Ziyue and sealed the mansion beneath the surface with the aid of True Man Guangwei and Yang Zhu.
• At the auction, Zhan Shuicheng reclaimed the Nine Nether Prison and Gu Zhi passed it to Yu Ci, who escaped pursuing ghost cultivators with Guan Zheng and Zhan Shuicheng.
• Yu Ci accepted Zhan Shuicheng’s wager to guess the winner of her talisman duel with Xin Yi, and chose Zhan Shuicheng.
• Zhan Shuicheng tested Yu Ci’s ability to navigate a woodland realm, then revealed the realm’s qi structure during her duel as Yu Ci watched her and Jiu Yan enter a weak point in its circulation.

Yu Ci developed his Inner Void into Equality Heaven, used its domain to fight at the Yellow Springs, and worked with Shadow Ghost to imitate the Great Luo Heaven. After surviving the realm’s judgment, Yu Ci returned to his Jiu Yan identity as investigators questioned him about his dwindling lifespan and his insight into sealing.

• Yu Ci learned from Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng’s Go game, then returned to his cave and studied the spreading Karmic Fire and the Hell Beings forming within it.
• Yu Ci created the Life and Death Talisman and built a starry Inner Void, then gathered perceptions from the human realm to complete the Zhaoshen Map.
• Yu Ci trapped Du Hu Shan within Chengqitian, suppressed the Six Desires Turbid Stream, and established Equality Heaven with the Tai Xuan Seal and other offerings.
• Yu Ci practiced controlling his domain at the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, killed Gao Yong’s group, and witnessed Karmic Fire burn the swordsman Hun Liao to death.
• Yu Ci invited divine intent to suppress Karmic Fire and brought Shadow Ghost into Equality Heaven, where Shadow Ghost offered to help him build a Great Luo Heaven in exchange for help becoming the Karmaless Sword Immortal.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost deceived Heaven’s Will as they completed the Inner Void, but the backlash scattered Shadow Ghost’s true spirit and injured Yu Ci before Little Five stabilized his vital energy.
• Yu Ci appeared as Jiu Yan when sect cultivators investigated the fiend, and Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng questioned why he seemed to have so little lifespan left.
• Yu Ci claimed that his chess game with Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng had given him an insight into sealing, astonishing those nearby.

Yu Ci faced the Dead Demon Tribulation while trying to restore his dwindling lifespan, and the Essence Profound Truth ultimately gave him nearly eighty years. After confronting ghost cultivators near Fengdu City, he turned toward questions of ascension and learned that Mr. Mei had gone to the outer realms.

• Yu Ci discovered that his techniques had consumed most of his Innate Vital Energy and struggled to find a way to replenish it before his short remaining lifespan ran out.
• Yu Ci endured the death demons gathering in Chengqitian, raised the realm into the Azure Sky Domain, and survived the waves of the Dead Demon Tribulation with help from Old Daoist Xusheng and Xiao Wu.
• Yu Qing Xuan demanded that Yu Ci live a hundred years and cultivate a successor for the Shangqing lineage, while Gu Zhi gave him five Undying Pills and Su Yu left him a letter.
• Yu Ci used Zhan Shuicheng’s method, the Liquid Profound Truth, and the Essence Profound Truth accumulated in Chengqitian to stabilize his foundation and overcome the deadly demonic tribulation.
• Yu Ci’s Golden Horned Black Dragon fought Wang Jiuquan and the ghost cultivators, while Yu Ci used the Equality Bead to capture the Hell Path Fragment and Hun Liao.
• Yu Ci restored his Azure Dragon cultivation and gained nearly eighty years of life, then set out with Gu Zhi toward Huayan City and considered how to reach the outer realms.
• Gu Zhi learned that Mr. Mei had cultivated the Yang God and gone to the outer realms, then ordered the news concealed for three days while wondering whether Mr. Mei’s apparent passing had been planned.