Recaps

After returning to Big Bamboo Peak, Luo Yunji was punished for causing trouble, but Su Ru soon let him and Zhang Xiaofan rest. The Quadruplets told Luo Yunji that they had followed the fairy to Heaven-Reaching Peak, leaving him curious about why she went there.

• Tian Buyi scolded Luo Yunji for causing trouble and ordered him to kneel while Song Daren watched.
• Song Daren, Zhang Xiaofan, and the other disciples kept Luo Yunji company during his punishment, and Su Ru later allowed him and Zhang Xiaofan to rest.
• Luo Yunji said he wanted to help his Second Senior Brother snatch a woman from the Acacia Sect, prompting laughter from Su Ru and the senior brothers.
• Zhang Xiaofan returned with Luo Yunji to their tidy bamboo hut, where the Quadruplets told Luo Yunji they had secretly followed the fairy to Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Luo Yunji wondered why the fairy had gone to Heaven-Reaching Peak, but the Quadruplets had no answer.

Luo Yunji led the Quadruplets to Heaven-Reaching Peak to steal peaches, while Daoxuan and Wan Jianyi discussed his exploits and the disciples’ cultivation. The chapter left Luo Yunji and Tian Linger trading insults and preparing to fight over the peaches.

• Luo Yunji took the Quadruplets to pick peaches at Heaven-Reaching Peak, and Su Ru led disciples out to search for them.
• Daoxuan and Wan Jianyi watched the youngsters at the Ancestral Hall and talked about Luo Yunji’s past adventures and his effect on Tian Buyi.
• Daoxuan told Wan Jianyi that disciples borrowed from Morning Sun Peak had stayed with the soldiers at Two Mountains because of their cultivation method, and they considered what that meant for Tian Linger’s strength.
• Luo Yunji and Tian Linger spotted each other, exchanged insults, and Luo Yunji threw a peach pit at her.
• Tian Linger attacked Luo Yunji with the Amber Vermilion Silk as he retreated, while the Quadruplets carried a sack full of peaches.

Tian Linger and Luo Yunji fought over a stolen peach, turning a spell duel into a chaotic brawl that Daoxuan had to break up. As Daoxuan escorted the group back to Big Bamboo Peak, Zhang Xiaofan arrived looking for Luo Yunji and found the siblings still arguing.

• Tian Linger stole a bite of Luo Yunji’s peach, prompting him to attack her with Water Ribbons while Lin Jingyu rushed in to help.
• Luo Yunji lashed Lin Jingyu with Water Ribbons, and Tian Linger freed him before she and Luo Yunji began fighting hand to hand in midair.
• Lin Jingyu failed to stop the brawl and was knocked to the ground, so Daoxuan carried Tian Linger and Luo Yunji apart and escorted the group back toward Big Bamboo Peak.
• Zhang Xiaofan came searching for Luo Yunji and found him and Tian Linger disheveled and trading accusations over the peach and peach pits.

Daoxuan visited Small Bamboo Peak and asked Su Ru for the improved Taiji Mystic Purity Dao, which Su Ru and Tian Buyi eventually agreed to give him for the sake of the Azure Cloud Sect. After Su Ru delivered it, she found Tian Buyi staring at a booklet Zhang Xiaofan had written, and she was stunned by its contents.

• Su Ru calmed Tian Linger and Luo Yunji after Daoxuan brought them back, then welcomed Daoxuan into the Black Bamboo Pavilion.
• Daoxuan asked whether the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao had been improved, and Su Ru admitted that it had and explained that it could let disciples reach the ninth level of the Jade Purity Realm.
• Daoxuan returned to Heaven-Reaching Peak without asking outright, and Tian Buyi later woke from a nightmare about compensating Tianyin Temple with a new temple.
• Su Ru told Tian Buyi that Daoxuan had asked for the cultivation method, and they decided to send it to Heaven-Reaching Peak after discussing its importance alongside the Dragon Slayer Art and the Heavenly Book.
• Su Ru delivered the cultivation method to Daoxuan, then returned to find Tian Buyi staring at a booklet written by Zhang Xiaofan; she read it and was left in disbelief.

Su Ru learned that the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao had been revised using the Heavenly Book, while Tian Buyi revealed the full extent of Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji’s exploits at Tianyin Temple. Meanwhile, the disciples discussed rumors that Tian Linger had grown close to Lin Jingyu, leaving them uncertain about what would happen next.

• Su Ru realized that the repeated improvements to the cultivation method came from the Heavenly Book, which had been placed in the Black Bamboo Building.
• Tian Buyi told Su Ru that Luo Yunji had brought back many stone carvings from Tianyin Temple and that Zhang Xiaofan had also brought back Divine Monk Puzhi’s soul.
• Luo Yunji told Zheng Dali that the Quadruplets thought Tian Linger was getting together with Lin Jingyu.
• Zheng Dali, Song Daren, and Zhang Xiaofan discussed the rumor and recalled Tian Linger’s past hostility toward Lin Jingyu.
• Tian Buyi told Su Ru that Luo Yunji had taken a magic treasure from Tianyin Temple in front of two divine monks.

Su Ru and Tian Buyi discussed Tian Linger’s relationship with Lin Jingyu, while Zhang Xiaofan warned Lin Jingyu that Luo Yunji’s approval mattered at Big Bamboo Peak. Luo Yunji challenged Lin Jingyu, easily defeated him, and left to pick peaches with the Quadruplets.

• Tian Buyi angrily rejected the idea of Lin Jingyu marrying Tian Linger, while Su Ru reminded him that Linger might insist.
• Zhang Xiaofan told Lin Jingyu that Luo Yunji’s disapproval could jeopardize his relationship with Tian Linger.
• Luo Yunji confronted Wan Jianyi and cut his broom in half after Wan Jianyi charged at him.
• Luo Yunji ordered Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning to restrain Lin Jingyu, then let them withdraw so Lin Jingyu could fight him one-on-one.
• Lin Jingyu attacked with the Dragon Slayer Sword, but Luo Yunji’s Water Ribbons whipped him until he dropped the sword and his clothes were torn.
• Zhang Xiaofan redirected Luo Yunji toward picking peaches, and Luo Yunji left with the Quadruplets.

Luo Yunji left Big Bamboo Peak with Zhang Xiaofan and headed to Two Mountains, where he tried to persuade Wu Dayi and the others to go to Carefree Ravine. The group instead planned to visit Imperial City to consult Senior Zhou about the Qiankun Samsara Disk, while He Dazhi arranged to notify Big Bamboo Peak that the two disciples had left.

• Wan Jianyi stopped Lin Jingyu from challenging Luo Yunji and warned him that he was no match for Luo Yunji or Big Bamboo Peak's arts.
• Daoxuan returned Luo Yunji to Big Bamboo Peak, where Tian Buyi scolded him and discussed the improved cultivation method with Daoxuan.
• Luo Yunji left Big Bamboo Peak with Zhang Xiaofan, prompting the others to worry that he had gone to Carefree Ravine to find a wife for Wu Dayi.
• At Two Mountains, Luo Yunji learned the Spirit Grain seeds had been planted and tried to drag Du Bishu and the others to Carefree Ravine.
• He Dazhi explained that Zhao Yueyin had come to steal the Acacia Bell, but nothing had been taken; he proposed going to Imperial City to ask Senior Zhou about Zhang Xiaofan's Qiankun Samsara Disk.
• Zhang Xiaofan regretted leaving without telling his senior sister, and He Dazhi said he would send word to Big Bamboo Peak.

Xiao Liu and Xiao San asked Wu Dayi and the others to help open the fox clan’s secret realm and bring its survivors to Two Mountains. They found the foxes starving and near death, rescued them, and took them back to Two Mountains for care.

• Xiao Liu explained that Uncle Qiu Shi had sealed the fox clan’s secret realm in Huqi Mountain and asked to bring any surviving young foxes to Two Mountains.
• Wu Dayi and He Dazhi agreed, and Six-Tailed Fox led the group to the secret realm’s barrier with Uncle Qiu Shi’s guidance.
• Six-Tailed Fox opened the barrier, and the group entered the barren secret realm.
• Uncle Qiu Shi ran to a cave, where the group found dozens of starving foxes lying motionless.
• Zhang Xiaofan fed the foxes water and porridge, and Six-Tailed Fox and Three-Tailed Fox carried them back to Two Mountains.
• Zhang Xiaofan gave the foxes dissolved Great Yellow Pill, while Luo Yunji and Three-Tailed Fox washed them with spiritual water.

After rescuing the Fox Clan survivors, Zhang Xiaofan and his companions consulted Zhou Yixian, who used the Qiankun Samsara Disk to locate the Mysterious Sea in the Far West Lands. Zhou Yixian joined their journey west, where the disk showed that the Sea of Heavenly Mystery was nearing its appearance.

• He Dazhi took Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji to the Imperial City after Wu Dayi and Du Bishu stayed behind to hold down Two Mountains.
• Zhang Xiaofan told his senior brothers that Tianyin Temple held another volume of the Heavenly Book and that Little Junior Brother had further refined the cultivation method.
• Zhou Yixian used the Qiankun Samsara Disk to reveal a location in the Far West Lands, then reluctantly agreed to guide Zhang Xiaofan and the others west with his granddaughter.
• As the group traveled west, the scene on the disk grew larger, and Zhou Yixian explained that the Sea of Heavenly Mystery was a sea of liquefied spiritual energy that made ordinary creatures explode and die.

Zhou Yixian used the Qiankun Samsara Disk to guide the group through a natural formation into the Sea of Heavenly Mystery, a barren land filled with energy beyond ordinary spiritual power. Luo Yunji rushed to bring the elders there, leaving the group poised to explore the hidden realm.

• Zhou Yixian detected a natural formation with the Qiankun Samsara Disk and led the group through it into the Sea of Heavenly Mystery.
• He Dazhi discovered that the realm's dense primordial energy could not be absorbed by ordinary means, while Zhou Yixian explained its potential for cultivation.
• Luo Yunji dragged Zhou Yixian away to bring the elders, and Zhang Xiaofan and the others made camp to await them.
• Luo Yunji used Long Zi to fetch Su Ru and the others from Big Bamboo Peak, then mistakenly snatched Xiao Yicai and Daoxuan before Tian Buyi came along willingly.
• Luo Yunji told Tian Buyi and Daoxuan that they had found the Sea of Heavenly Mystery, and Su Ru told him to fetch her senior sister as well.

Luo Yunji brought Daoxuan, Wan Jianyi, and several thousand soldiers to the Sea of Heavenly Mystery, where he taught the soldiers a cultivation method and helped everyone settle in. After Wan Jianyi struggled to cultivate because his meridians were damaged, Luo Yunji claimed he could help him, though he had not clearly explained how.

• Luo Yunji gathered Tian Linger, Wan Jianyi, Lin Jingyu, and others, then took them from Azure Cloud Mountain Range to Two Mountains and the Imperial City, where a Water Ribbon snatched Liao Xing away.
• Long Zi carried the group and several thousand soldiers to the Sea of Heavenly Mystery, where Luo Yunji taught the soldiers an initial cultivation method and arranged a camp.
• Zhou Yixian warned Luo Yunji that the Sea of Heavenly Mystery was expanding and ordered the group to retreat a thousand meters every twelve hours to avoid dangerous spiritual energy.
• After several days of cultivation and repeated retreats, no one broke through, while Wan Jianyi remained at the edge because his damaged meridians left him weaker than the soldiers.
• Luo Yunji insulted Wan Jianyi and claimed he could help him; when Su Ru asked whether he could remove the evil energy in Wan Jianyi's body, he shook his head and then nodded.

Luo Yunji wandered away from camp and found a golden sea, while Zhang Xiaofan and the others realized he was missing and searched for him. Xiaohuan used the Qiankun Samsara Disk to locate him, but its image shocked her, leaving Zhang Xiaofan and Du Bishu to carry the disk to the others.

• Luo Yunji wandered out of camp and, after getting lost, found a golden sea where the Yang Orb began refining itself.
• Su Ru asked Zhang Xiaofan about absorbing evil qi, but he said he was not sure; when Song Daren and Sixth Senior Brother could not find Luo Yunji, they reported him missing.
• Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan went into the Sea of Heavenly Mystery to search, while Du Bishu stopped Zhang Xiaofan from following them.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Du Bishu asked Zhou Yixian for help, and Zhou Yixian had Xiaohuan use the Qiankun Samsara Disk to find Luo Yunji.
• The disk showed an image of Luo Yunji that made Xiaohuan scream and run away, so Zhang Xiaofan and Du Bishu took the disk to find their senior brothers.

Luo Yunji reunited with Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan at the golden sea, then ran off again after hearing Long Zi cry out. He learned that the Black Water Mystic Snake’s child was forming rapidly in the sea’s spiritual energy and heard about the Thunder Marsh Sea, while Long Zi continued enduring the painful process.

• Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan found Luo Yunji swimming naked in the golden sea and helped him get dressed.
• Luo Yunji explained that he had wandered off while the others practiced, and Tian Buyi told him not to go exploring alone again.
• Luo Yunji heard Long Zi cry out and ran across the sea toward him, while Tian Buyi and Daoxuan had to retreat because the sea’s energy made them bleed.
• Luo Yunji found the Black Water Mystic Snake and learned that Long Zi’s child was taking shape quickly in the Sea of Heavenly Mystery’s abundant spiritual energy.
• The Black Water Mystic Snake mentioned the Thunder Marsh Sea, and Luo Yunji asked Long Zi why he stayed in the sea despite his pain.

Luo Yunji’s spirit separated from his body in the Golden Sea, and Long Zi sent his body and the Yang Orb flying away after they absorbed the sea’s spiritual energy. Su Ru and Tian Buyi found Luo Yunji’s spirit and body near the shore, but a golden barrier kept them apart.

• Long Zi explained that the Thunder Marsh Sea lay above the Sea of Heavenly Mystery and that its thunder could endanger the fetus in his belly.
• Daoxuan True Person, Tian Buyi, and Su Ru retreated from the Golden Sea after its concentrated spiritual energy harmed Tian Buyi’s skin, then watched Luo Yunji through the Qiankun Samsara Disk.
• Luo Yunji woke to find his spirit separated from his body, then accidentally pushed his body into the Golden Sea.
• Long Zi swept Luo Yunji’s body and the Yang Orb away with his tail, and Luo Yunji’s spirit chased after them and became lost.
• Su Ru saw Luo Yunji floating in the sea and rushed with Tian Buyi to the shore, where they found his body and spirit separated by a golden barrier.

Luo Yunji searched the Golden Sea for his missing body while his soul and fleshly body began to converge under the Yin and Yang Orbs. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaofan revealed that he had reached the Upper Purity Realm long ago, leaving Tian Buyi eager to boast and Su Ru rushing to see him.

• Luo Yunji told Tian Buyi and Su Ru that he was a soul body, then panicked when his fleshly body vanished and ran off to find it.
• Long Zi repeatedly sent Luo Yunji’s fleshly body away, while the Black Water Mystic Snake worried that Luo Yunji might get lost; Long Zi assured it he could sense him.
• Luo Yunji’s soul and fleshly body gradually met on the Golden Sea, where the Yin Orb and Yang Orb formed a Taiji diagram around them.
• Zhang Xiaofan tried to leave camp to search for Luo Yunji, but Tian Buyi stopped him and discovered that Zhang Xiaofan had already reached the Upper Purity Realm.
• Tian Buyi bragged to Daoxuan True Person about Zhang Xiaofan’s breakthrough and was told to get lost, then told Su Ru, who hurried off to see Zhang Xiaofan.

Luo Yunji recovered from his soul separation and went with the Black Water Mystic Snake to the Thunder Marsh Sea to complete their transformations. After Luo Yunji found and took a Red Talisman, he drew the thunder’s attention while Dahei began tempering his body.

• Long Zi saw Luo Yunji’s soul and physical body reach equilibrium, then told him to go to the Thunder Marsh Sea for their final fusion.
• Luo Yunji took the Black Water Mystic Snake upward, and they found a realm of blue lightning with a Red Talisman floating within it.
• Luo Yunji recognized the Red Talisman as similar to the Black Talisman he carried and the Gold Talisman on Lu Daxin’s hand, then took it.
• The thunder intensified, blasting scales from the Black Water Mystic Snake as he explained that he needed the power to shed his skin and break through his physical bottleneck.
• The Black Water Mystic Snake exposed Luo Yunji to the lightning, which pursued him as he dodged, while Dahei stayed behind to temper his body.

Luo Yunji endured the Thunder Marsh Sea until a nine-petaled lotus sheltered him and carried him away. He woke in a peaceful, floating realm among clouds and began exploring it.

• Luo Yunji tried to fly upward through the lightning but was blasted back into the Thunder Marsh Sea.
• Luo Yunji found a rootless white lotus that was free of lightning and ate its petals before falling asleep inside it.
• The lotus closed around Luo Yunji, transformed into a streak of light, and flew upward through a rosy, cloud-filled world.
• Luo Yunji woke on grass in a tranquil realm floating among the clouds and began looking around.
• Luo Yunji explored unfamiliar plants and trees in the strange heavenly place.

Luo Yunji explored a strange meadow on Cloud Island and met a middle-aged man who revealed he was Zhou Yixian’s son. The man explained that Luo Yunji was connected to the Great Calamity and led him across the clouds, warning him to stay close.

• Luo Yunji tried to eat a bun-shaped plant, but its bitter juice sprayed into his mouth.
• A middle-aged man offered Luo Yunji food and led him through the meadow, where Luo Yunji asked about its unusual plants.
• The man explained that the plants could only grow there and that Luo Yunji could not visit whenever he wanted.
• Luo Yunji learned the man was Zhou Yixian’s son and heard that he was an important factor in the Great Calamity.
• The man took Luo Yunji across walkable clouds and warned him not to stray from the path.

Luo Yunji followed Zhou Xingyun to a village high above the Thunder Marsh Sea, where he ate local food and learned that the villagers followed unusual rules. Zhou Xingyun told him he would need to speak with his grandmaster and the others if he wanted to return, and Luo Yunji became distracted by the village’s cultivation manuals.

• Zhou Xingyun brought Luo Yunji to the sky village, where the villagers recognized him as “Hope” and discussed whether to seek out Yi Xian.
• Zhou Xingyun took Luo Yunji to his courtyard, gave him clean clothes, and served him the village’s specialty and sap from the Feather Scale Tree.
• Luo Yunji agreed to meet Zhou Xingyun’s grandmaster and martial uncles after learning they might help him return.
• Luo Yunji discovered Taiji Mystic Purity Dao and other sects’ manuals in Zhou Xingyun’s room, while Zhou Xingyun prepared a bed for him.

Zhou Xingyun’s elders discussed the coming world-ending calamity and their hope that Luo Yunji could help avert it. When Zhou brought Luo to meet them, Dabai appeared, and the founding master recognized him as his long-lost senior brother—now a Yin Spirit.

• Zhou Xingyun coaxed Luo Yunji to sleep, then listened as the elders explained the calamity, his father’s plans, and the talismans’ possible role in overcoming it.
• The White-Clad Figure sensed someone’s aura in Luo Yunji’s Sea of Consciousness and threw Luo out when he tried to eat the lotus in the pool.
• Zhou Xingyun brought Luo Yunji, who was clutching a jar of Feather Scale Tree sap, to meet the elders beneath the village’s great tree.
• The elders sensed the aura of the Underworld and vengeful souls on Luo Yunji and questioned whether he could be their prophesied hope.
• Dabai appeared beside Luo Yunji, and the founding master excitedly recognized him as his senior brother before realizing Dabai was a Yin Spirit.

Dabai reunited with his junior brother, the Patriarch, and recounted how the stone sword he brought back led to the Azure Clouds’ cultivation method. He revealed that Luo Yunji was the Son of God and that he had deliberately left behind the two stone tablets Luo Yunji found, while the Patriarch said he had kept Dabai’s five Heavenly Books.

• Dabai met the Patriarch and learned that the other disciples from their generation had died.
• Dabai and the Patriarch discussed the stone sword, Qingyunzi’s rejection of its cultivation method, and how the Azure Clouds later adopted that technique.
• Dabai asked about the Patriarch’s lineage and learned that Zhou Yixian was its thirteenth-generation successor and Zhou Xingyun his son.
• Dabai called Luo Yunji his ward and revealed that Luo Yunji was the Son of God, prompting the physiognomy lineage to recognize his significance.
• The Patriarch revealed he had kept Dabai’s five Heavenly Books, and Dabai told Luo Yunji that he had deliberately left the two stone tablets for him.

Luo Yunji learned that the Heavenly Book versions in the Azure Cloud Sect’s study were copies of two volumes once lost from the Demon Sect, while Dabai discussed the past with Grandmaster. The chapter ended with Grandmaster asking whether Dabai had been behind a technique at Tianyin Temple, and Dabai denying it.

• Luo Yunji confronted Dabai for hiding his knowledge of the Dragon Slayer Art and Yuqing Sword Art, and Dabai promised to let him read the complete Heavenly Book.
• Dabai explained that he had created the two techniques to complement the Azure Cloud Sect’s methods, and Luo Yunji went to read the Heavenly Book in Grandmaster’s study.
• Zhou Xingyun told Luo Yunji that the Demon Sect’s Heavenly Book had once comprised five volumes, and that original versions of two volumes had ended up at Blooddrop Cave and Tianyin Temple.
• Luo Yunji finished reading the booklets, memorized their contents, and joked about altering the Heavenly Book before Zhou Xingyun hurried to take it from him.
• Grandmaster asked Dabai whether he had created the technique at Tianyin Temple, and Dabai denied it, easing Grandmaster’s concern.

Dabai learned that his past choices had fractured his sect and that a Great Calamity threatened the world, with Luo Yunji seen as its only hope. While Luo Yunji reluctantly studied and endured lightning training, he discovered lightning-filled tree stumps in the valley.

• The old man told Dabai how Qingyunzi had expelled him over the Demon Sect technique and how their brothers suffered after the stone sword corrupted them.
• The old man warned Luo Yunji that he was the world's only hope against the approaching Great Calamity, but Luo Yunji did not accept the role.
• Zhou Xingyun took Luo Yunji to study the Mystic Realm's secrets and cultivation arts, then trained him in a lightning-struck valley.
• Zhou Xingyun explained that failed peach-tree tribulations had formed the Thunder Marsh Sea and the Sea of Heavenly Mystery.
• Luo Yunji adapted to the lightning, explored the valley, and touched a strange stump filled with lightning.

Luo Yunji dug up ancient lightning-struck peachwood roots from Peach Valley and brought them back to the village, where Zhou Xingyun's master's ancestor identified their power. Later, Luo Yunji saw a floating mountain sinking and decided he wanted to take it back to grow Feather Scale Trees.

• Luo Yunji found that the peachwood stumps in the valley resisted his strength and teeth, and decided to bring them back as treasures.
• Su Ru worried that Luo Yunji had been missing for more than a month, while Tian Linger insisted he had probably gotten lost.
• Luo Yunji used a water barrier to withstand the valley's lightning and dug up several interconnected peachwood roots.
• Zhou Xingyun's master's ancestor identified the roots as ancient lightning-struck wood that could draw heavenly lightning and strengthen lightning arts.
• Luo Yunji watched a floating mountain sink and told Dabai he wanted to take it back to plant Feather Scale Trees.

Luo Yunji studied the Mystic Realm’s vast collection of texts and offered his techniques for improvement, hoping to earn a movable Floating Mountain. He also learned more about the Black Talismans and continued reading books that were preserved in the Sea of Consciousness.

• Luo Yunji asked Zhou Xingyun how to move a Floating Mountain, and Zhou Xingyun promised to help arrange one if Luo Yunji finished his assigned studies.
• Luo Yunji memorized the Mystic Realm’s texts and gave his techniques for Sanfu Town’s residents and the Two Mountains’ soldiers to his Grandmasters for improvement.
• Zhou Xingyun explained that the Mystic Realm’s collection included rare cultivation techniques, which Luo Yunji had been trying to break, including the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.
• Luo Yunji showed Zhou Xingyun the Black Talisman, and Zhou Xingyun warned that the talismans could destroy rules, including his eternal life.
• Luo Yunji continued memorizing books he could not take out of the Mystic Realm, while the Deity in white observed that books he read completely were being restored in the Sea of Consciousness.