Recaps

Luo Yunji’s extraordinary cultivation and strange abilities alarmed Big Bamboo Peak, while his sleep-talk led him to create a powerful new technique. He discovered Zhang Xiaofan was secretly practicing an incomplete Buddhist method and became determined to investigate its connection to Azure Clouds’ cultivation art.

• Luo Yunji’s unusual talent became clear as he advanced rapidly while sleeping, even biting off part of Spirit Venerable’s horn and damaging He Dazhi’s magical brush.
• Luo Yunji’s sleep-talk helped He Dazhi and several senior brothers break through their cultivation bottlenecks, then Luo Yunji’s breakthrough destroyed Big Bamboo Peak’s main hall.
• Tian Buyi and Daoxuan examined Luo Yunji’s sea of consciousness, where they found endless books and discovered he had spent more than a year sorting damaged scrolls.
• After recovering, Luo Yunji created a spell that deflected Song Daren’s attack and carved a ravine through the courtyard, then taught its movements to the Big Bamboo Peak disciples.
• Luo Yunji noticed Zhang Xiaofan practiced two incomplete cultivation methods and warned that keeping the secret could put him in danger.
• After Zhang Xiaofan recited the Great Brahma Prajna, Luo Yunji judged it incomplete and suspected it and Azure Clouds’ Taiji Mystic Purity Dao came from one original method.

Luo Yunji revised Azure Clouds' cultivation method, then devised a movement technique while Zhang Xiaofan practiced it and injured himself. The arc left Tian Buyi and He Dazhi asking Luo Yunji to explain the different cultivation attributes he had discovered.

• Luo Yunji taught Zhang Xiaofan his modified Taiji Mystic Purity Dao and guided him through preparing a meal in black-jointed bamboo, which Tian Buyi and the disciples later shared.
• Tian Buyi entered Luo Yunji’s sea of consciousness and learned that a mysterious second soul shared Luo Yunji’s body, then returned and told Su Ru that the soul had no wish to interfere.
• Luo Yunji revealed that his revised cultivation method completed the fifth level, and Tian Buyi confirmed that Zhang Xiaofan was close to reaching the second level.
• After a monkey stole his wine, Luo Yunji began devising a movement art, spent days working through the problem, and taught Zhang Xiaofan its footwork.
• Zhang Xiaofan practiced for a month and injured himself, so Luo Yunji carried him home and treated his feet with medicinal soaks and massages.
• Luo Yunji demonstrated that he could freeze water, and He Dazhi proposed that the revised method allowed cultivators to develop different attributes without magic treasures.
• He Dazhi showed Luo Yunji his Taiji Seal and asked about its attributes, and Luo Yunji identified wind among six major categories before describing spirit as consciousness, spiritual sense, and self-awareness.

Luo Yunji taught Big Bamboo Peak about cultivation attributes, and his medicinal preparations helped the disciples advance after repeated destruction drove them into a cave. His pursuit of a wine-stealing monkey led to Zhang Xiaofan's encounter with a blood-draining staff, and the stretch ended with Zhang Xiaofan recovered and Luo Yunji preparing an unfamiliar spell against his teasing seniors.

• Luo Yunji identified the family's cultivation attributes and explained mental cultivation and the possibilities of water and ice.
• Luo Yunji drank monkey wine and drunkenly summoned a giant dragon that Tian Buyi struck with lightning before it damaged Big Bamboo Peak.
• Song Daren broke through after using Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan's medicinal bath, and his erupting earth spikes damaged the houses.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan showed the family a warm cave, where the disciples settled and advanced with medicinal food and monkey wine.
• Luo Yunji pursued the wine-stealing monkey and found Zhang Xiaofan losing blood to a short staff, which he disabled by biting off its bead.
• Tian Buyi examined the staff and Luo Yunji's hairpin but found nothing unusual, and Luo Yunji fed the unconscious Zhang Xiaofan homemade medicine.
• Zhang Xiaofan woke at the fifth cultivation level, and Luo Yunji explained that his improved method could grant a natural power called the Heavenly Heart.
• Luo Yunji attacked his teasing senior brothers with lightning and Water Arrows, resisted Wu Dayi's mental attack, and finished preparing an unfamiliar spell.

Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan left Big Bamboo Peak with their senior brothers, visited their former homes, and investigated a monster on Black Mountain. After discovering gemstones and saving the Yanshe Snake, they followed it toward Quhu’s lair and found a black stone rod.

• Luo Yunji defeated seven Big Bamboo Peak disciples alone and later rescued Zhang Xiaofan after a green bead collided with a black stick in Jade Pool.
• Luo Yunji shared his medicinal bath formula with Big Bamboo Peak and Shuiyue, and He Dazhi destroyed the repaired buildings when he broke through to the sixth level.
• Tian Buyi sent seven disciples down the mountain, and Zhang Xiaofan returned to ruined Grass Temple Village, mourned his family, and tended the graves.
• The disciples visited Heyang City and their hometowns before He Dazhi agreed to investigate a Monster Beast threatening people near Black Mountain.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan revealed an invisible material with spiritual power, and the disciples followed its trail into the Yanshe Snake’s mountain nest.
• Luo Yunji uncovered a cavern full of gemstones, and Zhang Xiaofan accepted the black stick as his blood-refined magic treasure.
• Zhang Xiaofan killed the giant lizard attacking the Yanshe Snake with the Fire Poker, and Luo Yunji restored the snake with his hairpin.
• The Yanshe Snake carried the disciples toward Quhu’s lair, where they found a black stone rod, and Luo Yunji explained that his spiritual attribute let him understand the creatures.