Recaps

Yang Huai advanced through Daoist cultivation, exchanged secret arts with Feng Ying, and rescued Liu Jingjing from a peddler. After defeating a demon tiger in the Slaughter Hall, he refined his talisman seed and discovered that carving Human King figures strengthened his dharma power and could calm Mao Hong’s demonic nature.

• Yang Huai entered Wuwang Realm in Qingli’s body, learned the primordial glyphs, and awakened his Innate Spirit-Awakened Sword Body while cultivating the Heavenly Circuit Heart Method.
• Yang Huai completed the eight primordial glyphs, entered the Dao Registry, learned the Heavenly Origin Pure Spirit Codex, and formed the Heavenly Yang Golden Light Talisman.
• Yang Huai exchanged the Heavenly Circuit Heart Method with Feng Ying for the Metal Essence Fivefold Tempering Secret Art and the Soul-Calming Spirit-Severing Technique.
• Yang Huai rescued Liu Jingjing from the peddler, then chose slaughtering as his branch craft and entered the Slaughter Hall, where he destroyed a black tiger demon soul.
• Yang Huai discovered that the Heavenly Yang Golden Light Talisman had fused with his soul and body, completing his talisman-seed refinement.
• Yang Huai carved Human King figures to study the Suiren Spirit-Aspect Visualization Diagram, and his first successful carving drew in spiritual energy and advanced his Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Huai refined a spirit peach, awakened the spirit bone in his right palm, and asked Hou Feng Daoist to teach him branch arts.
• Mao Hong tested Yang Huai’s Human King Woodcarving and found that its halo cleared his frenzied demonic nature, so he decided to seek more carvings.

Yang Huai strengthened his cultivation through battles, repeated trials, woodcarving, and the pursuit of the Geng Metal Dharma Body. After building ties with the kitchen Daoists and preparing for the tribal hunt, he faced a dangerous attack while processing Golden-Armored Giant Spirit Bears.

• Yang Huai killed Wild Dog Daoist and the Dog King, then defeated two Hengling Stockade leaders and disguised himself to attack the stockade.
• Yang Huai sold his Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings for spirit fruits and medicines, shared part of his earnings with the fire-worker Daoists, and advanced his Geng Metal cultivation.
• Yang Huai awakened the Geng Metal Dharma Body and arranged larger carving sales through Feng Ying and Bai Lingzhen while declining to join the Hunt of the Various Tribes.
• Yang Huai cleaned the Slaughter Hall, found an ancient bronze sword, and began learning to repair its Spirit-Suppressing Talismans as exotic beasts arrived for the hunt.
• Yang Huai attempted Daoheart Salvation on resentful spirits in the beast pens, while Flame Daoist and Hou Feng Daoist realized the temple might have imprisoned members of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s clan.
• Yang Huai butchered Golden-Armored Giant Spirit Bears, but the largest bear pierced his Little Vajra Incantation with a black attack before Flame Daoist killed it with a blood-red blade.

Yang Huai completed his transformation into an Innate Geng Metal Dao Body, entered the Profound Mystery Sect, and began cultivating its sword and divine beast arts. In a new projection as an innate strange vine, he sought to learn from a Golden Dragon while resisting the dragon nature’s influence.

• Yang Huai rescued Tu Shan Bai, completed the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram, and became the Temple Master's eighth personal disciple after his transformation.
• Yang Huai protected Liu Jingjing from Daoist Xuanzhen's Seven-Star Life-Adding Method, killed Xuanzhen, and chose to make Innate Sword Bone an auxiliary Fate.
• Yang Huai helped Jin Meng transform into a flood dragon, gained a jade sword token, and impressed the Profound Mystery Sect elders during the Yama Demon Valley trial.
• Yang Huai joined the Profound Mystery Sect under Daoist Guangrong, received the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register, and completed his Innate Geng Metal Dao Body with Man and Sword as One.
• Yang Huai chose the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art, received the ancient sword Junting, and completed the cultivation of all 108 strands of magic power.
• Yang Huai entered a projection as an innate strange vine and began strengthening its roots while studying how to fulfill its wishes.
• Yang Huai learned the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art from Daoist Chaoyuan and returned to the vine projection to cultivate through the Golden Dragon's presence.
• Yang Huai offered to help the Golden Dragon approach the temple courtyard's Dao sounds in exchange for its guidance.

Yang Huai strengthened his spirit vine, mastered new cultivation methods, and became an Innate Sacred Spirit Dao Embryo before entering the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven. After passing the first seven trials and forming his Innate Golden Spirit Dao Embryo Sword Body, he faced True Lord Fuhuo’s flames in the eighth trial.

• Yang Huai formed an azure dragon soul after listening to the temple’s Dao sounds, then proved himself to Jiang Rongyue by destroying the Child-Mother Netherworld Sword and rescuing its victims.
• Yang Huai cultivated the Heavenly Gate Golden Chapter, awakened as the Primordial Profound Metal Spirit Vine, and helped the Lunar Golden Toad and Golden Dragon kill the Nine-Headed Serpent.
• Yang Huai mastered the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art, defeated Firecloud Immortal, returned to the Profound Mystery Sect, and advanced to the Dan Qi realm.
• Yang Huai defeated Jiang Rongyue in a spar, continued his training with Daoist Guangrong, and cultivated the Phoenix True Form before Chang Xi helped him endure his transformation tribulation.
• Yang Huai emerged with a metal-and-wood Innate Sacred Spirit Dao Embryo, then fused his Innate Sword Bone Fate with his Innate Golden Spirit Fate to gain the Peerless Sword Immortal fate and an Innate Golden Spirit Dharma Body.
• Yang Huai received the Myriad Mysteries Return-to-Origin Scripture and entered the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven, where he defeated Wu Man and Purple Demon across the first six stages and collected thirty tokens.
• Yang Huai exchanged his tokens for Innate Golden Spirit Origin Qi, formed his Innate Golden Spirit Dao Embryo Sword Body, and defeated True Lord Fuhuo in the seventh trial.
• Yang Huai chose the Wishful Fire-Calming Pearl and entered the eighth trial, where he faced True Lord Fuhuo’s Scarlet Fire Divine Flame and remained unharmed behind the pearl’s icy radiance.