Recaps

Li Shun and his companions traveled to Yunguan County to rescue Feng Guan, only to find the county under a deadly tribulation caused by Zuo Yan. After repeated reflections and failed attempts to escape, Li Shun summoned a Sage whose judgment ended Zuo Yan’s tribulation and restored the dead, while figures in Sacred Capital shifted their attention to Fang Xun.

• Li Shun traveled with Li Qing and Duan Jiuzhang to Yunguan County to save Feng Guan, passing through Blazing Fire County, where Li Shun encountered the Mystic Yellow Qi around Ge Gong’s statue.
• In Yunguan County, Duan Jiuzhang discovered that black crystals had corrupted the fields and identified the crisis as the Owl God Seizing Food tribulation.
• Li Shun and Li Qing distributed food and tried to secure supplies for Yunguan’s starving people, while Duan Jiuzhang went to hunt the hidden culprit.
• Zuo Yan revealed that he had poisoned Duan Jiuzhang, drained Yunguan’s residents to reach the Creation Stage, and killed nearly everyone.
• Li Shun used Three Reflections Upon Myself to rewind time, but repeated efforts to flee or confront Zuo Yan failed, and Zuo Yan killed Li Shun and Li Qing in the repeated outcomes.
• Li Shun invoked Square Inch Arises in the Mind and Casting the Elephant into the Human World, summoning a Sage whose judgment declared Zuo Yan had failed his tribulation and perished.
• The people killed in Yunguan County returned to life, Li Qing found Li Shun unconscious, and figures in Sacred Capital turned their attention to Fang Xun.

Li Shun pursued Mystic Yellow Qi while serving as Shangyu’s acting magistrate, then returned to East Mountain after Fang Xun died in the calamity. He honored Fang Xun, learned of his new duties in the Confucian School, and discovered a mysterious gate in the Square Inch Space.

• Li Shun left Yunguan with Li Qing, gathered Mystic Yellow Qi in Shangyu, and became acting magistrate after exposing the mistreatment of Qian Yuan’s shrine.
• Li Shun brought the Three Elders’ remains into the Square Inch Space, honored them with a memorial, and advanced to the Grand Simplicity Realm.
• Li Shun helped turn Cheng Rang’s confrontation into a rebellion charge, but Su Zhenhan poisoned Cheng Rang and vowed revenge against Li Shun.
• Yin Fengshuo’s schemes worsened the crisis around Fang Xun, while Shentu Xin unleashed Heavenly Dao Severed Qi across Former Tomb Commandery.
• Fang Xun led refugees to safety and died holding back the Severed Qi, and Li Shun returned to East Mountain after learning of his death.
• Li Shun investigated the disaster, publicized Fang Xun’s service, buried him in a cenotaph, and petitioned for a shrine while Yin Fengshuo was sentenced to death.
• Li Shun agreed to cultivate at the Kong Family Grotto-Heaven and asked Li Qing to maintain Fang Xun’s shrine and care for Fang Han.
• Li Shun discovered that Mystic Yellow Qi could fulfill wishes and found a Gate of Myriad Mysteries in the Square Inch Space, but Shentu Xin’s phantom could not pass through it.

Fang Han cultivated in the Martial World, uncovered the force draining its energy, and fought his way to the truth behind the Grandmasters’ disappearances. He learned the Martial World was a Demon Realm pasture and enlisted Fei to help him control its Heavenly Dao.

• Li Shun saved Fang Han by making him a puppet within Square Inch, and Fang Han agreed to live and seek revenge for the theft of his Creation.
• Fang Han entered the Martial World, used Azure Wood Invocation to rebuild his body, and trained through deadly fights while searching for a way to obtain Mystic Yellow Qi.
• Fang Han found a cracked Turtle Shell at Emerald Plume Lake, endured its attacks, and pulled it into Square Inch, releasing a surge of energy from the lake.
• Fang Han learned from Wen Ye about spiritual energy, discovered that Grandmasters’ graves were empty, and concluded that an unknown force was draining the Martial World’s energy.
• Grandmasters repeatedly ambushed Fang Han, but he escaped into Square Inch and eventually changed his arrival point to return safely to Heavenly Eye City.
• After a year of fighting, Fang Han challenged Lu Feng and Luo You, endured their attacks, and broke through to the Innate realm while Azure Wood Invocation healed him.
• Fang Han destroyed the giant face that cursed him, followed Heavenly Dao Severed Qi to a hidden boundary, and captured Fei, who revealed that the Martial World was Pasture Thirteen.
• Fang Han promised not to enter the Demon Race World for a hundred years if Fei helped him control the Martial World’s Heavenly Dao, and Fei revealed traces of its circulation from a grotto-heaven.

Fang Han established Lifespan Borrowing in the Martial World and prepared its people to resist the Demon Race, while Li Shun expanded the Square Inch Space and became entangled in a court plot against the Kong Family. The court introduced a new system for evaluating officials, and Li Shun encountered a mysterious man on Dai Mountain.

• Fang Han negotiated with the Heavenly Dao, gathered the Martial World's vital essence, borrowed two hundred years of longevity, and taught the Twelve Longevity Method to martial artists.
• Li Shun expanded the Square Inch Space, discovered the Deep Profound Gate and a growing karmic wisp, and used puppets to observe events across the worlds.
• Fang Han and Fei secretly extracted life essence from Demon Infants, then built an Inner World where people could learn the truth and prepare to resist the Demon Race.
• Li Qing left East Mountain Town to pursue his own path, while Li Shun sent Shentu Xin to explore the Heavenly Dao Severed Sea.
• Li Shun was arrested with the Kong Family after a forged imperial decree framed them, then used Three Awakenings to reset the day and investigate the conspiracy.
• Kong Changqing recognized the Confucian Sage's intervention and committed the Kong Clan to the Confucian path as attacks on the Sacred Capital exposed a wider court struggle.
• Li Shun and Kong Zhao tried to bait the Kong Family's attackers, but two unknown Creation Stage masters killed Kong Li before Kong Zhao escaped.
• Kong Zhao explained Great Qian's new official evaluation system and its public judgments, then Li Shun followed a breakthrough opportunity to Dai Mountain and met a mysterious man in black.