Recaps

Li Changshou destroyed Golden Cicada’s body, secured the Dragon Clan’s path into Heavenly Court service, and prepared for the Immortal Peach Banquet while navigating his growing relationship with Yunxiao. As the banquet began, someone beside his true body on Lesser Qiong Peak was about to awaken.

• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu attacked Golden Cicada, but Saint Zhunti intervened and took him to Spirit Mountain to be remade, and Li Changshou then planned to spread rumors about the cast-off shell.
• Li Changshou took command of the Celestial River Navy and began arranging Heavenly Court water-god posts to help the Dragon Clan address its karma.
• Li Changshou helped Youqin Xuanya escape her heart demon and later reassured her when she admitted her unusual feelings for him.
• Li Changshou brought Princess Longji to meet eminent figures, gained endorsements for the Dragon Clan from Duobao and Guang Chengzi, and secured the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan’s support for service in Heaven.
• Li Changshou and the Wu Tribe defeated demons threatening Anshui City, while several members of the Du Xian Sect benefited from the Immortal Peaches he distributed.
• After Yunxiao sought guidance about her Love Tribulation, Li Changshou answered Lord Tongtian’s questions, discussed their courtship with her, and accepted her gifts before escaping the gathering of Jie Teaching immortals.
• Li Changshou spent eleven and a half years overseeing Dragon Clan affairs and preparing for the calamity, then arranged for Zhao Gongming to attend the Immortal Peach Banquet.
• Li Changshou completed the waterway maps with Longji, escorted the Four Seas Dragon Kings to the banquet, and sensed that someone beside his true body on Lesser Qiong Peak was about to wake.

Li Changshou secured the Dragon Clan’s submission to Heavenly Court, crushed a rebellion, and helped seal the Eastern Sea Eye at the cost of Haotian’s life. He then turned to threats involving the Wu Tribe and Ksitigarbha, engineering a public scandal that brought Chan and Jie Teaching to the brink of conflict.

• Li Changshou presented the Southern Jambudvipa waterway maps, became Heavenly Court Water God, and secured the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ submission after the Heavenly Court executed a rebellious elder.
• Li Changshou helped young Li Jing enter Du Xian Sect as True Lord Du'e’s Registered Disciple, while rumors mistakenly claimed Grand Master Xuandu had a daughter at the sect.
• With Grand Master Xuandu and Yunxiao’s help, Li Changshou prepared for the Dragon Clan rebellion and defeated Ao Shi’s forces at the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• Li Changshou and Yunxiao discovered the Western Teachings’ attacks on the Four Seas Sea Eyes, then helped the Dragon Clan and Heavenly Court defend them.
• When the Eastern Sea Eye’s seal broke, Li Changshou, Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, and the dragons tried to contain it, and Haotian sacrificed himself to provide the merit needed to seal it.
• Li Changshou learned that Ksitigarbha and his mount Diting had plotted against the Dragon Clan, and he visited the Wu Tribe to investigate its declining births.
• Li Changshou devised a staged scandal involving Zhao Gongming, Holy Mother Huoling, and True Person Huang Long to pressure the Western Sect and restrict Ksitigarbha’s schemes.
• True Person Huang Long’s accusations drew Chan Teaching and Jie Teaching immortals into a confrontation, while Ksitigarbha feared the Saints would expose him.

Li Changshou exposed schemes against the Daoist Sect, rescued the Wu Tribe’s lost spirits, and negotiated an alliance with Kong Xuan for the Phoenix Clan. As Ksitigarbha organized a demonic assault on the Southern Continent and Du Xian Sect, Li Changshou prepared the Heavenly Court and his allies for war.

• Li Changshou helped the Daoist immortals expose the Western Sect’s rumor scheme, and Saint Zhunti sealed Spirit Mountain for one thousand years.
• Li Changshou discovered that demons were trapping unborn Wu Tribe spirits in the Human Extermination Sword, then destroyed Yaosheng Mountain and preserved the spirits in the Mother-Child River.
• Empress Nuwa revealed that Li Changshou came from elsewhere, demanded stories from him, and told him that Kunpeng was still alive beyond the Chaos Sea.
• Li Changshou arranged for his master, Qi Yuan, to become a Heavenly Court mountain god and later urged Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao to pursue Ksitigarbha.
• Li Changshou agreed to help Kong Xuan restore the Phoenix Clan’s Destiny in exchange for its support of a future human sovereign and the Heavenly Court.
• Ksitigarbha allied with the Demon Race and attacked 162 Southern Continent cities, while Li Changshou mobilized Heavenly Court, Underworld, and Dragon Clan forces to repel them.
• Ksitigarbha gathered Daoist Wen Jing and Primordial Chaos Fierce Beasts, planning to besiege the Carefree Immortal Sect and attack Du Xian Sect to draw Li Changshou out.

Li Changshou defended Du Xian Sect from the Demon Race, helped Youqin Xuanya save her family, and arranged the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother’s mortal tribulations. After discovering that Houtu was trapped by her Seven Emotions, he assembled Daoist experts for a mission into the Netherworld, where they faced Little Ai’s sorrow.

• Li Changshou evacuated Du Xian Sect and defeated the Demon Race’s attack, while Ksitigarbha’s schemes were exposed and the Qingqiu fox maiden Xiao Lan pursued Qi Yuan.
• Li Changshou arranged a protected mortal reincarnation for the Jade Emperor, then sent the Queen Mother to join him after she insisted on sharing his tribulation.
• Youqin Xuanya fought to save her family in Hong Lin Kingdom, and Li Changshou intervened against the attackers and Randeng with help from Kong Xuan and Zhao Gongming.
• Li Changshou helped establish the future Shang Kingdom and took Youqin Xuanya’s father to the Netherworld, where he witnessed a chained woman pleading to be saved.
• Li Changshou learned from Empress Nuwa that Houtu’s Seven Emotions Incarnations threatened to overwhelm her, then entered the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk with Grand Master Xuandu to investigate.
• Li Changshou encountered Houtu’s Sorrow, Malice, and Desire Incarnations, entered Desire’s mind, and found Houtu trapped by her emotions.
• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu recruited Duobao, Zhao Gongming, Holy Mother Jinling, Yunxiao, Guang Chengzi, True Lord Taiyi, and True Lord Yu Ding for an operation in the Netherworld.
• The assembled experts descended beneath the Eighteen Levels of Hell and encountered Little Ai, whose sorrow left True Lord Taiyi weeping and Duobao lamenting their lost happiness.