Recaps

Li Changshou outmaneuvered Golden Cicada, organized the Heavenly Court Navy, and worked to bring the Dragon Clan into Heavenly Court service. As he prepared for the coming Immortal Peach Banquet, Yunxiao confronted her feelings for him, and they began a cautious courtship.

• Li Changshou pursued the Black Panther Spirit, met A'bao and Miaomiao, and arranged to keep watch on him as a possible future agent.
• Li Changshou and the Jade Emperor confronted Golden Cicada at a Dragon Clan gathering, but a mysterious woman helped Golden Cicada escape.
• Li Changshou led a carefully prepared attack on Golden Cicada, who survived by shedding his shell before Saint Zhunti took him to Spirit Mountain.
• The Jade Emperor appointed Li Changshou to command the Celestial River Navy, and Li Changshou began securing Dragon Clan support for Heavenly Court service.
• Li Changshou presented the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan with his proposal and Da Yu’s Flood Control Map, then surveyed waterways and helped repel a demon attack near Anshui City.
• Li Changshou distributed Immortal Peaches to his allies, helping Qi Yuan advance to the True Immortal Realm and arranging a Heavenly Court post for him.
• After Yunxiao sought guidance about her feelings, Li Changshou met her and carefully answered Lord Tongtian’s questions about her Love Tribulation.
• Li Changshou and Yunxiao agreed they were in the Warming Realm of courtship, exchanged gifts, and parted before the Jie Teaching immortals confronted him.

Li Changshou helped bring the Dragon Clan under Heavenly Court rule, then fought the Western Teachings’ coordinated attacks on the Four Seas and helped seal the Eastern Sea Sea Eye at the cost of Haotian’s life. Afterward, he investigated the Wu Tribe’s declining births with Zhao Gongming while new tensions gathered around them.

• Li Changshou presented the Southern Continent’s waterway maps at the Immortal Peach Banquet, and the Jade Emperor appointed him Heavenly Court Water God as the Four Seas Dragon Kings pledged allegiance.
• Li Changshou stopped the Jade Emperor from attacking Lu Ya prematurely, arranged for young Li Jing to become True Lord Du'e’s Registered Disciple, and began preparing for the Western Teachings’ threat to the Dragon Clan.
• Li Changshou, Grand Master Xuandu, Yunxiao, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face reached the West Sea Dragon Palace, where Ao Shi’s rebels had seized the West Sea Dragon King and the Dragon Mother.
• Li Changshou used his gourd spirits, formations, Paper Daoists, and a Spirit Explosion Array to defeat Ao Shi’s forces, then urged the West Sea Dragon King to leave his son’s judgment to the Jade Emperor.
• Western forces attacked the Four Seas Sea Eyes, and Li Changshou, Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, Ao Yi, and the Heavenly Court fought to hold the Eastern Sea Sea Eye as Haotian sacrificed himself to seal it.
• Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak, planned how to prepare the Heavenly Court for future threats, and learned from Daoist Wen Jing that Ksitigarbha had plotted against the Dragon Clan.
• Zhao Gongming confessed that he had developed feelings for Golden Light Holy Mother, and Li Changshou took him to a Wu Tribe settlement to investigate the tribe’s sharply declining births.
• Li Changshou proposed that two hundred Wu Tribe couples test a conception remedy, then a slightly plump Daoist intercepted him and Zhao Gongming near Anshui City and berated Zhao Gongming over his supposed intentions toward his grand-disciple.

Li Changshou exposed a Western Sect rumor plot, rescued the Wu Tribe’s unborn spirits, and drew Empress Nuwa’s attention to his origins. He then helped secure a future role for the Phoenix Clan and watched Zhao Gongming approach Golden Light Holy Mother, with Yunxiao’s arrival unsettling the hidden onlookers.

• Li Changshou turned the false rumor about Zhao Gongming and Holy Mother Huoling into a public confrontation that ended with Saint Zhunti sealing Spirit Mountain for a thousand years.
• Li Changshou investigated the Wu Tribe’s miscarriages, found demons trapping unborn spirits in the Human Extermination Sword, and freed them by creating the Mother-Child River.
• Empress Nuwa questioned Li Changshou about his origins, revealed that someone had once manipulated her and the War of the Ancients, and told him Kunpeng was still alive.
• Li Changshou strengthened Lesser Qiong Peak’s defenses, helped Qi Yuan become a Heavenly Court mountain god, and learned that Western Teachings disciples and ancient demons were plotting against him.
• Li Changshou, Zhao Gongming, and Qiongxiao pursued Ksitigarbha, encountered Kong Xuan, and heard his request for help preserving the Phoenix Clan’s bloodline and Destiny.
• Li Changshou proposed that the Phoenix Clan protect the future human sovereign as his totem, and Kong Xuan accepted the conditions.
• Zhao Gongming decided to pursue becoming Dao companions with Golden Light Holy Mother, while Qiongxiao went ahead to sound her out.
• Li Changshou watched Zhao Gongming meet Golden Light Holy Mother with hidden Jie Teaching immortals, then prepared to flee when Yunxiao’s snort made them tremble.

Li Changshou defended the Heavenly Court and Du Xian Sect through crises involving the Demon Race, a succession conflict, and the Jade Emperor’s mortal tribulation. He discovered that Houtu’s emotions were breaking free within the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and the arc ended as he and Grand Master Xuandu found another incarnation had escaped.

• Li Changshou helped Yunxiao avoid reprimanding Qiongxiao, then discussed the Heavenly Dao and its influence on living beings with her.
• Ksitigarbha used the Demon Race to attack Southern Continent cities and Du Xian Sect, but Li Changshou evacuated the sect, defeated the invasion, and exposed Ksitigarbha’s scheme.
• Li Changshou helped arrange mortal reincarnations for the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother, then reflected on Qi Yuan’s warning about the consequences of his power.
• Li Changshou aided Youqin Xuanya in defending Hong Lin Kingdom, confronted Randeng with Kong Xuan and Zhao Gongming, and arranged for the kingdom’s royal survivors to lay the foundations of the Shang Kingdom.
• Li Changshou escorted Youqin Xuanya’s father to the Netherworld, where he saw a chained woman plead for help and learned from Empress Nuwa that Houtu’s Seven Emotions Incarnations threatened her will.
• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu met Houtu’s Sorrow Incarnation, then entered the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and followed Houtu’s memories.
• Li Changshou realized Houtu’s angry incarnation was not acting alone, and Grand Master Xuandu found an opened Longevity Lock as another incarnation emerged.