Recaps

Zhao Feng joined the struggling Nine Yang Gate, strengthened his martial arts, and served the Martial Suppression Bureau while helping Lin Ziwei recover her stolen goods. After Huo Yao defeated Pan Jie, Zhao Feng advanced toward Pill Embracement under Mu Xuanzhou’s guidance.

• Zhao Feng failed to enter the Eight Extremes Gate because of his fifth-grade root bone, joined the Shadow Guard as Ink Eagle, and became Mu Xuanzhou’s registered disciple at the Nine Yang Gate.
• Zhao Feng combined the Nine Yang Orthodox Meridian Formula with his Eight Extremes training, perfected the Eight Extremes Fist, and took a guard post at the North Mountain Herb Garden.
• Zhao Feng caught Jiang Qi and Cao Qian stealing treasure medicines, killed them during their escape attempt, and earned a reward from the Nine Yang Gate.
• Zhao Feng reported on the Nine Yang Gate to the Dark Guard, then offered to help Lin Ziwei after bandits robbed a Four Seas Trading House caravan.
• Zhao Feng attacked the Azure Mountain Four Tigers’ stronghold, defeated the bandits, recovered the stolen goods, and uncovered evidence of an insider’s betrayal.
• Lin Ziwei purged the trading house’s traitors and gave Zhao Feng the Mountain Burner spear, while the Martial Suppression Bureau awarded him merit for uncovering a Northern Barbarian hideout.
• At the Eight Extremes Gate tournament, Huo Yao defeated Pan Jie, who vowed revenge against her and Zhao Feng.
• Zhao Feng completed the Wind God Leg Technique, offered Mu Xuanzhou a five-hundred-year-old fo-ti root, and began condensing elixir qi and refining yang qi.

Zhao Feng uncovered Demonic Sect and Northern Barbarian plots while rising through the Nine Yang Gate and helping repel an assault on the Eight Extremes Gate. After pursuing a traitor for merit, he joined Fang Han in hunting Xiang Wentian and the Wood Marrow Heartflow.

• Zhao Feng defeated Cai Zhiqian at the Exchange Gathering, but his duel with Xie Qiu ended when the Demonic Sect attacked three sects, and the Nine Yang Gate was named joint champion.
• Zhao Feng took charge of the Great Wild Marsh fishing ground, killed an Ironback Dread Crocodile, and later joined Huo Yao in investigating attacks by powerful aquatic beasts.
• Zhao Feng survived the treasure-boat expedition, killed Song Zhi after finding her wounded, and gave Company Commander Fan a Cowhide Scroll concerning Great Yan’s dragon vein.
• Zhao Feng learned that Chu Fan had likely joined the Demonic Sect, discovered that Northern Barbarians and the Demonic Sect sought the dragon eye, and advanced his cultivation while making the Tiger Ranking.
• Zhao Feng defeated Jiang Chen, then killed Guo Ying after Mu Xuanzhou identified her as a Demonic Sect spy and helped Xia Commandant capture her accomplice Fei.
• Lu Zhou and Blood Lotus Sect forces attacked the Eight Extremes Gate, but Mu Xuanzhou, Zhao Feng, and other allies helped Yu Ruoyun defeat the assault and drive the Demonic Sect forces away.
• The Five Great Sects formed an alliance under the Martial Suppression Bureau, and Zhao Feng killed the fleeing Yuan Xiaochuan at the Blackstone Mine to claim his mission reward.
• Fang Han told Zhao Feng that Xiang Wentian was fleeing with the Wood Marrow Heartflow, and they tracked him to Mulberry-Hemp Town, where other martial masters were also searching.

Zhao Feng returned to Big Stone County and investigated the Red Lotus Holy Cult as it spread through the region. The cult staged a mass sacrifice at the Lancang River, and Zhao Feng killed Magistrate Yang Xingquan when he turned the crowd against the militia.

• Zhao Feng defeated the disguised Xiang Wentian, but the real Xiang Wentian escaped while the Demonic Sect pursued the Dragon Eye with the Nine-Palace Dragon-Seeking Compass.
• Zhao Feng absorbed the Wood Marrow Heartflow, then defeated Mu Xingze in a public duel and revealed that he cultivated two streams of true qi.
• Zhao Feng returned to Big Stone County, reunited with his family, and learned that the Red Lotus Holy Cult had gained followers and donations through Clear Profound Temple.
• After Han Dong and his family were massacred, Zhao Feng suspected Chu Fan and organized people to watch the cult while investigating Clear Profound Temple.
• Zhao Feng encountered an Astral Force-wielding Daoist nun near Clear Profound Temple, escaped her pursuit, and later learned from Su Qingwan that Northern Barbarian envoys might be hiding there.
• Pure Mystery and Wugutai used the River God Festival to stage a spectacle, convincing thousands that the Red Lotus Holy Mother had calmed the river and could grant protection.
• Pure Mystery urged believers to sacrifice themselves to the River God, and more than a hundred people jumped into the Lancang River, including Zhao Youfu and Qian Shi.
• Commandant Xu’s militia tried to stop the sacrifices, but Yang Xingquan turned the crowd against them, so Zhao Feng beheaded the magistrate and used his command token to assert his authority.