Recaps

Jiang Lu helped expose Lingyun Venerable’s schemes and helped Mu Xiaoqing reconsider her feelings for him before setting out alone. At the Wuyou Sea, she found the Life Stone and Life-Breath Pearl, but taking them stirred a dangerous Ghost Coral that began draining nearby cultivators.

• Jiang Lu escaped a demonic cultivation clan’s attempt to refine her, destroyed its lair, and resumed traveling in disguise.
• Jiang Lu helped Zi Yue recover from a child gu planted by an unconscious avatar of Lingyun Venerable, then brought him to the Jade Void Sect.
• Mu Xiaoqing recognized Lingyun Venerable’s avatar and, after consulting Joyful Union Sect senior sisters, realized her attachment to her master was familial rather than romantic.
• Lingyun Venerable confessed that he had brought Mu Xiaoqing from the Mortal Realm for her Creation Body and had hoped they would become Dao companions, while Mu Xiaoqing asked to go to Reflection Cliff.
• After leaving her companions, Jiang Lu divined eleven stars linked to the Purple Tenuity Star, then bought seeds and prepared her Spirit Boat for the Nine Nether Sea.
• Jiang Lu followed Qiming’s sense of a treasure into the Wuyou Sea, where living Crimson Coral trapped her and carried her through a deadly polar undercurrent and into a volcanic crater.
• Jiang Lu had Linglong take the Life Stone, Life-Breath Pearl, and surrounding coral into her space, drawing a Void Refinement cultivator’s attack and exposing the coral as Ghost Coral.
• The Ghost Coral absorbed spiritual power from the attack and spread across the sea, then immobilized nearby cultivators as it drained their energy.

Jiang Lu traveled to the Azure Tide Domain, explored its underwater forbidden zone, and rescued a Little Mermaid before learning that the major domains had withdrawn support for the Heavenly Prodigies. She trained at the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground, where she accidentally damaged the Tree of Life and discovered a vast spatial rift connected to a beguiling voice in the darkness.

• Jiang Lu froze the Ghost Coral, escaped its cage, and fled by Teleportation Talisman after helping the trapped cultivators escape.
• Jiang Lu discovered that the barren island was a Dumo Beast, fought it until it accepted her as a companion, and took the name Xuan for it.
• Jiang Lu reached the Azure Tide Domain, attended the Treasure Appraisal Assembly, and followed Cutie to the underwater forbidden zone, where she gathered treasures and befriended the Little Mermaid.
• Jiang Lu and the Little Mermaid escaped cultivators who tried to seize their treasures, and the merfolk rescued them before Jiang Lu continued toward the Hundred Blossoms Sacred Ground.
• Le Ziyan warned Jiang Lu that the powers were watching two stars and a chaotic aura, while Jiang Lu learned that Cen Aotian was headed to a secret realm trial in the Ling Shuo Domain.
• Jiang Lu endured the Softcore Garden’s dangerous trials, fought Man-Eating Flowers and Sawtooth Spirit-Devouring Grass, and found a thousand-leaf dewgrass in a hidden cave.
• Jiang Lu freed her spirit beasts from the Tree of Life’s roots, damaging them and triggering a disturbance that revealed a huge spatial rift.
• Le Ziyan ordered Jiang Lu and Shen Meier away from the rift, and Jiang Lu left after hearing a beguiling voice from the darkness before asking to visit the Elves.