Recaps

Long Xuan won the Repair Worm and Mandrake from the Gambling God, then used the Repair Gu and his clones while developing the Tribulation Gu Formula. He obtained an Earth Spirit Fruit amid the Teng Household’s chaos and reached Thunder Marsh to continue his research.

• The Gambling God stripped Ninth Young Master of his wealth, but Long Xuan defeated him in a formation battle and Chinese Chess, winning the Repair Worm and Mandrake.
• Zhu Yue offered the Gambling God a way to escape the ruins, while Long Xuan left the island with his treasure ship and later used a false accusation to turn Zhu Yue’s group against Shui Juanyun.
• Long Xuan developed Repair Gu and Transformation Gu, then obtained the Cloud Clan’s help gathering materials for the Tribulation Gu Formula.
• Long Xuan found a youth parasitized by a Tribulation Worm and set out for the Teng Household to obtain an Earth Spirit Fruit, while Zhu Yue brought Zhu Jiǔge to Sacred Gu Academy.
• Long Xuan and Shui Juanyun infiltrated the Teng Household banquet and found the Earth Spirit Fruits, but Long Xuan tricked Shui Juanyun into facing the other intruders alone.
• The Earth Spirit Tree was destroyed during the escape, and Shui Juanyun fled while Long Xuan escaped the Teng Household and later completed the Heaven-Defying Pill and Earth Spirit Pill formulas.
• Long Xuan had Da Ming swallow Arctic Origin Mountain, then reunited with Di Xin and reached Thunder Marsh, where he used his lightning insight to travel safely through the storm.

Long Xuan advanced his cultivation, sold a Heaven-Defying Pill at the City of Sin auction, and survived Master Wei’s disastrous beast hunt. He then infiltrated Master Sun’s expedition for the Setting Sun Divine Flame and left the rival Gu Kings on the brink of battle by revealing Yan Tiexin’s possible deception.

• Long Xuan found Water Elder in Thunder Marsh, agreed to find him a suitable body, and cultivated there until he reached the Spiritual Sea Stage and completed the third layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture.
• Long Xuan refined three Heaven-Defying Pills with his clones, and the Tribulation Gu endured thirty-six bolts of Life-Extinguishing Lightning so he could retrieve them and raise his aptitude.
• Long Xuan sold a Heaven-Defying Pill at the City of Sin auction, bought the Moon Tree, and escaped as Jade-Faced Rakshasa and Burial Demon Old Ghost fought over the real pill.
• Long Xuan returned to the City of Sin, discovered valuable items in an auction-bought storage bag, and later accepted Master Wei’s invitation to hunt a fourth-rank spirit beast while planning to kill him.
• Long Xuan lured the Black Giant Salamander into Master Wei’s formation, but Ghost Seven’s forces ambushed the wounded hunters and Master Wei confessed to controlling his customers with Parasitic Gu.
• Long Xuan broke the formation and freed the Black Giant Salamander, which killed Master Wei, then killed a pursuing Ghost Cultivator with his palms and the Tribulation Gu’s lightning.
• Long Xuan infiltrated Master Sun’s expedition for the Setting Sun Divine Flame, and Master Sun led eighty-nine cultivators to Imperial Flame City to demand the flame from Yan Tiexin.
• After Yan Tiexin refused Master Sun’s offer and revealed his Peak Gu King aura, Long Xuan told Master Sun that Yan Tiexin was an Externalized Clone who might be concealing his true body.

Long Xuan survived Imperial Flame City’s destruction, refined the Setting Sun Divine Flame, and became entangled in the hunt for Duan Tianwu before traveling to Heavenly Phoenix City. He entered the Alchemy Competition under an alias and began its elimination round as rival clans wagered on the results.

• Yan Tiexin’s attempt to wield the Setting Sun Divine Flame destroyed Imperial Flame City, and Long Xuan survived to recover its weakened seed and Master Sun’s storage ring.
• Long Xuan resumed his shops, developed a three-hundred-year Longevity Elixir recipe, and traded an Icefire Twin Extremes Pill to Cao Shuang for a Blood Lotus before deciding to enter the Alchemy Competition.
• Long Xuan’s five clones refined the Setting Sun Divine Flame, while Little Apothecary’s evil side took control and began collecting powerful organs to create a Mighty Gu.
• Long Xuan disguised himself as Dan Lao at Sword-Washing Pavilion, refined Sword Bone Pills for Pavilion Master Ren, and received a Demon-Slaying Edict ordering him to join the hunt for Duan Tianwu.
• Lei Wan’s force ambushed Duan Tianwu at Great Buddha Temple, but Duan escaped after killing Lei Wan, and Qin Manyuan secretly revealed his plan to keep Duan alive for the Alchemy Competition.
• Duan Tianwu shared his memories of loving Qin Yuyou with Little Apothecary, while Long Xuan planted Evil-Warding Divine Bamboo and used Unfettered Sword Intent to evolve his Blade Gu.
• Long Xuan traded a Supreme Spirit Flame for two Gold-Eating Insects and exchanged Spirit Flames and a pill formula for rare cultivation resources and an incomplete artifact formula.
• Long Xuan developed three metal alloys, evolved the Gold-Eating Insects with Earth Gold, and entered the Alchemy Competition’s elimination round, where he began refining ten Water Lingzhi mushrooms as contestants started failing.

Long Xuan won the alchemy competition’s second round by inventing the Pill-Fusion Technique, then entered the semifinals to create pill formulas with Enlightenment Tea. As the top contestants devised powerful formulas of their own, Long Xuan completed a simplified Heat Pill and continued working on new ideas.

• Long Xuan used his expanding furnace to produce one hundred thousand perfect Spirit-Gathering Pills, earning full marks in the second round.
• Feng Jiu revealed his power as the Heaven-Burning Ancestor by killing ten Long Family Gu Kings, while the Four Great Villains invaded the Medicine Realm and the Enlightenment Tea Tree was destroyed.
• After the contestants escaped the Medicine Realm with few herbs, Long Xuan invented the Pill-Fusion Technique and combined twenty-five elemental pills into a Five Elements Sacred Pill.
• The judges awarded Long Xuan’s Five Elements Sacred Pill ninety-two points, giving him another victory over Feng Tiancheng and leaving him three points ahead overall.
• Long Xiaoyao told Long Xuan that the surviving thirty contestants would drink Enlightenment Tea and create pill formulas, while Long Xuan worried about competing with Duan Tianwu and the Heaven-Burning Ancestor.
• Long Xuan used the Soul Library and Enlightenment Tea to create a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Fusing Pill formula, then decided not to submit it and began developing a pill to increase his Spirit Insects’ breeding.
• Long Xuan completed and began simplifying the Heat Pill formula as Duan Tianwu developed an Inheritance Pill and the Heaven-Burning Ancestor created a Myriad Lifetimes Pill and began work on a Soul-Replenishing Pill.