Recaps

Long Xuan won the alchemy competition with a pill that survived Rebirth Lightning, then restored Water Elder’s body and prepared for the River God Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Artifact Maniac forged a Divine Artifact and led an armed spirit-monkey army against Radiant Moon City, leaving the region in turmoil as Long Xuan and Water Elder traveled toward the conventions.

• Long Yuyao’s Spirit Restoration Pill won the judges’ favor, and Long Xuan later submitted an Aphrodisiac Pill formula that earned him a four-point lead over Heaven-Burning Ancestor.
• Long Xuan escaped after Heaven-Burning Ancestor scattered demonic pill formulas through the city, then gathered ingredients and entered the finals with his Bone-Regenerating Blood-Fusing Pill.
• Long Xuan’s pill summoned Rebirth Lightning, which his Tribulation Gu devoured, while Feng Tiancheng tried and failed to stop the tribulation.
• Gambling God declared the Long Family Alliance and Flame Court Empire winners of their wagers, while Heaven-Burning Ancestor and Heaven-Deceiving Ancestor fought over Long Xuan’s pill in the ruined city.
• Long Xuan gave Water Elder the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Fusing Pill, helped him restore his body, and agreed to accompany him against Shui Wuqing after Water Elder helped subdue the Heavenly Water.
• Artifact Maniac refined the Heaven-Imprisoning Staff through Rebirth Lightning, escaped the Gu Kings who coveted it, then learned that his master and senior sister had been executed and led an army of spirit monkeys against Radiant Moon City.
• Long Xuan and Water Elder left Thunder Marsh and found Radiant Moon Imperial City destroyed, then Long Xuan fought off a Golden Monkey and learned from Shui Juanyun that Artifact Maniac had armed its clan with Spirit Artifacts.
• Water Elder warned that the Gu Kings gathering to hunt Artifact Maniac could enter the nearby River God Secret Realm during the upcoming conventions.

Long Xuan won the Tea-Tasting Convention and entered the River God Secret Realm, where he gathered rare treasures and survived the deadly trials while navigating betrayals. After Water Elder’s plot and the clans’ losses, Long Xuan began refining Tea Gu as the secret realm’s next stage remained ahead.

• Long Xuan traded Iceheart Tea and Grand Thousand Wine for rare tea seeds and Spirit Fruits, then won the Tea-Tasting Convention with Shadow Tea brewed in Onefold Heavy Water and claimed the coffee tree.
• Long Xuan entered the metal passage with Shui Juanyun, used his Gold-Eating Insects to defeat the iron puppets, and collected Gravity Mountain with his Heaven-Swallowing World Toad.
• The Gu Kings confronted Shui Juanyun over Gravity Mountain while Long Xuan escaped, then Long Xuan reunited with Water Elder and entered the second trial as Water Elder waited for a chance to attack.
• Long Xuan and Zhu Jiǔge raided a Medicine Garden, where Long Xuan captured a tea-loving spirit herb and gave Zhu Jiǔge its horn braids before fleeing the pursuing Ginseng.
• Water Elder killed Shui Wuqing and took his Twofold Heavy Water, but Long Xuan revealed that radioactive substances in his pills had poisoned Water Elder and summoned his Tribulation Gu against him.
• Long Xuan learned that Zhu Jiǔge was Yin-Yang Mystic Jade Ginseng, used her essence to refine Supreme Unity Netherwater, and swallowed the Twofold Heavy Water Seed while the clans suffered losses to the Ginseng.
• Long Xuan completed the Tea Gu Recipe with thirty-six famous teas, found the supreme-grade Tea Worm among Shui Wuqing’s possessions, and began refining it in his tea garden.

Long Xuan rescued Zhu Jiǔge, built a Coffee Gu business, and spread Nineteen-Line Go while completing his Board-Game Gu. As demonic forces attacked Sacred Gu Academy, Long Xuan helped Zhu Jiǔge repel them and reinforce the seal beneath the academy, then returned to his shop and began a game with Qin Mingyue.

• Long Xuan killed Shui Wuqing with Tribulation Lightning, took the Other Shore Flower from the Black Altar, and carried the injured Zhu Jiǔge to Sacred Gu Academy for treatment.
• Long Xuan defeated Hua An, named his newly refined Tea Gu Fairy, and met Zhu Jiǔge's master, Qi Luoyou, who rewarded him with a Chess Insect after their game.
• Long Xuan discovered Coffee Gu, opened a specialty shop with Zhu Jiǔge, and promoted his Nineteen-Line Go through games with customers.
• Long Xuan entered the Nine-Level Demon-Suppression Pagoda and spent two years cultivating in Number One Room, absorbing much of the tower's spiritual power while completing the Board-Game Gu Recipe.
• Zhu Jiǔge asked Long Xuan to inspect the seal beneath the tower, and he explained that copying and shrinking its Formation Inscriptions could delay the monster's escape.
• Long Xuan and his Soul-Splittings worked to reinforce the seal as Ling Tian Ancestor led demonic factions against Sacred Gu Academy, and Long Xuan helped Zhu Jiǔge locate the Void Insects she destroyed.
• Ling Tian Ancestor retreated when his Sealing Spirit Pagoda began cracking, then killed the surviving demonic cultivators, and Long Xuan finished the seal work, returned to his shop, and named his completed Board-Game Gu Nineteen.
• Qin Mingyue offered Long Xuan a supreme-grade Book Worm for the Nine Songs Gu, and Long Xuan challenged her to play Nineteen-Line Go without a handicap.

Long Xuan and Di Xin drew Gu Kings into the Cangyue Imperial Mausoleum, where Long Xuan escaped the Xuanyuan forces and acquired the Heavenly Spirit Tree and Reincarnation Ancient Tree. Stranded on a mysterious island with Di Xin and Qin Mingyue, he developed seven-note Curse Seal Gu and began dual cultivation with Qin Mingyue.

• Long Xuan created Journey to the West to awaken his Book Worm, whose readers helped it comprehend Shrinking Earth Art and a weakened Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Long Xuan met Di Xin beneath the pavilion and helped her prepare the Bone Tempering Formula, then they arranged to auction the Cangyue Imperial Mausoleum’s location to attract Gu Kings.
• Long Xuan traded for rare treasures, fought Wu Gang in disguise to obtain his Black Tortoise blood, and completed the formation inscriptions on Di Xin’s bones.
• Long Xuan and Di Xin sold the mausoleum’s location to the eight great Lineages, then entered the tomb as the Xuanyuan royal forces trapped and attacked the raiders.
• Long Xuan saved Qin Mingyue from Xuan Yuan Yin and used the unstable Twisted Jade to destroy Xuan Yuan Zhi’s clone and devastate the trapped forces.
• Long Xuan and Di Xin found the Heavenly Spirit Tree and the Reincarnation Ancient Tree, but Zang Tianyu’s curse sent them into an unfamiliar world.
• Long Xuan settled on a dark island with Di Xin and Qin Mingyue, completed his Heaven Spirit Pill formula, and developed a seven-note system for Curse Seal Gu.
• Long Xuan and Qin Mingyue refined seven Curse Seal Gu, which Flame Clone implanted for Long Xuan, and Qin Mingyue proposed dual cultivation to help them reach Gu King.