Recaps

Xiao Yuanjun helped Zhang Yuan steal and refine several baleful sha while he became entangled with Dongfang Caibai and the Li Clan. With his wedding to Dongfang Caibai approaching, Li Huixi enlisted a True Lord to claim Zhang Yuan for the Li Clan.

• Li Jiehua stole Zhang Yuan’s Qiankun Pouch and left him to freeze, but Xiao Yuanjun arrived and became his master.
• Xiao Yuanjun killed Li Jiehua, healed Zhang Yuan, and led him into the Li Clan to steal the Life-Stealing Sha.
• Zhang Yuan refined the Jade Peach into Qi Refining First Layer and discovered that Life-Stealing Sha would bring increasingly difficult tribulations every three years.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun reached the capital, where a Marriage Contract unexpectedly named him and Dongfang Caibai as betrothed.
• Dongfang Caibai gave Zhang Yuan the Golden Carriage Baleful Sha, and he refined it with Red Luan Sha to form the Golden Carriage Luan Chariot.
• Li and Chu Clan cultivators attacked Zhang Yuan at the Third Princess’s Residence, but Xiao Yuanjun killed Li Jieyan and Dongfang Caibai ended the wider battle.
• Xiao Yuanjun seized the Iron Chain Sha from an earth dragon, then Zhang Yuan escaped with it and refined it to Four-Turn Qi Refining.
• Xiao Yuanjun urged Zhang Yuan to capture Shared Life Sha at his wedding and seek Interlocking Sha at Chu Manor, while Li Huixi arranged to take him from the wedding with True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor.

Zhang Yuan escaped the Bian Kingdom wedding after Xiao Yuanjun became a Celestial Person, then traveled to Jianning and acquired Water Calamity Sha. In Liu Family Village, he protected Chen Xinqiao from people trying to sell her and became entangled in a violent confrontation over her fate.

• Zhang Yuan defeated Chu Xiwen to obtain Interlocking Sha, then refined it and reached five-turn Qi Refining before the grand wedding began.
• Li and Chu clan members interrupted Zhang Yuan and Dongfang Caibai’s wedding, but they completed the bows and shared life before Xiao Yuanjun helped Zhang Yuan refine Shared Life Sha and advance to Sixth-Turn Qi Refining.
• Xiao Yuanjun became a Celestial Person and fought off the other Celestial Persons while Zhang Yuan escaped, and Li Huixi later killed the Demon Empress, restored the Bian Emperor, and severed Dongfang Caibai’s karmic link to Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan traveled to Jianning, survived Blood Miasma’s tomb trap, claimed Water Calamity Sha, and killed Wang Shaohua, the burly man, and the Black-Robed Elder.
• After reaching Liu Family Village with Chen Qinkuai, Zhang Yuan stopped Liu Yulan and her relatives from taking Chen Xinqiao away, advanced to Seven-Turn Qi Refining, and discovered Chen Xinqiao’s unusual origins and cultivation potential.
• Wang Zhenfeng attacked Zhang Yuan and demanded Chen Xinqiao, but she stabbed him with a kitchen knife carrying Zhang Yuan’s power, and Zhang Yuan killed Wang Zhenfeng and erased their karmic ties to the killing.
• Liu Junmao, Liu Yulan, and the old woman begged for their lives, while Chen Xinqiao said they should all be killed and then looked to Zhang Yuan after Chen Qinkuai pleaded for mercy.

Zhang Yuan uncovered the Wang Household’s plan to pursue the Rain Master Coin and was swept into a conflict involving True Lords, the Inverted Sea, and the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls. After reaching nine-turn qi refining, he and Xiao Yuanjun found themselves caught in a war between the Wen Kingdom and its neighbors.

• Zhang Yuan fled the Wang Household’s pursuit, investigated its plans, and learned that Wang Dingzhong was seeking the Rain Master Coin using people born on the Twenty-Four Solar Terms.
• Zhang Yuan brought Chen Xinqiao to the Cui Residence, where Cui Wenshan learned of the Wang Household’s scheme, but Wang Dingzhong and his followers escaped to sea.
• Zhang Yuan and his companions sailed toward Ancestral Continent Island, where the storm-tossed Inverted Sea left them stranded and they killed Wang Baihan’s son and the noblewoman who threatened them.
• Zhang Yuan and Cui Yuanxi killed Wang Dingxing and took his storm vortex and compass, while Cui Wenshan and Blood Miasma confronted Wang Dingzhong’s ritual.
• Blood Miasma revealed his role in the Wang Household’s cultivation method, but Wang Dingzhong failed to gain the Rain Master Coin and Xiao Yuanjun killed him when he attacked Zhang Yuan.
• Wang Zhenqing revealed himself as Wang Chengtian, the Blazing Embers True Lord, and formed the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls before True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts fled with them.
• Xiao Yuanjun recovered the pearls and gave Zhang Yuan the Thunderstrike Sha, which he refined to reach nine-turn qi refining and choose Heaven-Reversing Nine Sha.
• Xiao Yuanjun gave Zhang Yuan twelve Weather and Season Mystic Pearls, then took him to Great East Town, where Lu Zhiyu destroyed the town and revealed that their cave lay in a war zone.

Zhang Yuan joined the war, destroyed the Wen Kingdom’s blood-burning formation and White Jade Capital, then refined a heavenly gang to reach ten-turn qi refining. As accusations over the capital’s destruction ignited a new confrontation, he joined Liu Yihong in raiding Dragon-Subduing Pass and its military storehouse.

• Zhang Yuan enlisted in the Earth Profound Army under the alias Li Huixi, then fought at the western wall and pursued Old Daoist Wu through the Wen Kingdom’s defenses.
• At the Three Suns Altar, Zhang Yuan defeated Deng Lingjun and destroyed the Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation, earning 120,000 battle merits.
• Zhang Yuan drove Lu Zhiming away after severing his arm, then traveled with Xiao Yuanjun and Liu Yihong to destroy the White Jade Capital and claim its battle merits.
• Zhang Yuan refused Lu Zhiming’s pill and other offerings, exchanged 200,000 battle merits for the ascension heavenly gang, and became a ten-turn qi refiner.
• Zhang Yuan explored the Outer Chaos with his primordial spirit, gained the Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain, and chose the First of all time talent after seeing futures in which he was blamed for the capital massacre.
• Deng Qiuzhi, Sun Wulie, and Liu Zezheng confronted Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong, but Xiao Yuanjun and Zhang Yuan resisted their attacks while Liu Yihong revealed her history and invited Zhang Yuan to raid the Wen Kingdom’s military treasury.
• Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong seized Dragon-Subduing Pass, killed Deng Lingqiong and the nine nine-turn cultivators, met Li Jiansong, and plundered the military storehouse as Deng Qiuzhi sensed trouble at the pass.