Recaps

Zhang Yuan took command of the Fortune Dragon, survived a sea-ruin trap, and claimed the Seven-Hued Treasure Brocade. In the East Sea, he fought off the pursuers threatening the Southern Heaven cultivators and traded the realm’s magic ship for three volumes of the Mystic Heaven Sword Qi Fist.

• Tong Ke gave Zhang Yuan command of the merchant ship, and he named it the Fortune Dragon before choosing a dangerous route across the East Sea.
• Passengers vanished in thick fog, but Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi followed a Seven-Hued Brocade through a stone gate to underwater ruins where Hai Dengshen held the missing cultivators captive.
• Zhang Yuan subdued the Seven-Hued Treasure Brocade, killed Hai Dengshen, rescued the passengers, and returned them safely to the ship.
• The Fortune Dragon crossed into the Dust-Dyed Realm’s East Sea, where Zhang Yuan met Cui Yuanxi and sent warnings ahead that Demon Realm Celestial Persons might be waiting at the port.
• At the coast, Zhang Yuan split the head of an earth-colored true dragon, then joined the battle against Wenren Shangzhi and wounded him badly enough to make him flee.
• Zhang Yuan ambushed Deng Qiuzhi and drove him away with help from Immortal Lord Lingxiang and Immortal Lord Liujing.
• Zhang Yuan demanded the Mystic Heaven Sword Qi Fist in exchange for the Southern Heaven Realm’s magic ship, and Immortal Lord Lingxiang gave him its three publicly available volumes.

Zhang Yuan entered the Mysterious Court and uncovered a hidden chamber containing the Profound Ancestor’s legacy, where he encountered the resurrected ancestor and a First God Cult impostor. After agreeing to hunt the Profound Ancestor’s evil spirit, Zhang Yuan left with a Mysterious Court command token and Xu Lingyin.

• Zhang Yuan agreed to visit the Mysterious Court with Immortal Lords Lingxiang, Liujing, and Xingfeng, while True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns plotted to exploit his attempt to prove the Dao.
• Ye Xiangning ambushed Zhang Yuan at the Mysterious Court and took him with Xu Lingyin and several disciples to a hidden chamber beneath a lake.
• Ning Feng died after the Purple-Gold Gourd released the Profound Ancestor’s Three Calamities, but Zhang Yuan swallowed the pills and claimed the gourd.
• Xu Lingyin killed Meng Xuan when he and the other disciples turned against Zhang Yuan, who spared the survivors and took the manuals and yi wood.
• Fei Ting summoned the Profound Ancestor from a Great Luo Dao Scripture, but the ancestor took over Fei Ting’s body and began again at the qi refining realm.
• Zhang Yuan persuaded the weakened Profound Ancestor to join the First God Cult, while Yu Lian and Qin Tianyi carried off the ancestor’s remains and recruited the impostor Xuan Chen.
• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui asked Zhang Yuan to destroy the Profound Ancestor’s evil spirit, gave him a tracking compass and a Mysterious Court True Disciple Token, and Zhang Yuan left with Cui Yuanxi, Tong Ke, and Xu Lingyin.

Zhang Yuan pursued Xuan Chen, claimed the Three Calamities Gourd, and began preparing to seek Sky Mountain’s Golden Position. At the East Sea, he killed the awakened Sword Immortal Five Punishments and returned to press Ye Xiangning for benefits.

• Zhang Yuan tracked Xuan Chen to a village, witnessed his slaughter of its inhabitants, and wounded him before he escaped.
• Zhang Yuan joined with Yi Feng to pursue Xuan Chen, then returned to the Mysterious Court and secured aid for the village’s four surviving children.
• Zhang Yuan discovered that the Three Calamities Gourd could be made his own by changing its name, then read the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter and planned to seek Sky Mountain’s Golden Position.
• Zhang Yuan taught Xu Lingyin the chapter’s cultivation method, and she sensed Canopy Heavenly Gang at the East Sea, where he retrieved it for her.
• Li Chuanqi revealed himself as the reincarnated Heavenly Immortal Five Punishments and attacked Zhang Yuan, who lured him away from White Stone City.
• Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi fought together and killed Li Chuanqi, with Qin Tianyi destroying his hun and po to prevent his revival.
• Zhang Yuan learned that the Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art pointed toward a Golden Position, but decided to pursue the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter while pretending to cultivate the other method.
• Zhang Yuan flew to the Ye Residence and pounded on the gate, calling for Ye Xiangning to come out.

Zhang Yuan joined the effort to suppress the Profound Ancestor Evil Spirit and entered the Guangren Kingdom, where he gathered several strands of five skandhas and six qi and killed Xie Changye. He cultivated in seclusion with Ye Xiangning’s help, completed his Dao Domain, and chose Left Path Overturning Heaven while still lacking four Six Yin-Yang Essences.

• Zhang Yuan visited Ye Xiangning, returned the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter, gave her the Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art, and asked her to heal Chu Qingyuan’s eyes.
• Ye Xiangning invited Zhang Yuan to a treasure land, and Immortal Lord Liujing later told him they were to suppress or kill the Profound Ancestor Evil Spirit there.
• Zhang Yuan and his companions entered the Guangren Kingdom, where he gathered gold bricks and found the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda.
• Zhang Yuan collected Jia Wood and Bing Fire from the pagoda, helped defeat its Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue, and escaped while the other cultivators fought it.
• Xie Changye pursued Zhang Yuan to seize his strands of five skandhas and six qi, but Zhang Yuan resisted his soul-targeting halberd and killed him.
• Zhang Yuan crossed the barrier into the Six-Thousand-Li Zone, where Ye Xiangning joined him and gave him mysterious yin death qi to refine.
• Zhang Yuan arranged Bing Fire, Yi Wood, Jia Wood, and mysterious yin death qi within his Dao Domain, reaching Celestial Person Perfection.
• Zhang Yuan concluded that his Dao Domain still lacked four Six Yin-Yang Essences and chose Left Path Overturning Heaven as his remaining talent option.