Recaps

Yi Shuyuan crafted magical garments, helped establish Jiang Lang’s Water Palace, and resumed traveling with Stoneborn. At Xiangshan Zen Temple, his teaching drew Ding Feixiong toward Buddhism and into a clash with the authorities, while Yi Shuyuan’s meeting with Duan Silie revived the trail of Long Feiyang.

• Yi Shuyuan captured a colorful spirit-aura cloud, visited Zhuo Qing’s village, and worked with her to weave the Rosy Cloud Feather Garment and other magical clothes.
• General Crab told Yi Shuyuan that the Celestial Court planned to appoint him Kaiyang Water God, and Yi Shuyuan encouraged him to accept and protect the canal.
• Jiang Lang’s people completed a Water Palace with Dai Zhong’s help, and Yi Shuyuan visited the palace after sensing incense offerings at a statue made in his likeness.
• Yi Shuyuan resumed traveling with Stoneborn and Hui Mian, encountered Jiao Zengping’s dangerous walking corpse, and received the Peerless Elixir Art before secretly treating Jiao’s elixir poison.
• At Xiangshan Zen Temple, Yi Shuyuan met Master Zhaoli and wandering monk Ding Feixiong, then named Ding the Dharma-less Monk and began teaching him the Nameless Sutra.
• Ding Feixiong meditated for seven days as officials investigated suspected spies near the monastery, then fought soldiers without killing them and surrendered when they accused him of espionage.
• The officers questioned Yi Shuyuan and kept him under guard, but Zou Jie and Duan Silie later met him and heard him explain that he had taught Ding scripture without knowing the accusations against him.
• Yi Shuyuan told Duan Silie that Long Feiyang had given him the Body-Tempering Diagram and that they had last met in Heaven-Bearing Prefecture several years earlier.

Yi Shuyuan forged Stoneborn’s immortal foundation and a new furnace, then helped Xu Zichang pursue his junior brother Gongsun Yin through Zheng Ying’s painting realm. The group reached Mist Village inside the realm, but had not yet found Gongsun Yin.

• Yi Shuyuan defeated Monk Wufa, helped secure his ordination, and left Xiangshan Monastery with Stoneborn as imperial orders sent rewards and an invitation to the Capital City.
• Yi A Bao’s friends discovered Yi Shuyuan’s damaged calligraphy, and their attempts to preserve it brought them into contact with Xu Zichang, who became obsessed with the work and its creator.
• Yi Shuyuan returned to his family, then took Stoneborn to Broad South Mountain, where Stoneborn forged his immortal foundation as Yi Shuyuan and his allies completed the Heaven-Turning Furnace through a Rainwater Tribulation.
• Yi Shuyuan refined Vital Essence Pills and learned from Cao Yugao that Xu Zichang’s spiritual lineage resembled that of his missing friend Gongsun Yin.
• Xu Zichang revealed that he sought Zheng Ying to rescue Gongsun Yin from the Cloud Emerald Painting Realm, while his heart demon grew stronger and Yi Shuyuan lent him Jade Startle to suppress it.
• Yi Shuyuan found Zheng Ying in a painting, learned that she had sealed the corrupted Gongsun Yin, and persuaded her to take the group back to Cloud Emerald Mountain.
• On the way, Yi Shuyuan and the group used Jade Startle to drive off a Flood Dragon whose storm threatened a fleet, then entered Zheng Ying’s painting realm and followed Xu Zichang’s sense of Gongsun Yin toward a manor.
• An old farmer led Yi Shuyuan’s group into Mist Village, where curious residents crowded around them and asked about the outside world.

Yi Shuyuan and his companions passed through Gongsun Yin’s Cave Painting Realm, while Stoneborn and Hui Mian became entangled in a conflict with Dragonkind. Hong Wei’s attempt to claim the Datong River caused a devastating flood, which Yi Shuyuan helped bring under control.

• Yi Shuyuan guided Xu Zichang and Gongsun Yin through the changing world of Mist Village, where Gongsun Yin faced the Snow Python and overcame his tribulation before the group left the Cave Painting Realm.
• Yi Shuyuan examined Gongsun Yin’s damaged heart’s aperture and advised him to form a cultivation method from his tribulation insights, while Stoneborn and Hui Mian set out for Moon Province.
• Stoneborn struck a Flood Dragon with the Universe Ring to save children, then found refuge with Old Vine and Xiao Yong on Heavenly Battle Mountain as Dragonkind searched for him.
• Stoneborn gave the Immortal Elixir Yi Shuyuan sent to the wounded Xiao Yong, then visited Jiang Lang at Longwind Lake and reunited with Madam Mo.
• Yi Shuyuan visited Heavenly Battle Mountain, helped Xiao Yong confront his fear of dragons, and accepted Xiao Yong’s promise to guard the Mountain-Topping Immortal Herb until it matured.
• Hong Wei left the East Sea Dragon Palace to seek a water system, claimed the Datong River, and caused flooding after ignoring the Land God’s warning.
• Yi Shuyuan arrived as floods overwhelmed Deng Province, Zhao Province, and Yun Province, diverted the waters with the Mountain and River State Map, and helped the Celestial Officials and Heavenly Gods subdue the disaster.

Yi Shuyuan uncovered Hong Wei’s role in the flood, helped bring him to judgment, and joined Lingdong’s efforts against a devastating plague. After arranging Teng Fu’s investiture as Heavenly Battle Mountain’s god, Yi Shuyuan returned to Lingdong to bring rain as drought and locusts threatened the region.

• Hong Wei confessed to Hong Jun that he had caused the flood, then returned to the Datong River to help control it while Yi Shuyuan waited for evidence of his guilt.
• Chu Hang found a Land God statue bearing a message that a dragon’s claw had killed its owner, and Yi Shuyuan learned that Hong Jun had murdered the Land God to hide Hong Wei’s crime.
• The Celestial Court captured Hong Wei and sentenced him to execution, but its weapons failed until Yi Shuyuan transformed into the True Lord of Luminous Spirit and killed him, beheading Hong Jun at the same moment.
• As plague threatened Zhao Province, Yi Shuyuan worked with Wan Shixing and local physicians to organize care, while Qi Zhongbin used a Vital Essence Pill to protect the city’s water supply.
• Chu Hang led more than a thousand people to haul Tan Yuanshang’s supply ships through the shallows, and Yi Shuyuan and the physicians eradicated the plague across Lingdong.
• Yi Shuyuan secured an investiture edict for Teng Fu, who became the Orthodox God of Heavenly Battle Mountain and planted the Mountain-Topping Immortal Herb beneath the broken peak.
• When drought and locusts struck Lingdong, Yi Shuyuan brought rain as a white dragon, but found that the region’s water was being consumed too quickly to carry rainfall onward to Deng Province.