Recaps

Yi Shuyuan investigated a sinister painting, exposed the danger it posed to a child and a Land God, and helped Shao Zhen complete the work and repair its harm. After the child recovered and the painting was restored, Yi Shuyuan returned to Heavenly Battle Mountain and left for Lingdong with Qi Zhongbin.

• Jiang Lang gained the Dragon Lord’s permission to bring rain to Lingdong, while Qi Zhongbin pursued the creature draining the region’s moisture and helped Mai Lingfei defeat the Insect Demon and Drought Demon.
• Qi Zhongbin formed his immortal furnace, became Yi Shuyuan’s direct disciple, and received the Heavenly Gang Mace.
• At the Datong River, Chen Han and Mai Lingfei helped rescue a child from a monster, and Yi Shuyuan discovered that a sinister scrap had afflicted the child and corrupted the local Earth Goddess.
• Yi Shuyuan traced the scrap to Shao Zhen’s Hundred Ghosts Picture and appeared to the painter in a dream, explaining how to repair the harm and offering guidance on the painting Dao.
• Shao Zhen traveled with the old Temple Keeper and the Zhou family to Dengzhou, where Yi Shuyuan drew the ghostly shadow from the child and restored his voice.
• Shao Zhen’s picture was reunited with its missing scrap, and he offered to paint Chen Han and her younger siblings instead of accepting payment.
• Yi Shuyuan revealed that Hui Mian was Yunlai, the foremost great god beneath the Manifest Holiness True Lord, then left for Lingdong with Qi Zhongbin.

Yi Shuyuan helped Hui Mian become Great God Yunlai, guided Shao Zhen in bringing the Hundred Ghosts Picture to life, and saw the Manifest Holiness True Lord receive a divine investiture. Later, Yi Shuyuan visited Jiang Lang and became entangled in the theft of a heavenly book he had written, which Jiang Lang began reading.

• Yi Shuyuan reunited with Mai Lingfei at the True Lord Temple, where Hui Mian formed a divine sense body and took the name Great God Yunlai.
• Hui Mian led Yi Shuyuan and Shao Zhen into the Hundred Ghosts Picture, where the ghosts called Shao Zhen their father and joined the Lantern Festival procession.
• Shao Zhen painted Yunlai’s divine portrait, and worshippers began honoring the newly recognized Mist-Hidden Yunlai.
• White Robe invested the Manifest Holiness True Lord as the Jade Truth Demon-Subduing Guardian True Lord and granted him the Extreme North Demon-Subduing Palace.
• Yi Shuyuan taught Shao Zhen the Painted Skin technique, and Shao Zhen completed and donated his Hundred Ghosts Picture to the True Lord Temple.
• Yi Shuyuan left the temple after sending the Long-Haired Ghost to the City God, while Shao Zhen stayed to finish promised portraits of She Chাংলai and Yu Xinmei.
• At Longwind Lake, Jiang Lang gave Yi Shuyuan seven dragon scales, and Yi Shuyuan argued that reclaiming the Datong River depended on its people.
• Yi Shuyuan and Jiang Lang watched bandits steal Yi Shuyuan’s glowing book from the Chu Residence, then Jiang Lang took it from the leader and began reading its Body-Waves Immortal Transformation Art.

Yi Shuyuan followed the consequences of the Immortal Book from a thief’s death to Zhao Yuansong’s final attempt to protect his family, while Chu Hang uncovered Southern Yan’s spy network and secured the Skywhale Gang’s service. The story left Yi Shuyuan and Chi Qinghu facing the White Feather Way’s power in Southern Yan.

• Jiang Lang returned the Immortal Book to Yi Shuyuan, while its thief spent his life copying the Immortal Script and died after filling three pages with his blood.
• Yi Shuyuan studied the blood-written pages and let Jiang Lang read the Body-Waves Immortal Transformation Art, recognizing that its missing half concerned dragon transformation.
• Chu Hang investigated murders tied to Southern Yan spies, and Pei Changtian revealed the Skywhale Gang’s intelligence network and offered its service to the court.
• Duan Silie helped Chu Hang capture Southern Yan conspirators, and the Great Yong Emperor approved Chu Hang’s request to employ the Skywhale Gang.
• Yi Shuyuan helped Zhao Yuansong’s family escape a spell, then reunited Zhao Yuansong with his wife and son in a dream before Zhao chose to manifest and protect them.
• Heavenly thunder scattered Zhao Yuansong’s Primordial Spirit, and Yi Shuyuan left the wetlands with Stoneborn as the white cranes flew north.
• In Southern Yan, Yi Shuyuan met Chi Qinghu, who explained the White Feather Way’s influence and its conflict with the Rivers and Lakes.
• Yi Shuyuan identified the White Feather Way’s rain ritual as prayer rather than Water Control, and Chi Qinghu vowed to stop the State Preceptor.

Chi Qinghu and his allies pursued Han Shiyong as Hele Mountain’s tribulation revealed the danger of his search for immortality. Yi Shuyuan defeated Han Shiyong in the capital, leaving Jian Xu to move against the White Feather Way.

• Chi Qinghu killed four White Feather Daoists and evaded Han Shiyong’s pursuit, while Yi Shuyuan reclaimed a ghost Han Shiyong had imprisoned and severed Han’s means of tracking Chi.
• Chi Qinghu gathered Rivers and Lakes fighters and traveled toward Yunlu Prefecture to help the Zhao Household, while Yi Shuyuan sent Stoneborn and Hui Mian to investigate trouble near Hele Mountain.
• A giant toad’s death tribulation trapped people in Hele Mountain’s shifting mist, and Hui Mian and Stoneborn led Chi Qinghu’s group to safety as Han Shiyong pressed deeper into the mountain.
• Yi Shuyuan fought the Great Toad King during the tribulation, and the toad’s blood burned Han Shiyong and left him unconscious before he returned to Yunlu Prefecture battered and changed.
• Han Shiyong returned to the capital and used talismans to punish soldiers who challenged him, then Chi Qinghu’s ambush at Green Forest Slope forced him to flee with a burned hand.
• Han Shiyong told the emperor he could refine an Immortal Elixir and secured the Western Flower Palace, while secretly planning to use the emperor’s Purple Star qi.
• Yi Shuyuan entered the Golden Hall as a white crane, pulled Han Shiyong’s giant serpent shadow from his body and swallowed it, leaving Han alive but aged and powerless.
• Jian Xu secured authority to root out the White Feather Way, rewarded Yuan Zhaoning, and sent troops to raid the Celestial Feather Temple as Liao Wenzhi feared for his safety.