Recaps

Yu Xinmei rescued Zheng Yiming from a corrupt examination case, and Yi Shuyuan intervened when the authorities tried to kill them. As Zheng set out toward the famine-stricken regions, Yi Shuyuan’s journey continued through the Mountain-River Realm and ended with the discovery of a living shell containing primordial treasure essence.

• Wu Sunheng fought Yu Xinmei after accusing her of being a demon, but she broke his sword and pierced his chest before leaving him alive.
• Wang Xingfu brought Master Golden Light to Pingzhou, while Wu Sunheng’s sword-cultivator master recognized Hui Mian as the powerful cat demon and later accepted Wu Sunheng as his disciple.
• The Imperial Envoy had Zheng Yiming tortured into a false confession, but Yu Xinmei revealed she had sent evidence of the exam fraud to the capital and helped him escape prison.
• Yu Xinmei flew Zheng Yiming to his mother, and Zheng returned to Pingzhou to write an inscription condemning injustice on the old city wall.
• The Sword Immortal, Wu Sunheng, and Master Golden Light attacked Zheng Yiming and Yu Xinmei, but Yi Shuyuan arrived and stopped them, declaring Yu Xinmei a righteous demon cultivator.
• Wu Sunheng exposed the Imperial Envoy’s crimes, and Zheng Yiming, Wu Sunheng, and Ke Xiaofa left by boat for famine-stricken Xiyong.
• Yi Shuyuan and his companions visited Great Autumn Temple and the Mountain-River Realm, where Jiang Lang met Ao Po and learned that the White Lord would receive the Four Seas Dragon Lords without holding a Dragon-Transformation Banquet.
• At the Chu Residence, Mo Ye delivered the Jade-Soul Clam, and Jiang Lang and Yi Shuyuan recognized the primordial treasure essence inside its trembling shell.

Yi Shuyuan refined Dragon-Transformation Pills through a devastating tribulation that trapped the cultivators in a flood-ravaged demon realm. Afterward, Yan Bo reunited with the remnants of the White Feather Way, while new arrivals approached the graves at Hele Mountain.

• Jiang Lang and Yi Shuyuan exchanged the Chu family’s shell for Abyssal Glow Pearls, but Chu Hongsheng stopped the trade until everyone connected to the wedding gift could consent.
• Yi Shuyuan used the shell’s innate qi to help Yan Bo bloom the Purple-Wall Spirit Lotus Root, then placed its seed and Yan Bo in the Heaven-Turning Furnace with Ya You’s True Dragon Horns.
• The Four Seas Dragon Lords and Heavenly Gods gathered at Cang Mountain as Yi Shuyuan refined the elixir, and the Pill Tribulation drew them into a demon realm shaped by their desires.
• Feng Yan, Jiang Lang, Hui Mian, Wu Yin, Jin Fu, and Ya Ci lived through a catastrophic flood and fought the ascending flood dragons while Yi Shuyuan guided them toward the sea.
• The Heaven-Turning Furnace ended the demon realm, but seven of the nine pills shattered, and Yi Shuyuan kept the two surviving Dragon-Transformation Pills.
• Yi Shuyuan brought the Four Seas True Dragons into his Mountain-River Realm, where Ao Po rejected their appeals to join Dragonkind and Wu Yin searched an illusion for his dead son.
• Yi Shuyuan revived Yan Bo, who traveled north with white cranes, found Yuan Zhaoning in the ruined capital, and brought him to Hele Mountain to honor the White Feather Way’s dead.
• White Crane and the Great Toad King hid with Ya Ci and Chan Qin as Yang Binghong and Lin Xianjie arrived at the graves, where Lin Xianjie paid respects and found fresh incense.

Ya Ci and Chan Qin’s wedding brought the group together before Xiao Yong pursued Hong Ye and Daoist Xue uncovered a child-sacrificing Dragon King cult. Hong Ye and his sons died, the Dragon King statues collapsed across Great Qiu, and Daoist Xue headed for the capital to stop the cult.

• Yan Bo subdued armed pursuers, and Yang Binghong and Lin Xianjie left with the Imperial Heirloom Seal as Yang resolved to gather people and change the world.
• Ya Ci and Chan Qin married on Hele Mountain, where Yi Shuyuan’s vision of Mingzhou City gave Mo Yiming a final reunion with Stoneborn before Mo Yiming died surrounded by family.
• Xiao Yong fought Mo Ye, then took Stoneborn and others to the Dragon Palace, where they discovered Hong Ye had rebelled and fled north.
• Daoist Xue investigated children being drawn to Dragon King temples, rescued them from a yaksha cult, and joined others in uncovering the cult’s reach across Great Qiu.
• Hong Ye swallowed a Heavenly Battle Pill encased in stone, while his sons stole an alchemy furnace and were captured by heavenly forces.
• Xiao Yong defeated Hong Ye in the Western Sea, and the vision of an ancient parasol tree and heavenly phoenix appeared as the Hong Household’s three flood dragons died.
• Dragon King statues shattered across Great Qiu, and Daoist Xue set out for the capital with six captured cultists to urge the emperor to end the cult.