Recaps

Xing Yan left Thousand Birds Cliff with Qiong Rong and Xueyi to search for the Water Essence of Highest Clarity, then became entangled in a drought-stricken town’s supernatural troubles. After summoning rain and battling the Deep Pool God, he learned the spirit was Peng Runlan’s beloved and encountered Lingyi, princess of the Four Rivers Dragon Palace.

• Xing Yan practiced sword flight, attended the Origin Celebration, and destroyed the Nine-Infant God after it possessed Tian Renbao.
• Zhao Wuchen abducted Ju Ying to lure Xing Yan into a trap, but Qiong Rong and Xueyi rescued them from the Ice Tower before Ju Ying left to visit her parents.
• Ling Xu sent Xing Yan to find the Water Essence of Highest Clarity, and Xing Yan set out with Qiong Rong and Xueyi.
• In drought-stricken Zhenyang, Xing Yan entered a contest for its prize money, then visited the Peng Residence after suspecting a supernatural cause behind the town’s troubles.
• Xing Yan fought a water spirit at the Peng Residence, while Peng Xiangpu repeatedly tried to arrange a marriage between Xing Yan and his daughter Runlan.
• At Zhenyang’s rain-summoning ceremony, Xing Yan used the Four Rivers Divine Spell to bring rain, but Fan Chuan abducted Runlan and unleashed a flood toward the city.
• A silver-scaled golden dragon emerged from Xing Yan and subdued Fan Chuan, while Lingyi calmed the river and freed Xing Yan.
• Runlan revealed that Fan Chuan was her beloved, and Xing Yan asked him where he could find a copy of Lingyi’s portrait.

Xing Yan and his companions defeated the Pure World Sect, survived Ancestor Kongya’s attempt to seize Qiong Rong, and continued their travels through encounters with spirits and ghosts. In Yin-Quelling Manor, they defeated the Evil Spirit Ghost King, who offered to serve Xing Yan.

• Lingyi kissed Xing Yan underwater, and after he returned to shore, he and his companions attended Fan Chuan and Runlan’s wedding before continuing toward Zhenyang.
• Xing Yan uncovered the Pure World Sect’s arson and child abductions, then led his group to Pine Mountain, where he killed Duan Ruhui and Kou Xueyi defeated Luo Ziming.
• After surviving a blood-soul formation and encountering Immortal Kongya, Xing Yan pursued a stolen money satchel into an illusory maze, where Kongya attacked Qiong Rong and a divine woman appeared in her place.
• Qiong Rong returned to her usual form and reunited with Xing Yan and Xueyi, and the three continued their journey to Yaoyang.
• A purple-eyed girl’s attempt to watch Xing Yan through a Jade Lotus transported her into his room, where she caused a commotion before escaping and erupting her dark realm’s peaks with fire and lava.
• Xing Yan and his companions encountered ghosts on the road and reached Yin-Quelling Manor, where Peng Meng destroyed the pagoda that had kept the ghosts in check.
• The Evil Spirit Ghost King attacked the manor and overwhelmed the group with his Nightmare Hex, but Xing Yan drove him back and struck him down with Refining Spirit into Void.
• Xing Yan stopped Qiong Rong and Xueyi from killing the defeated Xiao Mang, and the Ghost King offered to become Xing Yan’s servant.

Xing Yan exposed Bai Shijun’s famine scheme, reunited with Princess Yongchang, and traveled with Lingyi to the South Sea. After meeting Xi Ying, he watched the Sea Epiphyllum bloom as signs of conflict with the ghostly forces emerged.

• Xing Yan accepted Xiao Mang as the Netherworld Ghost Ring, secured the Ghost Clan’s pact with the villagers, and left Yin-Quelling Manor with Qiong Rong and Xueyi.
• Xing Yan reached famine-stricken Yulin Commandery, aided its people, and met Bai Shijun at Watercloud Manor, where Ju Ying revealed that she was Princess Yongchang.
• Xing Yan stopped Daoist Feihuang’s attack at Bai Shijun’s banquet, and Qiong Rong burned the Venomous Locusts before Xing Yan pretended to punish her by knocking her into the lake.
• After Bai Shijun set Coiling Dragon Court ablaze and fled, Xing Yan pursued him with Qiong Rong and learned that he had been hoarding relief grain to exploit the famine.
• Xing Yan used a ring to incapacitate Bai Shijun, and Daoist Qingyun thanked him for helping Yulin Commandery and gave him the Upper Clarity Scripture.
• Xing Yan traveled north with Qiong Rong and Xueyi, then accepted Lingyi’s invitation to the South Sea flower banquet and rode with her to the Dragon Palace.
• Xing Yan wandered into a secluded valley, met the marked girl Xi Ying, calmed the storm around her, and returned to the palace after she vanished.
• Xing Yan watched the Sea Epiphyllum bloom with Lingyi, while the Lady of the Xiang River discussed Lingyi’s possible marriage and Pan Hou sensed ghostly energy at the banquet.

Xing Yan and his companions rescued Lingyi and Xueyi from the Demon Race by trading Yinghuo, then resumed their search for the Water Spirit. After Meng Zhang challenged Xing Yan’s suitability for Lingyi, the group reached Emerald Li Village, where they were required to attend a mass wedding ceremony.

• Xing Yan and his companions infiltrated Liling Isle to recover the stolen Dragon Horses, but Yinghuo’s trap drained their power and left Lingyi and Xueyi imprisoned.
• Xing Yan and Qiong Rong captured Yinghuo and hid with her in Reed Marsh, where Xing Yan tended to her illness and prepared a hostage exchange.
• Xing Yan exchanged Yinghuo for Lingyi and Xueyi, then escaped with the three girls as Dragon Clan troops raided Liling.
• The Lord of the Clouds told Xing Yan that his black armor had sealed Gaoyao and advised him to look for someone near Yulin Commandery who was not what they seemed.
• Xing Yan traveled through Yangzhou with Xueyi and Qiong Rong, then watched Meng Zhang’s South Sea Dragon Army review and heard Meng Zhang insist that a mortal could not be Lingyi’s proper match.
• Xing Yan took Xueyi and Qiong Rong to Yulin Commandery, where he found that Fire Li Village had become prosperous Emerald Li Village.
• Xing Yan claimed that Xueyi was his betrothed and Qiong Rong was his child bride to satisfy the village guards, then agreed to attend the village couples’ wedding bows.