Recaps

Zhang Yuan caught a rare Human-Faced Butterfly for Su Jingyao, survived the Ink Abyss beast tide, and agreed to serve as her Guardian of the Dao. After defeating Yang Hongyu, he entered the Azure Profound Secret Realm with Su Jingyao, where they began searching for monsters and Baleful Infants.

• Zhang Yuan accepted Su Jingyao’s offer to catch a Human-Faced Butterfly in exchange for treasures and a cultivation method, then captured a rare Purple Butterfly in Ink Abyss.
• Zhang Yuan learned the Divine Concealment Art from the Ninth Divine Weapon Diagram and joined the defense of Guard View Platform as monsters poured out of Ink Abyss.
• Zhang Feihu told Zhang Yuan that Xiao Yan had abandoned the expedition, causing Xiao Hong and Chen Ziyi to die and leaving Zhang Feihu with a damaged martial foundation.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to become Su Jingyao’s Guardian of the Dao for the Nine Peaks Tournament and signed a Dao Contract to enter the Azure Profound Secret Realm with her.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to fight Yang Hongyu for five hundred Dao Merit and defeated him with a single Mountain Shattering Style punch, crippling him and winning the duel.
• Su Jingyao gave Zhang Yuan three thousand Dao Merit from her wager winnings, and Zhang Yuan spent nearly all of it on treasures at the Merit Hall.
• Zhang Yuan and Su Jingyao traveled to the Azure Profound Secret Realm, where entrants had seven days to hunt strange monsters and collect Baleful Infants.
• Zhang Yuan and Su Jingyao followed her Wind Copper Compass through the misty forest and reached a hidden village at night.

Zhang Yuan and Su Jingyao hunted monsters in the Azure Profound Secret Realm before parting, and Zhang Yuan later fought the Yang Family and won a place as an Outer Guardian. After advancing his Six Harmonies Qilin Body, he learned that the Yang family had tampered with the selection and remained prepared to face them.

• Zhang Yuan and Su Jingyao established a base in the Desolate Village, hunted Ji Meis and a Giant Worm, and defeated a Rock Golem to win its Sixth Grade Rock Puppet Heart Crystal.
• Su Jingyao placed third in the tournament, gave Zhang Yuan Qilin Grass, and left to cultivate in Langya Heaven.
• Yang Chenguang tried to force Zhang Yuan into joining the Yang Family, and Zhang Yuan later ambushed and killed Yang Chenguang and several members of his team in Ink Abyss.
• Zhang Yuan registered for the Outer Guardian selection, refined Qilin Pills, and learned that the Yang family planned to target him during the trials.
• Zhang Yuan defeated Yue Yihe, a concealed Sixth Order Expert, after Yue Yihe challenged him and accused him of cheating.
• Zhang Yuan won the remaining matches and became an Outer Guardian, then refined more Qilin Pills and brought his Six Harmonies Qilin Body close to major completion.
• Zhang Yuan reached twenty-twofold strength enhancement, searched unsuccessfully for a Gray-Toothed Lynx, and learned from Wei Long that the Yang family had tampered with the duel name slips.

Zhang Yuan served as Mo Huaian’s guardian on a journey through villages and drought-stricken Yongzhou, fighting Huo Family Fort’s men and aberrations along the way. After discovering signs of a possible Drought Demon and witnessing the Grain Requisition Team brutalize villagers, Zhang Yuan killed the soldiers and continued with Mo Huaian toward Yong'an City.

• Zhang Yuan captured and bonded with a Gray-Toothed Lynx, then killed Yue Yihe and refused Yuan Zishan’s offer to buy the beast and recruit him.
• After Zhang Yuan wiped out two Yang family-backed teams in Ink Abyss, Wei Long ordered him to spend a year at Repentance Peak, where he strengthened his cultivation before taking a mission to guard Mo Huaian.
• Zhang Yuan and Mo Huaian traveled through villages, where Mo Huaian found Xiao Huan’s rare aptitude and arranged for her to be taken to Upper Scene Heaven.
• When Huo Zhennan pursued them over the stolen Jadeite Lion, Zhang Yuan and Mo Huaian used a Killing Array to defeat his force, and Zhang Yuan killed Huo Zhennan.
• In drought-stricken Yongzhou, Zhang Yuan and Mo Huaian fought aberrations at an abandoned village, where Zhang Yuan killed a Hell Hound and found a Fire Chi Stone that suggested a Drought Demon had appeared.
• Zhang Yuan refined Blazing Sun Force from the Fire Chi Stone as he and Mo Huaian searched for clues, then helped famine-stricken villagers near Yong'an City.
• Zhang Yuan killed the Black Armor Knight and the rest of the Grain Requisition Team after they attacked villagers, then left with Mo Huaian for Yong'an City.

Zhang Yuan uncovered a plot to sacrifice Yongzhou, helped carry out Yan Bei’s last wishes, and followed a treasure map into a buried city in the Great Desert. After fighting the palace’s awakened statues and Skeleton Wang, he swallowed the glowing medicinal pearl as his vitality reached the brink.

• Zhang Yuan discovered the Heaven Severing Earth Extinguishing Yin Yang Grand Array in Yongping Province City, and Yan Bei died after entrusting him with his family and a warning to spread.
• Zhang Yuan returned Yan Bei’s ashes to Su Shi, brought her family to Upper Scene Heaven, and merged the Animal Hide Treasure Map with his own map.
• Zhang Yuan set out for the Great Desert, crossed the Gobi and Sand Sea, and found the ancient city marked on the map after a Sand Worm swallowed his horse.
• Zhang Yuan fought through Sand Worm tunnels and Black Beetles, entered the underground palace, and found a crowned skeleton beside a glowing object.
• Zhang Yuan fought the awakened Martial Warrior and Martial General Statues, using his Divine Nest Possessions, a boulder, Fierce Fire Oil, and Mo Huaian’s Chaos Talisman.
• Skeleton Wang rose from the throne and nearly overwhelmed Zhang Yuan, but Zhang Yuan regained his strength and fired the Crimson Blood Divine Blade through its skull.
• Zhang Yuan’s vitality fell to 1, and the Gray-Toothed Lynx carried him to the throne so he could swallow the glowing medicinal pearl, which brought him back to consciousness in agony.