Recaps

Zhang Yuan survived the underground palace, traveled with Zamuhe’s family, and retrieved a Blood Orchid for Wu Lan Tu Ya. After defeating the Hulan pursuers and three Celestials, he returned to Upper Scene Heaven and received a new mission.

• Zhang Yuan reached the peak of the Sixth Tier True Astral Realm, fused with Yin Zhou Wang’s remnant soul, and escaped the collapsing underground palace with the Supreme Martial Golden Core’s power.
• Zhang Yuan joined Zamuhe’s family on the way to Nacuo Da, taught Amu Guleng and A Siya martial arts, and gave them sealed martial seeds before they left the city.
• Zhang Yuan accepted Wu Lan Tu Ya’s request to find a Blood Orchid in Stormwind Valley in exchange for information and Extraterrestrial Divine Iron.
• Zhang Yuan crossed Stormwind Valley, defeated Wind Thorn Moths, found and harvested Blood Orchids, and spent ten days tempering his body in the gale.
• Zhang Yuan fought through a Hulan cavalry ambush, then returned to Nacuo Da and gave Wu Lan Tu Ya a Five-Leaf Blood Orchid.
• Zhang Yuan killed the Celestials and their escorts who pursued him for his Extraterrestrial Divine Iron, then used the Divine Nest to erase the danger of their deaths revealing his identity.
• Zhang Yuan returned to Upper Scene Heaven and received a Martial Pavilion mission to help the presiding master of a Taoist temple in Changye City exterminate a strange entity.

Zhang Yuan transformed the Crimson Blood Blade, secured a Dao General appointment, and took command of the Western Plains Dao Barracks. As he rebuilt the force and pursued a hidden threat, he clashed with Fei Hongming over control and funding.

• Zhang Yuan slew the White-Robed Scholar near Changye, completed his mission, and used the reward to transform the Crimson Blood Blade and unlock new Divine Weapon arts.
• After killing the Tiger Beast at Hulao Mountain, Zhang Yuan rejected Liang Kui’s attempt to buy his support, received Ancestor Mo’s backing, and won a place in the Dao General selection.
• The Crimson Blood Blade became the God Slaying Flying Dagger after Zhang Yuan stabilized it with a blood sacrifice, and Zhang Yuan later killed five ambushers who tried to drive him from Upper Scene Heaven.
• Zhang Yuan received his Dao General appointment and traveled to Western Plains, where Fei Hongming’s gatekeeper turned him away and Fei Yuxuan insulted him at Spring River Tower.
• Zhang Yuan inspected the depleted Dao Barracks, executed six captured offenders, raised the soldiers’ pay, and requested reinforcements from the Mo Clan.
• Liu Qingmei asked Zhang Yuan to help locate Ling Xiaohua and warned that the missing martial artist might be tied to the Savage Sand Army and the Horse Bandits.
• Mo Wei and Sun Yujiang arrived with reinforcements, and Zhang Yuan appointed them Deputy Generals while ordering Feng Hui to search for Ling Xiaohua.
• Zhang Yuan drilled three hundred Dao Soldiers and loaned the barracks one hundred thousand taels after Fei Hongming withheld its funds, then told Mo Yan Chang he would seek other sources of military money.

Zhang Yuan defeated Blood Shadow Tower assassins, then accepted a mission to recover the Wu Family’s stolen Seven-Leaf Spirit Ganoderma. He bought the treasure at Crescent Oasis’s auction and rode out as pursuers followed him.

• Zhang Yuan crushed Lianyun Stronghold, spared its vulnerable survivors, and displayed the bandit chiefs’ heads outside Western Plains City to challenge Fei Hongming.
• Zhang Yuan sold the seized goods at a bargain auction, accepted Jia Jiade’s request to consider protecting the Tuda Tribe’s trade routes, and received the withheld Dao Barracks funds.
• Blood Shadow Tower assassins attacked Zhang Yuan in the city, but he killed them and sent the surviving attackers for interrogation.
• Zhang Yuan led the Dao Soldiers into the Gobi Desert, defeated Horse Bandits and a horde of Walking Corpses, then destroyed a Bronze Zombie in the ruins.
• Zhang Yuan killed the Cloth-robed Elder and the Little Girl, and Upper Scene Heaven warned Blood Shadow Tower before Zhang Yuan entered secluded cultivation.
• Zhang Yuan accepted the mission to recover the Wu Family’s stolen Seven-Leaf Spirit Ganoderma and led three hundred Dao Soldiers toward the Western Regions.
• Zhang Yuan traced the stolen goods to Crescent Oasis, survived its bazaar extortion, and obtained an invitation to the New Moon Auction.
• Zhang Yuan outbid the other buyers for the Seven-Leaf Spirit Ganoderma, then left Crescent Oasis as several riders pursued him.

Zhang Yuan destroyed the Azure Wolf and Crimson Tiger Camps, joined the Nine Worlds Alliance, and swept Liping Mountain and the surrounding county of Weirdness. After his victories brought new prosperity to Western Plains City, Wu Ziyu asked him to help open the Raging Waves River waterway.

• Zhang Yuan killed the bandits who tried to rob him, then joined Mo Wei, Wu Ziyu, and the Dao Soldiers in pursuing the Azure Wolf Camp.
• Zhang Yuan lured the Azure Wolf Camp into an ambush and helped the Dao Soldiers destroy all 837 bandits, then burned their corpses and investigated a suspected leak in the Dao Camp.
• Zhang Yuan killed Crimson Tiger Camp’s Rong Niang and Beacon Master, and Scholar Guan recognized him as the Dao General and recruited him into the Nine Worlds Alliance.
• Zhang Yuan returned to Western Plains City, strengthened himself in seclusion, and left to purge the Weirdness around Liping Mountain.
• Zhang Yuan set up a protective Mountain God Temple and battled the mountain’s monsters, zombies, and giant spider before clearing the Weirdness and returning to Old Man Wang.
• Zhang Yuan swept through Western Plains County, advanced the Divine Nest to level seven, and helped make the trade routes safer, bringing prosperity to Western Plains City.
• Wu Ziyu asked Zhang Yuan to help the Wu Family open the Raging Waves River waterway, where river monsters had thwarted their previous attempts.