Recaps

Xu Xuan pursued Altar Thunder Golden Nature while Taojue manipulated False History and the Second Demon began the Final Calamity. Xu Xuan attained Jade Void but remained cut off from true history, until a blood-red light approached and a voice asked how he had become trapped too.

• Xu Xuan severed No Awareness’s Wuma bloodline and sent him away, then used him to investigate Righteous Order and the boundary between life and death.
• Taiyou rose as the True Lord of withering, defeated Northern Sage, and captured the Purifying Truth Dao Verification as Martial Mu Mountain fell into the Gloomy Netherworld.
• Xu Xuan learned that the plan to break the boundary between life and death was meant to protect living beings, but Strategy’s actions caused the Gloomy Netherworld to collapse and trap souls in the Undying Realm.
• Xu Xuan fought Emperor Nether Beyond the Heavens, then returned to the mortal world as Houtu and Thunder Marsh faced the Mysterious Crow and other ancient powers.
• Xu Xuan challenged Zhou Shi, who claimed supreme yang thunder and tried to attain the Dao as Celestial Pivot, before Northern tribulation punishment struck him.
• Xu Xuan used the Void Stele for Altar Attestation and obtained Altar Thunder Golden Nature, while Taojue took the true name of Without Absolution and dominated False History.
• Xu Xuan and Taojue reshaped competing histories, but Without Absolution escaped into a more ancient world, leaving Xu Xuan unable to distinguish true history from False History.
• The Second Demon began the Final Calamity, Xu Xuan attained Jade Void, and he later anchored its history before realizing Truth, Lesser Yin, and Ji Earth kept him cut off from true history.

Xu Fayan fought the forces seeking to control nurturing earth, survived the Golden Crows’ dry-yang upheaval, and won its fruit position from Wei Huang. He renamed nurturing earth Xi earth and began establishing its new order.

• Xu Wugui set Xu Xuan’s jade void on a path toward severance, named him Shao You, and later worked to protect Xu Fayan as the qi embryo crisis unfolded.
• Xu Fayan claimed Nether Sheep’s position after defeating Evil Land, then learned that the Golden Crows and several other factions planned to kill or use him as he pursued the golden position.
• Xu Fayan entered Dao Transformation at Unclarity Mountain, became the new spirit of nurturing earth, and declared himself True Lord Ominous Portent of Mysterious Sameness.
• Yang Chi and Yuan Yan attacked Xu Fayan, and Night Slaughter shattered his Xi Sheep form before nurturing earth devoured a damaged Great Dao and manifested another form.
• Xu Fayan battled Wei Huang across ancient history, defeated him, reclaimed his preserved golden nature, and united his countenance with Nether Sheep’s mystic heart.
• Xu Wugui summoned Xu Xuan’s supreme sword strike, which killed Jiaoyang and erased Taojue’s demon Buddha aspect, while Xu Fayan prevailed in the contest for nurturing earth.
• Xu Fayan renamed nurturing earth Xi earth, established its Five Earth Spirits and blessed land, reclaimed the Proliferating Soil, and founded Nonduality Temple in the Western Sea.