Recaps

Xu Xuan pursued the ancient Celestial Person method as the Jade Flow Demon Calamity devastated Red Cloud and Great Shu. He emerged as a True Person, restored the survivors’ refuge, and learned that a dangerous demon-bone fragment had escaped west.

• Xu Xuan refused Song Shiming’s offer to enter the Divine Dao and chose the perilous ancient method, while his study of the Northern Dipper array revealed a faint spark of Altar Thunder.
• Xu Fayan completed his breakthrough, and Xu Xuan warned him that the coming Jade Flow Demon Calamity was a human-made disaster due within two years.
• Zhang Yu and Dongfang Qionglian’s journey ended in their deaths, while Tiantuo captured Dongfang Guangxu inside Xu Xuan’s Qi Sea and sealed him beneath the White Jade Heavenly Palace.
• Liu Xiaowen returned to the sect and reunited with Xu Xuan, who began the Dipper Mother Heaven-Supporting Rite and connected his nature and life to the Heavenly Successive Star.
• Sui Bai and Qing Ling sealed Red Cloud with the White Marsh Diagram as the demon horde swept through the Plainlands and attacked the Seven Azure Peaks.
• The Ba Serpent shattered the defenders’ lines, swallowed Liu Xiaowen, and drove the survivors from Green Peaks, while Xu Fayan fled with Zhang Gaoxia and encountered Wei Fengnian.
• Xu Xuan emerged as a Celestial Person, shattered the Dao map, killed the demons, and cleansed Red Cloud with rain before rescuing Xu Fayan and defeating Wei Fengnian and Rang'an.
• Xu Xuan restored Heavenly Tribulation Mountain and traveled to Tip-Feng Mountain, where Ru Su warned him that the escaped demon bone of Jiaoyang True Lord was somewhere to the west.

Xu Xuan advanced his thunder cultivation, fought Piluo, and secured a place in the Dragon Court as Vast Marsh’s son while acquiring the spirit artifact Lightning Flash. After returning to the Western Sea, he began forming a yin-and-yang thunder array as unrest gathered around Heaven Pool.

• Xu Xuan subdued Dongfang Guangxu, remade him into Mu Xu, and bound him to the Ancient Stele to perform labor.
• Xu Xuan defeated Guangji, agreed to Candle Sword’s terms for reforging his sword, and accepted the Mystic Punishment Thunder Judge position from Weihua.
• Xu Xuan and Nangang agreed to enter the Formless Temple, while Wu Shaoyue and Liu Xingfang accepted their betrothal as equals.
• Xu Xuan formed Thunderfall Marsh and investigated Yang Yuanyi’s blocked breakthrough, then learned from Dao Yan that [Darkening Obscurity] might offer him another path.
• Xu Xuan fought Piluo at Great Pei Mountain, defeated him with Yang Thunder’s Mystic Zenith, and received a decree to balance the dry yang and cold yin lineages.
• Xu Xuan visited the Dragon Court, was accepted as Vast Marsh’s son, and was tasked with reclaiming South Mist and guarding Sun Lake.
• Xu Xuan received [Lightning Flash] from the Spirit Vault and wounded Dongfang Che in a fight before Vast Marsh ordered him to leave Ren Marsh.
• Xu Xuan returned to the Western Sea, learned of unrest in Heaven Pool, and formed the early yin-and-yang thunder formation with Lightning Flash and Cold Moon.

Xu Xuan reclaimed Mist Marsh’s possessions, helped defeat the Six Desires Demon Manifestations, and bound two of them within his Dao realm. As his sect established a foothold in the Western Sea, he cultivated [Primordial Sequence] and formed a thunder city with its first heavenly law, drawing the attention of the Great Desire Demon Land.

• Xu Xuan defeated Nanfa, seized the Pure Harmony Palace, and declared that he represented the Dragon Court of Great Mist Marsh.
• Xu Xuan and Nangang joined Guan Quan and Wei Shuang to confront Pleasure and Desire and Greed and Evil at the Formless Temple, where Xu Xuan captured the demons and Greater Yin Chang'e destroyed Pleasure and Desire’s manifestation.
• Xu Xuan returned to the Thunder Department, received the Primordial Thunder Void Law, and learned that his altar thunder could make him a counterpart to Celestial Pivot.
• Xu Xuan bound Greed and Evil and Pleasure and Desire within his Dao realm, severing their connection to the Great Blissful Desire Demon Land and assigning them new identities.
• Xu Xuan sent Fa Yan and Empty-Handed with a hundred cultivators to establish a foothold in the Western Sea, then traveled to Longflow Island and onward to seek true fire from Pingxiu.
• Xu Xuan traded two spirit treasures to Pingxiu for the Great Flame-Combining Fire, used it to nourish Xiao Wen’s soul, and began cultivating [Primordial Sequence].
• Xu Xuan formed the Mysterious Capital Thunder City in his Dao realm and established the law that the sun rises and the moon sets at appointed times.
• Zhi Youya told Deliverance that Pleasure and Desire and Greed and Evil had vanished, and Deliverance learned that Xu Xuan had defeated them and taken the Sword Treatise on Life-and-Death Qi.

Xu Xuan defeated the Stone Man Way’s leaders and claimed Heaven Pool, then secured its treasures and turned to rebuilding his sect and strengthening its alliances. The arc left him preparing to expand into the Western Sea while threats from rival powers and the Great Blissful Desire Demon Land loomed.

• Xu Xuan broke through Lingji’s defenses at Duskfall Gate, defeated him and Kongming, and seized control of northern Heaven Pool.
• After learning of the opportunity at Heaven Pool’s core, Xu Xuan joined Illusory Visage and other allies to confront Ancient Hua as the Greater Yin Mystic Fish transformed into a Heavenly Peng.
• Xu Xuan and his allies shattered Ancient Hua’s Dharma Body, but Ancient Hua restored himself through Mountain Refining and trapped them in a powerful formation.
• Xu Xuan refused to retreat, fought Ancient Hua with Illusory Visage’s aid, and killed him, while Lingji escaped with Bright Zenith Mountain and the Divine Union talisman.
• Xu Xuan claimed the Great Azure Mystic Essence and the Stone Man Way’s holdings, then learned of the Great Azure Twofold Principles Scripture and the Great Fury Beast Flame.
• Xu Xuan dealt with the captives and reorganized Heaven Pool’s defenses, while Yang Yuanxin told him that Yang Yuanyi’s temperament had changed and their marriage plans remained uncertain.
• Liu Xiaowen emerged with a reconstructed dharma body, and Xu Xuan and Wen Si'an discussed rebuilding Green Luo, revising sect rules, and strengthening alliances.
• Xu Xuan agreed to let Shu Han join the Wu main sect’s lineage and planned to claim spiritual lands in the Western Sea while retaining Red Cloud.