Recaps

Su Jiu and her companions uncovered the Mask Man’s plan to exchange Su Jiu’s fate with Ming Yun’s, while surviving the lethal formations he had prepared. The group reached a Tree Spirit that revealed the black-and-white beads held the souls of people who had died in the Secret Realm.

• Su Jiu secured Bright Moon School’s help against the Water Moon School, then followed Brother Wu’s map with Chu Luohen toward the Mirror Fragment.
• The Mask Man trapped Su Jiu and Chu Luohen in a vision of Huo Yun dying to save Qi Song, then showed Yun Huanling helping Lan Fang Ziyi escape pursuers.
• The Mask Man revealed his scars and hatred of Chu Qianqiu, while Su Jiu deduced he planned to exchange her fate with Ming Yun’s.
• Qi Song resolved to live on after Huo Yun’s death, and Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Yun Huanling entered the Mask Man’s chaotic formation while Qi Song blessed them at the entrance.
• Su Jiu and her companions killed a shifting beast and deciphered a Three Talents Formation, then faced attacks from deadly plants and giant vines.
• Little Gift told Su Jiu to use Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water against the Demon Spirit, and Su Jiu found the hidden Tree Spirit with her Otherworldly Eyes.
• Su Jiu forced the Tree Spirit to explain that black-and-white beads formed when plants bearing the souls of dead humans later died.

Su Jiu and her companions passed the mirror maze, uncovered the Immortal Pool Spring’s secrets, and were caught in Hong Ming’s fate-changing ritual. Xia Jue and the allied sects broke into the Water Moon School, where Shui Rao'er’s plan and Hong Ming’s role were exposed.

• Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Chu Luohen fought through the mirror maze, defeating waves of Demon Beasts before Su Jiu awakened the Ice Cloud Hairpin and overcame the Zouyu.
• At the final gate, Yun Huanling restored an ancient star map and discovered that someone had changed their fate through Defy-Heaven Life Reversal.
• Su Jiu activated the linked formations and led her companions to the Immortal Pool Spring, where she claimed Moon Scorch and confronted Mask Man after their spiritual qi was confined.
• Mask Man transformed the surroundings into a sacrificial altar, used Qi Song’s blood and the Mirror Fragments to begin the ritual, and revealed that Su Jiu was his true target.
• Xia Jue and the allied sects attacked the Water Moon School, broke through its defensive formations, and followed the growing yin resentful qi toward Su Jiu.
• Hong Ming revealed himself as Yun Huanling’s escaped Martial Uncle and admitted his role in the events that had trapped the group, while Su Jiu resisted the ritual’s effects and protected Yun Huanling.
• Xia Jue reached the altar and confronted Shui Rao'er, who admitted that the ritual was meant to save her from a forbidden technique that had left her with less than a hundred years to live.
• Hong Ming tried to seize Xia Jue, but golden light burned his hand as the sects’ disciples gathered around the altar.

Su Jiu and her companions traveled to the Nine Nether Sea seeking help with her curse, then allied with the Merfolk to defeat the Black Water Snake. As they prepared to infiltrate the enemy’s palace, Su Jiu learned that her Heart Discernment was gradually being sealed and began relying more on her companions.

• Su Jiu exposed Hong Ming’s scheme and Ming Yun’s stolen face and talents, while Xia Jue released the souls trapped in the Netherworld Lamp and the sects divided the Water Moon School’s resources.
• After Hong Ming was killed, Su Jiu traveled with Xia Jue, Chu Luohen, and Qi Song toward the Nine Nether Sea, where they found a failing barrier and a black whirlpool.
• Su Jiu’s group reached the seabed and discovered a battle between the Merfolk Tribe and the Dragon Palace forces, while Su Shi and Luo Ge were swept into the whirlpool and escaped their pursuers.
• Su Jiu joined Jiao Zhen and the Merfolk in fighting the Shrimp and Crab Soldiers, then agreed to a blood contract requiring her group to kill Black Water Snake in exchange for Jiao Zhen’s attempt to remove her curse.
• A masked man offered Ming Yun demonic power and revenge, but Feng Qi’s Enforcement Hall disciples destroyed the man’s clone, extracted Ming Yun’s demon seed, and killed her.
• Jiao Zhen gave Su Jiu a map of Black Water Snake’s palace, and Su Jiu discovered that her seventh petal had vanished as her Heart Discernment continued to be sealed.
• Su Jiu and her companions approached a secret passage, sneaking past four guards as Xia Jue urged Su Jiu to depend on the people around her.

Su Jiu and her companions survived the secret passage’s formations and faced the illusions of Returning Shadow, Flowing Light, while the Merfolk Tribe investigated her curse. After three years of cultivation, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen uncovered a dangerous pill and suspected Jiao Zhu had betrayed them.

• Su Jiu and her companions broke through the secret passage’s deadly formations, collected Jade Slips about Curse Arts, and escaped the Black Water Snake Queen’s storeroom.
• The group became trapped by Returning Shadow, Flowing Light, where Qi Song faced his regrets over Huo Yun and Chu Luohen revisited his childhood.
• Su Jiu learned that a curse had sealed her Heart Discernment and blocked her innate origin qi, while Xia Jue emerged in Merfolk Tribe territory with the Jade Slip on Curse Arts.
• Xia Jue and Qi Song helped Jiao Zhen identify Su Jiu’s curse as one that sealed innate talent and bloodlines, but the Jade Slip explaining how to break it was incomplete.
• After three years of cultivation, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection and left the stone stele together.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen discovered that the Black Water Snake Queen’s black pills strengthened monsters but made them half-transformed and bloodthirsty, and they linked the Everlasting Flower to Swallowing Heaven and the Heretical Cultivator.
• At the palace, Jiao Zhu knocked away Su Jiu’s black pill and offered to show the pair the cities, while Su Jiu privately told Chu Luohen that Jiao Zhu was likely the mole who had used Curse Arts against them.