Recaps

Su Jiu was left behind on the Hongsheng Heavenly Road, where a spring restored her while decades passed in the Azure Realm. After escaping the Palace, she confronted a demonic cultivator terrorizing a village and began investigating her connection to Hong Ming.

• Su Jiu merged with the Snow Sprite to destroy the fused demonic beast, then remained unconscious as Chu Luohen used its Red Stone to open the way to the Third Level.
• Chu Luohen carried Su Jiu up the Hongsheng Heavenly Road, but she pushed him through its exit and was blocked from following.
• The two Azure Realms joined as spiritual and demonic qi spread, while Chu Luohen and the others learned that Su Jiu was still alive but trapped beyond the road.
• Su Jiu woke in a spring after years had passed below, and her spirits helped her recover as the Azure Tide Sect formed an alliance against rising threats.
• Su Jiu used the spring’s power of rules and vanished from the Palace into a village plagued by a returning stone statue, strange rain, and drained corpses.
• Su Jiu confronted a female cultivator controlling corpse puppets in the village graveyard, destroyed the puppets, and let the woman escape.
• Su Jiu found Wenren Qingtang, returned with him to the village, and wondered how the escaped cultivator was connected to Hong Ming.

Su Jiu pursued a mysterious cultivator to the Vast Righteousness Sect, where Luo Ge’s failed Dao Companion ceremony and a plot at the Windforest Star River sent Su Jiu and her companions into the dangerous secret realm. Su Jiu’s message that she was safe reached her sect, while Chu Luohen and others reacted to her return.

• Su Jiu dismantled the village barrier, then left with Wenren Qingtang to pursue the female cultivator toward the Vast Righteousness Sect.
• Su Jiu reunited with Yun Chao and learned about Luo Ge’s planned Dao Companion ceremony, the Five-Sect Alliance, and the spreading demon-seed threat.
• At Luo Ge’s ceremony, Wenren Jing refused the Dao Companion Contract, Luo Ge insulted Su Jiu, and news of trouble involving Luo Cheng ended the proceedings.
• Su Jiu followed the female cultivator toward Windforest Star River with Feng Qi, Yun Chao, Yun Huanling, and Gu Ningyun, while the group uncovered the Vast Righteousness Sect’s unusual control of the realm’s entrance.
• Luo Ge used jade moonflower cakes and a Clear Heart Melody to incapacitate Su Jiu and the others, then sent them into Windforest Star River before the melody’s abrupt end made her collapse.
• Inside the realm, Su Jiu found a mysterious eighteen-section cylinder, protected unconscious cultivators, and learned that the wind and plants could not help track the female cultivator.
• Su Jiu told her companions how she had awakened after decades and reached the Out-of-Body Middle Stage, while Feng Qi recorded her account for Xia Jue.
• Su Jiu sent word that she was safe, prompting relief from Su Mianmian and Jin Chen and stirring Chu Luohen, while the Grand Elder confronted Chu Luohen about his peak.

Su Jiu and her companions investigated a corrupted tomb, uncovered Liu Min and Huang Shan’s schemes, and fought their way to the Soul-Suppressing Pearl and the tomb’s mummy. After defeating it, they met the damaged soul of the Vast Righteousness Sect’s First Sect Master, who remembered the sect’s former prominence.

• The Grand Elder introduced A Qi as his personal disciple, while Chu Luohen’s reflected attack and Su Jiu’s connections made him reconsider challenging Ice Veil Peak.
• Su Jiu’s group found an Extreme Yin Land, fought a corpse puppet, and discovered a tomb whose seals and empty coffins suggested someone had stolen the bodies.
• Inside the main tomb chamber, Gu Ningyun confronted Liu Min, Huang Shan, and Yan'er, and Liu Min admitted to using demonic techniques and killing villagers to make corpse puppets.
• Su Jiu exposed Yan'er’s healthy soul and demonic power, and Yan'er escaped as black miasma after revealing her connection to the Nightmare Demon and hinting she knew where Qingqing was.
• Liu Min led the group toward the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, then escaped and sent corpse puppets and Yin-Devouring Butterflies against them as the others battled to retrieve it.
• Removing the pearl strengthened the corpse puppets, and defeating them awakened a skeletal mummy that attacked the group and wounded Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu cracked the mummy’s skull with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, then destroyed it with Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water and Yun Huanling’s formation.
• The mummy’s damaged soul revealed that he was the Vast Righteousness Sect’s First Sect Master, recalled the Heaven-Connecting Tower’s disappearance, and recognized the Azure Tide Sect.

Su Jiu and her companions uncovered the tomb’s sacrificial rites, confronted its awakened corpse, and traced the rising danger toward the Seal Grounds. The group split as Su Jiu continued toward the seal while Feng Qi and Yun Chao encountered cultivators who might be using others as bait.

• Lu Mingyang explained how a heretical cultivator had used his imprisonment to blind the Heavenly Dao and steal fortune, then chose Feng Qi to carry his remnant soul away.
• Su Jiu retrieved the Snow Sprite’s soft jade blue crystal and worked with Yun Huanling to decipher the dragon and phoenix carvings that opened the Main Tomb Chamber.
• Su Jiu and her companions discovered the remains of Divine Descendants, demonic paintings that stirred Gu Ningyun’s heart demon, and a Fortune-Stealing Curse Talisman around the coffin.
• The tomb shattered as the group left, releasing Yin Evil Qi and an animated corpse that bound Yun Huanling and wounded Yun Chao.
• Su Jiu attuned with Purple Ultimate and destroyed the corpse with two Thunderstorm Talismans attached to its vital point.
• Su Jiu and her companions fought two demonic magic beasts, and Yun Huanling divined that the Yin Evil Qi was drifting toward the Seal Grounds.
• Su Jiu sent Feng Qi and Yun Chao to seek help from the Enforcement Hall while she continued toward the seal with Yun Huanling and Gu Ningyun.
• Feng Qi and Yun Chao found corpses along Su Jiu’s route, then suspected three fleeing cultivators of using others as bait to escape two magic beasts.