Recaps

Su Jiu uncovered the Nightmare Demon’s connection to A Meng and helped reunite A Meng’s soul with her body, but A Meng died and the Nightmare Demon escaped. As Su Jiu and Ning Fan followed clues through the Demon-Subduing Land, Su Jiu discovered the Vermilion Bird’s power in the mutated Demon Crows and led the injured disciples onward.

• Su Jiu forced the Nightmare Demon to reveal the location of A Meng’s preserved body and recovered it with Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu and the Buddha Child reunited A Meng’s soul with her body using the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, but A Meng chose to remain with the Nightmare Demon and her soul dissipated.
• The Nightmare Demon broke free and attacked the disciples with dream mist, then vanished after telling Su Jiu where the missing Command Token had fallen.
• Ning Fan led the Shadow Pavilion disciples to investigate the map’s formation sites while Su Jiu followed the Command Token’s hidden marking with the Enforcement Hall Disciples.
• Su Jiu traced the token to a formation clue and discovered signs of mutated Demon Crows, which attacked the group with blood demon dew and fire-infused demonic qi.
• Little Green revealed that the Phoenix Egg had drained the spirit vein once guarded by the Sacred Vermilion Bird, and that Su Jiu’s destruction of the egg had preserved the vein’s remaining life.
• The Demon Crows injured several disciples with Vermilion Bird sacred flame, and Little Green drew the fire spiritual qi from them and healed them.
• Su Jiu led the recovered Enforcement Hall Disciples onward, determined to keep them safe.

Su Jiu and her companions entered the weakened Sacred Spirit Palace, where demonic qi and illusion realms threatened the Vermilion Bird Spirit Vein. Separated into perilous trials, they faced a choice engineered by a hidden enemy, and Su Jiu struck at the glass sphere controlling the visions.

• Jiao Yue submitted to Gray-Clothed’s repeated bloodletting and accepted a fire-aligned demon seed after he threatened Jiao Chen, asking him to send Chen to the Azure Tide Sect and tell him she was dead.
• Su Jiu led the disciples through the Red Maple Forest, discovered the Vermilion Bird Spirit Vein and the weakened Sacred Spirit Palace, then helped defeat a Four-Aspect Demon formed from demonic qi.
• Little Green opened the Palace doors, but Su Jiu was separated from her companions in a magma-filled real-image illusion realm, where she fought Demon Crows and Cloudborn Beasts before reaching a cavern.
• Yun Huanling and Chu Luohen searched the Palace for Su Jiu, while the others found evidence that demonic qi had corrupted the Vermilion Bird and learned that the Azure Realm’s innate origin qi had been spent sealing demons.
• Su Jiu found a glass orb that showed her companions, and she watched them enter another illusion realm and confront a corrupted Vermilion Bird Essence whose realm held the exit.
• As Su Jiu watched Little Green struggle and her companions sustain injuries, teleportation arrays appeared beside both visions, forcing her to choose which group to save.
• Su Jiu rejected the hidden enemy’s intended choice, struck the glass sphere with the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, and poured her innate origin qi into the blade.

While Su Jiu advanced in the Vermilion Bird Sacred Hall, she entered Bai Su’s modern world and joined a variety show, where she investigated its strange aura. A book revealed that a false Heavenly Dao had created laws to seize the Azure Realm, and Su Jiu left the light orb after it demanded she restore the modern world’s fortune before returning her.

• Su Jiu exhausted her qi to break the formation, and Chu Luohen’s group defeated the weakened Vermilion Bird Essence as Little Green joined them.
• Chu Luohen led the group to the Vermilion Bird Sacred Hall’s sealed main doors, which Dao Lord Qing Ci opened to reveal the tortured Vermilion Bird.
• Jiao Yue emerged from the blood pool and overwhelmed Chu Luohen’s group, while Su Jiu recovered and dreamed of Bai Su’s modern world.
• Su Jiu met Bai Su, learned about her choice to live as a mortal, and accompanied her to work, where she stopped an attacker.
• Su Jiu met Xia Yao, joined his variety show, and stunned the guests when she removed her mask before traveling with him through a town with a strange aura.
• Su Jiu noticed that The Biography of Qin Ming had vanished from a bookstore and later found it glowing in the shop window.
• Su Jiu touched the book, and it merged with Raising Handsome Men in the Azure Realm to reveal that a false Heavenly Dao had created artificial laws to seize the Azure Realm.
• Su Jiu learned that Zheng Qilong was meant to destroy the Azure Realm and that the light orb wanted her to restore the modern world’s fortune before sending her home.

Su Jiu uncovered Zheng Qilong’s link to the False Heavenly Dao and defeated the soul that had empowered him. Dao Lord Qing Ci then revealed the crisis engulfing the Azure Realm as Su Jiu sought Bai Su and a way to return.

• Su Jiu joined the filming crew’s fishing task and stunned everyone by spearing enough fish to sell at a successful grilled-fish stall.
• After earthquakes shook the area, Su Jiu entered the misty mountain and found Zheng Qilong’s soul draining a wolf and gathering gray threads of fortune.
• Su Jiu learned Zheng Qilong had returned without his body and that a voice had guided him to steal fortune, use the Fortune-Transferring Pearl, and obtain the Demonic Sword.
• The Spatial Bracelet’s artifact spirit took control of Zheng Qilong and fought Su Jiu, who discovered it was Mo Yibai, a former sect master promised ascension by the False Heavenly Dao.
• Su Jiu defeated Mo Yibai and watched Zheng Qilong’s soul shatter before he could answer her questions about her birth and rebirth.
• Su Jiu recognized Xia Yao as Dao Lord Qing Ci, who told her that Jiao Yue was attacking her companions and that demonic cultivators had invaded the Azure Realm.
• Chu Mojin and Ning Hai learned of sect infiltrations and battlefield losses as Dao and demonic cultivators clashed across the continents beneath an intensifying red streak in the sky.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci explained his possession of Xia Yao and his paper-person puppets, while Su Jiu met Bai Su, recounted Zheng Qilong’s defeat, and said she would leave once she found Bai Su.