Recaps

Su Jiu purified Jiao Yue’s demonic corruption and uncovered the Gray-Clothed Man’s plot to taint the Spirit Source and weaponize the Vermilion Bird. After Little Green sacrificed itself to restore the Vermilion Bird, Su Jiu left the Palace with Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling and continued through the dangerous Demon-Subduing Land.

• Su Jiu entered Jiao Yue’s sea of consciousness, learned the Gray-Clothed Man had used her and Bai Su’s blood to destroy the Everlasting Flower, then defeated the demon seed in Jiao Yue’s body and preserved her remains for Jiao Chen.
• Su Jiu entered the third level and learned that the Gray-Clothed Man had tainted the Spirit Source while seeking to corrupt or destroy the Vermilion Bird.
• Su Jiu and her companions fought the Gray-Clothed Man, and Little Green helped Su Jiu seize the Spirit Source before the man escaped as a wisp of demonic qi.
• The Buddha Child trapped the Gray-Clothed Man’s consciousness, which revealed that Little Green was meant to disappear while purifying the Vermilion Bird.
• Little Green fought the Vermilion Bird and ultimately severed his connection to it, purging its demonic qi while accepting that his own consciousness would fade.
• Su Jiu spoke with Little Green in her sea of consciousness, then awoke as the Vermilion Bird became a stone carving and left the Sacred Spirit Palace with Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling.
• Demonic plants attacked Su Jiu’s group in the forest, but Chu Luohen destroyed their roots and Su Jiu cleared the demonic qi from Yun Huanling.
• Su Jiu’s group found the wounded Jade Sword Sect disciple Fellow Daoist Lu, followed his route to a swamp, and discovered a black tentacle lurking in its corrosive mire.

Su Jiu uncovered the Sword Demon’s scheme and the Life-and-Death Tree’s connection to a formation that could summon the Demon Realm. As demonic attacks spread and the Medicine Gate joined the alliance, she traced the formation’s blood sacrifices to the tree’s hidden innate origin qi.

• Su Jiu and the Buddha Child destroyed the marsh’s demonic beasts, then Su Jiu exposed Lu’s false identity and learned he served the Sword Demon.
• The Sword Demon trapped Su Jiu’s companions and bargained for the other two Demonic Swords in exchange for information about Su Jiu’s Senior Brother.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen found the Life-and-Death Tree, while demonic cultivators attacked across the continents and the Medicine Gate sought an alliance.
• Yang Guo helped secure the Medicine Gate alliance, fought off demonic cultivators, and suspected a hidden attacker was silencing them.
• The Life-and-Death Tree dragged Su Jiu and Chu Luohen underground, where they reunited with Feng Qi and learned that Xia Jue had gone missing.
• Su Jiu questioned captives and found that blood-marked cauldrons had transported cultivators from several continents into the tree.
• Su Jiu identified the altars’ formation as the Thousand-Absolute Demon-Summoning Formation and suspected its seven altars formed a Grand Formation with the Demon-Subduing Land.
• Su Jiu concluded that sacrificed cultivators’ blood had been sent to the altars and that their remains might be absorbing the Life-and-Death Tree’s innate origin qi.

Su Jiu and her allies fought the demonic forces gathered around the linked formations, while Su Jiu confronted Dao Lord Qing Ci inside the Demonic Sword. Qing Ci revealed that Yun Huanling was the Heaven-Connecting Tower, and Su Jiu remained trapped with him as her companions searched the Demon-Subduing Land.

• Su Jiu used Innate Origin Qi to absorb the demon seeds inside the collapsing Life-and-Death Tree, then discovered sleepers in coffins being carried away by demonic qi.
• After the Life-and-Death Tree vanished and revealed a blood-filled formation, Su Jiu inscribed a Teleportation Array while the Gray-Clothed Man offered the stranded Formation Arts Artist help.
• Su Jiu and Ning Fan discovered that linked formations held phantom Demonic Swords, then joined forces against rotting corpses and found A-Yu performing a sacrifice at the main altar.
• A-Yu transformed into a demonic beast to complete her master’s ritual, but Su Jiu and the Snow Sprite destroyed the demon seed controlling her and freed her soul.
• Su Jiu grasped the Demonic Sword and resisted its illusions and Dao Lord Qing Ci’s bargain, while Chu Luohen tried to break the sword’s barrier from outside.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci revealed that he had manipulated events to identify Yun Huanling, then told Su Jiu that Yun Huanling was the Heaven-Connecting Tower.
• After Su Jiu vanished into the vortex, Chu Luohen left to seek another way to find her, while Feng Qi and Ning Fan searched the Demon-Subduing Land and Feng Qi’s group found Xia Jue.

Su Jiu uncovered Xia Jue’s betrayal and fought him as the Demon-Subduing Land’s seal fell, allowing the Demon Realm to invade the Azure Realm. After waking two years later, she learned how the invasion had reshaped the sects and began investigating the Azure Tide Sect’s internal strife.

• Xia Jue warned Feng Qi that the Seal-Breaking Formation would destroy the Demon-Subduing Land’s seal and awaken the buried demons, while Ning Fan encountered the Gray-Clothed Man and was driven out with his wounded disciples.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci revealed that Yun Huanling was the Heaven-Connecting Tower and would die when it returned to its original form, while the Gray-Clothed Man explained that Yun Chong had awakened the tower’s spirit and sent it into reincarnation.
• Xia Jue revealed that he was a half-demon who had caused Su Jiu’s death in her past life and helped bring disaster to the Azure Realm, then attacked her as she refused to accept his betrayal.
• Su Jiu fought Xia Jue and was pierced by his demonic flute, then merged with Nine-Petal Frostflow and awoke two years later among injured Azure Tide Sect disciples.
• The Wind Spirit’s recordings showed that Xia Jue and his companions broke the seal, fused the three Demonic Swords, and opened the way for demonic beasts to invade the Azure Realm.
• Su Jiu learned that Chu Luohen had nearly dispersed himself saving her and had accepted the Gray-Clothed Man’s offer to restrain his demonic qi, while secretly rejecting the man’s bargain.
• Ning Fan told Su Jiu that demon seeds had replaced Dao Lords Long Kuo and Bei Kui and described the growing suspicion and defections within the sects.
• Su Jiu watched a Recording Stone showing a Heavenly Dawn Sect disciple denouncing Ning Hai at the Azure Tide Sect gates, provoking the sect’s disciples.