Recaps

Su Jiu entered Black Dragon Prison to rescue Jiao Chen’s daughter and faced Ji Jue’s deception and the Black Dragon King’s schemes. She escaped the prison with her companions and the freed merfolk, leaving the Black Dragon King trapped in the maze.

• Su Jiu made a contract with Jiao Chen to rescue his daughter, then led her companions toward Black Dragon Prison and learned the Black Dragon Nation hunted merfolk.
• Su Jiu rescued Ji Jue from a town, but after entering the prison with him and Qiao Zirong, she exposed his plan to sacrifice souls to reach the seventh level and captured him.
• Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong crossed the prison’s deadly formations, met Jiao Chen’s father on the fifth level, and reached Jiao Yue’s cell on the sixth.
• The Black Dragon King revealed that he needed Su Jiu and Jiao Yue’s bloodlines for the Everlasting Flower, then trapped them and began draining Su Jiu’s blood.
• Su Jiu woke and chose to escape with her companions, guiding them through the shifting maze while the Black Dragon King pursued them.
• Su Jiu and her companions reunited with Jiao Chen and the former Merfolk King, who freed the prisoners and explained how the Black Dragon King had reached the upper levels.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling navigated the prison’s formations, and the group passed through the entrance Barrier with the merfolk, leaving the Black Dragon King trapped in the maze.

Su Jiu escaped Swallowing Heaven, returned to the Spiritflight Continent, and investigated the demonic cultivators and their blood-congealing formations. After helping Yin Yin and A-Yu, she and Yun Huanling pursued the missing Yun Chao and Qiao Zirong to Flowing Moon City, where they encountered Shu Wugui and an old acquaintance.

• Su Jiu repaired the space formation in Swallowing Heaven, escaped with Yun Huanling and the others, and helped Yun Huanling survive his lightning tribulation.
• Su Jiu confronted the demonic cultivators in Twinleaf Town, destroyed the mayor’s scheme, and warned residents to flee the Blood-Congealing Formation.
• Su Jiu returned to the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect and learned that its disciples had vanished or died in cities connected to a Thousand-Soul Blood-Congealing Formation.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling investigated A-Yu’s Soul-Draining Jade, discovered Yin Yin’s connection to her, and helped them form a contract that let Yin Yin become a ghost cultivator.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling found Yun Chao and Qiao Zirong missing, then followed the trail to Flowing Moon City, where Shu Wugui reported his junior brother missing too.
• Su Jiu decided to investigate the crossroads where the trails ended and encountered one of her old acquaintances while seeking an inn.

Su Jiu rescued cultivators whose Spirit Roots had been stolen and followed the evidence to the Zheng Household’s abuses and hidden formations in Jade Sun City. The group reached a concealed Teleportation Array in the Zheng estate, where Su Jiu discovered a spirit trapped inside a painting as they prepared to investigate further.

• Su Jiu and her companions tracked kidnappers to the Ghost Market, rescued Qiao Zirong and Yun Chao, and found an underground prison where cultivators were held and their Spirit Roots extracted.
• Su Jiu restored several stolen Spirit Roots and found records linking Zheng Seventeen to the sales, but she decided she needed stronger evidence against the Zheng Household.
• Su Jiu reached the late Golden Core Stage during a month of seclusion, then traveled with her companions to Jade Sun City and confronted the Zheng Household’s pill monopoly.
• Su Jiu killed Zheng Sui after he admitted to abusing women, then entered the Yu Household with her companions and learned that Meng En, the Heavenly Secret Sect’s Eighth Elder, had been seen at the Zheng estate.
• Su Jiu and her companions prepared to infiltrate the Zheng estate, splitting into two groups before finding a concealed one-way Teleportation Array that would remain active for only ten breaths.
• Su Jiu confronted Lu Chuchu over her accusations, then uncovered formation patterns in a court-lady painting and learned from its trapped spirit that only the seal’s maker or a skilled Formation Arts Artist could free her.

Su Jiu uncovered the Zheng Household’s Spirit-Draining Stone operation, rescued Qiao Zirong, and helped expose Zheng Li with the Azure Tide Sect’s support. After Zheng Li’s death, she freed the imprisoned pill refiners and set her sights on the altar in Dragon Shadow City, though Xia Jue warned her to return to the sect.

• Su Jiu assembled the formation patterns and entered the stone chambers, where she disarmed the chest, disabled the puppet, and discovered that the Teleportation Arrays led to hidden places.
• Su Jiu learned that the Zheng Household had imprisoned Pill Refining Masters and spread false rumors about Yu Ren, while Zheng Li’s schemes tied him to the Spirit-Draining Stones.
• Lu Chuchu led hired fighters against Su Jiu, but died when her poisoned crossbow bolt struck her, and Zheng Li ordered the city sealed as Su Jiu’s companions scattered.
• Su Jiu stayed in Jade Sun City to find the captured Qiao Zirong, evaded the Zheng Household’s pursuit, and carried him to safety at the Yu Residence.
• Xia Jue arrived with Azure Tide Sect reinforcements, negotiated the Yu Household’s submission to the sect, and gave Su Jiu an antidote for the Meridian-Sealing Powder.
• Xia Jue confronted Zheng Li as recordings and testimony exposed his involvement in the Spirit-Draining Stones and the deaths of Zheng Eleventh and Zheng Fourteenth.
• Xia Jue defeated and killed Zheng Li, the Zheng Household fell, and Meng En died when a hidden restriction activated during his escort.
• Su Jiu freed the imprisoned pill refiners and took the weakened spirit in the painting, then told Xia Jue she wanted to investigate the altar in Dragon Shadow City before he ordered her back to the sect.