Recaps

Su Jiu escaped the Spiritless Land with Chu Luohen, defeated Yu Qing, and returned to the Azure Tide Sect, where she confronted rumors, factional intrigue, and her uncertain origins. In Peace City, the Bone Whistle and the unnatural grayness around Great March Mountain pointed toward a new danger beneath the mountain.

• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen activated a spatial formation, escaped the Spiritless Land, and defeated Yu Qing, but Heart Bewilderment and his allies confronted them.
• Chu Luohen held off Heart Bewilderment while Su Jiu broke the barrier with the Boundary-Pausing Pen, and Chu Luohen killed Yi Yun as she pursued Su Jiu.
• The Azure Tide Sect’s disciples subdued Heart Bewilderment, while Moglis stabbed him to death and then died in Samo’s arms.
• Su Jiu returned to the sect, helped Xie Li after Xie Gu was badly injured by a rumor-driven confrontation, and gave Hong Ling the final ingredient needed to restore Mian Mian.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen went to Peace City to investigate her origins, where they witnessed the Su Family’s enforcers pursuing Xiaotao over her debts.
• Su Jiu stopped Xiaotao from using a demon-tainted Bone Whistle, cleansed it to reveal it was a human finger bone, and suspected a link to the demon imprisoned beneath Great March Mountain.
• The Su Family Head told Su Jiu that he had found her near Great March Mountain after a strange storm and sudden changes in temperature, and Su Jiu asked to see the place.
• Grayness shrouded Peace City and Great March Mountain as Xia Jue learned that the people who reinforced the mountain’s seal had died, and he warned that danger was approaching.

Su Jiu and her allies defeated the Nightmare Demon’s attempt to break the Great March Mountain seal, while Xia Jue investigated threats around the sects. The Azure Tide Sect delegation traveled to the Heavenly Dawn Sect, where a rival disciple’s attack revealed growing hostility.

• Xia Jue warned Ning Hai that the Great March Mountain seal was in danger, and Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Su Shi went to reinforce it.
• Su Jiu and her companions fought Nightmare Demon clones, uncovered Xiaotao’s deal with the demon, and used Su Jiu’s Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water to save Su Shi.
• The Nightmare Demon broke free before Chu Qianqiu arrived and wounded it, but it escaped with a little girl and fled with the Silver Masked man.
• Three months later, Su Mianmian returned to Ice Veil Peak, and Jin Chen confessed his feelings and proposed a Dao Companion Contract.
• Chu Luohen told Su Jiu that the Profound Spirit Command Token marked its holder as the Enforcement Hall’s next Hall Master, while Xia Jue urged her to keep it.
• Su Jiu and Su Mianmian visited Little Pond City, where Su Jiu defended Mianmian from a self-righteous cultivator and secretly paid an old sugar-painting seller.
• Yun Huanling uncovered a demonic plot involving Zhang Zhong’s mirror, while Xia Jue reviewed Shadow Pavilion intelligence and planned to deal with the Water Moon School.
• The Azure Tide Sect delegation traveled to the Heavenly Dawn Sect, where a Feathered Demon Beast attack delayed them and Zhang Heng admitted resentment toward the sect and feelings for Ming Yun.

Su Jiu and Xia Jue uncovered the Heavenly Dawn Sect’s scheme against Xie Gu, then found that ancient mirrors were feeding on people’s desires and fortune. As the tournament continued, the mirror’s influence spread to Yun Huanling’s opponent, Fang Dagang.

• Su Jiu rejected Sect Leader Li’s attempts to draw her into a staged reunion with Ming Yun, while Xia Jue exposed the Heavenly Dawn Sect’s attempt to frame the Azure Tide Sect using Xie Gu.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling rescued Xie Gu from prison and found an ancient mirror carved with an Evil God in his room.
• Su Jiu told Xia Jue about the mirror, and he explained that similar mirrors had pushed Azure Tide Sect disciples toward dark impulses as ancient seals weakened.
• At the tournament, Su Jiu and Yun Huanling saw a fighter’s resentment and black mist linked to a mirror, then found the mirror in his room draining his fortune.
• Yun Huanling identified the mirror’s aura as resembling the Heavenly Secret Sect’s missing Spirit Banner, while Su Jiu suspected the mirrors exploited desire and transferred fortune.
• Feng Qi learned that Zheng Qilong’s Fortune-Transferring Pearl had mutated and could drain other people’s fortune, while Ming Yun urged Sect Leader Li to delay punishment after Xie Gu’s escape.
• A black-mist mirror proposed a new way to make Xie Liang wish he were dead after its plan to make Xie Gu kill him failed.
• Yun Huanling sensed the mirror’s aura on his opponent Fang Dagang, who recognized the Nine-Bend Compass and challenged him for fame.

Su Jiu exposed schemes involving the Spirit Banner, a forged kinship claim, and Ming Yun while the Array Competition’s pill-refining contest began. Yun Huanling set out to recover the scattered banner souls, and Tang Wuchen, Gu Ningyun, and Ming Yun advanced to refining pills.

• Yun Huanling defeated Fang Dagang, then joined Su Jiu to investigate a silver mirror containing a Spirit Banner soul and learned it was one of many souls sealed in mirrors.
• Su Jiu used the Spirit-Cleansing Technique to destroy the black mist after it revealed schemes within the Heavenly Dawn Sect, while Shu Man and her senior sister drugged Yun Huanling and Su Jiu exposed their plot.
• Su Jiu discovered that someone had spread a portrait and poem falsely linked to her and Xie Liang, and Sect Leader Li publicly identified the artist who forged Xie Liang’s handwriting.
• Su Jiu defeated Duan Song with a frost art, while clashes between disciples under the Mirror’s influence left Sect Leader Li’s shoulder shattered.
• The Ming Household claimed Su Jiu was their daughter Ming Xi and called her a Demon Star, but Su Jiu exposed their false kinship test and the couple admitted they had tried to exploit her.
• Black-clad assassins killed the Ming Household couple and their tribespeople, and Yun Huanling resolved to help recover the scattered Spirit Banner souls despite the danger to his sect.
• Tang Wuchen, Gu Ningyun, and Ming Yun excelled in the pill-refining competition’s herb tests and preparation round, then began refining pills using modified formulas.