Recaps

Su Jiu exposed the Heavenly Dawn Sect’s biased judging in the Talisman Competition, then entered the Array Competition’s Trial Grounds and secretly seized control of its formations. As the formations shifted and dangerous secrets surfaced, Su Jiu destroyed the miniature Trial Peak and left with the crowd.

• Sect Leader Li promoted Ming Yun’s supposed pill-refining talent, but Tang Wuchen and Gu Ningyun took first and second place in the pill competition, leaving Ming Yun third.
• Feng Jing denounced Ming Yun after the Medicine Gate elder tested her, while Su Jiu prepared to compete in the talisman trials.
• The judges repeatedly ranked Ming Yun ahead of Su Jiu despite Su Jiu’s superior talismans, until Su Jiu exposed the damage and defeated Ming Yun in the final duel.
• Su Jiu entered the Trial Grounds and found that its formations contained dangerous beasts and had been tampered with.
• After the formations rearranged and the Heaven-Viewing Mirror failed, Su Jiu completed a spatial formation that let her control Trial Peak’s layout and send participants onto harder paths.
• A female cultivator accused Ming Yun of stealing talents contained in beads, and Ming Yun used her Netherworld Lamp while Li Yishi promised to keep it secret.
• Silver Snow cut off the Fox Tail Mark, so Su Jiu destroyed the miniature Trial Peak and its formations before leaving as Heavenly Dawn Sect elders rushed inside.

Su Jiu investigated disappearances and the Water Moon School’s Immortal Pool Spring in Xi He City, uncovering tensions between the city’s two schools and signs that the Mirror was nearby. As she and her companions approached the wall, Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling were ambushed by silent attackers.

• Feng Jing admitted that she had blocked the Heaven-Viewing Mirror at Mu Ran’s urging, but Ming Yun learned that Mu Ran had already left the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
• Su Jiu returned to Ice Veil Peak and prepared to investigate Xi He City with Chu Luohen, while Luo Ge left the Azure Tide Sect after Chu Luohen barred her from the peak.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen found Xi He City divided between North City and South City, where rumors of disappearances and unequal treatment led Su Jiu to suspect the Water Moon School.
• Su Jiu rescued a badly injured Hu family girl and learned from Qi Song that the Water Moon School’s Immortal Pool Spring drained cultivators’ life force.
• Su Jiu discovered that people disappeared after crossing into North City and linked the Water Moon School to the girl’s condition and to Shui Rao’er’s dealings with other sects.
• Su Jiu and her companions investigated a faint formation and concealed watchers near the wall, while Qian Ling’s elders debated how to exploit the Enforcement Hall’s investigation of Shui Rao’er.
• Su Jiu sensed the Mirror’s aura near the wall, but when she and Lan Fang Ziyi went to check the north side, they found Chu Luohen and Yun Huanling surrounded by dozens of silent attackers.

Su Jiu and her companions uncovered how the Water Moon School used captive cultivators and resentful qi to make mirror fragments for a fate-changing ritual. After freeing prisoners in the Library Pavilion, they retreated temporarily with several survivors as the school’s hidden dangers remained unexplored.

• Su Jiu and her companions broke through the layered formation beneath Xi He City and discovered mirror fragments tied to the Heavenly Star Rotation Technique, which could exchange two people’s destinies.
• Ming Yun trapped Li Yishi in a teleportation array, killed the female cultivator, and used the Netherworld Lamp to extract the souls of chained captives before heading after Su Jiu and Mu Ran.
• Su Jiu’s group found Mu Ran, who revealed that Ming Yun had stolen her talent and her brother’s spirit root, while the Water Moon School used kidnapped cultivators’ souls to make mirrors.
• Su Jiu and her companions entered the Water Moon School’s training ground, learned from a wind spirit about a masked Taoist, and witnessed disciples gaining cultivation through a formation without tribulation.
• Su Jiu’s group infiltrated the Library Pavilion and found a sealed third floor where wounded cultivators were imprisoned in cages and bound with Spirit-Locking Chains.
• A captive explained that the Water Moon School tormented prisoners to produce resentful qi for three special mirror fragments, and described dangerous floors and possible ways out.
• Su Jiu freed the captives and left a Formation Disk and pills for two injured cultivators, then agreed to retreat with several survivors while Jiang Yan and her companion left separately with other wounded people.

Su Jiu and her companions broke through the Library Pavilion’s seals, survived its vengeful souls, and uncovered the Water Moon School’s role in a hidden scheme. After Qi Song learned the truth about Ying Cen and his own heritage, the group set out toward South City to pursue the final Fragment.

• Su Jiu and her companions opened the Library Pavilion’s sealed floors, survived the Demon Mirrors and vengeful souls, and escaped through the Teleportation Array while Qian Xin attacked them.
• Su Jiu defeated Qian Xin’s pursuit, learned that the Water Moon School had distributed Demon Mirrors among other sects, and let him live after the school abandoned him.
• Hu Jing revealed that the Water Moon School used Immortal Pool Spring to drain cultivators and prepared a sacrifice with an evil object, then accepted Su Jiu’s help to begin a mortal life.
• Qi Song confronted A Cen about spying on him and learned that the Water Moon School had blinded him and used her to keep him under surveillance.
• Lan Fang Ziyi identified Qi Song as a descendant of the Luoxi Divine Race, while Ying Cen blamed Su Jiu for exposing her identity and fought the group.
• Ying Cen’s modified Explosive Pill and Immortal Pool Spring-tainted qi worsened her condition until Qi Song restored her awareness, and Huo Yun killed her at her request.
• Lan Fang Ziyi found a cloth pointing to the Immortal Pool Spring and the last Fragment, while Su Jiu learned more about the strange space from Xia Jue.
• After Qi Song acknowledged his divine-race heritage, the group headed toward South City’s gate and found several people blocking their way.