Recaps

Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art to strengthen his Heaven-Supporting Form while the Blightbones overwhelmed the group. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage faced a Calamity Baleful Intent Realm Stone-Skeleton Blightbone, and Xu Taiping was left under attack from several powerful Blightbones and a flock of Bird-Skeleton Blightbones.

• Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master offered to save the group in exchange for four cultivation technique legacies, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage rejected their price.
• Dozens of Bird-Skeleton Blightbones battered Xu Taiping’s Demon Ancestor phantom image, and Xu Taiping said he could hold on if the Jade Mother Sweet Dew arrived on time.
• Xu Taiping summoned four Deity Projections with the Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art, restoring and greatly strengthening his Heaven-Supporting Form.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage shattered the Red-Eyed Blightbone’s breastbone, but a Calamity Baleful Intent Realm Stone-Skeleton Blightbone struck him and sent him staggering back.
• Xu Taiping sheltered the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage on his shoulder and sealed the Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone’s breath with the Sea-Swallowing Seal.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone, the Stone-Skeleton Blightbone, and a flock containing many accident-level Bird-Skeleton Blightbones attacked Xu Taiping together.

Xu Taiping and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage held off waves of Blightbone Demonic Beasts while Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master demanded their inheritance. As warm rain began to fall, Xu Taiping prepared to merge true dragon mountain spirit power with his Heaven-Supporting Form, leaving the others to watch as he faced the next assault alone.

• Xu Taiping used Eighty Thousand Fists to shatter the attacks of the Stone-Skeleton Blightbone, the Red-Eyed Blightbone, and dozens of Bird-Skeleton Blightbones.
• Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci saw hundreds of Blightbones gather overhead, including several with Calamity Baleful Intent auras, while Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master again demanded the Great Sage's inheritance.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck with Star-Crushing Mountain-Shaking and scattered the diving Blightbones, while Xu Taiping's Demon Ancestor phantom image blocked another wave.
• Warm rain began falling, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping it had arrived as the two resolved to keep the Blightbones there until the rain grew heavier.
• Xu Taiping announced that he would try merging true dragon mountain spirit power with his Ultimate Realm Heaven-Supporting Form, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed not to intervene if he came under attack.

Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Supporting Form to shield everyone from a massive Blightbone assault, but the powerful creatures rapidly shattered the Demon Ancestor Phantom Image’s arms. As the attackers closed in, he sensed a path to the Ultimate Realm and unleashed a ninety-nine-thousand-punch technique.

• Xu Taiping empowered his Demon Ancestor Phantom Image with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Seal and Heavenly Wrath Four Symbols Art, then blocked the first wave of Blightbones.
• The Red-Eyed Blightbone and Dragon-Skeleton Blightbone damaged the phantom, while a larger horde descended with a Drought Demon Skeleton Blightbone, a Chain-Mace Blightbone, and a Vulture-Skeleton Blightbone.
• Bai Cao Xuan identified the Drought Demon Skeleton Blightbone, and Qu Chao Ci feared Xu Taiping could not hold off the attackers.
• As the phantom lost most of its arms, Xu Taiping sensed the qi of integration between his Heaven-Supporting Form and True Dragon Divine Being Power.
• Xu Taiping recognized the feeling of reaching the Ultimate Realm and shouted, "Ultimate Realm, ninety-nine thousand punches!"

Xu Taiping unleashed the Overlord True Dragon Heaven-Supporting Form and shattered the Mountain-Skeleton Blightbone’s arms, but the Blightbones quickly regrouped and charged again. Exhausted and surrounded, he and the others remained in danger on the solitary peak.

• Xu Taiping raised his ultimate-realm Heaven-Supporting Form, and his thousand-armed Vajra phantom image drove the Blightbones back.
• A Mountain-Skeleton Blightbone charged the solitary peak and smashed half of Xu Taiping’s Vajra phantom image apart.
• Xu Taiping used the Overlord’s Breath to restore the phantom image, then let the Dragon Vault Armor absorb his true essence power.
• Xu Taiping formed the Overlord True Dragon Heaven-Supporting Form, whose dragon-wrapped Vajra shattered the Mountain-Skeleton Blightbone’s arms and blasted nearby Blightbones back.
• The Blood Zen Dharma Master dismissed Xu Taiping’s attack as a show of force, and the Blightbones charged the peak again.

Xu Taiping used Buddhist Dharma and true dragon mountain spirit power to suppress the Blightbones, but the pressure appeared to weaken as more enemies swarmed the lone peak. Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master prepared to attack, unaware that rain behind them was making Blightbones collapse.

• Xu Taiping commanded his Vajra Dharma Aspect to suppress the Blightbones around the lone peak with true dragon mountain spirit power.
• Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master sensed Xu Taiping's weakening aura and believed his magic power was nearly exhausted.
• More Blightbones broke through the mountain spirit power and crowded the peak as Xie Wangyan readied his Rune Brush.
• Rain clouds gathered unnoticed behind Xie Wangyan and the Blood Zen Dharma Master, while rain-soaked Blightbones collapsed to the ground.

After Xu Taiping’s magic power ran out, the Blightbones began falling from the sky as the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared and seized Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master. He killed Blood Zen Dharma Master and left Xie Wangyan terrified by asking whether he had heard of the Human Swine Talisman.

• Xu Taiping’s manifested vajra dharma aspect burst apart as his magic power ran dry, and the Blightbones surged toward the peak before suddenly falling from the sky.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage appeared behind Xie Wangyan and Blood Zen Dharma Master, broke Xie Wangyan’s wrist, and restrained both men.
• Blood Zen Dharma Master merged with his Blood Kasaya and fled, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage caught him from afar and burned his body and primordial spirit to ash.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage asked Xie Wangyan why he had not killed him, then mentioned the Human Swine Talisman.
• Xie Wangyan recognized the threat and begged the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage to kill him.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage ordered Mo Qingzhu to turn Xie Wangyan into a Human Swine Talisman for the group’s journey through Yaochi Sacred Land. After learning that the nectar had only temporarily suppressed the Blightbones and the travel restrictions remained, the group suspected a powerful Blight Immortal was controlling them.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage brought Xie Wangyan to the pavilion and asked Mo Qingzhu to craft a Human Swine Talisman from him.
• Mo Qingzhu explained that the talisman let its master use a cultivator’s spells while leaving the cultivator conscious but unable to control their body.
• Xie Wangyan pleaded for mercy, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage threatened him and promised to consider releasing him if he cooperated and the journey went smoothly.
• Bai Cao Xuan asked whether the group would leave now that the nectar had lifted the local restrictions, and Xu Taiping explained that it only suppressed the Blightbones temporarily.
• Xu Taiping said the restrictions still persisted at high altitude, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage suspected a powerful Blight Immortal was secretly controlling the Red-Eyed Blightbone and others.
• Bai Cao Xuan recalled sensing a similar aura elsewhere in Kaiyang Heaven.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage learned that a Blight Immortal-level Blightbone lurked beneath the desert and that Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci had escaped from Yaochi Sacred Land, where clues to ending the calamity might lie. After clearing the Blightbones around the Dragon-Trapping Tower, they returned to find Su Qingtan, Dongfang Su, and Bai Yue reunited inside.

• Bai Cao Xuan sensed a Blightbone aura beneath the desert that the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage identified as likely belonging to a Blight Immortal-level Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping said he and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage needed to visit Yaochi Sacred Land, but Bai Cao Xuan and Qu Chao Ci warned that they had escaped from there and urged them not to go.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage postponed viewing Bai Cao Xuan's Moonlight Stone and joined Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Qu Chao Ci in dealing with the Blightbones trapped by the Jade Mother Sweet Dew.
• Xu Taiping and the others returned to the Dragon-Trapping Tower after clearing many Blightbones; Xu Taiping revealed that he had sealed the tower's Gate-Sealing Stone with the Heaven-Mending Art.
• Xu Taiping opened the tower and brought everyone inside, where Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su explained that they had waited for his return, and they joyfully reunited with Bai Yue.

Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage reunited with Su Qingtan’s group and discussed who would leave Kaiyang Heaven using their Teleportation Scroll. Qu Chao Ci chose to remain and help the party enter the Yaochi Sacred Land, and the Great Sage vowed to protect her.

• Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su thanked Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage for rescuing them, then condemned Xie Wangyan for his crimes.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said Xie Wangyan was still useful, and Xu Taiping sent Mo Qingzhu to prepare a Human Swine Talisman under Xiaohei’s guard.
• Su Qingtan offered her Teleportation Scroll, which could transport three people, and Bai Yue and Xu Taiping both chose to stay behind.
• Bai Cao Xuan told Qu Chao Ci to leave with Su Qingtan and Dongfang Su, but she argued that her medical and alchemical skills would help the group at the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Qu Chao Ci declared that she was not afraid with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage beside her, and he resolved to keep her safe.

Qu Chao Ci insisted on entering the Yaochi Sacred Land to obtain a spirit herb and refine a pill that could save her gravely ill mother. After Bai Cao Xuan showed her the moonlight stone’s recording of the Blightbone-infested realm, the danger of the journey became clear.

• Xu Taiping argued that Qu Chao Ci should not risk joining the expedition, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed to take her after she appealed to him.
• Su Qingtan offered to let Bai Cao Xuan return to the Yu Ling Sect with Qu Chao Ci, but Bai Cao Xuan refused and urged his disciple to understand the danger first.
• Qu Chao Ci explained that her mother was nearing the fifth great calamity of the Origin Opening Realm and needed a pill made with a spirit herb found inside the Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Bai Cao Xuan let Qu Chao Ci watch the moonlight stone before deciding whether to go, and she activated it.
• The recording showed Blightbone Demonic Beasts emerging near the entrance and corrupted cultivators writhing beyond the jade gate.
• Three enormous hound-shaped Blightbone Demonic Beasts burst through the fog and lunged at those in the recording.

Xu Taiping and the others watched Moonshadow Stone images reveal that the Yaochi Sacred Land’s Daoist boys had become deadly Blightbone. A white Mountain-Lifting Ape destroyed two of them and identified himself as Xu Ping'an, an Azure Profound Sect disciple, leaving Xu Taiping certain he recognized the ape.

• A cultivator’s Moonshadow Stone showed two Blightbone Daoist boys slaughtering nearby cultivators and absorbing their primordial spirits into bronze lamps.
• Xu Taiping asked Bai Cao Xuan whether the boys’ remains had once guarded the Yaochi Sacred Land, and Bai Cao Xuan confirmed it.
• Qu Chao Ci activated the Moonshadow Stone again, showing the Daoist boys attack another cultivator as a giant figure descended.
• The giant figure survived the boys’ flames and shattered them with a single stomp, revealing himself as a white Mountain-Lifting Ape.
• Xu Taiping recognized the ape’s voice, and the ape introduced himself as Xu Ping'an, a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect.

Xu Taiping learned that his younger brother Xu Ping'an had entered the Yaochi Sacred Land and watched a Moonlight Stone recording of Ping'an’s final moments there. The recording showed Ping'an gravely wounded after a battle with a Thunder General Blightbone, as he and Luo Yun prepared to face danger and Ping'an sent a message to his loved ones.

• Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that the Mountain-Lifting Ape was his younger brother, Xu Ping'an, and revealed that he had ascended to the Upper Realm less than a month earlier.
• Ping'an asked a cultivator to record their journey in a Moonlight Stone so that others could learn what happened if misfortune struck them.
• Bai Cao Xuan showed Xu Taiping a recording of Ping'an’s final moments in the Yaochi Sacred Land, where he lay gravely wounded with half his head missing and a large hole in his chest.
• Ping'an told Luo Yun to flee with the Moonlight Stone and warn the Cultivation World of an unprecedented Blightbone calamity, blaming an ambush by Three Corpses Cave for his defeat.
• Luo Yun refused to abandon Ping'an, drew his saber, and stood beside him as another cultivator prepared to carry the Moonlight Stone away.
• Ping'an said he missed Eldest Brother Taiping and Sister Lingyue.

After learning that Ping'an was trapped in Yaochi Sacred Land and Bai Yu had been captured by Yellow Origin Palace, Xu Taiping resolved to enter Yaochi and rescue Ping'an. Bai Yue and Qu Chao Ci joined him, while Su Qingtan, her husband, and Bai Cao Xuan escaped the world through a scroll.

• Xu Taiping's killing intent surged after he heard Ping'an might have died, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage helped him regain control.
• Ping'an's message revealed that Bai Yu had been captured by an old Daoist from Yellow Origin Palace and urged Xu Taiping to rescue Bai Yu with Lingyue instead of coming for him.
• Xu Taiping confirmed he would go to Yaochi Sacred Land, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Bai Yue, and Qu Chao Ci agreed to accompany him.
• Qu Chao Ci's master, Bai Cao Xuan, reluctantly gave her permission to go and entrusted her to Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's care.
• Su Qingtan and her husband opened a scroll and escaped with Bai Cao Xuan, leaving Xu Taiping and the others to set out for Yaochi.

Xu Taiping and the others tested the Human Swine Talisman’s ability to hide a person from detection, then faced a Blight Immortal-level blightbone waiting outside the Dragon-Trapping Tower. The tower suddenly expanded and drove off the blightbone’s crushing aura, leaving the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage questioning whether Xu Taiping had fully refined it.

• Mo Qingzhu presented the Human Swine Xie Wangyan and ordered him to conceal Xu Taiping with the World-Deceiving Power.
• Xie Wangyan hid Xu Taiping’s aura and form, and Xu Taiping warned the others that the effect ended when he mobilized all his magic power.
• A little girl outside the Dragon-Trapping Tower announced that she had found them, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized the presence as a Blight Immortal-level blightbone.
• Xu Taiping and the others debated whether to leave the tower before the nectar rain stopped, while the blightbone’s aura grew stronger.
• Golden seal-script characters appeared on the tower’s doors, causing the tower to expand and dispel the blightbone’s aura.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage asked Xu Taiping whether he had fully refined the Dragon-Trapping Tower.

Xu Taiping and the others learned that the Dragon-Trapping Tower needed five refinements to be fully mastered, while the Blight Immortal-level Blightbone outside began breaking through its defenses. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage stayed behind to hold it off as Xu Taiping prepared to lead the others into Yaochi Sacred Land.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that Xu Taiping had to refine the five-floor Dragon-Trapping Tower five times to fully command its power.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used the Spirit Mirror to reveal a green-clad Blightbone outside the tower, which broke the mirror projection and began shattering the tower’s protective rune.
• Bai Yue suggested charging out, while Mo Qingzhu proposed escaping on Xiaohei; the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage instead offered to hold back the Blightbone.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage demonstrated his immense strength with a talisman containing his full combat power and told Xu Taiping to lead the others into Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Xu Taiping agreed to wait one day at Yaochi Sacred Land’s entrance for the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Mo Qingzhu gave him a Jade Jue that would resonate with her rune marks.

Xu Taiping and his companions fled toward the Yaochi Sacred Land while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage stayed behind to battle a Blight Immortal-level Blightbone. As they neared the entrance, Xu Taiping examined the remaining scenes in his Divine Soul Mark and recognized the entrance in the fourth scene, suggesting another danger awaited them.

• Xu Taiping withdrew the Dragon-Trapping Tower, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck the attacking Blightbone away as Xiaohei carried the others to safety.
• The Blightbone swallowed the battlefield in a Black Sphere, but the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage broke free and continued fighting.
• Xiaohei told Xu Taiping that they would reach the Yaochi Sacred Land entrance soon, and Xu Taiping warned that cultivators might be guarding it.
• Xu Taiping asked Mo Qingzhu to conceal their forms and auras, then asked Bai Yue and Qu Chao Ci to stand guard while he examined his Divine Soul Mark.
• Xu Taiping saw a stone bridge in the fourth scene and recognized it as the entrance to the Yaochi Sacred Land, fearing an unexpected turn awaited them.

Xu Taiping watched the Lotus Eye’s fourth and fifth deduction visions, discovering a group of cultivators disguised as Blightbone remains to ambush travelers and a ritualists’ plan to sacrifice Ping'an to summon the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone. The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage identified the Twin-Eye Bracelet as key to saving Ping'an, but Xu Taiping had never heard of it, and neither had Mo Qingzhu, Qu Chao Ci, or the others.

• Xu Taiping watched three cultivators and Junior Sister Yao loot their victims on the Stone Bridge, then learned that several apparent Blightbone remains were cultivators disguised by Junior Brother Liu’s Divine Ability.
• The cultivators decided to keep ambushing travelers on the bridge, using Liu and the others to disguise themselves and strike powerful newcomers.
• Xu Taiping pondered the fourth vision and suspected the answer to the Lotus Eye’s warning lay in the fifth vision.
• Xu Taiping saw Ping'an bound and bleeding on a pillar in the fifth layer of the Yaochi Sacred Land as ritualists offered his demon bone and blighted blood to summon the Heavenly Calamity.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage urged Xu Taiping to use the Twin-Eye Bracelet with Deceiving the World and Stealing Fame Divine Intent to save Ping'an from the Purple Enclosure Star Lord’s Life Candle.
• Xu Taiping asked Mo Qingzhu and the others about the Twin-Eye Bracelet, but they all said they had never heard of it.

Xu Taiping and his companions approached the entrance to the Yaochi Sacred Land, where they expected an ambush on the stone bridge. They found Jiang Yu of Three Corpses Cave there, just as other cultivators arrived and events began to unfold.

• Bai Yue spotted the stone bridge ahead, and Xu Taiping suspected the Twin-Eye Bracelet was connected to the Divine Ability that had created the Blightbone remains.
• Xu Taiping predicted that cultivators were waiting on the bridge, and Qu Chao Ci asked him to deduce her missing father's whereabouts after their journey.
• Mo Qingzhu had the Human Swine Talisman conceal the group, and they prepared to have Xiaohei carry Mo Qingzhu and Bai Yue across while Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci drew out the ambushers.
• Five cultivators rushed past the concealed group and reached the bridge before Xu Taiping's companions could warn them.
• Xu Taiping and the others approached the bridge and recognized Jiang Yu from Three Corpses Cave, whom Xu Taiping had previously encountered at the Ruin Market.

Xu Taiping and the others watched Jiang Yu and the Three Corpses Cave cultivators consider an offer from three supposed guides who claimed to know Yaochi Sacred Land and its exits. The Three Corpses Cave group accepted the guides’ terms, only to be caught in a formation as the three cultivators stopped short.

• Qu Chao Ci recognized Jiang Yu, and Xu Taiping said he had clashed with her over Ancient Porcelain at the Ruin Market.
• A woman blocking the bridge displayed a bronze lamp, and the cultivators believed it could have come from Yaochi Sacred Land.
• The cultivator surnamed Lu and his companions offered to guide the Three Corpses Cave group and revealed they knew exits from the sacred land’s first three levels.
• The Three Corpses Cave cultivators demanded that the guides enter into a Soul Contract, then agreed to bring them along when the guides consented.
• The cultivator surnamed Lu, the female cultivator surnamed Yao, and the cultivator surnamed Song stopped and activated a formation that surrounded Jiang Yu and the Three Corpses Cave cultivators.

Xu Taiping and his companions learned that the ambushers on the bridge belonged to Horse-Rat, an organization of rogue cultivators with unusual abilities and a vast reach. Knowing they could not avoid the group because they needed the Great Sage and the Twin-Eye Bracelet, they prepared a swift surprise attack and moved to the other end of the bridge.

• A mountain phantom and attacks from disguised Horse-Rat members overwhelmed the disciples of the Three Corpses Cave, and Liu Yu killed one while Lu captured the disciples’ primordial spirits.
• Liu Yu revealed that he was Shadow Rat Liu Yu, and Qu Chao Ci explained Horse-Rat’s origins, its Wushu Seal, and the danger of being marked by its members.
• Xu Taiping realized the Horse-Rat members were an obstacle because he had to wait for the Great Sage and obtain the Twin-Eye Bracelet, so he agreed that they must leave no survivors.
• Xu Taiping ordered Mo Qingzhu to conceal his and Qu Chao Ci’s auras and sent her, Bai Yue, and Xiaohei behind the ambushers to prepare a surprise attack.
• Xiaohei raced to the far end of the Stone Bridge, and Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci set off after him.

Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci approached a stone bridge guarded by Horse-Rats and discovered that Jiang Yu had deliberately revealed Qu Chao Ci’s identity to them. The Horse-Rats tried to persuade them to cross the bridge, and Xu Taiping remained wary as Jiang Yu pointed to the Blightbone remains.

• Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci agreed to judge whether Jiang Yu would warn them or help the Horse-Rats, and Xu Taiping decided to disguise himself.
• Jiang Yu recognized Qu Chao Ci and revealed that she was from Taisu Valley, alerting the Horse-Rats to the value of their belongings.
• Qu Chao Ci acted friendly toward Jiang Yu while sensing her probe at her wrist, and Jiang Yu invited them to travel with Three Corpses Cave.
• Xu Taiping, calling himself Luo Yun, declined to cross the bridge until his master and martial uncles arrived.
• Lu Yuan and Jiang Yu urged Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci to cross the bridge for safety, pointing to Blightbone remains scattered across it.

Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci entered the Horse-Rats’ trap on the Stone Bridge, then launched a surprise attack after Qu Chao Ci sent a signal. The Horse-Rats revived and triggered a formation, but their ambush was broken by a Black Hound and a White Bear, and Xu Taiping seized Lu Yuan as he tried to flee.

• Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci agreed to follow Lu Yuan and Jiang Yu to the Stone Bridge while planning to contact their allies.
• Qu Chao Ci sent a Sword Qi signal, and Xu Taiping unleashed Five Thousand Blades: No-Blade Form, killing Lu Yuan, Yao Yu, and many Horse-Rats.
• Lu Yuan revived the fallen Horse-Rats with his Life Flame, while the remaining Horse-Rats activated a formation that summoned a mountain phantom over Xu Taiping and Qu Chao Ci.
• A Black Hound and a White Bear burst through the Barrier and destroyed the Horse-Rats controlling the formation, shattering the mountain phantom.
• Xu Taiping seized Lu Yuan as he tried to escape in flame form, and Lu Yuan recognized the power in Xu Taiping’s arm as True Dragon Power.

Xu Taiping and his companions killed the Horse-Rats on the bridge, but Jiang Yu escaped after betraying Qu Chao Ci. Searching Liu Yu’s corpse, Xu Taiping found a black jade bracelet that might be the Twin-Eye Bracelet.

• Xu Taiping killed Lu Yuan, and Qu Chao Ci trapped the fleeing Horse-Rats with sword qi.
• Xu Taiping used Six Thousand Blades, No-Blade Form to kill the Horse-Rats, leaving Liu Yu’s corpse and Jiang Yu alive.
• Jiang Yu pretended the Horse-Rats had forced her into a soul contract, then tried to stab Qu Chao Ci with a hidden sword ring.
• Xu Taiping severed Jiang Yu’s arm, but she escaped with a protective dharma treasure and threatened Qu Chao Ci.
• Mo Qingzhu collected the Horse-Rats’ primordial spirits, and Xu Taiping found a black jade bracelet on Liu Yu’s corpse that might be the Twin-Eye Bracelet.

Xu Taiping and the others watched the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage battle a Blight Immortal-level Blightbone Demonic Beast. The Great Sage stopped the beast’s assault just a hundred li from them, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Mo Qingzhu asked whether Xu Taiping needed the Twin-Eye Bracelet for their journey into the Yaochi Sacred Land, and Xu Taiping confirmed it could be useful.
• A Blight Immortal-level Blightbone Demonic Beast appeared as black clouds and attacked, prompting Mo Qingzhu to fear the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage had been defeated.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage tore through the cloud dragon’s head and struck it apart, then knocked it back with another punch.
• The Blightbone transformed into a towering black Vajra Dharma Aspect, struck the Great Sage, and battered him backward with thousands of arms.
• The Great Sage seized a towering mountain peak to halt his backward momentum a hundred li from Xu Taiping and the others.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage battled a Blight Immortal whose power threatened Xu Taiping and his companions on the Stone Bridge. Xu Taiping led them into the Yaochi Sacred Land while the Great Sage struck the Blight Immortal down to buy them time.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage shattered the Blight Immortal with a mighty punch, but the creature reassembled in the form of a fairy.
• The Blight Immortal hurled mountains at the Great Sage, who warned Xu Taiping that everyone near the Stone Bridge would die if she came within ten miles.
• The Great Sage told Xu Taiping to take the others into the Yaochi Sacred Land and said he could escape on his own.
• As the Blight Immortal rushed toward the Stone Bridge and struck Xu Taiping's group with her aura, Mo Qingzhu spat blood.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage smashed the Blight Immortal into the ground and shouted for Xu Taiping and the others to hurry inside.