Recaps

Xu Taiping received the Profound Appraisal Pavilion’s auction roster and discovered that it listed a rare Su Spirit Pill that could extend his lifespan. Meanwhile, news of nearly thirty jin of sky canopy glazed jade drove the Xiao Clan and Ziyang Sect to compete for it, and Xu Taiping was left wondering why the pill had appeared at auction.

• The Second Pavilion Master told Xu Taiping that the auction roster was being redrafted and that the Black Prison had announced the sale of two pieces of sky canopy glazed jade.
• Madam Xiao, Xiao Huang, and Jiang Suxue learned that Fifth Uncle wanted Madam Xiao to win the jade, while Xiao Yu hoped Fifth Uncle would help with a personal grievance.
• Xiao Huang received the Ziyang Sect Grand Elder’s order to bid for the jade or identify its buyer, and the Grand Elder warned that the jade could let the sect’s enemies damage its fortune.
• The Second Pavilion Master delivered the completed auction roster to Xu Taiping, who spotted the Su Spirit Pill and wondered why such a precious pill was being offered.

Xu Taiping considered bidding for the Azure Spirit Pavilion’s chance to refine a Su Spirit Pill, while Xiaoyu’s hunger and crying caused trouble for Old Daoist Huang. The group then went to the Profound Appraisal Pavilion’s auction, where pavilion master Xuanzhu welcomed them.

• Xu Taiping and his companions reviewed the Su Spirit Pill auction terms, and Ping'an offered to use his Mind-Heart Communication to help with bidding.
• Xiaoyu rejected a spirit marrow crystal, eagerly ate a Grass Return Pill, and lost control while flying around Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping caught Xiaoyu, but her crying summoned bolts of thunder that struck Old Daoist Huang.
• Old Daoist Huang said his cultivation had reached minor completion in the Dao Integration Natal Origin realm and that he needed to refine the power of fortune from Ruin Stars to advance.
• Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang went to the Profound Appraisal Pavilion as its auction began, and head pavilion master Xuanzhu welcomed the guests.

Xu Taiping joined the auction for the Azure Spirit Pavilion’s Su Spirit Pill refining opportunity and learned that its disciples planned to manipulate the bids. After the other bidders withdrew, he placed a final bid of fifty spirit marrow crystals, hoping to obtain the opportunity cheaply.

• Jiang Shuoxue asked Xiao Huang to prioritize winning two pieces of Glazed Jade, though she was also interested in a primordial chaos gold essence stone.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an entered the Su Spirit Pill refining auction, where Xu Taiping bid fifty spirit marrow crystals in the first round.
• Ping'an detected that the Azure Spirit Pavilion disciples intended to drive the bids up to three thousand spirit marrow crystals, and Xu Taiping continued bidding cautiously.
• Xu Taiping learned that Jia Character Number Eleven and the other bidders had stopped bidding after the third round, while the Azure Spirit Pavilion’s planted bidder offered three thousand.
• Xu Taiping submitted a final bid of fifty spirit marrow crystals, hoping to claim the refining opportunity at a bargain price.

Xu Taiping and his companions discovered Lin Mu was behind the Azure Spirit Pavilion’s final auction bid, while Old Daoist Huang’s fortune manipulation unexpectedly advanced his cultivation. The auction revealed that room Jia Character Number Twenty-One had placed the sole bid, leaving Lin Mu anxious but still hoping for a high price.

• Lin Mu and the Ye Qingchen sisters hoped to sell the Azure Spirit Pavilion’s pill-refining opportunity for at least six thousand spirit marrow crystals and earn merit.
• Ping'an overheard Lin Mu’s thoughts and identified him to Xu Taiping, while Old Daoist Huang remembered he had kept the jade slip used to manipulate Lin Mu’s fortune.
• Old Daoist Huang’s fortune manipulation triggered a breakthrough, bringing his Dao Integration Natal Origin Realm to great completion.
• Old Daoist Huang explained how Qi-Reading Practitioners cultivated through fortune manipulation, and Xu Taiping promised to help him advance.
• Head Pavilion Master Xuanzhu announced that room Jia Character Number Twenty-One had submitted the sole final bid, surprising Lin Mu and the Ye Qingchen sisters.

Xu Taiping won the right to have Su Spirit Pills refined for just fifty spirit marrow crystals, drawing Ninth Madam’s attention and revealing that enemies were waiting to ambush him outside the Black Prison. Ninth Madam agreed to help him leave early by advancing the auction of his Glazed Jade and providing supplies, and they began planning the details.

• Ye Feiyun and Ye Qingchen discovered that the bid for the Azure Spirit Pavilion’s pill-refining rights was only fifty spirit marrow crystals, and Lin Mu accused the Profound Appraisal Pavilion of foul play.
• Ninth Madam appeared before Xu Taiping and accepted his trust in the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, but warned him that four Heavenly Communion Realm powerhouses were waiting outside the Black Prison to intercept him.
• Ninth Madam explained that the enemies had likely found Xu Taiping through the karma tied to Lin Mu and the Su Spirit Pills, despite the Blade of Guicang’s protection against heavenly-secrets deduction.
• Xu Taiping asked Ninth Madam to auction the Glazed Jade early so he could leave before his enemies expected him to.
• Ninth Madam offered to advance Spirit Marrow Crystals, pills, and medicinal herbs so Xu Taiping could leave during the early auction, and they began calculating what he needed.

Xu Taiping secured supplies and a Black Prison Token from Ninth Madam, then learned that the ingredients needed for the Su Spirit Pill could be found in Tusita Palace. He revealed that Tusita Palace was his next destination just as the auction of the Sky Canopy Glazed Jade began.

• Xu Taiping asked Ninth Madam to advance him Spirit Marrow Crystals and pill ingredients, and she gave him dragon gall stone in return for a pot of Hidden Immortal Wine.
• Ninth Madam traded Xu Taiping a Black Prison Token for the promise of Hidden Immortal Wine and arranged delivery of his requested supplies and the Azure Spirit Pavilion token.
• Old Daoist Huang burned away the fortune threads on the jade box containing the token, and Xu Taiping learned the Su Spirit Pill required rare ingredients from Heavenly Palace ruins.
• Ninth Madam said the Heavenly Palace Alchemy Chamber might hold the needed ingredients and was located in Tusita Palace, warning that powerful beings had long sought its treasures.
• Xu Taiping told Ninth Madam that he and Old Daoist Huang were heading to Tusita Palace as First Pavilion Master Xuanzhu announced the auction of twenty-five jin of Sky Canopy Glazed Jade.

Xu Taiping and his companions fled the Nether Luo Ruin Market while Venerable Ziming and three other Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivators pursued them. Xiao Huang held off the pursuers so Xu Taiping could escape, and Xu Taiping promised to meet him at the Bronze Arena in three years.

• Venerable Ziming, Elder Zhu Li, Cangwu Heavenly Lord, and Heavenly Lord Qingmu entered the Profound Appraisal Pavilion, while the Ninth Madam prepared to help Xu Taiping escape.
• The Ninth Madam gave Xu Taiping a jade slip about Tusita Palace, and Old Daoist Huang burned away the threads of fortune linking Xu Taiping and Ping'an to Lin Mu.
• Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang raced through North Street as Venerable Ziming and the others pursued them, and Ping'an took Cangwu Heavenly Lord's Immortal Sword in his back to carry them to the North Gate.
• Xu Taiping pulled the Immortal Sword from Ping'an and summoned Xiaohei, but Xiao Huang appeared ahead and urged Xu Taiping to meet him at the Bronze Arena in three years.
• Xiao Huang summoned a Deity Projection and struck at the pursuers while Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang escaped on Xiaohei's back.

Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang sealed themselves inside Danyuan Hall and used Xu Taiping’s Southern Bright Li Fire to speed up pill refinement. After their first successful batch, the Six-Nostril Mirror warned that their pursuers would arrive within an incense stick.

• Xu Taiping sealed the area around Danyuan Hall with the Heaven-Replenishing Book, and he and Old Daoist Huang estimated the seal could hold the four pursuers for about a month.
• Ping'an proposed using Xu Taiping’s Southern Bright Li Fire to refine more pills, and Xu Taiping agreed to share pill-refining knowledge with him through Numinous Connection Clarity.
• Xu Taiping ignited Ping'an’s ancient pill furnace with Southern Bright Li Fire, and Ping'an used Xu Taiping’s Fire-Control Technique to tend the flames.
• Three days later, Ping'an removed a batch of thirty Sunray Golden Mushroom Soul-Nourishing Pills from the furnace.
• The Six-Nostril Mirror warned Xu Taiping and the others that the powerful cultivators who had tracked them would arrive within one incense stick.

Xu Taiping and his companions endured thirteen days of attacks from Venerable Ziming and three other Heaven-Connecting Realm powerhouses while Ping'an finished refining the pills. With the Heaven-Replenishing Book seal close to exhaustion, the final batch was ready, and Xu Taiping prepared to lead them out.

• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Replenishing Book to repair the seal after Venerable Ziming and the others repeatedly damaged it with their combined attacks.
• Heavenly Lord Qingmu calculated that the seal would be exhausted in at most ten days, and the attackers decided to keep striking until it broke.
• Xu Taiping continued repairing the seal while Old Daoist Huang tried to use the Blade of Guicang to inscribe Venerable Ziming's name on jade slips, which shattered.
• Thirteen days later, Xu Taiping was nearly depleted, but Ping'an finished refining forty Phoenix Beak Rosy Marrow Pills.
• Ping'an helped Xu Taiping up, and Xu Taiping recovered some magic power with a Red Flame Pill before telling everyone to go.

Cangwu Heavenly Lord and his companions found the main hall empty and used Dust-Seeking Incense to discover that Xu Taiping and his group had escaped into the Yin Ghost Cavern. They decided to wait at the entrance for a year, then enlist Danqiunzi to locate the fugitives if they had not returned.

• Cangwu Heavenly Lord and the others searched the underground area and main hall with sword qi but found no one inside.
• Zhu Li lit Dust-Seeking Incense, and its vision revealed Xu Taiping opening the hidden passage beneath the offering table with Xiaohei.
• Xu Taiping used his earthly-fire Golden Crow to drive back the Yin Ghost Evil Gods, then entered the cavern with Ping'an, Old Daoist Huang, and Xiaohei to hide for three to five years.
• Cangwu Heavenly Lord and his companions chose to wait at the cavern entrance rather than pursue Xu Taiping's group, planning to ask Danqiunzi for help after he emerged from seclusion in about a year.

Xu Taiping and his companions fought through the Yin Ghost Evil Gods beneath Danyuan Hall, using the Pill Furnaces to reveal their route toward Tusita Palace. After an hour of battles, they spotted the palace’s enormous Bronze Gate and stopped to recover before the final push.

• Xu Taiping explained that the ghost creatures grew stronger near Danyuan Palace’s central area and warned that a powerful, intelligent Yin God might be controlling them.
• Xu Taiping spotted a Pill Furnace that could suppress the ghost creatures and reveal the location of the next furnace when lit.
• Xiaohei transformed into a giant black dog and carried the group while Xu Taiping used the Golden Crow and Return to Dust Seal to clear the way.
• Xu Taiping lit the first Pill Furnace with earthly fire, driving back nearby Yin Gods and revealing another furnace several hundred li away.
• After fighting for an hour, Ping'an spotted an enormous Bronze Gate behind the newly lit Pill Furnace, and Xu Taiping identified it as the gate to Tusita Palace.

Xu Taiping and his companions reached Tusita Palace’s Bronze Gate, where strange giant ghost corpses attacked them and the Yin Gods unexpectedly fought back. As twelve enormous shadows appeared to guard the gate, their leader addressed Xu Taiping by name and proposed a deal.

• Xu Taiping and his companions rested behind the Pill Furnace’s golden barrier, but a giant ghost corpse emerged and nearly broke through it.
• More ghost corpses attacked, shattering the barrier, while the Yin Gods swarmed the creatures and helped the group escape toward Tusita Palace.
• Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, Ping'an, and Xiaohei reached the Bronze Gate as the ghost corpses continued pursuing them.
• Twelve enormous black shadows descended and formed a barrier between the group and the ghost corpses.
• The central shadow revealed a human face and said, “Let's make a deal... Xu Taiping...”

Xu Taiping agreed to retrieve the Soul-Suppressing Bell from Tusita Palace in exchange for Danyuan Palace’s pill recipes and the truth about its ruined cultivators. After entering the palace, he was separated from Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang and began falling through clouds toward a suspected Evil God Territory.

• The Man-Faced Shadow revealed that Danyuan Palace’s cultivators had imprisoned themselves for three hundred thousand years to suppress a Ghost Domain and offered Xu Taiping a deal involving the Soul-Suppressing Bell.
• Xu Taiping agreed to retrieve the bell, while the Danyuan Palace shadows fought off ghost creatures and held them back as the Bronze Gate opened.
• Xu Taiping discovered that Tusita Palace’s restrictions blocked the Lotus Eye’s divine power, and Xiaohei returned to the Spirit Garden before Xu Taiping entered with Old Daoist Huang and Ping'an.
• A fierce Gang Wind pulled the three into Tusita Palace, then separated Xu Taiping from Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang as they were swept inside.
• Xu Taiping fell through vast clouds until the eerie old Daoist warned him to stop himself before he fell into Evil God Territory.

Xu Taiping survived his fall into the blood-mist world and negotiated with the Eerie Old Daoist to see Haitang and her husband before exchanging the True Dragon's skeleton. After learning Ping'an was safe on an island, Xu Taiping followed golden clouds toward Tusita Palace, which appeared hidden inside the sun.

• Xu Taiping used his divine sense to grab the clouds and stop himself from falling into the blood mist, whose creatures could not escape it.
• The Eerie Old Daoist told Xu Taiping that Ping'an had landed safely in an immaculate place, and Ping'an confirmed that he and Old Huang were on a spirit-rich island.
• Xu Taiping told Ping'an he could stay on the island, then asked to see Haitang and her husband before completing the exchange.
• The Eerie Old Daoist agreed to let Xu Taiping see the couple and guided him upward on golden clouds.
• Xu Taiping reached the clear sky, saw the sun transform into Tusita Palace, and watched a sword-light stairway descend from it.

Xu Taiping reached Tusita Palace and met Daoist Lord Wangchen, who revealed that Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian were trapped inside his pill furnace to suppress evil seeds. Xu Taiping managed to wake them through Divine Sense, but they urgently warned him to leave, and he asked what had happened.

• Xu Taiping introduced himself to Daoist Lord Wangchen, entered Tusita Palace, and passed through a soul formation to reach the pill hall.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen told Xu Taiping that Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian were inside the Profound Azure Pill Furnace, where its flames suppressed evil seeds infecting them.
• Xu Taiping used his Divine Sense to find Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian encased in ice within the furnace and called to them until they woke.
• Qi Haitang scolded Xu Taiping for coming, while Xiang Nantian thanked him and both urged him to leave immediately.
• Xu Taiping asked Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian what had happened and why they were trapped in Tusita Palace.

Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang told Xu Taiping that Dong Cangzi had planted Demon Seeds in them, and Daoist Lord Wangchen had imprisoned them to suppress the seeds. Xu Taiping set out to retrieve the Dragon Remains and gather ingredients for Wangchen’s pill, while Ping'an’s warning revealed that he and Old Daoist Huang had encountered one of Dong Cangzi’s Demonic Beast lackeys.

• Xiang Nantian and Qi Haitang explained that Dong Cangzi had used them to nurture Demon Seeds after they found the Third Watch Observatory’s dead members and retrieved the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen gave Xu Taiping a bead that grew hot near a Demon Seed and agreed to help expel the seeds if Xu Taiping gathered materials for his pill.
• Xu Taiping warned Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang about Dong Cangzi’s hidden Demon Seed lackeys and accepted Wangchen’s Jade Token and Qi Haitang’s Third Watch Token.
• Xu Taiping left the pill room to return to the Impure Land, and Ping'an reported that he and Old Daoist Huang had nearly fallen into a Demonic Beast’s trap.

Xu Taiping reached the Immaculate Land and defeated the demonic beast that had trapped Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang. As Ping'an called to him, the bead from Daoist Lord Juechen grew scorching hot, making Xu Taiping suspect the voice was an impostor.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen guided Xu Taiping across golden clouds to the Immaculate Land and told him the world's restrictions would end once he touched the ground.
• Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang explained that a demonic beast had trapped them inside a lotus leaf and that Old Daoist Huang had forced it to accept a challenge.
• Xu Taiping landed on a boulder as the water-shaped demonic beast attacked, then challenged it to a fist fight.
• Xu Taiping used the Thousand Arms Vajra and the Ultimate Realm, Heaven-Touching Stance to destroy the demonic beast before it could reform.
• Ping'an's voice called to Xu Taiping, but Daoist Lord Juechen's bead heated up, and Xu Taiping realized the caller was not Ping'an.

Xu Taiping defeated two demonic beasts disguised as Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang, then learned that Dong Cangzi’s minions were preparing to turn the region into Impure Land again. He stayed behind to guard Old Daoist Huang while Ping'an returned to Tusita Palace with Daoist Lord Wangchen.

• Xu Taiping recognized that the first Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang were impostors and destroyed them with his Life-Taking Blade.
• Ping'an and the real Old Daoist Huang arrived, and Ping'an revealed that the disguised beasts hoped to earn True Immortal Dongcang's favor and had heard that the nearby suppressing stone statue was sealed again.
• Xu Taiping told them what he had learned from Haitang and her husband, and Ping'an warned that red mist would soon engulf their region.
• Old Daoist Huang chose to stay and refine the island's fortune so he could strengthen his cultivation and purify small areas of Impure Land.
• Xu Taiping persuaded Ping'an to return to Tusita Palace with the Dragon Remains, while he stayed to guard Old Daoist Huang.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen summoned a golden-lit cloud and agreed to take Ping'an up.

Xu Taiping protected Old Daoist Huang while the Otherworldly Evil God's blood mist engulfed the isolated island. After Huang finished refining its fortune, Xu Taiping escaped the Blood Demonic General by leaping through the last opening in the mist beneath a golden cloud.

• Ping'an told Xu Taiping that he had entered Tusita Palace, while Old Daoist Huang began refining the island's accumulated fortune.
• Xu Taiping opened his blade domain and created a clone to guard Huang as the blood mist overwhelmed the island's barrier and began eroding the domain.
• Ghost corpses entered the blade domain, and the Blood Demonic General struck it hard enough to crack it before preparing to crush Xu Taiping.
• Huang announced that he had finished refining the island's fortune, and Xu Taiping summoned a golden cloud as the Blood Demonic General shattered his blade domain.
• Xu Taiping grabbed Huang and leaped through the last uncovered opening, escaping the Blood Demonic General's reach as its hand dissolved upon leaving the blood mist.

Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, and Ping'an prepared to enter the Impure Land to find materials Daoist Lord Wangchen needed to heal Sister Haitang and Eldest Brother Xiang. Old Huang used his Qi-Slaying Art to clear a hidden zone for their descent, leaving the group ready to follow him into the blood mist.

• Daoist Lord Wangchen demonstrated that he could take and restore Old Daoist Huang's refined fortune, then agreed to Xu Taiping's condition that he heal Sister Haitang and Eldest Brother Xiang before receiving the Dragon Remains.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen told Xu Taiping that the Soul-Suppressing Bell lay in Yuanzhen Temple, deep in the Impure Land and guarded by the Three-Eyed Boy, the Blood Demonic General who had nearly caught him.
• Daoist Lord Wangchen directed the group to gather Blood-Patterned Scarlet Lingzhi and Azure-Po Soul Orchid first, giving Xu Taiping a Jade Token that summoned a golden guiding cloud.
• Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, and Ping'an followed the cloud to the Impure Land, where Old Huang used his Qi-Slaying Art to erase the blood mist within a zone over a hundred zhang wide.
• Old Daoist Huang landed inside the cleared zone and called for Xu Taiping and Ping'an to descend.

Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang searched the blood mist for medicinal ingredients while Huang concealed them from nearby creatures. After gathering several herbs, they were surrounded by stone statues from the Third Watch Observatory, which shielded them from a giant poisonous snake and began chanting.

• Old Daoist Huang used his Qi-Slaying Art to conceal Xu Taiping and Ping'an as they gathered the blood-patterned lingzhi and azure-po soul orchid.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an escaped a bear-shaped demonic beast that pursued them back to Huang's Land of Annihilation.
• As Ping'an prepared to carry the group away, stone statues identified by Xu Taiping as cultivators from the Third Watch Observatory surrounded them.
• A giant scarlet-scaled snake attacked with poisonous mist, and Xu Taiping opened his Blade Domain.
• The stone statues jumped and formed a golden barrier that protected the group from the poison, then chanted words of righteous resolve.

Xu Taiping and his companions escaped the Giant Crimson Scales Serpent and delivered two ingredients to Daoist Lord Wangchen, who revealed that he had repeatedly awakened within an endless cycle. When Xu Taiping told Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian about the stone statues’ recitation, they recognized the words as the Third Watch Observatory Rules and realized the statues might be signaling their unresolved grievances.

• Ping'an carried Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang out of the blood mist while the stone statues held off the serpent, and they followed Daoist Lord Wangchen’s golden clouds back to Tusita Palace.
• Xu Taiping gave Daoist Lord Wangchen the blood-patterned lingzhi and azure-po soul orchid, and Wangchen explained that the world repeatedly returned to its beginning whenever he fell asleep.
• Xu Taiping told Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian he would not abandon them, then asked what they knew about Tusita Palace and Daoist Lord Wangchen.
• Xu Taiping repeated the stone statues’ words, and Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian recognized the statues as their Third Watch Observatory fellow disciples.
• Xiang Nantian recalled a rule that let dying disciples seal their grievances in their remains and use the rules as a signal for fellow disciples to uncover them.

Xu Taiping and Ping'an descended into the Impure Land to retrieve Corrupt-Bone Bamboo and Yin-Congealing Dew, but a mountain beast swallowed Xu Taiping while Ping'an was acting as bait. With only three breaths to save him, Ping'an revealed his Mountain-Lifting Ape true body and attacked the beast.

• Xu Taiping, Ping'an, and Old Daoist Huang descended into the blood mist and located the Corrupt-Bone Bamboo in a dark forest and Yin-Congealing Dew in a nearby cave.
• Xu Taiping and Ping'an entered the forest, where the mountain beast revealed itself by swallowing the entire area; Ping'an identified its nature and its weakness.
• Old Daoist Huang used the Qi-Slaying Art to expose the mountain beast and create an opening that would let swallowed prey survive for three breaths.
• Ping'an charged into the forest as bait, but Xu Taiping used the Form- and Shadow-Transposition Technique to take his place inside the beast's mouth.
• Ping'an transformed into his thousand-zhang Mountain-Lifting Ape true body and struck the mountain beast with a powerful fist.

Xu Taiping used Mind-Heart Communication’s Numinous Connection Clarity to control Ping’an’s Demon Saint physique and entered a cavern to retrieve the Yin-Congealing Dew. After killing a Red-Scaled Demon Serpent, he faced more serpents gathering around the forest and prepared to fight them.

• Ping’an crushed the grotesque maw with Moon Treading while Xu Taiping stood on his foot, and Old Daoist Huang warned that the commotion would attract Demonic Beasts.
• Xu Taiping and Ping’an decided to enter the cavern for the Yin-Congealing Dew, and Xu Taiping proposed using Numinous Connection Clarity to control Ping’an’s physique.
• Xu Taiping tested Wind-Thunder Step, then used Ping’an’s physique and Heaven-Shaking Fist to pin a Red-Scaled Demon Serpent as Ping’an entered the cavern.
• Xu Taiping deflected the serpent’s poisonous mist with a Five Elements Wind Wall, then killed it with the Baxia Form.
• Demonic Beasts approached from every direction, and Xu Taiping saw scarlet serpent eyes appear throughout the forest before assuming the Raging Thunder Form.

Xu Taiping used the Mountain-Lifting Ape’s true body to defeat the Serpent King and collect the Yin-Congealing Dew, but a powerful demonic general named Three-Eyed Boy attacked the group. Xu Taiping stayed behind to hold him off, and his Heaven Opening strike split the general’s blade shadow and forced him back.

• Xu Taiping killed the Serpent King while Ping'an collected the Yin-Congealing Dew, and Old Daoist Huang warned that the Annihilation Land’s spiritual power was running low.
• Stone statues of the Third Watch Observatory gathered around the Annihilation Land and formed two golden barriers as the forest plunged into darkness.
• Three-Eyed Boy attacked, shattered the outer barrier, and began burning through the remaining protection with emerald wildfire.
• Xu Taiping drew his blade and used Two Hundred Thirty Thousand Blades to clash with Three-Eyed Boy, buying Ping'an time to carry Old Daoist Huang out of the Impure Land.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Two Hundred Ninety-Three Thousand Blades and Heaven Opening, splitting Three-Eyed Boy’s heavenly-fire blade shadow and staggering the demonic general backward.