Recaps

Xu Taiping and his companions retrieved Jiaye Temple’s Divine Wood while battling Huangpao’s forces, then restored Jiaye Hall and received Buddhist treasures. With Yin Gods surrounding the temple and Abbot Jiaye holding them back, Xu Taiping began a dangerous breakthrough inside the Demon-Suppressing Coffin.

• The Lotus Eye found primordial chaos metal essence in Xu Taiping’s Gold Essence Stone, and Xu Taiping used Golden Flame to reveal it before agreeing to help Abbot Jiaye retrieve Jiaye Temple’s Divine Wood.
• Dongfang Yuejian received the Spring and Autumn Brush from the Wish-Fulfilling Treasure Basin, and Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi set out for Moon-Breaking Cave.
• Madam Lu and Xunqi pursued the group, but Xu Taiping led Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi through Chenghuang’s formation and then into the cave.
• Dongfang Yuejian commanded the Demon Bones to attack Xunqi and Madam Lu while Xu Taiping pulled the Divine Wood free and fought Yin God Huangpao.
• Huangpao pursued Xu Taiping, but Abbot Jiaye rescued him and carried him back to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom, where Xu Taiping later installed the Divine Wood as Jiaye Hall’s main beam.
• The Ancient Bell awakened the Thousand Buddha Kingdom and empowered Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi, but Huangpao attacked and Abbot Jiaye revealed that his wounds would draw more Yin Gods.
• Xu Taiping said he would break through to the Heaven Shocking Realm to save Jiaye Temple, and Abbot Jiaye helped Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi retrieve treasures from the Wish-Fulfilling Treasure Basin.
• As Yin Gods and their forces attacked the Seven-Treasure Canopy, Xu Taiping entered Jiaye Hall, switched places with his Origin Beginning Clone, sealed himself inside the Demon-Suppressing Coffin, and began his breakthrough.

As Ningchan Cave’s deception was exposed, a Moonshadow Stone revealed Jiaye Temple under attack while Xu Taiping began an Ultimate Realm breakthrough. Xu Taiping survived his first tribulation by shattering the clouds with his fists, then prepared to face twelve more clouds with his blade.

• Elder Lu tried to sell access to Xu Taiping’s power, but Yelai’s Moonshadow Stone exposed Ningchan Cave’s scheme and showed Jiaye Temple besieged by Yin Gods and Demon Bones.
• Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian defended Jiaye Temple, destroying waves of Demon Bones with Buddhist techniques, the Spring and Autumn Brush, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Xu Taiping began breaking through to the Heaven Questioning Realm in the Ultimate Realm as Otherworldly Heavenly Demons and a hundred-zhang Sky Demon descended on Jiaye Temple.
• Xuanzhi, Dongfang Yuejian, and Abbot Jiaye fought to hold the temple while Xu Taiping called them inside to lend him their remaining power before his tribulation.
• Dongfang Yuejian summoned Xu Taiping’s dragon-scaled physique, which destroyed the Ox-Head Demon Bone before Yin God Huangpao shattered it and Abbot Jiaye prepared for the tribulation lightning.
• Xu Taiping endured nine bolts with his body and fists, shattered the first tribulation clouds, and received a Heavenly Dao gift that healed his wounds and marked his back with lightning.
• Xu Taiping declined the Lotus Eye’s offer of future power, absorbed his blade-practicing avatar’s strength, and formed a stele bearing the names of those who had died defending the people and the Dao.
• Xu Taiping raised his blade intent to its ultimate realm beneath twelve tribulation clouds, while the teahouse spectators realized he would face them without treasures or outside support.

Xu Taiping endured the Ultimate Dao tribulation, destroyed the Heavenly Tribulation Eye, and awakened with power from the Heavenly Dao. He protected Jiaye Temple from Yin God Huangpao, killed Xunqi, and left Huangpao trapped under a decaying Edict while Heavenly Lord Shihu worried about the battle ahead.

• Xu Taiping used his blade techniques to withstand the first two rounds of tribulation, then prepared the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation for the Heavenly Tribulation Eye.
• As Xunqi and Ghost Servant Madam Lu attacked Jiaye Temple, Dongfang Yuejian, Master Xuanzhi, and Abbot Jiaye held their banners until Xu Taiping activated the formation and drove the attackers back.
• Xu Taiping used the formation to absorb the first lightning strikes, then let it collapse and faced the next bolt with his saber, only to be reduced to charcoal.
• Xu Taiping survived inside the Great Iron Coffin, formed the Origin-Returning True Flame, and charged into the Heavenly Tribulation Eye, destroying it and completing the Ultimate Dao tribulation.
• When Huangpao and Xunqi returned to seize Abbot Jiaye, Xu Taiping awakened and used the Heavenly Dao Edict All Things Meet Spring to destroy Huangpao’s Demon-Slaying Talisman and repel the Yin Gods.
• Xu Taiping used Spring to protect Jiaye Temple, then invoked the Mountain-Moving Edict to pin Huangpao beneath mountains and revealed a Five-Colored Halo that indicated he had comprehended a third Edict.
• Xu Taiping invoked the Heavenly Dao Corruption Edict to expose Xunqi’s phantom primordial spirit, then seized and killed Xunqi despite Qi Wuyan’s threats and offer.
• Xu Taiping kept Huangpao trapped beneath the decaying Edict, while Heavenly Lord Shihu suspected Huangpao had possessed Huang Tianhua and considered sending Old Ox to rescue Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping followed White Maitreya through the Thousand Buddha Kingdom’s Forbidden Grounds and climbed Vulture Peak, surviving Yin Gods and bargaining with a wolf-headed Yin God. He resisted an Otherworldly Evil God possessing a Buddha statue and awoke having strangled it, leaving White Maitreya to wonder whether he could draw on the power of the Beyond the Domain Buddhist Kingdom.

• Xu Taiping rang Abbot Jiaye’s Vajra Bell eight times before White Maitreya appeared and guided him into the Hundred-Thousand-Mile Mist toward Vulture Peak.
• As Xu Taiping rode White Maitreya through the mist, Yin God Kun attacked, but Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Dao Borrowed Wind Edict to destroy its true body.
• Xu Taiping climbed Vulture Peak, avoided its Yin Gods, and used the Heavenly Dao Power-Borrowing Edict to cut the thread of an Otherworldly Evil God that was luring them with hearts.
• Xu Taiping helped a Yin God awaken by letting it consume the hearts, then made it swear loyalty and follow him up the mountain as the Wolf-Headed Yin God.
• Near the summit, Xu Taiping tested Buddha statues in the third and fifth grottoes, but the fifth statue seized him with pale arms and possessed him.
• The Wolf-Headed Yin God blocked White Maitreya while Xu Taiping fought the possession, and the people who had supported him helped pull him back to consciousness.
• Xu Taiping awoke in the grotto with his hand around the Buddha Statue’s neck, having strangled the Evil God to death, and White Maitreya wondered whether he was destined to draw on the Beyond the Domain Buddhist Kingdom’s power.