Recaps

Xu Taiping’s group helped Gu Yu avenge his teacher, then pursued the opportunity beneath Gu Yu’s home and opened the Bronze Gate. Cao Sixi revealed Yuanlingzi’s plans, and Xu Taiping’s deduction identified the great elm tree as the Blood Ancestor’s true form.

• Xu Taiping and his companions helped Gu Yu defeat Gou Yinhai and the Eight Evils, while Gu Yu protected Hongling Town’s women and children from the burning ancestral hall.
• After their cultivation restraints broke, Xu Taiping’s group captured Jiang Jiuxuan, Jiang Li, and Du He, then searched Gu Yu’s old well for its treasure.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Gu Yu fought Catfish Demons underground while Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi battled Bloodthirsty Bat Demons and the Three-Headed Rock-Armor Python.
• Gu Yu severed the Demon Serpent’s regenerating tail, and his touch allowed the group to open the Bronze Gate despite the attacking Blood Infants.
• Inside the cave abode, Gu Yu struck down the blood cultivator’s true body and advanced through the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Dragon Realms, while Blood Bone surrendered.
• Blood Bone revealed that he was Cao Sixi, described Yuanlingzi’s plans and past crimes, and gave Xu Taiping a map bearing a great elm tree.
• Xu Taiping recognized the elm tree from his deduction, then saw its bloody shadow reveal the Blood Ancestor’s true form.

Xu Taiping and his companions prepared to hunt Yuanlingzi and the Blood Ancestor while using the Spirit Bone Stele to strengthen their techniques. When the other Dragon-Slaying teams were trapped in Blood Mist Village, Xu Taiping arrived and confronted the demons as the Blood Ancestor awakened.

• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian discovered Yuanlingzi's hidden treasure, then used the Spirit Bone Stele to improve Gu Yu's, Dongfang Yuejian's, Xuanzhi's, and Xu Taiping's techniques.
• Xu Taiping delayed accepting the bounty for Yuanlingzi while his group prepared, but seventeen other household teams entered Blood Mist Village and battled its ghosts.
• The allied cultivators reached the great elm tree, where Yuanlingzi appeared and overwhelmed them with ghost wax and blood rain as the Blood Ancestor began to awaken.
• Li Yezhu survived the blood rain through his Life-Borrowing Reincarnation power, while the Heartless Demon Emperor offered trapped cultivators rescue in exchange for a blood oath to withdraw from the assembly.
• Xu Taiping arrived, struck the Qing He Demon Emperor, and used True Fire Talismans to restrain the Heartless Demon Emperor, Li Yezhu, and Pang Zhong.
• Xu Taiping arranged to keep the three demons nearby under the Ranking Spirit's protection and told Xuanzhi to prepare the ghost horde for delivery into the Ghost Domain Blood Rain.

Xu Taiping and his companions defeated the Blood Ancestor and earned the right to seek the Southern Heavenly Gate, while Gu Yu confronted the grief and killing intent shaping his path. After recovering a blood skull tied to the ruins, they prepared to question the Blood Ancestor and strengthen Gu Yu before setting out.

• Master Xuanzhi broke Yuanlingzi’s Blood Rain Ghost Domain, but the Blood Ancestor empowered Yuanlingzi and joined with a dragon-shadow clone to attack Xu Taiping and his companions.
• Xu Taiping defeated the dragon-shadow clone with the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist, and Gu Yu destroyed the Blood Ancestor’s remnant after reuniting with the ghosts of Teacher Red Carp and Gu Yang.
• The Dragon-Slaying Ranking awarded Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, Xuanzhi, and Gu Yu an Immortal Burial Token, battle merits, and a map to the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Xu Taiping accompanied Cao Sixi to Meiyuan Village, where Xuanzhi sent Cao Sixi, Lady Yu, and Afu onward, and Xu Taiping recognized a vision of Sister Lingyue in Cao Sixi’s blood skull.
• Xu Taiping’s deduction linked the blood skull and Fairy Lingyue to the Southern Heavenly Gate, and he, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi questioned the Blood Ancestor and learned it had explored the ruins’ outskirts.
• Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian helped Gu Yu cultivate to the Heaven Gazing Realm, and Xu Taiping sent him into Blade Ghost’s Blade Domain to sharpen his combat skill.
• Gu Yu fought Dongfang Yuejian, shattered his apertures to increase his power, and nearly lost control of his killing intent before Xu Taiping stopped his strike.
• Xu Taiping asked Xuanzhi to watch over the sleeping Gu Yu, then left with Dongfang Yuejian to seek the Blood Ancestor’s divine intent.

Xu Taiping’s team entered the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins and learned that Yundaozi had failed to contain Xingtian’s divine intent. After discovering signs that the seal might be failing, Xu Taiping led his companions to Dumu Palace, where a familiar voice called to him from within the ruins.

• Xu Taiping rejected the Blood Ancestor’s offer to guide the group for a price and forced him to agree to help without conditions, though Xu Taiping said he could get everyone out without him.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor ordered Pang Zhong to slaughter the Yan Kingdom refugees, and Pang Zhong killed the last surviving infant before the demons summoned Chitu from the corpses.
• Xu Taiping traced a safe route through Flame Mountain’s restrictions, rescued the Old Hunter from the Wolf-Killing Gang, and retrieved a Bronze Casket from the volcanic crater.
• Xu Taiping opened Yundaozi’s testament at the Southern Heavenly Gate entrance, then led his companions through the Bronze Gate and fought Heavenly Soldier Skeletons until they concealed their auras with treasures from the ruins.
• Yundaozi’s recorded message revealed that he had released Xingtian’s divine intent and sacrificed himself to weaken and seal it, leaving Xu Taiping a chance to strike before the seal broke.
• Xu Taiping used his Lotus Eye to view Immortal Elder Wuji’s message from Dumu Palace, where Xingtian’s divine intent attacked him, and decided to investigate the ruins.
• The Blood Ancestor disclosed that the Blood Skeleton Head could point toward Dumu Palace and that Yundaozi’s seal had begun failing, and Xu Taiping’s group followed its light there.
• Xu Taiping used the Blood Skeleton Head to hide his companions from three divine generals, then heard a familiar voice call his name from Dumu Palace.