Recaps

Xu Taiping rescued Wan Eastern Mountain, broke through to the martial saint realm, and helped awaken the Spirit Bone Stele while fighting the Yingui Pavilion and the Night Demon. After escaping Blood Rain Forest, he sealed its exit with the Dragon-Trapping Tower and entered six years of seclusion, where a voice began calling from behind a locked door.

• Xu Taiping defeated Elder Luo E and freed Wan Eastern Mountain, but Wan and the Red Armor Cavalry burned themselves to protect the Great General’s secret.
• Xu Taiping fought Elder Yu and the demonic flood dragons, broke through to the martial saint realm, and pursued Yu You to the surface.
• With Monk Xuanzhi’s All Beings Are Equal power and the Stone Pillars, Xu Taiping helped defeat Zhenwu and activate the Spirit Bone Stele, while Princess Tiancheng and the others battled the Night Demon.
• Xu Taiping resonated with the Spirit Bone Stele using the Dragon Gall Stone, endured immense pain shared by Xuanzhi and Princess Tiancheng, and received extrapolated techniques.
• The Spirit Bone Stele activated Dusk Rain Forest’s restrictions, and Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi teleported away before Demon Monk Zhenwu could capture them.
• Xu Taiping used the Dragon-Trapping Tower to seal Blood Rain Forest’s exit, then buried the Earth Fruit and treasures on Phoenix Cry Mountain and planned to spend six years in seclusion.
• Xu Taiping reentered the tower as the Qi Household Ancestor tried to seize it, and the ancestor ordered his people to wait for Xu Taiping to emerge.
• Inside the tower, Xu Taiping heard pounding at the Geng Character Room, where a shrill voice begged to be let out.

After six and a half years of seclusion, Xu Taiping broke out of the Dragon-Trapping Tower and fought through the Qi Household and Demon Monk Zhenwu, whose attack carried him to Tianhai Pass. There Xu Taiping recognized the invasion of deep-sea demons as his earth-killing tribulation and joined the defense as a terrifying force began to awaken offshore.

• Xu Taiping spent six and a half years cultivating his Great Sage Fist, Demon-Slaying Blade, and life-bound clone while Fairy Lingyue guided him and prepared him for the Golden Scale Assembly.
• Xu Taiping escaped the Dragon-Trapping Tower by breaking the Copper Sparrow Formation, then defeated the Ancestor of the Qi Household and Demon Monk Zhenwu with his martial arts and Great Sun Golden Flame.
• Xu Taiping’s Lotus Eye devoured most of Zhenwu, but Zhenwu carried him away in black fog and left him near Tianhai Town, where Xu Taiping rescued A Zhu from a Deep-Sea Demonic Beast.
• Xu Taiping learned from the wounded Sea-Calming Tower spy that the Shark Emperor was besieging the Sea-Calming Tower and recognized the crisis as his earth-killing tribulation.
• Zhang Xiaoman gave Xu Taiping the Zhang Clan’s Yin Tally before dying in A Zhu’s arms, and Xu Taiping reunited with Xuanzhi as a huge force of Demonic Beasts approached Tianhai Pass.
• At Tianhai Pass, Xu Taiping tested the Sea Incineration Formation’s effect on his attacks, then flew down on Bai Yu to rescue civilians beyond the walls.
• Xu Taiping brought the villagers to safety, killed several Demonic Beasts, and sent blade shadows against a barrage of bone spears as a terrifying aura began awakening in the sea.

Xu Taiping helped Tianhai Pass endure successive assaults while searching for Zhang Tianze’s Life-Bound Item, which A Zhu revealed herself to be. After A Zhu activated the Reception Array and vanished, Zhang Kaitai summoned the Ghost Soldiers, and Xu Taiping returned to the desperate final battle empowered by Buddhist seals.

• Xu Taiping fought the Shark Demons and Devil Master Ling as they attacked Tianhai Pass, while Zhang Chun led the Red Armor Cavalry out to meet the demonic beasts.
• Zhang Chun and the Red Armor Cavalry killed two Whale Demons at the cost of many lives, and Zhang Chun died protecting a young soldier before Zhang Kaitai gave Xu Taiping leave to seek Zhang Tianze’s Life-Bound Item.
• Xu Taiping searched Tianhai Town with A Zhu and A Hu, then discovered the strange fragrance came from A Zhu, who revealed that she was Zhang Tianze’s Life-Bound Item.
• A Zhu used the Yin Tally to activate a Reception Array at the Abandoned Taoist Temple, then vanished after entrusting Xu Taiping with the town’s people and her brother.
• Shi Chong sacrificed himself to destroy a Whale Demon, and Zhang Kaitai’s forces later summoned the Zhang Clan Ghost Soldiers to help repel Devil Master Ling, Ao Yan, and their army.
• Xu Taiping told Zhang Kaitai about A Zhu’s Reception Array, then escorted Tianhai Town’s women and children to an underground palace before returning to the city tower with Monk Xuanzhi.
• Venerable Jiaye gave Xu Taiping the Fearless Seal and restored his Demon-Subduing Seal Buddhist Prayer Beads, while Zhang Kaitai prepared the defenders for an overwhelming attack.
• As the final assault battered Tianhai Pass, Zhang Kaitai summoned three thousand Red Armor Ghost Soldiers, and Xu Taiping returned to defeat Ao Yan with the seals and behead a Whale Demon with his Dragon-Slaying Form.

Xu Taiping helped Zhang Kaitai and the Red Armor Cavalry defend Tianhai Pass, then returned to the Imperial Capital and earned Gold Essence Coins by selling treasures. Chu Xiaoxiao's letter warned him that he was being watched, and Xu Taiping entered the Golden Scale Pavilion by a secret route, where he encountered an apparent poisoning attempt.

• Xu Taiping and the Red Armor Cavalry fought Jiao Ling and the demonic beasts, but the Eight-Clawed Demon killed Zhang Kaitai before Zhang Tianze arrived and turned the battle around.
• Zhang Tianze summoned the Red Armor Ghost Cavalry, killed the Eight-Clawed Demon and the transformed Shark Queen, and Xu Taiping collected the Flood Dragon's remains.
• Xu Taiping returned to the Imperial Capital and sold wolf pelts, Golden Toad Pearls, and Deep-Sea Demon Weapons, refusing to deal with the Relic-Seeking Studio after its staff turned him away.
• Xu Taiping traded his remaining Spirit Bone Spears to Gongshu Bai for two Golden Men and a Torrential Rain Pearl, then sold the Shark-Head Hammer to Head Shopkeeper Song for 120,000 Gold Essence Coins.
• Xu Taiping discreetly received Chu Xiaoxiao's letter from Song and learned that he was under surveillance and that Princess Tiancheng had arranged a secret passage to the Golden Scale Pavilion.
• Xu Taiping followed the hidden route with his Mysterious Origin Avatar, killed seven magi who ambushed him, and entered the Golden Scale Pavilion to register.
• Bai Yu detected poison in the tea at the Golden Scale Pavilion, and Xu Taiping sipped it while asking whether a clone could be poisoned.