Recaps

Di Xin used the Human Emperor System to resist Daji’s charm, reject human sacrifice, and challenge the gods while pursuing reforms that earned merit and strengthened Great Shang. After gaining Yun Zhongzi’s treasures and pursuing new crops, Di Xin confronted Daji with the Pinewood Juque Sword and forced her to reveal her nine-tailed fox form.

• Di Xin chose to meet Daji, resisted her charm with the Anti-Fox Charm Art, and took her to Shouxian Palace while questioning Su Hu’s guilt.
• Di Xin spared Su Hu, rewarded Zheng Lun for his loyalty, and resolved to stop being a pawn in the coming calamity.
• Di Xin rejected human sacrifice, executed Weizi and Jizi after they opposed him, and called on the Three Sovereigns to support humanity against the Three Teachings.
• Di Xin earned merit by devising the Curved-Blade Plow, endured Hongjun’s pressure, and used the Five-Colored Divine Ox to cultivate wasteland and provoke Huang Feihu.
• Di Xin demonstrated the Shoude Plow to Yun Zhongzi, then cooked for him and obtained a Pine Wooden Sword, a Knockoff Heaven-Flipping Seal, and a Knockoff Purple Ribbon Immortal Robe.
• Di Xin asked Yun Zhongzi to search overseas for high-yield crops, kept Yin Hong and Yin Jiao with him, and shared a meal with Queen Jiang and the princes.
• Di Xin visited Daji with a chicken drumstick, drew the Pinewood Juque Sword, and forced her to reveal her nine-tailed fox form.

Di Xin uncovered and crushed a palace uprising led by Yang Ren, Fang Bi, and Fang Xiang, then turned the defeated rebels and conspirators to his advantage while gathering new allies. As he strengthened his powers and bonds with Daji, Hu Ximei, Yu Linglong, and Queen Jiang, he reorganized Deer Terrace’s construction and began planning standardized weapon production.

• Di Xin exposed Daji’s mission from Nuwa and won her pledge of loyalty, then ordered her to gather Demon Tribe experts and claimed to be the Demon Emperor.
• Di Xin recruited Zheng Lun’s former fellow disciples and completed the Unwavering Loyalty of a Subject mission, while Bi Gan and Jiang Ziya joined a plot to force the king’s hand.
• Di Xin advanced his cultivation and discovered that Bi Gan, Huang Feihu, Yang Ren, Fang Bi, Fang Xiang, and Jiang Ziya were conspiring against him.
• Yang Ren, Fang Bi, and Fang Xiang led soldiers in an assault on the palace, but Di Xin killed the three leaders with his elemental powers and made the soldiers surrender.
• Di Xin battled Jiang Ziya with Daji, Yu Linglong, and Hu Ximei’s help, wounded him, and made the Five-Road Gods turn against him, though Jiang Ziya escaped.
• Di Xin spared the rebel soldiers and Bi Gan and Huang Feihu, then ordered them to supervise Deer Terrace’s construction while he recruited new allies and warned Daji’s sisters that Nuwa would not protect them.
• Di Xin obtained the Thirty-Nine Minor Mystic Art, used its transformations to imitate Daji, and later won Queen Jiang’s complete affection and unlocked the Great True Phoenix Art.
• Di Xin reorganized the Deer Terrace workers into teams based on their skills and approved Shang Rong’s proposal to produce weapons on an assembly line with standardized, numbered parts.