Recaps

Ouyang welcomed Hu Tutu to Little Mountain Peak as Chen Changsheng’s feud with Zu Yuan threatened to escalate. After Hu Tutu registered with the Azure Cloud Sect, she discovered Ouyang’s everlasting lamp barely burned, while her Paper Crane became a sentient spirit treasure.

• Ouyang recognized Hu Tutu as a juvenile Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox with an innate Dao body and brought her to Little Mountain Peak, where she met Bai Feiyu, Leng Qingsong, and Chen Changsheng.
• Bai Feiyu formed a golden core and clashed with Leng Qingsong, but Ouyang scattered their heavenly phenomena and scolded them for damaging the mountain.
• Ouyang took Hu Tutu to gather herbs, caught the Tribulation Transcendence Spirit Fox Hu Yan, and allowed him to stay as her pet and protector.
• At Hu Tutu’s registration, Ouyang discovered that Zu Yuan was the Devil Race’s holy son, and Chen Changsheng attacked him with his formation before Ouyang stopped the fight.
• Chen Changsheng swore to kill Zu Yuan within ten years, while Zu Yuan secretly vowed to seize the Azure Cloud Sect’s treasure and slaughter its members.
• Ouyang took Hu Tutu to Azure Cloud Peak, where Dongxu Zi lit her everlasting lamp and demanded that Ouyang provide a dragon and phoenix for the Sect Grand Competition.
• Hu Tutu saw that Ouyang’s everlasting lamp barely burned, then received a Paper Crane that Ouyang empowered into an intelligent spirit treasure.

Ouyang recruited Xiao Feng and helped restore his cultivation by awakening the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird within him. Chen Changsheng won the Sect Grand Competition and became the Azure Cloud Holy Son, while Ling Feng revived through Zu Yuan’s body and Hui Zhi received the Black Lotus Seed.

• Ouyang recruited Xiao Feng after recognizing his potential, then helped Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu devise a way to restore Xiao Feng’s body and cultivation.
• Chen Changsheng tattooed the Five-Direction Divine Beasts on Xiao Feng, and Ouyang awakened the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird while Xiao Feng endured heavenly tribulation.
• Xiao Feng recovered his strength and joined Little Mountain Peak as the disciples gathered for Hui Zhi’s debate and the announced Sect Grand Competition.
• Dongxu Zi opened the competition to Inner Disciples and visiting disciples, and Chen Changsheng entered the Mustard Seed Space determined to face Zu Yuan.
• Chen Changsheng’s puppets eliminated the contestants until only Zu Yuan and Hui Zhi remained, and Chen Changsheng defeated Hui Zhi before exposing Zu Yuan as a member of the Devil Race.
• Chen Changsheng killed Zu Yuan, won the competition, and was named the Azure Cloud Sect’s Holy Son, while Ling Feng took Zu Yuan’s body away.
• Ling Feng used the golden needle in his ring to revive himself through Zu Yuan’s body and claimed the body’s potential as Lin Feng, while Hui Zhi received the Black Lotus Seed.

Ouyang and Leng Qingsong traveled to the Imperial City, where Leng Qingsong severed his ties to the Tang State and revealed an Immortal Secret Realm. Lin Feng survived Ouyang’s attack by possessing Xie Xinzhi, while Ling Feng remained at the Azure Cloud Sect and Chen Changsheng prepared against him.

• Ling Feng told Chen Changsheng he had reached Soul Departure and asked him to contemplate the Azure Cloud Secret Treasure together, while Dongxu Zi warned Ouyang that his juniors had to choose their own paths.
• Ouyang, Leng Qingsong, and Hu Tutu traveled to the Mortal World, where they learned that Sister Xuan'er and the others had been taken to the Imperial City and that Leng Qingsong was the emperor’s missing grandson.
• Ouyang helped Xie Chongyang and Xie Xinzhi gather support to take the throne, while Leng Qingsong refused to claim it and set out with Ouyang to find Xuan'er.
• Chang Xiaoyue joined Ouyang and Leng Qingsong in the Imperial City, where Leng Qingsong confronted Xuan'er and the old emperor, who had possessed her body.
• Leng Qingsong severed his karmic ties to the Tang State, completed his Nascent Soul transformation, and revealed a sword-shaped Immortal Secret Realm in the sky.
• Ouyang confronted Lin Feng, who claimed to be Zu Ming, and crushed his body, but Lin Feng’s divine soul escaped and possessed Xie Xinzhi.
• Chen Changsheng noticed Ling Feng’s killing intent, took a strand of his hair, and created External Paper Figures that could possess Azure Cloud Sect disciples below Soul Departure.
• Ouyang, Leng Qingsong, and Hu Tutu returned to Little Mountain Peak, where they found Bai Feiyu staring at the palace in the sky and Ouyang wondered whether it was Bai Feiyu’s past-life grave.

As the Immortal Secret Realm drew near, Ouyang and his brothers prepared Hu Tutu, confronted the legacy of Li Taibai, and faced the Azure Cloud Sect’s dispute over who could enter. Bai Feiyu finally chose to join Leng Qingsong, then challenged Questioning Sword Peak when it tried to take his place.

• Bai Feiyu realized Leng Qingsong was following a sword path that had ruined him in his previous life and decided to keep Leng from entering the Immortal Secret Realm.
• Chen Changsheng tried to search Hu Tutu’s memories for clues about a dangerous cultivator, but Hu Yan stopped him and warned that the technique would harm her divine soul.
• After Ouyang took Chen Changsheng and the others to Dongxu Zi’s lecture, Dongxu Zi revealed the Immortal Secret Realm was Li Taibai’s legacy, and Leng Qingsong chose to enter while Bai Feiyu refused.
• Tai'a arrived seeking disciples for the Sword Sect and showed Li Taibai’s diary page, but Leng Qingsong refused to leave Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang secured medicinal ingredients from Danyuan Zi, and Chen Changsheng and Ouyang prepared a medicinal bath to help Hu Tutu advance.
• Bai Feiyu discovered that Leng Qingsong’s broken Life-Bound Sword still held pure sword intent, then reached the ninth level of core formation and formed a nascent soul, and Chen Changsheng also advanced to nascent soul.
• Dongxu Zi named Chen Changsheng, Ouyang, and Leng Qingsong as Azure Cloud Sect representatives for the Immortal Secret Realm, prompting protests that Tai'a silenced with his sword intent.
• Ouyang asked Tai'a for an additional place for Bai Feiyu, and Bai Feiyu confronted Zhou Sheng when he demanded that Bai surrender it to Questioning Sword Peak.