Recaps

Chu Xingchen and Xie Lingyu uncovered Luo Yue’s memories of a lost fairy homeland and brought it back to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, while the Heavenly Derivation Sect prepared to confront the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect. Chu Xingchen arrived at the Immortal Sect Assembly, where the sect leaders arranged contests and he struck up an easy alliance with Yuyang Daozi and Yan Yun.

• Chu Xingchen and Xie Lingyu passed the Go and fairy trials in the Secret Realm, then Chu Xingchen fought Luo Yue and learned that its fairy homeland existed only in its memories.
• Xie Lingyu persuaded Luo Yue to let the Heavenly Derivation Sect seek answers, and she brought it to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, where Sandong welcomed it.
• Chu Xingchen planned the sect’s move to Central Province, accepted Green Snake as a system-recognized Mountain-Guarding Divine Beast, and visited Chanwood Temple after learning Yuanjing had passed into nirvana.
• Qinghe helped build the branch sect at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, while the Heavenly Derivation Sect arranged an Immortal Sect Assembly to pressure the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect over its broken agreement.
• Chu Xingchen joined Bai Xuanling’s delegation at the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect and challenged its claims, while representatives of the other immortal sects arrived.
• Chu Xingchen, Yuyang Daozi, and Yan Yun left the assembly to drink together and agreed that they would abolish tedious rules if they led their sects.
• Bai Xuanling told Chu Xingchen that Luo Yue’s case was a pretext to seek compensation, and the Eighteen Immortal Sects gathered at Wuxu Arena for the disciples’ contests.

The Heavenly Derivation Sect won the team competition while Chu Xingchen sparred with Li Moze and Yuyang Daozi lost to Xu Jin. At Junzi Mountain, Li Junzi’s challenge to the Second Sage’s teachings led her to leave the debates and test her principles in the world, while Chu Xingchen prepared to take Yuyang Daozi with him to handle an urgent matter.

• Chu Xingchen and Yan Yun defeated Firmament Rhyme Hall in the team match after Yan Yun risked elimination and Chu Xingchen shattered the opponents’ formation.
• Sandong worked with Cui Hao and Chen Baiqing on a folding roof for its home, while Chen Baiqing confronted Cui Hao for trying to use Sandong to advance his own plans.
• The Heavenly Derivation Sect won the team competition, and Chu Xingchen encouraged the dejected Yuyang Daozi before Yuyang lost his individual battle to Xu Jin.
• Chu Xingchen challenged Li Moze to a spar, used illusions and the White Azure Method, then pretended to be injured after Li Moze defeated him.
• Li Yingling sent Chen Baiqing, Cui Hao, and Lin Luoyu to Junzi Mountain, where they joined Li Junzi as she challenged the Second Sage’s teachings through scholarly debates.
• Li Junzi lost the third debate and her cultivation fell, but she insisted on continuing, and Chu Xingchen later challenged the Great Confucians with the question of whether a white horse was a horse.
• Li Junzi conceded the fourth debate, asked Junzi Mountain to postpone the fifth for years while she tested her principles in the world, and watched the Broken Pen glow as she reached for her brush.
• After receiving an urgent letter from his eldest disciple, Chu Xingchen invited Yuyang Daozi to accompany him, and Yuyang called him back as he started to leave.

Chu Xingchen helped the Fairies secure a self-governed homeland, then prepared for the approaching Great Calamity and traveled to the Western Ox-He Continent to investigate suspected demonic ties to the Buddhist Sect. He and Xu Jin infiltrated Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple with Lychee, where they confronted the monk Cilin over its Wish Power and alleged dealings with demons.

• Li Junzi wrote the Second Sage’s words on a sheet and set out to travel, while Chu Xingchen obtained a jade identity token from Yuyang Daozi.
• Chu Xingchen returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, praised its construction, and encouraged Cui Hao after seeing his ingenious mechanical house design.
• Chu Xingchen proposed a plan for the Fairies’ homeland that restricted entry, compensated for harm, supported trade, and recognized their self-government, and Luo Yue accepted it.
• Bai Xuanling helped release the Spirit Vein at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, and Luo Yue left a sapling and a trace of its origin with the sect.
• Qinghe brought Bai Xuanling’s warning about a possible calamity, and Chu Xingchen studied the ancient records before receiving the system quest that the Great Calamity approached.
• Chu Xingchen traveled alone to the Western Ox-He Continent, met Lychee in Huangliang City, and learned that reports of demons were ancient and the sites he sought lay in Buddhist territory.
• Xu Jin told Chu Xingchen that the Buddhist Sect might be linked to demons and was tracking wish power through Buddha statues ahead of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly.
• Chu Xingchen, Xu Jin, and Lychee entered Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, where Xu Jin disrupted the gathered wish power and Lychee posed as a powerful representative of the Evil Spirit Cult while Chu Xingchen accused Cilin of dealings with demons.

Chu Xingchen investigated the Buddhist Sect’s activities, then returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge as his disciples trained and gathered. Xu Jin brought him to the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect, where he revealed the sect’s role in guarding the Human Race’s fortune and suppressing the Rules around it.

• Chu Xingchen escaped the awakened Buddha manifestation with Xu Jin and Lychee, then let Lychee leave Ten Thousand Buddhas City while he continued toward Prajna City with Xu Jin.
• Chu Xingchen and Xu Jin posed as wealthy travelers in Prajna City, used Shanghua and the brothel’s contacts to investigate the Buddhist Sect, and uncovered that its manager Meng Li was a demon.
• Chen Baiqing joined the Demon Hunting Guards in Dongsheng Shenzhou, investigated demons losing their minds and attacking one another, and captured strange energy linked to the Zhou Family Village ritual.
• Chu Xingchen examined Chen Baiqing’s collected energy and sent it to Bai Xuanling, who agreed to investigate its connection to stolen Authority and the Puppet Art experiments.
• Li Yingling reached the Nascent Soul Realm and held the sect’s ninety-seventh grand gathering, where Chu Xingchen received the Mountains and Rivers Diagram after she chose to strengthen her fortune.
• Xu Jin arrived at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge and invited Chu Xingchen to the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect, where Xu Jin showed him a grave-filled space holding the Human Race’s fortune and fragments.
• Xu Jin explained that the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect had guarded the Human Race’s fortune and suppressed the surrounding Rules, and that its past slaughter and seizure of Spirit Veins had been its Heavenly Mandate.