Recaps

Xu Jin and Yuankong uncovered the Evil Buddha imprisoned beneath Right Sound Dharma Temple, and Chu Xingchen freed Guangming Buddha while recovering Yuankong’s Divine Sense. The group left the temple’s mysteries unresolved and returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, where Bai Xuanling reunited with Xie Lingyu.

• Xu Jin revealed that the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect guarded the world’s Heavenly Fortune against a lingering Great Calamity, while Chu Xingchen learned that the Eighteen Immortal Sects had severed and controlled Central Province’s spirit veins.
• Chu Xingchen arranged a custom boxing Divine Ability for Cui Hao, approved Li Yingling’s journey with Chen Baiqing, and told Cui Hao to wait before seeking experience outside the sect.
• Yuankong reached Right Sound Dharma Temple, where an aged monk warned him of its secret and Bai Xuanling told him that chains restrained the force beneath the Great Hero Hall.
• Yuankong entered the Faceless Buddha Statue as Xu Jin fought a young monk, and they discovered that an Evil Buddha’s Mahayana teaching and Wish Power lay beneath the temple.
• Bai Xuanling confronted the Buddha outside the temple while Xu Jin and Yuankong faced the failing chains, and Chu Xingchen arrived to force the Faceless Buddha to release Yuankong.
• Chu Xingchen broke the Dharma Chains and freed Guangming Buddha, then declared that the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect and Heavenly Derivation Sect would take responsibility for the release as Yuankong recovered his Divine Sense and found a Golden Śarīra.
• Bai Xuanling identified the Golden Śarīra as likely containing the Buddha’s Mahayana Doctrine, suspended the operation, and left with Chu Xingchen and Yuankong to seek answers from the abbot.
• At Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, Bai Xuanling learned Chen Baiqing had left with Li Yingling, then reunited with Xie Lingyu and told her she was still the same little girl from back then.

Li Xingtian took command of the Evil Spirit Cult and led it against rival evil cultivators while Chu Xingchen investigated signs that demons were manipulating events. The arc ended as Winter Melon confronted Li Xingtian, and Chu Xingchen began questioning a girl with a Demon Heart trait.

• Bai Xuanling returned toward the Heavenly Derivation Sect while Yuankong set out for the Southern Jambu Continent, and Li Xingtian soon broke through to Nascent Soul.
• Chen Baiqing returned with gifts, and Chu Xingchen upgraded Li Xingtian’s Blood-Bone True Body into an Origin Blood True Body.
• Yan Yun showed Chu Xingchen a blackened Rhombic Crystal linked to corrupted rules, and Chu Xingchen agreed to investigate a lead in Yuhua Ravine.
• Chu Xingchen recruited Yuyang Daozi and assigned Li Xingtian to command an elite force, which became the Evil Spirit Cult under Zuo Wen and Yu Jing.
• Li Xingtian led the cult against rival groups, recruiting some followers and killing others while ordering his people to protect ordinary mortals.
• Li Xingtian captured a suspicious girl and sent her to Chu Xingchen, while Chu Xingchen and Xie Lingyu investigated the Demon in Qu Lin using a public stall to draw out suspects.
• Chu Xingchen identified the captive girl’s Demon Heart trait and asked Yuyang Daozi to forge a Black Crow Direct Order Token as the girl reacted violently to the pills he gave her.
• Winter Melon decided to negotiate with Li Xingtian but prepared to kill him if talks failed, then met his raised weapon outside the Discussion Hall.

Winter Melon and Cui Hao maneuvered around the unstable Rules Crystal experiment while Lin Luoyu became entangled in their plans. Chu Xingchen learned of Cui Hao’s actions and agreed to coordinate with Xu Jin and Yuyang Daozi as they investigated the demons’ transformation ability.

• Li Xingtian attacked Winter Melon after sensing her hostile intentions, while Chu Xingchen sent the young man to gather his people and arranged a confrontation near Stillbone Forest.
• Lin Luoyu and Cui Hao met Li Yingling, who assigned them to contact a wounded target, and they found Winter Melon dragging the injured young man through the mountains.
• Winter Melon joined Lin Luoyu and Cui Hao on the road, while Chu Xingchen arranged for Corn to go to Yuyang Daozi and left Xie Lingyu to act in his place.
• Li Xingtian’s followers pursued the group, and Lin Luoyu stayed behind to fight them before Li Xingtian recognized her as his Fourth Junior Sister.
• Cui Hao privately revealed that Winter Melon’s object was a Great Dao and proposed keeping it, then persuaded her to help stage his collapse so Lin Luoyu would carry him toward the Great Dao Sect.
• Winter Melon used the Experiment to treat Cui Hao, but Lin Luoyu tested it herself, and a Great Dao Sect cultivator found that it left traces and produced unstable effects.
• Winter Melon warned that Lin Luoyu and Cui Hao’s strengthened meridians would fail without more of the Experiment, and Cui Hao persuaded Lin Luoyu to hear her proposal to work together.
• Chu Xingchen agreed to cooperate over Cui Hao’s actions, while Xu Jin explained that the demons’ transformation ability might be connected to the Dao and the group discussed how to respond.

Winter Melon’s operation ended with the destruction of the Demon headquarters, while Wukong joined Chu Xingchen’s investigation into the Buddhist Sect. Li Xingtian and Xu Linglong entered a Secret Realm together, where Chu Xingchen revealed himself and attacked her as Li Xingtian fled.

• Li Yingling and Cui Hao helped set up Winter Melon’s operation, but Cui Hao’s maneuvering left her relying on a fabricated Heavenfall report to seek reinforcements.
• Winter Melon attacked Stillbone Forest, where Half a Watermelon protected her from Li Xingtian and masked cultivators joined the battle, and Pig Mask then carried her to the formation that destroyed Hundred-Li Flowing Clouds.
• Chen Baiqing found Winter Melon and Pig Mask, claimed a traitor had exposed their headquarters, and directed them toward Vulture Peak as a smokescreen.
• Li Yingling returned to the sect and revealed that Cui Hao’s supposed infiltration had been a sham, then welcomed him back and announced the Sixty-Third Sect-Wide Gathering.
• Wukong met Guangming Buddha, received a prayer bead for Chu Xingchen and Xu Jin, and went to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge to investigate the Buddhist Sect’s use of wish power.
• Chu Xingchen told Wukong that the Buddhist Sect might be raising demons beneath Right Sound Dharma Temple and sent him to investigate Winter Melon without support.
• Li Xingtian joined Xu Linglong to explore a Secret Realm, but Chu Xingchen arrived at Cloudglow True Lord’s tomb and attacked Xu Linglong while Li Xingtian escaped.