Recaps

Chu Xingchen and Bai Xuanling infiltrated the Evil Spirit Cult’s plans to refine a nation, drawing Zhao Xuan into their scheme while investigating Boluo’s blood-qi ritual. Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling worked to undermine the cult’s influence at a shrine, leaving its temple keeper preparing to investigate the cause.

• Chu Xingchen and Ru Nan agreed to center their operation on the Southern Jambu Continent, and Yuankong joined them in punishing evil cultivators and man-eating demons.
• Bai Xuanling exposed Boluo’s blood-qi detection ritual, then helped Chu Xingchen infiltrate an underground market and spread a false plan to refine the Northern Lan Kingdom.
• Chu Xingchen lured Zhao Xuan, the Black Crow Cult Leader, into a meeting and convinced him that a pure-blood-qi method offered a path to Tribulation Transcendence.
• Chu Xingchen urged Qian Qing to remain with their companions, then explained to Bai Xuanling that the Evil Spirit Cult’s movements could help expose and hinder Boluo.
• Boluo told Zhong Su to encourage the Evil Spirit Cult’s scheme without becoming deeply involved, while claiming he would handle Bai Xuanling himself.
• Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling received intelligence about the Evil Spirit Cult’s plan to attack the Incense-and-Fire Divine Path, then set out to disrupt its shrine and recruit local gods.
• Cui Hao warned two sisters that the shrine’s talisman water would harm them, saved the younger sister with a pill, and told them to avoid the shrine.
• Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling spread fear among the shrine’s believers, and Squire Zhao and other worshippers stopped visiting until the temple keeper noticed the decline and decided to investigate.

Cui Hao turned the conflict between the Evil Spirit Cult and the Incense Gods into an opportunity to purge the cult, while the Heavenly Demons planned to undermine Chu Xingchen through slander. Chu Xingchen arranged an investigation into Buddhist Wish Power, and Zhao Xuan committed the kingdom’s entire national fortune to a new edict.

• Cui Hao let the Evil Spirit Cult attack the Incense Gods and supplied the Incense Gods to prolong their resistance, with Zheng Zhaoling standing beside him.
• Chen Baiqing joined Cui Hao at Cloud Dream Marsh, checked his preparations, and offered protection against possible repercussions.
• Yuankong returned to apologize to Qian Qing after accepting that she should make her own choices.
• Boluo revealed that the Heavenly Demons intended to discard the Evil Spirit Cult and spread hostility toward Chu Xingchen to undermine his reputation and influence.
• Cui Hao proposed a strike against the Evil Spirit Cult’s leadership, and a Cloud Dream Pavilion Grand Elder trapped Zhao Xuan and exposed him as the cult leader Black Crow.
• Chu Xingchen placed Lychee under Ru Nan’s protection and tasked her with investigating hidden Wish Power in Buddhist temples.
• Chen Baiqing traced the slander against Chu Xingchen after Cui Hao purged the Evil Spirit Cult, while Chu Xingchen warned that the Immortal Sects feared his influence.
• Zhao Xuan stamped the prepared edict as the Imperial Jade Seal shattered and the kingdom’s national fortune became a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.

Chu Xingchen and his allies confronted Boluo and the Heavenly Demons at Lotus Pond, stopping their attempt to connect the two realms. The survivors returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge while the Immortal Sects prepared to search for Heaven's Way's scattered authority and repair the Barrier.

• The national fortune dragon returned blessings to Zhao Xuan and Li Junzi, who took charge of the scholars and officials gathered at the palace.
• Chu Xingchen learned that Li Junzi had gained strength and influence, while Zheng Zhaoling secured Cloud Dream Pavilion's support to purge the Evil Spirit Cult and divide the Incense Gods equally.
• Bai Xuanling brought [Two Realms] to the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect, and Boluo revealed that Zhong Su was his true target in his plan to gather the Heavenly Demons.
• Chen Baiqing traced Buddhist statues carrying wish power to Lotus Pond, where Boluo drew Guangming Buddha into battle and challenged him to choose between the villagers and Boluo's death.
• Bai Xuanling, Guangming Buddha, Chu Xingchen, Huang Miao, and other allies fought Boluo and the gathered Heavenly Demons as Yuanqiong and the others joined the assault.
• Boluo and the other demons fed their power into Hengwang's formation, which Chu Xingchen realized was using authority to connect the two realms.
• Chu Xingchen placed Boluo's wish-power authority into the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade, and Guangming Buddha vowed to become a Buddha Kingdom that protected the sky for three years, disrupting the formation.
• Chu Xingchen returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, announced that the Immortal Sects would search for Heaven's Way's scattered authority, and celebrated with his companions before asking Cui Hao whether he wanted to lead the sect.