Recaps

Zhang Xiaohua led Lu Chaoxian and the other disciples toward Hancui Ridge, while Chen Chen gathered reinforcements and prepared to face a huge flock of birds and pack of beasts. Elsewhere, Junior Brother Zhao refused Senior Sister Xia’s suggestion to pursue the inner sect disciples, choosing instead to act while the beasts were drawn away.

• Zhang Xiaohua set out with Lu Chaoxian and the other disciples after they spotted a new signal in the distance, and he confirmed that the Qi Hua Forest camp had been completely emptied.
• Zhang Xiaohua guarded the carriages on the way to Hancui Ridge, driving off several beasts and blinding a great crocodile beast with the Azure Water Sword.
• Chen Chen welcomed additional inner sect disciples as a flock of birds and a pack of ferocious beasts charged toward her group, then ordered the disciples to take their positions.
• Chen Chen wounded a White-headed Vulture and nearly killed a Golden Eagle, while another inner sect disciple killed a White-headed Vulture with her sword and rope.
• A tiny yellow figure flew eastward while listening anxiously, and Senior Sister Xia urged Junior Brother Zhao to pursue the departing inner sect disciples.
• Junior Brother Zhao rejected Senior Sister Xia’s proposal and insisted that the group act while the beasts were lured away.

Zhang Xiaohua protected the Pill-Refining Hall convoy through the night and secured the survivors’ promise to conceal how he had kept them safe. Elsewhere, Chen Chen’s group regrouped, Junior Brother Zhao led his companions east, and a yellow figure took a spiritual fruit before Zhang Xiaohua’s convoy resumed its journey.

• Senior Sister Xia agreed to wait for Junior Brother Zhao’s signal before leading their group down the mountain to search for treasure.
• Zhang Xiaohua brought Lu Chaoxian and the other survivors to a ridge, guarded their tents, and warned them to hide the secret of their protection from the Hall Master.
• Chen Chen and the other disciples defeated the attacking beasts, and four inner sect disciples and ten outer sect disciples arrived by midnight.
• Junior Brother Zhao changed his mind and told Senior Sister Xia to lead their group east in search of heavenly treasures.
• A yellow figure took a vermilion spiritual fruit while its guardian beast stood watch.
• At dawn, the survivors swore not to reveal Zhang Xiaohua’s secret and agreed to claim they had stayed in a cave gathering hundred-year-old Ice Soul Grass before setting out.

Zhang Xiaohua’s group raced through the rainy You Lan Rainforest while Inner Sect disciples signaled their route toward the valley entrance. When a troop of Human-Faced Monkeys and Giant Apes approached, Zhang Xiaohua stood ready atop the carriage.

• Chen Chen sent another signal reading “Valley Entrance,” and the yellow figure spotted it before flying east despite pain in its swollen belly.
• Senior Sister Xia and Junior Brother Zhao led their disciples to gather herbs, believing the beasts had been drawn away by the Inner Sect signal.
• Zhang Xiaohua urged Lu Chaoxian to hurry through the rainforest, where he detected Carnivorous Beasts underground and killed several attacking Five-Colored Snakes.
• The horses refused to advance as Human-Faced Monkeys and Giant Apes approached, and Zhang Xiaohua calmly stood atop the carriage as the monkeys prepared to charge.

Zhang Xiaohua scared off a pack of Human-Faced Monkeys and Giant Apes, found and collected a blooming Guiyuan Grass, then continued toward the canyon exit with Lu Chaoxian and the others. When a woman in white was chased by jackals, he left the group to rescue her.

• Zhang Xiaohua startled the Human-Faced Monkeys and Giant Apes into fleeing by splashing them with mud.
• Zhang Xiaohua found a nine-shoot Guiyuan Grass and stopped its guardian Crimson Stork Snake before storing the herb in a jade case.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Lu Chaoxian’s group left the rainforest, passed the pool without stopping, and traveled toward the southwest after resting at a campsite.
• Zhang Xiaohua spotted a woman in white fleeing from a pack of jackals and told Lu Chaoxian’s group to continue without him.
• Zhang Xiaohua rushed toward the jackals to rescue the woman, while Lu Chaoxian called after him that he wanted to go along.

Zhang Xiaohua rescued Zhang Ping'er from a pack of jackals and gave her the Guiyuan Grass she had been searching for. When an inner sect signal announced the valley entrance, he realized the group was in danger of being caught by the beast horde and urged them to hurry.

• Zhang Ping'er, exhausted and surrounded by jackals, saw Zhang Xiaohua approaching and regained enough strength to fight back.
• Zhang Xiaohua killed the jackals, caught Zhang Ping'er when she fainted, and carried her to Lu Chaoxian's carriage.
• Zhang Ping'er woke and recognized Zhang Xiaohua as the Senior Brother Zhang who had saved her before, but he introduced himself as Ren Xiaoyao.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Ping'er nine shoots of Guiyuan Grass that he had picked, and she tearfully thanked him.
• Lu Chaoxian spotted a signal reading "Valley Entrance," and Zhang Xiaohua urged everyone to ride faster before the beast horde surrounded them.
• A piercing roar sounded from the east as sunlight broke through the dark clouds.

Zhang Xiaohua and the others fled toward the valley entrance after a terrifying beast roar, while Chen Chen led another group of disciples through the canyon. The Yellow Wind raced after them, and Wuming Hall reinforcements arrived as another roar sounded behind the fleeing groups.

• A beast roar shook You Lan Grand Canyon, and Zhang Xiaohua rescued Zhang Ping'er and Lu Chaoxian from the overturned carriage before urging the group to flee on horseback.
• Zhang Ping'er learned from Lu Chaoxian that earlier roars had preceded a beast tide that devastated the Pill-Refining Hall disciples, and she realized how dangerous the canyon had become.
• Chen Chen and the surviving inner and outer sect disciples recovered from the roar and continued toward the valley entrance, exhausted after two days of attacks.
• A group of disciples saw a yellow shadow race south through the sky, and Junior Brother Chen identified it as Yellow Wind before they hid in a cave.
• Martial Uncle Zhang and other Wuming Hall disciples met Chen Chen's group and learned that Yellow Wind or Black Lightning was still loose in the canyon.
• Another roar sounded behind the fleeing groups, though it was weaker than before.

Chen Chen and Zixia fled You Lan Grand Canyon as the Yellow Wind slaughtered the outer sect disciples, while Zhang Xiaohua arrived too late to help them escape. As he tried to lead his carriages through the entrance, the little beast attacked him, and he struggled to evade its claws.

• The Yellow Wind caught up with the fleeing disciples and killed or grievously wounded many outer sect disciples as Chen Chen pulled Zixia toward the canyon entrance.
• Zhang Xiaohua arrived with his group, saw Chen Chen escaping, and ordered the carriages to charge through the entrance.
• Zixia glanced toward Zhang Xiaohua’s carriage but failed to recognize him before she and Chen Chen left the canyon.
• Zhang Xiaohua found the little beast guarding the entrance and noticed that the Primordial Qi around it was unusually chaotic.
• The little beast attacked Lu Chaoxian, but Zhang Xiaohua blocked its claws with a flash of sword light.
• The enraged little beast lunged at Zhang Xiaohua; he dropped toward the ground and raised the Azure Water Sword, but its claws continued toward his throat.

Zhang Xiaohua lured “Yellow Wind” away from the canyon entrance so the carriages could escape, but discovered he could not use Earth Escape there and was forced to flee deeper into the You Lan Great Grassland. He tried to evade his pursuer with the Dragon Binding Ring, but “Yellow Wind” dodged it and continued attacking.

• Zhang Xiaohua held “Yellow Wind” off while the carriages passed through the canyon entrance, then led the beast away from them.
• Zhang Xiaohua tried to escape by Earth Escape but found that the chaotic Primordial Qi had activated a restriction near the entrance.
• Unable to reach the entrance or defeat “Yellow Wind,” Zhang Xiaohua flew into the You Lan Great Grassland with the beast pursuing him.
• Zhang Xiaohua used the Dragon Binding Ring to frighten “Yellow Wind” and gain distance, but the beast recognized the trick and attacked again.
• Zhang Xiaohua sent the Dragon Binding Ring after “Yellow Wind,” but it dodged the ring as their chase continued.

Zhang Xiaohua struggled to escape Yellow Wind across the You Lan Great Grassland, surviving each night by cultivating underground while the beast watched and absorbed starlight. After three days of pursuit drove him to a mountain, he finally turned to fight Yellow Wind with the Dragon Binding Ring.

• Yellow Wind used its silver eye to break Zhang Xiaohua’s Earth Escape and force him back aboveground, sending him fleeing deeper into the You Lan Great Grassland.
• As midnight approached, Zhang Xiaohua hid underground, fell asleep while cultivating the Carefree Heart Sutra, and absorbed starlight; Yellow Wind watched him and also absorbed the starlight.
• At dawn, Yellow Wind drove Zhang Xiaohua out of the earth, then pursued him for three days while steering him toward the far eastern reaches of the You Lan Great Canyon.
• Zhang Xiaohua noticed Yellow Wind occasionally rolling in apparent pain and guessed its strength was failing, then headed for a mountain hoping to use Fire Escape but found only a pool at its summit.
• When Yellow Wind lunged for his throat again, Zhang Xiaohua stopped fleeing and launched the Dragon Binding Ring at it.

After Yellow Wind suffered a sudden attack of pain, Zhang Xiaohua trapped her with the Dragon Binding Ring and prepared to kill her, but realized she was giving birth and spared her. When Yellow Wind struggled after the birth, Zhang Xiaohua approached to help with the newborn and its umbilical cord.

• Yellow Wind evaded Zhang Xiaohua's attacks, then froze and writhed in pain, allowing him to trap her with the Dragon Binding Ring.
• Zhang Xiaohua tried to stab Yellow Wind, but she began bleeding and a newborn emerged from her abdomen.
• Zhang Xiaohua recognized that Yellow Wind was giving birth, withdrew his sword, and loosened the Dragon Binding Ring while keeping her restrained.
• Yellow Wind moved into the grass to give birth, and Zhang Xiaohua waited nearby until he heard continued growling and approached.
• Zhang Xiaohua found Yellow Wind exhausted beside her newborn, realized she needed help, and took out his small sword to cut the umbilical cord.

Zhang Xiaohua helped the exhausted Yellow Wind care for her newborn cub, whose life was fading, and fed the cub a drop of ten-thousand-year stone milk. After a night beneath the starlight, the cub showed signs of change, and Zhang Xiaohua spared Yellow Wind while urging her not to kill Incense-Passing Cult disciples.

• Yellow Wind objected when Zhang Xiaohua cut the umbilical cord, then let him warm her newborn beside a bonfire.
• Zhang Xiaohua offered Yellow Wind spiritual herbs and the Fire Seed Golden Lotus, but she refused them and directed his stone milk toward the cub.
• Zhang Xiaohua fed the cub a drop of ten-thousand-year stone milk, then gave Yellow Wind a drop when she insisted.
• Zhang Xiaohua set a restriction and cultivated underground while Yellow Wind moved herself and the cub into the starlight, where the cub absorbed its essence.
• At dawn, Zhang Xiaohua spared Yellow Wind and asked her not to kill Incense-Passing Cult disciples again.

Zhang Xiaohua followed the weakened "Yellow Wind" to a hidden cave, where they found Black Lightning’s mutilated corpse. The discovery explained "Yellow Wind’s" revenge against the Incense-Passing Cult, but a sudden flash from its silver eyes left the cave’s secret unresolved.

• Zhang Xiaohua tried to leave, but "Yellow Wind" urged him toward a distant place and carried its injured child along.
• Zhang Xiaohua carried the little mink and used the Dragon Binding Ring to help "Yellow Wind" travel to a hidden cave high on a cliff.
• Inside the cave, Zhang Xiaohua found Black Lightning’s corpse with its belly cut open.
• Zhang Xiaohua realized Black Lightning’s death had driven "Yellow Wind" to attack Incense-Passing Cult disciples and suspected a powerful Cult figure was responsible.
• "Yellow Wind" moved to a corner of the chamber, opened its silver eyes, and shot out a streak of silver light.

Junior Brother Zhao and Senior Sister Xia praised one another while their disciples gathered spirit herbs, but a pack of thousands of blood wolves approached. Junior Brother Chen led Senior Sister Xia away from the forest as the wolves ran past, and horse neighs suddenly threatened to expose the hidden group.

• Junior Brother Zhao and Senior Sister Xia flattered one another and discussed the inner sect disciples and their hopes of entering Yi Xiang Peak.
• A disciple reported a huge blood wolf pack approaching, and Junior Brother Chen ordered everyone to hide in the forest and keep the horses quiet.
• Junior Brother Chen led Senior Sister Xia behind the forest, then took her hand and persuaded her to leave with him for the nearby mountains.
• The blood wolves ran past the forest, but two loud horse neighs made the hidden disciples turn pale with alarm.

Zhang Xiaohua followed "Yellow Wind" through a hidden doorway into a secret hall, where he gave stone milk to a dying black dog. "Yellow Wind" offered him a silver sphere, then attacked as Zhang Xiaohua examined it with his divine sense.

• The disciples fled east from the woods as the horses' cries drew the Bloodwolf pack toward them.
• "Yellow Wind" opened a concealed doorway in the cave wall with a beam from its silver eye, and Zhang Xiaohua followed it into a hidden hall.
• Zhang Xiaohua found a black dog and two silver spheres in the hall, then fed the dog a drop of stone milk.
• "Yellow Wind" pointed to the larger sphere and let Zhang Xiaohua take it.
• As Zhang Xiaohua investigated the sphere with his divine sense, "Yellow Wind" sprang at him.

Zhang Xiaohua was injured by Huang Feng while examining a silver pearl, but his blood activated it and drew his divine sense into a vision of a silver-eyed creature losing three tentacles. He woke drained of true qi and divine sense, then discovered the pearl had become a silver eye in his palm and realized Huang Feng had given it to him.

• Huang Feng suddenly struck Zhang Xiaohua's hand as he held the silver pearl, drawing blood.
• Zhang Xiaohua's blood made the pearl glow, and it pulled in his divine sense and true qi.
• Inside the gray space, Zhang Xiaohua witnessed a silver-eyed creature fight a bright point, lose three tentacles, and be left behind as the severed parts and bright point were sucked through a shrinking hole.
• Zhang Xiaohua woke with his true qi exhausted and his divine sense reduced to a faint speck, then nearly stabbed Huang Feng with the Azure Water Sword.
• Zhang Xiaohua found a silver eye inside a slit in his palm and sensed its connection to his Niwan Palace core, so he lowered his sword and recognized it as Huang Feng's gift.

Zhang Xiaohua watched Yellow Wind use its silver eye and life-sustaining pearl to save the little mink and little black dog, then die after entrusting them to him. He realized the two young beasts had recovered and that Yellow Wind had sacrificed itself for them, leaving him to care for its orphans.

• Zhang Xiaohua placed the little mink beside Yellow Wind, which indicated that he should take responsibility for the little black dog as well.
• Yellow Wind transferred its silver eye to the little mink, leaving a narrow mark between its brows.
• Yellow Wind had Zhang Xiaohua split its glowing pearl, then used the halves to restore the little mink and little black dog before dying.
• Zhang Xiaohua understood that Yellow Wind had entrusted the two young beasts to him and had sacrificed its life to save them.
• Zhang Xiaohua checked the little mink and little black dog, found both thriving, and felt his hatred of Yellow Wind disappear.

Zhang Xiaohua buried Yellow Wind and Black Lightning, took their two young to raise, and sealed the cave entrance before leaving the mountain. As he traveled south through the forest with his strength and divine sense depleted, he heard a woman scream among the roars of fierce beasts.

• Zhang Xiaohua promised the dying Yellow Wind he would care for its young, then buried Yellow Wind and Black Lightning and marked their graves.
• Zhang Xiaohua took the two young beasts and the silver eye, then used the eye to seal the opening in the mountain wall.
• Zhang Xiaohua discovered the silver eye absorbed his True Qi and divine sense, leaving him with only one zhang of divine sense.
• Zhang Xiaohua sealed the cave tunnel, emerged on the mountaintop, and traveled south through the forest with the young beasts.
• Zhang Xiaohua stopped after realizing he had left the Luminous Pearls behind, then heard fierce beast roars and a woman's scream.

Zhang Xiaohua rescued Chen Chen from White Bears and learned that Zhang Xiaohu and Changge were surrounded by a Blood Wolf pack. He flew north to save them, while Zhang Xiaohu and the wounded Changge faced the wolves together.

• Zhang Xiaohua killed two White Bears attacking Chen Chen and drove the others away.
• Chen Chen recognized Zhang Xiaohua and told him that Zhang Xiaohu was alive but had ridden off with Changge to draw away a Blood Wolf pack.
• Zhang Xiaohua protected Chen Chen inside a restriction, gave her Xiaohei, and flew north to find Zhang Xiaohu and Changge.
• Zhang Xiaohu and Changge fought a pack of nearly a thousand Blood Wolves, while the golden-furred Wolf King watched from nearby.
• After Changge collapsed with a badly injured arm, Zhang Xiaohu refused to abandon her, and she began telling him what she had kept from him.

Zhang Xiaohu and Changge confessed their love while surrounded by Blood Wolves, but Zhang Xiaohua arrived in time to save them. Zhang Xiaohua protected the wounded pair and began fighting the wolf pack, giving Zhang Xiaohu a sword so they could fight together.

• While fighting the Blood Wolves, Zhang Xiaohu confessed that he wanted to marry Changge, and Changge admitted she had loved him for years and agreed to be his wife.
• As Zhang Xiaohu and Changge prepared to die together, they heard Zhang Xiaohua calling for his Second Brother, and Zhang Xiaohu warned him to stay away from the wolf pack.
• Zhang Xiaohua flew to the pair and killed several Blood Wolves with Dream Chasing before protecting Zhang Xiaohu and Changge with jade talismans.
• Zhang Xiaohua killed more wolves as the Wolf King sent its pack against him, while Zhang Xiaohu recovered enough to stand.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu the Azure Water Sword, and Zhang Xiaohu joined the fight against the Blood Wolves.

Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu fought together against the Blood Wolves, and Zhang Xiaohua protected his exhausted brother while showing him the power of his swords. After Zhang Xiaohu wondered how he might obtain sword light, Zhang Xiaohua realized his Qi Boosting Pills could help him.

• Zhang Xiaohu wielded the Azure Water Sword against the Blood Wolves while Zhang Xiaohua watched over him and kept Changge safe.
• The brothers exchanged jokes about the sword’s name and Dream Chaser as they continued fighting the wolves.
• Zhang Xiaohua protected Zhang Xiaohu from a wolf’s attack with a jade talisman, then told him to rest beside Changge.
• Zhang Xiaohua demonstrated sword light with the Azure Water Sword, astonishing Zhang Xiaohu.
• Zhang Xiaohua remembered that his Qi Boosting Pills could increase Zhang Xiaohu’s cultivation and considered giving him some.

Zhang Xiaohua slaughtered much of the Blood Wolf pack while protecting Zhang Xiaohu and Changge, then faced the Blood Wolf King in a duel. The Blood Wolf King revealed a wind-blade attack, but Zhang Xiaohua evaded it with Soil Escape and appeared behind the wolf.

• Zhang Xiaohua used Dream Chasing to kill attacking Blood Wolves and guarded Zhang Xiaohu with an invisible shield.
• Zhang Xiaohua fought through the pack, killing four or five hundred Blood Wolves until the survivors feared him and retreated.
• Zhang Xiaohua confronted the Blood Wolf King and battled it evenly with the Azure Water Sword.
• The Blood Wolf King spat a wind blade at Zhang Xiaohua, who used Soil Escape to vanish and reappear behind it.

Zhang Xiaohua struggled against the Blood Wolf King's invisible wind blades and discovered that both its attacks and Zhumeng had limits. After the Blood Wolf King targeted Zhang Xiaohu, Zhang Xiaohua used a defensive jade talisman and prepared to face the wolf head-on.

• The Blood Wolf King's wind blade missed Zhang Xiaohua but wounded a distant blood wolf, and Zhang Xiaohua tested the attack against his sword and palm.
• Zhang Xiaohua sent Zhumeng against the Blood Wolf King, but its tail knocked the little sword aside and the clash injured them both.
• The Blood Wolf King drove Zhang Xiaohua into the air with repeated wind blades, and he barely dodged them using his Riding the Wind Technique.
• The Blood Wolf King fired a wind blade at Zhang Xiaohu, whose restriction flashed pale blue and held against the attack.
• Zhang Xiaohua crushed a jade talisman to raise a pale blue protective barrier around himself as the Blood Wolf King's wind blades continued attacking.

Zhang Xiaohua killed the Blood Wolf King with the Dragon Binding Ring, then used its corpse to drive the surviving blood wolves into submission. One blood wolf drank the dead king’s blood and howled with its bearing, as the pack gathered around it.

• Zhang Xiaohua pursued the fleeing Blood Wolf King and caught it with the Dragon Binding Ring, snapping its neck despite nearly exhausting his true qi.
• Zhang Xiaohua hid in the grass to recover, then carried the Blood Wolf King's corpse to the high slope and showed it to the remaining wolves.
• Zhang Xiaohua ordered the blood wolves to leave, but one approached, bowed, and waited before him.
• Zhang Xiaohua tossed the Blood Wolf King's corpse to the approaching wolf, which drank its blood and then howled.
• The blood wolf pack answered the howl together, appearing to accept the wolf as their new king.

Zhang Xiaohua discovered that Xiaohei’s presence had made the Blood Wolves revere him, and the new Blood Wolf King carried him back to Zhang Xiaohu. He examined his injured brother and offered him Jade Return Pills, then learned that Wen suffered from even worse longstanding internal injuries.

• The new Blood Wolf King submitted to Zhang Xiaohua, but the pack showed fear and reverence when he revealed Xiaohei.
• The Blood Wolf King let Zhang Xiaohua ride on its back and carried him to Zhang Xiaohu, while the wolves followed and stayed nearby.
• Zhang Xiaohua examined Zhang Xiaohu and found blood loss, wounds, and old internal injuries that had damaged his meridians.
• Zhang Xiaohu explained that the Incense-Passing Cult had sent them into You Lan Grand Canyon to gather herbs because medicinal pills were scarce.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu a bottle of Jade Return Pills and learned that Wen’s longstanding internal injuries were worse than his brother’s.

Zhang Xiaohua treated Changge’s injuries with rare pills and rescued Chen Chen, whose circle of beasts had gathered in reverence around Xiaohei. With Changge recovering, he led Zhang Xiaohu, Chen Chen, and the beasts toward a mountain shelter for the night.

• Zhang Xiaohua examined Changge, gave her a Jade Return Pill and a Bone Condensing Pill, and helped Zhang Xiaohu tend her wounds.
• Zhang Xiaohua remembered Chen Chen and rode the Blood Wolf King to find her among the fierce beasts.
• Zhang Xiaohua realized the beasts were bowing to Xiaohei, then reassured Chen Chen and brought her back to Zhang Xiaohu and Changge.
• Zhang Xiaohu carried the recovering Changge onto a mammoth, while Zhang Xiaohua and Chen Chen rode beasts toward the nearby mountain.