Recaps

Zhang Xiaohua exposed Shui Yupeng’s treachery, restored the Misty Sect’s stability, and gathered new disciples before heading toward Yao Mountain and searching for Qu Jing’er. His travels led him to rescue Li Jinfeng, uncover Yue Mingxin’s history, and encounter Zhang Xiaohu’s search party on the road.

• Zhang Xiaohu exposed Shui Yupeng’s plot against the Misty Sect, and Shui Yupeng killed himself after urging Shui Tiantian to follow Zhang Xiaohu.
• Zhang Xiaohua cured Hu Yunyi’s poisoning, accepted Shui Tiantian as a disciple, and helped the Misty Sect settle its succession and inheritance matters.
• As martial sects gathered around Yao Mountain over rumors of an Immortal Mansion, Zhang Xiaohua investigated the camps before turning toward Qiu Long Mountain to find Qu Jing’er.
• Zhang Xiaohua rescued Mei Qinglian and Li Jinfeng from their attackers, but Mei Qinglian died, and he later found Qu Jing’er and accepted her as his seventh disciple.
• At Yi Xiang Manor, Zhang Xiaohua found Yue Mingxin’s portrait and a wooden hairpin that revealed her account of her love for Yang Haoya and their separation over the Immortal Path.
• Zhang Xiaohua traveled with Li Jinfeng and Qu Zhigao’s family, arranged to return Mei Qinglian’s coffin to Nanzhao Town, and reflected on Yue Mingxin’s story.
• Zhang Xiaohua defeated Chieftain Bian and his bandits when they demanded extra tolls from Yuan Changqing’s escort.
• Lu Da and Ke Nanli told Zhang Xiaohua that Zhang Xiaohu had sent them to find Qu Zhigao, and Zhang Xiaohua questioned why they had failed.

As the Four Immortal Path Sects purged Mount Yao and competing factions fought over the emerging Immortal Mansion, Zhang Xiaohua was drawn inside by the Haotian Mirror. He crossed the mansion’s trials and entered a wilderness of immense beasts, where a phoenix’s Nirvana flames left him unconscious and burned away his body’s outer covering.

• Zhang Xiaohua left the convoy for Yaoshan as Primordial Qi surged across the mountain, and the Four Immortal Path Sects began driving away and killing rival searchers.
• The mountain’s blood-fed radiance revealed the Immortal Mansion, while Di Shitian killed Master Yuanwu and Abbess Shujie before fleeing with the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
• Zhang Xiaohua reached Mount Yao, put the injured Xiao Qi and Qi Lian to sleep, and watched the mansion descend as its pressure and Primordial Qi swept over the crowd.
• The Haotian Mirror pulled Zhang Xiaohua through the gate, revealing his identity as Ren Xiaoyao, while the factions fought over the entrance and thousands died.
• Zhang Xiaohua crossed the mansion’s resisting jade passages, explored its halls and restricted garden, and endured crushing pressure in a small house while cultivating and absorbing mysterious purple Qi.
• Zhang Xiaohua cut through the red barrier with the Nameless Sword Moves and entered a vast wilderness where gigantic beasts fought and his true qi surged.
• Zhang Xiaohua hid his Primordial Qi-bearing belongings to cross into a basin, where a phoenix began Nirvana of Fire and its flames struck him unconscious, burning away his clothing, hair, and flesh.

Zhang Xiaohua claimed the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, founded the Big Dipper Sect, and moved his family and disciples inside. As his followers began cultivating there, Abbess Jingyi and the other sects prepared to investigate Yao Mountain and the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

• Zhang Xiaohua restored his body, absorbed the phoenix spirit, refined the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, and reached the immortal mansion as the sects explored its halls and pavilions.
• Zhang Xiaohua appeared on the mansion’s throne, declared Yao Mountain the Big Dipper Sect’s territory, punished the Righteous Path Alliance for refusing to leave, and warned the sect leaders about the drained corpses and a possible Heavenly Dragon Sect scheme.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned to his family in Pingyang City, convinced them of his identity, and explained how he gained the immortal mansion and established his sect.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu arranged to move their family to Yao Mountain, while Ou Yan agreed to hand Huanxi Mountain Villa back to the Misty Sect and entrusted Zhang Xiaohua with the Longevity Pill.
• Zhang Xiaohua brought his family and belongings into the immortal mansion, showed them its pavilions and flying prayer mats, and helped his relatives settle in.
• Zhang Xiaohua established a cultivation formation for his disciples and named Xiaohei and Xiaohuang the sect’s guardian divine beasts, then revealed a blue sky and helped his family prepare homes and fields.
• Nie Qianyu and five other disciples formed their first threads of true qi, while Abbess Jingyi learned that no one had entered or left Yao Mountain and planned to meet Great Forest Temple at Five Claw Peak.

Zhang Xiaohua joined the Secret Realm gathering, where the four sects were caught in a battle with the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Ya revealed her plan to sacrifice the world. After Meng’s death, the story shifted to Xiao Hua’s earlier life at Shang Hua Ming, where he began planting spirit herbs in his mind space and reunited with Little White Snake.

• Zhang Xiaohua accepted Hu Yunyi’s proposals for cooperation between the Big Dipper Sect and Misty Sect, then disguised himself as Daoist Pan An to accompany Zhang Xiaohu’s group to Five Claw Peak.
• At the Secret Realm gathering, Zhang Xiaohu negotiated with Alliance Leader Zhang over captured disciples, but Bai Yanqiu arrived with Shuiyunjian forces and demanded entry.
• The gathering erupted into battle as True Person Haoyun used the Heaven Shaking Drum and Di Shitian led the Heavenly Dragon Sect against the gathered sects.
• After the four sheepskin scrolls were assembled, Ya seized and destroyed them, revealed her past crimes and identity as Great Master Xuan Kong, and drained the leaders’ vital blood.
• Meng briefly regained control and explained that Ya meant to sacrifice the world, then gave Zhang Xiaohua the Youth-Preserving Pill and exploded with the Demonic Banner as they drifted toward a spatial crack.
• The story shifted to Xiao Hua’s earlier days at Huanghua Ridge, where Xiao Xianrui returned with Gong Mingwei and Zhang Qingxiao after trading away all the Wutuodan for a Peacock Illusion.
• Xiao Yuehong punished Xiao Xianrui, Gong Mingwei, and Zhang Qingxiao with one hundred days in Jingxin Cave, while Xiao Hua stayed nearby and discovered that his mind space could support plants.
• Xiao Hua used a puppet to prepare land in his mind space and planted spirit herbs and Linglong Grass seeds, then visited Guzhang Peak and encountered Little White Snake in the pool.