Recaps

Xiao Hua joined Heaven Abandon and traveled with Ma Dengsheng’s group toward Yulian Mountain, where an Ice Worm swarm separated him from the others. He survived Nancai Ping, recovered Yong Shang’s belongings, and returned with evidence that Yong Shang’s death was not caused by ice worms.

• Xiao Hua joined Heaven Abandon after Qing Fengmin and the assessors judged his talisman-making potential, then prepared for the group’s major undertaking.
• Ma Dengsheng led Xiao Hua, Li Xiaowen, and four other cultivators from Xiyin Gate, giving each a silk sachet that would reveal their next destination at designated locations.
• The group crossed Nancai Ping at night as Ice Bugs attacked, while Xiao Hua used talismans to fight the swarm and two Huanling Sect cultivators who had followed them.
• Xiao Hua killed the two Huanling Sect cultivators, escaped an Ice Worm King by melting free from the ice, and found an Ice Worm King Egg and other treasures in the gorge.
• Xiao Hua reunited with Li Xiaowen, Fan Daomao, Fu Shu, and Xun Feiyan, who told him Yong Shang was missing and traded him materials for the empty storage pouches he had found.
• After the group asked him to retrieve Yong Shang’s silk pouch, Xiao Hua returned to Nancai Ping and found Yong Shang dead with his heart missing and no sign that Ice Worms had killed him.
• Xiao Hua took Yong Shang’s storage bag and silk pouch back to the group and showed them the strange wound in his chest.

Xiao Hua survived the dangers of the Tianqi journey, losing Li Xiaowen and Xun Feiyan to an ambush before reaching Hundred Zhang Peak. There he reunited with Cai Zhuoxia and Li Zongbao as the Heaven Abandoned cultivators began searching for Hundred Zhang Old Man’s legacy.

• Xiao Hua escaped Yulian Mountain’s mist after Fu Shu was swallowed, then continued with Li Xiaowen, Xun Feiyan, and Fan Daomao toward Yunxi Marsh.
• At Yunxi Marsh, Xiao Hua refused to help seize the Fire Flame Sect’s Rainbow Bloom, later harvested another bloom guarded by a Water Pattern Butterfly, and followed the silk-pouch clues through Hurricane Gorge to Thunder Accumulation Cave.
• A young cultivator at Thunder Accumulation Cave opened Xiao Hua’s silk pouch and directed him to Hundred Zhang Peak, where Xiao Hua reached the Qi Cultivation third layer on the way.
• Near Hundred Zhang Peak, Zheng Chaoyang and Meng Xian ambushed Xiao Hua, Li Xiaowen, and Xun Feiyan, killing Li Xiaowen and Xun Feiyan before Xiao Hua broke free and killed both attackers.
• Xiao Hua reached Hundred Zhang Peak and reunited with Cai Zhuoxia and Li Zongbao, who were waiting for him and entered a cave with him using a beast-shaped jade artifact.
• As Xiao Hua, Cai Zhuoxia, and Li Zongbao explored the cave, Xiao Hua began explaining what had happened on his journey, while Qing Fengmin organized the Heaven Abandoned cultivators and distributed jade-beast tokens for cave searches.

Xiao Hua and Li Zongbao survived Qing Fengmin’s blood-shadow trap at Hundred Zhang Peak, after which Xiao Hua cultivated and joined Cai Zhuoxia on a search for Mother-Child Spirit Fruit. They recovered the fruit and traveled to Xunyan Sect to seek help refining Fetal Breath Pills, arriving as news spread of Huanhua Sect’s disciple selection.

• Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Cai Zhuoxia entered Hundred Zhang Peak’s passages, where blood patterns teleported cultivators into a chamber and blood shadows drained their lives.
• Li Zongbao and Xiao Hua fought Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow, and Xiao Hua destroyed it with his demonic spear before the group escaped the cave.
• Xiao Hua cultivated the Burning Heaven Art and Dragon Transformation Art, then agreed to accompany Cai Zhuoxia to the Qimeng Mountain Range in search of Mother-Child Spirit Fruit.
• Yan Liwei betrayed Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia with the Pilan Twin Bears, but Xiao Hua killed Yan Liwei and one bear before fleeing Heaven-Shaking Azure with a baby Spirit Seeking Rat.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia returned to the hidden fruit grove, broke its restriction, and escaped the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly with a ripe Mother-Child Spirit Fruit.
• Xiao Hua advanced to the early Qi Cultivation fourth layer, and he and Cai Zhuoxia set out for Xunyan Sect to seek an alchemist’s help.
• Yun Zichong told Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia about Huanhua Sect’s selection, and Cai Zhuoxia declined his invitation before they reached Xunyan Sect and went to its Reception Pavilion.

Xiao Hua accompanied Cai Zhuoxia to Huanhua Sect’s selection, where she and he faced danger and unfair treatment, then traveled to Yanyuan City. At the Bidding Convention, Xiao Hua bought rare items and watched the Imperial Pill Sect’s pills sell at high prices, while a rival bidder reached for the golden-foil sheets he wanted.

• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia waited outside Xunyan Sect’s Reception Pavilion until Zhuo Qingyuan agreed to arrange Fetal Breath Pills and told them the sect wanted Fire Marrow Blazing Crystals.
• At Huanhua Sword Washing, Xiao Hua joined the selection as a Rogue Cultivator and stood by Cai Zhuoxia after Cai Yingxia and Cai Yuxia insulted them.
• Huanhua Sect tasked the candidates with catching a live Emerald Bird, and Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia searched separately as other cultivators fought over the birds.
• Xiao Hua killed Cai Yingxia and fought Cultivator Gao, while Cai Zhuoxia escaped danger with a teleportation talisman.
• Xiao Hua captured an Emerald Bird but lost it to Yu Tong’s Foundation Establishment granduncle, then rejected Huanhua Sect’s fire-tending position and left the sect.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia traveled to Yanyuan City, where Xiao Hua bought pills from Xue Xue and exchanged some Qingyi Pills for her Bidding Convention invitation.
• At the Bidding Convention, Xiao Hua bought a Kongmeng Stone and crafting materials, then won an unidentified withered willow branch for two hundred and twenty top-grade spirit stones.
• The Imperial Pill Sect’s pills sold for high prices, while Xiao Hua watched bidders acquire Foundation Establishment Pills and reached for golden-foil sheets another cultivator also wanted.