Recaps

Xiao Hua returned to Xuntian City, defended his claim to a seized flying boat, and attended a secret bidding convention where he acquired Thunder Control Sect remains and rare items. After helping Bai Fengliang and leaving the city with Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao, Xiao Hua learned that Li Zongbao suspected him of killing Tu Hong and warned him not to return.

• Fairy Hongxia left after showing Xiao Hua her Sect Leader Token, and Xiao Hua gave her a Rejuvenation Pill for her master.
• Xiao Hua used Dai Er’s Wind Pearl to trigger a hurricane, then controlled the Pure Water Vase with his Buddha Sarira and refined powerful Fireball Jade Talismans.
• Cui Hongshen and Dui Qimeng returned to Qiong Lei Peak, while Xiao Hua faced Zhenshan’s insults and the demand to surrender the First Squad’s token.
• Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao accompanied Xiao Hua to the Council Hall, where Wang Ye disputed ownership of the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat and Li Zongbao arranged a ninety-nine-year lease.
• Xiao Hua entered a secret bidding convention, bought a damaged Thunder Control Sect thunder boat, and later paid Bai Xing for a storage bag of Thunder Control Sect corpses and maps.
• Xiao Hua traded four Morning Evening Moon leaves for a Qianli Pill formula, then used the tea to strengthen his soul cultivation and named his second Sword Pellet Mountain Splitting.
• Bai Fengliang mistook Xiao Hua for the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Vice Sect Master, delivered Qianli Pills, and learned from Xiao Hua that the sect message had been mistaken.
• Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao left Xuntian City with Xiao Hua to hunt Qin Jian, and Li Zongbao accused Xiao Hua of killing Tu Hong before warning him not to return to the city.

Xiao Hua uncovered Kun Shuai and Li Chengxu’s plots, then headed to Seven Absolute Ridge as the battle between Dao and sword cultivators escalated. He revealed himself as the Terrifying Phoenix to Ji Ye, who explained his path into artifact cultivation and recalled meeting Zi Yan.

• Li Zongbao and Xiao Hua helped defeat Bright Sword Swordsmen, then split up when Xiao Hua chose to reinforce Seven Absolute Ridge.
• Kun Shuai trapped Xiao Hua in a formation, but Xiao Hua killed him and then defeated Li Chengxu after Li Chengxu revealed a Nascent Soul hand and detonated his Golden Core.
• Xiao Hua studied Tu Hong’s battle plan, extracted and destroyed Tu Hong’s hidden Primordial Spirit, and turned the Ice Mirror into the Kunlun Mirror.
• Xiao Hua discovered a message linking Hu Guanqiu to Kun Shuai’s plan to repair the Great Universe Shifting Token and set out to find Hu Guanqiu.
• Gu Yu joined the defenders at Seven Absolute Ridge, explaining that the Terrifying Phoenix had spared her and that she would no longer initiate violence against Daoist cultivators.
• Ruo Si and Yun Bai led the sword cultivators against the Dao forces, and Ruo Si drove Kan Sheng’s troops back while Yun Bai fought Mingyue and Fairy Hongxia.
• Xiao Hua broke the blue-robed swordsman’s confinement with heavenly lightning, allowing Fairy Hongxia to kill Yun Bai, then faced Ji Ye as the armies arranged a truce.
• Xiao Hua fought Ji Ye in a remote snowy plain, revealed that he was the Terrifying Phoenix, and overwhelmed Ji Ye’s Sea-Overturning Seal with the Seven Star Great Formation and Innate True Water.

Xiao Hua helped Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao rally the trapped Dao Sect cultivators, uncover the cause of their weakening, and open an escape passage through the flooded caverns. After Qin Jian killed Xu Bo and Zhuo Hui, Xiao Hua drew him away, and their duel began with the Sea-Overturning Seal facing Qin Jian’s renewed wolf-shaped Sword Intent.

• Xiao Hua defeated Ji Ye’s fused Sea-Overturning Seal, then returned to Seven Absolute Ridge before searching Flowing Ice Valley for Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao.
• Xiao Hua joined Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao in rescuing cultivators and fighting through the mine, where they helped defeat the sword cultivators and regrouped with Zhuo Hui.
• After tremors trapped the cultivators underground, Xiao Hua discovered that blue-tainted spiritual energy was draining their true essence, and Bai Fei identified the poison as Spirit Binding Juice.
• When Qin Jian diverted the river into the caverns, Xiao Hua used the Sea-Overturning Seal to break through rock while Li Zongbao organized the defenses against flooding and sword cultivators.
• Xiao Hua opened an escape passage through a blue formation, and Li Zongbao led the injured and exhausted cultivators through as the others held off their attackers.
• Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao escorted the last cultivators through and destroyed the passage, but Qin Jian killed Xu Bo and Zhuo Hui as they confronted him.
• Xiao Hua revealed himself as the Terrifying Phoenix and lured Qin Jian away from the fleeing group, then seized Qin Jian’s Formless Golden Thread Sword with Sleeve Universe.
• Qin Jian attacked Xiao Hua with wolf-shaped Sword Intent, but Xiao Hua crushed the wolf head with the Sea-Overturning Seal before Qin Jian gathered his sword lights into a new wolf.

Xiao Hua overcame Qin Jian and helped secure a major victory for the Dao Sect, while the Council Hall rewarded the survivors and investigated the mysterious Terrifying Phoenix. He later rescued Zhong Haoran and Gu Yu, reunited with former beneficiaries of his famine relief, and learned how Zhong Haoran’s group had been treated in the war.

• Xiao Hua resisted Qin Jian’s attacks, defeated him with Zhūmèng and other techniques, and collected his remains and belongings after Qin Jian self-destructed.
• Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao gathered survivors at Flowing Ice Valley, reported their victory, and returned toward Xuntian City.
• The Council Hall learned that Li Zongbao, Xiao Mao, and Xiao Hua had killed Qin Jian, and Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao received pardon decrees while Ganlei Zi granted Xiao Hua amnesty.
• As Xiao Hua traveled north, he found Yun Zichong’s disciples attacking Zhong Haoran and Gu Yu over a Zhi Ma, and drove the attackers away with his flying swords.
• Xiao Hua learned that Gu Yu had changed her views of the war and that Zhong Haoran had refused to keep the Zhi Ma, then revealed his identity to Zhong Haoran and his companions.
• Zhong Haoran and the others explained how Xiao Hua’s famine-relief seeds had helped their families and cultivation, and Xiao Hua gave them Sky Mending Pills.
• Zhong Haoran recounted how Zhong Jingke had isolated his group, assigned them dangerous missions, taken their credit, and tried to have him expelled, while his companions affirmed that they had chosen to follow him.