Recaps

Xiao Hua helped Master Ke Qin repair the Soul Falling Lamp, then discovered that Ke Qin had been murdered and joined Zi Ming in defeating Zi Yan’s attempt to seize power. The group reached Houtu Village with seeds to ease the famine, where Zi Ming told Ji Man that Ke Qin had repaired the lamp and died during Sacrifice Night.

• Xiao Hua discovered that his green Primordial Spirit could absorb the Witch Canon’s Green Seal characters, then visited Master Ke Qin to observe the Soul Falling Lamp’s repair and admitted that he had repaired Li Zongbao’s artifact.
• Master Ke Qin showed Xiao Hua how Soul Shamans used bloodline power and Green Seal Scripts, and Xiao Hua helped awaken and repair the lamp’s black dog spirit while accepting Ke Qin’s artifact-refining legacy.
• After Master Ke Qin and his disciples were murdered, Ziming performed the funeral rite, and Xiao Hua and the others encountered Hou Yan, who revealed himself as Zi Yan and demanded the Soul Falling Lamp.
• Zi Yan attacked the group with nine Divine Guards, but Xiao Mao arrived with the drought demon, helped defeat Zi Yan, and rescued Xiao Hua and the others.
• Xiao Mao explained that the drought demon had abducted him to refine his bloodline, while Ziming told Xiao Hua how Ziye had given his soul to the Soul Falling Lamp to save her and accepted the demon’s sealed split soul.
• Xiao Hua opened Master Ke Qin’s Soul Nest and found his final message entrusting the artifact-refining legacy to a worthy successor, then stopped to distribute millet seeds among starving people of Shebi Village.
• The group traveled to Houtu Village on the soul beast Ya Kun, where Zi Ming learned that Ji Man remained in the village and that Zi Yan had gone to investigate the drought monster.
• Zi Ming entered Houtu Village with Xiao Hua and the others, met Ji Man at Huai Xin Pavilion, and reported that Ke Qin had repaired the Soul Falling Lamp before dying during Sacrifice Night.

Xiao Hua and Zi Ming entered the Nether Eye to retrieve a Netherworld Orchid, but a catastrophe separated them from Ziye and left them fleeing through the closing passage. Back in Houtu Village, Xiao Hua reported what happened, gained access to the Tongming Mirror for Xiao Mao, and watched Zi Ming begin opening it.

• Ji Man announced the contest to retrieve soulwood from the Nether Eye, and Xiao Hua revealed the Morning Evening Moon to help secure victory.
• Xiao Hua and Zi Ming entered the Nether Eye, where she hoped to find a Netherworld Orchid and he helped gather millet and Netherworld Bamboo.
• Lost in the branching passages, Xiao Hua and Zi Ming encountered a powerful nether beast that destroyed their flying boat and attacked Xiao Hua.
• The Sound Mirage Beast drew Xiao Hua’s and Little White Dragon’s Primordial Spirits from their bodies, but Little White Dragon disrupted its music and helped Xiao Hua return to his body.
• As the Netherworld Path collapsed, Xiao Hua escaped with Zi Ming hidden in her Soul Nest and carried Elder Ji Lan out, then told Ji Man that Ziye and other soul cultivators had perished.
• Xiao Hua studied Green Seal Script and reported the Nether Eye events to Ji Man, who accepted that Ziye was missing and granted the Dao Sect guests first use of the Tongming Mirror.
• Elder Ji Lan thanked Xiao Hua with the Pingtian Rod refining method and its materials, while Xiao Hua realized Mo Han’s remarks suggested someone suspected Zi Ming.
• After three days, Zi Ming entered the hall with a floating bone ring and began activating the Tongming Mirror, which opened two passages as Netherworld Blood surged through it.

Xiao Hua and his companions survived Ji Man’s accusations, uncovered the truth about the possession crisis, and traded with Houtu Village while Xiao Hua learned that his sealed body held dangerous secrets. As the group prepared for future journeys, the Sword Domain secretly planned an assault on Xuntian City and Dao Sect elders struggled to discern its target.

• Xiao Hua shattered the Tongming Mirror, and Ji Man captured him, Zi Ming, and their companions while accusing Zi Ming of treachery and Liu’er’s death.
• Ji Man brought the prisoners to the ancestral shrine, where the drought demon attacked Houtu Village and Xiaohei recognized Xiao Hua as its father.
• The Shaman Elder freed the prisoners, examined Zi Ming’s Soul Bead, confirmed Ji Man’s mistake, and allowed Xiao Hua to take Xiaohei.
• Elder Wu explained the Tongming Mirror’s limits and traded a green seal script bone segment for Xiao Hua’s Cloud-Gathering and Rain-Making Technique and millet seeds.
• Elder Wu warned Xiao Hua that his interlocking seals could kill him and anyone who examined them, then gave him the Witch King’s Divine Connection Technique and invited him to seek help in Wumeng.
• The Sword Masters completed the five Green Light Swords and secretly prepared the Tianyi Green Light Sword Array for an assault on Xuntian City while ordering swordsmen to intercept Xiao Hua, whom they suspected was Wuming.
• Lu Ruochang and Chong Taixu discussed their suspicions about Wuming and Xiao Hua, while Xiao Hua studied the green seal script and prepared to practice its witch spell.
• Gu Yun, Jiang Feiyan, Pan Dongmin, and Zhu Chenghe reviewed reports and concluded that the Sword Domain’s chaotic movements concealed an offensive whose target they could not identify.

Xiao Hua helped reconcile Ji Man and Zi Ming, supported Houtu Village with new millet seeds, and escorted his companions out of Million Meng Mountain. After surviving a Sword Domain ambush, he learned of the threat to Xuntian City as the sword cultivators launched their assault.

• Jiang Feiyan and the other commanders recognized that the sword cultivators were targeting Xuntian City and mobilized forces to defend it and rescue Li Zongbao.
• Xiao Hua gave Ji Man Zi Ming’s Rejuvenation Pill, helping the two women reconcile before Zi Ming’s Lamp Lighting Ceremony established her as guardian of the Soul Falling Lamp and future Ji Man.
• Zi Ming presented Xiao Hua’s improved millet seeds to the Witch Elders, who arranged their distribution across Wumeng while investigating Xiao Mao’s Shebi Village origins.
• Xiao Hua and his companions departed Million Meng Mountain with Elder Wu aboard Bone Phoenix, and Xiao Hua used his rainmaking art in exchange for soul-cultivation knowledge.
• Lu Ruochang and three Sword Transformation Swordsmen ambushed Xiao Hua’s group, but Elder Wu killed three attackers with the Soul Falling Lamp and gave Xiao Hua a soul-protection technique.
• Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao continued toward Xi Country as the sword cultivators surrounded Xuntian City and disabled its Teleportation Arrays.
• Snowy Realm True Person raised Xuntian City’s defenses and joined the allied cultivators against the assault, but Chong Taixu and Zhang Yanzong broke through his Ice Pearl hand and struck the city’s formation.