Recaps

Xiao Hua rescued Princess Changling, agreed to help her restore Jiang Kingdom, and sent her group to organize the resistance while he entered a perilous trial in the void. After surviving deadly radiance and a collapsing passage, Xiao Hua formed a Void Nascent Soul and attained the realm of a True Person.

• Princess Changling and the Jiang Kingdom survivors were cornered by Tongzhu Kingdom’s forces, but the Black Bear Spirit and Yuan Ya led the Black Wind Ridge demons into battle before Xiao Hua arrived and defeated Jiang Tianheng.
• Xiao Hua brought Princess Changling’s party to his cave abode, where Yuan Ya’s story and the scar beneath her arm raised the possibility that she was Butterfly Dance, though she denied it.
• Princess Changling asked Xiao Hua to help avenge her family and restore Jiang Kingdom, and Xiao Hua eventually agreed to support her while Xiao Jian, Qin Xiaoyao, and Yuan Ya planned the effort.
• Xiao Hua left to seek a trial ground beyond the heavenly fire, wind, and thunder, and the Light Beasts opened a passage into the void and warned him to return within three days.
• Xiao Hua became trapped in the void labyrinth, endured a torrent of crimson flames and deadly radiance, and discovered that his demonic blood could protect him from the radiance.
• Xiao Hua entered a collapsing passage where chaotic waves transformed the Earth Crystal Yao Ru in his body and triggered the formation of his Void Nascent Soul.
• Xiao Hua used Nascent Soul Pills and the void’s Primordial Qi ripples to complete the dangerous transformation, merged his Spiritual Image Dharma Body into his Nascent Soul, and attained the realm of a True Person.

After escaping the spatial veins with Sun Jian, Xiao Hua reached Little Linglong Temple and accepted its Buddhist inheritance through his Buddha Sarira. He then joined Ci Hui and Xin Xin for a month-long journey, while a confrontation began between Fan Tian and a mysterious Daoist cultivator.

• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian joined forces to destroy the strange insect, escaped through a spatial crack, and parted after Sun Jian returned the Void Piercing Beast to him.
• Xiao Hua reached Little Linglong Temple, where the old monk recognized him as the awaited Future Buddha Lord and guided him toward the temple’s inheritance.
• Xiao Hua summoned his Buddha Sarira for the tonsure, drawing vast faith that strengthened it and drove a Heavenly Demon from the old monk.
• After the old monk died, Xiao Hua collected his relic and met Ci Hui and Xin Xin, then agreed to travel with them for a month.
• As they traveled, Ci Hui taught Xiao Hua Buddhist Dharma while Xiao Hua debated Buddhist teachings with him.
• Fan Tian confronted a mysterious gray-cloud visitor, who challenged him to stop hiding, and Fan Tian answered with his Water Wave Flood Peak Great Array.

Xiao Hua joined Xin Xin, Ci Hui, and Guzhen on a journey to Sage River, where Xin Xin sought an imprisoned person beneath the Profound Water Palace. The group entered the palace and split up, leaving Xiao Hua and Xin Xin struggling through a pressure-filled passage toward a possible exit.

• Fantian refused the senior’s demand to unite Daoist cultivators, but the senior attacked with the Yin Yang Illustrated Manual, injuring Fantian and shattering his Ice Mou Pearl.
• Xin Xin’s communication artifact dissolved, and Ci Hui, Xin Xin, and Xiao Hua joined Guzhen on a journey to Sage River after Xin Xin revealed the ancient ruin and its Ancient Buddha Sarira.
• At Nightmare Reef Bay, Guzhen explained that he was searching for his missing brother Gunnian, and the group entered the formation when its gateway appeared.
• The group found frozen bones and dangerous passages, where an Essence Devouring Demonic Beast injured Xin Xin’s Primordial Spirit and poisonous water threatened to overwhelm them.
• Xiao Hua used the Pure Water Vase and Guzhen’s alms bowl to help clear the poisonous water, and the group reached the Profound Water Palace.
• Xin Xin revealed that she sought someone imprisoned beneath the palace’s immortal artifact, and Xiao Hua used Innate True Water and poisonous water to distract an attacking Profound Water Ancient Beast.
• The group entered the palace and searched a mirrored maze, where Guzhen’s golden body helped them locate two passages before they split up, with Guzhen and Ci Hui taking the upper route and Xiao Hua accompanying Xin Xin below.
• Xiao Hua and Xin Xin pressed onward through the lower passage as its crushing pressure weakened their senses, and Xiao Hua sensed an exit about nine hundred zhang ahead.

Xiao Hua and Xin Xin survived the palace’s shifting passages and deadly guardians while Guzhen pursued the Ancient Buddha Sarira and gained the Heavenly Dragon’s help. Xin Xin revealed that her father had been imprisoned by her clan’s current head, and she and Xiao Hua began searching for the artifact that could free him.

• Xiao Hua and Xin Xin escaped the crushing passage, explored the strange grounds, and gathered rare herbs before finding a shattered Teleportation Array.
• Guzhen and Cihui encountered a Daoist War Puppet, and Cihui merged with the Ancient Buddha Sarira and became Manjushri Bodhisattva, while Guzhen met the Heavenly Dragon in the Changsheng Lamp.
• Xiao Hua and Xin Xin battled Essence Devouring Insects, and Xiao Hua used his Spirit Devouring Insects to subdue the swarm and clear their path.
• Xiao Hua fought a Daoist War Puppet and the Profound Water Ancient Beast, while Xin Xin destroyed the puppet with her golden hairpin and the beast vanished into blue ripples.
• After Xin Xin healed Xiao Hua with a Chaoyuan Pill, she asked him to help save someone she sought, and the two entered the Profound Water Palace together.
• Xin Xin told Xiao Hua that her clan’s current head had imprisoned her father with an immortal artifact, and Xiao Hua promised to help her.
• Xiao Hua and Xin Xin searched the hall and approached a golden seat that Xin Xin suspected was the artifact, but an invisible restriction blocked their way.