Recaps

Xiao Hua escaped Yaotai Mountain after defeating Kong Hongwu, then gathered survivors and began organizing Daoist cultivators while pursuing the truth about Danliang Kingdom. The arc ended with True Person Yuanqing betraying him as Zhen Tiancang and two companions emerged from a chasm.

• Xiao Hua and his allies battled Kong Hongwu inside the formation, and Xiao Hua used a demonic blade to split and devour Kong Hongwu before the Demon Refining Pot restored him and helped him escape the collapsing formation.
• The Blazing Sun Great Formation collapsed, and Fairy Jing found Xiao Hua badly injured with a shattered dantian and missing Nascent Soul before a rainbow bridge carried them and other survivors out of Yaotai Mountain.
• Xiao Hua concealed the extent of his injuries, repaired his dantian with a Sky Mending Pill, and gave Zhang Daoran and Xunkong Shangren cultivation methods and pills while asking them to preserve Daoist inheritance.
• Xiao Hua released more than a hundred rescued Nascent Souls and other cultivators from the Mountain River Seal, invited them to Black Wind Ridge, and accepted Xiong Yi as a disciple to help establish the Jiang Kingdom.
• Xiao Hua confronted Xiao Jun over the stolen throne, heard his account of Xiao Jian’s rule, and identified the poison causing Zhi Ji’s facial affliction while promising to cure her.
• Xiao Hua set out for Danliang Kingdom with Fairy Jing and admitted that he had used her as bait while concealing his injuries, then promised Daoist cultivators would one day have a place to cultivate freely.
• True Person Yuanqing joined Xiao Hua and Fairy Jing’s journey, discussed the Yaotai disaster, then fled after three days of instruction and declared Xiao Hua’s road had ended as Zhen Tiancang and two companions appeared from the abyss.

Xiao Hua investigated Danliang Kingdom, learned the truth about Xiao Jun, and accompanied Fairy Jing to Shattered Heart Mountain, where she drank Forgetfulness Water and forgot him. He later rescued Zhai Xingzi and Gusu Qiuran, helped them reunite and recover, and opened the box containing the Innate Fire Mother, while Fu Zhiwen’s Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal remained unexplained.

• Xiao Hua defeated True Person Yuanqing and the other ambushers, then traveled with Fairy Jing to Danliang Kingdom and learned about its monks’ work and Xiao Jun’s rule.
• Xiao Hua met Cixiang, resolved his doubts about Xiao Jun, and gave Master Jingyi rice for the kingdom before agreeing to accompany Fairy Jing to her destination.
• Fairy Jing confessed her feelings for Xiao Hua, then led him to Shattered Heart Mountain, drank Forgetfulness Water, and left without remembering him.
• Xiao Hua’s other selves discovered the missing Kunlun Mirror fragment, while True Lord Huode accused Zhai Xingzi and Gusu Qiuran of treachery and attacked them.
• Xiao Hua killed True Lord Huode, secured the surviving cultivators’ silence, and learned that Zhai Xingzi and Gusu Qiuran had reunited through their past-life bond.
• Xiao Hua found an antidote for Gusu Qiuran’s poison, accepted Zhai Xingzi’s Pure Yang Ancestor and unlocking method, and brought them to Fu Zhiwen’s home.
• Xiao Hua accepted Fu Zhiwen as a disciple, and Zhai Xingzi and Gusu Qiuran gave Fu Zhiwen cultivation methods before helping Xiao Hua open the box containing the Innate Fire Mother.
• Zhai Xingzi and Gusu Qiuran agreed to join Xiao Hua’s expedition to the ancient ruins, while Gusu Qiuran confirmed that Fu Zhiwen’s prisoner crystal came from the Immortal Palace.

Xiao Hua gathered allies to explore the Yunshan Illusion Array, where Gongshu Yixin led the effort to break its layered formations. The array’s collapse brought cultivation gains and revealed a further Daoist restriction at the cave abode, which Fu Zhiwen began helping Gongshu Yixin decipher.

• Xiao Hua freed Qiongqiong from the Law-Binding Chains, then joined Fu Zhiwen, Zhai Xingzi, and Gu Suqiudi on an expedition to the Yunshan Illusion Array.
• Xiao Hua and Zhai Xingzi recruited Xue Ping and other cultivators, then summoned Xunkong Shangren and Zhang Daoran to explore the array guarding Canglangzi’s cave abode.
• Gongshu Yixin identified the array’s layered formations and negotiated a role in breaking them, while Xiao Hua and the others took positions to suppress its outer formations.
• The inner formations lost control, unleashing ancient spirit souls and Yellow Springs Water as Xunkong Shangren and Zhang Daoran struggled to hold their positions.
• Zhai Xingzi refined his Nascent Soul with Yellow Springs Water, while Xiao Hua absorbed vicious souls and collected some of the water into his space.
• Xiao Hua rescued Gu Suqiudi and Gongshu Yixin by separating the inner formations with Innate True Water and containing the demonic qi, allowing Gongshu Yixin to continue breaking the array.
• After Xiao Hua spent forty-nine days absorbing ancient fierce souls, Yunshan broke apart and Xunkong Shangren, Zhang Daoran, and Zhai Xingzi returned with improved cultivation.
• Fu Zhiwen recognized a Daoist Nine-Bend Ghost Locking Formation beyond the collapsed array, and Gongshu Yixin invited him to help break it.

Xiao Hua and his companions entered Canglangzi’s layered cave, overcame its trials, and fought over its treasures as pursuers closed in. After Fairy Xiangfeng changed her mind about killing Xiao Hua, he faced Duanmu Liangsheng and was swept into a strange passage.

• Fu Zhiwen and Gongshu Yixin withdrew the outer formations, and the group split up to search four illusion-array entrances as Fairy Xiangfeng and Fairy Xuming entered in pursuit of Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua led Fu Zhiwen, Xue Ping, and the others through the northern array, defeated Fairy Xuming’s attack, and reached the wall where Canglangzi’s imprint drew the cultivators into the cave.
• Xiao Hua gained the cave’s insights and collected Yan Lingzhi and Beimeng Xi Shui, while the cultivators gathered around the jade table and used Fu Zhiwen’s Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal to break its restrictions.
• Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen entered the next layer with Fairy Xiangfeng, who heard Xiao Hua explain why he had killed True Person Xiangtian and True Person Chu Feng and accepted his account.
• Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng crossed trials that tested divine-sense control, then fought through hordes of brown bears until Fairy Xiangfeng revealed she was Xiangtian’s partner and nearly attacked Xiao Hua with a poisoned fang.
• Xiao Hua stopped Fairy Xiangfeng from striking, told her Little Cabbage’s story, and survived the collapsing illusion space, where his Innate Divine Restriction absorbed new insights.
• Duanmu Liangsheng trapped Xiao Hua in a Yuan formation and fought him with swords, but Xiao Hua escaped using the Kunlun Mirror and led his pursuer through the branching passages.
• Xiao Hua’s fire talismans and restrictions battered Duanmu Liangsheng, but Vast Righteous Qi caught Xiao Hua and swept him into a strange passage.