Recaps

Xiao Hua recovered the Nine Cauldrons but was pursued by Confucian Great Grandmasters and drawn into Black Ruins Mountain’s Heavenly Prison. Trapped amid regions where time flowed differently, he and his incarnations searched for a way out while Sun Jian and the Kunlun Mirror became part of his plans.

• Xiao Hua recovered the Nine Cauldrons of Hidden Immortal, then escaped a Confucian Great Grandmaster’s attack and fled into the Earth Fire Wind Thunder.
• Sun Cheng and Sun Hao pursued Xiao Hua through the Void Passage, but Dragon Vein Xiao Hua revealed Xiao Hua’s True Five-Clawed Dragon form and helped him escape their icy flames.
• Xiao Hua and his scattered Nascent Souls fought Wu Han, whose body and Primordial Spirit were destroyed by the successive tribulations.
• Sun Cheng and Sun Hao pursued Xiao Hua to Black Ruins Mountain and trapped him between their furnaces, but the blood bone transformed a skeleton into a Heavenly Human that killed Sun Cheng.
• Sun Hao killed the Literary Sage and defeated the Heavenly Human, while Sun Jian opened a fissure in Black Ruins Mountain and carried Xiao Hua into the Heavenly Prison.
• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian drifted through regions of differing time, and Xiao Hua regained strength by absorbing passing fluctuations before asking Sun Jian for his Kunlun Mirror shell.
• Xiao Hua pulled Sun Jian and a black box into his space as they neared a time boundary, then his incarnations studied the fluctuations and considered ways to find an exit to Cangxian Continent.

Xiao Hua escaped the Heavenly Prison through a time passage and arrived in the Ruins, where he fought the Devil Race and rallied the Creation Sect to aid the local cultivators. The arc ended with his disciples trapped in an unbroken demonic formation as a blood pearl appeared and his incarnations prepared to act.

• Xiao Hua cultivated in the Heavenly Prison, mastered the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique through Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua, and used a time fragment to escape into a Teleportation Array.
• Xiao Hua rescued Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming, learned that he had arrived in the Ruins, and helped defend a major teleportation hub from the Devil Race.
• Yue Mingxin sacrificed her life essence to summon the Moon Beast and draw Xiao Hua out of the Devil Lords’ spatial trap, and Xiao Hua restored her with a Rejuvenation Pill.
• Xiao Hua joined Huan Wuxin and other cultivators in resisting the Devil Race, using his thunder boat and the Dust-Clearing Pagoda to break through a vast demonic formation and aid the Divine Blade Sect.
• Xiao Hua brought Sun Jian and one hundred thousand Creation Sect disciples out of his space, placed Sun Jian in command, and prepared them to fight the Devil Race.
• Sun Jian led the Creation Sect army southwest, where the Devil Race ambushed the thunder boats and the disciples suffered casualties before Xiao Hua and his incarnations defeated eight Devil Lords.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua freed millions of souls from the Devil Lords’ banners, while the disciples continued fighting inside a demonic formation that seemed to restore slain enemies.
• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian recognized that the formation still trapped the disciples, then watched a blood pearl emerge as Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua split it with the Heaven-Shaking Sword and Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua’s Ya Brush appeared.

Xiao Hua fought the Devil Race, then became trapped in Star Moon Palace and endured repeating illusions created by a Heavenly Demon. After breaking free and reuniting with his avatars, he helped the Creation Sect and parted from Yue Mingxin before preparing a hidden teleportation array.

• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian led the Creation Sect army to White Cloud Temple, broke through the Devil Race’s formations, and fought the Devil Emperor while rescuing allied forces.
• Xiao Hua pursued the wounded Devil Emperor into Star Moon Palace, where he and four avatars lost their powers and became trapped in a maze of halls and repeated encounters.
• Xiao Hua endured cycles of betrayal and death among his avatars, then discovered that a Heavenly Demon was using karmic illusions to drain his vital essence.
• Xiao Hua recognized Xue Xue as an illusion, confessed his love for her, and joined with Yue Mingxin and his avatars to break the devil kingdom and defeat the Heavenly Demon.
• Xiao Hua and his allies refined the Heavenly Demon, while Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua reported that the Creation Sect had settled in the Ruins and rescued eight sects.
• Xiao Hua gave Sun Jian more disciples to aid the war and offered his own disciples pills, guidance, and sorcerous puppets.
• Xiao Hua rejected Yue Mingxin’s declaration of love, and she left at dawn to return to the Incense-Passing Cult.
• Xiao Hua set up the Duotian Star Array in an isolated wilderness to build a concealed Teleportation Array, then discussed the independent personhood of his incarnations with Green-robed Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua investigated the missing sects, uncovered the Devil Race’s use of zombies and a vast blood formation, and helped the Misty Sect survive an attack by two Devil Emperors. He escaped the formation with Yang Chong and returned to Pingjiang, where he learned Liu Wuxie was injured and prepared to hear Yang Chong’s grave warning.

• Xiao Hua reached Yongan Mountain, exposed the Devil Lord who had turned its disciples into zombies, and destroyed her forces before sending his avatars to investigate Snow Slash Sect.
• Xiao Hua joined Yun Che in an alliance between Creation Sect and Divine Blade Sect, then traveled to Misty Sect, where the Devil Race launched a surprise attack.
• Xiao Hua and Liu Wuxie fought the Demon Emperors, but a second Jianhuo Clan Devil Emperor ambushed Xiao Hua and the Devil Race carried his injured demon body away.
• Xiao Hua discovered that the blood-sphere Demon Formation sealed the Void and strengthened Devil Race warriors, then confronted Di Shitian and rescued a trapped cultivator from its primordial magnetism space.
• Xiao Hua escaped the blood formation with Yang Chong, evaded the pursuing Devil Emperor through a hidden passage, and learned that a Primordial Starburst might reach Xu within ten thousand years.
• Xiao Hua returned to Pingjiang, learned Liu Wuxie was recovering from her injuries, and joined the Misty Sect cultivators in Yuxiang Hall to hear Yang Chong’s more serious news.