Recaps

Xiao Hua uncovered the Heaven and Earth Pagoda, confronted the Huayue Tiantian Demon, and stopped the Primordial Continent’s flood of Innate Heavy Water. After helping the land recover and establishing a refuge for the Incense-Passing Cult, he departed for Cangxian Continent while Di Shitian and her companions were cast from the collapsing fissure.

• Xiao Hua traced the formation eye to Chao Tian Que, entered the inverted pagoda space, and discovered the Great Evolution Exquisite Pagoda concealed within an illusion.
• Xiao Hua and his avatars broke the linked pagodas, uncovered the Heaven and Earth Pagoda, and found Namo Maitreya Buddha’s Cai Li, which set off a conflict between Xiao Hua and Buddha Bodhi over Jiang Liuer’s Buddhist destiny.
• The Huayue Tiantian Demon emerged, killed the Tun Tian Beast, and was lured by Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua into Shenhua Continent, where Xiao Hua’s avatars subdued it.
• Xiao Hua reconciled with Buddha Bodhi, then explored the Heaven and Earth Pagoda’s levels and absorbed its Wind Origin and Lightning Origin as Shenhua Continent expanded into new spaces.
• Xiao Hua collected the Innate Jellyfish, Dragon God Dragon Bone, and vast stores of Innate Heavy Water before exposing Tun Tian’s betrayal and sparing him on the condition that he protect the reincarnated Maitreya Buddha.
• Xiao Hua removed the Heaven and Earth Pagoda, escaped the collapsing spaces, collected the Primordial Heavy Water, and helped the Primordial Continent recover through rain, returning beasts, and scattered seeds.
• Xiao Hua established a protected settlement for the Incense-Passing Cult disciples, then departed for Cangxian Continent after his first teleportation attempt failed.
• The cracked teleportation fissure later expelled Di Shitian, Yue Mingxin, Yang Haoya, and Huan Wuxin, and Di Shitian awoke beside scorching lava and a strange beast.

Xiao Hua returned to the beginning of Chun Zang’s scripture journey, helped him choose the scriptures over Buddha fruition, and then turned to the South Sea Dragon Palace. The arc ended with Ao Dai killing a Crown Prince and Xiao Hua facing an attack at the Dragon Gate.

• Chun Zang and his disciples reached Little Linglong Temple, where Namo Great Practice Samantabhadra Bodhisattva revealed Chun Zang’s connection to Namo Maitreya and a Great Demon attacked them.
• Xiao Hua returned to Great Snow Mountain, defeated the Five-Colored Demon Race with Tun Tian and Yuan Tongtian, and freed Chun Zang.
• Chun Zang rejected his past-life fruition and chose to continue seeking scriptures, while Buddha Bodhi attained the Maitreya Buddha position and Tun Tian became Chun Zang’s disciple Zhen Jie.
• Xiao Hua met Sun Jian, arranged a Creation Sect foothold in the Pure Land World, and sent disciples back to Cangxian Continent while warning them against infighting.
• Xiao Hua traveled to the South Sea, endured lightning tribulation, entered the South Sea Dragon Palace’s territory, and announced that he had come to visit the Dragon King.
• Ao Dai let Senior Xie persuade him to kill the First Crown Prince and blame Xiao Hua, then prepared to receive Xiao Hua as Dragon Master.
• When the Dragon King failed to appear, Xiao Hua said he would force his way in, and golden dragon scales swept out to attack him.

Xiao Hua entered the South Sea Dragon Palace seeking Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism and was drawn into a conflict over the deaths of the crown princes. After exposing Ao Dai’s betrayal and defeating the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ formation with his allies, Xiao Hua faced Ao Tong’s final assault and began negotiating over the Dongtian River Dragon race.

• Ao Dai welcomed Xiao Hua, guided him to the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism, then staged an attack and blamed Xiao Hua for taking the trial token and killing the crown princes.
• Xiao Hua survived Seven Star Hall’s trials while Feng Wu gained recognition from all seven Big Dipper stars and ascended as a Great Sage.
• Xiao Hua found the bodies of Ao Huan, Ao Zhen, and Ao Wu, escaped the elders’ dragon formation, and confronted Ao Tong, who rejected his Dragon Master claim.
• Ao Dai accused Xiao Hua of killing his brothers, but Xiao Hua exposed contradictions in Ao Dai’s account and revealed that the Four Seas Dragon Kings were conspiring against him.
• Ao Duo and the other Dragon Kings identified Xiao Hua as the True Person and tried to recruit him, but Xiao Hua refused their offer and fought them inside the Four Seas Great Formation.
• Xiao Hua and his companions battled the Dragon Kings, and Feng Wu severed Ao Hong’s throne from the formation, causing the Four Seas Great Formation to collapse.
• Ao Tong activated the Sea Covering Great Formation, but the True Person split the formations, Dragon Palace, and surrounding sea with the Pangu Axe, then seized Ao Hong’s throne.
• Xiao Hua revealed Jiang Hong, Liu Yi, and hundreds of thousands of Creation Sect disciples aboard two Thunder Boats, refused Ao Duo’s request to simply withdraw the Dongtian River Dragon race, and began negotiating.

Xiao Hua maneuvered among the Four Seas Dragon Kings and entered the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons, where his allies faced danger and competing plans to rescue him. The stretch ended with Xiao Hua discovering that Ao Zhantian and Shui Mingzi hoped to use his influence for their own aims, and he continued watching them in disguise.

• Xiao Hua extracted treasures and concessions from the Dragon Kings, then arranged for Liu Yi to lead the gathered forces away while he accompanied Ao Hong toward the West Sea.
• Xiao Hua used news of the missing West Sea Fire Dragon Soul to send Ao Hong after Xuancheng, then discussed Dragon Island’s motives and the shifting balance of power with Feng Wu.
• Xiao Hua disguised himself in the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons and spotted Shui Mingzi, Ao Zhantian, and the cultivators he had rescued moving through the forest.
• Yuan Ya confessed his feelings for Dai Er, and Xiao Hua let them join forces to seek vengeance for the Empress and try to return Dai Er to the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Moth Beasts and Eagle Bats trapped the cultivators, but Xiao Hua arrived disguised as Ao Yi and helped Ao Zhantian and Shui Mingzi escape the danger.
• Ao Sheng set out to rescue Xiao Hua despite Dragon Island’s hesitation, while Ao Zhan followed and Fan Tian Shang Ren investigated the cultivators heading toward Biqingyu.
• Xunkong Shangren, Zhai Xingzi, Zhang Daoran, and Gu Suqiudi survived an Immortal Palace ambush, though Gu Suqiudi was badly injured using the Moon Shooting Bow.
• Xiao Hua overheard Shui Mingzi and Ao Zhantian discuss taking control of his followers and using them to recruit a powerful demon, then resolved to keep watching their rescue party.