Recaps

Xiao Hua’s journey through the starry sky led him to the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao, while Chunzang’s scripture journey was disrupted by two indistinguishable Zhen Kongs. After the Great Sun Tathagata named one false, Maitreya Buddha World Honored One left Thunder Sound Temple, and Chunzang began forming a golden body.

• Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi crossed the perilous platform with Xiao Hua, who used the Saint Lotus Seed to heal Xu Zhi and help him enter the Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Hua explored the boundary of time, recovered fragments with the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou, and reached late mahayana before entering a pavilion for the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao.
• Chunzang and his disciples arrived at Cangxian Continent, where Zhen Jie fought the Demon Kings and Zhen Kong killed Lü Cao’s parents after discovering their Mind Control Worms.
• Chunzang took Lü Cao along, while two identical Zhen Kongs fought and baffled the Earth Gods, the Four Seasons Gong Cao, Great White Golden Star, and Manjushri Bodhisattva.
• The Great Sun Tathagata identified one Zhen Kong as false, and Zhen Kong killed him before promising to continue escorting Chunzang.
• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One left Thunder Sound Temple for Great Snow Mountain with about forty percent of the Buddhist disciples, while the Great Sun Tathagata sealed Zhen Kong’s soul.
• Chunzang’s Niwan Palace filled with Buddhist light as a golden body began to form, and Zhen Jie stopped Zhen Kong from approaching Lü Cao after he returned from killing the false Zhen Kong.

After returning to the Three Great Continents, Xiao Hua strengthened the Creation Sect and pursued the National Teacher’s tokens to reach the Immortal Palace. He exposed a traitor and gained the title of Thunder Master, but left without learning where Princess Xinxin was imprisoned as Gouchen revealed wider political upheavals.

• Xiao Hua returned to the Three Great Continents, met an old farmer in Xiao Kingdom, and vowed to protect its people by ordering Xiong Yi to deal with the neighboring countries threatening them.
• Xiao Hua returned to the Creation Sect, learned that Princess Xinxin had sacrificed half the Heavenly Heart to save him and been imprisoned, and resolved to rescue her himself.
• Xiao Hua brought one hundred thousand Creation Sect disciples to the Yaotai Gathering, where they collected all 483 National Teacher’s tokens so he could follow their guidance to the Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Hua reached the Immortal Palace and fought the Lords of Taiqing and Yuqing Palace after its generals challenged his arrival, while Sun Jian tried to contain the crisis.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen restored order, and Xiao Hua and Wenqu exposed Xie Xin as a traitor before Gouchen appointed Xiao Hua the Immortal Palace’s Thunder Master.
• Gouchen and Empress Dongmian executed Xie Xin, but Gouchen refused to tell Xiao Hua where Princess Xinxin was imprisoned and revealed that he had accepted a marriage proposal from the Nangong Family.
• Gouchen explained the Immortal Palace’s political pressures and his plan to unite Confucian cultivators through the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin, then shocked Xiao Hua by saying Maitreya Buddha World Honored One had rebelled against Thunder Sound Temple.

Xiao Hua led the Creation Sect to Chaomu Cliff to find Xin Xin, where the Four Great Families attacked in pursuit of the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin. After the battle was interrupted by the Immortal Palace Star River, Wenqu learned the truth about Pear Blossom Fairy, Li Xiubai, and the sword fragments that had shaped his emotions.

• Xiao Hua returned to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, welcomed his disciples, and established the sect’s masters while confirming its secret acquisition of Star Picking Tower.
• Xiao Hua used the Hand of Cause and Effect to locate a perilous place linked to Xin Xin, and Gongshu Yixin identified it as Chaomu Cliff.
• Xiao Hua and Wenqu reached Chaomu Cliff, where Nangong Tianzhi, Nangong Jingyin, and the other family heads confronted them over Xin Xin and the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin.
• Xiao Hua summoned the Creation Sect’s forces, and both sides fielded nine hundred thousand disciples before the battle began.
• Xiao Hua and his allies fought the Four Great Families, with Xiao Hua overwhelming several Literary Saints while Heavenly Human and Thunderclap True Person battled Ximen Jianzhong and Beiming Chouqing.
• Wenqu defeated the Four Great Families’ combined Laozi images with the Saints who had illuminated his Wenqu Star, revealing his true Literary Star realm.
• The Immortal Palace Star River descended, the family heads escaped, and Thunderclap True Person fought Princess Qingqing’s procession while Wenqu helped break the Star River Great Formation.
• Wenqu spared the surviving family disciples, then heard the Lords of Shangqing and Taiqing explain Pear Blossom Fairy’s death, their reincarnations, and the search for the Soft Water Tender Love Sword fragments.
• Wenqu realized Xiao Hua’s Nine Stars Eclipse the Sun Sword Pellets were those fragments and that Pear Blossom Fairy’s consciousness had shaped his emotions.

Xiao Hua searched for Xin Xin and confronted Immortal Emperor Gouchen as the Four Great Families trapped Changsheng Town in the Innate Four Directions Great Formation. After Xiao Hua freed Xin Xin and the formation collapsed, the Four Great Families attacked, but news of a devastating insect invasion interrupted the battle.

• Wenqu traded the Soft Water Tender Love Sword for the Xuanyuan Sword, allowing the Lords of Shangqing and Taiqing Palace to reunite the nine Sword Intents with their Sword Pellets.
• Xiao Hua and Wenqu found no sign of Princess Xinxin in the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal at Chaomu Cliff, then returned to the Creation Sect while Star Picking Tower spread Xiao Hua’s story across Cangxian Continent.
• Xiao Hua’s avatars attained their own nature, while Chun Zang and his disciples completed their scripture mission and received Buddhist titles and fruits.
• Xiao Hua attained Guanyin’s Buddhist Fruit, then discovered that the Six-Eared Macaque had impersonated Zhen Kong and killed Yuan Tongtian, and he vowed to hold those responsible to account.
• Xiao Hua and the gathered leaders found Changsheng Town sealed by a formation that blocked air, qi, teleportation, and their attempts to escape, while the Four Great Families threatened Gouchen and the Creation Sect.
• Xiao Hua followed Yingluo from Xin Xin’s Profound Origin Water Control Banner to the Sheji Town Paper, freed Xin Xin, and used her banner to open a passage through the formation.
• Xin Xin guided Gouchen, Rāgaratna Tathagata, and the others out as the formation collapsed, and Xiao Hua’s disciples protected Changsheng Town from the Liao River before the Four Great Families surrounded the town and battle began.
• The Four Great Families’ banners held off their opponents until urgent reports revealed that insects were devouring demon realms, nations near Cangxian Continent, and temples in the Pure Land World.