Recaps

Xiao Hua helped Chan He Sect recruit disciples, revise its cultivation methods, and withstand Feiying Sect’s attack while investigating the spiritual-energy aberration. When Luoxian Sect’s leader failed to appear, Xiao Hua left Star Cloud Ridge with Yuehua and Liu Qingyu.

• Xiao Hua recognized the tribulation site of True Person Huangqiong and learned that crimson Saint Tribulations and changing spiritual energy had endangered cultivators across Yilin Continent.
• Xiao Hua helped Chan He Sect recruit disciples by identifying their Spiritual Roots, then taught the sect his selection method and revised its cultivation techniques.
• Xiao Hua gave Chan He Sect the Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array and agreed to investigate the loss of cultivators’ lifespans and the spiritual-energy aberration.
• Luoxian Sect arrived at Star Cloud Ridge just as Feiying Sect surrounded it, and Xiao Hua routed the attackers after Luoxian Sect’s Huang Xu refused to honor his promise to help Chan He Sect.
• Xiao Hua warned Huang Xu that his lifespan was short, and Huang Xu arranged for the Chan He Sect’s selection method to reach Luoxian Sect while promising to seek a pact between the sects.
• Xiao Hua explained that a spatial fissure had likely brought foreign spiritual energy to Yilin Continent and that revised cultivation methods might help cultivators survive its effects.
• After Xian Xiaozhi failed to arrive within a month, Xiao Hua agreed to take Yuehua and Liu Qingyu with him, and Liu Qingyu admitted he had maneuvered to join Xiao Hua.

The Dao Alliance confronted failing ascension and shrinking lifespans, then embraced the Spiritual Root methods attributed to Zhang Xiaohua and ordered his capture. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua sought travel funds at Xiehong Mountain, where sales of his revised techniques led to accusations of fraud and a confrontation with Rogue cultivator Yuhong.

• Huang Xu delivered True Person Huangqiong’s belongings and the Spiritual Root selection technique to Xian Xiaozhi at the Dao Alliance Meeting.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and True Person Ji Yan revealed the loss of access to the Gate of the Immortal Realm and cultivators’ declining lifespans, then ordered searches for passages to other realms.
• Xian Xiaozhi presented Zhang Xiaohua’s Spiritual Root selection technique, and True Person Ji Yan ordered protection for the Chan He Sect.
• True Person Ji Yan tested the selection technique on children, while Old Man Gu Qiong brought Chan He Sect members and revised cultivation techniques to the meeting.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered the methods distributed throughout the Dao Alliance, then ordered Zhang Xiaohua captured after concluding that he had returned from another dimension.
• Xiao Hua reached Xiehong Mountain without enough travel funds, and Liu Qingyu and Yuehua sold revised cultivation techniques to raise spirit stones.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong accused Liu Qingyu and Yuehua of selling counterfeit techniques and ordered their seizure before Elder Wen intervened.
• Xiao Hua claimed ownership of the Spiritual Root selection technique and challenged Elder Wen to judge the revised technique, while Yuehua warned against Yuhong’s proposed move to a secluded platform.

Xiao Hua escaped Wen Zhou’s blood ritual through the Blood Fiend Spiritual Pearl, while the Dao Alliance recovered his cultivation techniques and presumed him dead. After Demon Venerable Slayer emerged from the pearl and consumed the Devil Race cultivators, Xiao Hua collected Demon Venerable Ju’s remains and a sacred vessel before setting out for the Wumeng Mountain Range.

• Rogue cultivator Yuhong trapped Xiao Hua’s group and Elder Wen, but Xiao Hua broke free, defeated Yuhong, and arranged for the Wen family to take over the auction venue.
• Xiao Hua traveled with Wen Zhen’s group, received a Dao Seed from a Dao Venerable in the Purple Cypress Wilderness, and continued revising his cultivation techniques as his Dao Seed developed.
• The Wen family welcomed Xiao Hua at Coiled Dragon Mountain, where he shared revised techniques and showed the elders the Heavenly Plum Token.
• Wen Zhou lured Xiao Hua and his companions into a blood formation, sacrificed the gathered Wen family descendants, and revealed his plan to refine the Myriad Spirit Blood Pearl.
• Xiao Hua fought Wen Zhou and collected the victims’ wandering souls, but Wen Zhou’s Blood Fiend Spiritual Pearl vanished through a spatial fault with Xiao Hua trapped inside.
• The Dao Alliance recovered copies of Xiao Hua’s cultivation techniques and assumed he had died, while Xiao Hua struggled against the pearl’s power and Demon Venerable Slayer took control to refine its blood essence.
• Demon Venerable Slayer emerged when the final pearl shattered, killed the Devil Race cultivators preparing a ritual for Demon Venerable Ju, and absorbed the gathered power.
• Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer collected the Blood Fiend Spiritual Pearls, discovered Demon Blade Shi’s missing tip and a sacred vessel, then sealed the vessel and Demon Venerable Ju’s remnant body for Zhang Qingxiao.

Xiao Hua crossed the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss, reunited with his disciples, and reached Tonghu City, where he exposed himself while selling cultivation methods and confronted Lake Lord Bi Hu and Kong Jing. After distributing techniques across the city, he investigated the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s passage through the Wumeng Mountain Range and met Bai Fei and Ye Yun at Lingfan Pavilion.

• Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer left the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss through Black Demon Paths, and Xiao Hua brought Yuehua and Liu Qingyu into the Creation Sect before sending them and his disciples back to the Shenhua Continent.
• Xiao Hua reached Tonghu City with Hong Qing and learned that Changlin Pavilion was auctioning his Spiritual Root selection technique.
• Zhe Jun recognized Xiao Hua at the auction, and Xiao Hua revealed that he had created the technique before selling copies and cultivation methods to Heavenly Alliance cultivators.
• Lake Lord Bi Hu and Kong Jing confronted Xiao Hua, but Xiao Hua defeated Kong Jing, spared him, and urged the Heaven Alliance and Dao Alliance to unite against the calamity.
• Xiao Hua arranged for cultivation methods to be sold to the cultivators gathered at Tonghu City’s auction, while Lake Lord Bi Hu closed the hall and reported what happened to the Heavenly Alliance.
• Xiao Hua learned that the Shaque Immortal Alliance was seeking cultivators for a dangerous passage through the Wumeng Mountain Range and went to Lingfan Pavilion to ask about it.
• Bai Junfeng and Yu Biqiong explained the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s plan to recruit a group for the Lost Land, and Xiao Hua warned Bai Fei not to trust them.
• Xiao Hua introduced himself to Bai Fei as True Person Xiao, and Ye Yun recognized Bai Fei as the cultivator who had saved her near the Wumeng Mountain Range.