Recaps

Xiao Hua and Bai Fei joined the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s expedition to the Lost Land, entering a dangerous formation to retrieve a Wind Phantom Wheel fragment. Xiao Hua split from Bai Fei and sent disciples to search for the fragment, while Xiyue met Yang Xia and Kong Qiang elsewhere.

• Xiao Hua and Bai Fei reached Wangyou Mountain Villa, where the Dao Ancestor’s seed entered Thunderclap True Person and reshaped him, and Steward Xu later postponed the expedition until after spring.
• Xiao Hua investigated the Wumeng Mountain Range with his avatars and learned that its restrictions blocked spatial travel and that its Soul Cultivators had abandoned their old inheritance for mixed practices.
• Bai Fei learned that Zhang Xiaohua’s cultivation methods had disrupted the alliance’s plans, while Ji Yu invited Bai Fei and Xiao Hua to join the journey to the Lost Land.
• Bai Fei offered Xiao Hua a cultivation-method jade slip and urged him to join, but Xiao Hua bought one and privately resolved to travel without pledging loyalty.
• Du Peng led the cultivators to the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area and announced that retrieving a Wind Phantom Wheel fragment and returning within thirty days would pass the selection.
• True Person Yuankong led Xiao Hua, Bai Fei, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren into the hidden maze, where Xiao Hua navigated the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array and the group split at a fork.
• Ji Yu confronted Bai Fei in the maze, then left after giving him medicine for Ye Yun and a Nascent Soul cultivation method, while Bai Fei trapped Xiao Hua in a sword formation and demanded cooperation.
• Xiao Hua lost Bai Fei’s trailing Metal Devouring Worm, summoned Spirit Division disciples to search for the Wind Phantom Wheel, and left through a spatial rift, while Xiyue spoke with Yang Xia before Kong Qiang arrived.

Xiao Hua intervened in the battle at the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, where the alliances uncovered a demonic plot and the planar rift revealed the Water Origin. After bringing the Dao and Heavenly Alliances together and obtaining the Water Origin, Xiao Hua prepared to leave Yilin Continent, while its cultivators asked to witness his ascension.

• Dragon God Son, Holy Mother Di Ling, Yang Xia, Kong Qiang, and True Person Jin Sheng gathered to investigate the mysterious aura and the Myriad Monster Realm beneath the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area.
• True Person Jin Sheng and the four alliance leaders opened the planar rift, but Dao Alliance cultivators attacked and True Person Ji Yan entered it before the ensuing storm tore through the battlefield.
• Xiao Hua arrived, rescued True Person Xiyue’s soul, and sent his companions to suppress the storm and confront the combatants.
• Demon Venerable Slayer subdued demonic forces while Xiao Hua and his allies stopped the fighting, revealed Demon Emperor Jing Yu’s scheme, and dealt with Dragon God Son’s demonic imprint.
• Xiao Hua gave the cultivators lifespan-restoring pills and cultivation methods, and Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi pledged to end the alliances’ hostility and cooperate against the coming calamity.
• The planar storm collapsed the Kunlun Mirror’s passage and exposed the Water Origin, so Xiao Hua and his companions used Ye Zhen’s spatial arts and Kong Qiang’s Five-Colored Divine Light to draw it across the boundary.
• Xiao Hua absorbed the Water Origin and completed the seven-origin transformation, then tested his newly awakened Light Evasion and thanked the cultivators who had helped him.
• Old Man Gu Qiong, Hao Yue Jushi, and the others asked to witness Xiao Hua’s ascension, and Xiao Hua told them they would need to follow him to the Xiaoyu Continent.

Xiao Hua settled his dealings in Yilin Continent and joined the Shaque Immortal Alliance expedition toward the Lost Land, where he discovered Devil Race possession among its leaders and disciples. After heavy losses in the Wumeng Mountain Range, the expedition reached Broken Blade Ridge and prepared for the teleportation tunnel.

• Xiao Hua delivered the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism to Peacock Mountain Villa and accepted Ye Zhen’s token and information about the tunnel through Wumeng Mountain Range.
• Xiao Hua rejoined Bai Fei’s group with two Wind Phantom Wheels and spent the flying boat journey deepening his understanding of the Five Elements Origin.
• Nuo Yeqing revealed that he was Master Ke Qin’s reincarnation, and Xiao Hua returned his inheritance and arranged for Wu Daoist to accept him as a disciple.
• Xiao Hua encountered Zhang Jie, an angel of the Sacred Light Realm, whose Seven Tears shattered under the Heaven and Earth Restriction.
• Xiao Hua discovered Devil Race possession among the expedition’s leaders and disciples, while Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong ordered Du Peng to lead fifty thousand cultivators toward the Lost Land.
• Du Peng led the expedition into Wumeng Mountain Range, while Xiao Hua sent his avatars to distribute improved grain seeds throughout Yilin Continent.
• Zhang Jie drove back the Mirage Tentacle and guided the surviving cultivators onward until over twenty-four thousand reached the vicinity of Broken Blade Ridge.
• Du Peng arranged 365 Shaque Immortal Alliance disciples into a formation and ordered the cultivators to rehearse the teleportation flying boat while they awaited the tunnel.

Xiao Hua crossed the Netherworld Blood Sea, learned that Ziming would bear the next Witch King, and escaped the Buddhist formation without her. After rescuing Jiu Xia and helping her reclaim Qingqiu Mountain’s inheritance, he went to Houtu Village to fulfill his promise to Ziming and settle his past grievances.

• Du Peng opened a Black Demon Path through the Heaven and Earth restriction, and Xiao Hua and his companions entered the Netherworld Blood Sea, where Mount Sumeru’s Buddhist power devastated the survivors.
• Xiao Hua used the Witch King Order to endure Mount Sumeru’s seal, met Witch King Shi beneath the formation, and learned that Shi had summoned him to arrange the succession of the next Witch King.
• Shi revealed that Xiao Hua and Ziming’s child would become the next Witch King, and Xiao Hua accepted the child’s fate before Shi sent him away with Ji Yu and Ye Yun while Ziming remained behind.
• Shi sacrificed his soul to open a path for the Netherworld Lotus, but the array spirit still kept Ziming in the formation as the new Witch King Ming was born.
• Xiao Hua returned to Xiaoyu Continent, waited for Ziming, then sensed Jiu Xia in danger and rescued her from Snow Wolf, whom he had Huang Tong imprison.
• Xiao Hua transferred Qingqiu Mountain’s inheritance to Jiu Xia, gave her the Nine-tailed Fox Sacred Jade and a bloodline pearl, and helped her bind Hu Qiong to serve the Fox Clan.
• Jiu Xia took Hu Qiong away with the Fox Clan’s inherited demon artifact and clues to the Yi Ze Realm, while Xiao Hua resolved to revive Ziming and settle his grievances at the Thunder Control Sect.
• Xiao Hua entered Houtu Village during a Prayer Ritual and saw villagers gathered around the Great God Houtu statue, while Ji Qing asked Ruo Hong how long the ritual lasted.