Recaps

Tian Hao advanced his martial training while clashing with Yue Lingshan and Linghu Chong, and Yue Buqun’s group uncovered Guan Family Fort’s hidden treasure and smuggling route. Yue Lingshan developed internal qi through Tian Hao’s punishing body-tempering regimen and continued to challenge him.

• Tian Hao discovered that touching Yue Lingshan activated the Heaven-Defying Mirror, then fought Lu Dayou after Lu accused him of harming her and invoked his troubled past.
• Tian Hao defeated Linghu Chong in a fight, and Yue Buqun punished Linghu Chong and Lu Dayou by sending them to Reflection Cliff.
• Ru Zhigang named Tian Hao Rugged Man and Master, and Yue Buqun revealed that the Mount Hua Sect planned to recover Guan Family Fort’s hidden treasure to fund an academy.
• Tian Hao explained that Guan Family Fort had sold weapons to foreign peoples and said he wanted to build a new dynasty that served the common people.
• Tian Hao trained Yue Lingshan in a sealed steam chamber using a heat-and-cold version of the Horizontal Crab Iron Shirt, and Ning Zhongze agreed to let her continue.
• Yue Buqun and the Mount Hua Sect recovered meteoric-iron sabers and millions of taels of silver from Guan Family Fort’s cesspit, then found its underground forge and smuggling passage to the Yellow River.
• Yue Lingshan developed internal qi and challenged Tian Hao with improved Mount Hua Swordsmanship, but he knocked her into a wall and sent her back to the training chamber.
• After Yue Lingshan completed another round of training, she attacked Tian Hao with qi-strengthened fingers as he opened the chamber door.

Tian Hao helps Mount Hua strengthen its training, resources, and defenses while uncovering threats from the Demon Cult and his own sect. The arc ends with Tian Hao joining a battle against Demon Cult intruders as Feng Qingyang faces Dongfang Bubai.

• Tian Hao pushed Yue Lingshan into Iron Shirt training, helped Mount Hua develop the Self-Hypnosis Method, and aided Yue Buqun in building the sect’s strength and academy.
• Tian Hao mastered Embrace Origin Force, helped capture the cannibalistic Desert North Duo, and exposed Linghu Chong’s conduct, leading Yue Buqun to send Linghu Chong to Reflection Cliff.
• Tian Hao warned Yue Buqun that Dongfang Bubai was interested in Feng Qingyang, while Yue Buqun ordered Mount Hua to conceal its black-iron forging and prepare for threats.
• Tian Hao developed a force-stacking hammer technique, forged black iron weapons and armor, and prepared the martial uncles for a possible trip to Putian Shaolin Temple.
• Lu Dayou learned Tian Hao’s origins and recruited junior disciples against him, while Guan Ji arranged a trap for Tian Hao and Guan Feng vowed revenge.
• Tian Hao completed his heavy black iron armor, then learned that intruders had attacked Mount Hua while Yue Buqun and the others were away.
• Tian Hao fought through the Demon Cult attackers, defeated Tong Baixiong with his armored strength, and reached Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze as Feng Qingyang fought Dongfang Bubai.