Recaps

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji overheard Mi Xiaolin and John discussing their plans for Sea Music Park, then chose to wait and observe rather than interfere. Qiu Wuji urged Chu Ge to develop the confidence to stand above his enemies even outside the world of his book.

• Mi Xiaolin ordered John to keep Sea Music Park running smoothly for a month and establish it as a legitimate city attraction before targeting Chu Ge or Lin Wuyang.
• John resented Mi Xiaolin but feared her butterfly esper ability and privately planned to exploit her after the operation succeeded.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji realized the park’s cameras had not detected them because Qiu Wuji had blocked the surveillance.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji decided to wait for the organization to act and treated their visit as an outing rather than causing trouble.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge he needed to carry his confidence from inside his book into the real world to become a god even without it.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji spent the cruise embracing the freedom to act confidently in the Mortal World, then watched the night sea together in matching bear outfits. Meanwhile, Zhu Mengmeng searched the symphony hall for a handsome single man and discovered that the Connection Lines around her were unusually dim.

• Chu Ge reflected on Qiu Wuji's confidence and accepted her advice that removing his mask depended on his own heart.
• Qiu Wuji explored the departing cruise ship, reminisced about their sandcastle, and talked with Chu Ge about myths and the setting sun.
• Chu Ge conjured winter coats from the book for himself and Qiu Wuji, and they sat together at the bow while a child mistook them for bears.
• Zhu Mengmeng went to the symphony hall hoping to meet a handsome single man, but found that most attendees were with partners or families.
• Zhu Mengmeng checked the Love Lines and Connection Lines around the hall and found them increasingly dim.

Zhu Mengmeng used her thread-seeing ability to recognize John as the man Chu Ge had beaten and let him lead her to the cruise ship’s secret casino. There she spotted prominent Nanjiang figures and realized the Music Park was a new criminal foothold, possibly meant to investigate something at sea.

• Zhu Mengmeng saw John’s desire for her and a thread of hatred pointing toward the deck, then recognized him as Chu Ge’s opponent from his bandaged nose.
• Zhu Mengmeng pretended to be interested in John and coaxed him into showing her activities beyond the symphony.
• John led Zhu Mengmeng through a back door toward a secret casino, while she messaged Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge to come find her.
• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge received Zhu Mengmeng’s message and set out to locate her.
• Zhu Mengmeng found prominent Nanjiang figures, including Secretary General Zhang and Mi Xiaolin, gambling in the casino and realized the Music Park was a new criminal base.
• Zhu Mengmeng suspected the group had established an offshore foothold because they believed what they were seeking was in the sea.

Zhu Mengmeng played poker at Sea Park while Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji secretly disrupted the house player’s card-reading ability, helping her win thirty million. The house player suddenly collapsed and died, and Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji noticed Mi Xiaolin looked delighted.

• John gave Zhu Mengmeng chips and encouraged her to play poker against the house player.
• Zhu Mengmeng lost a large pot, then demanded more chips and continued playing.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji identified the house player’s X-ray-like ability and secretly changed how the cards appeared, causing Zhu Mengmeng to win.
• Zhu Mengmeng won thirty million as the house player grew increasingly confused and enraged by the changing cards.
• The house player spewed blood, collapsed, and lay motionless, while Mi Xiaolin reacted with wild delight.

After a passenger died aboard the cruise ship, Qiu Wuji suspected a sinister force was at work and learned the ship had changed course toward its target. She sent Chu Ge to capture Mi Xiaolin while she planned to investigate the ship’s controls below deck.

• Medical staff declared the dead passenger had suffered heart failure, but Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji recognized that he was already dead and suspected a supernatural cause.
• Zhu Mengmeng feared she had caused the death, and Qiu Wuji reassured her that the incident had nothing to do with her.
• Zhu Mengmeng revealed that she had seen the Fate Lines of everyone aboard fading, warning Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge that the passengers might die.
• Qiu Wuji noticed the stars had shifted and realized the ship had quietly changed course toward a definite destination.
• Qiu Wuji told Zhu Mengmeng to stay in her room, then planned to investigate the ship’s lower deck while Chu Ge captured Mi Xiaolin.

Chu Ge followed Mi Xiaolin and John as they investigated the deaths aboard the cruise ship and concluded that an Azure Dragon lay beneath the sea. After a violent death at the dance club, Mi Xiaolin detected Chu Ge’s attack and revealed that her master had figured out his ability.

• Chu Ge overheard Mi Xiaolin identify the dead dealer’s seven wounds as evidence of an Azure Dragon beneath the sea.
• Mi Xiaolin proposed provoking people into emotional agitation so the resulting deaths could help locate the Azure Dragon.
• At the dance club, a fight broke out, and the sleazy man’s body burst apart before Chu Ge could intervene.
• The doctor concluded that the blood’s direction pointed toward nearby waters, while Mi Xiaolin ordered her group to provoke more people.
• Mi Xiaolin sensed Chu Ge’s sneak attack, evaded it, and called him out, saying her master had figured out his actual ability.

Chu Ge confronted Mi Xiaolin and the armed foreigners aboard the ship, revealing his swordsmanship and protecting the hostages with a hidden treasure from his World Within the Book. The ship suddenly stopped, leaving the cause unclear.

• Chu Ge revealed himself, explained how Mi Xiaolin had detected his spatial distortion, and subdued her before she could teleport away.
• Chu Ge blocked the foreigners’ gunfire with Autumn Waters Reach the Sky and protected the hostages with the Buddha Statue Bell.
• Chu Ge crippled Mi Xiaolin’s meridians and challenged John and the other foreigners as they reloaded.
• The ship rocked and stopped, surprising Chu Ge and the others.

Qiu Wuji discovered that foreign espers were using music to locate and awaken the Azure Dragon sealed beneath the East Sea. She severed their connection to the seabed and tried to suppress the dragon, but enemies and a mental attack closed in as she prepared to fight.

• Qiu Wuji found a foreign team operating a dragon-shaped device that broadcast music into the sea to provoke a response from a sealed creature.
• The music triggered a violent backlash from the Azure Dragon, killing someone in the disco and revealing a powerful presence beneath the seabed.
• The elderly foreigner stopped the ship and used a mechanical arm and his esper ability to attack the seal and awaken the Azure Dragon.
• Qiu Wuji cut through the mechanical arm and the connection to the seabed with Sword Qi, then pressed the emerging Dragon Horn back into the earth.
• Dozens of espers attacked Qiu Wuji while the elderly foreigner struck her soul with a mental attack and Robin's music arrived from afar.
• Qiu Wuji faced the struggling dragon and surrounding enemies, telling Chu Ge that an age of chaos had begun and that she was going to kill.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge slaughtered the Western attackers while Robin fought Qiu Wuji beneath the sea. Chu Ge rescued Mi Xiaolin and learned the Westerners had been searching for the Azure Dragon Sacred Object, but Mi Xiaolin revealed Robin was only a decoy meant to lure Gu Ruoyan away.

• Qiu Wuji killed the Westerners underwater with sword qi while holding the Azure Dragon at bay, and her attack clashed with Robin's sound waves.
• Chu Ge defeated John and the other attackers aboard the ship by turning their sound-wave attack against them, then took Mi Xiaolin to investigate the plot.
• Chu Ge ordered the cruise ship to sail away as Qiu Wuji and Robin's battle sent a column of seawater into the sky.
• Mi Xiaolin explained that her group had searched the coast for the Azure Dragon Sacred Object, believing music could provoke a response from it.
• Mi Xiaolin told Chu Ge that Robin was not her master but a decoy intended to lure Gu Ruoyan away.

Chu Ge confronted Sandru, the hidden leader of the Dragon-Seeking Operation, while his Esper Ability paralyzed Chu Ge and attacked his soul. Chu Ge overcame the assault, destroyed Sandru’s steel robot, and subdued Mi Xiaolin, leaving the operation’s plans exposed.

• Chu Ge realized Robin was not the Dragon-Seeking Operation’s real boss and asked Mi Xiaolin what the group planned to do with the Azure Dragon.
• Sandru appeared and paralyzed Chu Ge with his Esper Ability, which Mi Xiaolin said let him control objects and use them as weapons.
• Chu Ge used his flying sword against Sandru, who assembled parts of the ship into a giant steel robot.
• After the robot struck him, Chu Ge endured the blow, suppressed Sandru’s influence on his soul, and dismantled the robot with the Tianshan Plum-Blossom-Hand.
• Mi Xiaolin tried to attack Chu Ge from behind, but he caught her wrist and broke her bones.

Chu Ge broke free of Sandru’s mental control with Zhu Mengmeng’s help and defeated the steel lizard, while Qiu Wuji continued suppressing the Azure Dragon Skeleton beneath the sea. The musician offered to let Qiu Wuji take the Azure Dragon in exchange for a favor, but she refused and declared that Shenzhou’s sacred treasures were not for outsiders.

• Chu Ge charged Sandru through a swarm of animated scrap metal, but Sandru unleashed a steel lizard built partly from the ship’s hull as the Azure Dragon awakened beneath the sea.
• Zhu Mengmeng spotted the control line linking Chu Ge to Sandru and severed it, allowing Chu Ge to dispel the shadow in his Soul Sea and regain his full strength.
• Chu Ge cleaved the steel lizard in half with his sword as the ship began taking on water.
• Qiu Wuji struggled to suppress the Azure Dragon Skeleton beneath the sea while a foreign musician offered her money, influence, or fame in exchange for letting his group take it.
• Qiu Wuji rejected the offer and told the musician that Shenzhou’s sacred treasures were not for outsiders.

Qiu Wuji broke free of James’s musical influence and let the Azure Dragon emerge after Chu Ge destroyed its control core. James was killed by the dragon he had summoned, leaving Qiu Wuji facing the unleashed skeletal dragon alone.

• James used piano music to stir Qiu Wuji’s emotions and turn the seawater around her into a deadly attack.
• Qiu Wuji realized Chu Ge had destroyed the Divine Soul control core and stopped suppressing the Azure Dragon, which burst free from the seabed.
• The Azure Dragon attacked James, who used his music to briefly halt it.
• Qiu Wuji shattered James’s piano and trapped him between her Sword Qi and the dragon; the Azure Dragon bit him to death.
• Qiu Wuji focused her power on the skeletal dragon as the decisive battle began.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji stopped the bone dragon’s rampage after discovering it recognized Chu Ge and responded to an ancient dragon scale. They resealed it beneath the sea, but Chu Ge was left wondering why the Azure Dragon’s skeleton had been hidden there.

• Qiu Wuji attacked the bone dragon with thousands of water swords but could not pierce its defenses, while Chu Ge killed the steel lizard and repaired the ship with Myriad Forms Cloudwater Divine Iron.
• Chu Ge killed the zombie posing as Sandru and recognized that a hidden intermediary had been controlling events; the real Sandru vanished after mocking him.
• Chu Ge flew to Qiu Wuji, and they found that the bone dragon reacted to him with familiarity.
• Chu Ge gave the bone dragon an azure Dragon Scale, and it calmed as he communicated with it and learned it had not been harmed.
• Qiu Wuji used her mirror to reseal the bone dragon beneath the sea, calming the waves and restoring the sea to stillness.
• Chu Ge wondered why the Azure Dragon’s skeleton was there and whether its sealing had been intended as protection.

After Chu Ge helped quell the crisis aboard the ship, he learned that his mother was a brigadier general and that his father was in the Arctic Ocean. He and Wu Xiuyun discussed his father’s secret decision to seal the Azure Dragon’s Dragon Bone, leaving Chu Ge to suspect it was an anchor maintaining the world’s spiritual energy.

• Chu Ge returned to the ship, calmed the panicked passengers, and claimed that he and Qiu Wuji belonged to the Dragon Group.
• Police and National Security Department personnel took over the aftermath, while a military officer told Chu Ge that the general had ordered his operation and asked him to report back.
• After reaching shore, Chu Ge learned from Wu Xiuyun that she was a brigadier general and that his father was in the Arctic Ocean.
• Wu Xiuyun explained that Chu Ge’s father had secretly sealed the Azure Dragon’s Dragon Bone without guards to avoid making it feel imprisoned.
• Chu Ge agreed with his father’s approach and suggested the Dragon Bone was an anchor holding down the world’s spiritual energy; Wu Xiuyun said he had grown up.

Chu Ge secured an official role overseeing the Azure Dragon and wondered whether his writing was connected to the spiritual qi revival. Qiu Wuji reassured him and realized the discovery of the Four Symbols Bones could help them find a passage between their worlds.

• Chu Ge told Wu Xiuyun that he could communicate with the Azure Dragon, and she arranged for him to oversee it without other routine duties.
• Wu Xiuyun warned Chu Ge to keep the Azure Dragon’s identity secret and hinted that the Black Tortoise might also be connected to him.
• Chu Ge considered how the Four Symbols, his book, and the spiritual qi revival might be linked, and worried that he was the cause.
• Qiu Wuji reminded Chu Ge that the revival had begun before he wrote his book and said they could handle whatever connection existed.
• Qiu Wuji realized that the Four Symbols’ appearance proved a passage between the two worlds might exist, and Chu Ge celebrated the breakthrough with her.

After recovering from their battle, Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji shared a meal and discussed Qiu Wuji teaching Mengmeng cultivation. They then learned that a problem with the anime’s music contract had put the production’s launch plans in their hands.

• Chu Ge reflected on how the recent battle had advanced his cultivation and revealed areas where he still needed to improve.
• Qiu Wuji cooked a feast for Chu Ge and asked whether she could teach Mengmeng basic cultivation; Chu Ge agreed, provided Mengmeng did not spread it.
• Qiu Wuji advised Chu Ge to draw any future invading foreign power into the World Within the Book, and Chu Ge explained why he had hesitated to try it against Sandru.
• Zhu Mengmeng called to report that the animation company’s music contract had fallen through and that they had received no reply to Qiu Wuji’s offer to make the music themselves.
• Qiu Wuji promised to teach Mengmeng cultivation, and Mengmeng agreed to follow up on the anime’s music and production.

After Robin’s arrest shut down his music company and derailed the animation’s soundtrack, Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge found a replacement composer through their fan leader’s powerful uncle. Cheng Guangyao agreed to take the job, leaving the animation’s music back on track.

• Security authorities arrested Robin in Lin'an, and the music company he led became unable to fulfill its contracts, including the animation soundtrack.
• The animation company asked Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji to help find new musicians, while Qiu Wuji admitted she was not yet ready to compose the score herself.
• Qiu Wuji checked Weibo and saw no public reports about their recent operation, then received a message from fan leader Early Autumn Tangtang about the animation’s music trouble.
• Early Autumn Tangtang revealed that her uncle was Ye Mingtang and offered to help arrange a meeting with renowned Guofeng composer Cheng Guangyao.
• Chu Ge called Cheng Guangyao, explained the situation, and secured his agreement to compose the animation’s music.

Cheng Guangyao agreed to compose the music for the Cloudreach animation, then heard Qiu Wuji perform a guqin piece inspired by the Cloudreach Sect. He declared that the music could become a worldwide hit even if the animation itself failed.

• Cheng Guangyao’s public criticism of Robin’s concert had damaged interest in the rest of Robin’s tour, and his agreement to score the animation excited Tencent Animation’s music department.
• Zhang Xiaopeng traveled to Nanjiang and signed the contract with Qiu Wuji on behalf of Boundless Chu Tian Comics Studio, following Cheng Guangyao’s insistence that he join the studio.
• Over tea, Cheng Guangyao criticized Robin’s unsuitable music for the animation and asked Chu Ge to share ideas for the score.
• Chu Ge pointed to Qiu Wuji, who offered to play a piece and summoned a guqin onto the desk.
• Qiu Wuji played music that evoked the Cloudreach Sect and a young man approaching its mountain gate.
• Cheng Guangyao praised Qiu Wuji’s composition and said its music could become famous worldwide and endure for generations.

Qiu Wuji composed and performed music for the Boundless Chu Tian promotional short, and Cheng Guangyao arranged it, helping the video surge in popularity. The animation team then proposed moving the release from Spring Festival to New Year's Day if the music could be completed in time.

• Cheng Guangyao praised Qiu Wuji's music and offered to arrange her compositions.
• Cheng Guangyao produced a demo, and Zhang Xiaopeng's team matched it to the Cloudreach Sect promotional short and re-released it online.
• The revised short gained nearly two million Bilibili views overnight, drawing praise for its music, visuals, and Qiu Wuji's performance.
• Zhang Xiaopeng told Qiu Wuji and Cheng Guangyao that the project department might move the animation's release forward.
• Zhang Xiaopeng proposed New Year's Day as the new target instead of Spring Festival.

Cheng Guangyao helped Qiu Wuji complete the anime’s music and persuaded her to let him publicly call her his disciple, while privately accepting that she would only call him Teacher. Chu Ge then visited the new island base guarding the Azure Dragon’s bones and received an auxiliary member credential, where Gu Ruoyan revealed that several familiar free spirits had agreed to serve there.

• Cheng Guangyao discussed the anime’s music with Qiu Wuji and asked her to let him present her as his disciple so he could recruit a lyricist and singer.
• Qiu Wuji refused to formally become Cheng Guangyao’s disciple but agreed to call him Teacher as a courtesy, and he contacted friends to arrange the theme song’s lyrics and vocals.
• Chu Ge left the animation work to Qiu Wuji and flew to the island base established to guard the exposed location of the Azure Dragon’s bones.
• Gu Ruoyan gave Chu Ge his Auxiliary Member Credential and joked that he could count as the island lord.
• Chu Ge found Pan Da at the base and learned that Gu Ruoyan had recruited several familiar people by telling them Zhu Mengmeng might visit.

Chu Ge took charge of the island outpost as Gu Ruoyan handed command of Moon Shadow and the local guard team over to him. As Moon Shadow happily joined him on duty, Chu Ge reflected on how far she had changed and wondered whether Zhang Qiren would still like her.

• Gu Ruoyan explained her investigative role, admitted her abilities had limitations, and said Moon Shadow would serve as Chu Ge’s combat operative on the island.
• Gu Ruoyan left after telling Chu Ge to seek support from the mainland when needed.
• Pan Da, Wan Zijun, Chef Jin, and the others welcomed Chu Ge as their leader and agreed to watch for intruders near the seabed.
• Chu Ge found Moon Shadow watching the sea and learned she had requested the assignment because she wanted to help him and repay him and Sister Qiu.
• Moon Shadow agreed to guard Chu Ge as he dove underwater, while he reflected on her new life and her growing distance from Zhang Qiren’s world.

Chu Ge examined the sleeping Azure Dragon and discovered that its damaged bones had scattered spiritual energy across the world, possibly causing the spiritual qi revival. In Japan, Zhang Qiren learned of a seabed treasure and agreed to work with Matsuda while secretly resisting being used as a disposable weapon.

• Chu Ge reached the Azure Dragon’s seal and studied its sleeping body without entering the Mirror Space.
• Chu Ge recognized that the patterns on the Azure Dragon’s bones reflected the Heavenly Dao as he had written it, confirming that the dragon was his creation.
• Chu Ge found evidence that the Azure Dragon’s skeleton had been broken and repaired, and inferred that scattered bone fragments had caused spiritual energy to appear in places such as Old Zhu’s mine.
• Chu Ge wondered whether restoring the missing toe bone would help the Azure Dragon become more lucid and communicate with him.
• In Japan, Matsuda told Zhang Qiren that his group had discovered a spiritual treasure beneath the Sea of Nine Provinces and invited him to join an operation to claim it.
• Zhang Qiren agreed to cooperate with Matsuda but privately planned not to become a disposable blade, then rejected Matsuda’s offer of entertainment.

Chu Ge asked Wu Xiuyun to investigate the Azure Dragon’s missing toe bone abroad while he stayed home writing and watched the animated adaptation’s new promotional video go viral. Qiu Wuji took pride in composing its theme song, and Chu Ge invited her to celebrate Christmas Eve with a walk.

• Chu Ge told Wu Xiuyun to mobilize intelligence networks abroad to search for the Azure Dragon’s missing toe bone, and she agreed to prioritize East Asia.
• Moon Shadow said she would watch Chu Ge’s animated series, and he promised to make it the best animation possible.
• The animation team released the theme song “A Thousand Miles of Clear Autumn” with a promotional video that quickly became an online sensation.
• Qiu Wuji returned home pleased that her song was popular, and she and Chu Ge listened to it together.
• Qiu Wuji called the song her most vivid mark on the world, and Chu Ge invited her to walk through the streets with him on Christmas Eve.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji celebrated Christmas Eve in Nanjiang, where they teased each other while strolling through the streets and sharing fruit. Chu Ge hinted at having children together, leaving Qiu Wuji embarrassed as she realized his remarks had been leading there all evening.

• Qiu Wuji gave candy to a costumed child, then demanded a treat from Chu Ge, who used his divine sense to bring her fruit from the book.
• Qiu Wuji chased and beat Chu Ge for stealing her fruit, then walked hand in hand with him and praised him for giving Qiu Qiu the fruit.
• Chu Ge made fruit disappear from Qiu Wuji’s room in the book, prompting her to order Xuanji to throw Grand Martial Uncle off the mountain.
• Chu Ge suggested planting a tree of special immortal fruit for their future children, and Qiu Wuji smiled as she imagined them picking fruit.
• Chu Ge explained that couples went out on the holiday and joked that people wanted five children, making Qiu Wuji realize he had been coaxing her into having children.

On a Christmas outing, Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed having a child and found the holiday less meaningful than their own festivals. After seeing people openly wearing Cloudreach Sect costumes, they changed into their own robes and walked through the city hand in hand.

• Qiu Wuji admitted she was willing to have a child, and she and Chu Ge hesitated over the idea amid their many current responsibilities.
• Chu Ge teased Qiu Wuji about studying anatomy and hanging a stocking, while she insisted on decorating a Christmas tree and bought ice cream.
• Qiu Wuji said Christmas felt more like joining in the excitement than celebrating something personally meaningful, though she still liked the idea of Santa Claus giving presents.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji saw people dressed as Yan Qianlie and Cloudreach Sect disciples, prompting them to wonder why they were still wearing Russian-bear costumes.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji changed into Cloudreach Sect robes and walked openly down the crowded street hand in hand.