Recaps

Chu Ge asserted his authority over the Mortal Realm and established Qiu Wuji as Human Emperor before confronting Black Tortoise’s revival in the Arctic. After securing Black Tortoise’s trust and defeating the intruders, they returned home for the New Year, where Chu Jiangliu warned Chu Ge against overconfidence.

• Chu Ge restored Yan Qianlie’s Dharma Body, enabled Qingyan to reach Deification, and learned of the Vermilion Bird’s lingering hatred.
• Chu Ge upheld Xie Yuner’s authority in Skyreach City and ordered Xie Jiuxiao to resign and cultivate in seclusion.
• Chu Ge secured Chong Yu’s submission and sentenced him to guard the Endless Sea, while Qiu Wuji received the hundred peoples’ submission as Human Emperor.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji joined the Arctic expedition, where Qin Feier guided their group toward Black Tortoise and Gu Ruoyan uncovered the enemy formation’s trap.
• Chu Ge transported the intruders into the World Within the Book, where Qiu Wuji led their pursuit and Zhang Qiren seized control of the Black Dragon Society after protecting Moon Shadow.
• Qin Feier purified Black Tortoise’s Divine Soul, and Chu Ge won its trust by promising to restore its missing feet as Qiu Wuji calmed the collapsing Arctic waters.
• Black Tortoise agreed to recover in the mirror space, and Qiu Wuji accepted Qin Feier as a Registered Disciple before returning home with Chu Ge.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji reunited with his parents for the New Year, and Chu Jiangliu urged Chu Ge to recognize weaknesses in his book and rely on Qiu Wuji’s help.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji confronted doubts about their path while investigating the Gu God and preparing for Qiu Wuji’s ascension. Qiu Wuji entered the Heavenly Realm, where she challenged its factions and discovered a hidden ruin that may offer a way forward in their struggle to remain together.

• Chu Jiangliu explained his efforts to destabilize rival Esper organizations and search for the Four Symbols, while Chu Ge gave him the Nanotech Armor for the country.
• Chu Jiangliu helped Chu Ge recognize that his fading love for his world was undermining his ability to create, and Qiu Wuji urged him to keep writing and bring her true body out.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji took Qin Feier into the book, where Xuanji defeated her and began teaching her swordsmanship while Qiu Wuji challenged her to practice with patience.
• Chu Ge questioned Ye Xiaozhu about the Gu God and learned how she had become his disciple and successor, then examined Thomson’s account of Sandru’s formation and necromancy.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji celebrated the New Year with his family, and Qiu Wuji told him she wanted a child while he promised to connect the Milky Way to the human world.
• Qiu Wuji named Zhou Tianqi as Cloudreach Mountain’s next Sect Leader, left her cultivation insights behind, and ascended after the Four Symbols opened a heavenly stairway.
• Qiu Wuji and Yan Qianlie entered the Heavenly Realm and rejected its rival factions, while Chu Tiange ascended and agreed to investigate the Heavenly Emperor with a Confucian scholar.
• Qiu Wuji explored the immortal city and agreed to investigate an ancient ruin, while Chu Ge warned that its recruiter sought cannon fodder and said he was beginning to see a way forward in their fight to stay together.

Qiu Wuji defeated the Heavenly Emperor’s mark in the Zhenwu Mausoleum and claimed its palace, while Chu Ge advanced Chu Tiange’s Heavenly Court storyline and strengthened his bond with Qiu Wuji. After their drama became a hit and they began searching for a home, Zhang Xinghu’s account of a firebird led them to a possible Vermilion Bird clue in Indonesia.

• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji that the Zhenwu dungeon could become her abode and that she could inherit the title of Great Emperor Zhenwu, then began writing Chu Tiange’s arrival in the Heavenly Court.
• Chu Tiange accepted the Heavenly Observance Envoy position and began cultivating, while Qiu Wuji entered the True Martial Emperor’s Mausoleum with Li Changkong’s group.
• Qiu Wuji survived the mausoleum’s lethal sword formation, but Li Changkong was possessed by the Heavenly Emperor’s mark and attacked her.
• Chu Ge struggled against the Heavenly Emperor’s influence as Qiu Wuji destroyed the mark and claimed the restored Zhenwu palace as her base.
• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge used a Heavenly Realm dual cultivation method, and Chu Ge reached Deification while Qiu Wuji developed her Supreme Sword Body.
• The Heavenly Emperor sent Chu Tiange to investigate the Buddha Kingdom and the White Tiger, while Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed the growing success of their television adaptation and overseas earnings.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji toured a villa next door to Zhu Mengmeng’s home, where they found a divine-bird mural and heard Zhang Xinghu’s account of a fiery apparition in Indonesia.
• Chu Ge recognized Zhang Xinghu’s Firebird Pendant as a possible Vermilion Bird clue, took it from him, and temporarily purified the resentment afflicting him with Buddhist light.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji traced the Four Symbols’ lost powers, uncovering the Vermilion Bird’s fall and reincarnation as Qingyan while helping Zhu Mengmeng awaken her own abilities. The arc ended with Chu Ge confronting a false Buddha in Indonesia over the Vermilion Bird’s sealed essence, as Chu Tiange arrived in the Western Buddha Kingdom.

• Ji Cha learned he had earned a Great God Contract, thanked his editors and readers, and defended his plans to finish his current book before writing harem fiction.
• Zhang Xinghu sold his house to Chu Ge after Chu Ge temporarily exorcised its ghost, and Chu Ge connected a pendant’s Vermilion Bird essence to a possible problem in Indonesia.
• Qiu Wuji protected Zhu Mengmeng from the Buddha and Daoist, who attacked True Lord Xunfeng, and Zhu Mengmeng severed the Buddha’s connection to the lotus fire.
• Zhu Mengmeng discovered her affinity with the Earthfire and its hidden connections, while Chu Ge suspected her unusual abilities came from scattered Vermilion Bird attributes.
• Yan Qianlie founded the Flame Prison Sect, crossed a swamp on a bridge of bones, and entered a fire-lit tomb where he found the Southern Pole Immortality Emperor Scripture.
• Zhu Mengmeng absorbed immortality qi from six wells before Chu Ge returned the excess, and Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji traced the wells’ power to the Black Tortoise and the Southern Dipper.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji witnessed the Heavenly Emperor’s ancient attack on the Black Tortoise, while Yan Qianlie restored Zhenwu’s Office of Room Fire and saw the Vermilion Bird’s destruction and reincarnation as Qingyan.
• Chu Ge restored Ao’s legs, gave Zhu Mengmeng the Fate and Karma Chapter, and enlisted the Black Tortoise’s help to find the Vermilion Bird.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji traveled to Yogyakarta with Moon Shadow, where Chu Ge sensed the Vermilion Bird near a heavily armed temple and confronted a false Buddha that demanded he kneel.
• Chu Ge accused the false Buddha of sealing the Vermilion Bird’s essence in Zhang Xinghu’s pendant, while Chu Tiange arrived in the Western Buddha Kingdom.