Recaps

After leading the River City Team to victory, Yue Wen joined the East Sea Dragon Hall and struck a secret bargain with the Void Dragon King. When demons attacked Jiang Hongxiu, Yue Wen protected her and learned that her rescue was tied to the Dragon Hall’s internal intrigue and his parents’ disappearance; the arc ended with him choosing Ao Ligun’s dangerous mentor test.

• Yue Wen led the River City Team to victory, accepted Zhu Sanqing as his master, and chose the East Sea Dragon Hall despite offers from all four Dragon Halls.
• Yue Wen brought Big White back to River City, then joined Zhao Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Liu Yuanjun at the East Sea Dragon Hall, where Jiang Hongxiu was revealed as a revived Phoenix Immortal Body cultivator.
• Yue Wen secretly told Ao Yuanchi about his forbidden contacts and agreed to investigate Ao Yuanzhong in return for help uncovering his parents’ disappearance.
• Jiang Hongxiu welcomed Yue Wen and his companions, but demons attacked their courtyard, and a Silkworm Demon King seized her before Ao Yuanchi intervened.
• Yue Wen rescued Jiang Hongxiu and learned that the Dragon Hall attack might involve a mole, while Ao Yuanchi linked Yue Wen’s parents’ case to the Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb expedition and Ao Ligun.
• Ao Libai challenged the apprentices to fight him at the Fifth Realm, but Yue Wen, Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Jiang Hongxiu overpowered him and used video footage to secure his promise not to mistreat them.
• After reviewing the Council mentors’ admission challenges, Yue Wen chose Ao Ligun’s Thunder Tiger Whale hunt because he wanted the hardest test.

Yue Wen exposed a Dragon Hall spy, strengthened his cultivation, and prepared for the Celestial Phenomenon Realm contest. The apprentices entered the realm, where rival teams and demon hunters began competing for fruit and Yue Wen’s traps wounded the demons pursuing them.

• Yue Wen mastered Ao Ligun’s water-repelling art, entered the Raging Thunder Domain, and killed a Thunder Tiger Whale before Ao Ligun accepted him as a student and recounted the expedition where Yue Wen’s parents disappeared.
• Yue Wen learned that Ao Yuanren had accompanied the Heart-Ripping Woman at Snake Mountain, then discovered a demon’s Dao Source Profound Crystal and used its marker to expose Ao Libai as a Dragon Hall spy.
• Venerable Yuezun seized Ao Libai, who confessed to taking a bribe from the Demon Race and revealed their plan to abduct Jiang Hongxiu in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• Yue Wen cultivated with the crystal, comprehended the Dao Rhythm of Penetration, and obtained Gong Yao’s powerful Frostcloud Sword Formation before Ao Yuanren briefed the apprentices on the realm’s dangers.
• The East Sea apprentices entered the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, where the Kingdom Lord assigned Xiao Peng to guide them and Yue Wen proposed laying traps near the fruit.
• Shi Miaozhen’s team planted fake fruits, Meng Youjun formed a golden Divine Body to seek rivals, and Leng Que, Lin Kuangdao, and Golden Vulture Lady set out to hunt contestants.
• Yue Wen and Meng Yuheng laid traps around ripe fruits, while the demons triggered Yue Wen’s traps and suffered wounds from iron spikes and Heavenly Thunder.

Yue Wen stopped a demon invasion of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, uncovered secrets tied to Snake Mountain, and forged a supreme Night Dragon body. After surviving an assassination attempt in the Dragon Hall, he arranged to use the remaining infiltrator to set a trap.

• Yue Wen killed Leng Que, Lin Kuangdao, and Golden Vulture Lady, then helped the Dragon Hall apprentices uncover and repel the rebellion in the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom.
• Yue Wen led the human geniuses in an ambush that wiped out Pan Wushan’s demon force, and the kingdom rewarded them before the Dragon Hall sent them home.
• Yue Wen learned from Da Long about Ao Zang and Rock Mausoleum, then discovered the Spirit-Locking Formation around the Supreme Spirit Pool was connected to the site.
• Yue Wen questioned the Snake Mountain captives and learned that Ao Yuanren had made a deal with the being inside the burial chamber, while Duan Shousheng warned that the puppets’ controller had to release them willingly.
• Yue Wen forged a supreme Night Dragon body in the Supreme Spirit Pool, ascended to the Sixth Realm, and caused the pool and nearby buildings to be destroyed by a spiritual energy surge.
• Qimo Li and Shui Ming conspired to kill Yue Wen and take his place, while Gong Yao’s mirror wraith attempted to replace him from a bronze mirror.
• Yue Wen trapped the mirror wraith and Shui Ming in Guizang Ruins, then killed them both with his demon-slaying power and Brass Greatsword.
• Yue Wen reported the attack and learned that Shui Ming had posed as Chen Miao, then told Ao Weilian to leave the remaining infiltrator, Qi Li, unarrested so he could set a trap.