Recaps

Xue Fuyao set out by Spirit Boat for Seahorse Island, hoping to find the Teleportation Array there, but learned that a sea beast had sunk the island. She also discovered that two groups had recently searched for the island, including monks from the Four Symbols Temple, and continued toward its location.

• Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil told Xue Fuyao about the Two-Headed Snake elder who had revealed Seahorse Island’s location, while Golden Pupil explained why he distrusted him.
• Xue Fuyao asked a Spirit Boat operator to take her to Seahorse Island.
• The operator told Xue Fuyao that a sea beast had sunk Seahorse Island several days earlier, but she insisted on traveling to its location.
• Xue Fuyao paid the operator a mid-grade Spirit Stone, and he revealed that monks from the Four Symbols Temple had asked about Seahorse Island before it sank.
• The operator said another group had searched for Seahorse Island after the sea beast left but found nothing.

Xue Fuyao searched the ruins of Seahorse Island and discovered that its Teleportation Array had been completely destroyed. She gathered all the broken formation runes, hoping to use them to deduce and build a new large Teleportation Array.

• Xue Fuyao learned that angry monks had come to Seahorse Island seeking its Teleportation Array and likely caused the sea beast attack that sank it.
• Xue Fuyao traveled to the island’s former location and descended to the seabed, where she found the island shattered into wreckage.
• Xue Fuyao determined that the old Teleportation Array could not be repaired, but explained that its runes might help her set up a new one.
• Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil joined Xue Fuyao in searching the seabed for formation runes.
• After two days of searching and piecing the fragments together, Xue Fuyao gathered all the formation runes.

Xue Fuyao received control of Bai Ze’s different space and prepared it as a safe refuge for her Dark Guards, modifying her Teleportation Array to connect to it. After finishing her work, she discovered that Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil were missing.

• Xue Fuyao spent three months deciphering the seabed Teleportation Array and considered where to build it safely in the Western Continent.
• Bai Ze summoned Xue Fuyao to the expanded different space and gave her control of it as a first-meeting gift.
• Xue Fuyao imprinted the Bai Ze mark onto the Token so Shadow One and the others could access the space, and Shadow Five, Ying Qi, and Shadow Twenty-One decided to join her in the Western Continent.
• Xue Fuyao modified the Teleportation Array so marked Dark Guards could teleport into the different space, though returning would require the space to cooperate if they wanted to change locations.
• After finishing her work, Xue Fuyao realized Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil were missing.

After leaving the alternate space, Xue Fuyao found Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil imprisoned and badly injured in a snake-meat shop, then rescued them and punished the shop owner. She returned to the alternate space with the recovering snakes and received a message saying her things were ready.

• Xue Fuyao followed her contract with Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil to a town where the two snakes had been captured.
• Xue Fuyao entered the snake-meat shop’s kitchen and found Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil wounded in a cage among other snakes.
• Xue Fuyao freed the two snakes, fed them dragon blood, and forced the shop owner to take venom from a severed snake head.
• Xue Fuyao returned to the alternate space, where Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil fell into a deep sleep while digesting the dragon blood.
• Xue Fuyao received a message on her Communication Talisman that said, “Your things are ready.”

Xue Fuyao collected Nirvana, a three-form semi-divine weapon forged by Master Tu, and planned her next journey. After arranging to meet Bai Ling, she set out for the Northern Wilderness Realm to investigate rumors of a Vermilion Bird.

• Xue Fuyao used her alternate space to arrive at Master Tu’s workshop almost immediately after he contacted her.
• Master Tu revealed a weapon that could shift between a whip, a sword, and a more powerful form resembling Shattered Star, and said it was nearly a Divine Artifact.
• Xue Fuyao named the weapon Nirvana and wished Master Tu success in forging a true Divine Artifact before they parted.
• Xue Fuyao planned to visit the Yuanji Sect after giving Bai Ling the Seven-Star Grass and Black Spirit Ear.
• Xue Fuyao recalled rumors of a Vermilion Bird in the Northern Wilderness Realm and decided to investigate, despite suspecting the reports were false.

Xue Fuyao arrived in Ping'an Town, a settlement where cultivators stopped before entering the Northern Wilderness Realm's forest. She declined Li Cheng's offer to guide her through the forest, but asked whether his group could provide information.

• Xue Fuyao traveled to the Northern Wilderness Realm and reached Ping'an Town after three days.
• Xue Fuyao learned that Ping'an Town served as a resupply and rest stop for people training in the forest, and that its strong residents kept troublemakers in line.
• Li Cheng approached Xue Fuyao and offered to guide and protect her in the forest for a high price.
• Xue Fuyao refused to hire Li Cheng's group because she preferred to train alone.
• Xue Fuyao asked Li Cheng whether his well-known group was well-informed, and he realized she wanted information.

Xue Fuyao bought Li Cheng’s group’s latest information and entered the Northern Wilderness Forest, where she learned of a possible heavenly flame and began using her ability to communicate with plants. She left the town behind and sought the forest’s treasures, though the tree she questioned knew nothing.

• Xue Fuyao agreed to pay Li Cheng five hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones for all the scrolls of information.
• Li Cheng warned Xue Fuyao about the forest’s dangers, especially during the transition between day and night, and later hired out his team to a group of five newcomers.
• Xue Fuyao entered the Northern Wilderness Forest and used her power to move the undergrowth aside.
• Xue Fuyao read the scrolls and learned that a sudden rise in temperature had withered plants at one location, prompting rumors of a heavenly flame that might be connected to the Vermilion Bird.
• Xue Fuyao threatened a tree into revealing where the good things were, but sensed its despair as it insisted it had no information.

Xue Fuyao explored the dangerous Northern Wilderness Realm, whose strange energy made its Spirit Plants unusually potent. After learning the Heavenly Flame lay near the inner region, she hurried deeper into the forest toward its location.

• Xue Fuyao left the towering tree and gathered useful Spirit Plants as she crossed the humid forest.
• Xue Fuyao blocked a green snake’s venom with her arm, found it barely affected her, and put the snake into the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet.
• Xue Fuyao read a scroll explaining that the Heavenly Flame lay near the boundary between the outer and inner regions, where unbearable heat had injured other Cultivators.
• Xue Fuyao put the scroll away and quickened her pace as poisonous Spirit Plants grew more numerous around her.

Xue Fuyao camped in the damp forest using her Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame while searching for the location recorded on a scroll about Fish Lake. A group of armed strangers arrived, and she overheard them mistake her flame for a gentle Heavenly Flame, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Xue Fuyao planned to have Bai Ling turn the poisonous Spirit Plants she had gathered into poison and poison pills for later use.
• Xue Fuyao failed to find the place recorded on her scroll before nightfall and used her Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame to dry the ground for a camp.
• Xue Fuyao read a scroll predicting that the wandering Fish Lake would next appear in the forest.
• A group of armed strangers approached Xue Fuyao's camp, and she watched them settle nearby without inviting them to share her fire.
• A young man warned a lively girl that the white flame was unusual, then said it was probably not the violent Heavenly Flame they had come to find.
• Xue Fuyao silently laughed when the young man described her Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame as gentle.

Xue Fuyao followed the signs of a Heavenly Flame into a scorching region where her Heavenly Eye revealed a world engulfed in fire and Starry Sky quietly healed the damage she suffered. She used the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame and Wine God Heartflame to confront the hidden flame, and a furious phoenix cry rang out.

• Xue Fuyao traveled toward the site of the rumored Heavenly Flame while questioning how the news of a Vermilion Bird had emerged.
• As the heat intensified, the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame and Wine God Heartflame appeared to protect Xue Fuyao and confirmed another Heavenly Flame was nearby.
• Xue Fuyao opened her Heavenly Eye and saw flames covering the sky and ground, then realized Starry Sky had been healing her injuries.
• Xue Fuyao sent both Heavenly Flames outward to force the hidden flame to reveal itself and helped the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame try to devour it.
• A piercing phoenix cry filled with anger and unwillingness rang across heaven and earth.

Xue Fuyao let the spirit-mind purifying flame devour the fiery Vermilion Bird, then left the forest before the arriving human and Demon Race forces could reach her. Back in Ping'an Town, she met the commotion’s aftermath as Jiu Laosan insisted the bird had been a divine Vermilion Bird.

• The spirit-mind purifying flame devoured the fiery Vermilion Bird while the Wine God Heartflame restrained it, and Xue Fuyao chose not to interfere.
• After the devouring ended, Xue Fuyao recalled both flames and used her different space to escape as human cultivators and Demon Race members approached.
• Xue Fuyao returned to Ping'an Town in the guise of a young man and waited to meet Bai Ling while Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil ate.
• Jiu Laosan declared that the fiery bird had been a Vermilion Bird he had seen before, but he could not remember where.
• Another patron challenged Jiu Laosan’s claim, pointing out that the bird had been swallowed and that unusual phenomena had already appeared in the forest.

Xue Fuyao overheard a man in Ping'an Town claim that a newly born heavenly flame had taken the form of a divine beast, and she suspected he was manipulating the locals into searching for it. After the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame and Wine God Heartflame failed to answer her questions, Bai Ling arrived and confronted her about her appearance.

• A bearded man told the residents of Ping'an Town that a newly born heavenly flame in the forest could rank among the top ten on the Heavenly Flame Ranking and urged them to seek it.
• The residents grew excited about obtaining the flame, while the man admitted he wanted to keep it from outsiders and could not compete for it alone.
• Xue Fuyao recognized that the man had persuaded the locals and suspected his claim about the flame taking a beast's form was a scheme.
• Xue Fuyao tried to sense whether the Spirit-Mind Purifying Flame and Wine God Heartflame could change shape, but neither responded.
• Bai Ling found Xue Fuyao and asked whether her current or previous appearance was fake, and Xue Fuyao replied that both could be.

Xue Fuyao revealed that Xue Qinning was a fake name and helped Bai Ling escape the people hunting her. After leaving Ping'an Town, Xue Fuyao arrived at the foot of the Yuanji Sect's mountain rather than trespassing into the sect.

• Bai Ling confronted Xue Fuyao about her false name, but accepted that she had been cautious and asked for her things so she could flee.
• Xue Fuyao warned Bai Ling that her pursuer was waiting outside and used a Formation Disk and Spirit Stones to send her away unnoticed.
• A group led by a burly man stormed into the establishment and searched for Bai Ling, while Xue Fuyao realized they were not from the Dragon Star Tower.
• Xue Fuyao messaged Bai Ling to ask why people were hunting her, then left with Purple Pupil and Golden Pupil.
• Xue Fuyao traveled through the different space to the foot of the Yuanji Sect's mountain and chose not to enter anywhere but the main gate.

After returning to Yuanji Sect, Xue Fuyao received cultivation guidance from Xie Yichu and learned that the Kunlun Sect and Heavenly Sword Manor had arrived for a disciple competition. She declined to compete and left to gather fruit, promising to bring her master fresh tea flowers.

• Xue Fuyao noticed many unfamiliar disciples from other sects at Yuanji Sect and went to Green Bamboo Peak to greet Xie Yichu.
• Xie Yichu praised Xue Fuyao’s cultivation, discussed her progress in the Longevity Formula, and answered her cultivation questions.
• Xue Fuyao suggested brewing the ripe fruit on Green Bamboo Peak into spirit wine, and Xie Yichu warned that the squirrels and spirit birds had been eating it.
• Xie Yichu explained that the Kunlun Sect and Heavenly Sword Manor had come to hold a competition against Yuanji Sect’s disciples, and Xue Fuyao declined his suggestion that she participate.
• Xie Yichu asked Xue Fuyao for more tea flowers for his martial uncles, and she promised to bring fresh ones before leaving to inspect the ripe fruit trees.

Xue Fuyao finished preparing fruit preserves and camellia blossoms, then learned from Xie Yichu that the competition had been delayed by two late-arriving sects. She visited Gu Nian and proposed replacing the disputed schedule with open arena challenges.

• Xue Fuyao buried jars of wine and stored dried fruit, fruit tea, and camellia blossoms before asking Xie Yichu about her Heavenly Flame.
• Xie Yichu explained that the Vermilion Bird Heavenly Flame had likely burned through its potential before dying, and said Xue Fuyao’s flame was stronger for devouring it.
• Xie Yichu told Xue Fuyao that Gu Nian was busy with the competition, which had been disrupted by the arrival of two more sects.
• Xue Fuyao found Gu Nian furious over the Azure Cloud Sect and the Luofu Sect, whose leaders had persuaded Gu Nian’s master to let them join.
• Gu Nian told Xue Fuyao that the two sects kept objecting to her revised schedules, so Xue Fuyao suggested open arenas where challengers could compete until someone stopped winning.

Xue Fuyao proposed that Yuanji Sect let four rival sects compete among themselves before its disciples faced the winner, and Gu Nian agreed to seek her master's approval. As Xue Fuyao reviewed the sects’ histories and strengths, she grew uneasy about how much her rebirth had changed the course of events.

• Gu Nian and Chu Yunzhe paused when Xue Fuyao asked about the Azure Cloud Sect and Luofu Sect’s grudges with other sects.
• Gu Nian explained that the Azure Cloud Sect had formed from survivors abandoned by the Kunlun Sect, while Chu Yunzhe and Gu Nian described the Luofu Sect as a provocative group skilled at escaping capture.
• Xue Fuyao suggested Yuanji Sect avoid a direct contest and let the four visiting sects compete first, with the winner facing Yuanji Sect’s disciples.
• Gu Nian decided to present the plan to her master, and Chu Yunzhe followed her while Xue Fuyao stayed behind to organize the documents.
• Xue Fuyao read the gathered intelligence, learned Heavenly Sword Manor had absorbed the resources of the fallen Heavenly Sword Sect, and worried that the changes in this life made her memories less reliable.

Xue Fuyao met with Nineteen, a Dark Guard serving undercover as a Kunlun Sect disciple, and ordered him to enter a hidden secret realm and claim its core. When Xie Lin insulted them, Nineteen struck him, and Xue Fuyao revealed her identity as Venerable Spiritwood’s sole disciple before leaving with Nineteen.

• Xue Fuyao sent copies of the sect documents to Shadow One and the other Dark Guards in the Southern Continent.
• Xue Fuyao met Nineteen, who told her the Kunlun Sect had removed him from the competition and replaced him with the Sect Master’s new disciple.
• Xue Fuyao ordered Nineteen to get into the confinement water dungeon, enter the hidden secret realm, and refine its core.
• Xie Lin insulted Xue Fuyao and Nineteen, so Nineteen slapped him into a human-shaped pit.
• Xue Fuyao revealed that she was Venerable Spiritwood’s sole disciple, warned she would report Xie Lin, and left with Nineteen as he froze in fear.

The four-sect platform competition began, and Xue Fuyao learned that the Kunlun Sect had used Xie Lin to build his reputation while keeping its strongest disciples out of the matches. After the Kunlun Sect won and withdrew rather than face Yuanji Sect in the final, Gu Nian was left furious at the sect for taking Yuanji Sect’s hospitality and dodging the real contest.

• Xie Lin resolved to settle accounts with Shi Jiu after returning to Kunlun Sect and hoped to secure his own path to becoming its next Sect Master.
• Xue Fuyao watched the matches with Gu Nian and learned that Kunlun Sect had sent mostly ordinary disciples while Xie Lin scored a long string of victories.
• Xue Fuyao suspected Kunlun Sect’s Sect Master was using Yuanji Sect to promote Xie Lin, while Gu Nian explained the struggle over Kunlun Sect’s succession.
• Kunlun Sect took first place, with Xie Lin earning 125 consecutive victories, then withdrew instead of facing Yuanji Sect in the final.
• Gu Nian grew angry that Kunlun Sect had accepted Yuanji Sect’s food and hospitality before conceding, and Chu Yunzhe warned that trying to calm her would endanger his own health.

Xue Fuyao prepared Shijiu to enter a secret realm from the Kunlun Sect’s Water Prison of Confinement, then transformed her different space into a grotto-heaven blessed land while waiting for him. After Shadow Five, Ying Qi, and Shadow Twenty-One arrived with stolen resources, she sent them to help Shijiu deal with Xie Lin.

• Xue Fuyao gave Shijiu the Heavenly Eye, Water Silk, and Starry Sky before he returned to the Water Prison of Confinement to enter the secret realm.
• Xue Fuyao purified demon crystals into spirit stones, buried some in the different space, and filled the space with spiritual energy, lighting, and spirit medicines.
• Xue Fuyao cultivated until the spirit stones around her became powder, then summoned her spirit pets and began inscribing Formation Disks.
• Shadow Five, Ying Qi, and Shadow Twenty-One arrived after faking their deaths, bringing a large haul of cultivation resources and magic artifacts.
• Xue Fuyao confirmed they had covered their tracks and ordered them to help Shijiu deal with Xie Lin before going to the Western Continent.

Xue Fuyao tested Puppet Art on a wooden double, then used it to confront the soul possessing Shijiu. She offered the intruder her own body to save him, but the soul possession remained unresolved.

• Xue Fuyao carved and disguised a wooden figure, but found that Puppet Art made its movements stiff.
• Shijiu appeared in the Different Space, wounded and struggling against a soul that was trying to possess him.
• Xue Fuyao controlled the wooden figure to surround Shijiu with Spirit Stones while the two souls fought for his body.
• Xue Fuyao offered her body to the possessing soul and revealed her Creation Spirit Root and Creation Green Lotus Body.
• The intruder considered her offer, while Xue Fuyao wagered that the weakened soul inside Shijiu could not hold on much longer.

Xue Fuyao lured the sinister voice into leaving Shijiu and sealed his soul inside a formation before capturing him in the Heavenheart Bottle. After checking Shijiu’s injuries, she considered finding a treasure or spirit plant to protect her soul and recalled one might be in the Azure Heavens and Yellow Springs.

• Xue Fuyao distracted the sinister voice with an apparent offer, and he rushed out of Shijiu to possess her.
• Xue Fuyao trapped the sinister voice inside a soul-targeting formation and confirmed that Shijiu was alive but had suffered some soul damage and hidden injuries.
• The sinister voice offered Xue Fuyao a secret about the Xue Clan in exchange for his freedom, but she ignored him and pulled him into the Heavenheart Bottle.
• Xue Fuyao summoned the Heavenly Eye, Water Silk, and Starry Sky back to her and wondered whether Shijiu had refined the Secret Realm’s core.
• Xue Fuyao decided to seek a soul-protecting treasure or spirit plant and remembered one might be in the Azure Heavens and Yellow Springs.

Xue Fuyao learned how Shijiu refined a secret realm core despite a soul attack, then assigned him to use the realm for the border forces. After her guards reported Xie Lin had been dealt with, she prepared to move against the Buddhist Temples in the Western Continent.

• Shijiu woke and reassured Xue Fuyao that he had no other injuries before recounting his mission.
• Shijiu explained that he used the Heavenly Eye to locate the secret realm entrance and core, then refined it despite a divine sense attack.
• Xue Fuyao warned Shijiu not to take such risks again and told him to keep the secret realm, contact Ying Jiu and Fifteen, and clear out its monster beasts.
• Shadow Five, Ying Qi, and Shadow Twenty-One reported that Xie Lin had been dealt with and no one would suspect Shijiu.
• Xue Fuyao told Shijiu to return to the Kunlun Sect and cautioned the others that the Buddhist Temples would be difficult to challenge.

Xue Fuyao sent Shadow Five and the others out to reveal their mysterious force to the Western Continent, then traveled to Anyang City. There, Purple Pupil sensed a faint, unsettling scent, renewing Xue Fuyao’s suspicion of the city.

• Xue Fuyao considered exploiting divisions among the Western Continent’s powers while keeping their group’s existence hidden no longer.
• Xue Fuyao instructed Shadow Five and the other two to control the Gu Butterflies and act freely after leaving the Different Space.
• Xue Fuyao entered Anyang City and learned from a young man that its residents spent much of each day cleaning because of the nearby Pure Heart Temple.
• Golden Pupil and Purple Pupil emerged from Xue Fuyao’s Spirit Beast Pouch, and Purple Pupil reported sensing a strange, faint scent.
• Xue Fuyao asked Purple Pupil to alert her if the scent returned and grew wary of Anyang City again.

Xue Fuyao stayed in Anyang City to target Pure Heart Temple, while a boy sent his gray rat to scout her and received urgent messages. After she caught the rat and staged its apparent death, she identified the boy as its owner and returned to her room, where someone knocked at her door.

• Xue Fuyao settled at an inn near Pure Heart Temple and planned to stir trouble without confronting its two Nascent Soul Realm guards directly.
• A boy ordered his gray rat to scout Xue Fuyao, then received messages warning him to be careful and decided to act.
• In a hidden chamber, the Grand Elder and his people debated finding an antidote for Yanqing's Silent and Unseen condition while staying concealed from Pure Heart Temple.
• Golden Pupil caught the gray rat, and Xue Fuyao took it downstairs, staged a complaint, and noticed the boy react to it.
• Xue Fuyao crushed the rat in front of the inn's guests, returned to her room, and heard someone knock at the door.

Xue Fuyao freed Yan Zhen’s spirit beast, Little Gray, after asking Yan Zhen for his name, then began preparing to weaken the Devil Race at Pure Heart Temple with Demon-Dispelling Pills. She sent a Gu Worm into the temple to observe its residents and used the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon to rapidly grow the spirit medicines needed for her plan.

• Xue Fuyao confronted Yan Zhen while holding Little Gray and asked for his name before releasing the rat to him.
• Yan Zhen identified himself, and Xue Fuyao explained to Golden Pupil and Purple Pupil that she had wanted to get acquainted with him and make a friend.
• Xue Fuyao searched her Portable Medicinal Garden for ingredients to refine Demon-Dispelling Pills that could disrupt the Devil Race’s demonic qi.
• Xue Fuyao sent a golden-cicada Gu Worm into Pure Heart Temple to observe its residents and considered how many pills would be needed to dose them all.
• Xue Fuyao used the Jade Glass of the Azure Moon to make the spirit medicine seeds in her different space grow to maturity immediately.