Recaps

Xue Fuyao used the Flood Dragon Token to trigger a dragon’s roar that revealed the true Dragon Gate, while she escaped with Jimo Yunqi and Jimo Xiubai. A dragon soul began gathering dragon bones to restore its body, but Xue Fuyao believed the gathering tribulation clouds would destroy it.

• Xue Fuyao shot arrows through Jimo Yunqi and Jimo Xiubai, pulling faint dragon-head phantoms from them, then ordered Jimo Yunqi to act.
• Jimo Yunqi merged the Flood Dragon Token into the dragon-head statue, releasing a powerful roar, while Xue Fuyao hid the three of them behind Water Silk.
• The roar killed cultivators inside the Dragon Gate, and a complete Dragon Gate appeared outside as a blue streak flew away unnoticed.
• A dragon soul appeared and drew dragon bones toward itself, prompting the crowd to realize it was trying to rebuild its body and return to life.
• Jimo Xiubai said they had caused trouble, but Xue Fuyao predicted that tribulation lightning would strike the dragon soul once it gathered the bones.

As the Jiaolong Clan and the Demon Race converged on the Dragon Gate, Xue Fuyao and the Jimo brothers fled the coming battle and raided abandoned Demon Race territory for spirit medicines. A dragon roared beneath gathering Tribulation Clouds, and the clouds finally descended as an unknown wondrous scene began elsewhere.

• Xue Fuyao, Jimo Yunqi, and Jimo Xiubai fled as the Jiaolong Clan and the Five Lineages gathered at Snake Staff Mountain, then hid from the Monster Beasts rushing toward the Dragon Gate.
• Jimo Yunqi told the others that his grandfather and elders from the Yuanji Sect and Kunlun Sect were preparing to deal with the Dragon Gate, while Jimo Xiubai proposed looting the Demon Race's undefended territory.
• Xue Fuyao led the brothers to spirit medicines she had detected, and Jimo Xiubai joked that he would use Jimo Yunqi's money to support her.
• Xue Fuyao explained that she was gathering supplies to support her household, then described the progress of her plans in the Western Continent and at the Cultivation Realm's border with the Devil Race.
• A dragon roared beneath black Tribulation Clouds, and Xue Fuyao glimpsed the scene with her recovering Heavenly Eye before the Tribulation Clouds descended and a wondrous scene unfolded elsewhere.

Xue Fuyao investigated a hidden area beneath a marsh after the Water Spirit Pearl reacted, discovering a powerful demon’s formation and a resemblance to her own inherited techniques. She opened a way through the formation and found a concealed weight-operated mechanism at the center.

• Xue Fuyao told Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi that something lay beneath the lake and dove in, while Jimo Yunqi stopped the unable-to-swim Jimo Xiubai from following her.
• Xue Fuyao examined the underwater ground and suspected a powerful Jiaolong-type demon lived there, then connected the place to the future Thunder Domain Marsh.
• The Water Spirit Pearl guided Xue Fuyao through a dark passage to clear water, where she sensed a formation resembling her own techniques and recognized its maker as a shrewd imitator.
• Xue Fuyao used Spirit Stones to tear an opening in the formation without alerting the demon, then followed the Water Spirit Pearl to the center.
• Xue Fuyao searched the hollow ground, found a tiny mechanism beneath her feet, and realized it operated by weight.

Xue Fuyao triggered an underwater mechanism with monster beast corpses and obtained a drop of lightning-filled purple water before escaping with Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi. After they returned to the Cultivation Realm and heard that Venerable Spiritwood had slain a half-step Void Refinement Jiaolong, Xue Fuyao prepared to fulfill her promise to Jiang Zuo.

• Xue Fuyao piled monster beast corpses onto the underwater mechanism, opening it and revealing a drop of purple water with lightning inside.
• Xue Fuyao used the Water Spirit Pearl to withstand the surging current, then escaped the lake with Jimo Xiubai and Jimo Yunqi while leaving behind a wisp of demonic qi.
• Xue Fuyao and the two Jimo brothers fled through the Demon Race's estates and returned to the Cultivation Realm after a half-month detour.
• The cultivators in a teahouse discussed how black tribulation lightning had destroyed the Dragon Soul and Dragon Bones at Snake Staff Mountain, and how Venerable Spiritwood had slain a half-step Void Refinement Jiaolong.
• Jimo Yunqi and Jimo Xiubai said they would return to the Northwestern Lands, and Xue Fuyao set out to fulfill her promise to Jiang Zuo.

Xue Fuyao visited Jiang Zuo at the Western Continent site and heard him volunteer to join her, while he insisted she still honor her promise to help him obtain Zhong Ying’s inheritance. They set out to pursue the inheritance, with Jiang Zuo asking whether anyone else would come along.

• Xue Fuyao arrived at the transformed site, narrowly avoided its traps, and found Jiang Zuo studying the damaged courtyard with Shadow Five and Ying Qi.
• Xue Fuyao sent Shadow Five and Ying Qi away to clear the traps and spoke with Jiang Zuo about his interest in her Dark Guards.
• Jiang Zuo said he wanted to join Xue Fuyao, and she warned him that he could not leave once he joined.
• Jiang Zuo accepted the warning and reminded Xue Fuyao that she had promised to help him obtain Zhong Ying’s inheritance.
• Xue Fuyao headed out to get the inheritance, and Jiang Zuo asked whether they were going alone.

Xue Fuyao told Jiang Zuo that a scroll connected to the Hidden Weapon Celestial Master's inheritance was somewhere in the city, and the two began searching for it. Big Treasure led Xue Fuyao to a crowded stall, where she found two mothers and their daughters arguing over a wooden ruler and asked the stall owner what had happened.

• Xue Fuyao explained that finding the scroll could help Jiang Zuo obtain the complete inheritance, and she persuaded him to search for it.
• The next morning, Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo split up to look for the scroll, with Xue Fuyao bringing Big Treasure along.
• Big Treasure pointed Xue Fuyao toward a crowd gathered around a stall.
• Xue Fuyao saw two mother-daughter pairs arguing over an ordinary wooden ruler, then asked the stall owner what the dispute was about.

Xue Fuyao bought a mysterious carved wooden object after intimidating its stall owner, then returned to the inn without finding the scroll she sought. As she and Jiang Zuo agreed to search for two more days before pursuing the inheritance, a steward arrived and invited her to his master’s residence.

• Xue Fuyao found a carved wooden object that rattled and bought it from the stall owner for one Spirit Stone after revealing her Golden Core cultivation.
• Big Treasure sensed something wonderful sealed inside the object, and Xue Fuyao detected a faint fragrance but decided to wait until the Heavenly Eye recovered before trying to open it.
• Xue Fuyao returned to the inn, where Jiang Zuo asked whether she had any clues about the scroll, and she admitted she did not.
• Xue Fuyao told Jiang Zuo the scroll would help but was not necessary for obtaining the inheritance, and they agreed to search for two more days before going after it.
• A middle-aged steward entered the inn, approached Xue Fuyao, and invited her to his master’s residence for a chat.

Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo used the Tang Household’s ties to the Tiance Sect to secure an invitation and planned to enlist its help finding the scroll. At the Tang Household, Xue Fuyao asked why its head had invited her, leaving him too intimidated to reveal his original business.

• Jiang Zuo challenged the steward, and Xue Fuyao identified the Tiance Sect as a subordinate of the Yuanji Sect and linked its injured elder to the Tang Household’s ancestor.
• The steward recognized Xue Fuyao’s standing and apologized, and Xue Fuyao accepted the Tang Household’s invitation because she wanted its help.
• Xue Fuyao told Jiang Zuo that the Yuanji Sect had investigated the Tiance Sect’s claims and responded by halving its holdings and the cities under its jurisdiction.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo arrived at the Tang Household, where she recognized the two mother-and-daughter pairs from the market among the gathered relatives.
• The head of the Tang Household trembled when Xue Fuyao asked why he had invited her, and he hesitated to mention his original plan to strengthen the household before news of his ancestor’s grave injury spread.

Xue Fuyao learned that the Tang Household’s three-year-old grandson, Tang Yi, had a single metal spiritual root and arranged for the Yuanji Sect to take him in. The Tang Household revealed that the scroll she sought would be offered at a Black Market auction, and the next morning a Yuanji Sect disciple arrived sooner than she expected.

• The Tang Household head asked Xue Fuyao to bring Tang Yi to the Yuanji Sect, and she agreed to report his talent so someone could collect him.
• Xue Fuyao showed the Tang Household a drawing of the scroll she was seeking, and the head said it would be sold at a Wan City Black Market auction the following evening.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo returned to the inn, where she warned that the independently organized auction’s sellers could withdraw their items or be interrupted before bidding.
• The next morning, Xue Fuyao returned to the Tang Household after a Yuanji Sect disciple summoned her, and she asked why the disciple had arrived so quickly.

Xue Fuyao and Elder Zhao came to the Tang Household to bring Tang Yi to the Yuanji Sect, but the family tried to delay his departure. After Tang Yi was poisoned, the Tang Household Head agreed to send him away, while Xue Fuyao stayed in Wan City to handle other matters.

• Xue Fuyao learned that the Tang Household wanted to postpone Tang Yi joining the Yuanji Sect because he was too young and did not want to leave his parents.
• The Tang Household Head apologized and said Tang Yi had cried and refused to go, so Elder Zhao decided not to force the matter.
• Tang Yi's mother rushed into the hall with him, reporting that he had a severe fever, and the Tang Household hurried to seek help.
• Xue Fuyao explained that members of the Tang Household might resent Tang Yi because his cultivation would consume resources that could otherwise go to them.
• After treatment revealed five kinds of mixed toxins in Tang Yi's body, the Tang Household Head asked Elder Zhao to take him away.
• Elder Zhao left with Tang Yi, while Xue Fuyao stayed in Wan City and asked him to tell her master she was safe.

Xue Fuyao brought Jiang Zuo to the Black Market entrance, where they waited for enough people to gather before the teleportation array could take them to the trade fair. While they waited, they overheard Tiance Sect disciples discussing the Yuanji Sect’s visit to the Tang Household.

• Elder Zhao warned Xue Fuyao to stay safe as he left to escort Tang Yi back to the sect.
• Xue Fuyao led Jiang Zuo to a hidden entrance in an ordinary herbal medicine shop and gave the old man the password, “Black Market Trade Fair!”
• The old man told them the teleportation array needed fifty people before it could activate, and Xue Fuyao explained the Black Market’s concealment rules to Jiang Zuo.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo put on cloaks that concealed their appearances and auras, then waited as a dozen Tiance Sect cultivators arrived.
• A Tiance Sect disciple told his Eldest Senior Brother that Yuanji Sect members had gone to the Tang Household, prompting their Master to visit Elder Tang in anxious haste.

Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo entered the Black Market and prepared for its auction, but Xue Fuyao first set up a stall to trade surplus spirit medicine. She exchanged a thousand-year-old Root-Replenishing Grass for a piece of golden ore Jiang Zuo wanted.

• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo arrived at the Black Market with a group that included Tiance Sect disciples.
• Xue Fuyao explained that Black Market vendors usually bartered, and Jiang Zuo asked her to buy an auction scroll for him.
• Xue Fuyao set out surplus spirit medicine, which she had rejected while cultivating single spiritual roots for the returned Dark Guard members.
• A cloaked man offered his possessions for Xue Fuyao's thousand-year-old Root-Replenishing Grass.
• Jiang Zuo told Xue Fuyao to take the man's golden ore, and she traded the grass for it.

Xue Fuyao traded spirit-washing grass at the Black Market, then exchanged it for a fresh sprig of the long-lost Enlightenment Tea Tree. She secretly settled the sprig in her inner space and warned Jiang Zuo against using hidden weapons in the Black Market.

• Xue Fuyao offered spirit-washing grass in exchange for anything that interested her, but rejected the belongings brought by a cultivator.
• The cultivator accused Xue Fuyao of fraud and threatened her, then collapsed after she told him to get lost.
• A cloaked trader offered a Jade Box for the spirit-washing grass, and Xue Fuyao accepted the trade after recognizing its contents.
• Xue Fuyao discovered the Jade Box held a fresh sprig from the Enlightenment Tea Tree and settled it in her inner space to grow.
• Xue Fuyao noticed Jiang Zuo fiddling with hidden weapons and warned him not to be impulsive because fighting was forbidden in the Black Market.

At the Black Market, Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo were threatened by a child named Dongdong after his search for two spirit medicines failed, and Xue Fuyao discovered they had been marked for pursuit. They rested and then attended the evening auction, where the first lot appeared to be a golden core taken from a living cultivator.

• Xue Fuyao opened a Jade Box and revealed a damaged, thousand-year-old Ginseng Fruit as a red-clad child and his demonic-qi guards approached.
• Dongdong learned that the root-reforming grass and spirit-washing grass had already been traded away, then tried to coax Xue Fuyao into exchanging them before threatening her.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo laughed at Dongdong, who threatened to kill them and left after Xue Fuyao dismissed him.
• Xue Fuyao found a tracking insect hidden beneath her Cloak and told Jiang Zuo that several hostile parties had marked them as targets.
• Xue Fuyao put away her stall and planned to rest before leaving the Black Market, while Jiang Zuo looked forward to the danger ahead.
• That evening, Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo took seats near the front of the auction, where the booklet showed a golden core as the first lot.

At a Black Market auction, Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo realized the crowd was setting them up to seize Xue Fuyao’s rare spirit medicines. They played along and bought nearly every item, including a black scroll, as they prepared to rob the conspirators in turn.

• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo noticed that demon cultivators and other watchers had surrounded them at the auction.
• Two people at their table revealed the Golden Core’s seller wanted lifespan-extending medicine, so Xue Fuyao traded an Incomplete Ginseng Fruit for it.
• Xue Fuyao figured out that the Black Market, the auction-item owners, and the watchers had colluded to target her spirit medicines.
• Xue Fuyao told Jiang Zuo they would keep playing along and rob the plotters after they tried to rob them.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo bought nearly every auction item, including the black scroll, with Xue Fuyao winning the scroll for one spirit medicine.

Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo turned the Black Market’s predators into prey, trapping and defeating a group of cultivators who tried to rob them. After collecting their spoils, they saw a blaze light up the sky, leaving the source of the fire unknown.

• Seven powerful incarnations sealed the Black Market entrance, trapping the would-be robbers inside, while Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo left Wan City by climbing its wall.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo waited outside the city and prepared a cage for the ambushers pursuing them.
• Dozens of cultivators surrounded the pair and demanded their belongings, but Jiang Zuo exposed their scheme to lure bidders into later robberies.
• Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo activated a formation that trapped the cultivators, then Jiang Zuo attacked them with hidden weapons.
• Xue Fuyao shot the apparently defeated cultivators with a poison-coated crossbow, collected their souls in the Heavenheart Bottle, and dismantled the formation.
• The pair searched the cultivators’ Storage Bags, then a blaze lit up the sky around them.

Zhang Hui cornered Xue Fuyao and Jiang Zuo, revealed that he knew she was a princess, and threatened to turn her into a puppet. Xue Fuyao sent Jiang Zuo away and summoned a powerful puppet and a group of fighters, forcing Zhang Hui to flee as they moved to capture him.

• Zhang Hui descended through the flames, identified Xue Fuyao as the little princess, and said he would keep her alive to make her his puppet.
• Xue Fuyao challenged Zhang Hui about the destruction of her lineage, while he refused to explain why he was pursuing her.
• Xue Fuyao pressed a hand to Jiang Zuo's shoulder and made him vanish, startling Zhang Hui.
• Xue Fuyao summoned a white-haired puppet whose aura reached the middle stage of Void Refinement, along with more than a dozen late-stage Spirit Transformation fighters.
• Zhang Hui tried to escape, but Xue Fuyao's puppets pursued him under orders to capture him.

Xue Fuyao brought Jiang Zuo into the Inheritance Grounds and searched the area while he pursued the inheritance. After finding Spirit Ginseng and forming a Contract with the Enlightenment Tea Tree, she thought of the person who had brought the tree to the Black Market.

• Xue Fuyao arranged to weaken the Zhang Family gradually while waiting for Jiang Zuo to wake.
• Jiang Zuo awoke, and Xue Fuyao led him off a cliff into the Inheritance Grounds, where he discovered he could not use his cultivation.
• Xue Fuyao explained that they had three months to obtain the inheritance and that the place would disappear if a hundred entrants failed; Jiang Zuo went to study the scroll.
• Xue Fuyao searched the grounds, found a patch of Spirit Ginseng, and transferred the plants and soil to her Portable Medicinal Garden.
• Xue Fuyao dried and brewed Spirit Ginseng tea, formed a Contract with the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and thought of the person who had brought it to the Black Market.

Xue Fuyao carried the injured Jiang Zuo away after his cultivation triggered strange runes in the cliff, then confronted the crippled Zhang Hui. She refused his offer to reveal the truth, saying she had no attachment to the Xue Kingdom or its lineage.

• Jiang Zuo spat blood as golden runes appeared on the cliff, and he warned Xue Fuyao to leave.
• Xue Fuyao carried Jiang Zuo to Qiaolin Town, hid their traces, and left a puppet to guard him at an inn.
• Xue Fuyao met the puppets she had awakened and found their condition had worsened during the three-month wait.
• Zhang Hui offered to reveal everything if Xue Fuyao swore to spare him, but she rejected his plea and said she did not want his truth.
• Xue Fuyao told Zhang Hui that she had been only five when he acted against the Xue Kingdom and felt no loyalty to the country, her family, or the lineage.

Xue Fuyao forced her way into Zhang Hui’s damaged soul and learned part of the Zhang Family’s secrets before ordering her puppet to turn him into a weapon. Back at the inn, she found Jiang Zuo acting strangely and accidentally gave him a Prank Pill, leaving him to endure its awful taste.

• Xue Fuyao enraged Zhang Hui to create an opening, then used the Soul-Seizing Technique to invade his soul and glimpse fragments of the real secrets.
• Zhang Hui failed to detonate his soul, and Xue Fuyao ordered her puppet to take him away and refine him into her first weapon against the Zhang Family.
• Xue Fuyao returned to Qiaolin Town and learned from the innkeeper that Jiang Zuo had awakened but was behaving strangely.
• Xue Fuyao found Jiang Zuo grinning foolishly, mistook a bottle of Prank Pills for healing pills, and gave him one by mistake.
• After the pill’s taste finally began to fade, Jiang Zuo opened his eyes to Xue Fuyao asking if he was all right.

After helping Jiang Zuo secure Zhong Ying’s inheritance, Xue Fuyao returned to the Central Continent to investigate the Zhang Family’s movements. There she spotted a lotus petal on a fleeing man named Zhang Qi and followed him into an alley, where three pursuers demanded his belongings.

• Jiang Zuo recovered after taking several pills and told Xue Fuyao that he had obtained Zhong Ying’s inheritance and at least half the treasures in the hidden weapons inheritance site.
• Xue Fuyao arranged for Jiang Zuo to return to the Western Continent and asked him to make powerful, compact hidden weapons after his seclusion.
• Xue Fuyao arrived in Ning City and used information from Cangling Academy and Zhang Hui’s memories to assess the Zhang Family’s plans.
• Xue Fuyao spotted a green lotus petal hanging from Zhang Qi’s chest and pursued him into an alley.
• Three dark figures cornered Zhang Qi and demanded the belongings his mother had left him, but he refused to hand them over.

Xue Fuyao saved Zhang Qi from his pursuers, learned that the Zhang Family was hunting him for something connected to his missing parents, and took his necklace, which held one of her missing petals. After hiding Zhang Qi and returning to the Teahouse, she considered why the Zhang Family was unusually active around Ning City and its thirteen secret realms.

• Xue Fuyao killed the three men pursuing Zhang Qi and asked him why the Zhang Family wanted him.
• Zhang Qi explained that his parents vanished after entering a secret realm and that the Zhang Family had pressured him to hand over something they left behind.
• Xue Fuyao recognized Zhang Qi's necklace as one of her missing petals and took it, then erased his memories of her and left him in a dilapidated temple.
• Xue Fuyao returned to the Teahouse and absorbed the petal, bringing her collection to roughly three-quarters complete.
• Xue Fuyao recalled that thirteen secret realms had appeared near Ning City in half a year and that the Zhang Family and its connected lineages blocked others from claiming them without claiming them themselves.

Xue Fuyao investigated Secret Realm Thirteen and discovered signs that it had been cut from a larger secret realm. She spotted Ming Cen outside the entrance, and he leaped over to ask why she had not told him she was coming to the Central Continent.

• Xue Fuyao traveled to Secret Realm Thirteen and learned that entrants faced a three-year wait unless they bought a spot from a suspicious youth.
• Xue Fuyao refused the youth’s offer and used the Heavenly Eye from a concealed position to inspect the secret realm.
• Xue Fuyao saw that Secret Realm Thirteen had been stripped bare and noticed cut-and-stitched edges that suggested the thirteen realms were pieces of one larger realm.
• Xue Fuyao spotted Ming Cen in the crowd, and Ming Cen joined her and asked why she had not told him she was coming to the Central Continent.

Xue Fuyao learned that the thirteen secret realms near Ning City might be fragments of one realm and that the Zheng, Nan, and Feng households were searching them for a particular item. After sending two cloaked companions into a realm and arranging searches of the other twelve, she discovered that her Sixth Martial Uncle Han had divided a secret realm into thirteen, and that many things had vanished in the process.

• Xue Fuyao examined Ming Cen’s thirteen maps and fitted them together into a complete secret-realm map.
• Ming Cen told Xue Fuyao that the Zheng, Nan, and Feng households had long prepared a scheme to get people into the realms, where they searched for a specific item.
• Ming Cen explained that he planned to enter the thirteenth secret realm himself and had sent people into the other twelve.
• Xue Fuyao declined to enter with Ming Cen but asked him to take two cloaked companions inside, then arranged for people to search the other twelve realms.
• Xue Fuyao asked her master whether anyone could divide a secret realm, and Xie Yichu told her that Sixth Martial Uncle Han had recently split an unstable realm into thirteen parts.

Xue Fuyao met Wenren Yu, who warned her not to investigate the Forbidden Zone and urged her to withdraw from the secret realms. After leaving Ning City, she followed a lead from Shadow One and Shadow Two to a marsh, where she found signs that someone had recently been there.

• Xue Fuyao met Wenren Yu and asked who had commissioned the thirteen secret realms; he said he suspected a connection to the Forbidden Zone.
• Wenren Yu warned Xue Fuyao that investigating the Forbidden Zone would endanger her and those around her, and told her to withdraw her people from the secret realms.
• Wenren Yu gave Xue Fuyao a Storage Bag as a first-meeting gift and told her to open it somewhere private.
• Xue Fuyao recalled her puppets from the secret realms, warned Ming Cen, and left Ning City after confirming the puppets were safe.
• Three days later, Xue Fuyao reached a marsh and found signs that one person had recently camped there, then hurried to search for the place described in Shadow One and Shadow Two's recovered memories.