Recaps

Xue Fuyao helped Wang Zheng claim Bai Ze’s inheritance, then uncovered the Xue Clan’s hidden legacy and helped bring down the Zhang Family. As she headed toward secluded cultivation, she stopped at Rockpile Village and found its residents threatened by a blue-robed man and his companions.

• Xue Fuyao and Wang Zheng stole and roasted the Mandarin-Duck Water Spirit Crane, while Wang Yan rebuffed the Zhang Family’s accusations and told them to wait for the Yuanji Sect delegation.
• Xue Fuyao broke through to late Foundation Establishment, ordered Shadow One and the others to target Zhangs in the Secret Realms, and joined the expedition to the Emperor’s Tomb with Xie Yichu and the Yuanji Sect disciples.
• The expedition entered the tomb, crossed its traps, and reached the inheritance site, where Xue Fuyao broke Bai Ze’s illusion and chose Wang Zheng to receive the inheritance.
• Bai Ze gave Wang Zheng an inheritance to purge his poison, raised Xue Fuyao to mid-Golden Core, and entrusted them both with the task of rescuing his imprisoned soul fragment.
• After leaving the tomb, Xue Fuyao learned that Zhang Xueheng had poisoned his own clan and that the Zhang Family was weakening, while Zhang Xueheng and Zhang Xueyan concealed their Xue Clan bloodline.
• Xue Fuyao helped Zhang Xueheng escape the Zhang Family, revealed the formation inheritance hidden in the dragon throne, and used the Zhang Family Ancestor to destroy the clan estate before sending Xueheng away on his own.
• Xue Fuyao set out for the Yuanji Sect but stopped at Rockpile Village, where she killed the blue-robed man’s companions and left him barely alive as the villagers begged for mercy.

Xue Fuyao uncovered a Snake Clan conflict, disrupted a plot to drain Colorless City’s people, and returned to Yuanji Sect before traveling with its delegation to the Central Continent. In Beidou City, disguised Snake Demons triggered a public hunt, and Xue Fuyao trapped them after their poison attack.

• Xue Fuyao rescued Jimo Xiubai from the Snake Woman, then joined him in breaking the Spirit-Locking Formation and discovering an underground palace with murals of the Snake King and the lost Sacrificial Dance.
• Xue Fuyao and Jimo Xiubai copied and altered the Sacrificial Dance murals, destroyed the originals, divided the fakes, and left the palace with a bloodline bead and a blue crystal crown.
• Xue Fuyao burned Nanshan Town after sending gu butterflies to kill people she blamed for betraying her in her previous life, then went to Colorless City and uncovered a plan to drain its residents through a formation.
• Xue Fuyao exposed the extraction formation by scattering its map around Colorless City, and the crowd killed City Lord Wu Xiao after he admitted he had acted to save his son.
• Xue Fuyao captured a weasel demon who had possessed the City Lord’s son and learned that the Snake Clan factions were fighting over the Dragon Gate.
• Xue Fuyao returned to Yuanji Sect, rejected Miss Feng as a prospective fellow disciple, and later learned alchemy from Changqingzi before joining the sect’s delegation for the Central Continent Assembly.
• On the Spirit Boat, Xue Fuyao learned that the Assembly would include exploration of the Qiming Secret Realm, then arrived with the delegation at Wutong Valley in Beidou City.
• Xue Fuyao followed disguised Snake Demons from a restaurant as a crowd began hunting them, then used spirit plants to absorb their poisonous mist and Bloodthirsty Vine tendrils to trap those fleeing.

Xue Fuyao helped expose the Jin Household’s wedding deception, then uncovered a curse afflicting the Crimson Feather Dynasty and entered the Qiming Secret Realm. After looting two divine beasts’ lairs, she encountered an ancient jade stele whose inscription appeared to temper her body.

• Xue Fuyao stopped Qin Mengwan from killing Lin Yanran, then left when Gu Nian summoned her to Venerable Spiritwood.
• Xue Fuyao helped Ming Cen uncover the Jin Household’s plan to replace Jin Ling'er at the wedding, and Ming Cen ended his relationship with Jin Ling'er and withdrew his support.
• Xue Fuyao noticed black veins on Lin Yanran and Lin Changge, and Xie Yichu identified them as the effects of a curse from the Life-and-Death Snake.
• Xie Yichu confirmed the curse afflicted the Crimson Feather Emperor and Regent, agreed to refine pills to lift it, and sent Ming Cen to seek rare medicines in the Qiming Secret Realm.
• Xue Fuyao entered the Qiming Secret Realm, gathered spirit plants and treasures with Big Treasure, and met Zhao Sheng, who was searching for a Phoenix.
• Xue Fuyao and Xie Yichu crossed Black Nether Forest, where Xie Yichu identified signs of a dragon and a phoenix and fought the beasts while Xue Fuyao looted their lairs.
• Xue Fuyao reached a hidden mountain and copied an ancient inscription from a white jade stele, which made golden veins appear across her body and caused her blood to burn.
• Xue Fuyao reunited with Xie Yichu, who said the inscription might temper her body and gave her processed flesh from the dragon and phoenix.

Xue Fuyao traded away her divine beast spoils, survived an assassination attempt, and pursued those connected to the Xue Clan’s lost legacy. In Tianshui City she freed captives, joined forces with Bai Ling, and arranged Qiu Er’s death before setting out for Qing City to confront her remaining enemies.

• Xue Fuyao returned from the Qiming Secret Realm, traded divine beast flesh and blood for treasures, and learned that the Assembly’s prize spirit vein had already been claimed by powerful factions.
• Xue Fuyao and Jimo Xiubai traded a stone tablet to Ziyan for ancient books, then Xue Fuyao survived an assassin who targeted her because of her surname and resolved to investigate the Qing City Ye Clan.
• Xue Fuyao exchanged divine beast spoils with Ming Cen and the Crimson Feather Emperor for Jiaowei, the Gu Bell, a black-gold treasure, and the damaged Semi-Divine Artifact Day and Night.
• Disguised as Xue Qinning, Xue Fuyao infiltrated a Demon Race beast-fighting arena, killed its demons, and helped captive humans learn how to break their Slave Marks.
• Xue Fuyao bought a Fox Cub and freed the Gu Butterfly from the Nine Lakes Merchant Guild, then learned that Qiu Er had captured it and had ordered an assassination against her.
• Xue Fuyao and Bai Ling discovered that their poisons had counteracted each other in Qiu Er, spread rumors that damaged his standing, and enlisted Jueying to kill him.
• Jueying assassins killed Qiu Er, while Xue Fuyao rejected hiring them against the Qing City Ye Clan and chose to deal with that family herself.
• Xue Fuyao left Tianshui City with Xiao Yan, noticed a mysterious Gu Worm had devoured several of hers, and entered Qing City intending to keep a lower profile.