Recaps

Xue Fuyao suppressed several Devil Race seals, confronted the Precious Temple, and uncovered a Gu Clan plot while helping recruit disciples for the Yuanji Sect. The arc ended with her carrying a secret token to Jimo Yunqi and encountering the Jimo Household as the Snake Clan’s threat closed in.

• Pei Yu joined the Yuanji Sect after Elder Han took her as his disciple, while Xue Fuyao dealt with the Buddhist Sect’s lingering Bodhi Mantra on Ying Sishi Jiu and Shadow Fifty.
• Xue Fuyao attacked the Precious Temple, but an old monk unleashed the sealed Ghost Demon General, which the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet absorbed along with its demonic qi and evil ghosts.
• Xue Fuyao used the bracelet to consume the Rotting Corpse Demon General and other sealed Demon Generals, while the Heaven-Seeking Tower pursued suspected spies across the Western Continent.
• At the disciple recruitment assembly, Xue Fuyao stopped Changsheng from stealing a child’s spiritual roots, met the heavenly water-rooted Xia Qiaomu, and helped expose baleful-control gu and Gu Clan descendants in Lingwu City.
• Wen Ci and Geng Xing joined the Yuanji Sect as Qi He’s disciples, and Xue Fuyao helped the new recruits learn basic qi gathering before returning with them.
• Xie Yichu gave Xue Fuyao a black token to deliver secretly to Jimo Yunqi, and Xue Fuyao set out for Jimo City after guiding the new disciples to the Market.
• After killing venomous snakes that ambushed her, Xue Fuyao met a young man from the Jimo Household and warned him that it was already too late to leave.

Xue Fuyao helped defend Moon Dance City, exposed the forces conspiring against it, and pursued the Dragon Gate with the Jimo brothers. Inside the inheritance, she refused a golden dragon’s offer and destroyed its head, leaving the others frozen in place.

• Xue Fuyao saved Jimo Yunqi from Fierce Dice Snake venom, helped defend Moon Dance City from successive Beast Tides, and exposed a half-demon spy in the City Lord’s Mansion.
• After the city survived a major attack, Xue Fuyao and Jimo Xiubai raided the Li, Wang, Sun, and Zhou households, seized their resources, and learned their core disciples had gone to the Central Continent with the Zhang Family.
• Xue Fuyao captured Jiang Zuo and arranged for him to teach her concealed-weapon arts in exchange for Zhong Ying’s inheritance location, while Jimo Yunqi explained that the Flood Dragon Token was meant to destroy the Snake Clan’s Dragon Gate.
• Xue Fuyao, Jimo Yunqi, and Jimo Xiubai traveled to Snake Staff Mountain, where they found the Dragon Gate and encountered the Beast Taming Sect, Snake Clan members, and rival flood dragon lineages.
• When the Dragon Gate opened, Xue Fuyao pulled the Jimo brothers inside, then escaped an illusion realm and killed the Yellow Flood Dragon after he emerged in cultivation deviation.
• Xue Fuyao and the Jimo brothers entered the mural-covered chamber, where a golden dragon head offered her the True Dragon Inheritance in exchange for merging with her.
• Xue Fuyao refused the inheritance and destroyed the dragon head with a soul-forged arrow from the Soul-Severing Bow, then stored the golden light it left behind as the others remained frozen.

Xue Fuyao gathered allies and resources, uncovered a plot around the Black Market, and secured Zhong Ying’s inheritance for Jiang Zuo. In Ning City, she connected thirteen secret realms to a larger scheme before withdrawing her people and setting out to investigate a place from her puppets’ memories.

• Xue Fuyao and the Jimo brothers fled Snake Staff Mountain, where tribulation lightning destroyed the Dragon Soul and Dragon Bones, then found a lightning-filled drop of purple water beneath a lake.
• Xue Fuyao recruited Jiang Zuo and searched for Zhong Ying’s inheritance, trading at the Black Market before she and Jiang Zuo defeated the cultivators who tried to rob them.
• Xue Fuyao summoned powerful puppets to capture Zhang Hui, then entered the Inheritance Grounds with Jiang Zuo, who obtained Zhong Ying’s inheritance despite being struck by golden runes.
• Xue Fuyao used Soul-Seizing Technique on Zhang Hui and made him her weapon against the Zhang Family, while Jiang Zuo recovered and prepared to return to the Western Continent.
• Xue Fuyao recovered a missing lotus petal from Zhang Qi and discovered that the Zhang Family and its allies had blocked access to thirteen secret realms.
• Xue Fuyao and Ming Cen pieced together the thirteen realm maps and learned that the Zheng, Nan, and Feng households were searching for a specific item inside them.
• Xue Fuyao asked Xie Yichu about the divided realms, then heard Wenren Yu’s warning that the scheme might be connected to the Forbidden Zone.
• Xue Fuyao recalled her puppets, left Ning City, and hurried through a marsh to search for a place described in Shadow One and Shadow Two’s memories.