Recaps

Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape avatar became trapped in a courtyard surrounded by ravenous rats, snakes, and rotting corpses, until his main body broke through the city’s aerial restriction and rescued him. After burning and freezing the threat, the two reunited, and Qi Zhenzi’s formation diagram appeared on Mu Bai’s main body.

• Mu Bai tried to leave the courtyard but found it surrounded by red-eyed rats, which swarmed over his defenses and attacked the snakes and rotting corpses.
• The corpses and rats crowded against Mu Bai’s Soul Power Light Screen, weakening it as he vomited from disgust and regretted entering with his avatar.
• Mu Bai’s main body arrived, punched a gap through the aerial restriction, and enabled the Silver-Backed Ape avatar to escape.
• Mu Bai’s main body summoned the Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru to burn the courtyard, then froze and shattered the rising smoke with White Spirit Cold Flame.
• Mu Bai’s avatar and main body exchanged jokes, merged, and discovered Qi Zhenzi’s Human-Shaped Spirit-Evolving Formation Diagram on the main body’s left arm.

Mu Bai fought a corrosive Corpse Poison while Hu Meier and two Demon Generals watched, then manipulated the battle to obtain the generals’ fusion rings. He branded Hu Meier’s mind and ordered her to serve him as a slave for three hundred years.

• Mu Bai burned the vicious rats, but a Corpse Poison leapt from a well and attacked him, corroding his defenses and Origin Power.
• Hu Meier arrived with the black- and white-faced Demon Generals, who recognized the monster and initially watched while Mu Bai struggled against it.
• Mu Bai lured the Corpse Poison toward Hu Meier and the generals, forcing the two Demon Generals to defend themselves and eventually fuse.
• Mu Bai used a vitality-filled wooden sword to repel the Corpse Poison, then demanded the rings that enabled the generals to fuse.
• The Demon Generals gave Mu Bai their black and white rings, but he refused to help them further and left with Hu Meier.
• Mu Bai branded Hu Meier’s mind and ordered her to serve as his slave for three hundred years in exchange for eventual freedom.

Mu Bai dealt with the Corpse Poison outbreak and witnessed the Black and White Demon Generals succumb to it. After burying them and cleansing the settlement, he found that the poison was still spreading elsewhere.

• Mu Bai ignored Hu Meier’s pleas and kept her inside a Mustard Seed Bag while the Black and White Demon Generals fought Corpse Poison.
• The White-faced Demon General wounded Corpse Poison with life force, but it bit the Black-faced Demon General and infected him.
• The White-faced Demon General embraced his brother after he became a rotting corpse and let Corpse Poison infect him too.
• Mu Bai burned the two Demon Generals’ remains, gathered their ashes and rings, and buried them together.
• Mu Bai and his soul spirits destroyed the Corpse Poison nest in the Stone Well and buried the ashes of the victims elsewhere.
• Mu Bai continued through the region and found that other settlements were either already dead or still suffering from Corpse Poison.

Mu Bai uncovered a Man in Green spreading Corpse Poison through Beast Race settlements and began destroying the infected settlements while Hu Meier tracked the culprit. Hu Meier was gravely wounded in their fight and fled with only one life remaining, still waiting for Mu Bai to arrive.

• Mu Bai and Hu Meier watched a corpse-transformed settlement, and Mu Bai ordered Hu Meier to follow the Man in Green while he cleared the settlement.
• Mu Bai burned two infected settlements and destroyed a Corpse Poison creature and a Myriad Corpse Hide found in one settlement’s water source.
• The Man in Green discovered Hu Meier following him and attacked her, declaring his intention to let Corpse Poison devastate the Beast Territory.
• Hu Meier repeatedly used her tails to escape fatal blows but was badly injured while trying to hold out until Mu Bai arrived.
• The Man in Green offered to spare Hu Meier if she became his beast pet, but she refused and fled through the void as he pursued her.

Mu Bai rescued the badly wounded Hu Meier, and the two tracked the Man in Green to the ruins of the Nanqing Sect. Using the Fox Worships Peachwood Technique, Hu Meier found a hidden entrance beneath the sect’s gatehouse, and they arrived in its secret location to discover a horrifying sight.

• Mu Bai drove off the Man in Green and healed Hu Meier, who awoke days later and resumed teasing him while warning that the corpse poison might have spread.
• Mu Bai said he had cleared nearby settlements of corpse poison, and he and Hu Meier rode the Black Silk Flying Carpet toward the valley she had tracked.
• They found the ruined Nanqing Sect and suspected the Man in Green had collected the dead cultivators’ remains to fuel his revenge against the Beast Race.
• Hu Meier used the Fox Worships Peachwood Technique to awaken the peach trees’ memories, guiding them to a hidden location beneath the sect’s gatehouse.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier activated the Teleportation Array and entered the Nanqing Sect’s secret location, where an icy aura and the smell of blood confronted them.

Mu Bai and Hu Meier fought their way through the underground palace passage, where the Man in Green’s traps attacked them and Hu Meier was briefly controlled by the Soul-Controlling Art. After Mu Bai rescued her and left her to recover, he continued alone and found the blood pool where Corpse Poisons were being nurtured.

• Mu Bai froze the snakes blocking the passage and used the Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru to burn the ones behind them while Hu Meier clung to him in fear.
• Rotting corpses and Corpse Poisons attacked, but Mu Bai pierced the poisons’ heads with grass-and-wood swords and burned the attackers away with White Spirit Cold Flame.
• Hu Meier suddenly attacked Mu Bai under mind control, and he struck her before discovering the Soul-Controlling Art’s threads in her Divine Palace.
• Mu Bai carried the wounded Hu Meier to the Teleportation Array, learned it only allowed one-way travel, and secretly stabilized her while confronting the unseen Man in Green.
• Hu Meier regained consciousness and apologized, so Mu Bai gave her a medicinal pill, placed her in his Mustard Seed Bag, and returned alone to the passage.
• Mu Bai passed through the underground corridor and found a blood pool filled with female corpse husks, where the Man in Green was breeding Corpse Poisons.

Mu Bai captured the Corpse Pouches and defeated the golden skeleton controlled by the Man in Green, then confronted him in the underground palace. The Man in Green revealed how the Beast Race had destroyed the Nanqing Sect and how the massacre drove Yu Fei to swear revenge.

• Mu Bai trapped the Corpse Pouches in the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net and burned them with Divergent Flame.
• Mu Bai fought the female corpse whose bones had been refined to gold, then used the Void Beast Realm and a Spirit Light Sword to destroy the Divine Sense Avatar controlling her.
• Mu Bai entered the great hall and refused the Man in Green's demand to return the sect ancestor's remains.
• The Man in Green recalled how the Beast Race slaughtered the Nanqing Sect, including its Sect Master, Grand Elders, and Yu'er.
• Yu Fei returned to the ruins, buried his fellow disciples, and swore to take revenge on the Beast Race by any means.

Yu Fei revealed how he had spent more than a decade preparing a corpse-poison plague to avenge Yu'er and the Beast Race’s atrocities. Mu Bai fought to stop him, but after grievously wounding Yu Fei, he watched him transform into a self-controlled rotten corpse and charge again.

• Yu Fei explained that he had used the Yin Palace, the Blood Pool, and countless corpses to prepare corpse poison for his revenge.
• Mu Bai confronted Yu Fei, who attacked with cold yin energy and a black mental blade, but Mu Bai blocked the blade with his Five-Colored Light Shield.
• Mu Bai struck Yu Fei and held a demonic-qi sword to his throat, but Yu'er's corpse attacked Mu Bai from behind, giving Yu Fei a chance to escape.
• Yu Fei fought alongside Yu'er's corpse and injured Mu Bai's shoulder with the Nanqing Sword Technique.
• Mu Bai unleashed his Five Elements Origin Power, shattered Yu Fei's sword, and pierced his chest with a five-colored sword of light.
• Yu Fei swallowed a pill made from corpse poison, became a rotten corpse while retaining control of his mind, and charged at Mu Bai again.

Mu Bai destroyed Yu Fei and the Yin Palace, then exhausted himself using his blood to save the gravely wounded Hu Meier. When Hu Meier woke, she chose to postpone killing him and went to find food.

• Mu Bai trapped Yu Fei and Yu'er's corpse, burned them to ashes, and destroyed the Yin Palace before escaping as Nanqing Mountain collapsed.
• Mu Bai resolved to avenge his Tribe when he returned to the Eastern Ridge.
• Mu Bai spent ten days infusing Hu Meier with vitality, then fed her his blood until she began breathing, leaving himself near death.
• Hu Meier woke, drank a squirrel's blood, and realized Mu Bai had saved her with his own blood.
• Hu Meier considered killing Mu Bai to avenge her father but decided to wait until he recovered, then left to hunt and returned with a Snow-Mane Lion.

Hu Meier and Mu Bai shared a quiet night after she saved him, but their fragile peace ended when a Tiger-Headed Man attacked them. Mu Bai killed the attacker to protect Hu Meier, then fell from the sky, leaving her to catch him and remember his promise.

• Hu Meier revived Mu Bai with medicinal pills and fed him tiger meat, while Mu Bai repaid her with a jar of Hundred-Fruit Brew.
• At dawn, Hu Meier and Mu Bai argued about their unresolved grievances, and the shattered wine jar drew the attention of nearby tigers.
• A Tiger-Headed Man attacked Mu Bai and Hu Meier, knocked Mu Bai off the mountain, and captured Hu Meier after discovering she was a Three-Tailed Fox.
• Hu Meier tried to distract the Tiger-Headed Man, but he carried her away toward his abode.
• Mu Bai returned in the form of a winged Demon God, killed the Tiger-Headed Man while declaring he would not let Hu Meier be hurt again, then fell from the sky.
• Hu Meier caught Mu Bai as he descended and told him she would remember his promise.

Hu Meier and the injured Mu Bai sought shelter at Hei Feng’s river palace, where Hei Feng revealed his alliance with Chi Lin and trapped them in a golden cage. Mu Bai broke free by projecting his Inner World, cutting off the river that sustained Hei Feng’s formation, and faced the two monsters.

• Hu Meier brought the badly injured Mu Bai to Blackwater City and accepted Hei Feng’s invitation to his river palace.
• Hu Meier gave Hei Feng a Jade Bamboo flute, and he played it before taking them beneath the river on a golden formation.
• Hei Feng transformed the formation into a cage and revealed Chi Lin, who wanted revenge for his elder brother’s death.
• Hei Feng separated Mu Bai and Hu Meier with a golden barrier, but Mu Bai’s golden wings deflected the cage’s attacks and his Golden Light Broad Sword split the cage.
• Mu Bai projected his Inner World and cut off the river’s flow, leaving Hei Feng unable to sense the surrounding water.
• Hei Feng ordered Chi Lin to attack Mu Bai and Hu Meier together.

Mu Bai defeated Hei Feng and the Tiger-Headed Man, then disguised himself as Hei Feng and entered the river palace with Hu Meier to search for its treasures. After spending more than a month there, Hu Meier faced jealous concubines who challenged her place in the palace.

• Mu Bai froze Hei Feng's sword attack, cut down the Tiger-Headed Man, and killed Hei Feng as he tried to escape.
• Mu Bai took the two Demon Cores, burned the bodies, assumed Hei Feng's appearance, and brought Hu Meier into the river palace.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier mingled with the palace's concubines and spent more than a month shut away together in Hei Feng's bedchamber.
• The mermaid concubine and other concubines confronted Hu Meier, but Hu Meier asserted that she was a Demon General too.
• The mermaid concubine claimed her elder brother was a Demon General who shared control of the river with Hei Feng, and Hu Meier's other accusers fell silent.

Mu Bai, disguised as Hei Feng, learned that Jiang Yu had come to beg for rain in drought-stricken Desert City. Jiang Yu offered gold sand for help and then asked to borrow the Jade Dragon River Marrow, but Mu Bai refused both requests.

• Hu Meier mocked the Mermaid Concubine, who then went to Mu Bai with soup and tried to win his favor.
• Mu Bai asked about the household funds, then dismissed the concubines and wondered where Hei Feng kept his treasury.
• The river palace steward told Mu Bai that Jiang Yu had come to ask Hei Feng to bring rain to Desert City.
• Mu Bai met Jiang Yu aboard the pleasure boat and heard that drought had killed nine out of ten Sand Wolves.
• Jiang Yu offered Mu Bai two bags of refined gold sand in exchange for rain, but Mu Bai refused to help.
• Jiang Yu asked to borrow the Jade Dragon River Marrow, and Mu Bai refused, suspecting he would not get it back.

Mu Bai looted Hei Feng’s hidden treasury and found the Jade Dragon River Marrow and a Gold Refining Art, which he immediately began to practice. Meanwhile, Hu Meier confronted the mermaid concubine aboard the Flower Boat, and their fight began.

• Jiang Yu left two heaps of placer gold with Mu Bai before diving into the Blackwater River and heading west.
• Mu Bai discovered the painting’s hidden entrance to Hei Feng’s treasury, where a formation mistook him for Hei Feng and opened the golden gate.
• Mu Bai took Demon Cores, soul crystals, water-aspect crystals, herbs, forging materials, Soul Soldiers, and cultivation arts from the treasury.
• Mu Bai found the Jade Dragon River Marrow and the Gold Refining Art, then summoned his soul spirit clones to keep looting while he practiced the art.
• Hu Meier and the mermaid concubine exchanged threats aboard the Flower Boat, then attacked each other with their weapons.

Hu Meier survived the merfolk concubine’s attack and killed her, then fought alongside Old Catfish against the concubine’s enraged elder brother. Mu Bai left the Treasury Hall and rushed to help as the battle continued with Hu Meier and Old Catfish unable to gain the upper hand.

• Hu Meier appeared to fall to the merfolk concubine’s Soul Treasure, but she survived and killed the concubine before striking down another consort who had threatened to skin her.
• Hu Meier challenged Old Catfish, who refused to let her kill the River Palace consorts because he was responsible for protecting them.
• The merfolk Demon General arrived to avenge his younger sister and attacked Hu Meier, but Old Catfish intercepted him and began fighting him alongside Hu Meier.
• Mu Bai sensed Hu Meier’s danger through the Mind-Spirit Imprint, ended his cultivation, recalled the golden soldiers into the Mustard Seed Bag, and left the Treasury Hall.
• The merfolk Demon General fought Hu Meier and Old Catfish in the sky, threatening to kill them and then Hei Feng, while the two defenders struggled to gain the advantage.

Mu Bai killed the Merfolk Demon General, then traveled with Hu Meier to Sand Rain City to help Jiang Yu relieve a devastating drought. He used the Jade Dragon River Marrow to summon vast clouds over the city, and the parched beasts awaited the rain.

• Mu Bai arrived as Hei Feng and killed the Merfolk Demon General, then gave the remaining fish pearls to Hu Meier and Old Catfish.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier decided to go help Jiang Yu rather than travel to the merfolk's territory, and Old Catfish returned to the River Palace with Hei Feng's concubines.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier reached drought-stricken Sand Rain City, where beasts endured a hundred-li queue for water.
• Jiang Yu brought water to the city's pool and explained that he had been fetching water to save his subjects.
• Mu Bai activated the Jade Dragon River Marrow and formed five enormous water-vapor clouds above Sand Rain City, darkening the sky.

Mu Bai used the Jade Dragon River Marrow to bring a night of torrential rain to Sand Rain City, saving Jiang Yu’s beastfolk and leaving the desert covered in new grass. He and Hu Meier then traveled north, their playful exchange over Hei Feng’s plunder drawing them closer.

• Mu Bai summoned thunderclouds and poured rain across Sand Rain City, while Jiang Yu knelt gratefully among his rejoicing beastfolk.
• Hu Meier wavered over her plan to kill Mu Bai as she saw his care for the land and its people.
• After the rain lasted until daybreak, green grass sprouted across the sands, and Jiang Yu thanked Mu Bai and offered him more gold sand.
• Jiang Yu recognized that Mu Bai was not Hei Feng and asked him to oversee the merfolk’s and Hei Feng’s territories; Mu Bai and Hu Meier then headed north.
• Hu Meier accused Mu Bai of taking treasures from Hei Feng’s treasury, seized a leather whip, and chased him as they joked and grew more at ease with each other.
• Mu Bai offered Hu Meier Demon Cores, Beast Cores, and top-grade Soul Soldiers, but few of the treasures appealed to her.

Mu Bai and Hu Meier reached Jiayu Fort, where Hu Meier used her charm to gain an invitation from Huang De, the Beast Race Demon General. While she kept Huang De occupied at a banquet, Mu Bai prepared for his return to Eastern Ridge by refining a golden skeleton and reckoning with his plans for revenge.

• Mu Bai refused Hu Meier’s demand that he become her servant, then persuaded her to lead him across the Jialan Embankment Wall.
• At Jiayu Fort, Hu Meier introduced Mu Bai as Young Master Qi, and Huang De welcomed them inside.
• Mu Bai climbed the embankment wall and looked toward Southern Marsh and Eastern Ridge, thinking of his homeland and the people he had left behind.
• Mu Bai withdrew from Huang De’s banquet and refined the golden skeleton with a thread of his mind.
• Hu Meier flirted with Huang De through the banquet, and he grew drunk and tried to embrace her.

Hu Meier told Huang De that Mu Bai had murdered Hu Shan, and Huang De promised to avenge him before luring Mu Bai to a hunt outside the city. Huang De led them to a valley full of human refugees and began an attack, where Cheng Peng and the wounded cultivators prepared to resist.

• Hu Meier claimed that Mu Bai had killed her father, Hu Shan, and Huang De promised to avenge him.
• Huang De invited Mu Bai and Hu Meier on a hunt, and the group rode north from the city with thousands of beasts and birds.
• Mu Bai and Huang De raced their mounts before Huang De led the party to a valley where humans were hiding.
• Huang De broke the humans’ protective formation and gave them ten breaths to flee before the hunt began.
• Cheng Peng stepped forward to defy Huang De, and several thousand cultivators gathered behind him to fight.

Cheng Peng fought Huang De to protect the people in the valley but was nearly killed before Mu Bai sent his Silver-Backed Ape clone to take his place. Huang De withdrew with Mu Bai and Hu Meier, and Hu Meier claimed Mu Bai was the enemy who had killed her father, prompting both men to pledge to protect her.

• Cheng Peng battled Huang De for nearly a hundred exchanges, but Huang De repeatedly wounded him and threatened the people behind him.
• Mu Bai used his Silver-Backed Ape as a clone, gave Cheng Peng medicinal pills, and fought Huang De in his place.
• Mu Bai's clone and Huang De fought for several hundred exchanges until Huang De stopped attacking and returned to Mu Bai and Hu Meier.
• Mu Bai tried to persuade Huang De to leave the human settlement alone, but Hu Meier said Mu Bai had killed her father and asked them for help.
• Huang De and Mu Bai pledged to avenge Hu Meier and protect her, then led the White Tiger Legion and Gray Eagles back toward Jiayu Fort.

Mu Bai taught five young cultivators in Qishan Canyon to refine pills and inspired Cheng Peng and others to search the mountains for herbs. Meanwhile, Huang De returned to Jiayu Fort and prepared an army to attack the canyon at daybreak.

• Mu Bai gave Cheng Peng and the people of Qishan Canyon medicinal herbs and Beast Cores in exchange for teaching them pill refining.
• Mu Bai trained five young cultivators to make Life-Saving Pills in iron pots and began teaching them to refine pills for injuries to the soul and mind.
• Cheng Peng repaired the protective formation and led dozens of cultivators into the Qishan Mountain Range to search for medicinal herbs.
• Hu Meier offered to help Huang De, who vowed to kill Mu Bai and hurried back to Jiayu Fort.
• Huang De mustered thirty thousand troops of the Beast Army to attack Qishan Canyon at daybreak.

Hu Meier distracted Huang De long enough for Mu Bai’s avatars to reach Qishan Canyon and prepare its defenders. Huang De arrived with thirty thousand beast troops, and the battle began with Mu Bai directing the defense.

• Hu Meier charmed Huang De and kept him occupied for several days while Mu Bai’s Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru avatars slipped away toward Qishan Canyon.
• Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape avatar rescued Cheng Peng and the surviving cultivators from an encirclement, and Mu Bai treated their injuries and put the gathered herbs to use.
• Mu Bai’s other two avatars joined him in the valley, and Cheng Peng organized the cultivators to protect the residents and children before battle.
• Huang De led thirty thousand beast troops and enormous fierce birds to Qishan Canyon, then ordered an immediate attack.
• Cheng Peng led a thousand Body Cultivators against the Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion while Mu Bai ordered the Soul Cultivators to fire volleys at the beast army’s center.

Mu Bai’s clones helped the Southern Marsh survivors defeat Huang De’s army at Qishan Canyon, destroying the Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion and forcing Huang De to retreat. As the survivors celebrated, Hu Meier considered killing Mu Bai but could not bring herself to strike while he was occupied.

• Huang De sent the Giant Bird Legion to attack the cultivators’ rear, but Mu Bai’s Divine Crow clone and five hundred cultivators stopped the birds with fire and killed many of them.
• Mu Bai’s Origin Water Chiru clone led more than two thousand cultivators to block the canyon entrance and attack Huang De’s central and rear forces, leaving the Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion isolated and surrounded.
• Huang De ordered a retreat; his Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion was wiped out, and more than half the fierce bird legion was slain.
• Cheng Peng celebrated the victory with the people of the canyon, while Mu Bai’s Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru clones guarded against a counterattack; Huang De requested General Nangong Zhan’s aid.
• Hu Meier visited Mu Bai at Jiayu Fort and considered killing him while he was distracted, but memories of their time together stopped her from striking.

Mu Bai’s Divine Crow clone returned to Qishan with Cheng Peng and other cultivators to gather medicinal herbs, then killed two Trunk-Nosed Apes and nearby powerful beasts. As Qishan Canyon’s people tried to make a home there, Huang De’s reinforcements arrived, leaving a major attack on the horizon.

• Hu Meier fled in tears after Mu Bai spoke, while Mu Bai resumed controlling his three soul spirit clones.
• Ya Qing advanced quickly in pill refining, and Mu Bai’s Divine Crow clone and Cheng Peng led cultivators into Qishan to collect scarce medicinal herbs.
• At the Trunk-Nosed Apes’ lair, Mu Bai’s clone fought and killed both apes while Cheng Peng’s group gathered the remains of three fallen Xiu Zun and harvested herbs.
• Mu Bai’s clone killed every nearby Fierce Beast of the fourth tier or higher, making the area safer for Qishan Canyon’s cultivators.
• Qishan Canyon’s residents began clearing a herb field and preparing to stay, while Nangong Zhan led a fifty-thousand-strong Beast Army toward them.
• Huang De brought twenty thousand more troops from Jiayu Fort and personally welcomed Nangong Zhan when he arrived three days later.

Mu Bai’s forces remained trapped in Qishan Canyon while his clones returned to Jiayu Fort and attacked it, forcing Huang De to withdraw. Nangong Zhan also turned back, leaving the siege weakened as Mu Bai’s plan began to draw the Beast Army away.

• Huang De persuaded Nangong Zhan to bring his army to Qishan Canyon, where the two generals encircled the humans and waited rather than risk attacking.
• Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape Clone told Cheng Peng to keep the troops calm while his Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru clones slipped away to seek help.
• Nangong Zhan argued that the siege would reveal whether the mysterious fighters had powerful backing, and Huang De agreed to wait them out.
• Mu Bai reunited with the returning clones at Jiayu Fort, then disguised himself and attacked the city with lightning, killing many Fierce Beasts and a deputy general.
• Hu Meier alerted Huang De that Jiayu Fort was under attack, and Huang De hurried back with his troops despite Nangong Zhan’s warning that it might be a trap.
• Nangong Zhan returned to camp, then broke camp and marched back toward the city as well.