Recaps

Mu Bai became an alchemist, survived the destruction of the Haibei Tribe, and grew stronger in the Silver Frost Forest while pursuing a new cultivation path. The arc left him poisoned and traveling toward the Spirit Taming Sect, while Ling'er and Mi Yan began working at the Taiyuan Merchant Guild in Ximu City.

• Hai Ya awakened Mu Bai’s unusual soul at the cost of his essence blood, and Mu Bai later engraved a pear blossom Soul Mark and chose to become an alchemist.
• Mu Bai learned alchemy from the Supreme Cauldron, refined pills for his tribe, and Hai Ya risked his life to bring back a book of medicinal knowledge and a cure for his poisoning.
• Mu Bai and Hai Chen obtained dragon saliva grass from a Black-Horned Python, allowing Mu Bai to refine a Dragon-Awakening Pill that helped save Hai Ya.
• Mu Bai joined the Haibei Tribe’s contestants at White Wolf City, where the deadly competition and Mu Bai’s secret identity as an alchemist led Hai Ya to send Mu Bai and Ling'er into hiding.
• Mi Yan rescued Mu Bai and Ling'er, then told them the Eastern Nether Tribe had destroyed the Haibei Tribe, and Mu Bai buried his people and set out alone to seek revenge.
• Mu Bai trained in the Silver Frost Forest, subdued a golden eagle, discovered the Flying Immortal Scripture, and reached the second tier while engraving the Three-Legged Divine Crow mark.
• Mu Bai explored an abandoned tribe beneath a pool, gained the ability to move through water, and later received a protective Hemp Robe from a silver-haired old woman before returning to the forest.
• Qing Mao of the Spirit Taming Sect gave Mu Bai a brocade box and poisoned him with a Hundred-Day Bone-Shattering Pill, forcing Mu Bai to travel west with Golden Roc to seek an antidote.
• Ling'er and Mi Yan arrived in Ximu City to manage the Taiyuan Merchant Guild’s Peony Pavilion, while Mi Yan worried about Ling'er’s future and wondered how Mu Bai was doing.

Mu Bai became an elder and deputy Pill Hall master while struggling to support Qing Mao’s family and build his strength. After killing Lin Chuan and Mo Dekun in self-defense, he faced execution, but Zhou Dekai secured his release, leaving Mu Bai determined to repay his debt and focus on cultivation.

• Xiong Ba’s attack on the Peony Pavilion ended with him and his men dead, while Taiyuan Qing revealed his feelings to Mi Yan.
• Mu Bai reached the Spirit Taming Sect, received Qing Mao’s Elder Token, and learned that his Alchemist Soul Mark had drawn the sect’s interest.
• Mu Bai defended Xi Bazì and Sweet Potato Boy against Mo Dekun, then took responsibility for Qing Mao’s household and its stipend.
• Mu Bai became Pill Hall Deputy Hall Master, struggled to meet his pill quota, and sought ways to earn Soul Crystals while helping Qing Mao’s family.
• Mu Bai survived Jia Yi and Jia Bing’s ambush, defeated Liu San’s companions, and used the Elder Token to stop Ancestor Liu Zhen from attacking him.
• Mu Bai gave Mu Lan pills to sell, then gave his wolf hide coat to the old Divine Cultivator before Mo Dekun and Lin Chuan attacked him.
• The old Divine Cultivator sacrificed himself to kill Lin Chuan, and Mu Bai was arrested and threatened with execution for the deaths of Lin Chuan and Mo Deqian.
• First Madam and Qing Mao’s family stood by Mu Bai, while Zhou Dekai secured his release by offering Zhou Detai a million Soul Crystals, and Mu Bai then resolved to repay Zhou Dekai and focus on cultivation.

Mu Bai expanded his pill business, survived tribal conflict and pursuit, and strengthened himself through thunder cultivation before traveling with Chen Shichong. Their search for sword materials brought them into Earthfire City's corpse-plague affair, which ended with their release and welcome at the City Lord’s Manor.

• Mu Lan expanded Mu Lan Pavilion’s pill sales while Mu Bai improved his alchemy and obtained Thousand Divine Herb Formulas.
• Mu Bai helped Zhou Dekai expose the plot against him, then escaped the Crane Soul Tribe with a blood-red stone and killed You Bingcheng after a pursuit.
• Zhou Dekai gave Mu Bai cultivation arts and a Bone-Shattering Pill, and Mu Bai used them to survive Yin Thunder and reach mid Second Level Soul Power.
• Mu Bai freed Chen Shichong from the Yellow Weasel Bride’s illusion, traveled north with him, and obtained third-tier Silver Swordfish bones through their joint hunt.
• Mu Bai collected Crimson Flame Fruits, refined Ice-Fire Pills, and fused earth yang thunder with his Yin Thunder Soul before rejoining Chen Shichong in Earthfire City.
• Mu Bai obtained Mighty Corpse Powder from Gusu Wan'er and cured Chen Shichong after the sinister man infected him with green insects.
• Mu Bai sold an Ice-Fire Pill at auction before Gusu Wan'er and the sinister-looking man unleashed plague smoke at the Golden Tower and fled Ji Yang Xiu Zun’s pursuit.
• Mu Bai killed Luo Cheng, and Chen Shichong secured their release from Ji Yang Xiu Zun by revealing his Sword Sect family identity before Ji Ruxia welcomed him at the City Lord’s Manor.

Mu Bai reached the Sword Sect, endured its trials, and became entangled in the Chen family’s conflict with Beishan Lie while helping Chen Qi avoid a forced marriage. After their wedding was disrupted, Mu Bai and his companions traveled to the Ice Ruins, where a strange old man’s ice dolls and a group of pursuers left his origins uncertain.

• Ji Ruxia and Yan Ru affirmed their relationship, while Mu Bai won a Red Sun Stone at auction and left Earthfire City for the Ten Thousand Swords Ice Forest.
• Chen Jianduan rescued Mu Bai and Chen Shichong from pursuers, then helped the Luming Tribe defeat snow bandits and rescue abducted women and children.
• Mu Bai and Chen Shichong reached the Sword Sect, where they completed the Hundred Puppet Path and Heart Refining Path, and Mu Bai gained strength and new weapons.
• Beishan Lie’s schemes injured Mu Bai and threatened the Chen household, while Chen Qi rejected his proposal and Chen Jianli and Chen Jianduan drove him from Third Peak.
• Mu Bai refused to promise marriage to Chen Qi, but agreed to help her avoid marrying Beishan Lie, and they held a wedding that Beishan Lie attacked.
• Mu Bai used his Spirit-Devouring Insects to stun Beishan Lie and slap him, prompting Beishan Fengyun to apologize publicly before privately vowing revenge on the Chen household.
• Ji Yang Xiu Zun took Mu Bai, Chen Shichong, Chen Qi, Ji Ruxia, and Yan Ru to the Ice Ruins, where an old man carved dolls that eerily mimicked them and declared Mu Bai’s fate heavy and hard.
• The old man fled before Mu Bai could test his beheading trick, and as the group continued through the ruins, Ji Yang Xiu Zun noticed Xue Dongming among several people following them.