Recaps

Huang Xiao traveled with Ren Dongju and the Wood Demon General toward the Demon God Sect, where he was told to act arrogantly when facing disciples recommended by the other sects. On the road, the Wood Demon General sensed an ambush and confronted a powerful stranger emerging from the forest.

• Huang Xiao and Ren Dongju discussed the Demon God’s strength and continued toward the Wood Demon General, who was waiting in a nearby city.
• At an inn near the Demon God Sect, Ren Dongju asked whether the other four sects would recommend disciples, and the Wood Demon General told Huang Xiao to assert himself despite being younger and weaker.
• The three learned that the other sects had arrived several days earlier, then set out for the Demon God Sect the next morning.
• Thirty li from the inn, the Wood Demon General stopped the group after sensing someone concealed in the forest.
• A stranger emerged and charged at the three, and the Wood Demon General moved to meet him while Ren Dongju realized the newcomer was an expert.

The Wood Demon General fought a masked stranger near the Demon God Sect, but the stranger used the encounter to seize Huang Xiao. The Wood Demon General returned alone, leaving Huang Xiao's fate unknown.

• The masked stranger exchanged a powerful palm strike with the Wood Demon General and claimed he had come to test the Five Great Demon Sects' strength.
• The Wood Demon General attacked while Huang Xiao and Ren Dongju moved closer to watch, but the stranger evaded him with an uncanny movement technique.
• The Wood Demon General landed a punch that sent the stranger flying toward Ren Dongju and Huang Xiao.
• The stranger dodged Ren Dongju's palm attacks, avoided injuring him, and carried Huang Xiao away as the Wood Demon General gave chase.
• The Wood Demon General returned alone, and Ren Dongju feared his master had been unable to catch the stranger.

Senior Ji abducted Huang Xiao and questioned him about the Last Spirit Land and the remnant root of the Heavenly Immortal Fruit. Huang Xiao could not identify the Spirit Land’s location, and Senior Ji remained wary of the maps circulating in the Jianghu.

• The Wood Demon General left for the Demon God Sect while Ren Dongju worried that Huang Xiao might not survive his abduction.
• After traveling for three shichen, Senior Ji revealed his identity to Huang Xiao and explained that he had taken him to ask questions.
• Huang Xiao told Senior Ji that he believed he had entered the Last Spirit Land and described finding a remnant root filled with vitality.
• Senior Ji identified the remnant root as belonging to the Heavenly Immortal Fruit and asked Huang Xiao where the Spirit Land was.
• Huang Xiao said he did not know its location, and Senior Ji rejected the circulating maps as a dangerous conspiracy possibly connected to the Longevity Daoist.
• Huang Xiao said he would soon have to hand the Cold Jade Key to the Slaughter Evil Lord, and Senior Ji told him the choice was his.

Huang Xiao told Senior Ji that his mother, Senior Ji of the Ji Residence, had recently escaped and was now at the Ji Residence. Senior Ji struggled with the news but admitted he did not blame her, leaving Huang Xiao hoping the two could reconcile.

• Senior Ji asked Huang Xiao about the Last Spirit Land and requested the Bronze Key, planning to gather all eight keys and expose Longevity Daoist’s schemes.
• Huang Xiao realized Senior Ji intended to disrupt Longevity Daoist’s plans and told him that Senior Ji of the Ji Residence was still alive.
• Senior Ji doubted the news because he had visited her ruined residence in the Immortal Spirit Domain and found no trace of her.
• Huang Xiao explained that she had only recently escaped and was now at the Ji Residence.
• Senior Ji admitted that his mother had been a victim of Longevity Daoist and that he did not blame her, while Huang Xiao urged him to let go of the past.

Huang Xiao and Senior Ji returned to the Wild Ox Sect to retrieve the Bronze Key while avoiding the Demon God Sect and the Wood Demon Sect. After Senior Ji gave Huang Xiao a Phantom Aura Pearl and failed to find clues about the missing treasures, Huang Xiao showed him an enormous spirit crystal with its core missing.

• Senior Ji gave Huang Xiao a Phantom Aura Pearl to conceal his aura, then traveled with him to the Wild Ox Sect.
• Huang Xiao and Senior Ji entered the Wild Ox Sect without alerting anyone, and Senior Ji remarked that the outer formations seemed vaguely familiar.
• Huang Xiao retrieved the Bronze Key and told Senior Ji that six supreme treasures had vanished from the sect without leaving traces.
• Senior Ji searched the area for two hours but found no useful clues, and suspected an extraordinary old fellow had taken the treasures.
• Huang Xiao showed Senior Ji an enormous spirit crystal whose core had also disappeared without damaging the crystal.

Huang Xiao learned that the missing core of the spirit crystal was likely spirit crystal marrow and discussed the stolen Supreme Treasures and cross-realm travel with Senior Ji. They suspected the Longevity Daoist had stolen the treasures and marrow to build a grand formation, but could not explain why he had not gone to the Martial World himself.

• Senior Ji identified the missing spirit crystal core as likely spirit crystal marrow, an extraordinary treasure Huang Xiao had failed to recognize.
• Senior Ji told Huang Xiao that the Seven Treasures had been damaged by crossing realms and later repaired with Origin Flame by the Longevity Daoist.
• Senior Ji explained that cross-realm travel could be achieved without all Seven Treasures, though using substitutes required far greater power and cost.
• Huang Xiao asked whether the Longevity Daoist had stolen the Supreme Treasures, and Senior Ji agreed that the treasures and spirit crystal marrow could serve his plans for a Cross-Realm Grand Formation.
• Huang Xiao and Senior Ji wondered why the Longevity Daoist had not simply gone to the Martial World to obtain the Supreme Treasures himself.

Huang Xiao and Senior Ji fled the Wild Ox Sect after suspecting Longevity Daoist had planted monitoring measures in its formations, and discussed how to protect the remaining supreme treasures. When a Jianghu crowd chased an emerald blade of grass, Senior Ji seized it and ordered Huang Xiao to flee with him.

• Senior Ji suspected Longevity Daoist had secretly altered the formations to monitor Huang Xiao, so they left the Wild Ox Sect with Dragon Fang.
• After running for an hour, Senior Ji decided they might have been overly cautious and explained that Longevity Daoist could only sense a supreme treasure from within about one li if its aura was sealed.
• Huang Xiao resolved to keep the Supreme Ghost Stele hidden so Longevity Daoist could not gather all seven treasures.
• Huang Xiao asked Senior Ji to accompany him out to sea, but Senior Ji said he needed time alone.
• A crowd of Jianghu fighters charged toward them while chasing an emerald blade of grass, and Senior Ji snatched it before telling Huang Xiao to flee.

Huang Xiao and Senior Ji discussed the sentient ten-thousand-year-old poria cocos and their plans concerning the Bronze Key and the Last Spirit Land. Senior Ji explained the Spirit Lands’ hidden purpose, while Huang Xiao revealed that the Slaughter Evil Lord needed Spirit Land Cold Jade.

• Senior Ji found a sentient poria cocos, and Huang Xiao suspected it came from the Last Spirit Land because its awareness seemed unusually weak for its age.
• Senior Ji decided to protect the poria cocos and warned Huang Xiao not to go to sea while the Longevity Daoist and Demon God Sect were searching for him.
• Senior Ji planned to investigate the map fragments and consider how to use his Bronze Key to locate the Last Spirit Land.
• Senior Ji explained that activating all eight Bronze Keys together might reveal the Last Spirit Land, while a formation expert could use one key to open its corresponding Spirit Land independently.
• Senior Ji said the Spirit Lands’ repeated openings benefited the old bastard behind their design, despite people valuing the Spirit Land Cold Jade they received.
• Huang Xiao said the Slaughter Evil Lord needed Spirit Land Cold Jade, and Senior Ji reacted with a furrowed brow.

Huang Xiao and Senior Ji traveled toward the Slaughter Domain while discussing Spirit Land formations and the surge of ancient exotic plants appearing across the Ancient World. Huang Xiao suspected the plants had come from the Last Spirit Land and wondered whether their departure could disrupt the Grand Formation.

• Huang Xiao told Senior Ji that Senior Immortal Alchemist could help open a Spirit Land, and Senior Ji proposed asking him to find a way to damage the formations before the Grand Formation was activated.
• Huang Xiao and Senior Ji agreed to head for the Holy City of the Slaughter Domain, where Huang Xiao wondered whether Senior Zuo Qiu Shu was still waiting.
• At a wine shop, Huang Xiao and Senior Ji heard reports that rare plants over ten thousand years old had appeared across the Ancient World and brought miraculous benefits to those who encountered them.
• Senior Ji accepted Huang Xiao's inference that the plants had come from the Last Spirit Land, and Huang Xiao worried that people would hunt them down.
• Huang Xiao asked whether the plants' departure had emptied the Last Spirit Land and might count as damage to the Grand Formation.

Huang Xiao, Senior Ji, and Senior Immortal Alchemist agreed to use the last Bronze Key to enter the Spirit Land and investigate its formation. They reached the inner Dangerous Area, where Senior Immortal Alchemist began collecting its abundant Spirit Land Cold Jade.

• Huang Xiao kept the secrets about Eldest Senior Brother and the Soaring Immortal Fruit to himself and hoped his capture would be reported.
• Huang Xiao introduced Senior Ji to Senior Immortal Alchemist and revealed that he had the last Bronze Key after obtaining two keys in the Ancient World.
• Senior Immortal Alchemist agreed to help examine the Spirit Land formation in exchange for all the Spirit Land Cold Jade they found.
• The next day, Senior Immortal Alchemist used the Bronze Key to take Huang Xiao and Senior Ji deep inside the Spirit Land, away from its outskirts.
• Huang Xiao found at least a hundred pieces of Spirit Land Cold Jade, and Senior Immortal Alchemist swept them up despite Senior Ji's warning to focus on the formation.

Ao Yuan entered the Spirit Land after its formation suddenly became easier to access, while the Immortal Alchemist, Huang Xiao, and Senior Ji reached its Core Area and found seven Supreme Treasures embedded in the ground. Huang Xiao realized that the Supreme Ghost Stele might also have fallen into the Longevity Daoist’s possession.

• Ao Yuan noticed the Spirit Land’s Spiritual Energy change and entered its formation with the Bronze Key after warning Ao Zhen and the other four to wait outside.
• Other powers detected disturbances in their Spirit Lands, then turned their attention back to map fragments and newly appeared exotic flowers and plants.
• The Immortal Alchemist filled five sacks with Spirit Land Cold Jade and led Huang Xiao and Senior Ji toward the Core Area.
• The three reached a smooth stone expanse covered in golden threads that formed the core of the Spirit Land’s Mystical Grand Formation.
• Huang Xiao spotted seven objects embedded in a circle around a brilliant crystal and recognized them as the Seven Treasures, including treasures he had lost.
• Huang Xiao worried that the Supreme Ghost Stele in Eldest Senior Brother’s hands might also have fallen into the Longevity Daoist’s possession.

Huang Xiao, the Immortal Alchemist, and Senior Ji discovered that the Seven Treasures in the Spirit Land were imitations and concluded the Longevity Daoist had arranged them across the formations. They learned the Supreme Ghost Stele was with Huang Xiao’s Eldest Senior Brother and decided to guard the Wild Ox Sect while seeking another way to stop the Longevity Daoist.

• The Immortal Alchemist and Senior Ji identified the Seven Treasures as imitations and reasoned that the genuine set was likely required in the Last Spirit Land.
• Senior Ji concluded that the Longevity Daoist had stolen Huang Xiao’s six treasures and spirit crystal marrow, and Huang Xiao explained the theft to the Immortal Alchemist.
• Huang Xiao revealed that the Supreme Ghost Stele and Cold Jade Key were with his Eldest Senior Brother, so the Immortal Alchemist offered to watch the Wild Ox Sect.
• The Immortal Alchemist warned that the Longevity Daoist could substitute imitation treasures for the genuine Seven Treasures, and Senior Ji said they needed to understand the formations to stop him.

Huang Xiao, Senior Ji, and the Immortal Alchemist failed to find a way to secretly tamper with the Longevity Daoist’s Grand Formation during their brief visit to the Spirit Land. The Immortal Alchemist proposed laying their own formation outside it to disrupt or destroy it, though success remained uncertain.

• The Immortal Alchemist said that secretly altering the Grand Formation was nearly impossible and urged Huang Xiao to memorize its arrangements for Xuan Yuanjun and the others.
• Huang Xiao and Senior Ji spent five days memorizing the formation while the Immortal Alchemist studied it, but they were abruptly sent out of the Spirit Land before he could reach its core.
• The Immortal Alchemist admitted that comprehending the formation would likely take a very long time, though he had developed some preliminary ideas.
• The Immortal Alchemist proposed attacking the Longevity Daoist’s Grand Formation with a formation of their own, laid discreetly outside it.
• Senior Ji and Huang Xiao recognized that the plan offered them more control but agreed that their chances of affecting the vastly superior formation were slim.

Huang Xiao reunited with Qingfeng in West Mountain Town and learned that the Soaring Immortal Fruit and the others had escaped the Spirit Land, though some had been captured after becoming separated. Qingfeng asked Huang Xiao to help find them a safe hiding place, and Huang Xiao suggested the Desolate Domain.

• Huang Xiao reached West Mountain Town, bought a boat for his journey, and unexpectedly recognized Qingfeng when he arrived in town.
• Qingfeng explained that he had come to West Mountain Town after hearing rumors about Huang Xiao and remembering their plan to meet there every ten years.
• Qingfeng told Huang Xiao that he and the Soaring Immortal Fruit had brought the exotic flowers and plants out of the Spirit Land about a month earlier, but some had been separated and captured.
• Qingfeng said the Soaring Immortal Fruit was hiding with the others and handed Huang Xiao the Supreme Ghost Stele and the Cold Jade Key.
• Huang Xiao suggested that the group hide in the Desolate Domain, and Qingfeng questioned whether they could reach it safely and survive there without enough Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth.

Huang Xiao reassured Qingfeng that powerful seniors might help protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit and the Rare Flowers and Exotic Fruits. Qingfeng explained how to follow his secret signs through the Central Desert to find their hiding place, leaving Huang Xiao with a way to reach them.

• Huang Xiao told Qingfeng that the former Sect Master of the Creation Sect and Senior Immortal Alchemist might help them.
• Huang Xiao learned that the Soaring Immortal Fruit had taken in too much vitality and might transform into a Heavenly Immortal Fruit if it digested it.
• Qingfeng said he and the Soaring Immortal Fruit had a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance of staying undiscovered because he had set up concealed formations.
• Qingfeng explained that he had marked rocks every thirty li with fresh dents to guide Huang Xiao to their refuge from Red Sun Town.

Qingfeng visited Huang Xiao and warned him to be careful around the powerful seniors, while Huang Xiao considered whether the Last Spirit Land might lie in the Central Desert. Huang Xiao then took Zuo Qiu Shu to the formation, reported what he had learned about the Slaughter Evil Lord to Xuan Yuanxiang, and prepared to return to the Desolate Domain with Hong Yi.

• Qingfeng declined to leave more hidden marks, warned Huang Xiao to watch himself, and departed.
• Huang Xiao considered whether the Last Spirit Land was in the Central Desert and decided to share the possibility with Senior Xuanyuan and the others.
• Zuo Qiu Shu arrived in West Mountain Town, and she and Huang Xiao set out to sea for the formation.
• Zuo Qiu Shu waited outside while Huang Xiao entered the formation and told Xuan Yuanxiang what he could disclose about the Slaughter Evil Lord.
• Xuan Yuanxiang postponed Huang Xiao's entry into another formation, agreed that Hong Yi could accompany him to the Desolate Domain, and Huang Xiao told his patriarch about Dragon Fang.

Huang Xiao, Hong Yi, and Dugu Sheng reunited with Zhao Yunya at the Ji Residence, where they learned about its new formation and contacted Senior Xuan Yuanjun. Huang Xiao and Dugu Sheng left with Hong Yi to meet Senior Xuanyuan, while Zuo Qiu Shu stayed at the residence and Zhao Yunya was relieved to see Hong Yi again.

• Huang Xiao, Hong Yi, and Dugu Sheng arrived at the island, where Hong Yi reunited with Zhao Yunya.
• Zhao Yunya explained that Senior Xuanyuan and Senior Ji had strengthened the Ji Residence’s formation, and that Senior Ji was healing in seclusion.
• Zhao Yunya contacted Yunhui, who provided Senior Xuan Yuanjun’s location at one of the other eight locations.
• Zuo Qiu Shu chose to stay at the Ji Residence, while Hong Yi insisted on accompanying Huang Xiao and Dugu Sheng to see Senior Xuanyuan.
• Huang Xiao, Hong Yi, and Dugu Sheng departed, and Zhao Yunya returned to the Ji Residence, happy to have Hong Yi back.

Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi met Xuan Yuanjun at a Spirit Land in the Desolate Domain, where he had been trying to break its formation. The formation gave way, and the group prepared to enter and study it for clues to the Spirit Land formations in the Immortal Spirit Domain.

• Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi reached the Spirit Land and met Xuan Yuanjun.
• Huang Xiao told Xuan Yuanjun that Slaughter Evil Lord was essentially willing to help oppose Longevity Daoist and revealed that he had met Ji Xuanying’s son.
• Xuan Yuanjun explained that he had failed to break the formations at the other seven Spirit Lands and believed this one offered the best chance because it had suffered greater damage.
• Xuan Yuanjun sensed that the formation had been breached, and Huang Xiao confirmed that it appeared to be broken.
• Xuan Yuanjun led the group inside and asked Huang Xiao to compare the formation with those he had seen in the Immortal Spirit Domain.

Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun explored the shattered Core Areas of two Spirit Land formations, hoping to learn how they had been constructed. They found no intact formations to study, but Xuan Yuanjun gained confidence in breaking the remaining formations.

• Xuan Yuanjun led Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Hong Yi through a damaged formation to its Core Area, where they found shattered spirit crystal marrow and no positions for the Seven Treasures.
• Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun discussed how flaws in the Longevity Daoist's formations had allowed Senior Ji to sabotage them, while newer formations in the Immortal Spirit Domain seemed more complete and harder to stop.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed checking another Core Area, and he led the group to the formation he had once found hardest to break.
• After three days, Xuan Yuanjun breached the second formation, but the group found its Core Area completely shattered as well.
• Huang Xiao struck the smooth floor with the Minghong Saber to check for a hidden formation beneath it, but the cracks revealed no sign of one.

Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun returned to the island and discussed the stolen supreme treasures with Ji Xuanying and the others. Xuan Yuanjun deduced that the Longevity Daoist had stolen them through a puppet, probably still near or inside the Wild Ox Sect, and the group decided to investigate there.

• Huang Xiao and Xuan Yuanjun left the rocky site after finding no further clues, and the cracks made by the Minghong Saber slowly began to close behind them.
• Huang Xiao told Ji Xuanying and the others about the search and his encounter with her son.
• Xuan Yuanjun proposed that the Longevity Daoist had used a puppet to steal the supreme treasures, leaving traces of his formation methods at the Wild Ox Sect.
• Xuan Yuanjun reasoned that the puppet was likely still at or near the Wild Ox Sect because it needed to monitor the sect and locate the hidden treasures.
• Ji Xuanying agreed that Xuan Yuanjun's deduction was likely correct, and the group resolved to visit the Wild Ox Sect.

Huang Xiao revealed that he had recovered the Supreme Ghost Stele and the Cold Jade Key, then explained that his Eldest Senior Brother had emerged from the Last Spirit Land with Soaring Immortal Fruit. Xuan Yuanjun realized the fruit might help him fully recover, while Ji Xuanying prepared to head to the Immortal Spirit Domain alone.

• Ji Xuanying said she had recovered most of her strength, and Xuan Yuanjun chose to stay behind and study formations while she went to the Immortal Spirit Domain.
• Huang Xiao opened the box and showed Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun the Supreme Ghost Stele and the Cold Jade Key, admitting that he had concealed their return to his hands.
• You Lian'er examined the Cold Jade Key, and Huang Xiao explained that Ji Xuanying had sealed away its cold aura.
• Huang Xiao said Daoist Qingfeng had returned the treasures to him but was occupied with other important matters.
• Huang Xiao revealed that his Eldest Senior Brother had emerged from the Last Spirit Land with Soaring Immortal Fruit, which Xuan Yuanjun believed could help heal his injuries completely.

Huang Xiao explained that the Soaring Immortal Fruit had absorbed the vitality needed to transform into a Heavenly Immortal Fruit, which could heal Xuan Yuanjun. Xuan Yuanjun and Ji Xuanying decided to travel to the Immortal Spirit Domain, while Zhao Yunhui stayed to study Xuan Yuanjun's formation insights.

• Huang Xiao refused to let Xuan Yuanjun refine the Soaring Immortal Fruit, explaining that it was his friend and had once saved his life.
• Huang Xiao revealed that the Soaring Immortal Fruit had absorbed vitality from a Heavenly Immortal Fruit Remnant Root in the Last Spirit Land and might transform into a Heavenly Immortal Fruit.
• Xuan Yuanjun agreed to travel with Ji Xuanying to the Immortal Spirit Domain and help Huang Xiao's Eldest Senior Brother and the others protect the exotic flowers and plants.
• Ji Xuanying said she could recover by receiving some vitality from the exotic flowers and plants and promised not to refine them into pills.
• Xuan Yuanjun planned to meet the Slaughter Evil Lord to discuss the Spirit Land Grand Formation and shared his formation insights with Zhao Yunhui before leaving.

Xuan Yuanjun, Ji Xuanying, and Huang Xiao returned to the Immortal Spirit Domain and went to the Wild Ox Sect to recover its supreme treasures before Longevity Daoist’s puppet could take them. As Xuan Yuanjun unraveled the puppet’s hidden formations, he began to suspect Lu Mu had a connection to them.

• Dugu Sheng and Hong Yi stayed behind to help Xuan Yuanxiang move important treasures out of the formation.
• Huang Xiao agreed to go to the Wild Ox Sect first, despite wanting to search for his Eldest Senior Brother.
• The three approached the sect cautiously, and Xuan Yuanjun began unraveling the hidden formations while Ji Xuanying searched for Longevity Daoist’s puppet.
• After unraveling more than a dozen formations, Xuan Yuanjun asked whether Lu Mu was in the Wild Ox Sect, and Huang Xiao realized what he might be implying.

Xuan Yuanjun identified Lu Mu as a likely puppet of Longevity Daoist after recognizing that he had made both the secret formations and the Wild Ox Sect’s grand formation. After the main hall collapsed, Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun followed Lu Mu to his residence, where he noticed them.

• Xuan Yuanjun said the secret formations and the Wild Ox Sect’s grand formation were the work of the same person, leading him to suspect Lu Mu was Longevity Daoist’s puppet.
• Ji Xuanying told Huang Xiao to hide while she and Xuan Yuanjun continued through the formations to the main hall.
• The Wild Ox Sect’s main hall collapsed, and Gao Tianhe ordered the exits sealed and called for an investigation.
• Mu Fucheng found that palm force had shattered several supporting pillars, confirming that someone had deliberately destroyed the hall.
• Ji Xuanying could not identify Lu Mu from a distance, so she and Xuan Yuanjun followed him to his residence.
• Lu Mu sensed someone behind him, turned around, and found Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun there.

Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun exposed Lu Mu as a puppet of the Longevity Daoist after he reacted to the Supreme Ghost Stele. Lu Mu admitted the other Supreme Treasures were still on the mountain, then died when Xuan Yuanjun realized he had used their conversation to alert his true body through the formation.

• Ji Xuanying and Xuan Yuanjun revealed their true appearances to Lu Mu, who recognized them and confirmed their suspicions by reacting to the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Lu Mu explained that he had planned to collect the Seven Treasures through his puppet body and had learned Huang Xiao possessed them, but failed to obtain the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Lu Mu admitted the other Supreme Treasures remained on the mountain, while insisting their loss would not stop his plan.
• Ji Xuanying threatened to destroy Lu Mu's puppet, but Xuan Yuanjun realized Lu Mu was stalling to notify his true body through the formation.
• Xuan Yuanjun struck Lu Mu, who died after warning him that he had reacted too slowly.