Recaps

Lian Youming married Yan Lingyun, returned home, and advanced his martial arts under Junk King before setting out toward Mount Lu. His journey drew him into recovering Swallow Li San’s remains and pursuing a bandit chief on Mount Emei, where Japanese fighters attacked him.

• Lian Youming married Yan Lingyun in Wuzhou and returned with her family to Xijing.
• Junk King revealed that the old monsters were Mountain Guardians and guided Lian Youming as his Inner Strength crossed a threshold.
• Lian Youming uncovered Heavenly Dipper Strength, Earthly Fiend Stance, and a Jade Plaque inviting him to Mount Lu inside Journey to the West.
• Junk King taught Lian Youming swordsmanship before Lian Youming left his pregnant wife and family on the Lantern Festival.
• Lian Youming killed the fighters occupying a riverside cave and recovered Swallow Li San’s remains and martial arts methods.
• Lian Youming joined Shorty Xu in rescuing two falling children and entrusted Swallow Li San’s secret art to him for return to the Swallow Sect.
• Lian Youming accepted a Pao Ge elder’s request to capture a bandit chief on Mount Emei and learned from Xu Tian that Li Da had disappeared while apparently seeking Yang Cuo.
• Lian Youming entered Pure Yang Hall, overheard Japanese fighters discussing treasure and Mount Lu, and fought them as two women opened fire with suppressed pistols.

After defeating Old Daoist Wei, Lian Youming studied Zhang Xianzhong’s Seven-Kill Stele and forged his own Righteous Path. He prepared on Mount Lu and killed He Baichuan in the first battle of the life-and-death challenges, as Xue Hen and the other fighters faced their own opponents.

• Lian Youming defeated Old Daoist Wei at Emei and received the Kunlun Secret Sword and a map to Zhang Xianzhong’s silver from the old boatman.
• Lian Youming studied the Seven-Kill Stele, then understood at a Qingming mausoleum that his Supreme Killing Intent came from his resolve to uphold righteousness and punish injustice.
• Lian Youming reached Mount Lu, broke through the Sixth Stage of Golden Bell Cover, and developed his Righteous Path under Gong Wuer’s guidance.
• Lian Youming trained beneath Sandie Spring Waterfall, completed the ringing of his seventy-eight joints, and learned Listening Jin from the old fisherman.
• Lian Youming practiced his intent and prepared for Xue Hen’s arrival as martial artists gathered on Mount Lu.
• Lian Youming and Xue Hen raced to Five Old Men Peak, where they and their allies chose opponents among four Foresight experts.
• Lian Youming fought He Baichuan, countered his cloth staff and storm-powered attacks, shattered the staff, and killed him with a punch to the chest.

Lian Youming defeated Xue Hen, survived his near-fatal wounds, and returned home to welcome his son before the Junk King vanished. Later, Lian Youming and Tian Dayong hunted poachers in Lop Nur, where clues to buried treasure drew them toward the White Lotus Sect and a mysterious ruin.

• Lian Youming defeated Gu Chan, then fought Xue Hen through a brutal duel and won after drawing strength from the storm’s thunder.
• Senior Li revived Lian Youming and helped him conceal his survival, while Xue Hen’s missing body raised the possibility that someone had rescued him.
• Lian Youming returned home, where Yan Lingyun gave birth to their son, Lian Ruopu, nicknamed Stone.
• The Junk King disappeared after leaving Lian Youming instructions for Heavenly Dipper Strength, and Lian Youming found his memorial tablet and training methods at Lüzu Temple.
• Lian Youming trained in Heavenly Dipper Strength, protected Yan Lingyun’s family, and agreed to travel with Tian Dayong to hunt foreign poachers in Gansu.
• Lian Youming confronted five men in Lop Nur, killed the attackers who fought him, and learned from Shang Fei that they sought Bai family treasure.
• After Shang Fei killed himself, Lian Youming and Tian Dayong followed the map toward the Ancient City of Loulan and evaded White Lotus Sect forces before finding corpses beneath a broken stele.

Lian Youming entered a hidden prison to investigate its dangerous martial artists, uncovered Mr. Corpse’s role among the Mountain Guardians, and survived the ensuing escape and attack. After recovering, he traveled north to heal and encountered a mysterious young fighter and Tantric Bliss practitioners before continuing toward gathering thunder.

• Lian Youming and Tian Dayong brought Xu Aishi’s remains to the Baji Sect, where Xu Tian, Xie Ruomei, Xu Baishi, the Hung Fist Grand Boxers, and Shorty Xu mourned the dead.
• Xu Tian sent Lian Youming undercover as a prisoner in a remote dungeon, where he fought Yuan Old Ghost and learned that inmates practiced techniques found on the walls.
• Lian Youming trained with the prisoners, reached foresight, and fought the Japanese martial artist who had taught them to replenish their essence by consuming human flesh.
• Lian Youming discovered that Corpse Old Ghost was Mr. Corpse, one of the Five Elders of the Mountain Guardians, and killed Ma Fei after rejecting Mr. Corpse’s offer to join him.
• The prisoners escaped during a violent clash, but Mr. Corpse grievously injured Lian Youming before fleeing into the snow, and Lian Youming later learned that five attackers had escaped by sea.
• After recovering, Lian Youming declined to return to the Baji Sect and traveled northwest, enduring a blizzard before witnessing a young man defeat an old lama.
• Lian Youming fought the Tantric Bliss practitioners who attacked him, killed several, and watched the surviving lama flee as the young man pursued him.
• Lian Youming buried the bodies, continued alone, and hurried toward a low mountain as thunder gathered overhead.