Recaps

The Lower Five Realms united against the Divine Realm, and Mu Fusheng’s talisman and the disciples’ teamwork turned the battle before Lu Changsheng arrived to defeat the Heavenly Gods. After the Dao Ancestor negotiated a reprieve from the Holy Court, the realms began rebuilding while Lu Changsheng’s disciples prepared to advance and an unexpected pair appeared at Hidden Dao Academy.

• Mu Fusheng killed Chief God Tianhai and Chief God Xuanxu with the World-Destroying Lightning Array Talisman, while Ye Qiubai reported his squad’s decisive victory to the alliance.
• Hong Ying rallied the Lower Five Realms as the Divine Realm descended, and Xiao Shitou opened passages that brought forces from the Immortal, Devil, and Mortal Realms to reinforce the defense.
• The Cangxuan Guardian Beast and the Lower Five Realms counterattacked, while Ye Qiubai and his companions fought Dragon Elephant Chief God and wounded him with their combined attacks.
• Mu Fusheng completed the Ten Thousand Dragons God-Slaying Talisman and grievously injured Dragon Elephant Chief God, but Azure Heavenly God rescued him as the battle turned against the alliance.
• He Mengshen shielded Ye Qiubai and his companions from Azure Heavenly God until Lu Changsheng arrived, defeated the Heavenly Gods, and destroyed the Divine Realm army.
• The Holy Court’s soul restriction drew Lu Changsheng into a gray space, where the Dao Ancestor traded a Tree Heart Lotus petal for the Lord of the Holy Court’s promise to spare the world.
• Lu Changsheng placed Xuan Heavenly God under restriction and assigned him to Azure Firmament Academy, while Hong Ying organized the Lower Five Realms’ recovery and Ye Qiubai and the others left to prepare for breakthroughs.
• Huang Qian brought several beasts nearing breakthroughs to the Willow Tree, and a white-robed man and an old man appeared before Qin Tiannan and the Hidden Dao Academy elders.

Lu Changsheng learned that restoring the Star Road could expose Earth, then secretly cleared the way to the Soaring Realm for his disciples. As they joined the Supervisory Sacred Hall and confronted the Withered Cloud Sect, Ning Chenxin destroyed its Blood Soul Giant and drew Old Daoist Qingcheng’s invitation.

• Lu Changsheng and Du Zhong rebuilt the Cottage, and Du Zhong showed Lu Changsheng a passage to Earth while warning that the Holy Court might discover it if the Star Road were restored.
• Lu Changsheng’s disciples completed breakthroughs, taught at the Hidden Dao Academy, and gathered for Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu’s wedding before preparing to travel to Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Lu Changsheng secretly killed the seven Holy Court guards at the Soaring Realm’s Star Orbit entrance and gave his disciples a token to guide them through hidden spatial nodes.
• Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Mu Fusheng, Xu Yeming, and Jiu Bailu reached the Soaring Realm and began dealing with the Supervisory Sacred Hall, while Mu Fusheng acquired the Extinguishing Thunder Dragon Horn.
• Yang Shao took the group to investigate the Withered Cloud Sect, where they discovered that its cultivators had been draining victims’ blood and souls.
• The Withered Cloud Sect summoned a Blood Soul Giant formed from more than ten thousand victims, and Ning Chenxin used the Dao Scripture and Vast Righteous Qi to destroy it and free the souls.
• Ye Qiubai and the others subdued the sect’s forces, while Old Daoist Qingcheng captured the pale, handsome Evil Cultivator and invited Ning Chenxin to Mount Qingcheng.

Ye Qiubai and his companions joined the Supervisory Sacred Hall as Ning Chenxin chose Mount Qingcheng, and both groups uncovered the Sacred Church’s blood sacrifices along the Banan border. The Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree helped the defenders break one array, but the larger six-pointed formation activated and drew its power toward Mount Zhenyue.

• Ning Chenxin chose Mount Qingcheng over the Supervisory Sacred Hall, while Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Mu Fusheng, Jiu Bailu, and Xu Yeming joined the Hall and impressed its disciples with their aptitude.
• Ye Qiubai and the others joined the investigation of the massacres near Banan, where Ba Xiyue’s forces discovered Wind-Ming Valley’s Blood Refinement Soul-Seizing Array and Lu Mingyuan and Ning Chenxin purified it.
• Han Shouyi struck down a Blood Soul Guide that threatened Mount Qingcheng, the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Banan, while Hong Ying mapped the attack sites into a six-pointed star linked to the Sacred Church.
• Ba Xiyue led the group to the Heavenly Seal Sect, where a Blood Prison Soul Refining Array trapped the defenders and drained the sect’s people while the group attacked its apparent core beneath the Ancestral Hall.
• The group shattered the altar’s heart, but the array entered a second stage and drained the Heavenly Seal Sect as a blood cloud formed above it.
• Ning Chenxin awakened the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree, and Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Xu Yeming, and Ning Chenxin gained power from its sacred presence.
• Ning Chenxin used the tree’s divine light and the Nine-Character Mantra to suppress the array spirit, and the defenders shattered the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array.
• Ning Chenxin and the others discovered that the Heavenly Seal Sect had triggered a larger six-pointed formation across the border, where survivors fled attacks and blood-colored power converged on Mount Zhenyue.

Ye Qiubai’s group stopped the Sacred Church’s formation in Banan and uncovered a clue linking the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool to the Nether River Abyss. Their mission there exposed them to a planned test, a Styx Sect attack, and the Nether River Ancestor, before Dong Sanqiang intervened to save Xu Yeming.

• Ba Xiyue and her companions rescued Huo Xuedao, then entered Mount Zhenyue and fought the soul shadows sustaining the siege formation.
• Ning Chenxin purified the soul banners and destroyed the formation’s core, lifting the blood curtain over Banan before Qu Lü drove off a hidden attacker.
• At Ba Tianque’s banquet, Hong Ying found a message in the Five Spirits Mystic Art linking the Nether River Abyss to the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool, and she declined Ba Tiance’s invitation.
• Mu Fusheng overheard the Supervisory Sacred Hall’s hall master and a black-robed man discuss sending the group to the abyss as a test and guiding them toward an object there.
• Xu Yeming used the Classic of Mountains and Seas to deter the Styx Sect and Yin Spirit Sect from fighting over a spirit valley, with Ba Tiance and the Chu Clan helping secure their withdrawal.
• The Styx Sect attacked Mu Fusheng’s group, and the Nether River Ancestor appeared to demand the Sacred Hall’s resources as the fighting escalated.
• Xu Yeming defeated Wu Xinyan with the power of exotic beasts, but the Nether River Ancestor dispersed his summons and threatened to kill him.
• Dong Sanqiang split the Nether River Ancestor’s attack with his spear, forcing him to leave with Wu Xinyan, then revealed that Xu Yeming’s Thousand Treasures Card had prompted his rescue.