Recaps

Yang Zhen used his literary talent and inventions to defeat rivals, destroy the Black Dove, and impress the Sea Pavilion with paintings that awakened powerful inscriptions. He left with Hua Youyue and provoked Luo Wuchen at Flower Moon Pavilion, where a graceful woman arrived as conflict threatened to break out.

• Yang Zhen solved riddles with the scholars, sold copied questions, and went with Big Sis to meet her master aboard the Blade.
• Yang Zhen entered an epiphany in the master's cabin and formed Literary Talent Qi Inscriptions from the complete Tao Te Ching.
• Yang Zhen equipped the Blade's cannon with an eight-power scope, helping Big Sis cripple the Black Dove from beyond its firing range.
• Yang Zhen pursued the Black Dove, killed Lin Shilang and the young master, and escaped with the ship's treasures and a blood seed.
• At the Sea Pavilion, Yang Zhen erased Sun Yushi's attack and guided Tian Rou to paint a dragon that let her form five strands of Literary Brilliance.
• Yang Zhen painted a crude tiger and phoenix whose inscriptions overwhelmed the Sea Pavilion's famed painting and knocked Sun Yushi unconscious.
• Yang Zhen evaded the master who came to investigate the inscriptions, then boarded Flower Moon Pavilion with Hua Youyue.
• Yang Zhen answered Luo Wuchen's cultivation question by telling everyone to eat, consumed rare treasures, and taunted him until a graceful woman entered the hall.

Yang Zhen entered Great Sage Chenxue’s Mirror World, broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and claimed the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art before rejecting Chenxue’s Dao. After defeating two Void Refinement Realm experts and driving off another, he woke on Donglin Island and learned that Grandmaster Ma had taken the Long Moon Pavilion’s pill formula and pills.

• Boat Mistress Yun invited Yang Zhen to work with her at the Pill Appreciation Conference, and Yang Zhen accepted an exchange agreement with the Flower Moon Pavilion.
• A bloody wave revealed the ruins on Donglin Island, and Yang Zhen entered the Upper Gen Mirror World disguised as Li Xiaoyao.
• Yang Zhen killed Sun Yushi with his poetic sword techniques, then reached the Nascent Soul Realm after using a sword strike to defeat Lu Heng and the other attackers.
• Yang Zhen chased Shameless Cat up the mountain and climbed to its summit, where the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art poured its inheritance into him.
• Yang Zhen endured the inheritance, formed the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Shaking Body, and severed Great Sage Chenxue’s Dao rather than accept it.
• Yang Zhen fought Sect Master Wang, Elder Qu, and Elder Tie, killing Sect Master Wang and Elder Qu while Elder Tie fled.
• Yang Zhen collapsed after the battle and woke at an inn, where Hua Youyue and Elder Yao told him Grandmaster Ma had given the Long Moon Pavilion’s Six-Star Life Pill formula and pills to the Donglin Medicine Association.
• Yang Zhen asked where Grandmaster Ma was so he could confront him.

Yang Zhen defeated Grandmaster Ma in a pill evaluation, helped the Long Moon Pavilion undercut the Donglin Pill Association, and killed two of its Void Refinement Realm experts after his mysterious Dao Rhyme emerged. He traveled to Ten Thousand Flowers Island to investigate his Emperor Mark, where restoring a blacksmith’s vitality led him to a powerful insight at the forge.

• Yang Zhen challenged Grandmaster Ma to an alchemy debate, refined Origin Splendor Pills with his pressure cooker, and proved they bore seven dragon marks.
• Grandmaster Ma attacked Yang Zhen after losing, and Yang Zhen killed him with the Heavenly Demon Gang Fist.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sold seven-mark pills at a low price during the Pill Appreciation Conference, drawing customers to the Long Moon Pavilion and angering the Donglin Pill Association.
• Two Void Refinement Realm experts attacked Yang Zhen and later renewed their assault, but Yang Zhen’s dragon and elephant phantoms killed them as his mysterious power nearly consumed him.
• Hua Youyue identified Yang Zhen’s power as Dao Rhyme and warned him that the Emperor Mark over his heart could draw powerful figures’ attention.
• Yang Zhen traveled to Ten Thousand Flowers Island despite Lu Baichi’s threat, rejected a robed woman’s request for help, and sought clues about the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness.
• Yang Zhen worked at a blacksmith’s shop, and his sapling restored the dying master smith’s vitality before the smith offered to teach him smithing.
• Yang Zhen hammered star iron as cultivators gathered outside, then shattered it with a strike that ended the violent phenomenon.

Yang Zhen built a giant centipede vessel to cross the Sea Dragon Pool, reached Emperor Island, and gained the Desolate Heaven Technique from the Emperor Mark. He then allied with the Sea Dragon Clan, exposed the human cultivators’ role in provoking them, and learned that a Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth was coming.

• Yang Zhen killed Lu Baichi with his hammer, then agreed to accompany Wang Meiling to the Sea Dragon Pool after negotiating rewards and learning about the Emperor Mark.
• Yang Zhen investigated the blood-moon restriction around the island and secretly built an underwater vessel, the Wutuo Gang Heaven-Blasting Diving Giant Centipede.
• When Emperor Island rose from the pool, Yang Zhen drove the Giant Centipede through the water, wrecked shuttle boats, and destroyed Megatron, causing Yang Baiming to drown.
• Yang Zhen, Wang Meiling, and Shameless Cat reached Emperor Island and found the Sea Dragon Clan fighting human cultivators led by Elder Gu.
• Yang Zhen recognized that Emperor Island formed a Dragon-Stealing Platform, then merged with the bloody fire of the Emperor Mark and gained the Desolate Heaven Technique.
• Yang Zhen stopped the battle and persuaded the Sea Dragon Clan leader to confront Elder Quan, while more than three thousand Sea Dragons gathered on the island.
• Yang Zhen convinced the cultivators that the Sea Dragon Clan wanted only a place to live, and an ancient voice confirmed his words.
• The Sea Dragon elder recovered the clan’s stolen treasure from Wan Tianchen and revealed the coming Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth before leading everyone to a crystal cave of treasures.