Recaps

Wu Fei and Yin Fan left the hidden space and discovered a Blazing Cold Tree at the bottom of a freezing pool in Falling Maple Mountain. Yin Fan kept the tree, and the two prepared to part ways, with Wu Fei returning to the Buddha Spirit Sect and Yin Fan to the Northern Region.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan each revealed that they knew the other had concealed a Mahayana cultivation, then set aside the subject and used the token to leave the hidden space.
• After the token and exit vanished, Wu Fei noticed something beneath a deep pool, and he and Yin Fan descended into its frigid depths.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan found a Blazing Cold Tree, and Yin Fan dug it up with its roots and surrounding soil.
• Yin Fan said he could not bear to let Wu Fei go, but Wu Fei dismissed his words as a joke.
• At Falling Maple Mountain, Wu Fei told Yin Fan to return to the Northern Region to refine the tree while he went back to the Buddha Spirit Sect, lest their connection become known.

After returning to the Buddha Spirit Sect, Wu Fei learned that strange activity in the Flame Spirit Realm had moved the Heavenly Dao Assembly forward. At Flame Spirit Mountain, he reunited with Jing Fanyu, noticed Liu Yuexuan’s hostility, and followed her when she slipped away during the gathering.

• Wu Fei discovered that the token from the mysterious space beneath Clear Heart Village had reappeared as a pattern on his wrist, then hid it beneath his skin.
• Kuzheng told Wu Fei that the Heavenly Dao Assembly had been moved forward by ten days because of strange phenomena in the Flame Spirit Realm.
• Jingguan brought Wu Fei and the Buddha Spirit Sect disciples to Flame Spirit Mountain aboard the Empty Cicada Flying Boat.
• Wu Fei gave Jing Fanyu a new string of Buddhist beads and noticed Liu Yuexuan watching them with hostility; Jing Fanyu said Liu Yuexuan had become dao companions with Qi Gu.
• After the assembled disciples listened to the seniors expound on the Dao, Wu Fei saw Liu Yuexuan leave and rose to follow her.

At the Heavenly Dao Assembly, Wu Fei prevented Liu Yuexuan from tampering with the Dao Comprehension Tea, but Jing Fanyu was exposed as Devil Venerable Yin Fan anyway. Yin Fan revealed his identity and confronted his former master over the massacre of Heavenly Clear City.

• Wu Fei stopped Liu Yuexuan from reaching the Dao Comprehension Tea, and Jing Fanyu urged them to return for the lecture.
• During the lecture, Demonic Qi erupted from Jing Fanyu, revealing his Devil Venerable Yin Fan identity and mid-Mahayana cultivation.
• Yin Fan confirmed his identity to the assembled cultivators and showed his Devil Venerable robes and mask.
• Yin Fan told the Heavenly Sword Sect's sect master that he had fallen to the demonic path while his master watched Devil Cultivators slaughter the people of Heavenly Clear City.

Wu Fei defended Yin Fan before the sects and offered himself to the demon, allowing Yin Fan to carry them into the Flame Spirit Realm. There, Yin Fan revealed he was also Junior Brother Jing, and Wu Fei accepted him without judgment.

• Wu Fei declared that Junior Brother Jing was not evil, and Jingguan backed his disciple’s choice to deliver all living beings.
• Cang Xiao attacked Wu Fei and Yin Fan, but Yin Fan’s Blazing Cold Sword shattered Cang Xiao’s lifebound spirit sword.
• Wu Fei told Yin Fan he would deliver him by offering his body to the demon, and Yin Fan carried them through the entrance to the Flame Spirit Realm.
• The three Tribulation Transcendence Stage seniors let the pair enter, warning that the realm would close for a month and then remain shut for two hundred years.
• Inside the Flame Spirit Realm, Wu Fei recognized the prayer beads and mask he had given Yin Fan and accepted that Yin Fan and Junior Brother Jing were the same person.
• Wu Fei placed the white mask on Yin Fan and told him it was a perfect fit.

Wu Fei agreed to accompany Yin Fan to the Devil Domain, while righteous sect leaders gathered outside the Flame Spirit Realm to hunt Yin Fan. Wu Fei remembered how Yin Fan’s family and the people of Heavenly Clear City had been slaughtered while the righteous leaders watched, before they later took him in as a disciple.

• Yin Fan revealed that he intended to abduct Wu Fei to the Devil Domain, and Wu Fei agreed to go with him.
• Yin Fan reminded Wu Fei of his promise to visit the highest mountain in Heavenly Clear City and see the night view, and Wu Fei said he had not forgotten.
• Wu Fei recalled that righteous leaders had watched Devil Cultivators slaughter Heavenly Clear City because of a prophecy.
• Wu Fei remembered that Yin Fan’s father had hidden him, and that the surviving boy witnessed his family’s deaths and the righteous leaders’ indifference before they took him as a disciple.

Wu Fei used an Illusion Pearl to temporarily trap Cang Xiao and the other pursuers, giving him and Yin Fan a chance to travel toward the Devil Domain. After Yin Fan sought reassurance about their flight together, a strange sea vortex pulled them underwater and dispersed Wu Fei’s protective spiritual Qi.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan escaped the pursuing Mahayana cultivators, and Wu Fei secretly left an Illusion Pearl in their extinguished fire.
• The Illusion Pearl activated and drew the pursuers into an illusion of their deepest fears, buying Wu Fei and Yin Fan several days of peace.
• Yin Fan asked whether Wu Fei regretted fleeing with him, and Wu Fei reassured him before agreeing to visit the Devil Domain.
• Yin Fan realized Wu Fei had trapped Cang Xiao and the others, but did not press him for details.
• Wu Fei noticed the sea below them was unnaturally still, then a sudden vortex sucked him and Yin Fan underwater and dispersed their spiritual protection.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan were swept through the vortex into a hidden space beneath the seawater, where they found an altar rich in Spirit Liquid and Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones. After gathering the treasures and giving Yin Fan a Spirit Stone, they set out to find a way back before the Flame Spirit Realm closed, and Yin Fan asked how Wu Fei knew about his spirit body.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan passed through the vortex’s center and landed in a hidden space separated from the seawater by an invisible barrier.
• Wu Fei examined the altar, discovered its Spirit Liquid, and collected it along with the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones covering the area.
• Wu Fei gave Yin Fan a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone to help his Myriad Spirits Body absorb Spiritual Qi.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan left the altar to search for a way out before the Flame Spirit Realm closed, and Yin Fan asked how Wu Fei knew about his spirit body.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan found a quiet courtyard in the peach grove, where dao companions Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai welcomed them with tea and sword techniques. Lu Feiyuan revealed that he and Yun Huai were remnant souls with missing memories, confined to the area around their cottages for a thousand years.

• Wu Fei explained that his Exquisite Heart was sensitive to the tomb’s ghost qi, and Yin Fan said he was grateful Wu Fei had not treated his spirit physique as an object of study.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan heard fighting beyond the peach grove and found Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai sparring with bamboo swords.
• Yin Fan entered a state of enlightenment while studying the pair’s sword techniques, and Wu Fei sensed an inexplicable closeness to them.
• Lu Feiyuan introduced himself and Yun Huai, then brewed tea using a technique that reminded Wu Fei of his martial uncle’s lessons.
• Wu Fei realized the tea was pure spiritual qi and suspected the couple were remnant souls.
• Lu Feiyuan confirmed that he and Yun Huai were remnant souls with missing memories, unable to stray more than a hundred paces from their cottages, and said no one had found them in a thousand years.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan discussed the possible connection between Lu Feiyuan, Yun Huai, and the Buddha Spirit Sect while staying overnight in the bamboo cottages. Wu Fei left at dawn after secretly recording Yin Fan asleep.

• Wu Fei learned that Lu Feiyuan had once been a Buddhist cultivator, though Lu had never heard of the Buddha Spirit Sect.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan stayed in one cottage together, and Yun Huai remarked on their deep bond.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan suspected Lu Feiyuan and the sutra-chanting figure beneath Clear Heart Village's ancestral hall were seniors of the Buddha Spirit Sect whose memories had been altered.
• When Yin Fan kept watching him, Wu Fei covered Yin Fan's eyes with red silk, which Yin Fan left on through the night.
• At dawn, Wu Fei found Yin Fan asleep, recorded his sleeping face with an image-recording stone, and left the cottage.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan uncovered a formation beneath the peach grove and found that the Silent Dust Pearl fit its central space. Activating it revealed Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai’s remnant souls and began teleporting Wu Fei and Yin Fan away.

• Wu Fei and Yin Fan tested the peach branch and realized the trees were absorbing spiritual qi and sending it underground.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan combined their powers to uncover a formation beneath the peach grove, with each peach tree serving as a formation node.
• Yin Fan recognized the formation’s center as resembling the black iron sphere from the inheritance tomb, and Wu Fei identified it as the place for the Silent Dust Pearl.
• Wu Fei placed the Silent Dust Pearl into the formation, causing blue light to spread, the peach trees to turn to dust, and illusory figures of Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai to appear.
• Wu Fei realized the formation would teleport them away, and Yin Fan wrapped Wu Fei’s Buddhist prayer beads around his own wrist before the teleportation began.

Wu Fei discovered that Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai’s remnant souls had been carried into the Silent Dust Pearl, deepening his suspicions about his origins. He and Yin Fan encountered Seven Luminaries Sect disciples seeking revenge, and Yin Fan denied killing their former sect leader.

• Wu Fei realized Lu Feiyuan and Yun Huai’s remnant souls were resting inside the Silent Dust Pearl and told Yin Fan that the clues might be connected to his origins.
• Yin Fan broke an illusion formation around a mountain, revealing cultivators from the Seven Luminaries Sect waiting to ambush them.
• Xiao Yi accused Yin Fan of killing the Seven Luminaries Sect’s former sect leader and said the disciples had come to avenge their master.
• Yin Fan asked whether Wu Fei believed the accusation, and Wu Fei said he did not think Yin Fan had killed the sect leader.
• Yin Fan admitted he had visited the sect leader’s cave abode but said the man had died from inner demons, prompting the Seven Luminaries Sect disciples to reject his claim.

Wu Fei exposed a hidden devil cultivator while Yin Fan explained the Seven Luminaries Sect leader’s death to his disciples. After learning Liu Yuexuan had directed the disciples to their path, Wu Fei and Yin Fan investigated the intruder and discovered he served Devil Venerable Mingyu, leaving them to decide whether to search his soul.

• Yin Fan gave the Seven Luminaries Sect disciples a recording stone that showed their sect leader had repented and that Yin Fan had not killed him.
• Wu Fei used the Phantom Step Golden Lotus and Silent Dust Pearl to reveal and knock unconscious a devil cultivator hiding nearby.
• Yin Fan praised Wu Fei’s martial technique, and Wu Fei answered his confession with a compliment while pretending not to understand its meaning.
• Xiao Yi told Wu Fei that Liu Yuexuan had informed the Seven Luminaries Sect disciples that Wu Fei and Yin Fan would pass that way.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan identified the intruder as a subordinate of Devil Venerable Mingyu and considered searching his soul for answers.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan learned through soul-searching that the Flame Spirit Realm had been breached after Yin Fan’s identity was exposed and crowds gathered there. Yin Fan revealed that Fu Hong, one of his subordinates, was connected to the breach, leaving Wu Fei wondering how the Spirit Transformation Stage Devil Cultivator had managed it.

• Wu Fei prompted Yin Fan to question the captured Devil Cultivator, who had committed atrocities under Devil Venerable Mingyu.
• Yin Fan returned and told Wu Fei that the Flame Spirit Realm had been breached.
• Yin Fan explained that news of his identity and the events at the Heavenly Dao Assembly had drawn cultivators and Devil Cultivators hoping to seize a share of the realm.
• Yin Fan said the three guardians of the Flame Spirit Realm had discovered a spacetime rift there.
• Yin Fan named Fu Hong as one of his subordinates involved in the events, and Wu Fei realized Fu Hong was connected to the breach.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan learned that Fu Hong had accidentally used Heaven-Shaking Thunder to open a breach into the Flame Spirit Realm, then encountered him fleeing righteous cultivators. They rescued Fu Hong and flew on, while Wu Fei secretly acted against the pursuers.

• Yin Fan explained that Fu Hong's Heaven-Shaking Thunder had struck an unstable spacetime rift and torn open the Flame Spirit Realm.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan decided to leave the Flame Spirit Realm early and flew toward its exit on the Blazing Cold Sword.
• They encountered Fu Hong fleeing a group of righteous cultivators, including Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, and Fu Hong called on Yin Fan to save him.
• Fu Hong boarded the Blazing Cold Sword, while the pursuers stopped and denounced Yin Fan as devil spawn without daring to attack.
• Yin Fan flew away with Wu Fei and Fu Hong, and Wu Fei secretly sent golden light toward the righteous cultivators.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan learned that Liu Yuexuan and other cultivators had gathered at a mysterious altar to summon something against Yin Fan, so they decided to investigate. After playful exchanges and binding Yin Fan’s wrists with Buddhist beads, Wu Fei applied salve to the marks left behind.

• Fu Hong told Wu Fei and Yin Fan that a Heavenly Sword Sect disciple had discovered an altar where sect leaders and Devil Venerables had gathered.
• Wu Fei suspected the disciple was Liu Yuexuan and recalled stopping her from tampering with the enlightenment tea, while Fu Hong reported that the cultivators planned to summon something against Yin Fan.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan decided to go to the altar, and Fu Hong said the Buddha Spirit Sect’s leader was not there.
• Yin Fan held Wu Fei’s hand, and Wu Fei used his Buddhist beads to bind Yin Fan’s wrists before withdrawing his hand.
• Wu Fei applied scar-removing salve to the red marks on Yin Fan’s wrists.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan discovered that the altar before the sect leaders was similar to one they had seen beneath the sea, but it carried a far more ominous aura. As Liu Yuexuan activated it with the essence blood of ninety-nine ferocious beasts, Cang Xiao revealed that a new prophecy foretold Yin Fan’s fall to the devil path and that the altar would summon something to suppress him.

• Wu Fei, Yin Fan, and Fu Hong concealed their auras as they approached the altar and recognized its resemblance to the one beneath the sea, though Wu Fei noted it had seven steps instead of nine.
• Wu Fei sensed a dangerous aura from the altar and suspected Liu Yuexuan was connected to it, while Yin Fan said her temperament had changed drastically.
• Liu Yuexuan approached the altar with a gourd-shaped Spirit Artifact containing the essence blood of ninety-nine kinds of ferocious beasts.
• The Blood-Sealing Devil Venerable questioned Cang Xiao about the altar, and Cang Xiao said Liu Yuexuan had discovered it and knew how to activate it.
• Liu Yuexuan poured the resentful essence blood into the altar, causing its patterns to glow red as the gathered leaders grew uneasy.
• Cang Xiao revealed that a new Heavenly Secrets Fate Disc prophecy warned Yin Fan would bring catastrophe and said the altar would summon something capable of suppressing him.

Cang Xiao’s group summoned a deceptive presence from the altar, but Wu Fei destroyed its heavenly apparition with an arrow formed from the Silent Dust Pearl. The black mist then possessed Liu Yuexuan before emerging to offer Cang Xiao one wish, and he chose to have Jing Fanyu eliminated.

• Cang Xiao and the others summoned a godlike phantom from the altar, while Wu Fei recognized the illusion and warned Yin Fan not to trust what he saw.
• Wu Fei shot the phantom with a golden arrow, dispersing it, then gave Yin Fan his Buddhist beads for protection.
• Black mist poured from the altar and possessed Liu Yuexuan, whose voice turned into a deep male voice pleading with Jing Fanyu to accept him.
• The black mist left Liu Yuexuan and offered to grant one wish, asking whether Cang Xiao wanted Jing Fanyu eliminated or a method of ascension.
• Cang Xiao chose to have Jing Fanyu eliminated.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan confronted the Obstruction Devil at the altar after Wu Fei’s golden bell broke the Devil Venerables’ spell of influence. The Obstruction Devil formed an Obstruction Pearl and engulfed everyone in black mist, pulling Wu Fei into an illusory realm.

• Wu Fei used the Silent Dust Pearl to create a golden bell whose toll freed the arguing sect leaders and Devil Venerables from the Obstruction Devil’s influence.
• Wu Fei explained that the Obstruction Devil fed on desire and could neither die nor be destroyed, and he and Yin Fan fought it with a golden arrow and the Blazing Cold Sword.
• Liu Yuexuan saw Yin Fan and called him Senior Brother Jing, then released a surge of black mist that merged with the Obstruction Devil.
• The Obstruction Devil formed an Obstruction Pearl and engulfed Cang Xiao, the Devil Venerables, Liu Yuexuan, Wu Fei, and Yin Fan in black mist.
• Wu Fei split the Silent Dust Pearl between himself and Yin Fan, but the mist pulled Wu Fei into an illusory realm, where the Obstruction Devil said it could not discern his desires.

Wu Fei woke in an illusion of Heavenly Clear City on the day it was massacred and met Jing Fanyu as a child. He discovered that his master was in the city too, then reunited with Yin Fan, whose jealousy stirred when Jing Fanyu called Wu Fei “Big Brother.”

• Wu Fei woke in the forest and met young Jing Fanyu, who brought him into Heavenly Clear City.
• Wu Fei learned it was the ninth day of the ninth month and realized the city’s massacre was due that night.
• At the city lord’s residence, Wu Fei sensed the city lord and his wife meeting an honored guest in the east of the city.
• Wu Fei used his Divine Sense to discover that the honored guest was his master.
• Yin Fan followed the Silent Dust Pearl to Wu Fei, then grew jealous when Jing Fanyu called Wu Fei “Big Brother Wu Fei.”

Wu Fei and Yin Fan escaped the illusion and investigated the events in Heavenly Clear City, discovering Liu Yuexuan had gone mad and that the illusory Yin Fan possessed an imitation of the Myriad Spirits Body. Wu Fei revealed that his master had met Yin Fan’s parents before the city’s massacre, and promised to investigate once they left the Flame Spirit Realm.

• Wu Fei left a note and concealed himself with Yin Fan before the illusory visitor entered, then they appeared in a neighboring room and recognized Yin Fan’s paintings.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan overheard guards discussing a madwoman and found Liu Yuexuan muttering that Senior Brother Jing belonged to her.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan hid above the city lord’s residence and observed the illusory Yin Fan absorbing spiritual qi, realizing the Obstruction Devil had imitated the Myriad Spirits Body.
• Wu Fei told Yin Fan that he had seen the Buddhist cultivator his parents met before the banquet, then identified the cultivator as his master.
• Yin Fan was pleased that Wu Fei had told him the truth, and Wu Fei promised to question his master after they left the Flame Spirit Realm.

Wu Fei and Yin Fan protected the people of Heavenly Clear City from the Northern Region's Devil Venerable in the Obstruction Devil's illusion. After Yin Fan killed the Devil Venerable, the illusion shattered and the group returned to the altar, where the Obstruction Pearl had grown darker.

• Wu Fei sensed Yin Fan's distress when the city lord and his wife appeared, then urged him to protect his parents, clansmen, and the citizens of Heavenly Clear City.
• Wu Fei raised a barrier around the city with the Silent Dust Pearl as Yin Fan prepared to fight the approaching Devil Domain army.
• Yin Fan clashed with the Northern Region's Devil Venerable, and Wu Fei secretly added heart power to Yin Fan's Blazing Cold Sword before it pierced the Devil Venerable's heart.
• The Obstruction Devil fed on the emotions stirred by the massacre, and its illusion shattered, returning Wu Fei, Yin Fan, and the others to the altar.
• Fu Hong said he had nearly been pierced by Yin Fan's sword while trapped in the illusion.

Wu Fei took the Obstruction Devil into his body to protect Yin Fan, then fell unconscious after showing signs of falling into devilhood. Two days later, he awoke in Yin Fan’s hall with his eyes still red and beckoned Yin Fan closer.

• The Obstruction Devil attacked Yin Fan, and Wu Fei switched their positions so the black mist invaded him instead.
• Wu Fei resisted the Obstruction Devil, but his eyes turned red; he asked Yin Fan whether he still liked him after he had fallen into devilhood, then passed out.
• Fu Hong used a fake Heaven-Shaking Thunder to delay Cang Xiao and the others while Yin Fan carried Wu Fei away on the Blazing Cold Sword.
• The cultivation world learned that Wu Fei had suppressed the Obstruction Devil, but feared he might not have contained it completely.
• After Wu Fei slept for two days, Yin Fan sensed his aura and found him awake with red eyes; Wu Fei held out his hand and told him to come closer.

Wu Fei used his supposed demonic corruption to act on his feelings for Yin Fan, and the two kissed in the Devil Venerable's great hall. Wu Fei promised Yin Fan he could imprison him if he ever regretted it, leaving Yin Fan more deeply obsessed with him.

• Wu Fei teased Yin Fan about his nervousness and admitted he had succumbed to demonic corruption.
• Wu Fei pinned Yin Fan against a bedpost and reminded him of his earlier promise to take liberties with him.
• Yin Fan warned Wu Fei that he would not let him leave if he later regretted it, and they kissed passionately.
• Wu Fei told Yin Fan he could imprison him in the Devil Domain if he ever regretted their intimacy.
• Yin Fan said he would remember Wu Fei's promise, and Wu Fei stroked his back reassuringly.

Wu Fei recovered and spoke with Yin Fan about Liu Yuexuan, the mistaken altar, and the karmic retribution he had inflicted on Fu Hong’s hunters. He then asked Yin Fan to show him around the Devil Palace, where they shared robes and a gift above the fissure left by Yin Fan’s battle.

• Yin Fan noticed that Wu Fei’s eyes had changed, and Wu Fei asked him what had happened after he passed out.
• Yin Fan told Wu Fei that Liu Yuexuan had gone mad and been taken back to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and Wu Fei explained that she had mistaken the seven-tiered altar for the nine-tiered altar beneath the sea.
• Yin Fan reported that the cultivators who had hunted Fu Hong were suffering recurring mouth sores and uncontrollable drooling, and Wu Fei attributed it to speech karma.
• Wu Fei stroked Yin Fan’s hair, then asked him to show him around the Devil Palace.
• Above the fissure in the northern Devil Domain, Wu Fei wore the black Buddhist robes Yin Fan admired and gave Yin Fan a white spirit robe he had bought for him.

Wu Fei accepted Yin Fan’s vengeance as his own and reassured him that he would not leave. After three Devil Venerables arrived to discuss the altar in the Flame Spirit Realm, Wu Fei and Yin Fan met them in the main hall, concealing their joined hands beneath their sleeves.

• Wu Fei told Yin Fan not to let him go and kissed the inside of his wrist.
• Fu Hong’s voice transmission informed Yin Fan that Blood-Sealing, Ming Yu, and Night Baleful Intent had come to discuss the altar in the Flame Spirit Realm.
• Yin Fan said he had been too lenient with the Devil Venerables and intended to deal with those who had betrayed him.
• Fu Hong deterred the impatient Devil Venerables by displaying a deep purple sphere that might have been a Heaven-Shaking Thunder.
• Wu Fei and Yin Fan arrived in the main hall and sat together, discreetly holding hands as Wu Fei apologized for keeping the visitors waiting.