Recaps

Li Boyang planned to control Xiluo’s feather robe with a complementary Law Treasure, while Jinjiao went to find his mother, Lady Bagui. After learning that she faced a death tribulation, Lady Bagui rushed off alone to confront the danger, and Jinjiao used divination to locate her.

• Li Boyang explained that he intended to forge a ribbon Law Treasure to control and enhance the feather robe’s abilities.
• Xiluo asked where Jinjiao was, and Li Boyang said he had gone to find Lady Bagui.
• Jinjiao told Lady Bagui that Li Boyang had divined she would soon face a death tribulation and that he had come to save her.
• Lady Bagui shoved Jinjiao away and vanished, leaving him her bags as she went to face the threat alone.
• Jinjiao used his [Premonition Divine Ability] and divination to search for Lady Bagui.

Lady Bagui confronted Long Jikui, a half-dead giant revived by traces of the Breathing Method in roots she had once severed from herself. She attacked him with her wind-and-fire authority, but he continued advancing through the flames as she unleashed a devastating tornado.

• Lady Bagui encountered the thousand-foot-tall Long Jikui near the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and recognized him as the giant whose vitality she had once drained to survive.
• She realized that the roots growing inside Long Jikui had carried traces of the Breathing Method and had revived him as an incomplete living corpse seeking her.
• Lady Bagui expanded her banana leaf fan and burned Long Jikui with Yuan Qi flames, but he kept advancing despite being scorched to obsidian.
• Lady Bagui swept her fan again, creating a vast tornado of wind and fire that engulfed the surrounding land.

Long Jikui and Lady Bagui fought with devastating blasts of wind and fire in the turbulent Yuan Qi beyond the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. At River Pillow Peak, Lingguzi told Lord Tiaoyao that the Yan Fang Kingdom was deserted, then revealed it was heading there to gather a newly sensed medicinal herb.

• Long Jikui extinguished Lady Bagui’s flames and storm with successive palm strikes, but she evaded them by becoming wind.
• Lady Bagui and Long Jikui unleashed a vast battle of fire and freezing wind that created disasters across the region outside the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lord Tiaoyao watched the distant fire tornado and worried about the survivors, while recalling how the mountain folk had brought disaster victims into the range.
• Lingguzi arrived atop a bronze serpent and told Lord Tiaoyao that the Yan Fang Kingdom’s people and spirits had already fled or died.
• Lingguzi told Lord Tiaoyao it planned to visit the Yan Fang Kingdom to gather a medicinal herb with tremendous vitality.

Lingguzi arranged to sneak out of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to seek rare medicinal ingredients, promising to make Lord Tiaoyao Return to Origin Pills in exchange for his silence. Meanwhile, Long Jikui nearly killed Lady Bagui before Jinjiao intervened, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lingguzi explained his ambition to surpass Li Boyang in alchemy and revealed he planned to seek rare medicinal ingredients beyond the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lord Tiaoyao reminded Lingguzi that Hanging Silk Lady had forbidden him from visiting dangerous places, but Lingguzi admitted he was sneaking out anyway.
• Lingguzi offered to refine Return to Origin Pills for Lord Tiaoyao, who agreed to keep his departure secret from Hanging Silk Lady.
• Long Jikui trapped Lady Bagui with roots that turned into blazing, crystallized barbs, then attacked her with a powerful punch.
• A streak of golden light cut through the roots, allowing Lady Bagui to evade Long Jikui's attack and retreat into the sky.
• Jinjiao appeared beside Lady Bagui and warily faced Long Jikui.

Jinjiao and Lady Bagui fought Long Jikui, an undying giant who sought to consume Lady Bagui and complete his rebirth. They trapped him in Jinjiao’s golden gourd, which turned faintly red, and Jinjiao reflected on how powerful beings like them could cause disasters that destroyed the lives around them.

• Lady Bagui told Jinjiao that Long Jikui had returned to life because of a strange vitality and wanted to eat her to complete his rebirth.
• Lady Bagui explained that Long Jikui might have eaten the Immortality Herb and could not be killed, while Jinjiao realized they could not escape him.
• Jinjiao opened his golden gourd and used its suction to pull in rocks, flames, storms, and magma, but Long Jikui resisted being drawn inside.
• Lady Bagui used her banana-leaf fan to blow Long Jikui off balance, and Jinjiao sucked the giant into the golden gourd and capped it.
• Jinjiao noticed a crimson tint on the gourd and surveyed the devastated land as Lady Bagui comforted him.
• Jinjiao recalled Li Boyang’s lesson that every life was unique and connected the destruction to the Witch Kings’ attempts to weaken or eliminate powerful beings like them.

The Six Witches of Kaiming investigated the battlefield where Long Jikui had last stood and debated the consequences of Wu Yi’s death and the God-Terrifying Corpse’s defeat. They resolved that they needed the elixir of immortality to survive the coming restoration of heaven and earth, then considered creating another God-Terrifying Corpse.

• The Six Witches of Kaiming arrived at the obsidian-covered center of the battlefield and wondered who had defeated the God-Terrifying Corpse.
• Wu Fan, Wu Lü, Wu Xiang, Wu Di, and Wu Yang debated whether the Celestial Person from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range had caused the devastation and argued over Wu Yi’s choices.
• Wu Fan pointed out that Great Xia’s gods and great witches had long-standing grievances, leaving the group silent.
• Wu Lü said they needed to clean up Wu Yi’s mess and grow stronger before the order of heaven and earth recovered.
• Wu Peng insisted they could not abandon the God-Terrifying Corpse, and the group considered cultivating another one from scratch.

Li Jingshu insisted on cultivating a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect despite Li Boyang’s warning that her lack of affinity for Sha Qi limited its potential. Li Boyang agreed to write her a guide, provided the practice did not hinder her cultivation.

• Li Boyang watched the moon with Li Jingshu as she gathered Sha Qi and tried to form a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect.
• Li Jingshu manifested a tiny shadow monster, and she and Li Boyang teased each other about its crude appearance and her stubborn practice.
• Li Jingshu revealed that she had preserved and inscribed the butterfly knife Li Boyang had made for her, then hid it inside her shadow.
• Li Boyang questioned why she cultivated the aspect as a storage method when her Bronze Treasure Book could serve the same purpose.
• Li Boyang realized Li Jingshu pursued the aspect to imitate him and offered to write a guide, asking her not to let it hold back her cultivation.

Li Boyang met Wu Xian, Great Xia’s Oldest Witch, who praised the importance of the Celestial Person’s teachings and introduced himself as Wu Yi’s teacher. Wu Xian’s history revealed how he preserved the Witch King succession and survived for more than two thousand years, leaving the circumstances of his apparent immortality uncertain.

• Li Boyang saw Li Jingshu off, then spoke with an old man who emerged from the darkness.
• The old man praised Li Boyang’s influence and said the Hundred Lands Mountain Range would become the center of the era.
• The old man introduced himself as Wu Xian, Wu Yi’s teacher and the leader of the Ten Witches of Spirit Mountain.
• Wu Xian explained that Heavenly Deities halted his Witch King succession, so he used the Jianmu Cauldron to choose a fifth successor while he held them back.
• The fifth Witch King later resurrected Wu Xian, who remained alive through the reigns of several later Witch Kings and became known as Great Xia’s Oldest Witch and Divine Witch.

Wu Xian explained that he had observed the Hundred Lands Mountain Range for a year and found its inhabitants living in unusual harmony under Li Boyang’s rule. He praised the mountain folk’s treatment of intelligent beings, leaving Li Boyang wary of his motives.

• Li Boyang examined Wu Xian’s extraordinary, replenishing vitality and suspected that he had eaten the Immortality Herb.
• Wu Xian revealed that he had arrived a year earlier, when Li Boyang restored vitality to the land, and had stayed to observe the mountain range.
• Wu Xian described his connection to Wu Yao and said Li Boyang’s rule showed that humans and gods might coexist successfully.
• Wu Xian recounted the shared principles he had observed among the mountain range’s inhabitants, including respect for life and a common moral code.
• Wu Xian observed how the mountain folk used [Xirang], domestication, and respectful treatment of intelligent beings to help life flourish across the range.

As the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s roads and trade expanded, Wu Xian advised Xiao'e on creating a unified currency backed by the bronze used in Bronze Beasts. The mountain folk quickly established a mint near Yunmeng Marsh and introduced bronze coins that were accepted across the region.

• Li Boyang’s influence helped mountain folk, spirit creatures, and gods coexist as roads and Bronze Beasts made travel and trade easier.
• As villages interacted more, barter and gold and silver proved inadequate, and the mountain folk faced the problem of creating a unified currency.
• Wu Xian disguised himself as a shaman from beyond the mountains and advised Xiao'e that the Celestial Person’s prestige could support a new currency.
• Wu Xian proposed melting damaged Bronze Beast parts into coins, tying the money supply to the rate at which those beasts were used and damaged.
• The mountain folk built a bronze-coin mint near Yunmeng Marsh and introduced the coins within a few months, winning acceptance from mountain folk, spirit creatures, ghosts, and gods.

Wu Xian revealed that he had come to take Kunwu, whose existence he believed was vital to Great Xia, and threatened to oppose Li Boyang’s new order if necessary. He attacked Li Boyang with a Life-Exchange Gu, but Li Boyang’s Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe let him survive, and their fight continued with Wu Xian launching a petrifying curse.

• Wu Xian told Li Boyang that he had come to find Kunwu and intended to take him from Yunmeng Marsh.
• Wu Xian warned that he would fight Li Boyang and end his new order to protect Great Xia’s survival.
• Wu Xian stabbed himself with a dagger and used a Life-Exchange Gu to inflict the same wound on Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang’s Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe kept him alive, and he severed Wu Xian’s arm and head with Sword-Rays.
• Li Boyang summoned a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect to seal Wu Xian, but Wu Xian broke its Talisman Incantations and transformed his severed arm into a petrifying giant python.

Li Boyang fought Wu Xian, whose Netherworld Exchange Technique transformed their battlefield into a domain resembling the Netherworld. As Li Boyang recognized signs that Wu Xian had returned from death, Single Horn Si watched safely from the village.

• Li Boyang's God-Binding Cords and Heavenly Eye countered Wu Xian's transformations and drove him to summon ghostly flames.
• Wu Xian invoked the incomplete Netherworld Exchange Technique, creating a domain that strengthened his witchcraft and weakened his opponent.
• Single Horn Si used his Law Treasure nose ring to observe the battle and contain its aftershocks outside Li Household Village.
• Single Horn Si judged that Li Boyang was holding back his strongest Law Treasures and warned that his opponent's best chance was before Li Boyang learned more about him.
• Li Boyang examined the Netherworld-like domain and concluded that Wu Xian had died, reached the Netherworld, and possibly used the Immortality Herb to return to life.

Wu Xian used the Incantation of Certain Death against Li Boyang, while Wu Ji and Wu Luo took advantage of the distraction to enter Yunmeng Marsh and search for Kunwu. Wu Luo fought the marsh’s guardians as Wu Ji slipped beneath the lake, and the chapter left Wu Luo testing his poison-proof blood against Hanging Silk Lady’s paralyzing toxin.

• Wu Xian told Li Boyang that he and Wu Ling had refined the Immortality Herb into an elixir, then revealed his resentment at having been made immortal before unleashing the Incantation of Certain Death.
• Wu Ji sensed Wu Xian’s technique and told Wu Luo that they should begin their plan to reach the lake bed beneath Yunmeng Marsh.
• The marsh’s mist dispersed and its islands shifted as Wu Ji entered the water and Wu Luo fought off the guardians.
• Cai Gu attacked Wu Luo, but he struck her into the lake as Hanging Silk Lady spread poisoned spider silk through the water.
• Wu Luo recognized the paralyzing toxin and spat his blood into the lake to test whether it could counter the poison.

Xiluo confronted Wu Luo in Yunmeng Marsh and wounded him with the Baleful Force of the Five Punishments. Wu Luo then extracted the weapon’s baleful Qi from his chest and forged an imitation, leaving their battle poised to continue.

• Xiluo woke at Flying Peak and saw Wu Luo battling the ghosts and gods of Yunmeng Marsh.
• Xiluo joined the fight, dodged Wu Luo’s punch, and attacked him with flames, but he shrugged off the assault.
• Qingfu and Muzheng watched from Bronze Island as Xiluo transformed into an Ominous Deity and threw her gold-inlaid jade hairpin at Wu Luo.
• Xiluo explained that Li Boyang had refined the hairpin as the Baleful Force of the Five Punishments, and its strike pierced Wu Luo’s chest.
• Wu Luo seized the weapon’s baleful Qi from his wound and forcibly drew out an imitation Baleful Force of the Five Punishments.

The chapter explained Wu Luo’s Weapon Mastery and Witch Law, Golden Halberd Weapon Lord, which let him copy weapons and their former owners’ abilities. He adapted Xiluo’s Baleful Force of the Five Punishments and fought her with weapons growing from his wounds, leaving their battle ongoing.

• The chapter described Wu Luo’s Weapon Mastery, which gave him the skills and physical adaptations of a weapon’s past owners.
• Wu Luo copied Xiluo’s Baleful Force of the Five Punishments and awakened the ability to control it through Divine Ability power.
• Xiluo switched to close combat and used her flying ability to strike and retreat, wounding Wu Luo’s shoulder.
• Blades and other weapons grew from Wu Luo’s wounds, and he drew the Wuluo Blade to attack Xiluo and repel nearby ghosts and gods.
• Xiluo took Wu Luo’s taunt as an insult, unleashed her Ominous Deity form, and charged with the Qi of the Five Punishments gathering on her claws.
• Wu Luo met Xiluo’s attack with agile swordsmanship, and their battle continued.

Wu Ji penetrated Yunmeng Marsh’s intricate formation and found a golden totem he believed was the Sea-Calming Cauldron, Kunwu. When the being rejected his demand to return to Great Xia, it revealed that the real Kunwu was elsewhere and attacked him with a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect.

• Wu Ji calculated the changes in Yunmeng Marsh’s formations and slipped past the God-Binding Cord by exploiting its limited abilities against non-gods.
• Wu Ji reached a dark water vent and found a golden totem bearing Kunwu’s face.
• Wu Ji told Kunwu that it was the Sea-Calming Cauldron and demanded that it return to Great Xia to stop the East Sea’s flooding.
• Kunwu refused and revealed that Wu Ji would have to find the real Kunwu.
• A Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect replaced the collapsing totem and fired guns and cannons at Wu Ji.

Li Boyang and Wu Xian revealed how Wu Yao transformed the Sea-Calming Cauldron into Kunwu, and Wu Xian warned that Great Xia would reclaim it. As Wu Xian tried to leave with Wu Luo and Wu Ji, the Netherworld Lord’s curse struck him first.

• Wu Xian told Li Boyang that Wu Yao had received the Sea-Calming Cauldron from the sixth Witch King and transformed it into Kunwu after choosing to leave Great Xia’s path.
• Wu Xian explained that the Hundred Lands Mountain Range should have fallen within the Divine Land Barrier, but Wu Yao’s actions and Kunwu’s identity had concealed the truth from everyone except him.
• Li Boyang asked why floods had struck the East Sea despite Yu Guo suppressing its sea eye, but Wu Xian refused to reveal anything and summoned Wu Luo and the wounded Wu Ji back from Yunmeng Marsh.
• Wu Xian warned Li Boyang that Kunwu belonged to Great Xia, while Li Boyang replied that Kunwu’s own wishes should matter.
• As Wu Xian tried to escape by burning his life force, the Netherworld Lord’s domain returned and its curse, Lord Sacrifice: Incantation of Certain Death, fell upon him.

Li Boyang told Xiluo that Wu Xian’s invasion was meant partly as a warning, then said they should ask Kunwu what he wanted before deciding his fate. Meanwhile, Lingguzi reached the devastated Yan Fang Kingdom and descended into a sinkhole to investigate the strange vitality there, leaving the bronze serpent to guard the site.

• Li Boyang explained to Xiluo that Wu Xian and his companions had come to warn the Hundred Lands Mountain Range about Great Xia’s intentions and the power of great witches.
• Xiluo accused Li Boyang of considering a compromise over Kunwu, but Li Boyang said they should first ask Kunwu for his opinion.
• Lingguzi arrived in the Yan Fang Kingdom and found only scattered flames and lava where Jinjiao, Lady Bagui, and the Six Witches of Kaiming had already departed.
• Lingguzi sensed faint, unusual vitality in the sinkhole where Long Jikui had last been and jumped down to investigate.
• The bronze serpent scattered its body pieces around the sinkhole to guard against intruders while Lingguzi explored below.

Lingguzi discovered and captured Meng Zhang, an immortal divine soul hidden in obsidian, after learning the truth about the Six Witches of Kaiming’s failed immortality experiments. Meng Zhang revealed that the real elixir of immortality had fallen into Jinjiao’s hands, but Lingguzi sealed him inside a finger bone and planned to take him to the Prophet.

• Lingguzi found a green, embryo-like being inside obsidian formed from Long Jikui’s blood and trapped it with seals.
• The creature identified himself as Divine Lord Meng Zhang, a subordinate of Yu Guo, and offered to reveal the location of the real elixir of immortality.
• Meng Zhang’s history revealed that the Six Witches of Kaiming had used him and Long Jikui in experiments with the Immortality Cauldron, while Lady Bagui escaped their control.
• Meng Zhang explained that he had hidden in the obsidian when Jinjiao absorbed Long Jikui, and Lingguzi realized the real elixir had fallen into Jinjiao’s hands.
• Meng Zhang tried to escape, but Lingguzi drew him into a piece of finger bone and considered taking him to the Prophet to refine a complete elixir of immortality.

Li Boyang and Xiluo questioned Kunwu and learned that he had always known he was the Sea-Calming Cauldron and expected Great Xia to come for him. When Kunwu offered to return to help with the East Sea flooding, Xiluo imprisoned him in the pool and ordered the God-Binding Cord to guard him.

• Li Boyang and Xiluo confronted Kunwu at the waterfall pool and asked when he had learned he was the Sea-Calming Cauldron.
• Kunwu said he had known from the beginning and had stayed silent because they had never asked him.
• Kunwu revealed that Wu Xian and the others intended to take him back to Great Xia, as he had expected after failing to respond to Wu Yi's shot at Heaven.
• Li Boyang told Kunwu that Great Xia needed him to curb flooding in the East Sea, and Kunwu began to offer his help.
• Xiluo refused to let Kunwu leave Flying Peak, declared him imprisoned in the pool, and ordered the God-Binding Cord to watch him.
• Li Boyang agreed not to oppose Xiluo's decision.

Li Boyang returned to the mountain god temple and spoke with Yinjiao, who wanted more swords and was tempted to learn artifact refining. Meanwhile, Jinjiao struggled to control his golden gourd as a streak of vermilion blood moved across it, leaving Nüman wondering what it had failed to refine.

• Li Boyang found Xiluo gone and explained to Yinjiao that her demand for Kunwu had only been a pretext.
• Yinjiao asked Li Boyang to refine more swords for her, and he offered to teach her artifact refining instead.
• Li Boyang explained his plans to teach the Five Elements Escape Techniques more widely and said Li Jingshu should focus on divine abilities and commanding gods and ghosts.
• Li Boyang learned that Jinjiao had sent for him and went with Yinjiao to see what had happened.
• At the mountain forest behind Flying Peak, Jinjiao's golden gourd shook violently while a streak of vermilion blood moved across it, and Nüman asked what he had put inside.

Li Boyang discovered that the strange vitality left inside Jinjiao’s golden gourd might help him forge an undying body and resolve the conflict between Kunwu and Xiluo. Meanwhile, Wu Peng found Lady Bagui and concluded that she was the missing ingredient needed to refine a true immortality medicine.

• Jinjiao told Li Boyang that the golden gourd had failed to refine the vitality inside Long Jikui’s corpse.
• Li Boyang touched the gourd, stopped the escaping vitality, and realized its strange endurance might hold the key to his own breakthrough.
• The golden gourd shrank into Li Boyang’s hand as he connected the vitality to the legend of a Divine Witch who lived for over two thousand years after taking an immortality medicine.
• Wu Peng secretly found Lady Bagui’s village and revealed that she had been one of the ingredients used to refine the immortality medicine.
• Wu Peng decided Lady Bagui needed to merge with the God-Terrifying Corpse again to give the Six Witches of Kaiming another chance to create a true immortality medicine.

Wu Peng confronted Lady Bagui in the village and trapped her inside his Barrier Domain, which cut her off from Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and weakened her. The chapter ended as Lady Bagui challenged his confidence in victory.

• Wu Peng entered the village, and his witchcraft kept the mountain folk from noticing him.
• Lady Bagui recognized Wu Peng as the one behind the immortality medicine and demanded to know if he had brought her fatal tribulation.
• Wu Peng introduced himself as a great witch of the Hundred Spirits Tribe and one of the Ten Witches of Spirit Mountain, then demanded the location of the God-Terrifying Corpse.
• Lady Bagui attacked with her palm-leaf fan, but Wu Peng spread his Barrier Domain across the village and stopped her fire tornado from harming anyone.
• Wu Peng explained that Barrier Domains sever gods from Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, then advanced on Lady Bagui as his vines and an immortal tree appeared.
• Lady Bagui found her power greatly weakened inside the domain but insisted that this did not mean Wu Peng had won.

Li Boyang arrived with Jinjiao and Yinjiao as Wu Peng’s [Barrier Domain] trapped Lady Bagui, and he investigated the powerful Great Xia technique. When Li Boyang forced his way into the domain with a gigantic eye, his intrusion shattered Wu Peng’s convictions and left the barrier collapsing.

• Li Boyang arrived in the village with Jinjiao and Yinjiao and recognized Wu Peng’s barrier as a complete, highly refined technique.
• Li Boyang explained the barrier’s significance and suspected it was a Great Xia art used by great shamans.
• Li Boyang examined the barrier’s structure and opened cracks in it, revealing a domain built around an immortal tree.
• Lady Bagui and Wu Peng looked up as Li Boyang’s gigantic eye pushed through the cracks and observed them.
• Wu Peng’s will and convictions collapsed under the intrusion, causing his body to crack and the immortal tree supporting the domain to wither.

Li Boyang stopped himself from shattering Wu Peng’s Dao heart and received a promise that Wu Peng would answer questions selectively. On Bronze Island, Xiluo learned that Hanging Silk Lady had gone to find Lingguzi, who had run off again, and worried he might cause another dangerous explosion.

• Li Boyang withdrew his hand from the crumbling [Barrier Domain], and Wu Peng voluntarily dismissed it after his convictions nearly collapsed.
• Wu Peng said he would answer Li Boyang’s questions selectively because Li Boyang had stopped before destroying his heart image completely.
• Jinjiao and Lady Bagui stopped Yinjiao from confronting Wu Peng while he was still recovering his convictions.
• On Bronze Island, Xiluo questioned Little Eighteen and learned that Hanging Silk Lady had gone to find Lingguzi, who had run off to gather herbs.
• Xiluo recalled that Lingguzi’s previous pill experiment had nearly blown up Bronze Island, and Little Eighteen asked to be assigned to reception duty in Yunmeng Marsh.