Recaps

Xiang explained how ambition led him to oppose the second Gong Gong and how the Soul Jade turned his wish to restore Xiangliu into the birth of Li Xi. He revealed that he had left Li Xi with Xiao'e despite knowing the child would likely reach Li Boyang, who questioned whether saving his daughter was truly against his nature.

• Xiang told Li Boyang that ambition, not simple resentment, had driven him to claim what he believed should have been his as Gong Gong.
• Xiang explained that he had seen Gong Gong use the Soul Jade and later seized Yin Fei's Soul Jade after Fuyou and Flower Mantis fought over it.
• Xiang wished for Xiangliu to be reborn, but the Soul Jade interpreted the wish by controlling his body and fathering Li Xi with a mountain woman.
• Xiang realized Li Xi had inherited Xiangliu's traits and great potential but was a premature infant unlikely to live long.
• Xiang admitted he had entrusted Li Xi to Xiao'e, knowing she might save the child and that Li Xi would likely end up with Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang asked Xiang whether saving his own child was really contrary to his nature.

Li Boyang convinced Xiang to help Xiao Xi by explaining that the Soul Jade had acted on Xiang’s existing desire to revive his child, then revealed he intended to separate Xiang’s powers and fate to aid her. He deployed his new Bagua Compass to form a movable, self-powered formation on Bronze Island and considered developing it further for divination and wider use.

• Li Boyang explained that the Soul Jade had influenced Xiang’s subconscious wish to bring his child back to life rather than implanting the thought outright.
• Li Boyang told Xiang he needed to separate Xiang’s talents, abilities, Yuan Qi, and fate to help Xiao Xi master her gifts and endure her vulnerable growth stage.
• Xiang realized Li Boyang’s plan had included the Heaven-Eroding Lord returning him and sealing him in a tree, but agreed to cooperate because Xiao Xi was his daughter.
• Li Boyang tossed out the Bagua Compass and used it to deploy a three-dimensional formation that adapted to Bronze Island’s Earth Veins.
• Li Boyang explained that the Bagua Compass could automatically select and deploy formations based on its surroundings, and said a future version might also perform semiautomated divination.
• Xiluo asked whether Li Boyang planned to mass-produce the compass, and he said there was no reason not to.

Li Boyang extracted Xiang’s divinity and sealed it into Xiao Xi’s Voice Transmission Talisman, creating the Xiangliu Amulet to help her control her powers. Xiang then warned Li Boyang to beware of Fuyou, who he suspected had gathered a large amount of Soul Jade with other gods.

• Li Boyang used the Bagua Compass to reveal Xiang’s true form and explain that he would extract Xiang’s divinity rather than transfer a god’s fate configuration.
• Li Boyang drew Xiang’s Life Primordial Qi and divinity into the shape of a white snake, then restored Xiang’s body with clear Qi.
• Li Boyang sealed the white snake inside Xiao Xi’s Voice Transmission Talisman, turning it into the Xiangliu Amulet.
• Li Boyang explained that the Xiangliu Amulet would let Xiao Xi use Xiang’s curses and poison incantations without suffering their costs, helping her master her powers safely.
• Xiang warned Li Boyang to beware of Fuyou, saying Fuyou was not acting alone and might have collected a great deal of Soul Jade.

Xuansu Shi rejected Fuyou’s attempt to recruit her into a plan involving the Guhuo Birds’ Soul Jades. She crushed a golden scale from her heart to show that Fuyou’s taunts would not sway her, leaving her allegiance to Yu Guo unchanged.

• Yinjiao played with Yinglong near Hidden Dragon Island while Xuansu Shi watched them.
• Fuyou contacted Xuansu Shi and urged her to work with him, arguing that they both served Gong Gong.
• Xuansu Shi accused Fuyou of wanting her help to watch the Heaven-Eroding Lord and steal the Soul Jades, and revealed she had deduced his plans from newspapers.
• Fuyou explained that the Guhuo Birds’ Soul Jades held the Divine Ability of the Witch of the Huai River and that two powerful jades were essential to his plan.
• Xuansu Shi refused to help and warned Fuyou that she would expose him to the Celestial Person if he contacted her again.
• Xuansu Shi crushed a golden scale drawn from her heart and declared that her loyalty was to Yu Guo, not any Gong Gong.

On the shores of the East Sea, Fuyou and Yin faced dwindling time as the great shamans began searching for Soul Jade. Wu Peng offered the Six Witches of Kaiming’s help to resurrect Kang Hui in exchange for Fuyou’s Soul Jade and Gong Gong as a test subject, leaving Fuyou to consider a deal he had little power to refuse.

• Fuyou lamented that Xuansu Shi had rejected him and destroyed the yellow snake’s scale, while Yin warned that they needed Yu Guo to persuade her.
• Fuyou told Yin that Wu Xian and the other great shamans had started collecting Soul Jade, making delay dangerous.
• Yin said they should take the initiative, and Wu Peng arrived with the Six Witches of Kaiming, claiming Yin had agreed to cooperate.
• Wu Peng offered to use the Soul Jade to resurrect Kang Hui, saying the Six Witches had studied the Elixir of Immortality and he had witnessed Meng Zhang’s resurrection.
• Fuyou rejected the offer as an attempt to take their Soul Jade and use Gong Gong as a test subject, but Wu Peng insisted they had no other choice.

Fuyou and Yin agreed to help the Six Witches of Kaiming resurrect Kang Hui, despite the witches’ plan to sacrifice an entire kingdom for the life force required. The witches chose the Black Teeth Kingdom, while Wu Lü questioned whether Kang Hui could endure learning how he had been revived.

• Fuyou told Yin that cooperating with the Six Witches of Kaiming was dangerous, but they had no other chance to resurrect Kang Hui.
• Fuyou recalled that the witches planned to use the [Immortality Cauldron] and sacrifice a kingdom’s life force to restore Kang Hui fully.
• Wu Fan, Wu Yang, and Wu Di discussed why Fuyou and Yin would destroy the Black Teeth Kingdom and why it was a convenient target.
• Wu Lü warned Wu Peng that Kang Hui might reject the sacrifice and become an undying Ominous Deity.
• Wu Peng said he had chosen the Black Teeth Kingdom because the new Lord of the East Sea would intervene if Kang Hui became a threat, but he worried the sacrifice might not go smoothly.

Li Boyang returned to Li Household Village and found Yinjiao secretly taking Jinjiao’s pills. He revealed that Jinjiao had likely prepared them for her, leaving Yinjiao embarrassed and angry at Single Horn Si for keeping quiet.

• Li Boyang watched the bronze horse carriages carrying children and students leave Li Household Village before approaching the shrine.
• Yinjiao hurriedly hid the pills she had been feeding Single Horn Si when Li Boyang arrived.
• Li Boyang recognized the pills as Jinjiao’s and questioned Yinjiao about taking them.
• Li Boyang pointed out that the labeled pills had likely been deliberately left for Yinjiao by Jinjiao.
• Yinjiao realized Single Horn Si had known the truth and scolded him for letting her embarrass herself.

Jinjiao and Ba Jun discussed Yinjiao’s cultivation and the seventh graduating class of the Hundred Lands School. Ba Jun asked for graduates to help her village develop a specialty industry using steel-hard banana plants, and Jinjiao agreed to consult Li Boyang about the request.

• Jinjiao defended his efforts to help Yinjiao improve through pills, while Ba Jun worried that he spoiled her and that she neglected cultivation.
• Ba Jun and Jinjiao discussed the seventh graduating class, whose students were completing intensive training on Spirit Gathering Island before leaving the Hundred Lands School.
• Jinjiao explained that he screened the graduates for unusual talents so Li Boyang could give exceptional students individual cultivation plans as non-registered disciples.
• Ba Jun asked Jinjiao to assign graduates skilled in Talisman Seal Script or artifact refinement to her remote village.
• Ba Jun described her steel-hard banana plants as a potential village specialty and sought help developing them into protective equipment.
• Jinjiao said Li Boyang was not opposed to a local weapons industry and promised to discuss Ba Jun’s request with him.

Li Boyang refined Yinjiao’s silver gourd into a powerful, intelligent curse-bearing weapon after years of her feeding it treasured swords. The transformation revealed a tiny doll modeled on Li Boyang, but Yinjiao questioned whether she was ready to control such a dangerous divine artifact.

• Li Boyang examined Yinjiao’s silver gourd and learned she had lost count of the treasured swords it had swallowed.
• Li Boyang released the gourd’s Sword Qi, felt its sharpness pierce his defenses, and decided to help complete its refinement.
• Li Boyang used Life and Transformation Talisman Incantations to reshape the gourd’s sword soul into a harmless wisp of smoke.
• The sword soul transformed into a silver dragon resembling Yinjiao, then changed again into a tiny doll modeled on Li Boyang.
• The One-Horned Incantation sensed the doll’s powerful curse and tracking abilities, and Yinjiao asked whether she could control such a dangerous divine artifact.

Yinjiao reported an unusual Yuan Qi fluctuation near Yinglong and Xuansu Shi, while Li Boyang assured her he would handle it. That night, Yinglong watched Deception Rabbit sneak into Xuansu Shi’s bamboo house and spoke with the ancient voice within him, which he revealed was Yu Guo, the vanished God of the East Sea.

• One-Horned Incantation worried that Yinjiao might not be able to control the silver gourd’s sword soul and curse, but Li Boyang affirmed his trust in her.
• Yinjiao told Li Boyang she had sensed an unusual Yuan Qi fluctuation while playing with Yinglong and noticed Xuansu Shi and Yinglong reacting strangely.
• Deception Rabbit secretly entered Xuansu Shi’s bamboo house after nightfall while Yinglong watched from the water.
• Yinglong spoke with an aged voice in his mind about his parents’ behavior and credited Li Boyang’s pills with his vitality and the voice’s return to awareness.
• Yinglong revealed that the voice within him belonged to Yu Guo, the long-vanished God of the East Sea.

Yinglong questioned Yu Guo about the person who secretly contacted Xuansu Shi and why they had to avoid her. Yu Guo explained that the contact was likely a subordinate god seeking to resurrect him or Gong Gong, and Yinglong agreed to help find someone who could uncover the truth.

• Yinglong recalled Yu Guo's warning that Xuansu Shi might sacrifice him to restore Yu Guo, and kept his awakening secret from her.
• As Yinglong traveled through different terrains in animal forms, he asked Yu Guo who had contacted Xuansu Shi and where they were going.
• Yu Guo explained that Xuansu Shi had once secretly connected him with the current Gong Gong and that the contact likely came from one of their subordinate gods.
• Yu Guo warned that the subordinate gods might commit terrible acts to resurrect him or Gong Gong, and feared the Celestial Person would kill them for it.
• Yu Guo said they needed to find someone capable of learning the whole truth.

Yinglong and Yu Guo arrived at Flying Sky Stockade, where Wu Zhen had built steam-powered machinery and an experimental aircraft. Wu Zhen recognized Yu Guo and objected to his bringing Yinglong, whose connection to the Celestial Person made him dangerous to help.

• Under Yu Guo's direction, Yinglong flew to Flying Sky Stockade and saw its iron-chain bridges, steam engines, and mountain-leveling pile drivers.
• Yinglong spotted Wu Zhen piloting a steam-powered aircraft while villagers flew beside her in gliding suits inscribed with Speech.
• Wu Zhen noticed Yinglong, ordered the gliders to land, and brought the aircraft down onto the stockade's flattened summit.
• Yinglong landed and transformed into a horned, golden-haired child as Yu Guo spoke through him.
• Wu Zhen recognized Yu Guo and rebuked him for bringing Yinglong, saying she had promised the Celestial Person not to cause him trouble.

Wu Zhen reluctantly listened as Yu explained that Great Xia's subordinate gods were planning something and revealed why he could not appear in his true body. Yu said that Feathered Serpent God Shao had defeated him and taken his body after escaping the Yin World Nether Spring.

• Yu asked Wu Zhen to investigate what Great Xia's subordinate gods were planning and whether their actions could be stopped.
• Wu Zhen questioned why Yu was in a half-dead state and demanded a brief explanation before she would help.
• Yu explained that ghost gods had escaped from the Yin World Nether Spring as his strength waned, then besieged him.
• Yu revealed that Shao had defeated him and seized his body, explaining why his statues in the East Sea remained intact.
• Yu recounted how Feathered Serpent God Shao had once opposed him, died, become a ghost god, and been driven back into the Yin World.

Wu Zhen refused Yu Guo’s request to help, but struck a bargain with Yinglong: she would teach him to use the Red Eye Cauldron in exchange for artifact-refining knowledge. Back at Li Household Village, Xiluo warned Li Boyang that Wu Zhen and Yu Guo were already drawing Yinglong into trouble.

• Wu Zhen rejected Yu Guo’s request, saying she would not risk Li Boyang’s displeasure or lose the life she had built at Flying Sky Stockade.
• Yinglong offered to trade artifact-refining knowledge and threatened to keep visiting Wu Zhen if she refused; she countered by offering to teach him the Red Eye Cauldron’s power in exchange for lessons from Yinjiao.
• Wu Zhen told Yinglong to keep their arrangement secret from Li Boyang and to present it as a fair trade.
• Xiluo appeared before Li Boyang and complained that Wu Zhen should never have been allowed to stay in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Xiluo said Wu Zhen was already teaching Yinglong to use the Red Eye Cauldron and suspected Yu Guo had hidden motives.

Li Boyang discovered that Xiluo had secretly advanced her Primordial Spirit to Path of Spirit Perfection, using a Divinity Mask modeled on her elder sister, Wu Yao. He suspected the Spring God had helped her gain the wisdom and experience behind her rapid breakthrough.

• Li Boyang argued that Yu Guo was simple-minded and had driven his subordinates away to prevent further trouble.
• Xiluo confronted Li Boyang about neglecting his alchemy and suspected he was focused on the Elixir of Immortality.
• The Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron trembled as Li Boyang noticed Xiluo's Primordial Spirit emerging behind her.
• Xiluo revealed that her Primordial Spirit wore a Divinity Mask born under the name Wu Yao and could exceed her own abilities.
• Li Boyang recognized that Xiluo had advanced beyond manifesting a Yang God and reached Path of Spirit Perfection.
• Li Boyang questioned what Xiluo had been doing and whether the Spring God had coaxed her into it.

Xiluo showed Li Boyang the Jade Pool Flat Peach she and the Undying Spring God had cultivated, while explaining how the deity’s memories helped her advance her Primordial Spirit. Xiluo then pressed Li Boyang to explain the dangerous plan he had been hiding for five years.

• Xiluo revealed the Jade Pool Flat Peach, a fruit that could extend a person’s lifespan by several hundred years.
• Xiluo explained that the Undying Spring God had helped her cultivate her Primordial Spirit by sharing its carefully screened knowledge and experience in exchange for her help creating an Elixir of Immortality.
• Li Boyang tasted the peach and said its vitality had slightly improved his immortal body, showing a faint golden light in his palm.
• Xiluo assured Li Boyang that she was absorbing the Undying Spring God’s memories gradually and would not lose her sense of self.
• Xiluo demanded to know what Li Boyang had planned for the past five years and asked whether he was using Fuyou and the others to collect Soul Jade, with Yu Guo searching for them.

Li Boyang explained to Xiluo that Heavenly Tribulation was spreading catastrophe across the land and that he planned to intervene in the order of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. He revealed that the Yin Son of Heaven might share his aims and asked Xiluo to stop Xuansu Shi from making a desperate sacrifice, while she suspected his true plan was even more reckless.

• Li Boyang told Xiluo that he wanted to end the catastrophe and admitted his Way of the Celestial Person had helped set events in motion.
• Li Boyang explained that Heavenly Tribulation was blocking advancement and devastating regions beyond Great Xia and the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Boyang connected Xiao Xi's prophecy and the deaths of the gods to the Yin World, concluding that the Yin Son of Heaven would oppose the chaos.
• Li Boyang asked Xiluo to prevent Xuansu Shi from sacrificing herself or Yinglong when the boundary between life and death became blurred.
• Xiluo agreed that Li Boyang was hiding a far more dangerous plan than he had admitted.

Ox-Head fought a ghost god forming in the Longbo Mountain Range and used his Netherworld Sword to freeze it. He returned through Ghost Gate Pass, aware that the Yin and Yang Worlds were falling out of balance.

• Ox-Head appeared in the ice forest and challenged the ghost god born from the resentment of a fallen mountain god.
• The ghost god blocked Ox-Head’s fork with a giant ghost face, but Ox-Head smashed it and exposed the stone giant covered in trapped souls.
• The ghost god released its Yin souls to attack Ox-Head and began rebuilding its body.
• Ox-Head used his Netherworld Sword to freeze the ghost god’s body, divine soul, and resentment.
• Ox-Head explained that he had forged the sword by adapting Li Boyang’s methods, then returned through Ghost Gate Pass after reflecting on the imbalance between the Yin and Yang Worlds.

Wu Luo fought the rising ghost gods in the Nine Li State while recognizing how much the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s weapons and technology helped defend his people. The crisis pushed Great Xia’s great witches toward learning from the mountain folk and spreading the Luo River Book, while Wu Luo wondered whether the next Witch King might accelerate sweeping changes.

• Wu Luo fought ghost gods and their monsters on the Nine Li State’s front lines, refusing to rest because the people there were his kin.
• Nine Li warriors and witches used weapons and Talisman Seal Scripts from the Hundred Lands mountain folk to hold back the monsters.
• Wu Luo admired the mountain folk’s advanced equipment and decided the Nine Li State should send people to learn from them after the catastrophe.
• Wu Luo observed that farsighted great witches across Great Xia were also planning to learn from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and spread the Luo River Book more widely.
• Wu Luo considered that a Witch King born among slaves or in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range could hasten profound changes in Great Xia.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang investigated the widespread Netherworld Qi over the Black Teeth Kingdom and discovered that a God of Disease had unleashed multiple plagues there. He found the kingdom’s patients isolated in quarantine zones while Lingguzi’s bone-masked physicians pursued varied treatments, but the cause of the outbreak remained unresolved.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang and the red snake detected Netherworld Qi over the plague-stricken Black Teeth Kingdom and ruled out the [Yin World Nether Spring] as its source.
• The red snake guessed that the kingdom’s population was dying rapidly from diseases deliberately spread by a deity, and Divine Lord Meng Zhang concluded that a God of Disease was responsible.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang descended to the Black Teeth Kingdom and found the mountain folk operating quarantine zones and treating patients with preventive equipment and procedures.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang recognized Lingguzi’s followers among the physicians, who entered quarantine zones, sometimes infected themselves, and used unconventional treatments.
• The bone-masked physicians applied differing treatments and disinfection procedures, leaving the camp without a standardized treatment process.

Shouyi told Divine Lord Meng Zhang that a God of Pestilence had arranged the plague outbreaks into a National Territory Transmutation Formation across the Black Teeth Kingdom. With the formation already complete and absorbing the vitality and resentment of the dead, Shouyi warned that only Meng Zhang might be able to stop the calamity.

• Shouyi had traveled to the Black Teeth Kingdom and organized quarantine, disinfection, vaccination, and an Epidemic Prevention Medical Gazette to help contain its spreading plagues.
• The mountain folk faced hostility and violence as rumors blamed them for the plagues, though the kingdom’s gods and great shamans knew the truth and protected them.
• Shouyi told Divine Lord Meng Zhang that new plagues kept appearing and mutating, leaving him unsure how long he could continue his work.
• Shouyi showed Meng Zhang a map linking the plague outbreak sites into a National Territory Transmutation Formation, with the royal capital as its hub.
• Shouyi explained that the formation was absorbing the vitality and resentment of those who died, and asked Meng Zhang to stop the looming calamity.

The Undying Spring God watched over Azure Bird as she remained in an egg after gaining the Vermilion Bird’s Nirvanic Rebirth ability. Li Boyang visited the Heaven-Eroding Lord and revealed that he needed the Eight Trigrams Furnace and Soul Jade, leaving the Lord to ask whether Wu Yao could truly not be resurrected.

• The Undying Spring God worried about Azure Bird, who had transformed into an enormous egg while digesting Yuan Qi after gaining Nirvanic Rebirth.
• Li Boyang found the Heaven-Eroding Lord purifying Yin Fei’s Soul Jade in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Li Boyang told the Heaven-Eroding Lord that he needed the furnace and Soul Jade, and that he wanted to make him and Xiluo give up hope completely.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord realized Li Boyang had found the remaining Soul Jade and asked whether Wu Yao could truly not be resurrected.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang discovered that Fuyou and Yinyi were activating a kingdom-wide formation in Lacquer Teeth City, turning the Black Teeth Kingdom toward the same fate as Tufang Kingdom. As plague-born shadow monsters began attacking the sick, Shouyi chose to stay and fight, calling on the shamans and the mountain folk.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang traveled across the Black Teeth Kingdom and found Netherworld Qi gathering over Lacquer Teeth City.
• Fuyou and Yinyi appeared above the city as the Yin World overlapped with it, and an ancestral god warned Divine Lord Meng Zhang to evacuate the kingdom.
• Fuyou and Yinyi triggered their ritual, causing plague patients across the kingdom to spawn shadow monsters.
• A great shaman explained to Shouyi that the monsters arose from plague Qi and shadows and would attack all living beings.
• Shouyi refused to retreat, asked the great shaman to summon every shaman he could reach, and went to retrieve the master copy of the Epidemic Prevention Medical Gazette.
• The great shaman accepted Shouyi's resolve and decided that the kingdom's guardians would not shrink from the crisis.

As God Futu’s ritual destroyed Lacquer Teeth City, Divine Lord Meng Zhang intervened while Fuyou prepared the collected Soul Jade for the sake of the great god Gong Gong. The battle spread across the city as Yinyi held Meng Zhang back, and Meng Zhang countered Yinyi’s shadow restraint with lightning.

• God Futu howled, killing every surviving human in Lacquer Teeth City as the city began to collapse.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang flew to stop Fuyou and Yinyi, while God Futu pursued him and the red snake challenged the mad god.
• God Futu manifested his headless body from the Yin World and attacked the red snake with three blades.
• Yinyi blamed the mountain folk for disrupting the ritual, and Fuyou prepared the pieces of Soul Jade for the great god Gong Gong.
• Yinyi restrained Divine Lord Meng Zhang by binding his shadow, but Meng Zhang summoned lightning and struck the shadow to break free.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang defeated Yinyi while Red Serpent used Bearing the Essence of Fire to destroy God Futu and disperse the Netherworld Qi. With Fuyou’s ritual thwarted, Meng Zhang confronted him and demanded that he dispel the plague.

• Yinyi sacrificed himself to create a shadow dragon and hold Divine Lord Meng Zhang back, but Meng Zhang grew to a thousand zhang and swallowed him.
• God Futu attacked Red Serpent with three swords while seawater flooded Lacquer Teeth City.
• Red Serpent unleashed Bearing the Essence of Fire, burning God Futu away and dispersing the Netherworld Qi, though the fire also harmed Lacquer Teeth City’s residents.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang praised Red Serpent, then confronted Fuyou and demanded that he dispel the plague.