Recaps

Xuan Hui told Deception Rabbit that a book from You Xiao’s residence described mortals as descendants of gods and hinted that You Xiao had sought to become a god himself. He asked Deception Rabbit to help destroy the sacrificial ceremony in exchange for revealing where Nüman’s divine soul was held, and Deception Rabbit entered the Guifang Kingdom’s ancestral shrine to search for it.

• Xuan Hui showed Deception Rabbit a repaired book from You Xiao’s former residence, which described Great Xia’s sovereign ruling over priests and gods and claimed that people were descendants of gods.
• Xuan Hui suspected You Xiao had defected to pursue the method of becoming a god and had taken the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron for that purpose.
• Xuan Hui explained that the Gods of the Five Directions had ordered the Guifang Kingdom to destroy the Red-Haired Ghost and offered to reveal Nüman’s divine soul in return for Deception Rabbit’s help stopping the sacrificial ceremony.
• Xuan Hui led Deception Rabbit to the ancestral shrine, then remained outside while Deception Rabbit slipped through its doors unnoticed.
• Deception Rabbit saw more than a thousand memorial tablets and carefully preserved skulls in the shrine, along with objects representing factions, kingdoms, and gods defeated by the Guifang Kingdom.

Deception Rabbit and Li Boyang searched the Guifang Kingdom’s ancestral shrine for Nüman’s soul and stole a sealed pottery jar. When the shrine’s divine statues attacked, Li Boyang blocked one of them while Deception Rabbit tried to escape.

• Deception Rabbit summoned Li Boyang in the form of a three-inch little man to search the shrine’s representative objects for Nüman’s soul.
• Li Boyang identified a pottery jar marked with powerful Maxims Talismans, and Deception Rabbit sensed danger from it.
• As the guards changed shifts, Li Boyang swallowed the jar into his shadow, triggering an alarm in the shrine.
• Deception Rabbit transformed into an eagle and fled through a window, but a divine statue struck at him with lightning.
• Li Boyang’s three-inch little man blocked the statue’s attack and knocked it back onto its altar.
• Li Boyang urged Deception Rabbit to escape, and Deception Rabbit transformed into a hummingbird and flew toward the window.

The Deception Rabbit, disguised as a hummingbird, was trapped inside Cliff Settlement City after the high priest raised a blood barrier and the priests attacked it. When the high priest received a divine oracle, he ordered the priests to awaken the Blood Demon, whose form resembled the sacrificed You Chong.

• Guards discovered that the Roaring Heaven Clan's divine statue had been damaged, and the high priest sealed Cliff Settlement City behind a blood-colored barrier.
• The Deception Rabbit dodged arrows and lightning as the priests attacked it with witchcraft and curses, while Li Boyang's Shadow Avatar absorbed the curses and Xuan Hui secretly weakened the priests' incantations.
• The old priest warned the high priest that the barrier was costly and the city was panicking, but a divine oracle possessed the high priest and ordered them to capture the intruder.
• The high priest ordered the priests to awaken the Blood Demon, and they formed it from the blood pool as Xuan Hui recognized its resemblance to You Chong.

Li Boyang used the Deception Rabbit’s transformation ability to manifest a Black Dragon and break through Cliff Settlement City’s barrier. The Blood Demon confronted him in the sky and overpowered the inexperienced dragon, leaving Li Boyang struggling to escape.

• The Blood Demon restrained the airborne Deception Rabbit and forced him back into rabbit form.
• Li Boyang took control of the Deception Rabbit’s body, using Sha Qi to transform him into a Black Dragon with the Divine Ability Riding Clouds and Driving Mist.
• The Black Dragon spread clouds and mist across Cliff Settlement City, then broke through the city’s barrier with flames and lightning.
• The Blood Demon extinguished the fires, sprouted wings, and charged the Black Dragon as both hurtled into the sky.
• The Blood Demon pinned the Black Dragon with repeated punches while Li Boyang struggled to control its unfamiliar body.

Deception Rabbit took control of the black dragon and turned the fight against the Blood Demon, but the Blood Demon escaped his grasp and gained the advantage. Li Boyang struck with the Divine Firmament Sword and wounded him, while Xuan Hui used the chaos to head for the assembly hall and pursue his plan.

• Deception Rabbit took control of the black dragon, coiled around the Blood Demon, and attacked him with dragon breath and claws.
• Xuan Hui saw the battle’s chaos as an opportunity and quietly went to the assembly hall to carry out his long-term objective early.
• The Blood Demon declared himself a god of storms, burst into bloody mist, and repeatedly attacked the black dragon with his corrosive, shifting body.
• Li Boyang sent the Divine Firmament Sword across nearly a thousand kilometers, splitting the storm vortex and wounding the Blood Demon.
• Li Boyang used the Spirit Rhinoceros Horn to shake the Blood Demon’s mind and told him he was only an artificially refined ghost of blood Sha.

Li Boyang used the Divine Firmament Sword and mental attacks to defeat the Blood Demon, whose divided souls turned on Cliff Settlement City. As the black dragon fled toward the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, the Gods of the Five Directions intervened, leaving Li Boyang and the Deception Rabbit racing through a storm.

• Li Boyang's attacks exposed the Blood Demon as a mass of resentful souls, and the black dragon escaped while the Divine Firmament Sword slew it.
• The Blood Demon's fragments attacked the people of Cliff Settlement City, prompting Guifang Kingdom priests to rush to protect their relatives and clansmen.
• The black dragon crossed hundreds of kilometers toward the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, where the Divine Firmament Sword caught up with it.
• Li Boyang warned the Deception Rabbit that great trouble was coming, and the Deception Rabbit followed the sword at full speed.
• The Gods of the Five Directions entered the fray as storms and unnatural phenomena spread across the region.

As the Gods of the Five Directions unleashed disasters across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, Li Boyang identified their arrival and noticed that the Guirong Clan was absent. Xiluo rushed to prepare Earth Veins nodes for Li Boyang’s plan, while Li Jingshu worried about her brother and encountered Xiao Gui.

• Li Boyang recognized the Gods of the Five Directions’ arrival and noted that the Guirong Clan had not appeared.
• Natural disasters spread along the borders of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, terrifying people, beasts, and spirits.
• Xiluo buried Li Boyang’s five-colored glass at an Earth Veins node and hurried toward the next one, planning to demand hand-shredded chicken as compensation.
• Li Jingshu noticed the disasters and worried that Li Boyang was fighting something.
• Xiao Gui landed in a haystack near Li Household Village, and Li Jingshu approached the human-faced spider and wondered whether her brother would want to study it.

Li Boyang activated the Earth Sha Circulation Grand Formation and manifested a complete Yang God to confront the Gods of the Five Directions. His opening sword strike dispersed the Roaring Heaven Clan’s storm incarnation, leaving the gods astonished and angry.

• Li Boyang checked Xiluo’s five-colored glass placements and determined the Spirit Gathering Formation could activate them despite the incomplete arrangements.
• The returning Divine Firmament Sword reached Li Boyang, and he used it with his physical body to manifest his Primordial Spirit as a Yang God.
• The Earth Sha Circulation Grand Formation drew power from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and gave the Yang God a materialized form.
• Li Boyang’s sword strike crossed the distance to the Gods of the Five Directions and dispersed the Roaring Heaven Clan’s storm incarnation.
• The Roaring Heaven Clan called Li Boyang a Red-Haired Ghost, and Li Boyang challenged the gods to fight as his Yang God prepared to face them.

Li Boyang used the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s Earth Veins to battle the Gods of the Five Directions, while Panhu and the local mountain gods helped him. After his formation nodes shattered, the Yang God unleashed a lightning-powered, rapidly spinning Divine Firmament Sword against the assembled clans.

• Li Boyang drew on the dragon veins of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to fight the Roaring Heaven Clan, Green Wood Clan, and Tide-Swallowing Clan.
• Panhu spoke with a white-scaled serpent mountain god, who said the five-colored glass formation nodes would last less than a quarter of an hour.
• The five-colored glass nodes shattered, and the Yang God absorbed Sha Qi until he became fully corporeal.
• The three clans joined forces to stop the Yang God from gathering Qi, but he taunted them and launched his spinning Divine Firmament Sword.
• The Divine Firmament Sword tore through the three Gods of the Five Directions, reducing everything in its path to nothingness.

After driving off the Gods of the Five Directions, Li Boyang’s technique inspired the large black dog to abandon Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and form a tangible Primordial Spirit. The dog discovered that its Primordial Spirit and Cognitive Spirit could rapidly produce answers and guide it through danger, leaving it eager to understand its own incomplete memories.

• Li Boyang’s Divine Firmament Sword drove off the Gods of the Five Directions and carved a vast chasm between the Guifang Kingdom and the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• The large black dog celebrated Li Boyang’s rejection of external power and began expelling Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi from its body.
• The large black dog entered Inner Vision, sensed its soul, and formed a tangible Primordial Spirit from Life Primordial Qi.
• The dog realized its Primordial Spirit could use its shadow to create an incarnation and that its Cognitive Spirit could organize its memories into useful answers.
• The large black dog recognized the ability as a simplified Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability, then noticed that its memories were incomplete.

After Li Boyang’s final strike ended the threat to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, he was left gravely injured, and Xiluo went to fetch Deception Rabbit. Deception Rabbit encountered the Spider Queen while protecting Nüman’s jar and revealed a new hybrid transformation to defend it.

• Li Boyang returned to the ground exhausted after using the dragon veins to strike down the Gods of the Five Directions, declaring the mountain folk safe from the Guifang Kingdom and the Roaring Heaven Clan.
• Xiluo scolded Li Boyang for hiding the severity of his injuries, then knocked him down before agreeing to fetch Deception Rabbit and his Silk Fur Robe.
• Deception Rabbit climbed out of a mountain gully with Nüman’s clay jar, whose damaged markings let green light escape and accelerate nearby plant growth.
• The Spider Queen appeared with a swarm of spiders, revealed that the Spider Queen killed by Granny Mountain God had only been her offspring, and demanded the jar.
• Deception Rabbit refused and transformed into a hybrid of a tiger and an eagle, showing that his transformation ability was breaking beyond its original limits.

Xiluo drove off the Spider Queen and brought the Deception Rabbit back to Flying Peak, where Li Boyang used the Silk Fur Robe to ease his injuries. After examining Nüman's fading divine essence in the clay jar, Li Boyang decided to try to revive her in the swamp where Ruifu’s remains were buried.

• Xiluo arrived in her crimson leopard form, and the Spider Queen fled with her children rather than fight her.
• Xiluo explained that Li Boyang had cut a vast, deadly abyss into the mountain with a single sword strike, then brought the Deception Rabbit and its clay jar back to Flying Peak.
• Li Boyang wrapped himself in the Silk Fur Robe, which eased his pain and stopped his injuries from worsening.
• Li Boyang examined the clay jar and found that Nüman’s green divine essence was dimming and showed no sign of sentience.
• Li Boyang said he would try to save Nüman by placing her in the swamp where Ruifu’s remains were buried, which he believed could provide fertile ground for a Spring God’s rebirth.

Months after the battle, the Guifang Kingdom faced winter shortages and the apparent death of the Roaring Heaven Clan, while Chongming concealed that he had survived as Xuan Hui. The chapter left Xuan Hui allied with You Chong in a plot to reform his religion, as You Chong pursued revenge against the gods.

• Chongming said the Roaring Heaven Clan had stopped answering prayers, and the high priest suggested Li Boyang's sword strike might have killed the god.
• Chongming invoked a divine decree forbidding the Guifang Kingdom from entering the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, then adjourned the meeting to address food shortages.
• The Green Wood Clan's priest asked Chongming about his disciple Xuan Hui's death, but Chongming denied knowing anything about it.
• After the priest left, You Chong appeared, and Chongming revealed that he had taken Xuan Hui's form and warned You Chong not to harm the priest.
• You Chong affirmed his alliance with Xuan Hui, saying he would take revenge against his god while Xuan Hui reformed his religion.

After years of training, Li Boyang entered a new state of cultivation and transformed his life primordial Qi into black and yellow Qi by integrating with the essence of heaven and earth. The change also transformed his Sword Pill and Heavenly Eye, while his thoughts revealed that a true Golden Core required the essence and Qi of all things.

• Li Boyang endured the strengthened waterfall at Flying Peak while meditating, having increased its force to help himself and others enter meditative absorption.
• In no-mind samadhi, a glimmer of spiritual light guided the circulation of Li Boyang's life primordial Qi and drew complex heaven and earth primordial Qi into him.
• The combined Qi transformed into black and yellow Qi, which made Li Boyang's body golden and allowed him to blend into nature and remain untouched by karma.
• Li Boyang realized the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron could no longer divine his true condition and concluded that humans could achieve unity with heaven and earth by integrating with it.
• The Sword Pill and Heavenly Eye absorbed the black and yellow Qi, and Li Boyang recognized that the essence and Qi of all things were needed to form a Golden Core.

Li Boyang completed a cultivation session early after sensing that something was about to happen, while Xiluo realized he had successfully refined his unique Black and Yellow Qi through Pill Formation in Nine Revolutions. He explained that his premonitions came from spiritual perception and a Primordial Spirit, leaving Xiluo reluctant to study divination.

• Xiluo observed Li Boyang's golden light and recognized it as his unique Black and Yellow Qi, refined through Pill Formation in Nine Revolutions.
• Li Boyang ended his cultivation early because he sensed that something was about to happen.
• Li Boyang put on the scarlet fur coat Chen Yun had made from the Silk Fur Robe and his hair, and thanked Xiluo for giving her the treasure.
• Xiluo asked how Li Boyang could divine events without the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron, and he explained that a Primordial Spirit could provide personal premonitions.
• Xiluo complained that she hated studying the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination and asked Li Boyang to research a treasure that could divine automatically.

Li Household Village prospered and expanded under Li Boyang’s influence, while Xiao'e discussed his experimental crops and offered help to a neighboring village recovering from a monster attack. The middle-aged visitor accepted improved seeds on credit, and Xiao'e arranged support while urging his village to train a hunter.

• Li Boyang’s influence helped Li Household Village grow from a small village into a town of nearly a hundred households, with more than ten times its former rice acreage.
• Xiao'e showed the middle-aged man the new plots where Li Boyang was testing improved crops, including rapeseed flowers, soybeans, flax, sugarcane, and watermelons.
• Xiao'e advised the man to focus on rice and consider yams and medicinal herbs, since his village lacked the resources to risk unfamiliar crops.
• The middle-aged man agreed to borrow improved seeds on credit to recover from the mountain monsters that had trampled more than half his village’s fields.
• Xiao'e told him not to rush repayment, promised to arrange hunters to investigate the monsters, and asked him to choose a promising youngster to train as a hunter.

Xiao'e showed a middle-aged man the Mountain God Reservoir and explained how it supported irrigation, flood control, aquatic life, and nearby spirits. They entered Li Household Village, where he saw its healthy residents and a powerful girl casually discipline a boy.

• The middle-aged man admired Li Household Village's blue-brick road and learned that the village guarded its brick-making techniques.
• Xiao'e confirmed that the Mountain God Reservoir was not finished and explained that villages had cooperated for three years to build it.
• Xiao'e said Li Boyang intended the reservoir to control floods, support aquatic life, and improve the local environment as well as irrigate fields.
• Xiao'e explained that Human-Faced Fish and other spirits had settled near the reservoir and helped protect it, easing none of the middle-aged man's doubts about monsters.
• Xiao'e and the middle-aged man entered the village, where a strong girl leaped over a field embankment while carrying a boy she had caught misbehaving.

A middle-aged visitor learned how Li Household Village prospered through poultry domestication and the Mountain God Reservoir, while Xiao'e explained that the reservoir might eventually serve nearby villages. Li Jingshu greeted Xiao'e with teasing familiarity, and the old village chief worried that she was the only one who could help Li Boyang if he left the village; he hoped to live long enough to see Li Boyang grow up.

• The middle-aged man realized Li Household Village's strong people and children had been sustained by raising domesticated birds, a practice Li Boyang had advanced with the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron.
• The middle-aged man asked whether the Mountain God Reservoir could raise fish, and Xiao'e said Li Boyang was selecting fish fry while keeping the details secret.
• Xiao'e explained the reservoir to the visitor because she hoped neighboring villages would support its future expansion.
• Li Jingshu rushed over to Xiao'e, tugged her cheeks, and teased her before warily asking the middle-aged man to introduce himself.
• The old village chief complained to Grandmother Mountain God that Li Jingshu was undisciplined and worried she might be the only person able to support Li Boyang.
• The old village chief hoped to live another ten years so he could see Li Boyang reach adulthood before he was taken away.

Li Boyang used the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron to roast beast meat marinated with a failed medicinal paste, explaining to Xiluo that it could enhance Qi, blood, and healing. He concluded that the paste could help Li Jingshu strengthen her body, and he began considering other ways to use the cauldron.

• Li Boyang roasted beast legs in the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron, shocking Xiluo, who warned him against misusing Guifang Kingdom’s divine artifact.
• Li Boyang explained his attempts to refine herbs into pills and suggested trying other materials, including five-colored stones.
• Xiluo joked about using the cauldron for smelting or refining living things, prompting Li Boyang to consider treating it as a general furnace.
• Xiluo noticed the beast meat tasted unusual, and Li Boyang revealed he had marinated it with a failed medicinal paste made from herbs.
• Li Boyang explained that diluted paste could boost Qi, blood, cellular activity, and healing, and said it could help Li Jingshu temper her body.

Li Boyang brought Xiluo to Mountain God Reservoir, where he explained how its windmills and waterwheels supported irrigation and village industry, and considered future iron production. When Human-Faced Fish erupted from the reservoir and a gigantic creature emerged from a whirlpool, Li Boyang sent a shadow figure to confront them, but it was shattered by the creature’s piercing cry.

• Li Boyang reflected on how the reservoir’s windmills helped irrigate fields and process grain, while its waterwheels powered the village’s brick kilns.
• Li Boyang considered building ironworks near the reservoir but worried about finding an ore vein and transporting ore safely to the village.
• Xiluo asked Li Boyang what had happened and whether it was connected to the reservoir, as he opened his third eye and summoned a faceless shadow figure.
• Hundreds of Human-Faced Fish leaped from the reservoir as a vast whirlpool spread across the water.
• Li Boyang sent the shadow figure toward the fish, but a colossal creature emerged from the whirlpool and shattered it with a piercing cry.

Li Boyang stopped Xiluo from attacking the shadow manifestations and approached the giant Human-Faced Fish, Chi, whom he recognized as a victim. He discovered a spiritual shadow in her brain and extracted it, leaving the entity in his grasp as it angrily protested.

• Li Boyang stopped Xiluo and told her that the shadow manifestations were victims, not enemies.
• Faceless figures restrained the Human-Faced Fish while Li Boyang walked across the reservoir toward Chi, causing nearby figures to disappear.
• Li Boyang used his third eye to find a spiritual shadow parasitizing Chi's brain.
• Li Boyang sent his Primordial Spirit into Chi's head and pulled out the shadow, ending her pain.
• The extracted shadow demanded to know who had ruined its plans, and Li Boyang challenged it for causing trouble on his turf.

A Six-Tailed Fox’s attack on the Mountain God Reservoir failed when Li Boyang intervened, and the fox’s soul fragment revealed she came from beyond the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. As Li Boyang questioned Chi about the incident, he realized the fox’s carefully planned trap foretold greater trouble ahead.

• The Six-Tailed Fox accused the wounded Spider Queen of luring her to the reservoir, and the Spider Queen revealed the red-haired child was the mountain folk’s prophet and a descendant of an ancient witch.
• Li Boyang crushed the fox’s spiritual fragment and found a white hair, while Chi returned safely beneath the reservoir’s surface.
• Chi explained that she had swallowed a fish containing the fox hair while fishing upstream, unknowingly triggering the trap.
• Li Boyang concluded that the fox had studied Chi’s habits, came from far away, and would bring him trouble.
• Xiluo asked Chi how she had met Li Boyang and become the deity of the recently built reservoir.

Li Boyang explained how he rescued Chiru and helped her become a spirit creature and guardian of the newly formed reservoir water vein. Chiru became its water god and called Li Boyang the Arbiter of Fate because he had given her a new life and made her the god of those waters.

• Li Boyang described how he created the Mountain God Reservoir by altering the water veins, leaving Chiru stranded in muddy water.
• Li Boyang rescued Chiru, taught her about water veins and predators, and helped her learn human knowledge and become a spirit creature.
• Chiru grew enormous through Li Boyang's breathing method and chose to guard the reservoir after sensing Yuan Qi in its water veins.
• Li Boyang explained that the newborn water vein selected Chiru as its guardian after he tailored her to meet its needs, making her a water god.
• Chiru said she called Li Boyang the Arbiter of Fate because he had given her a new life and made her the water god of those waters.

Yue, the Minister of Justice of Great Xia, arrived at Li Household Village while pursuing a criminal, and the old village chief met him at the entrance. As villagers hid from the powerful stranger, Yue revealed his identity and purpose.

• Yue admired the fertile fields and prosperity around Li Household Village, then set off toward it with a human-faced spider in his pouch.
• After Yue knocked down villagers who tried to stop him, Li Chengfeng informed the old village chief of the intruder's arrival.
• The old village chief sent Li Chengfeng to warn Li Yu and evacuate the elderly, weak, women, and children.
• Yue reached the village entrance, where the old village chief questioned him while the children fled inside.
• Yue introduced himself as the Minister of Justice of Great Xia and said he had come to hunt down a criminal.

Yue confronted the old village chief in Li Household Village, insisting that a fox thief was hiding there, and the villagers attacked him to protect their secrets. Li Yu arrived to aid Li Jingshu, but Yue unleashed his great battle-axe and shattered the village road.

• Yue accused the old village chief of hiding a thief and demanded to know where the fox was.
• Li Jingshu ambushed Yue with a short blade while Xiao Gui ordered the Human-Faced Spider to bite him.
• Li Jingshu sent dozens of sleepy bugs after Yue, but Xiao Gui warned her that Yue's breath and palm wind were poisonous.
• Li Yu arrived and shot an arrow at Yue as Li Jingshu recognized him as Uncle Yu.
• Yue drew his great battle-axe, ignored Li Yu's arrows, and struck the ground, cracking the flagstone road and shaking nearly half the village.