Recaps

Li Boyang grew from an unusual infant into a young spirit-worker as he learned to control his Sword Pill and Sha Qi while the black mist spread. Xiluo brought him and Big Girl to the Mountain God Temple to seek his help against the evil ghost in Black Cloud Marsh.

• Li Boyang survived the Tulu’s attack on Chen Yun and was born with scarlet hair, while Xiluo warned him not to investigate her coming death or seek revenge.
• Li Boyang sent his Sword Pill to kill Ruifu and save Xiluo, then resisted the sword’s cold influence as Sha Qi began transforming him.
• Li Boyang and Big Girl traded herbs with the Deception Rabbit, learned that the spreading black mist was driving spirits from the mountains, and prepared for danger near their village.
• Li Boyang discovered that the evil ghost in Black Cloud Marsh was the shaman he had killed in a previous incarnation, then made strong black bricks to help protect the village.
• Xiluo warned Li Boyang that his growing coldness resembled Ruifu’s, and he resolved to keep killing as a last resort and never turn against those close to him.
• Li Boyang and Xiluo fought corrupted creatures as the mist advanced, while the Undying Spring God gave Xiluo permission to retrieve what her elder sister had left behind.
• Xiluo persuaded Chen Yun to let Li Boyang visit Flying Peak by summoning a Fang Boar puppet to plow the family’s fields, and Chen Yun required Big Girl to go with them.
• Xiluo brought Li Boyang and Big Girl to the Mountain God Temple, where she explained that the evil ghost drew power from the marsh’s black fog and that her elder sister had left something that might dispel it.

Li Boyang used the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination and the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron to confront You Xiao and the Ghost King, awakening a Primordial Spirit in the battle. Afterward, he continued his experiments with cultivation and improved crops while keeping the Big Black Dog imprisoned and bearing Ruifu’s curse through his shadow.

• Li Boyang deciphered the Nine Chapters on the Secrets of Divination with Big Girl’s help, and Xiluo gave him the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron as her sister’s legacy.
• Li Boyang and Xiluo pushed Black Cloud Marsh’s black mist back and fought the resulting baleful ghosts, while the old man unleashed a beast tide and attacked Li Boyang through his Heart-Seizing Baleful Intent.
• Li Boyang freed the trapped spirits and followed them to You Xiao, where he awakened his Primordial Spirit and defeated You Xiao with his evolving swordsmanship.
• Ox-Head recovered from You Xiao’s ghost-god form, explained the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron’s history, and entrusted the cauldron to Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang trained Big Girl for nearly a year until she could circulate Life Primordial Qi through her body, while he taught Xiluo about cultivation and gave her a meditation manual she could not read.
• Li Boyang used the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron to select improved rice seeds and discussed their limits with the chained Big Black Dog in the cave.
• Li Boyang revealed that he had made his shadow bear Ruifu’s curse and cultivated a genuine ghost god, while the Big Black Dog warned that Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi could strip away its identity.
• Big Girl arrived at the Mountain God Temple, found Li Boyang absent, and went to the courtyard where he kept his tools and experiments.

Li Boyang developed a formation to nourish Li Jingshu before helping resist the Roaring Heaven Clan during Nüman’s battle against the Guirong Clan. Granny died, displaced mountain folk sought shelter, and Li Boyang and Deception Rabbit began considering an attack on the Guifang Kingdom to secure grain and rescue Nüman’s divine soul.

• Li Boyang taught Li Jingshu medicine and created a formation that converted Earth Veins Sha Qi into Earth Yuan Qi to replenish her Life Primordial Qi.
• Granny attacked the Guirong Clan’s slave-catching force, revealed herself as Nüman, and faced the Roaring Heaven Clan after Muzheng invoked divine aid.
• Li Boyang proposed turning the Sanitation Brigade into a Production Brigade before Deception Rabbit sought his help to find out whether Granny was alive.
• Li Boyang drew on the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s dragon veins as Nüman destroyed the enemy storm, but the Roaring Heaven Clan severed the veins and injured him through backlash.
• Deception Rabbit recovered Granny’s corpse and directed the surviving mountain folk toward Gao Village Town and Li Household Village.
• The Guifang Kingdom’s high priest sacrificed You Chong, and Xuan Hui learned that the gods wanted him dead for witnessing a god’s defeat.
• Li Boyang supported settling the newcomers through the Production Brigade and arranged help with rice-growing weather while Deception Rabbit proposed attacking the Guifang Kingdom for grain and Nüman’s divine soul.
• Chongming ordered more sacrifices and raids, and Xuan Hui told Deception Rabbit at Cliff Settlement City that priests could cast down gods who betrayed their people.

Li Boyang defeated the Gods of the Five Directions, advanced his cultivation, and helped secure the mountain folk’s future while the village prospered. After he uncovered a fox’s scheme at the reservoir, Yue arrived at Li Household Village hunting the fox and began fighting its defenders.

• Xuan Hui recruited Deception Rabbit to stop the Guifang Kingdom’s sacrificial ceremony, and Deception Rabbit stole Nüman’s clay jar from the ancestral shrine before escaping the priests and their Blood Demon.
• Li Boyang helped Deception Rabbit defeat the Blood Demon and then fought the Gods of the Five Directions with the Divine Firmament Sword, driving them off and carving a vast chasm between the Guifang Kingdom and the mountain range.
• After returning to Flying Peak, Li Boyang examined Nüman’s dimming divine essence and planned to place her in the swamp where Ruifu’s remains lay, while the Guifang Kingdom’s Chongming confirmed his alliance with You Chong and Xuan Hui.
• Li Boyang refined Black and Yellow Qi through cultivation, advanced toward forming a Golden Core, and explained to Xiluo that his Primordial Spirit could give him personal premonitions.
• Xiao'e helped a neighboring village recover from monster damage by offering improved seeds, arranging hunters, and explaining Li Boyang’s plans for the Mountain God Reservoir, while Li Household Village continued to grow.
• Li Boyang used the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron to cook meat marinated with a failed medicinal paste, then investigated a disturbance at the reservoir and removed a parasitic spiritual shadow from Chi.
• Li Boyang learned that Chi had become the reservoir’s water god after he created the water vein and helped her grow, then crushed the Six-Tailed Fox’s spiritual fragment after it had used Chi to set a trap.
• Yue reached Li Household Village, identified himself as Great Xia’s Minister of Justice, demanded the fox’s whereabouts, and fought Li Jingshu, Xiao Gui, and Li Yu before cracking the village’s flagstone road with his battle-axe.