Recaps

After Li Yiyuan’s death, Zhou Wuji avenged him, left Hidden Dragon Temple, and gained initiation and new techniques at the Cloud Dragon Lower Court. He returned with Wuzheng’s party, helped kill a pig demon, and unknowingly became the target of Zhang Xinhu’s scheme to draw rogue soldiers toward the Daoists.

• Zhou Wuji inherited the Northern Emperor's Book of Heavenly Punishment, killed Zhang Wuding and Fang Wuzhen, and arranged Li Yiyuan’s funeral before leaving Hidden Dragon Temple.
• Zhou Wuji fought rogue soldiers at White Stone Ferry, saved Li Qiang, and left money for the victims of White Stone Village.
• Zhou Wuji reached the Cloud Dragon Lower Court, passed Zhiyuan’s questioning, and entered the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grotto to slay Sha Ghosts and Vengeful Ghosts.
• Zhou Wuji received the Middle Perfection Precepts, resonated with the Northern Dipper stars, and learned five Law Techniques, rapidly improving several of them.
• Zhiyuan sent Zhou Wuji back to Hidden Dragon Temple with Wuzheng’s party, and the Daoists agreed to protect White Bamboo Village from a pig demon.
• Zhou Wuji helped Wuzheng and Wuming defeat the pig demon, then converted its remains into Origin Mystic Essence and gained three years of lifespan.
• Zhang Xinhu arranged to lure rogue soldiers toward the Daoists by sending a grain convoy through Old Cang Village, while Zhou Wuji and Wuming rode there together.

Zhou Wuji survived Zhang Xinhu’s hired mutineers, advanced his cultivation, and hunted demons in the Siming Mountains before defeating Fang Jing’s Yin Yang Dao ritual on Red Leaf Ridge. He returned to Hidden Dragon Temple with the prisoners’ ransom arranged, while Wang Qi and Zhang Xinhu prepared a night attack on the temple.

• Wang Jing’s renegade soldiers attacked the village after Zhang Yuan revealed where Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng were staying, but Zhou Wuji killed Wang Jing and the rest of the raiders while Wuzheng and Wuming escaped harm.
• Zhou Wuji concealed the full extent of his role in the battle, improved his cultivation and techniques, and learned the Heavenly Pivot Hand from Wuming in exchange for swordsmanship lessons.
• After Wu Di arrested villagers, Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng negotiated for their release, and Wu Di demanded red flower honey from Golden-Ringed Poison Bees as payment.
• Zhou Wuji entered the Siming Mountains, killed the golden toad, black leopard, python, and tiger demon, then created a Five Yin Pouch from five demon monkeys.
• Zhou Wuji confronted Fang Jing’s ritual on Red Leaf Ridge, killed Fang Jing and Jiang Sangu, destroyed the Ghost Soldier, and reached the seventh rank in Qi-refining.
• Zhou Wuji returned to Hidden Dragon Temple with red flower honey and asked Wuzheng to ransom the prisoners, while learning that Zhang Xinhu had joined forces with Wang Qi to attack the temple.
• Wuming taught Zhou Wuji to play the flute, and Zhou Wuji prepared the temple’s defenses before waking at the sound of a muffled thud.

Zhou Wuji survived the temple mutiny, killed Zhang Xinhu, and grew stronger through monster hunting and cultivation. After defeating Fang Boxiong and Wu Di, he faced Zhang Yunfeng’s accusation and killed Chen Dagou’s Gu in the county hall, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Zhou Wuji and Wuzheng defeated Wang Qi’s mutineers, and Zhou Wuji reached Sword Intent before recovering from his injuries.
• Zhou Wuji secretly killed Zhang Xinhu, took his martial arts and treasures, then trained in the Five Tigers Fist and pill refining.
• Zhou Wuji went to White Bamboo Village, killed the bear demon, and defeated Fang Boxiong’s Ghost Soldier before killing Fang Boxiong.
• Zhou Wuji used the Heavenly Puppet to make Jin Chuan kill Wu Di, then killed Jin Chuan and took the puppet and Wu Di’s valuables.
• Zhang Yunfeng arrived to investigate Wu Di’s death, and Chen Dagou accused Zhou Wuji before attacking him with the White Dragon Gu.
• Zhou Wuji trapped Chen Dagou and the Gu, and Wuzheng’s thunder technique caused the mother Gu to escape and kill Chen Dagou.
• Zhou Wuji destroyed the mother Gu, while Zhang Yunfeng accused him and Wuzheng but left without pursuing the matter.

Zhou Wuji advanced to the Sixth Rank, passed Zhishan’s sword test, and uncovered the Five Dragons Gang’s blood sacrifice on Lake Heart Island. After he destroyed the gang’s Gu and flood-dragon remnant, the Lower Court confronted Chen Dalu publicly, where Zhou Wuji killed Chen Hao.

• Zhou Wuji killed Chen Hui and the Devil Cultivators who had coerced Yang Shuling, then accepted Yang Tie Ying as his disciple and joined the Cloud Dragon Lower Court.
• Zhou Wuji studied the Green Satchel Scripture, received his Seventh Rank register, and advanced to the Sixth Rank by opening the Heavenly Gate with the Seven Stars Demon-Slaying Sword.
• Zhishan assigned Zhou Wuji to defeat the evil entity on Lake Heart Island within three months, and Zhou Wuji accepted the assessment.
• Zhou Wuji found a secret realm containing the Five Dragons Gang’s human sacrifices, killed Chen Yong, and destroyed the mother Black Dragon Gu and the flood dragon’s remnant soul.
• Zhou Wuji reported the atrocities to Daoist Yizhen and Zhishan, who verified the evidence, then urged Abbot Zhiyuan to lure Chen Dalu away from Old Dragon Island.
• At Cloud River Tower, Chen Dalu recognized Zhou Wuji and sent Chen Hao to challenge him, and Zhou Wuji killed Chen Hao in the public sword contest.