Recaps

Qi Yun entered Azure Gate, seized the Fruition Status, and helped trigger a war that ended with Zhao Xuanji’s betrayal and death. Back in Xuanhuang, he accepted a Golden Core and chose to remain as Wudao took authority over the Holy Sect.

• Qi Yun left the Green Mountain Daoist Temple in trusted hands, then used the Six Realms Heaven to reach Azure Gate and hid from Heaven’s Will as a stone statue.
• Qi Yun investigated Azure Gate’s Divine Soul cultivation, uncovered the Waking of Insects Plan, and formed a secret alliance with Zhao Xuanji to prepare against Heaven’s Will.
• Qi Yun entered the Cloud Dream Great Marsh with Mo Wenxuan’s party, defeated True Person Bright Moon, and transformed his Yin Spirit into a Yang Spirit through his own power.
• Qi Yun trained fifty cultivators and secretly planted Demon Seeds in their Dao Hearts, then joined Zhao Xuanji to ignite the Heaven-Assailing Great Flame and breach the sky.
• Qi Yun unleashed Dharma Ending against the invading Azure Gate True Realm army as the true and counterfeit Heaven’s Wills fought, and he seized the Fruition Status with the true Heaven’s Will’s support.
• Zhao Xuanji betrayed Qi Yun and demanded the Fruition Status, but Qi Yun summoned Desolate Halberd True Lord’s incarnation and ordered his fifty Yang Spirit disciples to kill Zhao Xuanji.
• Qi Yun returned to Xuanhuang with the Yang Spirits, retrieved the promised Golden Core from Desolate Halberd True Lord, and gained a Primordial True Body.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord warned Qi Yun about Wudao and Black Mountain before stepping down, and Qi Yun chose to remain in Xuanhuang as Wudao assumed authority over the Holy Sect.

Qi Yun entered the Buddhist stronghold in Southern Yin under the identity Fahai, using its teachings and spiritual resources to develop a new Dharma Body and Primordial Spirit. At the Chan Assembly, the World-Honored One’s Heart Sutra triggered a clash between the True Lords and the Bodhisattvas, leaving the scripture unguarded.

• Black Mountain True Person led Holy Sect True Persons to Qi Yun’s deserted Green Mountain Daoist Temple, where they found a note saying he had gone on a long journey and learned his allies were out of reach.
• Qi Yun traveled south with Cai Shen’s guidance, learned from Situ Huaji and Wu Changsheng about Buddhist control of Southern Yin, and disguised himself as a monk to enter the region.
• At Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm, Qi Yun studied Buddhist teachings, created the Great Radiance Mahasthamaprapta Dharma Body, and began seeking a way to advance it toward the Golden Core.
• Qi Yun killed Arhat Jinchi and two other Arhats, used their sariras to strengthen Fahai’s Dharma Body, and helped Fahai form a Pure Land and a Primordial Spirit.
• The Southern Yin Crown Prince recognized Qi Yun at the Chan Assembly and told him that the sovereign had renounced his throne to obtain the World-Honored One’s handwritten Heart Sutra.
• Qi Yun resisted the Heart Sutra’s assimilating influence as the World-Honored One appeared and proclaimed his supremacy, drawing the True Lords into the conflict above Spirit Mountain.
• The True Lords and Buddhist Bodhisattvas fought over the scripture, while Qi Yun realized both sides had arranged events to bring it into play.
• Nine Nethers Sun-Devouring True Lord and Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord attacked the scripture’s guardians, gravely injuring two Bodhisattvas and leaving the World-Honored One’s Handwritten Scripture unguarded.

Qi Yun claimed a Fruition Status-free Great Dao, returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect, and took control of its affairs while preparing a second cultivation path. His Blood God Dharma Body, Youquan, pursued that path overseas, rescued Xuanming, and fought the Jade Jade Palace and Buddhist forces until he realized the Dao Fruit was within his sea of blood.

• Qi Yun absorbed the World-Honored One’s forty-nine streams of golden light, crossed the Long River of Time, and emerged with his Great Sun True Intention.
• Qi Yun defeated the Wrathful Wisdom King Bodhisattva, took a wisp of Golden Nature, and declared himself the Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord.
• Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect, defeated True Person Heisha, gained Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord’s support, and was appointed deputy sect master.
• Qi Yun purged Black Mountain True Person’s faction and chose to cultivate a second self through the Blood God Scripture, whose backlash his Law Technique Panel removed.
• Qi Yun created Youquan, who went overseas to find Xuanming and discovered that the Seventh Princess’s repeated marriages concealed an evil cultivation art.
• Youquan slaughtered Teng Puppets to strengthen his Blood Sea cultivation, then interrupted Xuanming’s wedding and attacked the Jade Jade Palace after Xuanming could not identify his betrayers.
• Youquan killed the Seventh Princess after Xuanming stabbed her, devoured the Jade Jade Dragon King, and defeated the Arhats Baoshan and Baoguang before escaping.
• After seven days of cultivation in an ocean trench, Youquan saw a blood-colored light dissolve into his palms and realized the Dao Fruit was in his sea of blood.

Qi Yun secured a secret alliance with the North Sea Dragon Clan, refined Supreme Dao Foundations, and led the devil path's invasion of the Central Land. His creation of the Sacred Yuan Wenqu Star Lord brought the True Lords into confrontation, and a voice warned him that their condition was wrong.

• Qi Yun restored Xuanming’s memories as True Person Deng and received the three sects’ proposal for a counterattack, which True Lord Wudao approved while demanding leadership for the Holy Sect.
• Youquan delivered a healing lotus seed to the North Sea Dragon Lord, secured a secret alliance, and entered the Heavenly Demon Well with a formation perfected by Qi Yun.
• Youquan extracted the Supreme Sovereign Dao Foundation remnant from his Blood Sea with Qi Yun’s help, and Qi Yun refined it into Great Luo Heaven and gained Immediate Execution by Beheading.
• Qi Yun took command of a million Devil Cultivators and borrowed their combined strength to pull Zhao Qian from hiding and kill him for his Supreme Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun refined Zhao Qian’s foundation, became a peak Great True Person, and used Heaven-Banning Rule to break the righteous barrier as the devil-path army and Three Seas Dragon Clan invaded.
• Qi Yun killed Guan Sihai, reclaimed the Human Emperor Banner from True Person Xuanping, and transformed it into the Investiture of the Gods.
• Qi Yun absorbed the All Saints and Sages of Old into the Investiture and merged them into Zhong Youzhi, whom All Wonders Heaven granted a station worthy of a True Lord.
• Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord intervened against the righteous powers, other True Lords joined the confrontation, and a voice warned Qi Yun that something was wrong with their condition.