Recaps

Chen Du struggled to keep Yunzhi’s ancient world and the modern one from colliding while the temple’s spirit tree helped him begin cultivating. After an escaped demon emerged from an old seal, Chen Du restored the Earth Sage Seal and sent Yunzhi to search for the demon as he studied its power.

• Chen Du found his master’s seal and a fruiting tree, then met Yunzhi when she fled heavenly lightning into his temple.
• Chen Du learned Yunzhi had awakened after more than four hundred years, and she stayed at the temple after the mountain prevented them from leaving.
• Chen Du made Yunzhi help with chores and errands, while she learned about modern life and helped local visitors troubled by yin energy.
• The treasure tree’s spirit fruits ripened, and Yunzhi and Side-Swept Bangs ate them, gaining spiritual benefits.
• Yunzhi taught Side-Swept Bangs and Chen Du how to cultivate, and Chen Du formed ten Essence Platforms and ignited all ten Essence Fires.
• Chen Du and Side-Swept Bangs investigated a disturbance and found an escaped yao’s pit, an ancient longsword, and an Earth Sage inscription.
• Chen Du restored the jade tablet with his seal and recognized it as an Earth Sage Seal, while Yunzhi offered to search for the escaped demon.

Chen Du bound the spider demon as the temple’s Door God, uncovered a second demon, and tried to contain it after it escaped. As Yunzhi and Jiang Xi went to Yidu to seek spirit jade, the demon hid in the form of a stray cat and was taken home by Liu Yun.

• Chen Du captured the spider demon with Yunzhi’s help, sealed it into the temple gate, and made it the Door God under strict rules.
• Chen Du discovered Shu Yidu hidden in the study and confined him there in exchange for help translating cultivation classics.
• Jiang Xi observed Chen Du and the temple, then returned as a volunteer and quietly demonstrated her cultivation.
• Chen Du uncovered a sealed demon on the mountain, but it escaped after an unseen force disrupted the seal and shattered the jade tablet.
• The demon attacked the temple, but the Door God drove it away, and Chen Du closed the temple while Yunzhi searched for the fugitive.
• After hearing of an injured giant panda near Yidu, Chen Du suspected the demon was involved and sent Yunzhi and Jiang Xi to seek spirit jade for a new sealing tablet.
• Liu Yun adopted a stray cat that was actually the escaped demon, while Yunzhi and Jiang Xi searched a Yidu market for jade.