Recaps

Fang Mu received the Great Dao Script and the Dao De Jing from Chu Feng, then asked to study alchemy. Later, Chu Feng released the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and discovered it could speak; the fire spirit agreed to follow him, and Chu Feng asked what it could do.

• Chu Feng gave Fang Mu two scrolls, and Fang Mu learned that studying the Dao De Jing would help him comprehend the Great Dao Script.
• Fang Mu asked to study alchemy, and Chu Feng agreed to teach him every day at noon.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King questioned Chu Feng's alchemy skills, and Chu Feng went to his room to open the treasure box containing the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire.
• Chu Feng subdued the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire with his Half-Saint's pressure, and the fire spirit spoke to him through divine sense.
• The Turtle Spirit Earth Fire offered to serve Chu Feng and sign an equal contract, but Chu Feng refused the contract and asked what abilities it had.

Chu Feng put the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire to work learning alchemy and promised it a chance to devour another Abnormal Fire if it pleased him. He gave Fang Mu an alchemy method and brought out Little Fire to deal with Fang Mu’s problem of controlling a dangerous Earth Spirit Fire.

• Chu Feng taught the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire that night’s lesson would be controlling heat during pill refining, and it eagerly agreed after he promised it could devour another Abnormal Fire someday.
• Bing Yan visited Chu Feng, asked to learn the Great Dao Script, and washed his feet while assuring him she had made progress.
• The following afternoon, Chu Feng gave Fang Mu his Spirit Fire Alchemy Method, and Fang Mu explained that he lacked a suitable spirit fire.
• Fang Mu released the scorching Earth Spirit Fire, but Elder Bing’s chill stopped it from surging through the courtyard.
• Chu Feng summoned Little Fire, whose presence made Fang Mu’s Earth Spirit Fire shrink and tremble; Little Fire asked whether it should put out the inferior flame.

Chu Feng demonstrated alchemy to Fang Mu and helped him contract with a spirit fire, then gave Bing Yan a Heavenly Origin Spirit Pill. Half a month later, Little Fire Spirit mastered the basics of alchemy, and Chu Feng prepared to make it demonstrate its skills in exchange for a high-grade fire crystal stone.

• Chu Feng refined nine Heavenly Origin Spirit Pills while Little Fire Spirit managed the furnace’s heat, impressing the Golden-Winged Eagle King.
• Fang Mu admitted he had only learned to control the fire by shouting, then formed a master-servant contract with his spirit fire.
• Chu Feng gave Bing Yan a pill, and she blushed after their fingers touched.
• For half a month, Chu Feng taught Fang Mu alchemy by day and Little Fire Spirit by night.
• After Little Fire Spirit learned the basics of alchemy, Chu Feng told it to demonstrate its skills the next day and showed it a high-grade fire crystal stone as a possible reward.

Chu Feng demonstrated that the Little Fire Spirit could refine pills, then pushed Fang Mu to improve his alchemy. After Fang Mu successfully refined medicinal paste, Chu Feng gave him a divine sense cultivation method and a jade pendant that could reveal Chu Feng’s identity if Fang Mu comprehended Lesser Fate within ten years.

• The Little Fire Spirit called Chu Feng its Foster Father after he gave it a fire crystal stone, but Chu Feng told it to call him That Lord instead.
• Chu Feng had the Little Fire Spirit refine pills, impressing the Golden-Winged Eagle King and leaving Fang Mu discouraged about his own alchemy.
• Chu Feng challenged Fang Mu to learn the Spirit Fire Alchemy Technique and refine medicinal paste within half a month, promising to teach him a divine sense method if he succeeded.
• Fang Mu practiced diligently and refined a lump of medicinal paste that Chu Feng judged equivalent to two low-grade Body Tempering Pills.
• Chu Feng gave Fang Mu a jade slip containing a divine sense cultivation method and a jade pendant that would reveal Chu Feng’s identity if Fang Mu comprehended Lesser Fate within ten years.

Chu Feng gave Little Fire a fire crystal stone, allowing it to take form as a Nirvana Realm fire spirit turtle, while Fang Mu sold low-grade Body Tempering Pills at the underground black market. Chu Feng named the turtle Rocket Turtle and began discussing Sanskrit and a Dao Script with the Golden-Winged Eagle King.

• Chu Feng gave Little Fire a fire crystal stone, and the spirit began evolving as Chu Feng shielded his residence with magical power.
• Fang Mu disguised himself, sold two bottles of low-grade Body Tempering Pills at the underground black market for silver, and returned to the prince's residence before dawn.
• Little Fire finished taking form as a palm-sized Nirvana Realm fire spirit turtle and thanked Chu Feng for helping him evolve.
• Chu Feng named the fire spirit turtle Rocket Turtle and encouraged him to learn pill and artifact refinement.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King asked Chu Feng for help reaching the Half-Saint Realm, and Chu Feng said Sanskrit would suit his Buddhist Divine Foot ability better than Great Dao Script.

Chu Feng and his companions left Great Abyss Royal City and took shelter in a ruined mountain god temple, where they encountered a band of young beggars and a group of escorts. As a strange snowstorm began in the sixth month and someone knocked at the temple door, Chu Feng remained absorbed in his writing.

• Chu Feng postponed writing Sanskrit for the Golden-Winged Eagle King, promised to write Great Dao Script for Bing Yan first, and left Great Abyss Royal City with his companions.
• Several days later, Chu Feng stopped at a ruined temple and continued writing Great Dao Script while the Golden-Winged Eagle King kept watch.
• Seven or eight young beggars arrived, and Bing Yan invited them to share the temple; their leader warned them to avoid offending the arriving escorts.
• The chief escort entered with his group and treated Chu Feng respectfully, explaining that Chu Feng's calm manner showed he could defeat them effortlessly.
• As night fell, the wind strengthened and snow began to fall in the sixth month; Chu Feng let Bing Yan massage his shoulders while the escorts prepared for danger.
• Someone knocked on the temple door, interrupting the occupants.

A monk named Du'e discovered that Xiao Wu was a reincarnated spirit child and offered to take him into the Buddhist order, while Chu Feng watched without intending to claim the boy as a disciple. Before Xiao Wu could leave with Du'e, the Snow Toad Demon General arrived to seize him and challenge the monk.

• A beggar boy named Xiao Wu was revealed as a reincarnated spirit child after Buddhist light surrounded him in the temple.
• Du'e promised to care for Xiao Wu and his friends, but warned that demons and evil cultivators would target the boy if he did not join the Buddhist order.
• Xiao Wu agreed to leave with Du'e after a few days, asking the monk to help find a suitable place for Big Sis and the other beggars.
• The Snow Toad Demon General stormed into the temple with demon soldiers and announced that he had come to capture Xiao Wu.
• Du'e recognized the demon general, who revealed that his king had learned of Xiao Wu first and challenged the monk to fight.

At a snowbound temple, the Golden-Winged Eagle King saved Chu Feng’s group by devouring the Snow Toad Demon General after Du'e was defeated. The next morning, Du'e told the eagle he had an affinity with Buddha, but the Golden-Winged Eagle King insisted Du'e had an affinity with him and invited him to become his servant.

• Du'e fought the Snow Toad Demon General with Buddhist light, but the demon’s icy breath and demon core overwhelmed him.
• The Snow Toad Demon General threatened to eat the humans and singled out Bing Yan, then the Golden-Winged Eagle King slapped him and revealed his strength.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King devoured the Snow Toad Demon General and drove the surviving lesser demons from the temple.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King dismissed the escorts’ thanks, while Chu Feng calmly washed his feet as Bing Yan had prepared.
• The next morning, Du'e asked to speak with the Golden-Winged Eagle King and said the eagle had an affinity with Buddha.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King rejected Du'e’s claim and invited him to stop being a monk and serve him instead.

Chu Feng rejected the young beggars who asked to become his disciples, then discovered that Big Sister, Chen Qianqian, had blood-baleful fortune and was destined to become a devil. Rather than fear her future, he offered to take her as his disciple, and she accepted.

• Monk Du'e failed to persuade the Golden-Winged Eagle King to join the Buddhist order and left after being rebuffed.
• The young beggars asked the Golden-Winged Eagle King to accept them as disciples, and he directed them to Chu Feng.
• Chu Feng tested the beggars, rejected the thick-lipped boy as no genius, and sent them away.
• Chu Feng noticed Big Sister's blood-baleful fortune and learned that Du'e considered her inauspicious.
• Chu Feng told Chen Qianqian he knew she was not human and offered to make her his disciple despite her feared future as a devil.
• Chen Qianqian accepted Chu Feng as her honored master.

Chu Feng left Chen Qianqian in the escort chief’s care before taking her as his disciple, and the group later settled in Linjiang City. As they headed to the Dragon King Festival with Bing Yan, Chen Qianqian asked why Chu Feng and Bing Yan called each other “Young Master” and “Miss,” leaving Bing Yan watching Chu Feng expectantly.

• Chu Feng transformed Chen Qianqian, gave the escort chief a cultivation technique, and entrusted him with caring for the young beggars.
• Chen Qianqian said goodbye to the other beggars before leaving with Chu Feng, while Monk Du'e returned to Namo Temple.
• The escort chief persuaded the escorts and beggars to establish their own force and keep their opportunity secret.
• In Linjiang City, Chu Feng gave the Golden-Winged Eagle King the Buddha's Parinirvana Sutra and urged him to comprehend the Buddhist Dao.
• Chen Qianqian asked Chu Feng and Bing Yan to take her to the Dragon King Festival, then wondered why they called each other “Young Master” and “Miss.”

Chu Feng and Bing Yan attended Linjiang City's Dragon King Festival with Chen Qianqian, but the sacrifice provoked a demon disguised as the Dragon King. After the demon threatened the city and revealed himself as Marquis One-Horn, Chu Feng challenged him.

• Chu Feng carried Chen Qianqian so she could watch the Dragon King Festival, where the city offered demonic beasts to the Linjiang River.
• A colossal wave surged toward the Dragon King Temple, and Bing Yan froze it before it could strike.
• The voice from the river demanded two hundred young boys and girls as sacrifices, but the Linjiang City lord refused.
• The impostor unleashed Yao Qi and attacked the city lord, but an unseen voice suppressed the demon's power.
• Marquis One-Horn emerged from the river as a gigantic one-horned flood dragon and demanded to know who had thwarted him.
• Chu Feng spoke from the crowd and challenged Marquis One-Horn to choose how he wanted to die.

Chu Feng protected Linjiang City from Marquis One-Horn and taught Chen Qianqian her first lesson by letting her slay the flood dragon herself. He left with Chen Qianqian after she received the dragon’s corpse, while the city lord realized she was a heaven’s chosen of Dao-Seeking Academy.

• Chu Feng explained to Chen Qianqian that his lesser righteousness was acting with a clear conscience, then dismissed Marquis One-Horn’s Yao wind with a word.
• Marquis One-Horn fled toward the Linjiang River, and Chu Feng taught Chen Qianqian to use the word “Slay” to kill him with a sword strike.
• Chu Feng told the stunned crowd to resume the music and dancing, and the city lord thanked him for saving Linjiang City.
• Chu Feng credited Chen Qianqian with slaying the flood dragon, and the city lord presented her with its corpse.
• Chu Feng and his companions vanished with Chen Qianqian, and the city lord recognized her as a heaven’s chosen of Dao-Seeking Academy.

Bai Long visited Chu Feng at midnight to repay him for saving his soul, inviting him to a True God’s ruin beneath the Linjiang River. Chu Feng followed Bai Long to the underwater residence and reached the ruin’s entrance.

• Bai Long appeared at the inn and invited Chu Feng to visit a ruin beneath the Linjiang River as thanks for killing Marquis One-Horn.
• Bing Yan and the Golden-Winged Eagle King warned Chu Feng not to trust Bai Long, but Chu Feng identified himself as Chu Feng of the Dao-Seeking Academy and went with him.
• Bai Long led Chu Feng through the river to his empty underwater residence and explained that Marquis One-Horn had attacked to seize Incense-Faith Power for the Thousand-Foot King.
• Bai Long brought Chu Feng to an ancestral hall, honored the True God whose inheritance he had received, and opened a teleportation formation to the ruin.

Chu Feng and Bai Long explored a fallen True God's temple, where Chu Feng discovered and sealed the Netherworld Ice Flame after it defeated Rocket Turtle. They entered a chamber crowded with departed souls, and Chu Feng recognized it as the legendary Yellow Springs Road.

• Chu Feng brought Rocket Turtle into the small world and followed Bai Long through the temple's first four palaces.
• Chu Feng found a Netherworld Ice Flame hidden beneath a restriction and watched it overpower Rocket Turtle.
• Chu Feng sealed the Netherworld Ice Flame, stopped Rocket Turtle from devouring it, and stored it in a bottle.
• Bai Long led Chu Feng and Rocket Turtle through a door into a chamber filled with departed souls.
• Chu Feng identified the chamber as the legendary Yellow Springs Road.

Chu Feng broke through the Yellow Springs Road by reciting a Buddhist scripture, picked the Other Shore Flower, and entered the fifth palace. There, he discovered that a Saint Realm Qilin’s skeleton had been the source of the palace’s power, and touching its beast core triggered a sudden change.

• Chu Feng recited a Buddhist scripture until the Yellow Springs Road vanished and revealed a courtyard with an Other Shore Flower.
• Chu Feng used Ten Thousand Swords Return to One to cut the flower, then stored it so Bai Long could continue guiding them.
• Chu Feng, Bai Long, and Rocket Turtle reached the fifth palace, where they sensed the presence of a Saint Realm expert.
• Chu Feng entered the palace and found a giant Qilin skeleton; Bai Long identified it as a Saint Realm Qilin.
• Chu Feng located the Qilin’s beast core inside its skull and touched it, triggering a sudden change in the palace.

Chu Feng defeated the Saint apparition in the fifth palace and claimed a Saint Core, then left the sixth palace after discovering its warning that only True Buddhas could enter. Back outside the small world, he reunited with his companions and revealed the core, prompting the Golden-Winged Eagle King to wonder whether Chu Feng was close to becoming a Saint.

• Chu Feng dispelled the Saint apparition guarding the qilin skeleton and took its Saint Core.
• Chu Feng stopped Bai Long from entering the sixth palace after finding a stele warning that anyone below the level of a True Buddha would die.
• Bai Long agreed to guard the small world in exchange for Chu Feng protecting him three times, and Chu Feng sent him to find fine spiritual jade.
• Bai Long ordered the Dragon King Temple attendant to tell the lord of Linjiang City to hold the Dragon King Festival, while Chu Feng returned to the inn.
• Chu Feng learned that more than ten days had passed outside during his night in the small world and attributed the time difference to the fallen True God's laws.
• Chu Feng showed his companions the Saint Realm Fire Qilin's core, and the Golden-Winged Eagle King asked whether Chu Feng was close to becoming a Saint.

Chu Feng guided the Golden-Winged Eagle King through Buddhist scriptures, earning True Essence of the Great Dao, while teaching Chen Qianqian chess and painting during their journey. At Bright Moon Gorge, the Golden-Winged Eagle King broke through to Half-Saint and began undergoing tribulation, drawing nearby Nirvana experts toward him; Chu Feng prepared to show Chen Qianqian how a cultivator of the chess path fought.

• Chu Feng promised the Golden-Winged Eagle King Saint Enlightenment Pills and resumed their journey with Bing Yan and Chen Qianqian.
• Chu Feng began teaching Chen Qianqian chess and painting, along with reading and principles, as the group traveled south.
• A year after leaving the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng learned that Xiao Chen had reached the Fifth Level of the Spirit Nurturing Realm and noted his disciples' progress.
• After the Golden-Winged Eagle King studied Buddhist scriptures in seclusion for forty-nine days, he comprehended a little of the Buddhist Dao's True Essence, earning Chu Feng ten points of True Essence of the Great Dao.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King broke through to Half-Saint at Bright Moon Gorge, and tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• Nearby Nirvana cultivators and demon kings flew toward the tribulation, and Chu Feng asked Chen Qianqian if she wanted to see him fight using the chess path.

Chu Feng gave Chen Qianqian a white game piece that let her confront the cultivators spying on the Golden-Winged Eagle King’s breakthrough. After Chen Qianqian killed the intruders and returned their treasures, thunder struck the mountain where the Golden-Winged Eagle King was in seclusion.

• Chu Feng explained that all living beings were pieces on his board and gave Chen Qianqian a white piece to warn the spies to retreat a hundred li.
• Chen Qianqian confronted four demons and three cultivators, and Daoist Master Yellow Brow agreed to retreat while the others stayed.
• King Golden Coin tried to attack Chen Qianqian but found himself bound in place, then begged her to spare him.
• Chen Qianqian dropped her piece, and a streak of Sword Qi killed the four demons and two humans who remained.
• Chen Qianqian collected the six intruders’ storage artifacts and brought them to Chu Feng.
• Thunder struck the Golden-Winged Eagle King’s cave abode, and a bolt of lightning sheared away more than half the mountaintop.

The Golden-Winged Eagle King passed his tribulation and became a Half-Saint, while Chu Feng taught Chen Qianqian a Dao scripture. Half a year later, the group reached Peace Town outside Myriad Demon Mountain, where they began gathering news about the region.

• The Golden-Winged Eagle King survived forty-nine bolts of tribulation lightning, and Chu Feng recited a Dao scripture to Chen Qianqian as spiritual rain fell.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King emerged as a Half-Saint, learned that Chu Feng was far stronger than he had expected, and celebrated with Chu Feng over drinks.
• Half a year later, Chu Feng and his companions arrived in Peace Town and chose to rest at the Peace Inn before entering Myriad Demon Mountain.
• Chu Feng took the group to dine in the inn’s hall so they could hear local news, where they learned the Thousand-Foot King of Hundred Poisons Valley planned to attack Namo Temple.

Chu Feng and Chen Qianqian followed Rogue Cultivators to Namo Temple, where the Thousand-Foot Demon King’s forces gathered to attack. As Chu Feng watched from above with Chen Qianqian, the six armies surrounded Great Ming Mountain and a revered Grand Abbot arrived in a palanquin.

• After hearing that Namo Temple’s Half-Saint had died, Chu Feng agreed to accompany Chen Qianqian there so she could check on Xiao Wu.
• Chu Feng and his companions followed Rogue Cultivators to a village near Namo Temple and waited while cultivators gathered in the area.
• When the Thousand-Foot Demon King’s army arrived, Chu Feng reassured Chen Qianqian and accepted the Golden-Winged Eagle King’s offer to handle the threat.
• Chu Feng, Chen Qianqian, the Golden-Winged Eagle King, and Bing Yan flew above the approaching forces and saw six armies surround Great Ming Mountain.
• The armies knelt as monks carrying a palanquin announced the arrival of the Grand Abbot.

Great King Thousand Feet led his army to demand Namo Temple’s sarira, while Chu Feng and his companions watched from nearby. After the temple’s mountain-protecting formation repelled Great King Long Arms, Thousand Feet ordered the Myriad Demon Grand Formation raised, and Abbot Xuanbei prepared the monks for battle and an evacuation.

• Great King Thousand Feet drove away the opportunistic onlookers with his Buddhist chanting, while Chu Feng explained his unusual Buddhist-and-demon cultivation to Bing Yan.
• Great King Long Arms struck Namo Temple’s protective formation and was thrown back, then demanded Great Sage Zongming’s sarira on Thousand Feet’s behalf.
• Xuancheng refused to surrender the sarira and revealed that the temple’s formation could not be broken by anyone below the Half-Saint realm.
• Great King Thousand Feet ordered his soldiers to raise the Myriad Demon Grand Formation, darkening the sky over Namo Temple.
• Abbot Xuanbei ordered the warrior monks to prepare for battle and told Dukong to be ready to evacuate the sarira and reincarnated spirit child through the teleportation formation.

Great King Thousand Feet broke Namo Temple’s defensive array and led the demons in an attack as Chu Feng tracked Xiao Wu’s escape. Dukong and Xiao Wu fled north, but Great King Thousand Feet found them and demanded the Great Sage’s sarira.

• Great King Thousand Feet used Great Sage Black Emperor’s tail stinger to break Namo Temple’s array, and the demons attacked as Xuanbei and the other eminent monks fought back.
• Chu Feng marked Xiao Wu with his divine sense as he headed for a teleportation array, then left the battlefield with Chen Qianqian and his companions.
• Dukong and Du'e disguised themselves and the young novice monks; Du'e went west with seven novices while Dukong took Xiao Wu north.
• The next day, Great King Thousand Feet’s monks sealed Dukong’s spiritual power at a tea stall, and he demanded that Dukong hand over the Great Sage’s sarira.

The Golden-Winged Eagle King rescued Xiao Wu and Dukong from Great King Thousand Feet, then swallowed the demon after easily defeating him. After Chen Qianqian and Xiao Wu reunited and parted, news of the Thousand-Foot King’s death reached the five Nirvana Demon Kings ransacking Namo Temple, leaving them uncertain of what to do next.

• The Golden-Winged Eagle King used a single word to break Great King Thousand Feet’s Sanskrit chant and free Xiao Wu and Dukong from its effects.
• Great King Thousand Feet attacked the Golden-Winged Eagle King, but his Buddha palm vanished at a touch, and he fled in demon form.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King revealed his eagle form and swallowed Great King Thousand Feet, while the lesser demons scattered.
• Chu Feng and Chen Qianqian joined Dukong and Xiao Wu, and Chu Feng revived Xiao Wu.
• Chen Qianqian and Xiao Wu spent several hours catching up before parting, while Chu Feng and the others shared tea with Dukong.
• The five Nirvana Demon Kings heard that Great King Thousand Feet had been eaten, and the news made them question their alliance.

Du'e learned that two powerful Great Sages had entered the Southern Wilds, and their arrival prompted the demon kings to restrain their subordinates. In Cloud Mist City, Fang Mu joined Princess Qinghe’s party on the way to the Cloud Mist Sect, where the disciple assessment began and he hoped to prove his pill-refining skill.

• Du'e heard that Great King Thousand Feet had been killed by a golden-winged eagle and told the inn’s cultivators that two Great Sages from a holy land were involved.
• The demon kings ordered their subordinates not to provoke the two Great Sages, while Chu Feng and his companions continued south toward Qingqiu.
• Princess Qinghe warned Fang Mu and the others to follow Cloud Mist Sect rules and avoid conflicts with the Song Clan’s children.
• Fang Mu told Fang Er he was nervous about joining the sect, then resolved to demonstrate his ability as a pill refiner during the assessment.
• Princess Qinghe led her party to the Cloud Mist Sect’s recruitment assembly, where Elder Chen welcomed her and the assessment registration began.

Fang Mu revealed supreme-grade aptitude and claimed he could refine pills during the Cloud Mist Sect assessment. Elder Chen brought him to Pill Fire Peak to test his skill, and Fang Mu emerged with an enormous black Body Tempering Pill that stunned Elder Chen and Fang Linglong.

• Fang Er qualified as an outer sect disciple, then Fang Mu produced a nine-foot violet-gold beam on the aptitude testing stone.
• Elder Chen learned Fang Mu had reached the Body Tempering Ninth Layer and could refine pills, and offered to make him a nominal disciple if he succeeded.
• Elder Chen took Fang Mu and Fang Linglong to Pill Fire Peak and arranged a quiet refinement room for Fang Mu.
• Fang Mu used his spirit fire to refine a Body Tempering Pill, then carried the large black pill out without dividing it.
• Elder Chen and Fang Linglong stared in shock when Fang Mu presented the enormous pill.