Recaps

Yu Tunzhou survived the town’s trials by cultivating the Spark Instruction, gaining fortune from the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, and mastering its visualization diagram. The arc left him with a forged Primordial Spirit, a growing ambition, and a powerful new fist technique as Zhou Tianchen witnessed the scale of his inner world.

• Yu Tunzhou traded Dragon Fish for the Spark Instruction, whose golden characters reshaped it into a method suited to his wish to survive, and he kindled inner Qi.
• Yu Tunzhou defeated Zhang Qinghe and forced the Zhang Household to teach him Refining the True, then discovered that its route included an unusual Shendao Acupoint that steadied his Qi.
• Yu Tunzhou and Xie Linchuan helped clean the abandoned Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, earning its providence and uncovering a faded visualization diagram that Zhang Qingtong identified as an inheritance.
• The Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple’s ancestral spirit chose Yu Tunzhou to bear part of its destiny, but Yu declined to join the temple and accepted its support instead.
• Yu Tunzhou cultivated the Heavenly Peng Bearing the Azure Diagram, bound the Heavenly Peng’s will, and forged a Primordial Spirit Inner Form that joined the Heavenly Peng with Supreme Yin.
• Yu Tunzhou discovered a black fish swimming within his Primordial Spirit and used its rhythm to practice Taijiquan, gathering his Dantian Qi into a great pill.
• Yu Tunzhou told Zhou Tianchen he had mastered the diagram, then let him enter his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth, where Zhou was stunned by its vast sky and sea.

Yu Tunzhou developed his hidden Kun fish aspect, reached the seventh layer, and joined Ao Xiyu and the others in defeating a giant Dragon Fish. As faction conflicts closed in, he defeated the youths sent after him, awakened the divine intent of a Kunpeng, and broke through to the eighth layer with Little Black’s help, while Lu Huaiqing returned after ninety years.

• Zhou Tianchen helped Yu Tunzhou manifest a black fish as his Primordial Spirit’s inner form, and Li Jingxuan identified it as the Fish of the Supreme Yin.
• Yu Tunzhou learned about Dragon Fish and their water fortune from Old Mo, then helped Ao Xiyu, Xie Linchuan, and Cao Jianjia kill a giant Dragon Fish and divide its spoils.
• Yu Tunzhou used the Water Fortune Dragon Qi to advance to the seventh layer of Qi Ingestion and saw Martial Fortune flowing among the clouds.
• When Jiang Yungu and other youths tried to stop him, Yu Tunzhou defeated them in the alleys, while Zhou Tianchen and Zhang Qingtong watched.
• Yu Tunzhou rejected Mo Shougui’s attempt to recruit him, declared that heaven and earth were no greater than his eyes, and awakened the divine intent of a Kunpeng within Little Black.
• Yu Tunzhou adapted the Heavenly Peng Essence-Devouring Instruction for Little Black, who produced water-fortune beads and helped him reach the eighth layer.
• Old Mo met Lu Huaiqing, who revealed that he had returned after ninety years, while Jiang Yungu and the Jiang clan elder recognized the newcomer as a dead man.

Yu Tunzhou monopolized the grotto-heaven’s Martial Fortune, learned martial arts from Lu Huaiqing, and killed the contestants who hunted him for a bounty. As his Taijiquan absorbed two taboo scriptures, Lu Huaiqing prepared him to challenge the Martial Ancestor and approach the first step toward forging an Immortal Foundation.

• Yu Tunzhou reached the tenth layer of the Qi Ingestion Method and learned about Immortal Foundations and the coming struggle for Martial Fortune from Zhou Tianchen.
• Yu Tunzhou and Little Black swallowed the first contest’s Martial Fortune, prompting an unsuccessful vote to expel him and bounty offers for his death.
• Yu Tunzhou developed Fist Intent through Taijiquan, saw the golden characters in his mind become a Daoist book, and accepted Lu Huaiqing’s martial instruction.
• Lu Huaiqing taught Yu Tunzhou Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger Fist and trained him before the second contest for fortune.
• Yu Tunzhou killed the contestants who attacked him during the second contest and swallowed the remaining Martial Fortune with Little Black.
• Lu Huaiqing identified the Martial Ancestor as Yu Tunzhou’s intended opponent, while Yu Tunzhou used the Book of Changes to deepen his Taijiquan Intent.
• Lu Huaiqing summoned Martial Fortune for a contest with Yu Tunzhou, who reached the eleventh layer of the Spark Instruction and learned that his two scriptures were the taboo Book of Changes and Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic.
• Liu Qiandao reported that Lu Huaiqing had postponed the conspirators’ operation, while Lu Huaiqing told Yu Tunzhou that his Martial Fortune was nearly sufficient for the first step toward forging an Immortal Foundation.

Lu Huaiqing died after guiding Yu Tunzhou toward his Immortal Foundation, and Yu Tunzhou left Luofu Grotto-Heaven to travel the jianghu. After exploring Heavenly Court ruins, escaping An Ruyu, and surviving a clash with the East Sea Dragon Palace, he reached the Danyang Qian Household to collect Lu Huaiqing’s wager.

• Lu Huaiqing helped Yu Tunzhou cultivate two Inner Qi Seeds and enter a Pure Land within his heart before dying.
• Yu Tunzhou broke free of Heavenly Abhorrence, formed Primordial Azure One, challenged Lu Daolin, and scattered the Martial Fortune after Lu Daolin departed.
• Yu Tunzhou left the grotto-heaven with Old Mo and used Lu Huaiqing’s prayer beads to enter Heavenly Court ruins, where he helped Zuo Qiantao fight Zhang Tianyang.
• Yu Tunzhou resisted Zhang Yan’s ambush, developed Ten-Thousand-Ren High Mountain, and absorbed a fragment from the county yamen before fleeing An Ruyu.
• Yu Tunzhou refined his Taiji Domain along the Coming Dragon River and defeated Ao Qingxiao’s three attacks at Lord Hibernating Dragon’s banquet.
• An Ruyu and Lord Hibernating Dragon intervened when Ao Lie ambushed Yu Tunzhou and Dharma Master Jiese, and Daoist Yunsong later killed Ao Lie at the besieged East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Yu Tunzhou opened his left eye aperture, publicized his claim on Lu Huaiqing’s wager, and reached Danyang Commandery, where Daoist Yunsong gave him Ao Lie’s dragon pearl and Qian Jinqing agreed to settle the wager.