Recaps

Su Yao and Yang Xiu fought Chen Hai at Longchuan before returning to cultivation under new obligations. Thirteen years later, Zilin reached the Purple Mansion and reunited with Su Yao, while Yang Xiu stayed away from his friends out of guilt over cultivating True Martial Mountain's methods.

• Su Yao and Yang Xiu disagreed over protecting Nanzhao's people but accepted Eastern Pole Dao Lord's decree to stop Proclaiming Earth under his promised protection.
• Su Yao, Yang Xiu, and Xue Min fought Chen Hai at Longchuan and survived his Yellow Springs assault until the ruler's Subterranean Water broke their confinement.
• Su Yao and Yang Xiu captured an emerald luan bird for Su Yao's fourth talisman after creatures escaped Longchuan Heaven.
• Nuoli gave Su Yao body-refining resources and a three-hundred-year deadline to seek the Golden Core and reclaim Jade Pillar Grotto-Heaven, while Xu Mo delivered True Martial Mountain's politically fraught cultivation gifts to Yang Xiu.
• Su Shouzhuo urged his descendants to remain humble and died beside Gu Lanyin, while Gu Wanniang resolved to find Su Yao after recalling their dream life together.
• Zilin reached the Purple Mansion thirteen years later, repelled Muya with her friends' help, and reunited with Su Yao when he emerged from seclusion.
• Su Yao celebrated with his friends and tried to tell Zilin why he had planted the osmanthus trees, but she left before he finished.
• Yang Xiu cultivated the Mysterious Heaven True Martial Divine Sha Dharma Body but avoided his friends out of guilt and departed to cultivate Karma Enshrouds the Body.

Su Yao and his allies repelled demons, opened the Purple-Blue Secret Realm, and secured its treasures before Nuoli made the realm his own. After reconciling with Yang Xiu and drawing closer to Zilin, Su Yao examined the Great Qing edicts and warned that the court might move against the immortal sects after the Crown Prince’s ascension.

• Lu Ming and Lu Chang were ambushed by Demonic Dao cultivators, but Ren Han and the Qixia Temple disciples intervened and drove off the attackers.
• Ao Xiao brought the Lu brothers to the Water Manor, where Zilin and Ying Qi discussed using them to open the Purple-Blue Secret Realm.
• Su Yao mastered Color Pierces the Thoroughfare and joined Zilin and Ying Qi in resisting demons at the confluence, where a True Lord’s reincarnated body enabled the enemy leaders to escape.
• Su Yao discovered that Yang Xiu had concealed his True Martial Mountain Dharma Body, and he reassured Yang Xiu that he valued him regardless of his cultivation lineage.
• Zhang Ziyan attained the Storehouse Metal Divine Ability, while Su Yao awakened his Jia Wood talisman and named its power Raise Wood to Reach the Heavens.
• Lu Ming and Lu Chang died during their failed breakthrough, becoming divination objects that summoned the secret realm, and Ao Xiao stabilized its entrance with his Fu Water Qi.
• The Witch Hall envoy, Meng Shixi, and Ao Yuan retrieved their intended treasures, while the others took spiritual objects before Nuoli transformed into the secret realm and made it his marsh.
• Yang Xiu returned to Green Nuo after spending a night with Su Yao, and Su Yao and Zilin cultivated the Purple Cloud Unity Covenant together.
• Su Yao and the others examined the Great Qing edicts, and Su Yao warned that the court might use the accusation of sects forming a hidden kingdom to move against them after the Crown Prince’s ascension.

After Zhu Ji took the throne and the Qixia cultivators defeated Chen Hai’s Proclaiming Earth undertaking, Su Yao returned to Qixia Mountain and became entangled in the heavenly breach and Mount Lao’s plans. He revealed his fifth Divine Ability, killed Zhao Shouyi, and headed toward the Demonic Qi to prepare to seek gold and clear the miasma.

• Zhu Ji ascended the throne as Emperor Xuande, honored the Empress Dowager, and prepared the Capital Garrison to march against Nanzhao.
• Su Yao and Xuan Yan defended the Zhao Household, killed its attackers, and learned that Su Yao had to make the Proclaiming Earth True Lord’s reincarnation undergo Liberation by Violence within a year.
• With allies gathered at Golden Ao Mountain, Su Yao broke Chen Hai’s Proclaiming Earth barrier and mortally wounded him, after which Chen Hai’s wooden casket vanished into the river.
• Su Yao returned to Qixia Mountain, confronted its mountain god, and was welcomed by the disciples after accepting the title of Nation-Protecting True Person.
• Miaoyuan attained the Divine Lord Nurturer of Virtue in All Blossoms rank while Miaoqing became a Heavenly Immortal, then their fight coincided with a breach in the heavens and a flood of Heavenly River water.
• Su Yao and his companions contained the flood around Qinghe Commandery, while Qingyang explained that an East Sea Dragon Palace Dao Lord had split the Five-Colored Stone to force the Dragon God to surrender the Sea-Subduing Stone.
• Qingzhu admitted that he had tried to guide Su Yao’s fate and urged him to cultivate the remaining Divine Abilities so he could attain the Rainbow Cloud Fruition and protect Qixia Temple.
• Su Yao stopped Zhao Shouyi from attacking Qixia’s disciples, killed him with Rosy Clouds Red City and Pear Blossom Return, and flew toward the Demonic Qi to prepare to seek gold and clear the miasma.