Recaps

Chu Tianshu exposed the Nanzhao conspiracy, killed Duan Zhong, and returned home before a severe winter brought him into contact with a stolen shape-changing cat and a tomb-smuggling gang. The gang’s leader was captured, and Chu Tianshu went to Golden Saber Martial Arts School seeking help with his cultivation.

• Chu Tianshu refined the Sanqi Divine Sword, awakened its power within himself, and challenged Duan Zhong to a fight to the death at Emerald Rock.
• Chu Tianshu and his allies uncovered Guan Changling’s conspiracy and fought Duan Zhong’s forces at the Temple of National Protection.
• Chu Tianshu defeated and killed Duan Zhong at Emerald Rock, then left Nanzhao with Hai Donglai’s credentials and the evil weapons from his residence.
• After returning home in heavy snow, Chu Tianshu resumed training, found a shape-changing white-browed cat, and met Qi Lianyong while helping capture the men pursuing it.
• Qi Lianyong and Chu Tianshu traced the cat’s pursuers to a tomb-smuggling gang, used a captured criminal to draw Boss Li to the old campus, and captured Li Guangzong.
• Chu Tianshu visited Golden Saber Martial Arts School, where Feng Jianhua offered to show him another way to overcome his Mortal Body Obstacle.

Chu Tianshu helped Feng Jianhua’s group uncover the Ghost Market’s White Bone Centipede scheme and fought the spirits and conspirators unleashed across Guangling. After advancing his cultivation and entering a clearer state of consciousness, he traveled with Xu Ben and Xu Zhicheng toward Southern Shaolin, where he warned Abbot Miaofan of imminent danger.

• Chu Tianshu and Feng Jianhua traced the Ghost Market’s centipede experiments to Du Chen, while Wang Bo died before he could reveal the full conspiracy.
• Mo Shengyi and Du Chen launched a ritual that unleashed evil spirits across Guangling, and Chu Tianshu, Feng Jianhua, Yuan Chongxiao, and other fighters battled them and the Mo brothers.
• Chu Tianshu killed Mo Shengyi, Third Brother Mo, and Du Chen, destroyed the Mirror Ape statue, and returned to help treat the wounded.
• Chu Tianshu refined the Heaven-Hating Art into the Sky-Spanning Divine Art and developed his physical power before beginning internal cultivation.
• Chu Tianshu’s consciousness entered a strange world, where he killed wokou, helped displaced townspeople, and rescued Xu Ben from the Three Yin Wind Sha.
• Chu Tianshu killed the Three Yin Wind Sha, took the Fire God Gully weapons secret, and traveled by boat with Xu Ben and Xu Zhicheng toward Southern Shaolin.
• Chu Tianshu examined the signs of Abbot Miaofan’s power, challenged his explanation for reclaiming land, warned that Southern Shaolin faced imminent peril, and identified himself as a successor of the School of Diplomacy.

Chu Tianshu helped Southern Shaolin defeat the wokou and killed Chen Zuqi, then used the victory to strengthen the temple’s influence and recruit allies. As Lu Shuangyan arrived with news of the Flowing Cloud Manor Master’s sword, Chu Tianshu began helping him understand his art while a dangerous fifteenth sword loomed.

• Chu Tianshu persuaded Abbot Miaofan to attack the wokou, defeated him in a spar, and brought weapons expertise to Southern Shaolin.
• Chu Tianshu and Miaokong led Southern Shaolin fighters against the wokou at Ox Mountain Island, where firearms helped them destroy the pirates’ force and rescue captives.
• Chu Tianshu studied Southern Shaolin’s martial arts, defeated Xiahou Feishan, and learned about his Sword Dao Divine Intent and the swordsman pursuing Chen Zuqi.
• Chen Zuqi set fire to Mount Qingyuan and infiltrated Southern Shaolin, but Chu Tianshu defeated and killed him before destroying his evil spirit.
• Chu Tianshu stopped the steward from seizing the gun workshop’s craftsmen, while Zuo Ziqing and Southern Shaolin declared Chen Zuqi dead and gained influence across the region.
• Chu Tianshu negotiated with Zuo Ziqing over replacing corrupt officials and prepared to expand Southern Shaolin’s influence into Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
• Xiahou Feishan introduced Lu Shuangyan to Chu Tianshu, and Lu demonstrated his Thirteen Death-Claiming Swords and deadly Fourteenth Sword.
• Lu Shuangyan warned that the Flowing Cloud Manor Master might master a fifteenth sword, so Chu Tianshu began helping him study martial arts through poetry and prose as someone at Flowing Cloud Manor stirred from meditation.

Chu Tianshu defeated the Demonic Sect leader and the Flowing Cloud Manor Master, then returned home and explored new cultivation questions. His investigation of Yao Qianshu’s strange condition led him into the Spirit Realm, where he confronted a killer attacking Deer Wilderness Village.

• The Flowing Cloud Manor Master decided to kill Chu Tianshu rather than wait to master the Fifteenth Sword, while Chu Tianshu refined his cultivation method and accepted the invitation to meet him.
• Chu Tianshu and Lu Shuangyan ambushed Sect Leader Qiu, and Chu Tianshu defeated and immobilized him while sparing his life.
• Chu Tianshu arrived at the Kang Mountain gathering, protected the stranded martial artists from the Flowing Cloud Manor Master’s flute, and fought him across the water and reefs.
• Chu Tianshu overcame the Fifteenth Death-Claiming Sword, killed the Flowing Cloud Manor Master, and watched the fighters turn against Ye Zongsheng and the Flowing Cloud Manor forces.
• Chu Tianshu led the Kang Mountain Night Talks, then returned home months later and learned about External Elixirs and the dangers of attempting to break through into Taboo.
• Chu Tianshu agreed to hire Li Tao and encouraged Second Master Chu’s friends to learn Refining Spirit into Qi, but investigated Yao Qianshu after detecting trouble with his soul.
• Chu Tianshu appeared in the Spirit Realm, where the People of Deer Wilderness mistook him for a divine child and Lu Touqiu led him to their drought-stricken village.
• When Horse-Faced Jufu attacked the villagers, Chu Tianshu struck back, discovered Jufu’s control over earth and stone, and caught him in midair.