Recaps

Chu Tianshu and his allies defeated Fanliang Land’s shamans, exposed Mirror Ape believers in reality, and began a canal project for Deer Wilderness Village. After returning home, Chu Tianshu crossed into the Republican-era world and joined Huo Ming’s operation against Chen Xuewen, opening a challenge at Chenjiagou.

• Chu Tianshu contacted Helai from Deer Wilderness Village and learned that the local shamans enforced worship and child sacrifices while obstructing canal construction.
• Chu Tianshu used the Horse-Faced Jufu’s disguise to kill Heichi Nancang and uncovered the shamans’ plans to open a passage to the Human World.
• Chu Tianshu summoned allies through the temple, killed Ma Lingbai, and shattered Gao Ming’s spirit body after the God of Flowing Waves took control of him.
• Helai and the others used Ma Lingbai’s corpse to lure Mirror Ape believers into capture, and the immortal crane ordered their travel company taken down.
• Chu Tianshu derived the Nine-Nine Tribulation Ash God-Startling Sword and began the canal project before returning home to discuss the Calming Spirit Pharmacy.
• Chu Tianshu crossed into the Republican-era city, reunited with Huo Ming, and agreed to help investigate Chen Xuewen as a likely bearer of Sima Yi’s Origin Canon.
• Chu Tianshu challenged Chenjiagou’s Taiji masters under the Golden Toad Sect’s name as a distraction, and an arriving Song-Pacifying Army recruiter offered him an instructor’s position if he won.

Chu Tianshu captured Liu Xueya, confronted the plague god and Cao Family conspirators, and helped Luoyang recover from the prison plague. As he explored the Nanhua Origin Canon, Sun Feng'an arrived seeking an alliance, while Xu Laohu approached the city with a potential attack in view.

• Chu Tianshu defeated the Three Elders of the Chen Family, captured Liu Xueya, and uncovered how the Zhongping Plague God had attached itself to him.
• Chu Tianshu brought Liu Xueya and the Chenjiagou group to Luoyang, where he found the Plague God’s Rainbow Half-Body possessing all seventy-seven prisoners and began treating them.
• Lord Yuanli and Cao Shaolin attempted to seize Guan Yu’s Origin Canon at Guanlin, but Chu Tianshu killed Zhang Yi, Cao Shaolin, and Yuanli after Huo Ming escaped with Adjutant Yang.
• Chu Tianshu drew the Rainbow Half-Body out of the prisoners and destroyed it, while Daoist Yuanzai intervened and escaped back to the capital after fighting Chu.
• Chu Tianshu recovered from the battle, studied the Nanhua True Interpretation, and learned that the Cao Family had used Yu Ji’s bones to curse the inheritor of Sun Ce’s Origin Canon.
• The prison survivors recovered their memories, and Chu Tianshu optimized his Nine-Nine Tribulation Ash Sword Manual before joining Luoyang sorcerers in an inquiry that revealed fragments of the Nanhua Origin Canon.
• Sun Feng'an arrived in Luoyang, offered Chu Tianshu an alliance with Jiangdong in exchange for support against his enemies, and revealed that he had used his apparent illness as bait.
• As Xu Laohu rode toward Luoyang with nearly a hundred riders, Miss Cao intercepted him and urged him to wait rather than provoke a war by killing Sun Feng'an and Chu Tianshu.

Chu Tianshu defeated the Cao Family’s allies and subdued the Pear God, the Ghost King, and the Five Rampancies’ power during the capital’s peace talks. After returning to the pharmacy, he learned that Lin Chucheng had reverted to childhood and traveled northwest, where he stopped Xiong Zhengsan’s rampage at a military training base.

• Miss Cao gathered scripture preachers and martial artists to target Sun Feng'an and Chu Tianshu, while Chu Tianshu defeated the attackers in Luoyang and forced Thousand-Drunken Old Man to reveal the ritual altar.
• Chu Tianshu confronted Cao Ying at the altar, disrupted the ritual, and learned that the Cao Family planned to use the Qingcheng Ghost King to awaken the Pear God and claim the Three Gods’ power.
• Cao Bokun arranged peace talks in the capital, where Cao Ying attacked Chu Tianshu and revealed the Pear God, and Chu Tianshu defeated the god and absorbed its true form into the Sanqi Divine Sword.
• Liu Yanqi, Cai Shanjun, and Sun Feng'an exposed and confined the Ghost King, while Chu Tianshu fought Cao Bokun and killed him after the Five Rampancies mask split.
• Chu Tianshu helped Cai Shanjun counter the Ghost King, then destroyed the Five Chang Gods’ statue and ended the fighting in the capital.
• Chu Tianshu returned to Ma Zhengwu, Old Yu, and Zhong Jinqiu, practiced a new saber technique, and learned from Helai that Lin Chucheng had mysteriously become a child.
• Chu Tianshu opened the renovated Calming Spirit Pharmacy, then traveled northwest with Mo Xiaoyu and Tang Nu to investigate unusual beast-related incidents.
• At the military base, Xiong Zhengsan destroyed training tanks and kept fighting after being declared dead, and Chu Tianshu disrupted the tanks’ Yin Qi and stopped Xiong Zhengsan with a strike to his palm.

Chu Tianshu uncovered the secret realm tied to Lin Chucheng’s lost memories, defeated the faction leaders seeking the elixir, and helped Lin recover enough to reach Taboo. After crossing into 2036, Chu Tianshu traveled with Chu Yannian to Jinling, where assassins targeted Yannian and Pan Ting began investigating the attack.

• Chu Tianshu investigated Lin Chucheng’s past, followed him and Mo Xiaoyu to a lake, and discovered that jade puppets were connected to a hidden secret realm.
• Joe gathered factions to seize the elixir of immortality, then took hostages and demanded Lin Chucheng’s arm, but Lin opened the secret realm and transported both sides inside.
• Chu Tianshu killed Joe, Xu Ziqian, and Belial in the cavern while Lin Chucheng and Mo Xiaoyu helped fight the attackers.
• Chu Tianshu and Mo Xiaoyu reconstructed a stele and traced Lin Chucheng’s memory loss to the Wusun king’s evil spirit, then Lin absorbed the eight palms’ vital Qi.
• Lin Chucheng drew power from wind and wood to break through to Taboo, and Chu Tianshu left the northwest after a farewell dinner with the survivors.
• In 2036, Chu Tianshu met Chu Yannian on a highway, learned about the disaster and the migration toward Jinling, and traveled with the convoy into the city.
• An assassin attacked Chu Yannian at a noodle shop, but Yannian subdued him and Chu Tianshu killed a rooftop sniper, and Pan Ting then ordered people at defense point seventeen taken into custody.