Recaps

Chu Tianshu defeated Zhang Tongxuan, returned home, and joined an observation mission to recover the trapped Grotto-Heaven ruins. In the Golden Triangle, he built a sorcerers’ trading market, repelled Samar’s attack, and learned where the Great Yu Dragon Stele was guarded.

• Chu Tianshu defeated Zhang Tongxuan and destroyed the Great Void Heavenly Eye, then killed Chen Zhuangzhi and helped stabilize the damaged Great Void Pagoda.
• Chu Tianshu and Xiao Liang returned to a hero’s welcome, and Chu Tianshu named his lineage Dragon Gate Dao Field before going home and experimenting with the Heavenly Eye.
• Helai assigned Chu Tianshu to accompany Chen Taozhi’s observation team to the Golden Triangle, where they investigated the Grotto-Heaven ruins with Sun Buyuan and Yungu.
• Chu Tianshu drew a dead Bangkok reporter’s ghost into his dream, learned that sorcerers had captured him after he recorded attacks on civilians, and promised to recover his evidence.
• Chu Tianshu’s group defeated the shamans, recovered the reporter’s camera and manuscripts, and proposed a trading market to gather intelligence and exclude practitioners whose methods violated humanity.
• Chu Tianshu and Chen Taozhi built the market’s intelligence network, but Yungu warned that the Grotto-Heaven ruins might collapse as pressure mounted and a Taboo-led group prepared to attack.
• Samar led his recruits against the Baosheng Temple market, but Chu Tianshu defeated him and black-and-white armored suits trapped the attackers.
• Chu Tianshu burned away and restored Samar’s power until he revealed that the Great Yu Dragon Stele lay in the Thousand Flowers Forest on Great Tong Mountain, guarded by Luo Sichao and possibly another person.

Chu Tianshu dismantled the Golden Triangle’s Spirit Track scheme, then entered the Great Tang world and killed Zheng Tianchang while freeing Cheng Xin’s family. He began investigating the Mountain King Divine Drum and exchanged medicinal formulas with Su Xian for the Weapon Soul art.

• Chu Tianshu and Yungu defeated Luo Sichao at Great Tong Mountain, captured Luo Hanwen, and uncovered the Dragon Stele and the tunnels storing cultivated power.
• Chu Tianshu tracked Victor to the factory, where Victor and Sahong tested the Spirit Track Formation, then joined Yungu in destroying the formation and killing Sahong.
• The three neighboring armies entered the Golden Triangle as Yungu recovered the stone stele and Chu Tianshu prepared to release evidence of the fighting.
• Chu Tianshu brought Chen Taozhi into the Grotto-Heaven, where Chen Ying explained how it could reduce cultivation backlash, and then took the sleeping Yuan Zhonglü home.
• Chu Tianshu entered the Great Tang world, rescued Yao San’s child from a giant eagle, and forced the nineteenth prince and his riders to kneel after they threatened the fishermen.
• Chu Tianshu confronted Zheng Tianchang in the royal city and killed him, then freed Cheng Xin’s family and helped Cheng Xin take temporary charge of the country.
• Chu Tianshu found Zheng Tianchang’s carvings at West Brightness Pool and recognized them as the Scattered Rain and Sudden Wind Wisdom King Finger Spear.
• Chu Tianshu defeated Fire Tree Dhuta, learned that he wanted the Mountain King Divine Drum to challenge Hai Donglai, and exchanged medicinal formulas with Su Xian for the Weapon Soul art before tapping the drumhead.

Chu Tianshu reached Chang’an, killed four powerful clan leaders, and helped Hai Donglai prepare to hunt the locust-spreading Mountain King. During the Martial Exhibition of All Nations, Mountain King arrived and trapped Chu Tianshu in a hall as Mahalun waited to attack.

• Chu Tianshu took the Mountain King Divine Drum to Chang’an, where he and Nie Hongxian uncovered an ambush and Chu killed Pei Dongcheng, Kong Tianrui, Li Ju, and Wu Chunlei.
• Chu Tianshu helped Nie Hongxian confiscate the four clans’ estates, while Kong Longren was killed by a swarm of insects and told the Red Emperor to avenge him.
• Hai Donglai revealed his search for Mountain King and his plan to strengthen a locust-targeting fungal powder, and Chu Tianshu gave him the drum’s Weapon Soul.
• Chu Tianshu and Hai Donglai prepared for the Martial Exhibition, where Chu carved a sword technique for Guo Lingwei and the envoys gathered for the contests.
• Agents provoked battles during the exhibition, Chu Tianshu rescued the Viking heir from the Ten Thousand Needle Iron Coffin, and Mofu dragged Nie Hongxian and Hai Donglai underground to fight them.
• Chu Tianshu fought Mahalun, then sent Nie Hongxian to destroy the locusts as Mountain King attacked and compressed the hall around him.
• Chu Tianshu linked his sword, saber, and Palm Thunder arts to prepare a strike against Mountain King while Mahalun waited at the hall doors.

Chu Tianshu entered the Spirit Realm to investigate the thinning mist and uncovered Wangliang Divine Lord’s plan to exchange beings between worlds. After arranging an alliance and poisoning a gathering of clan leaders, he killed the Heavenly Official, then continued battling Yu Huangfen as his allies challenged the Earth Official.

• Chu Tianshu and Hai Donglai defeated the Mountain King’s forces, killed Mofu, and halted the fighting at the Martial Exhibition of All Nations.
• After returning home, Chu Tianshu learned that Xiao Zuo and Bubai had crossed into reality through the fog near Zhenze, then helped investigate Spirit Realm creatures posing as missing Shencheng residents.
• Chu Tianshu and Helai entered the Long Continent, where Chu Tianshu stopped a white ape from wrecking a train and traveled with its Fangfeng officers toward the Eighteen Camps.
• At the Eighteen Camps, Chu Tianshu discovered that Fang Tai was an evil spirit and used the iron ruler to uncover the Wangliang Divine Lord’s plan to exchange living beings between the Spirit Realm and Human World.
• Chu Tianshu learned that the Heavenly Official and Earth Chancellor might alter the exchange ritual and that seventeen clans were joining an alliance, so he sought help developing poisons instead of killing the palace leaders.
• Feng Jianhua, Lin Chucheng, Wei Qidong, and Master White Horse killed rival experts, while Chu Tianshu prepared poison for a grand feast where the guests discussed sacrificing humans.
• Chu Tianshu poisoned the gathered clans and fought Yu Huangfen as his allies attacked the guests, then pierced Yu Huangfen’s sleeve and killed the Heavenly Official with a chain reaction that destroyed his body and Evil Spirit.
• Yu Huangfen intercepted Chu Tianshu and fought him through Nine Bends Stream, while Bai He awakened spells hidden in the Earth Beam Palace and challenged the Earth Official’s authority.