Recaps

Ye Xuan restored Primordial Qilin, plundered Jade Void Palace, and strengthened Yin Shang while gathering new resources and allies. When Su Hu rebelled in Jizhou, Ye Xuan secretly led a campaign against him, leaving both sides preparing for battle outside the city.

• Ye Xuan restored Primordial Qilin at Qilin Cliff, then disguised himself to enter Jade Void Palace and steal its spirit roots and Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Red Gourd.
• Ye Xuan returned to Chaoge, learned of Shang Rong’s discoveries, and rewarded him before sharing the new foods with Wushuang and Su Daji.
• Empress Nuwa chose to enter the great tribulation willingly and coordinate with Ye Xuan, while Su Daji later begged Ye Xuan to preserve her family after Su Hu began preparing a rebellion.
• Ye Xuan promised Su Daji that he would leave a trace of the Su Clan’s bloodline, then summoned his ministers to plan a response to Su Hu’s rebellion.
• Ye Xuan secretly went to war, sent Zheng Lun and thirty thousand cavalry to join Huang Feihu, and concealed his campaign while Shang Rong and Bi Gan spread false reports about a much larger army.
• Su Hu declared Jizhou’s rebellion and relied on Bo Yikao’s promises of support from Xiqi and other lords.
• Su Hu rallied his generals, ordered scouts to track Huang Feihu, and planned to strike the approaching forces and burn their provisions while moving nearby food stores into Jizhou.

Ye Xuan crushed Su Hu’s rebellion, ordered Jizhou’s destruction, and revealed crops and herbs that could strengthen Yin Shang. When Wen Zhong became trapped by the North Sea lords, Ye Xuan assembled a major army and set out to rescue him.

• Ye Xuan captured Jizhou through a disguised grain convoy and a surprise attack, then defeated Su Quanzhong and entered the city with Chaoge’s army.
• Su Daji pleaded for her family, but Ye Xuan ordered Jizhou’s three million inhabitants killed, and Su Hu and Su Wan took their own lives after Daji chose one member of the Su Clan to survive.
• Ye Xuan’s order spread fear among the regional lords, while Wushuang reported that the crops she had tended had multiplied and ripened repeatedly.
• Ye Xuan showed the officials high-yield crops and medicinal herbs, then resolved to find a way for the Human Clan to learn magical arts outside Taishang Laozi’s Golden Elixir method.
• Jin Su reported that Wen Zhong’s army was trapped on Beast God Mountain by the seventy-two North Sea lords, then died as his true spirit was taken by the Investiture of the Gods.
• Ye Xuan appointed Huang Feihu to lead the vanguard, Bi Gan to manage supplies, and Shang Rong to organize provisions, then announced that he would personally lead the campaign.
• Ye Xuan assembled two hundred thousand elite soldiers, promised rewards and support for fallen soldiers’ families, and marched north with Su Daji and Wushuang.
• Zhang Kui asked why Ye Xuan had joined the expedition despite Wen Zhong’s support from Huang Feihu, and Ye Xuan said he had to rescue Wen Zhong from the formidable North Sea forces.

Ye Xuan led Yin Shang’s army north to rescue Wen Zhong and defeat the North Sea alliance. After routing the rebel forces, he faced an ancient Thunder Beast as Wuming, leaving the campaign’s hidden threat unresolved.

• Ye Xuan marched north with two hundred thousand troops while Shang Rong gathered more than five hundred thousand reinforcements in Chaoge.
• Zhang Kui and Ye Xuan routed several North Sea tribes before joining Wen Zhong and Huang Feihu at Beast God Mountain.
• Ye Xuan’s army and Wen Zhong’s forces trapped the North Sea coalition, and Ye Xuan’s guqin music rallied Yin Shang’s soldiers to victory.
• Yuan Futong struggled to unite the rebel leaders, while Su Daji provoked them into accepting Ye Xuan’s challenge and then helped launch a surprise attack on their camp.
• Yin Shang’s forces routed the seventy-two lords, but Yuan Futong and several leaders escaped, and more than four hundred thousand North Sea warriors were killed.
• An ancient Thunder Beast appeared over the battlefield, and Ye Xuan left an avatar behind before confronting it as Wuming.
• The Thunder Beast engulfed Wuming in thunderbolts, but Wuming emerged unharmed.

Ye Xuan defeated the North Sea’s powerful beasts, recruited Wuzhiqi, and crushed the Seventy-Two Feudal Lords’ rebellion. After subduing the tribes and returning with prisoners and spoils, he approached Chaoge determined to abolish the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir.

• Ye Xuan killed the Thunder Beast, celebrated with the Yin Shang army, and learned that Yuan Futong was preparing to continue the rebellion with Xiqi’s backing.
• Ye Xuan met North Sea Dragon King Ao Shun, entered the Northern Darkness, and persuaded the chained Wuzhiqi to submit before freeing him and giving him the Heaven-Supporting White Jade Pillar.
• Ye Xuan returned to find the Yin Shang army facing the North Sea coalition, where Su Daji fought the Ice Demon Wolf and Wuzhiqi confronted a Godzilla-like beast.
• Wuzhiqi defeated the Godzilla-like beast and the Ice Demon Wolf, allowing Ye Xuan to order the Yin Shang generals to attack the wavering North Sea forces.
• Ye Xuan played music on a zither made from Su Daji’s hair, incapacitating the coalition army and enabling the Yin Shang troops to rout it.
• Ye Xuan divided his forces into eleven detachments to subdue the North Sea tribes, while Zhang Kui, Gao Lanying, and Zheng Lun searched for Yuan Futong but failed to find him.
• Ye Xuan left Huang Feihu to keep order in the North Sea and sent Wuzhiqi to subdue the Northern Darkness beasts, then began his return to Chaoge with millions of prisoners and captured goods.
• Chaoge celebrated Ye Xuan’s victory as Shang Rong learned the army would arrive in six days, and Ye Xuan neared the capital resolved to abolish the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir.