Recaps

Ye Xuan strengthened Chaoge with Yuanfeng’s return and the arrival of Nezha and the Four Divine Monkeys, while Xiqi’s standing weakened. Kong Xuan confronted Daoist Lu Ya above Chaoge, and their battle ended with a huge creature emerging from her divine light.

• Yang Jian and Lei Zhenzi fought until Jiang Ziya called a halt, and Lei Zhenzi later went alone to Xiqi with Jiang Ziya’s letter as Ji Chang’s health deteriorated.
• A condemnation letter spread through Xiqi, and Ji Chang collapsed after cursing the Human Emperor, and Lei Zhenzi revived him and was accepted as his son.
• Ye Xuan summoned Chaoge’s officials, learned of Xiqi’s growing army and allies, then awakened Yuanfeng, whose appearance strengthened Yin Shang’s fortune.
• Nuwa sent Nezha, the Intelligent Stone Monkey, and the Six-Eared Macaque to Chaoge, where the two monkeys fought for days before Ye Xuan welcomed them as allies.
• The Four Divine Monkeys displayed their strength together above Chaoge, while Jiang Ziya and the Antarctic Immortal sent Daoist Lu Ya to challenge Chaoge’s Black Bird.
• Kong Xuan confronted Daoist Lu Ya, overwhelmed his fires and close combat, and urged him to leave Chaoge.
• Daoist Lu Ya used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and transformed into his Three-Legged Golden Crow form, but Kong Xuan swept away his flying knife with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Kong Xuan’s divine light enveloped half of Chaoge, and an enormous creature appeared as the light dimmed.

Kong Xuan drove Daoist Lu Ya from Chaoge, while Ye Xuan welcomed the Five-Virtue Qilin and uncovered Su Daji’s new transformation power. Ye Xuan defeated and befriended Yu Se, and Tu Xingsun met Deng Chanyu, whose journey toward Three Mountains Pass ended with Xiqi riders closing in.

• Kong Xuan chased Daoist Lu Ya away from Chaoge, then reunited with Ye Xuan and brought the Five-Virtue Qilin, who offered treasures and asked Ye Xuan to protect the Qilin Clan.
• Su Daji impersonated Kong Xuan and became intimate with Ye Xuan, but the real Kong Xuan exposed her, and Su Daji revealed she had become a Quasi-Saint with the Demon Fox Ten Mysterious Transformations.
• Juliusun sent Tu Xingsun to find Jiang Ziya in Xiqi and gave him the Immortal Binding Rope and Heart-Devouring Pills.
• Ye Xuan toured Chaoge with Su Daji and Chang'e, visited Wang Yong’s tavern, then followed Yu Se, who attacked him and was defeated.
• Yu Se revealed that Ancestor Minghe had sent her to help Ye Xuan with covert affairs and contact the Ashura Clan, and Ye Xuan welcomed her into Chaoge.
• Tu Xingsun saved Deng Chanyu from an innkeeper and waiter who had drugged her, then explained what had happened and introduced himself as Juliusun’s disciple.
• Deng Chanyu invited Tu Xingsun to serve her father at Three Mountains Pass, but he asked her to marry him, and she refused, saying she loved the Human Emperor.
• Tu Xingsun caught up with Deng Chanyu and warned her that riders were approaching, and she identified them as likely Xiqi agents and urged him to attack as they charged toward her.

Tu Xingsun abducted Deng Jiugong and Deng Chanyu to Xiqi, while Ye Xuan assembled powerful allies in Chaoge and prepared for the coming conflict. Xiqi and Yin Shang mobilized their armies, which finally faced each other near Sishui Pass.

• Tu Xingsun seized Deng Jiugong and Deng Chanyu with his Immortal Binding Rope and Heart-Burying Pills, then brought them to Xiqi as supposed defectors.
• Jiang Ziya presented the pair as allies, while Ye Xuan ordered a bounty on Tu Xingsun and appointed Kong Xuan to defend Three Mountains Pass.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng pledged allegiance to Ye Xuan and reunited with Kong Xuan in Chaoge, where the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin leaders reported their forces.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven arrived as Ancestor Minghe’s envoy and announced an alliance between the Ashura Clan and the Human Clan.
• Bai Susu returned with Huanhuan and Ye Wudao, completing Ye Xuan’s Twelve Zodiac Animals, whom he took into secluded cultivation.
• After Yuanshi Tianzun saved Ji Chang, Ji Chang sent Jiang Ziya to lead Xiqi’s campaign, and Jiang Ziya appointed generals for an army of more than two million.
• Ye Xuan kept Wen Zhong’s million troops ready at Sishui Pass, where Shen Gongbao joined as deputy, and Jiang Ziya led Xiqi’s army there, and the two sides assembled for battle.

Western Zhou and Yin Shang fought over Sishui Pass as Yang Jian faced Yuan Hong and the Immortal Slaying Gourd claimed several lives. After King Yinshi transformed Marshal Tianpeng into a boar, Ye Xuan remade him as Zhu Ganglie, who joined Yin Shang and killed Liang Kuan in battle.

• Jiang Ziya and Wen Zhong opened the campaign with an honorable duel, but Wei Hu and Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal both suffered severe injuries before Xue Ehu challenged Sishui Pass.
• Yang Jian defeated Jinguang Xian and fought Yuan Hong to a standstill, then used a golden needle to kill Yu Yuan and Yu Hua despite being poisoned and badly wounded.
• Ma Yuan wielded the Immortal Slaying Gourd to kill Xue Ehu and two other Xiqi generals, until Marshal Tianpeng killed Ma Yuan with Samadhi True Fire and took the flying knife.
• King Yinshi seized the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife from Tianpeng, crushed him, and forced his souls and spirits into a wild boar, but Taishang struck King Yinshi when he tried to claim Tianpeng’s fire poker.
• Tianpeng fled into the mountains, where Ye Xuan saved him from a tiger, transformed the boar into a giant Dangkang, and named him Zhu Ganglie after he swore loyalty to Yin Shang.
• Ye Xuan returned Zhu Ganglie’s Nine-Toothed Rake and sent him to Wen Zhong at Sishui Pass, where Zhu Ganglie volunteered to draw Western Zhou into battle.
• Huang Xian began a death curse against Jiang Ziya using his birth details while Zhu Ganglie challenged the Western Zhou camp and traded vicious insults with its leaders.
• Liang Kuan fought Zhu Ganglie for hundreds of exchanges as Huang Xian’s curse made Jiang Ziya dizzy, then Zhu Ganglie killed Liang Kuan with his Nine-Toothed Rake while pretending he had won by luck.