Recaps

Lü Dongbin returned to Mount Kunlun and met the Immortal Elder of Kunlun after being told the elder was in seclusion. When Lü asked about a missing loose immortal, the elder described his disappearance, prompting Lü to recall their past clash.

• Lü Dongbin and Cao Guojiu hurried back to Mount Kunlun, where Cao Guojiu left to report to his master.
• Lü Dongbin suspected Cao Guojiu was pretending, then met a masked old man who challenged him for trespassing in Kunlun’s Forbidden Ground.
• The masked old man said the Immortal Elder of Kunlun was in seclusion, but Lü Dongbin was soon welcomed into the great hall and introduced to the elder.
• The Immortal Elder of Kunlun explained that a powerful loose immortal had vanished more than thirty-five thousand years earlier and that no one had found him.
• Lü Dongbin remembered fighting the Immortal Elder of Kunlun before he reached the Nascent Soul Realm and capturing him with the Great Grasping Technique.

Lü Dongbin learned that the Immortal Elder of Kunlun had arranged the ancient calamity to destroy his enemies and asked for help avoiding expulsion from Kunlun. After Lü Dongbin agreed, the Immortal Elder led him to records of the calamity, where he began uncovering Kunlun’s secrets.

• Lü Dongbin explained how he recognized the Immortal Elder of Kunlun as a disguised rogue immortal.
• The Immortal Elder of Kunlun admitted that he had arranged the great calamity after his disciples were killed, but failed to destroy his enemies.
• The Immortal Elder asked Lü Dongbin to help prevent Kunlun from expelling him, and Lü Dongbin promised to do what he could.
• The Immortal Elder brought Lü Dongbin to Kunlun’s library and pointed him toward the disciples’ notes about the calamity.
• Lü Dongbin read an ancient text titled with the words “Heaven dark, earth yellow” and found that it contained profound principles and Kunlun secrets.

Lü Dongbin studied an ancient text about the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Star Mansions Formation but could not decipher it well enough to break Kunlun’s formation. A Kunlun disciple then escorted him through the sect’s headquarters, where a sudden commotion drew his attention.

• Lü Dongbin spent half a month reading the ancient text and learned that it described the formation his master had once arranged.
• After failing to understand the text, Lü Dongbin told the Immortal Elder of Kunlun that he needed more time to decipher the formation, then left the Kunlun Sect.
• A powerful Kunlun disciple met Lü Dongbin outside the sect and said his master had sent him to escort him.
• The disciple led Lü Dongbin through Kunlun’s city and explained the sect’s headquarters and Immortal Abode.
• Lü Dongbin heard a commotion nearby and looked toward its source.

Lü Dongbin confronted Kunlun disciples who were blocking the road and challenged their leader, Xuanjizi, to prove he could reach the Innate Realm. Xuanjizi rallied his fellow disciples against Lü Dongbin’s group, leaving a confrontation about to begin.

• A Kunlun collateral disciple ordered Lü Dongbin and his companions to leave the road, but Lü Dongbin challenged his authority.
• Xuanjizi arrived with dozens of Kunlun disciples, and Lü Dongbin recognized him as a powerful core disciple and deputy sect master.
• Xuanjizi boasted about his progress in the Kunlun Art, while Lü Dongbin pointed out that he had not yet reached the Innate Realm.
• Lü Dongbin offered to help Xuanjizi enter the Innate Realm if he came with him to the Kunlun Immortal Abode.
• Xuanjizi urged the Kunlun disciples to stand together against Lü Dongbin and his companions.

Lü Dongbin confronted Xuanjizi and the Kunlun Sect disciples after they threatened him, overwhelming them with his black-mist sword. Xuanjizi’s lightning attack was shattered by Lü Dongbin’s Thunder Fire Palm, leaving both fighters injured and the confrontation unresolved.

• Xuanjizi rallied the Kunlun Sect disciples to drive Lü Dongbin and his companions away.
• Lü Dongbin summoned a giant sword from black mist, frightening the disciples and sending Xuanjizi crashing into a stone wall.
• The Kunlun Sect disciples attacked Lü Dongbin with their Law Treasures, but he blocked them and pursued them as they fled.
• Xuanjizi unleashed Lightning Escape, forming a lightning serpent to attack Lü Dongbin.
• Lü Dongbin used Thunder Fire Palm to destroy the lightning serpent, though blood appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Lü Dongbin defeated and devoured Xuanjizi, then traveled with He Xiangu to a cave where they found a furnace containing a living young man. The furnace was revealed to have been formed from an ancient Qilin, and He Xiangu explained the creature’s legendary history.

• Xuanjizi apologized to Lü Dongbin, but Lü Dongbin drew him into his body and devoured him with the longsword.
• Lü Dongbin asked Xuanjizi about the Qilin bloodline, and Xuanjizi said even the people of the Mount Kunlun Range did not know its location.
• Lü Dongbin and He Xiangu entered a vast cave on Lujuhe Continent and found a charred, human-shaped furnace lying on a rock.
• He Xiangu used a talisman to extinguish the furnace’s flames and discovered that a young man inside was still alive.
• He Xiangu placed the furnace in the Heaven and Earth Bag and revealed that it had been formed from a Qilin of High Antiquity.
• He Xiangu told Lü Dongbin that the Qilin had once fought alongside the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors before they sealed it away.

Lü Dongbin learned that the shattered furnace was tied to the Qilin seal, but the flame it contained burned through his Heaven and Earth Bag. He later found a Fire Lotus in a pit and absorbed some of its power to help recover, while the plant began to wither.

• He Xiangu told Lü Dongbin the furnace was used to seal the Qilin and that a powerful force had driven her away from the sealed valley.
• The furnace shattered, and Lü Dongbin stored its flame in his Heaven and Earth Bag, only to discover that it had burned through the bag and ruined the treasure.
• While searching for fire-attribute minerals, Lü Dongbin spotted a rolling mound and found a dark, freezing pit where it had fallen.
• Lü Dongbin descended into the pit and found a cracked Fire Lotus formed from a Fire Spirit of High Antiquity.
• Lü Dongbin absorbed some of the Fire Lotus's power, then saw the plant withering and hurried to gather himself before its vitality ran out.

Lü Dongbin tried to claim the Fire Lotus Flower but was repeatedly attacked by its guardian, the Fire Phoenix. After the Phoenix gave him three days to gather the flower’s flame power, Lü Dongbin returned to the flower, only for the bird to block his reach and peck his hand.

• Lü Dongbin reached for the Fire Lotus Flower, but a red beam rose from it and a lightning bolt struck toward the flower until a golden arrow shattered the bolt.
• A Fire Phoenix emerged and attacked Lü Dongbin, knocking him into a crater and swallowing him before he escaped.
• Lü Dongbin waited three days and gathered nearby medicinal herbs, but the Fire Phoenix’s pressure aged and injured him when it returned.
• The Fire Phoenix attacked Lü Dongbin again, and after he took a pill and burned feathers from his body, it demanded that he gather the flower’s flame power within three days.
• Lü Dongbin agreed and hurried to the Fire Lotus Flower, but when he reached for it, the Fire Phoenix darted in front of him and pecked his palm.

Lü Dongbin fought the Fire Phoenix while trying to claim the fire lotus, but a black-clad man and a group of archers attacked him. After taking the flower, Lü Dongbin was battered by his enemies and the Fire Phoenix, and the chapter ended with him striking the bird with a broken branch.

• The Fire Phoenix tried to drain Lü Dongbin's Essence Blood, and he restored his arm with the Nine Yang Divine Art before fighting it off.
• A black-clad man appeared from the forest, wounded Lü Dongbin, and walked toward the fire lotus while Lü Dongbin threatened him.
• Lü Dongbin drove the Fire Phoenix away with a silver needle and approached the flower, but an arrow pierced the bird's wing as it tried to stop him.
• Lü Dongbin picked the fire lotus and started toward the cave, then dodged volleys of poisoned arrows from a group of archers.
• The black-clad man rushed Lü Dongbin and struck him repeatedly, while the Fire Phoenix also attacked and sent him flying.
• Lü Dongbin picked up a broken branch and hit the Fire Phoenix on the head, forcing it to retreat.

Lü Dongbin fought the Fire Phoenix and the Black Dragon Sect’s men in the cave, while Cao Guojiu arrived and confronted one of the attackers. Several people escaped the cave, and the Black Dragon Sect’s men attacked them.

• More men in black joined the fight, and the Fire Phoenix attacked Lü Dongbin, burning through his armor before Lü Dongbin struck it repeatedly with a branch.
• A figure attacked Lü Dongbin and sent him crashing into the mountain wall, but Lü Dongbin grabbed a man in black and tore off part of his leg.
• Cao Guojiu appeared and demanded that the Black Dragon Sect capture Lü Dongbin and bring him to him, then attacked a man in black with the Azure Cloud Treasured Sword.
• The man in black blocked Cao Guojiu’s sword with green mist, while several figures emerged from the cave and one of them cut through the mist.
• The men in black discovered that the newcomers wore clothes like theirs, and sixty or seventy of them charged at the group.

Lü Dongbin left his lodging and found a crowd fighting the men in black, then defeated one attacker with startling speed. He spared a Nascent Soul Realm man who begged for mercy and considered recruiting him, but the encounter ended with a threat that Lü should surrender.

• Lü Dongbin went outside to seek news and discovered a crowd surrounding the village and attacking the men in black.
• When an attacker struck at him, Lü Dongbin defended himself with the Azure Cloud Sword and fought a powerful man in black.
• The man in black realized Lü Dongbin might have cultivated Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, but Lü defeated him and killed him with a palm strike.
• A Nascent Soul Realm man flew to Lü Dongbin, knelt, and begged for his life, and Lü Dongbin decided he might be useful as a follower.
• Lü Dongbin refused to forgive the men in black for trying to kill him, and the kneeling man begged again before telling him to surrender.

Lü Dongbin defeated the Demon Cult attackers and revealed his name before leaving the scene. A mysterious elderly man then arrived by carriage and approached him.

• Lü Dongbin killed the man in black who attacked him and took the man's Storage Bag.
• Lü Dongbin overwhelmed the remaining Demon Cult members and cut them down with his black longsword.
• Lü Dongbin told the man who asked that he could call him Lü Dongbin, then warned the Demon Cult members not to follow him and flew away.
• The Demon Cult members scattered after Lü Dongbin vanished.
• An elderly man in a gray robe and conical hat arrived by carriage and approached Lü Dongbin, who asked what business he had with him.

The Dugu Swordsman and Wu Xie asked Lü Dongbin to kill He Xiangu, but he refused and warned the Demon Cult not to harm her. After leaving the mountaintop with his followers, Lü Dongbin reached Azure Cloud City while Demon Cult figures secretly pursued him.

• The Dugu Swordsman and Wu Xie challenged Lü Dongbin, then asked him to kill He Xiangu in exchange for a reward.
• Lü Dongbin refused because He Xiangu was his friend and warned the Demon Cult that they would have to kill him before harming her.
• After Lü Dongbin left, the Dugu Swordsman said the Demon Cult needed to find a way to eliminate him and claimed they could defeat him by joining forces.
• The hunchbacked old man invited Lü Dongbin to the Demon Sect headquarters, but Lü Dongbin departed with more than three hundred followers.
• Dozens of Demon Cult figures secretly pursued Lü Dongbin's party, which flew to Azure Cloud City on flying birds and arrived in less than half a day.

Lü Dongbin led his men to Azure Cloud City, where a confrontation with the Demon Cult guards turned into a violent battle. After forcing their way inside, the group was ambushed by lightning-powered arrows, and several men fell.

• Lü Dongbin claimed to be Azure Cloud City's lord, crippled the gate guard, and led his men through the entrance.
• The guard called nearby Demon Cult disciples to attack, and Lü Dongbin killed several of them in the street.
• The leading protector asked whether Lü Dongbin's group belonged to the Heaven's Edge Sect, and Lü Dongbin ordered his men to charge into the city.
• The city gates closed behind the men in black, and archers on the gate tower fired lightning-powered arrows at them, killing three or four.
• A Demon Cult disciple dodged the arrows as they struck the ground and left deep, smoking pits.

Lü Dongbin fought Demon Cult members, killed several attackers, and tried to escape when hundreds surrounded him. After using an exploding head as a distraction and striking at the aged Devil Dao leader, he saw a blackened middle-aged expert emerge alive, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lü Dongbin attacked a Demon Cult disciple, broke through his shield, and killed him with his spear.
• Lü Dongbin pursued fleeing Demon Cult members, but more arrived from all directions and forced him to retreat.
• An aged Devil Dao member taunted Lü Dongbin, who threw a severed head at the wall to create an explosion and smoke.
• Lü Dongbin launched his spear through the smoke and killed a Devil Dao member who charged at him.
• The blackened middle-aged Devil Dao expert emerged from the smoke with two subordinates, and Lü Dongbin stared at him in shock.

Lü Dongbin fought the Demon Sect’s core disciple, whose powerful saber attacks destroyed Lü’s spear and forced him to dodge. After hidden poisoned needles gravely wounded the disciple, he swallowed a pill, surged to the Martial Ancestor Realm, and clashed with Lü in a blow that devastated the surrounding terrain; both fighters remained standing, with the disciple bleeding.

• The Devil Dao expert unleashed a dragon-shaped saber strike, and Lü Dongbin charged back with a spear attack that formed a tiger from saber Qi.
• The Devil Dao expert shattered Lü Dongbin’s spear, then carved a deep trench with another strike that Lü dodged.
• The Devil Dao expert pressed his attack, but a strike of saber Qi suddenly sent him crashing into the skeletons and zombies, revealing three poisoned steel needles lodged in his chest.
• The Devil Dao expert swallowed a pill, grew ten times larger, and raised his cultivation to the Martial Ancestor Realm.
• The Devil Dao expert’s roar nearly stunned Lü Dongbin, then the two exchanged a blow that collapsed mountain peaks and left the Devil Dao expert bleeding thousands of zhang away.

Lü Dongbin poisoned the Devil Dao man with a steel needle and evaded his transformed opponent’s attacks, while the Nine Dragons Devil Cauldron’s poison overwhelmed the man’s Devil True Essence. The Devil Dao man produced Black Sha Beads to protect himself, leaving Lü Dongbin wary of the poison pills he still possessed.

• The Devil Dao man praised Lü Dongbin’s strength, but a poisoned steel needle pierced his chest and abdomen, forcing him to seal the wound with True Essence.
• The wounded Devil Dao man transformed and reached Peak Martial Master Realm, but Lü Dongbin escaped his pursuit with the Void Crossing Movement Method.
• The Nine Dragons Devil Cauldron’s poison spread through the Devil Dao man, forming black skeletons and weakening his True Essence despite his efforts to expel it.
• The Devil Dao man produced three black spheres that grew into basketball-sized Black Sha Beads, and Lü Dongbin grew wary of how many poison pills he might possess.

Lü Dongbin fought the Devil Dao cultivator with the Nine Yang Treasure Cauldron and Nine Yang True Fire, then used the white jade formed by the Jiuyin White Bone Spirit to create a golden barrier. The Devil Dao cultivator broke through the barrier and slashed Lü Dongbin in the chest.

• The Devil Dao cultivator charged Lü Dongbin, and their attacks collided in a blast that drove them both backward.
• Lü Dongbin hurled another poison pill, but the Devil Dao cultivator turned his Devil Qi whip into venomous snakes that swallowed it and attacked.
• Lü Dongbin’s Nine Yang True Fire burned the snakes to smoke, forcing the Devil Dao cultivator to retreat from the flames.
• Lü Dongbin used the Nine Yang Treasure Cauldron to knock the Sword of the Devil Dao from the cultivator’s grasp and trap it in Nine Yang flame.
• Lü Dongbin revealed the white jade formed by the Jiuyin White Bone Spirit and spread its golden light around them.
• The Devil Dao cultivator poured True Essence into the Sword of the Devil Dao, broke through the golden light, and slashed Lü Dongbin in the chest.

Lü Dongbin fought the Devil Dao cultivator, surviving a slash and destroying his summoned skeletons and evil ghosts. The Devil Dao cultivator then formed a cluster of black pearls and hurled them at Lü Dongbin.

• The Devil Dao cultivator slashed Lü Dongbin across the chest, and Lü Dongbin summoned shadowy figures and attacked with the Nine Yang Treasure Cauldron and Nine Yang Treasure Pagoda.
• Lü Dongbin destroyed the shadowy figure, but its black currents formed a skeleton puppet that fled in several directions.
• The Devil Dao cultivator revealed the Netherworld Ghost Eyeball and explained its deadly effect on living creatures.
• The Devil Dao cultivator summoned evil ghosts, but Lü Dongbin blasted them apart with a skull.
• The Devil Dao cultivator gathered black Qi into a cluster of pearls and hurled them at Lü Dongbin.

Lü Dongbin battled a Devil Dao cultivator from the Devil Emperor Palace, resisting his attacks and using a black ring of light to trap him. The ring closed around the cultivator, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lü Dongbin shattered the black pearl and drew it into his palm after his protective dome kept it at bay.
• The Devil Dao cultivator slashed at Lü Dongbin with a black Sword-Ray, but Lü Dongbin burned it away with purple flames.
• The Devil Dao cultivator appeared before Lü Dongbin and threatened him, while the Devil Emperor and the others sensed his formidable murderous intent.
• Lü Dongbin attacked with two green-edged swords, forcing the Devil Dao cultivator out of the void when the swords exploded.
• Lü Dongbin expanded a black ring of light around the Devil Dao cultivator, then contracted it until it completely enclosed him.

Lü Dongbin fought the Devil Dao cultivator with his spatial ring and a Jade Slip’s white light, but the ring began to weaken as the surrounding cultivators joined the attack. Meanwhile, Celestial Venerable Yuanshi visited Ao Changsheng and asked for his view of the Primordial World’s current situation.

• Lü Dongbin trapped the Devil Dao cultivator in his spatial domain, but the Devil Dao cultivator returned and attacked with his black bat wings.
• The Devil Dao cultivator’s blows sent Lü Dongbin’s black ring of light flying, and he warned Lü Dongbin that he would remain trapped there.
• Lü Dongbin used the Jade Slip to raise pillars of white light that blocked the Devil Dao cultivator’s attack, while black mist spread from a huge pit.
• The Devil Dao cultivator battered the black ring until it dimmed, then urged the surrounding cultivators to destroy it and attack Lü Dongbin and the Immortal Realm cultivators.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi arrived at Ao Changsheng’s cultivation ground and asked what he thought of the Primordial World’s current state.

Ao Changsheng and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi discussed why the Devil Race had invaded the Primordial World, and Yuanshi proposed that the attack concealed a larger plan backed by a power beyond the Sages of the Three Purities. The chapter ended with Ao Changsheng confused about what that grand plan involved.

• Ao Changsheng told Celestial Venerable Yuanshi that he believed the Primordial World was safe for the time being because the Devil Race would not act rashly.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi connected the invasion to the Devil Race's expansion across 3,654 heavenly domains and the Sages of the Three Purities' recent defeat.
• Ao Changsheng questioned why the Devil Race would attack the Primordial World when its Karmic Luck was weak and suggested that the Sages of the Three Purities might be the real target.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi claimed that a power surpassing the Sages of the Three Purities stood behind the Devil Race.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi said the Devil Race's apparent attack on the other four heavenly domains was a cover for its grand plan to invade the Primordial World, leaving Ao Changsheng puzzled.

Celestial Venerable Yuanshi and Ao Changsheng discussed the Devil Race’s invasion and agreed to investigate its plan, while Ancestor Hongjun urged Ao Changsheng to stay hidden because their powers were sealed. Ancestor Hongjun believed the invasion would draw other experts to the Primordial World, creating an opportunity for them to act.

• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi warned Ao Changsheng that provoking the Devil Race could endanger the Primordial World and asked him to investigate its invasion.
• Ao Changsheng suggested the Devil Race was moving its members to the Ten Thousand Devils Cavern to cultivate secret techniques, and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi concluded it sought to strengthen itself.
• Ao Changsheng agreed to investigate with Celestial Venerable Yuanshi, who planned to consult the other Sages of the Three Purities and warned Ao Changsheng to leave the Primordial World.
• Yang Jian, who had hidden nearby, relaxed after Celestial Venerable Yuanshi left without harming Ao Changsheng.
• Ao Changsheng asked Ancestor Hongjun why the Devil Race targeted the Sages of the Three Purities, and Ancestor Hongjun advised them to hide while their powers remained sealed.
• Ancestor Hongjun predicted that the invasion would draw experts from the Three Realms, giving them a chance to act while the Devil Race and other forces suffered.

Ao Changsheng agreed to Ancestor Hongjun’s plan to secretly prepare against the Devil Race, while the Western Queen Mother urged the Jade Emperor and the other immortals to watch the Devil Race’s movements and exploit the conflict. The Jade Emperor assigned Lady Nüwa and Taibai Jinxing to investigate who was directing the Devil Race’s army.

• Ao Changsheng left Ancestor Hongjun’s hall and returned to the Dragon Palace to arrange and deploy his forces.
• Zhenyuanzi told the Jade Emperor, Lady Nüwa, and the other immortals that the Devil Race’s army had secretly descended toward Human Race territory.
• The Western Queen Mother argued that the Devil Race was targeting the Human Race and that the immortals should use its coming campaign to their advantage.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Lady Nüwa and Taibai Jinxing to watch the Thirty-Three Heavens and report unusual Devil Race movements.
• Taibai Jinxing set out to investigate who was directing the Devil Race’s army and punish the mastermind.

Sun Wukong broke the strange phenomenon of the five elements and brought his cultivation to its peak, shocking the Jade Emperor and the Western Sect leader. He prepared to break the Heavenly Court’s confinement and rescue his master, while a group of demons meditated in a mountain hollow.

• Ao Changsheng saw through Nüwa and the Jade Emperor’s schemes and noted that their conflicts had damaged their relationships.
• A strange phenomenon erupted around Sun Wukong as the Five Elements Origin spun wildly, and the Jade Emperor and the Western Sect leader coveted its power.
• Sun Wukong rose, sealed the phenomenon, and shattered the five elements gathering, leaving the Jade Emperor and the Western Sect leader stunned and disbelieving.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the Western Sect leader to find a way to break the Heavenly Court’s confinement before Sun Wukong could escape.
• Sun Wukong burned away the phenomenon with the Five Fires Heaven-Extinguishing Instruction and resolved to rescue his master.
• A group of demons meditated in a mountain hollow around a mysterious symbol formed by colored lights.