Recaps

Zhang Xuezhou and his companions entered the Gebala Cave Corridor to hunt strange insects and recover their Demon Cores, but they awakened a giant moth and uncovered a deeper threat. After the cave flooded and Tuer Lantu was revealed to be controlled by a worm, the group faced the danger of the moth spreading toward nearby settlements and sought guidance from the Soul Jade.

• Zhang Xuezhou studied Tuer Kelanduo’s white pellet and suspected it was an expired Demon Core, then joined her group to hunt strange insects for cores that might aid Fortune Pill research.
• Zhang Xuezhou killed a green worm, recovered its Demon Core, and later scouted a nest where a giant moth guarded twelve cocoons among human remains.
• Zhang Xuezhou and his companions fought the moth’s offspring, but the giant moth attacked with poisonous scales and an explosion that injured the group and trapped them inside the cave.
• Zhang Xuezhou found a red crystal in a finger bone, sealed the cavern’s blessed land with the Acupoint-Fixing Technique, and triggered a flood that forced the group to flee.
• Tuer Lantu’s guards attacked the giant moth, but it broke through their defenses and flew out as seawater surged through the corridor.
• Tuer Lantu emerged with glowing eyes and attacked the group, so Zhang Manqian used the special metal to burn him and expose a white worm inside his body.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned Tuer Kalanduo that insects might be controlling more wounded people, while Ren Anran urged him to take Tuer Kalanduo away before the crisis reached a nearby satellite city.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Tuer Kalanduo whether her god had guided her, and when she said the Soul Jade had remained silent, he shook Zhang Manqian’s Soul Jade to seek a response.

Zhang Xuezhou helped the Tuer Clan respond to the giant moth, then returned to Great Han as Liu Che staged a ceremony to claim the imperial mandate. He discovered Bai beneath Fengxi Marsh, cultivated the Fortune Technique, and found a secret land guarded by a formidable old man before returning with the Marquis of Sui's Pearl.

• Zhang Xuezhou arranged for Tuer Kalanduo to invite Zhou Xin to Qinmeng, but Tuer Yongduolu's oracle sent Tuer Kelanduo instead, while Tuer Kalanduo took control of Tutram City and warned of the giant moth's spreading threat.
• After waking from twelve days of collapse, Zhang Xuezhou linked his illness to pills made in Yi Shuo's gourd and warned himself that Chunyu Tiying, Zheng Wukong, and Wei Shao'er might also be at risk.
• Zhang Xuezhou accompanied Liu Che to Fengxi Marsh, where Liu Che performed a sacrifice, presented the Red Empyrean Sword, and won the support of the kings and officials by claiming Heaven's mandate.
• Zhang Xuezhou returned to Fengxi Marsh, entered the Yellow Springs, and found the dragon's head, where he used Letting Be to cultivate the Fortune Technique and met Bai beneath the Soul-Suppressing Nail.
• Bai taught Zhang Xuezhou the Dragon-Riding Technique and transformed his Fortune Body into a fish dragon, while Zhang Xuezhou learned that Bai's Power of Favor had once brought the King of Liang to ruin.
• Zhang Xuezhou encountered Li Shaojun at Fengxi Marsh and followed the Marquis of Sui's Pearl through the Yellow Springs to a secret land near the dragon's tail.
• Zhang Xuezhou recited Liu Che's sacrificial prayer in the secret land, advanced his Fortune Technique, and was attacked by an old guardian who accused him of seeking Fortune to overthrow him.
• Zhang Xuezhou escaped to the gray world and found Li Shaojun with the Marquis of Sui's Pearl, then took the pearl back and considered using Li Shaojun's many lives to explore the secret land.

Zhang Xuezhou explored the Reincarnation Stone and traded cultivation knowledge with Daoist Randeng before returning to the modern world. As he pursued a costly emetic and tested new techniques, Zhou Rihui sought his treatment and Zhang Manqian resolved to improve her fighting skills.

• Li Shaojun and Zhang Xuezhou repeatedly captured Gaozu with the Marquis of Sui’s Pearl, then Zhang entered a secret land through the Reincarnation Stone and returned to find Li searching his belongings.
• Zhang left Li behind, and Li visited Bai at the Dragon-Slaying Stele, claiming they had killed Gaozu fifty times and promising to remove Bai’s Soul-Suppressing Nail when he reached the Sole Self Realm.
• The new emperor summoned Sima Xiangru and later offered Zhang Xuezhou horses, travel money, and official documents to help him find Li Shaojun and obtain a Life-Creating Fortune Pill.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding met Daoist Randeng on the road, exchanged knowledge about poison prevention and the One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints, and Randeng set out to find Rulai and seek a Life-Creating Fortune Pill.
• After reaching Shouchun City, Zhang returned to the Western Capital and learned that Ning Que’s wound and weakness persisted despite his cultivation methods, while Luo Hui concealed what he knew about the toxin.
• Zhang reconstructed and began practicing the One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints Technique, then persuaded Zhou Yueyan to fund his costly attempts to make a stronger emetic, using Demon Cores to produce Spirit-Forging Pills instead.
• Zhou Yueyan recognized that Zhang’s emetics were tied to his ancient martial arts methods and directed Zhou Rihui to seek treatment from him, while Ning Que arranged to accompany Rihui.
• Zhang healed Zhang Manqian with the Supreme Purity True Technique, accepted four hundred portions of culture medium from Zhou Rihui for treatment, and Zhang Manqian decided to adapt her Gene Fighting Techniques to her strengths.