Recaps

Zhang Xuezhou survived a battle at the Western Sect temple, then returned to Canglan Academy as Ren Yisheng’s experiments helped Ren Wuyang break through. After reconnecting with his family, Zhang learned Song Fengying might be in danger from rapidly depleted mental energy and began trying to bring his family to Canglan Academy.

• Zhang Xuezhou practiced Ren Yisheng’s Kunpeng Combat Technique and entered its introductory stage with startling speed, while Ren Yisheng tried to prepare Ren Wuyang for cultivation.
• Zhang Xuezhou awoke in a ruined temple, where the Buddha’s Son held him back as Yudan’s cavalry attacked and the monks fought back.
• Jiu Feng killed the monks’ protectors and battled the Buddha’s Son, who enlisted Zhang Xuezhou’s help with the Specter Chain.
• The Buddha’s Son’s Destruction Technique blew apart the temple, leaving Jiu Feng dead and the Buddha’s Son gravely injured, and he later entered Zhang Xuezhou’s consciousness and offered him cultivation aid and treasures.
• Back at Canglan Academy, Zhang Xuezhou helped Ren Yisheng treat Ren Wuyang, whose breakthrough came after an injection restored his mental capacity and helped him guide his surging energy.
• Ren Yisheng encouraged Zhang Xuezhou to train for the Sequencers’ grand gathering, while Zhang Xuezhou reunited with Song Fengying and discussed her livestreaming business with her and Zhang Manqian.
• Ren Yisheng discovered that Song Fengying’s mental energy was draining unusually fast and warned that the Heart Incantation and Mental Strengthening could help, and Zhang Xuezhou hurried to warn Zhang Manqian and Zhang Weimeng.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian divided up the task of persuading their parents to come to Canglan Academy, and Zhang Xuezhou offered Zhang Weimeng money, meals, and housing if he came.

Zhang Xuezhou entered the Kunlun Ruins secret realm, where he gained access to Nine Treasures Wine and became entangled in the Emperor’s conflict with powerful beings. He left the arc alive and newly presented as the Emperor’s student, while the Emperor resolved to make that claim real.

• Zhang Xuezhou recruited Wang Li for the Sequencer Grand Gathering, then entered the other world and agreed to help the Buddha’s Son in exchange for knowledge of medicine that could strengthen Divine Sense.
• The Buddha’s Son led Zhang Xuezhou into a secret realm, where illusions separated them and Zhang Xuezhou was captured by the Drunken Peach Trees before reaching the Kunlun Ruins.
• Zhang Xuezhou met the secret realm’s Emperor and improved his brewing process for Nine Treasures Wine, whose medicinal effects helped strengthen his Divine Sense.
• Hongku and Venerable Lei found Zhang Xuezhou at the brewery, drank the wine, and tried to escape with him, but the Golden Crow Great Emperor trapped Venerable Lei in the Emperor’s thunderclouds.
• The Emperor discovered a powerful incantation connected to Zhang Xuezhou and asked him to explain how it refined Divine Sense, while Zhang Xuezhou offered to help him understand it through the wine.
• The Empress arrived at the winery looking for a woman she believed the Emperor was hiding, and the Golden Crow Great Emperor tried to shield Zhang Xuezhou from her anger.
• The Emperor called Zhang Xuezhou his student to protect him, and afterward resolved to make their supposed teacher-student relationship genuine.

Zhang Xuezhou strengthened his ties with Ren Yisheng and helped his family and allies pursue cultivation while Flying Entertainment Livestream sought powerful backing. At the Ren Household, he helped Ren Anran through a dangerous breakthrough, then faced Wang Jiangtao’s attack and tried to get her to safety.

• Zhang Xuezhou learned about Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons from the Emperor and Sovereign, then woke beside Zhang Weimeng and strengthened his mental power with the Nine Treasures Wine’s lingering effects.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng agreed to exchange cultivation techniques and support, while Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated his healing skills to Zhang Weimeng.
• Ren Yisheng used his mental ability to push Wang Haoran toward Realm Entry, and Zhang Xuezhou helped stage a revenge scenario that restored Wang Haoran’s sense of reality.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Weimeng confronted casino enforcers who were assaulting Wang Li, and Ren Yisheng forced Zuo Butong to apologize after his men had injured Zhang Xuezhou’s parents.
• Wang Li proposed expanding Flying Entertainment Livestream with Ren Wuyang’s backing, while Wang Haoran learned that his father had escaped confinement.
• Ren Wuyang brought Zhang Xuezhou to help Ren Anran endure a secret drug injection, but the Supreme Purity True Technique disrupted her breakthrough and she woke believing it was three years earlier.
• Wang Jiangtao attacked the Ren Household, seized Ren Anran, drank the secret medicine, and injected her before taking another vial himself.
• Zhang Xuezhou distracted Wang Jiangtao with a medical kit and a terrifying vision, then pulled Ren Anran from beneath a medical bed and pushed her into the stairwell, where she fell quiet.

Zhang Xuezhou survived the Ren Household fire and returned to the secret place, where the Emperor and Empress taught him defensive formulas and he rapidly advanced his cultivation. Back in the hospital, he cultivated during X446 treatment and witnessed Wang Yi'an defeat Wang Haoran as the Wang Household assets came under dispute.

• Wang Jiangtao trapped himself in the explosion-proof coffin, and Ren Wuyang escaped the burning villa with Ren Anran before she recovered and confessed her feelings to Zhang Xuezhou.
• Zhang Xuezhou returned to the Wondrous Dharma Palace, where Divine Lord Zhenyuan and the Golden Crow Great Emperor helped him recover from eating Myriad Dharma Lotus seeds and shared a Golden Dragon Fish with him.
• Zhang Xuezhou entered the True Spirit Realm and learned to extend Law Power, while the Emperor and Empress gave him defensive formulas and studied his Divine Sense Strengthening Incantation.
• Zhang Xuezhou cultivated the Grain Avoidance Instruction and opened thousands of apertures, then awoke in the hospital as Chairman Changkong investigated Wang Jiangtao’s death.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Changkong Luo that he had visited the Ren Household to discuss investing in Flying Entertainment Livestream and that Wang Jiangtao had died in the fire.
• Ren Yisheng secured compensation from the Wang Household, while Ren Wuyang explained that the Mental Strengthening Chapter intensified personal weaknesses and Ren Anran struggled with her forgetfulness.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the X446 medical tank to open 12,648 apertures and speed his recovery as the Wang Household fought over its assets.
• Wang Yi'an defeated Wang Haoran and offered him one share of the family assets to his nine, while Ren Yisheng arranged Wang Haoran’s recovery and Zhang Xuezhou told them the Supreme Purity True Technique could not precisely regrow his tendons.