Recaps

Zhang Xuezhou left Kunlun under orders to investigate Emperor Jing and reached Shu, where Dong Zhongshu suspected the emperor in Chang’an was an impostor. He joined Dong Zhongshu and Wen Weng’s hunt for a Ba Snake, which survived the battle and fled into the Jian River as Zhu Shiyin resolved to forge his own fate.

• Zhang Xuezhou healed Ren Wuyang’s cut, helped restore Zhang Weimeng’s memories, and later shared the Mental Strengthening Chapter with the Golden Crow Emperor, who learned that Zhang was godson to the Golden Toad Dharma King.
• The Golden Toad Dharma King revealed that Zhu Jiuyin had ordered Zhang to investigate Emperor Jing in Chang’an, so the sovereign let Zhang leave Kunlun and told him to claim Golden Crow had detained Feiyu for a hundred years.
• Feiyu carried Zhang toward Chang’an but was struck by lightning, while Zhang used the Lightning Avoidance Instruction to open 17,967 acupoints before landing near a city.
• Zhang met Dong Zhongshu at Wen Weng’s academy in Bashu, where Dong questioned him about Emperor Jing’s battle with the Exalted One and suspected the emperor in Chang’an was an impostor.
• Wen Weng told Dong Zhongshu about a Ba Snake threatening the Great Peace Weir, and Dong agreed to hunt it for its gallbladder while warning Zhang that Chang’an could be dangerous.
• Dong Zhongshu, Wen Weng, Zhang Shu, and Zhao Liang attacked the Ba Snake, but it blinded Wen Weng and Dong Zhongshu and swallowed Wen Weng’s horse before the two men escaped.
• Zhang watched the Ba Snake recover and flee, then it spotted him and swallowed his abandoned horse, and Zhu Shiyin’s eye began regenerating, and he entered the Jian River determined to take control of his fate.

Zhang Xuezhou helped Dong Zhongshu and Wen Weng hunt the Ba Snake, seized its eye, and learned Confucian cultivation from Dong Zhongshu. Back in reality, he advanced his mental power while the Ren family explored Realm Entry, treated Wang Haoran, and prepared for the Sequencer Grand Gathering, as Zhang Manqian suffered a disturbing hallucination.

• Dong Zhongshu taught Zhang Xuezhou the Vast Righteous Qi Instruction in exchange for learning the Drowsiness Technique, and Zhang later taught him feng shui surveying to help locate the Ba Snake.
• Dong Zhongshu and Wen Weng ambushed the Ba Snake at Great Peace Weir, but it escaped after Dong Zhongshu injured its eye and Wen Weng froze it.
• Zhang Xuezhou pursued the Ba Snake’s floating eyeball, shrank it into the Eye of the Ba Snake, and used it to manifest the Kunpeng Combat Technique before being rescued from the river.
• After waking in reality, Zhang Xuezhou learned Ren Wuyang had injured himself trying the Sunflower Manual, while Ren Anran began considering how Realm Techniques could guide cultivation.
• Zhang Xuezhou discovered that Law Power let him leap and glide, reached the True Spirit Realm, and accepted X432 treatment from Ren Yisheng, during which he advanced his Mental Strengthening Chapter and sensed the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon within him.
• Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated his mental power on Ren Wuyang and offered to help train people in Realm Entry, while Ren Yisheng guided Zhang Weimeng and later sought help testing whether Song Fengying could restore Song Bu’er and Qin Wenhan.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Wuyang used the Supreme Purity True Technique to help restore movement in Wang Haoran’s severed hand tendon, and Ren Anran pointed out how better casting could strengthen the healing effect.
• Ren Wuyang agreed to discuss a rescue job with Wang Li as Flying Entertainment Livestream’s casino network brought in large commissions, while Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian prepared for the Sequencer Grand Gathering and she experienced a frightening hallucination.

Zhang Xuezhou survived Song Xianzhong’s rampage and returned to the Han world, where he recovered, pursued Grain Avoidance Powder, and relayed intelligence about Emperor Jing. The stretch ended with Dong Zhongshu witnessing righteous Qi rise from Zhang Xuezhou as he recited the Vast Righteous Qi Instruction.

• Zhang Xuezhou learned that Zhang Manqian’s visions could foretell possible events and began cultivating techniques in reality while awaiting Song Fengying’s recovery.
• Song Xianzhong went mad and attacked the Song Household, trapping Zhang Xuezhou, Zhang Manqian, and their companions in the shooting range.
• Song Xianzhong detonated explosives across the Imperial City District, but Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian survived the blast and later helped Zhou Xin subdue him with Song Bu’er’s ambush.
• Ren Yisheng treated the injured Zhang Xuezhou, who blacked out and woke seven days later in the Han world with Dong Zhongshu, Wen Weng, and Pockmarked Wang Er.
• Zhang Xuezhou confirmed that the black pearl was the Ba Snake’s missing eye, then traded his Law Treasure fan to help make a balance Law Artifact for measuring Grain Avoidance Powder ingredients.
• Zhang Xuezhou successfully refined Three-Day Grain Avoidance Powder, while Kong Ning carried his report that Emperor Jing had gone mad to the Venerable One.
• Emperor Jing told Liu Che that his uncle’s Fuxi Eight Trigrams reading gave Great Han a chance to endure and warned him of threats including Zhu Jiuyin and powerful factions at court.
• Zhang Xuezhou cultivated the Grain Avoidance Technique and recited the Vast Righteous Qi Instruction, drawing green Qi that Dong Zhongshu noticed.

Zhang Xuezhou learned Confucian cultivation, treated the injured in Shu Commandery City, and helped expose the Ba Snake behind Zhao Liang’s curse. After earning money and trading for Wen Weng’s Immobilize Character Scroll, he left with Dong Zhongshu toward the Northern Border, where Ren Yisheng began a customized treatment to advance his cultivation.

• Dong Zhongshu taught Zhang Xuezhou the Vast Righteous Qi Instruction and explained that reciting Confucian scriptures could restore his Law Power and guide cultivation.
• Zhao Liang hallucinated that diners were Ba Snakes and slashed Zhang Shu, whom Zhang Xuezhou healed with the Supreme Purity True Technique.
• Grandpa Jiang briefly calmed Zhao Liang, but a great Yao escaped the Zhao Household, and Kong Ning identified Zhao Liang’s condition as a demon’s curse.
• Venomous creatures spread through Shu Commandery City, and Zhang Shu revealed Grandpa Jiang as a white python before the Ba Snake attacked the city and fled.
• Zhang Xuezhou set up a paid treatment stall, healed Master Zhao, and earned money for medicinal ingredients while the Zhao Household sought help for Zhao Liang.
• Dong Zhongshu tracked the Ba Snake, who called himself Jiang Qi and left Shu Commandery as Kong Ning pursued him.
• Zhang Xuezhou retrieved the Eye of the Ba Snake and traded it to Wen Weng for the Immobilize Character Scroll, then joined Dong Zhongshu’s journey north under the alias Dongfang Shuo.
• At the Academy District Medical Center, Ren Yisheng gave Zhang Xuezhou customized X446 treatment with avian blood serum, and Zhang Xuezhou began advancing his Grain Avoidance Technique in the True Spirit Realm.