Recaps

Zhang Xuezhou confronted Ren Yisheng’s supposed twilight years and helped Zhang Manqian survive a traumatic experiment at Professor Luo Hui’s laboratory. As the Sequencer Grand Gathering approached, Zhang Xuezhou investigated the laboratory’s mysterious specimen while Luo Tianming pressed Luo Zhong for the secret of immortality.

• Zhang Xuezhou advanced his cultivation with the Vast Righteous Qi Instruction, while Ren Wuyang discovered that reciting it restored his Law Power and Ren Yisheng invested in Zhang’s proposed medicine.
• Zhang Xuezhou returned to Jishi Medical Center and helped persuade the Changkong Household to restrain Changkong Luo after Ren Yisheng’s confrontation with him left Changkong Luo blind.
• Ren Yisheng and Changkong Luo were confined as the Sequence Committee approved a Twilight Years Mansion, while Ren Anran and Ren Wuyang took on Ren Yisheng’s duties and Zhang Manqian prepared to lead Zhang Xuezhou’s competition team.
• Zhang Manqian joined Luo Hui’s laboratory trials, accepted a Tiger and Crane Blood Agent from Luo Gaogao, and rampaged through the lab before a mysterious head’s mental attack left her seriously injured.
• Ren Anran calmed Zhang Manqian, and Zhang Xuezhou persuaded Luo Hui to fund X432 Repair Technology treatment, though Zhang Manqian could not recover in time to join Luo Gaogao’s team.
• Zhang Xuezhou inspected Luo Hui’s laboratory and suspected the head Zhang Manqian had touched had already been replaced, while Luo Gaogao and Zhu Kuang recommended him for the Scions' Back Garden.
• Luo Hui directed Luo Gaogao and Zhu Kuang to get to know Ding Hao, while Luo Tianming demanded immortality from Luo Zhong, who offered to connect their heads as the means to achieve it.

Zhang Xuezhou and Dong Zhongshu survived a tiger demon and a river ambush, but the Beast Taming Sect battle left the group dead and injured. After Zhang Xuezhou helped Zhang Cigong secure a new identity, he returned to the modern world and began expanding the North Rehe Research Center’s work.

• Zhang Xuezhou returned with Zhang Manqian from her X432 treatment, learned she had advanced in Mental Strengthening, and received an inquiry from Professor Luo Hui about Ren Yisheng’s research.
• Zhang Xuezhou joined Dong Zhongshu’s caravan toward Ba Commandery, where they exposed and fought a tiger demon that had poisoned travelers and controlled villagers.
• Zhang Xuezhou persuaded Xu Yuan that agriculture could help ordinary people, and they agreed to meet in Chang'an City to discuss cooperation.
• The Beast Taming Sect ambushed the caravan on the river, and Dong Zhongshu broke through to the Sole Self Realm before killing Su Fang, though Zhang Debiao and Xu Man died in the fight.
• Zhang Xuezhou found Zhang Cigong at the Beast Taming Sect’s mountain gate and helped him obtain Ruan Qigong’s identity and travel pass.
• Dong Zhongshu warned Zhang Xuezhou that conflicting cultivation powers could cripple him, then considered whether completing the Yin-Yang School’s teachings could resolve his own conflict.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian visited the North Rehe Research Center, where Xu Shengzhi and the researchers accepted a project to breed Black-Tipped Chickens and seek mutagenic radiation.
• Zhang Xuezhou examined a meteorite-like specimen and broke apart a living-seeming drop of gray liquid with the Kunpeng Combat Technique.

Zhang Xuezhou and his companions sought cultivation techniques at the Literary Excellence Pavilion, where the elusive Huang-Lao teachings and a series of sword challenges drew them into the King of Huainan’s affairs. Lei Bei killed Qinglingzi and gained access to the grade-A room, while Jin Chang and Dong Zhongshu turned to Zhang Xuezhou’s memory to help them obtain its secret texts.

• Zhang Xuezhou showed Zhou Yueyan the gray liquid, and Changkong Luo’s ten-million tip brought Flying Entertainment Livestream sudden publicity.
• Zhang Xuezhou helped Wang Li use repeated healing and beatings to strengthen his Black Tortoise Fighting Technique, while arranging new opportunities for Zhang Weimeng’s novels.
• Dong Zhongshu taught Zhang Xuezhou Stone Transformation, then traveled with him to Shouchun to seek techniques at the Literary Excellence Pavilion.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Dong Zhongshu learned the Luck Adding Technique, and Jin Chang joined them in wondering whether higher Huang-Lao teachings held a true secret about fortune.
• Lei Bei defeated Mo Shengqi and Duan Sheli, earning a token that let him enter the grade-A room of the Literary Excellence Pavilion.
• Lei Bei searched the pavilion for fortune, Qi, and Dao scriptures, but returned to the inn pursued by Qinglingzi, who demanded the Horizontal Sword Technique.
• Jin Chang and Dong Zhongshu helped Lei Bei fight Qinglingzi, and Lei Bei killed him with a broken sword to become the King of Huainan’s Household’s second guest elder.
• Lei Bei sought material to complete his inherited technique, while Jin Chang and Dong Zhongshu agreed to split what they learned and proposed that Zhang Xuezhou memorize the grade-A texts.

Zhang Xuezhou traded the Horizontal Sword Technique for access to the King of Huainan’s A-Rank Chamber, where he studied rare manuals and shared the Tomb Scripture with his companions. Back in the modern world, his team turned a politically charged livestream into a screen audition, won the Sequencer Grand Gathering, and left Zuo Teng’s side with a chance at peace but no friendship.

• Dong Zhongshu and Jin Chang argued over presenting the Horizontal Sword Technique, then had Zhang Xuezhou mediate as he memorized the beast-hide scroll and accompanied Lei Bei to the King of Huainan, who summoned him as Dongfang Bubai.
• Zhang Xuezhou traded the technique for access to the A-Rank Chamber, and the King of Huainan granted Tian Jiu and Lei Bei three visits to transcribe it while allowing Zhang Xuezhou into the chamber.
• Zhang Xuezhou memorized the Emperor’s Scripture, the Tomb Scripture, and other Grade A manuals, while Dong Zhongshu translated the Nine Revolutions Qi Uniting Technique and asked Zhang Xuezhou to seek Jin Chang’s Yin-Yang School inheritance.
• Zhang Xuezhou and his companions recited the Tomb Scripture on their journey to the Northern Border, while in the modern world Song Sijia and Zhang Manqian’s team competed without him and defeated their first opponents.
• Song Fengying’s livestream drew huge tips and attention to the Sequencer Grand Gathering, so Zhang Xuezhou proposed presenting the competition as an audition for The Smiling, Proud Wanderer and redirected the broadcast toward the show.
• Zhang Xuezhou’s team defeated Luo Gaogao’s team through Zhang Manqian’s fighting, Song Fengying’s marksmanship, Wang Li’s durability, and Zhang Xuezhou’s techniques, then advanced through the later rounds as Zhang Manqian overwhelmed Xu Zhihui’s ambush.
• A Swath Lying Down won the gathering, prompting Ren Yisheng to combine Mental Strengthening with Realm Technique and explore beyond his body before a binding force pulled him back.
• Zhang Xuezhou’s team defeated Zuo Teng’s side in the final, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed they would not be enemies if Zuo Teng stopped targeting them, and Zhang Manqian then challenged Changkong Shenguang, who conceded the championship.