Recaps

The new emperor destroyed Shi Wudao and took steps to reshape the court, while Zhang Xuezhou helped Rong Tianding recover and sought ways to manage his bad luck. After returning to the modern world and studying Ren Anran’s Mental Strengthening method, Zhang joined an expedition that uncovered a dangerous giant centipede in a cave.

• The new emperor and his allies destroyed Shi Wudao, and the emperor began rewarding Zhao Wan, Wang Zang, and Dong Zhongshu while seeking Shen Peigong’s service.
• Rong Tianding died from the Southern Brightness Fire, but Zhang Xuezhou used the Ancestral Dragon’s Essence Blood and a woman’s medicinal powder to restore his body and help retrieve his soul.
• A beautiful middle-aged woman led Zhang Xuezhou to a tomb cauldron said to cleanse bad luck, where he treated the injured Wei Shao'er after Pilan helped purge her demonizing pill.
• Wei Shao'er brought Zhang Xuezhou into Chang'an, where he reunited with Wei Qing and Rong Tianding, while Dong Zhongshu’s fortunes worsened and he later asked Rong Tianding for medicine money.
• Back in the modern world, Zhang Xuezhou studied Ren Anran’s revised Mental Strengthening method and learned that she could send out her Yang Corporeal Soul.
• Ren Anran and Zhang Xuezhou joined Tuer Kalanduo and others to search karst caves for Soul Jade, but falling stalactites revealed a trapped giant centipede.
• The centipede broke free after resisting their attacks and unleashing a mental assault, forcing the group to flee as Zhang Xuezhou plunged into a deep pool and Tuer Kalanduo pulled him underwater.

Zhang Xuezhou discovered Spirit Jade and tested its power before returning to Chang’an, where he helped Dong Zhongshu confront his defeat and pursue a new path through secret techniques. Dong Zhongshu left with a possible solution to his own condition, while Zhang Xuezhou began building ties with Xu Yuan and considered the strange balance of fortune in his life.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Tuer Kalanduo killed the poison-spewing millipede, and he discovered that Spirit Jade could aid cultivation.
• Zhang Xuezhou tested Ren Anran’s inscription on Spirit Jade with Law Power and found he could reshape and control the jade remotely.
• Dong Zhongshu revealed that Shen Peigong had defeated him and forced him to leave Chang’an, then sought access to secret techniques and the Fortune Technique Letting Be.
• Dong Zhongshu met the new emperor and entered the secret library, where he had Zhang Xuezhou memorize scriptures and found Letting Be on a bronze plate.
• Zhang Xuezhou carried Dong Zhongshu out of Chang’an, where they encountered Holy Mother Wudang and Pilan and negotiated a truce by offering information about Ten Yin Holy Son.
• Dong Zhongshu explained King Yu’s Nine Cauldrons and the Treasure-Seeking Technique, then recognized that Zhang Xuezhou’s Yang Corporeal Soul Transformation Technique might help his condition.
• Dong Zhongshu departed to study the technique, while Zhang Xuezhou returned to Wei Shao’er’s residence and proposed opening a pharmacy with Xu Yuan.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding agreed to help Xu Yuan enter Chang’an and build ties with the Xu family, then returned to the inn and encountered a sword-wounded visitor seeking a doctor.

Zhang Xuezhou treated wounded nobles in Chang'an, learned that Rong Tianding's Ancestral Dragon blood made him a target, and returned to Western Capital City to advance his research. The stretch left Zhang Xuezhou undergoing a dangerous surge of Law Power after consuming a large dose of experimental Spirit-Forging Pill liquid.

• Zhang Xuezhou used Chen Zhang's memories to discover that Wei Shao'er had arranged his injury to meet him, then helped her secure a meal with Chen.
• Wei Shao'er took Chen Zhang's money, while Zhang Xuezhou treated Chen and later the Marquis of Quni, who paid him and recognized his skill.
• Tian Tian and Zhou Jiande sought Zhang Xuezhou's treatment, and after Tian Fen questioned him about his connection to Li Guang, Zhang decided to close his practice and relocate.
• Hongku's junior brother asked Zhang Xuezhou to treat him, then vanished as Li Guang and Cheng Bushi arrived in pursuit of the Immortal Court expert.
• Zhang Xuezhou refused to join Zhang Qian's mission to Xiong State and recommended Wu Chao as a guide, while Yao Yuanguang revealed that Rong Tianding's Ancestral Dragon blood had drawn the Immortal Court's attention.
• Yao Yuanguang proposed taking Rong Tianding to the Eastern Heavenly Gate, and Yuan Gu warned Zhang Xuezhou that his spirit faced danger before giving him an ancient poetry scroll for protection.
• Back in Western Capital City, Zhang Xuezhou ate Black-Tipped Chicken with Zhang Manqian and the institute staff, while Zhang Manqian experienced visions involving Tuer Kalanduo and Zhang Xuezhou.
• Wang Haoran sent research equipment to the B13 Research Institute, and medicinal ingredients arrived for Zhang Xuezhou's Spirit-Forging Pills.
• Zhang Xuezhou made a potent but bitter substitute pill liquid, drank nearly twenty doses, and hallucinated until Zhang Manqian helped him expel blackish water as Law Power surged through his body.

Zhang Xuezhou used his new cultivation and medical skills to help Wang Haoran, then accompanied Rong Tianding to the Supreme One Palace, where a failed experiment led to a dangerous divination. The divination trapped Zhang in the river of time, and a voice of benevolence finally interrupted an attempt to kill him.

• Zhang Xuezhou broke through to the Consciousness Creation Realm and removed the toxins from his pill liquid, then taught Zhang Manqian how numbered acupoints could simplify instruction in the Poison Avoidance Art.
• Zhang Xuezhou restored much of Wang Haoran’s right-hand strength and advertised treatment under the Tuer God’s name, while Wang Haoran offered to protect him on a future Qinmeng expedition.
• Zhang Xuezhou gave Wang Haoran the Poison Avoidance Art and proposed combining cultivation, a Law Treasure, and genetic abilities to help him pursue the Sixth Sequence.
• Yao Yuanguang brought Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding to the Supreme One Palace, where Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds planned to extract Rong’s Ancestral Dragon’s Essence Blood for an experiment.
• Nezha disrupted the palace formation, and its collapse released Spiritual Qi while the painting demon consumed Rong Tianding’s blood and gained a fuller body.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Yao Yuanguang performed a Physiognomy Technique on Nezha and saw a future in which Nezha died, but the backlash left Zhang unconscious and drew his souls into the river of time.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds learned that Nezha faced a death tribulation in a little over twenty years, while Yao Yuanguang began searching for Zhang Xuezhou’s missing souls with the Star-Fixing Technique.
• The Venerable One entered the river of time to reach Zhang Xuezhou, but the Saint made the river vanish, and a voice saying “Benevolence” stopped the Venerable One’s killing intent.