Recaps

After disrupting the immortal’s scheme, Hu Mang pursued cultivation and business matters while preparing to reunite with his mother. In Demon Metropolis, he met old friends and watched Du Renxing attempt a fan-powered breakthrough as officials detected a possible dragon disturber.

• Hu Mang broke through Mingting’s escape attempt, seized the immortal’s glowing fragment, and vanished as powerful presences descended.
• Hu Mang learned that Divine Communication had acquired Electronic Wooden Fish without an agreement, then visited the Mystic Shield Sect to discuss his rights and demonstrate his cultivation methods.
• Hu Mang left the sect after Duanmu Ming summoned him, learned about the ancient Return to the Ruins theory, and prepared to travel to Pine Mountain with Xie Xianyu.
• Hu Mang flew to Demon Metropolis, sparred with Gu Yunshu, and received the sword cultivator’s notes on condensing a Golden Core.
• Hu Mang reunited with his brothers and friends, helped subdue Chen Xiaosan’s female ghost, and learned that a cracked cultivation-method app had exposed the Electronic Wooden Fish’s Bodhi State of Mind.
• Hu Mang tested his spear’s 80% Compatibility, then stayed with his friends to watch Du Renxing attempt to use fans’ Divine Sense for a breakthrough.
• At Heavenly Bund, Hu Mang noticed a powerful Spirit Stone in Du Renxing’s helmet as Xiao Ji reported a possible match between the crowd’s Divine Sense and a dragon disturber.
• Du Renxing’s breakthrough reached a critical point beneath a vast purple-edged vortex while Minister Hong told Xiao Ji to wait before acting.

Hu Mang uncovered a suspected Devil Dao pill network while navigating his family’s plan to marry him to Liu Manqing, and he gained access to forbidden Dragon Vein research and a cache of cultivation treasures. As officials prepared an operation and rival families maneuvered around the engagement banquet, Hu Mang exposed his strength by humiliating Bai Chengwan.

• Du Renxing’s attempt to form a Golden Core failed when he broke off his cultivation, while Hu Mang later stabilized a modified flying sword with Golden Nature.
• Hu Mang returned to Pine Peak, where Mama Hu revealed that his engagement to Liu Manqing was tied to treatment for his illness and explained her efforts to revive Xie Xianyu.
• Hu Mang met Liu Manqing and Huang Jiayou, learned of suspected Bone-Molding Pill smuggling and overseas Devil Dao ties, and arranged for Liu Manqing to supply him with pills to process.
• Liu Wuniang revealed the Ghost Dragon Vein beneath her residence, and Hu Mang used his Tribulation Eyes to disrupt her ghost dragon before negotiating a share of the pill business and an engagement banquet.
• Hu Mang broke the restriction on Daoist Xuanyin’s Storage Bag, acquired its treasures, and learned Profound Yin Devil Fire before investigating an abandoned factory and killing a heavily mechanized demonic cultivator.
• Qian Xiao Long investigated the factory killing as Hu Mang’s party traveled toward the Liu Household, where Brother Li betrayed them and helped Eighth Master Hui’s allies ambush them.
• Hu Mang fought the attackers, but Shi Gandang changed sides and accepted Hu Mang’s order to keep Fourth Aunt Bai’s allies away from the engagement banquet.
• At the banquet, Ji Xiaodao told Hu Mang that their discoveries had tied their fates together, while Hu Mang forced Bai Chengwan to revert into a frightened white hedgehog.

Hu Mang crossed into the ghost city, reunited with Mama Hu, and helped expose the schemes surrounding Iron Gate Pass. Back home, he learned more about the Underworld Bureau and the Grotto-Heaven Project, then began cultivating new devil meridians as he prepared to pursue the Holy Son Cult overseas.

• Eighth Master Hui tried to move the households through the Yin-Yang passage, but Ji Xiaodao severed the Ghost Dragon Vein and Hu Mang was pulled into the Underworld.
• Hu Mang met Chen Xiaosan in Many Gates Garden, learned how its ghost subway connected the ghost cities, and traveled with him to Iron Gate Pass to search for Mama Hu.
• Hu Mang defeated the demonic cultivator’s exoskeleton monsters, rescued the survivors, and helped Chen Xiaosan find Old Ironhead dead with a sword mark through his skull.
• Hu Mang fought through the ghost army formation, took the tiger tally from the Crimson Moon Fox, and escaped with Mama Hu, then discovered Xie Xianyu standing behind him.
• Eighth Master Hui surrendered to Minister Hong and revealed the Grotto-Heaven Project, while Liu Manqing and Liu Wuniang’s fused personality joined the Underworld Bureau.
• Hu Mang learned that the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram was an Innate Law Treasure, lent it to Eighth Master Hui, and decided to go overseas to pursue remnants of the Holy Son Cult.
• Hu Mang refined the Bone-Molding Pills’ Devil Qi, opened the Stone-Flicking Devil Meridians, and developed a Heavenly Devil Field that let him examine and imitate artifacts.
• Hu Mang studied the Yugi Sutra and watched Huang Jiayou’s stepmothers perform a dance through Divine Sense, which ignited a formless fire of desire in his chest.

Hu Mang traveled to the Eastern Sea, joined a dangerous expedition into the Dragon Blood Tide, and forged a powerful new spear technique while collecting rare treasures. After becoming the feared Sea Yaksha and clashing with Golden Core cultivators, he fled a Heavenly Gate pursuit and encountered the ghost ship again.

• Hu Mang left for Ancient Java Island, cultivated aboard the Seagull, and explored the ruins of Demon-Subduing City before reaching Vast Sea Island.
• As the Dragon Blood Tide approached, Hu Mang befriended Xiao Zhu and joined Old Zhu’s crew on the Hidden Boat to search the tide’s outskirts.
• Hu Mang gathered treasures in the tide, killed a devil cultivator pursuing a Flood Dragon Corpse Sha, and volunteered to spar with Qingyezi.
• Hu Mang and Old Zhu explored the tide’s core and killed a Sinking Bone Giant Squid, earning eight Nether Pearls and inspiring Hu Mang to develop the New Four Devil-Subduing Forms.
• Hu Mang survived violent waves at the sea eye, suffered severe injuries, and used Mysterious Yin Rebirth to restore most of his body.
• Disguised as Sea Yaksha, Hu Mang defeated Qin Buzhuo and robbed several Golden Core cultivators, filling ten storage boxes with treasures.
• After sensing danger from Ao Tianhai, Hu Mang fled the Dragon Blood Tide as Lin Zhiying sent the Flood Dragon Hunting Squad after him.
• Hu Mang evaded the squad beneath the sea, where the darkness led him back to the ghost ship.