Recaps

Mu Fan helped turn the Huaxia Sect’s accusations against the Tai Clan while he investigated the Power That Cannot Be Controlled and uncovered an underground site built around radiation. Lu Changzhi identified its origins as the Tribulation Source of the Immortal-Slaying Clan and explained how the clan’s power arose from a conflict between spirit-forsaken people and cultivators.

• Mu Fan and Zhong Ming set a trap around the Jiang Clan, where Mu Fan disguised himself as Taijun, killed the great red bird, and then faced Tai Jiuling.
• Li Baimei used the Power of Time to show Tai Jiuling’s actions, leading the Huaxia Sect and the Jiang Clan to blame the Tai Clan and spread claims that it had mastered the Power That Cannot Be Controlled.
• Mu Fan and Zhong Ming helped publicize the accusations, while Mu Fan’s scheme also secured a powerful expert’s bones and drew crowds to the Jiang Clan’s display.
• Mu Fan investigated the barren land, recognized its danger as radiation, and followed it underground to an abandoned city and research site containing refined uranium and plutonium-239.
• Mu Fan found a message in Blue Star clerical script, then killed the tall, thin figure who attacked him and discovered a hidden spy inside the man.
• Mu Fan brought records from the underground site to Lu Changzhi, who identified the ancient characters as the history of the Immortal-Slaying Clan and its Tribulation Source.
• Lu Changzhi explained that a spirit-forsaken genius had discovered the power, led his people to seek revenge on cultivators, and helped them prepare a great calamity before a clan member betrayed them to the cultivators.

The Huaxia Sect pressured the Tai Clan to reveal its knowledge of the Power That Cannot Be Controlled, while Mu Fan secretly took Tai Bufan’s skeleton. In the barren land, Tai Jiuling led Gu De to the stones that produced the power, and Gu De touched them unharmed.

• Lu Changzhi told Mu Fan how All Beings Are Equal had spread uncontrollably, while Chu Ping'an learned that the Power That Cannot Be Controlled was radiation and tried to recruit Gu De.
• The Huaxia Sect confronted the Tai Clan, offering access to the Power of Time in exchange for the clan’s research into the Power That Cannot Be Controlled.
• Xia Xiao demonstrated the Power of Time, and the Tai Clan shared its records before the Huaxia Sect demanded to see Tai Bufan’s remains.
• Tai Bufan’s skeleton awakened and fled from Li Baimei, while Mu Fan secretly obtained it and gave it to Zhong Ming.
• Gu De entered the barren land unharmed as Chu Ping'an and the Huaxia Sect’s forces struggled against its effects.
• The Huaxia Sect forced Tai Jiuling into the dangerous land, where Jiang Tong secretly gave him armor that protected him from the power.
• Gu De caught up with Tai Jiuling, and the two followed a voice to a mound of stones and a scroll in the wilderness.
• Gu De touched one of the stones safely, while a voice warned Tai Jiuling that touching them would kill him and Mu Fan noted that Gu De’s ability contradicted the Immortal-Slaying Clan’s understanding.