Recaps

Xu Chunliang repeatedly used his rollback ability to survive eerie threats, grow stronger, and navigate deadly predicaments. After entering a Ruin Realm of Buddhist caves and grotesque beings, he joined Li Baiyi and reached a hillside of inscribed black-stone towers, where they realized they were in danger.

• Xu Chunliang escaped the paper ghost and killed the scholar and female ghosts, then survived Black Eyes by perfecting his saber technique and killing the rabbit-headed figure.
• Xu Chunliang challenged Liu Jie and Jin Jun over his credit, then outmaneuvered them before Zhou Dafu sent him with Shi Qin and Liu Yong to investigate Guo Family Village.
• Xu Chunliang discovered the Scale Immortal was erasing memories and repeatedly died trying to destroy its steelyard, until he became Death itself and erased it.
• Xu Chunliang hunted eerie beings at Spring Rain House, killed Cao Qin and her maid with the power of death, and found himself in Buddhist grottoes with a group of martial artists.
• Xu Chunliang used the golden light to evade the Hair-Strand Weird, then followed the Heart Sutra chant to the Pearl Buddha Maiden and learned her deadly game targeted those near the darkness.
• Xu Chunliang and Li Baiyi attacked the Buddha Maiden, recited the Heart Sutra to move when her chant stopped, and Xu Chunliang used Kiss of Death to weaken a blue eye hidden in the darkness.
• Xu Chunliang and Li Baiyi fled a grove after monk-faced worms emerged from Brother Axe and killed Brother Dao, then found black-stone towers bearing Buddha Script.

Xu Chunliang survived the Buddhist Ruin Realm, confronted Liu Xin and the Scale Immortal, and hunted eerie beings as Fan City descended into a deadly crisis. After the military treatise revealed the emperor’s plan to sacrifice the city, Xu Chunliang led Shi Qin and others into Madam Bamboo’s forest, where they faced a new trial.

• Xu Chunliang and Li Baiyi escaped the Buddhist Ruin Realm after Xu Chunliang used Kiss of Death to destroy its skeleton and human insects, then returned to the city with the pearl’s power and new strength.
• Xu Chunliang told Liu Xin about the Scale Immortal, led Liu Xin and Liu Jiu to Guo Family Village, and escaped after the scale’s darkness killed them and the Scale Immortal claimed his Life Silver.
• Xu Chunliang rescued Yuhu, advanced to the Moon Glow Realm, and survived the Yin Immortals with Blind Chen’s help, while Blind Chen discovered that Human Cook and the Blood Pagodas were preparing a pill for the emperor.
• Xu Chunliang killed the eerie beings at Jade Splendor Pavilion, including Boss Ruyi’s followers, and fled when Yin Immortals filled the streets and a shadow-puppet encounter ensnared him.
• Xu Chunliang broke the Shadow Play’s illusion and met Jin Jun at the Demon-Slaying Bureau, where the military treatise exposed the emperor’s plan to make a Three Corpses Life-Prolonging Pill using Fan City’s people.
• Xu Chunliang rejected the city’s despair, cut the military treatise’s tongue, and left with Shi Qin and three colleagues to seek another route through Fan City.
• Xu Chunliang’s group entered a bamboo grove that repeatedly blocked their path, discovered they had been shrunk, and encountered Madam Bamboo, whose decoy prompted her to threaten Du Qiang with death.