Recaps

Chu Xinghe opened the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce on the Evil Shadow Continent and turned a rigged-drawing scandal into a public vindication, while the Evil Lords’ schemes repeatedly backfired. After leaving the continent with Ma Liang, he took a job escorting Yue Ling toward the Great Liang capital, where poisoned wine and a mistaken funeral accusation threw their journey into chaos.

• Shen Chun built an intelligence network on the Evil Shadow Continent, while Chu Xinghe set the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce opening and the Ten-Colored Spirit Stone drawing only three days apart.
• The Evil Lords and Bai Yu plotted to undermine Chu Xinghe, but Xie Yue’s attempt to discredit the new chamber instead brought it customers after he received generous compensation for a defective sword.
• Chu Xinghe encouraged rumors that the drawing was rigged, then held the drawing under Old Master Wuyang’s supervision as Bai Yu’s hired haters unexpectedly won and defended him.
• Old Master Wuyang used the Fair-Minded Scale to declare the drawing fair, then admitted he had adjusted the scale, leaving the Evil Lords frustrated as their plans and Bai Yu’s group turned against them.
• After the Earth Sha Evil Lord revealed a change in the earth veins, Chu Xinghe delayed his return and traveled with Ma Liang, who accepted Yue Ling’s offer to escort her to the Great Liang capital.
• Black Sha and Meng Er poisoned Yue Ling’s wine, but Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang drank it too, and Yue Ling found the poison-filled tonic nourishing enough to help her break through.
• Meng Er died after eating his own poisoned mixture, and Black Sha fled under accusations of murder while vowing to finish his mission against the travelers.
• At dawn, Yue Ling, Chu Xinghe, and Ma Liang left the restaurant and encountered the Meng Lineage’s funeral procession, where a deflected saber strike split Meng Er’s coffin and his followers accused Black Sha.

Yue Ling traveled toward the Great Liang Kingdom’s capital with Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang while Moon Shadow Cult assassins repeatedly failed to kill her. In Wei City, Tantai Jing met the trio and arranged for Demon Demon Express couriers to discreetly monitor them.

• Black Sha accidentally split Meng Er’s coffin and corpse, escaped the Meng Lineage’s attack, and became the target of their bounty.
• In Gathering Fire City, Black Sha’s challenge drew a crowd of Chu Xinghe impersonators, while Ma Liang secured rooms and Chu Xinghe was rejected from the impersonation competition.
• Night Owl’s ghost emissary entered Zhao Qi and Wan Fang’s room through a teleportation array, broadcasting their private moment and provoking the Gathering Fire Sect to hunt the Moon Shadow Cult.
• At the Huiming Sect, Zhao Qi and Wan Fang destroyed another ghost emissary after it entered their room, and High Person Huiming arranged protection for them.
• The Moon Shadow Cult hired Soul-Returning One Blade to kill Yue Ling, but the assassin fled after sensing the real Chu Xinghe and Ma Liang, prompting the cult to issue a kill order against him.
• Tantai Jing met Chu Xinghe, Ma Liang, and Yue Ling in Wei City, where Yue Ling mistook him for an impersonator and advised him to choose another role.
• Tantai Jing secretly returned to Wei City and persuaded the Demonic Sect elders to use Demon Demon Express couriers to casually monitor the trio by describing Chu Xinghe as his good-for-nothing relative.

Tantai Jing pursued the killers responsible for the deaths of his couriers, while Night Owl and Black Sha became entangled in a disastrous struggle over Yue Ling. Yue Ling revealed her royal identity and the threat facing Great Liang, and the story left her ship surrounded by the White Dragon Navy as the Grow Old Together Trio intervened.

• Tantai Jing investigated the courier killings and captured Jiu Hai, but Qiu Tian killed Jiu Hai and negotiated with Tantai Jing before destroying the Moon Shadow Cult.
• Night Owl and Black Sha formed a contract to continue pursuing Yue Ling, then clashed with the Moon Shadow Cult’s lord and his shadow guards in Water Spirit Valley.
• Yue Ling escaped during the battle, and Night Owl, Black Sha, and their lord joined forces again after learning the Master would punish them for failing.
• The three weakened pursuers used their Blue-Patterned Jiao to chase Yue Ling’s ship down the Canglang River while Li Weihong sent the White Dragon Navy after it.
• Yue Ling told Ma Liang and Chu Xinghe that she was Princess Zhao Yue Ling and that the Vast Heaven Holy Land was backing Great Chang’s invasion of Great Liang.
• Ma Liang and Chu Xinghe chose to stay with Zhao Yue Ling, and Li Weihong surrounded their ship with three warships.
• The Grow Old Together Trio arrived on the Blue-Patterned Jiao, which split a White Dragon warship in two and stunned the pursuers.

Chu Xinghe and his companions uncover Lu Shu’s scheme to sacrifice thirteen cities and restore the stolen souls through the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s formation. The people are saved, and the faith of millions creates a Divinity Seed that fuses with Ma Liang and begins to become the Samsara Divinity.

• The Blue-Patterned Jiao destroyed the White Dragon ships before Li Weihong killed it and died from burning his life, while Black Sha and Night Owl escaped.
• Night Owl died before revealing the Moon Shadow Cult treasuries’ locations, and Black Sha accidentally became a celebrated storyteller in Haotian City.
• Yue Ling returned to the Great Liang Kingdom with Ma Liang and Chu Xinghe, who exposed and killed Wei Wuji and punished officials responsible for the chamber’s unauthorized withdrawal.
• Chu Xinghe and the Phantom Evil Lord tracked Lu Shu to the Great Chang Kingdom, where they discovered he had arranged the war and activated soul-sacrificing formations in thirteen cities.
• Chu Xinghe exposed Xu Wannian as Lu Shu and killed Lu Shu after he offered a sphere containing millions of stolen souls.
• Ma Liang searched Lu Shu’s soul and found that he had gained his powers in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, while Chu Xinghe and the Holy Land prepared a formation to return the stolen souls.
• Chu Xinghe, the White Tiger Holy Venerable, and Ma Liang restored the souls of the thirteen cities, and the people awoke and thanked the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• The people’s faith combined with the Power of the Heavenly Dao to create a Divinity Seed, which fused with Ma Liang and began to form the Samsara Divinity.