Recaps

Lu Yang escorted Qin Nanyue home, where her family accepted their relationship, then returned to visit his own family with Mu Yunxue, Liu Yaoyao, and Baili Mingyue. As he helped his family prepare Eastward Prospect Mountain and strengthened his companions through their Beauty Cultivation Plans, Lu Qingtong and Lu Hongdou interrupted his cultivation with a surprise attack.

• Lin Ying exposed Lin Yi, Lin Feiyang, and Lin Qi for using Lu Yang’s name to rob cultivators, then had their cultivation crippled and sent them to apologize to their victims.
• Lu Yang arrived at the Qin Household with Qin Nanyue, introduced himself as her dao companion, and reassured her family with gifts and a respectful welcome.
• Lu Yang helped Qin Nanyue plan a search for Evil Cultivators and Bandit Cultivators, while Jiang Shiqing completed a mission and learned she must enter the Ancient Yue Secret Realm alone to find a black crystal.
• Lu Yang left the Qin Household and traveled to Eastward Prospect Mountain with Mu Yunxue, Liu Yaoyao, Baili Mingyue, and Lu Qingtong.
• Lu Yang introduced Mu Yunxue and Liu Yaoyao as his dao companions to his family, and Liu Qing welcomed both women and gave each a jade bracelet.
• Lu Yang showed Baili Mingyue the Spirit Vein he had planted beneath Eastward Prospect Mountain so she could plan a mountain-protecting formation.
• Lu Yang received powerful cultivation rewards from Mu Yunxue and Liu Yaoyao’s Beauty Cultivation Plans, and gave them new Fortune Traits and cultivation resources.
• Lu Qingtong and Lu Hongdou surprised Lu Yang in the sky, and Lu Qingtong promised to cultivate diligently after he reprimanded her.

Lu Yang strengthened the Lu Household and gave his companions rare treasures and cultivation methods before joining the expedition into the Ancient Yue Secret Realm. He concealed his identity for the adventure, dealt with an attack by Junior Brother Yu, and explored while Lin Ying faced an approaching pursuit.

• Lu Yang supplied the Lu Household with cultivation resources and Longevity-Enhancing Pills, and Lu Sheng increased the cultivators' allocations fivefold.
• Lu Yang gave Mu Yunxue the Metal Spirit Fruit and rewarded Liu Yaoyao, Xu Youling, and Pang Zhao, while Wang Da drove away cultivators drawn by the treasure.
• Lu Yang sent Wang Da and others to hunt practitioners of the Blood Devil Great Art after attacks on mortal settlements caused widespread deaths.
• Lu Yang raised his Spirit Root to transcendent grade and assigned Mu Yunxue and Qin Nanyue treasure-finding tasks in the Ancient Yue Secret Realm.
• Lu Yang gave Su Jinxuan the Golden Radiance Sword Canon while Baili Qiushui and Baili Mingyue worked on Eastward Prospect Mountain's formation.
• Lu Yang joined the sects gathering at the Ancient Yue Secret Realm and asked those who knew him to conceal his identity.
• Lu Yang crippled Junior Brother Yu after his attacks, and Senior Sister Wang killed Yu before Lu Yang swore to keep her act secret.
• Lu Yang explored the secret realm and collected resources, while Lin Ying searched for Golden-Thread Lingzhi and saw two streaks of rainbow light approaching with a gigantic figure in pursuit.

Lin Ying found Golden-Thread Lingzhi and explored a forgotten inheritance with Wenren Yu and Wenren Ge, while Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue uncovered a sealed monster and learned the secret realm’s history. The arc ended with a black pillar erupting ahead, possibly signaling the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost’s emergence.

• Lin Ying helped Wenren Yu and Wenren Ge defeat the White Bone Demon, then followed them to its valley and entered an inheritance cavern where they found treasures, cultivation methods, and spirit pearls.
• Lu Yang reunited with Qin Nanyue after she killed Great Void Sword Sect cultivators who threatened her, and he found an incomplete Spirit Grade Cultivation Method and a damaged ancient bell among their spoils.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue uncovered a chained rotting man beneath the ruins, and Lu Yang fought and killed him before extracting the Greater Yin Sha Qi from the area.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue explored the secret realm, where Lu Yang absorbed gray mist, comprehended the Grand Yin Principle, and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue found two skeletal women from the Mystic Dark Sword Sect, who revealed that the secret realm was once the Heavenly Azure Realm and that Sha Ghosts had invaded from the True Void.
• The senior sister explained that her junior brother had sacrificed himself to seal the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, then entrusted Lu Yang with the sect master ring and asked him to bury her beside her junior sister.
• Lu Yang killed the senior sister at her request and buried both women with Qin Nanyue, then a black pillar erupted ahead as Qin Nanyue wondered whether the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost had appeared.

Lu Yang killed the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghosts and severed the passage between the Heavenly Azure Realm and the Canglan Realm, then returned with the legacies of six ancient factions. Back at the Lu Household, he sorted the inheritances, made plans to help his companions, and grew closer to Su Jinxuan.

• Lu Yang raised his cultivation to the Integrated Body Realm and defeated the Yin Sha Heavenly Ghost, awakening ancient experts across the Heavenly Azure Realm.
• Lu Yang warned cultivators to leave the Ancient Yue Secret Realm, then killed more Yin Sha Heavenly Ghosts and accepted the ancient sects’ legacies.
• Lu Yang and the ancient experts broke the passage to the Canglan Realm, and Lu Yang emerged safely as the secret-realm passage closed.
• Lu Yang confronted Chi Mo over the Great Void Sword Sect’s order to kill him, then had Wang Da kill Chi Mo after confirming the order.
• Lu Yang returned to the Lu Household with Qin Nanyue, Lin Ying, Jiang Shiqing, and Mu Yunxue, and examined the treasures and cultivation methods from six factions.
• Lu Yang found Perilla Flowers for the Wenren sisters, planned to attend the Crimson Cloud Sect’s Dao of Alchemy Convention with Lin Ying, and checked his companions’ cultivation tasks.
• Lu Yang guided Su Jinxuan through the Golden Radiance Sword Canon, kissed her, and left her room when Jiang Shiqing said the others had returned.
• Qin Nanyue recounted her victory over Chi Yun, and Lin Ying noticed that Lu Yang smelled like Supreme Elder Su.