Recaps

Yunxi left the Special Department and settled in the film city while she waited for answers, as the department began secretly monitoring her. Meanwhile, Xun Kun was thrown onto Azure Star and rescued from a swimming pool by Miss Daphne Sack.

• Yunxi refused to stay at the Demonic Sky Tower, called Lan Lan, and asked her to find a pet-friendly place for her in the film city.
• The middle-aged man ordered his subordinates to investigate Ranxi after learning that the thirty-two ghosts she had handled could be reincarnated without purification.
• Gongsun Jing and Gongsun Ming volunteered to monitor Yunxi, and the minister ordered them to follow her without alerting her while he returned to headquarters.
• Yunxi sent messages to Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen, but received no replies and found that the Buddhist bead had not reacted.
• Xun Kun's protective Jade Talisman shattered when he arrived on Azure Star, and he fell unconscious into Miss Daphne Sack's swimming pool.
• Miss Daphne ordered her butler to keep Xun Kun alive until he woke so she could make him repay her for saving him.

After recovering from his severe injuries at Sack Manor, Xun Kun learned that Daphne had saved him and refused her request to remove his mask. He realized he was far from the Weiyu Realm, and the chapter ended when a scream from the villa sent Daphne and the butler rushing away.

• Xun Kun woke at Sack Manor, used pills and a demonic stone to heal himself, and discovered he could not sense Demonic Qi in the unfamiliar world.
• Daphne and her butler found Xun Kun awake, and he asked whether they had seen his missing companions.
• Daphne demanded to see Xun Kun's face as repayment for saving him, but he refused and explained that only his fated lover could remove his mask.
• The butler suspected Xun Kun belonged to the Special Department, while Xun Kun sent messages to his companions with a Message Jade Slip and concluded he was far from the Weiyu Realm.
• A scream from inside the villa made Daphne and the butler rush toward Young Master Benjamin, and Xun Kun followed after sensing the young man's unstable divine soul.

Xun Kun saved Benjamin from his self-destructive episode by purifying and healing his divine soul, then asked the Sack Family for Azure Star’s history. Meanwhile, Han Lian’s buried Ice Coffin was discovered and transported toward the capital.

• Benjamin tried to kill himself, but Xun Kun stopped him and agreed to treat him after Daphne promised the Sack Family would repay him.
• Xun Kun removed the resentment, foul miasma, and painful memory fragments from Benjamin’s divine soul, then used a grain of Merit to restore it.
• Xun Kun told Daphne that Benjamin would recover and asked the butler to gather all information about Azure Star from the past hundred years.
• Xun Kun learned that Azure Star had neither Spiritual Qi nor Demonic Qi and was a low-level plane, making it harder to find his companions.
• Han Lian used her Ice Coffin to survive her arrival on Azure Star, where drones detected it buried in the desert and it was excavated for transport to the capital.

After waking in a research base on Azure Star, Han Lian learned that she was far from the Weiyu Realm and questioned Professor Huang about her new surroundings. She went with him to his office to ask more, as alarms sounded elsewhere in the base.

• Han Lian opened the Ice Coffin and silenced the room’s alarms after the scientists debated how to handle her.
• Han Lian escaped the guards’ encirclement and caught up with Professor Huang and the other researchers.
• Professor Huang told Han Lian that her Ice Coffin had been found in the desert on Azure Star three days earlier.
• Han Lian froze the guards’ guns, then asked Professor Huang to take her somewhere private to answer her questions.
• Professor Huang led Han Lian toward his office as alarms rang through the research base again.

Han Lian learned that Azure Star’s people had invented a process to recycle souls into new bodies, creating soulless monsters when souls dissipated. Realizing the world was cut off from the Underworld, she contacted her companions and stayed at the research base while Buddha Son Yunchen arrived elsewhere on Azure Star.

• Captain Chen warned Han Lian and Professor Huang that escaped test subjects were approaching, and Han Lian killed the monsters with Ice Needles.
• Han Lian tried to read a monster’s memories, then went with Professor Huang to his office and spent the day studying Azure Star’s history and research.
• Professor Huang explained that Azure Star reclaimed souls and placed them into new mothers’ wombs, and that failed Reincarnation could produce soulless children who became monsters.
• Han Lian concluded that Azure Star was disconnected from the Underworld and that its man-made Reincarnation was causing the abnormalities.
• Han Lian sent a message to her companions and remained at the research base, while Buddha Son Yunchen landed in a scenic mountain area and was rescued by a park ranger.

After waking in a world with almost no Spiritual Qi, Yun Chen learned about the Extreme Death Sect and followed Song Hao into the mountains to stop four people from destroying their bodies and souls. He halted their self-immolation, but two mysterious arrivals captured all four souls in a metal box, stirring Yun Chen’s own divine soul.

• Song Hao told Yun Chen about the Extreme Death Sect, and Yun Chen sent messages to Ranxi and his other companions while recovering at the ranger’s cabin.
• After restoring himself, Yun Chen learned that people had entered the uninhabited mountains and went with Song Hao to find them.
• Yun Chen discovered four people attempting self-immolation and extinguished the flames before immobilizing the two who tried to set the others alight again.
• The two captives explained that they wanted their souls destroyed rather than placed in new bodies, and Song Hao said he had called the police.
• Two black-clad figures arrived and used a metal box to draw the souls from all four people, causing Yun Chen’s divine soul to stir.

Yun Chen confronted two ordinary people posing as Soul Reapers and agreed to go with them to the Special Department headquarters to clarify their soul-collecting practices. Meanwhile, Yunxi and Lili investigated Azure Star’s human-managed reincarnation system, and Yunxi asked Xia Mengmeng whether she had found someone.

• Yun Chen smashed a Soul Reaper’s box, gathered the escaping ghosts, and challenged the two agents’ authority to collect souls.
• Yun Chen agreed to accompany the Soul Reapers to the Special Department headquarters, and Song Hao went with them.
• Yun Chen realized why Azure Star seemed strange as Yunxi, Yun Chen, and their companions drew closer to reuniting through their separate encounters with the Special Department.
• Lan Lan explained that red pandas were nearly extinct on Azure Star, and Yunxi let her pet and photograph Lili.
• Yunxi and Lili discussed how humans managed reincarnation on Azure Star and the possible consequences for other forms of life.
• Xia Mengmeng joined Yunxi in the RV, took a photo with Lili, and Yunxi asked whether she had found the person Yunxi was seeking.

Yunxi agreed to appear in the drama “July Seventh” so her missing companions might recognize her and make contact. Her scene aired across Azure Star, but she still had not heard from them.

• Xia Mengmeng told Yunxi that the police had no records of Han Lian and the other two, and suggested Yunxi appear in a popular drama to draw them out.
• Yunxi accepted a guest role in “July Seventh” and asked to keep the filming to one day.
• Yunxi wore her red dharma robe and brought the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella, impressing Director Lian and the crew.
• Yunxi filmed a scene in which her character captured Xia Mengmeng’s red-clad female ghost, then revealed her face to the female lead before vanishing.
• Yunxi continued waiting for her companions’ reply while the Special Department’s agents secretly monitored her.
• The episode aired across Azure Star, and Yunxi’s final shot made her famous.

Xun Kun arranged to leave Sack Manor and be reunited with Ranxi, while Han Lian decided to leave the desert research base after recognizing Ranxi on television. At Special Department headquarters, Yun Chen condemned Azure Star’s Reincarnation practices and warned that they could turn the planet into a Ghost Domain.

• Mr. and Mrs. Sack learned that Benjamin had recovered, while the butler warned Mr. Sack that Xun Kun’s identity and motives were unclear.
• Xun Kun asked the Sacks to send him to Ranxi, whom he identified as his companion, and Mr. Sack agreed to arrange his departure the next day.
• Han Lian recognized Ranxi in a supernatural drama and told Professor Huang she was leaving the research base, warning that she would fight her way out if stopped.
• Yun Chen learned how Azure Star handled Reincarnation and said the unchecked accumulation of karmic burdens was causing shortened lifespans and abnormalities.
• A middle-aged man asked whether Azure Star would become a Ghost Domain within a hundred years, and Yun Chen acknowledged that he understood the danger.

Yun Chen met Elder Nan, who asked him to help solve Azure Star’s failing reincarnation system, and went with Ruo Bai to find Ranxi. Meanwhile, Ranxi reunited with Xun Kun at the film studio, and he left Daphne a protective talisman before joining Ranxi in her RV.

• Yun Chen told Elder Nan he needed to meet Ranxi before agreeing to help, then released the divine souls he had collected.
• Elder Nan explained to his assistants that the reincarnation system was nearing collapse and hoped Yun Chen and Ranxi could find a new way forward.
• Ranxi stayed in Xia Mengmeng’s RV to avoid the crowds gathering around her, then received a message from Xun Kun and went to meet him.
• Ranxi and Xun Kun reunited at the film studio and agreed to talk in her RV.
• Xun Kun thanked Daphne Sack for helping him, gave her a protective Jade Talisman, and boarded Ranxi’s RV.

Daphne learned that Sack suspected Xun Kun had come from another time or world, while Xun Kun and Yunxi reunited in the RV and compared how they had been transported to Azure Star. Yunxi proposed returning to the Weiyu Realm by borrowing a route through the Underworld.

• Sack told Daphne that Xun Kun had left no records in Azure Star and might not be from the year 2090, and he urged her to stop dwelling on him.
• Gongsun Jing and Gongsun Ming treated Xun Kun's meeting with Ranxi as a priority and sent his photographs to the analysis department.
• Xun Kun learned from Yunxi that Lili was a fourth-rank red panda who could see his merit light and black-gold divine soul.
• Yunxi explained that she had angered the evil cultivators by contracting with the Misty Snow Region's Realm Spirit and had accidentally pulled Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen into the black hole.
• Yunxi told Xun Kun that the Misty Snow Region Secret Realm was temporarily inaccessible and proposed using a route through the Underworld to return to the Weiyu Realm.

Yunxi and Xun Kun discussed how Azure Star’s broken reincarnation system might be repaired, then reunited with Han Lian and learned more about the soulless monsters created by its manipulation of life and death. Lili revealed that the soldiers guarding Han Lian had clean but unnaturally thin divine souls, leaving the group facing a worsening crisis.

• Yunxi explained that she could summon the Black and White Impermanence with Soul Incense, while she and Xun Kun discussed the severed connection between Azure Star and the Underworld and the damage to reincarnation.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun received Han Lian’s message two days later and met her under military guard.
• Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Lian left in an RV, where Yunxi activated an Isolation Formation Disk and Han Lian shared what she had learned about Azure Star.
• Han Lian showed a recording of herself fighting soulless monsters from a laboratory, and Xun Kun concluded that the creatures could be turned into Evil Puppets.
• Han Lian warned that the monsters could spread as divine souls were Annihilated, and Lili said the soldiers’ divine souls were clean but thin and could not be reincarnated.

Yunxi and her companions concluded that Azure Star selectively purified some reclaimed divine souls to preserve powerful institutions, and they waited for the Special Department to reveal more. After learning that Yun Chen was at the department, they agreed to go there and reunite with him.

• Yunxi explained that the military personnel's purified souls suggested Azure Star selectively purified souls for people in important positions, and Han Lian said she wanted to investigate the method.
• Xia Mengmeng said her filming had ended, and Yunxi arranged for Lan Lan to serve as her driver until another friend arrived.
• The Gongsun brothers and Captain Chen discovered that the Special Department and military were both monitoring Han Lian and her companions, while the brothers reported their findings to Ruo Bai.
• Ruo Bai showed Yun Chen photos of Xun Kun and Han Lian, and Yun Chen recognized them as his companions and asked the minister to invite them to meet.
• The Gongsun brothers visited Yunxi and showed her that Yun Chen was at the Special Department, prompting Han Lian and Xun Kun to accuse them of threatening the group.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, and Xun Kun agreed to go to the Special Department to meet Yun Chen and hear the minister's answers.

Yunxi, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen reunited at the Special Department, where Minister Ruobai explained how artificial Reincarnation began on Azure Star. The account ended with the scientist who pioneered it losing both his wife’s soul and his sanity.

• Yunxi and her companions traveled with Lan Lan and Captain Chen’s group to the Special Department’s skyscraper.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, and Xun Kun speculated that Yun Chen had encountered Soul Reapers while investigating Azure Star.
• Yunxi and the others reached the top floor and reunited with Yun Chen, then sat down with Minister Ruobai to talk.
• Yunxi insisted that Lan Lan stay in the office, while the Gongsun brothers and Captain Chen’s group waited outside.
• Minister Ruobai said Reincarnation problems had grown more common over the past twenty years, and Xun Kun asked how Azure Star had gained control over Reincarnation.
• Minister Ruobai traced the practice to a scientist surnamed Xie, whose attempt to revive his dead wife through a clone ended with her soul vanishing and both of them going mad.

Minister Ruobai explained how Azure Star developed and controlled artificial Reincarnation, and how the scarcity of Purification Crystals had put the planet on a path toward extinction. Yunxi learned that Elder Nan believed only she and her companions could help, and asked Lan Lan whether they should intervene.

• Yunxi and the others privately discussed the origins of the Reincarnation technology while Minister Ruobai recounted how Xie's assistant perfected it.
• Minister Ruobai explained that Azure Star established the Reincarnation System to control population growth and used it to implant souls into infants.
• Minister Ruobai revealed that dwindling Purification Crystals forced the department to purify some souls only partially, and that Azure Star could become a dead planet within a hundred years.
• Yun Chen explained that Elder Nan led the Reincarnation Department and was nearing the end of his life, while Minister Ruobai said Elder Nan had asked him to cooperate with Yunxi's group.
• Yunxi asked Lan Lan whether they should help Azure Star and warned that her family might have to pay a very great price; Lan Lan realized this was why Yunxi had hired her temporarily.

Lan Lan revealed her ties to Azure Star’s ruling family and agreed to report the group’s demands, while Yunxi and her companions settled beside the Special Department. The group discussed how to address Azure Star’s Reincarnation crisis and planned to seek a way through the Underworld’s Ghost Gate.

• Yun Chen warned Lan Lan that the group would not help Azure Star only to be betrayed, and Yunxi explained how she had deduced Lan Lan’s identity and learned her soul would dissipate after she turned forty.
• Lan Lan confirmed that she belonged to Azure Star’s ruling family, and Han Lian asked her to return home and learn her family’s decision.
• Yunxi let Lan Lan take Lili home and told Minister Ruobai that the group would stay near the Special Department while awaiting her reply.
• Yunxi set up the Capsule Dharma House beside the Special Department, then explained her discovery about the Secret Realm to Han Lian and Yun Chen.
• Han Lian and Yun Chen discussed the danger posed by the monsters and Azure Star’s Reincarnation system, while Xun Kun proposed destroying the system and seeking passage through the Ghost Gate.

The Special Department and military learned that Yunxi’s group of four had reunited, while the Azure Family faced Lan Lan’s discovery that she might not live past forty. The chapter ended with Lan Lan’s family demanding to know why the Azure Family should pay the price to save Azure Star.

• Ruobai told the Gongsun siblings not to disturb Yunxi’s group and assigned them to investigate the man in black while he contacted the military about Han Lian.
• Captain Chen told Academician Noske that Han Lian had reunited with three companions, prompting Noske to order him to keep watch over all four Visitors from Beyond.
• Captain Chen and his deputy admitted they could not hold back Han Lian and her companions, and that Noske’s plan to use Han Lian as a research subject could not proceed.
• Lan Lan returned to the Azure Family estate with Lili and waited until her family came home.
• Lan Lan asked her parents whether they knew she would not live past forty, then explained that Ranxi had said the Azure Family would have to pay an enormous price to save Azure Star.
• Lan Lan’s family members protested that the Azure Family should not have to pay.

Wei Lanlan persuaded Wei Lansong to meet Ranxi about Azure Star’s Reincarnation System, while Ranxi and her companions prepared to open the Secret Realm and return to the Weiyu Realm. The chapter ended with the group gathering spirit plants and hair samples for personalized breakthrough potions and genetic enhancement agents.

• Wei Lanlan told the Azure Family what she had learned from the Special Department, and Wei Lansong agreed to meet Ranxi.
• Wei Lanlan arranged a video call, and Wei Lansong asked Ranxi to visit his residence the next day to discuss the Reincarnation System.
• Ranxi told Han Lian to locate the Original Ghost Gate so they could prepare the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation and release White Peak.
• Yun Chen warned that the four cultivators lacked enough strength to activate the formation, and Xun Kun said he still needed to reach the Void-Traversal Realm.
• Ranxi offered to refine personalized Breakthrough Potions, explaining that the group needed the Void-Traversal Realm to keep their divine souls separated from their bodies in the Underworld.
• Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen gathered spirit plants, and Ranxi requested their hair samples for personalized genetic enhancement agents from Star Trek.

Yunxi arrived at the Azure Family estate to retrieve Lili and speak with Wei Lan, but Wei Liang tried to detain her with armed guards. Yunxi killed Wei Liang’s soul and vanished, leaving the guards immobilized as Wei Lansong returned.

• Yunxi evaded surveillance, reached the Azure Family estate, and learned from Lili that Wei Liang was trying to control the family’s response.
• Lili broke Lan Lan out of her locked room, and she followed him to the Reception Hall, where Yunxi said she planned to leave because the family had not reached an agreement.
• Wei Liang surrounded Yunxi with armed guards and declared that he intended to keep her there, while Lan Lan objected.
• Yunxi pulled Wei Liang’s soul from his body and burned it away with Ziyan, then disappeared as the guards remained immobilized.
• Lan Lan called for a doctor and ordered the guards to leave, and Wei Lansong returned to find Wei Liang collapsed.

After Wei Liang died trying to force Ranxi to stay, Yunxi reunited with Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun and told Minister Ruobai they planned to leave while continuing their investigation. They departed the Special Department branch after warning Captain Chen to guard the base and deal with the monsters.

• Lan Lan told Wei Lansong that Wei Liang had collapsed after angering Ranxi, and Doctor Shen confirmed that Wei Liang was dead while the guards gradually recovered from being frozen.
• Yunxi told Lili that she would avoid the Azure Family for now and that the families supporting the Reincarnation System would eventually pay for their actions.
• Han Lian told Yun Chen and Xun Kun that Ranxi's negotiations with the Azure Family had failed and that the group would visit Elder Nan at the Special Department headquarters.
• Yunxi reunited with Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun, then told Minister Ruobai that Wei Liang's corrupted divine soul could not reincarnate and that they would leave after arranging their next steps.
• Han Lian told Captain Chen that they were leaving and instructed him to guard the base and eliminate the monsters if possible.

The Azure Family and the Special Department failed to track down Han Lian, Ranxi, and their companions after they vanished with their residence. At Zone C headquarters, Elder Nan revealed that he had traveled from Azure Star’s future to prevent the Reincarnation System, but his mission had failed.

• The Azure Family found the residence gone and learned from Minister Ruobai that Ranxi had left to avoid a confrontation.
• Captain Chen told Noske that Han Lian had spoken to him and that he remembered nothing afterward, while Wei Lansong ordered the search for Han Lian to continue.
• The Azure Family declared Wei Liang dead from overwork, and the four companions arrived at Zone C headquarters to meet Elder Nan.
• Yunxi used Spiritual Qi to strengthen Elder Nan, who said he had seen portraits and achievement steles of Yun Chen and Han Lian from five hundred years in the future.
• Elder Nan explained that Yun Chen and Han Lian had died delaying Azure Star’s destruction, and that he had traveled back to stop the Reincarnation technology from being developed.
• Elder Nan said a timing error meant he arrived after the technology had already been developed, and that he had only managed to make the Xie couple die one after the other.

Yunxi and the others understood how Elder Nan had taken control of the Reincarnation System to delay Azure Star’s destruction until the saviors arrived. After seeing the system’s core and its inadequate purification of divine souls, they questioned whether its equipment should be destroyed.

• Yunxi explained that Elder Nan had made himself responsible for the Reincarnation System to keep it from becoming a tool of the powerful while waiting for the saviors.
• Yunxi, Xun Kun, Yun Chen, and Han Lian traced how their past choices and timely arrivals had made it possible to save Azure Star.
• Elder Nan said he had traveled alone because Azure Star had enough energy for only one time-space transmission.
• With Elder Nan’s authorization, the four entered the Reincarnation Department’s core and saw artificial wombs, monitoring machines, and ghosts being purified by Purification Crystals.
• Xun Kun and Yunxi connected incomplete soul purification to Benjamin’s distress and the growing paranormal incidents, and Han Lian asked whether the purification equipment should be destroyed.

Yun Chen, Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Lian decided to preserve the Reincarnation System until they could reconnect Azure Star with the Underworld and safely destroy it. Elsewhere, Daphne lost Xun Kun’s Jade Talisman, while Professor Huang discovered evidence that Han Lian was more than two centuries old.

• Yun Chen, Yunxi, and Xun Kun agreed to maintain the Reincarnation System until the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation and Ghost Gate were ready, then left the Special Department headquarters with Han Lian.
• The Azure Family's guard captain took Daphne's Jade Talisman for inspection, but it shattered, and its three sealed balls of light entered Daphne's body.
• Xun Kun revealed that he had caused the Jade Talisman to shatter so its protective power would still reach Daphne, who cried over losing her last gift from him.
• Mr. Noske examined Captain Chen and found nothing unusual, then let him rest before returning to duty.
• Professor Huang reviewed Han Lian's DNA methylation report, which estimated her age at 256 to 260 years, and considered the research value of the discovery.

Han Lian and Yunxi discussed the research base’s interest in Han Lian’s test results aboard the Flying Boat. In the Weiyu Realm, Yuling learned that Huaxian Sect’s Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been stolen and suspected someone from the Spirit Realm was responsible.

• Professor Huang studied Han Lian’s test report and cursed the guards for letting her escape.
• Han Lian told Yunxi that the research base had tested her saliva, and they agreed to be cautious in this unfamiliar world.
• Yuling reviewed news of the Evil Cultivators’ failed Western Regions scheme and learned that Famous Sword Sect had destroyed their disguised sect.
• Hao Yi summoned Yuling and the other Haoran Sect elders to report that Huaxian Sect’s Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been stolen.
• Yuling suspected someone from the Spirit Realm had taken the scroll, which contained the sealed evil artifact Longya.
• Hao Yi said the thief could not remain long in the Weiyu Realm because of suppression and backlash from using excessive power.

Huaxian Sect lost the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, prompting cultivators across the regions to search for it. Feng Fen divined that it had last appeared in a mountain range in the Southern Region, while Xiao He received orders from the evil cultivators to head to the Qinghua Mountain Range.

• Venerable Huitang sent newly advanced Spirit Transformation cultivators, including Xian Yao and Xian Feng, to search for the stolen Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Wei Yunqing continued cultivating in forced seclusion, while Wei Zonghao became Ranhao and reassured the Wei and Feng Families that Ranxi’s Soul Lamp remained lit.
• Du Ruolan grew ill from the Ice Needle in her Dantian and died, while Wei Lingyue perished during seclusion and Wei Lingkai advanced to late-stage Golden Core after taking Life Tracing.
• Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui learned of the Scroll’s theft and left the Northern Regions to meet Cao Yi, while Han Yan and Han Ying stayed to search there.
• Venerable Mingjia asked Feng Fen to divine the Scroll’s whereabouts, and Feng Fen located its last appearance in a mountain range in the Southern Region.
• Xiao He received orders from the evil cultivators to disguise himself and go to the Qinghua Mountain Range in the Southern Region.