Recaps

Venerable Linlang received news that led Kunmo Sect cultivators to Qinghua Mountain Range, where rumors drew powerful cultivators searching for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers. Meanwhile, Yunxi and her companions continued preparing formations on Azure Star, expecting to finish in about a year before addressing Azure Family’s pursuit.

• Venerable Linlang confirmed Xun Kun’s divine soul was stable, then left after receiving a Message Talisman.
• Rumors of an immortal treasure drew cultivators from across the Weiyu Realm to Qinghua Mountain Range to search for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Haoqing and Haohui discussed the misleading rumors and headed to meet Minghong and Mingxian before entering the Inner Ring.
• The red fox carrying the scroll felt it tremble and ran back toward its den, while Xiao He erased an evil cultivator’s mark and sent a message.
• Yunxi and her companions traveled to Han Lian’s former research base to set up another formation, and Yun Chen estimated the remaining four auxiliary formations would take about a year.
• Yunxi promised to send Xun Kun into the Secret Realm for secluded cultivation after they resolved Azure Star’s problem.

Yunxi, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian returned to the research base and warned Professor Huang to evacuate before they destroyed it. Noske arrived after they vanished, and Professor Huang told him Han Lian had come to make them abandon their research.

• Yun Chen, Yunxi, and Xun Kun discussed their cultivation gains and credited their years of fighting, the Golden Light of Merit, and Ranxi’s potion.
• Ten days later, Han Lian brought Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun to the research base, where they visited Professor Huang.
• Professor Huang explained that Noske had taken Han Lian’s research data, kept the base under surveillance, and had Captain Chen arrested after he destroyed a laboratory of monsters.
• Han Lian admitted she had ordered Captain Chen to destroy the monsters, and Yunxi said the group had come to make the base’s staff leave before it disappeared the next day.
• Yun Chen sensed Noske and the guards approaching, so Han Lian and her companions vanished before Noske could stop them.
• Professor Huang told Noske that Han Lian had warned them to abandon the research base and their investigation into her longevity.

Han Lian and Yunxi helped destroy the research base and its monsters before escaping its explosion and sandstorm. The group then set out for Film City to continue placing formations, after Yun Chen confirmed the remaining locations they needed to visit.

• Noske imprisoned Professor Huang after rejecting Han Lian's warning, but Han Lian emptied Noske's office and the base's test subjects began spontaneously combusting.
• The base's self-destruct alarm sounded, and Noske ran for the control room while the guard captain organized an evacuation.
• Han Lian freed Professor Huang, and Yunxi and Ziyan destroyed the captive monsters as Yun Chen and Xun Kun prepared the formation.
• Han Lian, Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun completed the formation and left before the base exploded and was buried by a sandstorm, which also buried Noske.
• The group boarded the Flying Boat for Film City, and Yun Chen confirmed that Film City, Sack Manor, and the scenic area where he fell were the remaining formation sites.

Yunxi and the others discussed the cultivation needed to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, then traveled to Area W to locate its Formation Core. There, Yunxi gave Xia Mengmeng a screenplay called “Reincarnation” to pass to Director Lian Tao, intending for the film to reveal Azure Star’s Reincarnation System and warn those controlling it of the planet’s impending destruction.

• Yunxi agreed with Xun Kun’s deduction, while Han Lian and Yun Chen explained the cultivation needed to sustain the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation.
• Twenty days later, Yunxi and her companions arrived above the Area W film studio so Yun Chen could calculate the Formation Core’s location.
• Yunxi visited Xia Mengmeng in her trailer, where Xia Mengmeng told her that the Azure Family had questioned her about Master Ranxi.
• Yunxi gave Xia Mengmeng her screenplay, “Reincarnation,” and asked her to pass it to Director Lian Tao and try for the female lead role.
• Yunxi told Han Lian that the film would reveal Azure Star’s Reincarnation System to the public and make those controlling it confront the planet’s future.

Xia Mengmeng’s film “Reincarnation” exposed the truth about the Reincarnation System after Yunxi arranged for it to premiere despite failing review. As the film shook Azure Star, Yunxi’s group completed the auxiliary formations and prepared to activate them.

• Xun Kun altered the script’s romantic scenes, while Xia Mengmeng secured the female lead role and Director Lian Tao agreed to make the film.
• Xia Mengmeng filmed “Reincarnation” after Yunxi gave her Rejuvenation Fluid, but the film failed review until an unsigned message promised its release across all platforms.
• Yunxi explained that she wanted the film to reveal the truth and distract the Azure Family while her group set up the final auxiliary formation.
• “Reincarnation” premiered simultaneously across Azure Star, stirring public discussion and prompting Lan Lan and Daphne to seek answers from their families.
• Daphne learned from Sack that she was on her fourth Reincarnation and that another could make her suffer the same fate as her brother.
• Yunxi’s group finished the final auxiliary formation, and Yun Chen said it was time to activate it.

Yunxi, Yun Chen, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and White Peak activated the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation across Azure Star and used their Merit to open the Ghost Gate. As Yunxi lit Soul Incense and Ghost Messengers began to arrive, Azure Star’s rulers attacked them with missiles.

• Yun Chen convinced Han Lian and Xun Kun to activate the formation immediately, and the group split up to reach their assigned formations.
• Han Lian brought White Peak to his formation and warned him that activating the formation was necessary to return to the Weiyu Realm.
• The nine formations joined into a vast wheel over Azure Star, alarming the public and throwing the ruling families into arguments over whether to stop it.
• When the Ghost Gate did not open, Yunxi urged everyone to pour their Merit into the formation, and their combined power created a black hole that released an Underworld aura.
• Yunxi lit Soul Incense as the group gathered before the Ghost Gate, then sent missiles launched by Azure Star’s rulers back toward their original destinations.
• Voices from the Ghost Gate warned that it had been forcibly opened and that the arrivals should be careful.

Yunxi summoned Black and White Impermanence to explain Azure Star’s severed connection to the Underworld and its human-made Reincarnation System, and they agreed to report the matter to First Hall Yama while ordering her to preserve the status quo. As footage of the summoning spread across the Star Net and Azure Star’s rulers faced scrutiny, Yunxi and her companions retreated to the Misty Snow Region to recover and await news.

• Yunxi explained to Black and White Impermanence that Azure Star’s heavenly laws had been tampered with and asked them to help restore its dead to the Underworld’s cycle of Reincarnation.
• White Impermanence said Azure Star had been recorded as a dead star, ordered Yunxi not to disrupt its existing Reincarnation System, and promised to report the matter to First Hall Yama.
• Black and White Impermanence returned through the Ghost Gate, and Yunxi and her companions left in Xun Kun’s Flying Boat as drones approached.
• Footage of the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation spread across the Star Net, bringing attention to Director Lian Tao, screenwriter Ranxi, and the Reincarnation production team while Azure Star’s officials reacted to the revelations.
• Yunxi brought Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and the others into the Misty Snow Region through her concealed Capsule Dharma House so they could restore their spiritual power.

Yunxi and her companions waited for the Underworld to investigate Azure Star’s broken reincarnation system while raising their cultivation. The Judge discovered that the Book of Life and Death had been tampered with and rushed to report the Judge’s Office’s dereliction to the First Hall Yama.

• Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Yunxi discussed avoiding the Underworld until they understood the danger and agreed to wait for news while cultivating.
• Black and White Impermanence reported Azure Star’s corrupted souls and failed reincarnation records to the Judge, who ordered them to keep the matter secret and promised to ask the four cultivators for help after investigating.
• The Judge found Azure Star’s Book of Life and Death blank, but names appeared when he marked it with the Soul-Seizing Brush, revealing that the records had been tampered with.
• The Judge rushed to see the First Hall Yama and report the Judge’s Office’s major dereliction of duty.
• Yunxi advanced to the late Spirit Transformation stage, then waited with Lili for the Ghost Messengers’ reply and said she would move if Azure Star’s people searched the area.

Yunxi negotiated with Judge Cui for the Underworld’s help in restoring Azure Star’s reincarnation cycle in exchange for the four cultivators’ assistance. Judge Cui agreed to let them travel through the Underworld to the Weiyu Realm, where Yunxi intended to confront the evil cultivators behind the crisis.

• Yunxi concluded that Azure Star’s broken reincarnation cycle might be part of a wider plot by evil cultivators to create Evil Souls.
• Judge Cui arrived with Black and White Impermanence and admitted the Underworld had failed to protect Azure Star’s Book of Life and Death.
• Yunxi agreed to erase Azure Star’s Reincarnation System and help Black and White Impermanence restore the cycle in exchange for passage through the Underworld to the Weiyu Realm.
• Yunxi told Black and White Impermanence that evil cultivators had trapped the four in the Spirit-Nullifying Land and that they planned to return and settle the score.
• Yunxi brought Han Lian and Xun Kun out of the space and told them Judge Cui had approved their return, though Xun Kun worried that their cultivation was still insufficient.

Yunxi and her companions helped Black and White Impermanence seize the corrupted Soul Spirits on Azure Star, but the resulting disasters fueled public panic and suspected interference by the Evil Cultivator's followers. The four and Xun Kun's beast erased Azure Star's memories of the reincarnation System, leaving the inscription's golden Formation Wheel sinking into the planet.

• Yunxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun agreed to help restore Azure Star's reincarnation cycle and continued assisting the Ghost Messengers in collecting corrupted Soul Spirits through natural disasters.
• Reports of widespread calamities and prominent families' deaths caused panic, while rumors claimed Heaven was purging people who had reincarnated too often.
• After Han Lian created a blizzard and Yunxi and Xun Kun handled an elevator accident, Yun Chen reported growing public panic and the group decided to erase memories of the reincarnation System.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun suspected the Evil Cultivator's followers were stirring up trouble, and Yunxi taught the others an inscription that erased specific memories over a wide area.
• The four and one beast formed a giant wheel over Azure Star and sent the golden, memory-erasing Formation Wheel into the planet.

Yunxi and her companions helped the Underworld collect the remaining divine souls on Azure Star, then underwent tribulation and were forced to leave the small world. They entered the Ghost Realm with the Soul Reapers, where Yunxi’s Exotic Flame drew alarm before the group headed for the Judge’s Office.

• Yunxi warned Black and White Impermanence that someone was stealing divine souls, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face joined them in collecting the remaining souls.
• After memories of the Reincarnation System were erased, the group underwent a Thunder Tribulation and broke through to the Void-Traversal Realm before entering the Ghost Gate.
• Lan Lan, Daphne, Elder Nan, and Ruo Bai carried on with their lives as Azure Star returned to its proper course.
• In the Ghost Realm, Yunxi released her Profound Thunder Purple Flame to shield herself from the yin energy, alarming the four Soul Reapers.
• Yunxi recalled the flame, and the Soul Reapers led the group toward the Judge’s Office as nearby ghosts followed them.

After learning their return to the Weiyu Realm might be delayed, Yunxi and her companions worried that the evil cultivators would target them in the Ghost Realm. They retreated to the Misty Snow Region to prepare to leave their physical bodies safely stored while their divine souls traveled.

• Judge Cui met with Yunxi and the others, thanked them for resolving the Azure Star matter, and warned them to remain in their guest quarters because ghosts coveted their bodies.
• White Impermanence warned that the Underworld's investigation could delay their return to the Weiyu Realm, and Yunxi's group suspected a traitor and feared the evil cultivators would seek revenge.
• Yunxi brought her companions into the Misty Snow Region, where they discussed how to preserve their bodies while their divine souls departed.
• Han Lian offered her Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Coffin, Yunxi offered a crystal coffin, Yunchen planned to bury his body in a place with metal attributes, and Xun Kun proposed making an Ice Coffin from frost.
• White Peak dug up four blocks of Ten-Thousand-Year frost, and Yunxi gave them to Yunchen and Xun Kun while asking Han Lian to help carve formation patterns.

Yunxi and her companions entered the Ghost Realm as divine souls and went to buy Soul Artifacts and Soul Stones. At Thousand Treasures Pavilion, the shopkeeper trapped them in a formation that drained their Soul Power.

• Yunxi and the others left their bodies in Ice Coffins, concealed their souls’ Merit, and spent three days preparing before leaving their residence.
• Xun Kun explained his knowledge of the Ghost Realm and led the group toward a shop selling Soul Artifacts and Soul Stones.
• The four entered Thousand Treasures Pavilion and told the old ghost what kinds of Soul Artifacts they wanted to see.
• After leading them upstairs to a private room, the old ghost activated a formation that trapped them and began draining their Soul Power.

Yunxi and her companions exposed Old Ghost’s attempt to steal their Soul Power at Thousand Treasures Pavilion. After the Soul Bell made Old Ghost confess, Yunxi said she had further evidence, while Rong Le faced the prospect of being held responsible.

• The Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella freed Yunxi, Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen from Old Ghost’s formation, and Yunxi learned more about Hei Yao’s origins and outlook.
• Rong Le arrived and initially trusted Old Ghost, but Yunxi accused the clerk of targeting newly arrived ghosts and proposed proving it by making him confess.
• Yunxi offered the umbrella as compensation if her accusation was false, and Han Lian demanded that Rong Le also stake something if they were right.
• Xun Kun used the Soul Bell to compel Old Ghost to admit that greed had led him to lure the four upstairs and activate the Soul Absorption Formation.
• Old Ghost claimed he had been controlled after recovering, but Yunxi told Rong Le she had more evidence.

Yunxi and her companions retaliated against Rong Le after exposing his shop’s misconduct and his refusal to keep a promise, then visited another clothing shop. There, Huo Wan’s knowledge of their arrival led Han Lian to question how information about them had spread, and Huo Wan warned them to mind their words.

• Yunxi showed Rong Le an Imprint Jade recording the group’s encounters with his ghost servant, but Rong Le refused to honor his promise.
• Yunxi unleashed nine black dragons from the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella, destroying the Thousand Treasures Pavilion and knocking Rong Le unconscious.
• Yunxi told Rong Le she and her companions were staying at Wanyuan Zhai and dared him to bring his backing, then left with Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen.
• Rong Le told the city patrol that his shop’s ghost had provoked honored guests of the Judge’s Office, and the patrol captain went after Yunxi’s group.
• At Colorful Clothes Pavilion, Huo Wan explained the protective qualities of her Dharma robes, and Han Lian challenged her for knowing the group’s origins.
• Huo Wan warned Han Lian to mind her words when she mentioned evil cultivators, explaining that news of human cultivators entering the Ghost Realm had spread immediately.

Mistress Huo asked Yun Chen and his companions to help secure Merit for her daughter’s reincarnation, offering robes and Soul Stones in exchange. After Captain Li Ze warned them that a Soul Power-draining formation was linked to a major tragedy, the four realized an entire city’s ghosts had gone missing and chose to investigate.

• Mistress Huo asked Yun Chen and his companions for one grain of Merit to protect her daughter in her next life, offering robes and Soul Stones in return.
• Xun Kun demanded one hundred thousand high-grade Soul Stones, and Huo Wan agreed to try to gather them by the next day.
• Huo Wan brought the four robes and introduced Captain Li Ze, who questioned them about smashing Rong Le’s shop.
• Yunxi gave Li Ze an Imprint Jade showing the formation, and he warned the four that the investigation was dangerous and they should stay at Wanyuan Zhai.
• The four inferred that an entire city’s ghosts had gone missing and declared they would confront the mastermind who had targeted them.

Yunxi and the others discussed the evil cultivators’ schemes in the Ghost Realm and Xun Kun’s vision that they would remain in the Weiyu Realm for a while. They resolved to prepare carefully and confront their enemies rather than wait to be attacked.

• Li Ze returned to the street and learned that his men had failed to capture the old ghost or find Rong Le, so he ordered a search for Rong Le.
• Yunxi told the others that little ghosts had followed them, and they concluded that the evil cultivators were watching them and had set the array at Thousand Treasures Pavilion to steal their Soul Power.
• Xun Kun explained that Huo Wan’s daughter was destined to become his disciple and that his lightning-tribulation visions had clarified after he saw Huo Wan.
• Xun Kun warned that all four would likely remain in the Weiyu Realm for a time and predicted a drawn-out struggle with the evil cultivators.
• Yunxi suggested they study ways to suppress their cultivation before returning, and the four agreed to seek clues and take the fight to their enemies.

Yunxi’s group linked the formation at the Thousand Treasures Pavilion to the disaster that emptied Chimei City and alerted Black and White Impermanence. The group remained in Wanyuan Zhai, where a ghostly green formation appeared over the courtyard that night.

• Black and White Impermanence went to Wanyuan Zhai after hearing that Yunxi’s group had smashed the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and discussed the wider threat to small worlds with cut-off reincarnation paths.
• Yunxi told the messengers that an old ghost had trapped the group with a soul-siphoning formation, and Han Lian used a map to ask about the shortest route back to the Weiyu Realm.
• Black Impermanence revealed that the nearby city drained of Soul Power was Chimei City, and White Impermanence explained that the culprit had not been caught.
• Yunxi showed Black and White Impermanence the formation recorded in the Imprint Jade, and they confirmed it matched the formation seen above Chimei City before it became an Empty City.
• After the messengers left, Yunxi and her companions speculated about the Evil Cultivator’s motives, and a ghostly green formation appeared above Wanyuan Zhai that night.

Yunxi destroyed the Soul Absorption Formation that had attacked her companions, but the four realized the mastermind had extracted soul threads from Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun. When Li Ze and the other Ghost Messengers arrived, Yunxi demanded to see Judge Cui or the First Hall Yama and challenged them over their failure to protect the group.

• A Soul Absorption Formation attacked Wanyuan Zhai, and Yunxi destroyed it with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff after Hei Yao's strike only weakened it.
• Xun Kun warned Han Lian and Yun Chen to sever their soul threads, but Yunxi saw the extracted strands pulled into a closing vortex and attacked it with Thunderous Radiance Nine Heavens.
• Xun Kun told Yunxi that strands had been taken from all three companions, and Han Lian accused the Judge's Office of enabling the ambush.
• Yunxi offered to send the others back to their bodies in the Misty Snow Region, but Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun insisted on staying together.
• Li Ze arrived with Black and White Impermanence, the Ghost Messengers, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face, and apologized for the patrol's failure.
• Yunxi demanded an audience with Judge Cui or the First Hall Yama and challenged Li Ze over using them as bait, while a ghost soldier accused her of injuring ordinary ghost cultivators.

Yunxi and her companions reached the Judge's Office after surviving the Soul Absorption Formation, and Yunxi demanded answers from Judge Cui about the loss of her companions' soul essence. The First Hall Yama intervened and ordered an investigation, which identified Rong Le of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion as the suspected mastermind.

• Li Ze admitted that Yunxi and her companions had been outmatched, then ordered his subordinates to investigate ghost cultivators affected by Yunxi's attack and determine when the formation was set up.
• Yunxi contacted Ox-Head and Horse-Face through the Space Chat Group, explained the ambush and the loss of her companions' soul essence, and was told that subordinates would meet her at the Judge's Office.
• Yunxi confronted Judge Cui, explaining that the group had fulfilled their agreement but had been ambushed and that three companions had lost a strand of soul essence.
• The First Hall Yama arrived, rebuked Judge Cui for failing to protect the living souls, took Yunxi and her companions with him, and ordered an investigation.
• Li Ze reported that an expert had set up the Soul Absorption Formation above Wanyuan Zhai and that Rong Le of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion was the suspected culprit.

Yunxi and the others were taken to the First Hall Yama’s Hall of Yama, where they learned that evil ghosts had escaped from the Eighteen Levels of Hell. As their Soul Power began draining, they rushed to help seal Hell’s entrance, where the First Hall Yama was fighting an Evil Cultivator.

• Li Ze reported that Rong Le had activated the Soul Absorption Formation and vanished after his Soul Power was drained, but the investigation had uncovered no clues about the mastermind.
• Black and White Impermanence discussed how Lord Yama’s involvement and Judge Cui’s agreement with Ranxi might put the Judge in danger.
• Yunxi and the others waited in the Hall of Yama and drank Soul Nourishing Tea while the First Hall Yama dealt with urgent matters.
• The hall trembled, and a little ghost soldier announced that an Evil Soul had broken through the barrier of the Eighteen Levels of Hell and that Lord Yama needed their help sealing the entrance.
• Xun Kun realized that the mastermind had used his and the others’ Soul Power to break the barrier; Yunxi took the ghost soldier and led the group toward Hell’s entrance.
• At the entrance, Yunxi’s group saw evil ghosts and Evil Souls pouring out as the First Hall Yama fought a black-shadowed Evil Cultivator, who raised a mirror against him.

Yunxi arrived at the Eighteen Levels of Hell as First Hall Yama dealt with an intruder and explained that the Boundary-Breaking Formation was draining her companions’ soul power. After rejecting the options of sacrificing them or forcibly destroying the formation, Yunxi began searching for another way to save them.

• First Hall Yama crushed the intruder’s mirror, killed the shadowy figure, and turned to repair the damaged barrier.
• Yunxi reached First Hall Yama with Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen, whose soul power the Boundary-Breaking Formation was draining.
• First Hall Yama offered to annihilate the three companions’ divine souls or let Yunxi reclaim their soul power from the formation.
• Yunxi asked why Yama could not destroy the formation, and he explained that doing so would harm her companions and worsen the breach.
• An unfamiliar voice advised Yunxi to use a formation to siphon the soul power back, so she searched the Beastskin Booklet for a solution.
• Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian discussed their final wishes, but Yunxi refused to let their divine souls be annihilated and took out their Ice Coffins.

Yunxi used the Heaven-Reversing inscription to reverse the Boundary-Breaking Formation and restore Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun’s Soul Power. After they helped her withstand the final Soul Thunder strikes, the First Hall Yama carried the four away to aid them.

• Yunxi began carving the Heaven-Reversing inscription with her essence blood, Soul Power, spiritual power, and Merit while Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun lent her their treasures.
• The First Hall Yama warned Yunxi that the Ghost Realm’s Soul Thunder had locked onto her as violet-red clouds gathered overhead.
• Yunxi sent the completed inscriptions into the three Ice Coffins, reversing the Boundary-Breaking Formation and restoring the trio’s Soul Power.
• The First Hall Yama sealed the foreign Soul Power, and the Boundary-Breaking Formation collapsed as lightning struck Yunxi and her artifacts.
• Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun emerged from the coffins and joined forces to block the final two lightning bolts aimed at Yunxi.
• The First Hall Yama repaired the barrier of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, then carried the injured four away to help them.

After helping stop the Boundary-Breaking Formation, Yunxi and her companions were allowed to heal their injured divine souls in a Soul Stone vein, where they entered a Soul Liquid Pool to fight the Soul Thunder. Meanwhile, the Ghost Realm began hunting the escaped evil souls and vicious ghosts, and the Yamas discussed signs that evil cultivators had infiltrated their realm.

• First Hall Yama brought Yunxi, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen to the Soul Stone vein and granted them a month to heal with unlimited access to its energy.
• Ghost King Shentu led the four to a Soul Liquid Pool, where Yunxi raised a Hong Energy Shield and Lili helped guard their bodies as their divine souls entered the pool.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen began using the Soul Liquid to resist the Soul Thunder, while Lili watched over them and Shentu kept guard outside their barrier.
• Ghost King Shentu learned what had happened and returned to watch the barrier without disturbing their recovery.
• The Ghost Realm ordered its Ghost Messengers to capture the escaped evil souls and vicious ghosts, offering rewards for captures and information.
• The Yamas gathered and discussed the breached barrier, the tampered Death Star, and the possibility that evil cultivators had infiltrated the Ghost Realm.

The Ten Yamas discussed the evil cultivators’ plans and the possible return of the Evil God, then prepared to hunt down their agents in the Ghost Realm. Huo Wan learned that Ranxi and her companions were safe at the Judge’s Office, leaving her free to continue her arrangement with Xun Kun.

• First Hall Yama explained why he had spared Ranxi and the other three cultivators, and the Ten Yamas discussed the missing escaped ghosts and the evil cultivators’ intentions.
• Tenth Yama reported that the Evil God might be returning, prompting the Ten Yamas to plan a search for the evil cultivators’ agents under the pretext of hunting escaped ghosts.
• Huo Wan visited the ruins of Wanyuan Zhai and learned that the Ghost Messengers had taken nearby cultivators for questioning.
• Huo Wan bribed a Ghost Messenger, who told her that Ranxi and her companions were safe at the Judge’s Office and advised her to keep making their robes.
• Huo Wan confirmed that her deal with Xun Kun could continue and resolved to use the time to gather Soul Stones.