Recaps

The Bureau of Military Affairs engineered a grain crisis and attacked Jinxia’s efforts to stabilize Shenzhou, while Jinxia answered with relief, seafood distribution, and a strike against Fei Nian. The stretch ends with Yu Linglong learning of Jinxia’s power and questioning Yan Qing’s position.

• As grain prices soared, Pelican’s agents incited unrest in Baihe City, but Li and Luo Qingqing helped expose the plot and Jinxia sent aid to the starving residents.
• Xia Fan organized seafood supplies and cold-storage transport, while Jinxia’s Flat Ice Boats brought relief and fresh fish to Baihe City.
• Huo Ying stopped agents from sabotaging Baisha Mine by detonating a warehouse, dying in the explosion, and Xia Fan made his sacrifice a public call to resist the Bureau of Military Affairs.
• Jinxia’s trawling nets hauled in a massive catch, demonstrating a new way to supply food across Shenzhou.
• Fei Nian learned that Jinxia had disrupted his spies and declared war on Ning Qianshi and the Capital Bureau of Military Affairs, then Dragon’s group attacked his headquarters and Luo Qingqing killed him before he escaped with a magical artifact.
• Wei Wushuang oversaw fixed-price seafood distribution and work-for-food relief, while Yu Linglong joined the labor camp and observed how Jinxia served ordinary people.
• Yan Qing confronted Yu Linglong, who denied coming to execute her, and revealed that Jinxia had defeated the Western Pole Kingdom’s fleet and had more than two hundred Qi Sense Users under ten.

Li rescued the captives of Yuetai Villa and brought many Yao to Jinxia, while Yu Linglong investigated the city’s growing number of Qi Sense Users and warned Ning Wanjun about Fei Nian. Ning Qianshi ordered an army campaign against Jinxia, as Li returned with a second tail and more Yao seeking refuge.

• Yan Qing told Yu Linglong that He’er carried the Tianshu Envoy’s soul and urged her to investigate Fei Nian’s possible ties to the An Clan and Black Gate Cult.
• Fei Nian awoke in a Bronze Ruin after the Copper Pellet healed and transported him, then strangled Fei Junzhi when he noticed the pellet’s escape art.
• Li investigated Mu Youhong’s appeal for help and learned that another group of Yao had taken his wife and threatened local Yao.
• Li and her companions confronted Youlan and Qiongqi at Yuetai Villa, where Li defeated Qiongqi and offered the residents a choice to leave for Jinxia.
• Li accepted Mu Youhong’s Baiji Caravan, while Yu Linglong visited Jinxia and found more than twenty Qi Sense Users among Academy students.
• Yu Linglong told Ning Wanjun that Fei Nian had used a technique resembling Evil Spirit arts and proposed returning to Shangyuan to unite trustworthy Fangshi.
• Fei Nian reported Jinxia’s strength to Ning Qianshi, who ordered armies from ten prefectures to encircle Shenzhou and crush the city.
• The Baiji Caravan reached Jinxia, where Li told Xia Fan she had grown a second tail and brought rescued Yao from Yuetai Villa.

Jinxia defeated the Ganzhou armies while Yu Linglong tried to turn the Seven Stars Bureau against the war and expose Fei Nian. Bai Zhan seized the Seven Stars inheritance, claimed the Tianshu succession, and left Qian gravely wounded before Luo Qingqing rescued him.

• Xia Fan reviewed the refugees and their abilities as Jinxia prepared for war, while Li showed him the strange book she had found at Yuetai Villa.
• Yu Linglong investigated Fei Nian, but he attacked her with black fire, and she escaped Shangyuan and sought allies to stop the campaign against Jinxia.
• Xia Fan and Yan Qing read the journal about the Pope's search for King Yong's tomb, while Jinxia mobilized against the Ganzhou Army.
• Ning Wanjun and Xia Fan led Jinxia forces across the frozen Lichuan River, defeated Qi Duming's army at Wangshan Ferry, and destroyed the Ganzhou forces at Pingzhen Ferry.
• Yu Linglong revealed Fei Nian's danger and Jinxia's transformation to Qian, who protected her from Bai Zhan and promised to urge an investigation.
• Bai Zhan abducted He'er and brought her to the Yong Dynasty ruins, where he killed Fei Nian, seized the inheritance, and declared himself the new Tianshu Envoy.
• Qian confronted Bai Zhan over his threats and his use of the Bureau's leaders to force the war, but Bai Zhan defeated him and pierced both his Qi Seas.
• Luo Qingqing arrived on a green Dragon and carried the wounded Qian away before Bai Zhan could finish him.

Qian joined Jinxia as it confronted the Bureau of Military Affairs, while Xia Fan and Ning Wanjun used new weapons and psychological warfare to break the invading armies. After Ning Wanjun killed Hu Wan and the Jinzhou Army collapsed, Bai Zhan revealed himself and confronted Xia Fan.

• Fei Nian appeared before Bai Zhan, offered him dark violet qi, and urged him to continue his plans despite Qian’s survival.
• Qian reached Jinxia, reported Bai Zhan’s rise and the disappearance of several figures, then joined Jinxia as it mobilized against the advancing allied army.
• Xia Fan demonstrated the Electromagnetic Cannon, which Sainiya successfully fired, prompting Yu Linglong and Wuyue Yao to recognize Jinxia’s growing advantage.
• Qian tried to stop the Bureau’s army from advancing, but Ning Qianshi sided with Bai Zhan, and Jinxia launched its attack after the negotiations failed.
• Ning Wanjun’s forces captured Wangjiang Town and took more than twenty thousand prisoners, whom Hong Siqi persuaded to consider settling in Jinxia.
• Xia Fan proposed using homesickness to divide the Shenzhou troops, and Li and Olina Okan scattered flyers before Chi’s song threw the soldiers into chaos.
• Ning Wanjun led the assault on Hu Wan’s army, killed Hu Wan after he trapped Suzaku in a swamp, and helped rout the Jinzhou forces.
• Xia Fan joined the flanking assault as Jinxia’s forces drove the Jinzhou Army to flee or surrender, and Bai Zhan revealed himself with a bottle of souls.