Recaps

Chen Mu was lured from Ganhe Lower Courtyard into Thousand Lantern City, where he fought Jin E and followed Yellow Springs Crossing into the River of Forgetfulness. He awoke among the Yinling, began gathering Jade Dew, and resolved to learn how Jigu City trained Ghost Soldiers.

• Chen Mu cultivated at Ganhe Lower Courtyard while Mo Wuzhou prepared a concealed shipyard, but watchers led Chen Mu to ask for protection and leave the area.
• Lu Ku and Shang Huan drew Chen Mu away from Ganhe Lower Courtyard, then revealed that he was a target for a Heavenly Capital Primordial Embryo ritual and trapped him in Thousand Lantern City.
• Chen Mu destroyed the city’s shadow monsters with his techniques and Heavenly Demon True Form, then fought Jin E and broke through his attacks.
• Tantai Zong opened Yellow Springs Crossing, and Chen Mu dragged Jin E into it before the River of Forgetfulness dissolved Chen Mu’s body and his black sphere reshaped him as smoke.
• Chen Mu woke on the riverbank among Yinling, learned from Shi Dechun about their afterlife and the horned overseer Niu Sanmiao, and briefly bewitched Niu Sanmiao with his Heavenly Demon True Form.
• Chen Mu practiced the Dew Gathering Incantation, exchanged Jade Dew for a bead, and learned that gifted Yinling could become Ghost Soldiers in cities such as Jigu City.
• Yin Liu pressured the group to give Haiyuan extra Jade Dew, and Chen Mu handed over his gourd while shifting the blame onto Shi Dechun.
• Chen Mu stopped gathering excess Jade Dew and realized that the Dew Gathering Incantation and Hundred Mile Qi Seal drew on the same Yin Soul Monster power, resolving to investigate Jigu City’s Ghost Soldier training.

Chen Mu cultivated the Flying Flame Scripture and Yellow Springs Guide while conscription and battlefield dangers drew him into Camp Hai’s Water Ape hunt. After completing his Ghost Pattern and returning to Thousand Lantern City, he hid from the Blood God Soldiers and continued cultivating as Lan Zhang searched for Shen Yan.

• Chen Mu gathered Jade Dew, bought the dangerous Flying Flame Scripture, and began cultivating Azure Flame while preparing for conscription.
• Chen Mu and Shi Dechun were sent to Camp Hai, where Chen Mu earned military merit by fighting the Water Ape corpse thieves and taking their goods.
• Chen Mu discovered Soul Departure Soup, advanced his Yellow Springs Guide, and secretly used Water Ape corpses to restore his power and condense River of Forgetfulness Water.
• Lan Zhang attacked Shen Yan, raised Blood God Sons from Water Ape heads, and set out to absorb Camp Hai into his head.
• Chen Mu completed his Ghost Pattern, transformed into a Ghost Soldier, and returned to Thousand Lantern City beside his true body.
• Niu Sanmiao searched Flag B3 for Chen Mu while disappearances spread among Yinlings able to connect to the Netherworld.
• Chen Mu hid in Thousand Lantern City, tested the Yama Heavenly Son Order on Shi Dechun, and learned that Ghost Soldiers were hunting those who could refine Yellow Spring water.
• Chen Mu advanced his Yellow Springs Guide and completed another Eighth Layer Divine Aperture Talisman while Lan Zhang learned Shen Yan could hide wherever there was wind.

Chen Mu gathered and trained the scattered Yinlings while advancing his cultivation and seeking a way back to the Netherworld. Niu Sanmiao’s attack exposed the Blood God Sons’ assault on Camp You, leaving Chen Mu to rally survivors and turn Myriad Ghosts Bearing Mountain against them.

• Shen Yan revealed Lan Zhang’s betrayal and warned that he planned to devour Camp Hai’s Yinlings, so Chen Mu hid Shen Yan and Shi Dechun in Thousand Lantern City.
• Chen Mu cultivated the Calm Heart Scripture and Three Paths Curse, developed a Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed, and discovered that Shi Dechun could use it to learn his mastered methods.
• Chen Mu gathered and seeded hundreds of Yinlings, then led them through the Three Paths Curse to strengthen his Divine Embryo as Camp Hai’s people scattered under Water Ape attacks.
• Chen Mu and his followers joined Hu Cheng and the Yin Wind Department at One-Line Sky, where Hu Cheng used the Mountain Bearing Scripture to seek control of the Soul Summoning Banner.
• Chen Mu trained thousands of Yinlings in the Mountain Bearing Scripture and sent search parties into the mountains, while he secretly advanced the Jade Gate Curse to counter Shen Yan’s control of Ghost Gate Pass.
• Niu Sanmiao possessed Jia Zhang, revealed himself as a Blood God Son, and attacked Chen Mu, who destroyed his Blood Shadow Body with River of Forgetfulness Water, Nine Nether Azure Flame, Soul Seizing Yuan Returning, and Five Ghosts Moving Mountains.
• Blood God Sons attacked Camp You as Lan Zhang sent the Soul Summoning Banner through Ghost Gate Pass, and Chen Mu fled with more than two hundred followers while rescuing other Yinlings.
• Chen Mu found the underground routes blocked and the air escape routes under attack, so he spread Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds among the Auxiliary Soldier Camp and unleashed Myriad Ghosts Bearing Mountain over Camp You.

Chen Mu escaped Nether Demon Heaven with the Yinling, entered the Netherworld, and sought a route to Fengdu City while building influence in Feng'an City. After a Qingyang City assassination plot sent him to Black Wind Gully, he began searching for a way back as Feng'an faced a Calamity Demon threat.

• Chen Mu escaped Lan Zhang’s Blood Cloud, recovered with help from the Yinling, and trained them to form a Ghost Gate Pass.
• Chen Mu gathered corpses to power the pass, returned to the Netherworld, and subdued a band of Yinling while seeking information about Fengdu City.
• Chen Mu joined Lu Liang’s caravan to Feng'an City, learned about the City God Dao Field, and transmitted Ghost Gate Pass methods to Lu Liang.
• Chen Mu rejected a hundred-year Deification Contract, encountered a Calamity Demon, and gave the Heavenly Demon Curse to a vast number of Ghost Soldiers.
• Chen Mu trained in the Five Dragon Scripture and taught secret arts to Ghost Soldiers while Qingyang City agents plotted to assassinate him.
• Shen Bu teleported Chen Mu away from the assassination attempt, and Chen Mu killed a Three-Headed Fox Calamity Demon while protecting Old Yang’s settlement.
• Chen Mu stayed in Black Wind Gully, gave its residents the Dew Gathering Incantation, and searched for a route back to Feng'an City.
• Lu Liang and Lu Thirteen destroyed a Calamity Demon near Feng'an City and suspected Qingyang City was testing the city while its lord was away.