Recaps

Lin Bai rescued Li Qiaoyun and Li Chuyin and brought them to Prince Chen, then began investigating the disappearances of Star Sect and Moon Sect disciples. The investigation led him to Ecstasy Young Master, who escaped with Mo Nan and Li Xuanqiu after Lin Bai and his allies confronted him.

• Lin Bai broke through Orchid Pavilion and fought his way out with Li Qiaoyun and Li Chuyin as Old Li and the others held back their pursuers.
• At Ding An Gate, the Golden Masked Warrior saved Lin Bai, killed the General of An Ding Gate and the old man, and allowed the mother and daughter to escape.
• Emperor Chu ordered Zhu Mo to investigate the Third Prince’s agents and protect Li Qiaoyun and Li Chuyin, while Lin Bai brought them to Prince Chen.
• Prince Chen promised the mother and daughter protection and awarded Lin Bai the greatest merit for the rescue.
• Mo Nan and Li Xuanqiu told Lin Bai that seven Star Sect and five Moon Sect disciples had disappeared, and Lin Bai arranged an investigation with Prince Chen and Chen Yule.
• Lin Bai and his companions traced the missing women to Moon Gazing Platform and learned that a mysterious man had left with the sect disciples.
• Lin Bai approved using Mo Nan and Li Xuanqiu as bait, and Ecstasy Young Master left the Underground Palace despite an elder’s warning when he heard they were at the platform.
• Lin Bai and Meng Qinxian attacked Ecstasy Young Master, but a Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm martial artist intervened and Ecstasy Young Master escaped with the unconscious Mo Nan and Li Xuanqiu.

Lin Bai exposed a Nine Underworlds Demon Palace operation abducting young women and learned that God-Devil Calamity Poison had killed two princes. As he began investigating a new murder, the Guiyi Sect accused Lu Qingjun, leaving Lin Bai to worry that his companion had been framed.

• Lin Bai and his allies rescued Mo Nan and Li Xuanqiu, then fought masked martial artists who helped Elder Huangnong and Ecstasy Young Master escape.
• Lin Bai gave Commander Zhu Mo captured souls, and Zhu Mo found more than twenty abducted young women and traced the operation to the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.
• The Chu Emperor ordered Zhu Mo to investigate the demon palace and Zhao Xiantu, while Xiao Cangsheng warned that the enemy might be targeting the Demon Suppression Cave.
• Lin Bai visited Old Man Wuchuan, who confirmed that the First and Second Princes died from God-Devil Calamity Poison and identified fugitive Xia Jingzhi as the traitor who stole its records.
• Old Man Wuchuan suspected the Third Prince was behind the princes’ deaths and said Xia Jingzhi might be hiding in the Third Prince’s Sun Moon Pavilion.
• Prince Chen tasked Lin Bai and Zhu Mo with investigating the murder of Guiyi Sect’s Holy Son Zuo Feiyu, whose body was found with a palace maid’s corpse.
• After Lin Bai examined Zuo Feiyu’s body, Ning Hong accused Lu Qingjun of killing him with Seven Absolutes City’s Divine Light Swordplay, but Lin Bai and Zhu Mo refused to arrest Lu Qingjun without evidence.
• Lin Bai left for the Moon Palace, concerned that Lu Qingjun had been drawn into the murder case.

Lin Bai investigated the murders of Zuo Feiyu and Changsun Hongxuan while navigating the imperial family’s conflict with Fallen Immortal and her Old Guard. With Emperor Chu’s deadline approaching, Lin Bai uncovered a connection between Courtesan Lanyue and the former Seven Absolutes City Holy Son Lu Shulin.

• Lin Bai investigated Zuo Feiyu’s death at Weaving Cloud Palace, where he found evidence of an exceptionally powerful sword cultivator and learned Fallen Immortal had attended Zhao Xiantu’s banquet.
• After Fallen Immortal denied involvement, Zhang Linghu ambushed Lin Bai for visiting her, and Prince Chen explained her family’s fall and warned Lin Bai against provoking her Old Guard.
• Pan Qing defeated Zhang Linghu in public, restoring the Tianshui Sect’s reputation, while Emperor Chu considered betrothing Fallen Immortal to Lin Bai.
• Changsun Hongxuan was found murdered with the same swordplay as Zuo Feiyu, and Emperor Chu ordered Lin Bai to solve both cases within half a month.
• Fallen Immortal told Lin Bai that Zhao Xiantu had promised evidence her family was framed, and she pointed out that Lanyue had concealed cultivation at the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm.
• Lin Bai questioned Lu Qingjun and searched the Zhao Xing Office archives, learning that Lu Shulin had left Seven Absolutes City with his pregnant wife after the sect tried to execute her.
• Lin Bai found that Lanyue had been the Nameless Dao Sect’s Holy Daughter, Lu Chuqing, and connected her surname to Lu Shulin before telling Zhu Mo he had found a lead.

Lin Bai uncovered the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s campaign of murders as a diversion from its plan to reach the Demon Suppression Cave. The search for Lanyue erupted into a battle in Aqi District, where she revealed a force of Asuras waiting to attack Lin Bai.

• Lin Bai and Zhu Mo confronted Lanyue at Weaving Cloud Palace, where she admitted killing Zuo Feiyu and Changsun Hongxuan before escaping with a Spatial Shift Formation.
• At Wind and Snow Palace, Lin Bai and Zhu Mo found Jiang Xiaoyue’s body and learned that Courtesan Yun Ke was her sister, Jiang Xiaoyun, while Wind Night disappeared as a suspected accomplice.
• Lin Bai told the Chu Emperor that the murders were meant to distract the Zhao Xing Office, and the Emperor identified White Deer Academy’s Demon Suppression Cave as the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace’s likely target.
• The Chu Emperor tasked Lin Bai with investigating the killings and the remnants’ plans, then prepared forces to support White Deer Academy and draw the enemy into action.
• Lin Bai learned that the Demon Suppression Cave held thirty-six immortal Demonic Martial Soul holders, while the Crow warned him of the dangers of freeing them.
• After a citywide hunt led to Aqi District, Lanyue fought Lu Qingjun until Lu Shulin intervened, and Lin Bai recognized that the disturbance was a decoy for an attack on White Deer Academy.
• Lin Bai stopped Lanyue as she tried to escape and identified the Demon Suppression Cave as her group’s target, then fought her and the Twelve Asuras after she revealed they had prepared an ambush.