Recaps

Lin Bai secured the support of five Divine Hall lineages by granting them provincial documents and warning them of the Shi Family’s plans. The families began targeting the Shi Family’s control of the treasury, Treasure Pavilion, and armies, while Shi Renshan tried to turn the resulting accusations against his rivals.

• Lin Bai and Li Guxian prepared to enlist the Divine Hall lineages and discussed how to blunt Shi Renshan’s expected retaliation after the Renaming Ceremony.
• Lin Bai hosted the family heads at the Imperial Palace, endured their rivalries, and revealed the provincial documents he had secured for their lineages.
• Lin Bai handed five Thousand Province Edicts to the Duanmu, Shen, Mo, Hu, and Zhao Families and warned that Shi Renshan planned to use Yan Congjiao to dominate the Devil Palace.
• The five families and the Murong Family agreed to oppose the Shi Family, with Lin Bai promising each lineage more territory and a role in preserving the Devil Palace’s power structure.
• The family heads disclosed their forces and agreed to prepare troops, while Lin Bai identified the treasury, Treasure Pavilion, Divine Mountain Guard, and Sea Guard Legion as targets to recover.
• Lin Bai assigned the Hu and Murong Families to target the treasury and the Duanmu, Shen, Mo, and Zhao Families to target the two armies, while Li Guxian coordinated their efforts.
• The allied families launched covert pressure on the Shi Family’s holdings, and reports of irregularities at the treasury and Treasure Pavilion alarmed the Council of Elders.
• Shi Renshan learned that his allies had withheld military provisions and ordered them to blame junior relatives and accuse rival officials, but they admitted that only their own families controlled the two armies.

Lin Bai delayed his struggle against Shi Renshan’s faction while preparing for the Renaming Ceremony and welcoming the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect. A poisoning attempt at Drunken Immortal Pavilion exposed Demon Subjugation Alliance agents, and Lin Bai received the delegations alongside Qian Hen.

• Shi Renshan advised Duan Hui and Xiang Dinghan to use deputy commanders as scapegoats so their families could retain control of the guard forces, while Lin Bai received the Reincarnation Art from the Palace Master.
• Lin Bai persuaded the Palace Master to appoint Duanmu Lin and Shen Yunfan as deputy commanders, then traveled with his companions to Drunken Immortal City to meet the incoming delegations.
• At Drunken Immortal Pavilion, Lin Bai’s group encountered Ruan Wei and his companions, then took rooms on the ninety-ninth floor under the name of the Murong Lineage of Dragon King Mountain.
• Hong Gu and Manager Zhang learned that their guests included Lin Bai, and Qian Hen visited him to discuss resources for the Demon Palace and support for the Qi Tian Sect.
• Lin Bai sensed poison in meat pies Qian Hen had brought, and Qian Hen sealed the city and ordered an investigation after the pies killed several spirit pets.
• Lin Bai used Soul Search on Li Sun and Lu Yuan, exposing a Demon Subjugation Alliance poisoning plot and identifying other operatives in Drunken Immortal City.
• Qian Hen executed Drunken Immortal Pavilion staff he deemed compromised and ordered the Zhou Family annihilated, sparing only children too young to understand.
• Lin Bai and Qian Hen waited for the visiting sects, then welcomed Meng Qinxian, Nie Shang, and the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect delegations.

The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace formally reclaimed the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s territory and held its Renaming Ceremony, then began a martial contest with rival sects. The contest exposed a possible leak in the Demon Palace’s plans and left Duanmu Lin gravely wounded after Nie Shang’s fierce counterattack.

• Lin Bai hosted the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect delegations, challenged Wang Heng, and saw Hu Zhiyao force Feng Chuan back with a full-strength strike.
• Lin Bai outlined the Demon Palace’s aims for the contest, then led the delegations back to the palace as the Palace Master prepared the Renaming Ceremony and named its competitors.
• Lin Bai joined the procession to Ancestor Heaven Mountain beside the Palace Master, while Shi Renshan revealed that the Holy Lord’s power to obtain memories might have come from the Heaven Swallowing Race.
• Yi Gu surrendered the Seven Nights Divine Sect’s Seal of Authority and territorial map, and the Palace Master promised the sect would retain its capital and fifteen thousand-state regions.
• Lin Bai and the Palace Master completed the ancestral, earth, and heaven sacrifices, then Lin Bai drank Yanluo’s Banquet and relived memories of his century of cultivation.
• Meng Qinxian defeated Zhao Yuanchen by trapping him in a formation, prompting Lin Bai and Li Guxian to challenge the rivals’ control over opponent selection.
• Li Guxian proposed that the factions take turns choosing opponents, and Lin Bai supported the rule before Duanmu Lin challenged Nie Shang in the second match.
• Duanmu Lin used Icy Shackles and Sea of Blood Divine Light against Nie Shang, but Nie Shang ignited his Essence Fire, broke through Duanmu Lin’s defenses, and left him gravely wounded.

The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace battled the Overturning Heavens Sect and Worship Heaven Sect in a contest that tested its God Children and revealed the rivals’ hidden arts. With the score tied, Yan Congjiao transformed using Yue Chuanming’s Supreme Devil Art to face Wang Heng, while Lin Bai recognized Yue as a potential enemy.

• Duanmu Lin and Nie Shang fought with their ascended arts until the Nie Family elder conceded to protect Nie Shang, giving the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace the first victory.
• Feng Chuan overwhelmed Shen Yunfan with his physical strength, but the Worship Heaven Sect conceded after Shen Yunfan’s swordplay turned the fight in his favor.
• Mo Guyu defeated Di Hong with his jade talismans, and Di Hong died from his injuries after the Palace Lord ended their fight.
• Ling Yuanzi accepted Mo Guyu as a nominal disciple of the Spirit Realm Dao Sect, and Mo Guyu agreed to travel with him after finishing his affairs in the Devil Realm.
• Wang Heng withstood Yan Congjiao’s Heavenly Devil Fist and wounded him with a Guardian Deity General, leaving the contest tied two to two.
• Yan Congjiao swallowed medicine and transformed into a six-armed, winged demon-like being using the Supreme Devil Art, which Lin Bai learned Yue Chuanming had created.