Recaps

Lin Heng outmaneuvered Black Bamboo Sacred Land’s invasion and persuaded the alliance to prepare for a wider conflict. After the victory, Murong Ziyan lost her wager and became Fairy Cloud Peak’s maid, while Lu Yuanliang’s surviving forces plotted a new attack.

• Lin Heng arranged a series of feints and ambushes that cost Lu Yuanliang’s fleet Cloud Boats, cultivators, and time as it crossed the Western Wasteland.
• Lin Heng captured Zhong Yue, learned the Supreme might be traveling through a hidden passage between continents, and kept him as a bargaining chip.
• Song Feilan and Ji Taichang helped trap and defeat Black Bamboo Sacred Land’s forces, while Lu Yuanliang escaped severely injured after Saint Ye’s formation destroyed his body.
• Lin Heng urged the alliance leaders to hold the Northern Continent and defeat the invaders decisively, warning that retreat would invite a wider invasion.
• Meng Yutong clashed with Lin Heng’s senior sisters over the imperial rings, then caught Lin Heng and the three women trying to escape her arguments.
• Lin Heng hosted Zhong Yue at the victory feast and pretended to be furious when prisoners escaped, expecting Zhong Yue to return to Lu Yuanliang and undermine him.
• Lu Yuanliang ordered his survivors to claim Zhong Yue had betrayed them and died, then sent them on a detour to attack the Immortal Alliance Headquarters.
• Murong Ziyan accepted her wager’s penalty and became Fairy Cloud Peak’s maid, where Meng Yutong ordered her to prepare a bath for herself and Lin Heng.

Lin Heng and his allies uncover plots surrounding the Martial Path, the Underworld, and the Meng Clan while preparing to obtain the Cauldron of All Beings. The arc ends with Meng Yutong captured for sacrifice as Lin Heng and Dugu Zixuan arrive at the Meng Clan under the guise of seeking a bride.

• Lin Heng exposed Black Tortoise Hall’s plans, defeated its fighters with his allies, and learned Wu Ba’s faction had been manipulated into targeting Green Pavilion Sect.
• Chen Changqin asked Lin Heng to guide him to the Underworld so he could search for Su Lian'er, while Bai Yi explained the Fourth Epoch and the coming calamity.
• Leng Qingqiu impersonated Leng Qingyun and tried to claim Lin Heng, but Leng Qingyun and the others caught and punished her.
• Meng Yutong returned and told Lin Heng that the Meng Clan wanted her to restore the Cauldron of All Beings to its human-sacrificing state, so he planned to demand it as her dowry.
• Lin Heng and his allies set out for the Meng Clan, while Meng Yutong arrived first and confronted Meng Boxi and Meng Wudao using the Female Emperor’s Imperial Token.
• Meng Yutong deliberately lost to the clan leaders as planned, and Meng Boxi and Meng Wudao shackled her in a cauldron for sacrifice.
• Dugu Zixuan arrived with Lin Heng and introduced herself as the Hall Master of Ten Directions Hall, asking for a Meng Clan girl on her son’s behalf.

Lin Heng took the Cauldron of All Beings from the Meng Clan, then entered the Netherworld with Bai Yi and Chen Changqin to investigate reincarnation and help Su Lian'er. The group reached Yin Luo Temple, where Ye Wusheng forced them to choose between becoming Soul Arresters and going to hell.

• Lin Heng and Dugu Zixuan confronted the Meng Clan over Meng Yutong, and after Meng Yuanxuan killed Meng Boxi and Meng Wudao, Lin Heng claimed the Cauldron of All Beings and secured a settlement.
• Lin Heng reunited with Meng Yutong, who accused Jiang Jingyi of trying to boil her, while the group agreed to portray the cauldron's surrender as the clan's response to its demonic transformation.
• Lin Heng arranged to open the Rebirth Bridge with Bai Yi and Chen Changqin, and the three entered the Netherworld, where Immortal Yin told them they needed her approval to leave.
• Lin Heng and his companions met Su Lian'er and learned she opposed marrying Yin Luo's young master, but Su Xuan resisted their efforts to help her choose for herself.
• Yin Luo attacked Su Manor, and Hua Qi used divine power to shield Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin before collapsing from the effort.
• Lin Heng learned that Hua Qi needed Yang energy to resist the Netherworld, then removed her Soul Seal and declared that people from the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Epochs could share one world.
• Lin Heng, Hua Qi, Chen Changqin, and Bai Yi traveled to Yin Luo Temple, where Ye Wusheng identified their origins and ordered them to become Soul Arresters or go to hell.

Lin Heng and his companions escaped Rebirth Prison, found Su Lian'er in the Netherworld, and set out to claim the Zhou Tian Human Emperor Banner. They were trapped inside it as Qing Hong tried to refine them, while Dugu Zixuan’s family confirmed Xiao Heng was her biological son.

• Ye Wusheng sent Lin Heng and his companions into Rebirth Prison, where Lin Heng entered the Netherwater and comprehended the Life-Death Yin-Yang Scripture.
• Lin Heng defeated and sealed Ye Wusheng with the scripture, then learned that Su Lian'er had been taken to the Netherworld by the Yin Luo Family.
• Luo Qi let Bai Yi attempt to comprehend the Double Fish True Yang Talisman and brought Lin Heng and Chen Changqin to meet Su Lian'er, who had lost her memories of the mortal world.
• Jiang Jingyi pressed Dugu Zixuan to use Meng Yutong for Lin Heng’s benefit, but Dugu Zixuan rejected her proposal and gave Duan Shuyun authority over the household.
• Xiao Muyu disguised herself as the Sword Spirit and warned Lin Heng’s group that Ye Wusheng and Luo Yi might join Qing Hong Yin Luo against them.
• Bai Yi used the Double Fish True Yang Talisman to shield the group as they crossed into Qing Hong · Yin Luo, where the Human Emperor Banner pulled them inside and Qing Hong announced he would refine them.
• Lin Heng and his companions tried to comprehend the Human Emperor Banner from within, while Xiao Muyu explained that entering it was necessary to understand it.
• Dugu Zixuan confirmed that Xiao Heng was her biological son and agreed with Shen Yeting that an existence from the Fourth Epoch had likely rescued him.