Recaps

Jiang Jingyi defeated Dongfang Qingxia’s forces, then used her Dao Source to help Lin Heng recover after borrowing his Fortune. Lin Heng returned to Dingyang, where he pursued an alliance between the Murong and Dugu Clans and began dealing with the Su Family’s request for support.

• Jiang Jingyi led the battle at Five Severance Mountain, defeated Dongfang Qingxia’s forces, and exposed Dongfang Qingxia’s schemes before she died.
• Jiang Jingyi took the unconscious Lin Heng to Heavenly Road City and used her Dao Source to help him recover, while Meng Yutong and her companions captured and enslaved Chun, Qiu, Summer, and Winter.
• Lin Heng woke with his cultivation greatly improved, learned that Jiang Jingyi had left Dao Source within him, and reunited with Zhao Wanqing before traveling to Dingyang City.
• Jiang Jingyi rejected Jiang Yan’s mistaken belief that Lin Heng was her son, while He Qingcang and Fan Yian spread the claim that Lin Heng was the Female Emperor’s child.
• Lin Heng reached Dingyang, where Jiang Jingyi had him brought to her and promised to become his Dao companion if he secured the Female Emperor’s approval for the Murong Clan to expand its territory.
• Saint Ye warned Lin Heng that keeping Jiang Jingyi’s Dao Source could restrict him and advised him to store it in his Spirit Wheels, which Lin Heng managed to do.
• Lin Heng met Su Moxie, Su Qiubai, and Su Wanyue, then heard Su Qingchuan ask him to support the Star God Temple’s participation in the Dugu Clan’s campaign and offer valuable treasures in return.

Lin Heng entered the Female Emperor’s service as chief steward while learning that his fortune could help Jiang Jingyi resist Calamity and strengthen the Dugu Clan. He began recruiting allies and pursuing the Medical Alliance, as Jiang Jingyi summoned Meng Yutong and questioned Jiang Yan’s assignment.

• Su Qingchuan offered Lin Heng treasures and a Star Chart, and Lin Heng agreed to discuss Su Qingchuan’s request with his family before Murong Ziyan arranged the palace vanguard.
• Jiang Jingyi revealed herself as the Female Emperor, appointed Lin Heng chief steward, and made him accept her terms to spare Meng Yutong from punishment.
• Jiang Jingyi explained to Dugu Zixuan that Lin Heng’s fortune could suppress her Calamity and that his chief steward role could help the Dugu Clan secure new territory.
• Lin Heng reunited with Meng Yutong in palace servant clothes, then learned about the Beauty Record and discovered Dugu Yueli ranked second.
• Lin Heng received his chief steward token and two million Spirit Stones, returned to Prince Qi’s Mansion, and organized allies to support the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office.
• Lin Heng strengthened the Human Emperor Banner, gained Ye Tian’s fortune, and accepted Jiang Yan’s task to capture Medical Alliance targets.
• Dugu Zixuan confronted Dugu Qingyang over Lin Heng’s chance to become heir apparent, and Qingyang agreed to fight for a fair opportunity for him.
• Lin Heng secured Wei Yan’s Family’s pledge, gave Sun Hao authority to seize the Medical Alliance, and investigated Dragon Manor’s men before Jiang Jingyi summoned Jiang Yan over the assignment.

Lin Heng maneuvered among the Dugu and Jiang clans while preparing the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office for the Heavenly Action Continent. When ancient clans challenged his authority, he sent his subordinates to face them while he went into seclusion, leaving Jiang Yan to defend the plan.

• Jiang Jingyi negotiated with Meng Yutong over Rain Pavilion’s contract, then scolded Jiang Yan for involving Lin Heng in arrests and ordered Murong Ziyan to investigate him.
• Dugu Qingyang defended Lin Heng’s claim to the Dugu Clan’s support, while Dugu Yueli vowed to defeat him and set out for Nine Dust Hall.
• Lin Heng sought to test Dugu Yueli, but Long San later reported that she had defeated his companions with a strange artifact and escaped, prompting Lin Heng to seek a way to control her.
• Sun Hao learned from Sun Daoya that he had been found as a crystal embryo beside a dying armored man, and that the armor held a map to an Immortal Palace on the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Lin Heng helped Sun Hao pursue Wei Yanxianlan and arranged for Sun Hao to face the ancient clans’ challengers, while Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi prepared to fight weaker opponents.
• Lin Heng clashed with Jiang Zhenqing in the imperial palace, and Jiang Jingyi later explained that Prince Jing resented the Dugu Clan’s role in the coming campaign and might retaliate against Lin Heng.
• The Shangtang, Ying, and Jing clans planned to challenge Lin Heng publicly, but Lin Heng announced he was entering seclusion and offered his Imperial Office subordinates as opponents.
• Jiang Yan spread the challenge across the region and vowed to Jiang Zhenqing that the Imperial Office’s people would defeat the challengers.

Lin Heng led an expedition to the Star-Suppressing Tower, uncovered its dangerous scriptures and gathered allies among the factions inside. When the tower began collapsing, the Mortal World Immortal tried to seize Lin Heng’s body, and Saint Ye intervened to sever their connection.

• Sun Hao defeated Shangtang Yunyi in the public challenge, and Chen Changqin defeated Jing Chen as the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office silenced its critics.
• Lin Heng negotiated with the Gu Clan and Hou Bozhong, then assembled an expedition to the Heavenly Action Continent to find Sun-Continuing Grass and investigate Sun Hao’s origins.
• After Lin Heng learned that Bai Zihe’s account was suspicious, he split the expedition and went with Bai Yi, Su Wanyue, and Su Yang to find the Star-Suppressing Tower.
• Lin Heng found Pei Danxue and the surviving Six Paths Sect disciples, learned the Heavenly Demon Hall was suppressing news that the Gate to the Upper Realm had opened, and killed Pei Danxue after exposing her scheme.
• Inside the tower, Lin Heng triggered the Star Wheel Ancient Scripture and survived its trap with Hua Qi’s intervention, then learned from Saint Ye that the tower’s realms formed a sacrifice array.
• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to remove boundary steles and Immortal Drums, recruited factions to help him gather scriptures, and accepted Su Wanyue as his student.
• Lin Heng pulled a mural-bearing wall from the fourth floor, causing its nested city and forest to collapse as his chaos origin power surged.
• The Mortal World Immortal attacked Lin Heng’s soul to seize his body, but Saint Ye severed Lin Heng’s connection to the six-path wheel and faced the immortal’s remnant thought.