Recaps

Yun Yao lost her bid to manage the Inner Court, while Lin Heng dealt with the lingering Peach Blossom Calamity and prepared his forces to enter the Central Domain. After the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office seized First Town, Lin Heng began building alliances and recruiting local support against the Immortal Sects.

• Meng Yutong and the senior sisters outmaneuvered Yun Yao, forced her to take Anti-Lust Pills, and sent her into seclusion after Lin Heng reassured her.
• Luo Qi came from the Netherworld to deal with Bai Yi and warned Lin Heng that his Peach Blossom Calamity still awaited him.
• Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli discussed the danger to her father’s forces, and Lin Heng revealed that he had prepared a fallback city near Dao Palace City.
• Duan Shuyun devised a diversion at West River Mouth, and Lin Heng’s forces crossed into the Central Domain and seized First Town with help from the Old Lin Family.
• Lin Heng learned that the Old Lin Family was ready to receive his forces, while Shen Yeting warned him that Mu Li’s background required caution.
• The Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office ambushed and captured four Immortal Sect elders after Zhang De lured them into its camp.
• Lin Heng argued that the Central Domain needed order to protect the weak, and True Person Xu and the other elders accepted his reasoning and left as Daoists.

Lin Heng led the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office through the teleportation array to raid the Dragon and Peng Clans, uncovering their treasures and defeating the Buddhist restrictions guarding them. He left the Peng Clan subdued, its juniors alive, and its ties to the Buddhist Incense Society exposed.

• Lin Heng sent forces through the swamp teleportation array to Loquat Slope, then led them to Dragon Cliff Mountain and forced the Dragon Clan to surrender its Treasure Vault.
• After Meng Yutong broke the vault’s restrictions, Lin Heng’s force traveled south with Long Cheng, who guided them toward the Peng Clan’s scattered treasures.
• Lin Heng uncovered and disabled the Peng Treasure Vault’s formation, then led his fighters through its defenses and destroyed the Two-Faced Buddha.
• Lin Heng’s companions entered the vault and gathered its treasures while Dugu Yueli left for the south with Wu Ba, Martial Man, Smoke Ghost, and thirty others.
• Peng Su and his disciple entered the vault, but Lin Heng’s people captured Peng Su and learned the locations of other Peng Clan treasures.
• At Peng’s heavenly gate, Lin Heng used his Humanity Domain to dispel an illusion and fought the Buddha Holy Son Yi Du inside a Buddha Essence World.
• Lin Heng defeated Yi Du, returned to reality, and decided to target the Peng Clan because of its ties to the Buddhist Incense Society.
• Lin Heng searched the captured Peng Grand Elder’s memories, spared the Peng juniors, and sent the crippled Peng Yukun with Long Cheng to the Long Clan while reminding Long Cheng of the Old Lin Family’s betrothal gifts.

Lin Heng met the Old Lin Family and learned more about his parents, then entered its Dao Comprehension Field and gained Chaos True Intent. As the Immortal Clans attacked the Nine Dust Alliance, Lin Heng helped rescue Dugu Yueli, only to be betrayed by Long San and his allies.

• Lin Heng visited the Old Lin Family with Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng, where Lin Daochuan revealed that Lin Zhique was his son and Dugu Zixuan confronted the family over hiding him.
• Dugu Zixuan and Lin Heng discussed Lin Zhique’s past, while Lin Heng refused to leave the Dugu Clan’s side despite the Old Lin Family’s efforts to reconcile with them.
• Lin Heng entered the Old Lin Family’s Dao Comprehension Field, where his Black Pearl absorbed Dao laws and he comprehended Chaos True Intent before Lin Wenyue sealed the pillars.
• Lin Tiancheng warned that the Immortal Clans were using Qi Clan Immortal Land as bait to target Lin Heng, and Lin Heng rejected the family’s plan to risk the Nine Dust Alliance as bait.
• Dugu Yueli split the trapped alliance forces and lured a Supreme away, while Lin Daochuan fought Peng Shang and Peng Jie at the Divine King Temple.
• Qin Hongyi led the Nine Dust Alliance to join the battle at the North Immortal Gate, while Dugu Yueli fought Elder Yu and the Song Clan elder alone.
• Lin Heng rescued Dugu Yueli, killed the Song Clan elder, and returned with her to the Nine Dust Alliance’s camp.
• Long San and his allies trapped Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli in a stone hall, revealed their ties to the Buddhist Path and a prophecy about the Holy Artifact, then prepared to capture him with black chains.

Lin Heng escaped the Immortal Clan pursuit and crossed into the Northern Domain with Dugu Yueli, where they fought Buddhist Incense Society forces and investigated the spreading Calamity. After exposing a parasitic ritual at Leshan Ancient Temple, Lin Heng returned to the Centennial Sword Sect and urged Hu Cenyin to prepare a secret response.

• Lin Heng killed Long San, Long Si, Long Wu, and Formless, escaped the pursuing Supremes, and reunited with Dugu Yueli after recovering in his Small World.
• Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli crossed the Endless Snowfield, survived a deadly storm, and defeated the Fox Moon Tribe before entering the Northern Domain.
• Lin Heng met Hu Cenyin at the Centennial Sword Sect and learned of Leshan Ancient Temple, whose sermons were linked to believers’ strange changes.
• Lin Heng, Dugu Yueli, and Yun Yao disguised themselves and entered the temple gathering with Chen Changqin, who had been lured there by the promise of Sun-Continuing Grass.
• During the Sui'an Goddess’s sermon, Lin Heng discovered worms beneath the scriptures were parasitizing the audience, and a mysterious woman stopped them from reaching his companions.
• Lin Heng removed the divine source from the Buddha statue and altered it, then fled the arena with his companions when the Sui'an Goddess ordered the crowd to seize them.
• Lin Heng told Hu Cenyin that false Buddhist scriptures spread Calamity by parasitizing consciousness, asked him to contact unpolluted forces, and revealed that he had carved an Ultraman figure into the statue.