Recaps

Lin Heng strengthened his cultivation, helped Fairy Cloud Peak plan for its future, and entered the Inner-Sect Competition as the peak’s Foundation Establishment contender. The competition exposed Ye Tian’s strength when he defeated Yun Yao, while Lin Heng prepared to continue fighting.

• Lin Heng chose Nine Elephants: Water Dragon's Roar, received a Spirit Restoration Pill for Meng Yutong, and learned that disciples from other peaks had been transferred to Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Lin Heng visited Meng Yutong during her seclusion and acted as though he could take control of Fairy Cloud Peak, while she secretly concealed her recovered cultivation and investigated a plot against her.
• Lin Heng helped Mu Liuxi propose an Immortal Academy Hall to bring in wealthy students and resources, and Meng Yutong approved the plan.
• Yun Yao reached the middle stage of Golden Core but told Lin Heng she wanted to restrain their dual cultivation, then joined him at the Inner-Sect Competition.
• The competition assigned Lin Heng, Gao Meng, and Guan Xingyang to Team Six, where Guan Xingyang conceded and Gao Meng defeated a Main Peak opponent.
• Lin Heng used the Water Dragon Chant to defeat a Return to Origin Peak disciple, and then proposed that his team manipulate match outcomes to earn Spirit Stones.
• Ye Tian defeated Yun Yao after she activated her Blazing Phoenix bloodline, and Mu Liuxi sent Lin Heng to meet Yun Yao as the competition continued.

Lin Heng led his team to victory, helped secure support for the Immortal Academy Hall, and investigated the missing envoy in Zhanfang City. His bandit mission led him and Jiang Caiyan to a life-draining spirit wood, where Jiang Caiyan turned on him after he freed her from the Beast Seal.

• Lin Heng won the tournament match against Gongsun Ying, then helped Mu Liuxi organize funding and construction plans for the Immortal Academy Hall.
• Lin Heng recruited Azure Mist Peak and Star Peak disciples for paid construction work, then took Jiang Caiyan on missions to Zhanfang City and Xianfang Mountain.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan discovered that the missing envoy’s corpse was hidden in an attic above Fengyue Inn, and Lin Heng persuaded local officials and aristocratic families to support the Immortal Academy Hall.
• Lin Heng used Jiang Caiyan as bait to draw out the bandits on Xianfang Mountain, where she killed the men who ambushed her and learned they served a Divine Tree.
• Lin Heng identified the tree as Jade Origin Spirit Wood, helped Jiang Caiyan burn its roots, and absorbed its essence after its vines pierced and restrained him.
• Lin Heng told Jiang Caiyan he had undone her Beast Seal and offered her a chance to kill him, but after struggling with her anger and memories, she pulled a knife from his chest and stabbed him again.

Lin Heng pursued opportunities across the region while Jiang Caiyan gained a demonic inheritance, and Meng Yutong confronted the plots against Fairy Cloud Peak. The arc left Lin Heng bound in the Little Black Room after Meng Yutong offered him a Training Tool to curb his advances.

• Lin Heng refined the Jade Origin Spirit Wood under Saint Ye’s guidance, then persuaded Jiang Caiyan to return to Zhanfang City with him.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan investigated the Qi family’s suspicious letter, but Jiang Caiyan later left, revealed her unusual physique, and accepted the Devil Ancestor’s inheritance.
• Lin Heng reached Purple Firmament City, uncovered Water Mirror Pavilion’s coercion of local bandits, and took their stolen wealth after defeating the Pavilion’s disciples.
• Lin Heng entered White Sheep Heavenly Lake Cave, received a writing brush from White Sheep Daoist, and escaped after the Bai Family accused him of robbing their ancestor’s grave.
• Meng Yutong investigated the deaths of disciples and suspected a plot involving Zhao Yue and the Heavenly Secret Sect, while the sect elders agreed to open Green Pavilion Sect and cooperate with the Dynasty.
• Meng Yutong revealed that she had faked her weakness to expose her enemies, then confronted Lin Heng over his misconduct and ordered Yun Yao and Mu Liuxi to punish him.
• Meng Yutong continued whipping Lin Heng in the Little Black Room and offered him a Training Tool to dispel his improper thoughts, but he threw it away in alarm.

Lin Heng pursued the spirit stones Meng Yutong demanded, investigated the curse in Crown Calamity Town, and began refining pills. The arc ended with him claiming the Green Lotus Dao Fire and returning to find Jiang Caiyan gone.

• Meng Yutong released Lin Heng from the Little Black Room on condition that he earn two million spirit stones within six months, and warned Ye Tian to raise four hundred thousand or leave Fairy Cloud Peak.
• Lin Heng organized Fairy Cloud Peak’s construction and sales efforts, then took Jiang Caiyan to investigate disappearances around Crown Calamity Town.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan discovered a time-warping curse and fought Curse Pavilion attackers, while Lin Heng was drawn into the Illusory World Mirror as Jiang Caiyan defeated the assailants.
• Lin Heng exposed the false Justice Bureau chief to Zhao Yuande and promoted the Immortal Academy Hall, while Ye Tian escaped a Nascent Soul Venerable pursuing him.
• Lin Heng rented space at the Alchemy Alliance, struggled to refine pills, and decided to seize Alchemist Wang’s Green Lotus Dao Fire.
• Lin Heng endured the Green Lotus Dao Fire with his elemental physiques and the Jade Origin Vine’s Life Origin Force, defeated Old Deng, and took the group’s treasures.
• Lin Heng returned to Crown Calamity Town and found Jiang Caiyan missing, then subdued the Green Lotus Dao Fire and demanded that it serve him.