Recaps

A girl traveling with a boy hoping to join Orchid Valley protected their group from attackers, but a black-robed man seized the boy and identified her as Mei Lan’s disciple. The girl faced the dangerous stranger as the boy lay unconscious at his feet.

• A boy explained that he wanted to join Orchid Valley to learn healing arts and treat his parents, while the girl warned him that sects were not as wonderful as he imagined.
• Two attackers ambushed the disguised recruitment group, knocked out their guard, and were killed by the girl using Gu Poison.
• The girl realized the boy had vanished and found a black-robed man holding him hostage.
• The black-robed man identified the girl as Mei Lan’s disciple, dismissed her challenge, and dropped the unconscious boy to the ground.

Zhou Wutong and Junior Sister Tian were trapped by hostile cultivators after a failed attempt to escape, and Zhou Wutong was nearly defeated while protecting her. A mysterious man appeared when a beam of light shattered the formation, and he asked whether he was in Great Gan.

• A black-clad man attacked the fleeing girl and her companion, but Zhou Wutong appeared and killed him before other enemies surrounded them.
• Zhou Wutong sent Junior Sister Tian to flee, but the enemies trapped both women inside the Four Absolute Sun-Extinguishing Array.
• Zhou Wutong refused to surrender Orchid Valley and unleashed Phoenix Cry Nine Heavens, but the enemies stabilized the formation and overwhelmed her with falling rocks.
• As a gray hand reached to seize the weakened Zhou Wutong, a beam of light destroyed the formation and sent the dark figures flying.
• A bewildered man appeared before the cultivators and asked whether the place was Great Gan.

Lin Fan returned to Great Gan and rescued Zhou Wutong and Junior Sister Tian from four attackers targeting Orchid Valley. After learning their plan may have been leaked, he accepted their invitation to visit Orchid Valley and see the state of Great Gan.

• Lin Fan recognized Zhou Wutong and Junior Sister Tian as Orchid Valley disciples and urged their attackers to leave.
• The attackers refused, and Lin Fan killed all four with a giant hand.
• Zhou Wutong thanked Lin Fan and explained that she and Junior Sister Tian had tried to draw out those ambushing people sent to Orchid Valley’s recruitment trials.
• Lin Fan questioned how their carefully planned operation had been exposed, prompting the women to suspect a leak among the elders.
• Zhou Wutong and Junior Sister Tian invited Lin Fan to Orchid Valley, and he agreed to go with them.

Lin Fan preserved Ni Miao’s soul to learn more about Great Gan, while Zhou Wutong resolved to uncover the traitor behind the ambush. Believing Zhou Wutong and another disciple had died, Orchid Valley’s elders chose Jian Yu as the new successor, unaware that Zhou Wutong was alive.

• Lin Fan questioned Ni Miao, learned that Great Gan and the Lord of Bianlin City were partners, and preserved her soul so he could investigate Great Gan.
• Zhou Wutong reported that the mortals had all died, and she and the girl vowed to uncover the traitor with Lin Fan’s cooperation.
• Orchid Valley received false confirmation that Zhou Wutong, another disciple, and the mortals had died in the ambush.
• Elder Mei accused Meng Chang of leaking the operation, but the Great Elder stopped their fight and urged the elders to stabilize the sect.
• Meng Chang and the woman surnamed Qin proposed Jian Yu as the next successor, and the Great Elder approved a ceremony for her.

Zhou Wutong explained that she had faked her and her Junior Sister’s deaths to uncover a possible leak among Orchid Valley’s elders, while relying on Lin Fan for protection. As they traveled toward the sect, Lin Fan cultivated the Great Evolution Five Elements Art, triggering signs of Heaven and Earth before continuing the journey with the two women.

• Zhou Wutong told her Junior Sister that she suspected one of the elders who knew their plan had betrayed them, so she had staged their deaths to watch who acted suspiciously.
• Zhou Wutong admitted to Lin Fan that she had invited him along because she might need his protection, and Lin Fan accepted her honesty without objection.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to cultivate the Great Evolution Five Elements Art to the entry level, spending five hundred years of lifespan.
• Lin Fan’s cultivation gathered clouds, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning around the carriage, and Zhou Wutong moved herself and her Junior Sister to safety.
• After the signs of Heaven and Earth dispersed, Lin Fan found his Primordial Spirit had grown stronger, checked his cultivation panel, and called the two women back to the carriage.

Zhou Wutong and Tian returned to Orchid Valley during Jian Yu’s succession ceremony, but Wang Chen tried to stop them by claiming they were impostors. Zhou Wutong defeated him and entered the valley with Tian as the ceremony was underway.

• Orchid Valley disciples gathered for Jian Yu’s succession ceremony, while Elder Meng taunted Elder Mei about Zhou Wutong’s death and the two elders nearly clashed.
• The Great Elder intervened, and the ceremony began with ninety-nine bell tolls as a carriage carrying Tian and Zhou Wutong arrived at the mountain gate.
• Tian revealed herself to the gate guards, who recognized her and were shocked to see Zhou Wutong alive.
• Wang Chen called the women impostors and ordered the guards to kill them, striking down a disciple who questioned his command.
• Zhou Wutong used the Phoenix Tree Sword to sever Wang Chen’s limb meridians, forcing the guards to let her and Tian pass into Orchid Valley.
• Lin Fan sensed the commotion from inside the carriage and smiled.

As Jian Yu’s succession ceremony began, Qin Qimeng’s faction learned that Zhou Wutong had survived and ordered her stopped. Zhou fought through the ambush, but Qin Qimeng confronted her and demanded that she leave Orchid Valley or face the consequences.

• Elder Meng and Qin Qimeng learned that Zhou Wutong had reached the mountain gate and arranged for Yue Yi to kill her as an alleged trespasser.
• Zhou Wutong and her companion headed toward the square, where Yue Yi and more than a dozen disciples blocked their way.
• Zhou Wutong defeated the attackers with her Phoenix Tree Sword and gravely wounded Yue Yi.
• Qin Qimeng appeared and told Zhou Wutong that Jian Yu had already become the new successor, then ordered her to leave or else.

Zhou Wutong and her junior sister were attacked by Qin Qimeng, but Lin Fan intervened from the carriage and let Zhou Wutong decide Qin’s fate. At Orchid Valley, Jian Yu’s succession ceremony was interrupted when Zhou Wutong appeared and Qin Qimeng’s battered body landed in the square.

• Zhou Wutong accused Qin Qimeng of obstructing them and possibly betraying Orchid Valley, then fought her alongside her junior sister.
• Qin Qimeng overwhelmed Zhou Wutong until Lin Fan dissolved her attacks, restrained her, and left her fate to Zhou Wutong.
• Zhou Wutong used the Phoenix Tree Sword to pierce Qin Qimeng and seal her power.
• Jian Yu approached the moment of receiving the Orchid Token as Orchid Valley’s successor while Meng Chang and Elder Mei watched the ceremony.
• Qin Qimeng’s disfigured body crashed into the square, and Zhou Wutong appeared, shocking the gathered disciples and elders.

Zhou Wutong and Tian Keke returned to Orchid Valley alive, disrupting Jian Yu’s succession ceremony and prompting Elder Meng to accuse them of treachery. The Great Elder postponed judgment until after the ceremony, while Mei Lan challenged the decision and the disciples argued over who should become heir.

• The Orchid Valley disciples and Jian Yu were shocked when Zhou Wutong appeared alive, and Tian Keke soon revealed that she had survived too.
• Zhou Wutong explained to Mei Lan that she and Tian Keke had faked their deaths after an ambush, and Mei Lan welcomed her disciple back.
• Elder Meng ordered her followers to seize Zhou Wutong and Tian Keke, claiming they were impostors who had injured Elder Qin, but the Great Elder ordered the followers to withdraw.
• Zhou Wutong told the Great Elder that Elder Qin had tried to kill her, while Elder Meng accused her of conspiring with an outsider and demanded an investigation.
• The Great Elder postponed judgment until after Jian Yu’s ceremony, and Mei Lan objected that Zhou Wutong should remain the heir.
• The disciples debated whether Zhou Wutong should reclaim her position as heir or Jian Yu should complete the succession ceremony.

Elder Mei openly backed Zhou Wutong as Orchid Valley’s rightful heir, sparking a battle between their supporters and the forces of Elder Meng and the Great Elder. When the Great Elder attacked Zhou Wutong, Lin Fan stepped out of the carriage and incapacitated her with overwhelming power.

• Elder Mei challenged the Great Elder’s decision to proceed with Jian Yu’s ceremony and declared that she would defend Zhou Wutong’s claim to be heir.
• Elder Meng ordered her disciples to suppress Elder Mei and Zhou Wutong, and the Great Elder then sent another hundred disciples into the fight.
• Zhou Wutong defeated Jian Yu with a single strike, but Jian Yu used the Jian Family’s Lifespan Burning Secret Art to attack her again.
• Lin Fan killed Jian Yu with a casual finger strike as she charged at Zhou Wutong from behind.
• The Great Elder mistook Zhou Wutong for Jian Yu’s killer and attacked her, but Lin Fan stepped out of the carriage and shattered the Great Elder’s attack, leaving her unconscious.

Lin Fan helped Zhou Wutong regain control of Orchid Valley, revealed that he had returned the Orchid Gold Hairpin entrusted to him by Zhou Yun, and captured the fleeing Elder Meng. After gaining lifespan by copying medical books, he agreed to remain in Orchid Valley for now, where Zhou Wutong offered herself to him in gratitude.

• Lin Fan appeared during the battle at Orchid Valley and incapacitated the Great Elder with a distant strike.
• Lin Fan showed Mei Lan and Zhou Wutong the Orchid Gold Hairpin and explained that Zhou Yun had entrusted him to return it.
• Elder Meng tried to flee, but Lin Fan seized her and dragged her back.
• Lin Fan copied medical books and gained eighty years of lifespan in one morning.
• Zhou Wutong told Lin Fan that Elders Meng and Qin had colluded with the Sacred Ghost Palace to kill her and seize control of Orchid Valley.
• Lin Fan said he would stay for the time being, and Zhou Wutong pressed herself against him and offered to serve him.

The Sacred Ghost Palace planned to use the Jian Family to strike Orchid Valley while investigating the powerful Lin Fan. Zhou Wutong, unable to persuade Lin Fan to stay through her own advances, decided that Keke should try for the sect’s sake.

• The Palace Master rebuked the Sacred Ghost Palace elders after Orchid Valley captured Meng and Qin and destroyed its spies, then ordered the Great Elder to court the Jian Family and investigate Lin Fan.
• The Great Elder claimed the Jian Family might attack Orchid Valley because Zhou Wutong had injured Jian Yu, and the Palace Master authorized him to use the Sacred Ghost Palace’s resources.
• Zhou Wutong left Lin Fan’s room confused that he had pushed her away, but she took the Orchid Gold Hairpin he had given her as a sign that he valued her abilities.
• Keke asked Zhou Wutong whether her attempt with Lin Fan had succeeded, and Zhou Wutong wondered whether Lin Fan cared less about appearance.
• Zhou Wutong told Keke to visit Lin Fan, saying that neither of them could hold anything back for the sect.

Lin Fan advanced the Eight Divisions Yama Scripture and discovered it could purify his Primordial Spirit. When he tested the Primal Divine Statue, it flooded him with energy and rooted itself in his Inner Landscape Sea, leaving him unable to remove it.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint left after Lin Fan secretly gave it an order.
• Lin Fan spent four hundred years of lifespan to advance the Eight Divisions Yama Scripture to Minor Completion, strengthening and purifying his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Fan wondered whether deities existed and tested the Primal Divine Statue by injecting it with his power.
• The statue enveloped Lin Fan in green light and poured scorching energy into his body as his inner landscape resisted it.
• The statue disappeared from the air and appeared anchored on Lin Fan's Bridge of Longevity, where it conveyed goodwill.
• Lin Fan failed to force the statue from his inner landscape and worried that he could no longer sever their connection.

Lin Fan advanced to the second grade of the Calamity Crossing Realm after the Primal Divine Statue gave him Dao Principles energy, then questioned Ni Miao about Great Gan. Ni Miao offered to reveal an ancient ruin rich in Dao Principles in exchange for her freedom, and Lin Fan agreed to help her under the condition that he bind her with a Life and Death Talisman.

• The Primal Divine Statue sent Dao Principles energy into Lin Fan, raising his realm to the second grade of the Calamity Crossing Realm.
• Lin Fan summoned Ni Miao's weakened divine soul and asked about the Lord of Great Gan.
• Ni Miao warned that the Lord of Great Gan and Great Gan's hidden forces could threaten Lin Fan, and claimed that searching her memories would expose their location.
• When Lin Fan threatened to destroy her, Ni Miao offered information about an ancient ruin filled with Dao Principles.
• Lin Fan agreed to her conditions but required that he inscribe a Life and Death Talisman on Ni Miao, and she accepted.

Lin Fan gave Ni Miao a new body and learned her secrets from a Memory Soul Stone. Elsewhere, Bloodlight Demon Saint investigated a spreading calamity in Great Gan after witnessing black smoke consume two fleeing men.

• Tian Keke visited Lin Fan, who declined her offer to become his Dao partner and asked her to bring him a suitable captive from Orchid Valley.
• Ni Miao took over the body of one of Orchid Valley’s traitors, and Lin Fan planted a Life and Death Talisman in her body and soul.
• Ni Miao gave Lin Fan a Memory Soul Stone containing her memories, then left Orchid Valley.
• Two men fleeing through a scorched region tried to reach a Patrol Office camp, but black smoke caught and consumed them.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint watched the deaths and concluded that the strange calamity in Great Gan had spread beyond control.

The Great Elder questioned Elder Meng and Elder Qin about their crimes, then installed Zhou Wutong as Valley Master and Mei Lan as Great Elder before stepping away from sect affairs. The next day, Jian Lin arrived demanding that Orchid Valley free Jian Yu and make her its next Valley Master, threatening the valley with the Jian Family’s fury.

• The Great Elder visited Elder Meng, who admitted killing the two successors to Senior Sister Zhou and blamed the Great Elder for recommending them.
• The Great Elder confronted Elder Qin, who admitted colluding with the Sacred Ghost Palace and warned that the Jian Family would retaliate if Jian Yu was captured.
• The Great Elder told Elder Mei to send the imprisoned elders away, appointed Zhou Wutong as Valley Master, and named Mei Lan the new Great Elder.
• Elders Meng and Qin were reported to have poisoned themselves and died, and Zhou Wutong and Mei Lan formally took their new positions.
• Jian Lin confronted Mei Lan over Jian Yu’s imprisonment and demanded that Orchid Valley pardon her and appoint her its next Valley Master within three days.

Zhou Wutong resolved to stop Orchid Valley from yielding to the Jian Family, while Lin Fan quietly sent her an ordinary-looking talisman. When Jian Lin brought the Jian Family’s forces to Orchid Valley, the valley executed Jian Yu in defiance of his threats.

• Zhou Wutong told Mei Lan that Orchid Valley would not submit to the Jian Family and would reveal its strength without troubling Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan sent Zhou Wutong a talisman through Tian Keke, and Zhou Wutong solemnly tucked it away despite being unable to detect any power in it.
• Three days later, Jian Lin arrived with the Jian Family’s experts and threatened to destroy Orchid Valley if it did not surrender Jian Yu.
• Mei Lan declared Jian Yu guilty under Orchid Valley’s discipline and ordered her execution despite Jian Lin’s threats.
• Two Discipline Hall disciples killed Jian Yu with a blade that shattered her soul.

Jian Lin led the Jian Family in attacking Orchid Valley after Zhou Wutong killed Jian Yu, but Orchid Valley’s allies and hidden experts helped hold off the assault. The Sacred Ghost Palace then arrived, and its envoy demanded that Orchid Valley surrender or be destroyed.

• Jian Lin ordered the Jian Family cultivators to flatten Orchid Valley, and Zhou Wutong led the valley’s disciples into battle.
• Mei Lan blocked Jian Kuang'ao while the Former Great Elder confronted another Jian Family expert.
• A Silver phantom from the Lin Yuan Sect and a black-robed ally blocked two more Jian Family experts, while a Blood Blade assassin struck one of them down.
• Jian Lin summoned the Sacred Ghost Palace, whose forces arrived in overwhelming numbers.
• The man in azure robes offered to let Orchid Valley join the Sacred Ghost Palace if Zhou Wutong surrendered.

Orchid Valley faced the Jian Family and the Sacred Ghost Palace after its allies abandoned it, and Zhou Wutong was nearly killed by the Sacred Ghost Palace’s Myriad Spirits Banner. The talisman given to her by a mysterious senior transformed into a Three-Eyed Flood Dragon, which slaughtered the attackers and then returned to her palm.

• The mighty experts from Lin Yuan Sect and Assassin Hall withdrew, leaving Orchid Valley to face the Jian Family and Sacred Ghost Palace alone.
• Zhou Wutong chose to resist, but the Sacred Ghost Palace’s blue-robed man attacked her with the Myriad Spirits Banner and wounded her.
• As Zhou Wutong prepared to die, her talisman released the Three-Eyed Flood Dragon, which destroyed the banner and annihilated the Sacred Ghost Palace cultivators.
• The blue-robed man summoned the Sacred Ghost Palace Master’s phantom, but the Three-Eyed Flood Dragon destroyed it with a single punch.
• The Three-Eyed Flood Dragon killed the Jian Family and remaining Sacred Ghost Palace fighters, then turned back into the talisman in Zhou Wutong’s palm.

After Lin Fan’s talisman helped Orchid Valley defeat the Jian Family and Sacred Ghost Palace, Taian Commandery’s factions reacted to the arrival of a powerful protector. Lin Fan then recalled Ni Miao’s information about a Blessed Land and turned his attention to the Nether Abyss Ruins.

• Zhou Wutong ordered Orchid Valley’s disciples to treat the wounded after the attack, while Mei Lan and the Former Great Elder realized how fortunate they were to have Lin Fan’s protection.
• The Inspection Bureau in Taian Commandery ordered spies to investigate Orchid Valley and report the events to headquarters.
• The Sacred Ghost Palace Master decided to ally with the Illumination Society and attack Orchid Valley again, believing the Inspection Bureau could not stop him.
• The Valley Master of Hundred Flowers Valley worried that Orchid Valley had a mysterious powerhouse, but an elder reassured her by pointing to the valley’s inheritance and secluded cultivator.
• Lin Fan reflected that he had given Orchid Valley the Three-Eyed Flood Dragon Talisman to protect his own interests, then recalled Ni Miao’s information about the Nether Abyss Ruins.

Ni Miao reported Bianlin City's fall to the Lord of Great Gan, who revealed that Shangyang Commandery's strange phenomena and its dead were the price of his pursuit of power. Meanwhile, Lin Fan remained at Orchid Valley, recovered his lifespan, and prepared to strengthen his abilities before visiting the Nether Abyss Ruins.

• Ni Miao returned to the imperial palace and reported that Bianlin City had fallen, its lord was missing, and the Nascent Soul cultivation method was lost.
• The Lord of Great Gan explained that the ancient mirror's power had limited his potential and that Shangyang Commandery's strange phenomena and victims were the price he had paid.
• The Lord of Great Gan ordered Ni Miao to stay in the imperial city and told Lord Fei to use Lin Fan as nourishment for the spreading strange phenomena.
• A month after the attack on Orchid Valley, Zhou Wutong and Tian Keke continued seeking Lin Fan's favor, and Tian Keke tried alluring incense on him without effect.
• Lin Fan checked his lifespan, found that copying books had restored it to 6020 years, and decided to improve his talisman and Paper Figure Art before entering the Nether Abyss Ruins.

Lin Fan fused his talisman arts with Paper Figure Art to create the Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman, then made a powerful Golden-Haired Hound talisman. After strengthening his cultivation and assessing the lifespan he had spent, he prepared to head to the Nether Abyss Ruins to pursue more Dao Principles.

• Lin Fan spent twelve hundred years of lifespan to fuse the Spirit Control Secret Records and Shadowless Paper Figure Art into the Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman after the first attempt failed.
• Lin Fan used five hundred years of lifespan to raise the new method to the beginner stage and learned to draw an Ancient Rune embodying the essence of the Golden-Haired Hound.
• Lin Fan created a Golden-Haired Hound Paper Figure Talisman, which drained one-third of his power and revealed a terrifying presence before becoming a small golden talisman.
• Lin Fan resolved to seek Dao Principles at the Nether Abyss Ruins rather than remain in Orchid Valley, where he could only accumulate lifespan.
• Lin Fan raised the Eight Divisions Yama Scripture to the major accomplishment stage and checked his cultivation panel.

Zhou Wutong sought Lin Fan’s advice on strengthening Orchid Valley, then bid him farewell when he left the next morning. Lin Fan traveled to the Sacred Ghost Palace to remove Orchid Valley’s threat and interrupted the Palace Master’s alliance with the Illumination Society.

• Zhou Wutong thanked Lin Fan for protecting Orchid Valley and asked how to lead it, and he advised her to reform the sect and teach disciples more combat techniques.
• Lin Fan told Zhou Wutong he would leave the next day, and she spent the day with him before departing reluctantly.
• Tian Keke visited that night to persuade Lin Fan to stay, but he left at dawn before Zhou Wutong and Elder Mei could see him off.
• Zhou Wutong reassured Elder Mei that Lin Fan had left behind a talisman and ordered reforms so Orchid Valley could defend itself.
• Lin Fan arrived at the Sacred Ghost Palace and discovered that its Palace Master was negotiating an alliance with an Illumination Society elder.
• Lin Fan appeared before the Sacred Ghost Palace Master and the elder, telling them he had already arrived.

A mysterious senior destroyed the Sacred Ghost Palace and the Jian Family, while Lin Fan investigated the Xiao Family’s suspected dealings with strange entities in Xiaoyun City. After Xiao Feng Hai killed Wang Yunqing, Lin Fan learned that the strange entities had taken over nearly every region outside the city and continued pursuing a lead connected to the Nether Abyss Ruins.

• A mysterious figure killed the master of the Sacred Ghost Palace and an old Dao Integration expert, then flattened the palace with a massive hand.
• The Jian Family was reduced to ruins, and Zhou Wutong of Orchid Valley suspected the senior she had encountered was responsible.
• Wang Yunqing confronted the Xiao Family’s carriage in Xiaoyun City and accused the family of colluding with strange entities.
• Xiao Feng Hai defeated Wang Yunqing and killed him with a technique that left him screaming in agony before he dissolved into blood.
• Lin Fan watched the confrontation, and Bloodlight Demon Saint told him that the Xiao Family may have made a deal with the strange entities that had occupied almost every region beyond Xiaoyun City.
• Lin Fan remained in Xiaoyun City to investigate a matter connected to the Nether Abyss Ruins.

Lin Fan learned that the destructive strange phenomenon had reached Great Gan and might have spread from his homeland, the Wei-Jin Borderlands, now known as the Calamity Land. He captured Xiao Feng Hai, broke the restriction in his mind, and obtained information as he pursued the Xiao Family’s key to the Nether Abyss Ruins.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint told Lin Fan that an eerie altar had appeared near Hechi Commandery and could turn vast regions into Calamity Land.
• Lin Fan recognized the altar from his past in the Wei-Jin Borderlands, and Bloodlight Demon Saint explained that the region was feared as the Calamity Land.
• Lin Fan set aside his questions about the altar and hurried to obtain the key to the Nether Abyss Ruins from the Xiao Family.
• Lin Fan stopped Xiao Feng Hai’s carriage, killed the driver, and immobilized Xiao Feng Hai as he tried to flee.
• Xiao Feng Hai revealed his corruption by the strange phenomenon, but Lin Fan suppressed it and broke a mental restriction to search his memories before Xiao Feng Hai disintegrated.