Recaps

Lin Fan infiltrated Paper Figure Peak as Chen Quan, gained power while investigating its horrors, and killed the Insect Cultivator threatening the Ling Xiao Sect. He uncovered Yunmeng Sect spies and took charge of six workshops while continuing to seek a safer path to Dao Integration.

• Lin Fan accepted the Starry Sky Sword Control Technique from the Bloodlight Demon Saint, took Gu Shengyu’s place as village teacher, and later killed Qing Yuanzi and grievously wounded his black-robed accomplice.
• Lin Fan took Chen Quan’s identity and Five Elements Poison Scripture to Paper Figure Peak, where Xue Jie put him in charge of the Paper Making Building and warned him about its dangers.
• Lin Fan discovered the Paper Figure Child draining the slaves and evaded its attack, while Xue Jie pledged himself to the Dark Green Paper Figure despite Senior Brother Song’s offer.
• Lin Fan went to Fangcun Town, identified the Blood Soul Worms, and killed Old Man Gu Worm, recovering a second section of Divine Bone and an insect-driving method.
• Lin Fan returned to Paper Figure Peak, made Chen Quan the spirit of his Calamity Immortal Soldier Talisman, and used the Divine Bone to obtain the Fusion Dao Fruit and create Flowing Cloud Sword Dao.
• The Dark Green Paper Figure exposed Yunmeng Sect spies at Paper Figure Peak, and Xue Jie put Lin Fan in charge of the Paper Making Building.
• Lin Fan stopped a foreman from attacking a newcomer and seizing the newcomer’s companion, then took responsibility for six workshops and advanced his sword and Black and White Yama arts.

Lin Fan strengthened his arts while covertly investigating the dangers surrounding Paper Figure Peak, then watched its allies turn against it and its master launch a counterattack. He used the chaos to kill the Ling Xiao Sect Master and the white-robed youth, taking their treasures and concealing his identity.

• Lin Fan advanced the Paper Figure Art and fused it with the Shadowless Escape Technique, creating the Shadowless Paper Figure Art after the Bloodlight Demon Saint warned him about its hidden dangers.
• Lin Fan uncovered Yunmeng Sect spies and secretly killed them, while the Paper Figure Child grew stronger by draining slaves of their blood and vitality.
• Lin Fan survived the Yunmeng Sect attack on Paper Figure Peak, then rebuilt the Paper Making Building as a direct disciple and kept his strength hidden.
• Lin Fan developed his sword, ghost-cultivation, and talisman arts, while Ghost Mother Wuji gathered Yin Spirits and Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak placed disciples throughout Paper Figure Peak.
• Yang Ling told Lin Fan that the Eerie Source had turned people into killers and caused cities in Shangyang Commandery to fall, while Lin Fan suspected it was connected to the altar that had caused chaos in Wei and Jin.
• Elder Liang betrayed the recovering Paper Figure Peak Master, but the master killed her and Xing Ruchu, then attacked Lingxiao Peak and confronted Wang Hua at the Sect Master's Floating Palace.
• Wang Hua revealed he had arranged the Yunmeng Sect attack to injure the Paper Figure Peak Master and steal his Harmonization object, but Lin Fan intervened with a Calamity Immortal Soldier Talisman.
• Lin Fan revealed himself as Yu Zifeng, killed the white-robed youth and the Ling Xiao Sect Master, took the Nirvana Ghost Pearl and Dustless Flame, and posed as the youth before the arriving disciples.

Lin Fan entered the Samsara Secret Realm, defeated its rivals, and returned with a Dao Law Seed that advanced his cultivation. He crushed a rebellion within the Ling Xiao Sect while preparing for the coming Conscription Order and the threat of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom.

• Lin Fan took control of the Ling Xiao Sect, made Xi Yun and another girl his Soul Slaves, and began his breakthrough into Dao Integration.
• Lin Fan survived the Heavenly Tribulation, entered the second grade of Dao Integration, and formed an alliance with the Yunmeng Sect Master to enter the Samsara Secret Realm.
• Lin Fan entered the secret realm, exposed demonic ambushes, and followed the Yunmeng Sect Master and Old Ancestor Demon Wolf toward the Nightmare Eye.
• Old Ancestor Demon Wolf and the Daoist-robed elder turned on the Yunmeng Sect Master, who revealed her own plan to sacrifice them and claim their power.
• Lin Fan killed the weakened Yunmeng Sect Master, escaped the collapsing secret realm with its treasures, and fed the Dao Law Seed to his Enlightenment Tree, reaching the third grade of Dao Integration.
• Peak Master Luoyun and Ancestor Jin Hun led an attack on Paper Figure Peak, but Lin Fan returned, killed Ancestor Jin Hun, and suppressed the rebellion across the Ling Xiao Sect.
• Lin Fan promoted Zhao Mengyu and secretly investigated the demon-controlled Yunmeng Sect while advancing his cultivation and preparing for Great Gan’s Conscription Order.
• Lin Fan learned that the conscription concerned the ancient war against the Eerie Source and resolved to keep growing stronger before it arrived.

Lin Fan was sent to the Forbidden Battlefield, where he joined Puppet Palace and grew stronger while navigating its rivalries and dangers. A mission into the Sea of Suffering scattered him from the others and brought him face-to-face with illusions and mutants, while Qin Yan’s group confronted Old Ghost Wang and learned their true destination might remain out of reach.

• Lin Fan killed Ancestor Ape, then accepted Great Gan’s summons to enter the Forbidden Battlefield and was assigned to Puppet Palace as Wei Wushang.
• Lin Fan strengthened his Inner Landscape, crafted paper puppets, and secretly visited Wuyou Marketplace, where he killed Black Ghost Hermit and acquired ghost-cultivation resources.
• The Puppet Palace Master forced Lin Fan to join a mission into the Sea of Suffering, where an Undying Monk wrecked the flying ship and trapped Lin Fan in an illusion of his past.
• Lin Fan escaped the illusion, crossed dangerous minor worlds, freed Zhou Yun, and defeated a mutant that had imprisoned the Borderland Old Man, gaining a Dao Law Seed.
• The Undying Monk trapped Lin Fan and Zhou Yun in another dreamscape, and Zhou Yun’s divine soul vanished before Lin Fan broke free and advanced his cultivation techniques.
• Qin Yan’s group fought Old Ghost Wang and his mutants after Wang poisoned Qi Zhen and accused Bianlin City of using cultivators as bait.
• Qi Zhen revealed himself as the disguised Puppet Palace Master, who told Old Ghost Wang that the Sea of Suffering held a spiritual treasure but the group would not reach the minor world where the Endless Soul Flower was born.